Comments on: Not Funny? http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2004/07/25/not-funny/ Cheating on the Kobayashi Maru since 2001 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:33:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: garym http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2004/07/25/not-funny/#comment-614 Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:17:20 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2004/07/25/not-funny/#comment-614 I'm one of the contributors to that list, though I wasn't involved in its original creation. Speaking strictly for myself, I see no connection between "democracy" and a political elite's holding a big party (in the non-political sense) at the expense of millions of dollars in taxpayer money and of the freedom of the city's residents. The difference between "sci-fi" and science fiction is easy: Asimov's "I, Robot" is science fiction. The movie "I, Robot" is sci-fi. I’m one of the contributors to that list, though I wasn’t involved in its original creation. Speaking strictly for myself, I see no connection between “democracy” and a political elite’s holding a big party (in the non-political sense) at the expense of millions of dollars in taxpayer money and of the freedom of the city’s residents.

The difference between “sci-fi” and science fiction is easy: Asimov’s “I, Robot” is science fiction. The movie “I, Robot” is sci-fi.

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