This is forcing the states to adopt a certain way of issuing licenses and ID's. And whatever you call it, withholding federal funds is forcing them to do it. Your local DOT/DMV cannot function without those funds.
'electronic ID' does not necessarily mean RFID. A mag strip serves the same purpose. Machine readable, and contains "you".
Right. An ID card obviously can't 'stop' anyone from doing anything. It can make it easier to catch them, once they've done one thing wrong. Hopefully, before they do 'the big thing'.
It can also make it easier for other things to happen. Things not in our favor.
2 weeks before 9/11, Atta was stopped for speeding. Which "M. Atta" was he? The one wanted by the INS for overstaying his student visa? Or some random guy named M. Atta, that lives in a whole other state?
The INS/FBI is looking for Joe Smith, who lives at 123 Main St., Arlington VA. He has a license that shows this. He is stopped for speeding in Maryland, and gives the cop a Florida license that states he is Joe Smith, who lives at 456 Elm St, Tampa FL. The cop has no reason to suspect anything or call it in.
But they had valid ID. They were who they said they were.
The deal is, you're not supposed to have a 'valid' license from more than one state at a time. The various DMV's linking their data would (supposedly) prevent that from happening. Is M. Atta from Virginia the same guy as M. Atta from Florida or Maryland? Show a VA license in Florida, and the cop is less likely to follow up if he suspects something. Not that I agree with the way they are doing this.
No, it doesn't. It hasn't even passed the Senate yet. Dept of Homeland Security gets (if it passes) to determine the details of "machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements".
You know what? Even through your insults and name calling, I agree with you. Bush's invasion of Iraq was a major screwup. Should never have happened.
Out of context soundbite? No. In Clinton's speech to the JCS, he brings up the threat posed by Saddam and his WMD's several times. That was the central theme of the entire speech.
If we're going to say "They thought he had WMD's", as if it is a failing of Bush and Co, and only Bush and Co, let's be fair and bring everyone else to the table that said the exact same thing.
"If we look at the past and imagine that future, we will act as one together. And we still have, God willing, a chance to find a diplomatic resolution to this, and if not, God willing, the chance to do the right thing for our children and grandchildren." Bill Clinton Feb 17, 1998
That's right. They are all fuckwits. But whenever I see "these people thought there were WMD's", somehow inferring Bush and only Bush, it makes my blood boil because everyone else was saying the exact same thing.
"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Bill Clinton in 1998
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." -- President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998 (this from a speech to the Pentagon staff and the Joint Chiefs is an excellent read. Saying almost exactly the same things Bush was saying in 2002.)
"It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein wiill continue to increase his capability to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East which, as we know all too well, affects American security."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
This is one of the main faults (along with running as Administrator) in the MS world. The default location is easy to target, and everyone's PC is set up the same. C:\Program Files\... can be hardcoded into the malware to delete or otherwise cripple the target application.
Install elsewhere. I've found very, very few applications will not accept another partition to install to.
AudioBooksForFree is an excellent site. The free bitrate used to be better (but included ads). But it is still 'almost' usable. But for a minimal price of $120, you can get hundreds of hours (300 audiobooks) on 5 DVDs. Burn them out to CDs, and a cheap CD player will work just fine.
Same power problems as a PDA, though.
I've tried the text-to-speech books, and it loses so much in the translation as to be unusable. Human read are soooo much better.
I suppose if enough stink was made, the casino could x-ray the chips. Big letters inside "LUXOR", next to the now-defunct RFID chip, would identify the chips as theirs and valid.
I doubt the RFID functionality is the last word in valid/not valid chips.
Good question to ask when you get some chips, though.
And FreeBSD can't buy an ad that shows up when you search for Redhat.
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"Bands" that can't put on a decent live show aren't real bands anyway
The term 'band' is not the be and end all of music, even of popular music. Some concepts do not translate well into a live scenario.
Mike Oldfield, for instance. On Tubular Bells, he played each and every instrument, layered on the album. Cannot be duplicated live. Unless he grows a couple of dozen extra arms.
Bosnia Panama Somalia Kosovo I'm not defending GWB on escalating the endgame of the war started by Hussein in 1990, but this is most definately (and unfortunately) not the first. Nor will it be the last.
1975 - Lotsa folks ?? Where? Perhaps you're thinking of a decade earlier. Which was a continuation of the foolishness started by the French, a decade before that.
Refresh my memory, but just 5 short years ago, wasn't the democratic presidential candidate talking about reforming Social Security? Some guy named Al?
The intersection of the set of geeks who would go through this hassle and put up with the less than ideal fidelity, and the set of people who would actually talk on the phone for 3 hours is pretty damn small.
