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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Tue Nov 20 01:33:54 1990
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 90 01:33:01 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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alchen (Alice Chen):
Je clignote et le monde tourne dans les yeux. Puis, je vois
un reflet de sable sur l'eau, le contraire d'une mirage d'eau
sur le sable. Je me redresse et regarde la vision fixement;
il ne disparait pas. Avec agitation, je prends les rames et
fais aller la-bas.
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blade (Edward Min Lee):
Hey you all out there in computer land.
Please read /mit/blade/public/story.text and send me
{flame,critique,comment}-mail. Thanx muchly.
Later yall
Dot
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carla (Carla Jean Fermann):
Data Research Associates, Inc.
MATERIAL: Book
CALL NUMBER: IN PROCESS
AUTHOR: Fermann, Gunnar.
TITLE: UNEF II--oktoberkrisen 1973 : instrument for
krisehandtering / Gunnar Fermann.
PUBLICATION: Oslo : Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt, [1988]
DESCRIPTION: viii, 176 p. ; 30 cm.
SERIES: NUPI rapport, 0800-000X ; nr. 118 (aug. 1988)
NOTES: PRIORITY 4.
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
If I had carefully studied the rules of this game it is likely I would
have attempted an easier project, like making Marvin the Paranoid Android
or something. You don't really think about the complexities of special
cases, coding-wise, until you sit down and actually write the code. For
instance: The rules stipulate it is not necessary to declare carryover
unless you wish to carry to a monster requiring a higher value to hit it
than the initial target. You are not required to use such carry, but you
may, and you may assign it to whatever adjacent monsters are around that
need the same value to hit them. Of course, this means calculating this
number for all adjacent creatures, having a query interface that is called
while hits remain to be allocated, and all kinds of other junk that wasn't
apparent at first glance. Why should I complain though, I'm doing this
for entertainment value.
Primroses
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epeisach (Ezra Peisach):
"From watching a cat, I had worked it out the other evening, from
watching, as I say, a cat, kaf, snrk, that what separates us from the
lower animals is that we are not flexible enough to lick our own
genitals. So we seek satisfaction in the arts, the sciences. Money. War.
Kafkaf. Then however, I stopped to think. And I realized that cows
couldn't either."
First Hubby by Roy Blount Jr.
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exile (Lauren Burka):
"You shall enjoy all the pleasures that Nature makes your duty; do not
withhold yourselves from one. Must the diviner part of mankind be kept in
chains by the other? Ah, break those bonds; Nature wills it. Have no
other curb than your tastes, no other laws than those of your own desires,
no more morality than that of Nature herself. Languish no more under those
barbarous prejudices that wither your charms and imprison the divine impulses
of your heart; you are as free as we are and the career of the battles of
Venus are as open to you as to us."
Donatien-Alphonse de Sade
"We all have a face that we hide away forever
And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone
Some are satin, some are steel, some are silk and some are leather
They are the faces of the Stranger but we love to try them on"
Billy Joel
You may find me at home (note new phone number) or at the
Perseus Project, Vanserg Hall, Harvard University, (617)495-9025.
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henry (Henry Mensch):
"It's not the cliche; it's the butthead who says it ... "
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Planned absences:
DECUS UK, London ... 4 Dec (and following) ...
3 Dec BA 214 Dp BOS 1945 Ar LHR 0655
9 Dec BA 215 Dp LHR 1515 Ar BOS 1740
Frequent-Flyer Mileage for most recent trip (including
fare bonuses, but excluding hotel mileage): 23,200
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Plans for this month:
D organising the PANSS tape (and thinking about off-site support)
* (now, thinking about version two ... )
! treatment of athena network services as layers upon vendor os.
* finding and retaining a man who can pass the "breakfast" test
* shoveling out my apartment
* considering moving the rest of my furniture (and books,
and tapes, etc.) back into my apartment.
legend: * = "in progress"
+ = "in 'bureaucratic-wait' state"
! = "a future problem," in proposal stage
D = "done"
--
>off-campus readers will want to know that you'll find me here usually
>... when i'm not travelling to somewhere exotic, i'm a member of MIT's
>Project Athena External Relations Group, where i handle a potpourri of
>systems development related tasks, including software export issues,
>off-site support and installations, etc. ... other details: i'm an
>alumnus of syracuse university and purdue university ... i like to
>travel often, and hate answering the phone.
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Philly for T-day; SFO & STL for xmas.
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
Plan for this week...
sleep
x read books on Corelli for 21.621
x create outline for 21.621 project
\ listen to Early Baroque's Greatest Hits
\ draft of section one -- 21.690 paper
\ finish writing chapter 4 of my thesis
x = done
\ = in progress
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Thought for the day:
Brooks' Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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paul (Paul Boutin):
Give me your political dogma, your religious ebullience, your suicidal
cynicism, even your geeky computer jokes, but please NO MORE STING LYRICS!!!
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raghavan (S Raghavan):
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
Article 19195 of rec.arts.sf-lovers:
Path: mintaka!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!boulder!tigger!bear
From: bear@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: BBC, Free Speech, kiddie SF
Summary: Bear goes off the deep end.
