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5600 | From: howeg@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Monty Mole)
Subject: FM Transmitter
Keywords: Old question I know
Lines: 14
Can anyone please email a diagram or give me details of an ftp site where there
is a diagram of a simple, small fm mono voice transmitter for trasnmitting in
the 90-104 range (preferably above 100 Mhz). Only a short distance requiered,
and frequency variation no too important but must run from 9v or smaller DC
supply.
Thanx in advance
Monty.
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5601 | From: alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson)
Subject: Does 'Just/justifiable War' exist?
Organization: University of Otago
Lines: 107
Hi there netters,
I have a question I would very much like to see some discussion on:
Is there such a thing as a 'justifible' war?
What I would love to see it some basis from scripture for either: "All war
is wrong", or "Some war is justifiable".
To get things started I would like to outline why I am asking the
question. In my high school days I had been quite involved in the the New
Zealand Cadet Forces (This is a bit like ROTC from what I understand of
it, but with a lot more emphasis on fun than military career training).
Through this I became extremely enamoured of flying, have become involved
in the sport of gliding, and have a great interest in military aviation
hardware as the very best a 'real' flyer could ask for. My favourite
computer games are the accurate simulations of military aircraft, both
past and present.
I became a Christian about 10 years ago, and at the time rejected all
military activity as immoral. For me, all war was in complete opposition
to God's commandments to love one another, especially one's enemies.
During the war in Iraq, I found myself with great excitement listening to
the reports of the effectiveness of the the attacks using the aviation
technology I so admire - The F117A 'Stealh' bomber, the F14, F15 and F16
strike aircraft, etc. After the war concluded I began to really enjoy
simulations based around this conflict - Great to go and bomb Saddam's
bio-weapons plants in an F117A on my computer, or shoot down some of his
Mig's in an F16. The simulation of the death of people was a wonderful
game. I imagine the real pilots view the real thing in much the same way.
One only has to look at the language used to see that the personal impact
of war is ignored: A building containing people, or an aircraft flown by a
pilot is simply a 'target'. Dead civilians are 'collateral damage'. These
euphanisms are a way of removing the reality of war from the people whose
support are necessary for the continued waging of war - One only has to
look at Vietnam to see how important public opinion is.
Now we see troops sponsored by the United Nations entering Somalia, and
the prospect of military intervention in the Muslim/Croat/Serb conflict in
the former Yugoslavia. My revulsion in particular to the siege of
Sarajevo, and in the last few days of (sorry 'bout spelling) Sebrenitsa,
has caused me to rethink where I stand on 'justifiable' war.
I will list several wars in the last 50 years I can look at each, and say
- Yes this may have been justifible, this may not. These are simply my gut
reactions to each - In many cases with the benefit of the impartiality
history brings. Let me go through a few and state some of my reasons for
my reaction - I am not a historian, so excuse any historical blunders, I
am working from popular history as it is known in New Zealand.
1. The Second World War
- Murder of Jews - Hitler had to be stopped.
- Massive civilian casualties on both sides
- Dresden, Hiroshima/Nagasaki
- Probably justifiable.
2. Korean war
- Political expansionism by North Korea, basically
communism vs. capitalism.
- Probably not justifiable.
3. Vietnam
- As above, worsened by US involvement.
4. Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
- Genocide by Khmer Rouge.
- Probably justifiable.
5. Iraq (Desert Storm)
- Political expansionism, threat to world oil supply
- Other factors such as genocide.
- Not sure, but probably justifiable
6. A future involvement in Bosnia
- Genocide - so called 'Ethnic Cleansing'
- Emotive - much TV coverage of atrocities and civilian casualties.
- Probably justifiable
7. Possible future use of nuclear weapons - tactical or strategic,
somewhere in the world by the US in response to someone else - e.g. Libya
or Israel.
- My feelings in this are simple
- Nuclear war/weapons are abhorrent
- I love the New Zealand government's stand on banning all nuclear
armed or powered warships from NZ port.
- Never justifiable.
These are my own views, I have looked at scripture, and I am confused. I
would appreciate others view, particularly those based on scripture. I
*don't* want a - Naaahh, yer wrong - I think answers 8-).
Thanks for your help.
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Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347
Chief Programmer, | Fax +64-3-479-8529
The Black Albatross Porject, |
University of Otago, |
Department of Computer Science, | e-mail alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz
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our place, so that we may have eternal life" John 3:16, paraphrase
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5602 | From: rbutera@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert John Butera)
Subject: Book Review Wanted
Organization: Rice University
Lines: 18
I'm interested if anyone out here can point me towards a review of the
following book in any scholarly Christian journal, whether it be
conservative or liberal, Protestant or Catholic.
_The_Lost_Years_of_Jesus_ (documentary evidence for Jesus' 17 year
journey to the East), by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Supposedly this
is a theory that was refuted in the past, and she has re-examined it.
I thought this was just another novel book, but I saw it listed as
a text for a class in religious studies here. Also, the endorsements seem
to come from some credible sources, so I'm wondering if scholars have
reviewed it (or anyone on the net, for that matter).
--
Rob Butera |
ECE Grad Student | "Only sick music makes money today"
Rice University |
Houston, TX 77054 | - Nietzsche, 1888
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5603 | From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Subject: A moment of silence for the perpetrators of the Turkish Genocide?
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Distribution: world
Lines: 115
In article <48299@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ma170saj@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (System Operator) writes:
> April 24th is approaching, and Armenians around the world
>are getting ready to remember the massacres of their family members
Celebrating in joy the cold-blooded genocide of 2.5 million Muslim
people by your criminal grandparents between 1914 and 1920? Did you
think that you could cover up the genocide perpetrated by your fascist
grandparents against my grandparents in 1914? You've never heard of
'April 23rd'?
"In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists a single Turkish soul.
It is in our power to tear away the veil of illusion that some of us
create for ourselves. It certainly is possible to severe the artificial
life-support system of an imagined 'ethnic purity' that some of us
falsely trust as the only structure that can support their heart beats
in this alien land."
(Sahak Melkonian - 1920 - "Preserving the Armenian purity")
During the First World War and the ensuing years - 1914-1920,
the Armenian Dictatorship through a premeditated and systematic
genocide, tried to complete its centuries-old policy of
annihilation against the Turks and Kurds by savagely murdering
2.5 million Muslims and deporting the rest from their 1,000 year
homeland.
The attempt at genocide is justly regarded as the first instance
of Genocide in the 20th Century acted upon an entire people.
This event is incontrovertibly proven by historians, government
and international political leaders, such as U.S. Ambassador Mark
Bristol, William Langer, Ambassador Layard, James Barton, Stanford
Shaw, Arthur Chester, John Dewey, Robert Dunn, Papazian, Nalbandian,
Ohanus Appressian, Jorge Blanco Villalta, General Nikolayef, General
Bolkovitinof, General Prjevalski, General Odiselidze, Meguerditche,
Kazimir, Motayef, Twerdokhlebof, General Hamelin, Rawlinson, Avetis
Aharonian, Dr. Stephan Eshnanie, Varandian, General Bronsart, Arfa,
Dr. Hamlin, Boghos Nubar, Sarkis Atamian, Katchaznouni, Rachel
Bortnick, Halide Edip, McCarthy, W. B. Allen, Paul Muratoff and many
others.
J. C. Hurewitz, Professor of Government Emeritus, Former Director of
the Middle East Institute (1971-1984), Columbia University.
Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern History,
Princeton University.
Halil Inalcik, University Professor of Ottoman History & Member of
the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, University of Chicago.
Peter Golden, Professor of History, Rutgers University, Newark.
Stanford Shaw, Professor of History, University of California at
Los Angeles.
Thomas Naff, Professor of History & Director, Middle East Research
Institute, University of Pennsylvania.
Ronald Jennings, Associate Professor of History & Asian Studies,
University of Illinois.
Howard Reed, Professor of History, University of Connecticut.
Dankwart Rustow, Distinguished University Professor of Political
Science, City University Graduate School, New York.
John Woods, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History,
University of Chicago.
John Masson Smith, Jr., Professor of History, University of
California at Berkeley.
Alan Fisher, Professor of History, Michigan State University.
Avigdor Levy, Professor of History, Brandeis University.
Andreas G. E. Bodrogligetti, Professor of History, University of California
at Los Angeles.
Kathleen Burrill, Associate Professor of Turkish Studies, Columbia University.
Roderic Davison, Professor of History, George Washington University.
Walter Denny, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts.
Caesar Farah, Professor of History, University of Minnesota.
Tom Goodrich, Professor of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Tibor Halasi-Kun, Professor Emeritus of Turkish Studies, Columbia University.
Justin McCarthy, Professor of History, University of Louisville.
Jon Mandaville, Professor of History, Portland State University (Oregon).
Robert Olson, Professor of History, University of Kentucky.
Madeline Zilfi, Professor of History, University of Maryland.
James Stewart-Robinson, Professor of Turkish Studies, University of Michigan.
.......so the list goes on and on and on.....
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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5604 | From: bmaraldo@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Commander Brett Maraldo)
Subject: Ampex 456 2" Recording Tape For Sale
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Lines: 19
I have 5 full reels of Ampex 456 2" recording tape. This tape was
used once at 15 ips and carefully stored. All reel include an Ampex tape
band. The tape has not been bulk erased to my knowledge. The history of
the tape in know and available upon request. JMAR in Toronto sells new
2" 456 for $260+tax (Canadian) I would like $100CDN/reel which will include
postage.
Brett Maraldo
- Plexus Productions
ps. The reels are 2500' long; standard thickness.
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"Alien Technology Today"
bmaraldo@watserv1.UWaterloo.ca
{uunet!clyde!utai}!watserv1!bmaraldo
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5605 | From: daniels@math.ufl.edu (TV's Big Dealer)
Subject: Prayer in Jesus' name
Organization: Me
Lines: 5
Hmm...makes you wonder whether prayer "in Jesus' name" means
"saying Jesus' name" or whether we're simply to do all things with the
attitude that we belong to Jesus.
Frank D.
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5606 | From: yoshi@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Digital Exodus 1993)
Subject: Reciever/CD Player/Keyboards for sale.
Article-I.D.: leela.1pqneqINN9h3
Organization: OSU CS Outreach Services, Corvallis, Oregon
Lines: 22
NNTP-Posting-Host: atlantis.cs.orst.edu
The following items are for sale:
1) ONKYO TX-901/910 reciever/amplifier. Only 2 months old.
>PERFECT< condition. 45wpc (stereo), 4 speaker ability,
40 channel memory, has digital and direct tuning also.
Plus, it also have an earphone jack...
Bought for $350 new. Asking for no less than $250; best
offer gets it (obviously).
...PRICE DROPPED TO $230...
- No offers so far; what's the deal? No recievers needed? :(
2) Two ZEOS IBM-External keyboards. Under a month old, bought
for $90 each new; selling for $35 a piece, or $65 for both.
I pay shipping.
(SNES has been sold, and the CD player still hasn't been sold; if
you offer $170 or more, I will instantly send it to you...)
(ask for stats. on the CD player)
Yoshi.
yoshi@atlantis.cs.orst.edu
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5607 | From: downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs)
Subject: Re: Windows gripe...
Article-I.D.: helios.downs.189.734061833
Organization: UNLV
Lines: 19
Nntp-Posting-Host: cat.lv-lib.nevada.edu
> There's one thing about Windows that really frosts me.
>I have 20MB of RAM installed in my system. I use a 5MB (2.5MB
>under Windows) disk-cache, and a 4MB permanent swap file.
>
> While I can never fill the memory up, I still have problems
>sometimes because I run out of GDI resources. What gives?
>I think Windows could manage these resources a little better.
>
Are you using Windows 3.0 or 3.1? If you're still on 3.0, 3.1 devotes about
twice as much memory to these and runs out much less frequently. If 3.1,
you might use one of the resource monitors (such as the one that comes with
the Windows 3.1 Resource Kit or one of the many shareware ones available)
to see which programs are hogging the resources (every icon, internal
graphics brush, etc. in every program running uses a certain amount of
this limited memory area. Also, some don't give it back when they're
finished).
Lamont Downs
downs@nevada.edu
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5608 | From: young@serum.kodak.com (Rich Young)
Subject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk
Originator: young@sasquatch
Nntp-Posting-Host: sasquatch
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Lines: 24
In article <C5Mv3v.2o5@world.std.com> rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:
>
>Some recent postings remind me that I had read about risks
>associated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens
>are generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function
>of the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of
>the cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish
>to know more. Thanks.
From THE TUFTS UNIVERSITY GUIDE TO TOTAL NUTRITION: Stanley Gershoff,
Ph.D., Dean of Tufts University School of Nutrition; HarperPerennial, 1991
(ISBN #0-06-272007-4):
"The greatest hazard of barbecuing is that the cook will not use
enough caution and get burned. Some people suggest that the
barbecuing itself is dangerous, because the smoke, which is
absorbed by the meat, contains benzopyrene, which, in its pure form,
has been known to cause cancer in laboratory animals. However,
in order to experience the same results, people would have to
consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a
time."
-Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
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5609 | From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
Subject: Re: Rosicrucian Order(s) ?!
Organization: Tweek-Com Systems BBS, Moraga, CA (510) 631-0615
Lines: 32
alamut@netcom.com (Max Delysid (y!)) writes:
> In article <1qppef$i5b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ch981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony
> >
> > Name just three *really* competing Rosicrucian Orders. I have
> >probably spent more time than you doing the same.
> >
> > None of them are spin-offs from O.T.O. The opposite may be the
> >case.
>
> Can we assume from this statement that you are >unequivocally< saying that
> AMORC is not a spin off of OTO? .. and that in fact, OTO may well be a spin
> off of AMORC??
> i would be quite interested in hearing what evidence you have to support this
> claim.
>
>
Well, there is a fair amount of evidence floating around that indicates
that OTO has been around since at least the late 1800s, long before
Crowley ever heard of it, how long has AMORC been around? (yes, I know
that they claim to have existed as an organization clear into prehistory,
but I doubt that they have any organizational paperwork
as a non-profit that can be carbon-dated to 20,000 BC)
A.Lizard
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alizard%tweekco%boo@PacBell.COM (preferred)
PacBell.COM!boo!tweekco!alizard (bang path for above)
alizard@gentoo.com (backup)
PGP2.2 public key available on request
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5610 | From: tom@DONT_USE.NETcom.COM (Thomas Tulinsky)
Subject: Wcl for Solaris 2?
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 15
NNTP-Posting-Host: enterpoop.mit.edu
To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu, tom@DONT_USE.netcom.com
Is there a version of Wcl that has been ported to Solaris 2, including
ANSI C? I had numerous problems trying to compile Wcl under Solaris,
and the functions do not have prototypes.
I have Wcl 2.01 from the Sun User Group's 1992 CDs.
Please email answers as I am not on this list.
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Tom Tulinsky Capital Management Sciences West Los Angeles
310 479 9715
MANUALLY ADDRESS answers to:
zuma!tom@netcomsv.netcom.com
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5611 | From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: Final Solution for Gaza ?
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
Lines: 13
In article <2BDC2931.17498@news.service.uci.edu> tclock@orion.oac.uci.edu (Tim Clock) writes:
>Certainly, the Israeli had a legitimate worry behind the action they took,
>but isn't that action a little draconian?
What alternative would you suggest be taken to safeguard the
lives of Israeli citizens?
Adam
Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
"If we had a budget big enough for drugs and sexual favors, we sure
wouldn't waste them on members of Congress..." -John Perry Barlow
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5612 | From: clipper@csrc.ncsl.nist.gov (Clipper Chip Announcement)
Subject: text of White House announcement and Q&As on clipper chip encryption
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology
Distribution: na
Lines: 282
Note: This file will also be available via anonymous file
transfer from csrc.ncsl.nist.gov in directory /pub/nistnews and
via the NIST Computer Security BBS at 301-948-5717.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 16, 1993
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
The President today announced a new initiative that will bring
the Federal Government together with industry in a voluntary
program to improve the security and privacy of telephone
communications while meeting the legitimate needs of law
enforcement.
The initiative will involve the creation of new products to
accelerate the development and use of advanced and secure
telecommunications networks and wireless communications links.
For too long there has been little or no dialogue between our
private sector and the law enforcement community to resolve the
tension between economic vitality and the real challenges of
protecting Americans. Rather than use technology to accommodate
the sometimes competing interests of economic growth, privacy and
law enforcement, previous policies have pitted government against
industry and the rights of privacy against law enforcement.
Sophisticated encryption technology has been used for years to
protect electronic funds transfer. It is now being used to
protect electronic mail and computer files. While encryption
technology can help Americans protect business secrets and the
unauthorized release of personal information, it also can be used
by terrorists, drug dealers, and other criminals.
