by iblis » Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:36 pm
While I hold his work in the utmost of regards, I have found that I can currently only support one bid for global domination through the widespread use of autonomous robots: My own.
While his vision and mine conflict upon many¹ points², I'll not let it be said that I'm a poor sportsman about this. As a token of my regard, when I unleash my army of flying robotic monkeys, they'll have a special routine burnt into their firmware to prevent them from raping, abducting, maiming, or killing his cat. If he does not have a cat, then they will simply apply this mercy to the small, furry animal nearest to his presence at the time of first encounter.
They'll still tear, rend, and claw everything else, and of course they'll be throwing collected³ feces at pseudo-random targets. If this should prove to be a problem, well, he can have his robots clean up after them. My time is better spent programming, designing, and cackling maniacally.
¹ No individual agent within the army of flying robotic monkeys should be considered remotely close to being a toy, unless it's a toy for someone that you really hate. Then it might be OK.
² While the hungry masses must not starve, I find it far more profitable and efficient to feed them on gruel and whiplashes.
³ I'm far too lazy to make them create their own, and it's an engineering feat from hell just to get them off the ground without simulating a digestive system.
If carpenters made buildings the way programmers make programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy all of civilization. Anonymous