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Homeland Security Commissions LED-Based Puke-Saber
E++99 writes "Homeland Security has contracted with Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. to develop an "LED Incapacitator," a nonlethal weapon consisting of a large flashlight with a cluster of LEDs capable of emitting "super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths." Sounds innocuous enough... until they they shine "the evil color" at you and you start puking! A working prototype has been completed, and they will soon be putting it through its paces. Homeland Security hopes to give it to Border Patrol agents and National Guardsmen by 2010."
How will people defend themselves against this? I'm sure nobody will think of simply closing one's eyes!
If only to pummel Tom Cruise with................
Puke sticks? Minority Report?
Wow, wait until the bulimics get hold of this on the black market!
...as long as the bad guys aren't allowed to have mirrors.
coding is life
How long till you can get this in a Java applet?
...not that you'd be an effective terrorist with your eyes closed. BTW, is it wrong of me to want to see this used on large crowds?
Does it also work against editors who relentlessly post the same stories over and over again?
So similar to the "brown note" but with puke. The orange-yellow-red-black-green-blue note (light)?
This version is only a slight improvement over the original prototype, which could beam scenes from Gigli directly into a person's retina from up to 2 miles.
Much like the Sick Sticks used in the movie?
Puke, I am your father.
When will this be available in key-chain form?
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
IANAL, but doesn't this device create some legal liability for security?
-Someone gets this device used on them. They have damage from stomach acid in their esophagus. They sue.
-They use this on someone who is sick (from another cause). They puke up blood/get sicker/die.
-(This is BS, but lawyers will sue for anything these days) "Psychological trauma" caused by the device.
Is it a reasonable expectation that the device may be used on you if you go to airport/border?
Watch http://youtube.com/watch?v=a_sJAKq799s if you need to be convinced. We need to duplicate this technology and distribute plans to activist groups so that they can be turned on the police the instant they're turned on us. Any patriots that work for the commission on Slashdot? Post any specs anonymously under this post.
So, let me get this straight...
Some vendor comes up with an implausible-sounding "weapon" based on what is little more than a glorified LED flashlight, now available online for about $20. They describe how it's a "non-lethal weapon", and need bajillions of BUXORZ to "ensure adequate performance".
Forgive me if I'm a bit the skeptic... but what really makes we want to puke about this is just what an incredibly OBVIOUS waste of money this is! How much money are we going to pay to have somebody put together a blinky-circuit and some $0.05 LED lights together with a soldering iron to make a flashlight to let their kids play with?
Perhaps the most dazzling display of 'tardedness I've seen this month!
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sigh...
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Why do I feel its only a matter of time till the design leaks out and dick teenagers start buying them on ebay and carrying them around. I hope this doesn't work as advertised.
We definitely need some kind of device to shield our eyes from this "light". As I understand a practical way would be just covering our eyes, we could shape them as glasses! Not only that, but it could protect us from the suns blinding rays... I suggest we call this device "sunglasses" to deceive others of its true purpose!
Now if someone just invented these "sunglasses"...
I gotta wear shades. (Timbuk3 IIRC)
to clean up all the puke at the borders?
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http://www.homelandsecurity.org/snapshots/newslett er/2007-07.htm#sick
So, I suppose that mirrored sunglasses are about to make a comeback...
And if anyone still believes this stuff is all about stopping terrorism, you are an idiot. This is all about controlling the domestic herd.
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While non-lethal technology has the potential to be fantastic, there's a downside to be considered too.
With a gun, there's a certain level of commitment before it's used. An officer of the law must make a determination that he or she is really certain about before shooting, because hitting an innocent person is absolutely unacceptable. As a result, the tendency is to, unless there's no option, NOT shoot someone if you can hold them at bay with the THREAT of shooting. A side effect of this is that an officer given a bad order to shoot is much more likely to abstain, because once he pulls the trigger, it's all over.
