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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
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2 ************************ INSTALLED: 8 AUG 85 ***********************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 no restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 privately owned, I retain thepright to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 to leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 The line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 *************************************************************************
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19
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20 heh heh heh heh heh.......
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21 I'm here and you're not, which is as it should be.
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22 _innocent bysitter_
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23
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24 I would like to find out monformattion about this bulletin board. mk
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32 to the above person: Try typing "HELP" at the command prompt...
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33 ______________________________Leonard________________________________________
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34 I'm not like other girls. Or so my mother says, looking worried. And she's
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35 right. Mostly because I understand death which is a good thing now that we
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36 are up to our elbows in it as my dad said except he didn't say elbows
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37 It all started when Miss Peach gave us the Chain of Prey assignment. You
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38 had to trace who ate who (like from germs and bugs to fish to birds to man)
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39 on a paper with pictures of everybody lined up in profile mouths open lined
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40 ready to eat the next level down while unbeknownst to them the next level
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41 lurked behind. So I had: germs, bugs, chickens, man, lions, wolves, buzz-
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42 ards, worms, and back to germs in a big circle. And old cheery Miss Peach
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43 held it up in class and said "Anna has developed an EXCELLENT ecological
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44 niche concept." But what I really got a concept of was: Everybody's food.
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45 Everybody's a killer. It was the first solid truth I got out of school so
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46 I held onto it.
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47 Now that a real murderer has come into our midst, I think I have some in-
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48 sight.Or so I told Mr. John Arms the police lieutenant who came to ask me
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49 about the day I saw Dr. Robert Bang fall from his 12th floor condominium
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50 into the very river which the state was paying him to test for excessive
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51 pollutants which they suspect of causing the rise in leukemia hereabouts.
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52 That sick splat on the water had assured me that doctor wasn't doing any
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53 firsthand research. So I called the cops and they sent me home to get over
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54 the shock (even though I was calmer than anybody else blathering all around
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55 there) and in a few hours here comes John Arms to take my statement which
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56 boils down to this: Dr. Bang had been preying on a lot of people in a lot of
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57 ways and was due by the laws of nature to get devoured.
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58 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Annie AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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60 John Arms -> Gendarmes ?
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61 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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62 Where did all these cheery stories
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63 come from? Did someone take a
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64 double dose of their Valium?
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65 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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66
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67 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
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68 Emu came over and looked quickly at the temporal condition
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69 indicators. By the numbers, as Bard had intimated, there was
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70 definitely a strong disturbance nearby. The largest fluxuations
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71 seemed to be tied with the time jumps, rather than with physical
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72 proximity or reality jumps. However, all were being affected.
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73 "Lady Tayree, would you please bring me my packsack? I need
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74 my temp-tracker. Trainor, I have an idea that we need to watch our
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75 time jumping very closely."
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76 The Scarlette Lion handed over the bag. "can your tracker tell
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77 us something of the disturbance?"
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78 "Unless I miss my guess," interjected Fencer, smoothing the fur
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79 on his canine friend's collar, "Emu is going to try to use his
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80 temp-tracker as a way of homing in on this so-called `entity'. I
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81 would suggest, Emu, that you use the short-wave settings, as they
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82 penetrate the reality barriers much cleaner."
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83 "I didn't realise you were versed in paratemporal trackers,
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84 Fencer. You're right, though if I can get a fix on it first, the
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85 long-wave would allow a greater distance from the thing without
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86 loosing contact. Assuming, of course, that it has some psi
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87 emminations and that I can locat them."
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88 As he talked, Emu reached into his bag and withdrew a polished
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89 aluminum box with various control and readouts. After fiddling
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90 with it a little, a slight cloud of annoyance crossed his face.
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91 "is there something wrong, sir emu?" asked Lady Tayree.
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92 "No, not really," was the answer. "It just needs a slight
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93 adjustment." With that, Emu thwacked his delicate para-temporal
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94 tracker quite sharply against the edge of the the control panel.
