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16 years ago
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This was in the newspaper today,
and by "the newspaper" I mean a respectable and informative one.
"Ministers revealed yesterday that they were considering policing messages sent via sites such as MySpace and Facebook, alongside plans to store information about every phone call, e-mail and internet visit made by everyone in the United Kingdom."
+ Electric car maker Tesla has just revealed its latest creation, its a big luxury saloon much like an Infiniti G35. It still has much of the shortcomings of other electric cars, will be agonisingly expensive, and about as environmentally friendly to produce as an explosion in a radioactive waste facility. The company is likely to get buried when GM, Renault, Nissan and a couple of others make electric cars, and should be killed off for good by the dawn of Hydrogen power.
+ I should be careful driving my BMW E30s in the wet, or else.
and by "the newspaper" I mean a respectable and informative one.
"Ministers revealed yesterday that they were considering policing messages sent via sites such as MySpace and Facebook, alongside plans to store information about every phone call, e-mail and internet visit made by everyone in the United Kingdom."
+ Electric car maker Tesla has just revealed its latest creation, its a big luxury saloon much like an Infiniti G35. It still has much of the shortcomings of other electric cars, will be agonisingly expensive, and about as environmentally friendly to produce as an explosion in a radioactive waste facility. The company is likely to get buried when GM, Renault, Nissan and a couple of others make electric cars, and should be killed off for good by the dawn of Hydrogen power.
+ I should be careful driving my BMW E30s in the wet, or else.
It's only partly the monitoring which is the worry. The main part is how they'll use the information. Perhaps to refuse passports, or driving licences, or if you say that you're a smoker or a drinker on the "smoke?/drink?" part of MySpace, they could refuse healthcare. The government love their power. If they decide that an anarchist is giving them too many problems, or maybe someone upset a politician, the police can go round to their house, load up a few gigabytes of child pornography to their computer, then have them in jail for ten years, and outcast by mainstream society for the rest of their lives.
The UK already has a system for tracking filesharing. I'm surprised by Sweden though, I would have thought it's almot completely detached from any terrorist activity. We really truly are far beyond what Orwell wrote about in "1984"
and the government's hunger for control shows no signs of stopping or even slowing down.
In America, it's coming by way of lobbyist and corporations' money.
Do you think in 300 years time we'll look back and wonder how we could be so ignorant as to walk into this? Much like we have a nice retrospective of how Germany elected the Nazi party, who slowly turned up the heat, being ever more imposing week by week, as our governments are now.
Maybe. Maybe not. Technological control grows. Complacency grows. The government grows. It's not looking good.
Cameras in the sky
Antennas in the canyons
And the lobby's full of spies
For us who are like bulldozers
Sleeping in the sun
For us who are like lightning
Buried in the mud
Don't give up
Don't give in
Our time will come
'Cause we are the flood
So grab my hand
Let's set some fires
This city's piss
All hung with wires
To kiss a tit
Or have one's tit kissed
On bended-knee
It's all you need
Let's build ships
Let's drift away
Our mighty fleet
Must float again
Don't give up
Don't give in
Our time will come
'Cause we
We are the flood
-asmz
When I was at one of those press gatherings not so long ago, someone said "....the Tesla is based on a Lotus Elise," and at that moment, for no reason other than bad luck, there was a momentary lull in the hububb of chatter, just for a second the air was quiet for all but one voice, "It's based on an electric golf cart!" The afternoon didn't really recover from that.