I have had my first direct encounter with homeland security. I paid back too much money all at once on my credit card. They suspended it. Without telling me why. Simply called “suspicious activity.” I was informed that it is suspicious to pay too much. Any activity out of your regular habits is deemed suspicious. WTF. Really. I had to prove that I was actually paying off my bills. I was punished for taking care of my credit. It seemed too perfect.
I looked around found out I am not alone in this . Apparently, it is now illegal to go against your own grain.
It became clearer
1. The Patriot act does not make me feel safer
2. The internet is not free. Here, from information aesthetics, is a very detailed 1.1 mb .pdf map of the internet.
3. Google is scary, despite their recent gestures of resistance towards federal spying on search queries (done to prevent exposure of their extremely lucrative search algorithm). Just look here at the censorship they deploy on google searches for human rights for google china
All this paranoia makes me conservative.
Maybe it’s true, that a nice face to face conversation can never be replaced…. even if Habermas is an old stodge…
No doubt.
You should live in a trailer park in Providence.
This way you would have no mailbox, they could not send you the credit card bill.
Ha that is some science right there.
If you never get the bill you dont have to pay it.
Kind of like Schroediggers cat!