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8800 | From: andrew@idacom.hp.com (Andrew Scott)
Subject: USENET Hockey Draft week 26 standings
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, IDACOM Telecommunications Division
Lines: 279
Here are the standings after the April 6 update. I'll be leaving for Japan
in 1.5 hours, and I won't be back until April 17. Consequently, I will not
post the week 27 results until April 18. Email sent between April 13 and
April 18 will be processed using the numbers available April 18.
- Andrew
USENET Hockey Draft Standings
Week 26
Posn Team Pts Proj Cash Last Posn
1. Dave Wessels 1478 1575.3 1.9 (1)
2. Gilles Carmel 1389 1533.8 56.3 (5)
3. Bob Hill 1418 1530.8 24.0 (2)
4. The Awesome Oilers 1366 1509.9 68.6 (3)
5. Seppo Kemppainen 1372 1508.9 47.2 (6)
6. Mak "The Knife" Paranjape 1376 1501.8 31.0 (4)
7. Hillside Raiders 1397 1490.7 7.0 (7)
8. Jan Stein 1354 1478.8 35.3 (9)
9. Rangers Of Destiny 1346 1472.5 42.0 (10)
10. this years model 1368 1471.8 17.6 (8)
11. Tapio Repo 1354 1461.0 19.6 (12)
12. FRANK'S BIG FISH 1341 1448.3 22.0 (14)
13. The Underachievers 1309 1446.5 65.4 (16)
14. On Thin Ice 1333 1445.5 32.3 (11)
15. Lindros Losers 1349 1436.9 1.7 (13)
16. littlest giants 1319 1435.7 35.6 (15)
17. Go Flames 1290 1422.6 64.4 (17)
18. Mopar Muscle Men 1328 1411.7 3.7 (19)
19. DIE Penguin Bandwaggoners 1304 1409.7 20.2 (18)
20. Samuel Lau (Calgary, Alberta) 1298 1383.2 4.9 (21)
21. General Accounting Office 1272 1373.8 20.9 (22)
22. Migods Menschen 1259 1367.0 31.6 (20)
23. Boomer's Boys 1285 1366.1 0.2 (23)
24. Delaware Wombats 1285 1356.2 1.3 (24)
25. Wellsy's Buttheads DEC NH 1223 1354.4 52.6 (27)
26. Rocky Mountain High 1270 1349.3 1.8 (29)
27. Fife Flyers 1232 1346.3 31.4 (26)
28. Gerald Olchowy 1231 1343.0 33.7 (25)
29. Fluide Glacial 1246 1338.5 18.0 (28)
30. Gaoler 1227 1318.3 11.2 (30)
31. SmegHeads 1238 1313.0 0.3 (32)
32. The Young And The Skateless 1185 1299.7 42.9 (31)
33. Artic Storm 1179 1291.8 39.3 (43)
34. Sam & His Dogs 1206 1289.0 11.6 (33)
35. Neural Netters 1199 1287.9 11.3 (35)
36. Youngbucs 1157 1286.6 101.7 (34)
37. Soft Swedes 1154 1275.3 46.9 (58)
38. Jeff Horvath 1188 1262.7 5.6 (39)
39. Yan The Man Loke 1180 1261.3 0.7 (40)
40. Milton Keynes Kings 1180 1259.6 2.8 (42)
41. Hamster from Hoboken 1178 1257.5 8.7 (36)
42. Le Fleur de Lys 1159 1257.3 25.3 (46)
43. ice legion 1157 1256.6 28.8 (37)
44. Simmonac 1133 1254.4 87.6 (44)
45. Kuehn Crushers 1137 1253.1 45.1 (72)
46. The Finnish Force 1149 1249.4 22.5 (48)
47. Streaks 1117 1247.1 54.8 (38)
48. Legion of Hoth 1156 1246.3 15.8 (52)
49. Goaldingers 1146 1240.6 22.0 (45)
50. Grant Marven 1155 1236.0 2.9 (50)
51. bemybaby 1161 1235.2 7.3 (49)
52. T C OverAchievers 1162 1232.8 2.9 (47)
53. Skriko Wolves 1151 1232.4 5.4 (53)
54. Bozrah Bruins 1117 1230.7 45.2 (41)
55. Brian Bergman 1132 1229.3 23.3 (51)
56. LIPPE 1132 1214.7 13.9 (65)
57. Randy Coulman 1140 1214.5 5.2 (56)
58. LAMP LIGHTERS 1138 1214.2 5.9 (66)
59. Dave Snell 1089 1212.5 182.5 (60)
60. Steven And Mark Dream Team 1133 1210.6 3.1 (53)
61. Houdini's Magicians 1126 1209.9 18.3 (59)
62. Real Bad Toe Jam 1096 1208.6 48.9 (63)
63. rec.sport.hockey choices 1137 1208.3 1.3 (63)
64. Iowa Hockeyes 1118 1205.7 16.3 (55)
65. buffalo soldiers 1085 1204.6 62.1 (57)
66. Indianapolis Bennies 1114 1200.6 20.8 (67)
67. Bloom County All Stars 1121 1199.2 4.3 (61)
68. Tom 1109 1194.0 13.1 (68)
69. Phil and Kev's Karma Dudes 1121 1192.6 0.8 (69)
70. AIK Exiles 1078 1188.1 34.5 (70)
71. Doug Bowles 1099 1186.4 20.0 (62)
72. Bruins 1117 1184.9 0.1 (75)
73. smithw 1095 1184.3 21.0 (71)
74. The Great Pumpkin 1057 1178.6 54.4 (73)
75. shooting seamen 1111 1177.8 0.1 (77)
76. Frank Worthless 1099 1176.6 6.3 (82)
77. NON! 1089 1175.7 16.4 (74)
78. Invisible Inc 1104 1173.5 1.1 (79)
79. Brad Gibson 1075 1169.0 27.2 (89)
80. Chubby Checkers 1074 1165.6 16.3 (85)
81. PLP Fools 1092 1164.8 0.1 (76)
82. John Zupancic 1063 1164.2 27.1 (78)
83. Staffan Axelsson 1082 1163.0 15.1 (80)
84. David Wong 1038 1162.5 66.1 (87)
85. Kortelaisen Kovat 1041 1160.7 164.1 (92)
