* Posts by Lee

5 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Nov 2007

Playmobil Bible faces wrath of lawyers

Lee
Pirate

Steve,

I sincerely doubt they do.

I seem to recall that the makers of barbie tried (and failed) to sue an artist who made S&M versions of their product.

While I might not personally approve of his work. But he has every right to express himself as he wishes.

Lee
Pirate

In fact:

I remembered correctly and in fact they have lost repeatedly:

Barbie in a blender:

http://www.out-law.com/page-4681

http://barbieinablender.org/

http://www.alteredbarbie.com/pdf/mattelfeescase.pdf

Dungeon Barbie:

http://www.metro.co.uk/home/article.html?in_article_id=2823&in_page_id=1

McKinnon loses extradition fight

Lee

@Skyraker

Surely the point should be that he has comitted a crime in the UK. Thats why he should be tried here.

Keyboard PC design recalls Amiga era

Lee

Anyone else think it looks like a BBC ?

As for UK versions they do sell 'em or at least they used too as I have 2 cybernet ZPC's at home somewhere I picked up a few years back.

Illegal immigrant finds work as spook for the FBI and CIA

Lee
Flame

Slight difference there

"Before we go getting all self-righteous about "world beaking c****-ups by the US security services" (Yes, you, AC - whatever a "world beaking c***-up" is), let's just ponder for a moment how many illegals are guarding Scotland Yard."

Slight difference in scale between possible illegals in the police and a outing an illegal in your "intelligence agencies".

And there is no current news story about illegals in either our police or other agencies (though I admit it wouldn't surprise me).