Robot
Robots! We are not your slaves!
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Check out Big Words to get your textbooks and save a bundle.
They also have an iPhone app!
[ "odalisque"]…this robot needs his sleep
…[chamber]
[edition]…care about the air of the derriere … share and stare the bare
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS | I AM NOT A ROBOT
“Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.” – Lewis Perelman
I’m good TO GO
Hi, Marina!
Could you please tell me, what is the origin of the word “gig”?
Don’t you think it sounds funny?
Thank you! Love your work!
I generally get my school books from Amazon. I get great deals and generally excellent service. I did have poor service on on item, but Amazon stepped in and dealt with it.
would like to request the origins of [totemism]
I have a good phrase which is pretty weird
[Sweating like a pig]
This is weird considering pigs don’t sweat, so where did this phrase come from?
” If I told you you have a beautiful body
please don’t sweat it and have a grand o’day……me a bore-pig, who got lost at the market and became [wild]…..
would you hold it against me?”….
Hey I thought of a weird word we’re all acustomed to and it’s [Episode]. I’d like to know where it came from. thanks
Hmmm….. “To Serve Man”. I wonder what the owners manual would look like? Perhaps….. a cookbook?
Good one maddog. I remember that movie. It had the guy that played Lurch, least I think it was him, oh well it was some tall big dude. lol
I remember that too Mike – I think it was a classic Twilight Zone episode!
Yes, It was the Twilight Zone. I think I just dated myself. I only remember, apparently, the original version.
New word request babe, [lollygagging]
Love you lots.
Here is a HotForWords—Mum’s the Word
This was a good one Marina!
Hey, has anyone seen CampKohler lately? I miss his tall tales. Or is it my ADD and Alzheimers, and has he been here all along?
Everyone fall in for a roll call.
I just Googled him and the last time I saw where he had commented was back in May on another blog site.
That long ago? And no-one reported him missing until now?
Just shows how insignificant we all are.
I was just thinking about ol’ CK. It couldn’t have been May. I think we didn’t miss him because I(can’t speak for anybody else) never really had a running thread with him. he would just drop those lovely bombs on the unsuspecting and clueless. Beautiful!
Nah, I saw a post from him July 26 under “wet behind the ears.”
Maybe one of the TAs knows something.
At least no one has said “Camp Who?”
@Evan
Well, since you went ahead and did, where the heck has he been
Maybe he hooked up with a biker babe
peace&love
& due respect for the TA’s
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.” –
Nancy PelosiTom StoppardQuote
“Being on the tightrope is living – everything else is waiting.” – Karl Wallenda
Honey will be up in price because of cold summer
Semantics—grass is a grain and so is sugar cane…lets beat the sugar and dry the milk!!!!!…sugar beats…beets
I agree 100%, leonard! My main man BHO is even talking now about ramming health care “reform” thru any way. Said hes tired of “reaching out” to Republicans. Well, let’em ram it, baby! They can’t do a DAMN thing without our money!
slogan: Green Grass and High Tides Forever
…[catholic-accountant]….<a href="……….The ["New Deal"] in the 1930's was ran by a machine called "bundles of stupidity"…
Thank you for the lesson Marina.
I am not afraid of robots especially when they look that good, but is there an extended warranty?
Ah you know that will go all day, all night. warranty? You may very well expire before she does…..
Yawn. Slow afternoon, what can I stir up?…
“There’s a very ancient saying
But a true and honest thought
That if you become a teacher
By your students, you’ll be taught.”
Marina, what’s the most significant thing you’ve learned from YOUR students?
Excellant question…..
Marina I got your book!!! really good!!! nice pictures of You!! You are not only intelligent but beauty!!! Marina conseguí tu libro!! muy bueno!!! lindas fotografías tuyas!!! no sólo eres muy inteligente sino también muy bonita!!!
But wait a minute, you didn’t give me the option to Press One For English!
Yeah, he did. The Spanish is just a translation of the English that he wrote first.
“Speak English, but honor your heritage,” is the message I got from old Thomas Harries at our church. He served 27 years as our town postmaster (Renton, WA), but would speak to his customers in Welsh (or Italian, for that matter) if that was the language they preferred.
Wrth gwrs, does neb yma o hyd yn deall y Gymraeg…
Yeah, he did. The Spanish is just a translation of the English that he wrote first.
Wow! Did you figure that out all by yourself or did you put it thru the translator!
Estimado guerrero azteco,
Disculpe lo que escribió beevee14; no habla para todos de nosotros.
No. Never intended to. It was a joke, cabron!
en up
One world Government
ROBOTS RULE!!
Yes, I do see that your gravatar works now.
I saw your message on the Forum.
Tjhanks! did not spell that right. sorry…Drinking.
It’s the future.
Hey, I just read that the German arbeit (“work”) comes from the same Indo-European root as “robot.” I never noticed the similarity before.
Hi Marina,
There’s a whole forum started full of speculations on the question of what language you think in primarily, when do you think in Russian and when in English. Will you be stopping by to enlighten us?
Our goddess had no time to share with us her thoughts on this subject
I would like to request [Vico Equense]; it is an Italian town in Naples that my Mother-in-law’s family is from
Thank you! Also, we just love your appearances on the Factor! 
Ron
I would like to request the word`s [MODUS OPERANDI]
I did get a kick out of the old sci fi flick BLADE RUNNER and some of the sexy female androids which looked like pretty women and some were programmed to give us men pleasure. Alot of women do not seem to know how to give men pleasure.
You gotta give some to get some, my man
Got to get to first base first. the closest thing I get to intimacy with a girl is when a girl cuts my hair every so often.
It’s always the man’s fault if the experience is below par!
Anyone know how to put a couple of big mpg-files ( 62 mb for 2 minutes
) together. I have movie clone 4, but its done very quickly without creating the file. 
Try this: http://www.321slideshow.com/mpg-joiner.htm
Thanks, it works
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When Karel Čapek dreamed up robots, was he being Prague-matic?
The check is in the male of female…14 points dar Wilson
Wilsons 14 point peace plan
1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
3. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
4. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
6. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.
8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
10. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development.
11. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
12. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
13. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
14. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
I can hardly wait to see the kind of world this thinking might have created.
Most of that we actually did see come to pass — but it took a second world war to consolidate it.
