[OT] "It is 10:00. Do you know where your children are"

[Cipher7071]

The January issue of Scientific American has an article entitled "RFID: The Promise and Peril of Talkative Chips." Merchandisers use the chips to track their goods from factories to stores, but there is nothing to stop the same sort of technology from being abused, i.e. tracking people by the tags in their shirts, pants, etc. One company actually abandoned plans to implement such a system because of pressure by watchdog organizations....

Also...It wouldn't surprise me if the same people who are worried about radiation from cell phones, are the same people who regularly sunbathe.

[Atrocities]

I recall reading about something simular that nano chips would be embedded in our drivers license, credit cards, cash, just about anything we might carry and that those chips would be registared each time a person entered a building. This way they could target advertising specifically at an individual on a global scale.

Additionally I recall reading about auto finger print takers via optical glass in handles, door pains, check out counters, etc that would scan your finger prints in 1000th of second of contact and registar your location for tracking purposes.

These things are all very bothersome, yet we 20 years ago the thought of having cameras in stores, in the intersections, hidden at work, or hidden just about any where would have been cause for nation wide public alarm. Big Brother is wathcing now, and we accept it because we, the inocent, have nothing to fear if we are doing nothing wrong. I recall reading that it is the inocent that often made to pay and are the most exploited.

So despite how scarry this new technolgy is, it will become common place in our lives just like video cameras and credit cards have become.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

eternal vigilance...

[Atrocities]

As long as we are kept feed, have our TV and electricty we are happy little slaves to the ways of those who get rich off of our backs.

When we have no food, no freedoms, no hope, then then will begin to change. I won't live to see it, nor will many of you, but one day over population, under production of food, no fuel, and oppressive laws will drive this nation into another civil war.

It has been written about in many books, and they all paint a very depressing picture for the future of this country and indeed the planet over the next 200 years. But your right Narf, interal vigilance is our only salvation. As long as we have hope we have something.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by TerranC:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I predicted that North Korea would again attack the south, but that has not happened. I predicted that the Arabs would gang up on Isriel (sp) and take them out. No so.

That the US would loose a Nuclear sub. We did not, but the Russians did.

Most of it was guess work based upon logical deductions. (And a lot of ... um .. leasure time mind expanding medicinal research.)

Don't quit your day job man.

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Read my profile.

[Narratio]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
eternal vigilance...

Allied to the ability to recognize what you see and the courage to act upon upon that recognition?

[oleg]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
... That as population continues to climb, we will see an increase in the reductions of our rights...

You may be surprised, but better child control in China and India, declining birth rate in developed countries and shift of the population from rural to urban areas in developing world (also lead to lesser childbirth) all indicate to the reversal of population growth. I'm not making his up. I got it from a reputable paper in New Scientist that predicts the XXI century will be the first century since XIV (black death pandemy) with fewer people at the end of it than at the beginning And you say XX century with two world wars and all other stff was genocidal !