On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Adam Churvis wrote: > You're misreading me, or I'm not communicating effectively, or a little bit > of both.
I was basically agreeing with you, but ranting at the same time, sorry. > I'm saying basically what you're saying, except that they aren't interested > in the behaviors at the granular *you* level; they are only interested in > how the Great Throng will behave. In other words, the summary roll-up of > all those granular you-level things into the 70-odd marketing types, one of > which each of us fall into. Of course. Hell, I'm exactly the same. I love statistics. Even tho they are the devil's plaything. There are ways, were they legal, to only store anonymous information though, right? "We don't know who/what/where that dissenter in China is!" :-) Not that it would do much good, seeing as how there is mandated ease dropping hardware built into just about everything these days. Funny, that-- Those Greeks, getting listened in on with their own listening-in on equipment. Doh! It's in our stuff too! > As far as the power issue, we don't give them the powers they abuse. The > abuse comes in when they exercise more power than they are allowed by law. > They do this when they feel that they are insulated from the law by people > who in essence control the law, or they don't think they will get caught. To a point, I agree with you. That point being, we don't give two dingle-berries. *We* being enough people to actually change things. I know at least you and me and a few folk on this list don't like it, but hell, even here, there are those who support domestic spying. They dress it up, rationalize it, if you will, but... still. How many people on this list even have strong feelings about it? There you have it, we allow it, when we're not encouraging it. And, HEY! Congrats, Bill!!!! May you be at least as blessed as myself!! (I got lucky) -- Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. Mortimer Adler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:268194 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
