The above sentence could have been written by Hunter Thompson. It The story is back San Now anyone with a computer and a modem can log on and fire real weapons. Giles was sitting behind his computer in San Antonio. The pig was munching " Though Texans wear their love of guns and hunting proudly, the idea of Internet "I don’t think we should be able to kill God’s creatures with the click Why the hell not? We kill insects with aerosol spray. We kill And what about hunting deer, duck, or boar with guns, or shooting Obviously, killing via computer would be less viscerally satisfying, But the real world is a dangerous place these days, So we think its a great idea to allow patriotic Americans who pass Killing In the future, all of our battles will be fought this way. Top gamers from iol<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" "What started as a depraved idea has apparently become a sickening reality" The above sentence could have been written by Hunter Thompson. It is a testimony to his lasting affect on journalism that it in fact appeared on a South African … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bigdogbot.jpg\")
\n "What started as a depraved idea has apparently become a sickening
\n reality"<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n is a testimony to his lasting affect on journalism that it in fact appeared
\n on a South African news site in reference to the legal introduction
\n of remote control hunting of imported exotic species, in Texas, logically
\n enough. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n in the news <\/a>because the first actual kill, of
\n a creature called a feral hog, took place last week. Apparently, a
\n lot of people
\n are quite upset. What’s the big deal? Get over it, we say! What
\n could be more American than remote control killing? Our entire military
\n strategy
\n and
\n tactics
\n over the past 50 years have been based on that principle above all else.
\n It is any wonder ordinary citizens are dying to get in on the action? <\/em><\/p>\n
\n Antonio – Hunting wild animals is nothing new in Texas. But a new company
\n called Live-Shot.com has added a modern, controversial twist to the primal
\n desire to kill: Internet hunting. <\/p>\n
\n Howard Giles did it a few weeks ago, becoming the first known Internet
\n hunter to bag
\n a wild hog by remote control.<\/p>\n
\n on corn about 100km away in the Texas Hill country. <\/p>\n
\n He was a beast," said Giles. "I felt like I was there."<\/p>\n
\n hunting has generated plenty of criticism. A Republican representative in the
\n Texas Legislature, Todd Smith, himself an occasional hunter, has offered a
\n bill to ban the practice. <\/p>\n
\nof a mouse," Smith said. <\/p>\n
\n mice with poison and traps. and everyday we kill millions of cows and
\n chickens in mechanized death camps where highly regimented, short, hormone-enhanced
\n lives are likewise ended with the click of a mouse button. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n gophers, woodchucks and other varmints, just for fun? What’s the difference
\n between
\n pulling a trigger and clicking on a mouse, other
\n than
\n a few generations
\n of technological
\n development?
\n <\/em><\/p>\n
\n and in the long run it remains to be seen whether virtual killing, however
\n good the screen resolution and surround sound, will quell the blood lust
\n buried deep in our genes without the smell of gunpowder and animal shit.
\n <\/em><\/p>\n
\n even for armed and aggressive pastimes like hunting. People
\n get gored, even killed, by wild
\n animals every year. Not to mention rabies, anthrax and lyme disease.
\n Plus, tramping around in the woods with a bunch of other intoxicated
\n and heavily
\n armed
\n paranoid
\n schizophrenics can be dangerous in and of itself. Remember the
\n case of the Hmong immigrant <\/a>who holed up in a tree blind and wiped out six fellow
\n (but non Hmong) hunters before he was shot down like the rabid hyena
\n he was?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n stringent security and solvency checks to participate in a great American
\n tradition
\n like hunting, from the privacy of their homes. Think of it. Without hunting, the entire middle of
\n the United States would be covered with buffalos and Indians! <\/p>\n
\n by remote control is only one of the many talents and skills which our armed
\n forces and global peacekeepers will need in the coming decades, as military
\n methodology becomes more high-tech. Why risk our most precious
\n resource, our sons and daughters, if we can accomplish the same thing
\n by remote-control, running our weapons of war and engines of destruction
\n from hundreds or thousands of miles away.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n and proven remote control killers will be highly recruited agents of
\n the New Armed Forces. Right now the military is working on remote-control
\n killing machines which can be directed by operators anywhere on the
\n planet. Warfare will become a cottage industry: individual fighting
\n machines could
\n be remote-controled
\n from
\n battle
\n stations in suburban
\n duplexes across America, run in shifts 24-7 by the most capable and vicious
\n American virtual killers, regardless of age, sex, religion or geekiness
\n quotient. And when our fighting men and women get off their shifts at
\n the VR weapons consoles installed in their studies, they will have their
\n loving families and all of their creature comforts around them to lessen
\n the culture shock of killing for a living. <\/em><\/p>\n