There are upstanding, progressive regimes in Europe where there are literally things you can say that don't involve a threat of violence or which won't cause immediate danger to those around you
(emphasis mine)
Just another sign of Muslim-haters' complete intolerance, and insistence on ignoring counter-attitudinal information.
There are upstanding, progressive regimes in Europe where there are literally things you can say that don't involve a threat of violence or which won't cause immediate danger to those around you
(emphasis mine)
Just another sign of Muslim-haters' complete intolerance, and that some will think whatever they wish, regardless of what they read. Score 5: Insightful? Really?
I had a student once -- Whenever we had an "in-class" test, his mother would always have a heart attack.
Perhaps she was regularly ill, and it was only ever your business when tests came 'round.
I keep hearing that "we just don't have the money to fund education, the students have to bear some burden"; here my legislature is ready to fund a rail project mainly for the sake of creating (shovel) jobs, instead of increasing access to and the quality of education so that more people in the state have the resources to create jobs themselves through their business and innovation.
Then I read that these "leaders" have no idea where the money's going to come from, but they're hoping we'll be generally more prosperous later, in a state that spends more on prisons than it does on higher education.
The requirement is there to help the corporations, not their users. (snip...)
would do 99% of the work of verifying identity.
A legitimate attempt at verifying users' identities is exactly what I don't want; it makes their data more valuable, and for the benefit of using a nickname in front of people I already know? I'm more concerned about Facebook et al. getting my personal information than my friends. Also, with a credit card charge, it's not just your name that they get; they get a billing address too.
talks about the new plan by ISPs and content providers
Not her plan, she's just talking about it.
You can use them to uniquely identify each picture in the email and associate it with a uniqueid or campaign.
If the only trackers were for the campaign as I proposed, there shouldn't be an issue. Perhaps I should refrain from assuming this is what will happen though.
It will more than likely be email. It's cheapest to implement.
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They can now link all of the information I provided them with the demographics they purchased.
Agreed, an online purchase would be difficult to claim without selling out the customer, which is why I was thinking more along the lines of a print-out coupon. The transaction itself, then, does not give the merchant free personal data, and neither should the bank claiming its commission. As long as actually obtaining the coupon does not require any loss of privacy.....
In your example, what you are really pointing out is that whatever percentage of customers click on the links, or even view the email with downloaded pictures, are revealing themselves and losing their privacy. In order for the bank to receive a commission it needs to admit that particular customer was indeed part of the chosen demographics.
There should be ways for the bank to get the kickback without the customer being identified specifically. A coupon could have a non-unique barcode to keep track of how many customers the bank sent the merchant's way without the coupon being specific to the client. Same goes for links in email; isn't it more trouble to have every click-through associated uniquely with an email?
Can someone clarify how viewing the email with downloaded pictures necessarily identifies the customer? I suppose my arguments would be moot if that was the case.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
