************************************************************* OCEANIA ORACLE - ISSUE #11 - 11/30/94 ************************************************************* "No Nonsense New Nation News" Copyright 1994 The Atlantis Project. All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to this newsletter, send the message subscribe oceania-l to listproc@unicycle.cs.tulane.edu. To unsubscribe, send the message unsubscribe oceania-l to listproc@unicycle.cs.tulane.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE WEB EXPLODES! I have noticed a steadily increasing number of subscriber requests to this list lately, so I knew something was up. Yesterday, I received the following messages from Tramm Hudson, the person who runs our web site: "I don't believe how much the WWW traffic has picked up in response to your advertising. I am averaging 10 or so simultaneous connections and around an average of almost 1000 accesses per -hour-." "As of 11:50 this morning, we have had 17625 connections today. And they are still coming in. I can't wait to see the weekly stats this Sunday..." "I need to get more memory. My machine is paging heavily under all the traffic. I think with another 16 megs we could eliminate the paging and have all the necessary files cached rather than fetching them from the disk each time. Now I just need to save up some money and I'll be able to upgrade." "As of 11:50 this morning, we have had 17625 connections today." "And as of 12:50 this afternoon, we have had 22144 accesses. Wow!" [Editor's note: That is nearly 5,000 accesses in a hour! My research ] [shows that major university webs are lucky to receive that many ] [accesses in a day. ] "I think with another 16 megs we could eliminate the paging" "Right now, I have 16 megs. Since I have to replace the memory in lots of four chips, I plan to remove four of the one meg simms and sell them. I'd then replace those four with four 4 meg simms, bringing me to 28 megs." [Editor's note: Does anyone have any 4 meg SIMMS for sale? ] "My roommate left me a note asking if my computer was ok. He said that it has been making noise all day..." THE OCEANIA MALL EXPLODES! A long list of items has been added to the mall and more are in the works. Send the message GET OCEANIA-L MALL.TXT to listproc@unicycle.cs.tulane.edu to get the latest descriptions. Note that all the descriptions should be on our web site within a few days. Brief descriptions of new products: Photos by Jim Albea. 7" x 9" photographic quality photos of the 3D Oceania pictures are now available. [Details in mall.txt] Plateau by Jim Albea. The ultimate game of strategy and intrigue is available. [Described in plateau.txt] _How to Start Your Own Country_ and _Basement Nukes: The Consquences of Cheap Weapons of Mass Destruction_ both by Erwin S. Strauss are available. [Described in startcou.txt and basement.txt] _Elliott Wave Principle: Key to Stock Market Profits_ is available. It includes a free copy of Robert Prechter's famous monthly forecasting letter, The Elliott Wave Theorist, with our compliments. [Described in elliotw.txt] Thanks to Joe Moorman, a picture of the Oceania flags for sale is now available in the web version of our Oceania Mall. I am looking for a beautiful model to pose in an Oceania T-shirt. Payment will be a free Oceania T-shirt. Pictures of our other products for sale are also needed so they can be scanned into the web version of the Oceania Mall. BOB BICKFORD IS TALKED OFF THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE Bob has been inundated with work on improving the web as wave after wave of new products, new links, and needed upgrades hits him. Handling such an enormous amount of work brought him to the breaking point recently, and the emergency staff rescue team at the Oceania Oracle had to talk him off his attempted jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Please help out in this serious situation by lending a hand in maintaing our web site. [A transcript of our emergency team in action will be available as soon as someone makes one up for us.] THE CONSTITUTION IS IMPROVED The hypertext version of the Constitution online has been significantly upgraded by Sean Kane. Thanks Sean! OCEANIA STILLS AND ANIMATION UPDATE I would like to thank Dawen Choy for uploading oceanic graphics to Jim Albea to help him improve the stills and animations of Oceania that he is working on. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The following letter is from Allan Rempel: > This morning, Saturday, I caught the last half of _Batman the > Animated Series_ and apparently the villian figure in this episode > was trying to make an ocean city called, what else, Oceana. The guy I doubt it. People are always trying to discount bold new ideas. It's strange, though, that these attempts are often made by science fiction writers and others with generally bold imaginations. Think of how many old Star Trek episodes involve a villian trying to create robots with human brains ("What Are Little Girls Made Of"), or thinking computers that control starships ("The Ultimate Computer"), or people living forever (I forget the episode names). Most of these people have altruistic intentions, but because their methods are 'evil' and "the ends don't justify the means", they're viewed as misguided scientists whom Captain Kirk has to eliminate. I also remember seeing lots of cartoons as a kid where cool ideas are discounted by the 'good guys'. This may have changed recently. There's a Next Generation episode with a genetically engineered society, which, even though Picard is against it, is shown to