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	<title>Caramel Whistle &#187; Thoughts</title>
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		<title>Believing the Fantastical</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2012/04/believing-the-fantastical/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2012/04/believing-the-fantastical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending Easter Sunday Dinner with my Grandparents I&#8217;ve come up with a new idea for a Bucket list item. Arrived to start chatting about the latest family developments. Since I brought Oscar I took him for a walk along the creek to recheck his stomping grounds. Returned to a cup of tea which lead [...]
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		<title>Seriously, when does the new decade start? (Was there a year zero?)</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2009/12/when-does-the-new-decade-start-was-there-a-year-zero/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2009/12/when-does-the-new-decade-start-was-there-a-year-zero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geekiness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anno Domini]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is tomorrow the last day of this decade or do we still have 366 days to go? Either way is acceptable, but because I love finding out the reasons for this sort of thing I thought I&#8217;d share them with you. For anyone that can remember their history the Roman Empire covered much of the [...]
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		<title>Remembering the Future</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2008/10/remembering-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2008/10/remembering-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reminisce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spin off]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/?p=250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At a young age you imagine what it&#8217;ll be like when you grow up, whether you&#8217;re going to be an actor(ess), Fireman or Space Cowboy. You create an entire life in the blink of an eye, you&#8217;ve streamlined out all the boring preparations to the fun bit at the end, the goal. Unfortunately not all [...]
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		<title>Rebuild Humanity?</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2008/04/rebuild-humanity/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2008/04/rebuild-humanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite films is the 1960 classic (H.G. Wells&#8217;) The Time Machin e. A 19th Century Scientist builds a Time Machine and travels forwards in time to see the progress of Humanity. Witnessing the destruction in World War II he travels further eventually seeing the 803rd Century and a Utopian society of gentle [...]
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		<title>Zeroth Law</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/12/zeroth-law/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/12/zeroth-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artificial intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[robot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Universe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The inherent flaws of Isaac Asimov&#8217;s 3 Laws of Robots have been reviewed with much scrutiny by many people over the years since there inception as a plot device. The favoured outcome; a rule to correct the problem already laid out in the first Law. Zeroth Law 0. No robot may harm humanity or, through [...]
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		<title>3 Laws Unsafe</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/11/3-laws-unsafe/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/11/3-laws-unsafe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Look at how Asimov's 3 Laws are reinterpreted in the film I, Robot by one of the smartest computers on the planet, VIKI the central computer at U.S. Robotics
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		<title>Why you should ignore Cosmetic Problems</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/06/why-you-should-ignore-cosmetic-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/06/why-you-should-ignore-cosmetic-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/06/15/why-you-should-ignore-cosmetic-problems/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m watching the first season of The West Wing and the White House staff are interviewing a young African-American teenager for the position of Personal Aid to the President. Josh Lyman, the Deputy Chief of Staff, is concerned that it will look poor for a &#8216;young black kid&#8217; to &#8216;wait&#8217; on the President. Leo [...]
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		<title>Freak or Idiot?</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/01/freak-or-idiot/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/01/freak-or-idiot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/2007/01/21/freak-or-idiot/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given the choice which would you prefer to be, Freak or Idiot? Firstly what type of freak? The word means something that is a strange deviation from nature. So freak would be a ball falling upwards which is a deviation from the natural phenomenon known as gravity. The question doesn&#8217;t poise a definition of the [...]
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		<title>Comodities</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2006/12/comodities/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2006/12/comodities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many things available for free that everybody has in some form or another. The time for example; a Rich Person would have a highly expensive watch or an aboriginal could tell you by looking at the Sun. In either case I&#8217;m sure they would tell you without cost. There are more important properties [...]
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		<title>You&#8217;ve already made the choice</title>
		<link>http://caramelwhistle.com/2006/12/youve-already-made-the-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://caramelwhistle.com/2006/12/youve-already-made-the-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://caramelwhistle.com/2006/12/07/youve-already-made-the-choice/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pre-determination implies there is a plan for the Universe, a fixed route to get from the past to the future. In this type of Universe no accidents occur because they were all suposed to happen and although we think we are making choices we’re not, we’re just conforming to the plan. In The Matrix amongst [...]
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