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Re:Former Google exec Lee confirmed to lead U.S. patent office by EpicEng on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @01:04AM (#9176134)
Complete and utter lack of real-world industry experience?
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Re:Former Google exec Lee confirmed to lead U.S. patent office by spacemanmatt on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @11:52AM (#9178376)
That is the tropiest trope that ever troped.
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Re:Former Google exec Lee confirmed to lead U.S. patent office by EpicEng on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @04:15PM (#9180316)
I'm not sure you know what that word means.
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Re:Former Google exec Lee confirmed to lead U.S. patent office by spacemanmatt on Thursday March 12, 2015 @05:48AM (#9189819)
You might be surprised to find that your assertion, reduced to a stereotype, then used in a metaphor about familiar situations meets the connotation if not also the definition of a trope for my earlier upvoters.
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