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posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 24 2017, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-can't-possibly-be-used-for-evil dept.

A Wisconsin company is about to become the first in the U.S. to offer microchip implants to its employees.

Yes, you read that right. Microchip implants.

"It's the next thing that's inevitably going to happen, and we want to be a part of it," Three Square Market Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby said.

The company designs software for break room markets that are commonly found in office complexes.

Just as people are able to purchase items at the market using phones, Westby wants to do the sam[sic] thing using a microchip implanted inside a person's hand.

"We'll come up, scan the item," he explained, while showing how the process will work at an actual break room market kiosk. "We'll hit pay with a credit card, and it's asking to swipe my proximity payment now. I'll hold my hand up, just like my cell phone, and it'll pay for my product."

If the company was really cool they would do it by tattooing the sum of the squares of the first seven primes (2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17²) over the employees' left ear.


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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:41PM (4 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:41PM (#544300) Journal

    Yes I am familiar with the pronunciation. Still the audience was Greek/Latin, so I am not convinced.

    The reasons for the Satan epithet has itself other interpretations than simply assuming it means adversary, especially in hindsight when the denial of the sacrifice on the cross is considered THE discriminant factor for followers (1 John 2:22).

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 25 2017, @09:08PM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @09:08PM (#544320) Journal

    Look, if we're going to get into the tenets of Christianity itself, you've already lost.

    In plain English, Yahweh sacrificed his son, who is also himself, TO himself, to STOP himself from throwing his own voluntarily-formed creations into the Hell he also didn't need to create and never mentioned to them (no, he let the Persians and Greeks do that...) for the sins (read: his own negative aesthetic judgments, since DCT is empty) he knew they would commit before he created them.

    This. Is. Insanity. What you have here is a cross between Kim Kong-Il and Donald Trump times infinity. He's literally Infinite Hitler, no Godwin because the comparison is entirely valid, with his inescapable eternal concentration camp full of fear and fire and pain and torture and misery for what amount to his political prisoners.

    The entirety of the Abrahamic corpus is somewhere between delusional and outright psychopathic-sadistic. No God would act this way. Only a demon would, which is why I am certain Yahweh either doesn't exist or is an evil spirit.

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    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 26 2017, @09:40AM (2 children)

      by Bot (3902) on Wednesday July 26 2017, @09:40AM (#544556) Journal

      personal belief is off topic, the topic is what people millennia ago might have meant.

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      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:15PM (1 child)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:15PM (#544703) Journal

        And you're saying they meant to predict Islam, Russia, and all the other bogeymen that give good Yahweh-fearin' church-attendin' n*****-bashin' f*****-hatin' MURRICANS the vapors then...?

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        • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:02AM

          by Bot (3902) on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:02AM (#545034) Journal

          > And you're saying they meant to...

          no, I said interpretation is far from settled on Nero and/or Rome.

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