[1780] in bugtraq
Re: impossible vs. impractical
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John F. Haugh II)
Thu May 11 02:07:05 1995
From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
To: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Date: Wed, 10 May 95 22:46:14 CDT
Cc: mcn@EnGarde.com, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9505081042.AA07209@all.net>; from "Dr. Frederick B. Cohen" at May 8, 95 6:42 am
> > Oh good. I think possibility has practicality implied. After all, if you
> > can generate an infinite amount of energy, you CAN go the speed of light
> > (according to the current laws of physics), so there, it's not impossible.
>
> But according to current physics, there is a finite amount of total
> energy in the Universe, and thus it is impossible to get the infinite
> energy required to do this - again, impossible, not infeasible.
I seem to have found a bug in my elm mailer. Isn't there supposed to be
some way to get rid of mail on a subject you are no longer interested in
without having to press the "d" key every time?
Would someone please help me fix this bug?
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