"If you've been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you're a known shoplifter, for example, you won't be able to go into a store without being flagged. For others, boarding a plane will be impossible." [More]Or buying a gun if you're on a "terror watch list"?
I'm thinking contact lenses with retina pattern prints, but then I'm thinking hell, just put a stop to this crap.
And then there's this:
Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in.Followed by wishful excuse-making from the rope-selling capitalist:
"We're not talking about anything different here--just a system that's good for all of us."Yeah, pal. And they'll eat you last?
I'll decide what's good for me.
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They can scan my eyes when they're permanently closed and getting cloudy.
I applied for a job this week. The online application form required my Social Security number -- you know, that number they told us would never be used for identification purposes other then to manage Social Security contributions and bebnefits? -- for me to START the application process. I Xed out of that sucker fast.
They have created enough fear for enough people to grasp willingly at chains. They don't decide for everyone.
No mark of the Beast for me. They can kill me first, but I'm not going.
I said it before and I say it again: What are these idiots going to do when the motto, "all dot-gov data nodes must die" is on the lips, fingers, and soldering iron of every freedom-loving hacker on the continent.
Good luck with that...
Where were they building these again?
Do you have coordinates?
Hmm -- old saying: "When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last." Be good of him to remember that, no?
There are a wide variety of "optical scanning" resistant coatings available for eye glass lenses. They're cheap and will put an end to this kind of technology almost before it becomes widespread. In fact, I think you'll find that many or most of the popular sunglasses have such coatings now.
It's too bad that sociology became a big grab bag of statist nonsense for the establishment of (evidently satirical) thought-control, because it could sure benefit from a group of thinkers equivalent to the Austrians. More groups of thinkers--less group think.
It's probably a waste of time to argue with people who soil themselves in excitement over spy machines, because it's tough to advance any argument having to do with liberty when they can't even wrap their heads around a simple concept like trust. Trust is not a quality of a stranger, a machine or a document; it's a quality of the individual that is contemplating the trustworthiness of a stranger, a machine or some document.
Trust is assigned based on an individual's experiences, and those criteria are unique, like a retina. Passing a law that says everyone's favorite color is blue is no more likely to actually make everyone's favorite color blue as demanding the government create a trust proxy ensures that every individual will henceforth posses trust criteria identical to the imaginary proxy. The only way to pull off this parlor trick is to demand compliance using force and withhold all details about the criteria--lest huge swaths of the target population realize that there is at least one critically objectionable criterion.
Only a fool would waste time, money and lives trying to make trust proxies, when greater minds simply observed the existing interconnections between personalities as the fabric of society. A much cheaper solution for liberty-phobia is for the paranoid to swallow the appropriate quantity of bleach.
Somebody told me a few months ago, "George Orwell was an optimist."
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