CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Louise Bremner wrote:
> > CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> The 2-Belo wrote:
> >>
> >>> So the net result is, the alien cards get bigger so you can't fit 'em in
> >>> your wallet anymore. The end.
> >> They didn't mention the option of having it tattooed on in this article ...
> > 
> > C'mon... Think high-tech. Implanted RFID tags. 
> 
> Yeah.  Significant opportunities for the full employment generation in
> that proposal.  They can put scanners at every train station, conbini,
> and office building to keep track of us.  Then they can appoint some 
> madogiwazoku to stop us after we've walked through a scanner and read
> our personal data off a screen to "verify" us.  Maybe a few people with
> hand carried scanners like Toden ladies in their little pink and grey
> uniforms and caps to stop us on the street and scan us to make sure 
> we're not overstaying.

Now that is beginning to sound almost like a plan...
> 
> The big problem will be walking through a warehouse and not being 
> recorded as 15 pallets of toilet paper or a shipment of frozen shrimp.

Mind you, I've met people who resemble a shipment of frozen shrimp.

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