Time travel and Apple legal
If you constructed a time machine that let you accelerate foward in time to January 7, 2002 and gathered all the information you could on new machines and travel back to your present time and post all the new information on AI, could Apple legal go after you? What if you showed them the machine and how you did it, i think they would have no case since you didn't break any NDA or conducted any industrial espionage. yup, your hands would be squeaky clean in any court in the land.
Now the only paradox would be when Steve finds out and cancels MWSF02 out of spite. And we won't see those machines until MWNY. In which case the specs I would have mentioned would be outdated and my excursion would have been worthless.
(BTW: new G5's at up to 1.6GHz, DDR333, LCD iMac with 1GHz G4 but you didn't read this here)
Now the only paradox would be when Steve finds out and cancels MWSF02 out of spite. And we won't see those machines until MWNY. In which case the specs I would have mentioned would be outdated and my excursion would have been worthless.
(BTW: new G5's at up to 1.6GHz, DDR333, LCD iMac with 1GHz G4 but you didn't read this here)
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<strong><Snipped some stuff about a time machine and Apple Legal coming after you when you went to January 7, 2002 and back...yeah!>
(BTW: new G5's at up to 1.6GHz, DDR333, LCD iMac with 1GHz G4 but you didn't read this here)</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ummm...OK, Outsider! We'll see if you're correct when we get there ourselves, though the natural time machine of time itself...
--Alexis
disclaimernot that I'm anti-silly, but time travel is such an "if only, I wish, that would be cool" scenario and I've had enough of that.
G-News
P.S: You'd die in the future, cause you'd be visiting a non existant expo, thus falling between the space-time continuum, which must be a very bad thing to do.
<strong>If i had a time machine, i would go 5 years into the future, look at the new hardware, say "whoa", buy a now cheap dual 800 g4 on ebay w/assload of ram, go back to now, live happy <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Souns like something I'd do too.
Assuming you're not covered by an NDA, then no, Apple would have no legal case. On the other hand, why would anyone have reason to believe you? Look at all the people posting here claiming to know what's coming. They've all been ridiculed to a large extent. What would give you any credibility?
If you were to actually purchase and bring back some of the new hardware as proof, then there would be quite a legal conundrum. You would be in possession of items which, technically, you had not yet bought. Could they indict you for theft? :eek: Would a receipt dated Jan. 8, 2002 be of any use? Would they have to hold you in detention until they saw you appear in SF and legally buy the equipment?
An interesting philosophical question, anyway...
then you could influence BG when he was a kid to study, oh say, art or geology something like that. and if you stuck around, you could have taken his place in history. then all of our problems would be quite a bit different now wouldn't they?
p.s. buying stocks back then may or may not have worked for you. consider this: if M$ didn't exist, then it's influence also wouldn't exist...and who knows what effect your presence , back then, would have on our history now?
hmmmmm, very scary things....
There is nothing we can do to change what happens, what happened and what will happen. Space time paradoxes can't exist, because if they did, they wouldn't.
See 12 monkeys for further reference.
Incidently, if I had a time machine, among other things, I'd grab a G4, take it back to 1980 and say "whammo Apple - check this puppy out. You got 10 years to work out what makes this thing tick, and thn fab a whole lot more."
Unfortunately it's clear I never did that, although it's still possible that in a few months I'll be back from 2012 with the G9 and give/sell it to Apple.
I can't wait.
or we could just start a new thread...
<strong>It's most likely, that if it ever will be possible to travel through time (and space), mankind will extinct itself, or even more, the whole Universe maybe, by creating some kind of paradox nobody thought about. Thus let's better hope we'll never be able to.
G-News
P.S: You'd die in the future, cause you'd be visiting a non existant expo, thus falling between the space-time continuum, which must be a very bad thing to do.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I like to think of the whole time travel thing as they described it in Dragonball Z (good action anime).
If you go back in time and change somehting, it doesn't change your future, but it changes the future of the time you traveled to. Meaning that the road would split at that point in time, and there would exist two futures. The future you came from, and the new future you created.
Therefore, if you went back in time and killed yourself, there would be no paradox. Your future would still exists, but a different one would be created as time progressed for that time period.
Now, this all doesn't describe traveling into the future. I don't know quite how that would work yet