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	<title>Comments on: sudo apt-get install creepyrobotgirlfriend2.0</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:45:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>sudo apt-get install creepyrobotgirlfriend2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20</link>	
		<description>The uncanny valley just got deeper. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perfect-woman.com/en/&quot;&gt;&quot;Treat yourself to the perfect woman.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:40:04 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>loquacious</dc:creator>		<category>robot</category>		<category>robotics</category>		<category>AI</category>		<category>artificialintelligence</category>		<category>sex</category>		<category>uncannyvalley</category>		<category>wtf</category>		<category>batshitinsane</category>		<category>ACME</category>		<category>StepfordWives</category>		<category>petroleumbasedlube</category>		<category>synthvag</category>		<category>pleatherpussy</category>
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		<title>By: dirtynumbangelboy</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127709</link>	
		<description>Gah.  No.

I mean, obviously no for me.  But even beyond that... &lt;i&gt;hell&lt;/i&gt; no.

I&apos;m hoping this is a joke.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:45:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: furtive</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127710</link>	
		<description>What do I do with it?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:45:52 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>furtive</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: infinitywaltz</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127713</link>	
		<description>What movie or television show is this website promoting?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:47:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>infinitywaltz</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: bigmusic</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127715</link>	
		<description>I call bullshit.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:48:39 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigmusic</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: anotherpanacea</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127716</link>	
		<description>It -is- a joke, or performance art. It feels a little played out, actually: movies and fiction on this subject regularly address the equation of objectified servant and femininity.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:49:14 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anotherpanacea</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: piratebowling</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127719</link>	
		<description>Please be viral. Too much of it is just too creepily acted but &quot;totally not acted.&quot;  This has to be fake.

Otherwise I feel the tears well up for all of goddamned humanity</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:50:31 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piratebowling</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: hippugeek</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127720</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAnyYTjjhJ0&quot;&gt;Coin-Operated Boy&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:52:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: porpoise</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127722</link>	
		<description>This has got to be satire, I &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; that &quot;robot!&quot;

(er... in my dreams)</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:53:19 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>porpoise</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: piratebowling</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127723</link>	
		<description>Oh man, also, this all fits in so well with Bitch magazine&apos;s article about the portrayal and concept of the female robot.  (I wish I could find a link to the article).</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:53:30 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>piratebowling</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Burhanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127724</link>	
		<description>Does it come in a model that isn&apos;t so damn inbred looking? Also, is the conscience nulling an upgrade or a standard feature?  I can&apos;t have all my baser manly desires for sex and domination sated while all the while the deeper nagging knowledge that it is a simulcrum for actual contact.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:54:12 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burhanistan</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: GeekAnimator</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127731</link>	
		<description>It&apos;s very well done, but no one &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; believes that&apos;s a robot, right?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:58:13 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GeekAnimator</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: BitterOldPunk</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127732</link>	
		<description>Does her daddy own a liquor store?

&lt;small&gt;I&apos;ll show myself out.&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:58:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: pyramid termite</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127733</link>	
		<description>no black perfect women? hmmph</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:59:28 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pyramid termite</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: pjern</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127734</link>	
		<description>My creepometer just pegged.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:59:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: cortex</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127736</link>	
		<description>Yes, it&apos;s fake.  I&apos;m going to really pull out the stops here and point out that it is, in fact, &lt;i&gt;fakey fakey McFakerson&lt;/i&gt;.  But kudos to robot lady&amp;mdash;hers is the least bad acting in the spots.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:01:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cortex</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: loquacious</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127737</link>	
		<description>Yeah, I think I might have been bit by some kind of virus. I thought it was a partially legit (if possibly... unusual) company until I got to the testimonial video in which he said his robot made him dinner. Wait, what?

Though, there are already similar products. RealDoll, for starters. I&apos;m just not sure any more. There are some pretty realistic facial robots but this probably isn&apos;t it.

How long until people have robots that have sex for them, so they can watch lazily from the couch? Just think of the market in a few years or so for online casual dating services... for robots. BRB. I&apos;m going to register some domains.

