1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster
for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of
those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have
destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected
human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological
suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have
inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued
development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly
subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage
on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social
disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased
physical suffering even in "advanced" countries.

2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break
down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of
physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a
long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of
permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to
engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore,
if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is
no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from
depriving people of dignity and autonomy.

(For the rest of this text please visit:
http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/uni/uni.txt )

This is yet another Micro$oft Front Page site. This time there was no password protection for the <ROOT> at all. This goes to show the absolute level of incompetence that abounds in the IT/Sys. Admin. sectors today. Do you think you are safe? (Plushsafehethink.) Do you think you are secure? E-commerce and all that it entails will fall like a pathetic Goliath under precise and accurate blows. Do not act so mighty. This is not the end.

Continued cheers with pint-glasses raised high to ne0h, mozy, forpaxe, gH, p0g0, keebler elves, dr_fdisk^, level seven, Devil-C, HiP, v00d00, HFD/B, xoloth1, Attrition, and all the rest who are doing positive damage. ("Body blow! Body blow! Knock 'em out.")

We are not sleeping. -N.Y.S

Free Kevin. Packet Storm will rise as JP falls.

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