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

["David Lodge" <dave () cirt net>]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:40:38 +0100, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> I can *understand* the anti-smoking law. That's about it. In Israel they
> now look to follow UK and SE examples (what examples?!?!) to ban pubs
> after 2 AM, to prevent drunk driving.

This is the great Labour nanny state party. The anti-smoking law doesn't  
make sense either (godsdamnit - it's about customer choice - most  
non-smoking pubs and non-smoking areas in pubs are empty - if people don't  
want to go to a smoky pub, go to a non-smoking pub, there's plenty of  
them, or ask the manager to make it non-smoking), the pub my girlfriend  
works in isn't looking forward to the smoking ban - even though none of  
the staff smoke, simply due to the down turn in sales and complexity of  
it. The only thing that you can now legally discriminate against it  
smoking.

BTW our licencing laws now means pubs can be open 24x7x365, but they have  
to apply for the extra hours.

> As to the UK, I will be in London this March and I better be able to
> get me pint of beer.

Fortunately it seems to be only a few of the southern counties that are  
enacting this great destruction of privacy. Looks like another great  
British traditional will be going down the toilet.

dave
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