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Termyn8or -> ID please ! (2/20/2009 7:51:33 PM)
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Spawned from the video game thread, it comes back. We are talking personal experience here and I am sure it can be confirmed quite easily. However I will first put forth my opinion.
It looks as though "they" want to make it so you need a picture ID to do almost anything. In other words what they attempted to legislate is being attempted by business.
This is shades of Revelations, perhaps that special card that can only be issued by a governmental agency. Perhaps they see themselves as God (or the other guy ?).
I went and screwed up my driver's license, OK, nobody's fault but mine but for a time no picture ID. Now I do not look young by any stretch, but to go to the Grid-N-Orbit you need ID no matter if you have grey hair and a big bread. EVERYONE must show. I did take a look around and I don't see how any cameras could've picked anything up off the ID I borrowed. What's more they knew it wasn't me. So there is none of this "If something happens later we know who you are", they were just being careful due to the legal climate these days. (created by whom ? )
Then sans ID I want to pick up a black ink cartridge at IIRC Office Max. Twelve bucks. Now I can get on the internet and buy guns and rob your little store if I want, I could, and have bought an entire new PC (for someone else, I still need one) without an ID. If I had stolen this card, don't you think I would have a shopping cart with all of your most expensive stuff ? I was being facetious, but I told them "I can go on the internet and buy missiles but I need ID for a twelve buck purchase ? ".
One time for gasoline, and it was already pumped ! Luckily I had the cash.
What I am saying is that these examples illustrate that security is not the reason for this. What's more, sometimes I send people with my card to the store for like beer and smokes. I like being able to do that. The only people who get my card are among the most trusted inner circle, but rather than put my shoes on and all this, they are willing and they want something from the store too, why shouldn't I be able to do that ?
Actually I do with certain stores where know me, if someone wanted to rip me off all they would have to do is to also buy some of my brand of beer and cagarettes and they could buy out the whole place I think. But it does not happen because I place my trust carefully.
That should be my perogative.
Information is valuable, and I think if this is not an attempt to eventually put in place a method of collecting further information, it is an attempt to prepare the population for such things.
Call it a conspiracy theory if you wish, but time and time again it is proven; offhandedly dismissing the possibility of ulterior motives is not sound thinking.
If it is, explain to me why there are rebates on purchases. You jump through their hoops until you finally get the check after they collect enough interest I know, but why do they need an email address ? Why do they need a phone number ? Just send me the check, or better yet don't inflate the price in the first place and then induce me to give up all this valuable information.
That PC I bought was well over a grand, and the rebates added up to a few hundred, around four hundred. Think I'd pass that up ? I will not deal with that place anymore as they have been spamming me for years after the sale.
If you have health insurance, your medical records are not quite as private as they used to be. Note pre-existing condition clauses if you need proof. If you have car insurance, your driving record is no longer private, the only way to keep it between you and the state is to be self insured. There is an advantage to this, your rates never go up. You post the cash bond and that's it, as long as you satisfy any and all valid legal claims, nobody can find out your record. It never gets to Choicepoint or their ilk. In other words, when you are covered, the state will send the info to the insurance co., via Choicepoint they share information. It was explained to me by an insurance Man, that's why insurance is and always has been very expensive if you haven't had it in a while. They do not have access to the DMV records. You may have run a big wheeled monster truck through a gas station last week, killed forty people and they would have no idea.
This may have changed recently, but I doubt it because Choicepoint is still in business as well as some newer comers in the industry. This is prima facie evidence that information is valuable.
So your take on all this ?
T
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