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Homeless to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags
An anonymous reader writes "Politech has the scoop on the Bush administration's plans to forcibly implant RFID tags into homeless people in participating U.S. cities. Here's an excerpt from the UPI article: "The miniscule RFID tags are no larger than a matchstick and will be implanted subdermally, meaning under the skin. Data from RFID tracking stations mounted on telephone poles will be transmitted to police and
social service workers, who will use custom Windows NT software to track movements of the homeless in real time... A second phase of the project, scheduled to be completed in early 2005, will wirelessly transmit live information on the locations of homeless people to handheld computers running the Windows CE operating system.""
No one Cares about the Homeless! /sarcasm)
Of course it will be more difficult with all the tall bldgs here, but plenty of homeless. (And protesters)
"I wasn't using my civil rights anyway...."
So now we can use geocaching to find homeless people? Awesome!
When will they force the REST of us who AREN'T homeless to be tracked like our dogs? -Phyrebyrd
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -Thom
These April fools joke articles are killing me! CmdrTaco is on a roll! Please put me out of my misery.
Might as well pull a joke on myself now, Slashdot my page!
Oh the shame... I will be the fool.
Hey, it may have been six months since the last Slashback, but today as we buckle
under the strain of another stream of unfunny April Fools "jokes", let's take a
moment to thank Slashdot's monthly meta publication Trollback
for putting out a fantastic 4/1 issue.
Way to go, guys.
~
This is the most retarded April Fool's day yet. If you can't come up with your own stuff, at least link to people that do. Lucky for Slashdot that Paypal doesn't let you donate a kick in the ass.
That is how I read it.
How does CTRL-ALT-DEL work on windows CE?
with all these april fool's postings, I don't know what to believe anymore!
(huddles in corner wearing tinfoil hat whilst sucking on thumb)
Yeah, Bush is evil, but I really doubt he's that evil.
This sounds like someone's idea of a very bad joke.
To celebrate the occasion of my 1000th post, I will post no more forever on Slashdot. Goodbye.
Am I the only one that see's the irony in this gag post that the money used on a program like this could probably go far in helping the homeless? lol.
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
You can defeat this plot by putting the homeless person in a microwave.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
they start implementing for their safety and our own...
The EFF and ACLU will begin distribution of tinfoil bodysuits to the homeless to combat this extreme invasion of privacy.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
who will use custom Windows NT software
That's a joke all in itself.
I am invloved in an effort to produce an open source HMIS, so that if we are required to have tracking systems, at least they will be inexpensive and under the control of non-commercial entities. You can see a demo of the open HMIS at: homeless-mis.net It uses PHP and Postgres (or MS-SQL if you like that sort of thing....)
The idea of integrated information systems actually started with homeless advocates that wanted to improve services through coordinated service delivery. But, like any tool, HMISs can be mis-used, and sometimes you wonder what motiviates these federal requirements.
You had me up 'til then.
I also heard that "Drone UAVs will be used to provide live video if necessary of any and all actions of said individuals."
I also heard these people are first in line for new jobs with the TSA
see subject
Why chip the homeless? Why not chip the wealthy? Why not chip a certain racial group? Why not chip the middle class?
Yep. Running on NT is the giveaway. MS would not condone this unless it was on XP.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Bush should be implanted a RFID tag himself.
A telephone pole sized one.
Anally.
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Man, the april first articles are going from bad to worse!
What's next, Research showing Sco kill Mother Teresa?
Plese let it stop!
I don't think so. Give it a rest. These were lame when it was April 1st, by mid-morning on the 2nd they are really sad.
Maybe Komawi Will be able to track down his Mercedes
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Relax folks, the workday is ending here in the CST and I don't need more articles to pass the time, tomorrow will be back to normal, no harm, no foul. Hell, I've even read more /. today than I usually do.
I like knowing that the crew here knows how to take a day off, unlike many of the rest of us.
-- In Soviet Russia, radio listens to YOU!
Has anyone else noticed that every single april fools post today has been intolerably lame and stupid?
burn me mods~
eom
who will use custom Windows NT software to track movements of the homeless in real time
Everything looked normal to me until I read that and said "Oh haha! APRIL FOOLS!"
What do you mean, April Fool's joke?
Use Ctrl-C instead of ESC in Vim!
About like the rest of Windows CE -- not all that well. Ahh, but I kid. I had a Windows CE device that served me well for many years. There were problems, but right up until somebody dropped their book bag on it, it was a trooper. I absolutely loved the audio memo function. Used it constantly when I was out at bars, DEF CON, etc. Made for some good times.
The april fools thing is just about played out..
/. doesn't suck.
I'll be back tomorrow when
Wouldn't it seem that we're all so addicted to Slashdot that we still read it on a day when all of the content is worthless?! Why don't the editors just give it a rest, and either give us good news, or no news. I love a good joke, but c'mon here people!
and what if / when the system would go to tilt?
:)
if it was a real article, why would they specify that they are using NT? to attract hackers to exploit the tagged homeless?
at least the article has the date, so no need to read any further than it
Why do we need to track them that well? Are we afraid they'll escape? If they did, would that be a bad thing? If they get on their feet & get jobs and homes, can they take the tag out, or are they forever branded?
Or is this like one of those wildlife things where they're trying to track migration and mating paterns?
[Z?]
This is real news. I'm watching it on tv now, though there's no mention of NT or CE integration.
Turn on CSPAN if you don't believe me. Apparently the fifth cousin of an FBI detective that knew about 9/11 a few seconds before the first impact is homeless, and we suspect they're manufacturing WMD in secret rather than feed their own people.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
wail hail, Dubya's gotta have SOME way of keeping tabs on the cheap labor once he gets 'em all up there on Mars..
In other news, the US Senate announces the Jonathan Swift Bill. According to [insert favorite senator's name], the proposal will solve both the problem of poverty and world hunger in one fell swoop.
