Decius wrote:
] ] The Pinellas school system is ready to approve a new
] ] technology that uses student fingerprints to keep track
] ] of who is riding school buses.
]
] Children who grow up accustomed to this kind of surveillance
] on a daily basis will not question it when they are asked to
] do it as adults.

[ Jesus. Insert-standard-1984/brave new world/pkd-reference-here. This kind of bullshit has got to stop. "Freedom from" and "freedom to" are totally different things, dammit, and not enough people are interested in the fact that the kind of freedom from fear that all these measures claim to represent, simultaneously limit your freedom to make choices for yourself and live your life without being treated as a constant potential threat. What an outrage. And we, the idealists of our generation, are rapidly becoming the it-was-better-in-my-day fogies that current 4th graders are going to smugly ignore or maliciously taunt. Is it even possible to change minds? -k]

RE: Tampabay: Have your thumb ready to ride the bus