Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Time (Fax) Machine
A way to be blind to the future and not wrong, too.
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Simple to operate. Compose a fax document dealing with the way you wish specific present events to conclude, and fax it away. Before the date of conclusion, your fax returns to you, poofreading and corrections made so that you have the freshest possible information to deal with the inevitable.
reensure, Dec 24 2000


Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee

Destination URL. E.g., http://www.coffee.com/

Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)







       zippyanna: Hopefully, it would work not so much like a self-fulfilling prophecy (I compose and fax out my obituary and it comes back tomorrow factually correct and hand delivered by "Thick-necked Mickey" the hit man.)

Since we can't be sure what effect evolution has over time, a receiving channel has to be secure from retrotemporal virus attack.
reensure, Dec 25 2000
   


 
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