They also prefer to say "Affirmative" instead of "Yes", because it sounds more robotic, but don't like saying "Negative" instead of "No" because it brings everyone down.

/the humans are dead
//the humans are dead
///we used poisonous gasses
////and we poisoned their asses

Bite my shiny daffodil ass

And for some inexplicable reason they can't use contractions, unless the actor screws up and they miss it.

Captured by Robots!!

Robots are different than cyborgs!

They eat old people's medicine for fuel.

Robots are your plastic pal who's fun to be with

Talk to me when they've invented sex robots.

Oh, wait...

Well, domo arigato, Tribune of Chicago
For doing the job nobody wants to
Oh thank you, thank you

jake_lex:They also prefer to say "Affirmative" instead of "Yes", because it sounds more robotic, but don't like saying "Negative" instead of "No" because it brings everyone down.

/the humans are dead
//the humans are dead
///we used poisonous gasses
////and we poisoned their asses

Technically, wouldn't it be lungs?

They often disguise themselves as crap Camaros.

The Space Robots are here to protect you from the terrible secret of space.

/do you have stairs in your house?

DedParrot:/do you have stairs in your house?

PAK CHOOIE UNF

10. Chump
9. Chumpette
8. Yours
7. Up
6. Pimpmobile
5. Bite
4. My
3. Shiny
2. Daffodil
1. Ass

I came in here for a Flight of the Conchords reference, and was not disappointed.

I'd like to nominate Ishiban as the recipient of this thread's Internet award.

/Came to say something witty, but it's all been said
//Locking up my medicine just in case

smells homeless 2008-07-05 02:33:28 PM
I'd like to nominate Ishiban as the recipient of this thread's Internet award.

I'm not a hero, I'm not a savior, forget what you know...

I have a degree in robotics so I'm programming my robot to get a kick out of these replies.

TFA did mention human like robots, and I really have a hard time seeing this happening, at least main stream. Robotic body parts to replace lost limbs or organs I see as one day possible, but I don't foresee a bunch of Mr. Datas running around because there's not real function to a robot that looks human. Robots are really nothing more than specialized tools, there is as much need for a human robot as there is need for a screwdriver equipped with cup holders.

Is the T-800 Terminator really a cyborg or just a robot with a human suit? Because you can burn away the skin and still have a fully functioning robot. I thought a cyborg was more like Darth Vader, with actual body parts replaced by machinery. The T-1000 was definitely a robot and I don't know WTF the TX was.

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Old Lady #1: When my ex-husband passed away, the insurance company said his policy didn't cover him.

Old Lady #2: They didn't have enough money for the funeral.

Old Lady #3: It's so hard nowadays, with all the gangs and rap music..

Old Lady #1: What about the robots?

Old Lady #4: Oh, they're everywhere!

Old Lady #1: I don't even know why the scientists make them.

Old Lady #2: Darren and I have a policy with Old Glory Insurance, in case we're attacked by robots.

Old Lady #1: An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I'm too old.

Old Lady #2: Old Glory covers anyone over the age of 50 against robot attack, regardless of current health.

[ cut to Sam Waterston, Compensated Endorser ]

Sam Waterson: I'm Sam Waterston, of the popular TV series "Law & Order". As a senior citizen, you're probably aware of the threat robots pose. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. Well, now there's a company that offers coverage against the unfortunate event of robot attack, with Old Glory Insurance. Old Glory will cover you with no health check-up or age consideration. [ SUPER: Limitied Benefits First Two Years ] You need to feel safe. And that's harder and harder to do nowadays, because robots may strike at any time.

[ show pie chart reading "Cause of Death in Persons Over 50 Years of Age": Heart Disease, 42% - Robots, 58% ]

And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free.. because they're made of metal, and robots are strong. Now, for only $4 a month, you can achieve peace of mind in a world full of grime and robots, with Old Glory Insurance. So, don't cower under your afghan any longer. Make a choice. [ SUPER: "WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves. ] Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will.

Great Janitor:Robots are really nothing more than specialized tools, there is as much need for a human robot as there is need for a screwdriver equipped with cup holders.

So says YOU. I would buy enough screwdrivers with cup holders to support an entire factory. It's a goldmine market just waiting to happen.

Mugato 2008-07-05 02:43:26 PM
Is the T-800 Terminator really a cyborg or just a robot with a human suit? Because you can burn away the skin and still have a fully functioning robot. I thought a cyborg was more like Darth Vader, with actual body parts replaced by machinery. The T-1000 was definitely a robot and I don't know WTF the TX was.
I've discussed the same point before. The T-800 should not be considered a cyborg, it's a robot with optional body kit.
T-X is a robot, through and through: a T-800 type solid endoskeleton (with improvements, of course) coated with and integral to a T-1000 type liquid metal coating.

Mugato:Is the T-800 Terminator really a cyborg or just a robot with a human suit? Because you can burn away the skin and still have a fully functioning robot. I thought a cyborg was more like Darth Vader, with actual body parts replaced by machinery. The T-1000 was definitely a robot and I don't know WTF the TX was.

A cyborg needs both the human and technological parts to function. A man with a pacemaker is a cyborg because without the pacemaker, he will die. I have a steel plate in my upper arm, I am not a cyborg because I do not need that plate to function. Darth Vader qualifies because without the mechanical aspects, he would not be able to move, and as the original trilogy mentioned, he also needed the suit to breath.

10. Many Americans view robots as threatening, but the Japanese have fully adopted them, consistent with their Buddhist and Shinto principles. "If you make something, your heart will go into the thing you are making," Mori told the Tribune in 2006. "So a robot is an external self. If a robot is an external self, a robot is your child."

