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OfflinePatlal
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I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell * 2
    #23397308 - 06/30/16 12:10 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

What a mind fuck that book is. I now understand why they called that guy a genius.

All I can say is wow. Completely fucked up but wow. It just leaves you thinking "what if?"

A literary gem. Especially for those with an interest in politics and society. The concepts he brings forth are very well thought up. To a point where you wonder if they are fiction of a possible reality.

10/10

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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23397315 - 06/30/16 12:14 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Love all Orwell's stuff. You should read some of his essays as well if you enjoyed it.

1984 was required reading on high school for me, but I re-read it a couple years back.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: PatrickKn] * 3
    #23397322 - 06/30/16 12:17 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I thought that the most interesting aspect of the book wasnt the story itself, but the concept of new speak. Slowly changing the language over the course of time in order to have real control over how people think.

It's similar to a slave language in a lot of ways.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: PatrickKn]
    #23397328 - 06/30/16 12:19 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Animal Farm was pretty good too, IMO. It's more satirical but it has some gems in it too. It's worth a read, and it's only about 100 pages long if I remember correctly.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal] * 3
    #23397379 - 06/30/16 12:37 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

1984 wasn't really like they say in the book.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23397424 - 06/30/16 12:52 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

It's been several years since I read it, but I remember liking it.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Sun King] * 1
    #23397426 - 06/30/16 12:52 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I am a big fan of most of Orwells stuff. 1984 is incredible. It's been quite a few years since I read it but I remember most how amazing it was that he was able to predict the technology and use of said technology. Certainly the levels of scrutiny and surveillance he envisioned has been reached today.

I see a lot of parallels between today's efforts to make speech and thought "politically correct" contrasted to the "Newspeak" used in oceana. While I don't condone hate speech, the act of censorship is troubling. Even worse is if you can condition people to self censor. It creates a climate of complacency.

I think my second favorite book by him was Burmese days. A bit less relevant today but nonetheless contains a fair amount of good insight.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Pastywhyte] * 10
    #23397430 - 06/30/16 12:53 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Congrats OP, now you can graduate the 8th grade.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #23397431 - 06/30/16 12:54 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Mr.GuessWork] * 1
    #23397454 - 06/30/16 01:01 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Animal Farm was pretty good too, IMO. It's more satirical but it has some gems in it too. It's worth a read, and it's only about 100 pages long if I remember correctly.




Animal Farm is a masterpiece. I've never read a book that resembled real life more than that.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: koods] * 3
    #23397460 - 06/30/16 01:03 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Congrats OP, now you can graduate the 8th grade.




Is that sarcasm or a legit insult?

Not everybody had the same books in school. I had Agatha Christie's An Then There Were None and a few French literature books. I had to read Anne Frank's diary on my own and 1984 too. At least I read by my own unlike the vast majority of people.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: koods] * 2
    #23397555 - 06/30/16 01:29 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Congrats OP, now you can graduate the 8th grade.




You know there are people from other countries,  cultures and various age groups here?

We never read any classical literature in my school.  (Cept for Romeo and Juliet).

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I finished 1984 a couple months ago, straight after Animal Farm.
Animal Farm is a must btw, I don't thibj anything depicts society psychology better.

I really enjoyed 1984, it's a book everybody should read. Feels like the road map government's are working towards.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: koods]
    #23397568 - 06/30/16 01:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Congrats OP, now you can graduate the 8th grade.




I actually came here to make a post about how I read this in like the 8th grade.

Beat me to it.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23397570 - 06/30/16 01:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Congrats OP, now you can graduate the 8th grade.




Is that sarcasm or a legit insult?

Not everybody had the same books in school. I had Agatha Christie's An Then There Were None and a few French literature books. I had to read Anne Frank's diary on my own and 1984 too. At least I read by my own unlike the vast majority of people.




in the states 1984 is required reading, at least in most places.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: sanchothestoner]
    #23397619 - 06/30/16 01:42 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Orwell is my favourite writer of all time. Not necessarily for the content of his work, but for the way his style of writing expresses it.

Fucking absolute legend IMO. Have you read any of his essays? HIGHLY recommended.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #23397625 - 06/30/16 01:43 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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I think my second favorite book by him was Burmese days. A bit less relevant today but nonetheless contains a fair amount of good insight.



