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To: dvdw© who wrote (62477)	4/5/2010 3:05:37 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218128

i must admit i find what you wrote and what you generally write to be difficult to understand, and impossible to be sure to understood correctly in any case, i would have, in much younger days, advised jack to: - get smashing blondie lena to distract greasy hair nerdy joe by simple act of engaging him in friendly conversation w/i environment where freshman year female engineering students are sparse to begin with, never mind smashing and blondie - stick 3M tape on joe's dorm door jam - move joe out of dorm area, remove 1 n 1/2 feet of punch cards for rapid duplication by ibm card punching machine - replace original back in joe dorm, and signal to lena that the coast is clear, and that her sacrificing duty done had jack done so, i suspect the following would have happened: - jack, ever the lazy sort, would not have bothered to change variable names of a program he does not understand - but jack, ever the generous-at-heart soul would have shared the codes with all needy students coming his way - given the difficulty of the homework set, many independent grouping of identical programming would have arose beside the jack cluster - university would have discovered such pervasive shared logic clusters, and would have made concerted effort to catch wrong-doers - when so, in course of waiting for investigation/detection outcome, the news would have been published in on-campus paper, and computer science students would be sweating bricks - jack would have been worried for self, joe, lena, and anyone else he may have passed the codes to, and 3rd generation copies ... a mess - jack would have had to depend on pure luck to have every node in his cluster escape, and joe kept harmless, for joe must be kept harmless, which means jack would go up in flames that would be how i would write the script for jack. moral dilemmas come in shades