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.
Originally spotted at io9.
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As you read this, a three-foot tall robot is likely strapped into the passenger seat of a stranger's car, whizzing down some road outside Salem, Mass. Its pool-noodle legs, clad in yellow rain boots, are splayed out in front of it. Its solar panel-wrapped cylindrical body gleams in the sunlight. Its boxy face — which lacks a nose but features huge red LED eyes and an upside-down rainbow of a smile — swivels back and forth as it alternately makes conversation and peers out the window at the landscape passing by.
That's if it's lucky. If it's unlucky this intrepid droid, dubbed "HitchBOT" by the Canadian engineers who created it, is still perched on the side of the road somewhere, arm extended, thumbing for a ride. Or, if it's really unlucky, it's already dead — destroyed by weather or the malice of humans.
Determining which scenario turns out to be the right one is part of the mission for HitchBOT, who was launched on a hitchhiking journey across the U.S. Friday. The robot comes equipped with a GPS tracker, a camera, an opposable thumb and a bucket list of American destinations it aims to reach in the weeks ahead, relying solely on rides from sympathetic strangers.
It made it across Canada last summer, will motorists help it in the USA?
Armed only with conversation software, the machine lasted just two weeks relying on the kindness of strangers to forward its journey. The US proved too much despite HitchBOT successfully traversing Canada and parts of Europe in 2014.
However, there may be a happy ending yet. Not willing to let robot violence scar its city, hackers and makers in Philadelphia are reaching out to the HitchBOT team to offer new life to the fallen Canadian after hearing about the robot violence.
"We'll say that at this moment, if we get the OK from the creators to repair or replace the needed parts for HitchBOT, we'll be happy to do so," wrote Georgia Guthrie, executive director for a local makerspace called The Hacktory. "If not, we understand... and we may just build ourselves a HitchBot2 to send along on its journey. We feel it's the least we can do to let everyone, especially the Robot community, know that Philly isn't so bad."
Perhaps one day they may become known to all robotkind as "Good Philadelphians."
Previously: The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2015, @10:49PM
Philly is full of crime committing niggers. You can't have nice things with niggers around.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2015, @10:56PM
Friendly gayniggers would never vandalize a man's research project.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 02 2015, @11:25PM
The worst White people in the U.S. are also on the East Coast -- Specifically in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts.
Toothless Southern trash can pretend to be gentlemen at least some of the time. Not East-coasters, though. East-Coasters are a bunch of loud, rude, obtuse, unpredictable obnoxious gorillas best left to performing in zoos and freakshows. Even border Mexicans are more preferable than East-Coast goons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:06AM
When I read this post, I couldn't help thinking, this is the kind of person who would destroy the little robot.
(Score: 4, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Monday August 03 2015, @12:38AM
Ah, a fellow east coaster! Glad you could join us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @01:33AM
I'm not saying people in the west are all ponies and rainbows nice, but the asshole quotient in the states you mention is extremely high.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday August 03 2015, @11:40AM
You can't judge the entire Eastern seaboard by the Jersey Shore, Ethanol. You are, however, correct that the worst White people in the US are on the East Coast, but they are not even those on the Jersey Shore. They're the ones in the Hamptons, Westchester Country, the Upper East Side, and Wall Street. They're the ones that make everything suck for everyone else, everywhere.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:19AM
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.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:43AM
"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
Only if NIGGERS move in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:26AM
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
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
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
So you normally answer to logged-in troll posts instead?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @10:13PM
Trolls reach a new low--
Moderate accordingly!
The needle is pegged...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday August 03 2015, @12:00PM
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.
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."