86. Chocolate Rockets 1083 1158.9 2.5 (83)
87. Ken DeCruyenaere 1078 1158.8 5.0 (94)
88. Cougarmania 1061 1154.7 24.8 (86)
89. garryola 1073 1152.9 9.7 (81)
90. Derrill's Dastardly Dozen 1062 1149.6 22.1 (88)
91. No Namers 1033 1147.6 58.2 (91)
92. The Campi Machine 1022 1145.8 65.3 (90)
93. Gary Bergman Fan Club 1071 1145.1 5.1 (98)
94. Fisher Dirtbags 1073 1144.1 0.7 (93)
95. KODIAKS 1076 1141.0 1.3 (84)
96. Arsenal Maple Leafs 1066 1136.0 3.8 (99)
97. The Kamucks 1020 1134.1 76.1 (105)
98. BSC Oranienburg 1067 1132.1 7.1 (102)
99. Bloodgamers 1018 1127.1 42.1 (97)
100. Ellis Islanders 1055 1125.5 7.6 (100)
101. Mombasa Mosquitos 1053 1125.4 6.1 (95)
102. Edelweiss 1049 1122.8 2.9 (101)
103. Zachmans Wingers 1006 1117.7 49.8 (103)
104. Wormtown Woosbags 1001 1114.6 72.6 (96)
105. Dirty White Socks 1008 1113.6 43.4 (106)
106. Hurricane Andrew 1040 1113.5 7.6 (104)
107. Larry 1034 1113.2 11.8 (109)
108. VoteNoOct26 1010 1108.5 31.8 (108)
Bruce's Rented Mules 1033 1108.5 11.9 (110)
110. King Suke 1042 1108.2 0.1 (112)
111. Teem Kanada 1030 1105.3 16.0 (115)
112. Bjoern Leaguen 987 1104.7 61.4 (123)
113. Frank's Follies 1020 1101.2 24.2 (117)
114. Neil Younger 985 1100.9 77.7 (120)
115. Het Schot Is Hard 1027 1100.8 18.1 (121)
116. PSV Dartmouth 1033 1100.7 7.1 (107)
117. Pond Slime 1034 1096.8 0.7 (111)
118. Stanford Ice Hawks 1008 1096.5 28.2 (114)
119. SPUDS 1019 1096.4 12.6 (113)
120. Mark Sanders 1020 1091.9 11.1 (116)
121. Oklahoma Stormchasers 1004 1089.9 28.3 (137)
122. Timo Ojala 1015 1084.2 0.3 (130)
123. Nesbitt 1025 1083.0 1.1 (118)
124. Aye Carumba!!! 1016 1082.4 3.9 (124)
125. Kokudo Keikaku Bunnies 976 1081.2 40.3 (119)
126. Blue Talon 1007 1080.0 13.3 (129)
127. Apricot Fuzzfaces 1001 1078.3 23.3 (125)
128. Haral 1013 1077.8 7.3 (122)
129. garys team 995 1076.5 17.1 (126)
130. Late Night with David Letterman 1013 1075.3 0.0 (133)
131. Arctic Circles 974 1075.2 37.6 (132)
132. The Lost Poots 1000 1072.9 6.7 (127)
Seattle PFTB 988 1072.9 22.9 (134)
134. boutch 92-93 987 1071.5 20.0 (135)
135. Dirty Rotten Puckers 1001 1071.2 1.2 (147)
136. Flying Kiwis 998 1069.8 9.1 (130)
Cluster Buster 996 1069.8 7.6 (136)
138. Scott Glenn 999 1068.7 10.2 (142)
139. Dree Hobbs 988 1068.5 13.4 (146)
140. GO BRUINS 999 1066.6 6.2 (144)
141. Le Groupe MI 975 1065.4 30.2 (141)
142. team gold 992 1065.1 16.7 (128)
143. Closet Boy's Boys 955 1063.4 48.0 (140)
144. Gary Bill Pens Dynasty 982 1063.2 19.6 (151)
McKees Rocks Rockers 998 1063.2 5.1 (151)
146. Tim Rogers 987 1061.9 8.1 (148)
147. Andy Y F WONG 982 1061.1 21.5 (143)
148. Buttered Waffles 947 1059.6 46.0 (145)
149. Bob's Blues 951 1059.2 46.8 (139)
150. Princeton Canucks 945 1058.9 124.2 (154)
151. GO HABS GO 989 1058.7 8.0 (149)
152. Wembley LostWeekenders 998 1057.6 0.3 (157)
153. Wild Hearted Sons 993 1057.5 4.9 (138)
154. Einstein's Rock Band 994 1054.8 0.0 (160)
155. Tap 989 1053.0 0.5 (150)
156. Goddess Of Fermentation 964 1051.0 30.2 (156)
157. HUNTERS & COLLECTORS 945 1050.6 42.4 (163)
158. Dr Joel Fleishman 985 1048.7 3.7 (159)
159. furleys furies 983 1048.6 3.6 (153)
160. convex stars 979 1047.9 5.6 (161)
161. Les Nordiques 939 1046.9 60.4 (155)
162. MY TEAM 932 1045.3 174.8 (167)
163. Hubert's Hockey Homeboys 980 1043.9 0.6 (162)
Book 'em Danno's Bushbabies 977 1043.9 10.5 (169)
165. riding the pine 956 1038.7 20.7 (158)
166. Sundogs 975 1037.1 0.4 (166)
167. Jeff Nimeroff 927 1037.0 48.8 (172)
168. Slap Shot Marco 930 1036.0 51.8 (164)
169. Daryl Turner 976 1035.8 2.4 (179)
170. The Dreamers 921 1033.1 63.7 (180)
171. East City Jokers 919 1031.6 69.1 (173)
172. Flowers 921 1031.4 113.6 (168)
173. Satan's Choice 961 1030.1 14.5 (171)
174. The Leafs Rule!!!! 943 1030.0 25.8 (165)
175. Pierre Mailhot 969 1029.9 2.6 (174)
176. voyageurs 968 1029.4 2.7 (170)
177. Spinal Tap 928 1029.1 41.4 (176)
178. San Jose Mahi Mahi 939 1026.7 31.8 (185)
Stimpy ADG Zeta 949 1026.7 21.0 (182)
180. Jeff Bachovchin 916 1024.7 46.7 (175)
181. Bulldogs 941 1024.5 23.4 (184)
182. LANA Inc 940 1021.0 27.3 (177)
183. Big Bad Bruins 939 1020.6 18.5 (186)
