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I was driving today and saw a truck with a vanity plate, "ILEGAL."

Sometimes you don't expect small things to make you think for so long, but for no apparent reason, my brain decided to try to analyze the meaning of this licensce plate. What was this person trying to say?

Was it a young girl who was often mistaken for being younger than she was? Was she trying to make a statement that she 'was legal?' (On another note, my friends and I got a huge kick out of visiting ageofconsent.com)

Or maybe this was someone involved in the legal industry (although I doubt it, because the truck had nice rims and a booming stereo system, and somehow I don't associate those involved in the law field with rimmed-out trucks with a deafening audio system, but I may just be discriminating here.

The most "obvious" (on the surface, at least) answer was that this was a simple typo of the world 'illegal.' But I don't understand. What is illegal? Is the truck illegal? Is the person illegal? And what does it mean if a person is illegal? Is it a border-jumper who decided to stick it to the "man" by daring the INS to pull his truck over and make sure he has his citizenship (or at least a green card?).

I'm so confused.

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Oh my goodness. Patent law getting out of hand ... Kodak won a patent infringement case against Sun. Read the article to see what the "patent" was about.