Of course what really matters is whether SHE believed it would workā¦
I would like to formally petition the Norse Pantheon to free Loki and get Ragnarok started. I hear that that apocalypse option allows for a hard reboot of the human species.
At toorcamp a few years back, I watched people line up to have these kind of chips implanted in their hands. Something to do with password access to computers, I guess.
Everytime I sell plasma, I get one fingernail painted with UV reactive nail polish. Itās sobering to realize that this is to keep their property rights to my blood distinct from other such ranches.
Saves having to learn all their namesā¦
Alternately, you could use the Feed spell and trigger a Seismoros event.
/bonus: new question list!
Tracking chips: not just a fantasy for crackdown conservatives anymore!
(Iām aware that this was just an RFID chip, but I like the comparison.)
I thought about that, but wouldnāt the suture itself have sufficed?
ā¦ which just highlights yet another advantage of socialised healthcare. I donated plasma this morning (less than two hours ago, actually), and I donated it - I canāt sell it, and there is only one organisation which can receive it, which not coincidentally is a component piece of the national healthcare system. They do keep records, but thatās to maintain the integrity of the supply, rather than asserting ownership over me.
I do have to wonder what the motivation is here. I donāt doubt for a second that humans are scumbag enough to try; but the āverichipā(and any conceptually similar) implantable RFIDs do nothing more than respond with a hardcoded unique value when a suitable scanner is brought into proximity. The theory with pets was that they are harder to lose than a collar and tags; and that vets/pounds/etc. could scan unknown animals and then contact the company with the serial number to get the actual ID info from their database.
Itās slightly more amenable to large-scale use than just remembering faces; and somewhat less overt than a tattoo(unless you use some sort of steganographic design to conceal the ID number); but it possesses quite limited capabilities.
I wonder if the objective was to have a convincing prop whose capabilities you could oversell to the victim? Somebodyās control-freakery extra satisfied by an implanted ID?
āVery plainly, human trafficking is when one person takes advantage of another person for some profit,ā said Katherine Chon, director of the newly created Office on Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
By that definition almost everyone in the workforce is being trafficked. Sounds like the woman was being abused/pimped by her boyfriend. Iām not sure Iād conflate that with trafficking. Tragic yes, but not on the same scale as organized crime/slavery.
How does such a mark enforce their property right? They already have your plasma when you visit to sell it; and I assume that the polish either degrades or gets nail-clipped off during the period when you arenāt considered medically safe for further extraction.
The only way it could enforce their claim is if the competition down the street agreed to honor the tag and send you back to their competitor if they detected the tag on a potential seller.
Given the state of the US plasma industry, Iād be inclined to suspect that itās an attempt to curb some of the less savory practices that tend to spring up at the low end of the market(the real good old days of prison blood-farms are allegedly over; but the business still has some areas of spotty QA).
Depending on the circumstances the RFID chip would work exactly as imagined/intended.
Consider a brothel environment where it would be easy to triangulate:
Pimp1: āWhereās Mary?ā
Pimp2: āShe said she was going down the hall to use the bathroom.ā
Pimp1: [grabs tablet] āThen why da fuq is she by the back door right now?ā
Maybe the pimp is using this to collect a specific prostituteās income into a database. Scan the RFID chip, enter the amount of cash.
The only other thing I can think of is a human trafficking operation so large that they need to tag inventory like this. And thatās too horrible to ponder.
Everytime I sell plasma, I get one fingernail painted with UV reactive nail polish. Itās sobering to realize that this is to keep their property rights to my blood distinct from other such ranches.
Two questions:
What are they getting for a plasma donation these days?
Is the marker to keep you from donating too many times in a month, or for some other reason?
Iād say itās mostly the other reason: When you sell human tissue in the 'states, you are also signing over biometric telemetry (I think thatās the term) which includes anything useful for research purposes.
In short, theyāre tagging sellers so that other outfits know that the potentially lucrative data is already purchased.
And it probably curbs the amount of ādouble dippingā very desperate people might do to make extra cash, which legitimizes the practice.
I donāt believe thatās actually the intent at all. Itās to prevent desperate people from visiting multiple centers and selling unhealthy amounts of plasma.
We had a bit of a scandal some years back when it became clear that the NHS was selling high grade donated blood to over seas customers and buying low quality stuff back. Just the sort of thing that happens when psychopaths and accountants take over your public institutions.
The horrific details of Human Trafficking get weirder every time I read about it, itās just disgusting what Humans do to other Humans.
Whenever I hear talk about the ability for human beings to police themselves - a lack of āregulationā if you will - I would think this kind of thing would bring someone right back to reality.
And yet, we should all just let the free market do its magicā¦
