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Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots
hdtv writes "Reuters is running a story that talks about the emotional bonds that US soldiers develop with the robots in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. The company, most famous on the US market for its Roomba vacuum cleaner, provided '300 PackBot Tactical Mobile Robots deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to open doors in urban combat, lay fiber-optic cable, defuse bombs and perform other hazardous duties previously done by humans alone.'"
Oh, why didn't you take me instead, oh why!?!?!?
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
So it is after this "bonding" as they call it that the citizen of Iraq will welcome their bomb-defusing soldier-hybrid overlords?
one must ask that if the bond goes the other way could you end up with manicly depressed robots? :)
Film at 11.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Venkman: You're not sleeping with it, are you?
perform other hazardous duties previously done by humans alone
...that's pretty much true of my Roomba. Wait till I figure out how to make it do the dishes.
You can have my cynical agnosticism when you pry it from my cold, dead logic.
So, uhh.. Awesomo.. are you a.. pleasure model?
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DOES NOT COMPUTE
hey did that robot just fart?
twitter.com/gravitronic
This is my robot, there are very many like it but this one is mine....
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
but you can't love your battle bot.
How about a film where the soldier abandons his robot in the desert, because the robot keeps calling him "daddy" and it's creepy. And then the robot sets off on a quest to understand itself, and meets up with a sex doll and goes looking for the "Green Hummer"? The film ends with Harrison Ford telling the robot it has no end date, and they drive into the mountains together. Captain Adama lands in a spaceship, leaves a little oragami unicorn on a ledge, and then the hot Cylon chick shows up and takes off her shirt.
Just came to me. I better write the outline before I forget.
Soldier: "What's a nice robot like you doing in a place like this?"
Robot: "I'm looking to set something off? How about you?"
Soldier: "Well I'm certainly armed now"
Robot: "You're not one of those 3 minute timer types are you?"
Soldier: "No mam, er...you ever watch BSG?"
Robot: "No"
Soldier: "Good, mind if I call you #6?"
Robot: "Anything is fine but 'Rosie'"
Soldier: "Great, care to get out of here *Rosie* ?"
Robot grabbing soldier's PED (Personal "Explosive" Device): "Time to cut the wire funny boy"
Soldier: "No...a 3G Terminator unit.....NO!!!!!"
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
"It is a machine you depend on. It is comforting to think that it some how cares for you and will try to do all that it can to keep you safe."
[LWATCDR's computer]
I'm sorry LWATCDR, I don't love you anymore. I want a divorce, and I'm taking the DVDs with me.
*gasp!* Linguo! Dead?
Linguo....IS....deeeaaaaad...
Kick in the Head
No disassemble!
Wow, something must be seriously wrong with me... In the first sims I had the parents go for a swim, then took the ladder out of the pool. Poor little buggers did quite a few laps before finally going under.
Stoner also designed the gun so that the...
I can't tell if its a good thing or a bad thing to have a gun designed by a Stoner.
Is No one else reminded of 'Appliantology'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Garage
I wish I could quit you C3PO ... I wish I could quit you!
OK, but it's going to b uit ifficult communicating ffctivly without thos lttrs, particularly "". At last you in't pok out my "i"s.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Dave: Hal, could you...?
HAL: Don't ask, don't tell Dave.
HitScan
But the game is so much more fun when your sims are miserable. Nothing is better than when I set it up so the career mom comes home and finds Dad in bed with the maid. It's poetry in motion. I know my work is done with Freud comes down to have a little chat with Mom. Then I lock her out of the bathroom and make the kids clean up the resulting mess. For Dad and the maid I arrange a little "cooking accident" in the kitchen with no fire extingisher, no phone, and no exit. Hauntings rule.
I must be a sociopath - But then again, I *AM* a sysadmin.
-R
You like to do that "headless horseman" thing with the Barbie dolls, don't you.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
And I know I do it all the time with programs. Who *hasn't* said "Come on baby, work with me here, no NPE no NPE no NPE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I HATE YOU!"
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.