Radio Frequency Identification, the technology used in human implantable microchips. It's being developed as a new type of ID. You can get a tiny microchip implanted in your hand which can be scanned to identify you, and can also track your location. It could potentially replace all forms of ID and link you to a central database containing all your bank account info, credit card info, etc so you never have to carry a wallet again, just go shopping and have your hand scanned. The technology could usher in the ultimate cashless society, as well as the ultimate surveillance society. Forget to pay your taxes? Don't worry, your friendly government will deduct it right out of your chip. Got a parking ticket? Traffic fine? Fine for saying something un-PC? That comes right out too. Up to some un-PC activities? Up to no good? With location tracking, your friendly government will be able to monitor you at all times and provide the corrective discipline you need. With RFID chips, you'll always get the joy of obeying your friendly government, paying your taxes and fines, and behaving like a good well-trained member of society. Don't listen to those nutty fundie Christians who might tell you this is dehumanizing or degrading. Get an RFID chip implanted in your right hand or forehead today!
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"Get an RFID chip implanted in your right hand or forehead today! "
It would be a hell of an improvement over what's in your head, Joe!
Actually RFID chips are very real but use in humans is minimal at best. There's a few cases in Mexico where it's being used but those are more exceptions than the norm.
Walmart is the master of all things RFID. Love them or hate them, Walmart has done an amazing job of utilizing RFID on packaging (from individual items to palettes of junk) to inventory, route, ship and move items within their distribution network. Pretty much everything at Walmart is tagged with an RFID chip.
But yeah, way back in my Seventh-Day Adventist days (we're talking late 80s, early 90s here), this was all the rage in the church. An implanted chip to track us and so on. I guess SDA's were crazy fundie before it became fashionable (and they're completely heterodox to boot!!!).
"Don't listen to those nutty fundie Christians (...)"
*at the word 'Christian', Joe's rant is cut off in mid-sentence*
**BZZZT!!**
"Joe Valentine, you are fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute."
While I don't trust RFID chips being implanted in anything, especially humans, what fundies compare RFID to is the "Mark of the Beast". Also they have the conspiracy that everyone will be out to 'persecute Christians".
*facepalm*
Still, I don't trust any government implanting shit in me.
Oh, come on. Career chips aren't even going to be introduced until the year 3000, and then they're going to be forgotten, except for a single episode in the third season.
Fools. While you've been pleasuring yourself with your black and decker tools and dreaming of a rapture, they have been putting borg nanoprobes in your fast food for years. When the Galactic Empire decides the population of the earth has been saturated enough, you'll all just turn into Borgs.
This man is not familiar with the concept of 1337 haxx0rz to prevent the goverments from stealing your money or tracking you location. I could guarantee the day these chips came out there would be hacks for them.
Also not every government is evil and out to get you. Most governments are filled with (gasp!) real, decent humans who are not going to have a dictator/genocidal/tyrant streak.
I wouldn't label this as fundie and I wouldn't get an RFID myself. To get chipped is to kiss your privacy and freedom goodbye. You would have to be really dumb to get one. I mean, what are we? Sheep?
And, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these implantable chips the reason why cancer has increased in pets?
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Not that Joe cares, but RFID chips have an extremely limited range....standard scanners have a range of about a 1/2 meter, extended range scanners (still being developed) work on the order of 1 or 2 meters. Since they're powered by RF transmitted by the scanner, you get the hit from the inverse square law both ways.
Actually RFID chips are very real but use in humans is minimal at best. There's a few cases in Mexico where it's being used but those are more exceptions than the norm.
You're right: Mexico's president was tagged with an RFID device as a public deterence to the high rate of kidnapping of elected officials and other key personnel there. Definitely a reaction to unusual circumstances.
But RFIDs have also been used by a number of resorts as a means of eliminating the need to carry cash, ID, etc. by their patrons. One that comes to mind is a hot springs & bath hotel in Switzerland. Can you imagine carrying soggy Swiss Francs around? Of course, when you leave they will remove said RFID device upon request.
Forget RFIDs though for a minute. Your cellular phone is a much better tool for government oppression. Not only does it contain GPS (which, most of the time, does not power down when the phone is turned off) but the microphone can be turned on remotely for spying on you. There was that New York mafia case a few years ago where the FBI actually did this and it was upheld in court as admissable evidence. And the GPS is always "visible" to the satellites so tracking can be 24/7. With RFID, the device must come near a reader (the device is powered by the RF signals) so there are definite dead areas where they are not visible for continuous monitoring.
Its even better than that Joe. Did you know: we now have the technology to optically scan fingerprints. It would be a simple matter to link your fingerprint to your bank account. All you'd have to do is: when the little computer pad says "select method of payment" choose "debit from checking via finger print ID". As you press the button your fingerprint is quickly scanned at the same time. AND if we do it this way the best part is: no irritating injection of a chip that will eventually be resorbed by the body. Lower risk of fraud since anybody could steal your RFID code. AND everyone has a completely unique identifier, although I suppose people born without hands and amputees will be SOL. One little quirk: if we do it that way then it would turn out that God is responsible for forcing everyone to take the Mark of the Beast proving that he himself is the Antichrist.
With all the cunning of a pre-teen, Joe is coyly alluding to Revelation Chapter 13.
Joe's formed the opinion that an implanted RFID chip is the 'mark on the hand or forehead', while utterly ignoring the rest of the sentence which states that the mark is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Re: Trovore's post
Let's hope that said reader has a "Sign of Life" sensor to determine if there's any life in the finger that has the print, otherwise said reader is disturbingly vunerable to the "Gummi Bear" attack, in which said candy can be used to "lift a print" off a object, & to transfer the print to the reader....
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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