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A bar code or magnetic strip won't ...

... broadcast your information to a device in your vicinity, so the thought police know where you are and --- if the chip becomes sophisticated enough --- they jam your voluntary nervous system and you go down like someone hit with a super-taser. Don't think it can happen? You're SO naive, they used to think it RIDICULOUS to say that "Someday, people will have computers in their homes."

And DON'T get me started with the lame argument "Gee, if you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?" In our society right now if you even support a particular candidate you're labelled as doing something wrong: I've seen it suggested, right here on ZDNet, that we shouldn't support somebody because the communist party supports them.

Posted by: Judas I.   Posted on: 10/26/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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