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Indian Census To Collect Fingerprints, Photos
adityamalik writes "The Indian census kicks off on Thursday, with approximately 2.5 million people charged with conducting it across the billion-plus strong country. 'Officials will collect fingerprints and photograph every resident for the first time for the register — a process described by Home Minister P. Chidambaram as 'the biggest exercise... since humankind came into existence.' Sensitivity towards collection of biometrics and personal details is quite low in India currently. I wonder how effective — and how powerful — the exercise will turn out to be for the country. I'm also struggling to imagine how the photo and fingerprint collection is going to happen, technology-wise."
Nonsense. In the US, the poor people are fat. If they cannot afford health or otherwise, it is because they made choices in life.
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same thing goes for idiot mods who mark it troll. You disagreeing because of your liberal white guilt and inability to say what you think does not make my comments trollish. Too bad you lack the balls to speak the truth in public, instead of quietly amongst your friends, after carefully checking to make sure you don't "offend" anyone nearby. Everyone hates a coward, even cowards scared to speak their minds.
Don't be a moron. This is the first society in history where everyone has enough.
If a person does not have health care today, it is because they have made a choice not to. They may have made the choice in high school not to study, or they may have decided that insurance is not something they need.
You see in the United States, survival is a privilege, not a right. This is a land where a person will be left alone by the government and they can make what they will of their life. This is a land of freedom, not a land of security. If you want security, go back to Europe.
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In many minds, the images of extreme poverty, disease, malnutrition, illiteracy, beggars, religious violence, honor killings etc overshadow things such as having nuclear weapons and a space program and decent economic growth the past decade. So they still think of India as a third world country.