UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV 693
metrix007 points out a story in the Sunday Express with more surveillance-camera madness from the UK, where the government now wants to place 20,000 CCTV cameras to monitor families ("the worst families in England") within their own homes, to make sure that "kids go to bed on time and eat healthy meals and the like. This is going too far, and hopefully will not pass. Where will it end?"
Big Brother (Score:5, Funny)
Dont worry people! This will be broadcasted on television too so you wont be missing anything. As you know, the tv show "Big Brother" viewer amount has been going down and advertisers want something fresh!
Orwellian (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Holy shit. (Score:5, Funny)
I think there is a plan behind it. A project was founded to find out how much surveillance people will endure until seriously, unavoidable riots occur in a well-off society. I also think the reason the project was started so that people, after revolting against cuts into their privacy, have a better foundation and understanding for freedom and privacy.
However, the Brits didn't react according to the expectations of project coordinators. Unfortunately, no end date was agreed upon for the project.
Re:Holy shit. (Score:5, Funny)
It's always been 2009.
Re:Holy shit. (Score:5, Funny)
This is an actual, verbatim representation of Orwell's vision for the future (today's present). There isn't any needed for interpretation, it's literally 1984. Wow.
Somebody should give Amazon a call, I hear they have experience in making these "1984" matters disappear.
Re:Big Brother (Score:5, Funny)
Depends if you're stuck in 1999, or here in 2009 with the rest of us ?
Re:Holy shit. (Score:4, Funny)
I think there is a plan behind it.
I think you're interpreting things, and there is no need to do that according to the deeply insightful GP:
There isn't any needed for interpretation, it's literally 1984.
It's literally 1984 really, no need to interpret anything. Ok?
Re:Holy shit. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:CCTV part probably fake (Score:2, Funny)
One was named Schroedinger.
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Lies, damned lies, statistics, delivery schedules, benchmarks, campaign promises.
Neither is Yes, Prime Minister (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister were intended to be satirical comedies.
In Canada, every new MP in Ottawa is told to watch them on there first day. "Just to get an idea of how things actually work ..."
Re:Big Brother (Score:2, Funny)
How would they put the commercials into the mirror?
add social work requirements (Score:3, Funny)
I did read it more as a "welfare state (concept)" doesn't have to create the problem, but this welfare state (implementation) doesn't reduce the problem as intended.
I always felt like their needs to be multiple different quotas. IE welfare females that put-out to welfare males = bad. welfare females should have to either babysit, or other productive work like putting out to nerds, or other socialy challenged males that need their social training = good.
Re:Let me be the thirst to say ... (Score:3, Funny)
Those Brits do know how to insult someone..."ignorant, suck up, mothers-basement-dwelling retard "...Gotta write that one down!
Re:Let me be the thirst to say ... (Score:4, Funny)
This douchebag is WORSE than a steaming sack of coon poo and fur ball retchings. He makes that rattling bag of stinky turds and cat spew look like the acme of human achievement. Fuck these people.
and I liked this one too:
His cranio-rectal inversion is so severe, he can lick his own pancreas
Re:Use their own law against them (Score:4, Funny)
I suggest rigging the view as a looping video of tubgirl...