How anyone, except those that will profit from this, can think this a good idea is beyond me. Should enough politicians be bought, and sheeple swayed that this makes it into Canada and the US, I'm going to have to move into the mountains, or under a bridge. I've got a sneaking suspicion that this one of the 'boiling frog' ideas where the original is so outlandish that a watered down version would be accepted. This is just a bad idea on so many levels. I will refuse to participate.

Since the information would be kept in a private companys' database, I can't help but think of the movie Robocop, where all of society is run by a single corporation. I genuinely hope that I, or my family don't live to see such a society.

In response to your sig..

I've taught at both union and non-union schools. Unions are better for students and teachers.

[citation needed]

Tell us how you really feel... Please don't sugarcoat it with well thought out rebuttals to blanket statements that are lacking in substance and anything at all to back them up. Also, where the hell is the ad hominem attack? This is /. after all. Sheesh, just can't get any good posts around here anymore.

All this talk about his goats, and not a single goatse comment... are we losing our touch?

In reference to your sig..

I've taught at both union and non-union schools. Unions are better for students and teachers.

NO, they are not.

So the global temperature in about 130 years rises 0.8C and now we all need to panic? Perhaps just the fact that the global population went from about 2 billion to 6 billion in that time period might have something to do with it? I think the real problem is not that we're burning fossil fuels, although that doesn't help and I think the earth ultimately can process it, it just that there's too many fucking people on the planet. The trillion $ question is what to do about that. Personally, assuming catastrophic climate change, for humans anyways, I think can be considered sort of a 'global reboot', or anti-virus, where the planet is just purging itself of malware. Part of me welcomes this as I think that society (globally) has fucked itself and needs to be rebuilt. Bring it on.

I'm not sure you get it. What I got from "a problem with the area between the ears" is that people that make dumb/stupid/misinformed need to live with the consequences of those consciously made decisions. I have no desire and/or moral obligation to help them out. I don't care, unless I'm directly impacted, and that will require a different course of action. Call me selfish if you want, I don't care, but I have never asked, nor do I expect others to bail me out from the poor choices that I have made.

Having said that, I don't mind helping those that physically/mentally/economically disadvantaged through no fault of their own.

To those people that want a handout, or through some strange sense of entitlement think that society at large owes them something....FUCK OFF

Unless she sues the customers of the world for not buying her product/service

shhh... The RIAA doesn't like competition

you guys have waaaayyyy too much time on your hands.
 
  Isn't there a network that needs your attention

Technically speed is a factor in 99.9% of all accidents. If the car was stationary, no accident would have happened.

That's why the last accident I was in was due to the guy behind me not paying attention and hitting me while I was stopped at a red light...sheesh

In BC where I live, we have recently had a carbon tax (applied also to natural gas used to heat homes and cook food) introduced, and the motherfuckers that introduced it just got re-elected. They claimed that it is revenue neutral, as there are accompanying income tax cuts. Well, you know what, it may revenue neutral, but it sure as shit isn't cost neutral. They did this under the premise that it would change peoples' behaviour due to this generations' bogeyman of climate change (yes, I'm a denier).

The problem is that the only thing that it changed is that took money away from my family to spend on other things in the economy. How dare they charge me a tax to heat my home, or to cook my food. As well, for work, I have a 120KM/day round trip commute, and my wife has a 60 KM/day round trip from our home. Both of our places of employment are not served by public transit. Please don't try and tell me to move closer to work, that just isn't doable around here (Vancouver and area had a ridiculous price boom over the last few years which made living in the suburbs the only reasonable option).

Just to add insult to injury, this carbon tax is also subject to our 5% GST (VAT). Yes, a tax on a tax. How beautiful.

To those people that support a punitive tax like a carbon tax, until there is a reasonable alternative such as transit that doesn't double or triple travel time, hydrogen fuel celled vehicles, or even the electric car (which I would buy), I have to give you a great big FUCK OFF, stay the fuck OUT of my pocket. Don't punish me so you can feel better.

Remember this, by definition, burning FINITE fossil fuels can only do FINITE damage.

If a certain biotech company gets its' way, we may have a pig large enough soon!