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Giant Robot in Hoboken is Keeping Parked Cars
08/08/2006
Posted on 08/08/2006 10:52:37 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Can't link to the source, but - despite the headline - this is a really good story on how a city should first pay for a giant robotic parking facility, or suffer the consequences.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71554-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: giantrobot; govwatch; rosie
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To: Fudd
Does the facility have an Autobot symbol on the side or a Deceptcon symbol? It seems that this rather pertinent info has been omitted.
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:21:11 AM PDT
by
madconservative
(Founding member of the Constantinople Liberation Organization.)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:23:04 AM PDT
by
Spruce
(Keep your mitts off my wallet)
To: TC Rider
I love Giant Robots, You love giant robots, We love giant robots, Chicks love giant robots, yeah!
Megas XLR
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:24:37 AM PDT
by
Hazcat
To: Responsibility2nd
Danger Will Robinson! Don't trust that man offering to park your car!
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:33:27 AM PDT
by
BaBaStooey
(I heart Emma Caulfield.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Giant Robot in Hoboken is Keeping Parked Cars
After all, you can't just saunter up to a giant robot and demand that he return the vehicle. He's liable to stomp you flat.
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:34:45 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(who is having the best day ever!)
To: Spruce
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:36:55 AM PDT
by
LexBaird
("Politically Correct" is the politically correct term for "F*cking Retarded". - Psycho Bunny)
To: Bacon Man; Hap; humblegunner; Allegra; Flyer
Threads like this make me wish Xena's Guy and Hank were on FR!
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:37:04 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(who is having the best day ever!)
To: Hazcat
Plus, Megas is a Jersey robot, and has a cool car for a head.
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:38:01 AM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: Responsibility2nd
You did do it right, and frankly it's hilarious.
I can just hear a scary robot voice booming, "Pay for our giant robotic parking facility, foolish humans, or suffer the consequences!"
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:38:25 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(who is having the best day ever!)
To: TC Rider
Living here in Jersey fighting villians from afar. I've got to find first gear in my giant robot car.
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:41:22 AM PDT
by
Hazcat
To: Hazcat
To: PBRSTREETGANG
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:50:13 AM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
To: All
To: PBRSTREETGANG
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:52:33 AM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
To: All
Mecha-Ann will save us
To: Responsibility2nd
In the course of a contract dispute, the city of Hoboken had police escort the Robotic employees from the premises just a few days before the contract between both parties was set to expire. What the city didn't understand or perhaps concern itself with, is that they sent the company packing with its manuals and the intellectual property rights to the software that made the giant robotic parking structure work. Voltron Shrugged.
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posted on
08/08/2006 11:57:21 AM PDT
by
steve-b
("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
To: monkapotamus
Awesome. Just ... awesome.
To: All
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