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Interesting... what keeps the Scots (and visiting Kiwis) from sheep-napping the "pretty" ones?
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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The frickin' laser beams attached to their heads, of course!
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Are you inferring there are ugly ones ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Now that was a great Monty Python skit.
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Not to disagree or argue, but I think you could look at some of the positives here. They decided to dig after only two faults. That is not too bad, really...someone taking responsibility to say it needed to be fixed right, and implementing the solution. Yes, agreed, they could of followed up better, but the guys in the field with the shovels are generally not the customer facing reps. The website is likely updated by a day worker, so did not get the report in before 5:30 pm, and would not be updated until the next morning. That said, I've never dealt with BT so have no preconception of their level of typical service (but at a guess, it is a bit  .
Ken
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Richard Deeming wrote: couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery that was already holding a piss-up, and when you walk through the door, the receptionist asks, 'Would you like a free piss-up?'.
I shall no doubt use this in the near future. On a totally unrelated note I've been asked by Scum to rate their service, what could I possibly say?
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: what could I possibly say?
That depends on whether they've already given you a MAC code. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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drolfson wrote: Anyone have a method of keeping 'critters' off my property?
Ask John Connor
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Automatic Australian BAR Rifle from WW2; fires kinda slow, but the shells are big and you could probably have a great time blasting chunks off the robot.
Or else somebody needs to build an EMP grenade. 
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You probably wouldn't want to set an EMP off in your own garden considering the number of unshielded electronic devices you likely rely on ...
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 This is true. How about an EMP gun then? Like in Sky Captain? 
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I'm all in for vacuum valves. They do not care too much about EMP...
ENIAC, go!
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I wonder if a standard Taser would do it...
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Boys Anti-tank Rifle would be more fun.
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Well, that link keeps taking me to a "pay" bit. I'm not signing up just to see one story.
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At this point they just need to drop the pretense and change their name to 'The Company'
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Global
Organization
Overreaching for,
Gobbling up, and
Looking at
Everything
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This buyout (Boston Dynamics) is only the latest in a string of robotics companies that Google has acquired.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I just watched a segment on Ch4 news about it, and they said Google has bought 7 companies in this field over the last 7 months 
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With the first one or two I figured it was just billionaires buying cool toys - after all, whats cooler than robots? But now its a concerted effort - there must be an endgame.  
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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EMP.
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drolfson wrote: Anyone else wonder what Google plans to do with the military Robots they are buying?
Of course they are building Terminator !!!! 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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