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According to USA Today, SUP is at the forefront of sociology. Our demands for privacy are not only outmoded and outdated, they are not socially beneficial.

I don't like this society. Can I please have interstellar travel now so I can go elsewhere?

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"We teach people they should mind their own business," he says, but "that's extremely bad advice. It's dangerous because you won't see the terrorist next door making a bomb; you won't see the kids being abused, or the husband beating up a wife. If there wasn't any eavesdropping, if people minded their own business and ignored what they saw and heard, how would you prevent and how would you solve crimes?"

*facepalm* George Orwell called. He said Big Brother is watching you. And *gasp* Big Brother is still Russian.

I'm with you. It's creepy.

Seconded.

Now where the hell did I put those rocketship plans?

Ugh so retarded.

So it's my duty as a citizen to eavesdrop on people so crimes get solved? Good to know I'm supposed to be part of this crime-solving career that I never wanted.

"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere." --Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

Like Nightwatch and the Ministry of Truth say, "TRAITORS CAN'T HIDE."

"What had once been private behavior is now being shoved in their face."

UH NO. The only place I talk about personal things on the phone is out of earshot of other people.

/scared

Just make sure your neighbor doesn't see you messing with fireworks! They might think it's a bomb. Lock yourself out of your house? Might as well just go ahead and call the cops, you know people are going to. Talking on a cellphone? Forget privacy, everyone around you has a social obligation to hear your conversation.

You know, because everyone is either a terrorist, an abused child, or a wife-beater. There are no normal, law-abiding, privacy-loving people anymore. If you want privacy, there's OBVIOUSLY something wrong with you!

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I had roommates who were arrested 3 weeks after 9/11 for LARPing with a real-looking cap gun because some little girl saw "people shooting each other outside" & the mom called 5-0.

Granted, said roommates were METEORICALLY FUCKING CRAZY (with intenet proof as evidence), but still...overreaction. And I never DID get an apology for cops pointing their guns at me.

Remember, a slander against Earth is a slander against truth!

Back just after 9/11, my high school suspended a girl for having nail clippers at school. Nail clippers. A girl. Go figure a girl would have stuff to fix a nail in her purse, right? *facepalm*

I guess I'm betraying society or something, but I kind of prefer it when people mind their own business. Because really, I'm not that interested in anyone else's business.

That's unAmerican.

The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father.

I love the stories about women being detained at airports because their underwires were setting off the metal detector, & then declined to be physically searched by people who could not grasp the concept of "inferential logic." Gee, if her tits are that big, I wonder would could possible by make the wand go off near mid-torso?

I'm glad to hear it.
It's called common sense. I wish everyone had it.

"Earth doesn't have homeless. We don't have the problem. Yes, there are some displaced people, here and there, but they've chosen to be in their position. They're either lazy or they're criminal or they're mentally unstable. EarthGov has promised a job to everyone that wants one. So, if someone doesn't have a job, they must not want one."

"And so it Begins"

Did you hear the one about the woman who got detained for bringing breast milk for her baby aboard a plane and refusing to taste some of it?

Elementary school kid got suspended for bringing scissors to school. Words cannot describe how happy I am that I'm long gone from that mess. Ooo, scary, my office has metal scissors, a stapler, a staple remover, a hole punch and *HORROR* a shredder. Office supplies are scary, ya know.

I heard about that. It was after that whole 'fluids as explosives mess" and it was over the new restrictions for carrying fluids on board planes. They wanted her to taste it to make absolutely sure it was breast milk like she said it was and she balked.

I don't blame her. That's crazy.

Meanwhile, right around that same time, I got all the way through two airports with a metal butter knife in my carry on. One was a major international airport. *facepalm* They stopped me in the tiny local airport and treated me like a terrorist. I totally forgot I had it in there. My previous apartment had a slight issue fixing the lock on my door. You have no idea how safe it made me feel that I could get into my apartment with a butter knife but not my key...

You know, I'm actually all for looking out for your neighbors, getting to know them, reaching out. Too many people mind their own business when it comes to things like child or spousal abuse. Or the lonely elderly neighbor who is isolated and needs help with the basics. Or the harried single parent who could use a little help sometimes. With the internet and cell phones people are increasing tuning out of society. That's not a great thing in my book.

But there's a difference between staying connected with your community and easedropping. FFS. I'm supposed to watch my neighbor because she might be making a bomb? *slaps forehead*

Yes we should engage more our neighbors, but it should be out of neighborliness, compassion, and community, not from paranoia.

This article answers all I need to know about why LJ is heading in the direction it's headed in.

Last time I flew, in April, I specifically wore just a t shirt and leggings, so I wouldn't have to worry about remembering to empty pockets or anything.

Barefoot, no jewelry, no pockets...and my I cup tits are beeping..hmmm, wonder what it could be? Surely not the 1/3" wide wires in my bra! I must have told them half a dozen times that I had an underwire bra on, before they whisked me off to a giant plastic box, and sent a woman in to frisk me.

Honestly..I'm not sure which freaks me out more - the fact that they haven't figured out that underwires set the metal detector off, or the fact that the woman ran her hands down my sides, stared at me for a minute, shrugged, and went "Oh well, I don't know what it is, go ahead."

THIS. I'm so sick of being forced to listen to people's personal calls, because they're yelling in to their phone, 6 inches from my head in the grocery line -_-

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