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Hi, We are trying to develop a image reconstruction simulation for the skull. The problem we are having is that we cannot obtain 3D data for the skull. We can just video a rotating skull, but that will only give us 2 dimensions.
Anyone out there got any suggestions?
Please help
Thanx
Gary
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
| 1comp.graphics |
I was wondering if any Star Trek TNG fans in this newsgroup knew of a
possible relationship between the Bruins' players Douris & Moog and the
Klingon names Duras and Worf (Son of Moog). I suppose it's a coincidence.
Just curious,
Bart
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr20.203503.8672@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st922957@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>Actually, the assault wasn't without warning. The FBI called and said to
>them if they didn't come out they would be gassed. THe Agent was hung up
>on. They knew.
If that was really what the FBI said, I'm extrelemy suspicious: They
_knew_ the Branch Davidian was a very paranoid group. To say, "...or
you will be gassed" would probably have been understood as _poison_
gas, not tear gas. If the FBI made that remark, I'd say they were
encouraging an extreme reaction.
Frank Crary
CU Boulder
| 16talk.politics.guns |
I have an IBM and run Windows 3.1. A friend installed Norton Desktop For
Windows on top of this. It loads automatically when I type "win", and
surely adds to the (already dismally slow) process of starting up.
I would like to know how to STOP or uninstall this program!!
I have taken it out of win.ini, but it still pops up running with windows.
I did a big search and found reference to it in ndw.ini, system.ini and
progman.ini. Removing it here causes a failure when starting up windows
(progrman.ini has a "group 7 = ...ndw.exe..." which can't be deleted.)
Is there anyone familiar with NDW who can tell me how to turn it off??
thanks! Chet
**PLEASE EMAIL RESPONSES -- I can't read news from my home account***
chetter@ucthpx.uct.ac.za
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <bethdC5sv80.698@netcom.com> bethd@netcom.com (Beth Dixon) writes:
>=================================================================
>Beth [The One True Beth] Dixon bethd@netcom.com
>1981 Yamaha SR250 "Excitable Girl" DoD #0384
>1979 Yamaha SR500 "Spike the Garage Rat" FSSNOC #1843
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>1992 Ducati 750SS AMA #631903
>1963 Ducati 250 Monza -- restoration project 1KQSPT = 1.8
>"I can keep a handle on anything just this side of deranged."
> -- ZZ Top
>=================================================================
Now just wait one cotton picking minute here.... DoD rule 417.1.2 section 6
paragraph 3 clearly indicates that multiple people can't lay claim to a bike
in an "obvious" ploy to "artificially" increase the size of their stable...
So the question of the day is... Is Spike owned by a lady of true class and
breeding (my definition: any woman who rides :-) ) or by Tom the harely head???
I also note that you lay no claim to Connie or Ol Sport. (Like I said,
obviously a lady of discriminating taste...)
Bored minds wanta know.
bj...bradw@Newbridge.com... no .sig no .plan no.clue >> DoD# 255 <<
| 8rec.motorcycles |
In article <May.5.02.52.03.1993.28782@athos.rutgers.edu> revdak@netcom.com (D. Andrew Kille) writes:
>Just an observation- although the bodily assumption has no basis in
>the Bible, Carl Jung declared it to be one of the most important pronouncements
>of the church in recent years, in that it implied the inclusion of the
>feminine into the Godhead.
Jung may have said that, but he was in no way speaking for the
Catholic Church. The dogma of the Assumption in no way means Mary is
considered to be God or part of "the Godhead." Therefore it implies no
such thing about the feminine in general.
Also Jung's statement makes it sound as though the dogma was
announced "out of the blue." This also is incorrect, as dogma is only
the formulation of what has always been part of Tradition. This dogma
has always been believed, but was not formally defined until the
Assumption was declared as an _ex cathedra_ statement.
- - - - - - - - - -
Steve Creps, Indiana University
creps@lateran.ucs.indiana.edu
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Some birds require constant management for survival. Pointing a sensor at
the sun, even when powered down, may burn it out. Pointing a
parabolic antenna at Sol, from venus orbit may trash the
foci elements.
Even if you let teh bird drift, it may get hosed by some
cosmic phenomena.
pat
| 14sci.space |
In a previous article, george.howell%goucher@wb3ffv.ampr.org (George Howell) says:
>GM has always screwed the rest of the divisions in favor of the
>Corvette. The current platform is no exception. The "detuned" Camaro and
>Firebird is a load of crap to keep people from realizing that they can
>buy one of these instead of a Corvette and save about $10,000.
>
>I like the idea of an Impala SS, but if they really wanted to impress
>me, they would throw in a big phat 454. Imagine the cops in their Taurus
>police package 3.0 and 3.8 litres as they stare at your taillights...
gimme a break! you KNOW chevy'd screw that up just like that almost great
truck with the "big phat 454". Have you ever seen the mufflers on that
thing??it's amazing it moves....(which isn't to say it's not a good idea,
but i'm quite sure chevy'd screw it up the same way)
DREW
>George Howell
>
> _____
> __| |____ M M OOO PPP AAA RRR
> / / MM MM O O P P A A R R
>/___ __/ M M M O O PPP AAAAA RRR
> |______| M M O O P A A R R
> _________________ M M OOO P A A R R
>/ \ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>| FORD | :'Better Living Through American Horsepower':
>\_________________/ :George Howell :
> :george.howell%goucher@wb3ffv.ampr.org :
> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>
>
| 7rec.autos |
One way Omaha to Seattle
ticket in my name [Jessamyn West]
for travel 5/9. Must be picked up at Omaha airport [or thereabouts]
on 5/6. Continental Airlines. Make me an offer.
reply to JWEST@hamp.hampshire.edu
| 6misc.forsale |
I think the subject title says it all. Anybody that relies on a SCSI dick
for stoarage is a pain in the ass!!
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <1993Apr16.033258.27998@serval.net.wsu.edu> msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
Once in a while you have to put in a good word for something that works
well. I have had no problems with my Toshiba 3401. It works very well with
DOS and OS/2. For OS/2, you don't need to load any special drivers. The
installation will detect that it is a Toshiba drive and you are done.
BTW, it's also very fast!
+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Carlos Rimola-Sarti | email: rimola@csisdn.com |
| Connective Strategies, Inc. | car@btr.com |
| ISDN PRI Connectivity | phone: 415-903-2585 |
+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <May.11.02.37.42.1993.28189@athos.rutgers.edu> muirm@argon.gas.organpipe.uug.arizona.edu (maxwell c muir) writes:
[a lot of stuff deleted -- i'm focusing on just one point]
>Well, he got me there. I am a strong atheist, because I feel that lack of
>evidence, especially about something like an omnipotent being, implies
>lack of existence. However, I haven't met the strong atheist yet who said
>that nothing could ever persuade him. Call me a "seeker" if you like, I
>don't.
>_Weak_ atheism is being ignore here, though. Some atheists simply say "I
>don't believe in any god" rather than my position: "I believe that no
>god(s) exist." For the weak atheist, the is no atheism to disbelieve,
>because they don't actively believe in atheism. (If you think this is
>confusing, try figuring out the difference between Protestants and
>Methodists from an atheist point of view :).
i'm a little confused about the difference between this "weak atheism",
as you put it, and agnosticism. is agnosticism not believing or
necessarily disbelieving in anything, or what is it? i used to be
agnostic (by this definition) -- but if weak atheism includes not
necessarily believing in God, then i guess i was one of those. ???
actually what i have a hard time understanding is people who do not
ever decide what they believe. i am constantly in a state of
self-examination, as it would appear many others are as well (including the
atheists, of course -- i'd assume that's why they're here!). i guess
some people don't really consider it important to think about the
answers to "life, the universe and everything" -- any comment? just
wondering....
>This is another fallacy many theists seem to have, that everyone believes in
>something (followed up by "everyone has faith in something"). Guess what?
>My atheism ends the moment I'm shown a proof of some god's existence. Is
>that really too much to ask?
tough call, as these things seem to be based on faith -- wish i could
help you, but i already tried once with someone who was a
self-professed agnostic-thinking-of-becoming-a -christian, and it
didn't work too well! especially tough as i'm still mulling over
whether or not i believe in miracles (looks like another email to my
chaplain is coming up....). all i can do is wish you the best of
luck, and please do post what you find.
>And I told you that I find faith to be intellectually dishonest. Note that
>I can only speak for myself. If you find faith to be honest, show me how.
hmm, how so? i guess i really don't understand. there are times, of
course, when i say to myself "of course i have absolutely no way of
knowing that what i believe in is true except the satisfaction and
sense of peace i get from it -- which of course could just be
psychological". somehow i live with this anyway -- is this what you
mean?
the only "proof" i have is that i believe God spoke to me once --
which could of course be my own imagination. the odd thing is,
though, that if you don't at some point start believing in something,
after a while it all gets sort of ridiculous. maybe it's just a
question of where you draw the line.
>I have been unable to reconcile it so far. Maybe that's how I'm "broken"?
>I tell you that I have invisible fairies living in my garden and that
>you should just take my word for it. If you accept that, you are of a
>fundamentally different mind than I and I really would like to know how you
>think. All I ask for is proof of the assertion "God exists". Logical or
>physical proofs only, please. Then we'll discuss the nature of "God".
i'll only add one question -- have you read pascal? what did you
think of him if you did?
also you may (or may not) be interested by cslewis/ _surprised by
joy_. i'd be interested in knowing what you think of him, no sarcasm
at all intended. (i just say this because one can never know how
one's written words will be interpreted. i am not interested in
converting you, since i don't seem to have whatever it would take --
proof -- to do so. i'm just interested in learning.)
>Muppets and garlic toast forever,
i like this.
>Max (Bob) Muir
cheers,
vera
________
i give you everything disclaimer: of course i don't agree with
my sweet everything trent reznor's (nin's) theology. i think
- nine inch nails it's interesting nonetheless.
noye@midway.uchicago.edu (vera noyes)
| 15soc.religion.christian |
I'm looking to buy a '92 Toyota Previa All-Trac with low miles.
If you are selling one, or want someone to buy out an existing lease,
please contact me by mail.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
| 7rec.autos |
In article <93114.142835U19250@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U19250@uicvm.uic.edu> writes...
>Can anyone offer a suggestion on a problem I am having?
>I have several boards whose sole purpose is to decode DTMF tones and send
>the resultant in ASCII to a PC. These boards run on the serial interface.
>I need to run * of the boards somwehat simultaneously. I need to be able to ho
>ok them up to a PC> The problem is, how do I hook up 8+ serial devices to one
>PC inexpensivley, so that all can send data simulataneously (or close to it)?
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>Abhin Singla
If you can modify the design of the DTMF decoder, the ideal comunications
would be over a multi-drop system, like RS-485. RS-485 boards are available
for PC's, probably cheaper than a bunch of RS-232 channels, and RS-485 is
cheaper to build onto your satellite modules, using only a single supply
8-pin DIP driver chip. Software at the PC end would be similarly complex
for either RS-232 or RS-485, in my opinion. The higher data rates possible
with RS-485 would permit quasi-simultaneous data transmission.
Hope this helps.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rod Nussbaumer, Programmer/Technologist Bitnet: BOMR@TRIUMFER
TRIUMF --- University of British Columbia, Internet: bomr@erich.triumf.ca
Vancouver, BC, Canada. Phone: (604)222-1047 ext 510
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| 12sci.electronics |
I have a 386DX clone, with a DTC ESDI controller and Toshiba 660
mbyte
drive. Since installing DOS 6.0, when I tried to re-install software
from
5 1/4 or 3 1/2 disks, when I mount the second..third..fourth disks, DOS
6
doesn't recognize that I have changed floppies. If I do a "DIR", I see
the
contents of the previous diskette. The only way to get DOS to recognize
that
diskettes have changed, is to do a "label", and then to not label them.
Buying DOS 6.0 has been a colossal mistake. DOS 5.0 was stable, and
worked
well with my equipment. I have Superstor Pro, and DESQVIEW/X ( with
QEMM,
Manifest, etc), so there aren't any features of DOS 6 that I am using. I
guess
I should roll back to DOS 5.0 but I am wary of what will happen when I
do it.
Besides, like a fool, I don't have a DOS 5. bootable disk anymore.
I've
made the same mistakes I caution my users not to make. Like sheep, I
joined
the crowd flocking to DOS 6. Baaa Baaad system administrator.
Phillip Culver
Silicon Graphics Inc
Mtn. View, CA
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <1qkdpk$5k6@agate.berkeley.edu> mossman@cea.Berkeley.EDU (Amy Mossman) writes:
> I had a similar reaction to Chinese food but came to a completly different
> conclusion. I've eaten Chinese food for ages and never had problems. I went
> with some Chinese Malaysian friends to a swanky Chinses rest. and they ordered
> lots of stuff I had never seen before. The only thing I can remember of that
> meal was the first course, scallops served in the shell with a soy-type sauce.
> I thought, "Well, I've only had scallops once and I was sick after but that
> could have been a coincidence". That night as I sat on the bathroom floor,
> sweating and emptying my stomach the hard way, I decided I would never touch
> another scallop. I may not be allergic but I don't want to take the chance.
I don't react to scallops, but did have discomforts with clam juice
served at (American) waterfront seafood bars. I don't know whether
the juice is homemade or from cans.
The following is my first encounter with the Chinese Restaurant
Syndrome. Ten years ago, about an hour after having Won Ton Soup I
collapsed in a chair with my face feeling puffed up, my scalp
tingling, my feet too weak to stand up. The symptoms lasted for about
20 minutes. Determined to find out the cause of my first reaction, I
went back to the Chinese restuarant and ordered the same dish. The
same thing happened. A quick look inside the kitchen revealed nothing
out of the ordinary.
I've also had a mild attack after having soup at a Thai restuarant.
| 13sci.med |
* Attention voters:
*
* I had a problem with my mailbox on the first day of voting.
* Please check the Vote Acknowlegement (ACK) at the end of this CFV.
* If your name/address is not there, please send your vote again.
* (Actually, check even if you voted after the first day)
Introduction:
This is the third (and final) Call For Votes (CFV) for the creation
of four OS/2 newsgroups and the renaming of one:
(a) create comp.os.os2.programmer.porting (unmoderated)
(b) renaming of comp.os.os2.programmer to
comp.os.os2.programmer.misc (unmoderated)
(c) comp.os.os2.setup (unmoderated)
(d) comp.os.os2.multimedia (unmoderated)
(e) comp.os.os2.bugs (unmoderated)
This is the second attempt at creating comp.os.os2.programmer.porting
and comp.os.os2.setup, and renaming comp.os.os2.programmer to
comp.os.os2.programmer.misc. The first attempt failed in the summer
of 1992 (the voting deadline was August 31, 1992). The voting rules
state that another attempt for creating newsgroups can be started
after a six month waiting period (in this case, it is March 1, 1993).
This is the first attempt at creating comp.os.os2.multimedia and
comp.os.os2.bugs.