&lt;small&gt;TRANSGURLBOT SEEKS CURIOUS STRAIGHT BOI BOT OR BI-MODE GIRLBOT FOR HOT AFTERNOON ENCOUNTERS AND APPLICATION OF LIGHT GRADE SILICON OIL TO SERVO GEARS&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:03:31 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>loquacious</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Burhanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127739</link>	
		<description>Don&apos;t you people know that if this technology was already perfected these robots would&apos;ve already hacked you to bits by now?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:06:52 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burhanistan</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: moonbiter</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127743</link>	
		<description>&quot;Replicants are like any other machine - they&apos;re either a benefit or a hazard. If they&apos;re a benefit, it&apos;s not my problem.&quot;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:11:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: maryh</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127745</link>	
		<description>This has to be a viral ad.  It just has that &lt;i&gt;look&lt;/i&gt;.

Unlike my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog&quot;&gt;perfect dog.&lt;/a&gt;  He may sound like bees and look like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc&quot;&gt;mimes&lt;/a&gt;, but he&apos;s 100% real and DARPA approved.  Let&apos;s see your dog waste this many tax dollars!</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:13:09 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maryh</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Dave Faris</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127746</link>	
		<description>shenanigans.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:13:58 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Faris</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: gsteff</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127747</link>	
		<description>I, too, suspect that there&apos;s something fishy about this.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:17:03 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gsteff</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Caduceus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127751</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulandstorm.com/lyrics/my-fantastic-plastic-girl/&quot;&gt;My Fantastic Plastic Girl&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:18:41 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caduceus</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: roll truck roll</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127753</link>	
		<description>You know what really took it from &quot;This is fake, right?&quot; to &quot;Oh yeah, this is fake&quot;? The weird blurred-out &quot;testimonial&quot; video. If you were seriously trying to normalize a product like this in the public view, you sure as hell wouldn&apos;t do it with customer testimonials that sound like parole hearings.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:21:30 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roll truck roll</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: dgaicun</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127759</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/65588/Mitt-Romney-does-not-approve-of-this-either&quot;&gt;Expert predicts sex with robots by 2050&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/5414105.html&quot;&gt;dead link&lt;/a&gt;)

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/62759/Guys-and-Dolls-uncanny-love&quot;&gt;Real Dolls and the men who love them&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/50094/RentaRealdoll&quot;&gt;Milky Lovers is a love doll brothel&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/50934/men-and-dolls&quot;&gt;men who have sex with dolls&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:28:01 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgaicun</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: sambosambo</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127761</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/perfect-woman.com&quot;&gt;Looks &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=tim+domenico&quot;&gt;mostly &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.showvids&amp;friendID=84613705&amp;n=84613705&amp;MyToken=7f23a15e-4017-4961-ac73-d8b45d8ddfe4&quot;&gt;harmless &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://incredibike.com/&quot;&gt;to &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:YCWASO_wpmAJ:www.unic-choice.com/courthelp/billsca1.html+%22tim+domenico%22&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;gl=us&amp;strip=0&quot;&gt;me&lt;/a&gt;.

Some kind of hobby, perhaps?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:29:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Avenger</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127763</link>	
		<description>Yes, this is fake.

