Posted on 03/05/2015 9:06:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Did we just see you smirk at the words of Dear Leader, comrade?
You are guilty of FACECRIME! The Thought Police will arrive shortly.
A former supervisor who I refer to as the hefty hag would be the first to sign up as a monitor and controller. Another was the loudmouth protected jerk wannabe supervisor that I had to tolerate in public TV land. He lived to tell others what to do and he wasn’t that great at it either.
That world is pretty much here already - and the social programmers have convinced [most] a whole generation of Americans that having everything they own "connected" at all times is somehow a personal convenience for them.
Noted.
I thought the Prisoner escaped only to find himself back in The Village.
Those balloons bouncing along the water to capture him still creep me out.
My once in a while running Willys, the soon to be re-engined CJ7, and the stuck in low range K5 blazer have nothing but ignition modules.
Welcome to the post privacy world. The last train left.
Had to admit Rover was an idea that worked. One concept was some kind rolling robot but wasn’t practical.
The government did just that in Poland in the 1960s...control heat
Actually most of these things do have a way to connect to a computer, usually a webpage. I can turn my home alarm on and off remotely, and actually some of its feature can only be changed via computer. I know of programmable ovens that you can remotely change the program on. Remember most of these things are computers, those old post dated chipsets you thought went away 10 years ago, they’re in your microwave, and thermostat, and car...
“The personal life is dead, history has killed it.”
Connecting things to another device that controls them makes you dependent on the connection. If it fails, you go back to manual mode, which you forgot how to use.
“self-driving” cars will cause many accidents, because the humans will lose the skill that they developed by driving. When the danmed thing beeps, it will be “what the xxxx do I do now?”
Does my TV have channel/volume controls? I dunno. Use the remote.
and why do they embrace it? Gullibility, niavity, lack of wisdom, inability to perceive how the technology could be used against the,, inability to understand why someone would would want to use the technology to give themselves access their brains and how the technology could be exploited, and above all just plain stupidity
> Mr. Megan bought a new pickup truck and then went through it from bumper to bumper removing the data recorders and transponders. Then he did the same thing for some of his friends.
Which has me suggesting to him that he could have a nice little side business removing electronic crap from people’s cars.
And of course the progressive fascists will see to it that is oulawed also but then again when everything is oulawed doesn’t it make you want to be the best oulaw possible? It will create a huge black market and increase underground capitalism as well...a win for conservtives
Convenience. They’re already going to the net every 5 minutes through their phone, tablet, and laptop. They want all that without carrying everything. Most folks aren’t interested in what COULD be done by others, they’re focused on what they WANT to do with it. Which in some ways is right. With millions of people in the country most of us fly under the radar most of the time, even if we are doing thing the government finds “interesting” they haven’t realized it so they aren’t looking at us. Even with the situation 10 or 15 years ago there was a lot of bad stuff that COULD be done, and mostly wasn’t.
> With millions of people in the country most of us fly under the radar most of the time, even if we are doing thing the government finds “interesting” they haven’t realized it so they aren’t looking at us. Even with the situation 10 or 15 years ago there was a lot of bad stuff that COULD be done, and mostly wasn’t.
Well I was was one the guys that used some of that technology to spy on those that thought they were flying under the radar around that time period. They never knew it and that was old school technology. I don’t do it anymore but I’m sure it would be even easier now.
And what percentage of the population did you spy on? And what percentage that you spied on did you actually find the results interesting enough to continue?
Most of us won’t get spied on, and most of us that do are boring enough that they’ll stop. It’s like when the IRS audits you without you knowing. Most of us aren’t audited, and most of us that are they decide there’s nothing interesting, by the time the IRS calls you in you’ve been an outlier at least 3 or 4 times.
On the positive side, if there is something that you do need to monitor remotely, the Internet of Things will make this much easier and cheaper.
Amazing just how prescient that book turned out to be. It should be required reading for everyone.
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