1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:41:09pm

The collider is making some crazy stuff happen...

ROBOTS ARE FOLDING TOWELS!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

2 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:42:14pm

In Soviet Russia robot towels fold you!

:)

3 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:43:02pm

OT: Has this story made the rounds yet?

Is it transparency, or socialism? You decide.

4 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:43:24pm

Another robot folding the towels Americans wont fold.

5 Obdicut  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:43:44pm

Finally! I've been waiting for this technology forever.

Now will they hurry up with the cybernetic implant that allows you to shop on QVC and trasmute your purchasing records into sonatas?

/

Seriously, this is a wicked cool AI/robotics achievement.

6 reloadingisnotahobby  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:43:59pm

Big deal!!
I'm still faster at it!//
LOL
Let's see it do that with a fitted bottom sheet!!!
Ah...Gotcha!!

7 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:45:09pm

When I can get an Anne Hathaway sex robot at Wal-Mart, I'll really start paying attention.

8 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:46:21pm

re: #7 Cato the Elder

When I can get an Anne Hathaway sex robot at Wal-Mart, I'll really start paying attention.

They've got a Jane Hathaway. How's that?

9 Gus  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:46:45pm

I like the way it checks the towel out first before folding it and then when it's finished folding and scoots away to grab another one.

10 Gus  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:48:26pm

re: #3 Slumbering Behemoth

OT: Has this story made the rounds yet?

Is it transparency, or socialism? You decide.

April fools!

11 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:48:37pm

I'm wondering if it was programmed to sort by size, or number of folds.

12 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:49:19pm

LOL
Now that was one ate up video!

13 Stanghazi  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:50:15pm

Rosie!

14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:50:18pm

re: #8 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Glad someone got that.

15 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:50:25pm

re: #10 Gus 802

So it has made the rounds already. Probably why I haven't found any outrageous outrage over it on the interwebs yet.

16 albusteve  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:50:37pm

not as hot as my laundry girls, I'll tell you that....maybe a better folder but who cares

17 ShaunP  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:50:50pm

Step 1: Fold towels
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: Welcome our robot overlords!

18 Gus  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:51:17pm

re: #15 Slumbering Behemoth

So it has made the rounds already. Probably why I haven't found any outrageous outrage over it on the interwebs yet.

I haven't checked Free Republic yet.

/

19 reloadingisnotahobby  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:51:50pm

re: #17 ShaunP
Yes!
But our clothes will look Maaavilous!!

20 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:52:18pm

So, those union thug women who fold towels and make up beds at cheapo motels are getting too expensive with their $8.49-per-hour salaries, and this is the answer.

Clever capitalists.

21 General Nimrod Bodfish  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:52:22pm

Sorry to go OT so early, but CNN.com is streaming the sentencing of Scott Roeder, recently convicted of killing Dr George Tiller at a Wichita church. Here's a link to an article about it:

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

And the link to the live stream: [Link: www.cnn.com...]

Hope the live stream works.

Prosecutors want to go with a "hard 50", that is, he has to serve at least 50 years before he is eligible to parole, if my understanding is correct.

Roeder is speaking right now. Gonna be nauseating.

22 reloadingisnotahobby  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:52:29pm

re: #16 albusteve

You have "hot" laundry girls?
Dude!

23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:53:52pm

Robots are cool...

24 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:54:04pm

re: #21 commadore183

Sorry to go OT so early, but CNN.com is streaming the sentencing of Scott Roeder, recently convicted of killing Dr George Tiller at a Wichita church. Here's a link to an article about it:

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

And the link to the live stream: [Link: www.cnn.com...]

Hope the live stream works.

Prosecutors want to go with a "hard 50", that is, he has to serve at least 50 years before he is eligible to parole, if my understanding is correct.

Roeder is speaking right now. Gonna be nauseating.

I think I'll skip that and read the summary.

25 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:54:37pm

Drug Cartels launch coordinated offensive against 2 Mexican Army bases; at least 18 dead

Gunmen staged seven separate attacks on the army, including three blockades, Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said Wednesday. He called the attacks "desperate reactions by criminal gangs to the progress being made by federal authorities" against Mexico's drug cartels.

Villegas said gunmen parked trucks and SUVs outside a military base in the border city of Reynosa trying to block troops from leaving, sparking a gunbattle with soldiers. At the same time, gunmen blocked several streets leading to a garrison in the nearby border city of Matamoros.

Another gang of armed men opened fire from several vehicles on soldiers guarding a federal highway in General Bravo, in Nuevo Leon state.

Troops fought back, killing 18 gunmen, wounding two and detaining seven more suspects. One soldier suffered slight injuries.

