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To: Neocon who wrote (15993)	3/21/2000 6:31:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Voted today at a school. Two years ago a $32 million building project squeeked by for more grade schools. I wandered around and 1/4th the rooms were empty. 30 desks with computers, that the feds renigged on paying for, in each room empty. Several rooms with 30 desks and computers had 4-5 students in them. Our district has computers for every child from grade one on and many that they don't even have students for. Now they want an additional $65 million for a new school. I'm going to run for the board as kick backs must be enormous.

To: Neocon who wrote (15993)	3/23/2000 4:09:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The association of violence with male hormone levels is a correlation rather than strictly causal. Your assertion that male violence declines in older men raises a problem -- because not all men experience significant declines in male hormones as they age. I have read several hundred articles on the subject and the relationships are far from clear. They are dynamic, rather than static, and there if often social learning going on. I think the generalized violence shown by some professional athletes (especially NFL) who are very likely to have overused steroids needs much more research. The ability of dominant males to control and channel the violence potential associated with high male homone levels into socially (and personally) useful behavior is of the utmost importance in growing a better society. Success in dominance-seeking trials (such as football games) leads to higher hormone levels, and, too often, in subsequent violence. The winning team goes out and gets drunk and breaks up the town. The losing team (with lower and falling hormones) goes to the hotel and goes to sleep.

To: Neocon who wrote (15993)	7/12/2001 7:31:30 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 769670

Where are the Democrats of Congress on this issue? House Leader Wants Probe of Privacy Invaders Wes Vernon Thursday, July 12, 2001 WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, is calling on congressional investigators to find out to what extent the federal government is funding facial-recognition technologies. He is also calling on the relevant House committees to hold hearings on law enforcement use of surveillance technology. The General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog, is looking into the question of taxpayers’ own money being used to finance efforts to spy on them. In a joint statement with the American Civil Liberties Union, Armey refers to "the troubling expansion in the way technology is being used in the surveillance of ordinary Americans.” "We are today joining together to call on all state and local governments to stop using these dangerous technologies now before privacy in America is so diminished that it becomes nothing more than a memory.” Armey and the ACLU call attention to Tampa, Fla., where facial recognition technology was used in this year’s "snooperbowl” and was installed this month to scan individuals in an entertainment district. They also cite a Colorado program to create a database containing computerized three-dimensional facial maps of all those applying for driver’s licenses. This "alarming potential for misuse” could lead to software application that would "allow the public movements of every citizens in the state to be identified, tracked, recorded and stored.” Critics say these surveillance systems are ineffective as law enforcement devices and will lead to the police stopping people who have done nothing wrong. A Los Angeles Times story cited a study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology showing that digital comparisons of the same person taken 18 months apart triggered a 43 percent rejection by computers. The Armey/ACLU statement further charges that these devices could lead to "high tech racial profiling” if the cameras are placed in areas populated primarily by ethnic and racial minority groups. "We are extremely troubled by this unprecedented expansion in high tech surveillance in the United States,” the statement adds, expressing a fear it could result in "a virtual line-up” of innocent Americans. Finally, the House majority leader and ACLU (not normally political allies) conclude, "the threats to privacy in America are all too real. We believe the privacy risk outweighs any benefits that these devices may offer.” newsmax.com