Comment Re:The benefits of the surveillance state (Score 1) 39
Surveillance protects us all.
This would all be great if the police were benevolent.
Which county has benevolent police?
Surveillance protects us all.
This would all be great if the police were benevolent.
Which county has benevolent police?
The stereotypical luddite wants all people to benefit from advances in technology.
Before you use a word, look it up.
Then again, there is the little-remembered bit of Eisenhower's farewell address.
https://www.archives.gov/miles...
Immediately after his (much repeated) warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he them went on:
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Funny few people remember that one. It sure looks like these scholars are chasing the money.
Ooh, didn't notice I failed to properly close that quote tag
Oxford close quote tag.
That's only one of many benefits. I've thought about this a lot because I've bought related stuff under a bunch of these different names. I've wondered if they are auto-generated randomly, or perhaps are something more bizarre such as being transposed in sequence order from Chinese characters.
paul_engr's comment which for me appears right after yours explains why that is nonsense. I would link it but mobile is shit
Whose own? He's not in my family.
Putting in a camera is one thing, connecting it to the Internet is another, having it be cloud-connected is still another thing
Trump Dick Sucker says what?
He has no idea.
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