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Mark_Wallace wrote: rocket surgeons.
What kind of surgeries are done on a rocket?
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You obviously haven't reached their level of education.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You obviously haven't reached their level of education.
Indeed. I am literate. 
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Mark_Wallace wrote: rocket surgeons.
I've been using that expression for years. Perhaps you noticed it at some point?
Or, a frightening option, indeed: at some level we think alike.
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I picked it up in the mid 80s (it was love at first sight), from someone on the alt.english.usage newsgroup, so it was knocking around at for least 20 years before I joined CP.
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Well before I started using it. (alt. newgroups - ye gad that's a memory). In real-life I somewhat often will deliberately garble expressions in that manner - oddly, few even notice.
Well, that's how it goes these days, and we find ourselves older but no wiser. One out of two, however, isn't bad.*
* And older is clearly the better choice considering the option.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I somewhat often will deliberately garble expressions in that manner - oddly, few even notice.
I do it a lot, but find that many people don't even notice the whooshing noise.
Pearls before swine, I tell you!
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This is weird. "pearls before swine" - I use that (sadly) all too often.
Here's the weird. Basically we argue and disagree on a considerable number of things, yet, we oddly have developed similar speech-games (when we play with our two-legged toys).
Should you be in the mood, the link in my by-line area, "Ravings en masse" contains any number of saying you might have already thought of and/or are welcome to use.
As a sample:
Quote: It is said "It takes all kinds of people to make a world."
There are some, however, that we can all do better without. - September 25 2018 11:11 AM
Note that some of the earlier contributions are less interesting.
Format: Others' quotes on the left, mine on the right, except the one on the left about equality - that one's mine. Feel free to skip the whole thing
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"Pearls before swine" is biblical, and, oh boy, do I know a lot about the Bible! (Several thousand per cent more than most of the rissoles I've encountered who claim moral superiority for being Christian without having a clue what being Christian means).
But I'm ridiculously precise with words, and intentionally phrase things to have multiple meanings, whereas most people can only do that unintentionally. Quotes, sayings, and old saws are grist for that kind of mill.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: But I'm ridiculously precise with words
You find yourself in good company![^]
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Well, why did you think I have "wall" in my name?
To keep undesirable, murderous illnesses from spreading from the US to Mexico, obviously.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: people don't even notice the whooshing noise.
Or they are too polite to correct you.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Or they are too polite to correct you.
With yet another example of fixing whut wasn't broke?
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Same.
The other one I like to use is "cross all the i's and dot all the t's".
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yacCarsten wrote: cross all the i's and dot all the t's".
I usually say that the other way round, so that the sort-of punchline is at the end.
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There is nothing wrong with it. This has been going on for hundreds of years only long ago it was a poster on the sheriff's wall of those that were wanted.
It's hilarious how all of the sudden in the last few years "privacy" became such a big deal. No one wants anyone to know anything about them yet they post everything about themselves on the internet and they carry a tracking device in their pocket.
I heard the other day someone complaining about people being able to google them and find their address. And yet this was someone who is old enough to have been around when everyone's address was delivered door to door for free for everyone to see.
I have the Nextdoor app, basically facebook for neighborhoods, and all the time people are posting "Someone took a picture of my house. What should I do!!?"
Technology amplifies people's craziness.
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One of the problems as I see it is that said surveillance data (as it exists in its many forms) is kept and can be cross-referenced with other data, which can then reveal patterns that weren't observable before and that are frankly of nobody's business. Once you're merely aware of that, you might start changing your behavior, even if just subconsciously. Have you ever intentionally avoided using certain trigger words in a chat session or an email exchange, because you know the content is looked at by some algorithm trying to raise some red flags? Why should you alter your behavior, if you're a law-abiding citizen, if you claim to live in a free society?
To say nothing about this same data leaking and becoming available to people who have no justification in seeing it.
I was reading earlier this week (I forget where) about some NSA surveillance program that cost them $100M, but had only lead to a single investigation. Not a conviction, but a single investigation that was eventually dropped.
ZurdoDev wrote: It's hilarious how all of the sudden in the last few years "privacy" became such a big deal. No one wants anyone to know anything about them yet they post everything about themselves on the internet and they carry a tracking device in their pocket.
