They took it down shortly before the reporters got to it, this was what it looked like before: http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8082/dellimage2.jpg

Are you calling our Lord and Saviour uncivilised?

Having big buildings doesn't make you civilised, it's more about the people and their way of life. Sure, they have skyscrapers, but looking at those images I have no indication of whether they worship uncivilised gods or continually have tribal battles. As far as I'm concerned, they are all still uncivilised locations.

The problem isn't the robotics researchers or manufacturers. I can tell you from experience that new technology like the use of robots in emergency management will always take years to come into play. There are so many great ways that technology can be integrated with emergency management, but emergency services will never have the budget and human resources to experiment with and adapt technology to real world applications. The earthquake was a catalyst for change in emergency management in Japan, leading to an immediate requirement for the use of new technology which would have been invested in (with both time and money) when the need became apparent. Personally I'd like to see further developments like this - the use of UAVs for bushfire operations and other disaster reconnaissance, robotic rubble searchers, etc.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, given that most of those places are particularly backwards.

Not really something I have any plans on testing...

Hookers earn a lot of money, mate.

Holy hell this is a good idea.

Back in my day, we didn't even have rationing.

Responding to mayday calls is never a matter of budget. It is always a matter of saving lives as quickly and safely as possible. While scrambling UAVs to search would be good to assist, you would still want to scramble a staffed rescue helicopter at the same time.

Most of the documentation is available within the Oracle Support interface, available to paying customers.

It would take some kind of person with experience and skills in judgement. Does such a career exist?

That sounds kinda fun, actually.

I can't believe people actually modded that lame joke as funny.

He might be the 2th fairy.