Very disturbing post my friend. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />


Just what business did you say you are IN? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I didn't.
</mysterious> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Anyway, if you look at:

1.) powers given to or taken by (given via acquiescence) the governments of the world in the name of security,
2.) increasing dependence on interconnected digital systems at all levels of society,
3.) increasing features in decreasing size leading to more interconnectedness and less user understanding

... then it's easy to predict where we're going. At least in the near future.

Homework: Find out about the concept of the panoptic sort (pan-, "all" + optic, "seeing". Sort, verb, to select or organize data based on defined criteria). Identify ways in which modern society has already begun to implement it or ways in which it could conceivably be advanced without public awareness.

This concludes today's lesson on paranoia. Be vigilant!

Good advice Momaw. A very scary time indeed <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

The test case has been Great Britain.
Everything that has been implemented in that country is what we are heading
towards. If you thought that the USSR was an oppressive regime, think again.
That was just for practice.
The New World was implemented in GB and is now being implemented on the North
American continent. The next time you are at an intersection look to see if
there are camera's set up so that "traffic flow" can be "monitored".

Not so much Cheer, but Cheers anyway <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

LOL! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
I barely saw your post, you couldn't have said it any better. Everyone I have talked to and taken out shooting has been bitten by the 'I need a gun' bug. I made sure to go over the safety procedures with them and was surprised at how much fun we had.

Ordawg, I didn't even bother showing them any steel! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Can you imagine that Christmas list? As for ammo, no kidding!
Tax returns, where are you....

Art,
I can imagine what that Christmas list would cost you! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Don't forget us Dawgs on that list (lol) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You're such a Dawg, ordawg <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Make sure I'm on that list <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Hey- I said " us" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />as in you - me- mc- Art- Jeff- Bruce- Tolly-Klink- Jim- Which and all the rest. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> See.......I remembered you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />Yes _ I am a DAWG for sure <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

No problem! It only takes me two weeks to get my list covered...

There's that "two weeks" phrase again! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Good Grief- no Christmas next year <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />