Re: The amazing thing
You're forgetting that Call-Me-Dave is one of her best mates. That lot think they can get away with anything, and frankly, for the time being, it seems they're right...
Posts by Adrian Smart
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TalkTalk admits losing £60m and 101,000 customers after THAT hack
'No safe level' booze guidelines? Nonsense, thunder stats profs
It's replicant Roy Batty's birthday – but hey, where's my killer robot?
Sunday 10th January 2016 20:46 GMT
Re: Nightmare
> corporate controlled dystopian hell
But that's exactly the point - a government which belongs to private vested interests is indeed a corporate body. In the 30s they coined a name for this style of governance - fascism.
(For the Godwin's Law brigade, please note that fascism is not synonymous with Nazism. That requires racism added to fascism for added "fun").
> turn them into remotely controlled androids with no personal autonomy whatever
Perhaps you probably don't have much contact with the "plebs". If you did, you'd be delighted to discover they have this strange quality called common sense, something way too sophisticated for the "elite". They don't believe a word of the nonsense they're fed (pun intended) and act accordingly. And so, Nanny gets ever more hysterical - silly Nanny.
Of course, if she had any common sense, Nanny would remember that when you're in a hole, you stop digging. But instead, she just keeps creating ever bigger spades...
Saturday 9th January 2016 17:49 GMT
Nightmare
As we descend deeper and deeper into corporate controlled dystopian hell, might it not become possible to "chip" human beings (from the "lower orders", of course) to turn them into remotely controlled androids with no personal autonomy whatever? Imagine - no wages to pay, no housing to provide (just store them in boxes when not needed), and you could feed them animal fodder without any protest.
In this context, IBM's work on "tagging" selected employees so that their activities outside work can be minutely monitored, does not bode well. "Voluntary" for now, of course - but then, isn't it always.
Shudder.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
