The only thing that makes me sleep well in my bed is the fact that if the
government actually get round to implementing it, the contract will be
farmed out and delivered £100M over budget 5 years late probably not even
working and practically useless ;oD (looking at their track record)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Pearson" <graham.pearson2@btinternet.com>
To: <nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [nottingham] Apparent RIP climbdown by Blunkett
> The legislation permitting this intrusion was passed years ago with the
relevant Minister charged to report to the Houses
> on the fulfilment of his duties as commissioned by them statutorily.
Nobody bothered then & it is too late now. Currently
> Rip van Winkle has just figured out what it all means. So the reporting
has to be reviewed to make sure it indisputably
> reflects the House's intention so that it cannot be voted against, for it
cannot vote against itself.
>
> The issues today are genetic information databanks. No one is listening,
for a group of Linux enthusiaists have no such
> interest. Fifty pigeons are shot one by one. As you say,
"Apparent........". Europol - as reported some time ago - has
> already laid out that Europe wide reporting is required, & a Euro code was
developed which was being implemented by
> Regulation within UK. Of course it probably originated within the
UK....but that is another story ------As Donald Rumsfeld
> said, there are some things we do not know, yet. Thank you all for
reading.
>
> 18/06/2002 12:52:22, Martin Garton <martin@wrasse.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >Panic stations over for now?
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_2051000/2051117.stm
> >
> >Whew. I don't know about anyone else, but I'll be sleeping a little
better
> >tonight now.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Martin.
> >
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> kind regards
> graham.
>
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