Robot insurance
Ken from Chicago
Given the threat of robots (or androids or cylons), not to mention
supervillains, aliens, vampires, werewolves, dinosaurs, zombies, etc., why
aren't people insured against them in their respective stories?
You'd think some company would see a chance for profit there, at least by
leveraging one threat against another.
-- Ken from Chicago
P.S. "If you could have a rider of any five items before a show, what would
be on it?" "One robot-hating zombie, one zombie-hating monkey, one
monkey-hating robot, one camcorder and a time machine."--Chicago Tribune's
Metromix & Chicago chiptune band I Fight Dragons.
http://chicago.metromix.com/music/article/time-to-rock/1152890/content
Dimensional Traveler
insurance agent in Metropolis?
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"'Oh God. Oh God. We're all going to die'?"
John H
"Dimensional Traveler" <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote in message
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There was also the company called Damage Control in the Marvel universe.
They were in charged of cleaning up after a super duke out. I don't
remember who paid them, though.
John
Ryan McCoskrie
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>
> Given the threat of robots (or androids or cylons), not to mention
> supervillains, aliens, vampires, werewolves, dinosaurs, zombies, etc., why
> aren't people insured against them in their respective stories?
>
> You'd think some company would see a chance for profit there, at least by
> leveraging one threat against another.
The old DOS game "Beneath a Steel Sky" had a scene in which you are offered
insurance on your robot turning on you.
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Rebecca Rice
I was always amused in the Highlander tv show that you could
apparently have a major sword fight in the middle of a town,
with exploding electrical systems everywhere, leaving
headless bodies behind, and it NEVER gets mentioned in the
news anywhere. No discussion of the strange blackouts, even.
Rebecca
DJensen
> John H wrote:
>> "Dimensional Traveler" <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote in message
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>>> insurance agent in Metropolis?
>>
>> There was also the company called Damage Control in the Marvel
>> universe. They were in charged of cleaning up after a super duke out.
>> I don't remember who paid them, though.
>
> I was always amused in the Highlander tv show that you could apparently
> have a major sword fight in the middle of a town, with exploding
> electrical systems everywhere, leaving headless bodies behind, and it
> NEVER gets mentioned in the news anywhere. No discussion of the strange
> blackouts, even.
The Hellmouth Effect, Somebody Else's Problem Field, etc.
--
DJensen
Ken from Chicago
"DJensen" <i_m...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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See also Smallville--apparently the Smallvillians are related to the
Sunnydalites..
-- Ken from Chicago
Barry Margolin
In this case it's even stranger, since the publisher of the major
newspaper knows about all this stuff going on.
--
Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Greg Goss
Didn't one of the big-name horror film sequels start with the father
trying to fill out an insurance claim? "What happened to the house?
I can't put down that it twisted into a streamer and disappeared into
s vortex!"
--
Tomorrow is today already.
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Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
It's much older than that; go back to Collinsport in "Dark Shadows",
where we concluded the rule was: "Intelligence, Wisdom, Perception:
Choose Any Two". So you could perceive some wierd stuff going on, and
either (A) you were wise enough not to poke into it, and not smart
enough to really put it all together, or (B)you were smart enough to
figure it out, but didn't realize that your plan of confronting Barnabas
Collins that evening with "HA! I know you are a vampire, and TOMORROW
MORNING I'll bring the PROOF to the authorities!" had some minor flaws
in it.
Or you could be both smart enough to figure it out, and wise enough to
know how to deal with it, but unfortunately you had the perception of a
deaf bat and wouldn't have noticed if Barnabas was having a
duel-to-the-death with the Incredible Hulk in your living room.
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Sea Wasp
/^\
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krp
the world does ANYONE think ,"Robot Insurance" would help?
Bill Snyder
>Just a question comes to mind. IF robats run amok (Terminator) and take over
>the world does ANYONE think ,"Robot Insurance" would help?
Sure. "Heyyy, nice lab ya <beep> got here. Be a shame <boop> if
anyting wuz ta happen to it. What youse need is one'a our Robot
Insurance policies . . ."
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Joseph Nebus
>On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:58:18 GMT, "krp" <kr...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>Just a question comes to mind. IF robats run amok (Terminator) and take over
>>the world does ANYONE think ,"Robot Insurance" would help?
>Sure. "Heyyy, nice lab ya <beep> got here. Be a shame <boop> if
>anyting wuz ta happen to it. What youse need is one'a our Robot
>Insurance policies . . ."
Trouble is if the insurance policy just provides you with another
robot hovering around watching for potential policy violations.
