Re:I'll take freedom or I'll take death.
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I like having my say. Even if you think I'm a slathering idiot I still get to contribute my little piece of the pie. That's a powerful thing - look at the process that Slashdot encourages, open discussion where the creme of ideas (hopefully;) rise to the top. This must be so threatening to anyone bent on maintaining control. I think that for-the-moment the community Slashdot has attracted over the years could in itself be considered a weapon. After all, what is more dangerous to a special interest group - a couch potato or a group of people debating the rights and wrongs of an issue? As a community Slashdot is a political force. And unfortunately, from an old world point of view, the discussion is open, agenda's are hard to hide and kickbacks are impossible (heheh). You stand by what you say. IMHO public Forums ala Slashdot are the future of politics. Who better to set policy than the individuals who are interested in them bouncing ideas off like-minded souls? If I was currently part of the "establishment" I would consider this idea a great threat to my future paycheck. I believe in a future where the governing of a people is managed in a decentralized manner and ideas, not ego's, fight for dominance. But of course if a peaceful transition to such a society is blocked then I would feel justified in asking my fellow Slashdotters to throw their sabot's into the cogs - and if the decentralized decision agreed with me, it would be done.
This is such a great opportunity to "enhance" the software that manages this database! What about traffic tickets? Up here in Canada we have our picture digitized and printed onto our driver's licenses. Pretty secure stuff, eh? Now let's take this little tidbit of information and integrate it into this database. With the right bits of image recognition software we could make our photo-radar machines give out speeding tickets even better! Think about it, instead of just receiving a ticket in the mail when some photo-radar machine catches you in the act, now because the machine can recognize who you are, you can also have demerit's taken off your license too! Gee, those little machines set up like this would almost be as good as people standing all over the place. Except of course that they don't have any morals and always do as their told. Think about it, we could expand this system to include everything like their doing in Britain! You know, camera's set up all over the place looking for suspicious activity. Our crime rates would plummit! Maybe if my neighborhood was one of the "good" one's we could switch off the monitors owing to low crime rates. Think about it, we could come up with a set of unifying law's to promote good citizenship! It was all so clear sixty-one years ago. We could pipeline the application of justice so citizens would not need to appear in a court to waste the time of the judiciary. With all the evidence so clearly laid out, it would be obvious how serious their infractions were. We could then efficiently schedule the pickup of criminals even going around the clock. Some would come in the day, but then again, some would come at night. You know, I've thought about it and I don't think we're responsible enough as a people to do this to ourselves yet.
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Thank you for your comment. I'm sure that someone out there has drawn an insight out of your words. Please take the time to register with Slashdot, that way you wouldn't have to post as a coward.
I like having my say. Even if you think I'm a slathering idiot I still get to contribute my little piece of the pie. That's a powerful thing - look at the process that Slashdot encourages, open discussion where the creme of ideas (hopefully ;) rise to the top. This must be so threatening to anyone bent on maintaining control. I think that for-the-moment the community Slashdot has attracted over the years could in itself be considered a weapon. After all, what is more dangerous to a special interest group - a couch potato or a group of people debating the rights and wrongs of an issue? As a community Slashdot is a political force. And unfortunately, from an old world point of view, the discussion is open, agenda's are hard to hide and kickbacks are impossible (heheh). You stand by what you say.
IMHO public Forums ala Slashdot are the future of politics. Who better to set policy than the individuals who are interested in them bouncing ideas off like-minded souls? If I was currently part of the "establishment" I would consider this idea a great threat to my future paycheck.
I believe in a future where the governing of a people is managed in a decentralized manner and ideas, not ego's, fight for dominance. But of course if a peaceful transition to such a society is blocked then I would feel justified in asking my fellow Slashdotters to throw their sabot's into the cogs - and if the decentralized decision agreed with me, it would be done.
This is such a great opportunity to "enhance" the software that manages this database!
What about traffic tickets? Up here in Canada we have our picture digitized and printed onto our driver's licenses. Pretty secure stuff, eh? Now let's take this little tidbit of information and integrate it into this database. With the right bits of image recognition software we could make our photo-radar machines give out speeding tickets even better!
Think about it, instead of just receiving a ticket in the mail when some photo-radar machine catches you in the act, now because the machine can recognize who you are, you can also have demerit's taken off your license too! Gee, those little machines set up like this would almost be as good as people standing all over the place. Except of course that they don't have any morals and always do as their told.
Think about it, we could expand this system to include everything like their doing in Britain! You know, camera's set up all over the place looking for suspicious activity. Our crime rates would plummit! Maybe if my neighborhood was one of the "good" one's we could switch off the monitors owing to low crime rates.
Think about it, we could come up with a set of unifying law's to promote good citizenship! It was all so clear sixty-one years ago. We could pipeline the application of justice so citizens would not need to appear in a court to waste the time of the judiciary. With all the evidence so clearly laid out, it would be obvious how serious their infractions were. We could then efficiently schedule the pickup of criminals even going around the clock. Some would come in the day, but then again, some would come at night.
You know, I've thought about it and I don't think we're responsible enough as a people to do this to ourselves yet.