I admire the extra effort that went into this spammer's fake post compared to the usual two vague lines.  I went ahead and stripped the links and left it.

Good call Ian, this is just gold. It would be a crime to delete such nonsense

@ cmetzel,  This why I live in California, because we have free food.  I have one of those broccoli trees in my own backyard.  We aren't mean like those people on the East coast who have slaves. Hopefully none of them are working at Solidoodle.

It's my favorite video of all time.  We can make things... cars the machines we can make...  Cotton, mining metals silkworms.   Do we have to pay for the land do we have to pay rent do we pay... the food's free!

The most impressive part of this video is that nobody in the background is overcome by a fit of laughter and had to be forcibly removed.  I swear I would literally have to be carried out by police if I saw this in person.  Not even a smile on their faces.  They must be used to it in California - side effect of the perfect pesticides.

cmetzel deserves a +1 internet point.

Am I the only one who sees this? Is it me or are they trying to make 'robots'... that can make 'robots'...? A robot being able to make another robot just seems like a slightly bad idea at the time but who knows how far this technology might go. We don't wanna get to the point where 'robots' make other 'robots' without telling anyone. Also, once it gets to the public, you know it's some super computer/techno-head that is just waitin to program and hack and reprogram it to do his bidding. Then, you got someone out there making everything from lock-picks to PS3's and selling them on the black market for ridiculous profit. The possibilities are endless. I just think that at first..., for a little while, the government or military should hang on to this and test find all of the different applications for it, good and bad, and come up with some counters or failsafes. Two good ones would be: 1. Never to build another robot unless a human tells you to. 2. Apply limits and restrictions on what can be built(no weapons, copywrighted objects, etc). Anyway, I just thought about this and wanted to see if anyone else thought about it.

They do spend plenty of time and energy (and money) creating better products, as they did to create their existing products.

If their products are so much better, why are they so afraid of a little competition?