I am not impressed. If these guys were serious about defending the nation against terrorist binary, wouldn't they be asking for a by-God John Wayne button, instead of some cute-but-funny, fucking Red Buttons.

I signed up for that when it first came out and have been getting more calls since --- both (semi) human and robo --- than I ever did before?

My Harsh Mistress Moons Me.

Robert Heinlein graduated 20th in a class of 243 Annapolis cadets and spent five years stationed on the Pacific Ocean until forced to retire in 1939 because of tuberculosis, so calling Robert Heinlein a frustrated Naval Officer wannabe is a bit contemptuous of a person who was in the process of making a success along one career path, was forced to discontinue, and made an even greater success along a totally different career path.

This is the Ross 2.0 Rifle. The Ross I.0 was abandoned for any other weapon which the doughboys could lay their hands upon.

Unless someone uploads a usable robot repair and upgrading video to YouTube, they will have to keep a few humans around for maintenance.

I was partial to alt.fan.karl-malden.nose

Well, you don't think they would deign to speak to ordinary low-income proles if they were not trying to manipulate them, do you?

They could have been called Wiener Dogs, but that was already taken.

Neither are science deniers. Sentient, I mean. .

A Kiwi.

Sergeant Ramsay: "With these sentries, the temperatures get too high and they pop their chips right off the motherboard." ["Runaway" 1984]

Get married and soon you will long for the good old days when your buttons were pushed only once a day.

It is a Mickey Mouse College which is very close to Mickey Mouse.

Just 45 minutes from Orlando, Florida.

Er ... but I thought CNN had all of their on-air staff gelded.