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Message no. 1
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: [OT, spoiler] red pill- two pill- blue pill- yes? [was:
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 12:16:58 EDT
In a message dated 4/11/99 4:23:41 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
pantherr@*****.net writes:
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> You call growing 'crops' of humans and trapping their minds in a
> VR world so they could be used as batteries w/o protest
> justifiable? I mean, sure they're intelligent, but they're MACHINES.
> WE made THEM. Nothing justified their rebelling on their creators
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> > that and I stand by Morpheus's suggestion that the electrical sensory
> > impulses are what is "real", and the Matrix is thus "real"
enough for me.
> > plus, happiness is what matters, and by having the humans hooked up to
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> > Matrix, happiness is insured. when Agent Smith was interrogating
> > Morpheus, he explained that the socioeconomic makeup of the Matrix world
> > was based on the *peak* of human civilization. a real society of humans
> > cannot guarantee each other a constant golden age, but being a part of
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> > Matrix *does* guarantee that golden age.
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> That 'golden age', as Agent Smith called it, was the (what I like to
> call) shithole of a world we live in today :P

Actually, something just occurred to me. What *IF* this concept were
combined with one of the "Human Nation" plots, that went terrifyingly awry.
The "Golden Age" of Humanity could easily be viewed as a "what the world
was
like BEFORE the Awakening ever occurred. And, somewhere along the lines, the
project overwhelmed it's users, and it broke out into a fully manifest war of
sorts, with one of the projects the machines carried out was the destruction
of anything related to Metahumanity.

Think about That
-K
Message no. 2
From: Ojaste,James [NCR] James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA
Subject: [OT, spoiler] red pill- two pill- blue pill- yes? [was:
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:35:54 -0400
Scott Wheelock [mailto:iscottw@*****.nb.ca] wrote:
[mentionning that the .ca in his email address means "Canada"]
> ] But it wouldn't tell me if you're from Quebec, though... It
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> ] tell me if you're an immigrant. Assumptions can burn
> people, sometimes. :0
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> Like me...after I wrote this (lying in bed, which is why I didn't
> immediately reply), I realized the above, and felt stupid. I
> mean hell, I just visited Quebec...anyway, apologies if
> necessary, and if not, good for you for assuming I didn't mean
> to be a total cretin :)

OK, maybe the .ca includes Quebec, but the .nb.ca tells me that your
ISP is in the province of New Brunswick. Thus, *you* probably reside
in the same province.

It's not like Canada has so many provinces and territories that it's
difficult to remember them all... *cough*US*cough*. :-)

Quick geography primer...

Canada's Provinces (roughly west to east):
British Columbia (BC)
Alberta (AB)
Saskatchewan (SK)
Manitoba (MB)
Ontario (ON)
Quebec (QC officially, sometimes PQ for Province du Quebec)
New Brunswick (NB)
Nova Scotia (NS)
Prince Edward Island (PE)
Newfoundland (NF)

Canada's Territories:
Yukon (YT)
Northwest Territories (NT)
Nunavut (NT)

Nunavut's new as of April 1st, so they don't have a new abbreviation yet.

James Ojaste

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