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@ Geckos for Beginners: http://www.geckoranch.com/beginners.html
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# Video technology advances raise privacy questions. OSLO (Reuters) - A
leading US supplier of image sensors said technological advances allowing
entire workings of video cameras to be compressed onto a single silicon
chip had emphasized the need for debate on privacy laws. Eric Fossum,
chairman and chief scientist of Pasadena-based Photobit, said the
increasing availability of lower-cost video technology could widen
people's horizons on the world but spur fears of big-brother surveillance.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990921/11/ca-tech-photobit-privacy
: Would you like to have video-camera chips embedded in your body? Have ETs
already implanted these in you? Are they pleased with your imagery? Why not?
# Cellphones pose no health risk? (BBC) Mobile phone use poses no health
risks but the UK govt isn't spending enough on crucial research, say MPs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_454000/454502.stm
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# YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE... Louisiana high school tags students. Security's the
reason, but privacy activists don't like it. The new policy requires both
students & faculty to wear ID badges complete with photo, name and Social
Security numbers encrypted at the bottom. '666' tattooed on foreheads:
http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990922_xex_louisiana_hi.shtml
: Do we all need ID cards? Should we be implanted with ID chips? Under the
guise of storing our medical info in us, will this be done soon? D'ya fret?
# Bribes Invalidate Thousands Of Divorces. NEW YORK Thousands of Manhattan
divorces over the last 7 years & any subsequent marriages by the sundered
partners could be invalidated by crimes linked to their divorce papers.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990922/10/odd-divorces
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# CRYPTOCIDE. Govt officials seeking to exploit ignorance and panic over the
Internet used to be the chief proponents of regulating Internet speech.
Now, commercial interests, helped by a number of scholars, have shouldered
them aside. They campaign under the banner of saving the children, warding
off govt regulation or "mainstreaming the Net." But the bottom line seems
to be making the Internet safe for commerce. In their zeal to "balance"
freedom of expression with commercial convenience, they overlook the fact
that they will be strip-mining the Net. When it's all over, what once was
a vibrant and inviting environment will be nothing but a scarred and
barren landscape. http://freedomforum.org/first/1999/9/20ombudsman.asp
: Are you strip-mining the Net? When it's totally wasted, where will you go
next? Will meta-Nets evolve? Will you be meta-wired? Are you meta-physical?
# Having trouble sleeping? Move your clock radio. Powerful mind-control
device: http://www.icaadvertising.co.uk/www.etonhall.com/hot4.htm
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@ 'Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends' (CNN) Alligators
in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the
function of cruise control? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's
sister's neighbor: it's an urban legend. And no matter how savvy you think
you are, you are sure to find in this collection of over 200 tales at
least one story you would have sworn was true. Don't nuke the Chihuahua.
http://www.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9909/urban.legends/index.html
: Have you released any alligators into sewers lately? Did you nuke the dog?
Did the voices in your head insist? Did the coyote run under your pickup??
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# Call Girls Out Of The Phone Box And On To The Web. LONDON (Reuters) UK
prostitutes, who have traditionally advertised their services in the
nation's red telephone boxes, are now touting for business on the
Internet. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990922/10/odd-prostitutes
: Do you advertise for sex? Do you respond to sex ads? Do you contribute to
population increase or control? Are you wired for sex? Are you offshore??
# World population still climbing. (BBC) The United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) says the number of people in the world has doubled since 1960.
World population will reach six billion during 1999, if it has not already
done so. UNFPA is observing 12 October as "the day of six billion". Move
over: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_453000/453680.stm
: How many people are enough? When will Reptilioids/Republicans start harv-
esting? What are you doing to reduce population growth? Do you patronize sex
surrogates? Have you been clipped? D'ya use teledildonics? Are you robotic?
# Berkeley performance group marches for nudity. Wearing nothing but smiles,
approximately 25 naked men and women revealed themselves to visitors of
Berkeley, California's People's Park. The group held hands, made speeches,
and played music during the 8th Annual Nude and Breast Freedom Parade.
It was a warm sunny day. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990921/odd-25
: D'ya bother wearing clothes? Do clothes hide your alienness? Do they help?
Does nakedness make you want to rut, fuck, suck, slurp, shimmy, explode? Eh?
# How's the weather...and will you marry me? AMES, Iowa. Sometimes you never
know when love will strike. It just might be in your meteorology lecture.
That was the case for lovebirds Jen Cooper and Tony Gaul during Cooper's
Meteorology 206 class. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990921/odd-85
: Is it rutting season? Are you in rut? Do you rut in class? Does class make
you horny? Are schools erotic? Do voices in your head direct your sexuality?
@ Steps in Overcoming Masturbation: http://dnai.com/~earl/old/dontjerk.html
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# Vatican Suggests Quit Smoking And Get To Heaven Quicker. The Vatican has
stepped into the heated debate over smoking by suggesting that those who
give it up stand a better chance of going to Heaven. The anti-smoking
injunction, contained in a new list of "indulgences" to be published today
in time for the new millennium, applies particularly to those who refrain
from smoking in public places such as an office. However, officials said
that all those who "mortify the flesh" by forgoing a pleasure or addiction
such as smoking or drinking alcohol would be "doing a partial penance that
will help to purify them and prepare them for the afterlife". Holy shit!
http://www.lineone.net/times/99/09/17/news/world/timfgneur01003-d.html
: Are you headed for heaven, hell, purgatory, other? Do you mortify flesh?
Whose? Are you indulgent, purified, drunk, smoked, addled, flogged, asleep?
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