26 Coachrichard  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:54:52pm

I need the robot to find out why I have only 1 sock

In so many different colors

27 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:55:02pm

re: #18 Gus 802

I have put the entire interwebs on the "24 hour rule" for today, and will take even greater precautions, more than usual, when clicking links.

The internet can be a cruel place, particularly on this date.

28 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:55:34pm

re: #26 Coachrichard

I need the robot to find out why I have only 1 sock

In so many different colors

Just go by thickness, coach.

29 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:55:49pm

re: #23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Robots are cool...

Eh, servitors are cheaper in the long run.

30 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:56:45pm

re: #26 Coachrichard

I need the robot to find out why I have only 1 sock

In so many different colors

There you are Coach! Welcome to LGF!
So what sport to you coach?

31 General Nimrod Bodfish  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:56:51pm

re: #24 Cato the Elder

Right now, Roeder's laywer, I guess that's him, is reading a written statement from Roeder. Basically, he's trying to excuse his murder by saying that Tiller had it coming. Sickening the way they try to justify their actions.

32 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:56:58pm

re: #23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Super-upding. Haven't seen/heard that one in many moons.

33 reloadingisnotahobby  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:57:11pm

re: #26 Coachrichard
Girls think that's hot!!
They'll try to "help you" if ya know what I mean!;-)

34 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:57:40pm

re: #30 HoosierHoops

There you are Coach! Welcome to LGF!
So what sport to Do you coach?

35 okonkolo  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:58:19pm

Okay, I think along with Hatriot, my other word of the year is now "teabonics" as introduced on this Flickr page: Pargon teabonics

I saw it linked on Sullivan's Daily Dish.

36 cliffster  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:59:20pm

Isaac Asimov nods approvingly from the great beyond

37 Coachrichard  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 1:59:31pm

re: #28 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I prefer the term 'girthy' but thanks for the kind words...

38 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:00:01pm

re: #37 Coachrichard

I prefer the term 'girthy' but thanks for the kind words...

Festively plump

39 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:00:25pm

A truly modern robot will have a built-in sock replicator: just insert one lone sock and it will automatically produce a match.

40 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:01:07pm

re: #39 ralphieboy

A truly modern robot will have a built-in sock replicator: just insert one lone sock and it will automatically produce a match.

Okay, now read that in Marvin the Martian's voice...

41 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:02:16pm

See y'all later. Time to make the worky!

42 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:03:09pm

re: #35 okonkolo

Okay, I think along with Hatriot, my other word of the year is now "teabonics" as introduced on this Flickr page: Pargon teabonics

I saw it linked on Sullivan's Daily Dish.

Someone posted a hilarious spoof here the other day about how the Church of $cientology is merging with the Teabag Nation to form the Church of $cienteaology Nation. Only $2,000 per your first ten introductory lessons! And the priests are not celebate, so if you get a hot instructor, you can bone him or her for only a small extra fee.

43 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:04:09pm

Heh. I just fired up Tweetdeck to check out Twitter for the first time all week, and the wingnut blahgs are all acting like a high school clique, flinging poo at me for that stupid dishonest post by "Weasel Zippers." They're really living on another planet these days.

44 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:04:11pm

re: #42 Cato the Elder

ΠΙΜΦ: "celibate".

They're not cerebral either, so idiots need not be intimidated.

45 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:05:05pm

re: #43 Charles

Heh. I just fired up Tweetdeck to check out Twitter for the first time all week, and the wingnut blahgs are all acting like a high school clique, flinging poo at me for that stupid dishonest post by "Weasel Zippers." They're really living on another planet these days.

Was the Zippers site named in honor of our very own Iceferret?

46 Coachrichard  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:05:22pm

re: #34 HoosierHoops

I'm a Life-Coach Hoops...

Seriously tho, in my younger days I worked at a camp for under-privileged kids coaching a variety of sports and other activities.

Now, in my dotage, I am content 'coaching' college football in an online game.

47 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:07:05pm

It's kinda cute watching it study the towels and figure it out.

48 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:07:10pm

re: #45 Cato the Elder

Was the Zippers site named in honor of our very own Iceferret?

No, it's actually one of our rotating sayings, has been since the beginning. "Weasel Zippers" took his name from LGF. It's kind of a classic "I hate you Daddy!" reaction.

49 okonkolo  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:07:53pm

re: #23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

yeah, but THESE robots are cooler. Sony Robots & Beck

(sorry about linking to some person's myspace page, but UMG took the content down from YouTube and most other places)

50 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:08:46pm

re: #43 Charles

Heh. I just fired up Tweetdeck to check out Twitter for the first time all week, and the wingnut blahgs are all acting like a high school clique, flinging poo at me for that stupid dishonest post by "Weasel Zippers." They're really living on another planet these days.

