>>>Oddly enough, I agree with you :P
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>>Oddly enough I disagree with both of you. Some things are worth the super obscen profits. Example. Say a researcher works on finding a cure for cancer, 20 year, or maybe 2 months. She finds the cure; validates it with 100% certainty. Then she says; unless I get 10 billion dollars I won't share my findings with the world. Of course, being that messiah won't apply water boarding, what do you do? I would give her 10 billion and then take her to dinner <g>.
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>I'd offer 10 million (plus 80% of the profit the manufacturer makes, and 80% of their imaginary costs, out of their pocket :) or her blackmail goes on youtube.
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>Then I'd make sure I get a tiny percentage, to use against anyone who comes up with such outlandish scenarios in a web discussion ;).
I knew you would look at it from the bright side :)
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