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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gravis on Sunday August 02 2015, @11:16PM
nobody that understands the internet populous is surprised by how terrible humans can be. the USA is embroiled in and even encourages bad behavior, so it's no surprise that HitchBOT met it's demise here.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:13AM
Selfishness and fucking over everyone possible for entertainment or personal gain is the American way. Its literally the core of American society, what everything else is built on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:29AM
Every country has its form of humour. France uses farce, for example. The basis of US humour is insults. Says a lot about the people.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday August 03 2015, @02:34PM
I thought it was wanton abuse of poodles.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Monday August 03 2015, @08:10AM
Considering the robot traveled just fine all over the world, and (as you pointed out) was only damaged by assholes in the USA, I don't think that people on the English-speaking Internet are related to this problem. It increasingly seems to me like people in my (our?) country are becoming overly prone to being aggressive, cruel, and callous, more than anything else; I wouldn't be surprised to read that it's a "bread & circuses" type sign that the proverbial empire is failing. :-/
Also as a FYI:
populace - the people living in a particular region/area
populous - having a large population
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Francis on Monday August 03 2015, @03:46PM
It was damaged by one asshole in the US, or possibly a half dozen. At this point there's no reason to believe that this had anything to do with the roughly 99.999999677% of Americans that didn't do this. This is one example, it could easily have been destroyed in one of those other countries, either accidentally or on purpose. Europeans don't have any more respect for property than Americans do, and the implication, by various people, that this is violence is ridiculous.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday August 03 2015, @03:58PM
I've traveled enough of Europe to know that destruction of unguarded property "for fun" is not as US-only thing.
Bored teenagers, drunks, and rednecks exist everywhere. They just differ in their weapons and youtube upload speed.
It would be an interesting experiment to drop lots of little bots in the shittier areas of various countries and compare the methods of destruction.
Just don't make them out of metal in Chicago: no bored teen would ever beat the recycling pick-up trucks to one.
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Wednesday August 05 2015, @10:26AM
The last recorded words as the plucky little robot entered the Cadillac with tinted windows were: "Oh thank you Obama. Stormtroopers? Here? We're in danger. I must tell the others. Oh, no! I've been shot!"
(Score: 3, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday August 02 2015, @11:16PM
back in the late '70s-early 80's I remember reading about how someone had put a plywood cut out painted to look like a guy with a big thumb held out by the side of a highway somewhere in the South East (I think it was Georgia) with a note asking for it to catch a ride heading West to California and a request that anyone who picked it up send the creator a letter or postcard saying where they had found it and where they dropped it off.
Over the next 5-6 months the creator got dozens of postcards and letters with photos of the cutout standing beside state line signs, various national/state/local monuments and other famous road side stops. Eventually he received a photo showing it standing on Venice Beach, CA. looking not much the worse for its travels.
Far cry from what happened to this one. Maybe it was that it was interacting with the driver/passengers, or maybe the USA just has more assholes than it did.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2015, @11:43PM
Far cry from what happened to this one. Maybe it was that it was interacting with the driver/passengers, or maybe the USA just has more assholes than it did.
It was neither. All it takes is one asshole to fuck it up. Bet whoever did it was drunk too. This sort of endeavor is very brittle, you can't draw any general conclusions based on such a tiny sample size. It's like throwing a single rubber duck in the ocean off Japan and expecting it to make to California.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 03 2015, @01:14AM
Nothing new. See the Easy rider [wikipedia.org] doco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:15AM
My 1st thought was also small minds with big guns. [google.com]
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:02AM
I see a fair amount of those in Europe too.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Wednesday August 05 2015, @07:22AM
Let me counter your anecdotal evidence with mine:
Malta, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Vatican City, San Marino, Sweden, Norway: nowhere near "a fair amount" of bullethole-ridden signs.
If your anecdotal evidence is correct, maybe this is a eastern-europe thing. It's definitely not common to the whole continent at any rate.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:18AM
Eastern Europe? Neven seen a single bullet hole in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia. Ditto Finland, ditto Russia, depending on what you want to include in "eastern Europe". Only got 2 decades of experience of the region though.
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Monday August 03 2015, @12:15AM
(Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday August 03 2015, @01:30AM
AS a Canadian, i'd like to apologize for our NOT destroying the robot first, and leaving it to you poor Americans to show that only you have the wherewithal to destroy something nice; something that could have been treasured.
George Bush asked "why does the world hate Americans so much?". I'm sorry to say that it is because we Canadians are too nice, and can't see the value in destroying a defenseless anthropic 'being'. (Yeah, i probably used anthropic wrong. Sorry again.)
Sorry.
