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Sellam Ismail wisely wrote: Well said! All that most of the present politicians in the U.S. appear to be concerned with today are taxation, oppression, lining their pockets with cash, and being pawns of business interests. Why don't they just rename the USA to something like the United Police State of America and have it over with? Back something slightly more on-topic: how many here, when giving further tought to the pros and cons of computers get the feeling that we'd all be better off if computers and some related technology didn't exist? I'm thinking of those cameras attached to computers which are being used in Florida to identify and track people, based on their facial features, walking on the streets and sidewalks, in an attempt to "catch criminals." In other words, they're comparing people's faces to pictures of criminals in a database. Those seen talking with suspected criminals, or those with similar faces, become suspects as well. Very Orwellian. Why people aren't shooting at the cameras and protesting against their use, I don't know or understand. I guess that "good little citizens of the state" (foolish, senseless, people) ought not do such things. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.