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Mad Moggie, try looking at www.pistonheads.com sometime....
By the way, ANPR is just another nasty little way of Big Bro checking up on you. If there were enough TrafPol out there, it would be un-neccessary(sp?).

ANPR *is* the thin end of the wedge. Once it all gets decriminalised, and any old private company can use it, god help us.

The authorities are no interested in truth, only revenue. Deaths are an expense, nothing else. If it was more economical to kill people, they would allow it. Don't be fooled. And don't be fooled that they aren't watching you either, 'cos they are.

...and just because you know you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!

Hi hertsbiker!


Already know the site mate, but do not post myself as the wife is quite loud enough on there already.

Um - she is the really really WILD puss cat on there. She does have a family partner on there (not me!) and he cannot get a word in edgeways! - as she has got there first most of the time and he is left with "I do so agree!"

Oh, we know they watch us - that is why we do not put too much detail in the profile boxes, etc, etc. Why we seldom purchase on-line. (In any case - the wife loves to take me out shopping so that she can come out with that immortal line that all wimmin come out with in the frock shop! And she takes grreatest pleasure in seeing my bored face whilst she drags me shop to shop - and makes me pay for it in my cash (Grrr) to stop them "spying") She reckons that they could use the CCTV footage to follow you to the shops and then use the "Club Card" thingy (which she quite rightly refuses to be duped into) and plastic card to nosey into what you are buying and how you are paying for it. (Result of her stay in Soviet bloc - perhaps? Or perhaps she has valid point)

Wife, another cousin and their one relative who got stuck when the Wall went up - all compare B'Liar's so politically correct Britain to Stasi Germany - where you snitch on neighbour (PH thread about being spied on at work? Wildy woman refrained from retort on that as you have heard it all before!).

Course we know it is all about revenue: "Nowt so sure in life as death and taxes!" Except they like old folk with no relatives to die as they then get the mits on the house. Stats on Old Folks Homes Deaths make for some interesting bedtime reading! My old Ma reckons that is why they are letting property prices spiral out of control as 40% on death duties at these outrageous prices is some revenue. And more properties now will be within the death duties threshold.

We have lots of relatives abroad too - in the States and Down Under. We do not send any e-mail images of selves or any of the children. In fact, we are amateur photographers and use nice old-fashioned manual SLRs and that quaint postal service in quaint old sealed envelopes when sending those embarrassing family photos to folks abroad.

Political correctness - of which the anti-car/anti-speed thing is a part - another way of moulding and controlling (as that BiB on PH said to the wife) for the public good - and of course the "government's" purse.

Mad Mog, sounds like you should email me via PH then...!
Anyone seen a pattern yet?
So many of us hate the system, yet we get dumped on time and time again.

Very sad.

Cosmic karma will come into play, and the oppressors will have a very poor next-life. Not that I'm a buddist !

Chipping every car in the country would be quite expensive. They would want to recoup that money somehow and asking us to pay for it wouldn't go down too well.

The most likely way of getting the money back would be to use the chips to monitor minor traffic offences.

And when they have the bugs ironed out they'll roll out a little plastic card, then they'll know exactly where you have been and for how long. Imagine visiting the GP and him pulling up details of how long you spent down the pub and how rarely you use that gym subscription?

Don't think it can be done? Supermarkets are already lining up for technology that will track your trolley round the store recording which aisles you visit and for how long. Within the next 10 years bar codes will be replaced by electronic tags, they will know when you picked up a can of beans, where you took it, what bread you bought to go with it and your preference for male or female checkout assistants.

But law abiding people have "nothing to worry about".

Lining up? Supermarkets were testing more than a year ago. Google "RFID" and see how much progress has already been made. Cost and short range are the only big obstacles, and it might not take as much as ten years to sort that out. Then with the right scanners someone can tell what make your TV, DVD and hifi is from the road outside your house, and whether your car's in the garage before deciding to burgle the place.
Welcome to the future. Rah rah.