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Re:Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot by noir_lord on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:13AM (#14718451)
A threat not the only threat.

Someone somewhere is working out how to weaponise them, we've as a species weaponised everything else we've ever invented pretty much.

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Re:Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot by nashashmi on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:59AM (#14718820)
It's the other way around:

we have domesticated every weapon we have created for peaceful purposes.

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Re:Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot by noir_lord on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:08PM (#14720031)
Actually I like that, it's closer to the essential truth.

I think George Carlin nailed it with his routine about flamethrowers.

> The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

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