Maybe we could get back to advances in software design and development? Less bloatware? Now that would be a real advance. Remember how MS Word 2.0 ran on Windows 3.11 on 486 DX2/66 with 20 mb of RAM - FAST!
You don't have to be a citizen to get a drivers license. You do need an SSN.
I am an Australian living in the US. I passed my driving test three years ago (the day after I got my SSN becuase I couldn't apply without it) and had to wait 10 months for my drivers license to arrive in the mail. The reason? The California DMV had to confirm my identity with the INS (I am sure you have heard about how many people they don't have a clue on their where abouts). Nothing has changed but hopefully they will do it quicker now. I gave up any rights of privacy the day I got off the boat.
Everybody knows the data is out there now it is just a matter of speeding up access to it. They get it wrong often enough now that you have time to correct it before your life is destroyed. I don't know what will happen when it is all connected at blazing speed and wrong.
I stumbled down the hall. My bags were packed by the door for my flight out at noon. I had been woken by the TV. Strange, me never watch TV in the mornings. The last time we did was the Santana High school shootings. It was just down the street.
My wife was glued to the set, her face illumined by the glow of the TV. It was only just after 6am in Southern California. With out looking at me she said an airplane had ran into one of the WTC Towers. I couldn't see the TV at the angle I was standing.
I mused out loud "Must have been a Cesna or something. Nothing big would ever get near downtown New York." I wondered if the people in my New York Office could see it, they are only a couple of blocks from there.
I move closer to the TV and can see more. "That wasn't no f*cking Cesna!" The smoking gaping whole in the first tower was black and ragged. It was at that moment that the second plane came into shot, tearing into the other tower. I think my jaw did actually drop. Last June I had been in New York. I had been in that tower.
A sense of dread seemed to fill me. What had just happened. Terrorists? Obviously. Then the news of the Pentagon. How long later was it when I reeceived a call from my boss "You heard?" "Yeah." "We're closing the office today. And cancel your flight out."
The rest of the day has been flipping channels and reading news accounts... Does this sh*t have a point?
I remember reading an article on possible terrorist scenarios in Maxim in August of last year. It goes into some detail of possible scenarios. I remember thinking then that it sounded very plausible. But you kind of rely upon the fact that anything you read of this nature has been investigated by those in charge right? What with the events today, is it unreasonable to think it could happen anytime?
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Maybe we could get back to advances in software design and development? Less bloatware? Now that would be a real advance. Remember how MS Word 2.0 ran on Windows 3.11 on 486 DX2/66 with 20 mb of RAM - FAST!
You don't have to be a citizen to get a drivers license. You do need an SSN.
I am an Australian living in the US. I passed my driving test three years ago (the day after I got my SSN becuase I couldn't apply without it) and had to wait 10 months for my drivers license to arrive in the mail. The reason? The California DMV had to confirm my identity with the INS (I am sure you have heard about how many people they don't have a clue on their where abouts). Nothing has changed but hopefully they will do it quicker now. I gave up any rights of privacy the day I got off the boat.
Everybody knows the data is out there now it is just a matter of speeding up access to it. They get it wrong often enough now that you have time to correct it before your life is destroyed. I don't know what will happen when it is all connected at blazing speed and wrong.
I stumbled down the hall. My bags were packed by the door for my flight out at noon. I had been woken by the TV. Strange, me never watch TV in the mornings. The last time we did was the Santana High school shootings. It was just down the street.
My wife was glued to the set, her face illumined by the glow of the TV. It was only just after 6am in Southern California. With out looking at me she said an airplane had ran into one of the WTC Towers. I couldn't see the TV at the angle I was standing.
I mused out loud "Must have been a Cesna or something. Nothing big would ever get near downtown New York." I wondered if the people in my New York Office could see it, they are only a couple of blocks from there.
I move closer to the TV and can see more. "That wasn't no f*cking Cesna!" The smoking gaping whole in the first tower was black and ragged. It was at that moment that the second plane came into shot, tearing into the other tower. I think my jaw did actually drop. Last June I had been in New York. I had been in that tower.
A sense of dread seemed to fill me. What had just happened. Terrorists? Obviously. Then the news of the Pentagon. How long later was it when I reeceived a call from my boss "You heard?" "Yeah." "We're closing the office today. And cancel your flight out."
The rest of the day has been flipping channels and reading news accounts... Does this sh*t have a point?
I remember reading an article on possible terrorist scenarios in Maxim in August of last year. It goes into some detail of possible scenarios. I remember thinking then that it sounded very plausible. But you kind of rely upon the fact that anything you read of this nature has been investigated by those in charge right? What with the events today, is it unreasonable to think it could happen anytime?