Yes it does (or at least can be interpreted in that way) Conceded. Perhaps it's the fact that I already knew it wasn't and had not seen it presented as such before that biased me towards interpreting it the other way.
This is true. It does have various advantages over phones though - I believe a phone is more likely to be stolen than a wallet, a piece of paper doesn't stop working when it gets wet (unless you're very unlucky with the ink), doesn't need charging and doesn't have any of the problems with needing a PIN. That is also true. More on this shortly.
Well, I list everyone by real names in my phone ... why run the risk when there's an easy to way to remove it? Very sensible. But I think you'll have a hard time persuading most people to do this :-)
No, you're missing the point. If the reason they want to get hold of a legal next of kin is to get consent to a particular procedure... The campaign's founder specifically uses my example of not being sure whether or not to call Mum, so I think that my point is still valid.
My understanding is that people with non flip-top phones tend to lock their keypads so that no one can make any calls without unlocking it to avoid making accidental 999/112 calls. From my memory of my sister's phone, when this lock is applied you can't access any of the info in the address book until you've unlocked it. The most commonly used (IME) form of keypad locking is not coded. Anyone can unlock it without a pin. Plus, you'll find that most phones will allow 999/112 calls despite being keypad locked!
[Regarding MedicAlert] Go on - am I misunderstanding it? I'd always been taught in first aid courses that they were good, right and proper.
Indeed, they are good, right and proper, and my beef isn't really with them. It's the fact that a MedicAlert bracelet is a very publicly visible sign that someone has a medical condition and I prefer to keep my medical history private. Also a MedicAlert bracelet is easily lost, forgotten, stolen or just plain inconvenient in some circumstances. We have the technology to solve all these problems by offering implanted chips that paramedics can easily read without searching a body, which can not be lost or stolen and which protect your privacy. Unfortunately the general perception of everyone else is that subdermal chips are the work of the devil and a route to an instant loss of all privacy, so I'm not able to make use of a service which is available to dogs but not to people. And that really really bugs me.
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Conceded. Perhaps it's the fact that I already knew it wasn't and had not seen it presented as such before that biased me towards interpreting it the other way.
This is true. It does have various advantages over phones though - I believe a phone is more likely to be stolen than a wallet, a piece of paper doesn't stop working when it gets wet (unless you're very unlucky with the ink), doesn't need charging and doesn't have any of the problems with needing a PIN.
That is also true. More on this shortly.
Well, I list everyone by real names in my phone ... why run the risk when there's an easy to way to remove it?
Very sensible. But I think you'll have a hard time persuading most people to do this :-)
No, you're missing the point. If the reason they want to get hold of a legal next of kin is to get consent to a particular procedure...
The campaign's founder specifically uses my example of not being sure whether or not to call Mum, so I think that my point is still valid.
My understanding is that people with non flip-top phones tend to lock their keypads so that no one can make any calls without unlocking it to avoid making accidental 999/112 calls. From my memory of my sister's phone, when this lock is applied you can't access any of the info in the address book until you've unlocked it.
The most commonly used (IME) form of keypad locking is not coded. Anyone can unlock it without a pin. Plus, you'll find that most phones will allow 999/112 calls despite being keypad locked!
[Regarding MedicAlert] Go on - am I misunderstanding it? I'd always been taught in first aid courses that they were good, right and proper.
Indeed, they are good, right and proper, and my beef isn't really with them. It's the fact that a MedicAlert bracelet is a very publicly visible sign that someone has a medical condition and I prefer to keep my medical history private. Also a MedicAlert bracelet is easily lost, forgotten, stolen or just plain inconvenient in some circumstances. We have the technology to solve all these problems by offering implanted chips that paramedics can easily read without searching a body, which can not be lost or stolen and which protect your privacy. Unfortunately the general perception of everyone else is that subdermal chips are the work of the devil and a route to an instant loss of all privacy, so I'm not able to make use of a service which is available to dogs but not to people. And that really really bugs me.