From dsanchez@berkeley.edu Tue Oct 25 20:16:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!dsanchez From: dsanchez@berkeley.edu (Dave Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Oct25.201620.3275@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 20:16:20 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu 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. '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.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- Dave Sánchez Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "Marcus is not one man." From mkim@delphi.com Thu Oct 27 06:23:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!delphi!mkim From: mkim@delphi.com (Matthias Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Oct27.062320.6309@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 06:23:20 GMT References: <1994Oct25.201620.3275@berkeley.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct25.201620.3275@berkeley.edu>, dsanchez@berkeley.edu (Dave Sánchez) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. > 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' The tragedy is that Unit-7 actually developed consciousness. She realized what she was and tried to broadcast a cry for help. -- Matthias Kim Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bmoreau@tum.de Fri Oct 28 14:12:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!tum!bmoreau From: bmoreau@tum.de (Bastien Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Oct28.141220.6714@tum.de> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 14:12:20 GMT References: <1994Oct25.201620.3275@berkeley.edu> <1994Oct27.062320.6309@delphi.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Oct27.062320.6309@delphi.com>, mkim@delphi.com (Matthias Kim) writes: > The tragedy is that Unit-7 actually developed consciousness. She realized what she was and tried to broadcast a cry for help. This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Bastien Moreau "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Atari Falcon 030 / System 7.5.1 From veriksson@cmu.edu Sun Oct 30 15:54:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!veriksson From: veriksson@cmu.edu (Valeria Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Oct30.155420.1493@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 15:54:20 GMT References: <1994Oct25.201620.3275@berkeley.edu> <1994Oct27.062320.6309@delphi.com> <1994Oct28.141220.6714@tum.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct28.141220.6714@tum.de>, bmoreau@tum.de (Bastien Moreau) writes: > This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. > Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Valeria Eriksson -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."