From fduarte@unam.mx Sun May 05 23:41:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!unam!fduarte From: fduarte@unam.mx (Freya Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996May05.234134.9938@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 23:41:34 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx 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. 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' 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. -- Freya Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From dmoreno@illinois.edu Tue May 07 08:32:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!dmoreno From: dmoreno@illinois.edu (Dong-hyun Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996May07.083234.8975@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 08:32:34 GMT References: <1996May05.234134.9938@unam.mx> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996May05.234134.9938@unam.mx>, fduarte@unam.mx (Freya Duarte) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Dong-hyun Moreno Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From cchoi@cam.ac.uk Wed May 08 16:34:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!cchoi From: cchoi@cam.ac.uk (Callum Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996May08.163434.6055@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 16:34:34 GMT References: <1996May05.234134.9938@unam.mx> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996May05.234134.9938@unam.mx>, fduarte@unam.mx (Freya Duarte) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. > 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Callum Choi "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / SunOS 4.1.4