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This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a microchip that can be implanted in humans to provide access to medical records. Privacy regulation advocates were predictably horrified, but the chip does not create the privacy crisis some might imagine. The VeriChip, made by Applied Digital Systems, is an implantable radio frequency identification device (RFID). RFID chips listen for a radio query and respond by transmitting their unique code.
Can a single doze of heroin ruin your whole life?
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It makes you feel better. It makes you smarter. It takes you to the new level of experience. It's brought to you by your trusted friends. It's voluntary. It's free. So why don't you take it?
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But when you get used to it, when your new level of experience has been built on it, how can you live without it? And it's no longer free, no longer voluntary. And those who supply you with it are no longer your friends.
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Understanding this you may stop right after the first doze. But once you've tasted the promoted advantages of it, will you be able to forget that there is something better and still be happy with what you have?
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I have no doubt that one day this or some kind of that technology is going to become mandatory, because natural development of society and technology utilized by it will inevitably demand new solutions necessary for its further development, security and even the very existence. And I have no illusion that current government will forever remain so friendly...
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There are some boundaries which once you cross -- you never come back. Trojan always looks harmlessly at first, but once you let it in, eventually it reveals its true but intentionally hidden abusive nature. Think carefully before you do it, at least because those, who mostly want you to do it, they think very carefully...
*
It makes you feel better. It makes you smarter. It takes you to the new level of experience. It's brought to you by your trusted friends. It's voluntary. It's free. So why don't you take it?
*
But when you get used to it, when your new level of experience has been built on it, how can you live without it? And it's no longer free, no longer voluntary. And those who supply you with it are no longer your friends.
*
Understanding this you may stop right after the first doze. But once you've tasted the promoted advantages of it, will you be able to forget that there is something better and still be happy with what you have?
*
I have no doubt that one day this or some kind of that technology is going to become mandatory, because natural development of society and technology utilized by it will inevitably demand new solutions necessary for its further development, security and even the very existence. And I have no illusion that current government will forever remain so friendly...
*
There are some boundaries which once you cross -- you never come back. Trojan always looks harmlessly at first, but once you let it in, eventually it reveals its true but intentionally hidden abusive nature. Think carefully before you do it, at least because those, who mostly want you to do it, they think very carefully...