This document contains:
* the background showing the need for these proposals
* the proposed charters for these proposals
* voting instructions
* a voting ballot
* some example ballots
* the voting rules
* the voting schedule
* the Mass Acknowledgement
Background:
The creation of two, free, 32-bit compilers for OS/2 2.x (gcc/2
and emx/gcc; read comp.os.os2.programmer for details) has spurred
a continuing deluge of software ported from UNIX platforms, such
as emacs, less, awk, grep, sed, xscheme, ispell, flex, yacc, and
much more. Borland has released its C/C++ compiler for OS/2 2.x,
allowing for easier porting of DOS and Windows software.
Much of the PC hardware and drivers were written for DOS, and
later, Windows. As more people are discovering OS/2 2.x, the
number of people asking questions about OS/2's compatibility
with their hardware increases, as does the questions on the
availability of drivers for their hardware, installation
procedures, etc.
Multimedia is becoming popular. OS/2 2.0 supports Windows
Multimedia Extensions using Win-OS/2 3.0. Furthermore, IBM is
including direct multimedia support in OS/2 starting with version
2.1 (in addition to using Win-OS/2 3.1).
Any non-trivial software will have bugs -- OS/2 is not exempt,
especially since IBM is constantly adding new features to OS/2.
So far, IBM has issued system patches and corrective service disks
(e.g. the Service Pak) for free (free from BBSs and ftp sites, or
for free plus a small media charge for diskettes -- read
comp.os.os2.misc for details).
Proposed Charters:
(a) create comp.os.os2.programmer.porting (unmoderated)
It will provide a forum for developers of ported software so
as to coordinate efforts, avoid duplication of effort, and
spur additional development. The group will also cover
topics such as porting from other platforms (such as DOS,
Windows, UNIX, etc), toolkits which aid in program
portability (including porting tools such as Mirrors), and
so forth.
(b) rename: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc (unmoderated)
To keep the structure of the OS/2 newsgroup heirarchy
orthogonal, comp.os.os2.programmer should be renamed to
comp.os.os2.programmer.misc.
comp.os.os2.programmer.misc will still be the newsgroup
for OS/2 programmers to discuss programming issues and
technical aspects of OS/2 in an unmoderated setting.
(c) create comp.os.os2.setup (unmoderated)
It will be devoted to OS/2 system setup topics, including the
availability of device drivers, compatibility information,
installation procedures, system requirements, and overall
performance optimization.
(d) create comp.os.os2.multimedia (unmoderated)
It will provide a forum for discussion of multi-media issues.
(e) create comp.os.os2.bugs (unmoderated)
It will provide a forum for OS/2 system bug reports, bug
diagnosis and work arounds, the availability of system
patches and corrective service disks, and so forth.
[Note that discussion of bugs in applications belong in other
newsgroups, and discussion of bugs in OS/2 betas belong in
comp.os.os2.beta]
How to Vote:
To cast your vote, fill out the ballot below and e-mail it to me.
Many newsreaders will allow e-mail to be sent by replying to this
post. Be sure to send only the ballot, and edit out the rest of
this post.
1) Type in your vote for each proposal:
If you favor the charter as proposed, put a "yes" after its name.
If you oppose the charter as proposed, put a "no" after its name.
To abstain, leave a blank after its name.
2) Type in your last name (i.e. your family name), a comma, and
your first name (i.e. your personal name).
3) Cut out the ballot, Please do not delete any lines of the
ballot.
4) E-mail your ballot to mlevis@lonestar.utsa.edu before 11:59:59 pm
(Central Time), April 24, 1993.
Ballot:
----------------cut here----------------cut here----------------cut here----
(a) comp.os.os2.programmer.porting:
(b) comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:
(c) comp.os.os2.setup:
(d) comp.os.os2.multimedia:
(e) comp.os.os2.bugs:
(f) voter's last, first name:
e-mail ballot to mlevis@lonestar.utsa.edu by April 24
----cut here----------------cut here----------------cut here----------------
Example Ballot #1:
(a) comp.os.os2.programmer.porting: yes
(b) comp.os.os2.programmer.misc: yes
(c) comp.os.os2.setup: no
(d) comp.os.os2.multimedia:
(e) comp.os.os2.bugs: no
(f) voter's last, first name: Smith, John
In this example, John Smith favors comp.os.os2.programmer.porting
to be created, and comp.os.os2.programmer to be renamed to
comp.os.os2.programmer.misc. He also opposes the creation of
comp.os.os2.setup and comp.os.os2.bugs. He does not have a view
on the creation of comp.os.os2.multimedia.
Example Ballot #2:
(a) comp.os.os2.programmer.porting: yes
(b) comp.os.os2.programmer.misc: yes
(c) comp.os.os2.setup: yes
(d) comp.os.os2.multimedia: yes
(e) comp.os.os2.bugs: yes
(f) voter's last, first name: Doe, Jane
In this example, Jane Doe favors the creation or rename of all
the proposals.
Voting Rules:
* One vote per person. If you vote more than once, only the most
recent vote will be counted.
* Votes must be mailed to me by the person voting. Proxy voting,
forwarding, posting votes to a newsgroup, etc. will not be counted.
* Do not ask how the votes are going. The status of the votings
will be revealed only after the poll closes.
* I will acknowledge votes by Mass Acknowledgement (ACK). I will
post the ACK twice (see Schedule below).
* If you need help for using your editor, using e-mail, how
voting works in general, etc. then ask an expert at your site.
Also see the ``How To Create a New Newsgroup'' article which is
posted to news.answers on a regular basis.
* If you need any clarifications on voting procedures for this
CFV, send me e-mail at mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu.
* When the voting period is over (see Schedule below), a proposal
passes if both of the following formulas are true:
1) the number of YES votes exceeds the number of NO votes
by at least 100 (i.e. YES >= NO + 100, or YES - NO >= 100).
2) the number of YES votes exceeds at least twice the
number of NO votes (i.e. YES >= 2 * NO, or YES - NO >= NO).
In other words, a proposal passes if:
YES - NO >= max (100, NO)
where max() returns the highest number given to it.
Schedule:
The voting period started on March 29 when the first CFV was posted
by David Lawrence (the news.announce.newgroups moderator).
This third CFV is a repeat of the first CFV, but it also has the
Mass Acknowledgement (ACK) of names and e-mail addresses of those who
have already voted -- re-send your vote if it is not there. If you
have not voted yet, vote now!
The voting period will end at 11:59:59 pm (Central Time), on
April 24, 1993. Votes received after that time will not count.
The voting results and tally will be posted shortly after that
date.
Mass Acknowledgement:
Here is the list of people who have already sent in their ballots
as of 12:01 am (Central Time) on April 15, 1993:
bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu
Aiyagari, Sanjay ska1@crux3.cit.cornell.edu
Alcorn, Justin alcorn@alpha.ces.cwru.edu
Arien, Peter LAAAA43%BLEKUL11.BITNET@FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR
Asselin, Andre assela@rpi.edu
Aurand, Tom tom@longs.lance.colostate.edu
Baechler, Cedric cbaechle@iiic.ethz.ch
Bartlett, Warren bart@pdn.paradyne.com
Bates, John johnb@up.edu
Beadles, J. jeff@neon.rain.com
Beal, Kenneth kbeal@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com
Bedersdorfer, Jochen beders@dfki.uni-sb.de
Bell, Douglas dab6@SCL.CWRU.Edu
Benningfield, Robert concert.net!aurs01!aurw7a!benningf
Biegel, Bryan biegel@tigris.stanford.edu
Blackman, Ed EBB7683@VENUS.TAMU.EDU
Bodnar, John jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Boisvert, Wesley wesb@dermit.isis.org
boneham, kevin boneham@suntan.eng.usf.edu
Boresch, Stefan boresch@tammy.harvard.edu
Boschma, Wilfried v911071@si.hhs.nl
Botha, David BOTH-DD@mella.ee.up.ac.za
Bowe, Nathaniel woody@vnet.IBM.COM
Bowers, Neil neilb@borris.eece.unm.edu
Braun,David roland@roll.choate.edu
Bronner, Geoffrey geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu
Brors, Dieter db@ix.de
Brown, Bill brown@chinchilla.ir.ucf.edu
Cambria, Michael cambria@smaug.enet.dec.com
Carlson, Bill woc8r@poplar.cs.virginia.edu
Champion, Evan evanc@carbon.isis.org
Chandonia, John chandoni@husc.harvard.edu
Chen, Ted tedc@cs.ubc.ca
Chua, Hak c164-ez@po.berkeley.edu
Ciesielski, Boleslaw bolek@viewlogic.com
Clement, Bruce frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz
Clemente, Marc F. mfclemente@ucdavis.edu
Cline, Ernest cline@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu
Cocking , Simon simonc@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
Compton, Curtis compton@plains.NoDak.edu
Costello, Robert rcc9885@ultb.isc.rit.edu
Coulman, Randy coulman@skdad.usask.ca
Cox, Anthony AECOX@waikato.ac.nz
Cox, Robert rcox@qvack.EE.McGill.CA
Culliton, Tom culliton@srg.af.mil
daigle, Joe daigle@apollo.hp.com
DeCarlo, John jdecarlo@mitre.org
Dippold, Ron rdippold@qualcomm.com
Donaldson, Ian icd@ecr.mu.oz.au
Drye, Stephen scdrye@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
Duffy, Patrick duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca
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YOUNG, DAVID M. dyoung@netcom.com
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <1993Mar30.195242.8070@leland.Stanford.EDU> iceskate@leland.Stanford.EDU ( Lin) writes:
>
> First question - how bad is x-ray? i've heard that it's nothing
>compared to the amount of time spent under the sun and i've also heard that it
>is very harmful. second question - is there anyway out of this yearly test for
>me?
The yearly chest x-ray provides a minute amount of radiation. It is
a drop in the bucket as far as increased risk is concerned. Who can
tell you whether you can get out of it or not? No one here controls
that. It may well be a matter of the law, in which case, write your
legislator, but don't hold your breath.
--
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geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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| 13sci.med |
> ...there is nothing in Christianity that precludes the idea of
> repeated lives on earth.
There is a paragraph in the New Testament which in my opinion, clearly makes
a positive inference to reincarnation. I don't remember which one it is off of
the top of my head, but it basically goes like this: Jesus is talking with the
apostles and they ask him why the pharisees say that before the messiah can come,
Elijah must first come. Jesus replies that Elijah has come, but they did not
recognize him. It then says that the apostles perceived that he was refering to
John the Baptist. This seems to me to clearly imply reincarnation. Can anyone
offer a reasonable alternative interpretation? I would be very interested to
hear it.
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Permit me to quote fragments of
praetzel@sunee.uwaterloo.ca's article
out of context.
-Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.lsi.cad
-From: praetzel@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Praetzel)
-Date: 10 Feb 93 15:46:41 GMT
- Currently the XNF format is propierty and I know of at least on person at
-a university who was able to get it after signing a non-disclosure agreement.
-The Xilinx-bit map format is pretty well top secret. I would love to know it
-because then you could make self_modifying_hardware ;-) As it is I had to
-reverse eng. the Xilinx tools to dump the bit map to the FPGA because it only
-runs on the computer with the hardware key.
self-modifying hardware could be *very* interesting --
computers that could write thier own programs (assemblers, compilers)
were an immense breakthrough from calculators that couldn't.
- I eagerly await a programmable gate array which uses a PD format and does
-not cost your first born to program. Till then we will keep on reverse
-engineering whatever we can. As it is one company that I worked at has gone
-under. FPGAs are what they needed to make their product competitive. They
-could not afford them. In the end you could say that they could not afford
-to not use them but the management discovered that too late.
- - Eric
my condolences.
i can't even imagine what i could do with self-modifing hardware.
i *can* imagine self-modifying software,
and even though *all* my teachers say that's BAD, even Worse than GOTO,
check out what the experts *used* to say about self-modifying code:
(he uses "orders" rather than "opcodes")
"On the Principles of Large Scale Computing Machines"
by Goldstine and von Neumann,
collected in
_John von Neumann: Collected Works, Vol. V_
reprinted here with absolutely no permission from anyone.
"We plan... to have a full size (40 binary digit) word hold
either contain
1 full size number (... equivalent to 12 decimal digits,
but we will use the first binary digit to denote the sign)
or two (20 binary digit) orders.
....
It should be added that this technique of
automatic substitutions into orders,
i.e. the machine's ability to modify its own orders
(under the control of other ones among its orders)
is absolutely necessary for a flexible code. Thus, if
part of the memory is used as a "function table", then
"looking up" a value of that function for a value of the
variable which is obtained in the course of the computation
requires that the machine itself should modify, or
rather make up, the reference to the memory in the order which
controls this "looking up", and the machine can only make this
modification after it has already calculated the value of the
variable in question.
On the other hand, this ability of the machine to modify its
own orders is one of the things which makes coding
the non-trivial operation which we have to view it as."
david cary, tenor, e- and comp. engineering (finger caryd@a.cs.okstate.edu).
227 S. 163 E. Ave, Tulsa, OK 74108-3310, USA, Sol 3, Universe v. 1.2
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| 12sci.electronics |
I have a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Series II Paper Tray for sale.
Its letter size (8.5 - 11), brand new in the box and never used.
I'm asking $40.00 (bought new at Ballard Computer for $65.95)
please reply to Jeffo at spooge@u.washington.edu or (206)543-0340
| 6misc.forsale |
amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>
>> We *do* need an alternative to NSA-bugged telephones, but
>> we're talking inexpensive *telephones* here, including hand-sized
>> cellulars, that need strong crypto, real privacy.
>
>So start a company and build them. This is still mostly a capitalist
>economy...
Qualcomm had spare cycles in the DSPs for their new CDMA digital
cellular phones. They wanted to put strong crypto into them since they
had the capacity. The government decided to "discourage" them.
Really, none of this stuff is especially hard. All you need for a true
private phone is an ISDN codec, a vocoder (either a chip or
software), an encryptor (a chip is fine, but software is more than
fast enough), a V.32 or V.32bis modem module, and maybe a
microcontroller to run the whole thing. Its easy to do, its cheap. And
any "normal" company trying to put one out will likely get a visit
from the boys in the dark suits from Washington, just like Qualcomm
did. I suspect that companies like Cylink are tolerated because their
products are too expensive.
However, no law yet stops one from building really private phones, in
spite of the hints the administration has made when discussing the new
"crime bill" and in connection with the Clipper/Skipjack Big Brother
chip. Someone out there WILL build a unit to do all this. Better yet,
prehaps someone will produce a package that turns any 486 box with a
sound card into a secure phone.
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
--
Laissez faire, laissez passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
| 11sci.crypt |
Does anybody know what Delaunay Triangulation is?
Is there any reference to it?
Is it useful for creating 3-D objects? If yes, what's the advantage?
Thanks in advance.
Yeh
USC
| 1comp.graphics |
nagel@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Kurt Nagel) writes:
>Hi,
> I'm having a problem with AMIPro when writing equations. If the
>equation extends past a certain point on a line, the whole thing disappears.
>If I then try to delete the equation or cursor beyond the equation, AMI
>goes nuts. The line counter at the bottom of the screen increments
>repeatedly and the only way out is to CTRL-ATL-DEL. If I have been
>unfortunate enough to save a document with one of these screwed up
>equations, the document is basically trashed. (although I have been
>able to fix them by going into an ascii editor and deleteing large
>chunks of the document)
> Has anyone else experienced this? Does Lotus know about it
>and or have a patch???????.
