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

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Drsolly wrote:
> > Will the no-pub list turn ot to be another no-fly list?
> > What other implications would this have?
> >
> > If this were to happen in the US, that info would be used by insurance 
> > companies to drop your credit rating, raise your car insurance and all 
> > other kind of insurance rates (since they now evaluate more than driving 
> > safety and prompt bill paying as criteria for how much they can charge for 
> > insurance)
> > Then what else would they use it for? "Sorry, you are on the No-pub list, 
> > you can't come into our restaurant/store/church/etc"
> > Also, what chances that people who want to cause you problems can set you 
> > up to be seen as a problem user?
> >
> > So many new personal invasions were put in place to 'prevent terrorism', 
> > but look at how far they are straying from their initial claim to need all 
> > this information.
> >
> > Once this kind of thing gets established someplace, it just propagates.
> > I'm still boggled about Disney requiring people to use fingerprint 
> > scanners around the Disneyworld park.
> > http://www.local6.com/news/4724689/detail.html
>  
> This has nothing to do with terrorists.
>
> Pubs are run by private individuals, and in the UK, have the nature of a 
> social environment. The person running the pub has every right to ban 
> arseholes.
>
> If someone has demonstrated his arseholehood in one pub, other publicans 
> have every right to ban that person.
>
> Arseholehood is demonstrated by arsehole behaviour. Publicans don't want 
> to ban paying customers and lose revenue, so arseholehood isn't conferred 
> lightly. But when one person's behaviour ruins the evening of a whole 
> bunch of people, the publican faces losing the whole bunch of people if he 
> doesn't do something about the arsehole.

Look at it as a blacklist for assholes, used by pubs at their
discretion. :P

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