(06-01-2020, 10:12 AM)Wallfire Wrote: The tracking app I find interesting, as far as I can understand its of very little use in fighting the virus but as an information gathering system its wonderful. The government does not need to work with the phone providers they have you download the app, means that by doing so gives them the right to tract your every move. Most people will think if they delete the app its over but I would think that by deleting the app you are only removing it from the menu, the app is still alive and remember you give the government the right to "follow" you when you downloaded the app.
In the years to come 2020 will be the new 1984
They're out of luck with me. 1) cell service out here is sporadic at best - none at all at my house, and it comes and goes as I weave in and out of the mountains and they alternately block or unblock the signal. 2) My cell phone is dead anyhow. I've not bought any time for it in months, so I never carry it. and 3) even before it was dead, I "de-googled" it, so nothing at all could be downloaded to it. By the time I was done, you could take pictures with it, and talk on it, and absolutely nothing else at all.
Now, late last year they did start squawking that I needed to buy a new phone, because they said the old one was scheduled to stop working with some new network. I didn't really feel any pressing need to lay out actual money for a new phone when the one I had was not broken, and it wasn't my fault they wanted to "fix" a network that was already perfectly fine and break my phone in the process, so why should I be the one to pay? Grace accidentally did order me a new one, but it is still sealed in the same box it came in months ago. I have no urge to open it, and even less of an urge now that governments have started thinking it's a good idea to track folks via their phones. In all honesty, I may be tempted to activate it just to tie it to a cat's tail, or maybe feed it to a bear or something - wouldn't they just have a barrel of fun tracking that?
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’