From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant POD  {Ò¿Ó} covertly transmitting a message to renegade   
   friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >"Lukas Mariman"  once tried to test me. I   
   >ate their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "POD {Ò¿Ó}"  schreef in bericht   
   >> news:Xns9B0B97CFCE75WeLovePOD@195.188.240.200...   
   >>> "Lukas Mariman"  once tried to test   
   >>> me. I ate their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >>>   
   >>>> Dunno why POD was so critical on it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Terminator loses head, head travels 20 years into the future, body is   
   >>> somehow found in blown up bank vault and simply dumpled in scrap   
   >>> yard, after 20 years of being left in a scrapyard, body comes to life   
   >>> with no chip in it and goes looking for head, with no eyes!!!   
   >>>   
   >>> Far fetched does not even come into it, this is just insulting to   
   >>> anyone with over 20 brain cells.   
   >>   
   >> The phrase coming into mind here is "You would think that..."   
   >>   
   >> But, I do think you underestimate the sheer levels of human stupidity,   
   >> neglect & incompetence.   
   >>   
   >> Suppose the 20th centurey humans living in the Terminator universe   
   >> have no clue that 20 to 30 years in the future, there are going to be   
   >> these robot skeletons walking around killing people. So you see this   
   >> headless metallic robot stuff lying around. Unless you're into SF or   
   >> you read the script, making things very postmodern, who would go "   
   >> whoah!!! Headless terminator!!! We must destroy it as soon as   
   >> possible!"   
   >>   
   >> 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!   
   >> :-)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >The whole point of scrap yards is to collect, sort and sell metal, they   
   >don't keep a bit for "local colour" for 20 years. They put it on a pile   
   >and when the pile is big enough it gets carted off to be melted down.   
   >   
   >But no, lets go back a bit... a bank vault is blown up, and this   
   >"thing" is found in the rubble....what do the police do?  Tag it and bag   
   >it, and see what part it played in the events, or simply give it to a   
   >scrap yard??? That is far fetched bunkum number one...  The scrap yard   
   >thing is number two.  Number 3 is the biggest peach, in that, in the   
   >already defined world of the T-800 Terminator, we know from T2, that if   
   >the CPU is removed from the skull, the thing is dead, yet here we are   
   >with a T-800 not only working without it's CPU, but it's doing it   
   >without it's whole frickin' head!!!!!  Now we've all seen the T-800's   
   >body and it's all metal and pistons, can't quite remember a couple of   
   >hidden eyes anywhere...  No quite sure there aren't any there...   
      
   Nope, don't get it.  Seems perfectly reasonable to me.   
      
   >So while people may be able to bag themselves a new laserdisc player in   
   >the middle of a Tokyo night, I very much doubt they could go back after   
   >20 years and still pick one up.   
      
   Isn't that awesome?  Actually I saw an LD player at the local SH shop   
   and thought WOW! an LD player!  I gotta have one of them!  Then I   
   thought WHY?  I don't got no F@#$ing LDiscs so it would just be   
   another black box on the shelf.  What I really want is a new Audi.   
   They don't come in the $50 price range though.  Bummer.   
      
   Netrunner   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)