From jrobertson@inria.fr Mon Apr 10 19:58:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!jrobertson From: jrobertson@inria.fr (Julien Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Apr10.195847.7340@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 19:58:47 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' 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. -- Julien Robertson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "They will send a copy in my place." From npopov@demon.co.uk Tue Apr 11 13:25:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!demon!npopov From: npopov@demon.co.uk (Nadine Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Apr11.132547.6620@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:25:47 GMT References: <1995Apr10.195847.7340@inria.fr> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr10.195847.7340@inria.fr>, jrobertson@inria.fr (Julien Robertson) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. > 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Nadine Popov "Do not worship the copy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / TOS 4.04