Best April Fool's post yet, IMHO.
If this is not a joke, then it is absurd.
It must be one, not even the bush administration is stupid enough to do something like this.
Will they be ASKED if they want to get an RFID tag under their skin? or forced? [judging by Bush administration's previous actions...]..
Ok, happy April fool's day.
Quit trying to shamelessly push traffic to your site. Sheesh, have some class.
My site has more reasons why people like this shouldn't post.
Not really, just making a better joke.
For a moment I thought this was real.
I sat through all of the crap that's been posted today due to AF, but this is just plain not in good taste. Invasion of privacy by RFID is safe to poach on - maybe one along the lines of Dilbert (PHBs using RFID to track workers) - but the subject of homelessness just plain isn't funny. Reminds me a bit of the TV show that paid homless folks to fight each other...
--- Bwah?
placing the victims into a large microwave for a minute or two.
Hint: You can tell it is evil by the use of WindowsCE.
Why spend the money when it's cheaper to just ignore them like we do now?
Homeless people will explode in the microwave too?
I was wondering when the april fools crap would really start flowing. I love it.
It'll now be much more easier to find candidates for the next Bumfights vid.
Welley Corporation - SLM Scammers
Now, they forget to mention stage three... sponsored by Microsoft!
Stage three uses the rest of the matchstick probe (RFIDs are really tiny) to upload a custom version of Windows XP to all infected hosts.
Bill Gates, CSA of Microsoft, is quoted as saying, "This will create thousands of pay wireless internet terminals in major metro areas and simultaneously helping thousands of unfortunate souls. I am God."
Yet to be seen, however, is the effect of crashes, such as STOP errors, which has caused heart attacks in beta testers kidnapped in balck vans.
How long do you think the Slashdot editors spend thinking up these stories? Or do they accept submissions?
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
while monitoring the locations of the homeless, it will then allow IRS agencies to accurately determine a homeless person's daily income from handouts. Not only does the tagging help us know where these miscreants are, but also PAYS for itself thru income tax!
nerdsonice
I agree, apparently only people with absolutely no ability to be humorous are posting "april fools" articles today.....
Third phase is Inplant one everyone else. (Oh wal-mart has already implmenting that...) Just those homeless people can't afford their junk, so it has to be forcible implaned.
What is windows ce ?
Ah April fools day, the only day when the truth comes out. Nothings funnier than the world stripped of pretense.
Wow! That's a wonderful idea! Finally, we have some high-tech, expensive thing to do with all that extra money we have lying around that we vowed never to give to the homeless that they might feed and/or clothe themselves.
Esoteric reference.
Don't the rules of April 1 ediquette require that the jokes be played in the morning only?
/.
I think this joke's on
Step 3: Sell WinCE devices to hunters along with "homeless hunting" licenses.
Step 4: Profit!!!
---- Just another spud server.
Informative? Are the mods trying to make an April Fool's joke or are they just April Fools?
True story.
One night a Camel looked into the tent where his master was lying and said: "Kind master, will you not let me put my head inside of the door? "Oh, yes," said the Man. "There is plenty of room... We ALL know where this is headed. I doubt the people wants this ( this is a democracy, insn it? )
Jose T Oliveira Jr.
please, stop the lameness.
April Fool Joke :(
I could change the world, but GOD won't give me the source code
damn! It really did get slashdotted. Crap!
Remember that from "The President's Analyst?" That was the chip that TPC (The Phone Company) wanted to implant into everyone to replace phones, and of course, then have a tax paid directly to them and be able to monitor EVERYTHING.
at least CmdrTaco isn't posting dupes, like he did about 12 times last april 1 over the evil bit story.
The satire site
http://www.whitehouse.org/ now redirects browsers to the DOJ's http://www.cybercrime.gov/
A person on bushwatch.com claims it's government censorship and not an April's Fools Day joke..or is it?
I just pick them up off the on ramp. And when I'm done, I dump them in the river. They're 100% biodegradable!
Seriously... this is a great idea... except for the Windows NT and Windows CE. But the cost my be prohibitive, even with Linux. So maybe we could charge the homeless a small fee for the implant installation. Of course, there would be ongoing monitoring costs... so we'd need to charge an ongoing monitoring service fee. I guess that all breaks down though b/c the homeless don't have much money. But then again... they do have kidneys. So how 'bout we take a kidney in exchange for the implanted RFID tag and one-year's worth of free monitoring. Yeah, that's the ticket!
In related news, RFID tags being implanted into five of the fifty wealthiest Americans and 15 of the top 150 CFOs and CEOs in the country. Proponents claim we'll soon see a significant drop in the number of corporate officers fleeing the country when their shady accounting comes to light. There were only fifty detractors. developing...
I just want to know why there aren't any in the Science category yet.
Does anyone have a mirror for dealsite.net, it seems to be slashdotted?
Lord, bless my users that they may stop being such fucking idiots!!
The bush administration will be installing large negative magnets in all homosexuals to keep them at least 5 feet from each other at all times
Will they try to implant these in prison inmates? Or people with mental illness?
God I hope this a joke...
We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.
OFFTOPIC, I know, but, so is this whole day. Whoa, really?! Hey, somebody, anybody, try slashdotting my Page! I need some hits, and a few members. Join us...
But this happened to a friend of mine, a Unix programmer. Seems the long beard and suspenders fooled the guys with the implanters.
Now the worse part is my boss liked being able to track him so much that he wants the rest of us to grow long beards so that we'll be implanted too.
Inner city rickshaws!
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GOOD GOD MAN. WILL YOU STOP?! THIS IS NOT INSIGHTFUL, AND NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR IT. SPAMMER.
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Step 1: Throw device with Windows CE out window.
Step 2: Purchase new device. Help economy.
Step 3: Windows CE has been restarted successfully.
For every karma whore there are four more people with mod points to kill.
My uncle died this way. Well no he didn't... but that's another story all together. So tell me about this person-sized microwave.
