Peter Trei <trei@process.com> Wrote: On a more speculative note, many years ago Harlan Ellison wrote an anti-statist short story entitled '"Repent Harlequin!" cried the Tick-Tock Man.' , in which the government required all adults to be surgically fitted with 'cardioplates', which allowed the state to turn off the hearts of uncooperative citizen-units by radio. -------- NYP reports today on the thriving market for Radio Frequency Identification (R.F.-ID) tags. And FiTi reports today on tagging cattle, tracking meat from cradle to abbatoir, to ward off mad cow assassination politics. Are these precursors of CU body-tags acoming from ARPA labs? E-Systems and a bunch of comp-conspirators just got supercalifrigalistic HPCC contracts. ----- For the NYT and FiTi reports, see: http://jya.com/cutags.txt CUT_ags