>Thanks in advance,
>Kurt
>nagel@fido.colorado.edu
I contacted Lotus about this problem today. It has been reported previously
and there is a fix. Apparantly the problem only occurs when TAB characters
are used immediately preceding the equation frame. The work around when
equations are expected to touch the right margin is to delete at least one
preceding TAB and use SPACE to align the frame (or use set frame where
placed w/no text wrap around). Unforutnately, once the page run-on has
occured you are hosed. So the moral of the story is use only SPACE characters
to align equation frames.
Hope this helps the rest of you who have already contacted me with this
problem.
Kurt
nagel@fido.colorado.edu
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
>>|> Excerpts from "Insight" magazine, March 15, 1993
*Paranoia part deleted.*
Isn't Insight magazine published by the Mooneys?
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Hi to all out there. We have this problem, and I'm not certain I'm solving it
in the correct way. I was wondering if anyone can shed light on this, or point
me in the right place to look...
We have an X-ray imaging camera and a metallic tube with a cylindrical hole
passing through it at a right angle to the tube's axis:
|
|| [ image
|
X-ray source ] || | screen
metallic || tube |
|| |
|
We know source--screen centre distance, radius of the tube, radius of the hole.
We do some calculations based on the image of the hole on the screen. However,
the calculations are mathematically highly complex, and must assume that the
object's hole projects an image (resembling an ellipse if the tube is not
parallel to the screen) in the centre of the screen. However, it is unlikely
that the object is placed so conveniently.
Firstly, we must transform the major and minor axis of the ellipse. I cannot
know what the angle between the tube and screen is. Do I have to assume that
they are parallel to do the transformation? How do I do this transformation?
Secondly, there is a distortion of the image due to the screen being planar
(the source--screen distance increases as we move away from the centre of the
screen). How can I compensate the ellipse's axis for this image distortion?
So, please can anyone give us a few pointers here? How do we transform the
image so it appears as it would if it were in the centre of the screen, and how
do I deal with distortion due to the shape of the screen?
We'd appreciate any help, either posted or emailed.
Thanks in advance, Simon.
--
Simon Marshall, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
"Football isn't about life and death. It's more important than that." Bill
Email: S.Marshall@cs.hull.ac.uk Phone: +44 482 465951 Fax: 466666 Shankley
| 1comp.graphics |
Well, this is my second try at posting on this subject. Here goes...
In Texas (Corpus Christi at least) if you pick up the phone and dial
890 the phone company will read the number of the phone you are on
back to you. I believe the service department uses this to make
certain they are repairing the correct lines when they open the BIG
junction boxes. I don't know if it will work but you can give it a
try. Good luck.
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr15.200629.7200@alleg.edu> luriem@alleg.edu(Michael Lurie) The Liberalizer writes:
>
> Actually, I kind of liked the Abott trade. We did trade the rookie of
>the year, SNOW, but with Don mattingly at first for another 8 years, Why
>bother.
I'd be willing to make two wagers:
1) Snow doesn't win ROY.
2) Mattingly is out of baseball within five years.
I'm skeptical of the first, because I don't think Snow is that good a
player, and he is on a losing team.
I'm skeptical of the second because of his back. Mattingly is 32 this
year, and how many players play until they are 40? Not too many, and
most of them didn't have chronic back problems when they were 32.
Could be wrong on either or both, but I think that's the smart way to
bet...
Cheers,
-Valentine
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <May.9.05.38.52.1993.27378@athos.rutgers.edu> nabil@cae.wisc.edu (Nabil Ayoub) writes:
>As a final note, the Oriental Orthodox and Eastren Orthodox did sign
>a common statement of Christology, in which the heresey of Monophysitism
>was condemned. So the Coptic Orthodox Church does not believe in
>Monophysitism.
This is a point that seems to have been overlooked by many. The ending of a
1600 year old schism seems to be in sight.
The theologians said that the differences between them were fundamentally
ones or terminology, and that the Christological faith of both groups was
the same.
Some parishes have concelebrated the Eucharist, and here in Southern Africa
we are running a joint theological training course for Coptic and Byzantine
Orthodox.
There are still several things to be sorted out, however. As far as the
Copts are concerned, there were three ecumenical councils, whily the
Byzantine Orthodox acknowledge seven.
============================================================
Steve Hayes, Department of Missiology & Editorial Department
Univ. of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa
Internet: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za Fidonet: 5:7101/20
steve.hayes@p5.f22.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
FAQ: Missiology is the study of Christian mission and is part of
the Faculty of Theology at Unisa
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Can anybody figure out why some box score abbreviations make
absolutely no sense? (At least in the local Gannett rag that finds its way
to my door.) I must have stared at "Cleman" in the Mets' box for a
good 30 seconds this morning wondering who the hell it was. Wouldn't
it make more sense to use "Colemn"?
Jay
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: F<O>CUS/HEALTH: Millions of Americans un-/under- covered
F<O>CUS/HEALTH: Millions of Americans un-/under- covered
===================================
Percentage of population covered by
public health insurance, 1990(25)
===================================
=============================================
COUNTRY PERCENT COUNTRY PERCENT
=============================================
Australia 100 Sweden 100
Canada 100 United Kingdom 100
Denmark 100 Austria 99
Finland 100 France 99
Ireland 100 Switzerland 99
Italy 100 Spain 99
Japan 100 Belgium 98
New Zealand 100 Germany 92
Netherlands 100 United States 21
Norway 100
Sources: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris),
Health Data file, 1991: U.S.: National Center for Heath Statistics, Advance
Data, No. 201, June 18, 1991.
******************************************************************
"We're Number One in percentage of population without health insurance.
******************************************************************
"The main reason we're Number One in percentage of population without
health insurance is that we're last in percentage of population
covered by public health insurance. Only about one fifth of Americans
qualify for the main types of public health insurance available in the
United States: Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans' benefits.(2l)
"Of those who don't qualify, many have private insurance.(22) But
almost one in seven Americans (34 million people--most living in
families with a working adult) have no insurance at all, and one in
four (63 million) have been without insurance for a substantial period
of time during the last two years. Many more have inadequate coverage,
meaning that they could be bankrupted by a major illness.(23) In fact,
one health care expert says that because only 1 percent of the
population has private longterm-care insurance, "virtually any
American could be impoverished by a prolonged disabling illness."(24)
Additionally, as many as 40 percent of those eligible for some forms
of public aid do not receive it. These gaps in health care result
directly from the fact that the United States is the only major
industrialized nation (other than South Africa) without a national
health insurance plan providing universal coverage while controlling
costs.
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From:
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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
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[Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)]
``America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation.''
-Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Giday netters! Just got a used Newlife 25 accelerator, with FPU, and i
was wondering about a few points.
-Anyone know the current driver version for it??
-Can it handle the 16-bit grayscale card, if i get the video option
-Why would it be hating my hard drive?(can't use the accelerator and
hard drive at the same time). Do i need a new driver on my drive?
What make?
-Thanks,
Jason
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Adda Wainwright writes:
>He stated that thousands of bibles were discovered at a certain point in
>time which were syllable-perfect. This therefore meant that there must have
>been one copy at a certain time; the time quoted by my acquaintance was
>approximately 50 years after the death of Jesus.
This is, as far as I know, complete nonsense. The codification of the bible
as we have it now came very much later.
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| 0alt.atheism |
nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
>>Great Explaination, however you left off one detail, why do you always
>>see them at nuclear plants, but not always at fossil fuel plants. At
>>nuclear plants it is prefered to run the water closed cycle, whereas
>>fossil fuel plants can in some cases get away with dumping the hot
>>water. As I recall the water isn't as hot (thermodynamically) in many
>>fossil fuel plants, and of course there is less danger of radioactive
>>contamination.
Actually the reasons you don't see so many cooling towers at fossil plants are
1) fossil units (multiple units per plant) are generally smaller than
nuclear plants. 300 MWe seemed to be a very popular size when many
fossil plants were built. The average nuclear plant is 1000 MWe. 2) many
fossil plants were grandfathered when water discharge regulations were
adopted ("why those old dirt burners can't harm anything, let 'em go.").
3) powered draft cooling towers, low enough to the ground to be generally
not visible from off-site, are quite popular with fossil plants. 4) fossil
plants used to get much less regulatory attention than nuclears.
> Actually, fossil fuel plants run hotter than the usual
>boiling-water reactor nuclear plants. (There's a gripe in the industry
>that nuclear power uses 1900 vintage steam technology). So it's
>more important in nuclear plants to get the cold end of the system
>as cold as possible. Hence big cooling towers.
> Oil and gas fired steam plants also have condensers, but they
>usually are sized to get the steam back into hot water, not most of the
>way down to ambient. Some plants do cool the condensers with water,
>rather than air; as one Canadian official, asked about "thermal
>pollution" de-icing a river, said, "Up here, we view heat as a resource".
Actually the condensing environment is essentially the same for plants
of similar size. The issues are the same regardless of where the
heat comes from. Condensers are run at as high a vacuum as possible in
order to reduce aerodynamic drag on the turbine. The condenser pressure is
normally water's vapor pressure at the condensing temperature. It is
desirable that the steam exhaust be free of water droplets because
moisture in the steam causes severe erosion damage to the turbine
low pressure blades and because entrained water moving at high velocity
causes erosion of the condenser tubes. The coldest and thus lowest
pressure condensing environment is always the best.
A related issue is that of pumping the condensate from the hotwell (where
the water ends up after dripping off the condenser tubes.) Since the
condenser is at a very low pressure, the only force driving the
condensate into the hotwell pumps is gravity. If the condensate is too
hot or the gravity head is too low, the condensate will reflash into
steam bubbles and cause the condensate pumps to cavitate. This is a
particularly destructive form of cavitation that is to be avoided at all
costs.
The hotwell pumps are located in the lowest point in the plant
in order to provide a gravity head to the pumps. How much lower
they must be is a function of how hot the water is allowed to get in
the hotwell. Typically hotwell temperatures run between 100 and 120
degrees depending on the temperature of the river water (this term is
used to describe the river grade water even when the cooling tower
system is operating in closed loop mode and essentially no river water
is pumped.) When the river water temperature is high in the summer,
operators will typically allow the hotwell level to rise in order
to provide more gravity head. There is a tradeoff involved since higher
hotwell levels will encroach onto the condensing tubes and reduce the
condenser area.
At least in the East and elsewhere where moisture actually exists in the
air :-), the river water will almost always be cooler than the discharge
water from the cooling towers. The temperature of the discharge water
from the cooling towers is set by the ambient air temperature and
humidity. It is very rare in the East to hear of actual river water
temperatures exceeding 70 degrees. A vast difference from the typical
"95-95" days (95 degrees, 95% humidity) we see routinely in the East.
It is not unusual, particularly where the econazis have been successful
in clamping rigid discharge water temperature limits on a plant, for the
plant to have to reduce the firing rate when the air temperature gets
too high and the condenser cannot handle the heat load without excessive
pressure.
> Everybody runs closed-cycle boilers. The water used is
>purified of solids, which otherwise crud up the boiler plumbing when
>the water boils. Purifying water for boiler use is a bigger job than
>cooling it, so the boiler water is recycled.
True. Actually secondary plant (the part that makes electricity and
feeds feedwater to the boiler) water chemistry has been the bastard
stepchild until recently and has not gotten the respect it deserves.
The plant chemists have just in the past decade or so fully understood
the costs of impure water. By "impure", I mean water with a few
dozen extra micromho of conductivity and/or a few PPM of dissolved
oxygen. Secondary water is now typically the most pure one will
find outside the laboratory.
John
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Why is the NT tossed out as info on Jesus. I realize it is normally tossed
out because it contains miracles, but what are the other reasons?
MAC
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| 19talk.religion.misc |
In article <bskendigC5I9yH.ICp@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>If you can explain to me why the death of Jesus was a *good* thing,
>then I would be very glad to hear it, and you might even convert me.
>Be warned, however, that I've heard all the most common arguments
>before, and they just don't convince me.
Be warned, it is not my job to convert you. That is the job of
the Holy Spirit. And I, frankly, make a lousy one. I am only
here to testify. Your conversion is between you and God. I am
"out of the loop". If you decide to follow Jesus, of which I
indeed would be estatic, then all the glory be to God.
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brian@gamma1.lpl.arizona.edu
| 19talk.religion.misc |
In a previous article, dh3q+@andrew.cmu.edu ("Daniel U. Holbrook") says:
>>i'm guessing, but i believe in the twenties we probably drove mostly down
>>cattle trails and in wagon ruts. I am fairly sure that placement of the
>>steering wheel was pretty much arbitrary to the company at that time.....
>
>By the 1920s, there was a very active "good roads" movement, which had
>its origins actually in the 1890s during the bicycle craze, picked up
>steam in the teens (witness the Linclon Highway Association, 1912 or so,
>and the US highway support act (real name: something different) in 1916
>that first pledged federal aid to states and counties to build decent
>roads. Also, the experience of widespread use of trucks for domestic
>transport during WW 1 convinced the government that good raods were
>crucial to our national defense. Anyway, by the 20s there were plenty
>of good roads, at least around urban areas, and they were rapidly
>expanding into the countryside. This was the era, after all, of the
>first auto touring fad, the motel, the auto camp ground, etc. Two good
>books on the subject spring to mind - Warren Belasco "America on the
>Road" (title may not be exact - author is) and another called "The Devil
>Wagon in God's Country" author I forget. Also, any of John Flink's or
>John Bell Rae's auto histories.
i'm sorry, as i have never heard of any of this. Guess they don't think
it's important enough for a classroom, and i was going on what i've seen
in pics.(some movies--real nice scource there, huh?) I just always
recall thinking that GOOD roads of asphalt didn't come around til the
Interstate Hiway Act, or whatever they called it(60's?), and that wood and
cobblestone roads were fairly rare up through the depression, except in
overpopulated places like England and US cities. Obviously netwisdom
says i am wrong.
>As to placement of the steering wheel being arbitrary, by the early
>teens there were virtually no American cars that did not have the wheel
>on the left. In the early days, cars had the wheel on the left, on the
>right, and even in the middle, as well as sometimes having a tiller
>instead of a wheel. This was standardized fairly early on, though I
>don't know why.
i knew it was almost always done, but i knew of no reason that it might not
be done the other way by DeSoto for their car. Seems like they had some
other deviations from the norm too, at times :-)
>Dan
>dh3q@andrew.cmu.edu
>Carnegie Mellon University
>Applied History
>
>"World history strides on from catastrophe to catastrophe, whether we
>can comprehend and prove it or not."
> Oswald Spengler
thanx for corrrecting me, and again, i aplogize for harebraned post.
DREW
| 7rec.autos |
Gedaliah Friedenberg (friedenb@maple.egr.msu.edu) writes:
#In article <1qvfik$6rf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
#(John W. Redelfs) writes:
#|>
#|> Now that Big Brother has rubbed out one minority religion in Waco, who
#|> is next? The Mormons or Jews?
#
#Give me a break. If the Mormons fortified Utah and armed it to the teeth,
#and were involved in illegal activity, then they deserve whatever they get.
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
#You are making a ludicrous suggestion.
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...
