[extropy-chat] google saves
Mike Lorrey
mlorrey at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 20 02:08:41 UTC 2004
--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hey cool, check this:
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135938,00.html
>
> That gives me an idea. We could machine-generate a
> few thousand pro-Islamic articles. Then anyone who was
> travelling where they might be apprehended by Islamic
> terrorists could just copy one of them onto their website.
> Then the terrorists might google on their captive's name,
> find the article, then be convinced to let the person go.
>
> Actually that whole idea is scalable. We could have
> a script that automatically loads into one's website
> a machine-generated article sticking up for whatever
> terrorists inhabit the land you wish to visit. Then
> if kidnapped, you pull out the laptop and demonstrate
> how much you despise the {fill in name of enemy-du-jour}
> and how you have struggled for decades to help the
> (fill in name of captors}. A long resume of good
> deeds could be generated. This would be perfectly
> moral thing to do even if false, since the deceived
> are those who threaten to lop off your head.
Problem: Iraq, for instance, has Sunnis and Shiites, who hate each
other. If your script loads shiite propaganda, but you are kidnapped by
sunnis, you are gonna die anyways.
=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
-William Pitt (1759-1806)
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism
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