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From: cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Dances With Federal Rangers) Subject: Re: Misc./buying info. needed Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 28 In article <1993Apr18.160449.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> jyaruss@hamp.hampshire.edu writes: >Is there a buying guide for new/used motorcycles (that lists reliability, how >to go about the buying process, what to look for, etc...)? _Cycle World_ puts one out, but I'm sure it's not very objective. Try talking with dealers and the people that hang out there, as well as us. We love to give advice. >Is there a pricing guide for new/used motorcycles (Blue Book)? Most of the bigger banks have a blue book which includes motos -- ask for the one with RVs in it. >Are there any books/articles on riding cross country, motorcycle camping, etc? Couldn't help you here. >Is there an idiots' guide to motorcycles? You're reading it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Cliff Weston DoD# 0598 '92 Seca II (Tem) | | | | "the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body | | is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day." | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2001
From: reedr@cgsvax.claremont.edu Subject: Re: DID HE REALLY RISE??? Organization: The Claremont Graduate School Lines: 9 In article <Apr.21.03.24.13.1993.1268@geneva.rutgers.edu>, gt7122b@prism.gatech.edu (boundary) writes: >[Anecedotal material which ultimately shows that...] > but from my experience, > the modern Jew is not known for his proselytism. A Rabbi once told me that theres is a talmudic tradition that someone who wanted to convert to Judaism was to be turned away three times. If they continue then they were accepted.
2002
From: er1@eridan.chuvashia.su (Yarabayeva Albina Nikolayevna) Subject: FOR SALE:high-guality conifer oil from Russia,$450/ton;400 ton Reply-To: er1@eridan.chuvashia.su Distribution: eunet Organization: Firm ERIDAN Lines: 1 Inguiry by address:er1@eridan.chuvashia.su
2003
From: wynblatt@sbgrad5.cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Wynblatt) Subject: Re: TIGERS Keywords: Tigers Nntp-Posting-Host: sbgrad5 Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 15 In article <93104.100921RK0VSANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> Ryan Kearns <RK0VSANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes: >I think that the Detroit Tigers are the greatest baseball organization of all >time. ... [shameless woofing deleted] On behalf of the rest of us Tiger fans out here, I appoligize for this shameless woofing. We try to keep it to a minimum, but we did WIN A GAME the other day, so sometimes it's hard to control. see: Phillies Fans :-) Michael
2004
From: sdexter@shl.com (Scott Dexter) Subject: Isuzu Amigo opinions wanted.... Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. Lines: 27 Distribution: usa NNTP-Posting-Host: technet1.shl.com Is there anyone out there in NetLand that has/has had one of these? Can someone give me a non-Consumer Reports review (or point me to a source) ??? Thanks Scott ----------------------- sdexter@ucrengr.ucr.edu Computer Science Undergraduate, University of California, Riverside Internet : 138.23.166.21 sdexter@technet1.shl.com Facilities Engineer, SHL SystemHouse, Inc. ,Technology Network Internet : 192.75.61.2 " You say its gonna happen "now" What exactly do you mean? You see I've already waited too long, And all my hope is gone " - The Smiths
2005
From: YTKIM@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (YONG T KIM) Subject: WINNLS.DLL? Organization: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST Lines: 7 Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: deimos.ucs.umass.edu X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24 I tried to install a foreign language Windows application that required a file named WINNLS.DLL. I checked all of my WIndows 3.1 installation disks for this file, but could not find it. Does anybody have any idea what this file is for and where one could get it from?
2006
From: ervan@rice.edu (Ervan Darnell) Subject: Re: Limiting Govt (was Re: Employment (was Re: Why not concentrate...) Originator: ervan@dawn.cs.rice.edu Reply-To: ervan@rice.edu (Ervan Darnell) Organization: Rice University Lines: 35 In article <1993Apr18.172531.10946@isc-br.isc-br.com>, steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks) writes: |> In article <16APR199317110543@rigel.tamu.edu> gmw0622@rigel.tamu.edu (Mr. Grinch) writes: |> >In article <1993Apr15.170731.8797@isc-br.isc-br.com>, steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks) writes... |> [.....] |> Of course, one again faces the question of how one circumscribes government |> power (and keeps it circumscribed) in a complex society when it is in the |> interest of neither capitalists nor consumers to refrain from using |> government power for their own ends. But apart from that little |> conundrum... This is a difficult problem for which there is no obviously good solution. One approach is simply to try and move political opinion and hope a new more libertarian consensus lasts for a while. Another approach is to try and amend the constitution. The original constitution restrained the U.S. government from economic intervention for 100 to 150 years, depending on just how one wants to count it. The First Amendment, though weakened in many ways, still restrains government (particularly state and local), even though on many particular issues the majority is in favor of censorship. I think libertarians would be happy with another 100 years of restraint via an amendment or two (not that I think that's likely to happen). Not necessarily Mr. Hendricks, but other posters seem to see this as a problem with libertarianism, that it cannot be stable. That might be true, but it is not an objection to libertarianism per se. If a libertarian political consensus forms for a decade or two and then falls apart again, we would just be back where we are now. This is unlike the case for socialism where a socialist consensus that held for a while and then fell apart would not leave us where we are now, but instead with lots of bureaucracy that would be hard to get rid of, if not tyranny as the end condition of a strong socialist consensus. -- Ervan Darnell ervan@cs.rice.edu
2007
From: C.L.Gannon@newcastle.ac.uk (Space Cadet) Subject: Re: To be exact, 2.5 million readers enlightened by Serdar Argic Nntp-Posting-Host: evenwood Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU. Lines: dog Andrew Varvel writes: > > > Serdar Argic >(a.k.a. Serdar Argic, The Merciful and Compassionate) writes: > >[Serdar Argic's bountiful, divine, all-knowing, and footnoted >wisdom is regrettably omitted for this solemn tribute.] > > >WHERE CAN I JOIN THE SERDAR ARGIC FAN CLUB? DO I GET A T-SHIRT? > >--The Friendly Neighborhood Alien-- > >Life just hasn't been the same since David Koresh died... ah c'mon, give the guy three days and see what comes up. LEO *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* | DISCLAIMER: it wasn't me, honest, | email: | it was him, he made me do it!! | C.L.Gannon@newcastle.ac.uk *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
2008
From: hhm@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (herschel.h.mayo) Subject: Re: BRAINDEAD Drivers Who Don't Look Ahead-- Organization: Chicago Home for the Morally Challenged Distribution: usa Keywords: bad drivers Lines: 29 In article <zdem0a.734809554@hgo7>, zdem0a@hgo7.hou.amoco.com (Donna Martz) writes: > >So, I block the would-be passers. Not only for my own good , > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >but theirs as well even though they are often too stupid to realize it. > !!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !!! > >As a rule of philosophy, I don't feel particularly sorry when somebody gets > >offed by his own stupidity, but It does worry me when some idiot is in a > >position to cash in my chips, too. > > H.H. Mayo > > Well, Aren't we just Mr. Altruism himself!! Just what the world needs, > another frustrated self appointed traffic cop. Well, if you want to stick the nose of your car up the ass of a 50 foot semi, I suppose it's your neck, however, I'm not going to let you kill me in the bargain. If you get frustrated by somebody delaying your inevitable death due to less that wise driving practices, then TOUGH!!! "Thank God for the Fourth of July, for it yearly rids the earth of a considerable load of fools" Mark Twain
2009
From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng) Subject: Re: Fifth Amendment and Passwords Organization: Private Computer, Totowa, NJ Lines: 21 In article <1993Apr16.165423.27204@linus.mitre.org: ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes: :Judge: "I grant you immunity from whatever may be learned from the key : itself" :You: "The keyphrase is: "I confess to deliberately evading copyright; : the file encoded with this keyphrase contains illegal scans of : copyrighted Peanuts strips."" :Judge and CP: "Oh." : How will they get you now? I'm not saying that they won't, or :can't (or even that they shouldn't :-), but what legal mechanism will :they use? Should we be crossposting this to misc.legal? Hm, could another court try you via a bypass of the double jeopardy amendment like they are doing in the LAPD trial? Ie your judge is a state judge, and then a federal judge retries you under the justification that its not the same trail. -- Kenneth Ng Please reply to ken@blue.njit.edu for now. "All this might be an elaborate simulation running in a little device sitting on someone's table" -- J.L. Picard: ST:TNG
2010
Organization: University of Notre Dame - Office of Univ. Computing From: <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> Subject: Re: Boog Powell (was re: CAMDEN YARDS) <1993Apr13.150904.25249@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> Lines: 9 In article <1993Apr13.150904.25249@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, Mark B. says: > > Was he better than Balboni? > this borders on blasphemy. bob vesterman.
2011
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario Nntp-Posting-Host: valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca Lines: 34 In article <wayne.02uv@amtower.spacecoast.org> wayne@amtower.spacecoast.orgX-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith writes: >> but I still want to know why it intrinsically better >> (than IDE, on an ISA bus) when it comes to multi-tasking OS's when >> managing data from a single SCSI hard drive. > >A SCSI controller that transfers data by DMA allows the cpu to request data >from the hard drive and continue working while the controller gets the data >and moves it to memory. IDE also uses DMA techniques. I believe floppy controller also uses DMA, and most A/D boards also use DMA. DMA is no big deal, and has nothing to do directly with SCSI. > For example, when rewinding or formatting a tape, the command is >issued to the controller and the bus is released to allow access to other >devices on the bus. This greatly increases productivity or, at least, do >something else while backing up your hard drive :-). Which happens to be >what I am doing while reading this group. You can thank your software for that. If DOS had a few more brains, it could format floppies etc. while you were doing something else. The hardware will support it, but DOS (at least) won't. Again, this has nothing to do with SCSI. >Its a long story, but I still use IDE on my 486 except for the CDROM which, >thanks to SCSI, I can move between both machines. If, and when, SCSI is >better standardized and supported on the ibm-clone machines, I plan to >completely get rid of IDE. And if you stick with DOS you'll wonder why you can't multitask. Again I ask why can't a UNIX or OS/2 type OS do all the miraculous things with an IDE harddrive that it can with a (single) SCSI hard drive.
2012
From: hall@vice (Hal F Lillywhite;627-3877;59-360;LP=A;YApG) Subject: Re: Help Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or. Lines: 73 In article <Apr.21.03.26.51.1993.1379@geneva.rutgers.edu> lmvec@westminster.ac.uk (William Hargreaves) writes: > I'm a commited Christian that is battling with a problem. I know >that romans talks about how we are saved by our faith not our deeds, yet >hebrews and james say that faith without deeds is useless, saying' You fools, >do you still think that just believing is enough?' Actually I don't think there is any conflict if we really understand what these passages say. First, what is faith? If you study the meaning of the Greek and Hebrew words so translated I think you will come to the conclusion that the word means a *lot* more than mere belief. Faith means both trust and action. If you do not put your belief into action it simply cannot qualify as faith. I think this is what James means when he says that "faith without works is dead" and, "I will show you my faith by my works." Remember James was writing to "the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad." This probably means he was writing to those who would hear the gospel much later and wouldn't understand the meaning of the original Greek. (Indeed I suspect James was writing to us, today, among others he intended to reach.) Paul, on the other hand wrote mostly to the people of the Roman empire who generally understood the meaning of the Greek. Another key to why there is no conflict is to look at Paul's statements in their context. I think you will find that when Paul contrasts faith and works it is in the context of comparing the gospel with the Law, meaning the Law of Moses. This was the great burden of Paul's life. As the apostle to the Gentiles he would go convert a bunch of people, then the "Judizers" would come along and try to convince them that they also had to obey the Law of Moses (cf Acts chapter 15). In this context Paul condemns the idea of being saved by the works of the Law, saying that we are saved by the blood of Jesus and our faith in him. I believe that a better translation for today would be that we are saved by *faithfulness*. I think "faithfulness" today has a meaning closer to what the original writers intended. >Now if someone is fully believing but there life is totally lead by themselves >and not by God, according to Romans that person is still saved by there faith. I think you misunderstand Romans. What Paul is really saying is that God prefers a faithful Gentile who does not "keep kosher" to a kosher Jew who fails to stay faithful in the more important matters of following the Lord and having charity toward his fellows. >But then there is the bit which says that God preferes someone who is cold to >him (i.e. doesn't know him - condemned) so a lukewarm Christian someone who >knows and believes in God but doesn't make any attempt to live by the bible. In the sense of faith described above, you cannot have real faith and be lukewarm. If you know God but are lukewarm (unfaithful), you are worse off than the person who never heard of Him. Remember, Jesus in the parable of the pearl of great price (Mat 13:45-46) and again in the one on the treasure hidden in the field (Mat 13:44) indicates that the price of the Kingdom of God is *all* we have. [I agree with you in general, including the fact that "pistis" has some of the force of "faithful". However if you take that too far, you can end up with something that Paul definitely would not have intended. Being faithful means following God in all things. To say that we are saved by being faithful is very close to saying that we are saved by commiting no sins. I assume that's not what you meant. I have almost given up on finding a specific verbal formula that completely captures this. However I think Paul is describing what I'd call a basic orientation, including aspects such as trust and commitment. Jesus speaks of it as rebirth, which implies a basic change. We may still do things that are sinful, and may fail to show the new life in Christ in many situations where we should. But in any Christian there had better be the basic change in orientation that Jesus calls being born again. --clh]
2013
From: bassili@cs.arizona.edu (Amgad Z. Bassili) Subject: Copt-Net Newsletter[4] Lines: 18 This is to let you know that the fourth issue of the Copt-Net Newsletter has been issued. The highlights of this issue include: 1. Easter Greating: Christ is risen; Truly he is risen! 2. The Holy Family in Egypt (part 1) 3. Anba Abraam, the Friend of the Poor (part 4) 4. A review of the Coptic Encyclopedia 5. A new Dictionary of the Coptic Language This Newsletter has been prepared by members of Copt-Net, a forum where news, activities, and services of the Coptic Orthodox Churches and Coptic communities outside Egypt are coordinated and exchanged. If you want your name to be included in the mailing list, or have any questions please contact Nabil Ayoub at <ayoub@erctitan.me.wisc.edu>. Copt-Net Editorial Board
2014
From: tjo@scr.siemens.com (Tom Ostrand) Subject: Radio for Toyota Tercel Keywords: radio,Tercel,replacement Nntp-Posting-Host: bugatti.siemens.com Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ Lines: 19 I'm looking for a replacement radio/tape player for a 1984 Toyota Tercel. Standard off-the-shelf unit is fine, but every place I've gone to (Service Merchandise, etc.) doesn't have my car in its model application book. I want to just take out the old radio, and slide in the new, with minimal time spent hooking it up and adjusting the dashboard. If you have put in a new unit in a similar car, I'd like to hear what brand, how easy it was to do the change, and any other relevant information. Please answer via E-mail. Thanks, Tom Ostrand -- Tom Ostrand E-mail: tjo@scr.siemens.com Siemens Corporate Research Phone: 609-734-6569 755 College Road East FAX: 609-734-6565 Princeton, NJ 08540-6668
2015
From: jplee@cymbal.calpoly.edu (JASON LEE) Subject: Re: Ryan out for 2-5 weeks!! Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lines: 12 And then cs1442aq@news.uta.edu (cs1442aq) quoth: >Nolan Ryan has torn cartlidge inhis right knee. Is having surgery and >is expected to miss 2-5 weeks. That's too bad. I really had hoped Nolan could end his career with a great year. I suppose there is still hope. -- Jason Lee jplee@oboe.calpoly.edu jlee@cash.busfac.calpoly.edu Giants e ^ i*pi + 1 = 0 The most beautiful equation in mathematics. Magic For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: Number: "It might have been." John Greenleaf Whittier 155
2016
From: gjp@sei.cmu.edu (George Pandelios) Subject: Re: HELP: Need DIAGNOSTIC DISK for my COMPAQ DESKPRO 286. Organization: The Software Engineering Institute Lines: 29 In article <Apr.11.20.16.21.1993.26848@clam.rutgers.edu>, steuer@clam.rutgers.edu (robert Steuer) writes: |> My emergency management group was given about 30 COMPAQ DESKPRO 286's |> from a local company as they were outdated. Problem is though, it |> seems that the CMOS settings cannot be set without this Diagnostic |> Disk. |> We get this error msg on boot up: |> 162-System Options Not Set-(Run Setup) |> Insert DIAGNOSTIC diskette in Drive A: |> |> If someone has this disk, please e-mail me. Thank You! |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> | Robert M. Steuer Amateur Radio: KF2EK@N3FOA.#EPA.PA.USA.NA | |> | Rutgers University Internet: steuer@clam.rutgers.edu | |> | VHF Repeater System Cherry Hill, NJ - KF2EK Repeater 145.370MHz | |> | Computer Operating System OS/2 2.0 - Why settle for less? | |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert, You have probably solved your problem by now. Anyway, if you can get your hands on QA Plus (version 4.21, maybe others as well), it will let you write the COMPAQ CMOS settings. I know because I just did it. I was just about to search for such a diagnostic disk when my brother-in-law fixed an old DESKPRO with it. You might try the simtel mirror FTP sites. George
2017
