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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 19:18:53 PST
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Reply-To: <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (fheschax qryvirengbe)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0050] Greenpeace: Autosaurus: The first anti-car ad campaign
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Keywords: surfpunk, Autosaurus, Greenpeace, Media Foundation
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___ No way. I've seen the Illuminati Secret Decoder
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___ Ring, and its graph has |V| = 5 and |E| = 23.
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___ /AHM <amartin@tle.enet.dec.com>
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From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey)
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Subject: Oh oh.....
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To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 23:44 PST
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Message-Id: <m0nKNjH-0000KxC@rsoft.rsoft.bc.ca>
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Spotting trends has become a small hobby of mine and I just picked up this
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announcement - are cars about to go the way of the Dodo, pregnancy drinking
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and smoking?
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The first anti-automobile campaign of its kind, "Autosaurus"
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is scheduled to hit the air across Canada on February 27, and in
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the US this Spring.
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Created for Greenpeace by Canada's Media Foundation,
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publishers of Adbusters Quarterly, this model animation depicts old
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cars in a wrecking yard coming to life as a dinosaur, then
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crumbling in an impotent heap. The voice-over reinforces the
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iconoclastic message: "It's coming... it's coming...The End of the
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Automotive Age."
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Created by animator Bill Maylone specially for Greenpeace,
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this TV spot calls attention to the environmental destructiveness
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of cars, and of the need for fuel efficient transportation and
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alternate modes of transport.
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According to Maylone, "car commercials are so commonplace on
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TV that we don't even give them a second thought. But the notion of
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an anti-car ad is unheard of. It is bound to create some
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controversy simply by its very nature."
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John Bennett, Director of Transportation Campaigns for
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Greenpeace, adds: "We've become so accustomed to the idea that we
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need a car, that without this casing of steel we are impotent. It
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is a belief system that has been carefully instilled in us through
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half a century of car advertising. It's time to break thaosaurus is
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the activist wave of the future."
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Autosaurout Autosaurus, or about free broadcast
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quality copies of the ad, please call Kalle Lasn at (604) 736-9401,
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or John Bennett of Greenpeace at (416) 345-8408.
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The Media Foundation
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1243 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1B7 Tel: (604) 736-9401
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What say you guys?
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. There's always thrill in liberating it.
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Subject: CELP speech compression code at cygnus.com:/pub/celp.speech.tar.Z
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The code is up for FTP where you-all can get it. I made both compressed
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and gzip'd versions (gzip gives smaller files than compress, is faster
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to decompress, but slower to compress).
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 gnu cygnus 2571835 Feb 5 16:04 celp.speech.tar.Z
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 gnu cygnus 2099441 Feb 5 16:09 celp.speech.tar.z
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Much of the tar file is samples of compressed and uncompressed speech,
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(used for testing the code). The actual C code is about 340K uncompressed,
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and there's also a Fortran version in there.
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I have a copy of the actual compression standard, but not online.
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The Information Liberation Front is welcome to a copy -- maybe
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I should just leave it on the table at the next meeting and hope someone
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"anonymously" picks it up and scans it in. It's public domain, so
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there's no special thrill from liberating it.
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-- gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore)
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[ John has commented that it runs slower-than-realtime on SPARC, and he
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challenges you to speed it up. -- strick ]
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It occured to me that some people might not get the significance of all
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this, so prehaps I ought to amplify.
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With the ability to compress speech down into the
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same baud rate as, say, a V.32 modem, all one would have to do to have
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perfectly secure voice communications is replace your phone with a
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setup that took in your speech, digitized it, compressed it, encrypted
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it, and sent it over the modem to the other side where this would be
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inverted. Fast enough software compression of voice would mean any PC
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with a DSP card and a V.32 modem could become an unbreakable scrambler.
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The chief problem is that the DSP needed to do decent compression is
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very crunchy, and encryption also tends to be crunchy, so there aren't
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typically enough cycles on your average PC. Of course, were someone to
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commercially market a board that did all this in hardware...
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pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
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