it could be argued that the student earned the reward and his teacher (or the school system) must pay.
So you're saying if a teacher tells the students they'll receive, say, 100 Million dollars for doing something, and then they do it, in your opinion the school system could be liable?
Copyright is a lie. You didn't invent the English language, you didn't invent electromagnetic waves (sound, light), you didn't invent music
You confuse the medium with the message.
I could write a computer program that takes every word, every letter, and infinitely creates combinations of them. In theory I would "write" every orignal work
No you couldn't. You couldn't even get close. Your theory is akin to saying "If I had everything in the world then you wouldn't have anything, therefore you don't have anything now."
How does electronic mail exchanged between users of a single machine disqualify it from being email? It's still electronic mail!
You're confusing the name of something with its description. The guy who invented the windbreaker wasn't the first guy to break wind, for instance. Also, one might argue that a message that stays on the same machine is left, not sent.
The graphite is necessary for writing; clay just makes it harder
That's true. They even tried using clay in early attempts at producing Viagra. The tests were considered unsucessful when not enough of the group were willing to stick their dicks in a kiln.
Life is an interesting simulation BECAUSE of its predictability. From any one state, one can determine ANY of the future states. It is NOT backwards predictable (as you might imagine).
The same can be said for a Pseudo Random Number Generator, but nobody's sitting around all day staring at the output of a PRNG. So there must be something else to Life besides its forward predictability that makes it interesting.
The article clearly states that going to space could pay for itself and that there are trillions of dollars of minerals on a single near earth object.
It says the minerals are worth trillions at current market prices. That price is determined to a large degree by how there is available. If there suddenly was a lot more available the price would fall accordingly.
The money spent on the space program has benefitted the US economy immensely due to the spinoff technologies and industries it has created.
Oh yeah? Then how come I can't buy Space Food Sticks anymore? Answer that, wise guy.
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I heard a study once that the entire population of the world could fit in neighborhood-style homes, 4 per home, in an area the size of Texas.
I don't know which study you "heard," or even why it would be a study. That knowledge would require calculation, not study.
Let's see:
Size o' Texas: Pretty Fuckin' Big.(PFB)
Size o' land needed for a neighborhood-style home(SOLNFANSH ): 1200 Square Feet
Number o' homies(NOH ): 6 Billion.
NOH / 4 * SOLNFANSH = 1.8 trillion square feet PFB = 1.4 trillion square feet (I just looked it up)
so, PFB is not quite FBE (Fuckin' Big Enough), and that doesn't include land for things like, oh, say streets 'n stores 'n schools 'n stuff. (and farms and offices and power plants and lots of other things that I excluded because they didn't start with s.)
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So you're saying if a teacher tells the students they'll receive, say, 100 Million dollars for doing something, and then they do it, in your opinion the school system could be liable?
What?
Sure. And then the little guy would never dare sue anybody for fear of losing everything. It's like giving deep pockets a license to steal.
You confuse the medium with the message.
I could write a computer program that takes every word, every letter, and infinitely creates combinations of them. In theory I would "write" every orignal work
No you couldn't. You couldn't even get close. Your theory is akin to saying "If I had everything in the world then you wouldn't have anything, therefore you don't have anything now."
It's an outdated acronym for Quickly Wiggle Every Rotating Thing You Insert On Purpose. Nowadays it gets shortened to a goats.cx link.
You're confusing the name of something with its description. The guy who invented the windbreaker wasn't the first guy to break wind, for instance. Also, one might argue that a message that stays on the same machine is left, not sent.
That's true. They even tried using clay in early attempts at producing Viagra. The tests were considered unsucessful when not enough of the group were willing to stick their dicks in a kiln.
It's not funny, fools no moderators, and is trivially tested.
I just don't get it. Shouldn't there at least be some small bit of cleverness involved?
Pete
Too bad. You'd make a good one.
Pete
The same can be said for a Pseudo Random Number Generator, but nobody's sitting around all day staring at the output of a PRNG. So there must be something else to Life besides its forward predictability that makes it interesting.
Pete
Which is what the post said. It was only a couple of sentences. You really couldn't be bothered to read the whole thing?
Pete
Until they realized that "Todd-AO" was so retarded that even "Cinerama" sounded good in comparison.
Pete
Unless of course God left everything except for the prize rose bushes to that floozy he shacked up with down in Texas.
Pete
True, 47, Texaco Star Theater, Wilma.
Pete
My girlfriends call me a cab. Oh wait, now I get it.
Pete
And while he's looking perhaps you could take a gander at this.
Pete
Thanks to recent elective surgery, I believe she now spells it "britnEy spEars"
Pete
Come on. Napster is no more a tool for theft than is, say, my Steal-O-Matic here.... wait, bad example.
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Pete
An ex-apollo astonaut. Well. Now there's an authority. Now if we only knew what Pee-Wee Herman thought about it.
Pete
It says the minerals are worth trillions at current market prices. That price is determined to a large degree by how there is available. If there suddenly was a lot more available the price would fall accordingly.
Pete
We're just waiting until the rain forest gets smaller. That way it will cost a lot less to maintain.
Pete
Oh yeah? Then how come I can't buy Space Food Sticks anymore? Answer that, wise guy.
Pete
I don't know which study you "heard," or even why it would be a study. That knowledge would require calculation, not study.
Let's see:
Size o' Texas: Pretty Fuckin' Big.(PFB)
Size o' land needed for a neighborhood-style home(SOLNFANSH ): 1200 Square Feet
Number o' homies(NOH ): 6 Billion.
NOH / 4 * SOLNFANSH = 1.8 trillion square feet
PFB = 1.4 trillion square feet (I just looked it up)
so, PFB is not quite FBE (Fuckin' Big Enough), and that doesn't include land for things like, oh, say streets 'n stores 'n schools 'n stuff. (and farms and offices and power plants and lots of other things that I excluded because they didn't start with s.)
Pete
The notion that things were or are is an indication that they either exist now or had existed at some time in the past.
;-)
Pete