Holy crap, we've got robot avatars now
There's a big meeting across the country. What do you do?
1960: You fly there.
1980: You have a conference call.
2000: You do a video conference.
2010: You fire up your robot avatar at the location.
Pardon? Yep, it's for real, folks. A company called Anybots has created a prototype of a robot that will serve as a person's physical presence in a remote location. You log in through the Internet and after a few keystrokes the 'bot, called QB, comes alive, leaving its charging station and ready to meet, brainstorm, greet visitors or just generally creep people out.
Wow, what a morning to stumble into!
Yay, Gracie, being home! (Noah, be a good brother-- she's there for keeps, bucko!)
Yay, Kalli-- but she can't possibly be a year old already. Nuh and uh.
Yay, msbelle on house offer!
Cash, get better ~ma for your mom--
And in case folks haven't peeked into GWW, Amy sold Cold Kiss to Germany yesterday!
Under 20?
Sorry. You were thwarted by a robot avatar.
I live right off a state road 66!
I should be picking up the house and getting Liv ready to go out rather than enjoying a bit of political schadenfreude. But I can never resist. I lived in this guy's district when he was elected and I've disliked him ever since.
I've been on part of Rte 66. I have a pic of a sign for Hwy 666, which I think has been renumbered.
I have a pic of a sign for Hwy 666, which I think has been renumbered.
Yes it has. Sad, really, that they renumbered it before I had a chance to appropriate a 666 sign.
Huh... really didn't see the new topic coming....
I can see this is going to be a thread-long earworm.
Saudi Woman Punches Religious Policeman Who Stops Her for Questioning
(NewsCore) - This was one Saudi woman who packed a wallop.
A 20-something Saudi female stopped and questioned by a religious policeman as she strolled through an amusement park with a young man apparently had enough and punched the officer repeatedly until he had to be taken to a hospital, the Jerusalem Post reported Monday.
In a story the paper said was “all over the Saudi media,” the Post said the policeman spotted the couple as they strolled through the amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz and asked them to confirm their identities and relationship to each other. It is a crime for unmarried men and women to mix in Saudi Arabia.
The man collapsed for unknown reasons when questioned by the cop, the Post reported.
But the woman allegedly began pummeling the officer, hitting him repeatedly until he had to be taken to the hospital with injuries to his face and body, the paper said, quoting the Saudi daily Okaz.
To see resistance from a woman means a lot,” Wajiha Al-Huwaidar, a Saudi women’s rights activist, told The Media Line news agency, the paper said. “People are fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years. This is just the beginning and there will be more resistance.”
The names of the couple and date of the incident were not made public. If the woman is charged, the Post said, she could face a lengthy prison term and lashings.
