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Comment by Father Ted posted on Moon shot (with a free lens!) at 04/12/2009 - 08:51
But you DID invent the Gatso!! Grrrrr.
Comment by Father Ted posted on Photographer's rights gets a higher profile at 03/12/2009 - 14:15
Oh my, this going to easy Father Ted so what's the catch?
Comment by Father Ted posted on Photographer's rights gets a higher profile at 03/12/2009 - 08:52
Comment by Father Ted posted on Photographer's rights gets a higher profile at 02/12/2009 - 23:32
Still drooling over Father Ted's shot though, that was great
Comment by Father Ted posted on Moon shot (with a free lens!) at 02/12/2009 - 23:29
Must be so much fun living in the UK
Comment by Father Ted posted on Photographer's rights gets a higher profile at 02/12/2009 - 23:27
Did we really think that some idiot flying planes into buildings wasn't going to have repercussions?
Just a thought - it is better to have uncomfortable rules than no rules at all, giving the authorities free hand.
* This was used as a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania. (1759);
Comment by Father Ted posted on Photographer's rights gets a higher profile at 02/12/2009 - 22:03
Wouldn't that always be the case, and an almost match isn't a match so they know they need to have one of your family members.
With nearly 40 cousins in my immediate family alone, any of them could be criminal, I wouldn't know. But I wouldn't want their lives to land me in a police interview room.
Also, if the offense were serious enough I could be held for up to 28 days without charge and the government wanted to have that increased to 90 days.
Now I know that is worst case scenario, but puttng the whole picture together, you can see why a lot of Brits have concerns.
Comment by Father Ted posted on Photographer's rights gets a higher profile at 02/12/2009 - 21:06
Back to the DNA thing though.
Lets just make a scene as an example okay.
So government has a data base with the DNA of all the UK residence.
On a crime scene they find DNA and they try to match it as it normally goes now. But what if they ran out of suspects, they need to go door to door asking if they can match your DNA. You then have a choice, that's today.
I would not truly mind if they can ask the court for a warrant to match the DNA records of a neighbourhood or street.
Of course good rules must to be made that the system is not misused.
Also it's of course done with a computer so you only come up when it is an match.
A distant family member commits a serious crime. Your DNA is almst a perfect match, so you are immediately under suspision of know the offender, so you are questioned as to who you are related to, your whereabouts, your movements....all because you are distantly related to an offender.
I suppose I'm not impicitly against ID cards per se. I just don't trust this government. The laws are written so badly that they are being misued. I don't believe this is by accident.
Take the family in Dorset who were placed under surveillance under laws which we were told were for anti terro purposes. Their crime? They applied for a place in a local primary school and the council didn't believe they lived at the address they gave.
Comment by Father Ted posted on Photographer's rights gets a higher profile at 02/12/2009 - 18:40
Comment by Father Ted posted on Photographer's rights gets a higher profile at 02/12/2009 - 16:52
These images are great considering the size difference of lens. How heavily cropped are they from the original?