Re: Time telephone

"Williamknowsbest" <William.Mook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mar 18, 12:34 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
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"Christopher" <aue...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On 18 Mar 2007 00:17:24 -0700, "Williamknowsbest"
<William.M...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you had a time telephone who would you call?

Someone next week to tell me the winning numbers of the next euro
lottery.

So you could split the prize with 64 million other winners?

Hardly seems worth the effort.

Which reveals the wastefulness of lotteries - that's worth the service
right there - a tax on the foolish or the statistically naive.

Sending information through time about stock winners would also be
interesting. Money would flow away from losers to winners and
successful investment capital would be more quickly rewarded.
Increasing overall wealth.


Umm, no, basically it wouldn't change a thing since ultimately everyone
would have access to the same information, basically the status quo.


Stopping crime is another version of the grandfather paradox. Someone
breaks in my house and robs me. Cops identify the miscreants and send
a signal back in time and arrest the fellows as they step in the front
door. There was a movie like this with Tom Cruise - that would be a
huge benefit. Minority Report - they used ESP not time telephones.

Terror attacks, IEDs, military attacks, could all be prevented before
they happened. Which would be awesome. Though philisophically
problematical. But that's true with other aspects of quantum theory
as well.

Until the terrorists watch the cops spring their time trap and call their
associates and tell them to show up 15 minutes earlier and ambush the
policy.







--
Greg Moore
SQL Server DBA Consulting
Email: sql (at) greenms.com http://www.greenms.com


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