I find it incredibly odd to add the 'as well as...' part. Why could you not just leave it at the Japanese people?
I meant to say the people of Japan as a whole and I'm very sorry that I offended you or anyone else in anyway because of this. I did warn earlier not to take what I said the wrong way but you did. I said that cause I didn't want to offend anyone about an opinion I had which didn't have a valid point but it lead me guessing for a reason behind it when there was none.
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I hope you are not implying that you are only (or more) sympathetic because of the video games they make...
I'm not only more sypathetic to the Japanese because of the video games they make, I'm really grateful for what they've done in terms of pop culture especially here in America where they made it big even though it's sort of a niche culture in the U.S. in some cases.
Regardless of that I'm still sympathetic towards them due to this tragedy even If they aren't famous with the pop culture, anime/manga, video games, this is about reaching our hearts towards people that have supported us and it's time that we support them as well.
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Why don't you acquire some class and shut your mouth about Japan deserving this?
I just recently said at the end of post #102 of this thread that Japan didn't deserve this disaster. Calm down I didn't come here to start a flame war...
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How did I know your post was going to be something like this...
This earthquake is to punish the Japanese? Are you honestly serious?
No, but it's something to think about. Don't get the wrong idea, I have deep condolences to the people of Japan who are struggling in this horrible tragedy as well as the people of the Japanese Video Game Industry, Anime/Manga Industry, the Otaku, and many more. I love Nintendo, Sega, and many of Japan's best video games and their amazing soundtracks for specific games.
Some people use karma as an excuse for specific natural disasters (take for example the case with Sharon Stone when China got hit by an Earthquake a few years ago) and this could be one of them, I'm not saying it is however it's just a possibility. One claimed that they were being too greedy in terms of business, but the way I see it their technology is exceeding faster than other countries around the world at an alarming rate and it could of have posed a threat to the human race with the life-like robots being made.
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Honestly this really bugs me.
You are as ridiculous and preposterous as Glenn Beck. That some divine being, God, took out his will against the people of Japan because they were too 'technologically advanced'. Does he take out his wrath on people who have basically zero technology too, as in the case of Haiti?
Well it's one thing when Japan is technologically advanced but it's another when they go a bit too far with it that could pose a negative threat to society, the fear of machines taking over the human race that's a very scary aspect.
If anything this disaster in Japan has shed light on it's with the use of geothermal nuclear energy over oil/gas in America and it's apparent that the idea has backfired. It's true that we need some form of Energy Reform here in America, and I think Solar Energy or Wind Farms, the stuff that Texas Billionaire T. Boone Pickens has proposed to get off our dependence on foreign oil is the right answer.
Look I'm not trying to be a jerk or trying to be like Glenn Beck, and who really knows If God or some kind of "Divine Retribution" was responsible for what happened in Japan nobody knows. There's no definitive proof is there? The case with Haiti well I'm not really sure, some people like Pat Robertson critized them for worshiping the devil years and years ago but I don't see the proof that signifies this and there was absolutely no justification for what happened to those people in the wake of that Earthquake.
What I'm getting at is that Japan didn't deserve this horrible tragedy but it does make you wonder about the reasons behind of why it happened in the first place. When it comes to Natural Disasters especially one of this magnitude it's really hard to give out an explanation of why it happened and I apologize If I offended anyone about that just for guessing as to why it happened to find a reason for it when bottom line there was none.
As much as I hate to say this, the Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster the struck Japan last Friday is most likely going to cause an Economic Collapse in the country. The price of Japanese Cars imported to the U.S. like Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota are expected to increase, smartphone prices are going to increase, as well as iPhones and anything Apple makes due to the Chip Technology in Japan.
Perhaps these recent events is punishment for Japan going too far with technology, heck compared to the rest of the world before the Earthquake/Tsunami they are light years ahead especially with the scary life-like robots and this just proves they need to slow down especially with their geothermal nuclear energy which they are already having problems with.
It's also been confirmed that the 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan has actually moved the island close to the United States and has shifted the planet's axis. The quake caused a rift 15 miles below the sea floor that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles wide, according to the Associated Press. The areas closest to the epicenter of the quake jumped a full 13 feet closer to the United States, geophysicist Ross Stein at the United States Geological Survey told The New York Times.
