Yes, first Anglico, a long time ago

Pretty funny since just this morning I got an advertisement from Myspace telling me I can do that now, so my guess is facebook will be implementing that feature soon enough! My Visitors * Turn My Visitors on This new feature allows you to see who's viewing your profile and allows other users to see when you're viewing theirs. Turn it on now to see who's checking out your profile. My Visitors shows you the last 9 people to visit your profile. Note: if you turn this off, you won't be able to see who's visited your profile.

Other than the first class mail monopoly, the USPS also enjoys government 'protection' from having to pay gasoline taxes, parking tickets, vehicle registrations. and any other tax or fine that is imposed on a private sector business.

When the USPS decided to push into the package business around 1995 IIRC, UPS and FedEx started letter writing campaigns to alert Congress to the unfair advantage they would have with the ability to subsidize their losses with their first class mail monopoly. I haven't worked for UPS for a while now, but I do remember that was something management talked to us about, a lot!

Yes, our clinic scope costs $2000.00 and it only goes to 400x.

But I don't really say anything that I'd care about coming back to haunt me. Granted right now we live in a semi-free speech society, and that could change but I still can't see a real problem with it.

Now to address the other part of your post concerning the government's surveillance, how about if it is going to be initiated for Law enforcement then restrictions should be in place, like warrants etc... So if a cop or federal agent comes to your house to talk to you about your recent postings online they have to tell you that it is being recorded or something similar to that.

Obviously there are going to be problems with abuse and such but it just doesn't seem to be stopping the government anyway.

There are way too many people lying and getting away with it nowadays, politicians or otherwise. Do I want all my conversations recorded, no, but I've tried to live with the motto of "Say what you mean and mean what you say". I wont say anything about someone unless I am willing to say it to their face and I think that is something missing from society today. I've had instances where a recorded conversation would have come in very handy in defending myself from ex girlfriend's attacks but it wasn't that big of a deal to me.

Maribor, Slovenia per Msnbc.com: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38439213/ns/technology_and_science-security/

Um, you could rappel out of a helicopter, granted I would like to have some food and a SatCom link JUST IN CASE I got stuck down there. I'm not a geologist so I have no idea what I might run into other than a bunch of dead bodies and debris, otherwise I think it would be fun as hell.

Why is that weird? I've had plenty of girlfriends give me the keys to their place after dating for a while. If they were working later than I was I could meet her and leave from there to a movie, if they forgot to do something like let out the cat/shut off the stove, check on her place when she went out of town to her parents.

you live there too? Funny I've never seen you around the house?

I thought it did? I've searched before submitting and didn't find the article I was submitting, but then when I pasted the URL and hit Preview it said it was a duplicate.

exactly! I wish I had mod points, oh wait you're already at 5! I was expecting to read a whole list of complaints against this practice when I started reading the comments, and was surprised to say the least.

There was a scene where somebody was breaking into the system and this IT expert freaks out and Harrison Ford says something to the effect of 'just create an exception rule to block his IP'.
My girlfriend asked if that was true and I said yeah but even I know that and I'm not any where near as skilled as that guy is supposed to be. After that I just had to leave the room I couldn't watch anymore.