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Hello,
way back in the mists of time, I had a set of patches written
by Richard Caley (I believe to the standars distribution, patch level
6) which added regular expressions in the .tvtwmrc file, multiple icon
regions, squeezable icons, and f.deleteordestroy function. I still
have the patches, however, I can no longer find the sources to which
they applied ;-).
I'd appreciate if some kind soul could send me a pointer to
where I could find the sources. Has anyone updated the patches for R5?
(Richard? are you out there? pretty please?)
Thanks in advance.
manoj
| 5comp.windows.x |
Hi,
I'm working on a project that involves storing an application's rendering
to an X display and then playing it back again. Rather than
"reinvent the wheel", it like to find:
* a file format for saving X protocol.
* software that saves and replays such a session.
Any ideas out there? I've heard that there is a version of Xscope
that will save and replay sessions.
I'd be willing to share much of the code I develop back to the X community.
Axel............
axel@cv.hp.com
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <15APR93.14691229.0062@lafibm.lafayette.edu> VB30@lafibm.lafayette.edu (VB30) writes:
>Just wondering. A friend and I were talking the other day, and
>we were (for some reason) trying to come up with names of Jewish
>baseball players, past and present. We weren't able to come up
>with much, except for Sandy Koufax, (somebody) Stankowitz, and
>maybe John Lowenstein. Can anyone come up with any more. I know
>it sounds pretty lame to be racking our brains over this, but
>humor us. Thanks for your help.
Hank Greenberg, Sid Gordon, Ron Blomberg.
Guess it goes from the sublime to the ridiculous.
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <C6x81M.EJF@news.cis.umn.edu> prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
>(mohamed.s.sadek) writes:
>>
>>I like what Mr. Joseph Biden had to say yesterday 5/11/93 in the senate.
>>
>>Condemening the european lack of action and lack of support to us plans
>>and calling that "moral rape".
>>
>>He went on to say that the reason for that is "out right religious BIGOTRY"
>
>Actually, this strife in Yugoslavia goes back a long way. Bosinan Muslims,
>in collaboration with the Nazis, did to Serbians after the first world
>war what Serbs are doing to Muslims now. This is not a fresh case of
>ethnic cleansing but just another chapter in the continuing saga
>of intense mutual hatred, destruction,... Not taking sides in this
>perpetual war does not amount to religious bigotry. It could just
>be helplessness with regards to bringing peace to a region that does
>not even know the meaning of the word.
>
>Satya Prabhakar
>--
Yeah right, sorta like the Indian sub-contient, eh?
Regards,
Emran
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Stephen Lawrence (s4lawren@sms.business.uwo.ca) wrote:
: Goodbye Minnesota,...you never earned the right to have an NHL
: franchise in the first place!
: Hope you enjoy your Twin city wide mania for HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
: (hey, by the way my old pee wee team is having a reunion in Regina, care
: to come up and film the event?)
: Yee haa Golden Gophers
: Whatta weird town!!!!!
: s4lawren@sms.business.uwo.ca (Stephen Lawrence)
: Western Business School -- London, Ontario
This is the second posting of this kind from an idiot at a business
school in Canada. What is your problem up there anyway? Is this what
they teach you in business school in Canada?
--
_____________________________________________________________________________
Tom Huot
huot@cray.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <Apr15.175334.72079@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> bh437292@lance.colostate.edu writes:
[most of Brads post deleted.]
>we have come to accept and deal with, the Lebanese Resistance
>on the other hand is not going to stop its attacks on OCCUPYING
>ISRAELI SOLDIERS until they withdraw, this is the only real
>leverage that they have to force Israel to withdraw.
Tell me, do these young men also attack Syrian troops?
>with the blood of its soldiers. If Israel is interested in peace,
>than it should withdraw from OUR land.
There must be a guarantee of peace before this happens. It
seems that many of these Lebanese youth are unable to restrain
themselves from violence, and unable to to realize that their actions
prolong Israels stay in South Lebanon.
If the Lebanese army was able to maintain the peace, then
Israel would not have to be there. Until it is, Israel prefers that
its soldiers die rather than its children.
>If Israel really wants to save some Israeli lives it would withdraw
>unilaterally from the so-called "Security Zone" before the conclusion
>of the peace talks. Such a move would save Israeli lives,
>advance peace efforts, give Israel a great moral lift, better Israel's
>public image abroad and give it an edge in the peace negociations
>since Israel can rightly claim that it is genuinely interested in
>peace and has already offered some important concessions.
Israel should withdraw from Lebanon when a peace treaty is
signed. Not a day before. Withdraw because of casualties would tell
the Lebanese people that all they need to do to push Israel around is
kill a few soldiers. Its not gonna happen.
>Along with such a withdrawal Israel could demand that Hizbollah
>be disarmed by the Lebanese government and warn that it will not
>accept any attacks against its northern cities and that if such a
>shelling occurs than it will consider re-taking the buffer zone
>and will hold the Lebanese and Syrian government responsible for it.
Why should Israel not demand this while holding the buffer
zone? It seems to me that the better bargaining position is while
holding your neighbors land. If Lebanon were willing to agree to
those conditions, Israel would quite probably have left already.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that the Lebanese can disarm the
Hizbolah, and maintain the peace.
Adam
Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
"If we had a budget big enough for drugs and sexual favors, we sure
wouldn't waste them on members of Congress..." -John Perry Barlow
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
Hello!!!
The title just about says it all.
I need a list of the bugs for Motif 1.2.
Thanks,
Neal
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <C5spov.LrE@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)
writes:
> In article <1r0qsrINNc61@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De
Arras) writes:
> >In article <C5s0Ds.J54@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)
> >writes:
> >> I agree that they deserved a trial. They had more than 40 days to come
> >> out and get their trial. They chose to keep the children with them and
> >> to stay inside. They chose to stay inside even after they were tear
gassed.
> >> I do not find these actions rational. Even Noriega was smart enough to
> >> give up and go for the trial he deserved.
> >>
> >
> >Mr. Roby, you are a government sucking heartless bastard.
>
> Unworthy of comment.
But apparently true. My opinion, only, of course.
>
> >Humans died
> >yesterday, humans who would not have died if the FBI had not taken the
> >actions
> >they did. That is the undeniable truth. I cried for them.
>
> Nor would they have died if they had come out with their hands empty.
> That is undeniable truth.
No, it is not. It is possible the FBI planned for this to happen, and the
gunfire heard was the FBI keeping the folks inside. I'm not proposing this as
the way it went down, but just to point out that it's not "undeniable" that if
they walked out yesterday, they would be alive today.
> My heart bleeds just as much as yours for
> the children who were never released given 51 days of ample opportunities
> to do so. My heart also bleeds for people so blinded by religious devotion
> to not have the common sense to leave the compound when tanks came up
> and started dropping in tear gas early in the morning.
>
My heart "bleeds" for no one. You are the "bleeding heart". And I'm sure
beyond any possible doubt that you do not feel for those people as I do. You
can not say the heartless things you have said if you did.
> >You seem to say
> >they got what they deserved.
>
> I do not think this. However, if they did set the fire (which started in
> more than one place and spread very quickly), then they got what they
> wanted and put into motion themselves.
"they got what they wanted". What kind of creature are you that you can
believe this?
>
> I see the BATF is going to be investigated by the Justice Dept. and likely
> by Arlen Spectre and congress. This is good. They have bungled the affair
> from the start.
>
We agree on this. Now lets have your God, the FBI, investigated, too.
> >Jim
> >--
> >jmd@handheld.com
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> >"I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't
rethought
> >that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
> >"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was
landed
> >in my country, I never would lay down my arms,-never--never--never!"
> >WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 1708-1778 18 Nov. 1777
>
>
> --
>
Jim
--
jmd@handheld.com
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"I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't rethought
that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed
in my country, I never would lay down my arms,-never--never--never!"
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 1708-1778 18 Nov. 1777
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <1993Apr21.045548.17418@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st922957@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>
>Y'know, when the right to bear arms was "invented",
It wasn't "invented", but was supposed by the writers of the Constitution
to be a universal, pre-existing right. Howsomever...
>all we had to worry about was the shotgun and pistol.
Hmmm. You need to spend some time in a library, son.
When the Bill of Rights was written, in addition to the (muzzleloading)
shotgun and pistol you mention we had:
- rifles in calibers ranging from around .30 to .69 caliber and up.
- cannon with various different projectiles to choose from (and owned
by civilians).
- breech-loading rifles
In addition, semiautomatic and full-automatic firearms had been patented
and/or demonstrated by several people in various places during the preceding
century or so.
>Now, we have to worry about drive-bys
>with Uzis sparaying the entire neighborhood with bullets.
Sounds good. Any refererences to this actually happening, or is it
just exaggeration for effect following one or more incidents of someone
firing a handful of shots from something that may or may not be an
Uzi, semi- or full-auto?
>Just because someting was good once, does not mean it will be forever.
Until the root conditions that justified it go away (criminal behavior,
either private or government, which should be defended against), there's
no reason it should go away.
--
-------------------------------------------------------
| Some things are too important not to give away |
| to everybody else and have none left for yourself. |
|------------------------ Dieter the car salesman-----|
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <1993Apr23.102039.1720@mala.bc.ca>, wagner@mala.bc.ca (TOM WAGNER, Wizzard of old Audio/Visual Equipment........Nanaimo Campus) writes:
>
> The color of the board shows the composition of it, hence the use of it.
>
> Original and older boards were bakelite composition, and were brown.
> Phenolic (spelling) was a tan
> Most "non filled" fiberglass boards used in computers are green.
> Filled fiberglass is blue.
> Teflon is white.
>
Rubbish. The reason for the colour of the boards depends on the solder
mask that is used. Older boards (bakelite and phenolic) rarely used
a solder mask (these boards are not suited well to automatic stuffing
and soldering techniques) and hence are the colour of the compound
used to make them. These days boards are made of fibreglass for most
general purpose uses and have a solder mask applied to them to prevent
close traces shorting to one another during soldering (and also to prevent
the decomposition of traces under harsh environments). The light and dark
green boards ofter seen have a "dry film" mask applied to them (usually
applied as a complete film photographically produced). The blue (and red
or orange) boards are a two-part epoxy or a liquid-imageable resist
formulation and are applied in a different manner. There's a lot of info
about the pro's and con's of each, but that's another story...
Sla/n go fo/ill,
Risky B.
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Megadata Pty Ltd / \
2/37 Waterloo Rd, North Ryde, \_.--._/ +61 2 805 0899
NSW 2113, Australia. v (Fax) +61 2 887 4847
| 12sci.electronics |
On Sat, 1 May 1993 23:13:39 GMT, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) said:
> No. A "dragless" satellite does not magically have no drag; it burns fuel
> constantly to fight drag, maintaining the exact orbit it would have *if*
> there was no drag.
Well, almost. It turns out that clever orbital mechanics can
engineer things so that resonant interactions with the higher order
harmonics of the Earth's gravitational field can pump energy into a
satellite, and keep it from experiencing drag effects for periods of
months to years.
My favorite example of this is the Soviet/Russian heavy ELINT
satellites of the Cosmos 1603 class, which are in 14:1 resonance. In
particular, C1833 has undergone two periods of prolonged *gain* in
altitude, the current one having started in June 1991; the mean altitude
of the satellite is now as high as it has ever been since launch on 18
March 1987. (Looking at the elements for C1833 also shows the
limitations of NORAD's software -- but that's another story.)
This probably has little relevance to space stations, since the 71
degree orbits of the C1603 satellites are at 850 km, which is
unacceptably far into the inner van Allen belt for manned platforms. But
it's kind of interesting from the point of view of the physics of the
situation.
(Orbital elements for these satellites are available on request.)
Allen Thomson SAIC McLean, VA
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Is there an opinion here? If so, it's mine, not SAIC's
| 14sci.space |
kendall@lds.loral.com (Colin Kendall 6842) writes:
>I just heard some anti-gun-control people giving the usual arguments:
>It's everyone's right to bear arms, and the way to solve the problem
>of people getting killed by guns is better law enforcement.
>It strikes me that this argument could be logically extended as follows:
>A nuclear weapon is an "arm", hence anyone has a right to have
>nuclear weapons. And if someone uses his nuclear weapons to blow
>up New York, L.A., and Chicago, that's okay as long as we have a
>good police force capable of finding him and putting him in jail,
>which will serve as a deterrent to others.
>Do any anti-gun-control people disagree with this, and if so, why?
Yes, I am pro-gun, and yes, I do disagree with this statement.
Nuclear weapons in and of themselves are dangerous. Radioactive
decay of plutonium and uranium, as well as the tritium in the
weapon, tends to be somewhat dangerous to living things.
(Can you say "neutron flux"?) Plus these things have no self-
defense purposes. It's kinda hard to justify their use as
a militia weapon when at best they are meant for battlefield use
(low-yield weapons) or at worst for industrial target obliteration
(translation: cities and population centers). Not to mention that
for it to be used as a militia weapon and expect the user to live
requires some sort of launch vehicle . . .
aaron
arc@cco.caltech.edu
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <1r1die$4t@transfer.stratus.com>, cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares) writes:
>In article <1993Apr20.050550.4660@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, j979@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (FULLER M) writes:
>
>> Yet, the FBI mouthpiece at this afternoon's press conference characterized
>> the quantity of CS gas pumped into the building as "massive", and speculated
>> that after a few hours of exposure any Davidian gas masks would become
>> useless.
>>
>> Does this sound "not harmful" to you?
>
>Hm. A previous poster argued that the fact that the BD's did not rush to
>escape the burning building indicated that it was they, and not any of the
>government actions, that started the fire. On the other hand, I wonder if,
>with a face full of "massive amounts of CS," *I* would be able to escape
>a burning tinder-box like that ranch house assuming my best efforts.
Imagine, you have been under seige for almost two months by an enemy which you
believe wants to kill you. Suddenly, they pump tear gas into your building and
punch holes in it with tanks. Then a fire breaks out. Do you run outside to
be slaughtered, or stay and face your fate.
Check Ethiopia vs. Italy in WWII for some answers to that question.
--
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <C5qpzo.HDq@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
shz@mare.att.com (Keeper of the 'Tude) writes:
> I plan to switch to a single fire ignition in about a month and was
> curious if anyone has experience with the supposedly new Crane single
> fire that competes with the Dyna-S. The club wrench (not the wench) has
> done Dyna-S modules for several friends and I'll get one also unless
> a bunch of folks say the Crane is better.
>
> One guy just installed the MC Power Arc ignition but has not yet
> reported the results. It was not a simple bolt-in replacement as new
> mounting holes had to be drilled.
>
> I recognize it's more fun to discuss why Chris needed to change brands of
> penis enhancer but how 'bout some comments on single fire ignitions for
> a while...
I just installed a MC Power Arc II, and it seems to run great. I also
used MC coils, and neither the ignition module or the coils required
any new mounting holes to be drilled on my 92 FXSTC. A little soldering
and all was fine. Static timing was real easy to set too.
On the other side of the coin, my local wrench, whose opinion I
invariably seek but don't always adopt, thinks MC Power Arc is a "piece
of shit" and says "all them Jap chips are gonna fail you one day".
Needless to say, he doesn't like any electronic ignition modules, and
recommends the Dyna-S system. I think that's the one with the
Hall-effect timing sensor(s), correct?
Russ Hughes '92 FXSTC DoD# 6022(10E20)
"the chrome and steel she rides.....collidin' with the very air she
breathes..."
-- N. Young
| 8rec.motorcycles |
In article <1993May11.200419.13494@bmerh85.bnr.ca> rivan@bnr.ca writes:
> Its seems a bit scarry to me that such a project which for the first
>time in years promisses some hope in changing the current trend in
>massively overpriced boosting capability, lacks much publicity...
The people involved in it have been building hardware rather than writing
press releases. This is not a high-manpower project; they don't *have*
spare people sitting around.
As I understand it, there has also been some feeling on the part of some
of the project management that publicity was not a good idea. A lot of
people have been working on changing this view, with some success.
--
SVR4 resembles a high-speed collision | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
between SVR3 and SunOS. - Dick Dunn | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
| 14sci.space |
In article <93109.231733ISSCCK@BYUVM.BITNET> "Casper C. Knies" <ISSCCK@BYUVM.BITNET> writes:
>Gedaliah Friedenberg (friedenb@maple.egr.msu.edu) writes:
>As a Latter-day Saint, I found John's statement *not at all* ludicrous...
>
>Please allow me to explain myself. In 1838, the governor of Missouri,
>governor Boggs, issued his so-called "Mormon extermination order." The
>only crime ("illegal activity") the Latter-day Saints had committed, was
>their religious affiliation, their anti-slave stance (Missouri still
>allowed slave practices), and their growing numbers/influence in Missouri.
