← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · JoseyWales
Thread ID: 19556 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-08-10
2005-08-10 21:24 | User Profile
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2005-08-10 21:51 | User Profile
RFID tags, like the one in the e-Plate made by the U.K. firm Hills Numberplates, have built-in batteries, allowing them to broadcast data much farther than the small passive tags used to track inventory at retail stores.
The car batteries at AutoZone have these on the top surface of the battery. I asked the counter employee what it was for and if the warranty was void if removed. He said it was for inventory and the warranty would not be void for now, if removed. The store's alarm went off as I walked thru the RFID reader, after purchasing the battery.
It would be interesting to find out if the RFID on a car battery could be read outside the vehicle. It may not, since it's surrounded by metal under the hood.
Orwell could not have imagined 2005.
2005-08-11 05:38 | User Profile
[QUOTE=CWRWinger]Orwell could not have imagined 2005.[/QUOTE]Too true. American freedom has been dying for a long time, but it has never been in more danger than it's in now.
If I ever get issued a license plate with an RFID, I'll cut that damn thing out of there with a Dremel. Or the plate with the chip in it could just be tossed out and a crude new one made with the same number on it.
2005-08-11 14:20 | User Profile
[quote=Angler]If I ever get issued a license plate with an RFID, I'll cut that damn thing out of there with a Dremel. Or the plate with the chip in it could just be tossed out and a crude new one made with the same number on it.
Tut, tut, Angler. You wouldn't be contemplating a felony, would you? Because that's exactly what they'd make the offense of defacing a chipped license plate.
Of course, I'd be right there with you! :thumbsup:
2005-08-12 03:44 | User Profile
[QUOTE=MadScienceType]Tut, tut, Angler. You wouldn't be contemplating a felony, would you? Because that's exactly what they'd make the offense of defacing a chipped license plate. Oh, I'm sure they would. But I wouldn't care. I only answer to my own conscience, not to other human beings like myself. If a law is stupid or tyrannical and I see fit to break it, I do so. And I always have.
Of course, I'd be right there with you! :thumbsup:[/QUOTE]Glad to hear it, bro. :cheers:
I wish more people had the courage to say NO to tyranny, both present and future. If government thugs try to arrest someone for that and send him to the rape rooms, he should die with his boots on, taking as many of the MFs with him as possible. Some have already done this (e.g., at Waco), but not nearly enough Americans feel that strongly about freedom.