WE> So you kept a phone line connected all this time without any
 WE> interruption nor any interruption to the computer's power or
 WE> performance.
 FM> OH!!! I needed a phone line??? NOW you tell me!!  I THOUGHT I saw
 FM> something about that in the manual.
 WE> What a phoney excuse. -)  Is this also why we continue to philosophize
 WE> as the Last Message is still waiting for the phone?
   Yes, (chuckle) we cannot permit mere technological developments to
interfere with the musings of the muses or sully the immediacy or the primacy
of unfettered conciousness!  As soon as that little 300 baud modem has
finished its transmission via the Ward Christensen protocol it has promised 
o
slink away into the hinterlands of obscurity, there to join products of
bygone, once-proud technicians who were providing us with the cutting-edge at
the time of their heyday in the sun!!  Practically everything now is 
ependent
on the speed with which those little zeroes and ones of binarial proportions
race across the surface of the globe and into intergalactic space.  Not only
is God dead but the world itself has come to an end!!!  That IS what we 
anted
--- wasn't it????
   Note to the skeptics.  We're just having fun.  Man still reigns supreme as
the proud product of his own creation so not to worry!!!  Everything could
STILL be all right in the endgame.  Even those predisposed toward neighborly
nastiness probably have an indispensable role in the final mix.  Be not
alarmed.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
--- PPoint 2.05
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