>>> I'm not in favor of giving up my rights for ANY purpose Me neither. From now on, I'm going to ignore all stop lights and stop signs when driving. I'm also going to disabled my government-imposed turn signals, seat belts, airbags, and catalytic converter.
Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Loe Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel On 5/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2007 13:39:03 CDT, Brian Loe said: > > And it seems a bit odd that you're so pro babysitting by the state > > to save you from dumb people but completely against that same state > > doing all it can to save you from terrorists... > > Note that the cost-benefit analysis for "state taking some obvious > low-cost actions to minimize the cost transference from dumb people to > others" is quite different from "state taking *all it can* to save use > from terrorists, no matter what the costs".. I'd like to know how you came to the conclusion that the enforcement of such bans is "low cost". Perhaps the high hot burglary and physical assault rate on the island could be reduced if the police spent more time on the streets looking for real criminals and violent gangs as opposed to looking for people talking on the phone. Further, how do you deduce that NOT catching terrorist is so cheap? Do you not realize the value of Manhattan real estate? Finally, no one has answered the question of HOW you regulate against and then stop people from being dumb or doing stupid shit. It would seem that if it were possible it would have been done long ago and we wouldn't be discussing it now. On the other hand, it is easy to outlaw terrorism and easy to measure the value of the methods you use to stop them. I'm not in favor of giving up my rights for ANY purpose, btw. I don't have the right to live worry free. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
