| From: | Sommers sommers@*****.edu |
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| Subject: | How exactly does a real SIN work? |
| Date: | Tue, 03 Aug 1999 11:33:54 -0400 |
>At 07.50 08-03-99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Most shadowrunners don't have an authentic SIN. Metahumans can't get
> >one unless the government makes an exception for them. So who does
>
> Crap. If you are born in a real hospital or go to a "public"
> school or
>have ever spent a night in jail, you have SIN. That includes metas and
>runners (who delete them fromt he database).
And what is the requirement to get into a real hospital for the parents?
Maybe a SIN? ANd how can kids go to a "public" school if they don't have a
SIN? There was an attempt in California to pass a law prohibiting Illegal
Aliens from attending public schools. And in CalFree Sourcebook it mentions
that there are few schools that will take the kids in Orktown.
If you are thrown in jail, Lone Star issues you a criminal SIN. They use it
track the paperwork and keep you on file for future criminal proceedings.
It does not give the same rights as a regular SIN, such as welfare or
voting rights. And its only given if they WANT to keep track of you. Hard
for an ork to sue the city for police brutality if there was never any
record of him being in the station, and he doesn't have a valid SIN.
> >Where do you store a SIN exactly?
>
> Matrix based records. As to where those are, they aren't even really
>territorial.
From what I've read, SINs ARE given out by individual governments. Almost
everyone does them, but each is held by its own government. But, like
driver's liscences and passports, most countries have reciprocal agreements
to honor each other's documents. However, it would be a separate treaty to
share this information in one database. The US government today does not
have access to the driving and criminal records of British citizens, why
should the UCAS gov have that access 60 years from now when the world is
even more polarized?
> >I also have some questions about credsticks. How are certified
> >credsticks different then the one you carry with your ID, SIN, and
>
> Certifired is like cash.
Kind of. Its probably easier to think of certified cred as those pre-paid
phone cards that you can buy at the check-out counter. You pay the cash
over, and you get a piece of plastic that is encoded with a specific amount
of money on it. Its useless unless activated (like many of them are now).
So there is a record that can be followed if you dig deep enough. But it is
much harder to track that a regular credstick transfer.
>Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
Sommers
Insert witty quote here.