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95 "Hey, that was almost my finger!"
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96 "Sorry Bard. Now maybe it'll work."
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97 Sure enough, two more LED's lit up, and Emu smiled a little.
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98 Reading from the ships panel, Emu tuned the tracker and got a small
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99 signal from the time-stream indicator.
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100 Trainors ears perked up. "Anything?"
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101 Yes, we're quite close to it, and since it does register on this
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102 gizmo, it must be somewhat sentient. I would suggest that we stop
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103 making time jumps until we reach the proper reality and physical
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104 proximity. By the readings on your ship's sensors, this thing can
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105 move much quicker through time than anything else. As long as we
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106 move quickly through the intervals, we should be able to keep
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107 ahead and away from it."
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108 At Trainor's nod, the bard reached up and cut out the time
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109 jump generator.
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110 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu
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111 -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+-
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112 Almost precisely six hours and ninety lines later, I have
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113 missed the chance at saying something I had longed to say for
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114 a great deal of time. Alas, it was not to be... This time.
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115 Congrats, _bysitter_! You finally got what you deserved.
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116 Ripple, I seem to have LOST what it is that you have said
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117 not so long ago. If you are who I think you are, and I'm who
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118 you think I might be, perhaps I may find what I have lost. No?
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119 Boy, do I feel like a fool!
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120 -+- -+- -+- -+- -JUGGLER- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+- -+-
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122 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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123 Someone told me that I missed something really juicy not too long'
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124 ago, and that I was mentioned. What was it? Do I know a
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125 what's-her-name? Pardon moi? Wait a second... Did someone say that
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126 Tina was back? When it rains it pours, doesn't it? Looks like I'm
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127 gonna have to get the old address book out and look up some numbers...
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128 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Tony Ross Aug 9, 1985 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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129 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/]
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130 sometimes i look out on across the waters, even on cloudy days, and it
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131 lightens my heart. then there are other times, when the wind is calm and
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132 the waters smooth, that shadows find their way into my chest. they make it
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133 hard to breath sometimes, and every once in a while i have to swallow real
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134 hard. maybe it's not really the waters. i might be looking out the wrong
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135 window.
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136 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] depressed mode: THE TIN MAN
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137 *************************************************************************
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138 Tina walked briskly thru the market, it seemed as though a nicer day
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139 could not have been ever created. She felt incrediably good, and looked
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140 it too. Investments had been paying off, and luxury was no longer a dream
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141 but reality. She stopped and carefully chose fresh fruits and vegetables
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142 for dinner, while humming a little tune. As she paid for her purchases
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143 she watched the clerks eyes light up at the sight of her rings. <flash-flash>
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144 "Life is a bitch and then you die" she ammused to herself. Walking confidently
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145 out the door. A face... No! He's seen me, let me out of here! Her
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146 groceries went quickly into the dumpster as she took flight.
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147 **********kathyd****************************************************************
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148
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149 I always thought I was above such feelings. I had never really felt such
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150 a burning in my soul before. I had never seen my former partner and mate in
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151 the arms of another either.
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152 It was like a slow-motion sequence in a bad kung-fu movie. I went through
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153 a gamut of feelings until I at last landed on the one true emotion that would
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154 set the pace for the rest of the day; jealousy.
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155 They were walking along together, face to face, arm in arm, heart to
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156 heart, lost in each other's being. I was an outsider, an intruder who chose
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157 the wrong time to walk up the steps and find out what it is like to have
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158 something you have loved and cherished first torn away, and then dangled
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159 just out of reach.
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160 They saw me walking towards them, and in an instant they broke their
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161 contact and slowed their pace. No words were spoken, none needed to be.
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162 The atmosphere seemed intense, heavy beyond belief. I could hardly
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163 breath. Only their faces and their actions told me what they were going
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164 through.
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165 We approached one another, I walking towards the office, they walking
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166 away. Away to what? I wondered. All my thoughts were tinged with anger and
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167 betrayal. I knew where they are going. I knew what they planned to do,
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168 together. I knew I would never be able to forget this moment, and what, just
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169 by my seeing them together, they had done to me.