>
>I guess the Mormons "got what they deserved," because they refused to bow
>to the will of (corrupt and evil) secular authorities. This "disobedience"
^^^^^^^
>brought upon them persecution, murder, and finally forced expulsion from
>their lands and settlements...
It is significant to remember that these secular positions were held by
"average" people, and that at the time, almost all Americans were pretty
homogeonously Christian. It was largely the mainstream Christian's disgust
at such practices as polygamy which resulted in their irrational hatred.
The situation is not entirely different today. Many irrational feelings and
beliefs are justified through religion. I don't think most of them are started
because of religion, but religion certainly helps justify and perpetuate
prejudices and practices by providing a neat justification which discourages
critical thought.
>In any regard, Mormon history alone indicates that secular authorities (and
>I don't even discuss how Uthan's were suckered into allowing part of their
>lands in becoming nerve-gas and atomic bomb testing grounds...) is far from
>being trusted or righteous. Have things really changed for the better? I
>may be a born cynic, but I have NO reason whatsoever that such has been the
>case. In the early 1980s, I believe, the late President Kimball (lds church
>leader), strongly protested federal attempts to locate the MX-"Peace Keeper"
>missile maze from being built in Utah (yet another "inspired" decision from
>secular authorities). Fortunately, his opposition was influential enough
>for the feds to back off.
Do you mean that the "secular authorities" are some continuous group of
people with the common and uninterrupted goal of harrassing/eradicating the
Mormons? Do you honestly believe that the main reason for using Utah for
nuclear testing etc.. was to "get them thar Mormons"? And what about the
majority of Uthan's who aren't Mormons? You seem to be searching for enemy
conspiracies. It is paranoid to believe that everything that affects you badly
must have been done primarily for that purpose.
>... David Koresh did NOT pose a great
>threat to the federal authorities or the security of this nation, and with
>John, I too wonder who or what's next...
I personally feel that we should try to stop anyone who is a threat to the
life of even one person. Sure, he did not pose a threat to the security of
this nation. But he did pose a threat to the lives of his followers. That
much is definite.
>Who killed who? What constitutional right did the ATF officers have to
>invade upon private land and to force themselves into the compound?
>What REALLY caused the "murder" of the little children? Could it be that
>the ATF/FBI presence has any bearing upon the events? How would you
>interpret the Mt. Masada events? --Blame the Jews? (What the heck did
>the Romans do there anyway? What business did the ATF/FBI has in Waco,
>Texas???) The Branch Davidians NEVER posed any threat to society.
This is like asking who REALLY caused the deaths of the Israeli Olympic
team in 1976? In that case, the police botched the job as well. But to
lay a heavier burden on them than the terrorists would be a terrible mistake.
I think the same sort of reasoning applies in this case. Certainly, if David
Koresh chose any peaceful option, the ATF and FBI would have complied. The
responsibility is more his than the authorities.
>David Koresh, no doubt, will be described as the "evil" guy (by the
>executioners), while the actions of all those "valiant and brave" officers
Characterizing the ATF/FBI as executioners is inaccurate and unfair. In order
to be an executioner, the least one must have done is have the intent to kill.
--
*Isaac Kuo (isaackuo@math.berkeley.edu) * _____
*"How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing.* ______//_o_\\______
* For us, it is a mundane and functional item. For you, *(==(/___________\)==)
* the basis of an entire culture!" Manfred von Richtofen * \==\/ \/==/
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <annick.735440726@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au>, annick@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Annick Ansselin) writes:
> In <C5nFDG.8En@sdf.lonestar.org> marco@sdf.lonestar.org (Steve Giammarco) writes:
>
>>>
>>>And to add further fuel to the flame war, I read about 20 years ago that
>>>the "natural" MSG - extracted from the sources you mention above - does not
>>>cause the reported aftereffects; it's only that nasty "artificial" MSG -
>>>extracted from coal tar or whatever - that causes Chinese Restaurant
>>>Syndrome. I find this pretty hard to believe; has anyone else heard it?
>
> MSG is mono sodium glutamate, a fairly straight forward compound. If it is
> pure, the source should not be a problem. Your comment suggests that
> impurities may be the cause.
> My experience of MSG effects (as part of a double blind study) was that the
> pure stuff caused me some rather severe effects.
>
>>I was under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that most of the MSG on
>>our foods was made from processing sugar beets. Is this not true? Are
>>there other sources of MSG?
>
> Soya bean, fermented cheeses, mushrooms all contain MSG.
>
>>I am one of those folx who react, sometimes strongly, to MSG. However,
>>I also react strongly to sodium chloride (table salt) in excess. Each
>>causes different symptoms except for the common one of rapid heartbeat
>>and an uncomfortable feeling of pressure in my chest, upper left quadrant.
>
> The symptoms I had were numbness of jaw muscles in the first instance
> followed by the arms then the legs, headache, lethargy and unable to keep
> awake. I think it may well affect people differently.
Well, I think msg is made from a kind of plant call "tapioca" and not those
staff you mentiond above.
| 13sci.med |
I am running windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. The sound card I have
is the ATI Stereo F/X-CD sound card which claims Adlib and Soundblaster
compatibility.
Using Windows MediaPlayer, I can play the midi files that came with
my sound card. However, I can't play any of the midi files that belong
to the WinJammer midi editor that I ftp'd from cica. I also can't
play any midi files I generate with muzika (also from cica). When I
try to play the files, a dialog box pops up saying that the music
may not play right, and it has a checkbox asking me if i wish to disable
this message in the future.
Is this normal, or do I have something set wrong? I would really like
to be able to write music on muzika and have my computer play it.
I also ftp'd the game dare2dream for windows (from cica) and its music
won't play either - I get the same dialog box.
The MIDI Mappers that I have are ATI Ext MIDI, ATI OPL3 MIDI, and Vanilla.
I have tried using all three.
Any help, suggestions, shoulders to cry on, etc. would be appreciated
very much.
John P.
--
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punshon@cs.usask.ca|
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <15454@optilink.COM> walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
>In article <C5oG5H.4DE@exnet.co.uk>, sys1@exnet.co.uk (Xavier Gallagher) writes:
>
>> Well, the obvious point to make is would straight men fuck like rabbits
>> if the oppertunity presented itself?
>
>> I reckon *any* *man* would go wildly promiscuous if presented with a
>> huge variety of willing partners.
>
>If true, and if gays were the same as straights except
>for sexual preference, I would imagine that gays would
>have much less sex than straights because the available
>pool for dates is less than one-tenth what it is for
>straights. Somebody correct (flame) me please!
You miss the point. A lot more negotiation is needed to convince women
to have sex because there is a big taboo about women being free with
their sex. Many of the women I know would do almost anything rather
than be known as a slag, slut or whore.
With men however there is *status* attached to being able to fuck
constantly. And with gay men, where both partners can prove status
through their constant verility then you are going to get a situation
where there is a lot of sex.
The difference is between het sex being rationed as a valuable commodity
and gay sex being virtually unlimited due to the *appetites* of men.
Straights suffer a bottle neck where women are concerned, gay men who
do not experience this bottle neck go to excess.
>--
>Mark Walsh (walsh@optilink) -- UUCP: uunet!optilink!walsh
Xavier
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <1993Apr26.104320.10398@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk (Ross Anderson) writes:
>whughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (William W. Hughes) writes:
[ideas that are claimed not to work deleted...]
How about putting your system inside a faraday cage? Even I could build
one...
/Jim
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I've just started programming with the PIC16c57 and I'd like talk to similar
like minded people ? Have you built anything interesting, if so, I'd be
interested in talking about various aspects.
Yes, I already have the application sheets, assembler & simulator.
Cheers,
Stuart
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| 12sci.electronics |
In article <Apr.16.23.17.40.1993.1861@geneva.rutgers.edu<, mussack@austin.ibm.com writes...
<< < For example: why does the universe exist at all?
<Whether there is a "why" or not we have to find it. This is Pascal's(?) wager.
<If there is no why and we spend our lives searching, then we have merely
<wasted our lives, which were meaningless anyway. If there is a why and we
..
<Suppose the universe is 5 billion years old, and suppose it lasts another
<5 billion years. Suppose I live to be 100. That is nothing, that is so small
<that it is scary. So by searching for the "why" along with my friends here
<on earth if nothing else we aren't so scared.
I find this view of Christianity to be quite disheartening and sad.
The idea that life only has meaning or importance if there is a Creator
does not seem like much of a basis for belief.
And the logic is also appalling: "God must exist because I want Him to."
I have heard this line of "reasoning" before and wonder how prevalent
it is. Certainly in modern society many people are convinced life is
hopeless (or so the pollsters and newscasts state), but I don't see
where this is a good reason to become religious. If you want 'meaning'
why not just join a cult, such as in Waco? The leaders will give you
the security blanket you desire.
larry henling lmh@shakes.caltech.edu
| 15soc.religion.christian |
> I'm a commited Christian that is battling with a problem. I know
> that romans talks about how we are saved by our faith not our deeds, yet
> hebrews and james say that faith without deeds is useless, saying' You fools,
> do you still think that just believing is enough?'
[Stuff deleted]
> Now I am of the opinion that you a saved through faith alone (not what you do)
> as taught in Romans, but how can I square up in my mind the teachings of James
> in conjunction with the lukewarm Christian being 'spat-out'
>
> Can anyone help me, this really bothers me.
Will, there has been a lot of discussion going on about this over in
s.r.c.b-s.
I will make the case here though and try to help you out:
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it
is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(Ephesians 2:8-9).
Yes, it is by God's grace and our faith that we are saved. We are not
saved by what we do. However,
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
(John 14:15).
Keeping Christ's commandments is a "work" per se, and a demonstration of
our love for him. Also,
6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his
vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years
I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why
cumbereth it the ground?
8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I
shall dig about it, and dung it:
9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it
down.
(Luke 13:6-9).
Again,
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
(John 15:16).
It is clear from these verses that we are called to bring forth fruit.
What is that fruit. Well, Paul speaks of the fruit of the spirit being
love, joy, peace, patience, etc. All of these are things that are manifest
in the actions that we carry out.
If a person claims to believe in Jesus Christ, but does not do the things
Christ commanded, I dare say, that they really don't have any faith.
Asking which is more important, faith or works, is like asking which blade
on a pair of scissors is most important or like asking which leg of your
pants is more important.
Good works should come out of and be a result of our faith. To have faith,
true faith in Christ requires you to do what he commands. The parable
above speaks allegorically of a person who does bear no fruit. Christs
commands are actions, and if we don't do those actions and produce fruit,
then we shall be uprooted just like the tree.
It is a dead and useless faith which has no action behind it. Actions
prove our faith and show the genuineness of it. I can sit and talk for
days about the fact that I have so much faith in my ability to jump off a
building and not hit the ground. In other words, I can sit and tell you
all day long that I have faith in my ability to fly. I really don't have
that faith though unless I am willing to jump off the roof and take the
test. Words and talk mean nothing.
I could go on and give more scriptures and if people want me to I will, but
this should be sufficient.
Hope it helped.
Jon
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*** 10 MONTH OLD POLK SYSTEM FOR SALE ***
Excellent condition 10 month old (proof available) Polk Monitor 4.6 bookshelf
speakers are being offered for sale. The are excellent, and sound great. I am
going for a higher model. So I need to sell these speakers. I paid $250 for
the pair of bookshelf speakers. I am willing to consider the best offer.
Send me your offers. E-mail: suraj@cs.jhu.edu.
Also have excellent condition Luxman receiver R-351 and Onkyo tape deck
TA-RW404 for sale. Both are in excellent condition and just 10 months old.
Makes an excellent system. Paid $950 for receiver, tape deck and speakers
10 months back, will consider the best offer. Each piece will be sold
seperately if wanted. E-mail best offer to suraj@cs.jhu.edu
-Suraj
| 6misc.forsale |
Yo, Whaz up!!!
Earlier, I was reading on the net about using Splitfire plugs. One
guy was thinking about it and almost everybody shot him to hell. Well,
I saw one think that someone said about "Show me a team that used Split-
fires...." Well, here's some additional insight and some theories
about splitfire plugs and how they boost us as oppossed to cages.
Splitfires were originally made to burn fuel more efficiently and
increased power for the 4x4 cages. Well, for these guys, splitfires
increased performance by increasing TORQUE. They weren't focusing
on horsepower numbers.
Now how does this related to us high performance pilots? Well, that
depends. Do you pilot a high performance 2- or 4-cylinder machine?
In the case of 4-cylinders, splitfires would increase overall torque,
but 4's make more top end horsepower with its torque packed down low.
So for 4's, splitfires would not significantly increase power.
But what about twins?... Many of you 4 guys laugh at some of us twins,
but many times we carry less weight which sometimes can make up for
the hp loss (see Doug Polen vs. Scott Russell, Daytona 1992). However,
twins make more torque thoughout their powerbands. So how does this
translate? Increased torque should "theoretically" help twins make
more power. Splitfire claims that there should be not extra mods
or anything made, just stick 'em in.
Now I don't know about all of this (and I'm trying to catch up with
somebody about it now), but Splitfires should help twins more than
4's.
As far as racing teams.... Ducati team "Fast by Ferraci" used
splitfires in the 1989 season (this is when they had Jamie James
running for em), but I don't know why they stopped since then.
Also, somebody check to see if they had them in 88.....
Peace.
Warren
wcd82671@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
"Have Suzuki, will travel..."
At a local "fix-er-up-er" shop, the bike repairest looked at a
dumped ZX-7. Then he asked the guy...
"What happened..." "I dumped the clutch..."
"How fast..." "Pretty fast..."
"Insurance..." "Nope."
The fixer smiled.....
"What do you know about bikes?" "Not much....."
| 8rec.motorcycles |
In article <222834@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com> maven@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com (Norman Hamer) writes:
>
> Waving at other bikers makes more sense than just "Hey, how's it going,
>nice to meet you on the road, have a good ride"
>
> 2) It keeps you in the habit of watching really carefully for bikes when
>you're IN a cage. This is a Good Thing.
Has anyone, while driving a cage, ever waved at bikers? I get the urge,
but I've never actually done it.
I've bike like | Jody Levine DoD #275 kV
got a you can if you -PF | Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca
ride it | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Let's see how many posts it takes for someone to selectively quote this article
| 8rec.motorcycles |
msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu (Michael Fulbright) writes:
> I am trying to build a synchronous demodulator and I've hit a snag.
> In my application I want to be able to change the gain of an
> op amp amplifier from 1 to -1, controlable via a digital input.
> The most obvious way I've come up with is to use analog switches
> to adjust the gain of the op amp. The only analog switch I have
> experience with it the 4066. Unfortunately I want to switch an
> AC signal which goes from about -5V to 5V, and the 4066 is only
> for positive signals.
>
I have recently used the 4066 to switch a bipolar signal. I simply
ran the 4066 off a bipolar supply, +/- 8V in this case. As long as your
analog input signal stays between the supply rails, the 4066 will work fine.
Of course, your control (logic) input must use -8V as the logic LOW and
+8V as the logic HIGH reference, so that either (1) all your driving logic
must be 4000 CMOS with the same bipolar supply or (2) you must provide
some kind of voltage level shifting circuit between the 4066 and the
control logic. In my case, I was able to use the bipolar supply all the
way.
----
Carlos Puig, KJ6ST cpuig@infoserv.com
San Jose, CA (408) 289-8174
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <93110.200825RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> writes:
>the owners are whining about baseball not being popular among a
>large enough portion of the population, and have suggested various
>"remedies", such as shortening the game or trying to convince us that
>"smoke'embake'emdominatebysheerintimidation" is an accurate description
>of what is, essentially, a laid-back game.
>
>forget those lame ideas. here is my new and exciting two-point plan to
>generate interest in baseball among the masses.
>
>point one: sex.
>point two: violence.
>
>let's face it, sex and violence are the only things that sell in
>america. here's how we can implement them in the game:
>
>sex: cheerleaders, cheerleaders, and more cheerleaders. dancing on top
> of the dugouts. bringing hot dogs to the umps during the seventh
> inning stretch. running up and down the stands. (the south bend
> white sox actually do this).
>
>violence: baseball players are such utter wuss boys. the pitcher beans
> the batter, and both benches empty in what is called a "bench-clearing
> brawl". EVERYBODY JUST STANDS THERE AND LOOKS AT EACH OTHER. stand,
> stand, stand. look, look, look. ho, hum. then, the bullpens
> come running in. when they reach the "fight", they just stand
> there, too.
>
> anybody coming off the bench who does not throw at least one punch
> should be suspended and fined. further, the bullpens should fight
> it out in the outfield, so as not to waste time and energy running
> to the infield.