When is it going to end that you keep shamelessly promoting your website in every April Fool's Slashdot thread? :^)
OK, I gotta stop reading these crap April Fool's discussions...
Although the story is an exaggeration of the actual program, which does not use RFID, there is a real program called Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) being developed by the Department of Housing and Development. From my cursory glance, it seems as though it's a program to collect data on homeless in the name of cutting down crime and assisting them, rather than full-on movement tracking (think of the infrastructure costs!). Anyhow, EPIC discusses it here
Ya, right! Good April's fool joke.
damn! It really did get slashdotted. Crap!
No, I think your line is, "Somebody set up us the bomb." Then, we say, "All your dealsites are belong to us."
It looks like you have no chance to survive... make your time.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
How much will I be able to hawk mine for? I just need to dig it out, huh?
How much cheap wine will it be worth?
It would be cool if we can equip the homeless with backpacks that can amplify cell phone signals. Since they're always hanging out in front of buildings, they can be paid a Big Mac to wear an antenna and help the people inside improve reception.
Wow - just stop the BS - please
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Now I can avoid beggars with a palm pilot mapping app
The Bush administration has announced Phase 3 of their plan: The final solution. The homeless will be herded onto trains and shipped to texas for "free showers". Bush had but one word to say about phase 3 of his plan: "Profit"
To blog is sublime
let's spend a buttload of money on studying their movements instead of spending it on job training or psych treatment. my faith in america is, at last, restored.
NT is still alive and kicking. Scroll down to Note 11 regarding support for NT.
As a homeless open source developer, I find this whole idea extremely offensive. In fact...
crap, library's closing. bbl
Yeah, OK - just when I thought I had seen all the "april fools" crap...
In other news, I just f'ed Jessica Simpson.
Anybody got a towel?
First they came to RFID the homeless,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't homeless.
Then they came to RFID the foreigners,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a foreigner.
Then they came to RFID the poor,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't poor.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
the original by martin niemoller
Anybody who has ever been arrested, tried, convicted, of any misdemeanor or above should be tracked using this technology. It's just a good idea - we can keep an eye on criminals.
;>
Better, you could program the automatic doors of your home or office to not let in tagged criminals.
By storing the information in XML format, you can interactively query a RFIDed criminal to find out what their background is (violent vs. non-violent, type of theft, drug use, current income level, gender, SSN, credit history, etc.) and let your security system decide on the fly whether you want that particular entity on your premises.
In fact, governments, building owners, and residents could publish their specification for the type of people they will allow into their space -this will solve all sorts of social ills in the future. The Upper Eastside of New York City, for example, could specify:
<Entities_Allowed>
<Income minimum="50000"/>
<Convictions allowed="white_collar"/>
<Race allowed="caucasian,asian"/>
<Memberships disallowed="ACLU,NYCLU"/>
<Jokes onyou="april foools"
</Entities_Allowed>
Big Daddy, Johnny, Burp, Aunt Zelda, Scott, Slurp, Big Momma
The one day a year where Slashdot goes from being 'a waste of time at work' to just plain 'a waste of time'.
aka Complete Shite
When is it going to end that you keep shamelessly promoting your website in every April Fool's Slashdot thread? :^)
No big deal... I've refreshed his page a few times (once it came back up), and it looks... lacking. If I were actually looking for something, I'd go elsewhere. Meanwhile, though, he's getting charged for bandwidth without generating any ad revenue... unless, of course, we *are* clicking through, in which case we're the ones with a screw loose.
Slashdot hasn't been this much fun since they changed servers and gave everyone unlimited mod points on the test box! Aaah, those were the days.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
The reason why you wince when they insert the RFID tag into your body.
backup now. Hostrocket is the host provider. I give them props!
Just wait until the next MyDoom virus comes around. It will give new meaning to the "legion of drones" that 31337 h4|X0r5 use to do their dirty work. Sending spam was only the beginning.
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
...from Etch-a-Sketch for WinCE. So a reboot is as simple as shaking it!
When I clicked on the "more" link off the /. homepage for this article, the first thing I saw underneath the article text was a great big banner ad that said "Good" in bold red letters.
Do you really not know what April Fools day is about or when? Google on April Fools Day and America. Maybe that will help.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
Imagine a cluster of homeless people...o, wait...
Well, ok: a beowulfcluster!
Each RFID-tag with 64kb, multiplied by millions of homeless people!! (at least in the USA).
The first HERD (Homeless Exploited RFID Distributing) Supercomputer is born!
--- "To pee or not to pee, that is the question." ---
it's not april fools day anymore where i live you insensitive clod!
Well it certainly didn't end on April 1, that's for sure.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Even as/if an April fools joke it is sick.
Last year, the April Fool's day stories actually seemed real. They had thought behind them. This year's crop blows. Next thing you know we'll see a story about carbon nanotube dildos or something equally retarded...
Slashdot is proof that Sturgeon's Law applies to mankind.
In other news, there are numerous eye-witness reports that Donald Ducks was seen having a SCREAMING ORGASM as he had one of these implanted in his duck ass-hole.
They also plan to put one in John Kerry's head to figure out where he is at. At this time, nobody seems to be able to figure out where he is on any issue. With this device, we'll be able to track him in real time as he flip-flops his way through the polls.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
It doesn't end. Every year it's about 25 to 30 of these stupid fucking things.
This was obviously written by someone who works with homeless programs. PATH is a real program, funded under the McKinney grant, and they are actually deploying Palms to collect data on mentally ill homeless persons.
On any other day, I would actually have believed this for half a second. Clearly, there are big privacy issues with collecting any sort of information on people. The current requirements make me any many others very uncomfortable. The federal government has actually received quite a bit of push back over this issue, and the final rule has been delayed for more than a year as a result of the privacy concerns.
Thankfully, it look like HUD will be making significant concessions to address community concerns, that will result in a final requirement that better protects client privacy.
