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Digital Dark Ages?

Posted by michael on from the scp-is-your-friend dept.

angkor writes "The digital dark age--Will all the information from this computer age slowly vanish as our delicate hardrives expire? That's what it looks like. Better start printing everything out."

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  1. Re:Dark ages? by EddydaSquige · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I was under the impression that the defining characteristics of the dark ages was ignorance, suppression, warfare, famine, strife

    Have you seen what Bush and Ashcroft have been doing lately? They definitely have the ignorance, suppression and warfare down. I'm sure that you can find famine and strife around too. Does all that count as a 'digital dark age' I don't know, but I'd definatly say that we've entered a political dark age.

    ya, ya, I know this is off topic, mod my ass down.

  2. Re:Just printing out is not enough! by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    First post on the slashdot pyramid!

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  3. OT: so sue me by jred · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just wanted to say I love your sig. There are times I wish I could tattoo it on some people's foreheads...

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  4. Re:Dark ages? by chris_mahan · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    about your sig:

    The pledge of alliegance: One Nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all (except in Inglewood, CA, where it's One Nation, under God, with Liberty for the Whites and Justice for the Whites.)
    Dang, what a beautiful nation

    By the way, if you were in Japan, on vacation, let's say, and you prayed? Under what (G/g)od's jurisdiction would you be?

    The thing is: God is not nationalist. He doesn't care about nations. He doesn't care that the person praying is white or black, male or female, rich or poor, American, European, or Chinese.

    To associate God the creator of the Universe with a particular nation is misleading at best about God's true nature. So I say, get it off the pledge. It doesn't belong there.

    This may look like a troll, but it isn't. It's a provocative thought. You've heard of those haven't you?

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