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The version and its application issued initially will be very different to the version 5-10 years down the line. Combine it with everything else including the now frequently mooted pay per mile system ( a horrific idea) and you have a system the Chinese will envy. I saw enough from the same players who want and support this now during g the Covid farce to know it’s wrong. Labour should have put it in the manifesto if they wanted to implement it.

Terrible idea. Buy a smartwatch if you want tech to tell you off for living your life. I got one, it comfirmed everything my GP said was happening, so I gave it away and got a new doctor. The last thing we need in society is to be handing more and more of our data to big technology firms. (He says while freely posting on a site that likely uses AWS)...

@Oldfeller Cheers. I appreciate the tunes.

It'll take some civil servant 5-10 minutes to leave it on a laptop in the back of a taxi. Then god knows.

More of that, please.

Opposite buds fit the bill (ha!). I really don't know for sure, I reckon acer is a good shout. Bark looks like Rosaceae of sorts, or Lime, possibly even alder, but the buds don't fit the last two.

NONCE.

Personally, I think that given the data-driven world we live in, the likelyhood of ID cards being integrated with everyday tasks is a real, and worrying prospect. Do really want to refused a burger because your ID says you obese? Not something that should be encouraged.

And yet your more than happy for someone to throw around the fiddler and rapey term almost on a level instead of calling someone Mr, that shows more about the mental condition of someone than anything. Granted he's probably editing Wikipedia for every war lord and dictator except his red masters obviously.

Victim blaming is never OK in my book.

That was supposed to read flails last 4 seconds on rock impact!

I've got an alpha delta tow behind quad mower. It's sort of a strange hybrid Scottish /Chinese machine. Very heavy flail shroud that will probably last my lifetime with pretty shit soft chinese couplings from engine to primary pulley, that aim to eat themselves as fast as possible. Original bearings made of cheese but easily transferred to good quality from local ag suppliers. Cast rather than forged original flails that last 40 seconds on rock impact, but again readily exchanged to professional blades from local suppliers. 15 h loncin engine rattled itself apart at timing case , but spotted the oil pissing everywhere, and shut down before seizure occurred! As a flail on heavy rushes its easily overwhelmed, on light grass I could travel faster but it would start to miss bits. Good, maintenance minimal, drive belt setup from primary pulley down. Would I buy the same again? Probably not - would get a lighter faster cutting, swipe blade type machine and put up with perhaps multiple cuts and more frequent blade changes on my rocky ground, with considerably less weight horsing the quad around.

This is exactly what I was on about. A 40+ year old whisking a school girl away to a private island... She might understand what is expected of her, Epstein certainly had intentions and yet here you are, blaming the victim, the perpetrator is never mentioned is he? The school girls didn't approach Epstein - he or Maxwell sought them out. The girls were approached. They didn't instigate their rapes. Remember here, Epsteins victims were as young as 11. But that is where we are, blame the victim. Her fault? Apologist for a pedo.

Fifty years ago, when a particularly wet area with soft rush, water meadow, had become particularly dry, I took the Kuhn drum mower and cut it low, it was very effective and the blades were due for replacement as they had done the hay cut earlier. It cut shrubs that had grown up too. The disadvantage was the mower had to be used offset. A week ago I saw a Kubota with a front mounted disc mower doing a very good job of cutting gorse about 4 foot high and up to an inch stem diameter as well as heather and senescent bracken, on an SSSI. The nightjar should have fledged and flown south a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday the same tractor was making big bales and the whole job looks superb, I have yet to find out what the bales are going for. Excuse the blurry photo, I seem to be suffering from DTs

As far as I can tell here the objections are that they are something we don't have, something new. No practical downsides mentioned yet. In France (closest example) and many other place you don't need to carry them - much the same that you don't need to carry a drives license to drive a car, but if you need to prove who you are you can grab the card and prove it. Digital just means, like the drivers licenses the authorities will have a database they can refer to. End of paper bills and the old "2 forms of ID, a recent utility bill" is tricker - so some digital system will be needed I think, so why not. Anyway, waiting for practical downsides apart from not liking anything new.

OK easier to access and get better care. All of your medical history can be accessed quickly when you need treatment. As it is now its garbage. Digital ID will help with that. What do you think the downsides of digital ID are?