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Now that's funny. Here in the USA guns are legal and thousand of road signs suffer and die each day due to them :)

Blu Who? : Http://www.blubeanz.com]]>Dec 7th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
It seems like everyday here in the US I notice a new camera perched high atop an intersection. These are seperate from the red light cameras, but that is a whole different story.


- Josh

Where's your head at? - http://www.StateOfBrain.com]]>Mar 22nd 2007 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/those are called traffic cams. you know, the way they monitor traffic flows, and update how your commute will be.
There are plenty of reasons out there to be paranoid, no need to make them up]]>Mar 22nd 2007 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
Thinking the same thing AJ and to those here in the US that don't give a 2nd
thought to traffic cams etc, just think about this - They get you used to the idea of cameras monitoring traffic and then what's next? Cameras on your street on a lightpost.. Oh yea, that's all good too and then when those cameras start peeking into your house/apt... Go ahead, say it's paranoid but when you give the gov't a foot, they take a mile (as evidenced recently by the FBI's abuse of those NSL's (National Security Letters)) So - don't be so naive to think that it's only happening in the U.K. and could never happen here. ]]>Mar 22nd 2007 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
However, things do look to be getting better for our country.]]>Mar 22nd 2007 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
F-off Big Bro.]]>Mar 22nd 2007 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/Banksy_crude_oils_photos_001.htm]]>Mar 22nd 2007 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://marcozna.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/more-and-more-dolk-and-more-again/

PS: Don't they know anything about privacy in the UK? I thought they were the real touchy ones on that... hm]]>Mar 22nd 2007 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
I'll take the remote risk of violence over the day to day anxiety that some one some where is watching and criticizing my every action and gesture and if any of them are deemed inappropriate get hauled in to jail and forced at my expense to prove the CCTV camera is stupider then the guy who programed it. ]]>Mar 22nd 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 24th 2007 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2004/08/04/mortal_gods/index.html]]>Mar 22nd 2007 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Tom http://homebasedbusinessfuture.com/]]>Mar 22nd 2007 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
I prefer the old way of doing things - wait for someone to actually commit a crime before you can arrest them. ]]>Mar 22nd 2007 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/

I think speed cams are without merit; pure money makers. Red light cameras probably make people respect lights which is sometimes a problem.


Now intelligent cameras that try to find some 16 y/o kid who may have pot in his jacket, that's way overkill.

Cameras should observe and memorialize, not analyze.]]>Mar 22nd 2007 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
I seriously think their operators have something better to do than CCTV-stalk me...]]>Mar 22nd 2007 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8343911-4273542?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174588789&sr=8-1]]>Mar 22nd 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/I think you'll find that most "riots" take place outside the ground and away from CCTV, and you'll find that there's very few these days thanks to the intelligence within the police forces

and it's Football, not Soccer]]>Mar 23rd 2007 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Now the government is mulling over banning what are effectively toys with the VCR bill. The government has instilled a total, crushing fear of crime into the population and it's a downward spiral.]]>Mar 22nd 2007 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Mar 22nd 2007 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Now down this line we have Dolk who's a stencil artist that Thomas would probably like... check it out:
http://marcozna.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/more-and-more-dolk-and-more-again/
]]>Mar 22nd 2007 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
Why do you make the automatic assumption that cameras will protect you from ANYTHING?

When I was young (I'm 55 now), I was taught that the Soviet Union was Evil with a capital "E" because it spied on its citizens and didn't trust them. Why was that BAD for THEM to do but GOOD for US to do?

EVERY government uses "protecting the citizens" as the excuse for more intrusive government. We spent trillions of dollars opposing the Soviet Union because it treated its citizens like criminals; why are we going down the same stupid path?]]>Mar 25th 2007 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/Just imagine what is to come, cars that monitor their exact position, door openings, ID of passengers, intoxication level of passengers, conversation..sounds ridiculous?
All very do-able even now, and all very desirable to the government and will be slowly introduced, each step being just as reasonable as the last.
And that's just the government, we will see massive spying by individuals on each other.

The problem of course is that most people can't handle the truth.]]>Mar 23rd 2007 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/22/is-the-uk-sleep-walking-into-a-surveillance-society-duh/
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