I cant see the states agreeing to the necessary standards if they all had their own mass transit toys. It would require federal regulation of a state matter (a state railway system) in order to crack it, and somehow I cant see that not being unconstitutional.
And rip the bluerays.
Try basing your statements on FACT, rather than basing your FACTS on your belief
Remind me, how many people have died because there were Reactors at the Fukushima sites when the tsunami hit? (heres a quick tip, its a nice round number) How many people have actually suffered any serious ill effects from any emissions from Fukuskima? (another nice round number)
Stop trying to help spread the nuclear FUD lies, it's not big, and it's not clever.
Here in the UK we have CCTV at almost every corner,
No we dont!
ANPR cameras on all major roads and all entry and exit points of major towns. There are also speed, red light, and parking enforcement cameras. The argument used to be "If one has done nothing wrong rhwn one has nothing to fear".
So the traffic safety cameras (as i believe the term is for speed and traffic light cameras) aren't there to stop people doing nothing wrong? speeding and jumping red lights is OK now is it? On the subject of ANPR at least it can be used to help to try and reduce the number unsafe uninsured and untaxed vehicles on the roads. Are you saying that it's ok to drive cars with no tax, no insurance, that have failed their M.O.T. inspections? (or just not had one because the criminal driving it knows it wont pass) ANPR is also useful in catching 'vehicles of interest' as the police put it. This means vehicles used to commit a crime, oh and also is rather handy for tracking vehicles reported as stolen.
Whether this is valid or not it has still led to us being unable to leave our houses without being seen/tracked if they want
How, exactly do you expect to have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place without curtailing people's freedom? The public at large is perfectly at liberty to record people's movements too if they so wish, this is part of a free society, and rightly so. You think that the law enforcement services should not be entitled to use equipment that other people or organisations are perfectly entitled to use? (think photography in public for example, want to ban that as well?)
but there has been no reduction in crime; seems the criminals are the only ones who manage to go unseen.
Want to cite some sources on that claim? Mostly crime has been falling over the last 20-25 years ( http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/crime-justice/crime/crime-trends/index.html#graphTabContent1 ) althouth the police reported crime figures seem rather high, one wonders how much of that is vehicle related crime (as well as the fact that alot more criminal law has been enacted over that timeframe thus increasing the number of actions that are actually crimes
I would say yes, for the simple fact that it is 'in public' and there can be no reasonable expectation to privacy in public places. For example urinating in public is a criminal offence all over the western world, because it is not in private, it is in a public place. It is certainly an evocative question however, and there are arguements for both viewpoints.
YMMV
Sigh, you mean laws that mean people can't end up being at the receiving end of an autonomous unchallengable unfair firing? This is something that people in the UK right now are rather glad of since it gives them just a little bit more job security than they would have if employers were able to treat their 'human resource' like so much chattel?
The political axegrinders are out in force today.
How about you stick to the story at hand, it's not tax 'dollars' it's Pounds Sterling, and BT had long since paid back the British taxpayer for the outlay prior to it being privatised (in terms more than just money, think security during the cold war for one). Labelling an ac an astroturfer when you clearly have a political axe to grind is just hilarious at best.
P.S. I think the way BT abuse their monopoly is outrageous, but the issue is NOT how that monopoly came about, it's the actions of those that are the controlling minds of BT that are at issue.
I consume quite a decent amount of online data, even with a limit (40, or 80 if over, only for £5 extra), but even I couldn't care less about fiber.
2 points, firstly if you think 80 gigs a month is alot then you are sadly mistaken. Secondly just in case you werent aware this is fibre to the cabinet, not to the premises, so its not like they're even doing any extra laying of cable other than their infrastructure upgrades anyway
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