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I'm trying to get a hold of an IBM Quietwriter II printer driver for
Windows 3.1. If such a beast exists, can someone suggest how I get
it? Please mail me a reply directly as I don't normally read this
group. Many thanks.
David Brown
dbrown@mach1.wlu.ca
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <1993Apr25.182253.1449@Virginia.EDU> ab4z@Virginia.EDU ("Andi Beyer") writes:
> I have just started reading the articles in this news
>group. There seems to be an attempt by some members to quiet
>other members with scare tactics. I believe one posting said
>that all postings by one person are being forwarded to his
>server who keeps a file on him in hope that "Appropriate action
>might be taken".
> I don't know where you guys are from but in America
>such attempts to curtail someones first amendment rights are
>not appreciated. Here, we let everyone speak their mind
>regardless of how we feel about it. Take your fascistic
>repressive ideals back to where you came from.
It would be nice if, as you rightly point out the inherent value of
freedom of speech, discussion would also deal with the all-to-
frequent ritualized abuses and distortions of that freedom that do
occur. There are situations where a few extremely vocal, and
usually radical, people **do** drive people away, effectively stifle
all other ("opposing") views and generally "take over". *Clearly*,
the purpose behind such actions is *to deprive* others of *their*
freedom of speech through overt and covert coercion and domination of
the "media form" in question. While "freedom" of speech is to be valued,
this is not. How would you suggest that this sort of reoccuring problem be
alleviated? More particularly, how can this be controlled within the
structure of these newsgroups?
--
Tim Clock Ph.D./Graduate student
UCI tel#: 714,8565361 Department of Politics and Society
fax#: 714,8568441 University of California - Irvine
Home tel#: 714,8563446 Irvine, CA 92717
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
I have a Gateway 4dx2/66v. Does anyone know if I csn (or can't)
Duse 32 bit access?
D
D
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
DLS128@psuvm.psu.edu wrote:
: Does anyone out there have any info on the up and coming fall comdex '93? I was
: asked by one of my peers to get any info that might be available. Or, could
: anyone point me in the right direction? Any help would be appreciated.
It's in Las Vegas (as always) between November 16th and 20th.
For more information contact: The Interface Group
300 First Avenue
Needham, MA 02194-2722
Sorry, no phone number available. Consult directory service
in Massachusetts for the number (617, 508 or 413).
-- Willy
--
* Ville V. Walveranta Tel./Fax....: (510) 420-0729 ****
** 96 Linda Ave., Apt. #5 From Finland: 990-1-510-420-0729 ***
*** Oakland, CA 94611-4838 (FAXes automatically recognized) **
**** USA Email.......: wil@shell.portal.com *
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Hi Everybody,
I am interested in the following topics.
1)BIOS programming on 286 and 386.
2)Memory management in 286 and 386.
3)Developing Visual Basic Custom Controls.
I would like to have your valuable opinion on the books
that are best in the above topics. Please send a mail to
rmehta@paul.rutgers.edu . I will post a summary of the
suggestions.
2**32-1 thanks in advance.
-Rahul Mehta
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
I posted this about tow weeks ago but never saw it make it (Then again
I've had some problems with the mail system). Apologies if this appears
for the second time:
Usually when I start up an application, I first get the window outline
on my display. I then have to click on the mouse button to actually
place the window on the screen. Yet when I specify the -geometry
option the window appears right away, the properties specified by
the -geometry argument. The question now is:
How can I override the intermediary step of the user having to specify
window position with a mouseclick? I've tried explicitly setting window
size and position, but that did alter the normal program behaviour.
Thanks for any hints
---> Robert
PS: I'm working in plain X, using tvtwm.
******************************************************************************
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* Oracle Engineering * Freihe tritt und den staatlichen Monopolanspruch *
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Date: 22 Apr 93 08:09:35 GMT
From: rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch)
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Subject: Overriding Default Behaviour
| 5comp.windows.x |
Hi,
Can somebody tell me step by step how to add a 40Mb IDE Kalok?
HD to an existing 120Mb IDE Maxtor HD with Stacker 3.0 and DOS 5?
I know how to set the jumpers on the 40M to be slave and the settings
for heads, wpcom, sectors, etc. I also know that I have to do some
CMOS settings and fdisk. The problem is: what letter will the CMOS
give the new drive? If it's D:, what will happen when Stacker creates
D: and swap? Can I tell CMOS to make it E:? So that if I Stack it, I
will have C, D, E and F?
I know this could be an FAQ or in a readme somewhere, but I want
to hear from somebody who've actually done it. Thanks!
Romy
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
ruck@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John Ruckstuhl) writes:
At least locally, many shops carry a product called Goo Gone. It works well
on scummy-gummy-sticky-goop-that-won't-go-away... As always, color test in
an inconspicuous corner before use.
--
Joseph Chiu | josephc@cco.caltech.edu "OS/2: You gotta get this thing!"
MSC 380 - Caltech |
Pasadena, CA 91126 | Happiness is suspending X-Wings to make an appointment
+1 818 449 5457 | calendar entry and to send a fax, and resuming the game.
| 12sci.electronics |
What are the typical sizes for keys for commercial secret key algorithms?
I know DES is 56 bits ("tripple DES" is 112 bits) and IDEA is 128 bits. Is
there anything made in the US that has 128 bit keys? Anything anywhere
that has larger keys? I've heard that RC2 can be scaled to arbitrarily
large keys, but is this actually implemented anywhere?
Finally, can anyone even concieve of a time/place where 128 bit keys aren't
sufficient? (I certainly can't - even at a trillion keys a second, it
would take about 10 billion years to search just one billionth of that keys
space.)
Thanks,
Dane
| 11sci.crypt |
In article <1993Apr11.132604.13400@ornl.gov> ednobles@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Edward d Nobles) writes:
>
>I've been trying to view .tga files created in POVRAY. I have the Diamond
>SpeedStar 24 Video board (not the _24X_). So far I can convert them to
>jpeg using cjpeg and view them with CVIEW but that only displays 8 bit color.
>
>I'm looking for some way to convert and/or view them in 24 bit.
>
>
>Just want to see the darn things in real color...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim Nobles
>
The best program I've seen for viewing such files is VPIC. You'll want version 5.9 or later. (6.0x is current.) It allows you to view in 15 and 24 bit modes. It really is QUITE nice.
Now, for a return question: Do you run Windows? If so, what are the dates on your drivers? The newest ones *I* can find are from around 4-??-92!! My problem is they conflict with Star Trek: After Dark, and other things as well. I'm willing to bet that it's the drivers, and NOT the programs. Anyone out there have info on newer SS24 (NOT X) drivers for windows or OS/2?
Thanks,
Justin
| 1comp.graphics |
From Israeline 4/14
Today's MA'ARIV reports that yesterday, following Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak's meeting with PLO Chief Yasser Arafat and
prominent Palestinian Faisal al-Husseini, the latter said that in
principle, the Palestinians have decided to participate in the
peace talks. Nonetheless, he noted that everything will be decided
upon at the meeting of the Arab foreign ministers in Damascus. The
newspaper also reports that threatening phone calls were recently
made to houses of several of the senior members of the Palestinian
delegation to the peace talks. The threats, in Arabic, demanded
that the delegates not go to Washington to, "sell out the
Palestinian people." One caller threatened, "Should you go, you
will not find your family alive upon your return." The newspaper
states that such phone calls were received, as far as is known, at
the houses of Faisal al-Husseini, Hanan Ashrawi and others.
----
Naftaly Stramer | Intergraph Electronics
Internet: nstramer@dazixco.ingr.com | 6101 Lookout Road, Suite A
Voice: (303)581-2370 FAX: (303)581-9972 | Boulder, CO 80301
"Quality is everybody's job, and it's everybody's job to watch all that they can."
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <Blue-Knight.01tj@bknight.jpr.com> Blue-Knight@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German) writes:
>In article <1993Apr30.011157.12995@news.columbia.edu> ph14@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Pei Hsieh) writes:
>> Hi -- sorry if this is a FAQ, but are there any conversion utilities
>> available for Autodesk *.DXF to Amiga *.IFF format? I
>> checked the comp.graphics FAQ and a number of sites, but so far
>> no banana. Please e-mail.
>>
> .DXF can not be changed over to .IFF format what it can be changed
>to is an object format used by one of the 3D programs on the Amiga. The
>only tools around are comercial for that conversion.
Hijaak claims to convert .dxf to .iff, although Hijaak claims some stuff
that I have never gotten to work (for example, not long ago I tried to
convert some .iff files from an Amiga video toaster (using CrossDos, so my
PC could read the disks) int Targa files. Hijaak made some gorgeous 1.5
megabyte Targa files from the .iffs -- all totally black!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mac McDougald * Any opinions expressed herein
The Photography Center * are not necessarily (actually,
Univ. of Tenn. Knoxville 37996 * are almost CERTAINLY NOT) those
mac@utkvx.utk.edu * of The University of Tennessee.
mac@utkvx.bitnet *
(615-974-3449) * "Things are more like they are now
(615-974-6435) FAX * than they've ever been before."
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
| 1comp.graphics |
In article <Apr.9.01.11.35.1993.16957@athos.rutgers.edu>, cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
> But, since the manuscripts are so close to the actual event, especially as
> compared with ancient "non-Christian" history, could it help show that we have
> accurate copies of the original texts?
That's a very weak argument--due the lack (with regard to critical
events) of independent supporting texts.
As for the dating of the oldest extant texts of the NT.... How would
you feel about the US Civil War in a couple of thousand years if the
only extant text was written about *now*? Now adjust for a largely
illiterate population, and one in which every copy of a manuscript is
done by hand....
--Hal
--
Hal Heydt |
Analyst, Pacific*Bell | If you think the system is working,
510-823-5447 | Ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM |
| 15soc.religion.christian |
Sounds like the picture tube lost vacuum. This would cause the filament
to ignite and could actually turn the tube from a vacuum to a pressure
vessel, followed by an explosion when the neck assembly (mostly likely
cracked to begin with) blows off. During the whole sequence of events,
the other circuits may continue functioning, which accounts for not
losing sound.
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1sk97rINNptb@polaris.isi.com> kin@isi.com (Kin Cho) writes:
>
>I can also live with a utility that converts postscript to plain
>text, perferably retaining page counts so that I know how many pages
>the original document contains.
>
Well, I know of one hack to sort of do this conversion. First
get ghostscript and check out the gs_2asc.ps file that comes with it.
It prints out some information about where each text string goes on the
page, and maintains page counts. I've written a little C program to
massage the output of gs -dNODISPLAY gs_2asc.ps somewhat, so that you
can get all the ascii strings in the document. No guarantees that it
won't break up words/sentences, though - I've used it with varying
degrees of success. Anyways, try this out, it may do what you want.
/*
* massager: a filter for use with gs; does crude Postscript->ASCII conversion
*
* Usage:
* cat file.ps | gs -dNODISPLAY gs_2asc.ps - | massager
*
* I print a <Ctrl-L> after each new page.
*
* Put the following source into massager.c and compile it:
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
main()
{
char line[1000], *p;
while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) != NULL)
if (line[0] == 'P')
printf("\f\n");
else if (line[0] == 'S' && line[1] == ' ') {
if ((p = strrchr(line, ')')) == NULL)
continue;
*p = '\0';
if ((p = strchr(line, '(')) == NULL)
continue;
for (p++; *p; p++)
if (*p != '\\' || (p[1] != ')' && p[1] != '('))
putchar(*p);
putchar('\n');
}
return(0);
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Wagner dawagner@princeton.edu
| 5comp.windows.x |
In article <6224@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Andrew Scott Beals -- KC6SSS) writes:
>infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew Infante) writes:
>
>>Since the occurance, I've paid many
>>dollars in renumerance, taken the drunk class,
>>and, yes, listened to all the self-righteous
>>assholes like yourself that think your SO above the
>>rest of the world because you've never had your
>>own little DD suaree.
>
>"The devil made me do it!"
Yeah!
I found beelzebub inside a worm...yeah, that's it!
(actually it was vodka - Gordon's if I remember correctly...
I didn't even buy it (of course, that's probably the reason
I drank _so_ much of it that night...never again.)
--
Andy Infante | You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains |
'71 BMW R60/5 | that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself. |
DoD #2426 | -- Joan Sutherland |
==============| My opinions, dammit, have nothing to do with anyone else!!! |
| 8rec.motorcycles |
In article <schumach.736263860@convex.convex.com>, schumach@convex.com
(Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
> In <1rs0au$an6@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.net (Pat) writes:
>
>>How different would the contamination threat of a small manuevering tug
>>be from that of the Shuttle and it's OMS engines??????
