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		<title>The robotic revolution and the value of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the October 2008 edition of the magazine Unmanned Systems, the front page is covered with a photo of the Northrop Grumman UCAS-D demonstrator unmanned fighter aircraft with the words Dirty Jobs for Unmanned Systems printed at the bottom of the page. Throughout the magazine articles and news reports are presented of unmanned system used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinksme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5402708&amp;post=12&amp;subd=thinksme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the October 2008 edition of the magazine <a title="Unmanned Systems" href="http://www.auvsi.org/publications/" target="_blank"><strong>Unmanned Systems</strong></a>, the front page is covered with a photo of the Northrop Grumman UCAS-D demonstrator unmanned fighter aircraft with the words <em>Dirty Jobs for Unmanned Systems</em> printed at the bottom of the page. Throughout the magazine articles and news reports are presented of unmanned system used in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  These include the iRobot Packbot, which is a bomb disposal robot costing around $115000 each and the Predator unmanned aircraft that has a price tag of approximately $40 million for a system consisting of the aircraft, spares and a ground station.</p>
<p>The wording on the front page made me think&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;what is the true value of life?  Thousands of soldiers have died in Iraq trying to dispose of homemade bombs, resulting in the introduction of the Packbot into the war scene to reduce the risk of a soldier getting killed.  Does this then put the price of a foot-soldier on $115000?</p>
<p>In the same magazine an interview is published with James Hassik, the author of the book <em>Arms and Innovation</em>.  He comments that the premature introduction of the Predator unmanned aircraft into the Bosnian war and then later on in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan was directly due to the risk of losing a human pilot.  Does this then put the price of a military pilot on $40 million?</p>
<p>What is a human life worth?  What happens if the unwanted child of a rich family or the unasked for child of a prostitute is aborted due to inconvenience or other reasons?  What if that child was critical for the future of us all?  Does that child then have a price tag of $100 (for the abortion) or $40 million on his or her head?</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Psa 139:15  You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.<br />
Psa 139:16  Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I&#8217;d even lived one day. </em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Link between WordPress and Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to get this thing to work&#8230; &#8230; and it seems to be working.  I am not sure which one I should use. At least the link between WordPress and Facebook is working.  I found this link posted by Rodney Rumford and the way to insert it, is to use the wordpress facebook [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinksme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5402708&amp;post=6&amp;subd=thinksme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am trying to get this thing to work&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; and it seems to be working.  I am not sure which one I should use.</p>
<p>At least the link between WordPress and Facebook is working.  I found this link posted by <span class="chronodata"><a title="Rodney Rumford " href="http://facereviews.com/2007/07/18/wordpress-blog-posts-on-facebook/" target="_blank">Rodney Rumford</a> </span> and the way to insert it, is to use the <a title="wordpress facebook application." href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=12a506b555ba2b33e57cbd495d8d041a" target="_blank"><strong>wordpress facebook application</strong></a>.  The update rate between WordPress and Facebook does appear to be a little slow.</p>
<p>The alternative method is to use the <a title="notes importing utility" href="http://www.facebook.com/editnotes.php?import" target="_blank">notes importing utility</a> in Facebook as described on the <a title="SMUG" href="http://social-media-university-global.org/2007/11/25/facebook-importing-blog-posts/" target="_blank">SMUG</a> blog.</p>
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		<title>Intro and first thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of this blog is to get some ideas that are swimming around in my head out there.  Some will be in the areas of my faith, others in technology and others&#8230; well, they will be whatever they will be.  So, let&#8217;s have a try with blogging.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinksme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5402708&amp;post=3&amp;subd=thinksme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The idea of this blog is to get some ideas that are swimming around in my head out there.  Some will be in the areas of my faith, others in technology and others&#8230; well, they will be whatever they will be.  So, let&#8217;s have a try with blogging.</p>
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