Hey, it's just a wristband, right?

[geetrue]

First your pets and then your children till the truth comes out that they want everyone to wear an ID.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wrist2-2009may02,0,3597459.story?track=rss

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Article by Hugo Martin Los Angles Times]
“At Precision Dynamics, what started out as simple hospital ID product has become a high-tech admission pass, a cashless debit card, a hotel room key and a way to reunite lost children with parents.
In a nondescript manufacturing plant on a quiet San Fernando cul-de-sac, a khaki-green machine the size of a buffet table sucks in bright pink ribbon and spits out one of the hottest features in theme parks.
Here, Precision Dynamics Corp., a company that began making plastic hospital wristbands out of a Burbank garage more than 50 years ago, has become the nation’s top producer of a new microchip-enhanced wristband for amusement parks, concerts, resorts and gyms.
The wristbands use the same technology as electronic tollbooths, security key cards and the newest U.S. passports. But at Precision Dynamics, this sophisticated electronic know-how has found its niche at theme parks, where the high-tech wristbands act as high-security admission passes, cashless debit cards, hotel room keys and a form of identification to reunite lost children with parents.
In the last year alone, Precision Dynamics’ wristbands came on line at Great Wolf Resorts’ newest water park in Concord, N.C.; at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Galveston, Texas; and at Water World, one of the nation’s largest water parks, near Denver, Colo. In total, more than 50 theme parks across the country strap the wristbands on visitors.
Company leaders envision a future when they can expand the technology for use in border security and hospital identification, among other purposes.

[bookworm_020]

Does it come in green? Pink clashes with what I wear!

[Skybird]

A chip under the skin certainly can't do any damage, small as they are. Why complaining about Lithium in drink water, if it serves public interests? Only when you have to hide something you must be worried about having a bar code in your neck. Electrodes stimulating your brain may increase your activity spectrum of activities, and saving you from wasting time with actions colliding with laws and policies.

Let's get our children chipped at school with the next mass vaccination.

[XabbaRus]

I seriously hope you are joking Skybird.

[Skybird]

Lithium in drink water has just been suggested again, this time by Japanese scientists to lower suicide rates in Japan. It is no new idea, though, having been suggested in Scandinavia and the US, too. Governments want passive, obedient populations, making their cross every four years at the right mark on the paper.

Chipping children I have read about two or three years ago, in context with British family courts, and again the US, where it was mentioned by a judge. HighTech security corporations also sometimes propagate it as a security solution, as a replacement for keys, credit cards, certain cellphone functions. The really worrying stuff of course is what they did not mention.

Electrodes in the brain I consider to be a question of time only. Don't we already do that with hearts and pacemakers? However, brain stimulation of course opens a wide gate for abuse and mind control, and legal and political correctness may even like the idea for that reason. It also plays a role in conetxt with riot control and control of a mass-crowded metropolitan environment esopecially if that faces shortages in food, water, energy, healtzh supplies etc. Hasn't Mexico City in parts been almost a war zone, for example, due to the police battling organised crime?

Bar code tatoos on the skin will not come. They are simply outdated.

I am sure that in one form or another, all the other things will come sooner or later. Which leaves me with the option of black humour only. And hoping that I must not become too old.