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Message no. 1
From: The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 22:03:01 GMT
Forwarded to Run instead of Plot-D becaue the technical stuff in the
original confused the hapless poster who's running on 12 hgours sleep in
the past 72. . .

>>(YT is a good corp, ask anyone).

>*shudders* Ugh. No offense, Robert, but though it sounds, fictionwise,
>fantastic.... it just wouldn't cut it in the SR world. Not really.
>With runs being financed against you, and you not seeking out new info
>in return through less.... 'legal' methods.

Ah, but they don't perform unethical experimentss, gouge prices, or cheat
on their taxes. Nor do they steal and kidnap information and technology
from other corps; they develop it jointly or on their own. Am I right, Rob?

J Roberson

"Uhhh. . .They're not open much. Lessee, they're open Mondays & Tuesdays. . .
Wednesdays. . .Thursadays and. . .Fridays."
-- Anonymous Unemployed Blood Donor, "Roger & Me"
Message no. 2
From: The Wyrm Ouroboros <mehaffhm@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 23:08:14 -0500
>Ah, but they don't perform unethical experimentss, gouge prices, or cheat
>on their taxes. Nor do they steal and kidnap information and technology
>from other corps; they develop it jointly or on their own. Am I right, Rob?
>
> J Roberson

Okay -- the first three I can handle. The 'last' -- steal/kidnapping
info and technology from other corporations is, rather effectively in
the SR universe, a quick way to being absorbed by another corp. Or so,
I seemed to absorb, from the Corporate Shadowfiles...

Hmm. Rob, where'd YT fit in -- second tier, first tier, full
Megacorp??

--
Ouroboros
The (Undead) Wyrm of the .Net
Message no. 3
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 15:52:50 -0600
On Thu, 11 Nov 1993, The Wyrm Ouroboros wrote:

> Hmm. Rob, where'd YT fit in -- second tier, first tier, full
> Megacorp??

I'm not sure on the 'tiers' as I dont' have that sourcebook yet.

They are a fairly large corp. Intrests exist in cybertechnology,
biotechnology, AI research, some securities, most other new tech. They
have holdings world-wide, but with concentrations in the Seattle area.


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Message no. 4
From: The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 09:40:44 GMT
A lot of people seem to be very Thwap-conscious today. At least 20% of the
messages I've read so far say something like "no thwap please" or "please,
don't everyone thwap me at once".

What does this say about our society?!!!

J Roberson
Message no. 5
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 10:54:40 -0600
On Mon, 15 Nov 1993, The Deb Decker wrote:

> A lot of people seem to be very Thwap-conscious today. At least 20% of the
> messages I've read so far say something like "no thwap please" or
"please,
> don't everyone thwap me at once".
>
> What does this say about our society?!!!

That the thwap has lost its light-hearted meaning by arbitray and
over-zealous use by people who lack imagination.


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Message no. 6
From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 13:33:43 -0600
>From Herr Roberson:

>A lot of people seem to be very Thwap-conscious today. At least 20% of the
>messages I've read so far say something like "no thwap please" or
"please,
>don't everyone thwap me at once".

>What does this say about our society?!!!

It should be pointed out at this particular juncture that merely by requesting
that one not be bombarded with a shower of wet carps does not guarantee that
said desire shall take place. This is for two reasons: 1) Similar to the
pleas for not being denoted as Munchkins, excessive or incessent pleading for
no thwaps shall, in inself, often engender exactly the eventuality which the
original poster sought to avoid. 2) Some ideas, despite the author's
sincerest claims to the contrary, are simply thwap worthy. They should and
shall be thwapped.

As to what it says about society...perhaps hyper-sensitivity? Alternatively,
we could engage upon a decidedly Freudian tangent, devling into the supposed
subconscious thoughts of those who so vehemently state their desire not to be
struck with the Venerable Wet Carp.

Further, I could proceed from a Historical Supposition (tm), embracing the
contemporary circumstances, such that the event would be played out
hypothetically in a past referent...although I beleive that would raise the
ire of my compatriots.


Colonel Count von Hohenzollern und von Doom, DMSc, DSc, PhD.

Doom Technologies & Weapon Systems -- Dark Thought Publications
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.
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Message no. 7
From: Stefan Hahn <HAHN@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 11:59:16 -0800
>A lot of people seem to be very Thwap-conscious today. At least 20% of the
>messages I've read so far say something like "no thwap please" or
"please,
>don't everyone thwap me at once".
>
>What does this say about our society?!!!
>
>J Roberson

This is a sad example of what happens when good carp go bad.
There are too many young punks on the streets today with a saturday-morning
special fresh off the boats down at fisherman's terminal. Thwapping runs
rampant in the SeaTac Metroplex.

One student here was shocked and appaled that such a thing could happen at the
University of Puget Sound. "I am shocked and appaled that shuch a thing could
happen at the University of Puget Sound," said an unnamed source. "Why, it gets
my boxers in a bunch just thinking about it."

But remember, citizens. Once you outlaw carp, only outlaws will have carps.
But that includes most of us, so we're back to square one.
What if we supply everyone with Nerf carp, so nobody gets hurt?
Sound of getting hit by a Nerf Carp: **THWAfoof**

"Hey, BF!"
--Dyno-Mutt
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Message no. 8
From: Stefan Hahn <HAHN@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 12:11:34 -0800
>It should be pointed out at this particular juncture that merely by requesting
>that one not be bombarded with a shower of wet carps does not guarantee that
>said desire shall take place. This is for two reasons: 1) Similar to the
>pleas for not being denoted as Munchkins, excessive or incessent pleading for
>no thwaps shall, in inself, often engender exactly the eventuality which the
>original poster sought to avoid.

"heh heh. Hey, did that dude say he didn't wanna be thwapped? heh. Let's
Thwap Him! heh heh heh..."

>As to what it says about society...perhaps hyper-sensitivity?
$#@*%!! PC-ness, already.
>Alternatively,
>we could engage upon a decidedly Freudian tangent, devling into the supposed
>subconscious thoughts of those who so vehemently state their desire not to be
>struck with the Venerable Wet Carp.
Oh, baby, your carp is soooooo big and it's all wet...ohhhhhh
(File Inlcude: Matrix.Orgasm v.1.0)

>Further, I could proceed from a Historical Supposition (tm), embracing the
>contemporary circumstances, such that the event would be played out
>hypothetically in a past referent...although I beleive that would raise the
>ire of my compatriots.
Uhhhh, yeah. what he said. whatever that was...

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WITH ORION'S SWORD THE HUNTER AROSE AND CONQUERED THE WORLD WITH FURY AND GRACE
Message no. 9
From: Loki <jek5313@******.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gamma-grade Cyberware
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 14:38:13 -0600
Herr Doom spake:
> Further, I could proceed from a Historical Supposition (tm), embracing the
> contemporary circumstances, such that the event would be played out
> hypothetically in a past referent...although I beleive that would raise the
> ire of my compatriots.
>

You mean to say that it could result in the renaming your internal organs as
_external_ organs? *toothy grin* Not me -- I'm defaulting from Bike to Look
Innocent. . .

[Deleriously long sig deleted.]

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