From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Subject: Re: Gritz/JBS/Liberty Lobby/LaRouche/Christic Insitute/Libertarian/.... Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department Lines: 49 In article <1993Apr17.082102.4155@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes: >In article <KCKLUGE.93Apr16155756@krusty.eecs.umich.edu>, kckluge@eecs.umich.edu (Karl Kluge) writes: >> >> ...and I'm sure that people who were big fans of fuedalism pissed and >> moaned about the emergence of the modern nation-state. Imagine, the King >> allowing serfs their freedom if they could live in the city for a year! >> Times change, technology changes, viable forms of social organization >> change. While concerns about preserving Western notions of civil liberties >> in the face of cultures with very different values is a valid one, it's >> a waste of effort to try to turn back the tide. It's much smarter to focus >> on trying to make sure that the emerging forms of social organization are > > Your response is yet another sign of the trend towards One World >Government. Many people such as yourself, who are otherwise probably >likeable and intelligent, show every sign of having been successfully >brainwashed. You don't recognize that your "inevitable tide" is rolling >into chaos and in no way represents an advance for civilization. Some >of us do indeed "lament the passing of old forms", such as the Bill of >Rights, which are indeed inalienable rights of man that cannot be >changed, transferred or surrendered...rights of man that far transcend > > Yes, Napoleon wanted a Grand New Order. Hitler wanted a >Thousand Year Reich. Lenin knew that Bolshevism would give us the >Universal New Man. The New World Order is just so much of the same >old tired garbage. The pathetic part is that so many Americans seem "Put not your trust in princes" is the Biblical proverb. The modern analog is governments. At the time of the founding of the US, the idea that citizens had rights above those of the government was not that common, but was explicit in the writings of the founders. To a considerable extent, Englishmen also had those rights. Yes, times change, and technology changes. The possibility of a few governments enserfing all of mankind was not possible until quite recently. In the feudal system, the lord was almost as restricted as the serfs, so having the people enserf themselves does not make anything better; most feudal lords, and even most slaveowners, did not mistreat those under them. Freedom of speech and freedom of religion are under real attack NOW. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet) {purdue,pur-ee}!snap.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
2018
From: snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols) Subject: Re: Braves Pitching UpdateDIR Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated Lines: 21 In article <1993Apr15.214032.1@acad.drake.edu> sbp002@acad.drake.edu writes: > >> Not clear to me at all. I'd certainly rather have a team who was winning >> 4-1 games than 2-1 games. In the 2-1 game, luck is going to play a much >> bigger role than in the 4-1 game. > >But you still need the pitching staff to hold the opposing team to >one run. Yeah, but what's your point? You still need the offense to score more runs than you allow, too. The Braves do have a fine pitching staff. But that's still only half the game. Sherri Nichols snichols@adobe.com
2019
From: dfield@flute.calpoly.edu (InfoSpunj (Dan Field)) Subject: Can't wear contacts after RK/PRK? Keywords: radial,keratotomy,contact,lenses Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lines: 28 I love the FAQ. The comment about contact lenses not being an option for any remaining correction after RK and possibly after PRK is interresting. Why is this? Does anyone know for sure whether this applies to PRK as well? Also, why is it possible to get a correction in PRK with involvement of only about 5% of the corneal depth, while RK is done to a depth of up to 95%? Why such a difference? I thought the proceedures were simmilar with the exception of a laser being the cutting tool in PRK. I must not be understanding all of the differences. In the FAQ, the vision was considered less clear after the surgery than with glasses alone. If this is completly attributable to the intentional slight undercorrection, then it can be compensated for when necessary with glasses (or contacts, if they CAN be worn afterall!). It is important to know if that is not the case, however, and some other consequence of the surgery would often interfere with clear vision. The first thing that came to my mind was a fogging of the lense, which glasses couldn't help. would not help. -- | Daniel R. Field, AKA InfoSpunj | I'm just a lowly phlebe. | | dfield@oboe.calpoly.edu | | | Biochemistry, Biotechnology | I'm at the phlebottom | | California Polytechnic State U | of the medical totem pole. |
2020
From: mckay@alcor.concordia.ca (John McKay) Subject: Lasers for dermatologists Originator: mckay@alcor.concordia.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: alcor.concordia.ca Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec Lines: 15 Having had limited tinea pedis for more than 30 years, and finding it resistant to ALL creams and powders I have tried, I wonder why dermatologists do not use lasers to destroy the fungus. It would seem likely to be effective and inexpensive. Are there good reasons for not using lasers? I was told that dermatology had not yet reached the laser age. John McKay vax2.concordia.ca -- Deep ideas are simple. Odd groups are even. Even simples are not.
2021
From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) Subject: Re: Schedule... Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) Organization: PhDs In The Hall Lines: 40 mre@teal.Eng.Sun.COM (Mike Eisler) writes: >gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes: >>I can't believe that ESPN is making SportsChannel America look good. > >But only in NY,NJ, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Everywhere else, the only >reason SportsChannel was available was for local baseball broadcasts. Yes, a point well-taken ... however, even in areas that finally got some games, there's something nagging in the back of your skull when the network that has the national rights in its pocket says on its sports news, "There's an awesome overtime going on in Quebec City, and we'll *try* to get you an update through the show ..." when you know that it's on a satellite's feedhorn somewhere up there ... >If people want hockey on TV, they should watch hockey on TV. I bet >the ratings for hockey on Sunday on ABC went into the toilet. From today's Times, ABC got great ratings in Chicago and St. Louis (a 4.2), and the Kings-Flames got a 2.9 on the West Coast, but only a 2.2 in metro New York (i.e., the Devils squandered their newfound support from a year ago when they played the Rangers )-;). In comparison, Seniors Golf did better ... >Next week, there will be far fewer ABC affiliates with hockey. I fear that the overall national numbers will not be so great ... I can't tell if ABC did any advance marketing or not, 'cos I don't watch much TV ... the NHL should have made sure that it was solid on cable before going on the air. Even ESPN could've sold second rights to third party systems (i.e., non-SportsChannel) since they are not making any extra money by sitting on the games ... hockey fans will not necessarily be watching pre-season beach volleyball if playoffs games aren't being shown somewhere ... gld -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Je me souviens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gary L. Dare > gld@columbia.EDU GO Winnipeg Jets GO!!! > gld@cunixc.BITNET Selanne + Domi ==> Stanley
2022
From: pharvey@quack.kfu.com (Paul Harvey) Subject: Ignorance is BLISS, was Is it good that Jesus died? Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. <1993Apr17.010734.23670@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <sandvik-170493104859@sandvik-kent.apple.com> Lines: 7 In article <sandvik-170493104859@sandvik-kent.apple.com> sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes: >Ignorance is not bliss! Ignorance is STRENGTH! Help spread the TRUTH of IGNORANCE!
2023
From: roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby) Subject: Re: BATF/FBI Murders Almost Everyone in Waco Today! 4/19 Nntp-Posting-Host: chopin.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 51 In article <lt8keoINN31v@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix) writes: >In article <C5sIAJ.Ks7@news.udel.edu> roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby) writes: >> >>Why didn't they release the children weeks ago? > >It would have been inconsistent behavior for them to have done so. > >Some people believe that there is more to life than the physical requirements. > >These folks believed that the generally-held standards of the surrounding >community (heck, most of the world) were morally wrong, and letting the >children be abandoned to this (godless/unbelieving) culture would be condeming >them to eternal loss and separation from God. > >By their standards, letting the children go would be abandoning them to a fate >literally worse than death. > >The FBI (and BATF and media) people working on the issue, I suspect, >just couldn't get their heads into a similar-enough (to say nothing of >identical) mode of thinking to realize what they were doing. > >Physically, there was no reason why the BD's shouldn't have given up and come >out a long time ago. > >From the point of view of the BD's, they were up against the wall and had nowhere >to go at all. > >They apparently really did love their kids too much to abandon them to a godless >bunch of outsiders...although the end result was horribly twisted. > >I didn't say the BD's were right, I just said that that's the way they perceived >it. > >Koresh was a nutcase, and a bunch of other people paid for that. > >And the FBI and BATF miscalculated and misunderstood what was going on from the >word go. Very likely possible. Reminds me of the movie "The Rapture". > >-- >------------------------------------------------------- >| Some things are too important not to give away | >| to everybody else and have none left for yourself. | >|------------------------ Dieter the car salesman-----| --
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From: mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel McCoy) Subject: R4 Version of xrecplay Reply-To: mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov Organization: I-NET Inc. Lines: 14 I have and use xrecplay for X11R5. Does one exist for X11R4??? I have tried to contact one of the developers, Eric Swildens, at ess@hal.com but he is no longer there and has no forwarding email address. Archie is no help either. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --- Daniel J. McCoy |=> SPACE <=| I-NET, Inc. NASA Mail Code PT4 |=> IS <=| TEL: 713-483-0950 NASA/Johnson Space Center |=> OUR <=| FAX: 713-244-5698 Houston, Texas 77058 |=> FUTURE <=| mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
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From: schauf@iastate.edu (Brian J Schaufenbuel) Subject: Re: HINT 486 VLB/ISA/EISA motherboard Keywords: 486, motherboard Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA Distribution: usa Lines: 36 In article <id.XNFZ.VJ8@nmti.com> korenek@nmti.com (gary korenek) writes: >In article <C5ovwv.LMo@news.iastate.edu> schauf@iastate.edu (Brian J Schaufenbuel) writes: >>I am looking at buying some Companion brand VLB/ISA/EISA motherboards with >>HINT chipsets. Has anybody had any experience with this board (good or bad)? >>Any information would be helpful! >>thanks >>Brian J Schaufenbuel > > >I believe that any VL/EISA/ISA motherboard that uses the HINT chipset >is limited to 24-bit EISA DMA (where 'real' EISA DMA is 32-bit). The >HINT EISA DMA has the 16 mb ram addressing limitation of ISA. For this >reason I would pass. I own one of these (HAWK VL/EISA/ISA) and am look- >ing to replace it for exactly this reason. > >Please double-check me on this. In other words, call the motherboard >manufacturer and ask them if the motherboard supports true 32-bit EISA >DMA. > >Other than this limitation, the motherboard works quite well (I am using >mine with DOS 5, Windows 3.1, and UNIX S5R3.2). Also with Adaptec 1742a >EISA SCSI host adapter. > >-- >Gary Korenek (korenek@nmti.com) >Network Management Technology Incorporated >Sugar Land, Texas (713) 274-5357 You are correct! The motherboard manufacturer where I usually buy boards says that they will have this problem fixed in about two weeks... -- _______________________________________- Brian Schaufenbuel____________________ | Brian J Schaufenbuel [ "There is no art which one government sooner learns ] | Helser 3644 Halsted [ than that of draining money from the pockets of the ] | Ames, Ia 50012 [ people [especially college students]." - Adam Smith ]
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From: bday@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Brian Day) Subject: Re: 8051 Microcontroller Organization: NASA/MSFC Lines: 12 mcole@spock (COLE) writes: >I would like to experiment with the INTEL 8051 family. Does anyone out >there know of any good FTP sites that might have compiliers, assemblers, >etc.? Try lyman.pppl.gov -- /pub/8051 -- Brian Day bday@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov New Technology, Inc. (205) 461-4584 Mission Software Development Division Opinions are my own -
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From: mblock@reed.edu (Matt Block) Subject: Re: How to the disks copy protected. Article-I.D.: reed.1993Apr20.230749.12821 Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 36 In article <sehari.735331566@marge.ecss.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes: >--- > >I was wondering, what copy protection techniques are avaliable, and how >effective are they? Has anyone have any experience in this area? > > With highest regards, > Babak Sehari. Uh oh... Umm, there are a number of copy protection schemes. Some involve modifying the physical media, and some involve encryption schemes, &c. All of the ones that have existed over the course of computing have been successful for a time. I recall, however, near monthly releases of new ways to "crack" the copy protection scheme of the latest releases. The fact is, none of them are completely secure, or anywhere near it. Some are more or less difficult to crack, and some have already been cracked. I guess what I am saying is that your question is difficult, if not impossible, to answer. What exactly do you want to know? Do you need a good one for a project you are working on? How secure must it be? Are you trying to crack one that someone else has used? I can probably make suggestions, assuming the activity is strictly legal. (In general, it is a BAD idea, legally, to tamper with copy protection. It can also lead to corruption of files which you necessarily do not have back ups of (being as they are copy protected,) which can be devestating.) Do you have absolutely no ideas for practical applications, and are merely curious? Please clear up those questions, and I'll try to help as much as I can. Incidentally, the "Uh oh..." at the top is indicative of the dread anyone who has watched their friends hacking equipment be carted off feels when they are asked how to hack. The area you are broaching is wrought with dangers, many of which include breaking the law, or at least addressing it (from one side or the other.) Matt
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From: radley@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Keith Radley) Subject: Electronics Summary: here they are Nntp-Posting-Host: gibbs.oit.unc.edu Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Distribution: usa Lines: 20 Panasonic KX-T3000H, Combo black cordless & speaker phone all in one. new- $160, now- $100 + shipping OBO. Curtis Mathes VHS VCR Remote included and it works with universal remotes. Works great but I replaced it with a Stereo VCR. paid $300 years ago, will sell for $125 delivered OBO. Radio Shack stereo amp. 2 inputs, tone, and left and right volume. Speakers not included. $20 plus shipping. If you are interested in either of the above mail me at radley@gibbs.out.unc.edu. _ _ // Major: Computer Science /<eith Radley \\// Minor: English Radley@gibbs.oit.unc.edu \/ Computer: AMIGA 3000 University of North Carolina
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From: (Sean Garrison) Subject: Re: Fenway Gif Nntp-Posting-Host: berkeley-kstar-node.net.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Lines: 11 I'd love to see a Shea Stadium gif. -Sean ******************************************************************************* "Behind the bag!" - Vin Scully *******************************************************************************
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From: aa229@Freenet.carleton.ca (Steve Birnbaum) Subject: Re: rejoinder. Questions to Israelis Reply-To: aa229@Freenet.carleton.ca (Steve Birnbaum) Organization: The National Capital Freenet Lines: 71 In a previous article, cpr@igc.apc.org (Center for Policy Research) says: >6. Your answer to the question concerning rights to return >conflicts with what I was told, namely that hundreds of thousands >of non-Jews who left for some reason or other the area under >Israel control during the war of 1947-8, were prevented from >returning for the sole reason they were not Jews. Jews who also >left, for example to Europe, to avoid the clashes, were allowed to >return. How can you justify such discrimination, if this is true ? >Is the mere fact of a person leaving area of combat to seek refuge >somewhere else a reason for stripping him of his right to live in >his homeland ? You are conveniently ommitting the fact that the Arab governments told the Arab citizens of Israel to leave Israel, join with the Arab armies so that after what they felt like an assured victory occured, these Arabs could return to their former homes, reclaim them as well as anything else they wanted that belonged to Jews. When the Arabs lost, Israel was left with a bunch of people who has just tried to kill them who now wanted back into the country as citizens. What would you have done? Let them in so they could kill Jews? Israel sees those Arabs who stayed as citizens because they were loyal to Israel during the war and didn't leave. Of course some Arabs could have left to avoid the fighting but distinguishing between the two is impossible. Therefore a decision was made based on secuturity of the country. >8. You maintain that there are some Israeli Arabs living in >Israeli kibbutzim. I wonder how many and where. There is very >little evidence available about that. As much as I know, many >Arabs are working *for* kibbutzim, even for many years, but are >not accepted as members. Could it be that kibbutzim do not want >Arabs ? No kibbutz that I have ever visited has any "employees" unless they had to hire some people for the restaurants, hotels etc if there weren't enough people ON the kibbutz to do them. In such cases, they are paid properly. If a kibbutz turns away an Arab, 9I have never seen or heard of this) but it reflects only on the membership comittee of that kibbutz, not the whole kibbutz movement. >to keep it what way'. I am certain that if only religious >communities in the U.S. would be asked, they would gladly abolish >civil marriage so that people would depend upon rabbis and priests >to officiate marriages. But Israel has always been ruled by a >secular majority. Your answer is not satisfactory. This just shows how ignorant you are of Israeli politics. Although the major parties in Israel aren't religious (however not totally secular), due to the format of the government (coalition) the religious parties have always had a lot of pull since they were needed to form a majority coalition. In fact, from what I heard the present government is the least influenced by the religious parties in the existance of Israel. Israel CANNOT be called a secular state. For instace, Haifa is the only city in the country (except for maybe some Arab cities) where buses run on the Jewish Sabbath. There are many other examples of religion in Israel. Marriages in Israel are NOT contolled by the state, but by Rabbis and Priests. Obviously your disbelief of this fact sheds some light of your ignorance of the country you claim to know so much about. Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Internet: aa229@freenet.carleton.ca Fidonet: 1:163/109.18 | | Mossad@qube.ocunix.on.ca | | <<My opinions are not associated with anything, including my head.>> |
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Organization: City University of New York From: <F36SI@CUNYVM.BITNET> Subject: Re: Karadzic on Bosnia peace plan Lines: 2 What does anyone think that Judge Wopner would do if Karadzic was on trial before him? (Nevah happen, but just a thought...)
