[Peace-discuss] emd

[Jenifer Cartwright]

You're surprised that a Canadian Company (Avion) has created this product and a video promoting it?? I'm sure US companies are in the process of doing likewise.
 --Jenifer

--- On Mon, 7/7/08, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:

From: Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] emd
To: "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>
Cc: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>, ChampaignCountyLibertarianParty at yahoogroups.com, ronpaul-305 at meetup.com
Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 11:21 AM

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:01:55AM -0500, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> This video is not an absurd joke even though it seems surreal.
> You may need to start the video after clicking the link
>
>
http://www.lamperdlesslethal.com/video_gallery.asp?video=http://www.lamperdlesslethal.com/video/EMDsafetybracelet.flv&title=


Wow.

We might imagine the lawsuits when these bracelets trigger falsely,
or get triggered deliberately when a brown-skinned bearded man heads for the
restroom
half an hour before landing.  Not to mention the insidious people tracking
aspect.

Fortunately it doesn't sound like a very recent video -- they mention that
airline cockpit doors "will be reinforced by 2003" -- so whoever they
were
trying to sell this to doesn't seem to have bought it.  Yet.


This would be a nice submission to the RISKS Digest mailing list/website,
   http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
which collects stories about misapplication of technologies without
consideration
of side effects, from electronic voting to GPS-based aircraft control to
colleges now being required to use E-verify to check employee immigration
status (!)
to perils of spelling autocorrection:


    <Leonard Finegold <L at drexel.edu>>
    Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:13:57 -0400

    My physician was trying to enter a diagnosis into his computer, during an
    office visit.  The computer insisted on entering Prostitute for me; he was
    trying to put in Prost ate.

    He did an end-run.

    PS.  I'm no prostitute, although some people think that most faculty
members
    are (intellectually).
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