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From: harrij@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jonathan Conrad Harriman)
Subject: Top of the line JVC portable disc player for sale
Summary: JVC portable disc player
Keywords: JVC, jvc, portable cd player, cd, cd player
Nntp-Posting-Host: rebecca.its.rpi.edu
Lines: 29
I have used JVC's top of the line portable cd player for three months now.
I have mostly used it in my car on long trips, so it has less than 20 hours of use on it. The unit is one of the best that I have seen and listened to, but
I am going to part with it to install a disc changer in my car.
Features include:
17 Hz - 20,000 Hz
rechargeable nicad batteries
wireless remote control
AC adaptor
headphones
carrying belt and case
digital 6 band graphic eq with spectrum analyzer
25 presets, 5 user programmable
RCA connections and cord
JVC compulink capability (cord included)
programmable from remote
intro, random, repeat playback
I will include a Discwasher (tm) power converter to convert an automobile's
12v DC to the 5.5V DC that the unit requires. I had to buy this one because
it was the only one that fits, (JVC makes a unique connection that cannot be
found at Radio Shack etc).
I paid $235 for the disc player and another $30 for the power converter.
I will sell the disc player alone for $180, or both items for $190.
Send replies to harrij@rpi.edu or (518)271-7942
-Jon
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From: vojak@icebucket.stortek.com (Bill Vojak)
Subject: ACLU policies
Originator: vojak@icebucket.stortek.com
Nntp-Posting-Host: icebucket.stortek.com
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
Distribution: usa
Lines: 59
ACLU Official Policies.
Policy 18, for example, opposes rating systems for motion
pictures: "Industry sponsored ratings systems create the
potential for constraining the creative process and thus
contracting the marketplace of ideas. Despite the stated goal of
providing guidance to parents, experience has shown that ratings
inevitably have serious chilling effects on freedom of
expression."
In regards to the Pledge of Allegiance, the ACLU states in its
Policy 84: "The insertion of the words `under God' into the
Pledge of Allegiance is a violation of the constitutional
principle of separation of Church and State."
Policy 120 states that, "Military conscription under any
circumstances is a violation of civil liberties and
constitutional guarantees." The ACLU objects to the draft even
during wartime because of the "anti-democratic power it gives
government to wage war without support of the people."
Policy 125 states, "The ACLU calls for a broad-based inquiry into
war crimes within the widest possible definition of war crimes
against humanity, and crimes against the peace, focusing upon the
actions of the United States military and other combatants
against the people of South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and North
Vietnam."
Policy 133 states, "The ACLU recognizes that US government
reliance upon nuclear weaponry as a dominant element of foreign
and domestic policy, while propounded as a defense of democracy,
is in fact a great threat to civil liberties. Four decades of
adherence to this policy has fundamentally altered the nature of
our constitutional democratic process and poses a paramount
threat to our civil liberties."
Policy 217 objects to roadblocks "where drivers are stopped for
sobriety tests" because they "violate Fourth Amendment
principles."
Policy 242 states the following on criminal
sentencing: "The most appropriate correctional approach is
reintegrating the offender into the community, and the goals of
reintegration are furthered much more readily by working with the
offender within the community than by incarceration. Probation
should be authorized by the legislature in every case; exceptions
to the principle are not favored, and any exceptions, if made,
should be limited to the most serious of offenses, such as murder
or treason."
Bill Vojak
vojak@icebucket.stortek.com
NRA, ILA,
Colorado Firearms Coalition
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The CBS Nightly Propaganda With Dan Rather. (RATHER NOT!)
The CBS Nightly Propaganda With Dan Rather. (RATHER BIASED!)
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From: curry@doe.carleton.ca (Simon Curry)
Subject: House for Sale, Mediterranean Coast Spain
Summary: House for Sale in Javea, Alicante, Spain
Keywords: House, seaside,Spain
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Lines: 35
Mediterranean Investment property for Sale
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Javea, Alicante Spain (Costa Blanca)
Villa on a large lot in the wooded (pine) hills "above the noise".
2 bedrooms, living-dining room + glassed-in sun-porch; kitchen &
bathroom. Large lot surrounded by traditional white wall with
wrought iron gates: room for an in-ground pool. 2 minutes from the
sea and supermarket; 10 minutes from town and full amenities. Area
has specially favourable microclimate, mentioned in a WHO climate
report.
Seat (Fiat) runabout Car, 3 years old may be included, in the deal.
Ideal for retirement or as a family holiday resort.
Must sell for family reasons.
Asking $150,000.
Reply by EMAIL or call Canada (613)591-0507
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Simon Curry, Executive Director Tele: (613)991-9001
The Royal Society of Canada Fax: (613)991-6996
PO Box 9734, Ottawa K1G 5J4 Email: curry@doe.carleton.ca
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Simon Curry Tele: (613)991-9001
The Royal Society of Canada Fax: (613)991-6996
PO Box 9734, Ottawa K1G 5J4 Email: curry@doe.carleton.ca
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From: akins@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (kay.a.akins)
Subject: Seizure information - infant
Organization: AT&T
Keywords: seizures
Lines: 8
Here is the tollfree hotline for the Epilepsy Foundation
of America - 1-800-EFA-1000. They will be able to answer
your questions and send you information and references on
seizure types, medication, etc. They can also give you references
for a pediatric neorologist in your area. Also ask for the
number of your local Foundation who can put you in touch with
a Parent Support Group and social workers.
Good Luck.
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From: andy@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman)
Subject: Re: Newspapers censoring gun advertisements
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Lines: 48
>NEWSPAPER AD CENSORSHIP
>
>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.
>
>If you are tired of newspapers who run sex and liquor ads galor, yet refuse to
>run legitimate gun ads, please send a letter to the editors indicating your
>displeasure over their censorship doctrine.
>
>Following is a list of Bay area newspapers who censor gun ads. Perhaps you'd
>like to send them your thoughts on this issue!
>
>Contra Costa Times San Mateo Times San Francisco Chronicle
>POB 5088 POB 5400 901 Mission St.
>Walnut Creek, CA 94596 San Mateo, CA 94402 San Francisco, CA 94103
>
>San Fran. Independent San Fran. Examiner San Jose Mercury News
>1201 Evans Ave 110 5th St. 750 Ridder Park Dr.
>San Fran., CA 94124 San Fran., CA 94103 San Jose, CA 95190
I have the April 15, 1993 issue of the SF Chronicle in my lap. Page
E7 (in the "Sporting Green" section) has a Trader's advert. (The
copy is a bit screwed up - it says that the prices offered expire
4-14-93, but the ad is there.)
The SF Examiner and Chronicle run the same set of adverts (because
they have a joint printing/biz agreement and differ only in editorial
content).
I've seen gun ads recently in the merc, which is anti-gun editorially,
albeit not from traders, but from its competitors.
I don't know about the other papers.
Does Traders claim that things are changing? When?
>- Why TV journalists lie
Because it's easier than telling the truth and no one much cares
either way.
>Let me know if you write to any of these bozos.
Before you do, make sure that the bozos are actually doing what
you're accusing them of.
-andy
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From: ak954@yfn.ysu.edu (Albion H. Bowers)
Subject: Re: ++BIKE SOLD OVER NET 600 MILES AWAY!++
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Lines: 23
Reply-To: ak954@yfn.ysu.edu (Albion H. Bowers)
NNTP-Posting-Host: yfn.ysu.edu
In a previous article, essbaum@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Alexander Essbaum) says:
>In article <6130331@hplsla.hp.com>, kens@hplsla.hp.com (Ken Snyder) writes:
>|> > Any other bikes sold long distances out there...I'd love to hear about
>|> it!
>|> I bought my VFR750 from a guy in San Jose via the net. That's 825 miles
>|> according to my odometer!
>mark andy (living in pittsburgh) bought his RZ350 from a dude in
>massachusetts (or was it connecticut?).
I sold a bike via the net to a young lady who lived in Salt Lake City. I
live near Lost Angeles. It turned out we had mutual aquaintances at UCLA
as well.
--
Al Bowers DOD #900 Alfa Ducati Hobie Kottke 'blad Iaido NASA
"Well goodness sakes...don't you know that girls can't play guitar?"
-Mary Chapin-Carpenter
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From: med50003@nusunix1.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN)
Subject: Re: Lasers for dermatologists
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Lines: 12
It is not true that dermatologists gave not reached the laser age, in
fact, lasers in dermatological surgery is a very new and exciting field.
It probably won't be effective in tinea pedis because the laser is
usually a superficial burn (to avoid any deeper damage). Limited tinea
pedis can be cured albeit sometimes slowly by topical antifungals as
well as systemic medication i.e. tablets. Finally, a self-diagnosis is
not always reliable, lichen simplex chronicus can look like a fungal
infection and requires very different treatment.
gervais
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From: agallagh@slate.mines.colorado.edu (GALLAGHER ANDREA J )
Subject: XAllocColor fails to return nearest match
Reply-To: ngorelic@speclab.cr.usgs.gov
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
Lines: 23
[posted for a friend]
Okay, I looked through the FAQs and didn't see this, but I know its
come up before...
XAllocColor is supposed to do the following in order:
Try to find an exact match read-only color cell. (within hardware limits)
Try to allocate a read-only colorcell and set it to match.
and when all else fails,
Return the colorcell with the best match from the read-only colors
already allocated in the colormap.
This sounds good in theory. It doesn't seem to work this way
though. If there is no exact match already in the colormap, and
no unallocated cells, then XAllocColor fails, even when it has
already allocated several other cells already, and there are dozens
of read-only cells already in the colormap.
Is this a bug? A feature? A misunderstanding on my part?
Any help appreciated,
Noel (ngorelic@speclab.cr.usgs.gov)
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From: jcj@tellabs.com (jcj)
Subject: Re: When are two people married
Organization: Huh? Whuzzat?
Lines: 14
JEK@cu.nih.gov writes:
>...
>The essential ingredient of a marriage is mutual commitment. Two
>persons are considered to be married if and only if they have bound
>themselves by mutual promises to live together as husband and wife,
>forsaking all others, till death do them part.
>
Does that imply that people who take marriage vows but aren't sincere
are not married?
Jeff Johnson
jcj@tellabs.com
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From: tpremo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Cinnamon Bear)
Subject: Onkyo Integra series Integrated amp for sale:
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: na
Lines: 18
I have a Onkyo integrated amplifier that I am looking to get rid of.
60w/ch
works great
Integra series
not a problem
Asking $100 OBO
If your interested call me at 317-743-2656 or email this address.
MAKE ME AN OFFER!!!
Todd
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/ / / % Purdue Universtiy
/ __ __ / __ / % Environmental Engineering
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Subject: Re: univesa driver
From: djlewis@ualr.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Nntp-Posting-Host: athena.ualr.edu
Lines: 13
In article <13622@news.duke.edu>, seth@north13.acpub.duke.edu (Seth Wandersman) writes:
>
> I got the univesa driver available over the net. I thought that finally
> my 1-meg oak board would be able to show 680x1024 256 colors. Unfortunately a
> program still says that I can't do this. Is it the fault of the program (fractint)
> or is there something wrong with my card.
> univesa- a free driver available over the net that makes many boards
> vesa compatible.
WHATS THIS 680x1024 256 color mode? Asking a lot of your hardware ?
Don Lewis
<djlewis@ualr.edu>
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From: europa@tomcat.raleigh.ibm.com (Welch Bryan)
Subject: Re: WARNING.....(please read)...
Nntp-Posting-Host: tomcat.raleigh.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Keywords: BRICK, TRUCK, DANGER
Lines: 66
In article <C5JoIt.E31@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>, neil@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Neil Williams) writes:
|> larose@austin.cs.utk.edu (Brian LaRose) writes:
|>
|> >This just a warning to EVERYBODY on the net. Watch out for
|> >folks standing NEXT to the road or on overpasses. They can
|> >cause SERIOUS HARM to you and your car.
|>
|> >(just a cliff-notes version of my story follows)
|>
|> >10pm last night, I was travelling on the interstate here in
|> >knoxville, I was taking an offramp exit to another interstate
|> >and my wife suddenly screamed and something LARGE hit the side
|> >of my truck. We slowed down, but after looking back to see the
|> >vandals standing there, we drove on to the police station.
|>
|> >She did get a good look at the guy and saw him "cock his arm" with
|> >something the size of a cinderblock, BUT I never saw him. We are
|> >VERY lucky the truck sits up high on the road; if it would have hit
|> >her window, it would have killed her.
|>
|> >The police are looking for the guy, but in all likelyhood he is gone.
|>
|> >I am a very good driver (knock on wood), but it was night-time and
|> >I never saw the guy. The police said they thought the motive was to
|> >hit the car, have us STOP to check out the damage, and then JUMP US,
|> >and take the truck.
|>
|> >PLEASE BE AWARE OF FOLKS. AND FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, PLEASE DON'T STOP!!!!
|>
|> >peace.
|>
|>
|> >--
|> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> >brian larose larose@cs.utk.edu #12, 3103 Essary Rd. Knoxville, TN 37918.
|>
|> >{}
|>
|> As long as we're on the subject... Several years ago myself and two others
|> were riding in the front of a Toyota pickup heading south on Interstate 5
|> north of Seattle, WA. Someone threw a rock of an overpass and hit our
|> windshield. Not by accident I'm sure, it was impossible to get up to the
|> overpass quickly to see who did it. We figured it was kids, reported it and
|> left.
|> A couple of years ago it happend again and killed a guy at my company. He was
|> in his mid-fourties and left behind a wife and children. Turned out there was
|> a reformatory for juviniles a few blocks away. They caught the 14 year old
|> that did it. They put a cover over the overpass, what else could they do?
|> I don't think I'll over forget this story.
In Des Moines, Iowa, about a year ago, some kid dropped a rock from an
overpass and hit car just behind the windshield. It put a dent in the roof,
so I guess I was lucky it hit metal.
It's frustrating that we can't do much. Bother the city government to put
covers on all overpasses? Slow down/speed up a bit when driving under all
overpasses in the city? I like the first better, but that will take time
and lots of people talking to the city governments.
Just another .02...
--
Bryan Welch Amateur Radio: N0SFG
Internet: europa@vnet.ibm.com (best), bwelch@scf.nmsu.edu
Everything will perish save love and music.--Scots Gaelic proverb
Disclaimer: It's all opinion. Everything. So there.
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From: gregp@acpy01.att.com (Greg Peterson (CXNIXPT1))
Subject: 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX For Sale
Organization: AT&T IMS - Piscataway, NJ (USA)
Distribution: nj
Lines: 26
FOR SALE
1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX
* All Wheel Drive
* 195 HP, 16 Valve, Turbo
* 5 Speed Transmission
* Limited Slip Differential
* AM/FM Stereo w/CD Player, Cassette, 6 Speakers
* Fog Lights
* Air Conditioning
* Cruise Control
* Electric Windows
* Front & Rear Intermittent Wipers & Washers
* Alloy Wheels
* Undercoated & Rustproofed
* 22,000 Miles
* Maui Blue
* Excellent Condition
* Asking $ 11,899 (negotiable)
Call Pete: 908 457-2838 (Work)
908 821-5393 (Home)
or respond to:
pvannuis@attmail.com
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From: umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Daryl Turner)
Subject: My predictions
Nntp-Posting-Host: gibson.cc.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Lines: 79
Smythe Division
---------------
Vancouver vs. Winnipeg - Jets in 7
The Jets have played the Canucks tough the last three games. Everyone is
healthy for the Jets. I'm biased. :)
Calgary vs. Los Angeles - Flames in 6
From what I have seen, the Kings have looked flat lately. I just can't see
them getting by the Flames.
Final- Jets in 6.
The Jets haven't lost to the Flames in '93. They will, but it will be a
close series that will come down to how well Roberts has recovered. I
don't think he'll be 100%, and while it will help, it won't be enough.
Norris Division
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Chicago vs. St. Louis/Minnesota
Chicago in 6 against the Blues, 7 against the Stars.
Detroit vs. Toronto - Wings in 6.
The Wings should be able to shutdown Gilmour and Andreychuk. Chelvadae is
more experienced than Potvin.
Final - Hawks in 7. Brutal series. Probert and Chelios will go at it.
Belfour is better than Chelvadae, IMHO.
Conference Final - Hawks in 6. It hurts, but the Hawks are more experienced,
and that will carry them through to the final.
Prince of Wales Conference
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Adams Division
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Boston vs. Buffalo - Bruins in 6.
B's can check, Juneau is darn good, and Neely. The Sabres rely too much
on Lafontaine and Mogilny.
Quebec vs. Montreal - Montreal in 7.
Classic battle, the inexperience will hurt the Nords, this year.
Final - Bruins in 5. Habs will be hurting from their series with the Nords,
and Boston has been able to control the scorers on the Habs.
Patrick Division
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Pittsburgh vs Islanders/Devils - Pens in 5.
One word. Mario.
Washington vs. Devils/Islanders - Caps in 6 / Devils in 7.
I think the Caps can beat the Isles, but not the Devils. Tabaracci has been
strong in goal, and if he plays like last year, he could carry the team.
It doesn't matter, though.
Final - Pens in 5. Two more words. Stevens. Jagr.
Cup Final - Pens in 6. Three last words. Tocchet. Murphy. Barrasso.
The only thing I don't like about this is that the Pens woofers are going to
be out in full force again. (I don't mean the regular Penguin fans...it's
just like the bunch around here that if these predictions are true will post
like nuts while the Jets are winning, but we won't hear from again when they
lose.)
(Oh yeah...next year's Cup prediction...Jets in 7 over the Nords.)
Daryl Turner : r.s.h contact for the Winnipeg Jets
Internet: umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca
FidoNET: 1:348/701 -or- 1:348/4 (please route through 348/700)
Tkachuk over to Zhamnov, up to Sel{nne, he shoots, he scores!
The Jets win the Cup! The Jets win the Cup!
Essensa for Vezina! Housley for Norris! Sel{nne for Calder!
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From: cfdeb01@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Dixon Berry)
Subject: Mail_Order Sales, Billing, Receivables program
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Lines: 20
Surely some one of you is familiar with what a mail-order company goes
through. This company has only a few products, but thousands of clients.
I need a Sales, Billing, and Receivables program to handle the thing,
but I need to be able to customize it myself, own the source, etc. Anyone
willing to sell me the basic stuff (in ANY development language) I'll
be willing to pay about $1,000 to.
It has to be ready now. I need this sort of solution immediately. With more
time I'll just develop one myself. If you can have me a prototype in
two weeks, you can make some quick cash.
*************************************************************************
| Dixon Berry "I see the light |
| cfdeb01@ux1.cts.eiu.edu at the end of the tunnel, now, |
| Eastern Illinois University [thanks Bill Clinton] |
| Booth Library Someone please tell me |
| Computer Resource Center it's not a train |
| -- Cracker |
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From: koberg@spot.Colorado.EDU (Allen Koberg)
Subject: Re: What is AT BUS CLK Speed?
Nntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Lines: 24
In article <12934.73.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us> robert.desonia@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Robert Desonia) writes:
>
>S >There is one param in the bios setup that says AT BUS CLK. I have
>clock, which is beyond ISA specs, but may be ok if all of the cards can
>run that fast. I would set it to 3 ( in fact I did ) and set it back if
>anything acts weird ( e.g. you get unexplainable floppy drive errors, your
>modem locks up, you have video problems, etc. ). If you overdrive the AT
>bus, then that should be the first thing to check if you get an error on
>your system.
>
>It is pretty safe to overdrive your AT bus, as long as your ISA cards
>still work flawlessly. I suggest backing up your HD before playing with
>it though.
On my 486DX-50 (really 50, not DX2), my AT bus is set to CLK/3.
At 16.67 MHz, I have no problems. Soundblaster Pro, Zoom 14.4 FXM, RLL
controller, etc. All work fine.
If I set it to 2 (25 MHz), I simply don't get past the POST routines.
I doubt you could actually damage much by playing with it.
Allen
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From: rscharfy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryan C Scharfy)
Subject: Re: New Study Out On Gay Percentage
Nntp-Posting-Host: magnusug.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University
Lines: 46
>>The article also contains numbers on the number of sexual partners.
>>The median number of sexual partners for all men 20-39 was 7.3.
>>Compared to the table I have already posted from Masters, Johnson,
>>and Kolodny showing male homosexual partners, it is apparent that
>>homosexual men are dramatically more promiscuous than the general
>>male population. It's a shame that we don't have a breakdown for
>>straight men vs. gay/bi men -- that would show even more dramatically
>>how much more promiscuous gay/bi men are.
>>--
>
>Isn't is funny how someone who seems to know nothing about homosexuality
>uses a very flawed (IMHO) source of information to pass jusgement on all
>homosexual and bisexual men.
Only the most comprehensive survey on sexuality in 50 years.
> It would seem more logical to say that since
>the heterosexual group of men is larger then the chances of promiscuity
>larger as well. In my opinion, orientation has nothing to do with it.
>
Chance and size have nothing in common on the multimillion number scale we are
talking about.
>Men are men and they all like sex. I am a gay male. I have had sex three
>times in my life, all with the same man. Before that, I was a virgin.
>
>So... whose promiscuous?
>
Nobody said that you were. Chill.
>Just because someone is gay doesn't mean they have no morals. Just because
>someone is heterosexual doesn't mean they do. Look at the world....
Well said.
>Statistics alone prove that most criminals are by default hetero...
>
Actually, the Kinsley Report in 1947(or 48?) used a high percentage of
prisoners so...........
Ryan
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From: ayari@judikael.loria.fr (Ayari Iskander)
Subject: NHLPA poll (Stats/3rd uptade)
Organization: Crin - Inria-Lorraine
Lines: 54
3rd uptade:
Here are the standings for the poll after 39 votes: 5 points for 1st, 4 for 2nd,... 1 point for 5th:
EA/ NHLPA game
1. DET 102
2. CHI 97
3. NY 74
4. VAN 73
5. MTL 69
6. PIT 33
7. WSH 29
8. BOS 21
9..ASW 16
10.CGY 10
11.QUE 9
12.ASE 8
13.WPG 7
14.LA 5
OTW 5
STL 5
TOR 5
18.BUF 3
PHI 3
TBY 3
21.SJ 2
22.MIN 1
Atlanta to win Turner Cup 1 (not in the game, but 1 person vote)
24.EDM 0
HTF 0
LI 0
NJ 0
4 teams have no point
Continue to send your votes in this format (until April 20th, approximately)
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Keywords:
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_____________________________________________________
Email : Iskander.Ayari@loria.fr ou ayari@loria.fr
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From: scott@asd.com (Scott Barman)
Subject: Re: Sid Fernandez?
