From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 21:49:51 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>>Steve Galinsky, who started importing the cameras from America in May,
>>said: "We have seven on trial across the country. Easington Council in
>>County Durham is using them to stop fly-tipping. We've had no prosecutions
>>so far, but no fly-tipping either."
>
> We've discussed cow-tipping before on this list, but fly-tipping is a new
> atrocity, totally disorienting the hapless creatures. I used to think
> swatting, spraying and wing-tearing was bad enough, but this is a national
> disgrace.
I usually tip flies between 15% and 20%, which is not enough to knock them
over. I don't do so furtively, either, as the flies have usually been
tipped to my presence. Of course, tipping flies 20% may make them a bit
tipsy, but this is only tipical.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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