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Fox News endorses implantable microchip for masses
 Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:48 pm
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Fox champions Verichip - says its "for the greater good"
Get your vomit bags at the ready
Technology Advances Often Must Be Nurtured
Fox News | June 25 2005
Despite what our memories may tell us in hindsight, technology advances usually don’t come as quickly and easily as we would like or progress as smoothly as they might in a perfect world.
There are almost always speed bumps in the road as technology moves from the lab to everyday use. One such emerging technology that has been in the news lately precisely because of some development and acceptance hiccups is RFID, a promising wireless technology that has innumerable potential uses.
Before we kill this technology with hyperbolic cries of privacy intrusions and the potential for Big Brother implementations, we need to give this technology time to develop.
RFID, which stands for Radio Frequency Identification, has been around in a primitive form in the EZ pass toll card found on growing numbers of automobile windshields. In this use, an electronic reader at the tollbooth “reads” a smart card containing a microchip as the car zips through the tollbooth. The reader “collects” the toll, which the driver has pre-paid by credit card or check, and the car passes through the tollbooth without stopping -- often without even slowing down very much.
Another common application is Exxon Mobil’s Speed Pass which allows users to fill up their car by simply waving a key chain tag in front of the gas pump.
RFID has been in the news recently because the State Department wants to use it in new passports. Under State Department plans, future American passports would include a microchip that contains information about the traveler. This would include all the traditional information found in passports, such as the bearer’s photo, passport number, date of birth, etc. By passing the passport over a reader, Customs and Immigration officials could access all this information which would then be displayed on a monitor.
At some point in the future, by requiring other nations to use this technology in their own passports, American security officials at border checkpoints, seaports and airports could more easily identify potential terrorists or others who should not be allowed to enter the country.
But the technology has come under fire recently because some people think it will be used as a way for the government to track people surreptitiously. These detractors envision privacy violations and other intrusions by government officials. As it turns out, the State Department has temporarily backed off plans to use RFID technology in passports anytime soon. The reasons are primarily centered on concerns that would-be criminals or terrorists could use hand-held readers to identify Americans in a crowd in a foreign country. Thus, under this scenario, an anti-terrorist weapon could become a tool of terrorists if the technology is in the hands of the wrong people.
All this, of course, has given critics of further deployment of RFID technology much to talk about. But before we throw the baby out with the bath water, we need to let this technology develop and see where it will lead us and see what additional real life applications there are for it. There are many and they are limited only by our imagination.
For example, this wireless technology lets merchants track inventory through the supply chain. Wal-Mart is already asking some of its vendors to use it on shipping pallets; other companies are experimenting with it as well. Someday all groceries and other products in a supermarket could be tracked using this wireless technology, increasing efficiency and productivity all along the way from manufacturer to warehouse to store to customer.
But ease and convenience are not the only benefits that could flow from dramatically expanded use of RFID technology. Besides making our lives more convenient, it could also protect lives by tracking and inventorying prescription drugs to help ensure safety. How could we say “No” to that?
While critics often deride RFID as a threat to privacy, there are a few consumer-focused RFID products on the market now that not only enhance a users’ privacy and but also serve the greater good. One such product is the VeriChip, an FDA approved RFID medical device that can quickly and efficiently provide caregivers access to a patient’s important medical information – ideal for medical emergency situations or when patients are incoherent or unconscious.
Even though it saves lives, Applied Digital, the company that produces the VeriChip, recognizes that the mere threat to privacy casts a shadow over their product and has taken steps to protect their consumers. These include the implementation of stringent security protocols, the appointment of a Chief Privacy Officer, and the adoption of a comprehensive privacy policy.
