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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc,comp.realtime,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
Keywords: Japan, TRON, standards, networks, operating systems, pots
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Date: 16 Jun 89 15:40:30 GMT
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In article <110573@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@sun.UUCP (chiba) writes:
>In article <5117@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>>
>>SO, educate us. What are the high points, the low points, and such,
>>from your vantage point?
>>
>
>The other night CNN had a 5+ minute story on TRON. They reported that the

Any CNN coverage on Japan is suspect.  Not only does it suffer from the
usual American problem of illiterates (in Japanese) reporting on a
culture they know little about, there is the special problem that some
of CNN coverage on Japan is funded by Sasagawa Ryoichi, an extreme right
winger who controls betting on boat racing in Japan.

>office bldg; work up to a city (big brother watches each toliet flush,
>and reacts accordingly) then to a province (chiba ?) then to all
>Japan, then to all the world ....

This should be easy to accomplish in Japan. Microprocessor pot seats
have been big in Japan for a number of years (I kid you not). You can
easily spend $2500 on a pot. These include not just a heated seat (bun
warmer) but various scented air and water sprays. Some have sensors to
tell you your body temparature, pulse and blood pressure. (How
representative measures are when you're taking a shit is open to
question.)  I got my (Japanese) wife to test fly one set up in the
women's head of the Nada-Kobe Coop near our home.  She said there were
so many controls and options that she finished her business before she
could figure out how to programme the pot.  Once she had, she decided
she wasn't going to let a microprocessor decide what got sprayed on
her privates!