Burmese Days rocks. Would recommend it to anyone.

If you want something a bit shorter, read his essay 'The Spike'.

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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23397671 - 06/30/16 01:59 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I read most bust chose not to read the part where the lovers have to torture each other


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23397687 - 06/30/16 02:04 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I never had to read 1984 in high school. Not every school does the exact same thing. I had to read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in my AP English class. How many people had to read those bricks? Probably not many.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: sanchothestoner]
    #23397693 - 06/30/16 02:07 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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in the states 1984 is required reading, at least in most places.




I didn't have to read it, because it wasn't 1984 yet.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: clock_of_omens]
    #23397702 - 06/30/16 02:10 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

One of my all time favorite books. Read it as mandatory reading for school but I truly loved it. All your descriptions are spot on. I've been meaning to re read it for a while now


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Sun King]
    #23397704 - 06/30/16 02:10 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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in the states 1984 is required reading, at least in most places.




I didn't have to read it, because it wasn't 1984 yet.



It was written in 1948


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #23397705 - 06/30/16 02:11 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

:brilliant:


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Sun King]
    #23397725 - 06/30/16 02:18 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Another of Patlals potato salad threads. Such a robust blend of blandness and simplicity.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23397728 - 06/30/16 02:19 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Another of Patlals potato salad threads. Such a robust blend of blandness and simplicity.




Did you read the book?


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal] * 1
    #23397731 - 06/30/16 02:20 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Paprika will fix these bland threads.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23397734 - 06/30/16 02:21 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Another of Patlals potato salad threads. Such a robust blend of blandness and simplicity.




Did you read the book?




Is there an audiobook?


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Sun King] * 1
    #23397821 - 06/30/16 02:57 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Paprika will fix these bland threads.




Paprika is a shit tear seasoning.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: PassiveMenis]
    #23397836 - 06/30/16 03:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: clock_of_omens]
    #23397868 - 06/30/16 03:16 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

i haven't read any of orwell's fiction, but 1984 is on the list. here is a website with all of his political treatises on it that some of you might enjoy.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: clock_of_omens]
    #23397876 - 06/30/16 03:17 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Another of Patlals potato salad threads. Such a robust blend of blandness and simplicity.




Did you read the book?




I read it 4 or 5 years ago. Its an awesome book, and he crafts it so well it blurs the line between fiction and reality and makes you wonder if we arnt already headed there. We already got spy teles strapped to our hips in the form of smartphones. They spy on everything. They have total control of the media. The wars are clothed in psyops. In a lot of ways it feels like the idea is already being realized in a more naunced and subtle way then whats presented in the book. The story itself is a bit of a caricature of what could happen but right now, at this very moment we're already subjected to a lot of what he covers. Its definitely sobering to think about.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23397963 - 06/30/16 04:00 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

1984 was required reading in 10th grade lit class, loved the book then, still love it. 

Now that you have read the book, go watch the movie.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Lucis]
    #23397979 - 06/30/16 04:03 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I had to read Romeo & Juliet in school english. Fucking Shakespearean language. Fuck it. In the ear. And the ass.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 1
    #23398012 - 06/30/16 04:18 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

They banned 1984 in my high school for the lulz I think...

My english teacher made us read it anyway cause he couldn't get over the irony :lol:


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: twighead]
    #23398051 - 06/30/16 04:29 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Newspeak = PC

Thought police = sjw's

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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: The5thBeatle]
    #23398209 - 06/30/16 05:07 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Newspeak = PC

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Never thought of it that way.

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    #23398224 - 06/30/16 05:08 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Actually I have made the correlation between PC and newspeak recently


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23398228 - 06/30/16 05:09 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Newspeak = PC

Thought police = sjw's

1984 = 2016




Never thought of it that way.

So true.




At the time of its writing,

this was the house committee of unamerican activities purging all communist thought (while the US' income tax was at 90%)


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    #23398256 - 06/30/16 05:16 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Try reading The Jungle next., highly recommend.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23398285 - 06/30/16 05:21 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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We already got spy teles strapped to our hips in the form of smartphones. They spy on everything.




You choose to carry them.