>
>
I think what Bob is describing here is a game which MAD magazine
called 'Basebrawl'. I have no idea what issue, but it sure did cover
the violence issue.
paul
football: sex, violence.
>basketball: sex, violence.
>hockey: violence.
>baseball: "da pastime of da nayshun!" - yawn.
>
>bob vesterman.
>
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
"D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com> writes:
># So Steve: Lets here, what IS zionism?
> Assuming that you mean 'hear', you weren't 'listening': he just
> told you, "Zionism is Racism." This is a tautological statement.
I think you are confusing "tautological" with "false and misleading."
--
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| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In a previous article, ddn@cbnews.cb.att.com (david.d.nason) says:
>give me a break.
Give ME a break, chum. Are you telling me that Clinton and
Reno DID NOT KNOW that the BATF actions were ILLEGAL, adn
in VIOLATION of their warrant?
>Be part of the solution - not the problem.
The problem is Clinton. YOU be part of him.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
hi,
just a quick question reguarding pc tape backup. I own a 386 dos box
and have an Archive VP402 interface card connected to a QIC-02 tape
drive. Now the simple question is, does anybody in netland know were I
can get some software for msdos (ver 5.0) to run this setup, freeware
or shareware preferred .
Thanks in advance,
Darryl
sorry for the repost but I'm still getting to grips with Pnews.
Darryl Cross, INMOS Ltd, | mail(uk): darryl@inmos.co.uk
Bristol, UK. | or ukc!inmos!darryl
TEL +44 454 616616 ex 618 | (us): uunet!inmos.com!darryl
FAX +44 454 617910 | Internet: darryl@inmos.com
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
I had a GE Emerson 13" color TV for about 3 years and one fine day,
while we were watching something (I doubt if the program was the cause),
we heard a mild explosion. Our screen went blank but there was sound,
so we thought, 'oh we have special effects on the program'. But soon
the sound stopped and smoke started to appear at the back of the TV.
The brilliant EEs we are, we unplugged the TV and called customer service
only to be thrown around by please hold, I will transfer u to blah blah..
Finally we abandoned the idea of trying to fix the TV and got a new one
(we wanted a bigger one too!).
After all the story, what I wanted to know is: Is my problem an isolated
incident or a common one? (I recall reading about Russian TVs exploding, but
not here, in the US). Why would the picture tube explode or even smoke?
I still have the left over TV set, I might dig into it this summer. Any
idea where I can get parts for these things? (probably will cost more than TV).
W/my 0.02
Prasad
prasadr@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr20.175608.23949@ncar.ucar.edu>, baseball@catch-the-fever.scd.ucar.edu (Gregg Walters) writes:
> I have 16MB of memory on my 386SX. I have been running Windows
> without a swap file for several months. Will Mathcad 4.0 be
> happy with this, or insist on a swap file?
I just got Mathcad 4.0, and the manual is not clear on the matter. On page 8:
:
:
* At least 4 megabytes of memory. All memory about 640K should be configured
as XMS.
:
:
* At least 8 megabytes of virtual memory....
Common sense suggests that you should be able to run it (4+8=12 < 16) but the
new Mathcad is kinda kooky, and thus is not subject to the laws of common
sense...
Dan
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| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <1993Apr15.222224.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> ba7116326@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg writes:
>hello there
>ican anyone who has handson experience on riding the Yamaha v-max, pls kindly
>comment on its handling .
From _Cycle_World_ magazine (5/93) (who usually never says _anything_
bad about any motorcycle):
"The Max certainly has motor, but there are some things it is short of.
It is short of chassis. It loves straight lines; aimed in one, it is
nicely stable. But it is not overfond of corners. Forced into one, it
protests, shaking its head, chattering its front tire, grinding its
footpegs, and generally making known its preference for straight
pavement. Bumps? It doesn't like them either. Its fork isn't too bad,
though it is soft enough that it can be bottomed under hard braking.
The shocks, though which work on that short-travel, shaft-drive
swingarm, are firm to the point of harshness."
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| davet@interceptor.CDS.TEK.COM | MRA #151 | an Indian Scout, |
| '88 K75S '48 Indian Chief | AHRMA #751 | Or its brother the Chief.|
| '75 R90S(#151) '72 TR-2B(#751) | AMA #524737 | They're built like rocks |
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In article <1483500348@igc.apc.org> Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes:
>1. The idea of providing financial incentives to selected
>forms of partnership and marriage, is not conventional. However,
>it is based on the concept of affirmative action, which is
>recognized as a legitimate form of public policy to reverse the
>perverse effects of segregation and discrimination.
Other people have already shown this to be a rediculous
proposal. however, I wanted to point out that there are many people
who do not think that affirmative action is a either intelligent or
productive. It is demeaning to those who it supposedly helps and it
is discriminatory.
Any proposal based on it is likely bunk as well.
Adam
Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
"If we had a budget big enough for drugs and sexual favors, we sure
wouldn't waste them on members of Congress..." -John Perry Barlow
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <15APR93.14691229.0062@lafibm.lafayette.edu> VB30@lafibm.lafayette.edu (VB30) writes:
>Just wondering. A friend and I were talking the other day, and
>we were (for some reason) trying to come up with names of Jewish
>baseball players, past and present. We weren't able to come up
>with much, except for Sandy Koufax, (somebody) Stankowitz, and
>maybe John Lowenstein. Can anyone come up with any more. I know
>it sounds pretty lame to be racking our brains over this, but
>humor us. Thanks for your help.
Wasn't Ron Bloomberg, the former Yankee who got the first base hit
by a Designated Hitter, Jewish??
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| 9rec.sport.baseball |
It is model number #7033D, a 14" interlaced .28dp. BTW, if you have a
number to contact the company, that would really be helpful to. Thanks
for replying. I was beginning to believe that I was never going to get
a reply. I posted this on the netnews bboard because the first message
I sent to you was returned, and I didn't know if my second message would
get to you.
Calvin
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <1993Apr16.030703.23005@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rscharfy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryan C Scharfy) writes:
>Excuse me for sticking my nose in, but any parent/parents who do not allready
>immunize their children (especially if it is already free), don't deserve one
>frigging dime of tax money for health care for themselves, or public health
>care service.
>
>(I know the immunization program and the coming national health care issue are
>slightly seperate issues, but anybody who wouldn't help their kids, don't
>deserve my tax help).
Hmmmmm......what about their kids?
cpk
--
It's been 80 days. Do you know where your wallet is?
Slick Willy's already got his hand in my pocket. I'm just afraid
of what he might grab hold of.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <1993Apr19.043654.13068@informix.com> proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
>In article <1993Apr12.165410.4206@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:
>>
>>I recall reading somewhere, during my youth, in some science popularization
>>book, that whyle isotope changes don't normally affect chemistry, a consumption
>>of only heavy water would be fatal, and that seeds watered only with heavy
>>water do not sprout. Does anyone know about this?
>>
>
>I also heard this. I always thought it might make a good eposide of
>'Columbo' for someone to be poisoned with heavy water - it wouldn't
>show up in any chemical test.
That would be a very expensive toxin indeed!
--
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| dfield@oboe.calpoly.edu | Dan: "No, but I'm working on it!" |
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| California Polytechnic State U | |
| 13sci.med |
Subject: Re: Seeking Christian opinion, all sorts.
From: Rob Steele, rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu
Date: 5 May 93 06:52:54 GMT
>Do you mean that your fellow Christians tend to find you wacky? Maybe
>they're right. You might be interested in Franky Schaeffer's books
>about what philistines American Christians are: _Addicted to
>Mediocrity_ and more recently _Sham Pearls for Real Swine_.
One day a few years ago Franky Schaeffer walked into a Greek Orthodox
Church. He is now an Orthodox Christian. So is his mother and if his
father, Fransis Schaeffer, had not passed away he too would have come
into the church.
Franky, like many Americans who have recently found the Orthodox church,
described the experience as finally coming home after a long jouney
through a desert. You should also read the book "Becoming Orthodox" by
Peter Gillquist. It describes the long journey of some 2000 weary
Evangelical Protestants to the Orthodox church. Come taste and see how
good the Lord is.
Timothy Richardson
rich0043@student.tc.umn.edu
| 15soc.religion.christian |
I've been saying this for quite some time, but being absent from the
net for a while I figured I'd stick my neck out a bit...
The Royals will set the record for fewest runs scored by an AL
team since the inception of the DH rule. (p.s. any ideas what this is?)
They will fall easily short of 600 runs, that's for damn sure. I can't
believe these media fools picking them to win the division (like our
Tom Gage of the Detroit News claiming Herk Robinson is some kind of
genius for the trades/aquisitions he's made)
c-ya
Sean
--
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CSS/ITD Consultant President, Bob Sura Fan Club
GM/Manager Motor City Marauders
Internet Baseball League "play ball!"
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
Here's a copy of a letter I'm e-mailing to the Slickster at
his address of 75300.3115@compuserve.com:
____________________________________________________________________________
To: William J. Clinton
President of the United States of America
Mr. President:
I am writing to express my utter outrage at the conduct of various
government agencies in regards to the tragedy in Waco. I DEMAND
the dismissal or resignation of Lloyd Bensen, Secretary of the Treasury,
who bears responsibility for the initial helicopter and grenade attack
by the ATF against the Branch Davidians, and of Janet Reno, who authorized
the final assault on the very day that we were commemorating the Warsaw
ghetto revolt. And I would truly appreciate it if you would make
sure something like this never happens again on your watch.
Respectfully yours,
Kenneth D. Whitehead
___________________________________________________________________________
Get involved, gang. It's your Republic. Let's take it back.
**************************************************************************
* I will be much more willing to believe the Government's side of the *
* Waco story AFTER we are allowed to hear from the survivors. So far, *
* all we've gotten has been censored by the very people who have the *
* most to cover up. And I'd REALLY like to know how they got the *
* press, who complained so loudly about being kept off the front lines *
* during the Gulf War, be such obedient lap dogs in Waco... Kind of *
* makes me wonder if this so-called "freedom of the press" isn't *
* highly overrated. *
**************************************************************************
Ken Whitehead (kdw@odin.icd.ab.com)
| 16talk.politics.guns |
I know that alot of how people think and act in a long distance space project
would be much like old tiem explorers, sailors, hunters and such who spent alot
of time alone, isolated, and alone or in minimal surroundings and sopcial
contacts.. Such as the old arctic and antarctic expeditions and such..
I vote for a later on sci.space.medicine or similar newsgroup fro the
discussion of long term missions into space and there affects on humans and
such..
==
Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked
| 14sci.space |
Does antone know the ftp address for the Smithsonian Institution
where one can get digitized photographs, etc ?
Please reply by email to
pbenson@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu
Thanks
Paul Benson
| 1comp.graphics |
>>>>> On Tue, 20 Apr 93 21:12:55 GMT, cfairman@leland.Stanford.EDU (Carolyn Jean Fairman) said:
CJF> agrino@enkidu.mic.cl (Andres Grino Brandt) asks about Mormons.
CJF> Although I don't personally know about independent sudies, I do know
CJF> a few things.
CJF> He writes:
>There are some mention about events, places, or historical persons
>later discovered by archeologist?
CJF> One of the more amusing things in the BOM is a claim that a
CJF> civilization existed in North America, aroun where the mystical plates
CJF> were found. Not only did it use steel and other metals, but it had
CJF> lots of wars (very OT). No one has ever found any metal swords or
CJF> and traces of a civilization other than the Native Americans.
I was talking to the head of the archeology dept. once in college and
the topic of Mormon archeology came up. It seems that the Mormon church
is (or was) big on giving grants to archeologists to prove that the
native Americans are really the lost tribe of Israel and other such
bunk. The archeologists would shake their head knowingly while listening
to them, take the grant, and go off to do real archeology anyway.
--
Ed McCreary ,__o
edm@twisto.compaq.com _-\_<,
"If it were not for laughter, there would be no Tao." (*)/'(*)
| 0alt.atheism |
Hi Xperts,
this is a repost (no one responded to my desperate yell 8-(
I can't believe there is no XView wizards any more 8-)...
I'm using sliders in my XView apps, usually with editable numeric
field. But I seem to have no control over the length of this field.
In some apps it appears long enough to keep several characters,
in some - it cannot keep even the maximum value set by
PANEL_MAX_VALUE!
As I understand, PANEL_VALUE_DISPLAY_LENGTH, which controls
number of characters to be displayed in text items, doesn't
work in the case of slider, despite the fact that <panel.h>
contains the following bit:
/* Panel_multiline_text_item, Panel_numeric_text_item,
* Panel_slider_item and Panel_text_item attributes
*/
PANEL_NOTIFY_LEVEL = PANEL_ATTR(ATTR_ENUM, 152),
PANEL_VALUE_DISPLAY_LENGTH = PANEL_ATTR(ATTR_INT, 182),
which gives a hint that this attribute can be used for sliders.
But 1) setting this attribute gives nothing, and 2) xv_get'ting
this attribute gives warning: Bad attribute, and returns value 0.
Strange thing is that DEC's port of XView gives plenty of space
in a text fields, but not Sun's Xview...
Can someone share his experience in managing sliders in XView with me,
and clear this problem?
Any help is very much appreciated.
Yuri
yuri@uk.ac.hw.phy
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <1993Apr3.163556.24998@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes:
> In article <1993Apr3.011823.22935@kpc.com>, pcarmack@gimp.kpc.com (Phil Carmack) writes:
> > ....there are people who are performance driven enough to do it.
> > If it weren't so people wouldn't buy Pentium(tm) systems in the first
> > place since they could buy a 486DX3/99 that would run their existing
> > applications faster. Certainly a 486DX3/99 is in the same "league" as
> > a Pentium(tm).
>
> Is the 486DX3/99 anything more than a myth? I haven't heard of it
> from any source that I trust, and I sure don't see any ads for DX3/99
> machines in Computer Shopper. Intel is pretty busy with the Pentium
> right now; I can't seem them introducing their own competition.
>
IBM has displayed a 486DX3/99 as a *TECHNOLOGY DEMO*.
This effectivly means - "here's some neat technology". It is not
a commitment to make such an item...
> --
> Keith Mancus <mancus@butch.jsc.nasa.gov>
> N5WVR <mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov>
> "Black powder and alcohol, when your states and cities fall,
> when your back's against the wall...." -Leslie Fish
Guy
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guyd@austin.ibm.com Tel IBM Austin USA - 512 838 3377
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Greetings. I received a reply stating that unless someone else
confirms that the following company is operating, I should
remove it from my lst:
>PCB Prototypes of Sandy, UT
>Ronald Baker
>8195 South 2660 East
>Sandy, UT 84093
>Tel: [read below]
This is from the COMM_PCB.FAQ (commercial PCB makers).
Also, I don't have time to get the FAQ onto the sci.answers
because of what I like to refer to is "red tape" - after the
finals, I'll see what I can do... in the mean-time, anyone know
of an FTP site that wouldn't mind a 250K file? :-)
And last, I have some new entries for the SIMUSOFT list (mostly
commercial/institutional stuff) but was wondering: should I keep
the restrictions on the price of the software to be considered ->
under $600 or should I include all those in 4 digit prices also?
Take care.
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In article <16BA8C4AC.I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de>
I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Benedikt Rosenau) writes:
> In article <1pq47tINN8lp@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
> bobs@thnext.mit.edu (Robert Singleton) writes:
>
> (Deletion)
> >
> >I will argue that your latter statement, "I believe that no gods exist"
> >does rest upon faith - that is, if you are making a POSITIVE statement
> >that "no gods exist" (strong atheism) rather than merely saying I don't
> >know and therefore don't believe in them and don't NOT believe in then
> >(weak atheism). Once again, to not believe in God is different than
> >saying I BELIEVE that God does not exist. I still maintain the
> >position, even after reading the FAQs, that strong atheism requires
> >faith.
> >
>
> No it in the way it is usually used. In my view, you are saying here
> that driving a car requires faith that the car drives.
>
I'm not saying this at all - it requires no faith on my part to
say the car drives because I've seen it drive - I've done more
than at in fact - I've actually driven it. (now what does require
some faith is the belief that my senses give an accurate representation
of what's out there....) But there is NO evidence - pro or con -
for the existence or non-existence of God (see what I have to
say below on this).
> For me it is a conclusion, and I have no more faith in it than I
> have in the premises and the argument used.
>
Sorry if I remain skeptical - I don't believe it's entirely a
conclusion. That you have seen no evidence that there IS a God
is correct - neither have I. But lack of evidence for the existence
of something is in NO WAY evidence for the non-existence of something
(the creationist have a similar mode of argumentation in which if they
disprove evolution the establish creation). You (personally) have never
seen a neutrino before, but they exist. The "pink unicorn" analogy breaks
down and is rather naive. I have a scientific theory that explains the
appearance of animal life - evolution. When I draw the conclusion that
"pink unicorns" don't exist because I haven't seen them, this conclusion
has it's foundation in observation and theory. A "pink unicorn", if
it did exist, would be qualitatively similar to other known entities.
