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Republicans and conservatives support stem cell research Rich.  Where do
you get this stuff from.

Gary


Rich Gauszka wrote:
> Ah - But Britain with their stem cell research will have a plethora of
> artificial livers by then. All the neocons from the US will flock to Britain
> for new organs while still denouncing stem cell research/cloning as evil.
>
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:454967bb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> "* Shoppers being scanned as they enter stores. This will be
matched with
>> loyalty card data to affect how they are handled, with big spenders given
>> preferential treatment over others."
>>
>> I'm surprised they didn't mention the natural corollary to that, the
>> matching of how many pub trips, now that you have to provide prints to
>> have a pint, to determine where you fall on the liver transplant list, if
>> they let you on it at all...
>>
>>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:454965db$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1948209.ece
>>>
>>> Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society that
>>> increasingly intrudes into our private lives and impacts on everyday
>>> activities, the head of the information watchdog warns.
>>>
>>> New technology and "invisible" techniques are being
used to gather a
>>> growing amount of information about UK citizens. The level of
>>> surveillance will grow even further in the next 10 years, which could
>>> result in a growing number of people being discriminated against and
>>> excluded from society, says a report by the Information Commissioner,
>>> Richard Thomas.
>>>
>>> ..
>>>
>>> Mr Thomas,who heads an independent body that promotes public access to
>>> official information, calls for a debate on what level of
surveillance is
>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>> He said: "Two years ago I warned that we were in danger
of sleepwalking
>>> into a surveillance society. Today I fear that we are in fact waking up
>>> to a surveillance society that is already all around us.
>>>
>>> ..
>>>
>>> Britain under surveillance
>>>
>>> * The national DNA database holds profiles on about 3.5 million people.
>>>
>>> * There are an estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain: one for
>>> every 14 people.
>>>
>>> * More than half of the UK population posseses a loyalty card issued by
>>> the firm that operates the Nectar scheme.
>>>
>>> * Since 2002 there have been more than 8 million criminal records checks
>>> for jobs, of which around 400,000 contained convictions or police
>>> intelligence information.
>>>
>>> * There are plans to expand capacity to read vehicle number plates from
>>> 35 million reads per day to 50 million by 2008.
>>>
>>> * Some 216 catalogue companies in the UK are signed up to the Abacus
>>> data-sharing consortium, with information on 26 million individuals.
>>>
>>> * The database of fingerprints contains nearly 6 million sets of prints.
>>>
>>> * An individual can be captured on more than 300 cameras each day.
>>>
>>> * By the end of 2002 law enforcement bodies had made more than 400,000
>>> requests for data from mobile network operators.
>>>
>>> * The number of motorists caught by speed cameras rose from 300,000 in
>>> 1996 to over 2 million in 2004.
>>>
>>> * In the year to April 2005 some 631 adults and 5,751 juveniles were
>>> electronically tagged.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>


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Republicans and conservatives support stem cell research Rich. 
Where do you get this stuff from.

Gary


Rich Gauszka wrote:

  Ah - But Britain with their stem cell
research will have a
plethora of
artificial livers by then. All the neocons from the US will flock to
Britain for new organs while still denouncing stem cell research/cloning as
evil.


"Mark" <no">mailto:nomail{at}hotmail.com"><no
mail{at}hotmail.com> wrote in message news:454967bb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  
  
    "* Shoppers being scanned as they
enter stores. This will be
matched with
loyalty card data to affect how they are handled, with big spenders given
preferential treatment over others."

I'm surprised they didn't mention the natural corollary to that, the
matching of how many pub trips, now that you have to provide prints to have
a pint, to determine where you fall on the liver transplant list, if they
let you on it at all...



"Rich Gauszka" <gauszka{at}hotmail.com>">mailto:gauszka{at}hotmail.com"><gauszka{at}hotmail.com>
wrote in message
news:454965d
b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
    
    
      http://news.in" target="new">http://news.in">http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1948209.ece">http://news.in
dependent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1948209.ece

Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society that
increasingly intrudes into our private lives and impacts on everyday
activities, the head of the information watchdog warns.

New technology and "invisible" techniques are being used to
gather a growing amount of information about UK citizens. The level of
surveillance will grow even further in the next 10 years, which could
result in a growing number of people being discriminated against and
excluded from society, says a report by the Information Commissioner,
Richard Thomas.

..

Mr Thomas,who heads an independent body that promotes public access to
official information, calls for a debate on what level of surveillance is
acceptable.

He said: "Two years ago I warned that we were in danger of
sleepwalking into a surveillance society. Today I fear that we are in fact
waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us.

..

Britain under surveillance

* The national DNA database holds profiles on about 3.5 million people.

* There are an estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain: one for
every 14 people.

* More than half of the UK population posseses a loyalty card issued by
the firm that operates the Nectar scheme.

* Since 2002 there have been more than 8 million criminal records checks
for jobs, of which around 400,000 contained convictions or police
intelligence information.

* There are plans to expand capacity to read vehicle number plates from
35 million reads per day to 50 million by 2008.

* Some 216 catalogue companies in the UK are signed up to the Abacus
data-sharing consortium, with information on 26 million individuals.

* The database of fingerprints contains nearly 6 million sets of prints.

* An individual can be captured on more than 300 cameras each day.

* By the end of 2002 law enforcement bodies had made more than 400,000
requests for data from mobile network operators.

* The number of motorists caught by speed cameras rose from 300,000 in
1996 to over 2 million in 2004.

* In the year to April 2005 some 631 adults and 5,751 juveniles were
electronically tagged.


      
    
    
    
  
  

  





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