If a rape or murder takes place and the police can get a lead by 'pinpointing all the smart phones' in the vacinity at the time, then why not.

I'ts not all bad. This cunt
only got caught because his daughter was dna tested 32 years later.

I wouldn't be surprised if smart phones didn't have a chip installed that could automatically sends the thumprint, of the person most often using it, ie the owner, to a central data base.

By the way, I don't think the the government, or the police give a shit about your life enough to snoop, unless you are implicated in some crime. :shrug:


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    #23398312 - 06/30/16 05:29 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I dont give a fuck about a single murder victim. Im not willing to give up my security and privacy for the life of a single person. Its something I dont want, and I dont give a fuck about the appeal to fear. Murders are gonna happen regardless, rapes are gonna happen regardless. You wanna impact their numbers build a better society, dont build up government powers.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23398346 - 06/30/16 05:40 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

They have a straight up metal tree in a mcdonalds parking lot in LA that intercepts cell phone data and transmits it to the government. There were two people at the top repairing it even XD.

There are a lot of these around more populated areas.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: dixienormous]
    #23398361 - 06/30/16 05:44 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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They have a straight up metal tree in a mcdonalds parking lot in LA that intercepts cell phone data and transmits it to the government. There were two people at the top repairing it even XD.

There are a lot of these around more populated areas.



That's a bit far-fetched just on the basis that is completely unnecessary in order to intercept or record a phone call or text. Several laws allow then access to that information already, no?


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: clock_of_omens]
    #23398407 - 06/30/16 05:58 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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I never had to read 1984 in high school. Not every school does the exact same thing. I had to read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in my AP English class. How many people had to read those bricks? Probably not many.



Ugh wtf. Ayn Rand isn't exactly literature.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal] * 1
    #23398414 - 06/30/16 06:01 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

It was made as a future dystopian fiction but then the government turned it into a handbook :frown:


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23398417 - 06/30/16 06:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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I dont give a fuck about a single murder victim. Im not willing to give up my security and privacy for the life of a single person. Its something I dont want, and I dont give a fuck about the appeal to fear. Murders are gonna happen regardless, rapes are gonna happen regardless. You wanna impact their numbers build a better society, dont build up government powers.




Tough. Don't carry a phone that can pinpoint your every move, every minute of the day then.
Your choise.

Being able to track down such scumbags are an attempt to "build a better society" if they can catch the 'perp' and lock the fucker up before he can make more victims.

I don't give a flying fuck about your privacy. I have children and grand children, that I want to be protected as much as possible, and if you losing your poxy privacy is the cost, then tough shit.


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    #23398427 - 06/30/16 06:05 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Fuck your grandkids. Thats my phone, I bought it, and you aint got a right to shit.


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    #23398443 - 06/30/16 06:12 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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They have a straight up metal tree in a mcdonalds parking lot in LA that intercepts cell phone data and transmits it to the government. There were two people at the top repairing it even XD.

There are a lot of these around more populated areas.



those are just cell towers they dress up so they don't look so shitty. they are all over.

and yes the nsa can get anything anyways, they don't need special towers.

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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
    #23398509 - 06/30/16 06:29 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Well adoption of encryption technology has sped up a bit as a result the NSA related leaks. Eventually encryption will be at a point where it's both standards for all communications and uncrackable at the same time.


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    #23398766 - 06/30/16 07:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Congrats OP, now you can graduate the 8th grade.





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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
    #23398798 - 06/30/16 07:49 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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They have a straight up metal tree in a mcdonalds parking lot in LA that intercepts cell phone data and transmits it to the government. There were two people at the top repairing it even XD.

There are a lot of these around more populated areas.



those are just cell towers they dress up so they don't look so shitty. they are all over.

and yes the nsa can get anything anyways, they don't need special towers.





Yeah.... no.

http://www.newsweek.com/what-cell-ls-those-ominous-phony-towers-268589
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-big-secret-surrounding-stingray-surveillance/
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/194271-us-government-uses-fake-cell-towers-flown-on-airplanes-to-harvest-phone-data-and-track-down-criminals
http://www.businessinsider.com/mysterious-fake-cellphone-towers-2014-9
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/mysterious-phony-cell-towers-could-be-intercepting-your-calls


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    #23398810 - 06/30/16 07:52 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Thats the whole basis of the stingray device law enforcement deploys. It mimics a cell towers carrier signal and cracks your phone wide open. No warrants required. Theyre starting to get darkly intrusive, and in times of economic hardship I doubt such powers will be used for good. If history is anything to go by.


