2084

[boston bean]

For your safety visiting malls and the corner stores will be strictly prohibited. The government has created a virtual online store that meets all your needs. Including grocery shopping. All items will be directly delivered to your home, fully scanned, rummaged through and x-ray’d. The government will keep an itemized list of items used most frequently and have them available for you for next day am delivery. Of course, the government will outsource this to a private for profit company.

There will be no need to travel. The government, for you safety, will provide each household with the most up to date technology to have you virtually visit your friends, families and colleagues, business associates on line. The government will track your most visited online activities and create your own special page with all your preferences. Of course, the government will outsource this to a private for profit company. We wouldn’t want to undermine the free market concept.

There will be no need to go to the movie theatre. Movie theatres will be outlawed, for your safety. All the new, latest released movies will be available for you to order and to watch in the comfort of your safe family living room All this available for a small fee, from your friendly corporate cable provider. The movie theatres and production companies will of course, be privately owned.

There will still be sporting events, yet no fans will be able to attend the event. For your viewing pleasure and safety, all games will be broadcast in 3D HD. And if you plan ahead you can feel like you’re at the game by ordering special hotdogs, popcorn and peanuts and beer from the online store. Remember these will be 100% safe from any bomb making material or hazardous material as it has been scanned, and x-ray’d and sniffed.

Every home by mandate of the government will be outfitted with home offices. You will no longer need to travel by plane, bus, auto or train to get to office. Of course everything you will need to have to equip your home office will be outsourced to a private for profit corporation.

If all works out ok, you won’t have to leave your home for years. You are still allowed to go to the hospital if need be, but the government, with the help of for profit privately owned corporations, are creating portable operating rooms and hospital rooms with virtual private nurses to help you recover in the comfort of your own home.

Hopefully by the time everything is in place, the only time you will have to leave your house is the day you die.

PS no gathering for funerals either.

[justiceischeap]

1. In case you've noticed...

Those privately owned companies that we outsource all your needs to is NOT making anyone in government a profit. Not. At. All.

[Crazy Dave]

6. You mean privately owned companies like Halliburton or the ones who make body scan machines?

Nobody gets anything written into laws that will make them rich unless they "pay to play".

Big campaign contributions, stock options, cheap rent on a multi-million dollar home, etc. and one of the most legal bribes in Washington is when a corporation makes a charitable contribution in a politician's name. The politicians get to claim that on their own taxes.

[boston bean]

7. Also,

the point is that they are so closely intertwined. it's hard to tell who holds the real power.

I am coming down on the side that corporations are using the people's government to enrich themselves and sharing part of it with those we vote into office. So it is us, who is allowing this to happen under the guise of free markets and open elections.

it's really twisted.

edited to add an additional thought.

[LARED]

2. I think they are using the US post office as a model. nt

[unhappycamper]

3. The wave of our future:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_h-Jz1-R7ysA/SvzNmmdIruI/AAAAAAAAADo/EJNI1oO_DjU/s320/matrix+pods.jpg

[Motown_Johnny]

4. The government, for you safety, will provide each household with..

Sure, the government providing something to each household for safety.

I'm buying that premise.


:sarcasm:

[Orrex]

5. 2084 just hasn't been the same since Robotron

[onehandle]

8. That was one of my best arcade games.

I hope my initials are still out there somewhere.

[HughBeaumont]

9. A game that I'm addicted to, currently.

Just hit 590,000 the other day. I have all of these other games on MAME, but that's the one I play over and over again.