You've never bought beer in England, have you? It's ever so easy to get it with no ID, as long as you look more than about 14.
Any we don't have to carry a driver's licence when driving, either.
Oh, and there is no "customs" to pass through in Europe. And most other European counties have dropped the passport checks too.
Right now we don't have ID cards in the UK, and we manage fine without them. I can collect parcels from the post office without one, and the police aren't allowed to demand my name (unless I've been arrested).
So if there's nothing broke, what problem are the ID cards supposed to fix? The government won't give a straight answer to that: sometimes they say "terrorism", sometimes something else. Either they don't really know what the cards are for (in which case they are a gross waste of money), or else they have a hidden agenda, which must be a bad one or else why would they hide it?
So every time I subscribe to a mailing list, I've got to go through some convoluted process of receiving a magic email and then adding the sender to the whitelist.
OK for you and me, but if Microsoft implement this they will just automate the process so you only have to click "ok" on a popup. So Joe Sixpack will click "ok" when he gets his first spam, and the spammer will be on his whitelist.
If you've got any copyright or patent on your product, you've got a monopoly on it: if I need such a thing, I've got no choice but to buy it from you. So I've got no way of bargaining over conditions of sale: you can force me to sign up to any conditions you like. Why should I feel any moral responsibility for an agrement that has been forced on me like that?
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He also seems to have proved that gravity is caused by sound waves. The EU might be better advised to ignore him on the grounds that he is a nutter.
You've never bought beer in England, have you? It's ever so easy to get it with no ID, as long as you look more than about 14. Any we don't have to carry a driver's licence when driving, either. Oh, and there is no "customs" to pass through in Europe. And most other European counties have dropped the passport checks too.
Right now we don't have ID cards in the UK, and we manage fine without them. I can collect parcels from the post office without one, and the police aren't allowed to demand my name (unless I've been arrested). So if there's nothing broke, what problem are the ID cards supposed to fix? The government won't give a straight answer to that: sometimes they say "terrorism", sometimes something else. Either they don't really know what the cards are for (in which case they are a gross waste of money), or else they have a hidden agenda, which must be a bad one or else why would they hide it?
So every time I subscribe to a mailing list, I've got to go through some convoluted process of receiving a magic email and then adding the sender to the whitelist. OK for you and me, but if Microsoft implement this they will just automate the process so you only have to click "ok" on a popup. So Joe Sixpack will click "ok" when he gets his first spam, and the spammer will be on his whitelist.
Yes... you know that it's round, and Europe is 5 hours ahead of the US.
If you've got any copyright or patent on your product, you've got a monopoly on it: if I need such a thing, I've got no choice but to buy it from you. So I've got no way of bargaining over conditions of sale: you can force me to sign up to any conditions you like. Why should I feel any moral responsibility for an agrement that has been forced on me like that?