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To: d:oug who wrote (82)11/27/2002 1:35:43 AM
From: Graystone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 138
 
Farm to Fortran
or
Village to VOIP

Our children will have different problems. They will have headlines like CLONE SHOOTS SELF THEN TURNS GUN ON HIMSELF They will also have to deal with robots, we don't have robots yet, we are just working on the robot brains right now (the computer). I don't know about you but my experience with the Evil Empire has included more than one FATAL EXCEPTION. If my computer had legs and some kind of power tool I am not sure I would trust it around the house. Invasive species will make the water either crystal clear (zebra mussels) or so muddy it will kill all the other fish (asian carp), a quick search of the web will confirm the truth of both threats but will not reveal what happens when they happen together in a lake, our children will find out.

Here is a link where you can have a Pina Colada and dream about getting rich by selling stuff on the web.
amoneydeal.com

Most of the people born in the world today will grow up in a city, I recently watched a television documentary on cities and it included some footage of a farmer in Shanghai. His small plot of ground was still being farmed surrounded by high rise residential buildings.