From: pharvey@mipos3.intel.com (Paul Harvey)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.slack,alt.discordia,alt.pagan,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:27:00 GMT
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Organization: 2/3'rds Nation

In article <BxBAAs.BA2@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> 
jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:
>I must say that I laughed very hard after reading this, but just in case
>the guy's serious... :)

You think you can front when Revelation comes?

>mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
>>                           THE "MARK OF THE BEA$T"
>>               ALL Christians are PROHIBITED by Revelation 14:9-11 from 
>>          cooperating with the "MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T" bar-code, OCR-
>>          number, and magnetic-strip scanning systems, (as found in 
>>          local libraries, supermarkets, retail establishments, etc.), 
>>          which also THREATEN to SUBVERT Individual Privacy and 
>>          Freedom. 
>No more than putting labels on things.  "Egad!  It's got 'Del Monte
>Sliced Peach Halves in Light Syrup' written on it!  It's the devil's
>doing I tell you!"

'Del Monte Sliced Peach Halves in Light Syrup' is not the same as UPC! Laugh
now, but try it when the Great Whore of Bablyon sits on your face!

>>               The scanners can serve THE SAME CRIMINAL PURPOSE as the 
>>          TV cameras in the book "1984"! 
>I'm afraid that's technically completely invalid.  A bar code is just a
>set of lines that are easy for a simple mechanism to distinguish and
>translate into numerical values.

Yes, it is a simple mechanism. But, oh the ramifications!

>It's similar in many ways to Morse code.

Yeah, only different, right?

>The idea being that a computer has a very difficult time
>distinguishing alphanumerics.

As do Babylonians, I might add! Being of the CUNEiform persuasion. (Drieux just
drew) warned us of the ramifications of excepting the hindOO notion of zero
and extending the precision of pi beyond three.

>You can think of it as an "alphabet for computers".

Think of it as the MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T. That *IS* what *IT* is!

>It's impossible to read a bar code that's covered or otherwise hidden.

Yes, I see you understand the underlying hediousness of it all. Damn those
creeping creatures of the earth! And damn those fishmongers! Oh the pinkness
of it all!

>Now, if you want to talk about "smartcards" and
>other systems that transmit their ID code as a person carrying them
>passes through a scanner, those can in fact be used to monitor who's
>going where, but not what they're doing, and only if they're wearing
>the card.

And buying the goods! And what type of UNDERwear! And OVERcounter drugs! Not
to even mention that ultra-evil, the plastic! She'll spend your papes and use
up all your plastic, push up in the wrong one end up in a casket!

>>               The UPC bar-codes are probably the most blatant form of 
>>          the "MARK OF THE BEA$T" so far, with the "NUMBER OF THE 
>>          BEA$T", 666, ALREADY CODED INTO THEM.  Each of the so-called 
>>          "guard patterns", pairs of thin lines spaced close together 
>>          at the beginning, middle, and end of each full-length UPC 
>>          bar-code, is IDENTICAL to one of the two codes for a 6. 
>Maybe on some codes, but certainly not most.  You forget that these are
>human artifacts, and we humans have an undying propensity for jokes.  I
>expect that someone thought it would be funny to put "666" into a code,
>in much the same way that "42" (most popularly from the HitchHiker's
>Guide to the Galaxy) finds its way into such things as .tiff format
>headers as the identification string.

I'm afraid it's much worse than we've been warned. The False Prophets 
multiply as we sh*t.

>>               WARN YOUR FRIENDS!
>>               UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this 
>>          IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED. 
>>                                   Robert E. McElwaine
>Yes, we'll be sure to distribute it around the globe so everyone can
>write your name into their list of "religious nutcases".

Go ahead, ignore the obvious warnings! Take the MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T if you
have not already done so. CLING to the plastic and other ARTificials. IGnore
the New World Order.

ObConspiracy: NO, there are no CIA/NAZI/MAFIA/FSLIC/... connections, I
repeat, never ever ever! And it is not possible to make paper or rope or
canvas or jeans from the hemp plant! Never ever ever! Are you with me so far?

ObPagan: So, let me see if I got this straight: In Langue d'Oc, Roma
backwards is amor? OK, OK, I get the Langue d'Ouil but what is this Langue
d'Oc? And why do we need a Rhone river if there is already a Rhine? Ah, these
problems, c'est un Central Massif, oui? Je'n sais pas! Sabe?

ObTalk.Religion.Misc: In Vino Veritas! PS: I've been talking to Jesus and He
says Mormons really are Christians. And he say only ska beat in Heaven, no
Pat Boone, sorry, no can do!
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