That is to say, since there is good evidence that all life on earth has
evolved from "more primitive" ancestors these pink unicorns would share
a common anscestory with horses and zebras and such. God, however,
has no such correspondence with anything (IMO). There is no physical
frame work of observation to draw ANY conclusions FROM.
> >But first let me say the following.
> >We might have a language problem here - in regards to "faith" and
> >"existence". I, as a Christian, maintain that God does not exist.
> >To exist means to have being in space and time. God does not HAVE
> >being - God IS Being. Kierkegaard once said that God does not
> >exist, He is eternal. With this said, I feel it's rather pointless
> >to debate the so called "existence" of God - and that is not what
> >I'm doing here. I believe that God is the source and ground of
> >being. When you say that "god does not exist", I also accept this
> >statement - but we obviously mean two different things by it. However,
> >in what follows I will use the phrase "the existence of God" in it's
> >'usual sense' - and this is the sense that I think you are using it.
> >I would like a clarification upon what you mean by "the existence of
> >God".
> >
>
> No, that's a word game.
I disagree with you profoundly on this. I haven't defined God as
existence - in fact, I haven't defined God. But this might be
getting off the subject - although if you think it's relevant
we can come back to it.
>
> Further, saying god is existence is either a waste of time, existence is
> already used and there is no need to replace it by god, or you are
> implying more with it, in which case your definition and your argument
> so far are incomplete, making it a fallacy.
>
You are using wrong categories here - or perhaps you misunderstand
what I'm saying. I'm making no argument what so ever and offering no
definition so there is no fallacy. I'm not trying to convince you of
anything. *I* Believe - and that rests upon Faith. And it is inappropriate
to apply the category of logic in this realm (unless someone tells you
that they can logically prove God or that they have "evidence" or ...,
then the use of logic to disprove their claims if fine and necessary).
BTW, an incomplete argument is not a fallacy - some things are not
EVEN wrong.
>
> (Deletion)
> >One can never prove that God does or does not exist. When you say
> >that you believe God does not exist, and that this is an opinion
> >"based upon observation", I will have to ask "what observtions are
> >you refering to?" There are NO observations - pro or con - that
> >are valid here in establishing a POSITIVE belief.
> (Deletion)
>
> Where does that follow? Aren't observations based on the assumption
> that something exists?
>
I don't follow you here. Certainly one can make observations of
things that they didn't know existed. I still maintain that one
cannot use observation to infer that "God does not exist". Such
a positive assertion requires a leap.
> And wouldn't you say there is a level of definition that the assumption
> "god is" is meaningful. If not, I would reject that concept anyway.
>
> So, where is your evidence for that "god is" is meaningful at some
> level?
Once again you seem to completely misunderstand me. I have no
EVIDENCE that "'god is' is meaningful" at ANY level. Maybe such
a response as you gave just comes naturally to you because so
many people try to run their own private conception of God down
your throat. I, however, am not doing this. I am arguing one, and
only one, thing - that to make a positive assertion about something
for which there can in principle be no evidence for or against
requires a leap - it requires faith. I am, as you would say, a
"theist"; however, there is a form of atheism that I can respect -
but it must be founded upon honesty.
> Benedikt
--
bob singleton
bobs@thnext.mit.edu
| 0alt.atheism |
Dale Hunter ties the game, scoring his third goal of the game
with 2.7 seconds remaining in regulation.
You could feel it coming on.
"Due to contractual agreements, ESPN will be unable to carry
the rest of this game live, so that we may show you a worthless
early-season battle between those two pennant contenders, the
Cleveland Indians and the California Angels. When the winning
goal is scored, we WILL do the grave injustice of breaking into the
baseball game -- something reserved only for the deaths of Presidents
or the trading of Joe Montana to the Chiefs -- to show you the
goal on instant replay.
"Aren't you SO lucky to have national coverage of hockey?"
It's HEIDI all over again, dammit!
Kevin L. Stamber
Purdue University
PENGUINS 7, DEVILS 0 -- ROLL TRAIN, ROLL!
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
Article #61083 (61123 is last):
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: scholten@epg.nist.gov (Robert Scholten)
Subject: Re: How hot should the cpu be?
Date: Wed Apr 21 19:01:49 1993
The temp on my 486DX2/66 is over 96C (measured with a K-type thermocouple
and Fluke 55 dig thermometer). This is an "idle" temp - not doing lots of
bus i/o, not doing floating point, not doing 32-bit protected mode etc. This
is in a Micron computer, without heatsink.
I recently put a heatsink/fan on the chip, but I might take the fan off. It
makes a horrible whine at times, and I wonder what the vibration is doing to
the pins on the cpu etc...
--
Rob Scholten
scholten@epg.nist.gov
End of File, Press RETURN to quit
Rob,
Don't worry about the whine of the fan it will go away in about 3 weeks
of use, mine did...
As to the vibration well that something I thought about to as I have
a tower case and the mb is mounted vertically. So I mounted the fan
on the case so that it just blows air at the CPU and its heatsink
instead. Work just like a charm, but the realy biggy to think about
is after the whine goes away on the fan. If the fan should stop (burn out)
how would you ever know this before the cpu goes up in smoke. Thats what
you should be thinking about. I have the parts together but have not
had the time to assemble them as yet. But you build a thermistor controlled
circuit that will turn on a pesso speaker and a LED when the temp. goes
above the normal operating range (96c) or there abouts. Cheep to do if
you use Radio Shack junk under $5....Think about that one for a while!
Sam
--
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Don't copy that floppy..BURN IT...I just love Windows...CRASH...
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <1993Apr14.182610.2330@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>, jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
>In article <1993Apr14.120958.11363@synapse.bms.com>, hambidge@bms.com writes:
>>
>> The Second Amendment is about sovereignty, not sporting goods.
>
> Perfectly correct, but it won't make any difference.
Hmm. I beg to differ. It will probably make a big difference at some
point.
>
>> Self defense is a valid reason for RKBA.
>
> The vast majority get through life without ever having to
> own, use or display a firearm. Besides, there are other
> means of self-protection which can be just as effective
> as firearms.
Thankfully, it is true that the majority go through life without
having to use a firearm. Howver, there are situations where firearms
are the most effective means of self protection. What other means do
you propose as equally effective?
>
>> Freedoms and rights are not dependent on public opinion, necessity, or
>> scientific scrutiny.
>
> New to this planet ? EVERYTHING is dependent on either public
> or political opinion, usually political. To imagine that
> inalienable 'rights' are somehow wired into the vast cold
> cosmos is purest egotism and a dangerous delusion.
New to this country? New to political theory?
Alas, I was speaking of principle. Without principle, all attempts at
republican forms of gov't are futile. There are times when public and
political opinion are contrary to principle, which is why we have a
Constitution which enumerates gov't powers and presumes certain
rights. A major reason for this was to prevent a tyranny of the
majority.
>
>> No arguments against RKBA can withstand scientific scrutiny.
>
> They don't have to. Like so many other things, the issue
> is one of -perception- rather than boring statistics.
> Every time some young innocent is gunned-down in a drive
> by, every time some kid is murdered for a jacket, every
> time a store clerk is executed for three dollars in change,
> every time some moron kills his wife because she took the
> last beer from the fridge, every time someone hears a 'bang'
> in the night .... the RKBA dies. The stats are not all *that*
> clearly behind firearms - the protection factor does not
> strongly outweigh the mindless mayhem factor. Given society
> as we now experience it - it seems safer to get rid of
> as many guns as possible. That may be an error, but enough
> active voters believe in that course.
This is exactly why law should be based on reasoned thought, not
immediate perception. Of course, it doesn't always work that way.
Fortunately, while there are no guarantees, logic sometimes does
prevail. And, if not, there are still means for correction.
As far as "enough active voters" are concerned, that is still
an open question until the vote is made.
>
>> How do you intend to 'silence' RKBA supporters?
>
> Talk all you want. Talk about the "good old days" when
> you used to own firearms. After a while, such talk will
> take on the character of war stories ... and no one will
> be very interested anymore.
You portray a possible scenario for the future. But, how will you
silence RKBA supporters right now? As long as public debate is
allowed, such debate will continue. If we allow public debate to be
restricted or denied, then we will get a gov't we deserve.
Al
[standard disclaimer]
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <1993Apr16.174056.13368@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> gfeygin@unicorn.eecg.toronto.edu (Gennady Feygin) writes:
>Does anyone have a schedule of Kol Israel broadcasts in different
>languages that could be posted or e-mailed to me. Your
>assistance would be greatly appreciated
>
>GF
Try thr rec.radio.shortwave newsgroup.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <1rh22eINNfce@shelley.u.washington.edu> kniha@carson.u.washington.edu (Dagmar Amtmann) writes:
>There is a wire without any jack at the end sticking out of the wall. So you
>need to connect the wires (I'm not sure if they have wall jacks in Western
>Europe - they may).
Son of the Return of the "How much does Americans know about the rest of
the word?"-flamewar anyone?
-bertil-
--
"It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or
strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an
exercise for your kill-file."
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1r15rvINNh8p@ctron-news.ctron.com> king@ctron.com (John E. King) writes:
>
>
>adpeters@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Andy Peters) writes:
>
>>> Macroevolution is
>>> a mixture of 15 percent science and 85 percent religion [guaranteed
>>> within three percent error :) ]
>
>>Bullshit. This is true only under your ad hoc assertion that only
>>religion can explain origins. The history of life through
>>macroevolution is a falsifiable theory. If you think it's not, then
>>make some substantial argument against it.
>
>"The modern theory of evolution is so inadequate that it deserves to be
>treated as a matter of faith." -- Francis Hitching
>
>Jack
>
Your joking, right? Is this a "substantial argument", even by your
standards?
Tero Sand
--
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"I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating
too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an
intestinal disorder, not a revelation." - Reverend Jerry Falwell
| 19talk.religion.misc |
Hello netters,
I have a question concerning SCSI on DOS.
I have a ST01 SCSI controller and two hard-disks conected
(id's 0 and 1). I'd like to connect a SCSI streamer, but I
don't have software to access it. Does such a beast exist
as shareware or PD ?
Also what if I want a third disk ? I know that DOs only can
"see" two two physical and four logical disks. Will it be
possible to use extra disks ?
Thanks in advance.
Ib
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The FLYERS blew a 3-0 lead over the Buffalo Sabres in the second period, but
Kevin Dineen's 7th career hat trick powered them to their 7th consecutive win,
7-4 over the Sabres who have now lost 7 in a row. Alexander Mogilny led the
comeback scoring his 75th and 76th goals of the season which tied the game at
3 in the 2nd period and 4 in the 3rd. Tommy Soderstrom stopped 41 of 45 shots
on goal to improve his own record to 20-17-6 as he was tested by Mogilny and
LaFontaine all night.
Roster move:
Andre Faust was once again recalled from Hershey, Shawn Cronin was a healthy
scratch.
Lines:
Eklund-Lindros-Recchi
Beranek-Brind'Amour-Dineen
Lomakin-Butsayev-Conroy
Faust-Acton-Brown
Galley-Bowen
Yushkevich-Hawgood
Carkner-McGill
Tommy Soderstrom
Game Summary:
Say, if anybody from Buffalo is reading this, where did you people get that
woman who sang the anthems? We had to turn down the volume!
The FLYERS defense started out the game showing everybody why the FLYERS have
been shutting teams out lately by holding the Sabres to only 8 shots in the
first period. They then showed everybody why they will be playing golf Sunday
when they gave up 37 shots in the last two periods. Maybe Tommy told them that
he was getting bored back there...
Mark Recchi opened the scoring so fast that if you blinked you missed it. After
Buffalo won the faceoff and dumped, Tommy wrapped the puck around the boards
to Eric 1/2 way up on his left. Eric dropped it to Galley, and he sent it ahead
to Recchi steaming out of the zone. Mark skated into the center circle, passed
the puck to himself through the legs of Richard Smehlik, skated around him and
in on Fuhr. Smehlik was pulling at him all the way through the zone with his
stick, Recchi drifted right, drifted back left, and slid the puck back to the
right past Fuhr for a 1-0 FLYERS lead at 0:18. It was so beautiful Eric and
Garry should turn down their assists :-).
The FLYERS kept the pressure on Fuhr for a while after that, but he was strong
and kept the FLYERS from doing further damage. The game then became a defensive
struggle for a while. The Sabres got the first chance on the power play when
Terry Carkner took a boarding minor at 10:26 for crunching Dale Hawerchuk into
the boards in the FLYERS zone. LaFontaine got the only scoring chance, and not
a terribly good one, as the FLYERS smothered the Sabres power play. Mogilny got
a post after it was over. The 25th consecutive penalty kill for the FLYERS.
Keith Carney took a holding penalty at 13:31 for taking down Mark Recchi to
give the FLYERS a power play. The best penalty killing team in the league
didn't allow the FLYERS a shot on goal, although the FLYERS did create a
good scoring chance for Lindros who partially fanned on his shot. Towards
the end of the period the play started going end to end, but everybody kept
missing the net. Greg Hawgood took an interference penalty at 18:19 to give
the Sabres another power play, but they couldn't get anything going and the
fans expressed their displeasure, particularly when they iced the puck. Shots
were 8-6 Buffalo after the FLYERS had led 6-2 at one point.
Mike Emrick interviewed FLYERS president Jay Snider between periods. Jay was
disappointed to not make the playoffs, but not discouraged. This was considered
a rebuilding year after *The Trade* and he seemed very happy with the way the
season went. When asked if he agonized over *The Trade* he said that it was
Russ Farwell's trade and not his, that it only was an issue for him and Ed
Snider as far as the money. But yes, there was some agonizing, and they'd do
it all over again. When asked how the coaching situation would be handled for
next year he said that it's Russ' call, and Russ will evaluate things at the
end of the season. He feels that they're 3 years away from a shot at the Cup.
He expects to get into the playoffs next year, have a shot at a division title
the following year, and a shot at the finals the year after that. This based
on the current level of play and anticipated improvements over the summer.
He's very happy with the re-alignment (he called it "outstanding"). Happy with
the current expansion, feels that the talent pool is big enough with the unflux
of Europeans, but feels that they must make sure existing franchises are stable.
Seemed to like the idea of playing in the Olympics (booo) but said that there
was a definite split among owners and that this certainly would only happen in
four years if there was a consensus.
The Sabres gave the FLYERS their second power play of the game when Brad May
took a tripping penalty at 0:51 of the second. The FLYERS had a little trouble
getting started, but eventually did. Hawgood took a pass as he was moving
throug the neutral zone and handed the puck to Eklund just outside the Sabres
blue line along the right boards. Eklund carried into the zone nad passed
across to Dineen who tried a one timer from between the blue line and the
top of the left circle. He half fanned on it, and sent the puck trickling
through the slot. Fuhr didn't know where it was, though, and Hawgood won the
race to it and flipped it into essentially an open net at 2:15.
Then Mogilny on a breakaway. He slipped through two FLYERS at the blue line
and went in on Soderstrom. He went with the backhander, but Soderstrom was
all over it.
The FLYERS then took some bad discipline type penalties that really hurt them.
Viacheslav Butsayev took a double minor for roughing and high sticking when
Barnaby got under his skin and drew one minor, then according to Gary Dornhoefer
took a dive to get the other (there was no video) at 4:22. The Sabres coudln't
get started. Ryan McGill poked at the puck just after a Sabre carried into the
FLYERS zone, and after a bunch of people poked at it Dineen emerged with it and
headed the other way. It started out a 1 on 1, but Brind'Amour hustled ahead to
make it a 2 on 1 and back off the defenseman. Dineen let it rip from the top
of the right circle to make it 3-0 FLYERS at 5:40. That was all for Fuhr, John
Muckler sent in Dominik Hasek to take over.
But the Sabres still had lots of power play time. Again they took some time to
just get into the FLYERS zone, and when they finally did the FLYERS were all
over them. Boos began to ring through the building. But they finally got through
Soderstrom on an ugly goal. Smehlik took a shot from the top of the zone that
missed and kicked out to Hawerchuk in the slot. Hawerchuk tried a backhander as
he skated towards the goal line to the right as Galley dove down to block it.
Mistake #1, he should have let Soderstrom handle the backhander and worried
about A) the rebound or B) Barnaby who was camped behind the goal line right
next to the net. Well, the rebound dropped right next to Soderstrom, and
mistake #2, Galley just laid there and watched Barnaby get THREE hacks at the
puck before he finally pushed it through the goalie. He didn't even swing his
stick out to try and knock the puck away. With the goal, at 7:48, two streaks
end for the FLYERS. 150:28 of shutout hockey, and 27 straight penalty kills.
