{"id":133,"date":"2005-11-17T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=133"},"modified":"2005-11-17T12:46:59","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T16:46:59","slug":"unclassified_un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/11\/unclassified_un\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclassified, unclassifiable&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, as a hypocrisy corollary of what I wrote below on mind-altering drugs, take a look at this &#8220;invention&#8221;&#8230; Huh?!?! So, you mean that a device that can make you a mindless, order-following-killing-machine drone is OK if it has, ahem!, &#8220;a practical use in a military application&#8221;?<br \/>\nNow, we file this under what? Sci-Fi B movie come to life? Reality, my friends, is stranger than you think&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"New Scientist Breaking News - Invention: Soldiers obeying odours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8282\">New Scientist Breaking News &#8211; Invention: Soldiers obeying odours<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThese can be delivered silently, in the dark and when loud noise is drowning out speech. Furthermore, says the USC patent, the immediate reaction to a smell is emotional, rather than rational, so an odour trigger may encourage people to carry out orders without question.<br \/>\nPictures filed with the patent show how the researchers used a collar, like a gun belt, which hangs round a soldier\u2019s neck. The collar has a dozen cartridges, each containing a wick soaked in smelly liquid, a valve and a small propeller fan. Remote radio signals open selected valves and kick fans into life.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, as a hypocrisy corollary of what I wrote below on mind-altering drugs, take a look at this &#8220;invention&#8221;&#8230; Huh?!?! So, you mean that a device that can make you a mindless, order-following-killing-machine drone is OK if it has, ahem!, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/11\/unclassified_un\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}