People 'can't wait for ID cards'

[EternalOptimist]

One of my staff was badly beaten up in the middle of a town centre. The police have failed to find anyone from the CCTV pictures saying that they were obscured by trees..

police are now questioning 50,000 contractors

[Purple Dalek]

Next time I post a tongue-in-cheek remark I'll highlight the fact by adding the note "Tongue in Cheek Mode, for the hard of thinking, notably AtW and Purple Dalek".

Point taken.

Do you often partake of this tounge-in-cheek behaviour? Sounds a little odd.

[DodgyAgent]

police are now questioning 50,000 contractors

[Churchill]

Do you often partake of this tounge-in-cheek behaviour? Sounds a little odd.

Allow me this little guess, you're not British, are you?

You understand a few of the words but when they're put together to construct a sentence, you're f**ked!

[DodgyAgent]

Do you often partake of this tounge-in-cheek behaviour? Sounds a little odd.

between the cheeks

[Churchill]

between the cheeks

Now, now, that's just not nice!
(<ahem> I believe...)

[DodgyAgent]

Now, now, that's just not nice!
(<ahem> I believe...)

On your recommendation I wont try it then

[Churchill]

On your recommendation I wont try it then

You should be alright if you tell her to floss afterwards!

[Doggy Styles]

ID cards will propel us into Kafka's world.

[derekthedalek]

ID cards? You humans really haven't got a clue, have you.

Firstly there is no such thing as uncrackable technology, and so putting all your ID eggs in this particular basket is inviting chaos and untold crime. The sample cards recently demonstrated with all the up-to-date software and hardware encryption were cracked and cloned very quickly.

As for having nothing to fear - you wouldn't want some administrator (it could be your neighbour, your enemy, or any old pervert really) being able to use the ID card technology to pull all those databases together and build up a history of your life. Everywhere you've been with your mobile phone, everything you've bought, everywhere you've driven, every conversation you've had by phone or email, every CCTV camera you've appeared on, every dodgy website you've visited. All listed in chronological order. A lot of that is currently recorded, but on in disparate places where it is very difficult to pull together. The idea of ID cards is to index them all and pull out "Joe Bloggs" history.

And just wait until your bank account is frozen, or your passport taken away, or access to your kids blocked because there is a tiny mistake in your data that you cannot put right because the ID card must be correct and there to detect people like you and no-one believes you, and so you have to fill in a 72-page form with all your life's details in triplicate and convince six layers of bureaucracy one at a time each taking at least four months and then, eventually, if you are lucky and they haven't lost your case notes twice so you've had to start again and you've got The Sun on your side, you might get a probationary correction. By which time your kids have grown up and they are visiting you instead.

If I were one of you humans I'd have plenty to fear. This is the world of Kafka, which will be far worse than a Dalek invasion.