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On 31/01/11 04:04, Richard Stallman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I find credit cards less of a concern, for the ironic reason
that they (1) they track you anyway, and (2) if you don't want
to be tracked, you do have the alternative of cash.
The uses of DNI for which there is no anonymous alternative
are therefore more harmful.
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I totally agree with Richard Stallman here.<br>
<br>
I know that most of my Spanish fellows don't agree with me. I
understand them, we are taught to be <span id="result_box"
class="short_text" lang="en"><span title="Feu clic per obtenir
traduccions alternatives" class="hps">submissive from our
childhood. We are taught to never ask why things are the way
they are. Then, the seed of control enters into our brains and
keeps inside silently as part of ourselves. <br>
<br>
You all see how having an state imposed ID card is considered as
a great thing! <br>
<br>
I know by experience that it's impossible to convince them
otherwise. They even defend how practical it is to use those ID
cards to identify others, "</span></span><i>many people see this
as a more secure procedure</i>", they say. It is not that it's "<i>difficult
to comprehend for a foreigner</i>", it is that it's difficult to
comprehend for anybody with a free mind of his own.<br>
<br>
Well, of course, as a Spaniard I know my ID card number by heart:
it's my real name whenever I go to a state office. In Spain is like
when people were forced to be marked with a number in their skin,
only that we call it DNI card and it's very useful, as it seems.<br>
<br>
Sad that the roots of dictatorship never died and propagate further
with every new generation, even among Pirates.<br>
<br>
José Manuel Goig<br>
Pirate from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain<br>
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