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The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.
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[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
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I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.
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The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is doormat.
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My favourite movie is: Dr Strangelove. (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
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