Comments | berbalang: Wednesday offers an Opportunity to make you feel Uncomfortable.

berbalang

Wednesday offers an Opportunity to make you feel Uncomfortable.

Oct 26, 2005 10:26

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marram October 26 2005, 19:19:48 UTC

Holy shit! And no, you can't trust them any farther that you can comfortably spit a dead rat!

Ahh!!

berbalang October 26 2005, 19:38:35 UTC

Truth to tell, I wouldn't trust ANY government with this sort of technology, especially were it to be refined. The creep factor's just too damn high. :P

marram October 26 2005, 19:51:58 UTC

The 'creep-factor' is so high I don't know that I can get my emotions around it!! :/

berbalang October 26 2005, 20:04:36 UTC

Some of the creepiness surely comes from the "We don't know exactly why this works but we're doing it anyway!" vibe. Didn't they also once let people get showered with DDT, claiming it was perfectly safe?

I know Michael Chrichton has written extensively (and largely innaccurately) on that latter subject. Not sure why he feels compelled to pimp the company line. I don't buy the "but think of all the people it could have saved!!" argument. If DDT has an established environmental footprint (and it does, reams of scientific data to support that), and said footprint by dint of damaged ecosystems and contaminated water would claim lives, in addition to known health effects on humans, how can you extrapolate the number of people DDT would have "saved" and claim that figure as a legitimate statistic? How is that not pulling a number out of the air?

Not sure what got me on that little rant. Sorry. :P

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areitu October 26 2005, 19:39:37 UTC

I'll let you remote control me!

I'm touch activated anyway so it's all good!

berbalang October 27 2005, 14:29:24 UTC

*grins* You're awful trusting with a dude you've never met. :)

areitu October 27 2005, 18:23:50 UTC

whoa whoa whoa. Hold on.

You're a duuuude?

berbalang October 27 2005, 19:03:47 UTC

Waitaminit. You're pulling my leg, right? You thought I was a girl?

Thread 8

okojosan October 26 2005, 20:00:39 UTC

This sounds very nausea-inducing. :P

As for trusting the BA with this technology? I sure wouldn't.

berbalang October 27 2005, 14:33:38 UTC

Creepy, innit? Most first-person-shooter games already make me nauseous. I don't need help to make me more seasick!

geddcoon October 26 2005, 20:04:32 UTC

This technology would be great if I had it and nobody else did. :D

berbalang October 27 2005, 14:34:10 UTC

Ah, I think I know the profession you need to angle for:

Mad Scientist. :D

beadyo October 26 2005, 20:43:36 UTC

Dude, you don't want to hear that sort of argument and you know it. Don't ask for it, because those idiots will start to arguin' with you (...and me and everyone else). Quite honestly, no one can (or should) be trusted with the remote control. Period.

So there.

berbalang October 27 2005, 14:35:30 UTC

Good point, good point. You're right; I've read their journals. I'll edit der post.