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From: shah@pitt.edu (Ravindra S Shah) Subject: Re: Nords 3 - Habs 2 in O.T. We was robbed!! Lines: 23 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Deepak Chhabra (dchhabra@stpl.ists.ca) wrote: : Speaking of great players, man-oh-man can Quebec skate. I haven't seen a : team so potent on the rush in a long time. Watching them break out of their : zone, especially Sundin, is a treat to watch. They remind me of the Red : Army. : dchhabra@stpl.ists.ca (pissed-off Habs fan) Yeah, the Nords look like they're going to be good...but (excuse the bias) have you ever watched the Pens on a rush?...Don't answer: everyone has seen this footage. Near the end of the season when the Pens played the Nords it was like watching a (younger) double of the Pens. ...The Nords looked good right up to the point when they lost. -- Ravi Shah shah+@pitt.edu "La mu'sica ideas portara' approx. translation: "Music will bring ideas y siempre continuara' and will continue forever sonido electro'nico electronic sound decibel sinte'tico" -Musique non stop- synthetic decibel" -Kraftwerk
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From: davewood@bruno.cs.colorado.edu (David Rex Wood) Subject: Calling a library which creates widgets (multiple times) Nntp-Posting-Host: bruno.cs.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 91 A few days ago I posted a question about trying to call a function which set up an X app multiple times. It was pointed out that XtAppInitialize() should never be called more than once. This helped. However, I am still having some problems. Below is a new little test program that more closely models my real program. In the actual program, I am writing a library, callable from any other program. This means that the first time the lib function is called, it must initialize things, and after that, it should just use the old stuff (still around because of static variables). In the demo below, main() represents the main program calling my library and doit() represents the interface to the library function. #include <X11/Xlib.h> #include <Xm/Xm.h> #include <Xm/PushB.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> void bla(XtAppContext app, Widget top) { Widget topone = top; // in real prog, these are member vars XtAppContext theapp = app; // of a class int junk = 0; Display *dis = XtOpenDisplay(theapp, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, &junk, NULL); Widget box = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("blaaa", xmPushButtonWidgetClass, topone, XmNheight, 50, XmNwidth, 50, NULL); XtRealizeWidget(topone); for (int i=0;i<=25;i++) // real prog returns when "Exit" button clicked { XEvent event; XtAppNextEvent(theapp, &event); XtDispatchEvent(&event); } XtDestroyWidget(box); XtCloseDisplay(dis); } // SetItUp - should be called once only void SetItUp(XtAppContext *app, Widget *top) { int junk = 0; (*top)=XtAppInitialize (app, "test", NULL, 0, &junk, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0); } // doit - some library function callable from the outside void doit() { static XtAppContext app; // use these every time called static Widget top; static int setup = 0; if (!setup) { SetItUp(&app, &top); setup = 1; } bla(app, top); } // main - program which links to my library main() { for (int i=0;i<=20;i++) { doit(); printf("sleeping...\n");//widget still on screen at this point sleep(5); } } The problem is that the widget does not go away until the new one is created. (It is still on the screen -- unusuable -- during the "sleep" in the main prog, despite the XtDestroyWidget call). Anyone see something I'm missing? Thanks very much. (Please respond via email) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Rex Wood -- davewood@cs.colorado.edu -- University of Colorado at Boulder -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: ak296@yfn.ysu.edu (John R. Daker) Subject: Re: Shaft-drives and Wheelies Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH Lines: 15 Reply-To: ak296@yfn.ysu.edu (John R. Daker) NNTP-Posting-Host: yfn.ysu.edu In a previous article, xlyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu () says: Mike Terry asks: >Is it possible to do a "wheelie" on a motorcycle with shaft-drive? > No Mike. It is imposible due to the shaft effect. The centripital effects of the rotating shaft counteract any tendency for the front wheel to lift off the ground. -- DoD #650<----------------------------------------------------------->DarkMan The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein ___________________The Eternal Champion_________________
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From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon Wätte) Subject: Re: Interesting ADB behaviour on C650 Nntp-Posting-Host: hemul.nada.kth.se Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 23 In <1993Apr16.091202.15500@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes: >I have heard of no such warnings from anybody at Apple. Just to be sure, I >asked a couple of our technicians, one of whom has been servicing Macs for >years. There is *no* danger of damaging logic boards by plugging and unplugging >ADB devices with the power on. The problem is that the pins in the ADB connector are close to each other, and if you happen to bend the cable a little while inserting it, you short the ADB port. If you take it to an Apple Repair Centre, that means a new motherboard (though a component replace IS physically possible) Same goes for serial ports (LocalTalk as well) Cheers, / h+ -- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe -- This article printed on 100% recycled electrons.
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From: kxn3796@hertz.njit.edu (Ken Nakata CIS stnt) Subject: Re: Help with SIMMs Keywords: SIMM questions answers Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J. Lines: 53 Nntp-Posting-Host: hertz.njit.edu In article <C5Fu1u.pxx@austin.ibm.com> guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) writes: > >In article <10998@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>, jjctc@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (James C. Tsiao) writes: >> In article <1993Apr12.172751.27270@fct.unl.pt> fcm@diana.fct.unl.pt (Fernando Correia Martins (MEI 1)) writes: >> >Spectre (spectre@nmt.edu) wrote: >> >: When I look at a magazine ad that says: [deleted] >> >: what exactly do the numbers mean? (i.e. which is the MB, ns...) >> > >> >The numbers 60, 70 and 80 refers to nanoseconds. Could someone explain >> >*exactly* what this numbers means? (Time spent bettwen processor's request >> >and answer retrieved (in case of reading)? ) >> >> It means the time required for the memory to refresh, i.e. a 1x9-60 >> needs 60ns before it is ready to be read again. > >Nope! It's the time taken to read data from memory. It's the read time. >The memory will still have to be refreshed. The whole phase is called >a cycle, the cycle time being about twice the access time. I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding your post, but DRAM *does not* have to be refreshed on *each access cycle*. So cycle time does *not* have to be twice the access time *because of refresh phase*. The access time usually means the delay time from falling edge of raw address strobe (RAS) to data bus driven. DRAM access cycle timing chart can be roughly shown as following (some signals are intentionally omitted); ADDR --<RA><CA>-------<RA><CA>--------- RA=Raw Address, CA=Column Address RAS ~~~~\________/~~~~~\________/~~~~~ ~=High, _=Low, -=Floating CAS ~~~~~~~\_______/~~~~~~\_______/~~~ <..>=driven either H or L DATA ---------<VALID>--------<VALID>--- |-------+------| |-+--| | | +----------- cycle time +---- access time (or RAS access time) Yes, the cycle time is more than twice as the access time but *not* because of the refresh phase. The refresh can be done either as a trailing phase of normal access cycle or as an individual cycle. > [other stuff deleted] > Ken Nakata -- /* I apologize if there are incorrect, rude, and/or impolite expressions in this mail or post. They are not intended. Please consider that English is a second language for me and I don't have full understanding of certain words or each nuance of a phrase. Thank you. -- Ken Nakata, CIS student, NJIT */
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From: zappala@pollux.usc.edu (Daniel Zappala) Subject: Angels win! Article-I.D.: pollux.1psvouINNa2l Distribution: world Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 6 NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu The Angels won their home opener against the Brewers today before 33,000+ at Anaheim Stadium, 3-1 on a 3-hitter by Mark Langston. J.T. Snow and Gary Discarcina hit home runs for the Angels. Daniel
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From: bharper@cimlinc.uucp (Brett Harper) Subject: GUI Application Frameworks for Windows ?? Organization: CIMLINC, Inc. - Engineering Lines: 63 Hello, I'm investigating the purchase of an Object Oriented Application Framework. I have come across a few that look good: Zapp 1.1 from Inmark Zinc 3.5 from Zinc software C++/Views from Liant Win++ from Blaise Some considerations I'm using: Being new to Windows programming (I'm from the UNIX/X world), the quality and intuitivness of the abstraction that these class libraries provide is very important. However, since I'm not adverse to learning the internals of Windows programming, the new programming methodology should be closely aligned with the native one. I don't believe arbitrary levels of abstraction, just for the sake of changing the API, are valuable. Since we will be developing for the 32bit Windows NT system the memory management issues and issues particular to the Windows 3.1 API are less important. We will probably buy another C++ class library (something like Tools.h++ or Booch components from Rational) to handle data structures and other miscellaneous stuff (allocators etc...). So those features are not that important for this toolkit to have. The two that I have narrowed it down to are ZApp and Zinc, they seem to be the two toolkits that have received the most attention from the media. I was wondering if anyone had any first-hand experience with any of these toolkits (especially ZApp and Zinc). A couple of observations about these toolkits that seem particularly noteworthy are: ZApp ---- Seems to have the most extensive coverage of Windows functionality and also includes some other miscellaneous useful classes. Has new fancy 3D-style controls available, and support for custom controls. Has a Windows NT version (Essential) Redirectable graphics display/output architecture (useful for printing) Sizer class for automatically managing control layout after resize. Seems to be the newcomer, this could be an advantage in designing a better system. Zinc ---- Has a platform independent resource strategy. (Not too important for me right now) Comes with a interface builder tool Has a Windows NT version (Essential) Seems to have been around longer (more mature), but grew up out of a DOS version. Had a better demo :-) Both have source code availability options Both are lacking OLE support Neither seem to have any particular support for multimedia type stuff Any thoughts anyone has on this would be much appreciated, Thanks, Brett Harper brett.harper@cimlinc.com
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From: smk5@quads.uchicago.edu (Steve Kramarsky) Subject: Re: Keeping Your Mouth Shut (was: Hard drive security) Keywords: cooperation Reply-To: smk5@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 43 In article <1993Apr14.055903.5358@qualcomm.com> karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes: > > >I say "in theory" because in another case, a woman was held in >contempt for refusing to reveal the location of her child even after >taking the 5th. In this case, the woman was suspected of having >murdered the kid, so taking the 5th wasn't surprising. Sure, so she >was probably guilty, but that's not good enough. In our system you're >not supposed to be able to force a suspect to confess to a crime, no >matter how strongly you think they're guilty. You have to develop >your evidence independently. Doing otherwise might catch a few more >crooks, but only at the cost of turning the clock back to the middle >ages, when confessions were routinely tortured out of suspects both >guilty and innocent. > OK, I should have read the thread before posting my own $0.02. I would just add to Phil's very infomative discussion the following caveat: the fifth amendment applies ONLY in crinial cases. ("...nor shall any person . . . be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."). Thus if the father sued for custody of the children, the case would be civil and the defendant mother would not have fifth amendment protection. Oddly enough, her refusal to give information in a civil case can lead to criminal contempt charges (thus landing her in jail.) The interesting part of all this is that in a murder trial, the woman CAN plead the fifth as to the location of the child--this is routine. A "computer crime" prosecution thus would seem to be fertile ground for this kind of defense, where a suit by a party injured by "hackers" would not. If I am accused, for example, of sending encrypted kiddie porn over the nets the fifth should protect my key. If I am accused of sending copyrighted material, however, it proabably will not (copyright infringement not being a "crime" in the technical sense.) The REALLY tricky question is, say I do both (naughty boy that I am) can the government use the information gained in the civil trial (ie. my key) to gain access to my files for use in the criminal prosecution. The answer should certainly be no, but lord only knows how this would work out. Steve. -- Steve Kramarsky, University of Chicago Law School steve@faerie.chi.il.us -or- smk5@quads.uchicago.edu "All I did was kiss a girl." - Jake, the night before his hanging.
