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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on July 12, 2006, 06:25:56 am

Title: Finally, some good news?
Post by: aldo_14 on July 12, 2006, 06:25:56 am: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/12/idcards_getting_elbow/

Everyone could predict it'd collapse horribly, I guess; thank christ for government incompetence.
Title: Re: Finally, some good news?
Post by: Wobble73 on July 12, 2006, 06:38:30 am: Jolly good show! It was a bad idea, badly conceived and would have cost the tax payer millions if not billions of pounds and would not have worked!
Title: Re: Finally, some good news?
Post by: karajorma on July 12, 2006, 07:15:43 am: Yep. Looks like at least something has gone right. Hell even a delay would just give us more time to show what a crappy idea this is :)
Title: Re: Finally, some good news?
Post by: Kosh on July 12, 2006, 07:17:55 am: Wow, they really fumbled this one, didn't they.....
Title: Re: Finally, some good news?
Post by: Wobble73 on July 12, 2006, 07:20:28 am: Quote from: Kosh on July 12, 2006, 07:17:55 am
Wow, they really fumbled this one, didn't they.....

Fumbled it, dropped the ball and nearly lost it down the drain. Amazing the advantages of having an incompetent government!
Title: Re: Finally, some good news?
Post by: Flipside on July 12, 2006, 07:42:59 am: :D Yup, they only realised something that has been told to them for the last 3 years, buy why listen to your own experts when you can waste millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to find out exactly the same thing?
Title: Re: Finally, some good news?
Post by: Goober5000 on July 12, 2006, 08:28:21 am: Excellent. :) Beware, they'll try again though.
Title: Re: Finally, some good news?
Post by: aldo_14 on July 12, 2006, 08:31:00 am: Quote from: Goober5000 on July 12, 2006, 08:28:21 am
Excellent. :) Beware, they'll try again though.

Yep.

Thankfully, they'll never learn competence.
Title: Re: Finally, some good news?
Post by: Grug on July 13, 2006, 12:07:30 am: Sweet. Hope this means the Aussy govnerment follows suit with any of their crazy assed plans.