On 11/4/2013 1:07 PM, George Herold wrote
On Monday, November 4, 2013 2:17:49 PM UTC-5,
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This is a joke:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-diy-cyborg
just to acquire "body temperature" [of his arm].
Ouch! I think he'd live longer if he didn't stick 'things' under his skin. (Seems like at least they should have used a little ARM uC :^)
Small exaggeration there - he's not dead yet, and if the implant does create problems, it's easy enough to take it out again.
"Artists" are into self-publicity. If they jump in ahead of the curve, the newspapers are more likely to give them the attention they seek.
Because they're leftists.
krw produces his stock answer. Sadly, he fails to distinguish between between leftists in general - who are more interested in innovations than conservatives, more or less by definition - and leftist artists, who seek publicity by adopting attention-getting innovations rather earlier than is entirely prudent.
There are plenty of prudent leftists around, and there are prudent rightistwho will adopt innovations after the less prudent leftists have adopted them - usually on a small scale - and road-tested them for long enough to inspire confidence.
krw is more representative of the bone-headed right-winger, who won't adoptany innovation discovered after his oldest grandfather was born, and thinks that the Minutemen should have armed themselves with cross-bows, rather than the new-fangled musket.