Hey everybody, remember America?

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It was this neat country where, unlike many other places, no national I.D. card was possible, because its freedom-loving inhabitants wouldn't tolerate anything more invasive than a driver license.

Anyway that's over with: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000243042581/

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I don't know why they don't just go ahead and implant chips in our foreheads, or maybe UPC bar codes on the back of our necks, like on the show "Dark Angel". Why waste all this time and money on the damned cards, when it's the chips we're headed for anyway? Nothing to lose that way, no card to have to keep up with, just a simple visit to a mobile 'doctor', get that 'shot', you know, to prevent against the 'bid flu' or some such, nudge nudge wink wink, and then we're all microchipped, easy peasy.

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The best part, of course, is that there's no way these things will be secure in any way. Maybe I should be a stainless steel rat and go into I.D. theft full-time.