0F. [text] oh user oh user oh user oh user

[ifightfor]

Recent discussion of Event:"Fuckening" warrants further inquiry.

Query: What taboos if any exist concerning overt discussion of User sexual activity?

Explanation required concerning status(virgin,not virgin). Query: Reason for significance attached to virginity?

[private to Narvin, TOTALLY UNRELATED]

Query: Veracity of information released by Inmate

Comments

Private

[hopeless_hacker]

I think Rhade covered that better than I could.

[also she has 100+1 sexual hangups, hence very relieved she doesn't have to talk about it.]

I...don't think circumstances will ever arise on the Barge which will allow the - [snrrk no she can't do it without smiling] - Fuckening to go through as he had planned.

Private

[ifightfor]

Circumstances unlikely. However all threats to security require equally serious approach until such a time as proven null.

[Pause. Pause.]

Also provided convenient excuse for questions. Inmate Gaheris Rhade was helpful. [even if the entire topic is kind of horrifying to him.]

Private

[hopeless_hacker]

Maybe. I don't suppose I want to be the one getting eaten by a dragon because I didn't take 'the Fuckening' as a potentially serious threat.

Is there anything else you need to know? It didn't occur to me that wouldn't know - well - anything about this sphere of human life.

Private.

[ifightfor]

[There's a long delay as he considers this.]

Basic mechanical understanding present. Previous memories from breach flood also present. Cultural assumptions about taboos, manners, propriety, User reasoning behind them--not present.

Extent and nature of User sexuality|

[pause. pause.]

disturbing.

Viruses breed. Programs do not.

Private.

[hopeless_hacker]

It's a complicated topic at the best of times. That we're here in a place that draws its population from so many cultures and time periods just makes it worse. I could find you some books on social attitudes to sex if you were interested.

...

Out of interest, how would you define the creation of the ISOs?

Private.

[ifightfor]

Recommendations on topic appreciated. [Better than stocking up on your mama jokes for another round with Slick.]

...

The Creator ... did not make them. They grew. Like plants ... grow. [Although since he doesn't have a really firm grasp of the lifecycle of a plant, this is an inexact analogy.]

Private.

[hopeless_hacker]

I'll visit the library later and find you something relevant. [She's not even going to touch that conversation. Although, swapping yo mama jokes > actual violence?]

I would call it a kind of evolution. The environmental conditions were right for them to emerge.

...

There was something else I wanted to have a word about.

Private.

[ifightfor]

Thank you. [Undoubtedly.]

Yes. Evolution correct analogy.

...

Yes?

Private.

[hopeless_hacker]

I've observed [my boyfriend] a colleague working with a cerebral port in the engine room. It allows him to connect with a computer system and work more directly with programs, and...I was thinking of having one installed myself.

Would you be willing to let me communicate with you that way? I may be able to simulate a limited version of the Grid for us to meet on. I think it's only reasonable, after you've had to live somewhere more appropriate for Users.

Private.

[ifightfor]

[...]

Please.

|

[Long pause as Rinzler works through the security ramifications of this.]

Query: Procedure safe for Warden Toshiko Sato?

If yes, then method of communication acceptable.

Private.

[hopeless_hacker]

It'll be safe. Harper went through it fine, and I can ask Dr. Jones for her consultation on the process. It might take a little while to get the process in motion, but I promise to put something workable together.

Private.

[ifightfor]

Understood.

Yes.

Please.