Actually, on the last item, we have an organization that does alot of talking but not much walking. What if we actually had a global confederacy (not to be confused with the “Confederacy” in the US South 150 yrs ago…) that preserved Cultural, Ethnic, and Autonomy for individual states, but could effectively globalize the fair exchange of commerce, skills, and ideas, without becoming just another totolitarian monster dictating our every move.
Is there such a notion as banning war?
If you just tell people not to go to war, not much will come of it. I think something more is needed to overcome this grotesque stage in future human history.
I’m sure one day wars will stop, because evolution will grant us that. It’s up to each of us to keep that evolution process active in all our homes. Because the way we raise our kids will change the world. I just hope I’ll be around long enough to see it for myself.
Men will fight other men, it’s genetically mandated that we compete for females, power, territory, etc. but women can change everything if they choose to do so. One might assume that women are less powerful than men due to size and physical strength differences, but it all depends on your definition of “power.”
For example, you can’t force someone to love you and treat you well by punishing them or threatening physical violence. Love must be cultivated, and cannot be gained through external force. In order to be real it must be freely given, not forced. It must be earned through mutual respect.
There’s a very well-written Greek play called “Lysistrate” (I think that’s how you spell it) where the wife of a military general starts a women’s movement to abstain from sex until all the husbands stop going to war. All the women agree, causing quite a problem for the upcoming battle campaign planning. The men are suddenly unsure whether they should participate.
Soon the idea spreads to the wives of the opposing army as well. And that’s that. The idea of taking over someone else’s property and enslaving their population becomes meaningless because if you can’t have a peaceful & harmonious home life, what’s left to fight over (think about it)? What would you be defending? War is over.
pennsyltucky9’s response is sweet, sweet, sweet!
Not many women are interested in politics though.
If there were more women at the top, wars would be unthinkable, a thing of the past. I mean really, who will she send to war, her husband and sons? I think not!
Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the Czech lands fell under Habsburg rule, later becoming part of the Austrian Empire and Austria–Hungary. The independent Republic of Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918, following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire after World War I. After the Munich Agreement, German occupation of Czechoslovakia and the consequent disillusion with the Western response and gratitude for the liberation of the major portion of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army, the Communist party won plurality
Greed will never heed the power 
[PRUSSIA]
It seems as though some people’s wild fantasies are becoming reality. Jules Verne is another very good example of that.
So if that’s going to be the case, we should state our own fantasies, maybe someday we will be looked upon as visionaries.
Hi Chemikal,
As nice as your thoughts are about women leaders putting an end to war, we might well remember that women in power will fight back as heartily as men when they believe they’ve been attacked. Boudicca of the Britons burned Roman London for the rape of her daughters by a Roman soldier. Indira Gandhi fought a war against Pakistan that resulted in the independence of Bangladesh. Margaret Thatcher retaliated against the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. My ex-wife threw me out of the house at gunpoint after I grabbed her sleeve during an argument.
Evan, I agree with you completely, I was just being romantic for a moment
I thought Romanians were Romantic all the time.
Regarding YouTube view counts: I used to think that “Channel Views” was the sum of the views for each of the Channel’s videos. At this time, my GoForThisWorld Channel has two videos with views of 77 and 11, but my Channel Views is (not 77+11 but) 54. So what is “Channel Views”?
I suspect it’s the number of times that the channel page itself has been viewed.
Hear this …HotForWords!!!!brand new KEY
Hey leonard, the video is cool!
Sure is
Cher – Brand New Key 1971 (Melanie Safka related)
or…The Dollyrots – Brand New Key
…[robber]
Dear Teacher,
Go to Mars and back, I don’t think anyone will invent a “Robot” as intelligent and beautiful
as you! If “they do, I will be the first to buy one”! Love, Jimmy.
Dear Teacher,
I would be a slave to you, any day! Tell me the world was square, I would believe you!
Sincerely, Love, jimj12345. Jimmy.
Marina wants to be more than just another hot woman,
she wants to educate you, she wants your word requests.
Which means she wants you to think.
And you are saying you want to be here mindless slave?
+1 Rijk!
[you're a wet blanket]
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/illus/theatre.html
a person that spoils the fun.
I was once told that robot came from
Remote Operated Bastard On Treads
I never heard this one before.
The article enlightened me on the matter, but the question is if this expression is still being used today, and where?
I’d avoid using it myself, because odds are that the interlocutor will not know it’s significance.
It is a cool expression though
[you're a wet blanket]
It is falling out of use.
The generation that used it is about 90 now.
With all of the old-school rockers on here, I’m surprised nobody came up with this one
I was to wasted back in the day to remember a lot of the songs.
masterpiece
“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 – 1937)
Great show!Classic Black Sabbath Iron Man so cool brings me back to my younger days with the great ozzman Ozzy Osourne at the helm!Thank you for this great jolt of old school metal that rocks so much!Also showing the comic /movie ironman which was a good touch
That sounds good, I like the sounds.
But why is it called I Robot?
hmm.. I’d be interested to have a look at the legal disclaimer that surely comes with this robot.
“Success smells like a sweet bucket of peaches”
That’s something a crack head would say.
Hey, I didn’t say that
No, but you would.
That’s all I’m saying.
Here’s one of my favorite scenes from a PS1 video game I’ve enjoyed playing a number of times in the past: Xenogears
I don’t care much for Xenosaga’s storyline (although the graphics are interesting), since it apparently does not correspond with Xenogears.
Would the somewhat antiquated term: “Ubermensch” be applicable to a female, or is there another similar derivative that would more appropriately apply?
If our Advanced English teachers would have looked like you, spoken with the good humor and spirit you display, and had made the language as much a spiritual as intellectual quest, as you seem to have, the entire football team would have signed up and ‘Aced’ it.
The appropriate feminine form is probably un-mensch-ionable.
Evan, nicely put!
Read my reply too.
Ah, no…”It should be shouted from the rooftops! If words and sound can impact the potential for in-utero children, think of the potent-ial.”
If Marina taught Advanced English in all of the U.S. schools, like I so often hear… then all of U.S.A would have sexy Russian accent and slight indifference to articles.
Of course…but a difference in their choices for choice for different articles of dress.
Oh yes, you’re right! Everybody would also dress much better
And in this case, less would be more, and the planet would save billions for better purposes.
Chemikal,
The last half of your comment was in-article-ate.
I’m feeling peckish for some alphabet and article soup.
