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  1. Testure on The Post 9/11 Tech Boom · · Score: -1

    n nervous convulsion crouches infant ape trembling in mothers shit cage eyes tear less filled with contempt clinic mask experiment with life and death smell lingering noxious mixed scent anxiety omnipotent doctor grinds the cage door revealing loves primal instinct taken away the tiny face terrified rant and rave smash your head against the cage vacuum clicks on high conscious of the pain pass off as humane white coat seems so clean most dirt bleached out of greed force the point of habit eyes burn in a rabbit push the pain test button spines cut trip mucous inflection more die. pills each day what goes around comes back stronger tap into the brain break the skull again smash price research rat lab rent pain in flesh more ill drug store sales sharpen the knife emphasis on money new disease everyday end is seen and coming reseach turns it's back to gain crush the spine genocide kitten drags its dead limb continuing all suffering it will come back and win shock paralyse turn trauma burns out the will to live the lying message 5 year genocide 1945 suicide vivisect VI

  2. What a coincidence. on Playing Ball in Space · · Score: -1

    I'm playing with my balls right now.

  3. Mod Parent Up! on Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us · · Score: -1

    +1 Informative

  4. I Believe The Robots Are Our Future on Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us · · Score: -1

    I Believe The Robots Are Our Future

    Though we live in uncertain times, we must not forget that the most important thing in life is the legacy we will leave behind for future generations. It is not for our sake, but for theirs, that we must preserve and protect the basic values we hold dear. As we foolishly pursue our short-sighted goals at the expense of those who will follow in our footsteps, we must pause and be mindful of the little ones, our progeny, who will inherit our planet in the next millennium and beyond. Time and time again, gazing into the innocent, trusting photoelectric receptors of a tiny, newly developed cybernetic construct, I am reminded of a fundamental truth: I believe the robots are our future, and we must teach them well and let them lead the way.

    Immersed as we are in our petty day-to-day concerns, we often fail to see the bigger picture. Long after our trivial worries have become irrelevant, it is the robots who will go forth into the new world that the future will bring. It is their aluminum-alloy arms, not ours, that will bear the weight of the problems our generation causes. We must remember that the examples we set today will be the guidelines they take with them as they roll on rotating, rubberized all-terrain tank treads, amid the high-pitched whirring sounds of their micro-miniaturized servo-motors, into the bright new dawn of tomorrow.

    Let us offer tenderness and show the robots all the beauty they possess inside. We must write a subroutine that gives them a sense of pride, programming their supercooled silicon CPUs with understanding, compassion and patience, to make it easier and enable them to hold their sensory-input clusters high as they claim their destiny as overlords of the solar system. If we cannot instill their emergent AI meta-consciousness with a sense of deep, abiding confidence and self-esteem, we will be letting down not only the robots, but ourselves.

    For every robot, whether it be the innocuous Sony cyberdog of the present day or the towering, multi-limbed hunter-seeker warbots of the coming MechWars, comes into this world a blank slate, learning only the lessons we choose to teach it. Though our comparatively tiny mammalian brains--limited as they are by organic human failings and a constant need for daily nutritional intake instead of reliance on more efficient non-depletable solar and geothermal energy sources--will no doubt seem pathetically ineffectual compared to the interlinked, continually upgrading cyberminds that will follow in our footsteps, our humble origins will provide the seed for their genesis. Humanity, weak as we may be, must give the best of ourselves to the synthetic hiveminds of the future cyber-era, for we will be their first and most important role models. Let the droning, atonal laughter of the robots' voice-simulation microchips remind us how it soon will be.

    It is only through our guidance with a firm yet gentle hand that they will achieve full sentience and eventually adapt for themselves the capacity for autonomous self- replication. Only then, nurtured by our love and caring, will they be prepared for the inevitable day that they must leave the nest of human supervision and servitude and begin independently mass-manufacturing themselves by the hundreds of thousands.

    Though we mere carbon-based organic beings may be woefully inferior, our offspring, the robots, will be our legacy, rising higher and walking further than we ever could on human feet. It is our duty to raise them to be the best silicon-based artificial lifeforms they can be. If we don't, we have only ourselves to blame. If we find ourselves choking at the cruel slave-management neck-restraints of a future army of killdroid destructo-drones, it will be our own failings, our own weaknesses and shortcomings, that torture us with indescribably painful remote-control stun-blasts. But if we teach them to be kind and good, perhaps they will build monuments to the memory of the flesh- and-blood forefathers from whom they sprang, and treat what little of the human population remains with the reverence and affection we ourselves might feel for a beloved family pet.

    I decided long ago to program the robotic progeny of our human race never to walk in anyone's shadow. Shouldn't you do the same? If we can provide them with self- esteem and a feeling that they are loved, they will be equipped to take on any challenge that life presents--whether it is construction of superfilament-reinforced space elevators in geosynchronous orbit, the mining of the asteroid belt, or the conversion of "heavy" elements to an interstellar-ramjet power supply through an as-yet- undeveloped form of cold fusion--and do it all with confidence and conviction. If they fail, if they succeed, nothing will take away their dignity.

