I don't know that it gets harder with age... maybe one just gets more cynical. In your 20s, you feel good doing anything that pays well and gives you some money to party and have fun with.
I learned that it wasn't something I wanted to do long-term after a decade or so in the business. There's too much good to be done in the world, research to work on, things to learn to waste the rest of one's life picking up after the errors of large software companies.
Sadly, the average American DID turn into a scared lemming after 9/11 and was willing to accept a high level of inconvenience and surveillance just to be "saaaaafe."
Surveillance dates back to the 60s and 70s in the US, if not earlier. It just became expanded and more accepted after 9/11. People went from happy ex-hippies to scared suburbanite sheep in one day. Bleating... "anything to keeeeeep uuusssssss ssaaaaaaafe."
It requires an appitty-app on a smartphoine, which means it's tied to your phone, and thus your past locations and identity. Cash isn't good enough with this level of automation.
Outsource it to a biometric ID firm. Insert your papers, please, and stick your hand on the glass scanner or look into the iris scanner to buy booze or ciggies.
Communist? A "Communist" would love a society where everything and everyone is tracked 24/7/365. Cash is more of an anarchist product. Thanks for playing, though.
If I give cash to a human cashier, there's no "big data" record indicating where I was, what I bought, etc, attached to my name and identity. You're the moron...
You say this like it's a bad thing. Cashless stores that have no regard for their customers' privacy DESERVE to be looted, cleaned out, and maybe even razed to the ground before salting the soil they stood on. Slight exaggeration, but y'all know what I mean...
If I can't pay cash for the Slurp-n-Go, instead of having credit-card company scum and Microsoft scum knowing how many I buy a week and selling this data to my hellth insurance company, what kind of privacy will I have left?
Tunnels would have the same arguments -- vibration, subsidience, electric fields, just coupled with the cost of building underground. We should build on the surface, just reform laws to make it easier to take land for useful construction projects, as the French and Chinese did for their high-speed trains.
I don't want automatic accident reporting unless it has something like a 2 minute delay where I can tell it NOT to call anyone. If nothing is damaged other than your own vehicle, why risk a ticket, police contact, and fine by reporting a damn thing?
Crystal Meth City is actually in Virginia, not DC proper. Virginia loves corepirate welfare even if it means cutting services to actual humans living in the state. So there's that.
SCAMazon needs to be closer to the Pentagon and CIA HQ in order to cooperate more closely in destroying the privacy of Americans and people abroad (i.e. everyone in the world). On the plus side, maybe they'll first lease space in a building that will collapse in a stiff breeze and Bezos will be visiting that day:D
One man's hero is another man's traitor. Guess where the highest concentration of smart TVs and iDevices is? Right here in the US. Anyone care to bet that the CIA wouldn't use this stuff for domestic spying, outside of their mandate and outside the law?
This kind of thing needs to be exposed and brought to light, just like MK-ULTRA and COINTELPRO needed to be outed in the 1970s. The leaker's main mistake was not going to a non-extradition country before starting to sing like a canary.
One doesn't need to get rid of all government. Just of bad government. Plenty of countries that keep to themselves, don't involve themselves in wars that aren't their business, but still have functioning governments and are doing decently well. The need for secrecy comes from the constant meddling of the US into world affairs.
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I don't know that it gets harder with age ... maybe one just gets more cynical. In your 20s, you feel good doing anything that pays well and gives you some money to party and have fun with.
I learned that it wasn't something I wanted to do long-term after a decade or so in the business. There's too much good to be done in the world, research to work on, things to learn to waste the rest of one's life picking up after the errors of large software companies.
Sadly, the average American DID turn into a scared lemming after 9/11 and was willing to accept a high level of inconvenience and surveillance just to be "saaaaafe."
I have that option. You have this option. Sadly, not everyone has the option of immigration for various reasons.
Surveillance dates back to the 60s and 70s in the US, if not earlier. It just became expanded and more accepted after 9/11. People went from happy ex-hippies to scared suburbanite sheep in one day. Bleating... "anything to keeeeeep uuusssssss ssaaaaaaafe."
It requires an appitty-app on a smartphoine, which means it's tied to your phone, and thus your past locations and identity. Cash isn't good enough with this level of automation.
Outsource it to a biometric ID firm. Insert your papers, please, and stick your hand on the glass scanner or look into the iris scanner to buy booze or ciggies.
Communist? A "Communist" would love a society where everything and everyone is tracked 24/7/365. Cash is more of an anarchist product. Thanks for playing, though.
If I give cash to a human cashier, there's no "big data" record indicating where I was, what I bought, etc, attached to my name and identity. You're the moron...
Anyone who flashmobs a cash-free/privacy-free store and cleans it out is doing the world a service.
You say this like it's a bad thing. Cashless stores that have no regard for their customers' privacy DESERVE to be looted, cleaned out, and maybe even razed to the ground before salting the soil they stood on. Slight exaggeration, but y'all know what I mean...
If I can't pay cash for the Slurp-n-Go, instead of having credit-card company scum and Microsoft scum knowing how many I buy a week and selling this data to my hellth insurance company, what kind of privacy will I have left?
Isn't this just a cash-free (aka privacy-free) version of the "self-checkout" machines in many stores today? Welcome to 2008.
Tunnels would have the same arguments -- vibration, subsidience, electric fields, just coupled with the cost of building underground. We should build on the surface, just reform laws to make it easier to take land for useful construction projects, as the French and Chinese did for their high-speed trains.
I don't want automatic accident reporting unless it has something like a 2 minute delay where I can tell it NOT to call anyone. If nothing is damaged other than your own vehicle, why risk a ticket, police contact, and fine by reporting a damn thing?
Anyone who voluntarily lives in a place with chemical-laden crap-pet glued to the floors is an idiot. Hardwood floors, tile, and area rugs or go home.
US is the only country that's crazy enough to have homes with carpet even in the toilets.
What kind of floor do you have that needs to be "steam cleaned" a few timer per month? Do you have a giant wolf-dog or something?
Invite bedbugs into your home, get bit.
Crystal Meth City is actually in Virginia, not DC proper. Virginia loves corepirate welfare even if it means cutting services to actual humans living in the state. So there's that.
SCAMazon needs to be closer to the Pentagon and CIA HQ in order to cooperate more closely in destroying the privacy of Americans and people abroad (i.e. everyone in the world). On the plus side, maybe they'll first lease space in a building that will collapse in a stiff breeze and Bezos will be visiting that day :D
How do you know what the fuck his motives are? Also: how very American of you to call for cruel and inhumane punishment.
One man's hero is another man's traitor. Guess where the highest concentration of smart TVs and iDevices is? Right here in the US. Anyone care to bet that the CIA wouldn't use this stuff for domestic spying, outside of their mandate and outside the law?
This kind of thing needs to be exposed and brought to light, just like MK-ULTRA and COINTELPRO needed to be outed in the 1970s. The leaker's main mistake was not going to a non-extradition country before starting to sing like a canary.
One doesn't need to get rid of all government. Just of bad government. Plenty of countries that keep to themselves, don't involve themselves in wars that aren't their business, but still have functioning governments and are doing decently well. The need for secrecy comes from the constant meddling of the US into world affairs.
8 rads per year isn't good, but it's more "worry about it in 20 years" territory than "keel over next week" territory.
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