Paranoid.

Amazing when you talk to a lot of seemingly normal people how paranoid they can be.  People seem to fear someone is prying into to their life.  One major problem is why.  Really if someone knew virtually everything about you what difference would it make or who would care?  For a lot of people being paranoid makes them think someone actually cares what in the hell they do or say.  The truth probably is just the opposite.

Now for another side of being spied on.  Kadizzle likes to watch Ted Talks.  If you have never sat down and watched some Ted Talks give it a try.  Very intelligent people talk for about twenty minutes on every subject on Earth.  You cannot help but be smarter after watching a couple of Ted Talks.

So last night Kadizzle got in bet with his laptop and cranked up a couple of Ted Talks.  One talk was about the police using their new zippity do da cameras to spy on just about everyone.  If you don't already know the police now have a camera system that they can drive down any street and automatically take down every license number and also take a picture of the car.  This means that the police can check on up to 80,000 cars in one day.  The law enforcement people can drive down a street and the cameras will read every license plate. If anyone has an outstanding warrant, or ticket, the system automatically alerts the driver.  The system goes way beyond that. Because storing data has become so easy and cheap in any large city where these systems are being used you are or can be tracked.  The cameras are not just in the police cars.  Look at the intersections in most towns and you will see little cameras on poles.  Those cameras are recording every car that goes by.  So when you go to get groceries, if the police want to, they can know when you did.  So what? Well it is always fun to fire the flames of paranoia, because after all Obama is coming to get our guns you know.  The day of Big Brother is here.  Get used to it and enjoy.  In London they actually have people manning the cameras on the street, and they have gone one step farther.  The London police can see you drop your coffee cup on the street and shout at you to pick it up with a loud speaker. Now that is progress. Kadizzle wishes he had a speaker and a camera at the intersection of highway 200 near his house. When a simple minded dinger squeals his tires Kadizzle could yell at him with a loud bull horn. " What is wrong with you, you idiot".   Technology, a blessing and a curse.