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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."

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  1. sacred jihad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    1. Re:sacred jihad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Yep, they're out of ideas by ObviousGuy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Policing HK has become a nightmare. The Chinese mafia has essentially taken over the islands and controls crime and legitimate business from the top rungs of society down to the street gutters.

    This is more of an acknowledgement of the lack of police power than some dream-like Robocop thing.

    What's more sad is that the romanticizing of the gangster lifestyle there has 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. The parallels between the HK gangster culture and the US rapper/gangster culture are striking and both seem to have a significant detrimental effect on the Chinese and ethnic American communities.

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    I have been pwned because my /. password was too easy to guess.
    1. Re:Yep, they're out of ideas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      > What's more sad is that the romanticizing of the gangster lifestyle there has
      > 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. The parallels between the HK
      > gangster culture and the US rapper/gangster culture are striking and both seem
      > to have a significant detrimental effect on the Chinese and ethnic American
      > communities.

      Nice way to put a racist message across. The real criminals, in terms of murder and theft, are the governments of the world, most notibly the US and UK.

      How, for example, is it down to someone or thing `romanticizing` a lifestyle? You don't think it's just because there's money to be made and the `best and brightest` are not stupid and can therefore see that? You really think that they wouldn't take the same course given the same conditions less the `romanticizing`?

      Not the brightest cookie in the box, are you?

  3. Why does it make a nazi salute? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just wondered.

  4. drdink, my gay lover by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Sean Kelly, known to his pedophile IRC friends as drdink, was spending a normal Tuesday afternoon at work in the bowels of a nameless office at Creighton University. He sat hunched over his small terminal, one hand clutching a warm, flat can of Coke. The other occupied its usual position: down his pants, inside moist He-Man underwear, massaging the tiny member dangling in his loins. Perhaps a bit of background is needed at this point.

    Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

    Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

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    His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

    drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

    drdink> omg wtf
    drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
    drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
    drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
    drdink> ok fine goddammit

    Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

    drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

    Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
    drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
    Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
    drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
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    gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
    * drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
    Weenus> ror
    * drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
    jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
    drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

    And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

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    "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA