Bob, I am flabbergasted times three to learn that all this time
that you were were were not real but virtual.
Edit: Oops, i now see that i mixed up real and not urls.
Can this thread still go to where "doesn't exist"
and and not wory about being captured and lost
in a place that is not real, ultimately forever
never able to return to whats real.
Bob, what about all that stuff we return from your place,
whats happens when we return your virtual stuff and place
it into this real world? Does it change, disappear or might
it become real, that which was not? WOW
goldsheetlinks.com = virtual domain (be carefull)
coinsheetlinks.com = real domain
Bottom line Bob is to tell us ahead of time
when the switch-over will happen,
as one does not want to visit a virtual place
at the same instant when it becomes real.
Would make a great new Outter Limits tv program.
And now a word or two or a zillion about Beef. d:oug
Subj: Swearing Off Beef
Date: 12/26/00
From: abcnews.go.com (Nightline)
TONIGHT'S TOPIC:
Mad cow disease has created a panic in Europe as people swear off beef out
of fear of contracting the disease.
Turkey. Roast turkey. Turkey sandwiches. Turkey casserole. Turkey
surprise. It probably hasn't happened quite yet, but I guarantee that
within the next few days, all of us will start to get really sick of
turkey. Now, I love turkey sandwiches after the holidays, but even those
start to be too much after a week or so. And all the while, the remains of
the turkey sit in the refrigerator, silently challenging even the most
creative cook to come up with new ways of disguising the leftovers.
Because, let's face it, for all the chicken we eat, all of "the other
white meat," fish, vegetable burgers, and all of that, this is still a
beef-eating country. Beef just seems more American. I don't remember the
movie cowboys that were my boyhood heroes sitting down around the campfire
to a hearty meal of free-range chicken. They ate beef. And lots of it.
Now, I really don't eat a lot of steaks, not very much roast beef, but I
do love the occasional double cheeseburger. With fries, but that's a whole
different issue.
My guess is that Americans eat less beef than they used to, I think
chicken may be No. 1, but think about what it would be like if we were all
afraid to eat beef. What if eating a cheeseburger was as dangerous as
eating the poisonous blowfish that is a delicacy in Japan, but that
prepared incorrectly can lead to death? That's sort of the fear sweeping
through Europe right now. Mad cow disease attacks the nervous systems of
cows, and has apparently spread into humans. The initial medical opinion
was that people got the disease by eating the brains, or perhaps bone
marrow, of infected cows. That seems easy enough to avoid. Mad cow disease
or not, facing a world where it was not safe to eat brains does not make
me lie awake at night. But there is enough uncertainty, enough fear, that
people all over Europe are swearing off beef. Now that would seem to be
good news for American ranchers. Mad cow disease has not appeared in North
America, so you would think that the market for U.S. beef would be huge.
But the fear in Europe continues. I think people are probably suspicious,
it would be easy to just say that the meat they were being served came
from the U.S, when it fact it didn't.
And in all seriousness, the disease, when contracted by people, is truly
devastating. It's fatal to the person that has it, and like all diseases
that strike the unsuspecting, it's devastating to their families as well.
This has been one of those stories that has been hovering around our
attention for a while. One of those stories you scan over in the
newspaper, without really paying attention. Well, it really is front-page
news overseas, so we figured we should take a look at it tonight. I will
warn you that some of the images are disturbing, but this is a story that
will just keep building. The hope is that the disease can be kept out of
this country, but if it ever does make it here, our lives, or at least our
diets, will change forever. We'll need to come up with a lot more ways to
cook turkey.
December 26, 2000
Leroy Sievers
Executive Producer
Nightline Office
Washington, D.C. |
