And just when you thought it couldn't get better..... it does.
This time from North Carolina ... "Officials dismissed a murder charge Tuesday against a sheriff's deputy accused of shooting and killing an unarmed teenager who authorities believed had stolen video game consoles.A grand jury foreman said he had checked the wrong box on the indictment paperwork, triggering the dismissal." and, presumably, the check box instructed all and sundry to switch off their brains as well.....
Also Reuters has unveiled Reuters NewsScope service which makes news items machine readable, allowing automatic trading of stocks etc. based on the news content (supposedly putting overpaid traders out of business). Earlier Thomson financial had revealed a system which uses live trading data to create automatic news stories (putting Reuters reporters like Mr. Doyle out of business, which is necessarily a good thing). Wouldn't it be interesting to merge the two and watch the ensuing fun.....
On an unrelated note, Reuters idea of motivating employees is to show them Apollo 13 clips.
I am beginning to loose faith in the whole Intelligent Design theory, there being complete lack of intelligence in the "design". Henceforth I shall subscribe to the Church of the flying Spaghetti Monster............(with due regrets to the Kansas School Board).
This time from North Carolina ... "Officials dismissed a murder charge Tuesday against a sheriff's deputy accused of shooting and killing an unarmed teenager who authorities believed had stolen video game consoles.A grand jury foreman said he had checked the wrong box on the indictment paperwork, triggering the dismissal." and, presumably, the check box instructed all and sundry to switch off their brains as well.....
Also Reuters has unveiled Reuters NewsScope service which makes news items machine readable, allowing automatic trading of stocks etc. based on the news content (supposedly putting overpaid traders out of business). Earlier Thomson financial had revealed a system which uses live trading data to create automatic news stories (putting Reuters reporters like Mr. Doyle out of business, which is necessarily a good thing). Wouldn't it be interesting to merge the two and watch the ensuing fun.....
On an unrelated note, Reuters idea of motivating employees is to show them Apollo 13 clips.
I am beginning to loose faith in the whole Intelligent Design theory, there being complete lack of intelligence in the "design". Henceforth I shall subscribe to the Church of the flying Spaghetti Monster............(with due regrets to the Kansas School Board).
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