Hal, I would suggest attach a chip to each of your poems. This way you could
delight in the history of knowing their readership, as well as collecting
royalties, and policing those who might think they can cop your sonnets,
etc. for free off the web. And it will also be a wonderful way to have your
poems stay in touch with your off-spring after we are all long gone. (They
can get an implant at birth, and do so for each succeeding generation - and
the devil take them if they do not read your work!).
Chip-Chip,
Stephen V
> As with most technologies, there are trade-offs involved here,
> Stephen. It's not hard to imagine circumstances where I'd be
> quite happy to have one of those chips implanted in me: say,
> if I were lost at sea, floating alone in a rubber dinghy way off
> the shipping lanes; if I were kidnapped and held for ransom in an
> undisclosed location; if I were lost in the Gila Wilderness, etc. etc.
>
> Hal
>
> Today's Special
>
> G(e)nome
> http://www.xpressed.org/fall03/genome.pdf
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>>
>> It would be sweet irony to see these anti-abortion ("Pro-Life)
>> folks take on
>> a fight against the "chip implanters." Call themselves "Right to
>> No Chips."
>>
>> I mean there is something inherently much more dangerous (re civil
>> liberties, health et al) about physically implanting 'totalitarian'
>> chips to
>> control a individual's body compared to the way low risk of a woman or
>> couple choosing to have an abortion.
>>
>> Stephen V
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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