Message-ID: <29974@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 19 Nov 90 03:04:21 GMT
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In article <9011172105.AA18082@quake.LCS.MIT.EDU> kfl@QUAKE.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
>> As for any episode that allegedly mentions the IRA beating up on the
>> British people, they probably have every right to cut those scenes.
>
>I don't know if Britain has such a law. I wouldn't be surprised.
>
>> There are laws in place in the U.S. that do much the same thing
>> for us.
>
>No there aren't. We have freedom of speech here.
>
No we don't.
When a small-town sheriff can shut down a national satellite channel
solely because it "offends community standards," WE DO NOT HAVE FREEDOM
OF SPEECH.
"American eXXXtasy" was not forcing itself onto children in schools
or on street corners. It was not forcing itself onto people's
television screens. It was merely available should the _individual_
choose to receive it.
(I do not know if the signal was scrambled -- but I can definitely
imagine people using _illegal_ decoders and then complaining about
the content).
Remember the _lone_ housewife who got national attention in her
effort to have Fox Television drop "Married, with Children".
Remember how the voices saying "If you don't like it, change the
channel" were drowned out?
It is true that there are few _explicit_ limits to the freedom of
speech in the United States. But consider:
o No publisher may be forced to print your words. No problem,
you print your own.
o No distributor may be forced to spread your words. No problem,
you distribute it yourself.
o No store may be forced to sell your words. No problem, you sell
it yourself.
o Someone is offended by your words and convinces the police that
you "violate community standards". Your store is seized, your
car is seized, your printing press and your home are seized,
as well as your bank accounts. RICO statues. If you think it
can't happen, talk to the owners of your local "adult" bookstore --
it does!
But it gets worse.
o No radio or television station may be forced to air your words.
o The government may not be forced to grant you a license to air
your own words.
o You buy satellite transponder time and air your own words. You
form your own cable channel. No cable system is required to air
your words, but you have the channel anyway.
o Someone is offended by your words and convinces the police that
you "violate community standards". Your studio is seized, etc.
Call up American eXXXtasy.
But it gets worse.
o You grab your soapbox and head downtown. The police tell you
to move along... vagrancy laws.
o You grab your soapbox and head into a city park. The police
tell you to move along... permits required.
o You grab your soapbox and head into city hall. You fill out
the paperwork for a permit, then hit the line where they
require an multi-million dollar general liability insurance
policy for your speech. That policy costs hundreds of dollars
for a single day. No insurance, no permit, and you are arrested
for unlawful assembly (under a different name).
Think it can't happen? Try Denver, last year. A group wanting
to hold a rally against a city policy (paving part of the park
for a parking lot, as I recall) was told that they _must_ have
an insurance policy. The ALCU and others sued the city. They
won, but next time?
But it gets worse.
o You work on computers all day. Your computers talk to other
computers. An informal network grows -- people discussing
professional issues, hobbies, etc. The network already
exists, your traffic is piggybacked onto it.
o One of these groups decides to try sending images. Digitized
photographs. Over a period of time these images become more
sexually explicit, humans being humans. However, to actually
view the images requires special software and hardware.
o Now there is serious talk of discontinuing this group:
alt.sex.pictures (and alt.sex.pictures.d). All of the sites
which had these images have removed them -- the owners of the
network have deemed this material unsuitable for transmission
across it.
Meanwhile, the discussion on asp is focused on the bandwidth
required (a possible concern, easily remedied by making this
a moderated group) and _copyright issues_. Yes, copyright
issues. Since the images cannot be viewed without special
effort, they are focused on copyright issues.
Admittedly someone else is picking up the tab for this
transmission -- but what about the computer bulletin boards
with this material? Need you ask?
What is left? If I publish material which offends some people
in the age of the RICO laws, I can lose my printing press. I can't
always speak through electronic media, and even if I do I face the
same RICO laws. If I try to speak on the street corner the local
police can harass me (vagrancy laws, public disturbances, etc).
Where is the Freedom of Speech? Freedom of speech does not
require that others must listen, but does it not require that you
_can_ be heard by others? Or is freedom of speech satisfied if
you can talk to yourself while locked in an isolated room?
[Sidenote: this topic _does_ belong in sf-lovers. If you
closely read the newspapers it is clear that the Government
considers freedom of speech (and privacy) to belong only to
existing technology.
A court order is required to read mail or tap phone lines.
Unless you used electronic mail, your text is stored on a
computer before printing, your telephone uses a radio signal
at the handset, etc.
What will happen in the future? The cashless society is here...
(Have you tried to rent a car, or make airline/hotel reservations,
without a credit card recently?)
Will we be looked at strangely if we try to send _paper_
mail, instead of electronic mail, twenty years from now?
Will that _alone_ be probable cause for the court order
to open the mail?]
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting no where fast
If God is dead and an actor plays his part
his words of fear will find their way to a place in your heart
Without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse
Without freedom from the past things can only get worse
..History will teach us nothing
- Sting
Nothing Like the Sun
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yho (Young H Oh):
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