In message , Mary
Fisher writes

"Kieran Mansley" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:36:53 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote:

Not that I can see ID cards solving anything....

Perhaps not but I can't see them doing any harm either. It's worth a try.

Why is it worth a try ?

It's a solution which is very unlikely to solve most of the problems
which it's meant to address, and those it would solve are already
solvable by other means



It's a pretty expensive thing to just try and see if it does anything!
Can't you think of anything else that you'd rather see 3 billion ukp spent
on?

There may be financial benefits. You don't know until it's tried.

We could try and build a manned flight to Mars, what harm would it do,
there would definitely be financial benefits to the companies who got
the contracts and we haven't tried it yet
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geoff