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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Saturday, October 14, 2023

Why exactly is Oklahoma producing all their driver's licenses in Indiana?

I'm just curious about this. Since last year, all driver's licenses and state ID's in Oklahoma have been mailed from a facility in the State of Indiana. I had to get the Attorney General to force Service Oklahoma to provide me with this information, actually. They were just saying the credentials were produced "out of state", and they ignored my requests for further information about the location. I tried to get them to explain to me why, exactly, they have to produce and mail these credentials from 1,200 miles away now, but, I guess existential questions like "why" don't come under freedom of information requirements, since they just ignored my question. I suppose it's related to the Real ID requirements. Is it terribly more expensive to produce Real ID versus conventional ID, like, hundreds of times more expensive, so, they can't afford even a single facility in the State of Oklahoma to produce them? They actually pulled the DL equipment out of all 300 private tag agencies in the state of Oklahoma last November 2022. Did they do some kind of bidding war with all states in the Union about which state could provide the cheapest rates for leasing out a Real ID factory to Oklahoma, and Indiana won? Does the Oklahoma Governor have some college buddy in Indiana who now owns a Real ID factory, and he owed him a favor, perhaps? Did they just want to inconvenience Oklahoma residents as much as possible, particularly around Christmastime, when the mails are particularly slow? Did they want to make it impossible for the homeless to get Oklahoma ID's at all, since they have no mailing address? Any thoughts?

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