21 years of freedom

[Tony]

But now we're going back to 1984. Or atleast starting to?

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Brittan Elementary School appears to be the first US school to require students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their movements.

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The system was imposed - without parental input - by the school on Jan 18.

Oh, I like the next one

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The tags rely on the same radio frequency and scanner technology that companies use to track livestock and product inventory.

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Principal Earnie Graham hopes to eventually add bar codes to the existing IDs

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Each student is required to wear identification cards around their necks with their picture, name and grade, and a wireless transmitter that beams their ID number to a teacher's handheld computer

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Mr Graham also asked to have a chip reader installed in locker room bathrooms

Just WOW.

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[Flikerator]

Thats insane! Like wtf is this world coming too. There are elementary kids! Not like too many stabbings happen now that pokemon cards arn't as popular (Sry couldnt resist).

Anyway thats just physco. Someone living in a sick sci-fi universe who wants to make it come true I suppose?

[wtd]

To go with this, the United States House Of Representatives passed House Resolution 418 which, among other things, gives the Department of Homeland Security the right to basically do anything with no judicial review process.

[Paul]

Eh, if china and North America ever came to a war (which I doubt, cause both sides have nuclear weapons), I just hope I don't go into concentration camps. I mean, people SHOULD learn after what happened with the Japanese in WWII, but I don't expect them to. But I do hope the Canadian masses are harder to rile up than american masses.
North Korea was smart to declare they have nukes before USA came up with another excuse to do something though (even if it wouldn't have happend for a long time), but they DO need to test them to be convincing. (sorry for getting off topic by a bit) just a tangent started by wtd's homeland security thing.

[wtd]

Paul wrote:

North Korea was smart to declare they have nukes before USA came up with another excuse to do something though

The United States government is more concerned with planning the invasion of Iran at the moment.

Expect it before the end of 2005.

[Drakain Zeil]

Now, if these kids were smart they'd find a way to break the system... if one of my kids in the future has to do that, I'd make some sort of wide area interfearance device

On the plus side, this could be used for prision systems...

[Paul]

wtd wrote:

Paul wrote:

North Korea was smart to declare they have nukes before USA came up with another excuse to do something though

The United States government is more concerned with planning the invasion of Iran at the moment.

Expect it before the end of 2005.

I know that, I did say "even if it wouldn't have happend for a long time"
Damn it, seriously, I really hate hate hate to see their next excuse >_<

[rizzix]

wtd wrote:

gives the Department of Homeland Security the right to basically do anything with no judicial review process.

cheap. communistic.

[wtd]

Paul wrote:

wtd wrote:

Paul wrote:

North Korea was smart to declare they have nukes before USA came up with another excuse to do something though

The United States government is more concerned with planning the invasion of Iran at the moment.

Expect it before the end of 2005.

I know that, I did say "even if it wouldn't have happend for a long time"
Damn it, seriously, I really hate hate hate to see their next excuse >_<

It's the same as the old one. Weapons of mass destruction. "Iran's gonna blow up the United States, so we have to blow them up first."

[Martin]

Picture, name and grade?

Grade as in what marks they're getting?

[Tony]

Drakain Zeil wrote:

On the plus side, this could be used for prision systems...

Some prisons are already employing such technology. Isn't it nice how schools are keeping up with population control? *sigh*

[wtd]

I'm giving it three years and every crosswalk in the U.S. will be guarded by an M.P. with an assault rifle. How reassured parents will feel knowing that their children are being guarded by a 22 year old sleep-deprived Army corporal with an itchy trigger finger, suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, who's holding a fully automatic assault rifle. Some car's muffler backfires and little Susie gets three rounds through her head, but hey... she was probably a terrorist anyway.

[Martin]

It's the matrix. Everyone is a potential agent.

[SuperGenius]

it's good that they're being security concious so that everyone can shave their armpits!

(american dad reference... that show is going to rule!)

[Tony]

well that hasn't lasted long.. apparently the company that was providing the technology has pulled out.

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