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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:33:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
> ... for offering some hot air?
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> 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?
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 it's not THAT bad, although it still shows lack of integrity.
> That said, I don't feel like a photo and a fingerprint in my ID card by
> itself affects any of my civil rights ...
Agreed. But we have more rights than you do and it affects ours.
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| (...) (snipped) (...) Out of curiosity, what kind of rights do you have that we don't, and which might benefit us if we had them? Or said differentely, what rights would you be sacrificing? Pedro (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Hello Larry, (...) I feel sufficiently free :-). But seriously: Can you elaborate a bit? I would be seriously interested which of your freedoms could be affected. Greetings Horst (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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