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Home Office unveils tagtastic immigrant control plans
Detained illegal immigrants are the latest to fall victim to the Home Office's bizarre love affair with electronic tagging. The draft immigration and citizenship bill, published this week, puts forwards proposals for "large" but unspecified bail bonds along with tagging as an alternative to detention. The proposed "immigration …
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Tuesday 15th July 2008 15:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
What happened to the Nottingham guy?
The one who was arrested for reading the Al Qaeda document from the Us.gov website (as part of his studies), was squeeled on by the University, then released, cos it was dumb, then rearrested on visa irregularities, and was due at a magistrate court in July.
But then the newspapers got wind of the story and he was to be quickly ejected from the country before his trial to prevent him putting his side of the visa paperwork problem and making HMGov look bad.
Whatever happened to him?
And did he have sufficient car insurance? Because lack of car insurance causes crashes! I know, my house fell down the other day, I didn't have home insurance, so that must be the cause. Wibbly wobbly tymy whymy....
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Tuesday 15th July 2008 16:07 GMT RW
@ Colin Millar
Edward Tufte wrote a screed on the cognitive effects of Powerpoint that is worth seeking out. Google
"edward tufte" powerpoint
for lots of luscious links.
I've not myself read Tufte's remarks on Powerpoint, but other books of his were my constant companions before retirement. You might summarize his main thesis as "presenting information graphically is extremely difficult and far too often failed attempts are long on bling and very, very short on provoking serious thinking." I imagine that statement applies to his remarks on Powerpoint as well.
The matter is considerably more serious than the usual flicking of bits of chicken shit at NuLab. There are hosts of decision makers in all spheres of life who have become so used to such canned presentations that they no longer have, if they ever did, the ability to follow an argument of any complexity; or to balance conflicting pluses and minuses of a proposed course of action; or to understand issues relating to "unexpected side effects."
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Tuesday 15th July 2008 17:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
Offshoring Immigration, genius
That would probably work, we could call them colonies, and we could send over a Governor of good British stock, we could lay down the laws of the colonies, they could work on agriculture, and send food back to good ole blighty.
We could even train them ala the French Foreign Legion or the Gurkhas, and they could provide a foreign army for our off shore Enterprises (Empire for short). British business could use the colonies as place to expand to, further upping our economy and making the Colonies little pockets of paradise.
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Wednesday 16th July 2008 10:11 GMT Colin Millar
@ RW
That Edward Tufte article should be rammed down the throat of high level decision makers. I especially hate the practice of doing all the CYA stuff at bullet level six font size 60% (H1 = 200%)
The phrase from people that control multi-million pound budgets that drives me madder than a sack full of ferrets - "I need the idiots guide to this"
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