XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: macross@mx1.ibm.com   
      
   Travers Naran  wrote on Sat 24 Nov   
   2007 09:52:55p:   
      
   > sanjian wrote:   
   >> Megane wrote:   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>> Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I know this is kinda off-topic, but some people here may be   
   >>>> interested, so I'll just post it and set the followup to myself.   
   >>>   
   >>> FAIL   
   >>>   
   >>>> The Japanese government is establishing a policy to take the   
   >>>> fingerprints of foreigners entering Japan (similar to the policy   
   >>>> established by the US government). Anyone who (like myself) doesn't   
   >>>> enjoy being treated like a criminal/suspect for merely visiting a   
   >>>> country   
   >>>   
   >>> Like we already do to them?   
   >>   
   >> *shrugs*  If I decide I want to go to Japan, then I guess I get finger   
   >> printed.  It's their country - what say do I have in it?   
   >   
   > If you're American, quite a lot actually. :-)   
   > (Hint: It's retaliatory like Brazil's fingerprinting system).   
   >   
      
   But in Brazil, only US citizens are fingerptinted, visitors from other   
   countries are not ;)   
      
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