From: "Jeff Shultz" 

Number of the Beast time (Revelations, look it up yourself).

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Jeff Shultz
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As a student, my job is asking questions.


"Randy Holcomb"  wrote in message
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> (from Politech:)
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> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 09:40:28 -0800
> To: nobody{at}well.com
jwarren{at}well.com>
> Subject: 1999 patent issued for using barcode tatoos for human
> identification
>
> Aside from the comparison of this patent to the numbers tatooed on
> prisoners in Hitler's death-camps during World War II more than half a
> century ago, and its comparison to the barcode scanning systems that have
> been in use for decades to identify everything from cans of soup to
patient
> tags used in some hospitals and medical records -- one wonders what
> kindergarden child working in the US Patent and Trademark Office concluded
> that this was a non-obvious and novel "discovery" worthy of a patent?!
> The US PTO is obviously in need of some adult supervision!
> ===
>
http://patents.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+PATBIB-ALL+0+967198+0+7+25907+O
> F+1+1+1+PN%2f5878155
>
> United States Patent 5,878,155
> Heeter Mar. 2, 1999
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> Method for verifying human identity during electronic sale transactions
>
> Abstract
> A method is presented for facilitating sales transactions by electronic
> media. A bar code or a design is tattooed on an individual. Before the
> sales transaction can be consummated, the tattoo is scanned with a
scanner.
> Characteristics about the scanned tattoo are compared to characteristics
> about other tattoos stored on a computer database in order to verify the
> identity of the buyer. Once verified, the seller may be authorized to
debit
> the buyer's electronic bank account in order to consummate the
transaction.
> The seller's electronic bank account may be similarly updated.
>
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>
> Here's an article from last year on Heeter's patent:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991023/patentrigh.html
> Some folks were upset:
>
http://www.av1611.org/666/index.html
http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/mark.htm
http://sites.netscape.net/tadprophet/waymarks
>
> So we know that a man named Thomas W. Heeter, who lives in or near
Houston,
> Texas last year received a patent on this barcode scheme. What's
> interesting is that a man also named Thomas W. Heeter, who also lives in
or
> near Houston, recently ran for election as a family court judge.
> -Declan
>
> The Houston Chronicle
> March 11, 1999
> Ex-judge candidate sues Fox television
> By RON NISSIMOV
>
> A former Democratic candidate for a Harris County state district judge
> position has sued Fox television, two reporters and a lawyer regarding
> broadcasts that questioned his competency to serve as judge.
> Lawyer Thomas W. Heeter, who ran unopposed in the March 10, 1998,
> Democratic primary for 312th state district judge, is representing himself
> in the state district suit he filed Tuesday.
>
> The suit said that broadcasts last year from March 5 to March 15 wrongly
> accused Heeter of "being subject to a mental health warrant, being
> previously convicted for indecent exposure, offering a $ 50,000 bribe to
> Judge T.O. Stansbury, carrying a gun and threatening to cause bodily
injury
> (and) lying about his county of residence in order to run for public
> office."
> The Harris County Democratic party decided in May 1998 not to back Heeter
> because of his "personal and professional challenges," said
Sue Schechter,
> county Democratic chairwoman, at the time. Heeter dropped out of the race
> before the November 1998 election
>
> [...]
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