As a result, innocent folks are often held at gunpoint until their identity/non-criminalness is confirmed. While traumatic and stressful, this is better than an alternative that's growing increasingly common:
Enter, the taser. Potentially a wonderful tool for stopping an attacker without permanently injuring them, doctrine has instead developed in many police and security departments to 'Zap first, ask questions later'. The 'non-injurious' aspect of the tool means that the bar is that much lower on whether or not to shoot, because "after all, if they're innocent, then it's just a bit of discomfort".
The growing number of non-lethal tools is on the surface a good, even GREAT thing. The real danger though, is a long term one. With the bar set so low, more and more people will be subject to excruciating pain, and eventually, this technology may evolve into a tool of even greater oppression of liberty than anything we have now.
Imagine if a protest can be casually broken up by making everyone vomit or crap themselves uncontrollably. If the government has the ability to casually stop groups of people from coming together or otherwise detaining them while being able to argue "it's not fatal, it's just uncomfortable", then the bar on violating our rights as citizens drops too.
So I'm interested and optimistic about the technologies, but I desperately hope that better effort is invested in making them a net positive for all of humanity and not the boot that might otherwise grind our faces into the dirt.
this makes me sick
Somehow, I REALLY doubt that this thing will work. It might have some effect on a test subject in a lab, who is being paid to look into the beam until he pukes, but in the field, people are going to shield their eyes or look away (or wear mirror sunglasses).
Personally, I'd suggest sticking with pepper spray...
An anonymous source with details on the "puke saber", which incapacitates its victims with displays of color, was quoted, "Our maximum setting is called apache.slashdot.org"
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
There has to be a real question here of morality and the rules of engagement for such a device. There seems to be a growing tide of opinion that as long as a weapon is "non-lethal", i.e. it won't kill you or leave behind long-term effects then it is magically fine to use in a very wide range of situations. Real questions have to be asked at some stage as to the *morality* of allowing widespread use of something that makes you sick/shocks you/blinds you purely on the basis that "it has no long term effects and allows us to subdue people" - so does a kick in the face, but I don't see officers doing that (unless they are caught on camera in which case the get suspended then eventually let off).
I can see how this will work although I'm not sure what will happen to the victims eyes with long expsures. I work in a hydroponics store and I brought in a LED light array (eqivelant to 400W) just to see how it worked. Looking straight onto the led's is soo bright that you cant look at it for more then a few seconds with out getting blured vision. But if you look at it at a slight angle the light intensity is diminished quite a bit.
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And we don't need to be using weapons on each other more often, but less.
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Well, if there is going to be a proliferation of "non-lethal weapons", I say we level the playing field by passing a law that removes any legal distinction between "lethal" and "non-lethal" weapons. Therefore, if I shoot someone with a "non-lethal" weapon, I am charged the same as if I had shot them with a conventional weapon. And if someone shoots at me with a "non-lethal" weapon, I can legally shoot back with a conventional weapon to defend myself. Thats fair right?
So is this the visual equivalent of the Brown note? Let's hope it works better.
Other comments regarding mirrors and sunglasses (and presumably, sunglasses with mirror lenses) would seem to be equivalent of those pictures of Daleks encountering staircases.
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Coming up next, Slashdot follows the troubling development of a nonlethal technological device for "controlling" troublesome individuals, consisting of two small metal or plastic bracelets joined by a short chain that can be "locked" around the suspect's hands, entirely preventing him from using them until someone "unlocks" the device with a special key.
On whom will this fiendish device be used? Are YRO at risk if this nasty little tool falls into the hands of border guards and police? What if someone immobilized by this device falls and hits his head because he can't break his fall with his hands? Will he sue? Doesn't this violate the Constitution somehow?
Some people really don't think these things through very well.
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Keeping it locked and loaded the next time I cross the street. When another mobile phone using driver turns the corner and starts toward me, there'll be puke on her/his steering wheel and dashboard.
Gotta head over to MakeZine.com to see if there's already a kit for this.
