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Quote Originally Posted by Billionfold
ROFL like that will ever work. They'll start a war over that shit. Same thing with the gambling law trying to make it illegal for banks to let you gamble online. That shit is going to fail.
from this thread...

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=96209

...got me thinking.

in relation to my comment about how perhaps a future war would no longer be physical, i think the events that is being discussed in above mentioned thread is more relevant then ever. Hackers have always been about freedom of information (and fucking shit up), but freedom nonetheless. When will they lose their label of "hackers" and become "terrorists" in the eyes of the government? when information that concerns the well being of all citizens is kept from us, therefore blinding us from the truth, keeping us in the dark, we fear what we don't know or cannot see. which leads to the issue of control through fear, which at the moment has most americans by the balls and ovaries.

Bill gates said in an interview about Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, "Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be. Everything's going to be streamed directly or on a hard disk". We all know the influence Gates potentially has on this funny little thing called The Internet, so if this is the last gen to have a physical format, how soon until everything goes online? and i'm talking Television, magazines, newspapers, movies, music, everything. Yes, these are all readily availiable now online, but it harks back to the days of bootlegging, with a few legitimate files floating around. but they are not essential. you can view or purchase this on other formats.

If the internet becomes the cradle to our society, then it would be the most valuable thing to us all, thereby making it the most damaging asset to lose...

just a few thoughts, thats all.

please, if anyone else has anything at all they'd like to share on the future of mankind, put in your 2 cents. we need more than one opinion.