Sounds like what the FCC will do in the US eventually. Just give it some time until "for the children" or to fight "the terrorists" the FCC will require real names etc.

Yep, I was just about to say, that as much as we in the US bash China for lack of privacy and personal rights (including the right 'not to be seen')....there are a lot in the US government (fed and state) just salivating over ending anonymous access to the internet just as much as the Chinese.

The internet really snuck in under the radar of most governments, and Lord knows..if it came in to being today, it would not be nearly what we see today.

Slowly but surely, I fear the US will follow suit and require registration to log on, regulation....and an end to what has so far proven to be a very valuable means of freely expressing one's self and speaking out against issues that matter.

I mean, hell...you can hardly let UPS/FedEx leave a package on your doorsteps these days in many cities without some fucker coming to steal it.

Just get a nice rifle with a scope along the travel routes of the delivery drones that is a bit remote, *BANG*..down it comes and then loot whatever its carrying.

No, it's low T&A.

Oh man, I wish I had mod points today.

I think you win with this one today!!

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Hell, I'm not even on Facebook or twitter, or linked in, but yet, I still have a treasure trove of folks I've worked with in the past and keep up with (phone, email) and when I need a job, I reach out to them and they usually have leads for me and recommend me.

All this was done WAY prior to social networks you know. Maybe that's the problem, kids today don't know how to connect with and gather people connections if it doesn't involve having your face stuck in Facebook all day.

Then you often cannot publish, nor can you discuss details of your work with the best non-military people in the field. You can also wind up ordered to commit illegal or unconstitutional acts with no safe legal or political recourse. Do remember that Edward Snowden was a contractor and reported illegal activity to his superiors, and was told to "shut up" before he want to the press with very solid proof of illegal and abusive and unconstitutional activity by parts of the federal government.

Clearance jobs aren't ONLY for super top secret stuff, just handling personnel, PeopleSoft jobs even for the Feds require clearances.

SO, you don't have to worry about anything "illegal". It isn't just the three letter agencies that I was talking about above,in fact, those are a TINY part of the jobs I was talking bout with govt contracting.

Once you've paid your dues doing this awhile....incorporate yourself and contract. Especially if you can get into Federal Contracting, the money is good, you often can get on LONG term projects, the bill rate is much better, and it also helps discriminate in favor of being a US citizen, especially if there is a clearance required, no H1B's or other foreigners allowed in many of those positions.

That is where the money is at these days.

But, incorporate yourself so you can work corp-to-corp and they won't be scared of you having to be a W2 employee. I myself prefer the S-Corp, saves you a fortune of employment taxes (SS/Medicare) in that you don't have to pay that on all money billed, only a portion of it.

And with the TA I'm talking about, I intend to not get a collectible one, I want to mod it with new cam, etc...and get it up near the 500hp range.

There are also some mods you can do to the suspension to help it handle more like a newer car, and frankly,I think the older car (TA's with the round headlights, pre-bandit ones) just look cooler than most of what's out there now. I'd rather have something that's not a clone of today.

That and I've wanted one of these since High School...and I can pick up one of these TA's, mostly refurbed already for about $19K, and it should continue to go up in value as years go by, etc.

I've had a '96 911 turbo (lost that in Katrina), the first year of the C6 vette and other sports cars before that. I currently just want a muscle car, lots of torque in a straight line as a second driver car. I have a small two seater turbo now which is fun, but I want something of a torque monster to play with on alternate days....and gas is once again cheap.

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I can still modify my car to have a fun exhaust, tune it for performance.

My cars are in good repair, but I'm not wanting to be overburdened by regulations that suck performance out of my engines and make them sound like crap.

I'm actually looking forward to soon buying a 75-76 muscle car, maybe a Trans Am....455 4-speed and with a cam replacement, and some headers and making into true dual pipes...I can get over 500HP. Something fun to drive from years gone by.

Life's too short not to enjoy it to the max.

I mean, none of us were remotely able to find and get jobs back in the dark ages of the late 90's and early 2000's. Yep, we all lived in caves, some with the luxury of landlines, and almost no internet connectivity for most.

Yep, we were all pretty agrarian, farm families at home with no hope of finding a job outside, nor communicate with anyone further than the end of the block.

Seriously, this wireless and instant communication is a very recent thing....while it makes things MUCH more convenient, it isn't a necessity. If you're very poor, you get your ass out and find out what you need to do. The unemployment office will help you too these days still.

Trust me, Chuck Schumer knows exactly what he's doing. He never passes up an opportunity to restrict freedom.

THIS^^

These leaders that are supposed to be representing the peoples' will, seem to be so disconnected from what we the people want.

I think a larger problem is these asshats making this a lifetime career.

I know it stands a snowballs chance in hell, but we desperately need term limits to keep fresh blood more representative of the citizenry going through up there on a regular basis. These govt jobs were NOT meant to be lifetime careers.

Maybe more of a chance of governmental representatives thinking more of the rights of the people over the ever growing power of the govt to restrict the commoners' rights.

Where in the Constitution it is not ok for them to do this? After all, you are on public roads, you still can go anywhere you want. I don't see where they are violating the Constitution here.

Remember, the Constitution doesn't grant YOU rights, those are natural. The Constitution is there to GRANT the federal govt very limited, enumerated rights. Basically it is supposed to be there to grant them rights and responsibilities, and anything NOT in the constitution is not something they are supposed to be able to do. This was the foundation for a limited, and minimally intrusive form of Federal Govt., which has been bastardized over the years, and many of us would prefer to have reigned in.

The govt is not supposed to be there to track me, nor put out a blanket dragnet of surveillance to try to find any wrongdoers out there. Especially at the Federal level. Possibly more able to at the state level, but at least on state and local level, you have a bit more recourse and influence over the local politicians than at a federal level.

Not to mention, if you don't like the rules of one state you are free to move to a more like minded state. If this is done federally and nationally, you lose that freedom.

But yes, the Constitution is there to grant very LIMITED and enumerated rights, roles and responsibilities for the federal govt. If it isn't in it the constitution, it should not be a power they have.

At least, that's the way and thought behind the construction and mandate of our govt. in the beginning.

I'd be happy to use an app that didn't track me so much, but to give voluntary info on police speed trap warnings, and traffic incidents, but I don't want them keeping my travel data and tracking me in real time.

This thing looks like a privacy nightmare from the TOS.

I"ve used an older app called "Trapster" which was a bit more anonymous and allowed folks to report speed traps and traffic cameras, etc. I think it fell a bit into dis-use which makes these kind of apps useful or not, but man, I don't like all the tracking and all that Waze does and the information it collects and seems to keep. Otherwise I'd jump on board big time.

Would be nice to know where speed traps and DWI roadblocks are set up when driving.

I prefer to avoid the police while out no matter what the cause.

I'm guessing that the old thought of using high intensity infrarad LEDs to blow out the cameras doesn't work or we'd have heard more about it by now.

I don't know of laws requiring plates be readable by electronic means, otherwise they'd just have bar codes on them, no?

I'm just getting fed up with the govt. (state/feds) going overboard wight he surveillance. I mean, where in the constitution is it ok for them to do this to citizens that are NOT under investigation, nor being involved in interstate commerce?