Fast Food Restaurants Replacing Human Employees With Robots

Placing an order at your favorite fast food restaurant is about to change forever. Instead of trying to get the attention of that pimple faced teenager who chews gum and talks on their iPhone, we will soon be able to place our orders with a touch screen robot, avoiding human interaction all together.

Jack-In-The-Box has rolled out the first of such machines in a Washington state restaurant. Customers can order and pay from a machine, pictured at right.

Coca Cola is doing their part to automate the fountain drink side of restaurants by introducing touch screen Coca Cola Freestyle machines. Instead of offering less than 10 flavors of beverages like a traditional fountain dispenser, Freestyle can offer over 150 flavors on the spot using similar sized machines featuring new technology. The new technology uses small cartridges instead of heavy and messy boxes of syrup that have been the nightmare of employees for years.

Coca Cola promises the new Freestyle machines will lead to flavors never before released in the U.S., like Raspberry Coca Cola, Peach Fanta, plus flavored waters, teas, and sparkling beverages. Video is below.



If they can get the hamburger cooking robots straightened out, plus iron out the kinks in the robotic chicken farmers and slaughterhouse droids, we won't need any dirty human hands touching our food from conception to mouth.

Is this a good thing, replacing humans with robots? Or is it just another step towards our Skynet masters vaporizing us?

Ben Roethlisberger Accused of Sexual Assault

Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman from Nevada. Andrea McNulty is named as the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit filed in Washoe County, Nevada.

The QB's attorney confirmed the pending civil case. There have been no criminal charges or investigation.

The AP has a statement issued by Roethlisberger's lawyer:

"This weekend Andrea McNulty served Ben Roethlisberger with a civil complaint accusing him of sexually assaulting her in July 2008. Ben has never sexually assaulted anyone; especially Andrea McNulty. The timing of the lawsuit and the absence of a criminal complaint and a criminal investigation are the most compelling evidence of the absence of any criminal conduct. If an investigation is commenced, Ben will cooperate fully and Ben will be fully exonerated," Cornwell said."

Photo of Andrea McNulty courtesy of Lalate.com.

Muslim Woman Sentenced To Public Beating For Drinking Beer

From Huffington Post:

"An Islamic court in Malaysia has sentenced a Muslim woman to be flogged with a rattan cane for having a beer in a nightclub, a court official said Tuesday.

It is rare for a woman in Malaysia to be sentenced to caning – a punishment usually reserved for men in various crimes ranging from rape to bribery.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno was sentenced Monday to six lashes and a fine of 5,000 ringgit ($1,400) for consuming alcohol, said a Shariah High Court official who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to make public statements."

The photo above is of a different caning and shows what the woman is facing just for drinking beer.

Read the full article here.

Bankrupt Murderer Michael Vick is Free, Moving into New $2 Million Home

Michael Vick has completed his home confinement on Monday morning and is now free on probation. Vick had served a 23 month federal prison term for running an illegal dogfighting ring and murdering dogs. He was also given a 3 year suspended prison term from the state of Virginia as long as he stays on good behavior.

Vick is also in the midst of filing bankruptcy. In an April court filing, Vick claimed he was down to $210,000 in cash, along with legal bills of $4.7 million, plus another $12.8 million he owes to 7 different debtors. Vick's bankruptcy court visit in April also revealed that he is living in a home in Hampton, Virginia valued at $748,000, while he is also have a new $2 million home built in Suffolk, Virginia.

How does a person with no job, several felony convictions, and who is -$4.5 million in debt AND filing bankruptcy have a $2 million house built?

Vick is also being sued by the federal government for allegedly stealing $1.35 million from an employee pension fund of a company he owns.

As I've said before, the scumbag has the right to earn a living, but doing so in the NFL should be out of question. He can get a blue collar job and find out what it's like to actually work for a living. Playing a professional sport and being rewarded with a multi-million dollar salary is a privilege, not a right. The fans will ultimately decide if he is accepted if he is reinstated and signs with another team. Hopefully it never gets that far. Any team thinking of signing him has to be fearful of the backlash such a move would create. Animal lovers across the country will boycott that team, no matter where he signs, and bloggers such as myself will join them.

One thing I do know: Vick can't afford two houses worth almost $3 million with his $10 an hour construction job, or a boys and girls club job he is reportedly working now.