But one day it won&apos;t be.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:29:26 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avenger</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: cortex</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127765</link>	
		<description>&lt;small&gt;Every once in a while I find myself wanting to jump up on a table and just kind of like scream, as in the case of, say, this, where what I would be screaming is OH FOR GOD&apos;S SAKE, IT&apos;S FAKE ON A STICK!  IT IS TEN TONS OF INDUSTRIAL GRADE FAKE!  IT IS SITTING ON A PEDESTAL LABELED &quot;A VERY FAKE THING&quot; IN THE CENTER OF THE MAIN CHAMBER OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF FAKE!  THERE IS NO LITTLE DETAIL YOU NEED TO PICK UP TO GIVE AWAY THE FAKENESS&amp;mdash;IT IS A SHRIEKINGLY IMPLAUSIBLE ADVERTISEMENT FOR A TOTALLY SCI-FI BIT OF TECHNOLOGY THAT TWO SECONDS OF CRITICAL THINKING SHOULD REMIND YOU WOULD BE &lt;i&gt;ALL OVER THE NEWS&lt;/i&gt; IF IT WERE ANYTHING APPROACHING REAL, but usually when that happens I just try to take a deep breath and move on because it&apos;s admittedly kind of obnoxious.&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:29:55 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cortex</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: ROU_Xenophobe</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127766</link>	
		<description>This is clearly just viral advertising for cstross&apos;s new &lt;i&gt;Saturn&apos;s Children&lt;/i&gt;.

Except the robo-chicks are more convincing than his US cover.

Sigh.  I&apos;d really rather get the UK edition, but instead I&apos;ll get the US and throw the dust wrapper away.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:30:12 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ROU_Xenophobe</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: tumbleweedjack</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127767</link>	
		<description>Just &lt;i&gt;once&lt;/i&gt; I wish they&apos;d make a hot guy.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:30:14 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tumbleweedjack</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Tube</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127768</link>	
		<description>Femputer for snu-snu.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:30:24 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tube</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Miastar</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127771</link>	
		<description>Ya know, it is the year 2008 and I was promised robots by now. And I drive a MINIVAN, where is my frickin&apos; hovercraft and my vacations on Jupiter, huh? Isn&apos;t it the future?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:34:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miastar</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: turducken</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127775</link>	
		<description>Seriously? A 3-year-old could tell this is a goof. Maybe it&apos;s the thousand-yard &quot;I&apos;m a robot... No, really!&quot; stare. Or the fact that in the demonstration video, she&apos;s &lt;em&gt;doing The Robot&lt;/em&gt;. 

Also: A real robot would be much, much hotter.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:35:38 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turducken</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: iamkimiam</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127782</link>	
		<description>Tell me I&apos;m not the only one who sees the irony in this.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:40:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iamkimiam</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: aubilenon</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127785</link>	
		<description>Your plastic pal that&apos;s fun to be with!</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:42:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Ryvar</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127787</link>	
		<description>You know, this brings something to mind . . .

I&apos;m one of those people who actively attempts to avoid curmudgeonhood.  I&apos;ve always been very worried about becoming like my grandmother, who was literally &lt;i&gt;terrified&lt;/i&gt; of computers.

So let&apos;s say, for the sake of argument, that we do get robots out the other side of the uncanny valley, and people start having sex with them as a matter of course.

Is that going to be my fracture point?  Fifty years from now, is not having sex with robots going to be the one personal hangup I never shed that marks me a fossil forever?  Because standing right here, right now, that seems like a pretty goddamn healthy hangup to have.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:42:54 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryvar</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: mrzarquon</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127788</link>	
		<description>(re: title)

Who would want to install a debian pre compiled girlfriend package? It would be the older version with unsupported modifications just to make it acceptable for the current running environment. So think 50 something divorcee with new boobjob from Brazil, bad botox, and a could to host to all sort of stds.

And I don&apos;t even want to know what the &quot;bleeding edge&quot; package would all be about.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:44:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Fuzzy Skinner</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127790</link>	
		<description>Pffft. &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBOpmDFACXQ&quot;&gt;Old news.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:46:08 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fuzzy Skinner</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: evilcolonel</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127792</link>	
		<description>Alert Shields and Yarnell -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km1QRnzIKpI&quot;&gt;someone has ripped off their act.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:47:44 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evilcolonel</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: armage</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127795</link>	
		<description>Yeah, it&apos;s a fake (and not a very good one), considering the address is for this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kisweb.ne.jp/personal/toyamadenki/&quot;&gt;electronics store&lt;/a&gt; in Osaka...

No weird robot dolls, but they do have security cameras! 

