Posts by Ross K 688 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Feb 2011
Except now what you'll have mouthbreathers who can't read a newspaper or watch Crimewatch carry a library of mugshots around on their phone.
Feeling bored on the bus on the morning commute? Let's compare other passengers' faces to the Met-issued digital wanted posters... Yay! Can you send tip-off texts to 999?
True. Ask Jean Charles De Menezes.
Oh wait, you can't because he was shot in a case of mistaken identity.
Interesting paper on facial recognition here: http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/docs/download.php?type=PUBLS&id=1092
"One possible reason for our
faith in eyewitness identification is that we are so good at
recognizing familiar faces in everyday life that we tend to
over-generalize our confidence in these abilities, by assuming
that we are also good at recognizing unfamiliar faces. This is
a mistake."
If was looking at a ten (or even five) stretch, I'd keep my mouth shut and take the two years.
Surely with crowded prisons/good behaviour/etc one would be out in no time anyway?
Or do you keep going back to court and getting another two years every time?
I was going to say that Croydon Council's social services department couldn't organise a piss-up in a pub.
It appears they can, and do.
Seriously though, they do appear to a bunch of bungling fcukwits based on what news coverage I remember from just the last couple of years.
That fact that the £100k fine will ultimately come from taxpayers pockets is the icing on the cake...
...you wouldn't last in the legal dept with your grasp of the law.
Debt collectors have no right of entry to your property.
Bailiffs are a different matter, but they don't work for DCA's.
Sorry but DCS employees are bottom feeding scum. I probably hate them more than clampers.
They should have embraced the medium of downloads sooner, and in a bigger way.
I find it hard to muster any sympathy for the music biz. Sorry.
And being uninsured due to rioting? So basically they're in the same boat as every other Londoner who's had their car/home/business torched?
I can see the benefit of ANPR in police vehicles, catching people with no insurance etc. Having static cameras which report back to a (possibly unmanned) control room seem like a waste of money to me. You just need one of the controllers to retire to the bog with yesterday's Sun for a rest break, and that axe-murderer's left the area...
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