>
> The aperture door will be shut during reboost. Using the shuttle
> means that there will be someone nearby to pry the door open again
> if it should stick.
>
Well, no, during the original deployment mission the HST aperture door was
not opened until after the Shuttle had landed.
I presume that during a re-boost mission HST would be berthed in the orbiter
with the orbiter bay doors shut; but still there would be lots of contamination
worries. I understand that the EVA suits are one of the hardest things to
keep clean.
But I still don't know where the idea is coming from that HST _NEEDS_ a
re-boost. We have many problems but our orbit is the least of them. There
is certainly no plan to change the orbit in the first servicing mission in
December.
Ben
| 14sci.space |
I had a similar idea, for a fax/answering machine switch,
to put both machines on one line. You order distinctive
ringing from your phone company. This is $3/month here.
You get a second (unpublished) phone number. When
someone calls this number, your phone rings with short
rings instead of long rings.
You set up your answering machine on 4 rings and your fax
on six rings. You'd give out the new # as your fax #.
A device would measure the length of rings. When it
detects a short ring, it turns off your answering machine.
Five rings later your fax picks up the call.
This should be cheaper and more elegant than the $80
switches now available.
But that's not what I did. I'm giving out the new
# to my friends and customers. This should leave the
old # for telemarketers, etc. I won't pick up the
phone when I hear the long rings.
--
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692.
Thomas David Kehoe kehoe@netcom.com (408) 354-5926
| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1993Apr22.185330.20976@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) writes:
>In article <strnlghtC5wC3z.Erw@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>>psionic@wam.umd.edu, whose parenthesized name is either an unfortunate
>>coincidence or casts serious doubt on his bona fides, posts a message in
>>which he seems willing to take the word of a private firm about which he
>>knows little that their new encryption algorithm is secure and contains no
>>trapdoors, while seemingly distrusting that of the government about clipper.
>
>Will someone please post the David Sternlight FAQ to alt.privacy.clipper before
>someone unfamiliar with him takes him seriously and starts yet another
>flame fest?
>
> -Dan
>
Hello. I am the David Sternlight keeper of the FAQ. Unfortuantely I cannot
find it at the present time.
From the original FAQ:
Question: Does anyone take David Sternlight serious?
Fact: No one takes David Sternlight serious. They review his opinions and
in most cases immediately discard them or jerk them over to
alt.fan.david-sternlight which actually should be alt.flame.david-sternlight.
A photograph of David Sternlight for the curious:
|\/\/\/\|
| |
| (o)(o)
C _) David Sternlight
| ,___| Net.Police
| / a.k.a. PROUD
_0--------/\/----\/\-------0_ DICK OF
/ /0 \----/ 0\ \ THE INTERNET
/ | \ \||/ / | \
/ /|DAVID || POLICE|\ \
_/_____/ || ] || | [#] || \_____\_
|_______/ |\____/ || \__*_/| \_______|
Question: Why does David continue to relate mis statements regarding
encryption and other topics?
Fact: David Sternlight has a chemical imbalance of the right side of his
brain.
--
Martin Hannigan : Twisted Pair Consulting : 617-623-3534
Mac : IBM PC & Mainframe : UNIX
| 11sci.crypt |
Are there any graphics cards for the SE/30 that also have, say, an 040
accelerator? There seem to be plenty of accelerator/graphics cards for
the _SE_, but none (that I've seen) for the SE/30.
Thanks
Matt Madsen
mmadsen@ics.uci.edu
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <1993Apr20.033504.13966@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, gspira@nyx.cs.du.edu
(Greg Spira) says:
>
><RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> writes:
>
>>In article <franjion.734996049@spot.Colorado.EDU>, franjion@spot.Colorado.EDU
>>(John Franjione) says:
>>>
>>>Also, I have the impression from reading this group and Bill James
>>>that Elias is a bunch of money-grubbing jerks whose mission is to
>>>charge as much as they can for baseball statistical info
>>>
>
>>and bill james is not? yeah. sure. do you own "the bill james players
>>rating book"?
>
>Uh, Bill James doesn't sell statistics. He sells books with statistics,
>but he is not in the business of providing stats like Elias, STATS,
>Howe, Baseball workshop etc. are.
>
>Greg
funny, it seems to me that the stats major league and minor league handbooks,
which are nothing BUT collections of statistics, are authored by "bill james
and stats inc. (and howe, for the minor league handbook)".
and i am not sure how the 1993 bill james player ratings book qualifies
as a "book with statistics", while the elias analyst is a "statistics book".
the analyst contains more stats, sure, but it also contains more dialogue.
finally, the point was not about the word "statistics". it was about
"money-grubbing". i don't see how anyone who has looked at the bill
james player ratings book cannot consider him money-grubbing.
bob vesterman.
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
>>In article <1993Apr15.021021.7538@gordian.com> mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
>>>In article <C5HuH1.241@news.iastate.edu>, jrbeach@iastate.edu (Jeffry R Beach) writes:
>>>> Think about it -- shouldn't all drugs then be legalized, it would lower
>>>> the cost and definitely make them safer to use.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>> I don't think we want to start using these criterion to determine
>>>> legality.
>>>
>>> Why not?
>>
>>Where do they get these people?! I really don't want to waste time in
>>here to do battle about the legalization of drugs. If you really want to, we
>>can get into it and prove just how idiotic that idea is!
You think that you all have it bad....here at good ol' Southwest Missouri
State U., we have 2 parties running for student body president. There's the
token sorority/fraternity faces, and then there's the president and vice
president of NORML. They campaigned by handing out condoms and listing
their qualifications as,"I listen really well." It makes me sick to have
a party established on many of the things that are ruining this country like
they are. I think I'll run next year.:(
Darin J Keener, dak988s@vma.smsu.edu
PC-the idea that catering to splinter groups is the way to go.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Hey, does anybody know anything about Leading Technology Computers??
I have a Leading Technology 6000SX and need a new mother board for it.
Does anybody know where I can get one.
(Leading Technoology is really made by SAMSUNG. 6000SX is Samsung model SD-700)
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Nathaniel Sammons writes:
>I am going to be getting a C650 soon, but I don;t want Apple
>to come out with the Cyclones and the Tempest in a month
>and have the price drop on the system I want. I have negotiated a
>good deal with a supplier for a C650 8/80 and I would like to jump on it,
>but, again, I don't want the price drop to smuther me. BTW, the deal
>I have is a C650 8/80 with mouse for $2295... does anyone know of a better
>deal?
I don't know how to say it best but you are gaurenteed that the
price of the C650 is going to drop this year. This week's MacWeek
reports that Apple is probably planning a drop in August. My guess
is that it may come sooner if Apple decides to change the price
structure upon release of the multimedia units this summer.
Your price looks pretty good at about $50 more then I payed for
mine last month. I would have rather waited for one of the new
machines this sommer (like the Cyclone) but the resale value of my
IIci would have not been squat by then. Thus, financing forced me
to purchase now. I'm happy with the machine and won't feel
betrayed at all when Apple cuts the price to less then $1000 next
week (heh).
Bottome line: If the C650 does what you want, buy it. If you wait
until the Cylcones come out for a price break then you might as
well wait for the PowerPCs to come out for another price break and
then the units which follow them. You may save some money but
you've lost a lot of time when you could have been using the
computer. Face it, Apple's prices are going to be in a continuous
state of flux. At least they aren't going to try raising them
again (grin).
-John
Komp@leonardo.src.honeywell.com
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
In article <C6z3JD.ApB@news2.cis.umn.edu> prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
>(Mohammed Elabdellaoui) writes:
>>
>>Muslims helping the Nazis??? Where on earth do you come up with such
>>accuusation?? Do you have proofs?? If not, you should publically apologize
>>for such a statement. Last time I heard, the nazis prided themselves in
>>needing no body to carry their politics and ideologies. And if your statment
>>were true, don't you think Israel would of used it to point to what a Muslim
>>neighbor (PALESTINE) could do to them if they allowed it to be? The jewish
>>lobby and power is very strong, and if what you said is true, we would of
>>heard it from them before you could come up with it.
>>And you dare say that you are taking no sides!!
>
>My reference is a 4 page essay in our local Star Tribute newspaper
>putting the whole conflict in perspective. I will readily admit
>that I am no authority in this area; however, other posteers
>asserted that *some* Muslims did join hands with Croats and
>Nazis in persecuting Serbs. In any case, past actions do not
>in any way validate or legitimize what is happending there now.
>
>I sincerely do apologize to the extent the author of the essay
>was wrong in making the assertion he made.
>
>Maybe, some student of history may put this in perspective.
>
>Satya Prabhakar
>
>--
Thank you very much for clarifying your position and source. Apologies
are accepted in good faith. This absolutely was no attempt to bring you to
your knees, It is merely a suggestion to really check and re-sheck your
sources before throwing a flame into the net.
Thanx again
Mohammed
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <1993Apr15.164605.8439@isc-br.isc-br.com>, steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks) writes:
|> In article <SLAGLE.93Apr15000157@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com> slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
|> >It is the government that is preventing entry to the market. The
|> >desire of those running established businesses to prevent or
|> >restrict the entry of competitors is an understandable, though
|> >generally unpleasant, human failing. But without a means to act
|> >on this desire, without a government with sufficient power to
|> >restrict the options of the potential competitor, the
|> >anti-competitive desire remains just an unpleasant wish. The
|> >government is the linchpin, so we seek to disengage it so we
|> >don't get the shaft.
|>
|> Once again, Mark, you don't specify the means through which the government
|> is to be prevented from becoming the tool of business interests. As a
|> left-wing, big government, conventional liberal, I'm just as willing as
|> you are to vote against anti-competitive regulations that favor auto
|> dealers.
|>
|> But what I hear from libertarians is a desire to limit incumbents' terms,
|> to weaken government by eliminating its power to enforce antitrust laws,
|> and a desire to eliminate legislator's pay. Each strikes me as a
|> particularly ineffective way to insure that auto dealers and other special
|> interests cannot influence public policy. In fact, they seem clearly
|> designed to accomplish the opposite.
This is similar to my saying that Clinton's timber summit does little to
fix the health care problem. Look at the whole picture, not just
randomly picked libertarian positions. If government is not allowed to
use "non-initiated force" to achieve its goals, than no special interest
can influence the government to use non-initiated force on their behalf.
The means to reaching such a restricted government is another topic
which I'll address briefly. It certainly won't happen until
libertarianism is the dominate philosophy. What means do we have to
make libertarianism the dominate philosophy? Statists run the education
monopoly, so we have to be creative. The Advocates for Self-Government
reports 85% of their Seminar 1 participants "embrace" libertarianism.
That's the best means I've seen yet. We should lobby for compulsory
Seminar 1 attendance. :) [in jest!]
Roger Collins
It's amazing to me that governments around the world will try every
aspect of government control before, as a final last resort after
everything else fails, they will try individual liberty.
-- Andre Marrou, Libertarian candidate for President '92
| 18talk.politics.misc |
swalker@uts.EDU.AU (-s87271077-s.walker-man-50-) writes:
>I was wondering about those massive concrete cylinders that
>are ever present at nuclear poer sites. They look like cylinders
>that have been pinched in the middle. Does anybody know what the
>actual purpose of those things are?. I hear that they're called
>'Cooling Towers' but what the heck do they cool?
>I hope someone can help
The actual hourglass is hollow and is designed to generate a draft,
exploiting the venturi effect. Around the base of the hourglass is a
ring of water towers. Warm river water, coming from the steam condenser
in the plant, is sprayed over louvres. The draft being pulled through
the tower cools the water by both evaporation and convection. The
sensible heat extracted from the cooling water is the driving force for
draft generation.
It should be noted that the hourglass-shaped cooling towers are used on
both fossile and nuclear plants. It should also be noted that at
locations where water is plentiful, the cooling towers are only used part
time, when the discharge temperature would exceed some release limit.
It was once thought that the warm discharge water was damaging to fish.
Fishermen know that is thoroughly incorrect. Nontheless, stringent,
usually state, regulations remain in some instances. Since it typically
takes 60,000 hp worth of pumping to move the volume of water needed
to cool a 1000 MWe plant, the cost of using the towers is not insignificant.
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| 12sci.electronics |
In article <1qjclt$nh7@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
|> In article <1qiore$20b@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
|> #
|> #The intended audience is the set of people who *are* convinced
|> #by those arguments, who therefore finish up as church members.
|> #It doesn't need to be everyone, just enough to count.
|>
|> This is completely refuted by the evidence that I do not belong to any
|> church, and am in fact an agnostic. I'm not canvassing for church
|> members.