&lt;small&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;The better to see you with, my dear...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:50:35 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>armage</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Class Goat</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127796</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/55354/Actroid-DER2&quot;&gt;I dunno&lt;/a&gt;...</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:50:45 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Class Goat</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: TheOnlyCoolTim</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127800</link>	
		<description>If the uncanny valley is when a human simulator gets too close to a human but not quite there, we need a word for when viral advertising gets too close to reality (Real Dolls and such)  while still being life sucking advertising.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:53:53 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheOnlyCoolTim</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: flapjax at midnite</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127801</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Yes, this is fake. But one day it won&apos;t be.&lt;/i&gt;

And when that day comes, will the Perfect Women still ALL be WHITE?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:54:39 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flapjax at midnite</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: dgaicun</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127803</link>	
		<description>What&apos;s all this about Sex Robots of the Future? &lt;a href=&quot;http://yodamasturbation.ytmnd.com/&quot;&gt;The future is now people.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:55:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Graygorey</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127807</link>	
		<description>I prefer my replicants less shiny.  Please, do you offer a &quot;satin&quot; or &quot;matte&quot; model in addition to the three (only three?!?) choices of hair color?  And besides dinner, and the ability to make heavily-accented stand-ins give profess their love, what options are available?  More importantly, which parts are upsells? - are we talking &quot;power everything,&quot; or am I looking at buying a factory-model Toyota with cloth seats and hand-crank windows - again?

This is really a disappointing offering.  Blade Runner, Cherry 2000, and other such films led me to believe I&apos;d have &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; many more options.  If I weren&apos;t happily married to a real woman, you can bet I&apos;d be writing a very stern letter right about now.  I&apos;m of a mind to write a letter anyway, except the missus is telling me I need to get off the computer and go to bed.

Consider yourselves warned, AI Robotics.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:56:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: anazgnos</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127809</link>	
		<description>That this is well beyond current sex robot technology should be patently obvious.

It is, however, still hot.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:57:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Henry C. Mabuse</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127811</link>	
		<description>It is coming.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:07:45 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry C. Mabuse</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Alvy Ampersand</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127814</link>	
		<description>Maybe the folks at Dove are taking a different tack with the &apos;Real Beauty&apos; thing. 
If it&apos;s to sell beer, I may just puke.

&lt;em&gt;Though, there are already similar products. RealDoll...&lt;/em&gt;

Yes, but RealDolls don&apos;t move. 

&lt;small&gt;Unless you shell out $459.95US for the RealMovement mod kit, which frankly is far too high a price to pay for five bungee cords, seven eye screws, and thirteen sheaves of dubious durability.&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:12:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: agress</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127815</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Just once I wish they&apos;d make a hot guy.&lt;/i&gt;

Asimo&apos;s not hot enough for you? I mean, come on, that dude is smooth.


But seriously. I may not be looking for a robo-woman or anything, but I really do look forward to the day that we have tons of bipedal, sentient,  humanoid robots/androids. Yes, of either (or no) sex.

I think it&apos;d actually be cool if they were dipped a bit into the uncanny valley too, cause that&apos;d look damn awesome. To me, it would look truly like the future.

I guess I&apos;m just not as much of a pussy about &quot;OMG IT&apos;S AN ALMOST-HUMAN, HOW CREEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&quot;

This may have something to do with me being under 30 years old, however, so I&apos;m not really going to try and legitimately claim a higher ground to my elders.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:13:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: GuyZero</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127819</link>	
		<description>Yeah, someone&apos;s robot truck ran out of gas driving out of the uncanny valley. OR PERHAPS IT WAS SABOTAGE???

