Erdos didn't need money because he was held in such high esteem that he could go anywhere and people would be willing to pay for his meals and give him a place to sleep
So in a sense, that high esteem that he'd earned was his currency, albeit a less fungible one. But it still was value previously earned, stored in some other form.
Anyone that brilliant would see how pointless it is to worry about money. When will the rest of us learn?
Oh please. What is this? The 60s? Apparently the guy is able to find enough time to work on these problems. That kind of freedom is what money buys. If he didn't have enough money to do that then it would suddenly become much more important.
"Money" is not some stack bills in your wallet. It represents some tangible effort that had value, and that value is now stored in a convenient form, ready to be exchanged for something else of value.
Try owning a bar or restaurant. BMI will send around of its "boys." Got a CD player? OK, that's several hundred dollars per year in royalties. Oh, is that TV? Well, music is sometimes played on TV, so we have to count that, too. Karaoke once a week? Pay up. My BMI bill in my dinky little bar was $1,500 a year. And no negotiating. They just come in and tell you how much you owe.
yeah, it seems that people refuse to take responsibility for their actions. Jesus Loves you! He died in your place so you would not have to die and go to Hell.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Probably not, but just in case:
Sit comfortably with your back fully against the chair back and your feet on the floor. Push down gently with your feet, causing the chair to lean back on its curved bottoms. Release the pressure from your feet, allowing the chair to roll forward. Repeat as desired.
personally I think $1500 is better spent on a laptop
For the way I use a laptop, which is simply having a transportable computer, this is much better. As easily transported as a large laptop, but a better computer.
Futhermore, you clearly have something that you did not have before, and have not rendered payment in return for the information. You have entered into an uneven, unwilling transaction with the person who has the rights to distribute the material as they see fit.
You seem to think that if someone says it's not theft that they are also saying it's not wrong. The issue of right or wrong is a separate one. But its is clearly not theft. Your own argument is not a definition of theft.
But here is a question for you:
You see a nice car. Let's say it's a Ferrari. And you're given a magic wand that when you wave it will magically give you your own Ferrari. Do you wave it? If you do, is it stealing?
Who in their right mind is going to open an anonymous package anyway?
What's that got to do with it being illegal to send one? And maybe you're expecting the package, it's just that the sender would rather not identify himself.
I think many of the posters here don't quite appreciate what freedom means. Justifications such as "they need to identify the corpses," and "who'd want to open it anyway" are some mighty trivial reasons to sacrifice liberty.
Without some sort of identification, the names on tickets suddenly become worthless and you haven't a clue who is on any given plane that takes off, lands, or crashes.
You know it used to be like that. If you had a ticket you could get on the plane. No ID, no questions, no nothing. It was like living in America.
The sail does not contribute to the movement. If you've so badly designed your boat that you've installed your fan so that it points the wrong way, then yes, you can angle the air off the sail to make the boat move forward. But you could also angle it off anything else. Its being a sail does not contribute anything. A claim that a fan powered sailboat would work certainly contains the implicit notion that the sail somehow makes it better than not having a sail.
You say you claim only that a fan-powered sailboat is possible, but you're actually saying that it's possible to have a fan powered boat that happens to have a sail on it.
All you're doing is making so that the sail interferes less. You could just as easily arrange it so that instead of a sail you use, say, a crate full of Cheez-Whiz(tm).
Look, you thought it was reasonable to have a fan powered sailboat. It isn't. And now you're just weaseling.
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Your own words betray you. :-)
You shrug and say to each his own, and then in the same breath belittle those who you see as different.
So in a sense, that high esteem that he'd earned was his currency, albeit a less fungible one. But it still was value previously earned, stored in some other form.
Oh please. What is this? The 60s? Apparently the guy is able to find enough time to work on these problems. That kind of freedom is what money buys. If he didn't have enough money to do that then it would suddenly become much more important.
"Money" is not some stack bills in your wallet. It represents some tangible effort that had value, and that value is now stored in a convenient form, ready to be exchanged for something else of value.
Try owning a bar or restaurant. BMI will send around of its "boys." Got a CD player? OK, that's several hundred dollars per year in royalties. Oh, is that TV? Well, music is sometimes played on TV, so we have to count that, too. Karaoke once a week? Pay up. My BMI bill in my dinky little bar was $1,500 a year. And no negotiating. They just come in and tell you how much you owe.
So the best price around is $13.88, and yet somehow the average price is about $13?
Jesus Loves you! He died in your place so you would not have to die and go to Hell.
An interesting juxtaposition.
Probably not, but just in case:
Sit comfortably with your back fully against the chair back and your feet on the floor.Push down gently with your feet, causing the chair to lean back on its curved bottoms.
Release the pressure from your feet, allowing the chair to roll forward.
Repeat as desired.
You had me convinced, right up until I realized it was your sig that convinced me. Then my head exploded.
Well, the lack of reasoned argument to support your simple-minded negation, for starters.
For the way I use a laptop, which is simply having a transportable computer, this is much better. As easily transported as a large laptop, but a better computer.
I think maybe ol' Jerry was "inspired" by the original.
In what way? Do you mean it's hard to understand what he's saying?
Yeah, but you'd lose it all back on bandages and broken vases from everybody bumping into stuff all the time.
yeah, but I'll bet that in this particular case the mean and the median are just about the same.
You seem to think that if someone says it's not theft that they are also saying it's not wrong. The issue of right or wrong is a separate one. But its is clearly not theft. Your own argument is not a definition of theft.
But here is a question for you:
You see a nice car. Let's say it's a Ferrari. And you're given a magic wand that when you wave it will magically give you your own Ferrari. Do you wave it? If you do, is it stealing?
So it's entirely different. No one's going to jail or being executed over it. If it's not the government, it's not censorship.
Exactly. And freedom is being lost by subtle creeps. And it seems to be working, based on the many posters here who don't see anything wrong with it.
It was also the safest before they checked IDs.
Well of course it is. You're saying that it's justified, but it certainly is giving up freedom.
What's that got to do with it being illegal to send one? And maybe you're expecting the package, it's just that the sender would rather not identify himself.
I think many of the posters here don't quite appreciate what freedom means. Justifications such as "they need to identify the corpses," and "who'd want to open it anyway" are some mighty trivial reasons to sacrifice liberty.
You know it used to be like that. If you had a ticket you could get on the plane. No ID, no questions, no nothing. It was like living in America.
You say you claim only that a fan-powered sailboat is possible, but you're actually saying that it's possible to have a fan powered boat that happens to have a sail on it.
Only because he's wrong about the $10/wk. Even in Nicaragua laborers make $3 a day. Skilled labor makes $5. And Mexico is at least as prosperous.
Look, you thought it was reasonable to have a fan powered sailboat. It isn't. And now you're just weaseling.
I'd say that company has more problems than just Java.