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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Ya that was a cool scene that is on the DVD version.
I had to get a bootleg VHS from laserdisc just to see it.
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Oh wow...was it actually differentiating between friends and foes? Is that what the red and green rectangles were?
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Originally Posted by Gossamer 
Oh wow...was it actually differentiating between friends and foes? Is that what the red and green rectangles were?
Green means Good ol' Americans, red is illegal immigrants, gays, atheists and terrorists 
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Originally Posted by Dark Helmet
Green means Good ol' Americans, red is illegal immigrants, gays, atheists and terrorists
...like a broke record...
On topic:
next up - 
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Originally Posted by Railroader
...like a broke record...
Ya you totally are 
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Originally Posted by Dark Helmet
Ya you totally are
I know you are...
I'm rubber you're...
There. You have no come backs now.
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As soon as they get the 'solicitor recognition' software up and running, I'm getting one for the front yard.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Wasn't there some part of the music from Pirates of the Caribbean in there?
There are flaws with this system that the NKs can exploit-it appears to be armed with a version of the M249 SAW, which has a 200 round belt limitation-run enough cheap NKA soldiers in front of the thing and it runs out of ammo. Don't laugh; that's how they broke the UN lines after primarily U.S. forces drove the NKA north to the Chinese border-hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops overran the UN lines though sheer numbers. This was also a popular (for the commanders) tactic in other parts of the Korean War, as well in parts of VietNam.
And it looked an AWFUL lot like this isn't a ROBOT as much as a remotely operated weapon. That's a BIG difference! Stepping over the line of the First Law of Robotics steps terribly close to Berserker territory...
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Originally Posted by ghporter
And it looked an AWFUL lot like this isn't a ROBOT as much as a remotely operated weapon. That's a BIG difference! Stepping over the line of the First Law of Robotics steps terribly close to Berserker territory...
Fortunately the thing isn't mobile...
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Wasn't there some part of the music from Pirates of the Caribbean in there?
There are flaws with this system that the NKs can exploit-it appears to be armed with a version of the M249 SAW, which has a 200 round belt limitation-run enough cheap NKA soldiers in front of the thing and it runs out of ammo. Don't laugh; that's how they broke the UN lines after primarily U.S. forces drove the NKA north to the Chinese border-hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops overran the UN lines though sheer numbers. This was also a popular (for the commanders) tactic in other parts of the Korean War, as well in parts of VietNam.
And it looked an AWFUL lot like this isn't a ROBOT as much as a remotely operated weapon. That's a BIG difference! Stepping over the line of the First Law of Robotics steps terribly close to Berserker territory...
My dad said the only thing between overrun and 10,000 screaming Chinese was a quad 50 and a determined master sergeant. Shot it until the barrels started drooping. Big buried caches of dynamite helped too. Korea -- the war no one hears about.
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Originally Posted by finboy
Korea -- the war no one hears about.
Very true. If it weren't for M•A•S•H, I sometimes wonder if anyone who wasn't there would remember it existed.
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I love the upbeat music for a device used for shredding people.
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Originally Posted by Rev-O
As soon as they get the 'solicitor recognition' software up and running, I'm getting one for the front yard.
Best post in here.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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What I want to know is how a robot sentry gun is going to understand that once it kills someone they're no longer a threat. They don't disappear from the screen like in video games, so why wouldn't it just run out of ammo pumping rounds into the corpse?
And if that doesn't work, then just falling down and not moving would be enough to lose it's attention.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Originally Posted by Rumor
Perhaps heat or sound?
The heat won't change significantly for at least a couple minutes: plenty of time to waste a lot of ammo. Sound might be a good one, but it's outside and there's potentially other attackers around, so who knows what sounds there might be. Also, a critically wounded person can still make a lot of sound without being a threat.
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