Anybody care about secrecy on your bike?
05-02-24, 10:27 PM
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I work with other chemists to formulate my own sunscreen and bike polish. The formulations are only mediocre at their respective stated functions but contain nanoparticles that randomly clump, disassociate, and re-clump to form constantly changing energy absorption surface irregularities that render me unrecognizable to radar and 3D facial recognition scanners. They do not work as well against cameras, but then I am just another middle-aged Asian guy and so few can tell us apart.
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05-03-24, 07:12 AM
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05-03-24, 08:49 AM
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As teenagers if our parents asked us where we were going and with who, we would say; just around, with friends.
But today, not only do people say where they are and with whom, but what they ate, who they saw and how far they went.
Not that I care. If I don't commit crimes or cheat on a significant other, I could not care less if people know where I am
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05-03-24, 08:57 AM
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I didn't pay cash for a stolen bike, but I do have a used bike, so I'm off to a good start.
How about if I buy a stolen cell phone and carry that with me when I ride? Big Brother with think its some other dude riding around.
How about if I buy a stolen cell phone and carry that with me when I ride? Big Brother with think its some other dude riding around.
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05-03-24, 09:09 AM
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05-03-24, 09:18 AM
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05-03-24, 10:17 AM
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05-03-24, 12:43 PM
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I escaped from the Illinois Department of Corrections in 2004.
By riding bike, left in a prearranged hiding place, I was able to get out of the county before they even started looking for me.
It has been 20 years now with no police interactions in my life because I live a bicycle only life!
---SO--- I do indeed enjoy the secrecy of my bike!!!!!
By riding bike, left in a prearranged hiding place, I was able to get out of the county before they even started looking for me.
It has been 20 years now with no police interactions in my life because I live a bicycle only life!
---SO--- I do indeed enjoy the secrecy of my bike!!!!!
05-03-24, 12:49 PM
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I escaped from the Illinois Department of Corrections in 2004.
By riding bike, left in a prearranged hiding place, I was able to get out of the county before they even started looking for me.
It has been 20 years now with no police interactions in my life because I live a bicycle only life!
---SO--- I do indeed enjoy the secrecy of my bike!!!!!
By riding bike, left in a prearranged hiding place, I was able to get out of the county before they even started looking for me.
It has been 20 years now with no police interactions in my life because I live a bicycle only life!
---SO--- I do indeed enjoy the secrecy of my bike!!!!!
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05-03-24, 03:14 PM
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05-03-24, 03:27 PM
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Ask @AirPhantomPhoto --- No one is untrackable and particularly no one living in the US ..... if someone with power decides to, you can be followed everywhere.
And so what?
Big Brother would have to hire half the nation to comprehensively track the other half ... and Big Brother would then have to hire the other half, to track the other half, just to be safe. And most of what anyone could collect would be too boring to notice.
Exactly anyone could be followed, on their bike or anywhere else .... but no one wants to. You could spend your whole life hiding and you would succeed----because no one is looking for you. if they were, they would already be all over every aspect of your life. And you might never know because you are doing nothing actionable.
You can sneak around on your bike or you can ride a twelve-foot-tall tall bake, towing a huge sound system and displaying disco lights ... and no one would care.
Basically they can track you if they want to no matter what you do ... but They Don't Want To.
But you have already figured out that I am on their payrolll ... so ignore me and double up on that tinfoil.
And so what?
Big Brother would have to hire half the nation to comprehensively track the other half ... and Big Brother would then have to hire the other half, to track the other half, just to be safe. And most of what anyone could collect would be too boring to notice.
Exactly anyone could be followed, on their bike or anywhere else .... but no one wants to. You could spend your whole life hiding and you would succeed----because no one is looking for you. if they were, they would already be all over every aspect of your life. And you might never know because you are doing nothing actionable.
You can sneak around on your bike or you can ride a twelve-foot-tall tall bake, towing a huge sound system and displaying disco lights ... and no one would care.
Basically they can track you if they want to no matter what you do ... but They Don't Want To.
But you have already figured out that I am on their payrolll ... so ignore me and double up on that tinfoil.
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05-03-24, 04:39 PM
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just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you.......I have led such a perfect existence I am worried they will come and take me away to clone me.....
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05-03-24, 07:09 PM
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I do not know why all policemen and reporters have to say "he was driving at a high rate of speed." Speed is distance over time, and thus already a rate.
05-03-24, 07:29 PM
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05-04-24, 03:10 AM
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I’m not sure if anyone else said it, but what about the 5G chip you had injected into you when they were giving out the original COVID vaccines? 😂😂😂
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05-04-24, 04:45 AM
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The OP appears to have gone underground. No posts anywhere on Bike Forums since the first one in this thread.
05-04-24, 05:37 AM
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Like my privacy..much different than secrecy. But then again, the government already knows about me. They are the ones that found me and saved my life from the crash wreckage in Roswell. I thank them for all the plastic surgery that makes me pass off as human so I can continue to live until my people come from space to rescue me and take me to my home planet.
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05-04-24, 12:43 PM
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