Optimizzin Al-gorithm wrote:
Re: possession of brown sugar and envelopes illegal ?
Actually pollen would be a lot closer than unfiltered sugar. I believe lycopodium (a moss) spores are used as anthrax simulant, you know, the powder in the vial you toss at the congresscritters at the beginning of the Meeting, to make them mess their pants and give your Project money.
At 12:45 PM 10/14/01 -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Targeted bioweapons will offer, for the first time, opportunity to get
rid of
"others". The more "others" present a monoculture group (genetically,
eating
habbits, behavioural patterns) the easier it will be to target them. In
this
regard bioweapons work directly against what was driving force in
history so
far - grandfalooning around concepts, feeling safe among the same.
And this will bring some profound changes.
You may be interested in what David Brin writes about cultures actually encouraging (some) eccentricity in _Transparent Society_. He also groks the metaphor of societal antibodies (and "T-cells" etc).
Will folks please try not to anthropomorphize, abstract concepts? Or, vice-versa, conceptualize living, breathing people? There is such a thing as being too clever by half. jbdigriz