A state-of-the-art microcircuit called the "Clipper Chip" has
been developed by government engineers. The chip represents a
new approach to encryption technology. It can be used in new,
relatively inexpensive encryption devices that can be attached to
an ordinary telephone. It scrambles telephone communications
using an encryption algorithm that is more powerful than many in
commercial use today.
This new technology will help companies protect proprietary
information, protect the privacy of personal phone conversations
and prevent unauthorized release of data transmitted
electronically. At the same time this technology preserves the
ability of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to
intercept lawfully the phone conversations of criminals.
A "key-escrow" system will be established to ensure that the
"Clipper Chip" is used to protect the privacy of law-abiding
Americans. Each device containing the chip will have two unique
2
"keys," numbers that will be needed by authorized government
agencies to decode messages encoded by the device. When the
device is manufactured, the two keys will be deposited separately
in two "key-escrow" data bases that will be established by the
Attorney General. Access to these keys will be limited to
government officials with legal authorization to conduct a
wiretap.
The "Clipper Chip" technology provides law enforcement with no
new authorities to access the content of the private
conversations of Americans.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of this new technology, the
Attorney General will soon purchase several thousand of the new
devices. In addition, respected experts from outside the
government will be offered access to the confidential details of
the algorithm to assess its capabilities and publicly report
their findings.
The chip is an important step in addressing the problem of
encryption's dual-edge sword: encryption helps to protect the
privacy of individuals and industry, but it also can shield
criminals and terrorists. We need the "Clipper Chip" and other
approaches that can both provide law-abiding citizens with access
to the encryption they need and prevent criminals from using it
to hide their illegal activities. In order to assess technology
trends and explore new approaches (like the key-escrow system),
the President has directed government agencies to develop a
comprehensive policy on encryption that accommodates:
-- the privacy of our citizens, including the need to
employ voice or data encryption for business purposes;
-- the ability of authorized officials to access telephone
calls and data, under proper court or other legal
order, when necessary to protect our citizens;
-- the effective and timely use of the most modern
technology to build the National Information
Infrastructure needed to promote economic growth and
the competitiveness of American industry in the global
marketplace; and
-- the need of U.S. companies to manufacture and export
high technology products.
The President has directed early and frequent consultations with
affected industries, the Congress and groups that advocate the
privacy rights of individuals as policy options are developed.
3
The Administration is committed to working with the private
sector to spur the development of a National Information
Infrastructure which will use new telecommunications and computer
technologies to give Americans unprecedented access to
information. This infrastructure of high-speed networks
("information superhighways") will transmit video, images, HDTV
programming, and huge data files as easily as today's telephone
system transmits voice.
Since encryption technology will play an increasingly important
role in that infrastructure, the Federal Government must act
quickly to develop consistent, comprehensive policies regarding
its use. The Administration is committed to policies that
protect all Americans' right to privacy while also protecting
them from those who break the law.
Further information is provided in an accompanying fact sheet.
The provisions of the President's directive to acquire the new
encryption technology are also available.
For additional details, call Mat Heyman, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, (301) 975-2758.
---------------------------------
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INITIATIVE
Q: Does this approach expand the authority of government
agencies to listen in on phone conversations?
A: No. "Clipper Chip" technology provides law enforcement with
no new authorities to access the content of the private
conversations of Americans.
Q: Suppose a law enforcement agency is conducting a wiretap on
a drug smuggling ring and intercepts a conversation
encrypted using the device. What would they have to do to
decipher the message?
A: They would have to obtain legal authorization, normally a
court order, to do the wiretap in the first place. They
would then present documentation of this authorization to
the two entities responsible for safeguarding the keys and
obtain the keys for the device being used by the drug
smugglers. The key is split into two parts, which are
stored separately in order to ensure the security of the key
escrow system.
Q: Who will run the key-escrow data banks?
A: The two key-escrow data banks will be run by two independent
entities. At this point, the Department of Justice and the
Administration have yet to determine which agencies will
oversee the key-escrow data banks.
Q: How strong is the security in the device? How can I be sure
how strong the security is?
A: This system is more secure than many other voice encryption
systems readily available today. While the algorithm will
remain classified to protect the security of the key escrow
system, we are willing to invite an independent panel of
cryptography experts to evaluate the algorithm to assure all
potential users that there are no unrecognized
vulnerabilities.
Q: Whose decision was it to propose this product?
A: The National Security Council, the Justice Department, the
Commerce Department, and other key agencies were involved in
this decision. This approach has been endorsed by the
President, the Vice President, and appropriate Cabinet
officials.
Q: Who was consulted? The Congress? Industry?
A: We have on-going discussions with Congress and industry on
encryption issues, and expect those discussions to intensify
as we carry out our review of encryption policy. We have
briefed members of Congress and industry leaders on the
decisions related to this initiative.
Q: Will the government provide the hardware to manufacturers?
A: The government designed and developed the key access
encryption microcircuits, but it is not providing the
microcircuits to product manufacturers. Product
manufacturers can acquire the microcircuits from the chip
manufacturer that produces them.
Q: Who provides the "Clipper Chip"?
A: Mykotronx programs it at their facility in Torrance,
California, and will sell the chip to encryption device
manufacturers. The programming function could be licensed
to other vendors in the future.
Q: How do I buy one of these encryption devices?
A: We expect several manufacturers to consider incorporating
the "Clipper Chip" into their devices.
Q: If the Administration were unable to find a technological
solution like the one proposed, would the Administration be
willing to use legal remedies to restrict access to more
powerful encryption devices?
A: This is a fundamental policy question which will be
considered during the broad policy review. The key escrow
mechanism will provide Americans with an encryption product
that is more secure, more convenient, and less expensive
than others readily available today, but it is just one
piece of what must be the comprehensive approach to
encryption technology, which the Administration is
developing.
The Administration is not saying, "since encryption
threatens the public safety and effective law enforcement,
we will prohibit it outright" (as some countries have
effectively done); nor is the U.S. saying that "every
American, as a matter of right, is entitled to an
unbreakable commercial encryption product." There is a
false "tension" created in the assessment that this issue is
an "either-or" proposition. Rather, both concerns can be,
and in fact are, harmoniously balanced through a reasoned,
balanced approach such as is proposed with the "Clipper
Chip" and similar encryption techniques.
Q: What does this decision indicate about how the Clinton
Administration's policy toward encryption will differ from
that of the Bush Administration?
A: It indicates that we understand the importance of encryption
technology in telecommunications and computing and are
committed to working with industry and public-interest
groups to find innovative ways to protect Americans'
privacy, help businesses to compete, and ensure that law
enforcement agencies have the tools they need to fight crime
and terrorism.
Q: Will the devices be exportable? Will other devices that use
the government hardware?
A: Voice encryption devices are subject to export control
requirements. Case-by-case review for each export is
required to ensure appropriate use of these devices. The
same is true for other encryption devices. One of the
attractions of this technology is the protection it can give
to U.S. companies operating at home and abroad. With this
in mind, we expect export licenses will be granted on a
case-by-case basis for U.S. companies seeking to use these
devices to secure their own communications abroad. We plan
to review the possibility of permitting wider exportability
of these products.
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5613 | From: mdbs@ms.uky.edu (no name)
Subject: tuff to be a Christian?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Lines: 63
bissda@saturn.wwc.edu (DAN LAWRENCE BISSELL) writes:
> I don't think most people understand what a Christian is. It
>is certainly not what I see a lot in churches. Rather I think it
>should be a way of life, and a total sacrafice of everything for God's
>sake. He loved us enough to die and save us so we should do the
Typical statement from an irrational and brainwashed person.
The bible was written by some male chavnist thousands of years ago
(as were all of the "holy" books). Follow the parts that you think are
suitable for modern life. Ignore the others. For heaven's (!) sake don't
take it literally.
>same. Hey we can't do it, God himself inspires us to turn our lives
>over to him. That's tuff and most people don't want to do it, to be a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>real Christian would be something for the strong to persevere at. But
So you think it is easy to be a Muslim? Or be a Buddhist?
The Buddha's commandments are 500 yrs older than Christ's and in
my opinion tougher to follow. Moreover the Buddha says that we are
intrinsically good (as against Christ's "we are all sinners").
Only we allow ourselves to be distracted. By meditating we can awaken
ourselves (etc etc). Also there is no concept of God in Buddhism.
(In my opinion you can be an Atheist and a Buddhist).
But to "awaken" yourself is no easy task. Can you stay away from eating meat?
Can you sit still and think of nothing (meditate) for sometime everyday?
Buddhists do (or are supposed to). Can you pray five times a day?
Can you fast for a month every year (Ramzan). Are you willing
to give 1/6 th of your income as tithe? Muslims do. In fact I think
Jesus was an ordinary man (just as Buddha and Mohamed) probably with a
philosopy ahead of the times (where he lived).
Considering the fact that Christianity is a young religion
(compared to Hindiusm, Judaism, Zorasterism, Buddihsm) it is also very
probable that the Bible is merely a collection of borrowed ideas.
(There was a good deal of trade between the eastern lands and the
middle east at the time of Christ).
And perhaps some more. But leave the crap in it out ("woman was created
after man, to be his helper" etc).
aras
>just like weight lifting or guitar playing, drums, whatever it takes
>time. We don't rush it in one day, Christianity is your whole life.
>It is not going to church once a week, or helping poor people once in
>a while. We box everything into time units. Such as work at this
>time, sports, Tv, social life. God is above these boxes and should be
When ever I turn on my TV there is this Pat Robertson and
other brain washers (Oh boy, what an act they put on!) with an
1-800 number to turn in your pledges.
God it seems is alive and well inside these boxes.
>carried with us into all these boxes that we have created for
>ourselves.
Parting Question:
Would you have become a Christian if you had not
been indoctrinated by your parents? You probably never learned about
any other religion to make a comparative study. And therefore I claim
you are brain washed.
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5614 | From: gt0869a@prism.gatech.EDU (WATERS,CLYDE GORDON)
Subject: Re: 486DX/33 CPU chip for sale, $250
Distribution: na
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 20
In article <C5qoBy.9n5@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes:
>>> 486DX/33 CPU chip for sale, $250+shipping. If you like to pay $250 for the
>>Please refer to 7870, he is selling $150 for that CPU.
>
>Correct. & $150 may be high now that AMD has started selling 486 clones!
Indeed! Word is, Intel's lawsuit against AMD was absolutely THROWN OUT of
court Monday! AMD said they would be shipping chips WITH THE INTEL INSTRUCTION
SET next week!!! 486 chip prices are going to go through the floor,
mark my words!!!
Regards,
Gordon.
--
WATERS,CLYDE GORDON-BME '93-Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta Ga.
"Out of the mountain of despair, we can hew the stone of hope"- MLK Jr.
uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt0869a
Internet: gt0869a@prism.gatech.edu
|
5615 | From: leyfre@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Frederic Leymarie)
Subject: Re: Developable Surface
Organization: McGill Research Center for Intelligent Machines, Montreal, Canada
Lines: 38
In article <C5x9xs.KHE@hkuxb.hku.hk>, h8902939@hkuxa.hku.hk (Abel) writes:
|> Hi netters,
|> I am currently doing some investigations on "Developable Surface".
|> Can anyone familiar with this topic give me some information or sources
|> which can allow me to find some infomation of developable surface?
|> Thanks for your help!
|> Abel
|> h8902939@hkuxa.hku.hk
A developable surface is s.t. you can lay it (or roll it) flat on the
plane (it may require you to give it a "cut" though...)
E.g., a cylinder, a cone, a plane (of course!) or any surface or patch
having vanishing Gaussian (intrinsic) curvature (i.e., with singular
Hessian, the matrix of 2nd derivatives for an adequate coordinate patch)
are "developable". In more technical words, a developable surface is
"locally isometric to a plane" at all points.
Think also of the sphere (or the earth) which in a non-developable:
whatever way(s) you cut it, you will not be able to lay flat any pieces
of it... (its intrinsic curvature is nowhere vanishing).
For more details on this look at any book on differential geometry
which treats surfaces (2D manifolds); e.g., M. do Carmo's book:
@Book{Carmo76Differential,
author = {do Carmo, Manfredo P.},
title = {Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces},
year = 1976,
publisher = {Prentice-Hall},
note = {503 pages.}}
Enjoy!
--
Frederic Leymarie -- leyfre@mcrcim.mcgill.edu
McGill University, Electrical Eng. Dept., McRCIM, | Tel.: (514) 398-8236
3480 University St., Montreal, QC, CANADA, H3A 2A7. | FAX: (514) 398-7348
|
5616 | From: royc@rbdc.wsnc.org (Roy Crabtree)
Subject: Re: A Message for you Mr. President: How do you know what happened?
Organization: Red Barn Data Center
Lines: 54
In article <C5srEw.FCG@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> tbrent@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Timothy J Brent) writes:
...
>Give me a break! What fireman should have to deal with a blaze like that
>AND get shot at at the same time.
Nearly all of them. Witness LA> Firemen are among our real
heroes most of the time. I wonder when they were actually
aasked to come, or if they found out about the fire over the
TV ....
Shot at by whom? prove it!
>
>These people were breaking the law. I agree these weren't the best tactics,
When "law" replaces "justice" the system is dying or dead.
Note that we had a small revolution 216 years ago on this
point.
>they probably should have backed off, pulled the perimeter way back, and let
>them sit there with no media attention until they decided to come out. The
>only other alternative I see would have been to send in a couple of special
>forces guys to capture or assassinate Koresh. But remember, these fruit-
Or perhaps just wait.
Or maybeeven send in a few agents who are Christian to
sit down and pray outside the line? Try affinity
rather than subversion?
>loops were putting their lives on the lines voluntarily. Why should
Chuckle. SO would you if someone points a gun at you.
At that point you can die or live; and if living means
stayng in a building to keep badge carrying nuts off your
kids, I suspect you might as well.
BOTH sides were wrong.
>law-abiding citizens have to put themselves in any more danger than necessary
>when dealing with a nut? Look at the man who jumped out of his Bradley to
>grab a flaming women who was running back into the building. Yeah, I would
>have to say they were trying to save those people. I don't think I would
>risk my life that much to save someone that stupid that obviously didn't
>even want to be saved.
Try again: go see the movie Sophie's CHoice.
Grow up.
>
>-Tim
royc
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5617 | From: ulf@kirsch.c3consult.comm.se (Ulf Lagerstedt)
Subject: A+ mouse
Organization: Communicator C3Consult AB
Distribution: comp
Lines: 12
In the bottom drawer I just found an old A+ mouse with a DB-9 (9-pin) plug.
I assume that it belonged to a deceased Plus or something.
Could any simple modification turn it into a proper ADB mouse?
Reply by mail, preferably.
Thanks!
--
Ulf Lagerstedt, Communicator C3Consult, Sweden / ulf@c3consult.comm.se
|
5618 | From: ssa@unity.ncsu.edu (S. Alavi)
Subject: >>> Technical Books for sale (X/UNIX/C/C++/OS/DB/Netwk...) REPOST <<<
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
Distribution: usa
Lines: 29
My friends and I have a buch of books for sale. They are not
being used due to change of job, loss of interest etc.
Rather than letting them gather dust, we would like to pass them
on to others who may use them (of course at a price :-)
Topics Include:
- C/C++/Other Programming Languages
- UNIX/DOS/OS2/Windows/Other Operating System topics (General)
- X/Motif/OLIT/Xwin
- Networking and Digital Signal Processing
- Computer Graphics
- Microprocessors and Computer Architecture
- Math
- Software Engineering/Algorithms/Software Testing
- Databases
- Expert Systems
The list is long and rather than posting it here I will email
it by request. I am going to keep the list updated and so will
respond to all requests (lucky me :-)
If you are interested drop me a line
====== S. Alavi [ssa@unity.ncsu.edu] (919)467-7909 (H) ========
|
5619 | From: dlecoint@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Darius_Lecointe)
Subject: Re: Sabbath Admissions 5of5
Organization: Florida State University
Lines: 21
I find it interesting that cls never answered any of the questions posed.
Then he goes on the make statements which make me shudder. He has
established a two-tiered God. One set of rules for the Jews (his people)
and another set for the saved Gentiles (his people). Why would God
discriminate? Does the Jew who accepts Jesus now have to live under the
Gentile rules.
God has one set of rules for all his people. Paul was never against the
law. In fact he says repeatedly that faith establishes rather that annuls
the law. Paul's point is germane to both Jews and Greeks. The Law can
never be used as an instrument of salvation. And please do not combine
the ceremonial and moral laws in one.
In Matt 5:14-19 Christ plainly says what He came to do and you say He was
only saying that for the Jews's benefit. Your Christ must be a
politician, speaking from both sides of His mouth. As Paul said, "I have
not so learned Christ." Forget all the theology, just do what Jesus says.
Your excuses will not hold up in a court of law on earth, far less in
God's judgement hall.