So clearly fake. But why?
&lt;pre&gt;Domain ID: D89480868-CONE
Domain Name: perfect-woman.com
Domain Name ACE: perfect-woman.com
Domain Language: 
Registrar ID: CORE-111 (Nameshield)
Created On: 2008-04-29 15:50:10 GMT
Last Updated On: 2008-04-29 15:50:15 GMT
Expiration Date: 2009-04-29 15:50:10 GMT
Maintainer: http://www.nameshield.net
Status: member-transfer-prohibited
Registrant ID: COCO-9547181
Registrant Name: FRESSE etienne
Registrant Organization: AI ROBOTICS
Registrant Street: 4-8, nihonbashi, naniwa-ku
...
Billing ID: COCO-1299176
Billing Name: BILLING Department
Billing Organization: NAMESHIELD
Billing Street: 27 rue des arenes
Billing City: ANGERS
Billing State/Province: MAINE ET LOIRE
Billing Postal Code: 49100
Billing Country: FR
Billing Phone: 
Billing Phone Ext: 
Billing Fax: 
Billing Fax Ext: 
Billing Email: billing@nameshield.net
Name Server: ns2.observatoiredesmarques.fr 
Name Server ACE: ns2.observatoiredesmarques.fr 
Name Server: observatoire.observatoiredesmarques.fr 62.93.195.146
Name Server ACE: observatoire.observatoiredesmarques.fr 62.93.195.146&lt;/pre&gt;
Not very Japanese. The DNS server seems like a French brand monitoring company... &quot;Pionnier de la surveillance des marques sur Internet&quot;? Someone with better French than me?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:18:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: maxwelton</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127825</link>	
		<description>Ah, to find yourself at your 30th high school reunion with your perfect-woman bot in tow! Register the expression on your high school crush&apos;s face as she looks at herself frozen in time--&quot;the way she looked was way beyond compare&quot; at that age, after all. She was so distant then, wasn&apos;t she, and now who&apos;s at a loss for words? It isn&apos;t you!

&quot;&lt;em&gt;Completely&lt;/em&gt; life-like,&quot; you tell her, with a conspiratorial wink.

&lt;small&gt;Call now, operators are standing by!&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:23:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: tellurian</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127826</link>	
		<description>The &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=http://www.homme.lycos.fr/minisite/la-femme-parfaite/&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=result&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Etienne%2BFresse%2522%252BKobe%26hl%3Den%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG&quot;&gt;translated&lt;/a&gt; Lycos page has a competition that mentions video games.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:24:12 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tellurian</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Burhanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127829</link>	
		<description>Pleatherpussy tag duly added.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:36:22 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burhanistan</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: jabberjaw</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127830</link>	
		<description>By coincidence, I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805564/&quot;&gt;Lars &amp;amp; the Real Girl&lt;/a&gt; yesterday. &lt;small&gt;but I refuse to watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/&quot;&gt;s1m0ne&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:38:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Wolof</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127838</link>	
		<description>Villiers de l&apos;Isle-Adam had this covered in 1886.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:04:38 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wolof</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: mosk</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127839</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Frank-Zappa/Sy-Borg.html&quot;&gt;&quot;You&apos;re plooking too hard.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:05:17 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mosk</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Wolof</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127840</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;&quot;Pionnier de la surveillance des marques sur Internet&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

Yeah, pioneering (in their view) internet brand monitoring company.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:06:49 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wolof</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: tellurian</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127841</link>	
		<description>Oh! I read she can apparently play over 390 video games.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:08:54 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tellurian</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: loquacious</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127843</link>	
		<description>Aaaand I&apos;m going to ask for a deletion on this one. It&apos;s stupider than I thought it was at first glance, and also probably marketing.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:18:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: flotson</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127847</link>	
		<description>OK, I admit. I &lt;strike&gt;would&lt;/strike&gt; will &lt;strike&gt;have sex with a robot&lt;/strike&gt; immanentize the eschaton.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:38:26 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flotson</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: BrotherCaine</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127850</link>	
		<description>Are pedophiles going to start ordering child sex dolls?  If so, should they be made illegal?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:53:05 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrotherCaine</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: SteveInMaine</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127851</link>	
		<description>No, no, no, I want my flying car first.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:56:09 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SteveInMaine</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Ritchie</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127856</link>	
		<description>If building robot women is too hard, we&apos;re just gonna have to brainwash real women into &lt;em&gt;thinking&lt;/em&gt; they&apos;re robots.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 01:14:22 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ritchie</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Joseph Gurl</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127871</link>	
		<description>Faker than Hillary&apos;s affected African-American accent!</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 01:56:25 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Gurl</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: DecemberBoy</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127903</link>	
		<description>Clearly a fake, almost surely viral marketing, however, we&apos;re close in real life:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repliee&quot;&gt;Actroid/Repliee&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EveR-1&quot;&gt;EveR&lt;/a&gt;

