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beans-on-toast said:
I have to waste time this afternoon renewing my driver's license, it's photo time. I'm nostalgic for when you didn't need a photoID. The civil servant behind the counter would type out the details on a piece of paper and hand it to you. Life was simpler and a lot less expensive.
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And you didn't have to suffer for years with a crummy picture ID.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
I have to waste time this afternoon renewing my driver's license, it's photo time. I'm nostalgic for when you didn't need a photoID. The civil servant behind the counter would type out the details on a piece of paper and hand it to you. Life was simpler and a lot less expensive.
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I renewed my drivers license a couple of years ago. New photo and all that. Back in July , I got a notice from the MVA (motor vehicle administration) that if I didn't come back to the MVA with a whole bunch of documentation , including birth cert, current vehicle registration , and two proofs of residence (bills sent to me in my name) my license would be recalled and suspended. This was all due to the "real I.D." garbage that started several years ago. Without it being a "real I.D." you can't board a plane after sometime in 2020 nor enter into any federal building. My license already had the star on it which meant supposedly it qualified as a "real I.D." but they magically had issued it to me without the proper documentation. This could have turned into a real fiasco If the MVA hadn't fixed their computer. When I first moved here and changed my address (18 years ago) the MVA computer and the printer that they sent out mail to weren't quite connected. My mail comes to a PO box. MVA has to have both address and the PO box to send me my mail and if any part of that is incorrect , the post office won't deliver government mail. My street has a rather long name and while there were enough digits in the computer to record it all , their printers fell two digits short. For a couple of years , we didn't get any registration renewal forms or the emissions inspection notices. As a result of that both Seahags , Gatorbaits , and my registration were suspended a couple of times. That was always fun to deal with...NOT. The saving grace was that finally after a couple of years of this crap , the post office mistakenly delivered one of our emissions notices to the P.O. box on the address who happens to be my neighbor across the street from me. He brought it over to me and there it was. The first number of my P.O. box (his actual P.O. box number) but not the other two. We took all the documentation down to the MVA. Three tellers and two supervisors later we finally got to a person that could resolve the problems. Fortunately , through all of this garbage , no fines were ever imposed. I'm sure it would have taken days at the MVA office to get any of them back if they did. I never did like dealing with those clowns and have despised them ever since.
 
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SoulReflection said:
And you didn't have to suffer for years with a crummy picture ID.
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It went well today. I went to a new place, about a 40 minute walk from home. I was in and out in ten minutes. I kept standing there thinking that there must be something else. The girl had to tell me twice that we were all done. Not sure how the photo turned out, they will mail that.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
It went well today. I went to a new place, about a 40 minute walk from home. I was in and out in ten minutes. I kept standing there thinking that there must be something else. The girl had to tell me twice that we were all done. Not sure how the photo turned out, they will mail that.
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If you lived in California, you wouldn't care how the photo turned out. They are experimenting with a new, whizz-bang computer system to speed up the renewal process. Even with a reservation made two months prior, I was there for 2.5 hours in various lines, just to get to the point of picture taking. All I could say to the person who finally let me get on with my life was, "I hope you have this fixed within the next five years" :rollno::spit:...
 
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You wouldn't believe the ident paperwork I've been filing since July. It's nearly done. Well, as in filed my (hopefully) last paperwork and all will be in order in ~5 weeks. Would happily suffer a 2.5 hour wait for my photo right now if that's all it took. Well about five weeks, there will be another ~6 weeks after that. And then done.

Unusually, my DL photo is pretty good.
 
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sharkbait130 said:
I renewed my drivers license a couple of years ago. New photo and all that. Back in July , I got a notice from the MVA (motor vehicle administration) that if I didn't come back to the MVA with a whole bunch of documentation , including birth cert, current vehicle registration , and two proofs of residence (bills sent to me in my name) my license would be recalled and suspended. This was all due to the "real I.D." garbage that started several years ago. Without it being a "real I.D." you can't board a plane after sometime in 2020 nor enter into any federal building. My license already had the star on it which meant supposedly it qualified as a "real I.D." but they magically had issued it to me without the proper documentation. This could have turned into a real fiasco If the MVA hadn't fixed their computer. When I first moved here and changed my address (18 years ago) the MVA computer and the printer that they sent out mail to weren't quite connected. My mail comes to a PO box. MVA has to have both address and the PO box to send me my mail and if any part of that is incorrect , the post office won't deliver government mail. My street has a rather long name and while there were enough digits in the computer to record it all , their printers fell two digits short. For a couple of years , we didn't get any registration renewal forms or the emissions inspection notices. As a result of that both Seahags , Gatorbaits , and my registration were suspended a couple of times. That was always fun to deal with...NOT. The saving grace was that finally after a couple of years of this crap , the post office mistakenly delivered one of our emissions notices to the P.O. box on the address who happens to be my neighbor across the street from me. He brought it over to me and there it was. The first number of my P.O. box (his actual P.O. box number) but not the other two. We took all the documentation down to the MVA. Three tellers and two supervisors later we finally got to a person that could resolve the problems. Fortunately , through all of this garbage , no fines were ever imposed. I'm sure it would have taken days at the MVA office to get any of them back if they did. I never did like dealing with those clowns and have despised them ever since.
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Yikes! You don’t want to get on the wrong side of a bureaucratic monster.

I asked at the bank, why can’t they use a retinal or finger print scan in the bank. That seemed to be way over their head. If the motor vehicle administration used personal metrics, you wouldn’t need to deal with birth certificates, etc.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
Yikes! You don’t want to get on the wrong side of a bureaucratic monster.

I asked at the bank, why can’t they use a retinal or finger print scan in the bank. That seemed to be way over their head. If the motor vehicle administration used personal metrics, you wouldn’t need to deal with birth certificates, etc.
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I agree with you there...that is why I waited until I was finished before saying what I did. In my visit, their thumb print scanner was not working for anyone and there was no error message to indicate that. The result was numerous people trying to use their terminals and only the really upset ones (like me) would shout over to the tellers for help...to which they said, "Just get in that line over there..." (they were just as frustrated as the us).

Funny thing is, my IOS banking app with B of A has finger print scanning and I can do all sorts of banking with that app. But, using their ATM's or visiting a teller, I have to use my ATM card and PIN code. Apparently, the bank trusts the Apple app more than their own internal system ;).
 
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beans-on-toast said:
I have to waste time this afternoon renewing my driver's license, it's photo time. I'm nostalgic for when you didn't need a photoID. The civil servant behind the counter would type out the details on a piece of paper and hand it to you. Life was simpler and a lot less expensive.
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You should get drunk before getting photographed for your new DL. It will make you look "normal" if you get stopped by the police when going home from a gig.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
Did none at Hammond wonder do you think we can save some weight here without sacrificing tone?

Never say to a cop were you that guy in the Village People?
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Some digital organs sound close, even Hammond has one. I don’t think that any sound as good and have the qwerks as the real deal.

But live, the digital organs don’t have to take you all the way there. They can tease like in Day Tripper.

 
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