Darius
|
5620 | From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)
Subject: Re: Solar Sail Data
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 24
higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>snydefj@eng.auburn.edu (Frank J. Snyder) writes:
>> I am looking for any information concerning projects involving Solar
>> Sails. [...]
>> Are there any groups out there currently involved in such a project ?
Bill says ...
>Also there is a nontechnical book on solar sailing by Louis Friedman,
>a technical one by a guy whose name escapes me (help me out, Josh),
I presume the one you refer to is "Space Sailing" by Jerome L. Wright. He
worked on solar sails while at JPL and as CEO of General Astronautics. I'll
furnish ordering info upon request.
The Friedman book is called "Starsailing: Solar Sails and Interstellar Travel."
It was available from the Planetary Society a few years ago, I don't know if
it still is.
--
Josh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
"Find a way or make one."
-attributed to Hannibal
|
5621 | From: ams@Auspex.COM (Allan Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Making an internal hard disk into an external
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
Lines: 29
Nntp-Posting-Host: auspex.auspex.com
>Its not a difficult operation-- the cables and such are standard,
>except for SCSI ID. SCSI ID is usually three jumper pads-- labelled
>A0-A2 on Quantums.
I am trying to put a 40MB drive from my LC into a case. It is a Conner
CP3040A. I can't figure out which jumpers are the SCSI ID jumpers.
Is anyone familiar with this drive?
At the end of the drive (oposite the 50 pin pibbon connector), there
are eleven pins which look like this:
o o o o o o 1
o o o o o 2
L5 CR12 C37
where the "o" are pins, and the "L5 CR12 C37" represent some of the
silk screen notation near these pins.
Elsewhere on the board there are four jumper pads marked E1,E2,E3,E4
on the silk screen.
Does anyone know where the SCSI ID A0,A1,A2 pins are, and where the
drive activity light LED should be plugged into?
-allan
--
Allan M. Schwartz +1 408 492-0900 ams@auspex.com
|
5622 | From: aurag@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Aurag Hassan)
Subject: Re: Deir Yassin
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Lines: 25
Are you trying to say that there were no massacres in Deir Yassin
or in Sabra and Shatila? If so then let me tell you some good jokes:
There is not and was not any such thing like jewish killing in WWII
Palestinians just did what Davidians did for fourty years and more.
In fact no one was killed in any war at any time or any place.
People die that is all. No one gets killed.
Maybe also vietamiese didn't die in Vietnam war killed by american
napalm they were just pyromaniacs and that's all.
Maybe jews just liked gas chambers and no one forced them to get in there.they
may be thought it was like snifing cocaine. No?
What do you think of this ? Isn't it stupid to say so?
Well it is as stupid as what you said .Next time you want to lie do it
intelligently.
Sincerely yours.
Hassan
|
5623 | From: kng@pt.com (Ken Gravenstede)
Subject: Decent, CHEAP 20+MHZ Scopes?
Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated
Lines: 12
Any info on modern 20MHZ or better dual trace scopes would be appreciated.
Should I buy a used one or a new one? And where?
Please E-Mail.
Thanks in advance.
Ken
--
__
Ken Gravenstede, Performance Technologies Incorporated kng@pt.com
315 Science Parkway, Rochester, New York 14620 uupsi!ptsys1!kng
|
5624 | From: ladd.morse@his.com (Ladd Morse)
Subject: Mac oriented BBSs in Chicago
Lines: 8
A member of the local BBS I frequent is looking for Mac oriented BBSs based in
Chicago.
Any leads would be most appreciated.
#!
|
5625 | From: tony@morgan.demon.co.uk (Tony Kidson)
Subject: Re: Protective gear
Distribution: world
Organization: The Modem Palace
Reply-To: tony@morgan.demon.co.uk
X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21)
Lines: 26
In article <1993Apr5.151323.7183@rd.hydro.on.ca> jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca writes:
>In article <C4wKFs.BC1@eskimo.com> maven@eskimo.com (Norman Hamer) writes:
>>Question for the day:
>>
>>What protective gear is the most important? I've got a good helmet (shoei
>>rf200) and a good, thick jacket (leather gold) and a pair of really cheap
>>leather gloves... What should my next purchase be? Better gloves, boots,
>>leather pants, what?
>
>I would go for the gloves. There's not a whole lot that you can do in life if
>you have no skin on your hands.
Yup! Ruins your sex life!
Tony
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|Bromley, | off of the machine. |tny@cix.compulink.co.uk |
|England BR1 3QE|Honda ST1100 -=<*>=- DoD# 0801|100024.301@compuserve.com|
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|
5626 | From: paschal@tscs.com (Charles O. Paschal)
Subject: Novell 2.0a/3.11
Organization: Total Support Computer Systems, Tampa, Florida
Lines: 10
I have a novell 2.0a that I will sell for $692 which can be upgraded to 3.11
for $460. The novell has complete documentation but no network cards except
the ID card.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charles Paschal - Total Support Computer Systems - Tampa - (813) 876-5990
UUCP: paschal@tscs FAX: (813) 871-2783
US-MAIL: Post Office Box 15395 - Tampa, Florida 33684-5395
|
5627 | From: christy@cs.concordia.ca (Christy)
Subject: X386 server problems
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Lines: 32
Hello,
I'm trying to get X11R5 running on my PC and ran into the
following error message when trying to start the Xserver.
------
Setting TCP SO_DONTLINGER: Option not supported by protocol
X386 Version 1.2 / X Windows System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Fatal server error
no screens found
giving up
xinit: software cased connection abort (errno 130): unable to connect
to X xserver.
------
does anyone know what this error means ?
has anyone experienced this problem ?
help will be much appreciated
thanks in advance.
please send replies to <christy@alex.qc.ca>
Christy
|
5628 | Subject: HINT 486 VLB/ISA/EISA motherboard
From: schauf@iastate.edu (Brian J Schaufenbuel)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Keywords: 486, motherboard
Lines: 13
I am looking at buying some Companion brand VLB/ISA/EISA motherboards with
HINT chipsets. Has anybody had any experience with this board (good or bad)?
Any information would be helpful!
thanks
--
_______________________________________- Brian Schaufenbuel____________________
| Brian J Schaufenbuel [ "There is no art which one government sooner learns ]
| Helser 3644 Halsted [ than that of draining money from the pockets of the ]
| Ames, Ia 50012 [ people [especially college students]." - Adam Smith ]
|
5629 | From: "Daniel U. Holbrook" <dh3q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Did US drive on the left?
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Lines: 50
<1ppqkm$93n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: po3.andrew.cmu.edu
In-Reply-To: <1ppqkm$93n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
>>
>>The reason I ask is because I went to a classic car meet here in the UK,
>>and saw a very nice old De Soto, 1920's vintage I'd guess, with wooden
>>artillery type wheels, etc, but it was right-hand drive. I can't believe
>>that DeSoto produced RHD cars just for the UK....
Well Sweden and Australia, and lord knows wherever else used to drive on
the "wrong" side of the road, so the export market might have been
larger then than just the UK.
>i'm guessing, but i believe in the twenties we probably drove mostly down
>cattle trails and in wagon ruts. I am fairly sure that placement of the
>steering wheel was pretty much arbitrary to the company at that time.....
By the 1920s, there was a very active "good roads" movement, which had
its origins actually in the 1890s during the bicycle craze, picked up
steam in the teens (witness the Linclon Highway Association, 1912 or so,
and the US highway support act (real name: something different) in 1916
that first pledged federal aid to states and counties to build decent
roads. Also, the experience of widespread use of trucks for domestic
transport during WW 1 convinced the government that good raods were
crucial to our national defense. Anyway, by the 20s there were plenty
of good roads, at least around urban areas, and they were rapidly
expanding into the countryside. This was the era, after all, of the
first auto touring fad, the motel, the auto camp ground, etc. Two good
books on the subject spring to mind - Warren Belasco "America on the
Road" (title may not be exact - author is) and another called "The Devil
Wagon in God's Country" author I forget. Also, any of John Flink's or
John Bell Rae's auto histories.
As to placement of the steering wheel being arbitrary, by the early
teens there were virtually no American cars that did not have the wheel
on the left. In the early days, cars had the wheel on the left, on the
right, and even in the middle, as well as sometimes having a tiller
instead of a wheel. This was standardized fairly early on, though I
don't know why.
Dan
dh3q@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
Applied History
"World history strides on from catastrophe to catastrophe, whether we
can comprehend and prove it or not."
Oswald Spengler
|
5630 | From: ccastco@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas)
Subject: Re: Is ms-windows a "mature" OS?
Keywords: ms-windows
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 46
In article <cyen.735139934@ponder> Jesse writes:
>hi,
> Have you used Mac system 6.x or 7.x? If the answer is positive, you would
>know if ms-windows is a "mature" OS.
>
> Days ago people doubted that ms-windows is not a real OS. I can see why
>they have such question. Ms-windows confuses many people. Microsoft
[Common complaints about MS Windows deleted...]
>Jesse
>e-mail:cyen@cs.unt.edu/ic43@sol.acs.unt.edu
Hmmmm, why do I get the feeling that this is gonna start one of
those endless threads 'Mac Vs Win" and might even end up as "OS/2 Vs Win".
Well, I dont know if Windows is a mature OS, if I have seen one (in which
case that has to be X-Windows :) ), but dont be so quick to judge...
First of all to try to use plain vanilla Windows is as courageous as to try
to use plain vanilla DOS. There are _lots_ of very nice commercial and
shareware packages/utilities that will boost up Windows past what MS itself
thought possible :)... For example, Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0 (a replace-
ment for ProgMan) will give you group-within-a-group capability and will
even change group icons, it will launch progs by association (well, FileMan
does that too) or by dragging the file in the apps icon (now Mac doesnt do
that, huh? :) )... And the list goes on and on... Now, Windows _is_ kinda
hard to finetune, boost and configure, but thats trhe price to pay for not
paying $$$ to get a Mac or an OS/2 capable machine (an entirely differet
story ...)... On the other hand if you dont like the idea of PM's icons
not correspnding to the files themselves, well they are not supposed to :)..
PM is a Program _Launching_ utility not a file manager... Modify your
settings to have FM as your shell and not PM, or get a couple of utilities
from cica that supposedly give you a 'Mac feel'... I dont wanna get in the
discussion which is a better system: Mac's are good in their own way -- they
are _different_ not better or worse than Win PCs-- (actually I am writing
this from a Mac lab as a user assistant - so dont think I am partial to Win:) )
By all means check out the stuff in cica (ftp to ftp.cica.indiana.edu under
the pub/pc/win3 subdir user: anonymous), or wait for StarTrek (Mac's OS on
a PC !!! -- the threads we are gonna have then !!! :) )...
Just trying to avoid another Mac-Win war...
--
Costas Malamas ____________________________________________________________
Georgia Institute of Technology
OIT UA -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily OIT's...
Internet: ccastco@prism.gatech.edu
|
5631 | From: loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss)
Subject: Re: Death and Taxes (was Why not give $1 billion to...
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Lines: 7
In my last post I referred to Michael Adams as "Nick." Completely my
error; Nick Adams was a film and TV actor from the '50's and early '60's
(remember Johnny Yuma, The Rebel?). He was from my part of the country,
and Michael's email address of "nmsca[...]" probably helped confuse things
in my mind. Purely user headspace error on my part. Sorry.
Doug Loss
|
5632 | From: infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew Infante)
Subject: Re: LONG TRIPS
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Lines: 27
Nntp-Posting-Host: north1.acpub.duke.edu
In article <18859.1076.uupcb@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> mark.harrison@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Mark Harrison) writes:
>I am new to motorcycliing (i.e. Don't even have a bike yet) and will be
>going on a long trip from Edmonton to Vancouver. Any tips on bare
>essentials for the trip? Tools, clothing, emergency repairs...?
Er, without a bike (Ed, maybe you ought to respond to this...), how
you gonna get there?
If yer going by cage, what's this got to do with r.m?
>
>I am also in the market for a used cycle. Any tips on what to look for
>so I don't get burnt?
>
>Much appreciated
>Mark
>
Maybe somebody oughta gang-tool-FAQ this guy, hmmm?
--
Andy Infante | You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains |
'71 BMW R60/5 | that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself. |
DoD #2426 | -- Joan Sutherland |
==============| My opinions, dammit, have nothing to do with anyone else!!! |
|
5633 | From: rudy@netcom.com (Rudy Wade)
Subject: Re: Cubs game of April 6th
Article-I.D.: netcom.rudyC53145.IGD
Organization: Home of the Brave
Lines: 7
In article <1993Apr6.203330.4974@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> jclark@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (J. Michael Clark) writes:
>Otis Nixion lined a single to left with two outs breaking up the no hitter.
>Cubs win 1-0 on a 1 hitter by Jose Guzman.
That's might be what it takes to beat the Braves this year.
Look at Smoltz's pitching line: 6 hits, 2 walks, 1 ER, 7 SO and a loss.
|
5634 | From: andrew@idacom.hp.com (Andrew Scott)
Subject: USENET Hockey Draft week 27 price list
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, IDACOM Telecommunications Division
Lines: 264
Here is the price list for the week April 13 to April 19.
- Andrew
Buy Sell Pts Team Player
158.9 143.0 157 PIT Mario_Lemieux
148.5 133.7 145 BUF Pat_LaFontaine
142.7 128.4 141 BOS Adam_Oates
137.6 123.8 136 DET Steve_Yzerman
132.1 118.9 129 WPG Teemu_Selanne
131.7 118.5 127 NYI Pierre_Turgeon
130.1 117.1 127 TOR Doug_Gilmour
126.0 113.4 123 BUF Alexander_Mogilny
123.4 111.1 119 PHI Mark_Recchi
121.9 109.7 119 LA Luc_Robitaille
113.3 102.0 112 QUE Mats_Sundin
111.3 100.2 110 PIT Kevin_Stevens
110.6 99.5 108 VAN Pavel_Bure
108.6 97.7 106 STL Craig_Janney
108.3 97.5 107 PIT Rick_Tocchet
107.6 96.8 105 CHI Jeremy_Roenick
105.3 94.8 104 QUE Joe_Sakic
103.5 93.2 101 STL Brett_Hull
102.4 92.2 100 CGY Theoren_Fleury
101.2 91.1 100 PIT Ron_Francis
100.4 90.4 98 TOR Dave_Andreychuk
100.2 90.2 99 BOS Joe_Juneau
98.3 88.5 96 WPG Phil_Housley
98.3 88.5 96 MTL Vincent_Damphousse
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55.0 0.0 0 QUE Peter_Forsberg
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|
5635 | From: seanmcd@ac.dal.ca
Subject: Re: SE rom
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lines: 23
In article <wgwC5pDL4.43y@netcom.com>, wgw@netcom.com (William G. Wright) writes:
>
> Anyway, I was hoping someone knowledgeable
> about Mac internals could set me straight: is it simply
> impossible for a mac SE to print grayscale, or could
> someone armed with enough info and a little pro-
> gramming experience cook something up that would
> supplement the ROM's capabilities?
> Also, how does one know if one's mac can
> support the grayscale and photograde that the Select 300
> is supposedly capable of? ( Short of buying the printer
> and trying it out like I did)
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Bill Wright
> wgw@netcom.com
>
To use the grayscale features, I believe you need a Mac equipped
with colour quickdraw. I was told this somewhere or other, but it's
not mentioned in "Apple Facts" (guide for apple sellers), in the
press release or in the technical specs.
Sean
|
5636 | From: manu@oas.olivetti.com (Manu Das)
Subject: overlapped window without a title bar
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino CA, USA
Lines: 31
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: todi.oas.olivetti.com
Hi,
I have a simple question. Is it possible to create a OVERLAPPED THICKFRAME
window without a title bar; ie
(WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_THICKFRAME) & ~WS_CAPTION
I don't seem to be able to get rid off the title bar.
I have another question:
I have a overlapped window(say V) which has few child windows (a,b,c, etc)
The window shows up with all it's children fine. Now, I create another
child(t) with a WS_THICKFRAME style and placed on top of one or more of
it's siblings. Style WS_THICKFRAME is used so that I can resize it. How do
I make sure that the child 't' will always be at the top of it's siblings.
I used SetWindowPos() and BringWindowToTop() without success. What's happening
is that while I am resizing 't' it shows up but as soon as I let go, it goes
behild it's siblings.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Manu
Please mail me at manu@oas.olivetti.com
|
5637 | From: ski@wpi.WPI.EDU (Joseph Mich Krzeszewski)
Subject: Re: Need to find out number to a phone line
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lines: 4
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu
In Texas (Well, Corpus Christi anyway) if you pick up the phone and dial
890 the phone company will read back the number to you.
Try it. It might work.
|
5638 | From: robert.desonia@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Robert Desonia)
Subject: A/D board BUS SPEED probl
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: 39
C >Hi:
C >I have a 486DX2-66MHz computer to use with an A/D board
C >for data acquisition on an AT bus...I'm having problems.
