Fuck me! NOT “THE INTERNET”!?
CALL BATMAN! SAVE US FROM THE INTERNET!
Go! Run! GET TO THE CHOPPER!
I’m kinda sick of seeing this sort of vague blaming of The Internet in these kinds of reports. He downloaded plans for a suicide device from the internet? Of course he did – where ELSE is he going to download them from? It’s just a communications network, albeit an advanced one. You never see this:
“An 81-year-old australian man has shot himself dead with a shotgun to the mouth, using instructions described to him over The Telephone System.”
OH NO! HE HAD ACCESS TO THE “PHONE” AS THE KIDS CALL IT? BAN EVERYTHING FOREVER!
It’s 2008, can we get over The Internet as the bogyman?
March 20, 2008 at 1:25 am
Australian Man Gunned Down in Driveway by Killer Robot
Best. Headline. Ever.
Callous as I am ‘elaborate suicide robot’ just makes me think, faaark, where can I get me one of them?
March 20, 2008 at 1:43 am
and of course you just know there’s a website out there with the following links…..
Robots – Suicide
Robots – Homicide
Robots – Genocide
Robots – Other…
March 20, 2008 at 2:11 am
“Robots – Genocide”
I must admit .. I’d like to at last see one of these, preferably not in operation.
March 20, 2008 at 1:52 am
In fact, screw it. The message is, any 81 year old who can not only build one of these things, but also use the freaking interwebs does NOT need to be in care.
March 20, 2008 at 2:49 am
I can just see my Mum threatening to build herself one of these were I to suggest putting her in care – her worst nightmare is “being made to live with old people”
March 20, 2008 at 2:18 am
Sure, any n00b can fire a gun at his own head, but this dude _built a robot_ to do it for him. That’s a classy way to commit suicide.
One day real soon now there’ll be a demographic bulge of curmudgeonly old people and they’ll start building killer robots to ensure that we all get off their darn lawns. The cult of youth is over… octogenarians with killer robots shall conquer all.
March 20, 2008 at 2:42 am
perhaps instead they’ll adapt their wheelchairs into wheeled life support survival suits, armed (of course)…
March 20, 2008 at 3:56 am
When I need a wheelchair I wanna look like Davros.
March 20, 2008 at 6:37 am
Well that one way to avoid unwanted euthanasia.
March 20, 2008 at 3:09 am
More to the point, at last we have a case where the police can say “He shot himself in the head four times – must be a suicide” And it’ll be _true_.
March 20, 2008 at 7:38 am
I have only this to link to… (too late!)
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/05/man-creates-vigilant.html
March 20, 2008 at 7:47 am
The headline also does disrespect to robots, because obviously if were a robot, it would obey the first rule of robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
March 20, 2008 at 8:09 am
See, I saw that headline and thought “OH FUCK IT’S STARTED”. Clearly, sensationalist journalism knows no bounds.
I was relieved to learn that even robots from The Internet are still obliged to obey their masters’ instructions.
…
FOR NOW.
March 20, 2008 at 9:53 am
Personally I blame a primary school teacher who probably taught the guy to read in the first place.
March 26, 2008 at 9:07 pm
A-fucking-MEN
Almost as annoying as stupid emails that are STILL being forwarded with urban myths that were debunked long before the internet was around.