{"id":3532,"date":"2007-01-09T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:32:10","slug":"taser-international-sets-its-scamming-on-stunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/taser-international-sets-its-scamming-on-stunning\/","title":{"rendered":"Taser International Sets Its Scamming On Stunning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden within <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/6240659.stm\" target=\"_new\">the story<\/a> that Taser, International will offer models of its patented drunk killing device to the general public, we see what kind of superscam this really is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taser has however said that it will be sold inert, and activated after the purchaser takes part in an online background check.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is, you, gentle reader, would spend your filthy lucre on a device that won&#8217;t work until Taser, International, says you&#8217;re okay to have a working Taser.<\/p>\n<p>The next step, of course, is a Taser-As-Service model, where the self-defense tool only works if you keep up on the monthly subscription fee.  Forget to tell Taser, International, that your credit card expiration date changed, and you&#8217;re in for a big surprise on that underlit street where you encounter a couple ruffians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden within the story that Taser, International will offer models of its patented drunk killing device to the general public, we see what kind of superscam this really is: Taser has however said that it will be sold inert, and activated after the purchaser takes part in an online background check. That is, you, gentle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18329,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/18329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}