Comments on: Important information from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce regarding your residence http://blogofbile.com/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/ from the bowels of the mind Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:21:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Harassed by the Census Bureau « Serf City http://blogofbile.com/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1782 Harassed by the Census Bureau « Serf City Sun, 18 May 2008 04:46:00 +0000 http://www.landofbile.com/blog/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1782 [...] by the Census Bureau I’ve documented the whole thing at my personal blog here, here, here and today’ss event [...] [...] by the Census Bureau I’ve documented the whole thing at my personal blog here, here, here and today’ss event [...]

]]> By: bile http://blogofbile.com/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1776 bile Tue, 13 May 2008 15:31:12 +0000 http://www.landofbile.com/blog/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1776 Not if it's collected by the government. Not something I'm interested in nor see helping me. Not if it’s collected by the government. Not something I’m interested in nor see helping me.

]]> By: stephiroth http://blogofbile.com/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1778 stephiroth Mon, 12 May 2008 16:40:46 +0000 http://www.landofbile.com/blog/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1778 Fair enough.  I am not keen on providing information to anyone I don't know personally about me, my habits, or those that I live with either.  I avoid it at any point that I realistically can.  I have not been faced with mandatory relinquishing of personal facts, so don't know if I actually would, though I would be betraying a long ancestry if I did.  One thing might stop an immediate 'no thank you' - I pay attention to statistics, percentages, and the like that leaders and anyone else on a soapbox wants to spout.   How can I complain about my belief that the pie chart is wrong if I didn't add my info to it?  Because I'm sure that *my peers* are also not counted, because none of us would willingly volunteer to be part of it.  Or perhaps I'm hedging my bets, certain that it is wrong because it obviously doesn't count everyone, but that seems like dirty tactics to me.  Would you be willing to add your stats to the pool if it weren't connected with an address and name, just a community/region? Fair enough.  I am not keen on providing information to anyone I don’t know personally about me, my habits, or those that I live with either.  I avoid it at any point that I realistically can.  I have not been faced with mandatory relinquishing of personal facts, so don’t know if I actually would, though I would be betraying a long ancestry if I did.  One thing might stop an immediate ‘no thank you’ - I pay attention to statistics, percentages, and the like that leaders and anyone else on a soapbox wants to spout.   How can I complain about my belief that the pie chart is wrong if I didn’t add my info to it?  Because I’m sure that *my peers* are also not counted, because none of us would willingly volunteer to be part of it.  Or perhaps I’m hedging my bets, certain that it is wrong because it obviously doesn’t count everyone, but that seems like dirty tactics to me.  Would you be willing to add your stats to the pool if it weren’t connected with an address and name, just a community/region?

]]> By: bile http://blogofbile.com/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1779 bile Mon, 12 May 2008 16:26:42 +0000 http://www.landofbile.com/blog/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1779 It's illegal to place anything other than actual USPS mail in the box. I'm too lazy to look up the US Code but pretty much the government owns your mailbox. Not you. You are breaking the law if you put your keys in the box for a friend or the like. In this case though the government is the one who put the stuff their so it's not an issue... they own it. It’s illegal to place anything other than actual USPS mail in the box. I’m too lazy to look up the US Code but pretty much the government owns your mailbox. Not you. You are breaking the law if you put your keys in the box for a friend or the like.

In this case though the government is the one who put the stuff their so it’s not an issue… they own it.

]]> By: KungFuJoe http://blogofbile.com/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1780 KungFuJoe Mon, 12 May 2008 15:53:00 +0000 http://www.landofbile.com/blog/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1780 If I recall correctly, it's actually illegal to hand-deliver mail into someone's US Postal Service mailbox.  Back when I was in the Boy Scouts, my Scoutmaster was also the Postmaster in our little town.  On the few occasions when we went door-to-door passing out information (usually about upcoming events in town), we were warned very strictly to not touch the mailboxes.  If we had no answer at the door, we were to leave the information in front of the door-- secured, if possible, in a door handle or tucked under a Welcome mat. If I recall correctly, it’s actually illegal to hand-deliver mail into someone’s US Postal Service mailbox.  Back when I was in the Boy Scouts, my Scoutmaster was also the Postmaster in our little town.  On the few occasions when we went door-to-door passing out information (usually about upcoming events in town), we were warned very strictly to not touch the mailboxes.  If we had no answer at the door, we were to leave the information in front of the door– secured, if possible, in a door handle or tucked under a Welcome mat.

]]> By: bile http://blogofbile.com/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1781 bile Mon, 12 May 2008 15:10:20 +0000 http://www.landofbile.com/blog/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1781 I think a better question would be why would I want to. Not answering them is the negative action. I have no desire to provide them with any information. I don't care what Title 13, Section 9 says. The government has no need or right to information about me or others who lives at my address. May I remind people that events such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census#Historical_FBI_abuses_of_census_data" rel="nofollow">Japanese American internment</a> during WWII were made easier through the use of census data, it's used to do make policy I will disagree with and in and of itself is a waste of the extortion money they got from me. I think a better question would be why would I want to. Not answering them is the negative action.

I have no desire to provide them with any information. I don’t care what Title 13, Section 9 says. The government has no need or right to information about me or others who lives at my address. May I remind people that events such as the Japanese American internment during WWII were made easier through the use of census data, it’s used to do make policy I will disagree with and in and of itself is a waste of the extortion money they got from me.

]]> By: stephiroth http://blogofbile.com/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1777 stephiroth Mon, 12 May 2008 14:28:29 +0000 http://www.landofbile.com/blog/2008/05/11/important-information-from-the-us-dept-of-commerce-regarding-your-residence/#comment-1777 Purely out of curiosity, and feel free to point me to a previous entry, why don't you want to answer the census questions? Purely out of curiosity, and feel free to point me to a previous entry, why don’t you want to answer the census questions?

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