>>> That's my only point. Rude, yes. Morally/ethically/legally >>> there's really no problem with doing it.
legally, who knows - maybe there will be a court case some day if some awful person poaches the >10M exponent ... but morally/ethically there is obviously a huge problem with poaching exponents. (obvious to anyone who has at least a tiny clue about what morality & ethics *mean* .) Rob> On the basis of legality I would tend to agree with you Rob> however I beg to differ on the basis of ethics and morality, Rob> however I guess everyone is entitled to their own idea of Rob> what is morally and ethically ok. no way! i understand that statement is nonsense. morality & ethics are not defined by people's own ideas, they are defined *absolutely* and NOT by any human. just because today's politically-correct NewSpeak people have redefined "morality" to mean "whatever an individual thinks is moral", that doesn't mean that morality has actually been redefined. moral relativism is *bullshit* anywhere you find it, including here on this project. while i'm at it, due to lots of P4 PC hardware problems i have a bunch of doublecheck exponents checked out that will probably never get processed by my re-re-re-re-formatted P4 PC. so am now discovering that i can unreserve them from a different machine than the one to which they were originally assigned. and i'm freeing a bunch in the 7M range presently... if these exponents are of interest to anyone, please have at them - primenet will probably assign them to you if you request doublechecks 5 minutes after i send this email. DOWN WITH EXPONENT-POACHERS as well as all WEAKLING MORAL RELATIVISTS, /eli ps - subtle, aren't i? ;) Rob> Rob Reid http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rob+reid Rob> 'Stalk' away ;) Rob> _________________________________________________________________________ Rob> Unsubscribe & list info -- Rob> http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ Rob> -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers