Posted on 05/02/2002 6:45:29 AM PDT by Grig
Careful. The Establishment has ways of finding out for sure, these day:
"Lawrence Farwell says he has devised a test that will ascertain whether the suspects have criminal knowledge of the terrorist attack by measuring their brainwaves. He calls it "brain fingerprinting.... "
"In a nutshell, it works like this: A subject's head is strapped with electrodes that pick up electrical activity. He sits in front of a computer monitor as words and images flash on the screen. When he recognizes the visual stimuli, a waveform called the P300 reacts and the signal is fed into a computer, where it is analyzed using a proprietary algorithm. ...
"In police cases, a suspect is shown data that only a person with intimate knowledge of the crime would know, such as details about the crime scene or the weapon used. If the suspect's P300 waves reacted to the data, it would be an indication of guilt, Farwell said. ...
"...In fact, the agent who supervised the FBI field trials was so impressed with the results that he joined Farwell's company, Brain Wave Science, after he retired from the agency. "
Thought Police Peek Into Brains By Julia Scheeres
Mark W.
A straight-up question: suppose we develop a truly sophisticated understanding of how the human mind works, develop technology to make use of this (mind-machine interfaces), and this technology can be used to determine if someone really did commit a criminal act.
What happens then?
A straight-up question: suppose we develop a truly sophisticated understanding of how the human mind works, develop technology to make use of this (mind-machine interfaces), and this technology can be used to determine if someone really did commit a criminal act.
What happens then?
The way I see it is that if skipping the commercials is theft, promising us entertainment in exchange for putting up with them is fraud.
You know, I'm afraid to ask which way the mistake went, i.e. whether you "targeted" the fridge or whether you got something to eat from, um, nevermind.
Die.
Not you, Grig. Them.
Hilarious! The puffed-up, overweening self importance of some folks is an endless source of amusement. Until, of course, their efforts to establish control over other people's lives bear fruit.
I take pleasure in completely tuning out commercials to the extent that it is convenient to do so. It gives me even more of a sense of satisfaction to know that I was correct all along to figuratively poke these control freaks in the eye, thank you for the report card!
It is excellent to hear that the common practice of tuning out commercials out of a sense of self determination (That to which I will give my attention is MY choice!) drives these goons up the wall, just outstanding.
Why does a hitler-esque German accent lampoon so automatically come to mind when imagining how statists like turner react to people exercising liberty and self determination?
Vee vill see zat EVERY citizen vill pay COMPLETE attention to commercial programming, violators vill be executed!
What a hoot.
Bit long, but it can fit on a T-Shirt!
Airwaves Not Free?
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Great comment.
I see this whole thing going in a really bad direction, with product placements within the "entertainment" instead of commercials, and shows with plots based on products. Something like a "situation comedy" (geeesh....are they awful for about the past five years or so? It's like nothing interesting or funny ever happened in the writer's lives),
anyway...a "situation comedy" in which Consuela and Ivan (ethnically diversity, but of course) are buying food for the Sophomore dance, and all of the local stores have run out of CocaCola and Fritos. So, they embark on a journey in their really cool Ford Explorer, stopping for a 99 cent Big Mac and buying really neat stuff to wear at the Gap. Well, they finally go to a Coca Cola bottling plant where a really great looking guide with Sony recording equipment gives them a tour where we all learn why Coca Cola is such a neat thing to drink at your really important dance, where only music produced by TimeWarner will be played......
Think I could get a job????
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