.....but it's for the safety of the citizenry. So that makes sense. (Add this to the over flowing supply of hollow point bullets and we are one safe society!)

Being self employed I go by my own rules. It's usually tough getting new customers because few people have got any real money these days - apart from older people, which the majority of my customers are. They don't play by 'modern rules' either.

I've spent whole days canvassing & got barely any results. I could look at it as soul destroying, but I prefer to view it as eliminating dead ends.

Right now I'm inundated with work.

keep talking like this, and I'll think you have a patent in there somewhere. oops! no-the US frowns on methods. Thomas Jefferson turned over in his airconditioned, self composting, perpetual motion energy creating grave

In AS, the one thing the govt remained good at was building weapons and spying on their citizens. spot on, LS

But they do their damndest to make it difficult to succeed.

It seems they only care about the type of technology that let's them voyeur our lives: cell phones (gps), new cars (with gps and black boxes), debit cards, credit cards, computers, internet, ......drones. Those they don't regulate, squash, or interfere with.

Necessity plays it's part too - being the mother of invention apparently. I can vouch for that. :)