Originally Posted By: shan2
Bah. Soul and personality attributed to machinery only indicate vulnerabilities to random malfunctions that can't be controlled by the operator. Give me a boring tool instead of one with a "soul" any day of the week.


Not true. If that was the case with an airplane I would never fly it.

In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!