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Orwellian Thermostat "Free" from the local Utility
2008-05-18 00:38:00 My electricity provider is offerring me a free $250 value programmable thermostat and installation. 'By setting the thermostat to automatically adjust for your preferred day and night temperatuures, you can save on your year round heating and cooling costs with out changing your lifestyle."
John Oakley: David Suzuki's Orwellian world - National Post
2008-02-08 00:36:00 National PostJohn Oakley: David Suzuki's Orwellian worldNational Post, Canada - 2 hours ago... Suzuki carries the mantle as this country?s pre-eminent protector of the planet, the answer is now in: it?s Doctor Suzuki?s world, we just live in it. ...
Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world - ZDNet
2008-02-04 17:53:00 PhysOrg.comMicrosoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web worldZDNet - 54 minutes agoThe fact is, in an online world, convenience is the killer application. For most folks starting up their PCs, whatever comes up on the screen first and ...Gates giant's grind gives way to Balmer brave new world Australian ITHigh-stakes bids for online world Gulf Daily NewsYahoo Owners May Prefer Microsoft Bid to Google Fight (Update3) Bloombergall 2,983 news articles
Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world - ZDNet
2008-02-04 17:53:00 Canada.comMicrosoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web worldZDNet - 6 hours agoThe fact is, in an online world, convenience is the killer application. For most folks starting up their PCs, whatever comes up on the screen first and ...Gates giant's grind gives way to Balmer brave new world Australian ITRio de Janeiro's world-famous carnival parades begin Taipei TimesYahoo: A Retrospective of Microsoft's Acquisition Target Washington PostThe Timesall 2,981 news articles
Welcome To The Orwellian World Of “Chickenshit”
2008-02-04 06:24:00 I know, I know..that word is vulgar. However, I’m reminded of the fact that the military frowned on “obscene” images drawn on bombers that rained death and destruction from above. In the military sense, the term chickenshit means petty, nit-picky….the kind of person or situation that does nothing but lower morale of any ...
Big Brother 2.0: Microsoft?s Orwellian innovation
2008-01-18 01:19:00 Microsoft has submitted a patent application for a new Big Brotheresque software program capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, competence and physical wellbeing. This takes the monitoring of people at work to a new level, say civil liberties groups, privacy lawyers and the Information Commisioner.
Orwellian
2008-01-03 13:02:00 Throughout my high school years, I was forced to read many different works of literature that our English teachers deemed to be classics. While I have been an avid reader all my life, I’ll admit that I probably spent more time on sparknotes.com than I did reading the books that were assigned. One of the ... For the whole article, visit me at collegecritic.net!
The FBI ? One Step Nearer To Orwellian Hell
2007-12-22 15:07:00 The Washington Post is reporting a new FBI initiative that further erodes whatever privacy everyone has. It is going to award a $1 billion contract for a 10 year project to create the worlds largest Biometric database. Yes folks, finger and palm prints, iris scans, pictures, scars, pretty much every possible piece of biometric data. About ...
Candidate Infighting Dates Back To 1984- Kind Of Orwellian, Eh? Wait, What?
2007-12-10 20:37:00 Most of us have seen the 1984 Super Bowl Commercial for the launch of Mac. We remember identical skinheads clad in identical coveralls, marching in sync through a futuristic tube hallway into a massive hall. We can recall them sitting down, bolt upright, staring straight ahead at a massive big screen, donning the image of Big Brother, zoomed in grotesquely on his mysterious face. And these harrowing words project powerfully from his mouth: "Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory thoughts. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!" And as we watch this commercial, moved ...
The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak
2007-12-02 16:16:00 by Robert Weitzel Political language has to consist largely of euphemisms . . . and sheer cloudy vagueness. - George Orwell H.R 1955: the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 recently passed by the House a companion bill is in the Senate is barely one sentence old before its Orwellian moment: It begins, AN ACT - To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes. Those whose pulse did not quicken at other purposes have probably not read George Orwells essay, Politics and the English Language, or they voted for the other George both times. Orwells jeremiad on the corruption of the English language and its corrosive effect on a democracy was written two years before his novel 1984 spelled out in chilling detail the danger of Newspeak, which renders citizens incapable of independent thought by depriving them of the words necessary to form ideas other than those promulgated by the state. After its opening tribute to Orw...
Judge Halted ?Orwellian Probe? into Amazon Customer?s Reading Habits..
2007-11-28 15:43:00 by GEF @ 7:28 AM MST Is it time to drop Amazon.com ? You do know the Govt will try again right? Feds withdraw subpoena seeking Amazon records Judge says DOJ request would have ‘frost keyboards across America’ By Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch Last Update: 5:33 PM ET Nov 27, 2007 ...
