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Comment Re:I was I was a lobbyist (Score 1) 206

You are talking about US in the current desolate state.

In 10 years every new sold tractor in Asia will be electric.

You Americans have seriously no clue what a band wagon of development and markets you are missing.

Look at Thailand: serious fuel troubles. You have an electric tractor, solar panels at the house and a battery: no problem. You just go on.

Comment Re: Preservation letter? (Score 2) 56

A lot of forces won't even investigate most misdemeanors any longer because there aren't enough prosecutors to even file the case much less pursue it. I heard a cop who was told about a stolen bicycle the victim had located, "Go steal it back tonight. Then buy a better lock." because they wouldn't dispatch anyone for a bike which valued less than a felony warrant.

Comment Re:Caution, not fear (Score 1) 33

Outlaw it in the US and people will just go to Paraguay or Vanuatu on "vacation" and come back pregnant with designer babies. Cloning will go the same way.

Something that is generally overlooked is how the tech associated with genetics is advancing exponentially while getting exponentially cheaper. In the '90s it cost billions and took thousands of researchers most of a decade to decode the genes of one person. Today you FedEx your cheek swab, the tech puts it in the machine and emails you the results for a hundred bucks. Genetic manipulation will be limited to the rich and powerful at first, but it won't be long before the price makes it down to us plebes and they'll embrace it. Face it, who wants to have the dumbest, weakest, sickest and ugliest kid in their school?

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1, Troll) 72

Really? Know what they call the guy who barely scrapes through med school dead last in his class? Doctor.

On the other hand, once you teach an AI or robot to do a procedure or process a set of test results it will do it consistently and exactly correctly every time. Even better, the cost to train 1000 robots is the cost to train one and copy/paste. Already robots are better than humans at several aspects of medical care, and getting better.

Elder care is one place where robots are going to dominate in the near future. Home health care aids and nursing home staff have enormous turnover because it's such a stressful workplace, and injuries from moving patients are rampant. Surprisingly senior citizens seem quite accepting of the assistance robots that are being tested.

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