Is THIS what you London cyclists have to fight against?
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Greg66 wrote:I think bike plates are unnecessary.
What we need are CCTVs every 100 yards, and a law that every driver, cyclist and ped must look at the CCTV as they pass it.
That way no one can deny their whereabouts.
Anyone not looking is hunted down and jailed.
And if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear, right?
Right.
No, no, no. CCTV relies on people. People are unreliable.
What we need is GPS tracking chips implanted in every single person that transmit your location, speed, heart rate, body fat, nicotine levels, alcohol levels and thoughts to a central computer database.
Only people with something to hide would be bothered.
Or we just make mobile phones cleverer. The satellites already know where we are... :shock:0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:Greg66 wrote:I think bike plates are unnecessary.
What we need are CCTVs every 100 yards, and a law that every driver, cyclist and ped must look at the CCTV as they pass it.
That way no one can deny their whereabouts.
Anyone not looking is hunted down and jailed.
And if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear, right?
Right.
No, no, no. CCTV relies on people. People are unreliable.
What we need is GPS tracking chips implanted in every single person that transmit your location, speed, heart rate, body fat, nicotine levels, alcohol levels and thoughts to a central computer database.
Only people with something to hide would be bothered.
Or we just make mobile phones cleverer. The satellites already know where we are... :shock:
Ohh! Like the chips idea. Now, if only they could record and transmit a record of everything a person says and what they do with a computer, that would be awesome. The data could be automatically scanned for any undesirable material, and the person immediately arrested.
Arrests, of course, would take place during the night to minimise disruption to communities and embarrassment to arrestee. Detention without charge would be indefinite, as time would be needed to search through all other data related to the person in case that contains something relevant.
In fact, why hasn't this been done already? Bunch of hippies running this country if you ask me...
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Pah! Liberal nonsense Greg.
Why not force people to carry large lithium batteries to discharge through their nether regions as soon as CCTV picks up that they've infringed a traffic regulation. I'm sure some sort of bluetooth connection to a transmitter in the camera could sort this out.
Indeed, as soon as we can sort out remote brainscans that can detect the intention to break the law the better.
I for one am perfectly happy that the state records excatly where I have been at all times. Afterall, there is no way that the data would get into the public domain is there?
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Jedster, you terrible pinko, I can't believe you're countenancing turning people into suicide-bomber-ready sleepers. All they would need to do would be to pack their underpants with fertiliser and cough medicine or something, then commit a minor infraction and BOOM! It's political correctness gone mad.0
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biondino wrote:Jedster, you terrible pinko, I can't believe you're countenancing turning people into suicide-bomber-ready sleepers. All they would need to do would be to pack their underpants with fertiliser and cough medicine or something, then commit a minor infraction and BOOM! It's political correctness gone mad.
Sidebar: just imagine how little fun airport security would be had Richard Reid - the shoe bomber - hidden his explosives in his @rse.0 -
I was down in Reigate for the last couple of days and the office there is on the 4th floor with floor to ceiling windows. It overlooks a pretty busy road and having spent a couple of days watching the traffic I have to say that driving standards around there are far worse than up here in Scotland.
One highlight was a queue of stationary traffic broken up by one of those box junctions you cant stop in. No one's in it so one guy in a BMW X5 decides to pull out of the line of traffic, overtake everyone on the wrong side of the road then pull into the box junction
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jedster wrote:Pah! Liberal nonsense Greg.
Why not force people to carry large lithium batteries to discharge through their nether regions as soon as CCTV picks up that they've infringed a traffic regulation. I'm sure some sort of bluetooth connection to a transmitter in the camera could sort this out.
Indeed, as soon as we can sort out remote brainscans that can detect the intention to break the law the better.
I for one am perfectly happy that the state records excatly where I have been at all times. Afterall, there is no way that the data would get into the public domain is there?
J
Of course not...0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:jedster wrote:Pah! Liberal nonsense Greg.
Why not force people to carry large lithium batteries to discharge through their nether regions as soon as CCTV picks up that they've infringed a traffic regulation. I'm sure some sort of bluetooth connection to a transmitter in the camera could sort this out.
Indeed, as soon as we can sort out remote brainscans that can detect the intention to break the law the better.
I for one am perfectly happy that the state records excatly where I have been at all times. Afterall, there is no way that the data would get into the public domain is there?
J
Of course not...
love it Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.
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You're all looking at this the wrong way. All these anti-lawbreaking measures (number plates, surveillance, GPS tracking, automatic electric shocks to nether regions) are fine in their own way, but you have to think of the practicalities. Implementation costs, databases, registration and enforcement.
Far better not to worry about the tricky subject of evidence and proof. I reckon it's usually pretty obvious who the criminals are, so just send the police round to pick them up and dispose of them quietly. We'd get these trouble-makers off our roads in no time.
Even if the police run out of obvious criminals (or they stop wearing hoodies/growing long beards/generally looking different), it shouldn't be too difficult or expensive to set up a help-line for concerned and right-thinking members of the public to point them in the right direction.0
