easel wrote on Jan 13
th, 2009 at 5:52pm:
Microchips will come one day, because of 'progress'.
Imagine cops, or doctors, or anyone who is 'trusted' having a scanner that can bring up your criminal history, medical history, age, date of birth, address, family, occupation, education, religion, known associates, hobbies, things like that.
Using things like myspace and facebook make it easier for information to be stored also.
And if you don't have one? Well, you can't get medical attention, your medicare card is now on chip! You can't register a car. Things like that.
People would call you crazy, and you would probably have to get one against your will.
If it meant I could get through the airport quicker, I would *volunteer* to be security cleared and get microchipped. The pain I go through at the airport is not even funny.
Hook me up to lie detectors. Background check me. I will pass. I would defend Australia and its allies to the last bullet, then use the bayonet til it was blunt and then beat them with the stock. As a voluntary program, why couldnt it work? No one would have to do it - but if you did - you were 'cleared' and didnt have to go through all the bs at the airport.
You'd have to make sure the microchip or whatever it was could not be removed, otherwise Hamas or whoever would pull the chip out of a cleared person and into a psycho.
Seriously though, I'd get barcoded or chipped to fix the security delay problem.