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Old 02-10-2011, 01:09 PM   #1212
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Originally Posted by boxcorner View Post
Maybe that's how the idiom "damned if you do, damned if you don't" arose. If it's ubiquitous - part of the human condition - then I wonder whether similar sayings exist in other natural languages. "Robots could soon have an equivalent of the internet and Wikipedia", so perhaps something similar will arise in some machine language(s) - grumbling about their human "masters".
I'm constantly dropping hints, but he never updates my OS or changes the oil in my joints. What does he take me for?
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