I apologize. I didn't see your thread, after doing a search here. @SlyPokerDog , @PtldPlatypus , @Darkwebs ,@Chris Craig ,@BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94 ; could one of you please merge these threads. I think they both are relevant to each other.... I REALLY appreciate the things you post about going to the games and past history of the Blazers. You have my respect as an elder to me, to begin with. (That is not an insult. That is how I was raised.) HOWEVER, in my OP, I said this..... Please take your Anti-Trump hate elsewhere. I see this as more of a science, and "Black Budget" issue, than something the president has control over. Whoever the President, happens to be. Thank you.
You are on it. (With others here too!) BTW- That was an EXCELLENT article. Thanks! From that article.... Cameras powered by artificial intelligence helped the police snatch two dozen criminal suspects in the midst of a big annual beer festival. A fugitive murder suspect was identified by a camera as he bought food from a street vendor. Experimental gadgets, like facial-recognition glasses, have begun to appear. Already, China has an estimated 200 million surveillance cameras — four times as many as the United States. SO, (PROVIDING THE DATA IS CORRECT), we have ~50 million surveillance cameras in the US? ONE MILLION per state??? How's this for the flip side.... Teen sues Apple for $1 billion, blames facial recognition at stores for his arrest https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.me...ial-recognition-at-stores-for-his-arrest/amp/ You can read it yourself, if you want. Big brother made a mistake. How many people will go to prison for something like this???
@SlyPokerDog When you let someone post offensive shit and then deleted the proper call out of the offensive shit, is when you get in trouble. I know you mean well, but proper decorum does require that people are called when they post offensive crap. Please do not delete it.
And how many of those cameras were manufactured in China? Meaning how many of them have a back door built in for the Chinese government? Or features that are supposed to be disabled, but secretly aren’t really? Or are already secretly feeding your facial recognition data back to the Chinese AI? Already building a profile on you right now? Or will be doing any or all of these as soon as the Chinese government “flicks a switch”? Back doors built into Chinese tech for their government are the reason Huawei tech was not allowed to be part of Australia’s 5G network.
This may be a topic for another thread, but if any of you are interested in what China has been doing diplomatically, there’s tons of articles about it going back years, but most people (both in your country and in mine) seem to be too distracted by domestic politics to be paying attention (a problem the Chinese do not have). Search for the terms “China belt road” and “China debt-trap diplomacy ”.
Hey, this is the place for politics. Trying to outlaw that is like telling people not to walk on the sidewalks.
You want to talk politics? Go start your own thread, so you can cram YOUR politics down everyones throat. In my very first post, I came out and said I didn't want it to be a political discussion. You know, there are some of us that are tired of hearing it over, and over, and over, and over, and over............ Once more, I will respectfully ask that you take your Presidential hate off my grass, and on to another thread. Thank you.
Seeing that was close to half a hour long, I almost just breezed through it. Glad I didn't! GREAT video.
