From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant SanFrancisco2019 covertly transmitting a message to renegade   
   friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >"Lukas Mariman"  wrote in message   
   >news:6hvtugFo4982U1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>   
   >> Or, in other words, you wouldn't believe the stuff people throw away. IMO   
   >> It's really not much of a stretch. Feel free to disagree though! :-)   
   >>   
   >   
   >    Many years ago, most of the nice things I used to furnish and decorate   
   >my apartment in Yushima, Tokyo came from gomi piles left on the curbs in my   
   >neighborhood the night before the monthly Big Trash collection day.  Things   
   >like a microwave and a laser disc player which both appeared to be brand   
   >new, and a taxidermied Bird of Paradise from New Guinea.   
   >   
   >    So, be it a Terminator endoskeleton or the working guts of an ICBM, I   
   >haven't been surprised by the stuff folks throw away for twenty years.   
      
   Absolutely!  In fact I think I got one on my wall right now.  The full   
   skeleton including skull.  But I only got nineteen brain cells. Do you   
   think it might be worth something?  I mean like nobody would really   
   want to build a fully working humanoid robot that thinks would they -   
   I mean that would be kinda ridiculous wouldn't it?   
      
   Netrunner   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)