Posted on 09/20/2017 12:58:24 PM PDT by mairdie
So you think there’s a bot network where the chatbots get together and gossip about the number they’re doing on the, to quote Odo, “solids.” Suppose it’s reasonable that the lottery bot in on their net. Cut me in.
Yuck!
Yep...I agree....since when did we need ‘outside’ the family help for these decisions, or didn’t know where to go to ‘privately’ discuss these personal matters......
I smell a rat.....
>>It would just be my luck to get one that just says “Off yourself, off yourself, off yourself, etc etc etc.
But they’re binary-based, so I’m sure that after you’ve taken their advice, they’ll switch to “On yourself, on yourself, etc.”
This actually hit home because I worked on a hospital computer project to give advice to the parents of leukemic children. The idea was to get fathers, in particular, to interact with it when they were alone as it was assumed men would do better talking with machines than with people.
Obviously it will be programmed to encourage the old folks to die. Oh, not right away. The first versions will be real nice and kind, and not tell the old people to take a pill and die. Later versions will.
Elderly Whites will be told to take the pill before all those “oppressed” people.
Dump this idea now!
What the f*ck! making old folks type statements on a computer to get them to die? What they f*cking need is some human kindness. Enough with substituting electronics for human contact.
Well said.
I met Rene “Odo” Auberjonois from “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” once.
He was hanging out with Howard Hesseman.
One of the most poignant scenes in all of Movieland.
Can’t watch it without weeping.
Johnny Fever! Okay, I am completely impressed. Loved WKRP.
It is from Soylent Green, and Charlton’s tears were REAL, as his dear friend Edward G Robinson was really, in fact, dying when he did that last role.
>>Microsoft was way ahead of the curve
That is SO impressive. Absolutely perfect!
Haven’t heard of the movie and didn’t know any of that. Fascinating.
Did you see the NCIS-LA season where Miguel Ferrer, the son of Mel Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, was dying and played the dying Owen Granger to the end?
Wasn’t Rene in Benson too?
I didn’t see that NCIS episode, but in a previous series (crossing Jordan) Mel Ferrer was a costar, and did not look well even back then.
Here is the scene:
Sol (Edward G. Robinson) learns of a dark government secret that causes him to give up on living. He goes to the Euthanasia Clinic to end it all. His best friend (Charlton Heston) follows him to the clinic and tries to save him, but can’t. Then he follows the body to find out the secret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bshz1reMTVY
Yes.
I presume they became friends when both had sitcoms.
I loved Benson. I’ll have to check.
>>Here is the scene:
Watched but, out of context, main emotion was anger at Sol giving up.
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