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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 4, 2017 - 07:34am PT
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http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microchip-employees-20170403-story.html
The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. Another “cyborg” is created.
What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish start-up hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and start-up members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
“The biggest benefit, I think, is convenience,” said Patrick Mesterton, co-founder and chief executive of Epicenter. As a demonstration, he unlocks a door merely by waving near it. “It basically replaces a lot of things you have, other communication devices, whether it be credit cards or keys.”
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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I'm in !
It's better than touching those grody keypads at Supermarkets, ATM's and Gaspumps.
I'd want it implanted in my middle finger.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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“The biggest benefit, I think, is convenience,”
whoa! lookout!! someone's going to use that to justify adding bolts to established routes!
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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we already have fingerprints and DNA, what harm can a little chip do?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Chips are harmless... if the state sanctioned authority is on your side and as long the chips aren't hacked.
pretty big f'ing "IFs"
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covelocos
Trad climber
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If someone else wants in the door (or a smoothie) they just cut off your hand!
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WBraun
climber
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The chip belongs plugged into the socket on the circuit board, not in your organic body you stoopid Americans.
You loons and your Brave new stoopid world of organic drooling brainwashed robots .....
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The wife has been inserting Implanons for years - way more usefull!
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Reilly, we don't really want to know what your wife has been putting where!
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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They already know everything about you through your phone and internet habits. Chip is redundant.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Old news being recycled...
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WBraun
climber
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Most of you don't even need a chip implanted.
You're already sheepled and brainwashed to the hilt .....
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Only a matter of time til new world nutjob showed up along with his pal conspiracy man.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Buffalo chips?
Does not seem cool...
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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My chip says I'm due for a sheeeple wash
It gives me the best dreams
And I never forget a thing
Never need fill in boxes again
I can chat with anyone anytime
And the cloud is so soft and smoothe
It's the same old magical powers
Without the blood
Chips Ahoy Dr. Spock
Fear is illogical
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dude, did you even read that? If you really think firing an artillery shell filled with anything, spraying anything from airplanes, or dumping barges of rust in the ocean will ever scale significantly then you're as delusional as the typical geoengineering enthusiast. Not happening.
Let's be excruciatingly clear - climate can't be 'engineered' except on grand scales. What constitutes a 'grand scale' you say? Well, producing 50-75 million automobiles per year that all produce exhaust meets that definition if you do it for decades. Operating 2 million megawatts of coal-fired power plants for decades also qualifies. Operating 12-15k commercial aircraft per year for decades probably only begins to approach that definition.
Nothing in that paper or plausibly imagined would ever make it to something like .0001% of the impact of any of the three just mentioned. And that's the problem with the whole concept of geoengineering - scale. There's nothing of any kind which can be done that scales significantly that isn't wired into all our daily existences at a fundamental level and certainly not in less than half-century time scales.
As for implanted chips? They're called cell phones - no need whatsoever to get subcutaneous.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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The book - Brave new World, Aldous Huxley, 1932
The movie - THX1138, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, 1971
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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It's fine and dandy to have a chip, they may come in handy.
But what happens when you have too many in you?
Will you begin to swell?
Will you burst if you have enough of them implanted?
Collect them like FB friends.
Trade 'em for the doubles of others.
What's going on in this country is that,
along with the narcotics epidemic ...
This problem is within all age groups, folks ...
After the thrill that you get from the shots,
there is a horror that comes later ...
If there is a way the horrors can be prevented from happening to just one person,
I will have done well.
THE DEVIL awaits you weak-willed economic slaves,
while NIRVANA and PLAYBOY MANSIONS are the reward
for turning to the light of a savings account, surely.
I want my first chip here on my right shoulder, please.
It's free, right?
--Johnny Credit, Luddite, TX
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Do you even read these or is your reading comprehension so low you just don't understand them? That's study is meta-analysis of childhood neurodevelopment with exposure to high levels of naturally occurring fluoride in groundwater (common in China and here in the PNW) - i.e. this map:
It's a long, long way from any kind of indictment of fluoridation.
And Musk's Neuralink is a lot like colonies on Mars - easy to say, hard to do, harder still to find a reason for doing it at scale. But given you don't really know what he's even talking about it's not too hard to imagine you'd run amok with that anyway.
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