Guest guest Posted August 18, 1999 Report Share Posted August 18, 1999 Thought I'd post a little something I wrote about smoking in 1991. Hope this puts this discussion (that doesn't really belong in this group) to rest. Take care and keep smiling! Geri FIREBOMBING AT NICOTINE TREATMENT CENTER No arrests have been made for the Friday night firebombing in Seattle of the 10th Avenue Nicotine Treatment Center. However, Sgt. J. Friday of N.I.T. (Nicotine Investigation Troop) reports that several suspects have been questioned. The 10th Avenue Center has been the scene of numerous recent incidents involving protests of the clinic's use of tobacco aversion therapy. Protesters allege that passive smoke generated by patients under treatment to cure their addiction to tobacco is polluting the neighborhood, reducing the life expectancy of nearby residents. Related news: Researchers at the University of Belize Medical School report discovering a definite link between tobacco use and sexual deviance. Dr. Gumby Gonsouth states that lizards inhabiting areas frequented by nicotine addicts, where large numbers of cigarette butts are discarded, have been observed attempting to mate with plants, tree frogs and adolescent slime beetles. To confirm their research findings, university researchers have requested a grant to study the sexual habits of French citizens, a population known for their indiscriminate use of tobacco. Bippy Tutworth, President of A.S.S. (Americans Sans Scents), well-known activist who was successful in introducing legislation in California to make use of perfumes and colognes in public a felony offense, is proposing that offenders caught with tobacco in their possession should be executed. She states that smokers should be viewed as the mass murderers they are, responsible for thousands of deaths annually through their criminal exposure of the general population to passive smoke. In Kansas City, federal agents conducted a raid on a nicotine den cleverly disguised as a Senior Citizen Center. The F.B.I. promises to use the full force of their power to prevent avoidance of prosecution. 87-year old Willy Powers, one of the suspects, tearfully pleaded for lenience in prosecution, stating that his addiction predates current laws and that he has been unable to stop smoking despite numerous past arrests and involuntary commitments for his problem. Agents confiscated a large assortment of contraband including ashtrays, matches, cigarette papers and bingo cards. They also were able to recover 10 cases of Depends that had been reported missing following an earlier raid of a nicotine den in Wichita. Scientists have discovered a pale blue haze hovering above the North Pole that they believe is responsible for an acceleration of the Greenhouse Effect. Dr. Y. Uppie claims that even given the adverse conditions at the Pole, a distinct smell of menthol is apparent. KOOLS and their well-known crystallization process are thought to be included in the elements contributing to the toxic cloud. The World Court will meet next month in Bonn to discuss methods to deal with the growing defiance of several EU nations, despite worldwide banning of tobacco use. Roving bands of hoodlums have been seen on the streets of Amsterdam, openly puffing on Russian-made Mussky cigarettes. The Dutch government, with its usual tolerance of drugs and addiction, continues to allow addicts to obtain cigarettes through clinics that are to be found throughout Holland. In Sicily, the Mafia is thought to be responsible for distribution of contraband tobacco to members of their criminal syndicates. Mafia-related butts have been seen as far north as the very civilized cities of Florence and Milan. Switzerland refuses to report statistics of nicotine addiction to the Court, citing their historical preservation of privacy laws. During the recent Oktoberfest in Munich, witnesses report that scattered groups of smokers could be observed mixing with the drunk but otherwise law-abiding revelers. The Bundespolizei have promised to set up checkpoints in the beer tents at next year's fest to prevent further incidents. They claim that the smokers are actually from the former Eastern Germany and from other Baltic and Eastern European nations, including Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. American tour groups have threatened to boycott all nations that are unable to control this growing epidemic of abuse in Europe. Happy Campers Tours, a Sausalito-based agency, now offers package tours only to Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, nations well-known for their excellent control of the vice problems that are otherwise running rampant throughout the world. Finally, two students from Beverly Hills 90210 who, in a suicide pact, threw themselves from the top of Magic Mountain in Ventura, were reported to have been doused heavily with Old Spice and Joy, clutching identical packs of Marlboros, when their broken bodies were located on the 5th hole of the miniature golf course at the foot of the mountain. Student advisors plan to hold a general assembly to aid grief-stricken fellow students in dealing with the double tragedy. Geri Spang/1991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2002 Report Share Posted February 27, 2002 U.S. to Consider Computer Chip Implant By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON ..c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Feb. 27) - The science of security may soon get under your skin. A Florida technology company is preparing to seek government