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What a stupid idea, why the hell should i have to pay £77, get my finger printed and my retina scanned for a card that will make feck all difference. Stop terrorism? Do passports stop terrorism?
What a damn waste of money.
*Seethes*
What a damn waste of money.
*Seethes*
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What a stupid idea, why the hell should i have to pay £77, get my finger printed and my retina scanned for a card that will make feck all difference. Stop terrorism? Do passports stop terrorism?
What a damn waste of money.
*Seethes*
What a damn waste of money.
*Seethes*
Explain. Is this required?
£35 I heard.
And why should you pay it? Because as a security measure against fraud, it's an excellent step forward, and within 10 years, many shops/banks etc won't take your cards without acceptable, complimenting ID.
Plus I like the idea of a central record base of all our fingerprints and retina scans. It paves the way for some of the technology noted upon in Minority Report, whereby people can be tracked at any time in public. What does that mean? Call a hotline when your child goes missing, someone hits a button and types in their NI number, and your kid is located in seconds. Someone nabs your bag and runs off, call a number, someone replays the CCTV footage, tracks the perp to their last retina scan, IDs them, locates them and arrests them and returns your goods.
Some way off, sure, but it's a step in the right direction, and the only people with something to fear from such a system are those with something they wish to hide from Government anyway. As for the cost, at a reported £35 per person (except for nuder 16s and OAPS, the scum) it's less than a month's subscription to all the sky channels, and it seems you only have to pay it once, unless you lose it, or you have eye transplants.
And why should you pay it? Because as a security measure against fraud, it's an excellent step forward, and within 10 years, many shops/banks etc won't take your cards without acceptable, complimenting ID.
Plus I like the idea of a central record base of all our fingerprints and retina scans. It paves the way for some of the technology noted upon in Minority Report, whereby people can be tracked at any time in public. What does that mean? Call a hotline when your child goes missing, someone hits a button and types in their NI number, and your kid is located in seconds. Someone nabs your bag and runs off, call a number, someone replays the CCTV footage, tracks the perp to their last retina scan, IDs them, locates them and arrests them and returns your goods.
Some way off, sure, but it's a step in the right direction, and the only people with something to fear from such a system are those with something they wish to hide from Government anyway. As for the cost, at a reported £35 per person (except for nuder 16s and OAPS, the scum) it's less than a month's subscription to all the sky channels, and it seems you only have to pay it once, unless you lose it, or you have eye transplants.
Every news channel ive seen it on has said £77.
Having that information stored by the government is an invasion of my privacy.
Having that information stored by the government is an invasion of my privacy.
How is being able to know where you are an invasion of your privacy?
Unless you're playing hide and seek with Tony Blair, and need to keep your location secret, I really can't see how this is the case.
Don't think of it as evil Big Brother style supervision, the potential positive impact on crime, to me, is far more important than people whinging that the government can 'see everything'. What next? CCTV cameras violating your human rights? The bank needs to know where you live! How preposterous! You should be able to keep such information private! And how dare those irrtating passport control people in foreign countries demand to know which country you are from!
Muuh.
What do you seriously believe the information will be used for? To eye you up, and watch you play with lego in your bedroom?
Unless you're playing hide and seek with Tony Blair, and need to keep your location secret, I really can't see how this is the case.
Don't think of it as evil Big Brother style supervision, the potential positive impact on crime, to me, is far more important than people whinging that the government can 'see everything'. What next? CCTV cameras violating your human rights? The bank needs to know where you live! How preposterous! You should be able to keep such information private! And how dare those irrtating passport control people in foreign countries demand to know which country you are from!
Muuh.
What do you seriously believe the information will be used for? To eye you up, and watch you play with lego in your bedroom?
And incidentally, i haven't seen the £77 figure anywhere, maybe it's jusy more for... you people.
LOL the condecending tone was simply fabulous.
*Applause*
*Applause*
£77 I think was for both a passport and an ID card.
Still a bit pricey compared to what other European countries charge for their ID cards, some even give them out free if people want them.
Still a bit pricey compared to what other European countries charge for their ID cards, some even give them out free if people want them.
Yea, its not really fair to say "give us £77, if you dont and we find out, you'll be fined then made to pay £77"
As will the UK once the system is in place, provided you apply before the age of 16. The costs quoted are to help cover the £3bn delivery costs of putting the system live, and creating the infrastructure to utilise it properly.
I earn £35 in just over 2 hours chatting on these forums, so you can see why I'm not overly bothered about the cost.
I earn £35 in just over 2 hours chatting on these forums, so you can see why I'm not overly bothered about the cost.
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