Text 29738, 47 rader
Skriven 2006-05-16 12:50:32 av Philip Lozier (1:267/169)
  Kommentar till text 29679 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: WWII revisited
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 PL>> Yea... my tax dollars at work.  Isn't it pathetic? People were actually
 PL>> PAID to come up with that crap.

 BF>   One thing I have always wondered is, what happens to all those
 BF> millions of cards that drop in every year. Are they entered into a
 BF> computer database somewhere, and if so by whom? Can those operators
 BF> properly enter all the umlauted characters in my name and my
 BF> address (we all know how difficult that can be on a standard US
 BF> keyboard)?

God only knows what they do with them, if anything.  Probably some minimum wage
rent-a-cop glances over them real quick to see if any red
flags literaly jump out jump out and smack them in the head, and if that
doesn't happen they're off to their break and that back of doritos thay have in
their locker.

 BF>    And then, where are they stored? In a Utah mountain somewhere?
 BF> Fort Knox? How is the storage organized? Alphabetically by name,
 BF> chronologically, geographically or all the above?


SHHHHHHHH!  If they told us that they'd have to kill us... such stupid
questions as was stated on on those cards -are- vital to our national
security you know!

 PL>> I really wonder what would happen if one born in 1950 would actually
 PL>> answer "yes" to the Nazi question.

 BF>    I once added a remark that I had answered questions (this and
 BF> that) wrong, I meant to put the X on the other alternative. But I
 BF> wrote the note in Swedish. Nothing happened AFAIK, so I guess
 BF> whoever "analysed" that cards did not know Swedish. :)

Interesting.  Somebody was really paying attention.

 BF>    And then there is the question about everyone being expected to
 BF> carry a pen. Don't those guys know, that a pen can be used as a
 BF> deadly weapon?

Maybe they figure if everybody is expected to carry a pen then everybody is
equaly armed, and the threat is ruduced?  I'm sure there was a billion dollar
study done on it so let's just assume they know what they're doing ;>

Phil

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