From mtanaka@utexas.edu Tue Jun 28 02:21:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!mtanaka From: mtanaka@utexas.edu (Morag Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Jun28.022152.1063@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 02:21:52 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. -- Morag Tanaka -- University of Texas at Austin "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From nmacdonald@demon.co.uk Tue Jun 28 21:25:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!nmacdonald From: nmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Nadia MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Jun28.212552.3678@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 21:25:52 GMT References: <1994Jun28.022152.1063@utexas.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jun28.022152.1063@utexas.edu>, mtanaka@utexas.edu (Morag Tanaka) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. > 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Nadia MacDonald Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From yweber@berkeley.edu Wed Jun 29 18:26:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!yweber From: yweber@berkeley.edu (Yuki Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Jun29.182652.8913@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 18:26:52 GMT References: <1994Jun28.022152.1063@utexas.edu> <1994Jun28.212552.3678@demon.co.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun28.212552.3678@demon.co.uk>, nmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Nadia MacDonald) writes: > They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Yuki Weber *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From tcampbell@inria.fr Thu Jun 30 07:58:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!tcampbell From: tcampbell@inria.fr (Tobias Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1994Jun30.075852.5950@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 07:58:52 GMT References: <1994Jun28.022152.1063@utexas.edu> <1994Jun28.212552.3678@demon.co.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Jun28.212552.3678@demon.co.uk>, nmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Nadia MacDonald) writes: > They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. It explains EVERYTHING. The lack of tour dates, the identical live broadcast sets, the mysterious disappearance. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Tobias Campbell Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------