“Naturally, not everyone is on board with this idea.”

60 Replies to ““Naturally, not everyone is on board with this idea.””

1. Isn’t there something in the Bible about this? Oh yeah, the Book Of Revelation regarding everyone bearing the mark of the beast 666 in order to live your daily lives. And of course the one world government and one world religion. No wonder the United Church doesn’t allow the Bible anymore.

   1. That is exactly what I was thinking.

   2. “And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. ” Revelation 13:15-17 (English Standard Version)

      1. intriguing isnt it, the bible pegged it 2,000 plus years ago. the right HAND.
         welcome to the Perfect Storm Generation. virulent pathogens, nukes, digital snooping, 4,320 different genders, lots of evidence of a coming world in unprecedented chaos. ripe for a charismatic leader to ‘rescue’ us from ourselves.

         where have I heard that before?

         1. “…the right HAND. …”

            Well, it was either that hand or the other one. What are the odds?

            1. well tooner, as opposed to the elbow, knee, ribs, thigh, foot, arm, etc.
               ie narrowed down to 2 of about 100 possible spots. m’kay?

      2. Nahhhh … that’s just some old dead white man (or well-tanned white man) writing nonsense from a jail cell that he said was inspired by listening to his “sky daddy”.

         We’re farrrrrr more … evolved … than to be worried about such fables. We’re the god of our lives. We rule the Universe! God is dead. A dead concept of primitive man.

         /sad sarc.

      3. The Mark is to do the work of satan with the hands, the right hand usually being dominate, it’s a figure of speech. Or in the forehead, in the mind, being deceived to worship satan, thinking he is Jesus at the sixth seal, sixth trump, sixth vial…666

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee-ycK8PEsI

         The Mark Of The Beast

   3. yah jonny, and aDamn and eves talking snake and all that. Good lord, the Kristians have been predicking the end of the world is tomorrow for 2 thousand years now. Give it up McStupid!!!

      1. Matthew 24:45-51
         (45)  Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
         (46)  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
         (47)  Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
         (48)  But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
         (49)  And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
         (50)  The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
         (51)  And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

         2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

      2. Actually, no they haven’t. Though the Jesuits, masquerading as Christians, have. They have also had various of the cults they formed do the same, such as the Millerites, whose remnants then became the Seventh Day Adventists.

         Everything the Jesuits do is to undermine Biblical teachings. They are the “scientists” who teach lies, such as the anti-scientific scams of evolution, the Big Bang, the billions and billions of years crap, and now AGW. They have to corner the market on “science”, because the application of actual science proves all those theories to be lies.

      3. first of all, it was a serpent, not a snake…many Bible prophecies have already come true. the Jewish “Red Heifer” was just born. those are not “Christians” that are presenting that prophecy, so get your facts straight before you open your yap, you uninformed troll hole

      4. the world won’t end but humanity just might.

2. I would tell them of an alternative place where they could shove it.

   1. Yeah … but I’ll bet Kate “chips” all her dogs!

      If it’s good enough for our pets, then it should be good-enough for humans. After all … A dog is a cricket is a housefly is a little girl.

3. Not ever happening in my lifetime in my Body.
   I’m almost sorry no one has ever “decided” that I need one….Just so as to have the opportunity to reply..hehehe.

   ..and a Good morning to y’all from Cowtown.
   (Olympic Plebiscite day….am betting 75% + for the NO side)

   1. You are assuming voters are all taxpayers and own properties.

      1. No, I am assuming there continues to be a huge dislike for the purple pimp and his elitist supporters, and that common sense will prevail – not that a full on No Vote has any power over city council…its not a binding one as you know.

         513,000 ratepaying households in Calgary.

         Should this move foreward and cost overruns happen (Which they inevitably will), then the math is clear: 1 Billion over = $2000/ratepaying household. Given I am a senior…Nenshi can Go Fk himself if he thinks I or anyone else is going to fork over that kind of coin for HIS Legacy project.

         To frame it a lttle better: Tokyo has the 2020 games – Budgeted at 7.3 Billion. They currently sit at 25.4 Billion in Costs and its still 2 years away. No games since 2000 have come in on budget….NOT ONE….and every single penny of support from all 3 levels of Govt. Still rely 100% on taxpayers. No one else has a bone in the game.

         In a city with chronic unemplyment (~8%), no amount of rah rah Olympics will alleviate the issues – only Pipelines, Office Towers being filled and the Dual Disasters in Redmonton & the PMO are eradicated etc will do that.