They&apos;re called &quot;gynoids&quot;, for female android. In the future there will be men porking robots.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 03:15:42 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DecemberBoy</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: maxwelton</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127906</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;In the future&lt;/em&gt;

In the &lt;em&gt;future&lt;/em&gt;? Have you ever seen the dudes in a robotics lab?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 03:19:59 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maxwelton</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Wolof</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127918</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;In the future&lt;/i&gt;

*snorts, whinnies*</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 03:53:35 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wolof</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: subgear</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127928</link>	
		<description>I CAN HAS SQUEEZE-BOT?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 04:15:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Cat Pie Hurts</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127935</link>	
		<description>I&apos;d like to explore her uncanny val...oh, she&apos;s NOT a robot?  Lame. *kicks rock*

&lt;small&gt;It also says that there will be a version coming in men!&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 04:27:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cat Pie Hurts</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Senator</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127937</link>	
		<description>She looks like the Anne of Green Gables actress... I always wondered what happened to her.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 04:31:35 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Senator</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: sotonohito</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127946</link>	
		<description>While the site is obviously fake, the tech just doesn&apos;t exist yet, the reality will be here one day and I think it&apos;d be beneficial to have a (several) discussions about it.

On the easy side you&apos;ve got the people who want robot women/men for sex.  It might be a bit creepy, but really its no big deal.  Where you run into problems are with people who will want robot children for sex, robot dragons, robot dogs, etc.

Is a person with a child shaped sexbot a pedophile, or not?  What about pornography produced with insanely realistic child shaped sexbots?  Or someone who wants a snuff bot?  &quot;Now you can strangle your lover!  Enjoy the unique pleasure of the muscle spasams that accompany death!  Just $3,999.99!&quot;

Is that a healthy outlet for urges that might otherwise be expressed in reality, or is it training people to do the real thing?

IIRC the longest lasting program in a turing test managed to keep a conversation going for ten minutes before it was found out.  Sex, especially specific fantasy scenarios, is likely quite a bit simpler to AI model.

While the LULZ are fun, I think we&apos;d do well to give the issue some serious thought.  Extremely realistic sexbots are going to be technologically possible in short order, I think the guestimate of 2050 may be a bit pessimistic.  And once its possible you know they&apos;ll be manufactured, even if its illegal. So the question is, should it be illegal?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 04:44:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Pollomacho</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2127947</link>	
		<description>She&apos;s a little shiny and why the hell won&apos;t she just hold still? Perfect? Hardly.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 04:45:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: nanojath</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128017</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;...usually when that happens I just try to take a deep breath and move on because it&apos;s admittedly kind of obnoxious.
posted by cortex at 12:29 AM on May 28&lt;/i&gt;

You could compromise by talking &lt;i&gt;about&lt;/i&gt; the ranting you&apos;d like to be doing, like in half all-caps but in tiny text to show it&apos;s an aside...

I felt this way when people were debating (rather early in the game) whether &quot;The Blair Witch Project&quot; was real (ask your parents, kids, this was way back in the late 90s).  Murder? Occult? Videotape? Sure, the major news networks might have missed that one for years.

If nothing else, a couple of minutes perusing fine publications like Maxim and its soft core ilk would demonstrate the particulars of how the kind of social also-ran who would want to date a robot would want his robot girlfriend to look, and no offense to the robot-lady-actress but she&apos;s not quite the type, is she?  For one thing, she doesn&apos;t have ridiculous, enormous comic book breasts.  Also, like they would advertise her displayed in a sensible skirt and blouse.  Also, like they would advertise &quot;intelligence&quot; as one of her virtues.

