Posted on 12/25/2005 5:28:12 PM PST by elkfersupper
Wonder what that would be, hmmmmmmmm?
Ping.
I don't like this... not even a little bit.
If this comes to Maryland, I'll tell my company to page me, because I'm turning my cell phone off, and removing the battery.
"Kansas City star that's what I are yodel-de-la-de you oughta see my car
Drive a big old Cadillac with wire wheels got rhinestones on the spokes
I got credit down at the grocery store and my barber tells me jokes
And I'm the No 1 attraction in ever' super market parking lot
I'm the king of Kansas City no thanks Omaha thanks a lot"
- Roger Miller
So let me get this straight. Eavesdropping on our cell phone for taxation, revenue, and commercial purposes is a great idea with a lot of potential. But its not ok if it keeps us safe from potentially nuclear armed terrorists? Got it.
If they have the use of "personal ID removed" phone tracking, then once their system notices a car having gone from point A to point B in less time than the speed limit would permit, they have probable cause to demand the ID of the cell phone owner so they can issue a ticket
"I don't like this... not even a little bit."
I'm waiting for the "if you have nothing to hide" crowd.
My guess is that it was buried.
Nobody can like this.
Hey, I'm a part-time cop with absolutely NOTHING to hide.
I still like a steaming pile of dogsqueeze better than this latest example of big-brotherism.
Exactly.
Wanna know where the pileups are? Ask any cop and/or motorist that travels the same route every day. The pileups are in the same place, and usually for the same reasons; every day.
According to the article, it's already in Baltimore.
I'm turning my cell phone off, and removing the battery.
Next thing you know, we'll get a ticket in the mail for that.
You must be referring to the tickets they want to be able to issue and send out without any human intervention whatsoever. No cop to consider extenuating circumstances. No cop to verify that the recipient of the ticket was actually the one who was driving. In other words, no due process at all. Oh, and they will want to be able to pull the fine directly from your bank account, too.
Nah! That might give people the idea that someone might need to build some infrastructure - revenue negative.
Much easier to trap people moving too swiftly between "Point A" and "Point B" - revenue positive.
....and in eight months speeding drivers will receive their traffic citations in the mail.
Since the information used to issue the citations is digitally encoded, thus statistically infallible, there will be no appeals process. (OK, I'm projecting, but not by much.)
More reason to avoid ever owning a cell phone, or a vehicle with "On-Star"!
One of the major reasons I chose to live in Nevada was that 90+% of our roads are unpaved, making it harder for Big Brother to enact most of the schemes to control our movements.
This garbage makes the type of road irrelevant, they just monitor us from space.
ping.
Sorry you can't do that - no roving wiretaps. Now please get in line over there with the terrorists.
Hmmm who else made the "great leap forward" their watchwords.. they should rename this guys post...Ministry of Information.
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