#101 2014-02-04 19:51:46
#102 2014-02-04 21:50:05
Emmeran wrote:
They're here...
(and 2 million workers lose jobs of last resort)
Come on, we know that never works, we've all seen the movies...
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#103 2014-02-07 14:43:22
Autopilot's complexity makes it behave more like a skilled yet uncommunicative colleague than a subserviant system
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#104 2014-02-25 07:05:00
...annnnd game over.
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#105 2014-02-25 17:54:57
Emmeran wrote:
...annnnd game over.
//www.youtube.com/embed/qncyuC0sKZY?list=PLCfv7VcGJBzxrgGlfQzZ5eC6MPN3HfGM2"
Mission Success: Words synonymous with General Atomic's CGI animations.
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#106 2014-02-25 19:53:41
Who the fuck is General Atomic and where did they come from?
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#107 2014-02-25 19:58:46
Emmeran wrote:
Who the fuck is General Atomic and where did they come from?
Let me answer my own question, General Atomics is a privately held company that makes our drones - funny thing that.
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#108 2014-02-25 21:54:48
Emmeran wrote:
Who the fuck is General Atomic and where did they come from?
Ah GA, formerly the nuclear energy division of General Dynamics, our builder of nuclear subs and creator of the ICBM.
They came from the twisted minds of the very men Eisenhower warned you about when he voiced the dangers of allowing a permanent Military/ Industrial complex to run the world.
Calved off in the '60s and sold to Gulf/Chevron. The perfect marriage of big oil and military contractors. When the bottom fell out during the Reagan years for nuclear fueled power systems, Chevron sold it all to a private individual for bargain basement pricing of $60m. Owned by the Blue brothers ever since. He created an aeronautical division to score the CIA contract for the Israeli developed Predator.
The Bush wars resulted in a buying spree that made them huge. I would guess they have got to be the largest private contractor owned by 2 individuals.
An interesting anecdote is that by 2011 all the Predators and their siblings had accumulated 1 million flight hours over 16 years. In the next two years, 2011 -2013, they accumulated the next 1 million flight hours.
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#109 2014-02-25 23:37:11
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Chevron sold it all to a private individual for bargain basement pricing of $60m. Owned by the Blue brothers ever since.
On a mission from god, are they?
Not that it matters but their sales skills suck.
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#110 2014-02-26 10:58:57
Iranian school teacher builds robot to teach children prayers
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#112 2014-03-08 17:21:53
Jesus, don't people have any other ideas to use these technologies for? Next G8 conference, expect these little bastards to be confronting the demonstrators.
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#113 2014-03-10 03:29:08
Emmeran wrote:
Still delivering.
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#114 2014-03-17 12:06:48
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#115 2014-03-24 00:22:18
I suggest you full screen this to see what's going on. It has facial detection to follow people around.
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#121 2014-05-06 15:33:23
choad wrote:
Let me go ask that chick over there with the vibrator.
Oh, never mind.
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#122 2014-05-06 23:55:49
choad wrote:
I'll propose the Modified Turing Test. Could you tell the difference between a robot operating it's "appendages" independently and a servo mechanism controlled by a remote human?
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#123 2014-05-12 08:51:58
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#124 2014-05-12 11:51:27
Looks like they would have been better off inventing an automatic mower and edger.
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#125 2014-05-14 18:52:08
Soon the day will come when one of these mechanical marvels will have to decide whether you live or die. It will likely be an autonomous car that gets you.
We can not live under the veil of "inappropriate discrimination" forever.
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#127 2014-06-08 18:11:07
nfidelbastard wrote:
So they taught a computer to sleep until noon, not do it's chores (why didn't you run the batch jobs we scheduled? Oh, I forgot) or clean it's room. Responses like: uh-huh, why are you so mean to me and can I just finish this round of Call of Duty.
I'm not sure I see that as a major accomplishment.
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#128 2014-06-08 20:09:22
Emmeran wrote:
So they taught a computer to sleep until noon, not do it's chores (why didn't you run the batch jobs we scheduled? Oh, I forgot) or clean it's room. Responses like: uh-huh, why are you so mean to me and can I just finish this round of Call of Duty.
I'm not sure I see that as a major accomplishment.
Sure it is. When was the last time you only wished you could pull the plug on your kids? When they woke you this morning?
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#129 2014-06-09 19:26:23
☞stroke gently☞
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#130 2014-10-30 11:25:07
#131 2014-10-30 18:25:12
Chili's has a box on their tables that have practically eliminated wait staff. You still need somebody to deliver the food from the kitchen or get you extra napkins but you can do everything else through the box.
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#132 2014-10-30 19:03:27
Baywolfe wrote:
Chili's has a box on their tables that have practically eliminated wait staff. You still need somebody to deliver the food from the kitchen or get you extra napkins but you can do everything else through the box.
Slowly the un-enlightened shall consume themselves.
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#133 2014-10-31 20:49:52
#134 2014-10-31 23:04:16
and that his boss, Barry Novack, picked on him
Why is everybody always picking on me?
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#139 2014-11-07 14:40:31
Boots up in default mode
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#145 2015-03-12 22:51:19
We knew this day would come:
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