today's quote on liberty and safety by Benjamin Franklin

Just in case you don't know who Benjamin Franklin was...i linked his name. For those of you who do know who Benjamin Franklin was, I think this quote does a few things. First, I can't help but think how we've become slaves to our safety; which, made me ashamed of my own greed and fear. But, as you well know Benjamin Franklin along with our Founding Fathers would never settle for a government like we have now. The people need to take back this government and we need to do it now!

Any society that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety... deserves neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

Free Speech: The Great India Debate

**a must read post on freedom of speech, censorship, and fanatical reactions...

"Free speech, censorship, and the fanatical reactions - during last few years, these co-related issues have been spread by the interested junta quite aggressively over the entire country and even the whole word, in general. There have been three parties involved, to be precise, which have shown a great deal of enthusiasm."

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Drug Dealers vs Geeks

"Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?"
Budd Schulberg,

O Magazine, November 2003

*this is too funny...the drug dealers have a decent business plan. They make alot of money. Geeks are obviously intelligent. So they would know a good thing when they saw it...
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See what separates geeks from drug dealers.

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The Last Question

by

Isaac Asimov

This is by far my favorite story of all those I have written.

After all, I undertook to tell several trillion years of human history in the space of a short story and I leave it to you as to how well I succeeded. I also undertook another task, but I won't tell you what that was lest l spoil the story for you.

It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything -- and I'm satisfied that it should.

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Source: The Last Question

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