Organization: American Software Development Corp., West Babylon, NY
Distribution: usa
Lines: 18
In article <1993Apr15.145914.1575@csi.jpl.nasa.gov> cub@csi.jpl.nasa.gov (Ray Miller) writes:
>I read this morning that Sid Fernandez left last nights' game with stiffness
>in his shoulder. Does anyone have any information as to the extent of the
>injury (if indeed there is one), or weather the cold air in Colorado just got
>his joints a little stiff?
>
>Thanks for the help...
All they said on the radio that he developed stiffness in the shoulder
after throwing a curveball that didn't loosen. Because of the cold
night in Denver they decided to remove him from the game rather than
let him pitch. He is expected to pitch his next turn in the rotation
(expected to be April 20, at Shea vs the Giants).
--
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scott@asd.com | mail mets-request@asd.com <<!
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From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
Subject: Re: WARNING.....(please read)...
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
Lines: 31
In article <C5JGC4.AJJ@dove.nist.gov> keys@starchild.ncsl.nist.gov (Lawrence B. Keys) writes:
This isn't anything new. Back in 1985 I was driving under a high
overpass at night on I-805 in San Diego when I caught a glimpse of
someone on the overpass. As I passed under a rock slammed against the
metal between the winshield and right front window. My girlfriend was
in the seat next to it. I called the police from the next exit, but I
doubt if they were found.
About five years ago in San Diego someone was put into a coma from a
brick being thrown through his sunroof as he was driving and
subsequently crashed. I don't think he ever came out of the coma, and I
haven't heard anything about it for a couple years.
>I know that this isn't the group for it, but since you brought it up,
>does anyone have any idea why they haven't "bombed" the Waco cult?
Probably because there are many children there. Also the minor fact
that other than defending themselves from 100 some people attacking them
they haven't threatened or attacked anyone outside the compound in
years. Being a promiscuous religious nut does not constitute grounds
for a mass murder of Koresh and his followers.
Sorry for posting this to this group, but I thought the previous post
needed a rebuttal. If you follow-up to this portion please cross-post
and direct follow-ups to a more appropriate newsgroup.
--
====== Boyd Johnson nosc!spectra.com!johnson San Diego, California ======
Intermittent newsfeed at best and only to selected groups.
My opinions certainly don't match those of my employer.
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From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: American Jewish Congress Open Letter to Clinton
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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In article <22APR199300374349@vxcrna.cern.ch> casper@vxcrna.cern.ch (CASPER,DAVI./PPE) writes:
>>>I must say I was appalled by the American Jewish Council's open letter.
>>>America is not the world's policeman. We cannot and should not take it upon
>>>ourselves to solve the problems of the entire world. America's young men and
>>>women should not be sent to Yugoslavia, period. If people feel strongly
>>>enough, let them go as individuals to fight alongside the butchers of their
>>>choice.
>>We have a volunteer army. The argument you gave only applies if we have a
>>draft.
>Huh?
Sorry, I misread your remark about young men and women. (Though I am now
unsure what that sentence does mean.)
>>Furthermore, people do not become butchers by _being_ "ethnic
>>cleansed". Or do you automatically call them butchers because they are Muslim?
>I am disappointed in your logic, especially coming from a stalwart of
>sci.skeptic.
You implied that anyone who wants to send troops to Bosnia wants to do so to
help the "butchers of their choice". Since the primary targets of help are
Muslim victims of "ethnic cleansing", you imply that such Muslim victims are
butchers.
>1) People become butchers by butchering. There have been atrocities on all
>sides.
This implies both sides are equal. True, it may sometimes be difficult or
impossible to determine which side is the victim, but that does not mean that
victims do not exist. Would you, in WWII have said that there were atrocities
on the sides of both the Jews and the Germans?
>These people have been butchering each other for centuries. When one
>side wins and gets what it wants, it will stop.
Yes, but both sides want different things. The Muslims chiefly want to not
be "ethnic cleansed". The Serbians want to "ethnic cleanse" the Muslims. It
is indeed true that each side will stop when it gets what it wants, but the
things that the two sides want are not equivalent.
>2) Quite an impressive leap of reasoning to assume that I am so racist as to
>call someone a butcher because they are Muslim. In fact, I think on the
>contrary, the media fixation on this war, as opposed to the dozens upon dozens
>of civil wars which have been fought in the recent past is because these are
>white people, in Europe. When atrocities occur in the Third World, there is
>not as much news coverage, and not nearly the same level of outrage.
I recall, before we did anything for Somalia, (apparent) left-wingers saying
that the reason everyone was more willing to send troops to Bosnia than to
Somalia was because the Somalis are third-worlders who Americans consider
unworthy of help. They suddenly shut up when the US decided to send troops to
the opposite place than that predicted by the theory.
For that matter, this theory of yours suggests that Americans should want to
help the Serbs. After all, they're Christian, and the Muslims are not. If
the desire to intervene in Bosnia is based on racism against people that are
less like us, why does everyone _want_ to help the side that _is_ less like us?
Especially if both of the sides are equal as you seem to think?
--
"On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
that she made from Leftover Turkey.
[days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
-- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
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From: ai598@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Sturdevant)
Subject: Carrying crutches (was Re: Living
Article-I.D.: usenet.1pqhkl$g48
Reply-To: ai598@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Sturdevant)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Lines: 18
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu
In a previous article, pooder@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Don Fearn) says:
>
>When I broke my right leg in two places (not a motorcycle accident -- a
>_car_ accident; who woulda thunk it?) I put my crutches on Gretchen's rear
>rack. I'm getting the metal rod pulled out on Friday and going back on
>the crutches for six weeks. I think crutches on the handlebars sound more
>aesthetically pleasing. How did you attach them?
When I got my knee rebuilt I got back on the street bike ASAP. I put
the crutches on the rack and the passenger seat and they hung out back a
LONG way. Just make sure they're tied down tight in front and no problemo.
--
Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.
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From: paul@hsh.com (Paul Havemann)
Subject: Re: CLINTON: President to Nominate Carter for Nuclear Security Post
Organization: HSH Associates
Lines: 28
In article <1qgbljINNn4o@life.ai.mit.edu>, Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92) writes:
>
> THE WHITE HOUSE
> Office of the President
> For Immediate Release April 13, 1993
>
> PRESIDENT TO NOMINATE CARTER FOR NUCLEAR SECURITY
No, no, no! Bill, please, don't nominate ANYone who pronounces it
"noo-q-lar"! Jimmy always used to drive everyone nuts when he did that!
And don't let Amy anywhere near! And...
> (Washington, DC) The President announced today that he intends
> to nominate Ashton Carter, the Director of Harvard's Center for
> Science and International Affairs, to be Assistant Secretary of
> Defense for Nuclear Security and Counter-Proliferation.
{Emily Litella voice}
...never mind.
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
Paul Havemann (Internet: paul@hsh.com)
* They're not just opinions -- they're caffeine for the brain! *
** (Up to 50 milligrams per cynical observation.) **
Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement: 1,000 mg. Keep reading.
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From: ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl (Ferdinand Oeinck)
Subject: Re: detecting double points in bezier curves
Organization: My own node in Groningen, NL.
Lines: 34
renner@adobe.com (John Renner) writes:
> In article <19930420.090030.915@almaden.ibm.com> capelli@vnet.IBM.COM (Ron Ca
> >In <ia522B1w165w@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl> Ferdinand Oeinck writes:
> >>I'm looking for any information on detecting and/or calculating a double
> >>point and/or cusp in a bezier curve.
> >
> >See:
> > Maureen Stone and Tony DeRose,
> > "A Geometric Characterization of Parametric Cubic Curves",
> > ACM TOG, vol 8, no 3, July 1989, pp. 147-163.
>
> I've used that reference, and found that I needed to go to their
> original tech report:
>
> Maureen Stone and Tony DeRose,
> "Characterizing Cubic Bezier Curves"
> Xerox EDL-88-8, December 1988
>
First, thanks to all who replied to my original question.
I've implemented the ideas from the article above and I'm very satisfied
with the results. I needed it for my bezier curve approximation routine.
In some cases (generating offset curves) loops can occur. I now have a
fast method of detecting the generation of a curve with a loop. Although
I did not follow the article above strictly. The check if the fourth control
point lies in the the loop area, which is bounded by two parabolas and
one ellips is too complicated. Instead I enlarged the loop-area and
surrounded it by for straight lines. The check is now simple and fast and
my approximation routine never ever outputs self-intersecting bezier curves
again!
Ferdinand.
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From: jrwaters@eos.ncsu.edu (JACK ROGERS WATERS)
Subject: Portable Color Television For Sale
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Lines: 17
Hello Everyone,
I have a Casio TV-470 LCD Color Television for sale. It
is in mint condition. Retail is $199 but I'm looking to
get about 1/2 of that for it, tops. Highest bidder in
a week gets it, assuming the highest bidder is at least $60.
TV comes with black case and uses 4 AA batteries. They also
sell AC adaptor. It has external jack for phones and external
antenna, etc. The picture is very good and it has electronic
tuning so you don't have to screw with tuning a picture in, etc.
I have the box and all documentation. This has seen less than
3 hours use as I have all but sworn off TV.
Best Regards
Jack Waters II
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From: bbenowit@telesciences.com (Barry D Benowitz)
Subject: PRK (Photo Refractive Keratostomy)
Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Lines: 21
For those of you interested in the above Procedure, I am able to add the
following facts:
1) This Procedure is not done in Philadelphia.
2) It is performed in Maryland at Johns Hopkins for corrections between
0 and -5 and from -10 to -20 (diopters, I think are the units).
3) It is performed in New York City at Manhattan Eye and Ear for corrections
between 0 and -6.
The magic words to use when requesting information on this is not PRK (they
think you mean RK) but the excimer laser study (or protocol). This will get
you to the proper people.
--
Barry D. Benowitz
EMail: bbenowit@telesciences.com (...!pyrnj!telesci!bbenowit)
Phone: +1 609 866 1000 x354
Snail: Telesciences CO Systems, 351 New Albany Rd, Moorestown, NJ, 08057-1177
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From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
Subject: Re: NC vs Hunt (Marine Gay Bashing in Wilmington NC) verdict
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
Lines: 19
tfarrell@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Thomas Farrell) writes:
|>So you feel that the defendents should have been convicted regardless of the
|>evidence. Now that would truely be a sad day for civil rights.
|I don't know about everybody else, but to me, they should have been
|convicted BECAUSE of the evidence, which in my mind was quite
|sufficient.
What evidence are you aware of. What was reported in the media, or all of
the evidence that was presented at the trial.
This sounds to me a lot like the first Rodney King 5 trial. A bunch of people
who saw 10 to 15 seconds out of a several minute long video, decided that
they knew more than people who had sat through a two week trial.
--
Mob rule isn't any prettier merely because the mob calls itself a government
It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
Wilson's theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related.
Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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From: rjh@allegra.att.com (Robert Holt)
Subject: Re: DAVE KINGMAN FOR THE HALL OF FAME
Keywords: Hall of Fame, Winfield, Kingman, Murray, Joe Lundy, :-)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Distribution: na
Lines: 14
In article <mssC5K4w5.GqE@netcom.com> mss@netcom.com (Mark Singer) writes:
>
>I'm no Kingman fan. Just thought I'd point out that he's the
>only player in history to have five three-HR games. Joe Carter
>has four. Eddie Murray three. McCovey and Gehrig also three.
>Ruth, Mays, Foxx and Dawson two each.
Johnny Mize had six three-HR games, which is the current record.
--
+-----------------------+
| Bob Holt |
| rjh@allegra.att.com |
+-----------------------+
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From: Wingert@vnet.IBM.COM (Bret Wingert)
Subject: Re: Level 5?
Organization: IBM, Federal Systems Co. Software Services
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.1
<1993Apr23.124759.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>
Lines: 29
In <1993Apr23.124759.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey writes:
>In article <19930422.121236.246@almaden.ibm.com>, Wingert@vnet.IBM.COM (Bret Wingert) writes:
>> 3. The Onboard Flight Software project was rated "Level 5" by a NASA team.
>> This group generates 20-40 KSLOCs of verified code per year for NASA.
>
>Will someone tell an ignorant physicist where the term "Level 5" comes
>from? It sounds like the RISKS Digest equivalent of Large, Extra
>Large, Jumbo... Or maybe it's like "Defcon 5..."
>
>I gather it means that Shuttle software was developed with extreme
>care to have reliablility and safety, and almost everything else in
>the computing world is Level 1, or cheesy dime-store software. Not
>surprising. But who is it that invents this standard, and how come
>everyone but me seems to be familiar with it?
Level 5 refers to the Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute's
Capability Maturity Model. This model rates software development
org's from1-5. with 1 being Chaotic and 5 being Optimizing. DoD is
beginning to use this rating system as a discriminator in contracts. I
have more data on thifrom 1 page to 1000. I have a 20-30 page
presentation that summarizes it wethat I could FAX to you if you're
interested...
Bret Wingert
Wingert@VNET.IBM.COM
(713)-282-7534
FAX: (713)-282-8077
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From: steve-b@access.digex.com (Steve Brinich)
Subject: Re: text of White House announcement and Q&As on clipper chip encryption
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Lines: 11
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net
The dead giveaway is the repeated protestations that the new plan is aimed
at "criminals", "drug dealers", "terrorists", etc. You'd think the tactic
would be too obvious to trot out yet again after a decade of Sarah and the
rest of the Brady Bunch using it to destroy the Second Amendment, but evidently
the control nuts feel it will serve them one more time.
As far as the export needs of American companies are concerned, I could
almost believe that the plan to saddle the US industry with a hidden sabotaged
algorithm was invented by a cabal of Japanese lobbyists.
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From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
Organization: Private Computer, Totowa, NJ
Lines: 15
In article <szikopou.734725851@cunews: szikopou@superior.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos) writes:
:In <1993Apr13.144340.3549@news.cs.brandeis.edu> reynold@binah.cc.brandeis.edu ("Susan Reynold (w/out the s)") writes:
:>I think the scientists are biased towards the food industry or something.
:>Was the article long? Would anyone be interested in posting it?
:a neuroscientist told me that MSG is used as a neurotoxin...that's
:right...some labs use it to "kill" neurons in mice and rats
Vitamin A (and I think vitamin D) in strong enough amounts can kill. The key
words are DOSAGE and EXPOSURE MECHANISM.
--
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
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From: andersen@me.udel.edu (Stephen Andersen)
Subject: Riding Jacket Recommendations
Nntp-Posting-Host: me.udel.edu
Organization: Center for Composite Materials/University of Delaware
Lines: 36
My old jacket is about to bite the dust so I'm in the market for a new riding
jacket. I'm looking for recommendations for a suitable replacement. I would
like to buy a full Aerostich suit but I can't afford $700 for it right now.
I'm considering two basic options:
1) Buy the Aerostich jacket only. Dunno how much it costs
due to recent price increases, but I'd imagine over $400.
That may be pushing my limit. Advantages include the fact
that I can later add the pants, and that it nearly eliminates
the need for the jacket portion of a rainsuit.
2) Buy some kind of leather jacket. I like a few of the new
Hein-Gericke FirstGear line, however they may be a bit pricey
unless I can work some sort of deal. Advantages of leather
are potentially slightly better protection, enhanced pose
value (we all know how important that is :-), possibly cheaper
than upper Aerostich.
Requirements for a jacket are that it must fit over a few other
layers (mainly a sizing thing), if leather i'd prefer a zip-out
lining, it MUST have some body armor similar to aerostich (elbows,
shoulders, forearms, possibly back/kidney protection, etc.), a
reasonable amount of pocket space would be nice, ventilation would
be a plus, however it must be wearable in cold weather (below
freezing) with layers or perhaps electrics.
Please fire away with suggestions, comments, etc...
Steve
--
--
Steve Andersen DoD #0239 andersen@me.udel.edu
(302) 832-0136 andersen@zr1.ccm.udel.edu
1992 Ducati 907 I.E. 1987 Yamaha SRX250
"Life is simply a consequence of the complexities of carbon chemistry..."
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From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI
In-Reply-To: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca's message of Thu, 15 Apr 1993 23:55:09 GMT
Lines: 38
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Inc.
In article <1993Apr15.235509.29818@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
> In article <1qk7kvINNndk@dns1.NMSU.Edu> bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:
> >>point of view, why does SCSI have an advantage when it comes to multi-
> >>tasking? Data is data, and it could be anywhere on the drive. Can
> >>SCSI find it faster? can it get it off the drive and into the computer
> >>faster? Does it have a better cache system? I thought SCSI was good at
> >>managing a data bus when multiple devices are attached. If we are
> >>only talking about a single drive, explain why SCSI is inherently
> >>faster at managing data from a hard drive.
The Adaptec 1540-series use bus mastering. This means that the CPU
doesn't sit waiting for data bytes, it can go off and do other
computing - if you have an advanced multi-tasking OS, that is. DOS
just sits and waits anyway.
>
> >IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
> > currently the most common standard, and is mainly used for
> > medium sized drives. Can have more than one hard drive.
> > Asynchronous Transfer: ~5MB/s max.
>
> Why don't you start with the spec-sheet of the ISA bus first?
> You can quote SCSI specs till you're blue in the face, but if they
> exceed the ISA bus capability, then what's the point?
>
> Who says IDE is limited to 5 megs/sec? What about VLB-IDE? Does anyone
> know how they perform?
Why don't you start with the spec-sheet of the ISA bus first? :-) IDE
was designed to plug into ISA virtually unaided - in essence, IDE *is*
ISA, on a ribbon cable. Therefore it's specs are the same as ISA -
8MHz clock, 16 bit width, 5MB/sec.
This is why I've concluded that IDE on VL-bus is a waste of a fast
slot. The card's job would to slow the VL-bus transactions to ISA
speed. Heck, that's what ISA slots do - I'll just use one of those
instead.
--
Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
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From: caralv@caralv.auto-trol.com (Carol Alvin)
Subject: Re: The arrogance of Christians
Lines: 54
> I've just read Carol's response and I just had to get into this. I've
> got some verses which are not subject to interpretation because they say
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> what they say.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Joe, just 'cause you say they aren't subject to interpretation doesn't
necesarily make it so. That's *your* *interpretation* of these texts.
> They are 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, and
> Galatians 1:11-12.
2 Peter 1:20-21
But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter
of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of
human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
The study notes in my Bible offer three possible meanings for verse 20.
Apparantly it's not as clear to Charles Ryrie as it is to you.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of
God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
Galations 1:11-12
For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man,
nor was I taught it, but I receieved it through a revelation of Jesus
Christ.
When I read these passages, it was not immediately clear to me what
every phrase meant. I had stop and think about the possible
connotations of words, what the intent of the author may have been,
wonder if the translator used the correct English word to convey the
same meaning: I had to interpret. If you want to believe that your
are not interpreting Scripture as you read, there's probably nothing
I can say to change your mind. But I think it's naive to think that
our culture, experiences, education, do not affect everything we read.
> Also, based on the fact that Jesus is the Word incarnate and he judges
> people if they follow him (see Acts 17:29-31 and John 5:21-27) and that
> those who reject Jesus' teachings are judged by the very words he spoke
> (see John 12:47-50), then Jesus' words are true and do not need
> interpretation, nor would it be just of God to judge based on his word
> if it had to be interpreted.
In college, I took an entire course in Biblical interpretation. Go to
any Christian bookstore, there are scores of books on interpreting and
understanding Scripture. If interpretation is unnecessary, there are
an awful lot of misguided Christians out there wasting a lot of time
and energy on it.
Carol Alvin
caralv@auto-trol.com
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From: gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow)
Subject: Re: The C650 fan is NOISY! Any solutions?
Article-I.D.: clark.1993Apr6.213229.26970
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa. USA
Lines: 18
In article <summeral.733798199@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> summeral@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Summerall Thomas G) writes:
>Is it me, my 650, or all 650s? It doesn't seem to broken. It isn't making
>grinding noises or anything, it's just LOUD! Much louder that the fan in
>the IIci I just sold.
>
>Anybody else have this problem? How about a solution? Is there a good
>replacement fan that's a lot quieter but moves the same air? Any easy
>way to insulate the sound but not the cooling air? (Hah!)
I can't even hear the fan on my 650.....gee I wonder if its working.....yup,
just checked, its exhausting air out the back just fine.
Gary
--
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Gary Snow
uunet!clark!gsnow or gsnow@clark.edu
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From: karl@anasazi.com (Karl Dussik)
Subject: Re: Dana-Faber Cancer Institute
Organization: Anasazi, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona USA
Keywords: Dana-Faber Cancer Institute
Lines: 13
In article <1993Apr14.090306.3352@etek.chalmers.se> e2salim@etek.chalmers.se (Salim Chagan) writes:
> Can anyone send me the adress to
> Dana-Faber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA.
^^ missing "r"
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
44 Binney Street
Boston, MA 02115
(617)732-3000
Karl Dussik
("Alumnus" - Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 1983-1986)
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From: craige@sad.hp.com (Craig Eid)
Subject: Candlestick Park experience (long)
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
Lines: 36
I've been a Giants season ticket holder for years and never really complained
about the old ballyard place. Sure, it's been cold, the food lines were long,
and the hired hands were surly, but this was all part of the Giants mystique.
Or so I thought.
I went to Tuesday's game (3 - 1 Giants over the Marlins) and the 'Stick was
a much different place. Nothing short of a dome will eliminate the wind, but
everything is a lot better. The lines are a lot shorter, the bathrooms are
CLEAN and have running water, and the hired hands were very polite.
The new foghorn (lights up and blows after each homerun) and the wooden fence
are very nice, as are the new bleachers. The bleachers start right at the top
of the fence and give a great view, and they've got beer stands at the
bottome of the bleachers. The only complaint is that the electronic
old-fashioned scoreboard looks electronic - could be better.