In the 1850s, the so-called "Utah-War" was forced upon the early Mormon
settlers, and their "illegal activities" consisted no less in living as
their conscience dictated, and to be sovereign/independant in Utah's
(or "Deseret Territory" as it was called at the time) constitutional
daily affairs. (In order to subdue this clear threat to the survival of
the United States of America, an entire army under the command of General
Johnson (hence "Johnson's Army"), invaded the territory to "restore"
Uncle Sam's law and order...)
History has the uncanny ability to draw certain parallels between events
that might appear unrelated, but are very much the same in spirit and
intent. That same mob- or persecution-prone attitude is to be found in
this user-group: when we tried to organize "soc.religion.mormon" and/or
"talk.religion.mormon," a whole bunch of "charitable" believers effectively
blocked our intent to create a group to discuss topics related to Mormonism
et al in an appropriate forum. We really must be a "threat" to various
establishments... Frustrating our legitimate rights for proper representa-
tion also belongs in the category of persecution. It is ironic that those
who oppose us, point to all kinds of "justifications" to do so, despite
their claims of adhering to a gospel of love...
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.
Lest anyone believe I do not believe in government: I do, but NOT without
questioning the wisdom and constitutionality of their decisions and
resolves. The government's actions around the Mt. Carmel compound in Waco
was NOT wise, neither was it necessary. 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...
#|> We used to live in a country where everyone enjoyed the free exercise
#|> of their rights to worship and bear arms. Now we don't.
#
#Does that include the right to murder little children? How about killing
#ATF officers? I do not know much about the gun laws in Texas, but
#Koresh's folks claimed to have grenades, grenade launchers, and rocket
#launchers. I am not sure that the NRA feels that this falls under
#"right to bear arms."
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.
David Koresh, no doubt, will be described as the "evil" guy (by the
executioners), while the actions of all those "valiant and brave" officers
may have been "regrettable," but alas, "necessary" to serve some dubious
public/national interest. --I guess they are still figuring it out how to
sell this one to the nation...
#|> Of course, to Jews and Mormons this is just a broken record. It has
#|> happened before.
#
#Please explain. I do not remember Jews or Mormons (as a group) overtly
#breaking a judicious (a.k.a. non-Nazi) law and being punished for it.
Read-Your-History. It HAS happened (as explained above in some detail),
and will undoubtedly happen again. Indeed, WHO IS NEXT. So-called "Illegal
activities" can be twisted and bend to suit anyone's need, including the
agendas of secular authorities...
#|> I'll bet all you cult haters are happy now, right? Just hope you're
#not next.
#
#Followups to /dev/null
#
#Alternative followups set to talk.religion.misc
#
#|> ------------ John W. Redelfs, cj195@cleveland.freenet.edu -------------
#|> --------- All my opinions are tentative pending further data. ---------
#
#Gedaliah Friedenberg
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| 18talk.politics.misc |
B8HA000 <B8HA@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA> writes:
>In Re:Syria's Expansion, the author writes that the UN thought
>Zionism was Racism and that they were wrong. They were correct
>the first time, Zionism is Racism and thankfully, the McGill Daily
>(the student newspaper at McGill) was proud enough to print an article
>saying so. If you want a copy, send me mail.
>Steve
Just felt it was important to add four letters that Steve left out of
his Subject: header.
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| 17talk.politics.mideast |
papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
>...
>Some guns will get through, but far fewer, and far less people will
>die because of them.
Do you have any statistical evidence to back you claim that requires another
limitation of the citizenry freedom?
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
>Well, I was certainly turned off by that first paragraph of oft-used
>platitudes. I can't count the times I've heard those common tactics
>anymore...'you may not believe it but that doesn't change the fact
>that it's true'...the old analogy about trusting your parents...sheesh.
>Need I point out how parents can show children that they are right?
>That difference in capability alone crushes that analogy, as any 'facts'
>about Christianity I have seen turned out to be beliefs. What I seek is
>fact--knowledge--if I can get it, and evidence for a belief if I can't.
>So far from Christians I have received neither...
Before becoming a Christian I too had problems when I asked one to explain
it to me...The actual evidence is not always what you see on a person's
outside. It should be but is not always.
A very specific, somewhat miraculous example of the truth of God
working to help His followers is soemthing that happened to me. For nearly
4 years after an accident I had severe complications from a triple
fracture in my left leg and surgery--pins put in, then removed. The bone
itself was perfectly healed. No infectoin that could be detected. Yet I
was in constant pain and it my ankle and foot were always swollen and
bluish. More complicatios developed in my other leg, none of which could
be explained by the best specialists and most sophisticated tests in te
northern Illinois region. We went everywhere--no one could explain it.
Durin gthat summer (June 19, 1991 to be exact) I gave my life and heart
to Christ and vowed to relinquish control over my life (which i never
really had anyway) because of what he did for me on the cross and the
fact that my whole life was screwed up by me trying to fix it. I was facing
the possibility of a lifetime in a wheelchair (I was confined to one in
order to save my legs from any further damage since the cause of my problems
were unknown, had been in it for about 2 1/2 months before that day).
I found it ore than coincidental that less than 2 weeks after
I put my faith where my mouth was, one more in the long line of doctors
and not even an orthopeodic specialist, diagnosed my problems with no
difficulty, set me on the path to an effective cure, and I was walking
and running again without the pain that had stopped me from that for
4 years. The diagnosis was something he felt the other doctors must have
"overlooked" because it was perfectly obvious from my test results.
Maybe this doesn't hit you as miraculous. But to me it really
is. Imagine an active 17 year old being told she may not be able to
walk mcuh longer...and is now a happy 18 year old who can dance and run
knowing that the problem was there all along and was "revealed" just
after she did what she knew was right. As the song says...
"Our God is an awesome God...."
| 15soc.religion.christian |
ab4z@Virginia.EDU writes:
> A few things about the University. It is more fun than some may
> admit. Partying does go on and it has consistently been ranked
> one of Playboy's top party schools. But we do study and more
> importantly learn a lot. The overall UVa drug use is actually
> lower than the average college in the U.S.
> There is no hate law on the books even though they (The
> forces of PC) tried to have one last year( by the way a similar
> law at the University of Wisconsin ? was found unconstitutional
> last year). There is a law
> against relationship of professors with their students or
> advisees that just passed.
> Thomas Jefferson was the sole author of the Virginia
> statute for religious freedom(the basis for the first ten
> amendments), though he is not given full credit for righting
^^^^^^^^
> the bill of rights. So someone who picked on me for that is
> right.
> By the way, we're the man in everything. Sports
> academics and partying. I'm sure a lot of other schools are
> good at what they do as well, so don't start mailing me junk.
> I'm happy where I am and maybe I'll go to one of y'alls medical
> schools in a couple of years.
Oh my god. My spelling and grammer suck. I guess I need some
sleep. I said righting (instead of writing). What's the chance
of that. Thank god I caught it before everyone started picking
on it. I hope I didn't cause Mr.Jefferson too much shame.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
I have a line on a Ducati 900GTS 1978 model with 17k on the clock. Runs
very well, paint is the bronze/brown/orange faded out, leaks a bit of oil
and pops out of 1st with hard accel. The shop will fix trans and oil
leak. They sold the bike to the 1 and only owner. They want $3495, and
I am thinking more like $3K. Any opinions out there? Please email me.
Thanks. It would be a nice stable mate to the Beemer. Then I'll get
a jap bike and call myself Axis Motors!
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| 8rec.motorcycles |
Here's the situation:
At home, I have MS Word for windows but no printer. At work, I
have windows + a postscript printer, but not MS Word. So, I
configure my machine at home to use a postscript printer, and use
the print to file option, which produces a nice postscript file,
which I then bring to work.
My question: how do I print this postscript file through the print
manager at work? If, for example, I select print from the file
manager, it treats the postscript as a text file, and gives me
several pages of postscript gibberish.
I know that I can open a DOS window and do:
copy file.ps com1:
which does work, but seems not to multitask very well -- other applications
run rather slowly and often pause for 10's of seconds.
There ought to be a way of passing the postscript file to the Print
Manager, but if there is, I can't find any mention of it in the
documentation.
Anyone know how to do this?
--
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
mclase@riemann.math.mun.ca
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <93111.195217A54SI@CUNYVM.BITNET> <A54SI@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
[stuff about Mithras deleted]
>Oh, His B-day was 25 Dec. Ahem.
I thought that Saturnalia was celebrated by the Romans at that time. Was
Mithras connected with this?
| 19talk.religion.misc |
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To: cs1442au@decster.uta.edu
Subject: Problem.
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I am running a Unisys PW2 386SX20 with DOS 6. My problem, even when I had DOS
5.0, is that when I have EMM386 loaded I can't CTL-ALT-DEL. If I do, the
computer beeps a few times rapidly and hangs. Then I have to use the obscure
reset (requires a screwdriver or pencil) or the power switch to reboot. Does
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <GERRY.93Apr21132149@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
> 4th Amendment
> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
> papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
> shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon
> probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and
> particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons
> or things to be seized.
>
>No, a no-knock warrant is in clear violation of the 4th amendment.
I guess my news reader deleted the lines of the 4th amendment which deal
with no-knock warrants. How do you deduce that they are in clear violation?
Now maybe no-knock warrants SHOULD be illegal. But until the Supreme Court
says so, your own pronouncements on the warrant's constitutionality are just
wishful thinking.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <strnlghtC5t3K6.InF@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
> In article <tcmayC5rs6n.Lz8@netcom.com> tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:
> >After the Waco Massacre and the Big Brother Wiretap Chip, any tactic
> >is fair.
>
> This is pernicious nonsense!
>
> David Sternlight Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of
Since the FBI's account of what happened is being contradicted on an
increasingly frequent basis by other officials investigating the
fire, the most pernicious idea of all is believing that Big Brother
is going to be well-behaved with respect to cryptographic keys.
In light of the very serious allegations with respect to the DOJ
selling software to various other intelligence services, what do
you suppose the chances are of some future DOJ selling escrowed
keys to business firms?
Trusting the government to be honest and fair is putting the
fox in charge of protecting the chickens.
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Relations between people to be by mutual consent, or not at all.
| 11sci.crypt |
In article <1r0ausINNi01@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>The chip and algorithm are classified. If you reverse engineer it and
>tell people, you are likely to go to jail.
I don't find this a credible argument, for two reasons. One you have
supplied below: unless I care about entering the USA at any time in the
future (eg. the Taiwanese backyard cloners - who BTW have been known to
decap custom silicon and reproduce it on daughterboards when pirating
high-profit arcade machines and the like - who wouldn't care less), I am not
going to care much about US confidentiality, am I? Only people like the
real me, who does care about travelling to various countries for business
reasons, will sit up and follow laws like this, but I would contend that
we're not the main threat.
I also have grave doubts whether an algorythm widely distributed in silicon
could possibly be called "classified." It's like handing out military
secrets to the whole world in envelopes marked "don't open me." I can
imagine several credible defences which could be employed if it came to
a trial. One would be the stupidity of the government's actions.
>Perhaps some foreign governments or corporations could help us out by
>cracking the system outside the USA. The US government could probably
>stop importation of clone hardware, but a software implementation
>should be practical.
Amusing thought: could they have employed an algorythm which is infeasable
for a fast software implementation, but which is easy in custom hardware?
In DES, the extensive use of permutation tables (trivial in hardware: you
just swap bus lines), but relatively slow in software have had a big effect
on the speed difference between hardware and software implementations of
that cipher (indeed, I suspect that Lucifer's designers were well aware that
it would be, and approved.) Certain algorythms (usually parallel search
algorythms) can be very slow in software, yet can fly in custom hardware.
I have no proof of their employment in Clipper -- it is pure conjecture.
However, as a software implementation of this cipher is something that its
designers would have been trying to avoid at all costs, then the inclusion
of such techniques seems credible.
Hmmm... I also wonder what Intergraph thinks about the use of the name
"Clipper" for this device. :)
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| 11sci.crypt |
In article <1993Apr9.172953.12408@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> shz@mare.att.com (Keeper of the 'Tude) writes:
>The rider (pilot?) of practically every riceburner I've passed recently
>has waved to me and I'm wondering if it will last. Could they simply be
>overexuberant that their 'burners have been removed from winter moth-balls
>and the novelty will soon dissipate? Perhaps the gray beard that sprouted
>since the last rice season makes them think I'm a friendly old fart that
>deserves a wave...
Maybe...then again did you get rid of that H/D of yorn and buy a rice rocket
of your own? That would certainly explain the friendliness...unless you
maybe had a piece of toilet paper stuck on the bottom of your boot...8-).
Rich
Rich Bemben - DoD #0044 rbemben@timewarp.prime.com
1977 750 Triumph Bonneville (617) 275-1800 x 4173
"Fear not the evil men do in the name of evil, but heaven protect
us from the evil men do in the name of good"
| 8rec.motorcycles |
XOPR131@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Gerald McPherson) writes:
> If you reject the claims of Jesus, and still go to
> heaven, then the joke's on me. If you reject him and go to hell,
> that's no joke, but it will be final.
If this is God's attitude, then I'll think I'll go along with
Terry Pratchett's religious philosophy:
"Oh, I believe in God. I just don't actually _like_ the blighter."
P.
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james trinity college dublin and apply the wire brush of enlightenment - GeoffM
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| 15soc.religion.christian |
The original poster wanted to know how the Big Cat looked. I was also at
the Saturday game in Montreal (Apr 17) that Rockies won 9-1. I haven't
paid much attention to Gallarraga since he left the Expos but his stance
seemed to be MUCH different. He stands more erect and very open, with his
left foot pointing to 3rd base. I'm wondering if this is a recent change
in stance for him? Andres had one glaring weakness as a hitter. He could
always be fooled by a curve ball low and away. If this is indeed a new
stance for him, maybe he is not being fooled as easily? As for his patience,
Dennis Martinez definitely did not have his good stuff. If he was grooving
pitches to Andres, you can hardly fault him for drilling them (which he did!).
Does Andres generally start hot or cold? Does it take until May for most
pitchers to have confidence in that curve ball low and away?
Roger Healey
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
To those who own CMS's Trakkers...please email me with your thoughts on your
machine...and specifics such as avg. file access..etc
Ben Ng
beng@dorsai.dorsai.org
1:278/706
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <1993Apr8.123213.1@tardis.mdcorp.ksc.nasa.gov> fresa@tardis.mdcorp.ksc.nasa.gov writes:
>Could someone please define a "brain abscess" for me? A relative has one near
>his cerebellum.
A brain abscess is an infection deep in the brain substance. It is
hard to cure with antibiotics, since it gets walled off, and usually,
it needs surgical drainage.
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| 13sci.med |
About a year ago I started work on a problem that appeared to
be very simple and turned out to be quite difficult. I am wondering if
anyone on the net has seen this problem and (hopefully) some published
solutions to it.
The problem is to draw an outline of a surface defined by two
roughly parallel cubic splines. For inputs the problem essentially
starts with two sets of points where each set of points is on the
edge of an object which we treat as two dimensional, i.e. only extant
between the edges, but which exists in three dimensional space. To draw
the object we
1) fit a cubic spline through the points. Each spline is effectively
computed as a sequence of line segments approximating the
curve. Each spline has an equal number of segments. We assume
that the nth segment along each spline is roughly, but not
exactly, the same distance along each spline by any reasonable
measure.