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From: easwarakv@woods.ulowell.edu Subject: CD'S FOR SALE Lines: 20 Organization: University of Massachusetts Lowell Th following cd's are for sale. Each cd cost 10$ except otherwise indicated which includes shipping and handling. Achtung baby U2 * Joshua tree U2 ** The immaculate collection Madonna ** $12 Love hurts Cher * Garth brooks Garth brooks * Red hot ..chilli peppers.. ** OOOOOHHHHH TLC ** Light and shadows wilson ** * Used only once. ** never used, most of them are still in shrink wraps Please email to kGC @ woods.ulowell.edu
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From: eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Julian Vrieslander) Subject: Re: Recommendations for removable storage media wanted Organization: Cornell Theory Center Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: theory.tc.cornell.edu In article <1993Apr14.115511.28278@kth.se> d88-jwa@eufrat.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte) writes: >If you have no friends, buy a 128 MB optical Huh? If I buy a 128M optical, I might lose my friends? Why - do they smell bad? :-) >and stop worrying about cartridge wear (Bernoulli) or crashes (SyQuest) On a serious note, I have heard the tales about SyQuest failures. But I am curious about Jon's comments on cartridge wear for the the Bernoullis. Can someone elaborate? Is there a general consensus that the 128M opticals are the most reliable? I am mostly concerned about media failures, as opposed to drive mechanism failures. -- Julian Vrieslander Neurobiology & Behavior, Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 INTERNET: eacj@theory.tc.cornell.edu BITNET: eacj@crnlthry UUCP: ..cornell!batcomputer!eacj
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From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) Subject: Re: Vandalizing the sky. In-Reply-To: todd@phad.la.locus.com's message of Wed, 21 Apr 93 16:28:00 GMT Originator: nickh@SNOW.FOX.CS.CMU.EDU Nntp-Posting-Host: snow.fox.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University <1993Apr21.162800.168967@locus.com> Lines: 33 In article <1993Apr21.162800.168967@locus.com> todd@phad.la.locus.com (Todd Johnson) writes: As for advertising -- sure, why not? A NASA friend and I spent one drunken night figuring out just exactly how much gold mylar we'd need to put the golden arches of a certain American fast food organization on the face of the Moon. Fortunately, we sobered up in the morning. Hmmm. It actually isn't all that much, is it? Like about 2 million km^2 (if you think that sounds like a lot, it's only a few tens of m^2 per burger that said organization sold last year). You'd be best off with a reflective substance that could be sprayed thinly by an unmanned craft in lunar orbit (or, rather, a large set of such craft). If you can get a reasonable albedo it would be visible even at new moon (since the moon itself is quite dark), and _bright_ at full moon. You might have to abandon the colour, though. Buy a cheap launch system, design reusable moon -> lunar orbit unmanned spraying craft, build 50 said craft, establish a lunar base to extract TiO2 (say: for colour you'd be better off with a sulphur compound, I suppose) and some sort of propellant, and Bob's your uncle. I'll do it for, say, 20 billion dollars (plus changes of identity for me and all my loved ones). Delivery date 2010. Can we get the fast-food chain bidding against the fizzy-drink vendors? Who else might be interested? Would they buy it, given that it's a _lot_ more expensive, and not much more impressive, than putting a large set of several-km inflatable billboards in LEO (or in GEO, visible 24 hours from your key growth market). I'll do _that_ for only $5bn (and the changes of identity). Nick Haines nickh@cmu.edu
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From: dlecoint@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Darius_Lecointe) Subject: Re: Sabbath Admissions 5of5 Organization: Florida State University Lines: 227 Someone sent me this FAQ by E-mail and I post my response here. [I'm not enforcing the inclusion limits on this FAQ because most of our readers probably haven't seen it. --clh] Christ warns that anyone who "breaks one of the least of these commandments *and* teaches otheres to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 5:19. This FAQ is so full of error that I must respond to it. I hope that whoever maintains will remove from it the partisan theology. | > Brothers and Sisters, | > | > Being new to the faith and examining the Decalogue closely, I've noticed the | > fourth commandment is pretty specific about "keeping the Sabbath day." It | > states the 7th day( Saturday ) is the Sabbath while most Christian religions | > keep( or atleast go to church ) on Sunday. What's up? | | This is a frequently asked question. Every time it arises, it causes | months of debate. So let me see if I can answer you directly. | Basically it's because the Law was given to Moses as part of a | specific covenanent with the Jews. Most of us aren't Jews, so we | aren't part of that covenant. There was an argument early in | Christian history about whether the Mosaic laws should apply to | Gentiles who became Christians. You can see the account of this | debate in Acts 15. The main question there was circumcision, but | keeping the Sabbath would be part of it as well. The apostles | concluded that we need not become Jews in order to become Christians, | and therefore that rules such as circumcision did not apply to us. 1. The law was known to man before it was revealed on Mount Sinai. Rom 4:15 notes that "where no law is, there is no transgression." Not only did sin exist before Sinai (Eden), but the Sabbath was kept before it was revealed on Sinai (Ex 16). 2. The problem with the first covenant was not the law, but the promise which undergirded it. God wanted to perform his will in the lives of the people, but in their ignorance after 400 years of slavery, they promised "what ever He says to do we will do." That is why the new covenant is based on "better promises" (Heb. 8:6). Rather than do away with the law God promised to "put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts" (Heb. 8:10). 3. Including the Sabbath in the Acts 15 is selective inclusion. The Sabbath was more important to the Jews than circumcision. If any attempt had been made to do away with the Sabbath the reaction would have been even more strident than is recorded in Acts 15. Do not confuse the weekly Sabbath of the Decalogue with the ceremonial sabbaths which could occur at any time of the week and were part of the law (ceremonial) which was *added* because of transgression (of the moral law) (Gal 3:19). 4. Israel stands for God's people of all time. That is why God *grafted* the Gentiles in. Roma 9:4 says that the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God and the promises belong to Israelites. In explanation Paul makes it clear that being born into Israel is not enough "For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel" v 6. Then in Gal 3:19 he says "if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." All Christians are Abraham's seed, Jews, Israelites. Not physically, for that is not the criterion, but spiritually. We are joint heirs with Jesus based on the promise God made to all his people the Israelites. | | While Christians agree that the OT Laws do not all apply to us, | because some of them are part of a specific covenanent with the Jews, | we also expect to see some similarity between the things God expected | from the Jews and the things he expects from us. After all, it's the | same God. However there are several ways of dealing with this. | | These days the most common approach is to separate the OT commandments | into "moral" and "ceremonial". Ceremonial commandments apply only to | the Jews. They are part of the specific Mosaic covenant. These are | thinsg like the kosher laws and circumcision. Moral laws apply to | everyone. Most of the 10 commands are part of the moral law, except | for the commandment about the Sabbath. I believe most people who take | this approach would say that the specific requirement to worship on | the Sabbath is part of the ceremonial law, but a general obligation to | worship regularly is part of the general moral law. Thus Christians | are free to choose the specific time we worship. People would probably agree but they are wrong. How can the Sabbath commandment be ceremonial when it is part of a law which predates the ceremonial laws? You are not free to choose your time of worship. Even if you were why do you follow a day of worship which has its origins in pagan sun worship. Would you rather give up a day which God blessed, sanctified, and hallowed in exchange for one which all church leaders agree has not biblical foundation (see Sabbath Admissions in soc.religion.christian.bible-study). | | A more radical approach (which is generally connected with John Calvin | and the Reformed tradition) says that the Law as a whole is no longer | binding. Instead, we are entirely under grace, and our behavior | should be guided solely by love. Portions of the OT Law are still | useful as guidance. But they are not properly speaking legally | binding on us. In practice most people who take this position do not | believe it is safe to leave Christians without moral guidannce. While | we may no longer be under Law, as sinners, it's not safe for us to go | into situations with no principles to guide us. We're too good at | self-justification for that to be safe. Thus Christians do have moral | guidance, from things like Jesus' teachings, Paul's advice, etc. | These may not be precisely a Law, but they serve much the same | function as, and have largely the same content as, the "moral law" in | the previous analysis. While Calvin would deny that we have a fixed | legal responsibility to worship on any specific day, he would say that | given human weakness, the discipline of regular worship is important. | I do not care what Calvin or any theologian says. My guide is what God says. If being not under the law means we do not have to keep the law, why is it that the only section of the law we have trouble with is the Sabbath commandment, which is the only one God thought was important enough to say *REMEMBER*? If you study the word deeply you will note that the message is that we are no longer under the condemnation of the law but freed by the grace of God. If a cop pulls me over for speeding, then in court I ask for mercy and the judge does not throw the book at me but gives me grace, do I walk out of the court saying "I can now go on speeding, for I am now under grace?" Being under grace I now drive within the speed limit. Paul adds to it in Rom. 3:31 "Di we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good" (Rom. 7:12). | In both analyses, the specific day is not an issue. As a matter of | tradition, we worship on Sunday as a memorial of Christ's | resurrection. There's some debate about what Acts shows about early | Christian worship. The most common analysis is that is shows Jewish | Christians continuing to go to Jewish services on the Sabbath, but | that specifically Christian service were not necessarily held then. | Act 20:7 shows worship on the first day (Sunday), and I Cor 16:2 also | implies gatherings on that day. | | There are a few groups that continue to believe Christians have to | worship on the Sabbath (Saturday). The best-known are the Seventh-Day | Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses. They argue that Act 20:7 is not a | regular worship service, but a special meeting to see Paul off, and | that I Cor 16:2 doesn't explicitly say it's a regular worship service. Do you prefer implication to fact? A careful study of the Acts 20 shows that the meeting was on Saturday night and that on Sunday morning Paul did not go to a worship service, but set off on a long journey by foot to Assos. In ICor 16 there is no way you can equate "lay by him in store" with "go to a worship service." | | It's clear that this issue was a contested one in Paul's time. See | Rom 14:5. Paul's advice is that we should be very careful about | judging each other on issues like this. One person sees a specific | day as mandated by God, while another does not. He who observes that | specific day does it in honor of the Lord. He who believes his | worship is free of such restrictions also does it in honor of the | Lord. (Those who believe that the Sabbath is still mandated argue | that Paul is not referring to Sabbath worship here. Note however Col | 2:16, which says something similar but briefer. It explicitly | mentions Sabbath.) Wrong. These are the sabbath days of the ceremonial law, not the Sabbath day of the moral law. | | There are some differences among Christians about use of the word | "Sabbath". Originally the term referred to the 7th Day, the Jewish | day of worship. Many Christians now use it to refer to Sunday, the | day of Christian worship. They do this largely so that they can apply | the 4th (or whatever -- there are a couple of different numbering | schemes) commandment to it. Reformed tradition does not do this. It | distinguishes between the Sabbath -- which is the observance mandated | for Jews, and the Lord's Day -- which is the free Christian worship. | (The only reference I can find to this in the NT is Rev 1:10.) There | are also differences about laws regarding this day. Many Christians | support "blue laws", both in secular law and church law, setting aside | that day and causing people to spend it in worship. The more radical | anti-legal approach sees such regulations as a return to the Jewish | Sabbath, which is not appropriate to the free Christian worship of the | Lord's Day. | Why would you prefer to twist and turn, relying on different arguments which conflict with each other, rather than obey a simple request from a God who loved you enough to die for you. Jesus died because the law could not be changed. Why bother to die in order to meet the demands of a broken law if all you need to do is change the law. Penalties for law breaking means the law is immutable. That is why it is no sin not to follow the demands of the ceremonial laws. It will always be a sin to make false gods, to violate God's name, to break the Sabbath, to steal, to kill, etc. Except it you disagree. But then your opinion has no weight when placed next to the word of God. Darius [It's not clear how much more needs to be said other than the FAQ. I think Paul's comments on esteeming one day over another (Rom 14) is probably all that needs to be said. I accept that Darius is doing what he does in honor of the Lord. I just wish he might equally accept that those who "esteem all days alike" are similarly doing their best to honor the Lord. However I'd like to be clear that I do not think there's unambiguous proof that regular Christian worship was on the first day. As I indicated, there are responses on both of the passages cited. The difficulty with both of these passages is that they are actually about something else. They both look like they are talking about nnregular Christian meetings, but neither explicitly says "and they gathered every Sunday for worship". We get various pieces of information, but nothing aimed at answering this question. Act 2:26 describes Christians as participating both in Jewish temple worship and in Christian communion services in homes. Obviously the temple worship is on the Sabbath. Acts 13:44 is an example of Christians participating in them. Unfortunately it doesn't tell us what day Christians met in their houses. Acts 20:7, despite Darius' confusion, is described by Acts as occuring on Sunday. (I see no reason to impose modern definitions of when days start, when the Biblical text is clear about what was meant.) The wording implies to me that this was a normal meeting. It doesn't say they gathered to see Paul off, but that when they were gathered for breaking bread, Paul talked about his upcoming travel. But that's just not explicit enough to be really convincing. Similarly with 1 Cor 16:2. It says that on the first day they should set aside money for Paul's collection. Now if you want to believe that they gathered specially to do this, or that they did it in their homes, I can't disprove it, but the obvious time for a congregation to take an offering would be when they normally gather for worship, and if they were expected to do it in their homes there would be no reason to mention a specific day. So I think the most obvious reading of this is that "on the first day of every week" simply means every time they gather for worship. I think the reason we have only implications and not clear statements is that the NT authors assumed that their readers knew when Christian worship was. --clh]
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From: fath@mbcrr.dfci.harvard.edu (Michael Fath) Subject: HELP: looking for Cleveland Sports Mailing List Info Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Lines: 14 Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: mbcrr.harvard.edu I'm looking for the address to join the Cleveland Sports Mailing List. If anyone knows it, I would be greatful if they could email a copy of it to me. If you are a member, just mail me one of the List's letters. I could probably figure it out from there. Thanks! -- MM MM FFFFF Michael J. Fath M M M M F Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics M M M FFF Harvard Medical School M M F Boston, MA 02115 fath@mbcrr.harvard.edu
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From: rwf2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT WILLIAM FUSI) Subject: Bike advice Organization: Lehigh University Lines: 11 I have an '89 Kawasaki KX 80. It is in mint condition and starts on the first kick EVERY time. I have outgrown the bike, and am considering selling it. I was told I should ask around $900. Does that sound right or should it be higher/lower? Also, I am looking for a used ZX-7. How much do I have to spend, and what year should I look for to get a bike without paying an arm and a leg???? Thanks for the help! Rob Fusi rwf2@lehigh.edu --
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From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) Subject: Re: Political Atheists? Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 12 NNTP-Posting-Host: lloyd.caltech.edu dace@shrike.und.ac.za (Roy Dace) writes: >Keith Allan Schneider (keith@cco.caltech.edu) wrote: >Some soldiers are dependent on religion, for a number of purposes. >And some are no doubt dependent on cocaine, yet I don't see the military paying >for coca fields. While religion certainly has some benefits in a combat situation, what are the benefits of cocaine? keith
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From: Mike Diack <mike-d@staff.tc.umn.edu> Subject: NuBus NTSC Genlock card f/sale X-Xxdate: Sat, 17 Apr 93 02:54:45 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: dialup-slip-1-97.gw.umn.edu Organization: persian cat & carpet co. X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7 Lines: 5 "Computer Friends" nubus card - good for doing graphics overlays on your videos etc. $275 with apple 8 bit vid card, $225 without. Wont sell vid card separately. UPS (U pay shipping). cheers Mike.
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From: mikkot@romulus.math.jyu.fi (Mikko Tarkiainen) Subject: Re: Pens Info needed Nntp-Posting-Host: romulus.math.jyu.fi Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Lines: 33 In article <1993Apr16.171319.13467@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> nlu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu) writes: >In article <1993Apr16.074054.3124@jyu.fi> mikkot@romulus.math.jyu.fi (Mikko Tarkiainen) writes: > >>Coaching news: >> Vasili Tichonov (ex-Assat) to San Jose Sharks >Wow. So that's probably the reason why current assistant coach Drew Ramenda >hinted that he won't be back. Thanks for the news, Mikko; can you (or any >of our Finnish netters) comment on Tichonov? The first time I heard this piece of news was on the post game radio interview here in Jyvaskyla. That was the bronze medal game in the SM-liiga which Tichonov's team Porin Assat (the Aces of town Pori:) lost. Vasili, the son of Victor Tichonov (the famous Soviet coach), said that for a long time the Sharks have been persuading him to take the assistant coach post. But he wants to be the head coach where ever he goes. He definitely won't be coaching Assat anymore (after three? seasons). I don't know why. Vasili is a good coach I believe. Assat was a good team, produced many players to our national team. Assat wasn't a skilled team (IMHO) but they had the fighting spirit. After all, they butchered Jokerit in the playoffs and gave hard time to TPS, the champs. But Assat wasn't consistent, only when they were in the right mood they could beat any team in the SM-liiga. I am not 100% sure about the deal with the Sharks. As I said, he wants to be the head coach. But he and the Sharks are going to negotiate and decide during the WC. I doubt that he will be the head coach but maybe they'll do some compromise. Could somebody post more information about Vasili? I know he was coaching in the former Soviet league; teams, results? His character as a coach?
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From: boyle@cactus.org (Craig Boyle) Subject: Re: Did US drive on the left? Article-I.D.: cactus.1993Apr6.060553.22453 Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx Lines: 14 In article <YfkBJQS00Uh_E9TFo_@andrew.cmu.edu> "Daniel U. Holbrook" <dh3q+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: >>> > [stuff about RHD deSoto's deleted] >Well Sweden and Australia, and lord knows wherever else used to drive on Australians still do drive on the "wrong" side of the road. I believe Sweden changed in 1968. The way I heard it was that they swapped all the traffic signs around one Sunday.... >the "wrong" side of the road, so the export market might have been >larger then than just the UK. > Craig
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From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) Subject: Re: Commercial mining activities on the moon Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 31 In article <STEINLY.93Apr20145301@topaz.ucsc.edu> steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes: > Why Paul, it's obvious. > Once chlorine chemistry has been banned on Earth, > as is being advocated by some groups, Ti prices will > sharply increase (we are of course not allowed to > assume any developments in Ti processing). > Lunar Ti will then be eminently competitive for > the trendy jewelry market and certain applications > of National Importance > > :-) :-) :-) Well, there already is a sulfate process for TiO2 purification. The chlorine process is cleaner, however, and for that reason is achieving dominance in the marketplace. Most Ti is used in pigment, btw (as the oxide), where it replaced white lead pigment some decades ago. Very little is reduced to the metal. > Seriously, I'd say there is a flaw in Gary's analysis > in that he assumes an export oriented economy, maybe > the lunatics will just want some native Ti for local > use... Which merely evades the issue of why those lunatics are there at all (and, why their children would want to stay.) Paul F. Dietz dietz@cs.rochester.edu
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From: 5417younisa@vms.csd.mu.edu Subject: Wanted IDE hard drive >40 Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services Lines: 2 Reply-To: 5417younisa@vms.csd.mu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsf.csd.mu.edu and A VGA monitor.. e-mail
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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Subject: Re: Secret algorithm [Re: Clipper Chip and crypto key-escrow] Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation - Herndon, VA USA Lines: 30 Distribution: world Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.intercon.com Keywords: encryption, wiretap, clipper, key-escrow, Mykotronx X-Newsreader: InterCon TCP/Connect II 1.1 jhesse@netcom.com (John Hesse) writes: > Oh great. Wonderful news. Nobody can listen in--except the feds. Hey, it's better than the status quo. I am far less worried about "the feds" tapping my phone than high school scanner surfers who get their kicks out of eavesdropping on cellular and cordless phone calls. It would be stupid to rely on even a "Clipperized" channel for truly sensitive material, but it *does* seem to finally offer a reasonable way to guard against casual eavesdropping. For example, even with my strong "right to bear arms" view of the private right to possess and use strong cryptosystems, the system as described provides enough security that I would actually buy a cordless phone, and would be much less wary of using cellular phones, walkie-talkies, and so on. As long as it's only used for mass-market voice scrambling, I actually don't see a problem with it. If you want more security than it offers, use something different. Use PKCS for electronic mail, CELP over DES or triple DES with Diffie-Hellman key exchange for your voice traffic, or whatever. And yes, I'd rather just see all crypto restrictions lifted, but this is at least an incrememental improvement for certain applications... Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation
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From: walsha@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (I don't know who discovered water, but it wasn't no fish - Marshall McCluhan) Subject: waco conflagration - precedents? Lines: 15 burning yourself alive seems a rough way to go, given the waco bunch had other choices. but it reminded me of the russian old-believers who, thinking the antichrist was coming in 1666, grew frantic when Peter the Great started westernizing Russia and reforming the Russian Church a few years later. They locked themselves in their churches and burned themselves alive by the thousands. are there other cases of apocalypse-obsessed christians resorting to self-imolation? is there a history of precedents? andrew.
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From: gaucher@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Newspapers censoring gun advertisements Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.cchem.berkeley.edu Originator: gaucher@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu In article <81930415084418/0005111312NA3EM@mcimail.com> 0005111312@mcimail.com (Peter Nesbitt) writes: >Recently while looking around in Traders Sporting Goods store, a very well >stocked firearms store, I discovered a printed document that was being >distributed by the good folks who work there. Traders, BTW, is located in >San Leandro, CA. . . . >The newspapers have now decided to censor gun ads - which is why you no longer >see the ads that Traders, San Leandro, has run for many years. > >These ads were run for the law-abiding honest citizens who own firearms for >sporting use or self-protection. They certainly have the right to do so, under >the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms. Are you sure about this? I'm currently looking at a copy of last Thursday's SF Chronicle and there is the typical one column Traders ad on page C7 in the Sports section. Not only that, but there is a part in the middle which rather prominently says "WANTED: We pay cash for assault rifles and pistols.". Granted, I haven't seen today's paper yet. But I'd be surprised if there wasn't a Traders ad in it. It's probably worth it to write to the Chronicle (and other papers) anyway, because all their anti-gun editorials are disgusting. By the way, let me put in a plug for Traders. I have shopped all over the SF Bay Area and I have never seen another store with lower prices. And their selection is amazing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee Gaucher | My opinions. gaucher@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu | No one else's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: cs3sd3ae@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Holly KS) Subject: Eric Bosco where are you? Nntp-Posting-Host: maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University Lines: 4 Eric, send me your email address, I lost it! I've reconsidered! Kevin
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From: Rob Earhart <earhart+@CMU.EDU> Subject: Re: Animation with XPutImage()? Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Lines: 38 <1993Apr22.092830.2190@infodev.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <1993Apr22.092830.2190@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dcr@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Derek C. Richardson) writes: > Shared memory PutImage (also mentioned by nkissebe@delphi.beckman.uiuc.edu, > Nick Kisseberth) looks interesting, but I need someone to point me to some > documentation. Is this method likely to give better results than server- > resident pixmaps? I'd also be interested in looking at the XView code > mentioned above... There's documentation on how to use the shared memory extension in the X11R5 distribution. Actually, I just finished writing a motif animation program... (take-lots-of-image-data-and-display-it-pretty-darn-fast). When using on-server pixmaps or shared memory, I had to insert a delay loop to keep it from going too quickly :). Testing both methods side by side, they were just about equal. The advantage of SHM is that your X server doesn't grow to ridiculous sizes; but pixmaps can work over a network and *are* removed if your application dies (one tends to use ipcrm manually quite a bit when debugging SHM apps). Shared memory also has the problem that some operating systems (e.g. Ultrix) seem to allow only a small number of segments (~6) to be attached to a process at once; consequently, a redraw becomes XShmAttach();XShmPutImage();XShmDetach(); on Dec systems. And Dec's 24 bit displays (like the ones I tend to use most often) don't seem to support the extension (maybe someone compiled them wrong?), and using pixmaps causes the X server to crash (failed mallocs), so one *has* to use the local unix domain socket (which really isn't that bad; one copies the info three times per redraw instead of one). In short: allowing all three forms of display, within the program is a Good Thing (minus SHM if running over a network), and let the user pick whatever feels fastest. (I just use an ximagehandler class and forget about it :) )Rob
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From: loki@acca.nmsu.edu (Entropic Destroyer) Subject: Need info on 43:1 and suicide for refutation Organization: New Mexico State University Lines: 35 Distribution: usa NNTP-Posting-Host: kazak.nmsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] The following is quoted from the tail end of a (rather condescending) article about Paxton Quigley, that appeared in US Snooze and World Lies, (sorry... i think it was in the wall street journal...) and was repeated in the Colorado (people's) Daily, a student newspaper at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "A study of residential gunsot deaths in King County, Wash., found that a gun in the home was 43 times more likely to be used to kill its owner, spouse, a friend, or child than to kill an intruder. Studies by the Western Psychiatric Institute, in Pittsburgh, found that the mere presence of a gun in the home sharply incresases the likelihood a family member will commit suicide, even in the absence of psychiatric illness." I have seen these numbers quoted before, and I have seen very specific refutation of them quoted as well. If someone will be so kind as to email the relevant information, I will write a letter to the editor of the Co. Daily (which might get published) and send a copy to USN&WR as well. Thanx... --Dan -- DoD #202 / loki@acca.nmsu.edu / liberty or death / taylordf@ucsu.colorado.edu Send me something even YOU can't read... -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.1 mQCNAitfksQAAAEEAKceEjWI9f5KMJyKP0LOgC5dGHRpbMY2xhOo8kpEHMDyuf8a 1BfDQSj53kosTz6HRoshSDzLVuL1/40vPjmMNtFR+vyZ4jvd3rL4iuq2umMmex3M itf3uLt8Xn/v/QAbsvhcFSHVJVK4Lf6wosuCMO03m2TiX31AI7VB0Uzo4yXjAAUX tCREYW5pZWwgRiBUYXlsb3IgPExva2lAYWNjYS5ubXN1LmVkdT4= =S5ib -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) Subject: Re: Could this be a migraine???? Distribution: world Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis Reply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) Lines: 16 GB> From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) GB> The HMO would stop the over-ordering, but in HMOs, tests are GB> under-ordered. That's a somewhat overbroad statement. I'm sure there are HMOs in which the fees for lab tests are subtracted from the doctor's income. In most, however, including the one I work for, there is no direct incentive to under-order. Profits of the group are shared among all partners, but the group is so large that an individual's generated costs have a miniscule effect. I don't believe that we under-order. Then again, I'm not really sure what the right amount of ordering is or should be. Relative to the average British neurologist, I suspect that I rather drastically over-order. --- . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)
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From: folkert@capints.UUCP (Folkert Boonstra) Subject: comp.windows.x Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: enterpoop.mit.edu To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu I would like to keep track of X development on: - A/UX - ULTRIX - OpenWindows Currently I cannot use the newsgroup comp.windows.x and would like to use the Email based info. Thanks, Folkert Boonstra Cap Gemini Innovation Dutch Research Centre Burg.Elsenlaan 170 Phone: +31 70 3957 239 P.O. Box 3027 Fax: +31 70 3957 237 2280 GA Rijswijk (NL) e-mail: boonstra@capints.uucp
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From: Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> Subject: Gaza and separation from Israel Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1483500357:000:3740 Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!cpr Apr 24 07:06:00 1993 Lines: 73 From: Center for Policy Research <cpr> Subject: Gaza and separation from Israel Gaza and the idea of separation The Israeli Left's inability to cope with the challenges it is presented with by reality becomes obvious at those moments when the reality does not line up with the expectations of the left. We were able to see this clearly during the Gulf War. Because of the Palestinian's popular solidarity with Iraq, Yossi Sarid - currently Minister of the Environment - made his infamous statement: "You look for me !", i.e., I'am not making any more efforts to speak with you. From Yossi Sarid's point of view, Palestinian reality during the Gulf War was not the lengthy curfew or the danger of hunger it brought with it, but whether or not the Palestinians accepted what was acceptable to the party. Similarly MERETZ, MK Deddi Tzuker, recently faced with criticism from residents of the West Bank town of Beit Sahour over his government's and his party's lack of action for human rights and peace, responded by asking those present at the discussion whether they would rather have a Likud government. From the Leftists' perspective this is the best government because it is THEIR government, regardless of what it does. These members of the Israeli Left have already decided how the future of the Occupied Territories will look, and they want to dictate to the Palestinians how to get there. An essential step towards this future is their participation in Yitzhak Rabin's government, and from their point of view the expulsions were a marginal byproduct of this "government of peace", which need not disturb the routine course of events. Likewise the "Rabinic" policies in Gaza - the blowing up of houses with anti-tank rockets and the significant increases in the number of persons injured in the suppression of demonstrations - need not disturb it. But the fact that reality is not as they would have it forces itself upon them when a mob in Gaza falls upon a settler who has lost his way, when a settler is stabbed by his Palestinian workers, or when a Palestinian knifes people in the streets of Tel Aviv. Then all hell breaks loose and the Israeli Left has nothing to propose except separation: Let's cut ourselves off from the Palestinians, let's build a fence so high that they won't be able to harm us - this is the cry of the Israeli Left. Let us erect a fence between us and the reality whith is the occupation. Meron Benvenisti writes about this in Ha'aretz (4-3-93): "...The liberal Left. which does not differentiate between physical separation and 'the future of the territories', must come to understand that the regime of magnetic cards, exclusion of Arab workers, closure, and curfew are instruments of enforcement designed for the suppression of a population in revolt, and that their ideological support for separation only provides 'humanitarian' arguments for the legitimization of the <status quo>. Enforced separation is carried out only to meet the need of the ruling community, but it is only the ruled population which bears its burden. [.....]. "Whoover thinks that 'out of Gaza first' is a liberal, humanitarian idea had best contemplate the question of whether this position is also moral. It is very easy to shake off responsibility for this concentration of human suffering, and to thus also disregard responsibility for it's creation. It is very easy to erect a fence between Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, when this fence has a gate - the keys to which are at the disposal of one hand - which opens to allow the Jews to pursue all their interests, but is barred to the Arabs...". ------------------------------------------------------ >From The OTHER Front, Jerusalem, 10 March 1993
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From: todd@phad.la.locus.com (Todd Johnson) Subject: Re: Vandalizing the sky. Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California Lines: 28 In article <C5t05K.DB6@research.canon.oz.au> enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes: ;From the article "What's New" Apr-16-93 in sci.physics.research: ; ;........ ;WHAT'S NEW (in my opinion), Friday, 16 April 1993 Washington, DC ; ;1. SPACE BILLBOARDS! IS THIS ONE THE "SPINOFFS" WE WERE PROMISED? ;What about light pollution in observations? (I read somewhere else that ;it might even be visible during the day, leave alone at night). ;Is NASA really supporting this junk? ;Are protesting groups being organized in the States? ;Really, really depressed. ; ; Enzo I wouldn't worry about it. There's enough space debris up there that a mile-long inflatable would probably deflate in some very short period of time (less than a year) while cleaning up LEO somewhat. Sort of a giant fly-paper in orbit. Hmm, that could actually be useful. As for advertising -- sure, why not? A NASA friend and I spent one drunken night figuring out just exactly how much gold mylar we'd need to put the golden arches of a certain American fast food organization on the face of the Moon. Fortunately, we sobered up in the morning. <todd>
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From: Geoffrey_Hansen@mindlink.bc.ca (Geoffrey Hansen) Subject: Re: VESA on the Speedstar 24 Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 12 Using the VMODE command, all you need to do is type VMODE VESA at the dos prompt. VMODE is included with the Speedstar 24. I have used the VESA mode for autodesk animator pro. -- <=================================================| | geoffrey_hansen@mindlink.bc.ca | |=================================================> "Inumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition." Marshall McLuhan
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From: tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi) Subject: Re: Observation re: helmets Organization: Elect Armts Div, US Army Armt RDE Ctr, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: b329-gator-3.pica.army.mil maven@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com (Norman Hamer) wrote: > > Grf. Dropped my Shoei RF-200 off the seat of my bike while trying to rock > it onto it's centerstand, chipped the heck out of the paint on it... Gravity. It'll never let you down, er up, er... Lesson: Put your helmet on the ground or your head. If you put it on the ground, it isn't gonna fall down _to_ the ground. If you put it on your head, well... tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." --gene spafford, 1992
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From: martinh@cac.washington.EDU (Martin Hunt) Subject: Announcing tcpview: A Motif-based TCP/IP protocol analyzer Organization: UW Networks and Distributed Computing Lines: 89 Keywords: protocol analyzer TCP/IP To: xannounce@expo.lcs.mit.edu Tcpview is the result of several problems we had at UW. We have several Network General Sniffers which are heavily used to help debug problems on several hundred subnets. These are good tools, but they are 1) heavy, 2) hard to find when you need one, 3) limited in their software expandibility, 4) difficult to use to upload data for analysis, 5) cannot be remotely operated, and 6) cannot resolve names with DNS, requiring much manual manipulation of the name table. We also sometimes use tcpdump, but we found it 1) too difficult for most people, 2) did not have enough information for many protocols, 3) could not be used interactively, 4) could not handle TCP streams and 5) could not read Sniffer files. However, tcpdump did do a reasonable job of decoding a large number of protocols, and could be easily modified. Tcpview is an attempt to resolve these problems by adding a Motif interface to tcpdump and expanding its features. Tcpview has been tested on a DECstation 5000 and Sun 4 under Ultrix 4.2 and SunOS 4.1 respectively. It should work on the same systems as tcpdump. It compiles with cc and gcc on the DEC and Sun. To build tcpview you will need Motif 1.1 or better. The following files are available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cac.washington.edu in /pub/networking tcpview-1.0.tar.Z tcpview and tcpdump source code tcpview-1.0.sun.tar.Z Sun4 binaries tcpview-1.0.dec.tar.Z DEC Mips Ultrix 4.2 binaries What tcpview adds to tcpdump: - easier interface - enhanced protocol decoding - hex display of frame - capture based on time, number of frames, or user interrupt - can show ethernet addresses with manufacturer's name - ethernet address host table - can easily follow a stream, highlighting out-of-order frames - can send TCP data to an external file or filter for additional processing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES TO TCPDUMP 2.2.1 New features: Now reads and writes Network General Sniffer files. When used with '-r', the file type will be automatically detected. Can now read in (and use) an SNMP MIB file. The hex format has been changed. New time options have been added. Options were added to allow viewing and processing of the data in TCP packets. Bugs were fixed in the relative TCP sequence numbers. (-S flag) New flags: -R read Sniffer file. Not usually needed, except for reading from stdin -ttt prints delta times -tttt prints times relative to the first frame -W write a Sniffer save file (use with -w) -x print frame (minus link-level header) in hexdump format. Sample output: 16:36:23.349851 jeff.cac.washington.edu.1285 > nic.funet.fi.ftp: S 0:0(0) win 16384 0000 45 00 00 28 8a 98 00 00 3c 06 7c 9c 80 5f 70 02 | E..(....<.|.._p. 0010 80 d6 06 64 05 05 00 15 5b 19 4a 00 00 00 00 00 | ...d....[.J..... 0020 50 02 40 00 4e 13 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | P.@.N......... -X print TCP data in hexdump format (used with -Z) -z write TCP data to stdout (use with -t to eliminate timestamp) -Z write frames and TCP data to stdout Martin M. Hunt martinh@cac.washington.edu Networks & Distributed Computing University of Washington -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Hunt martinh@cac.washington.edu Networks and Distributed Computing University of Washington
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From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman) Subject: Re: text of White House announcement and Q&As on clipper chip encryption Organization: Beckman Software Engineering Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com Distribution: na,world X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5 Lines: 47 In article <1993Apr17.032022.14021@clarinet.com> (sci.crypt,alt.security,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.security.misc,comp.org.acm,comp.org.ieee), brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes: > Let's assume, for the moment, that the system really is secure unless > you get both halves of the encryption key from the two independent > escrow houses. Let's say you even trust the escrow houses -- one is > the ACLU and the other is the EFF. (And I'm not entirely joking about > those two names) The problem with "Let's assume" reasoning is that, taken to the extreme (and you're close), you arrive at "Let's assume this is perfectly OK." The assumptions you make are big ones. If the system is really secure, then why does the government have to keep the algorithm secret? There are plenty of encryption algorithms that don't depend upon nondisclosure to be secure, so why in the world use one that does? There are reasons, of course, but I certainly can't think of any honest ones. Next, you assume we can "trust" the escrow houses. But the last time I checked, EVERY SINGLE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT has experienced unauthorized disclosure, corruption, and even fabrication, of supposedly secure data. The govt is saying "Yeah, but NOW we're serious, so you can trust us." Bullcrypt. And finally, although you didn't state it explicitly, you implicitly assume that the warrant mechanism in this country is safe and reasonable. The case in Ventura County of a man shot and killed by officers serving a deliberately fraudulant warrant tells me that the govt has a long ways to go on this score. Remember that all this is to catch the drug dealers, right? As others have pointed out, the current proposal will, if deployed, render truly secure encryption much more expensive and inconvenient than Uncle Sam's brand. Who will be able to afford, and be sufficiently motivated, to purchase this expensive, inconvenient higher protection? Somebody with lots of extra cash... The following is more true than ever: "When [strong] encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have [strong] encryption." ________________________________________________________________________ | Mel beckman | Internet: mbeckman@mbeckman.com | | Beckman Software Engineering | Compuserve: 75226,2257 | | Ventura, CA 93003 | Voice/fax: 805/647-1641 805/647-3125 | |______________________________|_______________________________________| "You can observe a lot just by watching." -Yogi Bera
