On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> wrote: > I would imagine that all along her path to MIT this young woman had been > praised by authority figures for her interest in electronics. Her common > sense probably tells her about the wisdom of carrying an open frame 9v > circuit vs. an open frame 90v circuit on her back. It would require > political sense to evaluate this situation, but teenagers don't have > political sense, praise FSM. Luckily, evolution has biased society to > protect the young (well, young women at least). > > Society also protects itself against criminal elements, and that is > where 9/11 rears its ugly head. I hope that the officer was engaged in > self-protective hyperbole, and had actually been trained not to shoot > people with electronic shirts. In any case, I hope the reaction to the > event was to help the officers make distinctions by training them that > innocent cyborgs frequent the area. Reactions can be more important than > events. >
Innocent cyborgs... nice :) Lots of stuff in the news lately about various cyborg/bionic stuff actually getting close to being usable. Looks like lots of police officers will need to go through retraining. Kevin
