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Pegatha
http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/04/billy-bob-thorn.html

This is excrutiating.
believe_it
He does a great job in the Steven Spielberg connected film, EAGLE EYE, which I watched after finding it (while researching electronic medical records) linked from the homepage of what appears to be a legit privacy advocacy website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye

QUOTE


http://epic.org/

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.



EAGLE EYE reminded me of GATTACA Special Features DVD featuring serious interview with ?Princeton bio prof who claimed to use film in classroom for discussion of important philosophical questions. It also reminded me of an old Washington Post article on a similarly unbelievable type of stalking,

QUOTE
To Protect and Intrude; GPS Proliferates as Costs Fall; Privacy Strained

Author: Ariana Eunjung Cha
Date: Jan 15, 2005
Start Page: A.01


The Washington Post - Washington, D.C.
Text Word Count: 1877

Nextel Communications Inc., for example, offers its subscribers phone-tracking ability for as little as a $15 activation fee, and Sprint Corp. is expected to roll out a similar offering this year. A company called Wherify Wireless Inc. plans to sell an inexpensive GPS tracker at Wal-Mart stores starting this spring. Companies such as United Parcel Service Inc. and SuperShuttle International Inc. are requiring workers to keep a GPS system on them throughout the day. Police in several major cities are tagging cars of suspects in criminal investigations with GPS units.

Laws and legal precedent are often unclear about when and how GPS devices can be used. A federal judge in New York recently ruled that police have a right to place tracking devices on vehicles without a warrant because the drivers should have no expectation of privacy on public roads. But on Jan. 1, California became the first state to restrict car rental companies' use of GPS to track customers. The new law was adopted after at least one company fined customers $3,000 because their GPS system indicated the cars had crossed the state line into Nevada -- a violation of the rental agreement.

In one case, S3 sold its technology to a pilot in the New York- New Jersey area who hid the tracking device on the car of a female acquaintance. He called the monitoring center constantly to get a fix on the GPS device's position so, unbeknownst to the company, he could follow her around in a low-flying plane. After she became suspicious and called local law enforcement officials, they found the GPS device and S3 cooperated with authorities to gather evidence for the stalker's arrest.


How extraordinarily lucky (and improbable) for the NJ 'female aquaintance' described above that she was not called delusional by law enforcement and referred for a psych eval. I'm guessing you know how that might have turned out. laugh.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq_37nS7lBo
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy, Live @ '07 Grammy's
(note costume)
graham4anything
it's funny

believe_it is doing exactly what BillyBob did

but Billy Bob is doing what Joaquin Phoenix did
it's all an act for the same movie
one they hope will make 100million

btw- you gotta laugh at the thought that BillyBob is going to have a #1 record in the first place
He is doing the music to release tension and play some songs, but not for the thought he will be a big music star
At his age? You gotta be English on that talent show to be successful at his age

Not in the US or Canada.
believe_it
He does a great job in the Steven Spielberg connected film, EAGLE EYE, which I watched after finding it (while researching electronic medical records) linked from the homepage of what appears to be a legit privacy advocacy website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye

QUOTE



http://epic.org/

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.



EAGLE EYE reminded me of GATTACA DVD Special Features' serious interview with ?Princeton bio prof who claimed to use film in classroom for discussion of important philosophical questions. It also reminded me of an old Washington Post article on a similarly unbelievable type of stalking,

QUOTE
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost...rivacy+Strained
To Protect and Intrude; GPS Proliferates as Costs Fall; Privacy Strained

Author: Ariana Eunjung Cha
Date: Jan 15, 2005
Start Page: A.01


The Washington Post - Washington, D.C.
Text Word Count: 1877

Nextel Communications Inc., for example, offers its subscribers phone-tracking ability for as little as a $15 activation fee, and Sprint Corp. is expected to roll out a similar offering this year. A company called Wherify Wireless Inc. plans to sell an inexpensive GPS tracker at Wal-Mart stores starting this spring. Companies such as United Parcel Service Inc. and SuperShuttle International Inc. are requiring workers to keep a GPS system on them throughout the day. Police in several major cities are tagging cars of suspects in criminal investigations with GPS units.

Laws and legal precedent are often unclear about when and how GPS devices can be used. A federal judge in New York recently ruled that police have a right to place tracking devices on vehicles without a warrant because the drivers should have no expectation of privacy on public roads. But on Jan. 1, California became the first state to restrict car rental companies' use of GPS to track customers. The new law was adopted after at least one company fined customers $3,000 because their GPS system indicated the cars had crossed the state line into Nevada -- a violation of the rental agreement.

In one case, S3 sold its technology to a pilot in the New York- New Jersey area who hid the tracking device on the car of a female acquaintance. He called the monitoring center constantly to get a fix on the GPS device's position so, unbeknownst to the company, he could follow her around in a low-flying plane. After she became suspicious and called local law enforcement officials, they found the GPS device and S3 cooperated with authorities to gather evidence for the stalker's arrest.


How extraordinarily lucky (and improbable) for the NJ 'female aquaintance' described above that she was not called delusional by law enforcement and referred for a psych eval. I'm guessing you know how that might have turned out. laugh.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq_37nS7lBo
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy, Live @ '07 Grammy's
(note costume)
graham4anything
Billy Bob is not crazy.

and I like the way your mind works believe_it
It's similiar to mine
you get connections, that are real, but not necessarily seen by all.

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btw- Billy Bob got 100 times MORE publicity than the low key concert tour and the cd he released was doing
(same as Joaquin)
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