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Anthrax To Kill Snail Mail
omnirealm writes "Steven Levy over at NBC expressed his opinion that the new anthrax thread in our snail-mail is going to be a major catalyst to a general switch to e-mail as the primary means of written communication."
If microsoft wants to avoid having employees come down with anthrax, they should try to get the terrorists to send the letters to departments at microsoft which don't exist and therefore the mail would be lost in the mail system and never delivered and opened. Names such as the "Microsoft Usability Testing Group" and the "Microsoft Security Testing Group" would be excellent choices.
But I've yet to see a single palestinian troll post on any terrorism story here. What gives, are they actually ashamed of themselves, or just clever enough to know when to be strategically/politically quiet? Frankly, I'm interested in hearing again about how Israeli soldiers are monsters that live only to kill muslims, or how 4000 jews mysteriously were home sick Sept 11. Go on, tell us some more lies that only those with psychiatric conditions could believe. Those stories go so well with ones such as this....
Fact 1: A few people got diagnosed with Anthrax.
.gov.us (it should NOT EVER BE .gov - the US dosn't run the world (although it tries hard)) used it as propaganda against drugs, then noone would take them. If only they would stop tripping out on their own holier-than-thou attitude, they would stop supplying weaponry to known terrorists. Maybe they'd eliminate the debt they and the world bank are pushing onto most of Africa. Maybe if they'd stop trying to police the rest of the world and cram their 'American Way' down the throat of people who really don't want to have anything to do with America, this whole sorry mess of crap would never have happened.
.gov.us and their bitches would quit their hardon for the US and let everyone get on with lives, without having to listen to their bullshit, being spied on, or having advanced weaponry raining on their heads.
Fact 2: One of them opened a letter.
And so suddenly it's a worldwide conspiracy by Emmanuel Goldstein^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HUsama Bin Laden and Eastasia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe Taleban. Who actually believes this shit? You might as well blame CJD on Saddam Hussein or Gulf War syndrome on the CIA. Ermm...
Fact 3: Noone in the US postal service contracted Anthrax.
The most likely explanation is that the people who got Anthrax bought some dodgy cocaine. Maybe if the
I just wish the
I am not a troll (braces for a karma plummet). It's just that the US scares me far more than a handful of middle-east extremists who
1) were given weapons by the US
2) were never proven to have attacked the US (read the so-called evidence yourself. There is not a single statement which could not have been falsified. Nor which proves Bin Laden ordered the suicide attacks.)
3) don't have the resources necessary to defend themselves against even one storming by the SAS. And yet are said to have chemical weapons. Right. Let's see those satellite pictures of where Goldstein is hiding. Which one of those caves has the chemical weapons plant?
Offtopic? Whatever - I'm far more worried about security in email than snail mail. I use GPG, but if the US outlaw it, that will make me a terrorist. Thanks US. I can sleep easier now.
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