Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! 969
rev_media writes to tell us that CNN has a few updates to the Real ID act currently facing legislators. The Real ID acts mandates all states to begin issuing federal IDs to all citizens by 2008. Costs could be as much at $14 billion, but only 40 million are currently allocated. Several states have passed legislation expressly forbidding participation in the program, while others seem to be all for it. The IDs will be required for access to all federal areas including flights, state parks and federal buildings. People in states refusing to comply will need to show passports even for domestic flights.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Your papers please. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Costs of passport (Score:0, Funny)
Well, if they're that poor they're probably criminals anyhow, and so shouldn't get to move around freely.
Re:Papers please! (Score:3, Funny)
They certainly do have that right.
If they want to live, all they have to do is leave the mother. And don't give me that liberal crap about how they "can't" leave and must therefore be protected by yet more layers of bureaucratic government. What you and your type are really about is a relentless drive for socialism, you goddamn commie pinkos!
It's not the chipmunks you have to worry about... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I left america and I'm NEVER going back (Score:5, Funny)
Hey come on, they build freeways and bridges oh wait...
Re:Evil company: RealNetworks (Score:5, Funny)
Genital-based identification schemes of Africa. (Score:2, Funny)
Dr. Marc LaFrance, Dr. Sylvia Daiken and Dr. Peter Price have written a number of papers on this subject. LaFrance and Daiken are both professors of sociology, and Price is an economic historian. Price's work focuses on how this pervasive role of genitalia within their societies affects their productivity, and their ability to maintain a primitive economy within the tribe.
Maybe America should consider using a similar scheme. It would likely be a lot cheaper than the passports, and all that.
Re:Papers for Yosemite?! (Score:3, Funny)
AAAALVIIIIIINNN!!!!!!11 (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, even suicide airplane hijackers gotta relax (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah. Sounds plausible to me.
Genital-based identification scheme. (Score:4, Funny)
The way you can tell that you're interacting with a government agency is the distinct feeling that you're being fucked.
Re:Wow (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So ... Basically... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Operation Enduring Yodel (Score:5, Funny)