So I went with my uncle today to buy a PC game at Target, Left 4 Dead. He already had a copy and wanted another copy for his son, my cousin, and didn't want to wait for the next Steam deal. This under twenty something girl at the register said she couldn't sell it to us without seeing his ID. My uncle is WELL over 50... this is no doubt that this man doesn't even get carded for alcohol anymore in most locations. I just think this is ridiculous. I buy most of my games online, boxed and digi versions so I guess I have managed to avoid this.
I was siding with part of their policy: requiring a certain age. Not with scanning the card.
If they carded me, I'd probably take it as a compliment. Or I'd think they were joking.
If you looked like Myles, I'm sure they wouldn't card you. It's not easy being 40,000 years old.
To reiterate - Unless you are selling something that can kill me (alchohol, ciggerrettes, Dynamite, perscriptions, guns etc) then the only thing that should matter is if I have money.
Content that is considered offense is subjective, thus personal - If I don't like it I won't buy it. If the objection is parental then its that parents job to control for their and only their child.
I don't know what you're talking about, because when I worked at Target we just entered the birthday manually. If they scan it now, it probably just enters the birthday so a clerk can't enter false information.
Tell that to the government. They're already fighting the entertainment industry in several states over this, and if the stores hadn't done anything they'd already be in our faces.
Unless you really want things to get worse this isn't an issue worth getting angry about.
If you were actually paying attention to those laws and cases, you would know that even the ones thare are being passed are being shot down in court as unconstitutional. Target IS scanning IDs, not taking information off of them. If their scanner has the ability to read the birthdate off that card, it also has the ability to pull the other information whether or not they choose to store that information and use it.
When I was 15 I looked like I was fucking 30!
Well thats against the law in most places. I mean, I don't care personaly if its like a 20 year old your doing at 14 or 15 but 30 - come on!?!
Yea I see that now, and no one said you have to believe me; its my life after all.
Yes, I was. Yes, they are. For now.
If the ESRB and merchants were not doing anything to keep public opinion up, some would most likely pass.
I don't know or really care what Target does, since I don't shop there.
That's a pretty self-centric philosophy you have going there.
Yes...yes it is. There are certainly issues I feel strongly about that don't affect me, but not in the realms of technology or gaming.
I should start list of things Target Scans ID for, next on the list, canned air. I can't wait for Air Wick and Lysol to join the ranks. Soon we'll have our ID's scanned for romance novels, junks food, and anything else we need to be saved from.
http://consumerist.com/2010/03/target-wants-to-see-id-for-canned-air.html
I should actually say it's more apathetic than self-centric.
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