a quick note first. After James Watt and during the first papa doc bush administration, the US government decided not to use cost factor determinants, cost-benefit analyses, for environmental problems. Thus as baby doc bush's Rovian minions pursue environmental destruction, while arguing the the economy must be considered, they of course never have to account for the economic costs of the destroyed environment. Hence the "tort-reform" measures that reduce or eliminate the possibility of the actual costs of those environmental factors.
today's other thought problems
the Pentagon allocated $127 billion to build a robot army. Some of the robots will look and walk like humans, some will hover in the air, and some will make their own choices during battle. "The lawyers tell me there are no prohibitions against robots making life-or-death decisions," said a representative from the U.S. Joint Forces Research Center. It was revealed that the Army, seeking to avoid scandal, destroyed photos of U.S. soldiers holding mock executions of hooded Afghani detainees.
so the "lawyers" say that robots will kill indiscriminantly, but in case there are legal issues they will destroy all the evidence.