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Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions
Vainglorious Coward writes "Reality continues to catch up with Nineteen Eighty-Four with the announcement of the development of a brain scanner that can read a person's intentions. 'It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,' said the leader of the project, Professor John-Dylan Haynes . Demonstrating his own mastery of doublethink, Haynes continued 'We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.'"
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You can "prove" innocence to the same, imperfect degree that you "prove" guilt: by presenting evidence to that conclusion. A strong, defensible alibi is evidence of innocence, while eyewitness accounts are evidence of guilt. We never formally "prove" guilt in a court, at least not in the mathematical sense--even when sending someone to the Electric Chair, we're merely "pretty sure he's guilty".
Why did that have to be a he, huh? As a swore feminist, I strongly object to this. To prove to you women can do this just as well as men, if not even better, I will dedicate the rest of my life to this cause, and I ask you all to join me in fighting the women's cause when I say: MORE WOMEN TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR!
But then Mr. Eastwood would have missed out on the Oscar nomination for Million Dollar Baby and we would have missed out on such great films as Bird, Mystic River, High Plains Drifter, Outlaw Josey Wales, Play Misty for Me, Flags of Our Father, and Sands of Iwo Jima.
There is a serious argument for saying Eastwood is one of the greatest living American directors with Scorcese and Coppola. Certainly, his filmography deserves better than a ridiculous comment about "actors leave[ing] the director's chair to someone else".
Have you ever heard of Orson Wells? A little film about a newspaper publisher that some consider the greatest movie ever made?
You are welcome on my lawn.