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Kegbot: The Future of Robotic Drink Service, Now
An anonymous reader writes "Frat houses all over the world could soon be linked up in massive online drinking games, thanks to Kegbot, a standard kegerator that uses an RFID alternative to track how much the drinkers have imbibed and feeds that data over an embedded ethernet into an online database.
One of Kegbot's main creators, Mike Wakerly, says the technology can actually promote more responsible drinking because it allows people to be cut off from using the tap after the system detects that they've had more than their alloted fluid ounces." Reader bloglogic points to "more pics and instructions on building your own Kegbot at the Make Magazine web site."
IMHO it promotes safe (and ultimately geeky) drinking.
Do you honestly think that kids are going to "drink responsibly? Do you think they will really stick with this thing?
A very small few, a very tiny minority MAY go with this program but I assure you the vast majority will not.
The promotion of alcohol use to anyone, in any amount is wrong. Especially promoting it among young people.
Young people for the greatest part, with few exceptions, behave very irresponsibly.
I am appalled by the alcohol commercials on TV, "Spike" (I watch 007 movies on there from time to time) is one channel I can say for certain is a big offender. I dare not tune into one of the "music" channels, such as MTV or the likes, I won't tolerate those festering sewers on my TV but I would lay money on it that they promote alcohol on there like there is no tomorrow.
Alcohol is almost always over indulged in and almost always abused. It is an extremely rare case where someone might indulge in a drink now and then without getting wasted. You have some people that might have a glass of wine with dinner, that's fine.
But the beer drinkers that pour it down their necks until the keg runs dry, that's stupid.
I've been around it. I've seen what it does to people.
There is nothing more despicable than a drunk person.
Drunks are idiots.
I'm not trolling, I'm telling the F-N truth and if you take offense to it you probably have an alcohol problem and should seek help.