Originally Posted by Doppy
Most of the time people are only fingerprinted when they're suspected of committing a crime.
Really? I just gave several examples. And if you don't have a very big balance at your bank, they'll take your fingerprint on the back of your paycheck.
Originally Posted by Doppy
Plenty of ordinary people don't like being fingerprinted to come to the US and have cut back or entirely stopped coming.
And yet Disney has an all time high number of visitors from Europe due to the ForEx situation. Care to cite something besides a broad generalization.
Originally Posted by Doppy
You are right that East Germany probably would have loved the technology we could have. Amazing that with extensive files on a huge percentage of their population and all of their draconian tactics they couldn't even predict the fall of the Berlin Wall, or keep residents of East Berlin locked in.
Actually, I was talking about the CCTV network in Britan, which I hope we will never have. And it would not have helped them stave off their eventual doom - communism/socialism just don't work compared to capitalism.