[gurps] Space Transport Costs at TL10

[Knapp]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Like all such warfare it is a matter of cost of defense VS cost of
>> offense and the amount of manpower that can be used.
>>
>> There is very good evidence that a clocking device could be made by TL
>> 10 that works on all frequencies by bending light around the hidden
>> object.
>> Douglas E Knapp
>
> But wouldn't that be a little bit excessive 'just' to preserve
> privacy? In the real world, I wouldn't like some government to
> record everything I do online, but right now I'm not bothered
> enough to actually use PGP ...

The stuff that bends light and hides you might not cost that much at
TL 10 but I bet it would not be legal.

Everything that goes international is recorded or monitored and has
been for a LONG time in the USA. I had a teacher that helped to make
the NSA telephone monitoring circuits. Many people told me it could
not be done because the digital computers of that time were way to
slow and I thought that was true. The teacher said the circuits were
analog! God only knows what they are up to now, 60?? years later. The
thing is that we are not that important on a government level so we
don't try and hide and when we do hide we become a target because we
are hiding.

I also think that if cameras are everywhere as they mostly are now in
any big city, anyone that attacks them will be recorded by the other
across the street. Thank god we don't have every camera in the USA on
the internet with the government having access! We still live in a
time with lots of rat holes but by TL 10?

Think of how many cameras there are now. Almost any big store has them
all over, hotels, roads to monitor traffic, many small stores, ATM
machines, many personal computers, lots of cell phones, some cars, cop
cars. Now imagine them all on the net. Then think of the CIA, NSA, FBI
and local cops having access to them all and the computer power to
monitor it! YIKES!

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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