Robot soldiers bound for Iraq............
Robot soldiers bound for Iraq............
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Wacky Racer

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40,581 posts

270 months

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

278 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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Eighteen of 'em, eh?

That should sort them out.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

278 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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Think the beeb got it wrong again......

18 soldiers called Robert, more like it.......

andygo

7,278 posts

278 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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It looks ever so agile, and the camouflage should be a doddle...

Should be as easy to take out as a Gatso.

Don

28,378 posts

307 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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Why is it I keep hearing the words

"You have ten seconds to comply."

"nine"

"eight"

Seriously - if these things mean less of "our" guys cop it in urban fighting then surely they're a good thing! Even if they turn out to be useless they'll have learned something for the next version.

v8thunder

27,647 posts

281 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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"EX-TER-MIN-ATE, EX-TER-MIN-ATE"

Do they have trouble with stairs?

hedders

24,460 posts

270 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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The Foster-Miller company is owned by the QinetiQ Group, a joint venture between the UK's Ministry of Defence and US-based holding company, Carlyle Group.
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The carlyle Group eh?

www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html

No conflict of interests there then...

Alicatt

220 posts

256 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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Quoted from that link ...
Hearinreality.com said:
Carlyle provided another curious link to the Afghan crisis: among the firm's multi-million-dollar investors were members of the family of Osama bin Laden

Me thinks a conflict of intrest there?

toppstuff

13,698 posts

270 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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So the Bin Laden family are invested into a private equity business which benefits from the increase in demand for ammunition and arms sales. And the directors of that company includes ex heads of state and organisations who make the decision to go to war in the first place....

So , in one place, you find the relatives of the central character in the "war on terror" side by side with the people actually prosecuting the war...

Mmmm. Conspiracy theory anyone?

JonRB

79,285 posts

295 months

Sunday 23rd January 2005
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Article said:
Mr Quinn says there are plans to replace the computer screen, joysticks and keypad in the remote-control unit with a Gameboy-style controller and virtual-reality goggles.

And now every teenager up and down the country can claim to their nagging mother than the hours they spend on their console is not wasting their life and that people do make money from playing a console and that when they grow up they want to be a remote-control robot warrior operator.

hedders

24,460 posts

270 months

Monday 24th January 2005
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toppstuff said:
So the Bin Laden family are invested into a private equity business which benefits from the increase in demand for ammunition and arms sales. And the directors of that company includes ex heads of state and organisations who make the decision to go to war in the first place....

So , in one place, you find the relatives of the central character in the "war on terror" side by side with the people actually prosecuting the war...

Mmmm. Conspiracy theory anyone?


Not so sure about the theory part...Conspiracy fact seems more appropriate in this case!

jimothy

5,151 posts

260 months

Monday 24th January 2005
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hedders said:


Not so sure about the theory part...Conspiracy fact seems more appropriate in this case!



Have you seen Farenheight 911, it goes into this whole link between Bush, the Carlyle group, the Binladens...
I trust Bush even less after seeing this...

hedders

24,460 posts

270 months

Monday 24th January 2005
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jimothy said:



Have you seen Farenheight 911, it goes into this whole link between Bush, the Carlyle group, the Binladens...
I trust Bush even less after seeing this...


Yup, seen both his movies and read stupid white men for good measure

It seems like it is accepted that this stuff is going on and we may not as well make a fuss cos there is nothing that can be done...

It's all quite disturbing and certainly makes me want to withold my taxes at the very least.

Did you also hear that Haliburton has just been given a £10bn contract to build Aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. The whole thing seems very incestous to me..

zooooom

1,310 posts

283 months

Monday 24th January 2005
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18 nah they need one thats Arnie.
Send him in and make it the next Terminator film .

imperialism2024

1,596 posts

279 months

Tuesday 25th January 2005
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hedders said:

jimothy said:



Have you seen Farenheight 911, it goes into this whole link between Bush, the Carlyle group, the Binladens...
I trust Bush even less after seeing this...



Yup, seen both his movies and read stupid white men for good measure

It seems like it is accepted that this stuff is going on and we may not as well make a fuss cos there is nothing that can be done...

It's all quite disturbing and certainly makes me want to withold my taxes at the very least.

Did you also hear that Haliburton has just been given a £10bn contract to build Aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. The whole thing seems very incestous to me..



And did you hear that even though many people use it in common speech, the word "gullible" is not actually a word in the English language, and cannot be found in a dictionary?

imperialism2024

1,596 posts

279 months

Tuesday 25th January 2005
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v8thunder said:
"EX-TER-MIN-ATE, EX-TER-MIN-ATE"

Do they have trouble with stairs?


Nope. They just call in one of these.

love machine

7,609 posts

258 months

Tuesday 25th January 2005
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This enormous waste of taxpayers money is just a joke.

It makes me mad. Why don't we just nuke the place and be done with it? Vaporise the lot of them. It's similar morally. I'm fed up with this war on terror and I want them to stop it.

cazzer

8,883 posts

271 months

Tuesday 25th January 2005
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Ahhh...its just propaganda....
They won't use these...they cost money.

People from Alabama with one braincell don't.
And whats more they make new ones for nothing.

If the U.S. infantry was replaced all those Privates Pile would have to be found other gainful employment....

Soylent Green anyone?

Chris Type R

8,767 posts

272 months

Tuesday 25th January 2005
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Handy having a war for R&D purposes - not a good time to be a British soldier.

WildfireS3

9,915 posts

275 months

Tuesday 25th January 2005
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Sarah Conner??