In-car spyware rant

Knew this was coming - in-car transponders or chips so they can tell
where you are, when you are, whether you're speeding, whether the car is
taxed. MoTs. Whatever.

And all in the name of our benefit. For the "public good". Like ****.
"Oh, it'll help keep the lawbreakers off the road." Will it ****.
Lawbreakers who don't give a stuff have always been withus, and they
always will. Ask the fucking public, Downing Street. Do we want this?
No. And you know better, of course.

As for controlling villainy, don't make me laugh. Got to have a tax
disc? Photocopy or these days, scan, one: it'll be Ok for a casual
glance. Got to have insurance? Ditto. or just don't have any. Get
banned? Carry on driving. Who cares? The car isn't registered in your
name anyway.

And all this will end with spyware? Yeah, and I'm a fucking Martian.
Instead, we'll all get nice little buff envelopes telling us that we
were detected doing 75 in a 70, five times in one day, and please
incinerate your licence now. Oh, and send us a fucking great fine first.

It's more tax, more harassment, more nanny state-ism from a corrupt,
morally bankrupt bunch of hypocritical cowboys masquerading as a
legitimate government.

And if you think they'd exempt bikes, think again, pal. A chip embedded
in a new-style number plate, which will be fitted come MoT time, is all
it will take.

 

<SNIP>

Paranoid silly season rumour-mongering and conspiracy theory!

And if they do try it it'll spawn a whole new, and very profitable,
industry of counter-measures ;-)

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So vote them out and get in another lot who will do exactly the same
thing. This sort of enforcement which is driven by the availability of
the technology will be implemented by whichever political party is in
power.

Yes, and? Now either set up a campaign to stop this if you feel so
strongly about it or else go and chill out. It'll be doing your blood
pressure no good at all.

[1] which, as I'm sure you know, means "Welcome to Earth Mr Martian. The
claret is in the rack beside the computer"

 

I was watching car-wars the other day and they had a numberplate recognition
system in a patrol car. The two coppers were getting well excited at the
amount of "Hits" (Tax, MOT, Reg. you name it) they were scoring.. This is
already here. If you're doing a bike up, or buying one then for god's sake,
test ride it in a cul de sac - unless of course, like me, you would spend
hours sorting one day's insurance out and ringing the DVLA to check it's
registered ok. Like hell!

The streets of London now contain a burgeoning number of parking attendants.
They used to turn a blind eye to bikes, but now they ALWAYS give a ticket.
The whole structure has been changed to give much kudos to the over zealous
parkie. As a courier, I have had 13 since Feb (Funny, that's when the
incentive scheme was started..) and 2 in the five years preceding that. I
have no plans to pay, or contest these tickets, they can come and get me
themselves. I got ticketed for obscuring my numberplate, too. In fact, I got
arrested following the short circuit this event caused in my brain (Uuurgh -
Can't win!) under section 5 of the public order act (Top of Carnaby street
if anyone here was there!). Well, ok, so i'm a bit of a nut, but it's become
absolutely crazy out there.

Education, education, education? More like Legislation, legislation,
legislation..

Sorry to butt in with such a long rant, but I feel sick with the thought of
being forced off the road..

BTW - love the writing in C&MM, TOG!

Neil

 

Indeed. We can only hope that they sub out the chip manufacture to
Magnetti Marelli.

"The Untouchables". Those who know exactly, to within a millimetre,
their way around the system: how to scam it, precisely how far they
can go. Nothing in their name, no fixed valid address, no way to
trace or serve anything.

Chuck it all in, mate. Quit the Chateau and take up residence in an
old coach wiv a chimbley through the roof, moving from layby to layby
as the fancy takes you. Live on a narrowboat and change moorings
every week. Sort the Doctor out with dreads and leather jewellery,
attach a dog to a string and away ye go.

Oh, and get an MZ to hoon about on - without tax or MoT, natch ;-)

 

[state sponsored snooping]

I can see this. After all he's got a head start with the clothes and
hair style.

Paging Sweller.

 

It's not new...
http://www.network.mag-uk.org/EVSC/EVSC_Intro.html
even if you dislike MAG, or disliked Neil... well... your choice...

(citizen) Sheila

 

[snip]

They already did.

http://www.liberal.org.uk/general/believe.htm

 

30 seconds of reading that was enough to convince me they're away with
the fairies.

 

Well so long as they plan to legalise whatever it is they're on, I
could be persuaded ;-)

 

So vote Tory instead.

"Every country has the government it deserves."
~ Joseph de Maistre, in a letter dated August of 1811

 

Typical Labour interventionism. Labour like to control everything, to
the point they even tell you what to think, whereas the Tories like to
leave things well alone so there's more room to scam people ^C^C^C
make a profit.

The system is well fucked. But what do you put in it's place?

I reckon party politics should be abolished and we should have locally
elected representatives that vote the way their consituents tell them,
rather than state "this is what you're going to get" up front and then
have no means of sanction once they're in power....

Mark.

 

IMO it's the concept of "safe seats" that brings complacency, and
that's what's largely to blame for the lack of accountability.

<fx: points at uk.politics.electoral>

 

Times, today. Front page IIRC. With a follow up inside. They are
likely to have to cover the country in roadside receivers, so I can't
see it happening tbh.

 

pete boyall fascinated us all by saying...

I can see a massive market in false number plates and jamming devices
myself. All they'll do is push things further underground.

 

Oh dear, I appear to have an unsurpressed ignition ...

 

^^^

Or even Unsuppressed ...

 

I'd largely go along with this. Though for it to work tax would have to be
collected locally and "granted" to central government.

 

Lozzo was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

*Ding*

 

[snip more ranting]



Really, thank goodnes, I thought I was the only one. ;->

Don't ya just hate being a minority?