184. Mike Mac Cormack Sydney NS CAN 904 1019.1 107.2 (183)
185. Darse Billings 925 1017.8 34.7 (178)
186. Chappel's Chumps 934 1017.6 24.0 (181)
187. JimParker 903 1014.5 179.0 (192)
188. Republican Dirty Tricksters 894 1008.0 66.0 (189)
189. Enforcers 924 1007.8 28.1 (191)
190. Absolut Lehigh 937 1007.7 8.9 (190)
191. Yellow Plague 933 1005.0 14.2 (187)
192. Dr.D And The S.O.D. 929 1003.8 17.1 (198)
193. Bunch of Misfits 916 1003.3 23.8 (188)
194. Ninja Turtles 942 1000.8 1.3 (194)
195. Great Expectations 934 999.3 2.3 (196)
196. Cherry Bombers 939 998.1 1.2 (200)
197. Henry's Bar B Q 941 998.0 0.7 (195)
198. Robyns Team 907 993.5 30.0 (198)
199. Team Melville 891 991.8 46.9 (202)
200. Umpire 4 life 919 990.9 11.1 (193)
201. Acadien 914 988.9 18.3 (197)
202. Kaufbeuren Icebreakers 894 988.2 37.6 (207)
203. Firebirds 926 986.5 3.9 (201)
204. Jayson's Kinky Pucks 904 986.1 26.9 (203)
205. Cobra's Killers 891 982.5 31.7 (208)
206. Outlaws 871 981.6 164.9 (206)
207. Kuta Papercuts 912 981.5 18.5 (204)
208. Killer Apes 902 979.9 24.3 (205)
209. DARMAN'S Dragons 896 979.4 28.3 (211)
210. Roger Smith 882 978.2 39.6 (212)
211. Those 1st few weeks hurt! 862 975.1 55.9 (210)
212. Thundering Herd 860 972.8 163.6 (218)
213. IKEA Wholesale 910 970.2 1.7 (214)
214. Believe it or dont 895 968.7 21.1 (215)
215. fred mckim 861 966.8 93.0 (217)
216. 400 Hurricane 880 966.4 32.1 (216)
217. Creeping Death 886 965.0 21.3 (220)
218. Knee Injuries 897 964.9 10.4 (213)
219. The 200 Club 902 964.7 6.8 (209)
220. Crazy Euros 888 962.1 17.9 (219)
221. Frack Attack 875 961.8 27.3 (226)
222. Todd's Turkeys 898 957.0 1.9 (229)
223. Ryan's Renegades 858 956.4 50.9 (225)
224. Cafall and Crew 862 955.9 38.3 (222)
225. pig vomit 894 955.2 1.3 (227)
226. Ice Strykers 848 954.4 105.4 (221)
227. Fighting Geordies 850 954.1 141.6 (223)
228. CDN Stuck in Alabama 886 945.7 10.3 (231)
229. Ship's Way 884 943.4 8.7 (233)
230. Swillbellies 870 942.8 18.7 (228)
231. Oz 851 941.8 35.0 (235)
232. Chris of Death 835 939.3 83.6 (234)
233. Banko's Beer Rangers 875 938.6 4.2 (230)
234. NY Flames 872 938.1 7.8 (232)
235. Laubsters II 828 937.4 201.6 (237)
236. dayton bomber 882 935.1 0.0 (241)
237. Zipper Heads 847 931.7 33.9 (224)
238. Ninja Bunnies 826 928.1 44.9 (236)
239. Joliet Inmates 832 926.0 45.8 (239)
240. Widefield White Wolves 832 924.1 36.9 (242)
241. Daves Team 834 920.9 32.0 (238)
242. Great Scott 814 917.8 73.3 (240)
243. South Carolina Tiger Paws 806 915.1 78.4 (243)
244. SANDY'S SABRES 854 910.8 4.7 (245)
245. Florida Tech Burgh Team 809 904.6 49.3 (250)
246. The Ice Holes 850 903.9 2.7 (246)
247. Leos Blue Chips 845 902.9 10.4 (244)
248. For xtc 837 897.8 8.2 (248)
249. roadrunners 826 895.9 18.5 (249)
250. Mudville Kings 816 894.0 27.6 (251)
251. Redliners 820 890.8 15.9 (253)
252. Pat Phillips 827 889.1 10.1 (247)
253. New Jersey Rob 835 883.0 0.7 (252)
254. Stewart Clamen 821 869.4 1.6 (255)
255. Demon Spawn 782 860.1 25.0 (254)
256. Sunnyvale Storm 772 813.5 0.2 (256)
257. Allez les Blues 713 810.7 476.9 (257)
258. Up For Sale Hockey Club 725 795.0 23.0 (260)
259. Petes Picks 689 788.1 168.5 (258)
260. RINACO 682 781.6 114.0 (259)
261. Brenz Revenge 669 718.5 4.0 (261)
262. Dinamo Riga 571 663.8 571.6 (262)
--
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HP IDACOM Telecom Operation | (403) 462-0666 ext. 253
During the Roman Era, 28 was considered old...
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8801 | From: jls@antares. (Jon Sweet)
Subject: Re: X Windows for windows
Organization: LESC/NASA/LaRC
Lines: 11
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jls@antares.
NNTP-Posting-Host: antares.larc.nasa.gov
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8802 | From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Subject: Do we need the clipper for cheap security?
Organization: Partnership for an America Free Drug
Lines: 53
amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>> The answer seems obvious to me, they wouldn't. There is other hardware
>> out there not compromised. DES as an example (triple DES as a better
>> one.)