These things should have been done a long time ago, but it took a real
businessman (ex - Safeway President Peter Magowan) to figure it out. Just
like he used to tell his checkers, "If the customers don't come back, I don't
need as many checkers". This isn't a knock on Bob Lurie - he was a competent
businessman but he didn't deal much with the general public.
I'll give an example of how the level of service has changed. The onion
dispenser jammed as I was using it. An attendant came over, apoligized for
the problem and proceeded to fix the machine. After he was done, he cleaned
the machine and said he was glad to be able to help. In the old days, there
was no attendant and the folks at the concession stands would say "Go to
the stand 100 feet away - they might be able to help".
All in all, it was a fun day
--
Craig Eid
e-mail address craige@hpsad.sad.hp.com
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From: A1RODRIG@vma.cc.nd.edu
Subject: What a HATE filled newsgroup!!!!
Organization: Bullwinkle Fan Club
Lines: 5
Is this group for real? I honestly can't believe that most of you expect you
or your concerns to be taken remotely seriously if you behave this way in a
forum for discussion. Doesn't it ever occur to those of you who write letters
like the majority of those in this group that you're being mind-bogglingly
hypocritical?
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From: moseley@u.washington.edu (Steve L. Moseley)
Subject: Re: How to act in front of traffic jerks
Organization: Microbial Pathogenesis and Motorcycle Maintenance
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NNTP-Posting-Host: microb0.biostat.washington.edu
In article <nielsmm-150493114522@nanna.imv.aau.dk>
nielsmm@imv.aau.dk (Niels Mikkel Michelsen) writes:
>From: nielsmm@imv.aau.dk (Niels Mikkel Michelsen)
>Subject: How to act in front of traffic jerks
>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 08:54:34 GMT
>The other day, it was raining cats and dogs, therefor I was going only to
>the speed limit, on nothing more, on my bike. This guy in his BMW was
>driving 1-2 meters behind me for 7-800 meters and at the next red light I
>calmly put the bike on its leg, walked back to this car, he rolled down the
>window, and I told him he was a total idiot (and the reason why).
>Did I do the right thing?
It works for me. I avoid obscenities, and try to remain calm cool and
collected, and try something like, "You almost just killed me, and I'm not
moving until you apologize." or something more or less benign like that. I
haven't been shot a single time, but I don't do it in Texas, and I do only
do it when there are plenty of witnesses around.
Steve
__________________________________________________________________________
Steve L. Moseley moseley@u.washington.edu
Microbiology SC-42 Phone: (206) 543-2820
University of Washington FAX: (206) 543-8297
Seattle, WA 98195
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From: kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Keith Keller)
Subject: Playoff pool update
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences
Lines: 44
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Well, I have compiled some statistics on the entries of my pool. There
are unofficially 52 entrants. Here are the stats on what teams were
picked to win it all:
Pittsburgh: 34 (1 sweep, 14 in 5, 15 in 6, 4 in 7)
Boston: 6 (1 in 5, 5 in 6)
Detroit: 4 (3 in 6, 1 in 7)
Montreal: 2 (1 in 5, 1 in 7)
Toronto: 2 (1 in 6, 1 in 7)
(no, this wasn't Roger)
Calgary: 1 (in 6)
Quebec: 1 (in 6)
Vancouver: 1 (in 7)
Washington: 1 (in 6)
Why the hell hasn't anybody picked Chicago??? NOBODY! Quebec got a pick,
Detroit got 4, but absolutely no Chicago! How odd.
Here are the "losers":
Detroit: 20
Chicago: 16 (so there they are!)
Pittsburgh: 6
Vancouver: 4
Boston: 2
Calgary: 2
Los Angeles: 1 what?!?
Toronto: 1
LOS ANGELES??????? Are you out of your mind?!?!? Good luck to you,
you'll need it!
So Pittsburgh is the consensus winner of the Stanley Cup. They'll
statistically beat Detroit in 6 games. HAHA that's happening! NOT! As
I said, every one of my picks will come true, and I picked Chicago to lose
to Pittsburgh in the finals, so tough luck to all you who picket Detroit.
Well, tough luck to all of ya! I am a genius!!! ;-)
--
Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!
"A cow is not a vegetarian dish." -- Keith Keller, 1993
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From: dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian)
Subject: Turkey Admits to Sending Arms to Azerbaijan/Turkish Pilot Caught
Summary: Oh, yes...neutral Turkey
Organization: S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies
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4/15/93 1242 Turkey sends light weapons as aid to Azerbaijan
By SEVA ULMAN
ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Turkey is arming Azerbaijan with light weapons to help
it fight Armenian forces in the struggle for the Nagorno- Karabakh enclave,
the newspaper Hurriyet said Thursday.
Deputy Prime Minister Erdal Inonu told reporters in Ankara that Turkey was
responding positively to a request from Azerbaijan for assistance.
"We are giving a positive response to all requests" from Azerbaijan, "within
the limits of our capabilities," he said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Vural Valkan declined to elaborate on the nature
of the aid being sent to Azerbaijan, but said they were within the framework
of the Council for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Hurriyet, published in Istanbul, said Turkey was sending light weapons to
Azerbaijan, including rockets, rocket launchers and ammunition.
Ankara began sending the hardware after a visit to Turkey last week by a
high-ranking Azerbaijani official. Turkey has however ruled out, for the second
time in one week, that it would intervene militarily in Azerbaijan.
Wednesday, Inonu told reporters Ankara would not allow Azerbaijan to suffer
defeat at the hands of the Armenians. "We feel ourselves bound to help
Azerbaijan, but I am not in a position right now to tell you what form (that)
help may take in the future," he said.
He said Turkish aid to Azerbaijan was continuing, "and the whole world knows
about it."
Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel reiterated that Turkey would not get
militarily involved in the conflict. Foreign policy decisions could not be
based on street-level excitement, he said.
There was no immediate reaction in Ankara to regional reports, based on
Armenian sources in Yerevan, saying Turkish pilots and other officers were
captured when they were shot down flying Azerbaijani warplanes and
helicopters.
The newspaper Cumhuriyet said Turkish troops were digging in along the border
with Armenia, but military sources denied reports based on claims by local
people that gunfire was heard along the border. No military action has
occurred, the sources said.
The latest upsurge in fighting between the Armenians and Azerbaijanis flared
early this month when Armenian forces seized the town of Kelbajar and later
positioned themselves outside Fizuli, near the Iranian border.
--
David Davidian dbd@urartu.sdpa.org | "How do we explain Turkish troops on
S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies | the Armenian border, when we can't
P.O. Box 382761 | even explain 1915?"
Cambridge, MA 02238 | Turkish MP, March 1992
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From: bruce_linde@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Subject: eight 4mb 70ns simms $105/ea., o.b.o.
Lines: 14
a friend of mine has eight (8) 4mb 70ns simms for sale for $105/each or best
offer. since techworks sells these puppies for $140/ea., you may want to
contact him directly at:
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From: hm@cs.brown.edu (Harry Mamaysky)
Subject: Dir Yassin
In-Reply-To: aurag@ERE.UMontreal.CA's message of Fri, 23 Apr 1993 18:48:15 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
Lines: 34
From _Myths and Facts_, by Leonard J. Davis, Near East Research Inc.,
1989:
[pp. 108-109]
"Unlike the PLO's almost exclusive focus on civilian targets, the
100 troups from the Irgun and Stern group that struck at Deir Yassin
on April 10, 1948, targeted the village for its military importance.
Deir Yassin was on the road to Jerusalem, which the Arabs had
blockaded, and it housed Iraqi troups and Palestinian irregulars.
Snipers based in Deir Yassin were a constant threat to Jewish citizens
in Jerusalem.
"Arab civilians were killed at Deir Yassin, but that attack does
not conform to the propaganda picture that the Arabs have tried to
paint. The number of Arabs killed was generally reported to be about
250. In 1983, however, Eric Silver of _The Guardian_ (Britain)
interviewed a survivor, Mophammed Sammour, who testified that 116 out
of a population of 800-1000 were killed. 'About three days after the
massacre,' Sammour explained, 'representatives of each of the five
clans in Deir Yassin met at the Moslem offices in Jerusalem and made a
list of the people who had not been found (alive). We went through the
names. Nothing has happend since 1948 to make me think this figure
was wrong.'
"Unlike the PLO's deliberate attacks on civilians, the killing of
civilians at Deir Yassin was not premeditated. The attackers left open
an escape corridor from the village and more than 200 residents left
unharmed. After the remaining Arabs feigned surrender and then fired
on the Jewish troops, some of the attackers killed Arab soldiers and
civilians indiscriminately. Independent observers told _The Guardian_
that among the bodies they found Arab men disguised as women."
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From: VEAL@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal)
Subject: Re: My Gun is like my....
Lines: 88
Organization: University of Tennessee Division of Continuing Education
In article <1993Apr16.194708.13273@vax.oxford.ac.uk> jaj@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>What all you turkey pro-pistol and automatic weapons fanatics don't seem to
>realize is that the rest of us *laugh* at you. You don't make me angry, you
>just make me chuckle
That's nice. We strive for entertainment value. :-)
>- I remeber being in Bellingham, Washington and seeing a
>pick-up truck in front of the car that my friend and I were in. It had a bumper
>sticker proclaiming "Gun Control is a firm grip on a .45." Now I'm sure that
>that wanker thought he was pretty cool.
>What he didn't realize was that we took a photo of the back of his truck, and
>showed it to our friends when we got back to Vancouver, Canada (where I'm from
>originally). People were guffawing at the basic stupidity of such a
>sticker, and the even greater stupidity of the person who put it there in the
>first place! :)
In the first place, you have to realize the feeling goes both
ways. Canadians laugh at the U.S., and Americans simply shrug and
woner why the hell we let them be a State in the first place. ;-)
>I knew somebody else who went to one of your "Gun-mart" superstore places, just
>so he could experience the sight of people putting guns and ammo into shopping
>carts! I didn't believe it myself until I drove by one in Vegas last year!!!
Interesting strategy, posting here with complaints about
people elsewhere.
>Now that I live in Britain, I can see how the rest of the civilized world
>perceives you gun-nut morons.
Courtesy is apparently a dead commodity in the rest of the
civilized world. "Gun nut morons," indeed.
>The BBC recently referred to the American
>penchant for pistols, automatic weapons,etc. very appropriately - it was
>called a "national eccentricity."
We've got guns, they've got a monarch and an economy on the verg
of collapse. Finger pointing across the Atlanticis a waste or time.
>The only problem is that Canada, I hear, is suffering from your national
>eccentricity, in that easy to purchase weapons are being smuggled cross the
>border.
Canada has been blaming the U.S. for their problems for years.
The simple fact of the matter is this: Ten years ago they crowed about
how great their system was because they'd gotten rid of the guns and
the U.S. would be so much better if they'd just get into the divine light
shining from the North. We pointed out that it was cultural differences,
and pointed to their pre-control crime rates. We also pointed out that
the history of the entire world contained smuggling, and that whenever
something was wanted, it was smuggled in.
If the problem were based on U.S. guns, it would have surfaced
years before.
Now more Canadian criminals want guns. And they are being provided.
Canada has its own version of the drug problem. Yet drugs are prohibited
in the U.S.
>Hell, here in Britain, the cops don't even carry guns. (That's another funny
>thing - you see a US border guard, and he's got his .45 or .38 on his belt,
>with tons o' spare ammo - never know, maybe some canadian shopper might get out
>of hand. Hell, as I recall, in People's Court, even Rusty carried a gun! Never
>know, some plaintiff might go nuts. :) )
Saw a news report out of Britain that armed crime is on the rise,
and several police agencies are considering have permanent "firearms
officers" to deal with it.
According to U.S. News & World Report, British handgun deaths have
risen over 250% over the past twelve years. The U.S. number has dropped
5%.
Maybe they're smuggling them across the U.S./U.K. border. Yeah,
that's the ticket.
>CYA!
Have a nice day, Steve. Learn a little common courtesy and
politeness.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Veal Univ. of Tenn. Div. of Cont. Education Info. Services Group
PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu - "I still remember the way you laughed, the day
your pushed me down the elevator shaft; I'm beginning to think you don't
love me anymore." - "Weird Al"
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Subject: Re: [lds] Rick's reply
From: <LIBRBA@BYUVM.BITNET>
Organization: Brigham Young University
Lines: 95
In article <C5KDzK.497@acsu.buffalo.edu>, psyrobtw@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert
Weiss) says:
> Just briefly, on something that you mentioned in passing. You refer to
> differing interpretations of "create," and say that many Christians may
> not agree. So what? That is really irrelevant. We do not base our faith
> on how many people think one way or another, do we? The bottom line is
> truth, regardless of popularity of opinions.
I'm sorry, I thought we were discussing heresy. I assumed that heresy
meant a departure from orthodoxy, in which case generally accepted belief is
indeed an important issue. In this case, the definition of the word "create"
is of great importance, since creation is the issue being discussed.
>
> Also, I find it rather strange that in trying to persuade that created
> and eternally existent are equivalent, you say "granted the Mormon
> belief..." You can't grant your conclusion and then expect the point to
> have been addressed. In order to reply to the issue, you have to address
> and answer the point that was raised, and not just jump to the
> conclusion that you grant.
I should have said "given the Mormon belief." If you disagree with the
Mormon belief that creation is more a function of organization of eternally
existent substance than one of ex nihilo creation, then that is the important
point.
> The Bible states that Lucifer was created. The Bible states that Jesus
> is the creator of all. The contradiction that we have is that the LDS
> belief is that Jesus and Lucifer were the same.
Correction: you interpret the Bible to mean something very specific by
such terms.
> The Mormon belief is that all are children of God. Literally. There is
> nothing symbolic about it. This however, contradicts what the Bible
> says. The Bible teaches that not everyone is a child of God:
>
It always cracks me up when anti-Mormons presume to tell Mormons what they
believe. Mormons do, in fact, believe that all people, including Christ and
Lucifer, are children of God in the sense that we were all created (or
organized or whatever) by Him. We also believe that being "offspring" of
God has a symbolic sense when applied to being spiritually "born again" of
Him. Thus the same word can be used to convey different meanings. This is
how language works, Robert, and it's why making someone an offender for a
word is dangerous.
> This is really a red herring. It doesn't address any issue raised, but
> rather, it seeks to obfuscate. The fact that some groups try to read
> something into the Bible, doesn't change what the Bible teaches. For
<...>
> We first look to the Bible to see what it teaches. To discount, or not
> even address, what the Bible teaches because there are some groups that
> have differing views is self-defeating. To see what the Bible teaches,
> you have to look at the Bible.
On the contrary, Robert, it is not a red herring at all to show that those
who rely wholly on the Bible cannot seem to agree on what it says. You say
that one must simply "look at the Bible" to see what it teaches, but centuries
of people doing just that have sho0wn that no one is really sure what it says.
Are we to believe that you are the only one who really understands the
scriptures?
> I find this rather curious. When I mentioned that the Mormon belief is
> that Jesus needed to be saved, I put forward some quotes from the late
> apostle, Bruce McConkie. The curious part is that no one addressed the
> issue of `Jesus needing to be saved.' Rick comes the closest with his "I
> have my own conclusions" to addressing the point.
Let me clarify this one more time. You did not refer to the Mormon belief
that Jesus needed to be saved, but rather to McConkie's belief in same. We
keep trying to point out to you that Bruce McConkie is not the source of
Mormon doctrine, and you keep ignoring it. (see below)
>
> Most of the other replies have instead hop-scotched to the issue of
> Bruce McConkie and whether his views were 'official doctrine.' I don't
> think that it matters if McConkie's views were canon. That is not the
> issue. Were McConkie's writings indicative of Mormon belief on this
> subject is the real issue. The indication from Rick is that they may
> certainly be.
On the contrary, Robert, if you are quoting McConkie's words as Mormon
canon then the question of whether they are canon or not is of *great*
importance. The fact is that they are not. Whether or not they indicate
general Mormon belief would only be ascertainable by interviewing a large
number of Mormons.
>
>
>=============================
>Robert Weiss
>psyrobtw@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
--
Rick Anderson librba@BYUVM.BITNET
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From: crussell@netcom.com (Chris Russell)
Subject: Re: TIFF: philosophical significance of 42 (SILLY)
Organization: Adaptive Solutions, Custom Software & Support 909/861-4048
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Lines: 40
Mark Wilson (mark@ocsmd.ocs.com) wrote:
: Mark A. Cartwright (markc@emx.utexas.edu) wrote:
: : 42 is 101010 binary, and who would forget that its the
: : answer to the Question of "Life, the Universe, and Everything else."
: : Of course the Question has not yet been discovered...
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: But it WAS discovered (sort of). The question was "What is 7 times 8?"
[ Read on and there's a special prize at the bottom. Amaze your friends
and gain respect from your peers that you can carry on so long about the
number 42. ]
The original question was "What is the meaning of Life, the Universe, and
and Everything." The answer generated by Deep Thought (the 2nd largest
computer ever created) was 42. Deep Thought realized that to understand
the answer, one must really know what the question is. Unfortunately, he
didn't. But he was able to help build the largest computer (named Earth)
which could figure out the real question. (I know this is background
knowledge for everyone here... just bear with me a sec... :)
When Arthur pulled the scrabble tiles out of the bag, he spelled out
"What is nine times six?" (or the like). However, it is not clear that
the monkey-man had the right question in his brain, especially since it
was that lady in the diner (which was vaporized moments later) that came
up with the answer to how everyone could get along. On the other hand,
Marvin said he saw the answer in Dent's brain, so lets presume it's
correct.
Well, NINE TIMES SIX ***IS*** FORTY-TWO!!! ...in base 13.
Chew on that for awhile... :)
--
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Adaptive Solutions Sun SPARC, SGI IRIS, HP Apollo, Macintosh, & PC
Internet: crussell@netcom.com
GTE: 909/861-4048
U.S. Mail: P.O. Box 5424
Diamond Bar, CA 91675-7424
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From: thang@harebell.egr.uh.edu (Chin-Heng Thang)
Subject: Win 3.1 startup screen downgraded to win 3.0 startup screen ???!!!?!?!
Organization: University of Houston
Lines: 20
NNTP-Posting-Host: harebell.egr.uh.edu
HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP Meeeeeee!
I installed a 256 color svga driver for my windows last week.
This driver was downloaded from ftp.cica.indiana.edu specifically for
Paradise svga card. However, after I installed it and when I run windows,
the startup screen in the beginning becomes the old windows 3.0 startup
screen ????!!??!!
Everything works fine except the startup screen. I know the
startup screen must have been changed in the system.ini file (or is it ?)
but I couldn't figure out what to alter! Can some one help me with this?
Please e-mail to my address:
thang@tree.egr.uh.edu or thang@jetson.uh.edu
In addition, can anyone know where can I get a 1024x680 paradise svga
driver (256 color) ? this is a used computer and I do not have anything
(drivers, etc) regarding the driver....
thanks in advance.......;o)
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From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Subject: Aargh! Great Hockey Coverage!! (Devils)
Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: PhDs In The Hall
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Locked away, waiting for the tape-delay to start ...
It's nice that the Devils are starting out their playoffs on network
television ... too bad that their playoff game has been preempted on
WABC-AM for an early-season Yankees baseball game!
It's a 12-2 win by the Texas Rangers ... and they're delaying the
tape-delay by another half-hour for the ballgame "highlights"!!!
gld
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Je me souviens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gary L. Dare
> gld@columbia.EDU GO Winnipeg Jets GO!!!
> gld@cunixc.BITNET Selanne + Domi ==> Stanley
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From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: NIH offers "Exploratory Grants For Alternative Medicine"
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
Lines: 30
In article <1993Apr9.172945.4578@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
>In article <19493@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>>One problem is very few scientists are interested in alternative medicine.
>
>So Gordon, why do you think this is so?
>--
Probably because most of them come packaged with some absurd theory
behind them. E.G. homoeopathy: like cures like. The more you dilute
things, the more powerful they get, even if you dilute them so much
there is no ingredient but water left. Chiropractic: all illness
stems from compressions of nerves by misaligned vertebrae. Such
systems are so patently absurd, that any good they do is accidental
and not related to the theory. The only exception is probably herbalism,
because scientists recognize the potent drugs that derive from plants
and are always interested in seeing if they can find new plants
that have active and useful substances. But that isn't what
is meant by alternative medicine, usually. If you get into the Qi,
accupuntunce charts, etc, you are now back to silly theories that
probably have nothing to do with why accupuncture works in some cases.
Perhaps another reason they are reluctant is the Rhine experience.
Rhine was a scientist who wanted to investigate the paranormal
and his lab was filled with so much chacanery and fakery that
people don't want to be associated with that sort of thing.
--
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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From: hernlem@chess.ncsu.edu (Brad Hernlem)
Subject: Re: Basil, opinions? (Re: Water on the brain)
Reply-To: hernlem@chess.ncsu.edu (Brad Hernlem)
Organization: NCSU Chem Eng
Lines: 44
In article <1qmdtlINNkrc@early-bird.think.com>, shaig@Think.COM (Shai Guday) writes:
|> In article <1993Apr15.204930.9517@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, hasan@McRCIM.McGill.EDU writes:
|> |>
|> |> In article <1993Apr15.055341.6075@nysernet.org>, astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein) writes:
|> |> |> I guess Hasan finally revealed the source of his claim that Israel
|> |> |> diverted water from Lebanon--his imagination.
|> |> |> --
|> |> |> Alan H. Stein astein@israel.nysernet.org
|> |> Mr. water-head,
|> |> i never said that israel diverted lebanese rivers, in fact i said that
|> |> israel went into southern lebanon to make sure that no
|> |> water is being used on the lebanese
|> |> side, so that all water would run into Jordan river where there
|> |> israel will use it !#$%^%&&*-head.
|>
|> Of course posting some hard evidence or facts is much more
|> difficult. You have not bothered to substantiate this in
|> any way. Basil, do you know of any evidence that would support
|> this?
|>
|> I can just imagine a news report from ancient times, if Hasan
|> had been writing it.
|>
|> Newsflash:
|> Cairo AP (Ancient Press). Israel today denied Egypt acces to the Red
|> Sea. In a typical display of Israelite agressiveness, the leader of
|> the Israelite slave revolt, former prince Moses, parted the Red Sea.
|> The action is estimated to have caused irreparable damage to the environment.
|> Egyptian authorities have said that thousands of fisherman have been
|> denied their livelihood by the parted waters. Pharaoh's brave charioteers
|> were successful in their glorious attempt to cause the waters of the
|> Red Sea to return to their normal state. Unfortunately they suffered
|> heavy casualties while doing so.