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170 We passed, still not a word was spoken. My temples pounded and my throat
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171 was dry. I took two more steps and stopped. The jealous rage swelled within
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172 me and I swung around, my thoughts not really clear. It wasn't important
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173 what I did, just so long as I did something.
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174 They were walking faster now, arm in arm again. Just as they were about to
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175 turn the corner, she looked back over her shoulder. Our eyes met for an
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176 instant, and everything I had pent up drained in that same instant. She moved
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177 on, and so did I.
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178 Into the office, where every fixture was a memory of the times we had in
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179 the past. Times together when she was in my arms and I was in hers. Times
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180 when we were lost in each others eyes. Times that I knew where gone forever.
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181 ````````````````````````````````````````````````````sn````````````````````````
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183 [/]
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184 (Sad times, maybe. But isn't it better than the mindless dribble of before
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185 which tried to be called stories? Some good stuff on this disk. Keep it up.)
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186 \=-\=-
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187 Didn't think I would ever say that something good was on this system but
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188 now I get to eat my words, just about all of them. The stories above are
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189 good, for once I found myself reading them, enjoying them! That's great!
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190 Almost inspired me to write something, maybe I will - if I can ever get
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191 myself off this system; If I can ever stop reading this disk over and over...
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192 ---------\=-\=-inmo
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193 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/]
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194 i had something on the tip of my brain. guess it fell off before i could
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195 enter it. well if i find it when i vacuum today i'll let you know. next time
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196 i'll think it through before i type "enter".
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197 [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] [/] THE TIN MAN [/] [/]
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198
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199 ATTENTION HUMANS: APPLE COMPUTER INCORPORATED RULES THE WORLD!!!
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200 (EVEN IF IT CANT RULE ITSELF)...
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202 HAS ANYONE BEEN ON THE AMIGO SYSTEM LATELY? PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT ITS
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203 RATHER CHILDISH TO BE SHOUTING ABOUT HOW POOR EACH OTHERS COMPUTERS ARE.
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204 I THINK THAT IF WE THINK THAT EACH OF US THINKS THAT EACH OTHERS COMPUTER
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205 IS WORTH DIDDLY-SQUAT, THEN WE SHOULD JUST KEEP IT TO OURSELVES, SHOULDN'T
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206 WE? (BY THE WAY... DEPRESSION IS AN ILLUSION. REFER TO "SO LONG, AND THANKS
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207 FOR ALL THE FISH", PAGE 482). >>>LEARN TO SPELL!<<<
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209 JUST ME,
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210 THE NORAD COMMANDER (CHUCK HANSEN)
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211 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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212 Chuck: If you mention a board also mention the NUMBER!
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213 Yes, the PHONE NUMBER!!!
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214 _______________________________________________________________
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215 I really thought I had a chance this time. She looked lonely.
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216 I am lonely. She seemed receptive to conversation. It helped me
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217 feel better about myself too. She was interested in the
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218 discussion and added a great deal of her own input. Both of us
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219 shared equally in the conversation. She seemed genuinely
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220 interested in me. I was certainly interested in her. I tried
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221 to arrange a cool collective way to breech the subject of
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222 getting together for dinner. She was cool and collective too.
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223 She was too cool. I forgot who I was. She didn't.
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224 _______________________________________________________________
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225 <<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<
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226
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227 Do not very many people own compute
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228 ***********************************
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229 A Standard, All Purpose Fairy tale.
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230 **************************************
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231 Once upon a time, in a galexy far, far
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232 away, on a small planet, in a small town
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233 at a cheerful house, in her room, sat
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234 a young girl named lisa. Meanwhile, in
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235 another galexy, on a resort planet, in
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236 a big city, at a discoteque, a worried
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237 man was just finishing off his booze.
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238 While in a spaceship on its way to
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239 valgesia a woman was preparing dinner
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240 for herself and two childeren.
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241
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242 I hope you enjoyed this story as much
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243 as I did.
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244
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245 The events, places, and characters of
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246 this story are ficticious. Any
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247 similarity to actual people, places,
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248 or events is accidental, nor should
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249 be inferred.
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250 copyright 1985, samsamsam
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251 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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252 Sigh. Sometimes I think rewriting another terminal program would be easier.
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253 Max and/or anyone else with a C64: Video Concepts in Town Center is having
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254 one heck of a clearance sale, it seems that they must get rid of of a good deal
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255 of their inventory. Lots of software in boxes, priced at $4.90 and $9.90. I
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256 picked up HESMON 64 for $9.90 today.
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257 +++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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258 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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259 John Arms sat at the tdesk in my room taking notes. He is a heavy serious man
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260 with a round head and straight dark hair. He hardly ever blinks. "Can you
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261 think of anyone who might wish to harm Dr. Bang?" He asked.
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262 Well, there are a lot of people. Like Susie's dad. Susie lives in a big house
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263 on a hill where youca can see the whole town. The house looks like it should
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264 be in a magazine and so does Susie's mom, Mrs. Silk. She's tall, blond, tan,
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265 and always smiling or holding her mouth open as if she's saying "Oooooh.."
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266 just in case somebody might want to take her picture which nobody does since
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267 she's too old to be a New York model anymore and since nobody takes pictures
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268 of models anyway in a town this small. But she always dresses like Linda
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269 Evans even around the house just in case something comes up.
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270 Which it did two Thursdays ago in the form of Robert Bang. Me and Susie
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271 went to her house early because our soccer game got cancelled and saw her
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272 and Dr. Bang on the deck having drinks even though it was only 3 o'clock in
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273 the afternoon. Mrs. Silk had on an electric blue silk blouse and her "Oooohh"
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274 expression. Dr. Bang kept looking at her and talking softly. Every once in a
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275 while he'd touch her shoulder and lean a little closer. He looked like a
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276 wolf salking a big blond lion in the chain of prey.
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277 Susie and me went in the house and played video games for awhile, but she
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278 was too spaced out to concentrate. "That guy," she said, "He's go a lab in
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279 the hospital where my mom does charity work. My mom likes doctors." Susie's
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280 dad is a lawyer. Her dad came home a little while later. He'd been playing
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281 racketball and was sweaty and happy. He's a strong stocky guy like a bull.
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282 He put his curly head down and charged at Susie like a bull but hugged her
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283 instead. She pointed at the scene on the porch. He looked, got very quiet
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284 and calm. "More charity work, eh, Sport? Hey, quit worrying." "Are you
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285 gonna leave, Daddy?" she asked. "Not without you, Babe," he stroked her
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286 hair. "Maybe not at all. Maybe I won't have to."
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287 Now this would never happen at my house. My Dad would charge right out
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288 there and say "Hi there, glad to meecha. If I ever see you alone with my
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289 wife on my porch at 3 o'clock in the afternoon again I'll tear your ears off.
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290 Want another drink?"
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291 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Annie AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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292 --------------------------------------
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293 Software Theft: A Case History
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294
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295 By Jim Butterfield
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296 Toronto, Ontario
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297 May 10, 1985
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298 --------------------------------------
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299 Copyright (C)1984 Jim Butterfield. Permission to reprint is hereby granted, provided this notice is included in the
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300 reprinted material.
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301
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302 --------------------------------------
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303
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304 Maybe you're tired of reading about program piracy. There's been a lot said about it lately. But I have one or two extra
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305 houghts on the subject.
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307 Recently (September 1984) I was chatting with the author of the program FBACKUP. You probably know it: it's sometimes
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308 called FAST BACKUP, sometimes the FOUR-MINUTE BACKUP. Everybody must have a copy by now. In contrast to the single disk
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309 backup program that comes with the 1541 and which takes half an hour or more to perform a disk backup, the fast backup
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310 program will do the job in four minutes, sometimes less.
