And alligators. Don't forget it's designed to shed alligators. That's very important down in the pest-ridden swamps of Florididia!
True story:
We went on one of the bus tours at KSC. The bus had the usual complement, about half foreign tourists. We'd been around to see all the derelict technological wonders of the Apollo program and were headed back to the main visitor's center. The tour driver pointed out an common American Alligator in a run-off ditch alongside the road and stopped so the out-of-towners could get a good look. Those Nikon-toting tourists just about tipped the bus over trying to get a look at the scaley nuisance.
And closets, lots and lots of closets. I really can't grok how real people can achieve the zen-like detachment from personal possessions that the residents of Architectural Review -land obviously enjoy.
If it can block cellphone calls, it will certainly block the rays from the orbiting mind-control satellites. The movie would start, this blocking system would be activated, and the whole audience would riot when the MPAA ad with the starving carpenter berating the audience for stealing movies when they just paid full admission was run.
RoboCop was programmed to follow four prime directives (which may be compared with Asimov's Laws of Robotics):
Serve the public trust
Protect the innocent
Uphold the law
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The fourth directive, which he was programmed to be unaware of unless it became relevant, rendered him physically incapable of placing any senior OCP employee under arrest ('Any attempt to arrest a senior OCP officer results in shutdown'). In the first movie it made him unable to act against corrupt Vice-President Richard 'Dick' Jones until Jones was fired by the chairman of OCP. During the second movie, he was unable to act against OCP officials, even though he knew that they had committed crimes, until he is rebuilt after being dismembered, and a group decides to put hundreds of individual directives in his system, which is too much data and causes him to malfunction. His technicians don't have the equipment to remove the directives. However, they say they could pull his cranial circuits, which would shut down his life support system all together, or run high voltage through him and "pray his insulation holds." Robocop hears this and decides on the latter, letting thousands of volts flow through him and removing ALL his directives. In the third movie, contradictorily (after all the directives have apparently been restored, including 4) - when RoboCop became a member of the resistance against OCP - the fourth directive (Do Not Oppose An OCP Officer) was finally erased.
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1. A distant view or prospect , especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
2. An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
2. An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: "the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up" (Arthur C. Danto).
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True story:
We went on one of the bus tours at KSC. The bus had the usual complement, about half foreign tourists. We'd been around to see all the derelict technological wonders of the Apollo program and were headed back to the main visitor's center. The tour driver pointed out an common American Alligator in a run-off ditch alongside the road and stopped so the out-of-towners could get a good look. Those Nikon-toting tourists just about tipped the bus over trying to get a look at the scaley nuisance.
"comp.risks digest 03/15/2008 :
Critical flaw in T800 firmware exploited by Outlook virus, Shiraz depopulated."
Be careful, you may be eaten by a grue.
And closets, lots and lots of closets.
I really can't grok how real people can achieve the zen-like detachment from personal possessions that the residents of Architectural Review -land obviously enjoy.
First of all, we'll need an architect, we'll have to resurrect John Lautner.
Independent lab testing proves Pirate Monkeys will beat Robot Ninjas 97.6 % of the time.
Yeah, but do you really want to piss off a bunch of people that you trained to use rifles?
... starting with those pesky sciencetitians that keep pointing out the flaws in our ideologically-driven policies.
Steveistan?
If it can block cellphone calls, it will certainly block the rays from the orbiting mind-control satellites. The movie would start, this blocking system would be activated, and the whole audience would riot when the MPAA ad with the starving carpenter berating the audience for stealing movies when they just paid full admission was run.
What? No announcement that they've bought Disney? Freakin' slackers...
QED, Bushco == OCP
You be welcoming me to Bizzarro World!!!
You call yourself a geek?!!
Who cares what some burnout TTL jockey lazy rich-bitch, who hasn't done anything new since the late 70's thinks?!!
"Honest honey, that CC charge was for a laptop desk!"
Maybe investors are paying to quarantine these guys from the industry at large.
Use a coaster before your wife catches you!
I'd rather have a robust touch-screen coffee table display that I can connect my laptop to.
"None of your goddamned business" is a completely valid answer.
Come on submitters, be good cyber-citizens! Coral cache the site before submitting the story, since the editurs are to busy doing important editorial stuff!
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1. A distant view or prospect , especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
2. An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
2. An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: "the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up" (Arthur C. Danto).
As a free bonus, may I present the fabulous Vista Cruiser!
I'm starting to consider the opinon that voting should be an essay question as of late.
I got your paper trail, right here!
Keep you degenerate toys away from me, pervert! Whaddya trying to do, make me an addict?!
Your anti-tetrachromat bigotry has no place on an enlightened plane such as slashdot. Be off with you, sir!