Lindros put them right back on the power play at 8:36 with a high sticking
minor, I think it was Barnaby again. This time the Sabres were able to get
set up quickly, but couldn't get too much quality on goal. The Sabres continued
to keep the puck in the FLYERS end for a while after the power play ended.
Things evetually settled down, but then the other very bad penalty. McGill
allowed Barnaby to get under his skin and slashed his stick just before a
faceoff. The gloves were dropped, and McGill started pounding the crap out of
him. But during the fight, he gave Barnaby a head butt with his helmet, and
that meant a match penalty. 2 for slashing, 5 fighting and 5 for the major,
7 minutes of power play time for the Sabres at 14:15, Barnaby only got 5.
The FLYERS were keeping them at bay for a while, but there was only so long
they could do that. After a couple of good Sabre chances, Audette handed to
Ledyard at the point, and Ledyard sent a drive that was knocked down by
Soderstrom. LaFontaine whacked at the bouncing puck from the left side of
the net, and knocked it over to Randy Wood at the right. Soderstrom had
moved over to play LaFontaine, and since Yushkevich and Carkner were waving
at the puck instead of picking up men, Wood just slid it into the empty net
at 17:34 to close the FLYERS lead to 3-2. LaFontaine was actually trying to
put it on net, but half fanned on it and got a break.
The FLYERS then got some shorthanded pressure in the Sabres zone, but Hasek
was strong. Finally it was Keith Carney passing ahead to Hawerchuk into the
neutral zone, and Hawerchuk sent a good backhand pass to Mogilny at the FLYERS
blue line. Another mini-breakaway for Mogilny, he elected to shoot from the
left circle, and he threaded the needle to get it just inside the far post at
18:56 for his 75th of the season. Ironically, the youth hockey tip between
the 1st and second period was Tommy Soderstrom talking about cutting off
angles...
That was all in the 2nd, shots were 19-7 Sabres.
Into the 3rd period, and Pelle EKlund blew a golden opportunity to get the
FLYERS the lead back. A 2 on 1, Acton with the puck, he dropped to Eklund in
the slot, and Eklund held the puck as he slid through the left circle until
he had almost no angle at all to shoot from. When he finally did shoot, he
hit the far post. That was still during the carryover power play time.
Than an incredible almost goal. Randy Wood skated around Recchi and Hawgood
untouched into Soderstrom. Soderstrom goes down, Wood pokes the puck under
Soderstrom, and a black object hits the back of the net. Red light comes on,
horn sounds, crowd cheers. But up to the video replay booth, for some strange
reason, and in the meantime Emrick and Dornhoefer try to figure out what they
could be reviewing. Well, it turns out that it was the taped up stick blade
that went into the net, not the puck. Emrick mentions that one of the criteria
for scoring a goal is that the puck must go into the net...
Dave Hannan then took out Recchi and got a holding minor at 2:35. The FLYERS
could not get anything going at all. They finally got set up 1/2 way through,
but were kept on the perimeter. As time ran out, Beranek stripped the puck
from a Sabre in the offensive zone along the right boards and passed it across
to Eklund at the top of the left circle. Eklund saw Dineen heading at the net
just inside the right circle and passed through to him. Dineen fumbled the pass,
but twice directed it at Hasek, and Eklund swooped in and chipped the bouncing
puck over the goalie for his 11th at 4:42. 4-3 FLYERS.
But the Sabres came right back. LaFontaine picked up the puck in his offensive
left corner and slid it to Bob Erry behind the FLYERS net. Erry started to skate
out, but then just dropped the puck back to nobody behind the net. Mogilny flew
in, skated around, and stuffed it through Soderstrom's 5 hole for his 76th at
5:24 to tie the game at 4.
Then Hawerchuk took a retaliatory roughing penalty at 5:55. The FLYERS set up
in the Sabres zone, and stayed there. Off a faceoff high in the Sabres zone in
the middle. While Brind'Amour wrestled for the puck, Dineen snuck through the
line and wristed a perfect shot low to Hasek's glove side at 6:44.
Play started to go back and forth until Hawgood took a roughing penalty at 8:19.
The FLYERS dumped the puck into the Sabres zone. Brind'Amour and Ledyard went
after it, and Rod got the puck. He backed away from the right boards, skated
to the right faceoff dot, and passed between his legs to Dineen crashing
through the slot all by himself. Dineen waited patiently and lifted it over
the blocker of Hasek for a 6-4 FLYERS lead at 8:39. 3rd hat trick of the season
for Dineen, 7th of his career, 2nd shorthanded goal of the game for him 35th
of the season.
Then Carney took a tripping penalty at 9:02 to kill the rest of the Sabres
power play. Not much action on the 4 on 4, and the Sabres got most of the
chances on the FLYERS resulting power play.
Play went end to end for quite a while after that and both goalies had to
make some big saves. The Sabres weren't able to pull Hasek as time was running
out as the FLYERS wouldn't allow any consistant possession for the Sabres.
Finally as time was running out Ken Sutton misplayed the puck in his own left
corner and Brind'Amour stripped it away from him. He pulled away and found
Dineen on the other side of the left circle, and Dineen found Acton at the
right of Hasek. He slid the puck between two Sabres defenders, and Acton
chipped it back to the far side of Hasek for his 8th of the season at 19:48
on his 35th birthday. That was all the scoring, shots were 18-13 Buffalo,
and the ice was showered with plastic drinking mugs handed out before the
game.
So another strong game from Tommy Soderstrom who hadn't been tested much
in his last couple of starts. Kevin Dineen has a career high 6 point night
(unless he had a better night earlier in the season, but I don't think so).
The FLYERS longest winning streak in 3 years, 30 goals for only 11 against
with three shutouts. Eric Lindros is 8th in league with 33 even strength goals
despite missing 23 games with injury. 4 points out of 4th, clinched 5th place
since the Rangers lose the tie breaker.
A couple misc notes:
Forget the Mike Keenan rumors, there will be a press conference tommorrow to
announce that he will be head coach of the New York Rangers next year.
In the last notes I mentioned that Garry Galley won the Barry Ashbee Award,
but I failed to mention that the award is for the best defenseman.
The Times of Trenton has reported that "a preeminent specialist from Oklahoma"
has looked over Tommy Soderstrom's medical record and determined that no
further tests are necessary in the near future.
Same paper had a blurb about Bill Dineen being asked about whether or not he
expected to be back next year. His response was that he wants to come back,
he feels he did a good job this year, but that he would cheerfully accept a
role scouting if Farwell didn't want him back.
FLYERS team record watch:
Eric Lindros:
41 goals, 33 assists, 74 points
(rookie records)
club record goals: club record points:
Eric Lindros 40 1992-93 Dave Poulin 76 1983-84
Brian Propp 34 1979-80 Brian Propp 75 1979-80
Ron Flockhart 33 1981-82 Eric Lindros 74 1992-93
Dave Poulin 31 1983-84 Ron Flockhart 72 1981-82
Bill Barber 30 1972-73 Pelle Eklund 66 1985-86
Mark Recchi:
52 goals, 69 assists, 121 points.
club record goals: club record points:
Reggie Leach 61 1975-76 Mark Recchi 121 1992-93*
Tim Kerr 58 1985-86,86-87 Bobby Clarke 119 1975-76
Tim Kerr 54 1983-84,84-85 Bobby Clarke 116 1974-75
Mark Recchi 52 1992-93 Bill Barber 112 1975-76
Rick Macliesh 50 1972-73 Bobby Clarke 104 1972-73
Bill Barber 50 1975-76 Rick Macliesh 100 1972-73
Reggie Leach 50 1979-80
*More than 80 games.
FLYERS career years:
Player Points Best Prior Season
Mark Recchi 121 113 (90-91 Penguins)
Rod Brind'Amour 84 77 (91-92 FLYERS)
Garry Galley 62 38 (84-85 Kings)
Brent Fedyk 59 35 (90-91 Red Wings)
That's all for now...
pete clark jr - rsh FLYERS contact and mailing list owner
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <C5wI5n.19v@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com> max@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com (Max Webb) writes:
>In article <1993Apr16.193723.19050@asl.dl.nec.com> duffy@aslss02.asl.dl.nec.com (Joseph Duffy) writes:
>>In article <1993Apr16.173720.19151@scic.intel.com> sbradley@scic.intel.com (Seth J. Bradley) writes:
>>>
>>>How does one falsify God's existance? This, again, is a belief, not a scien-
>>>tific premise. The original thread referred specifically to "scientific
>>>creationism". This means whatever theory or theories you propose must be
>>>able to be judged by the scientific method. This is in contrast to
>>>purely philosophical arguments.
>>>--
>>
>>How does one falsify any origin theory? For example, are a forever existing
>>universe or abiogenesis strictly falsifiable?
>
>Guess you must have slept through all the recent excitement when the
>COBE experiments confirmed a prediction of the Big Bang theory. Superstition
>resolves contradictions by postulating new miracles and "it just kinda sorta
>looks that way" (apparent age) - hence it never makes predictions. Science
>resolves contradictions by changing the theories involved.
>
>Too bad your programming does not allow you that luxury.
You sound absolutely convinced! Tell me how long did it last, what color
was it? It must be so exciting to know for sure. By the way, it seems as
though there is a fine line between "postulating new miracles" and postulating
new theories.
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| 19talk.religion.misc |
In article <snelson3.8.0@uwsuper.edu> snelson3@uwsuper.edu (SCOTT R. NELSON) writes:
>The rotation has changed due to a "strange" injury to Scott Erickson. He
>developed a twinge in the stomach area and has been taken out of the
>rotation. New rotation (to the best of my mind's knowledge) is:
>Kevin Tapani, Jim Deshais, Pat Mahomes, Willie Banks.
>
Add Mike Trombley in there somewhere, since they need five people. Mark
Guthrie will remain in the bullpen as the long lefty.
>As to SS and 3B:
>Short will be played by Scott Leius who played short for much of his career
>before the Twins. At third Mike Pagliarulo and Jeff Reboulet will platoon.
>
Pags and Terry Jorgenson will platoon at third, with Reboulet as the
backup infielder. Pags looked pretty miserable yesterday for a guy who
lead the league in DA in 1991, muffing what should be routine grounders
(heck, muffing a grounder *I* would probably have gotten to). Jorgenson
did nothing exceptional that I noticed. Leius missed a ball I *think*
Gagne would have reached; we will certainly miss Gag's glove this season.
>Winfield has struggled during preseason. Sunday against the Colorado
>Rockies he went 2 for 3 with 2 RBIs and scored once.
>
He looked pretty good there. Contrary to what the mediots have been saying,
he looked reasonable at first. He isn't mid-80s Hrbek, but then neither is
the Pretty Big Guy himself any more (note: I'm used to seeing the Twins
1B looking kinda big on the field, but not that big!). If he hits vaguely
like last year, he's a perfectly good first baseman.
Note: Much of this posting is from personal observation yesterday in a game
where the regulars were mostly pulled after several innings. Winfield may
have big holes in his defensive game that didn't show up (he didn't have to
pick any bad throws, for example), but I'll take what I saw so far.
David Thornley
"Have tickets, will travel to Dome"
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
I have a fresh stock of S-VHS broadcast master tapes, in album covers, forsale.
All unopened and still in plastic. I will sell the lot for $50 (they are worth
around $75 at Discount Video Warehouse). (Fuji Broadcast master )
Send e-mail.
| 6misc.forsale |
In <2BDC2B73.17775@news.service.uci.edu> tclock@orion.oac.uci.edu (Tim Clock) writes:
>In article <Apr26.175327.86241@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> bh437292@lance.colostate.edu writes:
>>In article <1993Apr24.202201.1@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>, ifaz706@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Noam Tractinsky) writes:
>>|> Paraphrasing a bit, with every rocket that
>>|> the Hizbollah fires on the Galilee, they justify Israel's
>>|> holding to the security zone.
>>|>
>>|> Noam
>>
>>
>>
>>I only want to say that I agree with Noam on this point
>>and I hope that all sides stop targeting civilians.
>>
>>Basil
>>
>Absolutely. I'm sure that civilians on both sides would be pleased
>if the fighters (military, guerilla, whatever) would just take their
>argument elsewhere, find an unpopulated area somewhere, and slug it out.
>At that point, we will all breath a sigh of relief *and* cheer for
>our side in the struggle.
Ah, but when you fire at armed folks they have this nasty habit of
firing back. A simple terrorist could get hurt that way.
>--
>Tim Clock Ph.D./Graduate student
>UCI tel#: 714,8565361 Department of Politics and Society
> fax#: 714,8568441 University of California - Irvine
>Home tel#: 714,8563446 Irvine, CA 92717
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In <1r74bcINN6ei@ome.sps.mot.com> wcl@risc.sps.mot.com (Wayne Long) writes:
> When I run our RS6000's "info" utility through a remote login
> shell (rlogin) from my Sun Sparc 1+, I can no longer type
> lower case in any of info's window prompt's.
> I thought the prob. may have been due to my Sun window mgr.
> (Openlook) being incompatible with the AIX Motif application
> but I tried it under TVTWM also. Same result.
>
> So this is presumably an X11 key definition problem between
> workstations - but my system admins. feign ignorance.
>
> What do I need to do the be able to type lower case into
> this remote AIX motif app. from within my local Openlook
> window manager?
>
>
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>6501 William Cannon Drive West UUCP: cs.texas.edu!oakhill!risc!wcl
>Austin, Texas 78735-8598 Phone (512) 891-4649 FAX: 891-3818
I have had the exact same problem, but have not figured out a solution.
I run a PC with Linux (free-unix) with X11r5 and OpenWindows 3.0, I
would appreciate any solutions.
ewz
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hi guys does anyone could tell me
at which resolution can work this monitor
of course it support 640x480 but at 800x600
and 1024x768 with a cirrus card it seems
to don't work any clues?
written by max rosa@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <MfpIRbO00WBLI1ispC@andrew.cmu.edu> "William K. Willis" <ww1a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> As a person who has rarely even SEEN Don Cherry and doesn't know
>anything about him, I don't know whether it is just this area
>(Pittsburgh) of the USA that is "deprived" of his broadcasts or whether
>he's a Canadian thing altogether. Seriously, what is he all about? I
>know he was a coach at one time, and from the volume of posts about him,
>SOMEONE surely is getting a steady diet of him somehow, but my question
>is, what is the deal with him? Secondly, are the comments of his that I
>read about on the net merely flame bait, or do people actually take him
>seriously? I gotta tell you, from what I see, he really sounds like an
>ass. Let me know - maybe I'm missing something.
>
For those of you who complain about Don Cherry, and wonder why he is
popular...
the reply is Dick Vitale and John Madden and Bobby Knight and
Joe Garagiola and Howard Cosell.
John Madden picks Gary Clark of the Redskins for his All-Madden team
a lot, over much better receivers...for much the same reasons Cherry
sings the praises of Doug Gilmour...a little guy with heart...yet one
doesn't see a string of American posts saying that John Madden has
lost his marbles.
Dick Vitale is always promoting this kid from this high school or
that college with outrageous statements.
Why should Americans expect that Canada would not have such characters
in relation to our greatest passion...which is hockey? Canadians
are very similar to Americans...culturally our sports are just hockey
and curling, whereas with Americans it is football/basketball/baseball
and bowling.
Gerald
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
---
51 Arrested for Defying Judge's Order at Abortion Protest Rally
The Miami Herald, April 11, 1993
Melbourne, Florida -- [...]
Circuit Judge Robert McGregor's order prohibits anti-abortion pickets
within 36 feet of the property line of Aware Woman Center for Choice.
Even across the street, they may not display pictures of dead fetuses
or sing or chant loud enough to be heard by patients inside the clinic.
The protesters say the ruling all but wiped out the First Amendment
to the Constitution.
``This is our sidewalk,'' said Joe Carroll, 33, a landscaper who
marched with his children, Mary Grace, 8, and John, 7.
``I am not a rescuer. I am not a trespasser. It's just that this is
my sidewalk. I am not really protesting abortion. We are protesting
denial of our rights of assembly, religion, speech. This judge is
trashing the Constitution.''
The children's grandmother led them away, sobbing, as Carroll and
his father were arrested.
Outside the clinic, Eleanor Smeal, president of the Washington,
D.C.-based Feminist Majority Foundation, called for the Florida
Legislature and Congress to pass laws as tough as the judge's
order, which covers only Brevard and Seminole counties.
``This cannot go on,'' she said. ``This is not freedom of speech,
this is total psychological warfare with violence. It is ridiculous
to have to ask clinics to go court-by-court . . . to get protection.''
