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Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants

An anonymous reader writes "Tommy Thompson, the former Bush Health Secretary after implanting a chip into himself, is going to submit a proposal within the next 50 days to promote it for everyone in the USA. VeriChip spokesperson John Procter said 'virtually everyone could benefit from having a chip inserted.' Enjoy your assimilation in the land of the free, citizen."

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  1. Company spokesman endorses own product by The+Hobo · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, umbrella manufacturer thinks everyone could benefit from an umbrella.

    Film at eleven.

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    1. Re:Company spokesman endorses own product by Senjutsu · · Score: 4, Funny

      In other news, umbrella manufacturer thinks everyone could benefit from an umbrella.

      If they're only thinking that, they're doing it wrong. They should be paying off some dumb-ass politician so that he can introduce legislation mandating that everyone has to buy an UmbrellaCo brand umbrella.

  2. Only if it includes DRM by liquid+stereo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want my freedom restricted.

  3. Too easy by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know where spokesperson John Procter can insert his chip!

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    1. Re:Too easy by pyrrhonist · · Score: 2, Funny
      I know where spokesperson John Procter can insert his chip!

      The best part is that his last name is derived from the Greek word proktos, which means anus.

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  4. My RFID is blinking red.... by Nick+of+NSTime · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will I be renewed?

    1. Re:My RFID is blinking red.... by pyrrhonist · · Score: 3, Funny

      That Red's gonna run, I can always tell.

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  5. hacking by gid13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, if it's easy to misuse the system to track people, at least you'll know where to find the people responsible. ;)

  6. No way. by TheOtherAgentM · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only chip that goes inside my body is the potato kind...possibly the tortilla kind too.

    1. Re:No way. by elwin_windleaf · · Score: 4, Funny
      I can just see the future Slashdot headline...

      "VeriChip and Ruffles join, create new RFID 'chip'"

  7. "We finally got it right" by Loundry · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We've been working on this for years, it almost feels like an eternity," quipped thompson while lighting a cigar. "It took us 665 iterations before we feel like we got it right. Now we think everyone should have it. Now."

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  8. Way ahead of you! by jfengel · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've been wearing my stylish tin-foil hat to keep the mind-control rays OUT. Fortunately, this flexible and fashionable garment also serves to keep RF identifiers IN.

    And if they decide to plant the chip in a more sensitive place, my tin-foil cup has been protecting my precious bodily fluids for years.

    (Yes, I know that RFIDs respond to outside RF, not generate it themselves. The gag is funnier my way. Relax.)

  9. Yeah... by kc0re · · Score: 3, Funny

    But does it run Linux? Could you imagine a Beowolf Cluster of Humans? Wow.

  10. Dont do it by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    The English have been implanting chips in themselves for years and all it has done is made them fatter and depleted the oceans reserves of cod.

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  11. Re:Movie reference! by dtungsten · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't this remind you of.. Arnold... Mars... Had to pull the thing of out his nose... wtf was that movie...

    You seem to be having TOTAL difficulty RECALLing the name of the movie.

  12. I can see it now... by lendude · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it'll be called "The Freedom Chip".

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  13. Re:Medical Purposes Only by RailGunner · · Score: 3, Funny
    This will be introduced as optional and quickly become as voluntary as credit cards, drivers licenses, and cell phones. Sure, you can opt-out of these, but you will never be accepted at a job that requires them.

    Now where have I heard that before?

    "He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666" (Rev. 13:16-18).

  14. Re:Medical Purposes Only by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain." (Hebrew, Proverbs 19:13)

    Man the bible is like a history book but for the future. If god were like a guy living in like today he would be a novel writer person of future.

    "When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her." (Deuteronomy 25:11-12)

    "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." (I Corinthians 11:3)

    "For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." (I Corinthians 11:8-9)

    Man this book is filled with a ton of morals and prophecies. Jesus you are the head of me, my bitch wife with one hand is but the servert of thee. Now taketh your implantith awaith from meith. I now understand why people base their knowledge on their bible, they never fuckin read the whole thing.

  15. FCUK! YOU! by CranberryKing · · Score: 2, Funny

    see subject

  16. Re:Medical Purposes Only by myke113 · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Of course, VeriChips are for medical use only.

    That's funny.. so is my Cannabis.. =)

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  17. Re:Disgusting by penix1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Besides, it is "Dr. Seuss" not "Dr. Zeus". One is the author of children's books the other I presume is the doctor of the gods...

    B.

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  18. Re:Medical Purposes Only by Clockwork+Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It's hard to believe that the preposition 'on' instead of 'of' would make that much difference."

    If a man was "on" your wife (a lover/rapist/dead skydiver) you might be a bit more upset than if the man was "of" your wife (a son).

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  19. Re:You need help! by Doctor_Jest · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then why do you advocate silencing them?

    Clue, meet LordKazan... wait.. come back!

    The fact of the matter is, you have no rebuttal but to tell them to shut up, so in effect, you've lost.

    Thank you... come again.

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