No problem Andrea.

Our country has disease systems in place that work just fine.

Tell us, did barcode technology make your grocery shopping experience faster as advertised? You're in an urban area I think, have the latest developments of checking out yourself improved the experience, made it friendlier, lessened local employment opportunity or lessened the cost?

Extrapolate the trends ... which reminds me of a audio link previously presented here about a man trying to order a pizza from his cell on his way home from work where the pizza order taker gave him all kind of grief. Or that wonderful google extravaganza about data mining, that I wish I hadn't lost the link to.

As to the rice sized company you mention, I am a long time investor. I can assure you, they have every intention of chipping every creature on the planet and USG/military officials(of other governments too), beginning some years ago, have discussed it with ADSX, the parent company of Digital Angel. IBM has a big stake in ADSX too. Plans ...

It's some incredible technology. Containing GPS, RFID, on- board memory, its own power supply and is coated with a special polymer that adhers to living flesh so that it doesn't migrate from the preferred location. And they endeavoring to nano size it.

And, when the time comes, you will either be chipped, or starve. Assuredly it will follow a similar path as REAL ID. Coming in early 2008: which if you don't have a REAL ID you will not be able to: board a plane, train, enter a government building, open a checking account, find new employeement receive a government subsidy, as but a few examples. And BTW, did y'all know that REAL ID is going to have at least 4, count em four! color codes with rights/cessation of rights associated to the color.

In addition: there are already companies that are demanding their employees be chipped for internal security reasons(& its legal); there are Clubs one cannot enter without a chip, no wallets allowed(making it chic); insurance companies up my way are deciding there policy holders that do not have a medical chip implanted will have to pay larger premiums(making it unavoidable economically), etc.

I assure dear, as with 9/11, NAIS, the Texas Transportation Corridor, IPMC, NAFTA, CAFTA, REAL ID, the SPP and so on, you will be force fed this fer yer own good. And if you resist, you will starve, find yourself employeed as prison labor, or depopulated. Do you really think the Army has spent $475 million the last two years for Halliburton to build new and resusitate old internment camps with rail lines and fresh fencing, because there is no plan. Tell us again Reg about your emergency response reading.

I dearly wish I could get my fellow Americans and the lovely honorable Kathryns of the world to comprehend that they are little more than a comglomeration of expendable cells to the people who actually run this planet.

In the short run anyhow.

Oh well, you know I wish you all the best Andrea:)