[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Shit, so much for ordering mushroom spores by mail! > > Hopefully UPS and fedex won't follow suit. > > > Another option might be for each package to be dropped into a poly bag, > heat sealed and rinsed before being handled by staff. > > Our society has, for all practical purposes, endless vulnerabilities. If > as each vulnerability is exploited we plan on taking drastic steps to > secure it from future exploitation, the costs will be staggering and the > list of unsecured items will hardly diminish. The result of the current > approach is an authoritarian society with a neverending, self-justifying > security project ahead of it. Sounds like a wonderful place to live if > you're an insect.
So we get either the Caves of Steel or the Naked Sun? I'd go for the former, being a city boy, but I guess T. May, H. Seaver & D. Honig might prefer the hyper-exurbia of the latter. One step from the Machine Stops - set not in the ultimate city but in the ultimate suburb. Ken
