Barcoding introduced to Sheepsta

Sheep · June 19, 2003, 04:58

Sheepstan President, Field Marshall Philip Dunning, has announced a plan to barcode all Sheepstan citizens with implanted chips to enable to track their movements.

This will be used for a number of purposes namely to continue new measures to curb what can only be called a growing crime rate.

Not only has this meassure been introduced, but it has been applauded by members of the National Socialist Party of Sheepsta, the only legal political faction.

Other measures recently adopted were to censor violence from television replacing it with racist television mainly cultivating a deep hatred from Alecrast many Sheepstans already posses.

An offical from the Ministry of Public Information and Enlightment has acertained that the Field Marshall has prven insturmental in the implementation of such programs. These programs build the national consious and although we are not militarily strong opposed to other regional powers, we are capable of defending ourselves.

HEIL DUNNING

Whaleboy · June 19, 2003, 09:53

lovely

Whaleboy · June 19, 2003, 09:54

ooc: Sheep, how about keeping these announcements to one internel affairs thread? Thats what I'm going to do next time something comes up in the LF, seems more efficient?

So whats going on with this war?
/ooc

Sheep · June 19, 2003, 22:50

occ: Arachic really can;t declare war on me without getting egg on his face.

I like the idea of the Internal Affairs thread. I will prbs start using it.

Drogue · June 20, 2003, 08:07

As Sheep said, there is no war yet, just tension and a blockade.

Urban Ranger · June 22, 2003, 14:45

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Originally posted by Sheep
Sheepstan President, Field Marshall Philip Dunning, has announced a plan to barcode all Sheepstan citizens with implanted chips to enable to track their movements.

[OOC]
If you can explain the technology behind this, I'll let you have it. Otherwise, forget it.[/OOC]

Giovanni Wine · June 22, 2003, 15:57

I think he is just refering to that NationStates issue, where one of the choices is to barcode the citizens in order to keep track of their movements.

(The other two are to build a system of surveillance camerar or to not build said system)

Saluti

Urban Ranger · June 22, 2003, 22:42

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The NS issue is to have a national wide ID card. That's fine. His is "implanted chips," which is another beast altogether.

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Sheep · June 23, 2003, 03:20

My 'implanted chips' are just taking the thing a little fither. Think of them as small computer chips, not unlike ID cards implanted under the skin.

I cannot say anything else for national security reasons.

GeneralTacticus · June 23, 2003, 04:38

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The NS issue is to have a national wide ID card. That's fine. His is "implanted chips," which is another beast altogether.

Actually, the NS issue has the option of a national ID Card and barcoding, and when you pick that option, it says "citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements".

Sheep · June 23, 2003, 04:40

Basically I was using my imagination with the issue. Isn;t that what rp is?

Urban Ranger · June 23, 2003, 04:40

The barcode is on the ID card.

Urban Ranger · June 23, 2003, 04:41

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Originally posted by Sheep
My 'implanted chips' are just taking the thing a little fither. Think of them as small computer chips, not unlike ID cards implanted under the skin.

I cannot say anything else for national security reasons.

My problem is with unspecified uber technolgy.

Mr. President · June 23, 2003, 05:03

You could implement a thing like that incrementally, and at great expense by deploying people to every hospital in the country and implanting all the new births.

To get older people, you could have dentists or doctors implant them at routine check-ups.

I still think it's ubertech, though.

(Not to mention a rip-off of Left Behind.)

Sheep · June 23, 2003, 05:04

I was kind of ripping off Demolition Man. Hey it doesn;t have any real affect on the rp enviornment tho.

Drogue · June 23, 2003, 18:43

Yes, it is not ubertech like military, it is something to RP around what NS states. Come on guys, its easily possible today, having a barcode on a chip just udner someones skin. Just because he may not know how to do it, doesn't mean someone doesn't. Moreover, we don't need to on Earth, as we have no plans to. Since they wish to, they develop different things. They might not have the same spec home PCs and the like, but have concentrated on barcoding and other tech. It doesn't have to be exactly the same as Earth, just close to and not massivly advantageous above anyone else. Please be liberal and not picky about everything. Yes a faster than light space ship is ubertech, but if barcoding is, a manned mission to mars is too, as UR and elijah have planned. However both are not massively over, if at all. If they wanted to do that, with 10 years development, they could well have, it is just in Earth, we didn't place such a high priority on it. Ubertech is stuff that is way out there, not stuff that might be a couple of years away on earth, and that with a higher priority, could have been done.

GeneralTacticus · June 24, 2003, 04:43

I don't see why barcoding could be considered even vaguely ubertech. Just tattoo it onto the skin, if nothing else.

Drogue · June 24, 2003, 15:19

Exactly my opinion.

Sheep · June 24, 2003, 22:07

Anyways. Lord Protector Leo IV has declared that barcoding be stopped and all fiels pertaining it should be destroyed. It is considered an invasion of provacy under the Second Holy Empire.

GeneralTacticus · June 25, 2003, 00:56

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Anyways. Lord Protector Leo IV has declared that barcoding be stopped and all fiels pertaining it should be destroyed.

Depending on how far that decree was taken, this could result in the destruction of a large area of modern science in Sheepsta...

Sheep · June 25, 2003, 00:58

Meaning only the files on what barcode numbers mean which people