Given that we've firmly established that we are "one nation indivisible", I'm not sure why this wasn't a thing sooner.

Emmeran wrote:

BorderCount wrote:

Given that we've firmly established that we are "one nation indivisible", I'm not sure why this wasn't a thing sooner.

The right to privacy.

Doesn't exist.

Because it's one Federal Database of everyone who wants to be able to drive or fly, the next baby step after that is...

Socialist Totalitarian Paradise in 3...2...oh wait....

SpacePuppy wrote:

JetRx wrote:

Socialist Capitalist Totalitarian Paradise in 3...2...oh wait....

Sad, but true.  In democratic socialist societies, the true aim (ala 1984) would be power itself.  This is more just the power to "keep us rich and white and free" regardless of whatever harm this does to everything and everybody else.

It's hysterical how deluded people like Rand Paul are where they can't see that it's a complete 180 from what Atlas Shrugged preached.  The country isn't falling apart due to socialism.  At least either they're stuck on this planet and they'll die like the rest of us, or they've got a secret project to leave the earth when it gets too bad (unlikely, most trust fund children are practically retards) and we'll fix things when they're gone.

BorderCount wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Because it's one Federal Database of everyone who wants to be able to drive or fly, the next baby step after that is...

I'm just praying to whichever pagan deities are still listening that the ID Cards have three six digit numbers so that all the right-wing fundamentalist "Christians" can go off like rockets.  Oh, they could name the database "The Beast" too.

Hell, I can't wait for all-biometric payments. That'll REALLY get their panties in a bunch.

16 And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark — the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is six hundred sixty-six.…

Biometric or just a tattooed bar code.  It all works.

Emmeran wrote:

BorderCount wrote:

Hell, I can't wait for all-biometric payments. That'll REALLY get their panties in a bunch.

I'm not interested, I'll move to Germany and keep paying cash for the rest of my life.  I don't much care for all of this IoT craziness, it's nobodies god-damned business if I decided I wanted to splurge on a 1/4lb of beef jerky and it definitely doesn't need to be recorded.  Paying my neighbor $10 to plow my drive way, why the fuck do they need to know about that?

stupid fat fucking idiots in the coffee shop trying to pay with a cell phone for an ice-cream drink at 9am - somebody needs to slap their momma.

Ever walk into a chain pizza place and order a pizza?  The first thing they ask is "what's your phone number".  And this was 20 years ago.

Emmeran wrote:

BorderCount wrote:

Hell, I can't wait for all-biometric payments. That'll REALLY get their panties in a bunch.

I'm not interested, I'll move to Germany and keep paying cash for the rest of my life.  I don't much care for all of this IoT craziness, it's nobodies god-damned business if I decided I wanted to splurge on a 1/4lb of beef jerky and it definitely doesn't need to be recorded.  Paying my neighbor $10 to plow my drive way, why the fuck do they need to know about that?

stupid fat fucking idiots in the coffee shop trying to pay with a cell phone for an ice-cream drink at 9am - somebody needs to slap their momma.

So do you have a rotary phone, or are you still communicating via Pony Express?