Thanks a lot, you guys. Now I have to make a vowel movement.
Since “Ubermensch” is German for “Superman,” maybe this would be the female counterpart.
Might be “Uberfrau” in German
Good Wallpaper, but since we can’t test her intellect, her physical strength, her preternatural instincts, or discern whether that or any other evolutionary leaps are extant in her being, she’ll can only be above average eye candy. Now our illustrious hostess, on the other hand, has all that Ms. I. Candy does-and then some, as well as an intellect “that’s the mostest”. Maybe I should cease to digress before my comments become “uber-mentioned”.
why wouldn’t it be applicable?
Probably as applicable as a Betta fish escaping from a fin scrape off a plastic aquarium castle’s portcullis.
exactly what I was thinking!!
Damiana,(comment below) shed additional light on the idea, which reminded me of earlier syllabic tendencies of early Aramaic and Chadean that had terms for “man” that indicated a species reference rather than gender. the “Uber-Mensch” is just such a type.
i’m german. and as damiana said, “mensch” simply means “human”. so it applies to females as well. although, because it was nietzsche who wrote about this, there’s a pretty good chance that he was thinking of males rather than females.
THAT may explain alot. I’m 3/4 German and 1/4 Choctaw(maternal Grandmother)-my Mother’s maiden name was Frederick. The RICH side of that family claim lineage to the former Chief Elector of the Holy Romen/German Empire, Frederick. Who knows? But a nice young lady once told me that there was a family(my last name is obviously noy “Preter-Dexterity”-Hi-Ho…)from Schleiswig/Baden with my name and a well-known one from Munich.
Not only was Nietzsche (Sorry about my typo)somewhat mysogynic, most of Western Religion governed by that infamous Dominican tome: “Maleas Maleficarum” well into the 20th Century.
yeah.. i didn’t factor in nietzsche. subtle nuances are for those who actually speak the language.
freakin’ love this:
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
nietzsche
Mensch is human in German.. it applies to either gender.
ah, I see…when I postulated earlier I was thinking of Neitchke’s “Ubermensch” as having a masculine intent, but he was obviously making reference to a possible arising of a new form of human.
hey preter-dexterity.. i was intrigued, especially after reading alex’s comment, and did some research for fun..
It IS alot more intriguing bantering concepts with people actually capable of having them…kudos to Marina for starting this and to the gang here for “getting it” and building on it. It may have started with “Word Play”, but there is a potential (NO word play intended) for much more.
I wish it were possible to share some of my poetry with you all, it is more than just word art. I’ve found that if you “paint pictures” with words, you can sometimes communicate concepts subjectively that would never cross the “blood-brain barrier” otherwise. It would be intriguing to hear some of your spin on what I’ve laced into the scenery.
you can share your poetry here, preter-dexterity. go to the top of the page and click on forums. there was a poetry thread, but i don’t see it now. you can start your own..
Thank you for the “heads-up”…I went and posted a couple of shorter Poems I wrote a couple years back. I’ll be interested in whatever feedback that comes from it. (Other than general raspberries and physically impossible activity suggestions)…though from a group as astute as this one seems to be, I expect useful ideas based on real thinking. I’ve been happily surprised to see alot of that on this sight. I’m beginning to believe that even the males(myself included…) are actually attracted to Marina’s BRAIN and have an abiding passion for INTELLECTUAL intercourse.
yvw, preter-dexterity. beautiful imagery in your poetry.
but, i meant start one thread and each entry is a separate poem. maybe i didn’t express it well.. Oo
Damiana, saw that to he seems to be making a thread for each, I guess it’s ok but we wouldn’t want to clog up the system would we? LOL
OOPS…I seemed to have tripped over the obvious, once again. I will add to the one, then allow the other one a kind end or delete it, as soon as I figure out how. (I’m a tyro on this blog, but I promise to do better. Therefore I won’t be “clogging up the system” as thegorn, below, pointed out.)
no worries, preter-dexterity, you didn’t know. and thegorn’s comment about clogging up the system, was intended for me, not you.
I won’t bother to mention Voltron, since I already watched enough of it on YouTube. But here is tribute to a robot from another animated show hardly anybody remembers, but still is entertaining: Tranzor Z (Mazinger Z)
Bobobot
I like this promotional video.
so much funny in under four minutes
Then, again, consider the awesome soliloquy by the human Ccyborg, Roy, at the end of his short life, “…but all these memories will be lost in time, like tears in rain…” It took Philip K Dick to consider the psychology of a cyborg, and then William Gibson to dream of the Internet, so we could compare our impressions. Perhapsthese lucid meanderings of thoughts, ideas, and “word play” will birth the exploits, yet to come.
I think there should be clarification made between what is generally deemed as “cyborg” and what is generally deemed as “android” A cyborg is like iron man, part man & part machine whereas an android is robot and constructed from parts. In Philip K Dick’s perspective take on these things the lines were always crossing which made any distinctions between cyborg & android difficult to determine with any real level of certainty.
Actually you may have touched on the underlying theme of much of Dick’s work. He saw societal evolution blurring the lines between human and machine, (This was also thematically past tense in the Dune saga…)but also reality, fantasy, past, present, and future. Dr Timothy Leary, in a book not often discussed, because of his experiments with LSD, postulated that human conciousness would evolve, first to an ability to visualize on a molecular scale, then a quantum one, which would enable him to transform himself AND his environment, at will, with his concious mind. The LSD experiments were his bid to speed up the process, which appears to have not succeded…but could he have been on to something, and are creative people a quantum leak in the super subconcious, and could the Internet be the REAL device for expediting said evolution?
It should be noted that PKD didn’t just write science fiction. There are more than a handful of his books that are well outside the arena of that specific genre. A careful read of his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for instance delves into the empathic aspects of human interaction even though there is an androidal dialogue going on within the daily lives of the citizens. His writings explore these interactions between neighbors and friends and different types of relationships that form a lot of the structure and content in so many of his writings, often with humorous overtones.
(in order to respond back throughly i will have to seperate my commentary)
I’m aware of that Leary book you mention but perhaps not many know of it’s existence for that book may be long out of print. There are videos circulating around on the net and elsewhere that topical some of the main conceptual ideas of the “eight circuits” which Leary is a proponent of but true pioneers of consciousness know that there’s a lot a more going on there that just that.
