I've already done that, Stephen. You haven't even
noticed.
Hal
"A discouraging number of reputable poets
are sane beyond recall."
--E. B. White
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On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> 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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