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@ dance! http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~preuitt/robot.html
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# Planet faces 'abrupt changes.' (BBC) A US think tank gives a warning of
unpredictable environmental upsets during the 21st Century. Prepare to
die: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_603000/603707.stm
# Also: World population still climbing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_453000/453680.stm
# Extinction warning for freshwater species:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_465000/465712.stm
# Climate disaster possible by 2100:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443837.stm
: Are you ready for the prophesied planetary changes? Have you changed many
planets lately? Is it a grueling experience? What's your favorite disaster??
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# Ex-CIA Head, Wife Aboard Plane Crash. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Former
CIA chief Adm. Stansfield Turner was among 17 people injured in a weekend
airplane crash that killed his wife and others. Turner, CIA director under
Pres. Carter, is in a San Jose hospital. His condition is not known.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000116/wl/costa_rica_plane_crash_5.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_606000/606272.stm
: Have you tried to kill any ex-spymasters lately? Did you succeed? Would'ya
rather silence them with mind-numbing drugs, fiery death, mind-control rays?
# Are the English violent? Cross-party politicians warn of growing national-
ism & violence as England searches for identity at a time of devolution.
news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking%5Fpoint/newsid%5F596000/596717.stm
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@ We have always had our Fiends. They have long fixed the romantic imagina-
tion of priest & poet alike. Once we called them Trolls, later they were
named Demons, then they were Witches who brewed evil potions. Still later,
the Monster was said to be the hungry Wolf, the Bogeyman, or the Godzilla
of Cold War terror. Finally, some called it human ignorance and intoler-
ance. For a time, they tried to tell us that monsters don't exist at all,
that everything about reality was either known or would soon be known. But
now we know better. We have made our reacquaintance with the Beast. We
have learned its true name. http://www.vampires.com/index2.htm
: What's your favorite Fiend? Are you Fiendish? Do you operate in mundane
realms? Are humans mere fodder to you? Are you of this Earth? Are you... IT?
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# VALUE AT INTERNET SPEED: "It used to be... that the intellectual capital
of a school could be measured and priced according to the lecture the
professor gave in a classroom of 30 executives. Today that same lecture
could be taught simultaneously to 10, 20 or even 1,000 different classes
worldwide." So what's it worth? http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q324b52.htm
@ McNikeSoft rulz. It's 2050, and there is only one company left. This
makes life easy for lawyers, since it means there's only one large
defendant to sue: http://www.nationaljournal.com/rauch.htm
: What do you value? How d'ya measure it? Who do you drain? Who drains you?
How fast does the draining occur? Is cybernetic vampirism very profitable?
# Credit Cards Easy to Steal on Web - Security Flaws Found on E-Biz Sites:
www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/15/credittheft0115_01.html
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# Egypt: better deal for women? (BBC) Egypt's parliament is debating legal
changes that would make it easier for women to divorce, and travel abroad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_605000/605528.stm
# Also: Egyptian wives turning violent:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_357000/357124.stm
# Egyptian woman locked up by father:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_395000/395440.stm
# Zippergate inspires Egyptian sex comedy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_432000/432570.stm
: Should women be allowed to travel? Should men? Should robots? Do you fear
spousal violence? Should you? Is this violence provoked by society, aliens,
spies, disease, television/videogames/Internet, better weapons, new drugs?
@ Marriage is not a mere strategy to propagate our DNA, argues Roger
Scruton. It also serves the deeper moral purposes of our society.
Not to mention sex: http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_4_a3.html
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# Mars Lander Search To End. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) The fruitless search for
any sign of life from NASA's Mars Polar Lander will be abandoned Monday,
ending any hope that the $165 million mission to the Red Planet can be
saved. Oh, bother: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000116/14/mars-lander
# UFOs lure Japanese TV firm to Scotland. (BBC) Cynics could be forgiven for
attributing the high rate of UFO sightings in Scotland to the country's
reputed fondness for a drop of the hard stuff. But a Japanese TV company
is hoping to prove there is more to the mysteries of the Scottish skies.
news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid%5F590000/590960.stm
: If your spacecraft flies around another planet, is it a UFO there? Would
you rather find a UFO here, there, anywhere? Have you lost any UFOs lately?
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# EPA Sets New Rules on U.S. Bio-Corn Plantings. WASHINGTON (Reuters) U.S.
corn (maize) farmers will face sizable restrictions on plantings of a
genetically modified corn under measures announced by the Environmental
Protection Agency as the planting season nears. Let'em eat pesticides:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000116/17/science-environment-biocrops
# US Says Biosafety Pact Should Not Supersede WTO - Don't unduly restrict
trade: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000115/10/science-food-biotech
: Do you oppose GM crops? Do you prefer pesticides? Are gene-mod opponents
financed by the pesticide industry? Whose conspiratorial ends do they serve?
@ Stop agribusiness! Free the seed! Venture capitalist scum will be
taking their bags of money elsewhere if the biotech vandals have
their way. Yow: http://www.reason.com/0001/fe.mf.crop.html
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