LoB
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There is no way border patrol agents are going to get these LED weapons. In the USA the government prosecutes and locks up any Border Patrol agents who defend our country from drug smugglers and the hordes that are entering illegally. This reasoning is just smoke and mirrors to spend money on a new toy developed by a "friend" of the current administration. It's time to spend our money to fix the national infrastructure (bridges) and give the border patrol agents rifles with scopes and land mines.
...Go ahead and shine it at me and I fire back with puke,,,,
Who si the loser here?
A graceful weapon from a more civilised age. Not as random or clumsy as a puke blaster
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
Sure, you can close your eyes, but you'd better hold your ears too. One of their elite researchers has discovered the brown noise
;-)
Sounds more like something for amusement park thrill rides.
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is that we have people at responsible levels in our government who are either stupid enough to get sucked in by this sort of fraud, or are just plain corrupt. I have a copper bracelet for them that just works wonders on arthritis.
Couldn't I just pull up into Home Depot's color center and have them make paint in the "evil" color and use it for whatever (pranks, revenge, robbery)?
The pukesaber's Ipod jack lets it project the Brown Note that causes an equal and opposite reaction in its targets.
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I wonder who they will hire...to clean up all the puke at the borders?
Probably those same people who put up the friendly warnings when somebody PISOs on the MOHADO.
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that the people who make this aren't idiots, but....sunglasses?
-Ted
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To rig this technology up to George Bush's autocue? That would be fun :)
Don't go into the light Carrol Anne.
Would not that be quite dangerous for epileptic ? What about an epileptic, getting a crisis AND omitting at the same time. Guaranteed drowning in one own puke, followed by a civil lawsuit against the government? What about other condition which could threaten life if you start puking (I am not a biologist/doctor so there might be none but I ask) ?
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This might be good for poison control as an emetic with no side-effects. Combined with activated charcoal, this could save lives.
You could use it as some sort of anti-captcha for a social networking sight meant to be only used by blind people. If you can make it through the sign-in form, you get to join.
Take THAT all you people that don't put alt tags on your images!
(By the way, does the "evil color" work on colorblind people?)
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They've been watching too much powerpuff girls.
That'll teach those slowpokes not to hog the left lane.
Have gnu, will travel.
They have the LED Puke-Saber...
Shortly afterwards, special contact lenses that filter the "puke color" out are developed, neutralizing the effects.
One-way mirror sunglasses!
Please to be renaming to Lance-Puke or Javelin-Puke or Dirk-Puke.
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You lost me there. Somehow blowing up poor families seems a bit extreme.
Welcome to America. Sorry about your mother and the rest of your family. Uh...our bad.
Quack, quack.
I think non-lethal weapons are great. How many times have we seen deadly force used to kill a suspect when all that was really needed was a good puking.
Check out this page that lists the real non-lethal weapons being worked on: http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/nonlethal.html (scroll down the page to where it says: Nonlethal Weapons: Terms and References)
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These things may be hard to design the first time, but I bet they'd be a doddle to reverse-engineer. Do you really want someone to be able to stop the police car trailing them by shinging a torch backwards? At least with a laser-pointer it's hard to keep the aim!
The rapidly changing wavelengths are due to the non-euclidean nature of the "color." The only negative side-effect of the Puke Saber(tm) is that overuse of "the evil color" will result in the user's soul being consumed by eldrich horrors from out of time.
In the future, people will end up having to wear "Smart Defensive Clothing Networks." After all, its not like these aren't going to get stolen by crooks and used to rob people.
So you wear your SDCN, and a cop tries the "light sabre" trick - your SDCN counter-attacks with an invisible particle beam pulse that fries the light sabre. Now extend this to the cop trying this in a crowd, and 100 people's SDCNs counter-attack. Result - one Kentucky-Fried Cop.
So what are they going to do - ban SDCNs? That'll be hard to do, since they'll look just like other clothing, and trying to take one away could be interpreted as a deadly assault, with the SDCN responding appropriately.
