To make things easier for the authorities, should we require all wear an electric collar

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

so a law enforcement official will be able to assure compliance to his commands? You know the collar, like a dog training collar?

I was hoping for a poll here.... But, please give your opinion!

:toast:

[Eric J in MN]

1. Or we could go the other way, and make it a crime....

...to taser an unarmed man.

[Tace]

2. The Younger Set Prefers Noserings

[Blackthorn]

3. The only way to be truly safe is to let the government know where you are at all times.

Makes sense to me.

[William769]

4. Collar's should only be used in the bedrooms!

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Only criminals and terrorists would oppose such a common sense idea.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. and if you aren't a criminal or a terrorist...

why object? :shrug:

[John Q. Citizen]

9. Patriotic Americans could support their local police and beat themselves up

:)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

14. save on those tax dollars we have to give up!

cause it's YOUR money the goberment is taking!




ok, can't hold it in... :rofl:

[rpannier]

7. They could use those collars like the ones from the Running Man

The one's that explode.

[longship]

8. Just give everybody a loaded handgun.

Yup! That'll do it.
:sarcasm:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. In exercising my right to keep and bear arms, I have a thermonuclear device in my basement....

That'll teach 'em!


(Disclaimer: I don't have a basement)

[Erika]

10. W's family planning director is gung ho for electronic chastity

belts on those nasty stupid women who might opt out for birth control.

[Mythsaje]

11. A little wound up about this, Tom?

You're not alone. We should all be VERY reluctant to give this a pass.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

13. We're in a push-button world today.....

You can turn off an offensive person with the push of a button or pull of a trigger.

[MADem]

15. Well, the implantable chip is a first step, isn't it, then?

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a gimmick from Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions to chip people with RFID implants - previously confined to tracking animals - thereby making it easy to access their medical records, even when they cannot, or would rather not, cooperate.

The tiny, passive RFID devices, called VeriChips, are injected under the hide. They do not contain the medical data in question, but instead store a unique ID number that is used to access records on a remote server maintained by Applied Digital, using a handheld reader. The chips are legal in numerous applications, but cannot be used as medical devices without FDA approval - which they now have got.

So, what is the problem that this technology solves? We don't think there is one, unless doctors' offices are being flooded with people who can't recall their own medical histories. Yes, some people do suffer from dementia, but these are most often found already in nursing facilities and hospitals...Of course, accident victims may be found unconscious, but a simple dog tag suffices to warn emergency crews of drug allergies and tricky medical conditions. And the dog tag has two distinct advantages: first, in non-emergency situations, the owner can prevent others from reading it simply by concealing it under the clothes; and second, the data is there: it doesn't suffer from availability problems, as remote servers so often do.

The company says that the chips will save lives and reduce medical errors, but we are not persuaded. Indeed, if, during an emergency, the data were unavailable due to some technical glitch, and the patient were unconscious, the VeriChip might cost lives that a simple dog tag or bracelet would have saved. Medical data availability is a serious safety issue, as we discussed previously.

Technology for its own sake
For the moment, Applied Digital implies (but does not actually guarantee) that chip owners will be the only people permitted to add or delete medical data in their database. But this could change over time, and the idea that some alarmist quack or passionately risk-averse hospital administrator might be permitted to embellish one's records is decidedly frightening. One would need an ironclad guarantee, with serious teeth, asserting that no such thing will happen....And then there's the question of access. Once you've got an implanted RFID chip, you necessarily lose control over the people who might wish to read it. You have a unique identifier that can be read without your knowledge. Thus there is nothing to prevent, say, businesses or government bureaux from surreptitiously reading one's VeriChip, and correlating one's ID number with their own set of criteria, hosted on their own remote servers, for whatever purposes their twisted bureaucratic minds can conceive.....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/14/human_rfid_implants/

Old article, but troubling, eh?