a step in the right direction!??!?!?

[pds 0]

Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID

namaste, motherfucker.

[Tailgate 0]

That's kind of scary.

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[nightjumps 1]

Not much different than the corporate security scan cards... but I didn't like those either. I can understand secure areas (server rooms, white rooms, etc.), but to have to use your scan card to go potty? Ridiculous.

[pds 0]

its about indoctrination. little steps setting precedent. you or i recognize the technology and can choose to opt in or out. kids?

namaste, motherfucker.

[billvon 3,120]

It would work better if they were implanted subcutaneously.

[freeflybella 0]

home schooling.

Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi

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home schooling.

In Switzerland, before too long.

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"I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC
Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school.

[feuergnom 29]

after the recent elections they'll have a right wing xenophobic government - so it won't help u much sending your kids to school there..

read about that stuff something like two years ago. my guess: they are going to put that shit_everywhere_ so there's hardly a chance of "opting" for it or not. if they (whoever theses companies are & whoever stands behind them) get through with this, you are trackable 24/7/365.

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It would work better if they were implanted subcutaneously.

best time would be birth wouldn't it?

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle

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[McDuck 0]

Ooh, that's a bunch of no good. Well, guess I'll disappear in the islands for a couple decades.

Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28
"I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC
Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school.

[shedao 0]

But kids can get around this. We should embed them into their skull plate I say. Maybe even monitor their thought processes. If they had incorrect thoughts we could spot them immediately and intervene intravenously using the latest from Merck and company to rehabilitate them. Also we might want to set up check points and large fences around the facilities. It would be safer.

[McDuck 0]

My sarcasm meter is reading off the scale here.

Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28
"I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC
Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school.

[wmw999 2,589]

Shit. The last thing I want is some store's computer remembering that I was stupid enough to buy the pink T-shirt the last time I was there.

Or knowing when I took a crap.

On the other hand, if you've ever had a kid disappear, even for a couple of hours, it'd probably sound like a good short-term idea. But in the same way that putting anyone who offends you in prison does in the long run.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Shit. The last thing I want is some store's computer remembering that I was stupid enough to buy the pink T-shirt the last time I was there.

Or knowing when I took a crap.

Perhaps there would be a "TMI" filter on the chips. No sense in gathering THAT kind of dirty-data.

Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28
"I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC
Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school.

[freeflygoddess 0]

I can see this as a good tool, if your kid is missing or kidnapped. However, I do see the point of why should we need this? How about we force everyone that is pregnant including the father to take parenting classes before they are allowed to take the kid home from the hospital. Then maybe there wont be so many parents with way ward teens. However, I do remember what it was like as a teen and I knew everything and I did what I wanted to no matter what my parents taught me, so I guess that wont work either. The chip is a bad thing because people need to learn frm their own mistakes. How can someone learn anything if they are forced to do something. Plus how can teenagers find themselves if they are just like everyone else.

[billvon 3,120]

>The chip is a bad thing because people need to learn frm their own mistakes.

??? Do you need to be kidnapped or lost in the woods for a few days to learn how to be an adult? These, in general, are not to count how many times you went to the bathroom but provide a better way to track lost kids.

I think the implantable (or at least nonremovable) RFID thing is actually sort of interesting. They are already selling locator "watches" you can't take off for kids. Having the government require them would be absurd (of course) but what happens when a family with a 6 month old child moves into an area that has had child kidnappings? Think they might want a way to be able to protect their kids from that? _That_ will be the big moral question. Does society have a right to keep parents from trying to protect their kids in that way?