Take That, Asimov!

Deal Chatter Shirt
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Unfortunately, the laws won. Darn you robotic programming!

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Rarely do you see a robot with such snazzy boots. Well done, Mr. Zettwoch.

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Thoroughly confused.

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They eat old people’s medicine for fuel.

Once they grab you with those metal claws you can’t break free, because they are made of metal, and robots are strong.

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For the uninitiated:

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
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In science fiction, the Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround”, although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following:

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Edit: someone beat me to it

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I would have posted the laws, but it seems like everyone else has already done it.

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Alternate time to wear this shirt: When the metal ones come for you, and they will.

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Why do you people think Isaac Asimov corners the market on “The Robotic Laws”?

I hate the shirt, by the way. Its a visual explosion

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heh - clever. love the asimov reference.

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I thought he already killed the bossy human. Perhaps everyone is bald and has beards in the future.

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i’m not sure if this has been said yet, but the laws are as follows… (just kidding BTW)

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

  2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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looks like he’s about to shoot the sheriff

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This shirt would probably be good for the planet of robots in Futurama, if they wore clothes.

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He may have shot the sheriff, but he didn’t shoot the deputy.

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Oh man, this made me laugh out loud. Excellent joke and art :slight_smile:

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Hmmm…using the laws of Bacon (Kevin, that is), that’s the Bob Marley song Will Smith was singing in I Am Legend. Will Smith also was in I, Robot, a movie about Asimov’s laws. Coincidence? I think not.

Thus, I come to the conclusion that the robots are already subliminally affecting our minds through this shirt.

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So in this case, he fought the law, but the law didn’t win…bad robot!

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  1. Robot stomps dead guy.
  2. Robot smokes a cig. while dead guy calls him (@#$%*!).
  3. Robot with smoking gun sweats.

Yay! Good story! :tongue: