Yeah, I posted about the South Carolina one yesterday. It's amazing... no, that's not the right word... retarded! Retarded what the SC Legislature will pass.
I have always seen the micro chip as a good thing, as a wave of the hand would replace carrying IDs, credit/debit cards and medical records around. Not to mention, it would be good for finding missing people, especially children and the elderly. It could even be used as a universal key!
HOWEVER, just as with any improvement on technology, there will always be crooks who figure out how to beat the system. The first, and scariest, tactic would be people having their hands brutally severed for that microchip. Then technology would come along where a person carrying a mini scanner could snatch up whatever info they wanted while walking through a crowd. So technology and new laws would have to catch up to that. And so on and so forth...
Sooooo... while I personally would be cool with a microchip, I have to agree with the law stating they would not be required by law sometime in the future.
I hate the creation of unnecessary laws. I mean, why not use current laws in place that forbid this practice? Do you seriously think that ET and Damien have licenses to practice medicine in the state of Virginia?
-- Steve's mind boggles at the concept that anyone could say "yes".
The best part is how SC defined subversive groups to include political parties which want to conduct government, and then defined subversive activity to include conducting government. So political parties, any of them, count under the law.
I'd be more worried about the government/corporations being able to track people wherever they like rather than axe murderers after my hands. But it will probably happen eventually.
Given that such a system would require a massive network of all of everybody's information anyway, I'm not sure what the benefit of an implanted microchip plus a microchip scanner would be over, like, fingerprint scanners.
The difference is the microchip can be used as a LoJack/GPS like they already have for pets, which is beneficial for missing persons. Fingerprint scanning cannot.
Where did it say anything about aliens in the article? Also according to the article, they are scheduled to vote on it... that doesn't mean it's going to pass.
I was, however, please to see that Bob Brink, delegate from Arlington (where I live, in the sane part of the state) cast doubts on it. Basically, VA is two states- Northern VA, which is middle-of-the-road, sane, modern... and the rest of it, which is not only the South but the Deep South.
Actually, the ones for pets don't give location updates like Lojack/GPS. The ones for pets only help if the pet gets found and taken to a vet with a chip scanner. The vet can then use the internet to access the chip database and find out who the pet belongs to.
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Date: 2010-02-11 02:47 pm (UTC)http://www.loweringthebar.net/2010/02/please-fill-out-this-form-if-planning-to-overthrow-our-government-thank-you.html
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Date: 2010-02-11 02:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-11 03:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-11 03:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-11 05:59 pm (UTC)Microchips: good and bad
Date: 2010-02-11 06:19 pm (UTC)HOWEVER, just as with any improvement on technology, there will always be crooks who figure out how to beat the system. The first, and scariest, tactic would be people having their hands brutally severed for that microchip. Then technology would come along where a person carrying a mini scanner could snatch up whatever info they wanted while walking through a crowd. So technology and new laws would have to catch up to that. And so on and so forth...
Sooooo... while I personally would be cool with a microchip, I have to agree with the law stating they would not be required by law sometime in the future.
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Date: 2010-02-11 06:19 pm (UTC)-- Steve's mind boggles at the concept that anyone could say "yes".
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Date: 2010-02-11 06:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-11 06:56 pm (UTC)Oh my.
Re: Microchips: good and bad
Date: 2010-02-11 06:57 pm (UTC)Re: Microchips: good and bad
Date: 2010-02-11 07:33 pm (UTC)Re: Microchips: good and bad
Date: 2010-02-11 07:34 pm (UTC)Re: Microchips: good and bad
Date: 2010-02-11 07:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-11 08:49 pm (UTC)I was, however, please to see that Bob Brink, delegate from Arlington (where I live, in the sane part of the state) cast doubts on it. Basically, VA is two states- Northern VA, which is middle-of-the-road, sane, modern... and the rest of it, which is not only the South but the Deep South.
Re: Microchips: good and bad
Date: 2010-02-12 12:26 am (UTC)Re: Microchips: good and bad
Date: 2010-02-12 01:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-12 03:45 pm (UTC)The American Health Care System at work!