Twenty years after I first heard of the concept (which seemed and still seems pretty darn silly), it hit me that Sime/Gen is about sex. Yeah, I’m slow sometimes — especially about sex!
A fan slipped on some stairs at the Convention Center and hurt his ankle. An EMT was summoned, but before he or she showed, an uniformed authority figure asked the victim for an identifying document and his Database Insecurity Number. What the hell? Does one need credentials to slip on a stairway? If the victim were (like many of the folks at the convention) from overseas, would his lack of a tax number cause the EMT to be chased away?