Lawmakers Are Working On Anti-Brain-Chip Bill - Polidicks

[quote=npr] Are you worried that someone is going to implant a microchip in your brain against your will? If you live in Georgia, your worries will soon be over. A state House committee approved a measure this week that makes it a misdemeanor to implant microchips, sensors, transmitters or any other manner of tracking devices into individuals against their will. The state Senate has already passed the bill. State Rep. Ed Seltzer, who sponsored the measure, conceded in testimony before the Georgia House Judiciary Committee that he had no evidence forced microchip implantation was occurring on a widespread basis. He said he was being "proactive," according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But Tom Weldon, another Georgia representative, called the bill "a solution looking for a problem." A friend of mine who lives in Georgia goes further, openly mocking the bill and its sponsors. "In every town in America, there are people convinced that somebody, usually the FBI or CIA, has planted microchips in their bodies, which explains the voices they hear," he says. "In some places, these people get treatment. Here in Georgia, we elect them to the legislature." But Georgia lawmakers are not alone in perceiving a threat. Microchip consent laws have been squashed this year in Virginia and Tennessee, but similar legislation has passed in California, North Dakota and Wisconsin. "I just think you should have the right to control your own body," state Rep. Mark L. Cole, who sponsored the Virginia legislation, told The Washington Post in February. "My understanding -- I'm not a theologian -- but there's a prophecy in the Bible that says you'll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times. Some people think these computer chips might be that mark."[/quote] [url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/04/15/126023516/breathe-easy--ga--lawmakers-are-working-on-anti-brain-chip-bill[/url] :patriot:

Excellent. There are a lot of things I want to take to the grave :tinfoil:

Well, that's a relief. Both for the fact I didn't want to be unwillingly chipped, and that I almost thought this was about a law that prohibited people from putting electronics into their body (which it ain't). So basically it's gonna be a-ok for me to get biomechanical body mods. Concealed arm-blades and auto-deployable sunglasses, here I come! (in about 20 years) Plus, no-one's gonna put no tracker on ME.

So they are worried about stuff that wont be able to happen for 30 years?

[QUOTE=General Omega;21391446]So we are worried about stuff that wont be able to happen in 30 years?[/QUOTE] Worried about stuff that probably wasn't going to happen at all.

Does this mean I won't have an iPod plugged into my brain in 30 years? because I really want one.

It means you won't have an iPod plugged into your brain [i]against your will.[/i] According to law, atleast.

Georgia: Full of :tinfoil:

[QUOTE=m0nkey98;21391564]It means you won't have an iPod plugged into your brain [I]against your will.[/I] According to law, atleast.[/QUOTE] Awww but I don't want to have to PAY for it

Sounds to me like they're trying to cover for a microchip implanting scheme. This is Georgia so there should be lots of room to put them in there

[QUOTE=Zeke129;21391724]Sounds to me like they're trying to cover for a microchip implanting scheme. This is Georgia so there should be lots of room to put them in there[/QUOTE] I see what you did there.

Sweet I'm in Georgia now I know the government won't implant microchips to control me and make me do their bidding!

[QUOTE=DiscoBiscut;21391758]Sweet I'm in Georgia now I know the government won't implant microchips to control me and make me do their bidding![/QUOTE] Considering they CAN do that nowadays, I'm actually kinda glad this is getting passed.

I remember seeing this thing on the science channel a few years ago (back before it was shit) about a paralyzed guy who could only communicate by blinking. They gave him a surgery that had a chip implanted directly into his brain, with a plug coming out the back of his skull. They plugged him into a computer, and a few months later, he could move a mouse, type sentences, even draw a (crappy) circle! The technology is here, but has only been used within the medical community.

[QUOTE=Wonky;21391912]I remember seeing this thing on the science channel a few years ago (back before it was shit) about a paralyzed guy who could only communicate by blinking. They gave him a surgery that had a chip implanted directly into his brain, with a plug coming out the back of his skull. They plugged him into a computer, and a few months later, he could move a mouse, type sentences, even draw a (crappy) circle! The technology is here, but has only been used within the medical community.[/QUOTE] Sure it wasn't just deep-brain electrical stimulation, and they were using the computer to change the intensity of electricity delivered?

[QUOTE=ironman17;21391414]Plus, no-one's gonna put no tracker on ME.[/QUOTE] They still can put it on you. Just not in you.

You guys are not reading.. [quote]House committee approved a measure this week that makes it a misdemeanor to implant microchips, sensors, transmitters or [B]any other manner of tracking devices into individuals against their will. The state Senate has already passed the bill[/B].[/quote] Basically it protects people and makes it illegal to place tracking devices on people. Like paranoid husbands that think their wife is cheating so they plant GPS in her purse or car.

[QUOTE=MR-X;21392861]You guys are not reading.. [quote]House committee approved a measure this week that makes it a misdemeanor to implant microchips, sensors, transmitters or [b]any other manner of tracking devices into individuals against their will. The state Senate has already passed the bill.[/b][/quote] Basically it protects people and makes it illegal to place tracking devices on people. Like paranoid husbands that think their wife is cheating so they plant GPS in her purse or car.[/QUOTE] [quote]House committee approved a measure this week that makes it a misdemeanor to [b]implant[/b] microchips, sensors, transmitters or any other manner of tracking devices [b]into[/b] individuals against their will. The state Senate has already passed the bill.[/quote] I read it literally, though. Does "into" mean 'on' or 'around' in this sense?

now i can sue aliens for putting probes in me, well soon i hope

I can't want to have my mind controlled by some bureaucratic douchebag.

nevermind

[QUOTE=MR-X;21392861]You guys are not reading.. Basically it protects people and makes it illegal to place tracking devices on people. Like paranoid husbands that think their wife is cheating so they plant GPS in her purse or car.[/QUOTE] Into Implant Those are words that imply shit going into the body. Reading it the way you do would prevent the state from putting ankle bracelets on people on house arrest, for example.

You know it's impossible to use a chip to control someone?

Pfft... Hah... hah.... hahahahaahhahah!

[QUOTE=Wonky;21391912]I remember seeing this thing on the science channel a few years ago (back before it was shit) about a paralyzed guy who could only communicate by blinking. They gave him a surgery that had a chip implanted directly into his brain, with a plug coming out the back of his skull. They plugged him into a computer, and a few months later, he could move a mouse, type sentences, even draw a (crappy) circle! The technology is here, but has only been used within the medical community.[/QUOTE] Oh christ, locked-in syndrome. That's like the worst thing that could ever happen to you. Look up Jean-Dominique Bauby and read his book that he "wrote" [B]by only blinking one eye as people read out the alphabet.[/B]

[QUOTE=Flitchaye;21394456]Oh christ, locked-in syndrome. That's like the worst thing that could ever happen to you. Look up Jean-Dominique Bauby and read his book that he "wrote" [B]by only blinking one eye as people read out the alphabet.[/B][/QUOTE] [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/]The movie based on it was pretty awesome.[/url]

Oh so i can't implant a chip into someone against their will, but i'm allowed to perform other unauthorised surgeries? What a completely unnecessary law.

Getting chipped unknowingly? This is why I get an MRI weekly, lol magnet wiping there data.