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Edsel Chase <starswirler@geocities.com> wrote:

>It is far more ludicrous to sit at a red light late 
>at night (or anytime for that matter) when there is 
>no opposing traffic -- 

If there really is no traffic, why do you wait for the light?

>It is also ridiculous to fear a technology that might 
>save a life, perhaps your life or the life of someone 
>you care for -- 

I find it difficult to believe that having a transponder in my car
will make much of a difference in the (exceptionally rare)
life-or-death transportation emergency [1]. OTOH, what with our
federal spy agencies track record WRT personal privacy [2] I'd just as
soon not give them another way to monitor my movements.

[1] Unless, of course, that transponder is accompanied by red flashing
lights and a siren.

[2] Europe has been in a low-level tizzy for the past few months about
the NSA collecting and sorting through all of their communications.
What folks seem to be missing is that the NSA wouldn't go to all that
trouble in Europe and ignore North America [3].

[3] Despite what the NSA says.
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