A V for Vendetta World Not Far Off

[NeoTheOne]

With the recent issue of Wiretaps , and Congress could force ISPs to spy on us, it makes me think of the world shown in V for Vendetta and makes me think that that world might be us in the very near future, our greatest prize (Technology) could be our ultimate doom.

[3RA1N1AC]

hey a V For Vendetta world might not be such a bad thing, okay? at least everyone would be kung-fu fighting in Guy Fawkes masks, and bald chicks are kind of hot.

[NeoTheOne]

LOL, but living in fear of the government and etc? what about that , are you ready to let your childern and grandchildern live a life which is primarly controlled by the direct actions of the government and the descions they make.

[ziggyjuarez]

Spoiler: There is no V in real life,Enjoy your police state.61% of America wants it.

[NeoTheOne]

Im not talking about V , Or People Wearing Masks , im tlking about how insecure this world is getting day by day. Im talking about how mabey in 10-20 years we would have no privacy and privacy would be an untouched subject, something someone would teach in civics class or even history

[cpt_azad]

Do you not mean a "1984" world? Damn education system not teaching kids what they need to know :dry:

[Rat Faced]

Spoiler: There is no V in real life,Enjoy your police state.61% of America wants it.

Monitoring the people that use of public transport via making them sign their names and show their IDs and

Being able to freeze your assets for no particular reason other than say: you may leave the county (not country or state) whilst on an ACD....

Monitoring your telephone habits...

Having a choice between paying the dodgy $100 ticket (and being Guilty) or spending $1000's and months of time in the court system (to be "Not Guilty") ...

Taking your Biometrics on exit or entry to the country...

Voting via machines shown to be insecure and built by companies that publically state they will "deliver" certain states for a particular party prior to elections...

Diluting protections so as to allow people to be held without trial for extended periods...

Allowing torture and detention camps, despite worldwide condemnation...


....are not signs of a "Police State".

Im sure many of the Americans and Brits on here will be able to explain how this is so.. unfortunatly i cant. :(

[ziggyjuarez]

what are you trying to do here?

[j2k4]

what are you trying to do here?

Yeah, what? :huh:

[maebach]

I believe in the Matrix :lookaroun

[j2k4]

I believe in the Matrix :lookaroun

Oh. :huh:

[3RA1N1AC]

but do you believe in the The Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)?

[j2k4]

but do you believe in the The Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)?

We can do little more than acknowledge such theories.

They are fascinating, aren't they?

[3RA1N1AC]

for better or worse, true. 'cause... however much a theory like this sounds (to some people) like a lot of foregone conclusions, we've got no idea when it might happen, whether it'll be any good (by our definitions), or whether there's anything any of us could do to influence the outcome. still. can't help being a bit fascinated with it, anyway.

[GepperRankins]

i know penn and teller are as neutral as vinegar, but this video has some pretty interesting facts


http://revver.com/video/3356/13046

[ZaZu]

but do you believe in the The Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)?

Thanks for that, was new to me ... an interesting read

[ahctlucabbuS]

I think ideas out there will tend to get realized. You can't realize a concept without first bringing the idea of the concept into mind. So also with 1984, perhaps. Point beeing that the idea of this society is out there. Someone, or some group, might just make it happen.

I will certainly watch the movie now.

[bulgie]

but do you believe in the The Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)?

Arrival of said singularity will be delayed for a while if not kiboshed completely by the end of civilization as we know it about to happen as the oil wars heat up. It's started already of course. As the earth's population both increases and industrializes, increasing the demand for oil, simultaneously the finite amount of remaining oil becomes harder and harder to find.

We may have already reached the historic point of peak oil production (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil) and begun the descent into the chaos of a world unable (and often unwilling) to convert to renewable resources in time.

Anyone still believe the wars in Iraq and Afganistan are about bringing democracy to those countries? I wish we could bring it to to the USA.

I wish a technological singularity was the worst thing we had to worry about.

[longboneslinger]

Methinks that rat boy is being a smartass :D

Actually all the above are the direct result of public apathy. People are 2 damned lazy to police themselves. "We want the government to fix it!" carps the whining masses. Only near total and complete apathy can explain why anydamnone would want an institution that has proven itself so aggressively incompetant at policing itself should be expected to police anydamnbody else with anything but aggressive incompetance.:stars: :angry:
Moral relatavism in action. Enjoy.:frusty:
Later taters,
bone

[j2k4]

Where you been, 'bone?

Long bloody time...;)