I hadn't been following him through the US. Last year I did follow through Canada. Most people left him at places like Visitor Information Centres, sitting in front of stores, things like that.
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They shouldn't have sent him across the border back east. He should've come west, young man.
A lot of people wouldn't any more than they'd pick up unattended luggage in an airport! You used to be able to walk up and touch the Liberty Bell, now you can't. The Park Service probably gives a spiel about touching damaging the bell but the real reason is almost certainly fear that someone would stick something inside it sending bits of bell shrapnel all through the crowd!
I remember touching the Liberty Bell! Then some nut job took a hammer to it (in the 90s, maybe?) and it's since been untouchable.
One more tick under my "reasons to become a hermit" list.Some people just suck.Awesome of that guy to not only ruin a great thing but also make Americans look like *******s.My very first feeling was one of embarrassment.That robot made it through a few other countries just fine and dandy but couldn't survive two weeks here? 
The chances of you talking to an American CSR are pretty slim anyway.MANY call centers are in foreign lands.Don't even get me started on trying to get phone support and not being able to understand a word that's being said.
At least they all wear khakis.....
The accent is different. Often when I call the Canadian number of a company I realize I'm talking to someone in the US.
And they are not all rude. I'm sorry if I sounded that way.
This is why we can't have nice things, America. Nice going.
I had to click because, that paper not acting like the national enquirer is so shocking, I thought it was fake.
But I think this is my new favourite Hitchbot photos.
Oh I didn't take it as rude at all.Just throwing in my experience with CS in the states.I'm actually quite shocked when I DO get a good CSR on the phone.It is so rare that it usually prompts an email to the company commenting on the great CS.It's a sad state of affairs!
P.s.Make sure you always bring a banana to a party!
I see the future when they don't just hitch. We have them to raise and keep safe our kids, as sextoys and do to some boriung work that we don't wanna do. Then a movement will rise that are against robots because they separates us from work, creates unemployment and familycrises. I know i know. I have read too much SF but i wonder how good a robot can be in say 50-100 years. If we have the same society then as today, where cheap work is preferred to more expansive work then robotwork would be preferable to human work in some cases (at least to big companies) then their choice is clear. And the ones that are replaced by robots will not be friendly. Demonstrations. Unrest. A brave new world........
Ehm, Kurben, there might already be some companies using robots in production... 
I know, i'm just waiting for the protest demonstrations..... Doomsday is near....... Anyway it would make a great book. And then the robots could actually feel hurt and starting to defend themself and the robotwar us and the robots break out. Cant you see it coming? Or is it my imagination?Ehm, Kurben, there might already be some companies using robots in production...