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- From: jimb@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Jim Brown)
- Newsgroups: talk.rumors
- Subject: Re: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
- Summary: Re: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
- Message-ID: <12917@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:53:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.165350.2396@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1992Nov18.175647.2480@netcom.com>
- Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
- Lines: 82
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- In article <1992Nov18.175647.2480@netcom.com>, foo@netcom.com (Mark Hall) writes:
- >> In article <1992Nov17.165350.2396@cnsvax.uwec.edu> mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
- >> ) THE "MARK OF THE BEA$T"
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- >> ) ALL Christians are PROHIBITED by Revelation 14:9-11 from
- >> ) cooperating with the "MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T" bar-code, OCR-
- >> ) number, and magnetic-strip scanning systems, (as found in
- >> ) local libraries, supermarkets, retail establishments, etc.),
- >> ) which also THREATEN to SUBVERT Individual Privacy and
- >> ) Freedom.
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- >> Not true anyway. a 6 is a narrow white bar, a narrow black bar a narrow
- >> white bar and a very wide black bar (the other pattern for 6 is the same with
- >> black and white reversed)
- >>
- >> The first guard pattern is a narrow black, narrow white, narrow black and
- >> the code for 0. While the code for 0 starts with a wide white band it isn't
- >> the very wide band required for it, when combined with the first 3 bars, to
- >> become a 6. The middle guard pattern is narrow white, narrow black, narrow
- >> white, narrow black narrow white. No wide band required for 6. The trailing
- >> code is a digit (checksum?) followed by a narrow black, narrow white, narrow
- >> black. No 6 here, unless the checksum digit is a 6.
- >>
- >> It seems the fundies see the 2 narrow bars close to each other is enough for a
- >> 6. The wide bar is necessary for the code to become a 6.
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- >>
- >> ) WARN YOUR FRIENDS!
- >> about overreacting? About posting drivel?
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- >>
- >> ) UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
- >> ) IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
- >> uh huh.
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- I just have to wonder if MR. Mcelwaine <sp?> really believes this crap
- (666, why we have wars, russian sdf stations on the moon, and the WI report)
- Or does he just post it for our amusement. To think that he and maybe a few
- others may actually believ this shit is the most upsetting part of the whole
- scenario.
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