Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!porges From: porges@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: ...Welcome to 1984... - (nf) Message-ID: <1004@inmet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 23:55:05 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1004 Posted: Tue Mar 6 23:55:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 19:08:08 EST Lines: 24 #R:isrnix:-8300:inmet:7800068:000:782 inmet!porges Mar 5 13:58:00 1984 >>So, the United States Defense Department has begun work >>on a second-generation anti-satellite weapon... >>Welcome to 1984! >>inhp4!inuxc!iuvax!isrnix!mr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ One year at school, some friends of mine and I decided to reserve "Welcome to Cuba" as a generic punch-line with no joke attached. Obviously this has been replaced by "Welcome to 1984". FLAME APPROACHING: I have finally flipped out at people who say "Welcome to 1984" at random times. You might at least notice that the weapon in question is, strictly, an ANTI-surveillance weapon, since it kills spy satellites. -- Don Porges ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges ...yale-comix!ima!inmet!porges