Thread: I love America - land of the free and ...

Originally Posted by Stagehand

Putting GPS chips in car inspection stickers. "They" only want to know how many miles you drive and bill you accordingly.

I must say this is a good way to get rid of the socialist practice of everybody paying for the roads either equally, or based on what they earn, not how much they use.

Originally Posted by jockeys

y'all are missing the bad part. INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE AT HOME with wireless routers will be held criminally accountable if they get wardriven. This is a huge deal. A BAD deal.

Well if crimes can be committed over the internet, I guess it makes sense that some responsibility would be with those who provide the tools for these crimes.
I would think I would be held responsible if I leave my gun widely accessible and somebody takes it and goes on a killing rampage. Or may be I wouldn't - I'm not quite sure really.

It seems to me that as often the case is, the people with the money buy the laws they like. The only way for the people without the money to get their say is to get in sufficiently large numbers so that the lawmakers would have a slightly different cost/benefit problem to deal with (i.e. lose the money or lose the job). Of course there are lawmakers that make laws based on convictions, not on cost/benefit analysis, but I think they're a minority.