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Credit Policy: Orwellian logic at work?
2007-11-17 20:43:00 Inflation is the result of synchronised currency debasement by central bankers the world over. The markets understand this better and have been sending the right message through rising gold prices, particularly during the last few years. The RBI woul4 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
"Censoring speech, to me, is a crime of Orwellian ...
2007-10-13 16:30:00 "Censoring speech, to me, is a crime of Orwellian proportions. There is never a reason to do it, other than, you know, shouting fire in a crowded theatre, blah blah.And yes, I understand not allowing talk on a blog is not the same as denying someone's first amendment rights... but if you are going to compare calling someone a nazi to suppressing their entire rights to speech, I gotta say... well, WOW. "Thak you, Daisy. The million justifications for censorship have really been getting to me too. Stunting speech is not a feminist value. (Or if it is somehow necessary to hold these views in addition to views that women should be respected in order to be a feminist, fuck feminism, as far as I'm concerned.)
By: Daisy's Dead Air
Padilla Verdict Orwellian
2007-08-19 07:00:00 When Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building killing scores of men, women and children.The AmericanJustice systemsought him out and the rule of law put him to death. We have since that tragic event become a Republic beguiled by Christian evangelical neoconservatives, Who are neitherChristian, conservative or even verycompetent in the execution of conspiracy. The rule of ...
SPECTRE
2007-08-15 16:12:00 Big Brother will be watching you. No joke. From the sky. Using spy satellites. A scary Orwellian specter as Big Government uploads a new Homeland Security shop in October. The director of the National Intelligence Agency quietly expanded the use of military spy satellites in May. [Wall Street Journal]Something new at airports other than chaos and delays. People working in pairs analyzing your facial expressions. The Orwellian "Behavior Detection Officers" trolling for terrorists. [McClatchy News Service]The White House has no comment on a Washington Post report that Bush is lumping Iran's 125 thousand strong Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Ballsy. The RG is like an octopus with tentacles into everything. Bush aims to cut 'em off.
By: Chickaboomer
Police Cheif Fears "An Orwellian Situation" In Britain
2007-05-20 12:34:00 Deputy chief constable of Hampshire Ian Readhead said Britain could become a surveillance society with cameras on every street corner. He fears the spread of CCTV cameras is leading to "an Orwellian situation". Readhead expressed concerns about CCTV being used in small towns and villages where crime rates were low and whether the relatively low crime levels justified the expense and intrusion.
The Orwellian Double Standard Of Corporate Supremacy
2007-04-20 00:29:00 Like many things, the issue of executive compensation started out with one road, and is starting to branch off into several others. There appears to be some form of principle involved here, but said principle differs upon who is doing the talking. In this AP Business Article by Marcy Gordon, ADMINISTRATION OPPOSES “SAY ON ...
1984 Comic Orwellian Big Brother Posters
When Martin Luther
2007-01-16 05:57:01 1984 Comic Orwellian Big Brother Posters When Martin Luther King spoke out against the Vietnam War, he angered those who couldn’t see the connection between segregation in the American South and burning villages in Southeast Asia. King responded sagely (from “Beyond Vietnam"): There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor—both black and white—through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw...
By: 1984comic.com
Conservative's Climate Change Censorship "Orwellian"
2006-12-02 14:58:13 This blatant example of government censorship reported back in May on MyBlahg, and later here, is now being picked up by the Federal Liberals.This week, Liberal Environment Critic Hon. John Godfrey accused Stephen Harper and the Conservatives of enganging in Orwellian tactics as they rewrite government websites to erase all mention of Kyoto and climate change.?This is a government in denial about climate change,? says Mr. Godfrey. ?They don?t like the science, and now they want to censor it. This is Orwellian.? Mr. Holland (Ajax-Pickering MP) agreed, saying, ?Prime Minister Stephen Harper?s government is tied closely to leading climate change skeptics in the United States and the petroleum industry. This government has a track record of listening to people with dubious views on the environment and climate change. They pretend to be interested in a ?Made in Canada? approach, but this is code for doing nothing.?The Conservatives attempt at revisionist history is an undiluted example o...
Orwellian Turkey
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Caprice Hollins, is called, for some strange reason, director of Equity, Race & Learning Support, for Seatttle schools. Yet Hollins has some strange ideas about equality. Hollins sent home with Seattlle's students her 'Myths of 'The First Thanksgiving.'"' Yet the Seattle schools director of equality seems to think that bashing ...
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