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The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Everyone And Everything Will Be Monitored
TEC ^ | 03/05/2015 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 03/05/2015 9:06:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Big Brother!


41 posted on 03/05/2015 11:02:44 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How soon will the SCOTUS approve of the law where we’re taxed for NOT having everything in the house connected to the internet.

I mean, gov’t can tax for anything but, that’s GOT to be SOME kind of interstate commerce, right??


42 posted on 03/05/2015 11:44:23 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: elcid1970

In the last episode, 6, 2, the butler, and Alexis Kanner somehow drove away in a semi and then parted ways from what I remember.


43 posted on 03/05/2015 12:05:03 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: wally_bert

I googled Patrick McGoohan. Very interesting cinema career both before & after The Prisoner of which he was co-author.

The 1967 depictions of all-seeing surveillance were well ahead of their time.

But it all started with George Orwell in “1984”.


44 posted on 03/05/2015 12:14:47 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel. My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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To: dfwgator

“It will be just like living in a world-wide version of ‘The Village’ from ‘The Prisoner’.”

As I scrolled down, I was picturing Number 6 watching the obligatory morning propaganda, including the denunciation of all freedom-loving individuals as “unmutual”; I was just about to post when I read your post: You beat me to it.

I am not a number! I am a free man! (And, yes, I am unmutual!)


45 posted on 03/05/2015 12:51:40 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: YogicCowboy

Remember when he smashes the radio only to have someone show up right away and replace it?


46 posted on 03/05/2015 12:52:43 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: elcid1970

A very interesting fellow.


47 posted on 03/05/2015 1:01:43 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: bolobaby

As far as Smart TVs, I believe that our TVs will remain off until the regime-apparent approves indoctrination, speeches and mandates for its controlled media to stream, and then the TVs will turn on until their steady stream of islamo-facist blather is completed for that timeframe.

Among those broadcasts will likely be where and when the regime subjects have to be (with their papers in order) to obtain their food rations for that day.

Those able to work in all the factories that will be set up (as the regime is actively going about wiping out all private enterprise) will be fed there.

All of us who cannot work (the ill, disabled, the elderly) will be speedily phased out of the right to continue living as they will be denied the medicine and care they now need to survive. They will also be denied their food rations, so it will only be a question of whether they die from starvation, lack of medication, lack of care, or all three.

Any regime knows that they can’t have a viable contingent to work their factories and man their armies if their is a ‘burden’ of those not able to work; the regime feels that they are nothing more than ‘ravenous feeders’, taking bread out of the mouths of the workers/military/regime-indoctrinated youth. So those unfortunates will be rounded up, taken to various facilities where they are ‘humanely disposed of’.

Of course, all those who rebel against the regime will be quickly dealt with, interrogated, physically beaten and then shot and piled by the hundreds into deep, long graves...alongside all the bodies of the ill/disabled/elderly.

Does this sound like Nazi Germany?

Also, at what point in our near future are Christians going to be slaughtered for their faith, right here in this country? The hatred is certainly there, both for Jews and Christians, and with a muslim islamo-facist dictator draping his filth over the chair of the Highest Office In the Land, the plan is most certainly in place and ready to implement at a moment’s notice.

Congress has become out-and-out zombies, roving about, dragging their legs behind them and occasionally face-planting. They are just as much a threat to We the People as the regime, and need to be summarily removed from office and if need be by law enforcement.

They sit in their luxury mansions and dine on salmon carpaccio, caviar, wine and organic ice cream imported from Italy, they make millions of dollars, are driven around in limos, private-jetted to an assortment of countries, but do absolutely NOTHING to earn anything of it.

It’s their fear, of losing all of that—all that power, luxury, pampering, money. Which of them—any of them—if they somehow regain some sense of integrity and honesty and go and just lay it all out right at the feet of their ‘glorious leader’ and say “we give it UP! All of it! “If you do right, will not the Lord reward you?” as Biblical scripture tells us in Genesis.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.


48 posted on 03/05/2015 1:19:46 PM PST by Patriot777 (Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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To: dfwgator

Yes.
This is my all-time favorite program; I have it practically memorized. (I have not yet bought the DVD edition, since it is reselling at a high price, and some consider it to be a mediocre tape transfer).
My favorite episode is “Schizoid Man” for it shows the inexorable insidiousness of communism/collectivism: They so dismayed the Prisoner that he for the first time asserts that he is in fact their Number 6. (It was arguably a Pyrrhic Victory for them, since Number 12 died and Number 6 finally outsmarted them, but it was a victory nonetheless: the incrementalism of leftism.)


49 posted on 03/05/2015 1:42:05 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Patriot777

We have gotten to the point indeed where “Television Watches You.”


50 posted on 03/05/2015 4:05:16 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: discostu

> And what percentage of the population did you spy on? And what percentage that you spied on did you actually find the results interesting enough to continue?

Only a very small percentage but for good reason. It was usuallyt o obtain evidence to prove the mens rea of the targets involved and obtain evidence of a crime.


51 posted on 03/05/2015 6:05:18 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Which feeds both aspects of people’s belief that while bad things can happen, they won’t happen to them (”I have nothing to hide” and “who even knows I exist”). Which is why people connect more and more of their life online without worry about the consequences, because honestly for 90+% of us, there won’t be any.


52 posted on 03/06/2015 6:53:02 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: SeekAndFind; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

53 posted on 03/06/2015 7:23:32 AM PST by null and void ( If race doesn't matter, why does it matter so much?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Think of how cool that will be! No more lost socks!


54 posted on 03/06/2015 7:27:59 AM PST by OKSooner ("Remember Fort Hood, Boston, and Moore, Oklahoma.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t worry, his apologists should be along anytime now.


55 posted on 03/06/2015 10:06:44 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Nowhere Man

Better read Revelation chapter 13. It will cause Babel to fade away quickly.


56 posted on 03/06/2015 10:11:52 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: null and void

we’re from the government. we’re here to help


57 posted on 03/06/2015 6:51:12 PM PST by Nifster
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