-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991207b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No aquatic merrymakers were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Compatibility Test: http://www.laughnet.net/archive/tests/dating2.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WARNING: Y2K VIRUS WIELDS PORN. Experts warn of a destructive new computer virus that disguises itself as a year 2000 computer problem and, besides reformatting user hard drives, changes Internet Explorer home pages to an adult-content site. The e-mail worm, called Worm.Mypic or W32/Mypics.worm, arrives as a message without a subject line. The message body contains what seems to be an attachment called "Pics4You.exe" that is 34,304 bytes. http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/06/pornvirus.y2k.idg/index.html : D'ya want your homepage turned into a sex.site? Is it a sex.site already? Do you depict humans having sex with humans, aliens, animals, robots, me? Do the voices in your head insist on this? Is human consciousness a virus/worm? # Turkmenistan to consider legal polygamy. (BBC) The Central Asian state of Turkmenistan is to consider making polygamy legal - proposed by president. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_554000/554277.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BRANDING. Branding is a process where you take something white hot (usu- ally some piece of metal in some particular shape) and press it into your flesh so that it makes a serious burn and (later) a permanent scar. Bran- ding is dangerous (all burns are prone to infection), but so is driving a car. Most branding falls into one of two categories: a) Rite of passage b) Punishment. ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/bodyart/alternative-faq : Does your belief system entail rites of passage with body alteration, mind alteration, environment alteration? Would you rather brand or be branded? Is white-hot metal fun, enticing, mesmerizing? What's your favorite method of body/mind/time/space alteration? Did you alter anything lately? Painfully? @ PIERCING: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/bodyart/piercing-faq/ @ TATTOOING: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/bodyart/tattoo-faq/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NSA Says It Will Not Spy on Americans. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Security Agency, which uses spy satellites and foreign listening posts to monitor threats to U.S. security, denied that it intended to begin spying on Americans at home. "Hell, we started LONG ago - this ain't nothin' new" <wink><wink> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991206/pl/spying_nsa_1.html : Does the NSA only monitor, or are they operational too? Does it really matter which 'agencies' handle spying [foreign & domestic], mindcontrol, socio-economic manipulation, climatic modification, forced evolution, etc? # Four wounded in Dutch school shooting - U.S. disease spreads: http://cnn.com/1999/WORLD/europe/12/07/dutch.shooting.02/ # Seattle police chief resigns following WTO disturbances: http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/07/seattle.police.chief.ap/ # WTO, Pet Agendas On The Ropes After Seattle Fiasco: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/pet.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Ship of Fools <http://ship-of-fools.com/> is a Christian magazine that's well-written, funny, & not the least bit afraid to engage in self-satire. From a fruitcake list <http://ship-of-fools.com/Fruitcake/Fruitcake.html> to debunking religious myths <http://ship-of-fools.com/Myths/03Myth.html>. It's also worth checking out for the Gadgets for God, which features such <http://ship-of-fools.com/Gadgets/Gadgets.html> wonders as vaginal mois- turizing cream <http://ship-of-fools.com/Gadgets/Gadget34.html> to a gi- gantic floating messiah <http://ship-of-fools.com/Gadgets/Gadget50.html>. Now, worship at the altar of: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ : Does your belief system provoke/prescribe/proscribe self-mockery? Is it true that "one man's theology is another's belly-laugh?" [Robt.A.Heinlein] Would you rather laugh at yourself, have others laugh at you, laugh at them, be abducted/implanted/raped by aliens, crucify someone, or quietly despair? @ Bach the Jew: in his strict adherence to the musical laws of his time, J.S. Bach betrays a deeply Talmudic cast of mind, sez Norman Podhoretz: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/was_bach_jewish/ # Judge: It's okay to declare Christmas a federal holiday: http://enquirer.com/editions/1999/12/07/loc_judge_invokes_santa.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-au-go-go: # Y2K - Millennium Dome Sperm to Race to Drumbeats. LONDON (Reuters) Fertilization is to be recreated in a giant "womb room" at London's Millennium Dome against a drumbeat by a Senegalese musician who is father to 38 kids. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991206/08/odd-odd-sperm : Do you prefer sperm races, rat races, auto races, human races? Why not? # Y2K - Shark curse threatens millennium party. (BBC) A Fijian tribal leader has threatened to call up sharks if millennium scuba diving parties are held in defiance of a period of mourning for a newly-deceased local chief. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_552000/552818.stm : Are sharks appropriate for millennial festivities? Are barracudas better? # Sweeping Y2K powers - Feds make secret plans for a crisis. OTTAWA - Prime Minister Jean Chretien's government will be on full Y2K alert New Year's Eve and ready to invoke an updated War Measures Act if needed: http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-12-07-0003.html : Do all nations operate under surreptitious martial law decrees anyway?? # Y2K - Virus Flood Just Beginning: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kvflood.htm # Y2K - Egyptian millennium show draws criticism: www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500139039-500163445-500584295-0,00.html # Y2K - AS 1999 ENDS, Y2K FOCUS SHIFTS FROM COMPUTER READINESS TO PERSONAL PREPAREDNESS: http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/06/preparing.for.y2k/ # Y2K checks yield surprises - what is and isn't compliant: http://www.amcity.com/kansascity/stories/1999/12/06/focus5.html # Y2K - Y2K bug predicted to bite here, there, everywhere: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncsmon02.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Good deeds are forgotten in the blink of an eye... but an imaginative felony can be our ticket to immortality." http://www.SleazyTabloid.com * Rev. 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