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Re: Live Free, but Quietly, or Die
mcguire@cs.utexas.edu (Tommy Marcus McGuire) wrote:
>
> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
> >tjohnson@tazmanian.prime.com (Tod Johnson (617) 275-1800 x2317) writes:
> [...]
> >>Sure there are horns but my hand is already on the throttle. Should we
> >>get into how many feet a bike going 55mph goes in .30 seconds; or
> >>how long it would take me to push my horn button??
> [...]
> >The answer is 161.33 feet.
> [...]
>
> Try something like 24.2 feet.
>
> EdGetACalculator
Right. ROM numbers (easy to remember) 100 mph ~= 150 ft/sec.
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-
boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
--gene spafford, 1992
| 8rec.motorcycles |
Re: A Message for you Mr. President: How do you know what happened?
In <11974@prijat.cs.uofs.edu> bill@triangle.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
+>1. There is no such thing as non-toxic tear gas. Tear gas is non-breathable
+> remaining in it's presence will cause nausea and vomiting, followed eventually
+> by siezures and death. Did the FBI know the physical health of all the people
+> they exposed?? Any potential heart problems among the B-D's??
They certainly knew that there were pregnant women in there plus
children. I could not believe when they said that the gassing was
an attempt to "save the children" yesterday. I can't think of a much
worse sort of child abuse that pouring tear gas into a building.
+>2. Have you ever seen a tear gas canister?? Tear gas is produced by burning a
+> chemical in the can. The fumes produced are tear gas. The canister has a
+> warning printed on the side of it. "Contact with flamable material can result
+> in fire." Now, how many of these canisters did they throw inside a building
+> they admited was a fire-trap??
I have heard two things recently explaining this:
1. They pumped the gas into the building from outside via some
sort of pipe rather than by canister.
2. The sort of tear gas they are using was described as some
sort of powdery material that sticks to things. Kind of
like a powder cloud.
And once again, these are government lacky explainations and
since government stories always change, none or all of the
information might not be true.
+>This whole thing was a case of over-reaction by the officials at every step.
+>I hope it is thoroughly investigated and the responsible parties are held
+>accountable. But that is highly unlikely when you figure they are going to
+>be investigating themselves.
Or better yet, the Texas rangers will be investigating which is
probably worse than the FBI or ATF investigating itself.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
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Re: need a viewer for gl files
In article <1qu36i$kh7@dux.dundee.ac.uk>, dwestner@cardhu.mcs.dundee.ac.uk (Dominik Westner) writes:
|> the subject says it all. Is there a PD viewer for gl files (for X)?
Try xviewgl.
(filename xviewgl_v1.1.tar.Z on lots of bases)
- Ove
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| 1comp.graphics |
Re: Sales of PowerBook slowing down...
In article <martin.733762199@tohi> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), martin@tohi (Jean-francois Martin) writes:
> First, this is not an April 1 joke.
>
> A dealer in my town told me that the PowerBook don't sell as they use to sell.
> The guy told me that Apple is having the same problem it has when the desktop
> Mac was too expensive ; the PowerBook are too expensive in comparison to what
> you can get on the DOS side. What do you think of this? Do you feel the same
> thing about it? Just curious.
Sounds about right.
If there is high demand for a product there is little incentive to
aggresively cut prices. Once the demand fall off a bit, then is the
time to start getting aggressive with pricing. Waiting too long can
really hurt your business though :-)
The PowerBooks have sold very well up to now, if they are slowing
down Apple needs to come out with some lower priced versions (the
only reason I own a PowerBook is that I could spring for a $900 PB100,
the rest of the lineup is way to pricey for me). I'd bet they'll
be coming out with more power versions too.
-- Michael Peirce -- peirce@outpost.sf-bay.org
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Re: Finland/Sweden vs.NHL teams (WAS:Helsinki/Stockholm & NHL expansion)
In <1993Apr16.195754.5476@ousrvr.oulu.fi> mep@phoenix.oulu.fi (Marko Poutiainen) writes:
>: FINLAND:
>:
>: D-Jyrki Lumme.......20
>: D-Teppo Numminen....20
>: D-Peter Ahola.......13
>:
>Well well, they don't like our defenders (mainly Lumme and Numminen)...
About 25 is correct for Numminen and Lumme.
>: R-Teemu Selanne.....27
>:
>Compared to Kurri, Selanne's points are too high, lets make it 25 or 26.
No, Kurri's points are too low. 27 for Kurri and 28 for Sel{nne.
>: well in the Canada Cup and World Championships largely due to the efforts of
>: Markus Ketterer (the goalie), 3-4 or the players listed above and luck. There's
>: presumably a lot of decent players in Finland that wouldn't be superstars at
>: the highest level but still valuable role players, however. My guess would be
>: that the Finnish Canada Cup team would be a .500 team in the NHL.
>Wow, now, it looks like you don't like our players? What about guys like:
>Nieminen, Jutila, Riihijarvi, Varvio, Laukkanen, Makela, Keskinen and (even
>if he is aging) Ruotsalainen? The main difference between finnish and North-
>American players is, that our players tend to be better in the larger rink.
>The Canadian defenders are usually slower that defenders in Europe.
>And I think that there was more in our success than Ketterer and luck (though
>they helped). I think that the main reason was, that the team worked well
>together.
That's true. Game is so different here in Europe compared to NHL. North-ame-
ricans are better in small rinks and europeans in large rinks. An average
european player from Sweden, Finland, Russian or Tsech/Slovakia is a better
skater and puckhandler than his NHL colleague. Especially defenders in NHL
are mainly slow and clumsy. Sel{nne has also said that in the Finnish Sm-league
game is more based on skill than in NHL. In Finland he couldn't get so many
breakaways because defenders here are an average much better skaters than in
NHL. Also Alpo Suhonen said that in NHL Sel{nne's speed accentuates because
of clumsy defensemen.
I have to admit that the best players come from Canada, but those regulars
aren't as skilful as regulars in the best european leagues. Also top europeans
are in the same level as the best north-americans.(except Lemieux is in the
class of his own).
Tommi
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
When is a couple married...
I used to be a marriage commissioner for the Alaska Court
System (sort of a justice of the peace). I had great difficulty
with that duty. I used to pray earnestly in the courthouse
bathroom before the ceremonies, mostly asking that the couples
would come to appreciate and fulfill the true holiness and
divine purpose in marriage--couples who obviously didn't realize
that marriage is God's institution, not the state's. Gradually,
however, I came to conclude that because I was acting in a
strictly secular, public capacity, established as such by both
the state and the expectations of the couples involved, I was
really conducting a purely secular, legal civil event, with no
greater moral or religious implications than if I had been
conducting a civil trial (the couple who told me, mid-ceremony,
to "please hurry it up" may have helped me to this conclusion).
I thought I had neatly rationalized a clear and sharp
distinction between marriage before God, and "marriage" before
the state, until I had to deal with my own divorce. Keeping
Matthew 19:6 in mind, I felt that the state had no business
dissolving my marriage established before God, but of course it
assumed jurisdiction nonetheless.
I would ask those of you proposing answers to this
question to consider this issue's logical extension: If
intercourse, or the mental intent of the parties, or the
ceremony of the church, or any combination thereof, establishes
marriage, then at what moment is it dissolved?
Karl Thoennes III
University of Alaska
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Re: DOS6 - no boot disk required if you don't want EMM386 to load
In article <ls91poINNsvf@levelland.cs.utexas.edu> sms@cs.utexas.edu (Stephen Mark Sanderson) writes:
>From: sms@cs.utexas.edu (Stephen Mark Sanderson)
>Subject: DOS6 - no boot disk required if you don't want EMM386 to load
>Date: 8 Apr 1993 15:12:40 -0500
>Everybody, DOS 6 users in particular, take note: if you want to play games
>that hate/use their own upper memory manager, DOS 6 is not a problem. No
>boot disks required. As your system starts up, hit the F5 key. This tells
>it to bypass config and autoexec altogether. You get a plain, generic session
>of DOS, with nothing loaded. <there's another function key that actually
>steps thru config.sys asking if you want to execute each line, but I've
>forgotten it at the moment...you can try finding it - I think it's F9...>
No, you need not bypass the config.sys, in Dos 6.0, there is a function
of multi-config, have you tried BOOT.SYS ? the multi-config is the kind that
you can choose you config.sys at the startup. And I find that is very good.
It has no conflict to QEMM. (I have problem when using BOOT.SYS)
The key you say is F8, which is trace the config.sys step by step.
Sorry, if any error :)
Phillip (phillipau@cuhk.hk)
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
For Sale or Trade: IBM Games
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o ADVENTURE
Eric the Unready -- Legend -- $35
King's Quest V -- Sierra -- CD-ROM edition -- $35
o SPORTS
Michael Jordan In Flight -- Electronic Arts -- $35
Mike Ditka's Ultimate Football -- Accolade -- $30
David Ledbetter's Greens -- Microprose -- $30
o STRATEGY
Risk -- Virgin -- $10
This software comes with all original packaging and manuals.
Price includes ground shipping to continental US.
I will trade for current games; send me your list...
--
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205-730-6236
| 6misc.forsale |
Re: Monitors - Nanao?
johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) writes:
>Hello, I've been following discussions on 17" monitors in
>comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware and noted that the Nanao seems to get very good
>reviews. I'm interested in getting more information about Nanao's products
>... How can I get ahold of Nanao?
Nanao: call 1-800-800-5202. Ask for a catalog.
> What's list and street cost - if avail. from a third party...
Buy a copy of Computer Shopper and take a look. One place with reasonable
prices and good service - CAD-Warehouse in sububurban Cleveland, Ohio.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Re: How to the disks copy protected.
Write a good manual to go with the software. The hassle of
photocopying the manual is offset by simplicity of purchasing
the package for only $15. Also, consider offering an inexpensive
but attractive perc for registered users. For instance, a coffee
mug. You could produce and mail the incentive for a couple of
dollars, so consider pricing the product at $17.95.
You're lucky if only 20% of the instances of your program in use
are non-licensed users.
The best approach is to estimate your loss and accomodate that into
your price structure. Sure it hurts legitimate users, but too bad.
Retailers have to charge off loss to shoplifters onto paying
customers; the software industry is the same.
Unless your product is exceptionally unique, using an ostensibly
copy-proof disk will just send your customers to the competetion.
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wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (140.220.1.1) 146.580: N8WED
| 12sci.electronics |
What a HATE filled newsgroup!!!!
Is this group for real? I honestly can't believe that most of you expect you
or your concerns to be taken remotely seriously if you behave this way in a
forum for discussion. Doesn't it ever occur to those of you who write letters
like the majority of those in this group that you're being mind-bogglingly
hypocritical?
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Re: Area-code for Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA...
In article <1993Apr22.232317.6924@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, kfrank@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Kevin D Frank) writes:
> I'm trying to get ahold of the directory assistance operator in Edmonton, but
> I need the area code to do so. If you know it, please e-mail me directly as
> I have little time to scan through all the posts.
>
> Much appreciated!!!
Geez, I didn't realize things were so bad at Ohio State that they can't
afford phone books, or even operators.
This is probably Clinton's fault, isn't it...8^)
403.
Paul Badertscher
35002_2765@uwovax.uwo.ca
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
How To Prevent Kidney Stone Formation
I got asked in Sci. Med. Nutrition about vitamin C and oxalate production(
toxic, kidney stone formation?). I decided to post my answer here as well
because of the recent question about kidney stones. Not long after I got
into Sci. Med. I got flamed by a medical fellow for stating that magnesium
would prevent kidney stone formation. I'm going to state it again here.
But the best way to prevent kidney stones from forming is to take B6
supplements. Read on to find out why(I have my asbestos suit on now guys).
Vitamin C will form oxalic acid. But large doses are needed (above 6 grams
per day).
1. Review Article "Nutritional factors in calcium containing kidney
stones with particular emphasis on Vitamin C" Int. Clin. Nutr. Rev.
5(3):110-129(1985).
But glycine also forms oxalic acid(D-amino acid oxidases). For both
glycine and vitamin C, one of the best ways to drastically reduce this
production is not to cut back on dietary intake of vitamin C or glycine,
but to increase your intake of vitamin B6.
2. "Control of hyperoxaluria with large doses of pyridoxine in
patients with kidney stones" Int. Urol. Nephrol. 20(4):353-59(1988)
200 to 500 mg of B6 each day significasntly decreased the urinary
excretion of oxalate over the 18 month treatment program.
3. The action of pyridoxine in primary hyperoxaluria" Clin. Sci. 38
:277-86(1970). Patients receiving at least 150mg B6 each day
showed a significant reduction in urinary oxalate levels.
For gylcine, this effect is due to increased transaminase activity(B6 is
required for transaminase activity) which makes less glycine available for
oxidative deamination(D-amino acid oxidases). For vitamin C, the effect is
quite different. There are different pathways for vitamin C catabolism.
The pathway that leads to oxalic acid formation will usually have 17 to 40%
of the ingested dose going into oxalic acid. But this is highly variable
and the vitamin C review article pointed out that unless the dose gets upto
6 grams per day, not too much vitamin C gets catabolized to form oxalic
acid. At very high doses of vitamin C(above 10 grams per day), more of the
extra vitamin C (more than 40% conversion) can end up as oxalic acid. In a
very early study on vitamin C and oxalic production(Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol.
Med. 85:190-92(1954), intakes of 2 grams per day up to 9 grams per day
increased the average oxalic acid excretion from 38mg per day up to 178mg
per day. Until 8 grams per day was reached, the average excreted was
increased by only 3 to 12mg per day(2 gram dose, 4 gram dose, 8 gram dose
and 9gram dose). 8 grams jumped it to 45mg over the average excretion
before supplementation and 9 grams jumped it to 150 mg over the average
before supplementation.
B6 is required by more enzymes than any other vitamin in the body. There
are probably some enzymes that require vitamin B6 that we don't know about
yet. Vitamin C catabolism is still not completely understood but the
speculation is that this other pathway that does not form oxalic acid must
have an enzyme in it that requires B6. Differences in B6 levels could then
explain the very variable production of oxalic acid from a vitamin C
challenge(this is not the preferred route of catabolism). Increasing your
intake of B6 would then result in less oxalic acid being formmed if you
take vitamin C supplements. Since the typical American diet is deficient
in B6, some researchers believe that the main cause of calcium-oxalate
kidney stones is B6 deficiency(especially since so little oxalic acid gets
absorbed from the gut). Diets providing 0 to 130mg of oxalic acid per day
showed absolutely no change in urinary excretion of oxalate(Urol Int.35:309
-15,1980). If 400mg was present each day, there was a significant increase
in urinary oxalate excretion.
Here are the high oxalate foods:
1. Beans, coca, instant coffee, parsley, rhubarb, spinach and tea.
Contain at least 25mg/100grams
2. Beet tops, carrots, celery, chocolate, cumber, grapefruit, kale,
peanuts, pepper, sweet potatoe.
Contain 10 to 25 mg/100grams.
If the threshold is 130mg per day, you can see that you really have a lot
of latitude in food selection. A recent N.Eng.J. Med. article also points
out that one good way to prevent kidney stone formation is to increase your
intake of calcium which will prevent most of the dietary oxalate from being
absorbed at all. If you also increase your intake of B6, you shouldn't
have to worry about kidney stones at all. The RDA for B6 is 2mg per day for
males and 1.6mg per day for females(directly related to protein intake).
B6 can be toxic(nerve damage) if it is consumed in doses of 500mg or more
per day for an extended peroid(weeks to months).
The USDA food survey done in 1986 had an average intake of 1.87 mg per day
for males and 1.16mg per day for females living in the U.S. Coupled with
this low intake was a high protein diet(which greatly increases the B6
requirement), as well as the presence of some of the 40 different drugs that
either block B6 absorption, are metabolic antagonists of B6, or promote B6
excretion in the urine. Common ones are: birth control pills, alcohol,
isoniazid, penicillamine, and corticosteroids. I tell my students to
supplement all their patients that are going to get any of the drugs that
increase the B6 requirement. The dose recommended for patients taking
birth control pills is 10-15mg per day and this should work for most of the
other drugs that increase the B6 requirement(this would be on top of your
dietary intake of B6). Any patient that has a history of kidney stone
formation should be given B6 supplements.
One other good way to prevent kidney stone formation is to make sure your
Ca/Mg dietary ratio is 2/1. Magnesium-oxalate is much more soluble than is
calcium-oxalate.
4. "The magnesium:calcium ratio in the concentrated urines of
patients with calcium oxalate calculi"Invest. Urol 10:147(1972)
5. "Effect of magnesium citrate and magnesium oxide on the
crystallization of calcium in urine: changes producted by food-magnesium
interaction"J. Urol. 143(2):248-51(1990).
6.Review Article, "Magnesium in the physiopathology and treatment
of renal calcium stones" J. Presse Med. 161(1):25-27(1987).
There are actually about three times as many articles published in the
medical literature on the role of magnesium in preventing kidney stone
formation than there are for B6. I thought that I was being pretty safe in
stating that magnesium would prevent kidney stone formation in an earlier
post in this news group but good old John A. in Mass. jumped all over me. I
guess that he doesn't read the medical literature. Oh well, since kidney
stones can be a real pain and a lot of people suffer from them, I thought
I'd tell you how you can avoid the pain and stay out of the doctor's office.