The world's fourth-largest, 9.0 magnitude quake was caused when the Pacific tectonic plate dove under the North American plate, which shifted Eastern Japan towards North America by about 13 feet. The quake also shifted the earth's axis by 6.5 inches, shortened the day by 1.6 microseconds, and sank Japan downward by about two feet. As Japan's eastern coastline sunk, the tsunami's waves rolled in.
The quake shortened the day because the Earth's mass shifted towards the center, spurring the planet to spin a bit faster. Last year's 8.8 magnitude Earthquake in Chile also shortened the day, but by an even smaller fraction of a second. The 2004 Sumatra quake knocked a whopping 6.8 microseconds off the day.
This probably sounds crazy coming from me but I believe every Elf deck should run a playset of Lead the Stampede and Green Sun's Zenith. It just helps fix your mana curve like crazy...
Please, spell out for us a plausible chain of events from where we are right now to our enslavement by sinister robot overlords. I've yet to see a work of speculative fiction that comes close (most don't even bother - the authors are smart enough to know that they're writing pure fantasy).
Well according to Robowatch.org, Marina Gorbis director of the Institute for the Future says that many whitecollar jobs will soon be replaced by robots. She claims there will be a robotic renaissance and that our children will have a chronically high 10 unemployment rate as the result.
There's other messages in the chat room on that website, you can go read them If you like. Someone else also posted on the website that a new robotic car was developed that actually drives itself without the use of humans driving them.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled, "Israeli Robots Remake the Battlefield." This clearly shows that Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics where Robots will not harm a human being is being completely ignored and that Robots are now being developed and deployed by many of the world's armies with the specific purpose to find and kill humans.
There's also talk about Roboanatomy and Robophysiology creating a new species known as "Robo Sapiens". The fear is that members of this new species will progressively LOSE THEIR HUMAN IDENTITY. Ultimately they may become dangerous competitors of Homo Sapiens (Us). I know alot of this sounds farfetched but it's legit according to the website.
Another post mentioned the use of AI in the teaching of our young could be a bad idea. Since we seem to have such a hard time publishing the truth in our school books now. How easy it would be to manipulate the public If the human element was removed. Subjects would only learn what was deemed proper for them to learn to facilitate the belief of whatever social engineering you wanted. The youth removed the truth would only believe logic. that computers cannot lie but those that program them can.
As socialism is on the rise in America we all hope that machines are not the ones we rely on who decides who needs help and who does not. Machines follow logic as their guiding principle, the needs of the many outway the needs of the few, those who will most likely perish will be denied care so those who will probably live will be given the resources. The only way socialism could truly work is if a computer sorted everything out.
In the not-to-distant future you will be unable to go a single day without logging in. Not because you're addicted, but because the rest of the world no longer functions entirely within the realm of physicality.
Makes sense with how the internet has hardwired us especially with YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. This is what's really killing the Table Top Gaming Industry in the Secondary Market, less people wanting to play TCG/CCG's in paper form due to the massive popularity of MMO's and that is still a growing problem.
Sooner or later this forum will almost cease to exist depending If Paper Magic can last longer. Even though technology gives us pleasure we've become too dependant on it as a society and I think more people should give it a break but it's kind of hard cause the internet is as addictive as television but in a sense of knowing more about what's going on depending on how deep you go.
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You say you fear the day robots and androids make us their slaves. I say that computers and the internet already have.
Okay now here's the difference, computers and the internet gives us pleasure yet robots and androids give us pain. Sure robots and androids might seem useful at first glance but there's a sinister nature lurking within them that could potentially turn our world upside down.
As much as I really like Japan in terms of their Pop Culture in Anime/Manga, I think they've drawn the line in terms of technology most notably with robotics. They can compose great video game music as well, but androids and robots? seriously Japan? As If Vocaloids were bad enough.
Personally I wouldn't want to live there now considering how the aspect of robots and androids adapting to society is a very very bad idea. Infact it's very scary, the future just seems really scary at the moment either way you slice it.