What happened to the days when the government at least pretended to represent the people? I feel like countries are fiels and we are the cattle. The recource they harvest. It makes me sick to hear phrases like "It's not what the country can do for you, it's what you can do for your country". I hear this and similar phrases all the time in American movies. The truth is, we are all used.
This is a joke right? It's called "physical assault" when someone does something to your body against your will. There's about 2000 years of law to back it up. Even if each and every person was to consent, I imagine there's tons of civil liberties groups that would sue on behalf of the community. Seriously, the USA is getting sick and I hope this is made up.
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Slashdot has now moved from lame jokes into the territory of sick jokes.
Congratulations on the least funny April Fool's day ever.
If you're gonna try to play along with April Fool's at least try to make the headline somewhat believeable.
Can we possibly get some real news today? One bogus story is fun, two bogus stories is entertaining, 3 starts to get old and 4+ is down right irritating.
They implant chips and dogs and cats, it's only fair to implant them in all flea-baring animals.
This is not fucking funny. If this continues, I will stop reading slashdot.
I do have to say that this was the best one for the whole day, though. All the other ones were just, "Ugh...it's April Fool's isn't it?", but this one actually made me chuckle.
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1. you identify them
2. you track them
3. you herd them in to one spot
4. you gas them
Sounds rather 'April Foolish' to me...
I wouldn't put it past him, though. He's not exactly above the draconian.
As much as I am fundamentally a conservative (note the small C), I really hope he doesn't get re-elected.
The only thing more terrifying than religious fundamentalists in the cockpit?
Religious fundamentalists in the White House.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
You need to Google the word "sarcasm".
How to install Linux on the homeless? Just think of the Beowolf cluster you could have in New York City alone! I could 0wn Folding@Home!
WOW, this is a duplicate post, but you're still getting modded up. You must have a lot of friends that are moderators! Nice way to beat the system!
You all think this is a joke, don't you? Even if it is April 1st, this has to be one of the sickest betrayal of trusts I've seen online in a long time. We already chip our pets, and there's a program to chip your children. We start with the homeless, then chip anyone who collects unemployment, then anyone who wants to get a job, and it works its way up.
Oh, you can laugh now, but it's comming, just watch.
Wake up - the future is arriving faster than you think.
this joke has bad taste written all over it
cause it's a joke right?
the simple fact I am actually doubting it should be an indicator of the actual freedom level in the US...
http://www.pettax.org/
No need to google for that.
America and joke are synonymous...
They burn well in winter
Yeah, a joke like a motherfuckin' fox! We 'joked' all the world onto their knees. Get down and worship your master, Uncle Sam! BITCH! Stupid EUrinal.
CmdrTaco: What's April Fool's Day?
True story.
It's getting tired. I'm serious.
... because God knows there's a pile of money to be made in knowing the whereabouts of derelicts, drug addicts, and the addlepated, and we don't want to just GIVE that information away.
RFID tags for none! (And Walmart is upset)
Ok, RFID tags for all! (And the conspiricy therrorists boo)
Ok, RFID tags for some, minerature American flags for others! (And Everybody rejoices)
Paraphrased from The Simpsons
On a slightly different thought, does anybody find this almost prophetic? I immagine that the tag would be contained in either the hand or on the person's forehead. Ceartain people,books, and the bible make refrence to a mark of the beast that will be the use of commerce and be worn on either the hand or the head.
Oh No! I've stumbled onto the "Mark of the Beast" conspiricy!
Oh, ha ha. April Fools. Enough Already Slashdot. It was funny this morning... Now its irritating.
I've been a sorry son of a bitch ...
We should just round them up and gas them, like we do with dogs.
Disgruntled homeless people might very well be terrorists!
I don't steal, I'm just employed by the "illegal services industry--" they pay cash only, so I don't have to worry about being tracked-- but I hear the government is horning in on our business these days; at least you can't outsource the black market.
"Anonymous cowards are just K-whores afraid of their accounts being modded down." - Bob the O (me)
However, NT = No-Time tracking! Let me guess, SP7 would be nicknamed "tracker"? All would be fine till they tried to plug the RFID scanner into a USB port!!
BumNet.
The sad thing here is that the simple minded "Bush = Hitler" loosers are probably going to believe this story.
Yeah, last years evil TCP/IP bit was much more believable.
that this is believable by many people. In fact, I'm willing to bet that the prospect has been considered already. Of course, it has nothing to do with liberating Iraq, so it didn't get the proper attention by the Bush administration...
man rtfm
Tally ho!
--- Ban humanity.
Dont forget to switch on the Evil Bit in the RFID attached to the bad homeless people.
In Soviet Russia the insensitive clod is YOU!
The miniscule RFID tags are no larger than a matchstick and will be implanted subdermally, meaning under the skin
... but the kind I use are known as "Farmer's Matches", and they're huge!
Dude, I don't know about your matchsticks
-kgj
-kgj
If Upper Management wanted to tag homeless people, they'd be tagged already, and the only reason it might be done would be to soften the rest of the public up. Though, truthfully, I'd see it starting with prisoners, then parolees, then addicts who get free needles, then people receiving unemployment benefits. Then Islamics.
But even all of that would only be a psychological form of control; something purely to make you know that you're the dog and break down your spirit of rebellion. In truth, the 'real' threats, (regular people with jobs and pseudo-power), are already tagged. You carry one or two of them around with you in your wallet and you produce them for regular scanning. And beyond that, you'll probably be wearing a tag or two in your fancy GAP pants by the end of this year without even realizing it.
Anyway, all these April Fool's stories are giving me a stomach ache. Not a single one of them so far would be terribly out of place on a regular news day. That'll give anybody with a soul gastric problems.
