Our society has become so dominated by the evolutionary theories that whenever something changes over time, it doesn't change, but evolves, as if it were a change in the make-up of a cat's genetic code.
Already, they ask for thumbprints as a part of getting/renewing a license in Texas. You put your thumb on a red laser thing and it scans it. I don't think that it actually keeps in on the card, but it does have a magnetic strip. Among other things, the magnetic strip keeps your real age on the card. For example, people who try and forge their license will have the original age on the strip. The cops, especially the ones that commonly patrol the nightclub areas, have devices that scan them and display the age. If the displayed age does not match the printed age, they'll ticket them or some such.
I'm not sure that I'd mind something unique to the individual as opposed to something arbitrarily chosen such as the SSN which, for all intents and proposes as far as colleges go, is your national ID. After all, a driver's license is statewide. Currently, if need be an out of state cop can run out of state check on a license. The only thing that keeping it at the state level does is.... keep it at the state level (in turn keeping more people off the national payroll, because we all know that bureaucracies are perfect).
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Well, Al Gore did invent it. All I've got to say is if our buddy Al Gore invented it, then Ashcroft can take it away.
Our society has become so dominated by the evolutionary theories that whenever something changes over time, it doesn't change, but evolves, as if it were a change in the make-up of a cat's genetic code.
Already, they ask for thumbprints as a part of getting/renewing a license in Texas. You put your thumb on a red laser thing and it scans it. I don't think that it actually keeps in on the card, but it does have a magnetic strip. Among other things, the magnetic strip keeps your real age on the card. For example, people who try and forge their license will have the original age on the strip. The cops, especially the ones that commonly patrol the nightclub areas, have devices that scan them and display the age. If the displayed age does not match the printed age, they'll ticket them or some such.
I'm not sure that I'd mind something unique to the individual as opposed to something arbitrarily chosen such as the SSN which, for all intents and proposes as far as colleges go, is your national ID. After all, a driver's license is statewide. Currently, if need be an out of state cop can run out of state check on a license. The only thing that keeping it at the state level does is.... keep it at the state level (in turn keeping more people off the national payroll, because we all know that bureaucracies are perfect).
and yes, I sometimes ramble