tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8851395.post6395959362575911239..comments2023-09-09T11:56:04.929-07:00Comments on Pascal Fervor: Could Smoking Buy You Time?Pascalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8851395.post-17849630658527063232012-03-27T08:23:49.055-07:002012-03-27T08:23:49.055-07:00Interesting take on the "no-smoking" iss...Interesting take on the "no-smoking" issue. And as a smoker, I probably have foiled the state in their attempts to want yet one more clean source of harvesting material. I also drink...so does that mean all my parts will be properly marinated for future use? (Taking the cannibalization theme one step further? Though I don't know how good I would taste with either flava beans or a good chianti. )<br /><br />At the end of the day, I see it not as just a "Nanny State" issue. Or even one of the state using us as human cattle. It is pure and simply an issue of power and or control. "They" either already have it...or are progressing toward amassing more of the same. The "nice ones" will be "benign" in their approach and treatment, the despots, thugs, and nere-do-wells, not so much.<br /><br />The useful idiots and fellow travelers of the progressives are perhaps the more vocal and noticeable critters out there, but they are still sheep after all is said and done. They just bleet louder. The wolfs will find them to be every bit as tasty as their more docile brethren.. <br /><br />Now it's the sheepdogs out here which give the wolfs some degree of concern. The question is; are there (still) enough of us out there to get the job done. And when will we have to become more agressive in doing same.<br /><br />THink I will go out to the garage, have a smoke, and ponder on this for a bit...Guy Shttp://navvet55.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8851395.post-60082310217918774602012-03-26T19:32:06.441-07:002012-03-26T19:32:06.441-07:00Thanks for the cool scifi ref.
"In the futu...Thanks for the cool scifi ref. <br /><br />"In the future, criminals convicted of capital offenses are forced to donate all of their organs to medicine, so that their body parts can be used to save lives and thus repay society for their crimes. However, high demand for organs has inspired lawmakers to lower the bar for execution further and further over time.<br /><br />The protagonist of the story, certain that he will be convicted of a capital crime, but feeling that the punishment is unfair, escapes from prison and decides to do something really worth dying for. <b>His crime: excessive traffic violations</b>."<br /><br />It's here now, at least in China. So go out and smoke and pollute the body that government thinks is their property.Pascalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8851395.post-72921777343579037972012-03-26T19:06:06.243-07:002012-03-26T19:06:06.243-07:00Let me recommend Larry Niven's story The Jigsa...Let me recommend Larry Niven's story The Jigsaw Man to readers who are not familiar with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com