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To: TobagoJack who wrote (61502)	4/3/2005 12:51:00 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

"As to Japan disappearing or otherwise trying to work the robots for house cleaning and spousal duties and to make Toyotas, I do not believe it will happen quite that way, because the logic is too linear for a world that folds in on itself." as I look at the latest models at www.realdoll.com and know several people who have foregone the typical nagging wife and husband for this more quiet substitute - I wonder while I listen to my asimov "I, Robot" audiobook on my mp3 player of the future. I ponder trends as I watch on my PSP "blade runner" and "cherry 2000." The newer models have mechanical motors to simulate movement of legs and arms that FOLD IN ON YOU - pretty real in the dark probably. My friend in Canada - a former truck driver - being the entreprenuer that he is and close to the industry and receptive to the needs of week long drives by high testosterone rednecks has postulated buying 20-30 models and setting them up at the nearest FLYING J travel plazas all over the north american continent - subverts the legal issues - you are not buying sex from a woman - they don't carry diseases - and they take all the freakish abuse you could ever dream up from an episode of Lexx: The dark zone! He bought one used on ebay for around 3K, so say he gets 1 truck driver per hour paying 50 bucks a pop, how long until he is profitable? Howard Stern said it was the best sex he ever had - BWAHAH!