Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Brian Loe wrote:
> > On 10/22/06, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> >
> > > I can *understand* the anti-smoking law. That's about it.
> >
> > Really? So you understand the government's ability to control your
> > private property just fine?
>
> I am the *only* Israeli non-smoker, I don't mind people smoking around me
> one bit, but I can understand smoking not being allowed in public places,
> as well as the UK government's wish to limit the habit by raising taxes on
> it.
>
> I can't understand anything that impacts me directly or tells me what to
> do, at that level, if I don't hurt others and do so in the privacy of my
> own house.
>
> Do we really want to go to the philosophical realm of whether suicide
> should be legal or illegal? Let's stick to the facts.
>
> Limiting beer drinking to 2 AM will not actually help reduce drunk
> driving. Taking my prints at the bar sound stoo 1984-ish to me.
 
My understanding of this, is that this comes out of a number of
grass-roots private initiatives.

In England, we have a tradition that if someone misbehaves badly enough,
the publical can ban the individual from the pub. Underage drinkers are, 
of course, never welcome (as drinkers).

The next step in this, was for a group of local pubs to share information 
about undesirables. If someone is an asshole in one pub, then he finds 
he's not welcome in any of them.

Fingerprinting would just be a way to implement this.

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