"The goal was to encourage as much expensive publication as possible so that as many people as possible could be exposed to the country's current thoughts."
I think you meant "expAnsive", vice "expensive".
However, considering that this country inspires entrepreneurialism, and rewards large corporations, it would not surprise me if you really DID mean "expensive". Just look at the cost of school books and supplementary matter. Should not the DVD or CD versions of educational lecture material and course books have come DOWN? Yes, but your also hit the nail on the head with:
"The marginal cost of copies is neglegible."
and with:
" Outside the computer industry things can be even worse. For every book you see at the major chain stores, there are hundreds in warehouses and thousands that never saw publication."
Thanks to greedy and vapid publishers and colleges that seem to not be putting pressure on these course material suppliers (oh, could it be a mass collusion going on here, between the deans/instructors and the sales rep or/for the publishers?) the cost of education will be as high as these people can pump and jack it up. They continue to publish books that cost them little for a certain range of copies, but to make up for all that excess or reserve in the event there are fewer paper sales, they would be loath to reduce the cost of CD copies. Shame...
Yeh... slightly enlarged brains, a few more cells, and fewer but smaller teeth make us more "robust"...
okay.... Fortunately eye see that our eyes have not shrank to that of Guinea Pigs nor have we undergoing eye enlargement of the Chupacabra (of the movie) kind...
How do you explain a "Deaf Leopard" or a "Deaf Leper"? With "Def Leopard"?
As for "Mad" and "Onna", well, if you give one word to English and one to Japanese, you have "Crazy Woman"... Not much of an explanation, but plenty of definition:
But, even if she IS crazy, she is RICH as hell... and crazy and rich in her case could go together well.. (On Meesa planet weesa call da crazy woman buku royale..)
Assertion? Well, that's better than naked aggression. But, naked insertion....
Anyway...
If the twin black holes took up orbit around Uranus, I could see the pucker factor going up a few notches... Due to such proximity, it is clear that the stresses would tear the rings of Uranus apart, sending the solar system, if not the galaxy, stumbling along in a throbbing, coalescing sort of way...
Unfortunately, such an idea would make Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang eligible for a re-make, as bored as hollywood is these days...
Hold on... I'll get back in about 5 centons...
(Wait, my random sentence generator is bunging...)
Well, I was all eyes for the article I partly read yesterday or early this am.
Well, even IF the eyes transmit like a network, the eye study is not apples and apples. More like oranges and mangoes.
How many libraries of eye sockets worth of information is that?
I mean, look at the size of the Guinea pig's eye. Of COURSE it transmits less energy. I mean more data to the brain. It's not as if it enlarges to accommodate more data. Hell, the human eye is probably 10 times LARGER without expanding. But, I suppose if the eyes DID expand when more data rate was demanded, such information overloads would lead to a whole new meaning of eye-socket-to-yah....
What *I* wanna know is how the eyes of bats comaare to the Guinea Pig and the Chupacabra. And to hell with human eyes. I'm talking about the MOVIE "Chupacabra".
Hmmm... now putting together Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey", with an infinite number of chimpanzees, and an infinite number of typewriters, and a HUGE rheostat, you indeed MIGHT get "War and Peace", but you'll surely have some funky monkeys in the end...
heheh V funny... Actually I was at LEAST 30 yo by then, and alive and well in SF.
The FBI nicked him and his tribe/harem/cloister in the botched crawling on the compound building. I understand they fired gas grenades or something and lit the frick'n place ablaze, and in the melee/chaos several of their own and other agents were shot and killed.
Yep, this is nuts.
But, I saw in SF on a club wall after that event:
"COPE OR DIE"
THAT resurfaced in my memory when you asked if I were David Koresh...
Ahh, a trip down memory lane....
"Cope or die...."
heheh.. slash image word: "erasable"... well, hmmm, I guess most of us are in that category...
----
Oh, that reminds me of Rev Jim Jones... For a few months (before I went to the fleet) I was a student in a Navy program in 1984 in San Diego. We had some coasties, Marines and the rest of us were swabbies. One Marine (nutty and crazy, they are) came up with or passed down to us a Jodie call we used during PT (physical training), and we sang it up and down the jogging trails, the streets, the grinder (parade/marching field)...
It is to the tune of "Downtown" (from the pre-60's I think)
"WHEN your're DOWN and OUT AND you're READY to SHOUT WON'T you COME and SING with JIM-JONES!
