From lnovak@demon.co.uk Sun Feb 11 16:03:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!lnovak From: lnovak@demon.co.uk (Lucia Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Feb11.160346.7248@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 16:03:46 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' '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. -- Lucia Novak | lnovak@demon.co.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 6042 B43E A36D A861 "Keep the channels open." From hramirez@panix.com Tue Feb 13 17:39:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!panix!hramirez From: hramirez@panix.com (Hugo Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Feb13.173946.7341@panix.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 17:39:46 GMT References: <1996Feb11.160346.7248@demon.co.uk> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Feb11.160346.7248@demon.co.uk>, lnovak@demon.co.uk (Lucia Novak) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. > 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' It explains EVERYTHING. The lack of tour dates, the identical live broadcast sets, the mysterious disappearance. -- Hugo Ramírez "Hold for relay." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / TOS 4.04 From mmartinez@uu.net Thu Feb 15 07:07:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!mmartinez From: mmartinez@uu.net (Mikhail Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Feb15.070746.1444@uu.net> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:07:46 GMT References: <1996Feb11.160346.7248@demon.co.uk> <1996Feb13.173946.7341@panix.com> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Feb13.173946.7341@panix.com>, hramirez@panix.com (Hugo Ramírez) writes: > It explains EVERYTHING. The lack of tour dates, the identical live broadcast sets, the mysterious disappearance. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Mikhail Martínez -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From akarlsson@rwth-aachen.de Thu Feb 15 12:47:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!akarlsson From: akarlsson@rwth-aachen.de (Amy Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Feb15.124746.5891@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:47:46 GMT References: <1996Feb11.160346.7248@demon.co.uk> <1996Feb13.173946.7341@panix.com> <1996Feb15.070746.1444@uu.net> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb15.070746.1444@uu.net>, mmartinez@uu.net (Mikhail Martínez) writes: > Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Amy Karlsson "Do not worship the copy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / AmigaOS 3.1