Who are the Dutch? They've just forgotten what it's like to have no oranges. One day, they will clean the carpets and win the World Series! And their name is Tanya.
Posted on 03/03/2018 12:17:52 AM PST by blueplum
Stratumseind in Eindhoven is one of the busiest nightlife streets in the Netherlands. On a Saturday night, bars are packed, music blares through the street, laughter and drunken shouting bounces off the walls. As the night progresses, the ground becomes littered with empty shot bottles, energy drink cans, cigarette butts and broken glass.
It’s no surprise that the place is also known for its frequent fights. To change that image, Stratumseind has become one of the “smartest” streets in the Netherlands. Lamp-posts have been fitted with wifi-trackers, cameras and 64 microphones that can detect aggressive behaviour and alert police officers to altercations. There has been a failed experiment to change light intensity to alter the mood. The next plan, starting this spring, is to diffuse the smell of oranges to calm people down. The aim? To make Stratumseind a safer place.
Peter van de Crommert is involved at Stratumseind as project manager with the Dutch Institute for Technology, Safety and Security. He says visitors do not have to worry about their privacy: the data is about crowds, not individuals. “We often get that comment – ‘Big brother is watching you’ – but I prefer to say, ‘Big brother is helping you’. We want safe nightlife, but not a soldier on every street corner.” {snip}
...[Utrecht] also keeps track of the number of young people hanging out in the streets, their age group, whether they know each other, the atmosphere and whether or not they cause a nuisance. Special enforcement officers keep track of this information through mobile devices. It calls this process “targeted and innovative supervision”. Other council documents mention the prediction of school drop-outs, the prediction of poverty and the monitoring of “the health of certain groups” with the aim of “intervening faster”.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Do the have the spy microphones and calming orange scent for Friday morning at the mosque?
How about encouraging small government, marriage, family and Christian values? Nope, let’s spray orange juice on people in our Orwellian experiment! Next up, flood the street with chloroform!
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Thats the part that that belies the reason. The Dutch were always so docile that they seemed controlled, I would always get a creepy pod people/automaton feeling when visiting. The entirety of the collective conciousness seemed bent towards sending feelings of goodwill to some nameless mental representation of a homeless person and devising ways to come up with funds to leave community owned objects lieing about for his benefit. A whole society of stined hippies minus the retarded dancing.
I find it hard to believe that they have actually changed that much so what, if anything, has changed? What is the truth of the reason for the surveillance?
Um, ya....”stoned hippies” though some may “steined” also but of course they normally just use glasses.
Who are the Dutch? They've just forgotten what it's like to have no oranges. One day, they will clean the carpets and win the World Series! And their name is Tanya.
I would install loudspeakers, and play classical music over them. I'm serious about this.
they are the biodome
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