I Am The T1000 - How Tight Do You Want Your Lug Nuts?

U-M builds on robotics program

With $4M help from Army, 8 schools look to grow Michigan job base.

The University of Michigan's engineering college is expanding its reach into robotics.

To meet a burgeoning demand for robotics expertise in the state, the university established a research center last month on its Ann Arbor campus and will begin offering a master's program this fall.

Expansion of U-M's robotics programs follows a move in 2005 by the Army to relocate its robotics development program from Alabama to the military's Detroit Arsenal in Warren. The office focuses on technology for the battlefield.

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The only business in town is the business of killing, beware the military-industrial complex.

We USED to make cars here in Michigan, now we make robot armies to kill people by remote control.

Is this really the best way to use our most creative minds? Think about that.

Oh and THANK YOU UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN...you really have out done yourselves this time.

When you see blood on the battlefield and it is YOUR toys that are responsible, please know, it's on your hands.

If you don't think some asshole terrorist organization in some God forsaken place in the world won't make the connection it's YOU making these things in some future war, your terribly wrong.

It's in the newspaper brainiac.

Welcome to Detroit

Where Do They Get Their Dope From? - Part II

A shooting stemming from an undercover drug operation this afternoon outside Bob's of Canton at Merriman and Warren roads has left one person dead, police said.

Westland Police Chief James Ridener said around 3:30 p.m. undercover narcotics officers from Romulus Police Department were posing as sellers, attempting to sell fake drugs to several people in the parking lot.

The officers met with the people in a silver Mercedes. Once they got inside the vehicle officers became aware the prospective buyers had no intention of buying the drugs, Ridener said.

Shopper James Crews knew something was up when he saw a black vehicle pull up. He was loading groceries into this Malibu and felt people in the car -- there were at least three -- were staring at him.

Crews said a man left the car with a handgun and saw him fire at the Mercedes.
And then the shooting began.

Crews estimated "50 to 100 shots" fired.

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OK First off I have a fallen officer in my family so I am not going to take any negative feedback on my criticism, my family has paid our dues to society, I can speak.

1) Fake drugs? I have serviced computers and networks in DEA and ATF offices around Wayne county, they have piles, literally piles of the real McCoy laying around...I don't get this....any dealer worth his salt and there are a ton...knows his shit...I repeat KNOWS HIS SHIT.

2) Did Romulus PD have permission to be making a bust in Westland? Don't care personally just asking...this is the kind of technicality criminals get off on.

3) 50-100 shots? Jesus Christ...are these the worst shots on record? This must have looked like a Starsky and Hutch episode only longer than 30 minutes. They probably had to reload several times. Alright....This could have been automatic fire but they don't say and I am fairly sure the cops don't carry full auto even undercover.

Frankly, my opinion, not the best bust...it could have gone down without a shot if enough officers had been on it. Just poor planning, it could have gone far better than it obviously did.

THAT ASIDE...I commend the officers for their ongoing and valiant effort against crime, they consistently put their lives on the line day after day for no thanks and PEANUTS for pay...I know this as fact.

These ARE real heroes, they DO exist, they DO walk among us.

Welcome to Detroit

Where Do They Get Their Dope From? - Forecaster: Most of U.S. has escaped recession

Forecaster: Most of U.S. has escaped recession.

(Also thinks puppy dog dreams and monkey farts will cure economic woes.)

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The overall U.S. economy appears to have escaped a recession, most mainstream economists say, but that's no comfort to some parts of the country.

One respected economic forecaster estimates that 170 U.S. metropolitan areas could be considered technically in recession, and 116 are at risk of economic contraction. Only oil-rich Texas and Oklahoma have been relatively unscathed.

The biggest losers include industrial Midwestern states such as Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin. Deep problems in auto manufacturing, exacerbated by bad bets on SUV production as gasoline prices rose, have hurt those states. The housing crunch has made a bad situation worse.

"Michigan is either the weakest or second weakest economy, mostly due to the misfortunes of the auto industry," said Mark Vitner, senior economist for Wachovia, the big national bank based in Charlotte, N.C.

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I think if you ask most U.S. Citizens if their financial situation has improved or declined in regards to the cost of living most would say declined.

How many of us received a annual pay increase that would cover our increase in the cost of fuel or fuel oil?

How many of us received NO pay increase?

How many of us lost our jobs?

Welcome to Detroit

The Dead Walk - Say Detroit Not Desirable

Just how bad does someplace have to get to have the dead leave? Let's ask dead Detroiters.

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By now the statistics are as well known in London as they are in Livonia. Detroit has lost half its population since its heyday of the 1950s, and every year the city hemorrhages an estimated 5,000 people more. First it was white flight to the suburbs; then with the city's continued spiral into poverty and violence, blacks began to flee to those same suburbs. And while census figures show that whites are returning to some of the nation's largest cities, Detroit is experiencing a flight of a different kind. As the Imbrunones' second funeral demonstrates, Detroit is experiencing the flight of the dead.

The movement of the dead from the nation's largest black city to its overwhelmingly white suburbs is a small, though socially symbolic phenomenon, revealing the grinding problems of race, crime and economics that plague both sides of Eight Mile.

From 2002 through 2007, the remains of about 1,000 people have been disinterred and moved out of the city, according to permits stored in metal filing cabinets in the city's department of health. Looked at in another way, for about every 30 living human beings who leave Detroit, one dead human being follows. Moreover, anecdotal evidence compiled by a Detroit professor suggests the figure may be twice as high, meaning city records may be incomplete and that thousands upon thousands of deceased people have been relocated from the city over the past 20 years.

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I think this is pretty damn pathetic, yet strangely understandable.

Welcome to or Farewell from Detroit, whichever applies.