yea, and you just wrote two key words their Google spy bots search for. Nice job staying under the radar there.

That’s only half a joke btw, Google spy bots working for the NSA/Feds do exist.

Too many metaphors. Sorry.

You really need an assistant.

They’re not taking “names,” in the usual sense. Other computers are surfing, tracking, collecting, gradually adding up bits and pieces that suggest some people are not quite reliable. What “types” of people are unreliable will gradually come into shape and their lives will be less and less favored by legislation (and especially regulation) at all levels. Nothing personal. The data will simply show that people who use Chrome, order books about WWI, and drive Jeep Liberty’s are 6% more likely to commit gun crimes.

No human being has to be aware of your particular information for this to happen. You don’t have to be singled out. The various collections of groups and subgroups you belong to – the type of neighborhood, what type of internet device plan, whether you have 1.7+ children and what type of schooling they are in, etc will be enough.

The practical effect will be that people with unreliable profiles will invisibly have diminishing opportunities, greater scrutiny on unrelated aspects of their life, and a little more vulnerability and insecurity, and thus more incentive to pipe down. This will affect even many of the people who think they are pulling the strings, not realising they are cooking their own geese. The crocodile will eat them last. It will have a mind of its own, and have no animosity toward you at all.

I have been thinking this for some time.

NATO Caught ‘Surprised’ By Russia’s Move Into Syria

It is inexplicable to me that any American, much less a Jew, would vote for this deal. Franken? Blumenthal?

Tester of MT and Heitkamp of ND also voted the party line. Considering how bad Iran can hurt WTI prices, I find those two votes astounding. ND and MT are very small states and generally vote GOP. I hope they both lose due to today’s vote.