-FL
Clinton, "Damn, I invented the RFID tag"
I really dont find this funny, not because its lame, but i could see this someday happening. Sure it would start off with people like the homeless or people getting out of prison, but soon enough every citizen would be required to have one. And that is a scary fucking thought.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
... What better cover than to announce in on April 1st and watch an otherwise vigilant public ignore it entirely until it's too late to stop. ;)
The sub-moronic April fools submissions today are terrible. Be more creative please, at make the first three sentances sound believable.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
Might as well just take slashdot offline for the day, cause there's not a damn thing worth reading.
Other than the fact that this is an obvious April Fools joke - who really gives a damn about the homeless to the degree that they should be tracked in real time?
Don't get me wrong - I don't mind the homeless and have nothing against them, but of all people, why would you want to know where they are in real-time?
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
A recent article in the Dublin Times, by Jonathan Swift, added another dimension to this story.
Every state government in the United States is struggling with deficits and social program cutbacks. Once the RFIDs are implanted and the software tracking is in place the second phase of the program will be implemented. Republicans in state and federal government have proposed an expansion of the program to harvest the homeless. Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex) noted "For too long have the homeless had a free ride on the backs of taxpayers. This program will be self-supporting without additional government money". The product of this second phase will be served in resturants catering to wealthy clientele. A percentage of the profits will be used to support social services for those who are not harvested.
Reckless driving endangers human lives.
Shouldn't we track heinous criminals like these ?
pictures of matchstick men. jeeze, when will these flashbacks stop...http://home.online.no/~prannug/quo/pictures .html
Serenity now, insanity later.
Damn it's getting hard to write satire these days!
How does it taste? It varies from person to person.
I used to like April Fool's. Now they annoy me like the fools of the other 364.24 days of the year.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
hook line sinker fisherman AND boat...
Damn you bit haaard on that one
I'm a little tea pot.
Lighten up, Francis. It's funny and you're a tard.
Considering the percentage of homeless people who suffer from schizophreni(about 10%), this almost seems like a cruel joke. Half of them are probably already worrying that some evil force has implanted a tracking device in their bodies. And now we're actually doing it? And under the pretense of better serving the homeless.
What a load of shit.
Homeless people don't normally wander far from base, and most cops know where their hangouts are anyway.
So what is this, then? A beta-test for RFID tags for everyone? Whats next? Tagging children at birth to "better serve" them and assure their safety?
religious fundamentalist in the White House?
Kerry in the White House. Clinton gets to be Secretary of State? Ooh, ah, I can't wait. What a bang up job he did last time.
Wouln't it be cheaper to give them a place to live?
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This is almost believable (I believe Bush would do something like this if he could get away with it) except that RFID don't transmit far enough - they'd have to build base stations every 10 meters or so.
http://www.eff.org/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
has redone their pages for April Fools.
Worth reading.
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You know, if they were really going to do this, what better strategy is there than to announce it on April 1st? Everyone thinks it's a joke and forgets about it, until a year from now when a bunch of people have RFID tags under their skin.
From a totalitarian government'ss point of view, that would be the best April Fools Joke ever played.
Code or be coded.
Next, the American citizens just need to implant these RFID tags into their civil servants in the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative offices to make sure the little Republicrats don't get out of hand again. To be honest, they just can't be trusted anymore. While we're at it, it would be useful to implant one into the CEO of every multinational corporation.
We could keep track of both of them like little blips on a radar. If the governmental dots and the corporate dots spent too much time together, well, we know which ones need to be put to sleep!
Great, a politically motivated April Fools joke. Anything to make Bush sound like some evil leader.
Brandon
It's not just a joke, it's joke with a glimmer of truth to it. The government is looking at tracking the homeless. The aren't at the stage of RFID's yet, but it's a sinister look at what might happen in the future - or at least something similar.
If they were to secretly start RFID branding the homeless, would they have the money to fight back. Would anyone believe "Crazy Ed" when he comes around one day babbling about government agents and implants? How far could it get before they were caught, and there were repercussions?
This is no more in poor taste than many of the bleak futuristic "what if" novels.
How does CTRL-ALT-DEL work on windows CE?
Try pressing DEL-CTRL-ALT.
BTW, what's the phone number for 911?
Table-ized A.I.
They're using Windows NT! Can you believe this? This is a travesty! We better start calling our congressmen.
Sounds like a real life version of the Sims. They should mount cameras on the telephone poles too so we can see what our sims are doing. Do we get to control them? Or do we just get to watch?
Polling shows it'll play well in the midwest.
Yes, I know that you're continuing the political propaganda ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H alleged joke.
But, no, polling does not show it would play well in the midwest. Or with the right wing - especially the Christian Right. Even a trial balloon on this subject would result in a guaranteed loss for Bush in the next election.
FYI: There is nobody more rabidly opposed to implanted RFID tracking devices than a Christian Fundamentalist. While right-wingers in general are suspicious of programs that invade personal privacy (since they are perceived as mostly used, once instituted, by left-wingers to dump on their political enemies), an implanted I.D. chip plays directly into one of the Christian Fundamentalists' hot buttons.
An implanted RFID device is an indellible "mark" transmitting a number - the serial number of the device (which is used as an index to an external database of personal information) and/or any stored information (which is also encoded as a binary string, i.e. a number).
According to a Christian Fundamentalist, tagging people with a government-mandated indelible identification number is applying the "Mark of the Beast". (See the Book of Revalations.) The person who would cause that to occur as a government program is the Antichrist, it happens as the end times and final battle are approaching, anybody who lets it happen to him has signed up with the wrong side, etc.
This opposition to anything even approximating applying a number to people, especially if related to financial transactions (which includes aid programs) is SO strong that it has been a problem even during the rollouts of Social Security, the Income Tax, credit cards, ATM debit cards, and online banking services.
Bush and his administration have been clueless enough to do a number of things to tweak off their electoral base. But mandating an implanted I.D. number in the face of this well-known (on the right) hotbutton issue would be cluelessness far beyond the pale. Essentially ALL of his advisors would be SCREAMING at him if he gave the SLIGHTEST sign of being in favor of such a scheme.
