I reckon this is a smokescreen for testing the future UK ID card and trialling cross database functionality.
As previous comments have said, there are cheaper and already in-place ways of determining someones identity. That is, any offence has now become arrestable, so if a Police Officer thinks he cannot determine someone's identity he/she has the ability to arrest them, finger print and DNA test down at the local cop shop.
Like I said, I reckon these new fingerprint devices are being tested to see if they actually work with the coming National ID database and testing the data sharing of the future National ANPR (automatic number plate recognition)system, the PNC (Crime Database) and any other database they want to add to it.
You can bet that when our UK RFID ID Card comes in, the estimated 5 million CCTV camera's will be upgraded to log our ID every time we pass one, so everything we do, at any time will be logged as soon as we step out of our house.
There is a Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading and most of what he says is arguably utter tosh, so why not Harvard? Ego can, and often does, get in the way scientific research.
Maybe I am being mean saying that people should show a little self-control as well as taking responsibility for their trivial obssessions instead of blaming it on a medical condition. Sex addicts ad nauseum.
Physical dependence on alcohol is serious, I personally know of one young man who has died in rehab due to his addiction.
So people like to do more of something they find enjoyable, and less of what they hate, or Variable Ratio Reinforcement as Dr Quack likes to call it. Amazing! Whether that constitutes addiction I am very doubtful.
This kind of thing trivialises and undermines people who have their lives destroyed by and struggling against drug and alcohol dependence.
I use AOL in the UK and can honestly say I have never had a problem with them at all. I am on ADSL+, have only had one days interrupted service in 5 years (which was a BT problem anyway), there are no caps and I have not experienced any traffic shaping, multiplayer gaming latency has been very low and very reliable. Maybe it's different in the USA but here in dear old blighty things appear to be very much different. Okay I have no need of their software (AOL 8 ad nauseum) and never installed any versions of it and never will until all the silly services are removed.
I think AOL are very foolish selling off their ISP side of the business, after all they are one of the largest providers here in the UK and have a lot of customers shelling out monthly subscriptions, which would seem a better revenue model than the one they now propose.
Actually - you are wrong. There was a plan drawn up for the invasion of Great Britain
Adolf Hitler, Directive No. 16 (16th July, 1940)
'As England, despite her hopeless military situation, still shows no sign of willingness to come to terms, I have decided to prepare, and if necessary to carry out, a landing operation against her.
The aim of this operation is to eliminate the English motherland as a base from which war against Germany can be continued and, if necessary, to occupy completely.'
I have no idea about American Employment Law, but here in the UK it looks to me like you have a case for Constructive Dismissal before an Employment Tribunal.
A constructive dismissal is where an employee resigns because of some action by the employer which causes the employee to believe that continuation of employment is impossible.
This action could be a detrimental change in the contract of employment, (although it has to be a fundamental change), or a refusal to improve intolerable working conditions.
Constructive dismissal cases are hard to win, and unless your conditions are absolutely intolerable you should take advice before walking out on your job.
A Trade Union, or Labor Union, as I think they are called in the US will certainly offer advice on your position and help with any dispute you may have with your employer (if US Employment Law allows), and only if you are a member of course.
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I reckon this is a smokescreen for testing the future UK ID card and trialling cross database functionality.
As previous comments have said, there are cheaper and already in-place ways of determining someones identity. That is, any offence has now become arrestable, so if a Police Officer thinks he cannot determine someone's identity he/she has the ability to arrest them, finger print and DNA test down at the local cop shop.
Like I said, I reckon these new fingerprint devices are being tested to see if they actually work with the coming National ID database and testing the data sharing of the future National ANPR (automatic number plate recognition)system, the PNC (Crime Database) and any other database they want to add to it.
You can bet that when our UK RFID ID Card comes in, the estimated 5 million CCTV camera's will be upgraded to log our ID every time we pass one, so everything we do, at any time will be logged as soon as we step out of our house.
There is a Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading and most of what he says is arguably utter tosh, so why not Harvard? Ego can, and often does, get in the way scientific research.
Maybe I am being mean saying that people should show a little self-control as well as taking responsibility for their trivial obssessions instead of blaming it on a medical condition. Sex addicts ad nauseum.
Physical dependence on alcohol is serious, I personally know of one young man who has died in rehab due to his addiction.
So people like to do more of something they find enjoyable, and less of what they hate, or Variable Ratio Reinforcement as Dr Quack likes to call it. Amazing! Whether that constitutes addiction I am very doubtful.
This kind of thing trivialises and undermines people who have their lives destroyed by and struggling against drug and alcohol dependence.
I use AOL in the UK and can honestly say I have never had a problem with them at all. I am on ADSL+, have only had one days interrupted service in 5 years (which was a BT problem anyway), there are no caps and I have not experienced any traffic shaping, multiplayer gaming latency has been very low and very reliable. Maybe it's different in the USA but here in dear old blighty things appear to be very much different. Okay I have no need of their software (AOL 8 ad nauseum) and never installed any versions of it and never will until all the silly services are removed. I think AOL are very foolish selling off their ISP side of the business, after all they are one of the largest providers here in the UK and have a lot of customers shelling out monthly subscriptions, which would seem a better revenue model than the one they now propose.
Actually - you are wrong. There was a plan drawn up for the invasion of Great Britain
Adolf Hitler, Directive No. 16 (16th July, 1940)
'As England, despite her hopeless military situation, still shows no sign of willingness to come to terms, I have decided to prepare, and if necessary to carry out, a landing operation against her.
The aim of this operation is to eliminate the English motherland as a base from which war against Germany can be continued and, if necessary, to occupy completely.'
I have no idea about American Employment Law, but here in the UK it looks to me like you have a case for Constructive Dismissal before an Employment Tribunal.
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A constructive dismissal is where an employee resigns because of some action by the employer which causes the employee to believe that continuation of employment is impossible.
This action could be a detrimental change in the contract of employment, (although it has to be a fundamental change), or a refusal to improve intolerable working conditions.
Constructive dismissal cases are hard to win, and unless your conditions are absolutely intolerable you should take advice before walking out on your job.
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A Trade Union, or Labor Union, as I think they are called in the US will certainly offer advice on your position and help with any dispute you may have with your employer (if US Employment Law allows), and only if you are a member of course.