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A new way to stop digital decay
The Economist ^
| September 15, 2005
| Economist Staff
Posted on 09/20/2005 4:13:50 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Boundless
And their checks will still bounce.
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posted on
09/21/2005 1:22:09 AM PDT
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Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: sneakers
42
posted on
09/21/2005 1:23:11 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: supercat
As long as you aren't picky about spelling.
43
posted on
09/21/2005 1:24:03 AM PDT
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Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: Gumlegs
The horse was a temporal character in the mind of the chronicler and in no position to comment; there are many more days to catalogue and so much else to do.
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posted on
09/21/2005 1:26:44 AM PDT
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Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
In a post-human world that will be of great comfort, but man is nothing if he is not the sum of his frailties.
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posted on
09/21/2005 1:28:22 AM PDT
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Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: A. Pole
Pure assumption, paper has over two hundred years of a head start as you post.
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posted on
09/21/2005 1:29:34 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: Mr_Moonlight
There's no luggage compartment on a lifeboat.
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posted on
09/21/2005 1:30:52 AM PDT
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Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: TypeZoNegative
Torricelli sucked too much mercury and all the fishes ate his remains so where does that leave us?
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posted on
09/21/2005 1:32:50 AM PDT
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Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
To: familyop
CDs, if kept at a good temperature, humidity, and kept away from light, will last several hundred years. How do you know it?
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posted on
09/21/2005 5:29:11 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
(Gov.Gumpas:"But that would be putting the clock back, have you no idea of progress, of development?")
To: Old Professer
There is a lower tech method to preservation.
To: familyop
CDs, if kept at a good temperature, humidity, and kept away from light, will last several hundred years. Anybody done a test reading on a 17th-century CD?
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posted on
09/21/2005 6:42:54 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: Billthedrill
what in the world is this "series," "hugh," "moose," "cheese," "AYBABTU," or "Hillary's hideous curdlike cellulite thighs"?
"My name is Ozymandius, king of kings,"
"Look on my beebers, ye mighty, and be stuned."
After spendng too many hours and waay too much in public funds it will be finally determined that this was 'phonetics spoken by a deranged conservative group'.
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:47:49 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Reality: By the time you get your head together, your body's shot to hell.)
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