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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 10/30/2007 : 16:20:53
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US State Department Awards New Security Contract
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MICN) -- War robotics is in its crude infancy. Recently a robot gun being tested in South Africa went berserk and killed 9 soldiers, injuring another 11. At best, robotic fighting machines will indiscriminately return fire in the general direction of any incoming fire.
Oerlikon Crowd Controller.
These robotic systems, crude as they are, can cost tens of millions of dollars.
Talon Traffic Director.
All this, of course, proves that robots are much more intelligent, safer, cheaper, and more reliable than the Blackwater mercenaries who have been guarding State Department employees in the past.
iRobot-John Deere "Rumble Roomba."
With this in mind, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced the rewarding of three multi-million dollar contracts to manufacturers of war robots which will be used as bodyguards for State Department employees in Iraq.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/31/2007 00:10:39
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
 Posted - 10/31/2007 : 09:09:20 [Permalink]
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Slam Dunk!
I was hoping for a good spin on the berserk gun, and here it came. And I'm not disappointed!
Standing ovations!
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 10/31/2007 : 10:42:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Slam Dunk!
I was hoping for a good spin on the berserk gun, and here it came. And I'm not disappointed!
Standing ovations!
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I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
Infinitus est numerus stultorum |
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State Dept to ditch Blackwater for bots
