ChrisJones
-
Content Count
10,219 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
39
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Gun Dealer's and Fieldsports Shop's
Reloading Room
Blogs
Calendar
Store
Classifieds
Everything posted by ChrisJones
-
You're living in an oligarchy. Now you see it.
-
Some financial shenanigans too, it appears.
-
Have they lost it? Or have they been told it's something else? I grew in a place where your privacy was respected. I know people are always in each other's business but when a government body wanted information it didn't have the right to take it. Now it's enshrined in law on at least two continents. Where did this shift take place. One minute it was mind your own damn business, now it's "look at me," while the software designer sells your information to any number of marketing companies. If you said to someone, 10 years ago, that there was a government satellite watching you from
-
Can't argue with that Kay, what do you think about all this snooping built into the devices though? If you download an app to a phone it tells you what it's going to have access to. Some of that is pretty personal. That's just the software designer.
-
Yeah it was the same fellas...
-
So telly is the mind control. Telephone is the tracking device. I agree with the rest though. There is no empathy. As a species we're running out of fucks to give. Where's a comet when you need one!
-
Didn't they have a program on the National Geographic channel, a while back?
-
It's already here, though, mate. It's not a chip, it's a mobile telephone. It's got everything in there including the means to pay and have it billed to your account. If you look at disasters across the world, when the banking system goes down people resort to barter. Like in the old days, I'm not even slightly worried about that! What I'm wondering is why something as invasive as this is as now as palatable as it is. Is it marketing for the latest greatest gadget? Or is it because privacy is old fashioned?
-
Do you not think that we've already crossed that threshold though? Saying that, though, we've all grown up and functioned just fine without any of it. Would a digital collapse be manageable? Or are we just being told it would be catastrophic to keep the industry running?
-
How does everyone feel about surveillance being normalised? We all the know that the technology is out there. It's cheaper, for starters, and consequently more frequently come across. 20 years ago this level of invasion of privacy would have caused an uproar. Now people actually line up overnight to buy a device that will record everything you do, and transmit it to a third party. The standard response, today, is along the lines of "If You've Done Nothing Wrong You've Got Nothing To Worry About" when did this happen? If someone broke into your house and went through your personal b
-
Aren't you statistically more likely to be killed in Emmerdale than The Walking Dead?
-
We're absolutely monitored all the time. If you carry a mobile phone you're a walking GPS blip! The only part I'd argue is that while we are monitored all the time, there aren't enough people to wade through the data to do anything with all of it, but we're getting there.
-
I reckon private and public are good start.
-
We all know how on point the law is! If we're arguing morality then it truly is on a slippery slope. From Emmerdale to heterosexual group f***ing in public car parks, but consenting adults in the privacy of their own home?
-
Us either, we only used it as a term of endearment for those that are "light on their feet."
-
I see what you're getting at but he wasn't doing that. He was in the privacy of his own home, and it came to the attention of the police when they were investigating another crime. If you're at it in public it's an offense and I don't think anyone is arguing against that? Public f***ing is another topic.
-
I grew up in the "chutney ferret" era.
-
They haven't passed a new law. They've repealed an old one and pardoned those convicted under it, as is my understanding.
-
That's kinda what I thought, I'm lucky mine's out of range and if you think English telly's bad don't move here! I think pardoning those that have been criminalised for being consenting adults is long overdue. For the record I think all kinds of promoted sexual activity shouldn't be forced on society. Telly is the biggest culprit but it's getting more frequent. Age of consent is 16 across the board, if memory serves? If it's not okay for men to lie with 16 year olds, what about girls? With the teen pregnancy rates it's clearly not something that anyone seems to take too seriously.
-
I totally agree with the bit about the telly. They shouldn't be beaming any of it in but they do what gets ratings. Maybe the off switch? We could turn this into a 500 pager on nature versus nurture, though, mate! Regardless chemical castration, and/or imprisonment was more than a little harsh.
-
While I agree the Belfast Bakery case was a mockery, if it's between consenting adults what's the problem? Should they be imprisoned, and/or chemically castrated? For a bit of bumlove?!
-
Do you think that prison, and/or chemical castration, was a good thing for gays?
-
I wouldn't be difficult. This would be one of the easier forums to do it on too. But is it probable?
-
It's amazing how many people equate freedom of speech with terms and conditions of posting!
