= Сообщение: 4134 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 26 Jul 16 10:20:23 Кому : Robert Bashe 26 Jul 16 10:20:23 Тема : Brexit FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+57971d44 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+5796ff56 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+57977b46 ============================================================================== On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:07:22 Robert Bashe -> David Rance wrote:
RB> David Rance wrote to Henri Derksen on Monday July 25 2016 at 10:42:
DR>> Let me be more detailed. Not everyone in the UK has a passport. No-one DR>> has an ID card because ID cards don't exist. We've never had ID cards DR>> and the last time this came up in parliament it was heavily defeated.
RB> This is roughly the case in the States as well. There, driver's RB> licenses (which, in the States, are effectively necessarily to live) RB> are used as IDs and often have features equivalent to those of European RB> national ID cards - sometimes even including fingerprints. But there RB> are no "official" national IDs (except for the Social Security Numbers, RB> which theoretically are not supposed to be national IDs - but are). And RB> passports are only rarely held by US nationals in the USA.
Yes, the UK uses driving licences in that way, too, but it is by no means official. Which means that any company can refuse to acknowledge it and require some other form of identification.
This happens in reverse, too. Years ago, one of my daughters tried to buy a season ticket on the London Underground. The assistant asked for identification in the form of a driving licence. She offered her passport instead and they wouldn't accept it! "How can I show you my driving licence when I'm not old enough to drive?" They wouldn't budge! Talk about a jobsworth!
David
-- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
