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by Jeff Turcotte - May 23, 2007 / 11:42am View more articles

Question: Can you link developing an ebay clone to first degree murder?

Today, in the developer room, we managed to do it in about 10 minutes.

Here's how it happened:

  1. We were talking about a hypothetical ebay like system to scalp vacation trips that you may have already purchased.
  2. It came up that scalping tickets was rampant on ebay, and some states might legalize it.
  3. A debate ensued over whether scalping tickets should be allowed. Somehow it boiled down to a free market pro-scalping system vs an anti-scalping Karl-fest
  4. The anti-scalping bunch equated the act with buying up domain names with the intention of swindling money from a big corporation.
  5. Will said that intention doesn't matter, only trademarks do.
  6. Elaborate scenarios about revenge, friendship, domain names, love, money, and truth were given.
  7. Turns out, intention is part of first degree murder. So one could say that, in some cases, intention DOES matter.
  8. Conversation dissolves back into actual work.


Coming next week: iMarc associates pickpockets to the Nerf Turbo Football, with complimentary twists and turns.
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5 Comments

by Patrick McPhail   #
on May 23, 2007 / 12:15pm
I can link them in one step: I would intentionally murder Will for scalped Red Sox tickets next to the home dugout.
by Robert Mohns   #
on May 23, 2007 / 1:58pm
Will should consider a desk position that does not put his back to the room.
by Will Bond   #
on May 23, 2007 / 2:36pm
I can’t believe I was the only person singled out by name. You better watch out…
by Will Bond   #
on May 23, 2007 / 2:37pm
…oh yeah, I think Jeff said he believes communism is good.
by Jeff Turcotte   #
on May 24, 2007 / 9:33am
I never said that... I said scalping tickets is bad, and we should all have government jobs, all good and services should be provided for us, and the internet is a waste of time, and I want to move to China.

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