Where did I say that you were a Church member? I just said
that people who buy your kind of arguments finish up as church
members. There's still time.
|> #It's like GM stays in business as long as *some* people buy
|> #GM cars, so they make their cars for the people who are willing
|> #to buy GM cars. And that's why GM cars are GM cars, and why
|> #Frank's argument are Frank's arguments.
|>
|> Nonsense. Reality is not a business, and I have nothing to sell.
You undervalue yourself, Frank. You're one of the slickest
salesmen I've seen.
Not, of course, The Greatest Salesman in the World. That was
Jesus, wasn't it?
[rest of Frank's tantrum mercifully deleted].
jon.
| 19talk.religion.misc |
I just installed a DX2-66 CPU in a clone motherboard, and tried mounting a CPU
cooler on the chip. After about 1/2 hour, the weight of the cooler was enough
to dislodge the CPU from its mount. It ended up bending a few pins
on the CPU, but luckily the power was not on yet. I ended up
pressing the CPU deeply into its socket and then putting the CPU
cooler back on. So far so good.
Have others had this problem? How do you ensure that the weight of
the CPU fan and heatsink do not eventually work the CPU out of its
socket when mounting the motherboard in a vertical case?
--
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| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <1993Apr18.014305.28536@sfu.ca>, Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca> writes:
> In article <C5nGxq.663@zoo.toronto.edu> Henry Spencer,
> henry@zoo.toronto.edu writes:
> >The National Air & Space Museum has both the prototype and the film.
> >When I was there, some years ago, they had the prototype on display and
> >the film continuously repeating.
>
> Great! I'll visit the National Air and Space Museum at the end of the
> month with my wife, who was also working at General Atomic at the time.
> Once again netnews has enriched my life.
Sorry to put a damper on your plans, but I was there three weeks ago and
it wasn't there. Not that I would have known to look for it, of course,
but I combed the space exhibits pretty thoroughly and something like that
would have caught my attention instantly.
--
This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech
brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)
| 14sci.space |
dbm0000@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (David B. Mckissock) writes:
...text of options "A" and "B" deleted...
>Option C - Single Core Launch Station.
>This is the JSC lead option. Basically, you take a 23 ft diameter
>cylinder that's 92 ft long, slap 3 Space Shuttle Main Engines on
>the backside, put a nose cone on the top, attached it to a
>regular shuttle external tank and a regular set of solid rocket
>motors, and launch the can. Some key features are:
> - Complete end-to-end ground integration and checkout
> - 4 tangentially mounted fixed solar panels
> - body mounted radiators (which adds protection against
> micrometeroid & orbital debris)
> - 2 centerline docking ports (one on each end)
> - 7 berthing ports
> - a single pressurized volume, approximately 26,000 cubic feet
> (twice the volume of skylab).
> - 7 floors, center passageway between floors
> - 10 kW of housekeeping power
Only 10KW?
> - graceful degradation with failures (8 power channels, 4 thermal
> loops, dual environmental control & life support system)
> - increased crew time for utilization
> - 1 micro-g thru out the core module
Ha! "North America Modular SPACE STATION construction" :-)
Same apprach, same reasoning: "construction occurs under assembly
line conditions, no random weather problems interupting site-work
on your home - better quality control" -- sounds like first "-"
point above :-)
Somehow I have a strange attraction for this idea (living in
a modular home maybe has altered my mind). The only thing
that scares me is the part about simply strapping 3 SSME's and
a nosecone on it and "just launching it." I have this vision
of something going terribly wrong with the launch resulting in the
complete loss of the new modular space station (not just a peice of
it as would be the case with staged in-orbit construction).
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| 14sci.space |
Hello,
I install one wav driver: pc-speaker, then install mpeg 2.0
phoenix.oulu.fi:/pub/incoming/mpeg2_0/mpegexe.zip --/
in Windows 3.1. but when I load one MPEG file and make sound type to
WAV or MPEG,it always say error.
when I load one mpeg file which have wav file( ~.wav),then
select sound type to WAV,it is normal and no error,but I still can't
hear sound. What should I do? fix the SoundDrv number in MFW.INI?
Thankx for any help...
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English Name: Erik Wang
Chinese Name: Wang Jyh-Shyang
National Chiao-Tung University,Taiwan,R.O.C.
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <0096B294.AAD9C1E0@uinpla.npl.uiuc.edu> reimer@uinpla.npl.uiuc.edu (Paul E. Reimer) writes:
>In article <1qkftjINNoij@cronkite.cisco.com>, pitargue@cisco.com (Marciano Pitargue) writes:
>
>[stuff deleted about causes of people in ER]
>
>>and your factoid about shooting victims in the ER. count how many come in
>>due to automobile accidents and automobile crimes. maybe we should outlaw
>>cars.
>>marciano pitargue@cisco.com
>
>There are a lot of automobile accidents, but atleast there is some
>regulation to try to combat this. When I got my drivers license, I HAD
>to take a drivers safety class.
Tennessee, at least, does not require any sort of safety class to
get a driver's license. All that is required is one twenty question
quiz and to drive a car around the block without crashing.
>I HAVE to be licensed to drive.
In all probability, no you don't. You are required to be licensed
to drive on public roads. A license is not necessary on private property.
>My car
>MUST be registered.
Most states do not require the registration of cars that are
not used on public roads. Those that do (California I know of) do
so for tax purposes more than anything else.
>I MUST (at least where I live) have liability
>insurance on both myself driving and my car (if someone else had an
>accident with it).
Many states do not currently require this, and most, again,
only make this requirement for public roads. A car sitting unused
is not required to have insurance.
>Hmm, wouldn't manditory saftey classes, registration
>of both the owner and gun, and manditory liability insurance be nice for
>gun owners.
The two are not the same, as I pointed out above. There are
significant difference between making rules for *use on public property*
and *making rules for ownership*.
The other half of the objection is trust. Similar things to this
have been tried in many local jurisdications across the country, and
have been abused in far too many cases. Safety classes which are
never sheduled, never funded, or only one or two is held a year for
a limited number of participants. Registration lists in New York,
Chicago, and California have been used for confiscation. *Many* gun
owners would, in theory, support these planes. (Although the
numbers overwhelmingly show that competence is not the problem, that
intentional misuse is). They've simply seen it abused and are leery of
the next person who comes down the pike with a "reasonable" suggestion
they've already seen abused.
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PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu - "I still remember the way you laughed, the day
your pushed me down the elevator shaft; I'm beginning to think you don't
love me anymore." - "Weird Al"
| 16talk.politics.guns |
I've found a problem in the use of Xlib functions regarding re-entrancy. I
decided to implement an animated cursor (using 6 created cursors) by calling
XDefineCursor from a SIG_ALRM signal handler. This is used to indicate we are
waiting for a operator request to complete. (on a production control system).
I was redrawing the screen underneath the animated cursor and then restoring
the standard cursor when complete. I found dumped core , and upon analysis
it was when the SIG_ALRM handler was called during a XDrawString call. XDrawString
was doing a bcopy (presumably an internal structure) when the XDefineCursor
was called. Presumably the (internal) structure that XDrawString was manipulating
was not in a stable state and sent XDefineCursor to where it shouldn't have been.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any official documentation that
says you should ensure this doesn't happen? Or should bcopy() be atomic.
We are running on SGI Irix 4.0.1 with X11R4.
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| 5comp.windows.x |
> magarret@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (COMPUTER DUDETTE) writes:
>I just recently realized that I am bisexual, and also just recently returned to
>religion, and have a good friend who has pointed out to me that homosexuality
>is a sin in the bible. Well, I don't see how it could be considered a sin,
First of all as far as I know, only male homosexuality is explicitly
mentioned in the bibles, so you're off the hook there, I think. In
any event, there are *plenty* of people in many denominations who
do not consider a person's sexual identification of gay/lesbian/bisexual
as an "immoral lifestyle choice"
>Also, I have always been a somewhat liberal feminist, and am pro-choice, and it
>seems that being pro-choice and being religious don't mix either. I am told
This is another misconception. You are not being told the whole story.
My former minister is a lesbian, and I know personally and
professionally several openly gay and lesbian ministers. I am
a Unitarian-Universalist and like most others in my denomination,
am pro-choice. You needn't go looking to the Unitarian Universalists
(which is a liberal religion) for acceptance of your sexual
identification and pro-choice views, however; there are many of us
who believe in spirituality AND freedom of conscience.
Good Luck on your journey!
--
Daniel O'Connell
Meadville/Lombard Theological School
University of Chicago Divinity School
<dsoconne@uchicago.edu>
| 19talk.religion.misc |
In article <1qmhp7$33t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John W. Redelfs) writes...
>
>In a previous article, tom@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Tom Albrecht) says:
>
>>In article <1qb726$j9d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu< cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John W. Redelfs) writes:
>><
>><I learned that God loves his children who have never heard of him and has a
>><plan for redeeming them too, even those who have died without a knowledge
>><of Christ. I learned that a man cannot frustrate justice by repenting on
>><his death bed because repentance is more than a feeling of remorse. It
>><requires faith in Christ proven by following him, by keeping his
>><commandments. Such cannot be accomplished on ones deathbed.
>>
>>So Jesus must have lied to the thief on the cross.
>
>Paradise and salvation are not the same thing. Salvation is better. Refer
>to John 14:2.
I don't see the effort to equate salvation with paradise.
Rather, I see implied the fact that only those who are saved
may enter paradise.
=============================
Robert Weiss
psyrobtw@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
| 19talk.religion.misc |
In article <93759@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8798a@prism.gatech.EDU (Anthony S. Kim) writes:
>I remember someone mention about a 150meg syquest. Has anyone else
>heard anything about this? I'd be interested in the cost per megabyte and the
>approximate cost of the drive itself and how they compare to the Bernoulli 150.
I think you must be talking about the Syquest 105 (code named Mesa I believe).
It is a 3.5" Winchester technology drive pretty much like the other Syquest
drives in terms of how it works. According to the latest MacLeak, the
drive has a 14.5 ms access time, 1.9 MB/s sustained throughput (these figures
are from memory so they could be slightly off, but they give you an idea of
performance nonetheless). The drive was originally released for the PC
and just recently was released for the Mac world (don't ask me what the
differences are) and through they are currently in limited supply, according
to a Syquest rep. they are in the process of ramping up for mass production.
I have already seen them advertised by a number of manufacturers in MacLeak
including PLI, MassMicro, ClubMac, and MacWarehouse's PowerUser. The PLI
and MassMicro units are priced at just around $1000; the lesser name brands
are going for around $750 for an external drive. Cartridges which hold
105 MB sell for about $80 each. At these prices, the drives and cartridges
are cheaper and better performing than the 88MB drives.
Cost per megabyte compares favorably with other cartridge drives and Bernoulli
drives, but for large amounts of data optical is still cheaper, and more
reliable. Personally, I'm excited by the new drive and look forward to
getting my hands on one.
-Chris Wand
--
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
- Frank Leahy
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes:
>2. Sabri Jiryis: The Arabs in Israel, Monthly Review Press,
>New York, 1976
>3. Ed. A.W. Kayyali: Zionism, Imperialism and Racism, Croom
>Helm, London, 1979 (Writings by Arab, English and American
>scholars)
>4. Abdeen Jabara: The Responsibility of the State of Israel
>According to its International Commitments; Arab Studies
>Quarterly, Spring/Summer 1985, p.27-41
>5. Ilan Halevi: Zionism Today; Arab Studies Quarterly,
>Spring/Summer 1985, p.3-10
>6. Roselle Tekiner: Jewish Nationality Status as the Basis
>for Institutionalized Racism in Israel. The International
>Organisation for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
>Discrimination (EAFORD), Washington, 1985
>7. Dr. W. Mallison and Sally V. Mallison: The Zionist
>Organization/Jewish Agency in International and US Law, in Judaism
>or Zionism - What Difference for the Middle East; Zed Books Ltd.,
>London 1986
>8. John Quigley: Palestine and Israel - A Challenge to
>Justice; Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 1991
>9. Dr. Uri Davis: IsraelUs Zionist Society - Consequences for
>Internal Opposition and the Necessity for External Intervention;
>in Judaism or Zionism - What Difference for the Middle East; Zed
>Books Ltd., London 1986
I think one only needs to scan Mr. Davidsson's bibliography to see what kind
of objective sources he uses.
Ed.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
In article <1993Apr16.193723.19050@asl.dl.nec.com> duffy@aslss02.asl.dl.nec.com (Joseph Duffy) writes:
>
>How does one falsify any origin theory? For example, are a forever existing
>universe or abiogenesis strictly falsifiable?
