Cyborg War begins - we started it

[Nerys Ghemor]

Seems to me the compromise solution would've been to have a switch to disable the recording function and only provide a live feed, when in places where cameras are not allowed, just like in places where there would be objections to using a cell phone.

Where I work, also in customer service, filming is not allowed in any fashion. I have had to ask people to leave for that reason before. However, I would not EVER...EVER touch a customer. If a confrontation goes too far and someone will not leave, that's what the cops are for.

ETA: I found myself reminded of this silly video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM2S6k1Psag

 

[sojourner]

Seems to me the compromise solution would've been to have a switch to disable the recording function and only provide a live feed, when in places where cameras are not allowed, just like in places where there would be objections to using a cell phone.

So how would one prove that no recording was taking place once the switch was thrown? Let me answer that. You can't.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Seems to me the compromise solution would've been to have a switch to disable the recording function and only provide a live feed, when in places where cameras are not allowed, just like in places where there would be objections to using a cell phone.

Where I work, also in customer service, filming is not allowed in any fashion. I have had to ask people to leave for that reason before. However, I would not EVER...EVER touch a customer. If a confrontation goes too far and someone will not leave, that's what the cops are for.

ETA: I found myself reminded of this silly video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM2S6k1Psag

You obviously didn't even read his blog, because it doesn't record. The only reason he was able to capture images from it was because they were still in the buffer when the device was damaged. Otherwise, they would've been overwritten. The EyeTap doesn't permanently record anything.

Anyway, sojourner's right. How would somebody prove their camera isn't taking permanent images?

 

[JarodRussell]

Never understood the ban of cameras anyway.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Supposedly, it is meant to help prevent price comparison as well as thwart any documentation of business practices that are either illegal or against company policy.

 

[sojourner]

When I was a teen me and some friend got thrown out of a grocery store for fooling around with a video camera while inside. The store claimed we might be documenting product placement for the competition.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Yeah, a lot of businesses are very touchy about that sort of thing.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

Hold on. Let me get this straight:

French McDonalds have waiters?

McDonald's is a substantially classier joint in Europe than it is in the US.

The entire concept of McDondalds being classy has to be a joke the US plays on the Europeans.

 

[Avon]

then i dont think they pulled the joke off

 

[Cap-Pick-Card]

This is outrageous discrimination! Cyborgs are humans too! I mean cyborgs are half humans too! Someone find Lionel Hutz, attorney at law!

 

[Cap-Pick-Card]

Hold on. Let me get this straight:

French McDonalds have waiters?

McDonald's is a substantially classier joint in Europe than it is in the US.

The entire concept of McDondalds being classy has to be a joke the US plays on the Europeans.

Correction, sir. McDonalds now serves McCaviar brought to your table by tuxedo-wearing clowns. Is that not class, sir?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

woah!! how bad are american mcdonalds if u think euro ones are classier? haha

Fast food restaurants in America are staffed by the half-assed rejects of the workforce; the kinds of people who make 2nd graders look like management material. The service at these locales would actually IMPROVE if they replaced the employees with trained monkeys.

If you walk into a McDonalds in America, your chances of actually getting what you ordered is reduced by 50% for every item in your order. That's why their menu is numbered in value meals; cahsier treats a value meal like a single item so he only has to push one button on the cash register. But if you order TWO value meals -- even if they're the same one -- there's a 50% chance that he's going to hit the wrong button and get your order wrong, or he'll simply forget to charge you for two and only give you one. And if you order two or more DIFFERENT things... you're fucked. In the mind of a McDonalds cashier, a Big Mac, a snack wrap and a large fry might as well be a differential calculus: You see look of vague incomprehension, followed by annoyance, then the sort of indifference that comes with a person who has decided to push random buttons on the assumption that you probably don't care about getting what you ordered so it doesn't matter anyway.

"For here or to go?"
"For here."
"Good. Here's a paper bag with your food in it. Fuck you."

McDonalds is not a restaurant. It's a chow line with pretty colors.

 

[gturner]

But if McDonald's employees were replaced by advanced Cyborgs built by Cyberdyne Systems, not only would your order be right, and prepared perfectly every single time, you could ask the cashier to translate Greek and Latin passages, map our your best route to the lakehouse, and handle your on-line trading accounts.

 

[sojourner]

^Right before you were shot by a plasma rifle in the 40 megawatt range.

 

[Cap-Pick-Card]

But if McDonald's employees were replaced by advanced Cyborgs built by Cyberdyne Systems, not only would your order be right, and prepared perfectly every single time, you could ask the cashier to translate Greek and Latin passages, map our your best route to the lakehouse, and handle your on-line trading accounts.

And then they would take over the world and kill all humans! Which would be a good thing from a "Cyberdine" cyborg's point of view

 

[Crazy Eddie]

^ The Cyborgs running McDonalds? It's more likely they'd take over the world and FEED all the humans. It would accomplish their goals more efficiently than genocide:
1) Having an uncontested monopoly on human dining, they now have a trillion-dollar revenue stream.
2) They can tremendous influence over human decision, leveraging access to Big Macs and/or fries against continued cooperation.
3) Having eliminated human participation in the provision of one of their basic needs -- nutrition -- they will be one step closer to pacifying the human race and eliminating all resistance. Then they can use some of those trillions of dollars and give everyone free homes and electricity; we would TRULY be their slaves.

He who controls the Cheeseburger controls the universe.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

^ The Cyborgs running McDonalds? It's more likely they'd take over the world and FEED all the humans. It would accomplish their goals more efficiently than genocide:
1) Having an uncontested monopoly on human dining, they now have a trillion-dollar revenue stream.
2) They can tremendous influence over human decision, leveraging access to Big Macs and/or fries against continued cooperation.
3) Having eliminated human participation in the provision of one of their basic needs -- nutrition -- they will be one step closer to pacifying the human race and eliminating all resistance. Then they can use some of those trillions of dollars and give everyone free homes and electricity; we would TRULY be their slaves.

He who controls the Cheeseburger controls the universe.

I think I'd prefer the Demolition Man future with the seashells, swear tickets, and Taco Bell.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Cyborgs taking over Taco Bell...

"This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper, followed by rancid diarrhea."

 

[Silvercrest]

I want to know why they keep calling him the "human cyborg." What other kind of cyborg is there? Aside from Maximillion, of course.

 

[Redfern]

Well, during the research and development phase, I suspect we'd have rat cyborgs, then feline cyborgs, followed by canine 'borgs, moving up to simian cyborgs... Well, you get the idea.

Sincerely,

Bill