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From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 17:11 On 24/03/2010 19:36, Ret. wrote: > Indeed - and yet when Social Services come to visit a relative of yours > because they have concerns - you kick up a stink about it. They can't > win can they? > FYI, Social services know the family very well considering both my nephew and his brother have terminal diseases and are wheelchair bound needing massive amounts of help. They see them quite often, sometimes on a weekly basis as their condition deteriorates. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 17:17 On 24/03/2010 19:47, Ret. wrote: > And they are mind readers as well are they? They can miraculously > determine where the cars came from and also where they are going to? They don't need to. All they need to know is how many and what type of vehicles travel down a stretch of road at a specific time. >>> Little point in building a new road from A to B if the traffic on the >>> over-congested road is only using it briefly to get from C to D. >> >> Why not? Its still congested. > > Doh! Because the idea will be to create new roads to divert the traffic > away from the congested road - and until they find where that traffic is > coming from and wants to get to, where would they build the new road? > But they can do that by monitoring the traffic flow at other points in the area. They manage to do it that way around here.... >> >>> If you are driving a truck then who you work for may well enable >>> them to deduce the likely traffic movements from your depot along >>> that road. >> >> That is none of their business and a traffic survey as I described >> would still suffice. > > See above. No it wouldn't. Only in your Police State mind.... -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 17:17 On 24/03/2010 19:48, Ret. wrote: > >> As I recall in the last couple of years, the entire records of the >> child benefit system have gone missin and there have been several >> other gaffs by HMRC, Benefits Agency and security services all >> involving personal data of many many thousands of people. > > And the damage that has been caused by the loss of this data is......? ....yet to be determined. > I never heard another word about it after the loss. Do you honestly think the government would advertise the fact? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 17:19 On 24/03/2010 19:48, Ret. wrote: > I > never heard another word about it after the loss. > In the 1980's I had a lot to do with the RAF. Back in the mid 80's, the RAF were saying that the Nimrod was a badly designed plane with massive flaws such as the doors not fitting and was unfit for the job. It took another two decades and the end of Nimrod before it came out. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 17:21
On 24/03/2010 20:02, Ret. wrote: > Conor wrote: >> On 24/03/2010 10:58, Bod wrote: >> >>>> >>>> ANPR is bringing massive benefits to crime fighting and traffic >>>> offence detecting and *that* is what we should be concentrating on >>>> - not imaginary and fanciful downsides. >>>> >> >> How does it bring a benefit to crime fighting? You've just told us >> that information stored is useless and that nobody looks at it. > > Do I *really* need to explain that to you? > Yes. >> >> It doesn't detect any traffic offences other than POTENTIAL Insurance, >> MOT or VED offences. Hell, its even so shite at the VED one that the >> gubbermint brought out a 5 day get out of jail period. > > Sigh - it will trigger alarms for *any* vehicle that is tagged for > police interest. And then what? > That interest could be for many reasons: vehicle owned > by dissie driver, vehicle owned by someone tipped off to the police as a > regular drink/driver, known drug dealers, etc. etc. etc. And does it prevent them from doing it? What about people not known to the Police. How does it detect a crime they might be doing? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |