Everyone in the UK has been feeling much safer since the Online Safety Act made Spotify threaten to delete your account, unless you agree to have your face scanned so you can listen to music, so the government is looking at more exciting measures to intrude on your privacy.
This is closer that you might imagine. There are already sophisticated "black box capabilities" in new cars that record all sorts of physical and operational parameters. They record speed, steering and brake inputs, G-forces and many more data sources. Cars can communicate live with the manufacturers over the web. It would take NOTHING to add this "live listening" capability to the system.
1984 just a few years later than planned, yes? Guess that gave us some time to get used to the idea so we wouldn’t fuss about it when it became our Reality. So thoughtful!!
These features are typically integrated into the PCM, ECM or CCM. The term “black box” comes from aviation. In automotive terms it does not always indicate a separate or discrete component, but instead the data gathering capability of the existing electronic systems that already exist in the vehicle. So disabling would likely take some sort of software hack, if even possible at all.
1984. Disbelieve everything and go and live by yourself in a deep forest. Ride a horse or a mule for transport, grow all your own stuff or buy hedge veg and only get free books from give aways! Oh, wait a minute. If you leave your forest your photo will be taken every five steps in any town or city or on any form of public transport, plus on the motorways, train stations and in airports and hospitals. Just give in like most of the Americans. In fact, it’s easy to persuade yourself that it’s a much better system for stalking- sorry saving, the population. Isn’t stalking a criminal offence by the way?
Can't do that in UK. All the land be it woods,moors,fields,- it's all owned,even "common" land,well legally the situation is more nuanced than that word sounds,so you'll get moved on - but,on reflection,some folk have reached the end of their tether at the way out society seems designed to mop up every penny you earn by domestic bills and there living in vans,not posh upmarket ones but old ones they buy off each other. Why should you have to pay most of your weekly or monthly wage to some skiver landlord to pay HIS mortgage and the little left over goes on water,electric etc. So in Britain people are doing it but in the road outside your house which isnt always popular.
Mr Bowles,I noticed that you unsubscribed from my SS after I said something about Pavlo from Ukraine and white feathers. I was being ironic. Using irony. And life has taught me how dangerous that is. I was pointing out that this YouTube channel shows us how wide is the gap between what OUR media tells us and what life is really like there. Maybe little schoolboys are being wrenched from their weeping mothers arms to be sent to be killed. But young men like Pavlo,lots of them are living normal lives such as we would recognize and Pavlo has mentioned he has 'papers' which Im guessing means he has bought an exemption certificate,must have cost a lot. I'm glad Pavlo is witty enough to find a get out. Im not a WW1 woman suffrage campaigner giving out Whlte Feathers. I was just pointing out how far from reality is what our media tells us. I'm sorry if my words offended you but I'm a bit offended myself that maybe I'm seen as a monster.
Dear Jane, it's my right to read or not, whatever I choose to, I unsubscribed so long ago that I've forgotten what triggered my response, so relax, it's not the end of the world but I'm sorry my unsubscribing offended you so, to the point that it warranted a public response rather than a private message to me. And your words didn't offend me, I just chose not to read them any longer, it's the 'price' we pay for doing our washing in public.
Saccharine, in large measure, is the answer. Have you noticed that the ruthless are good at adding sentiment? It is universally successful. Charitable NGO's are the ones doing child trafficking, 'safety' gets anything passed, and victimhood is the get-out strategy. For 'Foundations ( see Gates, see Blair, see them all) read porous sand, sold as 'sky's the limit'. So, Laura, your rapier needs camouflage by dipping in honey, the better to conceal bile to deliver ricin. Your blooming garden of admirers will all understand you, but the fact-checkers won't? Irony does not rust, and silent hatred, well stoked by Normal Island, waxes fat.
We need to work out a 'code' that can be recognised by those in the know. So a sentence like " I trust our political administration completely" would mean the opposite. Of course they would know as well so would that work.
Things unstated are a moving target. Codifying, I think, offers a still one! Parody and vivid metaphor are understood without standing still. For we are witnessing a resolve, limitless in its depravity and ruthlessness, so we have to stay nimble!
Some states in Australia already have this. When we hired a car there last year it constantly told us off. If you as much as glance sideways, it knows and sets off an alarm until you keep your eyes on the road long enough to keep it happy. Again and again and again, on a 8 hour drive. You cannot switch off the alarm. At one point we stopped on a lonely road with no one around to admire a possum and when we started the car again, the screen said 'We need to have a word about your driving'.
Actually that feature is the car makers doing so they can meet some arbitrary star rating. Makes the roads safer apparently... though the road toll is increasing in direct proportion to the addition of more "safety" measures. Next strategy will be automatic matchsticks that will prop your eyes open and spikes in the seats that will stick your arse to keep you alert. All this sent back to your car makers and insurance company so your premium can be adjusted (always upward, of course). Ain't AI wonderful?
I watched video just before reading this. It's a world coup, fascistic psychopaths all together. I can't adequately convey my horror. Sorry been on the wacky.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes DUTY.
Great news! Rest easy in your beds, it’s just the government making us all more safe just in time for WWIII.
This is closer that you might imagine. There are already sophisticated "black box capabilities" in new cars that record all sorts of physical and operational parameters. They record speed, steering and brake inputs, G-forces and many more data sources. Cars can communicate live with the manufacturers over the web. It would take NOTHING to add this "live listening" capability to the system.
1984 just a few years later than planned, yes? Guess that gave us some time to get used to the idea so we wouldn’t fuss about it when it became our Reality. So thoughtful!!
