First, South Korea also has them Or are these not 'robots' because they are fixed in place.

Second, the summary mixes up things, as robots that detect and/or deactivate/destroy land mines or are not actively used to directly kill people aren't part of the 'killer robot' theme, and are rather irrelevant to the issue of killer robots (and yes, I understand that the land-mine robot could kill someone if they are stupid enough to be standing around when it finds and detonates a mine).

Third, the summary also mixes up the concept of a remotely controlled device (like, say, a predator drone) which is already in widespread use and a device that is programmed to decide without further human intervention as to which people it should fire at.

The US gov't has managed to successfully put over the idea that having more than $10,000 cash is inherently illegal unless you can prove you have the money legally. And if you are stopped for DWB, you better not have more than $100 on you, if you do, it's confiscating because you are a drug dealer.

Well, there are a few that really make the effort, by keeping the children in cages or small locked rooms.

They are not actually attacking anything. They don't specifically know anybody here who they have ordered to attack this mall.

This is a "will somebody in America go to the mall of america and do something bad there. please." request.

It may or may not work [to get somebody to actually do it], but they have already succeeded in getting us to cower in fear of the attack. Which is exactly what they want.

and a bigger hard drive.

Maybe you should get that leak in the gas tank fixed and she won't have to worry about making it to the gas station every morning...

No, I don't care for the quad-cpu option.

Chicago is getting off easy. Only $500mil in 10 years [roughly] = only $50 million a year.

Here in Edmonton, a MUCH smaller city, we were bled $30 million a year
And of course, with the same red-light-camera kickback scheme...

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/45/4506.asp

OMG. Somebody really needs to tell Uber about how all this stuff works.

Trade my set of lawn darts for one of these...my kids want to try something new...

more like he strongly believes the rich, gov't and big business must use it.

unimportant people and small businesses should only use rot13 or preferably rot26.

Rampage!

Good. Now we need to redesign the cockpit of the F-35 so that one of these rifles with MP3 player attached can be mounted in it so the pilots can listen to music as they taxi around.

Star Trek wasn't currency-free.

And those with large amounts of currency today will seek to ensure that

a) they keep the currency they have, and to keep acquiring more and more of it, relative to everyone else
b) that it is necessary to live

They have [at least a little] seen how the rest of us live, and have no desire to join us.

IIRC, they didn't break the units at the trade show. They were at some local store where they broke them. Still stupid and bizarre, but not that cheesy.