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311
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312 It's quite cleverly written - to describe it technically, it formats as it writes in order to get this amazing speed.
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313 When it wants you to change disks so as to continue the backup process, it whoops at you. Perhaps I don't need to tell
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314 you all this... it seems as if most people I talk to have a copy.
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315
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316 This celebrated program was written for commercial distribution by Thomas Tempelmann, a student who lives in Oldenburg,
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317 est Germany. It has been for sale in Europe for some time now. There were problems lining up a U.S. distributor, and so
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318 the program has never been offered for sale in the U.S.A. or Canada.
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319
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320 Thomas told me his total sales on the program - world wide - amounts to seventy copies. I suspect there are at least ten
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321 thousand copies in North America alone. If all Thomas' sales had been to North America (and as far as is known, none of
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322 hem were), that would mean that over 99% of the copies in circulation were not purchased.
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323
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324 Seventy copies. If you have a copy of FBACKUP, how do you feel about that? Would it be better if you didn't know the
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325 author's name; if the program were written by somebody unknown rather than Thomas Tempelmann? Would it be better if you
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326 thought maybe he has sold sold a million copies, so won't miss your royalty?
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327 Seventy copies. Listen, you can't be blamed, right? It wasn't even for sale in North America. So how else could you get
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328 a copy except from a friend? And it's a really fantastic program that everyone needs, right?
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329
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330 We seem to be entering a new era where pirates are proud of their work. Bootleg copies are signed by the pirates who
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331 broke the protection. There's now a regularly published newsletter which deals with how to make 'unprotected backup'
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332 disks. The newsletter names commercial software packages, details the protection schemes they use, and gives precise
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333 procedures to remove the protection.
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334
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335 Thomas Tempelmann's story might have a happy ending. He told me he hopes to sell FBACKUP rights to Commodore for general
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336 istribution. It's a first class utility and would look great on a bonus disk. It's certainly well tested - thousands of
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337 people have used it. So Thomas might - possibly - eventually receive respectable compensation for his work. But it won't
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338 be from the sale of seventy copies.
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339
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340 How do you think such an experience would affect Thomas Tempelmann's attitude towards developing new software? Well,
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341 Thomas is not the type of person to let small setbacks like this slow him down. Six months ago, he wrote a fast disk
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342 program that will load software at remarkable speed. About the time it was completed, he was visited by a young person
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343 to whom he showed the system. During the demonstration, Thomas was called away to the phone. The kid stole a copy, and
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344 there are hundreds of copies around West Germany now. Thomas doesn't think he'll ever put his fast disk on the market
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345 now.
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346
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347 Thomas' current project has something to do with reading sequential files from other computers disks - perhaps Apple,
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348 Atari, and/or IBM PC. But he doesn't talk about it much, and he doesn't show his new system to anyone. I get the
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349 impression that he's learned not to trust people. I wonder why?
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350
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351 Maybe you hope to write software some day soon. And maybe you plan to work hard, learn efficient coding, get some good
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352 insights into machines and people, and put together a program that will be universally admired. It will be useful; it
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353 will be elegant; it will be efficient; it will be easy and convenient; and it will do something that hasn't been done
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354 before.
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355
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356 And maybe you'll get it all together, and your program will be a sensation. Everybody will admire it, everybody will
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357 want it - more, everybody will need it.
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358
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359 And maybe you'll sell seventy copies.
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360
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361 [It is we who really lose here. We will not see the fast load program, and we may never see the program that reads other
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362 formats. If we do, they will be awfully expensive and inconveniently protected. Hmmm. When will we learn? - G.W.]
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363
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364
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365 I found the above on Zarahemla & thought it deserved a wider audience.
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366 ______________________________Leonard____________________________________
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367 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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368 too bad I have never heard of the Author or his program - must be real
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369 popular.
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370 s:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:k
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371 Hello.