WHEN you're GOOD and BROKE ANND your reLIGION's a JOKE WON'T you COME AND SING WITH JIM-JONES!
WATCH-the-REV'REND-AS-HE-STIRS-A-POSHUN-THAT'S-SO- LETHAL LISten-to-the-ANGry-CRIES-of-ALL-the-DYing-PEOple EV'RY-ONE-DIES! NO-ONE SURVIVES! CUZ-WE'RE at JOOONES-TOWN! PEE-POHL-R-dropping-LIKE-FLIES!
CONgressman Rye was on a MISSION to SPY But he WOULDN'T DRINK with JIM-Jones! For SUCH a PUBLIC DISGRACE They HADDA BLOW-OFF HIS FACE! Cause he WOULDN'T DRINK with JIM-Jones!
WATCH-the-REV'REND-AS-HE-STIRS-A-POSHUN-THAT'S-SO- LETHAL LISten-to-the-ANGry-CRIES-of-ALL-the-DYing-PEOple EV'RY-ONE-DIES! NO-ONE SURVIVES! CUZ-WE'RE at JOOONES-TOWN! PEE-POHL-R-dropping-LIKE-FLIES!
JONEZ-town... JONES-town... Jonestown..."
There was a 3rd verse/stanza, but it's been so many years that I cannot remember.
Interesting thing is is that we (some 40 of us in our platoon) did this near the SSC/NTC commander headquarters and on the way to MCRD. Several staff and other base officers paused, but didn't look aghast, too shaken, surprised, or even stunned. Just mildly curious. Probably they noticed the Marines by their physice and bellowing voice with us swabbies in tow, keeping pace.
This is ONLY funny in the grand scheme of human brutality and bizarre conduct, well, if one can consider life a big-ass joke.
(I didn't author the jody, and I never could find it on the Net over the years. But in the style as I have written it I reserve all rights to use it in any of my other writings...) Otherwise, I have no ability to nor any interst in preventing its further dissemination.)
Whoaaa... slow down.. your erudite verbal challenge is commendable. But, hold on a bit cuz bill gates' brain is still draining out his ears, and ballmer is still hurling chairs.
Give'm time. They'll figure it out.. Wait, no.. give em HELL.
Wow, so propitious or timely: slash word image: "fervent"... that could describe you, my friend...
In that case, better build a dome on the dark side of the moon. But if they find it, it'll be the
Marked side of the dune... (okay, a bad Spoonerism)
If I had that kind of money, I'd surely find my own abode, buy an island somewhere OUTSIDE of the US, then one at a time buy a few ships, crew them internationally, then DARE anyone to attack it. See, if they do attack it, they attackers would be telling the world F.U., which I hope the world would most certainly redress/address real quicklike....
Maybe the ACLU should encourage EVERYbody to know EVERYbody. Then, the TSA will have some REAL work load and have to do a REAL job for a change. Then, all flyers show up at the last minute. When the planes have to leave empty, the airlines will scream murder down the necks of the pricks using the no-fly list beyone what it is supposed to be.
Assholes, if you SCAN a person and there are not any traces of this or that banned/suspicious substance on their person or in their luggage, then don't hinder their flying. Otherwise, JAIL them under charges that are real. We live. We die. But like the reckless fisherman out for tuna, all sorts of other items/people get caught up in the drag/trawl net.
Pretty soon, someon'll extend this to: "The No RAIL" system, "The NO BUS" system. "The Nor RAZOR/Scooter" system, and "The NO CAB" system. (Months ago, I rode in a cab in SF and saw a camera watching me in the back seat...). They won't be satisfied until one too many a prominent person is delayed one time too many. Hopefully, such a person does the right thing and rips some ass, once and for all.
This is absolutely nuts. No longer Innocent til proved guilty. RFID/Biometric passports. All because a few assholes dump their friends, kick over a hornet's nest or two, then want all the rest of us to be stung for it.
I suppose next (if not already in existence) there will be an "unreliable/unable to clear for patriotism/hireability background check..." meaning no matter your grades, your interviews (if you don't get screened out in advance), your community service/volunteer work, no matter you passion to SAVE the world by legal/non-violent means, you're FUCKED.
(Cross the cabal, the cadge, the cloister, and you're doomed.
Maybe somebody ought to crack the lottery and share the money with those burned for trying to save the world?)
