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To: Father Terrence who wrote (28198)	1/15/1999 6:00:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

ROFLMAO Was the person's name Barkley?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (28198)	1/15/1999 6:08:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Terrence, That's very interesting, especially in light of the fact that telepathic ability in humans is generally regarded as fantasy. I would posit that the human mind capable of programming one of its own inventions (the computer--a still crude analog of the mind) to perform such a task is materially manifesting its own inherent capability. I believe people have been reading minds long before the computer was even imagined, yet now that a scientific box can do it, such a feat is now (or will soon be) deemed credible. Does it strike anyone that we're heading toward a place in our techno idolatry where we consider the invention cooler than its inventor? I'm already beginning to conjure contradictions to my thesis, but I'm still struck by a sense of irony. Rick

To: Father Terrence who wrote (28198)	1/15/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

FT, I think you'll have to admit that this is an amusing idea, even if it does come from China: China's Airline Chiefs Must Take Y2K Flight China has given its airline bosses the ultimate incentive to solve the "millennium bomb" computer problem by ordering them to take a flight on New Year's day 2000. "All the heads of the airlines have got to be in the air on January 1, 2000," said Zhao Bo, in charge of dealing with the problem at the Chinese ministry of information industries. "We have to make sure there are no problems in aviation."