Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!floyd From: floyd@brl-smoke.ARPA (Floyd C. Wofford) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million Message-ID: <7828@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 4 May 88 14:08:28 GMT References: <380@motbos.UUCP> <9160@cisunx.UUCP> <11334@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: floyd@brl.arpa (Floyd C. Wofford) Organization: Ballistic Research Laboratory Lines: 20 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. > >-- >In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) >Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris You can resolve the morality problems amongst yourselves. I have some dirt; how much would you charge to make a BMW for me. Viva entrepreneurship! I hope you can make $27,000,000.00 a year (in the first month) with it. Whatever you do though, do not get it patented. You have a fine idea, exploit the heck out of it. floyd@brl.arpa