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@ Bemushröömed: http://deoxy.org/bmushrmd.htm
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# Cattle Ranchers Browse Web. MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) - Home, home on
the Web! Colombia's cattle ranchers should soon be able to do most of
their business over the Internet and avoid forays into the countryside,
where they risk being kidnapped by Marxist guerrillas. Telecomuting for
survival: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000203/08/odd-cattle
@ Markov Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments. Localiza-
tion (estimation of a robot's location from sensor data) is a fundamental
problem in mobile robotics. This version of Markov localization provides
accurate position estimates and is tailored towards dynamic environments.
The key idea of Markov localization is to maintain a probability density
over the space of all locations of a robot in its environment. Where it's
at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/fox99a.html
: D'ya know where you are? Do y'r enemies know where you are? Do robots know
where you are? Can you accurately localize yourself within dynamic environs?
Are aliens/agents/clones tracking you? Do you appear to be somewhere else??
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# Argentina UFO Spawns a Tornado: PUERTO BELGRANO NAVY BASE - Witnesses saw
a shiny object at an estimated altitude of 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) and
simultaneously the presence of a powerful whirlwind on the ground surface
below. The weather station Commandante at Espora Air Base stated that
atmospheric conditions at the time were not conducive to the formation
of tornadoes. http://www.caus.org/mu020400.htm
: Does your UFO regularly cause tornadoes, whirlwinds, dustdevils? Have you
checked the exhaust system lately? Do you need to install new baffles? D'ya
like to blow humans around for fun, instruction, warning? Do you cause other
wind/weather phenomena on Earth? Is weather-control mere childs-play to you?
# TEAMS HUNT FOR SUSPECTED UFO IN NORTHERN ARGENTINA:
# MISSING AIRLINER FOUND ON MOUNTAINTOP IN THE ANDES:
# GIANT ICE CHUNKS FALL ON CITIES IN ITALY:
# MYSTERY METEOR LIGHTS UP WESTERN AUSTRALIA:
# BEACHGOERS SIGHT UFO IN MEXICO'S BAJA REGION:
# COUPLE SEES A UFO IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA:
# MULTICOLORED UFO SEEN IN ELK RIVER, MINNESOTA:
# "GOD'S ARMY" TAKES THE OFFENSIVE IN THAILAND:
# UFO HOVERS OVER A CATTLE STATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA:
http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_05.shtml
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# 'YEAR OF THE DRAGON' READY TO ROAR ACROSS ASIA. Millions of Asians world-
wide are hot to celebrate as the Lunar New Year approaches, and countless
numbers are trying to reach their hometowns before the Year of the Dragon
arrives Saturday. http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/02/04/china.new.year/
: Are you ready for the new year? Did'ya think that the new year had already
come? How many new years are ahead? What's your favorite calendar? Is it in
your belief system? How do you celebrate time.marks? What's your ritual??
# Basketball - Distilled Traditional Religion of Oaxacan Expatriates in
Los Angeles: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/11/news-mittelstaedt.shtml
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Crash-a-Rootie:
# Pieces of downed airline found, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563885515-0ef
# Also: Beach memorial for Alaska Air crash, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563881267-c84
# And: Alaska jet had pretty clean record, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563870165-ef9
# Alaska crash victim's ring sends signal, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563876789-bcc
# STRUGGLING ALASKA AIRLINES PILOTS ASKED ABOUT HIDDEN CIRCUIT BREAKERS:
Techies at the National Transportation Safety Board's labs in Washington
will today begin deciphering the flight data recorder tape from Alaska
Airlines Flight 261: http://CNN.com/2000/US/02/04/alaska.airlines.01/
# Flight 261's Black Boxes Found - Probers Hope Recorders Explain Crash:
www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/03/alaskaair0203pm_01.html
# 'Twisted Minds' Scam Crash Victims Online - Bogus Web Sites:
www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/03/crashfraud0203_01.html
# Divers search for 'black box' off Ivory Coast, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563876787-dc6
* ED.NOTE: There have been allegations about govt/Navy/HAARP links to the
AK.261 crash; we're still assembling material, and will have a presentation
up on such allegations Real Soon Now. Your conspiracy theories are welcome.
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# TV Show Tells Viewers How to Kill Themselves - Cheery, Detailed Broadcast:
http://www.apbnews.com/safetycenter/family/2000/02/03/suicide0203_01.html
and see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563867914-8f0
@ Religious right WRONG on homosexuality. Philosopher Thomas Nagel developed
a complex metaphor of human intimacy implying that the only sexual per-
version is the use of another person as a passive or uninvolved tool for
our self-centered purposes, whether these are procreative, hedonistic, or
nothing but expressions of power. I endorse a variation of that thesis by
combining it with dicta concerning "genuine intimacy" as necessary for
"good sex." http://www.philosophynews.com/philosopheye/PE20000204.htm
: Does your belief system control your approaches to life, death, pre-life,
after-death? Does it prescribe/proscribe who/how/when/whether to fuck? Does
it provide workable guidelines? Are'ya happy, fulfilled, celibate, suicidal?
# After this life, more work, says Estonian expatriate spirit medium - it
just never ends: http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/00/20/health-infante.shtml
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"We must find beauty wherever we can... in the face of a kitten...
the laughter of a child... or in a magnificent rainbow stretching
across the horizon. And if you could teach a kitten to laugh like
a child and then launched it into the air while there was a rainbow
stretching across the horizon, that'd probably be beautiful enough
to make you cry." -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com
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