There's a distinction to be made. For most, no, it has not become such a big deal. Despite what people say, they're not serious about it; if they choose to post everything about themselves and carry tracking devices everywhere they go, then they clearly don't care. This is still, essentially, opt-in; they can't claim to not have a choice. People survived just fine before Facebook and before smart phones made their appearance. I don't do either. Personally it's the things I have no control over I object to. And you have to object to something, even if just in principle, or if you just keep thinking nothing's a big deal, then you're already on a very slippery slope and you may some day realize that things evolved so gradually you didn't see where it was all headed until you find yourself living in a 1984 scenario.
I'm no activist by any stretch and I have no time to go off on a crusade. But I still make conscious choices where I can (as you said - sharing crap on social media and carrying phones--that's a good place to start).
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dandy72 wrote: Personally it's the things I have no control over I object to.
Which is most everything in life.
dandy72 wrote: you find yourself living in a 1984 scenario.
Technology won't get us there. Bad politicians and idiotic voters will do that.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Technology won't get us there. Bad politicians and idiotic voters will do that.
But you can't deny technology is the enabler. You don't get the sort of mass surveillance we're facing today without it. I wouldn't have worried too much about having a profile being built around me back in the 1800s. Or even the 1950s, when people were ratting out their commie neighbors.
But I agree, politicians (and those who vote them in) who allow it to happen on their watch need to take some blame--a lot of it. But they have little incentive to change anything, considering governments benefit from said surveillance. For one thing, it's great to help them determine who will keep them in power...
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dandy72 wrote: You don't get the sort of mass surveillance we're facing today without it.
True. But my imagination is not good enough to even come up with the dangers of people knowing what you like to eat or where you buy your clothes. Is yours?
dandy72 wrote: governments benefit from said surveillance.
How?
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ZurdoDev wrote: But my imagination is not good enough to even come up with the dangers of people knowing what you like to eat or where you buy your clothes. Is yours?
It's not so much that there's anything inherently "dangerous" about it, in and of itself. It's that it's nobody's elephanting business but my own.
If I knew some guy was constantly following me and jotting down where I am, what I'm doing, who I'm talking to, etc, it wouldn't take long before I confronted the guy and told him to leave me alone. Even though there's nothing "dangerous" he could do with that information. It wouldn't bother you?
ZurdoDev wrote: dandy72 wrote: governments benefit from said surveillance.
How?
Let me spin that around: If it didn't, why do they bother?
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dandy72 wrote: It wouldn't bother you?
No, it wouldn't bother me that the person knew what I was eating or buying.
dandy72 wrote: Let me spin that around: If it didn't, why do they bother?
I don't know. Which is why I asked you how they benefit.
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ZurdoDev wrote: No, it wouldn't bother me that the person knew what I was eating or buying.
It starts there; next thing you know all of your habits are being tracked. Your car's black box says (and your phone can corroborate it) you're quite the speeder, citizen, it's just dumb luck you haven't yet been caught by a cop. Your daily donut shop stop goes against what your doctor's been telling you, your health premium's going up as a consequence.
ZurdoDev wrote: I don't know. Which is why I asked you how they benefit.
Ed Snowden has many stories he's shared with the rest of the world, and he's had to live in Russia ever since. I don't feel like I need to repeat what's public knowledge.
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dandy72 wrote: Your car's black box says (and your phone can corroborate it) you're quite the speeder
That has already been proposed but I see this as totally different than just tracking habits.
dandy72 wrote: Your daily donut shop stop goes against what your doctor's been telling you, your health premium's going up as a consequence.
Indirectly, that already happens. And quite frankly, that would be perfectly acceptable. Those creating a bigger risk in the pool of insured should pay more. Why not? Should I have to pay to subsidize your donut addiction?
And like I said, if things got bad enough that tracking was an actual danger then we have much bigger problems than tracking. Tracking will feel minimal under those circumstances and tracking will never be the causes of things getting to that point.
dandy72 wrote: I don't feel like I need to repeat what's public knowledge.
Never mind then. I thought you might be able to explain your position.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Never mind then. I thought you might be able to explain your position.
It's just that at this point I really feel like you're the one who needs to do his own research and inform yourself. But clearly, that's never going to be important enough for you to care. Carry on then. I wish you the best.
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