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What, exactly, is a thin white strip, probably glued, doing glued to the inside part of page in a book, about half a centimeter from the spine? I'm pretty sure I've seen one or two in a few other books, there to straight to be covering a crack and they always seem to be in the same place. This one is on the page marked 'part three', but there are none on the pages marked part two and one. I can't remember where the others might have been, except a vague recollection that they are near the spine. It's probably a coincidence.

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It's actually an intestinal parasite that infests the innards of the book and sucks away at its nutrients- a kind of tapeworm, (Taenia saginata librus) the so-called "bookworm". You'll probably notice that on the affected pages there are letters or even whole words missing, these have been leached off by the parasite.

I recommend giving the book a good oral anti-parasitic, which should be pressed between the pages of the index containing the letter "d" (for "digestive system") in the case of non-fiction, or anywhere in the chapter listings for fiction books.

Of course you can place it on any page you like if your book happens to be a reader's digest http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Really? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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*LOL* Okay...

Maybe a serious answer here. Where did you get the book from? If it's from a library, or some public place, etc where they don't want it stolen, it might be a sensitized strip to set the alarm off.

Part 3? no clue http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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That part three was perhaps a bit obscure. The book is simply divided into three parts. No mystery. Actually, I did get it from a library and the magnetic strip theory makes sense.

Of course, Dogscoff's theory holds credence too, as the page it was on had only two words on it, 'Part Three'. Perhaps attendent or adjacent words had already been eaten.

* Gives a medal to Dogscoff and Abdiel.

[ July 08, 2004, 09:49: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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AS mentioned below, it's a strip to set off the detectors at the doors to the building where the book lives. Also used on CDs and other items of similar nature to prevent them from being stolen.

Of course, you coudl take the other view: have a $20 US bill? Hold it up to the light. See that small strip running through it? Those strips and the strips in the books are the same, and are tied into the GPS tracking system so that THEY can track what money you spend and what books you read at any given time. Furthermore, if you've ever been under anesthesia anytime in the past ten years the doctors inserted into your body itself one of those little things, so now they track you too.

Just kidding.

heh.

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alarik dont be so sure your kidding

as they do have gps tracking devices you can purchase for implantation in your children to keep track of them

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No they don;t.

How exactly would you power such a device? HOw would you recharge the batteries? WOuld you really want an orbital microwave transmitter implanted under your child's skin?

An idiot self-publicist "scientist" here in the UK (professor Kevin Warwick) tried to push these things a while back and caused a load of publicity, until it was discovered that the thing required a mobile phone in close proximity... utterly pointless tablod scaremongering, especially when there are far more important things to worry about, like book parasites....

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Actually, the local (Seattle) media recently covered several new "child homing device" products. The GPS Versions were to put in their cars. But there were also tracking devices to strap to their bodies to tell if they are leaving proximity of the sensor, and/or to track them down with. Not perfected yet, but available, and it certainly shows that there are people who think tracking other people's every move is a good idea. Big Brother bastard/scum that they are... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

PvK

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*Nervously grabs several books from his shelf and flips through them to check for parasites. *
...
Hmmm, I don't see any parasites..
*Carefully examines the covers, the spine, the bindings of the books, looks closely at the first several pages and the Last several pages*
....
Still nothing.

But wait! I do remember that some of my clothes were infected with a similar parasite. I remember one of those tapeworms stuck inside a new pair of pants I bought a couple of months ago! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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sevweral different news magazine tv programs have reported on the availability of pill sized implants designed to permit the tracking of children when necesary i have viewed programs regarding this since 2002 i believe the Last time i saw a segment on this was on a tech tv program

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I don't find it probable. A battery that size would have a range of only a few feet.

They might have been talking about future tech, though.

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Tech sounds interesting

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At a quick glance, it said meduim and large cats and dogs. I doubt it's small.

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A new mystery of problably very little importance.

I just received and email telling that I can add a up to three inches to the length of my ..... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif tool .... by taking some pills. The mystery is, why would I need a fifteen inch tool when the current tweleve inch one works just fine? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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/me tosses AT into the Forum Chat Bar & Grill.

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Do those pills really work? Might be a scam.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nothing strange there, it sounds like viagra,.. one of it's effects is to make your 'tool' grow 'stiff' which if I remember correctly will basically add 3" to it's length. (from limp to stiff = +3")

So it's probably one of the 'spinn-off' viagra-like pills.

Nuf said, Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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George Orwell must be spinning in his grave.

You know, it's a comment on the state of our society that the school told me that 'Animal Farm' was a criticism of communism. Of course it is. But they were leaving a little bit out, as any reading of the book would tell anyone not delusional, mentally incapacitated or biased. Or raised on only a steady diet of government education.

[ July 14, 2004, 20:24: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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This GPS tracking chip isn't that farfetched. It doesn't take a huge amount of power to broadcast a simple digital code. It's not like you need enough bandwith to send audio or video signals. The emergency locator beacon for emergency raft on an aircraft can be picked up by satelites. It's not much bigger then a roll of quarters and that's almost all battery. And that's 30+ year old technology. They already have implantable devices that work like a credit card/identification device. The chip itself has no internal power supply, it's just an inductor that picks up a signal from the chip reader and uses that for power to rebroadcast. The same company that makes them claims they are only a few months/couple years from a marketable GPS chip for humans.

I'll try to find a link. I was just reading about it a couple weeks ago.

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fm: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americ...eut/index.html

Mexico attorney general gets microchip implant

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) -- Mexico's attorney general said on Monday he had had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted.

Attorney General Rafael Macedo said a number of his staff had also been fitted with chips which will give them exclusive and secure access to a national, computerized database for crime investigators that went live on Monday.

"It's an area of high security, it's necessary that we have access to this, through a chip, which what's more is unremovable," Macedo told reporters.

"The system is here and I already have it. It's solely for access, for safety and so that I can be located at any moment wherever I am," he said, admitting the chip hurt "a little."

The chips would enable the wearer to be found anywhere inside Mexico, in the event of an assault or kidnapping, said Macedo.

And kidnapping is a huge problem here. From 1992 to 2002, Mexico saw some 15,000 kidnappings, second only to war-torn Colombia, according to the Inter-American Development Bank.

Crime-fighting is a dangerous business in Mexico, where police are notoriously corrupt and where political figures and investigative journalists sometimes risk assassination.

Mexico has seen a surge in violent crime recently, with an onslaught of headlines about murders and kidnappings prompting Fox to pledge in a national broadcast to crack down on crime.

In June a quarter of a million people protested the government's failure to combat crime. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

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There you go. Actually the article I read was about a resort bar that was implanting chips in regular customers to serve as a debit card. The article mentioned the company was working on a GPS tracking Version out in a couple years. I supose the government types get theirs early. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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www.abc.com
world news tonight article on the chip implant
was broadcast tonight