>>> 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? ;)
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