The crazy middle class is stampeding out of California to oppress everyone else. The lower class just wants to not have the phone ring for the third time this minute, and the upper-class just wants to play with some cocaine and/or a giant aluminum foil ball.
Tag: oppression
we see you
GPS in the cellphone, unsurprisingly, turns out to be a mixed blessing. With that plus surveillance cameras, RFID, caller ID, and car-based tracking systems like OnStar, we’re on our way to the Panopticon. Not a trend I like.
Would you buy a used gulag from this man?
Not only do we have secret illegal overseas prisons run by the CIA, but we’ve gone ahead and rung the irony gong as hard as we can by taking over at least one disused Soviet-era prison in Eastern Europe.
End of an Era
Thanks, Gene, for all the help you gave to the hobby.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69133,00.html
Now that everything’s going APCO25, radio scanning as a hobby is headed for death. Incidentally, so is citizen monitoring of public safety transmissions, which has been part of the open tradition of American radio my whole life.
okay okay okay 1 more link
humor site whacked by Fed law
It was a funny site. It had naughty pictures on it, which were funny. They had to take it down because of a law about porn, which this site is not. The law does not stop porn; it just makes it more expensive to have anything to do with naughty pictures, so that only people who sell porn will be able to show each other naughty pictures.
Those of us who just want to have a laugh or look at a naughty picture our friends made are SOL.
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