Martin Banschbach, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Chairman
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine
1111 W. 17th Street
Tulsa, Ok. 74107
"Without discourse, there is no remembering, without remembering, there is
no learning, without learning, there is only ignorance". From a wise man
who lived in China, many, many years ago. I think that it still has
meaning in today's world.
| 13sci.med |
HD-TV SOUND SYSTEMS
I would like to get some information on the current systems used for HD-TV
sound systems.thanks.
| 12sci.electronics |
Russian Phobos Mission
Yes, the Phobos mission did return some useful data including images of Phobos
itself. The best I've seen had a surface resolution of about 40 meters. By
the way, the new book entitled "Mars" (Kieffer et al, 1992, University of
Arizona Press) has a great chapter on spacecraft exploration of the planet.
The chapter is co-authored by V.I. Moroz of the Space Research Institute in
Moscow, and includes details never before published in the West. Don't
know of any ftp sites with images though.
Tom O'Reilly
Department of Geology
Arizona State University
| 14sci.space |
Re: SE rom
In <1993Apr20.085651.1@mrl.dsto.gov.au> ryanph@mrl.dsto.gov.au writes:
>There is no reason that Apple couldn't release software patches for older
>computers (there are lots of Mac Pluses, Classics and SEs that have been
>upgraded to 68020 and 68030 processors which should be perfectly able to deal
>with Color Quickdraw) - but they wont, and 3rd parties are having a difficult
There is one reason: market size.
The market size for color quickdraw for accellerated plusses and
SEs (which don't go beyond 4 MB anyway) is just too small; the
extra cost would belike $1,000 and with that money, you can buy a
color classic instead.
Cheers,
/ h+
--
-- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
-- I don't fear death, it's dying that scares me.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
some thoughts.
rh> From: house@helios.usq.EDU.AU (ron house)
rh> Newsgroups: alt.atheism
rh> Organization: University of Southern Queensland
rh> bissda@saturn.wwc.edu (DAN LAWRENCE BISSELL) writes:
> First I want to start right out and say that I'm a Christian. It
rh> I _know_ I shouldn't get involved, but... :-)
rh> [bit deleted]
> The book says that Jesus was either a liar, or he was crazy ( a
>modern day Koresh) or he was actually who he said he was.
[rest of rant deleted]
This is a standard argument for fundies. Can you spot the falicy? The
statement is arguing from the assumption that Jesus actually existed. So far,
they have not been able to offer real proof of that existance. Most of them
try it using the (very) flawed writings of Josh McDowell and others to prove
it, but those writers use VERY flawed sources. (If they are real sources at
all, some are not.) When will they ever learn to do real research, instead of
believing the drivel sold in the Christian bookstores.
rh> Righto, DAN, try this one with your Cornflakes...
rh> The book says that Muhammad was either a liar, or he was
rh> crazy ( a modern day Mad Mahdi) or he was actually who he
rh> said he was. Some reasons why he wouldn't be a liar are as
rh> follows. Who would die for a lie? Wouldn't people be able
rh> to tell if he was a liar? People gathered around him and
rh> kept doing it, many gathered from hearing or seeing how his
rh> son-in-law made the sun stand still. Call me a fool, but I
rh> believe he did make the sun stand still.
rh> Niether was he a lunatic. Would more than an entire nation
rh> be drawn to someone who was crazy. Very doubtful, in fact
rh> rediculous. For example anyone who is drawn to the Mad
rh> Mahdi is obviously a fool, logical people see this right
rh> away.
rh> Therefore since he wasn't a liar or a lunatic, he must have
rh> been the real thing.
Nice rebutal!
Alan
| 0alt.atheism |
disp140 [0/7]
I have posted DISP140.ZIP to alt.binaries.pictures.utilities.
I will upload this package to SIMTEL20 later.
****** You may distribute this program freely for non-commercial use
if no fee is gained.
****** There is no warranty. The author is not responsible for any
damage caused by this program.
Important changes since Version 1.35:
Added support for IRIS.
Support Mix/Concat. two images.
Added support for 'batch conversion'.
Added support for 'load/save palette table'.
Added support for 'edge enhance'.
Added support for 'crop one line'.
Added support for 'negate image'.
New color quantization option.
Fix some minor bugs.
(1) Introduction:
This program can let you READ, WRITE and DISPLAY images with different
formats. It also let you do some special effects(ROTATION, DITHERING ....)
on image. Its main purpose is to let you convert image among different
formts.
Include simple file management system.
Support 'slide show'.
+ Support 'batch conversion'.
There is NO LIMIT on image size.
Currently this program supports 8, 15, 16, 24 bits display.
If you want to use HiColor or TrueColor, you must have VESA driver.
If you want to modify video driver, please read section (8).
(2) Hardware Requirement:
PC 386 or better. MSDOS 3.3 or higher.
min amount of ram is 4M bytes(Maybe less memory will also work).
(I recommend min 8M bytes for better performance).
Hard disk for swapping(virtual memory).
The following description is borrowed from DJGPP.
Supported Wares:
* Up to 128M of extended memory (expanded under VCPI)
* Up to 128M of disk space used for swapping
* SuperVGA 256-color mode up to 1024x768
* 80387
* XMS & VDISK memory allocation strategies
* VCPI programs, such as QEMM, DESQview, and 386MAX
Unsupported:
* DPMI
* Microsoft Windows
Features: 80387 emulator, 32-bit unix-ish environment, flat memory
model, SVGA graphics.
(3) Installation:
Video drivers, emu387 and go32.exe are borrowed from DJGPP.
(If you use Western Digital VGA chips, read readme.wd)
(This GO32.EXE is a modified version for vesa and is COMPLETELY compatible
with original version)
*** But some people report that this go32.exe is not compatible with
other DJGPP programs in their system. If you encounter this problem,
DON'T put go32.exe within search path.
*** Please read runme.bat for how to run this program.
If you choose xxxxx.grn as video driver, add 'nc 256' to environment
GO32.
For example, go32=driver x:/xxxxx/xxxxx.grn nc 256
If you don't have 80x87, add 'emu x:/xxxxx/emu387' to environment GO32.
For example, go32=driver x:/xxxxx/xxxxx.grd emu x:/xxxxx/emu387
**** Notes: 1. I only test tr8900.grn, et4000.grn and vesa.grn.
Other drivers are not tested.
2. I have modified et4000.grn to support 8, 15, 16, 24 bits
display. You don't need to use vesa driver.
If et4000.grn doesn't work, please try vesa.grn.
3. For those who want to use HiColor or TrueColor display,
please use vesa.grn(except et4000 users).
You can find vesa BIOS driver from :
wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/msdos/graphics
godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au: /kjb/MGL
(4) Command Line Switch:
Usage : display [-d|--display initial_display_type]
[-s|--sort sort_method]
[-h|-?]
Display type: 8(SVGA,default), 15, 16(HiColor), 24(TrueColor)
Sort method: 'name', 'ext'
(5) Function Key:
F2 : Change disk drive.
CTRL-A -- CTRL-Z : change disk drive.
F3 : Change filename mask. (See match.doc)
F4 : Change parameters.
F5 : Some effects on picture, eg. flip, rotate ....
F7 : Make Directory.
t : Tag file.
+ : Tag group files. (See match.doc)
T : Tag all files.
u : Untag file.
- : Untag group files. (See match.doc)
U : Untag all files.
Ins : Change display type (8,15,16,24) in 'read' & 'screen' menu.
F6,m,M : Move file(s).
+ ALT-M : Move single file(ignore tag).
F8,d,D : Delete file(s).
+ ALT-D : Delete single file(ignore tag).
r,R : Rename file.
c,C : Copy File(s).
+ ALT-C : Copy single file(ignore tag).
z,Z : Display first 10 bytes in Ascii, Hex and Dec modes.
f,F : Display disk free space.
Page Up/Down : Move one page.
TAB : Change processing target.
Arrow keys, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down: Scroll image.
Home: Left Most.
End: Right Most.
Page Up: Top Most.
Page Down: Bottom Most.
in 'screen' & 'effect' menu :
Left,Right arrow: Change display type(8, 15, 16, 24 bits).
+ CTRL-Arrow keys : Crop image by one line(in graphics mode).
s,S : Slide Show(show tagged files). ESCAPE to terminate.
+ b,B : Batch conversion(convert tagged files to single format).
+ w,W : Wait/Pause in slide show.
ALT-X : Quit program without prompting.
ALT-A : Reread directory.
Escape : Abort function and return.
(6) Support Format:
Read: GIF(.gif), Japan MAG(.mag), Japan PIC(.pic), Sun Raster(.ras),
Jpeg(.jpg), XBM(.xbm), Utah RLE(.rle), PBM(.pbm), PGM(.pgm),
PPM(.ppm), PM(.pm), PCX(.pcx), Japan MKI(.mki), Tiff(.tif),
Targa(.tga), XPM(.xpm), Mac Paint(.mac), GEM/IMG(.img),
IFF/ILBM(.lbm), Window BMP(.bmp), QRT ray tracing(.qrt),
Mac PICT(.pct), VIS(.vis), PDS(.pds), VIKING(.vik), VICAR(.vic),
+ FITS(.fit), Usenix FACE(.fac), IRIS(.sgi).
the extensions in () are standard extensions.
Write: GIF, Sun Raster, Jpeg, XBM, PBM, PGM, PPM, PM, Tiff, Targa,
XPM, Mac Paint, Ascii, Laser Jet, IFF/ILBM, Window BMP,
+ Mac PICT, VIS, FITS, FACE, PCX, GEM/IMG, IRIS.
All Read/Write support full color(8 bits), grey scale, b/w dither,
and 24 bits image, if allowed for that format.
(7) Detail:
Initialization:
Set default display type to highest display type.
Find allowable screen resolution(for .grn video driver only).
1. When you run this program, you will enter 'read' menu. Whthin this
menu you can press any function key. If you move or copy
files, you will enter 'write' menu. the 'write' menu is much like
'read' menu, but only allow you to change directory.
The header line in 'read' menu includes "(d:xx,f:xx,t:xx)".
d : display type. f: number of files. t: number of tagged files.
pressing SPACE in 'read' menu will let you select which format to use
for reading current file.
pressing RETURN in 'read' menu will let you reading current file. This
program will automatically determine which format this file is.
The procedure is: First, check magic number. If fail, check
standard extension. Still fail, report error.
pressing s or S in 'read' menu will do 'Slide Show'.
If delay time is 0, program will wait until you hit a key
(except ESCAPE).
If any error occurs, program will make a beep.
+ 'w' or 'W' to pause, any key to continue.
ESCAPE to terminate.
pressing Ins in 'read' menu will change display type.
pressing ALT-X in 'read' menu will quit program without prompting.
+ pressing F5 will turn on 'effect' menu.
2. Once image file is successfully read, you will enter 'screen' menu.
You can do special effect on image.
pressing RETURN: show image.
in graphic mode, press RETURN, SPACE or ESCAPE to return to text
mode.
pressing TAB: change processing target. This program allows you to do
special effects on 8-bit or 24-bit image.
pressing Left,Right arrow: change display type. 8, 15, 16, 24 bits.
pressing SPACE: save current image to file.
B/W Dither: save as black/white image(1 bit).
Grey Scale: save as grey image(8 bits).
Full Color: save as color image(8 bits).
True Color: save as 24-bit image.
This program will ask you some questions if you want to write image
to file. Some questions are format-dependent. Finally This program
will prompt you a filename. If you want to save file under another
directory other than current directory, please press SPACE. after
pressing SPACE, you will enter 'write2' menu. You can change
directory to what you want. Then,
pressing SPACE: this program will prompt you 'original' filename.
pressing RETURN: this program will prompt you 'selected' filename
(filename under bar).
3. This program supports 8, 15, 16, 24 bits display.
4. This Program is MEMORY GREEDY. If you don't have enough memory,
the performance is poor.
5. If you want to save 8 bits image :
try GIF then TIFF(LZW) then TARGA then Sun Raster then BMP then ...
If you want to save 24 bits image (lossless):
try TIFF(LZW) or TARGA or ILBM or Sun Raster
(No one is better for true 24bits image)
6. I recommend Jpeg for storing 24 bits images, even 8 bits images.
7. Not all subroutines are fully tested
8. This document is not well written. If you have any PROBLEM, SUGGESTION,
COMMENT about this program,
Please send to u7711501@bicmos.ee.nctu.edu.tw (140.113.11.13).
I need your suggestion to improve this program.
(There is NO anonymous ftp on this site)
(8) Tech. information:
Program (user interface and some subroutines) written by Jih-Shin Ho.
Some subroutines are borrowed from XV(2.21) and PBMPLUS(dec 91).
Tiff(V3.2) and Jpeg(V4) reading/writing are through public domain
libraries.
Compiled with DJGPP.
You can get whole DJGPP package from SIMTEL20 or mirror sites.
For example, wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/msdos/djgpp
(9) For Thoese who want to modify video driver:
1. get GRX source code from SIMTEL20 or mirror sites.
2. For HiColor and TrueColor:
15 bits : # of colors is set to 32768.
16 bits : # of colors is set to 0xc010.
24 bits : # of colors is set to 0xc018.
Acknowledgment:
I would like to thank the authors of XV and PBMPLUS for their permission
to let me use their subroutines.
Also I will thank the authors who write Tiff and Jpeg libraries.
Thank DJ. Without DJGPP I can't do any thing on PC.
Jih-Shin Ho
u7711501@bicmos.ee.nctu.edu.tw
| 1comp.graphics |
Re: My letter about Clipper
In article <strnlghtC6BJDw.MID@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>Part of the basis for my belief is that we [NSA] have more people, spend much
>more money, and have much better hardware than anyone else.
The same could be said for many other goverment agencies, but big budgets,
large staffs, and long lead time haven't made many of them into models of
effectiveness.
The fact is that those of us outside the inner circles have only James
Bamford's word that the people at the NSA use those legendary masses of
computers for anything other than reading netnews, like many of us.
The NSA *doesn't* have an impressive record of accomplishments, at least
not a public record.
>David Sternlight Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of
> our information, errors and omissions excepted.
This, on the other hand, is priceless! Where's it from?
| 11sci.crypt |
HELP ! EISA board configuration problems
I just bought a new AMIECU EISA motherboard and an Adaptec 1742A fast-SCSI
controller. I wanted to install the AHA-1742A and did as written in the
AMIECU manual. But the CFG-utility told me to get a newer version of the Adaptec
configuration overlay file named 'adp0000.ovr', because the old one is not
compatible to my motherboard.
The adaptec driver utility is version 3.0.
CAN YOU HELP ME ? PLEASE DO SO.
--
________________________________________________________________________________
Name : Frederic Tschannen
Adress : University of Fribourg / / / / /---
IIUF, MISERICORDE / / / / /
CH - 1700 FRIBOURG / / / / /--
Switzerland / / /__/ /
E-Mail : tschannen@cfruni51.bitnet
________________________________________________________________________________
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
ANSI/AIIM MS-53 Standard Image File Format
wing the suggestion of Stu Lynne, I have posted the Image File Format executable and source code to alt.sources.
Herman Silbiger
.
| 1comp.graphics |
Re: CD player going wonky - advise needed !
In article <1993Apr13.150525.17978@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>, sl@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Stuart Lea) writes:
> Hello,
> I've got a problem with my CD player (SONY CDP-35) in that it refuses
> to play discs - more than a minor inconvenience! The player itself doesn't
> recognise that there is a disc in. It's an intermitant problem, but one
> that is becoming more frequent.
>
> Is this a common problem with older CD players and, if so, what
> can be done to rectify it ? If there is no obvious answer, how can I begin to
> start fault finding. To start off with, How does thet mach recognise that
> there is a disc in in the first place ?
My experience is that the CD drawer becomes a bit loose, and the CD either skips
or can't be read. Try seeing if all the screws that hold down the drawer
assembly are tightened properly. Other than that, my next guess would be one of
the motors. Hope this helps.
Dave Haans, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.
| 12sci.electronics |
Re: It's a rush... (was Re: Too fast)
In article <C5r43y.F0D@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> marshatt@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (Zauberer) writes:
>I guess I wasn't clear enough here. I said the roads WERE designed for
>speeds of 80 or so and still be safe. The current 55-65 will add a saftey
>margin.
They were designed for speeds of upwards of 80 - I forget the
exact spec - but for military vehicles. That's 80 in a 1958 Dodge
Powerwagon. Not 80 in a 1993 Ford Taurus.
| 7rec.autos |
Re: Homosexuality issues in Christianity
>>>>> On 5 May 93 06:51:23 GMT, shellgate!llo@uu4.psi.com (Larry L. Overacker) said:
> In article <Apr.30.03.11.27.1993.10101@geneva.rutgers.edu> FSSPR@acad3.alaska.edu (Hardcore Alaskan) writes:
>>
>>I hope that anyone who remembers seeing Rev. Troy Perry's
>>"performance" at the 1987 March On Washington will see for themselves
>>just how inconceivable it is to mix Christianity with homosexuality.
> Whether or not Christianity and homosexuality are compatible is clearly
> debatable, since it IS being debated. In my opnion, it is genuinely
> destuctive to the cause of Christianity to use this sort of ad hominem
> argument to oppose one's adversaries. It only serves to further drive
> people away from Christianity because it projects and confirms the
> frequently held opinion that Christians are unable to think critically
> and intelligently.
