On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 12:45 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Not to start the "Oh, no! They'll be abused!" train, but how will we regulate them? [New Scientist]
Simple. We'll tell the police to be nice when playing with their new toys, and look the other way then they roll out the tanks, sound cannons, pain beams, nausea lights, and camo-suited snatch squads. And we'll forgive them when they execute people, Vietnam-style, on subways because "they thought they were reaching for their pain ray". These sorts of sort-of-non-lethal-kinda weapons^Wdeterrents are essential if we want to win the War on Terror, which is a prerequisite for winning the War on General Discontent of the Rich. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]