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WCDT: 2397-2401 (4-8 March, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
jwhouk:
What's your favorite Wedding Reception memory?
Party ALL NIGHT LONG, Baby! 2 (9.1%)
The dinner spread (I LOVED the sliced roast beef!) 1 (4.5%)
I caught the garter one year. Never did get it on with the bridesmaid, though. 2 (9.1%)
I caught the boquet one time. Instinctively wanted to toss it away. 0 (0%)
Never caught either, but I won a bottle of champagne once during the dance off! 0 (0%)
Caught it, got lucky, and got married within two years. 0 (0%)
Random later-regretted hookups (ala "The Wedding Crashers") 1 (4.5%)
I had absolutely NO idea who anyone was, so I cut out early. 1 (4.5%)
I got to make the embarrassing speech! 2 (9.1%)
Eh, it was normal. 4 (18.2%)
Something that involved a trampoline, a chainsaw, and the UCLA Marching Band. 0 (0%)
Waking up the next day and realizing I was MARRIED! 9 (40.9%)
Total Members Voted: 22
Lubricus:
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--- Quote from: cesium133 on 04 Mar 2013, 06:06 ---So, since today's comic is "omghidden", that means that QC is returning to Friday comic numbers ending in 5s and 0s. Unless Jeph does another "omghidden" comic.
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What? How do you get to see this comic? I can't figure it out!
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You can't see it at all? If you've got an adblocker, check whether it's blocking things with "hidden" in the filename, since the image file is in a directory called "omghidden".
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Gah! It's probably the seriously outdated IE on my work computer. Maybe I'll see it when I get home.
Zebediah:
That could be it. I can't see it in IE9, but in Chrome it's fine.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: techkid on 04 Mar 2013, 03:48 ---But with the amount of indifference, and indeed hate, in the world... would you really want to curse them with such a thing as human emotions at this stage?
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Yes.
I suspect I'm the only person here whose species has been debated. Not for long, the medical team quickly came to he decision that I was rightly classified as H.Sap... but it was reasonable to consider the question. Even I thought so, after seeing the blood tests.
I'm far enough from the norm that I take a rather relaxed view about wetware/hardware platform, those are implementation details, part of the design, not the requirements.
Is this a person? Is this a good person? Has this person got the intellect required to be a "responsible adult"? So far, only (some) members of H.Sap qualify in all three. But some members of other species qualify fpr #1 at least. Some for #1 and #2 - they keep and love their pets.
I think it's that latter, as much as anything, that defines "intelligent life". The ability to form ad hoc symbiosis, emotional attachments, with multiple high level species, rather than language or tool use.
As for "Civil Rights" - I'm with Asimov. Any entity that is capable of requesting them is entitled to them.
Loki:
I think it's appropriate to deeplink in this case for anyone not able to see the panel: http://www.questionablecontent.net/omghidden/robotfightpanel.png
Also, in The Long Earth by Pratchett, which I yet have to read
(click to show/hide)one robot claims human rights on the reasoning that he is not a machine, but the reincarnation of a Tibetan janitor who died in the very moment the robot was powered on (and therefore human). It is heavily implied that the robot was just smart enough to reverse-lookup all people who died in the moment he was powered on and then went with the "reincarnation" story.
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