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This Company Embeds Microchips in Its Employees, and They Love It (technologyreview.com)
Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them. From a report: The idea came about in early 2017, president of Three Square Market Patrick McMullan says, when he was on a business trip to Sweden -- a country where some people are getting subcutaneous microchips to do things like enter secure buildings or book train tickets. It's one of very few places where chip implants, which have been around for quite a while, have taken off in some fashion. The chips he and his employees got are about the size of a very large grain of rice. They're intended to make it a little easier to do things like get into the office, log on to computers, and buy food and drinks in the company cafeteria. Like many RFID chips, they are passive -- they don't have batteries, and instead get their power from an RFID reader when it requests data from the chip.
A year into their experiment, McMullan and a few employees say they are still using the chips regularly at work for all the activities they started out with last summer. Since then, an additional 30 employees have gotten the chips, which means that roughly 80 of the company's now 250 employees, or nearly a third, are walking, talking cyborgs. "You get used to it; it's easy," McMullan says. As far as he knows, just two Three Square Market employees have had their chips removed -- and that was when they left the company.
A year into their experiment, McMullan and a few employees say they are still using the chips regularly at work for all the activities they started out with last summer. Since then, an additional 30 employees have gotten the chips, which means that roughly 80 of the company's now 250 employees, or nearly a third, are walking, talking cyborgs. "You get used to it; it's easy," McMullan says. As far as he knows, just two Three Square Market employees have had their chips removed -- and that was when they left the company.
They're not "walking, talking cyborgs". They are just chipped like cats and dogs.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Everyone in the concentration camp will get a chip.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I get chipped.
Chips are for pets and property. Get one if you're looking to join the 21st century chattel slavery.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Translation: 170 employees out of 250 told him to take his idea and get buggered.
then I'm happy for them.
not me, with potential for mob rule making this a requirement
love is just extroverted narcissism
... in the forehead or in the hand.
Where implanted microchips will be so ingrained into society that you must have one in your right hand or on your forehead as your government id to drive your car, or to buy, sell, or perform any other kind of business transaction ---- all the functions of your driver's license, car keys, house keys, debit card terminals, etc, will be implemented so that they use the chip to identify you.
With maybe a slight complication of you type a 3-digit number and push the "Visa" or "Paypal" button to identify which of your credit cards you intend to use for a purchase, etc.
with great big quotes. You don't want to be a spoil sport, do you? Be a team player and get chipped like everyone else.
I'm left thinking of Hijabs and how they're voluntary in a lot of countries, even though there's enormous societal pressure for women to wear them. I've been watching a lot of Genetic Skeptic on youtube, hence the thought train, but there are other examples. Like "indentured servitude" where you sell yourself into slavery or for a slightly less controversial aspect how about standing for the national anthem. There's just lots and lots of things that are technically voluntary but very much not.
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She was a jew.
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
I'm sure there are a few industries where shoving a microchip under your skin would be "better" than simply wearing a bracelet with the same chip...but, I mean, why implant it? Sure it won't get lost, but seriously. Take some responsibility of your secrets and wear it instead of injecting it semi-permanently. I just don't see the point (aside from the aforementioned few industries).
Give the user the choice to take it off.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
If I put a gun to someone's head and tell them "either you obey or you die", is that voluntary? If I put an economic system to someone's stomach, and tell them "either you obey or you can't feed yourself", is that voluntary?
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
The materials used to encapsulate these is quite well understood., often it is glass. Cancer risk seems low as this material has been used in humans and animals for many decades.
If you were serious about preventing cancer you'd end the use of gasoline powered vehicles in major cities (benzene, etc), stop using those plug-in air fresheners (Acetaldehyde and 1,3-Dichloro-2-propanol), regulate ingredients in sunscreen (oxybenzone), etc.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
an old meme from Ars Technica I think about a sort of "Trans Humanist" fellow who put a chip in and called him himself a cyborg.
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If they do force everyone into a "cashless" society, and your money is tied to you and your chip, well, then they have FULL control on you.
Act in a manner that doesn't suit the govt....you are cut off from money and you possessions, and finally, your rights.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
And you start voluntary, maybe with a carrot in front of you.....and as the saying goes:
"What one generation accepts.....the next generation embraces".
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
And therein lies the path to slavery and servitude...
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
There is a much higher chance of infection then Cancer. But over the last hundred years or so, we have learned what type of stuff when implanted in the body doesn't hurt us.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
How is this any different from normal black listing?
Blocking Credit Cards, telling business to reject your services? Heck if they want to make it easy they just arrest you and put you in Jail.
What I find more concerning, is the ability to scan an RFID chip get its number and make a new one with the same number and implant it in someone else.
You will still need a secondary form of authentication.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
What happens when they have something in their office that is worth a criminal chopping off an employee's hand to get the chip?
not me, with potential for mob rule making this a requirement
But then it's not voluntary, which was GPs stipulation.
How is this any different from normal black listing?
Blocking Credit Cards, telling business to reject your services? Heck if they want to make it easy they just arrest you and put you in Jail.
Valid points, but the lower you place the bar for ease of abuse, the more often that abuse will occur. Arresting and jailing is the hardest and most expensive approach, giving authorities easier options for control mean those will be used, and far more often.
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Ah, the Ed Meese school of employer rights (employees have none). Everyone who is employed should routinely have their body fluids screened for whatever substances employers choose to test for (goodbye medical privacy), and employers can and should monitor what employees do outside the place of employment and make employment decisions based on these words and deeds.
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Also, Research has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats.
You can get ID cards and bracelets with QR codes on them today, mostly to hold contact information rather than medical records. RFID ones probably exist too but I don't think paramedics or nurses are normally looking out for them. But if you get into a car accident someone will flip through your personal belongings after you've been admitted and attempt to contact your family.
Within a hospital it is normal for patients to wear disposable bracelet, and RFID patient ID bracelets are now readily available to hospitals. But they are not really usable outside of a hospital and tend to be locked in to a particular vendor or hospital database, rather than something you might wear daily. I think the intention of RFID bracets is to avoid the wrong treatment being given to a patient, rather than to access information in an emergency situation. (database look-ups are slow and not reliable)
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
So are you happy for the people if 75% percent of them accept this? What's the chances of this becoming law? Slippery slope and all but I am disappointed when people accept something like this and am not happy for them.
love is just extroverted narcissism
...or is this a case of "You better pretend to love it, and say that you love it- OR ELSE!" I don't believe for a second that each and every one of those employees 'love' it, and not one thinks otherwise.
One has to wonder what prompted this passage in revelation though.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Company presidents come up with stupid ideas and justify them all the time by saying nobody objects.
You're the president, you moron. Nobody is going to object to your pet project unless they want to get fired, demoted, or put on the eternal "troublemaker" list.
If the body is fed well and devoid of excess sugars toxins are easily dealt with
What is a sugar toxin?
and cancer is next to impossible.
A bold claim. My pet mouse got tumors and he never ate white foods or refined sugar.
You are misinformed.
In my previous post I didn't order anything in terms of most likely cause. My intention was to list a few alternative things to worry about that seem more significant than a glass capsule. If you have new information that is relevant and based in reality, that's great.
Please save yourself the embarrassment if it's pseudo-science crackpot stuff collected through hours of internet "research". Because no thanks, we're all quite capable of doing our own amateur confirmatory bias research via Google's sophisticated sub-string matching.
But it's hardly fair of you to criticize me for not mentioning whatever articles happened to be on your mind today, articles that I may or may not have read.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire