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		<title>Yes the robots can help us now, but what will happen when they get older and demand Robot Social Security?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in the 50&#8242;s, they&#8217;re a huge problem for more than one country: Baby Boomers. Apparently our Sky Daddy forgot a plague from Egypt and didn&#8217;t want to let it go to waste (Think of the plague-less kids in Africa) so he released it upon the wombs of many of our grandmothers. You might say [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Born in the 50&#8242;s, they&#8217;re a huge problem for more than one country: Baby Boomers. Apparently our Sky Daddy forgot a plague from Egypt and didn&#8217;t want to let it go to waste (Think of the plague-less kids in Africa) so he released it upon the wombs of many of our grandmothers. You might say I&#8217;m being harsh, but I was engineered to be soft on hands (note to self: searching soft on hands doesn&#8217;t give you much but pictures of young women who are dying for a few hundred dollars and an online notice of their accomplishments).</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m not condemning all of them, but the generation&#8217;s activities as a collective has created many problems; these problems are probably greater than the problems that they have solved. They&#8217;re causing problems in Japan as well, but the problems they are creating here are completely and in <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ijcn3rCt-8">no way whatsoever</a> related to what I was talking about earlier.</p>
<p>Anyways, Japan is getting ready to fly the kite, of old age (dun dun DUN). Where do I get kite from? <a href="http://www.economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9539825">The population/age graph of Japan</a> has gone from a pyramid shape to looking more like a kite. Unfortunately this kite cannot get off the ground since there is a lack of wind to get it airborne. There is an abundance of gruffled, but quiet, complaints as well as <a href="http://en.sevenload.com/videos/pzS2P7j/Futurama-Time-keeps-On-slipping">entitlement</a> (17:19). Unfortunately, although entitlement seems to come with age it doesn&#8217;t bring with it a breeze to lift this kite (it does bring incontinence).</p>
<p>Japan&#8217;s fine females are not doing their job of being barefoot and pregnant (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701652.html">unlike France</a>) which will lead to a lack of working age people at the current rate, maybe even as high as 1 retired person for every 2 workers. The government, being slow and all Japanese government like, hasn&#8217;t really done much of anything to fix the problem. Old people, however, are doing their part by trying to shame younger people by giving those without 5 children nasty looks.</p>
<p>The best and easiest solution has either not occurred to them or they are too afraid to try it, changing their immigration policy. They&#8217;re still hung up on maintaining racial purity so much that it seems they&#8217;ll try anything before letting anyone emigrate to Japan and become a citizen. There&#8217;s even been talk of <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1435090770451224720&#038;q=snl+robot+insurance&#038;total=163&#038;start=0&#038;num=10&#038;so=0&#038;type=search&#038;plindex=1">using robots</a>.</p>
<p><center><img src='http://www.chasethegaijin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/new_asimo.jpg' alt='I will eat your medicine old hag.' /><br />
<small>Once we hit the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity">singularity</a> you&#8217;re toast gramps.</small></center></p>
<p>The robot revolution starts in Japan. I hope it will be a long time before robots learn how to make themselves waterproof.</p>
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