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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:58:27 GMT
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... for offering some hot air?

Imagine, we would have been be able to identify airline passengers with 100%
accuracy even before 911. How would that have helped to prevent anything of
what happened?

That said, I don't feel like a photo and a fingerprint in my ID card by
itself affects any of my civil rights ...

Greetings

Horst



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Gotta love Oracle...
 
(...) Maybe the card itself is not a civil rights violations, but the many activities for which they will use such a thing are. First, if I'm required to disply my shiny new Federal ID, I consider it unreasonable search. I think of the right to (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Gotta love Oracle...
 
Yes, the national ID card will be used with some effectiveness to fight international crime and terrorism. But in the midst of that fight our politicians will remain politicians. They will still fall in love with power and they will still propose (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Gotta love Oracle...
 
(...) Wouldn't. I used to like Larry quite a bit better 6 weeks ago than i do now. Unless he's convinced it's inevitable even if he doesn't believe in it, and his "free" software is a trojan horse to sell other software and services, in which case (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Gotta love Oracle...
 
...anything for some cheap advertising. (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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