ID cards

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_2084000/2084860.stm

Note that the discussion of "what information might be stored on the smart chip" is pointless - for the most part, they can just as easily look up in a central database anything that isn't directly stored on the card.

Comments

[jhg.livejournal.com]

My dad's cousin Diane and her Great Wurlitzer-playing husband Reg live in Switzerland, in a beautiful house on the side of a foothill to a mountain in a lovely village overlooking lake Zurich.

They've got a wide circle of friends who Reg regularly plays (with) his organ for.

10 minutes walk away is the local municipal sports centre, which is of the quality of the best private (and very very expensive) health clubs in the English countryide.

Not much further is the train station, which will whisk you in an air-conditioned, quiet, clean, virtually-bump-free double-storey carriage to Zurich itself, which is full of night-life etc.

And, of course, come November time you can grab your skis and go up the mountain...

I would love to live there - albeit when I'm a bit older, a lot richer, and am near-fluent in French, German and Italian.


J