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| ID cards for the UK; when do we get our barcodes? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 14 2006, 10:45 AM (184 Views) | |
| Hirota | Feb 14 2006, 03:18 PM Post #16 |
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Yeah it's so the Americans will accept them, as I understand it. Or that might be passports..... Ah ha, Europe is adopting biometric data, and so is several states already in passports in order to bypass visas in the US. American visas: http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-01-31-voa56.cfm Europe: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/15/eu...tric_passports/ I'll quote the second as it amuses me:
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| Ecopoeia | Feb 14 2006, 03:42 PM Post #17 |
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Yes, folks, these are the values we're stoutly defending from the Islamofascists. Oh, hang on... |
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| Groot Gouda | Feb 14 2006, 04:47 PM Post #18 |
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I may carry a few cards with my name on it, I don't carry anything that is accepted as official ID here. And sure, a bankcard is more on your mind to replace than a passport when lost, but loosing your passport is damn inconvenient and a lot more expensive. |
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Sincerely, Michel (Mr April) Groot Gouda Member of the International Democratic Union. Writer of the Sex Industry Worker Act, the Natural Disaster Act and The Right to Form Unions. | |
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| Cobdenia | Feb 14 2006, 05:09 PM Post #19 |
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It's the cost that worries me more then anything. But on the bright side, it will be another unpopular labour descision that will lead to a Conservative government in 2009... |
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Norbert But my name is Steve! No no no, it's spelled, "Steve," but it's pronounced, "Norbert ". You Lie! It's Mr June Rejection Wait, so now my name is Norbert June? | |
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| Ecopoeia | Feb 14 2006, 05:18 PM Post #20 |
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Not long ago, such a comment would scare me. Now... what's the difference? The Tories will be worse in some ways, scarcely better in others. I can't stand any of the fuckers. EDIT: and actually, I wonder if enough Brits are credulous enough to let Labour off anyway. ID cards ain't a big deal for most people - they're buying the government's shit. |
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| Ecopoeia | Feb 14 2006, 08:42 PM Post #21 |
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Jesus, I only just read that link - so even if we somehow stop this infernal scheme going ahead, the EU will shaft us anyway. Hooray! Fuck this, I'm moving to Vanuatu. |
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| Knootoss | Feb 14 2006, 10:35 PM Post #22 |
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Unlike GG I do carry my card. I have one of those wallets with a bazillion things in it and this is one of them. Not taking it with me would be more of a burden and I'd be more likely to lose it in my room. :ph43r: I opposed compulsory ID when it was introduced here but I cannot say I feel very opressed. I just think it is a pointless measure. The only thing I think they should change is that you are required to carry compulsory ID from the age of 14. I believe that to be just excessive. So... I support you Brits but it hardly hallmarks the establishment of a fascist theocracy. |
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~Aram Koopman, Knootian ambassador to the WA "If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words." | |
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| Ecopoeia | Feb 14 2006, 11:11 PM Post #23 |
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From the article Hirota originally posted:
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| Knootoss | Feb 14 2006, 11:52 PM Post #24 |
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So? |
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~Aram Koopman, Knootian ambassador to the WA "If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words." | |
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| Ecopoeia | Feb 15 2006, 11:06 AM Post #25 |
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You're fucked, too. |
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| Knootoss | Feb 15 2006, 12:18 PM Post #26 |
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Our government is planning to do this anyway. All governments basically agreed together to do this, whatever they might now pretend about this being a Commission idea. Europe isn't forcing this on us; the collective Europeans governments are at the instigation of changed U.S. regulations.. This has a lot to do with the demands of the United States. Europeans would not get easy acces anymore without biometrics passports, so really, I blame America for this nonsense. |
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~Aram Koopman, Knootian ambassador to the WA "If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words." | |
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| Ecopoeia | Feb 15 2006, 12:41 PM Post #27 |
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I don't really think we can blame the Americans for the fact that our governments - and, by extension, the EU - are craven puppies lacking the spine to stand up for liberty. |
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| Knootoss | Feb 15 2006, 03:52 PM Post #28 |
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Feh. |
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~Aram Koopman, Knootian ambassador to the WA "If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words." | |
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