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# DOD Scientist: Lose the Humans. The US Department of Defense's chief
scientist wants to take people out of the computing equation and give
more control to smart processors that control robots. Take my brain,
please: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21354.html
: Should we humans confine ourselves to art/politics/religion, and leave the
serious stuff like science/engineering/programming/war to robots and borgs?
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# ABC Site Falls to Crackers. A group calling itself the United Loan Gunmen
replaced the home page at ABC TV with an anti-corporate call to arms. Zow.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21365.html
: What communications facilities would you like to hack? D'ya wanna replace
their mind-control messages with your own? Is controlling minds easy? How?
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# Syria TV production a booming business. DAMASCUS, Syria (UPI) Syria's TV
production is becoming a booming business, with millions of U.S. dollars
being spent on the production of new series that are expected to dominate
Arab satellite networks. Some 25 TV series are being completed to be ready
for broadcast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan due to begin by the
end of December when TV viewing drastically increases. Insh'allah, baby:
http://news.excite.com/news/u/990820/11/international-television
: What mind-control messages would you like to insert into Arab TV? Have you
hacked Syrian TV lately? Do voices in your head help? Do they speak Arabic?
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# University Of Toronto Team Discovers Salt Tolerance Gene In Plants. The
isolation of a gene that confers salt tolerance in plants could lead to
improved farming productivity in the Canadian prairies and many other
areas of the world where crops are compromised by saline irrigation water.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990819133839.htm
: When will human population outstrip food production? When will we run out
of agritechno tricks to avoid the Malthus crisis? Will ETs harvest us then?
If weeds can learn tolerance, why can't humans? Can't we all just get along?
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Love/Hate-A-Rama:
# Boy Scouts may consider gay issue. (UPI) Boy Scouts of America are mulling
a proposal to study membership requirements and the group's policy banning
gay membership. http://news.excite.com/news/u/990820/13/news-boyscouts
# Thin Line Between Love and Hate. The ownership of godhatesfags.com is
mysteriously transferred to the owner of godlovesfags.com. Kiss me:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21351.html
# Mississippi Boy Files Suit Over Star Of David. ATLANTA (Reuters) Lawyers
for a Jewish boy in Mississippi filed suit Friday against a school board
that ordered him to stop wearing a Star of David pendant because they
believed it could be perceived as a gang symbol. Crosses are next:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/15/news-rights-star
# Struggle Ends Over 'Mein Kampf' German media monolith, accused of selling
hate literature, will no longer offer copies of Hitler's manifesto online.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21360.html
# Prejudice Does Not Come From Peers - US Study. BOSTON (Reuters) US teens
may learn many things from their peers, but prejudice apparently is not
one of them. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990820/15/news-teens-prejudice
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Evolution-A-Rama:
# How We Became Human: The evolution of Homo sapiens wasn't a steady march
from primitivism to perfection. Instead, as new-found fossils reveal, it
was a turbulent tale, full of false starts and repeated failures, before
the appearance of culturally complex, technologically savvy creatures like
us: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,29513,00.html
@ Creationism: Stephen Jay Gould on a tornado out of Oz:
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,29479,00.html
# The First Butcher. Filleted bones and an ape-man surprise: Could this
big-toothed scavenger be our ancestor?
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,23557,00.html
# On Its Own Two Feet. Kenyan fossils suggest a new, earlier date when
a human ancestor first walked upright.
http://pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1995/950828/950828.science.html
# One Less Missing Link. Bones from the Ethiopian desert prove that human
ancestors walked the earth 4.4 million years ago.
http://pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/941003/941003.science.html
# Lucy's Grandson. A fossil skull implies that humanity's earliest known
progenitors belonged to a single, long-lived species.
http://pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/940411/940411.science.html
# How Man Began. New evidence shows that early humans left Africa much
sooner than once thought. Did Homo sapiens evolve in many places at once?
http://pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/940314/940314.cover.html
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SkeptiLinks:
# Y2K - Cities At Risk: http://209.26.202.182/CitiesatRisk.html
# Mac Users In The Dark On Y2K: http://y2ktimebomb.com/Tip/Lord/lord9850.htm
# Y2K RESOURCE CENTER: http://www.sightings.com/y2kresource/y2k1r.html
# Rocket man aims high - amateur space program proceeding apace:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_425000/425774.stm
# Police chiefs call for DNA testing - Samples would be taken from all
crime suspects. Bend over: http://www.msnbc.com/news/302042.asp
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their appearances quite so pleasing; indeed he mistook one of the dorms
for a classic gothic cathedral until he got closer and saw that what he
had at first taken to be gargoyles were really just some of the girls
leaning out of the third-floor windows." --Robert D. Norris, Jr.
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