approval for a computer ID chip that would be implanted inside the body and could be used to store everything from secret codes to sensitive medical information. Applied Digital Solutions' new ``VeriChip'' is another sign that Sept. 11 has catapulted the effort to secure America into a realm with uncharted possibilities - and also new fears for privacy. ``The problem is that you always have to think about what the device will be used for tomorrow,'' said Lee Tien, a senior attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group. ``It's what we call function creep. At first a device is used for applications we all agree are good but then it slowly is used for more than it was intended,'' he said. The company also is developing another implant device that would work in conjunction with the VeriChip to allow satellite tracking of an individual's every movement. The tracker is already attracting interest across the globe for tasks like foiling kidnappings, the company says. Applied Digital, based in Palm Beach, Fla., says it soon will begin the process of getting Food and Drug Administration approval for the VeriChip, and intends to limit its marketing to companies that ensure its human use is voluntary. ``The line in the sand that we draw is that the use of the VeriChip would always be voluntarily,'' said Bolton, chief technology officer and a vice president at Applied Digital. ``We would never provide it to a company that intended to coerce people to use it.'' More than a decade ago, Applied bought a competing company, Destron Fearing, which had been making chips implanted in animals. Those chips were bought mainly by animal owners wanting to provide another way for pound workers to identify a lost pet. Chips for humans aren't that much different. But company officials say they were hesitant to market the chips for people because of ethical questions - until the Sept. 11 terror attacks. ``It's a sad time ... when people have to wonder whether it's safe in their own country,'' Bolton said. The makers of the chip also foresee it being used to help emergency workers, for instance, diagnose a lost Alzheimer's patient or access an unconscious patient's medical history. Getting the implant would go something like this: A person or company buys the chip from Applied Digital for about $200 and the company encodes it with the desired information. The person seeking the implant takes the tiny device - about the size of a grain of rice, to their doctor, who can insert it with a large needle device. The doctor monitors the device for several weeks to make sure it doesn't move and that no infection develops. The device has no power supply, rather it contains a millimeter-long magnetic coil that is activated when a scanning device is run across the skin above it. A tiny transmitter on the chip sends out the data. Without a scanner, the chip cannot be read. Applied Digital plans to give away chip readers to hospitals and ambulance companies, in hopes they'll become standard equipment. The chip has drawn attention from several religious groups. Theologian and author Terry Cook said he worries the identification chip could be the ``mark of the beast,'' an identifying mark that all people will be forced to wear just before the end times, according to the Bible. Applied Digital has consulted theologians and appeared on the religious television program the ``700 Club'' to assure viewers the chip didn't fit the biblical description of the mark because it is under the skin and hidden from view. Even with the privacy and religious concerns, some are eager to use the product. Jeff s in Coral Springs, Fla., has contacted the company in hopes of becoming the first person to purchase the chip. s suffers from a number of serious allergies and wants to make sure medical personnel can diagnose him. ``They would know who to contact, they would know what medications I'm on, and it's quite a few,'' he said. ``They would know what I'm allergic to, what kind of operations I've had and where there might be problems.'' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2002 Report Share Posted February 27, 2002 U.S. to Consider Computer Chip Implant By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON ..c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Feb. 27) - The science of security may soon get under your skin. A Florida technology company is preparing to seek government approval for a computer ID chip that would be implanted inside the body and could be used to store everything from secret codes to sensitive medical information. Applied Digital Solutions' new ``VeriChip'' is another sign that Sept. 11 has catapulted the effort to secure America into a realm with uncharted possibilities - and also new fears for privacy. ``The problem is that you always have to think about what the device will be used for tomorrow,'' said Lee Tien, a senior attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group. ``It's what we call function creep. At first a device is used for applications we all agree are good but then it slowly is used for more than it was intended,'' he said. The company also is developing another implant device that would work in conjunction with the VeriChip to allow satellite tracking of an individual's every movement. The tracker is already attracting interest across the globe for tasks like foiling kidnappings, the company says. Applied Digital, based in Palm Beach, Fla., says it soon will begin the process of getting Food and Drug Administration approval for the VeriChip, and