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     | Wednesday, March 08, 2000 - 05:52 am  Just a suggestion for anyone who has to actually write a check to the IRS in April: Take some scissors and make a 1/4 inch cut right in the middle of one of the routing numbers on the lower left corner of the check. When the IRS feeds the check into their sorter, it will kick it out and have to be sorted by hand. If a million taxpayers do this, it will bring the IRS to their knees. P.S. I have been told that this method will cause banks to have to manually sort your check as well, thus buying you about 2 extra days before the check "clears".
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| | Wednesday, March 08, 2000 - 06:20 am And what's the benefit of doing this? It increases costs to the IRS, which means they can justify increasing their head count, which means SOMEBODY gets to pay for it, which probably results in higher tax bills down the line. Gee, maybe we should all find a nice Federal building somewhere, some fertilizer, some diesel fuel and ...
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| | Sunday, March 12, 2000 - 01:45 am I'm surprised Echelon didn't pick up on that. Or did it?
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| | Sunday, March 12, 2000 - 06:32 pm It did. Bet on it.
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| | Monday, March 13, 2000 - 05:31 am Christene - who is Echelon?
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| | Monday, March 13, 2000 - 09:55 am Echelon is a computer system operated by the United States National Security Agency. It picks up on all transmissions that enter or exit the United States and scans them for certain key words that flag them for review by people. Echelon can also recognize speech and transcribe people's phone calls into words. When packets travel on the internet they don't take a geographically direct route. Sending an email to someone across the street may require more hops than to send an email to someone at Oxford University in London. It is not impossible or even unlikely for email going from one American to another American to pass outside the United States. As technology advances more and more phone and fax calls get routed similar to Internet packets and may go outside the country in order to have you routed to a person three blocks away. Key words that might get Echelon's notice are M-16, fully automatic, C4, assassination, Islamic, Jihad, bombing, Semtex ... you get the idea. Reports indicate that a woman on a phone call to a friend was flagged by the computer as a potential terrorist because she said on a phone call that her daughter had bombed in the school play. Apparently the words "bomb" and "school" close together trigger alarms. If you're interested in more you should go to World Net Daily and they have a search function you can look up Echelon.
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