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oing some bad stuff? What's the payback for? I have no idea. I really don't. I just have no idea. Anyway, what's going to happen when you've got a robot in your house and you commit a crime? Are they going to be able to subpoena your robot? And will the robot actually just testify, like actually get on the stand and say, yes, I was standing in the kitchen when I saw him do the crime? I feel like…

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from the back door, they can make the robot go look through your stuff, couldn't they? If you're not home, could our intelligence people take over your robot and then tell it to search through your drawers and find all your crimes? Look through your computer. You could tell it to steal the password from the owner, couldn't you? Because the robot could just observe the password being typed in. Maybe hear it. Might be able to detect it from the difference of the keystrokes. Your robot is going to be the biggest security problem you've ever had in your life. There will be nothing as insecure as your robot unless there are some real laws that prevent it. I don't know if you could prevent the CIA from getting in, but it'd be nice if you could. Be good.

All right, it's going to be hard for you to keep these in order, so you probably have a problem like I do with the 91 counts against Trump and these several venues and lawyers and how many Soros-backed prosecutors are trying to take him down. Because the stories all seem the same in your head. Well, this is happening with all the airplane stories. So I see a story today that says Justin United Airlines Boeing 737 blah blah blah loses a panel. And I say to myself, is that the story I just read or is that a second version or is it the third panel? How many airplanes have fallen apart in the sky in the last two weeks? I can't tell because I think I'm reading the same story sometimes, but sometimes it's a different story.

Well, once again I would suggest to United — because it seems to be United has a lot of planes in the news — that they change their slogan from "Fly United" to "Fly Mostly United But Sometimes Things Fall Off on the Way." That'd be a little more fair.

All right, it looks like the National Association of Realtors has some kind of settlement in which the 6% hou

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se commission will no longer be automatic. So you get to negotiate it. To which I said, you couldn't negotiate before? What do you mean you couldn't negotiate? I've negotiated. Was I not supposed to? Was that illegal when I negotiated? I thought that was legal. So I first learned about this commission problem when I was trying to build my house back in 2008. And I tried to hire an architect. Have…

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