I just found out you can get a cash & carry EZ Pass at certain retail locations.
http://www.ezpassonthego.com/index.php
Meza44 wrote:I haven't read the article but the headline looked intersting
http://autos.aol.com/article/e-zpass-privacy-invasion/
Chris
Meza44 wrote:I haven't read the article but the headline looked intersting
http://autos.aol.com/article/e-zpass-privacy-invasion/
Chris
radon222 wrote: They follow us on video everywhere we go...
Black Wing wrote:Nice, thanks for the heads up. I was just down in VA on the bike over the weekend and opted not to take the toll road cause it's such a pain to deal with gloves, change blah blah. Turns out, a retailer carries one of these EZ pass do-hickeys less than a few miles from home.
Black Wing wrote:It's worth a read. Probably no reason to cry murder yet, but always good to be aware of possibilities.
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I'd like to believe one day (before it's too late), We the People will realize that if we want our government to serve our needs (as oppose to our conforming to their ideals... which ironically should be our ideals but usually aren't), we'll have to make an effort to elect the right people into office. It seems we, as Americans, forget from election to election who did what and why. We don't hold them accountable, they get back into office and begin to stray far enough away from their campaign promises that the agenda has become their agenda and not ours.
Ultimately, they begin to do things that we don't want them to... which should never be the case since we're the ones who put them there in the first place.
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I know it's not really that simple, but some days when G. Orwell is tapping me on the shoulder, it feels like it should be.
R4R&R wrote:
It all starts out with the government finding ways to cut costs because afterall, we don't want to raise taxes. So instead of raising toll rates or taxes, they eliminate the need for toll booth operators and use easy pass. More efficient. THEN, they realize they are already collecting other useful information which they can sell, or use in new ways to bring money into the government. This offsets raising taxes from other funded programs. Afterall, we have to eventually pay for things like free healthcare, don't we?
R4R&R wrote:It all starts out with the government finding ways to cut costs because afterall, we don't want to raise taxes. So instead of raising toll rates or taxes, they eliminate the need for toll booth operators and use easy pass. More efficient. THEN, they realize they are already collecting other useful information which they can sell, or use in new ways to bring money into the government. This offsets raising taxes from other funded programs. Afterall, we have to eventually pay for things like free healthcare, don't we?
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