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    #23398834 - 06/30/16 08:03 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Whats your thoughts on the cryptophone 500 btw? you're into this shit, whats the most secure phone money can buy and what can I do to combat this?


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23398932 - 06/30/16 08:26 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I don't give a shit who is watching. The neighbor is probably looking in my window right now!


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    #23398946 - 06/30/16 08:29 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Thats the whole basis of the stingray device law enforcement deploys. It mimics a cell towers carrier signal and cracks your phone wide open. No warrants required. Theyre starting to get darkly intrusive, and in times of economic hardship I doubt such powers will be used for good. If history is anything to go by.




Unfortunately governments have no reason to abide by laws intended to curb their "martial law" powers, there was a time when governors might be dragged through the streets covered in tar while their houses burned. Those times are past in the West.

Pacifism is integral to the whole politically correct spectrum.
Oligarch's must love it.


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They have a straight up metal tree in a mcdonalds parking lot in LA that intercepts cell phone data and transmits it to the government. There were two people at the top repairing it even XD.

There are a lot of these around more populated areas.



those are just cell towers they dress up so they don't look so shitty. they are all over.

and yes the nsa can get anything anyways, they don't need special towers.





Yeah.... no.

http://www.newsweek.com/what-cell-ls-those-ominous-phony-towers-268589
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-big-secret-surrounding-stingray-surveillance/
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/194271-us-government-uses-fake-cell-towers-flown-on-airplanes-to-harvest-phone-data-and-track-down-criminals
http://www.businessinsider.com/mysterious-fake-cellphone-towers-2014-9
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/mysterious-phony-cell-towers-could-be-intercepting-your-calls



Well shit. I stand corrected.


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Thats the whole basis of the stingray device law enforcement deploys. It mimics a cell towers carrier signal and cracks your phone wide open. No warrants required. Theyre starting to get darkly intrusive, and in times of economic hardship I doubt such powers will be used for good. If history is anything to go by.




Unfortunately governments have no reason to abide by laws intended to curb their "martial law" powers, there was a time when governors might be dragged through the streets covered in tar while their houses burned. Those times are past in the West.

Pacifism is integral to the whole politically correct spectrum.
Oligarch's must love it.




They arnt beyond the reach of the mob, they only maintain that illusion. Reaching out and striking them would take skill but they are vulnerable. They bleed the same as everyone else. Even their state address's could be interrupted by the efforts of a single person. The buildings themselves arnt hardened, a heavy homemade missile with a considerable payload could be launched from the city and take out their entire entourage. their percieved invulnerability is nothing more then a facade. Personally I'd do it if I lived in the states, being immortalized in infamy would bring me no greater pleasure. Pussy's cant even handle being blasted in a residential building, can you imagine the demoralization an attack on their embassy on state soil would have? They would be crippled. Not only their image but their perception of the mass's. Motherfuckers would be scared.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Patlal]
    #23399023 - 06/30/16 08:52 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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What a mind fuck that book is. I now understand why they called that guy a genius.

All I can say is wow. Completely fucked up but wow. It just leaves you thinking "what if?"

A literary gem. Especially for those with an interest in politics and society. The concepts he brings forth are very well thought up. To a point where you wonder if they are fiction of a possible reality.

10/10

Who read  it?
What are your thoughts about it?

Be careful what you answer though. Big Brother is watching.




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Thats the whole basis of the stingray device law enforcement deploys. It mimics a cell towers carrier signal and cracks your phone wide open. No warrants required. Theyre starting to get darkly intrusive, and in times of economic hardship I doubt such powers will be used for good. If history is anything to go by.




Unfortunately governments have no reason to abide by laws intended to curb their "martial law" powers, there was a time when governors might be dragged through the streets covered in tar while their houses burned. Those times are past in the West.

Pacifism is integral to the whole politically correct spectrum.
Oligarch's must love it.