intends to limit its marketing to companies that ensure its human use is voluntary. ``The line in the sand that we draw is that the use of the VeriChip would always be voluntarily,'' said Bolton, chief technology officer and a vice president at Applied Digital. ``We would never provide it to a company that intended to coerce people to use it.'' More than a decade ago, Applied bought a competing company, Destron Fearing, which had been making chips implanted in animals. Those chips were bought mainly by animal owners wanting to provide another way for pound workers to identify a lost pet. Chips for humans aren't that much different. But company officials say they were hesitant to market the chips for people because of ethical questions - until the Sept. 11 terror attacks. ``It's a sad time ... when people have to wonder whether it's safe in their own country,'' Bolton said. The makers of the chip also foresee it being used to help emergency workers, for instance, diagnose a lost Alzheimer's patient or access an unconscious patient's medical history. Getting the implant would go something like this: A person or company buys the chip from Applied Digital for about $200 and the company encodes it with the desired information. The person seeking the implant takes the tiny device - about the size of a grain of rice, to their doctor, who can insert it with a large needle device. The doctor monitors the device for several weeks to make sure it doesn't move and that no infection develops. The device has no power supply, rather it contains a millimeter-long magnetic coil that is activated when a scanning device is run across the skin above it. A tiny transmitter on the chip sends out the data. Without a scanner, the chip cannot be read. Applied Digital plans to give away chip readers to hospitals and ambulance companies, in hopes they'll become standard equipment. The chip has drawn attention from several religious groups. Theologian and author Terry Cook said he worries the identification chip could be the ``mark of the beast,'' an identifying mark that all people will be forced to wear just before the end times, according to the Bible. Applied Digital has consulted theologians and appeared on the religious television program the ``700 Club'' to assure viewers the chip didn't fit the biblical description of the mark because it is under the skin and hidden from view. Even with the privacy and religious concerns, some are eager to use the product. Jeff s in Coral Springs, Fla., has contacted the company in hopes of becoming the first person to purchase the chip. s suffers from a number of serious allergies and wants to make sure medical personnel can diagnose him. ``They would know who to contact, they would know what medications I'm on, and it's quite a few,'' he said. ``They would know what I'm allergic to, what kind of operations I've had and where there might be problems.'' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2002 Report Share Posted February 27, 2002 U.S. to Consider Computer Chip Implant By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON ..c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Feb. 27) - The science of security may soon get under your skin. A Florida technology company is preparing to seek government approval for a computer ID chip that would be implanted inside the body and could be used to store everything from secret codes to sensitive medical information. Applied Digital Solutions' new ``VeriChip'' is another sign that Sept. 11 has catapulted the effort to secure America into a realm with uncharted possibilities - and also new fears for privacy. ``The problem is that you always have to think about what the device will be used for tomorrow,'' said Lee Tien, a senior attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group. ``It's what we call function creep. At first a device is used for applications we all agree are good but then it slowly is used for more than it was intended,'' he said. The company also is developing another implant device that would work in conjunction with the VeriChip to allow satellite tracking of an individual's every movement. The tracker is already attracting interest across the globe for tasks like foiling kidnappings, the company says. Applied Digital, based in Palm Beach, Fla., says it soon will begin the process of getting Food and Drug Administration approval for the VeriChip, and intends to limit its marketing to companies that ensure its human use is voluntary. ``The line in the sand that we draw is that the use of the VeriChip would always be voluntarily,'' said Bolton, chief technology officer and a vice president at Applied Digital. ``We would never provide it to a company that intended to coerce people to use it.'' More than a decade ago, Applied bought a competing company, Destron Fearing, which had been making chips implanted in animals. Those chips were bought mainly by animal owners wanting to provide another way for pound workers to identify a lost pet. Chips for humans aren't that much different. But company officials say they were hesitant to market the chips for people because of ethical questions - until the Sept. 11 terror attacks. ``It's a sad time ... when people have to wonder whether it's safe in their own country,'' Bolton said. The makers of the chip also foresee it being used to help emergency workers, for instance, diagnose a lost Alzheimer's patient or access an unconscious patient's medical history. Getting the implant would go something like this: A person or company