Also, what&apos;s with the whole &quot;doin&apos; the robot&quot; robot poses thing she&apos;s doing in that commercial, that whole bent-arms in front pose?  I guess it&apos;s supposed to signal to me that she&apos;s a robot, in case I didn&apos;t catch the whole &quot;this is the perfect girlfriend from AI Robotics!&quot; thing.

On top of all this, wow, what a fresh concept.  Wouldn&apos;t romance be easier if you could just fuck a robot?  Someone should write a book about how a whole community of men replaces their wives with subservient robots.  And then they could make a movie out of it! And then, like thirty years later, another terrible remake starring Nicole Kidman.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:23:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: ROU_Xenophobe</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128020</link>	
		<description>Reminder:  One hundred sterilized credits qualifies for non-mechanical reproduction simulation.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:28:46 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ROU_Xenophobe</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Artichoke Dance Off!!</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128021</link>	
		<description>Henry C. Mabuse writes:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.instantrimshot.com&quot;&gt;
It is coming.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:29:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Brandon Blatcher</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128031</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;Yes, it&apos;s fake. I&apos;m going to really pull out the stops here and point out that it is, in fact, fakey fakey McFakerson.&lt;/em&gt;

But her voice chip told me she loved me.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:45:19 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Blatcher</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: cortex</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128037</link>	
		<description>She&apos;s just using you for your Galactic Credits, man!</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:51:01 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cortex</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: l33tpolicywonk</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128051</link>	
		<description>Winner just for the title.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:10:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: djrock3k</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128057</link>	
		<description>Had me till she blinked. Blinking is a very human thing.

Still, the sexbots are coming and it ain&apos;t gonna be funny. As in end of the species not funny. See Paul diFillipo&apos;s &quot;Ribofunk&quot; for a more biological example of how things can go wrong.

Good comment Sotonohito. more like 2025 tho&apos; (if not 2015).</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:12:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: LordSludge</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128061</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Unless you shell out $459.95US for the RealMovement mod kit...&lt;/i&gt;

Yeah, that option is not what you think it is. Think &quot;niche market&quot;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:17:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Quietgal</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128062</link>	
		<description>Metafilter:  Ten tons of industrial-grade fake.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:17:40 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quietgal</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: thanotopsis</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128077</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Had me till she blinked. Blinking is a very human thing.&lt;/i&gt;

Dude, all of the robots at WDW blink.  But, they won&apos;t have sex with you, no matter how many times you ask.

Damn you, Abe Lincoln...</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:33:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Cat Pie Hurts</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128101</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Yeah, that option is not what you think it is. Think &quot;niche market&quot;.
posted by LordSludge&lt;/i&gt;

eponysterical!</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:49:27 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cat Pie Hurts</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: rmd1023</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128197</link>	
		<description>yeah, that&apos;s a lot of viral right there.

also, the timeline is all wrong.  4/4/2008 they raise funds to realize the project, and POOF now they&apos;re shipping soon?  

CLEARLY, THIS MUST BE SOME KIND OF STORY ABOUT FEMALE SEXBOTS GOING MAD WITH POORLY-DEBUGGED EMOTIONS AND KILLING EVERYONE.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:38:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Fuzzy Skinner</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128252</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;also, the timeline is all wrong. 4/4/2008 they raise funds to realize the project, and POOF now they&apos;re shipping soon? &lt;/em&gt;

Of&lt;em&gt; course &lt;/em&gt;that&apos;s possible, small-thinker! It&apos;s an&lt;em&gt; internet-based &lt;/em&gt;business!</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:22:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: bunnytricks</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128265</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/sampleandhold.html&quot;&gt;I need a unit to sample and hold&lt;/a&gt;
but not a slavic peasant in mom pants
no a new design a new design.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:30:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Dave Faris</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128276</link>	
		<description>Remember when you were six? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. You were going to play doctor. He showed you his but when it got to be your turn you chickened and ran, you remember that? You ever tell anybody that? Your mother, Tyrell, anybody? Remember the spider that lived outside your window? Orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer then one day there&apos;s a big egg in it. The egg hatched...</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:37:51 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Faris</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Caduceus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128325</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;As in end of the species not funny.&lt;/i&gt;

That&apos;s very first-world-middle-class-and-up centric. I&apos;m pretty sure there&apos;s still about a billion and a half combined Chinese and Indians who can&apos;t afford robot sex buddies just yet. Not to mention most of South America, virtually all of Africa, pretty much the entire Middle East besides Saudi Arabia and Israel (and possibly the UAE, not really as up to date with the countries we&apos;re not fighting in), and, you know, big portions of the US and Europe too. 

Seriously, we could stand to pass around some robot sex buddies, it might keep us from overpopulating the planet so ridiculously.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:55:03 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caduceus</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Samizdata</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128455</link>	
		<description>I&apos;d gladly get myself one.

&quot;Sam, you have been playing TF2 all night.  Please leave the...&quot;

&quot;CLOSET! NOW!&quot;

&quot;Yes, Sam.  But I must tell you I am leaving you for the Roomba.  He listens to me.  He understands m...&quot;

(clicks remote off and starts cruising RoboBabeHackers.com for new scripts)</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 11:43:31 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samizdata</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: nthdegx</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128478</link>	
		<description>Let me be the first to say that I think this is fake.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:03:58 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nthdegx</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: lalochezia</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128479</link>	
		<description>Isn&apos;t this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zenn.com.sg/Rebecca_Pigeon_the_Raven.JPG&quot;&gt;Rebecca Pigeon&lt;/a&gt;, David Mamet&apos;s current squeeze?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:05:02 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lalochezia</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: rokusan</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128513</link>	
		<description>Mamet doesn&apos;t squeeze... he &lt;i&gt;coaxes&lt;/i&gt;...</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:37:12 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rokusan</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: forrest</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128769</link>	
		<description>It&apos;s all fun and games until &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/&quot;&gt;she shorts out while you&apos;re doing the Big Nasty on the kitchen floor and you have to hire a Tracker to take you into Zone 7 to find a replacement chip&lt;/a&gt;.  (And if they have a version that looks like Pamela Gidley, I&apos;m buying two.)</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:14:28 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>forrest</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: forrest</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128771</link>	
		<description>And I should have done a search on the page for Cherry 2000 before I posted.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:15:33 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>forrest</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: jonmc</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128818</link>	
		<description>I call shenannigans. If this was real the order form would have a boob size section.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:44:13 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonmc</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: msalt</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128830</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;Pffft. Old news. &lt;/em&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIscMvbzlE&quot;&gt;Older than that, even.&lt;/a&gt; Originally 1967; this is a later, faster version.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:53:38 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>msalt</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: P.o.B.</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2128846</link>	
		<description>David was staring out of the window. &quot;Teddy, you know what I was thinking? How do you tell what are real things from what aren&apos;t real things?&quot;

The bear shuffled its alternatives. &quot;Real things are good.&quot;</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 17:08:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: subaruwrx</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2129106</link>	
		<description>you guys really need to watch the PSA on Electric Gonnorrhea: The noisy killer</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 22:31:33 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>subaruwrx</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: ahughey</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2152079</link>	
		<description>Coming in late, but I get a fake UI, a bad striptease, and an ad for shaving lotion.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:03:22 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ahughey</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: roll truck roll</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2152799</link>	
		<description>Huh. It looks completely different from the original site. I almost wonder if this was a &quot;Hey, let&apos;s make an ad and hope someone wants to use it to advertise something&quot; project.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:16:57 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roll truck roll</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: tellurian</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/72038/sudo-aptget-install-creepyrobotgirlfriend20#2152970</link>	
		<description>The &apos;original site&apos; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perfect-woman.com/teasing/en/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; now. teasing?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:36:29 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tellurian</dc:creator>
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