C >The AT bus runs at 12.5 MHz - correct? So there should
C >be no bus speed conflict. But I read somewhere that the
C >new 486DX2-66 MHz CPU runs on a 33 MHz bus - is that for
C >the local bus or the AT bus also - if so then I have a problem.
C >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
C >When I run on non-turbo-mode the speed goes to 8 MHz and the
C >A/D doesn't work. Please mail your views! Thanks.
C >Vincent
C >cyl5@musica.mcgill.ca
C >
The STANDARD AT bus (ISA) runs at 8MHz, not 12.5 MHz, but some
non-stnadard ISA buses do have higher clock rates, but be careful, since
some boards don't work with faster than standard rates. For instance, my
486 has adjustable AT bus speeds, and my PAS16 audio card chokes when I do
AD data acquisition with a bus speed faster than 10MHz.
The fact that non-turbo-mode speed A/D doesn't work is weird. You may
have a motherboard with a hardware 'bug'.
33 MHz bus on the 486DX2 66 does refer to the local bus. FYI: the AT bus
operates asynchronously, and is linked to the local bus via a 'bus
interface', which is one function that your 'chipset'.
-rdd
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|
5639 | From: jrogoff@scott.skidmore.edu (jay rogoff)
Subject: Re: '61 Orioles Trivia
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Lines: 6
Bunker & McNally were later.
Pappas, Estrada, Steve Barber, and . . . ?
Jay
|
5640 | From: ab@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Allan Brockman)
Subject: I don't have FTP, live in Canada, how do i get RSA(RAS?) 4 my atariS
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Lines: 9
i don't have FTP and i live in canada ( this means that it would be
illeagle for a U.S. citizen to send the program to me. their gigerment
wishes to restrict its dispersil ) but someone in europe must have ported
a coppy of RSA to the atariST by now. how do i get a coppy of the RSA
from a non-FTP news feed?
--
Allan Brockman ab@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
|
5641 | From: bcash@crchh410.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Brian Cash)
Subject: Re: I don't beleive in you either.
Nntp-Posting-Host: crchh410
Organization: BNR, Inc.
Lines: 9
In article <1993Apr13.213055.818@antioc.antioch.edu>, smauldin@antioc.antioch.edu writes:
|> I stopped believing in you as well, long before the invention of technology.
|>
|> --GOD
|>
Ahhh go back to alt.autotheism where you belong!
Brian /-|-\
|
5642 | From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: Surgery of damaged tendons and median nerve
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
Lines: 27
In article <BHATT.93Apr12161425@wesley.src.honeywell.com> bhatt@src.honeywell.com writes:
>I thought I will explore the net wisdom with the following questions:
>
> Is there any better way to control the pain than what the surgeon suggested?
> How long will such pain last? Will the pain recur in the future?
>
No one can answer that. If she gets reflex sympathetic dystrophy,
it could last forever. Just hope she does not. Most don't.
> Do damaged (partially cut) tendons heal completely and is all of the finger
> strength regained? How long does it take for the complete healing process?
>
Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. You just have to do the
best job you can reattaching and hope. You should know in a few
months.
--
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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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|
5643 | From: I3150101@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Benedikt Rosenau)
Subject: Re: The Inimitable Rushdie (Re: An Anecdote about Islam
Organization: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Lines: 19
In article <115846@bu.edu>
jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes:
(Deletion)
>Certainly. It is a central aspect of Islam to show mercy and to give
>those who've done wrong (even presuming Rushdie _did_ violate Islamic
>Law) and committed crimes. This was the basis for my posts regarding
>leniency which seemed not to have penetrated Benedikt's skull.
You have demanded harsh punishments of several crimes. Repeating
offenders have slipped in only as justification of harsh punishment at
all. Typically religious doublespeak. Whenever you have contradictory
statements you choose the possibility that suits your current argument.
It is disgusting that someone with ideas that would make Theodore KKKaldis
feel cozy can go along under the protection of religion.
Gregg, tell us, would you kill idolaters?
Benedikt
|
5644 | From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Subject: Re: Is a 2 headed Sun 3/60 possible (cgfour0/bwtwo0)
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
Lines: 25
In article <1r28mg$9r5@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU>
matthew@alchemy.TN.Cornell.EDU (Matthew Kleinmann) writes:
| I have a Sun 3/60 that has a mono framebuffer (bwtwo0 ?) built on the
| motherboard. The same system also has a cgfour (cgfour0 and bwtwo1 ?)
| daughterboard. I have been using this system with a color monitor having a
| color "front" screen from the cgfour, and a mono "back" screen from the
| bwtwo1, both on the same tube. I recentley picked up a 1600 x 1280 Sun mono
| monitor, and I would like to make a two headed system with the cgfour0 and
| the bwtwo0. I do not care if I loose the "back" screen on the color tube
| from the bwtwo1. After looking through the Xsun man page I am not sure if
| this is possible. Has anybody sucessfuly done this before?
If it's any consolation, I have two 2-headed Sun-3/60 systems, though the
color and mono monitors for each are "rated" 1152x900. Their configuration
is the same as yours, so it "should" be a Plug'N'Play situation, EXCEPT:
I don't know if your hi-res mono monitor will function this way. However,
you may simply be able to pull the motherboard and set the HI-RES jumper
(located in the same jumper array as the jumpers for the RAM/SIMM selects
and Ethernet connection) and be happily on your way. When you pull the
motherboard, the jumpers are in the left-rear (e.g. "north-west") quadrant
of the motherboard (to the left of the SIMM sockets).
Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com, thad@netcom.com ]
|
5645 | From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Subject: Re: Science and Methodology
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
Distribution: inet
Lines: 28
In article <1qk92lINNl55@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
>In article <C5I2Bo.CG9@news.Hawaii.Edu> lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:
>> The difference between a Nobel Prize level scientist and a mediocre
>> scientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology.
>> It depends on the quality of their THINKING.
....................
>Lee Lady is correct when she asserts that the difference between
>Einstein and the average post-doc physicist is the quality of
>their thought. But what is the difference between Einstein and a
>genius who would be a great scientist but whose great thoughts
>are scientifically screwy?
This example is probably wrong. There is the case of one famous
physicist telling another that he was probably wrong. As I recall
the quote:
Your ideas are crazy, to be sure. But they are not crazy
enough to be right.
The typical screwball is only somewhat screwy.
--
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)
{purdue,pur-ee}!snap.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
|
5646 | From: janet@ntmtv.com (Janet Jakstys)
Subject: Exercise and Migraine
Nntp-Posting-Host: pegasus
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 24
We were talking about Migraine and Exercise (I'm the one who can't
fathom the thought of exercise during migraine...). Anyway, turning
the thread around, the other day I played tennis during my lunch
hour. I'm out of tennis shape so it was very intense exercise. I
got overheated, and dehydrated. Afterwards, I noticed a tingling
sensation all over my head then about 2 hours later, I could feel
a migraine start. (I continued to drink water in the afternoon.)
I took cafergot, but it didn't help and the pain started although
it wasn't as intense as it usually is and about 9pm that night, the
pain subsided.
This isn't the first time that I've had a migraine occur after exercise.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same experience and I wonder
what triggers the migraine in this situation (heat buildup? dehydration?).
I'm not giving up tennis so is there anything I can do (besides get into
shape and don't play at high noon) to prevent this?
Thanks,
--
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Northern Telecom INTERNET:janet@ntmtv.com
Mtn. View, CA.
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|
5647 | From: Rick_Granberry@pts.mot.com (Rick Granberry)
Subject: Pastoral Authority
Reply-To: Rick_Granberry@pts.mot.com (Rick Granberry)
Organization: Motorola Paging and Telepoint Systems Group
Lines: 17
There is some controversy in my denomination as to what authority is vested
in the pastor. I am still forming my opinion. I am solicing opinions, and
references for what that is, how much, and how it should be used.
As a general reference, I would not exclude responses from different
denominations based on Biblical teachings, but you have to understand our
church is independent, protestant and likely to be much different from those
that follow ecclesiastical authority in the church. We may need to discuss
the roles of deacons and elders.
Thanks for your replies.
| "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him." |
| "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." |
| (proverbs 26:4&5)
|
5648 | From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Subject: NCSA Mosaic for X 1.0 available.
X-Md4-Signature: b912a4b59c6065f2e86a15751149a3f2
Organization: Nat'l Center for Supercomputing Applications
Lines: 79
Version 1.0 of NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System, a networked
information systems and World Wide Web browser, is hereby released:
file://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/xmosaic-source/xmosaic-1.0.tar.Z
.../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-sun.Z
.../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-sgi.Z
.../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-ibm.Z
.../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-dec.Z
.../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-alpha.Z
.../xmosaic-diffs/xmosaic-0.13-1.0-diffs.Z
NCSA Mosaic provides a consistent and easy-to-use hypermedia-based
interface into a wide variety of networked information sources,
including Gopher, WAIS, World Wide Web, NNTP/Usenet news, Techinfo,
FTP, local filesystems, Archie, finger, Hyper-G, HyTelnet, TeXinfo,
telnet, tn3270, and more.
This release of NCSA Mosaic is known to compile on the following
platforms:
SGI (IRIX 4.0.2)
IBM (AIX 3.2)
Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.3 with stock X11R4 and Motif 1.1, and GCC).
DEC Ultrix.
DEC Alpha AXP (OSF/1).
Documentation is available online.
Changes since 0.13 include:
o Added new resource, gethostbynameIsEvil, for Sun's that
coredump when gethostbyname() is called to try to find out what
their own names are. (Command-line flag is -ghbnie.)
o Explicitly pop down all dialog boxes when document view
window is closed, for window managers too dull to do so
themselves.
o Better visited anchor color for non-SGI's.
o Added .hqx and .uu to list of file extensions handled like .tar files.
o Added 'Clear' button to Open box, to allow more convenient
cut-n-paste entries of URL's.
o New resource 'autoPlaceWindows'; if set to False, new document
view windows will not be automatically positioned by the
program itself (but it's still up to your window manager just how
they're placed).
o Command-line flags -i and -iconic now have desired effect (new
resource initialWindowIconic can also be used).
o Gif-reading code is a little more bulletproof.
o Obscure infinite loop triggered by extra space in IMG tag fixed.
o Eliminated nonintuitive error message when image can't be read
(inlined NCSA bitmap is indication enough that something's not
right for authors, and readers can't do anything about bad images
in any case).
o Obscure parsing bug (for constructs like <ADDRESS><A
HREF=...>text<A></ADDRESS>) fixed.
o Fixed mysterious stupid coredump that only hits Suns.
o Fixed stupid coredump on URL's like '://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/'.
o Fixed buglet in handling rlogin URL's.
o New support for Solaris/SYSVR4 (courtesy
dana@thumper.bellcore.com).
o Better support for HP-UX 8.x and 9.x (courtesy
johns@hpwarf.wal.hp.com).
o Better support for NeXT (courtesy scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk).
o Some miscellaneous portability fixes (courtesy
bingle@cs.purdue.edu).
o Miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups.
Comments, questions, and bug reports should be sent to
mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Thanks in advance for any feedback you can
provide.
Cheers,
Marc
--
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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
|
5649 | From: klf@druwa.ATT.COM (FranklinKL)
Subject: Re: WARNING.....(please read)...
Summary: Be careful about concealed weapons!!!
Lines: 45
In article <C5srIB.6AH@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
| In article <1993Apr19.145238.9561@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bqueiser@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian J Queiser) writes:
| >anything if he hadn't emptied his gun into the asshole. Texas--it's
| >whole other country.
|
| That reminds me of one of Texas's ads...you hear a guy speaking in
| French (like it's a letter home), then the French moves to the
| background, and a French-accented voice come to the foreground, talking
| about how he went walking on the beach, and it felt so much like
| home that he decided to take his shoes off...and the rest of his
| clothes. It ended with "please send bail." :-)
|
| >On an rec.autos note, does anyone carry a gun on them or keep one in
| >their car (which is bad idea, isn't it?) if you work in a bad part of
| >town (or regularly go through one)? Is this a loaded question? :^)
|
| I normally have an unloaded Colt Delta in my glove box with a loaded
| magazine handy (which is perfectly legal in Oklahoma). For those
| times that I'm travelling inter-state, I keep an unloaded
| S&W .44 Magnum revolver in the glove box, with a speed-loader
|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| in my pocket (which is legal everywhere, under Federal law, Illinois
| State Police be hanged).
|
| As I've said before, this is stricly for defense; my insurance
| will pay to replace my car, but I only have one life...
|
| James
|
Carrying a pistol, loaded or unloaded, in the glove compartment, is
considered carrying a concealed weapon in Colorado and is illegal without
a concealed weapons permit. Unless the law has been changed recently,
carrying a weapon openly is legal in Colorado but concealing it is illegal.
I read a newspaper account last year where police stopped a car on a
traffic infraction and observed a .357 magnum revolver sitting on the
seat. The driver could not be cited for possessing or carrying the weapon
because it was not concealed. The article stated that if the gun had
been discovered in the glove box, it would have been considered a crime.
--
Ken Franklin They say there's a heaven for people who wait
AMA And some say it's better but I say it ain't
GWRRA I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
DoD #0126 The sinners are lots more fun, Y'know only the good die young
|
5650 | From: layfield@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Colin Layfield)
Subject: Re: Smiths birthday goal was LEAFS GO ALL THE WAY !!!
Organization: University of Calgary Computer Science
Lines: 23
In article <C4wty9.40u@mcs.anl.gov> mwm@aps.anl.gov writes:
>In article 5KL@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca, kwk2chow@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (KEVIN C.) writes:
>> (Thanks for the goals by Steve Smith)
>I don't see why more people don't blame grant fuhr for the goal that smith
>put in his own net, it's common to play the puck back to your own goalie when
>deep in your own end and under little or no pressure from the offensive team.
>If fuhr had been in position the puck would have never crossed the line.
>
>Mike McDowell
I have to disagree with you on this one. It is anything BUT common. In the
4 or 5 years I have been watching hockey I have NEVER seen this happen EVER.
I am not sure what league you have been watching. :-)
Anyone else agree with this?
Colin Layfield | "Religion and Sex are power plays,
| Manipulate the people for the money they pay,
The University of Calgary | Selling Skin, Selling God
Computer Science | The numbers look the same on their CREDIT CARDS!"
layfield@cpsc.ucalgary.ca | - Queensryche
|
5651 | From: howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey)
Subject: Re: Shipping a bike
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Lines: 23
In article <MELLON.93Apr15183059@pepper.ncd.com> mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon) writes:
>
>>Can someone recommend how to ship a motorcycle from San Francisco
>>to Seattle? And how much might it cost?
>
>I'd recommend that you hop on the back of it and cruise - that's a
>really nice ride, if you choose your route with any care at all.
>Shouldn't cost more than about $30 in gas, and maybe a night's motel
>bill...
>
Yes! Up the coast, over to Portland, then up I-5. Really nice most
of the way, and I'm sure there's even better ways.
Watch the weather, though... I got about as good a drenching as
possible in the Oregon coast range once...
--
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Howard Berkey howard@netcom.com
Help!
... .. ... ... .. ... ... .. ... ... .. ... ... .. ... ... .. ...
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5652 | From: eabyrnes@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ed Byrnes)
Subject: Getting rid of screen wiggles?
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Lines: 15
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: vela.acs.oakland.edu
My monitor display has a bad case of the wigglies. I have a good ground. I
live in an old house and I have replaced much of the wiring. I have two
EMI filters on the computer, the monitor plugs into the computer. When
fluorescent lights are on upstairs, the display jiggles, when motors run
in the house, the display jiggles, when incandescent lights are on in the
kitchen the display jiggles. I could bring a separate line from the
breaker box, and use it only for the computer, would this do it? EMI
doesn't only travel the 110 volt line though. Should I shield the back of
the monitor? Ground a grid or plate?
Your expertise is appreciated. Thanks very much! Ed Byrnes
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5653 | From: dev@hollywood.acsc.com ()
Subject: Keyboard Focussing
Organization: ACSC, Inc.
Lines: 11
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hollywood.acsc.com
I have two Motif Widgets. I would like to control one of them via the
keyboard and the other with the mouse. I set the keyboard focus on the first
widget, but as soon as I click the mouse on the second one, I lose the
keyboard focus on the first one.
Could some kind soul show me how to do this?
Thanks
DM
dev@hollywood.acsc.com
|
5654 | From: jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine)
Subject: Re: Countersteering_FAQ please post
Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division
Lines: 37
In article <1993Apr19.155551.227@cs.cornell.edu> karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes:
>In article <mjs.735230272@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes:
>>
>>No No No No!! All I am saying is that you don't even need to tell people the
>>technique of countersteering, cos they will do it intuitively the first
>>time they try to go round a corner.
