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Post by aikidoal on May 8, 2009 15:07:27 GMT -5
Here's another way to get everyone on a drug: www.fastcompany.com/blog/jamais-cascio/open-future/meof particular interest: "Even a broad national consensus against using cognitive enhancement drugs may crumble if another country chooses to accept--even encourage--their use. We may face a choice between altering our brain chemistries and falling behind in the global economy. " |
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Post by Aedh on May 9, 2009 23:14:27 GMT -5
Fascinating!  |
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Post by BlackDragon on May 13, 2009 8:28:10 GMT -5
Fascinating! And Scary!! |
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Post by Father on May 24, 2009 15:59:01 GMT -5
It's a drug. So it has a drawback, and the more you use the drug - the more the drawbacks will show up. If used for longer times, it can cause serious addiction. And you probably end up not being able to behave normally without it. Drugs are messing with the enternal chemistry of the body, for medical purposes it has a 'reason' and there's a objective. But intending other objectives may cause more harm than it does good. Just my five cent.  |
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Post by ddddyyyy on Jul 7, 2009 20:40:36 GMT -5
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Post by Gothicgds on Jul 28, 2009 15:16:08 GMT -5
I could see it going black market, but common use? Hmm...
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Post by Aedh on Sept 12, 2009 12:16:40 GMT -5
Not related to the drugs, but it's another "here we go ..."
(The relevant quotation is from the print edition of the Washington Times--the rest is my work. This is not from some hysterical spammer.)
"Cash For Clunkers," for the benefit of non-Americans, is a US Government programme by which the Government pays car dealers to take old, inefficient motor vehicles in trade for new ones. The programme is called the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS, and is administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Now ...
For dealers to log in to get information on the CARS programme, they had to agree to this warning: When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the U.S. Government. Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, Department Of Transportation, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign." That warning has since been taken down but one is entitled to wonder how it got put up to start with.
In other words, if you use a computer to access Government information, your computer and all the data on it become Government property.
What next? If we drive on their roads, do our cars become their property? If have a loan from a bank that accepted Federal bailout money, do our houses become their property, too? What if we were ever on unemployment insurance or financial assistance? Do our children become their property?
Chilling.
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