I agree entirely. Speaking as an atheist (heterosexual, for what it's
worth), this is one of the least attractive parts of some varieties of
Christianity. Although I'm sure it's possible to argue theologically
that we shouldn't make analogies between discrimination on the basis
of sex and race and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,
morally the case looks unanswerable (for those outside religion): the
three forms _are_ analogous; we shouldn't discriminate on the basis of
sex, race or sexual orientation.
I found the moderator's FAQs on the subject instructive, and recommend
everyone to read them.
There seem to be three different levels of acceptance:
1) Regard homosexual orientation as a sin (or evil, whatever)
2) Regard homosexual behaviour as a sin, but accept orientation
(though presumably orientation is unfortunate) and dislike people who
indulge
3) As 2, but "love the sinner"
4) Accept homosexuality altogether.
My experience is that 3 is the most common attitude (I imagine 1 and 2
are limited to a few fundamentalist sects).
I suppose I can go along with 3, except that I have this feeling that
a 14--15 year old living in a community with this attitude, on
discovering that they were more attracted to members of the same sex,
would not feel the love of the community, but would rather feel the
pressure not to exhibit their feelings. I'm not saying that the
community (in particular the parents) would not love the child, but I
suspect the child would not feel loved.
--
Bruce CMSR, University of Liverpool
| 15soc.religion.christian |
A modest request
I am finding the volume of stuff on rec.sport.baseball
overwhelming -- ca. 200 posts/day. An effect of this is
that a backlog builds up, and many posts get dumped from
my system. I could probably fix that--but don't have the
time to read them all in any event. My guess is that mine
is a common problem. I have some ideas that would help:
1. Each person generally post no more than one article/day.
2. Limit the extent to which previous posts are reproduced
in posts.
3. Don't post mindless `woofs,' or `anti-woofs,' e.g. "The
Jays are best!" or "The Jays suck."
4. Don't respond to mindless posts, e.g. "Jack Morris is
a better pitcher than Frank Viola because he's won a
World Series." I know that you can use the `n' key to
get by these posts, but they bump interesting posts from
my disk.
5. use the goddamn shift key etc it makes your posts easier
to read
--
Name: Jim Rising
Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
UUCP: uunet!attcan!utzoo!rising
BITNET: rising@zoo.utoronto.ca
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Image format conversion tool
Hello,
Does anyone know of an image format conversion tool that will convert a
raw (8 bit grey scale) image to Gif or Tif format. It would be great if the tool
ran on a PC, was a Windows application, and supported other formats, but I'll be
happy with anything that works.
Attn: Code L10MP Robert LaFollette
Dahlgren Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Dahlgren, VA 22448-5000
(703)663-4749 autovon 249-4749
FAX (703)663-4749
Email rlafoll@duchamp.nswc.navy.mil
rlafoll@128.38.158.43
| 1comp.graphics |
Re: SATANIC TOUNGES
In article <May.9.05.40.36.1993.27495@athos.rutgers.edu> koberg@spot.Colorado.EDU (Allen Koberg) writes:
>
>Hmmm...in the old testament story about the tower of Babel, we see how
>God PUNISHED by giving us different language. Can we assume then that
>if angels have their own language at all, that they have the SAME one
>amongst other angels? After all, THEY were not punished in any manner.
>
Maybe before Babel,everyone including angels spoke the same language,so at
Babel, God punished us by giving us languages different from the original one.
So if that's the case,then angels now would be speaking in the tongue mankind
spoke before Babel.
Jonah
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Re: Sega Genesis for sale w/Sonic 1/2
aboyko@dixie.com (Andrew boyko) writes:
>4 month old Sega Genesis, barely used, one controller, in original
>box, with Sonics 1 and 2. $130 gets the whole bundle shipped to you.
>Turns out they're not as addictive when they're yours. Anyway, mail me if
>you're interested in this marvel of modern technology.
Well, I've been informed that the price on the whole thing I'm selling is now
less than the price I'm selling it for. That will teach me to wait that long
before getting rid of electronic equipment. Nevermind, everyone, I'm keeping
the thing.
---
Andrew Boyko aboyko@dixie.com
| 6misc.forsale |
Re: bob vesterman's plan to generate fan interest
In article <1254@rd1.interlan.com> tonyf@rm1.interlan.com (Tony Fernandez) writes:
>The Marlins tried something like this and was a complete failure. On
>Opening Day, instead of having a 7th-inning stretch with the singing of
>Take Me Out to the Ballgame, they had some young women on the field lead
>the crowd into doing aerobics while the PA was playing Gloria Estefan's
>Get On Your Feet. The fans actually booed and started singing Take Me
>Out... on their own. I actually kind of felt sorry for the girls.
Are you kidding? I'm stuck with the Toronto SkyDome, where their idea
of a 7th inning stretch is that "Blue Jays" song where everyone gets
to yell: "Okay, okay, Blue Jays, Blue Jays, Let's Play Ball!"
Wow.. what genius did it take to compose that one, to outshine the
old classic. And there are women on the field to "lead the crowd".
Then again, this is the same crowd who is more entertained by the
"grounds crew" and the word ground is used loosely, than it is by
the outstanding plays by the opponents' fielders.
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Re: Final Solution in Palestine ?
In article <HM.93Apr24133027@angell.cs.brown.edu>, hm@cs.brown.edu (Harry Mamaysky) writes:
|> In article <1483500354@igc.apc.org> Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes:
|>
|> Final Solution for the Gaza ghetto ?
|> ------------------------------------
|>
|> While Israeli Jews fete the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto, they
|> repress by violent means the uprising of the Gaza ghetto and
|> attempt to starve the Gazans.
|>
|> [...]
|>
|> The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were fighting to keep themselves and
|> their families from being sent to Nazi gas chambers. Groups like Hamas
|> and the Islamic Jihad fight with the expressed purpose of driving all
|> Jews into the sea. Perhaps, we should persuade Jewish people to help
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> these wnderful "freedom fighters" attain this ultimate goal.
|>
|> Maybe the "freedom fighters" will choose to spare the co-operative Jews.
|> Is that what you are counting on, Elias - the pity of murderers.
|>
|> You say your mother was Jewish. How ashamed she must be of her son. I
|> am sorry, Mrs. Davidsson.
|>
|> Harry.
O.K., its my turn:
DRIVING THE JEWS INTO THE SEA ?!
I am sick and tired of this 'DRIVING THE JEWS INTO THE SEA' sentance attributed
to Islamic movements and the PLO; it simply can't be proven as part of their
plan !
(Pro Israeli activists repeat it like parrots without checking its authenticity
since it was coined by Bnai Brith)
What Hamas and Islamic Jihad believe in, as far as I can get from the Arab media,
is an Islamic state that protects the rights of all its inhabitants under Koranic
Law. This would be a reversal of the 1948 situation in which the Jews in
Palestine took control of the land and its (mostly Muslim) inhabitants.
However, whoever committed crimes against humanity (torture, blowing up their
homes, murders,...) must be treated and tried as a war criminal. The political
thought of these movements shows that a freedom of choice will be given to the
Jews in living under the new law or leaving to the destintion of their choice.
As for the PLO, I am at a loss to explain what is going inside Arafat's mind.
Although their political thinking seems far fetched with Israel acting as a true
super-power in the region, the Islamic movements are using the same weapon the
Jews used to establish their state : Religion.
Ahmed.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Re: Paint jobs in the UK
Lisa Rowlands, on the Wed, 21 Apr 1993 10:13:31 +0000 wibbled:
: Can anyone recommend a good place for reasonably priced bike paint jobs, preferably but not essentially in the London area.
: Thanks
: Lisa Rowlands
: --
: Alex Technologies Ltd CP House
: 97-107 Uxbridge Road
: Tel: +44 (0)81 566 2307 Ealing
: Fax: +44 (0)81 566 2308 LONDON
: email: lisa@alex.com W5 5LT
Lisa,
Try Pip on 081 590 8045. She does wonderful things with paint...
I've seen her work and it's good.
Best of luck.
--
Nick (the well connected Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford Boring paint job
M'Lud.
Nick Pettefar, Contractor@Large. /~~~\ "Teneo tuus intervallum"
Cuurrently incarcerated at BNR, {-O^O-} npet@bnr.ca '86 BMW K100RS "Kay"
Maidenhead, The United Kingdom. \ o / Pres. PBWASOH(UK), BS 0002
(-
| 8rec.motorcycles |
File Sharing Magneto Opticals?
Hi!
My co-worker has just attached a magneto-optical drive to his mac.
Works Great for him. However, he tried to turn on file sharing, but it
wouldn't work. Had some message about "Not all volumes are shareable"
???
So - has anyone had success in sharing MOs? If so, please tell me how!
Jann
vanover@atc.boeing.com
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Re: leaking memory resources in 3.1
In article <C6Aw83.H7v@csn.org> richardf@teal.csn.org (IrieMon) writes:
>dmittleman@bpavms.bpa.arizona.edu (Daniel Mittleman) writes:
>: I am running Win 3.1 with NDW 2.2 on a 486sx with 8 meg of memory and a
>: 6 meg perm swap file and am getting exceedingly frustrated that my
>: applications are not giving back system resources when I close them.
>:
>I've noticed this also. The way it was explained to me is that Windows
>does not clear the upper memory blocks after a program is done. Anyone
>out there know if this is why?
>
There was a post about something similar a while back. It seems windows
does *not* take it upon itself to free up any sys. resources an
applllication is using when that application is done. That job is left
entirely to the application. that is, the application has to clean up
after itself when it quits.
Anyone out there know if there is a utility for windows which will
clean up sys. resources when an application quits (mother.zip???).
peace,
Mickey
--
pe-|| || MICHAEL PANAYIOTAKIS: louray@seas.gwu.edu
ace|| || ...!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!louray
|||| \/| *how do make a ms-windows .grp file reflect a HD directory??*
\\\\ | "well I ain't always right, but I've never been wrong.."(gd)
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Re: Clipper considered harmful
tedwards@eng.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards) writes:
>>> If these personal attacks are what stopped Prof. Denning from
>>> replying on issues of substance, they have cause real harm
>>> to the serious debate here.
>> They are and they have.
> If Prof. Denning is afraid of posting here due to personal attacks,
> perhaps she should use an anonymous posting service. That is why
> they are there, to allow heated debate to occur without the personal
> attacks.
Er, people are going to make personal attacks on Prof. Denning whether she
posts here or not. That much should be obvious from looking at the traffic
over the last few weeks. Therefore I conclude that the existence of personal
attacks is irrelevant to any decision concerning whether to post.
I suspect that Prof. Denning is actually using the attacks as an excuse for
not posting, and that the real reason for the silence is that Clipper is not
the sort of proposal any self-respecting cryptographer can support via
reasoned argument.
mathew
--
"If you want to have constructive discussions here, and more importantly, be
taken seriously by your peers, you may wish to consider shaping up."
-- Advice I was offered by David Sternlight
| 11sci.crypt |
Re: Knowing God's Will
Hi,
I don't know much about Bible. Could you tell me the relations of
Christians with non-Christians in Bible? How should be The relations of
christian nations with each other and the relations of Christian nations
with other nations who are not Christians?
The other question is about the concept of religion in Bible. Does the
religion of God include and necessitate any law to be extracted from
Bible or is the religion only a belief and nothing to do with the
government sides? If for example, any government or a nation is one of
the wrongdoings according to Bible, how should they be treated?
Is there any statement in Bible saying that Bible is a guide for every
aspects of life?
Thank you.
Beytullah
| 15soc.religion.christian |
A Remarkable Admission
Jon Livesey writes:
>I'm certainly not going to attempt to distinguish between different
>flavours of Christian, all loudly claiming to be the One True Christian.
Well, it's obvious that you *don't* attempt, otherwise you would be aware
that they *don't* all "loudly [claim] to be the One True Christian".
I've tried to avoid using the phrase "is/is not christian" because of these
ownership issues; instead, I've tried the phrase "Nicene christianity" in an
attempt to identify the vast majority of "christianity" which has roughly
similar viewpoints on the core theological issues. The JWs do not fall
within this group and in fact espouse a position known as Arianism, which is
rejected by all the nicene churches and virtually everyone else as well.
--
C. Wingate + "The peace of God, it is no peace,
+ but strife closed in the sod.
mangoe@cs.umd.edu + Yet, brothers, pray for but one thing:
tove!mangoe + the marv'lous peace of God."
| 0alt.atheism |
Re: Israel: An Apartheid state.
In article <1smbma$8mr@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo Pinkas) writes:
>3) If I decided to go back to the land from which my relatives had been
>expelled 2000 years ago, but first I convert to any other religion, can I
>apply to the law of Return as a member of the Jewish Nation or should I
>apply as someone whose mother is Jewish?
I'm not sure about this but I hope the answer is that you can't apply under
the law of return. By conversion, you've elected not to be a part of the
Jewish nation.
>5) What has change in me between the day before and the day after I converted
>to loose my being part of the Jewish Nation?
At the moment you converted, you officially anounced to the world that *you* do not
consider yourself to be part of the Jewish Nation. So, why should the Jewish Nation
consider you to be a member?
>Suppose my father is Arab. Suppose he was born in Palestine, in some place
>which now is part of Israel. Suppose that his father, and his grandfather as
>well as 20 or 30 generations before him were born in that place.
>Now suppose there is a war of independence and my father, scared by all the
>fighting going on, tries to take his family to a place more secure, among
>people he knows, who speak a language he understands, who worship the same
>god. Now, suppose that that place is some other Arab country.
>And, now suppose that the war is over and that there is a new country created
>where my father used to live, and that that country is called Israel.
>And, that in that country, Jews from all over the world are received. And
>that people whose family left thet country 200 generation ago are recieved and
>granted full-citizenship.
>Should I, if I decided to go back to my father's land, where he was born as
>20 or 30 generations of my family were born, have the right to go back and
>ask to be recognized in the same way those who are returning after 2000
>years?
No. As a result of wars brought by the Arabs against the Jews in an attempt to
annihilate Israel, the Arabs have lost their claim to land there. Attacking Israel
is/was illegal and they now have to pay the price. Do I feel sorry for the
Palestinians? Yes I do. But I blame the Arab nations for their problems, not
Israel.
-Adam Schwartz
adams@robotics.berkeley.edu
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Re: Gun Control (was Re: We're Mad as Hell at the TV News)
In article <C4tM1H.ECF@magpie.linknet.com> manes@magpie.linknet.com (Steve Manes) writes:
>: You are betraying your lack of understanding about RATE versus TOTAL
>: NUMBER. Rates are expressed, often, as #/100,000 population.
>: Therefore, if a place had 10 deaths and a population of 100,000, the
>: rate would be 10/100,000. A place that had 50 deaths and a population
>: of 1,000,000 would hav a rate of 5/100,000. The former has a higher
>: rate, the latter a higher total. You are less likely to die in the
>: latter. Simple enuff?
>For chrissakes, take out your calculator and work out the numbers.
>Here... I've preformatted them for you to make it easier:
> handgun homicides/population
> ----------------------------
> Switzerland : 24 / 6,350,000
> UK : 8 / 55,670,000
>... and then tell me again how Switzerland is safer with a more
>liberal handgun law than the UK is without...by RATE or TOTAL NUMBER.
>Your choice.
Because there are about 40 homicides total (i.e. using guns, knives,
tire-irons, baseball bats, bare hands, etc...) in Switzerland
each year and 850 homicides, total, in England. That's three
times worse per capita in England than in Switzerland. Since
dead is dead, it really doesn't matter that 60% of the Switz
murders involved a gun or that only 0.9% of the English murderers
do.
Frank Crary
CU Boulder
| 16talk.politics.guns |
Re: What do Nuclear Site's Cooling Towers do?
-s87271077-s.walker-man-50- (swalker@uts.EDU.AU) wrote:
:
:
: I really don't know where to post this question so I figured that
: this board would be most appropriate.
: I was wondering about those massive concrete cylinders that
: are ever present at nuclear poer sites. They look like cylinders
: that have been pinched in the middle. Does anybody know what the
: actual purpose of those things are?. I hear that they're called
: 'Cooling Towers' but what the heck do they cool?
: I hope someone can help
:-----------------------
During the nuclear fission reaction the uranium fuel can get hot enough
to melt. When this happens the liquid uranium is pumped to the cooling
tower where it is sprayed into the air. Contact with the cool outside air
will condense the mist and it will fall back to the cooling tower floor.
There it is collected by a cleaning crew using shop vacs and is then
reformed into pellets for reactor use the next day.
Cooling towers are a lot taller than they really need to be. Power companies
are forced to make them that tall by some enviromental law that requires the
raw uranium emisions to be held to under 1%. This law is now under attack
by lawyers arguing that the 1% should be measured at the edge of the property
rather than the edge of the cooling tower. Eliminating this law will save
power companies thousands of dollars in concrete costs for new nukes.
John Eaton
!hp-vcd!johne
| 12sci.electronics |
Re: NO JOKE: ROCKIES HAVE ATTENDANCE RECORD!!!!
Hell, the Orioles' Opening Day game could easily be the largest in history
if we had a stadium with 80,000 seats. But unfortunely the Yards (a
definitely excellent ballpark) only holds like 45,000 with 275 SRO spots.
