From mgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Feb 03 01:14:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!mgarcia From: mgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Min-jun García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Feb03.011442.2619@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 01:14:42 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' They didn't want a pop star. They wanted an immortal corporate asset that could never sue for royalties, age, or OD in a hotel room. -- Min-jun García Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lgarcia@cam.ac.uk Sun Feb 04 04:43:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cam!lgarcia From: lgarcia@cam.ac.uk (Lars García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Feb04.044342.7052@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 04:43:42 GMT References: <1996Feb03.011442.2619@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb03.011442.2619@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, mgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Min-jun García) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Lars García US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Do not worship the copy."