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372 About Russia: Most of the fear of the USSR is left over from the McArthy
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373 days. It is easy to look back on it with all wisdom hindsight brings and say
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374 that the people who persecuted alleged communiists were foolish and evil, but
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375 remember that less than 10 years before a man and his country tried to take
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376 over the world for the sake of taking over the world (namely Hitler). Consid-
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377 er also that Rafter the revolution
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378 r
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379 (sorry, enter only)
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380 Russia invaded Georgia and the other countries now behind the Iron Curtain;
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381 in fact, when Hungary decided they didn't want to be communist anymore, Russia
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382 invaded and killed thousands of civillians but practically no soldiers or heads
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383 of state.
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384 To people who had just experienced one of the most senseless wars, these
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385 actions were too familar. If you found out that the neo-nazis in Oregon were
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386 trying to take over
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387 s
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388 (sorry) Salem wouldn't you try to keep your friends and children from going
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389 there? That's what they thought they were doing.
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390 Even now there are valid reasons for distrusting the USSR. i.e. When they have
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391 border trouble in Asia they send the European armies to deal with it. If there
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392 is trouble on the European border they send Asian troops. No shared ancestry
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393 between opposing forces-get it?
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394 s:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:k
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395 I would like to appoligize once again for the errors. My only excuse is that I
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396 haven't done this in quite some time.
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397 s:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:k
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398 Does anyone have a female rat of childbaring years? Please leave a message
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399 here if so.
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400 Lady S.
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401
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402 s:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:ks:k
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403 tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttgttttttttttttt
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404
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some people have accused me of having the consistancy of marmalade...
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405 in other words... i am not consistant... which is devilishly true... as much as
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406 that bothers me...
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407 in any case... i will continue the Official Thrike Story Line tonight, soon
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408 after my guest((lady)s depart...
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409 ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttgtttt
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410 =====================================================================
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411 Finally I am free, the months of agony are over.
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412 So why does it still hurt so much.
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413 =================================================
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414 LEONARD, THERE IS NO FORGIVING THIS TIME. YOU HAVE
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415 TARNISHED THESE DISKS ONCE TOO OFTEN. NOW, I WILL
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416 HAVE TO'@.
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417 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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418 It was still a dark, but not a stormy knight. Sir Ben of Fish was dead tired.
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419 He had just finished a 5 month trek across the Eastern continent. From the
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420 Inland Hills of Miami, he had traveled all the way to the southern coast of
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421 Kansas because there had been reports that the evil Jeffslime and his sidekick
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422 Gunnar Webhead had been seen there. His trusty steed, Rustbucket II, sauntered
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423 down the coast. Sir Ben was almost asleep when all of a sudden, he was
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424 surrounded by a gang of vigilante Beach Bums! They surrounded him, waving
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425 their driftwood sticks around brutally. Sir Ben screamed his Fish battle cry.
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426 "G U R G L E !" he cried. Then he pulled out his sword viciously, and fainted.
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427 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guido !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aug. 10, 85 at 4:31 !!!!!
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428 NEED EXTRA CASH? CALL MIDSIX BBS!!! CALL NOW TO ENTER CONTESTS WORTH $$$
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429
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430 MIDSIX
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431
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432 649-xxxx
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433 --------
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434
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435 24 HRS. 7 DAYS/WEEK
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436
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437 300 BPS.
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438
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439 SYSOP: BRIAN INMAN
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440
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441 COSYSOP: ROB BUZAN
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442
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443
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444 END
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445 Leonard, don't fear for the fastload program,if it is in Germany,it will
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446 soon be here in the US. Piracy seems the norm here, and even more so in
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447 the Orient. The only way to keep your program from beeing stolen is never,
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448 NEVER release it to anyone. Of course you can sell the manual, and give
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449 away the program, unless it is just a simple utility that doesn't need
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450 a manual.
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451 But don't bother with trying to embarrass the pirates, or appealing
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452 to their 'better side'. Unless you have a method of preventing copying
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453 disks that works, crying about it is less than worthless.
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454 ..................................................BAD.................
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455 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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456 "All right, Milch, where to now?"