Ticket sales for the entire year is moving fast. Bleacher seats are almost
gone for every game this year. It's a extremely likelyhood that the O's
could sell out every game this year (especially if we lead the division for
most of the year like '89).
On another front, the sale of the Orioles to anyone is likely to be
forced upon Eli Jacobs who is major debt apparently. Maybe we can get an
owner willing to spend on a proven rightfielder free agent in the winter.
Fernando has made the O's as the fifth starter. The O's pitching
staff looks pretty good. Sutcliffe, Mussina, McDonald, Rhodes, and Fernando.
Baltimore is my pick for the victors in a very competitive AL East.
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25TH MAY: EGYPT'S AMBASSADOR LECTURING AT WARSAW UNIV.
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University of Warsaw, Warsaw, invites you to the lecture
*PRESENT-DAY SOCIOPOLITICAL ISSUES OF THE MIDDLE EAST*
which will be delivered by Dr Mohamed SOLIMAN,
Egypt's Ambassador to Poland.
Time & place: 4 p.m., Tuesday, 25th May, '93, (Erev Shavuot;
Dept. of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Oriental Institute
(Polish: Orientalistyka), University of Warsaw,
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zaprasza na wykl/ad pt.
*AKTUALNE ZAGADNIENIA SPOL/ECZNO-POLITYCZNE BLISKIEGO WSCHODU*,
kto'ry wygl/osi Dr Mohamed SOLIMAN, Ambasador Egiptu w Polsce.
Czas i miejsce: 16:00, wtorek, 25 maja, '93, (Erev Shavuot;
Zakl/ad Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Instytut Orientalistyczny,
Uniwersytet Warszawski, 26/28 Krakowskie Przedmies'cie,
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| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Delayed Expose Events
I posted about this a while ago but without code excerpts noone was
able to help me.
The problem is that main_win.win is doing fine, but when I create
detail_win.win, it does not receive it's initial expose events until
main_win.win receives an event. Here are the relevent calls:
main_win.win = XCreateSimpleWindow (mydisplay, DefaultRootWindow(mydisplay),
myhint.x, myhint.y, myhint.width, myhint.height,
main_win.line_thick, fg, bg);
XSetStandardProperties(mydisplay, main_win.win, main_win.text,
main_win.text, None, argv, argc, &myhint);
main_win.gc = XCreateGC (mydisplay, main_win.win, 0, 0);
XMapRaised (mydisplay, detail_win.win);
XMapSubwindows (mydisplay, main_win.win);
The event mask for main_win is:
PPosition | PSize | StructureNotifyMask | ExposureMask| KeyPressMask |
EnterWindowMask | LeaveWindowMask;
The flags are
PPosition | PSize
I then create detail_win.win with the following calls (hints has new values):
detail_win.win = XCreateSimpleWindow (mydisplay, DefaultRootWindow(mydisplay),
myhint.x, myhint.y, myhint.width, myhint.height,
detail_win.line_thick, fg, bg);
XSetStandardProperties(mydisplay, main_win.win, detail_win.text,
detail_win.text, None, argv, argc, &myhint);
detail_win.gc = XCreateGC (mydisplay, detail_win.win, 0, 0);
XMapRaised (mydisplay, detail_win.win);
Event Mask and flags are identical to main_win's flags and event mask.
If anybody has any idea why the initial expose events of detail_win.win
are not received until main_win.win receives an event I'd love to hear
from them. Other that that everything works great so there must be some
detail I'm overseeing.
Thanks for any tips
---> Robert
rgasch@nl.oracle.com
PS: The same message was accidentally appended to the "Expose Events"
thread. Sorry for any confusion caused.
| 5comp.windows.x |
Re: Dmm Advice Needed
In article <734953838.AA00510@insane.apana.org.au> peter.m@insane.apana.org.au (Peter Tryndoch) writes:
>
>If you are going to use one where it counts (eg:aviation, space scuttle,
>etc) then I suggest you go and buy a Fluke (never seen a Beckman), however
>for every other use you can buy a cheapie.
My Beckman died a few days ago, thanks do about a 4 or 5 foot drop onto a
lab table. !@#!@$#!@$@#$ Probably not indicative of anything, but I've
already filled out the requisition for a Fluke 87. :-)
Oh yeah, and sometimes our measurements here do count. Not often, but often
enough that I want at least _one_ good meter!
---Joel Kolstad
| 12sci.electronics |
Re: Secret algorithm [Re: Clipper Chip and crypto key-escrow]
In article <strnlghtC5puCL.6Kp@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>In article <Apr18.204843.50316@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
>holland@CS.ColoState.EDU (douglas craig holland) writes:
>
>
>> Let me ask you this. Would you trust Richard Nixon with your
>>crypto keys? I wouldn't.
>
>I take it you mean President Nixon, not private citizen Nixon. Sure.
>Nothing I'm doing would be of the slightest interest to President Nixon .
>
Are you sure you aren't being watched? Let me remind you that
Watergate was only the tip of the iceberg. Nixon extensively used the NSA
to watch people because he didn't like them. According to _Decrypting the
Puzzle Palace_:
Presumably, the NSA is restricted from conducting American surveillance
by both the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978(FISA) and a
series of presidential directives, beginning with one issued by
President Ford following Richard Nixon's bold misuse of the NSA, in
which he explicitly directed the NSA to conduct widespread domestic
surveillance of political dissidents and drug users.
Of course, just because there are laws saying the gov't is not
supposed to conduct illegal surveillance doesn't mean those laws can't be
broken when they are in the way.
Doug Holland
| 11sci.crypt |
Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?
In <1993Apr20.101044.2291@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
>Depends. If you assume the existance of a working SSTO like DC, on billion
>$$ would be enough to put about a quarter million pounds of stuff on the
>moon. If some of that mass went to send equipment to make LOX for the
>transfer vehicle, you could send a lot more. Either way, its a lot
>more than needed.
>This prize isn't big enough to warrent developing a SSTO, but it is
>enough to do it if the vehicle exists.
But Allen, if you can assume the existence of an SSTO there is no need
to have the contest in the first place. I would think that what we
want to get out of the contest is the development of some of these
'cheaper' ways of doing things; if they already exist, why flush $1G
just to get someone to go to the Moon for a year?
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in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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| 14sci.space |
Encyclopedia/Directory of Widgets?
Is there such a document either in the Bookstores or possible
on an ftp site somewhere? Nothing really fancy, just something
that gives a listing of the available widgets, and the resources
that are pertinant to them, and what flavors of Motif they
occur in.
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Mac Consultant | The difference between what we are
Macintosh and DSP Technology | and what we want to be.
| 5comp.windows.x |
Interview guests
Have you ever noticed that after a hockey player has been interviewed
in between periods on a tv game. That they usually get a goal or
an assist. can you explain this or is it that they usually talk
to stars more than regular players which explains the hight
percentage of results after.
Just wondering how everybody else thinks about this or if they dont
care about this trivial nonsense.
ttyl Tom
--
Tom Moffat
Victoria B.C.
Canada
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Re: Limiting Govt (was Re: Employment (was Re: Why not concentrate...)
In article <18APR199320091677@venus.tamu.edu> gmw0622@venus.tamu.edu (Mr. Grinch) writes:
>In article <1993Apr18.174237.11229@isc-br.isc-br.com>, steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks) writes...
>>
>
>Okay, let me try to explain this.
>
>When one votes for such a creature as a Senator or, worse yet, a President,
>one votes not for specific policies but for a general package which must cover
>all issues for 4 or 6 years. As such, one's influence is highly diluted.
>I might add that, even if one were free to vote on individual regulations,
>the vast amount of time required for considering a particular regulation,
>combined with the very small chance of one's vote making a difference, would
>make it unreasonable to expect the voter to make an intelligent decision
>with respect to specific regulations.
I'm afraid that I've lost the thread here. I didn't suggest that all
government regulations be subject to referenda. So I don't follow the
comments above.
>>
>>
>:Sorry, but it strikes me that it is the only "feasible" approach. What is
>:not feasible is a wholesale attack on all government regulation and
>:licensing that treats cutting hair and practicing medicine as equivalent
>:tasks.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by "feasible" in this case. Do you mean that
>[] are impossible in priciple, or merely that it would be undesirable in
>fact?
I mean that an ideology that treats all government regulation as equally
undesirable and seeks to abolish all regulations is unlikely to draw
support among more than a miniscule portion of the electorate.
Furthermore, I am suggesting that such a plan is not feasible in an
industrial society because the weight of litigation and/or misery it
would produce would effectively crush productive effort.
>
>
>:Actually, the only areas of public spending above that strike me as
>:generating substantial support among libertarians are police and defense.
>:(It is an interesting aside that as committed as libertarians claim to
>:be to a principle of non-coercion, the only areas of public spending
>:that they frequently support involve hiring people with guns....hmmm...)
>
>You say this as if it were surprising, yet in fact a necessary consequence
>of libertarian philosophy. All non-coersive functions should be dealt
>with privately, therefore it follows that the only functions remaining to
>the state are the coersive ones.
No, I'm not surprised. I just think it's interesting that on one hand
libertarians assume a limited government can be decreed, yet on the other
posit an entire government made up of people who carry guns. (I realize
that many libertarians assume that such a government will be
counterbalanced by a fully armed citizenry, but it is worth noting that
widespread civilian ownership of guns does not necessarily prevent the
establishment of totalitarian government, e.g. Iraq.)
>
>>
>:Perhaps you have. May I suggest that you consider that revolutionaries
>:frequently generate support by acting as protectors of "geezers,"
>:mothers and children. Governments that ignore such people on the grounds
>:that "we don't have much to fear" from them do so at their own peril.
>
>Much more likely it's drunken teenagers. The groups in questionare more
>likely to be worse off during and after a revolution than before.
>In the unlikely
>event that you missed my earlier sarcasm, let me say this directly:
>The idea that such programs as Social Security or AFDC should be considered
>"defense" (an idea which has been advanced in ths and other newsgroups) is
>so absurd a lie as to be unworthy of consideration. Do you seriously
>dispute this?
Yup, sure do. But since I also support the constitutional requirement
that the government provide for the general welfare (Article I section 8),
I'm willing to justify such programs on that basis.
>
>
> I don't want to seem patronizing, but you still seem to be laboring
>under the delusion that under a socialized economic system it is reasonably
>intelligent and honest persons (like yourself) who make the decisions.
>I feel any third party added to a transaction is every bit as likely to be
>ignorant or corrupt as the buyer or seller. I don't expect you to agree
>with me, but you explain why you feel I'm wrong?
Well, in the first place, I don't support a "socialized economic system."
I think within limits that capitalism is a fine idea. But it is not
the case that "any third party...is...as likely to be ignorant or corrupt
as the buyer or seller." There are multitudes of examples where such a
statement is demonstrably false. Regulation of stock market transactions
that provide a reasonable basis for buyers to avoid fraud is only one
example.
jsh
>Mr. Grinch
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| 18talk.politics.misc |
Re: Are Americans sexually repressed?
In article <15445@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT):
>> Before: "David Koresh is a cheap thug who interprets
>> the Bible through the barrel of a gun..." --ATF spokesman
>> After: "[The ATF] is a cheap thug who interprets
>> [the Constitution] through the barrel of a gun..." --Me
> Good signature!
Yeah, but it needs a few fixups. (I happen to be a stickler for
detail.)
Before: "David Koresh is a cheap thug who interprets
the Bible through the barrel of a gun..." --BATF spokesman
After: "The BATF are a bunch of cheap thugs who interpret
the Constitution through the barrel of a gun..." --JSK
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
Re: Yakult Swallows (Japanese pro baseball team)
Tuesday's game of Beloved Yakult Swallows
(At Jingu, 36,000)
Hanshin Tigers 001 000 100 |2
Beloved Yakult 050 020 00x |7
W - Ito (1-0). L - Nakagomi (0-1). HR - Yakult, Arai 1st.
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Hiroshima Carp 7 1 0 .875 --
Chunichi Dragons 6 3 0 .667 1.5
Hanshin Tigers 5 4 0 .667 2.5
Hated Giants 4 4 0 .500 3.0
Beloved Swallows 3 6 0 .333 4.5
Yokohama BayStars 1 8 0 .111 6.5
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Re: Help adding a SCSI Drive (Can it coexist with an IDE?) -
In article <1993Apr22.162835.4286@oracle.us.oracle.com>
ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) writes:
> > I dont think you can mix the two types of drive, unless you have one of
> the
> > SCSI/IDE cards that is available. You will have to turn your IDE off.
> >
>
> Is this true??? I was under the impression that people on the net had both
> SCSI and IDE working together.
I have had a SCSI and IDE drive working together for some years now.
SCSI is supposedly pretty transparent to other types of drives
(ESDI,RLL,IDE,etc) - but oftentimes you need to get the correct drivers
to get it to work with odd environments.
For information purposes, I had:
ST-01 Card + ST296N drive and a MAXTOR 212a drive with generic IDE
controller running together. I have also had the same SCSI setup work
in combination with a RLL drive, the ST251-1 drive.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Re: Hell_2: Black Sabbath
: I may be wrong, but wasn't Jeff Fenholt part of Black Sabbath? He's a
: MAJOR brother in Christ now. He totally changed his life around, and
: he and his wife go on tours singing, witnessing, and spreading the
: gospel for Christ. I may be wrong about Black Sabbath, but I know he
: was in a similar band if it wasn't that particular group...
Yes, but Jeff also speaks out against listening to bands like Black
Sabbath. He says they're into all sorts of satanic stuff. I don't know.
Mark (dotsonm@dmapub.dma.org)
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Re: Asante Ethernet Adapter for LCIII Math Chip
In article <C5syK2.Js2@ie.utoronto.ca> andy@ie.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun) writes:
Hi,
I have been told by a local sales that Asante has come out with this
LCIII PDS Ethernet adapter with an optional 68882 socket on the board.
My question is will the FPU performance degrade will I put the 68882
on the PDS card socket instead of on the motherboard itself? Intuitively,
the math co-processor should always be placed close to the CPU, but
I am not sure how good Apple's so-called processor-direct slot is when
it comes to throughout. Does anyone know the answer to this or have
any experience with the Asante LCIII Ethernet adapter? Thanks in advance.
From what I've heard the PDS slot clock is only 16MHz, to be
compatible with the old LC style boards, while the FPU socket close to
the CPU is clocked at 25MHz.
I guess a board designed for the LCIII can get a 25MHz clock from the
extended PDS socket...
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Re: university violating separation of church/state?
In article <199304041750.AA17104@kepler.unh.edu> dmn@kepler.unh.edu (...until kings become philosophers or philosophers become kings) writes:
>
>
>
> Recently, RAs have been ordered (and none have resisted or cared about
>it apparently) to post a religious flyer entitled _The Soul Scroll: Thoughts
>on religion, spirituality, and matters of the soul_ on the inside of bathroom
>stall doors. (at my school, the University of New Hampshire) It is some sort
>of newsletter assembled by a Hall Director somewhere on campus.
[most of post deleted]
>
> Please respond as soon as possible. I'd like these religious postings to
>stop, NOW!
>
>
>Thanks,
>
> Dana
>
>
>
There is an easy way out....
Post the flyers on the stall doors, but add at the bottom, in nice large
capitals,
EMERGENCY TOILET PAPER
:)
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Email: r.mellish@ic.ac.uk Net: rm03@sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk IRC: HobNob
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| 0alt.atheism |
Re: Prayer in Jesus' Name
In article <Apr.9.01.09.22.1993.16580@athos.rutgers.edu> munns@cae.wisc.edu (Scott Munns) writes:
>Eventually, we got around to how
>we should pray in Jesus' name. Then, an excellent question came up, one
>that I don't have a real answer to. The question was, "If we need to pray
>in Jesus' name, what about the people before Jesus? They prayed to God
>and he listened then, in spite of their sins. Why can't it be the same
>way now?"
"And in that day you will ask Me no question. Truly, truly, I say to
you, if you shall ask the Father for anything, He will give it to you
in my name. Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask, and
you will receive, that your joy may be made full."
-John 16:23-24
I don't believe that we necessarily have to say " . . . In Christ's name.
Amen," for our prayers to be heard, but it glorifies the Son, when we
acknowledge that our prayer is made possible by Him. I believe that just as
those who were saved in the OT, could only be saved because Jesus would one day
reconcile God to man, He is the only reason their prayers would be heard by
God.
For all of us have become like one who is unclean,
And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
-Isaiah 64:6, NAS
Our prayers like the rest of our deeds are too unholy to go directly to the
Father because they are tainted by our sin. Only by washing these prayers with
Christ's blood are they worthy to be lifted to to the Father.
"First, I thank my God through Christ Jesus . . ."
-Romans 1:8, NAS
Some scholars believe that this is Paul recognizing that even his thanks are
too unholy for the Father.
Basically, prayer is a gift of grace, I believe that only through Jesus
do our prayers have any power; thus, praying in His name glorifies and praises
Jesus for this beautiful and powerful gift He has given us.
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Re: Radio stations
In messge 51890 on Mon Apr 19 15:46:40 1993, greanias@texas.mitre.org (Steve Greanias) wrote:
> I do not have cable and on the nights the Caps don't
>play, I would like to tune in other games. Does anyone have a
>list of the radio stations which broadcast the games for the NHL
>teams?