Some will, and others will steer with their tuchuses. I don't know how much
the teaching of countersteering in the beginner course really helps the
tuchus steerers. I was one, I guess that I always steered a bicycle that way,
and I only got the hang of countersteering in normal riding *after* the course.
I could do the countersteering swerves in the course no problem, but I only
started using it in my normal riding when I decided that my turning at speed
(off-ramps and the like) was a lot more difficult that it should have been.
I knew how it works (although that's currently up for debate) definitely knew
*that* it works, as I could do it in swerves, but only figured it out later
in my normal riding. Just a data point. I think that it's not a bad idea to
bring the idea up, but it's best to let everyone tuchus-steer for the first
lesson or two, so they can learn to shift gears before they have to worry
about proper handlebar technique.
>countersteering. In fact, my Experienced Rider Course instructors
>claimed that they could get on behind a new rider and make the bike
>turn to whichever side they wanted just by shifting their weight
>around, even when the operator was trying to turn in the opposite
>direction. (I admit I've never actually seen this.)
I have. In our beginner course we had passenger training. Sometime during
the lesson the instructor would hop on the back of the bike, and the student
would take him for a ride. If the student did not give the instructor the
"you are a sack of potatoes" passenger speech, the instructor would steer
the bike and make a general nuisance of himself. It was amusing to watch,
I'm just happy that it didn't happen to me.
I've bike like | Jody Levine DoD #275 kV
got a you can if you -PF | Jody.P.Levine@hydro.on.ca
ride it | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
5655 | From: halat@pooh.bears (Jim Halat)
Subject: Re: After 2000 years, can we say that Christian Morality is
Reply-To: halat@pooh.bears (Jim Halat)
Lines: 43
In article <1993Apr15.071814.27960@wam.umd.edu>, judi@wam.umd.edu (Jay T Stein -- objectively subjective) writes:
>> = <1qhn7m$a95@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>[culled from a discussion on Christianity and objective morals]
>
>Question: Is there any effective difference between:
>
>"Objective values exist, and there is disagreement over what they are"
>
>and
>
>"Values are subjective?"
>
>I don't see any.
>
Is there any difference in saying
"Absolute Truth exists, but some people think its a lie"
and
"Truth is relative" ?
I think there is: in both examples, the first statement is a
fundamental disagreement between at least two people; the
second statement is agreed upon by all.
To put it another way, someone who says objective values exist
does not agree that values are subjective.
-jim halat
|
5656 | From: eliot@lanmola.engr.washington.edu (eliot)
Subject: Re: Manual Shift Bigots
Organization: clearer than blir
Lines: 34
NNTP-Posting-Host: lanmola.engr.washington.edu
In article <C5LIw2.CAx@news.rich.bnr.ca> Peon w/o Email (Eric Youngblood) writes:
>In article <1qn2lo$c9s@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael J. Edelman) writes:
>The big disadvantage of automatics is the ~10% HP they consume that never
>gets to the wheels. In this respect they are at a disadvantage to a manual.
only when the torque converter is not locked up. there are autos out there
with converter lock up in 2nd, 3rd and 4th gears.
>Dont forget that now that new 6 speed manual trannys are available the drive
>train is more optimally geared to get the most out of the engine.
rare.. so are 5 speed autos.. but very real.
>Bottom line is both manuals and automatics have vastly improved.
i think that automatics have advanced far more than manuals.
especially in shift intelligence. i say that a smart automatic is
better than the majority of drivers in terms of being in the right
gear at the right time, which to me is more important than torque
converter losses.
>I prefer the stick for fun and the auto for traffic.
who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? a well designed
shifter will easily facilitate manual, clutchless shifts. i am
referring to the much copied mercedes jagged gate. the only
department where you lose out is in the number of ratios available,
and of course the converter losses..
if ayrton senna can drive a racecar with fully automatic transmission,
it can't be half bad.. :-)
eliot
|
5657 | From: manes@magpie.linknet.com (Steve Manes)
Subject: Re: Gun Control (was Re: We're Mad as Hell at the TV News)
Organization: Manes and Associates, NYC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]
Lines: 24
J. Spencer (J.M.Spencer@newcastle.ac.uk) wrote:
: manes@magpie.linknet.com (Steve Manes) writes:
: >Jim De Arras (jmd@cube.handheld.com) wrote:
: >: > Last year the US suffered almost 10,000 wrongful or accidental
: >: > deaths by handguns alone (FBI statistics). In the same year, the UK
: >: > suffered 35 such deaths (Scotland Yard statistics). The population
: >: > of the UK is about 1/5 that of the US (10,000 / (35 * 5)). Weighted
: >: > for population, the US has 57x as many handgun-related deaths as the
: >: > UK. And, no, the Brits don't make up for this by murdering 57x as
: >: > many people with baseball bats.
: [snip]
: If you examine the figures, they do. Stabbing is favourite, closely
: followed by striking, punching, kicking. Many more people are burnt to
: death in Britain as are shot to death. Take at look and you'll see for
: yourself.
It means that very few people are shot to death in Great Britain.
--
Stephen Manes manes@magpie.linknet.com
Manes and Associates New York, NY, USA =o&>o
|
5658 | From: al@escom.com (Al Donaldson)
Subject: Re: Once tapped, your code is no good any more.
Reply-To: al@escom.COM (Al Donaldson)
Organization: ESCOM Corp., Oakton VA (USA)
Distribution: na
Lines: 16
amolitor@nmsu.edu (Andrew Molitor) writes:
>Yes, those evil guys in the FBI can probably, with some
>effort, abuse the system. I got news for you, if the evil guys in
>the FBI decide they want to persecute you, they're gonna, ...
And if Richard Nixon had had this kind of toy, he wouldn't have had
to send people into the Watergate.
But that's not really the issue. The real issue is whether this
will be used to justify a ban against individuals' use of private
(i.e., anything else) encryption methods.
Unrelated question...isn't the term "Clipper," as neat as it is,
already taken by Intergraph?
Al
|
5659 | From: btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko)
Subject: Save my hard disk?! (allocation error, cross-linked)
Reply-To: b-banko@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 150
Hi.
While running the MS Quick C compiler in a DOS window under Windows 3.1
this evening, I got a "program has violated system integrity... close all
applications, exit windows and restart your computer" error.
I started to do this when I immediately got a "Serious disk error" message
from Windows. "hit return to retry". I did that about 5 times and then
rebooted to find that quite a few files have been corrupted somehow.
(I am including the chkdsk output below.)
Questions:
1) Is there an easy way to restore everything to working order?
What might be some better approaches?
2) What might have caused this? Does the SMARTDRV cache make me more
vulnerable? (I'm suspicious of hard drive caches especially when they
cache data writing.)
The straightforward approach would be to run chkdsk with the /f option to
fix the disk and then it looks like I would probably have to reinstall Windows
and a few other things.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
Brad Banko
ps: this is a 386sx machine with a 40Mb hard drive and 2 Mb of RAM.
chkdsk output:
======================================================================
Volume Serial Number is 1159-09D3
Errors found, F parameter not specified
Corrections will not be written to disk
C:\GFX\VPIC46\CVPIC.EXE
Allocation error, size adjusted
C:\GFX\VPIC46\VPIC.TXT
Allocation error, size adjusted
C:\GFX\VPIC46\VIDEO7.CFG
Allocation error, size adjusted
C:\GFX\VPIC46\ORCPRO2.CFG
Allocation error, size adjusted
C:\GFX\VPIC46\VGA.CFG
Allocation error, size adjusted
C:\GAME\GOOSE\BIRD2.X
Allocation error, size adjusted
C:\WINMISC\ADV21\WINADV.EXE
Allocation error, size adjusted
316 lost allocation units found in 224 chains.
647168 bytes disk space would be freed
C:\GFX\VPIC46\CVPIC.EXE
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16133
C:\GFX\VPIC46\GENO5400.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16138
C:\GFX\VPIC46\TRI8800B.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16139
C:\GFX\VPIC46\TS4000HI.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16140
C:\GFX\VPIC46\CONFIG.DOC
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16141
C:\GFX\VPIC46\VPIC.TXT
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16146
C:\GFX\VPIC46\VIDEO7.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16151
C:\GFX\VPIC46\DEFINCON.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16152
C:\GFX\VPIC46\ATIWONDR.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16153
C:\GFX\VPIC46\GENO6400.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16154
C:\GFX\VPIC46\OAK.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16155
C:\GFX\VPIC46\HIRES.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16156
C:\GFX\VPIC46\AHEADA.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16157
C:\GFX\VPIC46\VPIC.DOC
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16208
C:\GFX\VPIC46\ORCPRO2.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16184
C:\GFX\VPIC46\EVERX673.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16185
C:\GFX\VPIC46\WAIT.COM
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16186
C:\GFX\VPIC46\MAXXON.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16187
C:\GFX\VPIC46\WAIT.DOC
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16188
C:\GFX\VPIC46\EVERX678.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16189
C:\GFX\VPIC46\EGA.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16190
C:\GFX\VPIC46\CONFIG.EXE
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16191
C:\GFX\VPIC46\README.1ST
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16199
C:\GFX\VPIC46\VGA.CFG
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16201
C:\GAME\GOOSE\BIRD2.X
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16382
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SOUND.DRV
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16380
C:\WINDOWS\GAMES0.GRP
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16367
C:\WINDOWS\MAD79-11.BMP
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16341
C:\MAGE\DEMO2_2A.KIN
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16151
C:\MAGE\DEMO2_2B.KIN
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16257
C:\MAGE\PKIN_2_2.EXE
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16339
C:\WINMISC\GAMES\DIALWORD.EXE
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16184
C:\WINMISC\GAMES\DIALWORD.TXT
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16201
C:\WINMISC\ADV21\WINADV.WRI
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16257
C:\WINMISC\ADV21\ADV.KEY
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16265
C:\WINMISC\ADV21\ADV.REC
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16275
C:\WINMISC\ADV21\FREEZER
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16339
C:\386SPART.PAR
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16133
C:\BNG2.MBX
Is cross linked on allocation unit 16146
42366976 bytes total disk space
3958784 bytes in 4 hidden files
153600 bytes in 67 directories
36042752 bytes in 1496 user files
1564672 bytes available on disk
2048 bytes in each allocation unit
20687 total allocation units on disk
764 available allocation units on disk
655360 total bytes memory
579712 bytes free
--
Brad Banko; Dept of Physics; U of Illinois; b-banko@uiuc.edu
=========================================================================
See one. Do one. Teach one. 73 de kb8cne @ n9lnq.il
|
5660 | From: David_Anthony_Guevara@cup.portal.com
Subject: Centris 650 Math CoProcessor option
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa
Lines: 21
Sorry if this is a FAQ. I don't normally read comp.sys.mac.hardware.
I am purchasing a couple of Centris 650's. I configured the systems
as follows:
Eight (8) Mb RAM
Ethernet
1 Mb VRAM
Math CoProcessor option
My purchasing agent told me about the math coprocessor option and sent
me the Apple summary documentation to prove it. I ordered the coprocessor
option, but I'm really not sure that we needed it. I thought the '040 chip
had a math coprocessor built into it. Has Apple had a math coprocessor chip
architectured to keep up with the speed of the '040 chip in the Centris 650?
I am concerned that I may have set up a hardware bottleneck. Please send your
responses to: David_Anthony_Guevara@cup.portal.com. I will summarize if there
is enough interest. Thanks!
-- David Guevara,
Internet: David_Anthony_Guevara@cup.portal.com
|
5661 | From: skipper@traider.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Mark Bevan)
Subject: Re: Need to find out number to a phone line
Reply-To: skipper@traider.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Mark Bevan)
Organization: Traiders of the Lost .ARC! - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lines: 21
alee@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>
> Greetings!
>
> Situation: I have a phone jack mounted on a wall. I don't
> know the number of the line. And I don't want
> to call up the operator to place a trace on it.
>
> Question: Is there a certain device out there that I can
> use to find out the number to the line?
> Thanks for any response.
> Al
>
>
Dial 511 and it sound tell you the number.
---
skipper@traider.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Mark Bevan)
Traiders of the Lost .ARC! - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
|
5662 | From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (CarolinaFan@uiuc)
Subject: Re: Saturn's Pricing Policy
Article-I.D.: news.C51sMA.AnC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 75
cs012055@cs.brown.edu (Hok-Chung Tsang) writes:
>In article <C4vIr5.L3r@shuksan.ds.boeing.com>, fredd@shuksan (Fred Dickey) writes:
>|> CarolinaFan@uiuc (cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>|> :
>|> : The biggest problem some people seem to be having is that Saturn
>|> : Dealers make ~$2K on a car. I think most will agree with me that the car is
>|> : comparably priced with its competitors, that is, they aren't overpriced
>|> : compared to most cars in their class. I don't understand the point of
>|> : arguing over whether the dealer makes the $2K or not?
>|>
>|> I have never understood what the big deal over dealer profits is either.
>|> The only thing that I can figure out is that people believe that if
>|> they minimize the dealer profit they will minimize their total out-of-pocket
>|> expenses for the car. While this may be true in some cases, I do not
>|> believe that it is generally true. I bought a Saturn SL in January of '92.
>|> AT THAT TIME, based on studying car prices, I decided that there was
>|> no comparable car that was priced as cheaply as the Saturn. Sure, maybe I
>|> could have talked the price for some other car to the Saturn price, but
>|> my out-of-pocket expenses wouldn't have been any different. What's important
>|> to me is how much money I have left after I buy the car. REDUCING DEALER PROFIT
>|> IS NOT THE SAME THING AS SAVING MONEY! Show me how reducing dealer profit
>|> saves me money, and I'll believe that it's important. My experience has
>|> been that reducing dealer profit does not necessarily save me money.
>|>
>|> Fred
>Say, you bought your Saturn at $13k, with a dealer profit of $2k.
>If the dealer profit is $1000, then you would only be paying $12k for
>the same car. So isn't that saving money?
Yes. But the point is that prices are competetive. Saturn may
well be selling a car intended on giving the dealer a $2000 profit, but
since a comperable Honda with $500 profit is more expensive, it may be well
worth it to buy the Saturn.
>Moreover, if Saturn really does reduce the dealer profit margin by $1000,
>then their cars will be even better deals. Say, if the price of a Saturn was
>already $1000 below market average for the class of cars, then after they
>reduce the dealer profit, it would be $2000 below market average. It will:
>1) Attract even more people to buy Saturns because it would SAVE THEM MONEY.
>
>2) Force the competitors to lower their prices to survive.
>Now, not only will Saturn owners benefit from a lower dealer profit, even
>the buyers for other cars will pay less.
Not necessarily. It seems to me that Saturn salesdroids, who don't
make a commision, whereas their counterparts at other dealerships generally
do, make more $$ per hour or whatever. This means that Saturn doesn't give up
the profit to their employees through commision, which IS taken out of per-
car profits. They just pass it along to less pressureing salesmen/women.
>Isn't that saving money?
Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on accounting practices. I'd rather pay
more for dealer service that doesn't cut corners to contain costs...
>$0.02,
>doug.
$2/100
CKA
'87 (Carolina) Blue Honda Civic DX
--
Chintan Amin The University of Illinois/Urbana Champaign mail: llama@uiuc.edu
******************************************************************************
*"Because he was human Because he had goodness Because he was moral*
***************They called him insane..." Peart "Cinderella Man"*************
|
5663 | From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
Subject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)
Organization: University of Rochester
In article <C5JE94.KrL@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
>
>In article <1993Apr15.161112.21772@cs.rochester.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:
>
>|> I don't think "extra-scientific" is a very useful phrase in a discussion
>|> of the boundaries of science, except as a proposed definiens.
>|> Extra-rational
>|> is a better phrase. In fact, there are quite a number of well-known cases
>|> of extra-rational considerations driving science in a useful direction.
>
>Yeah, but the problem with holding up the "extra-rational" examples as
>exemplars, or as refutations of well founded methodology, is that you
>run smack up against such unuseful directions as Lysenko. Such "extra-
>rational" cases are curiosities -- not guides to methodology.
As has been noted before, there is the distinction between _motivation_
and _method_. No experimental result should be accepted unless it is
described in sufficient detail to be replicated, and the replications
do indeed reproduce the result. No theoretical argument should be
accepted unless it is presented in sufficient detail to be followed, and
reasonable, knowlegeable, people agree with the force of the logic.
But people try experiments, and pursue arguments, for all sorts of crazy
reasons. Irrational motivations are not just curiousities; they are a
large part of the history of science.
There are a couple of negative points to make here:
1) A theory of qi could, conceivably, become accepted without direct
verification of the existence of qi. For example, quarks are an accepted
part of the standard model of physics, with no direct verification. What
would be needed would be a theory, based on qi, that predicted medical
reality better than the alternatives. The central theoretical claim could
lie forever beyond experiment, as long as there was a sufficient body of
experimental data that the qi theory predicted better than any other.
(I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the triumph of qi, though.
