Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Conscripts for the US military, that is.
Possible draftees, you know.
The House Armed Services Committee took a big and unexpected step toward making women register for the draft Wednesday night…
This amendment to the House’s annual defense authorization bill requires 18-to-26-year-old women to register with the Selective Service System. Read it all
“The Mahdi is coming!”
Moderate Islam. Radical Islam. Militant Islam.
About the time you were getting confused and cynical about them all, along comes another term, complements of Joel C. Rosenberg
Clark Howard takes a swing at factory outlets: Read it all
“They” may still deem you guilty of social pollution.
I was going to warn you the morning of August 26 when I first read this. I hope I’m not too late to save your bacon.
(To whom it may concern: I mean no harm with bacon nor with speaking of yours.)
The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.
The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.” Read it all
I saw this breaking on Drudge earlier, but he’s still linking back to his home page:
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.
The technology works by exploiting an essential fact of all cellular networks: They must keep detailed, up-to-the-minute records on the locations of their customers to deliver calls and other services to them. Surveillance systems are secretly collecting these records to map people’s travels over days, weeks or longer, according to company marketing documents and experts in surveillance technology.
For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe
And just so you know, your cell provider has been able to do this from day one. Read it all
If you’re not a Gmail user, move along.
Wait, wait — I need to amend that. If you’re not a Gmail user and if you don’t send email to Gmail addresses, you can just move along.
That’s not true either. Here’s the best amendment so far: If you don’t use the Web, you can ignore this post.
I begin with this “reassuring” statement:
Do people still believe such assurances? 🙄 And even if it were true today, tomorrow’s line may be, “That was then; this is now.” Read it all
Is this how coexistence and tolerance work? Read it all