Archives for the ‘War on Intelligence’ Category

Mental patient dies while in government custody

Another mental patient has died while in government care. The solution being touted, as usual, is more government oversight.
The state sent a team Tuesday to help Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro draft new procedures to ensure patients receive proper care.
An investigator’s report released Monday found that 50-year-old Steven Sabock died in April after he at one [...]

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Nanny state drinking age questioned by university system officials

Some college bureaucrats around the country are banding together to send a message that the federal nanny system isn’t working in regards to drinking age.
Top university officials in Maryland - including the chancellor of the state university system and the president of the Johns Hopkins University - say the current drinking age of 21 “is [...]

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Your papers please: Fliers without ID placed on TSA list

So what exactly is the legal status of the nearly 20,000 people who forgot or simply didn’t want to present ID in order to fly?
The TSA began storing the information in late June, tracking many people who said they had forgotten their driver’s license or passport at home. The database has 16,500 records of such [...]

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When the solution is worse than the problem

Scientists sometimes introduce a predator into an ecosystem in order to take care of a pest that is threatening say, the potato crop. These experiments often go wrong - the predator turns out to be more dangerous than the pest. Social engineers do the same thing as scientists, except with human beings. One example is [...]

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The artificial pancreas is coming

Transhumanist technologies are going to explode in the next two to three decades. We already have a crude artificial heart on the market. Now it appears that an artificial pancreas is just around the corner.
Today, people with diabetes have a range of technologies to help keep their blood sugar in check, including continuous monitors that [...]

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