Re: near-anything boxes allowed to be in the hands of the public?

From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 08:15:17 MST


On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:03:49PM -0800, Zero Powers wrote:
> I'm less worried about the Christians because,
> except in the case of abortion clinics, they rarely seem interested anymore
> in resorting to violence to reach their ends. The Muslims on the other
> hand...can you say Osama Bin Laden with a near-anything device? Yikes, and
> double yikes!

Oh, I'm sure there's a way round it. Just figure out how to convince
him that it's unclean -- you can manufacture pork in it, for example.
Then you'll have to threaten him at gunpoint to get him into the same
room ...

We may consider some belief structures to be irrational, but that
is not the same as being inconsistent.

-- Charlie



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