Posted on 05/10/2002 7:40:20 PM PDT by Phil V.
Family Gets Computer Chips Implant
05/10/02 13:10
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - A Florida family on Friday became the first to be implanted with computer chips that researchers hope will someday become an easy way to provide emergency room staffers with patients' medical information.
Jeff and Leslie Jacobs, along with their 14-year-old son, Derek, had the tiny chips implanted in their arms. Each chip is about the size of a grain of rice, and insertion takes about a minute under local anesthesia.
The chips, called the VeriChip, were designed by Palm Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions Inc. They are similar to chips implanted in pets to identify them if they are lost.
The family wanted the implants in case of future medical emergencies.
``We're doing this as a security for us, because we've worked so hard to save my husband's life,'' said Leslie Jacobs, 46.
Her 48-year-old husband has suffered through cancer, a car crash, a degenerative spinal condition, chronic eye disease and abdominal operations. His injuries have forced him to quit his dental practice.
``It's been really easy and I feel a lot better that I have it,'' he said after the implant.
The chips used by the Jacobs family contain only telephone numbers and information about previous medications. The data can be read by a hand-held computer and printed out.
The Food and Drug Administration said in April that it would not regulate the implant as long as it contains no medical data. Company officials said they were free to proceed because the implant contains identification numbers that correspond to personal medical information in a separate database.
The FDA did not consider the implant to be a medical device, company officials said. An FDA spokeswoman in Miami did not immediately return a phone call. The FDA had said regulation would be needed if medical records were stored to guard against storage of outdated records.
Company officials hope to eventually include more extensive information. The company says it would be particularly valuable for those who suffer from Alzheimer's disease or others with difficulty providing medical information on their own.
VeriChip is expected to sell for about $200. A scanner used to read information contained in the chip would cost between $1,000 and $3,000.
The chip, which could also be used as a security tool, has stirred debate over its potential use as a ``Big Brother'' device to track people or invade the privacy of their homes or workplaces.
Jacobs and his family brush aside those arguments. Anyone can be tracked through the Internet and e-mail, credit cards and cellular phones, they say.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." Benjamin Franklin - 1759
It occurs to me, that if ALL FREEPERS used such a term--and yours is plenty descriptive--it would at least stand a chance of waking a few people up--well worth it to them!
In any case, I plan to use it as often as it will remotely make any sense. . . INSTEAD of chips or implant. I'll know we've succeeded in some needed consciousness raising when someone uses it back at me.
What an idiotic and mindless twit.
Convenience and safety. What excuses for SLAG shackles.
To quote Adams,.."May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
It's nice to be vindicated, but sad to see the excitement in the masses of sheeple over this.
123-45-6789, 98765-4321
I know the above combination of numbers will be found in these SLAGS. 18-numbers. 3 groups of 6 (666) equals 18. One day, probably closer than we'd like to think, swearing allegience to Satan will go along with getting SLAGed.
A tattooed barcode would work better, I think. For accessibility put it right on the hand or forehead... in infrared ink. Grocery stores could set up their "courtesy card" computers so the customer just leans over the scanner. I hear that 666 is a good combination of starting digits to help syncronize the computer. (0110 0110 0110 in binary)
Hey... didn't I read about something like that once in an old book translated in the 1600s?
We could at least publish such nominations to all the conservative sites and publications. Word of mouth would carry it far from there.
IF we could build even a significant grass roots public consiciousness or attitude on the part of even 20% of the populace that this SLAG thing was a serious harbinger of increastingly serious loss of freedoms coming down the pike, we MIGHT be able to:
A) AT LEAST alert some "slow" sorts who'd otherwise be caught very unaware in devastating ways far earlier than necessary. That is, they'd be destroyed or imprisoned or left out in the cold earlier than necessary.
B) We might possibly slow the process down somewhat--particularly if we could get a significant enough of the population carrying the term into broader and broader grass roots use.
FREEPERS ARE LIKE THE NAVY--THEY CAN DO!
I kind of like the association with the normal use of SLAG--useless debris etc. from a metal or ore refining process. It seems logical to me that people selling their birthrights of freedom etc. for safety and convenience have at the very least failed and become useless floating debris in the arena for the fight and maintenance of FREEDOM.
Thankfully, FREEPERS CAN DO. We CAN make a difference.
If my reading of some Scripture is accurate, at least some evil sorts will be totally wiped out from all awareness or evidence that they ever existed.
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