This might have been a pipe dream a couple of decades ago, but we're within 20 years of this sort of engineered clothing, and you can be darned sure there will be a HUGE demand for it.
i wonder if you can habituate to this device. if so, you could slowly build up an immunity.
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Does this remind anyone of "The Brown Note?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
I'm sure the border patrol agents and police will just be jumping at the chance to put a puke covered collar in the back of their car.
It'll also work great for crowd control. Protest #1: popo makes the black bloc puke.
Protest #2: black bloc makes everyone puke.
Prosecution for unauthorized use would be rather messy as well. I can just imagine a wiseass defendant demanding that they prove it's not just a flashlight.
Actually, I think I'm kind of looking forward to this.
Up next, goggles like Riddick wears.
It's a less-than-lethal.
Yeah, they're puking. Great.
Until someone aspirates their own vomit and then dies of asphyxiation.
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do they have something equally nauseating for them? (or should I say us?) Will i puke if this is shone at me, being that I can't see red at all, and blue is quite dim?
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Flashy lights that trigger the vomit reflex? That's a new one to me. Even if it did work, how close would you have to be to someone to trigger the effect? How can it even be universal? Wouldn't it involve some kind of neural cascade firing effect, like how flashing lights induce an epileptic seizure in some people?
A sonic burst that disrupts the liquid in the inner ear sounds more feasible. Not only would it make you sick, it'd cause you to lose your balance too. And you don't have to be looking at it.
Anyway, it sounds to me like these guys made up some BS to tap into federal grant money. They're probably feeding their guinea pigs castor oil or something like that to make the "test" legit. I can see it now: "Whoops, it won't work after all. Sorry Federal Government. But thanks for the cash"
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Problem solved. ( or filtering contact lenses )
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Thanks -- I had thought that the entire article was completely bogus (as LEDs really can only emit one frequency of light) but your description of varying the pulse-rate makes perfect sense, and it's exactly what LEDs do best.
What a lovely device.
Thad
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Can you see the potential if they equip this thing with brown note as well?
This sounds like yet another nonsense variation of the brown note myth. absolute rubbish. makes me wish i knew some senators i could sell some snake oil to and get me a slice of defence budget pie.
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I'm thinking they've had that "secret weapon" for years at Presidential new conferences cause every time I see that little son of a bitch...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiXHMdSdglI
FTFA: "There's one wavelength that gets everybody," says IOS President Bob Lieberman. "Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it 'the evil color.'" ...must...have...that...precious...precious...colo r!
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
I just did a bunch of google searches, and came up with nothing but reprints of the same dam article.
I know people have been experimenting for years to see the effects of blinking lights and colors.
I'm sure you see those relaxation goggles that blink leds to help your reach some theta wave state or some crap like that.
You'd think there would be something in the patents or medical literature on that colors/frequencies work to have this effect.
But I can't find much.
I would really like to know. Also could this be done on a TV or computer screen.
I remember there was some Japaneses cartoon a few years ago that just happened to flash or do something that sent hundreds of kids into seizures, the parents really freaked out about that and that cartoon disappeared never to be seen again. I'd like to get a hold of that one to so I can see what the heck cause that effect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/651224.stm Approximately 685 Japanese children suffered the fits after watching a Pokemon television cartoon in 1997.
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Its called the blink tag.
Bring back the guns, for puke will.....:
1) Ruin tourist attractions. Seeing the content of someone's stomach on the ground will ruin the nice smell and scenery of my vacation! If I see a pool of blood, I know someone is watching out for my security and well being.
2) Make me puke. Seeing someone else puke makes me feel like puking. A pool of blood, doesn't make motivate me to start bleeding.
This is a fantastic weapon in our fight against terror. I envision a weapon like this being used on a terrorist who is strapped to a board, and between waterboarding sessions, he gets nailed with the light and vomits repeatedly. Perhaps you can alternate them -- near drowning and vomiting -- until he's vomiting underwater, too.
