From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 17:10:53 MST
R. Bradury said:
<<It smells of being just a tad bit too convenient. If the universe
is that hacked it *has* to be a simulation.
R.>>
What is more alarming to me is (if Tipler is speaking the truth) is Tulane's
control of intellectual propert, as a condition of employment. Since when is
cosmology theories, patentable???
F.Tipler writes:
But my salary was frozen: since my work was "worthless", it is clear to
University officials that I should receive no raise. So now my pay is some
$30,000 less than the Tulane full professor average, almost at the level of a
starting assistant professor at Tulane, and definitely less than the
assistant professor at a place like Cal Tech.In the past I could have made up
the salary shortfall by writing books. But Tulane changed the terms of my
employment (the Louisiana courts have ruled that the University can do this
to any faculty member), and now Tulane claims to own the copyright to any
book I may write. So it looks as if I may depend on others elsewhere to
develop the OPT. Fortunately, transhumanists exist, and eventually some will
be trained in cosmology.
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