____________________________________________________________________ | ___ __ __ | | | | |___) | | | | (_ | Rhode Island Computer | Volume 2, Issue 3 | | | \ | |__ |__| __) | Underground Society | June-July, 1993 | |______________________|_______________________|_____________________| ======================================================= RICUS Table of Contents 2.03 ======================================================= 1 ... Introduction 2 ... Wanted: Souls 3 ... BBS Censorship 4 ... Computer Store Abuse 5 ... CLAN Information Update 6 ... List of Equal Access Codes 7 ... Driving 8 ... Scavenger Hunt 9 ... Closing ======================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: Introduction --------------- Well! It's time for another issue... We didn't get any feedback on the last one, except one person said he had fun looking up books at the library from home. It's always nice to hear some of this stuff actually being applied. I sometimes wonder if the RICUS name is appropriate any longer. "Computer Underground" really has very little to do with it as a whole, it's mostly just miscellaneous ramblings. Ah well.. It's a nice acronym, anyways. By the way, the correct pronunciation of "RICUS" is _not_ "rickus", but "rye-kus." The accent is in the first syllable, and the "I" is a long one, not a short one. What's that have to do with anything? Well, I just had to clarify that... The Implementor (yep, I changed the ol' "pen handle" again... ...or is this someone different?) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2: Wanted: Souls ---------------- Ever been really fed up with the concept of "Going to Hell" if you are'ne a good little doobie? Perhaps you like the concept of evil but are afraid of eternal damnation? Well, whatever your reason for disliking the modern religious punishment/reward system, I have the solution for you! Before I tell you what it is, I'd like to assure you that I am not at all aphiliated with God, Allah, Satan, Zeus, Tiamat, or any other deity. The solution, you ask? Give me your soul. Yes, I know, this sounds rather drastic, but I'm quite serious. The only reason you don't do all the things you really want to do is because you're afraid of being punished in the afterlife. So, by giving me your soul, you can be assured that no such afterlife will happen, and therefore no punishment for your actions will occur after you die. Now, many of you will want to know what happens to you after death if you don't have a soul, right? Well, its simple. When you agree to give me your soul, you won't notice anything. But, upon death, instead of going to heaven or hell or wherever, your soul is absorbed into my own, and you quite quietly and peacefully cease to exist, for all practical purposes. You just slip into blissfull oblivion. Sounds painless enough, does'ne it? Well its just that easy. Also, for those of you who want to live forever or are afraid of the concept of ceasing to exist, one could view my having your soul as you existing for as long as I do, as your energy is assimilated by me. Why do I want your souls? True, I have just said that they are bothersome, but that is only true if you have just one. Every soul you has when you die gives you aditional power in the afterlife. So, while one soul is only enough to let you be controlled by the deity which you worship, a few extra lets you be independant. And if you get enough souls before dying, you can even get a bit more power over living things! So, as you can see, I'm not just being a hypocrit and trying to trick you out of your souls. I'm simply trying to free you from the chains of oppressive deities. If you are interested, leave mail to "PLA" on any of the following RI boards: Cerebral Babylon Dezrojard's Keep Ministry of Knowledge Morlock's Tower Total Perspective Vortex Vampire Bytes - PLA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3: BBS Censorship ----------------- Information, mostly in the form of textfiles, is the commodity of all of cyberspace. Usually proclaimed "illegal" on the larger, professional BBSes, such information only turns up on the relatively small boards. RICUS has obtained some amusing captures from one of the states larger psuedo-professional BBSes, concerning the uploading of such text files: Names have been blotted out to protect both the innocent and guilty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: (