The same way that any theory is proven false. You examine the predicitions
that the theory makes, and try to observe them. If you don't, or if you
observe things that the theory predicts wouldn't happen, then you have some
evidence against the theory. If the theory can't be modified to
incorporate the new observations, then you say that it is false.
For example, people used to believe that the earth had been created
10,000 years ago. But, as evidence showed that predictions from this
theory were not true, it was abandoned.
-Russ Paul-Jones
russpj@microsoft.com
| 19talk.religion.misc |
kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes:
>The chart that follows was taken from the Wednesday, April 14, 1993
>issue of USA Today ("Drug Use Up Among U.S. Eigth-graders" by Mike
>Snider, p. 6D).
> Adolescents' choices
> Drugs used by eighth graders in the last month:
> Estimated, per 100 students
> 1991 1992 Pct. chg.
> Alcohol 25.1 26.1 +4%
> Cigarettes 14.3 15.5 +8%
> Marijuana 3.2 3.7 +16%
> Amphetamines 2.6 3.3 +27%
> LSD 0.6 0.9 +50%
> Cocaine 0.5 0.7 +40%
> Crack 0.3 0.5 +67%
> Source: University of Michigan Institute for Social Research,
> 1993 report
>We are not winning the "war on drugs". I think you can see that one
>of the tactics that the DEA employs to give people the impression that
>the "war on drugs" is being won is to selectively quote statistics---
>only statistics that support their contention that drug use has gone
>down. The excerpt from Time magazine that I included in this post is
>an excellent example of how organizations like the DEA attempt to
>deceive the public.
Unfortunately, there's not much we can learn from the statistics presented
here either. Due to rounding, the 1991 est. for LSD could be anywhere
from .550 to .649 and the 1992 est. could be anywhere from .850 to .949.
This means that the actual change (if you believe these statistics in the
first place) was anywhere from 31% to 73%. Similarly the increase in
cocaine use could be anywhere from 18% to 66% and the increase of
crack use could be anywhere from 29% to 120%. This doesn't even
take into account the margin of error which isn't provided here.
This does not mean that the rest of the argument you present is unfounded,
but it does mean that USA Today has (not surprisingly) provided us
with virtually no information.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Can anyone out there tell me Babe Ruth's complete pitching stats? I know he
was 5-0 as a pitcher for the Yankees, but what were his numbers when he was
with the Red Sox? Thanks in advance!
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| 6misc.forsale |
In article <C5uyG1.7q9@acsu.buffalo.edu> v111qheg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (P.VASILION) writes:
>Can you imagine what happens when a magazine explodes? Bullets go flying every
>where. IMHO, these "gunshot wounds" were actually caused when the magazines
>went up. A Texas ranger does not a pathologist make, so I'll wait for an
>autopsy to determine if they were shot first.
>
>Either way, they're all dead and the FBI & Atty. Gen. Vampria are still
>responable.
Last time I checked, the bullet weighs quite a bit more than the case, and said
case is a hell of a lot weaker than the chamber of a gun, and the burning rate
of gunpowder is propotional to the pressure.
Translation: Not bloody likely.
Ammunition exploding would either explode in bulk, removing large hunks of the
surrounding landscape, or it would go off singly and spray the area with low
velocity, lightwieght shrapnel. If a cop can't tell the difference between
a wound inflicted by such shrapnel and a wound inflicted by a 55 grain bullet
doing better than Mach 3, he's in the wrong line of business.
--msa
P.S.--100 AR-15's for 100 people? Gee, my dad has 3 and there are only 2
people living there. Obviously preparing to take over the world or something.
Just can't trust them crazy conservative Presbyterians, ya know.
--
Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true. Jerry Lee Lewis was the Devil.
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet. All of a sudden,
I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing that I could
do was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.
| 18talk.politics.misc |
jovanovic-nick@yale.edu (Nick Jovanovic) writes:
>In article <1sufneINNe4f@CURIE.SYSTEMSY.CS.YALE.EDU> ahmed-shakil@cs.yale.edu (Shakil Waiz Ahmed) writes:
>>
>>In article <1sueslINNa6g@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>,
>>jovanovic-nick@yale.edu (Nick Jovanovic) writes:
>>
>>> "Muslim" in ex-Yugoslavia was a *nation* not a religion. In fact, not
>>> all Muslims in B-H are followers of Islam. Therefore, there do (did?)
>>> exist in ex-Yugoslavia "Christian Muslims."
>>
>>Yeah! That's it! :) You've really outdone yourself this time Nick...
>>Don't forget the "Davidian Muslims"... :)
>>
>>Islam is not a race. It's a religion. You can be white, black,
>>Fijian or Alaskan.
>This does not change the *fact* that "Muslim" is a legal and political
>term defined constitutionally in former Yugoslavia, and therefore has
>meaning and consequences entirely *independent* and *immaterial* of
>any religious considerations.
Not to muslims :)
>
>>> It is a
>>> civil war in which the terms of secession are being negotiated with guns
>>> instead of pens. The Croat, Muslim, and Serb political leaders *all*
>>> chose to fight over the terms of secession instead of compromising and
>>> peacefully negotiating multilateral secession agreements.
That could be arguable.. (for bandwith and flames sake, I wont say more)
>>
>>Terms of secession? You are, of course, joking, right Nick? Nobody
>>*chose* to fight. Bosnia and Croatia were *internationally*
>>recognized nations when the Serbs attacked and started on their
>>well-documented genocide. That makes them an outside aggressor. It's
>>a simple genocide, a classical example of ethnic cleansing. There is
>>no question of civil war...
>You only wish it were so.
It is a civil war, but the serbian generals who allow rape are not fighting
fair. Yah I know .. war is hell .. those serbian generals are propretuating
both..
>More than 2,000,000 residents of Croatia and B-H have *not* accepted the
>terms of secession which Tudjman and Izetbegovic unilaterally forced upon
>them. Croats and Muslims may have a right to negotiated secession but
>they do not have a right to grab the *entire* territories of the former
>Yugoslav republics of Croatia and B-H.
Lines and bordres .. money .. power .. fear ..
>Oh, BTW, *Yugoslavia* was *internationally recognized* when it was
>destroyed by Tudjman, Izetbegovic, Milosevic, and the international
>community led by Germany. If Yugoslavia's borders could be changed
>against its will, then certainly Croatia's borders and B-H's borders
>can be changed as well.
Let's change canadian bordres while we are at it :)
I see this as civvil war..
(sp borders)
>As I have stated many times: the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia will end
>when the terms of secession (borders, etc.) for Croatia and B-H are
>finally agreed upon. Serbs, Croats, and Muslims will *all* have to
>make territorial concessions to reach such an agreement.
Possibly.. I do agree that it is a civil war, which makes the donation of
humanitarian aid even more complex... I mean serbs are bleeding too and I heardthat a few croats had raped serbian women.. (unconfurmable at this point)
>-Nick
--
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After July '93, please send mail to mkhan@nyx.cs.du.edu
If responses to this letter/post bounce, e-mail me at the nyx account.
| 17talk.politics.mideast |
On one of the morning shows (I think is was the Today Show), David Koresh's
lawyer was interviewed. During that interview he flipped through some letters
that David Koresh wrote. On one of letters was written in Hebrew (near the
bottom of the page):
koresh adonai
Did anyone else see that? What could this mean by him (David) writing this?
| 0alt.atheism |
In article <1993Apr15.051746.29848@news.duc.auburn.edu>, snydefj@eng.auburn.edu (Frank J. Snyder) writes:
> I am looking for any information concerning projects involving Solar
> Sails. [...]
> Are there any groups out there currently involved in such a project ?
Sure. Contact the World Space Foundation. They're listed in the sci.space
Frequently Asked Questions file, which I'll excerpt.
WORLD SPACE FOUNDATION - has been designing and building a solar-sail
spacecraft for longer than any similar group; many JPL employees lend
their talents to this project. WSF also provides partial funding for the
Palomar Sky Survey, an extremely successful search for near-Earth
asteroids. Publishes *Foundation News* and *Foundation Astronautics
Notebook*, each a quarterly 4-8 page newsletter. Contributing Associate,
minimum of $15/year (but more money always welcome to support projects).
World Space Foundation
Post Office Box Y
South Pasadena, California 91301
WSF put together a little paperback anthology of fiction and
nonfiction about solar sails: *Project Solar Sail*. I think Robert
Staehle, David Brin, or Arthur Clarke may be listed as editor.
Also there is a nontechnical book on solar sailing by Louis Friedman,
a technical one by a guy whose name escapes me (help me out, Josh),
and I would expect that Greg Matloff and Eugene Mallove have something
to say about the subject in *The Starflight Handbook*, as well as
quite a few references.
Check the following articles in *Journal of the British Interplanetary
Society*:
V36 p. 201-209 (1983)
V36 p. 483-489 (1983)
V37 p. 135-141 (1984)
V37 p. 491-494 (1984)
V38 p. 113-119 (1984)
V38 p. 133-136 (1984)
(Can you guess that Matloff visited Fermilab and gave me a bunch of
reprints? I just found the file.)
And K. Eric Drexler's paper "High Performance Solar Sails and Related
Reflecting Devices," AIAA paper 79-1418, probably in a book called
*Space Manufacturing*, maybe the proceedings of the Second (?)
Conference on Space Manufacturing. The 1979 one, at any rate.
Submarines, flying boats, robots, talking Bill Higgins
pictures, radio, television, bouncing radar Fermilab
vibrations off the moon, rocket ships, and HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET
atom-splitting-- all in our time. But nobody HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV
has yet been able to figure out a music SPAN: 43011::HIGGINS
holder for a marching piccolo player.
--Meredith Willson, 1948
| 14sci.space |
whughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (William W. Hughes) writes:
>Hell, just set up a spark jammer, or some other _very_ electrically-noisy
>device.
As I've noted, you can likely get around that with a directional
sensor. Phased array systems could completely defeat this scheme.
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
--
Laissez faire, laissez passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
| 11sci.crypt |
I got this recipe from a watier on the greek island of samos.
They use it as a spread for bread there butit is excellent on
gyro's as well. By the way, the actual name is tzatziki.
Here is the recipe:
yoghurt, chopped garlic, peeled chopped cucumber, salt, white
pepper, a little olive oil and a little vinegar.
I would love to hear of any other good greek recipes out there.
--
Jon Walker
jowalker@oboe.calpoly.edu
| 13sci.med |
>We are all still human. We don't know it all, but homosexual or heterosexual,
>we all strive to follow Jesus. The world is dying and needs to hear about
>Jesus Christ.
Gaining entry into heaven cannot be done without first being cleansed by
the blood of Jesus.
Sin cannot dwell in heaven. It is against the natural laws of God.
Being converted to christianity means being baptized by the Holy Spirit.
You cannot get to heaven by good works only.
Because of the union with the holy spirit, the man's behavior will change.
If there is true union he will not desire to be homosexual. Fornication
and homosexuality will leave your life if you are truly baptized by the
holy spirit. It's not to say that we don't stumble now and then.
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <14112@news.duke.edu> kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu.mc.duke.edu (Kurt Bollacker) writes:
>From: kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu.mc.duke.edu (Kurt Bollacker)
>Subject: Challenge to Microsoft supporters.
>Date: 30 Apr 93 14:58:54 GMT
>Microsoft is the largest software company on the planet, yet I cannot think
>of even *ONE* computing concept that they innovated and brought to market
>before anyone else. Xerox-PARC/Apple, Osborne, NeXT, GNU and others have
>been pioneers and led the way to the future of computing. What has
>microsoft done to be a technological leader? I posted this question before,
>but I got nary a reply. I make the challenge now to anyone who can come up
>with something-especially Microsoft employees. I get no response this time,
>I guess it pretty much assures me that there is none--which is what I
>suspect anyway.
>
>######################################################################
>Kurt D. Bollacker Duke University Medical Center
>kdb@sunbar.mc.duke.edu Durham, NC 27710
>######################################################################
- They invented the "how to make money on others ideas".
- They made money.
- They weren't in the air at the wrong time...
Admit it BillG is a damn smart guy. How many out there can make money on
almost useless products...Useless even if you look at the time Dos were
written..it stinked already then..
If I could choose one marketing guy in the world, I think I would choose
him. He's so good that almost everyone hates him, but they still use his
stuff...
ThomasEZ.
' I'm not perfect, but I'm perfect for you. '
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In a previous article, ohayon@jcpltyo.JCPL.CO.JP (Tsiel Ohayon) says:
>I agree with all you write except that Terrorist orgs. were not shelling
>Israel from the Golan Heights in 1982, but rather from Lebanon. The Golan
>Heights have been held by Israel since 1967, and therefore the PLO could
>not have been shelling Israel from there, unless there is something I am
>not aware of.
