"Owain" wrote in message
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fredbloggstwo wrote:
On the other hand consider this. The way our government works has not
been
changed for centuries. There are, IIRC, about 14 major government
departments and on each of them you can have multiple identities. They
do
not communicate between them because of bureaucracy, so the maths says
that
the opportunity for fraud is proportional to Factorial 14. ...

An alternative would be to close thirteen government departments.

Hurrah!

er - except that the one left would be all powerful.

Hmm.

Back to the drawing board ...

Mary

Owain