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JDPriestly

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6. Computers are programmed to sift throught it I suspect.

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 02:41 PM

Oct 2013

People don't do the sifting. They look at the results of the sifting.

But why? So that we can blackmail people? So that we can steal trade and industrial secrets?

Just 'cause? Why in the world do this? So we have an electronic record after we have completely despoiled the earth and the only trace remaining of us millions of years from now is this electronic record? We don't need to wiretap it to achieve that goal. It's all out there endlessly apparently. And if the computers all break down, it will be lost.

Is this just a full employment scheme? Well, this will keep these nosy computer types busy?

What is the point?

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