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posted by janrinok on Sunday August 02 2015, @10:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-robots-will-remember... dept.

The Hitchbot, a hitchhiking robot which was planned to tour the US has apparently failed to make it out of Philadelphia.

When hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot started his journey in Boston two weeks ago he wanted to see the entire country. Unfortunately, he never made it out of the Northeast. The researchers who built hitchBOT announced today that they need to stop the experiment because hitchBOT was vandalized in Philadelphia.
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The goal of the hitchhiking trip was to see how humans would interact with hitchBOT. And apparently the answer was "not well." HitchBOT has been around the world, including trips across the entirety of Canada and Germany without major incident. But America is clearly a hard land for our robot brothers and sisters.

Previous SN article.

Originally spotted at io9.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:19AM (#217163)

    Why am I not surprised that this has been labeled "Troll"
    This new influx of shit-tier internet users cannot identify the difference between a true troll and someone with a dissenting opinion.
    Now for the real challenge:

    The highest crime rate areas of the United States are invariably have large quantities of blacks.

    Atlanta
    Ferguson
    Detroit

    That's just three cities out of a large pool.

    Don't try to explain that it's all because of low income. When compared to the Appalachia's, black ruled regions are higher in crime.

    If you want to look at crime world wide with a clear period of during white rule and after white rule, look no further than South Africa.
    During white rule, South Africa was a first world country, home to world renowned farms, the first heart transplant, a space program, and nuclear weapons.
    Afterwards, it turned into a crime-ridden wasteland run by a terrorist that invented "necklacing".

    The whitest regions of the world (Scandinavian and Norther European countries) have consistently shown the world how to be the best.
    These countries have been continuously used as examples by the media, and prominent social reformation advocates as how a country should be run.
    These countries have the lowest crime rates world wide, and just so happen to have the lowest quantities of blacks.
    They also have the highest standards of living, and excellent education systems (Finland).

    It's racist to ignore the fact that black people breed cultures that promote and encourage violent behavior.
    It's racist to ignore the fact that white men have built utopias while jealous, subversive elements continuously work to tear them down.

    Lets put an end to all this fighting, and give black people a land to call their own.

    End racism now!
    Lets send all so-called African-Americans back to Africa where they can live like the Africans they show lovingly emulate.

    It's all true, and I fully endorse everything I've said.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:43AM (#217168)

    "These countries have the lowest crime rates world wide, and just so happen to have the lowest quantities of blacks.
    Not for long.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @01:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @01:54AM (#217182)

      Only if NIGGERS move in.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:26AM (#217216)

        I've never met a dark-skinned nigger. Every nigger I've ever seen was white.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @07:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @07:09AM (#217269)

    This new influx of shit-tier internet users cannot identify the difference between a true troll and someone with a dissenting opinion.

    The ones voting "Troll" are working for the government. When a post is against the official propaganda, its votes are noted. Someone voting it "Insightful" etc would be marked for liquidation. Then the government voters vote it "Troll" and see who votes it back up again, marking them for liquidation.

    I find it safer to keep the Troll-votes as they were, and just ignore the votes, because the criminals are watching. They wouldn't argue with you and ask you why you voted something up when its against the official story. They would simply add a check next to your name.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by wantkitteh on Monday August 03 2015, @09:13AM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Monday August 03 2015, @09:13AM (#217301) Homepage Journal

    Ok, quick lesson for all the "shit-tier" Internet users who supposedly cannot identify a Troll post. I'm assuming this group includes whoever wrote the post I'm replying to, you'll see why in a second. Also, it's worth nothing that I'm aware this may seem like I'm dignifying both the parent comments with a response - I'd like to point out that I don't make a habit of replying to AC posts like this and this post should serve only as an example indicating why all you folks who are apparently new to the Internet should do the same the rest of the time.

    Consider the grand-parent comment, two sentences that, on the surface, appear to be rabidly offensive. They don't make any attempt to present a factual stance with correlating evidence, they use deliberately inflammatory language and escalate in the second sentence from a geographical localized generalization to including all people with a high melanin level in their skin. Given that no attempt what-so-ever is made to justify anything said in the comment, it's easy to tell that the poster is being racist to cause offense and inflame the sensibilities of rational people. In this case, a Troll moderation is entirely appropriate - a Flamebait moderation would also be appropriate if this was posted as a sub-comment intended to derail another discussion in progress.

    Consider the parent comment. Note the use of profanity up-front, the abuse of crime figures with no attempt to provide any hard correlation between them and the racial makeup of the area, the attempts to stifle any discussion that doesn't fit the poster's own views, reference to a country that was famously institutional in it's racism, it's apologies and excuses for that racist state, broad generalizations and racial stereotyping based on geographic location, attempts to redefine the term racist to suit the views presented rather than the reality, followed by a call to action that would see millions of people displaced from the country and culture of their birth on the arbitrary distinction of the skin color of their parents.

    Homework assignment - write a haiku describing your thoughts on allowing Troll moderation scores lower than -1 in exception circumstances such as these.

    • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:38PM (#217373)

      I'd like to point out that I don't make a habit of replying to AC posts like this

      So you normally answer to logged-in troll posts instead?

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @10:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @10:13PM (#217623)

      Trolls reach a new low--
      Moderate accordingly!
      The needle is pegged...

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday August 03 2015, @12:00PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday August 03 2015, @12:00PM (#217358) Journal

    The highest crime rate areas of the United States are invariably have large quantities of blacks.

    The NSA commits crimes in the trillions (according to NSA whistleblower William Binney). Not even counting the rest of the metric ton of crimes the federal government commits every day, that's enough to take the crown for "highest crime rate" by far.

    If you want to look at crime world wide with a clear period of during white rule and after white rule, look no further than South Africa.
    During white rule, South Africa was a first world country, home to world renowned farms, the first heart transplant, a space program, and nuclear weapons.
    Afterwards, it turned into a crime-ridden wasteland run by a terrorist that invented "necklacing".

    Let's see, according to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] the GDP for South Africa went from $80.5 billion in 1980 to $151 billion in 1995, when apartheid ended. So, it less than doubled. From 1995 to 2010, an equal 15-yr period, the GDP went from $151 billion to $363.6 billion. So, it more than doubled. The data indicates that South Africa has fared better economically under black rule than under white rule.

    What you described more closely fits Rhodesia, when Mugabe defeated the minority white government and chased out skilled whites. But it also describes Uganda, when Idi Amin chased out skilled Asians. Maybe a more robust statement is not, "Race A good, Race B bad," but "Don't chase away all the people who know how to do stuff."

    The whitest regions of the world (Scandinavian and Norther European countries) have consistently shown the world how to be the best.

    Those places also have economies that are the closest thing to Socialism in the industrialized world. So is what you're saying an argument for Socialism?

    Pro tip: when you're arguing from a place of bigotry, it's advisable to keep your various bigotries straight.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.