Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:29:50AM -0600, Gametech <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Matthew Hunter wrote: > > > Creating a universe is one hell of a lot more like having kids > > > than hiring a hit man. > > Okay go create something like a robot, if it kills someone see who shows up > > at your door. > > Robots don't have free will. No, but they're not perfect, either. They may not do what you expected, for any reason from a bug in the programming, to something breaking in the hardware, to an environmental factor. And if it kilss somebody, somebody *will* show up at your door. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info