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Quote from: Leafsnail on June 21, 2009, 06:16:10 am

Yep, I've had a guy get 31 months for "selling brownies".  Oh yeah, and running over someone with my car.  But they didn't seem to mind that so much.

Yeah, I'm sure that didn't factor into the sentencing at all

Well, he wasn't charged with it.

Yep, I've had a guy get 31 months for "selling brownies".  Oh yeah, and running over someone with my car.  But they didn't seem to mind that so much.

well, your examples are two different crimes to begin with, so of course they are not equivalent.

(<= completely missing the point)

So why do they have equal, or very similar sentences in the UK?

Yes, but those are todays primitive robots.

But even as they get better, what is the advantage of a giant mech?  A low slung tank with a big gun won't have the vulnerable joints, won't be prone to falling over when hit by a rocket launcher round and won't give away your position.  Even miniature mechs have the same problem; why not just have a small tank with a gatling gun on one side and something explosive on the other?

Related question: If my dwarves' clothes are rotting, will they automatically take some of the nice new ones I made from leather/ cloth which I... um... found (on the smashed bodies of dead elves).

Quote from: Virex on June 20, 2009, 02:59:09 pm

Quote from: cowofdoom78963 on June 20, 2009, 02:57:56 pm

Unless your just thinking of putting a gyroscope and legs on a truck or something. I dont see how that would be so hard.

Putting the legs on a truck isn't hard, but getting the legs to work ina  reliable and usefull way is

People can make working legs, getting the power to run them seems to be the problem.

Not even that - even the most advanced humanoid robots can't run very well, and none can walk far on anything other than flat ground.  You can't guarentee any battlefield is going to be perfectly smooth.

I think the most likely development will be "drone" tanks, which could be controlled remotely.  They already use drone aircraft, and there's no reason why one person couldn't remotely control a drone tank.  A drone tank would have the same amount of weak spots as a normal tank - few - and has the added advantage of not putting its occupants at risk from the dreaded anti tank rounds.  They could also be smaller and lighter, and possibly faster.

They are also making bomb disposal bots, to keep bomb disposal experts out of harms way.  Most are reluctant to use robots as killing machines though - although drones are already doing just that.

Names stick. Also, would you rather be shooting Dark Matter lasers or HR-12 theoretical particle emitters?

Dark matter particles are, according to the theory, massive, but so weakly interacting that they've only been very slightly hinted at by some experiments.  An dark matter ray would do damage so small that it couldn't be measured.

I'm really not sure what they could mean.  The most probably way is by measuring the number of people who are in areas deprived of food, and the number of people too poor to be able to buy enough food.  But they fail to define either of these things.