What ever happned to my Privacy?
A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away were a bunch of dudes that thought your rights were worth something. They have long since been dead, here in Canada we still have some privacy advocates but their ideas are eroding as well. We passed an act similar to the Patriot act in the U.S. our "War on terror" is simply severely underfunded. The United Kingdom did the same thing, what's really odd is that theirs was sparked by train bombings. A great man once said: If we sacrifice liberty for security even temporarily, we deserve neither! That's as true today as it was three hundred years ago. In the latest onslaught against the rights of an individual; Phoem in the United Kingdom is going to team up with BT, now I hate British Telecom for a number of reasons, one of them is that it's a federally subsidized monopoly on telecommunications. Any Monopoly on telecom is bad; I say let the companies play and kill one another and then the monopoly that comes out of that ...