Pizza Ordering In 2010

[BlackcaT840]

This shit totally freaks me out. Homeland sercurity, my ass. More like, invasion of privacy and "How can we control them yet make it look like its for a good cause?"

Why am I not laughing?

Ordering Pizza in 2010

This is so close to what is probably going to happen in 2010 that we're not sure how funny it really is...Especially when government is probably listening in, too.

Operator: Thank you for calling Pizza Hut.May I have your national ID Number?

Customer : Hi, I'd like to place an order.

Operator : I must have your NIDN first, sir.

Customer : My National ID Number,yeah, hold on,it's 6102049998-45-54610

Operator: Thank you Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive , phone number is 494-2366. Your office number at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number is 266-2566. Which number are you calling from sir?

Customer: Huh? I'm at home. Where'd you get all this information?

Operator: We're wired into the HSS, sir .

Customer : The HSS, what is that?

Operator: We're wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time.

Customer: (sighs) Oh well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas.

Operator: I don't think that's a good idea, sir.

Customer: Whaddya mean?

Operator: Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate you've got high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice.

Customer : What?!?! What do you recommend, then?

Operator : You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it.

Customer: What makes you think I'd like something like that?

Operator: Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion.

Customer: All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then .

Operator: That will be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids. Your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99.

Customer: Lemme give you my credit card number .

Operator: I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay cash. Your credit card balance is over limit.

Customer: I'll run over to ATM & get cash before driver gets here.

Operator: That won't work either, sir. Your checking account is also overdrawn.

Customer: Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready. How long will it take?

Operator: We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick'em up while you're out getting cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward.

Customer: Wait! How do you know I ride a bike?

Operator: It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid for and you just filled tank yesterday.

Customer: Well, I'll be a #%#^^&$%^$@#

Operator: I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got a July 4, 2005 , conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here in September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at judge. Oh, I see here - you just got out from a 90 day stay in State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your return to society?

Customer : (speechless)

Operator: Will there be anything else, sir?

Customer: Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke .

Operator: I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits this. Thank you for calling Pizza Hut.

[Homicidalheathen]

I got a buddy who is moving to one of last 5 states to NOT enforce it.......wyoming........they want me/us to go too.

I will when they try to chip me. I will have a stand off.

[Hellion]

Shit how stupid,IMO,yeah they will call Homeland security on someone for throwing toilet paper wads on the ceiling in school,(being sarcastic)

[GOREgeouslyDecorated]

I'm never ordering Pizza again...

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

Well, they can already get your library history, who's to say that this won't happen? Oh, and that whole toilet thing? there's already one that can take your blood pressure, and heart rate right there on the pot! so yeah... this isn't far behind! If this gets that bad, I am digging a hole, and living there.... Wait, I might not be able to, because of some such permit I wouldn't qualify for, or something.... this shits getting ridiculous!!!!

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I've long been a proponent of hardcore, quasi-anarchistic personal freedom at the expense of "safety" and I've long been a reader of privacy rights literature and novels. Everything from Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Bradbury's 451 Fahrenheit to the real-world efforts of the early EFF and people like Simson Garfinkel.

But, with the juxtaposition being in the 21st century of massive destructive technology and the STILL existent, widespread belief in Bronze/Stone age myths as universal truth with non-existent entities that tell people to kill each other as long as they are doing it in the name of that entity, I'm starting to rethink that position. Response time will become something that must be measured in seconds or literally, millions can die due to the level of technology that will soon be available for next to nothing that can destroy unimaginable swaths of human life in an instant. Does that sound like a scare tactic used in many of the books/writers i mention above? It is. Unfortunately its real and will become even more real as technology advances and reason does not keep pace.

They pretty much have all that info now anyway, all that would happen is it would be more consolidated. They rattle that info off to me right now when i call the pizza place, they just didn't get it from my social security number. The information tech we take for granted today, like caller ID and credit cards and GPS-like tracking in our cell phones and such would have been viewed as "big brother" 30 years ago to many (and was) most of which has all been a positive on balance for civilization. Don't get me wrong i think there is such a thing as invasion of privacy, but this doesn't quite fit the bill does it? I call the pizza place now and they do almost the exact same thing, they just didn't get the info from my social security number.

[jadnifer]

It's sad to think that it may eventually come down to this. Nothing will be private anymore. It's scary to think that so many different people would have access to so much information about me.

[crunchy_pickle (5)]

If this ever went into effect, I would definitely require a rubber room.

It's bad enough that we don't even have the freedom of religion in this country (coming from someone who lost his freedom for practicing his religion).

I'm not surprised that we're all still JUST bitching about it though. No one wants anything. Everyone wants someone to do shit for them. No one wants to step up.

Why do we even bother having a Constitution anymore anyways? Every value that once rang true is now a lie, and that worthless document that was so beautiful once upon a time is now just a stain on our past to remind us of what cowards we are every day of our lives that we let our freedoms go in the future.

The fight for freedom starts at home.