I suspect that most opposition to this is merely knee-jerk reaction to biometrics.
For me, it's just a knee-jerk reaction to McDonald. Once, while I was on vacation in London, I went inside a McDonald and there were employee report cards posted on its wall. Each report had the name and the picture of each employee, plus a certain percentage was assigned to each behavior they were supposed to accomplish.
Did the employee smile when greeting the customer? 70%
Was the employee courteous? 80%
etc.
Those things had purposefully been posted so that all the customers could read them. Some employees had very high grades and some had very low ones. It had to be one of the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I don't see why in the hell they wanted their customers to see all of this.
Great choice of metaphor. Others would probably have compared this to the possession of an identity card which was not yours and a reputation which was not yours, but somehow your creative mind managed to find a metaphor that completely ignored those two little facts.
Would you mind if I borrowed your reputation and an official copy of your birth certificate? I swear I'm only going to use your reputation and your identity when I'm in a foreign country. This shouldn't matter to you, right? You'll probably never go to that foreign country anyway. And since everyone else is doing this already, your reputation won't really be tarnished because most people know that identity cards are meaningless anyway. So what do you say? Will you let me use all that wasted potential?
I had a brand new MSN email account which I never used and which I never gave out to anyone, but I still managed to rack up 264 spam messages in one year.
For mailing lists and whatnot, you can also just use spamgourmet.com, once you understand how it works, it's kind of simpler because you only need to remember one email address.
May be you should talk to the Barbie twins then. After appearing in Playboy, they were contacted by Mattel, but the Mattel lawyers gave up as soon as they found out Barbie was their original last name.
May be when they're 5 or 6 years old, I'll let them get away with a sentence or two, but then after that I'll be a little bit more demanding.
Ideally, I'd also like to teach them how to structure and organize their thoughts.
If the Israeli government does switch pretty soon every single business in Israel will find that they have to have at least one machine lying around with OpenOffice.org on it.
Or they could save their documents to an open format. It's an extra step, it's a little annoying, but it's doable.
One thing that I might try if/when I'm a parent is to force my kids to do a written report on anything they watch on television. If this idea doesn't work, my kids won't get to watch television. I know this idea sounds like a sacrilege to some of you parents out there, but living without a television is not such a big deal -- I've been television free for four years now.
If we're going to run out of oil anyways, and if the combustion engine is such a threat to our environment, then why wait? Why not deal with it now?
Exactely, the oil argument is just an assumption on our part. Oil may just be like food. A long time ago, everyone predicted we would run out of food but we never did. Whatever happens, we want to be in control of the Oil supply so we can maintain our dominion over other countries.
You're making the mistake of thinking that global warming must mean that temperatures everywhere must necessarily increase. But that isn't necessarily the case.
You're interpreting the facts to fit the prediction. You must be really adept at reading your horoscope.
That's not true. I was part of an international internship exchange program and we had so many few students willing to go to developing countries, it wasn't a problem getting them visas to work there. Usually, there is the principle of reciprocity at work here. The US government was willing to allocate us more US work visas if we could send more American citizens abroad as well.
Hello, where did you pull that out of? India has over a billion people with far less the area of the US. There aren't any big houses here except for 100 year old bungalows. Few people have houses with more than 2 or 3 rooms with barely enough space to put a couple of beds.
Well, this may be due to the disparity in wealth or the disparity in population density, but I have an Indian friend in the US who's talking about possibly retiring to India in a big Mansion with servants. Is he full of shit?
Aren't you forgetting c: Unethical?
What's unethical about hiring help for the house? Are you going to offer them better jobs? Would you rather they live on government welfare checks instead?
Sadly, this appears to fall into the "globalization" groupthink. It's a "free market economy" therefore it must be good...right?
Speaking of groupthink, let the managers and the consumers make their own individual decisions. Will they make mistakes? Sure, some of them will. We're all humans afterall. But what you're advocating is groupthink, anti-globalization is nothing but a group wanting to override the decisions made by each individual consumer and each individual manager.
Speaking as someone with a dual US/EU citizenship who studied in the US and who investigated studying in the UK as well. I can tell you the financial aid system is much much worst for the student here in the US. I know the student loan phenomena in the UK is relatively new and I know that everyone over there is still bitching about it, but you guys have it way better over there.
Under the current system and under certain circumstances you can sue for punitive damages in addition to the damages made to your car. In my view, that's much better than getting the police to issue a ticket because you get to keep the money and the burden of proof on your part is much lighter to make.
Of course, I wouldn't count on receiving punitive damages if the accident was just an honest mistake. Mistakes happen. We're only humans. I'm sure paying for the repairs was more than an adequate punishment for the person who committed the mistake.
