Incredibly, this country is almost exactly the same. We've become a police state such that Orwell is probably turning in his CCTV monitored grave.
Without doubt we have become a police state, everything you do now monitored, yet I feel no safer now than I did 50 years ago. Once the robots start rolling out, coppers will be out of a job, the crime of the future will be in how to beat and escape the machines, when movies become reality, if you can think it, we can make it...well we're a long way off from Star Trek mind, which is a bit of a shame... please log in to view this image
They already use something similar in the US. I remember seeming them patrolling the walls around the White House.
Yep. Like the 'national emergency test' alarms that went off today on tens of millions of phones. Keeping people safe, my arse. This was done to see how quickly they can geo-locate massive amounts of people. Very useful when it comes to policing rallies, demonstrations or mass civil unrest. Game's gone.
Yeah I got that today, but what was the point of it, because as soon as I hit the ok button to shut it up the message disappeared, so it's ****ing useless. I tell you what I think will happen with that, insurance companies will abuse it as a way of not paying out. So if you get an emergency alert, say for a high risk of flood warning, and don't prepare or don't get the message, because you've turned it off, insurance company will say you invalidated your claim by doing so.
flood alerts have been issued for years and never heard of a claim not being dealt with due to people not moving stuff upstairs etc all they do is refuse to offer insurance or make it so expensive it's unaffordable .Mind you would help if we didn't keep covering the country in concrete and building on known flood areas
The emergency alerts and flood alerts are 2 entirely different things not tha i or anyone i know has any idea what constitutes a national emergency apart from "incoming nukes"
I wasn't defining between the two, and whether it is emergency or flood, if it is relevant to your area it will impact an insurance company in someway if you are affected, although that could just mean person moving to a safe place with no material consequences. Everything that has been digitalised is being used againt us, my recent example of 200,000 people claiming child benefit had their holiday destinations/intentions checked. Next year DWP/Government will have even wider reaching powers. None of this is for our benefit. It's to have total control of our lives.
I managed to live for over 60 years without emergency alerts, we are all turning into a bunch of ****ing pussies, grow up!
Actually thinking about it Solid, it's not really a benefit, it's quite the opposite, because it means the post office all lose their jobs, saves someone money but not us, it means you don't go out and are forced to socialise less, that's not good for people's health. I agree it seems like a benefit, but it's quite sad really, people becoming more secluded. It's why all the pubs are closing down due to the lack of socialising. We are sold all this as though it's for our benefit, but it isn't when you think about it a bit deeper, it just makes us lazy.
I remember when all the old dears used to look forward to their weekly trip to the post office, and you daren't go in a supermarket cafe on pension day.
well nothing has changed except it takes me 2 mins instead of hours in a post office only to find i'd left a form at home . oh and i don't and have never paid road fund tax but still need to get a tax disk / register it .
So what do you do that is more productive with your life that you saved those hours for.......ordering wine and forgetting and ordering more wine!
