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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 19:18:53 PST
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (fheschax qryvirengbe)
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
Subject: [surfpunk-0050] Greenpeace: Autosaurus: The first anti-car ad campaign
Keywords: surfpunk, Autosaurus, Greenpeace, Media Foundation
___ No way. I've seen the Illuminati Secret Decoder
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From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey)
Subject: Oh oh.....
To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 23:44 PST
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Spotting trends has become a small hobby of mine and I just picked up this
announcement - are cars about to go the way of the Dodo, pregnancy drinking
and smoking?
The first anti-automobile campaign of its kind, "Autosaurus"
is scheduled to hit the air across Canada on February 27, and in
the US this Spring.
Created for Greenpeace by Canada's Media Foundation,
publishers of Adbusters Quarterly, this model animation depicts old
cars in a wrecking yard coming to life as a dinosaur, then
crumbling in an impotent heap. The voice-over reinforces the
iconoclastic message: "It's coming... it's coming...The End of the
Automotive Age."
Created by animator Bill Maylone specially for Greenpeace,
this TV spot calls attention to the environmental destructiveness
of cars, and of the need for fuel efficient transportation and
alternate modes of transport.
According to Maylone, "car commercials are so commonplace on
TV that we don't even give them a second thought. But the notion of
an anti-car ad is unheard of. It is bound to create some
controversy simply by its very nature."
John Bennett, Director of Transportation Campaigns for
Greenpeace, adds: "We've become so accustomed to the idea that we
need a car, that without this casing of steel we are impotent. It
is a belief system that has been carefully instilled in us through
half a century of car advertising. It's time to break thaosaurus is
the activist wave of the future."
Autosaurout Autosaurus, or about free broadcast
quality copies of the ad, please call Kalle Lasn at (604) 736-9401,
or John Bennett of Greenpeace at (416) 345-8408.
The Media Foundation
1243 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1B7 Tel: (604) 736-9401
What say you guys?
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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Subject: CELP speech compression code at cygnus.com:/pub/celp.speech.tar.Z
The code is up for FTP where you-all can get it. I made both compressed
and gzip'd versions (gzip gives smaller files than compress, is faster
to decompress, but slower to compress).
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gnu cygnus 2571835 Feb 5 16:04 celp.speech.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gnu cygnus 2099441 Feb 5 16:09 celp.speech.tar.z
Much of the tar file is samples of compressed and uncompressed speech,
(used for testing the code). The actual C code is about 340K uncompressed,
and there's also a Fortran version in there.
I have a copy of the actual compression standard, but not online.
The Information Liberation Front is welcome to a copy -- maybe
I should just leave it on the table at the next meeting and hope someone
"anonymously" picks it up and scans it in. It's public domain, so
there's no special thrill from liberating it.
-- gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore)
[ John has commented that it runs slower-than-realtime on SPARC, and he
challenges you to speed it up. -- strick ]
It occured to me that some people might not get the significance of all
this, so prehaps I ought to amplify.
With the ability to compress speech down into the
same baud rate as, say, a V.32 modem, all one would have to do to have
perfectly secure voice communications is replace your phone with a
setup that took in your speech, digitized it, compressed it, encrypted
it, and sent it over the modem to the other side where this would be
inverted. Fast enough software compression of voice would mean any PC
with a DSP card and a V.32 modem could become an unbreakable scrambler.
The chief problem is that the DSP needed to do decent compression is
very crunchy, and encryption also tends to be crunchy, so there aren't
typically enough cycles on your average PC. Of course, were someone to
commercially market a board that did all this in hardware...
pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)