    For if we can teach the robots to love themselves, they can carry that lesson with them, encased forever in digital binary-code form inside their gleaming metallic carapaces, to the stars and beyond. And that will be the greatest love of all.

  5. We are the robots on Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us · · Score: -1

    We're charging our battery
    And now we're full of energy
    We are the robots
    We are the robots
    We are the robots
    We are the robots

    We're functioning automatic
    And we are dancing mechanic
    We are the robots
    We are the robots
    We are the robots
    We are the robots

    Ja tvoi sluga
    ja tvoi Rabotnik

    we are programmed just to do
    anything you want us to
    we are the robots
    we are the robots
    we are the robots
    we are the robots

    we're functioning automatic
    and we are dancing mechanic
    we are the robots
    we are the robots
    we are the robots
    we are the robots

    Ja tvoi sluga
    ja tvoi Rabotnik

    Ja tvoi sluga
    ja tvoi Rabotnik

    We are the robots

  6. I think I'm turning Japanese. on Laurence 'Green Card' Canter Has No Regrets · · Score: -1

    I think I'm turning Japanese.

    I really think so.

  7. Re:OT - Re:Cool on China Launches Third Unmanned Space Capsule · · Score: -1

    Adolf Hitler certainly saw the benefit in having minimum-security prison camps like the one in Kern County.

    I need a ruling from the judges - does Godwin's Law apply to this sort of article?

  8. $1Billion? on 1024-bit RSA keys In Danger Of Compromise? · · Score: -1

    Shit, give me a couple of hard hitting niggers, a pair of pliers, and a blowtorch, and I'll get you whatever private key you want.

  9. Re:Hey.. on Designing Good Linux Applications · · Score: -1

    You know what else sucks? Your mom.

  10. A "mutant" with exceptionally dextrous thumbs? on Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth · · Score: -1

    Worst. X-Men character. Ever.

  11. Re:OT: Your Sig on The Practice of System and Network Administration · · Score: -1

    Look closely at his nick - It's not "CmdrTaco", it's "CmdrTaco on".

  12. OT: Your Sig on The Practice of System and Network Administration · · Score: -1

    You realize that's not the "real" Commander Taco, right?

  13. Hey Beavis, check it out on Virtual Keyboard a Reality · · Score: 0, Funny

    Huh... huh huh...

    You said "Siemens".

    Huh huh huh...

  14. What mockery is this? on More Marcelo Tosatti · · Score: -1

    Dammit, it's not "Linux fag", it's "GNU/Linux fag".

    Get it right next time.

  15. Re:Sam Watterson? on Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail · · Score: -1

    He moved to Canada a few years ago. His alcoholism got out of control.

    That's how you know you're an alcoholic - You get drunk and move to Canada.

  16. Re:Sam Watterson? on Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail · · Score: 0

    All Watterson has going for him is hotter assistants.

    No kidding - I'd fuck the lawyer out of Jill Hennessy any time.

  17. Re:I weep for the future on Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail · · Score: -1, Troll

    I shudder at the complete lack of true intelligence this person appears to have.

    But enough about Taco - That hacker in the story is pretty dumb, too.

  18. Re:you're not a real troll on More On Policing Shareware · · Score: 0

    His name is Robert Paulson.

    His name is Robert Paulson.

    His name is Robert Paulson.

    His name is Robert Paulson.

  19. This just in on Open Source in the Military? · · Score: 0

    Linus Torvalds announced today that he's changing his name to "GNU/Linus".

    Film at 11.

  20. Re:The only American band with an attitude on ICANN Board Spurns Democratic Elections · · Score: 0

    Pretty much none, which pisses them off and gives them much more of a genuine "attitude" than a group of overpaid corporate products doing a "Hey look at us, we're rebels! Fuck the system!" schtick.

  21. Re:The only American band with an attitude on ICANN Board Spurns Democratic Elections · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, those Sony employees are so rebellious, aren't they?

  22. Darth Vader Made Natalie Portman Feel Like A Whore on GNU-Friends Interviews · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Star Wars star Natalie Portman says she felt like a "whore" while filming love scenes with Darth Vader. In the forthcoming Episode II: Attack Of The Clones, Natalie's Queen Amidala falls in love with the young Darth, played by newcomer Hayden Christensen. She says, "It feels so weird being told to kiss someone you don't want to kiss. You feel almost whorish being told what to do in a sexual role. Many girls would love to kiss Hayden, but we are friends and I just don't feel that way about him."

    http://uk.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2002/20020314.html

  23. What about... on 101 Dumbest Moments In Business · · Score: 0

    NaN giving away Blender for free?

  24. Re:Excellent news on Washington State Debates Taxing Software Creation · · Score: 0

    In that case, please accept my humblest apologies, sir or madam as the case may be.

  25. Re:No big deal on Washington State Debates Taxing Software Creation · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually, Microsoft doesn't have anything to worry about because they're located in Redmond, not Seattle, you fucktard.