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Monday, December 15, 2008 12:00 AM

WTF of the day

A Canadian inventor's new female android is like the perfect woman, designed by a sociopath in 1955.
Kate Harding

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  • Monday, December 15, 2008 10:46 AM

    the on-balance thing...

    To suggest the ability to buy fembots might save women from sexual assault is like saying if only the Catholic church would allow their clergy to marry then perhaps priests stop sexually assaulting children.

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