Hehehe.
BTW, does the Litani River not flow West and not South? I think that its waters
stay entirely within Lebanese territory and so what Hasan says about the Jordan
River makes no sense, in any case. The Hasbani River, on the other hand, flows
into the Jordan, if I am not mistaken.
Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)
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From: joslin@pogo.isp.pitt.edu (David Joslin)
Subject: Re: Food For Thought On Tyre
Organization: Intelligent Systems Program
Lines: 10
af664@yfn.ysu.edu (Frank DeCenso, Jr.) writes:
>PPS...Am I giving you too many clues?
Too many clues, not enough substance. You ask a lot of
good questions, though, but they are questions *you* should
be worried about, not me. I'm not the inerrantist here.
Let me know when you are ready to get serious.
dj
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From: ching@bigwpi.WPI.EDU ("The Logistician")
Subject: #77's?
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lines: 11
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu
I am in need of all of the players wearing #77 in the NHL. I know now only
of one, Ray Borque for the Bruins. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx.
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From: genetic+@pitt.edu (David M. Tate)
Subject: Re: Young Catchers
Article-I.D.: blue.7977
Organization: Department of Industrial Engineering
Lines: 65
mss@netcom.com (Mark Singer) said:
>In article <7862@blue.cis.pitt.edu> genetic+@pitt.edu (David M. Tate) writes:
>
>Well, perhaps if the Braves had no one else worth playing this year it
>would be Lopez in there. But they do have others worth playing, at
>least in *their* opinion.
Catcher is their weakest position, with the possible exception of second base.
They have a chance to simultaneously replace their biggest offensive problem
spot with a well-above-average offensive player *and* acclimate a highly
promising potential star with no pressure on him to carry the team, and they
want to play *Olson* and *Berryhill* instead?!
>>I disagree, in that I don't think it *is* a _tangible_ skill, any more than
>>leadership is. I don't deny that it is a *real* skill, and that some catchers
>>may be much better than others at it, but I really don't see any way that we
>>could ever know who they are. Nichols's Law of Catcher Defense is eerily
>>accurate far too often for me to take defensive assessments of catchers very
>>seriously.
>
>Sorry. New. Don't know Nichols' Law.
"A catcher's defensive reputation will be inversely proportional to his
recent offensive level of performance." Thus, Mickey Tettleton goes (in
the media) from being a no-hit defensive whiz to a slugging thumb-finger
in two short years. The rule doesn't apply to perceived "superstars", who
get the Gold Glove Offensive Transfer effect instead. Greg Olson is probably
considered to be a good defensive catcher precisely because he can't hit.
>Don't believe in catchers'
>era. But I am interested in pitchers' eras with different catchers.
Aren't they the same thing?
>In other words, we know more than they do, so the only logic behind
>a different decision than we would make must be financial.
Either that or just stupidity.
>I presume
>we feel this way about other franchises than Atlanta, no?
Of course.
>>Is it fair to the young players? No. Does it make organizational sense?
>>I think it does.
>
>Well if it does make organizational sense, one can hardly fault them
>for their decisions. I mean, please don't tell me how to run my
>business. Especially when I'm being successful.
One could make the same sort of argument in other cases. Pete Rose, in
pursuing Ty Cobb's record, was a huge gate attraction (and national media
magnet). The Reds made a lot of money off that; they also wasted the prime
of Eric Davis. That may be "good business", but that doesn't mean I don't
loathe them for it.
--
David M. Tate | (i do not know what it is about you that closes
posing as: | and opens; only something in me understands
e e (can | the pocket of your glove is deeper than Pete Rose's)
dy) cummings | nobody, not even Tim Raines, has such soft hands
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From: davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz (David White)
Subject: Re: How do I quickly switch between Windows screen resolutions?
Organization: Industrial Research Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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Distribution: na
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In <93721@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastco@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas) writes:
>In article <C5qLr8.DJL@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> slg@slgsun.att.com (The Idealistic Cynic) writes:
>>Can someone out there tell me how to switch Window's screen resolution
>>quickly and easily? I know that I can go back into install to do it,
> Take a look at ftp.cica.indiana.edu at pub/pc/win3/(util?misc?)
>for a program caleld vswitch.zip.It's as close to want you want as you can
>get in WIn3.1 ...
I think George is referring to switch.zip in the ~ftp/pub/pc/win3/drivers/video
directory. Description reads -- Switcher: Windows Video Mode Switcher.
--
david white (engineer, Goon fan & son of my Dad)
Internet davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz Fax +64 9 443-4737
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From: gt0523e@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Andre Mule)
Subject: Re: Torre: The worst manager?
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <93095@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7469a@prism.gatech.EDU (Brian R. Landmann) writes:
>
e,
>Later, in the ninth inning with the bases loaded and two outs he puts
>lankford, a 300 hitter with power in as a pinch runner and uses Luis
>Alicea, a 250 hitter with no power as a pinch hitter. What the Helll
>is he thinking.
If memory serves me well, Alicea hit it, and damn near tied the game.
Torre obviously knows his players better than you do.
See y'all at the ballyard
Go Braves
Chop Chop
Michael Mule'
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Michael Andre Mule
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt0523e
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From: howland@noc2.arc.nasa.gov (Curt Howland)
Subject: Re: Countersteering_FAQ please post
Organization: NASA Science Internet Project Office
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In article <C4zKCL.FGC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Eric@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (93CBR900RR) writes:
|> Would someone please post the countersteering FAQ...
|> eric
Like, there's a FAQ for this?
---
Curt Howland "Ace" DoD#0663 EFF#569
howland@nsipo.nasa.gov '82 V45 Sabre
Meddle not in the afairs of Wizards,
for it makes them soggy and hard to re-light.
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From: adams@bellini.berkeley.edu (Adam L. Schwartz)
Subject: Danny Rubenstein speaking tonight.
Nntp-Posting-Host: bellini.berkeley.edu
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Danny Rubenstein, an Israeli journalist, will be speaking tonight
(Wednesday, 7:30 pm) on the messy subject of politics in Israel.
He is speaking at Hillel on the U.C. Berkeley campus.
-Adam Schwartz
adams@robotics.berkeley.edu
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From: josip@eng.umd.edu (Josip Loncaric)
Subject: Re: Duo 230 crashes aftersleep (looks like Apple bug!)
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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I do not have this type of problem, but at one point an Apple rep
told me that Duo's "System Enabler" file version 1.0.1 fixes some
kind of sleep-related problem. You may want to investigate this...
-Josip Loncaric
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From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
Subject: Commercial mining activities on the moon
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <1993Apr20.152819.28186@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
> be the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no
> materials we can't get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids
> and comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low
> grade fusion reactors.
I don't know what a "low grade" fusion reactor is, but the major
problem with 3He (aside from the difficulty in making any fusion
reactor work) is that its concentration in lunar regolith is just so
small -- on the order of 5 ppb or so, on average (more in some
fractions, but still very small). Massive amounts of regolith would
have to be processed.
This thread reminds me of Wingo's claims some time ago about the moon
as a source of titanium for use on earth. As I recall, Wingo wasn't
content with being assured that titanium (at .5% in the Earth's crust,
average) would not run out, and touted lunar mines, even though the
market price of ilmenite concentrate these days is around $.06/pound.
This prompted me to look up large potential terrestrial sources.
On the moon, titanium occurs in basalts; "high-Ti" basalts (Apollo 11
and 17) have 8-14% titanium dioxide (by weight). This is nice, but...
terrestrial continental flood basalts are also typically enriched in
titanium. They very often have 3% TiO2, frequently have 4%, and
sometimes even 5% TiO2 (again, by weight). These flood basalts are
*enormous* -- millions of cubic kilometers, scattered all over the
world (Siberia, Brazil, the NW United States, Ethiopia, etc.). If
even 1% of the basalts are 5% TiO2, this is trillions of tons of TiO2
at concentrations only a factor of 2-3 less than in lunar high-Ti
basalts. It is difficult to see how the disadvantages of the moon
could be overcome by such a small increase the concentration of the
ore (never mind the richer, but less common, terrestrial ores being
mined today).
Paul F. Dietz
dietz@cs.rochester.edu
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From: kastle@bernoulli.WPI.EDU (Jacques W Brouillette)
Subject: Re: ARCTIC WHEELS AUTO SHOW
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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--
: I want only two things from this world, a 58 Plymouth and a small :
: OPEC nation with which to fuel it. This would be a good and just :
: thing. Car Smashers can just go home and sulk. :
: Jacques Brouillette --- Manufacturing Engineering :
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From: mustafa@seas.smu.edu (Mustafa Kocaturk)
Subject: How starters work really
Keywords: fluorescent bulb starter neon
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In article <734953838.AA00509@insane.apana.org.au> peter.m@insane.apana.org.au (Peter Tryndoch) writes:
>
>So when you turn on the power, this causes the bulb to work like a neon,
>heating up and shorting out, thus providing a loop to power the heaters in
>the main tube. When the tube fires, insufficient current runs through the
>starter to keep the heat up and the bi-metalic strip straightens out
>(O/C).
Imprecise. This description
1. ignores the role of the ballast,
2. misrepresents the heating effects in the starter.
The bimetalic strip cools down immediately after the contacts
short circuit, because the neon discharge stops, and much less
heat is generated from the I^2R loss in the metal as compared to
the neon discharge.
The starter contacts open before the tube fires. Actually,
the tube fires as a result of the back-emf generated in the ballast
because of this immediate opening of the starter's contacts.
A capacitor is connected in parallel with the contacts to prevent
excessive arcing during the firing. The neon reionizes but does not draw
sufficient current to prevent firing of the tube itself.
--
Mustafa Kocaturk mustafa@seas.smu.edu EE Dept., Room 305A, Caruth Bldg.
Home: 214-706-5954 Office: 214-768-1475 SMU Box 753190, Dallas, TX 75275
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From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Subject: Re: While Armenians are massacring innocent Azeri women and children...
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Distribution: world
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In article <iacovou.734063606@gurney> iacovou@gurney.cs.umn.edu (Neophytos Iacovou) writes:
>>> Historically even the most uncivilized of peoples have exhibited
>>> signs of compassion by allowing humanitarian aid to reach civilian
>>> populations. Even the Nazis did this much.
>>is the world community really so powerless? Where are all those human
>>rights advocates? Where are all the decent people? Are we going to
>>let this human tragedy go on and do nothing about it? The number
>>of Azeris murdered by the terrorist Armenian army and its savage
>>gangs is increasing.
> News reporters make their living by providing stories, and there is
> so way in hell that they are going to confuse the public with
> what is happening in Armenia (a country that few know of), and
> risk detracting people's interest from what is happening in Serbia.
Then you must be living in an alternate universe. Where were they?
An Appeal to Mankind
During the last three years Azerbaijan and its multinational
population are vainly fighting for justice within the limits of
the Soviet Union. All humanitarian, constitutional human rights
guaranteed by the UN Charter, Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, Helsinki Agreements, Human Problems International Forums,
documents signed by the Soviet Union - all of them are violated.
The USSR's President, government bodies do not defend Azerbaijan
though they are all empowered to take necessary measures to
guarantee life and peace.
The 140,000 strong army of Armenian terrorists with Moscow's
tacit consent wages an undeclared war of annihilation against
Azerbaijan. As a result, a part of Azerbaijan has been occupied
and annexed, hundreds of people killed, thousands wounded.
Some 200,000 Azerbaijanis have been brutally and inhumanly
deported from the Armenian SSR, their historical homeland.
Together with them 64,000 Russians and 22,000 Kurds have also
been driven out, a part of them now settled in Azerbaijan.
Some 40,000 Turkish-Meskhetians, Lezghins and representatives
of other Caucasian nationalities who escaped from the Central
Asia where the President and government bodies did not guarantee
them the life and peace also suffered from these deportations.
One of the scandalous vandalisms directed not only against
Azerbaijan science but the world civilization as well is the
Armenian extremists' destruction of the Karabakh scientific
experimental base of The Institute of Genetics and Selection
of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR.
We beg you for humanitarian help and political assistance,
for the honour and dignity of 7 million Azerbaijanis are
violated, its territory, culture and history are trampled,
its people are shot. There is persistent negative image of
Azerbaijanians abroad, and this defamation is spread over
the whole world by Soviet mass media, Armenian lobby in the
USSR and the United States.
One of the myths is that all events allegedly involves and
generated by interethnic collisions and religious intolerance
while the truth is that all these shootings and recent
events stem from the territorial claims of Armenia on
Azerbaijan.
It is a well documented fact that before the conflict there
were no frictions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis on the
issue of Karabakh. Hundreds and thousands Armenians placidly
and calmly lived and worked in Azerbaijan land, had their
representatives in all government bodies of the Azerbaijan
SSR.
We are for a united, indivisible, sovereign Azerbaijan, we
are for a common Caucasian home proclaimed in 1918 by one
of the founding fathers of the Azerbaijan Democratic
Republic - Muhammed Emin Rasulzade.
But all these goals and expectations are trampled upon the
Soviet leadership in favour of the Armenian expansionists
encouraged by Moscow and intended to create a new '1,000
Year Reich' - the 'Great Armenia' - by annexing the
neighboring lands.
The world public opinion shed tears to save the whales,
suffers for penguins dying out in the Antarctic Continent.
But what about the lives of seven million human beings?
If these people are Muslims, does it mean that they are
less valuable? Can people be discriminated by their
colour of skin or religion, by their residence or other
attributes?
All people are brothers, and we appeal to our brothers
for help and understanding. This is not the first appeal
of Azerbaijan to the world public opinion. Our previous
appeals were unheard. However, we still carry the hope
that the truth beyond the Russian and Armenian propaganda
will one day reveal the extent of our suffering and
stimulate at least as much help and compassion for
Azerbaijan as tendered to whales and penguins.
THE COMMITTEE FOR PEOPLE'S HELP TO
KARABAKH (OF THE) ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
OF THE AZERBAIJAN SSR
> Everyone knows this, even the Turks know this, you know this. Give
> us a time period when the world is currently boring, and what is
> happening in Armenia would make front page headlines. Think I'm lying?
> Take a look at what happened in Somalia. When did the press report
> it to the world?
But perhaps Turkiye should intervene in the affairs of the Caucasus
in the name of peace and democracy. The Armenians are Christians, the
Azerbaijanis are Moslems, and Islam is a religion especially unloved
by the democrat-westernizers. Besides, at the root of this conflict
lie the territorial claims on Azerbaijan, a consequence of which
were the blood and suffering of innocent Azeri people, hundreds of
thousands of refugees, and gross violations of human rights.
Recently Armenians attacked the Azeri town of Khojaly and massacred
thousands of Azeris. The Paris-based 'Association for Democracy and
Human Rights in Azerbaijan' puts the number of Khojali victims
at 3,145. Some of the dead were scalped and mutilated. This whole
thing has now gone entirely too far.
> Want to know what will bring the story in Armenia to the front
> page? If the Russians move into the area with a shit load of tanks
> THEN your human rights advocates will show up defending the Armenians.
> Of course we can also be sure that the Russians won't show up with
> any tanks, not with the problems they are having at home.
They already did. The scenario and genocide staged by the Armenians
78 years ago in the Ottoman Empire is being reenacted again - this
time in Azerbaijan. There are remarkable similarities between the
plots, the perpetrators, and the underdogs.
Report taken from The New York Times, Tuesday, March 3, 1992
MASSACRE BY ARMENIANS BEING REPORTED
Agdam,Azerbaijan,March 2 (Reuters) - Fresh evidence emerged today
of a massacre of civilians by Armenian militants in Nagorno-Karabakh,
a predominantly Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan.
The republic of Armenia reiterated denials that its militants had killed
1,000 people in the Azerbaijani populated town of Khojaly last week and
massacred men, women and children fleeing the carnage across snow-covered
mountain passes.
But dozen of bodies scattered over the area lent credence to Azerbaijani
reports of a massacre.
Scalping Reported
Azerbaijani officials and journalists who flew briefly to the region
by helicopter brought back three dead children with the back of their
heads blown off. They said shooting by Armenians has prevented them
from retrieving more bodies.
"Women and children have been scalped," said Assad Faradshev, an aide
to Nagorno-Karabakh's Azerbaijani Governor. "When we began to pick up bodies,
they began firing at us."
The Azerbaijani militia chief in Agdam, Rashid Mamedov, said: "The bodies
are lying there like flocks of sheep. Even the fascists did nothing like this."
Truckloads of Bodies
Near Agdam on the outskirts of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Reuters photographer,
Frederique Lengaigne, said she had seen two trucks filled with Azerbaijani
bodies.
"In the first one I counted 35, and it looked as though there were as
many in the second," she said. "Some had their head cut off, and many had
been burned. They were all men, and a few had been wearing khaki uniforms.
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: Rupin.Dang@dartmouth.edu (Rupin Dang)
Subject: NIKKOR 70-210 AF forsale
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Nikkor AF 70-210 f/4-5.6 zoom lens. Excellent condition. I'm looking to get the
2.8 version so I'm selling this.
Asking $175 No offers please.
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From: ab4z@Virginia.EDU ("Andi Beyer")
Subject: Re: Freedom In U.S.A.
Organization: University of Virginia
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jaa12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu writes:
> Dear Mr. Beyer:
>
> It is never wise to confuse "freedom of speech" with "freedom"
> of racism and violent deragatory."
>
> It is unfortunate that many fail to understand this crucial
> distinction.
In fact, if a speach was not offensive to some, its
protection under Freedom of speach laws would be useless. It is
speach that some find questionable that must be protected, be
it religiously blasphemous or inherently racist. It is only
through civilized discourse and not scare tactics that one can
enlighten those that one perceives to be ignorant. That is the
idea behind freedom of expression.
What you find offensive might be perceived as truth by
some and what they might find offensive might be your belief.
It is only through free exchange of ideas (and insults as the
case seems to be with this channel) that one can change
another's erring ways.That is why Jefferson said that here
we are not afraid to "tolerate error so long as reason is left to
combat it".
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From: sd345@city.ac.uk (Michael Collier)
Subject: Converting images to HP LaserJet III?
Nntp-Posting-Host: hampton
Organization: The City University
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Does anyone know of a good way (standard PC application/PD utility) to
convert tif/img/tga files into LaserJet III format. We would also like to
do the same, converting to HPGL (HP plotter) files.
Please email any response.
Is this the correct group?
Thanks in advance. Michael.
--
Michael Collier (Programmer) The Computer Unit,
Email: M.P.Collier@uk.ac.city The City University,
Tel: 071 477-8000 x3769 London,
Fax: 071 477-8565 EC1V 0HB.
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From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Subject: Re: Jim Lefebvre is an idiot.
Article-I.D.: Princeto.1993Apr6.084432.3805
Organization: Princeton University
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In <C51uC6.BL1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ada41546@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Driftwood) writes:
> I totally agree with each point you made. Jose Viscaino looked
>like a single A hitter up there. Who swings on 3-1 count with Maddux
>pitching and your teams down by a run, and you haven't touched the ball all
>day?
Oh, this is an easy trivia question. The answer is "any Cub not named
Sandberg or Grace."
> I also think too much is made of that lefty-righty thing. Watching
>the Cubs games I get the feeling Steve Stone knows a lot more about what
>the Cubs should be doing than Lefebre does. Harry said it best when he
>stated after another terrible Vizcaino at bat-- we can't wait til
>Sandberg returns!
--
David M. Nieporent | "Only one thing wrong with theory...
niepornt@phoenix. | Is stupid! Is stupidest theory I ever heard!"
princeton.edu | ---------------------
Baltimore Orioles 93 | Who's the dangerous cult -- the BDs or the BATF?
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From: dxf12@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas Fowler)
Subject: (ATAS) N.L. games 8/2-8/5 & standings of all
Article-I.D.: usenet.1pqf84$caf
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Philadelphia at Chicago: Teams tied for 1st after Sunday
Dick Redding battled Chet Brewer in the first game of a dramatic four
game series. One Friday, one Saturday, and a good-old Sunday doubleheader.
"What could be better," declared Ernie Banks. Perhaps the fact that the Cubs
are challenging?
"It's pitching, it's always been pitching that we've lacked," announced
Ryne Sandberg. "If we can get by Brewer, then beat Carlton, Alexander, or
Bunning - preferrably 2 of the last three - we'll know we might be able to
win.
"Lord, I hope we pull it off."
The Phils scored once in the top of the first; Richie Ashburn singled, Pete
Rose followed with a hit, sending Ashburn around second. Kiki Cuyler cut
the ball off in left center, and threw a bullet in to Ernie Banks, who threw
to Ron Santo to get Ashburn at third. Rose went to second on the play.
Christobel Torrienti lifted a long fly to center, moving Pete Rose to
third. Schmidt was walked - the Cubs were absolutely refusing to let him
beat them. Both Torrienti and Schmidt will likely draw 130-150 walks this
year. Chuck Klein is starting to hit very well, and he lashed a double into a
gap in right-center. "Cool Papa" Bell's speed allowed him to cut the ball off
and prevent Schmidt from scoring. Nellie Fox was walked, and Bob Boone
grounded out to second, ending the threat.
"Teams are starting to realize that you don't have to pitch to Schmidt or
Torrienti, and that is lowering their run total. It puts a lot of pressure on
Klein and Dick Allen (who platoons with Chuck Klein and occasionally spells
Rose at first), and it's a credit to the Phillies that they've been able to
sustain their pace. The picthers have slumped at times." So came the
analysis from Frank Chance.
The Cubs got that run back when Bell bunted for a hit, Thomas' grounder
moved him to second, and - after Sandberg made out - Billy Williams singled
home a run. In the sixth, Ron Santo launched a two-run homer to make it
3-1. Dick Redding got in trouble in the eighth, as Schmidt singled and Klein
singled him to third. Ed Reulbach entered to face Fox, but Dick Allen popped
out of the dugout to hit. Allen doubled to right, but luckily for the Cubs,
Williams had moved to left and Andre Dawson had been inserted for defense.
