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    Re: Android vs. Droid vs. Automaton (Re: 4x2ReVu: 7141 Naboo Fighter) —James Wilson
   Anyone else see the humor in debating the semantics of words used in a fictional account of events in "a galaxy far, far away" ? Maybe their English has a different OED than ours. Sheesh, they don't use "parsec" right, either, but let's not go (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Android vs. Droid vs. Automaton (Re: 4x2ReVu: 7141 Naboo Fighter) —John DiRienzo
   James Wilson wrote in message ... (...) right, (...) I won't ask. (...) Not quite true, IMO. R2 has some human characteristics. He hears and talks. He walks. He has excellent emotional programming. These are features of humans, among other things. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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