OCEANIA ORACLE
ISSUE #11- 11/30/94
No Nonsense New Nation News
- © 1994
ISSUE #11- 11/30/94
No Nonsense New Nation News
- © 1994
Index
"I don't believe how much the WWW traffic has picked up in response to your advertising. I am averaging 10 or so simultaneous connections and around an average of almost 1000 accesses per -hour-."
"As of 11:50 this morning, we have had 17625 connections today. And they are still coming in. I can't wait to see the weekly stats this Sunday..."
"I need to get more memory. My machine is paging heavily under all the traffic. I think with another 16 megs we could eliminate the paging and have all the necessary files cached rather than fetching them from the disk each time. Now I just need to save up some money and I'll be able to upgrade."
"As of 11:50 this morning, we have had 17625 connections today." "And as of 12:50 this afternoon, we have had 22144 accesses. Wow!"
[Editor's note: That is nearly 5,000 accesses in a hour! My research ] [shows that major university webs are lucky to receive that many ] [accesses in a day. ]
"I think with another 16 megs we could eliminate the paging"
"Right now, I have 16 megs. Since I have to replace the memory in lots of four chips, I plan to remove four of the one meg simms and sell them. I'd then replace those four with four 4 meg simms, bringing me to 28 megs."
[Editor's note: Does anyone have any 4 meg SIMMS for sale? ]
"My roommate left me a note asking if my computer was ok. He said that it has been making noise all day..."
Brief descriptions of new products:
Thanks to Joe Moorman, a picture of the Oceania flags for sale is now available in the web version of our Oceania Mall.
I am looking for a beautiful model to pose in an Oceania T-shirt. Payment will be a free Oceania T-shirt.
Pictures of our other products for sale are also needed so they can be scanned into the web version of the Oceania Mall.
[A transcript of our emergency team in action will be available as soon as someone makes one up for us.]
> This morning, Saturday, I caught the last half of _Batman the > Animated Series_ and apparently the villian figure in this episode > was trying to make an ocean city called, what else, Oceana. The guy
I doubt it. People are always trying to discount bold new ideas. It's strange, though, that these attempts are often made by science fiction writers and others with generally bold imaginations.
Think of how many old Star Trek episodes involve a villian trying to create robots with human brains ("What Are Little Girls Made Of"), or thinking computers that control starships ("The Ultimate Computer"), or people living forever (I forget the episode names). Most of these people have altruistic intentions, but because their methods are 'evil' and "the ends don't justify the means", they're viewed as misguided scientists whom Captain Kirk has to eliminate. I also remember seeing lots of cartoons as a kid where cool ideas are discounted by the 'good guys'.
This may have changed recently. There's a Next Generation episode with a genetically engineered society, which, even though Picard is against it, is shown to have some good qualities. (In the end, of course, some of its inhabitants want to leave anyway, having seen 'the good life'. *sigh*)
Every time I try to make some claim about Oceania to my friends, I get a lot of ridicule and skepticism. Most people I talk to don't believe it will happen, because it's too big of a dream. Even some libertarian friends that I know don't think Oceania will happen, for the same reason. They'd sooner put their efforts into something easier, like intentional communities or something. Adults, hardened by the cold cruel facts of life, just don't seem to want to hold wild ideas anymore...
I seriously doubt there's any kind of negative press campaign against Oceania. Most people won't have heard of it; most of those that have heard of it don't believe it will happen (and hence won't feel threatened) and I can't imagine anybody have anything to lose anyway, even if it will happen. The only people who might feel threatened are those deeply concerned with protecting the health of existing countries, since the people Oceania is likely to attract are the cream of the crop of existing countries. But there's enough cream (and Oceania certainly won't drain all of it) that even that shouldn't be a problem.
DATA SHEET
Richard D. Morris
Ft. Myers, FL
Education:
1971-1975 William Fremd High School, Palatine, Illinois
1976-1980 Bachelor of Arts of Architecture, Iowa State University
1985-1986 Received Wisconsin Architect License, #5868
Received full membership in the AIA. (American Institute
of Architects)
1986-1988 Received Illinois Real Estate Sales License, #076-290640
Received Illinois Architect License. #001-011858
Received Colorado Architect License
1990-1991 Received Private Pilots License
Received Membership in the EAA (Experimental Aircraft
Association)
Work Experience:
1993-1994 Owner of Sea Structures Inc.
Inventor of SEACELL TM, Pat. Pending.
1990-1993 Development Review Specialist, Lee County
Review of roads, site plans, utilities, drainage, and
zoning.
1988-1990 Gee & Jenson Architects and Engineers
Project Architect.
1986-1988 Architects Development Corp.
Owner and President, Design Build and Spec. homes
1980-1986 Architectural internship.
This venture has received a lot of support from cryonics members.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Oceania: A New Country In Development -> oceania@terminus.intermind.net | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+In addition, Andrew Trapp and Bob Bickford have added links to their home pages to our Oceania web site.
If anyone would like to promote us in an article in Webster's Weekly located at w2@casagato.org, check out their 'zine.
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