He fired a bullet to home plate to keep Klein at third. Lance Parrish, hitting
for Boone, was walked, and Bruce Sutter entered. Larry Bowa grounded into
a 1-2-3 double play, but Ed Delahanty walked as a pinch-hitter. Desiring a
strikeout, since Ashburn was likely to attempt a bunt hit with the quick
Trillo pinch-running at third, Chance brought in Lee Smith, who induced a
pop-up to the catcher from the speedy centerfielder, ending the inning. The
Cubs took the win, 3-2, moving a game behind the Phillies.
Steve Carlton was called upon to battle 3-Finger Brown Saturday. To get
another righthander in the lineup, Ron Santo moved to first and Bill Madlock
played third. Unfortunately, Brown allowed six doubles, and the Cub bullpen
was worn down even more, as the Cubs tried to maintain a lead against
Lefty. Madlock, batting sixth, had knocked two doubles of his own, driving
home four runs. Gabby Hartnett hit two home runs, and Cuyler added
another, and the score was 8-6, Cubs after six innings. The Phillie bullpen
had more troubles in the bottom of the eighth, as the Cubs grabbed 3 more
runs to ice an 11-7 triumph.
Sunday's twin bill saw Cool Papa Bell gather seven straight hits at one
point, including a rare outside-the-park home run in the second game, off
Robin Roberts. Grover Alexander of the Phils took the first contest, 4-2, but
the Cubs captured the second one 5-4, with Waddell gaining the win. Bruce
Sutter tossed two innings for the save, though he allowed one run in the
eighth. The Cardinals stood half a game behind these co-leaders, and would
conclude their series with the Expos on Monday.
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Montreal at St. Louis(August 3-6): 3-way tie for 1st
Dennis Martinez is on a roll, and he continued it versus John Tudor Friday.
The Expos have a wide variety of hitters, and - while they aren't among the
all-time greats, they are getting the job done. After winning their first
first two games, they suddenly found themselves only 2 1/2 games out of
first in this wacky season.
Martinez triumphed 5-3 on Friday, and WIlliams outdueled Dizzy Dean 3-2
Saturday. However, the Cardinals refused to give up, winning 6-2 on Sunday.
The Cards captured Monday's game, too, as Steve Carlton outdueled Steve
Rogers 3-2. "We're really good against ground ball pitchers because of our
team speed," remarked Lou Brock. "I don't see why we can't win this
division."
The Phillies and Cubs may have some reasons for them. Two-thirds of
the way through the season, there is a 3-way tie for first.
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New York at Pittsburgh(August 3-6): 3 straight 3-2 wins for Bucs,
now 2 back - but in 4th!
"When your team is in a slump like we are, the worst thing is to play in a
pitcher's park like this," spoke Gil Hodges before the series. Keith
Hernandez added that "their defense takes away quite a few runs per year,
and it must be giving them an extra 6-7 wins." The Pirates have made only
26 errors all season, 6 ahead of the second place Dodgers. Error totals tend
to be around 50 for the best defensive All-Time teams.
Rube Foster defeated Sid Fernandez 5-2 Friday, and Candelaria outshone
Seaver 3-2 Saturday, in a game featuring some outstanding defense. When
Nolan Ryan and two relivers 6-hit the Mets in another 3-2 win Sunday, the
Pirates could once again look forward to a victory getting them back to the
.500 mark. They had been unable to several times in the past month. Bert
Blyleven met Dwight Gooden in the afternoon game. Both pitchers possessed
fantastic stuff, and the only runs scored through eight innings were on home
runs - a solo shot by Rusty Staub of the Mets and a two-run blast by Ralph
Kiner for the Pirates. The Mets' Darryl Strawberry singled home a run in the
top of the ninth off Jesse Orosco, working his second inning, after Mookie
Wilson pinch-ran for Gary Carter at second. With one out and a runner on
first, Lee Mazilli was sent in to pinch-hit. The Pirates countered with Kent
Tekulve, placing him in the fifth spot in the order and putting Barry Bonds in
left field as the ninth place hitter. Tekulve induced a groundout forcing
Strawberry at second. He slid hard into Honus Wagner, preventing the
Pirates from turning their fifth double play of the afternoon. Tekulve
allowed a hit, but Clemente threw Mazilli out at third from near the right
field line, ending the inning. Tug McGraw relieved Randy Myers, who entered
to pitch the eighth, and got one out before Bonds launched a rocket to deep
center, running through the stop sign at third to score an inside-the-park
homer to win. The Pirates had scored an improbable 3 straight 3-2 wins,
and had moved to within 2 games of first place, with seven weeks to go.
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San Francisco at Boswaukta(August 3-5):
Another Sunday doubleheader appeared on the schedule, as the Giants
managed to close the gap on the other teams thanks to some starting
pitching that just wouldn't tire. In fact, reported manager John McGraw,
"once this rough part of the schedule is over, maybe as early as this coming
week, we may shift to a 4-man rotation again for a little while."
Juan Marichal continued his hot pitching Friday, beating Lew Burdette and
the Braves 4-1. Willie Mays had all four r.b.i.s on 3 hits. Rick Reuschel
faced Joe Niekro Saturday in a slugfest. The Braves' park had been a homer
haven, but this took the cake, as the Giants won a seesaw affair 16-13.
Willie Mays had three homers, Willie McCovey, Eddie Matthews, and Don
Baylor had two, and Hank Aaron, Ernie Lombardi, Biz Mackey, and Mel Ott had
one each. The Braves had collected 149 home runs going into Sunday's
doubleheader, putting them on a pace for 223, which would be 4 short of the
National League record. They were still a tad behind the '61 Yankees' pace.
They had allowed over 120, though. Vida Blue actually got the win after
retiring 2 batters in the fifth. He allowed only a run in the sixth, but
faltered in the seventh. Joe McGinnity earned the save.
In the doubleheader, the Braves' Hoyt Wilhelm failed to hold a lead in the
first game, but Hank Aaron homered off Bill Foster in the eighth as the
Braves won, 4-3. The Giants took the second game, however, by a 6-2 score.
The homer by Aaron was a magical #150 by the Braves; however, they fell to
three game below .500, making a comeback extremely unlikely.
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San Diego at Cincinnati(Aug. 3-5): Randy Jones faced Ewell
Blackwell in the first of this 3-game series, and the Padres felt rather
good. With Don Mattingly straining his back in the last Cleveland game, the
trade looked even better. McGriff's batting average was even rising. Of
course, the bench was very poor, and Joe Gordon was only adequate in the
outfield, but these were minor problems, since the pitching was holding up.
Jones pitched a good game Friday, and won 6-3. McGriff launched two
home runs. Mel Harder earned a win with the help of Mark Davis and Ray
Narleski Saturday; 5-4 was the final score. Tom Candiotti battled Satchel
Paige to a 3-3 tie through eight innings before departing. The game was
scoreless for 4 more innings until the thirteenth. Paige had departed after
10, and John Franco hurled a scoreless inning. Tom Browning was working
his second scoreless inning, when Dave Winfield doubled with one out and
Joe Gordon was pitched around. Thurm Munson doubled both runners home,
and the Padres gamed a 5-3 win. The three-game sweep had pulled the
Giants into a tie with the Reds. Though the Reds denied it, the highly
emotional series with the Dodgers may have taken too much out of them.
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Brookangeles at Houston(August 3-5):
Another series capped off by a weekend doubleheader took place in the
wide open plains of the Astrodome. The Astros sent Joe Niekro to the hill in
the first game, opposite Don Drysdale. "Normally," Drysdale remarked, "I
would be challenging hitter by being ready to throw at them. I can't afford
to with this team, though; we have to get our own runners going; we can't
afford to let the Astros beat us." He then winked and said: "Well, maybe
Davis will get decked once."
The fact that Glenn Davis leads the team in homers with six (!) is
primarily why he would be decked, but it should be understood that his
current pace would give him nine for the season. The hitting on this team is
a little better, but the power is all doubles and triples. Still, Carl Furillo is
the main reason no Astro home runs were hit over the weekend, as he threw
two runners out trying for inside-the-park homers. For those unaware of
the nastness of the Astros' park, they have a 23-foot high gray wall all
around the outfield; balls must be hit into the seats to be home runs. The
foul poles are 355 feet from home plate, but the alleys are 400 feet away,
with center field at 420 feet. "It's as if some three-year-old threw a
tantrum and told his playmates: 'If I can't hit home runs, nobody will hit
home runs'," remarked Roy Campanella.
The Dodgers stole five bases Friday, but the Astros decided to revitalize
the Baltimore chopping that had failed 6 weeks before; for tonight, anyway,
Davis, Jim Wynn, and Jose Cruz did not have to mess with their swings,
according to the manager. After Poles and Willie Wells reached base via the
Baltimore chop, Drysdale decked Jose Cruz with a pitch. He responded with
a two-run double, but Wynn - playing first for Davis - popped up, and the
Astros didn't score any more in that inning. They did score 3 in the fourth to
erase a 3-2 deficit, and the Astros wound up winning 6-4. They threatened
to do even better the next game, as Tommy John would be their opponent.
Walt Alston met privately with the starters at 6 A.M. before the game.
"I think I know how we can beat the Baltimore Chop," he explained.
"How can we do that," Pee Wee Reese wondered.
"They're going to be beating the ball down, so we've got to be ready to
throw on the run. Steve will start at first to dig balls out of the dirt, but I
want all of you to practice your barehanded picks and throws. We'll go with
a shallow infield almost the whole time."
The plan almost worked. Mike Scott allowed only two runs through eight
innings, but the Astros got three; two of them scored when Bill Doran
pushed a bunt into the outfield in the fourth with runners on second and
third. 3-2 Astros was the final, with Dave Smith earning another save. The
Dodgers scored a victory in the first game of the twin bill Sunday, as Nolan
Ryan walked five, three of whom scored in a 4-1 Dodger win. Fernando
Valenzuela lost the second game 4-2 to Don Sutton, however, as the Dodgers'
thirteen stolen bases in the series proved to not be enough.
"We're mostly a power team," remarked Ron Cey. "Jackie and, when he
plays, Maury Wills are our only real speed demons, though a couple other
plays can do it now and then. We're sunk in a place like the Astrodome. I
guess that's why they're so successful there." Indeed, it seems that
basestealing teams give them the most trouble in the dome. The 'Stros
swiped 12 bases in 16 attempts, giving them 230 on the season.
Standings after these weekend series:
A.L.East
Team W L GB
New York 68 42 --
Cleveland 65 46 3.5
Detroit 64 46 4
Boston 64 47 4.5
Baltimore 59 52 9.5
Toronto 43 69 25.5
Washington 39 73 28
A.L.West
Oaksaselphia 63 48 --
Minnesota 61 48 1
Chicago 59 53 4.5
Kansas City 57 54 6.5
California 57 56 8
Milwaukee 45 66 17
Seattle 32 78 31.5
N.L.East
Chicago 57 53 --
Philadelphia 58 54 --
St. Louis 58 54 --
Pittsburgh 56 56 2
Montreal 53 56 3.5
New York 48 64 10
N.L.West
Brookangeles 66 46 --
Cincinnati 66 47 0.5
San Francisco 65 46 0.5
Boswaukta 54 56 11
Houston 50 61 17.5
San Diego 36 75 29.5
--
Doug Fowler: dxf12@po.CWRU.edu : Me, age 4 & now: "Mommys and Daddys & other
Ever wonder if, after Casey : relatives have to give lots of hugs & love
missed the 3rd strike in the poem: & support, 'cause Heaven is just a great
he ran to first and made it? : big hug that lasts forever and ever!!!"
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From: holland@CS.ColoState.EDU (douglas craig holland)
Subject: Cop kills teenager
Nntp-Posting-Host: beethoven.cs.colostate.edu
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department
Keywords: handgun mace pepper-spray taser tasp phaser
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OK, here's something for all of those people who think cops are always
more responsible then the rest of the population. I found this article in the
Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State University's newspaper.
SUSPENDED POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED IN REVENGE TRIPLE HOMICIDE
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A police officer afraid he would be fired for
allegedly assaulting a teen-ager walked into an auto body shop wher the youth
worked, said "You're going to die" and fatally shot him and two others, police
said.
A fourth youth was wounded. A fifth escaped injury by hiding under a car.
The wounded youth ran about two blocks to a house after the shooting at about
midnight Tuesday and called police. He was hospitalized in satisfactory
condition Wednesday.
Suspended police officer Robert Sabetta, 23, of Cranston, was arrested at
gunpoint over three hours after the shooting at Wilson's Auto Enterprises in
Foster, a rural town of about 4,000 people in northwest Rhode Island.
Well, this just goes to show that cops are capable of snapping, just
like everyone else. Now who was it who said only cops should have guns?
Doug Holland
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Subject: Re: Observation re: helmets
From: dev2@inform.co.nz (Michael Seales)
Organization: InForm Group Ltd.
Lines: 23
In article <211353@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com>, maven@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com (Norman Hamer) writes:
>
> 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...
CONGRAULATIONS !!!! Your helmet just passed the Snell Test.
> So I cheerfully spent $.59 on a bottle of testor's model paint and
> repainted the scratches and chips for 20 minutes.
Oh well, as least it looks ok now. Still, it may not save your head as well
as before you dropped it.
Mike
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# Inform Group Ltd. DoD #0793 #
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# 111 The Terrace Email: homer@inform.co.nz #
# Wellington Phone: 64-4-4720996 #
# New Zealand Fax: 64-4-4732407 #
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From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il
Subject: Re: Ten questions about Israel
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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In article <1483500349@igc.apc.org>, cpr@igc.apc.org (Center for Policy Research) writes:
>
> From: Center for Policy Research <cpr>
> Subject: Ten questions about Israel
>
>
> Ten questions to Israelis
> -------------------------
>
> I would be thankful if any of you who live in Israel could help to
> provide
> accurate answers to the following specific questions. These are
> indeed provocative questions but they are asked time and again by
> people around me.
>
> 1. Is it true that the Israeli authorities don't recognize
> Israeli nationality ? And that ID cards, which Israeli citizens
> must carry at all times, identify people as Jews or Arabs, not as
> Israelis ?
Although the Hebrew expression LE'UM is used, the ID card specifically states on
the 2nd page: EZRACHUT YISREALIT: Israeli citizen. This is true for all
Israeli citizens no matter what their ethnicity. In the United States most
official forms have RACE (Caucasian, Black, AmerIndian, etc.).
>
> 2. Is it true that the State of Israel has no fixed borders
> and that Israeli governments from 1948 until today have refused to
> state where the ultimate borders of the State of Israel should be
> ?
>
Funny, I have a number of maps and ALL of them have fixed borders.
> 3. Is it true that Israeli stocks nuclear weapons ? If so,
> could you provide any evidence ?
Probably yes. So what ?
>
> 4. Is it true that in Israeli prisons there are a number of
> individuals which were tried in secret and for which their
> identities, the date of their trial and their imprisonment are
> state secrets ?
Apart from Mordechai Vanunu who had a trial behind closed doors, there was one
other espionage case (the nutty professor at the Nes Ziona Biological
Institute who was a K.G.B. mole) who was tried "in camera". I wouldn't exactly
call it a state secret. The trial was simply tried behind closed doors. I hate
to disappoint you but the United States has tried a number of espionage cases
in camera.
>
> 5. Is it true that Jews who reside in the occupied
> territories are subject to different laws than non-Jews?
>
Not Jews. Israeli citizens. Jordanian law is in effect in the West Bank but the
KNESSET passed a law that Israeli law would be binding on Israeli citizens
residing in the West Bank. These citizens could be Jews, Israeli Muslims, Druze,
or Israeli Christians. It has NOTHING to do with religion.
> 6. Is it true that Jews who left Palestine in the war 1947/48
> to avoid the war were automatically allowed to return, while their
> Christian neighbors who did the same were not allowed to return ?
Anyone who was registered (Jew, Muslim, Christian) could return. You might be
confusing this with the census taken in June 1967 on the West Bank after the
Six Day War. In *this* instance, if the Arab was not physically present he
couldn't reside on the West Bank (e.g. if he had been visting Jordan).
>
> 7. Is it true that Israel's Prime Minister, Y. Rabin, signed
> an order for ethnical cleansing in 1948, as is done today in
> Bosnia-Herzegovina ?
>
No. Not even if you drowned him in bourbon, scotch or brandy :-)
> 8. Is it true that Israeli Arab citizens are not admitted as
> members in kibbutzim?
Not true. Although a minority, there *are* some Israeli Arabs living on
kibbutzim. On the other hand, at my age (42) I wouldn't be admitted to a
kibbutz nor could the family join me. Not that I would be so thrilled to do so
in the first place. The kibbbutz movement places candidates under rigorous
membership criteria. Many Israeli Jews are not admitted.
>
> 9. Is it true that Israeli law attempts to discourage
> marriages between Jews and non-Jews ?
The religious status quo in Israel has marriage and divorce handled by the
religious courts. The RABBANUT handles marriage and divorce for Jews, the
Muslim SHAARIA courts are for Muslims, the Christian denominations have their
religious courts, and the Druze have their own courts. The entire religious
establishment (Jewish, Muslim, Druze, Christian) wants to keep it that way.
>
> 10. Is it true that Hotel Hilton in Tel Aviv is built on the
> site of a muslim cemetery ?
I believe it's adjacent to a former Muslim cemetary. From what I heard (and I'd
like to get feedback from Muslins on the net) sanctity of cemetaries is not
held that sancrosanct as it is held by Jews. The current Israeli Ministry of
Trade and Industry on Agron Road in Jerusalem is housed in a former hotel that
was built by Arabs in the 1920's on the site of an Arab cemetary.
Josh
backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
>
> Thanks,
>
> Elias Davidsson Iceland email: elias@ismennt.is
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From: renew@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Rene Walter)
Subject: CView answers
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Lines: 66
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.stack.urc.tue.nl
Summary: some CView problems explained
Keywords: Stupid Programming
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
A very kind soul has mailed me this reply for the bugs in CView.
Since he isn't in the position to post this himself, he asked me to post
it for him, but to leave his name out. So here it comes:
CView has quite a number of bugs. The one you mention is perhaps the most
annoying, but not the most dangerous. As far as I can determine, it has to
do with the temp files that CView creates. CView gives the user no control
over where it places its temp files: it just places them in its
"current directory". The problem you mention occurs (as far as I can tell)
when it runs out of disk space for its temp files. It seems as if CView
doesn't check properly for this situation. As Cview decodes a jpeg, it seems
to write out a temp file with all the pixel data with 24 bit colour
information. Then, for 8 bit displays, it does the "dithering", again writing
another file with the 8 bit colour information. While it is writing this
second file, it also writes the data to your colour card. Then when it does
the last chunk of 8 bit data, it recopies all the data from the 8 bit file to
your screen again. (It does this last "recopy" operation for its
"fit to screen" feature, even when this feature is not enabled.)
The result of this process is the following:
1) If it runs out of disk space when writing the first 24 bit file, all
you ever see is as much data as it has room for, and the last bit of
data is simply repeated over and over again because CView never
realizes the disk has filled up and disk writes/reads aren't performed.
2) If it has enough room for the 24 bit data, but runs out of room for
the 8 bit data, you see almost all of the picture as it does the
dithering and writes to the screen card.
However, then when it finishes the dithering and recopies the data
from the 8 bit file to screen (for whatever reason it does this)
one again just gets a repetition of the last chunk of data for which
there was room on the disk.
This is just a guess, but probably fairly accurate. At least the general
idea is on track I think, although I have probably made errors in details
about file I/O etc. The way around this is of course to clear up sufficient
disk space. The temp files for large JPEG's (1200x900 and bigger) can be
very large (3 Meg + 1 Meg ). On some of the largest I have needed in excess
of 6 Meg free disk space.
CView has a much more serious bug: if you are trying to display a file from
a floppy, and you change floppies while CView has some temp file open on the
floppy, then CView in certain circumstances will write the directory (and FAT
table? I can't remember) for the removed floppy onto the newly inserted
floppy, thus corruptimg the new floppy in a very serious, possibly
unrevcoverable way. SO BE CAREFUL! It is incredibly poor programming for a
program to do this. On the other hand, when choosing files in the Open Files
menu, CView insists on doing a few disk reads every time one moves the
hi-lighter square. Incredibly annoying when it could do them all at once
when it gets the directory info. And really, how much effort does it take to
sort a directory listing?
With much thanks to the originator of this article.
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+
| Rene Walter | renew@stack.urc.tue.nl |
+-----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| "Will I drown in tears of sorrow, Is there hope for tomorrow, |
| Will this world ever get better, Can't we all just live together |
| I don't wanna live in strife , I just wanna live my life |
| I deserve to have a future..." |
| -The Good Girls "Future" |
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From: goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Red Herring)
Subject: Re: Clinton's immunization program
Nntp-Posting-Host: dzoo.ch.apollo.hp.com
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Lines: 52
In article <15APR199320293386@utkvx.utk.edu> drevik@utkvx.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve) writes:
>In article <C5JoBH.7zt@apollo.hp.com>, goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Red Herring) writes...
>>In article <1993Apr14.122758.11467@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jlinder@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeffrey S Linder) writes:
>>>In article <C5FJsL.6Is@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.C
>>>OM (Mark Wilson) writes:
>>>>On the news last night Clinton was bashing the republicans for stonewalling
>>>>his so called stimulus package.
>>>>It seems that one small item within this package was going to pay for free
>>>>immunizations for poor kids.
>>>
>>>Immunizations for children in this country are already free if you care to
>>>go have it done. The problem is not the cost, it is the irresponible parents
>>>who are to stupid or to lazy to have it done.
>
>I don't know where YOU live, but this is not the case nationawide.
>Perhaps your state or municipality has put together the funds to
>do so, but in my area and most areas where I know people, immunizations
>cost $$$.
Nationwide, the immunization rate among toddlers is about 50%, but
it is reportedly as low as 10% in some inner-city neighborhoods.
I bet more than 10% kids living in such neighborhoods are already
covered by Medicaid.
Here in Massachussets, we have had a universal immunization program,
the kind of Clinton seems to be proposing, for many years (two decades?).
Mass' immunization rate is 65%. What about the other 35%? I guess
some parents are indeed too ignorant or too lazy , or simply do not
care.
>
>Sorry to shatter your stereotypes.
