Here come the Men in Black... The Old Order Defenders Here come the Men in Black... They want some new church members
Right on, right on The good guys dress in black remember that Just in case we ever face to face and make contact The title held by me...M.I.B. Means what you think you saw, you did not see So don't blink Think what was there but now's gone Wool suit with the black suspenders on Walk in shadow move in silence Guard against technological dominance But though we ain't in no telephone list We straight don't exist No cars and no electricity Saw something called a phone jack, watch your back Cause you never quite know where the M.I.B.'s is at
Here come the Men in Black... The Old Order Defenders Here come the Men in Black... They want some new church members...-- RayfordSteele, Jun 22 2002 Amish Cell Phones http://www.wired.co...ive/7.01/amish.htmlSite that was refered to by [Party Animal] [DemolitionMan, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004] Croissant, for the funniest idea title I've seen in a long while.-- UnaBubba, Jun 24 2002 One benefit would be that secrets committed to paper are more secure as long as they have the means to detect electronic bugs and similar devices. I suppose that a thorough low-tech intelligence service could just about work.-- Aristotle, Jun 24 2002 Asymmetric warfare again. You have an arsenal of sophisticated weapons which are designed to fight other sophisticated weapons .... people in loincloths with pointed sticks do not show up on radar. But importantly, the Amish would probably have a great asset. They would grasp the importance of keeping secrets, rather than broadcasting them to the world. If they don't actually use cellphones, faxes, email and the rest, your trillion dollar surveillance system is just a big electricity bill and nothing else. Plus there's nothing quite so terrifying as a group of people who absolutely know they're in the right ...-- 8th of 7, Jun 24 2002 somewhere there is a very confused college sophomore trying to do research on Anabaptists for a summer religion class....and the search engines keep sending them to the 1/2 B.....
croissant-- runforrestrun, Jun 24 2002 The Amish use cellphones, albeit in a limited fashion. Google for 'amish cellphones' and go for the first link - a Wired article by Howard Rheingold.-- Party Animal, Nov 20 2002 we hear they have the wheel...-- sambwiches, Feb 05 2003 That was a great search [Party Animal], I posted the link up for everyone else to read, pretty good. Yay! We raised the page rank of that page by linking to it! God save Google!-- DemolitionMan, Feb 05 2003 Not sure about the shades though, - a bit too ostentatious and frivolous. Unbecoming for a true Amish.-- LittleMissLoopy, Feb 06 2003 halfbakery