Posted on 08/07/2009 6:07:47 AM PDT by demkicker
DO NOT GO TO THE CARS.GOV WEBSITE! You will not believe what will happen to your computer if you do. This will explain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWs12ccbOiE
ohfercyinoutloud.
Beck was talking about this the other day.
The www.cars.gov website does not take over your computer. This is an alternate website that the dealers use, not the general public.
?? What?? where?? Who?? how??
Is Beck still trashing the Birthers? Hard to believe anyone who calls Birthers “idiots”....
oh noes!
This is seriesly hugh.
The name of the site is generic, and the public may indeed visit it in search of clunkers program info.
Most everybody will click to ‘agree to terms’....
at which point your computer and all of its information belongs to the government.
What part of this process do you not understand? Whether it was intentioned to be for car dealers or not does not change the duplicity and challenge to privacy and ownership.
Jeeezzzuuuussss...this is a standard warning when linking up to a government computer/network. Beck is breaking out the panic button over nothing.
actually the cars.gov site has language which makes the dealer computers (or anyone else) that access it “a federal computer on the federal system” with no fourth amendment rights.
THE ISSUE is how many other “.gov” sites have similar “you waive fourth amendement warrant rigths” user language.
Going to www.cars.gov does not do this. Spreading misinformation does no good. The government has fully admitted to the language of the site the dealers use. See this: Freerepublic
As a matter of fact, I've been there several times, just to read up on the program, I've never been given the opportunity to log in, nor have I even come across this disclaimer. Even on the dealer side of cars.gov. There doesn't even appear to be a place to log in.
Was he crying about it?
Think he went back on the sauce.
No, he was not crying about it.
He was discussing the process when the auto dealers click on it.
But see, since these folks see or hear hysterical "Oh noes! Don't go to the site!!~!" they, well, don't go to the site, and consequently don't do what you reasonably did. Instead they swallow it hook line and sinker and pass on what they just fell for.
Its really not much different than the hoax email warnings breathlessly imploring you to "Send this to everyone you know!!!" that people new to the net irritate all their savvier friends with.
OK, thanks
Is that what it is? The few times I’ve listened to him, he just sounds all whiney and ready to cry.
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