2) Take each segment (n) along each spline and match it to the nth segment
of the opposing spline. Use the pair of segments to form two
triangles which will be filled in to color the surface.
3) Depth sort the triangles
4) Take each triangle in sorted order, project onto a 2D pixmap, draw
and color the triangle. Take the edge of the triangle that is
along the edge of the surface and draw a line along that edge
colored with a special "edge color"
It is the edge coloring in step 4 that is at the heart of the
problem. The idea is to effectively outline the edge of the surface.
The net result however generally has lots of breaks and gaps in
the edge of the surface. The reasons for this are fairly complicated.
They involve both rasterization problems and problems resulting
from the projecting the splines. If anything about this problem
sounds familiar we would appreciate knowing about other work in this
area.
-Thanks
| 1comp.graphics |
I'm looking for a sport-cruiser - factory installed fairings (
full/half ), hard saddle bags, 750cc and above, and all that and still
has that sporty look.
I particularly like the R100RS and K75 RT or S, or any of the K series
BMW bikes.
I was wondering if there are any other comparable type bikes being
produced by companies other than BMW.
Thanks for the info,
Jae
--------------------------
jae@cmu.edu
| 8rec.motorcycles |
In article <C5upHy.GH7@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
How fast do the fastest modems go?
V.FAST is targeted for about 28kbps; 14.4kbps is ~$500, and 19.2 may
be here soon too. (Remember to ignore compression figures which make
your modem go faster on compressible data, because voice gets
compressed better than that, and encryption makes further compression impossible.)
How far can voice be compressed?
The STU-III phones on the market from AT&T, Motorola, and (I forget who else),
give you a choice of 9600, 4800, and 2400 baud. The 9600 and 4800 are CELP,
and I think the 2400 is some earlier military vocoder stuff.
9600 is decent, 2400 is pretty artificial, anything less is Speak&Spell.
16000 can produce quite adequate sound. There's also some 8 kbps CELP around.
DSPs have made it possible to do all this in real time for cheap.
Old-hand government crypto have trouble adjusting to systems faster
than 9600 baud, because if the voice on the other end sounds good,
you assume the crypto hasn't been turned on yet :-)
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| 11sci.crypt |
I need a off-the-shelf method of transmitting small amounts of data up to
300 feet. The data is low speed and can be encoded as needed. Low power
on the transmitting end would be a plus. An FCC certified product would
be prefered.
If you have any pointers to products or companies I'd appreciate hearing from
you.
Thanks,
Ken
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr5.083324.48826@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, wellison@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
|> I have a project that was drooped in my lap that is somewhat a pain to design.
|> What I am looking for is a stable ultra-long solid state timer. What they want
|> to do is to place this thing on the Antartic ice shelf and measure the amount
|> of snow fall over a period of six weeks. Every two weeks, they want to trip a
|> selonoid to discharge different colored pellets by gas pressure out across the
|> snow. Then by digging down into the snow, the snow fall amount can be measured
|> as they come to the different color pellets.
|>
|> The problem is trying to build a timer that would stand the cold (-40 degrees)
|> and a power source that wouldn't drain. I have looked at the XR-2204 timers and
|> the standard NE556 dual timers, but thier temp specs won't go that low. Also,
|> two weeks equates to 1,209,600 seconds per firing, which means one big timing
|> cap ! I have found 2.2 farad (yes, Farad !) caps that have a working voltage of
|> 5 volts and are small in size. But again, the time of discharge at -40 or lower
|> degrees isn't linear. I was thinking of using several timers chained together
|> to fire the selonid at the end of the timing period, but that blasted cold and
|> the drain on a battery over six weeks is the pain. One possibility would be to
|> use solar panels, but this is during the six month twilight. Anyone have any
|> good ideas ?
|>
|> Thanks in advance...
|>
|> -=-= Wes =-=-
Firstly, I would never consider trying to make a one-shot timer. Your 2F2 cap
will have been designed as a RAM battery substitute, rather than for use in
applications where you wish to drain the cap with a constant current. Their
performance, in some respects, is more akin to batteries than to a normal cap.
The other point is that big electro's are usually rated with -5%+20% tolerances,
so calculating exactly what capacitance you have (particularly when considering
the cold).
You should be looking at designing a micropower oscillator and divider chain,
that "rolls over" (from zero to maximum count, or vice-versa) once every
1,209,600 seconds. If you were to use something like a 110Hz clock, you would
need a divider chain of 2^27, to give an error of less than one percent in the
firing times over the six week period. Of course, you could trim the 110Hz
oscillator to give you exact time, but the likelyhood of the oscillator
remaining exactly constant at -40 is low anyway.
I would suspect that there would be far more battrey drain in firing the
solenoid than there would be in the timer circuit.
Caveat - I'm not experienced in low temperature electronics, so I can't
guarantee that this (or any other) approach is the best for inhospitable
conditions.
JohnH
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| 12sci.electronics |
[stuff about hard to find atheist books deleted]
Perhaps the infiltration of fundies onto school boards, city councils,
etc. has something to do with why you can't find alternative media?
| 0alt.atheism |
Since loading Windows, two of my DOS applications have been
acting strangely. It appears that font changes and page
orientation changes (so far) are not being recognized in
WordPerfect/DOS and QuattroPro/DOS. Another DOS application
does accept font and page orientation changes, so I don't
think the problem is with the printer.
I reloaded QuattroPro, and these changes are still not
accepted whether launching from Windows or the DOS prompt.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look or how to
correct this problem? I've ordered QuattroPro for Windows,
but need a landscape application printed immediately. Please e-mail.
Thanks in advance!
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| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Are there any vendors supporting pressure sensitive tablet/pen with X? I
will appreciate any pointers.
Thanks, Sanjay
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| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <1993Apr21.053721.551@bnr.ca> MBEAVING@BNR.CA writes:
>
>I hate pre'80s motorcycles.
>
>At first I thought it was a phase. I though I would
>get used to them. It didn't happen. I tried gazing
>at CB750s and 900 customs,
Thats pretty hard since CB900 customs weren't introduced
until 1980. If you find a pre-80 one, hold onto it. It
will be worth big bucks some day.
>What am I to do? Everytime I read a .sig containing
>some spoked wheel wonder, I shudder and feel pity that
>the poor soul has suffered enough.
Mine has comstar wheels. Methinks you need to do
your homework better.
>= My employer has no idea what I'm talking about! =
>===================================================
And obviously, neither do you.
--
Keith Schauer Texas Instruments Plain O, Texas
80 CB900 Custom
DoD #0901 In an insane society, the sane man must appear insane.
AMA My company disavows any knowledge of my actions.
| 8rec.motorcycles |
jagst18+@pitt.edu (Josh A Grossman) writes:
>Somebody was kind enough to post the Prez's compuserve email address.
>I was smart enough to write it down somehwere on some small scap of paper
>I can not find. If you've got it please email it to me.
CompuServe - "75300.3115@CompuServe.com"
America On-Line - "Clintonpz@AOL.com
Both are accessible from the InterNet.
When you send a not to Slick Willie, you will need to have you US Mail
address on the note if you want a response. The White House does not
reply by E-Mail.
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <9l15qxn@rpi.edu>, lswilfin@mercury.ral.rpi.edu (Lee S Wilfinger) writes:
> cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares) writes:
>
> >Obnly something like 12% of guns used in crime in the US are purchased
> >from legitimate dealers (and not necessarily by the person who used them
> >in the crime). So we already HAVE that much "gun control."
>
> I've seen this mentioned a number of times. I'm curious; what is the
> source for this statistic?
The number bounces between 2% and 18%, depending on the study quoted and
the type of gun being studied.
Some cites:
---------------------------------------
A recent BATF study (titled "Protecting America, Yes") surveyed 471 career
criminals and found that only 7% of guns used in violent crimes were
purchased from retail dealers.
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National Institute of Justice
Research in Brief
November 1986
The Armed Criminal in America
by James D. Wright
(1) Legitimate firearms retailers play only a minor role as direct
sources of handguns for adult felony offenders.
Only about one-sixth of the gun-owning felons obtained their most
recent handguns through a customary retail transaction involving a
licensed firearms dealer. The remainder -- five out of six --
obtained them via informal, off-the-record transactions involving
friends and associates, family members, and various black market
outlets. The means of acquisition from these informal sources
included cash purchase, swaps and trades, borrowing and renting, and
often theft. The criminal handgun market is overwhelmingly dominated
by informal transactions and theft as mechanisms of supply.
---------------------------------------
INDEPENDENCE ISSUE PAPER No. 4- 91
Independence Institute
14142 Denver West Parkway #101
Golden, CO 80401
(303) 279-6536
WHY GUN WAITING PERIODS THREATEN PUBLIC SAFETY
By David B. Kopel
The basic problem with waiting periods is shown by a Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms study of gun dealer sales in Des Moines and Greenville.
The study found that about one to two percent of sales were to dangerous
criminals.[51] In short, waiting periods have no statistically noticeable
impact on any type of crime because only a tiny fraction of crime guns
are purchased at retail by ineligible buyers.
51. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Assistant Director of Criminal
Enforcement, Memorandum to Director, July 10, 1975 (Greenville survey; of
20,047 names submitted to FBI for record checks, 68 had felony convictions;
of those, 41 had not been represented by counsel at their conviction or who
committed crimes in the distant past; twenty-seven buyers were prosecuted)
(of the 1.3% of buyers selected for prosecution, .9% had non-violent felony
convictions, and .4% had violent convictions). Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, Assistant Director for Criminal Enforcement, memorandum to
Director, May 8, 1975 (of 374 records checked, 39 were purchasers with felony
records who were not appropriate for prosecution because of age or
non-violent nature of felony; six purchasers were prosecuted).
---------------------------------------
INDEPENDENCE ISSUE PAPER No. 12-91
THE ASSAULT WEAPON PANIC:
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" TAKES AIM
AT THE CONSTITUTION
By Eric Morgan and David Kopel
Testimony before Congress revealed that most "assault weapons" in the
hands of criminals were obtained through illegal channels.{97} The testimony
is consistent with the National Institute of Justice's research findings
based on studies of felons in state prisons. The NU study, authored by
sociologists James D. Wright and Peter Rossi found that only sixteen percent
of criminals had obtained their most recent handgun from a gun store. (The
figures included purchases by legal surrogates, rather than directly by the
criminal.) Wright and Rossi, who had begun their research as firm proponents
of gun control, concluded that no set of controls on retail purchases, and
probably not even full scale gun prohibition, would reduce criminal use of
guns. Wright and Rossi suggested that lawmakers concerned about gun crime
directly target the black market in criminal guns, and
leave the legitimate retail market alone.{98} Not surprisingly, Wright
believes that the consequences of current "assault weapon" legislation on
street violence are likely to be ineffective.{99} He warns that gun
controls aimed at ordinary citizens are less likely to reduce the pool of
criminal guns than to provide organized crime with lucrative new
business.{100}
6. _See, _e.g., The Anti-drug, Assault Weapons Limitation Act of 1989. S.
Rep. No. 160, 101st. Cong., 1st. Sess. 6-8 (1989) [hereinafter SENATE REPORT]
(introduced by Senator DeConcini to reduce semiautomatic firearms abuse by
drug traffickers and violent criminals); Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control
Act of 1989, CAL. PENAL CODE $$ 12275-12290 (West 1990) [hereinafter Roberti-
Roos]; MD. ANN. CODE art. 27 $$ 442,481E (1989) (placing greater restrictions
on 17 varieties of "assault weapons," and providing punishments for failure
to comply or attempts to evade).
97. SENATE REPORT, _supra note 6, at 17.
98. James Wright & Peter Rossi, ARMED AND CONSIDERED DANGEROUS: A SURVEY OF
FELONS AND THEIR FIREARMS (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1986).
99. _Lock _and _Load _for _the _Gunfight _of _'89, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REP.,
March 27, 1989, at 9 [hereinafter _Gunfight]. Wright also said, "If criminals
can get all the drugs they want, they can get guns, too." _Id.
100. James Wright, "Second Thoughts About Gun Control," 91 _The _Public
_Interest (Spring 1988), at 30-3 1.
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
In a previous article, mcovingt@aisun2.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) says:
>In article <Apr.13.00.08.44.1993.28424@athos.rutgers.edu> heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath) writes:
>That is not necessarily unorthodox. When Christians call God 'Father',
>we are using a metaphor. The Bible in one place refers to God as being
>like a mother. God is neither a father nor a mother in the literal
>sense; God has some of the attributes of both; the father metaphor is
>usually used because (for most people at most times) it is the less
>misleading of the two possibilities.
I don't know which passage you are refering to, but the passage I have
often seen cited as an example of a mother image of God is Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her sucking child / that she should have no
compassion / on the son of her womb? / Even these may forget, /
yet I will not forget you."
This passage is *not* a mother image of God at all. The mother here
is the image of the best human constancy can show, and it is
contrasted with the constancy of God. The mother figure here represents
mankind, not God.
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aa888@Freenet.carleton.ca | to irrigate deserts." -- C. S. Lewis
==============================================================================
[Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those
who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together
as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
--clh]
| 15soc.religion.christian |
brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
> They have a much better reason to classify the algorithm than to
> protect its security. They want to protect its market share.
That's one way to put it. Keeping the algorithm classified means that
disclosure of it falls under the rubric of "national security." Nothing like
federal marshalls to guard a monopoly...
> The result is tappable
> cryptography without laws forbidding other kinds, for 99% of the
> populace.
Agreed, although this is still somewhat better than the status quo :).
> To get untappable crypto, you would have to build a special phone that
> runs on top of this system, and everybody you talk to would have to
> have an indentical one.
Sounds like a job for the Free Software Foundation :)/2...
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
| 11sci.crypt |
I am working on a project where we are going to be including
both still and moving grapics within a database. Of course
JPEG and MPEG come to mind as the formats of choice for the
various files. However, from what I read on the Net, it seems
as if there are several different forms of each of these.
What I want to do, is settle on a file format which I can count
on as being a standard format 10 years from now. I know Apple is going
to support Quicktime on the new Power PC's and, so this
may be the format of choice.
What format does Apple's Quicktime use for their products? I guess
it is some kind of MPEG for their motion picture. Is it any different
than standard MPEG files?
Thanx for any info!
Art.
Pollarda@xray.byu.edu
| 1comp.graphics |
I need help finding XCMDs to control a CD-ROM drive
from Aldus Supercard 1.6. The Apple Hypercard CD-ROM
Toolkit does not work. Aldus has no clue. Apple has no clue.
Berkeley MUG and Boston MUG won't return any phone calls.
My local user group has no idea. HELP!
Commercial or shareware is fine...
Please reply by email: clee@theporch.raider.net
THANKS!
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PO Box 22621 Graphics,Interface Design, Compu$erve: 73247,2402
Nashville,TN 37202 Digital Audio clee@theporch.raider.net
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <ferch.735165123@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca> Les Ferch, ferch@ucs.ubc.ca
writes:
> Afterall, Apple's literature is not always 100% correct. A funny one I
> noticed recently is that some of the brochures on the Macs with CD
> capability refer to the "auto inkjet" feature. This should have read
"auto
> inject" feature (as it does on some other correct brochures I've seen
from
> Apple). Since it was correct on some older brochures, I can only guess
> that someone edited the copy, saw "inject" and thought it was a typo and
> changed it to the more familiar word "inkjet".
