oooh this is the first ever thread I've started in here cos usually, it all gets too much for me and I have to leave this forum!

But anyway, here goes!
There is this bar in Glasgow called Soba and they are introducing a new type of identification for their customers by.....placing a microchip under the skin!!
I'm not sure where this microchip would be placed exactly, or how much it would cost to have this treatment but basically, at the bar, there will be something that scans everyone with a microchip and acts as the customers "tab" so to speak which they'll just pay for at the end of the night. Also, the microchip will let bar staff know of the cusomers favourite drink so they get it ready in time!
Also, they will serve as ID to let people into different functions at the bar and stuff so they don't have to **** around with Guestlists and stuff.
There are probably more benefits to it but I read the article in a rush today and just caught the jist of it.

If you ask me, it's pretty uneccessary and the thought of getting something implanted under your skin just for the sake of getting served quicker in a bar seems ridiculous! But a small part of me is curious...

So what do you think? Is this ethical or not? Is it a good idea or a bad one?

DISCUSS!

And I swear to god, this is not a wind-up. It is 100% true!

Can't they simply give these people a wrist band or special ID Card with the chip in it that has the latest finger print ID technology.....

Sorry but I think having such a chip put under my skin just so I can get a beer or six is a bit excessive! :wacko:

peej - well done chucky for venturing forth into unknown terriotory!!

What you have described sounds like it involves needles - cue medical person who can tell me chips can be inserted without the use of a needle?

If I owned/managed a bar like that - I would have to do some serious research into who my clientele would be before I introduced something as utterly drastic as that.

No - as I am typing I would have to resist. For one, the only clientele you would attract would be people, who not only lived fairly local, but also those who would be able to put up with a needle being injected etc etc blah blah - but then if you had visiting customers - oh I don't know but perhaps Man Utd or Ncle Utd - they would not get in cos they were not tagged.

I have now completely talked myself out of this idea!

No it is stupid - and peej hon do the old Flipster a favour and walk past it one day and do a one fingered salute on my behalf!!

I think the idea is insane!

In fact, while getting my menagerie microchipped, I had serious thought as to if it was an unnecessary invasion for them...but, they had to have them, no chip, no passports!

I would think there could be serious implications as to this, do the people mad enough to agree have to sign a disclaimer re physical assault, any possible complications, the reversal of the procedure in the future?
We used to rubber stamp people at various events at the museums so they could wader in and out of the buildings at weekend events and some exhibitions to show they had paid, we used harmless waterbased dye but some years ago we had to stop that because we could have been done for physical assault even with the permission of the person at the time of stamping!

I love my beer, but not that much!
M

It's all boll*cks PJ.

It's all boll*cks PJ.
What, the story or the idea?

what a load of b*ll*x!!!!!!

It seems to me that we are becoming more and more like the dodgy Sci-Fi movies of the 70' and 80's.........

which is VERY worrying - do the "powers that be" not realise that the Fi at the end of Sci-Fi is actually an abbreviation for FICTION!!!!!

The UK's Government is fast becoming a DICTATORSHIP - which smacks of double standards and hypocricy when you consider one of the reaons given for the UK and US invading Iraq :angry:

placing the chip under the skin is a bit much. couldnt a id card or wristband like coastie says suffice? coz they benefits do sound good. and i for one would be tempted to not pay the tab and do a runner if i was drunk enough!!