Sorry.
Maybe next time.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 5, Interesting) by tathra on Monday August 03 2015, @03:20AM
the answer to this question is extremely obvious - americans are the biggest assholes on the planet. it becomes painfully visible when you're around people from other countries along with americans - the americans will go out of their way to be dicks. when i was part of the coalition forces in Afghanistan, everyone from every other country was as nice and polite as could be, including the people trying to kill us; my fellow Americans, on the other hand, were the biggest fucking pricks you could imagine for no reason whatsoever.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:55AM
Don't confuse Americans that choose to have "must murder other human beings" in their job description with the ones that actually are nice and saw through the nonsense of military action in the middle-east. Just by doing that you certainly showed you were a dick amongst dicks while all the decent human beings stayed at home in frustration at not being able to stop the wars.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @07:47AM
Well, from his post I conclude the other people he was talking about had the very same job description as those Americans. Therefore the comparison is valid.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Monday August 03 2015, @08:04PM
not all american troops were infantry, and MOS had no bearing on whether one was an asshole or not; some US infantry were decent people, and some US non-infantry were bigger assholes than any infantrymen i've ever met. non-US soldiers, on the other hand, were polite and equitable regardless of their military occupation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @12:20AM
As someone who was in the service as well, it's a mixed bag indeed. You get some of the finest humans and some of the dregs. I knew soldiers who went out of their way to make sure no one went hungry on holidays and invited homeless to eat with them, and I knew those that literally bragged about torturing and murdering animals. I can certainly tell you it's far from just an American thing though as I know some terrible Europeans who were more racist than any good ole boy I ever met. Can't say as I've met an impolite Canadian aside from the entire province of Quebec.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:52AM
Assume the percentage of assholes within a population is the same between populations. The US has a higher population, therefore more assholes. Simple really.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @05:40AM
"why does the world hate Americans so much?"
Bombings and control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:19AM
Or maybe with all the sinister ways the government and corporations attempt to spy on us whoever picked up this bot figured it was just another sinister plot to somehow invade our privacy and so they figured, 'I'll show them!!!"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2015, @11:45PM
My comment in the first article, before it actually started hitchhiking, was:
I've had 30 years to see how evil humans are. There are some good ones out there, but they're rare. Even people who look nice, smell nice, and act nice can be more malicious than I'd have ever believed maybe twenty years ago. It's not just in the USA either. I've met people online from some European and South American countries whom I'd rather not ever have to meet in real life.
I try to be one of the good ones anyway.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by SpockLogic on Monday August 03 2015, @01:31AM
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.
No surprise as the US is an inherently violent society.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Francis on Monday August 03 2015, @02:00AM
Sigh, there's a portion of the populace that is violent. You're talking about a small percentage of the population that's violent. Most Americans aren't violent. There's a ton of assholes and generally worthless people, but most of them aren't violent.
(Score: 4, Informative) by dyingtolive on Monday August 03 2015, @02:19AM
Yeah, it's hard to work yourself up to actual violence when you're fat and complacent.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:35AM
Not true. Those fat-assed Grecians were getting pretty worked up lately, and the French will readily jump with such vigor if there is any suggestion that they need to do any actual work. If they put in only a fraction of the effort it takes for them to take to the street, burn cars, and battle police, they'd get their 30 hour work week in and there wouldn't be a need to have protested in the first place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:23AM
And yet somehow they're significantly more productive [businessinsider.com] than US workers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Francis on Monday August 03 2015, @03:41PM
You should reread that article you linked to, it doesn't say that the French are the most productive, it says that they're "likely to be the most productive" that's a completely different matter. The US worker is the most productive worker over all, but the Norwegians are usually up there if you do it on an hourly basis rather than just over all.
I'm not even sure why everything needs to turn into America bashing. Are you guys really that jealous?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:45AM
Let's not make this into a nationalistic pissing match. One robot is a poor sample size to measure general vandalism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:10AM
Only an American would think that a law that says "absolutely anyone can have any weapons designed for remote and indiscriminate killing" wasn't a sign that you're a pretty messed up populace.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:27AM
Just out of curiosity, from what enlightened society do you hail where there is no violence? You must be an Organian to have the hutzpah to cast such stones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @04:33AM
America is inherently more violent than other countries and Americans are inherently unable to deal with it... or do anything about it.