[...]
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| 18talk.politics.misc |
Someone writes:
>I found a list of Biblical contradictions and cleaned it up a bit, but
>now I'd like some help with it.
I'm curious to know what purpose people think these lists serve.
Lists like this seem to value quantity over quality, an "argument
from article length." And the list you have here is of poorer
quality than most. Since the quotes seem to be taken from an
on-line bible, I doubt that there will be much problem with
verses quoted inaccurately. But that isn't the problem here.
I've known a lot of fundamentalists in my life, but none who
denied that there were errors in transmission, etc. And many of
the contradictions here -- Solomon having 40,000 horse stalls in
one verse, and 4,000 in another -- are just the sort of
contradiction that fundies don't have a problem with, in my
experience. So how do these sorts of contradictions amount to
anything more than attacking a straw man?
Some of the others are just silly, or rely on taking quotes out
of context, or have reasonable explanations. But even the ones
that are genuine contradictions need to have more said about
them than what is given here. (At the very least, some effort
should be made to understand and respond to the common replies
given by fundies.) Look for example at the research that Dave
Butler put into an article examining a false prophecy about Tyre.
That would be an excellent start for an anti-inerrancy list that
would have some teeth. (One well-researched and documented
contradiction is worth more than one hundred quotes taken out
of context and thrown together in a list.)
Lists like this that just toss a bunch of quotes together to
make a bible verse salad just don't cut it. Those of us who
want to argue against inerrancy should find this sort of thing
as embarassing as the fundies should find Josh McDowell.
dj
P.S. You can find some good material at ftp.rutgers.edu in
/pub/soc.religion.christian/others/contradictions. The quality
is very uneven on both sides of the argument (it is just a
compilation of things many people have written), but some of
it would be useful in an anti-inerrancy FAQ. After exams, I
might be willing to help put it together.
| 19talk.religion.misc |
khayash@hsc.usc.edu (Ken Hayashida) writes:
>Rockwell International in Downey, California, in conjunction with the
>other shuttle contractors delivered the world's most important and
>most revolutionary space vehicle.
Ha!
>One cannot argue with the fact that
>it flies, lands, and is reusable.
Watch me. It flies. It lands. It gets rebuilt.
>In my opinion, these were the only
>appropriate specifications for this program.
That's not what they told us back in the '70's.
>It has been a test program from the start, a logical follow to the
>X-15 program and the later X-series lifting bodies.
1. It isn't a logical follow-on. A logical follow-on would have
been either a Russian "snowfox" type thingey (for the lifting bodies)
or something like MMI's Space Van (or Boeing's TSTO, or the airbreathing
TSTO the military is allegedly _using_ now that probably cost less
to develop than the shuttle does to fly for a year).
>The engineering specs that the guys in the trenches had were to
>develop a system which was man-ratable, could land reliably, and could
>be reflown. These goals were quite visionary for the 1970's, and I
>would argue that they are challenging even today, including for the
>DC-X program.
Keep that attitude, and it'll be a couple centuries before we get real
access to space, unless another country without all that baggage comes
along and kicks our ass in the space race.
>I do not recall a 1 flight/week specification in the final NASA specs for the
>space shuttle program. If you have such documents, I would find them most
>revealing and interesting. As far as I can tell, the only people touting a
>1 flight per week flight rate were people on Capitol Hill or selling books
>to the general public.
Or NASA HQ. That doesn't give the rest of the program plausible deniability
if we deceide that it wasn't worth the money we've spent, which is by now
probably a lot more than Apollo.
>IMHO, political statements in the halls of the US Congress are not
>admissable as engineering specs because specs should be determined by
>NASA/DOD and contractors, not by Congressmen, Senators, or Presidents.
>Missions are defined by political leaders, but not the engineering
>specs.
Yes, but it gets sold on the basis of the political statements.
You're saying basically that it met the engineering specs (which is
questionable, IMHO) so it's a success, never mind that you couldn't
get the funding the shuttle eats with those engineering specs in
a thousand years.
>The shuttle is the only reusable space vehicle. This automatically
>qualifies it as an unparalleled engineering success. You could argue
>about its political success. But engineering wise, it is clearly the
>most advanced machine ever flown. I argue that engineering and
>technical data for hypersonic flight is valuable in and of itself.
>Shuttle should be justified or criticized on the basis of economics.
You can get hypersonic flight data with an X-15 or a follow-on X-15
type vehicle for much less.
And economics and engineering are interchangable; engineering in the
absense of economics is basically just physics, and in terms of physics,
the shuttle looks like a failure next to the X-15.
Then Henry wrote:
HS>Sorry, support that I can arrange for launchers all goes to launchers
HS>that I have some hope of riding some day. At the moment, that's
HS>DC-X's hoped-for successors.
>I was disappointed by this and other similar statements from those vocal in
>support of the DC-X program . Your support of DC-X is based on hopes.
>My support for the shuttle program is based on record.
The shuttle program has a bad record. I _once_ had hopes for the
shuttle program. By now I know those hopes were false.
All I have for DC-X and similar and dissimilar experimental vehicles
are hopes. But at least I know they aren't false hopes yet.
I did support the shuttle, way back when. It didn't do nearly what
it was supposed to. It's time to move on to something that might do
the job of orbital delivery better. Or at all.
>I think that it is
>also important to note that I do not object to DC-X. It is visionary.
>I originally posted:
>> I like the DC-X idea... and I am really hopeful that it'll be a stunning success
>Unfortunately, DC-X'ers are not willing to return that support the
>proven Shuttle program. Explain why you folks criticize shuttle when
>shuttle is exactly what you guys need in order to learn how to operate
>DC-X on-orbit.
We don't want to learn how to operate on orbit. It launches, it
shoves out the payload, it lands. It doesn't waste payload hauling
up and down EDO pallets and the like.
The only thing to be learned from shuttle is how *not* to build a
launcher.
Finally: that bit about the "proven" shuttle. Are you hoping you can
tell a lie enough times and get someone to believe it?
>I enjoyed your later postings regarding the comparisons between the shuttle
>and the Soyuz project. Although, I may disagree with your method
>of analysis. You probably will disagree with mine. 8-) I think that
>the total impact of the shuttle program must be judged on the scientific and
>technical merit, not on timelines and schedules (do you agree?)
How much science and technology could have been done is the money spent
on shuttle had been spent differently?
...
>As for now, we need to stop thinking of DC-X and shuttle as mutually exclusive.
Learn about economics and the current budget realities in the United States,
please.
>Thanks for your time.
--
Phil Fraering |"Number one good faith! You convert,
pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|you not tortured by demons!" - anon. Mahen missionary
| 14sci.space |
jlecher@pbs.org writes:
>In article <1rmn0c$83v@morrow.stanford.edu>, mou@nova1.stanford.edu (Alex Mou) writes:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My skin is very dry in general. But the most serious part is located
>> from knees down. The skin there looks like segmented. The segmentation
>> actually happens beneath the skin. I would like to know if there is any
>> cure for this.
>>
>As a matter of fact, I just saw a dermatologist the other day, and while I
>was there, I asked him about dry skin. I'd been spending a small fortune
>on various creams, lotions, and other dry skin treatments.
>He said all I needed was a large jar of vaseline. Soak in a lukewarm tub
>of water for 10 minutes (ONLY 10 minutes!) then massage in the vaseline,
>to trap the moisture in.
That is the standard advice in dermatology texts.
The soak part greatly increases the inconvenience. Don't bother unless
it doesn't work otherwise.
>The hard part will be finding the time to rub in the
>vaseline properly.
Exactly, but it adds to the "ritual" aspect, which is important for
us suggestible patients. (Posters, don't bother to repeat the
rationale for the soak.)
>If it's not done right, you remain greasy and stick
Greasy no matter what. Vaseline (generically, petrolatum) is
famous for that. One text states that the more greasy a dry-skin
cream is, the more effective.
>Try it. It's got to be cheaper then spending $30 for 8 oz. of 'natural'
>lotion.
Try USP lanolin, at least for maintenance (preventive) therapy. USP
lanolin is natural and much less greasy AND cheap (don't buy the more
expensive perfumed lanolin mixture). As I've commented before, petrolatum
is a poorly characterized mixture of hydrocarbons which are not found in
biological systems (that is not inherently bad, but smell it up close,
even on your hand), are partially absorbed into the body and remain there
for months or more, and have associations with cancer. Don't panic, but
also don't believe it's God's gift to the human skin.
Oren Haber-Schaim
| 13sci.med |
In <1rls95$9aj@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
>Planes ruin the night sky. Blimps ruin the night sky. Radio towers
>ruin the night sky.
>Like i said, get a vote, and create some more national parks. which
>include onobstructed air space.
You should have heard Prof. McNally , from my days as an astronomy
undergraduate, denouncing photon pollution. It was easy to imagine him
taking practical steps to modify the sodium lamps on the street
outside Mill Hill observatory with a 12-gauge shotgun :-)
However, seriously, it is possible to limit the effects of
streetlights, by adding a reflector, so that the light only
illuminates the ground, which is after all where you need it. As a
bonus, the power consumption required for a given illumination level
is reduced. Strangely enough, astronomers often seek to lobby elected
local authorities to use such lighting systems, with considerable
success in the desert areas around the major US observatories. At
least, thats what McNally told us, all those years ago.
( British local authorities couldn`t care less, as far as I can see )
I suppose that the "right" to dark skies is no more than an aspiration,
but it is a worthwhile one. Illuminated orbital billboards seem especially
yukky, and are presumably in the area of international law, if any, although
I do find the idea of a right to bear anti-satellite weapons intriguing.
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| 14sci.space |
In article <1qk1md$6gs@kyle.eitech.com> ekr@kyle.eitech.com (Eric Rescorla) writes:
#In article <1qjbn0$na4@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
#>In article <kmr4.1571.734847050@po.CWRU.edu> kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan) writes:
#># You have only pushed back the undefined meaning. You must now define
#>#what "objective values" are.
#>
#>Really? You don't know what objective value is? If I offered the people
#>of the U.S., collectively, $1 for all of the land in America, would that
#>sound like a good deal?
#Well, that would depend on how much we wanted the US and how much
#we wanted the $1, wouldn't it?
Yes it would. Luckily these parameters are fixed by reality. If I can
predict with almost 100% accuracy that Americans prefer to own their portions of
the US than an infinitesmal portion of $1, in what sense are these values
not objective? I don't think I'm way off beam in saying that "something is
better than nothing" is a rational and objective valuation. Do you agree
with me then that the assertion "no values are objective" is false?
--
Frank O'Dwyer 'I'm not hatching That'
odwyer@sse.ie from "Hens", by Evelyn Conlon
| 0alt.atheism |
In article <1r9lu9$s1d@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, coates@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jeffery David Coates) writes:
) From: coates@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jeffery David Coates)
) Subject: TEST
) Date: 23 Apr 1993 21:09:29 GMT
) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
)
)
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) Test
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| 6misc.forsale |
The last time we discussed homosexuality, I asked whether anyone could
identify any other act besides homosexual intercourse that the Bible
prohibited, but which might in some circumstances bring no apparent
harm to anyone. Put another way, the question is whether homosexual
intercourse is the only act that Christians are supposed to believe
is immoral solely on the basis that God says it is, with no insight
being offered as to *why* it is immoral. No one could answer my
question in either form from the Bible. (I did get an interesting
response based on Roman Catholic theology).
However, I think now that I can at least answer my first question.
Link Hudson pointed me to it in his recent comments about sleeping
with one's aunt. Incest is held to be immoral in every society,
that is, there are some degrees of relationship where marriage
(and thus, intercouse) is prohibited. The Bible is no exception.
The trouble is that it may be difficult to see *why* a particular
relationship qualifies as incestuous. Societies differ as to
how they define incest. Genetic reasons are sometimes offered, but
all the Biblical cases cannot be dealt with that way. Why can't
a man sleep with his step mother--assuming that his father is
dead and that he has "married" her? How does this case differ
from the *duty* to marry one's brother's childless wife.
Are these two cases parallel? Does the Bible prohibit some incestuous
marriages and homosexual marriages for the same reason, perhaps
that God knows they are not good for us and yet we are incapable
of understanding why.
P.S. Please don't bother writing me to tell me that I am a homophobe,
as some did last time. My mind is not made up on these questions.
You don't know whether I am homophobic or not. You don't
know me. To call me or anyone else a homophobe without knowing the
person may be as much an expression of bigotry as some homophobic
remarks.
--
Stan Armstrong. Religious Studies Dept, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, N.S.
Armstrong@husky1.stmarys.ca | att!clyde!watmath!water!dalcs!armstrng
| 15soc.religion.christian |
dleonar@andy.bgsu.edu (Pixie) writes:
> Unfaithfully yours,
> Pixie
> p.s. If you do sincerely believe that a god exists, why do you follow
>it blindly?
> Do the words "Question Authority" mean anything to you?
> I defy any theist to reply.
Dear Defiant (or Unfaithful or Pixie):
I will take up the challenge to reply, as I am a theist.
The foundation for faith in God is reason, without which the existence
of God could not be proven. That His existence can be proven by reason
is indisputable (cf. my short treatise, "Traditional Proofs for the
Existence of God," and Summa Theologica).
Now, given that God exists, and that His existence can be proven by reason,
I assert that His commands must be followed blindly, although in our fallen
condition we must always have some measure of doubt about our faith. Why?
Because God is the First Cause of all things, the First Mover of matter,
the Independent Thing that requires nothing else for its existence, the
Measure of all that is perfect, and the essential Being who gives order
to the universe (logos).
I next assert that God is all good. If this is so, then that which is
contrary to the will of God is evil; i.e., the absence of the good. And,
since God can never contradict Himself, then by His promise of a Savior
as early as the Protoevangelium of Genesis 3:5, God instructs that because
a human (Adam) was first responsible for man's alienation from the Source
of all good, a man would be required to act to restore the friendship.
Thus God became incarnate in the person of the Messiah.
Now this Messiah claimed that He is the Truth (John 14:6). If this claim
is true, then we are bound by reason to follow Him, who is truth incarnate.
You next seem to have a problem with authority. Have you tried the United
States Marine Corps yet? I can tell you first-hand that it is an excellent
instructor in authority. If you have not yet had the privilege, I will
reply that the authority which is Truth Incarnate may never be questioned,
and thus must be followed blindly. One may NOT deny the truth. For
example, when the proverbial apple fell on Isaac Newton's head, he could
have denied that it happened, but he did not. The laws of physics must
be obeyed whether a human likes them or not. They are true.
Therefore, the Authority which is Truth may not be denied.
QED
--
boundary
no teneis que pensar que yo haya venido a traer la paz a la tierra; no he
venido a traer la paz, sino la guerra (Mateo 10:34, Vulgata Latina)
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Here is a disturbing thought.
Now, we no longer live in the days of big filing cabinets. We live in
the electronic age. I asked myself, how big could the escrow database
get? How hard might it be to steal the whole thing, particularly were
I an NSA official operating with the tacit permission of the escrow
houses? (We can pretend that such will not happen, but thats naive.)
Well, lets see. Ten bytes of each escrow half. Lets asume ten bytes of
serial number -- in fact, I believe the serial number is smaller, but
this is an order of magnitude calculation. We assume 250*10^6 as the
population, and that each person has a key. I get five gigabytes for
each of the two escrow databases. Fits conveniently on a single very
valuable Exabyte tape. This can only get easier with time, but who
cares -- I can already hold all the clipper keys in the country in my
pocket on two 8mm tapes.
Admittely, they will think of safeguards. They won't put the whole
database on one disk, prehaps. Maybe they will throw stumbling blocks
in the way. This changes nothing -- they keys will be needed every day
by hundreds if not thousands of law enforcement types, so convenience
will dictate that the system permit quick electronic retrieval. At
some point, with or without collusion by the agencies, those exabyte
tapes are going to get cut. Dorothy Denning and David Sternlight will
doubtless claim this can't happen -- but we know that "can't" is a
prayer, not a word that in this instance connotes realism.
With two exabyte tapes in your pocket, you would hold the keys for
every person's conversations in the country in your hands. Yeah, you
need the "master key" two -- but thats just ten bytes of information
that have to be stored an awful lot of places.
Come to think of it, even if the NSA getting a copy of the database
isn't a threat to you because unlike me you have no contraversial
political views, consider foreign intelligence services. You know, the
ones that David Sternlight wants to protect us from because of the
evil industrial espionage that they do. The French apparently do have
a big spying operation in friendly countries to get industrial
secrets, so he isn't being completely irrational here (although why
our companies couldn't use cryptosystems without back doors is left
unexplained by those that point out this threat.)