If this happens again, make sure you go to a repair place which is not approved/suggested by your insurance company and be sure to request brandnew and brandname replacement parts and last but not least you will have to inspect them for authenticity before they get installed.
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For me, it's just a knee-jerk reaction to McDonald. Once, while I was on vacation in London, I went inside a McDonald and there were employee report cards posted on its wall. Each report had the name and the picture of each employee, plus a certain percentage was assigned to each behavior they were supposed to accomplish.
Did the employee smile when greeting the customer? 70%
Was the employee courteous? 80%
etc.
Those things had purposefully been posted so that all the customers could read them. Some employees had very high grades and some had very low ones. It had to be one of the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I don't see why in the hell they wanted their customers to see all of this.
It could also have been stolen out of his mailbox. Who's gonna know?
Would you mind if I borrowed your reputation and an official copy of your birth certificate? I swear I'm only going to use your reputation and your identity when I'm in a foreign country. This shouldn't matter to you, right? You'll probably never go to that foreign country anyway. And since everyone else is doing this already, your reputation won't really be tarnished because most people know that identity cards are meaningless anyway. So what do you say? Will you let me use all that wasted potential?
No thanks. I think I've made my point to the parent without needing to learn what APS was about.
It's not hard, but your method is not foolproof.
I had a brand new MSN email account which I never used and which I never gave out to anyone, but I still managed to rack up 264 spam messages in one year.
For mailing lists and whatnot, you can also just use spamgourmet.com, once you understand how it works, it's kind of simpler because you only need to remember one email address.
Its solution is basicely the same as yours, plus it's free and it doesn't require you to have your own domain name.
What's APS?
May be you should talk to the Barbie twins then. After appearing in Playboy, they were contacted by Mattel, but the Mattel lawyers gave up as soon as they found out Barbie was their original last name.
May be when they're 5 or 6 years old, I'll let them get away with a sentence or two, but then after that I'll be a little bit more demanding. Ideally, I'd also like to teach them how to structure and organize their thoughts.
Or they could save their documents to an open format. It's an extra step, it's a little annoying, but it's doable.
One thing that I might try if/when I'm a parent is to force my kids to do a written report on anything they watch on television. If this idea doesn't work, my kids won't get to watch television. I know this idea sounds like a sacrilege to some of you parents out there, but living without a television is not such a big deal -- I've been television free for four years now.
They have SCO, we have Michael Robertson.
Technically, the PATRIOT acts still require a judge to ok the warrants. It's just that the criterion for issuing such warrants is much much lower now.
Exactely, the oil argument is just an assumption on our part. Oil may just be like food. A long time ago, everyone predicted we would run out of food but we never did. Whatever happens, we want to be in control of the Oil supply so we can maintain our dominion over other countries.
I can't believe such a patronizing and insultful comment was modded up as insightful.
You're interpreting the facts to fit the prediction. You must be really adept at reading your horoscope.
You're right. My mistake, I looked at the wrong profile. The guy is really a troll.
Notice the creative use of names for the patent application. No wonder the patent office couldn't find prior art.
What about you? Why did you post as an anonymous coward anyway?
That's not true. I was part of an international internship exchange program and we had so many few students willing to go to developing countries, it wasn't a problem getting them visas to work there. Usually, there is the principle of reciprocity at work here. The US government was willing to allocate us more US work visas if we could send more American citizens abroad as well.
Well, this may be due to the disparity in wealth or the disparity in population density, but I have an Indian friend in the US who's talking about possibly retiring to India in a big Mansion with servants. Is he full of shit?
Aren't you forgetting c: Unethical?
What's unethical about hiring help for the house? Are you going to offer them better jobs? Would you rather they live on government welfare checks instead?
Speaking of groupthink, let the managers and the consumers make their own individual decisions. Will they make mistakes? Sure, some of them will. We're all humans afterall. But what you're advocating is groupthink, anti-globalization is nothing but a group wanting to override the decisions made by each individual consumer and each individual manager.
But the cheap T-shirts and the cheap software will be coming back.
Speaking as someone with a dual US/EU citizenship who studied in the US and who investigated studying in the UK as well. I can tell you the financial aid system is much much worst for the student here in the US. I know the student loan phenomena in the UK is relatively new and I know that everyone over there is still bitching about it, but you guys have it way better over there.
Of course, I wouldn't count on receiving punitive damages if the accident was just an honest mistake. Mistakes happen. We're only humans. I'm sure paying for the repairs was more than an adequate punishment for the person who committed the mistake.
If this happens again, make sure you go to a repair place which is not approved/suggested by your insurance company and be sure to request brandnew and brandname replacement parts and last but not least you will have to inspect them for authenticity before they get installed.