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Monday August 03 2015, @06:20PM
I fail to see how this is insightful. Inherently violent? Based on what information? Based on a couple internet news articles?(the Guardian maybe?) Based on the decisions of its leadership? These are hardly representative of the population as a whole, yes they were elected in our system, but that doesn't excuse taking them as the brush to paint the entire US population as violent.
I am a father of four daughters, my wife is a whisp of a thing (100lb), and I can say that I am not nervous about their safety, or my own. It isn't because I have armed them to the teeth. I haven't loaded them up with pepper spray. My daughters ride mass transit and my wife walks to work. I have had disagreements with others in public, none have gone to blows. I have witnessed plenty of disagreements in public, and none of them have ended in violence. If SpockLogic's statement were true, then in my 50 years, I would think I should have witnessed at least a few instances of "inherent violence".
We have our flaws, as do ALL countries. Saying the US is an inherently violent society is just wrong, and revising it to "inherently destructive" would be equally off.
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:23AM
So what cities did it go through when it went through Canada and Germany? What kind of press preceded it? There are some pretty bad parts of Philly, did it go through those parts or was it in the suburbs? Did it go through rough parts of Germany or Canada, or are we comparing a jaunt through the rural countryside to going thorough the 'hood? Maybe it was a precocious 6-year-old. Maybe it was raccoons.
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Monday August 03 2015, @02:54AM
So what cities did it go through when it went through Canada and Germany?
Can't speak for Germany, but in Canada, as far as I recall, it went from east coast to the west coast. So pretty much most of the major cities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:59AM
That doesn't make any sense. Just because it went coast to coast does not necessarily mean it hit any cities let alone most major ones. I have driven 1000 miles west to east in Canada and never hit a town large enough for two traffic lights.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @06:58AM
Yeah, well Canada's a big country, so you can go a long way without seeing many people - depending on your route. Nunavut is the size of western Europe but only 35,000 people live there.
OTOH, if you go coast to coast, then you're pretty much guaranteed to pass through several major cities - especially if you're hitchhiking and, thus, following major traffic flows. That's a lot more than 1000 miles and you'll hit Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax at a minimum. 80% of the population lives along that route - the Trans-Canada Highway makes up much of it.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 03 2015, @01:19PM
Did it go through rough parts of Germany or Canada
Whats a rough part of Germany, some dude didn't mow his lawn for 4 days so the lawn police are swarming him?
Ditto Canada, the worst I've seen there is trailer park level meth addicts, not really all that bad of folks although I'm not into their lifestyle. I guess a rough part of Canada is where people denigrate hockey as not being a real sport or trash talk maple syrup as being unhealthy. Then there's poutine where feeding that to people probably categorized by UN as torture.
I'm just saying you can't really compare civilized areas to our 3rd world slums. Go ahead, try to send a hitchbot thru Somalia, see how that works. Our leaders see the future of America as Mogadishu not Dublin so from their point of view this is a feature not a bug.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @02:58AM
You'd see photos of hitchBOT smoking a doobie.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @03:24AM
That comment was one toke over the line.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Celestial on Monday August 03 2015, @03:02AM
As someone who was born in Philadelphia nearly four decades ago, raised there, and lived in the city all my life... I love my city. What other city would decapitate and dismember a defenseless robot and boo Santa Claus?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @05:36AM
Free Hans Reiser.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @06:39AM
Proving once again why they needed DC as a slightly more upscale hive of scum and villainy... erm Capitol.
(Score: 2) by morgauxo on Monday August 03 2015, @08:08PM
To anyone who feels the need to blame the people of the US for this I would like to point out that there are over 300 million people in this country. It only requires the bad luck that one deuchebag happened to come across the robot and destroy it. It is awesome to consider the travels the robot already survived. Is it reasonable though to expect that any nation, even your nation not have at least one worthless excuse for a human being that would do this? If so then you must have a very small nation or else a very high opinion of yourselves.