[extropy-chat] Fwd: [Fwd: Federal Government Aiming to Ban Prime Numbers]

[Emlyn]

On 07/10/05, Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Today a representative from the United States Ministry of Freedom
> Announced that the Senate is drafting a bill to ban Prime Numbers.  The
> Bill is called "The Innumeracy & Unpatriotic Calculations Act", and
> will be an extension of the Patriot Act.  "Innumeracy" is a new word
> meaning 'unpatriotic Math'.  Prime Numbers are only equally divisible
> by 1 and the number itself.  This unique property, along with the
> difficulty of factoring large numbers is what allows for all Internet
> and electronic cryptography. The government's justification for the ban
> on Prime Numbers is that terrorists could use cryptography to send
> secret messages to each other, and these secret messages could threaten
> American's freedom.  Bush was quoted as saying, "In Kindergarten, kids
> used to pass secret messages to each other when the teacher wasn't
> looking.  It wasn't fair then, and it isn't fair now". ...

I'm assuming that Spike, with his unwholesome cohort of unamerican
GIMPs sympathisers will lead the revolution.

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Emlyn

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