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@ Universal Translator: http://www.pvv.org/~davidn/crazy.html
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# Mack truck driver goes bonkers; hits 20 vehicles. Angry because the govt
supposedly put a behavior-controlling microchip in his stomach, Anthony
Diveley allegedly stole a Mack truck and rammed vehicles left and right
-- damaging 20 in the end. Says a witness: "Like a broken record, he
kept saying he had a chip in his belly and that when a satellite flies
overhead, it burns his brain and fries his belly." Just like McFood:
http://www.sptimes.com/News/011300/TampaBay/Parking_lot_battlegro.shtml
# AND: Man claiming computer chip in head is shot:
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/00/Jan/11/city/PSHOT11.htm
# ALSO: Here's why I refuse to touch crack:
http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/lonw/push01132000.htm
: Do microchips alter your behaviour? Have you implanted microchips in any-
body lately? Do you control their actions, thoughts, perceptions? Is it fun?
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# Twice as many Americans by 2100. WASHINGTON (AP) A century from now there
will be twice as many Americans as today,the Census Bureau predicts. While
no one knows what daily life will be like in 100 years, the new population
projections being issued conjure images of twice as many cars jostling for
position on the highways & twice as many shoppers crowding the aisles at
Wal-Mart. From an estimated 275 million people today, the bureau projects
a U.S. population of 571 million in the year 2100. That might not seem
terribly crowded, however, because the nation is so sprawling. The U.S.
population density in 2100 would be 161.4 people per square mile, about
a fourth the current population density of Germany and the United Kingdom.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563234680-b26
# Also: Projected U.S. population growth - a rapidly-rising curve,
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563234679-c56
: How much of that extra population will move to uncrowded areas? How much
will be jammed into existing cities & 'burbs? How many is too many? How many
neighbors can you tolerate before you go postal? Will we all go postal soon?
# Scientists report warmer Earth. (AP) Despite conflicts in temperature
data, there is strong evidence of an accelerated warming of the Earth's
surface during the past 20 years. Greenhouse effect, nature or aliens?
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563229571-172
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# Scientists Make `DNA Computer' (AP) Scientists have created a "DNA comp-
uter" from strands of synthetic DNA they coaxed into solving relatively
complex calculations: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000113/01/dna-computer
And see http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/15/science-tech-dna
: Do'ya wanna be genetically modified so your DNA is filled with computers?
Would you outthink your competition then? Suppose we were ALL so modified?
Would we humans think our way out of trouble? Would we be better people??
# SCIENCE OF ART: Until recently picture conservation has been a somewhat
sensual, hands-on, medieval craft. No more. New science unlocks secrets.
"When Rembrandt painted white preparatory ground on his canvases, little
did he realise that some 350 years later a scientist would be interested
in the tiny fossils it contained." http://ft.com/hippocampus/q3211aa.htm
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: Teen Buddhist leader meets devotees. DHARMSALA, India (AP) - The teen-age
Buddhist leader who recently fled Chinese-run Tibet met with devotees as
he rested at a secluded monastery under tight security. The 17th Karmapa
gave red ribbons & grapes to his barefoot visitors, who entered the Gyuto
monastery in groups of 10 to 20 and presented the 14-year-old lama with
white scarves. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563227715-c11
: Are you a religious leader? Do you & your flock swap red ribbons & white
scarves? Are you under tight security? Will your enemies kill or kidnap you?
@ "God is an invention of Man, and thus but a shallow mystery. The deep
mystery is the nature of Man" - belief and consciousness:
http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenObject&newTop=1999122
00036&newDisplayURN=199912200036
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# CHRISTIANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIVORCE THAN OTHERS. Among those surveyed,
Baptists were the most likely to divorce. The study surveyed nearly 4,000
adults and found that those who said they were born again had a divorce
rate of 27 percent compared to those who were not born again and had a
divorce rate of 24 percent. For more info: http://www.barna.org
: Are Xian "family values" proponents all hypocritical demagogues? Are Xians
so unstable they can't form lasting relationships? Is divorce a sacrament??
@ Tired of this reality ? Get a new reality created by physicists to
alter everyone in the worlds brainwaves at the press of a few buttons.
www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Bearden/Interview-in-Megabrain-Report
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# Churches Curse Broadcast Ruling. The Federal Communications Commission is
playing with fire & brimstone when it says religious programs don't neces-
sarily count toward community service quotas. Not ANOTHER learning experi-
ence! http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33479,00.html?tw=wn20000107
# Furor Over Net Porn Dismissal. Free speech advocates hail a California
judge's ruling, while anti-porn activists are steaming over a case invol-
ving the transmission of sexual material over the Net to minors. Juicy:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33450,00.html?tw=wn20000107
: What should kids be taught about religion, sex, reality? Should everything
be broadcast/networked? Is your religion pornographic? Are all religions??
@ It's easy, maybe too easy, to laugh at the corny mental hygiene films
made for the moral benefit of high school kids in the 1950s:
www.nypress.com/content.cfm?content_id=1017&now=01/11/2000&content_section=1
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