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   Joetheone to traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com   
   Re: Turing Test Re: There is Another Sky   
   13 Mar 10 12:00:39   
   
   From: joetheone@dontchabespamminme.com   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4B9B2952.C5D4E7E4@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > Joetheone wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "RT"  wrote in message   
   >> >>> >   
   >> >> Greystone doesn't know that that was his baby girl he had rip her arm   
   >> >> off   
   >> >> to   
   >> >> impress the board. I think that's the beginning of the Cylon   
   >> >> Rebellion.   
   >> >> He thinks she just went "poof!" Like your address book did the first   
   >> >> time   
   >> >> you transferred all your stuff to a new computer.   
   >> >   
   >> > But she did. The digital ...  "construction" ... can only distantly   
   >> > emulate   
   >> > the real thing.   
   >>   
   >> Well, yeah. Zoe went *poof* on the train. (Maybe *KER-POOOOF!!*)   
   >> Digital clankety-clank Zoe is all we have to work with.   
   >> pint is, Danny boy doesn't know we even have that. He thinks Digital Zoe   
   >> got   
   >   
   > Precisely. Is the emulation good enough to fool him?   
   >   
   > Can you say   T U R I N G    T E S T ?   
   >   
   > Now, toss in the ending of tonight's (3/12) episode.   
   >   
   Yes, the lightbulb finally lit up. Maybe we're getting somewhere now.   
   And, apparently, it's analog clankety clank Zoe.   
   Hey! Think he'll have her fetching avatars from New Cap to animate his   
   Cylons and fulfill his contract?   
   Not understanding, until it's too late of course, that he's building the   
   army that will destroy him and everything he holds dear?   
   BWAHHHAHAHAHAHAH! (That's the Mad/Scientist/Evil Overlord/Cliche Villian   
   laugh, poorly rendered.)   
      
      
   >> ate in translation, and all there is in the full metal jacket is a good   
   >> AI   
   >> program.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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