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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (81007)	1/22/2002 6:37:35 PM
From: goldsheet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

One would think a museum with such an item would make some effort to promote it on their website. rom.on.ca Nothing mentioned at all. If you know someone there with a digital camera we could all get a look at it, assuming photography is allowed ?

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (81007)	1/22/2002 7:24:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116764

What about the poor gold panners if they're worried about "repetitive movement injuries" & ... - would they have been better off with more gold mining - instead? uk.news.yahoo.com

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (81007)	1/22/2002 7:59:23 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 116764

open post to: o49r/gold_tutor, Hutch & nuggets_for_brains 8pm In 5 minutes, Boston, Ma, USA CNN 8 p.m. est - Enron Yes, this hic-up of little news to fade away in a week, the Enron story as stated on CNBC & CNN will have a full 1 hour spot on CNN. Golly, the "everything gold" o49r and "You all DON'T get it." Hutch see nothing gold related here, while Gata Bill at his LeMetropoleCafe has MANY gold price monitor clues. well, guess it back to nuggets-time here yes, GPM is a Weak-Link Light Weights to the eXtreme as Bill once stated. There are of course a few on this thread that are on-topic and on-focus in regards to gold, but while the majority of posters on this thread remain duh towards Gata Bill in specific, and gata.org in general, they this thread will remain like these last week, a-Joke. Quite sad, as Chatters et al "puke" on this thread. or Would you but a used car from a person like this? or a place where a gold mine exist as its waits for you, yes you, to give Chatters $$$ without any "proof." dougak

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (81007)	1/23/2002 1:37:35 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116764

OT(?) THIS SUCKS washingtontimes.com EDITORIAL . January 21, 2002 Your papers please Mandatory fingerprinting used to be something we imposed on military personnel, criminals and criminal suspects. But if the idea of national ID cards being pushed by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) gets traction, every American will soon be inked - or tagged by another biometric identifier, such as a retinal scan - all in order to make us "safer." Whether we'll be as free as we used to be is another matter, of course. The AAMVA wants $100 million from Congress to erect the U.S. government's first-ever national ID system - complete with a centralized database to keep track of all of us. It would supplant existing state-level and state-issued driver's licenses, and we'd all have to carry one. These so-called smart cards could be used to track our movements, activities and purchases, and all the information would be dumped into Uncle Sam's very own PC to be used for whatever "informational purposes only" the government deems appropriate. Of course, the AAMVA and other boosters of this bad idea try to offer soothing words about the precautions against abuse, and how much more "secure" we'd all be with Uncle Sam able to follow our every move. "The whole issue comes down to improving public safety and preventing identity fraud," enthused AAMVA spokesman Jason King. "It will take changes in federal legislation. It will take changes in state legislation, and it will most certainly require funding." It will take changes in attitude, too. Americans will have to grow accustomed to the idea of being tagged and catalogued like cattle - and to swallow the imbecilic argument that such an electronic dragnet will never, ever be abused. David L. Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center is among the lonely voices urging a thoughtful pause. "This type of system will be a radical departure for this country," he said. And he warned flatly: "It will be abused." Others agree, and they run the gamut from the hard-core liberals at the American Civil Liberties Union to the conservative Christian right - united in the belief that government cannot be entrusted with such power, and that waging war on terrorists should not require us to abandon the very freedoms that make us a target. It's worth noting that nations such as communist China keep close track of each citizen and require that IDs be carried at all times and produced on demand. "Your papers, please." - a phrase heretofore unknown to Americans - could eventually become common currency. A crisis can bring out the best and worst in people. The best we saw at Ground Zero in the aftermath of September 11. The worst we're seeing now, as fear and the herd instinct threaten to supplant our usually good judgment. There's still plenty of time, however, to stop the national ID dead in its tracks.