Maybe the B'nai Brith should be more concerned with what they cannot see. Sites such as islamway.com are tirelessly monitored by the NSA, and provide a useful way to identify trends in the behavior of extremist groups such as bin Laden's. I can't believe the B'nai Brith doesn't find it useful to be aware of the views of groups, such as those that provide content for islamway.com. In my opinion it is ever more dangerous to not know what the sentiment is amongst extremist groups, whether they are islamic fundamentalists or white supremacists, etc... Information is a very good thing and will be the greatest tool we have in combatting and preventing acts as atrocious as those comitted last Tuesday. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."
To me, the arrival of this technology is not surprising. A true marriage of biology and technology is inevitable. The universe is arguably a single machine, and every particle within it has been working in concert since its "creation." We cannot deny this cosmic collectivism. The fusion of living cells and chips is a logical progression in the evolution of our planet - there may be cultures in the universe which have long since mastered this concept. Once we have mastered this concept and are able to fully implement its every use and variaton, how much further down the road can a viable unified field theory be. Then again, maybe we are all just drones carrying out the will of the Empire of the Atoms. At least that's what the toaster has been whispering to me every morning for the last two months.
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Maybe the B'nai Brith should be more concerned with what they cannot see. Sites such as islamway.com are tirelessly monitored by the NSA, and provide a useful way to identify trends in the behavior of extremist groups such as bin Laden's. I can't believe the B'nai Brith doesn't find it useful to be aware of the views of groups, such as those that provide content for islamway.com. In my opinion it is ever more dangerous to not know what the sentiment is amongst extremist groups, whether they are islamic fundamentalists or white supremacists, etc... Information is a very good thing and will be the greatest tool we have in combatting and preventing acts as atrocious as those comitted last Tuesday. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."
To me, the arrival of this technology is not surprising. A true marriage of biology and technology is inevitable. The universe is arguably a single machine, and every particle within it has been working in concert since its "creation." We cannot deny this cosmic collectivism. The fusion of living cells and chips is a logical progression in the evolution of our planet - there may be cultures in the universe which have long since mastered this concept. Once we have mastered this concept and are able to fully implement its every use and variaton, how much further down the road can a viable unified field theory be. Then again, maybe we are all just drones carrying out the will of the Empire of the Atoms. At least that's what the toaster has been whispering to me every morning for the last two months.