Oops...small mistake. Thanks for mentioning it. I just read on
the.Israel.line that a village just got shelled by terrorists last week
and some children were killed. I guess the terrorists must have gotten by
the security zone. Just think at how much more shelling would be
happening if the security zone weren't there.
L8r...
Steve
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| 17talk.politics.mideast |
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Everything else is yours to add as you like.
The motherboard:
- US-made Micronics 8-slot motherboard with Intel 386dx/25mhz CPU
- 64kb SRAM cache
- 4mb 80us RAM using 4x1mb simms (worth $120 alone)
- Cyrix 83D87 math coprocessor (worth $90 alone)
- Norton SI 6.0 rating of 26.1
- Latest version Phoenix BIOS
The case/power supply:
- Standard desktop case. 230watt power supply with the usual connectors.
- Room for five floppy/hard drives (three visible, two internal).
*New* Micronics CPUs often command a several-hundred dollar premium
over clone motherboards because they are US-made, use high-quality
components, and are known to be both very reliable and compatible. They
have been OEMed in systems sold by both Gateway and Zeos at various
points in the past. (Check out the ads in the back pages of Byte or PC
Magazine if you want to see this price differential for yourself.)
Price: $450 complete, $100 less if you don't want/need the case and
power supply. The board is fully guaranteed. Email for further details
or for any questions.
Thanks!
--
David Ruggiero (jdavid@halcyon.com) Seattle, WA: Home of the Moss People
| 6misc.forsale |
jbrown@batman.bmd.trw.com writes: >
( in <1993Apr16.163729.867@batman.bmd.trw.com> )
( responding to Dave "First With Official A.A Nickname" Fuller )
[ ... ]
> The death penalty IS a deterrent, Dave. The person executed will never
> commit a crime again. Guaranteed. [ ... ]
That means that it is an effective anti-recidivism measure. It does
not say that it deters an individual from committing a capital crime
in the first place.
The true question is whether the threat of death is likely to actually
stop one from murdering. (Or commiting treason -- are there any other
capital crimes anywhere in the USA?) That is, if there were no death
penalty, would its introduction deter a would-be criminal from
committing her/his crime? I doubt it.
This is only the first step. Even if it were a strong deterrent
(short of being a complete deterrent) I would reject it. For what
about the case of the innocent executed?
And even if we could eliminate this possibility, I would reject the
death penalty as immoral. This makes me something of a radical on
the issue, although I think there are many opponents of captial
punishment who agree with me, but who find the innocent executed the
strongest argument to make.
I would, if magically placed in charge, facilitate state-aided suicide
for criminals who have life-sentences. This could be a replacement
for capital punishment. Those who don't want to live the rest of
their lives in jail would always have this option.
-- Scott Sauyet ssauyet@eagle.wesleyan.edu
| 0alt.atheism |
Could you explain what any of this pertains to? Is this a position
statement on something or typing practice? And why are you using my
name, do you think this relates to anything I've said and if so, what.
Bill
| 0alt.atheism |
In article <10535@blue.cis.pitt.edu> kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert) writes:
>In article <1rm29k$i7t@hsdndev.harvard.edu> rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
>:In article <enea1-270493135255@enea.apple.com>
>: enea1@applelink.apple.com (Horace Enea) writes:
>:>Can anyone out there tell me the difference between a "persistent" disease
>:>and a "chronic" one? For example, persistent hepatitis vs chronic
>:>hepatitis.
>:
>:I don't think there is a general distinction. Rather, there are
>:two classes of chronic hepatitis: chronic active hepatitis and chronic
>:persistent hepatitis. I can't think of any other disease where the
>:term persistent is used with or in preference to chronic.
>:
>:Much as these two terms "chronic active" and "chronic persistent"
>:sound fuzzy, the actual distinction between the two conditions
>:is often fairly fuzzy as well.
>
>I beg to differ. Chronic *active* hepatitis implies that the disease
>remains active, and generally leads to liver failure. At the very
>minimum, the patient has persistently elevated liver enzymes (what some
>call "transaminitis"). Chronic *persistant* hepatitis simply means that
>the patient has HbSag in his/her blood and can transmit the infection, but
>shows no evidence of progressive disease. If I had to choose, I'd much
>rather have the persistant type.
Being a chronic HBsAg carrier does not necessarily mean the patient has chronic
persistent anything. Persons who are chronic carriers may have no clinical,
biochemical, or histologic evidence of liver disease, or they may have chronic
persistent hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis, or hepatocellular
carcinoma.
Most cases of chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH) are probably the result of
a viral infection, although in a good number of cases the cause cannot be
determined. The diagnosis of CPH is made on the basis of liver biopsy. It
consists of findings of portal inflammation, an intact periportal limiting
plate, and on occasion isolated foci of intralobular necrosis. But in contrast
to chronic active hepatitis (CAH) there is no periportal inflammation,
bridging necrosis, or fibrosis.
CPH has, indeed, an excellent prognosis. If I had to choose between CAH and
CPH there is no question I would also choose CPH. However, as David pointed
out, the distinction between the two is not as neat as some of us would have
it. The histology can sometimes be pretty equivocal, with biopsies showing
areas compatible with both CPH and CAH. Maybe it is a sampling problem. Maybe
it is a continuum. I don't know.
=================================
Howard Doyle
doyle+@pitt.edu
| 13sci.med |
IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CAERE TYPIST PLUS GRAPHICS
HAND SCANNER, PLEASE READ ON AND SAVE MY LIFE.........
My problem is that my Caere Typist Plus Graphics Hand Scanner will not
connect to my PowerBook 160.
The cable from the scanner will not fit the SCSI port of the computer.
I managed to gaet a cabled assembled that adapted the cord to the
computer. However, this placed the computer into SCSI mode, that is it
acted as an external hard disk whenever i switched the computer on.
I've asked an engineer in London to assemble a new Cable for me. But
he's taken 14 weeks and has yet to find the solution, out of sheer
laziness. And I know that a cable exists to solve the problem.
If you know the solution. Please let me know what cable I need and how I
can get hold of one.
My E-Mail address is :
zia@uk.ac.ed.castle
I will be truely grateful for all your help.
Thanking you in advance,
Zia.
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Before we get into another discussion on the relative merits of a car alarm,
let's go on the assumption that one is desired. The question then remains,
which one? I've owned a Hornet, and was satisfied, but not enough to get
another for my new car. The Alpine has been highly recommended, but what about
Clifford and VSE's Derringer 2? Any others? I want all of the standard stuff;
door lock interface, starter kill, light flash, LED, valet mode, passive/active,
shock/motion sensor, etc... Thanks for the advice!
| 7rec.autos |
In article <1r3o7m$c39@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> evw2@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric V. Wong) writes:
>
>Hi there,
>
>I have a problem here, I've lost the software drivers and
>setup programs for my Hardcard. Can someone email me the
>files, or let me know if Plus Development (were they
>bought out by Quantum?) has a BBS or phone #?
>
>I have a Hardcard II XL50.
>
The Quantum BBS number is 408-894-3214. Good luck.
Les
--
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory M/S 238-528 (818) 354-5964
4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA. 91109
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
For those of you looking for information on MS-DOS 6.0's
file system compression API:
Today I called Microsoft's DOS 6.0 hotline at (800)228-7007.
They told me that the DOS 6.0 Resource Kit had the specifications
for the compression interface. The Resource Kit costs $19.95,
plus tax and $5 shipping.
I ordered a copy and will post further when I get it and know more
about it. I am posting now because the order turnaround is 15
working days.
If anyone knows for sure where's there's a good
source of info on this API, please speak up. I am
slightly skeptical about the Resource Kit's likelihood
of having detailed programming info.
Mark R. mrr@ripem.msu.edu
(posted also to sci.crypt, since the API could presumably also
be used for file system encryption.)
| 11sci.crypt |
In <C5HpCv.4HL@andy.bgsu.edu> klopfens@andy.bgsu.edu (Bruce Klopfenstein) writes:
>cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
>> In article <1993Apr13.195301.22652@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> nlu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu) writes:
>> }
>> } Guess which line is which:
>> } BA OBP SLG AB H 2B 3B HR BB
>> } X .310 .405 .427 571 177 27 8 8 87
>> } Y .312 .354 .455 657 205 32 1 20 35
>I just love how the Alomar fans left RBIs off this list. Give me a break!
Alomar fans left RBI fans and Runs off this list because they are dependant
on the team. (To a large extent). If Frank Thomas hit first, he'd lose a LOT
of RBI's; and anyways how many 2nd place hitters have you known to drive
in 100 runs? Doesn't happen that often.....very unlikely with Devon White's
~.300 OBP in front of you...
Gord Niguma
(fav player: John Olerud)
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <C5IJ7H.L95@news.iastate.edu> jrbeach@iastate.edu (Jeffry R Beach) writes:
>In article <1993Apr15.021021.7538@gordian.com> mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
>>In article <C5HuH1.241@news.iastate.edu>, jrbeach@iastate.edu (Jeffry R Beach) writes:
>>> In article <1qd1snINNr79@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> fogarty@sir-c.jpl.nasa.gov (Tim Fogarty) writes:
>>> >I would be upset that, although abortions would continue, they would be
>>> >a lot more expensive for the rich, and a lot less safe for the poor.
>>>
>>>
>>> So now things are supposed to be legal just to keep their cost down
>>> and the safety factor high??
>>>
>>> Think about it -- shouldn't all drugs then be legalized, it would lower
>>> the cost and definitely make them safer to use.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> I don't think we want to start using these criterion to determine
>>> legality.
>>
>> Why not?
>
>
>Where do they get these people?! I really don't want to waste time in
>here to do battle about the legalization of drugs. If you really want to, we
>can get into it and prove just how idiotic that idea is!
Go for it. I have yet to see anybody justify the
prohibition on drugs and the ensuing War On Drugs. In the world of
*.politics here on Usenet, it is YOU that is crazy. ANYBODY--who gives
the matter any thought beyond reading headlines---cannot justify this
atrocity, this all out war on individual rights.
Just _TRY_ to justify the War On Drugs, I _DARE_ you!
>
>My point was that it is pretty stupid to justify legalizing something just
>because it will be safer and cheaper.
>
Once again, in chorus: WHY is this "stupid"?
>
>A few more ideas to hold to these criterion - prostitution; the killing of all
>funny farm patients, AIDS "victims", elderly, unemployed, prisioners, etc. -
>this would surely make my taxes decrease.
The above paragraph is gibberish--that all I can make of it...
--
_______
Steve Thomas
steveth@rossinc.com
| 18talk.politics.misc |
Could someone post the Flyers record with and without Eric Lindros in
the lineup
I have a guy that is trying to compare the Quebec/Flyers trade to the
Dallas/Minnesota trade in the NFL(Hershel Walker)
I just need the stat to back up my point that Eric will be one of the next
great players
thanks
john
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr16.104950.22113@walter.cray.com>
huot@cray.com (Tom Huot) writes:
>
>Kenneth Ng (ken@sugra.uucp) wrote:
>: In article <1993Apr12.114727.7059@walter.cray.com: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot) writes:
>: :Peter Clark (pclark@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu) wrote:
>: :: Interesting. You seem to be the only person I have ever heard of who
>: :: has had a problem with MAG like that. I have a MAG MX15F myself, no
>: :: problems. I liked it so much I showed it to a bunch of my friends: 6 of
>: :: them went out and bought them, no problems. All Gateway 2000 Crystal
>: :: Scan monitors are MAG Innovisions. I've not heard many Gateway people
>: :: griping about their monitors. Seems like you got the bad apple.
>
>I wrote:
>: :You haven't heard Gateway customers griping about their monitors?
>: :Where have you been? I have never seen as many complaints on the
>: :net about anything else above the famous GW CS monitor flamefest.
>
>: The bulk of the GW CS monitor complaints (to which I can add my complaint)
>: is for the older monitor that really comes from Tatung. After getting mine
>: repaired by Tatung a year ago, it is starting to flake out again. I'll be
>: looking into NEC3DS and MAG 15F for my next monitors.
>
>Does anyone know when they stopped using those Tatung monitors? I
>bought my system in Feb. '91 and it definitely had the Mag monitor.
>That one, and it's replacement failed within 16 months. I gave up
>and went to a CompuAdd store and bought a 15" monitor there. I have
>no idea who makes those. No problems in about a year so far. (Knock
>of Wood!)
