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Patently stupid

Patently stupid

Posted Oct 10, 2012 5:48 UTC (Wed) by price (subscriber, #59790)
In reply to: Patently stupid by man_ls
Parent article: The Patent, Used as a Sword (New York Times)

> Asking Crassus about firefighting laws would not have been a
> very good idea.

Indeed not. And, as with patents today, one suspects that anyone considering a change in firefighting laws would have heard from him very loudly and clearly.


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