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# Smart Cards For Jubilee: Trial National ID Card? GEMENOS, France. Gemplus
the world's leading provider of smart card based solutions, announced that
organizers of the Jubilee of the Year 2000 will use Gemplus smart cards to
solve the massive logistics problem caused by the arrival of millions of
pilgrims to the holy cities. The Jubilee is an official international holy
year that takes place every 25 years, originally decreed by Pope Boniface
VIII in the 14th century. http://sightings.com/politics4/smartcards.htm
: Is the Vatican planting The Mark Of The Beast on all Jubilee attendees? Is
this the Pope's final plan to steal souls? Is your belief system struggling?
Have you a plan to short-circuit those smart-cards? Whose side are you on??
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# Study of 'paralanguage' like 'huh?' Language help from, um, almost-words.
Panhandlers and presidents, preschoolers and Ph.D.s -- all conduct much of
their conversation in meaningful grunts, hums and clicks. The almost-words
that pepper informal speech are a critical but still mysterious element of
human conversation. Some scholars believe they may offer a hint of how
human ancestors communicated. http://www.bergen.com/home/lang199909127.htm
: Do you communicate? Did your ancestors communicate? Do you grunt, hummmmm,
click, gurgle? Did they? Is telepathy better? Can you live without words??
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http://www.filemine.com/filedownload?fileid=187411
: Do you want to know the truth? Do you know what truth is? Do you want your
own speech analyzed for truthfulness? Do voices in your head tell the truth?
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# We Know What You Did Last Fall. Employers can use Investigator 2.0 to
monitor every application an employee launches, every keystroke, every
click. The software takes workplace spying to a scary new level.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21847.html
# NEW WORD VIRUS HITS NET. The Suppl Word macro virus, which was posted to
over 25 alt.sex newsgroups was discovered an Anti-Virus Emergency Response
Team on Friday http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/20/word.virus.idg/
: Do you frequent alt.sex NGs? Does your employer know? Are you infected? Do
you spread virtual VD wherever you go? Do you like spying on employees? Why?
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# Andy Grove: 'Go Net or Die'. Intel's chair tells a business audience that
in the near future, the only successful firms will be Internet firms. Wire
me up: http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21849.html
# Arrest of a Web Pioneer. Patrick Naughton, arrested last week on sex
charges, wasn't just another Disney suit. He led the team that created
Java, he cybercast the Stones, and he wrote code that made high-traffic
sites sing. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21843.html
: Are you wired into evil, into sin, into profits? Do you program for sex??
Doesn't everyone? Have you created any computer systems devoted to kidporn?
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# Which Teens Have The Most Sex? KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) British
youth are the most sexually active in the world, while young adults in
Singapore had the least sex in a year, a global survey by a top British
condom maker said. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990921/10/odd-sex
# Cracking Down On Party Scene. KUWAIT (Reuters) Police have arrested more
than 100 women in a major clampdown on parties where unmarried men and
women mix and in some cases consume banned alcoholic drinks. Shame!
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990921/10/odd-parties
: Do you consort with immorality? Would you rather consort with immortality?
Do you have a lot of sex? Are you a teen? Are you British, brutish, drunk??
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# Blasted Amish teen's buggy hits cop cruiser. Police say the boozed-up
youth was passed out at the buggy's reins, and not even the squad sirens
and horns could awaken him. The 17-year-old will be riding his horse to
court to pay a DWI fine. http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/036673.htm
: Do you often abuse drugs whilst driving your horse'n'buggy? Does the horse
mind? Do you? Have you been caught? Do voices in your head help you escape??
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# Forbes wants Decalogue posted - screw the Constitution. WEST DES MOINES,
Iowa (AP) Evil smurf Steve Forbes said the Ten Commandments should be
posted in schools because they are "the foundation of our civilization."
Forbes compared posting the commandments to the role played by religion in
Muslim countries where religion permeates every phase of society. "If you
went to [a [Muslim] country... and you go to a school you might expect to
see the Koran there, you wouldn't be surprised," said Forbes. "It's part
of their culture. It's the same thing here." Then he whipped some slaves.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561239099-4e7
: Should all religious texts be posted in every public school? Who decides?
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# Buzzing Like A Beehive: Uranus Now Swarming With Distant Moons. Until just
a few years ago many astronomers believed the planet Uranus was a bit odd.
That's because, unlike the other giant members of the Solar System, Uranus
didn't appear to have any so-called irregular satellites, or distant moons
with unusual orbits. However, recent observations have found what appear
to be three new irregular moons around Uranus, thus suggesting that the
seventh planet from the Sun is just one of the gang after all. Sighs of
relief are heard: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ep/uranus92099.html
: Why is Uranus buzzing? Do you really want an answer to that question? Eh?
# Earthquake 'unusual', say scientists - probably an act of war:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_453000/453434.stm
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