Here are the ones I can remember offhand:
KDKA 1020 AM Pittsburgh Penguins
WABC 770 AM New Jersey Devils
WBBM 780 AM Chicago Blackhawks
WJM (?) 720 AM Detroit Redwings
KMOX 1120 AM St. Louis Blues
Are the Flyers on 1210?
That's all I can think of.
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| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Re: "Cruel" (was Re: <Political Atheists?)
In article <1993Apr17.041535.7472@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, dgraham@bmers30.bnr.ca (Douglas Graham) writes:
|> In article <1qnedm$a91@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
|> >In article <1ql8mdINN674@gap.caltech.edu>, keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
|> >|> They spent quite a bit of time on the wording of the Constitution.
|> >
|> >I realise that this is widely held belief in America, but in fact
|> >the clause on cruel and unusual punishments, like a lot of the
|> >rest, was lifted from the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
|>
|> According to Jerry Mander's _In the Absence of the Sacred_ (good
|> book, BTW), the Great Binding Law of the Iroquois Confederacy
|> also played a significant role as a model for the U.S. Constitution.
|> Furthermore, apparently Marx and Engels were strongly influenced
|> by a study of Iroquois society, using it as the prime example of
|> a successful, classless, egalitarian, noncoercive society. Mander
|> goes on to say that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. would do well
|> to study the original document, figure out where each went wrong,
|> and try to get it right next time.
That's fascinating. I heard that the Chinese, rather than
the Italians, invented pasta.
jon.
| 0alt.atheism |
Re: Amusing atheists and agnostics
timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu ("Half" Bake Timmons) writes: >
Maddi: >>
>>Whirr click whirr...Frank O'Dwyer might also be contained
>>in that shell...pop stack to determine...whirr...click..whirr
>
>>"Killfile" Keith Allen Schneider = Frank "Closet Theist" O'Dwyer = ...
>= Maddi "The Mad Sound-O-Geek" Hausmann
No, no, no! I've already been named by "Killfile" Keith.
My nickname is Maddi "Never a Useful Post" Hausmann, and
don't you DARE forget it, "Half".
>-- "...there's nothing higher, stronger, more wholesome and more useful in life
>than some good memory..." -- Alyosha in Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
You really should quote Ivan Karamazov instead(on a.a), as he was
the atheist.
--
Maddi Hausmann madhaus@netcom.com
Centigram Communications Corp San Jose California 408/428-3553
Kids, please don't try this at home. Remember, I post professionally.
| 0alt.atheism |
Re: Dumbest automotive concepts of all time
Not exactly dumb, but who remebers the tachometer on the 69 or 70 Firebird
bulging out of the _hood_ right in front of the driver. Neat place but I love
to know what the elemnts did to its internals after a few years. Also, does
the speedomete pointer on many US cars have to be 3 feet long?.
Bijan
| 7rec.autos |
Re: Rawlins debunks creationism
king@ctron.com (John E. King) writes:
>"The modern theory of evolution is so inadequate that it deserves to be
>treated as a matter of faith." -- Francis Hitching
The Modern Theory of Creationism: "He did it!" - Joe Creationist
I like it. Short. To the point. Made for Hollywood. This makes a hell
of a lot more sense than evolution! 8^)
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||| Virginia Tech \ / / / marshall@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |||
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| 0alt.atheism |
How to program about WM_PROTOCOLS & WM_DELETE_WINDOW in OLIT...
HI, all
I study about WM_DELETE_WINDOW atom in Open Look. I study the book -->
"Unix Desktop guide to OPEN LOOK", I run the example of chapter 8, but It
is not the result described as book's figure 8.1. Dose anyone read the book?
Or run the example (winprop.c)? What is the problem?
I am curious about WM_DELETE_WINDOW programming... Anyone help me?
Thanks in advance for any help!!!
IOP
| 5comp.windows.x |
Re: Centris 610 Video Problem - I'm having it also!
From: push@media.mit.edu (Pushpinder Singh)
Subject: re: Centris 610 Video Problem - I'm having it also!
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 03:17:45 GMT
> When the computer is set for 256 colors and certain operations are done,
> particularly vertical scrolling through a window, horizontal white lines
> appear on the monitor (which generally but not always spare open
> windows). These lines accummulate as the operation is continued. If a
> window is moved over the involved area of the screen and then moved away
> the line disappear from that area of the screen. This problem is not
> observed if the monitor is configured for 16 colors or a 14 inch Apple
> monitor with 256 colors is used.
>
> I suspect a bad video RAM chip but cannot be certain. The problem has
> been apparent since day 1 but has gotten worse.
I'm having exactly the same problem. Again, it's fine when I switch to 16
colors or a smaller monitor. My configuration is:
Model: Centris 610 with 4 MB/80 HD, 512 VRAM, no cards
Monitor: MAG MX15F with 16" monitor adaptor (for resolution of 832*624)
I just discovered the problem a little while ago after plugging in my
new MAG monitor. It seems to appear either when scrolling through a
window or when using Alpha or Word and I enter <return>.
My guess is bad VRAMs as well. I really hope it isn't a design flaw. Is
anyone at Apple listening?
Pushpinder Singh
push@media.mit.edu
***********************************
Try finding an init called Basic color monitor. This should clear
up some probs with Centris 610's and vga type monitors. I know it
exists, somewhere I have a binhexed copy, but I don't know where and
never got around to installing it. I have this problem on my sony 1604.
-A.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Re: Serbian genocide Work of God?
note: i am not the original poster, i am just answering because i
think this is important.
In article <May.5.02.50.17.1993.28624@athos.rutgers.edu> db7n+@andrew.cmu.edu (D. Andrew Byler) writes:
>revdak@netcom.com writes:
[evil result of human sinfulness, rather than the will of God]
>In a certain sense yes. But in the sense that God allows evil to
>happen, when obviously (He being God) He could have not had it happen,
>does in a certain sense mean that He wills it to happen. God does not
>condone evil, but instead uses it for good, as you say, however, what
>God desires, must be seperated from what actually happens. For example,
>"God desires that all should be saved" (1 Timothy 2.4), however, it is
>quite obvious that nowhere near all are saved. Was God's will thwarted?
> No, because His will cannot be escaped, for even when it appears that
>it is your will doing something, it is actually the will of God which by
>His grace has disposed us to do as He wishes. So we come to the age old
>question, why does evil occur? To which we must answer that God allows
>evil to occur, though He does not condone it, so that His ultimate plan
>may be brought to sucess. Personally, I suggest reading the parts of
>the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas that deal with the knowledge of God
>to get a good grasp on this whole idea.
whoo. i'm going to have to be very careful with my language here. i
think God is voluntarily giving up his omniscience in this world so
that we can decide on our own where we go -- free will. in this sense
God allows evil to occur, and in this sense can be "held responsible"
as my chaplain says. however, his will is, of course, that all be
saved. he's not going to save us "by himself" -- we have to take a
step in his direction before he will save us. read that last sentence
carefully -- i'm not saying we save ourselves. i'm saying we have to
ACCEPT our salvation. i do not believe in predestination -- it would
appear from what you say further down that you do.
[stuff deleted]
>I am not saying that anyone deserves punishment more than someone else.
>I am simply pointing out that God could be using the Serbians and
>Croatians as instruments of His punishment, as he did with the
>Israelites against the Cannanites.
ok -- i have trouble with that, but i guess that's one of those things
that can't be resolved by argument. i accept your interpretation.
[more deleted]
>>The issue is not questioning why God has made the world in the way God
>>so chooses, it is whether _I_ am discerning the world in the way God
>>intends it. The debate is about whether we should not oppose the Serbians
>>in their "ethnic cleansing" because they might be "doing the will of God."
>
>And I said Christians should not be participants in such wars and
>slaughters. That does not mitigate the fact that God allows this evil to
>continue, for He is patient and willing that none should perish, so He
>waits for those whom He has foreknown to turn to Him from their evil.
^^^^^^^^^
this is what indicates to me that you may believe in predestination.
am i correct? i do not believe in predestination -- i believe we all
choose whether or not we will accept God's gift of salvation to us.
again, fundamental difference which can't really be resolved.
[yet more deleted]
>I am not saying that the evil befalling the Bosnians is justified by
>their guilt. I am saying that it is possible that God is punishing them
>in this way. In no way is this evil justified, bu that does not mean
>that God cannot use evil to further His purposes. I am not accusing the
>Bosnians, though they may very well be guilty of great sins, but that is
>up to God to judge. We are all defendants when the time comes for our
>judgement by God. Let us all sincerely hope and pray that we will have
>Jesus Christ as our advocate at that judgement.
yes, it is up to God to judge. but he will only mete out that
punishment at the last judgement. as for now, evil can be done by
human beings that is NOT God's will -- and the best we can do is see
taht some good comes out of it somehow. the thing that most worries
me about the "it is the will of God" argument is that this will
convince people that we should not STOP the rape and killing when i
think that it is most christ-like to do just that. if jesus stopped
the stoning of an adulterous woman (perhaps this is not a good
parallel, but i'm going to go with it anyway), why should we not stop
the murder and violation of people who may (or may not) be more
innocent?
>Andy Byler
vera
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I am your CLOCK! | I bind unto myself today | Vera Noyes
I am your religion! | the strong name of the | noye@midway.uchicago.edu
I own you! | Trinity.... | no disclaimer -- what
- Lard | - St. Patrick's Breastplate | is there to disclaim?
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| 15soc.religion.christian |
Statement to everyone on t.p.g
Ok, here goes. Yes folks, I realize I have stuck my foot in my mouth
quite a few times already so please let me make some clarifications. My
inaccurate information in my posts was due to lack of knowledge. Thanks
to you kind (and some not so kind) people I am learning. Some people
have given me several good points to ponder and I see how I was wrong.
In no way was this inaccurate information supposed to be trying to
further the anti-gun cause. I have said several times before (but
nobody seemed to be listening) that I am pro-gun and anti-gun-control.
As far as the race can of worms that I have opened up I have only one
thing to say - I am in no way prejudiced. Some of the things I have
stated were said to demonstrate that I am not prejudiced and/or a racist
but I have been accused of being too aware of race and prejudiced. I will not
say anymore about that subject because no matter what I say it will be the
wrong thing.
Boy, what a start to being on a new group. Oh well, things have been
worse in my life.
I hope this clears things up but I guess that will remain to be seen.
By for now,
Jason
| 16talk.politics.guns |
SEEKING THERMOCOUPLE AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT
I would like to be able to amplify a voltage signal which is
output from a thermocouple, preferably by a factor of
100 or 1000 ---- so that the resulting voltage can be fed
more easily into a personal-computer-based ADC data
acquisition card.
Might anyone be able to point me to references to such
circuits? I have seen simple amplifier circuits before, but
I am not sure how well they work in practice.
In this case, I'd like something which will amplify sufficiently
"nicely" to be used for thermocouples (say, a few degrees
accuracy or better).
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
| 12sci.electronics |
My sig
My sig has generated more mail than any of my posts.
Robin Hood is a school financing plan wherein property rich school districts
will have a portion of their tax revenue taken from them and given to property
poor districts. The laudable plan is to equalize the per student spending.
IMHO, however, it is a disaster waiting to happen. Taxes will go up in 50% of
the districts and we will lose control of how OUR tax money is spent. It
penalizes districts that have excelled.
And the election is Saturday. Along with city council, school board and the
unfinished Senate term. And after I exercise one right, I'm going to exercise
another!
--
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TI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support | sender unless otherwise stated.
(214)462-3556 (when I'm here) |
(214)492-4656 (when I'm home) |Texans: Vote NO on Robin Hood. We need
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
Astro/Space Frequently Seen Acronyms
Archive-name: space/acronyms
Edition: 8
Acronym List for sci.astro, sci.space, and sci.space.shuttle:
Edition 8, 1992 Dec 7
Last posted: 1992 Aug 27
This list is offered as a reference for translating commonly appearing
acronyms in the space-related newsgroups. If I forgot or botched your
favorite acronym, please let me know! Also, if there's an acronym *not*
on this list that confuses you, drop me a line, and if I can figure
it out, I'll add it to the list.
Note that this is intended to be a reference for *frequently seen*
acronyms, and is most emphatically *not* encyclopedic. If I incorporated
every acronym I ever saw, I'd soon run out of disk space! :-)
The list will be posted at regular intervals, every 30 days. All
comments regarding it are welcome; I'm reachable as bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu.
Note that this just tells what the acronyms stand for -- you're on your
own for figuring out what they *mean*! Note also that the total number of
acronyms in use far exceeds what I can list; special-purpose acronyms that
are essentially always explained as they're introduced are omitted.
Further, some acronyms stand for more than one thing; as of Edition 3 of
the list, these acronyms appear on multiple lines, unless they're simply
different ways of referring to the same thing.
Thanks to everybody who's sent suggestions since the first version of
the list, and especially to Garrett A. Wollman (wollman@griffin.uvm.edu),
who is maintaining an independent list, somewhat more verbose in
character than mine, and to Daniel Fischer (dfi@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de),
who is maintaining a truly HUGE list (535 at last count) of acronyms and
terms, mostly in German (which I read, fortunately).
Special thanks this time to Ken Hollis at NASA, who sent me a copy of NASA
Reference Publication 1059 Revised: _Space Transportation System and
Associated Payloads: Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations_, a truly
mammoth tome -- almost 300 pages of TLAs.
Special Bonus! At the end of this posting, you will find a perl program
written by none other than Larry Wall, whose purpose is to scramble the
acronym list in an entertaining fashion. Thanks, Larry!
A&A: Astronomy and Astrophysics
AAO: Anglo-Australian Observatory
AAS: American Astronomical Society
AAS: American Astronautical Society
AAVSO: American Association of Variable Star Observers
ACE: Advanced Composition Explorer
ACRV: Assured Crew Return Vehicle (or) Astronaut Crew Rescue Vehicle
ADFRF: Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (was DFRF) (NASA)
AGN: Active Galactic Nucleus
AGU: American Geophysical Union
AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIPS: Astronomical Image Processing System
AJ: Astronomical Journal
ALEXIS: Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
ALPO: Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
ALS: Advanced Launch System
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
AOA: Abort Once Around (Shuttle abort plan)
AOCS: Attitude and Orbit Control System
Ap.J: Astrophysical Journal
APM: Attached Pressurized Module (a.k.a. Columbus)
APU: Auxiliary Power Unit
ARC: Ames Research Center (NASA)
ARTEMIS: Advanced Relay TEchnology MISsion
ASA: Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
ASI: Agenzia Spaziale Italiano
ASRM: Advanced Solid Rocket Motor
ATDRS: Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
ATLAS: Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
ATM: Amateur Telescope Maker
ATO: Abort To Orbit (Shuttle abort plan)
AU: Astronomical Unit
AURA: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
AW&ST: Aviation Week and Space Technology (a.k.a. AvLeak)
AXAF: Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
BATSE: Burst And Transient Source Experiment (on CGRO)
BBXRT: Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope (ASTRO package)
BEM: Bug-Eyed Monster
BH: Black Hole
BIMA: Berkeley Illinois Maryland Array
BNSC: British National Space Centre
BTW: By The Way
C&T: Communications & Tracking
CCAFS: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
CCD: Charge-Coupled Device
CCDS: Centers for the Commercial Development of Space
CD-ROM: Compact Disk Read-Only Memory
CFA: Center For Astrophysics
CFC: ChloroFluoroCarbon
CFF: Columbus Free Flyer
CFHT: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
CGRO: (Arthur Holley) Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (was GRO)
CHARA: Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
CIRRIS: Cryogenic InfraRed Radiance Instrument for Shuttle
CIT: Circumstellar Imaging Telescope
CM: Command Module (Apollo spacecraft)
CMCC: Central Mission Control Centre (ESA)
CNES: Centre National d'Etude Spatiales
CNO: Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen
CNSR: Comet Nucleus Sample Return
COBE: COsmic Background Explorer
COMPTEL: COMPton TELescope (on CGRO)
COSTAR: Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
CRAF: Comet Rendezvous / Asteroid Flyby
CRRES: Combined Release / Radiation Effects Satellite
CSM: Command and Service Module (Apollo spacecraft)
CSTC: Consolidated Satellite Test Center (USAF)
CTIO: Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
DCX: Delta Clipper eXperimental
DDCU: DC-to-DC Converter Unit
DFRF: Dryden Flight Research Facility (now ADFRF)
DMSP: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOD: Department Of Defense (sometimes DoD)
DOE: Department Of Energy
DOT: Department Of Transportation
DSCS: Defense Satellite Communications System
DSN: Deep Space Network
DSP: Defense Support Program (USAF/NRO)
EAFB: Edwards Air Force Base
ECS: Environmental Control System
EDO: Extended Duration Orbiter
EGRET: Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (on CGRO)
EJASA: Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
ELV: Expendable Launch Vehicle
EMU: Extravehicular Mobility Unit
EOS: Earth Observing System
ERS: Earth Resources Satellite (as in ERS-1)
ESA: European Space Agency
ESO: European Southern Observatory
ET: (Shuttle) External Tank
ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym
ETR: Eastern Test Range
EUV: Extreme UltraViolet
EUVE: Extreme UltraViolet Explorer
EVA: ExtraVehicular Activity
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
FAST: Fast Auroral SnapshoT explorer
FFT: Fast Fourier Transform
FGS: Fine Guidance Sensors (on HST)
FHST: Fixed Head Star Trackers (on HST)
FIR: Far InfraRed
FITS: Flexible Image Transport System
FOC: Faint Object Camera (on HST)
FOS: Faint Object Spectrograph (on HST)
FRR: Flight-Readiness Review
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
FTS: Flight Telerobotic Servicer
FUSE: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
FWHM: Full Width at Half Maximum
FYI: For Your Information
GAS: Get-Away Special
GBT: Green Bank Telescope
GCVS: General Catalog of Variable Stars
GEM: Giotto Extended Mission
GEO: Geosynchronous Earth Orbit
GDS: Great Dark Spot
GHRS: Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (on HST)
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format
GLOMR: Global Low-Orbiting Message Relay
GMC: Giant Molecular Cloud
GMRT: Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time (also called UT)
GOES: Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite
GOX: Gaseous OXygen
GPC: General Purpose Computer
GPS: Global Positioning System
GRO: Gamma Ray Observatory (now CGRO)
GRS: Gamma Ray Spectrometer (on Mars Observer)
GRS: Great Red Spot
GSC: Guide Star Catalog (for HST)
GSFC: Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
GTO: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
HAO: High Altitude Observatory
HD: Henry Draper catalog entry
HEAO: High Energy Astronomical Observatory
HeRA: Hermes Robotic Arm
HF: High Frequency
HGA: High Gain Antenna
HLC: Heavy Lift Capability
HLV: Heavy Lift Vehicle
HMC: Halley Multicolor Camera (on Giotto)
HR: Hertzsprung-Russell (diagram)
HRI: High Resolution Imager (on ROSAT)
HSP: High Speed Photometer (on HST)
HST: Hubble Space Telescope
HUT: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (ASTRO package)
HV: High Voltage
IAPPP: International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry
IAU: International Astronomical Union
IAUC: IAU Circular
ICE: International Cometary Explorer
IDA: International Dark-sky Association
IDL: Interactive Data Language
IGM: InterGalactic Medium
IGY: International Geophysical Year
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion
IOTA: Infrared-Optical Telescope Array
IOTA: International Occultation Timing Association
IPS: Inertial Pointing System
IR: InfraRed
IRAF: Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
IRAS: InfraRed Astronomical Satellite
ISAS: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan)
ISM: InterStellar Medium
ISO: Infrared Space Observatory
ISO: International Standards Organization
ISPM: International Solar Polar Mission (now Ulysses)
ISY: International Space Year
IUE: International Ultraviolet Explorer
IUS: Inertial Upper Stage
JEM: Japanese Experiment Module (for SSF)
JGR: Journal of Geophysical Research
JILA: Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JSC: Johnson Space Center (NASA)
KAO: Kuiper Airborne Observatory
KPNO: Kitt Peak National Observatory
KSC: Kennedy Space Center (NASA)
KTB: Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary (from German)
LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory
LaRC: Langley Research Center (NASA)
LDEF: Long Duration Exposure Facility
LEM: Lunar Excursion Module (a.k.a. LM) (Apollo spacecraft)
LEO: Low Earth Orbit
LeRC: Lewis Research Center (NASA)
LEST: Large Earth-based Solar Telescope
LFSA: List of Frequently Seen Acronyms (!)
