The horror of facial recognition booting carried to everyday life

If you are thought to be a skilled gambler, or who knows maybe you like to start fights at casino bars or something, your face can get scanned into a secret computer database, and from then on you could get secretly scanned at casino properties, and booted quickly from casinos you never even visited before.

Now, let's imagine this facial recognition software becoming widespread. Really widespread! Every retail establishment in the US uses it, for example. So, in your tender youth you are accused of a shoplifting or some such. Your face gets scanned in at the time. From then on, since all the stores in the US have facial recognition software, and all of them, like US casinos, can deny access to their property for no stated reason, as long as the unstated reason isn't because you belong to a protected group or whatever the legal stuff is...

Anyway, in this perfect facial recognition world, one slipup and you might never be able to enter any US retail establishment, whatsoever, for the rest of your life. If casinos can do it, so could *every*body else, right? Heck you couldn't even buy a pack of cigs, for the rest of your days.

I can't wait.

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Why I had that suposedly stupid information about dumpster diving in my initial Blackjack Therapy ms. Everyway that you have the government not showing the total costs of privatizing welfare is very comparable to why John Patrick is wrong when he says don't split 8s and the like. And you always risk having charge cards hacked and being stuck with comps cancelled when you are backed off. Actually there are several ways a counter might want to go over some hard core survival information such as that.

Example one of the choicest targets for sending a suitcase nuke, if you had just one, would be Hoover Dam. For 10KT you would have to hit it low and on the downstreamside but it is do-able unfortunately. It would close Las Vegas, Nellis, Area 51 (Groom Lake) and Area 18 (Edwards secret section) for a bout 5 years in that 70% of Vegas water comes from Lake Mead (so does 30% Tucson, 10% Phoenix, and 15% Socal from the Colorado river). All but one of the downstream damns would be taken out, and the 3 control gates for the canals going into the Imperial Valley. The Colorado channel would be deepened enough for the sea to go upstream into thess gates, probably destablizing the canals and taking the entire Salton Sea/ Imperial Valley up to sea-level. Nellis and the others have their own water supplies but would still have to close without the support links they have developed to our favorite part of the desert hell.

The US would be stuck nearly half a trillion dollars; just read the book, Cadilac Desert, to see how much the western 3rd of the US depends on Hoover Dam.

I put that material in to get readers thinking along certain mindsets, to get them thinking out of the box that the extablishment puts us into, the casinos included, but unfortunately there would be practical considerations as well if one were stuck in Vegas on splash-day.

But fear not...well those last games might turn out to be very deeply dealt as the casinos...."never mind about no showers, we deal them all...."