Blake wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:16:58 -0800, Hans-Martin Mosner <hmm at heeg.de> wrote:
> 
>> Frank Caggiano wrote:
>>
>>> Stanford's souped-up Volkswagen blasted through the Mojave Desert,   
>>> blew away the competition, and won Darpa's $2 million Grand  
>>> Challenge.  Buckle up, human - the driverless car of the future is  
>>> gaining on you.
>>
>>
>>  From a technical viewpoint, I think this is an admirable achievement.
>> However, from a political standpoint, it seems this is one more step 
>> on  the way to automated warfare. I refuse to consider this an 
>> admirable  goal.
> 
> 
> Why? What if the gave a war and nobody had to come?<s>
> 
> 

you mean, even the enemy would not have to come ? that would be great. 
then let's call that "giving a party" instead of "giving a war" and 
let's design dancing robots so that we can watch all the fun going on.