' machine even has an official name 'Project
*    Platform'.

[
   "The Puzzle Palace": all these computer systems are linked together
   under Project Platform. The first Cray went to the NSA. p138
]

*   Although the NSA was officially formed in 1952, it grew out of an
*   International Agreement signed in 1947. Officially termed the "UKUSA
*   PACT," this was an agreement between Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, New
*   Zealand, Australia and the NATO countries.
*  
*   The UKUSA PACT was, quite simply and bluntly, an agreement between these
*   countries to collect and collate information on their respective citizens
*   and to share this information with each other and pass on to Fort Meade.
*  
*   On March 9th 1977, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Bill Hayden, asked
*   "questions on notice" on the subject. On April 19, Prime Minister Malcom
*   Fraser, declined to answer the questions, "in the interests of national
*   security."
*  
*   The first clue of the Australian Headquarters of PROJECT PLATFORM appeared
*   in 1975. Then, as today, government undertakings involving expenditure
*   over a certain amount must be presented to a Senate body, the Joint
*   Parliamentary Accounts Committee (JPAC). In 1975 JPAC was asked to
*   examine and approve finance for the construction of a new building in
*   Deakin, a leafy suburb of Canberra.
*  
*   This quite massive building was to be constructed behind an existing, much
*   smaller one, which, until then, had been known to the public only as the
*   "Deakin Telephone Exchange."
*  
*   That it was not, and never had been, simply a "telephone exchange" finally
*   came to light in the 1975 JPAC Approval Report, when it admitted that the
*   existing building had a comprehensive basement which housed NASA's micro-
*   wave communications headquarters in Australia. Part of th

_Nothing_ personal.  If everyone liked the same things, or thought the
same way, the terrorists will have won...

Yet there is such thing as objective beauty in design, and clearly I
don't see what you do, nor you what I do.

...And with the Series 2 SuperAmerica, and the 80s' [spits] Testarossa
fresh in my mind's eye, I'm starting to loathe Ferrari's re-hashing of
legendary nomenclature.

<<I quite like it.>>

It's interesting. We've got a glass roof on our '05 Mustang. <g>

C.

I'd have to see it in person, but I kinda like it.

Of course, I'm a sucker for flying buttresses. I like the
Jag XKS, late 60's Dodge Charger, etc.

-Matt- "It's all about the buttresses."

Me too, I like the 550 Barchetta too

its true you know!

I.

You should re-acquaint yourself with the terms Barchetta, Spider and
Cabriolet.

If you saw a [insert your current favorite here] with the same driver
at the wheel would you similarly blame the car?

You're going to find that a quite substantial, some would say
overwhelming,  proportion of Ferrari's are owned by people who are
incapable of utilizing the cars performance envelope, are incapable of
reasoned discourse, and are incapable of even simple human emotion:
Try to focus on the others.

Yes, we will never know.