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Grumpy old man resents ID cards. Anyone else feel the same?
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Justhad 3 hours straight on syntactical structure analysis, & I don't drink. Or do drugs. Except LSD*.
*The r*nn*ng term - what did you think I meant?
'Fraid Brat 1 has no lectures on Friday
Brat 2 only 1 lecture Friday AM, pm spent on the river .....
Brat 3 no lectures thurs / fri
Sometimes wonder what the world is coming to
And we were grateful forrit :-)
(BTW, it was a long time ago - it was even a poly when I started!)
Mine was a poly as well!
& are you stalking me?
2) In ya dreams luv.
:-)
(except Syntactical Structure Analysis).
I shall therefore be able to bamboozle the guards into realizing they don't actually know what 'Lock them up & throw away the key' means, & thereby persuade them to bring me Chinchillas. I shall then use the Animal Cognition module I am doing next term to enlist the Chinchillas in my devious escape plan.
I am VISCERALLY opposed to Blunkett's ID cards scheme.
Like FAB, I too get pretty wound up by this issue - never more so than by the smug and pious 'justification' its supporters often come up with - "if you've got nothing to hide, what have you got to be afraid of?"
FAB I think summed up the arguments against, and some of the things to fear pretty well. I too work with large databases for a living, and am well aware how much cr*p gets onto them.
article from this week's Computer Weekly:
<snip>....many security experts question whether such a vast database could ever be free of errors.
"By its very nature, a database of that size could never be truly clean. Just in terms of data entry, how do you ensure the accuracy of the data being entered?" Ovum analyst Gary Titterington said.
Titterington pointed to the UK's police criminal records database, which is known to have built up numerous inaccuracies over the years.
"That is a database of a much smaller scale than the one the government is proposing and it only allows access to law enforcement officials with the highest levels of clearance," Titterington said. "How on earth do you control legitimate access to the ID card database, let alone keep it protected from hackers and terrorists?" </snip>
And if your details are wrong, who's responsible for that? Yes, you are.
Then there's the consideration of cost. Blunkett is admitting to £3.1 billion now - I reckon, in view of the way Government IT projects invariably go way over budget, that'll mean it'll probably end up nearer £15 billion. Who'll pay for it? Yes, you. Shades of the poll tax.
Other people have pointed out that many EU nations have ID card schemes - yes they do - but none of them are anywhere near as far-reaching and all-encompassing as what is being planned for the UK.
And if they're such a good idea, why have they not been embraced by the US government? You'd have thought the country which suffered the 9/11 outrage would be one of the first to implement them thereafter.
FWIW, I agree (although I definitely wouldn't use the "the UA don't do it" argument - have you read anything about the Patriot Act? Now THATS scary).
None of the "official" reasons for having them hold water, and the only advantage seems to be that you don't have to carry a few cards around with you (that you don't anyway!). Sorry, but spending billions (however many it will be, it will be a fantastically large amount of money) seems a ridiculous idea to me.
I notice that Blunkett recently said that he wasn't draconian!!!
'fraid the only people who win, will be consultants, government quangos and computer supply companies
(unless you are a student !)
It's looking even better :-)
VISCERALLY
adv 1: in an unreasoning visceral manner [syn: unreasoningly] 2: in the viscera; "he is bleeding viscerally"
Good afternoon, everybody.
Got your number.
No really, I have.
suggest you Google "visceral" as well....
Strangely, the adjective appears to define precisely how I feel on this issue, while the definitions for the adverb are more limited
I wasn't being a smartass, I really didn't know.
I would probably carry an ID card if it was voluntary and I don't like the idea of a compulsory one.