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Hi Big Brother, I’m going 5 over the speed limit now. Hey, at least they aren’t mandating it… yet. As we more and more laws like the Patriot Act and the DMCA are passed, the more privacy we’ll lose. There should have been enough witnesses in the old man’s plowing into a farmer’s market to know exactly what happened. I wonder if he even goes to jail for it.
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The government should require data recorders in all passenger vehicles, federal safety officials said Tuesday in a recommendation arising from the investigation of a car crash that killed 10 people and injured 63.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators concluded the 86-year-old driver had stepped on the gas instead of the brake and plowed into a farmers market in Santa Monica, Calif., on July 16, 2003.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/03/financial1841EDT0330.DTL

Hmm, I wonder how many volunteers the US Army would have if they had that option…
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Israeli soldiers suffering from combat stress after tours of duty in the Palestinian territories could soon be treated with cannabis to relieve their symptoms, the Ma’ariv daily reported.

The mental health department of the Medical Corps is set to to begin tests in the next few days on volunteers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after reserve duty, the paper said.

http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2004/08/04/1091557927241.html

Perhaps the reason why Arnold Schwarzenegger is so good in all those violent films.—-
He told Fortune magazine: “My hair was pulled. I was hit with belts. So was the kid next door, and so was the kid next door to him.

“It was just the way it was. Many of the children I’ve seen were broken by their parents, which was the German-Austrian mentality.

“Break the will. They didn’t want to create an individual. It was all about conforming.”

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-13178955,00.html

It’s ridiculous when a Hoboken Times Ledger (okay, made that one up) or some other hodunk paper wants your info before you can read a simple article. Yeah, I’m sure they will get real accurate statistics from people registering. Just like how AllAdvantage (busted dotcom) claimed that their highest number of users came from 90210. Of course the papers want to believe all their demographical information is correct, I know I’ve never filled out such registrations truthfully.
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Depending on my mood, I’m a 92-year-old spinster from Topeka whose hobbies include snowboarding, macramé and cryptology; the CEO of a successful high-tech firm in Bumblebutt, New York, whose company has a market capitalization of four cents; or an Alaskan mango grower. What magazines do I read? Soldier of Fortune, Modern Bride, Granta and High Times. Date of birth? Dec. 7, 1941. July 4, 1976. Jan. 1, 1901. My name? Jed Clampett, Mustang Sally or Freddy Fudbuster.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64392,00.html