From - Wed Jan 14 17:26:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: from relay1.UU.NET by mrco.carleton.ca (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA08818; Mon, 1 Mar 93 01:47:47 EST Received: from nyx.cs.du.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA23504; Mon, 1 Mar 93 01:38:09 -0500 Received: by nyx.cs.du.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20666; Sun, 28 Feb 93 23:30:15 MST From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (andy) Message-Id: <9303010630.AA20666@nyx.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions or correct identity of users. Subject: FutureCulture Digest #266 To: future-digest@nyx.cs.du.edu Date: Sun, 28 Feb 93 23:30:13 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Content-Length: 3713 X-Lines: 102 X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 ______________________________________________________________________ |______________ / | | / | | u t u r e <___________ u l t u r e | _______________________________________________________________________| Issue #266 Sunday, February 28th 1993 Today's Topics: --------------- G.A.I.A Re: any questions? this conspiracy thing __________________________________________________________________________ From: ghoast@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: any questions? Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 21:39:00 -0500 (EST) > the nets. Frankly, if i'd been on and you asked about William Gibson > i would probably have ignored it or directed you to faqs. Its not that > i'm elitist, its just that it takes up all my time answering *interesting* > questions. The faul lies, in the first place, with your friend's teacher No mna, perhaps you misunderstood me. By all means ignore the redundant queries that are easily FAQ-answered. My greif was with the people who thought that my question was so evil. Their responce was to focus intently on the percievd idiocy of my request. To the exclusion of any remotely useful diatribe, they went on a newbie-bashing spree. Less efficient than an answer. > > Willard > the evil bastard (in an evil mood) > Now here's what's happeing in your world (even as we speak). > -ghoast@gnu ______________________________ Date: 28 Feb 1993 22:36:14 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: G.A.I.A >mirage >I was just reading the book "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon \ >and I got to wondering: does anyone "out there" know of any >real conspiracies. I mean I've read Robert Anton Wilson and heard reams >of stories amounting to "the Illuminati really do exist", but is there >anyone AT ALL who has any reason to beleive (tangible reason) that a\ >real conspiracy is happening right now?!? >Respond coherently please i do. (i refer also to AUTONYM.) .rez ______________________________ Date: 28 Feb 1993 23:16:57 -0600 (CST) From: "free agent .rez" Subject: this conspiracy thing >mirage >Maybe nowhere is a fine place but I dont have time >to search for this non-existent state of mind. I want real >somewhere stuff. So, on that note, anyone who has anything >that has a location in time or space, send it along that's your criteria? why are you looking in iNte, then? it strikes me, though, that any sorts of self-organising behavior will be much more likely to hold together in a region which allows TAZ's like iNet than they will in the world of time and space and schtuff. ah well, no harm in trying. .rez _________________________________________________________________________ | | | That's all for today! | | To send a message to the list: future@nyx.cs.du.edu | | To subscribe/unsubscribe/change format: future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu | | All other requests: future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu | | List Maintainer is: (andy [aka hawkeye]) ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu | |_________________________________________________________________________| | | | The opinions expressed in FutureCulture are those of the individual | | author only. | |_________________________________________________________________________|