Posted: 2/8/2011 7:26:58 AM EDT
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Hopefully it's not a dupe I searched for immigration, smugglers run with no results. So what do you think the chances are for this making it to the app store? "It seems every so often, some developer comes along with the need to produce a mobile app that makes you say, "Dear God, what is wrong with our society?" Enter Smuggle Truck, a proposed gaming app for the iOS and Android platforms which the goal is to smuggle as many illegal immigrants over the US-Mexico border as possible, without killing them." Story continues at link. http://www.pcworld.com/article/218972/smuggle_truck_tasteless_satire_on_immigration_issue.html |
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IT will nicely compliment the cell phone GPS app being developed by some staff at UCSD...on the taxpayer dime by the way.
======================================================================= If illegal border crossers get GPS cell phones, will they find water in the desert? (http://www.wpix.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-border-gps,0,2089428.story) By Elliot Spagat for wpix.com, December 29, 2009 SAN DIEGO (AP) — A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S. Faculty at University of California, San Diego are developing a GPS-enabled cell phone that tells dehydrated migrants where to find water. It also pipes in poetry from phone speakers, regaling them on their journey much like Emma Lazarus' words did a century ago to the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" on Ellis Island. The designers — three visual artists on UCSD's faculty and an English professor at the University of Michigan — are undeterred as they criticize a U.S. policy they say embraces illegal immigrants for cheap labor while letting them die crossing the border. "It's about giving water to somebody who's dying in the desert of dehydration," said Micha Cardenas, 32, a UCSD lecturer. The effort is being done on the government's dime — an irony not lost on the designers whose salaries are paid by the state of California. "There are many, many areas in which every American would say I don't like the way my tax dollars are being spent. Our answer to that is an in-your-face, so what?" says UCSD lecturer Brett Stalbaum, 33, a self-described news junkie who likens his role to chief technology officer. ======================================= Our government hard at work... |