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Re: Answers & Questions Q: Did you hear what happened to the guy who took two hundred No-Doze? A: It was the auto-circumcisor that got him in the end.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye

Re: Answers & Questions Q: How do you know you're the villain on a sentai show? A: He's looking for the man who made him a steer-boy.

Re: Paper on the ethical implications of Uplift I note that the author makes a common mistake regarding such issues - assumption of commonality. This is the assumption that a single decision will be reached by the whole of humanity on the ethical/moral decision under discussion. While interaction between discrete groups of humans is at an all time high, and poised to improve still further, history tells us that humanity will not reach such a consensus. Massively different cultures, as exist currently in different areas of Earth and seem unlikely to be changing anytime soon, will approach the question from entirely different directions and come to differing or even opposing conclusions. Thus, my personal position is that, like transhuman technologies in general, application of uplift will not choose one line of development/acceptable practice and follow it, but that we will instead likely follow all of them - for both good and ill.

Re: The Death Of Vinnie The Viceroy Bring it before the local D.A. While as far as I can tell Fairweather didn't actually do anythng wrong here (self-defence/defence of others) it would bring his bar standing into question.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I don't know which is worse, your ignorance or your impudence. A: Oops, forgot to add the insulation again.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's a common statement on the bomb squad? A: I don't think he's going to be happy when she's naked.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: There, what do you think of Mount Rushmore re-carved as the Marx Brothers? Well? It was your idea! A: Fire is hot. Ice is cold. Troll is troll.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why don't we go burn down the Church? A: Nuns with Assault Cannon.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Children of the Moon - The Alan Parsons Project.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Excellent piece. Currently: Overkill - Men at Work.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Theme to Deadwood.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why is our consultant searching low and low? A: Dropping bolts down elevator shafts.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's the last thing you want to hear when a lecturer bores you stiff? A: It's the noise of Karl Marx coming back to strangle every so-called Communist since 1930.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q - Is it true your brain is on time share? A: This is my dinner, this is my bench, this is my 200 foot tall doomsday robot. What part of this sequence escapes you?

Re: Answers & Questions Q - Is it true that your company now gives out ranks in Marital Arts? A: No, standards don't make for good business.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What cereal do the Washington Deadskins promote? A: Let's see you come back from THAT!

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So you got all the major chumps? A: There's a hurricane in the closet!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Music of the Night - from Phantom of the Opera.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Help! I'm being pulled towards the second brightest star in the night sky! A: Human, Human, Not Human, Human, Oh Dear!

Re: Answers & Questions Q - I need two more Norwegians to complete my musical persons collection! A - The subtle puns are the best.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I need a seven to win. You know that, a seven? The most common result on two dice? Highest point on the bell curve? A seven, you get it? A: The number is forty two.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Theology/Civilization - Basil Poledouris, off the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack.

Re: Ringworld, Stargate and Apocalypse... oh my! The Ringworld doesn't need multiple Stargates. Teleportation is possible by much less technologically sophisticated means in Known Space, provided vertical distance is not too great. The Ring would probably have some equivalent of the Teleportation Booth system that Earth has at this point in Known Worlds development.