>
>So, does anyone know who makes the CompuAdd 15" flat screen monitor?
>--
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>Tom Huot
>huot@cray.com
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My Mag MX15F works fine....................
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I do not think it is at all unlikely that Clinton ro his policy
wonk facilitators arranged the Waco raid as a display piece for the
Gun War on the Constitution. Look at what the Bush administration did to
get material for the Drug War on the Constitution--remember that baggie of
crack George waved at the cameras? They took a dealer from the ghetto
and brought him to the White House so they could say drugs had been
dealt onb the White House Lawn.
And I don't think anybody could honestly think Clinton would have any
moral qualms about the raid...
The only really worrisome thing is that the BD's heroic defense of
their ranch will make Clinton's Gun War on the Constitution _more_
successfull--exactly as he wanted. The media and politicians will
filter this so that the general public will think the BD's
are bad guys! Don't help them. Stand up for the BD's with your
friends and family adnd in public anytime you can--their supposed
moral qualms are not important to the issue. They are heroes in the
fight against oppressive government; it could just as well have been
you.
-watkins@earth.eecs.uic.edu (Brian E Watkins)
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In Article <1qg9fc$et9@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au> "g9134255@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au (Coronado Emmanuel Abad)" says:
>
>
> I have seen several ray-traced scenes (from MTV or was it
> RayShade??) with stroked fonts appearing as objects in the image.
> The fonts/chars had color, depth and even textures associated with
> them. Now I was wondering, is it possible to do the same in POV??
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Noel
>
Yes, there are serveral programs which can convert font files (eq the Borland
fonts) to objects consisting of spheres, cones etc.
I've used a program (forgot its name/place, but i can look for it) which
converted these Borland fonts to three different raytracers. Vivid, POV and
Polyray (which i like more (more flexibel/faster/use of expressions etc).
The program has a lot nice features.
So if interested give me a mail.
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.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> holland@CS.ColoState.EDU (douglas craig holland) writes:
> SUSPENDED POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED IN REVENGE TRIPLE HOMICIDE
>
>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A police officer afraid he would be fired for
>allegedly assaulting a teen-ager walked into an auto body shop wher the youth
>worked, said "You're going to die" and fatally shot him and two others, police
>said.
>A fourth youth was wounded. A fifth escaped injury by hiding under a car.
>Suspended police officer Robert Sabetta, 23, of Cranston, was arrested at
>gunpoint over three hours after the shooting at Wilson's Auto Enterprises in
>Foster, a rural town of about 4,000 people in northwest Rhode Island.
> Doug Holland
>
I think I have updated info on this. My understandingis that
former officer Cranston approached a teenager who was being questioned
by another officer. Officer Cranston struck Teenager A in the head
with a heavy police flashlight, causing a significant, though not
life-threatening. THere is no evidence that Teenager A was
doing anything threatening at the time. Teenager A was released
on bail/recognizance and filed a formal complaint against Officer
Cranston. The Police Chief suspended Cranston pending an
investigation into the use of excessive force.
The above is pretty clear... but what seems to have
happened is this. The Chief requested Cranston's gun, but Cranston
refused to turn it over until the Chief went the Cranston's home
to get it. Sources said Cranston had always wanted to be
a cop and was very afraid of loosing his job because of the complaint
against him.
A few days afterward, Cranston allegedly walked into
Wilson's Garage, where Teenager A and friends were known to
hang out and work on cars as a hobby. Cranston fatally shot
Teenager A as well as TEenagers B and C. Teenager D was shot once
in the shoulder/chest. Teenager E was working under the car
and was not noticed by Officer Cranston. Teenager D went to a home
and summoned police, who went to Wilson's Garage and found the
3 corpses and one unscathed survivor.
A few days after his arrest, Officer Cranston attemped
to commit suicide in his cell.
-Case Kim
| 16talk.politics.guns |
>I've been under the impression that Minnesota was one of, or possibly,
>THE hockey state in the U.S. So why is the team moving to a city in
>Texas? Is it that the owner is a greedy, self-serving profiteer, or
>were the Stars really not making a profit? Or was the city or whoever
>owned the arena doing some price gouging?
Norman Green claims that he has lost money over the last three years
that he has owned the team. When he bought the team, it seemed kind of
obvious that he was going to have to deal with a few years in the red,
before the team started making a profit again. He gave the impression
that he was willing to do so. He claimed two years ago that the team
needed to average only 8000+ fans per game in order to pull a profit,
but this season the team averaged 12000+ fans, despite increasd ticket
prices. I think the team's attendence and play was clearly in an upward
trend, which leaves me dumbfounded as to how he could ignore that in
deciding to move. He was even offered the many concessions he rudely
demanded, such as guaranteed season ticket sales, cheap rent at the
other two arenas in town, etc.
Oh well, I guess the bottom line is $$$. Green wanted immediate huge
returns in Dallas, and wasn't willing to wait another year or so in MN.
Dallas gave Green a pretty stellar deal to play there (although I feel
Minnesota's was quite reasonable), and he also has some cronies down
there as well. All this means, is that Minnesota is without an NHL team
for a year or two. Too bad for the NHL.
KEA
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr16.001323.10308@news.clarkson.edu> farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Droopy) writes:
>==================================================
>SENATORS SOLD
<stuff deleted>
>
>The Senators are currently in serious negotiations with Charlottetown
>New Brunswick and are expected to move there.
>==================================================
It has been announced that the Senators will move their AHL franchise to
Charlottetown, P.E.I. (Prince Edward Island), not New Brunswick.
Charlie Cook
charlie@calvin.cs.unb.ca
| 10rec.sport.hockey |
In article <1993Apr20.163730.16128@guinness.idbsu.edu>, betz@gozer.idbsu.edu (Andrew Betz) writes:
> In article <C5rynw.Iz8@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby) writes:
>>And I suppose the FBI also prevented them from coming out with their
>>hands up while national tv cameras watch.
>>
> Watch from where? Two miles away? Far enough away that whatever
> really happenned must be explained through the vengeful filter of
> a humiliated agency that said (quote!) "Enough is enough."
As I understand it was considered unsafe for the tv networks to get
any closer. Surely the networks can judge the risks of reporting
for themselves. I haven't noticed CNN being banned from Baghdad
hotels yet despite the (all too real) risk of having a cruise
missile land in the lobby. Incidentally has that ever been explained
or are we to assume that out of the whole of the city an off-course
missile just happened to hit that hotel at a probability of about
1 in some very large number?
Unsafe for who I wonder?
--
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Tel: (0382) 308810 (Int +44 382 308810)
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| 16talk.politics.guns |
David Vergolini writes
> The roar at Michigan and Trumbull should be loader than ever this year.
> With Mike Illitch at the head and Ernie Harwell back at the booth, the tiger
> bats will bang this summer. Already they have scored 20 runs in two games
> and with Fielder, Tettleton, and Deer I think they can win the division. No
> pitching! Bull! Gully, Moore, Wells, and Krueger make up a decent staff that
> will keep the team into many games....
Yeah, if the Tigers can keep scoring 20 runs a game. If I'm reading all this
woofing correctly, one midseason slump is going to pull this team out of
contention. Like Yogi says, I'll believe when I believe it.
--
David J.(dwarner@journalism.indiana.edu)*****Blue Riddle Productions 1993
*-------------------------------It's on.--------------------------------*
***"THE RAP IS AN ART EP" is coming out on tape -- this time for real.***
*------------------------E-mail me for the 411.-------------------------*
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <C5wA2G.1CC@apollo.hp.com>, nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
> In article <C5w51C.H39@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> patk@sr.hp.com (Patrick Kearney) writes:
> >
> >I ask this question because there is a tradition, and one that
> >is highly regarded by many people, that several hundred Jews
> >elected to throw themselves off a cliff at Masada rather than
> >submit to Roman rule. The circumstances at Masada and those at
> >Waco would seem in general terms quite similar, and yet so far
> >as I'm aware nobody has seriously suggested that the Jews were
> >insane.
>
> As has already been pointed out, the Jews faced a totally
> different fate at the hand of the Romans than did Koresh
> at the hand of the feds. The Jewish men would most likely
> have been crucified, the the women and children sold into
> slavery. One can well argue that Koresh may have *thought*
> that a similar fate awaited him, but there was scant rational
> basis for that fear, so "insane" seems to describe any such
> belief.
What is the penalty if convicted of murdering 4 Federal agents
in Texas? The death penalty.
> None of which excuses the reckless action of the feds, who
> allegedly believing they were dealing with a nut, should
> have exercise much more restraint. Indeed, given their
> *stated* goals of saving the children, one might also apply
> the moniker "insane" to the feds' actions.
Yup.
--
Russ Anderson | Disclaimer: Any statements are my own and do not reflect
------------------ upon my employer or anyone else. (c) 1993
EX-Twins' Jack Morris, 10 innings pitched, 0 runs (World Series MVP!)
| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <1993Apr18.020655.14233@news.cs.brandeis.edu> deane@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>Okay, I'll bite. I should probably leave this alone, but what the heck...
>
>In article <1993Apr14.124301.422@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>,
>gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>>In article <TT3R2B5w165w@brewich.hou.tx.us> popec@brewich.hou.tx.us
>>(Pope Charles) writes:
>>
>>>Rhoemer was the name of the guy responsible for much of the uniforms,
>>>and props used by the early Nazis in their rallies and such.
>>
>>The name is Roehm, not Rhoemer. And Hitler does claim that he came up
>>with the Swastika business.
>
>But didn't he credit the actual flag design to a party member - some dentist or
>other? I believe he gives such credit in Mein Kampf.
>
>>>He was killed in an early Nazi purge. He and many of his associates
>>>were flaming homosexuals well know also for their flamboyant orgies.
>>
>>I have been trying to find if there is any actual evidence for this
>>common assertion recently. Postings to such groups as soc.history and
>>soc.culture.german has not uncovered any net.experts who could provide
>>any.
>
>Well, I'm no expert, but all of the histories of Nazi Germany assert this. They
>make reference to several scandals that occurred long before "the night of the
>long knives". The impression that I got was that homosexuality in portions of
>the SA was common knowledge. Also, a book (by a homosexual author whose name
>escapes me at the moment) called "Homosexuals in History" asserts that Roehm
>and Heines were homosexuals, as well as others in Roehm's SA circle.
[Rest deleted. Can anybody out in a.p.h help out?]
Find out about "the night of the brown shirts".
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| 19talk.religion.misc |
Hi folks,
I'm trying to compile xfig 2.1.7 on a SS1+ running SunOS 4.1.1 and OW 2.0,
and I'm having a little trouble with make/imake. Specifically, make bombs
when it needs to use any Xaw file. This isn't surprising since X11 files
on Suns with the standard OW 2.0 distribution are in various places under
/usr/openwin (Xaw files are in /usr/openwin/share/include/X11/Xaw !!)
Actually, the real problem is that I know squat about imake, and I don't
know how to tell imake where the X11 files are. I can see from the
Makefile that it's looking in the wrong places, but the first line of the
Makefile reads
# Makefile generated by imake - do not edit!
Help! Is there some way I can edit the Imakefile to tell it where to
look? (I have set DEFINES = -DOPENWIN_BUG, as it said to in the README
file.)
Email and post are both fine.
Thanks in advance,
Dave
| 5comp.windows.x |
[To the moderator: I posted this about a week ago but it never showed
up (locally) on the net. If this has already
actually been posted, please fill free to flush
this copy. --N]
From: db7n+@andrew.cmu.edu (D. Andrew Byler)
>Does anyone now where an English translation of the long recension of
>the Acts of the Apostles can be found?
1] A english translation of this can be found in:
"The Acts of the Apostles, translated from the Codex Bezae, with an
introduction on its Lucan Origin and Importance", J. M. Wilson
(London, 1923).
2] Another work that might be useful is:
"The Acts of the Apostles, a Critical Edition with Introduction and
Notes on Selected Passages", Albert C. Clark (Oxford, 1933;
reprinted 1970).
(This is an edition of text of Acts that makes the assumption that the
text in Codex Bezae is the more authentic. I don't know if it
actually contains an english translation or not.)
3] Another useful that discusses many of the variants in detail is:
"The Theological Tendency of the Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis in
Acts", Eldon J Epp (Cambridge, 1966).
4] The most recent reference I found was an edition in French from the
early '80s. (I can supply the reference if anyone's interested.)
5] Now, many of the works are going to be difficult to find. So if
you're interested in examining the differences in the long recension
an excellent (and easily obtainable) discussion can be found in:
"A Textual Commentary on the Greek NT", Bruce Metzger (United Bible
Society, 1971).
