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Tang Huyen
Jul 8, 2018, 11:29:07 PM7/8/18
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<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/business/china-surveillance-technology.html>
<<In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police
officer wearing facial recognition glasses
spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
In Qingdao, a city famous for its German
colonial heritage, cameras powered by
artificial intelligence helped the police
snatch two dozen criminal suspects in the
midst of a big annual beer festival.
In Wuhu, a fugitive murder suspect was
identified by a camera as he bought food from
a street vendor.
Already, China has an estimated 200 million
surveillance cameras — four times as many as
the United States.>>
China is gradually living up to the old dream
of an all-knowing God, with the help of
millions of surveillance cameras. Pretty soon
their number will surpass the number of people
in the country. Social and political control
will be suffocating.
<<Far from hiding their efforts, Chinese
authorities regularly state, and overstate,
their capabilities. In China, even the
perception of surveillance can keep the public
in line.>>
Morals is for the little people. As Clump knows,
the rich and powerful can do anything.
Tang Huyen
<<In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police
officer wearing facial recognition glasses
spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
In Qingdao, a city famous for its German
colonial heritage, cameras powered by
artificial intelligence helped the police
snatch two dozen criminal suspects in the
midst of a big annual beer festival.
In Wuhu, a fugitive murder suspect was
identified by a camera as he bought food from
a street vendor.
Already, China has an estimated 200 million
surveillance cameras — four times as many as
the United States.>>
China is gradually living up to the old dream
of an all-knowing God, with the help of
millions of surveillance cameras. Pretty soon
their number will surpass the number of people
in the country. Social and political control
will be suffocating.
<<Far from hiding their efforts, Chinese
authorities regularly state, and overstate,
their capabilities. In China, even the
perception of surveillance can keep the public
in line.>>
Morals is for the little people. As Clump knows,
the rich and powerful can do anything.
Tang Huyen
Julian
Jul 9, 2018, 4:01:40 AM7/9/18
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/04/17/10-notorious-tax-cheats-queen-of-mean-leona-helmsley-proved-little-people-can-put-you-in-jail/#6c3e36cc2d08
liaM
Jul 9, 2018, 8:12:56 AM7/9/18
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there to keep China on course. No quantity of surveillance
cameras can keep eyes from thinking.
Wilson
Jul 9, 2018, 9:03:13 AM7/9/18
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liaM
Jul 9, 2018, 9:56:51 AM7/9/18
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There's no going back..
Tang Huyen
Jul 9, 2018, 10:02:20 AM7/9/18
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On 7/9/2018 6:22 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> As somebody said a while back, we come here
> and say these things for our own entertainment.
> We aren't serious about anything we are simply
> smiling and enjoying ourselves.
>
> How did we come to think we need to be constantly
> entertained anyway?
Advanced societies must advance ceaselessly, or
they will fall back. Bin Laden gave a cause, and
advanced societies oblige, with vengeance. The
West used to pride itself on freedom and democracy,
and due to him it is falling back, bigly. China is
strictly speaking not part of the West, but it is
trying to control the Muslim Uighur people in the
Western part of the country. It used to be that
Communist armies occupied their own countries. The
same is happening in advanced countries, but with
cameras. Stasi is everywhere now, but much more
advanced than it used to be.
Who are not serious about anything but are simply
smiling and enjoying themselves? The huge number
of hours and the huge amount of annoyance in TSA,
plus the cost, etc. Everywhere you go (except in
the wasteland), cameras are looking at you, from
all angles.
Who can just relax and enjoy themselves? The guy
is smiling bigly, sleeping with fish. Who are green
with envy? It used to be said that Marx was the
person with the greatest impact on world society.
Who is playing the same role now?
Tang Huyen
> As somebody said a while back, we come here
> and say these things for our own entertainment.
> We aren't serious about anything we are simply
> smiling and enjoying ourselves.
>
> How did we come to think we need to be constantly
> entertained anyway?
Advanced societies must advance ceaselessly, or
they will fall back. Bin Laden gave a cause, and
advanced societies oblige, with vengeance. The
West used to pride itself on freedom and democracy,
and due to him it is falling back, bigly. China is
strictly speaking not part of the West, but it is
trying to control the Muslim Uighur people in the
Western part of the country. It used to be that
Communist armies occupied their own countries. The
same is happening in advanced countries, but with
cameras. Stasi is everywhere now, but much more
advanced than it used to be.
Who are not serious about anything but are simply
smiling and enjoying themselves? The huge number
of hours and the huge amount of annoyance in TSA,
plus the cost, etc. Everywhere you go (except in
the wasteland), cameras are looking at you, from
all angles.
Who can just relax and enjoy themselves? The guy
is smiling bigly, sleeping with fish. Who are green
with envy? It used to be said that Marx was the
person with the greatest impact on world society.
Who is playing the same role now?
Tang Huyen
liaM
Jul 9, 2018, 10:05:52 AM7/9/18
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