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New quotes for Mon Nov 18
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Mon Nov 18 01:32:52 1991
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 91 01:32:09 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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amberle (Amberle S Ferrian):
I sing my song to the wide-open spaces
I sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I sing my visions to the sky-high mountains
I sing my song to the free
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angeli (Angeli D Salgado):
Graduate, go back to California, climb Half Dome (easy side first, the
Face has to wait a few years), be a Misfit Hero groupie.
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
I was hoping to go to this to find out more about Plan 9. If you do join
the protest, please be polite about it...
[7039] daemon@LCS.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) bboard 11/17/91 20:34 (27 lines)
Subject: Protest the AT&T backing store patent, Monday afternoon
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 91 20:26:37 -0500
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To: bboard@lcs.mit.edu
You may have heard that AT&T has a patent on a simple technique called
"backing store" which consists of saving the hidden parts of a window
in off-screen memory. AT&T is using this patent to threaten to sue
all the users of X windows, including MIT. A few weeks ago, the X
consortium stated that these threats are "chilling to university
research".
Rob Pike, who obtained this patent for AT&T, is going to be visiting
Tech Square on Monday afternoon. If you don't like AT&T's
monopolistic threat, now's the time to express your opinion by joining
in a quiet protest against his visit.
Let's meet on the fourth floor of 545 Tech Square, near room 430,
around 2:15pm.
Please make a sign, even an el-cheapo sign, to identify yourself as
part of the protest. Make up a slogan on the subject of Pike, AT&T,
backing store, X windows, patents..., then write it with a magic
marker on a piece of copier paper.
(Pike has spoken publicly in favor of software patents and the backing
store patent in particular. He is thus not a reluctant participant in
AT&T's campaign of threats.)
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gennaro (Rosario Gennaro):
when love comes in town
I wanna jump in that train
when love comes in town
I wanna catch that flame
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goz (David Gomez):
Who knows?
I wish I did!
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honor (Andrew John Cassidy):
Hello,
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home
Come on now
I hear your feeling down
I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two ballons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb.
O.K.
Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is gone
The dream is gone
And I have become
Comfortably numb.
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htung (HAO-YUAN TUNG):
To: graduate,
enjoy life,
and laugh a lot.
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jinx (Guillermo J Rozas):
I hardly ever use this account.
Do "finger -l jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu" for more up to date information.
Written on Sun Nov 17 07:00:02 EST 1991
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rjbarbal (Richard J. Barbalace):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
{From rjbarbal: I beg your pardon. It most certainly is world readable.}
{From system: Hmph! Who asked you? Go back to work and be quiet.}
{From system: This user is not world readable}
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Outre Magic Item #9
Scabbard of sword resistance: no sword can be sheathed in it
from Murphy's Rules
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therese (Therese):
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
or snack lunch in the hall,
Finland, Finland, Finland,
Finland has it all.
You're so sadly neglected,
And so often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Your mountains so lofty
Your treetops so tall
Finland, Finland, Finland
Finland has it all...
- Monty Python
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wesommer (Bill Sommerfeld):
From: szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo)
Newsgroups: misc.invest,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: what the technical/fundamental reasons for today's DJ 120-point crash?
Date: 17 Nov 91 10:58:52 GMT
In article <16NOV199116344614@elroy.uh.edu> cosc143u@elroy.uh.edu (91F9774) writes:
>[1..9]
>and the number one reason why the Dow corrected...
>
> 01. David Letterman didn't put out a top 10 reasons why Dow should go up list.
Not coincidentally, the stock plunge followed NBC's announcment that
Mr. Letterman will be discontinuing his "Top 10" lists. Why invest
when there's nothing left to live for?
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wslee (Whay Sing Lee):
Move on, move on, never look back. That is the way of life.
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