The only kind of technology I don't approve of are robots and androids, it's getting to the point now where they are so life like that it breaks the fabric of current society.
It seems like we're hearing more about robots, machines, and androids in the media these days especially in our society. The latest issue of GQ Magazine features a Robot Scientist who built 1-2 life-like robots similiar to what Japan was doing to where they can communicate and respond back to humans as If they were human.
Before then was IBM's famous Supercomputer "Watson" that recently won on Jeopardy! while stumping human contestants Ken Jennings and some other guy while trying to "prove a point" while giving money away to charity, then when Whoopi Goldberg or Oprah was offerred to interview Watson she declined being as creeped out about that aspect I'm not surprised.
Why is it that humans are trying to turn science fiction into reality to jeopardize not just the normalization of society but also to change it drastically in a way where it could have devastating consequences?
When is enough enough? Since the 1980's and earlier we've come a long way in advancements in technology which in some cases are associated with extra-terresterials or aliens from outer space utilizing technologies they have possibly used and re-discovering them in the 20th and 21st Centuries. If anyone's seen Ancient Aliens on the History Channel you'll know what I'm talking about.
But this topic is about the future of robots and machines here on Earth and it seems like with the rate technology is going these days it's coming alot sooner than later, I'll admit the kind of technology we have these days is great but I'm fearing that humans are already going too far with it to the point where it just doesn't seem natural. It's already happening as we speak.
For the Villian Role of The Dark Knight Rises, Clayface would be interesting considering how messed up Hollywood has gotten over the recent years, Bane would make sense though, I was disappointed of how Two-Face had a minor role in the last film but Heath Ledger was a good Joker.
Now If the new villian is the Red Hood it would make sense given the absence of Batman's sidekick Robin in the last 2 films. I can totally see Red Hood in The Dark Knight Rises. The last 2 films didn't indicate any relevance to Jason Todd let alone Dick Grayson the 2nd Robin but I guess we'll find out later.
My main disappointment with the Trigun Movie was that it doesn't take place where the Anime ended where Vash defeats his brother Knives. The Bebop Movie however just seems like filler as it didn't feel relevant to the Anime storyline of course most Anime Movies are like that but it'd be great If they didn't.
Out of all the Live-Action Anime/Manga Movies, Dragonball Evolution is by far the worst. The casting is horrible and the choreography is nowhere near as good as the fight between Neo and Agent Smith in Matrix Revolutions, heck that kind of fight scene should've been what most of the battles in Dragonball Evolution should've been like.
Oh but I just only hit the tip of the iceberg, it gets much worse cause there's already plans for a sequel for Dragonball Evolution and I can assure you that it will be the worst thing to happen in Cinema history since M. Night Shyamalan's adaptation of Nickelodeon's hit series, "Avatar: The Last Airbender".
Maybe the sequel will prove me wrong, who knows but what I do know is that the sequel for The Last Airbender isn't going to go so well since they basically crammed episodes worth of a series into one movie without any kind of consistency whatsoever.
I meant to say the people of Japan as a whole and I'm very sorry that I offended you or anyone else in anyway because of this. I did warn earlier not to take what I said the wrong way but you did. I said that cause I didn't want to offend anyone about an opinion I had which didn't have a valid point but it lead me guessing for a reason behind it when there was none.
I'm not only more sypathetic to the Japanese because of the video games they make, I'm really grateful for what they've done in terms of pop culture especially here in America where they made it big even though it's sort of a niche culture in the U.S. in some cases.
Regardless of that I'm still sympathetic towards them due to this tragedy even If they aren't famous with the pop culture, anime/manga, video games, this is about reaching our hearts towards people that have supported us and it's time that we support them as well.
I just recently said at the end of post #102 of this thread that Japan didn't deserve this disaster. Calm down I didn't come here to start a flame war...
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No, but it's something to think about. Don't get the wrong idea, I have deep condolences to the people of Japan who are struggling in this horrible tragedy as well as the people of the Japanese Video Game Industry, Anime/Manga Industry, the Otaku, and many more. I love Nintendo, Sega, and many of Japan's best video games and their amazing soundtracks for specific games.