Hell the funniest thing I read all week was Larry Johnson just wigging out over the post..You corrected it 2 minutes later.. Yet No Quarter strung the world along with his famous Whitey tape during the Primaries...
All his inside connections that had seen it.. dude still hasn't come clean.
What a bunch of Hypocrites

51 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:09:28pm

re: #43 Charles

Planet Echo Chamber, in the Confirmation Bias galaxy. NASA has observed a shockingly high occurrence of wingularities in that system lately.

re: #45 Cato the Elder

Nah, that site has been around for some time.

52 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:10:46pm

I want a robot like that.

53 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:11:00pm

re: #17 ShaunP

Step 1: Fold towels
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Welcome our robot overlords!

If they train robots to properly feed and pet cats along with emptying litterboxes we might well be on the way out...

54 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:11:35pm

re: #25 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Drug Cartels launch coordinated offensive against 2 Mexican Army bases; at least 18 dead

As a friend of mine once said, 'there are situations where all you can really do is say 'fuck' a lot'.

55 cliffster  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:13:45pm

re: #54 SanFranciscoZionist

As a friend of mine once said, 'there are situations where all you can really do is say 'fuck' a lot'.

that's an excellent saying.

56 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:14:19pm

re: #54 SanFranciscoZionist

As a friend of mine once said, 'there are situations where all you can really do is say 'fuck' a lot'.

Ignoring the whole immigration debate, the situation between the Drug cartels, the Mexican Government and what it means to the US as a whole is major issue that not enough people in the US seem to take seriously.

57 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:15:51pm

re: #52 Alouette

I want a robot like that.

I like the ones that go around and sweep the floor. If you could combine that with this, and have it sweep your floor and pick up socks, it would be perfect!

58 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:15:54pm

I like the way it twists the towels a little while it's examining them.

Why does it start a second pile? Is it sorting them by size?

59 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:16:17pm

re: #48 Charles

No, it's actually one of our rotating sayings, has been since the beginning. "Weasel Zippers" took his name from LGF. It's kind of a classic "I hate you Daddy!" reaction.

Do you really expect originality from such types?

60 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:16:46pm

re: #58 SanFranciscoZionist

Yeah, the smaller towels get their own pile.

61 shiplord kirel  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:17:21pm

Maybe the House of Saud can buy a few of these and program them to lop off the heads of heinous criminals like that Lebanese TV psychic they plan to whack tomorrow.
The unfortunate "sorcerer" is the father of five children and was arrested when he came to Saudistan for the haj.

62 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:18:57pm

The towels must be folded for the cat overlord to lie upon. Or else...

Cat Overlord Robotic Enforcement Division

63 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:20:33pm

Here is the future of this technology!

Youtube Video
64 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:21:04pm

re: #62 oaktree

The towels must be folded for the cat overlord to lie upon. Or else...

Cat Overlord Robotic Enforcement Division

Thats a dreadnought, not a robot. Get it right.

65 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:21:46pm

re: #63 LudwigVanQuixote

Here is the future of this technology!

[Video]

The future is embedding disabled by request?

66 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:22:35pm

re: #58 SanFranciscoZionist

I like the way it twists the towels a little while it's examining them.

Why does it start a second pile? Is it sorting them by size?

See how it sort of smooths them out at the end, I'm guessing that if they're stacked very high it becomes too difficult to smooth the top surface to the algorithms desired flatness.

67 The Sanity Inspector  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:22:41pm

re: #54 SanFranciscoZionist

As a friend of mine once said, 'there are situations where all you can really do is say 'fuck' a lot'.

I sure hope the Mexican government isn't in that situation...

68 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:22:43pm

re: #64 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Thats a dreadnought, not a robot. Get it right.

There was only one Dreadnought

[Link: www.history.navy.mil...]

69 okonkolo  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:22:52pm

re: #63 LudwigVanQuixote

embedding disabled on that one, but just the image of Yul Brenner was all I needed. I liked that film back in the day. i can definitely see theme parks like that in the future.

70 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:24:01pm

re: #65 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The future is embedding disabled by request?

GARRR!!! CURSE YOU YOUTUBE!

ok let's try this!

Youtube Video
71 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:24:36pm

re: #48 Charles

No, it's actually one of our rotating sayings, has been since the beginning. "Weasel Zippers" took his name from LGF. It's kind of a classic "I hate you Daddy!" reaction.

Weasels ripped their flesh!

72 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:25:11pm

re: #68 LudwigVanQuixote

There was only one Dreadnought

[Link: www.history.navy.mil...]

Negatory my good man.