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From: mhamilto@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (The Lawnmowerman) Subject: Re: ATF BURNS DIVIDIAN RANCH! NO SURVIVORS!!! Keywords: Nata thing !! Nntp-Posting-Host: nimitz.mcs.kent.edu Reply-To: Matthew Hamilton Organization: Kent State University CS Lines: 33 In article <1r1j1l$4t@transfer.stratus.com>, cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares) writes: > In article <1993Apr20.143255.12711@mcs.kent.edu>, mhamilto@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (The Lawnmowerman) writes: > > Oh, then, I guess that shooting THOSE kind of babies is all right. > > You sick bastard. > -- > > cdt@rocket.sw.stratus.com --If you believe that I speak for my company, > OR cdt@vos.stratus.com write today for my special Investors' Packet... > Why thanks for your reply to my post. By the way, I never, never ever said that it was right to shoot "THOSE kind" of babies. However it was the Branch Davidian people in there that insisted on staying there with their "savior" (yeah right budy boy) because he had brain-washed them into believing that what ever he says is the truth, even if means that they are to give up their lives for <<<<HIS>>>> cause. Therefore it is Davids fault and not the ATF's who gave them 50 to 51 days to get out, this was 50 days to many for me and for many of the rest of the U.S. I am however sad to hear of the death of any child unlike the sick bastard I supposedly am. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Matthew R. Hamilton | mhamilto@mcs.kent.edu | A.K.A | | CS/ Physics Major | 1499h751@ksuvxb.kent.edu | (The Lawnmowerman) | | Kent State University | 1299h751@ksuvxb.kent.edu | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | Look here for future advice.quotes.sayings.jibberish.philosohy | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: db7n+@andrew.cmu.edu (D. Andrew Byler) Subject: Re: Is OT Valid???? Organization: Freshman, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 31 Peir-Yuan Yeh asks: >I wonder if the OT is not exactly like Jewish history. Are they the same >or part of them are the same? How about Torah? Are the first five books >of OT as the same as Torah????? Yes, yes, and yes. Jewish history as recorded in the Old Testament and as shown by archaeology are the same. Kings, revivals, Temples, and all. The Torah, as far as I know, is the five books of Moses. Then come the Prophets (all the Prophets, plus Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings) and the Writings (Psalms, Proverbs, Lamentations, Ruth, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ecclesiates, Song of Songs, 1&2 Chronicles, Job). And the veracity of Isaiah, which you quoted to your Moslem friend is quite well known. A complete manuscript exists that dates back to past 200 BC, and is kept in a Museum in Israel. It was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, which greatly enhanced our knowledge of the veracity of the Old Testament, as they date back to around the time of Christ, whereas before, the oldest complete manuscript in Hebrew was from around 900 AD. Your Moslem friend is sorely mistaken, but understandably so. If Jesus was crucified, and atoned for our sins, he must have been God, for only the death of God could atone for the sins of all humanity. And as Isaiah predicts, the messiah will be called "the mighty God." And if he was God, then he must have rose, for as St. Paul wrote, it was not possible that death could hold him. And if Jesus rose from the dead, your Moslem friend would have little reason to be a Moslem. Which is why he denies the authenticity of the Old Testament. Andy Byler
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From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) Subject: Re: Hate Crimes Laws Nntp-Posting-Host: teal.csn.org Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc. Lines: 59 thf2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes: >In article <1993Apr5.050127.22304@news.acns.nwu.edu> dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier) writes: >>In article <1993Apr4.011042.24938@isc-br.isc-br.com> steveh@thor.isc-br.com >>(Steve Hendricks) writes: >>>In article <1993Apr3.211910.21908@news.acns.nwu.edu> >>>dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier) writes: >>>>... >>>>If someone beats up a homosexual, he should get charged for assault and >>>>battery. Why must we add gay bashing to the list? Isn't this a sort of >>>>double jeopardy? Or am I just being a fascist again? >>> >>>() To deter an epidemic of "gay bashing" that has not been deterred by >>> assault laws. >> >>So we ought to make beating up a homosexual more illegal than beating up a >>straight? >And who's advocating that? Hate crimes laws are aimed at the motivations >of the acts. Just like premeditated homicide is treated stricter than >heat-of-passion homicide. But you still get into trouble. For example - how often are crimes of violence not "hate crimes"? The question is then who are you hating? If its another gang member, then its better than if the person you hate is of a differnt color? Also, is it realistic to declare that crimes of hate are worse than crimes of gross negligence? (Like random drive by shootings where they can't be hate crimes because the shooter doesn't know who he is going to hit - he just shoots into the crowd). >>>() No, it is not "double jeopardy." A single act may lead to multiple >>> charges and multiple crimes. >> >>I think what you meant to say here was, "With the current mutation of the US >>Constitution under the current police state, someone may be charged multiple >>times for one act if the victim in question is of the right shade." A single >>act should never merit more than on charge. >So if I set off a bomb in the World Trade Center, I can only be charged with >more than one murder, and not the other five deaths and extensive property >damage? After all, the bomb was a single act. First, I heard today that there is a good chance that the U.S. instead of New York is going after the bombers. This means no capital punishment. Secondly, double jepardy does help keep the government from going after you for first one murder, then the next, etc. A "sovereign" has essentially one chance with a single fact pattern (such as the World Trade Center bombing). That is why the bombers will in all probability be tried for all the deaths, as well as the property damages, as well as conspiracy, at once. Of course, as we discovered in the Rodney King case, there are two "sovereigns", neither of which can try you twice for the same crime. Bruce E. Hayden (303) 758-8400 bhayden@csn.org
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From: erik@cheshire.oxy.edu (Erik Adams) Subject: HELP!! My Macintosh "luggable" has lines on its screen! Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA. Distribution: comp Lines: 20 Okay, I don't use it very much, but I would like for it to keep working correctly, at least as long as Apple continues to make System software that will run on it, if slowly :-) Here is the problem: When the screen is tilted too far back, vertical lines appear on the screen. They are every 10 pixels or so, and seem to be affected somewhat by opening windows and pulling down menus. It looks to a semi-technical person like there is a loose connection between the screen and the rest of the computer. I am open to suggestions that do not involve buying a new computer, or taking this one to the shop. I would also like to not have to buy one of Larry Pina's books. I like Larry, but I'm not sure I feel strongly enough about the computer to buy a service manual for it. On a related note: what does the monitor connector connect to? Erik
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From: conditt@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Paul Conditt) Subject: Latest on Branch Davidians Organization: Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 28 Most of you will have probably seen the news by the time you read this, but the Branch Davidian compound is no more. This morning about 6:00, the feds punched holes in the compound walls by using a tank. They then started using non-lethal tear gas. Shortly after noon, 2 cult members were seen setting fire to the compound. So far, about 20-30 people have been seen outside the compound. The fate of the other 60 or 70 people is unknown, neither is the fate of the 17 children that were inside. The compound did burn to the ground. Koresh, who at times has claimed to be the Messiah, but then backed off and only claimed to be a prophet, had promised several times to come out peacefully if his demands were met. First, he demanded that his message be broadcast on the radio, which it was, but he didn't come out. He claimed to be waiting for a message from God. Finally, he said that God told him that he needed to decipher the mystery of the 7 seals in Revelation, and when he was finished, he'd come out. He finished the first one, but didn't do any more work that anyone knows of since then. The federal agents did warn him that if they didn't come out, they would be subjected to tear gas. I think it's really sad that so many people put their faith in a mere man, even if he did claim to be the son of God, and/or a prophet. I think it underscores the importance of putting you faith only in things that are eternal and knowing for yourself what the Scriptures say and what they mean, instead of relying on others to do it for you, even if those others are learned and mean well. Paul Conditt
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From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) Subject: Re: Vandalizing the sky. Organization: University of Central Florida Lines: 19 I posted this over in sci.astro, but it didn't make it here. Thought you all would like my wonderful pithy commentary :-) What? You guys have never seen the Goodyear blimp polluting the daytime and nightime skies? Actually an oribital sign would only be visible near sunset and sunrise, I believe. So pollution at night would be minimal. If it pays for space travel, go for it. Those who don't like spatial billboards can then head for the pristine environment of Jupiter's moons :-) --- Thomas Clarke Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826 (407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu
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From: ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar) Subject: Re: Trumpet for Windows & other news readers Organization: CWRU School of Medicine Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: axa12-slip.dialin.cwru.edu In article <mcbride.126@ohsu.edu> mcbride@ohsu.edu (Ginny McBride) writes: >In article <ashok.653.0@biochemistry.cwru.edu> ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu >(Ashok Aiyar) writes: >>Currently WinTrumpet is in very late beta. It looks like an excellent >>product, with several features beyond the DOS version. >>WinTrumpet supports the Trumpet TCP, Novell LWP, and there is also a direct to >>packet driver version that some people are using with the dis_pkt shim. >What's it gonna cost? Again, I do not speak for Peter Tattam, but it is my understanding that it will shareware status as Trumpet 1.05 for DOS is, and I imagine that the registration fees will be similar. I also believe that a new version of Trumpet for DOS will be released sometime in the near future. Ashok -- Ashok Aiyar Mail: ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu Department of Biochemistry Tel: (216) 368-3300 CWRU School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio Fax: (216) 368-4544
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago, academic Computer Center From: Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> Subject: Statement to everyone on t.p.g Lines: 24 Ok, here goes. Yes folks, I realize I have stuck my foot in my mouth quite a few times already so please let me make some clarifications. My inaccurate information in my posts was due to lack of knowledge. Thanks to you kind (and some not so kind) people I am learning. Some people have given me several good points to ponder and I see how I was wrong. In no way was this inaccurate information supposed to be trying to further the anti-gun cause. I have said several times before (but nobody seemed to be listening) that I am pro-gun and anti-gun-control. As far as the race can of worms that I have opened up I have only one thing to say - I am in no way prejudiced. Some of the things I have stated were said to demonstrate that I am not prejudiced and/or a racist but I have been accused of being too aware of race and prejudiced. I will not say anymore about that subject because no matter what I say it will be the wrong thing. Boy, what a start to being on a new group. Oh well, things have been worse in my life. I hope this clears things up but I guess that will remain to be seen. By for now, Jason
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From: gt8798a@prism.gatech.EDU (Anthony S. Kim) Subject: Syquest 150 ??? Distribution: usa Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 3 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.
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From: bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis) Subject: Re: Date is stuck Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 32 kevin@kosman.uucp (Kevin O'Gorman) writes: >Anybody seen the date get stuck? >I'm running MS-DOS 5.0 with a menu system alive all the time. The machine >is left running all the time. >Suddenly, the date no longer rolls over. The time is (reasonably) accurate >allways, but we have to change the date by hand every morning. This involves >exiting the menu system to get to DOS. >Anyone have the slightest idea why this should be? Even a clue as to whether >the hardware (battery? CMOS?) or DOS is broken? >-- >Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman.UUCP, kevin%kosman.uucp@nrc.com ) >voice: 805-984-8042 Vital Computer Systems, 5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA 93035 >Non-Disclaimer: my boss is me, and he stands behind everything I say. I've started to notice the same thing myself. I'm running DOS 5 and Win 3.1 so I can fix it from the Windows Control Panel. At times it is the date, at others the clock seems to be running several minutes behind where it should be. If you find out I'd like to know also. Oh, and I also leave my system running all the time. -- Barry Sardis | Home: (408) 448-1589 1241 Laurie Avenue | Office: (408) 448-7404 San Jose, CA 95125 | Fax: (408) 448-7404 Email: bsardis@netcom.COM or 70105.1210@compuserve.COM
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From: kdw@icd.ab.com (Kenneth D. Whitehead) Subject: Re: Change of name ?? Nntp-Posting-Host: sora.icd.ab.com Organization: Allen-Bradley Company, Inc. Lines: 47 In article <CMM.0.90.2.735315429.thomasp@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no>, Thomas Parsli <thomasp@ifi.uio.no> writes: > 1. Make a new Newsgroup called talk.politics.guns.PARANOID or > talk.politics.guns.THEY'R.HERE.TO.TAKE.ME.AWAY Well, may I point out that paranoia is an IRRATIONAL fear, without basis in reality. As we've seen here in the US, there is nothing irrational about it. Perhaps you folks in Finland have been down on your knees being good little boys and girls so that the former Soviet Union didn't come across the border and stomp the snot out of you for so long that you just figure everybody should be so accomodating to tyranny. > > 2. Move all postings about waco and burn to (guess where).. > > 3. Stop posting #### on this newsgroup If you don't like us talking about political issues involving attacks on people for owning guns, don't read talk.politics.guns. > > We are all SO glad you're trying to save us from the evil > goverment, but would you mail this #### in regular mail to > let's say 1000 people ???? > Nobody's trying to save YOU from anything, so butt out. I couldn't care less about what somebody on the other side of the world thinks about this. Of course, you do have a right to an opinion... but I've always figured that opinons are like hemmorhoids. Every asshole's got them, I just don't care about yours. ************************************************************************** * I remember what I was doing * Bad boy, whatcha gonna do * * when I heard that JFK had been shot. * Whatcha gonna do * * Will you remember the Battle of Waco? * when they come for you... * *************************************************************************** Ken Whitehead (kdw@odin.icd.ab.com)
