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> From: "Seth D. Schoen" <sigma@ishmael.nmh.northfield.ma.us>
> To: deschall@gatekeeper.megasoft.com
> Subject: Re: WAS THIS LEGAL?
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:51:06 -0400
>
>First of all, human cloning isn't illegal; Federal U.S. government funds
for
>human cloning research aren't illegal.
>
>Second, I agree with others about "consideration". Idle cycles, by
>definition, have a value of $0.00.
>
>Third, the distribution wasn't really "random", although in effect for
those
>who participated it was. It was given to a person who met a certain
>criterion of knowledge, much like contests where you can receive prizes
>for knowing trivia -- except here the question is not "What's the diameter
>of Jupiter?" but "What key will decrypt this?"
>
>Fourth, if any states try to tax distributed computing efforts which are
>trying to win prizes, it will be yet another reason to move the keyservers
>to a less restrictive jurisdiction. :-)
>
>--
>Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of
>commanding. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous,
>pure, will infallibly and always be spoiled at this trade.
> -- Mikhail A. Bakunin (thanks to Rabbi Albert Axelrad)
>