I don't think that there is even a coherent theory based on it, much less
a theory that explains anything at all better than modern biology. And it
is hard to imagine a qi theory that would not predict some way of rather
directly verifying the existence of qi.)
2) Science has not historically progressed in any sort of rational
experiment-data-theory sequence. Most experiments are carried out, and
interpreted, in pre-existing theoretical frameworks. The theoretical
controversies of the day determine which experiments get done. Overall,
there is a huge messy affair of personal jealousies, crazy motivations,
petty hatreds, and the like that determines which experiments, and which
computations, get done. What keeps it going forward is the critical
function of science: results don't count unless they can be replicated.
The whole system is a sort of mechanism for generate-and-test. The generate
part can be totally irrational, as long as the test part works properly.
Pasteur could believe whatever he liked about chemical activity and crystals;
but even Mitscherlich had to agree that racemic acid crystals were handed;
that when you separate them by handedness, you get two chemicals that rotate
polarized light in opposite directions; and the right-rotating version was
indistinguishable from tartaric acid. Pasteur's irrational motivation had
led to a replicable, and important, result.
This is where Lysenko, creationists, etc. fail. They have usually not
even produced coherent theories that predict much of anything. When their
theories do predict, and are contradicted by experiment, they do not
concede the point and modify their theories; rather they try to suppress
the results (Lysenko) or try to divert attention to other evidence they
think supports their position (creationists).
--
Mark A. Fulk University of Rochester
Computer Science Department fulk@cs.rochester.edu
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5664 | From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Subject: Re: ATF BURNS DIVIDIAN RANCH! NO SURVIVORS!!!
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Lines: 48
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: dale.handheld.com
In article <1r0v4c$i1j@menudo.uh.edu> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
writes:
> In <1r0poqINNc4k@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com writes:
>
> > In article <C5rDAw.4s4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> zed@Dartmouth.EDU (Ted
> > Schuerzinger) writes:
> > Well, it's now Tuesday morning. Where are those two arsons, now? I said
> > yesterday they would vanish, and there has been no further mention of them,
> > just the desired "impression" is left.
>
> According to KIKK radio in Houston, all nine survivors are either in hos-
> pitals or in jails. Inlucding the two who allegedly helped start the firess.
In the FBI briefing, no mention was made of having the fire starters in
custody.
>
> > Why could no one else even talk to them? Why could Koresh's grandmother
not
> > talk to him or even send him a taped message? Why the total isolation?
>
> Well, it wasn't TOTAL, 100% isolation. After the lawyer snuck in the first
> time, they (the FBI, etc) let him go back inside several times, including, I
> think, the day before the final assualt.
>
Why not his mother? Why not the media?
> semper fi,
>
> Jammer Jim Miller
> Texas A&M University '89 and '91
>
_______________________________________________________________________________
_
> I don't speak for UH, which is too bad, because they could use the help.
> "Become one with the Student Billing System. *BE* the Student Billing
System."
> "Power finds its way to those who take a stand. Stand up, Ordinary Man."
> ---Rik Emmet, Gil Moore, Mike Levine: Triumph
--
jmd@handheld.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't rethought
that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed
in my country, I never would lay down my arms,-never--never--never!"
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 1708-1778 18 Nov. 1777
|
5665 | From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI
Nntp-Posting-Host: csclass.utdallas.edu
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Lines: 30
>How do you do bus-mastering on the ISA bus?
By initiating a DMA xfer. :)
Seriously, busmastering adapter have their own DMA ability, they don't use
the motherboards on-board DMA(which is *MUCH* slower).
ISA has no bus arbitration, so if two busmastering cards in 1 ISA system
try to do DMA xfers on the same DMA channel the system will lock or
crash.(I forget)
Their are 8 DMA channels in an ISA system. 0-7. 0-3 are 8-bit & 4-7 are
16-bit.
The system uses DMA 0, a SoundBlaster uses DMA 1.
I could buy a busmastering XGA-2 video card & a busmastering SCSI HA.
In order for them to work properly, I would have to find out what DMA
channel the XGA-2 card uses and then simply configure the SCSI HA to
use a different DMA channel for its DMA xfers.
I don't know if multiple DMA xfers can go on at the same time on ISA.
I'm not sure if they can on EISA systems either.
I do know that on EISA/MCA systems, you can allow BM cards to use the
same DMA channel.
Thanks.
|
5666 | From: Steve@Busop.cit.wayne.edu (Steve Teolis)
Subject: Re: *** TurboGrafx System For SALE ***
Organization: Wayne State University
Lines: 38
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.217.75.24
>TurboGrafx-16 Base Unit (works like new) with:
> 1 Controller
> AC Adapter
> Antenna hookup
> * Games:
> Kieth Courage
> Victory Run
> Fantasy Zone
> Military Madness
> Battle Royal
> Legendary Axe
> Blazing Lasers
> Bloody Wolf
>
> --------------------------------------
>* Will sell games separatley at $25 each
> --------------------------------------
Your kidding, $210.00, man o man, you can buy the system new for $49.00 at
Electronic Boutique and those games are only about $15 - $20.00 brand new.
Maybe you should think about that price again if you REALLY need the money.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Wayne State University
Steve Teolis
6050 Cass Ave. # 238
Detroit, MI 48202
Steve@Busop.cit.wayne.edu
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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5667 | From: pat@wrs.com (Patrick Boylan)
Subject: Airline ticket R/T between US/Canada and Europe/Carrib/LatinAm
Keywords: airline ticket
Lines: 69
Nntp-Posting-Host: delaware
Reply-To: pat@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems
I have one round-trip ticket good for travel between USA or Canada and
Europe, Hawaii, Latin America, or the Caribbean. It is fully transferable
and can be used originating here or there.
I had intended to use it to visit my grandfather who was sick, but he died
before I got there so I have no use for it now.
I'm looking for $500 or best offer, but act fast it will be gone on April 15
no matter what.
-Patrick (pat@wrs.com)
|
5668 | From: mstern@lindsay.Princeton.EDU (Marlene J. Stern)
Subject: Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis
Originator: news@nimaster
Nntp-Posting-Host: lindsay.princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: nj
Lines: 43
We will be holding a bake and craft sale at Communiversity in Princeton on
Nassau Street, Saturday April 24th 12-4 p.m. to benefit the Recurrent
Respiratory Papillomatosis Foundation, a nonprofit foundation established to
encourage research toward a cure for Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis. Our
three year old daughter suffers from this disease. Below is a press release
that appeared in local newspapers. Hope you can join us.
On Saturday, April 24 as part of Communiversity in Princeton, a local family
will be having a bake and craft sale to raise money for and create public
awareness about a rare disease called Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis.
Bill and Marlene Stern's daughter Lindsay is afflicted with this disease
characterized by tumors attacking the inside of the larynx, vocal cords and
trachea. Caused by a virus, the tumors grow, block the air passages and would
lead to death from suffocation without continual surgery to remove the growths.
Three year old Lindsay has undergone 11 operations thus far since her diagnosis
last year and faces the prospect of over a hundred operations throughout her
lifetime.
Even though the disease is hardly a household word, it has affected the lives
of enough people to inspire the formation of the Recurrent Respiratory
Papillomatosis Foundation, a non-profit foundation whose goals are to provide
support for patients and families by networking patients and publishing a
newsletter, enhance awareness of RRP at the local and national level, and aid
in the prevention, cure, and treatment.
Since medical researchers know that the virus causing the disease is similar to
those viruses causing warts, they feel a cure would be within reach if money
were available for research. Because RRP is rare, it not only gets scant
attention but also paltry funds to search for a cure. Part of the RRP
Foundation's mission is to change that.
Anyone interested in contributing items to the bake and craft sale, please call
Marlene or Bill at 609-890-0502. Monetary donations can be made at the
Foundation's booth during Communiversity, April 24th, 12 to 4 p.m., in downtown
Princeton, or sent directly to:
The Recurrent Respiratory Foundation
50 Wesleyan Drive
Hamilton Sq., NJ 08690.
Thanks mstern@lindsay.princeton.edu
|
5669 | From: behanna@syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna)
Subject: Re: What about No-Fault?
Organization: NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.
Lines: 31
In article <1416@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com> meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Michael Bain) writes:
>
>Insurance companies sure seem to go for No-Fault coverage. Since the
>majority of accidents are the cagers' fault, doesn't this imply that we
>would have to pay much higher rates under a No-Fault system?
>
>With a cars-only system, it seems to make sense on the surface: take the
>legal costs out of the system. But it looks like motorcyclists would
>get screwed.
Yup. Unfortunately, as has been pointed out, the cost of insurance
does NOT go down with No Fault. The crappiest drivers make out like bandits
because they no longer have to bear the responsibility of paying for
insurance that they have boosted in price for themselves by being crappy
drivers. The good drivers now pay through the nose to spread the cost of
the crappy drivers' actions, and that's not fair.
Any plan that caps rates for crappy drivers is inherently a piece of
shit, because the rest of us end up paying more.
Any plan that uses speeding tickets as a basis for raising rates is
also a piece of shit as it is based upon the lie that faster drivers are
inherently less safe than slower drivers, and the NHTSA disproved that two
years ago now.
Later,
--
Chris BeHanna DoD# 114 1983 H-D FXWG Wide Glide - Jubilee's Red Lady
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com 1975 CB360T - Baby Bike
Disclaimer: Now why would NEC 1991 ZX-11 - needs a name
agree with any of this anyway? I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
|
5670 | From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Subject: Re: Los Angeles Freeway traffic reports
Organization: RAND
Lines: 29
Nntp-Posting-Host: ives.rand.org
In article <C5uLqn.Gpw@fc.hp.com> cfb@fc.hp.com (Charlie Brett) writes:
>: While driving through the middle of nowhere, I picked up [KNX], AM 1070,
>: a clear-channel station based in Los Angeles. They had an ad
>: claiming that they were able to get traffic flow information from
>: all of the thousands of traffic sensors that CalTrans has placed
>: under the pavement. Does CalTrans sell this info? Does [KNX] have
>: an exclusive? What's the deal?
Well, they claim they are the only radio broadcaster with this
information. But the city's cable channel (35 in CableVision areas)
shows this information map during travel times (6-9am and 4-7pm, I
believe). Most of the major LA freeways are covered. The
computer-generated map shows green, yellow, red, or flashing red
(respectively: <40mph, 25-40mph, >25mph, and "incident"--I might be off
a little on the speeds, since this is from memory).
I often look at this display in the morning to see if I really want to
fight the traffic on the Sepulveda Pass or work from home for a little
while to wait for it to clear.
Another poster explained the origin of the information: sensors (embedded
wire loops) in the pavement near ramps and every half mile or so. CalTrans
has had a "big board" driven from this data in their traffic control center
for some time. I don't know if they are selling the data or if anyone
with the equipment necessary for its transmission and display can have
it.
-Ed Hall
edhall@rand.org
|
5671 | From: glang@slee01.srl.ford.com (Gordon Lang)
Subject: Re: The infamous Gateway 2000 video/monitor problem: info requested!
Organization: Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory
Lines: 32
NNTP-Posting-Host: slee01.srl.ford.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Greg Spath (GKS101@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:
: In article <C4uEoM.EvF@odin.corp.sgi.com>, mikey@sgi.com (Mike Yang) says:
: >So, by going mailorder through Gateway, I save ~13%. Plus, I get
: >technical support over the phone, free software package.
: >
: Have fun trying to get hold of technical support over the phone. At least
: locally you can walk right up to the dealer and tell him what is wrong, and
: he has to fix it.
Phone support is quick and competent from many mail order firms, but not so
quick and not so competent from others (Gateway included). But my experience
with computer retailers (which is significant) has lead to the conclusion that
sales personnel and retail-technical personnel are forbidden to actually learn
about the products they sell. Talk about incompetent! O.K., so a few percent
of their answers are correct, but those salesmen don't even realize how stupid
they are. ... ....... O.K. ...I'll settle down now.... .... let me
catch my breath..... ..
Fact: retail stores never provide a better value in terms of price per product.
Retail outlets are desirable, however, to those people who aren't interested
in learning about computers enough to make their own decisions. This is fine;
for example most of my education about carpeting, wall paper, lawn mowers,
microwave ovens, etc. has come from sales personnel. I assume I must be an
idiot. But I don't care about those things. I do, however, care about my
computer - i.e. I demand features and performance, and I'll be damned if I'll
pay some high-school drop out commission on an over-rated, over-priced system
and in the process be subjected to his distorted B.S.
G.L.
are generally so
|
5672 | From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
Subject: Re: Roe v. Wade
Distribution: na
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
Lines: 42
In article <C4xAwp.tAK@watson.ibm.com>, margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
> In <1993Apr3.041411.23590@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
# # "Abortions destructive of the fetus must be permitted, even
# # just before birth, if they promote what the [Supreme] Court
# # calls ``health''
#
# Yes, Doug, we all know that Roe v. Wade prevents states from prohibiting
# abortions necessary to preserve the life or health of the woman. Only
# very stupid people (such as yourself) confuse a discussion of mental health
# related to "Jane Doe", who was in a mental institution, and attempt to claim
# that this same argument could be applied to a woman who decided she wanted
# an abortion because she was having a "bad hair day".
#
# As you well know, the facts are that there are about 100 third-trimester
# abortions performed in this country annually, and those are *only* done for
# *serious* health reasons.
# --
# Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Hmmm. Human gestation period is something like 39 weeks. That means
third trimester abortions are those done after 26 weeks. In consulting
a 1989 World Almanac, I see that 1% of abortions in 1983 were done at
21 weeks or more. That's about 1268 abortions in 1983 after 21 weeks.
Unless the number of abortions performed has dropped dramatically, or
a LOT of abortions are done between 21 and 26 weeks, I think you are
wrong.
By the way, Roe v. Wade allowed states to adopt very, very broad
prohibitions on third-trimester abortions, but some states, such as
California, declined to do so. It was reported* that what finally
stopped third trimester elective abortions in the Bay Area wasn't law,
but that the only hospital doing them ran out of nurses, then doctors,
willing to do them. Not surprisingly, the bay area NOW chapter was
terribly upset about this.
I remain pro-choice, but when pro-choicers compare abortion in a
clinic to a religious ritual in a church, you have to start wondering
a bit if the pro-life criticism of abortion as modern human sacrifice
doesn't have a grain of truth to it.
--
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
Relations between people to be by mutual consent, or not at all.
|
5673 | From: jyaruss@hamp.hampshire.edu
Subject: Misc./buying info. needed
Organization: Hampshire College
Lines: 15
NNTP-Posting-Host: hamp.hampshire.edu
Hi. I have been thinking about buying a Motorcycle or a while now and I have
some questions:
-Is there a buying guide for new/used motorcycles (that lists reliability, how
to go about the buying process, what to look for, etc...)?
-Is there a pricing guide for new/used motorcycles (Blue Book)?
Also
-Are there any books/articles on riding cross country, motorcycle camping, etc?
-Is there an idiots' guide to motorcycles?
ANY related information is helpful. Please respond directly to me.
Thanks a lot.
-Jordan
|
5674 | From: VEAL@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal)
Subject: Re: What to do if you shoot somebody
Lines: 29
Organization: University of Tennessee Division of Continuing Education
In article <93108.025818U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>I have heard many opinions on this subject and would like to hear more from
>the people on the net.
>
>Say you're in a situation where you have to pull a gun on somebody. You
>give them a chance to get away but they decided to continue in their
>action anyway and you end up shooting and killing them. My question is
>what do you do? Should you stay and wait for the cops or should you
>collect your brass (if you're using a semi-auto) and get out of there
>(provided of course you don't think that you have been seen)?
As a data point from Tennessee, a friend of mine and a police
officer essentially recommends that if you can, fade away. Even if
you were perfectly justified you're likely in for a great deal of
hassle. (A side note, carrying a gun concealed is a misdemeanor.)
>What kind
>of laws are on the books regarding this type of situation? What would
>be the most likely thing to happen to you if you stayed and waited and
>it was a first offense? What would happen if you took off but someone
>saw you and you were caught?
It's one of those "by State" things, pretty much.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"
|
5675 | From: mmchugh@andy.bgsu.edu (michael mchugh)
Subject: SAM Virus Clinic (Mac) Software for Sale
Keywords: SAM Virus Clinic Software Macintosh
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Distribution: usa
Lines: 12
I have one original SAM (Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh) V3.0 for sale.
It comes with three program discs and one user manual. Will work with 800K and 1.4MB disc drives.
Selling for $17.90 (make an offer) which includes postage.
