The U.S. government may have its heart in the right place (I'm trying to be nonjudgemental), but it certainly is getting deeply involved in controlling what we can or cannot do.
I just got a new copy machine for my office, a jazzy piece of equipment that copies and prints in color. The salesman mentioned to me that the machine's technology would prevent anyone from using it to copy currency, ...he said problems with counterfitting made it necessary. I assumed he meant U.S. currency. I haven't tried that, but I did try today to make a photocopy (for a completely innocuous reason) of a 1 Yuan note from China (value is less than U.S. $0.13). I couldn't do it. The copy came out as a black sheet. How the hell can the machine determine that this piece of paper I'm trying to copy is a Chinese Yuan note? I'm absolutely confident that my blogs are read by U.S. agents. This is scary stuff.
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