As I said, I didn't do the last one - or the one before that. I was out that day. Millions are. The fine is a distraction.
Best Simon On 20/03/2011 22:08, "James Morris" <[email protected]> wrote: > If you don't fill it out, you'll legible to pay a £1000 fine. > Apparently your local council will lose out financially due to your > lack of cooperation (so who pockets the £1000 fine)? Personally I'll > just fill the bloody thing in and begrudingly tell them I earn less > than this, and have these qualifications and and yes that's the > address of where I work. If they want to do me for terrorism the best > they've got on me is a gaily coloured fractal image named > osama_bin_laden.png and some stupid emails in which I spout nonsense, > and perhaps a motive for disgruntlement (wage/education inbalance). > > j4m35 > > > On 20 March 2011 16:26, Simon Biggs <[email protected]> wrote: >> The census use to be government run in the UK but they asked for sensitive >> information that could be used against you. I understand its value for >> planning and consider some aspects of it valid. When I was in Australia I >> always filled it in. At that time they didn't ask about things I find >> difficult now. The UK have now decided to use a US company, and a dodgy one >> at that, making the issue more difficult. Firstly, the data will be >> collected and processed by a military organisation and, secondly, US law >> might override UK law and require disclosure, making a mockery of the UK's >> data protection systems. >> >> Best >> >> Simon >> >> >> On 20/03/2011 16:08, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> In the US, the census is government run; Azure worked for them this year. >>> It's important for people to fill the stuff out, since funding and votes >>> depend on it. Oddly, othodox Jews resisted. >>> >>> - Alan >>> >>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Simon Biggs wrote: >>> >>>> I ignored the last one and will ignore this one. I'm a private citizen. >>>> >>>> Best >>>> >>>> Simon >>>> >>>> >>>> On 20/03/2011 12:50, "list|marianne" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Resistance to the decennial census is growing as a coalition of anti-war >>>>> groups, pacifists, religious organisations and digital activists begin >>>>> raising public awareness about the role of Lockheed Martin, America's >>>>> largest arms manufacturer. >>>>> >>>>> The company, which makes Trident nuclear missiles, cluster bombs and F-16 >>>>> fighter jets, won the ?150m contract to run the census on behalf of the >>>>> Office for National Statistics (ONS). >>>>> >>>>> "The really worrying thing is the fact that the information being >>>>> collected >>>>> in the next census ? including new questions on sources of income and >>>>> place >>>>> of birth [to help monitor immigration] ? would be ideal fodder for the >>>>> kind >>>>> of anti-terror analyses being carried out by Lockheed, and could lead to a >>>>> faraway database identifying thousands of us as potential 'threats'." >>>>> >>>>> Lockheed Martin ? which does 80% of its work for the US defence department >>>>> ? >>>>> assists more than two dozen American government agencies and is involved >>>>> in >>>>> surveillance and data processing for the CIA and FBI. It has >>>>> controversially >>>>> provided private contract interrogators to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq >>>>> and >>>>> Guant?namo Bay in Cuba. All US-based companies are subject to the Patriot >>>>> Act, which allows the US government to have access to any data in the >>>>> company's possession. Campaigners have warned this could give the US >>>>> government access to detailed and personal data on the UK's entire >>>>> population. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/19/census-boycott-lockheed-martin >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Simon Biggs >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ >>>> >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.elmcip.net/ >>>> http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> == >>> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >>> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >>> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >>> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt >>> == >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> >> Simon Biggs >> [email protected] >> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ >> >> [email protected] >> http://www.elmcip.net/ >> http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
