Saturday, July 29, 2006

Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later?

gabec asks: "This weekend my mother bought a grille lighter, something like this butane lighter. The self-scanner at Kroger's locked itself up and paged a clerk, who had to enter our drivers license numbers into her kiosk before we could continue.

Has gabec even read 1984? While I have to admit that I feel that this government has pushed invasion of privacy to new and unacceptable levels, they are still a long way from declaring unautherised sex a crime. No, they will probably be doing that next year...

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