Respond to:
Michael McHugh
mmchugh@andy.bgsu.edu
|
5676 | From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Re: moving icons
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Lines: 15
In article <1bp0rAHPBh107h@viamar.UUCP> rutgers!viamar!kmembry writes:
>I remember reading about a program that made windows icons run away
>from the mouse as it moved near them. Does anyone know the name
>of this program and the ftp location (probably at cica)
There's a program called "Icon Frightener" included with the book Stupid
Windows Tricks by Bob LeVitus and Ed Tittel (Addison-Wesley, 1992). It's
freeware. If it's not on the net anywhere, I'll happily email a copy to
someone who's willing to upload it (I can't upload through our Internet
firewall).
--
Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
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5677 | From: wally@Auspex.COM (Wally Bass)
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
Lines: 20
Nntp-Posting-Host: alpha1-e5.auspex.com
In article <1993Apr19.034517.12820@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca
(Wayne Smith) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>So the lowly low-density original PC FDD card used DMA and the PC-AT
>HDD controller doesn't!?!? That makes real sense.
Actually, it does make a reasonable amount of sense. Fixed disk
sectors are buffered by the controller, and transferring them to
memory with a 'rep insw' (or whatever the instruction is called) is
quite efficient (single instruction, goes as fast as the
controller/cpu know how to use the bus). Since the 286 wasn't cached,
the bus is likely a critical resource relative to CPU performance, and
it's possible that DMA bus interference would cause as much or more
loss of CPU cycles (for 'computing') as does the 'rep insw' sequence.
The floppy, on the other hand, is not buffered, so that using the CPU
for floppy data transfer (as was done on the PC Jr, by the way) really
does stink.
Wally Bass
|
5678 | From: qpliu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (q.p.liu)
Subject: Re: free moral agency
Originator: news@nimaster
Nntp-Posting-Host: phoenix.princeton.edu
Reply-To: qpliu@princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University
Lines: 26
In article <kmr4.1575.734879106@po.CWRU.edu> kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan) writes:
>In article <1993Apr15.000406.10984@Princeton.EDU> qpliu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (q.p.liu) writes:
>
>>>So while Faith itself is a Gift, obedience is what makes Faith possible.
>>What makes obeying different from believing?
> I am still wondering how it is that I am to be obedient, when I have
>no idea to whom I am to be obedient!
It is all written in _The_Wholly_Babble:_the_Users_Guide_to_Invisible_
_Pink_Unicorns_.
To be granted faith in invisible pink unicorns, you must read the Babble,
and obey what is written in it.
To obey what is written in the Babble, you must believe that doing so is
the way to be granted faith in invisible pink unicorns.
To believe that obeying what is written in the Babble leads to believing
in invisible pink unicorns, you must, essentially, believe in invisible
pink unicorns.
This bit of circular reasoning begs the question:
What makes obeying different from believing?
--
qpliu@princeton.edu Standard opinion: Opinions are delta-correlated.
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5679 | From: htanabe@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Tanabe)
Subject: terminal software
Article-I.D.: ponder.htanabe.734110579
Organization: University of North Texas
Lines: 10
Please reply via EMail...
When I use the terminal software for Windows such as TERMINAL.EXE or
Crossttalk, it doesn't use the whole window. I mean, when the software's
window size is max, it still scrolls around the 2/3 of window. It does not
use whole window. I set "stty rows 30", but still the same. Scrolls at 2/3
from the top of the windows. Could anyone tell me how to setup these software
to use whole window?
Thanks in advance.
|
5680 | From: hovig@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Hovig Heghinian)
Subject: Re: THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY SOLD 400 TONES OF ARMENIAN BONES IN 1924.
Keywords: April 24, 1993, 78th Anniversary of the Turkish Genocide of Armenians
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 42
dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian) writes:
>On the 78th Commemorative Anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians,
>we remember those whose only crime was to be Armenian in the shadow of an
>emerging Turkish proto-fascist state. In their names we demand justice.
>In April 1915, the Turkish government began a systematically executed
>de-population of the eastern Anatolian homeland of the Armenians through a
>genocidal extermination. This genocide was to insure that Turks exclusively
>ruled over the geographic area today called the Republic of Turkey. The
>result: 1.5 million murdered, 30 billion dollars of Armenian property stolen
>and plundered. This genocide ended nearly 3,000 years of Armenian civilization
>on those lands. Today, the Turkish government continues to scrape clean any
>vestige of a prior Armenian existence on those lands. Today's Turkish
>governmental policy is to re-write the history of the era, to manufacture
>distortion and generate excuses for their genocide of the Armenian people. In
>the face of refutation ad nauseam, the Turkish Historical Society and cronies
>shamelessly continue to deny that any such genocide occurred. This policy
>merely demonstrates that in the modern era, genocide is an effective state
>policy when it remains un-redressed and un-punished. A crime unpunished is a
>crime encouraged. Adolf Hitler took this cue less than 25 years after the
>successful genocide of the Armenians.
[ ... ]
>ARMENIANS DEMAND JUSTICE ERMENILER ADALET ISTIYOR
>--
>David Davidian dbd@urartu.sdpa.org | "Armenia has not learned a lesson in
>S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies | Anatolia and has forgotten the
>P.O. Box 382761 | punishment inflicted on it." 4/14/93
>Cambridge, MA 02238 | -- Late Turkish President Turgut Ozal
To which I say:
Hear, hear. Motion seconded.
Hovig
--
Hovig Heghinian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
|
5681 | From: beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
Subject: Re: Cute X clients
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
Lines: 69
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Andre_Beck@IRS.Inf.TU-Dresden.DE
NNTP-Posting-Host: irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de
Try this:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xutil.h>
Display *dpy;
int screen;
XColor *xclrs,*xclrp;
XID cmap;
int cells,i,j,red,green,blue,got;
main()
{
dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
screen = DefaultScreen(dpy);
cells = DisplayCells(dpy,screen);
cmap = XCreateColormap(dpy,RootWindow(dpy,screen),DefaultVisual(dpy,screen),1);
xclrs = (XColor *)malloc(cells * sizeof(*xclrs));
xclrp = xclrs;
for (i=0; i<cells; i++) { xclrp->pixel = i; xclrp->flags = 7; xclrp++; };
XQueryColors(dpy,DefaultColormap(dpy,screen),xclrs,cells);
XStoreColors(dpy,cmap,xclrs,cells);
XInstallColormap(dpy,cmap);
got = 1;
while(got) {
xclrp = xclrs;
got = 0;
for(i=0; i<cells; i++) {
if(xclrp->red < 65000) {xclrp->red += 256; got = 1;};
if(xclrp->green < 65000) {xclrp->green +=256; got=1;};
if(xclrp->blue < 65000) {xclrp->blue +=256; got=1;};
xclrp ++;
}
XStoreColors(dpy,cmap,xclrs,cells);
/* XInstallColormap(dpy,cmap); */
}
got = 1;
while(got) {
xclrp = xclrs;
got = 0;
for(i=0; i<cells; i++) {
if(xclrp->red > 256) {xclrp->red -= 256; got = 1;};
if(xclrp->green > 256) {xclrp->green -=256; got=1;};
if(xclrp->blue > 256) {xclrp->blue -=256; got=1;};
xclrp ++;
}
XStoreColors(dpy,cmap,xclrs,cells);
/* XInstallColormap(dpy,cmap); */
}
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
It will work on any PseudoColor XServer. (hopefully :)
--
+-o-+--------------------------------------------------------------+-o-+
| o | \\\- Brain Inside -/// | o |
| o | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | o |
| o | Andre' Beck (ABPSoft) mehl: Andre_Beck@IRS.Inf.TU-Dresden.de | o |
+-o-+--------------------------------------------------------------+-o-+
|
5682 | From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
Subject: Re: ATF BURNS DIVIDIAN RANCH! NO SURVIVORS!!!
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Lines: 12
In article <C5sv88.HJy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
>>Do YOU eat all your food cold?
>
>Ever hear of electric ovens or microwaves? Very popular.
>Electric stoves outside metro-areas especially.
The Dividians didn't have that option after the FBI cut off their
electricity.
--
Flag burners don't bother me as much as seeing the American flag on
tanks assaulting the church of Americans who had never bothered anyone.
|
5683 | From: et@teal.csn.org (Eric H. Taylor)
Subject: Re: Electronic Tesla Coils
Summary: Real World Applications
Keywords: tesla, coil, osc, flyback, transformers, wireless, emi, ac, ignition
Nntp-Posting-Host: teal.csn.org
Organization: 4-L Laboratories
Distribution: World
Expires: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 06:00:00 GMT
Lines: 48
In article <1993Mar25.161909.8110@wuecl.wustl.edu> dp@cec1.wustl.edu (David Prutchi) writes:
>In article <C4CntG.Jv4@spk.hp.com> long@spk.hp.com (Jerry Long) writes:
>>Fred W. Culpepper (fculpepp@norfolk.vak12ed.edu) wrote:
>>[...]
>>A couple of years ago I put together a Tesla circuit which
>>was published in an electronics magazine and could have been
>>the circuit which is referred to here. This one used a
>>flyback transformer from a tv onto which you wound your own
>>primary windings. It also used 2 power transistors in a TO 3
>[...]
>10 years ago I built a 1'000,000 volt Tesla, and the thing was VERY
>spectacular, but besides scaring/amazing friends (depending on their
>knowledge of Science), and generating strong EMI, I never found anything
>useful that could be done with it ... Is there any real-world application
>for Tesla coils today ?
>
>David Prutchi
First of all, realize that Tesla invented AC power generators, motors,
transformers, conductors, etc. Technically, *ALL* transformers are Tesla
coils. In general though when someone refers to a Tesla coil, they mean
an "air core resonant transformer". The TV flyback version Tesla
coil (see the _Encyclopedia_of_Electronic_Circuits_ V3, 106-1 for
diagram) has NOT an air core. It is of a class of circuit called
"Oscillating Shuttle Circuit" (OSC). Generally OSC's are highly
efficient, but this version uses transistors and resistors,
which are very lossy devices. Typically Tesla used active
reactances instead of passive resistors, so that he could achieve
efficiencies of 99.5%, and better. The usual application of an air-core
resonant transformer, or of an OSC, is to produce strong EMI
for wireless broadcasts. How well do you think your computer
screen would work if we removed the HF HV Tesla (flyback) coil
from it? If we were to remove from our homes and industries all
Tesla coils, our lights would go dark, our cars would sputter
and die, our radios would go silent, our industries would grind
to a halt, and we would have to go back to using coal for heat,
gas for lamps, horses for transportation, steam for power, and
telegraph for communication. Is that real world enough for you???????
GET THE MESSAGE! WE WOULD NOT HAVE 1/100 THE CONVIENIENCES WE HAVE
TODAY IF NOT FOR TESLA. GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE!
If it had been up to Edison, we'd still be in the 19th century.
(flame me at your own peril. I'm very good at putting edison down).
----
ET "Tesla was 100 years ahead of his time. Perhaps now his time comes".
----
|
5684 | From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: What do Nuclear Site's Cooling Towers do?
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
Keywords: Nuclear
Lines: 33
swalker@uts.EDU.AU (-s87271077-s.walker-man-50-) writes:
>I was wondering about those massive concrete cylinders that
>are ever present at nuclear poer sites. They look like cylinders
>that have been pinched in the middle. Does anybody know what the
>actual purpose of those things are?. I hear that they're called
>'Cooling Towers' but what the heck do they cool?
>I hope someone can help
The actual hourglass is hollow and is designed to generate a draft,
exploiting the venturi effect. Around the base of the hourglass is a
ring of water towers. Warm river water, coming from the steam condenser
in the plant, is sprayed over louvres. The draft being pulled through
the tower cools the water by both evaporation and convection. The
sensible heat extracted from the cooling water is the driving force for
draft generation.
It should be noted that the hourglass-shaped cooling towers are used on
both fossile and nuclear plants. It should also be noted that at
locations where water is plentiful, the cooling towers are only used part
time, when the discharge temperature would exceed some release limit.
It was once thought that the warm discharge water was damaging to fish.
Fishermen know that is thoroughly incorrect. Nontheless, stringent,
usually state, regulations remain in some instances. Since it typically
takes 60,000 hp worth of pumping to move the volume of water needed
to cool a 1000 MWe plant, the cost of using the towers is not insignificant.
--
John De Armond, WD4OQC |Interested in high performance mobility?
Performance Engineering Magazine(TM) | Interested in high tech and computers?
Marietta, Ga | Send ur snail-mail address to
jgd@dixie.com | perform@dixie.com for a free sample mag
Lee Harvey Oswald: Where are ya when we need ya?
|
5685 | From: speedy@engr.latech.edu (Speedy Mercer)
Subject: Re: insect impacts
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Lines: 13
NNTP-Posting-Host: bhm116e-spc.engr.latech.edu
In article <1993Apr6.154544.28595@rd.hydro.on.ca> jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:
>In article <1ppvds$92a@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> egreen@East.Sun.COM writes:
>>In article 7290@rd.hydro.on.ca, jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:
>>Every bit as fast as a dirtbike, in the right terrain. And we eat
>>flies, thank you.
>Who mentioned dirtbikes? We're talking highway speeds here. If you go 70mph
>on your dirtbike then feel free to contribute.
Obviously never rode a good 250 or open-class bike!
--------======= I am not paid to have an opinion! =======--------
Dr. Speed Suzuki GS850G
DoD #8177
|
5686 | From: tsen0001@student.tc.umn.edu (Maoee Tsen-1)
Subject: 486DX/33 Intel CPU chip for $265.
Nntp-Posting-Host: student.tc.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Lines: 4
Upgraded my friend's 486DX/33 and have the chip for sale, 486DX/33 Intel
CPU chip, first US$265+shipping will get the chip. or you can make the
offer if you don't like the price... Thanks.
|
5687 | Subject: Re: Shaft-drives and Wheelies
From: lotto@laura.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto)
Distribution: rec
Organization: Chemistry Dept., Harvard University
NNTP-Posting-Host: laura.harvard.edu
In-reply-to: xlyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu's message of 19 Apr 93 21:48:42 GMT
Lines: 10
>>>>> On 19 Apr 93 21:48:42 GMT, xlyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu said:
Mike> Is it possible to do a "wheelie" on a motorcycle with shaft-drive?
Sure. In fact, you can do a wheelie on a shaft-drive motorcycle
without even moving. Just don't try countersteering.
:-)
--
Jerry Lotto <lotto@lhasa.harvard.edu> MSFCI, HOGSSC, BCSO, AMA, DoD #18
Chemistry Dept., Harvard Univ. "It's my Harley, and I'll ride if I want to..."
|
5688 | From: dealy@narya.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian Dealy - CSC)
Subject: Re: Fresco status?
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Lines: 34
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: narya.gsfc.nasa.gov
Originator: dealy@narya.gsfc.nasa.gov
Issue 5 of the X Resource (the published proceedings of the 7th Annual X
Technical Conference) has an paper by Mark Linton and Chuck Price
titled "Building Distributed interfaces with Fresco".
The summary describes Fresco (formerly known as XC++) as an X consortium effort.
Without doing a complete review of the paper, I'll just mention the goals
as stated in one section of the article. the effort has the goal of providing
the next generation toolkit with functionality beyond the Xt toolkit or Xlib.
Features they want in FRESCO include:
lightweight Objects, such as Interviews Glyphs
Structured Graphics
Resolution independence
Natural C++ programming interface
edit-in-place embedding
distributed user interface components
Multithreading
This by no means captures the complete content of the paper. The Conclusions
sections mentions that a rough draft specification should be available in
early 93, with no schedule (paper presented in Jan 93) for a complete sample
implementation.
I am not affiliated with any of the people or places mentioned above.
--
Brian Dealy |301-572-8267| It not knowing where it's at
dealy@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov | | that's important,it's knowing
!uunet!dftsrv!kong!dealy | | where it's not at... B.Dylan
--
Brian Dealy |301-572-8267| It not knowing where it's at
dealy@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov | | that's important,it's knowing
!uunet!dftsrv!kong!dealy | | where it's not at... B.Dylan
|
5689 | Subject: Re: Bo was a good player, you shorts (plus idiots)
From: guilford@otago.ac.nz
<1993Apr5.101636.1@otago.ac.nz> <C50M9D.Dv@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Nntp-Posting-Host: thorin.otago.ac.nz
Lines: 106
In article <C50M9D.Dv@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, drw3l@delmarva.evsc.Virginia.EDU (David Robert Walker) writes:
> BO JACKSON 1963
> 1988 KCR 437 106 16 4 23 28 29 7 .253 67 .243 .288 .455
> 1989 KCR 517 134 19 5 33 41 27 10 .274 92 .259 .314 .507
> 1990 KCR 405 110 17 1 27 44 16 9 .286 77 .272 .343 .519
> 1991 CWS 71 16 3 0 3 12 0 1 .240 10 .225 .337 .394
> MAJ 1430 366 55 10 86 125 72 27 .270 246 .256 .316 .489
> MAJ 598 153 23 4 36 52 30 11
>
> This is what Jackson looked like in 88-91, with everything converted
> to a neutral park, on the basis of run production. His equivalent
> average started at .253 in 88, was up to .274 in 89 and 286 in 90. So
> let us say he had established, in his last two seasons, a .280 level
> of play.