Image: 40k_011.jpg

73 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:26:41pm

re: #70 LudwigVanQuixote

GARRR!!! CURSE YOU YOUTUBE!

ok let's try this!

[Video]

Need to add that to my Netflix

74 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:26:56pm

re: #61 shiplord kirel

Maybe the House of Saud can buy a few of these and program them to lop off the heads of heinous criminals like that Lebanese TV psychic they plan to whack tomorrow.
The unfortunate "sorcerer" is the father of five children and was arrested when he came to Saudistan for the haj.


"Behead those who say islam has not modernized with the times."

75 freetoken  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:27:11pm

re: #63 LudwigVanQuixote

Perhaps more are hoping (fearing?) the future will come more to this:

Youtube Video

warning: not safe for human eye consumption!

76 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:27:40pm

Ford unveils world's first disposable car


"We think Americans will embrace the concept of a disposable car," said Ford spokesman Henry Edsel. "Designing a vehicle with intentionally limited durability brings the materials and engineering costs way, way down, while the cardboard-balsa body allows us to change the styling quickly and cheaply.
77 Gus  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:28:16pm

re: #76 Slumbering Behemoth

Ford unveils world's first disposable car

lol

/Quack!

/

78 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:28:30pm

re: #76 Slumbering Behemoth

Ford unveils world's first disposable car

The "Basura"! I love it!!!

79 DaddyG  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:29:19pm

re: #39 ralphieboy

A truly modern robot will have a built-in sock replicator: just insert one lone sock and it will automatically produce a match.

My dryer does something similar. Insert two matched socks and only one comes out.

80 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:30:28pm

re: #75 freetoken

Perhaps more are hoping (fearing?) the future will come more to this:


[Video]

warning: not safe for human eye consumption!

Yeah, I have always been curious. The Japanese have been pushing android development for sometime. I am curious about the cultural imperative behind it. Don't get me wrong, robotics are cool and useful and every technological nation is in to them, but I get the distinct impression of a much deeper fascination with actually making replacement people in Japan.

Since you are the resident expert on Japan, can you comment?

81 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:31:00pm

re: #79 DaddyG

My dryer does something similar. Insert two matched socks and only one comes out.

Meanwhile in an alternate universe, the running gag is how they always end up with extra socks coming out of the dryer.

82 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:31:00pm

re: #73 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Need to add that to my Netflix

The movie will not disappoint!

83 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:31:42pm

re: #79 DaddyG

My dryer does something similar. Insert two matched socks and only one comes out.

Obviously the replicator end would have to be linked to a dryer somewhere in a basement in the Midwestern US...

84 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:31:55pm

Somali Pirates Pick the Wrong Victim

85 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:32:17pm

re: #78 SanFranciscoZionist

The "Basura"! I love it!!!

is basura some foreign word that translates to "April Fool's?"

86 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:32:38pm

re: #72 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Negatory my good man.

[Link: warhammer.hardwired.hu...]

Wow, should navy-geekdom ever get into a holy war with warhammer geekdom, nothing good can come of it...

I will note the coolness of your obsessions if you note the coolness of mine ;)

87 DaddyG  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:32:38pm

re: #81 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Meanwhile in an alternate universe, the running gag is how they always end up with extra socks coming out of the dryer.


The heat and spinning motion creates a wormhole. Its all proven in a Texas schools science book somewhere. /

88 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:32:51pm

re: #85 _RememberTonyC

is basura some foreign word that translates to "April Fool's?"

It's Spanish for 'trash'.

89 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:33:02pm

re: #82 LudwigVanQuixote

The movie will not disappoint!

Seen it years ago, just been a while.

Just got Pandorum in the mail, wanted to check it out, got "The Boys from Brazil" scheduled to come in next.

90 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:33:27pm

re: #88 SanFranciscoZionist

It's Spanish for 'trash'.

LOL!!

91 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:33:32pm

Halo Movie Series - Debut Trailer

Much more awesome than I imagined, actually.

92 JoyousMN  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:34:06pm

That is WAY cool.

93 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:34:30pm

re: #86 LudwigVanQuixote

Wow, should navy-geekdom ever get into a holy war with warhammer geekdom, nothing good can come of it...

I will note the coolness of your obsessions if you note the coolness of mine ;)

I tip my hat to you, geekness at 20 paces with the rising sun?

94 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:35:05pm

re: #89 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Seen it years ago, just been a while.

Just got Pandorum in the mail, wanted to check it out, got "The Boys from Brazil" scheduled to come in next.

Great old movies - and it is really hard to beat Gregory Peck.

While I was the smallest boy for the Seventies and the overall taste of them strikes me as the result of some sort of mass delusion, IMHO there was no better decade for movies.