They arnt beyond the reach of the mob, they only maintain that illusion. Reaching out and striking them would take skill but they are vulnerable. They bleed the same as everyone else. Even their state address's could be interrupted by the efforts of a single person. The buildings themselves arnt hardened, a heavy homemade missile with a considerable payload could be launched from the city and take out their entire entourage. their percieved invulnerability is nothing more then a facade. Personally I'd do it if I lived in the states, being immortalized in infamy would bring me no greater pleasure. Pussy's cant even handle being blasted in a residential building, can you imagine the demoralization an attack on their embassy on state soil would have? They would be crippled. Not only their image but their perception of the mass's. Motherfuckers would be scared.




I agree that the oligarch's can be touched, in my opinion it is much easier today than ever.
Back in the day you would essentially have to ambush them and their badass body guards close range.

The West is too soft now for any of that, we're stuck with what we have until the next World War, plague or famine. If this generation revolted, I would probably side with the government as the lesser of two evils.


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    #23399087 - 06/30/16 09:09 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

read it 17 years ago. Since that time I've been determined to be oldspeak to the fullest. There's 1.2 million words in the English vocabulary, and I haven't the foggiest how many is in my vernacular.

Boards of Canada summed up the message of 1984 in this song at the end of Music has the right to children:



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current political terminology is soo 1984. war is peace


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    #23399160 - 06/30/16 09:36 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Tough. Don't carry a phone that can pinpoint your every move, every minute of the day then.
Your choise.

Being able to track down such scumbags are an attempt to "build a better society" if they can catch the 'perp' and lock the fucker up before he can make more victims.

I don't give a flying fuck about your privacy. I have children and grand children, that I want to be protected as much as possible, and if you losing your poxy privacy is the cost, then tough shit.



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current political terminology is soo 1984. war is peace



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Congrats OP, now you can graduate the 8th grade.




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    #23399268 - 06/30/16 10:13 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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They banned 1984 in my high school for the lulz I think...







My 10th grade lit teacher was really cool, she got in trouble a year after that for going to party with some students, she didn't sleep with them or anything, but supposedly bought them alcohol, and hung out and had a few drinks with them.

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    #23399275 - 06/30/16 10:15 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

This guy had the grateful dancing bears all around the edge of his classroom too :lol: He was a serious mofo sometimes though, and would give apathetic kids a good bit of a talking to, to try and motivate them..

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    #23399330 - 06/30/16 10:34 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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They arnt beyond the reach of the mob, they only maintain that illusion. Reaching out and striking them would take skill but they are vulnerable. They bleed the same as everyone else. Even their state address's could be interrupted by the efforts of a single person. The buildings themselves arnt hardened, a heavy homemade missile with a considerable payload could be launched from the city and take out their entire entourage. their percieved invulnerability is nothing more then a facade. Personally I'd do it if I lived in the states, being immortalized in infamy would bring me no greater pleasure. Pussy's cant even handle being blasted in a residential building, can you imagine the demoralization an attack on their embassy on state soil would have? They would be crippled. Not only their image but their perception of the mass's. Motherfuckers would be scared.




Lol, how is it up there in your Canadian ivory tower? Get real.


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    #23399368 - 06/30/16 10:48 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Dude look at it in raw terms, when they hold those big public meetings what are they primarily protected against? Ballistic weapons. They stand behind bullet proof glass, and they convene in soft buildings. Rockets that only have to fly a mile or so are easy enough to make, and the kinectic energy they aquire during flight would be enough to punch through concrete. Impact fuze with time delay and a practiced shot opens em right up. You're patriotic about the power of your armed forces but a calculated strike can still take out your leaders. Its the fear of action that prevents something like this from happening. 10,000 grand and you could pump out a missile capable of hitting them. It would devastate them.


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    #23399386 - 06/30/16 10:57 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Dude look at it in raw terms, when they hold those big public meetings what are they primarily protected against? Ballistic weapons. They stand behind bullet proof glass, and they convene in soft buildings. Rockets that only have to fly a mile or so are easy enough to make, and the kinectic energy they aquire during flight would be enough to punch through concrete. Impact fuze with time delay and a practiced shot opens em right up. You're patriotic about the power of your armed forces but a calculated strike can still take out your leaders. Its the fear of action that prevents something like this from happening. 10,000 grand and you could pump out a missile capable of hitting them. It would devastate them.



