There have already been people with that power. It did not turn out well, but today's socialists are confident that they could do better than the (national) socialists of the 1930s and 1940s.
Needless to say, while there are a multitude of applications where this technology would make sense, some even beneficial, it still does not address the first and foremost issue of the human race. The right to be free from government control.
Thoughts?
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Mark of the Beast. BIBLICAL implications here.
You’ll have to kill me before I submit to something like this. I will never be marked.
Another crazy loon.
Another fantasy that someone has to have ultimate power over people and to subjugate them under their will. Her fantasy does not consider the wishes of the individual, or what they want. Typical fantasy of of a tyrant, both for those in power and those that are not. I imagine some narcissistic control freak in power somewhere will try this someday soon.
I don’t understand why a certain few people insist on as much total control of people as possible. It’s offensive and unacceptable.
My rule is this... You put something in me or my family, I get to put something in you. Guess which is going to hurt worse and be fatal?
Just because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean you should.
she’s lucky the Book of Revelations is in the public domain...
She was JOKING.
Ryk Spoor
Thankfully, Ms. Moon’s little idea of universal barcoding turned out to be intended as a joke; she was apparently as surprised as anyone else when they chose to run with it.
(Like Elizabeth Mood, Ryk Spoor is also an SF author and he is a friend Elizabeth Moon.)
It is ridiculous but if we could have this done just for stopping kidnapping and other such stuff then I would be for it. However, it would have to be throughout the body somehow so, some would be kidnapper wouldn’t just cut off the body part with the scan. If this was possible, it would be 100 percent worth it to save people who are killed during a kidnapping or kids who are molested by strangers that take them.
“I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached “
We’ll just ensconce it in your fat head.
God already beat her to it.
We all have at least two bar codes and maybe more, built in by nature.
Your fingerprints and your iris.
It’s how God keeps us all sorted out I guess.
There have already been people with that power. It did not turn out well, but today's socialists are confident that they could do better than the (national) socialists of the 1930s and 1940s.
I say work makes us free. Go for it!
http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/elizabeth-moon-on-islam/
Also, I was reading on another forum (might have been Conservatives4Palin) that apparently buried deep in the Obamacare nonsense is a provision that deals with placing implanted chips in people. I don't know any more than that, or if there's anything to it, as I'm not up to wading through that 2,000+ pages of garbage legislation.
