{"id":37903,"date":"2013-11-06T23:39:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T03:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37903"},"modified":"2020-07-08T23:39:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T03:39:38","slug":"technological-irony-slash-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37903","title":{"rendered":"Technological irony-slash-fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-37904 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jailphones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jailphones.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jailphones-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/why-dont-ga-prisons-have-tech-block-cellphones\/nbhsk\/\">Long story short<\/a>: Despite being in prison, prisoners are somehow procuring cell phones, and using them to orchestrate crimes via other criminals not in jail, despite being behind bars themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Never mind the fact that the State of Georgia claims to have the signal blocking\/intercepting umbrella technology that would help prevent such things.\u00a0 As far as I\u2019m concerned what seems ironic to me is that Georgia prisons are more capable of sending and receiving data, than my gym.\u00a0 Prisoners are able to send text messages and make phone calls, orchestrating elaborate crimes such as robberies and fraud while in prison, while I\u2019m struggling to check Facebook or send\/receive a text message at the gym.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s not that I\u2019m always checking my phone while at the gym, but there are times when there are adequate opportunities to take a glance at things, like when I\u2019m in the cooldown period of either running or on the stationery bicycle, but my gym is apparently more of a signal-snuffing concrete prison than an actual Georgia prison is, and it\u2019s neigh impossible to do such.\u00a0 But in the case of emergency or something urgent, it would be nice to know that data has the capability of freely making it to my phone if necessary; knock on wood, hopefully that kind of scenario never comes to fruition, but I\u2019d hope that if it ever did, an important call wouldn\u2019t get snuffed out by the dearth of signal in the place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I wonder if it\u2019s possible for civilians to work out at prisons in Georgia?\u00a0 It\u2019s not like prison yards don\u2019t have the same equipment I\u2019m lifting with, and I\u2019d imagine the murderous stares and intentions of the inmates might make me feel motivated to lift harder and stronger, so that they don\u2019t think I\u2019m weak and rapebait.\u00a0 And with the sizes of most prison properties, I\u2019d imagine I\u2019d have plenty of space to run long laps and keep my cardio up to par.\u00a0 Also, I\u2019d have to believe that there\u2019s far less bullshit, bad techno music blaring through improperly equipped headphones, and narcissists parading around wanting to be looked at.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But the most important thing is that I\u2019d have extremely reliable signal and data capabilities, so I\u2019d never have to worry about any emergency calls or messages not being able to come through.\u00a0 Maybe as a matter of safety, all the prisoners should be transferred to my gym, so that the concern of cell phone communication being utilized to orchestrate crimes simply couldn\u2019t happen at all.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short: Despite being in prison, prisoners are somehow procuring cell phones, and using them to orchestrate crimes via other criminals not in jail, despite being behind bars themselves. Never mind the fact that the State of Georgia claims to have the signal blocking\/intercepting umbrella technology that would help prevent such things.\u00a0 As far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Technological irony-slash-fail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,109,83,15,25],"class_list":["post-37903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-crime","tag-gym","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37905,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903\/revisions\/37905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}