Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Europe’s Robots Would Become ‘Electronic Persons’ Under Draft Plan
June 22nd, 2016Good luck with that. What about the rest of the world, where automation is rolling out without restriction? Chinese corporations will shit themselves laughing at this one as tens of thousands of human workers are being replaced by robots. My guess is that the controllers have two options as we head into the automated machine […]
U.S. Orders Drones with Radiation Detectors Designed for Nuclear Emergencies
June 19th, 2016Via: Las Vegas Review Journal: Nuclear emergency responders are being trained to fly the drones and assess radioactive plumes under such scenarios as what occurred in the earthquake-triggered reactor meltdowns during the 2011 disaster at Fukushima, Japan.
Brazil’s Rio State Declares Financial Disaster Before Olympics
June 17th, 2016Via: AP: The acting governor of Rio de Janeiro state has declared a state of financial disaster so he has more leeway to manage the state’s scarce resources less than two months Brazil hosts the Olympic Games. Francisco Dornelles announced the decision on Friday. It will allow Rio’s state government to change its budgetary priorities […]
Wal-Mart Experimenting With Robotic Shopping Cart for Stores
June 16th, 2016Alternate headline: Americans Too Obese to Push Their Chinese Crap Around Walmart and Out to Their Cars. Via: Bloomberg: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is working with a robotics company to develop a shopping cart that helps customers find items on their lists and saves them from pushing a heavy cart through a sprawling store and parking […]
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Now Using Card Readers to Rob People
June 8th, 2016Via: News9: You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture. That’s where police can seize your property and cash without first proving you committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting you, as long as they suspect that your property is somehow tied to a crime. Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device […]
Homeland Security Using Private Contractor Vans to Transport and Release Illegal Aliens Inside the U.S.
June 4th, 2016This gets a Florida tick because G4S has its U.S. headquarters in Jupiter. Via: Judicial Watch: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly transporting illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and releasing them without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents, Border Patrol sources tell Judicial Watch. The government classifies them as […]
Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records
May 26th, 2016Just skip the parallel construction. Via: The Intercept: A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy. If passed, the change would expand the reach […]
Special Operations Troops Assaulted Downtown Tampa … All to Thunderous Applause
May 26th, 2016Via: Washington Post: On Wednesday, Special Operations troops from more than a dozen countries jumped out of helicopters, rappelled from buildings and expended hundreds of rounds of ammunition as they attempted to rescue the mayor of this Florida city. The operation was, of course, an exercise, but it was also a public spectacle for a […]
Recovery: More People Between Ages 18 and 34 Living with Parents Than Ever
May 24th, 2016Via: AP: For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for people ages 18 to 34, an analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center has found. And the proportion of older millennials — those ages 25 to 34 — who are living at home has reached […]
Magic 8-Ball Future Crime Predictor Influencing Decisions About Prison Sentences
May 24th, 2016Via: ProPublica: Scores like this — known as risk assessments — are increasingly common in courtrooms across the nation. They are used to inform decisions about who can be set free at every stage of the criminal justice system, from assigning bond amounts — as is the case in Fort Lauderdale — to even more […]
