U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars

Post by claypoolb » Wed, Jan 28, 2015, 2:40 PM UTC

We've been hacked! According to an article in the Washington Post, we've been misled since 1961. We really do not need all those cars - its just a love affair with the "american dream".

"This “love affair” was coined, in fact, during a 1961 episode of a weekly hour-long television program called the DuPont Show of the Week (sponsored, incidentally, by DuPont, which owned a 23 percent stake in General Motors at the time). The program, titled “Merrily We Roll Along,” was promoted by DuPont as “the story of America’s love affair with the automobile.”

The show aired at a time when cars were facing steep criticism, as plans for the new interstate system threatened to destroy or disrupt neighborhoods in many U.S. cities.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/27/d...

Post by mattlutze » Mon, Feb 02, 2015, 8:43 AM UTC

Zigurd wrote: post #242

mattlutze wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's a heck of an assertion. Just because there are bad people we can't know what our government does? Yes. Your intentions aren't malicious. There are many millions of people whose intentions are malicious. It takes very few of them to do you, your family, your neighbors serious harm. It shocks me how many people on this site seem to not understand that sometimes. How is it logical that a few kids in SF building…

> There are many millions of people whose intentions are malicious. It takes very few of them to do you, your family, your neighbors serious harm. Come off it, and stop watching "24" reruns. The risk you face, I face, everyone faces, is practically nil. We all know the numbers. You have no need to pay more attention to terrorism than you pay to lightning, or slipping in the bathtub. Moreover, this is true in places t…

I think you underestimate how large a target the US makes itself in the world, and what it would mean to do what you're suggesting.

And, 24 was rubbish, if it's any consolation.

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