I can't imagine many teenage girls doing all that.
"a Nasa scientist has proposed"
"artificially created greenhouse gases could set the Martian climate simmering."
"This would take hundreds or even thousands of years."
Let's not get too carried away with the 'stupid idea' theme just yet. I don't think "now" is part of the equation.
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'electronic ID' does not necessarily mean RFID. A mag strip serves the same purpose. Machine readable, and contains "you".
It can also make it easier for other things to happen. Things not in our favor.
The INS/FBI is looking for Joe Smith, who lives at 123 Main St., Arlington VA. He has a license that shows this. He is stopped for speeding in Maryland, and gives the cop a Florida license that states he is Joe Smith, who lives at 456 Elm St, Tampa FL. The cop has no reason to suspect anything or call it in.
What address was on his other 3 licenses? Between the 19 guys, they had 63 'valid' licenses.
The deal is, you're not supposed to have a 'valid' license from more than one state at a time. The various DMV's linking their data would (supposedly) prevent that from happening. Is M. Atta from Virginia the same guy as M. Atta from Florida or Maryland? Show a VA license in Florida, and the cop is less likely to follow up if he suspects something.
Not that I agree with the way they are doing this.
The ACLU and the Gun Owners lobby on the same side in this argument.
No, it doesn't. It hasn't even passed the Senate yet. Dept of Homeland Security gets (if it passes) to determine the details of "machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements".
Out of context soundbite? No. In Clinton's speech to the JCS, he brings up the threat posed by Saddam and his WMD's several times. That was the central theme of the entire speech.
If we're going to say "They thought he had WMD's", as if it is a failing of Bush and Co, and only Bush and Co, let's be fair and bring everyone else to the table that said the exact same thing.
"If we look at the past and imagine that future, we will act as one together. And we still have, God willing, a chance to find a diplomatic resolution to this, and if not, God willing, the chance to do the right thing for our children and grandchildren."
Bill Clinton Feb 17, 1998
That's right. They are all fuckwits. But whenever I see "these people thought there were WMD's", somehow inferring Bush and only Bush, it makes my blood boil because everyone else was saying the exact same thing.
These people?.
"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow."
-- Bill Clinton in 1998
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
-- President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
(this from a speech to the Pentagon staff and the Joint Chiefs is an excellent read. Saying almost exactly the same things Bush was saying in 2002.)
"It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein wiill continue to increase his capability to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East which, as we know all too well, affects American security."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
Install elsewhere. I've found very, very few applications will not accept another partition to install to.
Same power problems as a PDA, though.
I've tried the text-to-speech books, and it loses so much in the translation as to be unusable. Human read are soooo much better.
I doubt the RFID functionality is the last word in valid/not valid chips.
Good question to ask when you get some chips, though.
BX/PX/NAVEX at almost every military base in the USA. But in that case, other penalties might come to bear.
And FreeBSD can't buy an ad that shows up when you search for Redhat.
The term 'band' is not the be and end all of music, even of popular music. Some concepts do not translate well into a live scenario.
Mike Oldfield, for instance. On Tubular Bells, he played each and every instrument, layered on the album. Cannot be duplicated live. Unless he grows a couple of dozen extra arms.
When I go camping, the last thing I'd think of bringing is a small scale movie theater and all the other delicate electronics needed.
eBay
Mary Kay
Oprah
Avon
Hearst Magazines
Playboy
When have the last major deployments of US forces occurred?
2001 - GWB
1991 - GHWB
1975 - Lotsa folks
WWII, WWI..
Bosnia
Panama
Somalia
Kosovo
I'm not defending GWB on escalating the endgame of the war started by Hussein in 1990, but this is most definately (and unfortunately) not the first. Nor will it be the last.
1975 - Lotsa folks ?? Where? Perhaps you're thinking of a decade earlier. Which was a continuation of the foolishness started by the French, a decade before that.
Amazing that there were no wars anywhere in the world until Bush came on the scene in 2001.
Why yes, I believe he was.
How come when Bush proposes changing it, it's a BadThing, but when a Democrat says the same thing, it's a GoodThing?
Or, we could revert back to the Jimmy Carter pronunciuation - noo kee er
The intersection of the set of geeks who would go through this hassle and put up with the less than ideal fidelity, and the set of people who would actually talk on the phone for 3 hours is pretty damn small.
I can't imagine many teenage girls doing all that.
You're new here, right?
"artificially created greenhouse gases could set the Martian climate simmering."
"This would take hundreds or even thousands of years."
Let's not get too carried away with the 'stupid idea' theme just yet. I don't think "now" is part of the equation.