Re: virus: Re:virtuality

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Wed, 15 Jan 1997 21:44:23 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Alexander Williams wrote:

> jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com wrote:

[CLIP]

> > Withdrawal symptoms can kill. If it is severe enough, heart attacks
follow, > > the body dies....
>
> That's true. We just have to keep you on the narrow edge where you
> /think/ you're going to die and wish you would but don't get that
> lucky. :)

Careful. I've read of death by placebo presented as torture. I wouldn't
call it the most *stable* source--Reader's Digest isn't exactly the most
reputable magazine around, and the date is over 15 years ago....

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/ Towards the conversion of data into information....
/
/ Kenneth Boyd
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////