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Library of Congress Owns You

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... or, at least it owns your Twitter tweets:
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Now, this is not meant to be a political statement, but man... yeah, there is so much to say, and none of it good.
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Just one more reason why I don't "twitter"...
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I heard on FOX that the cash for clunkers program has a catch.

You know that security warning that comes up many times and folks click it without reading it.

Well I guess by clicking it, anyone enrolled in the cask for clunkers forfeited the particular computer and all it's data to Uncle Sam.

Just another reminder that the government does not give anything for free regardless of how it appears.

Theres always a catch.
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Joe wrote:
I heard on FOX that the cash for clunkers program has a catch.

You know that security warning that comes up many times and folks click it without reading it.

Well I guess by clicking it, anyone enrolled in the cask for clunkers forfeited the particular computer and all it's data to Uncle Sam.

Just another reminder that the government does not give anything for free regardless of how it appears.

Theres always a catch.

As a rock-solid Republican voter, this is one of the reasons that I do not like Glen Beck most of the time. I agree with the guy in principle, but he gets his facts wrong a fair amount more than he should.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/clunkers.asp

If anyone thought that their activity on Twitter or on any other Internet site was private until Big Scary Uncle Sam owns it....c'mon.

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Post by Sir Ironside »

serleran wrote:
... or, at least it owns your Twitter tweets:
Link

Now, this is not meant to be a political statement, but man... yeah, there is so much to say, and none of it good.

I dunno, there is something that just seems off about that article. I can't put my finger on it but either this is just misinformation or kind of a surreal big brother thing, it just doesn't sound like true facts.
Joe wrote:
I heard on FOX that the cash for clunkers program has a catch.

You know that security warning that comes up many times and folks click it without reading it.

Well I guess by clicking it, anyone enrolled in the cask for clunkers forfeited the particular computer and all it's data to Uncle Sam.

Just another reminder that the government does not give anything for free regardless of how it appears.

Theres always a catch.

I heard Bigfoot is really the brains behind the Obama presidency.

The two bold above suggests this just anti-rhetoric wargggghaaarble about the Democratic party. Not that surprising considering the source of the story.
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Post by Joe »

Thanks Orpheus, it was GB indeed.

Though I am not sure if I trust snopes website any more than FOX news.

But I will delete my post for fear of spreading more disinformation.
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Post by Breakdaddy »

No guys. No more political talk. This is over, sorry.

This is not directed at Robert's original post, but the growing tone of the subsequent posts.
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