OPINMYND81
Jedi
About two years ago I had a job as a salesman for Point of Sale (POS) machines (debit/credit card machine) for a private company. I was pitching a client who owned a Caribbean restaurant in the downtown area with a colleage. The owner was adament in refusing to have such a machine, as he was with one with a bank, because of his genuine distrust over the increasing role electronics plays in our lives, specifically with money and the subsequent invasion of privacy inherent with credit cards, so-called "credit", etc. We all ended up having a delightful and spirited conversation about this (obviously this wouldn't lead to a sale but we were enjoying the topic nonetheless). As my last job was at a large database information company for the medical industry (with many pharmaceutical giants as clients) where I was responsible for validating information with our database on "medical professionals" in the US I was all too aware of the dangerous effect the Information Age had on us. After all I had an incredible amount of personal information on millions of people and was helping giant pharmaceuticals shovel their poison to the public. My conscience definitely felt queasy about the whole affair.
I wanted to share what I had learned from the C transcripts about the whole 666 = VISA, but a certain language barrier got in the way.
However the owner of the restaurant had a very fascinating little exercise to show us which I'd like to share here:
Grab a piece of paper, pen and (if you need one) a calculator. List down all the letters of the alphabet. Then, next to each letter, write in ascending order the multiples of 6 (i.e. A = 6, B = 12, C = 18...Z =144 etc.). Then write COMPUTER somewhere else on the paper and next to each letter write the corresponding value to that letter (i.e. C=18,O=90,M=78, etc.). Once that is done add up and calculate the sum of those values (18+90+78, etc.)
The answer will amuse you.
What was the point of that little anecdote and exercise?
Well, I just happened to recall that memory after reading this:
http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/beast.htm
Keep in mind that it's from a rather religious source and it only seems to be religious groups who talk about this when I googled the topic. Still it would be interesting to see whether if this checks out or not. And, after all, isn't Brussels the Headquarters of NATO as well...?
I wanted to share what I had learned from the C transcripts about the whole 666 = VISA, but a certain language barrier got in the way.
However the owner of the restaurant had a very fascinating little exercise to show us which I'd like to share here:
Grab a piece of paper, pen and (if you need one) a calculator. List down all the letters of the alphabet. Then, next to each letter, write in ascending order the multiples of 6 (i.e. A = 6, B = 12, C = 18...Z =144 etc.). Then write COMPUTER somewhere else on the paper and next to each letter write the corresponding value to that letter (i.e. C=18,O=90,M=78, etc.). Once that is done add up and calculate the sum of those values (18+90+78, etc.)
The answer will amuse you.
What was the point of that little anecdote and exercise?
Well, I just happened to recall that memory after reading this:
http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/beast.htm
Keep in mind that it's from a rather religious source and it only seems to be religious groups who talk about this when I googled the topic. Still it would be interesting to see whether if this checks out or not. And, after all, isn't Brussels the Headquarters of NATO as well...?
