From framirez@tum.de Tue Aug 22 01:23:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!tum!framirez From: framirez@tum.de (Fiona Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Aug22.012328.2098@tum.de> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 01:23:28 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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? -- Fiona Ramírez "We don't sign stars. We build them." Atari Falcon 030 / System 7.5.1 From lstewart@pipeline.com Wed Aug 23 11:06:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!lstewart From: lstewart@pipeline.com (Lisa Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Aug23.110628.8626@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 11:06:28 GMT References: <1995Aug22.012328.2098@tum.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug22.012328.2098@tum.de>, framirez@tum.de (Fiona Ramírez) 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.' They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- === Lisa Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, The Pipeline Internet Network "We don't sign stars. We build them."