### Apollo BBS Archive - April 17, 1988

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    Message: 3324
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: JT/Privatization
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 05:51:19

     The proof of the pudding is in the eating, or so they say. Wait and see, if
    privatization ever comes, who those are that are the first to grab off the
    high profit metropolitan business areas, leaving the highly unprofitable
    inner city and rural areas to what is left of the Postal Service.
    As toyour liberal New Republic, much if not all of the press is down on the
    USPS to som degree, since their pennies-on-the-pound second class rates have
    been brought into reason and made to pay the cost of delivery, something
    that had been subsidized for years under the old Post Office.
     Small wonder that they are crying sour grapes.
     The facts still remain, if one wants to look at the figures instead of the
    rhetoric. The USPS doesn't need fixing. Don't mess with it.

    Message: 3325
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Cliff
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 05:53:33

    So you now take the position that all's fair as long as it's labelled
    "satire". OK. Now we can call you Cliff Larry Flynt Kolostow.
    Love you too! Keep smiling!

    Message: 3326
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Kolostow?
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 12:11:00

            That is no longer my name....

    Cliff... ?????

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    Message: 770
    Author: $ Mike Carter
    Category: Short Story
    Subject: FBI
    Date: 04/16/88  Time: 18:33:46

    O.k, Hawley, special agent Williams will be over soon to confiscate
    and impound all of the hacked software and stolen prophyllactics
    you've been storing in your basement.
    Just don't resist the arrest and seizure, otherwise we will
    throw you in the same cell as Ed Sharpe.

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    Message: 1223
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Cosmos-Chatter
    Subject: Advertisements
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 10:54:00

    I suppose it's ok to flame here... STOP WITH THE COMMERCIALS, ALREADY,
    CLIFF!  We see enough of them on the other boards.

    Rev. Beau

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     1:        Commercials are needed in a capitalistic society.
     2:end

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    Message: 294
    Author: $ Mike Carter
    Category: Crazy Chit-Chat
    Subject: Ohh nooo
    Date: 04/16/88  Time: 18:43:19

    Well, looks as if I'm cut out of this one guys.
    May 14-15 is deadlocked for me. Army National Guard Drill weekend and
    there's no way I can shampoo them out of it...I already pulled that to
    get the June drill off so I can go on anniversary vacation.

    $#!+

    Message: 295
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 04/16/88  Time: 20:45:55

    Where are the training drills?  If it is in the state you should be able to
    see it...

    Message: 296
    Author: $ Mike Carter
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 04/16/88  Time: 20:59:43

    I`ll be in the electronics vault...so I'd have to feel it.

    Message: 297
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 04/16/88  Time: 22:55:18

    We'd have to change the payload.  You still have that H-bomb in the shed?

    Message: 298
    Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
    Category: Crazy Chit-Chat
    Subject: GT
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 01:51:22

    Cervelli also indicated that the 15th of May is impossible for him. Seems
    he's going to be at Yellowstone from about the 12th until the 27th. He says
    that if we launch without him, the rocket will be blown up by God.

    Message: 299
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 02:29:03

    Sorry, I don't believe in God.

    And besides, Yellowstone is pretty cold now.  (It is cold by my standards
    ALL the time.)  It got below freezing when I was there last August.

    I'll be glad to give a tape of the launch to Peter.

    Message: 300
    Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: last
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 05:00:20

    Is that what you want me to tell him? I have a feeling he's going to want a
    refund if he can't attend.

    Message: 301
    Author: $ Beauregard Dog
    Category: Crazy Chit-Chat
    Subject: Peter/last
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 10:55:05

    How much did he donate?

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    Message: 51786
    Author: Bill Logan
    Category: Entertainment/Movies
    Subject: Movies
    Date: 04/16/88  Time: 22:10:07

    M
    Adventure
    Comedy
    Drama

    Message: 51787
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Last
    Date: 04/16/88  Time: 22:56:05

    Is that supposed to mean something?  Or are those categories you enjoy?

    Message: 51788
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Dean/last
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 08:15:35

    When I first read your last message, it made me feel like I wanted to jump
    right up and get started. But I re-read it and realized, that over the years
    I have done a lot of those things and it didn't make a dent! I still do
    write to my Congressmen, Senators et al - once in a while, but havn't of
    late. It seems to be getting harder & harder to find avenues where one can
    do something. Hmmm - perhaps that's planned? It's easier on a local level. -
    sometimes! I find the hardest part is to find others that are willing to be
    a part of it - mainly, physically. Everyone seems to grit their teeth and
    bare it anymore. They might fight tooth and nail over something like getting
    records rated or getting the local sleeze joint closed up, but they won't
    buck Big Brother! Most people talk big, but if they are audited for
    instance, they become 'whipped pup like' in the presense of the IRS. I've
    seen this happen every time. Personally, I have become afraid of Big Brother
    too. They have the power that no other has. Years ago, I felt that the
    United States government was my friend and I had confidence in it. Not now!
    Catch you later =*--ANN--*=

    Message: 51789
    Author: $ Alan Hamilton
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Ann/Freedom
    Date: 04/17/88  Time: 12:27:15

      Ah, for the good ol' days, when we were more free.  When only white
    land-owning males could vote, and when slavery was constitutional.  (BTW,
    when anyone hears someone ranting on about "original intent," ask him if
    slavery should be leagalized, since that was the Founding Fathers (most of
    them) original intent.)

         /
     /  *  /  Alan
    *     *

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     1:        I believe that we live in a oligarchy and that your philosophy
     2:reminds me of  Frederick Hegel's philosophy.  Think a bit harder, you may
     3:figure it out someday.
     4:                                Rod
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     1:        I now do volunteer work for the Arizona Center to Reverse the Arms
     2:Race.  If anyone is interested in helping out, please get in touch.
     3:end

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