But, as it is, some employers so much want to wring/extract utility from employees and contractors they don't even want to contract or hire them/us unless they/we have a frickin' car. And I'm using public transit cuz I cannot afford a car, and if I could, I'd STILL use public transit to be just ONE MORE PERSON trying to minimize the oil addiction.
I suppose I'm on all sorts of shit list by now, if not long ago...
the mod who gave me 0, troll must be a hyper-reactionary religious nutcase, or must be an employee or benefactor of the pharma/biomeds, or both... or something else...
Any astute person would realize a wee bit of irony and sarcasm (and poor wit, too) in my previous post: IF "god" didn't want humans to access the DNA, then "god" would have used his/her/its hand to keep humans out.
Now, I'll chance the bush-clan reaction:
IF "god" is allowing scientists to access the "wrapper" or second DNA layer just (supposedly just) discovered, then the administration has no fucking business calling the shots. Fortunately, OTHER countries are seeing fit to exploit this information. I just hope the exploitation is for the GOOD injured/defect-affected and not JUST the PROFIT of some businesses.
Shee, some people need to get some sex (or, to borrow a phrase from the auto-checkout thread... some "electron-auto-erotic strangulation stimulation) and lay off the 0, troll mod power...
Well, hopefully these extra "wrappers" will stop companies and certain governments from "playing god".
Unfortunately, if there IS a god out there (the kind that certain people prefer to kill in the name of) he/she/it doesn't seem too interested in keeping certain secrets extremely well-protected. Almost as if allowing humans to go ahead and violate certain aspects of nature, life, mortality...
I was suggesting that preexisting files "in the way" might get overwritten. Has anyone outside of ms actually tried this on a disk that has preexisting data? It could be not just a way of making installs faster, but some sly excuse to deter dual-booting.
So much for the person who decided my comment was overrated and stole a point from me...
Yeh, but having slapped against him "totally-unrelated charges" gives an air of legitimacy to the charges (whether they are true/genuine or not). The 180 degree relation just deflects the c/t assertions and feeds the ammo belt of the pro-slap-down factions of/within government.
Of course, if they guy DID tamper with evidence, files, and engage in money-laundering, he's gonna wish he never bit those bytes...
Power surge my ass.. I think they're "rebooting" their "net" so as to make sure the new government surveillance package will properly download to all subscriber and all susceptible visitor computers...
(Opps, SHIT, my tin-foil hat fell off again...)
BTW, Today's SF Chron says that in 2008, the federally-imposed "Real ID" act will affect ALL or some 22 MILLION holders of CA-issued DMV licenses/IDs. THREE pieces of federally-recognized ID are required to obtain this new ID. I only read the front portion that was visible in the newsstand box.
So unreal.... I don't suppose I lived thru fascism like my age-seniors did, but I guess I'm going to find out first hand...
With the rattiness of some of the neighborhoods I live in, part of my mind thinks this will be a GREAT WAY (in the government's mind) of rounding up the least-likely-to-be-gainfully-employed based on their lack of REAL ID possession. Soylent Green, anyone?
(Re-cocking my tin-foil hat and varnishing it will molybdenum-duodenium coats...)
Well, it costs more to have it in black... Don't you see? If they mimic Apple, then they'll be geeks with class... and their customers can joint the elite ranks of the discriminating (as in cool with class) Apple users, hehehe...
(What's that joke? Many windoze users are smart, but Mac users are smart AND have class, or something like that?)
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"The goal was to encourage as much expensive publication as possible so that as many people as possible could be exposed to the country's current thoughts."
I think you meant "expAnsive", vice "expensive".
However, considering that this country inspires entrepreneurialism, and rewards large corporations, it would not surprise me if you really DID mean "expensive". Just look at the cost of school books and supplementary matter. Should not the DVD or CD versions of educational lecture material and course books have come DOWN? Yes, but your also hit the nail on the head with:
"The marginal cost of copies is neglegible."
and with:
" Outside the computer industry things can be even worse. For every book you see at the major chain stores, there are hundreds in warehouses and thousands that never saw publication."
Thanks to greedy and vapid publishers and colleges that seem to not be putting pressure on these course material suppliers (oh, could it be a mass collusion going on here, between the deans/instructors and the sales rep or/for the publishers?) the cost of education will be as high as these people can pump and jack it up. They continue to publish books that cost them little for a certain range of copies, but to make up for all that excess or reserve in the event there are fewer paper sales, they would be loath to reduce the cost of CD copies. Shame...
And, unadulterated sham...