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457 The Doctor had this annoying habit of putting his finger directly upon the
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458 problem at hand. Usually, this wasn't annoying, but it was when I didn't have
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459 the foggiest idea. I told him as much.
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460 "Come, now. We've travelled countless parsecs, years, and...well, er, a couple
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461 of time lines to get here, so I suppose it would be proper for us to *DO*
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462 something, wouldn't you think?" I ignored him, and looked at the surroundings.
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463 Grann already had. "I see a large house upon the side of that hilly area,
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464 there. If communism means what I think it does, then homes should be equal-
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465 unless someone of power occupies that structure."
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466 "Perhaps you are right, Grann. No harm could befall us to get a closer look,
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467 anyway. Doctor, would you lead our little expedition?"
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468 The Doctor gave a little nod, and we were on our way. Only then did I feel
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469 something nagging at me- a presence, if you will. It was faint, but
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470 undoubtedly there. Then another moment- TWO presences! The second seemed
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471 strange and familiar at the same time, unlike the first; it had a foreboding
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472 tinge to it. Pondering this, I followed Grann and the Doctor onward.
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473 +++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar ++++ 10 Aug 85 +++ I miss PorSFiS +++++++++++++
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474 hello all, I'm sorry if I took too much time tonight, but I have not been
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475 on in over three months or so, and I wanted to read and download everthing
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476 so I can print it out later... also, I'd like to talk to other people on a pr
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477 ivate system like CBBS/Aloha.... If anyone is interested, please leave mail to
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478 Scott Wirth.
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479 MIG: Hello!! Is there sometime I can call the Nerd and that you will be around
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480 to chat??? Let me know, Ok? I also have a few questions about CP/M
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481 ==========
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482 Bad: try reading the message your talking about, helps make YOUR entry more
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483 understandable. As it is right now, it's hard to figure out what you are
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484 talking about, you totaly got Leonards message backwards - or maybe I did -
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485 But anyway, please try to understand the topic on which you'd writting about.
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486 ====-=-=-=
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487 Hitler wasn't trying to 'take over the world'... He was trying to get rid
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488 of the filth, which was anything but the arian race for they were the supreme.
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489 His idea was to secure the arian race a high position in this world, the
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490 highest. Like Japan being so isolated for so long, they didn't want to be
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491 messed up by other races but they were forced to. Hitler wasn't trying to
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492 take over the world, he was trying to preserve it.
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493 Now, don't get me wrong, I don't agree with the way he went about his ultimate
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494 plan, I think he was a real loser. A briliant man, but still a loser. But
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495 still his idea wasn't to bad.
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496 =============\=-\=-inmo
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497 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/
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498 Scott Wirth:We know each other? I havn't been near Le Nerd for weeks, and
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499 probably will not be for more weeks, say fifty at least. Questions about
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500 CP/M are best directed at a CP/M users group, or SBUG.
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501 WK:The glint of a...SAFETY PIN! The knive was black, the blood was red and
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502 the building spoke with a bass voice. But the damn safety pin reflected too
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503 much light.
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504 ProHa:Lets do some vocals on the desk blotter, OK? Like did he have one or
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505 did he simply agree about parkinsons disease?
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506 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?/MiG/.
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507
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508 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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509 Annie: Like the dialog.
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510 Dr. Frankenstupe
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511 +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+
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512
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513 pppppppppppppppppppppppp
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514 still watching in amazements....
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515 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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516 88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888
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517 There is some evidence that Japan didn't cry uncle until we started going
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518 throughthe
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519 through the motions of dropping a THIRD bomb (recon flights, droping test
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520 bombs, leaflets, etc.) The American public was anticipating a bloody in-
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521 vasion of the Japanese mainland and wanted the war OVER! My father served
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522 in the Navy in the pacific and would most certainly have been involved in
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523 the invasion (note: Destroyers are Expendable and Disposable... I think
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524 dad was on a destroyer....) Records say the military was anticipating
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525 1,000,000 casualties on our side and 10,000,000 Japanese casualties.
