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Big Brother In the School Cafeteria?
AustinSlacker writes "An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria - prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of 'Big Brother.' An over reaction by parents or an unnecessary invasion of privacy?"
Obviously the fnord agency is trying to get our youth preprogrammed and conditioned to accept monitoring as a normal part of membership in our society.
Yet these same parents willingly sign up for loyalty programs at their local grocery store, tractor supply store, or mega-chain. They don't think those are tracked?
1984 here we come! This is absolutely outrageous.
Which would you prefer? A school that let your kids eat whatever crap they wanted or made some effort to make sure they were eating their vegetables? We're talking about kids here, not adult "consumers". We're talking about getting the little shits to do what they're told, never mind their "feelings" or their "self esteem" or any of that crap.
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Oh I read it all right. If the "1984 here we come! This is absolutely outrageous" part was sarcastic, maybe you should have said "but seriously" afterwards.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
I do understand this argument, but I tend not to mind this kind of thinking either. I know I'm gonna get modded troll for this, but it's really not my intention.
In theory, I'm ok with the whole "accumulated market data used to determine insurance rates / mortgage / credit / etc..". The idea being if an insurance company jacks someone's rate up because they are more likely to get into an accident based on whatever arbitrary data they are looking at (and I imagine they are probably quite good at this), then my rate is hopefully going to be lower (unless I am also high risk).
Ultimately I imagine (again, we are still in my theoretical sunshine and lollipop land here) if the mass of data people leave behind them was really used to determine these sort of things, most people would come out about even. Pay a little more on your car insurance for reason x, pay a little less on your mortgage for reason y.
In practice it's all moot, as they are going to jack the rates up regardless, and pocket the savings rather then pass them on.
What is it with people and fluoride? The US is the only place IN THE WORLD that thinks fluoride is safe. It is a mutagen and there is no evidence to support the idea that brief contact (as opposed to the prolonged treatments at the dentist) provide any benefit to teeth.
And don't ask for citations I'm sick of providing them. The ADA are stubborn asses that won't admit conclusions they reached in the 50's are wrong and they've wasted millions on fluoridating the water. Besides that might open them liability for the health problems this has caused.