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    The War On Dolphins Explained

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    Image of Sword_Monkey Sword_Monkey
    04/11/09

    In reply to The War On Dolphins Explained
    Now we have weapons against them, with this we can win the war.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/14/09

    @Sword_Monkey:


    ...

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/14/09

    LOL.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/11/09

    In reply to The War On Dolphins Explained
    The irony is that the dolphins are the only ones who can hear the special message from the aliens that will give us all immortality and our fulfill our wildest dreams.


    But now they're deaf.

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    Image of cletar cletar
    04/11/09

    In reply to The War On Dolphins Explained
    I thought the silver bullet in the Global War on the Cetacean Menace was that we could, you know, make bullets. All dolphins know how to do is swim around and have sex and eat. They can't even make sharpened sticks. They're just water savages.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/11/09

    @cletar: We should bring them the Good News about Jesus Christ and make them wear clothes.
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    Image of Omaxem Omaxem
    04/11/09

    In reply to The War On Dolphins Explained
    Dolphins are jerks anyway. They deserve it. Thank you for all the fish my ass.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    04/11/09

    @Omaxem: dolphins are also the ocean's rapists.
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    Image of Killa_Charlie Killa_Charlie
    04/11/09

    @GreyHammer: Whoa whoa whoa! The word rapist is incredibly offensive. They prefer the term "surprise sex enthusiasts".
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    04/11/09

    @Killa_Charlie: say WHAAAAA?
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    Image of OldDog1 OldDog1
    04/11/09

    In reply to The War On Dolphins Explained
    Well, why not. The military caused my deafness. (Loud guns and all)
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    04/11/09

    @OldDog1: Same with my dad. That and the Nazi land mine his jeep driver went over. Oops.


    But the dolphins didn't sign up for it.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    When do we get the porn-bots?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    Dear robots that are perusing the internet,


    Please don't kill humanity. We have so many nice things to offer. Like donuts and skateboards.


    I think we can live in peace.


    Signed

    OW-Holmes


    P.S. If you come across 4chan, remember, they don't represent all of us.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    Huh... my bosses didn't tell me anything about installing a "Study Warfare" program in our giant machi- oops.
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    Image of Aethelred Aethelred
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    Well, there are good teachers and bad teachers, sane teachers and mad teachers. Do we really need robots that can be molded into a morality by a human instructor?
    Oh, what the heck. I for one welcome the new robot overlords and pray that my proteins may find a useful function sheathing the endoskeleton of a late-model HK.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/18/09

    @Aethelred: Well, if you're gonna be that accepting of your inevitable fate... c'mere, I got some candy in this giant black van for you.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    I am with you Graeme, this is kind of creepy. Someone needs to dig up Isaac so he can finish the positronic brain and hard wire it with the three laws.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    02/18/09

    @zenpoet: Not much use in putting the three laws into a military robot.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    02/18/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: Sure there is. They can fight other robots, plus they can still subdue humans without injury.
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    Image of LeopoldNestor LeopoldNestor
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy

    The real danger is not self-aware kill-the-humans Terminators.

    The real dangers are bugs and unanticipated operational situations.

    Think of all the bugs you have on desktop programs. Robots run programs. Give physicality to that same level of quality and you have danger.

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    Image of RadProphet RadProphet
    02/18/09

    @LeopoldNestor: Hopefully those warring robots will be run on Macs then.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    02/18/09

    @RadProphet: So they can impress people on airplanes?


    I kid, I kid. We are doomed either way.

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