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From: 00DNA mcmanus@******.albany.edu
Subject: Human barcodes
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:05:29 -0400
>At 01:32 PM 9/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Richard Tomasso <rtomasso@*******.com> once wrote
>>
>> > Check out this patent:
>> >
>> >
>>http://patents.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+PATBIB-ALL+0+946309+0+7+25907+O
>>F+1+1+1+PN%2f5%2c878%2c155
>> >
>>
>>Hey... I bet any Bible-thumping freak (no disrespect, but I don't think we
>>have one here) will go crazy over this...
>>
>>Besides, I mean, I'm as liberal, open to new ideas, as the next guy. But
>>barcoding humans? I dunno, there's something...unhealthy about that. We
>>barcode products, we barcode humans, hence humans=products. Go sophisms!
>
At 01:55 PM 9/17/99 -0500, Pantherr wrote:
>I will not be reduced to a number. I am an individual, with individual
>likes and dislikes. I will NOT be treated as cattle/sheep by 'the
>establishment', no matter what 'the establishment' may be
>
>Pantherr

Hey don't worry...the numbers would be unique too!!
haha


--00DNA
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