???
>
>>
>> In case you haven't noticed, Clintonites are pushing a universal health
>> care ACCESS program. "Access" here means that folks who do not give
>> a damn about immunizing their children will have health care services
>> delivered to their doorsteps.
>>
>>
>>--
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>>Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.
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From: dan@tremor.think.com (Dan Aronson)
Subject: drawing an abstract graph
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Lines: 9
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: tremor.quake.think.com
I am looking for software to draw a graph. I want to just give it a list
of nodes and edges between the nodes and have the program come up with some
reasonable positioning of it.
Thanks in advance.
--Dan Aronson dan@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation
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From: jkomp@leonardo.src.honeywell.com (John Komp)
Subject: RE: Price drop on C650 within 2 months?
Article-I.D.: leonardo.9304062132.AA00657
Organization: mailEnteringNews at Honeywell SRC
Lines: 36
To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Posted-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 16: 32:51 CDT
Received-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 16: 32:52 CDT
Nathaniel Sammons writes:
>I am going to be getting a C650 soon, but I don;t want Apple
>to come out with the Cyclones and the Tempest in a month
>and have the price drop on the system I want. I have negotiated a
>good deal with a supplier for a C650 8/80 and I would like to jump on it,
>but, again, I don't want the price drop to smuther me. BTW, the deal
>I have is a C650 8/80 with mouse for $2295... does anyone know of a better
>deal?
I don't know how to say it best but you are gaurenteed that the
price of the C650 is going to drop this year. This week's MacWeek
reports that Apple is probably planning a drop in August. My guess
is that it may come sooner if Apple decides to change the price
structure upon release of the multimedia units this summer.
Your price looks pretty good at about $50 more then I payed for
mine last month. I would have rather waited for one of the new
machines this sommer (like the Cyclone) but the resale value of my
IIci would have not been squat by then. Thus, financing forced me
to purchase now. I'm happy with the machine and won't feel
betrayed at all when Apple cuts the price to less then $1000 next
week (heh).
Bottome line: If the C650 does what you want, buy it. If you wait
until the Cylcones come out for a price break then you might as
well wait for the PowerPCs to come out for another price break and
then the units which follow them. You may save some money but
you've lost a lot of time when you could have been using the
computer. Face it, Apple's prices are going to be in a continuous
state of flux. At least they aren't going to try raising them
again (grin).
-John
Komp@leonardo.src.honeywell.com
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From: phoenix.Princeton.EDU!carlosn (Carlos G. Niederstrasser)
Subject: MS Mouse Driver 8.2
Originator: news@nimaster
Nntp-Posting-Host: aisle.princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University
Lines: 15
Does anyone have the documentation for the MS Mouse Driver 8.2? I got it when
I got Windows 3.1, but my Windows manual does not come with the documentation.
In particular I need to know how to turn it off, and how to speed it up
outside windows. The greater sensitivity is needed so I can play various
games, esp X-wing :)
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| Carlos G. Niederstrasser | Only two things are infinite, |
| Princeton Planetary Society | the universe and human |
| | stupidity, and I'm not sure |
| | about the former. - Einstein |
| carlosn@phoenix.princeton.edu |---------------------------------|
| space@phoenix.princeton.edu | Ad Astra per Ardua Nostra |
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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: 141
In article <C5LKEv.HpJ@feanor.xel.com> shaw@feanor.xel.com (Greg Shaw) writes:
>: Why don't you start with the spec-sheet of the ISA bus first?
>: You can quote SCSI specs till you're blue in the face, but if they
>: exceed the ISA bus capability, then what's the point?
>
>Who said ISA was necessary? EISA or VLB are the only interfaces worth
>investing thousands of dollars (e.g. a new pc's worth of money ) in .
Then don't complain (maybe it wasn't you) that SCSI was so expensive on
PC's because all we've had until a year or two ago was the ISA bus.
(ie no one buys SCSI for ISA because ISA is slow)
Are you saying that SCSI on an ISA bus is not an automatic winner when
compared to IDE?
>You didn't read to carefully. VLB-IDE uses the same connection mechanism
>as standard IDE. If transfer rate is limited by IDE, whether it's
>interfaced to ISA, EISA or VLB matters not.
I get different transfer rates out of my IDE when I change my ISA bus speed.
>On mine, for one thing. SCSI blows IDE out of the water, hands down. If
>IDE has better throughput, why isn't it used on workstations and file
>servers?
IDE is just a variant of the old IBM- MFM AT controller. (at least that's
how it looks from a software point of view). It was never meant to be
an all-encompassing protocal/standard to be implimented across different
platforms.
Is there any argument that
IDE can (or can't) transfer data from the IDE drive at least as fast as the
drive is able to provide the data? Are SCSI versions of IDE drives able
to deliver higher sustained transfer rates to their SCSI interface (because
of a higher RPM platter, different arrangement of heads, etc?)?
>: Given the original question (SCSI used only as a single hard drive
>: controller), is it then necessary to get a SCSI drive that will do
>: at least 5, maybe 10 megs/sec for the SCSI choice to make any sence?
>: What does a 200-400 meg 5 megs/sec SCSI drive cost?
>
>No, that's the nice thing -- on a multitasking OS, SCSI can use both drives
>at once. I've got unix loaded on one of my pcs (along with windogs) and the OS can only use one of the two IDE drives at one time. It's pretty ugly.
If data is going from one drive to another, and if SCSI has the ability to
perform that transfer without the data having to go through the CPU or main
memory, then yes, that is the optimal way to do it. As far as I know, IDE
can't do that. But when the CPU wants data from both drives (data to be stored
in main memory) are you saying that SCSI can grab data from both drives
at the same time *and* store/transfer that data to main memory also at the
same time? Working off 1 IRQ and 1 DMA channel on an ISA (or whatever) bus?
>I just bought at Quantum 240 for my mac at home. I paid $369 for it. I
>haven't seen IDE drives cheaper.
A friend of mine just got a Maxtor 245 meg IDE drive for $320. (that's 245
million bytes, or 234 mega-bytes). With the basic $20 interface, he gets
close to 1 meg/sec transfer on his 286-20. Does your figure include a few
hundred $$$ for SCSI drivers?
>No, actually, we're talking about SCSI being expensive simply because
>nobody did a common interface for the PC. If they had a common (read:
>easily implemented) method of adding scsi to a PC (like as in a Sun or
>Mac), then you'd find SCSI the connection medium of choice.
So you're saying that SCSI would have been the default interface type,
considering that the vast majority of PC's don't have cd-rom drives or
tape backups or etc? That most PC's only have (or had) 1 hard drive and
run DOS? That SCSI hard drives cost a lot more than MFM or RLL drives
at the time? (and how common were SCSI drives under 80 megs 4 to 10 years
ago?) There's a lot more than the lack of a common interface card that
prevented SCSI from becoming the connection medium of choice.
>: I won't argue that the SCSI standard makes for a good, well implimented
>: data highway, 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.
>
>On a single drive, SCSI is more expensive.
But on that point, is it faster? This is what all this is about. Do you
get more performance for the money. For all the people that will only have
a single hard drive in their system (regardless of the OS) will the SCSI
choice really give them more performance than IDE?
>But, you bought your PC for
>expandibility, so, you'd want to add more drives or whatever.
True, but expandibility can also start on the bus, which means the option
is there for cd-rom drives or tape backups that run off their own cards.
> 1. You can add many different types of devices and access them
> concurrently.
No argument. This is always held up to the first time SCSI buyer as the
best reason. But how many SCSI devices will the first time SCSI buyer
eventually acquire? Again does it make sense to go SCSI for a single
hard drive system?
> 2. A SCSI device works on many different machines (I have a mac
> and a PC at home and moving hard drives between them is VERY nice
> with SCSI -- hook them up and away they go)
With all the postings on the SCSI I or II specs, are you really sure that
PC and Apple SCSI hard drives are compatible? And even if they are,
is the data accessible from either machine (ie are there no formatting/
partitioning or file table differences?) Is it really plug'n'play?
> 3. SCSI devices work together better than IDE devices. For
> instance, recently, I added an older connor 100 meg IDE to a maxtor
> 212 meg IDE. The connor *MUST* be setup as the slave. It will
> work no other way. On SCSI, you set the address, check the
> termination, plug it in, and away it goes.
So the C: drive on the connor becomes a logical D: drive to DOS. Is this
really a problem?
> 4. I have a problem with IDE's mutual exclusion - I notice that
> the time it takes to switch from accessing drive c: to drive d: is
> quite long as compared to the time it takes to switch from drive c:
> to d: on a SCSI system. Under a multitasking OS, this is very
> noticable, as many things can be going on at once.
After having two IDE drives in my system for temporary file transfers,
I have never seen any differences when switching between drives, nor
have I ever seen any differences when transfering files between drives or
to/from the same drive.
>One neat thing that I've noticed lately (a fringe benefit) has been the
>ability to add older (almost dead) drives as storage on a SCSI system with
>little problem -- we've got a bunch of almost dead 20 meg drives that I've
>added to my PC. I've now got the interface full, but, it does allow me to
>have 4 20 meg drives, 1 240 meg drive, 1 tape drive, and 1 105 meg drive
>all on the same card.
That is nice (as long as the power supply can keep up). I do believe that
there is the possibility for up to 4 IDE drives on a PC.
>Simply put, SCSI is handier than IDE. No mysterious jumpers to figure out.
But what about "mysterious" (and expensive) drivers to figure out? At least
IDE doesn't require drivers that consume precious conventional (DOS) memory.
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From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
Subject: Re: Jewish Baseball Players?
Originator: news@nimaster
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Reply-To: roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig)
Organization: Princeton University
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In article <15APR93.14691229.0062@lafibm.lafayette.edu> VB30@lafibm.lafayette.edu (VB30) writes:
>Just wondering. A friend and I were talking the other day, and
>we were (for some reason) trying to come up with names of Jewish
>baseball players, past and present. We weren't able to come up
>with much, except for Sandy Koufax, (somebody) Stankowitz, and
>maybe John Lowenstein. Can anyone come up with any more. I know
>it sounds pretty lame to be racking our brains over this, but
>humor us. Thanks for your help.
Stankiewicz? I doubt it.
Koufax was one of two Jewish HOFs: the other is Hank Greenberg.
Other good players: Buddy Myer, Johnny Kling, Norm and Larry Sherry,
Ken Holtzman, Saul Rogovin, Ed Reulbach.
There have been over 150 Jewish major leaguers. A few years ago there
was an article about someone who keeps track of this in Spy magazine;
the article was entitled "Jews on First," of course.
There have also been at least two books on the subject.
Roger
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From: nlu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu)
Subject: SHARKS REVIEW Part 5: Left Wings
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Lines: 161
Apparently, Part 2 (defensemen numbered 2 through 19) was lost when I posted
it; to make things worse, I lost my own copy. I have asked on the Sharks
mailing list, on which it did get out, to see if someone can mail me a copy
back. If someone responds, I will repost it when I get it; otherwise, I will
re-write it in a day or two and post it. Sorry about that.
#8 LARRY DEPALMA Season: 3rd
Acquired: '91-92, free agent from Minnesota
Grade: I (C-/D+)
No netter/fan watching the Sharks, including me, knows where DePalma was at
the end of the season; the Sharks appeared to still have his rights, but he
wasn't in San Jose, he wasn't in Kansas City, and his name hasn't appeared on
the waiver wire. And that kind of invisibility was prevalent for the most part
for DePalma. After being called up October 30 against the Tampa Bay Lightning,
DePalma had an excellent week, scoring 5 points in 3 games while playing good
defense. Unfortunately, the 27-year-old DePalma then disappeared the rest of
the way, getting just 3 more points in 15 more games, and generally looked
lethargic and uninterested on both ends of the ice. He then was sent down to
Kansas City, walked out from there, and was suspended and later reinstated
when it was revealed that he was injured; he then promptly disappeared from
the watching eyes of Shark Bytes (as the mailing list is now known to Sharks
officials) faithful, and neither the Sharks nor we miss him.
#10 JOHAN GARPENLOV Season: 3rd
Acquired: '91-92, trade with Detroit for D Bob McGill and 8th round
pick in '92 entry draft from Vancouver
Grade: A/A-
After an early slump, Garpenlov was nothing short of inspirational the rest
of the way, finishing with 66 points in 79 games, second highest total on the
team, as he clicked well with team MVP Kelly Kisio and right wing Rob
Gaudreau. Kisio got most of the credit, but Garpenlov, finishing second in
the MVP voting, clearly demonstrated his playmaking and scoring skills, as he
was seen making excellent centering passes as well as finishing passes to him
by putting the puck past opposing goaltenders, getting a club-high 14 power-
play goals. Contrary to his previous rep, Garpenlov also showed that despite
his small size (5' 11", 183 lbs.), he was willing to throw himself around
when necessary, albeit not very successful yet. He also still needs to work
on his defense, although he improved tremendously throughout the season, and
was actually quite a good penalty killer by the end of the season. He will
be a major key to the offense next year.
#15 DAVID BRUCE Season: 5th
Acquired: '91-92, from St. Louis in expansion draft
Grade: I (?)
After a banner '91-92, when he led the team in power-play goals (10) and
was third in total scoring (38 points in 60 games), Bruce was bothered
virtually all of this season with a groin injury, which kept him out of the
lineup for all by 17 games this season. Of course, it is difficult to
speculate how well he would have done this season had he not been affected by
the injury, but the 28-year-old Bruce was effective with a man up or a man
short in the Sharks' first season, and was expected to be a strong offensive
leader this season as well. The injury appears serious, which is a shame,
because otherwise he may have a much brighter future for now; instead, his
future with the Sharks next season appears clouded.
#18 MARK PEDERSON Season: 3rd
Acquired: '92-93, trade with Philadelphia for C/LW Dave Snuggerud
Grade: I (B)
It is difficult for me to understand the Flyers' decision to unload Pederson,
after a very good offensive season last season (40 points in 58 games), but
after riding the pine early in the season, Pederson was summarily sent to the
Sharks in exchange of the defensive-minded Snuggerud, and he finished with
41 games combined with the Flyers and the Sharks. He was also limited by
injuries this season, and this limited his production (17 points). But when
healthy, Pederson appears impressive, with a good scoring touch, good size
(and the willingness to throw it around, although he's not considered a
physical forward), and good speed. He also does not appear to be a liability
on defense, but the Sharks probably have to wait until next season to see how
much, exactly, Pederson can do.
#20 JOHN CARTER Season: 4th
Acquired: '91-92, free agent from Boston
Grade: I (B+/B)
Carter was definitely one of the hardest workers on the team, and the hard
work worked wonders, as at times he looked great on ice. However, although he
did look great at times, the fact that he received just 16 points (in 55
games) for his efforts is a sign that there is only so much his hard work can
do, and the Sharks confirmed that by sending him to Kansas City with about
20 games left in the season. Carter, who will turn 30 on May 6, always
hussled, but as a result, was sometimes trapped too deep within the offensive
zone while forechecking, but he was generally a credit on the defensive end,
but he is probably of limited utility in that capacity, and he did not impress
offensively, although he was one of the best Sharks at drawing penalties. He
is very unlikely to be back next season.
#28 JEAN-FRANCOIS QUINTIN Season: 1st
Acquired: '91-92, from Minnesota in dispersal draft
Grade: I (B+/B)
I don't understand why the Sharks didn't let Quintin play any more than the
14 games he played this season. He was generally hard-working and creating
opportunities offensively, and appeared, at age 23, ready for regular NHL
duty, at least for a team like the Sharks, finishing with 7 points in those
14 games while not being a defensive liability. Shoulder injury in training
camp before the '91-92 season limited Quintin, the team's leading scorer in
exhibition games despite sitting out the final two, to just 29 games with the
Sharks and the Blades that season, but he looked impressive. He should be a
solid contender for regular duty next season.
#41 MARK BEAUFAIT Season: 1st
Acquired: 2nd round pick in 1991 supplemental draft
Grade: I (?)
After a all-star season at Kansas City, Beaufait got a cup of coffey with the
Sharks late in the season when the Blades knocked down a playoff spot and the
Sharks decimated with injuries, playing 5 games and scoring a goal for his only
NHL point thus far. Despite small size (5' 9", 165 lbs.), Beaufait was not shy
to throw himself around when necessary, and looked pretty good at times,
although it's too early to judge him based on 5 NHL games, in which he played
mostly left wing, away from his center position at Northern Michigan and
Kansas City.
#42 JAROSLAV OTEVREL Season: 1st
Acquired: 8th round pick in 1991 entry draft
Grade: I (?)
Like Beaufait, Otevrel also played away from his normal position when he was
up for his cup of tea (7 games) midway through the season. He was generally
very much of a defensive liability, and did not show much offensively either,
although that may be more indicative of the lack of ice time he got in those
7 games. He may need another season to work on his defense, but once his
defense is acceptable, he should be ready.
#44 MICHEL PICARD Season: 1st
Acquired: '92-93, trade with Hartford for LW Yvon Corriveau
Grade: I (B-/C+)
The 23-year-old Picard, although he perennially tore up the minors, seems to
be close to being out of chances, for some reason, after being acquired by the
Sharks but failing to impress the management in 25 games, scoring 4 goals for
his only points, and he spent most of the rest of the way in Kansas City.
He was not particularly strong defensively, and despite his offensive
brilliance in the minors, he has failed thus far to score in the NHL, although
he has been given limited opportunities. He may be the Sharks' bait in the
expansion draft.
#45 DODY WOOD Season: 1st
Acquired: 3rd round pick in 1991 entry draft
Grade: I (D+/D, although perhaps I shouldn't give a grade at all)
I have been accused of knocking on Wood too much. :-) Then, it is probably
no surprise to you that I am thoroughly unimpressed by Wood thus far, although
13 games is a small example. He was generally a nonfactor on offense, was
not particularly good defensively, and took too many silly penalties, losing
many fights in the process and gathering 69 penalty minutes in those 13 games,
projecting to to 446(!) in an 84-game season. He's not ready, and needs at
least another season at KC, where he can work on his fighting skills, if
nothing else. His relatively small size (5' 11", 181 lbs.) does not give much
possibility that he can survive, at this stage, as an enforcer.
===============================================================================
GO CALGARY FLAMES! Al MacInnis for Norris! Gary Roberts for Hart and Smythe!
GO EDMONTON OILERS! Go for playoffs next year! Stay in Edmonton!
===============================================================================
Nelson Lu (claudius@leland.stanford.edu)
rec.sport.hockey contact for the San Jose Sharks
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From: Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Subject: CLINTON: President's Trip to Pittsburg
Organization: Project GNU, Free Software Foundation,
675 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA +1 (617) 876-3296
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NNTP-Posting-Host: life.ai.mit.edu
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release April 15, 1993
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
The President will travel to Pittsburgh on Saturday, April
17 to talk about his job creation plan and its impact on the
state of Pennsylvania, where it would create as many as 3,818
full time jobs and up to 21,240 summer jobs. He will make a
public address at Pittsburgh International Airport at 9:30 am.
The President will leave Washington early Saturday morning
and return that afternoon. A White House press charter will
depart Andrews Air Force Base at 7:30. Filing facilities will be
available in Pittsburgh.
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From: pstone@well.sf.ca.us (Philip K. Stone)
Subject: Re: Shaft-drives and Wheelies
Nntp-Posting-Host: well.sf.ca.us
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: rec
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In article <1993Apr19.164842.18206@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> xlyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>Is it possible to do a "wheelie" on a motorcycle with shaft-drive?
>
>Mike Terry
No.
At least, that's what I told the NASA rent-a-cop that stopped me
because he swore I was "lifting it up."
He didn't completely buy the part about water in the carbs, either.
Phil Stone NEW ADDRESS----------> pstone@well.sf.ca.us
'83 R80ST "Motorcycles OK"
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From: robert.desonia@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Robert Desonia)
Subject: Re: I don't understand SI
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Reply-To: robert.desonia@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Robert Desonia)
Lines: 54
MG>joohwee students (neural@iss.nus.sg) wrote:
MG>> I went buying SIMMs recently, and the sales person told me that
the
MG>> are 9-chip SIMMs and 3-chip SIMMs, and one cannot use them interchan
MG>> If you use one, you have to use all of the same type.
don't believe everything you are told. I can tell you that mixing them
between 'banks' ok, and I can't see why mixing in one bank is not unless
they are of different speeds ( e.g. mixing of 60ns and 100ns SIMMs in one
bank ). The two only differ in the type of chips it uses. Assuming that
the SIMMS are 1Mx9 ( 9 bit wide ), here is the two equivalent
configuration. The 3-chip SIMM uses two 4-bit wide 4Mbit (1M of 4-bit
nibbles ) and one 1-bit wide 1Mbit chip ( for a total of 9-bit wide 1Mbyte
). The 9-bit SIMM uses nine 1-bit wide 1Mbit chips. These are equivalent
because of the way that it is 'pinned' on the SIMM board. At the SIMM
interface, they both act as 9-bit wide 1MByte SIMMS ( 2*4+1=9*1 ). [sorry
if too techie for ya].
MG>> Similarly, one cannot plug in two 1MB SIMMs and one 4MB SIMMs to
gi
MG>> the system a total of 6 MEG. Why is that so ?? If my system supports
MG>> of 8 MEG (it has 8 SIMM slots), can I plug in 4 4MB SIMMs to give my
MG>> 16MB ??
That sounds correct. the problem is that if your computer takes 9-bit
wide SIMMs, you can not mix different sizes in one bank. Why you ask?
Simple, if you understand why there is banks. Assuming you have a 32-bit
CPU ( 386DX or 486 ), the data bus (e.g. the mechanism to retrieve data
from memory ) is 32-bits wide, so the computer expects to see 32 bits when
it asks for data. To get that bandwidth ( 32-bit wide ), the motherboard
links 4 1Mx9 ( one bit is not data, but parity, so I will ignore that in
this simple explaination ) to get 32bits [ (9-1)*4=32 bits ]. That means
that a SIMM in a bank stores only 1/4 of the 32 bit wide data. If you
have a 16-bit bus, two 1Mx9 SIMMs are linked together to get 16-bit wide
data, which is the reason why 286 banks are 2 SIMMs wide, and 32-bit banks
are 4 SIMMs wide. If your computer required 1Mx36 ( e.g. 32-bit wide data
with 4 parity bits, used in some PS/2s and ASTs ), you could upgrade by
one SIMM at a time.