95 freetoken  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:35:29pm

re: #80 LudwigVanQuixote

Well, I'm hardly an expert on Japan... but from what I gather, the driving force behind robotics in Japan is to come up with a labor force. With shrinking population, there is an emerging need for a manual labor replacement force.

The auto industry already has been highly transformed into a state where few human hands are needed to physically touch the product. One wonders if such mundane tasks as found in agriculture and construction could likewise be automated.

96 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:36:36pm

re: #80 LudwigVanQuixote

Yeah, I have always been curious. The Japanese have been pushing android development for sometime. I am curious about the cultural imperative behind it. Don't get me wrong, robotics are cool and useful and every technological nation is in to them, but I get the distinct impression of a much deeper fascination with actually making replacement people in Japan.

Since you are the resident expert on Japan, can you comment?

I'm no Japan expert, but might it have something to do with an entire generation being raised on Ghost in the Shell?

97 DaddyG  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:36:37pm

re: #91 Slumbering Behemoth Now that there is funny - I don't care who you are.

98 DaddyG  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:37:49pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

Ghost in the Shell?

Coolest sci fi anime ever! (with the possible exception of Cowboy Bebop)

99 DaddyG  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:38:37pm

I got one of those robotic bunny rabbits.

I had to get rid of it.

It kept leaving little piles of ball bearings all over the house.

100 freetoken  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:40:51pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

Well, Astroboy is almost as old as I.

The Japanese have long had a fascination with mechanization. When they transformed from the Edo period into the modern one, the Japanese undertook the industrial revolution with a passion. Indeed, some people think this went too far too fast, and undermined the local fabric of society, which allowed the militarists to take such absolute control of the nation. Without the industrialists relegating the local community into servanthood the militarists never could have forced the entire country down the disastrous path that Japan took.

101 General Nimrod Bodfish  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:41:20pm

Roeder tried to read an article from that "Operation Rescue" that called for the Wichita DA to be removed after the dismissal of the charges against Tiller, but the judge put the kibosh on that. Roeder and his laywers are chatting it over right now and their mikes are off, so what they are saying, I don't know. Roeder has read an excerpt from a book by another doctor killer, Paul Hill (?). Judge is giving Roeder a lot of leeway as far as his statements goes, but I guess anything political (such as the article from Operation Rescue on removing the DA) will be nixed.

Still no idea on when the sentence will be handed down. Options appear to be the minimum (25-50), or the maximum (50-life).

102 DaddyG  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:42:01pm

I came here today after being fed up with the infantile spewings aka comments in the local papers political blog. I finally got fed up and wrote the papers political correspondant. I told him I liked his informative blog but if they didn't get a moderator to police the thing I would stop reading. The idiots and mobys are making our entire city and state look like ign'rnt fools.

Anyway- thanks for hosting adult discussions Charles (gratuitous host suck up comment of the day).

You may now tune out my rant and return to your regularly scheudled blogging.

103 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:42:49pm

OK in honor of this thread...

Vote for the tastiest "fembots" in history...

1. Six from BSG also known as the "slutbot 9000."
2. Sharon/Athena from BSG (also known as the "I need love bot")
3. Shirly Manson from Garbage in the The World is Not Enough video.
4.The Fembots from the old Bioinic man
5. The original fembot from Metropolis (simply because she is the mother to them all)
6. The girls from Westworld? (Now that is technology serving mankind!)
7. Lady Gaga as a fembot in the bad romance video

Any other suggestions and favs?

BTW my pick would have to be the "I need love bot"

104 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:43:11pm

re: #57 LudwigVanQuixote

google "cat on roomba hits dog"

105 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:43:19pm

re: #100 freetoken

Well, Astroboy is almost as old as I.

The Japanese have long had a fascination with mechanization. When they transformed from the Edo period into the modern one, the Japanese undertook the industrial revolution with a passion. Indeed, some people think this went too far too fast, and undermined the local fabric of society, which allowed the militarists to take such absolute control of the nation. Without the industrialists relegating the local community into servanthood the militarists never could have forced the entire country down the disastrous path that Japan took.

Metropolis if you really want to go for it.

106 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:44:00pm

re: #103 LudwigVanQuixote


You completely forgot the female Pin-bot.

107 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:44:03pm

Sony reveals 'No Screen' PSP

Rather than relying upon a liquid crystal screen, the PSP iMag.iNation creates a wireless connection with the cerebral cortex of its user, projecting raw gameplay directly into the mind via telecommunicative radiation. Once an uplink has been established, users will be able to fully tailor their gaming experience using the power of thought (subject to availability).

108 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:44:07pm

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

I'm no Japan expert, but might it have something to do with an entire generation being raised on Ghost in the Shell?