>
>So, where can I buy a DES-encrypted cellular phone? How much does it cost?
>Personally, Cylink stuff is out of my budget for personal use :)...
If the Clipper chip can do cheap crypto for the masses, obviously one
could do the same thing WITHOUT building in back doors.
Indeed, even without special engineering, you can construct a good
system right now. A standard codec chip, a chip to do vocoding, a DES
chip, a V32bis integrated modem module, and a small processor to do
glue work, are all you need to have a secure phone. You can dump one
or more of the above if you have a fast processor. With integration,
you could put all of them onto a single chip -- and in the future they
can be.
Yes, cheap crypto is good -- but we don't need it from the government.
You can do everything the clipper chip can do without needing it to be
compromised. When the White House releases stuff saying "this is good
because it gives people privacy", note that we didn't need them to
give us privacy, the capability is available using commercial hardware
right now.
Indeed, were it not for the government doing everything possible to
stop them, Qualcomm would have designed strong encryption right in to
the CDMA cellular phone system they are pioneering. Were it not for
the NSA and company, cheap encryption systems would be everywhere. As
it is, they try every trick in the book to stop it. Had it not been
for them, I'm sure cheap secure phones would be out right now.
They aren't the ones making cheap crypto available. They are the ones
keeping cheap crypto out of people's hands. When they hand you a
clipper chip, what you are getting is a mess of pottage -- your prize
for having traded in your birthright.
And what did we buy with our birthright? Did we get safety from
foreigners? No. They can read conference papers as well as anyone else
and are using strong cryptography. Did we get safety from professional
terrorists? I suspect that they can get cryptosystems themselves on
the open market that work just fine -- most of them can't be idiots
like the guys that bombed the trade center. Are we getting cheaper
crypto for ourselves? No, because the market would have provided that
on its own had they not deliberately sabotaged it.
Someone please tell me what exactly we get in our social contract in
exchange for giving up our right to strong cryptography?
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
--
Laissez faire, laissez passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
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8803 | From: kimd@rs6401.ecs.rpi.edu (Daniel Chungwan Kim)
Subject: WANTED: Super 8mm Projector with SOUNDS
Keywords: projector
Nntp-Posting-Host: rs6401.ecs.rpi.edu
Lines: 9
I am looking for Super 8mm Projector with SOUNDS.
If anybody out there has one for sale, send email with
the name of brand, condition of the projector, and price
for sale to kimd@rpi.edu
(IT MUST HAVE SOUND CAPABILITY)
Danny
kimd@rpi.edu
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8804 | From: whit@carson.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore)
Subject: Re: What do Nuclear Site's Cooling Towers do?
Article-I.D.: shelley.1qngqlINNnp8
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Lines: 25
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu
In article <C5L5x0.KJ7@vcd.hp.com> johne@vcd.hp.com (John Eaton) writes:
>-s87271077-s.walker-man-50- (swalker@uts.EDU.AU) wrote:
>During the nuclear fission reaction the uranium fuel can get hot enough
>to melt. When this happens the liquid uranium is pumped to the cooling
>tower where it is sprayed into the air.
Nonsense. First, the uranium fuel is sealed in zirconium
alloy cylinders (which don't melt in any circumstances short of
major failure of the power plant). Second, the primary water
(that circulates inside the reactor core) is never pumped into the
cooling tower (it's the SECONDARY water cycle that goes
through the cooling tower). Third, liquid uranium would burst
into flame on contact with air.
>Contact with the cool outside air
>will condense the mist and it will fall back to the cooling tower floor.
>There it is collected by a cleaning crew using shop vacs and is then
>reformed into pellets for reactor use the next day.
Cleaning crew working in a mist of uranium? This is a
toxic heavy metal, even if it WEREN'T radioactive. Shouldn't there
be some smileys here? Or frowneys?
John Whitmore
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8805 | From: adams@bellini.berkeley.edu (Adam L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Seventh Century A.D. Armenian Math Problems
Nntp-Posting-Host: bellini.berkeley.edu
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
Lines: 24
In article <1r6qn1INNd0n@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> koc@rize.ECE.ORST.EDU (Cetin Kaya Koc) writes:
>> Problem 1
>>
>> My father told me the following story. During the famous wars between the
>> Armenians and the Persians, prince Zaurak Kamsarakan performed extraordinary
>> heroic deeds. Three times in a single month he attacked the Persian troops.
>> The first time, he struck down half of the Persian army. The second time,
>> pursuing the Persians, he slaughtered one fourth of the soldiers. The third
>> time, he destroyed one eleventh of the Persian army. The Persians who were
>> still alive, numbering two hundred eighty, fled to Nakhichevan. And so, from
>> this remainder, find how many Persian soldiers there were before the
>massacre.
>>
>
>Answer: a(1-1/2-1/4-1/11)=280 -> a = 1760
>
I thought the implication was that the prince destroyed one fourth of the
remaining Persian troops on the second round, and then 1/11 of those remaining
on the third round. This would mean
Answer: a*(1 - 1/2)*(1 - 1/4)*(1 - 1/11) = 280 --> a = 821.333
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8806 | From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
Subject: Re: xterm build problem in Solaris2.1
Organization: western geophysical exploration products
Lines: 22
NNTP-Posting-Host: se05.wg2.waii.com
In-reply-to: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com's message of 16 Apr 1993 23:58:27 GMT
>>>>> On 16 Apr 1993 23:58:27 GMT, dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) said:
Doug> NNTP-Posting-Host: se05.wg2.waii.com
Doug> ..continuing on my build problems, I got stuck here build xterm...
Doug> Undefined first referenced
Doug> symbol in file
Doug> index /usr/ucblib/libtermcap.a(termcap.o)
Doug> rindex /usr/ucblib/libtermcap.a(termcap.o)
Doug> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to xterm
Actually .. the problem is that you have to build with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
unset as well as LD_RUN_PATH.
--
Douglas L.Acker Western Geophysical Exploration Products
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8807 | From: mlee@post.RoyalRoads.ca (Malcolm Lee)
Subject: Re: A KIND and LOVING God!!
Organization: Royal Roads Military College, Victoria, B.C.
