Oh here we go

BBC news article tonight on road charging. The usual predictable
bollocks about tracking systems and huge costs then the very last line,
the sting in the tail.

"In the next edition we will look at how road charging could be use to
enforce speed limits"

Am I alone in being deeply depressed by this drift towards the
surveillance society?

 

Hog says...

What drift?

In Britain we are likely to be caught on cctv cameras 130 times a day.
It's already here.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
GSF600SW (broked)
'I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking.
But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they
are still going.' William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, Oct 1960.

 

It's about moving on to using it to enforce laws governing every
minutiae of life.
I must go read 1984 again.

 

No I feel it too. Well, not *deeply" as such but I am very concerned
about our civil liberties and the civil service's (?) ability to keep
all that data only where it belongs. Very comforting to know that other
people might hack into some database somewhere to determine that you're
200 miles away on holiday at the moment....and therefore not going to
disturb them whilst burgling your home.

 

Welcome to V for Vengance brother

I've been increasingly pissed off with it for years, it's a kind of creeping
paranoia that's escalating, but feels orchestrated. I have friends who are
talking of emigrating to New Zealand 'cos they reckon NZ is 20 years behind
the UK and in another 20 years they'd rather be retiring there than whatever
this country turns into.

 

NZ? do you think things are much better there? it's riven by PC
attitudes too, not as bad as Canada granted.

 

I tihnk you'll find it's closer to 300 times. ANd 70 percent of the Home
Office's enforcement budget last year was spent on CCTV - that's 500 million
pounds.

Ali

 

Mud huts in Africa are looking attractive, assuming they have biult in
bars, AirCon, fast internet and good bike dealers.

 

So, just bars, aircon and fast internet will do then?



--
Dnc

B12, ZZR11
A6 2.5TDi V6 Quattro Sport
MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003

 

Africa... Pah! I'm begining to think our antipodean chum Porl had the
best idea, or that Big Tony chap.

 

It's a matter of time.

 

What pisses me off about the UK's road charging, in say france you pay to
use the autoroutes, your money gets you an almost perfect surface, direct
route between cities, low traffic levels etc, and if you don't want to pay
the tolls, then your free to use the slightly more scenic roads that usually
run along side the autoroutes anyway.

But over here they want to charge us for using the same roads that we've
always used for free (well, paid for from the tax disc system) and we don't
get a choice, it's either pay to use the roads or walk through the fields,

One of the many reasons i'm seirousely considering buggering off to france
and not coming back, somewhere the sun shines and my arthritis dosent bother
me half as much, and somewhere you can still live like you want, not how the
bloody government wants you to live

 

Nope.

I'm almost glad I'm an old **** and not long for this world.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Snort

 

I've always wanted a Z1000.

 

In London it is, I think it's still a bit less outside London. Not that
this makes a big difference.

They'll need to spend more to watch the watchers...

<thinks>

Any of the consultants speaking with an East German accent?

 

You may want to read up on the policies of Lord Howard of Oz before you
say this...

 

I used to think those survival nutters sitting on mountain tops in
Montana, waiting for Armageddon, were, erm, nutters.

But recently, decamping to a canyon somewhere in a place like Utah,
with a bunch of wifelets and a stack of Ak-47s, doesn't seem that bad
an idea any more.

<thinks>

Hang on, I'm German. All our nutters emigrate to South America. Better
change the ticket then...

 

Tim's right. You wouldn't escape much for very long by coming here. The
only reasons to come here are the weather and the proximity to beaches
and associated facets. That's it. In almost every other aspect it's as
bad or worse than the UK, or soon will be.

 

Well you obviously know you're not alone since that's pretty much 80%
of anything anyone bangs on about in here. My civil liberties this, my
loss of freedom that.

I'm probably alone in thinking that society gets what it deserves. If
the vast majority of people are cunts then they're going to live under
cunty laws.