Open Trackback & Comment Sunday
The “Insurgent Robots Edition”
Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.
The revelations were made by Kevin Fahey, US Army program executive officer for ground forces, at the recent RoboBusiness conference in America.
Speaking to Popular Mechanics, Fahey said there had been chilling incidents in which the SWORDS* combat bot had swivelled round and apparently attempted to train its 5.56mm M249 light machine-gun on its human comrades.
“The gun started moving when it was not intended to move,” he said.
Maybe they should take the hint and go home, even their own robots don’t want them there.
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Just A Typical Day At The Local Hamas-que…
As the imam preaches a typical sermon of love, peace and tolerance to the followers of the Religion of Peace. Following are excerpts from an address by Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on April……
Serving America, Seeking Citizenship…
There is something beautiful about this story — and the story of every service member who is seeking American citizenship. After all, they recognize the special nature of America in a way that we who were born here likely never……
George Washington: “The Illest Founding Father” …
In class the other day we discussed George Washington’s basic philosophies on government. In short, he was an amazing man, a leader who was twice offered the chance to become the de facto king of the U.S., yet both times…
His Eye Is On the Sparrow, Got the Whole World in His Hands…
HE’S WATCHING ME”Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.” C. S. LewisI’ve had an interesting week. Evidently there are limits to conservative “Christian” love, acceptance, and kindness. From what I am…
State Dept. ignores Iraqi Christians…
This is horrible. Mr. Timmerman has been trying to alert the world of these things, including atrocities in other parts of the world, and no one seems to get it. If they do get it, then they don’t care because there is no pounding on the state dept’s…
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Could Obama Have Money Problems or Is Big Mac Having a Money Attack?…
KEEP THROWING THINGS INTO THE FANI’ve been collecting links about financing and John McCain’s funding problems. There are times when I like to do this and see what develops. I think today the Dems have revealed their hand when the filed sui…
Now can we call Obama a hypocrite?…
His recent comments about how middle class America is a bunch of bitter gun crazed religious bigots is revealing, even as it is not a shock.
Unshockingly we discover an upper class politician is out of touch with the people he claims to represent….
Governors Gathering To Suck Your $$$ For Climate Change…
Hold on to your wallets!
Governors from across the United States are meeting at Yale University this week to discuss ways of dealing with global climate change.
The gathering — on April 17 and 18 — will celebrate the centennial of President…
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When defending incompetence results in the same…
In a previous post I mentioned a book that I thought would be interesting, that book being The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens by Vox Day. Since then I’ve recommended it, along with several other boo….