Lines: 32
In article <sandvik-200493235610@sandvik-kent.apple.com>, sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
|> In article <1993Apr20.143754.643@ra.royalroads.ca>, mlee@post.RoyalRoads.ca
|> (Malcolm Lee) wrote:
|> > I understand and sympathize with your pain. What happened in Waco was a very
|> > sad tradgedy. Don't take it out on us Christians though. The Branch
|> > Davidians were not an organized religion. They were a cult led by a ego-maniac
|> > cult leader. The Christian faith stands only on the shoulders of one man,
|> > the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, Jesus Christ. BTW, David Koresh was NOT
|> > Jesus Christ as he claimed.
|>
|> The interesting notion is that (I watched TV tonight) Koresh never
|> claimed officially to be Jesus Christ. His believers hoped that
|> he would be, but he never took this standpoint himself.
|>
|> He was more interested in breaking the seven seals of Revelation,
|> and make sure that Armageddon would start. Well it did, and 19
|> children died, and no God saved them.
|>
|> Kent
|> ---
|> sandvik@newton.apple.com. ALink: KSAND -- Private activities on the net.
And does it not say in scripture that no man knows the hour of His coming, not
even the angels in Heaven but only the Father Himself? DK was trying to play
God by breaking the seals himself. DK killed himself and as many of his
followers as he could. BTW, God did save the children. They are in Heaven,
a far better place. How do I know? By faith.
God be with you,
Malcolm Lee :)
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8808 | From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Question: Arai Quantum-S
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Lines: 30
In article <C4zqEL.E9B@ms.uky.edu> amir@ms.uky.edu (Amir Sadr) writes:
>they way I want it to. However, I have the following problem: My chin hangs
>out from the bottom of the helmet. I am curious to know whether I would still
>have this problem if I were to switch to the extra large size? In particular,
>can anyone tell me "for certain", if the outer shell of the "Arai Quantum-S" in
>size X-large is any different (larger-rounder-etc.) than the same helmet in size
>large? Or if the inner padding/foam on the X-large is such that one's head
>fits a little deeper in the helmet, and thus one's chin would not stick out?
>This is true for the very old Arthur-Fulmer helmets that I have. Namely, my
>chin hangs out a little from the bottom of the Large helmet, and not at all
>from the X-large (but the X-large is not as snug as the large). The dealer
>is willing to replace the helmet at no additional cost (i.e. shipping), but
>I want to make sure that 1) the X-large is in fact a little bigger or linered
>such that my chin will not hang out and 2) how much looser will my head fit in
>the X-large? If anyone has recent experience with this helmet, please let me
>hear (E-mail) from you ASAP. Thank you so much. Amir-
I'm not sure about the helmet but for chin questions you might
want to write to a:
Jay Leno
c/o Tonight Show
Burbank Calif.
Good luck.
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Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. AMA#669373 DoD#564. There ain't no more.
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8809 | From: vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl)
Subject: Re: Power, signal surges in home...
Nntp-Posting-Host: chip
Reply-To: vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl)
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Lines: 10
drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:
> Hams can legally run up to 1500 watts. It is very unlikely, however,
> that a ham would be running that kind of power from a car.
>
>Not possible either. You'd need about a 300 amp alternator for
>just the amplifier.
It is too possible. As the original poster said "it is very unlikely"
but definately possible. (Can you say batteries?)
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8810 | From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Subject: Re: <Political Atheists?
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
X-Newsreader: rusnews v1.01
Lines: 11
mccullou@snake2.cs.wisc.edu (Mark McCullough) writes:
> I think you mean circular, not recursive, but that is semantics.
> Recursiveness has no problems, it is just horribly inefficient (just ask
> any assembly programmer.)
Tail-recursive functions in Scheme are at least as efficient as iterative
loops. Anyone who doesn't program in assembler will have heard of optimizing
compilers.
mathew
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8811 | From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: [lds] Gordon's Objections
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
Lines: 38
In article <C5rp8K.Kw2@acsu.buffalo.edu> psyrobtw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert Weiss) writes:
>Gordon Banks quoted and added...
>
>gb> In article <C53L1s.D61@acsu.buffalo.edu>
>gb> psyrobtw@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert Weiss) writes:
>gb>
>gb> >The Mormon Jesus is the spirit brother of Lucifer. That Jesus is God
>gb> >the Father's first born spirit child. That Jesus was begotten on earth
>gb> >through natural means, not by the Holy Ghost. That He sweat His blood
>gb> >for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane. That His blood cannot
>gb> >cleanse from all sin. That He is now among many millions of other
>gb> >gods. That Jesus is Jehovah and the Father is Elohim (in the OT
>gb> >Jehovah and Elohim are the same). That He needed to be saved.
>gb>
It is true that Mormons believe that all spirits (including Jesus,
Lucifer, Robert Weiss) are in the same family. It does not mean
that Jesus was created, but rather that Lucifer and Robert Weiss
were not. I agree that this is a "heresy". So what?
The sweating of blood in Gethsemene is
not a basic Mormon doctrine. Jesus did not perform the atonement
in Getheseme alone, as some anti-Mormons are trying to teach.
As far as the "unpardonable sin" whatever that is, it is Biblical,
and not specifically Mormon. It is also called the sin against
the Holy Ghost. Most Bible scholars (other than conservative
ones) do not believe Jehovah and Elohim were always the same.
I'm sure you've heard of the J and the E texts? I don't
know what you mean by "That He needed to be saved". Jesus?
Jehovah? Elohim? In Mormon doctrine, Jesus was sinless,
and thus did not "need to be saved".
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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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|
8812 | From: kenh@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Ken Hillen)
Subject: RF data transmission
Article-I.D.: sail.13601
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
Lines: 10
I need a off-the-shelf method of transmitting small amounts of data up to
300 feet. The data is low speed and can be encoded as needed. Low power
on the transmitting end would be a plus. An FCC certified product would
be prefered.
If you have any pointers to products or companies I'd appreciate hearing from
you.
Thanks,
Ken
|
8813 | From: carl_f_hoffman@cup.portal.com
Subject: 1993 Infiniti G20
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 26
I am thinking about getting an Infiniti G20.
