A Sign of These Times...

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THIS is my FAVORITE sign of all time!

Yup, it's at Home Depot, of course and it reminds patrons that our every move is being surveilled in the store (fair warning), BUT I LOVE the line, "cameras are in use to help provide you with low prices," quickly followed by, "recordings will be used in the prosecution of criminal offenses."

So our movements are being recorded both to help provide us with low prices and for prosecuting criminal offenses, but I'm guessing it's MOSTLY to be used in the prosecution of criminal offenses, which is fair.

I think the line "to help provide you with low prices," is just, as they say, "A little Flayva."

That said, prosecuting pilferage (that's thievery) DOES help provide us with lower prices, given that in areas with high "pilferage" (AGAIN that's THIEVERY), the costs of those losses must get passed onto consumers.

At any rate, I LOVE this sign!
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The Surveillance State is Only Going to Expand...AND Here's Why

74 y/o Serge Fournier, Pushed From Bus and Killed by 25 y/0 Cadesha Bishop


It's hard to believe now, but back in 2008, one of the big campaign issues for future President, Barack Obama was opposing the "Post 9/11 Surveillance State."

Well, even President Obama quickly became a convert, going to court at least three times to expand and keep secret the ubiquitous surveillance we all deal with daily.

Today, most of us seem to have come to believe that, "Privacy is overrated." At the least, there is no rightful expectation of privacy in any common, or public area.

It's sure made convicting criminals a lot easier. Take this case, as an example (https://abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/…/woman-al…/story…). 25 y/o Cadesha Bishop pushed 74 y/o Serge Fournier off a bus in Las Vegas, after he admonished her over her verbally abusive behavior toward other passengers, telling her to, "be nicer."

Mr. Fournier later died from his injuries and Ms. Bishop has been charged with murder.

The Surveillance State has been steadily expanding and incidents like this are part of the justification for it.

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