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Watch the video for a demonstration of this new killing technology. It has very good head-tracking capability, so it should be able to get clean head shots on most targets.
This is a stationary automated gun turret. All they need to do is put it on a mobile base and you'd have a movie legend (see image at right).
Oh wait, they've already done that (these auto-track targets, but require a human to issue the command to open fire).
A guy got robbed at gunpoint and towed all in a 15 minute window. Well... he almost got towed. He couldn't convince the towing company to not tow his car, but fortunately he was just robbed at gunpoint (?) and the police were on the scene, who managed to keep the victim's car from being towed. There is no word if the police had to draw their weapons to fend off the tow truck.
All this happened a block from my home.
You've got to love "happy valley". I think there are more tow trucks in town than there are bars. For most cities that wouldn't be saying much, but for a small college town with a bar on every corner (or more) that's a lot.
One thing that did disappoint Hall, however, was that "while all this was going on" a tow-truck company had arrived to haul away his assistant manager's car. "There was no sympathy from the tow-truck company whatsoever," said Hall, who was at the scene. The police had to explain that the car should not be towed, he said. The owners of the tow-truck company could not be reached for comment.
My father emailed me this link. It's definitely the sort of practical joke he'd pull.
"I'm not a piņata!"
That was such a good laugh. Now back to work...
We all know that if you ask what some unknown meat is like, you'll be told that it "tastes like chicken." However, what would a cannibal say about her choice dish? "It tastes like bacon." Or at least it likely would if cured and fried.
A robot with "taste" sensors recently identified that humans taste like bacon.
It's not really a surprise since humans have many similarities with pigs.
I'm not worried about our future robot overlords eating us because we taste good. But if I get hungry, I'll be sure to keep my friends close.
With the advent of this item, I find that I have so much more free time. To think that I used to use the slow, tedious, old-fashioned models! Hooray for technology.
Click the image on this page for a demonstration.
(Warning: Linked web page may not be work-safe.)
Ignoring the largely unenforceable nature of such a legal document...
Will it be long until we need to resort to such extremes?
If handled properly, would such an agreement really be a bad thing?
