G'nite Baker, it was a good one.
This is off on a tangent but the thought just occurred to me while I was out having a smoke and mentally listing the guarantees in the Bill Of Rights that have been absolutely trashed over the years, the Fourth amendment in particular. So I thought I would put my thoughts out there while I am still awake.
Everyone is absolutely aware that the NSA collects every bit of information on everyone it possibly can. It collects SO MUCH information that it can't use most of it but it stores ALL of it and makes no secret of that fact.
Do you realize what that implies?
They are using that to blackmail us into being good little citizens. All you have to do is get on their radar and they can have everything they have collected on you in front of them by typing in your name. Not only that, they SHARE that information with so many different other government agencies that know one really knows how many there are because there are some we don't even know about.
This little post I just wrote is going into my file for possible retrieval and can be brought back from now until this planet is no longer inhabitable.
Think about that shit and have a nice day.
I based that statement from what I read several years ago and can't sauce off the top of my head where they actually admitted it.
Think about what it is they collect so much of, banal tweets, Grannies Emails, lovers quarrels all kinds of trivial crap, by the metric shit load.
IMO, the fly in that ointment is the very real habit of some people such as myself to be ornery just for the sake of it and the human nature of unpredictability.
I dare any computer know to man to be able to figure out what the average woman has on her mind at any given moment, then throw in the menstrual cycle.
There is your chaos factor.