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Bees, anyone?
"Nad R" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message news:wildbilly- In article , "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Nad R" wrote in message During 911 every grocery store had to give the names of everyone that purchased humus, an arabic food, the grocery stores complied. Excuse my scepticism, but are you pulling our collective legs? I know the US does some unbelievable daft things in the name of security, but having to give one's name in order to buy humus is just so incedibly silly, that I find it hard to believe. Can you provide a cite for that? The large stores here will give you a small discount on your grocery purchases, if you have a card from their store. The card is bar coded and directs the purchases of your sale to your own personal database. The database is of course for sale, so that when someone decides to sell widgets, there is a data base of previous widget buyers, and advertiser can aim their advertising at you. I don't use them, Admiral Poindexter can find out about me the hard way. Yes, I understand that, however do you have a (semi-)reputable cite about the humus buyers? I know that information from buying activites can be collected and analysed and that there may be some value in trying to identify people by purchases, but the commitment of resources to such a potentially futile exercise is probably beyond the tolerance for wastage of even a profligate administration. I also think that it would be unlikely that human resources with sufficient sense would be available to do such a job even if the funding was there. It's low level work but requires competent analytical skills. You know how few people there are who post on usenet who can read a sentence and analyse a few simple clauses in order to understand what's been said. If the bulk of usenet posters is in any way representative of the pool of talent in the general poupulace such a project would be very dangerous to try to conduct. It'd be a nightmare to oversight even if it did happen and I still have doubts that it did happen. There should be some sniff online if it did take place because there are implications of racial profiling and the potential for claims of victimisation based on purchasing. It'd be a minefiled and something that would be hard to hide and perhaps even more so in an environment of constant conspiracy theories. Nightmare indeed. It is more than rumored that the US has rows and rows, floors and floors, building after building of super computers that monitor every international phone call, every radio frequency, every email of the entire world. (snip of unrelated remark) Eavesdropping machines with the capacity to pick up words is not what is being discussed. That is a differnt topic entirely. I'm trying to get a cite about humus buyers being targeted that is more than just usenet gossip. Hide what, the humus thing was on TV every other night eight years ago. I do hope that just because something has been on TV, you don't think it that makes it true. |
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