However, the person claiming to generate the same recipie independently must be able to prove that he or she never was witness to the original.
Back in the day... that was exactly what Compaq and others did to clone the PC from IBM. The only part IBM could protect was the BIOS. One team of engineers analyzed the BIOS and developed a technical spec describing what IBM's BIOS did. Then a second team developed their own BIOS to act exactly as prescibed by the technical spec. It was critical that noone on the second team had any real knowledge of IBM's secrets.
That's where SCO claims IBM messed up. IBM put the same guys from Project Monterey on Linux. That means they couldn't objectively re-create functionality from scratch.
The Sky is not some two deminsional curtian hanging above us.
The Earth is not flat.
The molucule is not the smallest particle of matter
And the world is not comming to an end.
I beleive it was Mark Twain who said, "There are three kinds of liars in this world; Liars, Damn Liars, and Statistics." The biggest problem here is people associating facts that are not intrensicly related.
Many people question the accuracy of actual global warming. "Official" temperature measurements are most commonly collected today at airports which have large tarmacs and big jet engines going all day. Maybe, just maybe, that's skewing the data more than my mom's can of AquaNet. Even one of your own sources admits that cannot rule out the effects of solar patterns.
As for finite resources, that's a problem of using a finite mind. I bet the folks at ADM would like to have a word or two with you on that one.
The bottom line is we mere mortals will never have any serious effect on the planet. History has shown that mother nature always wins. Dinosaurs come and go, but the planet moves on. Get over yourself.
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However, the person claiming to generate the same recipie independently must be able to prove that he or she never was witness to the original. Back in the day... that was exactly what Compaq and others did to clone the PC from IBM. The only part IBM could protect was the BIOS. One team of engineers analyzed the BIOS and developed a technical spec describing what IBM's BIOS did. Then a second team developed their own BIOS to act exactly as prescibed by the technical spec. It was critical that noone on the second team had any real knowledge of IBM's secrets. That's where SCO claims IBM messed up. IBM put the same guys from Project Monterey on Linux. That means they couldn't objectively re-create functionality from scratch.
Guess what...
The Sky is not some two deminsional curtian hanging above us.
The Earth is not flat.
The molucule is not the smallest particle of matter
And the world is not comming to an end.
I beleive it was Mark Twain who said, "There are three kinds of liars in this world; Liars, Damn Liars, and Statistics." The biggest problem here is people associating facts that are not intrensicly related.
Many people question the accuracy of actual global warming. "Official" temperature measurements are most commonly collected today at airports which have large tarmacs and big jet engines going all day. Maybe, just maybe, that's skewing the data more than my mom's can of AquaNet. Even one of your own sources admits that cannot rule out the effects of solar patterns.
As for finite resources, that's a problem of using a finite mind. I bet the folks at ADM would like to have a word or two with you on that one.
The bottom line is we mere mortals will never have any serious effect on the planet. History has shown that mother nature always wins. Dinosaurs come and go, but the planet moves on. Get over yourself.