From bschneider@cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 09 05:22:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!bschneider From: bschneider@cam.ac.uk (Bill Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jul09.052218.5763@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 05:22:18 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' 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. -- Bill Schneider "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / SunOS 4.1.4 From dsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de Mon Jul 10 19:45:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!rwth-aachen!dsuzuki From: dsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de (Dong-hyun Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jul10.194518.7500@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:45:18 GMT References: <1995Jul09.052218.5763@cam.ac.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul09.052218.5763@cam.ac.uk>, bschneider@cam.ac.uk (Bill Schneider) 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Dong-hyun Suzuki "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / NEXTSTEP 3.3