>>>Right..until some radio DJ tries to organize a protest. Anyway wouldn't you feel safer having a phone / internet service than not? Seems to me they created more of a safety hazard than they solved.
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>>I spent the far greater part of my life without a cell phone and the internet, and somehow, difficult as it was, I managed to get by. I hate to bring up the old saw, but what did people do before cell phones and the internet? I know the answer to that because I was there. Life went on. Now that I think about it, it seems to me there were far fewer riots and far less looting.
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>Of course, your stuff was looted by the same system, but you didn't know. Before internet, corporate and government secrecy was so much easier, you actually knew very little about it. Which is why it seems so.
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>Don't blame the mirror...

My stuff wasn't looted by the government any more then than it is now. If you think the government is any more honest now, then you're just not paying attention. But there were far fewer rioting idiots smashing up small storekeepers windows and stealing their stock.