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From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic) Subject: It is sickening to think that the Armenians are capable of such... Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic) Distribution: world Lines: 329 In article <1993Apr9.140123.12253@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> halsall@MURRAY.FORDHAM.EDU (Paul Halsall) writes: > It's curious that Serdar spend his time attacking Greeks and >Armenians. Who just happen to be historical opponents of Turkey. The Because, the x-Soviet Armenian government got away with the genocide of 2.5 million Turkish men, women and children and is enjoying the fruits of that genocide. And they are doing 'it' again. Are you so blind? >problem is, everybody - Arab, Greek, Bulgar, Serb, Russian, Tartar, >Circassian, Persian, Kurd - is, or has been an opponent. Who has been Kurds 'R' us; Armenians 'R' not. >an ally? This historic circumstance seems to have taken a certain >toll on Serdar: perhaps he should be posting to alt.raving.nationalist >rather than soc.history? Excuse me? "We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the Tartars and then proceeded in the work of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village. Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable and inhabitants fled from them into fields, bullets and bayonets completed the work. Some of the Tartars escaped of course. They found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border into Turkey. The rest were killed. And so it is that the whole length of the borderland of Russian Armenia from Nakhitchevan to Akhalkalaki from the hot plains of Ararat to the cold mountain plateau of the North were dotted with mute mournful ruins of Tartar villages. They are quiet now, those villages, except for howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the scattered bones of the dead." Ohanus Appressian "Men Are Like That" p. 202. A genocide is a deliberate and organized massacre of people in an attempt to exterminate a race. This is the worst crime in history. It happened to the Turks in eastern Anatolia and the Armenian dictatorship. 2.5 million Turks and Kurds were killed in the worst ways imaginable. It is sickening to think that the human race is capable of such actions, but there is no denying the fact that the Armenian genocide of 2.5 million Muslims happened. People of Turkiye deeply sympathize with those whose relatives were killed in the Turkish genocide. I understand their anger that there are those who still deny that the Turkish genocide indeed took place, despite the fact that the genocide of 2.5 million Turks has been well documented over the past six decades. We cannot reverse the events of the past, but we can and we must strive to keep the memory of this tragedy alive on this side of the Atlantic, so as to help prevent a recurrence of the extermination of a people because of their religion or their race. Source: Bristol Papers, General Correspondence: Container #32 - Bristol to Bradley Letter of September 14, 1920. "I have it from absolute first-hand information that the Armenians in the Caucasus attacked Tartar (Turkish) villages that are utterly defenseless and bombarded these villages with artillery and they murder the inhabitants, pillage the village and often burn the village." > Lets get somethings straight. Why not? >1. Armenians are no angels, but they were subject to Turkish genocide. And the Germans were subject to Jewish Genocide? Are you for real? Tell me 'Halsall', were you high on "ASALA/SDPA/ARF" forgeries and fabrications when you wrote that? Where is your non-existent list of scholars. Here is mine: During the First World War and the ensuing years - 1914-1920, the Armenian Dictatorship through a premeditated and systematic genocide, tried to complete its centuries-old policy of annihilation against the Turks and Kurds by savagely murdering 2.5 million Muslims and deporting the rest from their 1,000 year homeland. The attempt at genocide is justly regarded as the first instance of Genocide in the 20th Century acted upon an entire people. This event is incontrovertibly proven by historians, government and international political leaders, such as U.S. Ambassador Mark Bristol, William Langer, Ambassador Layard, James Barton, Stanford Shaw, Arthur Chester, John Dewey, Robert Dunn, Papazian, Nalbandian, Ohanus Appressian, Jorge Blanco Villalta, General Nikolayef, General Bolkovitinof, General Prjevalski, General Odiselidze, Meguerditche, Kazimir, Motayef, Twerdokhlebof, General Hamelin, Rawlinson, Avetis Aharonian, Dr. Stephan Eshnanie, Varandian, General Bronsart, Arfa, Dr. Hamlin, Boghos Nubar, Sarkis Atamian, Katchaznouni, Rachel Bortnick, Halide Edip, McCarthy, W. B. Allen, Paul Muratoff and many others. J. C. Hurewitz, Professor of Government Emeritus, Former Director of the Middle East Institute (1971-1984), Columbia University. Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern History, Princeton University. Halil Inalcik, University Professor of Ottoman History & Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, University of Chicago. Peter Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers University, Newark. Stanford Shaw, Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles. Thomas Naff, Professor of History & Director, Middle East Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania. Ronald Jennings, Associate Professor of History & Asian Studies, University of Illinois. Howard Reed, Professor of History, University of Connecticut. Dankwart Rustow, Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, City University Graduate School, New York. John Woods, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago. John Masson Smith, Jr., Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley. Alan Fisher, Professor of History, Michigan State University. Avigdor Levy, Professor of History, Brandeis University. Andreas G. E. Bodrogligetti, Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles. Kathleen Burrill, Associate Professor of Turkish Studies, Columbia University. Roderic Davison, Professor of History, George Washington University. Walter Denny, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts. Caesar Farah, Professor of History, University of Minnesota. Tom Goodrich, Professor of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Tibor Halasi-Kun, Professor Emeritus of Turkish Studies, Columbia University. Justin McCarthy, Professor of History, University of Louisville. Jon Mandaville, Professor of History, Portland State University (Oregon). Robert Olson, Professor of History, University of Kentucky. Madeline Zilfi, Professor of History, University of Maryland. James Stewart-Robinson, Professor of Turkish Studies, University of Michigan. .......so the list goes on and on and on..... Now wait, there is more. Mark Alan Epstein, 'The Ottoman Jewish Communities and their Role in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries,' Klaus Schwarz Werlag, Freiburg (1980). page 19: <<During the fifteenth century, when the Ottomans were struggling to reestablish themselves in the Balkans, there was considerable turmoil among the Jewish communities in Central and Western Europe. Even if the difficulties of the darker centuries immediately preceding the fourteenth are minimized, it is easy to understand the attraction which Ottoman life, particularly when compared to life in Europe, held for the Jews. There is no way to tell how many Jews left Christendom for the realm of the rising Muslim Ottomans, but with each account of persecution in or expulsion from Christian countries it is recorded that some Jews fled to Ottoman territory. The regularity of these reports suggests that the Ottomans were considered reasonably tolerant protectors and that there was a regular trickle of Jewish families moving southward and eastward from Western and Central Europe. (...) It is evident that the effects of plague, late crusades, and the general intolerance and persecution of Jews in Christian Europe resulted in the redirection of the whole focus of Jewish life which, for more than two centuries, was to be oriented toward Muslim East.>> page 21: <<In the second quarter of the fifteenth century the foremost official in the Edirne Jewish community was Rabbi Yitzhak Sarfati the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the city. He was the most important rabbi in the city and the author of an important letter which tells us something of the situation of the Edirne Jewry in the fifteenth century. Sarfati himself was from Christian Europe and supposedly wrote this letter at the behest of two recent arrivals from there, who, upon seeing the prosperity and freedom of the Ottoman Jews, prevailed upon him to write their European coreligionists apprising them of the situation and urging them to migrate. This remarkable letter advised its recipients not only of the pleasant conditions in the Ottoman domains, but described as well the ease of travel to Palestine and the holy places, an attraction to those who would make a pilgrimage or choose to be buried there.>> (*) page 41: <<...the impression gained from the Hebrew sources is that the Jews were firmly aware of the community of interests which existed between them and the Ottomans, especially in comparison to relations with the Christians of Europe. Confirmation of the commonality of interests between Muslims and Jews is also indicated by the fact that European Christians perceived the Jews as allies of Islam and were well aware of Muslim-Jewish cooperation. Certainly the activity of important Jewish financiers and politicians representing the Ottoman government abroad did not pass unnoticed. European sources are the basis for much of our knowledge of their careers. In addition it appears that Christian pirates plundered ''Turks and Jews,'' their sworn enemies, and that Europeans considered the Jews to be agents who regularly reported to the Ottomans. There are well-known examples of overt Jewish support for the Ottomans in the struggle against European powers. The two best known instances of Jewish support for the campaigning Ottomans are the frequently cited instances of the Jewish contributions to the conquests of Buda, in the early sixteenth century, and of Rhodes. We also have reports of sympathy for the Ottomans during the siege of Chios. An unpublished Ottoman document shows dramatically the mutual interests which existed in some Greek towns...>> page 43: <<It is clear that throughout the sixteenth century it was a generally accepted fact that the interests of Jews and Muslims coincided frequently, and all parties involved, Jews, Muslims, and Christians, were aware of the situation.>> page 46: <<...it seems that the relations between Greeks and Jews were not particularly cordial. The two groups had little in common, few common interests, and perceived no common philosophical or religious tradition which could serve as the basis for cooperation, rather than enmity. If there was any identifiable bond of good will which existed between religious communities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was that between Muslims and Jews, neither of whom had much in common with the Orthodox.>> page 46: <<The general impression of Muslim-Jewish relations in the Ottoman context during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is one of community of interests. From the earliest times the Ottomans seem to have welcomed Jews to their territory and to have found in the communities already existing in places which they conquered a cooperative element. The Jewish response to this tolerance was a steady flow of Jews from Christian countries to Ottoman domains.>> page 151: <<From the period before 1453 we have only a few indications that the Ottoman-Jewish relationship was well on the course of amity which would characterize it for years afterward, but the liberality of the Ottomans, in contrast to the intolerance of the Byzantines, and the protection and the security which the Ottomans offered, in comparison to conditions elsewhere, leave little doupt that even then both the Ottomans and the Jews recognized their mutual interests...>> page 161: <<It is impossible to say how fundamental the Jews were in the success of the Ottomans in rebuilding Istanbul or in Ottoman mercantile success in the sixteenth century. That they played an important role in both cannot be doupted. It is also unclear whether they were important enough to say that the Ottomans would not have experienced their great success without the Jews and that no other group could have been found to serve the Ottomans as well as did the Jews. It is, however, unmistakably clear that there are few parallels in world history to this remarkable partnership between Jews and the non-Jewish society in which they lived. We must conclude that the Ottomans could probably not achieved their success without a group performing certain tasks for them as well as the Jews did. Certainly for the Jews of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Ottoman Empire was a most remarkable and salubrious home.>> (*) A version of Rabbi Sarfati's [Tzarfati] letter is given by Prof.Shaw: page 32: <<Your cries and sobs reached us. We have been told of all the troubles and persecutions which you have to suffer in the German lands....I hear the lamentation of my brethren...The barbarous and cruel nation ruthlessly oppresses the faithful children of the chosen people...The priests and prelates of Rome have risen. They wish to root out the memory of Jacob and erase the name of Israel. They always devise new persecutions. They wish to bring you to the stake...Listen my brethren, to the counsel I will give you. I too was born in Germany and studied Torah with the German rabbis. I was driven out of my native country and came to the Turkish land, which is blessed by God and filled with all good things. Here I found rest and happiness; Turkey can also become for you the land of peace...If you who live in Germany knew even a tenth of what God has blessed us with in this land, you would not consider any difficulties; you would set out to come to us...Here in the land of the Turks we have nothing to complain of. We possess great fortunes; much gold and silver in our hands. We are not oppressed with heavy taxes, and our commerce is free and unhindered. Rich are the fruits of the earth. Everything is cheap, and every one of us lives in peace and freedom. Here the Jew is not compelled to wear a yellow hat as a badge of shame, as is the case in Germany, where even wealth and great fortune are a curse for a Jew because he therewith arouses jealousy among the Christians and they devise all kinds of slander against him to rob him of his gold. Arise my brethren, gird up your loins, collect your forces, and come to us. Here you will be free of your enemies, here you will find rest...>>[13] [13] Israel Zinberg, A History Of Jewish Literature. vol.V. The Jewish Center of Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Hebrew Union College Press, Ktav Publishers, New York, 1974). Serdar Argic 'We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the Turks and then proceeded in the work of extermination.' (Ohanus Appressian - 1919) 'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists a single Turkish soul.' (Sahak Melkonian - 1920)
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From: mss@netcom.com (Mark Singer) Subject: Re: Jewish Baseball Players? Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Lines: 18 >In article <15APR93.14691229.0062@lafibm.lafayette.edu> VB30@lafibm.lafayette.edu (VB30) writes: > >It's Stankiewicz, not Stankowitz, and he's not Jewish - he's Polish >(by the way, the correct pronunciation - according to Stanky himself, >is "ston-KEV-itch". all the sportscasters get it wrong) > Polish and Jewish are *not* mutually exclusive. -- Mark Singer mss@netcom.com
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From: ccohen@pitt.edu (Caleb N Cohen) Subject: Re: ABC coverage Distribution: usa Lines: 22 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Anna Matyas (am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: : Antonio Pera writes: : > I loved the ABC coverage. The production was excellent. The appearance : >was excellent. It had a sleek modern look. This was the first time I heard : >Thorne & Clement & I thought they were great. My only request is to leave : >Al Micheals out of this. He annoys me. : : I was skeptical before the game but was pleasantly surprised at the : coverage. I was particularly impressed by the close range camera coverage : of work in the corners and behind the play without losing a beat getting : back to the puck. Boy - everyone has been ripping on ESPN's hockey coverage (or is it just Pittsburgher's who are thrilled with Lange & Steigy?) For all of you who are unaware -> ESPN bought the air time from ABC and did all the production, advertising sales, commentating, etc -> and even reaped any $ made... Enjoy, Caleb
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From: ekr@kyle.eitech.com (Eric Rescorla) Subject: Re: After 2000 years, can we say that Christian Morality is Organization: EIT Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: kyle.eitech.com In article <1qjbn0$na4@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes: >In article <kmr4.1571.734847050@po.CWRU.edu> kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan) writes: ># You have only pushed back the undefined meaning. You must now define >#what "objective values" are. > >Really? You don't know what objective value is? If I offered the people >of the U.S., collectively, $1 for all of the land in America, would that >sound like a good deal? Well, that would depend on how much we wanted the US and how much we wanted the $1, wouldn't it? -Ekr -- Eric Rescorla ekr@eitech.com Would you buy used code from this man?
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Organization: University of Central Florida - Computer Services From: Mark Woodruff <CDA90038@UCF1VM.BITNET> Subject: Many people on one machine Lines: 9 I have several people sharing my machine and would like to set up separate environments under Windows for each of them. Is there some way of setting things up separate desktops/directories for each of them? Ideally, I'd like totally separate virtual machines. I'd be willing to settle for less, and may end up having batch files that copy .ini files around depending on who wants to use the machine. mark Alas, Setup/n doesn't work if you don't have a network.
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From: pittam@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au Subject: WordBasic SDK Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation Lines: 19 Reply-To: pitt@cis.dsto.gov.au NNTP-Posting-Host: fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au Request for Information I have been reading about an organisation called "WinWord Developer's Relations Group". I believe they have produced publications called WinWord Software Development Kit (or WordBasic SDK) and 'The Proceedings of the Windows Developers' Tools Conference, WordBasic' sessions assembled by Steve Wexler. Would you be able to help me with a contact name and address for this organisation or these publications. Thank you -- Adrian Pitt - Systems Administrator DSTO Corporate Information Systems Unit (Melbourne) 506 Lorimer Street, Fishermens Bend, VIC 3207 Australia Phone (03) 647 7881 Fax (03) 646 6061 email pitt@cis.dsto.gov.au
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From: brain@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (harish.s.mangrulkar) Subject: Pocono Vacation House Rental Organization: AT&T Distribution: usa Lines: 35 Available for Weekly/bi-weekly/weekend Rental : A brand new chalet in a private resort community located in the heart of the Pocono Mountains. The chalet has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and features full carpeting, cathedral ceiling in living/dining room, an overlooking loft, stone fireplace, wraparound deck, country kitchen with all appliances and many other features too numerous to list them all. Its custom designed and built and tastefully furnished for the comfort of 8 adults. The community has 24 hour security and offers 2 large lakes, 4 sandy beaches, 2 swimming pools, 9 tennis courts, many picnic areas, 4 playgrounds, miniature golf, trout stream/lake fishing, team softball, shuffleboard, ice skating/tobagun run, teen dances, club house etc. etc. There are many recreational facilities within easy reach of the vacation home. Ski resorts, luxury hotels with nitely entertaiment, Pocono international raceway, golf courses, parks, gamelands, whitewater rafting, horseback riding, scenic trails, waterfalls, train rides, historical places, all kinds of restaurants, factory outlet malls, tourist attractions, just to name a few. This is an ideal place for a family/group vacation or a weekend getaway. There is no traffic congestion and air or water pollution and its only 2 hours from New York, Northern New Jersey and Philadelphia. For further information call : 908-834-1254 (daytime) 908-388-5880 (evenings and weekends)
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From: spork@camelot.bradley.edu (Richard Izzo) Subject: Re: Royals Nntp-Posting-Host: camelot.bradley.edu Organization: Bradley University Distribution: na Lines: 20 In <randall.734911319@moose> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) writes: >The Royals are darkness. They are the void of our time. >When they play, shame descends upon the land like a cold front >from Canada. They are a humiliation to all who have lived and >all who shall ever live. They are utterly and completely >doomed. >Other than that, I guess they're OK. Oh, lighten up. What depresses me is that they might actually finish last, which I believe hasn't happened since their second season in 1970. Never mind that Gubizca is 0-2 with a 16.50 ERA, Gardner at 7.50, our main recent acquisitions (Lind, McReynolds, Jose) are averaging .210, David Cone is 0-2 (about how he was doing in KC before joining the Mets several years ago), our hitting sucks, and our pitching has collapsed, and we've won one game at home; they've won more games in their first ten games than last year, and Brian McRae is actually batting over the Mendoza line! rich.
