Not exact matches
• The US's «targeted
killing» program of drone
strikes relies mostly on cellphone metadata and geolocation, rather than on - the - ground
human intelligence.
But the negotiations crumbled this week and air
strikes resumed on Friday,
killing 40 civilians according to the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights.
Yesterday, a U.S. air
strike aimed at ISIS fighters
killed more than 85 civilians, including children, according to the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights.
In our own time, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade,
struck down the abortion laws of all fifty states, effectively wiping out all legal protection of unborn
human beings against being
killed upon the request of their mothers.
Just so for pro-lifers, who find dignity in every
human individual: To say that
killing such a prized being doesn't count if he or she is still developing in the womb
strikes them as outrageously absurd.
That kicked the warped authorly part of my brain into gear, and I came up with the idea of aliens who ride lightning and use the bodies of
humans who're
killed in a lightning
strike.
No pets would know the horrors of trying to live without
human assistance: being
struck and
killed by cars, foraging through the trash, trying to survive cold and heat and predators, and missing the Most Important Thing,
human companionship.
The
human enemies are basically a joke when compared to the animals and machines you'll encounter, as a simple headshot on most will take them out, and what one arrow doesn't
kill, a quick
strike or two from the lance will finish off the rest.
The first death of a
human being at the hands of a robot, albeit not one with artificial intelligence of any sort, occurred in 1979 when a robotic arm at a Ford factory
struck and
killed a worker.
According to a new report from The New York Times, an autonomous vehicle from Uber
struck and
killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona: The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with a
human safety driver at the wheel...