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I guess you've never heard of "civil asset forfeiture", which is quite popular with many law enforcement departments these days. If the police just "feel" that anything you have might somehow be related to drug money, they can (and often do) seize it. Then you have to take them to court and prove it's NOT, often spending more than what what seized. No proof, arrests, or real "due process" is needed from them to keep your stuff. Carrying cash to go buy something? You might be going to buy drugs (even though your record is completely clean and you've never been involved with anything like that before) and now your cash and car is theirs.

References: (this is just a few, there are hundreds if not thousands of these types of abuses every year now)...
nationalreview.com
forbes.com
forbes.com
metrotimes.com
newschannel5.com
onlineathens.com
vox.com
washingtonpost.com

Your car could spy on you... and notify the police who could then issue the ticket for speeding, distracted driving, and all manner of things. It could even supply pictures/movies of you breaking the law.

Dystopian Big Brother future.

That's already been tried. Back few years ago there was a car rental company who would ding their customers based on speed/time/distance data downloaded from the car's GPS. Not only were they dinging their customers, they were doing it without even notifying them.

Here is the first link I found on Google

http://onlineathens.com/storie...

even if it is slower than the flow of traffic and causing a dangerous situation. Technically it's not against the law.

It is in Georgia!

You seem to know a lot of things that are false. Iran rejected the proposal that other countries enrich uranium for it.

Iranian diplomat rejects nuclear fuel-swap proposal

Iran's envoy to the UN nuclear agency has made clear Tehran will not accept a western nuclear fuel-swap proposal intended to address concerns over its nuclear programme.

Egypt was the country that supplied Iraq with it's initial chemical weapons and know-how, not the US.

Report: Egypt's help crucial to Iraq's gas attacks

NEW YORK - Egypt secretly supplied crucial help - both technology and expert manpower - to the chemical weapons program of Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s, U.S. arms investigators have found.

The CIA's Iraq Survey Group says Egyptian specialists helped the Iraqis make "technological leaps" on poison gas at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, when Baghdad used nerve agents to kill thousands of Iranian soldiers and Iranian and Iraqi civilians. ...

The Cairo government rejected those earlier allegations, and Egypt's Washington embassy reiterated that denial when asked by about the CIA report. But U.N. arms inspectors who scoured Iraq's files and facilities in the 1990s corroborated the U.S. finding.

You're playing the "retaliation card" against the wrong country over a war that ended about 25 years ago. It was Iraq that attacked Iran, not the US. It was Egypt that helped Iraq with its chemical weapons, not the US. Iran is threatening mainly Israel, not the US, and occasionally Europe... not to mention its neighbors in the Gulf.

I'm puzzled how you manage to be wrong so consistently.

Actually, considering the number of people who are accidentally shot when the gun "just goes off" while it is being cleaned, put in a holster, unloaded, or simply held, I wouldn't be too sure that those guns aren't out to get us.

According to the NRA, all gun owners are highly responsible people, so it can't be the people who own the guns. It must be the guns themselves. They're out to get us, I tell ya!

A few years back at UGA, someone called in a suspicious looking paper bag was found outside a building and the bomb squad was called in.. IIRC, a remote-controlled robot was used to open it up to find someone left some muffins. I believe the two buildings and parking deck were cleared out.. want to say at least 20 or 30 classes cancelled (400+ students)

There were some people calling shenanigans on the whole thing afterwards, saying it was an over reaction.. but hindsight is 20/20. I think they did a good job regardless. Better safe than everyone dead.. as the saying goes, you know.

http://onlineathens.com/stories/102205/cops_20051022043.shtml

AKA the Subcommittee for Supoenas and Persecution. I'm sure it will come as a shock to absolutely nobody that he's also a climate denier who wants to haul climate scientists in front of the subcommittee to investigate their "hoax":

http://onlineathens.com/stories/022311/new_789646706.shtml

Article in the Athens (home of UGa) paper -- http://onlineathens.com/stories/020310/uga_558085836.shtml.

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents is meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. After backing out of a hearing procedure which they established to give an opportunity for due process, we filled a civil rights and discrimination lawsuit in Federal court.

It may be more effective to contact the Board of Regents at this point.

Office of the Chancellor
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
Suite 7025
270 Washington Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30334
office: (404) 656-2202
fax: (404) 657-6979
email: chancellor@usg.edu

http://www.usg.edu/contact/
http://www.usg.edu/regents/members/

Join my Facebook group @ http://kennesaw.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6371166090

The story about the lawsuit has been heard across Georgia. Newspapers from Valdosta, Augusta, and Athens are reporting on the case. It's been discussed on television, radio, and Internet blogs. Prominent education journal "Inside Higher Ed" featured it on their front page.

http://mashable.com/2008/01/13/facebook-users-photo-led-to-expulsion-from-university/
http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=1664
http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/01/10/Valdosta_State_Student_Says_Facebook_Opinion_Resulted_in_Expulsion_From_School.htm
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/011208/news_20080112030.shtml
http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/local/local_story_011142725.html
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8794.html
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8796.html
http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=7612384

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents is meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. After backing out of a hearing procedure which they established to give an opportunity for due process, we filled a civil rights and discrimination lawsuit in Federal court. It may be more effective to contact the Board of Regents at this point. Office of the Chancellor Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Suite 7025 270 Washington Street, SW Atlanta, GA 30334 office: (404) 656-2202 fax: (404) 657-6979 email: chancellor@usg.edu http://www.usg.edu/contact/ http://www.usg.edu/regents/members/ Join my Facebook group @ http://kennesaw.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6371166090 The story about the lawsuit has been heard across Georgia. Newspapers from Valdosta, Augusta, and Athens are reporting on the case. It's been discussed on television, radio, and Internet blogs. Prominent education journal "Inside Higher Ed" featured it on their front page. http://mashable.com/2008/01/13/facebook-users-photo-led-to-expulsion-from-university/ http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=1664 http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/01/10/Valdosta_State_Student_Says_Facebook_Opinion_Resulted_in_Expulsion_From_School.htm http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/011208/news_20080112030.shtml http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/local/local_story_011142725.html http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8794.html http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8796.html http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=7612384

Hello myopic academics of the world:

Just because costs are not billed directly to your grant account does not mean access is reasonably priced.