Hope that this message is not over your head, but the answer to your
question was not simple. I could of just said, 'because I said so.'
-rdd
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From: drisko@ics.com (Jason Drisko)
Subject: Re: app-defaults files
Keywords: app-defaults Xdefaults
Nntp-Posting-Host: sunburn.ics.com
Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
Lines: 30
Hello,
When starting bx if you recieve an error message saying
"cannot load app-defaults file..." check your XAPPLRESDIR
environment variable and then put the file BuilderXcessory
( this is the app-defaults file for BX ) in the directory
specified by the XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environment variable.
If you don't have an XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environment variable
then set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to be the directory where the
BuilderXcessory file is. You can do this using the setenv
command under csh. Note that the name ends in .ad so you will
have to set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to {BX}/%N.ad to get the
app-defaults to load correctly.
To make sure the the app-defaults file can be read by all
the users, make sure that a copy of or a link to the app-defaults
file exists in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults or
/usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults, depending on how your system is
set up.
Once you have taken care of this set the *systemDirectory
resource to be the directory in which you have installed BX.
For example let's say I've installed BX in /t then my system
directory resource should be set like this :
*systemDirectory: /t/builderXcessory
Thanks,
ICS Tech Support
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From: ninassup@athena.mit.edu (Nikos I Nassuphis)
Subject: LGA ncrypt source
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lines: 1135
NNTP-Posting-Host: w20-575-104.mit.edu
I got a number of requests for code.
So, here it is.
Its written in 80x86 ASM.
Borland TASM will do.
TASM LGA.ASM
TLINK /t LGA.ASM
The code:
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
; LGA ncryption
; (C) by Nick Nassuphis
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
CODE SEGMENT
ASSUME CS:CODE, DS:CODE
ORG 100h
Start:
JMP Begin
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Gas particle assigment:
;
; BIT 0 particle moving EAST
; BIT 1 particle moving WEST
; BIT 2 particle moving NORTH
; BIT 3 particle moving SOUTH
;
; BIT 4 particle moving EAST
; BIT 5 particle moving WEST
; BIT 6 particle moving NORTH
; BIT 7 particle moving SOUTH
;
;
; Collisiong Rules:
;
; 1. Gas Rules
;
; IF (E & W) AND !(N & S) THEN (E,W)->(N,S)
; IF (N & S) AND !(E & W) THEN (N,S)->(E,W)
;
; for nibbles:
;
; 1100 -> 0011
; 0011 -> 0011
;
; and for bytes:
;
; 11000000 -> 00110000
; 00110000 -> 11000000
; 00001100 -> 00000011
; 00000011 -> 00001100
; 00110011 -> 11001100
; 00111100 -> 11000011
; 11000011 -> 00111100
; 11001100 -> 00110011
;
;
; 2. Reflection Rules
;
; just swap bits along directions
;
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; This look-up table implements two particle collisions
; for the HPP lattice gas
;
HPPRule:
DB 00000000B ;00000000
DB 00000001B ;00000001
DB 00000010B ;00000010
DB 00001100B ;00000011
DB 00000100B ;00000100
DB 00000101B ;00000101
DB 00000110B ;00000110
DB 00000111B ;00000111
DB 00001000B ;00001000
DB 00001001B ;00001001
DB 00001010B ;00001010
DB 00001011B ;00001011
DB 00000011B ;00001100
DB 00001101B ;00001101
DB 00001110B ;00001110
DB 00001111B ;00001111
DB 00010000B ;00010000
DB 00010001B ;00010001
DB 00010010B ;00010010
DB 00011100B ;00010011
DB 00010100B ;00010100
DB 00010101B ;00010101
DB 00010110B ;00010110
DB 00010111B ;00010111
DB 00011000B ;00011000
DB 00011001B ;00011001
DB 00011010B ;00011010
DB 00011011B ;00011011
DB 00010011B ;00011100
DB 00011101B ;00011101
DB 00011110B ;00011110
DB 00011111B ;00011111
DB 00100000B ;00100000
DB 00100001B ;00100001
DB 00100010B ;00100010
DB 00101100B ;00100011
DB 00100100B ;00100100
DB 00100101B ;00100101
DB 00100110B ;00100110
DB 00100111B ;00100111
DB 00101000B ;00101000
DB 00101001B ;00101001
DB 00101010B ;00101010
DB 00101011B ;00101011
DB 00100011B ;00101100
DB 00101101B ;00101101
DB 00101110B ;00101110
DB 00101111B ;00101111
DB 11000000B ;00110000
DB 11000001B ;00110001
DB 11000010B ;00110010
DB 11001100B ;00110011
DB 11000100B ;00110100
DB 11000101B ;00110101
DB 11000110B ;00110110
DB 11000111B ;00110111
DB 11001000B ;00111000
DB 11001001B ;00111001
DB 11001010B ;00111010
DB 11001011B ;00111011
DB 11000011B ;00111100
DB 11001101B ;00111101
DB 11001110B ;00111110
DB 11001111B ;00111111
DB 01000000B ;01000000
DB 01000001B ;01000001
DB 01000010B ;01000010
DB 01001100B ;01000011
DB 01000100B ;01000100
DB 01000101B ;01000101
DB 01000110B ;01000110
DB 01000111B ;01000111
DB 01001000B ;01001000
DB 01001001B ;01001001
DB 01001010B ;01001010
DB 01001011B ;01001011
DB 01000011B ;01001100
DB 01001101B ;01001101
DB 01001110B ;01001110
DB 01001111B ;01001111
DB 01010000B ;01010000
DB 01010001B ;01010001
DB 01010010B ;01010010
DB 01011100B ;01010011
DB 01010100B ;01010100
DB 01010101B ;01010101
DB 01010110B ;01010110
DB 01010111B ;01010111
DB 01011000B ;01011000
DB 01011001B ;01011001
DB 01011010B ;01011010
DB 01011011B ;01011011
DB 01010011B ;01011100
DB 01011101B ;01011101
DB 01011110B ;01011110
DB 01011111B ;01011111
DB 01100000B ;01100000
DB 01100001B ;01100001
DB 01100010B ;01100010
DB 01101100B ;01100011
DB 01100100B ;01100100
DB 01100101B ;01100101
DB 01100110B ;01100110
DB 01100111B ;01100111
DB 01101000B ;01101000
DB 01101001B ;01101001
DB 01101010B ;01101010
DB 01101011B ;01101011
DB 01100011B ;01101100
DB 01101101B ;01101101
DB 01101110B ;01101110
DB 01101111B ;01101111
DB 01110000B ;01110000
DB 01110001B ;01110001
DB 01110010B ;01110010
DB 01111100B ;01110011
DB 01110100B ;01110100
DB 01110101B ;01110101
DB 01110110B ;01110110
DB 01110111B ;01110111
DB 01111000B ;01111000
DB 01111001B ;01111001
DB 01111010B ;01111010
DB 01111011B ;01111011
DB 01110011B ;01111100
DB 01111101B ;01111101
DB 01111110B ;01111110
DB 01111111B ;01111111
DB 10000000B ;10000000
DB 10000001B ;10000001
DB 10000010B ;10000010
DB 10001100B ;10000011
DB 10000100B ;10000100
DB 10000101B ;10000101
DB 10000110B ;10000110
DB 10000111B ;10000111
DB 10001000B ;10001000
DB 10001001B ;10001001
DB 10001010B ;10001010
DB 10001011B ;10001011
DB 10000011B ;10001100
DB 10001101B ;10001101
DB 10001110B ;10001110
DB 10001111B ;10001111
DB 10010000B ;10010000
DB 10010001B ;10010001
DB 10010010B ;10010010
DB 10011100B ;10010011
DB 10010100B ;10010100
DB 10010101B ;10010101
DB 10010110B ;10010110
DB 10010111B ;10010111
DB 10011000B ;10011000
DB 10011001B ;10011001
DB 10011010B ;10011010
DB 10011011B ;10011011
DB 10010011B ;10011100
DB 10011101B ;10011101
DB 10011110B ;10011110
DB 10011111B ;10011111
DB 10100000B ;10100000
DB 10100001B ;10100001
DB 10100010B ;10100010
DB 10101100B ;10100011
DB 10100100B ;10100100
DB 10100101B ;10100101
DB 10100110B ;10100110
DB 10100111B ;10100111
DB 10101000B ;10101000
DB 10101001B ;10101001
DB 10101010B ;10101010
DB 10101011B ;10101011
DB 10100011B ;10101100
DB 10101101B ;10101101
DB 10101110B ;10101110
DB 10101111B ;10101111
DB 10110000B ;10110000
DB 10110001B ;10110001
DB 10110010B ;10110010
DB 10111100B ;10110011
DB 10110100B ;10110100
DB 10110101B ;10110101
DB 10110110B ;10110110
DB 10110111B ;10110111
DB 10111000B ;10111000
DB 10111001B ;10111001
DB 10111010B ;10111010
DB 10111011B ;10111011
DB 10110011B ;10111100
DB 10111101B ;10111101
DB 10111110B ;10111110
DB 10111111B ;10111111
DB 00110000B ;11000000
DB 00110001B ;11000001
DB 00110010B ;11000010
DB 00111100B ;11000011
DB 00110100B ;11000100
DB 00110101B ;11000101
DB 00110110B ;11000110
DB 00110111B ;11000111
DB 00111000B ;11001000
DB 00111001B ;11001001
DB 00111010B ;11001010
DB 00111011B ;11001011
DB 00110011B ;11001100
DB 00111101B ;11001101
DB 00111110B ;11001110
DB 00111111B ;11001111
DB 11010000B ;11010000
DB 11010001B ;11010001
DB 11010010B ;11010010
DB 11011100B ;11010011
DB 11010100B ;11010100
DB 11010101B ;11010101
DB 11010110B ;11010110
DB 11010111B ;11010111
DB 11011000B ;11011000
DB 11011001B ;11011001
DB 11011010B ;11011010
DB 11011011B ;11011011
DB 11010011B ;11011100
DB 11011101B ;11011101
DB 11011110B ;11011110
DB 11011111B ;11011111
DB 11100000B ;11100000
DB 11100001B ;11100001
DB 11100010B ;11100010
DB 11101100B ;11100011
DB 11100100B ;11100100
DB 11100101B ;11100101
DB 11100110B ;11100110
DB 11100111B ;11100111
DB 11101000B ;11101000
DB 11101001B ;11101001
DB 11101010B ;11101010
DB 11101011B ;11101011
DB 11100011B ;11101100
DB 11101101B ;11101101
DB 11101110B ;11101110
DB 11101111B ;11101111
DB 11110000B ;11110000
DB 11110001B ;11110001
DB 11110010B ;11110010
DB 11111100B ;11110011
DB 11110100B ;11110100
DB 11110101B ;11110101
DB 11110110B ;11110110
DB 11110111B ;11110111
DB 11111000B ;11111000
DB 11111001B ;11111001
DB 11111010B ;11111010
DB 11111011B ;11111011
DB 11110011B ;11111100
DB 11111101B ;11111101
DB 11111110B ;11111110
DB 11111111B ;11111111
;
; This rule implements the velocity-reversal needed to
; run the gas evolution in reverse. Its called a WallRule
; because its the same as is all particles hit a wall
; head on.
;
WallRule:
DB 00000000B ;00000000
DB 00000010B ;00000001
DB 00000001B ;00000010
DB 00001100B ;00000011
DB 00001000B ;00000100
DB 00001010B ;00000101
DB 00001001B ;00000110
DB 00001011B ;00000111
DB 00000100B ;00001000
DB 00000110B ;00001001
DB 00000101B ;00001010
DB 00000111B ;00001011
DB 00000011B ;00001100
DB 00001110B ;00001101
DB 00001101B ;00001110
DB 00001111B ;00001111
DB 00100000B ;00010000
DB 00100010B ;00010001
DB 00100001B ;00010010
DB 00101100B ;00010011
DB 00101000B ;00010100
DB 00101010B ;00010101
DB 00101001B ;00010110
DB 00101011B ;00010111
DB 00100100B ;00011000
DB 00100110B ;00011001
DB 00100101B ;00011010
DB 00100111B ;00011011
DB 00100011B ;00011100
DB 00101110B ;00011101
DB 00101101B ;00011110
DB 00101111B ;00011111
DB 00010000B ;00100000
DB 00010010B ;00100001
DB 00010001B ;00100010
DB 00011100B ;00100011
DB 00011000B ;00100100
DB 00011010B ;00100101
DB 00011001B ;00100110
DB 00011011B ;00100111
DB 00010100B ;00101000
DB 00010110B ;00101001
DB 00010101B ;00101010
DB 00010111B ;00101011
DB 00010011B ;00101100
DB 00011110B ;00101101
DB 00011101B ;00101110
DB 00011111B ;00101111
DB 11000000B ;00110000
DB 11000010B ;00110001
DB 11000001B ;00110010
DB 11001100B ;00110011
DB 11001000B ;00110100
DB 11001010B ;00110101
DB 11001001B ;00110110
DB 11001011B ;00110111
DB 11000100B ;00111000
DB 11000110B ;00111001
DB 11000101B ;00111010
DB 11000111B ;00111011
DB 11000011B ;00111100
DB 11001110B ;00111101
DB 11001101B ;00111110
DB 11001111B ;00111111
DB 10000000B ;01000000
DB 10000010B ;01000001
DB 10000001B ;01000010
DB 10001100B ;01000011
DB 10001000B ;01000100
DB 10001010B ;01000101
DB 10001001B ;01000110
DB 10001011B ;01000111
DB 10000100B ;01001000
DB 10000110B ;01001001
DB 10000101B ;01001010
DB 10000111B ;01001011
DB 10000011B ;01001100
DB 10001110B ;01001101
DB 10001101B ;01001110
DB 10001111B ;01001111
DB 10100000B ;01010000
DB 10100010B ;01010001
DB 10100001B ;01010010
DB 10101100B ;01010011
DB 10101000B ;01010100
DB 10101010B ;01010101
DB 10101001B ;01010110
DB 10101011B ;01010111
DB 10100100B ;01011000
DB 10100110B ;01011001
DB 10100101B ;01011010
DB 10100111B ;01011011
DB 10100011B ;01011100
DB 10101110B ;01011101
DB 10101101B ;01011110
DB 10101111B ;01011111
DB 10010000B ;01100000
DB 10010010B ;01100001
DB 10010001B ;01100010
DB 10011100B ;01100011
DB 10011000B ;01100100
DB 10011010B ;01100101
DB 10011001B ;01100110
DB 10011011B ;01100111
DB 10010100B ;01101000
DB 10010110B ;01101001
DB 10010101B ;01101010
DB 10010111B ;01101011
DB 10010011B ;01101100
DB 10011110B ;01101101
DB 10011101B ;01101110
DB 10011111B ;01101111
DB 10110000B ;01110000
DB 10110010B ;01110001
DB 10110001B ;01110010
DB 10111100B ;01110011
DB 10111000B ;01110100
DB 10111010B ;01110101
DB 10111001B ;01110110
DB 10111011B ;01110111
DB 10110100B ;01111000
DB 10110110B ;01111001
DB 10110101B ;01111010
DB 10110111B ;01111011
DB 10110011B ;01111100
DB 10111110B ;01111101
DB 10111101B ;01111110
DB 10111111B ;01111111
DB 01000000B ;10000000
DB 01000010B ;10000001
DB 01000001B ;10000010
DB 01001100B ;10000011
DB 01001000B ;10000100
DB 01001010B ;10000101
DB 01001001B ;10000110
DB 01001011B ;10000111
DB 01000100B ;10001000
DB 01000110B ;10001001
DB 01000101B ;10001010
DB 01000111B ;10001011
DB 01000011B ;10001100
DB 01001110B ;10001101
DB 01001101B ;10001110
DB 01001111B ;10001111
DB 01100000B ;10010000
DB 01100010B ;10010001
DB 01100001B ;10010010
DB 01101100B ;10010011
DB 01101000B ;10010100
DB 01101010B ;10010101
DB 01101001B ;10010110
DB 01101011B ;10010111
DB 01100100B ;10011000
DB 01100110B ;10011001
DB 01100101B ;10011010
DB 01100111B ;10011011
DB 01100011B ;10011100
DB 01101110B ;10011101
DB 01101101B ;10011110
DB 01101111B ;10011111
DB 01010000B ;10100000
DB 01010010B ;10100001
DB 01010001B ;10100010
DB 01011100B ;10100011
DB 01011000B ;10100100
DB 01011010B ;10100101
DB 01011001B ;10100110
DB 01011011B ;10100111
DB 01010100B ;10101000
DB 01010110B ;10101001
DB 01010101B ;10101010
DB 01010111B ;10101011
DB 01010011B ;10101100
DB 01011110B ;10101101
DB 01011101B ;10101110
DB 01011111B ;10101111
DB 01110000B ;10110000
DB 01110010B ;10110001
DB 01110001B ;10110010
DB 01111100B ;10110011
DB 01111000B ;10110100
DB 01111010B ;10110101
DB 01111001B ;10110110
DB 01111011B ;10110111
DB 01110100B ;10111000
DB 01110110B ;10111001
DB 01110101B ;10111010
DB 01110111B ;10111011
DB 01110011B ;10111100
DB 01111110B ;10111101
DB 01111101B ;10111110
DB 01111111B ;10111111
DB 00110000B ;11000000
DB 00110010B ;11000001
DB 00110001B ;11000010
DB 00111100B ;11000011
DB 00111000B ;11000100
DB 00111010B ;11000101
DB 00111001B ;11000110
DB 00111011B ;11000111
DB 00110100B ;11001000
DB 00110110B ;11001001
DB 00110101B ;11001010
DB 00110111B ;11001011
DB 00110011B ;11001100
DB 00111110B ;11001101
DB 00111101B ;11001110
DB 00111111B ;11001111
DB 11100000B ;11010000
DB 11100010B ;11010001
DB 11100001B ;11010010
DB 11101100B ;11010011
DB 11101000B ;11010100
DB 11101010B ;11010101
DB 11101001B ;11010110
DB 11101011B ;11010111
DB 11100100B ;11011000
DB 11100110B ;11011001
DB 11100101B ;11011010
DB 11100111B ;11011011
DB 11100011B ;11011100
DB 11101110B ;11011101
DB 11101101B ;11011110
DB 11101111B ;11011111
DB 11010000B ;11100000
DB 11010010B ;11100001
DB 11010001B ;11100010
DB 11011100B ;11100011
DB 11011000B ;11100100
DB 11011010B ;11100101
DB 11011001B ;11100110
DB 11011011B ;11100111
DB 11010100B ;11101000
DB 11010110B ;11101001
DB 11010101B ;11101010
DB 11010111B ;11101011
DB 11010011B ;11101100
DB 11011110B ;11101101
DB 11011101B ;11101110
DB 11011111B ;11101111
DB 11110000B ;11110000
DB 11110010B ;11110001
DB 11110001B ;11110010
DB 11111100B ;11110011
DB 11111000B ;11110100
DB 11111010B ;11110101
DB 11111001B ;11110110
DB 11111011B ;11110111
DB 11110100B ;11111000
DB 11110110B ;11111001
DB 11110101B ;11111010
DB 11110111B ;11111011
DB 11110011B ;11111100
DB 11111110B ;11111101
DB 11111101B ;11111110
DB 11111111B ;11111111
MAXBYTE EQU 55
LINENO EQU 23
SrcPtr DW OFFSET Buffer1
DesPtr DW OFFSET Buffer2
SaveBuff:
DB MAXBYTE*(LINENO+1) DUP(0)
Buffer1:
DB MAXBYTE*(LINENO+1) DUP(0)
DB 256 DUP(0)
Buffer2:
DB MAXBYTE*(LINENO+1) DUP(0)
DB 256 DUP(0)
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
;
;
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
Data:
DB " "
DB " "
DB " "
DB " This is a test for a Lattice Gas based encryption "
DB " algorithm. The data is encoded as particles of a "
DB " digital gas, whose time evolution is then simulated "
DB " with a cellular-automaton type algorithm. Decryption "
DB " can be achieved by running the simulation in reverse. "
DB " A thermodynamic argument ensures that even if a single"
DB " bit is flipped, no decryption of the data is possible "
DB " "
DB " After the gas is let to evolve for 256 timesteps, "
DB " one can either run the reverse evolution by pressing "
DB " space, or flip a bit and then run by pressing '0' "
DB " "
DB " For a cryptographic application, the key would consist"
DB " of the number of time steps and the time and location "
DB " of specific bit inversions. "
DB " "
DB " "
DB " "
DB " "
DB " "
;
; Fill the gas with a piece of code
;
InitGas:
MOV DI,CS:SrcPtr
MOV SI,OFFSET Data
MOV CX,LINENO
IG0:
PUSH DI
PUSH CX
MOV CX,MAXBYTE
IG1:
MOV AL,CS:[SI]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
LOOP IG1
POP CX
POP DI
ADD DI,MAXBYTE
LOOP IG0
MOV SI,CS:SrcPtr
MOV DI,OFFSET InitGas
MOV CX,MAXBYTE*3
MOV AL,0
LG2:
MOV BYTE PTR CS:[SI],AL
NOT AL
INC SI
LOOP LG2
RET
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Display gas molecules bouncing around
;
ShowGas:
PUSH ES
PUSH SI
PUSH DI
PUSH CX
PUSH BX
MOV AX,0B800h
MOV ES,AX
MOV SI,CS:SrcPtr
MOV DI,160*2+10*2
MOV CX,LINENO-3
ADD SI,MAXBYTE*3
SG1:
PUSH CX
PUSH DI
MOV CX,MAXBYTE
SG2:
MOV AL,CS:[SI]
MOV BYTE PTR ES:[DI],AL
INC SI
ADD DI,2
DEC CX
JNZ SG2
POP DI
POP CX
ADD DI,160
LOOP SG1
POP BX
POP CX
POP DI
POP SI
POP ES
RET
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; CS:SI -> Sourse of Data
; CS:DI -> Destination of Data
;
ScanOneMiddleLine:
;
; first byte is a special case because of warparound
;
MOV BL,0 ; AL is the "assembled" byte.