In consumer reports it is ranked high in many
catagories including highest in reliability index for compact cars.
Mitsubushi Galant was second followed by Honda Accord).
A couple of things though:
1) In looking around I have yet to see anyone driving this
car. I see lots of Honda's and Toyota's.
2) There is a special deal where I can get an Infinity G20, fully
loaded, at dealer cost (I have check this out and the numbers match
up). They are doing this because they are releasing and update mid-1993
version (includes dual air-bags) and want to get rid of their old 1993's.
I guess my question is: Is this a good deal?
Also, Can anyone give me any feedback on Infiniti?
Thanks,
Carl Hoffman
P.S.
The other cars that I have test driven and which are in the
running are:
Mitsubishi Galant, Honda Accord, and Toyota Camary
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8814 | From: wchutt@alex.monsanto.com (Bill C Hutton)
Subject: MR2 Car Cover For Sale
Organization: Monsanto Company
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Lines: 19
For Sale:
Fitted car cover specifically for '91',92,'93 MR-2.
Top of the line Evolution-3 [TM] fabric. Used for less than 6 months.
The cover is in excellent condition-no rips, cuts, stains or other
blemishes. It has grommets for a locking cable. The color is silver.
Price: $90 f.o.b. will ship collect
please contact wchutt@monsanto.com
or phone at
314 576 3798 after 6 pm CDT
|
8815 | From: pochanay@cae.wisc.edu (Adisak Pochanayon)
Subject: 24-pin Printer For Sale as well
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
Lines: 35
I have a 24-pin printer which is an ALPs Allegro24. It's both a fast
printer with LQ and a very sophisticated design. It has a straight paper
path and the capability of auto-forwarding sheets to tear off and then back
(a big paper saver as you never have to waste sheets to get a current
print out). It can also handle single sheets without removing the formfeed
and has sophisticated preferences options (you can interactively program
all the preferences to control the printer and get printed feedback without
ever using a computer). You get prompts and menus to pick your current setup
and default set up. This was THE top of the line LQ dot matrix when I bought
it three years ago for $399. It is also Epson LQ2500 compatible (besides it's
own modes) and comes with IBM driver software (which I've never used since I
own an Amiga). Has a card slot for upgrading memory or fonts.
I'll let it go for $150 including shipping prepaid. COD orders must pay
all shipping and COD costs.
Adisak Pochanayon - 608-238-2463
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Also a light gun and UFORCE controller for Nintendo but with PD driver
software to use them on the Amiga. The light gun is fully remote (no wires).
Best offer over $75 ($30 less than my cost and they are both brand new).
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Jeez!!! It never fails, get in the tub and there's a rub at the lamp!
-- The Genie from Aladdin.
pochanay@cae.wisc.edu eddie (Adisak) Pochanayon
Check out all of SilverFox SoftWare's Releases.... your Amiga entertainment.
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8816 | From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (OrioleFan@uiuc)
Subject: Re: wife wants convertible
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 25
nuet_ke@pts.mot.com (KEITH NUETZMAN X3153 P7625) writes:
>HELP!!!
>my wife has informed me that she wants a convertible for her next car.
>We live in South Fla., so we are definitely in the right are for one.
>My wife has mentioned the Miata, but I think it is too small.
>I would like to wait for the new Mustangs ( Dec. '93 I think).
>Anyone have any opinions on any/all convertibles in a reasonable price range.
> Thanx
The Olds Supreme Convertible got high marks in C/D's recent test, if
you can get by the stupid body moldings and stuff. The Saab 900 ragtop may
be out of your range, but its a good choice. Is there a new F-car convertible?
The Nissan 240SX convertible is a nice car also... Those immediately come to
mind...
--
Chintan Amin <The University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign> mail: llama@uiuc.edu
******************************Neil Peart, (c)1981*****************************
*"Quick to judge, Quick to Anger, Slow to understand, Ignorance and Prejudice*
*And********Fear********Walk********************Hand*********in*********Hand"*
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8817 | From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: How many homosexuals are there?
Organization: The Armory
Lines: 68
In article <1993Apr5.050127.22304@news.acns.nwu.edu> dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier) writes:
>In article <1993Apr4.011042.24938@isc-br.isc-br.com> steveh@thor.isc-br.com
>(Steve Hendricks) writes:
>>In article <1993Apr3.211910.21908@news.acns.nwu.edu>
>>dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier) writes:
>>>...
>>>If someone beats up a homosexual, he should get charged for assault and
>>>battery. Why must we add gay bashing to the list? Isn't this a sort of
>>>double jeopardy? Or am I just being a fascist again?
>>
>>() To deter an epidemic of "gay bashing" that has not been deterred by
>> assault laws.
>
>So we ought to make beating up a homosexual more illegal than beating up a
>straight? Silly me, thinking that the issue was that we are all people, to be
>treated equally. Thanks for straightening me out.
------------------------------
Wrong, if a bunch of faggots from the tenderloin decide to go straight
bashing and they selectively target a heterosexual man and beat the bloody
fuck out of him, they would get charged as well under all the federal laws
that exist about violation of civils rights. The focus of their intent is
his sexual orientation, and so the law applies to them as well. The
national government retains the right to make any laws necessary to
sufficiently deter and punish any crime against someone's civil rights
until that behavior becomes so well punished that nobody even tries it!
The fact is, that at last count, gays were not beating straights for their
sexual orientation. Thus, the law is getting applied only to the straights
who indulge themselves. The federal government or judiciary has the right
to enforce the 14th amendment guarantee of equal protection under law even
if it takes 1000 possible charges against people who would violate them. Go
read your constitutional law. We broke the back of the KKK's harrassment
campaign with the same strategy in the early 1900's. So many went to jail
and for so long that it cut the heart out of the KKK.
-RSW
>>() No, it is not "double jeopardy." A single act may lead to multiple
>> charges and multiple crimes.
>
>I think what you meant to say here was, "With the current mutation of the US
>Constitution under the current police state, someone may be charged multiple
>times for one act if the victim in question is of the right shade." A single
>act should never merit more than on charge. That's almost like if four cops
>got acquitted from cruel and unusual punishment charges, and the country went
>and tried them again and again until they... oh.... never mind.
