I'm not from Texas. I'm a highly educated Yankee and I voted for George W. Bush twice. Like I was really going to vote for Al Gore or John Kerry. It would be nice if the Democrats would put up a candidate that doesn't make my skin crawl.

LK

What?

You just disproved your own claim. The guy wanted to catch people who had committed a crime, he didn't want to record all the people who were not committing crimes.

A little tangent....

Gawker's websites suck in other ways that relate to usuability too. I use noscript religiously, there is nothing about the gawker websites that need javascript, but all you get is a nearly blank page if you don't enable javascript. UNLESS you change your brower's user agent to something Gawker doesn't recognize as supporting javascript (I change mine to an old version of googlebot). Then they send you pages that work perfectly well without javascript.

So clearly they can do non-javascript pages, but if they recognize your browser they won't give them to you and even worse, they won't even explain what's going on, it just silently fails with a blank page. They can't even be bothered to tell you to enable javascript, which is really just pathetic.

ANPR seems like a huge violation of both the right to travel freely and the right to be free of unreasonable searches. We've gone from a model where license plates were used after the fact of a crime to where they are used when there is absolutely no suspicion of wrong-doing. That's not the bargain we signed up for when license plates were first made mandatory.

It's worth noting that Massena is on the Canadian border. All that separates them from Canada is the St Lawrence River, and there's a bridge a few miles east of downtown. If it is the DEA, perhaps they're watching people fill their prescriptions with cheap canadian generics they can't buy in the U.S.

Massena is also home to a major hydroelectric power dam, three large aluminum plants (two of which are idle) and the Eisenhower lock on the St. Lawrence seaway (any international ships en route to the great lakes have to stop there), so it could be a place of interest for agencies/companies other than the DEA.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the classic, "FBI Mobile Surveillance Van."
I bet that one will freak out a lot more people than "WeCanHereYouHavingSex."

Not really. The military was there in a peacekeeping role, not as to conquer or subdue. They operated under very stringent engagement rules and any collateral damage was heavily discouraged.

Compare that to the behaviour of the US in Iraq, where airstrikes were ordered on weddings..

Odd. I live in the UK and that's not a fear I have. It's also not a fear I'd seek to address using firearms - I'd only end up getting charged with murder were I to kill one of them with one.

Perhaps you could try learning, you know, social skills. The ones that let you understand, interpret, avoid, negotiate and defuse potentially dangerous situations? Instead of perhaps acting like a complete cock because you're a big man when you have a gun.

So why don't they use their power to stop black people using the word 'nigger' if it's so bad?

Fuck the racist cunts, either everybody can use the word or nobody can.

You mean someone else is using my SSID? Dammit... now I'll have to change it to "GetOffMyLawn," "GetOffMySpectrum" or, if all else fails, natalielikesmariahcarey.