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@ Hi, Bye: http://www.powazek.com/nikon/iranbyitlikealunatic.html
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# PLA Revises the Art of War. ‘Asymmetrical’ warfare – terrorism, computer
hacking, economic sabotage, assassination of US citizens – is the Chinese
military’s strategy to defeat the US. PLA flag officers are looking beyond
the nuclear age to a new and more stealthy form of war. Can this be turned
against China too? http://insightmag.com/archive/200002063.shtml
# The West engineered better foods but China may reap the harvest. The US &
have spent billions doing basic research in genetically modified crops and
animals to make foods that are better-tasting, more nutritious & kinder to
the environment. Will China now step in and charge the US and Europe steep
royalties for the right to grow the new organisms that result from this
research? Those are strong possibilities, in the wake of Greenpeace's
stunningly swift and successful campaign to ban GM foods and crops.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_1e6avery.html
: Would you rather wage war with troops, assassins, spies, (bio)engineers,
economists, terrorists, hackers, lawyers, pond scum, robots? If any side in
a conflict employs any specific tactic, how long until that same tactic is
used in return? What leaders/engineers/scientists/economists/hackers would
you like to assassinate? Would anyone bother to assassinate you? Really??
@ Peculiar Feedback Loops That Drive Media Reporting of Technological
and Science Issues: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/74.html
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# MYSTERY ICE LANDS IN SURREY, BC. Canada joins Spain and Italy with
reports of mystery ice chunks falling from the sky since early January.
It's a good thing cows don't fly: http://ufobc.org/whizzbang.htm
# MYSTERY ICE FALLS IN OTTAWA, ONTARIO. More falling ice in Canada. More
gleeful Forteans on the Web: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/ottawaice.html
# The Return of the Phoenix Lights: http://www.caus.org/ft020700.htm
: Have UFOs dropped anything on you lately? Is your backyard a dump for UFO
debris/icefalls/sewage? Do lights circle overhead, spewing chemtails & ice &
confetti messages in unknowable alphabets? Are you getting tired of this??
# Chemtrail Pattern Photos: http://www.sightings.com/health3/chemphot.htm
# Chemtrails - Another Explanation? www.sightings.com/politics6/chemex.htm
# Chemtrails DataPage: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemdatapage.html
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# Computer Creates Fiction. TROY, NY (AP) Brutus creates stories about lies,
self-deception & acts of betrayal. There is no dark muse inspiring Brutus,
though. No torturous plumbing of the writer's soul. Brutus is a computer
program. Brutus.1 can write stories because its creators have condensed
the complexities of deceit and double-crosses into mathematical equations
it can understand. Characters & facts of the story are fed into Brutus.1,
and out comes 500-word tales that read very much like human prose.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2000/feb/06/020600849.html
: Do computers entertain you, lie to you, deceive you, program you? How many
popular writers are actually computers, robots, aliens? Is everything propa-
ganda, programming, fiction? Are these questions being written by computer?
@ The Walkie-Talkie Theory -- Bipedalism Was Necessary For Human
Speech Evolution: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/61.html
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# Dolly-Team In Cystic Fibrosis Experiment. SCIENTISTS plan to create the
world's first sheep with human cystic fibrosis, involving the team that
cloned Dolly the sheep. It would be the first example of genetically
engineering a large animal to give it a human disease. Mice and rats
have already been used in such experiments, but the idea of cloning
larger animals with the intention of making them sick raises a new
question in a field of science which is already an ethical minefield.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/06/stiscosco01001.html?999
: Would you rather experiment on human diseases and their cures by working
on natural/re-engineered humans, animals, aliens, lawyers, me? If language
is a virus, should we infect animals? Should mosquitoes be re-engineered to
deliver vaccines, gene therapies, mutagens? Are animals morally equivalent
to humans before/after being physically/mentally enhanced? Is morality bad?
# West Nile Virus About To Return? Mass War On Mosquitoes?
http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/mos.htm
@ Infection Is Much Bigger Than We Thought:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/92.html
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# TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21 - new hacking tool being spread on the Internet. Recently
we received numerous reports of TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21, a new backdoor Trojan,
which allows hackers to remotely control an infected computer. As with
many backdoors, TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21 arrives as an executable. Once executed,
the backdoor Trojan installs itself on the system, then allows hackers to
connect & control the computer; it may then try to collect confidential
information, such as login data, passwords & credit card information. To
prevent hackers from accessing your system, we advise you to avoid running
any suspicious or unexpected files. If you have a suspicious file or think
you may have a virus, email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for our team
of virus doctors to review -- a free service provided by Trend Micro.
TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21 is detected with Trend pattern file #652 and higher.
http://antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_SUB7GOLD.21
: What's your favorite virus? If language is a virus, how do computers talk
to each other? Will the perfect computer evolve that will take control of
the Net and all its components, then the users [we humans], then the world,
the galaxy, the universe? Are we destined to be virus-fodder? Can we resist?
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# Arizona Makes Preparations For Secession From U.S. An Arizona state legis-
lative committee has approved a resolution calling for the dissolution of
the federal government in the event that it abolishes the US Constitution,
declares martial law or confiscates firearms -- scenarios some say are not
unrealistic. http://www.sightings.com/politics6/ARIZONA.HTM
: From what nation would you like to secede? Will you receive aid from ETs,
the Illuminati, robots, me? What's your favorite secessionist fantasy? Do
others in your area wish to secede from you? How far can you fragment??
# Decent housing elusive for Navajos - 3rd-World America. On US Indian res-
ervations, housing is in desperately short supply & often substandard.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563970534-ebd
# Also: Statistics of the Navajo Nation, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563970633-107
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