Easy, my job description and orders from a superior officer!

I too was fixated on the word "Just" regardless of how old.

Rather than suspended animation, they should invent the Stasis chamber in Red Dwarf. (Then wake up 3 million years later with the descendants of your evolved cat!)

What was it originally used for? Oh yeah, to suspend crewman David Lister for 18 months without pay...

The tragic thing is those CRM-114 discriminators worked in Baudot over HF at 110 bits, per second. I forget how long the they said it would take to crack the recall code, but the big bottleneck was the transmission speed.

Now the recall code can be spoofed at network speeds!

Perhaps it is the bad food Nurse Ratched feeds them?

"You have to go the heart of the WalMart." (It's behind the plasma screen television).

Season Eight - Episode Nine of South Park

Still works on my dumb terminal window. Especially in the games on my sig line.

What's the risk! Just think of all the free salt water coolant!

Then we can set up the mind controlled laser sharks as guards.

I'm reminded of the old Red Skelton skit, as a whacky inventor Ludwick von Humperdoo who created the cement tire.

"What good are cement tires?" he was asked.

"For the Rubber Road!" was the punchline.

Yes I remember the show, but I had to Google the string "seattle mail order wives tv show" and ignore all the Russian adverts to find it and remind myself of the Title.

With all the high profile investigation and legal cases (both criminal and tort) on what would think are seemingly normal behaving computer science professionals - I submit that the risk and liability of computer science puts off any wannabe's. Such risk and liability as where unknown 30 years ago. Today, Engineering, Chemistry, Math, & Biology seem relatively safer in that regard. Also my guess this leads to the glut of Law graduates lately. Today one needs a law degree to protect thyself.

In regards to one recent case, alternatives such as suicide have apparently become an attractive option.

It isn't just about robots and slavery. It is just so easy for Hollywood to use robots as a class of people in conflict plots. It is more about science fiction epics in general and classes of antagonists.

Have you ever noticed in science fiction conflicts its so easy to act savagely and kill with wild abandon against an alien enemy? Whether it is bug-eyed monsters, lizard-like humanoids, or robots?

If the same plot were used in a movie conflict against a modern nation-state, it would be called racist (or spurring ethnic hatred). And the producer would get sued.

There was a time NASA had better things to do than be concerned about the Social issues and Entertainment industry (and their actors).

Bread and circuses. Your tax dollars at work.

(And of course you all agree do to all humorous comments hitherto.)

Just another useless academic justifying tenure in order to never have to work another day in their life, ever.

How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin?

"Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?"

There are really only 3 professions based on the multi-thousand year long history of people in the world, Doctors, Lawyers and Priests. Everyone else is a craftsman.

As soon as I'm ordained by Microsoft, I can be the latter.