Presumably, foreign intelligence services can get moles into the NSA
and other agencies. We have proof by example of this: its happened
many times. Presumably, someday they will get their hands on some
fraction of the keys. You can't avoid that sort of thing.
Don't pretend that no one unauthorized will ever get their hands on
the escrow databases.
We crypto types are all taught something very important at the
beginning of intro to cryptography -- security must depend on the
easily changed key that you pick to run your system, and not on a
secret. The escrow databases aren't the sorts of secrets that our
teachers told us about, but they are the sort of big secrets they
would lump into this category. Imagine trying to replace 100 million
Clipper chips.
I cannot believe that the NSA or whomever it is thats doing this
doesn't realize all this already. They are too smart. There are too
many of them who have made their bones in the real world. I suspect
that they know precisely what they are doing -- and that what they are
doing is giving us the appearance of safety so that they can continue
to surveil in spite of the growth of strong cryptography. I suspect
that they realize that they can't put things off forever, but they can
try to delay things as long as possible.
Who knows. Maybe even some of the higher ups, the inevitable
bureaucratic types that rise in any organization, really do believe
that this scheme might give people some security, even as their
subordinates in Fort Meade wring their hands over the foolishness of
it all.
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
--
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| 11sci.crypt |
hi,
> Hello,
>
> I am admin for an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2, X11R5, Motif, and xdt3.
> I want to prevent the user from hitting CNTL-ALT-BKSPC to exit X.
try DontZap in /usr/lib/X11/Xconfig
cu
styx
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| 5comp.windows.x |
Pardon me if this is the wrong newsgroup. I would describe myself as
an agnostic, in so far as I'm sure there is no single, universal
supreme being, but if there is one and it is just, we will surely be
judged on whether we lived good lives, striving to achieve that
goodness that is within the power of each of us. Now, the
complication is that one of my best friends has become very
fundamentalist. That would normally be a non-issue with me, but he
feels it is his responsibility to proselytize me (which I guess it is,
according to his faith). This is a great strain to our friendship. I
would have no problem if the subject didn't come up, but when it does,
the discussion quickly begins to offend both of us: he is offended
because I call into question his bedrock beliefs; I am offended by
what I feel is a subscription to superstition, rationalized by such
circular arguments as 'the Bible is God's word because He tells us in
the Bible that it is so.' So my question is, how can I convince him
that this is a subject better left undiscussed, so we can preserve
what is (in all areas other than religious beliefs) a great
friendship? How do I convince him that I am 'beyond saving' so he
won't try? Thanks for any advice.
--
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BoGART Project jdt@voodoo.ca.boeing.com \ excellent snow"
Boeing Computer Services ...uunet!bcstec!voodoo!jdt \ - Anderson/Gabriel
| 15soc.religion.christian |
This is just a test to see if this works.
| 12sci.electronics |
The following is a survey we are conducting for a term project in a philosophy
class. It is not meant to give us anything interesting statistically; we want
to hear what kind of voices there are out there. We are not asking for full-
blown essays, but please give us what you can.
As I do not read these groups often, please email all responses to me at
shimpei@leland.stanford.edu. As my mail account is not infinite, if you can
delete the questions and just have numbered answers when you write back
I would really appreciate it.
Since we would like to start analyzing the result as soon as possible, we
would like to have the answers by April 30. If you absolutely cannot make
it by then, though, we would still liken to hear your answer.
If anyone is interested in our final project please send a note to that effect
would like to have the answers by April 30. If you absolutely cannot make
it by then, though, we would still like to hear your answer.
If anyone is interested in our final project please send a note to that effect
(or better yet, include a note along with your survey response) and I'll try
to email it to you, probably in late May.
SURVEY:
Question 1)
Have you ever had trouble reconciling faith and reason? If so, what was the
trouble?
(For example: -Have you ever been unsure whether Creationism or Evolutionism
holds more truth?
-Do you practice tarot cards, palm readings, or divination that
conflicts with your scientific knowledge of the world?
-Does your religion require you to ignore physical realities that
you have seen for yourself or makes logical sense to you?)
Basically, we would like to know if you ever _BELIEVED_ in something that your
_REASON_tells you is wrong.
Question 2)
If you have had conflict, how did/do you resolve the conflict?
Question 3)
If you haven't had trouble, why do you think you haven't? Is there a set of
guidelines you use for solving these problems?
Thank you very much for your time.
--
Shimpei Yamashita, Stanford University email:shimpei@leland.stanford.edu
"There are three kinds of mathematicians:
those who can count and those who can't."
[It seems to be that time of year. Please remember that he's asked for
you to respond by email. --clh]
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <1993Apr6.152408.28341@news.unomaha.edu> hkok@cse (Kok Hon Yin) writes:
>Can someone please tell me where can I get the best deal for Micronics or AMI
>486-66 Motherboard with VL-BUS? You can reply to me thru e-mail or to this
>group.
>
I purchased a Super Voyager VLB 33Mhz board from Washburn & Company a month ago.
I don't have the mailing address-- Clyde Washburn advertises regularly in PC Week. He can also be reached via CompuServe. The phone number is
1-800-836-8027.
I think Washburn has very competitive prices compared to other AMI distributers,plus I liked the fact he's a EE that knows what he's talking about
concerning hardware, and he can be easily reached via CompuServe for non
critcle questions, and is very informative to his customers over the phone.
Regards
Dan Moyer
Dan.Moyer@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In <1993Apr5.182124.17415@ists.ists.ca> dchhabra@stpl.ists.ca (Deepak Chhabra) writes:
>Dean J. Falcione (posting from jrmst+8@pitt.edu) writes:
>>But I think the reason is Lemieux
>>had a 168 point season and was the first non-Gretzky to win the Hart and
>>Ross since 1980. People turned out to watch him play.
>I will grant that a star like Mario will draw fans, even if the team sucks.
>But this is short term only; I still do not think the attendance increase
>will last, unless the team is a winning/competitive/improving/butt-kicking
>one. Pittsburgh was still getting better, so people continued to support
>them. If they suddenly dropped to, say, 50 points, you'd have knee surgery
>for some of the people jumping off the bandwagon.
I disagree. McNall has demonstrated with Gretzky that a star brings out the
crowds whether or not the team is expected to do well. Very few fans real-
istically expect the Kings to do well this year (although I do) and yet they
still go out to see Gretzky. This is the marketing strategy - selling the
game by selling the stars - that is employed by Baseball and, notably, the
NBA and this is the attitude that the new Bettman/McNall leadership is
bringing to the league. They have gone on record as stating that they are
trying to sell the game on its stars. Timo Salami and Brett Hull are perfect
examples of players that real fans know aren't worth a damn and yet, being
benificiaries of marketing-oriented coaching strategies, have goal totals
that would indicate to the casual observer, the very fans the NHL wants to
attract, that these players are indeed superstars.
>>They made the transaction to try and build a winner around Mario, that is
>>true. But the improvement in attendance came before they started doing
>>this (Coffey late in 1987) and before they even had a playoff bound team.
>>A doubling of attendance occured in 1984-85 from the previous year. An
>>increase from 38 points to 53 points is not going to do that. The arrival
>>of Mario Lemieux is what did it.
>It might help to think about what would go through a fan's mind who suddenly
>found an interest in Mario and the Pens. Was it "gee, Mario Lemieux is
>amazing, I'll go watch him play", or was it "gee, now we've got a *kick*
>*ass* guy on *our* side, I'll go watch him play". I think it was the latter.
It ain't nearly so simple as this. The casual fan doesn't think about much
at all. Can you actually find an adult with a 3 digit IQ who believes that
McDonalds makes good hamburgers?
>I did provide the example of Rocket Ismail and the Toronto Argonauts of the
>CFL...did you leave it out because you don't know much about the CFL? If
>that's the case then fair enough, but if it isn't the case then I'm curious
>to hear your explanation.
Yes but apparently the Rocket has not lived up to his marketing responsi-
bilities has he? He was hyped, initially, as a superstar, but outside of
one Grey Cup game he has done very little to maintain/enhance that assess-
ment of his talents. Most Argo fans probably feel the team would be better
off without him.
cordially, as always,
rm
--
Roger Maynard
maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
>
>In article <1993Apr14.135948.3024@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>,
>tfarrell@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Thomas Farrell) said:
>
>> A good case? A F**KING GOOD CASE? The defense lawyer asked the victim
>> questions like "what kind of sexual perversions do you participate
>> in?" and you think he made a good case?????
>
>Speaking as someone who's only about six weeks and a $6,900 tuition bill
>away from becoming an unemployed slob with a law degree, I'd really like
>to see a transcript of this trial. I'd especially like to know what
>happened immediately after the defense attorney asked that question
>(assuming that the reports that he did so are accurate... I'm not
>accusing Tom Farrell of making anything up, but this _is_ the sort of
>case that spawns garbled misquotes, false rumors and urban legends like
>tribbles). It'd be nice to think that the prosecutor objected
>(irrelevant, prejudicial, inflammatory... take your pick) and that the
>judge upheld the objection.
Having watched most of the televised trial, I can answer that
when such statements were made by the defense atty, the prosecutor did
object, and the judge tended to sustain the ones that were obviously
falling under the "self-incrimination" type of objection. There was
quite a bit of meta-discussion during the trial over the use of graphic
language, with most folks asking the judge if she wanted to hear the
exact language. Practically every time the defense tried to get the
plaintiffs to "self-incriminate" by asking them such questions, there
were objections and sustains.
At one point the defense managed to get in a quip about
"solicitation for a felony" and the judge herself said "sustained"
before the prosecutor could get the objection stated.
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| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <20773.3049.uupcb@factory.com> jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) writes:
>Headaches that seriously interfere with activities of daily living
>affect about 15% of the population. Doesn't that sound like
>something a "primary care" physician should know something about? I
>tend to agree with HMO administrators - family physicians should
>learn the basics of headache management.
>
Absolutely. Unfortunately, most of them have had 3 weeks of neurology
in medical school and 1 month (maybe) in their residency. Most
of that is done in the hospital where migraines rarely are seen.
Where are they supposed to learn? Those who are diligent and
read do learn, but most don't, unfortunately.
>Sometimes I wonder what tension-type headaches have to do with
>neurology anyway.
We are the only ones, sometimes, who have enough interest in headaches
to spend the time to get enough history to diagnose them. Too often,
the primary care physician hears "headache" and loses interest in
anything but giving the patient analgesics and getting them out of
the office so they can get on to something more interesting.
>(I am excepting migraine, which is arguably neurologic). Headaches
I hope you meant "inarguably".
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| 13sci.med |
In article <C5wCyB.n1F@dscomsa.desy.de> hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
>Perhaps you consider that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust
>since the allies could have done more to stop him?
Attention please!
According to the rules of usenet flame wars, once a discussion degenerates
to the point where Hitler is mentioned, that flame war may be declared
ended. I would like to take this opportunity to do that now. Clearly
further discussion is not useful with the current set of facts, and the
current name calling and invocation of Hitler's name is not productive even
by the standards of usenet talk groups.
If you must continue, please don't discuss this in misc.legal. It's not
about the law. If you would like to discuss the law as it applies to the
Waco incident, please ask questions of the form: "if the FBI started the
fire accidentally, who would be legally responsible for the deaths".
Note that followups are set not to include misc.legal.
--
John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
| 16talk.politics.guns |
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not
be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Joshua 1:9
| 15soc.religion.christian |
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| 6misc.forsale |
Summary of thread:
A person has Crohns, raw vegetables cause problems (unspecified)
Steve Holland replies: patient may have mild obstruction. Avoid things
that would plug her up. Crohn's has no dietary restriction in general.
In article <1993Apr22.210631.13300@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>,
spenser@fudd.jsc.nasa.gov (S. Spenser Aden) wrote:
>
> Interesting statements, simply because I have been told otherwise. I'm
> certainly not questioning Steve's claims, as for one I am not a doctor, and I
> agree that foods don't bring on the recurrence of Crohn's. But inflammation
> can be either mildly or DRASTICALLY enhanced due to food.
The feeling obout this has changed in the GI community. The current
feeling
is that inflammation is not induced by food. There is even evidence that
patients deprived of food have mucosal atrophy due to lack of stimulation
of
intestinal growth factors. There is now interest in providing small
amounts
of nasogastric feeding to patients on IV nutrition. But I digress.
Symptoms can be drastically enhanced by food, but not inflammation.
> Having had one major obstruction resulting in resection (is that a good enough
> caveat :-), I was told that a *LOW RESIDUE* diet is called for. Basically,
> the idea is that if there is inflammation of the gut (which may not be
> realized by the patient), any residue in the system can be caught in the folds
> of inflammation and constantly irritate, thus exacerbating the problem.
> Therefore, anything that doesn't digest completely by the point of common
> inflammation should be avoided. With what I've been told is typical Crohn's,
> of the terminal ileum, my diet should be low residue, consisting of:
>
> Completely out - never again - items:
> o corn (kernel husk doesn't digest ... most of us know this :-)
> o popcorn (same)
> o dried (dehydrated) fruit and fruit skins
> o nuts (Very tough when it comes to giving up some fudge :-)
The low residue diet is appropriate for you if you still have obstructions.
Again, it is not felt that food causes inflammation. These foods are
avoided because they may get stuck. I'd go ahead and have the
fudge, though ;-) .
> Discouraged greatly:
> o raw vegetables (too fibrous)
> o wheat and raw grain breads
> o exotic lettuce (iceberg is ok since it's apparently mostly water)
> o greens (turnip, mustard, kale, etc...)
> o little seeds, like sesame (try getting an Arby's without it!)
> o long grain and wild rice (husky)
> o beans (you'll generate enough gas alone without them!)
> o BASICALLY anything that requires heavy digestive processing
>
> I was told that the more processed the food the better! (rather ironic in this
> day and age). The whole point is PREVENTATIVE ... you want to give your
> system as little chance to inflame as possible. I was told that among the
> NUMEROUS things that were heavily discouraged (I only listed a few), to try
> the ones I wanted and see how I felt. If it's bad, don't do it again!
> Remember though that this was while I was in remission. For Veggies: cook the
> daylights out of them. I prefer steaming ... I think it's cooks more
> thoroughly - you're mileage may vary.
>
> As with anything else, CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR. Don't just take my word. But
> this is the info I've been given, and it may be a starting point for
> discussion. Good luck!
>
Spencer makes an especially good point in having an observant and
informed patient. Would that many patients be able to tell what
causes them problems. The digestive processing idea is changing, but
if a food causes problems, avoid them. Be sure that the foods are
tested a second time to be sure the food is a real cause. Crohn's
commonly causes intermittent symptoms and some patients end up with
severly restricted diets that take months to renormalize.
There was a good article in the CCFA newsletter recently that discussed
the issue of dietary restriction of fiber. It would be worth reading
to anyone with an interest in Crohn's.
And, as I always say when dealing with Crohn's, as does Spencer, Good Luck!
Steve Holland
| 13sci.med |
As the subject line sez -- I'm looking for a Korg KMS30 sync
box as well as a Roland MC-202...
cg132sad@icogsci1.ucsd.edu
| 12sci.electronics |
Just taken delivery of a 66MHz 486 DX2 machine, and very nice it is too.
One query - the landmark speed when turbo is on is 230 or something MHz
- thats not the problem. The problem is the speed when turbo is off. Its
7 MHz. The equivalent in car terms is having a nice Porsche with a button
that turns it into a skateboard.
Does anyone have a clue as to what determines the relative performance of
turbo vs non-turbo?? I would like to set it to give a landmark speed of
about 30 or 40 MHz with turbo off.
Cheers,
--
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <ygoland.735123994@wright>
(The Jester) writes:
> Proof Windows is a Virus:It is very widespread, It eats up your disk
> space, It slows down your computer, It takes control over your
> computer, It performs disk access at random times, It displays silly
> messages on your screen, It randomly crashes the computer-Vesselin
This sounds like a version Unix. Solaris?
| 11sci.crypt |
Question: what is the power spectrum of the bursts. Are their sharp lines?
If so, can they be interpreted as blue-shifted atomic or molecular lines?
Can electron-positron annihilation gammas be seen in the bursts? Are they
red shifted or blue shifted?
Since the bursts are isotropic and maybe in the galactic halo they may
be saying something about dark matter in the halo.
If the bursts are something like the cosmic black body radiation from
way back then where are the red shifts - I mean cosmological red shifts?
Consider a wild idea - what if the bursts are advanced photons from the
future rather than retarded ones from the past. Would advanced photons
from far future when universe was considerably more expanded get
blue shifted as they propagate to younger states of the universe?
| 14sci.space |
In article <1993Apr17.111713.4063@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>In article <philC5LsD9.Ms3@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil
>Ronzone) writes:
>
>>Libertarians want the State out of our lives.
