From shernandez@illinois.edu Wed Oct 26 10:35:55 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!shernandez From: shernandez@illinois.edu (Seo-yeon Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Oct26.103555.9322@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 10:35:55 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' 'The asset designated Unit-7 represents a synthesis of demographic data modeling and neural linguistic generation.' 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. -- Seo-yeon Hernández "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Decstation 5000/200 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From jlopez@cmu.edu Wed Oct 26 15:06:55 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!jlopez From: jlopez@cmu.edu (Ji-woo López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Oct26.150655.6473@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 15:06:55 GMT References: <1994Oct26.103555.9322@illinois.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct26.103555.9322@illinois.edu>, shernandez@illinois.edu (Seo-yeon Hernández) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Ji-woo López Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.