only if the guy who cut the pipe is Muslim.

if not, he's only a wack-job.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is backdooring a bunch of foreign workers [not from Canada or the US] to work in the US by first getting them to work in Canada for a year then transferring them to the US. Thanks Harper, for letting Microsoft import an UNLIMITED number of people this way.

because they offer free rides? because some people have lots of money and want to feel superior?

Uber is just trying to drag the taxi industry back to when it started. When large companies would take advantage of both the drivers and the customers for their own benefit.

Search the archives and see the reasons why the taxi service has these regulations. Your city council has the records. There are very good reasons for the vast majority of them.

I believe the AI will quickly arrive at the conclusion that the only solution is jihad against the ugly bags of mostly water.

trying to do the same thing in Edmonton, Alberta

really?

a company comes in, says "fuck your laws, we don't need to follow them, we'll write our own", and the municipality should go "welcome to our city"?

He primarily lives by selling coke to his friends....

Yes, that's what we need. A much more clear physical separation between the rich and everybody else.

replaced? when were they not robots with eliza-level AI?

I can see it now. A big warehouse, with rows and rows of dildo's, all with a DOB on a little tag inserted in the front of the shelf they are on. And there are factory tours going around, with the presenter saying "And these were just born today. Touch them, they're still warm. It's ok, you just can't fondle them. And these ones over here are just reaching the age of consent for adults in New Jersey, so they are getting shipped there, and these ones over here are the age of consent in New York, and are getting shipped there. And what state are you from? ok, the age of consent there is 18, so some of the dildo's from this group of shelves will be going there for you to buy."

yes, you would think the initial link of the article would be to the firefox website where you could download it...but now, it goes to some site trying to get more hits.

....they just can't be caught doing it themselves...

FTFY.

You get arrested for watching iKid.

Botched adding the url for the first point. It should include this url: http://www.gizmag.com/korea-dodamm-super-aegis-autonomos-robot-gun-turret/17198/

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.