have some good qualities. (In the end, of course, some of its inhabitants want to leave anyway, having seen 'the good life'. *sigh*) Every time I try to make some claim about Oceania to my friends, I get a lot of ridicule and skepticism. Most people I talk to don't believe it will happen, because it's too big of a dream. Even some libertarian friends that I know don't think Oceania will happen, for the same reason. They'd sooner put their efforts into something easier, like intentional communities or something. Adults, hardened by the cold cruel facts of life, just don't seem to want to hold wild ideas anymore... I seriously doubt there's any kind of negative press campaign against Oceania. Most people won't have heard of it; most of those that have heard of it don't believe it will happen (and hence won't feel threatened) and I can't imagine anybody have anything to lose anyway, even if it will happen. The only people who might feel threatened are those deeply concerned with protecting the health of existing countries, since the people Oceania is likely to attract are the cream of the crop of existing countries. But there's enough cream (and Oceania certainly won't drain all of it) that even that shouldn't be a problem. SEA STRUCTURES INC. CONTINUED I am ready to create a business plan for Sea Structures Inc. If you have any experience in such matters, please send me e-mail. Also, while we are waiting for Sea Structures Inc. to become profitable, the founder of Sea Structures is looking for other part-time or full- time work. (He did an Eric Klien and sunk $50,000 into his business before he learned enough to make his business work.) Following is information on him, note that he would prefer not to relocate as he is starting to build up a customer base in Florida. DATA SHEET Richard D. Morris Ft. Myers, FL Education: 1971-1975 William Fremd High School, Palatine, Illinois 1976-1980 Bachelor of Arts of Architecture, Iowa State University 1985-1986 Received Wisconsin Architect License, #5868 Received full membership in the AIA. (American Institute of Architects) 1986-1988 Received Illinois Real Estate Sales License, #076-290640 Received Illinois Architect License. #001-011858 Received Colorado Architect License 1990-1991 Received Private Pilots License Received Membership in the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) Work Experience: 1993-1994 Owner of Sea Structures Inc. Inventor of SEACELL TM, Pat. Pending. 1990-1993 Development Review Specialist, Lee County Review of roads, site plans, utilities, drainage, and zoning. 1988-1990 Gee & Jenson Architects and Engineers Project Architect. 1986-1988 Architects Development Corp. Owner and President, Design Build and Spec. homes 1980-1986 Architectural internship. TAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS I have received a few inquiries into my tax deductible contributions program recently so I have high hopes for its success. Now that my mailing list is building up, I hope to soon have money to move this project forward, especially being able to pay off old debts including the model debt. COMDEX Does anyone have a copy of the COMDEX disk that was given out at the recent COMDEX show? This is the disk with a listing of all the vendors. CRYONICS As a few people know, starting a new country is not the most unusual venture that I am participating in. I am a member of a small cryonics organization that has less than a hundred members worldwide. Cryonics is the science of freezing people who die today so they can be cured in the future (see sci.cryonics for more details). I was pleased to hear recently that Jim Davidson, the author of The Atlantis Papers, joined the same group that I am a member of. If you would like information about CryoCare, the cryonics group that I've joined, send me e-mail along with your snail mail address. This venture has received a lot of support from cryonics members. OCEANIA SECRET .SIG SOCIETY Tim Meehan, Kenneth L. Beal Jr., Andrew Trapp, and Arthur Torrey have joined this society which adds the follow .sig to all their messages: +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Oceania: A New Country In Development -> oceania@terminus.intermind.net | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ In addition, Andrew Trapp and Bob Bickford have added links to their home pages to our Oceania web site. MUTUAL LINKS I will soon announce a ton of mutual links between the Oceania web and other webs. We are about to have a mutual link between the Liberty Conference Web and the Oceania web. The link is already on their web, we just have to add a link on our web to their web. Creating mutual links between webs will be important to the long term ability of this web to attract new readers. The webs that have established mutual links with us will soon be listed on a "Friends of the Web" web page. PUBLICITY I am looking for authors of popular software on the net so I can entice the author to add us to his .sig. Any leads on this would be appreciated. If anyone would like to promote us in an article in Webster's Weekly located at w2@casagato.org, check out their 'zine. ELECTION FRAUD I may soon be breaking a story on election fraud on the net. It is about a small group of people who have conspired to block votes from occuring. If this story breaks, I will even be able to give you e-mail addresses of these people so you will get to speak with them. Oh, the excitement builds! (I'll of course, have a web page created on this subject so people can read about it for the years to come. 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