OCEANIA ORACLE
ISSUE #14- 12/10/94
No Nonsense New Nation News
- © 1994
ISSUE #14- 12/10/94
No Nonsense New Nation News
- © 1994
INDEX
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/which is the home page of the School of Computing & Information Technology of the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
I am now the MIS for the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
This fast growing organization is becoming the leader in anti-aging
medicine and much more importantly, their art department is working
on our passports. If you wish to give input on how the passports
will look, send the message subscribe passport-l
Oh, talking about anti-aging, here is a good quote from the
conference. A leading scientist from Japan, the country with the
world's longest lifespans, described what people in the village where
people live longest in Japan eat: "They eat pork, I repeat PORK, and
boiled vegetables."
More importantly, I am now in a position to buy equipment that not
only could be used for the A4M web site, but could be used for the
Oceania web site as well. What is the best buy in flat bed color
scanners? What about good camera scanners that work by taking a
picture with a camera so you can "scan" in products for sale, etc.
And what is the best OCR program available? And is there any cost
effective teleconferencing equipment out there? (O.K. O.K. The
teleconferencing equipment will probably not be used by the web
site.)
This need for net.gods is a very critical need. I am also interested
in hearing about any good SLIP/PPP providers that access both Nevada
and Texas.
EQUIPMENT
I will be leading the effort to create a web site for A4M
(abbreviation for American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.) So, if
you would like to help out with this web site or can point me to
sources of anti-aging research that can be put on this site, please
let me know.
EXPANSION
Due to the many business ventures that I am assembling, my need for
various Internet services is expanding. I am extremely uncomfortable
having only one provider for most things that I use. If any net.gods
can help me with creating mailing lists, newsgroups, registering
domains, or even wish to help me establish additional sites, please
let me know. More and more of my ventures will be reaching Internet
in the coming months and I need help!
LEE CROCKER DAY
Lee has rejoined The Atlantis Project with the position of being an
official Oceania Oracle. He has begun to help us with people who have
detailed questions about the project. Thanks Lee!
CONSTITUTION AND LAWS
After an over six month hiatus, work has again begun on the
Constitution and Laws. If you would like to comment and help edit
these documents, send e-mail to oceania@terminus.intermind.net and
let us know if you would like to read and comment on either .RTF
format documents or .TXT format documents. All suggestions that have
been given over the past six months have finally been incorporated
into the documents that we are providing to reviewers. Note that it
will be many months until the next version is officially released.
JOB AVAILABLE
An opening is available for a CEO/CFO to help with biotechnology
IPOs. You would be working with young biotech companies with unique
products. Excellent compensation would be provided plus stock
options. Fax your resume to (312) 929-5733, attention Dept EK.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
>From a person named Bob:
Does anyone have any pointers to info regarding the Minerva folks in
the 70s who actually *did* construct an island? Apparently, it was
made of coral, and eventually occupied by another country....
Please post any pointers, thanks.
Editor's Reply:
The "folks" was Mike Oliver. He used dredging to build up a reef and
actually owned his own country for a few months. He was later
invaded by a small force from Tonga. I believe this was his most
successful attempt to start a new country out of his three or four
attempts so far. For more information, get the book _How To Start
Your Own Country_ in the Oceania Mall.
>From a person named Eugene:
>From your OCEANIA ORACLE - ISSUE #6 - 11/15/94
SLOGAN
It is time to replace our old slogan "Break The Chains". What do the
readers think of the following slogans: "Peace and Prosperity", "The
Ultimate Freeport", and "Aquatic Paradise"? And how about the
following slogan for the Oceania Oracle: "New Nation News" or the
longer "No Nonsense New Nation News"?
How about using the title of one of the Star Trek movies -
"Undiscovered country". I hope that is the correct quote.
Editor's Reply:
Perhaps. Other ideas?
>From Ian Geldard/igeldard@capital.demon.co.uk:
You may have seen some of my postings of Libertarian Alliance
publications to libernet (and elsewhere). We currently have over 500
papers on a variety of subjects, but are always looking for new and
interesting contributions.
Perhaps you, or one of your Oceania project colleagues would like to
submit a paper on your activities and the importance of the project
to the international libertarian movement.
TTFN - Ian
Editor's Reply:
Anyone feel up to submitting a paper? Also note that I am willing
to provide color photos of how Oceania will look to newspapers or
other media that need them for articles.
THE NEWSGROUP SAGA CONTINUES...
I was told the following:
"Contrary to popular belief, the altnet is not a place where just
anyone can create a group. Here's how it works. When a newgroup
creation message is sent -- *any* newgroup creation message, not just
newgroups for alt.groups -- it gets deposited in the mailboxes of all
the Usenet site admins (about 30,000 people, last I checked). This
happens with *all* control messages... including newgroups, rmgroups,
and cancels. To make their lives easier, site admins can tell their
sites what to do with certain messages. Nearly all sites will
automatically honor all cancel messages, since it would be a royal
pain for each admin to go through each of the thousands of cancels
that come through each day and decide which to honor. Nearly all
sites will automatically *reject* all newgroup or rmgroup messages
for the Big Seven (rec, sci, soc, talk, comp, misc, news) that don't
come from David Lawrence (aka "tale"), making him the _de_facto_
Dictator of Usenet...
This leaves the alt.hierarchy. It used to be that many (if not most)
sites would automatically honor newgroups for the alt.hierarchy,
meaning that anyone could create an alt.group simply by issuing the
control message for it. But as time went by, and as more and more
poeple got access to the net, and the alt.hierarchy became more and
more of a sewer, more and more site admins elected to review
newgroups for alt by themselves. There is a *procedure* to be
followed for creating an alt group, and it involves proposing the
group on alt.config, allowing a reasonable discussion period, and
seeing if there's a general consensus in favor of it..."
I have begun this procedure. I would have begun it a lot earlier
if the _de_facto_ Dictator of Usenet had warned me that he was going
to block access to the Big Seven. I will continue the struggle to
establish a newsgroup for Oceania. I just love dealing with rigged
elections. It brings back memories...
SEA STRUCTURES INC. CONTINUED
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