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You have 20 seconds to comply.

Jamerson McGradner · 733.9K views · 2012-03-31 · 3:00

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Overview

The ED-209 boardroom scene from the 1987 film RoboCop, where the enforcement droid malfunctions after giving a man 20 seconds to comply.

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HN uses it purely as a joke reference in threads about autonomous weapons, robots and malfunctioning automation.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2013–2024

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belter · 2024-05 · Joke / meme

Unfortunately a little bug caused the drone to confuse the 911 caller with the possible criminal and led to this incident: [VIDEO] Quite regrettable. We hope to fix it in the new Beta v2.34

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vincnetas · 2020-01 · Joke / meme

Mandatory "You have 20 seconds to comply." [VIDEO] *That demo with generals probably looked like this :)

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pmoriarty · 2017-08 · Joke / meme

"Friend-or-foe identification can boil down to "only targets shooting at me are hostile"." That reminds me of a classic scene from the original Robocop: [VIDEO]

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