Call in a delivery, then as it comes to your house drop a metal box on it to insulate the robot from the entire EM spectrum (well, the parts it finds useful) -- cutting off its comms link, GPS, and vision. It's almost too easy. Who gave these people money?
Finally someone with some sense on Slashdot. How insecure are people posting here that they have to cry every time a story comes up that references changing social etiquette norms, especially in public circumstances?
The exercise was word association. The woman associated T-mobile with "ghetto", and the implication was clearly that it was meant to be derogatory, in the sense that it's bad to be associated with a ghetto. Many people are forced to live in what have traditionally been called ghettos, this does not reflect who they are as people but the association with "ghetto" impacts their life in negative ways, from financial and social hardship to just feeling shitty. Commercials like this normalize this association in our culture and imply that the effect is neglible. This further hurts the people already affected by the association because it basically says that their negative experience with the association doesn't matter.
Now, you can be an asshole all you want in private, that's fine if that's what it takes to make you feel better about yourself. But in the public domain, when your thoughts may be heard by anyone, have a little consideration about the actual effects of what your dumb ass wants to say.
I swear reading all these comments on Slashdot complaining about PC culture, I feel like you all are a second away from killing yourselves because you can't handle the notion that social norms can be hurtful to others.
tl;dr thank you, poster above me, for having some damn sense
Seriously. 4 MPH with a maximum delivery time of 30 minutes (let's say constrained by battery lifetime) gives a 2 mile radius at most... that's just fucking ridiculous!
Are you saying rap music is just a fad that has outlived its time? Man, you really must be old - grumpy because of new lingo, grumpy because of new music. Must suck to be you mate.
The reason all those things (well, except vibrators... just depends what kind you're referring to) are rigid is because rigid structures solve those problems very well. No one is saying rigid robots are bad -- they'll always be around for factories and such -- but if you're looking to replicate the sort of efficient, complex behaviors you see in the natural world, compliance and flexibility are key. There's a reason evolution has tended to generate semi-rigid morphologies: they are more robust in dealing with the imperfections and dangers of the natural world.
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Call in a delivery, then as it comes to your house drop a metal box on it to insulate the robot from the entire EM spectrum (well, the parts it finds useful) -- cutting off its comms link, GPS, and vision. It's almost too easy. Who gave these people money?
Finally someone with some sense on Slashdot. How insecure are people posting here that they have to cry every time a story comes up that references changing social etiquette norms, especially in public circumstances? The exercise was word association. The woman associated T-mobile with "ghetto", and the implication was clearly that it was meant to be derogatory, in the sense that it's bad to be associated with a ghetto. Many people are forced to live in what have traditionally been called ghettos, this does not reflect who they are as people but the association with "ghetto" impacts their life in negative ways, from financial and social hardship to just feeling shitty. Commercials like this normalize this association in our culture and imply that the effect is neglible. This further hurts the people already affected by the association because it basically says that their negative experience with the association doesn't matter. Now, you can be an asshole all you want in private, that's fine if that's what it takes to make you feel better about yourself. But in the public domain, when your thoughts may be heard by anyone, have a little consideration about the actual effects of what your dumb ass wants to say. I swear reading all these comments on Slashdot complaining about PC culture, I feel like you all are a second away from killing yourselves because you can't handle the notion that social norms can be hurtful to others. tl;dr thank you, poster above me, for having some damn sense
Seriously. 4 MPH with a maximum delivery time of 30 minutes (let's say constrained by battery lifetime) gives a 2 mile radius at most... that's just fucking ridiculous!
Are you saying rap music is just a fad that has outlived its time? Man, you really must be old - grumpy because of new lingo, grumpy because of new music. Must suck to be you mate.
The reason all those things (well, except vibrators... just depends what kind you're referring to) are rigid is because rigid structures solve those problems very well. No one is saying rigid robots are bad -- they'll always be around for factories and such -- but if you're looking to replicate the sort of efficient, complex behaviors you see in the natural world, compliance and flexibility are key. There's a reason evolution has tended to generate semi-rigid morphologies: they are more robust in dealing with the imperfections and dangers of the natural world.
Yes these effects are well known and relatively commonplace in the world of system dynamics.
They'd statistically be more Iikely to be correct assuming the NSA is lying.