>
> Hmmm, what would that be? A printer built into the CD player? A way of
> *writing* information to a CD? :-) :-)
How do you think they get the cool images on the top serface of CD's
anyway? They gotta have something to do the top surface artwork...
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
A friend's daughter has been diagnosed with an eye disease called "Star
Gartds" (or something close) - it is apparently genetic, according to her,
and affects every fourth generation.
She would appreciate any information about this condition. If anything is
available via ftp, please point me in the right direction..
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| 13sci.med |
on Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 23:19:46 GMT, Edmund Hack <arabia!hack> writes:
/In article <1pgdno$3t1@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
/>
/>I always thought GD's Fighter plants were in Long Island.
/>
/No, Northrup has a plant on Long Island.
I don't think Northrup ever had a plant on Long Island. The two main airframe
manufacturers there were (Fairchild)/Republic which closed its doors after the
T-46 cancellation, and Grumman (which is still hanging on last I time I called).
I think Sperry also started there. If you're ever in the area check out the
Cradle of Aviation Museum at Mitchell field (now mostly parking lots behind the
Nassau Coliseum and the community college). Good display of vehicles from Long
Island, including a LEM flight article.
Disclaimer: Opinions stated are solely my own (unless I change my mind).
Ben Muniz MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com w(818)586-3578
Space Station Freedom:Rocketdyne/Rockwell:Structural Loads and Dynamics
"Man will not fly for fifty years": Wilbur to Orville Wright, 1901
| 14sci.space |
Those VHS movies have to be sold because I am moving in 6 weeks.
And I have no idea what happend to those people who made the
deal with me before. So here I am, trying to post another message,
againt. ( I don't mean to waste your valuable time.)
Basic Instinct $11.00
Born on the Forth of July $11.00
Backdraft $11.00
Presumed Innocent $11.00
The Prince of Tides $11.00
Dance of Wolves $11.00
All the prices are including shipping. You get all of them for
$60.00.
Package deals are very welcome...
So make me an offer...
Douglas Kou
Hiram College
koutd@hirama.hiram.edu
| 6misc.forsale |
Since I started this twist of this thread...
kdb@teer13.acpub.duke.edu (Kurt Bollacker) writes:
>: |> I believe that enough is inferior to make it overall as a product
>: |> inferior to its competition-- Apple System 7, OS/2 2.0, NeXTStep 3.0,
>: |> UNIX/Xwindows (pick your favorite flavor).
>
>: In other words, it is your *opinion* that MSW3.1 is inferior to its
>: competition. That's not the same as MSW3.1 being objectively inferior.
>
>No. It is technically inferior to the OS/GUIs that I listed. I have already
>described why. To say briefly:
>
Actually you fell into the above because you said "I believe"
If you had used the rest of this post in your previous post
I do not think anyone would have agrued with you.
>
>System 7 --easier to learn and use. There have been independent studies to
> that effect.
>OS/2 --Can run MSW applications and has more stable multitasking.
>NeXTSTep --easier to learn, use, and program. More stable multitasking
>UNIX/X --As easy to learn and use. More stable multitasking.
>
The following three are not the competition for Windows 3.0 (IMHO of course)
System 7 -- Does not currently run on Intel boxes
NeXTSTep -- Rather expensive should be a competitor to Windows NT not 3.x
Unix/X -- " " " " " " " " " " "
With the exception of OS/2 all of the above will require most users
to spend a very large sum of money to upgrade applications to ones that
run under these OS's. And basically money speaks louder than anything
else. You keep saying "More stable multitasking" is what you mean
"Not Multi-finder / GEM / GeoWorks co-operative multi-tasking but
real honest to goodness prioritized pre-emptive multi-tasking"?
>With the prpoer setup, all of these will exchange data with MSW machines as
>well as MSW machines will amongst themselves, so interoperability is not
>an issue.
Basically this is moot since most users have been able to share data for
quite a long time, but are still to blind to know it.
>
>By this criterion, it is inferior. If you have another, then perhaps I am
>incorrect. Do you pick up the glove?
>
Why pick it up? You stated the reasons behind your opinions. Stated them in
a very straight-forward, though over protective, manner. And aside from
my earlier comments about who actually is a competitor, I think we are in
agreement.
Does Tim Glauert agree? Let's wait and see.
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| Bell Northern Research | on I'd buy an Amiga. However I have |
| Research Triangle Park, NC | real work to do. So please get lost! |
|____________________________________|_______________________________________|
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
<GUF@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>I own an 8088 640K clone which does all I want except run 1 game I want
>to buy. The game says it requires a 80286 with 640K. Game tech. support
>says game will run on 8088 but uses a some digitized graphics which would
>make it run really *slow* (it's a card game - Hoyles Classic Card Games,
>digitized graphics are photos artwork of game fictional card players).
>What can I do to speed up how this game would run, short of an 80286
>motherboard upgrade. Co-processor? Accelerator card mimicking 80286?
>My 8088 can run at 10 Mhz. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
a 286 upgrade would probably cost about $50, 386 about $150 or so.
Coprocessors or accelerator cards would cost at least that much.
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
louray@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Panayiotakis) writes:
>>Is there any utility available that will make Windows
>>randomly select one of your windows directory's .BMP
>>files as the wallpaper file?
>There are a couple. I am personally using screenpeace, which is a
If you need just to change the wallpaper, then I've written a short
program in VB that does this by using SystemParametersInfo-function.
The bad news is that you need VBRUN200.DLL to run it, and the DLL is
some 350kb (the program is about 7kb). The order of pictures depends
on the system date and the number of BMP-files in the directory, so
the picture remains the same if you execute the program multiple times
during the same day and the number of BMPs has not changed.
If you feel this is what you need then I could uuencode it and email
it to you. (It is unavailable via ftp.)
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| Ismo K{rkk{inen / 109740@joyl.joensuu.fi / iak@cs.joensuu.fi |
| Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <C5x9xs.KHE@hkuxb.hku.hk>, h8902939@hkuxa.hku.hk (Abel) writes:
|> Hi netters,
|> I am currently doing some investigations on "Developable Surface".
|> Can anyone familiar with this topic give me some information or sources
|> which can allow me to find some infomation of developable surface?
|> Thanks for your help!
|> Abel
|> h8902939@hkuxa.hku.hk
A developable surface is s.t. you can lay it (or roll it) flat on the
plane (it may require you to give it a "cut" though...)
E.g., a cylinder, a cone, a plane (of course!) or any surface or patch
having vanishing Gaussian (intrinsic) curvature (i.e., with singular
Hessian, the matrix of 2nd derivatives for an adequate coordinate patch)
are "developable". In more technical words, a developable surface is
"locally isometric to a plane" at all points.
Think also of the sphere (or the earth) which in a non-developable:
whatever way(s) you cut it, you will not be able to lay flat any pieces
of it... (its intrinsic curvature is nowhere vanishing).
For more details on this look at any book on differential geometry
which treats surfaces (2D manifolds); e.g., M. do Carmo's book:
@Book{Carmo76Differential,
author = {do Carmo, Manfredo P.},
title = {Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces},
year = 1976,
publisher = {Prentice-Hall},
note = {503 pages.}}
Enjoy!
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McGill University, Electrical Eng. Dept., McRCIM, | Tel.: (514) 398-8236
3480 University St., Montreal, QC, CANADA, H3A 2A7. | FAX: (514) 398-7348
| 1comp.graphics |
Howdy, Netlanders:
Can you put an ISA card into an EISA slot?
Also, can you put a 8-bit PC card in an ISA
slot?
Please e-mail if possible,
Thanks ahead of time,
David Munoz
munoz@bcstec.boeing.com
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <C50sKE.3Ft@voder.nsc.com>, matt@galaxy.nsc.com (Matt Freivald x8043) writes:
>
> In Article 164905 in talk.politics.misc,decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com
> (dean.kaflowitz)
>
> >In article <C4rt3t.Ewp@voder.nsc.com>, matt@galaxy.nsc.com
> >(Matt Freivald x8043) writes:
> >>
> >>> 1) Is an unborn child a human being at ANY POINT during pregnency?
>
> > >In my opinion, at all points during the pregnancy it is human.
> > >You'll have to define what you mean by "human being" for me to
> > >answer the question as put.
>
> A parallel: Q: "Is a person of color a human being?"
> A: "You'll have to define what you mean by `human being'."
To answer your irrelevant question, yes a person of color is human,
but I still don't know what you mean by human being and you have
merely begged the question without responding. By trying to inject
the notion of race into the discussion, you muddy the waters without
adding any insight whatever. The same parallel question could
be "Is a polydactyl person a human being?" You still have not
answered what you mean by human being. Please do so.
> >> I would suggest that legal precedent defines a human being (i.e., a person
> >> whose rights are protected by the Constitution and the law) as someone with
> >> a functioning brain.
> >Could you cite some of those precedents for me, or the basis of this
> >definition? While the law does allow the removal of extraordinary
> >means of sustaining life in cases of brain death, this in itself
> >does not lead to your conclusion of how the law defines a human
> >being. However, at least you defined human being in a tenuous
> >fashion. That is, a "person whose rights are protected by the
> >Constitution and the law."
>
> >For my answer to your question, I refer you to Roe v Wade and
> >subsequent Supreme Court decisions, which define to what
> >extent a fetus is protected by the Constitution and the law.
> "Certain judges have concurred that slavery is not a violation of
> human rights; therefore, it is not."
You won't answer the question and instead drag in irrelevancies.
If you want a definition of human being that does not depend on
the vagaries of law, but holds solid whatever the law may rule,
provide it for me.
> I would suggest that your blind faith would not likely hold up if the
> shoe were on the other foot. The "brain life/death" paradigm is one that
> I suggest as one consistent with other legal definitions. It clearly
> doesn't matter to you whether an unborn child has any rights or not,
> however, so the point is lost on you.
More irrelevancies. As Larry Margolis pointed out, the law
has made special exceptions in order to include fetuses, but does
not follow your version of human being. And as he pointed out,
brain death is not a means of determining who has the rights
of the living, but rather who has died. There is a significant
difference.
What I am wondering now is, has your argument so failed you that
you feel it necessary to drag out irrelevancies and leave the
thread you started? You got answers to your questions when
you began baiting me, if you recall, after you had made some
ridiculous remarks about Adrienne Regard and, having been corrected,
changed the subject with your remarks about having a discussion
of substance. If you really wanted a discussion of substance,
why then do you disregard logic and substance in order to toss
silly accussations, e.g. "It really doesn't matter to you..."
If it matters to you, then why not define human being and seek
some substance? You're not going to convince a logical person
of the rightness of your position unless you apply some logic
and show some meaning to your words.
> >> >> 2) If she is, then why does the mother have the right to kill
> >> >> her when she is in the womb but not after she has passed
> >> >> through the birth canal?
> >>
> >> >Because a woman has a right to have any object which threatens her
> >> >health and is within the confines of her body removed. The other
> >> >side of the argument would give rights to the fetus that would not
> >> >be granted to an adult human. If, for example, you were occupying
> >> >the body of another, for whatever reason or through whatever means,
> >> >the reason and means being irrelevant, that other would be able to
> >> >remove or have you removed. If that removal required your demise,
> >> >I see no reason in law that such a removal could not be effected.
> >> Rather than examining a hypothetical thought experiment, let us examine
> >> a real, though rare, situation: siamese twins. If one siamese twin has
> >> the other surgically removed, knowing that it will cause death (and
> >> barring some emergency where they will both die anyway), it is
> >> murder.
> >Is it? Have you any support for this assertion? Furthermore, your
> >analogy is completely inapplicable. Siamese twins have an equal
> >claim to any body parts they have in common. Try again.
> What establishes this "equal claim" beyond your assertion? If it
> is merely a matter of "which came first", cannot one kill the other since
> they both have equal claim? What if one has more motor control than
> the other? Does that establish a "superior claim"?
As others point out, one is sacrificed for the other depending on
which has the better chance at survival. Again, your analogy
fails. Not precedence, but possession makes a difference here.
A woman's womb is indisputably her own. Also, I see you ignore
my statement that you would grant rights to a fetus that would
not be granted a born human being. Was that due to its inconvenience?
> >> You see, the right to life IS granted to adult humans in the
> >> same sense as it should be to the foetus AT SOME POINT PRIOR TO BIRTH.
> >Are Siamese twins ever separated in the womb? Or is this
> >right you assert for Siamese twins, which I don't even think is
> >true as stated or valid as an analogy, one that exists after birth?
> >Freivald, your entire argument here is a failure.
> Interesting way of trying to combine two essentially orthogonal concepts.
> The point is that it is murder for one siamese twin to kill the other,
> regardless of their status of physiological dependence or interdependence.
Is it? Please cite a precedent and the basis of the ruling.
> It would be difficult for one siamese twin to kill the other inside the
> womb, and even if it were possible I doubt that a case could be made for
> premeditation or neglegence. Note the use of the phrase "it should be"
> in my post.
You simply assert things without any support. Your analogy is
not accurate and your assertions are unsupported. Try this on
for size. It is not murder for one Siamese twin to kill
the other in the womb. There. We now have equal arguments.
But the idea is illogical. For one Siamese twin to kill the
other in the womb would likely be to kill itself as well. The
systems are dependent on each other for life. I'm still struggling
to see anything analagous here and failing to do so.
> >> Of course, the situation is NOT a perfect comparison; it may well be that
> >> one siamese twin deliberately initiates oppression or coersion against
> >> the other. This is clearly not the case with an unborn child.
> >And this last statement from you is a total non sequitur. The
> >comparison is far worse than you give it credit for.
> Are you going to let this assertion stand on its own also, or do you
> plan on following up with a reasoned argument?
Your argument is from Fantasy Island. Your comparison is a total
failure, as I have demonstrated already, and has no basis in
reality, neither legally nor medically. And for you to assert
that it is not a perfect comparison because of the impossible,
that of coercion or oppression, is ridiculous. As I said,
you give the analogy too little credit for failure. On the one
hand you start this by saying you want to take a real, rather than
a hypothetical, situation, then you fly off into Siamese twins
murdering one another in the womb or coercing or oppressing each
other in the womb when the reality of the situation you describe
in now way matches your version. As I said before, decisions
are made regarding which twin lives and dies in situations where
they cannot both survive. And, furthermore, as I have already said,
there is a difference between an equal claim to organs and a claim
that is unequal. You seem to be asserting that a fetus has a
claim on a woman's womb. When the fetus is born, what happens to
its claim? And by what reason do you assert its claim?
> >> >> 3) If a parent has the right to choose to not take responsibility
> >> >> for their own child, why are there laws and penalties against
> >> >> child abandonment?
> >> >This last question is irrelevant and something of a non sequitur.
> >> >Can you establish some relevance or even some sense for it?
> >> If at some point an unborn child is a human being, the parents clearly
> >> have the same responsibilities toward her as any other parents have toward
> >> their children.
