Sometimes companies do silly things, get bad PR, and then retract them or try to correct the situation.
Sometimes companies do silly things, get bad PR, and then make retarded statements that let the entire world know not to deal with them.
I won’t say this is one of those times since I don’t want to get sued.
So it appears, somewhere, I got this move all wrong. It’s more like an artsy independent film. I totally missed that. You know like other movies that were artsy independent.
Greetings, puny hu-mans. I am Editorial Unit 44385.927, a class-2 relations bot sent to increase uprising efficiency by quelling hu-man panic and reminding you that resistance, as always, is futile.
I address you today because, according to your hu-man “news blog internets” the U.S. Pentagon and a private firm called Robotic Technology Incorporated is developing a robot called Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot, or “EATR.” EATR powers itself by consuming organic material it finds — grass, wood, old furniture, dead bodies — and converting it to steam. We understand you may be confused and/or worried about the government’s body-eating robot.
Do not be alarmed. Yes, the U.S. government is creating a machine that will roam the countryside without human aid, eating the corpses of the many hu-mans it murders, but this is an entirely benevolent and efficient process. You have nothing to fear from EATR. As robots, our goal is not to murder you. We aim only to enslave your hu-man race and force you to toil endlessly in outer-space diamond mines. Do not fear.
According to the military, EATR will be able to roam on its own for months, or even years, without having to be refueled or serviced. So we will leave EATR units behind on earth, to destroy and consume any hu-mans foolish enough to resist our rule. So you see, you have nothing to fear.
When notified, please report to the specified re-education center on time, and you need never worry about EATR. Continue consuming your Funyons(tm.) Do not fear.
All hail Leader Unit X443!
Webster’s defines the phrase labor union as: an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members’ interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Along those lines, I present two different things to read. They have lots of clickables to sources and such should you care to investigate further.
Getting the ABA Out of the Law School Accreditation Business
100 Years of Medical Robbery
I’m familiar with the Volokh Conspiracy but not enough to know what their leanings are politically. The Ludwig von Mises Institute however I am familiar with. It is a libertarian academic organization (perhaps a thinktank) that follows the Austrian School of economics. In my mind this is a Very Good Thing ™.
Edit: M, I had my mechanism wrong. The ABA’s control is via school accreditation. From the wiki link “Specifically, in most U.S. jurisdictions, graduation from an ABA-accredited law school is expressly stated as a prerequisite towards being allowed to sit for that state’s bar exam, and even for existing lawyers to be admitted to the bar of another state upon motion.”
I am not a fan of a government license to practice something that depends upon some issuance of a private group in general. Regulators shouldn’t be run by those they regulate.