Re: WAS "[HOE] Test." NOW Browser questions.

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:19:56 -0600 "Nick Zachariasen"
<zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu> writes:
> No, I'm sure it's been stated before that headlights on a car (or 
> other type of vehicle that normally has them) are considered to be part
of the 
> car itself and not requiring a separate power.  After all, don't you 
> think a car spirit knows how to work headlights?

As far as the browsers are concerned, if a power isn't covered by that
type of spirit, the browser can't power it.  If you, say, strap two
lightbulbs to a junker vehicle, they could be considered part of the car
and therefore powered by the spirit.  But if you used the Light power to
make headlights, a car spirit couldn't put its juice through them.
But, on the subject of how machines exist with their spirits, here's my
take on it: a single complex device, such as a car, will have many
spirits in it.  Appliance spirits for the headlights, a car spirit for
the engine, drive train, and all the "car bits," a Building spirit for
the frame, and even tiny tool spirits for all the levers and gears in the
car.  Whenever a part of the device is damaged so that it no longer can
perform the function it was made for, the spirit is released.  When a
headlight goes out, the appliance spirit is released.
The thing about junker tech is that you pick one spirit and stick it into
a pile of junk.  That pile then performs only the task that the spirit
was made for.  Hence, using Locomotion won't let you create headlights,
locks, or a windshield.  You need different spirits to do that stuff, or
functioning devices that can still perform those tasks.

From Whom It May Concern,
Rich Ranallo

"There will be no Year 2000.  At least, not as we know it."
-Hunter S. Thompson

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