----------------------------------------
This "mutation" as you call it, protects your little butt too, if you
happen to be somewhere where you're the wrong "shade" for somebody else's
taste. If it can be shown that the motive for the assault on you was
racially motivated, then the full power of these extra laws that bring more
charges and punishments will come against those who harmed you. The first
use of such laws was well over a hundred years ago, and constitutional
scholars of all conviction recognize that this right reserved to the
federal government is well established and not just some short-lived
peculiarity, too! Go read some constitutional law for awhile. Maybe you'll
get it.
-RSW
>Douglas C. Meier
>dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
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* Richard STEVEn Walz rstevew@deeptht.armory.com (408) 429-1200 *
* 515 Maple Street #1 * Without safe and free abortion women are *
* Santa Cruz, CA 95060 organ-surrogates to unwanted parasites.* *
* Real Men would never accept organ-slavery and will protect Women. *
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8818 | From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
Subject: Re: ATF BURNS DIVIDIAN RANCH! NO SURVIVORS!!!
Reply-To: glenns@eas.gatech.edu
Distribution: git
Organization: The Group W Bench
Lines: 36
In <C5sv4r.HFA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
[and quotes a lot of stuff unnecessarily]
>In article <93869@hydra.gatech.EDU> glenns@eas.gatech.edu writes:
>>
>> [worth posting again ;-]
>>Hey, gang, it's not about duck hunting, or about dark alleys,
>>it's about black-clad, helmeted and booted troops storming
>>houses and violating civil rights under color of law.
>>
>>Are YOU ready to defend YOUR Constitution?
>Its also about crazy fatigue clad survivalist types blasting the
>snot out of people who accidentally stray onto his land in the
>name of 'self defense.'
>Don't get too self-righteous, Mr. gun-toter.
Ain't got a pair of fatigues... and I don't blast people wandering aimlessly,
I ask them what they're doing there... I only blast people who display
obvious violent intent... like black-clad men with weapons climbing thru
second-story windows, or people who break down the door instead of knocking.
Or people who knock my house down with tanks and set it afire. Sound
familiar yet?
Riddle me this: Why the hell are the CONVICTED CRIMINALS in Ohio getting
the kid glove treatment, and the BD's are burned alive without a trial?
Put aside who started the blaze, I still think any decent shyster can
make a case for cruel and unusual punishment, playing the sounds of
tortured rabbits over the loudspeakers (where's the SPCA in all this?)...
Oh, and that's Mister gun-toter SIR to you, bucko. Just because you choose
to abandon your rights, leave mine the hell alone, thankyouverymuch.
Glenn R. Stone (glenns@eas.gatech.edu)
Impeach Clinton, Reno -- the case is prima facie.
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8819 | From: csk@wdl50.wdl.loral.com (Chuck Kuczaj)
Subject: Re: MOTORCYCLE DETAILING TIP #18
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
Lines: 26
mbeaving@bnr.ca (Michael Beavington) writes:
>Don't you just hate when the speedo and tach on your
>bike start to cloud over from all that nasty sunshine?
>The detailing tip of the week is to use rubbing compound.
>Moisten a rag, apply some rubbing compound and work into the
>translucent, previously transparent, material. After a few
>minutes of working on the plastic face, the dial, or plastic
>face will be clear once more. Will not work for glass.
>--
>BTW. I am not responsible for damages incurred when using
> the above method. Most models can use the treatment
> safely.
>=============================================================================
>= The Beav |Mike Beavington|BellNorthernResearch Ottawa,Ont,Canada| Dod:9733=
>= Seca 400->Seca 400->RZ350->Seca750->Suzuki550->Seca650turbo->V65Sabre =
>= (-> 1994 GTS1000 ...can't afford the '93) | mbeaving@bnr.ca =
>=============================================================================
McGuire's makes a plastic scratch/removing compound and a plastic
polishing compound which really work great as well.
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8820 | From: ah301@yfn.ysu.edu (Jerry Sy)
Subject: how to boot from ext HD on power on ?
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Lines: 12
Reply-To: ah301@yfn.ysu.edu (Jerry Sy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: yfn.ysu.edu
I have an external hard drive I wish to use as startup disk.
problem is, when I switch on the mac, it boots on the internal HD,
but when I restart (warm boot) the mac, it boots from the external.
how do I make it boot directly from the external ?
please email replies if possible.
thanks in advance.
jerry
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8821 | From: dwarner@sceng.ub.com (Dave Warner)
Subject: Sabbatical (and future flames)
Summary: I'm outta here
Lines: 32
Nntp-Posting-Host: 128.203.2.156
Organization: Ungermann-Bass SSE
So, I begin my 6 week sabbatical in about 15 minutes. Six wonderful weeks
of riding, and no phones or email.
I won't have any way to check mail (or setup a vacation agent, no sh*t!),
though I can dial in and get newsfeed, (dont ask), so if there are any
outstanding CFC's or such things,please try my compuserve address:
72517.3356@compuserve.com
Anybody wants to do some WEEKDAY rides around the BA, send me a mail
to above or post here.
I'll be thinking about all of you stuck if front of your
terminals......"Sheeyaahhh, and monkeys might fly out of my butt..."
ride safe,
dave
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AMA 687955/HOG 0588773/DoD 870 by my employer or anyone else
dwarner@sceng.ub.com _Signature on file_
dwarner@milo.ub.com 72517.3356@compuserve.com
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8822 | From: azw@aber.ac.uk (Andy Woodward)
Subject: Re: Cultural Enquiries
Organization: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Lines: 39
Nntp-Posting-Host: 144.124.112.30
In article <Stafford-310393095530@stafford.winona.msus.edu> Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.Edu (John Stafford) writes:
>In article <1993Mar17.115603.28712@aber.ac.uk>, azw@aber.ac.uk (Andy
>Woodward) wrote:
>>
>> Two questions that fascinate me:-
> You are easily fascinated.
>
>> 1) Why are rednecks called rednecks?
> Why are you called a Welch?
