Big Brother is Watching You

[JTA]

After that go with Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World." That's a good one, too.

This song is so cool i cannot stand it.

[neoplacebo]

NYT to Obama: Appoint prosecutor to investigate Cheney for torture
'These are, simply, crimes,' paper says of CIA interrogation program former vice president championed

Yeah, I noticed this today; pretty significant for NYT to come out for this. Hope it gets some traction. Dick Cheney is the Lester Maddox of our time, only worse.

[O Really]

Free Range! Let them do whatever they're able to do, and teach them to enlarge the range of things they can do. Also, read the percentages of child abductions that are actually strangers vs. people the kid knows. Lenore Skanzey (sp?) rules!

[O Really]

But it isn't really a "Big Brother" issue. Maybe not even a "Little Brother" even though the local gendarmes are "investigating." It's the fear-driven culture where every news blurb has a follow line "we'll show you how to protect... more at 11" Where a couple of people with Ebola cause widespread panic and appointment of a "czar."

[O Really]

On a percentage basis, a kid is safer walking home by him/herself than they are at home, at church, or at their Boy Scout meeting.

[O Really]

Plus, the cops stopped them from making it to the park when someone called them, reported the parents to CPS and fear-driven cultures can be Big Brother, too. Were you living in Montgomery County? I can't remember.

I did dither a bit over putting it here, but I couldn't think of a more appropriate thread and hesitate to start new ones over a one-time issue. If you can think of a better thread or feel that it deserves it's own, I won't object. I can move the posts or start a new thread and then move the posts.

My understanding is that the Ebola czar is not just concerned with a US spread but is also coordinating the vital and humanitarian US contribution to the international response, though I do agree with you about overblown US fears.

Yes, I lived in Montgomery County. Didn't have any issues with people reporting kids walking to/from the park. My rules as a kid included "be home by dark." And I rode a city bus to school in the first grade. Sure, the bus stop was less than a block from my house, required no changes, and dropped me off further down the same street, but still...

I don't have a problem with an Ebola czar per se, just the way the entire event/situation was handled.

[Wneglia]

Good List of Snooping

[Wneglia]

How the CIA made Google

[Mr.B]

Don't be evil

...and you chastised me for using " " marks...!

[Mr.B]

"......I have no problem with extra effort that doesn't make things less grammatical and accurate.

So....how does quotation marks make a quote less "grammatical and accurate"? Or is it because I use them, you have a problem with them?

[Mr.B]

"...I was just trying to save you some effort....."

Effort noted.

You'll just have to overlook it; I was an English teacher in my former life; besides, there's only one quotation mark at the beginning of the quote.

[bannination]

"...I was just trying to save you some effort....."

Effort noted.

You'll just have to overlook it; I was an English teacher in my former life; besides, there's only one quotation mark at the beginning of the quote.

What did you do that got you downgraded to ass in this life??

[Mr.B]

"What did you do that got you downgraded to ass in this life??"

I joined this forum; I fit right in with the others.

[neoplacebo]

Saw a story today about how law enforcement agencies are asking Google to disable some sort of app that tells people where cops are. Looks like little brother don't like being monitored.

[neoplacebo]

Sheriffs Pressure Google to Disable Police-Tracking App

LEOs detest the 1st Amendment.

Looks like hominy don't play that.

[neoplacebo]

I was once prepped with a group to station ourselves with warning signs - "Beirut Ahead", etc. - before our town's first ever random checkpoint. However, we couldn't find it that night since the cops had gotten so much negative feedback from the public they had cancelled the idea. So, we stayed in and broke the law.

Back when I was still a married man, the kid that lived next door once cut down a tree that was in my yard without asking me if he could do it. He also would take a boat out that his dad brought here from Florida and still had "FL" numbers on it here in NC. And he also had a little hot rod Chevy that he totaled on the way home from high school, which was less than a mile away from the house. This kid is now a NC State Trooper stationed in Polk County. During all of his above described exploits, I was securely in, at home, breaking the law.

[Mr.B]

It's still a quote box, their style choice doesn't change that, and you're still redundantly putting quotation marks inside quote-end quote boxes when you post.

Which obviously, irks you to the core..... Get over it; give yourself an enema, you'll feel better in the morning.

[Wneglia]

Reddit handed over user info for 58% of government requests.

[bannination]

It's still a quote box, their style choice doesn't change that, and you're still redundantly putting quotation marks inside quote-end quote boxes when you post.

Which obviously, irks you to the core..... Get over it; give yourself an enema, you'll feel better in the morning.

Is that from personal experience? Not that I would judge you.

[Mr.B]

"Is that from personal experience?"

No...Vrede's.