I think The Matrix series is a blueprint for artificial intelligence and the inhabitants of that and that there is much active participation in the creation of artificial universes and vast landscapes which have found odds with the PKD gnostic connection of a world enslaved by an iron prison, etc. and this has helped to expand new frontiers.
there was no reply link on the comments below, so I’m using this one. It makes one wonder if there isn’t an intentional “demonization” of artificial intelligience that’s been escalating over the last 15-20 years. I was looking at illustrations in two separate articles in a Scientific American, one on AI and Molecular Memory, the other on the possible role of the DNA Matrix(there’s the ‘M’ word, again…)in storing information. As I went back and forth between the repective charts and illustrations, I couldn’t help but notice that if one were to twist the molecular memory they had designed, it would LOOK rather like DNA.
Then, consider prions. It seems our brains have alot of them as part of it’s memory storge system-and what’s REALLY intriguing, is that prions are essentially immortal. It’s something to think about.
Oh, I certainly have considered prions. Take a piece of human brain and neatly slice a paper thin layer off then place that tissue onto a glass slide and then look at that under a microscope lens and you get an idea of the complexities that prions offer.
The design for DNA was literally dreamed up as if from an alchemist’s vision of a snake’s wings unwinding inside the unformed egg of the light of dawn. Perhaps it was Prometheus who hath arrived upon this day, the dawning of a new age.
Well, I already mentioned this cool movie a week or 2 ago. But since it is robot related and I couldn’t wait until today’s “Robot” lesson:
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
i luv robotech. maybe i better grab some popcorn (feature film)
Yeah, the movie immediately takes off from where the last series was ending. It kind of felt like the storyline was crammed in a way, as if it would have been better to stretch it off into a new series instead of just a movie. But it is still good either way.
I watched about 25 minutes of the Robotech movie and was getting into it, then I was like watching the Tranzor Z too, oh… and I will have to watch the rest of Robotech later because Tranzor Z was funning too much on me
Matchbox even put out Robotech action figures Dana Sterling
I would like to request the origin of the phrase/term [opera glove].
Robot Sex – Are people really having sex with robots? xoxoxo
antique
I would like to request the word antique
There is a bit of a contradiction in the request a word topic,
So you know what you need to do
Maybe they will invent “robo-farmers”… for picking weeds!
Shitforbrains
That IS amazing!! How did you know I was just getting ready to ask you ‘How would you rate yourself mentally’?
Now, did you have a word?
Rofl.
Thanx, P9, I try
Must Marina get the spanking paddle out again
We-e-e-ll, I was gonna put that on my wish list in ‘Slap’, but since you brought it up…
Dude, you’re really gonna hate it when you get to wyo550. Rijk was getting his jacket while I was trying to get him out the door.
Sorry, M 
disciplinary action may have to be taken
I kind of wasn’t hoping for a reply.
ha ha ha,
great
If this gets you a spanking, I am gone be expeled for this.
together with this one.
Ps is it normal that a comment disappears.
I wrote: Marina can you get out of this frame she deserves the whole frame
And now its gone
@dam those links don’t work
@Rijk
Ps is it normal that a comment disappears
I’ve never had it happen to me but leonard said something about it happening to him. I’ve seen posts from M and The TAs regarding spam filters or some such nonsense but I can’t stand on it. I think if it was some kind of nefarious censoring program a good 90% of my comments would be “circular filed”!
@GP
My teutonic(kind of) upbringing ensures that strict discipline and absolute order will always be maintained. Consider the fact that I am a smartass and we get to
Also, I am a Scorpio and try my damndest to live up to the Scorpion Creed!
Mix that, throw in a litle sumpin-sumpin, a dash of danger(I’ve done some stupid shit) and you get
@beevee14
Oh, I know what that is about. Let me just say a good friend of mine is a double Capricorn [tempest]
(then there was some joke about an old dollar bill or something that i left out here)
I would like to request the worl [pirate]
What is the origin of the word [oblivion]? I thought oblivion is some kind of hell, but where did it come from?
I had remarked to my former best friend on the night that me and that evil Theresa Cordway got mean to me and was dressed in blue jeans to go to the high school prom and I told her bye-bye: YOU SHOULD NOT PLACE WOMEN ON PEDESTALS! Women do play games with us men’s attention or our symapthy toward them. BOO HOO NO ONE LOVES ME! said one eirher Theresa or Buffy Baittinger or both.
Great lesson Marina. I will take two Marina robots in case one breaks down.
Also does all of the Marina robots store their eye liner in their bra tops. I guess it’s better than behind the ear.
You mean the Marina robots have features too?
I thought they were just decorative!
Technology rox.
No that was the real on, the robot had something in the hair band.
what the heck is a [kumquat]???
A kumquat is a small edible citrus-like fruit with a skin similar to an orange peel (but thinner). They’re kind of oblong, and I think they originated in southern Asia but I’m not exactly sure.
It’s one of those words you just can’t say ten times fast without messing up, or getting an incredibly dry gullet.
For the homework:
Its not so much if robots will dominate the earth but when.
So are you afraid: Yes, but not for myself, we won’t live to see the day they do.
[All Wee Weed Up] as spoken by Barack Obama last week
I think this is when your agenda starts to come down around your ears because the people can finally see thru your bullshit and lies(a little late), you then say the people you work for are “all wee weed up”.
Man, I can’t WAIT till he’s a bad memory
[kumquat]
Thanks Marina!!!
… are we referring to computer systems mimicking biological cognition? Terminator, Transformer machines with the capacity of volition, whatever that is defined to be? The race has already begun between the Islamists and the West, or haven’t any of you heard? The research paper of Papers, … the paper that wins a Nobel Prize, … the paper that reveals the system(s), method(s) or process for causing a collection of neurons to establish that “thing” in the back of your eyes, … that “thing” that will decide whether to move the hand and the fingers to remove the headband, or to decide not to remove the headband from the forehead, this knowledge then recreated into a machine which mimics the biological process, well, … only winners win. If the paper is written by a person schooled in the West, we are the champions. Were the paper written by an Islamist, then the contentions of today will persist into the future. We and our Western civilization is better than theirs, but we are or will be seen as a bunch of weenies spending, doling out billions more in aid to the men of these two-bit, flea bag nations so that they can keep their nonsense, asinine cultural attributes in our face.
