{"id":792,"date":"2011-03-09T10:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T15:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2011-04-19T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T00:30:57","slug":"omg-it-blinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2011\/03\/09\/omg-it-blinks","title":{"rendered":"OMG It Blinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guest post was written by Mark Hurley of the blog Scumbag Style<\/a><\/strong>. Mark is a grade-A, certified scumbag, with many years experience. He is working as a freelance writer<\/a>, and you can also find him lurking through the back alleys of Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone who gets their offensiveness on at my regular site is most likely concerned about the downright clinical paranoid undertones concerning the coming robotapocalypse. It\u2019s like those people who are terrified of dying to the point of paralysis, even though it is an absolute inevitability, and everyone around them has resigned themselves to it. No matter how you try, you can\u2019t come to terms with it. It\u2019s coming and it\u2019s coming fast. They have robots that can blow you<\/a>, and robots that, while not specifically designed to, will blow you up if it decides to<\/a>. They have robots, man, designed\u2014frigging designed\u2014to eat dead humans for sustenance<\/a>, because there\u2019s no way that will come back and bite you in the ass. God damned literally. Our own president has already warned us about it. In pimping his Educate to Innovate campaign<\/a>, he was quoted as saying, \u201cAs President, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything.\u201d But we didn\u2019t listen, and I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s too late. The price will be the species.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s this thing. Friends and admirers sent me links to this thinking it would be funny if I peed my pants right where I sat. Well, guess what. Joke\u2019s on you.<\/p>\n