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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/19/drug.subs/index.html

Saw this article about drug smuggling.  Apparently they are making these subs 
down in the jungle.  I love this quote:

 The vessels' low profile makes them extraordinarily hard to detect,
either visually or by radar. Intelligence played a role in the two most
recent busts, officials said.   Locating semi-subs "is more difficult than 
finding a needle in a haystack," said Michael Braun, chief of operations for 
the DEA.


Now, that's really smart. (not)
I swear, if one of these puppies floats into Chesapeake Bay, you better hope 
that's what is on board is cocaine instead of a nuke.  
I sure hope Homeland Security is paying attention, because if I were OBL, 
this is what I would be investing in.  

Akka B




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"Analysts envision a time when the system will be used to identify and  track
every item produced on the planet. 5"

Well. they'd better stay out of my litterbox. What's produced in there is
not worth tracking..
This concept has been around awhile. There was a series of TV commercials
several years ago depicting a young 'punk' strolling (read  'swaggering')
through the mini-mart, and gathering up items, and simply  walking out the 
door.
When he passed the scanner, all the items were  automatically deducted from 
his
acoount.
Sandy
Mid-Mojave

Where the day seems to be winding down unusually fast. I'm looking to my
right, directly South, at the dead pine that has somehow managed to hang onto
all her cones, and she is all crooked, bent  by the west-prevailing winds  and
cooked into place by the sun and dehydration. I wonder if I nurtured some of
those cones...? She is about 40 feet away, leaning to the left, and at her 
base
 there are native shrubs and bushes and that's where I see the rabbits
scurry,  always followed by a fleeting winged shadow from overhead.

Landlord here - he is a good friend and bless his heart - is not aware that
some of his irrigation pipe has sprung a leak and been watering those plants
since I've been here. I'm not telling him.
S.




In a message dated 9/19/2008 12:33:43 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bobford79 AT yahoo.com writes:

You may  have a tracking device already, and not even be  aware........

http://www.nocards.org/AutoID/overview.shtml


Consumer  marketing applications will decimate privacy
"Radio frequency is another  technology that supermarkets are already using
in a number of places  throughout the store. We now envision a day where
consumers will walk into a  store, select products whose packages are 
embedded with
small radio frequency  UPC codes, and exit the store without ever going
through a checkout line or  signing their name on a dotted line." 28 - Jacki
Snyder,Manager of  Electronic Payments for Supervalu (Supermarkets), Inc., 
and Chair,
Food  Marketing Institute Electronic Payments Committee


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