brown sugar, how come you dance so sweet?

[James B. DiGriz]

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