The Japanese interest in creating people-like machines seems to go back some ways. I mean, if you look at bunraku puppets, they're basically a similar idea to these people-like androids, just with sixteenth-century technology, and human operators.

I have no idea if there's a real connection, but it's sort of fun to think so. And speculate on the kind of fiction that could come out of that...

109 darthstar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:44:11pm

re: #103 LudwigVanQuixote

Westworld...one of my favorite movies when I was a kid.

Oh, and let's not forget the Stepford Wives.

110 DaddyG  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:44:15pm

re: #103 LudwigVanQuixote
Do cyborgs count. If so I like 7 of 9 from the Borg.

111 Kragar  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:45:12pm

re: #98 DaddyG

Coolest sci fi anime ever! (with the possible exception of Cowboy Bebop)

One word: Akira

Youtube Video
112 MandyManners  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:46:15pm

re: #104 Dreggas

google "cat on roomba hits dog"

HAHAHAHA!


Youtube Video
113 Gus  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:46:44pm

re: #84 SanFranciscoZionist

Somali Pirates Pick the Wrong Victim

Been seeing that today. I see the bonehead pirates attacked the USS Nicholas at 12:27 AM so they probably didn't know what they were attacking. They were in a skiff. Lucky for them the captain played nice.

114 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:46:57pm

re: #61 shiplord kirel

Maybe the House of Saud can buy a few of these and program them to lop off the heads of heinous criminals like that Lebanese TV psychic they plan to whack tomorrow.
The unfortunate "sorcerer" is the father of five children and was arrested when he came to Saudistan for the haj.


I guess this means David Copperfield should think twice before agreeing to perform in riyadh. And furthermore, how the hell does saudi arabia claim jurisdiction over a Lebanese national who did something in his home country who was just visiting THEIR country for a religious pilgrimage? How f'd up is that?

115 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:47:35pm

re: #110 DaddyG

Do cyborgs count. If so I like 7 of 9 from the Borg.

I will leave that up to the larger geek community.

Do cyborgs count as fembots for the purposes of this question or does the fact that they still have human brains in mechanically enhanced bodies disqualify them?

ON a related question, does that make Pamela Anderson a cyborg?

116 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:48:48pm

re: #114 _RememberTonyC

I guess this means David Copperfield should think twice before agreeing to perform in riyadh. And furthermore, how the hell does saudi arabia claim jurisdiction over a Lebanese national who did something in his home country who was just visiting THEIR country for a religious pilgrimage? How f'd up is that?

I don't get that either. Anyone know what the Lebanese government is doing about this?

117 Obdicut  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:48:55pm

re: #95 freetoken

I just talked to a Japanese friend of mine, and she said it's 4 factors:

1. They got their ass kicked by a heavy industrial power in WWII and ever since then have wanted even more to be a heavy industrial power.

2. They have a limited workforce.

3. They have limited land, and so need to maximize efficiency.

4. Samurai ethics have no work ethic; labor is a low-class thing.

118 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:50:11pm

Hidden provisions of healthcare reform act

At 2,300 pages, including a lot of fine print, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act recently enacted into law contains some obscure provisions that you might not have heard about. Among them are the following:

* Title I, Subtitle D, Section V, Part II, Sec. 1422 recognizes drug dealers with fewer than 50 pushers on the payroll as small businesses eligible to receive tax credits for offering health insurance to their employees.
* Title II, Part III, Sec. 3028 removes the tonsorial “don’t ask, don’t tell” clause from previous Medicare rules, enabling the establishment of Medicare “hair panels” to identify poorly fitting toupees and to order their removal from life support.
* Title II, Subtitle A, Sec. 2008 excludes from healthcare subsidies anyone who has any ancestor who ever immigrated to America—legally or illegally.
* Title II, Part V, Sec. 1564 requires all physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers to use Facebook as the exclusive platform for electronic medical records and communication with patients.
* Title II, Subtitle A, Part I, Sec. 3009 requires all health-industry executives and lobbyists to wear funny hats and clown shoes when visiting Congressional offices or testifying before Congressional committees.
* Title V, Subtitle C, Sec. 4208 mandates the inclusion of “socialism anxiety” and “socialism phobia” as recognized, delusional psychiatric disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
* Title II, Subtitle D, Sec. 2305 provides funding for government sponsored sexual-health clinics. This section is known as the pubic option.
* Title IX, Subtitle A, Sec. 9018 creates a government takeover of the United States government.

119 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:50:14pm

re: #117 Obdicut

I just talked to a Japanese friend of mine, and she said it's 4 factors:

1. They got their ass kicked by a heavy industrial power in WWII and ever since then have wanted even more to be a heavy industrial power.