Which is why you KNOW this is another (literally) damned April Fool joke.
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Windows CE + Windows ME + Windows NT = Windows CEMENT
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Upon first reading this I was more more offended that they were planning on using Windows NT Then I was that they are going to start a catch, tag, and then release the homeless back into the wild Program to track their movements :|
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He probably got the idea from trying to keep track of his daughters. OH, you mean it's a joke? Wow, and here I thought it was a good idea....
Because it's more important to 'track' the homeless than to feed or clothe them...
A few years ago, I went into a Sears to buy a new microwave oven. They had a display model that was really cheap, so I decided to buy it. The sale associate says "Whats your name" and I say "Why do you need my name? I'm paying cash for this" and he replies "Because the computer tells me to".
I ask "Does the computer tell you other things?" He doesn't get it. So I say "Jackie Brown" (just watched the movie the night before). He says "Huh? But..." but types it in anyway. Then he asks for my address. I reply "I don't have an address, I'm homeless." Mind you, I'm wearing nice clothes, driving a new car, etc. He asks "If you're homeless, then why do you need a microwave?" I respond "Because I don't have one." Increasingly frustrated, he says "I have to put something in." So I pick up a card and read the stores address to him. By this time a couple of other bored sales associates have come round. He doesn't like my answer, but types it in anyway. Then I pull a fat wad out of my pocket and peel off a hundred. And walk out with my oven.
-cp-
He had it. Years ago, he had it. Once again, he has proven how lame he has become. That story was not even SLIGHTLY believeable. The man has let the money and 'prestige' go to his head - he has, basically, 'lost it' and is nothing more than a middle aged creep rather than the 'with it' iconoclast he likes to think he is.
Kind of sad, actually.
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Yep. A new way to feed people too. Cool.
Just add {In Space!} to anything.
I know that was a joke, but mine has a reset button on the back. Oddly enough, it doesn't delete all my files when it reboots.(In other words, yes, I've had to use it.;)
I won't join Slashcott. OTOH, If Beta goes live, I just won't be back until it's fixed. Sorry Dice.
Yeah, and John Kerry will do the same to the evil "rich".
You got any karma man? I really neeed it. Just a little hit! Come on!
I can't wait this is lame.
Has any one wondered how much this will cost? I wonder how much it is for 1 Tracker. And what about batteries? Keith
And we can plot their migration patterns:
welfare...
liquor store...
welfare...
liquor store...
welfare...
(shamelessly ripped from Glen Foster)
Serve Gonk.
Like Squant, the fourth primary colour. Hmmm.
It's still the same idea -
The homeless get a *reboot*
Yum, Soylent Cola! "But she's a commoner. Her Slurm will taste foul!"
I have gas, but my car uses petrol.
Another lame April Joke. . . It is so obvisous because
Democrats are the dumb asses that care about the social programs. They'd do a dumb thing like this than rasie taxes so we all had to pay for the RF tags.
The Republicans, want businesses to succeed and believe in trickle down effect, and that the only reason we should contribute to programs is to keep the poor masses content to protect the rich guys.
Republicans simply don't care enough about poor people. They ask think along the lines of "whose fault is it that they are poor?", "they made their bed, now they can sleep in it", etc.
Now if the plan called for all people with a net worth over a couple million, being tagged and tracked in the name of homeland security (using some lame excuse, like these are the folks with the means to effectly support terrorism.) now that would be in line with the Republican follow the money philosophy.
Oh well... I hate politics, but hate Democrats a helluva lot more....
til Leela implants me with my career chip!
Crisis is the rule, not the exception.
When the homeless lay around on the street and it snows, they get covered. But when they get up and walk away, that spot is clean. Wacker, I think you're on to something.
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.
Actually, the giveaway is in the supposed extract from the UPI article The miniscule RFID tags.... Unlike Slashdot, UPI has and uses the advanced software known as "spellchecker" which would alert them to the fact that the word is "minuscule".
Sure. Maybe social a social security system would be a better way to achieve this? Homeless people aren't criminals, and last time I checked the onus of proof was supposed to be on the prosecution. Why not do a trial on politicians? I think the voters have a right to know who our leaders are mixing with more than the police have a right to know where the homeless people are finding shelter.
Yet another one of Bush's wars on the defenseless.
Oh yeah. And the US government is in no position to be lecturing us on crimes...
Or did I wake up somewhere else....
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Like chicken.
Yes, my only tool is a hammer. And you're starting to look like a nail.
Those crazy street people are always complaining about being controlled by radio waves, satellite tracking, implanted computer ID codes. They were right all along! The rest of us have a lot of catching up to do, but we're well on our way to a glorious street utopia. Many of us, in fact, have already caught on to the liberation of walking the streets shouting to invisible friends. And when the gas runs out, we'll all have nifty shopping carts, not to mention prechewed food and a single sturdy garment. Let's take it to the streets!
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The indigent healthcare plan in my state spends more money per client than mine and my employer's combined contribution to my company's HMO plan. It would not surprise me to find that it costs more to keep the homeless on the street than it would to put a roof over their head.
Somebody once told me that there's a good political reason to keep a certain small percentage of the population unemployed and homeless. But I didn't pay any attention to what he said after that; he was a Bush supporter so I knew I wouldn't understand it anyway.
The man who has brought us unending war (and got cheered for it!), has pushed through $250 billion boondoggle of a unnecessary embroilment in Iraq, wants to amend the Constitution to ban gays from some normal rights forever, gave a huge tax break to all his buds while driving the deficit out of sight, wants to name American citizens enemy combatants without trial or counsel is not capable of tagging the homeless? Exactly what would he have to do that *would* convince you he is capable of this and much worse?
