First they came to Chip the Soldiers

[Kamicosmos]

Isn't the military already taking DNA samples, keeping one back here, and the other is with the dogtags, a little vial like thing? I thought for sure my brother was telling me about that right before he was shipped to Iraq...i'll have to ask him about that again.

 

[MD_Willington]

Welcome to the Brave New World...

 

[Thin Black Line]

steveraver, these are the kind of things that are a little funny when you
look back it. You wouldn't believe how much extra elbow room I had when
shaving after guys saw my arm oozing....."Holy S! *** happened to
your arm! That was from the shot we all just got yesterday?!" Then again,
seeing your own arm start to rot isn't that funny.

MD Will, no offense but the only bar code I wanna see is on Jessica Alba.

 

[992]

chips

How long before the enemy has a scanner he can use to identify everyone on the battlefield and their position and their ''information'' just by scanning the area?
No,not for me or mine,not ever.!!!

992

 

[Thin Black Line]

992, in all seriousness, you need to write a letter on that one to your federal
rep and senator. After all, this is even worse than lacking IBA, plates, ammo,
commo, and having to dig scrap metal out of Kuwaiti landfills.

Like stories about glock plastic guns getting past metal detectors, all we
have to say is that any 12 year old with a laptop and a scanner could
completely incapacitate our forces.

 

[mordechaianiliewicz]

Things are coming to a head. In the past one could rebel when faced with evil.

If we are chipped, there will be no resistance. No where you can go that you can't be found.

It stops now, or we will be plunged into a 1,000 year dark age.

(Think I'm overreacting? If you do, you're wrong)

 

[Dravur]

I for one....

see this as an incredible opportunity..... now, bear with me on this. I plan on coming up with the device that TAKES THEM OUT of your arm. Now, this may not be as painful as the Nose Device from Total Recall, but Ill bet I sell either a million of em or have people lined up waiting for me to yank out the chip for $100.

I look forward to making money from these chips.... Now, what to do with the old chips.... hmmmmmm, drop em in random coffee cups at Starbucks? Maybe take em to the zoo and feed em all to various animals?

Gotta think about this.

 

[longeyes]

For every tyranny there's an anti-tyranny. Screwing up the New World Order will be the growth industry--even if underground--of the future. Remember Minority Report?

 

[Biker]

Chips. Bah! I won't even carry a cell phone. I wonder if tinfoil wrapped around the chipped appendage would block the signal? I'm only partially joking.

Biker

 

[Alex45ACP]

They can already track you by your cell phone.

 

[Biker]

That's one reason I don't carry a cell phone.

Biker

 

[Sindawe]

[They can already track you by your cell phone.

Which is one reason I refuse to carry one of those things unless it work related and the employer pays for it.

I also LIKE the fact that sometimes its just not possible to get ahold of me. Need to speak with me? Leave a message on my answering machine.

 

[Robert Hairless]

It's not such a bad idea but the application is backwards.

Instead of tagging our people, this company needs to get out in the field and start tagging the enemy. We need to know who and where they are. So our government ought to be encouraging the company to go out and start testing that approach as soon as possible. When they get it down right, they could start tagging people who are about to commit crimes.

I'd be very much interested in seeing the results.

 

[another okie]

A few years back inner-city females were getting an implant that prevented pregnancy for several months. A fad developed in which the young ladies proved how much they loved their boyfriends by allowing the boyfriends to cut the implants out.

 

[steveracer]

I had a cell phone for one day...

...and, like the series 80 FPS parts, I threw it in the bay.
I will never own a cell phone. My LCPO told me I had to get one, and I told him he could put me on his plan, and pay the bill in his name, and hand me the phone, and I would leave it in my desk at work. I took the EDR out of my cars and truck, and all the "wireless" connections out of my computers.
Unless you were unusually motivated, you'd have a hard time tracking me and mine. I haven't even got a cordless phone.
Hell! My paintball team uses scrambled bone-resonence voiceducers. Nobody spies on us!
I am concerned more about getting the chip involuntarily through a vaccine or PPD test. I watch carefully, but I doubt I'd know if they did it during my "flu shot" every fall. (another one I have refused 8 out of nine times)
Like I said, they'd have to be unusually motivated.

 

[308nato]

How about a nice large magnet over the implant area

 

[ccwolff]

Neo-luddism any one?

You know, it is possible to use technology for good as well... its not all the work of the Devil.

 

[tellner]

Sooner or later it will be mandatory. Maybe "to protect the children". Probably for Muslims (since close to half of so-to-speak Americans want special IDs or yellow crescents for them). Soon the benefits will be forced on the rest of us. At that point I might refuse. Or I might just take a trip to Wyoming with a tranquilizer gun. Some brown bear or coyote will take a short nap and end up with my identity.

 

[carlrodd]

Neo-luddism any one?

You know, it is possible to use technology for good as well... its not all the work of the Devil. -ccwolff

that's like saying there are reasonable and practical uses for zyklon-b when people are discussing the holocaust.

we're not talking about technology in general. everything about THIS specific technology, and the very specific way that our government is itching to use it, has to do with controlling people. if there is anyone that can't see that, he's lost in the corn.

even leahy, when he speaks up about this, just doesn't get it. it's not about cost, or effectiveness, or bad budgeting or any other partisan political argument.....it's about keeping this monster of a government on a short leash. no governmental body has any right to, or any business implanting microchips in anyone's body.

 

[longeyes]

I think the chip is a good idea.

But only for keeping tabs on the political class. For them it should be mandatory.

 

[Art Eatman]

This not-particularly-THR thread, a reprise of previous discussions here, is also running at APS. At APS it doesn't matter if you wander off the original topic of the thread--as has occurred here.

So, nighty-bye.

Art