The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XII

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Eran of Arcadia said:
The professor's irrational hatred of Bender and Amy's human-robot relationship was completely different from his earlier reaction to Fry and Lucy-Liubot's relationship in an earlier season.
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I always thought of it as Lucy-luibot Fry dated wasn't an actual robot per say, but just a machine built to love him and nothing else. While on the other hand, Bender is an actual Robot, who could think and make decisions.

So I think his hatred came from the fact that both of them had a choice in the matter, while Fry and Lucy-Luibot, only one of them had the choice.

That's just my interpretation :dunno:
 
What kind of a name is "almond bread"? Any of you people care to tell of names which mean weird and unusual things in your languages?
 
I do read TVtropes too much, but the concept of a "Very Special Episode" isn't unique to them.

Also, I thought the Lucy-Liubot was no more constrained by programming than Bender is, and even so, why would that produce the reaction in the professor that it did?

Whatever.
 
west india man said:
N. Korea/Iran getting pissed enough, or the Taliban getting nukes.
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I think that may involve nuclear weapons being used, but not necessarily used in response. If only one side uses a nuke, is it still considered a nuclear war?
 
Eran of Arcadia said:
Also, I thought the Lucy-Liubot was no more constrained by programming than Bender is, and even so, why would that produce the reaction in the professor that it did?
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Nope, all the Lucy-Luibot could do was love Fry, and nothing else.

While Bender on the other hand, can do whatever he wants.

The reaction from the professor is different because I guess in the most simple of terms, one of them is a toy, and the other is sentient. With the toy, he didn't like it because, well, it's a toy/it's explained in the episode. With the sentience, he didn't like it because it reminded him of when he dated a sentient robot, which cheated on him.
 
What did she do at the end besides save Fry's life?
 
The US system doesnt seem to have a meaningful leader of the opposition. Is this true in practice? Does it handicap the system? Would the system be improved if the opposing party had to put a shadow toe to toe with the pres who had a recognised position, and thus influence and authority but also the potential to mess up and get burned.
 
GinandTonic said:
The US system doesnt seem to have a meaningful leader of the opposition. Is this true in practice? Does it handicap the system? Would the system be improved if the opposing party had to put a shadow toe to toe with the pres who had a recognised position, and thus influence and authority but also the potential to mess up and get burned.
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I think it essentially makes the primaries, and party membership (since you must be a member to vote in a party's primary) much more important. I agree that currently, there is no strong opposition to the democratic party in the sense that there is no single charismatic leader against the democratic party. However, that doesn't mean there isn't one in the wings; it may be that there is strategy of keeping a dark horse in the dark to avoid being publicly tarnished before an opportune time.

It also may pave the way for the rise of a new party from a coalition of independent parties.

I don't think this is really hurtful to the representative democratic process of the USA though. All it would take is for the democratic party to fall out of public favor, or for them to become overly polarized while not holding a clear majority of the vote, and the residual voters would vote against. The main problem is that the opposition is too polarized and somewhat in the minority in terms of public approval, so they have extra work to do to gain any residual vote that might be had.
 
GinandTonic said:
The US system doesnt seem to have a meaningful leader of the opposition. Is this true in practice? Does it handicap the system? Would the system be improved if the opposing party had to put a shadow toe to toe with the pres who had a recognised position, and thus influence and authority but also the potential to mess up and get burned.
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Neither party really has a leader. The president is generally considered the leader of his party, but that's not fully true. Because the leaders of the parties do not have the kind of power over the actions of the officials of the party that a parliamentary system typically has. As for the opposition party, they have their House leader, Senate leader, and party leader.
 
For Fans, there are 3 settings, 1 is weakest fan and 3 is strongest.
Does it waste more electricity to use the 3 setting on the fan?
Or does an equal amount of electrons flow from the outlet on the 1 setting?
For fans.
 
What is the difference between cable news and broadcast news?
 
dwaxe said:
What is the difference between cable news and broadcast news?
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In the past, cable news was subscription-based only and a dedicated 24 hour channel (now it is both commercials AND subscription :mad: ); while broadcast news is technically a limited-time showing of the news on a commercial (but free on the air waves--hence "broadcast").

Nowadays nearly everything is cable, involves commercials, and subscriptions.
 
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