Smasharoo wrote:
I've ran into several people who are completely against the idea of a government ID. If anything, it will streamline a lot of processes
Particularly the building and referencing of large databases of personal information. Oh wait. That's all it'll do.
You think said data base doesn't already exist?
http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?ReleaseNumber=mr20060825-00
Quote:
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 25, 2006 — An upgrade to the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has increased the system's computing power to 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second, making the Cray among the most powerful open scientific systems in the world.
54,000,000,000,000 calculations per second.
About 7,000,000,000 people on earth.
To put that in perspective, that's over 7500 calculations per second for every single person on the planet. If you just want to stick to the some 300,000,000 Americans, that's 180,000 calculations per second for every American.
To think that a government ID is going to make any change to a database becoming existent somewhere is a joke at best.