:(
this Digital Economy thing I keep hearing about is making me a bit sad, so sad, that I've been avoiding finding out about it fully... I'm moving back to the UK in a couple of months and I'm scared.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:13,
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I wonder if that would stand up in court
you get charged under the Digital Bill and just point out that this law was not passed democratically because your fucking MP wasn't there (probably)
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:24,
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my MP was there and spoke against it
so now I can't even write to her and say "oppose this rubbish Bill"
see how politics takes away your voice
*votes for Hitler*
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:29,
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see how politics takes away your voice
*votes for Hitler*
Yes it kind of sucks like a big sucky sucky thing.
and no-one seems to care.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:15,
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I'm going to have to find ways of watching films regularly
I might have to start buying dvds or going to the cinema.
People go to the cinema. eww.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:23,
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People go to the cinema. eww.
Naah, just use a proxy.
Or steal your neighbour's wireless internets.
Or do one of the many other things you can do to bypass this silliness.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:34,
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Or do one of the many other things you can do to bypass this silliness.
it's funny
there are plenty of bad laws which have been promised a repeal by whoever gets in (assuming Labour don't) - but this one appears to be an all-party stitch-up
watching it last night - there were only 40 (of 643) MPs there, of which only 10 stuck around - was like watching the ID Cards bill going through; a shite, ineffectual debate by a tiny amount of MPs, an even smaller amount of whom actually had some understanding of what it was they were discussing
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:22,
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watching it last night - there were only 40 (of 643) MPs there, of which only 10 stuck around - was like watching the ID Cards bill going through; a shite, ineffectual debate by a tiny amount of MPs, an even smaller amount of whom actually had some understanding of what it was they were discussing
I thought the Libs had oppossed it
and ID cards as well (as a cost cutting measure admittedly)
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:31,
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there's nothing wrong with ID cards
most of europe has them and they don't seem to be in any way oppressive. however, because the media stirred up some shit about it being a way of big brother looking at your cock when you're asleep, they didn't happen.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:35,
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I just want a card with a photo of me
and "I AM NOT AN ANIMAL" written in comic sans
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:38,
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there must be something wrong with them
because nobody wants em
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:38,
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I wouldn't mind one and I don't see why people are against them.
I have no photo ID other than my passport. How am I supposed to prove that I'm not Johnny Foreigner with a bomb in my backpack?
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:43,
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use your passport
unless you want to pay another £30 for something that will let you travel to fewer places than your passport
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:46,
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It's not carrying a card that's the problem,
it's the fucking database that goes with it.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:45,
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possibly
would most of the details not be on some other database somewhere anyway? like the passport office or driving licence thingymajig?
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:51,
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not really
they don't (generally) have your fingerprints or a complete history of your past addresses, for example - which you;re required to give for an ID card
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:59,
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i see
well, I don't understand why they think that would be a good plan. I don't believe the eu id cards have such nonsense on them.
I'm for ID cards, but don't see the need for that other info, other than being nosey and cheeky.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 15:13,
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I'm for ID cards, but don't see the need for that other info, other than being nosey and cheeky.
aye
I'm not too bothered about the cards
just don't see the need for all this extra info which is just going to get lost, hacked or sold
and if someone in the future manages to falsify my fingerprints then I'm fucked, cos I can't get new fingerprints
I think I want to go and live on Mars
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 15:18,
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just don't see the need for all this extra info which is just going to get lost, hacked or sold
and if someone in the future manages to falsify my fingerprints then I'm fucked, cos I can't get new fingerprints
I think I want to go and live on Mars
I'm just going to build an android of myself
then disappear, leaving him in my place, so nobody feels sad.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 15:30,
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yer, I think they do oppose it
to the extent there was only one Lib Dem MP in the chamber last night
everyone (pretty much) bar Labour opposed the ID Cards Bill - but the debate on it was pathetic; tiny amount in the chamber 'debating' it but when the vote was called the lobbies filled up with MPs who'd just been in the bar waiting to vote
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:35,
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everyone (pretty much) bar Labour opposed the ID Cards Bill - but the debate on it was pathetic; tiny amount in the chamber 'debating' it but when the vote was called the lobbies filled up with MPs who'd just been in the bar waiting to vote
the disdain that parliament (not just the current government)
has for experts really disgusts me. The sacking of Prof. Nutt for telling the truth made me extremely angry, as he is a proven expert in the subject he was speaking of and a brilliant scientist. However, because some completely unqualified CUNT decides it's not the truth that matters, but what he/the media/the public/the church think, then that makes me want to rampage.
Bad politicians pander to majority opinion, good politicians change it. We have a whole host of pandering cowards. Fuck the lot of them.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:31,
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Bad politicians pander to majority opinion, good politicians change it. We have a whole host of pandering cowards. Fuck the lot of them.