         1. The only Olympic games to ever turn a profit – 1988.

            1. The games of 1988 didn’t turn a profit. It had a small operating surplus, but the capital costs were never recaptured.

         2. The Olympics are no more likely to have a deficit than our mayor is to have a baby.

            1. I voted NO. But I fear Nenshi has the rigged the vote. There are no voter lists. Hopefully we won’t run out of ballots like they did in the last civic election. Not sure if their are boxes of premarked ballots being stored like Florida.

            2. Well, the no side has won with 56.4% of the votes. We voted no; we remember the 1988 Olympics as not being that great except we hosted friends from Australia, one of whom was a member of the Australian Junior Hockey team (we were jest that we were the official hosts of said team). Through them, I was able to see a couple of events, as we certainly didn’t snag any tickets (have a family member who said his family didn’t either, but Swedish kin came in armed with tickets to various events). And it was a good time; times have changed.

               Between Mary Moran lecturing us on not being selfish, and His Purpleness pushing hard, we wondered just what they WEREN’T telling us. Forget denying our young’uns the experience of two weeks of Olympic “glory”, Ms Moran; the taxes we would have no doubt meant said young’uns would be denied a lot more experiences of anything extracurricular that had fees attached. And once His Purpleness spoke out, that decided it for us; we’ve had too much of his eloquence and denigrating of opponents so what he is pushing becomes automatically suspect.

         3. Dr. Fruit Fly said after Vancouver, it would be too warm to hold Winter Olympics anymore…so why should we vote for them!!! 🙂

   2. QR77 this morning had a guest on saying how critical it was to get the new voting generations to get out and vote. How important that the 18+ get mobilized to vote because they would push the YES side thru. Also, the $25/yr tax raise would be so insignificant to make these games happen.

      How about we get 3 pipelines built to pay for the games 100 times over and lower our tax rate by 3%!

   3. steakman, people now carry their phone, and that is almost as bad as getting chipped:-)))

      1. Pretty much so.

   4. A workout for the vote stackers them?

   5. Cowtown ain’t cowtown anymore gurrr.

      Listened to QR77 this morning. They have a pair of liberal talking heads as hosts. The gal just wants to have a party. “Can’t we just get some stuff? It’s only $25/household on your taxes. And think of all the advertising.” Beyond stupid.

      Sure why not. The downtown of Calgary has been hollowed out since the price of oil went south. Cowtown is living well beyond it’s means. 8% unemployment – cant get a pipeline built. Oh, and the Flames need a new rink……

      We’ll know tonite. The purple jeezus was everywhere today promoting the Olympics as his legacy.

4. This will not increase security because it will not be terribly difficult to make a copy of the implant, just like any other electronic security system. Or, more gruesome, criminals could forcibly remove the device from the hand. A high tech, low tech combo is probably more effective – eye scan and other biosecurity devices plus frequently changed passwords/keypads and don’t forget simply having a human security guard verifying your identity. Any of the other benefits promoted by the developer can be achieved without an implant (start a car or medical data).

   In my mind, if you allow yourself to get microchipped by either your employer or government then you’ve become a form of livestock or pet…a new age serf. My instinct tells me it is not only personally degrading but furthers the trend towards constant surveillance. More of a Black Mirror type future than technological utopia.

   1. If they can clone car security, they can clone an implant.

      1. People who promote these things tend to be optimists that assume the most benign intents and positive implementation. Cynics assume that such technology will eventually move towards oppressive uses by those with authoritarian tendencies. The cynics have a better track record.

         I’m not anti-technology. Far from it. I embrace and applaud the positive impacts of technology. But not all tech is positive. My general rule is to ask : Does this tech promote freedom from drudgery and danger? Does it improve health and welfare? Does it invade privacy? If it it does, are there less invasive options? Who is pushing the most privacy invading option? Why do you think they prefer this option?

         Technology should free the individual not empower authoritarians. A tool for people, not a weapon for control freaks.

      2. They’ll just cut your hand off and take it with them if they want to break in.

         Where’s Omar Khadr? He might know a thing or two about that…

      3. and steal your data

5. Wasn’t something like this (tatoo on the forearm) used in Germany once?

   1. Waffen SS soldiers had blood type tattooed on their arm. Many recruited late in the war did not have the tattoo while some unfortunate Wehrmacht soldiers treated at SS military hospitals did. The Americans put blood type on a dog tag. Canada did neither.

      1. I beg to differ, Scar. My RCAF dog tags had no blood type but my Canadian Forces ones did (still do, since I still have them).

