Originally posted by biotic
How come i cant give out WATS votes anymore? I didnt even use my three for this month. Anyways i woulda given you one if that counts.
Thanks, it’s the thought that counts anyway, right..
Funny I knew something was missing from my avatar screen about a week ago, and never realized what it was until you just mentioned this.
Originally posted by Vekar
Someone explain this "Holographic liscence." I have not heard of that term, ever.
It’s a license with a hologram embedded into the plastic coating which covers it.You can kind of make them out in this photo:
Originally posted by Azathoth
ince the invention of the credit card, we've had a way of "being" tracked.
Not at this level of tracking. A prime example is here in Florida we already have set up the infrastructure to track RFID’s on our highway system.
This has been implemented under the auspices of the “
Sun Pass” road toll system. If you look at this photo:
You’ll see the actual reader is the brown square at the end of the pole. These are all over the roads here, and folks who submit to the tracking
even get special lanes on the road as they don’t have to stop at the toll booths.
Personally, I think anyone using these systems out of convenience is out of their mind, I mean how hard is it, really, to slow down and throw a
handful of change in a bucket?
Anyway, come to find out that they have passed a law here that now we have to get new license plates every five years, rather then just a tag. Who
here wants to guess at how long its going to be before the RIFD tags are in our license plates too, if they are not already. Is it really the
governments business what road I drive on at what time, how often, and where I go with my “Free” time?
Originally posted by Azathoth
I've had a governement issued ID with a chip in it since 1997.
I also carried one at the airport with a customs attachment back in the early 90’s. Not really the same thing though. I have tried to stay off the
religious angle of this, but that is my main concern with the Nation ID. Its not simply the tracking, or any of that. If the government were to track
my movements they would get really bored, pretty fast. It’s the loss of freedom, and the religious angle, which worries me the most. I am zero
percent afraid of some terrorist killing me, I am vastly more afraid of this ID. Why because it is the first thing in history that meets every single
criteria of what the bible refers to as “the mark”. Before anyone asks, no it does not have to be implanted, or connected to the skin, that is a
misquote of the verse.
Originally posted by Azathoth
In my opinion, the only people who should be worried about a national ID is the ones that have reasons to worry about (i.e Illegal
activities).
I have no legal reason to be afraid of anyone knowing everything I do, yet I am afraid of this. Funny that all my law enforcement friends say this
exact same thing to me, “What you worried about you got nothing to hide”. I am worried as it conflicts with my religious beliefs. While you may
not prescribe to those beliefs, they are my beliefs and I have a right to believe that way, which is why I live in this country to begin with. Now who
are you, or the government, or anyone else to force this on me as its against my religious convictions. To me, God gave man free will and does not
force man to believe in him or believe in any specific way, who is some man made government or group to take my free will away?
Originally posted by Azathoth
Now all they need is some biometrics on it.
It will have biometrics in it, finger prints or retina scan. Just like “in their right hand, or in their foreheads”.
Originally posted by iori_komei
Well, there's a fine line between healthy paranoia and seeing conspiracies in everything, and different people are on various positions when it has
to do with it.
When Canada, the UK, Australia, and other countries are implementing the same type of system, I would call that at least an agenda on someones part.
Originally posted by apc
RFID is short range, close proximity.
Not as short as you might think, look at the “Sun Pass” photos above. Yeah it’s short range-wise, like maybe 100 feet or so, but they are cheap
and popping up all over the place. They have doorway scanners and floor tile scanners for shopping centers, for instance.
