Presumably, it's not unheard of to buy gifts for family members. Does netpliance have any sort of gift plan, where someone can purchase the machine, but not the ISP service, as a gift? Was that not the intention of this customer? It seems ridiculous that to buy the product as a gift for someone, the giver would also have to pay for their internet access indefinitely.
in order to understand why no number is uninteresting, you have to take this to its logical conclusion, which I admit is still a bit of a paradox. If you have a list of all the uninteresting numbers, and you take the smallest one and say it is no longer uninteresting because it is the smallest, then the next one will become the smallest uninteresting number, and the process continues until they are all interesting.
I actually just heard about a similar device this week, from a friend of mine in Houston. He said these devices, which are being marketed as "gaydars," simply recognized each other. The guys would wear them to the mixed clubs and whatnot in order to tell if the person they'd been checking out all night played for their team. The problem he presented was interesting, and applies here as well: If 2 guys are wearing these things in public, and they go off, is there a danger of some angry redneck beating the crap out of them? In addition, would some angry redneck buy one just to identify victims of his sexually repressed rage (perhaps similar to the earlier suggestion of finding women who are candidates for abuse, only this would be totally involuntary)?
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Presumably, it's not unheard of to buy gifts for family members. Does netpliance have any sort of gift plan, where someone can purchase the machine, but not the ISP service, as a gift? Was that not the intention of this customer? It seems ridiculous that to buy the product as a gift for someone, the giver would also have to pay for their internet access indefinitely.
in order to understand why no number is uninteresting, you have to take this to its logical conclusion, which I admit is still a bit of a paradox. If you have a list of all the uninteresting numbers, and you take the smallest one and say it is no longer uninteresting because it is the smallest, then the next one will become the smallest uninteresting number, and the process continues until they are all interesting.
I actually just heard about a similar device this week, from a friend of mine in Houston. He said these devices, which are being marketed as "gaydars," simply recognized each other. The guys would wear them to the mixed clubs and whatnot in order to tell if the person they'd been checking out all night played for their team. The problem he presented was interesting, and applies here as well: If 2 guys are wearing these things in public, and they go off, is there a danger of some angry redneck beating the crap out of them? In addition, would some angry redneck buy one just to identify victims of his sexually repressed rage (perhaps similar to the earlier suggestion of finding women who are candidates for abuse, only this would be totally involuntary)?