Hate to be -that- guy but this is probably the exact shit the NSA is scanning the internet for :rofl:

that said...

tungsten rod launched from orbit at the white house dinner reaching 30,000 mph before impacting with the force of a small tactical nuke *cough* :smilingpuppy:


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23399404 - 06/30/16 11:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Why don't you worry about your own problems and become a terrorist in your own country. We've got things covered here.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: twighead]
    #23399414 - 06/30/16 11:06 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

This type of discussion will definitely land on their radar though, a hard radar. Isnt it perverse that thats an actual reality. Theyre probably watching this right now and its not even far fetched to suggest that.

Didnt you guys have a provision to taking out tyrannical leaders in your bill of rights? So much for living up to that clause :lol:


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    #23399427 - 06/30/16 11:10 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Hmm did we? It was theodore roosevelt who tried to implement recall votes for politicians...  I don't think he succeeded. Though he did change more things for the better than just about any person in US history. He was basically Bernie Sanders mixed with Chuck Norris.


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    #23399433 - 06/30/16 11:11 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Dude even changed the public perception of bears and saved them from extinction. He managed to convince everyone they werent savage killing machines and pulled them from the cusp of non existence. A man of his caliber is hard to come by.


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    #23399443 - 06/30/16 11:16 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Damn Teddy.... we need you now more than ever! :sad:


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    #23399453 - 06/30/16 11:19 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Everybody else is out trying to bang the hot barista and Teddy was out there saving species by doing photoshoots with apex predators. Dude was metal as fuck.

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    #23399476 - 06/30/16 11:28 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Hmm did we? It was theodore roosevelt who tried to implement recall votes for politicians...  I don't think he succeeded. Though he did change more things for the better than just about any person in US history. He was basically Bernie Sanders mixed with Chuck Norris.



Congress has elections every two years. Recall is a stupid idea. If you don't like someone, vote for someone else.


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    #23399479 - 06/30/16 11:29 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I swear if there's a necromancer somewhere, scrying in on this conversation, we need you to resurrect this nigga and his rough riding PATRIOTS to take back the hill one more time, this time CAPITOL HILL :kingcrankey:



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    #23399512 - 06/30/16 11:39 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Remember that time Canada and the British Empire rolled in and burnt down Americas whitehouse? Good times :lolsy:


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    #23399582 - 07/01/16 12:12 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

We were the good guys back then :kingcrankey:


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    #23399589 - 07/01/16 12:22 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Remember that time Canada and the British Empire rolled in and burnt down Americas whitehouse? Good times :lolsy:



Many of the British soldiers that did that were killed the next day by a tornado


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    #23399596 - 07/01/16 12:25 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

That wouldnt have happened if you just paid your taxes, freeloaders :crankey:


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That wouldnt have happened if you just paid your taxes, freeloaders :crankey:



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    #23399660 - 07/01/16 12:56 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

The military score between the US and UK is clear, past and present.

Canada is a colony and always has been.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Repertoire89]
    #23399714 - 07/01/16 01:28 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

You say that like its a bad thing. What did you win with your independence? You're still economically challenged like any other developed country out there. It seems like working together is almost paramount to your success. Something thats lost in the hubris of your patriotism.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23399718 - 07/01/16 01:33 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23399992 - 07/01/16 05:17 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

* Not patriotic
* Don't support this government
* Don't believe in democracy or republics

Pointing out the UK's subordinate military history, and the fact that Canada is a colony, doesn't imply anything else.

Not sure what all this about cooperation is, the worlds not changing.


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: koods]
    #23400314 - 07/01/16 08:14 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Remember that time Canada and the British Empire rolled in and burnt down Americas whitehouse? Good times :lolsy:



Many of the British soldiers that did that were killed the next day by a tornado




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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23400489 - 07/01/16 09:32 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Remember that time Canada and the British Empire rolled in and burnt down Americas whitehouse? Good times :lolsy:



Remember that time Canada fought for its independence over England and won?  Oops, may bad. :lol:


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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: lowbrow]
    #23401117 - 07/01/16 01:04 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)



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Re: I just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #23401158 - 07/01/16 01:22 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

That's one of my favorite books. Orwell was a fucking genius.


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