LGA: Low Gain Antenna
LGM: Little Green Men
LH: Liquid Hydrogen (also LH2 or LHX)
LLNL: Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory
LM: Lunar Module (a.k.a. LEM) (Apollo spacecraft)
LMC: Large Magellanic Cloud
LN2: Liquid N2 (Nitrogen)
LOX: Liquid OXygen
LRB: Liquid Rocket Booster
LSR: Local Standard of Rest
LTP: Lunar Transient Phenomenon
MB: Manned Base
MCC: Mission Control Center
MECO: Main Engine CutOff
MMH: MonoMethyl Hydrazine
MMT: Multiple Mirror Telescope
MMU: Manned Maneuvering Unit
MNRAS: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
MOC: Mars Observer Camera (on Mars Observer)
MOL: Manned Orbiting Laboratory
MOLA: Mars Observer Laser Altimeter (on Mars Observer)
MOMV: Manned Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
MOTV: Manned Orbital Transfer Vehicle
MPC: Minor Planets Circular
MRSR: Mars Rover and Sample Return
MRSRM: Mars Rover and Sample Return Mission
MSFC: (George C.) Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA)
MTC: Man Tended Capability
NACA: National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (became NASA)
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA: NAtional Space Development Agency (Japan)
NASM: National Air and Space Museum
NASP: National AeroSpace Plane
NBS: National Bureau of Standards (now NIST)
NDV: NASP Derived Vehicle
NERVA: Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application
NGC: New General Catalog
NICMOS: Near Infrared Camera / Multi Object Spectrometer (HST upgrade)
NIMS: Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (on Galileo)
NIR: Near InfraRed
NIST: National Institute for Standards and Technology (was NBS)
NLDP: National Launch Development Program
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAO: National Optical Astronomy Observatories
NRAO: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRO: National Reconnaissance Office
NS: Neutron Star
NSA: National Security Agency
NSF: National Science Foundation
NSO: National Solar Observatory
NSSDC: National Space Science Data Center
NTR: Nuclear Thermal Rocket(ry)
NTT: New Technology Telescope
OAO: Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
OCST: Office of Commercial Space Transportation
OMB: Office of Management and Budget
OMS: Orbital Maneuvering System
OPF: Orbiter Processing Facility
ORFEUS: Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer
OSC: Orbital Sciences Corporation
OSCAR: Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
OSSA: Office of Space Science and Applications
OSSE: Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (on CGRO)
OTA: Optical Telescope Assembly (on HST)
OTHB: Over The Horizon Backscatter
OTV: Orbital Transfer Vehicle
OV: Orbital Vehicle
PAM: Payload Assist Module
PAM-D: Payload Assist Module, Delta-class
PI: Principal Investigator
PLSS: Portable Life Support System
PM: Pressurized Module
PMC: Permanently Manned Capability
PMIRR: Pressure Modulated InfraRed Radiometer (on Mars Observer)
PMT: PhotoMultiplier Tube
PSF: Point Spread Function
PSR: PulSaR
PV: Photovoltaic
PVO: Pioneer Venus Orbiter
QSO: Quasi-Stellar Object
RCI: Rodent Cage Interface (for SLS mission)
RCS: Reaction Control System
REM: Rat Enclosure Module (for SLS mission)
RF: Radio Frequency
RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
RIACS: Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
RMS: Remote Manipulator System
RNGC: Revised New General Catalog
ROSAT: ROentgen SATellite
ROUS: Rodents Of Unusual Size (I don't believe they exist)
RSN: Real Soon Now
RTG: Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
RTLS: Return To Launch Site (Shuttle abort plan)
SAA: South Atlantic Anomaly
SAGA: Solar Array Gain Augmentation (for HST)
SAMPEX: Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle EXplorer
SAO: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAR: Search And Rescue
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar
SARA: Satellite pour Astronomie Radio Amateur
SAREX: Search and Rescue Exercise
SAREX: Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
SAS: Space Activity Suit
SAS: Space Adaptation Syndrome
SAT: Synthetic Aperture Telescope
S/C: SpaceCraft
SCA: Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
SCT: Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative
SDIO: Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
SEI: Space Exploration Initiative
SEST: Swedish ESO Submillimeter Telescope
SETI: Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
SID: Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance
SIR: Shuttle Imaging Radar
SIRTF: Space (formerly Shuttle) InfraRed Telescope Facility
SL: SpaceLab
SLAR: Side-Looking Airborne Radar
SLC: Space Launch Complex
SLS: Space(lab) Life Sciences
SMC: Small Magellanic Cloud
SME: Solar Mesosphere Explorer
SMEX: SMall EXplorers
SMM: Solar Maximum Mission
SN: SuperNova (e.g., SN1987A)
SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
SNR: SuperNova Remnant
SNU: Solar Neutrino Units
SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
SOHO: SOlar Heliospheric Observatory
SPAN: Space Physics and Analysis Network
SPDM: Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator
SPOT: Systeme Probatoire pour l'Observation de la Terre
SPS: Solar Power Satellite
SRB: Solid Rocket Booster
SRM: Solid Rocket Motor
SSF: Space Station Fred (er, Freedom)
SSI: Solid-State Imager (on Galileo)
SSI: Space Studies Institut
SSME: Space Shuttle Main Engine
SSPF: Space Station Processing Facility
SSRMS: Space Station Remote Manipulator System
SST: Spectroscopic Survey Telescope
SST: SuperSonic Transport
SSTO: Single Stage To Orbit
STIS: Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer (to replace FOC and GHRS)
STS: Shuttle Transport System (or) Space Transportation System
STScI: Space Telescope Science Institute
SWAS: Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
SWF: ShortWave Fading
TAL: Transatlantic Abort Landing (Shuttle abort plan)
TAU: Thousand Astronomical Unit (mission)
TCS: Thermal Control System
TDRS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
TDRSS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
TES: Thermal Emission Spectrometer (on Mars Observer)
TIROS: Television InfraRed Observation Satellite
TLA: Three Letter Acronym
TOMS: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TPS: Thermal Protection System
TSS: Tethered Satellite System
UARS: Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UBM: Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism
UDMH: Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine
UFO: Unidentified Flying Object
UGC: Uppsala General Catalog
UHF: Ultra High Frequency
UIT: Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (Astro package)
UKST: United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope
USAF: United States Air Force
USMP: United States Microgravity Payload
UT: Universal Time (a.k.a. GMT, UTC, or Zulu Time)
UTC: Coordinated Universal Time (a.k.a. UT)
UV: UltraViolet
UVS: UltraViolet Spectrometer
VAB: Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building)
VAFB: Vandenberg Air Force Base
VEEGA: Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist (Galileo flight path)
VHF: Very High Frequency
VLA: Very Large Array
VLBA: Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI: Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLF: Very Low Frequency
VLT: Very Large Telescope
VMS: Vertical Motion Simulator
VOIR: Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM)
VPF: Vertical Processing Facility
VRM: Venus Radar Mapper (now called Magellan)
WD: White Dwarf
WFPC: Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on HST)
WFPCII: Replacement for WFPC
WIYN: Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / NOAO telescope
WSMR: White Sands Missile Range
WTR: Western Test Range
WUPPE: Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment (Astro package)
XMM: X-ray Multi Mirror
XUV: eXtreme UltraViolet
YSO: Young Stellar Object
#!/usr/bin/perl
# 'alt', An Acronym Scrambling Program, by Larry Wall
$THRESHOLD = 2;
srand;
while (<>) {
next unless /^([A-Z]\S+): */;
$key = $1;
$acro{$key} = $';
@words = split(/\W+/,$');
unshift(@words,$key);
$off = 0;
foreach $word (@words) {
next unless $word =~ /^[A-Z]/;
*w = $&;
vec($w{$word}, $off++ % 6, 1) = 1;
}
}
foreach $letter (A .. Z) {
*w = $letter;
@w = keys %w;
if (@w < $THRESHOLD) {
@d = `egrep '^$letter' /usr/dict/words`;
chop @d;
push(@w, @d);
}
}
foreach $key (sort keys %acro) {
$off = 0;
$acro = $acro{$key};
$acro =~ s/((([A-Z])[A-Z]*)[a-z]*)/ &pick($3, $2, $1, ++$off) || $& /eg;
print "$key: $acro";
}
sub pick {
local($letter, $prefix, $oldword, $off) = @_;
$i = 0;
if (length($prefix) > 1 && index($key,$prefix) < 0) {
if ($prefix eq $oldword) {
$prefix = '';
}
else {
$prefix = $letter;
}
}
if (length($prefix) > 1) {
local(*w) = substr($prefix,0,1);
do {
$word = $w[rand @w];
} until $word ne $oldword && $word =~ /^$prefix/i || ++$i > 30;
$word =~ s/^$prefix/$prefix/i;
$word;
}
elsif (length($prefix) == 1) {
local(*w) = $prefix;
do {
$word = $w[rand @w];
} until $word ne $oldword && vec($w{$word}, $off, 1) || ++$i > 10;
$word = "\u\L$word" if $word =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
$word;
}
else {
local(*w) = substr($oldword,0,1);
do {
$word = $w[rand @w];
} until $word ne $oldword && $word =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/ == 0 || ++$i > 30;
$word;
}
}
-- Mark Bradford (bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu) <> To err is human, to moo bovine.
"It's an ill wind that gathers no moss."
| 14sci.space |
Historic shuttle flights
Would someone please send me a list of the historic space flights? I
am not looking for a list of all flights, just the ones in which something
monumental happened. Or better yet, is there an ftp site with the list of all
shuttle flights?
Thanks (if you helped),
vamwendt@upei.ca
| 14sci.space |
Re: Migraines
In article <DRAND.93Mar26112932@spinner.osf.org> drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:
>So I'll ask this, my neurologist just prescribed Cafergot and
>Midrin as some alternatives for me to try. He stated that
>the sublingual tablets of ergotamine were no longer available.
>Any idea why? He also suggested trying 800 mg ibuprophen.
>
I just found out about the sublinguals disappearing too. I don't
know why. Perhaps because they weren't as profitable as cafergot.
Too bad, since tablets are sometimes vomited up by migraine patients
and they don't do any good flushed down the toilet. I suspect
we'll be moving those patients more and more to the DHE nasal
spray, which is far more effective.
--
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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| 13sci.med |
PDS cards for the LCIII
Are there any PDS expansion cards out there that specifically take
advantage of the LCIII's 32 bit data path and 25MHz clock speed? If
they exist, are they significantly faster than the LC/LCII versions?
-- farul ghazali.
columbia university in the city of new york.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
CHRIST, MY ADVOCATE - A Poem
_MY ADVOCATE_
I sinned. And straightway, posthaste, Satan flew
Before the presence of the Most High God
And made a railing accusation there.
He said, "This soul, this thing of clay and sod,
Has sinned. 'Tis true that he has named Thy name;
But I demand his death, for Thou hast said,
'The soul that sinneth, it shall die.' Shall not
Thy sentence be fulfilled? Is justice dead?
Send now this wretched sinner to his doom!
What other thing can righteous ruler do?"
Thus Satan did accuse me day and night;
And every word he spoke, O God, was true!
Then quickly One rose up from God's right hand,
Before whose glory angels veiled their eyes;
He spoke, "Each jot and tittle of the law
Must be fulfilled; the guilty sinner dies!
But wait -- suppose his guilt were all transferred
To Me and that I paid his penalty!
Behold My hands, My side, My feet! One day
I was made sin for him and died that he
Might be presented, faultless, at Thy throne!"
And Satan flew away. Full well he knew
That he could not prevail against such love,
for every word my dear Lord spoke was true!
by Martha Snell Nicholson
+++++++++++++++++++++++
I heard this poem read last night and wanted to share it with other
subscribers of this newsgroup. It's such a wonderful blessing to see how
secure our salvation is because the Lord Jesus paid for what He did not owe
because we had a debt which we were not capable to pay.
Thanks and praise be to the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is seated at
the right hand of the Majesty on High, making intercession for us.
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Liane Brown
(Internet) brownli@ohsu.edu
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Space FAQ 06/15 - Constants and Equations
Archive-name: space/constants
Last-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:04 $
CONSTANTS AND EQUATIONS FOR CALCULATIONS
This list was originally compiled by Dale Greer. Additions would be
appreciated.
Numbers in parentheses are approximations that will serve for most
blue-skying purposes.
Unix systems provide the 'units' program, useful in converting
between different systems (metric/English, etc.)
NUMBERS
7726 m/s (8000) -- Earth orbital velocity at 300 km altitude
3075 m/s (3000) -- Earth orbital velocity at 35786 km (geosync)
6371 km (6400) -- Mean radius of Earth
6378 km (6400) -- Equatorial radius of Earth
1738 km (1700) -- Mean radius of Moon
5.974e24 kg (6e24) -- Mass of Earth
7.348e22 kg (7e22) -- Mass of Moon
1.989e30 kg (2e30) -- Mass of Sun
3.986e14 m^3/s^2 (4e14) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Earth
4.903e12 m^3/s^2 (5e12) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Moon
1.327e20 m^3/s^2 (13e19) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Sun
384401 km ( 4e5) -- Mean Earth-Moon distance
1.496e11 m (15e10) -- Mean Earth-Sun distance (Astronomical Unit)
1 megaton (MT) TNT = about 4.2e15 J or the energy equivalent of
about .05 kg (50 gm) of matter. Ref: J.R Williams, "The Energy Level
of Things", Air Force Special Weapons Center (ARDC), Kirtland Air
Force Base, New Mexico, 1963. Also see "The Effects of Nuclear
Weapons", compiled by S. Glasstone and P.J. Dolan, published by the
US Department of Defense (obtain from the GPO).
EQUATIONS
Where d is distance, v is velocity, a is acceleration, t is time.
Additional more specialized equations are available from:
ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/MoreEquations
For constant acceleration
d = d0 + vt + .5at^2
v = v0 + at
v^2 = 2ad
Acceleration on a cylinder (space colony, etc.) of radius r and
rotation period t:
a = 4 pi**2 r / t^2
For circular Keplerian orbits where:
Vc = velocity of a circular orbit
Vesc = escape velocity
M = Total mass of orbiting and orbited bodies
G = Gravitational constant (defined below)
u = G * M (can be measured much more accurately than G or M)
K = -G * M / 2 / a
r = radius of orbit (measured from center of mass of system)
V = orbital velocity
P = orbital period
a = semimajor axis of orbit
Vc = sqrt(M * G / r)
Vesc = sqrt(2 * M * G / r) = sqrt(2) * Vc
V^2 = u/a
P = 2 pi/(Sqrt(u/a^3))
K = 1/2 V**2 - G * M / r (conservation of energy)
The period of an eccentric orbit is the same as the period
of a circular orbit with the same semi-major axis.
