There's no reason why putting the 9V across your tongue, nowhere near your heart, would kill you. I couldn't find a single instance on the internet of someone being killed or seriously injured in this way. I tested a lot of batteries this way as a kid-- and several were indeed quite live-- and was never injured.
I would actually like seeing how something like that approaching a "free market" would turn out. Maybe electric cars will actually be the cheapest transportation, but we won't know as long as we subsidize everything on the backs of taxpayers.
Pulling your cell records-- unless you're the NSA, of course-- requires a subpoena. Tailing requires reasonable suspicion, at least. Talking to your friends is free, of course, but they don't have to say anything.
Summarily collecting data on all citizens is citizen surveillance.
Pretty much. The article hints at the free market answer to this problem: building more recycling centers, or doing the sorting here. But I'm sure we'll find "green" legislation in CA and other problem states that bars us from doing this; just like we can't build nuclear power plants because of NIMBY and greenies, or wind farms because they'll ruin the sight lines of the ruling elite families.
The robots are there to protect the seniors from the other robots... duh. For example, if Pusher robots are a problem in your area, Old Glory insurance will offer you a discount if you purchase a Shover robot to protect you from the terrible secret of space. You might also want to move to a home without stairs.
It's a little more complex than that, but the anti-fat fad was extremely harmful. Most people did not eat too much fat, but perhaps a little too much saturated fat and later we found that we really don't want trans fats whether we're overweight or not. I'm not blaming consumers, because they were just following the advice given by the same researchers who would later tell them cholesterol is bad, sugar is bad, alcohol is bad, carbs are bad, and salt is bad.
Great system actually. The only way to avoid the horror stories of people being kidnapped for organs or, worse, the poor selling their organs, is to ensure there are enough donated organs available.
So instead, we only have to worry about hospitals purposely letting you die so they can harvest your organs. If you object, please tell me how this can be avoided. We can't be little Polyannas who think doctors (and hospital administrators, who may not even have medical degrees) can and will do no wrong. Even well-meaning people can make callous decisions with the belief that it's for "the greater good". The Hippocratic oath simply so longer applies; it became the hypocritical oath a long time ago.
But apparently many think so, and they want to keep you around, like a milk cow, to be milked of your labor. Prohibition of suicide is in most (all?) major religions for this very reason.
And unfortunately, they already gave up their soap box and cartridge box. Maybe the jury box will work, as long as somehow the people who try to work around this aren't summarily tried in order to blind the public to the extent of the problem.
I assume you don't watch movies, play video games, play cards, play board games, go to the beach, go fishing, go sightseeing, hang out at the pub, play music, go dancing, or do anything else while "many more high-value life (and society) choices go ignored."
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There's no reason why putting the 9V across your tongue, nowhere near your heart, would kill you. I couldn't find a single instance on the internet of someone being killed or seriously injured in this way. I tested a lot of batteries this way as a kid-- and several were indeed quite live-- and was never injured.
Even casual sports fans know that the Babe's chiseled physique was courtesy of prodigious frankfurter consumption.
I'd like to point out that you fell for an obvious troll, being that a libertarian would see the profit in a pill like this.
You, on the other hand, probably get plenty of exercise beating on that straw man.
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I would actually like seeing how something like that approaching a "free market" would turn out. Maybe electric cars will actually be the cheapest transportation, but we won't know as long as we subsidize everything on the backs of taxpayers.
Pulling your cell records-- unless you're the NSA, of course-- requires a subpoena. Tailing requires reasonable suspicion, at least. Talking to your friends is free, of course, but they don't have to say anything.
Summarily collecting data on all citizens is citizen surveillance.
It's no longer tenable for Chinese to live they way they do, as slaves to the State.
Pretty much. The article hints at the free market answer to this problem: building more recycling centers, or doing the sorting here. But I'm sure we'll find "green" legislation in CA and other problem states that bars us from doing this; just like we can't build nuclear power plants because of NIMBY and greenies, or wind farms because they'll ruin the sight lines of the ruling elite families.
The robots are there to protect the seniors from the other robots... duh. For example, if Pusher robots are a problem in your area, Old Glory insurance will offer you a discount if you purchase a Shover robot to protect you from the terrible secret of space. You might also want to move to a home without stairs.
It's a little more complex than that, but the anti-fat fad was extremely harmful. Most people did not eat too much fat, but perhaps a little too much saturated fat and later we found that we really don't want trans fats whether we're overweight or not. I'm not blaming consumers, because they were just following the advice given by the same researchers who would later tell them cholesterol is bad, sugar is bad, alcohol is bad, carbs are bad, and salt is bad.
Don't forget those little wipers on the headlights. Those were amazing! Saved my life so many times, mostly when geese pooped all over them.
Braking systems have become so effective that, for the average driver, response time negates any difference between passenger vehicles.
Smart Fortwo, Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic.
Getting $7,500 from your fellow taxpayers doesn't count as making it affordable.
It's pretty good for a 10 year old mod, actually. the shotgun is nerfed to uselessness, but otherwise it's balanced.
We've already done the sparkly vampire thing, so I guess the suicidal vampires will have a lot of lens flare. Call in J.J. Abrams.
So instead, we only have to worry about hospitals purposely letting you die so they can harvest your organs. If you object, please tell me how this can be avoided. We can't be little Polyannas who think doctors (and hospital administrators, who may not even have medical degrees) can and will do no wrong. Even well-meaning people can make callous decisions with the belief that it's for "the greater good". The Hippocratic oath simply so longer applies; it became the hypocritical oath a long time ago.
Well, that was literate. Any attempt to match wits with such an individual would be foolhardy.
No, they don't. Bashing does nothing, especially while countries run by brutal dictatorships are allowed membership on human rights committees.
What a sick little world you dwell in.
And unfortunately, they already gave up their soap box and cartridge box. Maybe the jury box will work, as long as somehow the people who try to work around this aren't summarily tried in order to blind the public to the extent of the problem.
Even I don't blame Obama for the actions of the UK government.
Can I pay someone $14 to make sure I don't accidentally watch Rachael Maddow?
If you want to stream but can't, it's not fast enough.
I assume you don't watch movies, play video games, play cards, play board games, go to the beach, go fishing, go sightseeing, hang out at the pub, play music, go dancing, or do anything else while "many more high-value life (and society) choices go ignored."
I was going to link to the Onion "Guy always telling everyone he doesn't own a TV" article, but you're like the 10th one.