I drive old cars, no possibility for them to monitor me. This is literally death by 1000 cuts or the frog in the saucepan scenario.
Can the "black boxes" be disabled?
If they are, they'll no longer be eligible for PIP.
Oh very good
Thank you 👍🏼
These features are typically integrated into the PCM, ECM or CCM. The term “black box” comes from aviation. In automotive terms it does not always indicate a separate or discrete component, but instead the data gathering capability of the existing electronic systems that already exist in the vehicle. So disabling would likely take some sort of software hack, if even possible at all.
How about playing the car radio very loudly so that it interferes with the box's ability to pick up speech?
"If my thought dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine" Bob Dylan
Starmer is creepy AF.
There is something inexplicably strange about him.
Trust your instincts about him and our entire creepy GB political Uniparty.
1984. Disbelieve everything and go and live by yourself in a deep forest. Ride a horse or a mule for transport, grow all your own stuff or buy hedge veg and only get free books from give aways! Oh, wait a minute. If you leave your forest your photo will be taken every five steps in any town or city or on any form of public transport, plus on the motorways, train stations and in airports and hospitals. Just give in like most of the Americans. In fact, it’s easy to persuade yourself that it’s a much better system for stalking- sorry saving, the population. Isn’t stalking a criminal offence by the way?
Can't do that in UK. All the land be it woods,moors,fields,- it's all owned,even "common" land,well legally the situation is more nuanced than that word sounds,so you'll get moved on - but,on reflection,some folk have reached the end of their tether at the way out society seems designed to mop up every penny you earn by domestic bills and there living in vans,not posh upmarket ones but old ones they buy off each other. Why should you have to pay most of your weekly or monthly wage to some skiver landlord to pay HIS mortgage and the little left over goes on water,electric etc. So in Britain people are doing it but in the road outside your house which isnt always popular.
Ooops! I "liked" your article! My hand slipped...I promise!
It used to be the Nanny State, now it's the Know Everything State but just as ignorant.
They are now a step down from ignorant. They are wilfully ignorant.
Wilfully indifferent more like
Mr Bowles,I noticed that you unsubscribed from my SS after I said something about Pavlo from Ukraine and white feathers. I was being ironic. Using irony. And life has taught me how dangerous that is. I was pointing out that this YouTube channel shows us how wide is the gap between what OUR media tells us and what life is really like there. Maybe little schoolboys are being wrenched from their weeping mothers arms to be sent to be killed. But young men like Pavlo,lots of them are living normal lives such as we would recognize and Pavlo has mentioned he has 'papers' which Im guessing means he has bought an exemption certificate,must have cost a lot. I'm glad Pavlo is witty enough to find a get out. Im not a WW1 woman suffrage campaigner giving out Whlte Feathers. I was just pointing out how far from reality is what our media tells us. I'm sorry if my words offended you but I'm a bit offended myself that maybe I'm seen as a monster.
(Even though I am).
Dear Jane, it's my right to read or not, whatever I choose to, I unsubscribed so long ago that I've forgotten what triggered my response, so relax, it's not the end of the world but I'm sorry my unsubscribing offended you so, to the point that it warranted a public response rather than a private message to me. And your words didn't offend me, I just chose not to read them any longer, it's the 'price' we pay for doing our washing in public.
Western governments are making it almost impossible for a satirist to make a living these days.
Sorry Laura. I've just liked your post, I hope that doesn't incur something happening to your legs.
Take care, x.
Saccharine, in large measure, is the answer. Have you noticed that the ruthless are good at adding sentiment? It is universally successful. Charitable NGO's are the ones doing child trafficking, 'safety' gets anything passed, and victimhood is the get-out strategy. For 'Foundations ( see Gates, see Blair, see them all) read porous sand, sold as 'sky's the limit'. So, Laura, your rapier needs camouflage by dipping in honey, the better to conceal bile to deliver ricin. Your blooming garden of admirers will all understand you, but the fact-checkers won't? Irony does not rust, and silent hatred, well stoked by Normal Island, waxes fat.
We need to work out a 'code' that can be recognised by those in the know. So a sentence like " I trust our political administration completely" would mean the opposite. Of course they would know as well so would that work.
Things unstated are a moving target. Codifying, I think, offers a still one! Parody and vivid metaphor are understood without standing still. For we are witnessing a resolve, limitless in its depravity and ruthlessness, so we have to stay nimble!
How about, "War is peace"?
Some states in Australia already have this. When we hired a car there last year it constantly told us off. If you as much as glance sideways, it knows and sets off an alarm until you keep your eyes on the road long enough to keep it happy. Again and again and again, on a 8 hour drive. You cannot switch off the alarm. At one point we stopped on a lonely road with no one around to admire a possum and when we started the car again, the screen said 'We need to have a word about your driving'.
Actually that feature is the car makers doing so they can meet some arbitrary star rating. Makes the roads safer apparently... though the road toll is increasing in direct proportion to the addition of more "safety" measures. Next strategy will be automatic matchsticks that will prop your eyes open and spikes in the seats that will stick your arse to keep you alert. All this sent back to your car makers and insurance company so your premium can be adjusted (always upward, of course). Ain't AI wonderful?
I’ll reduce my fibre intake forthwith.
I love the humour entwined with the crazy mind-controlled ideas governments are planning and people won't realise until it's too late
I watched video just before reading this. It's a world coup, fascistic psychopaths all together. I can't adequately convey my horror. Sorry been on the wacky.
https://youtu.be/C-C671a63QI?t=1
If my Spotify account is closed, will my monthly charges be dropped?