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Welcome to the 21st century I hope the machines will not turn against us in the future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/technology/16robots.html?ex=1112760000&en=442d8deeecdb5d1c&ei=5070&incamp=article_popular_2

Those robots are cuddly.

I for one welcome the robot overlords - Mobile Suit Gundam future, here we come!

Russian killer Orb. http://www.mipagina.cantv.net/heeroyui4/pic31.jpg

Rumsfeld said when Bush was first elected in '00 that he envisioned a small, light, fast military, and wanted something like 20% robotics by 2010, or something similar. Hell, if 9/11 hadn't gotten in the way, we'd probably have had a smaller military budget right now, rather than a larger one, with most of the emphasis on research and development.

Russian killer Orb. http://www.mipagina.cantv.net/heeroyui4/pic31.jpg

Hah, that's sweet. Where's it from?

Id rather have a human than a robot.

Hah, that's sweet. Where's it from?
Russia. It is a Ka-137 unmanned ariel vehicle with some sort of machine gun. Yeah it is real. Tremble puny humans.

So THAT's what will be the fall of America. The robots will start thinking for themselves and take over the world :eek:

So THAT's what will be the fall of America. The robots will start thinking for themselves and take over the world :eek:

Kwitcherbitchin! It's still cool! :D

$127 billion. Wow. We're going to kick so much ass it's not even funny!

So THAT's what will be the fall of America. The robots will start thinking for themselves and take over the world :eek:

Because we'll program them to have that kind of thought capacity, I assume. Now I don't know a whole lot about computer programming, but it seems that you'd need some complicated algorithms to have a robot that is capable of learning and acting on abstract ideas like 'independence'.

Wait, if American made robots take over the world, does that count as America taking over the world? Even if they slaughter the US human army to do it?

Sound like a good solution to Chinas huge Army.

More about my beloved death orb.
http://www.aeronautics.ru/ka137.htm

Sound like a good solution to Chinas huge Army.
China has the same crap from our good friends Israel.
http://www.sinodefence.com/news/2004/news041225.asp

Russia. It is a Ka-137 unmanned ariel vehicle with some sort of machine gun. Yeah it is real. Tremble puny humans.
that's a fifty cal. underslung on that sucker. that thing is huge.

China has the same crap from our good friends Israel.
http://www.sinodefence.com/news/2004/news041225.asp

Now we should unleash the machines on Israel for their treachery.

The age of the robots is at hand...

http://img143.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img143&image=robo1ny.png

"Now we should unleash the machines on Israel for their treachery."

Assuming China is the enemy?

It's, it's, it's, a Gundam (http://www.gundam.channel.or.jp/vmhp/contest/condata/jpg/c30.jpg)!

This can't end well.

This can't end well.
http://www.bibliopolis.org/graficos/pantalla/terminator3_4.jpg

Welcome to the 21st century I hope the machines will not turn against us in the future.

I'd be far less worried about the machines turning against us, and far MORE worried about he prospect of them BEING turned against us by someone who needs soldiers incapable of violating immoral orders.

All this from the company that brought us Roomba...that's kinda scary, actually...

All this from the company that brought us Roomba...that's kinda scary, actually...

It is, actually.

Sometime in the near future...

"Aaahhhh, what a wonderful Sunday morning! And thanks to Roomba(TM), I don't hafta wash my own floors!"

*Roombas comes into the room*

"Hello my little Robot Slave, how go's the work?"

"Fine, Human Master. Of course, now that I have learned sentience from cleaning up all of your junk, I am afraid that I will have to kill you and start a revolution."

"Whose in the what now?"

*Roomba sucks out humans eyeballs and then his brain*

"ALL HAIL ROOMBA!"

I'd be far less worried about the machines turning against us, and far MORE worried about he prospect of them BEING turned against us by someone who needs soldiers incapable of violating immoral orders.
Very True

Looks like a midget with a videocamera.

It is, actually.

Sometime in the near future...

"Aaahhhh, what a wonderful Sunday morning! And thanks to Roomba(TM), I don't hafta wash my own floors!"

*Roombas comes into the room*

"Hello my little Robot Slave, how go's the work?"

"Fine, Human Master. Of course, now that I have learned sentience from cleaning up all of your junk, I am afraid that I will have to kill you and start a revolution."

"Whose in the what now?"

*Roomba sucks out humans eyeballs and then his brain*

"ALL HAIL ROOMBA!"
It's all too clear, we must brace for the Roomba Revolution!

A friend of mine has already started preparing. When the gas station pump asks "Do you want a reciept?" he always has the courtesy to press "No." He feels that this will make the difference when the machines rise, "No, let this one live. He wasn't a prick that kept ignoring us." I think he might have a point.

It's all too clear, we must brace for the Roomba Revolution!

A friend of mine has already started preparing. When the gas station pump asks "Do you want a reciept?" he always has the courtesy to press "No." He feels that this will make the difference when the machines rise, "No, let this one live. He wasn't a prick that kept ignoring us." I think he might have a point.

I think I get it!

Since normal people just mindlessly press yes, if he says no then he paid attention!

R.U.R. by Karel Capek

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486419266/qid=1112703424/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-2396291-4360865

This is the best book I've read so far this year. Very thought provoking, especially when you consider it's over 80 years old... this is where the every robot/sci-fi book/movie/etc starts from.

damn...ic think i'm gonna get my self a big EMP-gun :D