Rat brain in a dish acts as autopilot, computer
In a drunken bet, Univ. of Florida professor Thomas DeMarse took 25,000 rat neurons and hooked them up to an aircraft simulator to see if a rat would crash a plane into a man-made structure.
After several days and 100,000 trials, DeMarse noted that the rat brain never did, indeed, fly a jet into a building, thus proving his point that humans are infinitely more evil than rat brains. Who knew?
Police commander, 3 officers fired on Sox fans
Boston’s finest, ah, how they used to be the police. These days, instead of being “fine”, local cops have taken a more “unnecessarily shoot college students with unproven lethal weapons” approach. At least one massive lawsuit is heading their direction.
If Boston gets another chance to celebrate, I say we all bring high force pepper-pellet guns to the party and when the cops show up, mob them, attack them,and shoot them from close range. Maybe that’ll stop them from killing innocent girls like it stopped the “riot”.
Presidential Campaign Enters Final Week
We’re coming down the home stretch of what will surely be the most important election of the year, and it’s good to see that we’ve fixed our ridiculous voting problems since the debacle 4 years ago.
Related:
-Poll: U.S. Voters Skeptical of Elections
-Some fear Ohio will be Florida of 2004
-Gov. Bush defends voting system after criticism
-Glance at Voting Problems Around Country
Damn those cops for not having a sense of humor when students from Emerson threw bottles at them and decided to scale buildings…
They were “just celebrating”,
http://www.thenoiseboard.com/index.php?showtopic=51521&hl=justbill
Comment by Snackmaster3k — October 26, 2004 @ 11:56 am
I like how kids climbing up about 10 feet on to a railing and sitting there cheering sends a message to the cops to
“Open fire!!! Even you, commander!”
Comment by chris — October 26, 2004 @ 12:03 pm
Taken out of context no.. But when you throw in a large crowd, objects being thrown at police officers, cars burning, destruction to stores, people climbing on other things and egging others on.. then yes maybe you can hit them with pepperballs.
The police have taken responsibility, but yet those who helped create the environment have not. One Jackass who plans on suing is claiming that he climbed up Fenway because he could not find his friends and wanted to see if he could spot them from there.
Besides they were not red sox fans as much as Emerson Students
Comment by Snackmaster3k — October 26, 2004 @ 12:33 pm
That was the first time those high force pepperweapons had ever been used outside of training.
Is that the best opportunity to break them in? Attack enclosed college students that are having a typical, yet mild, riot/party that the City’s seen a million times before?
Comment by chris — October 26, 2004 @ 12:39 pm
Who else we were going to use them on? bands of brigands storming our castles?
I have heard people moan about how it was the first use of them, and must ask what would have been a more appropriate first use of them? They were designed to be used on large unruly crowds, this was one such crowd.
Comment by Snackmaster3k — October 26, 2004 @ 12:56 pm
Whose idea was it in the first place to order these damn guns?
What was the reason?
Comment by chris — October 26, 2004 @ 1:11 pm
Spraying OC Spray into a large crowd causes either a stampede (which crushes people) or angers the mob causing them to blindly stampede towards poliee officers.. These pellet guns, allow officers to hit single individuals instead of spraying the crowd…unfortunately some one can be killed if hit in the eye.
They were purchased in case of violent protestors during the DNC. Like the post-ALCS situation, in protests some people in the crowd are harmless, but there are bands who are not afraid to throw stuff at cops or start fires, these guns are used to hit them while not hurting the rest of the crowd.
If used correctly, these guns can be very useful and can avoid escalating the riots. But with some bad luck, then you can have problems.
Comment by Snackmaster3k — October 26, 2004 @ 2:21 pm
Is this the first time anything’s gone wrong with them like this anywhere?
Or are the guns a new product?
Comment by chris — October 26, 2004 @ 3:01 pm
Guns like this have been around 30 odd years and have killed about 15 people.. at least from what i have heard.
Comment by Snackmaster3k — October 26, 2004 @ 4:29 pm
Everywhere else: 30 years, 15 corpses
Boston: 1 night, 1 corpse
Comment by chris — October 26, 2004 @ 4:35 pm
Sorry to get off topic, but Maybe we should just say to hell with the whole election thing and just hook up one a them there rat brains to the oval office! It’d definitely be an improvement over what we got now!
Comment by Joseph Mama — October 26, 2004 @ 4:40 pm
Yeah, actually, the rat brains were capable of learning and adapting very rapidly to the controls of the airplane.
That’s more than JFK Jr. can say, but I guess that’s why he stayed out of politics.
Comment by chris — October 26, 2004 @ 5:22 pm
Fotografía digital - I’m afraid bush is less intelligent than any rat…
Comment by Manolito — December 10, 2004 @ 11:05 am