When buildings and vehicles get burned and stores get looted, you rebuild the one and restock the other. When people get killed, or have their heads or spines broken, the remedy is not so easily arranged.

You seem to hold property in a markedly higher esteem than human life.

Don't be silly, brides do it every day.

"I'm going to have my bridal pictures taken in the same park that my mother and grandmother had theirs taken, and it WILL NOT rain!"

Yes, but cats would do that anyway. Even if they were up to their pointy ears in the mischief.

The least the teacher could have done was use his birthday. Then perhaps his students' math skills would have been challenged.

If you are sending in your official removal notification, that would be the Eugene Pool.

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Also, too, one double click to change the smooching homos to a JPEG of the Straits of Magellan, for example, would have taken 3/5ths of a second, instead of indulging oneself in these bloody histrionics. Tell me true, the teacher also was the school drama coach, am I right?

Not in the Mafia, but that has undesired consequences, too.

I am not impressed. If these guys were serious about defending the nation against terrorist binary, wouldn't they be asking for a by-God John Wayne button, instead of some cute-but-funny, fucking Red Buttons.

I signed up for that when it first came out and have been getting more calls since --- both (semi) human and robo --- than I ever did before?

My Harsh Mistress Moons Me.

Robert Heinlein graduated 20th in a class of 243 Annapolis cadets and spent five years stationed on the Pacific Ocean until forced to retire in 1939 because of tuberculosis, so calling Robert Heinlein a frustrated Naval Officer wannabe is a bit contemptuous of a person who was in the process of making a success along one career path, was forced to discontinue, and made an even greater success along a totally different career path.

This is the Ross 2.0 Rifle. The Ross I.0 was abandoned for any other weapon which the doughboys could lay their hands upon.

Unless someone uploads a usable robot repair and upgrading video to YouTube, they will have to keep a few humans around for maintenance.

I was partial to alt.fan.karl-malden.nose

Well, you don't think they would deign to speak to ordinary low-income proles if they were not trying to manipulate them, do you?

They could have been called Wiener Dogs, but that was already taken.