If there is some sort of plan to turn Americans into a passive, watched population, it's working. People actively want to be spied upon. It makes them feel "safer."
Oh, the irony, huh? People don't want to be babysat by the big bad government, they want "freedom" and "non-interference," but what is this? Really?
I've had several laser treatments for retinal tears lately. Something like that would really fuck things up for me, having to change my information for each treatment...? And I'm sure they'd make it difficult, if not possible to change this information. Even when you have legitimate medical reasons to do so. Just to be the assholes they are.
Probably because it's not new and cool and hip? Most of us have been conditioned to believe that old technology = bad, new technology = good. RFID = good...
Why bother? American tourists are very easy to spot without having to resort to fancy technology. Just follow the bright white sneakers and the loud complaints about the food, the hotel, the prices, etc. etc...
The trackers could be attached to every can of beer in the case, and allow marketers to track the boozing habits of the purchasers.
If I bought a few cases of beer, it doesn't necessarily say anything about my boozing habits. I could very well be a teetotaler who doesn't mind that others drink, and that I'm buying a bunch of beer for a party.
I mean, is it so hard to understand why someone would want to know when they're out of something and should go buy more?
I (and lots of others) have no problems remembering to pick up a liter or two of milk on the way home from work, and this is without having to have some chip installed in my refrigerator, recycling bin, garbage can, whatever...
My gripe is their having to sneak around to get information they could simply ask me for. And usually, all this sneaking around leads to the collection of wrong information and we're all stuck with advertising that really isn't geared towards who we really are after all...
What ever happened to the straightforward and honest approach to getting shopping habits demographic information?
Although the orificium venti generally opens through a horizontal
slit in the Spheniscidae, the orifice becomes circular during evacuation (King 1981; Watson 1883).
A more interesting (indirect) study on viscosity was the study on penguin poo, one of the Ig Nobel winners.
From the article: Our best estimate for the semi-liquid faeces of the penguin is a viscosity that lies between that of glycol (lower value,
g=0.02 Pa s) and considerably below that of glycerine (upper value, g=1.5 Pa s: Landolt and Börnstein 1955). That of olive oil (g=0.08) seems a fair approximation.
I'll pick up my phone to talk to my friends... you know what those are, right? And my family. I shouldn't have to filter calls each and every time the phone rings.
And there is no inhibition of free speech...just inhibition of being harassed by psychopathic sellers and politicians. Or do you also think it's OK to scream "fire" in a crowded theater? That's also free speech.
Your stance involves disrespect -- you are issuing a blanket stance that anyone who wants to contact you is not worth your time.
Because they're not. I want to be left alone. And these useless asshats who want to harass me with their filth better damn well respect that. If I want information, I know where to get it.
And why should I have to be the one wasting my energy in calling everyone, telling them not to call me?
As for the private do-not-call list, what a joke! Do you reallly trust private industry with such a thing? Oh wait, I know the answer to that...
Your apathy is disturbing. You can indeed make a difference, whether locally or on a state or national level.
A lot of people are making a difference by pushing for legislation to prevent tele-terror from sellers, scammers, politicians, and other similar scum. It's what the people want.
I believe that an individual has the right to have an organiztion stop contacting them.
Only after first contact. And you want to deny people the right to not be contacted? Why? What happened to you to make you so disrespectful of others? Is that what your political agenda is all about? Disrespect?
If you like being called, fine. Just because you like it doesn't mean everyone else does.
An honest person would not be upset over a list of people who don't want to be contacted. An honest person would show respect for the people who don't want to be contacted.
You cannot be an honest person. You deliberatly dismiss people's wishes not to be contacted. Therefore, a lowlife scammer whose only way of getting his point across is to harass people.
You are very selfish, because it's all about you you you and your kind, and not about respecting others. But apparently you don't care about that - you just care about harassing people like some sick stalker...
Is that what you are? A convicted stalker? You certainly think like one...
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Yep, you did. Now please hande me that jug of brain bleach over there...
Oh, the irony, huh? People don't want to be babysat by the big bad government, they want "freedom" and "non-interference," but what is this? Really?
And the other 50% of those who have nothing to hide really ought to cover up a little...
I've had several laser treatments for retinal tears lately. Something like that would really fuck things up for me, having to change my information for each treatment...? And I'm sure they'd make it difficult, if not possible to change this information. Even when you have legitimate medical reasons to do so. Just to be the assholes they are.
Ooooooh! I can get one of those and wear it the next time I go to London, and run around in a Tube station in it...!! *does happy penguin dance*
Puh. All your country needs to do is sit on our country and we're lost...
Probably because it's not new and cool and hip? Most of us have been conditioned to believe that old technology = bad, new technology = good. RFID = good...
Why bother? American tourists are very easy to spot without having to resort to fancy technology. Just follow the bright white sneakers and the loud complaints about the food, the hotel, the prices, etc. etc...
*sigh*
Remind me to go out and buy a tinfoil money belt the next time I go on a trip...
HAHAHAHA, true enough! :-D
What exactly can this stuff make you do that 50 espresso shots can't?
Watch out. That stuff is addictive. And expensive...
I care. And it has nothing to do with whether I buy Stinger missles or not. It's not your or anyone else's fucking business what I buy. Or don't buy.
If I bought a few cases of beer, it doesn't necessarily say anything about my boozing habits. I could very well be a teetotaler who doesn't mind that others drink, and that I'm buying a bunch of beer for a party.
I (and lots of others) have no problems remembering to pick up a liter or two of milk on the way home from work, and this is without having to have some chip installed in my refrigerator, recycling bin, garbage can, whatever...
My gripe is their having to sneak around to get information they could simply ask me for. And usually, all this sneaking around leads to the collection of wrong information and we're all stuck with advertising that really isn't geared towards who we really are after all...
What ever happened to the straightforward and honest approach to getting shopping habits demographic information?
From the study Pressures produced when penguins poohcalculations on avian defaecation :
Although the orificium venti generally opens through a horizontal slit in the Spheniscidae, the orifice becomes circular during evacuation (King 1981; Watson 1883).
Here's proof?
From the article: Our best estimate for the semi-liquid faeces of the penguin is a viscosity that lies between that of glycol (lower value, g=0.02 Pa s) and considerably below that of glycerine (upper value, g=1.5 Pa s: Landolt and Börnstein 1955). That of olive oil (g=0.08) seems a fair approximation.
Go and swim in that!
Ten liters of ice cream...with a side of chocolate ;-)
And there is no inhibition of free speech...just inhibition of being harassed by psychopathic sellers and politicians. Or do you also think it's OK to scream "fire" in a crowded theater? That's also free speech.
Because they're not. I want to be left alone. And these useless asshats who want to harass me with their filth better damn well respect that. If I want information, I know where to get it.
And why should I have to be the one wasting my energy in calling everyone, telling them not to call me?
As for the private do-not-call list, what a joke! Do you reallly trust private industry with such a thing? Oh wait, I know the answer to that...
A lot of people are making a difference by pushing for legislation to prevent tele-terror from sellers, scammers, politicians, and other similar scum. It's what the people want.
Only after first contact. And you want to deny people the right to not be contacted? Why? What happened to you to make you so disrespectful of others? Is that what your political agenda is all about? Disrespect?
If you like being called, fine. Just because you like it doesn't mean everyone else does.
You cannot be an honest person. You deliberatly dismiss people's wishes not to be contacted. Therefore, a lowlife scammer whose only way of getting his point across is to harass people.
Is that what you are? A convicted stalker? You certainly think like one...