Nice Car, Shame About the Weather

It was with a sense of amusement that I watched the weather affect our country the other day. Despite a weeks worth of warnings we were hit with snow and the country grinded, inevitably to a halt.

One story in particular amused me. Not for happened or it's outcome, but the unsaid story. One school was so snowed in that there was no way for the parents to drive up and collect their children.

Now as an observer of the school run, I've noticed that a large number of children are driven to school in SUVs, Jeeps, Hummers etc. Mostly in the mistaken belief that you are safer in a car the size, and with the fuel economy, of a tank.

In reality I am actually safer driving around in my little Citroen Saxo.

Now these same said tanks, for all their "safety", "sports utilityness" and "4 wheel driveness" couldn`t make it through the snow to get to the school that they daily dropped their children off at. Money well spent.

When my little one starts the school run I'll be buying Snow Cat.

Without a Trace of Hypocracy

Aparently this is a bad thing

Where as this is something that we should be allowing.

Now of course you'll hear the arguments that we need 90 days detention because there is so much information stored and encrypted on computers nowadays. However maybe the government and the police forgot about this little law.

Which, in a nutshell, states that if you have encrypted data of any kind, you must disclose the password/key. And indeed if you fail to hand over the key you are implicitly guilty.

So I'll ask the question, if we are obliged by law to hand over the key to the encrypted information when asked, why the hell should we be detaining suspects for 90 days?