Change in velocity required for a plane change of angle phi in a
circular orbit:
delta V = 2 sqrt(GM/r) sin (phi/2)
Energy to put mass m into a circular orbit (ignores rotational
velocity, which reduces the energy a bit).
GMm (1/Re - 1/2Rcirc)
Re = radius of the earth
Rcirc = radius of the circular orbit.
Classical rocket equation, where
dv = change in velocity
Isp = specific impulse of engine
Ve = exhaust velocity
x = reaction mass
m1 = rocket mass excluding reaction mass
g = 9.80665 m / s^2
Ve = Isp * g
dv = Ve * ln((m1 + x) / m1)
= Ve * ln((final mass) / (initial mass))
Relativistic rocket equation (constant acceleration)
t (unaccelerated) = c/a * sinh(a*t/c)
d = c**2/a * (cosh(a*t/c) - 1)
v = c * tanh(a*t/c)
Relativistic rocket with exhaust velocity Ve and mass ratio MR:
at/c = Ve/c * ln(MR), or
t (unaccelerated) = c/a * sinh(Ve/c * ln(MR))
d = c**2/a * (cosh(Ve/C * ln(MR)) - 1)
v = c * tanh(Ve/C * ln(MR))
Converting from parallax to distance:
d (in parsecs) = 1 / p (in arc seconds)
d (in astronomical units) = 206265 / p
Miscellaneous
f=ma -- Force is mass times acceleration
w=fd -- Work (energy) is force times distance
Atmospheric density varies as exp(-mgz/kT) where z is altitude, m is
molecular weight in kg of air, g is local acceleration of gravity, T
is temperature, k is Bolztmann's constant. On Earth up to 100 km,
d = d0*exp(-z*1.42e-4)
where d is density, d0 is density at 0km, is approximately true, so
d@12km (40000 ft) = d0*.18
d@9 km (30000 ft) = d0*.27
d@6 km (20000 ft) = d0*.43
d@3 km (10000 ft) = d0*.65
Atmospheric scale height Dry lapse rate
(in km at emission level) (K/km)
------------------------- --------------
Earth 7.5 9.8
Mars 11 4.4
Venus 4.9 10.5
Titan 18 1.3
Jupiter 19 2.0
Saturn 37 0.7
Uranus 24 0.7
Neptune 21 0.8
Triton 8 1
Titius-Bode Law for approximating planetary distances:
R(n) = 0.4 + 0.3 * 2^N Astronomical Units (N = -infinity for
Mercury, 0 for Venus, 1 for Earth, etc.)
This fits fairly well except for Neptune.
CONSTANTS
6.62618e-34 J-s (7e-34) -- Planck's Constant "h"
1.054589e-34 J-s (1e-34) -- Planck's Constant / (2 * PI), "h bar"
1.3807e-23 J/K (1.4e-23) - Boltzmann's Constant "k"
5.6697e-8 W/m^2/K (6e-8) -- Stephan-Boltzmann Constant "sigma"
6.673e-11 N m^2/kg^2 (7e-11) -- Newton's Gravitational Constant "G"
0.0029 m K (3e-3) -- Wien's Constant "sigma(W)"
3.827e26 W (4e26) -- Luminosity of Sun
1370 W / m^2 (1400) -- Solar Constant (intensity at 1 AU)
6.96e8 m (7e8) -- radius of Sun
1738 km (2e3) -- radius of Moon
299792458 m/s (3e8) -- speed of light in vacuum "c"
9.46053e15 m (1e16) -- light year
206264.806 AU (2e5) -- \
3.2616 light years (3) -- --> parsec
3.0856e16 m (3e16) -- /
Black Hole radius (also called Schwarzschild Radius):
2GM/c^2, where G is Newton's Grav Constant, M is mass of BH,
c is speed of light
Things to add (somebody look them up!)
Basic rocketry numbers & equations
Aerodynamical stuff
Energy to put a pound into orbit or accelerate to interstellar
velocities.
Non-circular cases?
NEXT: FAQ #7/15 - Astronomical Mnemonics
| 14sci.space |
PowerVision for PB's
Hi,
I'm in the market for an internal color video adaptor for my PB 145. I
was wondering if anyone has used the PowerVision adaptor made by
Mirror. If so, can you tell me how feel about the speed and
compatability of it? I might also be interested in other boards by
Envisio etc., so if you have such a board please e-mail your opinion of
it. Thanks in advance.
John
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Vitex rasterflex32 experience?
I'm going to be purchasing one of these soom for my SS2.
Does anyone have any experience with this card?
Positive or negative comments welcome!
Please respond immediately.
Thanks,
Joe
---------------------------------------
Joe McGuckin joe@islandsw.com
Island Software oilean!joe@sgi.com
(415) 969-5453
| 5comp.windows.x |
Moving sale
FOR SALE:
20 inch Magnavox TV/VCR combination. As new condition. New: $480.
Asking: $300.
Singer Merritt electronic sewing machine. New: $250. Asking: $200.
Braun Multipractic food processor. New: $80. Asking: $50.
Horizon exercise bike. Asking: $50.
Regina electric broom/vacuum cleaner. New: $40. Asking: $25.
Sunbeam handheld electric beaters. New: $20. Asking: $12.
Farberware toaster. New: $18. Asking: $10.
Norelco hot curlers. Asking: $10.
Norelco spray/steam iron. New: $15. Asking: $10.
Magnavox clock-radio. New: $15. Asking: $8.
All appliances in good condition. All reasonable offers considered.
Contact Alec Cameron (x6361).
--
Alec Cameron _--_|\ ajc@philabs.philips.com
Philips Laboratories / \
Briarcliff Manor, New York \_.--._/ +1-914-945-6361
v
| 6misc.forsale |
Re: Off the shelf cheap DES keyseach machine
In article <7020.Apr2207.05.3993@silverton.berkeley.edu>, djb@silverton.berkeley.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
> In article <1993Apr21.132318.16981@ulysses.att.com> smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
> > And key size is one of the things that can be
> > verified externally.
>
> Gee. Say they feed the 80-bit key through Snefru-8 and take the first 60
> bits of the result, then use those 60 bits as the real key. How do you
> figure out that each key is one of 2^20 ``equal'' keys? You can try a
> birthday attack, but if the key can be changed only once a second then
> you will need several lifetimes to get reliable statistics.
You're right, and I retract the suggestion. Still, I wonder. That
there are only 60 bits of key information should, in principle, be
detectable. Maybe some variant of the tests Rivest et al. did to
demonstrate that DES was probably not a group? It should make an
interesting paper -- a black-box analysis of a cryptosystem.
| 11sci.crypt |
My Gun is like my Ame
Mark Wilson responding to C.D. Tavares:
MW>|So the laws exist, and the penalties are as you say, but nobody is ever
MW>|prosecuted under these laws. They are "traded away" for easy pleas.
MW>Having such gun laws on the books is still better than nothing.
MW>What would the DA have traded away in order to get the guilty plea if the
MW>gun law had not been in effect.
Our liberty?
Right...don't even think about enforcing the law and imposing the prescribed
penalty....let's hose the citizens instead.
---
. OLX 2.2 . Madness takes its toll - please have exact change
----
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| Houston,Texas yob.sccsi.com Home of alt.cosuard |
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
Re: Do trains/busses have radar?
In article <C5FqFy.Fpq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, mliggett@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (matthew liggett) writes:
> In <1993Apr13.111652@usho72.hou281.chevron.com> hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
>
>
>> While taking an extended Easter vacation, I was going north on I-45
>> somewhere between Centerville, TX and Dallas, TX and I came upon a
>> train parked on a trestle with its locomotive sitting directly over
>> the northbound lanes. There appeared to be movement within the cab
>> and out of curiosity I slowed to 85 to get a better look. Just as I
>> passed from underneath the trestle, my radar detector went into full
>> alert - all lights lit and all chirps, beeps, and buzzes going strong.
>> I thought I had been nailed good but no police materialized.
>
>> Could this have been caused by the train's radio or what?
>
>
I don't know about trains, but I've saw a sign on the back of a
Greyhound bus that warns you that your radar detector may be set off.
It doesn't explain why, but it does set off my radar detector.
___________________________________________________________________________
***** * * From the e-net desk of: Rick Colombo CD/DCD/DSG * *
* ** * Fermi Nat'l Acc'l Lab 708-840-8225 Fermilab * * *
*** * * * P.O. Box 500 MS 369 Feynman Computer Center ***** *
* * ** Batavia, Ill. USA 60510 Colombo@fnal.fnal.gov * * *****
* Of course I speak for: Fermilab, Congress and the President... NOT!!!
| 7rec.autos |
Re: NAVSTAR positions
You have missed something. There is a big difference between being in
the SAME PLANE and in exactly the same state (positions and velocities
equal). IN addition to this, there has always been redundancies proposed.
Bob
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert W. McGwier | n4hy@ccr-p.ida.org
Center for Communications Research | Interests: amateur radio, astronomy,golf
Princeton, N.J. 08520 | Asst Scoutmaster Troop 5700, Hightstown
| 14sci.space |
Re: If There Were No Hell
In article <May.9.05.38.07.1993.27316@athos.rutgers.edu> u0mrm@csc.liv.ac.uk (M.R. Mellodew) writes:
>In article <May.5.02.51.25.1993.28737@athos.rutgers.edu>, shellgate!llo@uu4.psi.com (Larry L. Overacker) writes:
>
>> Fear-based religion is not a faith-relationship with the
>> One Who made us all.
>
>So does that mean that anyone who is a Christian to avoid Hell isn't really
>a Christian at all? It sounds like it to me.
If that's the ONLY reason, I'd be inclined to doubt whether or not what
they profess is Christianity. The relationship of faith is based upon
trust. Fear and trust are generally incompatible. If my only motivation
is fear, is there room for trust? If so, there's room for faith.
If fear precludes trust, then there can't be faith.
Larry Overacker (llo@shell.com)
--
-------
Lawrence Overacker
Shell Oil Company, Information Center Houston, TX (713) 245-2965
llo@shell.com
| 15soc.religion.christian |
HP LaserJet FAX - opinions needed
Has anyone tried this HP LaserJet FAX.
It receives faxes and prints them on your HP III.
Also, from your word processor, you can print straight to the fax.
Has anyone had any problems? fonts not working?
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Re: The Role of the National News Media in Inflaming Passions
In article <C5IAK2.5zH@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
> In article <15377@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> #But what came out,
> #in much lower profile reporting, was that the "victim" was a
> #prostitute, and the man had not paid her -- hence the false
> #accusation.
>
> There was no evidence the woman in question was a prostitute, the
> defense merely alledged that she was. Even Clayton knows the
> difference. Err, perhaps Clayton doesn't know the difference.
Evidence given for her prostitute status, besides the admittedly
questionable claim of the man on trial included:
1. Prior employment in a number of massage parlors, with women who
claimed that she worked as a prostitute;
2. Walking around a truck stop at 4:00 AM wearing a lace miniskirt,
a halter top, and no underwear of any sort;
3. Not having a purse or other I.D. with her.
Not enough to convict her, but enough to create reasonable doubt
whether a rape actually took place, or theft of services.
Are you just ignorant, or lying again?
> #the judge found that there was some credible evidence that the
> #Marines were engaged in self-defense.
>
> No, the judge found that the prosecution did not carry out the burder
> on proof. A small clipping from clarinews, under fair use guidelines:
>
> # New Hanover District Court Judge Jacqueline Morris-Goodson ruled in
> #the benchtrial that the state failed to carry its burden in proving the
> #Marines acted to cause injury.
The accounts on the evening news indicated that they claimed self-
defense, and the judge agreed that they were so operating.
> -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
--
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
Relations between people to be by mutual consent, or not at all.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Goalie mask poll
Here is an update on the Goalie mask poll...
First, since so many people gave me their 3 best, I decided to
give 3 pts for their favorite, 2 pts for 2nd, 1 for 3rd. If you e-mailed
a response with only one, I gave it 3 pts. Please feel free to send me
your 2 other favorites, if you only sent one before.
Also, votes are still welcome! Any mask you like will do, as I
have received votes for players not in the NHL. Please mention what team
they play for, though.
So here are the up-to-date results so far:
Player Team Pts Votes
-------------------------------------------------------
1. Ed Belfour Chicago 8 4
Andy Moog Boston 8 3
3. Curtis Joseph St. Louis 5 2
4. Brian Hayward San Jose 4 2
5. Grant Fuhr Buffalo 3 1
Ron Hextall Quebec 3 1
7. Clint Malarchuk Buffalo 2 1
Manon Rheaume Atlanta (IHL) 2 1
9. John Casey Minnesota 1 1
Rick Wamsley Toronto (retired) 1 1
Thanks to all that voted, and keep 'em coming!
--
GO SKINS! ||"Now for the next question... Does emotional music have quite
GO BRAVES! || an effect on you?" - Mike Patton, Faith No More
GO HORNETS! ||
GO CAPITALS! ||Mike Friedman (Hrivnak fan!) Internet: gtd597a@prism.gatech.edu
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Re: Vandalizing the sky.
In article <C5y4t7.9w3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gfk39017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George F. Krumins) writes:
>It is so typical that the rights of the minority are extinguished by the
>wants of the majority, no matter how ridiculous those wants might be.
George.
It's called a democracy. The majority rules. sorry.
If ytou don't like it, I suggest you modify the constitution to include
a constitutional right to Dark Skies. The theory of government
here is that the majority rules, except in the nature of fundamental
civil rights. If you really are annoyed, get some legislation
to create a dark sky zone, where in all light emissions are protected
in the zone. Kind of like the national radio quiet zone. Did you
know about that? near teh Radio telescope observatory in West virginia,
they have a 90?????? mile EMCON zone. Theoretically they can prevent
you from running light AC motors, like air conditioners and Vacuums.
In practice, they use it mostly to control large radio users.
pat
| 14sci.space |
Picture -> Ascii Conversion?
I was wondering if anyone has ever seen/heard of a utility that converts
any type of image format (gif,tiff,pcx,bmp,jpeg,etc.) to an ascii
representation. I have seen some very sophiticated art in ascii format, but
never was I able to find the author or any program that may have converted
the data from a picture format.
Any help or leads would be great. Thanks in advance.
Danny Dunlavy
ddunlavy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
| 1comp.graphics |
Re: Religion and homosexuality
In article <C4uzus.FKp@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> dlecoint@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Darius_Lecointe) writes:
>lfoard@hopper.Virginia.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>> Unlike kleptomaniacs and adulterers homosexuals hurt no one by having sex
>> with the same sex.
>
>What about the homosexual whose family does not accept that decision and
>is hurt (emotionally) by it?
Good question. I don't have a nice concise answer, though. What about the
child whose parents are crushed emotionally because he/she starts a carerr
doing something they greatly dislike. It is the same kind of harm, and
is probably "caused" by the same thing: The desire of the child to be
true to his or her self.
What is more important, being true to yourself or burying that truth within
you in order to maintain peace in the family?
hard question, no good answer.
Lance
| 19talk.religion.misc |
Re: Are atoms real? (was Re: After 2000 years blah blah blah)
Petri and Mathew,
Your discusion on the "reality" of atoms is interesting, but it
would seem that you are verging on the question "Is anything real":
that is, since observation is not 100% reliable, how can we say
that anything is "real". I don't think this was the intention
of the original question, since you now define-out the word
"real" so that nothing can meet its criteria.
Just a thought.
Brian /-|-\
PS Rainbows and Shadows are "real": they are not objects, they
are phenomenon. An interesting question would be if atoms
are objects (classical) or phenomenon (neo-quantum) or what?
| 19talk.religion.misc |
Re: New planet/Kuiper object found?
In article <1r9de3INNjkv@gap.caltech.edu> jafoust@cco.caltech.edu (Jeff Foust) writes:
In a recent article jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
> If the new Kuiper belt object *is* called 'Karla', the next
>one should be called 'Smiley'.
Unless I'm imaging things, (always a possibility =) 1992 QB1, the Kuiper Belt
object discovered last year, is known as Smiley.
As it happens the _second_ one is Karla. The first one was
Smiley. All subject to the vagaries of the IAU of course,
but I think they might let this one slide...
* Steinn Sigurdsson Lick Observatory *
* steinly@lick.ucsc.edu "standard disclaimer" *
* "The worst thing you can say to a true revolutionary is that his *
* revolution is unnecessary, that the problems can be corrected without *
* radical change. Telling people that paradise can be attained without *
* revolution is treason of the vilest kind." -- H.S. 1993 *
Just had to try out my new .sig# on this forum ;-)
| 14sci.space |
Re: Krillean Photography
[Newsgroups: m.h.a added, followups set to most appropriate groups.]
In <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu> todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M.
Huey) writes:
>I am looking for any information/supplies that will allow
>do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures.
