10-21-2013, 06:36 AM
(10-21-2013, 04:05 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Im more offended by the stinking cameras that are EVERYWHERE. If you watch NCIS Los Angeles or person of interest, or the old Sandra Bullock movie the Net even, what teh government knows about every one of us scares the crap out of me. Limiting me to going ONLY 112 mph, is one of the lesser intrusions in my life.
I have come to accept the fact that we can't get away from Big Brother, we can't fight Big Brother, and it's only going to get worse. Luckily ( or unluckily depending on how you look at it ) I dont have too many more years on this planet, so it's only going to be a minor annoyance for me, but I really worry for my children and even more my grand children. I'm afraid in this land of the free, they will have very few true freedoms left.
I'm guessing someday vehicles will be governed to the speed limit by GPS, at which time your CB whatever will probably be limited to 70 mph in 70 zones and 10 or 15 in parking lots.
With more and more and more items being computer controlled, ie no more brake pedal pushing a lever and actuating the master cylinder on your car, or even your gas pedal by cable to the motor, now a days it is all electronic switches... Give it a few years and that will all be controlled by big brother.
Just like in the movies, get in a vehicle of some sorts and enter your destination and you end up by there travelling at predetermined speeds and routes.
Keep your CB1100!!!! To get away from all that. Oh wait the rev limiter... shoot that has to go!