When you talk about profecy, please provide a reference.

Ah, "one-world cashless financial system" cannot be found in the Bible, you say? Come on, "mark of the Beast" is not coming close to describing cash or tracking devices. The text pretty much describes a *tatoo worn on the forehead*.

Stop "interpreting" texts by inserting meanings they do not have. That is a big source of man-created wars and strife, which is NOT christian (example: cusades, jihad, Al-Quaeda, inquisition).

Moreover, a "one-world currency" has existed and been in universal use for daily transactions until quite recently: gold. Do you object using gold?

There is a related opinion piece on Salon.com right now:
The government's one-way mirror

Except collective bargaining for labor conditions and remuneration, what is that, pray tell?

Your analogy is flawed. Il would replace it with this nice IP story.

Timmy has a secret recipe to turn lead into gold. Timmy builds a big company to use that recipe, in such a way that most employees do not know the recipe. Timmy also has made a contract with all those who know the recipe that it is not to be communicated to anybody else.

Some day, someone talks, and the recipe is published in the newspaper. Timmy is furious, and bans any employee access to that newspaper. Any employee caught reading that newspaper, regardless if the particular issue read contains the recipe, will get the employee imprisoned in Timmy's gaol, and at Timmy's whim the employee can be thrown in the molten lead vats.

Now, tell me what this accomplishes? Nothing. Everybody has the recipe anyway.

THAT is a good analogy for the situation. Idea != object.

The last time there has been an article on the subject, we were at 9x9 pixels. I can infer that some parallel can be made with the general speed of progress in electronics and expect that within a quick decade it will be hi-res and not require too much power to be implanted with day-long batteries.

Also, inductive charging is quite an elegant solution in this context: no gore, all the joules.

I also suppose that the installation of guard rails on highways reflects the builders' understanding that he is culpable for driver deaths...

Dumbass.

Thing is, GPS per se is a receive-only system. The emitters are in orbit. Therefore, the equipement manufacturers can use just about anything for the report link-back: wi-fi, spread-spectrum, FM, UWB, ULF (unlikely!), IR/laser, anything.

Of course, you could always jam the GPS frequency, but any dumbass doing "drive-by-wire" on their GPS are going to get wierd readings around your car...

The best defense is doing a regular sweep of your vehicles for new extra parts. The device will be one of two formats: autonomous (smallish because it includes a battery) or wired (can be very small, but has to be wired on the power system of your car). Or parking them in a faraday cage and doing a field sweep.

Now, where did I leave my shiny hat again?

I have seen 1992 Honda's that spewed blue and green smoke, but I don't know of any that are green anymore. More like reddish brown.

Of course, that may be because after passing the 15-year mark a car is mostly shot.

Creole has not developed in the USA. It's based on french, which was the "official" language of the black slaves imported from the Antilles, and various african languages.

In New Orleans, the Cadiens (now written "Cajun") descend from displaced french canadians and also evolved a distinct accent of french in their new english-dominated residence. It's still quite close to standard french by all means, but there are very discinctive regionalisms.

But I digress. I don't buy the "community cutting every head that strives to get ahead" argument. It's used on french canadians and the tough reality is that if two populations live separately, you develop regionalisms and accents. Of course the speed at which this phenomenon happens varies widely.

Brainfuck.

Get Navit. OSM and open source software all downloaded on the phone FTW

You should try again, the interface has changed lately. I don't know when it changed, but I had a need for it in January and it came with a more conventional interface AND a manual.

YMMV

You missed something: dad was in *residential real estate*. That's probably equivalent to "jobless" these days anyway.