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Robotcop III Set to Fight Crime in Hong Kong
Roland Piquepaille writes "There is a new cop patrolling the streets of Hong Kong and teaching children how to prevent crime. But it's a robot named Robotcop III, designed and built in Hong Kong, according to Channel Newsasia. Robotcop III can walk, dance, move in any direction, display videos and answer questions asked in Cantonese and English. The previous versions of Robotcops, introduced in 1988 and 1995, were imported from the U.S. and taught 800,000 school children how to fight crime. The promoters of Robotcop III hope it will do even better. More details and references are available in this overview including a photo of Robotcop III patrolling on Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) campus."
I give 'em about 2 days before they get sued for using such a similar name without permission.
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.. I mean Hong Kong. There must be something wrong there... robots coming out of anywhere *but* Japan?
yea when they highlight a robots ability to "move in any direction" you know its a pretty shitty robot.
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I know this sounds like a good idea, but I've seen what can happen first hand when you start to introduce robots into the crime-fighting world. Everything will go well at first, but inevitably the humanoid trapped inside will have conflicting emotions, and then all havoc breaks loose. Lets not forget the lessons learned from the past -- remember what happened to Murphy?
(Troll? But since you're spewing crap discrediting to my city, I'll respond)
Now where'd you get your ideas from? (lemme guess... HK movies?? The people who produce local movies are rarely well-educated people, and know nothing more than producing crap movies about made-belief, unrealistic gangster lives. All the other talented people in our movie industry go to Hollywood.)
>> Policing HK has become a nightmare.
Our police forces are very much in control.
>> The Chinese mafia has essentially taken over the islands
The only people hiding in the Islands are probably illegal immigrants from mainland China. Not to say they don't pose any threat to the local people, but they are not in any way organized. And the reason they are there is because there are so many small islands around, it's impossible to patrol them all every single second.
>> and controls crime and legitimate business
wtf? *Legit business? You're smoking crack. Hong Kong is a city with a International fame and has close links with businesses from all over the world. Surely you don't mean those businesses deal with thugs here?
>> from the top rungs of society down to the street gutters.
Street gutters perhaps. Top of society, no. Frankly, I've never come in contact with any gangsters before.
>> lured some of the best and brightest of HK into the underworld where there is more money to be made than in the legitimate world.
Most people who commit crimes here are anything but the "best and brightest". As for the money part, well, ain't it the major incentive for people committing crimes, as it always had been?
Hong Kong might not be the safest city in the world, but it is surely safer than many places in the world. There is no major crime problem here.
btw, I live in Hong Kong.
Don't quote me on this.
Fighting crime doesn't equate to policemen wielding guns and taking down dangerous criminals.
It's in the sense of "reducing crime rates", for example, not to take part in illegal activities, look out for conmen, pickpockets, reporting crime etc. And now with the internet, online fraud, hacker (yeah, cracker, I know) activity, copyrights etc.
(In HK) Scenes of policement wrestling with criminals on the streets nowadays are rare... I've never seen any except as TV shows or movies.
Oh, really, what about vertically? WHAT ABOUT VERTICALLY?!!!
You can't handle the truth.
But that's a ranking of "Perceptions of corruption", not estimates of actual corruption. In relatively free countries like the US, there is at least some free (ie. not part of the conspiracy :^) press exposing corruption, so people see the corruption and have a high perception of it.
But in places like HK, where the press is 100% government controlled, on pain of death (or at least life inprisonment), the corruption is never exposed, thus the perception is low. But the actual corruption is undoubtedly higher, because with no risk of exposure, there's nothing to hold people back from it. The streets are safe because most of the criminals are in government.
The perception of Japan being corrupt only came about after the economic collapse led to the exposure of the corruption (because no one had the money to keep the payoffs flowing, and people were demanding real answers).
Corruption PERCEPTION..
just because a majority of people think it's so, doesn't mean it's sooo