As if ...
... more proof was needed, Haliburton - seminal archetypal capitalism at it's finest recently applied for a patent on .. of all things, the practice of patent trolling...i.e. patenting something someone else has thought of and then suing them for infringing on their own idea...if this isnt the height of non-productive leechery, I dont know what is.
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A powerful disturbance in the Force I am sensing.
Posted by: Master Yoda | November 10, 2008 09:47 PM
The reasons for the wars that we are in can be sumed up in one word (and it is not terrorism.
HALIBURTON
Posted by: Todd Gremmels | November 11, 2008 03:28 PM
Halliburton sounds like a perfect place for a troll to work.
Posted by: Tony Ramone | November 11, 2008 05:11 PM
A subsidiary of Haliburton sold the diagonal drilling equipment used by Kuwait to pump oil from beneath the disputed border with Iraq, leading to the first gulf war and everything after. Heck of a job Dick.
Posted by: Dave S. | November 12, 2008 07:28 AM