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Jim
Jim
9 years ago

Ah medication controlled thru your cell phone. Sounds like the Robin Cook book aptly named “cell”. Good conspiracy read……

Joe
Joe
9 years ago

“Smart medication” + “smart guns”

Because think of the children. We have to protect the mentally insane from access to guns.

Get charged but not convicted of a crime? You must take this pill to prevent you from hurting others with a gun. It’s only temporary.

You’re right jack, this rabbit hole is very deep.

Insidious
Insidious
9 years ago

@Modern –
Two additional bits of pill RFID chips you missed! 😉

‘Think of Grandma! Do you want your Grandma to die!’
iPhone App that lets grandma know if she’s taken all of her pills today! And let’s her kids check up on it after she gets Alzheimers.

Pill-Driving!
‘Hackers’ (not the real definition) will drive around neighborhoods with souped up RFID antennas to determine what house to break into to get the best prescription drugs. RFID tag is probably larger than the medicine, so just sift the RFID tag out, and resell it on the street.

😉

(The New) Mike Cornwell
Reply to  Insidious

I looked at the feedback show specifically to see if you posted.

Don’t you need to have your general contractor hat to put on? HA!!

Love ya. =)

Roundabouts
Roundabouts
9 years ago

To pay off mortgage or not. Struggle with this one every day. Yeah looking at all the options. Play the numbers game with paper pencil and calculator. We are so very very close only 18k left to go. pmt only 320 @ 3%. Hate to hit savings that hard. Plan was to have it paid off at this time. As it goes other unexpected things came up like a huge survey issue and carpenter ants were eating the house. GRRR glad we had the cash to deal without taking on more debt. Dayum seems that’s always the way it goes. make a plan then poof something comes up.

At 53 I am so excited to sit with ZERO debt. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. So badly I want to pull the trigger and throw down the cash to cross that finish line. Now with the survey done no longer tied to big bank with the neighbors (what a nightmare) That freedom feels GREAT!! I want more. Just is pay off the best way to get it? That’s what we have to look at. Time is not on our side for a mistake correction. Crystal ball would be great sometimes wouldn’t it. LOL

deepprep
deepprep
9 years ago

As someone who’s part of the regrarians group and your group and a handful of other overlaping permaculture-ish fb groups, I think that you’re retelling of the story is a little off. A quick search of regrarians, and your first post there was the end of February, and all you contributed since then was posting memes about liberty and links to the Duck Chronicles. I don’t think you gave a non-self-serving contribution the whole time. I like most of your work, Jack, but you kinda drama-queened it in a way that is kind of embarrassing for you. I’m sure you’d never admit it, or that you bullied people who outwardly disagreed with you. But, whether you like it or not, you came off as a big baby, taking your toys and leaving (though you denied it). Yeah, there were some liberal/commie/sjw/man-hating/vegans in the group, but through those posts, it was revealed that there were a lot more thin-skinned white males just waiting to take offense at something. And as a straight, white male and a fan of your work, it was embarrassing to see.

deepprep
deepprep
9 years ago
Reply to  deepprep

not sure about that. A simple search of the group didn’t bring up very many comments by you. Also, there were a couple times you threatened violence to people. Some aussie name Cam or something like that. I think your skin is just much thinner than you are willing to admit.

Matt
Matt
9 years ago

welcome to social justice, Jack.
Reason and facts don’t matter. The only things that matter are your skin color, race, gender and sexual orientation (and they have the audacity to call other people racists and bigots) and how oppressed/how much of a victim you are because of these things.
These people are a goddamn plague that try to suck the fun out of everything because somebody, somewhere might get offended.
look up “cyberviolence” if you wanna know why deepprep thinks you are “violent”. The tl;dr version is that mean tweets are equivalent to real violence.

Stephen
Stephen
9 years ago

Meant to send this yesterday when I was listening. Do you remember the guy Grant Schultz was doing the talk with at PV? The yurt guy? I’d love to look him up.

Ms. Albatross
Ms. Albatross
9 years ago
Reply to  Stephen

I believe it was Peter Allen.

LightHorse
LightHorse
9 years ago

There is a movie based on a book that takes place in a dystopian future where the citizens take a daily dose to suppress their emotions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_%28film%29

Suzanne
Suzanne
9 years ago

However you want to crunch mortgage numbers, there is something very freeing about not having a monthly house payment. I was done in April 2014 and it’s still hard for me to believe I never have to take the checkbook out again and make a payment. I don’t care if I could have invested the money and made a few hundred dollars, the freedom is far more worth it to me.

Roundabouts
Roundabouts
9 years ago
Reply to  Suzanne

Congratulations! I think that is awesome. The freedom of not having a mortgage is what I keep looking at we are so very close. I imagine that feeling every day. Good for you.

