North Korea's nukes serve only one purpose, as a deterrant against South Korea trying to invade.
They don't have ICBMs, and they only have a couple of nuclear warheads. It's the US with its thousands of nukes and ICBMs and anti-missile missiles etc. that is tempted toward using them.
Only if they killed hundreds of thousands of my countrymen, polluted the entire country with radioactive waste, set up permanent occupational bases, and plundered the nations natural resources.
In such circumstances I would of course recognize them as liberators.
They're not being totally honest about the purpose of requiring biometric photos.
Sure they'll use it to prevent identity fraud, but the primary reason for this technologhy is something far more sinister.
The primary purpose is to create a permanent database of everybody's photo so that people can be located, identified, and/or tracked by computers.
The object is to do away forever with the right to privacy and anonymity.
Notice in this demo film that as soon as someone's face enters the field of view, the software automatically locates the face, takes a photo and enters that photo into a database.
Thereafter, that face is recognized instantly each time it re-enters the field of view.
In real life the database, accessible to authorities (and hackers) will include all sorts of personal information about each individual, such as address, phone number, salary, arrest record, medical record, family history, blood and tissue types, internet sites visited, voting record, tax record, credit record, outstanding debts, overdue library books,... whatever.
Biometric facial scanning is almost, but not quite, as bad as RFID chips.
The United Nations has already sanctioned the creation of a global facial recognition database allowing a person's face to be instantly recognized by remote cameras anywhere in the world.
Through facial recognition systemsn, authorities will have instant access to extensive data about every single person walking down a crowded street, even if the street is on the other side of the world from where the person lives.
And using the same technology, computers will be able to automatically search for someone anywhere in the world.
And of course if anybody's face ISN'T recognized, the computer will alert authorities so that the problem can be corrected.
The ICAO, the civil aviation sector of the United Nations, has decided that ALL international air travellers must be have facial recognition data stored in an ICAO database.
Boy what a comfort it is to know that big brother watching over us wherever we go.
It's not for comparing one driver's license against another. It's for building a database of biometric facial patterns that will totally do away with people's right to privacy and anonymity.
Notice in this demo film that as soon as someone's face enters the field of view, the software automatically locates the face, takes a photo and enters it into the database. Thereafter, that face will be recognized any time it re-enters the field of view.
In the near future, authorities will be able to know the identity of every person on the street. Or, conversely, they will be able to track the movements of anybody they choose to.
Of course RFID chips will be the final solution, but in the meantime facial biometrics are just about as effective
Now that I understand the situation better, I'd guess that the guy has memory problems, like I do myself, and that he totally forgot about the date and went off for that trip in ignorant bliss.
Well, society doesn't really have that stereotype any more.
Nowadays I'd say the excess burden is on the women who work at a job and are still often expected to do most of the housework and parenting.
But I was the sole provider for my family for many years and yes it is a serious responsibility. You can't take it lightly. And you have to be a lot more careful concerning decisions.
Personally I think society works better when only the men work. It puts parenting back in the hands of the parents and it slows down the overproductivity that leads to depressions.
But it has to be universal (or nearly so). If most households have 2 salaries, its much harder to feed and house a family with only one salarie.
Personally, based on my own experience, if I were you I would either go ahead and divorce, and move out now, or just forego any sort of lovelife until you do.
RayfromUSA Forum Posts (6,611)
RE: Video
Hi browneyes. How's things in Austin?What you described happens all the time.
Usually copyright infringement I think.
The video was probably pulled from YOuTube rather than from CS.
CS just links to youtube.