      2. My Canadian Forces does. I just checked it.

6. Compulsion will be developed to compel compliance. The unchipped will encounter restricted access and bureaucratic hassles, separate queues, a lot of civil servants will spend a lot of time creating new obstacles for the unchipped and, even after everybody is chipped, the obstacles, hassles, queues will mutate and be maintained.

7. A major purpose of the security badge is to visibly identify you as someone that actually has approved access. Where I work, if you spot someone inside the secure areas without a badge visible, you are supposed to call security. The armed guards then find the person, and escort them offsite until their badge is found.

   And yes, it happened regularly, particularly to idiots that clipped the badge to their coat and took their coat off.

8. We are probably all ‘chipped’ already and don’t know it.

   https://youtu.be/J83lw0eFIJA

9. I literally saw this movie a couple of weeks ago. Evil sex traffickers were implanting their “property” with these things in exactly the location pictured in the x-ray. It was a B-actioner called “Acts of Violence”. Another lesson in how employers (and government) think of their drones as “property”, I suppose.

10. This is completely wrong.
    Totalitarian in nature.
    Morlockian in nature.
    Fully controlled humans in nature.
    It’s wrong in every imaginable way.

    And it’s going to happen with ease of a blow in the wind.

    1. Indeed. Millenials and the younger ones behind them accept ALL technology quite willingly, without question, as all of it is deemed beneficial.

       SHEEP being led to serfdom

    2. I agree.

11. Is there a doctor in the house?

    Is that hand palm up, or palm down?

    Ie. is that a left or right hand? I do not grok x-rays.

    1. Not that I’m an MD … but it appears to be a RIGHT hand as there are faint outlines of palm lines radiating between thumb and forefinger. (Right hand, Palm up). I cannot detect any features that suggest the back of the hand is facing upward.

       Not that it makes any eschatological difference.

12. While they are at it, they might as well install a small dose of poison in the capsule, so if a person becomes incorrigible, they just have to um…. prevent a crisis.

13. “Now, now, my dear Thufur, everyone on Geidi Prime gets a heart plug.” I for one cannot foresee anything going wrong with this idea.

    1. It will be at least as secure as the gun registry was. And no one who was not supposed to see that data ever did. And it was all destroyed, like they said…

14. and another thing, very curious also this is cropping up in jolly ol’ Angland, land of Orwell and his pivotal ‘1984’
    wtf is it with those brits? does this have anything to do with their class structure society?

15. At work we are now “nodes” on the “hub” ready to “interface” with each other. You can’t make this stuff up. Apparently I am now part of the Borg collective.

16. The day they discover theives have broken into a facility with a severed hand is the day this idea goes swirling down the toilet.

17. Nobody’s actually doing this. The linked article says that the company that provides the service is “in talks” with UK companies to implement this, which means their salespeople called up the companies and the companies said “f*ck off” (there was talking. So they’re in talks.)

    This technology is at least fifteen years old and the reason it never sees more than the occasional article in Wired is that it isn’t practical. It’s fantastically expensive and offers no benefits over other implementations of the same idea.

    1. From a marketing perspective, the most logical place to introduce this technology is universities. Staff and students are highly susceptible to arguments from authority, they are easily led, and can be controlled by guilt/shame. A herd of independent minds, as the saying goes. All the developers would have to do is buy off some key administrators and woke activists who then proclaim it is bigotted to resist be microchipped (citing “research”) and university staff would be too scared to object. /s

18. “Biohax says that its microchips, which are about the size of a grain of rice”

    I like rice. That thing is about 5xs the size of a grain of rice. And NO, comparing these things to body piercing is a poor analogy.
    They are more comparable to the RFID chips which are injected into dogs for security/recovery reasons.
    https://2012patriot.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/rfid-chips-in-pets-cause-cancer/

    1. The only dog I had microchipped lived to 16, two years beyond the normal life expectancy for the breed. That said, research can be found to support any position it seems.

19. This is getting fairly big in Sweden. It’s surreal to see how people pay for things over there now. Personally, I couldn’t do it but I can absolutely see it becoming a trend. I rarely see cash anymore in Calgary and even cards are becoming rarer – more and more I see people paying with their phones. Implants will be a tough sell for anyone over 35 or so but I suspect young people will absolutely go all in on this.

    1. I wonder how many muslims in Sweden have embraced tagging?

20. That picture is from Biohax? Because it makes me wince just looking at it. That ain’t no ‘size of a grain of rice’ chip there. Unless that’s supposed to be a baby’s hand.

    Beyond my normal objections to having an RFID implant, that just looks really painful.