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1996-11-23 - Re: Star Trek: First Contact

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: unicorn@schloss.li (Black Unicorn)
Message Hash: f294df1f07746c8f473b8a45cd9b20b58a2b0561668c97c9b035b0f1cde0545a
Message ID: <199611231541.KAA13180@homeport.org>
Reply To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961123060232.12685E-100000@polaris>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-23 15:46:03 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 07:46:03 -0800 (PST)

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 07:46:03 -0800 (PST)
To: unicorn@schloss.li (Black Unicorn)
Subject: Re: Star Trek: First Contact
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961123060232.12685E-100000@polaris>
Message-ID: <199611231541.KAA13180@homeport.org>
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Black Unicorn wrote:
| On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
| > For the fans of E.E.(Doc) Smith, go see this movie.
| > 
| > OBCrypto: Data locks the main computer with a fractal cypher.
| > 
| > OBMoney: Picard states the they don't have money in the 24th century. 
| > Instead they work for the good of mankind.  Nanotechnology must have made
| > everything material possible, so the only reward left is status (aka
| > reputation).
| 
| Why doesn't everyone have a starship?

	Becuase they've created an insidious welfare state so that no
one wants for basic human needs.  This has sapped the drive of most
people so far that only war generates new technology. Said new
technology is too expensive to give to the common man, who should be
satisfied watching Patrick Stewart, history's greatest Shakesperian
actor.

;)

Adam



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