"raden" wrote in message
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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 ?

If it's tried and fails that will be a great triumph for the detractors.
They'll be able to say that they were right. If it's not tried it will
rumble on for years with people complaining that it should be done.

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

That's your opinion.



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,

None that I can see, it wouldn't be on my list of priorities but nor is ID.
I just don't think that it will do any harm and can't understand why people
get so uptight about it.

That's my opinion, it's not important because I have no influence. And don't
want any. I'm not trying to persuade anyone one way or the other.
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there would definitely be financial benefits to the companies who got the
contracts and we haven't tried it yet

Indeed. And you never know, we might get an even better non-stick pan as a
by-product.

What's more, it will happen one day. Some things happen inexorably, like
manned flight to Mars, ID, legal euthanasia, cloned reproduction ... In my
experience if something's possible and talked about for long enough it
happens. It's the human condition.

Mary
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geoff