The Glade 4.0

I can't stand them. They tick me off in their ignorance.

Have you heard them? How did you receive them? Did you not care?

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Mail adds? TV adds? I'm not familiar with them.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I don't care. I don't plan to participate in the Census.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I think I fast forwarded through one a couple days ago...

All they're getting out of me is "2."

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The Dude abides.

@ DE:

Radio and (I think) TV.



"It's how we get our fair share of the money" [paraphrased]

Grrrr.... No, that really isn't what it's for, you twats.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

So what did you guys put for "preferred bar-code tattoo location"? I'm having trouble deciding...

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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
- George Soros

Interesting question.... while it'd be more painful to get... the odds of them actually being willing to scan a tattoo on "my dingus" is probably low.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

see this is why you guys can't get Jedi registered as an official religion =P

^

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Somehow I've missed these ads. I guess I need to watch more TV.

Well, technically "3", since she started paying rent this month.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Census records are sealed for around 90 years. Census records are being used mostly for genealogy these days, after the initial data is compiled for how many Whos live where and what do they have? Your answers are well protected http://2010.census.gov/2010census/privacy/index.php

You're all a bunch of conspiracy freaks that end up costing the government even more money as they have to hire people to come around and interview you.

You can ***** about the government wasting money all day long, but when it comes time for you to step up and save the government some money, a non-invasive, non-privacy issue becomes a big game of make the government spend as much time and money as possible to get you to answer ten simple questions.

Go ahead, play your little games and think you're the big bad revolutionaries. You're acting like little kids.

Grow the hell up. The only ones you're hurting are your kids, their kids, and the people providing emergency services you most likely want.

But you soooo baaaaaad.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

At least this conspiracy is founded on historical events

"Trust us, we're from the government and we're here to help."


Never what you want to hear.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Ok Michael if its not invading your privacy why don't you just post publically all the information requeste on the long form?

The only thing they need to ask is how many people live there.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I fail to see how reporting anything beyond how many people live there should hinder my receiving emergency services.

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The Dude abides.

/racist on

If you don't give them your race, they don't know how many police officers to provide.

/racist off

They would love to categorize you and run all sorts of statistics on you. They only need to know how many of you there are.

Ladas, a valid observation, an incident that was not one of the USA's shining moments. One of the things that is forgotten in the wave of innocents put in the camps is that there were Japanese spies among the people interned. It was an overboard reaction, but it was not a totally wasted effort. The question remains how much damage the few guilty parties would have done compared to the unfair suffering of those who were mistreated by their government.

Elmarnieh

1 - 1
2 - no
3 - box 1
4 - not on a public forum. If you really want my phone number, pm me. I'm listed in the book for those that know my name, which would be on the form.
5- N/A, no one else here
6 - male
7 - 54, June 9, 1955
8 - Box 1
9 - Box 1
10 - No

Satisfied? The answers will not be made public. For the majority of us, the answers are fairly innocuous.

Screeling - and because you fail to understand how it can help the planners of the emergency services you are justified in refusing to answer, which will prompt an interviewer paid with all of our tax dollars to come to your house and attempt to interview you and/or your wife to get these answers?

Yeah, its rendering unto Caesar information that for the most part Caesar could have with a lot more effort compiling it from other sources. Go ahead and believe you folks are protecting your privacy. You are spending my tax dollars protecting nothing.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Because the odds of the government misusing such information are far lower than random people from the Internet doing it?

Michael - that isn't the long form.
http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/pdf/d-61b.pdf

There ya go. And if you don't want to give it our publicly - it is by default private and therefore a privacy issue.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Micheal for Prez!

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Unless your house is on fire, or broken into, or you've lost your job though no fault of your own.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

House on fire:
Volunteer fire departments are more common in the US than governmental run ones. (Oh and they aren't federal anyway)

You're better off having a firearm if your house is broken into than waiting for police. (Also not federal.)

So he is better off having his income taken from him by force every hour he works and then after jumping through rules in order to get his own money back (after much has been spent on the salaries of those who take it, hold it, make the rules for giving it back, give it back, account for it, collect it, enforce collection, and then get taxed on the privilege of having his own money returned to him and then only being allowed to collect his own money back for a certain time frame than if he kept all his money and the interest on it in the first place?

You're freakin retarded.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Is the personal attack necessary to make your point?

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams