Mulling over George Pope to Steve Asher 31 Aug 2003

Hi George!

 SA> Which would include any "faith-based initiatives" (in the USA)
 SA> that use federal funds. I go to a support group here which
 SA> provides free / cheap lunches, transport to appointments etc,
 SA> but the transport is now restricted to "registered clients",
 SA> & as I am not the type to register as a client, I don't use
 SA> the transport service.

 GP> Oh,of course!  That phrase "only for registered client"(and
 GP> variations thereof) is getting to be very common -- and people
 GP> think I'm paranoid when I suggest there's a conspiracy of
 GP> anti-privacy and complete & total control over everybody's every
 GP> movement! :|

And naturally the volunteer drivers "need" to undergo police background
checks, in case they are rock spiders, terrorists etc etc.

You might hear what happened to Customs at Sydney airport - a group
of people apparently talked their way in, & wheeled out several servers
& disappeared. Naturally, the servers "don't have confidential data"
on them.

Obviously, Customs forgot to undergo background checks on the
"technicians".

Cheers, Steve.. (who is slowly going insane configuring ADSL / network, 
& just reinstalled Win 98 because it calmly removed the drivers for the
optical mouse, & proudly told me that I don't have a mouse! Grrr!

Luckily, this OS/2 machine is better behaved..

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