[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Let's Tell War Stories!

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

Lets wait till the War is over first.

Lachlan

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:02:47 -0600
To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
Subject: <nettime> Let's Tell War Stories!


> *I often wonder about this new space-time continuum
> we blundered into, after September 11.  Surely there's another time-line
> for 2002 where Americans simply buy dotcom stock and impeach
> one another, rather than going through these bizarre dystopian rituals.
> bruces
> 
> 
> 
> *"The Elderly Cyborg  Politician Has To Strip For
> the Security Scanners"
> 
> Mich. Congressman Forced to Strip
> 
> January 8, 2002, 10:18 AM EST
> 
> DETROIT -- Security guards at Washington's Reagan National Airport forced
> U.S. Rep. John Dingell to strip to his underwear before boarding a flight to
> Detroit. 
> 
> The guards at the Northwest Airlines terminal did not believe the
> 75-year-old congressman's explanation about his metal hip, which he received
> after a horse fell on him 20 years ago.
> 
> "They felt me up and down like a prize steer," Dingell, D-Mich., said. "I
> was very nice, but I probably showed I was displeased."
> 
> The private security guards made him take off his overcoat, then his suit
> coat, then his shoes and socks on Saturday. When he still triggered metal
> detector alarms, the guards took him to a back room and asked him to remove
> his trousers. 
> 
> U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta heard about the incident and
> said he would look into it, Dingell said.
> 
> "I asked Norman to check to see if they treated me like they do everybody
> else," Dingell said. "I just wanted to be sure that what they did was
> necessary, that I got the same treatment, no better or no worse, than anyone
> else." 
> 
> 
> *"The  Consumer Goods Are  Electronically Fried By the
> Bioterror Prevention Machines"
> 
> Anthrax mail cleaning zaps digital gadgets
> 
> Digital dream gadgets are being irreparably zapped by an irradiation process
> the U.S. Postal Service has used since October to sanitize mail against
> anthrax threats, an electronics trade group said on Tuesday.
> 
> Compact flash memory cards used to store data on many name-brand digital
> cameras and handheld computers face not just data loss but become entirely
> inoperable when subjected to electron beam irradiation, the CompactFlash
> Association said. --Reuters
> 
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