Stephen
Stephen
9 years ago
Reply to  Suzanne

Though, Jack, if you’re not paying a mortgage, that would free up at least $1k/month. That amount of money would put a lot of food on the table. And it seems like you have bigger budget problems if you’re paying your yearly taxes out of your cash reserves instead of cash-flowing it or saving throughout the year.

We just paid off our student loans with a lump $6k payment, and though that depleted our savings down to $1k, we’re building it up twice as fast as we could have since we’re not paying $500/month to the bank.

Jeff P
Jeff P
9 years ago

Jack…
I am a Nurse Practitioner student and I am in the process of selecting a topic for my Health Policy class. I searched for the article your source provided regarding RFID chips in medications, but what I found was RFID in the boxes for the bulk medications, not individual bottles or doses. Is it possible to get the title or author? I would love to use this as my topic….would drive my liberal prof nuts!
Thanks in advance.

Insidious
Insidious
9 years ago
Reply to  Jeff P

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/digital-pills-make-their-way-to-market.html

Quote:
Eric Topol…is not affiliated with the company…but he embraces the sensor’s futuristic appeal, saying “It’s like big brother watching you take your medicine.”

Uh huh. ‘Big brother’ is now the GOAL of digital technology.

Apparently we were wrong, 1984 was intended as an instruction manual, not a cautionary tale. /s

Jeff P
Jeff P
9 years ago
Reply to  Insidious

Thank you.

Insidious
Insidious
9 years ago
Reply to  Insidious

http://www.proteus.com/

Science!

Not about should-a! All about could-a!

P.S. Another TOOL, can be used for good or evil

Jeff P
Jeff P
9 years ago
Reply to  Insidious

So the dilemma is do I write the paper to satisfy my prof who would love this idea or take the hit for my morals? Guess I can live with a B…lol.

"Nicole"
"Nicole"
9 years ago
Reply to  Jeff P

Below is more information including the contact information for Proteus Health

“Proteus is creating a new category of therapy: Digital Medicines. Digital Medicine therapy includes drugs that communicate when they’ve been taken, wearable sensors that capture physiologic response, applications that support patient self-care and physician decision making, and data analytics to serve the needs of doctors and health systems. The goal of Digital Medicines is to empower patients and their families, enable physicians and health systems to more effectively manage risk and ensure that outcomes are reliably achieved.

Proteus received FDA market clearance in the United States and a CE mark in Europe for its wearable and Ingestible Sensor devices. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., Proteus is privately held and funded by leading institutional and corporate investors, including:, Novartis, Otsuka, Oracle and Kaiser Permanente. For more information, visit http://www.proteus.com.”

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150702005115/en/Medical-Device-Cleared-FDA-Adherence-Claim#.VZq60PlVhBe

Stephanie
Stephanie
9 years ago

Are these RFID’s dissolvable? Or are we going to have billions of little RFID’s floating in our lakes and oceans and having fish digesting them? Didn’t we learn anything with the plastic microbeads?

Stephanie
Stephanie
9 years ago

Maybe the RFID is in the patch? When I read the article it said something about a device made of copper and magnesium that reacts with your stomach juices….Maybe that creates the signal and then the RFID in the patch picks it up.

Either way, I think it’s really dumb and it motivates me more than ever to stay the hell away from mainstream medicine.

Jeff P
Jeff P
9 years ago

As a current ICU nurse, functionally I am not sure how this would work. We often have to crush medications to put them down feeding tubes. I doubt the manufacturers would want to have two separate manufacturing process lines for each medication.

MRWVU
MRWVU
9 years ago

This should make you laugh jack. South Park hit the nail on the head with being PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfNZsCROg50

Mark
Mark
9 years ago

It’s amazing to see how far trolls will go. Ive always thought there would be some place on the internet that trolls would stay away from, but I guess not.

(The New) Mike Cornwell

Regarding the Regrarians thing.

It’s 100% out of sociology classes in Universities, which is one of the largest majors anywhere. It’s a bullshit major (I know I have it) and it’s a check in the box that is meaningless. Most people in those classes do terrible and yet their exceptionally easy. In almost every single scenario and every single class they preaches this absolute nonsense. Even though there is some interesting things to the discipline, overwhelmingly it’s this ridiculous crap you’re speaking about. Always, always perpetuated by white children. (Lets call them what they are)

Michael Sparks
9 years ago

Great episode. Like the advice on keeping the mortgage and having the ability at anytime to pay it off but having the safety of the cash or investments hopefully they are safe and liquid that you can use for other things. This is sound thinking.

On setting up your own bank. We started this 3 years ago. Hopefully won’t have to use current banks (for credit) in the near future.

Good stuff.

Insidious
Insidious
9 years ago
Reply to  Michael Sparks


PLEASE fill out the guest form and let us know about this process. =)

‘Sanity’ Credit Union? (any sane person can become a member)

(The New) Mike Cornwell
Reply to  Insidious

I second this. I was very interested in this. Insidious and I have talked in the past about Sam Waltons creation of a Walmart credit arm.