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  1. Re:There have never been more than about 7 ideas on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    V'ger was a verbatim ripoff of The Changeling from TOS.

  2. Re:There have never been more than about 7 ideas on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is what one my language teachers told the class. Even Shakespeare was ripping off greek plays.

  3. I've never understood the hate for two and three. I liked them - and don't like most movies

  4. However much crap they produce, the throngs of people willing to throw billions of dollars at them in exchange for two hours of escapism will save them.

  5. Re: What's the point of this submission? on If American Robots Had Their Own Economy, It'd Be Bigger Than Switzerland (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks to the US economy, I retired in my thirties.

  6. Re:What's the point of this submission? on If American Robots Had Their Own Economy, It'd Be Bigger Than Switzerland (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Switzerland is smaller than US cities in terms of population.

    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+swizerland%2FNYC

  7. No they don't.

  8. Hey! I'm a real physicist writing from my own cozy house. I just sit back and eat popcorn through most of these things....

  9. Re:Tried it before on Germany Plans To Fine Social Media Sites Over Hate Speech (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Homeland security is mostly a combination of 190 departments (like national guard, coast guard, border patrol, immigration, fema, etc) that already existed. Do you mean to split back into those organizations or eliminate them completely?

  10. Re:Why so much hypocrisy from leftists? on Germany Plans To Fine Social Media Sites Over Hate Speech (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners.

    -- George Carlin

  11. Re:Hate speech is? on Germany Plans To Fine Social Media Sites Over Hate Speech (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds lie medical speech

  12. I love you guys and your opinions are correct on Germany Plans To Fine Social Media Sites Over Hate Speech (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    just saying

  13. 57 channels and nothing on came out in the 80's on 82% of Kids in 'Netflix Only' Homes Have No Idea What Commercials Are (exstreamist.com) · · Score: 1
  14. It always has been.

  15. It's bad enought that marketing has taken over on Alphabet's Jigsaw Wants To Explain Tech Jargon To You, Launches Sideways Dictionary (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    technical language to the point where technical people now have a hard time understanding their own work. Now corporations can get on the game too and commercialize the language.

  16. Re:"Should not". But did. on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, thanks...I know that. Poor choice of words

  17. Re:I,Robot on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure it was. Unfortunately it could only understand a few dozen primitive opcodes.

  18. Re:Where are your three laws now? on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Every autonomous system is now considered an AI. Operating systems are even AIs.

  19. Re:Come on, not that "Terminator" BS again... on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    thinking there's was a huge robot under the floor controlling the two arm)

    From what I've read on slashdot and other sites, most other people are not any better. /another robot engineer

  20. Re:"Should not". But did. on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't a cell something that is an atomic work area and a robot is not expected to exceed?

  21. Re:Impractical Answer on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A single car also has the potential to kill hundreds of people (cause a massive wreck on a busy freeway).

  22. Re:Auto drive cars need a avionics software level on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No they don't.
    source: Slashdot

  23. Re:Terrible on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but not against the robot manufacturer unless it was faulty.

  24. Re: Lock-Out Tag-Out on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    My second favorite Bloom County .