Yeh... slightly enlarged brains, a few more cells, and fewer but smaller teeth make us more "robust"...
okay.... Fortunately eye see that our eyes have not shrank to that of Guinea Pigs nor have we undergoing eye enlargement of the Chupacabra (of the movie) kind...
EYE was of the impression that it would have been funny, but EYE see interesting as an enlEYEtening and eyepropriate substitute....
(man, slash's word generator is too funny: image word: "knifed".. I'm thinking corrective surgery now... considering this topic...)
How do you explain a "Deaf Leopard" or a "Deaf Leper"? With "Def Leopard"?
T F-8&oe=UTF-8
As for "Mad" and "Onna", well, if you give one word to English and one to Japanese, you have "Crazy Woman"... Not much of an explanation, but plenty of definition:
http://www.google.com/search?q=onna+japanese&ie=U
But, even if she IS crazy, she is RICH as hell... and crazy and rich in her case could go together well..
(On Meesa planet weesa call da crazy woman buku royale..)
Assertion? Well, that's better than naked aggression. But, naked insertion....
Anyway...
If the twin black holes took up orbit around Uranus, I could see the pucker factor going up a few notches... Due to such proximity, it is clear that the stresses would tear the rings of Uranus apart, sending the solar system, if not the galaxy, stumbling along in a throbbing, coalescing sort of way...
Unfortunately, such an idea would make Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang eligible for a re-make, as bored as hollywood is these days...
Hold on... I'll get back in about 5 centons...
(Wait, my random sentence generator is bunging...)
I prefer Dr. Ruth and Wererabbits...
So, is it an inny or an outty? If the inny explodes, is it still a hole in one?
Can black holes have cosmic equivalent of diverticulitis?
Better find Dr. Evil and come up with a patch worthy of being Preparation H. One BIG ASS galactic patch...
The eyes have it....
Well, I was all eyes for the article I partly read yesterday or early this am.
Well, even IF the eyes transmit like a network, the eye study is not apples and apples. More like oranges and mangoes.
How many libraries of eye sockets worth of information is that?
I mean, look at the size of the Guinea pig's eye. Of COURSE it transmits less energy. I mean more data to the brain. It's not as if it enlarges to accommodate more data. Hell, the human eye is probably 10 times LARGER without expanding. But, I suppose if the eyes DID expand when more data rate was demanded, such information overloads would lead to a whole new meaning of eye-socket-to-yah....
http://www.pimms-pages.co.uk/
And, Guinea Pigs aren't pigs of any sort. It's a terrible name to give something that a real pig could kill just by rolling over it.
http://www.oink.demon.co.uk/pets/guinea.htm
What *I* wanna know is how the eyes of bats comaare to the Guinea Pig and the Chupacabra. And to hell with human eyes. I'm talking about the MOVIE "Chupacabra".
your coruscating prescience and pedantry has me seeing images... want a wizard star?
$5 for 2, or $6 for a dozen
which beggs the quesstion..."did Perl mutter any gem of wisdom?" Or is he just uttering bitterness toward AMD.
...
But, I suppose he's lucky he's not a doctor with one of those names such as:
bone
cutter
sharp
burns
butcher
crusher
But, hopefully, he'll come up with something TRULY prescient, maybe to rival Moore's Law... Any possibility?
shock therapy....
hehhe slash word image: crotch...
just don't get shocked there (male OR female)...
Hmmm... now putting together Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey", with an infinite number of chimpanzees, and an infinite number of typewriters, and a HUGE rheostat, you indeed MIGHT get "War and Peace", but you'll surely have some funky monkeys in the end...
hell. It $hould be at LEA$T a 4 $core...
Ooopps... I mentioned "FBI", but it might have been the Texas BATF...
BTW... per some US postal employees of the time... What does "WACO" mean?
WE AIN'T COMIN' OUT!
---
What's the difference between a recesion and a depression?
A REcession is when your FRIENDS are out of work.
A DEpression is when YOU are out of work..
heheh V funny... Actually I was at LEAST 30 yo by then, and alive and well in SF.
- LETHAL
- LETHAL
The FBI nicked him and his tribe/harem/cloister in the botched crawling on the compound building. I understand they fired gas grenades or something and lit the frick'n place ablaze, and in the melee/chaos several of their own and other agents were shot and killed.
Yep, this is nuts.
But, I saw in SF on a club wall after that event:
"COPE OR DIE"
THAT resurfaced in my memory when you asked if I were David Koresh...
Ahh, a trip down memory lane....