I'm not quite sure how these numbers are generated. It appears that in
a neutral park Bo's HR and slugging tend to drop (he actually loses two
home runs). Or do they? What is "equivalent average?"
One thing, when looking at Bo's stats, is that you can see that KC took
away some homers. Normally, you expect some would-be homers to go for
doubles or triples in big parks, or to be caught, and for that matter you
expect lots of doubles and triples anyway. But Bo, despite his speed,
hit very few doubles and not that many triples. So I would expect his
value to have risen quite considerably in a neutral park.
> That is good. Very good, in fact. But it probably doesn't make the top
> ten in the league. The 10th best EQA in the AL in 1992 was Dave
> Winfield's .296; Thomas was first at .350. First in the NL was Bonds,
> an incroyable .378; tenth was Bip Roberts, .297. But .280 is better
> than any season in the past five years by Joe Carter; it is about what
> Mattingly had in 1988 (.285); what Felix Jose had the last two years;
> just ahead of Time Raines' five-year average; better than Ryan
> Klesko's MLEs.
Felix Jose has been a .350/.440 player in a fairly neutral park.
I would offhand guess the `89-`90 Bo at around a .330/.530 player.
Maybe .330/.550 . Not even close.
> He got more attention from the media than was warranted from his
> baseball playing, though; his hype was a lot better than his hitting.
> That is the basis for the net.comments about him being overrated. The
> media would have you beleive he was a great hitter. I think he was a
> good, maybe very good hitter. He was IMO, something like the 30th best
> hitter in the majors.
I'd put him about there too.
Note: I hadn't realized the media had hyped him so much. I thought he
was always viewed by them as a better football player, and only so-so
at baseball. He did only have one 30-hr, 100-rbi season, and KC wasn't
winning.
Note 2: I maybe have harped on this a bit in the past, but there is a
mistake being made (by the SDCN's, as they are known, on this group)
with respect to players like Bo and Deion and Lofton (and perhaps others).
We find, that if you look at a large group of players, their past major
and minor league numbers will predict their future numbers fairly well.
Their are some caveats: the younger they are, the less good the prediction;
the lower the minor league, the less good (I imagine), the more recent
the player has left college ball, etc.
Now of course, this prediction involves quite a bit of "error." Sometimes
a player with poor MLE's (Dave Justice, the 1990 Ventura) becomes a star.
Some hitters develop (Shane Mack, Brian Downing), some don't (Oddibe
McDowell, Mickey Brantley). This error involves real things: there are
real reasons why Oddibe didn't hit and Shane did. It may (who knows)
involve parks and batting coaches and wheaties and injuries and lifting
and so on.
But still, you have this big pool of players, and things work pretty well.
One of the reasons for these predictions accuracy is the common background
of the players. One thing we know about professional baseball players is
that all of them (or almost all) have spent a good deal of time playing
ball. Their backgrounds are similar.
What hasn't been established is what happens when you encounter a player
with a different background? Is there some reason to believe that a
Bo, or a Deion, or a Lofton, or a Tony Gwynn (?), or an Ainge, or so
on, has such a different background, that the standard model and standard
assumptions fit this person slowly?
It hasn't been established that you can use MLE's with two-sport players.
(It hasn't been established that you can't, but then statistics is, after
all, an art). I personally think otherwise lucid individuals continually
make completely nonsensical statements about Bo and Deion and Lofton.
"Look at those good-but-not-great minor league numbers," they say. Well,
what happens if those numbers simply don't mean what they usually mean?
It might mean that Ken Lofton suddenly has a better year in Houston than
Tuscon. It might mean that Deion suddenly has a better half-year in
Atlanta than Greenville.
Then again, it might not. Ken and Deion might go right back in the tank
this year, live up to those poor MLE's. But you guys DON'T KNOW. What's
worse, you don't know that you don't. And you don't know that there are
other players you won't know about -- injuries and lifting and wheaties
again. You seem to think that the model is perfect and eternal. It's not.
It's got some error.
Oh well.
Bill Guilford
still thinks "hairy butt is truly ugly" might be right
|
5690 | From: mucit@cs.rochester.edu (Bulent Murtezaoglu)
Subject: Re: ARMENIA SAYS IT COULD SHOOT DOWN TURKISH PLANES
In-Reply-To: henrik@quayle.kpc.com's message of Tue, 20 Apr 1993 16:45:17 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: vein.cs.rochester.edu
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Rochester
<1993Apr17.185118.10792@ee.rochester.edu>
<1993Apr19.155856.8260@kpc.com>
<1993Apr20.000413.25123@ee.rochester.edu>
<1993Apr20.164517.20876@kpc.com>
In article <1993Apr20.164517.20876@kpc.com> henrik@quayle.kpc.com writes:
[stuff deleted]
> Country. Turks and Azeris consistantly WANT to drag ARMENIA into the
> KARABAKH conflict with Azerbaijan.
Gimme a break. CAPITAL letters, or NOT, the above is pure nonsense. It
seems to me that short sighted Armenians are escalating the hostilities
while hoping that Turkey will stay out. Stop and think for a moment,
will you? Armenia doesn't need anyone to drag her into the conflict, it
is a part of it.
>The KARABAKHI-ARMENIANS who have lived
>in their HOMELAND for 3000 years (CUT OFF FROM ARMENIA and GIVEN TO AZERIS
>BY STALIN) are the ones DIRECTLY involved in the CONFLICT. They are defending
>themselves against AZERI AGGRESSION.
Huh? You didn't expect Azeri's to be friendly to forces fighting with them
within their borders?
[...]
> At last, I hope that the U.S. insists that Turkey stay out of the KARABAKH
> crisis so that the repeat of the CYPRUS invasion WILL NEVER OCCUR again.
You're not playing with a full deck, are you? Where would Turkey invade?
Are you throwing the Cyprus buzzword around with s.c.g. in the header
in hopes that the Greek netters will jump the gun? Yes indeed Turkey
has the military prowess to intervene, what she wishes she had, however, is
the diplomatic power to stop the hostilities and bring the parties to the
negotiating table. That's hard to do when Armenians are attacking Azeri
towns. Armenian leaders are lacking the statesmanship to recognize the
futility of armed conflict and convince their nation that a compromise that
leads to stability is much better than a military faits accomplis that's
going to cause incessant skirmishes. Think of 10 or 20 years down the
line -- both of the newly independent countries need to develop economically
and neither one is going to wipe the other out. These people will be
neighbors, would it not be better to keep the bad blood between them minimal?
If you belong to the Armenian diaspora, keep in mind that what strikes
your fancy on the map is costing the local Armenians dearly in terms of their
blood and future. It's easy to be comfortable abroad and propagandize
craziness to have your feelings about Turks tickled. The Armenians
in Armenia and N-K will be there, with the same people you seem to hate
as their neighbors, for maybe 3000 years more. The sooner there's peace in
the region the better it is for them and everyone else. I'd push for
compromise if I were you instead of hitting the caps-lock and spreading
inflammatory half-truths.
cheers,
BM
|
5691 | From: tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen)
Subject: Re: Ultimate AWD vehicles
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Lines: 7
In article <Apr16.215151.28035@engr.washington.edu> eliot@stalfos.engr.washington.edu (eliot) writes:
>the price of parts is a different story though...
you can say that again.
how does $23 for a new thermostat sound?
-teddy
|
5692 | From: Scott.Marks@launchpad.unc.edu (Scott Marks)
Subject: Re: NHL Team Captains
Nntp-Posting-Host: lambada.oit.unc.edu
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Lines: 18
>And of course, Mike Ramsey was (at one time) the captain in Buffalo prior to
>being traded to Pittsburgh. Currently, the Penguins have 3 former captains
>and 1 real captain (Lemieux) playing for them. They rotate the A's during the
>season (and even the C while Mario was out). Even Troy Loney has worn the C
>for the Pens.
I had heard(perhaps incorrectly) that while Lemieux was out, noone wore a
C on their jersey. The As took turns doing captain duties(whatever they
are).
Scott...
scott.marks@launchpad.unc.edu
scott.marks@launchpad.unc.edu
--
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
|
5693 | From: gvanvugh@cs.uct.ac.za (Gerhard van Vught)
Subject: Problem with libararies (?)
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Lines: 50
I have been trying to compile some source code for a mpeg animation viewer for
X Windows. I got the code from a ftp site. I have modified the Makefile as
they instructed, no errors there. What happens is that I get the following
message when everything is going to be linked:
cc util.o video.o parseblock.o motionvector.o decoders.o fs2.o fs2fast.o fs4.o hybrid.o hybriderr.o 2x2.o gdith.o gray.o mono.o main.o jrevdct.o 24bit.o util32.o ordered.o ordered2.o mb_ordered.o /lib/libX11.so /lib/libXext.so -lm -o mpeg_play
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
getnetpath /lib/libX11.so
t_alloc /lib/libX11.so
t_unbind /lib/libX11.so
t_open /lib/libX11.so
t_rcvdis /lib/libX11.so
netdir_free /lib/libX11.so
t_error /lib/libX11.so
netdir_getbyname /lib/libX11.so
getnetconfigent /lib/libX11.so
t_look /lib/libX11.so
t_errno /lib/libX11.so
t_close /lib/libX11.so
netdir_getbyaddr /lib/libX11.so
t_listen /lib/libX11.so
t_rcv /lib/libX11.so
setnetpath /lib/libX11.so
t_bind /lib/libX11.so
t_connect /lib/libX11.so
t_accept /lib/libX11.so
nc_perror /lib/libX11.so
inet_addr /lib/libX11.so
ld: mpeg_play: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to mpeg_play
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
make: fatal error.
Does anyone know where these missing functions are located? If you do can you
help me with it?
I posted before to one of the other Unix groups, I tried their suggestions but
always get this error.
If you have to know: I am using Unix system V. The machines here are 486's. The
terminals I want to use are separate and just called X-terminals and they seem
dedicated to that. I'm not sure as to what they really are, since it is one of
my first times out with this X-windows gidget! That is, first time programming
for it, so to speak. I use them alot just for the graphics things.
If you can help, mail me soon.
Gerard.
|
5694 | From: suwanto@iastate.edu (zapper)
Subject: Re: 2SC1096, 2SA634 specs?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Lines: 35
>Could some kind soul post me the max power/voltage/current ratings of
>2SC1096 and 2SA634 transistors, their conductance types and pinouts.
>They are used in the sweep portion of a TV set.
2SC1096
Maximum Ratings:
VCBO = 40V
VCEO = 30V
IC = 3A
PC = 10W (T=25C)
ICBO max = 1uA
VCB = 30V
COB = 55pF
at Q-point VCE=5, IC=1A --> hfe = 100
2SA634
Maximum Ratings:
VCBO = -40V
VCEO = -30V
IC = -3A
PC = 10W (T=25C)
ICBO max = -1uA
VCB = -30V
COB = 75pF
at Q-point VCE = -5V, IC = -1A --> hfe = 100
That's all i can get from my data book, hope that helps.
suwanto@iastate.edu
|
5695 | From: system@garlic.sbs.com (Anthony S. Pelliccio)
Subject: Re: NC vs Hunt (Marine Gay Bashing in Wilmington NC) verdict
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kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
> tfarrell@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Thomas Farrell) writes:
>
>>Funny, but I've seen a LOT more than 10 or 15 seconds of that video, and
>>I still think the police involved were guilty. I don't think there's any
>>excuse they could POSSIBLY come up with that would make what they did
>>OK. I don't care if Rodney King was satan himself, there's just no
>>excuse. Now, whether they did it because he was black or they did it
>>because they wanted to beat up on somebody they were arresting is
>>another entirely separate question that I have insufficient information
>>to make any kind of conclusion about.
>
>
> How about the fact that you have a bunch of cops putting their lives o
> n
> the line day in and day out who are afraid as hell of a large black guy that
> took a large amount of punishment and refused submit? Oh yeah, did you watch
> the start of the video when King got UP out of his prone postion and charge
> the cops? Sorry, the video cuts both was when you sit and watch it start to
> finish.
>
>
I have to agree with you... the police may have carried it a bit too far
but Rodney King was no angel either. And I don't think ANY guilty
verdicts should have been returned. I'm sure you know why they handed
down guilty verdicts on two of the officers. It's quite simple really,
it was a compromise to avoid rioting in the places where minorities
think it's right to riot. I hate to say this, but I would have liked to
see them riot with everyone prepared. It would be open season if your
skin was even slightly brown.
Hey, my motto is, you don't fuck with me or my stuff and you don't get
killed. It's just that simple.
Tony
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5696 | From: stephen@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Stephen Montgomery-Smith)
Subject: Re: Latest on Branch Davidians
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In <Apr.22.00.55.06.1993.2048@geneva.rutgers.edu> aaron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Scott Aaron) writes:
>In article <Apr.20.03.02.42.1993.3815@geneva.rutgers.edu>,
>conditt@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Paul Conditt) wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think it's really sad that so many people put their faith in a mere
>> man, even if he did claim to be the son of God, and/or a prophet.
>I'll pose a question here that's got me thinking: what distinguishes
>"true" religion from cults (I'm speaking generally here, not specifially
>about Christianity)? Jerry Falwell was on Good Morning America on
>Tuesday ostensibly to answer this question. Basically, he said that
>true religion follows a message whereas a cult follows a person.
>But, then, Christianity is a cult because the message of Christianity
>IS the person of Jesus. So what distinguishes, for example, the
>Branch Davidian "cult" from the Presbyterian "church"? Doctrinal
>differences don't answer the question, IMHO, so don't use them as
>an answer.
As far as I can see, one of the big differences between Davidians and
Christians is in who they follow. I have sometimes tried to put myself
in the feet of one of Jesus's disciples. Basically, they gave up a
lot --- career, possibly family, and well, a whole bunch, to follow
Jesus.
So what is the difference? It is quite plain. Jesus was good and
David Koresh was not.
The problem is, I think, is that we try to legislate what is good
and what is bad in terms of principles. For instance, there are thousands of
laws in the U.S. governing what is legal and what is not. Often, it is hard
to bring people to justice, because it is not possible to find
a legal way to do it. If only we could trust judges to be just,
then we could tell them to administer justice fairly, and justice
would be followed. But since judges don't always get it right,
we have a complicated system involving precedent and bunches
of other stuff which attempt to make the imperfect (the justice
of man) into something perfect. But what I hear about the justice
system in the U.S. tells me that quite the opposite is true.
There is also a problem that we tend to judge the presentation
more than the material being presented. So we might consider
a ranting Christian to be bad, but an eloquent person from another
religion to be good. This goes along with the American desire
to protect the Constitution at all costs, even if it allows
people to do bad things.
I think that it is the message that is important. If a man is
presenting a false message, even if he is ever ever so mild mannered,
then that man is performing a tremendous disservice.
I know that I am rambling here. I guess that what I am trying to
say is that we shouldn't be looking for principles that tell us
why the Davidians got it wrong. It is not wrong to follow and
worship a person. But it is important to choose the right person.
It is simple. Choose Jesus, and you got it right. Choose
anyone else, and you got it wrong. Why? Because Jesus is the
begotten son of God, and nobody else is. Jesus was without sin, and
nobody else was.
Stephen
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5697 | From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Subject: Re: Would "clipper" make a good cover for other encryption method?
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation - Herndon, VA USA
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amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
> I don't get up in arms when
> the government fails to protect the interests of the people, because in
> my lifetime it never has--therefore, I have no expectation that it will.
Just to make sure everyone is clear on this: "it never has" refers to
"protects", not "fails to protect"; i.e., in my lifetime I have never seen
the U.S. government consistently protect the interest of U.S. citizens,
except by accident.
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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5698 | From: jmeritt@mental.mitre.org
Subject: God's promise of Peace
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PSA 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are
over all his works.
JER 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fa-
thers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor
spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
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5699 | From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Subject: Re: Keith Schneider - Stealth Poster?
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arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>>But, if you were to discuss the merits of racism, or its psycholgical
>>benefits, you would do well to have experienced it personally.
>When you speak of "experiencing religion" you mean someone should believe in
>a religion.
That's right, and this is pretty impossible, right? It would be ideal if
we could believe for a while, just to try out religion, and only then
determine which course of thought suits us best. But again, this is not
possible. Not that religion warrants belief, but the belief carries with
it some psychological benefits. There are also some psychological
burdens, too.
>When you speak of "experiencing racism", do you mean that someone should
>believe in racism, or that they should have racist things done to them? For
>parallelism, the former must be what you meant, but it seems to be an odd
>usage of the phrase.
Well, if there were some psychological or other benefits gained from racism,
they could only be fully understood or judged by persons actually "believing"
in racism. Of course, the parallel happens to be a poor one, but you
originated it.
keith
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