Feed Sift: Skynet Edition (06/05/2015)

I've always said if we're not careful the Terminator stories will have to be considered documentaries and not fiction. Here's some ways we're moving down that path.

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ENGADGET.COM -- Europe's combat UAV takes to the skies over Italy

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ENGADGET.COM -- The Navy sees its future in unmanned fighters

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ENGADGET.COM -- Department of Defense creates new cyberunit in Silicon Valley

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ENGADGET.COM -- AZ town hides license plate readers in dozens of fake cacti

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ENGADGET.COM -- US SKYNET program marks Al Jazeera journalist as Al Qaeda - really? Bad enough there's a company in Japan called Cyberdyne making products called "HAL" but we're going to use the term SKYNET in this kind of way???

Conspiracy: Chickens

Lori said that she heard that American chicken producers had received approval from the appropriate governing and legislative groups to ship chickens to China to be processed. Apparently growing them, killing them, shipping them to China, processing them and then shipping them back saves money over processing them here.

Talk about "farm fresh," huh?

Anyhow, here's my conspiracy theory take on it:

Step 1: It's cheaper to ship to China, process in China, ship back the U.S..

Step 2: It's cheaper to grow and process in China and ship to the U.S.

Step 3: It's cheaper to grow, process and sell in China. Forget the U.S.

And suddenly we're left eating pigeon and feral neighborhood cats we catch ourselves.