On Thu, 19 May 2005 23:01:10 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"BigWallop" wrote in message
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"Mike" wrote in message
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"Toby Sleigh" wrote in message
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Who watches the watchers? Not Blunkett.

1 to 1 might be difficult, but East Germany got up to 1 to 6.5
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/b...p?story=532434
Published : 18 June 2004

"in the snooper's state of East Germany, the Stasi secret police
employed
one informer for every 6.5 citizens. Its agents monitored every aspect
of
.."

But they had crap computers. Okay so do our government but that could be
dealt with. With modern techniques it should be possible to monitor
everybody on perhaps a 100:1 ratio.

As most of us have mobile phones our location is already usually known to
800m or so and this will come down significantly with the future GPS
equiped
phones.

Think I'll move to the Isle of Man.



We'll still find youuuuuuuuuu!!!! :-)

He might have been bluffing, might have meant the Isle of Wight ...

Do you mean, the Isle of Right, as maybe said by Jonathan Woss? No
need for anyone to move then! We've got it "right" here on the
mainland!

MM