buys the chip from Applied Digital for about $200 and the company encodes it with the desired information. The person seeking the implant takes the tiny device - about the size of a grain of rice, to their doctor, who can insert it with a large needle device. The doctor monitors the device for several weeks to make sure it doesn't move and that no infection develops. The device has no power supply, rather it contains a millimeter-long magnetic coil that is activated when a scanning device is run across the skin above it. A tiny transmitter on the chip sends out the data. Without a scanner, the chip cannot be read. Applied Digital plans to give away chip readers to hospitals and ambulance companies, in hopes they'll become standard equipment. The chip has drawn attention from several religious groups. Theologian and author Terry Cook said he worries the identification chip could be the ``mark of the beast,'' an identifying mark that all people will be forced to wear just before the end times, according to the Bible. Applied Digital has consulted theologians and appeared on the religious television program the ``700 Club'' to assure viewers the chip didn't fit the biblical description of the mark because it is under the skin and hidden from view. Even with the privacy and religious concerns, some are eager to use the product. Jeff s in Coral Springs, Fla., has contacted the company in hopes of becoming the first person to purchase the chip. s suffers from a number of serious allergies and wants to make sure medical personnel can diagnose him. ``They would know who to contact, they would know what medications I'm on, and it's quite a few,'' he said. ``They would know what I'm allergic to, what kind of operations I've had and where there might be problems.'' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2002 Report Share Posted February 27, 2002 U.S. to Consider Computer Chip Implant By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON ..c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Feb. 27) - The science of security may soon get under your skin. A Florida technology company is preparing to seek government approval for a computer ID chip that would be implanted inside the body and could be used to store everything from secret codes to sensitive medical information. Applied Digital Solutions' new ``VeriChip'' is another sign that Sept. 11 has catapulted the effort to secure America into a realm with uncharted possibilities - and also new fears for privacy. ``The problem is that you always have to think about what the device will be used for tomorrow,'' said Lee Tien, a senior attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group. ``It's what we call function creep. At first a device is used for applications we all agree are good but then it slowly is used for more than it was intended,'' he said. The company also is developing another implant device that would work in conjunction with the VeriChip to allow satellite tracking of an individual's every movement. The tracker is already attracting interest across the globe for tasks like foiling kidnappings, the company says. Applied Digital, based in Palm Beach, Fla., says it soon will begin the process of getting Food and Drug Administration approval for the VeriChip, and intends to limit its marketing to companies that ensure its human use is voluntary. ``The line in the sand that we draw is that the use of the VeriChip would always be voluntarily,'' said Bolton, chief technology officer and a vice president at Applied Digital. ``We would never provide it to a company that intended to coerce people to use it.'' More than a decade ago, Applied bought a competing company, Destron Fearing, which had been making chips implanted in animals. Those chips were bought mainly by animal owners wanting to provide another way for pound workers to identify a lost pet. Chips for humans aren't that much different. But company officials say they were hesitant to market the chips for people because of ethical questions - until the Sept. 11 terror attacks. ``It's a sad time ... when people have to wonder whether it's safe in their own country,'' Bolton said. The makers of the chip also foresee it being used to help emergency workers, for instance, diagnose a lost Alzheimer's patient or access an unconscious patient's medical history. Getting the implant would go something like this: A person or company buys the chip from Applied Digital for about $200 and the company encodes it with the desired information. The person seeking the implant takes the tiny device - about the size of a grain of rice, to their doctor, who can insert it with a large needle device. The doctor monitors the device for several weeks to make sure it doesn't move and that no infection develops. The device has no power supply, rather it contains a millimeter-long magnetic coil that is activated when a scanning device is run across the skin above it. A tiny transmitter on the chip sends out the data. Without a scanner, the chip cannot be read. Applied Digital plans to give away chip readers to hospitals and ambulance companies, in hopes they'll become standard equipment. The chip has drawn attention from several religious groups. Theologian and author Terry Cook said he worries the identification chip could be the ``mark of the beast,'' an identifying mark that all people will be forced to wear just before the end times, according to the Bible. Applied Digital has consulted theologians and appeared on the religious television program the ``700 Club'' to assure viewers the chip didn't fit the biblical description of the mark because it is under the skin and hidden from view. Even with the privacy and religious concerns, some are eager to use the product. Jeff s in Coral Springs, Fla., has contacted the company in hopes of becoming the first person to purchase the chip. s suffers from a number of serious allergies and wants to make sure medical personnel can diagnose him. ``They would know who to contact, they would know what medications I'm on, and it's quite a few,'' he said. ``They would know what I'm allergic to, what kind of operations I've had and where there might be problems.'' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 ----- Original Message ----- From: " Andy " <endofthedream@...> > It is only when the religions become > institutionalized that gross distortions occur. > > ~andy The bureaucracy of religion markets and manages, but the theory they're representing has as central doctrines, original sin, all life is suffering, submitting to so-called divine will, etc. etc. These creeds arose from the imaginations of the mind evolving and awakening and trying to answer questions that arose from contemplating the problems of life. They represent the best try, for the time. " Original sin " , " grace " , " submitting to the divine will " and other such ideas are played out, no further use. We are working on abundance for all; we are working on controlling life and death. Maybe we here trying this CR thing may even be considered as among the pioneers. We will have to synthesize our own religion, our own best answer. While i write this, i have a preacher playing on the radio. I just heard, " When you smoke that drug, that harmless herb, you don't know if some witch has cursed it. Then you are really in trouble, over- taken by darkness. I have seen it! " This is in America, even, in 2003. Let Jesus, Marx, Buddha all be retired and sleep in peace. -Hue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 --- In , " Hue " <kargo_cult@m...> wrote: > The bureaucracy of religion markets and manages, > but the theory they're representing has as central > doctrines, original sin, all life is suffering, submitting > to so-called divine will, etc. etc. These creeds arose > from the imaginations of the mind evolving and > awakening and trying to answer questions that arose > from contemplating the problems of life. *****What hasn't? It is *all* a product of 'mind.' > They > represent the best try, for the time. " Original sin " , > " grace " , " submitting to the divine will " and other > such ideas are played out, no further use. We are > working on abundance for all; we are working on > controlling life and death. *****There is no 'life and death.' They too arise in the imagination only. > Maybe we here trying > this CR thing may even be considered as among the > pioneers. We will have to synthesize our own > religion, our own best answer. > While i write this, i have a preacher playing on the > radio. I just heard, " When you smoke that drug, > that harmless herb, you don't know if some witch > has cursed it. Then you are really in trouble, over- > taken by darkness. I have seen it! " > This is in America, even, in 2003. > Let Jesus, Marx, Buddha all be retired and sleep in > peace. *****I would respectfully submit that the 'message' of Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tse, and others amounts to a 'rainbow in the dark.' (E.g., Buddha said, " The only evil is ignorance. " If one examines all those things that one considers to be 'evil,' one may find that the ultimate source of the arising of the evil is, in fact, ignorance. These dudes spoke some powerful truths imo. [p.s. Jesus never spoke of 'original sin' and all that silliness attendant to that...those are the church's teachings.]) ~ andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 I couldn't agree more, Hue. It is time to bring into being a new mythology (story) and give up the crippling, mental at the least, ways of at least the Christian religion as it stands these days. Ruth _________________________________________ From: " Hue " <kargo_cult@...> Reply- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:47:59 -0700 < > Subject: [ ] Re: Brave New World ----- Original Message ----- From: " Andy " <endofthedream@...> > It is only when the religions become > institutionalized that gross distortions occur. > > ~andy The bureaucracy of religion markets and manages, but the theory they're representing has as central doctrines, original sin, all life is suffering, submitting to so-called divine will, etc. etc. These creeds arose from the imaginations of the mind evolving and awakening and trying to answer questions that arose from contemplating the problems of life. They represent the best try, for the time. " Original sin " , " grace " , " submitting to the divine will " and other such ideas are played out, no further use. We are working on abundance for all; we are working on controlling life and death. Maybe we here trying this CR thing may even be considered as among the pioneers. We will have to synthesize our own religion, our own best answer. While i write this, i have a preacher playing on the radio. I just heard, " When you smoke that drug, that harmless herb, you don't know if some witch has cursed it. Then you are really in trouble, over- taken by darkness. I have seen it! " This is in America, even, in 2003. Let Jesus, Marx, Buddha all be retired and sleep in peace. -Hue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.