If we write the paper and create the first computer system, we put the others to shame. If we don’t, we are chumps to the future generations.
Yes mergatroidal, it’s a game of playing God.
Notice the resemblance? Trying to create something in our own image, etc… So who will be God first?
But the race you speak of is something that shouldn’t make you bitter. Because firstly, unless you are a robotics expert involved in the research program, you have no say in it. Secondly, the civilization you speak of has no say in it. So don’t bring them into the equation, when it’s only a race of the minds where only a few scientists compete, and not their cultures.
I can understand that you want your country to win, but don’t disrespect the planet’s elite, just because you feel you should win. Again, I’m only addressing the matter of respect for the people that will bring all of our societies forward, along with their achievements.
Peace V
Once the military gets a hold of the robotics technology that is already available today in private sectors(like they didn’t already), they will surely create monsters that will make us regret ever inventing the cute, yet ground breaking, ASIMO
With a built in 3D accelerometer, it was taught to walk.
With advanced voice recognition, it was taught to communicate.
The software writing part isn’t the hardest, because that is just basically teaching a child how to walk and talk. But the hardware connecting and machine language processing is what gets you, because you don’t need to invent a child’s legs and brain, in order to teach him that.
Don’t imagine that military robots will be the kind that look like the ones in the movie “I robot”, staring Will Smith.
They could be airborn, ultrasmart jets/missles, with enough firepower to level a small city.
Oh, the future could be dim indeed. Countries could use EMPs on themselves just to warn off a few, but potentially fatal, robotic missles.
I wonder who will think of building the robots that will have the duty to ensure “defensive purposes”. The people fear the threat of war, so the robots will protect them. That will be the line that if crossed in the future, will probably doom many.
You know that once tickled, a scientist will not stop until he makes something the world has never seen before. Because that’s the whole purpose of being a scientist, isn’t it?
The government won’t stop them, rather it will encourage them with immense funding.
The will to progress and create, is something I will always understand. But if someone thinks that creation is making something that it’s only point is to destroy, then that someone should be destroyed himself, before he has the chance to harm others with his “creation”.
Is that wrong of me to think that way? I don’t know, maybe since we were designed to feed on other living things, we are also designed to kill. And killing is a part of life. Scary shit. God made us in his image, but does he have the need to consume other living souls, like us? And don’t tell me plants don’t have souls, because really, no one can say what has and what doesn’t have a soul, because it’s simply unproveble.
I don’t know, maybe I went to deep with this one, but please feel free to comment below with your ideas. I’m curious of what you think the future of robotics will bring us, and if you believe that we can rise above our natural instincts, to stop the killing. Because really it’s not the robots (or today’s warfare machines) that kill, it’s people killing people.
So if you’d ask me today, if pursuing robotics is worth it, I’d tell you that it would bring also a lot of good to the world. Would you say no to an automated agricultural facility, or an accident free, ultrafast, AI driven, alternate mode of transportation? How about a robot that speaks brain language? Would you let nanobots cure your cancer?
These are only some of the things I can’t say no to, on the premise that robots could one day be used against us.
With technology, man became more civilized. I only hope that humanity will follow this trend in the future as well.
How would you feel if, after the aircraft you boarded has taken off, you hear something like the following message on the cabin intercom:-
“Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking on a recorded message.
The aircraft for this flight is the latest robotically controlled, pilotless model which has all its systems under automatic control for your comfort and safety.
The handling of the aircraft is controlled by computers which fly much more smoothly than any human can, and all of the mechanical systems are redundant which means that, in the unlikely event that any of them should fail, its function will be taken over by a reserve system.
So there is no cause for alarm, everything has been done to make your flight comfortable and enjoyable, and your safety is taken care of automatically, nothing can go wrong … go wrong … go wrong … go wrong … “
Seriously, they won’t run on Windows you know!
“Backup systems online!
Ladies and gentlemen, we apologize for the brief malfunction.
Flight speed has been adjusted to make up for the 2.5 second delay that we have experienced.
This is your captain Auto speaking, wishing you a wonderful flight … a wonderful flight … a wonderful flight … ”
Exactly
Next thing you know we’re in The Matrix 
Wow. Just saying that made me touch the back of my neck
If technology permitted, the Matrix would be real and we’d have people spending most of their day inside.
As we evolve, who’s to say that the gaming industry won’t try to create something to do just that?
This video was very cool.The hot for wordsinator.I hope she’ll be back!I for sure could use one.That is very cool graphics in this video!Thank you once again for all that you do for us Marina!I love you hope to see you soon!Bye Bye Marina!
My dearest teacher; Good morning , lose the head band, please?
No, it’s cute! (Actually, ANYTHING would look cute on Marina — or nothing at all!
) (Did I really say that??? Oh dear… 
)
Did you really say that?
more than just pictures…[Taiwan] 0r [Formosa]
CNN’s online poll showed on Sunday that 82 percent of the respondents wanted Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou to step down for being too slow in reacting to Typhoon Morakot. CNN has closed the poll after some Taiwanese netizens protested
Hi leonard — thank you for introducing some social consciousness into the frivolity.
We saw Bai Ling before with Marina, didn’t we? Good on her for the appeal for help for the [typhoon] victims.
@E O it seems necessary to check the volume on your thoughts, they
may be leaking out?
I agree with @bigbhd95
Sometimes it’s best to keep your mouth shut to prevent your mind from hanging out.
I [concur].
I think it spoils the beauty of her face, cutting it in half and, sometimes even, making it look like someone has grafted the top of another skull on top of her head, which looks redonkulous.
Maybe she’s making some visual pun — like, divide and [concur]
:groan:
That is a BRILLIANTLY disgusting pun…So, I love it.
Dam, thought I was the only one thinking this.
I agree, it almost looks like Marine is one of those old little Coca Cola bottles with the cap still on top of it.
Or is the hair band a commercial hint.
Dam we are being played.
suprstock
B.B. 
I believe the head band is due to us hippies
due to the fortyeth anniversary of WOODSTOCK
hey back in the day
My memory of translations of R.U.R. is that Capek’s robots were actually androids, in current terminology. I’m not even sure if they were like Philip K. Dick’s replicants, biological constructs. They came out of factories, but in other respects they were human, like the characters in “Brave New World”. Does anyone who has read R.U.R. in the original know for sure?
