Re: "The .. crime we uncovered here could threaten the integrity of our wildlife species in Montana"
Don't tell the Yanks that they are allowed to hunt politicians! Oh, wait..
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This honest person had trouble.
Attempting to reactivate Windows by phone. The recorded message was of a woman with a strong southern US accent who spoke too fast and who, after I had input the long string of characters that she read out, wanted me to hit the (unintelligible) key. I played the recording back many times and never managed to determine what key was required. I had to give up and install Linux instead..
Let us assume for a moment that I do trust the government’s motives and intentions. Let us similarly set aside the fact that a future government may be less trustworthy. The past (indeed, current) performance in the creation of large IT projects at a government departmental level (e.g. universal credit) suggests that they could never complete a central government project which would be the largest ever attempted in this country.
So, the best that they would achieve would be a cobbled-together system, that would aggregate multiple databases and datasets – all containing inaccuracies. Would you trust a system, which could decide your entitlement to a pension or to healthcare or even citizenship when the data has been input by a (many?) badly paid, poorly trained and un-motivated civil servant?