Joe, We read George Orwell's 1984 in high school English class. I guess it has taken another 30 years for the tech to catch up. I have no doubt that I can be profiled on line, but try not to reveal to much. We're both part of the OWG fraternity (Old White Guys). If they start coming after us, the country is in big trouble. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 15, 2013, at 12:49 , Ann Sanfedele wrote: > >> Watching the news here... :-( >> NOThing yet on cause of the explosions near end of the Marathon - >> not clear if intentional explosion or not >> >> ann (in NY) > > I grew up in the area, Wellesley, and spent some years beside a table handing > out cups of water near the bottom of the hill leading down into Newton Lower > Falls. My Dad worked at a laboratory out in Hopkinton, so I've been there at > the start, even before it was staggered. (1953-1961) > > I was watching TV after my lunch at home when the news came over about this > tragedy. And there I stayed for most of the afternoon until Defiance came on > SyFy at 6PM PDT. I was shocked. > > My feelings have ranged between disgust at the act, prayers for those injured > or otherwise involved, and more disgust at the stupidity of those who feed us > the news. I knew enough to pay little attention to the blather and > statistics, but instead do my photo-intelligence of the images they were > running over and over. > > Media should have people in the studio watching these raw snippets for > content and feeding the visual content in context to the talking heads. > Todays talking heads were rarely fed, nor did they see, the video that they > were talking over. This led to them stumbling over their words, disagreeing > with what was before our eyes on the other side of the glass. > > It takes many hours in ANY unstable emergency situation for the actual > statistics to unfold and be passed on to the news-hounds. And a day or more > before announcements can be made that take heed of those involved. A week or > more before the timeline of events is discerned. > > All of you in the Boston area were on my mind, along with dozens more from my > mis-spent youth, including a few old girlfriends. :) > > Now, coming in to the computer room and scrolling through and reading all of > your outpouring of love and concern regards this tragedy reminds me once more > why I hang on, knowing that my blather is already shuffled unread to some > junk files here and there. :) > > Sleep well tonight. Tomorrow the Washington Lawmakers are to debate and vote > on a bill that wants to take away no small part of our online, and other, > freedoms of privacy from the Man. It's called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing > & Protection Act (CISPA) and it's aiming to allow the Man to get information > on any one without a warrant. BigBigBusiness has flooded D.C. with Execs > pandering up to the powers that be talking cooperation. They think it's a > good idea. > > I don't know enough about it personally, only what the resistance posts. I > believe the majority would feel dis-inclined to have all our communications > available to those who have no good use for it. There are plenty of legal > pathways between suspicion and broad-scale ELINT collection for the > supercomputers that are tasked to sort out our quirks. Probably have a field > day with the last three paragraphs. :) > > Loves ya ALL! > > Joseph McAllister > Pentaxian > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
