http://blog.aegisub.org/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

The analogy is a logical one, since religion is a form of software.

If I have six thousand people coming in over a two hour period any second I can shave of the interaction between guest and staff is money. As long as its voluntary (opt-in) I see no problem with an age-identifier glasses-ap (gAge, I like it) instead of carding people. Of course legislation would have to be made. And I think it could actually be a data-point used in court, if the data is retained. Maybe the guest wore a fake gAge e-dentifier?

If it clearly says on the tickets and a sign by the entrance (for instance) "No video/audio recordings" or some such, you are of course free to attempt to circumvent our request. We are of course free to remove your ass from the premise if we catch you ; ). As an addendum I would personally do everything to avoid harming a visitor or his / her belongings, but some security or even artists or fellow guests might take offence, so it's also for your own protection that I would discourage it.

My thought exactly (in 1987 when studying all the Jane's books for the Recon arms and silhouette exam).

I don't much care for face-recognition, in fact I can imagine a lot of venue's banning internet-connected (full-time recording) head mounted camera's (for guests), but AGE-recognition would be a useful feature on the door if you have a liqueur-license or some other age-related barrier.

"If the concept of killer robots is immoral"is perhaps what the author meant?

More on the subject http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_suarez_the_kill_decision_shouldn_t_belong_to_a_robot.html

"Someone else is (has it?)worse" is a really horrible argument against social inequality? With ~two billion people living of off 2 dollars a day or less, with no chance of any meaningful education or healthcare, I believe it to be a rather strong argument. Global is local, it's a tiny planet in my opinion as member of the galactic elite : ).

Apropos world military expenditure in 2012 totalled $1753 billion, around 2.5% of world GDP.

That quote was the first thing that came to mind. Realise that it is very much a one time payment if the prostitute is a prostitute secretly. Blackmail time! /sociopath

Slashdot IS the 1%: You need just $34,000 annual income to be in the global elite.

1942 / 1943 and Zero attacks, right in the nostalgia!
http://www.youtube.com/v/FbUN5ITWQQo

"I find the Law of Eight Billion to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
- Papa Smurf

I didn't know people still flew Zero's.

or is it Terry Gilliams "Brazil"?

(ignore the rules some more; question two).

Wouldn't you like to see a Studio Ghibli animation of the novel "Snowcrash".

Well your priorities see a little strange to me. Consider the dead, the wounded and the traumatized, the economical and structural damage of each of these actions:
Iraq and Afghanistan wars
Economic Meltdown/Fraud
Health Insurance problems
The NSA snooping

The NSA snooping out of these strikes you as the most damaging to yourself, the USA and the world in general?
Why?

I worked with Jason Lanier's VPL stuff in the 80's and even then the amount of people that got motion sickness was negligible. But we where "flying" over and through wire-models so the immersion was less than complete. And the "helmet" weighed 12 kilo's/ 30 pounds iirc.