Steve Asher wrote to Rene Laederach:
SA>  RL> The price is pretty steep, considering the fact that this is
SA>  RL> mandatory. A new tax?
SA> 
SA> A tax, for sure, but I would be very surprised if it is called a tax.

No, you call it "Umweltabgaben", or some other doo-hickey term.

SA> That is what it looks like to me too, but again, the powers that be will
SA> "sex it up" to use one of their phrases to make it sound
like something
SA> desirable, to protect them from on-line fraud, "identity
theft", etc.

As usual. Taking guns away from people makes them safer, limiting vehicles to
drive 120 km/h on Swiss motorways via modifying the engine electronics will
lower the accident rate and so on...I call that a nanny government.

SA> IIRC, he used a faked poll that summarised the bulk of the opposing 
views.

I also do some summarizing, but usually, I tell some network router to
summarize routes at the outbound interface.
 
SA> to "9/11", identity theft etc. I suspect that anyone
planning to board
SA> an aircraft & hijack it etc will make sure that they have suitable
SA> credentials to fool the airline & gate staff, & probably leave plenty
SA> of "evidence" behind, in the form of copies of the Koran, last will
SA> & testament, box cutters (stanley knives), just like they did in the
SA> USA.

As usual.

With 9/11, I'm slowly asking myself "Cui Bono?" - who drew advantages? The
islamic terrorists?
 
SA> Its translation feature is quite handy for that. One page I found is 
SA> pushing for the inclusion of criminal convictions, along with the
SA> biometrics etc. It wouldn't really be necessary to put that stuff
SA> on the card, which would just act like a password to the masses of
SA> data held online about the person.

Like with convicted rapists where their addresses are published? I'm still
convinced of the validity of the concept that if one is found to be guilty of
the following crimes:

- premeditated murder
- rape
- sexual child abuse
- drug dealing, importation, manufacture and money laundering for drug money
- attemto to bribe public officials, government and parliament members, as 
well
  as the accomplished crime
- being a public official, government or parliament member and taking bribes

they should face the firing squad. Much better than to have them lynched by 
the
masses. And also, it saves quite some taxpayer money.

SA> And when they find that the contractor(s) cannot deliver, or the software
SA> is too buggy, or whatever, the cost will blow out even further. By that

As usual, cost overruns. I'm working in that business as well, and I'm
suffering from such problems as well, but I usually have to support that
software.
 
SA> time, there will be a change of government, & the new govt can spend its
SA> term blaming its predecessors, while stuffing it up even more.

They should rather use some heavy-handed measures to slim down the public
expenses a lot.
 


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