>>
>>NAMBLA members want to fuck little boys.
>>
>>NOW do you get it?
>>
>I see! Libertarians want to have the right to fuck little
>children of either sex, and want to make sure everyone else
>has this right too. NAMBLA just wants to have the right to
>fuck little boys.
>
>>Or are you just a secret member of NAMBLA?
>>
>You're the one who suddenly seems to be defending the right
>to fuck children. How many little girls have you raped today,
>Phil?
>
>If wanting to abolish the age of consent is not repectable,
>it is not respectable for anyone.
Hmm, you still don't get it. Then again, I'm not posting from a University
where the hue and cry was raised against "Jewish physics".
Tell me, committed any anti-semitic acts today? What kind of boots do you
wear?
And still -- Libertarians want the State out of their lives. Parents are very
capable of protecting their children against the predations of pedophiles,
which, BTW, you still haven't disassociated yourself from.
Are you, or are you not, a member of NAMBLA?
--
There are actually people that STILL believe Love Canal was some kind of
environmental disaster. Weird, eh?
These opinions are MINE, and you can't have 'em! (But I'll rent 'em cheap ...)
| 18talk.politics.misc |
cs3sd3ae@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Holly KS) writes:
`My Western Digital also has three sets of pins on the back. I am using it with
`another hard drive as well and the settings for the jumpers were written right
`on the circuit board of the WD drive......MA SL ??
Well, I figured out how the jumpers go. Now I have quite a different
problem that has me perplexed like you wouldn't know. I have both drives
working, the C: system formatted and all of my hardware installed. Only
problem is, that during the boot up sequence, the computer does not want
to pass up looking for a system on the A: drive.
Reinitialization all goes fine and the BIOS seems to be configured to
what is necessary. All the drive tests work, but when the thing comes
back around to the a: drive and there is no disk present, it just spins.
If you insert a disk into drive a with a system however, it works fine
and boots up (ie how installed all my software)
Any additional help on this will be most welcome....
swood
--
Hunting over in Michigan? Don't Despair - NO CLOSED SEASON ON:
opossum, porcupine, weasel, red squirrel, skunk, starlings,
feral pigeons, English sparrows, ground squirrel & woodchuck
Anyway trout season opens the last Saturday this month.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Save youself the cash. Take it from a BMW mechanic. Idiot lights are for just that. Buy yourself a ballpoint pen and write it down yourself. Change your oil every 3000 mi. and you will be just fine.
Follow the regular service intervals in you r book also.
| 7rec.autos |
What is the actual clock speed of a Centris 610?
20 MHZ or 25 MHZ
Thanks in advance...
--
Peter White
pw4963@csc.albany.edu
pwhite@mac.archive.umich.edu
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
I have a strange piece of equipment to unload. It is a Ether+ SCSI interface.
Apparently, it can be plugged into a SCSI port and from there to an ethernet.
That way you save a slot. Nifty. Well, I assume you people know more about it,
so, judging by the $350 price tag new, I'll ask, say, $75? Anybody interested?
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <2944159064.5.p00261@psilink.com>
"Robert Knowles" <p00261@psilink.com> writes:
(Deletion)
>Of course, there is also the
>Book of the SubGenius and that whole collection of writings as well.
Does someone know a FTP site with it?
Benedikt
| 0alt.atheism |
In article <C5y1LJ.7At@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
>In article <C5vGME.GoA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> wwarf@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Wayne J. Warf) writes:
>>In article <C5v9Fv.Krt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
>>>In article <C5uHuo.Awq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> wwarf@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Wayne J. Warf) writes:
>>>>In article <nate.1485.735408842@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
>>>>> Yeah, as information trickles in... funny how that works...
>>>>
>>>>Funny, yeah, funny how you didn't wait for the FBI spokesdroid
>>>>latest reversal of "facts" before proclaiming the BD's burned
>>>>themselves to death.
>>>
>>>If you won't believe anything the government says, and the press
>>>is not reliable according to the same logic, then what do you base
>>>your statements on? Wild speculation laced with a healthy dose
>>>of paranoia?
Then post what the press has said, not what you wished they said.
The Medical Examiner has refuted the FBI "facts" and if you don't
believe someone who has a LOT more reason to be impartial then
what do you have to say for yourself.
>>Are you a moron or just illiterate? The "facts" that the FBI
>
>Neither.
I was willing to grant this for sake or argument until I read the
following.
>>proclaimed on Monday suddenly weren't "facts" anymore by
>>the Tuesday press conference.
>
>You don't have to pay attention to any one source, neither do you
>have to abandon your critical thinking, but to disregard all sources
>of information as 'lies' and 'distortions' and substitute your own
>pet theories is more likely to get you wild untruths than by basing
>your theories on the 'facts' as they are reported by the media and
>the government.
>
The FACTS as reported by the press and impartial government
sources support ME.
>> There has beed NO evidence of
>>anyone setting the fire deliberately you simpleton so
>
>Actually there was evidence of the fire being set deliberately -
>both testamony by the survivors and IR tape showing the fire
>being set in 3 places AND the petrochemical soot that the fire
>was giving off (indications of kerosine or gasoline feeding the
>fire).
There is NO testimony, at the press conference, the FBI said they
had NO testimony, the SURVIVORS as reported by CNN and Newsday
wire service said that ALL the survivors gave consistent stories
refuting the FBI. They were lighting and heating with kerosine.
Are you trying to PROVE you're an idiot.
>You might not believe 1 or 2 if you are totally paranoid or very
>skeptical, but my 3rd point is visible to anyone who watches the
>tapes of the fire and has started a BBQ grill.
>
>>what are YOU basing your statements on? Oh, I forgot, you're
>>the guy that doesn't know microwave oven need electricity,
>>never mind.
>
>Ho ho ho. I listen to NPR, watch CNN, NBC. I also read the
>papers. Where do you get YOURS?
Then open your eyes and ears, at least 3 of those 4 sources have
reported your full of shit.
>--
><><><><><><><><><><> Personal opinions? Why, <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
><> BRENT IRVINE <> yes. What did you think <> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu <>
><><><><><><><><><><> they were?....... <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
--
+ Wayne J. Warf -- WWARF@ucs.indiana.edu -- I speak for myself only +
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
Someone sent me this FAQ by E-mail and I post my response here.
[I'm not enforcing the inclusion limits on this FAQ because most
of our readers probably haven't seen it. --clh]
Christ warns that anyone who "breaks one of the least of these
commandments *and* teaches otheres to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 5:19. This FAQ is so full of error that I
must respond to it. I hope that whoever maintains will remove from it the
partisan theology.
| > Brothers and Sisters,
| >
| > Being new to the faith and examining the Decalogue closely, I've noticed the
| > fourth commandment is pretty specific about "keeping the Sabbath day." It
| > states the 7th day( Saturday ) is the Sabbath while most Christian religions
| > keep( or atleast go to church ) on Sunday. What's up?
|
| This is a frequently asked question. Every time it arises, it causes
| months of debate. So let me see if I can answer you directly.
| Basically it's because the Law was given to Moses as part of a
| specific covenanent with the Jews. Most of us aren't Jews, so we
| aren't part of that covenant. There was an argument early in
| Christian history about whether the Mosaic laws should apply to
| Gentiles who became Christians. You can see the account of this
| debate in Acts 15. The main question there was circumcision, but
| keeping the Sabbath would be part of it as well. The apostles
| concluded that we need not become Jews in order to become Christians,
| and therefore that rules such as circumcision did not apply to us.
1. The law was known to man before it was revealed on Mount Sinai. Rom
4:15 notes that "where no law is, there is no transgression." Not only
did sin exist before Sinai (Eden), but the Sabbath was kept before it
was revealed on Sinai (Ex 16).
2. The problem with the first covenant was not the law, but the promise
which undergirded it. God wanted to perform his will in the lives of the
people, but in their ignorance after 400 years of slavery, they promised
"what ever He says to do we will do." That is why the new covenant is
based on "better promises" (Heb. 8:6). Rather than do away with the law
God promised to "put my laws in their minds and write them on their
hearts" (Heb. 8:10).
3. Including the Sabbath in the Acts 15 is selective inclusion. The
Sabbath was more important to the Jews than circumcision. If any attempt
had been made to do away with the Sabbath the reaction would have been
even more strident than is recorded in Acts 15. Do not confuse the weekly
Sabbath of the Decalogue with the ceremonial sabbaths which could occur at
any time of the week and were part of the law (ceremonial) which was
*added* because of transgression (of the moral law) (Gal 3:19).
4. Israel stands for God's people of all time. That is why God *grafted*
the Gentiles in. Roma 9:4 says that the adoption, the glory, the
covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God and the promises
belong to Israelites. In explanation Paul makes it clear that being born
into Israel is not enough "For they are not all Israel, which are of
Israel" v 6. Then in Gal 3:19 he says "if ye be Christ's, then are ye
Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." All Christians are
Abraham's seed, Jews, Israelites. Not physically, for that is not the
criterion, but spiritually. We are joint heirs with Jesus based on the
promise God made to all his people the Israelites.
|
| While Christians agree that the OT Laws do not all apply to us,
| because some of them are part of a specific covenanent with the Jews,
| we also expect to see some similarity between the things God expected
| from the Jews and the things he expects from us. After all, it's the
| same God. However there are several ways of dealing with this.
|
| These days the most common approach is to separate the OT commandments
| into "moral" and "ceremonial". Ceremonial commandments apply only to
| the Jews. They are part of the specific Mosaic covenant. These are
| thinsg like the kosher laws and circumcision. Moral laws apply to
| everyone. Most of the 10 commands are part of the moral law, except
| for the commandment about the Sabbath. I believe most people who take
| this approach would say that the specific requirement to worship on
| the Sabbath is part of the ceremonial law, but a general obligation to
| worship regularly is part of the general moral law. Thus Christians
| are free to choose the specific time we worship.
People would probably agree but they are wrong. How can the Sabbath
commandment be ceremonial when it is part of a law which predates the
ceremonial laws? You are not free to choose your time of worship. Even
if you were why do you follow a day of worship which has its origins in pagan
sun worship. Would you rather give up a day which God blessed,
sanctified, and hallowed in exchange for one which all church leaders
agree has not biblical foundation (see Sabbath Admissions in
soc.religion.christian.bible-study).
|
| A more radical approach (which is generally connected with John Calvin
| and the Reformed tradition) says that the Law as a whole is no longer
| binding. Instead, we are entirely under grace, and our behavior
| should be guided solely by love. Portions of the OT Law are still
| useful as guidance. But they are not properly speaking legally
| binding on us. In practice most people who take this position do not
| believe it is safe to leave Christians without moral guidannce. While
| we may no longer be under Law, as sinners, it's not safe for us to go
| into situations with no principles to guide us. We're too good at
| self-justification for that to be safe. Thus Christians do have moral
| guidance, from things like Jesus' teachings, Paul's advice, etc.
| These may not be precisely a Law, but they serve much the same
| function as, and have largely the same content as, the "moral law" in
| the previous analysis. While Calvin would deny that we have a fixed
| legal responsibility to worship on any specific day, he would say that
| given human weakness, the discipline of regular worship is important.
|
I do not care what Calvin or any theologian says. My guide is what God
says. If being not under the law means we do not have to keep the law,
why is it that the only section of the law we have trouble with is the
Sabbath commandment, which is the only one God thought was important
enough to say *REMEMBER*? If you study the word deeply you will note that
the message is that we are no longer under the condemnation of the law but
freed by the grace of God. If a cop pulls me over for speeding, then in
court I ask for mercy and the judge does not throw the book at me but gives me
grace, do I walk out of the court saying "I can now go on speeding, for I
am now under grace?" Being under grace I now drive within the speed
limit. Paul adds to it in Rom. 3:31 "Di we then make void the law through
faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." "Wherefore the law is
holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good" (Rom. 7:12).
| In both analyses, the specific day is not an issue. As a matter of
| tradition, we worship on Sunday as a memorial of Christ's
| resurrection. There's some debate about what Acts shows about early
| Christian worship. The most common analysis is that is shows Jewish
| Christians continuing to go to Jewish services on the Sabbath, but
| that specifically Christian service were not necessarily held then.
| Act 20:7 shows worship on the first day (Sunday), and I Cor 16:2 also
| implies gatherings on that day.
|
| There are a few groups that continue to believe Christians have to
| worship on the Sabbath (Saturday). The best-known are the Seventh-Day
| Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses. They argue that Act 20:7 is not a
| regular worship service, but a special meeting to see Paul off, and
| that I Cor 16:2 doesn't explicitly say it's a regular worship service.
Do you prefer implication to fact? A careful study of the Acts 20 shows
that the meeting was on Saturday night and that on Sunday morning Paul did
not go to a worship service, but set off on a long journey by foot to
Assos. In ICor 16 there is no way you can equate "lay by him in store"
with "go to a worship service."
|
| It's clear that this issue was a contested one in Paul's time. See
| Rom 14:5. Paul's advice is that we should be very careful about
| judging each other on issues like this. One person sees a specific
| day as mandated by God, while another does not. He who observes that
| specific day does it in honor of the Lord. He who believes his
| worship is free of such restrictions also does it in honor of the
| Lord. (Those who believe that the Sabbath is still mandated argue
| that Paul is not referring to Sabbath worship here. Note however Col
| 2:16, which says something similar but briefer. It explicitly
| mentions Sabbath.)
Wrong. These are the sabbath days of the ceremonial law, not the Sabbath
day of the moral law.
|
| There are some differences among Christians about use of the word
| "Sabbath". Originally the term referred to the 7th Day, the Jewish
| day of worship. Many Christians now use it to refer to Sunday, the
| day of Christian worship. They do this largely so that they can apply
| the 4th (or whatever -- there are a couple of different numbering
| schemes) commandment to it. Reformed tradition does not do this. It
| distinguishes between the Sabbath -- which is the observance mandated
| for Jews, and the Lord's Day -- which is the free Christian worship.
| (The only reference I can find to this in the NT is Rev 1:10.) There
| are also differences about laws regarding this day. Many Christians
| support "blue laws", both in secular law and church law, setting aside
| that day and causing people to spend it in worship. The more radical
| anti-legal approach sees such regulations as a return to the Jewish
| Sabbath, which is not appropriate to the free Christian worship of the
| Lord's Day.
|
Why would you prefer to twist and turn, relying on different arguments
which conflict with each other, rather than obey a simple request from a
God who loved you enough to die for you. Jesus died because the law could
not be changed. Why bother to die in order to meet the demands of a
broken law if all you need to do is change the law. Penalties for law
breaking means the law is immutable. That is why it is no sin not to
follow the demands of the ceremonial laws. It will always be a sin to
make false gods, to violate God's name, to break the Sabbath, to steal, to
kill, etc. Except it you disagree. But then your opinion has no weight
when placed next to the word of God.
Darius
[It's not clear how much more needs to be said other than the FAQ. I
think Paul's comments on esteeming one day over another (Rom 14) is
probably all that needs to be said. I accept that Darius is doing
what he does in honor of the Lord. I just wish he might equally
accept that those who "esteem all days alike" are similarly doing
their best to honor the Lord.
However I'd like to be clear that I do not think there's unambiguous
proof that regular Christian worship was on the first day. As I
indicated, there are responses on both of the passages cited.
The difficulty with both of these passages is that they are actually
about something else. They both look like they are talking about
nnregular Christian meetings, but neither explicitly says "and they
gathered every Sunday for worship". We get various pieces of
information, but nothing aimed at answering this question.
Act 2:26 describes Christians as participating both in Jewish temple
worship and in Christian communion services in homes. Obviously the
temple worship is on the Sabbath. Acts 13:44 is an example of
Christians participating in them. Unfortunately it doesn't tell us
what day Christians met in their houses. Acts 20:7, despite Darius'
confusion, is described by Acts as occuring on Sunday. (I see no
reason to impose modern definitions of when days start, when the
Biblical text is clear about what was meant.) The wording implies to
me that this was a normal meeting. It doesn't say they gathered to
see Paul off, but that when they were gathered for breaking bread,
Paul talked about his upcoming travel. But that's just not explicit
enough to be really convincing. Similarly with 1 Cor 16:2. It says
that on the first day they should set aside money for Paul's
collection. Now if you want to believe that they gathered specially
to do this, or that they did it in their homes, I can't disprove it,
but the obvious time for a congregation to take an offering would be
when they normally gather for worship, and if they were expected to do
it in their homes there would be no reason to mention a specific day.
So I think the most obvious reading of this is that "on the first day
of every week" simply means every time they gather for worship.
I think the reason we have only implications and not clear statements
is that the NT authors assumed that their readers knew when Christian
worship was.
--clh]
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