Some people use karma as an excuse for specific natural disasters (take for example the case with Sharon Stone when China got hit by an Earthquake a few years ago) and this could be one of them, I'm not saying it is however it's just a possibility. One claimed that they were being too greedy in terms of business, but the way I see it their technology is exceeding faster than other countries around the world at an alarming rate and it could of have posed a threat to the human race with the life-like robots being made.
Well it's one thing when Japan is technologically advanced but it's another when they go a bit too far with it that could pose a negative threat to society, the fear of machines taking over the human race that's a very scary aspect.
If anything this disaster in Japan has shed light on it's with the use of geothermal nuclear energy over oil/gas in America and it's apparent that the idea has backfired. It's true that we need some form of Energy Reform here in America, and I think Solar Energy or Wind Farms, the stuff that Texas Billionaire T. Boone Pickens has proposed to get off our dependence on foreign oil is the right answer.
Look I'm not trying to be a jerk or trying to be like Glenn Beck, and who really knows If God or some kind of "Divine Retribution" was responsible for what happened in Japan nobody knows. There's no definitive proof is there? The case with Haiti well I'm not really sure, some people like Pat Robertson critized them for worshiping the devil years and years ago but I don't see the proof that signifies this and there was absolutely no justification for what happened to those people in the wake of that Earthquake.
What I'm getting at is that Japan didn't deserve this horrible tragedy but it does make you wonder about the reasons behind of why it happened in the first place. When it comes to Natural Disasters especially one of this magnitude it's really hard to give out an explanation of why it happened and I apologize If I offended anyone about that just for guessing as to why it happened to find a reason for it when bottom line there was none.
Perhaps these recent events is punishment for Japan going too far with technology, heck compared to the rest of the world before the Earthquake/Tsunami they are light years ahead especially with the scary life-like robots and this just proves they need to slow down especially with their geothermal nuclear energy which they are already having problems with.
It's also been confirmed that the 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan has actually moved the island close to the United States and has shifted the planet's axis. The quake caused a rift 15 miles below the sea floor that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles wide, according to the Associated Press. The areas closest to the epicenter of the quake jumped a full 13 feet closer to the United States, geophysicist Ross Stein at the United States Geological Survey told The New York Times.
The world's fourth-largest, 9.0 magnitude quake was caused when the Pacific tectonic plate dove under the North American plate, which shifted Eastern Japan towards North America by about 13 feet. The quake also shifted the earth's axis by 6.5 inches, shortened the day by 1.6 microseconds, and sank Japan downward by about two feet. As Japan's eastern coastline sunk, the tsunami's waves rolled in.
The quake shortened the day because the Earth's mass shifted towards the center, spurring the planet to spin a bit faster. Last year's 8.8 magnitude Earthquake in Chile also shortened the day, but by an even smaller fraction of a second. The 2004 Sumatra quake knocked a whopping 6.8 microseconds off the day.
Infraction for trolling.
-Yukora
End of story.
http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1011PSIENDVD/OPSIM308/PR
I would try to post the whole letter that the above link has but it would be a giant wall of text and it'd be better to see it in video word for word.
Well according to Robowatch.org, Marina Gorbis director of the Institute for the Future says that many whitecollar jobs will soon be replaced by robots. She claims there will be a robotic renaissance and that our children will have a chronically high 10 unemployment rate as the result.
There's other messages in the chat room on that website, you can go read them If you like. Someone else also posted on the website that a new robotic car was developed that actually drives itself without the use of humans driving them.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled, "Israeli Robots Remake the Battlefield." This clearly shows that Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics where Robots will not harm a human being is being completely ignored and that Robots are now being developed and deployed by many of the world's armies with the specific purpose to find and kill humans.
There's also talk about Roboanatomy and Robophysiology creating a new species known as "Robo Sapiens". The fear is that members of this new species will progressively LOSE THEIR HUMAN IDENTITY. Ultimately they may become dangerous competitors of Homo Sapiens (Us). I know alot of this sounds farfetched but it's legit according to the website.
