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Implanted RFID Tag To Replace Cash?
Kulic writes "Wired is running a story about using subdermal RFID microchips to pay for goods. Applied Digital Solutions are marketing the VeriChip as the world's only implantable ID technology. CEO Scott Silverman says they could someday replace credit cards, but a final product is a few years away. They are also receiving condemnation from some fundamentalist Christians who believe that this is the fabled 'mark of the beast' of biblical lore." waytoomuchcoffee adds a link to a similar story at CNet.
>For example devout Christians hate murder,
but didn't have much to say about Hitler did they?
>and devout Christians hate rape.
wow, such high principles. doesn't apply to not getting 14 year olds pregnant with the "son of God" though...
No, the joke's on you! I'M Mark and what I do with my right hand is nothing you want to know about!
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
The number of his name - that's your credit card number, above your name, right? The "name of the beast" - some formm of recognised ID with a corporate/government name on it? Sorry, fundies, you're too late - its already happened. Any attempt at a cashless society would appear to trigger this verse.
So fundamentalists should abhor all banking and inist on cash transactions only (which avoids the usury the bible goes on about as well). In fact, notes have serial numbers and the "name of the beast" - the government - on them. So coins only. Cpuld make life difficult in this modern world.
Consciousness is an illusion caused by an excess of self consciousness.
They are also receiving condemnation from some fundamentalist Christians who believe that this is the fabled 'mark of the beast' of biblical lore.
For this reason alone, I really want one of these now. Piss off a bible-thumper and pay bills easily.