On 4/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Bradbury</b> <<a href="mailto:robert.bradbury@gmail.com">robert.bradbury@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div>Interestingly enough, the conclusion that I did reach, for
communicating non-SOP ideas to the masses was/is actually
implemented. The U.S. is spending on the order of $70
million/year to broadcast a semi-legitimate non-Islamic view of reality
into the Middle East (this was documented on one of the major news
channels about a month ago).</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
Sounds good to me - I'm certainly in favor of spreading democracy by nonviolent means.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">I would love to know the realistic cost of putting
a few million people (hard core fundamentalists of any cloth) into
cryonic suspension (one has to account for economies of scale). I
suspect it wouldn't be *that* expensive. Don't kill them (as in
destroying their meme set) -- simply prevent them from propagating
those meme sets until such time as they can be presented to an
impartial jury as being valid or invalid.
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Cost? Money isn't the issue, the money can be found if there's enough
motive to do so. The cost is that most of the world would see it as the
equivalent of the Holocaust (and how sure are you that they'd be wrong?
it's not proven that people frozen with today's cryonic procedures can
and will be brought back); think about what the cost in lives would be
by the time all the consequences, direct and indirect, had worked
themselves out.<br>
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