From astewart@tum.de Thu Jul 06 07:33:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!astewart From: astewart@tum.de (Aiko Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jul06.073325.3820@tum.de> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 07:33:25 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. -- Aiko Stewart "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." NeXTstation Turbo Color / AmigaOS 3.1 From adubois@cmu.edu Fri Jul 07 10:34:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!adubois From: adubois@cmu.edu (Aiko Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Jul07.103425.8378@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 10:34:25 GMT References: <1995Jul06.073325.3820@tum.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul06.073325.3820@tum.de>, astewart@tum.de (Aiko Stewart) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. > 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. -- === Aiko Dubois === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."