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Just when you thought you could relax a little...
I had honestly thought this was a dead issue. Silly me.
(CNN) -- Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says there are no plans for a federal database of drivers' information.
The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bill, aims to weave driver's licenses and state ID cards into a sort of national identification system by May 2008. The law sets baseline criteria for how driver's licenses will be issued and what information they must contain.
The Department of Homeland Security insists Real ID is an essential weapon in the war on terror, but privacy and civil liberties watchdogs are calling the initiative an overly intrusive measure that smacks of Big Brother.
The rest of the story, in glorious doublespeak.
Office packed. Again. Will report to updated quarters bright and sunshine early on Monday and unpack same. Again. What fun.
The nifty word meter over at zokutou.co.uk has gone missing, which is really too bad. This does not, however, mean that we here at the Confusion Factory have stopped writing. Or counting.
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Progress on Duainfey:
Today's Special:
They passed the last homestead at mid-morning; the road thinning to a thred of dusty track through country overgrown with sparse, leggy shrubbery.
Becca recognized redthorn and thessel, wild carrot, coinflower, and bluebows. Fire plants, the lot of them, their only virtue that of quick growth and quicker die-off, to enrich the ground so that sturdier, more useful plants might re-grow.
(CNN) -- Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says there are no plans for a federal database of drivers' information.
The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bill, aims to weave driver's licenses and state ID cards into a sort of national identification system by May 2008. The law sets baseline criteria for how driver's licenses will be issued and what information they must contain.
The Department of Homeland Security insists Real ID is an essential weapon in the war on terror, but privacy and civil liberties watchdogs are calling the initiative an overly intrusive measure that smacks of Big Brother.
The rest of the story, in glorious doublespeak.
Office packed. Again. Will report to updated quarters bright and sunshine early on Monday and unpack same. Again. What fun.
The nifty word meter over at zokutou.co.uk has gone missing, which is really too bad. This does not, however, mean that we here at the Confusion Factory have stopped writing. Or counting.
edited to add new meter
Today's Special:
They passed the last homestead at mid-morning; the road thinning to a thred of dusty track through country overgrown with sparse, leggy shrubbery.
Becca recognized redthorn and thessel, wild carrot, coinflower, and bluebows. Fire plants, the lot of them, their only virtue that of quick growth and quicker die-off, to enrich the ground so that sturdier, more useful plants might re-grow.
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Really, now. What makes us think, just because we're citizens, that we have any rights or freedoms in our own country? How naive!
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*El Presidente de la Republica Petrola
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(The "I was not a Nazi" polka.)
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No it hasn't!
http://www.zokutou.co.uk/wordmeter/
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You don't have permission to access /wordmeter/ on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
...cue Twilight Zone theme...
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Apologies to you all for the site being down for over a week. It was brought down at the worst possible time, though we're not sure if it was malicious attack, or just someone being over-enthusiastic. We love that you all find our little site useful, and we hope we can keep it going as long as possible. Keep writing!
So it sounds as if it was down for a while, but is back now?
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Weird...
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Wonder if your ISP and theirs are arguing. The SPAM blacklists sometimes create problems like this, because ISPs decide to block traffic from people on them.
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Tried clearing your cache or resetting your cookies or something?...
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However, it a a violation of state laws for anyone to access DMV records without a valid law enforcement reason or without paying a fee. Basically, the whole issue is a mess.