Breakfast Links: Body Armour, Stop Homework & France
- 2009-04-10
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Ok, so Cyberdyne is getting set to release cybernetic body armour bodysuit that increases your strength by up to tenfold. First off… Cyberdyne is releasing this?? Second of all while they claim this is for helping people with movement disabilities and industrial tasks, we all know what they really mean… I’m going to get one of these, strap on a jet pack, armour it up and start fighting the hell out of crime. With my tenfold increase in strength I will have the strength of at least two normal men! Oh, also I will build a vocoder into my helmet, to protect my identity. That’s key.
Sara Bennett is being saintified (or whatever they do) as the new saint of children. Her battle against excessive homework in schools should be taken to the big stage, it’s work that we can all get behind. (via) Promoting studies that show that low homework countries (like Japan and Denmark) core the highest on Achievement tests. They also score the highest on creating futuristic body armor, as it turns out. What the hell has your too much homework ever gotten you?
And finally there’s France. Oh, France. So this blurb isn’t at all about the ridiculous Three Strikes Law. It’s just as I was reading about it’s passage in the lower house and then it’s blocking in the National Assembly (yay!), I noticed something odd.
You probably know that just last week it was approved by legislators in a surprise vote, where just a small number of elected officials waited until most others (who believed the vote would be held later) had left before holding the vote.
The law was rejected 21 – 15 in what’s described as “a near-empty National Assembly.
Uh, what the hell is going on there? They can just trick other politicians into not knowing when the vote is and then vote anyway? “Hey, Pierre? Yeah, you know that bill we’re voting on? Yeah, that’s not till next friday, yeah, I was surprised when they changed it too! Go tell all your crazy liberal friends about it too, we’d hate for you guys to come in when there’s no vote.” It’s just that easy in France?