When it happens it will not be just the homeless though. Beep, BEEP!
it's April Fools Day. this is the obvious bogus article. it ain't gonna happen. not even
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if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
There is nothing more terrifying than a religious fundamentalist in the White House. Do you even read what you write? Or are you some kind of fundie wacko yourself? If so, why are you wasting everyone's time posting to Slashdot, when you could be out Crusading your way into your eternal reward? Get it while it lasts.
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see if they implant the homeless with RFID tags, then the homeless if they ever escape from homeless-ness can always get government handouts as claiming mental trauma for being a 'former homeless' person
See, the liberals don't want to loose their constitutiency.
horay for slashfud, spreading unfounded roumers and other unconfirmed bits since 1997!
I would have demanded that the handheld that controlls me runs Linux.
Homeless of the USA, unite! Imagine Beowulf of us!
Why not just dart 'em and attach the radio collar?
Soylent Green is *People*!!
When it mentions the application software as Windows you know it's just another tin-foil hat theory or another anti-MS/anti-gov't slam.
Following on the heels of the homeless RFID tracking initiative, the Bush administration has announced a new sport. Tentatively named hobo-hunt, the sport will allow anyone with a license (card-carrying republicans and NRA members) to track and kill up to 5 homeless people per season. The administration warned that the suggested quary can be unpredictable, violent, and may be involved with drugs or terrorism.
I seem to recall a movie along these lines. Only, instead of arrogrant leaders of nations, it was arrogant leaders of companies which were oppressing the "every day man"...
It would be truly sad if this were *not* a joke...
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"...The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders." - Erwin Rommel
I worked on one of the prototypes for this. One plan was to put a bottle of MD 20/20 at the end of a phone-booth sized room in the city, then the doors would shut on the homeless eprson in question, then someone sticks them with a prod, kind of like cattle.
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Seems like it might be cheaper to feed them and house them than track them using some sort of rfid tags. That is, unless walmart is going to start selling the homeless by the pallette.
Next year I think I'll just turn my pc off all day April 1st and spare myself the lame (and occasionally witty but only very very occasionally) april fools jokes that run rampant online each year.
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Wake up - the future is arriving faster than you think.
Well, adulterers seem to spread about (not a real stat) 67% of all stds. I propose we put a big bold 'A,' written in red, on all 'known' adulterers forheads, forcably, if necessary. You see, it would help these individuals become better people by constanty reminding them of the fact that we hate them and don't accept them in our culture. Now where can we find $43 million in red ink? Seriously, is this guy gonna make people carve 666's into thier forheads too? Burn witches perhaps? Test high-tech tracking devices on expendable homeless people? Either this article is a hoax, or I'm kinda pissed.
Of course, that it's imaginable is the sad thing. Just wait until they come to tag you.
C'mon.. implanting a subdermal RFID? Can we find a legitimate source for this story?
Don't get me wrong, I think it would be consistent w/ their broader actions, but breaking that news on April 1? I don't think so.
"custom Windows NT software" The government being state of the art as usual...
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia (There is no great genius without a mixture of madness) - Aristotle
Oh my God, I was forgetting it was April 1st. Uuufff! :)
story. The only problem is the RFID tag story is not beyond the gang in the white house.
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Constitutional ammendments have been overturned parts of the constitution or ammendments before. Examples: Slavery, age 18 for voting, women voting, prohibition of alcohol. So even if it passes now, it could easily be overturned later.
Personally I don't think the government should get itself involved with marriage at all, even for straight people. The biggest case for it is when someone wants to have a foreign national as a spouse and receive permanent resident status from the government. Everything else isn't the government's business and can be settled by private arrangments (wills, non-government health care, hospital visitations, power of attorney, etc).
My other first post is car post.
1984 Here we come next step, every americian at birth will have a tag installed in them. then all the migrants, and aliens will get them. Whats next? camera's in everyones homes?
...is people.
No, I didn't read the article.
I barely took time to read the post.
Does anyone else mentally akin this to tagging elk, moose, bears, etc? Turning people into animals, fun stuff. Where do I sign up for the Mark of the Beast crazy shindig conspirahooha?
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Wasn't this plan opposed by the White House and only came about after ENDLESS lobbying by homeless advocates to take "proactive steps to help the poor"?
int main(void) {while(1) fork(); return 0;}
Today it's an april joke on homeless. Tomorow, it'll be a reality for all citizens.
There you are, staring at me again.
the homeless can now get viri wirelessly from somebody opening an email on a palm-top.
But can the homeless run Linux?
the current Barcodes which are hard to read on the grubby and/or ungroomed..
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
April fool's joke ever.
Saying Apple is better than MS is like saying Botulism is better than rabies.
looks like orwell's 1984 suits better the US in 2004 then the Russians in their KGB era.
One example of use is people who abandon their dogs before the vacations. You can track who the owners are. Even in the case of those assholes cutting their dogs' ears to get rid of the tatoo! Unfortunately I'm not making this up.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
BTW, what's the phone number for 911? 311 :op
really IS the most non-free country in the world. 'Leader of the free world' has become 'Creator of the largest prison on earth'.
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You're also tracked by your mobile phone - pretty comprehensive - they know what area you're in - from an area of countryside - to within a few blocks in cities with smaller cells.
Not only that, but the mobile phone co.s have details of your bank account (even pre-paid if you use ATM top-ups as most do in Ireland now). They know who you've called, for how long, who's called you, when you have your phone off or on. There's no guarantee your conversations or txt msgs aren't logged.
Yep - big brother has been here a while folks. Not only that, but most western governments are only becoming *more* authoritarian than anything else. 1984 eat your heart out. Regardless of conspiracy theories or tin-foil-hattery, there's reasonable implications for all of us as regards identity theft, false prosecution (why bother having a trial if all the evidence is seemingly against you). Already opponents of western govt.s have had all these facilities used against them. No-one trusts their govt.s policy-wise - why trust them with big-brother tech?
