Someone is looking over my shoulder
I just typed this all out, so I'll previx it by saying warning, bad spelling and rant ahead.
I just watched Cutting Edge on SBS where they showed Spying on the Home Front and I think I'll have to say that the US is probably the most paranoid nation on the planet at the moment. They seem constantly convinced someone is out to get them while at the same time oblivious to how the rest of the world views them. They seemed to be filled with over funded government agencies who at best spend considerable time in the grey area of the law and even longer completely on the wrong side of it. Their president appears to be obsessed with finding an enemy that they are having remarkably little success in tracking down or even verifying they exist. Their collection methods are spreading out like an incidious beast, curling through a legal haze that no one is willing to clear. This post will be stored on servers housed in the US along with a time stamp and my IP address which by the time you read this will be sunk into various databases of mysterous agencies. You, because you are reading this will be having your IP address logged and details cross referenced. Just be glad I don't mention the "T" word because that will set off a flag somewhere. So its lucky we don't communicate in code. If it were, you and the boys may run into problems when you visit the grey block at twenty before ten in a month of Sundays with you know what.
It was interesting to note that at the end of the show when they were asking people, none of the investigations had turned up baddies, anyone with link to baddies or anyone with any intention of being baddies. I'm sure the baddies get told "Sorry, the phone a friend option is not on the table any more". But don't worry, the laws are changing. Soon, if this passes you can be found guilty not only for committing an offence, but also for not committing an offence.
But luckily I live in Australia, but don't worry, our government seems to be being a very good proxy for the US, so I'm sure we'll have matching legislation for it soon. Before it comes in though, can our grain producers compete against the US ones with the substities removed? I mean, that was part of the FTA, why hasn't that part been enacted yet?
I just watched Cutting Edge on SBS where they showed Spying on the Home Front and I think I'll have to say that the US is probably the most paranoid nation on the planet at the moment. They seem constantly convinced someone is out to get them while at the same time oblivious to how the rest of the world views them. They seemed to be filled with over funded government agencies who at best spend considerable time in the grey area of the law and even longer completely on the wrong side of it. Their president appears to be obsessed with finding an enemy that they are having remarkably little success in tracking down or even verifying they exist. Their collection methods are spreading out like an incidious beast, curling through a legal haze that no one is willing to clear. This post will be stored on servers housed in the US along with a time stamp and my IP address which by the time you read this will be sunk into various databases of mysterous agencies. You, because you are reading this will be having your IP address logged and details cross referenced. Just be glad I don't mention the "T" word because that will set off a flag somewhere. So its lucky we don't communicate in code. If it were, you and the boys may run into problems when you visit the grey block at twenty before ten in a month of Sundays with you know what.
It was interesting to note that at the end of the show when they were asking people, none of the investigations had turned up baddies, anyone with link to baddies or anyone with any intention of being baddies. I'm sure the baddies get told "Sorry, the phone a friend option is not on the table any more". But don't worry, the laws are changing. Soon, if this passes you can be found guilty not only for committing an offence, but also for not committing an offence.
But luckily I live in Australia, but don't worry, our government seems to be being a very good proxy for the US, so I'm sure we'll have matching legislation for it soon. Before it comes in though, can our grain producers compete against the US ones with the substities removed? I mean, that was part of the FTA, why hasn't that part been enacted yet?