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...ATM available...
Keycard swipe device also functions as ATM...
...That's how Jonathan and I found ourselves driving to the ATM, withdrawing $930 - 41,000 baht - and buying Lek and Tip. It wasn't merely the prospect of these two children steadily building up their collection of chips over the next decade that compelled us. It was partially witnessing the despair of the other girls who had buried all hope with their childhoods. Girls like Pim, who works in a brothel a few meters up the road...
...Something you know is easy: it's a password, a personal identification number that no one else should have. Something you have is an ATM card or an ID card at work. Something you are can be your handwriting, your fingerprint or your DNA sample, depending on how detailed you want to get. Some very advanced systems use GPS to pinpoint where you are, but that's a different level of technology...
...course, that could make life easier for you too. What if your state/national ID card was your passport as well as your drivers' license? What if you could do your taxes at an ATM - and then withdraw your refund? Or what if your national ID card was your ATM card, and your credit card, and your HMO card and your work ID and the passkey to your maximum-security apartment, all at once? There's the freedom to continue to come and go as you please, in (relative) anonymity, and there's the freedom to carry a dozen different cards...