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Comment Re:This is not groundbreaking (Score 4, Informative) 52

looks like there are plenty of other companies and research organisations in this space. from the BBC -->> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/hea... It might all sound very science fiction, but in some ways Neuralink is playing catch-up. One of its main rivals, a start-up called Synchron backed by funding from investment firms controlled by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has already implanted its stent-like device into 10 patients. Back in December 2021, Philip O'Keefe, a 62-year old Australian who lives with a form of motor neurone disease, composed the first tweet using just his thoughts to control a cursor. In a research paper published this year, they demonstrated a signal could be beamed down from a device in his brain to a second device implanted at the base of his spine, which could then trigger his limbs to move. Some people living with spinal injuries are sceptical about the sudden interest in this new kind of technology. "These breakthroughs get announced time and time again and don't seem to be getting any further along," says Glyn Hayes, who was paralysed in a motorbike accident in 2017, and now runs public affairs for the Spinal Injuries Association.

Comment Re:Honorable behavior, dignity, and self respect.. (Score 1) 347

wake up masher sounds like you've drinking a bit too much of that constitutional kool-aid all "democracies" have been screwing over their citizens from day 1. this just didn't happen under Obama's watch and blaming him is weak cop out.

here is a good example that Chomsky uses at http://www.salon.com/2013/12/2...

"So, for example, if you go back a century ago, right after the U.S. invasion of the Philippines — a brutal invasion that killed a couple hundred thousand people — there was a problem for the U.S. of pacification afterwards. What do you do to control the population to prevent another nationalist uprising? There’s a very good study of this by Alfred McCoy, a Philippines scholar at University of Wisconsin, and what he shows is that the U.S. used the most sophisticated technology of the day to develop a massive system of survelliance, control, disruption to undermine any potential opposition and to impose very tight controls on the population which lasted for a long time and in many ways the Philippines is still suffering from this. But he also points out the technology was immediately transferred home. Woodrow Wilson’s administration used it in their “Red Scare” a couple years later. The British used it, too."

pick any period in history and these power hungry cunts have always been trying to stay in power no matter what. I haven't got any answers just know that what we call democracy is not working because it always allows the people in power to get away with shit.

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