2. They have a limited workforce.

3. They have limited land, and so need to maximize efficiency.

4. Samurai ethics have no work ethic; labor is a low-class thing.

Well, as regards No. 4, the peasants continue to work their asses off, now in highrises rather than fields. How influential are Samurai ethics these days?

(Dunno.)

120 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:50:48pm

re: #103 LudwigVanQuixote

OK in honor of this thread...

Vote for the tastiest "fembots" in history...

1. Six from BSG also known as the "slutbot 9000."
2. Sharon/Athena from BSG (also known as the "I need love bot")
3. Shirly Manson from Garbage in the The World is Not Enough video.
4.The Fembots from the old Bioinic man
5. The original fembot from Metropolis (simply because she is the mother to them all)
6. The girls from Westworld? (Now that is technology serving mankind!)
7. Lady Gaga as a fembot in the bad romance video

Any other suggestions and favs?

BTW my pick would have to be the "I need love bot"

My personal fave is the Queen of the Borg(mocrazy), also known as Speranza.

121 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:51:30pm

re: #116 SanFranciscoZionist

I don't get that either. Anyone know what the Lebanese government is doing about this?


based on the cnn stories i looked at, it appears the answer is nothing

122 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:51:35pm

re: #120 Cato the Elder

My personal fave is the Queen of the Borg(mocrazy), also known as Speranza.

Wait Speranza is a girl? Really?

123 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:52:29pm

re: #121 _RememberTonyC

based on the cnn stories i looked at, it appears the answer is nothing

I don't know what they could possibly do, but HELL...

124 Obdicut  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:52:30pm

re: #119 SanFranciscoZionist

Oh, I just meant that we have a 'protestant work ethic' holdover, where labor is a good thing in its own right.

In Japan, the work ethic comes from loyalty to the employer, and is not dependent on the actual work part.

They don't have a tradition of workers being prized as workers by the ruling classes. The rise of the middle class helped that, but the middle class were largely merchants, landlords, and the like, not master craftsmen, even if employers of master craftsmen.

125 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:52:56pm

re: #124 Obdicut

Oh, I just meant that we have a 'protestant work ethic' holdover, where labor is a good thing in its own right.

In Japan, the work ethic comes from loyalty to the employer, and is not dependent on the actual work part.

They don't have a tradition of workers being prized as workers by the ruling classes. The rise of the middle class helped that, but the middle class were largely merchants, landlords, and the like, not master craftsmen, even if employers of master craftsmen.

Makes sense.

126 reine.de.tout  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:53:03pm

re: #120 Cato the Elder

My personal fave is the Queen of the Borg(mocrazy), also known as Speranza.

Oh, puh-leeze, don't use "queen of" and "speranza" in the same sentence, heck - not even in the same comment box! Please.
:-)

127 freetoken  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:53:10pm

Speaking of high-tech... this Saturday the iPad becomes material in the hands of eager buyers.

Early reviews are mostly ravingly positive.

Jobs even got himself on the cover of Time with some featured articles.

[Link: abcnews.go.com...]

128 Cato the Elder  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:53:18pm

re: #122 LudwigVanQuixote

Wait Speranza is a girl? Really?

I'm just going by the name. Could be a sexless robot, for all I care.

129 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:54:29pm

re: #127 freetoken


I want the one with the large hard drive for heavy flow days.

130 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:55:31pm

re: #128 Cato the Elder

I'm just going by the name. Could be a sexless robot, for all I care.

Well it is certain that the being known as Speranza has robotic responses and pre-programmed behaviors - only capable of parroting pre programmed lines from a short list.

It is also certain that it never gets laid.

However, I was curious if that being had an actual gender.

131 freetoken  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:55:52pm

re: #129 Dreggas

Hey... if it had a hard drive then I guess your "days" could be better.

132 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:57:20pm

re: #117 Obdicut

re: #95 freetoken

Thank you for your thoughtful answers. I personally think it something of a cultural imperative. I like Ob's answers a lot.

133 Decatur Deb  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:58:23pm

re: #103 LudwigVanQuixote

Pris and esp. Rachael (Blade Runner)

134 Wozza Matter?  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:58:41pm

re: #98 DaddyG

cowboy bebop - upding.

135 Gus  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:59:12pm

OK, I find this kind of funny.

The CO of the USS Nicholas is CDR Mark D. Kesselring while the XO is CDR Erik R. Patton.

Kesselring and Patton on the same side!

[Link: www.nicholas.navy.mil...]

136 reine.de.tout  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 2:59:24pm

re: #130 LudwigVanQuixote

Well it is certain that the being known as Speranza has robotic responses and pre-programmed behaviors - only capable of parroting pre programmed lines from a short list.

