Geekly Update - 08 March 2018

"he also wants his name and whereabouts unknown, for some reason"
Because of death threats from the open minded, peace lovers, that hate the NRA?

According to a recent article I read online, a lot of people who “donate their body to science“ after they die and up having the body sold on the “spare parts market“ to hospitals who want the parts for transplants. So rather than having your body benefit those who may be trying to cure cancer or other incurable diseases, it just goes in too many cases to greedy profiteers, while your state/survivors get nada.

Perhaps some don't like donating parts, but I am a registered organ donor. Any of my parts they can use to help someone else are well used. I also doubt that "a lot" of people donating their body to science are having their parts diverted to greedy profiteers. It probably has happened, but most likely very rarely.

Hawkins get weirder and weirder. Maybe he and Lauper need to get together and sing Time After Time Only Happened After Time Before Time. All praise be to Alice.

I wonder if the Russian burger flipping robot is named Fliperov.

Re Bill's comment: About the guy who wants to distance himself from the death threats from the peace-lovers who hate the NRA -- would these be the same people who harassed, desecrated the home of and beat up the kids of the lady who won her case before the supreme court outlawing prayer in public schools becauise she was ungodly and unchristian?

Re Frank's comment: The federal law against selling body parts removes the incentive to allow one's body to be used for good purposes. Instead, the hospital profits, the surgeon profits, the brokers profit and the relatives of the poor deceased? They'd be ecstatic to get nada. Instead they're left with a big bill from those same hospitala and surgeons who hosted the last illness of the dear departed. Makes you want to live after all, doesn't it?
I wonder if it may put a crimp on some old guy's willingness to give his body "to science" if it winds up in a medical school gross anatomy lab, where it is cut up by the old guy's granddaughter and her fellow med school girlfriends. ("Wow, I never knew Grandpa had such an impressive pecker in his pants! I can hardly wait to do my father!") And when there's nothing left but an indistinguishable mess of bone and squishy tissue, it all gets shoveled into a furnace.
There is the argument that after you're dead, it doesn't matter what happens to your body. That may be, but there is a long tradition of respect for the remains of the dead that must count for something.

Demands for higher wages may backfire?

MAY?

They started years ago. A few Mickey D's by me eliminated at least one and sometimes two cashiers by the use of kiosks. There are 4 in each one and they don't demand pay raises... yet.

Both my wife and I have arranged to be body donors with the University of Technology Sydney (Australia). We can be cut up or left to rot in a body farm.
We both carry, in addition to our organ donor card, a body donation program card.
Fewer trainee doctors are doing dissection at Med School (although our Dr. daughter did).

The Kiosks don't demand pay raises. They also don't give you attitude!