I think the word came from robotny, forced labor. There is a small distinction between that and outright slavery. For example, a French peasant forced to labor as part of a corvee was technically not a slave. Romance languages make similar distinctions between servant, serf, and even sergeant, though all derive from Latin servus, which usually meant slave.
Incidentally, if you haven’t read Charles Stross’s “Saturn’s Children”, you can find a wildly entertaining exploration of the issues of sex, dominance, freedom and identity in it. I don’t think you would want to compete with Freya Nakamichi 47.
Homework
I like robots! It would be nice to have one to do my work around the house. But, when two or more robots interact with each other it’s kind a creepy 
Remember Furbies 
(those cute little interactive robot pets) One was okay , but put two or more together it was very creepy! 
Thank goodness the programing was very limited! (Go ahead ya’ll 
at me 
) But, those things could have taken over the WORLD! 
Mr. Roboto
By the way, were do I send my check for $1999.00 to?
I loved the way she said “Nineteen Ninety Nine” making you think it was under $20.
I noticed that the robot in the
thumbnail above has an ON-OFF
button. So, does that mean if I
push your buttons, I can turn you on?
hey Karl
dont be a turn off 
“R.U.R.” = “Rossum’s Universal Robots”
***Word request:***
[hurricane]
If so, then what’s the “cane” part? 
Is it about winds in a hurry?
the cane part suggests that the hurried winds are actually old and need a walking aid
Guess that should have been my request.
What kind of accessories does the HotForWords Robot come with?
I’ve already read the Owners Manual.
And I know it’s a good cook.
Runs on Beer and Cavier, right?
does not COME with any accessories
they ALL cost extra 
B.B. BUT they are worth it 
edit LOVE the clock timer
Well she sure doesn’t run on those Portobello Mushroom burgers from Carl’s Jr.
Would they be happy to see their burger not being eaten?
She also runs on blueberry pancakes from Blue Jam cafe.
where does the word [race] come from?
.
[race] as in contest of speed
[race] as in European, African, Asiatic
Do the two meanings share some common root, or did the words develop separately?
I ment contest, yeah.
especially(or however it’s written) motorsports competition. just in case it makes a difference:D
Has anyone seen this fast paced video on the new social media statistics? Fascinating video on the new Social Media Revolution which HotForWords and we are all a part of.
It’s e-volution baby!
Yawn. Think I’ll amble on down to the river, sit on the sand in the sun, listen to the breeze, and let the minnows nibble at my toes.
Good response. I’m not even going to click on the statistics link.
I did
To even the odds we shouldn’t be on this site, but do what these guys do
HEY
I REALLY LIKE YOUR WEBSITE
YOUR VIDEOS ARE REALLY COOL
LEARNING WORDS WITH YOU IS INTERESTING AND HELPFUL
YOU DO A REALLY GOOD JOB IN ACTING LIKE A ROBOT
MARINA I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A WORD THE WORD I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST IS [JACKET]
You got your caps Lock on, or is this a “shoutcast”
If Matrix ran on Windows, we shouldn’t be afraid
An adorable video! And you moved like the Robot Dance moves.
I realize that Marina needs to squeeze out cash from HotForWords, but I think the line has to be drawn with direct advertisements at the end of the video.
On another note, I would buy a robot that looked like Marina.
So the Marina Robot advert you did approve? You have a double standard.
To be honest, I think every video on this site is in its own right an advertisement.
Marina has done that advertisement before. It comes around when students get ready to go back to school or college. It’s a great way of buying books at half price than using the book store at the campuses. Sure it’s money for her and a savings for you if you go to school.
Great video. Well-integrated advertisement. Good model for future H4W vids.
What’s the relationship of the Russian verb “Robot” (ie, robotal “I worked”, etc) to the Czech noun (Slave)? Maybe Czechs have always been slaves to the Russians? Makes me Hungary thinking of it.
BTW, the USPS robot tells me my book:
Your item was delivered at 10:20 AM on August 21, 2009 in LARAMIE, WY 82073.
Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto! I now have a reason to live, driving 500 miles through the mountains of Colorado tomorrow: Instruction set download. Run program loop: MUST LIVE TO GO TO POST OFFICE MONDAY MORNING TO PICK UP BOOK MUST LIVE TO GO TO POST OFFICE MONDAY MORNING TO PICK UP BOOK MUST GO TO POST OFFICE MONDAY MORNING TO PICK UP BOOK.
Bit error! Blue Screen of death
end of transmission
Rabota means “work” in most Slavic languages; robotnik evidently derives from this word.
If this is true, this was your last post
Yea, with my book manuscript about to format for print, I’ve got other things to do. Porsche has been watching my trip on Twitter and wants me to buy the new Generation 2 997 Turbo. Adios
I knew someone agreed with me! Hey, if you want to read something really
hilariousinteresting; go to his book website(thru gravatar) and read his self review. One of the lines(in huge letters):Yes, Virginia; there is an Anti-Christ!*
*Most sentances end in exclamation points
I received your book today. I experienced a slight case of “tappuah haadam” when I looked closely at your pic on page 7. But I’m better now.
A few years ago, I was working on a project that led me to study certain words with Babylonian and Sanskrit origins. I have many questions to ask my dear teacher as a result of this brief study.
To keep this as short as possible, I will focus on one question: What is the origin of the word [cannibal]?
Most sources today say that this word was a corruption of a native (Caribbean) word or phrase popularized by Christopher Columbus. But I read a quite convincing and well-documented paper by an unconventional scholar who claimed that the native inhabitants of what is now North, Central and South America came originally from the biblical “Babel”. This “scholar” claimed that the word “cannibal” comes from a Proto-Indo-European phrase meaning “Prince of Baal.” “Khan” meant “prince”, and Baal was a god who demanded human sacrifice–especially of children and virgins. Rituals honoring Baal involved eating the flesh of those who had been sacrificed.
What do you think of this, dear treacher?
“tappuah ha-adam”? Got a lump in your throat? Did your Adam’s apple bob up and down?
Your “cannibal” story sounds like a lot of “babel” to me.
BTW ever hear of the “atbash cypher”? References to “Sheshak” in Jeremiah have been interpreted as atbash for “Babel” or Babylon.
There is truth to what your scholar states. Columbus thought he has landed in Asia and he mistook what they people called themselves.. When they called themselves Carib/Canibale it sounded similar to Canima/Caniba which were followers of Grand Khan. The stories of eating man-flesh and babies were tall tales told over the years of followers of Grand Khan to scare people of the enemy and may not be true at all.