Check out this article on the University of Georgia's costs:
http://onlineathens.com/stories/120206/news_20061202061.shtml

"The library's budget for materials alone reaches about $9 million, about 70 percent or 80 percent of which pays for periodicals and other serials, said Dana Walker, head of the library's serials department.

Walker is able to keep magazines and newspapers like Newsweek, Psychology Today, the London Times and the Los Angeles Times - the kinds of titles that regional libraries struggle to keep - because those subscriptions are not as expensive as popular academic journals like Nature and the New England Journal of Medicine, she said."

A Sciencedirect subscription will run you in the range of $100k/yr for a medium size company. The costs of distribution have fallen, this needs to be reflected in the pricing.

For those who don'tknow Uga VI is the current live mascot of the University of Georgia (Georgia Techs kinda cross state rivals) I am just glad GT doesn't have a live mascot .. what is the lifespan of a Yellowjacket anyways?

How else can you explain his change in appearance from something like this to this? He's clearly had the Michael Jackson nose job, cheek lifts, and a complete cranial restructuring, among other things...

(IANAL but...) I'm not sure where this comes from. It's quite easy to sue various forms of government and government agents, such as the police (false arrest, rights violations), prosecutors (prosecutorial misconduct), Congress , and various federal agencies.

For those who can afford it, it's old news, they even use RFID technology........

I read it somewhere else, but here are the results from a quick google search At Prada, a dazzling glimpse of retail technology future, it's from October 25, 2002!.

"Customers can hang clothes they're trying on in one lucite box, and accessories, like shoes in another. An image is captured from their radio-frequency tags and projected on a plasma screen beside the closet in the dressing room. By pushing buttons on the screens, customers can mix and match outfits, and can find out more details about the clothing.

story with pictures
This thing seems to go back to at least July.
The picture looks like something we could build with alfoil from the kitchen, a broken umbrella and a toy aeroplane engine. Maybe we need video too. Anyone got Video?

And just because you can't think of a good use (non military) doesn't mean there isn't one. Mark Twain had trouble imagining what use a telephone would get, and Bill Gates didn't believe in the internet for a long time.

like this, this, this, or this.

These kinds of attitudes, if not confronted, really could develop into something similar. Yes, America is different, but it's terrifying to see how many people are willing to give up critical rights (and critical thinking) just to drop their odds of getting hurt by terrorists from 0.005% to 0.004%.

According to a recent article in Newsweek, Ashcroft really considered widespread suspension of habeas corpus.

A versitile little bird. Mean and stinky though.

You know they're heating UGA with chicken bi-products too.

The science of agricultural waste may be an open target for easy jokes, but give these guys credit for finding alternative uses for a major and often overlooked pollutant.

I poop purple. I wonder if there's something wrong with me.

Former (thankfully) Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell recieved donations from Oracle as well, then had Spectronics purchase spend millions of dollars of Oracle software to be used at the Atlanta airport. The deal was put together by an associate of Campbell's who took money from Spectronics. Spectronics also gave Campbell money for his campaign, laundering it through a drug treatment center. Spectronics was rewarded when the city forced MediaOne to resolve a legal dispute with the company. Spectronics also received money from the city for setting up the Oracle deal - but an audit team was never able to find the Oracle software Spectronics was paid to buy. Most of the Spectronics executives were convicted of fraud, as were a lot of the mayor's employees, but the mayor himself charged the world with being racist and escaped without a scratch. Oracle was not charged with any crimes either, but I'm not personally sure the company is entirely innocent.

Also see Online Athens and Creative Loafing.

As a silver car spins slowly the lyrics clearly heard:

From the sky would fall an incessant rain of bombs
We had nowhere to go but retreat underground
Our continent...waved a load of mines
Growing our food was a risk at any time
The sudden brutality we had to confront
Forced us many years to a life into the ground
When I came out after having hidden for so long under

At least when VW used Stereolab's Parsec in their New Beetle ad they had the presence of mind to select a song by the leftist group that didn't have any lyrics at all.

'Course, the ultimate folly in recent memory was GM buying the rights to a a Chumbawumba (née the ultra-Marxist Crass) song for their car ad... the proceeds of which were used to lobby against GM. Ha!

And we know how unfailingly polite the police are toward people they consider to be potential murderers and drug dealers. They would never arrest the wrong fellow, nor would they possibly even inadvertently kill an innocent person before that person got a chance to present ID.

The driving age, however, has been the subject of a proposed bill that has yet to be passed. The first step was implementing the midnight curfew for those under 18. There are groups dedicated to trying to raise the driving age as a safety measure.

We passed the anti-mask law to get rid of the KKK.
I'm serious.
Really.

check it out, Sony used to have a video camera on the market that could see through clothing. They modified it to prevent such use quickly after they discovered it could be done, though.

We need a less scrupulous company to manufacture bionic eyes.