[humorix] Cease and Desist Letter From A Parallel Universe

[James Baughn <humorix@i-want-a-website.com>]

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Cease and Desist Letter From A Parallel Universe
Dink Meeker, dinkmeeker2000@yahoo.com
May 13, 2001

At Humorix, we've always dreamed of the day when all of the
world's lawyers are rounded up and deported to some
alternate dimension.  Unfortunately, that day will never
come.  Lawyers already inhabit every single parallel
universe, as demonstrated by the following e-mail our Vast
Spy Network(tm) intercepted.

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Sincerely,

Attorneys at Law
Howe, Cheatam, and Dewey

Our firm represents the citizens of the 42nd parallel
universe, also called The Bizarro World. We are asking you
to cease and desist from your research towards  quantum
computers that operate without power.  Such computers
operate on the principle that the computations being
performed are occurring on computers in alternate worlds. 
Please note that under the QMCA, or Quantum Millennium
Copyright Act[2], any computations performed in our reality
become our own intellectual property in perpetuity
throughout the multiverse.

In response to your blatant acts of piracy that threaten
our possible economic futures, the Yahoo-Organized
Universal Commission Against New Technology (YOUCANT)  has
ruled that we may begin to collapse any superpositions
exhibiting your reality's quantum signature, so, as our
bizarro-hackers like to say, "All of your bases are under
our control".

If you continue to distribute content or eigenstates that
may contain content on using quantum computers in this way,
we will be forced to take additional legal action.

To Whom It May Concern:

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[1] http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/proc_maths/proc_maths.html
[2] Just as quantum computers can theoretically perform
calculations even when they're not on, the US Congress can
pass legislation even when they're not in session.  That's
why we're stuck with the QMCA.


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