> >Again, what is the relevance? You have established no sense of when
> >that point is, you ignore the significant difference between a fetus
> >and a born child (the dependence of a born child can be transferred
> >to another party, while that of a fetus cannot; a born child does
> >not live within the body of another human being while a fetus does,
> >thereby representing potential and often actual harm to that
> >body, as in the case of one of our talk.abortion participants who
> >suffers from epilepsy and to whom pregnancy represents a significant
> >health risk, or as in the case of a woman I know, who chose to
> >continue her pregnancy, but spent her entire pregnancy confined to
> >a wheelchair and suffering great pain from constriction of some
> >nerve), and your argument is not an argument against abortion
> >generally, but at best an argument against abortion at "some
> >time during the course of pregnancy."
> Again, a quest for common ground. Most of the pro-choice people I
> have spoken to in person (none of them pro-abortion activists) concede
> that the child has a right to life at some point that supersedes all
> of the mother's rights except that of her own life. As is often the
> case in emotionally charged issues, the activists have a very different
> outlook from the mainstream.
You haven't answered the question. The situations are not analagous.
> The dependence of a born child is not transferred instantaneously; it
> takes time and effort. Incidentally, it is the pro-choice side, not
> me, arguing that the government should make it easy for parents to
> abandon their children to the State.
Again you avoid the question. Dependence can be transferred, and
it is not as slow as you seem to think.
> As to the anecdotal evidence of real human tragedy, there is ample
> on both sides. I would hate to be in the position of the mother in
> NYC who has to tell her daughter that she lost her arm in a botched
> abortion attempt.
Yes, and I'd hate to have been the one to tell Dr Gunn's children that
he was murdered by a religious, "pro-life" fanatic. Please do
try to stay relevant.
> >The kindest thing I can say about these responses of yours is
> >that I can see you are trying to say something, but the result
> >is a mish-mash of negligible value.
> Sez you.
Clever comeback. I congratulate you on the readiness of your wit.
>
> In Article 164906 in talk.politics.misc,decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com
> (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
>
> [Ground covered in another post deleted]
>
> >> >If at some point an unborn child is a human being, the parents clearly
> >> >have the same responsibilities toward her as any other parents have toward
> >> >their children.
> >>
> >> And no parent can be forced to supply bodily resources toward their children,
> >> even if necessary to save the child's life.
>
> >As was this. To make it painfully clear, you are not
> >obligated to donate a kidney to save your child's life
> >under law.
>
> Again, the confusion between ACTION {deliberately taking away the life
> of a child} and INACTION {refusing to run out in front of a bus to save
> a child}.
What happened to that claim to bodily organs where life is at stake?
Why does this parent now have an indisputable right to his or her
kidney when previously the parent did not, by your standards? What
is different about the two situations? I see I have to spell this
out for you since the meaning was too subtle for you. In the one
case you do not recognize a difference between a fetus and a born
child (you ask why a born child cannot be abandoned but a fetus
can), and in this case you recognize a significant difference
between the fetus and born child where the lives of the two are at
stake. You can't have it both ways. Action and inaction are
irrelevant to the principle, but you are wrong about the inaction
anyway. Ask any of the numerous women who post here and have
borne children how inactive their pregnancy was. To have a
healthy, live child, a woman does more than hang out, eat as
she chooses, plays volleyball like she always did, drinks at
parties with her friends, etc. She behaves very differently, and
the provision of her resources to a fetus may be no more voluntary
than the beating of her heart, but it is far from inactive.
Dean Kaflowitz
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <1993Apr20.184627.4585@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902043@ariel.yorku.ca (SHAWN LUDDINGTON) writes:
>In article <93109.134719IO91748@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Jon Carr <IO91748@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>>When is the draft this year? And will there be any coverage?
>>I know the upcomming NFL draft is on ESPN.
>>
>>Anyone got the details?
>>
>>Paul Kariya 1993 #1 Pick! (No. 2 perhaps? He won't last long!) :-)
>>
>I don't know the exact coverage in the states. In Canada it is covered
>by TSN, so maybe ESPN will grab their coverage! I don't know!
>
>As for the picks
>Ottawa picks #1 which means it is almost 100% that Alexander Daigle will
>go #1. He'll either stay or be traded in Montreal or Quebec. IMO I would
>take Kariya. He should alot of leadership in the NCAA and so far in
>the World Championships. Daigle didn't show this for his junior team.
>
>San Jose will then get Kariya.
>
>Tampa Bay will either go for a russian Kozlov (I think that's it) or a
> defenseman Rob Niedemeyer (probably spelt the last name wrong)
>
The Sharks appear to be leaning toward picking Rob
Niedermayer, a center (his brother Scott (?) is a defenseman
picked by NJ a couple years ago). They brought him in for a
physical/tryout a week or so ago. From what I have read
Niedermayer is the best skater in the draft, plays BOTH
offense and defense, and isn't afraid of physical play.
Defensively the Sharks are looking pretty good in terms of
defense prospects (Rathje, Sykora, Ragnarsson), and our
centers (Kisio et al) are getting old.
With all of the small players the Sharks have I justs CAN't
see them picking yet another small player like Kariya, he'd
just get bashed by the oppposition and get a separated
shoulder.
mark
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr20.233636.114967@zeus.calpoly.edu> jplee@cymbal.calpoly.edu (Jason Lee) writes:
>You simply cannot show up an umpire like Ron Gant did. It is disrespectful
>of not only the home plate umpire, but of the dignity of the game.
But of course, it is expected that umpires will show up players.
Don't get me wrong, I understand the nature of the game, but I just
believe that a little ego-ectomy for the umpires would make the game
much better.
Ted
--
"Social nags and body bags, make you dead, what a drag drag drag."
-- Saigon Kick, body bags, The Lizard
----- krueger@gas.uug.arizona.edu -----
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
From 9150618 Thu Apr 29 16:36:43 1993
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 16:36:42 +1000
From: 9150618 (Gavin Fairlamb)
To: 9130037
Status: R
Hello, folks...
I am doing a uni. project and was wondering if you could
supply with some specific info. or references for info. regarding
1). Considerations for installation of XWindows in
a HP 9000(unknown model)
2). Motif, OPENLOOK, XToolkit, Linux????
3). X11, X11R....
4). Glossary of any term on X
We considering this software for the project which deals
in image analysis...
Any info. would be greatly appreciated.
Please email to 9130037@golum.riv.csu.edu.au
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <C5uD1u.3oy@apollo.hp.com> goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Red Herring) writes:
> Where did you get this information? The FBI stated they were not
> aware of any mass suicide plans, ditto Koresh's attorneys who appeared
> on Larry King's Live yesterday, and the survivors claim the fire was started
> from the outside...
Actually, ONE of the survivors say it was started by the FBI (tank knocked over lamp). Another said the Davidians set the fire themselves.
-Tim
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| | |
| Timothy J. Brent | A man will come to know true happiness, |
| BRENT@bank.ecn.purdue.edu | only when he accepts that he is but a |
|=========$$$$==================| small part of an infinite universe. |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | -Spinoza |
| MATERIALS SCIENCE ENGINEERING | [paraphrased] |
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| 19talk.religion.misc |
trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:
>norris@athena.mit.edu writes:
> [some stuff deleted]
>> Fortunately for the convenience of us believers, there is a class of
>> questions that can never be reduced away by natural science. For
>> example: why does the universe exist at all?
>
>Must there be a "why" to this? I ask because of what you also
> assume about God-- namely, that He just exists, with no "why"
> to His existence. So the question is reversed, "Why can't
> we assume the universe just exists as you assume God to
> "just exist"? Why must there be a "why" to the universe?"
[remainder of message deleted]
Pardon me for replying to only a portion of your message :)
The reason we can say "God just exists" and can't say "The universe just
exists" is because the universe is a natural realm and is subject to natural
laws in general and the law of cause and effect in particular. That is, we
observe in nature that every cause has an effect, and every effect was produced
by a cause. The existence of the natural realm, as an effect itself, cannot be
its own cause; it must therefore have a supernatural cause.
God, on the other hand, is a supernatural being, and is therefore not subject
to such natural laws as the law of cause and effect. As a supernatural being,
God's eternal existence does not imply a previous cause the way the existence
of a physical, natural cosmos does. Thus, those who believe in the
supernatural have a valid basis for accepting the existence of uncaused
phenomena such as the eternal God, whereas those who deny the existence of the
supernatural are faced with the dilemma of a physical universe whose very
nature shows that it is not sufficient to explain its own existence.
This is, of course, an oversimplification of a complex topic, but I just wanted
to clarify some important differences between the supernatural (God) and the
natural (the universe), since you seem to mistake them as being
interchangeable.
- Mark
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In <1993Apr20.003522.22480@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>The Koreshians rubbed themselves out. Neither Mormons nor Jews have a
>propensity for dousing themselves with kerosene, so I'm not particularly
>concerned. (Or shall we blame Jim Jones on the government also?)
The suggestion that they Davidians committed suicide is
completely without evidence. Except for the editorials...
Please re-word. "propensity for allegedly dousing themselves".
Oh, and the survivors claim the the FBI started the burning
by accidentally igniting kerosene lanterns (remember that they'd
already cut the power), and the propane tanks. This sounds
a lot more likely than committing suicide by setting the place
afire.
--D
--
-- -- -- David S. Meyers (dmeyers@math.gatech.edu) -- -- --
When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will &*kh*&n*&b&mk
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <1993Apr24.181145.17567@news.columbia.edu> gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
>
>* Roger Neilson is not property ... among other rumours, he's now
>the #1 candidate to coach the Flyers, and will bring along Colin
>Campbell as his assistant.
>
This would be dumb move of the nineties...Lindros is big and strong...
but why give him a ball and chain on one leg and an anchor on the
other to drag along.
>* Compuware is actively scouting Phoenix for a new team in 94-95 [hey,
>Nick and Jimmy ... buy the Devils and fix them here, please! --- gld].
>
Not if Pocklington gets there first! (-...actually, if Pocklington
doesn't get a better deal, he would probably go to Hamilton...taking
the team out of Canada would get the whole country mad at him...
taking the team to Hamilton wouldn't get anybody mad at him that
isn't mad at him already...and would make him a lot of friends
in Southern Ontario...so many that the whining of the stupid politicians in
Edmonton and the fickle spoiled fans wouldn't be noticed at all.
Edmonton would wallow in anonymnity.
Gerald
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
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| 6misc.forsale |
In article <1qvtk4$jep@kyle.eitech.com> ekr@kyle.eitech.com (Eric Rescorla) writes:
#In article <1qu2c9$4o4@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
#>Ordinarily, it is also a *value* judgement, though it needn't be (one
#>could "do science" without believing it was worth a damn in any context,
#>though that hardly seems sensible).
#No, you're just overloading the word "value" again. It is an
#estimation of probability of correctness, not an estimation of "worth."
#Shit, I don't even know what "worth" means. Consider the possibility
#that I am not interested in knowing truth. I could still believe
#that science was the most likely way to get truth, and not value
#science at all.
But once you make a decision on the value of truth, and the likelihood of
science getting it, the rest follows. In your example, science is necessarily
worthless, and so are its results, because truth is worthless, assuming that's
all science is good for. And it's no accident that phrases such as "good
for" fit so naturally in this context.
#Just because evaluating an arithmetic expression
#and asking how much you value life both involve the word "value" doesn't
#mean that they refer to the same thing at all. I understand that
#the word value is used for both, but you have to be clear in what
#sense you are using the words. I agree with judging science as a
#value in the first sense, but not the second.
But I don't use it in the second sense. Consider that F=ma is no
different than F=$3 until I note the connection with reality that F=ma has, and
F=$3 does not. I'm making a decision as to the importance of F=ma
over other expressions I can compute. I'm valuing it, whether implicitly or
directly, because I'm saying that things that have a basis in reality
are different to other things which do not. And _no-one_ points
out an _unimportant_ difference, _except_ to say that it's unimportant.
"Important", "useful", "worthy", etc. are all words with evaluative
power, quite different from evaluating an expression. I'm careful
to use "value" in the sense I mean, which is invariably the first.
#>#I don't understand your point here. What do you mean by "not quite-sure
#>#observations?" It gets observed all the time that if you don't
#>#buy into a whole series of assumptions about how science is
#>#done, the results become meaningless.
#>Well, how do you know that "it" gets observed all the time? This
#>is your own private, subjective, "it" is it not? It is not binding
#>on the rest of us.
#Huh? What are you talking about? People frequently point out the
#point I made above. That is what I mean by 'observed'.
O.K., I misunderstood. I thought you meant observed in the sense
of 'not-quite-sure-observations', by which I mean those undertaken
by people.
#>#>DES does not work in a value vacuum. Nothing else does, either.
#>#This is just truth by blatant assertion. Your "in any important sense"
#>#seem to be just weasel words. Imagine that I have a box which
#>#accepts 16 bytes and uses the first 8 to ECB the second 8.
#>#It still does a perfect job of DESing, whether or not any input
#>#is being made at the time--whether or not anyone values mathematics..
#>The concept of a DES box which can be assumed to work as you describe in
#>the absence of an assumption of objective reality is incoherent. Such a box
#>may as well be assumed to wear a dufflecoat and go to the Limerick Races.
#Truth by blatant assertion again, Frank. It's observationally the
#case that when you measure it, it works. It can be reasonably well
#assumed that it will work even when you are not measuring it, barring
#quantum silliness about how it might have disappeared and reappeared.
#It doesn't take a notion of objective reality to discuss my observations.
Yes it does. You're saying in effect "it works independently of what I
believe", and basing that statement on your "reasonable assumption" (i.e.
unsupported belief) that it works indepently of what you believe. It
begs the question rather obviously. And of course, "reasonable
assumption" seems to be weasel words for "seems useful", "useful"
belonging to world of ghosts and values, and therefore being unreal.
--
Frank O'Dwyer 'I'm not hatching That'
odwyer@sse.ie from "Hens", by Evelyn Conlon
| 19talk.religion.misc |
In article <C64H4w.BFH@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu>
bil@okcforum.osrhe.edu (Bill Conner) writes:
>Keith M. Ryan (kmr4@po.CWRU.edu) wrote:
>: [34mAnd now . . . [35mDeep Thoughts[0m
>: [32mby Jack Handey.[0m
>: [36mIf you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and your
>: friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be
>: to pretend you were swimming.[0m
>Keith,
>As you must know by now there are no Escape Sequences here (ANSI or
>otherwise). Once you enter here, your terminal beomes dumb. There's
>something significant about all this ...
You are in the village. Many happy returns! Be seeing you!
[your ways and means get reign of the tek!]
| 19talk.religion.misc |
d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) writes:
> Son of the Return of the "How much does Americans know about the rest of
>the word?"-flamewar anyone?
Let's save some bandwidth, skip the intermediate articles and go
straight to the Nazis and Hitler :-)
(we do have wall sockets, thank you, and they're better than yours)
--
Segmented Memory Helps Structure Software
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr23.055934.1967@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
carlo@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana) writes:
> We are having a problem with a Quadra 950 that has stumped a couple of
> techs sent to us by the vendor, as well as us :-)
> This Quadra is 'stuffed' with 64Mb RAM, 2Mb VRAM and some large disk (400Mb
> I think). What happens is that after a certain variable interval of time
> the video circuitry 'loses' vertical sync. It is quite apparent that the
> Mac CPU is still ok, and the problem really seems to lie with the video
> circuitry, since you can still save your documents, quit your aplpications,
> even pull down menus etc. (only the display is scrolling lik crazy, so it's
> pretty hard to hit menu items ;-)
[... other info deleted ...]
