"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:20:13 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

Wouldn't it be more prudent and cost effective to have chips implanted
at birth? No more lost children or adults, in case of emergency you
could be immediately located and identified, and the government would
know where you are at any given time. No more terrorism!

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If I could get on a plane without doing the airport hokey pokey, buy
things by waving my hand at the cash register and make it harder for
someone to impersonate me at the bank I would take a chip today.

If something like this happened to you, I think you'd carve that chip out
of your skin with a dull knife in an instant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/ny...icologist.html



Why would the chip facilitate this case? More likely would prevent some
mistaken identity problems. My buddy, who is a retired Marine Colonel,
was stopped at the MX border while returning to the US. Had the same name
as somebody on the watch list. Had to convince them that he was not the
other person.


Your buddy's situation may be quite different than that of the woman in the
article. She may be the only person on earth with that name, but somehow,
she's been pegged as persona non grata. How would a chip help her?