O.T.DOES IT COMPUTE?

Lou from Wi.

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Went for renewal of drivers license and noticed how long it took various station operators to type information from the paper work I submitted. wonder if all the information (maybe opinions of folks submitting)went to various government offices. Just wondering.
LOU
 
When i went to high school, they taught typing! I don't think they do that any more. I took the business course, and had to learn how to type.
Then, when i went into the Army, and saw action in France, i didn't have to type. But, in the course of being wounded, and losing, among other things, the tip of my right fore-finger---there went my ability to type, except the two-finger style which i use now! RJ
 
RJ,
Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. My dad had similar training when he joined the army during WWII. Then, he was sent to the South Pacific to serve as a radio operator.
Butch
 
(quoted from post at 15:05:58 06/13/13) Went for renewal of drivers license and noticed how long it took various station operators to type information from the paper work I submitted. wonder if all the information (maybe opinions of folks submitting)went to various government offices. Just wondering.
LOU

I can't answer for everywhere else Lou, but I can for the State dept I worked for. We had a closed system. No one else could access our system unless they were registered with headquarters. Things may have changed in 5 years though.

I'll tell you one thing that bothers me that's sort of related. When we used to stop a car we'd call in the drivers information over the radio-name and dob. Sometimes we'd have to call in the Drivers ID# off the license. These days, with all the identity theft around, that information being broadcast to every scanner in the area....seems kind of like a liability for the State to me. But, just as I was retiring they were coming out with a new system and IIRC it ran the license via computer for you. So maybe my concern is for nothing.
 
Brad, Thanks for the reply. However, I didn't voice the information I was asking about( the length of time) why it took so long to transcribe the information on their questionnaire.

What I was wondering, if the information (from one sheet only) required such a lengthy time at their station,so I could move on, went to different agencies,such as FBI,CIA,DHS, ATF etc.

I was always under the assumption, when an individual was stopped for a traffic violations and the LEO requested the drivers license, it was for the purpose of running wants and warrants on the individual. Now I am beginning to wonder what other information is being transfered back to the LEO officer from other branches as listed above? I was just curious? One individual can't stop it if it's true.
Thanks again for your reply and the replies of the others.
LOU
 
There is a national database for wants and warrants but it's not like on TV where John Law in Idaho calls in a name and DOB on a guy from Speedzoneahead NY and you get his entire criminal history, parents names, wifes favorite color and the date he lost his virginity. States vary as I understand it on what they have access to. I know in some state whether or not a perosn has a pistol permit comes up for traffic stops. They don't have that here, or at least they didn't. The only thing I know of that would come from the Feds might be an active Federal Warrant. Honestly, the Feds aren't any too keen on giving up any turf whatsoever to locals. Some lowly State Trooper arresting a Federal fugitive just doesn't look as good as a 25 man FBI SWAT team descending on the guys trailer on the 6 oclock news. Gotta keep the press rolling to get the funding you see.....

FWIW, NY was pretty primitive as far as information compared to some other states.
 
Why would losing the tip of a forefinger destroy your ability to type?

I lost my left forefinger to the second joint in a childhood accident. I still got my 100 word per minute certificate in typing in high school. The teacher was missing her right ring finger, BTW.

A handicap is a handicap only if you let it. Our nephew and his wife adopted a Bulgarian girl who was born with only one leg. She has just a short stump where her right leg should be. Now 14, and using a prosthesis, she excels in a dance class, and without the prosthesis she's one of the leaders of a swim team.
 
HHHMMMM... Funny, here in the backwards state of ND when you go in for a renewal, they scan the barcode
on your DL or the renewal card and you are good to go in a few minutes with NO keypadding.

As an elderly, retired guy in WI, WHAT "paperwork" did you have that choked off their entire security system and caused you to have to wait?

INQUIRING "minds" want to know!
 
I just moved from Wisconsin to Iowa, you know you can get elected President of the US without showing a birth certificate but you can't get an Iowa driver's license without showing one? Might not be just Iowa, #1 daughter graduates from College on the 29th of this month. She has made it clear there is no way in heck she's moving to Iowa or even returning to Wisconsin. She went to get her Michigan Driver's license and they wanted a birth certificate. The thing that makes me wonder is I was able to get a social security card and a birth certificate with nothing more than copies of my Wisconsin driver's license. Heck a copy of my DD214 and I got an Iowa CCP, Air Force people with hand guns, isn't that scary?
 

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