Prev: Freeware to make animated GIF (can Irfanview make an animated GIF?)
Next: Looking for a website for video camera news and reviews
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 13 Jul 2010 10:06 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Scotius <yodasbud(a)mnsi.net> saying something like: >That was '91, and tech has come quite a way since. > The Pentagon since at least the '90s could, if they wanted to, >beam down video of your regular nightly newscaster saying whatever >they want him to say. It would be someone reading a script who might >not look or sound anything like him, but with computer technology, you >see the guy you're accustomed to seeing saying whatever the mad >generals want you to hear. Paranoid bullshit.
From: Scotius on 28 Jul 2010 16:54
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:06:59 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: >We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >drugs began to take hold. I remember Scotius <yodasbud(a)mnsi.net> saying >something like: > >>That was '91, and tech has come quite a way since. >> The Pentagon since at least the '90s could, if they wanted to, >>beam down video of your regular nightly newscaster saying whatever >>they want him to say. It would be someone reading a script who might >>not look or sound anything like him, but with computer technology, you >>see the guy you're accustomed to seeing saying whatever the mad >>generals want you to hear. > >Paranoid bullshit. Not according to the people who put together the intelligence newsletter "For Your Eyes Only...", who are considered quite professional in their field. Parts of that newsletter are often reprinted in military/intelligence type magazines. But you can think what you like. |