Non-optional RFID Chip

[Baruch]

Authoritarians always think they will be the Southern sheriff sicking the dogs on the less White folk.  They have no empathy, see things as black-white, literally, have no concern for anyone's civil rights ... lawmen of the 1960s in Birmingham.  Every society has these people, and their fellow travelers.  They are the foot soldiers of tyranny.

[widdershins]

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[widdershins]

It's never going to happen, nor should it.  The first result would be a loss of liberty, which is huge by itself.  The second result would be criminals lying in ditches draining bank accounts of the people who drove by or some other such high-tech theft.  The third result would be a vast uptick in people being nicknamed "lefty" as less sophisticated, more violent criminals realized the easiest way to get your cash.

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I can't wait to hack the chip.  From that point on you can all address me as "Mr. President."

[Flanker1Six]

I can't wait to hack the chip.  From that point on you can all address me as "Mr. President."

Are you looking for an Administrative Assistant?   I've got a ton of experience, and the requisite "moral flexibility"!   

[widdershins]

I can't wait to hack the chip.  From that point on you can all address me as "Mr. President."

I have no experience, but my chip will say otherwise, so, keep me in mind for an assistant too.

[PopeyesPappy]

I don't disagree. But I stick by my original opinion on the topic. I really think it comes down to this. You either believe they're all out to get you or you do not. And I do not. Because my logic tells me that if they really were all out to get me, I would have been rotting in a cell long ago. And so would most of us.

I don't believe they are out to get me. I believe they are in it for themselves and couldn't give a rat's ass about what happens to anyone else as long as they get theirs.

[Baruch]

I don't believe they are out to get me. I believe they are in it for themselves and couldn't give a rat's ass about what happens to anyone else as long as they get theirs.

Which is a behavior pattern that can kill you, just because.  Consider a cement truck driver who chooses to drive however he wants, ignoring traffic rules.  He didn't mean to flatten your VW Bug, it just happened to get in the way.

[PopeyesPappy]

Which is why I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't be better off is some terrorist flew a wide body into the capital steps during a presidential inauguration. Take out the prez, vp, house, senate, and SCOTUS all in one fell swoop. My biggest fear there would be the rabid nationalist war pigs that would surely be the next wave of assholes to hold the reigns.

[Baruch]

Which is why I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't be better off is some terrorist flew a wide body into the capital steps during a presidential inauguration. Take out the prez, vp, house, senate, and SCOTUS all in one fell swoop. My biggest fear there would be the rabid nationalist war pigs that would surely be the next wave of assholes to hold the reigns.

The US has always been nationalist war pigs.  Where have you been?

[PopeyesPappy]

We're bad, but we aren't nearly as bad as we could be.

[Baruch]

We're bad, but we aren't nearly as bad as we could be.

Sounds like a campaign slogan ... Democrats went full retard in Vietnam, but Eisenhower started it.  Please explain this to the many thousands who died in S E Asia ... or more lately in S W Asia.

[PopeyesPappy]

Baruch,do you really believe things couldn't be worse if the US tried to make it so?

[Blackleaf]

The third result would be a vast uptick in people being nicknamed "lefty" as less sophisticated, more violent criminals realized the easiest way to get your cash.

That's what I was thinking. I'd rather have my wallet stolen than my arm. Of course, there may be some more considerate thieves who would cut out the chip instead.

[Baruch]

That's what I was thinking. I'd rather have my wallet stolen than my arm. Of course, there may be some more considerate thieves who would cut out the chip instead.

Put it on your retina, so that thieve will gouge out your eyes ;-(