police make enough trouble, when one of their attack dogs gets loose from their car.

Otherwise, you are correct.

on a tweet from someone named Sarah O'Connor.
She's now regretting posting it. Not comfortable with her sudden Internet fame.

http://imgur.com/gallery/23dkqvy

I hope people leave her alone.

You just can't make this shit up. :/

Sorry, I just had to.

There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

Should we be afraid?

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

Man, been a long time since I've read those books.

I think we should take them to heart.

injury is just discipline for our own good. "Real" injury inevitably comes through our exercise of free will.

They will have to do something about that....

Just awful.

And he was so young.

I feel the same way when we read of someone getting killed in a food processing plant, or any other factory/industrial setting. And all of these accidents can be easily prevented:

Electrical lockout until repairs/upgrades are completed.

He totally missed the robot threat!

I mean SOMEBODYS doing the raping!

Mexican robot invasion!!!!!

This was a defensive move, not deliberate murder. Not yet, at least.

He'll probably use the mechanical malfunction defense.

social, perhaps. Poor working conditions could lead to stress combined with anti-social proclivities. Working in confined spaces for prolonged periods can bring on severe claustrophobia which, if left untreated, could bring on a bout of homicidal madness.

EDIT: I blame the violent robot-culture, like the "Terminator"-movies.

And condemn this act.

We are doomed!

Worked alongside a GE Fanuc for over a year on a project. Easy to see how someone could be seriously injured and even killed.

Some safety procedure/lockout was likely not followed properly.

To survive this kind of situation you have to some precaution so that you can be safe in this kind of attack. I read this type of attacks in Nigerian news headlines.

you really think that's funny, when a person is killed on their job?

Basically we joke to deal with our fear of the prospect of robots killing people. It is a healthy thing. Seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_humor

Sigmund Freud in his 1927 essay Humour (Der Humor) puts forth the following theory of the gallows humor: "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure." Some other sociologists elaborated this concept further. At the same time, Paul Lewis warns that this "relieving" aspect of gallows jokes depends on the context of the joke: whether the joke is being told by the threatened person themselves or by someone else.[4]

Gallows humor has the social effect of strengthening the morale of the oppressed and undermines the morale of the oppressors.[5][6] According to Wylie Sypher, "to be able to laugh at evil and error means we have surmounted them."[7]

Gallows humor is a natural human instinct and examples of it can be found in stories from antiquity. Its use was widespread in middle Europe, from where it was imported to the United States as part of Jewish humor.[3] It is rendered with the German expression Galgenhumor. The concept of gallows humor is comparable to the French expression rire jaune,[8][9][10] which also has a Germanic equivalent in the Belgian Dutch expression groen lachen (lit. green laughing).[11][12][13][14]

Italian comedian Daniele Luttazzi discussed gallows humour focusing on the particular type of laughter that it arouses (risata verde or groen lachen), and said that grotesque satire, as opposed to ironic satire, is the one that most often arouses this kind of laughter.[15][16][17] In the Weimar era Kabaretts, this genre was particularly common, and according to Luttazzi, Karl Valentin and Karl Kraus were the major masters of it.[17]

Actually 150,000 people die every day, only 100,000 of those from natural causes.....so 50,000 people die everyday in accidents, wars, etc...

Same 'human (management) error' when they cooked a worker along with the tuna fish.

Or is it trying desperately to cross the border?

I wonder if the human error was on his part, or if someone else did something wrong that caused this happen.

I wonder if the human error was on his part, or if someone else did something wrong that caused this happen.

Still, accidents happen, mistakes are made, and hopefully, lessons are learned.

Condolences to his family, and his colleagues at the VW plant.

Solidarity Forever.