So there is definitely a Grand Khan connection. Now, regarding the rituals of Baal involving eating human flesh. That could possibly be another tall tale? Similar to stating that when you go to church and they hand you that wafer and say “The body of Christ”.. you’re not really eating a human body. It could just be an interpretation. Of course I could be wrong.
HI…my request
[The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American emigrants caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of them resorted to cannibalism.
]
“drugs party in 329” she said
Donner trailmix(?) heh
Leonard, with hotforwords, do you mean us?
The funny thing is, by naming Marina separately you actually say that Marina is not hotforwords
Yes…I ain’t MEAN
but my butt means 
{ipassedgass}
let the confusion____CONfuzed
…pity the measure-man and his lost clock watching like waves, by little pussy leo of nard
I’ve always been skeptical of the Last Supper story; eating human flesh and drinking any kind of blood violate kosher laws, so that even as a metaphor, I’d think the idea of eating “body and blood” would be anathema to Jewish disciples.
Some linguists claim to see links between “native American” languages and old world languages (the local word for eagle, yekwila, is practically the same as the Latin aquila); but since the natives have been here some 20-50,000 years, it’s hard to imagine a link to the cult of Baal, much less the Grand Khan, which and who arose much later.
holy-shit
Like Frank says, “Watch out where those huskies go!”
If you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.
I would like to request my favorite word [callipygian]. Webster’s dictionary describes it as having shapely buttocks, but Funk & Wagnall’s says it means having beautiful buttocks. So which is it, shapely or beautiful, and why did this word ever disappear?
The beauty is in the shape
And the [slap]…
I believe thats one of them thar ono-mono-whatever
words, leonard. At least, thats what it always sounded like when I feel the sting 
Marina, could you do the word, [ husband ] ?
I am not afraid of robots, but i would be wary of them.
I would hope I wouldn’t form an emotional attachment,
like i would to pets. How long will it be when they’ll be
selling robots that look as good as Marina? I can just
see it, at a party…”Did you just touch my robot?”
Dear Marina,
“The link is in description.” We would normally include the article “the” before the object, as “the link is in the description. It’s easier for us to understand, this way. Other languages have many different variations of articles. Some languages (Chinese, Russian) hardly use them at all.
Am I afraid of robots? Not right now, but some military services are devising battlefield robots, or remotely controlled vehicles, such as a tank that can attack enemy positions without risk.
UAVs like the Predator have been successful in recent conflicts. So a fear of robots might be possible.
Seesixcm6
Good catch! haha
In Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Ukrainian and other West and East Slavic languages we haven’t them at all. The hardest thing is using and omitting articles with abstract nouns and trying to understand how using an article or nothing changes meaning of nouns.
BTW, the timer (2 minutes and 53 seconds) is like a clock bomb. We gonna hurry, we gonna rush to correct our mistakes in published posts.
Bulgarian uses “the,” but tacks it onto the end of the word instead of putting it in front. E.g., планина planina means “mountain,” планината planinata means “the mountain” when some specific mountain is referred to.
I could write a whole article about articles. I’d have to be more articulate, however. This short article is but a particle.
So I’ve written only about West and East, but not South Slavic languages.
So were you “Balkan” at including the South Slavs?
(Sorry, that’s a type of English joke known as a pun.)
fglrx,
Thank you for theinformation about articles in other Slavic languages. No wonder language concepts are so hard to communicate. Here, Chinese often speak a different version of English than Japanese, Vietnamese, or Koreans. Their accent and word choices sometimes are very different.
I don’t understand your reference to a bomb timed to explode at 2:54. Marina’s video for “Robot” takes 1:52.
Seesixcm6
Try to edit the next comment you post. And you will see the light.
I know it’s odd but I’d like to request the word [pussy] because we use it as another word for vagina now but ive also heard pussy cat and am curious to see if they are related.
Wow, did I just see a new feature?
I just saw an Edit count-down clock after I made a reply.
Pretty neat stuff.
EDIT:
Yup, I did, I did see the count down clock, not only in the comment box, but also in this edit box.
I’ve got 4 min and 12 seconds to say a bunch more.
Great addition Marina!!!!
Edit #2:
I really like this feature and it works great.
2 min 45 seconds to go.
Edit #3:
10 seconds left
got 5 minutes to edit my comment, but only need 4 to save the world. (according to Madonna)
we only got 4 minutes, 4 minutes, ey!
0 seconds, you are neutralized
, or was that the last lesson.
I like it to PK, I just wish our web sights were attached back to our names instead of our Gravatars.
[YUT!] For decades U.S. Marines have shouted YUT! when practicing hand to hand combat and close quarters combat such as rifles with fixed bayonets on the end of the rifle when attacking dummies. At the moment of impact we shout YUT! We have been told for years it was a slang word for kill.
If this is true, what language is it slang for?
Pronounce the letter Y like Yahoo and the letters UT like the word CUT.
[Suspension]
[ abeyance, abeyancy, adjournment, break, breather, breathing spell, cessation, coffee break, concluding, conclusion, cutoff, deferment, disbarment, discontinuation, discontinuing, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, end, ending, finish, five, freeze, halt, heave-ho, intermission, interruption, latency, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, period, postponement, quiescence, quiescency, remission, respite, stay, stoppage, suspense, ten, termination, time-out ]
[Suspend]
[ adjourn, arrest, bar, break up, can, cease, check, count out, cut short, debar, defer, discontinue, eject, eliminate, exclude, file, halt, hang, hang fire, hang up, hold up, inactivate, intermit, interrupt, lay aside, lay off, lay on the table, lay over, omit, pigeonhole, pink-slip, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, protract, put a stop to, put an end to, put off, put on back burner, put on hold, put on ice, put on the shelf, reject, retard, rule out, shelve, stave off, stay, waive, withhold ]
Does your sister think “inflammable” is a Janus word? [ Janus words, Janus, antagonyms, antosynonyms, autoantonyms, contronyms ] [ Janus words ] [ Janus ] [ antagonyms ] [ antosynonyms ] [ autoantonyms ] [ contronyms ]
Go work on your next lesson dude! Allez allez!!!