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526 Conclusion: If not for the A-Bomb, I might not be here. (no smart cracks.)
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527 Conclusion: Possable the A-Bomb is the reason the world has enjoyed
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528 relative peace. Remember WWI and WWII in less than 40 years..
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529 the Phantom GF
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530 rats on enter only.. Phantom Glitch
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531 88888888888888888888888888888888888888808118588888888888888888888888888888
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532 CAll my Board!!!!!!
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533 Formerly LNA-E/1 BBS
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534 Formerly Engineer's 1 BBS
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535 Now
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536 SLOW_AS_A_SLUG_1 BBS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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537
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538 Discover why DECis going brke!!!!!!
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539 24 hours
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540 2400 baud modem
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541 110 baud transfer rate of 4th-rate files
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542 692-xxxx
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543 CALLNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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544 ^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"
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545 Digitalian
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546 ^"^""^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"
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547 GOSH...Am I at Line 629 yet?
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548 he heh...
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549 ----Yo Neo!!!!! You might already know it, but The Terminal WORKS!!!!
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550 I had to try to load it about seven times 'fore I could get it to though.
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551 ANY WAY, May I see your ID, Emu?
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552 heh-heh...just a joke...cuz last time I was here you were somebody's ??LION??
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553 I personnally would LOVE to see the results of a second T.W.I.T.<z|u<trulyly
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554 witless intellegent terds>
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555 test
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556 BYe now!
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557 ^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^
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558 Digitalian
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559 ^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^
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560 ^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"LATER"^
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561 ^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"^"DUDES"^
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562
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563
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564
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565
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566
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567
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568 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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569 From Prometheus; Devilish
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570 Leonard; The tract against piracy was interesting, although the subject has
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571 been beaten to death. Speaking as one who lacks an opinion on the issue, most
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572 people will think what they want to about piracy. They all have their gimmicks
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573 for explaining it away, whether it be manuals or men with guns.
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574 Since you seem to have oodles of compters and dozens of tracts and stories
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575 and things, you might consider putting up a board for these pleasantries.
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576 It's worth a shot.
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577 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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578
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579 the prelude is over... the deluge has just begun...
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580 ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
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581 in the cockpit... voices and arguments... courses and altitudes... in the
|
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582 passenger compartment... tilean stands at a map... allean is in a pool of light
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583 cast by the screen... the others are reclining in their seats... the dc-10
|
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584 trembles with winds blown from the deep crevaces and peaks below them...
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585 suspended in the air... the deserts mountains flow beneath them... the
|
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586 plane trembles again... the only noise is of the engines... and the two fresh
|
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587 agents snoring quietly...
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588 allean is viewing the libyan records... explosives placed at which oil well
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589 and when... who is supervising which well... where does he come from... if there
|
|||
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590 is anyone heading this project... allean will find out who...
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591 tilean is plotting the routes to reach the oasis of maradan by evening...
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592 it will take a certain amount of planning to get everyone in position... their
|
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593 taskc require even more planningg than that...
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594 each agent was going to sabotage or delay the project somehow... tilean was
|
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595 going to establish an running network of spies and informants... allean was to
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596 find the man behind the plan... quarrie was to manually sabotage a certain oil
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597 well... and o'kearns was to sabotage another oil well...
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598 since a chain is as strong as it's weakest link... each of them was their
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599 own chain... as long as one of them held... everything held... it was not a
|
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601 and still... tilean mapped... allean read... the other two drifted off to
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611 pirate's life for
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612 ---- yo ho
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613 but at least - i'm not a pliagiarist .......
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614 yo ho yoo hoo - pirate's life for me yo ho yoo hoo !
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619 make it read well-financed and well-aged pagans and jews.
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620 kf & mp le 2
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622 -+- meet you in the funny pages -+- -+- j -+-
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624 RIDICULOUS SCARLETTE
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625 Must GO BUST!!!!!
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629 pagans and jews? kf and mp? are thou mad? well financed?**kathyd**ha ha
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