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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:50:36AM -0700, petro wrote:
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> >On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:57:25PM -0400, David Honig wrote:
> >> At 01:37 AM 10/16/00 -0400, Nathan Saper wrote:
> >> >On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:11:19PM -0700, James A.. Donald wrote:
> >> >> Have you been sealed in a box the last ten years? Companies may send you
> >> >> junk mail. Governments will confiscate your property and put
> >>you in jail,.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >Companies are wanting to keep records of genetic information and other
> >> >HUGE infringments on privacy. Sure, right now, the bigger risk is the
> >> >government (what with Carnivore and all), but I'd say that in less
> >> >than a decade, global corporations will be much more powerful than any
> >> >government. Already, with WTO/NAFTA/etc. regulations, corporations
> >> >are often outside of the control of governments.
> >>
> >> Hilarious. You make JD's point. A company just wants to
> >> estimate the cost to insure you. A government wants to take
> >> your DNA at a traffic stop and run it against their collection
> >> so they can arrest you.
> >
> >When do cops take DNA at traffic stops?
> >
> >Even if they do (which I haven't heard of, but I could be wrong), the
> >trend right now is more corporate power, less governmental power. As
> >I said before, we are already seeing this trend, what with
> >corporations able to circumvent countries' environmental codes and
> >whatnot. It will only get worse.
>
> Then you aren't paying attention.
>
> Corporations have *NO* power over you that doesn't come from
> the barrel of a government gun.
That's like saying that the person with the power in a police
department is the street cop, because he's the one doing the actual
arrest.
The one calling the shots is the one to be afraid of.
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