Paragraphs. Pahleeze! One hand grenade will wipe out the whole block!

My favorite part is when they bring out the holy hand grenade and it's only barely strong enough to kill the rabbit but when half the knights decide not to use it the rabbit ends up hanging around for another couple of years.

Ok, I'm noticing it's pointed the opposite direction when airborne, so I must assume it was hit pretty hard by the Google car.
It's rear left leg's angle reinforces my theory.
Smart, Google car. Why waste a hand grenade if you don't need to?

And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

For this years annual Easter egg hunt we've replaced the usual chicken eggs with incendiary hand grenades, let's see if the kids can tell the difference.

Jesus, well that sound they make at the end is terrifying. Probably be great for "riot control."

Step two is presumably to get a hand-grenade's worth of explosives on each one and then be able to remotely assign them individual targets. Maybe just use facial recognition.

I surrender.

I agree that the feeling that Trump is a political hand grenade likely had a lot to do with his winning, but so did the (well founded) feeling that Clinton is underhanded and deceitful.

Given a decent candidate, in any party, I think we would have seen the biggest landslide victory in American election history, but both major parties, and the 3 largest 'minor' parties all put up candidates that only appealed to their base (and often not even them). We had one, Sanders, and the Democrats shot themselves in the foot by smearing and cheating him out of a nomination....and now they reap the rewards for those actions, and we all suffer for it. Anyone involved in the Clinton campaign should retire from politics today, they are now forever tainted and will hurt any future candidate if they are involved. Chelsie should stay out too. That may not be fair, but it's reality. This campaign has made their name unelectable, due in large part to how they ran it, not what her opponent said about her.

Always nice to see a family of biological hand grenades out enjoying the summer.

@CrushBug

Related story: during the later years of the war, when Allied air and sea supremacy made the Bay of Biscay a deathtrap, Allied torpedo boats took up ambush positions at the entrances to U-Boot bases, particularly La Rochelle. They'd get into position at night and stay just outside of range of the coastal defence batteries. Before outgoing submarines could reach deep water, they'd be plastered with hand grenades by these speed boats.

It wouldn't be able to sink a sub, but a lucky hit might damage the periscope and it did reduce the sub's sonar abilities by massive amounts, covering the entire exit area in a blanket of noise. Not to mention the psychological effect...

Anyway, just small bits of history.

Now, about this video: that small chance to be hit by a grenade chunk is surpassed by the rather noticable chance to be hit by one of roughly 6500 steel balls within a run-of-the-mill frag grenade used over here. Doesn't make the underwater experience any better though...

Finally! They're all in one room, now where did I leave that hand grenade.

God knows what he could be hiding under that hat, another assault rifle, hand grenades, his relief.

Absolutely. It's a mistake to make assumptions about what AI will be like. The doomsayers too often attribute human qualities to it. It's like speculating about alien intelligence. It will come in bits an pieces as we understand it more. My own guess is that, not weighed down by long obsolete genetic imperatives and human psychological pathologies, it will most likely be (in its higher form) an extraordinarily capable problem solver and prognosticator. It will lack the human flaws that typically motivate the killer AIs of science fiction. Of course, it will probably have it's own unique flaws. I do think it's wise to be wary of software that has developed beyond our capability to understand it (much as we don't understand the workings of our own consciousness).

Probably my primary concern about robotic weapons comes from a DARPA proposal I read about some time in the past. What they wanted was an autonomous, bird sized UAV. It would contain surveillance equipment and sensors, and be able to share the data it collects through a mesh network established with it's fellows and the commanders as well as receive orders. It would be intelligent enough to find a suitable strategic vantage point and hide itself. From there it would simply observe. With a large enough swarm of these, perhaps many thousands, you could send them into a city at night. They would each also potentially carry a small warhead allowing them to launch themselves at and destroy threats. Once these robots were entrenched, which might only take an hour or two, whoever controls them would effectively rule the city. Even if they were cut off from their command structure, they might still retain enough intelligence to recognize a particular individual, someone in a forbidden area, someone holding a weapon, or someone not brodcasting the right IFF signal, or any number of things. There might be no defense against such a thing (though there probably will be).

To me, that concept is terrifying. It's not huge hulking terminator-like war machines that could be the greatest threat, just flying, self-guiding, intelligent hand grenades. All someone would need is the capability to manufacture them. No raising an army, no speeches or threats, just a factory and a design. It's also not too far fetched to believe this capability might be available in just a matter of a few decades. They'll be easier to build than nuclear weapons, and oh so convenient and easy to deploy.

Um.... anyways, I dunno where I was going with that. Just lots of random pontificating, but because it's technology, it's silly to try to stop it with legislation. It will happen, as ChaosEngine rightly points out, the best course of action is to be on top of it and to understand it.

IT"S THE BEAST!!!! Quick, get the Holy Hand grenade of Antioch!