[ExI] Privacy vs the future

[samantha]

 On 9/8/10 9:13 PM, Gregory Jones wrote:
>
> --- On *Wed, 9/8/10, police dept /<policedepts at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>  
> >... We optimists are the last to know. Decades before the '80s
> researchers were predicting something along the lines of HIV. Decades
> ago it was known that the cost per pound to send vehicles into space
> was prohibitive. Etc...
>  
> Hi Police Dept!  Welcome to Exi-chat.  I haven't seen your posts here
> before.  Do feel free to volunteer any public info you want about
> yourself, or not.
>  
> That being said, I must make the following comment reluctantly. 
> Getting a message labeled "police dept" kinda wigs me out just a
> little.  And this is *me* talking, the same guy who watched the June
> 1977 Tampa Led Zeppelin riot from the upper bleachers and cheered for
> the cops. 
>

Yeah.  At first I thought it was thematic as loss of privacy can lead to
a total police state.  But perhaps not.

- s

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