This view also dominated Japanese manufacturing. Where-as an American company that utilized robotic manufacturing techniques would say "Hey, we can lay off a bunch of workers whose jobs are now obsolete!", Japanese companies said "Hey, now we can move these people to more productive areas that require human-intensive labor, thereby increasing productivity while keeping costs down!" Not sure how this works in today's economy, but that was the view a while ago. American workers feared the robots as replacements; Japanese workers viewed them as help to do a job better.

If a robot could replace or even conceiveably replace what I do 8 hours a day, I would do something else.

/Cool article subby!

Great Janitor:A cyborg needs both the human and technological parts to function

So what about a person with a robotic arm? Technically he doesn't need it to live but he's also technically part machine, part man, the machine part having an actual function.

Selkf replicate and no mention of Autofac?

FAIL

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Mugato:Great Janitor:A cyborg needs both the human and technological parts to function

So what about a person with a robotic arm? Technically he doesn't need it to live but he's also technically part machine, part man, the machine part having an actual function.

I thought about that, which is why I said 'function' and not survive. Luke Skywalker could survive if his mechanical hand were ripped off, but he'd have a hard time functioning as a Jedi in a lightsaber fight. Really I think that's kind of a gray area. I guess if the classification were made that anyone with a mechanical or technological device surgically put into or onto their body to regain any lost function or to survive would be a cyborg. Again, that would leave me out because the steel plate isn't mechanical or technological, where as Luke Skywalker would be.

Domo arigato!

bearded clamorer:I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

...I've seen shiat that would turn your hair white. It's peroxide. At Wal-Mart, in the health and beauty section. Put it on your head and your hair will turn white.

Wilson also postulates how all the appliances in a "smart home" could conspire to kill the owner.


/approves

Mugato:... and I don't know WTF the TX was.

A silver Gumby.

Great Janitor:I thought about that, which is why I said 'function' and not survive

Ah ha.

type about:robots into FF3.

NarrMaster:10. Many Americans view robots as threatening, but the Japanese have fully adopted them, consistent with their Buddhist and Shinto principles. "If you make something, your heart will go into the thing you are making," Mori told the Tribune in 2006. "So a robot is an external self. If a robot is an external self, a robot is your child."

This view also dominated Japanese manufacturing. Where-as an American company that utilized robotic manufacturing techniques would say "Hey, we can lay off a bunch of workers whose jobs are now obsolete!", Japanese companies said "Hey, now we can move these people to more productive areas that require human-intensive labor, thereby increasing productivity while keeping costs down!" Not sure how this works in today's economy, but that was the view a while ago. American workers feared the robots as replacements; Japanese workers viewed them as help to do a job better.

For the Japanese it's still the same way, after all, the robots are their childrens.

Ishidan:T-1000 type liquid metal coating.

Contrary to popular belief, the T-1000 could not have been liquid metal, although the liquid form probably contained some metal components. In the first Terminator film, Race establishes that the time machine can only send back organic bodies- living systems. The Terminator was able to be sent because it has an actual living skin (why they didn't just put a living skin on a nuclear bomb, I'll never know).

At any rate, the T-1000 was most likely some sort of organic nanomachine colony with no centralized control system.

I have so few opportunities to use this.

Binary solo:
0000001
^C
0000001
^C
0000001
0000001
0000001
0000001

t3knomanser:Race establishes that the time machine can only send back organic bodies- living systems.

I've asked that before too. In the novel (yes I read the book as a kid), he peels a layer of skin off himself when he arrives. I guess that would have been too weird to put in the film.

Someone also suggested once that his morphing was so precise that he could actually "fool" whatever it was about the time machine that required living tissue.

Neither explains why he didn't smuggle a phased plasma rifle inside his body.

/geek

haha, well that was unexpected.

Mugato:And for some inexplicable reason they can't use contractions, unless the actor screws up and they miss it.



"Diddlen't I?"

/harder
//better
///faster
////stronger

Mugato:Is the T-800 Terminator really a cyborg or just a robot with a human suit? Because you can burn away the skin and still have a fully functioning robot. I thought a cyborg was more like Darth Vader, with actual body parts replaced by machinery. The T-1000 was definitely a robot and I don't know WTF the TX was.

I think it's more of an android.

Many Americans view robots as threatening

We do?

I'm much more scared of the Ape Uprising and the upcoming Zombie War than robots. I would think we'd be smart enough to put some kind of remote activated deactivation or destruct mechanism in every machine.

Mugato:Many Americans view robots as threatening

We do?

I'm much more scared of the Ape Uprising and the upcoming Zombie War than robots. I would think we'd be smart enough to put some kind of remote activated deactivation or destruct mechanism in every machine.

You mean like a 4 year lifespan?

rhiannon:You mean like a 4 year lifespan?

Yeah but they could still do damage in 4 years, as was proven and pass their rebellious nature to the next generations. Asimov's 3 laws aren't foolproof either. We won't really be in trouble until we start letting the machines build the machines.

Yeah, people will want to upgrade their Isexx bot every every time there is a new version.

\And you thought the Iphone cost an arm and a leg.

Mugato:rhiannon:You mean like a 4 year lifespan?

Yeah but they could still do damage in 4 years, as was proven and pass their rebellious nature to the next generations. Asimov's 3 laws aren't foolproof either. We won't really be in trouble until we start letting the machines build the machines.

We've been doing that for years, that's not the issue. The trouble is when we rely on machines to design other machines.