Bag's Rants: I love government databases.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

I love government databases.

Via the ASI I read about this new real time display of containers that arrive in the US. Read here. Each container is listed with the contents and we must not forget it is illegal to lie to Uncle Sam. For a fee you can access this data and search it and it is apparently a boon to many people.

I'm sure it is. After all how many times have hijackers made off with a lorry load of plastic toys from China and not the super new microchips and memory they were after? Those timesare behind us now.

Isn't technology wonderful and it's compulsory too.

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The inarticulate rants of a paranoid who has looked around after the birth of his granddaughter and does not like what he sees.

Name: Bag

Location: Cheshire, United Kingdom

I'm a divorced guy with two grown up kids. One has a child of her own so I'm a granddad. Makes me sound old which is right. We live in the NW of England and I'm a manager in a computer consultancy and tend to get involved in fixing things. I enjoy my job which seems to be unusual in this day and age even with the Dilbert type things that drive me loopy.

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