Steve Asher wrote to All:
SA> It appears that people in the United Kingdom have little
SA> interest in being "e-governed", so the answer could be
SA> to make participation compulsory - surprise, surprise.

How will they teach computer-illiterate people how to use them? Will they 
cater
 for other platforms than Windows (if they need some acccess fob or their ID
plugged into the computer)?
 
SA> With e-government comes identification and authentication;
SA> without authentication, there will be no access to services,
SA> as there is a "need" to positively identify people on-line.

And soon that UKP 39 ID is compulsory. Fabulous! Luckily, the Nazi regime was
more than 60 years ago. It's frighterning what they could do with today's
technology.

Or maybe our governments are just turning into copies of the Nazi, or quite
more often "Sozi" (for Social Democrat) government? As August von
Hayek once
wrote "It's sixty years ago that a socialism that adorned itself with the 
word
'national' hampered freedom of movement in Western Europe.". The next 
socialism
 that will do this will have attribute "democrat".

Possibly "democrat" as in "dictature of the proletarians".




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