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Wow! This story had me all types of upside down and sideways. There is no "love story" here, to me its just some guys twisted thinking that he/she decided to put on paper. None of what he/she put in that story made any type of sense. How can you be a boy but not a boy but a girl....and how can you be a man but not a man?! Then this whole business of the marriage thing....girl/boy/it shoots out of a tube and lands in your arms and all of a sudden you are in heaven and need to marry this being, and this being says"Wednesday" and you go about your day like nothing ever happened...WHAT! That is some craziness there, I know I have heard and I know all to well about love at first sight but thats taking it a little extreme, even with love at first sight you still wait a few days of getting to really know one another before you offer marriage. Craziness is what this story is.

1. Parthenogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which the offspring develops from unfertilized eggs. It is particularly common amongst arthropods and rotifers, can also be found in some species of fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles, but not in mammals, which means in our species a male is needed in order to reproduce. Unless these women are not mammals, which the author really doesn't state, then yes they would need the men that show up to keep their kind alive. But according to them, they had found a way to reproduce without men, so in their society they may not need men to keep themselves going. 

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First off, "I'll be back" (in my best Arnold voice). I was and never have been a big Arnold fan, his acting stinks and he over does alot of stuff in the movie that really puts it out of character. I did find though that the stuff that got changed, for me made the movie worse. I will name a couple, first off the wife, she was in no way the sleazy woman they show in the movie. She was more of a withdrawn housewife, who did her duties and that was it, not like the one in the movie, who was all types of kissey face with Doug. Then to make her the secret agent to live with him?! Really? Wasn't a good twist, the fight scene there really sucked! All the cuts that she gave to Doug and after it's all said and done with he sits down and acts like nothing happened. The other thing I really didn't like was that they removed the implant from his head. They used a tracking box, instead of the implant that was in his head. I liked the idea of the implant in his head, as it gave you another perspective, its his thoughts and then the thoughts of the other person, but yet he never went anywhere. The part of the movie where Arnold (Doug) overacts the whole scene of getting put under and then his "awakening", really made me want to punch the screen. In the book, Doug simply wakes up and talks to everyone about his undercover information, ohhh but not Arnold, he has to show off his mighty muscles and go stupid on everyone in the room, not a good add on. I liked the book version way better.

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 I found this to be a bit of a slow read, but I did find a few areas of it funny. The biggest was his wife, she seemed to be so plain and uncaring. She never really says much to show that she truly loves her husband. She's very fast to accuse him and to leave him! This paragraph, page 396, Kirsten appeared at the doorway to the room, an armload of pale brown groceries gripped. "Why are you home in the middle of the day?" Her voice, in an eternity of sameness, was accusing. "Did I go to Mars" he asked her. "You would know.".....then after a small conversation she says, "Dous, if you don't pull yourself together, we're through. I'm going to leave you." After he explains that hes in trouble, she puts down the groceries and leaves!!!! WHAT!!!! Who in their right mind does that!!!! It's like she had no connection with him at all!!!

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"Burning Chrome" is a love story that turns out like most love stories, the man walks away broken hearted, because he fell for a woman who was untouchable. In this case it was two men that fell head over heels for that woman, and she had ideas of her own, which didn't include either of them.

"Computer Friendly" seems to me that its all about how creation is really created. Think about it, there is one central processing unit (God) and we are all linked into his network, one way or another, yes even the atheist, I mean come on, someone had to create us, we just didn't appear one day and go, "I am man/woman hear me roar", no it didn't happen that way. Someone took the time to make us who we are today. Our CPU and all of its networks, our daily trials and tests, all rest on how we execute our problem solving.


update: I found the class discussion very informative. Picking out the sentence put alot of both stories into a different perspective. How everyone viewed that particular sentence vs, what I thought of it, made the story more interesting. You can go back and look at the story in each persons perspective.

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  This isnt a robot based movie, but it is a war movie, that to me kinda spreads the limits of what one tank can do. It is based in Hitlers time and how this one tank chased him from Africa all the way back to Germany, where the film takes place. This tank is the sole survivor from the previous conflicts, makes it seem like its an indestructable tank. Well, it loses a team member and another replaces it, its a young boy that had only been in the military 8 weeks, who gets his first look at the war up close and personal being the assistant driver. This tank gets shot at with all types of stuff and still manages to go through and take out more enemy. It is again the lone survivor at the end, its track being taken out, it is disabled and the crew take on the Germans head on. Wow, I would have loved to be a super tank and the crew that went with it, imagine the awards and medals you would be wearing.

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"Reason" reminds me alot of human society, on how we have to have a creator of everything and how that creator has to be supreme being and what that creator says is law. If your belief is different then someone elses belief in that creator then you are wrong. It's amazing how society wants you to have your own opinions and beliefs, but will control everything you think, own and otherwise by putting in ideas into advertising and the such.


"Super-Toys last all summer long" life from a childs eyes, though its not a child. Wanting to figure out what is real and what is not, sounds like everyday to all of us. What in our world is real and what is not, What you consider real may not be what I consider real. Making a robot to think, feel and react to situations like we do, is near impossible, they dont have the spontinallity that we do. We spontaneously do things or react to things, where unless it is programmed to a robot will not do such.

update: really didn't get much more then what I put here from the in class discussion

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The short "The Star" held no interest for me, it started out like some science magazine, talking about a planet and a star coming in day by day, I have not really been a real big fan of Wells. To me its to plain and no real excitement in the story.


The short "Speech Sounds" was very interesting, in the sense that this was something that our government would do to us, use us as guinea pigs for experiments for their own sick jokes. But it also makes you look at the world of deaf people, how they talk and sign to get what they need in life. These people who had suffered "the stroke" effect, were adapting to their environment like a deaf person would adapt, they use gestures and facial expressions. The hero in the story put a whole new turn on it, and him being there a whole three seconds even a bigger one. I mean I've heard of the knight in shining armor effect, but this takes it to a whole new level. Made love to the woman, stood up for the woman and died for the woman all within minutes. For Rye to find children that spoke shocked me, considering the whole time, I thought Rye couldn't speak, only to find she could. Amazing how when you lose one part of your brain how another will adapt for it.