Metzger's book serves as a companion volume to the UBS 3rd edition of
the Greek NT. It contains a discussion on the reasoning that went
behind the decisions on each of the 1440 variant readings included in
the UBS3. Furthermore, notes on an addition 600 readings are
included in aTCotGNT (the majority of these occur in Acts).
In particular in the introduction to the section on Acts Metzger writes:
"[An attempt was made] to set before the reader a more or less full
report (with an English translation) of the several additions and
other modifications that are attested by Western witnesses ...
Since many of these have no corresponding apparatus in the
text-volume, care was taken to supply an adequate conspectus of the
evidence that supports the divergent readings." (p 272).
>I understand that one of the early codexes, Vaticanus and Siniaticus has
>this version of Acts. It would be interesting to know what the
>differences are between the long and the short forms.
6] Most of the copies of the text of Acts that we have (including the
ones in Vaticanus and Siniaticus) adher pretty closely to the shorter
(or Alexandrian) version. The longer version to which you refer is
usually called the "Western" version and its main witness is the Codex
Bezae (althought there are a few other rather fragmentary sources).
7] As far as size, the difference is that in Clark's edition
(mentioned above) the book of Acts contains 19,983 words whereas the
text edited by Westcott and Hort (a typical Alexandrian text) contains
18,401 words; i.e. a difference of about 8-1/2%.
8] To answer the obvious questions, no, there are no major revelations
in the longer text nor major omissions in the shorter text. The main
difference seems to "expansion" of detail in the Western text (or, if
you prefer "contractions" in the Alexandrian). The Western text seems
to be given to more detail. There are some interesting specific
cases, but this probably not the place to go into it in detail.
9] The discussion over the years as to which of these versions is the
more authentic has been hot and heavy. If there is anything
approaching a modern consensus it is (i) that neither text represents
purely the "authentic" version, (ii) each variant reading has to be
examined on its own merits however, (iii) the variant in the
Alexandrian text is the "better" more often than not.
N
| 15soc.religion.christian |
In article <mssC5w795.7G4@netcom.com>, Mark Singer writes:
> In article <C5vHLH.IDz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> rstimets@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (robert and stimets) writes:
>>
>>
>>In a game that saw a little of everything--incredible defense, some power,
>>clutch pitching, and a little wildness--the Reds managed to overcome their
>>trademark lack of timely hitting in crucial situations...
> During spring training I made a similarly innoncent-looking comment
> about clutch hitting on this bb and the flames were flying. "no such
> thing as clutch hitting" they (the SDCN's) all screamed. I assumed
> they also meant there was no such thing as any kind of clutch performance,
> given their comments.
This is certainly not the case. There is no significant *ability* toi
perform in the clutch, but clutch performance certainly happens every
time there is a game-winning hit. The "clutch pitching" quoted above is
something which happened, not a claim that any particular player should
be expected to be a clutch pitcher.
> Over the past four seasons Sabo has had 59 hits in 259 abs defined as
> clutch situations (by The Scouting Report) for an average of .228.
> Over that same period he had another 1539 abs with 452 hits for an
> average of .294.
> According to the rest of the SDCN's, any differential such as this is
> completely and totally random and cannot be used for any reasonable
> inference, such as perhaps Perez should have used a pinch hitter in
> that situation.
Simple statistics tell me that there is a 2% chance an average clutch
hitter would have this large a split (the average decrease is 7 points,
standard deviation about 30). There will be such hitters in any league,
just as there will be hitters who hit poorly on Tuesdays.
And there is only a very weak correlation (.01 in my best study) between
clutch hitting in the last four years and clutch hitting this year,
probably because most of the clutch data is determinaed by luck rather
than any ability. *Based only on this data*, I don't see any reason to
pinch-hit for Sabo, or any other player who had been a poor clutch
hitter in the past.
But there are many other factors involved in a decision to pinch-hit.
Does the pinch-hitter give you a platoon advantage? (Any portion of
Sabo's clutch split that results from his platoon split is certainly a
real ability, even if it has nothing to do with clutch hitting.) Do you
have a singles hitter at the plate when you need a home run? Do you
have a curveball pitcher facing a batter who has trouble with curves?
--
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"We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary."
"Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again."
Disclaimer: I speak for no one and no one speaks for me.
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
If anyone is keeping a list of the potential contributors,
you can put me down for $1000.00 under the conditions above
Keith Emmen
kde@boi.hp.com
| 16talk.politics.guns |
Alan Morgan (alanm@efi.com) wrote:
: In article <15437@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
:
: >You might -- except that gay men are MUCH more promiscuous than
: >straight men -- which shows how damaged and screwed up gay men are.
:
: Okay Claytoon, let us say that hypothetically I agree with you that
: gay men are much more promiscuous than straight men. Why does
: this indicate they are screwed up people?
:
: BTW - It occurs to me that since, in my experience, men are much more
: interested in sex than women and want to have sex much earlier
: in a relationship than women do, that homosexuals would have
: sex more often simply becuase their partner is of a like mind.
: i.e. heterosexual men would be more promiscuous if they could.
It's my observation that women are more likely to me more strongly
indoctronated into now wanting sex that are men.
Also there are definite double standards for men and women who are
promiscuous.
Could there also be a factor of communication being more direct in
homosexual relationships and culture.
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+(44) 21 429 9199 (Home) |evansmp@cs.aston.ac.uk
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| 18talk.politics.misc |
sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
>pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering) writes...
>>Jeff.Cook@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Jeff Cook) writes:
>>>people in primitive tribes out in the middle of nowhere as they look up
>>>and see a can of Budweiser flying across the sky... :-D
>>Seen that movie already. Or one just like it.
>>Come to think of it, they might send someone on
>>a quest to get rid of the dang thing...
> In one of his lesser known books (I can't
> remember which one right now), the protagonists are in a balloon gondola,
> travelling over Africa on their way around the world in the balloon...
That's _Five Weeks In A Balloon_. And if anyone can tell me where to
get it, I sure would like a reply! I've been looking for that book for
TEN YEAR+, and never found it. (Note that I am _not_ looking for a $200
collector's item; I'm hoping that *someone* has published it in modern
times, either in paperback or hardcover. I'm willing to spend $50 or
so to get a copy.
--
Keith Mancus <mancus@butch.jsc.nasa.gov> |
N5WVR <mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov> |
"Black powder and alcohol, when your states and cities fall, |
when your back's against the wall...." -Leslie Fish |
| 14sci.space |
It is the new command with Dos 6 that allows you to erase your directory and
all the files in it, without first erasing the individual files.
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|Dana Wells, BA | _#_ Yes, Another MALE Dana |
|Wilfrid Laurier U, Waterloo, ON | /. .\ Urban Geographers |
|well5173@mach1.wlu.ca | \_*_/ Plan-It Better! |
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
[ Article crossposted from temple.forsale ]
[ Author was Ray Lauff (ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu) ]
[ Posted on Wed, 21 Apr 1993 01:04:27 GMT ]
Regular CBS/FOX release of the wide screen edition of the movie
The Abyss for sale, asking $30, including postage. I want to
purchase the new director's cut and would like to unload this
LaserDisc if possible.
Two discs, unopened, 132 minutes, letterbox.
Email me if interested.
ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu
Ray
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| 6misc.forsale |
In article <1qfrhbINNo80@cae.cad.gatech.edu>, vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent
Fox) says:
>[...]
>this measure as it will prevent the evil Bambi-killers from hunting,
>and another will fight it for the interference with Nature that it is.
Such a measure would also have another benefit. It would relieve the
various states of the thorny problem of what to do with the hundreds
of millions of dollars hunters pour into the economy annually. I'm
sure that, to attain sure a lofty, humane, liberal and ecologically
(not to mention politically) correct goal, the environmental and animal
rights groups/individuals supporting such a measure would be more than
willing to add their names to a list of supporters seeking increased
taxation to replace these lost revenues. I am equally confident that
these same entities, given their noteworthy record in the area of social
responsibility and respect for private property, would feel morally
and ethically bound to raise the necessary funds to acquire the
hundreds of thousands of acres of land now held in private hands
solely for use as private hunting preserves by the landowner(s). To
do less than this would place these same groups/individuals in
the ethically untenable (to say nothing of environmentally and
politically incorrect) position of sanctioning the logging and
subsequent development and urbanization of these former private
hunting lands, which would no longer be useable by, or of any
benefit to, the landowner(s) in such a capacity.
W. K. Gorman
| 16talk.politics.guns |
In article <25335@alice.att.com> td@alice.att.com (Tom Duff) writes:
>ulrich@galki.toppoint.de wrote:
>> Does anyone have any other suggestions where the 42 came from?
>Forty-two is six times nine.
...for very small values of six and nine.
(Sorry, Tom, I couldn't resist...)
| 1comp.graphics |
>The deskjet is SLOW. This is in comparison to the other printers I
>mentioned. I have no idea how the bubblejet compares.
>
>The interface between Win3.1 and the printer is just dandy, I've not
>had any problems with it.
I just bought a BJ-200 printer a couple of days ago. I compared it to the
sample print of an HP DeskJet 500 and knew that the HP wasn't for me. The
BJ-200 is pretty fast and really prints with good quality. I can compare it
with the HP LaserJet IIID PostScript and they look almost identical (
depending on the kind of paper). I don't have problems with the ink not
being dry, it seems to dry VERY fast. Probably within a second. Since
Canon is giving a $50 rebate until the end of May, it is really a good buy.
---
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Computer Support Representative
College of Fine Arts and Communications
D-406 HFAC
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)378-3292
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ecktons@ucs.byu.edu
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
In article <1r7cftINNrbt@life.ai.mit.edu> Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (The White House) writes:
>
>
>THE WHITE HOUSE
>
>
>
>Office of Communications
>_________________________________________________________________
>For Immediate Release Contact: Bob Boorstin
>Thursday, April 22, 1993 Phone: 202-456-7151
>
>
> HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TO REVIEW CLINTON PROPOSAL
> AS IT DEVELOPS
Too many MDs on the list and not enough RNs in my opinion.
Doug
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| 18talk.politics.misc |
In article <1rcfj2INNmds@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>, mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison) writes:
=Which was why I started checking EVERY time I got sick. And EVERY
=time I got sick MSG was somehow involved in one of the food products.
Which points up the "studies" made by amateurs: Did you ALSO check EVERY TIME
YOU DID *NOT* get sick? "No," you say? Why not check every thing you eat when
you don't get sick and find out how much MSG you're actually consuming?
=> All that's needed now is that final step, a double-blind study done
=> on humans. There isn't even an ethical question about "possible
=> harm", as this is a widely used and approved food additive.
=
=But - some say that only 2% of the population has a problem with MSG -
=some say it's more like 20% - but let's say that it's 5%. How many
=people would have to be tested that would have a problem? Also - I
=KNOW I have a problem with it, and I wouldn't VOLUNTEER for a test.
If you knew enough about what the test was about to decide that you didn't want
to participate because it involved MSG, you'd've already made yourself
ineligible (since MSG IS detectable by taste). How can anybody be so clueless
as to what double blind studies are all about?
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Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
| 13sci.med |
In a previous article, jkjec@westminster.ac.uk (Shazad Barlas) says:
>The best auto-shifters on the street (AND NOT THE TRACK) are those from
>Porsche... they wont change if you floor the gas during a turn.... a few
>years back a was in a 200SX auto (you guys call it a 240SX [without turbo])
>and was going round a corner.... I floored it and next thing I know I was
>pointing backwards! The other drivers seemed quite amused ;-)
>
> ....Shaz....
>
You are sure that what you call a 200SX we call a 240? Just curious..
We also have a nissan predacessor (sp) to the 240 called a 200, which
came in turbo and nonturbo. But i don't think we've ever had a 240
turbo...just curious...(BTW, I'm in the US, if that matters..)
DREW
| 7rec.autos |
ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet (larry silverberg) writes:
>I have question that I hope is taken seriously, despite the subject content.
>Problem: My long time girlfriend lately has not been initiating any sexual
> activity. For the last four months things have changed dramatically.
> ...
> --to make this shorter-- Summary: nothing that I can think of has
> changed....
> ...
>She suggested we go to a sex counselor, but I really don't want to (just yet).
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>If you think you can help me, please contact me by e-mail for further info.
>PLEASE serious replies only.
>Thanks, Larry
Larry:
The subject content IS serious; as is the question.
On one hand you state that "things have changed dramatically" but, at the
same time nothing you "can think of has changed". Your girlfriend seems
to want to see a counselor, but you don't.
I'd recommend that you examine your hesitation to see a counselor. It's
a very good environment to examine issues.
