Robotic Hockey Player - Neatorama

Researchers at the University of Manitoba are working on a robot that plays hockey. They called it Jennifer, after player Jennifer Botterill. The robot was built by the Korean company Robotis, and the university has modified it and is working on its hockey and skating skills. As far as George Carlin's three activities of hockey, Jennifer does pretty well with a puck, she could use some work on her skating, but can she fight? The project team hopes to get Jennifer into the the DARwin-op Humanoid Application Challenge in May. Link -via BroBible

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I think the media/police use the full name (including middle name) of serial killers so that innocent people who happen to have the same first and last names won't get mixed-up with the criminal.

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I agree with MC. Thats nice.

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Don't you have three names, Phil?

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Great point MC. Thank you for being the smart one. Gold star for you.

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I actually follow a blog that posts the last meals of inmates. Dunno why. Nice to have some pics to go though.

http://deadmaneating.blogspot.com/

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Except the theory falls apart rather quickly. Do you know the middle names of:

Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Paul Bernardo, Jeffrey Dahmer, Clifford Olson, Robert Pickton, Theodore Kaczynski, Adolf Hitler?

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Theory could still hold Ted. Those killers were so famous that there really is no confusing them with a random person on the street. No rational person would assume the Ted Bundy in your office is the serial killer.

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that's sick, and it's even sicker that these people get murdered by the state.

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@ted: James T Kirk? :-)
And Hitler didn't have a middle name.

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Oh yeah, lots of good karma for amusing one's self by reading about the eating habits of people executed by the state...

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You're arguing all around my point, which is still valid. "Why do all killers have three names" is more subjective opinion than fact.

Maybe people who follow it more closely are noticing patterns in police reporting techniques, so mc's explanation is accurate for that. I'm not one to follow such morbid pastimes, which borders on hero-worship. I only pointed out that not ALL killers have, or are known by, three names.

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