Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 01:37:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), Doug@gorean.org (Doug Barton), brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <200005250137.SAA12207@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000524205815.A79001@mad> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at May 24, 2000 08:58:15 PM
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:53:19PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > physical universe and the second law of thermodynamics (i.e. if > > it were an infinite sum game, then the sum total would encompass > > everything, and that includes entropy, which makes it less than > > infinite sum, by definition). > > I know of now theory that says an infinite sum must encompass > everything. Which order of infinity are you thinking of? I'm betting it's the wrong one. Consider that for wealth to exist, it must be accounted, and there are a finite number of particles in the universe. Now consider if we use them all to account wealth... Even with any notational mechanism you choose, you will eventually run out of bits; and that's not counting a "wealth owner ID field". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200005250137.SAA12207>