On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 09:52:32 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >I bought yesterday a roundtrip rail ticket, and in order to do so I >was required to produce "picture ID".
When in Boston I was required to provide similar to buy a bottle of a rather nice Islay scotch. The "senior" staff member who replaced the presumably underage girl on the register couldn't even find my birthdate on my Aus license. "The bullshit just piled up so fast ..." Then of course we have the inane stupidity in force at USA airports. 'Bruce Schneier regales us about that regularly - nuff said. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