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE] ; NORTH is one line "up" (lower)
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE] ; SOUTH is one line "down" (higher)
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI+(MAXBYTE-1)] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI+1] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
;
; middle bytes can be handled in a loop
;
MOV CX,MAXBYTE-2
SOL1:
MOV BL,0 ; AL is the "assembled" byte.
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE] ; NORTH is one line "up" (lower)
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE] ; SOUTH is one line "down" (higher)
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI-1] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI+1] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
LOOP SOL1
;
; last byte is also special
;
MOV BL,0 ; AL is the "assembled" byte.
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE] ; NORTH is one line "up" (lower)
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE] ; SOUTH is one line "down" (higher)
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI-1] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI-(MAXBYTE-1)] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
RET
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; CS:SI -> Sourse of Data
; CS:DI -> Destination of Data
;
ScanFirstLine:
;
; first byte is a special case because of warparound
;
MOV BL,0
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE*(LINENO-1)]
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE]
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE-1] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI+1] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
;
; middle bytes can be handled in a loop
;
MOV CX,MAXBYTE-2
SFL1:
MOV BL,0 ; AL is the "assembled" byte.
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE*(LINENO-1)]
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE]
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI-1] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI+1] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
LOOP SFL1
;
; last byte is also special
;
MOV BL,0 ; AL is the "assembled" byte.
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE*(LINENO-1)]
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI+MAXBYTE]
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI-1] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI-(MAXBYTE-1)] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
RET
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; CS:SI -> Sourse of Data
; CS:DI -> Destination of Data
;
ScanLastLine:
;
; first byte is a special case because of warparound
;
MOV BL,0 ; AL is the "assembled" byte.
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE]
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE*(LINENO-1)]
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI+(MAXBYTE-1)] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI+1] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
;
; middle bytes can be handled in a loop
;
MOV CX,MAXBYTE-2
SLL1:
MOV BL,0 ; AL is the "assembled" byte.
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE]
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE*(LINENO-1)]
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI-1] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI+1] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
LOOP SLL1
;
; last byte is also special
;
MOV BL,0 ; AL is the "assembled" byte.
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE]
AND BH,10001000B ; and at bits 7 and 3
OR BL,BH ; OR them into the assembled byte
MOV BH,CS:[SI-MAXBYTE*(LINENO-1)]
AND BH,01000100B ; and at bits 6 and 2
OR BL,BH ; place the stuff into AL
MOV BH,CS:[SI-1] ; WEST is one byte "left" (lower)
AND BH,00100010B ; and at bits 5 and 1
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,CS:[SI-(MAXBYTE-1)] ; EAST is one byte "right" (higher)
AND BH,00010001B ; and at bits 4 and 0
OR BL,BH
MOV BH,0
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + OFFSET HPPRule]
MOV CS:[DI],AL
INC SI
INC DI
RET
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Invert all velocities in the gas
;
InvertAll:
PUSH BX
PUSH CX
PUSH SI
MOV SI,CS:SrcPtr
MOV BX,0
MOV CX,LINENO
IA1:
PUSH CX
MOV CX,MAXBYTE
IA2:
MOV BL,CS:[SI]
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX + (OFFSET WallRule)]
MOV CS:[SI],AL
INC SI
LOOP IA2
POP CX
LOOP IA1
POP SI
POP CX
POP BX
RET
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
;
IterateOnce:
MOV SI,CS:SrcPtr
MOV DI,CS:DesPtr
MOV CS:SrcPtr,DI
MOV CS:DesPtr,SI
PUSH SI
PUSH DI
CALL ScanFirstLine
POP DI
POP SI
ADD SI,MAXBYTE
ADD DI,MAXBYTE
MOV CX,LINENO-2 ; dont scan first and last
L1:
PUSH SI
PUSH DI
PUSH CX
CALL ScanOneMiddleLine
POP CX
POP DI
POP SI
ADD SI,MAXBYTE
ADD DI,MAXBYTE
LOOP L1
PUSH SI
PUSH DI
CALL ScanLastLine
POP SI
POP DI
L3:
RET
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Iterate HPP rule CX times
;
Iterate:
PUSH CX
CALL IterateOnce
POP CX
CALL ShowGas
LOOP Iterate
RET
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Iterate HPP rule CX times
;
IterateUntil:
MOV SI,0
MOV CX,OFFSET IU4 - OFFSET IU3
IU00:
MOV AL,BYTE PTR CS:[SI + OFFSET IU3]
XOR BYTE PTR CS:[SI + OFFSET IU4],AL
INC SI
LOOP IU00
IU0:
CALL IterateOnce
CALL ShowGas
MOV SI,CS:SrcPtr
MOV CX,MAXBYTE*3
MOV BX,0
MOV AH,0
MOV AL,255
IU1:
MOV BL,BYTE PTR CS:[SI]
MOV DL,BYTE PTR CS:[BX+WallRule]
NOT AH
XOR DL,AH
AND AL,DL
INC SI
LOOP IU1
MOV SI,0
MOV CX,OFFSET IU4 - OFFSET IU3
IU2:
MOV AH,BYTE PTR CS:[SI+OFFSET IU4]
AND AH,AL
XOR BYTE PTR CS:[SI+OFFSET IU3],AH
INC SI
LOOP IU2
JMP IU3
IU3:
MOV AX,OFFSET IU0
PUSH AX
RET
DB 256 DUP(90h)
IU4:
PUSH AX
PUSH BX
PUSH CX
PUSH DX
PUSH DS
MOV AH,9
MOV DX,CS:MsgPtr
INT 21H
POP DS
POP DX
POP CX
POP BX
POP AX
RET
DB 512 DUP(90h)
MsgPtr DW OFFSET Msg
Msg DB "This message is printed out by",10,13
DB "code decrypted using data from the lattice",10,13
DB "which was applied to the decoding routine",10,13
DB "after every time step",10,13
DB "The decoding function left the code unchanged",10,13
DB "except after the gas evolution had completelly",10,13
DB "reversed the thermalization",10,13,"$"
TIMES EQU 16 ; 256 repetitions are enough to
; "equilibrate" the gas
Begin:
MOV AX,0600h
MOV BH,7
MOV DH,25
MOV DL,80
MOV CX,0
INT 10h
MOV AH,2
MOV BH,0
MOV DH,24
MOV DL,0
INT 10h
CALL InitGas
CALL ShowGas
MOV AH,0
INT 16h
PUSH CX
MOV CX,TIMES
CALL Iterate
CALL InvertAll
CALL ShowGas
MOV AH,0
INT 16h
CMP AL,"0"
JNE Begin0
MOV SI,CS:SrcPtr
XOR BYTE PTR CS:[SI],10000001B
Begin0:
MOV CX,TIMES
CALL IterateUntil
CALL InvertAll
CALL ShowGas
MOV AX,4C00h
INT 21h
CODE ENDS
END Start
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From: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle)
Subject: Re: PEM and MIME
Organization: Personal Usenet site, Tujunga, CA USA
Lines: 54
Distribution: world
In article <1qg8m2$2e5@nigel.msen.com> emv@garnet.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>W C Newell Jr (wcn@u.washington.edu) wrote:
>
>>Before we can have a global multimedia e-mail solution, there must be some
>>definition of a minimum service level, and MIME does not provide for this
>>(yet).
>
>Before the Internet will invest in software, people need to see content.
>I would suggest that 50 attractive MIME formatted news messages a day would be
>sufficient to get a few people thinking about adding MIME support to news
>readers, esp if the content is really worth it.
>
>>IMHO, we have a long way to go before the Unix-specific MUAs, newsreaders, etc
>>reach the service levels of the other commercial platforms. There ought to be
>>such a definition, consisting of known object data types and rules for their
>>handling, included in the transport specification document.
>
>Yes. But there is also a long way to go before most Mac, PC, and Windows
>MUAs and newsreaders are ready to handle the sheer volume of news and mail
>that many Unix specific tools are able to cope with. When the choice is
>"more feechurs" or "make the damn thing fast enough to keep up with the
>flood", you have to bet that "fast enough" wins.
Ed, as usual, makes a very good point.
One time a friend of mine at Sun sent me an e-mail. He composed it using the
Sun OpenWindows 3 "mailtool" which handles (non-MIME) "attachments" and the
like.
Since I don't use "mailtool", I had to manually save it, cut & paste, and
then "uudecode" the actual attachment. What I got - after a not-inconsiderable
amount of time spent doing this - was an audio file. The original message
was over 32Kb of mail headers and uuencoded data; the resulting audio message
was a single sentence that I transcribed as a 135 character message.
If he had sent me the sentence in plain text, the e-mail would have been
around 250 bytes, and it would have taken me about 3 seconds to process it at
most. Instead, it was 32k and it took at least a minute. A complete waste of
(my) time and bandwidth, as far as I'm concerned. Sending plain text is still
the most efficient method of transmission, given the same transport mechanism.
I shudder to think what would happen if everyone started posting their Usenet
articles as audio files instead of plain text! Meltdown of the Net predicted!
Film at Eleven!
Back to Mono! (-:
[This sub-thread no longer has anything to do with PEM or administrative]
[policy, so I've redirected followups back to comp.mail.mime ... - Greg ]
--
- Greg Earle
Phone: (818) 353-8695 FAX: (818) 353-1877
Internet: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US
UUCP: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV a.k.a. ...!elroy!isolar!earle
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From: garrett@Ingres.COM
Subject: Re: Temper tantrums from the 1960's
Summary: Pathelogical liars
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
Keywords:
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
Distribution: usa
Lines: 36
In article <1993Apr15.175829.22411@oracle.us.oracle.com>, mfriedma@us.oracle.com (Michael Friedman) writes...
>In article <1993Apr14.231117.21872@pony.Ingres.COM> garrett@Ingres.COM writes:
>>In article <philC5Ht1t.GwA@netcom.com>, phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes...
>>>Correct. JFK was quite disgusting in that way. The reports of the women that
>>>he coerced via power of the office are now in the dozens. Today, we';d
>>>call for immediate resignation for that kind of behaviour.
>
>>I guess coercing women into having sex is MUCH worse than stealing, breaking
>>and entering, rigging national elections, starting secret wars that kill
>>hundreds of thousands, and using the powers of your office for personal
>>gain like Nixon did. NOT!
>
>Garrett, you are a really pathetic liar.
Isn't name calling fun!
>
>Some of your charges are arguable, but most of them are obvious lies.
>I challenge you to present us with any evidence that Nixon stole,
>rigged a national election, never mind elections, or used the powers
>of his office for personal gain.
What do you think happened at Watergate? What do you think they broke into
the building for? It wasn't to just look around. Do I have to draw you
a picture?
>
>You can't because there is absolutely no evidence that any of these
>events occurred.
Whatever...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Who said anything about panicking?" snapped Authur. Garrett Johnson
"This is still just culture shock. You wait till I've Garrett@Ingres.com
settled into the situation and found my bearings.
THEN I'll start panicking!" - Douglas Adams
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From: bixledn@eng.auburn.edu (David N. Bixler)
Subject: Re: criminals & machineguns
Nntp-Posting-Host: mosquito.eng.auburn.edu
Reply-To: bixledn@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Lines: 14
There's only one way I know of to tell an AR-15 from an M-16.
Pick it up, hold it about a foot from your face and look closely
at the saftey lever. If it has two positions, its an AR-15, if
it has three, its an M-16. There are numerous internal differences
as well, but since one would have to field strip the weapon to see
them, they are not valid in this discussion. So, in conclusion,
there is very little external differences to distinguish an AR-15
from an M-16 except at close (very close) range.
David Bixler
Auburn University
All standard disclaimers apply.
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From: gwalker@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Grayson Walker)
Subject: Re: Changing oil by self.
Organization: A.S.I. n
Distribution: usa
Lines: 10
Why crawl under the car at all? I have a machine I got for my boat that
pulls the oil out under suction through the dip stick tube. It does an
excellent job and by moving the suction tube around, you can get more
old oil out than by using the drain plug. I think I paid $25 at E&B Marine.
The oil goes into a steel 3 gal can - wait until it cools and decant into
your favorite device. I use soft drink bottles. Easy to take them down to
the local oil recycle center.
FORZA!
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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Subject: Re: text of White House announcement and Q&As on clipper chip
encryption
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation - Herndon, VA USA
Lines: 12
Distribution: world
Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.intercon.com
X-Newsreader: InterCon TCP/Connect II 1.1
rlward1@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Robert Ward) writes:
> It refers to the right of the people to organize a militia, not for
> individuals to carry handguns, grenades, and assault rifles.
False, as federal courts have affirmed on many occasions. This is getting
out of sci.crypt territory, though...
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
Subject: Re: Plymouth Sundance/Dodge Shadow experiences?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Lines: 10
In article <1qmq7tINN9l@tamsun.tamu.edu> dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
>Another user recently requested info about the Shadow/Sundance
>cars, but I haven't seen any public responses.
>
>What are people's experiences with these cars?
>
>Daryl
>
they are pretty much junk, stay away from them. they will be replaced next
year with all new models.
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From: halat@pooh.bears (Jim Halat)
Subject: Re: The Inimitable Rushdie (Re: An Anecdote about Islam
Reply-To: halat@pooh.bears (Jim Halat)
Lines: 37
In article <30121@ursa.bear.com>, halat@pooh.bears (Jim Halat) writes:
>In article <115288@bu.edu>, jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes:
>>
>>He'd have to be precise about is rejection of God and his leaving Islam.
>>One is perfectly free to be muslim and to doubt and question the
>>existence of God, so long as one does not _reject_ God. I am sure that
>>Rushdie has be now made his atheism clear in front of a sufficient
>>number of proper witnesses. The question in regard to the legal issue
>>is his status at the time the crime was committed.
>
I'll also add that it is impossible to actually tell when one
_rejects_ god. Therefore, you choose to punish only those who
_talk_ about it.
>
>-jim halat
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From: djweisbe@unix.amherst.edu (David Weisberger)
Subject: Booting from B drive
Nntp-Posting-Host: amhux3.amherst.edu
Organization: large
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Lines: 17
I have a 5 1/4" drive as drive A. How can I make the system boot from
my 3 1/2" B drive? (Optimally, the computer would be able to boot
from either A or B, checking them in order for a bootable disk. But
if I have to switch cables around and simply switch the drives so that
it can't boot 5 1/4" disks, that's OK. Also, boot_b won't do the trick
for me.)
Thanks,
Davebo
--
David Weisberger | Q: Mr. President, do you care to say any more about the
| operational details of the airlift?
djweisbe | THE PRESIDENT: No.
@unix.amherst.edu | Q: How about explaining to the American people why it's
| an important issue for the United States to undertake?
| THE PRESIDENT: What?
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From: psyrobtw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert Weiss)
Subject: 15 Apr 93 God's Promise in John 1:12
Organization: University at Buffalo
Lines: 8
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
But as many as received him,
to them gave he power
to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name:
John 1:12
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From: alvstad@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Mad Dog)
Subject: Truly a sad day for hockey
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Lines: 19
A fine 26 year history came to a close tonight, as the Minnesota North Stars,
or Norm's Stars (whichever you prefer) lost to the Red Wings by a score of
5-3. The Stars goals were scored by Mike McPhee and Ulf Dahlen, who netted
two including the final one in franchise history, with less than a minute to
play.
Tonight, on the air on the Stars TV telecast, announcer Al Shaver, the voice
of the North Stars, stated basically that he will not follow the team to
Dallas. Shaver, when asked by his son (who was doing the broadcast with him),
"What will you do now?" responded, "First I'm going to get me a new pair of
slippers. Then I'm going to sit in my easy chair and watch the world go by."
Thank you North Stars, and thank you Al Shaver, for 26 years of Minnesota
memories.
Joel Alvstad
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From: wong@fraser.sfu.ca (Sam S. Wong)
Subject: Re: Mogilny must be benched.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Lines: 21
dchhabra@stpl.ists.ca (Deepak Chhabra) writes:
>Actually this stuff from Mogilny doesn't surprise me all that much. About 4
>or 5 weeks ago I read in the Toronto Sun a quote from Alex; it went something
>like [sarcastically]:
>"Yep, Patty's the man. He's responsible for the team's success...I'm a
>nobody around here."
>I was going to post it at the time...I must have forgot since nobody else
>Gee, kinda like Alex's spot on the team, isn't it?
How can you assume it was a sarcastic remark?
For someone whose first language is not English, I would interpret
that comment to mean that he believes Pat is the MVP on the team and that
he is just one of the other normal players. Quite modest I might say.
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From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
Subject: Re: disk safety measure?
Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Lines: 23
cuffell@spot.Colorado.EDU (Tim Cuffel) writes:
> There is no guarantee that the deleted space would be overwritten during
> optimization. Likely, but no guarantee. A quicker and more secure method
> would be a batch file that overwrote all of your free space. For example
> fill.bat:
> echo %1 >> out
> fill.bat
> (This is off the top of my head. #include <std_disclaimer.h>)
It is MUCH easier, faster, and probably even more secure to use Norton
Utilties 6.0 (I'm talking IBM PC here) and to tell WipeInfo to (a)
clean the free disk space and (b) clean the slack space at the end of
the files. Use to Government standard option for more careful
overwriting...
Regards,
Vesselin
--
Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
< PGP 2.2 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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From: luomat@alleg.edu (Timothy J. Luoma)
Subject: Re: DID HE REALLY RISE???
Reply-To: luomat@alleg.edu
Organization: Allegheny College
Lines: 53
In article <Apr.9.01.11.16.1993.16937@athos.rutgers.edu>
emery@tc.fluke.COM (John Emery) writes:
[much of the excellent post deleted for space -- TjL]
)->With all the suffering and persecution that it meant to be a believer,
it
)->would be quite probable that at least one of those in the supposed
conspiracy
)->would come forward and confess that the whole thing was a big hoax.
Yet
)->not one did. It seems rather reasonable that the disciples did not
make
)->up the resurrection but sincerely believed that Jesus had actually
risen
)->from the dead; especially in light of the sufferings that came upon
those
)->who believed.
I was at the "Jubilee" conference this year in Pittsburgh PA, and the
speaker there spoke of this as well. He talked about many of the same
things you mentioned in your post, but here he went into a little more
detail. I'll paraphrase as best I can:
"Suppose you were part of the `Christian consipracy' which was going to
tell people that Christ had risen. Never mind the stoning, the being
burned alive, the possible crucifixion ... let's just talk about a
scourging. The whip that would be used would have broken pottery, metal,
bone, and anything else that they could find attached to it. You would be
stood facing a wall, with nothing to protect you.
"When the whip hit you the first time, it would tear the flesh off you
with instant incredibly intense pain. You would think to yourself `All
this for a lie?' The second hit would drop you to your knees, you would
scream out in agony that your raw back was being torn at again. You would
say to yourself: `All this for a lie?' And you had 37 more coming.
"At the third hit you would scream out that it was all a lie, beg for them
to stop, and tell them that you would swear on your life that it had all
been a lie, if they would only stop...."
It is amazing enough that those who believed kept their faith under such
torture.... but for a lie? There is no one fool enough to do that.... And
no one came forward.
Excellent post John, thanks for taking the time.
--
Tj Luoma <luomat@alleg.edu> "God be merciful to
"I have fought a good fight, me a sinner."--St Luke
I have finished my course, "For me to live is Christ, and
I have kept the faith." 2 TIM to die is gain" -- PHILIPPIANS 1:21
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From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: "Exercise" Hypertension
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
Lines: 18
In article <93084.140929RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I took a stress test a couple weeks back, and results came back noting
>"Exercise" Hypertension. Fool that I am, I didn't ask Doc what this meant,
>and she didn't explain; and now I'm wondering. Can anyone out there
>enlighten. And I promise, next time I'll ask!
Probably she meant that your blood pressure went up while you were on
the treadmill. This is normal. You'll have to ask her if this is
what she meant, since no one else can answer for another person.
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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From: drchambe@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Dennis Chamberlin)
Subject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST
Reply-To: drchambe@tekig5.pen.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
Lines: 31
----- News saved at 23 Apr 93 22:22:40 GMT
In article <1993Apr22.130923.115397@zeus.calpoly.edu> dmcaloon@tuba.calpoly.edu (David McAloon) writes:
>
> ETHER IMPLODES 2 EARTH CORE, IS GRAVITY!!!
>
> This paper BOTH describes how heavenly bodys can be stationary,
>ether sucking structures, AND why we observe "orbital" motion!!
> "Light-Years" between galaxies is a misnomer. The distance is
>closer to zero, as time and matter are characteristics of this phase
>of reality, which dissipates outward with each layer of the onion.
>(defining edge = 0 ether spin)
> To find out about all of this, I recommend studying history.
Well, I'm working on it, but getting a little impatient. So far,
I've made it through Egyptian, Chinese, and Greek cultures, and
up through the Rennaisance. But so far, these insights just don't
seem to be gelling. Perhaps it's in an appendix somewhere.
In its own right, though, the history is kind of fun. Lots of
good yarns in there, with varied and interesting characters. And,
more to come.
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From: Pat.Hoage@f6507.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Pat Hoage)
Subject: army in space
Lines: 7
I just got out of the Army. Go signal corps or Intelligence;
photointelligence interpretation. If you go ADA you might get to play with
rockets but space will look pretty far away dug in the mud next to a grunt
protecting the foward troops from low flying objects. Good Luck
* Origin: *AmeriComm*, 214/373-7314. Dallas'Info Source. (1:124/6507)
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From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
Subject: Re: <<Pompous ass
Organization: sgi
Lines: 20
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: solntze.wpd.sgi.com
In article <1qlef4INN8dn@gap.caltech.edu>, keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
|> livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
|>
|> [...]
|> >>The "`little' things" above were in reference to Germany, clearly. People
|> >>said that there were similar things in Germany, but no one could name any.
|> >That's not true. I gave you two examples. One was the rather
|> >pevasive anti-semitism in German Christianity well before Hitler
|> >arrived. The other was the system of social ranks that were used
|> >in Imperail Germany and Austria to distinguish Jews from the rest
|> >of the population.
|>
|> These don't seem like "little things" to me. At least, they are orders
|> worse than the motto. Do you think that the motto is a "little thing"
|> that will lead to worse things?
You don't think these are little things because with twenty-twenty
hindsight, you know what they led to.
jon.
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