It has nothing to do with being an alcoholic. The law is about someone who visibly appears drunk. And the bar can be held liable.

Which I think is bullshit, it isn't the bar's fault, especially considering how many people can look perfectly normal but be too drunk to drive. But that is probably just a part of PA desperately clinging to Prohibition.

Commenting on a forum is a lazy-ass way of communicating. You should hand write and deliver your message to each person that wants to read it.

Agreed, I also believe a professional bartender serving at a private party does not have these rules either.

Either way we are years away from a completely automated robot serving in a public location without human supervision.

Currently we are more likely to end up with this.

My guess is that mainstream tv scifi works on cycles. We have been in a down cycle for 5 or 6 years, in a few years it will make a return.

Unless Fox cancels it.

Fox's cancelled Almost Human did the same from the cop's point of view. Very Asimov.

It was decent, but I knew it was doomed from the start due to Fox. Came for Karl Urban but stayed for Michael Ealy. The rest of the supporting cast was effectively flat, though.

In my state bartenders are legally obligated to not serve "visibly drunk" patrons. Though only the nicer bars actually follow this rule, and it is more in place so they can easily boot out unruly drunks or bar entry for people that are already wasted before they show up.

A robot bartender in a commercial environment would either need to be able to follow all the same rules or be operated by someone that does.

The question is... If you are in your own home, does the robot count as a bartender, or is it an appliance? My guess is the latter, the responsibility belongs to the operator.

Though it would be amusing to see the door to the refrigerator refuse to open for a drunk person.
"I'm sorry Dave, I think you have already had enough to drink."
"Hey buddy, can you come in to my house and open my fridge for me?"

I am not a minority in any way, but I would think actual minorities should be annoyed by the use of this.

But perhaps just pointing and laughing is the best response.

He also missed the obvious bath salts connection in the last line.

Better: Shitlord toilet paper.

Ahh yes, crying racism is the new solid defense against anti-batshit/religious/woo claims.

I don't know who this asshole is, but I am willing to bet he is a white christian, which makes the claim even more hilarious.

AC tries using a ball bearing on a tank, it has no effect.

This is why recruiters are nothing like agents. The recruiters do not give two shits if a developer is good at their job, or if the job is a good fit for the developer. As long as they can make it look good enough to get the commission.

In fact, if the guy quits or is fired even better, they get to put someone else in the position and make the commission again! One would think that companies and employees would learn their lesson.

That's a different story altogether... I had to beat them to death with their own shoes...

I have an agent filtering out the crap for me.

It is the spam filter, were all emails from headhunters go.

Seriously. The assholes have a perpetual motion machine and yet still have an ice age. (Truth is I did not see the movie, but decided to skip it when I heard the plot was about a train that goes around the world... to solve... an ice age? Huh?)