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RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona
The student newspaper at UW-Madison is running a piece about the use of RFID to check lecture attendance at Northern Arizona University. One poster to an email discussion list suggested that getting around this system would be simple if "all one has to do is walk into a classroom with 10 RFID-enabled cards in their pocket." "The new system will use sensors to detect students' university identification cards when they enter classrooms, according to NAU spokesperson Tom Bauer. The data will be recorded and available for professors to examine. ... [The spokesman] added the sensors, paid for by federal stimulus money, initially would only be installed in large freshmen and sophomore classes with more than 50 students. NAU Student Body President Kathleen Templin said most students seem to be against the new system. She added students have started Facebook groups and petitions against the sensor system. ... One of the most popular Facebook groups ... has more than 1,400 members." What are the odds that the use of tracking RFID will expand over time on that campus?
I have admittedly thought that was weaselese in the past (though thanks for the cool word), and it creates a sort of philosophical/logical paradox: especially considering that they're all volunteers, how can you support them without supporting what their job entails?
"Support the troops" seems to be one of the big cases of political correctness in current US society.
Support-both or don't-support-both both resolve the paradox, and which one of those is an argument I don't want to get into, at least not now.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
This friend of his in the article that was shocked need not have been. You can care personally for Martin while also believing that all races deserve equal rights but hold the opinion that his civil rights campain will ultimately cause more damage than it does good. The friend can suspect, but shouldn't assume the author is a racist which was the angle the author had hoped would cement his earlier point.
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The troops don't make their own decisions. Obama does - both for himself and, now, for the troops.
It's okay to wish the troops a safe job and return home while disliking the policy that sent them out in the first place.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
It's a perfectly logical statement. The soldiers don't have any say in their mission: if it's a good one or a stupid destructive one, they still go out there and serve their country to the best of their ability. It's not their fault that chickenhawks like Cheney and Wolfowitz put us into a war we didn't have to fight, can't afford and have no easy way of getting out of.
So yeah, I support the soldiers for their willingness to put themselves in harms way for the good of the nation, trusting that the people up the chain of command aren't going to spill their blood needlessly, but I don't support the inane warmongers who put us into this mess in the first place, wasting money and the lives of the people under them.
You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
And by your logic, there is nothing wrong with my (current) signature: "I support Barack Obama, but not his mission."
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.