27-05-2005 14:59									#91
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quote: Originally posted by Jon Miller it is also useful when you are carded... Jon Miller

I haven't been carded since I was 16.

	27-05-2005 18:42									#92
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin If every citizen and legal alien hasone then it shouldn't be hard to get one. You just use an agent who's legally in the country or better yet steal someone elses and swipe the card as you enter the train. Unless it does eye scans or something then anyone can use it.

On an amtrak train one of the numerous trainmen who check your ticket presumably also check your ID.

Of course you dont have this on metros, many commuter trains, etc. But then ID is NOT required on metros, commuter trains, etc, as I keep pointing out, and no one seems to be listening.

	27-05-2005 20:21									#93
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quote: Originally posted by Flandrien Pretty soon, I will not have just any ID card, I will have a MICROSOFT (R) ID card !

Well, hello there ...umm... Mr. Blue Screen of Death

	27-05-2005 23:24									#94
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this is all a plot to get people so fed up with the goverment and public transportation so more people drive cars and burn more oil.

It all comes back to Dick Cheney.

	27-05-2005 23:29									#95
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The irony of the Brits complaining about ID cards is that they forced everyone in Hong Kong to carry these cards.

	27-05-2005 23:35									#96
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The card will cost something ridiculous like £93 per person. And it will probably need to be updated every so often as people age.

Hello, Poll Tax!

	28-05-2005 01:44									#97
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quote: Originally posted by Trajanus You might as well enter a crowded bar/theatre/... and blow youself up. If you want to make a lot of casualties, nothing is going to stop you. The fact that this does not happen 'en masse' shows that suicide bombing isn't all that popular anyway.

You can do that, but getting a crowded commuter bus in downtown during rushhour probably has a lot more impact.

I don't think the ID card thing is particularly necessary, but I also don't see anything inherently wrong with it, either.

	28-05-2005 01:53									#98
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quote: Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat You can do that, but getting a crowded commuter bus in downtown during rushhour probably has a lot more impact. .

does anyone else realize that there is NO requirement in the US to carry ID on commuter bus? Or a commuter train, or an intercity bus?

	28-05-2005 02:24									#99
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quote: Originally posted by lord of the mark does anyone else realize that there is NO requirement in the US to carry ID on commuter bus? Or a commuter train, or an intercity bus?

how is this a problem?

	28-05-2005 02:56									#100
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Really, I don't mind a national ID system as long as it has nothing more than what is on our drivers licenses, people look at your driver's license all the time (like when a store clerk asks for it when you write a check). Now, if said database had personal stuff, then I would be pissed.