On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:48:35PM -0400, Kevin Elliott wrote: > At 15:38 -0400 10/27/00, sunder wrote: > >"Riad S. Wahby" wrote: > > > > > >> Ah, but you are forgetting. It was the power from humans "combined > >> with a form of fusion." Everything, when combined with a form of > >> fusion, makes a good movie energy source. > > That really amused me as well. After all, if you've got fusion why > bother with the human- cut out the middle man as it were... Somthing > along the lines of "they needed substantial neural net capacity for > their to improve their RC-5 key rate" would have been more reasonable. Maybe they really were being used as batteries, for portability. After all, it is beginning to seem obvious that electronics will never produce a battery that can power a laptop for more than like 2 minutes - even if the AI had fixed fusion stations, they may need to load up a couple of humans whenever they wanted to go walkabout (or sentinelling or whatever). "The new Human-Smasher toy with 200 easily breakable features - every little AIlings dream! (2 AA humans required and sold seperately.)" > -- > > "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both > instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly > unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware > of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting > victims of the darkness." > -- Justice William O. Douglas > ____________________________________________________________________ > Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ#23758827 > > -- 'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?' 'Here,' Montag touched his head. 'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded. Oskar Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
