🚀 go-pugleaf

of the kid who aspires to be in our Foreign
Service, but made the mistake of writing to foreign embassies in grade school.

Poor schmuck.

The FBI wants to keep "suspect" information on anyone in its NCIC 2000 system.

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Some people feel the smart card will quickly give away to implantable
biometric transponders. Once everyone is fingerprinted, you may as well!

Guess what?

They exist, and aren't that big:

*   http://www.radioamerica.com/relevance/11-94.html
*   
*   Martin Anderson, former senior member of Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy
*   Advisory Board fears that the advancing technology may soon end with,
*   "all of us tagged like so many fish." Writing in the October 11th, 1993
*   Washington Times he confirmed the drift toward human applications of the
*   chip:
*   
*            You see there is an identification system made by
*            the Hughes Aircraft Company that you can't lose.
*
*            It's the syringe implantable transponder.
*
*            According to promotional literature it is an
*            "ingenious, safe, inexpensive, foolproof and
*            permanent method of identification using radio
*            waves. A tiny microchip, the size of a grain of
*            rice, is simp