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Post by linnabean on Apr 8, 2010 15:08:16 GMT
That's probabily just a part of the uniform. Exactly, but what a cool uniform. I wish my school gave us trench coats. So useful for hiding in shadows.
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Post by drakebloodiv on Apr 8, 2010 17:43:19 GMT
Exactly, but what a cool uniform. I wish my school gave us trench coats. So useful for hiding in shadows. This just adds more evidence to the theory that the court is actually encouraging them to misbehave.
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Post by Ulysses on Apr 8, 2010 20:13:48 GMT
I wish my school gave us trench coats. So useful for hiding in shadows. This just adds more evidence to the theory that the court is actually encouraging them to misbehave. Hee.
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Post by coyotagoat on Apr 8, 2010 21:06:12 GMT
The robot guard is wearing an untucked metal shirt
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Post by todd on Apr 8, 2010 22:28:21 GMT
I wonder why the Court would post a robot for security duty at the power station, given how hopelessly inept the Court robots almost always are; when 12-year-olds, even bright 12-year-olds, can outwit them, it's clearly a sign that they don't make good guards.
Unless this is all part of the Court's plan of encouraging the children to sneak around - the robot guards are there so that it won't look too easy, to provide the children with obstacles, but obstacles that they can overcome.
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Post by linnabean on Apr 9, 2010 0:10:55 GMT
I wonder why the Court would post a robot for security duty at the power station, given how hopelessly inept the Court robots almost always are; when 12-year-olds, even bright 12-year-olds, can outwit them, it's clearly a sign that they don't make good guards. Perhaps the people who are in charge of posting security just don't realize just how inept the robot guards are. Or they might just not care. Remember how bored the headmaster looked last time Annie saw him at the meeting with Coyote? He didn't seem to big on details. It could be an attitude of, "Well, at least something's over there. Good enough." Conversely, what we've seen of the robots so far could really be a tool to highlight just how good Annie and Kat are and how good their parents were with mechanics and sneaking around. I prefer the 'the higher-ups in the court don't realize/care" theory myself. Orrr theory #3 (which kind of dovetails with #1) the court places such trust in machines and science that it doesn't believe the court robots could be inept.
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Post by Refugee on Apr 9, 2010 0:55:53 GMT
More Guard-bot thoughts:
It may be that the bots in dangerous locations, such as the power plant, are more aggressive than in areas students are likely to be found in.
It may well be that the Guard Bots are not thought to have a reliable enough ethical program to make force-decisions.
It may also be that the Bots themselves are unwilling to use force, after the Jeannine affair.
Finally, I suspect the real purpose is as mobile, fairly intelligent surveillance drones. What the bots see is recorded, and monitored or reviewed by human security personnel if anything untoward appears.
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Post by Jiminiminy on Apr 9, 2010 1:17:25 GMT
But what if the robot catches them being nosy? Will he shoot them? Politely?
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Post by drakebloodiv on Apr 9, 2010 4:16:37 GMT
But what if the robot catches them being nosy? Will he shoot them? Politely? Well, if not for lack of gun, yes. As is, I assume he can only beat them over the head politely, and is more likely to complain about the lack of doughnuts than do that.
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Post by TBeholder on Apr 9, 2010 20:46:07 GMT
I wonder why the Court would post a robot for security duty at the power station, given how hopelessly inept the Court robots almost always are; when 12-year-olds, even bright 12-year-olds, can outwit them, it's clearly a sign that they don't make good guards. Unless this is all part of the Court's plan of encouraging the children to sneak around - the robot guards are there so that it won't look too easy, to provide the children with obstacles, but obstacles that they can overcome. Because if a window doesn't have a grate, it's a clearly invitation to jump out. <snicker> I'd rather prefer they removed all warning labels and let the Nature do its work, though.
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Post by todd on Apr 10, 2010 11:28:15 GMT
I will admit that, either way, the Court's level of security (existent, but not strong enough for Annie and her classmates to overcome) makes me feel uneasy. It suggests that either the Court has seriously underestimated the skills and intelligence of the children attending school there (which is all the more amazing since many of its teachers attended classes there, and surely remember what they were like at that age), or that it's permitting them to engage in this meddling - and the results haven't been always fortunate (ranging from Robot's well-intentioned intrusion into Gillitie angering Ysengrin to Jack smashing a robot guard). I'm not certain which possibility is more unsettling.
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Post by TBeholder on Apr 10, 2010 15:40:52 GMT
I will admit that, either way, the Court's level of security (existent, but not strong enough for Annie and her classmates to overcome) makes me feel uneasy. It suggests that either the Court has seriously underestimated the skills and intelligence of the children attending school there In other words, a theory that maybe Court teachers do neither consider their children dumb nor has a goal of raising kids as jail inmates is so blasphemous it's not even considered. A parapet isn't enough to keep barbarous suicidal prisoners-of-war, one needs a two-human-heights grate, an army of security and a lot of snitches. Yeah, yeah.
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Post by todd on Apr 10, 2010 22:15:24 GMT
Could you explain that a bit more clearly, please?
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Post by TBeholder on Apr 11, 2010 0:48:30 GMT
Could you explain that a bit more clearly, please? Dear, loving Cthulhu... For safety, a parapet or a warning is enough. Grates and stormtroopers are part of something else entirely. Turning a school into zoo just doesn't make sense - without certain assumptions.
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Post by linnabean on Apr 11, 2010 2:56:43 GMT
yes. Love the Lovecraft reference.
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