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Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready!
rev_media writes to tell us that CNN has a few updates to the Real ID act currently facing legislators. The Real ID acts mandates all states to begin issuing federal IDs to all citizens by 2008. Costs could be as much at $14 billion, but only 40 million are currently allocated. Several states have passed legislation expressly forbidding participation in the program, while others seem to be all for it. The IDs will be required for access to all federal areas including flights, state parks and federal buildings. People in states refusing to comply will need to show passports even for domestic flights.
$14 billion seems a little expensive, I'm glad I already have a passport.
You still won't, to travel between states. As long as you're not on an airplane. We're still free, honest.
Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option.
The Urban Hippie
Well, if they're that poor they're probably criminals anyhow, and so shouldn't get to move around freely.
Yes, not to mention that unborn babies have the right to choose whether or not they want to live
They certainly do have that right.
If they want to live, all they have to do is leave the mother. And don't give me that liberal crap about how they "can't" leave and must therefore be protected by yet more layers of bureaucratic government. What you and your type are really about is a relentless drive for socialism, you goddamn commie pinkos!
It's the squirrels!
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
What precisely does the current federal government do for the middle classes?
Hey come on, they build freeways and bridges oh wait...
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You'll be waiting in line at the airport, and the Real ID reader will say "Buffering..."
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A number of African tribes of the Congo Basin use a genitalia-based identification scheme. A portion of their religious beliefs suggests that a human face can be altered by spirits to make one person appear as another. Thus they do not believe that you can tell individuals apart by their facial appearance alone. Because of this, they often identify one another by their genitals. Apparently they believe that the spirits cannot alter the appearance of a man's penis, or a woman's vulva.
Dr. Marc LaFrance, Dr. Sylvia Daiken and Dr. Peter Price have written a number of papers on this subject. LaFrance and Daiken are both professors of sociology, and Price is an economic historian. Price's work focuses on how this pervasive role of genitalia within their societies affects their productivity, and their ability to maintain a primitive economy within the tribe.
Maybe America should consider using a similar scheme. It would likely be a lot cheaper than the passports, and all that.
A passport to visit a Mount Rushmore without Ronald Reagan in the line up of talking heads is un-American. :P
You know. You're giving your life for Allah tomorrow so you wanna relax by taking in the falls and scenery at Yosemite. You drive up to the Big Oak Flat entrance and the ranger asks for your ID and boom, you're immediately arrested for being on the watch list. Boo-yah! Score one for DHS!
Yeah. Sounds plausible to me.
Well, we're already working on it.
The way you can tell that you're interacting with a government agency is the distinct feeling that you're being fucked.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
When Tom Clancy begins to be insightful, you know your country is fucked.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Bah passports.. I'll just show my military ID. If they question it, I'll just say I'm bringing democracy to Yosemite.
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