I just hope that if they are going to end the world, they do it on Monday so as to not screw up my weekend.

Bullshit. you are a criminal. look hard enough, you have broken some law, somewhere, sometime. Or you will.
There are too many laws to avoid this.

And since your DNA is conveniently on file they will be able to match it up and find you.

Bottom line... Interpol represents police interests, and police would love universal fingerprint and dna databases, automated torture devices, the elimination of defense attorneys and no complex 'rules of evidence'.

Because who doesn't like cutting corners to make their job easier?

Now if we can implant these Identichips and include gps and transponders ... even better.

Add a remote-triggered stunner / agonizer and it is a Jackbooted Thug's wet dream.

Because military snipers might not be eager to murder innocent civilians who are just trying to get from a country that sucks a lot into a country that sucks less?

Wouldn't it be easier, and cheaper, to just make your country suck so much that you need to put up a wall to keep people from leaving?

After all, It worked for the GDR..

And if they don't manage to get it right, not to despair, because there is a top-secret project that has a bunch of old school COBOL, Fortran and Assembly Language Programmers cyropreserved until the year 9998 so they can save the world. Again.

Just one more step.

Wimpy masses are easier to manipulate.

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Yes... and even if geeks and privacy fans manage to avoid being in the particular set of data, who cares... there are plenty of folks (one borne every minute) who have happily posted lots of stuff on FB, etc... It's a gold-mine of demographic data, only an idiot (or someone with ethics) would pass up the chance to use that data to Make Money Fast.

Time to Update Barnum's Philosophy for the 21st Century: 'It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep their money or their privacy'

But some of them are informative -and- funny.

Like the NY Post Sports Page headline "Marv Gets Pink Slip".

If you were likely to look at the NY Post sports section on that day, you would know who Marv (Albert) is, and would get the joke.
And the article really was about how sportscaster Marv Albert had been fired from his TV job because of a sex scandal.

And for the Europhiles:

Yes, in France or another enlightened country the kinky sex would have been no big deal. Or possibly even increased his ratings. But he wasn't in France.

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Climate Change, Wars, Plaques, vanishing bees and the possibility that George Lucas might make another movie? All of these are signs that the 4 Horseman are saddling up and getting ready for a ride.

So "away" is good enough for me.

Hopefully to a planet that was not colonized by the Golgafrincham B Ark.

Indeed. Unlike Citibank, the Apache Foundation is solvent, and has not burned through billions of taxpayer's dollars.

(rimshot)

10-4 Good Buddy, Looks like we got us a Convoy.

On the other hand, my TV is not an enormous picture tube in a 'space-age' frame ... instead it is a bunch of LCDs (LC What?) with more computing power than NASA had back in 1964 mounted in a plain black plastic frame.

My car has no tail fins or torpedo-like bumpers or gas turbine engine....but it is sort of a station wagon (OK, it's a hatchback) with some swoopy bits of bodywork (Spoiler, diffuser, slippery shape based on aerodynamic engineering instead of fantasy, with a front end designed to protect struck pedetrians, and not impale them) a really exotic powerplant (DOHC fuel injected Turbocharged engine made of alloys and plastics)...
but it still runs on gasoline and it does not fly.

The Future has a tendency to not look like what the dreamers dream.

'They promised us flying cars'