%%% %%% %%%% %%% %% %%%%% %%%% %%%% %% %%%% %% %% %% %% %%% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% % %% %% %% %%%% %% %% %% %% %%%% %% %%% %%%%% // // //// ////// ////// // \\ \ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ // /// // //////// ////// ////// // \\\\ \\\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ /// /// // // // // // // [ Mind Warp - Volume #6, Issue #01, File #81 ] [ "Chronicles of Influenza" by Mustaine ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chronicles of Influenza [mustaine] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sick as it may seem, at the time of this writing, if you were to use the finger option on your internet service provider, and do a finger of mustaine@wam.umd.edu, you would recieve current information on my account, as well as my real name, phone number on where to reach me, mail adress to contact me, as well as a quote from the "Chronicles of Influenza." The "Chronicles of Influenza" are a collection of my own thoughts concering the computer underground. If you will, it is my own personal Testament to the Underground. There is only one. It is by no means in a state of completion, nor do I wish it ever do be so. It is changed, revised, updated, as I wish. What in the world am I talking about, some may ask? Does this article have direction, or am I rambling? I am forced to ask myself that question to myself. The answer is subjective. This article exists, such as a dance might exist. It is here now, and it's interpretation will exist, in it's own form, by whoever reads this article. The words will always be the same, much as the movements of a dance can always be repeated, but their meaning...their essence, will differ with each reading, or by each viewing. Take now, these few excerpts from my own personal Chronicles. Read them, take them for what they are, and use them if need be. I only refer to their essence. Copyright infringements will occur if that statement is taken literally. ..on groups.. It's funny how there exist groups inside the underground. Whether they be hackers, or phreakers, or even those funky art coders, there are always groups. Warez couriers simply couldn't exist without the concept. They always take care of their own as well. Of course, backstabbing occurs, such is the life in any aspect of life. But aside from that unpleasent abnormality, a bonding not unlike a clanship, or blood brothers, exists. I suggest groups are a necessary form of survival inside the underground. What good is information learned if it is lost with the induvidual? In small masses, the information is distributed to a larger populous. Thus the survival of the information is given a larger chance. There are no secrets worth keeping in the underground. ..on time.. Time is too precious to live inside the underground. Their is life outside the eliteness of your computer. To exist inside the underground just to exist, is to further nothingness. Insights are always better when they are brought from a new perspective. What new ideas come from the same group of induviduals? New experiences lead way to new thoughts. Stagnation is the root of all things boring. I hate boring. ..on documentation.. Necessary, and yet at the same time dated. By the time this is written, the moment is over. The secret is out. The patch is made, and the sytem scrambles to adjust. Make way for technology...you can't make it stop by writing it down. ..on the "a" in hpacv.. An organization to purport anarchy stops itself. The heart of the ideal is exterminated by the body that forms it. ..on intelligence.. Not all understand. Not all were meant too. But EVERYONE is welcome the attempt. The underground may be exclusinary by it's own goals, but the right of exclusion is not up for human opinion to decide. Actions speak louder than councils, leaders, and ceo's. Intelligence and will are the mother of sucess. Remember, take what you have read, and use what you will. There is always more where the mind thinks, and there is always more where the mind does not think. Time is cruel that way. It will never stop and reflect. It will on progress, evolve, and exist. ============================================================================== E-Mail mustaine@wam.umd.edu to become a distributor! ==============================================================================