On 29 Jan, 22:31, Tim Lamb wrote:
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Onetap writes





If all the people that buy stolen goods disappeared there would be
virtually
no crime, just the odd murder, fight of parking spaces and speeding type
stuff.
Maybe the death sentence for anyone with stolen goods, its a lot easier to
prove than catching the people who steal the stuff in the first place. Got
any stolen pens, or other stuff from work?

The temptation to plant some hooky gear on you Dennis would be too
great.

Excellently put

Hmm..

Tempting legislation, nevertheless.

We all file purchase receipts, guarantees etc. as a protection against
faulty goods or even mistaken purchase. I don't quite see how it could
be implemented other than random searches of private property or
checkout barriers in pub car parks:-)

Electronic receipts, details of purchases' bar codes &/or serial
numbers uploaded via your bank card, accessible on-line.
The main purpose being to reduce the consumption of energy and
resources in the production and importation of CRAP.

Umm.. Wouldn't this also allow our controllers to compare spend/income
and draw conclusions about hidden; untaxed income sources? I suppose you
would need to stop people using cheques to escape monitoring... oh yes!

Yes, assuming it was optional, you had opted to use it, and THEY had
access to it.
It's a good idea don't stomp on it immediately.
It'll never happen though, retailers want to sell you crap and prefer
to grudgingly give you a flimsy tissue receipt that fades in the
light; they don't want you coming back in 3 or 5 years when the
rubbish materials and workmanship that were expended in producing the
crap aretefact, make their presence known. It would need legislation
and our elected representatives to impose laws that do something for
the electorate, us, rather than just pocketing backhanders from
pressure groups.