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Originally Posted by kaas
This actually reminded me of a story told by my host father in the us, who was a scotsman:
When they installed cctv's in their village, they were getting mysteriously broken or painted black. In the end the effort to restore and protect the cctv's became so big, that the police just gave up on the idea all together and removed them again 
Go scotsmen! |
And when the police realized they couldn't stop all the crime, did they all quit as well?
Go crime!
I'm not sure why everyone reacts so violently to the idea of possibly being caught on-camera doing nothing... unless you're really committing regular crimes, of course. I mean, show of hands, who really believes those drones will be out trying to catch people scratching their butts, in order to send the photos to their bosses or blackmail them into buying magazine subscriptions? Do you really think your government has that kind of time on their hands? Because I know my government can't scratch its own butt, much less keep track of mine.
And who really hasn't noticed all the security cameras in the stores, the banks, the gas stations, in front of the cash machines, in the McDonalds, etc, etc, etc... or have you decided not to do business in any of those places, ever again? And are you still using credit cards that track every purchase, or have you switched to a cash economy?
With all the monitoring that's
already being directed at you... you're worried about a
toy plane? Seems like a bit of an overreaction to me.
But that's me.