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Bill Gates Talks about Belgian eID Card
Brainsur writes "Today Bill Gates visited Belgium to talk about the Electronic ID card introduced last year in Belgium as experiment. Microsoft announced that they will integrate the electronic identification into the Windows Software so they can deliver more security and privacy on the internet. The register has
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Everyone knows it's just a marketing ploy to try and get general opinion to go against the E.U.
Germany and France were among the 6 countries that formed the European Coal and Steel Community back in 1951 which is thought to be the first step to European Union. I really doubt that they are going to want out of EU. What comes to corruption I think that Germany and France are not the least corrupted coutries in EU. I live in Finland and we belong to the EU and also to EMU. Finland is the least corrupted country in the world. I would not say that corruption comes with EU. Perhaps the corruption comes with the country.
You can always say that the EU is full of nonsense because they define the curvature of banana and cucumber for example. If EU doesn't define some things, who will then? Every government for themselves? After a while we would have 25 different standards for curvature of cucumber and banana that are good for sale in EU.
We can always compare the directives that "dictate" the length of sausage to the McDonadl's "directives". Every BicMac is the same in every country. What if you ordered a BicMac in Finland and it would be made of ryebread and sausage? And the only explanation would be that they are not following the stupid McDonald's directives how to make a hamburger.