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George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade
Jamie stopped to mention that Bloomberg is reporting on a recent addition of speakers to public security cameras in Middlesbrough, England. From the article: "`People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when they see everyone else looking at them, they feel a twinge of conscience and comply,' said Mike Clark, a spokesman for Middlesbrough Council who recounted the incident. The city has placed speakers in its cameras, allowing operators to chastise miscreants who drop coffee cups, ride bicycles too fast or fight outside bars."
i never throw my coffee cups randomly. i don't throw anything randomly. i prefer to put it in the bin. are you antisurveillance people gonna say we should be able to litter public spaces? how about i go find your house and litter it with cheap wine bottles. how would you feel about that?
i personally got sick of f**kwits throwing rubbish randomly about 20 years ago (and i'm 30yo). if this stops b**tards from throwing their stinking cigarettes everywhere instead of taking the time to stub them out and putting them in the bin without causing a fire, good. i never throw garbage in public space.
i wonder whether the commons in ye olde england got littered with rubbish like they do now. or what about the idiotic tagging? do you really want this shit in your neighbourhood?. this has nothing to do with freedom to be a good citizen. i personally have wished i could say to every c**t that i saw flicking cigarettes into heavy use public spaces 'uh, you coulda stubbed that and put it in a bin' but then again did the council give much thought to making that reasonably easy to do? but they never thought about it either.
man, what a hassle. the cameras speak. at least now when i am threatened physically on camera someone is gonna say 'oi'.
maybe all you people who think that universal surveillance haven't suffered chronic harrasment. it's quite interesting that this aspect of the surveillance scenario is the strongest justification. i'm all for it.
go on fucker, trash the public space, harrass the weak ones. you are on camera. SUCKIT.
The other terrible mind-trap is to fall down the rabbit hole and proclaim the world is ending every time something new happens.
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Dumbass.
Same thing is happening in America. The US gov't knows the disaster that looms on the horizon (crashing dollar, massive inflation, country-wide civil unrest) and thats why its getting in as many of its draconian police-state laws now as it can, before The Crash.
America: China owns you. The time for you to do something about it is long since past. Bend over, put your head between your legs, and kiss your fat ass lifestyles goodbye..
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
No, that's just your own body-odour.
I know that insulting Americans is the "cool" thing to do these days, but give it a rest. Democracy got it's start in the US, and US intervention helped keep you from living in a fascist state. You don't have to like them, but you don't have to be such a pathetic, hateful little bastard either.