It would also be a good non-lethal way to teach troublemakers a lesson during gatherings, etc. Perhaps the police could force somebody to stare at it for several minutes, making them wretch and constantly vomit until they can barely breathe or their hearts start skipping beats. The company needs to stress-test this weapon a few times (on criminals, like people on death row, for example) by forcing them to stare at it so we can see how long it takes for somebody to vomit to death. That's important with something like this.
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God Bless all and keep fighting the good fight,
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The poster links to an article on Fox News - not a very reputable news source. And where is the youtube video?
Hello William Gibson.
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THAT must have been an interesting focus group.....
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Sadly many times using a less-than-lethal weapon is used even though physical contact with the suspect would cause less damage to them. This isn't because police officers are just lazy or because they like to see people tazered but because it it much more defensible in court if the suspect doesn't have any kind of marks on him where as if the officer would wrestle him to the ground and cuff him he would likely have cuts and bruises(almost always superficial damage). Blame the courts and people's perception before you blame the police officers.
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Do your worst, buddy. Having lived half my life in nightclubs, I'm definitely not afraid of a little strobe light.
If you want a non-lethal weapon to make people puke, just walk around with naked pics of Whoopi Goldberg!
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Or will mirrors now become illegal terrorist tools?
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
It'll be interesting to see how easy it will be for individuals to construct something similar at home. If it ends up being easy to construct at home, I wonder if we'll start seeing weapon/gun-control advocates start trying to campaign to make LEDs illegal or something like that. They've already made personal ownership of tasers illegal in many places.
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Well kinda :-)
Pretty smart idea, I know some types of light can make me feel sick - I once walked into a store and the light there made me feel really weird, legs went wobly and I felt sick until I got out of the store.
... do this: >_
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Those of us equipped with tin-foil eyeglasses have nothing to worry about. I, for one, welcome our puke-saber-wielding overlords!
You'll see kids running around with a pen-sized device similar to this one in a few years, using it on anyone and everyone.
Look, if it's just light (and maybe also sound as someone noted) it's going to be really, really easy for people to make these things. Heck I myself can attest to starting to feel sick after using a screen for maybe 8 hours, to the point of getting nauseated, though I think it is more from information overload than flickering lights. The action of this device can be reverse engineered, or even captured on high speed recording device one could imagine. At any rate, you might as well expect the specs for the thing to show up on the Internet quite quickly. At that point you will have everybody from kids to terrorists making the things, making malware that produces it, creating broadly effective weapons that can be used on whole neighborhoods, etc. The good that can come out of this will be quickly negated on the whole. And it is breathtakingly irresponsible for it to be reported that there is an "evil color", just the fact of its existence, if true, will now cause everyone even curious scientists to search for it. One thing to note, the Army apparently used to experiment with low frequency sound but it was impossible to shield against it, whereas this might be more focused and presumably the officers wielding it will be safe from reflection by sunglasses. So the method of defending oneself from it will also quickly be discovered.
Incidentally I could imagine a big problem if this is used on a big crowd.. you will get a percentage of epileptics and people in serious physical distress, but it will be impossible to get to them or help them. And of course if the crowd is also armed then more trouble.
Another piece of destructive technology that will spread to vandals that should not have it.
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If a standard computer monitor would be capable of producing the same effect...
;-)
if so it'll be pretty quick that someone just video tapes one of these things and puts it into a new type of virus/even a web site... here you are cruising the internet and next thing u know your puking on your keyboard
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I knwo where they got the Idea anyone ever see the movie looker ?
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Some Idiot Plastic surgeon doctor discovered women wanting to be perfect were getting killed.
This little light ray gun flashed it caused people to seize up in a catatonic state for a few seconds while the bad guy messed around with you.
The bad guys save the folks image and used them in computer generated commercials after they died so no one would be the wiser..well they could not come up with that gun yet so lets see what they do with this.
