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Re: CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!
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lugnet.technic.bionicle
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:14:11 GMT
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Brian Kasprzyk writes:
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> I am surprised at the attitude being displayed by the Lugnet community over
> this issue. You are not being very realistic about this whole issue. We
> live in a country where a woman, on her own accord spills hot coffee on
> herself and wins a multi-million dollar award.
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> You have a company, like Lego, who goes out of their way to protect every
> little bit of their block designs, name and other interests and will sue
> without a thought if someone else's bricks look like theirs.
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> Then you have an entire nation United States Of America, which was stolen
> from the indian people of this country we live in
Uh, troll, I don't think that the indians *owned* this country in the first
place to have it "stolen". But this is .debate fodder for which I have not the
time or inclination...
, yet, when a company, like
> Lego decides to rip-off names from another culture, words that have deep
> religous meaning to them, you think they are the ones that are wrong. Well,
As many are pointing out elsewhere in this thread, it is absurd to believe that
a "culture" "owns" anything. What a load of hooey!
> I say shame on Lego, first to use the names and then to deny where they
> originated, saying they made them up. You should really be saying, shame on
> Lego. Here, I thought they came up with all this stuff on their own to find
> out they plagiarized it all. Just like you can't copy someone else's work
> in school, the business world is just the same.
Except that this "culture" who thinks they have a case mostly certainly isn't a
*business*.
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> Now, I may agree with you that they may be partially doing it to get some
> monney out of it, but many of them may not. We have a warped sense of what
> living comfortably is. Prime example again is the Indians here in the
> states. Many of them are rich, due to the casino profits, but they still
> choose to live in their old cultural ways.
If *any* are doing it for the money, the argument is lost. If *all* of the
American Indians were chosing to live in the old ways despite being millionaires
I'd buy it. Heck, there are many *very* poor reservations in the US-- do you
think that the casino-rich ones care? It's all about "getting mine", even for
them.
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> Please think about this from a different angle then just, "getting money of
> of Lego." This is the business world. Just like Lego goes after people
> using their company name, the New Zealand people are doing the same...
lol When I first started reading your post, I thought you were speaking tongue
in cheek. There *isn't* any other way to see this except for shameless $$$
grubbing. Sorry.
-.02,
John
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> BK>
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