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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Message-ID: <458@white.gcm>
Date: 7 May 88 08:07:27 GMT
References: <380@motbos.UUCP> <9160@cisunx.UUCP> <11334@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell)
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT
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In article <11334@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
.
.I have just invented a matter duplicator.  A friend drove his new BMW
.over here this weekend, and we put it in the `original' side; I
.shoveled an equal mass of dirt into the hopper, and produced an exact
.copy.
.Was that immoral?
Of course you forgot to state that he agreed not to copy it and that it is
against the law.  Do you call it Chris Torek Inc?  How much do you charge
for a 535i?  Is Prevention against disintegration guaranteed for the first
twelve months?  Did the original company that did all the work designing
the car manage to stay in business now that their product has to be priced
like dirt?  I'm sure that they advertising dollars were spent because they 
thought it would entice people to buy their product rather than help some
startup company in Maryland.

.(Alas, the duplicate and the duplicator were both unstable, and both
.just dissolved back into piles of virtual particles.)

Sort of like joy riding correct?  I stole your car while you were sleeping
last night but it is back in your garage in time to drive to work the
next morning.