[ ObSF: If that wasn't how companies worked in at least a couple
of Frederick Pohl's books, it's probably because he didn't have the
chance to show it happening. ]
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Joseph Nebus
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David McMillan
> Just a question comes to mind. IF robats run amok (Terminator) and take
> over the world does ANYONE think ,"Robot Insurance" would help?
Depends. I like the "Real Big Guns and lots of Superconducting
Electromagnets" insurance plan, myself. Durable.
krp
"Bill Snyder" <bsn...@airmail.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:58:18 GMT, "krp" <kr...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>Just a question comes to mind. IF robats run amok (Terminator) and take
>>over
>>the world does ANYONE think ,"Robot Insurance" would help?
>
> Sure. "Heyyy, nice lab ya <beep> got here. Be a shame <boop> if
> anyting wuz ta happen to it. What youse need is one'a our Robot
> Insurance policies . . ."
And of course the crazed robots would leave the insurance companies alone.
They might leave the lawyers alone. PROFESSIONAL COURTESY.
krp
"David McMillan" <spam...@skyefire.org> wrote in message
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I got a black hole policy myself in case the Earth is swallowed by one.
John H
Sure, but then, you'd need to siphon the electrical activity of your fellow
humans to power your electromagnets. Cause, you know, *mumble mumble*
robots, *mumble*, scorch the sky... no power. Probably need to keep them
all very still, but mentally active somehow.
john
Ryan McCoskrie
I'm trying to think of how I can convince the computer company
to accept "The dog stole my root password" as a claim.
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krp
"Ryan McCoskrie" <ryan.mc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> David McMillan wrote:
>
>> krp wrote:
>>> Just a question comes to mind. IF robats run amok (Terminator) and take
>>> over the world does ANYONE think ,"Robot Insurance" would help?
>>
>> Depends. I like the "Real Big Guns and lots of Superconducting
>> Electromagnets" insurance plan, myself. Durable.
>
>
> I'm trying to think of how I can convince the computer company
> to accept "The dog stole my root password" as a claim.
>
Better than that. Tell them a stray cat broke into your house and ate
your MOUSE!!
krp
fake-name
> Probably need to keep them all very still, but mentally active somehow.
Wasn't that the intention behind the invention of usenet ?
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
The damn human's caught on! Eliminate him!
Jonathan Schattke
krp
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Cheap - a dollar fifty Earthbucks.
Gerry Quinn
kwicker1...@comcast.net says...
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ms56_saturday-night-live-old-glory_fun
>
> Given the threat of robots (or androids or cylons), not to mention
> supervillains, aliens, vampires, werewolves, dinosaurs, zombies, etc., why
> aren't people insured against them in their respective stories?
People aren't insured against cars. Though they may have insurance
against medical bils or crimes.
Maybe robot owners (or robots) have to take out insurance.
- Gerry Quinn
Jesper Lauridsen
>
> I was always amused in the Highlander tv show that you could
> apparently have a major sword fight in the middle of a town,
> with exploding electrical systems everywhere, leaving
> headless bodies behind, and it NEVER gets mentioned in the
> news anywhere. No discussion of the strange blackouts, even.
In the movie (there was only one), one of the duels leads to a police
investigation.
Tim Bruening
krp wrote:
Did any Vulcans have a black hole policy?
Do robots have dismantlement insurance?
Tim Bruening
krp wrote:
Or your cookie?
nemo
"Tim Bruening" <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
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Robots wear cloaks????
If a robot suffers from a black hole, they clean it out with some WD-40!
nemo
I don't permit those. I have biscuits instead!
Tim Bruening
krp wrote:
> Just a question comes to mind. IF robats run amok (Terminator) and take
> over the world does ANYONE think ,"Robot Insurance" would help?
Robat: Mechanical mammals with wings, or mammalian boats with wings.
Greg Goss
nemo
And in Australieh they got a new website suffix for religious people: ko.ala
Nemo.
In 2007, retirement was heaven,
And it's still quite divine in 2009!
I'd be much better off as a fiddling MP,
But graft and corruption are alien to me!
nemo
"Greg Goss" <go...@gossg.org> wrote in message
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> Tim Bruening <tsbr...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>
> >
> >krp wrote:
> >> Just a question comes to mind. IF robats run amok (Terminator) and take
> >> over the world does ANYONE think ,"Robot Insurance" would help?
> >
> >Robat: Mechanical mammals with wings, or mammalian boats with wings.
>
> No wings. Just a small boat with handheld paddles.
And rowed by a Tibetan ox who's turned Eskimo: A kaYak.