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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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tommyrot - May 25, 2005 12:27:18 pm PDT #6938 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

he would expect to be able to download your mind into a machine, so when you die it's not a major career problem,'

More like you could create a clone of your mind. You'd still die.

It is 35 times more powerful than previous games consoles. 'The new PlayStation is 1 per cent as powerful as a human brain,' he said.

Bullshit.

shrift - May 25, 2005 12:29:30 pm PDT #6939 of 10001

"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I don't know whether I should be amused or ashamed that my main fannish e-mail is Darth Shrift, but in my defense, Shrift was already taken.

§ ita § - May 25, 2005 12:29:46 pm PDT #6940 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Aeroplanes will be too afraid to crash, yoghurts will wish you good morning before being eaten

Didn't Douglas Adams cover this territory? I don't recall it ending that well.

brenda m - May 25, 2005 12:30:13 pm PDT #6941 of 10001

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

To be fair, it never ends well for the yogurt.

JZ - May 25, 2005 12:30:44 pm PDT #6942 of 10001

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

'We can already use DNA, for example, to make electronic circuits so it's possible to think of a smart yoghurt some time after 2020 or 2025, where the yoghurt has got a whole stack of electronics in every single bacterium. You could have a conversation with your strawberry yogurt before you eat it.'

I keep trying to think what the yoghurt would say and all I can come up with is "God no please please please oh Jesus help me please don't eat me I'll do anything just please please no," and really I'd just as soon it kept quiet.

Jessica - May 25, 2005 12:31:36 pm PDT #6943 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

More like you could create a clone of your mind. You'd still die.

But from your persepective, would you notice a difference?

[eta:

And yeah, I'm really not seeing an upside to creating talking yogurt. Or fearful airplanes.]

§ ita § - May 25, 2005 12:32:04 pm PDT #6944 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Nothing worth talking to is worth eating. So far, anyway.

sarameg - May 25, 2005 12:32:13 pm PDT #6945 of 10001

If it could talk,no reason it couldn't get up and walk away and god knows some tubs I've forgotten in the back of the fridge sure as hell were trying....

Topic!Cindy - May 25, 2005 12:32:48 pm PDT #6946 of 10001

What is even happening?

Darth Colic

tommyrot - May 25, 2005 12:32:56 pm PDT #6947 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I keep trying to think what the yoghurt would say and all I can come up with is "God no please please please oh Jesus help me please don't eat me I'll do anything just please please no,"

Heh.

I'd respond, "Dude, you're a bastard child of science. It truly sucks to be you. I'll be doing you a favor; trust me."

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