01-10-2013, 10:59 AM | #31 |
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
It's not really hard to see how you'd do it deliberately, but it's not a very likely bug.
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01-10-2013, 12:52 PM | #32 | |
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
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Not all cats are furry little murder machines, either, but it's still a pretty useful way to describe a cat, because many are, even if a large percentage of cats hunt only when they need food.
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01-10-2013, 01:20 PM | #33 |
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
It's not defective, it's just made for a different jack type, and you ain't got an adapter. (Also, Flyndaran of course knows this.)
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01-10-2013, 01:45 PM | #34 |
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
I can only lay the blame at the feet of Charlie Stross' diseased mind. Read SATURN'S CHILDREN if you feel like you need to know more.
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
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if you don't want to read the comic 1 in 3 well-fed domestic house cats hunt prey on average twice a week and only about a quarter are eaten. Out of 84 million cats (in the US) 28 million are "murder cats" that kill more than 2 billion animals a year. I know it's a tangent, but The Oatmeal is cool.
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01-10-2013, 02:46 PM | #36 |
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
I think it's a Heinlein reference (to Friday, and Time Enough for Love). Quite a lot of Saturn's Children is deliberately Heinleinesque.
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01-10-2013, 02:49 PM | #37 |
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
Friday isn't exactly a combat bioroid. Covert ops is probably more accurate, which is not the same thing.
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01-10-2013, 03:25 PM | #38 |
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01-10-2013, 05:01 PM | #39 |
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
I was referring to the blame for putting the idea in my mind. Charlie makes explicit what David Pulver may have been hinting at, and what Heinlein seems to have avoided addressing.
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01-10-2013, 07:00 PM | #40 | |
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Re: Why Felicia Bioroids? : A memetic study from ancient times to 2100
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Dogs will play with dead and dying animals just as much as cats and really most other animals. Why should I find humor in imagining that my loved ones are sadistic monsters? That's a bit disturbing, and not in a good way.
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