(It's "Kirlian". "Krillean" pictures are portraits of tiny shrimp. :)
[...]
>One might extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object
>within the universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.
I think it's safe to say that anything that's not at 0 degrees Kelvin
will have its own "energy signature" -- the interesting questions are
what kind of energy, and what it signifies.
I'd check places like Edmund Scientific (are they still in business?) --
or I wonder if you can find ex-Soviet Union equipment for sale somewhere
in the relcom.* hierarchy.
Some expansion on Kirlian photography:
From the credulous side: [Stanway, Andrew, _Alternative Medicine: A Guide
To Natural Therapies_, ISBN 0-14-008561-0, New York: Viking Penguin, 1986,
p211, p188. A not-overly critical but still useful overview of 32
alternative health therapies.]
...the Russian engineer Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina during the
1950s. Using alternating currents of high frequency to 'illuminate'
their subjects, they photographed them. They found that if an object
was a good conductor (such as a metal) the picture showed only its
surface, while the pictures of poor conductors showed the inner
structure of the object even if it were optically opaque. They found
too that these high frequency pictures could distinguish between dead
and living objects. Dead ones had a constant outline whilst living ones
were subject to changes. The object's life activity was also visible in
highly variable colour patterns.
High frequency photography has now been practised for twenty years in
the Soviet Union but only a few people in the West have taken it up
seriously. Professor Douglas Dean in New York and Professor Philips at
Washington University in St Louis have produced Kirlian photographs and
others have been produced in Brazil, Austria and Germany.
Using Kirlian photography it is possible to show an aura around people's
fingers, notably around those of healers who are concentrating on
healing someone. Normally, blue and white rays emanate from the fingers
but, when a subject becomes angry or excited, the aura turns red and
spotty. The Soviets are now using Kirlian photography to diagnose
diseases which cannot be diagnosed by any other method. They argue that
in most illnesses there is a preclinical stage during which the person
isn't actually ill but is about to be. They claim to be able to
foretell a disease by photographing its preclinical phase.
But the most exciting phenomenon illustrated by Kirlian photography is
the phantom effect. During high frequency photography of a leaf from
which a part had been cut, the photograph gave a complete picture of the
leaf with the removed part showing up faintly. This is extremely
important because it backs up the experiences of psychics who can 'see'
the legs of amputees as if they were still there. The important thing
about the Kirlian phantoms though is that the electromagnetic pattern
can't possibly represent a secondary phenomenon -- or the field would
vanish when the piece of leaf or leg vanished. The energy grid
contained in a living object must therefore be far more significant than
the actual object itself.
[...]
Kirlian photography has shown how water mentally 'charged' by a healer
has a much richer energy field around it than ordinary water...
From the incredulous side: [MacRobert, Alan, "Reality shopping; a
consumer's guide to new age hokum.", _Whole Earth Review_, Autumn 1986,
vNON4 p4(11). An excellent article providing common-sense guidelines for
evaluating paranormal claims, and some of the author's favorite examples
of hokum.]
The crank usually works in isolation from everyone else in his field of
study, making grand discoveries in his basement. Many paranormal
movements can be traced back to such people -- Kirlian photography, for
instance. If you pump high-voltage electricity into anything it will
emit glowing sparks, common knowledge to electrical workers and
hobbyists for a century. It took a lone basement crank to declare that
the sparks represent some sort of spiritual aura. In fact, Kirlian
photography was subjected to rigorous testing by physicists John O.
Pehek, Harry J. Kyler, and David L. Faust, who reported their findings
in the October 15, 1976, issue of Science. Their conclusion: The
variations observed in Kirlian photographs are due solely to moisture on
the surface of the body and not to mysterious "auras" or even
necessarily to changes in mood or mental state. Nevertheless,
television shows, magazines, and books (many by famous
parapsychologists) continue to promote Kirlian photography as proof of
the unknown.
--
Peter Kaminski
kaminski@netcom.com
| 13sci.med |
Kansas City e-mail contact
Would the person who is running the e-mail list for KANSAS CITY Royals please
e-mail details regarding mailing list. If you on the list and know the info
please send me info as well.
Please e-mail as I don't have time always to read this group
John
--
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> John_Carson@MINDLINK.BC.CA <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>> D.John Carson J & H Concepts (604)589-5118 <<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Re: Localized fat reduction due to exercise (question
In <1993Apr25.203223.28534@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> hchung@nyx.cs.du.edu writes:
> I was just wondering if exercises specific to particular regions of the
> body (such as thighs) will basically only tone the thighs, or if fat
> from other parts of the body (such as breasts) would be affected just as
> much.
There are two different mechanisms here: toning of muscles and reduction of
fat. Exercises specific to particular muscles will tone only those muscles
exercised (example: look at differences in arm circumferences between pitching
arms and non-pitching arms in major league pitchers). However, if exercise
also leads to reduction of body fat, the loss of body fat will be equally
distributed over the entire body. There is no way to "spot reduce" body fat
other than surgically, through liposuction. Distribution of body fat is
genetically determined. Sometimes a very flabby muscle will look like "fat",
so when that muscle gains some muscle tone it may *appear* as though the "fat"
is "changing" into "muscle", but really fat and muscle tissues are totally
separate, and one does not ever "change into" the other.
------------------------
Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
| 13sci.med |
Re: Christian Morality is
In article <4949@eastman.UUCP>, dps@nasa.kodak.com (Dan Schaertel,,,)
wrote:
>
> In article 11853@vice.ICO.TEK.COM, bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
> |>
> |> Yet I am still not a believer. Is god not concerned with my
> |> disposition? Why is it beneath him to provide me with the
> |> evidence I would require to believe? The evidence that my
> |> personality, given to me by this god, would find compelling?
>
> The fact is God could cause you to believe anything He wants you to.
> But think about it for a minute. Would you rather have someone love
> you because you made them love you, or because they wanted to
> love you.
I wouldn't punish him with eternal torture if he didn't love me. But then
I;m a decent chap. It seems your god isn't.
> The responsibility is on you to love God and take a step toward
> Him. He promises to be there for you, but you have to look for yourself.
I've looked, and he wasn't. Another promise broken.
> Those who doubt this or dispute it have not givin it a sincere effort.
Lying bastard! How do you know what effort I have and have not given?
> Simple logic arguments are folly. If you read the Bible you will see
> that Jesus made fools of those who tried to trick him with "logic".
> Our ability to reason is just a spec of creation. Yet some think it is
> the ultimate. If you rely simply on your reason then you will never
> know more than you do now. To learn you must accept that which
> you don't know.
Can anyone eaplain what he's just said here?
Peter
Don't forget to sing:
They say there's a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better, but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun
Only the good die young!
| 0alt.atheism |
Re: best homeruns
On two separate occasions I saw Dick Allen (back when he was Richie)
homer at Shea off the middle of the black centerfield hitter's
background screen. I think both shots would have traveled 500 feet.
Jay
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Organized Lobbying for Cryptography
In article <4014.Apr2003.03.4093@silverton.berkeley.edu>
djb@silverton.berkeley.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
>
>I want to see an organization which will combat such statements.
>Encryption does _not_ threaten the public safety, any more than ski
>masks do. Every American _is_ entitled to use strong encryption which
>ensures his own privacy and is _not_ crippled by a key-escrow system.
>I guess I'm looking for a ``League for Cryptographic Freedom.'' Or a
>``National Cryptography Association.''
An excellent idea.
>
>To what extent does the EFF serve this purpose? Is a new organization
>necessary? Does it already exist?
While I don't know the full scope of the activities of the EFF,
from what little I've seen I think it would be better to lobby for
strong cryptography through a distinct organization.
The EFF has been associated with efforts to prevent the banning of sex
and pictures newsgroups at various universities. Horror stories about the
contents of those groups (e.g. exploitative pictures of possibly underaged
models) have already surfaced in the press. The White House bulletin
already raised the specter of drug-dealing and terrorism, which is only one
step removed from the old "crypto-wielding child molester" argument. An
EFF lobbying effort for cryptography would be too easily derailed by the
connection to child pornography and the like.
Similarly, LPF is connected with Stallman and his Gnu project. In
light of, say, the Gnu Manifesto, this means that in a public debate it
stands to be labelled as "communist", "anarchist hackers", radical, etc.
I don't know about CPSR, but if it is an offshoot of Physicians for Social
Responsibility (best known for Helen Caldicott and her hysterical
antinuclear lobbying) then it probably also carries unwelcome political
baggage.
Perhaps for practical reasons a lobbying organization for cryptography
would best be formed under the umbrella of EFF or some other existing
group, but its charter should then be distinct, independent, and limited to
advocacy for the right to cryptography. To reiterate Dan Bernstein's
question: does any suitable organization exist? If not, what are you going
to do about it?
Having mentioned the possible dangers of unwelcome political associations,
I would be remiss not to suggest something in the opposite direction:
gathering the support of the NRA by emphasizing the RKBA side of the
issue as well as the First-Amendment side.
Tal kubo@math.harvard.edu
| 11sci.crypt |
Re: Abortion
In article <27687.463.uupcb@ozonehole.com> anthony.landreneau@ozonehole.com (Anthony Landreneau) writes:
} Do one thing right and do it well.
Do you consider trying to make abortion illegal an example of this?
--
hang gliding mailing list: hang-gliding-request@virginia.edu
Galen Hekhuis UVa Health Sci Ctr (804)982-1646 gjh@virginia.edu
Illiterate? Write for FREE help...
| 19talk.religion.misc |
Re: 17" Monitors
catone@compstat.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone) writes:
>In article <C5GEH5.n1D@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes:
> Oh yeah, I just read in another newsgroup that the T560i uses a
> high quality Trinitron tube than is in most monitors.(the Sony
> 1604S for example) and this is where the extra cost comes from. It
> is also where the high bandwidth comes from, and the fantastic
> image, and the large image size, etc, etc...
>It's also where the two annoying lines across the screen (one a third
>down, the other two thirds down) come from.
Annoying??? Are you actually using one or are you just talking? ;-)
I'm sitting in from of one right now and I must say I never notice them! Yes,
of course I can see them if I look, but annoying? NO WAY!!!
Christian
--
M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
SIRTF Mission is Still Alive
From the "JPL Universe"
April 23, 1993
SIRTF is still very much in business
By Mark Whalen
In these times of extra-tight NASA budgets, the very
survival of a number of missions has been uncertain. But thanks
to major design refinements implemented in recent months, JPL's
Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) -- a major project
considered to be in trouble a couple of years ago -- is "alive
and well," according to Project Scientist Michael Werner.
A lighter spacecraft, revised orbit and shorter mission have
added up to a less expensive project with "tremendous scientific
power" and a bright future, said Werner.
Designed as a follow-up to the highly successful Infrared
Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and Cosmic Background Explorer
(COBE) missions, SIRTF -- a cryogenically cooled observatory for
infrared astronomy from space -- is scheduled for launch in 2000
or 2001 if plans proceed as scheduled.
IRAS' pioneering work in space-based infrared astronomy 10
years ago allowed astronomers to view the Milky Way as never
before and revealed, among other things, 60,000 galaxies and 25
comets. It provided a sky survey 1,000 times more sensitive than
any previously available from ground-based observations. COBE has
measured the infrared and microwave background radiation on large
angular scales, and revealed new facts about the early universe.
But to illuminate SIRTF's potential, Jim Evans, JPL's
manager of Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics Pre-Projects,
recently said that the project is "1,000 to 1 million times more
capable than IRAS," based on technological advances in infrared
detector arrays.
However, despite the enormous strides in infrared
exploration SIRTF promised, and the fact that it was cited as the
highest priority new initiative for all of astronomy in the 1990s
(by the National Academy of Sciences), it took a "diet or die"
directive from NASA Headquarters last year to keep the project
going, according to Werner.
The project is now known as Atlas SIRTF, based on the key
factor in its new design: The satellite will orbit the sun
instead of the Earth, permitting the use of an Atlas rocket
launch instead of the formerly proposed and heavier Titan. "The
main advantage of the solar orbit is that you can use all of your
launch capability for boosting the payload -- you don't have to
carry up a second rocket to circularize the orbit," Werner said.
The other advantage to a solar orbit, he said, is that "it's in a
better thermal environment, away from the heat of the Earth."
Additional major changes in SIRTF's redesign include
shortening the mission from five to three years and building a
spacecraft that is less than half as heavy as in the original
plan -- Atlas SIRTF will weigh 2,470 kilograms (5,400 pounds)
compared to Titan SIRTF's 5,500 kilograms (12,100 pounds).
All of that adds up to "a less stressful launch
environment," Werner said, and a cost savings of more than $200
million for the launch, in addition to increased savings in the
design of the smaller, less massive spacecraft.
Werner said SIRTF's redesign came as a result of Congress'
telling NASA "you're trying to do too many things. If you want us
to support SIRTF, which is a good project, develop a plan to see
how it fits into (NASA's) overall strategy."
Shortly thereafter, SIRTF was named as NASA's highest
priority "flagship" scientific mission by the interdisciplinary
Space Sciences Advisory Committee, in addition to the blessing
from the National Academy of Sciences.
While the spacecraft and its instruments required descoping
to keep the project alive, SIRTF's major scientific contribution
always promised to come about from its advanced infrared detector
arrays, which will allow images to be developed "tens of
thousands of times faster" than before, according to Evans.
"Up until a couple of years ago," Werner said, "all infrared
astronomy was done with single detectors -- or very small arrays
of individually assembled detectors. Since then, the Department
of Defense has developed a program to produce arrays of tens or
hundreds of thousands of detectors, rather than just a few, and
those are very well suited for use on SIRTF."
Werner noted that in addition to dealing with budget
pressures, Congress is currently watching NASA projects with an
eye out for any "technological spinoff."
"On that question, I think we have some things to say," he
said, "because the detectors we're using are straight off various
military developments. Also, SIRTF will be built by the U.S.
aerospace industry, and it's a real technological and engineering
challenge in addition to being a tremendous scientific project.
"SIRTF will be used by the entire astronomical community,"
Werner added, but the revised three-year mission "puts a premium
on observing time. We have to educate the user community and
develop a program that involves early surveys and quick
turnaround of the data."
Werner said the downsizing of the project required a
reduction in scope and complexity of SIRTF's three instruments --
the infrared spectrograph, infrared array camera and multiband
imaging photometer. However, these reductions will only result in
losses of efficiency rather than capability, he said.
The project hopes to start a "Phase B" activity in 1995,
which will provide a detailed concept for development and design.
Building the hardware would begin about two years later.
Projected cost estimates, Evans said, are $850 million-$950
million.
"I am very optimistic about SIRTF," he said. "It will
provide a tremendous return for the investment."
Werner added that an additional benefit from the project
will be the "enrichment of our intellectual and cultural
environment. People on the street are very interested in
astronomy ... black holes, the possibility of life on other
planets, the origin of the universe ... and those are the kind of
questions SIRTF will help answer."
###
___ _____ ___
/_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
| | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand
/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and
|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.
| 14sci.space |
Re: Freedom In U.S.A.
In <1993Apr25.221603.3260@Virginia.EDU>, ab4z@Virginia.EDU () (Andi Beyer) wrote:
#
# jaa12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu writes:
# > Dear Mr. Beyer:
# >
# > It is never wise to confuse "freedom of speech" with "freedom"
# > of racism and violent deragatory."
# >
# > It is unfortunate that many fail to understand this crucial
# > distinction.
#
# In fact, if a speach was not offensive to some, its
# protection under Freedom of speach laws would be useless. It is
# speach that some find questionable that must be protected, be
# it religiously blasphemous or inherently racist. It is only
# through civilized discourse and not scare tactics that one can
# enlighten those that one perceives to be ignorant. That is the
# idea behind freedom of expression.
# What you find offensive might be perceived as truth by
# some and what they might find offensive might be your belief.
# It is only through free exchange of ideas (and insults as the
# case seems to be with this channel) that one can change
# another's erring ways.That is why Jefferson said that here
# we are not afraid to "tolerate error so long as reason is left to
# combat it".
Does this mean that YOU are volunteering to wade through the
Mutlu/Argic deluge that comes in every day? Some of us are
tired of being dragged into content-free pissing contests
with reflexive bigots. We INTENSELY dislike being stuck between
letting this crap pass without comment as though it were
unremarkable and replying to it and getting sucked in again.
Let's keep some perspective here.
IMHO, the Josh's policy of forwarding the garbage in question,
without comment, to the relevant sysadmin strikes a good
balance. The stuff was, after all, PUBLISHED on a public
forum -- from that very site, yet. Hardly a matter of
confidentiality or copyright. If the local administration
wants to do something about it, they have that right. If
not, nobody's twisting their arms.
--- D. C. Sessions Speaking for myself ---
--- Note new network address: dcs@witsend.tnet.com ---
--- Author (and everything else!) of TMail (DOS mail/news shell) ---
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Re: RFI: Art of clutchless shifting
In article <1993Apr23.010311.23110@ra.oc.com>, lusky@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan R. Lusky) writes:
|>
|> Shifting without the clutch on a transmission with syncros can and will cause
|> transmission damage, the only question being how long it takesto grenade
|> something (for the trans in my 87 Pulsar SE, it was about 3-5k miles, but
|> it had a weak tranny in the first place).
Please explain the why of this. I have over 200k miles usage of clutchless
shift and no problems.
krispy
| 7rec.autos |
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