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Comment Memphis Cops Use Injections instead of Tasers (Score -1) 282

Memphis Police to Use "Amnesia-like" Injection in Lieu of Taser

MSNBC | "The drug has an amnesia effect... one of the nice ways to take care of the discomfort is to make people forget that they've had it," said biomedical ethics and law enforcement expert Dr. Steven Miles.
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http://www.infowars.com/?p=3351
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25631432/from/ET/

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Submission + - Robots Teach Autistic Kids Social Skills (wired.com)

posys writes: "Wired Magazine has an article http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007 /07/autistic_robot?showAllComments=true showing how the eternal patience of Robots lends themselves well to teaching new social skills to Autistic Children.

Of course, since Robots can be designed to exhibit only specific desirable behaviors, and can do them over and over again with infinite patience, Robots are the perfect teachers of new social skills to humans both disabled or not.

In a related story, there is a website promoting improvement of the overall human condition via what is called: "The Age of Recreation via the Emancipation of Humanity from the Machinery of Economy via the TROIKA of Robotic Wageless Economy, AI & Geothermal Energy" "

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