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UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets
johnthorensen writes "Looks like parts of London may be seeing wireless microphones on the street sometime soon. At this point, they're looking to use them to monitor noise ordinance violations - if you call about a repeated disturbance, they'll mount one by your place to monitor noise levels for the next several days. The article also notes that they intend to locate them more permanently outside bars and nightclubs. The microphones apparently communicate via wireless Internet connection, although no real details are given as to the nature of said connection. Are London residents getting the boiled frog treatment?"
OMFG that was the most fucking insightful comment I've ever read!!!"L@$$
mod up! mod up!
*sigh*
The "stiff upper lip" of which the Brits are so proud means that they
are quite happy to tolerate government oppression. The state is
permitted to levy extremely high taxes and nobody cares. Fuel is $6.5
a gal and almost everything in the shops is badly over priced against
world prices.
The resulting low standard of living is tolerated by the people who
seem resigned to their fate.
The government routinely uses computerized law enforcement such as
speed cameras and OCR for the London congestion tax. If a stolen
british car is driven in London its owner somehow has to prove
innocence. The burdon of proof no longer lies with the state. The
Brits just roll over and accept these injustices.
Boiled frog is an excellent analogy. The average Britain's freedom is
being whittled away one small step at a time and nobody seems to care.
Its hilarious.
Oh man, I read that as, "probably porn of some misbegotten YUPPY Powerpoint show in the late 80's." I was think, where the hell was I for this 80's yuppy Powerpoint porn!?
Ah, George Orwell was British! A coincidence? I think not!!!
... a coincidence? Ah, that's what you think!
James Joyce was Irish