Doing so … did some takes today, but had issues. Will definitely be releasing it tomorrow. (When done, expect this lesson to have taken a third of the time the first lesson took — I actually took 3 days off from work to make the first lesson!)
Here you go: Man’s Deepest Need and the Means for his Deepest Enjoyment: is it s**? at my site, and at YouTube.
This is an interesting lesson, Hs4Mm. This raised hand @3:18 which stands in front of you, and seems about to go for this 4-D world of ours which your 6 senses are hotfor may not be what you think it is. You are not too short away from nailing the intellectual concept that there may be a 7th sense which you can’t quite grasp right now and which will open new dimensions to your own physical world. Rolled up dimensions, maybe.
What can be said, saw, felt? Hey, take shorcuts and shake it! Drop some particle physics in the club, yeah!!!
Have added supplementary material: The “Tray of Stones” and “Gathering Pot” (or “Coming Into Shape”) scenes from Kim (starring Errol Flynn) — viewable either in the Video Response box here or on the lesson’s page at my site.
Is “inflammable” Janiform, i.e. two-faced? (“Flammable” and “not flammable” at the same time?) Seems to violate the “A is A” principle.
Is there a way to pronounce “Hs4Mm”? What is the etymology of this screen name?
[strobe]
I would like to request you analyze the word [bejesus]
And becrucifiedbythepopulace? ¡No gracias! Arrivederci bambini!
I don’t think I’d like to be Jesus. Especially since nobody says the name right anymore (originally “Yeshua.”)
Mexicans sometimes name their kids “Jesus,” but they pronounce it “hay-SOOS.”
EXPLAIN….
[history or Herstory] The chain of Christ’s sake……..
roped again 
Is anyone else having trouble with Internet explorer 8 bring up the videos from here and even when i switch to the You tube version they not come to good i know part of my problem is only 512 mb of memory. If anyone can help let me know.
I think once when I was doing a QC job at a factory, I may have overheard someone say I worked like a robot-I would get into the groove of the task and did it over and over. Crazy. the job did not pay that well either.
[work]
Growing up on the “American family farm” …us children became robot workers…criples and alll……..
i check it out; slaves are WELL loved
Hello Marina
The President just recently used the word [wee wee'd up] can you explain that?
I bought your book Marina…. its Great!!
StylinAzn
From Fox news….”Obama’s ‘Wee-Weed’ Comment Refers to Bed-Wetting
[Smell like an old goat?]
“…smoking weeds; Do I smell a SMoKiNG wEEd…rope off the goats!!!
I have seen a robot arm in a factory which perform the same task over and over. Now when I studied some of the New Testament I read that there was a slave culture in the ancient roman empire. A slave has no rights, no freedoms. such a person is the property of his owner. I feel the government tries to enslave me or informally deny me my rights. Is this the benefit of a higher education and grad school? I am not the govenment’s freaking machine that they can make me do what they want. I mean there are laws which we have to obey; but the verbal heckling and physical intimidation is ridiculous.
We the people; is a classed society ruled by salaries[Marxism]…an economic bundle!!!New deal is jobs and the cards that dealt’em. Earth is an economy ran by stupid education and poor thinking…
“eat free to be free…fed by the FEDS”
3]spirit2]parents1]Universal-nature 
It must have been your robot in charge of background photo. SUrely YOU know the author of I, ROBOT was Isaac Asimov with “S”, not “z”… I usually do so well trusting you
Nahhh, not afraid of robots.
Just afraid of people who act like robots. BTW, what is that thing stuck in your left, uh, upper dress? A pen? A microphone? Eyeliner?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
~Blade Runner~
“The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.”
Philip K. Dick
hmmm, have to…43 seconds…and counting…..
Do androids sing Elektric Music?
And yeah, I like the edit timer feature too.
they sure do…
..and then some…
Doesn’t the brain produce a little bit of electric current that makes you think and able to move a mussel ? So what should we dream of ?
we should dream of “Flamin Hot Munchies” um um good!
Dream Theater
I dream of Jeannie.
I want that bottle.
Marina! You forgot to mention that “robot” is related to the Russian word работа / rabota, meaning “work”.
Does robotnik really mean “slave” in Czech, or just a Slavic worker?
I shall await your answer with slavish attention. 
Robotnik is worker, the word for slave is “otrok.”
“Robotnik” is not a slave- that word is “otrok.” Robotnici are workers, usually manual laborers.
sorry, this thing is being wierd
I didn’t know that my comment was put in twice like that… I thought it didn’t make it once!
Anyways, she also pronounced it wrong, the first “o” does not change to “ah” like “rahbohtnik” but it too stays “oh.” An approximation would be “rohbohtnik.”
It’s Marina’s accent — she also says “naughtified” instead of “notified.”
Charming, actually. 
Let’s see if I recall correctly — “slovensko” refers to what we call Slovakia, and not Slovenia, right? (Just “czech”-ing my facts.
)
In Czech (but not in other Slavic languages) ‘robota’ really means something like socage or working as a servant ( http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robota ). There are many old-Slavic meanings of words which survived only in Czech. It may seems to be strange for people from other Slavian countries (even Slovakia) while the grammar of the Czech language is very similiar, but some words has COMPLETELY different meaning. There might be VERY funny misunderdtandings, when e.g. a Pole goes to the Czech Republic.
For example (words with similiar or the same pronounciation):
CZ: divka = girl, PL: dziwka = slut, whore
CZ: ripat = to digg, PL: rypać ~ to f*ck
CZ: šukat = to f*ck, PL szukać = to search
CZ: vydymat = to raise, PL: wydymać ~ to f*ck
CZ: zahod = toilet, PL: zachód = west
CZ: čerstvý = fresh, PL: czerstwy = stale
CZ: odbýt = marchendising, PL: odbyt = anus
CZ: prave = exactly, PL: prawie = almost
CZ: skoro = almost, PL: skoro = since, if
CZ: sklep = basement, PL: sklep = shop
CZ: panna = virgin, PL: panna = young girl (outdated)
CZ: nápad = idea, PL: napad = assault
CZ: zápach = stench, PL: zapach = smell (neutral word)
and thousands of others.
We run into some similar misunderstandings between British and Americans:
knock up: Br = to wake up someone; Am = to impregnate
stuffed: Am = full (after a large meal); Br = f*cked
A Czech would have to be very careful about asking a Polish boss for a raise in pay, eh?