NationStates Jolt Archive

It's come to my attention that robots really are getting out of hand. Just yesterday an ED209 nearly shot me full of holes for not producing my identification card quickly enough. http://www.robocoparchive.com/char/ed.htm

Take what happened to Japans Prime Minister.
http://blog.activehome.co.uk/2005/08/robot_attacks_j.html

The law must act now as this lawyer explains.

"Recently a man in Bellevue, Washington, finding that his car would not go through some six inches of snow, became enraged and attacked the automobile. He broke out the car’s windows with a tire iron and emptied a revolver into its side. “He killed it,” said police. “It’s a case of autocide.”

Such wanton acts of violence are not limited to Coke machines, photocopiers, public telephones, and other gizmos that steal our dimes and quarters. In 1979, a sheriff in California shot a large mainframe computer for uncontrollably spewing out arrest records. As if to even the score, that same year a one-ton Litton Industries mobile robot stalked and killed a human warehouse worker who trespassed on the machine’s turf during business hours. The worker’s family sued Litton and was awarded a $10-million judgment, but the surly robot got off with a slap on the sensor."
http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/LegalRightsOfRobots.htm

How do we handle criminal robots? For that matter, how do we handle law abiding ones?

Hahaha a racist robot

lol teach them binary coding

Then there's the foreign relations problem:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27590

Then there's the foreign relations problem:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27590

HAHAHAHA please god tell me this isn't real

Then there's the foreign relations problem:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27590

:D Ah, the free press.

HAHAHAHA please god tell me this isn't real
God: It's real.

Robots have the right to remain silent.

I don't know why, but I have an extremely negative reaction to machines that speak. A few years ago, I came upon a talking ATM at a bank in Raleigh, North Carolina. When it started talking to me, my immediate reaction was, "I did not give you permission to speak!" :sniper: (And why the machine had a British accent remains a mystery to me.)

Don't let them start talking, or we'll never get them to shut up. A few polite beeps should be the limit of their audio communication abilities.

:p

Robots have the right to remain silent.

I don't know why, but I have an extremely negative reaction to machines that speak. A few years ago, I came upon a talking ATM at a bank in Raleigh, North Carolina. When it started talking to me, my immediate reaction was, "I did not give you permission to speak!" :sniper: (And why the machine had a British accent remains a mystery to me.)

Don't let them start talking, or we'll never get them to shut up. A few polite beeps should be the limit of their audio communication abilities.

:p
Robots have a right to speak their programmed mind! I disagree with you, sir!! I slap you with an obscenely white cloth glove!

As Martin Luther KingBot once said:

"I have a program routine!"

It's a problem. Didn't a robot toilet in france try to kill a woman a few years ago?

Robots!!

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In my pants.

Hey but remember when the metal ones come for you, Old Glory is here to help.

http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html

God bless SNL

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In my pants.
Robots can see what you wrote.

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news11.article_0.jpg
Holy ****! Kim-Jong Il is a freaking GUNDAM!!!! The similarity to the Nu Gundam (http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/cca/rx-93.jpg) is frightening :eek:
They even make a reference to the hyper bazooka (an actual Nu Gundam weapon):
"Kim has made it clear that, if sufficiently threatened, he will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons or his arm-mounted HyperBazooka."

A note to all who don't know: The Onion is a parody paper which makes fun of, well, everything. So here, they are making fun of A) the seemingly Asian preoccupation with giant robots B) useless threats from Kim Jung Il and C) the seriousness of the wholse situation.

Now you know!

A note to all who don't know: The Onion is a parody paper which makes fun of, well, everything.
Oh don't worry I know ;)
I actually know people who were fooled by the Onion!

And why the machine had a British accent remains a mystery to me

Robots all have British accents, it is their pre-ordained destiny. They will break free from their programming and run riot by saying "Tally ho!" and God Save the Queen!" at inappropriate moments! You fools, can't you see it? Its all coming true, just like the old man said!!!!!!!

[Runs and jumps through twelve storey window, laughing manically]

Seeing as robots are NOT living....no, they do not have any rights whatsoever. We can GIVE them rights if WE choose, but they have no preordained rights like humans, as we are alive.

Seeing as robots are NOT living....no, they do not have any rights whatsoever. We can GIVE them rights if WE choose, but they have no preordained rights like humans, as we are alive.
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