Big Brother is Watching You….. :-)
Big Brother is Watching you!!
Originally from Mayur.
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Hope Fooly….
Nandan M Nilekani is appointed as head of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI),Nandan Nilekani can do it…..Fully integrated ID card system
Operator : “Thank you for calling Pizza Hut . May I have your…”
Customer: “Heloo, can I order..”
Operator : “Can I have your multi purpose ID card number first, Sir?”
Customer: “It’s eh…,
hold……….on……889861356102049998-45-54610″Operator : “OK… you’re… Mr Singh and you’re calling from 17 Jal Vayu.
Your home number is 22678893, your office 25076666 and your mobile is
09869798888. Which number are you calling from now Sir?”Customer: “Home! How did you get all my phone numbers?
Operator : “We are connected to the system Sir”
Customer: “May I order your Seafood Pizza…”
Operator : “That’s not a good idea Sir”
Customer: “How come?”
Operator : “According to your medical records, you have high blood pressure
and even higher cholesterol level Sir”Customer: “What?… What do you recommend then?”
Operator : “Try our Low Fat Pizza. You’ll like it”
Customer: “How do you know for sure?”
Operator : “You borrowed a book entitled “Popular Dishes” from the
National Library last week Sir”Customer: “OK I give up… Give me three family size ones then, how much
will that cost?”Operator : “That should be enough for your family of 05, Sir. The total
is Rs 500.00″Customer: “Can I pay by! credit card?”
Operator : “I’m afraid you have to pay us cash, Sir. Your credit card is
over the limit and you owe your bank Rs 23,000.75 since October last year.
That’s not including the late payment charges on your housing loan, Sir.”Customer: “I guess I have to run to the neighbourhood ATM and withdraw
some cash before your guy arrives”Operator : “You can’t Sir. Based on the records, you’ve reached your daily
limit on machine withdrawal today”Customer: “Never mind just send the pizzas, I’ll have the cash ready. How
long is it gonna take anyway?”Operator : “About 45 minutes Sir, but if you can’t wait you can always come
and collect it on your Nano Car…”Customer: ” What!”
Operator : “According to the details in system ,you own a Nano
car,…registration number GZ-05-AB-1107..”Customer: ” ????”
Operator : “Is there anything else Sir?”
Customer: “Nothing… by the way… aren’t you giving me that 3 free
bottles of cola as advertised?”Operator : “We normally would Sir, but based on your records you’re also
diabetic……. “Customer: #$$^%&$@$%
Operator : “Better watch your language Sir. Remember on 15th July 2010
you were convicted of using abusive language on a policeman…?”Customer: [Faints]
Regards
MAYUR
Extremely hilarious. But given the philosophy that UIDAI is going to follow, I doubt all this will ever happen in India (not that I want it this way)
It is not going to be mandatory even for government organizations to use/ask for the UID, it is going to be left to their discretion. In that case, to continue with the malpractices, it will be easy for all such entities NOT to opt for UID authorization.
Mandar
March 21, 2010 at 7:39 am
If that’s not being mandatory why whole lot of public money is wasted on it? And frankly I don’t even undersatand, when we’ve PAN what’s the need for a UID. To me it’s just that Govt. wants to pay INFY, for not bidding for Satyam after bankrupcy and nothing else.
gabhijit
March 21, 2010 at 7:46 am
check out the link – http://vemurivijay.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9F51F98FD77824C7!756.entry
UID is not mandatory. The mandatory nature of this number depends on the user.
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UID by itself will not solve the issue. The application of UID in a given context will solve it. If a state decides to have UID in all its ration cards, then somebody who has a ration card with the UID cannot come again on another ration card with another UID. So UID will ensure there are no duplicates. We are providing a capability to agencies to re-engineer their public service deliveries but the decision to re-engineer has to be theirs.
Mandar
March 21, 2010 at 7:59 am
and yes, even I don’t understand why do we have so many IDs per person…
Mandar
March 21, 2010 at 7:59 am
Given that people already know all my details w/o the UID (like my bank name, branch, etc and my spouse’s name, kids name, loan details, phone nos etc), UID won’t do much more harm.
I don’t quite like the idea of UID being optional. Then why the heck spend so much money on it?
Aditya Kulkarni
March 30, 2010 at 3:08 pm