Another post mentioned the use of AI in the teaching of our young could be a bad idea. Since we seem to have such a hard time publishing the truth in our school books now. How easy it would be to manipulate the public If the human element was removed. Subjects would only learn what was deemed proper for them to learn to facilitate the belief of whatever social engineering you wanted. The youth removed the truth would only believe logic. that computers cannot lie but those that program them can.
As socialism is on the rise in America we all hope that machines are not the ones we rely on who decides who needs help and who does not. Machines follow logic as their guiding principle, the needs of the many outway the needs of the few, those who will most likely perish will be denied care so those who will probably live will be given the resources. The only way socialism could truly work is if a computer sorted everything out.
Much more stuff If you read...
Makes sense with how the internet has hardwired us especially with YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. This is what's really killing the Table Top Gaming Industry in the Secondary Market, less people wanting to play TCG/CCG's in paper form due to the massive popularity of MMO's and that is still a growing problem.
Sooner or later this forum will almost cease to exist depending If Paper Magic can last longer. Even though technology gives us pleasure we've become too dependant on it as a society and I think more people should give it a break but it's kind of hard cause the internet is as addictive as television but in a sense of knowing more about what's going on depending on how deep you go.
Okay now here's the difference, computers and the internet gives us pleasure yet robots and androids give us pain. Sure robots and androids might seem useful at first glance but there's a sinister nature lurking within them that could potentially turn our world upside down.
As much as I really like Japan in terms of their Pop Culture in Anime/Manga, I think they've drawn the line in terms of technology most notably with robotics. They can compose great video game music as well, but androids and robots? seriously Japan? As If Vocaloids were bad enough.
Personally I wouldn't want to live there now considering how the aspect of robots and androids adapting to society is a very very bad idea. Infact it's very scary, the future just seems really scary at the moment either way you slice it.
http://www.robotapocalypse.net/2010/09/cylons-are-here-thank-japan.html
http://www.robowatch.org/
Insectoid? Have you seen the crazy life like robots Japan has been making recently? 0__0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IIVF7PGBs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaf-QxhQh6g&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZJqiUrbnI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFVlzUAZkHY&feature=player_embedded
The Robot Apocalypse is upon us! 0_o
Before then was IBM's famous Supercomputer "Watson" that recently won on Jeopardy! while stumping human contestants Ken Jennings and some other guy while trying to "prove a point" while giving money away to charity, then when Whoopi Goldberg or Oprah was offerred to interview Watson she declined being as creeped out about that aspect I'm not surprised.
Why is it that humans are trying to turn science fiction into reality to jeopardize not just the normalization of society but also to change it drastically in a way where it could have devastating consequences?
When is enough enough? Since the 1980's and earlier we've come a long way in advancements in technology which in some cases are associated with extra-terresterials or aliens from outer space utilizing technologies they have possibly used and re-discovering them in the 20th and 21st Centuries. If anyone's seen Ancient Aliens on the History Channel you'll know what I'm talking about.
But this topic is about the future of robots and machines here on Earth and it seems like with the rate technology is going these days it's coming alot sooner than later, I'll admit the kind of technology we have these days is great but I'm fearing that humans are already going too far with it to the point where it just doesn't seem natural. It's already happening as we speak.
Now If the new villian is the Red Hood it would make sense given the absence of Batman's sidekick Robin in the last 2 films. I can totally see Red Hood in The Dark Knight Rises. The last 2 films didn't indicate any relevance to Jason Todd let alone Dick Grayson the 2nd Robin but I guess we'll find out later.
Out of all the Live-Action Anime/Manga Movies, Dragonball Evolution is by far the worst. The casting is horrible and the choreography is nowhere near as good as the fight between Neo and Agent Smith in Matrix Revolutions, heck that kind of fight scene should've been what most of the battles in Dragonball Evolution should've been like.
Oh but I just only hit the tip of the iceberg, it gets much worse cause there's already plans for a sequel for Dragonball Evolution and I can assure you that it will be the worst thing to happen in Cinema history since M. Night Shyamalan's adaptation of Nickelodeon's hit series, "Avatar: The Last Airbender".
Maybe the sequel will prove me wrong, who knows but what I do know is that the sequel for The Last Airbender isn't going to go so well since they basically crammed episodes worth of a series into one movie without any kind of consistency whatsoever.