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- KenYN, on 11/14/2007, -4/+59The is totally unfair - after a hard day shovellng coal, all these miners want is just a ciggie or two to relax with, yet this machine will deny these anthracite diggers their rewards. Pathetic!
- sotopheavy, on 11/14/2007, -1/+31If minors smoke long enough they may look old and wrinkled enough to get smokes from this thing. Wear a Cheney halloween mask and you're good.
- GemStar38, on 11/14/2007, -2/+28I understand wanting to keep cigarettes out of the hands of minors, but this seems extreme.
- mrjit, on 11/14/2007, -0/+25Gary Colemans screwed.
- jnadke, on 11/14/2007, -1/+171. Pay homeless guy to stand in front of machine.
2. ???
3. Profit! - demonsnake69, on 11/14/2007, -0/+14I think if I was a kid with progeria I'd need a smoke or two.
- euro22, on 12/17/2008, -0/+13Japan you did it again! What will you think of next?
- johnnycheeks, on 11/14/2007, -1/+11But what about kids with progeria? Can a machine detect that? And also what about the poor adults with nephritis? They're out of a pack of smokes.
*weeps for Gary Coleman* - FirstDigg, on 11/14/2007, -1/+10haha thats actually pretty interesting. Cool use of technology.
- jaynemother, on 11/14/2007, -0/+9"The company says machines with facial recognition will make it easier for elderly smokers who may have difficulty scanning cards."This is the optimum system for both smokers and vendors," a Fujitaka spokesman said."
It's nice to see the cigarette companies looking out for their senior customers. - cnot3, on 11/14/2007, -1/+10gay robots
- evilesttoast, on 11/14/2007, -2/+9capiCrimm = dumbass
- humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -1/+8Can this technology be used to detect whether or not a girl is a fatty on the internet?
- Gryph1, on 11/14/2007, -1/+8or Grandma's photo..
- RandomGuySteve, on 11/14/2007, -0/+71.show picture of old person
2. Cigarettes. - ahpro, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6But the majority of the time when kids get cigarrettes its cause they've got someone over the age limit to get it for them. Hmm.. now all we need are lie detectors.
- cam0man, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6if a photocopy of a thumb print can beat fingerprint identification, I have a feeling that any kid making a wacky face and pulling back his hair will be walking away w/ a pack of camels.
- cnot3, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6The article says its 20 in japan, which obviously isn't working if they are investing is ***** like this. Let the kiddies smoke, all it does is attract women and repel mosquitos. And I'm pretty sure the mosquitos in japan are about 3 inches across. OR is that the bees? I can't remember.
- Jennyd6, on 11/14/2007, -1/+7This doesn't make sense. The gov't will also be handing out cards (in 2008) so adults can use the vending machines without hassles. OK. And, what teenager won't swipe mom or dad's cig card to get a pack of smokes??
- lemur, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6Oh great, one more thing for women to develop a mental complex about.
- Kuonji, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5Time to hoist a blizted-out bum in front of the machine for some easy smokes
- ff4marvel, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5Goblet of Fire?
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -1/+6after all this money, time and effort gone into the invention, we suddenly realize that it's very easy to just paying a little extra for an older person to buy cigarettes for you. What a pointless machine.
- toxicshok, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5The ACLU often enjoys suing people in JAPAN.
- toxicshok, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4there aren't any black people in Japan.
- oxdeltaxo, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4I bet you a Nixon mask would pass!
- WiseWeasel, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4You eliminate the chance of a store clerk getting suspicious?
- Frostman3D, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4Is this really necessary?
- Pake, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4Same here. 22 and I get passed off as 14. I can't ever figure out if it's a blessing or a curse.
- mojoel, on 11/14/2007, -2/+6This doesn't impress me. When a machine says to a person buying cigarettes, "Hey moron, cigarettes are killing you" THAT will impress me.
- Shiftgood, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3what a crazy world we live in.
- QuixoticNoob, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3its more like to get them in the hands of minors
just make a homeless person stand in front of it - Sperlock, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3In other news, teenage boys breathed a sigh of relief when it was determined that used pantie machines would not be affected.
- Gir53457, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3They already did that.
- Naryuu, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2what about the 10% error.... why not just make everyone insert their ID -- much simpler
- noumuon, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2i fail to see how this is any easier.
- benroy, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2i was just going to say something similar. decided to to a page-find for the word 'panties' first. glad i did. wouldn't want to overlap smartass pantie comments.
- axox, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3wear a mask?
- SQLDigger, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2makes you wonder if even a picture of an old person might work . . . be fun to play with
- whojaybe, on 11/14/2007, -2/+4this seems like a waste of money to make this lol... i'm sure if they wanted a cigarette, they could get someone else to get it for them. plus, it's not like you have to be 21 or 30...
- nicktheawesome, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2I hope you are a woman.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2If I was a woman, I would fondle my own boobs all the time.
- mrurc, on 11/14/2007, -0/+236. Chubby cheeks. No wrinkles. Not sure it would mark me correctly either.
Now, if it detected the size of my boobs, then it might gauge me right. - capiCrimm, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2thirded.
- FishHammer, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2or let people decide for themselves if they want to smoke and stop trying to be the world morality police
- FishHammer, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2fat 6'3 13 year olds are going to have a field day with this (don't kid yourself it will happen)
- QuixoticNoob, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1agreed
- Jaryd2006, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1"Minors not miners you idiot!" "I dont get it"
- reinadehielo, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Like many, many things... this is great in theory, but a fracaso (disaster/failure/flop) in reality. I'm sure minors will easily find a way around it. I wonder what else you could use that technology for though?... Something that would um, work?
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