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@ The Jesus Dance - dance the millennium away: http://www.jesusdance.com/
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# Win2K Ban in China? Microsoft and Chinese officials are denying a report
that the software giant's latest OS will be barred throughout the govt.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33469,00.html?tw=wn20000106
# China will scrutinize Internet - controlled by censorship agencies:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563064716-e95
: Does Win2K have the same old backdoors that allow MS to monitor/control
all users? Does Bill Gates already run US & Euro govts? Can China resist??
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@ There's a nice summary of the various Wars, Massacres, and Atrocities of
the 20th Century <http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-1900.htm> over at
the <http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm> Historical Atlas of the
20th Century. The most interesting factoid/formula for world peace may be
<http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm> this: "no two countries with
a MacDonald's Restaurant have ever gone to war with one another." So: Make
McLove not McWar: http://memepool.com/Subject/Warfare/
: Do you prefer wars or McFood? What's your favorite war/massacre/atrocity?
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# Russ agents 'blew up Moscow flats'. We have obtained a videotape on which
a Russian officer, captured by Chechens, "confesses" that Russian special
services committed the Moscow apartment-block bombings that ignited the
latest war in Chechnya and propelled Vladimir Putin into the Kremlin.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Russia/rusagent060100.shtml
: Were the Moscow apt. attacks orchestrated by bin Laden [see TIME], Putin,
Chechens, CIA, Bill Gates, Toshiba, demons, deities, aliens, robots, me??
# A'Hacking the Military Will Go. The US Space Command is now on the job
of protecting Defense Dept computers from hacker attacks. But its plans
to disrupt enemy computer systems raise some thorny policy questions.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33443,00.html?tw=wn20000106
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000105/pl/arms_computers_1.html
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# Rivals gather at Holy Land synod. JERUSALEM (AP) Setting aside their power
struggles, heads of the world's Eastern Orthodox churches met in Jerusa-
lem for the biggest Orthodox synod in the Holy Land, and the first in 60
years. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563067778-4ff
# China sentences Falun Gong members. BEIJING (AP) But the court was unable
to find evidence to support accusations that the movement's founder, Li
Hongzhi, shared huge profits made by sales of Falun Gong books & photos.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563080006-eb1
# China Catholic church defies Vatican. BEIJING (AP) China's state-control-
led Catholic church defied the Vatican Thursday, ordaining five bishops in
a ceremony that underscored the communist government's nearly half-century
rift with the pope. The timing seemed an intentional snub to the Vatican.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563079757-08f
: What's your favorite religious conspiracy? Should govts control churches?
Should churches control govts? Should aliens control govts & churches? Why?
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@ Did you see The Miraculous Winking Jesus <http://www.winkingjesus.com/>
wink at you? No? Tough. But even if you didn't, the Best of Reflections
<http://www.winkingjesus.com/BORed.html> can be enlightening in itself.
Then there are the apparitions <http://www.apparitions.org/> of Jesus &
Mary, Bible-Approved vs. Bible-Forbidden <http://rossetta.com/970413a.htm>
Undergarments, the Jesus Dance <http://www.jesusdance.com/> [caution: may
be harmful to your salvation], and maybe http://memepool.com/Subject/Web/
: Do you have a close personal relationship with your saviour? Close enough
to borrow a few bucks? Does your saviour wink at your transgressions? Why?
# Yeltsin: Anti-Semitism declining. And vodka is good for you.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563088253-ef2
# Also: Orthodox Christmas Eve celebrated by those with old calendars:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563087276-4a1
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# New Clones Bid Goodbye, Dolly. In a breakthrough for cloning research,
researchers produce calves from the ear of a prize bull. Going beyond
the famous cloned sheep, the new work may yield replacement body parts.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33460,00.html?tw=wn20000106
# Human Cells Get Tiny Computers. A visionary scientist predicts that
human cells may one day contain tiny 'computers' that act as internal
physicians. But didn't John Varley write about that fifteen years ago?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33465,00.html?tw=wn20000106
: Would'ya rather clone body parts, complete bodies, bodies/parts containing
computers, or just computers? Would you trust computers/doctors inside your
cells? Suppose they get drunk? Would an internal psychiatrist abuse you???
@ The Japanese surprise us yet again. Just when we think they can't possibly
come up with yet another <http://scythe.net/archen/info/more/hentai.html>
perversion, along comes (ahem) http://shuttle-japan.com/html-e/sperm.html
bukkake. And totally wank out at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/
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Y2K-A-Lama:
# Influenza Is the True Y2K Bug. PHILADELPHIA (AP) They are the familiar
sights & sounds of winter: the sniffling nose, the dry, throaty voice &
the grimace that follows a swallow of medicine. Better get used to them,
health wonks say. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000106/01/flu-outbreak
# Y2K Alarmist: Wha' Happened? Net pundit Gary North spent the last few
years predicting Y2K would spell doom for the industrialized world. Now
he's baffled that things turned out differently. Yet another dork moron:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33445,00.html?tw=wn20000106
# Y2K Doomsayers Say They Were Wrong. CHICAGO (AP) - They were ominous. They
were shrill. And now some of the most prominent Y2K doomsayers are ready
to admit, to a point, that they were wrong. But they sure sold a lot of
books & bullets, eh? http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Y2K-Bears.html
: Who's your favorite Y2K alarmist? Did you buy anything out of Y2K panic?
Are you a dupe? Are you pissed? Do you feel like killing all Y2K alarmists?
@ As the world turns over and snoozes through the fearful, dreaded, awful
y2k <http://www.cairns.net.au/~sharefin/Markets/Y2k21.htm> we should
pause to reflect on how another group <http://www.subgenius.org/> of
people reacted to their own <http://www.fridayjones.com/xdayfiles.html>
flaccid <http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/X-Day98/X-Day98.html>
doomsday. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Culture/
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