Using Your Privacy Against You

guttentag writes: "Christian Science Monitor Reporter Warren Richey suspects he may have stumbled onto a credit card fraud ring that uses Internet merchants to quietly funnel night-vision rifle scopes to Middle Eastern terrorists and privacy policies to cover their tracks. Even if these are isolated incidents, it's worth noting that the privacy rules intended to protect us can also work against us."

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Re:You don't say...

[3.5 stripes]

What exactly is wrong with minors drinking?

Here in Italy there is NO drinking age, but I don't see 8 year olds boozing it up... in general people tend to drink a little more responsibly (there are still problems). I've never seen parties with kids getting torn up like they do in the states, illegality makes it much more "cool" than any advertising ever will.

It would probably be better to have a responsible adult give some kids a couple of beers, than letting them go out and share a bottle of liquor they stole.

Of course, that's just my take on it.

Re:You don't say...

[ebbomega]

Well, now that we're varying heavily off topic...

It's been clinically proven that drinking before a certain level of body development can cause developmental disorders, and that stage usually occurs around age 19... the decision of the age of majority is pretty arbitrary but rarely goes below that level for those reasons... same reason cigarettes are bad to give to kids.

But based on those reasons, I'd sooner make it illegal for a pregnant woman to drink than a kid.

Re:If you eat waffles, you might supports Terroris

[hndrcks]

Exactly how do you quantify a "minor massacre"?

Re:You don't say...

[Xaoswolf]

Of course they have the right. Smoking pot was made illegal, and therefore, smoking it is punnishible. If you don't like that, then I suggest calling your senator/congressman, and telling them that the legalization of pot is an issue that will enfluence you're vote.

I don't think that this will help all that much though. As most of the people that smoke pot that I know normally just stick to whining about it on web pages, that is when they have the will power to get up off the couch for a reason other than dorrito's. And even if the entire pot smoking community did rally together and vote into office someone that said that he was for the legalization of pot, he would promptly change his mind once he was in office, or at least bury the subject under a lot of paper so that it never see's the light of day.