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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Yet another sci-fi milestone is upon us: microchips implanted under your skin that identify you. The VeriChip is the first radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip that's been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in humans. The chip is the size of a long grain of rice, and can be implanted pretty much anywhere in the body (most commonly along the tricep). Depending on how it's used, the chip could do anything from telling doctors your medical background to buying you a round at the club.

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OMG NO it's the mark of the beast!

Run to the doom bunker, the end times are upon us!

I can think of one current governor and one former president whose wives are reading this and saying Hmmmmm, I have an idea....

I dunno. While I'm as against Big Brother-ism as anyone else, I do find myself wondering if it might not be very useful to be able to quickly prove things like: A) I'm a citizen and legal resident of this country, B) I'm the person entitled to use of my SSN and credit rating, not an identity thief and C) I'm a law-abiding, peace-loving person entitled to get on an airplane, not a "person of interest" with the same name as mine.

Damned if you do, it seems, and damned if you don't.

bah. They will never 'force' you to have it. You will just need it for 'identification' any time you engage in commerce. Want a candy bar?

Nanc,

Your understanding of RFID technology rivals your political and economic expertise!!

RFID is extremely short range technology. Think a few feet, maybe tens of feet. You'd need millions of detectors hooked up to a governmental agency to possibly work. The tin-foil hat brigade would shit bricks!!!!

This is ertainly not useful in the baby locating system you seem to envision. A larger type of tag (way too large to implant) is used on toll roads to collect your tolls. These are several square inches in size (the larger antenna is needed to collect enough radio frequency energy to generate the transmitted radio signal to reach 20 feet or so to the detector over the roadway. The tiny antennae in the implantable tags means a detector needs to be very very close to the tag to read it.

Not to mention relying on a child to remember to take out of a locket of clothing and swallow it (without water) in a moment of fear. That would be almost as unreasonable as expecting a republican to vote yes on something.

and they still can't come up with a simple penis enlarger.

#6 says it all.

Heidi Klum doesn't do it for ya, huh?

and they still can't come up with a simple penis enlarger.

Huh? I guess you didn't get the email...

I wonder if they could make a GPS locator small enough to be implanted. Surely they could. This is what will be coming someday.

Let's give in, and let our masters take control of every aspect of our sorry little lives. Yes, it will have GPS soon.

Aw shucks, it ain't no problem that they will be able to track you through every door in the country. Hell, that ain't no problem.

Why is the story 'Implantable Chips Approved for Use on Humans' just now coming out? They have already been doing it on those that volunteer. It's just marketing those who have hesitated based on personal safety concerns.

Whether you believe the Biblical take on it, it doesn't matter. Simply by marginalizing of people, the goal of automatic dismissal of the issues is ultimately successful in its aim to distract people from the real issues. It's working perfectly to stop the stupified public from researching the issue for themselves.

Don't be distracted.

OMG NO it's the mark of the beast!

Run to the doom bunker, the end times are upon us!

#1 | Posted by ZombieHunter

I guess you have ran down and got one for yourself.

"...I guess you have ran down and got one for yourself.#14 | Posted by Sniper...

WTF?

School much?


666

I guess you have ran down and got one for yourself.

I have a dirt bike and a solar-powered chainsaw. All I need to wage war against the living dead. No bunker necessary.

Zombies are a much more realistic threat than this antichrist... I never had my best friend beg me to shoot him in the head because he got bitten by the Beast.

School much?

#15 | Posted by DUMPLING1

No not much. Got your implant yet??

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