Why the US Consumer Doesn't Deserve A Decent Robot 311
SkinnyGuy writes "PC Magazine has up a lengthy look at how differing cultural approaches and expectations for robots are setting the stage for Amercian consumers to miss out on the best robots have to offer. The first paragraph is kind of funny:
'Someday the robots will rise up and kill us all. They'll record our lives, obliterate our privacy, set off nuclear war, and eventually turn on us and eat our brains. If any of this ever did happen, it would serve us right. We, at least American consumers, don't deserve the future that robots really have to offer.'"
Re:Sounds like.... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't ask, it's complicated.
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so i can protect you (Score:4, Funny)
Look, they have stairs in their houses, and we have stairs in our houses. What's so hard about this?
But ..... (Score:5, Funny)
Does not compute (Score:3, Funny)
Why would a robot want to eat our brains exactly?
Unless you're talking about ZOMBIE robots, in which case I'll have to update my Zombie Plan [roosterteeth.com]
Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto (Score:4, Funny)
I, for one... (Score:1, Funny)
Real Doll (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:same story (Score:2, Funny)
I'm gonna have my own uprising! (Score:4, Funny)
In fact, forget the uprising!
Re:I, for one... (Score:2, Funny)
In soviet OW STOP IT
Imagine a beowoURK GURGLE
*thump*
Re:Sounds like.... (Score:3, Funny)
Thousands of years ago into the future Christmas was the time for the Great Red Ape in Space to descend upon the white house, painting it with decorative red and green blood of Christmas elves, moving it to the north pole and claiming that "I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military", which is absolutely correct. You cannot win christmas militarily which is why I have come from thousands of years ago into the future to kill that great red ape, santa claus and run for president. My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. Decisions like those that apply when considering the value of the social welfare of the Indonesian pierced spider monkeys, BUT at the end of the day I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'THIS is what we're going to do. We're going to sell the white house soaked in the blood of christmas elves to Glenn Danzig so I can make love to Sigourney Weaver....'
Thousands of years ago into the future...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_villains#Cybernetic_Ghost_of_Christmas_Past_from_the_Future [wikipedia.org]Bushisms
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm [about.com]synthesis is divine.
Re:same story (Score:3, Funny)
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I resent the term "robot" (Score:2, Funny)
Minimum requirements (Score:2, Funny)
Bender's Big Score (Score:2, Funny)