Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mummy.cis.ohio-state.edu!mowgli From: mowgli@mummy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mowgli Assor) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Lifestyle Information ( was Re: Safeway Stores to Accept Charge Summary: Not A Surprise To Me... Message-ID: <112672@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 26 Apr 91 03:41:20 GMT References: <53927@sneaky.lonestar.org> <1991Apr20.022809.10259@svc.portal.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: na Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of CIS Lines: 35 In article <1991Apr20.022809.10259@svc.portal.com> gundrum@svc.portal.com writes: >> It would be a lot easier, and more in line with the way the government >> does things, to force the businesses to check draft cards. > >The government already requires businesses to record some form of >identification (typically a driver's license) verifying your right to work >in the U.S. This is painfully close to a national I.D. system. Now you want >to make it the same card throughout the country? That scares me. :-( I also found it quite interesting when one night I was out riding my bike around, & was stopped by the police for riding without a light. Among my other offences was ... not carrying an ID. I had gone out without my wallet (not expecting a police lecture that night 8-), & as such had nothing but my keys with me. Apparently, around here it is illegal to go out without carrying some form of ID. Now, all they have to do is specify the ID, & there you have a nice, easy national ID system. Kind of scares me. > >-- >_______________________________________________________________________ >Any statements made by this account are strictly based on heresay and >should be assumed to have no intelligence behind them. (No, that does >not mean they have the approval of management.) gundrum@svc.portal.com And of course, I do not speak for the university or my department, both of which are listed above. These are strictly my own opinions. Later, -- Address: mowgli@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mowgli Assor in pseudo-quasi-real life) "Too many lonely hearts in the real world. Too many lonely nights in the real world. Too many fools who don't think twice, too many ways to pay the price. Don't wanna live my life in the real world." - The Alan Parsons Project