"Cope or die...."
heheh.. slash image word: "erasable"... well, hmmm, I guess most of us are in that category...
----
Oh, that reminds me of Rev Jim Jones... For a few months (before I went to the fleet) I was a student in a Navy program in 1984 in San Diego. We had some coasties, Marines and the rest of us were swabbies. One Marine (nutty and crazy, they are) came up with or passed down to us a Jodie call we used during PT (physical training), and we sang it up and down the jogging trails, the streets, the grinder (parade/marching field)...
It is to the tune of "Downtown" (from the pre-60's I think)
"WHEN your're DOWN and OUT
AND you're READY to SHOUT
WON'T you COME and SING with JIM-JONES!
WHEN you're GOOD and BROKE
ANND your reLIGION's a JOKE
WON'T you COME AND SING WITH JIM-JONES!
WATCH-the-REV'REND-AS-HE-STIRS-A-POSHUN-THAT'S-SO
LISten-to-the-ANGry-CRIES-of-ALL-the-DYing-PEOple
EV'RY-ONE-DIES!
NO-ONE SURVIVES!
CUZ-WE'RE at JOOONES-TOWN!
PEE-POHL-R-dropping-LIKE-FLIES!
CONgressman Rye was on a MISSION to SPY
But he WOULDN'T DRINK with JIM-Jones!
For SUCH a PUBLIC DISGRACE
They HADDA BLOW-OFF HIS FACE!
Cause he WOULDN'T DRINK with JIM-Jones!
WATCH-the-REV'REND-AS-HE-STIRS-A-POSHUN-THAT'S-SO
LISten-to-the-ANGry-CRIES-of-ALL-the-DYing-PEOple
EV'RY-ONE-DIES!
NO-ONE SURVIVES!
CUZ-WE'RE at JOOONES-TOWN!
PEE-POHL-R-dropping-LIKE-FLIES!
JONEZ-town... JONES-town... Jonestown..."
There was a 3rd verse/stanza, but it's been so many years that I cannot remember.
Interesting thing is is that we (some 40 of us in our platoon) did this near the SSC/NTC commander headquarters and on the way to MCRD. Several staff and other base officers paused, but didn't look aghast, too shaken, surprised, or even stunned. Just mildly curious. Probably they noticed the Marines by their physice and bellowing voice with us swabbies in tow, keeping pace.
This is ONLY funny in the grand scheme of human brutality and bizarre conduct, well, if one can consider life a big-ass joke.
(I didn't author the jody, and I never could find it on the Net over the years. But in the style as I have written it I reserve all rights to use it in any of my other writings...) Otherwise, I have no ability to nor any interst in preventing its further dissemination.)
Whoaaa... slow down.. your erudite verbal challenge is commendable. But, hold on a bit cuz bill gates' brain is still draining out his ears, and ballmer is still hurling chairs.
Give'm time. They'll figure it out.. Wait, no.. give em HELL.
Wow, so propitious or timely: slash word image: "fervent"... that could describe you, my friend...
In that case, better build a dome on the dark side of the moon. But if they find it, it'll be the
Marked side of the dune... (okay, a bad Spoonerism)
If I had that kind of money, I'd surely find my own abode, buy an island somewhere OUTSIDE of the US, then one at a time buy a few ships, crew them internationally, then DARE anyone to attack it. See, if they do attack it, they attackers would be telling the world F.U., which I hope the world would most certainly redress/address real quicklike....
Maybe the ACLU should encourage EVERYbody to know EVERYbody. Then, the TSA will have some REAL work load and have to do a REAL job for a change. Then, all flyers show up at the last minute. When the planes have to leave empty, the airlines will scream murder down the necks of the pricks using the no-fly list beyone what it is supposed to be.
Assholes, if you SCAN a person and there are not any traces of this or that banned/suspicious substance on their person or in their luggage, then don't hinder their flying. Otherwise, JAIL them under charges that are real. We live. We die. But like the reckless fisherman out for tuna, all sorts of other items/people get caught up in the drag/trawl net.
Pretty soon, someon'll extend this to: "The No RAIL" system, "The NO BUS" system. "The Nor RAZOR/Scooter" system, and "The NO CAB" system. (Months ago, I rode in a cab in SF and saw a camera watching me in the back seat...). They won't be satisfied until one too many a prominent person is delayed one time too many. Hopefully, such a person does the right thing and rips some ass, once and for all.
