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Take Big Brother on Vacation with You
An anonymous reader writes "Book a flight or a rental car, and that trip and your companions' names, where you stay, what you eat, your bed size preference, in-room movie preference, and just about anything else you get a receipt for is etched in stone."
If it's going to etched in stone, it better damn well be etched in granite. I'm not going to let those stingy operators short-change me again!
"Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
However surely much of the same information could be found by people digging through your garbage, following you home from work etc... ... or by reading your blog. Sometimes I wonder if the ideal of blogging was initiated as a government attempt to get people used to giving details of their personal life to absolute strangers.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
All part of the wonderful services that the government provides for us.
regards,
Citizen #4534
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Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Your driving habits are already tracked, as well as your financial and bill paying habits, as well as your web surfing habits. Its like you think that federal agents are going to storm through your bedroom windows because they found out you swiped a towel from a Holiday Inn.
baka baka, mina baka
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Our taxdollars are going towards rocks, chisels, and paying convicts to actually carve our flight itinerarys into stone, when this could all be done automatically with computers.
That's what I love about information technology - the tremendous cost savings it provides in keeping the french-loving commie peaceniks of the country in check. Now - I want a list of everyone on the island of manhattan who mail ordered anything french since the start of hostilities.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
"Another Sept 11th will be on its way if you continue."
Almost every year, I imagine...
When you use that grocery store discount card at 1AM on a Saturday, to purchase a 6 pack of beer, 4 packages of Oreos, 1/2 gallon of chocolate ice cream, a frozen pizza, and 7 slim jims you really think the DEA isn't going to think you had the munchies?
I'm taking big brother on vacation with me... he'll hog everything and kick me around just like when we were young!
Dang, they must be using better digital media than I am...