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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:18:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > Do you mean if you're required to display it (wearing it on your lapel) or
> > produce it on command (hey you, show me your ID)? Either would be
> > objectionable, I agree, but I'm curious about which you meant specifically.
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> Well, produce it on command is what I meant. Though, having to wear it is
> even creepier. "Hi, my name is Chris!"
'Life as an Office Christmas Party." A more horrifying dystopia I cannot
imagine.
> > > This whole idea makes me very edgy.
> >
> > Just wait until they start implanting chips in newborns!
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> Yeah. I don't want _them_ implanting chips in newborns. OTOH, if there are
> nifty chips that we can implant to improve ourselves, I'm all for that...but
> not normally in newly birthed nonconsenting humans.
If there's a slippery slope to be found here, you might have just hit on
it--it might be justifiable to implant an "insulin regulator" chip or an
"epilepsy suppressant" chip with the parents' consent, if not the infant's.
But one can imagine the "I Love Disney Chip, with Insulin Regulator" without
too much trouble...
Dave!
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| (...) Well, produce it on command is what I meant. Though, having to wear it is even creepier. "Hi, my name is Chris!" (...) Yeah. I don't want _them_ implanting chips in newborns. OTOH, if there are nifty chips that we can implant to improve (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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