The fact of the matter is: your girlfriend has a different perception than
you. The TWO of you need to address the issue in order to resolve it.
Please consider going to a counselor with your girlfriend. What could it
possibly hurt?
Cliff (the paramedic)
| 13sci.med |
I keep finding these programmers in local junk shops. This may
mean that they are indeed junk - but i'd like to hear from anyone
else that may have met up with them. The basic device is a
"Data I/O 29A universal programmer", and the usual pod is a
"LogicPak 303A-Vo4" with a "303A-001" programming tester/
adapter. I'd really like to hear from anyone who knows whether
these monsters are worth bothering with. All i want to do is blast
PALCE22V10s. - Ideas, folks
Mike.
| 12sci.electronics |
maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
>In <1qvag7INNsvo@lynx.unm.edu> kbos@carina.unm.edu (K. Mitchell Bose) writes:
>>In article <1993Apr19.214008.8199@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca> maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
>>>
>>>Again, if you had Lee on your team last year you would be wearing a ring
>>>this year.
>>>
>>Er..no.
>Er..yes. If Manny Lee was on your team last year, your team would have been
>the Toronto Blue Jays.
>>_My_ team is the Albuquerque Leftturns. If Manny Lee were on my team, I would
>>not be wearing a ring. Nor would he. If, however, I were on Manny Lee's team,
>Again. If Manny Lee was on your team last year your team would not have been
>the Albuquerque Leftturns. It would have been the Toronto Blue Jays.
How is that possible? He was on the Albuquerque Leftturns last year.
How could you possibly know what team he would be on if Manny Lee was
on his team last year. After all, Manny Lee wasn't on his team last year,
so it's complete, unfounded speculation to state that if he was on the
same team as Manny Lee last year, it would have been the team of the
Toronto Blue Jays. Since he and Lee weren't on the same team, you
cannot possibly objectively state what team they would have been on
if they had both been on the same team.
Greg
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
In article <ASHWIN.93May1225032@leo.gatech.edu> ashwin@cc.gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>Does the "Thermoscan" instrument really work? It is supposed to give you a
>fast and accurate temperature reading in the ear. How far in the ear does
>one have to insert the instrument? Is it worth the $100 it is currently
>selling for?
No, they do not work well. My doctor started using one recently, and I
thought the concept was so amazing that I bought one too.
The thing works by reading the infrared emissions from the ear drum.
The ear drum is hotter than the ear canal walls, so you have to point
the thing very carefully. This means tugging on the top of the ear
to straighten out the ear canal, then inserting the thing snugly, then
pushing a button. Unfortunately, there are many things that can go wrong.
It is almost impossible to aim the thing correctly when you do it on
yourself. I get readings which differ from each other by up to 2 degrees,
and may differ from an oral thermometer by up to 2 degrees.
I talked to one of the nurses in my doctor's office recently about this,
and she said she didn't like them either, for same reasons. She did give
me some instruction on how to tug on my ear, and what correct insertion
feels like, but she said she thought it was impossible to do correctly
on one's self. She also said that she and other nurses had complained to
the company about inaccurate readings, and that someone from the company
had told them to take great care to clean the infrared window at the end
of the probe with alcohol from time to time. She demonstrated this prior
to reading my temperature, and managed to get a reading within 0.5 degree
of the oral temperature I took at home before driving to the Dr's office.
I have also noticed tha some nurses click the button, then remove the
probe immediately. This causes wrong readings. In my experience, you
have to leave the probe in a good 1 to 2 seconds after clicking the button
to get a good measurement. The nurse I talked with agreed. I suspect
that many people don't realize this, and therefore get bad readings for
yet another reason.
In short, it's a great idea. It may work for some folks, but I believe
it doesn't work well for a person who wants to take his own temperature.
| 13sci.med |
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Originally purchased at $379, Asking $150.
email: jburgin@ralph.cs.haverford.edu
phone: 215-645-5620
thank you for your time
| 6misc.forsale |
In article <65882@mimsy.umd.edu> mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate) writes:
}>For several years I've periodically asked Charley Wingate to explain this
}>mythical alternative to rationality which he propounds so enthusiastically
}>when he pops up every few months. His reluctance to explain indicates to me
}>that it's not so hot.
}
}I've said enough times that there is no "alternative" that should think you
}might have caught on by now. And there is no "alternative", but the point
}is, "rationality" isn't an alternative either. The problems of metaphysical
}and religious knowledge are unsolvable-- or I should say, humans cannot
}solve them.
If there is truly no alternative, then you have no basis whatsoever
for your claim. The usual line here, which you call "a prejudgment of
atheism", and dispute, is that reason is all we have. Here you admit
that you have no alternative, no possible basis for the claim that
there is anything other than reason or that reason is inapplicable in
religious knowledge, except possibly that reason conflicts with
"religious knowledge".
This sounds very much like "I can't provide a rational defense for my
belief, but prefer to discard rationality rather than accept that it
may be false". I hope it makes you happy, but your repeated and
unfounded assertions to this effect don't advance your cause.
--
Jim Perry perry@dsinc.com Decision Support, Inc., Matthews NC
These are my opinions. For a nominal fee, they can be yours.
| 0alt.atheism |
ok, i have a 486dx50(ISA) w/ Diamond Stealth VRAM 1MB.
I was really satisfied w/ its performance in windows.
but now more and more games needs higher frame rates in DOS' VGA,
especially this new Strike Commander. ;-)
this stealth vram can only give me 17.5 fps. ;-( (i use 3dbench).
my winmark was 6.35 million, i think.
so right now i'm considering to replace it w/ a new card, which hopefully
can perform approx same w/ my current VRAM in windows and also
can perform DOS' VGA preferably >30fps.
i also saw the 3dbench benchmark list from someone who compiled it
in csipg and it looked that SpeedStar 24X and Orchid Prodesigner 2d-s
ware the fastest for non local bus motherboard.
both can give >30fps in DOS' VGA w/ 486dx2/66.
Does anyone have a winmarks for both of those cards above with the processor
type ? which one is the worthiest(not necessarily fastest)?
any other card recommendation is welcomed too.
also, if possible, where can i get 'this' card for the cheapest? ;-)
thanks in advance, folks!
===Martin
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
David Tsai <dt1n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Is it going to be possible to upgrade a C610 to Tempest?
That's the current rumor that was started by MacWEEK last month.
>If so, how...motherboard switch?
How else would you accomplish this kind of an upgrade?
>Probably gonna be expensive right?
Of course. This is Apple we are talking about here.
-Hades
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
ubs@carson.u.washington.edu (University Bookstore) writes:
>bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu (Monthian Buntan-1) writes:
>>
>>
>>Does anyone know why Apple has an ambiguous message for C650 regarding
>>fpu? In all Mac price lists I've seen, every C650 has the message "fpu:
>>optional". I know from what we've discussed in this newsgroup that all
>>C650 have the fpu built in except the 4/80 configuration. Why would
>>they be so unclear about this issue in their price list?
I think this is mostly the fault of the people who write up the
literature and price lists being confused themselves. Since there are
two possible processor configurations and one of the them doesn't have
an FPU it does seem to be an option, even though it really isn't.
>>I'm planning to buy the C650 8/230/cd pretty soon, but I'm now getting
>>confused with whether it comes with fpu or not.
Well, then allow me to end your confusion. The C650 ONLY come with
an LC040 in the base 4/80 configuration. If you are not getting this
configuration then you are getting an FPU.
>>Why say "optional" if it's built in?
Good question. I have been wondering that since Feb. 10th.
>If you get the Centris 650 with CD configuration, you are getting a Mac with
>a 68RC040 processor that has built-in math coprocessor support. My
>understanding is that the "optional fpu" refers to your option of purchasing
>the Centris 650 4/80 without FPU OR one of the other configurations WITH FPU.
This is possible, but an option is something that you are supposed
to be able to request when you want it. What Apple has done is given the
buyer a CHOICE between configurations and not an OPTION.
>Apple does not offer an upgrade from the non-FPU system to become an FPU
>system. And, it is unclear whether the '040 processor on the non-FPU system
>(a 68LC040) can be replaced with a 68RC040 supplied by another vendor.
This is not unclear at all. In fact Apple has included in the ROMs
of those machines with LC040s code to recognize the presence of the full
040's FPU and use it. Thereby making the upgrade as easy as switching
chips. You pop the LC040 out and pop in a full '040.
>Apple did send a memo out at one point sating that the Centris 610, which ONLY
>comes with a non-FPU 68LC040 processor CANNOT be upgraded to support an FPU -
>the pin configurations of the two chips apparently do not match so you cannot
>swap one for another (again, according to Apple's memo).
They did? I think I would double-check this. It has been stated
countless times in this newsgroup by two of the Centris hardware
designers that the LC040 and the full '040 are pin compatible and that
the C610 can be upgraded to a full '040.
-Hades
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware |
I would e-mail this to you, but my mailserver doesn't recognize you or
something.
Anyway, the worst pitcher on the Yanks. If you mean currently on the team,
then I have to go with Scott "I'm a schizophrenic...No, I'm NOT!"
Kamienicki. Sure, occasionally the guy can pitch well for 5 or 6 innings,
but then he starts to go insane. A sure sign that he's losing his stuff
(and his mind) is when he starts to stalk around the mound between batters
and yell at himself.
The worst all-time Yanks pitcher? Gotta go with Ed "New York? I have to
pitch in [gulp] New York?" Whitson. 'Nuff said!
--I'm outta here like Vladimir!
-Alan Sepinwall XVIII
===========================================================================
| "What's this? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets |
| too cold. This? This is Kent. This is what happens to people when |
| they get too sexually frustrated." |
| -Val Kilmer, "Real Genius" |
===========================================================================
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
>Photo radar and mailed tickets make no sense at all. Speeding is a moving
>violation, committed by the operator, not the owner. The owner may be a
>rental agency, a dealer, a private party, or a government agency. As long
>as the owner has no reason to expect the operator will be driving illegally
>or unsafely, the owner cannot be held responsible for what the operator does.
>The car may even have been driven without the owner's knowledge or consent.
>I can't believe a mailed ticket, where the driver is not identified, would
>stand up in court. This is obviously a lazy, cynical, boneheaded, fascist
>way to extort revenue, and has nothing to do with public safety.
>- BK
What do photo radar units look like? Also, what major U.S. cities use it?
>Jon Dunn<
| 7rec.autos |
How is the CMOS backed-up? Dry cell batteries or ni-cad cell?
Your batteries may be dead.
mwallack@kean.ucs.mun.ca (mwallack@kean.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
: A friend's computer recently failed to recognize its hard drive.
: On examination it was discovered that the CMOS had lost all data.
: No other problems were discovered. When the CMOS was restored,
: everything appeared to work as before. This all happened after
: a long period of stable operation. The most recent change had
: been the addition of a second hard drive as a slave. Qemm had
: been installed along with DeskView for quite a while. Any ideas?
: The computer is a 386dx with 8megs of ram, an ATI Wonder xl card, and is
: about a year and a half old.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
In article <5APR199313263142@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> doctor8@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Jason Abner Miller) writes:
>Orioles vs. Texas at Camden Yards, April 5, Opening Day:
>
>Batting 9th for Texas, playing Second Base:
>
> BILLY ... RIPKEN
>
>The hometown crowd gave their favorite ex-2nd Baseman a 2-minute standing
>ovation as Billy, wearing flashy shades, took the cheers smiling and
>waving.
>
> "Consummate role player" (in the words of P.A. caller Jon Miller)
>Tim Hulett failed to receive similar cheers when announced. Mainly because
>he didn't have the courtesy to show up.
Wasn't Hulett injured yesterday after being hit in the face with a ball
while running bases? I heard something about him recieving stiches and a
possible broken nose. Is he at the park?
> Fernando was warmly received, good to see that.
Let's see how they feel when he's 0 and 4 with a 4.9 ERA. I have my
doubts about Fernando.
> F.Y.I, when Cal was announced, Jon Miller says:
> "It seems like yesterday when this young man...began a consecutive
>game streak ... 10-time All-Star, 2 time MVP, 2 time gold glover, our
>future Hall of Fame shortsop, batting 3rd, Cal Ripken". The Standing O
>lasted about 15 seconds. 1:45 less than Billy. Blargh.
Well, when a fan favorite gets dumped, he's gonna get an outstanding
ovation on his first return. Let's add up the ovations Cal has recieved
over the years during the game and compare that to Billy.
BTW, Sutcliffe's getting knocked around pretty good. Rangers up 5 - 1 in
the bottom of the fourth.
--Rob
| 9rec.sport.baseball |
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