More evidence of western culture's decreasing IQ's

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Frustrated Shoppers Turn to GPS LONDON (Reuters) - Frustrated shoppers who spend hours searching for an elusive item are to be given help -- in the form of a satellite-guided shopping cart.

Product designer Murray Laidlaw has invented the trolley, fitted with a global positioning system (news - web sites) (GPS), to guide shoppers to their products, the Daily Mail newspaper said on Wednesday.

The device, which will sit on the trolley handle, will also suggest recipes, advise on special offers and work out the quickest route around the store.

"Lots of people just don't shop in a methodical manner," the paper quoted Laidlaw as saying. "This device will make shopping trips less confusing and time consuming."

GPS, initially designed for the U.S. military, will guide shoppers by showing arrows on a screen which take them to the correct shelf.

Laidlaw has been given a 30,000 pound government grant to develop the trolley and hopes to have a prototype within six months.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2003

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Oh my Gawd...Huxley must be laughing in his grave...

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2003

If the stores would QUIT MOVING the stuff, I'd be okay . . . . ;-)

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2003

(wow, I bet those uncivilized EYE-RACKIES are happy they might soon be able to be just like us!!)

With pot and porn outstripping corn, America's black economy is flying high

Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Friday May 2, 2003 The Guardian

Marijuana, pornography and illegal labour have created a hidden market in the United States which now accounts for as much as 10% of the American economy, according to a study. As a cash crop, marijuana is believed to have outstripped maize, and hardcore porn revenue is equal to Hollywood's domestic box office takings. Despite laws that punish marijuana cultivation more strictly than murder in some states, Americans spend more on illegal drugs than on cigarettes. And despite official disapproval of pornography, the US leads the world in export of explicit sex videos, according to Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labour in the American Black Market, by Eric Schlosser.

Although the official American economy has been suffering a downturn, the shadow economy is enjoying unprecedented levels of success, much in the way that the prohibition period fuelled the illegal markets in the 30s. Schlosser found that three specific industries accounted for a major portion of this boom.

No aspect of farming has grown faster in the US over the past three decades than marijuana, with one-third of the public over the age of 12 having smoked the drug............

more...

-- Anonymous, May 03, 2003


Supposedly, the South American (cocaine) and Afhanistan poppy...(ooh! good thing we kicked out the Taliban...WHEW!) drug $$ laundering keeps the cash flow going through Wall Street. Interesting to think that mere statutes on pieces of paper separate the supposed good guys from the bad.

whatever...

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2003


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