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Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm
novakreo writes "Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Mexico's Attorney-General, now has a non-removable microchip in his arm, to track his movements and to give him access to a new crime database, according to Bloomberg. The article says that eventually around 160 Mexican officials will have a chip implanted." (Wired and CNN are both running the very similar Reuters report, too.)
I can't wait for all the Christians to start wailing about 666 and the antichrist and stuff.
What they don't know is that the number was originally 616 and that these numbers were the result of a popular mental exercise of the ancient world where you would add up the numerical values of the letters of some famous person's name and then have others try to guess what name corresponds to the sum. I think 666 corresponded to Calligula, and 616 was some other Caesar.
Boy I wish Osama and crew put a system like this into place. It would've been a lot easier to fire a guided cruise missile up his ass, being able to track him no matter where he went and all. I mean, hooray for technology this can only possibly make the world better. Nothing bad can possibly come of this type of action.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
Don't be so disingenuous. If you lived near the border and had to share the road with those unmaintained, smoking, oil-dripping, rolling-environmental-disasters, you'd probably revise that opinion. Anyway, I thought the Teamsters were all Democrats -- what do you have against them?
It won't be a problem AFTER they fix their trucks. As it is, we are being far more accomodating accepting their unsmogged, uninspected passenger cars hauling ass up and down our local roads. The cops won't ticket Mexican plates and so they drive like bats out of hell.