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# Future Tech: Cars Hit the Skyway. Picture this: It's a sunny Saturday in
July. You jump into your skycar, fasten your seat belt, and turn up the
volume - and at an easy 350 miles per hour, you're at the beach before you
can say lickety-split. Are you ready to get behind the wheel of a skycar?
http://home.cnet.com/category/0-3638-7-305531.html?dd.co.txt.0818.10
: If earthbound traffic jams are bad, will they be worse airborne? Will you
crash into plane, choppers, UFOs, skyhooks, parachutists, geese, angels, me?
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@ BOTTLE LOVERS UNITE. ADB, not to be confused with rapper ODB, strives to
guide us through our pathetic lives with a healthy appetite and apprecia-
tion for the bottle. Whether you're 6 sheets to the wind, a pink elephant,
or have a brick in your hat, all drinkers are welcome. Songs, contests,
games, and embarrassing pictures included. news:alt.drunken.bastards
: Are you a drunken bastard? Does alcohol interfere with your alien implant,
or vice versa? Have you ever seen grey aliens, pink elephant, neon snakes??
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# Church Turns Over Land To Govt. YELLOWSTONE PARK. The Church Universal and
Triumphant (CUT) has made headlines for more than a decade as a so-called
"doomsday cult" that built bomb shelters & stockpiled weapons on its ranch
next to Yellowstone National Park. But their image morphs as they decided
to sell to the public - or limit development on - more than half of their
12,000-acre ranch just beyond Yellowstone's NE boundary in Montana. CUT
also agreed to sell the geothermal rights on the remaining ranch land to
the U.S. Forest Service, a move Yellowstone managers say will protect the
natural plumbing that supplies bubbling hot water to the park's famous hot
pools and geysers. http://sltrib.com/1999/sep/09011999/nation_w/20048.htm
: Does/should your doomsday cult control geothermal resources & wilderness
access? Would you voluntarily relinquish these to gov't agents? To aliens?
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# Cracking: Hackers turn nasty. (BBC) The hacker has evolved. The illicit
storming of Microsoft's Hotmail service is just the latest example of a
more mischievous form of computer code breaking. In the spotlight are
"crackers" - computer hackers with an axe to grind.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/news
id_434000/434498.stm
# Also: MicroSoft Hotmail temporarily shut down:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560952736-832
@ Links - Microsoft statement on the Hotmail closure:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/misc/08-30hotmail.htm
@ Crackers vs hackers: http://tigr.ncdc.com/~lolson/ack/HakVCrak.html
@ Hall of Fame: http://discovery.com/area/technology/hackers/hackers.html
: Do you hack/crack/slash/burn? Are you a virus virtuoso? Who d'ya work for?
What are your goals? Do you have an axe to grind, an ox to gore, a score to
settle? D'ya vandalize/intrude for fun, for profit, because you're told to?
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# Woman summons help via e-mail - husband threatened to take her hostage:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560953027-ef3
@ Threat From the Net! Yes, there's a lot of junk on the Net. In a couple
hours you can find out how to make bombs from household chemicals, where
to buy illegal weapons online, recipes for more than 200 hallucinogens,
and vast sources of hate literature. Should this material be censored?
Is filtering software the solution? Can lawmakers stop the threat?
Should they even try? http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch463.html
: Are you threatened by the Net? Do you exploit the Net for nefarious goals?
Have you obtained drugs, explosives, sex on the Net? Do you supply these??
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Y2K-a-Rama:
# Y2K - US Readies For Possible Violence:
http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/306673.asp
# Y2K - Australia Well-Prepared After Spending 12 Billion
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kaus.htm
# Y2K - The End of the World as We Know It
http://www.sciam.com/1998/1098issue/1098cyber.html
# Y2K - Emergency Shopping List from the White House:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21532.html
# Y2K - Pilots say no to Asian Y2K flights:
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/pilots.y2k.idg/index.html
# Y2K - Brazil Says Its Nuclear Power Plants Y2K Ready:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/Y2kbrazilOK-p.htm
# Y2K - China's central bank shrugs off Y2K concerns:
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/china.y2k.reut/index.html
# Y2K - How to calm your customers about Y2K:
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/calm.y2k.idg/index.html
# Y2K - Opinion: A global Y2K recession?
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/27/411.y2k.idg/index.html
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SkeptiLinks:
# Mars Weather: http://www.sciam.com/exhibit/1999/083099mars/index.html
@ Storm: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/8_10_99_releases/moc2_172/storm.mpg
# Mars Sundial: http://www.sciam.com/exhibit/1999/042699sundial/index.html
@ UFOs everywhere: http://vzone.virgin.net/darryl.smith/ufo/crowdedskies.htm
@ Alien View: http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/witches/237/lehmberg.html
@ "Why am I an asshole?" -Ed Wollmann, Astroyak: http://astroconsulting.com/
@ Allegations about James Randi: http://www.watchingyou.com/randi.html
# OUTSIDE INVESTIGATOR FOR WACO: http://cnn.com/US/9908/31/fbi.waco.02/
# Suspected nuclear espionage likely didn't hurt security much:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115005634,00.html
@ Association of Former Intelligence Officers: http://www.afio.com/
@ Bigots with Badges - Welcome to C.A.R.C.L.E., dedicated to exposing and
stopping Racism & Corruption inside law enforcement. http://bwbadge.com/
@ Free Content for Your Site: http://cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch469.html
@ Free Web Tools: http://builder.com/Authoring/FreeTools/?dd.cn.txt.0715.10
@ Build a Home LAN: Do-It-Yourself Networking. Tie it all together:
http://computers.com/reviews/features/0%2C173%2C0-13-1802%2C00.html?dd.co.tx
t.0630.04
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