As pragmatic research and development on this new wireless technology plays out, we should keep in mind that the perfect solution to how any new technology should be implemented is seldom immediately known. In fact, history has shown that new technology often causes initial backlashes. But if scientists, developers and individual consumers who will be using the technology work together to determine the right best practices for its ultimate use, untold and unknown benefits and improvements will be found. |
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stallion4
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:49 am
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Here's a website that I found that has some decent info about the "ZOMBIE-DEATH-CHIP", LOL. There's also a pretty good video about the chip there too, which will start streaming when you click on the link below:
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:26 am
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I would think the last thing any freedom loving patriotic American or anyone else would want to do would be to give easily tracable power of control over to any government that murders it's own people, treats them as guilty until proven innocent, that has zero respect for human rights, promotes torture of human beings, has a leader openly espousing to be dictator, advocates concentration camps, believes in secret trials, using secret evidence, and secret tribunals in secret locations, etc...
If anything I think perhaps mandatory chipping for politicians might be in order so we can track them when they go to meet to make their secret back room deals and plan their crimes upon the Citizens. Can we get a bill drfted up that would allow this? Do you know where your representative is tonight and whether or not they are engaging in a crime as you read this??? Are we really safe not knowing???
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chickenlittle
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| they are getting blatant about it
Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:01 pm
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Has anyone else seen the commercial with the semi truck?
shows a woman sitting at a desk in the midle of the road stops the truck and she tells them they are LOST ect. and she knows all this because the boxes on the truck told her.(WALMART)
I had never seen this until about 4 days ago and have not seen it again yet.
I cant beleive these bastards,I would love to see how Pat Robertson talks his sheeple into this obe,since I think he has been quoting non beast s!@# forever right?
Oh but I am sure that he will tell them that those who DONT have it are BAD,BAD BAAAAAAAAD! |
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Imp amJ
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:09 pm
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You know I might find this talk of chip technology laughable if it were not for the fact that some younger people I know (and who happen to be otherwise intelligent) actually tell me that they can see merits in becoming chipped, primarily they speak convenience; one young guy in his 20s who is afraid of everything and everyone outside of his small circle functions on fear; he's not clinically paranoid, but he's imo borderline.
Some off the cuff reasons why I'd never go along with this:
Given that governments/politicians/corporations/religions/schools/doctors... have proven over and over that they cannot be trusted, they certainly cannot be trusted with something as serious as digitally implanting us. Nutso!
Given that any technology can be hacked, the sabotage factor is too high.
No matter how smart we may be and no matter how well intentioned we may be, humans have proven to be individually and collectively moronic and corruptible, and let's not forget highly fallible. So for us to develop and encourage these types of technologies, well it's just insane!
That's just the beginning of my list, won't bore you with the rest; think I made my point.
Keep saying NO! 
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Orwell knew
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Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:18 am
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The Humane Society around where I live is now pushing this technology and one isn't able to get a pet without having it 'chipped' there. TPTB are desperately trying to get the Sheeple to be ear tagged just like animals and are trying to get this product out before the troops can rally against it.
If I recall this product Verichip was called "Digital Angel" when it was first being touted by the company but they changed the name for obvious reasons and are now trying to make Big Brother surveilance "fun".
Folks this technology is the PINNACLE of the NWO control system that has been designed to keep the citizens monitored 24/7 by someone who supposedly knows how to live your life better than you do and wants to make sure you live according to what they have designed in their pointy little heads.
At first it will be eased in perhaps on "undesirables" such as those convicted of some serious crime, then later petty crimes, then 'thought' crimes, then finally a mass push into society in general so one literally won't be able to 'buy or sell withou the mark of The Beast'.
Big Brother want's to know where you are and what you are doing at all times and they are going to try and push and terrorize the Citizens until they finally accept The Mark.
This is the End Game. TOTAL control. TOTAL control.
And by criminals and killers with ZERO value for life.
Would you hand a gun over to a murderer?
JUST SAY NO!
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stallion4
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Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:04 am
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quote:
Originally posted by Orwell knew
TPTB are desperately trying to get the Sheeple to be ear tagged just like animals...
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