It is also certain that it never gets laid.

However, I was curious if that being had an actual gender.

The Speranza is a cheap Chinese-built car, poorly built with a weak motor, and unsafe and unreliable.

They were nice looking low priced and even full of options! quite a very good bargain but wait! they were poorly built weak motors and lots of reliability problems (personal opinion), but even all that people bought it just for the price and hunt for more unnecessary options! anyway after seeing some youtube videos about the crash tests of 2 Chinese cars, I wondered why would I put my money in a unreliable poorly built weak motor totally unsafe car just for some options and totally unsafe car!? someone answer me

137 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 3:03:53pm

re: #103 LudwigVanQuixote

OK in honor of this thread...

Vote for the tastiest "fembots" in history...

1. Six from BSG also known as the "slutbot 9000."
2. Sharon/Athena from BSG (also known as the "I need love bot")
3. Shirly Manson from Garbage in the The World is Not Enough video.
4.The Fembots from the old Bioinic man
5. The original fembot from Metropolis (simply because she is the mother to them all)
6. The girls from Westworld? (Now that is technology serving mankind!)
7. Lady Gaga as a fembot in the bad romance video

Any other suggestions and favs?

BTW my pick would have to be the "I need love bot"

I vote for Aigis from the PS2 game Persona 3: Image: p3_aigis.jpg

(though I'd also vote for the Metropolis girl)

138 Decatur Deb  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 3:04:46pm

re: #137 WindUpBird

The replacement Maria.

139 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 3:05:59pm

re: #138 Decatur Deb

The replacement Maria.

I'm a bad nerd, I should have known that :D

140 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 3:07:02pm

Also, the Bjork girl-bots from the All Is Full of Love video:

Youtube Video

Chris Cunningham is awesome.

141 Decatur Deb  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 3:11:44pm

BBL

142 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 3:17:18pm

re: #133 Decatur Deb

Pris and esp. Rachael (Blade Runner)

How can I forget Blade Runner and Rachael!

143 simoom  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 3:25:34pm

re: #10 Gus 802

April fools!

Doh, I fell for it :P. I was about to post something about how it was bizarre that the White House photoshopped most of the President-at-Camp-David photos :P.

144 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 3:33:11pm

re: #143 simoom

Be extra careful of what you click on today. I've been linking to mostly G-rated, goofy stuff here, but other sites/people might not be so nice.

145 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 4:14:41pm

re: #72 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Wouldn't a mech named "Rincewind" specialize in running away from combat?

146 kirkspencer  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 5:13:55pm

So, we've now got a start toward a laundry bot? Sort clothes, run through washing machine (at proper cycle), run through dryer (same), fold, and put them away? Add the ability to press the clothes put them on hangers, and put hang them in a closet as a finishing touch, maybe?

Put that in an apartment complex or a dorm, and give all residents a set of ID tags for bags. You put your dirty clothes in a tagged bag and drop it off -- or put it out for pickup. Pick up (or have delivered) the box(es) with your cleaned and folded and/or hung laundry.

NOW how much would you pay?

147 ryannon  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 5:29:30pm

re: #80 LudwigVanQuixote

Yeah, I have always been curious. The Japanese have been pushing android development for sometime. I am curious about the cultural imperative behind it. Don't get me wrong, robotics are cool and useful and every technological nation is in to them, but I get the distinct impression of a much deeper fascination with actually making replacement people in Japan.

Since you are the resident expert on Japan, can you comment?

They never got over the trauma of having been defeated in WWII. Deep in the Japanese psyche, even several generations later following their humiliation is the idea of sublimating their now (defective) human-ness in favor of a projected collective ideal of non-human perfection which can be both controlled, upgraded and made obsolete (punished) when a newer and more perfect generation of robots is created. Essentially, they've given up on themselves - surrendered - to a technology and an ideal of ongoing perfectability which remains the only, albeit severely distorted possibility of trying to solve an insolvable problem through the proxy of superior beings of which they are both the genitors and the masters.

148 plato  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 6:00:17pm

I'm sorry but this robot looks too much like a George Lucas Industrial Light & Magic 3D simulation.

If it's not, which government gave the grant to build such a ridiculous thing.

149 b_sharp  Thu, Apr 1, 2010 6:53:21pm

re: #148 plato

I'm sorry but this robot looks too much like a George Lucas Industrial Light & Magic 3D simulation.

If it's not, which government gave the grant to build such a ridiculous thing.

It looks like it was done with stop action film.

150 sffilk  Fri, Apr 2, 2010 9:35:09am

COOL!!

151 Lanzman  Fri, Apr 2, 2010 10:54:25am

All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.


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