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Not a bad perspective at all;

Richard Day — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:21:09 +0000

Not a bad perspective at all; social pressure being what it was in those days.

I just know that the 'government' (whateverthatmeans) knows just about everything about me; my lifetime earnings, my residences and now evey thing I write.

Again, I aint worried because insignificance is a good thing; I mean why would 'they' care what in the hell I do? hahaaa

The gunowners are worried about 'tracing' and 'tracers' for sure.

Of course guns kill as many folks or more as cars do.

And cars are traced rather well and taxed rather heavily.

This has me thinking though!

Dick, I think that most

Michael Wolraich — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:00:16 +0000

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Dick, I think that most people think about privacy the wrong way. They worry bureaucratic invasions of privacy--security cameras, corporate databases, and government files. But for most of us, the impact of such invasions is negligible. So your face is or license plate is embedded in a stream of 1s and 0s on some government server. What of it? No human will probably ever look at it. Even if someone does, they won't not care because they do not know you. Unless you've committed a crime or have your identity stolen, it won't actually affect your life.

Real invasion of privacy requires prying eyes--prying human eyes. And in that sense, I think the small conservative towns of yore offered far less privacy than that of modern cities, no matter how many databases track us. People in small towns get in each other's business. Take that gay man you mentioned. People must have talked about him, even the kids, it seems. I wonder if that poor man felt the whole community breathing down his neck--gossiping, giggling, or judging.

So sure, you didn't carry an ID when you went riding around town, but Richfield was watching you. You may have felt your neighbors' attention as a positive force--as in watching out for you. But that same attention had a negative force those who didn't fit in. And that neighborly disapproval, more than any bureaucratic data mining, represents a real invasion of privacy.

There are cameras now at stop

trkingmomoe — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:35:06 +0000

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There are cameras now at stop lights to take a picture of you running a red light. They send the ticket to the owner of the tag. Well my door has not been locked in 4 years because it was coming off the piano hinges that they use on trailers. The bolt no longer lined up with the plate. Today we fixed the door. It took several big hammers, 2 screen door hinges, 2 men, a twenty dollar bill, a six pack of beer, an assortment of screws, rivets and nuts plus a nine year old boy. So I guess I will go buy a new door lock on Monday because the whole neighborhood cannot hear my door scrape open any more. I will have to get used to locking up again. Happy Easter! The Easter Bunny brought me a juicing machine!