Re: Anti-intellectualism in fandom

"Will in New Haven" <bill.reich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> On Feb 10, 2:36 pm, "Karl Johanson" <karljohan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>
>> > Karl Johanson <karljohan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> >>> I charge big bucks to read computer codes.
>>
>> >> How much per bit and does binary code count?  I wouldn't want to
>> >> wind up owing you a gigabuck for accidentally typing "1".
>>
>> > I thought everyone knew that two bits is a quarter dollar.
>>
>> : )
>>
>> > Anyhow, you can break even by charging me for use of "37," unless 
>> > your
>> > patent on that number that you discovered has expired.
>>
>> I neglected to patent 37, so it's public domain. The royalties you 
>> owe
>> me for producing Carbon dioxide (which I do have the patent on (as 
>> duly
>> signed by the king of the United States)) might just cover the cost 
>> of
>> all the ones and zeros I may have inadvertently got you to read.
>
> So YOU are the one responsible for global warning. While I don't
> anticipate criminal proceedings, at least not in the United States, as
> they would amount to ex post facto prosecution, I think you are liable
> for damages under common tort law.

No no. That would be the *inventor* of Carbon dioxide (and Nitrogen 
oxides, methane, haloalkanes, water vapour, etc.) that you want.

Karl Johanson