If not through hard woik, da lottery, see.



Yeah. And I've got a governor who wishes he never heard of dis bridge to sell you, see.

Click the picture and see the water all around, like a fish enlightened, know what I mean?

The only reason you have to work is so you can afford the tickets.

Youse won't haves any......

n/t

For added context:

"In Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, proles (collective noun) refers to the working class of Oceania (i.e. the proletariat).

Oceania's society is divided into three distinct classes: Inner Party, Outer Party and proles (with their own upper, middle and lower classes). The proles constitute 85% of the population; they receive little education, work at manual labor, live in poverty (although in having privacy and anonymity, qualitatively better off than Outer Party members), and usually die by the age of sixty."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proles

Well, at least according to Orwell most of us have a bit more privacy, but he didn't have knowledge about supercomputers and statins.

It just keeps getting more and more true, regardless of how many blue links get thrown our way.

and real net neutrality. If not, this is our future (worse than now).

Is he describing heaven?

Problem is that others read it as an instruction manual.

But I also think that there was too much truth in the book, it came from what was already happening but not on that same scale. The scale was the wishful thinking of the ruling class....then and now.

They stopped having someone in the cars here in the Phoenix area when some redneck shot and killed the contractor in the SUV with the equipment. The video enabled him to be prosecuted.

...a radar gun. In court. The measuring device is not your accuser. The state is.

...the alternative? The police officer says "he was going faster than I was". If you think hardware / software is hard to challenge, try going through the "wet-ware" owners manual.

... but my experience has been that if you hire the right lawyer, no more than a couple hundred bucks, the cop doesn't show up in court and the case gets dismissed.

...is a bit of a story. I was what I would now consider to be a "kid". I was stopped on an elevated freeway for speeding and was issued a ticket. Since I had a lot more time than money, I figured I would show up in court, plead guilty and take the "safe driving" class as my punishment.

I showed up and I waited, and waited, and waited, while the judge went through case after case. All of them amateur, do-it-yourself lawyers who didn't know squat. They would piss and moan and make ridiculous excuses that basically amounted to admissions of guilt. Bang, Guilty! Bang, Guilty! one after another.

After a while of this, I was growing impatient, so I slipped over to a "court official" standing on the side lines and asked when my case would come up. I told him I just wanted to plead guilty and take the safe driver course. He got all excited and frustrated and pointed out that they had announced at the beginning that everyone who wanted to do that was to form a line outside to be processed. I should have been paying attention! I missed my chance! He told me that the judge would be royally pissed at me, and would through the book at me. "Boy are you in for it." He was what I would now consider a snotty kid.

Finally my case came up. I was quaking! The prosecutor read the charge from off the ticket, including the date, time and location. The location was a street address, probably the street under the elevated freeway. I interrupted. "Excuse me sir, the incident did not occur at that location. It occurred on the freeway." The judge picked up his gavel - BANG - "Case dismissed." There was silence in the court while that sunk in.

As I was walking out, the snotty kid scowled at me. Hey, kid, have a nice day!

I have got to get that book.

-p

Thank you my friend!

hope I can return the favor some day.



-p

Sadly we have a few here with the exact same mindset, they live in a binary world and can only focus on petty specific grievances.

I wonder how many of Big Brother's advocates here have ever read 1984?