This is absolutely nuts. No longer Innocent til proved guilty. RFID/Biometric passports. All because a few assholes dump their friends, kick over a hornet's nest or two, then want all the rest of us to be stung for it.
I suppose next (if not already in existence) there will be an "unreliable/unable to clear for patriotism/hireability background check..." meaning no matter your grades, your interviews (if you don't get screened out in advance), your community service/volunteer work, no matter you passion to SAVE the world by legal/non-violent means, you're FUCKED.
(Cross the cabal, the cadge, the cloister, and you're doomed.
Maybe somebody ought to crack the lottery and share the money with those burned for trying to save the world?)
But, as it is, some employers so much want to wring/extract utility from employees and contractors they don't even want to contract or hire them/us unless they/we have a frickin' car. And I'm using public transit cuz I cannot afford a car, and if I could, I'd STILL use public transit to be just ONE MORE PERSON trying to minimize the oil addiction.
I suppose I'm on all sorts of shit list by now, if not long ago...
I am DEFINITELY on the wrong planet...
the mod who gave me 0, troll must be a hyper-reactionary religious nutcase, or must be an employee or benefactor of the pharma/biomeds, or both... or something else...
Any astute person would realize a wee bit of irony and sarcasm (and poor wit, too) in my previous post: IF "god" didn't want humans to access the DNA, then "god" would have used his/her/its hand to keep humans out.
Now, I'll chance the bush-clan reaction:
IF "god" is allowing scientists to access the "wrapper" or second DNA layer just (supposedly just) discovered, then the administration has no fucking business calling the shots. Fortunately, OTHER countries are seeing fit to exploit this information. I just hope the exploitation is for the GOOD injured/defect-affected and not JUST the PROFIT of some businesses.
Shee, some people need to get some sex (or, to borrow a phrase from the auto-checkout thread... some "electron-auto-erotic strangulation stimulation) and lay off the 0, troll mod power...
Well, hopefully these extra "wrappers" will stop companies and certain governments from "playing god".
Unfortunately, if there IS a god out there (the kind that certain people prefer to kill in the name of) he/she/it doesn't seem too interested in keeping certain secrets extremely well-protected. Almost as if allowing humans to go ahead and violate certain aspects of nature, life, mortality...
Some god...
Maybe "god" needs an upgrade or two?
I was suggesting that preexisting files "in the way" might get overwritten. Has anyone outside of ms actually tried this on a disk that has preexisting data? It could be not just a way of making installs faster, but some sly excuse to deter dual-booting.
So much for the person who decided my comment was overrated and stole a point from me...
(slash image word: misnomer)
Yeh, but having slapped against him "totally-unrelated charges" gives an air of legitimacy to the charges (whether they are true/genuine or not). The 180 degree relation just deflects the c/t assertions and feeds the ammo belt of the pro-slap-down factions of/within government.
Of course, if they guy DID tamper with evidence, files, and engage in money-laundering, he's gonna wish he never bit those bytes...
"the install DVD is actually a preinstalled copy of Windows that simply gets decompressed onto your PC. "
Now all ms needs to do is add this audio track for pre-install playback:
"DANGER: Destructive and EXPLOSIVE decompression in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... PRE-EXISTING FILES... NUKED"
Power surge my ass.. I think they're "rebooting" their "net" so as to make sure the new government surveillance package will properly download to all subscriber and all susceptible visitor computers...
(Opps, SHIT, my tin-foil hat fell off again...)
BTW, Today's SF Chron says that in 2008, the federally-imposed "Real ID" act will affect ALL or some 22 MILLION holders of CA-issued DMV licenses/IDs. THREE pieces of federally-recognized ID are required to obtain this new ID. I only read the front portion that was visible in the newsstand box.
So unreal.... I don't suppose I lived thru fascism like my age-seniors did, but I guess I'm going to find out first hand...
With the rattiness of some of the neighborhoods I live in, part of my mind thinks this will be a GREAT WAY (in the government's mind) of rounding up the least-likely-to-be-gainfully-employed based on their lack of REAL ID possession. Soylent Green, anyone?
(Re-cocking my tin-foil hat and varnishing it will molybdenum-duodenium coats...)
Well, it costs more to have it in black... Don't you see? If they mimic Apple, then they'll be geeks with class... and their customers can joint the elite ranks of the discriminating (as in cool with class) Apple users, hehehe...
(What's that joke? Many windoze users are smart, but Mac users are smart AND have class, or something like that?)