From esanchez@cern.ch Thu Sep 07 02:29:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!esanchez From: esanchez@cern.ch (Emi Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Sep07.022938.9536@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 02:29:38 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch 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.' 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' I'm keeping the original mimeograph in a fireproof safe. The truth cannot be un-seen. -- Emi Sánchez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From hlee@utexas.edu Fri Sep 08 15:43:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!hlee From: hlee@utexas.edu (Hugo Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Sep08.154338.2306@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 15:43:38 GMT References: <1995Sep07.022938.9536@cern.ch> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep07.022938.9536@cern.ch>, esanchez@cern.ch (Emi Sánchez) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Hugo Lee -- University of Texas at Austin "Hold for relay." From fmuller@kth.se Fri Sep 08 23:14:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kth!fmuller From: fmuller@kth.se (Freya Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Sep08.231438.5820@kth.se> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 23:14:38 GMT References: <1995Sep07.022938.9536@cern.ch> <1995Sep08.154338.2306@utexas.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep08.154338.2306@utexas.edu>, hlee@utexas.edu (Hugo Lee) writes: > They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Freya Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From nnakamura@ox.ac.uk Sat Sep 09 04:49:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!nnakamura From: nnakamura@ox.ac.uk (Nadia Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Sep09.044938.8770@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 1995 04:49:38 GMT References: <1995Sep07.022938.9536@cern.ch> <1995Sep08.154338.2306@utexas.edu> <1995Sep08.231438.5820@kth.se> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep08.231438.5820@kth.se>, fmuller@kth.se (Freya Müller) writes: > This reads like science fiction fan fiction written by someone who watched Blade Runner too many times. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Nadia Nakamura Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."