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From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) Subject: Re: Clinton wants National ID card, aka USSR-style "Internal Passport" Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 21 In article <C5JIF8.I4n@boi.hp.com> slack@boi.hp.com (David Slack) writes: >The idea of the card is bull in and of its self, but I'm curious to know, do >they plan on making it a requirement to *always* have it on you, or is it >only going to be required to be *presented* when trying to ge medical aid? This, at least, has already been determined: The Blue Cross medical coverage for all federal employees is a good model for a future national system. To get emergency medical care, anyone so insured must always carry their Blue Cross card. Before entering a hospital, you must notify Blue Cross, or they will refuse to pay your bills. In an emergency, where you must be treated before notifying them, you must inform them within 24 hours or (if you are unable to do so for medical reasons) the hospital must. Failing to do so within 24 hours means they will not cover the hospitalization. In you need your card to notify them (and without the card, the hospital certainly wouldn't know they had to.) Therefore, you are required to carry the card at all times, or do without emergency medical coverage. Frank Crary CU Boulder
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From: edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards) Subject: Toyota Land Cruiser worth it? Organization: IntraNet, Inc. Lines: 10 In response to a post about SUV's, I got several unsolicited recommendations to check out the Land Cruiser, despite its astronomical price. The Toyota dealer told me it's a "cult car". If a car is good enough to create a passionate and loyal following, there must be something really extraordinary about it. So, all you Land Crusher Cultists - here is your chance to convert me. -- Jonathan Edwards edwards@intranet.com IntraNet, Inc 617-527-7020
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From: ata@hfsi.hfsi.com ( John Ata) Subject: Re: DID HE REALLY RISE??? Reply-To: <news@opl.com> Organization: HFSI Lines: 40 In article <Apr.21.03.26.15.1993.1349@geneva.rutgers.edu> reedr@cgsvax.claremont.edu writes: >The basic problem with your argument is your total and complete reliance on >the biblical text. Luke's account is highly suspect (I would refer you to >the hermeneia commentary on Acts). Moreover Luke's account is written at >least 90 years after the fact. In the meantime everyone he mentions has died >and attempts to find actual written sources behind the text have come up >with only the we section of the later portion of acts as firmly established. >Moreover, Pauls account of some of the events in Acts (as recorded in >Galatians) fail to establish the acts accounts. Even if there was no independent proof that Luke's account was valid, I find it strange that you would take the negation of it as truth without any direct historical evidence (at least that you've mentioned) to back it up. The assertion was made, unequivocally that no Christian ever sufferred for their faith by believing in the Resurrection. Luke's account suggests otherwise, and in the absence of direct eyewitnesses who can claim that Luke is mistaken, then I suggest that this unequivocal assertion is suspect. >randy -- John G. Ata - Technical Consultant | Internet: ata@hfsi.com HFS, Inc. VA20 | UUCP: uunet!hfsi!ata 7900 Westpark Drive MS:601 | Voice: (703) 827-6810 McLean, VA 22102 | FAX: (703) 827-3729 [I think the original claim may have been somewhat more limited than this. It was an answer to the claim that the witnesses couldn't be lying because they were willign to suffer for their beliefs. Thus it's not necessary to show that no Christian ever suffered for believing in the Resurrection. Rather the issue is whether those who witnessed it did. I do agree that the posting you're responding to shows that there can be liberal as well as conservative dogmatism. --clh]
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From: jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey) Subject: Re: Quadra 900/950 differences Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Lines: 43 jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes: >jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey) writes: >>rdk2@cec2.wustl.edu (Robert David Klapper) writes: >>> I also believe that the 950 fixed a bug in the CPU which screwed up >>>some floating point calculations. >>>-- >>>Robert D. Klapper >>>Washington University in St. Louis >>>rdk2@cec2.wustl.edu >>>Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug. >>Does someone have any definite information on this. This is the >>first I've heard of it. How does the CPU get fixed by a hardware >>upgrade? This doesn't make much sense to me. >Let's see now... The differences between the 950 and 900 are >basically: > 1. Runs at 33MHz, not 25MHz > 2. Has 25MHz I/O bus, not 16MHz > 3. Upgraded Graphics controller > 4. #3 results in Q950 requiring 80ns VRAM, not 100ns > 5. ROM fixes: > a. rounding errors in floating point calculations > at 15th digit So patch the ROMs with the latest OS version. I don't see how this is a problem. > b. Ethernet problems with more than 16 buffers >So, no doubt, the person was refering to 5a, hardly "screwing >up" though :) >-- > Jim Jagielski | "And he's gonna stiff me. So I say, > jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | 'Hey! Lama! How about something, > NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4 | you know, for the effort!'" > Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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From: downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 keeps crashing: Please HELP Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: cat.lv-lib.nevada.edu Organization: UNLV In article <1993Apr16.155637.15398@oracle.us.oracle.com> ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) writes: >From: ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) >Subject: Windows 3.1 keeps crashing: Please HELP >Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 15:56:37 GMT > >As the subjects says, Windows 3.1 keeps crashing (givinh me GPF) on me of >late. It was never a very stable package, but now it seems to crash every >day. The worst part about it is that it does not crash consistently: ie I Have you tried setting FILES in your config.sys file to a fairly high number? (I've got mine set to 100; I've seen numbers from 40 to 100 recommended). Also check your STACKS statement, STACKS=9,256 is a good starting point. Try increasing it if it's already set there (such as to STACKS=12,256, etc.). Both STACKS and FILES have been identified as _one_ cause of frequent Win3.1 crashes. Lamont Downs downs@nevada.edu
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From: frp@table.NSD.3Com.COM (Frank R. Pereira) Subject: Moving Sale Distribution: ba Organization: 3Com Corporation Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: table.nsd.3com.com Moving Sale: Must sell before May 5: Futon: high-end, oak, queen, like new -- $250 Computer Desk: roll-top, locks securely, like new -- $100 Color TV: 13", perfect cond., great for bedroom -- $50 ( ***SOLD) Coffee Tables/Dresser: $40 or B.O. Lamps: $10 Make an offer!! Ask for Esther: 415/571-6062 eve 408/736-0490 day
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From: arf@genesis.MCS.COM (Jack Schmidling) Subject: Re: Gritz/JBS/Liberty Lobby/LaRouche/Christic Insitute/Libertarian/.... Organization: MCSNet Contributor, Chicago, IL Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.mcs.com In article <1qanj0$22d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John W. Redelfs) writes: >How many are aware that the Gun Control Act of 1968 is a verbatim translation >of a Nazi gun control law passed shortly before the Holocaust? > >For those of you who think I'm being paranoid in asking these questions, >pray that you are right. Unchecked democracies usually end in >dictatorship. Remember, Germany was a democracy when Hitler rose to power. >Can we be absolutely certain nothing like that could happen today? I can't speak for the organizations you cited but everywhere you look in our society and government, one can see the relentless movement toward one world government. The fact that the media demeans such charished values as patriotism, nationalism and protectionism are some of the clues. The fact that we are sapping the economic strength of americans to prop up a former and possibly future enemy is just another. The fact the words like community of nations, global village and international business are in vogue are others. International corporations are destroying our identy and economy and the propaganda they are playing through the media and government is over powering our ability to resist. Our porous border both people and trade are an indiciation that we have already lost a great deal of sovergnty. The bottome line is that the single most evil aspect of One World Government is that you have nowhere to run to and history has proven that would be a disaster. Beware the LIBERAL and the conservative and the moderate. Think for yourself
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From: firman@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (B B S) Subject: Re: VIPER News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Lines: 10 In article <C5JnHA.8IB@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rmt6r@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Roy Matthew Thigpen) writes... > >Last night I had a dream that my dad bought a Viper. >I took it out for a test drive, without his knowledge, >and had to push it all the way home just to avoid a ticket. >Wierd dream, I wonder what it means.... > You probably should told you dad to buy that car, than your dream might come true.
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Subject: Re: Americans and Evolution From: rfox@charlie.usd.edu (Rich Fox, Univ of South Dakota) Reply-To: rfox@charlie.usd.edu Organization: The University of South Dakota Computer Science Dept. Nntp-Posting-Host: charlie Lines: 26 In article <1pik3i$1l4@fido.asd.sgi.com>, livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes: >In article <C4u51L.8Bv@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu>, bil@okcforum.osrhe.edu (Bill Conner) writes: >|> >|> >|> Why do you spend so much time posting here if your atheism is so >|> incidental, if the question of God is trivial? Fess up, it matters to >|> you a great deal. > >Ask yourself two questions. > > 1. How important is Mithras in your life today? > > 2. How important would Mithras become if there was a > well funded group of fanatics trying to get the > schools system to teach your children that Mithras > was the one true God? > >jon. Right on, Jon! Who cares who or whose, as long as it works for the individual. But don't try to impose those beliefs on us or our children. I would add the well-funded group tries also to purge science, to deny children access to great wonders and skills. And how about the kids born to creationists? What a burden with which to begin adult life. It must be a cruel awakening for those who finally see the light, provided it is possible to escape from the depths of this type of ignorance.
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From: claice@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Farmer Ted) Subject: Re: Space Debris Nntp-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 14 > There is this buy at NASA Langley... YES! Give me his name I would greatly appreciate it. Rich "The Earth is a cradle of the mind. But, we cannot live forever in a cradle" K.E. Tsiolkovski Father of Russian Astronautics
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From: schlegel@cwis.unomaha.edu (Mark Schlegel) Subject: Re: Amusing atheists and agnostics Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha Lines: 86 timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu (Bake Timmons) writes: > Atheism denies the existence of God. This is logically bankrupt -- >where is the proof of this nonexistence? It's a joke. This is one of my favorite fallacious points against atheism, i.e. the belief that you can't deny anything that you can't prove doesn't exist. This is easily nailed by showing that an infinite number of beings are conceivable but not observed to exist, does this mean that we would have to believe in all of them? According to the above poster, we must believe in objects or beings that haven't been proved not to exist so why stop at God? (there could be a huge number of beings identical to Ronald Reagan except for trivial differences, say one is missing a finger, one has blond hair,... and they all live on other planets so we can't see them) The reason no one but atheists bring this up is that none of these christians have a vested interest in these unknown beings with the exception of God. >Fine, but why do these people shoot themselves in the foot and mock the idea of >a God? Here again is a classic atheist fallacy. How did they shoot themselves in the foot? > Radical Muslims, the Crusades, the Inquisition are common examples that >atheists like to bring up as marks against religion. How weak! Only fools can >take that drivel seriously. How about the grand-daddy of all human atrocities, >the Stalinist movement? > Twenty eight MILLION people _killed_ under this leadership, which >proudly featured atheism. There is a big difference here, Stalin didn't say that he stood for a particular moral position (i.e. against murder and terrorism, etc.) and then did the opposite (like the religious movements), he was at least an honest killer. (This is NOT a support of Stalin but an attack on this viewpoint). Saying that atheism supports murder and violence just because one man was a tyrant and an atheist is just bad logic, look at all the russians that helped Stalin that weren't atheists - don't they contradict your point? Besides your point assumes that his atheism was relevant to his murdering people, this is just the common assumption that atheists can't value life as much as theists (which you didn't support). > Agnostics are not as funny because they are more reasonable. Yet >they do in some sense seem funny because they believe that the existence of God >is unknowable. This in itself is every bit the assumption that atheism is, >though it's less arrogant and pompous. Ah, and here's another point you didn't get out of the FAQ. An atheist doesn't have to hold the positive view that god doesn't exist, he/she may just have the non-existence of the positive belief. Here's the example: Strong atheism - "I believe god does not exist" a positive belief Weak atheism - "I don't believe in a god" a negative belief these are NOT the same, some one that has never thought of the idea of god in their whole life is technically an atheist, but not the kind that you are calling unreasonable. Or let's look at it this way (in sets) suppose that a given person has a huge set of ideas that I will represent as capital letters and these people then either believe that these ideas exist as real objects or not. So if S = santa, then E(S)= no is the person not believing in santa but still having the idea of santa. But notice that even E(S) = no is itself another idea! This means you have lots of cases: christian : (A,E(A)=yes,B,E(B)=no, . . . G,E(G)=yes......) where G = god atheist (strong) : (A,E(A). . . . .G,E(G)=no) atheist (weak) : (A,.....E) i.e. no G at all in the set agnostic : (A,.......G, E(G) = indeterminate, E', ....) > Why are people so afraid to say "undecided"? It must just be another >feature of human nature -- "undecided" is not a sexy, trendy, or glamorous >word. It does not inspire much hate or conflict. It's not blasphemous. >It's not political. In fact it is too often taken to mean unsophisticated. Nietzsche once said that a man would rather will nonexistence than not will at all but the darwinist way to put this is that humanity always prefers no or yes to a maybe because indecision is not a useful survival trait, evolution has drilled it in us to take positions, even false ones. >Bake Timmons, III M.S.
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: Win NT - what is it??? Nntp-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Lines: 30 In article <2BCF2664.3C6A@deneva.sdd.trw.com> reimert@.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes: >Somewhere in this thread, it has been said that Windows NT (tm) is a >multi-user OS, as well as multi-threading, etc. I certainly haven't >seen this to be the case. There are seperate accounts for each person, >and even seperate directories if that is desired. I don't see an >implentation of simultaneuos use though. Since running any GUI over a network is going to slow it down by a fair amount, I expect Windows NT will be multiuser only in the sense of sharing filesystems. Someone will likely write a telnetd for it so one could run character-based apps, but graphics-based apps will have to be shared by running the executables on the local CPU. This is how things are shaping up everywhere: client-server architectures are taking over from the old cpu-terminal setups. Note that the NeXT does this: you can always telnet into a NeXT and run character-based apps but you can't run the GUI. (Yeah, I know about X-Windows, just haven't been too impressed by it...).. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
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From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) Subject: Re: Need advice with doctor-patient relationship problem Nntp-Posting-Host: zeppelin.convex.com Organization: The Instrumentality X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and not necessarily those of CONVEX. Lines: 16 In article <C5L9qB.4y5@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes: >Sounds as though his heart's in the right place, but he is not adept at >expressing it. What you received was _meant_ to be a profound apology. >Apologies delivered by overworked shy people often come out like that... His _heart_? This jerk doesn't have a heart, and it beats me why you're apologizing for him. In my book, behavior like this is unprofessional, inexcusable, and beyond the pale. If he's overworked, it's because he's too busy raking in the bucks. More likely, he just likes to push women around. I'd fire the s.o.b., and get myself another doctor. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Die Welt ist alles, was Zerfall ist. | Peter Cash | (apologies to Ludwig Wittgenstein) |cash@convex.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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To: gnu-gdb-bug@gatech.edu Distribution: world From: deepak@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Deepak Mulchandani) Subject: Help in developing a X-Windows interface for GDB Organization: Motorola, Semiconductor Products Sector Lines: 39 Hi, I am trying to write an X-windows based interface that runs on top of GDB. Could anyone help me in understanding the way we are supposed to "fork" GDB off as a subprocess ?? I currently use pipes but when I try and debug this program, the following happens : PROGRAM : main() { int x; printf("enter x : "); scanf("%d", &x); printf("x = .%d.\n", x ); } OUTPUT : The program hangs without returning the output of the printf statement. When I type in a value (like 5), then all the printf's output comes out at one time. Is there any other way, besides using PIPES to do this i.e., like ioctl or something else ?? Thanks, Deepak -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deepak Mulchandani Advanced Products Research and Development Laboratory Motorola, Semiconductor Products Sector Austin, TX (512) 928-7642 deepak@inxs.sps.mot.com
2099
From: foster@mtechca.maintech.com Subject: Catholic Lit-Crit of a.s.s. Organization: MAINTECH, A division of Volt Delta Resources,Inc. Orange, CA. Lines: 64 In article <1qevbh$h7v@agate.berkeley.edu>, dzkriz@ocf.berkeley.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes: [ a lot of religious opinions and quotations from the Bible and from many Catholic theologians and Papal Bulls ] [ which, although introduced with a smiley, was not as funny as it might have been (notable exception: subject headers such as "ONE'S DICK IS ONE'S INSTRUMENT OF REDEMPTION." ] [ and indeed, the posting seemed to be more a vehicle for the religious text than for any "literary/moral analysis" ] I am surprised and saddened. I would expect this kind of behavior from the Evangelical Born-Again Gospel-Thumping In-Your-Face We're- The-Only-True-Christian Protestants, but I have always thought that Catholics behaved better than this. Friend Dennis, I urge you to follow the example of your fellow Catholics, of who I count many dozens as my friends, and practice your faith through good example and decent living and respect for the common humanity of others. Please do not stoop to the level of the E B-A G-T I-Y-F W-T-O-T-C Protestants, who think that the best way to witness is to be strident, intrusive, loud, insulting and overbearingly self-righteous. The imagery in the Song of Solomon is a little bit dated (get it? Middle East - date palms - oh, never mind) but apparently acceptable, on a steaminess level, to be accepted as part of the canon. From this fact I derive that erotica itself is not incompatible with Catholic doctrine. Is there such a thing as Catholic erotica? Not necessarily a love story between people of that faith, but a love story that is not exploitative, does not seek redemption through penis size, pays proper respect to the dignity of each partner, and is still erotic enough to have a place on a.s.s. I would submit that the _Darknites_ series of stories qualify, also most of the _Journal Entries_, and _Rings I and II_. I would guess that your aim is to cut down on the pornography and increase the erotica. I actually agree with you that nearly all of the "I've got an enormous dick, and I shot my wad all over her face" stories are crap. I count them as noise, which makes my take on the signal-to-noise ration much lower than many other people's. Since you are one of the few posters here who can actually write decent prose, could you write a few stories for us instead of overwhelming us with commentary? > Anyway, this is a big subject. PLEASE add your comments, > additions and observations. > > Sincerely, > > dennis > dzkriz@ocf.berkeley.edu > -- Thank you. Jeff foster@mtechca.maintech.com