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If U Thought I Was Kidding About The Surveillance Society


Posted by Bob Evans, Nov 3, 2006 01:43 PM

SEE?? if u thought i was kidding about the surveillance society this should set you straight--a UK professor (yes, that UK--remember in the world of civilian surveillance the UK and US are as oppressive as china and russia!!!) says that in 5 years (yeah right--more like 5 weeks!!) Big Brother (Big Retail or Big Sugar or Big Oil or BigFoot) people will be able to ask Google what a particular individual was doing at 2:30 yesterday and get an answer!! That comes from a Web site called "The Guardian Online"--did you know you have a guardian watching you all the time? And why will it take Google specifically "five years" to nail us all to the wall? Well, just go to google and type in "five years" (plus "david bowie") and check out the lyrics that come up: "We've got five years, stuck on my eyes//Five years, what a surprise//We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot//We've got five years, that's all we've got!" Coincidence? I think not, coffee pot--my vote goes to the impending marriage of Big Search and Big Entertainment, when the music we pick will plant little bugs in our ears and make us buy candy (Big Sugar) and donuts (Big Oil) and bunion pads (Big Foot) even if we don't want to! One more creepout headtwister be4 i run: that Guardian Online story was written by two reporters and one of them is named Rob Evans--Rob Evans!!--so dude grab the tinfoil hat and dump your electronics and head for your cave cause this professor, Nigel Gilbert, says "Everything can be recorded forever." But be prepared cause even analog communications will be dicey--my main man Waleed replied 2 my earlier post and revealed this: "But as soon as I posted a message via smoke signal they claimed I was violating fire regs. They are way ahead of us!" See you in the cave, my StoneTablet brethren.

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