Am I the only one who thought that looked awesome?
Edit: Does an upvote of this signify that the individual also thinks this room is awesome or that I am in fact the only one that thinks it's awesome?
Maintaining and advancing the infrastructure that allows and encourages other humans to fashion such objects? Though admittedly that's a derivative value.
It's a matter of what kind of paperclipper it is. If it was created to make paperclips where paperclips are defined as steel paperclips of given dimensions then it doesn't matter how advanced it becomes. It'll make steel paperclips.
Mind you it can still use our atoms in a fusion generator.
The second sentence begins with an absolute phrase. My Little, Brown Handbook says that these are "always set off from the rest of the sentence with punctuation, usually a comma". In this instance the comma would come between "case" and "everything".
See also: The Paperclip Art of Tim Sterling.
Somewhere in the distant galaxy, Clippys post pictures of alternative uses of humans.