Oh, joy .....

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/991215/fl_applied_3.html

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), December 17, 1999

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Damn that GPS system again. Now they can use this stuff for the Mark of the Beast. I would imagine the pollies will call us a crackpot for not accepting this.

-- Larry (cobol.programmer@usa.net), December 17, 1999.

10 reasons why I stopped worrying and learned to love the NWO and digital implants --

10. "It doesn't hurt. Really. Trust us."

9. "Got to stop those drug traffickers ..."

8. "Your dog always knows where you are."

7. "Easier for Andy to track the current price of gold."

6. "My nose ring always fell out."

5. "Algore invented them."

4. "Hoffy can program them using SAP."

3. "Gives new meaning to the phrase, 'getting wired'"

2. "Don't worry - the Clintons have worn them for years and they're fine."

1. "Makes it easier for the AntiChrist to know where you are."

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), December 17, 1999.

I'm waiting to get the Direct Link Jack
implanted into my hypothalamus.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), December 17, 1999.

I'm especially interested in finding out what the effect of a strong magnetic current would have on these devices -- uh, like a heavy-duty magnet applied nearby. Wouldn't it be a shame if that goofed up the little buggers?

-- Anita Evangelista (ale@townsqr.com), December 17, 1999.

BD, you forgot the real #1 reason:

"Its for the children"

-- a (a@a.a), December 17, 1999.

But can you get the internet on it?

-- Sheri (wncy2k@nccn.net), December 17, 1999.

Hey, It's easier than remembering your SS#, Drivers License #, 5 logins/passwords and 3 PIN's.

-- agency (it's great@big.gov), December 17, 1999.

Now able to transmit. Great. :-(

That wasn't the case in the chips for our dogs. Those chips are sometimes even missed when being scanned for. Thus the stories of a dog who was chipped 3 times.

I happened to talk to the mfgr. of the pet chip, and specifically asked about the effects of magnets, since we use magnets therapuetically. Would it be like accidently erasing a credit card strip, I queried. I was told that there would be no effect.

Now these new chips seem so much more high tech, perhaps magnets would cause problems with them. It would be nice to know.

As an aside-- you know the inmate monitoring programs? The ones where the 'prisoners' live in society with an ankle bracelet transmitter? Well, the only transmitting that it does is between the ankle and the stationary device connected through the phone in the home. It is the absence of a transmission that tips off that the prisoner is absent or beyond the range set for the scheduled time to be present and accounted for. It isn't a transmitter that someone can get into a helicopter and pick up a little red dot/beep and hunt them down. Have run into a few people who thinks that's how they work.

Power outages? Transmission doesn't go through. Absense of transmission doesn't go through. What we have here is a lack of information. And a snowed under staff that monitors these things (remotely). Sure the guy might be snoozing on his couch. Or not. Stop a minute and think about the #s of people on these kinds of programs. A different type of prison door swings open.

Well, whenever the implanted chips come up, I tend to think about those monitoring programs, too.

Can only echo BigDog's assessment in either case. Oh, joy...

-- feel I should be (anon@this.time), December 17, 1999.

Posted twice above, as well. (Oops...I missed this posting the first time through!)

Good Posting, Big Dog.

I am particularly concerned that this may eventually be REQUIRED for e-commerce. Some of us will refuse. Make that MUST refuse. I think that if properly marketed, most people will go for it. (I, too, would like to not have to remember over 20 passwords, half a dozen safe and vault combinations, numerous key codes, etc.!)

And we throught we were preparing for Y2K...the tribulation will make a Y2K of "10" look like a picnic!

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), December 17, 1999.

I think this is the implant developed by a company I used to work for: Hughes Aerospace.

PS - Sorry for the double post.

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), December 17, 1999.

You know? I've been laughing at the "Mark of the Beast" wackos in misc.survivalism for years. I may have to apologize now.

Thanks for the offer of the implantable chips but NO, thanks.

I don't care what all it'll do for me.

..........Alan.

The Prudent Food Storage FAQ, v3.5

http://www.providenceco-op.com

-- A.T. Hagan (athagan@sprintmail.com), December 17, 1999.

Hackers would love this sort of thing. Wanna be Bill Gates? *beep* There! You're Bill Gates. Wanna be Bill Clinton? *beep* There. You're Bill Clinton.

-- Tim the Y2K Nut (tmiley@yakko.cs.wmich.edu), December 17, 1999.

"Digital Angel"? What kind of Orwellian newspeak is that? Sounds like Reagan and his Peacemaker (because when everyone's dead it'll be real peaceful I guess). Digital Demon more likely. Snitch Chip. Chiperon. Hmm, spending too much time on word games.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), December 17, 1999.

I saw a report out of North Korea-People eating tree bark to survive the famine. 2 stories of parents eating their own children (after cooking them).

How to get compliance? Bring people to their knees. Then, how many will say NO because of the cost?

Y2k may really have a "silver bullet" after all.

BigDog,

Have you thought recently; the Bible does have a 'last page', an end.

-- minnie mumwage (MyShiftIsOver@KidsRUs.com), December 17, 1999.