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what the heck....?
just because someone is down trodden, it doesn't mean they're to be taken advantage of.
i haven't read the article yet, but I know that we tag animals, not RRID, but still we tag and keep tabs on them, and this doesn't seem much different. Homeless PEOPLE are still people, not animals.
this is a really weird idea, at the very nicest thing I could say about it...
First it will be homeless
THen ex-cons
Then subservients
Then.....
You get the idea
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Actually it varies from person person to person person
What is with Americans stealing other people's colloqualisms and then missing out fundamental parts of them like the fact that APRIL FOOLS JOKES END AT MIDDAY. It's 18:05 in the timezone of the poster...
<sigh!>
If you don't understand the tradition then don't get involved in another role other than that of The Fool.
... on the administration, installation, maintainence, and recovery of the RFID devices then maybe a better idea would be to spend the money to, you know, HELP them... But I guess that's my liberal hippie side talking.
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We bloody Americans aren't banning all religious practice like you bloody Europeans. If you want to see an agregious encroachment of civil liberties, look at actual legislation going around the EU that is directly and blatently limiting the personal freedoms of its citizens. Kudo's to Spain for rolling over and giving it up to Al Qaeda. This mornings discovery of a bomb in Spain proves once again that appeasing terrorists just encourages them.
That's not funny. Your delusional perceptions are just sad.
Actually, a "Republican" would do this if they thought it'd get them reelected. A Conservative wouldn't do this. Keep in mind that near-centrist left wing elements have come into the Republican party since the Democrats fell out of power, and don't forget that not all Republicans are Conservative Libertarian types.
But I agree...Democrats sUx0r.
How are these matchsticks implanted? Dartgun? And, for interest's sake, are you saying that if I buy a homelesss person at Walmart, I could get on reality TV? Sign me up!
We can all have homeless pages now!
...the government doesn't give a damn about the homeless. It's not about to spend millions upon millions of dollars to track their walking habits. Come on, you can spoof a better idea than this.
Yeah I know this is april fools but... my ipaq + foldable keyboard doesn't do all the neat windows shortcuts I wasn't too impressed no Ctrl-Alt-Del or Alt-Tab but like someone mentioned you use the reset button (and you use it pretty regular) April Fools day is the best day of the year
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Sounds like the beginnings of the end times are in place. RFID will be everyone's worst nightmare. Here comes the mark of the beast.
I got nothin'.
the homeless will be easier to round up for the next incarnation of the new world order; to be herded into labor camps
Sounds like a great plan by the Bush camp. Why spend money on food, shelter, and programs to help the homeless when the government can spend millions on creating the "real-life" SIMS? This story is disgusting and prompted me to make my first ever slashdot post. I hope this never comes to light!
Maybe they should keep tabs on Bill Clinton's booty trek by impanting one in his wang.
The Bush administration said the central role is to pre-emtively combat the homeless, who have high exposure to public places, from being kidnapped and said the technology would better be catagorized as a 'lojack' system rather than a tracking system because the RFID units are randomly and discretely hidden in part of the body. The security level is unmatched; not even the homeless person knows where the RFID is.
In a related story, the Bush administration is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the hacker who has programed robots to kill homeless people.
Stop invalid scientific research. Ask your local scientists to feed their lab rats with a phytoestrogen-free chow.
So if you stuff a homeless guy with one of these RFIDs in him into a microwave, will he burst into flames like the new twenty dollar bills do?
HA! I don't have any of those!
And I'm still not tracka... oh... right... I'm homeless.
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Well the first thing that struck me is that it says "Windows NT" and "realtime" in one sentence. Only after a while I realised that this is the first step towards BigBrother (the George Orwell version "1984" to be understood correctly).
What's next? Automatic log file generation for all our speech?
You know, the real sad part is that given the current Bush administration, this is not such a far-fetched idea. Based on prior Bush policy, it had me going.
You know, had the message said "Bush to invade Iraq, even though no WMD's found" people might also have thought it was April's Fools.
Now it will be even easier to harass the homeless. Christ... don't they have better things to do, like beating up kids and minorities?
In this article, posted by the same author on the same site as the RFID article , the author clearly state: "Just to be clear, the HHS RFID article was an April Fool's day joke. I certainly hope this one is as well! --Declan ".
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Come on, why will Bush administration spend money on homeless anyway, they don't vote?
That's the further I can go without being impolite with to corrupted government.
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"I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance." Isaac Asimov
"Pinging 134847.homeless.us [216.116.96.206] with 32 bytes of Soylent Green"
Shouldn't that be:
Pinging 134847.homeless.us [216.116.96.206] with 32 Bites of Soylent Green
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
This is certainly a good project to use IPv6 for.
We wouldn't want to run out of geographically based IP addresses for the homeless once we install FireFox on them too, and turn them into remote, mobile Internet terminals.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
[snip Christian fundamentalist concerns about the "Mark of the Beast"]
I can think of another reason why the Republicans would be opposed to this: it would allow the Census Bureau to come up with a more accurate count of the populations of lower-class urban neighborhoods, which tend to vote Democratic. This may give the Democrats more seats in the House of Representatives.
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these are people they aren't fucking cattle. Just because they are poor doesn't make them any less entiled to personal freedom especially freedom of movement which is expressedly protected in the constitution. What the fuck.
I can think of another reason why the Republicans would be opposed to this: it would allow the Census Bureau to come up with a more accurate count of the populations of lower-class urban neighborhoods, which tend to vote Democratic. This may give the Democrats more seats in the House of Representatives.
Not if it also identified the ones that were ineligible to vote (felons, illegals) and eliminated them from the electorate.
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LOL! You people are such ignorant liberals. It's so freakin' easy to lead you...it's insane!!! Bunch of goofy sheep, you are. Your one true God is the biased media. This story is more Bush bashing. Funny stuff, tho.
That was an amusing story. I have a real suggestion though. How about pressure sensors on the kneecaps of all Whitehouse Interns?
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