...there probably isn't anything they can't know about a person...
True, if you consider the collection of numbers that identify you to be everything about you. But don't you think that people that are trying to hide things about themselves would have a way to do so, under the radar? Not everyone uses credit cards, many people don't drive, lots don't register their dogs.
Seems to me that such a system really works best on people with nothing to hide - which contradicts the very purpose for which it is intended.
Isn't it important to get beyond icons? What good are these symbols of freedom and liberty, if the land for which they stand no longer holds firm to those ideals in the face of some threat from abroad? How can Lady Liberty mean anything in this country today, where immigrants are rounded up and shipped off for the slightest violation of the conditions of their stay?
Map the monuments, but understand that without truth and ideals behind them, they are only rusting metal and eroding stone.
Two years ago I worked for free for two months as a web developer for a then-struggling firm - but I was rank amateur, with little in the skills department. At the end of my two months I was offered a full time position, so I have to admit I realize some value in the pro bono approach, but only if you're approaching this work as a newbie. If you have skills and real experience and you work for free, good luck. Now maybe if IT workers had any sense of community/union/organization...eh, forget it.
It does appear as if anyone with half a brain (left-half, of course) will not be foiled by these measures.
This measure sounds like censor "appeasement". Now where have I heard that before...
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True, if you consider the collection of numbers that identify you to be everything about you. But don't you think that people that are trying to hide things about themselves would have a way to do so, under the radar? Not everyone uses credit cards, many people don't drive, lots don't register their dogs.
Seems to me that such a system really works best on people with nothing to hide - which contradicts the very purpose for which it is intended.
Isn't it important to get beyond icons? What good are these symbols of freedom and liberty, if the land for which they stand no longer holds firm to those ideals in the face of some threat from abroad? How can Lady Liberty mean anything in this country today, where immigrants are rounded up and shipped off for the slightest violation of the conditions of their stay?
Map the monuments, but understand that without truth and ideals behind them, they are only rusting metal and eroding stone.
Two years ago I worked for free for two months as a web developer for a then-struggling firm - but I was rank amateur, with little in the skills department. At the end of my two months I was offered a full time position, so I have to admit I realize some value in the pro bono approach, but only if you're approaching this work as a newbie. If you have skills and real experience and you work for free, good luck. Now maybe if IT workers had any sense of community/union/organization...eh, forget it.
It does appear as if anyone with half a brain (left-half, of course) will not be foiled by these measures. This measure sounds like censor "appeasement". Now where have I heard that before...