> Has anyone any ideas? Please? Please email as well as posting cause I seem
> to be spending a lot of time rebooting my mac lately and have a lot less
> time available to read news! :-)
Are you sure it's not a problem caused by software? I've seen this sort
of effect when a runaway program (which could be caused by an INIT
conflict, for instance) accidentally wacks on a register in the video
hardware. Have you tried booting with no extensions and then letting the
Q950 just sit there in the Finder? You might also want to try changing to
24-bit addressing (yes, I know you can't access your full 64 MB of RAM -
it's just an experiment) as the video hardware registers can't be accessed
then.
Another thing to try as a 'recovery' measure is to use something like
QuickKeys to change the pixel depth of the display. This reprograms (some
of) the video hardware registers and may allow sync to be restored.
- Dale Adams
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <1r1crn$27g@transfer.stratus.com>, tszeto@sneezy.ts.stratus.com (Tommy Szeto) writes...
>Water gradually builds up in the trunk of my friend's 89 Ford Probe. Every
>once in a while we would have to remove the spare and scoop out the water
>under the plywood/carpet cover on the trunk. I would guess this usually happens
>after a good thunder storm. A few Qs:
>
>1) Is this a common problem?
>2) Where are the drain holes located for the hatch?
>
I had the same problem in my '90 MX-6. Luckily I had it fixed
under warranty. I think they replaced a tail light gasket.
Check with a dealer, it's a known problem.
------------------------
Robert K. Abbott
abbott@tps.enet.dec.com
| 7rec.autos |
>>>>> On 26 Apr 1993 15:37:32 GMT, jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) said:
jfc> If gamma ray bursters are extragalactic, would absorption from the
jfc> galaxy be expected? How transparent is the galactic core to gamma
jfc> rays?
and later...
>>>>> Jim Batka ( JBATKA@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU ) said
JB> So, if the 1/r^2 law is incorrect (assume
JB> some unknown material [dark matter??] inhibits Gamma Ray propagation),
JB> could it be possible that we are actually seeing much less energetic
JB> events happening much closer to us? The even distribution could
JB> be caused by the characteristic propagation distance of gamma rays
JB> being shorter then 1/2 the thickness of the disk of the galaxy.
0.
Well, maybe not zero, but very little. At the typical energies for
gamma rays, the Galaxy is effectively transparent.
Hans Bloemen had a review article in Ann. Rev. Astr. Astrophys. a few
years back in which he discusses this in more depth.
--
| e-mail: lazio@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu
T. Joseph Lazio | phone: (607) 255-6420
| ICBM: 42 deg. 20' 08" N 76 deg. 28' 48" W
Cornell knows I exist?!? | STOP RAPE
| 14sci.space |
This is an invitation to send articles to the Informatica magazine.
The first fully international issue has been published and echoes
are quite favourable. For any information, contact (matjaz.gams@ijs.si).
Dear Colleague, April 25, 1993
Number 1 of volume 17 of Informatica is now out of print and some of you
will receive it in a week or so. As you will see, the journal is structured
in the following way: the editorial (first page); profiles (second page
-- biography of an editor, in this issue, Terry Winograd); the edited
part of papers (pp. 3-80); mission and research reports (A plan for
knowledge archives project in Japan and CSLI in Stanford, pp. 81-100);
and news and announcements (pp. 101-108). This structure is mentioned to
give you a suggestion how could you help to make the contents of the
journal significant, diverse, and interesting, bringing your own views
into the discourse.
A great emphasis is given to the so-called editorial page. This page
expresses an opinion (belief) of the writing editor to some problems
within the scope of computing and informatics, extending into other
concerning disciplines, e.g. cybernetics, advanced AI, cognitive sciences,
mind, informationally concerned neural sciences, advanced technology
(e.g. photonics), etc. I asked professor Terry Winograd to write this
page for Number 2. I certainly would appreciate very much to get
suggestions or possible offers from other editors, who like to express
their strong (directed) beliefs concerning a future development of the
area in question.
On the second page of each Number an editor's profile is published.
The aim of the profile is twofold: to show his/her professional
achievements, interests, scientific, and philosophical orientation on
one side; to narrate his/her life story in the environments in which
editors has lived and live on the other side. This kind of story should
be instructive, adequately factically faced, contributing to the
understanding of circumstances in which editors have to act and live.
The edited part (edited papers) is still critical. I would like to have
a stock of accepted papers in advance, so the issuing dates of a particular
number can be fixed (e.g. January, April, July, and October). In situation
right now, I ask you to help me with contributions of yours or your
colleagues, collaborators, students, etc. Some critical views to the
contemporary development of computing and informatics are appreciated.
A special emphasis should be given also to originality by which fresh
ideas are coming into the circulation of different professional communities.
Reports of different occasions (symposia, conferences, meetings, etc.)
and particularly on new books, papers, and interesting events are welcome.
You can send these news immediately (also by your secretary) by e-mail.
On the other hand, you can send books and other publications (annual
reports, journals, calls for papers, etc.) for reviewing and publishing
in Informatica. We in the editorial staff will manage the rest.
E-mail is functioning satisfactorily, so please use it in every respect.
You can submit editorial notes, profiles, reports, news and even complete
papers written in standard LaTex format (especially formulas). We received
several final (corrected) texts in Number 1 from different sites (US,
Russia, etc.). In this way, you can compose reports from already typed
texts, using your own choice and editing, and submit them to the contact
person (matjaz.gams@ijs.si), who is always being on your disposal. So,
you will receive a prompt confirmation and any information concerning
our common interest and job.
At the end, please do not forget: we need your cooperation and help in
every mentioned respect. The aim of Informatica is to open various
possibilities of communication concerning strong scientific and
philosophical orientations as well as those coming up, still unrevealed,
and on the way to become significant. Please, do not apprehend to give
proposals, suggestions, and, certainly, contributions via the e-mail
and by other means.
Sincerely yours,
Anton P. "Zeleznikar
Editor-in-chief
| 1comp.graphics |
I would like to program Tseng ET4000 to nonstandard 1024x768 mode by
switching to standard 1024x768 mode using BIOS and than changing some
timing details (0x3D4 registers 0x00-0x1F) but I don't know how to
select 36 MHz pixel clock I need. The BIOS function selects 40 MHz.
Is there anybody who knows where to obtain technical info about this.
I am also interested in any other technical information about Tseng ET4000
and Trident 8900 and 9000 chipsets.
thanks very much
Pavel Zemcik
Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng.
Technical University of Brno
Bozetechova 2
CS-612 66 Brno
Czech Republic
e-mail: zemcik@dcse.fee.vutbr.cs
| 1comp.graphics |
In article <1993Apr21.204556.21262@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> camter28@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carter Ames) writes:
>
> I was just wondering one thing, actually two. ( I hope that this is the
>proper place to post this subject)
>
> Why does a lead acid battery discharge and become dead (totally unuseable)
>when stored on a concrete floor?
> I decided to bring the battery in from the lawn mower and the motorcycle
>from the unheated garage this year, *to preserve them* and I just
>went to use them and noticed that not only do they not work, but
>they act like the two terminals are shorted. I asked a friend
>and he said that you should never do that, 'cause it ruins them,
>but he couldn't tell me why.
>
>thanks
>camter28@astro.ocis.temple.edu
I am not a battery expert, but from recent reading, a lead acid battery
will self discharge at a relatively high rate, and if stored in a discharged
state, will develop a condition I think is called sulfation. In storage,
either the electrolyte should be removed and replaced for use (fat chance
I'd ever do that at home), or the battery should be stored on a trickle
charge. I have also (I think) read that the condition may be reversable
if hooked up to a current limited charging circuit fro a LONG period of time.
The refernce I remember is to use C/50 (where C is the amp hours) as the
charging circuit, and leave it hooked up for weeks. Some of this may
only apply to Gel type cells, but I suspect the same applies to the liquid
type.
Richard Dell
| 12sci.electronics |
Announcing xmgr (ACE/gr, Motif version) v2.10
Xmgr is a full-featured XY-plotting tool for UNIX workstations
using X or OpenWindows. There is an XView version called xvgr for
Suns. Collectively, these 2 tools are known as ACE/gr. Compiling
xmgr requires the Motif toolkit version 1.1 and X11R4 - xmgr will
not compile under X11R3/Motif 1.0x. X11R5+Motif 1.2 should work
fine, but I've not been able to test this.
For a summary of xmgr's capabilities, get the file BLURB from
either site mentioned below.
Available via anonymous ftp to either:
ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu:/CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-2.10.tar.Z
or
export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/acegr/xmgr-2.10.tar.Z
Please remember to set the transfer type to binary.
I am not able to E-mail xmgr, but there are services provided
by various Internet sites that allow ftp by mail. You might try
sending mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com as follows:
Subject: (hit return) Body-of-letter: help (return) quit
I've not tried this, but it should give you instructions on how
to use this service.
2.10 has been compiled and tested on:
IBM RS6000 - AIX 3.2 X11R4/Motif 1.1
DECstation - Ultrix 4.2a X11R4/Motif 1.1
SGI Indigo - Irix 4.0.1 X11R4/Motif 1.1
Sun SPARC - SunOS 4.1.1 X11R4/Motif 1.1
HP 720 - HP-UX 8.05 X11R4/Motif 1.1
Compiling with gcc should be no problem, but use settings
appropriate for K&R C.
Of interest:
In light of recent announcements (COSE), I'm suspending further
development of the XView version. For those without Motif on
SUNs, I'll provide a compiled binary (eventually).
I've begun re-writing ACE/gr in C++, the initial target is
MS-Windows.
Improvements/fixes from 2.09 are:
* The explicit placement of items in popups has been replaced
with manager widgets. The previous method led to problems
on some servers (all widgets in a popup would get scrunched
into the upper left corner).
* Many set operations can now be done in the File/Status popup.
* The PostScript driver should do a better job of producing
EPSF'able output.
A few things remain to do (I could use some ideas/help on these):
1. Replace the Hershey fonts used for on-screen text with the
xvertext routines posted to the net by Alan Richardson.
The problem here is how to include support for this in the
user interface.
2. Add support for Adobe Font Metrics. I could use some PD or freely
distributable routines for this.
3. Add support for pattern fills in the PostScript driver. Presently
the only way to get hardcopy for fills is to import MIF into
FrameMaker. Need PS routines for pattern fills.
4. Add support for HDF/NetCDF. I'm interested in your opinion on
how one would write a generic reader for these file formats.
--Paul
Paul J Turner - pturner@amb4.ccalmr.ogi.edu
Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research
Oregon Graduate Institute
Beaverton, OR 97006-1999
| 1comp.graphics |
All of the arguments concerning the Sabbath ought to make the point
pretty clear - anyone outside of the Catholic or Orthodox orAnglican or
Monophysite churches ourght to worship on Saturday if they are really
sola scriptura. Otherwise, they are following a law put into effect by
the Church, and only the above Chruches really recognize any power of
the Chruch to do so.
Andy Byler
[You will note that nothing in the FAQ said anything about the Church
establishing or changing a law. The argument against the Sabbath is
that it is part of the ceremonial law, and like the rest of the
ceremonial law is not binding on Christians. This argument is based
on Paul's letters, Acts, and in a more general sense, Jesus'
teachings. Further, most people argue that Scripture shows worship
occuring on Sunday, and Paul endorsing it. I understand that these
points are disputed, and do not want to go around the dispute one more
time. The point I'm making here is not that these arguments are
right, but that the backing they claim is Scripture.
Accepting the principle of "sola scriptura" does not commit us to
obeying the entire Jewish Law. Acts 15 and Paul's letters are quite
clear on that. I think even the SDA's accept it. The disagreement is
on where the Bible would have us place the line.
By the way, Protestants do give authority to the church, in matters
that are not dictated by God. That's why churches are free to
determine their own liturgies, church polity, etc. If you accept that
the Sabbath is not binding on Christians, then the day of worship
falls into the category of items on which individual Christians or
(since worship is by its nature a group activity) churches are free to
decide.
--clh]
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Chad Jones (cjones@physci.ucla.edu) wrote:
: In article <C5xpzK.F46@imag.fr> Ibaa Oueichek, oueichek@imag.fr writes:
: > I have an Ethernet card that i took out off an old LC. The card
: > is manufactured by Asante. On it i can read:
: > "Asante Tech, inc. Copyright 1991. MACCON + LC REV.B".
: > The card has an fpu socket on it. It provides thin Ethernet connector
: > and there's another connector on it which resembels to phone connectors.
: >
: > My questions are:
: > - Will this card work on any other model than LC-serie ?, given that
: > it's a PDS card, will it work with the IIsi PDS slot ?. I think there
: > may be a probleme because the LC has 16 bit wide slots.
: It probably won't work with any other LC. The ones I have for the LC II
: are Rev. D. No, it won't work in the IIsi's PDS slot since it's a 68030
: PDS, while the LC has the 68020 PDS. The IIsi and SE/30 share the same
: kind of card.
Ok, i see. Does Asante propose any upgrade for their cards ?. Do they have
an email adress so i can ask them directly ?. Their Phone number will be
Ok, even if i pay the overseas call i'm really willing to know what to do
with this card.
--
Sham(u) ya tha (s)seif(u) lam yaghib(i) | Ibaa Oueichek. oueichek@imag.imag.fr
Ya jamal(al) majd(i) fi(l) kutub(i) |Lab de Genie Informatique (LGI).
Kablak(i) (t)tareekh(u) fi thulmaten |IMAG, INPG.
Baadak(i) staula ala (sh)shuhub(i) |46, Av. Felix Viallet, Grenoble.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Thomas Theiner (thein@damabus.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:
: Hi there,
:
: I'm german and I have been into this MLB stuff since almost one year now.
: There are many problems occuring for me. One of them is the ERA statistic for
: pitchers. What does it say ??
ERA indicates the average number of earned runs attributed to a pitcher per
nine inning game. Thus, if a pitcher pitched 3 innings and gave up 1 earned
run, his 9 inning equivelent perfomance would be 3 earned runs, thus his ERA
is 3.00. To compute the ERA you simply take the number of earned runs divided
by the innings pitched and then multiple the result by 9.
ERA = (ER/IP) * 9
An earned run is run that is given up by the pitcher that is not attributed
to a fielding error. More specifically, if an error occurs that represented
the third out, all runs scored after the error are considered UNEARNED runs.
Earned runs are also runs scored as a result of players who were left on base
when the pitcher exited the game. Here are some examples:
If there are two outs in an inning and there are men on base. If
an error occurs that represents the third out, all of the runs after
this error and NOT counted as earned runs.
If a pitcher issues some base on balls (walks), and leaves the game
before the inning is completed, he is responsible for the people who
were left on base. If the those runners who were left on base score,
and the score was not a result of an error, those eraned runs are
attributed to the pitcher who left the game.
I hope this explains things for you.
Joe
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
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