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#194857
Topic
A Frightening Possibility
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194857/action/topic#194857
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Originally posted by: Bossk


But a credit card can't cause bodily damage. I wonder what kind of medical guarantee you will get that the implant won't be misimplanted and suddenly break off and cause some irreparable damage to a vital organ or body function.



You'd have to ask the medical experts and the people who invented the chip, and the people who will be implanting the chip. One thing is pretty much clear: The more experience they get at implanting the chip, the more safer the operation becomes. This is true of any medical procedure.

Originally posted by: Bossk


To be a devil's advocate of my own... if the chips become widespread, then the only means by which a thief can make any money will be via violent assault to remove the chip. If this becomes the case, they will become more violent. The ends will justify the means.


I guess I was hopping that once the thief realized that he couldn't make any money without becoming a violent thief, he would give up his life of crime earn money legally. A bit nieve on my part. Still that fact that he would have to violently assualt someone, would make it much more difficult to to get away with the crime. That would stop some from trying. Also, some have the skills to be a credit card thieves but might not have the phyical skills it takes to commit a violent theft. That would stop some as well.
some irreparable damage to a vital organ or body function.


Originally posted by: starkiller
Yes, and from personal experience I can tell you is quite easy to get a replacement card.

but the chip would make it alot less likely that you'd have to get a replacement.


Originally posted by: starkiller
I heard a story several months ago about a man in Taiwan or Singapore (Southeast Asia somewhere) who was murdered then had his hand removed so theives could use it to fool a fingerprint analysis system at his work.
Old saying: Desperate times call for desperate measures. To anyone looking for money for a drug fix, it will be desperate times


see the answer that I gave Bossk to a simular argument.


Originally posted by: starkiller
Whoa...I didn't say assimilated. Augmenting one's body with inorganic parts to help it better function is completely different from something like borg assimilation.
First, the idea of a collective mind I do not like one bit. But the idea of improving myself to be better than I am now would be nice.


I just don't want this to become a thing where we slowly over time add more and more parts and then take the next and we modify the brain and then we become Borg. Where does it end? At what percentage borg do we stop at? Also do we want look like robots or humans?


Originally posted by: starkiller
I could get really technical and say that by the definition, you are a computer...something that computes.
The brain is a computer...we just haven't figured out everything about how its hardware works, and we know nothing of its software.


bullbleep. I am not a computer. I can feel and create. A computer just runs programs. I can grow and learn, a computer can't. I was born, a computer is manufactured. My intellengence is real, not artificial. I am unque. Borg are not.

I choose to be Warber, not drone #555-555-555.

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#194721
Topic
A Frightening Possibility
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194721/action/topic#194721
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Originally posted by: starkiller
I don't see the need. In today's society, everything has to be done faster, faster, faster. Is pulling a credit card from your wallet, getting it read, then returning it to the wallet REALLY that wasteful timewise??


To play devil advocate: Credit card can be lost and stolen.

Originally posted by: starkiller

Besides, if you had a chip in your hand/arm...you escalate the violence necessary for identity theft.
In the past, you might get your purse snatched. Now, they have to cut off your hand/arm.


again To play devil advocate: true, it would be more violent, but much more difficult to do, especially without getting caught. Also there many thieves who have no problem with stealing identies and purses, but would have a problen cutting someone's arm off.

Originally posted by: starkiller

As for Warbler's comment about being 'borgafied'...depending on the application of other cybernetic technologies, I would not be opposed to taking advantage of them. as a couple examples, the idea of artery-cleaning nanotechnology is very much appealing. External muscular augmentation (one of those suits that is mimics to your movements and helps do the work) would be very interesting, and if they could develop sensory implants to increase your visual range (imagine seeing a flower in the ultraviolet spectrum the way a honey bee does) and auditory ability, I might be there. Linking to a computer and controlling it with my mind, that would be very interesting, but I'd definitely make sure it was a non-internet equipped machine.


If you wish to be assimilated, that is your choice, but it is not mine. True some of these things can help us, but just how far do we go? Until we are more machine than human?
I want to be a human, not a computer.
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#194687
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MANGLER BROS., INC. IS NOW CLOSED HERE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194687/action/topic#194687
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the real nightware will be when you team comes to Philly next year and we kick your a**es

I am and that you do not like the ME.O. signing.

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Warb, seeing as I own FrobozzCo, and FrobozzCo owns WARBLER., INC.™©®, if you want to restart WARBLER., INC.™©®, all you need to do is ask.


that's alright I was just having fun. The results of the poll still stands and WARBLER., INC.™©® will not be returning. And I have no desire to end FrobozzCo.
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#194510
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MANGLER BROS., INC. IS NOW CLOSED HERE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194510/action/topic#194510
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*Suddenly, a clone army led by Warbler attack and take over the thread and arrest Ricardo and Bossk*

I clain this thread and hereby proclain myself to be the new leader of MANGLER BROS., INC.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*redecorates Dayv's office and throws out his Cowboy apparel*

I hereby change of the name of this organization to THE NEW WARBLER., INC.™©®!!!!!!!!!!

*places bounties on the heads of Motti and Dayv*