Question of the Day - 24 March 2024

I keep my drivers license in my wallet. In my pocket I carry a state identification card along with my players card , senior mass transit card and other nonsense in my pocket. If I leave my identification card at the counter or fail to put it in my pocket, my license is in my wallet. No major loss. 

That took some phone time!

i did not know that a copy went to the police data base and wonder if other places do it also,
does your photo also go to the police dept on hand pay jack pots also?

the reason for all of this is just to collect data on you just like all others especially the government.

there is NO PRIVACY any more 

During the first 5 years of my retirement and consultancy, I spent 50% of my life in hotels. I always whipped out my drivers license and the credit card I used to make the reservation.  Now, with the advent of millions of criminals entering our nation, I wouldn't want to stay at a hotel that asked for anything less. 

never worried about it, grew up using my Social Security # for everything, it was even our DL#. Personally wish they'd ask for it more, a lot harder to use a stolen credit card if they'd ask for ID to use it.

"Millions of criminals entering our nation"? And they're all opening up taco trucks?

If that's your funhouse version of reality, I feel sorry for those for whom you "consulted." Sheesh!

... yikes.  At least it appears to be an "or" condition (with driver's license) for the nosy ones that you folks found.  I've got one somewhere, but it's 50 years old, likely unusable ...

Personally I have no problem with a hotel casino asking for id of any form during booking, checking in, both. It's sane, rational, and common sense on many levels. And as Rodger stated, a refreshing opposite of the lunacy we have going on in other quarters now that the vast majority of people feel is out of control and dangerous without proper vetting, no meaningful background checks. See Ellis Island for a rational mature approach, no pun intended for the Las Vegas version. 

And for those who complain that id requests to book a hotel is draconian, why do I get the impression if those types ran say their own bnb or casino that they would be the first to implement a vetting process? Want to know who's staying in their own property. I bet their theoretical immature naive view of the world would sure collapse when it's their own property, business, investment, money, and livelihood on the line.

Doctors' offices (and many others) now ask for your ID as well as your insurance card.  Been going on for a while.  No problem, to me. I've got no outstanding warrants, LOL. 

Hotels must be some of the easiest establishments to walk away from without settling up.  The ease of charging things to the room, raiding the minibar, taking the towels/robes.  "What should be adequate" is not for us to say.  

 

"You have my permission, and can expect my full cooperation". 

 Please explain to me how asking for proof of identification is required to book/confirm a room reservation as being OK -BUT- asking for proof of identification is not OK in order to vote?

That phrase can be quite innocent, or it could be a cover for asking certain types of people for more proof than others.  I think aa lot of "ask everyone for proof" is to avoid discrimination or claims of discrimination. 

1.A hotel is a private company that doesn't have to let you in. 2. Voting is a right given to the citizen, that should not be denied to anyone. 

Not sure how this is at all confusing.