Neal, No no... in the late 60's I think. I know when I was in USAF in early 70's there was No Such Agency... and my mistake earlier... It is the National Security Agency. See what I did there before, through them off with the wrong term.. yeah, that is my story...
but yes very 1984. Richard Meadows Social Media Management Customer Service Solutions Google Power Searching Have Laptop - Will Travel Louisville Kentucky On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Neal Hammon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Richard Meadows wrote: > > For probably 30+ years in the DC area it stood for NO SUCH AGENCY. It is the > National Security Administration. Those collecting this e-mail and filing it > away for some future time when they want to lock up the dissidents. > > Richard D. Meadows > Social Media Management > Customer Service Solutions > iPad Mail > > Did they open the office in 1984? Neal > > Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It is > adystopian and satirical novel set in Oceania, where society is tyrannized by > The Party and its totalitarian ideology.[1] The Oceanian province of Airstrip > One is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and > public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named > English Socialism(Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite > that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as > thoughtcrimes.[2] Their tyranny is headed by Big Brother, the quasi-divine > Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even > exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed > greater good.[1] The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of > the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), which is > responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to re-write > past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the > current party line.[3] Smith is a diligent and skillful worker, but he > secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. > As literary political fiction and as dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen > Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms > and concepts, such asBig Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and > memory hole, have entered everyday use since its publication in 1949. > Moreover, Nineteen Eighty-Fourpopularised the adjective Orwellian, which > describes official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the > past by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. > > > On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:21, Marta Edie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is that? >> Marta >> >> On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: >> >>> On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Richard Meadows <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I had no idea that there was a NSA office here in town. >>> >>> And they LIKE it that way! >>> >>> ::-) >>> >>> j. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jonathan Fletcher >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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