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Conundrum
Thu Nov 11 2010, 08:09PM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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interesting..
Now all someone needs to build is a device that renders greed and avarice as obsolete as stone arrow heads...

solve those problems and many others will vanish methinks..
-A

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Thomas W
Thu Nov 11 2010, 09:05PM
Thomas W Registered Member #3324 Joined: Sun Oct 17 2010, 06:57PM
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acctualy ive decided
"the meaning of life is to build tesla coils and other cool HV stuff"

NOW GO DO HIGH VOLTAGIE STUFF LIKE YOU MENT TO

^.^
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Hazmatt_(The Underdog)
Fri Nov 12 2010, 04:18PM
Hazmatt_(The Underdog) Registered Member #135 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 12:06AM
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Monty Python figured this out AGES ago.. Get off your seat and go pick up the movie!

;p
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Torchwood
Fri Nov 12 2010, 05:10PM
Torchwood Registered Member #2668 Joined: Sun Jan 31 2010, 12:11PM
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Conundrum wrote ...

interesting..
Now all someone needs to build is a device that renders greed and avarice as obsolete as stone arrow heads...

solve those problems and many others will vanish methinks..
-A


A Star Trek style replicator, if you can replicate anything you want what is the point of greed?
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Conundrum
Fri Nov 12 2010, 09:07PM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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hehe. there is a discussion about whether replicators will be heavily DRM'ed if/when they become available due to the legal issues with being able to make a part for an applicance rather than buying a new one..

Expect issues with the RPIAA (Rapid Prototyping Industry Association of America, formerly known as the RIAA..
"Making available" yadayada..
what next, banning EEPROM programmers because you can fix broken LCD TVs with them?

-A wink
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Chris Russell
Sat Nov 13 2010, 08:52PM
Chris Russell ... not Russel!
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Grenadier wrote ...

Well imagine that a incomprehensable series of events, starting with amino acids reacting 4 billion years ago led to me typing this sentence here right now. The chances of that happening are so rediculously tiny that the only way something like that could happen IMO is in either a perfect universe, or an infinite universe. In an infinite universe then anything can and will happen. If our universe is truley infinite then numbers 7,8,and 9 in my list are meaningless. An infinte universe has infinite matter and thus would last infinitely long.

This assertion reminds me of a similar assertion I saw made by someone attempting to crack a cipher. After arranging the letters in a certain way, the name of someone who might have been involved with the cipher appeared. Let's say the name was "Tom Jones." Except, as it appeared in the cipher, it was more like "Toam Jomes." This person went on to calculate the exact odds of "Toam Jomes" appearing in the cipher, and the odds turned out to be a very large number against.

The problem? Well, had "Tim Jolnes" appeared, or "Otm Jones," or any of a practically limitless number of possible permutations, those would likely have been considered significant as well. So a more sensible consideration of the odds would have accounted for the fact that there are so many possible permutations of this name that the odds of finding one of them in a cipher of any length are actually quite good.

The same applies here. Sure, the exact state of the universe right now is incredibly unlikely, but there are literally a trillion trillion trillion possible universes which are practically identical to this one. Even if our skin were blue and the sky were brown, and our sun were actually a binary star system, it would still appear that our exact situation is very unlikely.

Personally, my philosophy has always been that life has no meaning, except that which we ascribe to it. To look externally for meaning is about like asking your neighbor what you want for dinner.
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pauleddy
Fri Nov 19 2010, 04:45AM
pauleddy Registered Member #2909 Joined: Wed Jun 09 2010, 12:31AM
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hmmm...
the number 7, Gods number (7 days, 777, repeated use of 7 in the Bible)
the number 6, Gods number for man and evil (666, and other things)

6x7=42 hmmmm.....
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Steve Conner
Fri Nov 19 2010, 11:46AM
Steve Conner Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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Torchwood wrote ...

A Star Trek style replicator, if you can replicate anything you want what is the point of greed?

This is like the guy who gets granted one wish by a genie, so he wishes to have all his future wishes granted too.

To which any half-decent genie would reply, "Sorry no meta-wishes" smile

If replicators existed, industry would get them first, because the technology would start out expensive, and industry has more finance available than consumers. The result would be that they could turn out their products cheaper by replicating them. They would become so cheap that it wouldn't be worth Joe Public buying an expensive replicator, not to mention the nano-goop for it which would probably be marked up even more heavily than inkjet cartridges.

Oh, wait, that already happened when CNC machining was invented in the 1940s. smile
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quicksilver
Fri Nov 19 2010, 04:08PM
quicksilver Registered Member #1408 Joined: Fri Mar 21 2008, 03:49PM
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Conundrum wrote ...

interesting..
Now all someone needs to build is a device that renders greed and avarice as obsolete as stone arrow heads...
solve those problems and many others will vanish methinks..
-A


Yes, but how could you market it to make billions of dollars and continue enormous profit while shutting down the competition and keeping the profits from being soaked up in taxes?????

Perhaps by SELLING human nature....



-=Disclaimer: I am joking. I love positive social interaction & discourse. That's why I don't live close to a big city=-
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radiotech
Fri Nov 19 2010, 09:36PM
radiotech Registered Member #2463 Joined: Wed Nov 11 2009, 03:49AM
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I stone arrow head has in the past turned the life clock on earth
back about million years, n'est pas ? But they never became obsolete.
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