Bitchercise

Been having a fantastic bitching session with Nick.

Prompted by the news that some digital rights content may require an entirely new monitor to view in full detail (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000143050582/), I launched into a tirade about interfering companies/groups introducing measures that give them small scale benefits at the cost of the masses.

The fact of the matter is this sort of stuff is happening across the board, people's wishes are being entirely disregarded for the benefit of the controlling minority. The biggie recently was the ID card thing, which sparked a similar torrent of vitriol that the lovely Samantha was party to. The concept of paying £300 for the privilige of giving the government an excuse to collate the data it already has, plus pictures of my motherfucking retina, does not exactly power my fucking pylon. Give me a little card with my picture on it and I'll carry it around; sort the data yourself you cocking fuckmunchers.

The justification that ID cards will help fight terrorism is the usual scaremongering that has been going on since September 11th. I think that in terms of his political agenda, 9/11 was the best thing Bushy could have hoped for. Everytime anything happens that most presidents would be blamed for, he uses as ammunition for his fucking industrial funded war machine and over-inflated ego. Same thing applies here with Tony and his fucking stupid ID card plans; use terrorism as an excuse, force whatever the fuck you like through Parliament.

And breathe...

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