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ACLU Files for Info on New Brain-Scan Tech
An anonymous reader writes "According to their website, the ACLU has filed a FOIA request seeking information on the new Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging service being made available to the government for use on suspected terrorists which can produce 'live, real-time images of people's brains as they answer questions, view images, listen to sounds, and respond to other stimuli. [...] These brain-scanning technologies are far from ready for forensic uses and if deployed will inevitably be misused and misunderstood," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project. "This technology must not be deployed until it is proven effective -- and we are a long way away from that point, according to scientists in the field,"'"
ACLU is the enemy of America
Does this mean the ACLU has stopped their assault on anything Christian? Or are they branching out?
Prof. Farnsworth - "Oh a lesson in not changing history from Mr I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!"
> That still doesn't mean we understood the cost of the fallout to protect ourselves, as is also
> obviously true. To anyone without a fascist stick up their ass.
Successful war leaders must be able to make life and death decisions on incomplete information, the standard of 'knowing all the consequences of a decision beyond a reasonable doubt' you are advocating would translate into defeat in any War ever fought between any two combatants at any point in history. It was War, two options were available. Bomb or Invade. Both courses had thousands of unknown/unknowable consequences. But we had able leaders who made the tough calls and we won even though uncounted decisions up and down the chain of command were unmitigated disasters. More soldiers died in a training mission for D-Day than we have lost in both Afganistan and both wars in Iraq but the New York Times either didn't learn of it or was sane enough back then to STFU.
I'd like to belive you are just a mind numbed Kossack who doesn't realize the policies you advocate only prolong the War and cost American and Allied lives, but I find it harder to do every day. No, I think most of you idiots have went beyond dissent, beyond being anti-war all the way to being ON THE OTHER FUCKING SIDE. The NYT certainly is.
> As any fool could guess, and anyone with a brain doesn't have to guess, no one should be waving around these
> ridiculous devices as if they worked to "extract truth".
Even if they don't 'work' they certainly have propaganda value. Remember, since Vietnam modern wars are still fought on the battlefield but aren't won or lost there. And even if it doesn't work well in the 1.0 version give em a few years of field experience.
> Any more than that Star Wars "missile defense shield" works to protect us
Ah yes, that standard issue lie. We won't know is missle defense 'won't work' until we have tried until the sun goes cold and we all freeze. Until then it only hasn't worked yet. The question is whether it is a good idea in general ( I happen to believe it is) and whether the current lines of research are promising enough to justify further research and the unclassified information in the general press is fairly encouraging in a defense against a limited attack like North Korea or Iran could muster in the near future.
> I require you to immediately report to one of "the G's" test centers to tweak this sexy Mystery Machine
> into working order. It's your patriotic duty...
Are you saying if a general call for volunteers to help refine such a machine went out you would refuse? What a disgusting piece of human filth! Good men, and these days more than a few good women, are in Iraq tonight facing death each and every day and you wouldn't do such a minor thing to help? Where do I sign up? (With adaquate non-disclosure and other legal protections of course.)
Democrat delenda est
Fuck you, fascist. No matter how hard you spew, you can't change the fact that I agree with Truman's decision to atomic bomb Japan, as I've consistently posted. Stupid bitch, FDR and Truman won the World War faster than your Bush assholes have spent bogging us down in Iraq, our manufactured enemy. The rest of your gibberish strawmen don't even rate a dignifying response.
We don't need a machine to see the rot inside your skull. Go play your deluded games with your rapidly shrinking pool of Bush cultists.
Better yet, practice what you're preaching and go down to register for Iraq duty. You've already invoked our brave, misled troops in this thread to somehow defend your wasting their lives for your fascist dreams. I expect to see you actually putting your life on the line, instead of your brave keyboard bullshit duty.
But of course you won't. Because the Americans who've joined since Afghanis and Arabs attacked America (not Iraqis) are not cowards like you. They're brave, and stand up to defend our country. You, on the other hand, hate our country (as it stands), and are such a pisspants coward that you'd throw away everything we've got in your terror. You're the perfect fascist tool, the perfect terrorist target. The best you could do for our country would be to take the place of a brave American as an IED goes off. Which is just the last reason why you won't.
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The 4 Egyptians were also Arabs - 19 Arabs on 9/11/2001, 14 of them Saudis.
The Afghanis who were "involved" in the attacks were of course the Afghani Taliban who supported and protected the Qaeda assholes who did the manual labor.
Who were of course a Pakistani secret police creation. Designed by the American CIA.
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