I hate the direction this world is taking. 1984 is going to look
like a nursery rhyme in a few years.

150 years ago food was real. Most stuff in supermarkets today
isn't even food. If you tasted a tomato or a piece of roast beef
or real bread from 150 years ago you'd get a stroke just from
realizing what you have been ingesting all your life.

100 years ago there was cocaine in Coca-Cola and no one died or
ended up addicted because of it. You could get morphine if you
wanted to, and few people died because of it.

50 years ago you could smoke anywhere you wanted, and the world
was a much better place.

Cancer, like most of everything, is GENETIC. There are people
who smoke 3 packs a day and live to be a 100. And there are
people who get lung cancer at 25 never having smoked a cigarette
in their life.

California is planning to make /normal/ filament light bulbs
ILLEGAL!
WHAT the f.ck is going on?????????

Under the guise of "citizen protection", soon we will be told
which brand of toilet paper is allowed so as not to 'harm' our
goddamn buttholes!

There are people who want to forbid smoking OUT IN THE OPEN AIR,
you can no longer get medications which some very ill people
depended on for pain etc, and as your link and all the other
"features" MS/NSA have been planning/implementing suggest, the
worst is yet to come.

You HAVE heard of what just happened in Sweden?
S W E D E N !!!!!
I thought it was joke when I first heard of it!

It all started with smoking. You have a bigger chance of dying
next time you cross the street than of getting lung cancer from
smoking.
OK, /maybe/ not, but still, it is MY life to live the way I want
to.

Or at least, it USED TO BE.

I am ///not/// a smoker, but I think the idea of banning smoking
in nightclubs and restaurants was INSANE. Yes, MOST people don't
smoke, but virtually EVERY person who goes to nightclubs, and
most people who go to restaurants, DO SMOKE - SO DO MOST OF THE
EMPLOYEES.

Not to mention that if the only job you can get is as a
dishwasher or waiter, you have bigger problems. There also exist
VERY efficient air conditioning systems so no air has to enter
the kitchen area AT ALL.

When this idiotic law was introduced in Vancouver, many smaller
restaurants were simply forced to close since no one came any
more. Nightclub attendance dropped significantly. And now the
insanity is spreading world-wide!

Might as well just move to Singapore (I believe that's where
they publicly lynched an American guy for spitting his gum out
on the sidewalk).

I am SO glad it will soon be all over for me.

I think:

=> The fact that MS has patented the technology does not mean it's being
used anywhere yet and people like you are being excessively alarmist;

=> It's a stretch to compare this technology to DRM;

"You walk into a movie theater, the movie theater sets your mobile phone to
vibrate for you."

=> Excellent! Wish it would disable the ability to make calls while in the
theater, too (bonus points for stuffing a sock in chatty people's mouths);

"You stroll into a museum, the museum disables the flash on your camera or
disables your camera altogether."

=> Excellent!  Protects copyrights and fragile artwork;

"You get too close to the cockpit, any wireless device at risk of
interfering is shut off."

=> Excellent!  Have it disable any wireless device altogether unless
passengers are embarking or disembarking, and it'll be even better.  Hope
they use it in all forms of public tranportation, too.

I think that there is too much official/third party/governmental effort to
control the ill manners of some people.  Waaaay too much "in loco
parentis"...too much blathering about rights, too little acceptance of
responsibility.  Responsibility such as teaching manners to one's whelps.
Much of the problem arises because there are just too many people.

meb,,  i always warmed myself to your thoughts and how you showed certain blogs in order to make ppl
wake up and take a look around.......  now, due to my respect for you, i have to ask if you have
read the book full of information beyond comparison to what mere humans can come up with?
have you?              the secrets within are of far more importance than any military ones,,   far
more important than those of politics in general, in fact, the secret of life is held tween the
lines.
shouldnt we first seek these out, before fussing about the mere stupidity of what man does with his
knowledge.....      god forbid we think like gst.
faith is a word that repels most, yet if you understand its value, it out-weighs fort-knox a
quadtrillion zillion billion times,,      but the price to pay for having it, is understanding it.

just my thought.