A Miscellany of Tech

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1. Laying the Legal Groundwork for Organlegging

www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2009/10/03/they-really-really-want-to-kill-for-organs/

This is neither the first, not will it be the last, advocacy of replacing "dead" with "mostly dead" as a criterion for harvesting those valuable organs.  Follow the money, always, no matter what high-falutin' sounds are made about "compassion and choices," (which is the new, user-friendly sobriquet for the more honestly named He...