The thing I don't understand is that the Christian right gets all upset with democrats saying that democrats want increased governance of people, whereas the republicans want less. I have not seen this trend at all of late.
i suppose i'm an anally retentious bonehead by thinking that this DRM thing is a "gateway drug" of sorts that will lead to the creation of new laws that can manage content on DVDRW etc. it's the straw that breaks the camel's back that we have to worry about. as a female i worry about my reproductive rights-> if roe v. wade is overturned anytime soon, politicians can chip away at my reproductive rights bit-by-bit so that women-kind will be left in the dark ages again without birthcontrol or anything. it's all the same thing.
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What really bothers me is that this process is going to add so much more time and aggrivation to flying. It's already bad enough x-raying shoes. Many airports here in the states are small or just can't facilitate enough security checkpoints to filter the amount of people the airport handles. Another thing is (I heard this on NPR yesterday) that the biometric data will be compared to US criminal records of drug lords and other wanted criminals, etc, since there isn't a conclusive list of terrorists. I mean, by definition terrorists are random people who probably will blow themselves up, so it'll be hard to keep tabs on them, unless they are "top dog" like OBL. People screaming about privacy infringement have a point that the kept names, faces, and fingerprints of foreigners can be used for "evil" rather than good. We can just look at the stolen election of 2000 in Florida as Jeb and his cronies (incl attorney general) turned a lot of the state's poor democrats into felons from other states by making name matches. Personally, I'm a believer in the possibility for all things made to be unmade, and that in a Godelian way no systems can be totally secure. Although the plan has good intentions, it won't stop much.
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The thing I don't understand is that the Christian right gets all upset with democrats saying that democrats want increased governance of people, whereas the republicans want less. I have not seen this trend at all of late.
i suppose i'm an anally retentious bonehead by thinking that this DRM thing is a "gateway drug" of sorts that will lead to the creation of new laws that can manage content on DVDRW etc. it's the straw that breaks the camel's back that we have to worry about. as a female i worry about my reproductive rights-> if roe v. wade is overturned anytime soon, politicians can chip away at my reproductive rights bit-by-bit so that women-kind will be left in the dark ages again without birthcontrol or anything. it's all the same thing.
I chose "random" poorly; I meant that there is little reason why the US would have tabs on the minions/expendables who would commit acts.
My British Passport doesn't What really bothers me is that this process is going to add so much more time and aggrivation to flying. It's already bad enough x-raying shoes. Many airports here in the states are small or just can't facilitate enough security checkpoints to filter the amount of people the airport handles. Another thing is (I heard this on NPR yesterday) that the biometric data will be compared to US criminal records of drug lords and other wanted criminals, etc, since there isn't a conclusive list of terrorists. I mean, by definition terrorists are random people who probably will blow themselves up, so it'll be hard to keep tabs on them, unless they are "top dog" like OBL. People screaming about privacy infringement have a point that the kept names, faces, and fingerprints of foreigners can be used for "evil" rather than good. We can just look at the stolen election of 2000 in Florida as Jeb and his cronies (incl attorney general) turned a lot of the state's poor democrats into felons from other states by making name matches. Personally, I'm a believer in the possibility for all things made to be unmade, and that in a Godelian way no systems can be totally secure. Although the plan has good intentions, it won't stop much.