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...threaten man's supremacy over the machine but not his artistic talents. "One of these machines," Shannon stated, "will collect parts from its environment and assemble them to produce a second machine of the same type, which then starts collecting parts to construct a third machine and so ad infinitum...
...historically been recognized as a method of protecting the innocent from false accusations and tyrannical prosecutions. The courts have repeatedly pointed out how even in cases of ordinary crime, innocent persons may be trapped into incriminating admissions. But in political cases the possibilities of entrapment are multiplied ad infinitum. The dangers are increased by (1) the grand juries an deposit juries; (2) the amorphous character of the crimes; vide the Lattimore indictment involving the alleged promotion of Communist interests; (3) the use of the conspiracy concept of which we were warned by Justice Jackson in the Krulewitch case...
...infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn...
...squib about the disgruntled Reno meat packer who found it more profitable to work for OPS than for himself: do I detect here the first faint whisperings of the Great American Economic Revolution, when all merchants will work for OPS, all farmers for PMA, all vets for VA, ad infinitum, leaving only the decontrolled rattlesnake-meat canners and dinosaur-bone collectors to shift for themselves...
...little spies have smaller spies, and so ad infinitum...