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Man-Shaped Robots Harass Britain Once Again
NotRicky writes:
The UK's terrible string of luck with violent robots continues. The man-shaped metal monstrosities that have plagued the country at seemingly random times throughout history rose up once more yesterday. No one yet knows their source, or what phenomenon — natural or man-made — keeps drawing them to that area of the world. While initial reports indicated trillions of dollars worth of damage and countless lives lost, the re-establishment of communications paints a much more hopeful picture. The British government remains quiet about the situation, politely refusing foreign aid and letting one of their intelligence agencies direct efforts to restore order. Reporters and camera crews are having difficulty documenting the situation — it's not clear whether this is due to interference from the government or simply the chaotic nature of the robot uprising. A medical professional on the scene was quoted as saying, "It's simple, really — even the flattened brick you call a computer can undelete, can't it?"
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there is actually going to be an unbelievable disaster on April the first .....and no one is going to believe it.....till then ....
Seriously dude, there is a lot of Internet out there for you if you just go look for it.
A great April 2nd story would be how Slashdot drove its readership away with bad April Fool's jokes.
That would be even harder to believe than an April Fool's joke claiming that slashdot still had readers before today.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Perhaps Dice outsourced the /. April Fools jokes to Trevor Noah.
Proverbs 21:19
They're bringing back Beta for the day?
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Great, April 1st is here again... the day a bunch of idiots come out of the woodwork to complain about some people having a little bit of fun for one out of 365 (and 1/4) days.
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I think it'd make an even better April 1 story. After all, we've been through this a bunch of times.
I didn't click any links but my guess based on the summary was Cybermen
They should run a story like "Long time contributor Bennett Haselton launches his own blog; will no longer actively contribute to Slashdot". Then run a series of articles written by him tomorrow.
See, had this said Japan, I'd have believed it.
fuck beta. kthxbai.
the quote at the bottom of the page..
And nothing of value was lost.
I REALLY hate Slashdot on April 1st. Worthless.
I suppose it takes a few trying to get started again before getting the hang of it..
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
+1. That WAS the best EVAR April Fools' Day joke, and since then they haven't even come close to that one...
Besides isn't this one even a dupe?
I, for one, welcome our new cybernetic overlords.
The April fool stories on Slashdot have missed the point of April fools. The idea is to have a story that sounds plausible at first glance, so it fools people, but is obviously a joke on closer inspection. The Slashdot attempts at April fools are just silly, is this an American thing?
Speaking of upgrading, it's a good day to upgrade a browser and an email client.
It's a reflection on the fact that robots are now here for real... when they were still fiction, they were *assumed* to be man-shaped.
I'd prefer that they had none at all.
Well, they are a bit more intimidating than those rolling upside down wastepaper baskets with the plungers. That's just bad marketing.
Amazing. Slashdot, knowing it can never please on April 1st, posts the lamest, most obvious stories ever.
This is some next-level trolling, I love it.
At least the from the ____ dept is kind of funny
Obviously a fake story - they UK isn't worth trillions.
And definitely not dollars ! >-(
The Cybermen have returned!
The Cybermen are loose again. Either that, or Obama is visiting Great Britain.
Slashdot's web traffic plummets on April 1st because of lame jokes.
I came here for ponies.
Slashdot got bad. The ponies are the stallions of what was right about this place. Yet they still choose not to return.
I will return next year, in seek of ponies.
They are Labour Party officials out electioneering. Like robots, they won't take No for an answer but keep saying,
"I will return"
If I ever decide to wage war on a country, I will do it on April 1, not September 1st like the 3rd reich. No one will expect that! I'll have 10-15 days of free reign before anyone figures out it's not an April Fools prank. 1)invade the EU on April 1. 2)something something something 3)mumble mumble... 4) profit?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
They're not robots. That's David Cameron and his cronies in the Tory party.
This is the new beta design, updated in response to internet fads of more recent years, and it will look this way FOREVER
They're actually dentistry tools that have been abandoned over the past few decades. The Brits (never having stepped in a dentist's office) are confused and frightened.
oversized salt-shakers shrieking, "Exterminate!"
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Robot Insurance.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/old-glory-insurance/n10766
For when the metal ones decide to come for you.
Scarce, scared, scarred, sacred... -Col. Bruce Hampton
... it's not Christmas time.
Some privacy policy Slashdot.
SLASHDOT WILL BE UPGRADED
>> trillions of dollars worth of damage
Pounds, dear boy. Pounds! We're still not quite just another US state yet.