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What I find the most amazing, is that you do not get more desperate vengeance cases. I mean ; you worked your whole life, you tried to do the right thing, you basically have nothing to lose and yet you do not go out and hurt the people that screwed up your life out of nowhere. That always gives me new confidence in humanity as it feels like that could so easily happen, every time when someone (or a loved one) is screwed over by something they or you cannot, legally, get justice for. Not only governments; big companies that just 'do things' because, like you say, no-one seems to have given any consideration to the edge cases. When you put that to them (Google, MS etc), the answer is always (possibly with some rancid dress-up) 'we cannot account for every case; that would not be commercial'. Governments probably have the same reasons but they cannot say that out loud (usually) because re-election (of their political party). A friend changed her last name two months ago; she got a letter that it succeeded and it would take 3-6 months to take effect. So today, while she was traveling, she got a letter from the gov that it was finished and that all her papers are per direct expired. Passport, ID, driver's license etc. This was an edge case in that: 0) it rarely happens (first name happens more often, last name is rare here) 1) it usually takes much longer 2) they usually send a letter with enough room to request new papers 3) most people don't travel much. But the end result was; those docs expired and 'we are sorry not warning you on time, but sorry we cannot do anything, you have to come to NL to request new ones'. No valid documents to travel, so how does that work? Anyway; not quite the same thing as the article, but it happens weekly at least. No-one thinks things through, ever. |