# Microchip the illegal aliens! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 29, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705 "2010-04-29T02:54:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/61 "2010-04-30T16:10:10Z")
No entiendo que una cosa maldecida de usted está diciendo. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/62 "2010-04-30T16:43:45Z")
Only American Sneeches should have the chips. Then you could just have cat-flaps in the border wall that detects the chip and lets gringo come and go as he pleases but keeps the undomesticated people out. what…? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/63 "2010-05-01T04:44:26Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > I don;t trust microchips, I prefer macrochips. Microchips crash all the time. I’d rather have an Ichip. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/64 "2010-05-01T04:48:51Z")
Can we just give everyone chips? I like tortilla chips. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/65 "2010-05-01T13:37:45Z")
Not sure shy this thread sparked a recollection of a scifi plot. But I wish I could remember the name of the short story I read years ago involving migrant workers, insects and border crossings. basically the insect/locust problem was a national security threat to the US. So at the border the migrant workers would get sprayed and examined to prevent the insects from migrating into the US. Only the locusts evolved to be able to organize themselves by the thousands into the shape of an ordinary migrant worker. Brown skin, mottled green workclothes the whole shebang, the colony (in the shape of a man) was able to withstand the insecticide and pass muster at the border to infiltrate the US. If only an inspector would look closer at the face they would have seen the alien worker had compound eyes. But they were looking for bugs on people, not people shaped bugs. Chip the locusts? ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/66 "2010-05-02T00:21:10Z")
I’ll be the thread shitter and say I’d take a microchip. Think about it - I wouldn’t have to carry a passport or my driver’s license, and if I could hook it up to my bank account, credit cards or debit cards. Hell, the airlines could associate my tickets with me. Going on a trip? Go through security, have them scan my chip, go to board, have them scan my chip…the sheer convenience of it. Of course, I’m a boring white chick with no tickets or arrests and was born in Canada and never tried illegal drugs or smoked cigs, and very rarely drink. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/67 "2010-05-02T02:52:56Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > No entiendo que una cosa maldecida de usted está diciendo. Would you guys fucking stop it? The embarrassing issue of me being one of those sad Americans who only speak English aside, this _is_ an English-language message board and it’s getting tiring having to route posts through Google Translate just to see what the fuck you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/68 "2010-05-02T04:55:54Z")
I saw what you did there. Of course, I had to run the phrase through Google Translate before I did… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/69 "2010-05-02T06:12:05Z")
Caiga sus bragas, Don William, no puedo esperar hasta hora de comer almuerzo. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/70 "2010-05-02T06:18:06Z")
Quiere subir a mi casa rebote rebote? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/71 "2010-05-02T12:04:09Z")
Siento, esto es un estanco! ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/72 "2010-05-02T15:22:27Z")
Haga clic aquí para reproducir música: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDC\_IM56bw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDC_IM56bw) Recordatorio: [QUOTE=FAQ - Las normas de envío a las Juntas el Mensaje droga recta] Debo puesto en Inglés? * * * El Straight Dope Foro es propiedad de una publicación basada en los EE.UU.. La lengua común de todos los moderadores de este foro de mensajes es el Inglés. Por eso pedimos que todos los puestos en este tablero de mensajes ser en Inglés. Los miembros del personal deben ser capaces de leer y entender los mensajes publicados en el tablón de anuncios. Las excepciones incluyen las solicitudes de ayuda con la traducción, explicación de las palabras de lenguas extranjeras o expresiones, palabras o frases extranjeras que han entrado en Inglés, etc * * * Última edición por CK Dexter Haven; 09/02/2006 a las 06:29 AM. [/QUOTE] [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7697021#post7697021](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7697021#post7697021) Ninguna advertencia. **Gfactor** Moderador de la barbacoa ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/73 "2010-05-02T15:51:30Z")
Sorry, but it was worth it since now I’ll be thinking “rebote rebote” from now on when someone makes a proposition. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/74 "2010-05-02T22:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=Shot from Guns] [QUOTE=Death of Rats] Remember that poor Canadian tourist you found and tried to keep in a terrarium? [/QUOTE] I still say it would have worked if he’d have worn the damned green paint. [/QUOTE] You probably didn’t provide enough Canadian beer & TimBits. “Beer-longing” is the number one cause for domesticated Canadians to pine away in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/75 "2010-05-03T21:02:07Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Not sure shy this thread sparked a recollection of a scifi plot. [snip] Wow, that sounds deeply stupid. 1.) If they’re insecticide-resistant, why would they need to continue to evolve to be able to mimic the shape of a human? That’s a whole fifty bagillion orders of magnitude more complicated, and irrelevant to boot. Being human-shaped won’t save you if you’re not resistant, and if you are resistant, there’s no need to be human-shaped. 2.) They can perfectly shape themselves into a human form, including clothes, but they have to make a compound eye instead of a human-looking one? WTF? > [@Equipoise](#): > > Would you guys fucking stop it? The embarrassing issue of me being one of those sad Americans who only speak English aside, this _is_ an English-language message board and it’s getting tiring having to route posts through Google Translate just to see what the fuck you’re talking about. If you’d run \*that \*post through a translator, you’d see that I made it by sending “I don’t understand a damned thing you’re saying” through [Babel Fish](http://babelfish.yahoo.com/). Because \*I \*don’t speak Spanish, either. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/76 "2010-05-06T17:03:20Z")
> [@Mellivora\_capensis](#): > > ::golf clap:: > > Bravo, squire, bravo. Much to my embarrassment, it was pointed out to me elsewhere that a golf clap is actually an insult. At least, when used on the web. So, **Dan** , please accept my apologies. I did not intend to be sarcastic. I’ve always thought a golf clap was meant to show restrained but genuine appreciation. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/77 "2010-05-06T17:19:56Z")
> [@Mellivora\_capensis](#): > > Much to my embarrassment, it was pointed out to me elsewhere that a golf clap is actually an insult. But it was appropriate in this case, the context being a golf joke. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microchip-the-illegal-aliens/537705/78 "2010-05-06T17:25:43Z")
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