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WCDT Strips 3596-3600 (23rd October - 27th October 2017)
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 22 Oct 2017, 23:18 ---One thing: "Fax me the invoice"? Does anyone still do that?
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Do not underestimate the accountants' ways; I've personally seen someone print an invoice, copy it, then fax it to their boss, who returns it, after signing it, by mail, only to scan it into the system again. While the system provides a neat little button 'send for approval'.
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 22 Oct 2017, 19:03 ---Will Faye and Bubbles be able to repair the accident prone Punchbot?
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"Yes, but how would you fix it?" - CorpseWitch
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: A Duck on 22 Oct 2017, 21:04 ---Comic!
Also, a robot using a fax machine!
A sentient robot using a fax machine
...
Who am I kidding, I'm sure the same will eventually happen in our world, if we do get sentient AI
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Somewhat related: It always bothered me to see Star Trek: Voyager's Doctor - who was (for those who don't know) a holographic projection created by AI software running in the ship's computer - sitting at his desk in Sickbay, using one of the computer consoles.
I mean, he is the computer! Or at least a part of it. Isn't that a horribly inefficient way for him to enter, say, notes on patient visits?
Case:
--- Quote from: BLT with rings on 23 Oct 2017, 00:00 ---"But that's not what you're doing, is it? Instead, your switching between condemning the character of Sam and then practically dancing in the street at the prospect of her inevitable upcoming rape. The way you choose to express yourself is... somewhat disturbing."
With all respect, I think you've missed my point entirely.
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Oh, I don't think so. Methinks Ben knows the difference between "concern" and "concern trolling" and is enquiring about the sincerity of your concerns. No offence, but this is, after all, widely known to be a liberal forum. We do get the occasional 'conservative' anti-liberal 4chan-er.
Fun fact: We also have (a substantial minority of) actually conservative people. And the funny thing about them is that 'rape' ain't the second word out of their mouths, either. Surprising, but true ...
--- Quote from: BLT with rings on 22 Oct 2017, 21:48 ---She'll be lucky if her first rapist is an 8th grader. Unless someone teaches Sam some values, she'll likely have a succession of them.
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Incidentally, what would those 'values' be that you'd want to teach to Sam?
Sam has clearly been taught to value self-reliance and a healthy amount of respect for authority (and a good dose of curiosity). With 'healthy' meaning: Not so much she'd let it over-ride her own (admittedly still puerile) judgement.
Incidentally, those are the very 'values' taught in self-defence courses, especially courses that focus on sexual harassment of women. Wonder why that is ... (maybe because traditionally education of female children teaches values like 'not talking back' and 'not putting themselves first'?)
--- Quote from: BLT with rings on 23 Oct 2017, 00:00 ---I think XYs also need to be given discipline by the time they become sexually active. Frankly, neither whether the immature brat is an XX or an XY is the issue.
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I'm wondering about what you mean by 'discipline'. I seriously hope you don't mean the type that is legally considered child abuse in my country.
--- Quote from: BLT with rings on 22 Oct 2017, 22:42 ---So what you are saying is that Sam is not simply a farcically over exuberant 12 year old but rather an obviously mentally deficient 14 year old child?
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I'd ask you to be careful how you use the words 'mentally' and 'deficient'. We have a fair share of folk here whose headmeats are rated non-standard according to various versions of the DSM, and 'mentally deficient' is one of standard labels applied to many of us by less-than-well-meaning folk with little grocking and even less fucks to give, ever since we were children.
P.S.: As someone who still lives with ADHD in their 40s (about a third of those who were diagnosed as children continue to have symptoms in adulthood), I especially don't appreciate the implicit association of 'hyperactivity' with 'mental deficiency'. Something to do with my having to wave my goddamn' doctorate around to prove that people like me are not 'mentally deficient', I guess.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 22 Oct 2017, 22:22 ---Sam's fourteen, not twelve.
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Does it really matter? Sam's character is wrapped around the concept of hyperactive kid who doesn't know what boundaries are. Its the same at 12 or 14.
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