Mr Spock set your ray gun to extra chunky.
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The source of this article: Fox news.
This article is obviously bogus; it is physiologically impossible. If there were a visible wavelength that made everyone puke, everyone would already be puking all day.
Obviously shining a very bright light into someone's eyes can blind- and disorient them. The rest of the story was obviously invented by a Fox news editor, to make the story sound a little sexier.
I guess now mirror sunglasses will make a comeback. In the meantime, I wonder if its projectile vomiting. If so, i wonder what you would be charged with if you aim at the person with the flashlight.
You guys, that article is on Fox News, the same people who claimed that the FBI eavesdropped mobsters cell phones while they were turned off without gaining physical access to them, or that the VA Tech shooter was possessed by the devil.
If this thing isn't snake oil, I'd be curious to know how they create the light pulses and such.
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No more fingers down the throat. Can't wait to see these on sale at Bed Bath and Beyond!
I don't give a damn what the developers say this toy does. .45 and we'll see which gets the job done.I may puke but it may be from seeing their brains.
Anything less than deadly force to deal with a severe threat is suicide.
I'll make em a deal,High Noon,you draw your flashlight and I'll draw my
dumb,dumb,dumb.
Even small caliber weapons aren't a good choice for assault or defense,remember even an old pope took a clip of 9mm and lived.Electronic toys have their place,classrooms and torture chambers,but seriously a stupid move if you ever needed protection.
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I cannot help but to think that a person could train his/herself to resist the attack from such a device, much more easily than say from a taser or pepper spray.
Something more like this: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99472, might be more difficult to resist.
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Can they be far behind ?
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As a club DJ for nearly a decade I can tell you from experience that strong strobe lights can cause a near instant migraine when they hit the proper frequency of pulse. We used a box that connected into the main mixer to 'synchronize' the music with the lights...and a synth hi-hat could cause the strobe to pulse around 1-3 times a second, sometimes on funky beats it would get into a very fast/slow alternating pattern, which would nearly instantly make me feel nauseated. Add JegarMeister to the mix and you'd get a lot of people staring at the floor to keep from feeling sick.They'll only be trained to point it in their own eyes while the illegals stroll right on by...
Hopefully they'll turn it against the nearest DoJ attorney and leave it on.
In a certain small percentage of the human population, such
a device would be able to induce bona fide epileptiform seizures,
and the legal (not to mention the medical) ramifications of this
fact would certainly be interesting.
There is always a potential high cost lurking somewhere. What could
be more innocuous than ordinary peanut butter, for example? But for
those few individuals with a peanut allergy such a product could
be deadly.
A susceptible person that suffers an attack of epilepsy caused
by one of these devices could reap a handsome settlement from
the consequent lawsuit.
Whoever they are, kid, you are joining us just as soon as you grow up :-)
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What happens when you can get plans on the internet and build your own? Since it's non lethal enough for the cops to use on law abiding citizens, will it be illegal for law abiding citizens to use on each other ( or the cops )? Great fun at parties, or ball games when your side is down too far or ...
> Sounds innocuous enough... until they they shine "the evil color" at you and you start puking!
Really, now. Was this their first priority? Shouldn't they first have worked on the light pattern that sends women into an uncontrollable sexual frenzy?
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What's the range on this thing? If it's something excessive, then we might have to move outdoor events, such as political rallies and presidential inaugurations, indoors. Given how important eye contact is, I don't think the people nor the political candidates would take to mirrored sunglasses too well.
Basically it's aversion training. Most of these guys come over time and time again, so by making them puke violently each time they cross the border, you train them to stay in their own country.
I don't think it will work, between the tequila and "Montezuma's Revenge", a lot more Americans have probably been incapacitated in Mexico than vice versa, and it hasn't really prevented us from going down there.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
...think of the color-blind, you insensitive clods?
Oh gee, a really kewl LED flashlight with different colors!