> OK, it's because they are often south or southeastern farmers
> who's necks are permanently damaged from sunburn. The sun;
> you know what that is, it never sets on the British Empire
> and never shines in Wales.
>
This is a despicable LIE! It was sunny on 3rd July 1958 from 11.23am
to 11 37am. I made a note of it. Diaries are never wrong.
>> 2) Why do they ride Harleys?
> They don't. They drive in pick-up trucks and shoot bikers.
>
>> Please enlighten me. When I visited last, the only answers I got
>> were incoherent splutterings.
> You deserve more?
>
>====================================================
>John Stafford Minnesota State University @ Winona
> All standard disclaimers apply.
Do you, by any chance ride a Harley? (just a feeling...) How is your
neck? Calamine lotion is good, I'm told.
I am getting bored with winding up Americans. Its like bombing fish
in a barrel.
Haaaaaaaaaaave a Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Andy
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8823 | From: melons@vnet.IBM.COM (Mike Magil)
Subject: Re: Final Solution in Palestine ?
Lines: 89
>
>O.K., its my turn:
>
> DRIVING THE JEWS INTO THE SEA ?!
>
>I am sick and tired of this 'DRIVING THE JEWS INTO THE SEA' sentance attributed
>to Islamic movements and the PLO; it simply can't be proven as part of their
>plan !
>
May I suggest you chech out the _Palestinian National Covenant (1964)_. It may
not use the exact words as quoted above but I'm sure many will agree that the
same message is being issued. Later on when I get back home I will try to find
the precise section(s) but you can do the research for now (I hope). I also
realize that Yasser Arafat renounced the _Covenant_ *to the Western media only*
but he has yet to inform the PNC officially and enequivocally of his exact
intentions on this issue. Therefore, as far as we are concerned the _Covenant_
still stands as the "Bible" (so to speak) of the mainstream Palestinian
National movement!
>(Pro Israeli activists repeat it like parrots without checking its authenticity
>since it was coined by Bnai Brith)
As a staunch pro-Israel activist I can confidently say that Bnai Brith has NOT
influenced my opinions on the Arab-Israeli conflict. As I mentioned above,
just a little research on the subject will lead anyone to reach a similar
conclusion on the Palestinian National movement (the PLO in most cases). BB
does not properly speak for me nor many of the people around me who share
my views.
>
>What Hamas and Islamic Jihad believe in, as far as I can get from the Arab media,
>is an Islamic state that protects the rights of all its inhabitants under Koranic
>Law. This would be a reversal of the 1948 situation in which the Jews in
>Palestine took control of the land and its (mostly Muslim) inhabitants.
>
What 1948 situation? A negative situation I presume? Is this the same
"situation" when the Jordanian occupiers of East Jerusalem would not allow the
Jews to go worship at the HOLIEST SITE IN JUDIASM? Was this an example of
Qu'ranic law being exercised? If not, I have another suggested reading for
you... get into the "soc.culture.arabic" newsgroup where the posters have been
debating the topic "Jews in the Qu'ran" (and may I remind you the people doing
the debating appear to be devout Muslims with some knowledge of the Qu'ran).
You will find that Jews aren't really viewed positively by the Qu'ran (to put
it lightly). So how do you think Jews (or any other non-Islamic religion) will
be treated by an Islamic state governed by the words of the Qu'ran? I think
the 1948-1967 "situation" in Jerusalem will return *at best*! What do you
think?
>However, whoever committed crimes against humanity (torture, blowing up their
>homes, murders,...) must be treated and tried as a war criminal. The political
>thought of these movements shows that a freedom of choice will be given to the
>Jews in living under the new law or leaving to the destintion of their choice.
All I have to say to that is, once again, see s.c.a - "Jews in the Qu'ran" and
think again. "Freedom of choice" is *definitely* not an option in Qu'ranic
law especially for non-Muslims and ALL women! Remember the Gulf War? I'm sure
you saw the reports about how women had few rights in Saudi Arabia (an Islamic
state).
>
>As for the PLO, I am at a loss to explain what is going inside Arafat's mind.
>
Probably nothing! Aside from how to break the news to his Palestinian brethren
that the _Covenant_ is "null and void" without getting assassinated himself!
>Although their political thinking seems far fetched with Israel acting as a true
>super-power in the region, the Islamic movements are using the same weapon the
>Jews used to establish their state : Religion.
>
In conclusion, Ahmed, you should go to the library and find the _Palestinian
National Covenant (1964)_ and read it VERY CAREFULLY. By the way, Redpath
Library DOES have it in stock because that is exactly where I found it when I
was doing my research. So enjoy the reading and I hope we will be hearing back
from you soon!
- Mike
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MI KE MIK EMIK EMI K "Opinions expressed above
M I K E M I K E M are my own and not that
M I K E MIKEM I KEM I K of 'Big Blue'"
M I K E M IKE M IKE MIKE
IBM Corp., Toronto, Canada
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8824 | From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
Subject: Re: Off the shelf cheap DES keyseach machine (Was: Re: Corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip)
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
Lines: 10
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.tis.com
>I mean, if we can imagine the
>machine that does 1 trial/nanosecond, we can imagine the storage medium
>that could index and archive it.
I think you'd have to do some massive data compression just to
fit a bit of key information on each primary particle of the known
universe.
But, hey, it's fun to imagine.
mjr.
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8825 | From: wquinnan@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Malcusco)
Subject: Re: When are two people married in God's eyes?
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Lines: 59
In article <Apr.16.23.18.04.1993.1876@geneva.rutgers.edu> rob@ll.mit.edu writes:
>I think it was Lewis who said that in a wedding, it's the principals
>that marry each other; the church and the state are present merely as
>witnesses.
>
>[This is not just Lewis -- it's a summary of standard Catholic
>theology. However this doesn't mean that the presence of those
>witnesses is optional, except in odd situations like the standard
>desert island. --clh]
I originally wrote to the person who asked this question
personally, but decided to post the information I had on the topic.
I spoke to the pastor of my parish (Catholic) recently,
by coincidence, on this subject. His explaination was that
while it is possible for a couple to marry without the presence
of a priest, it is important to have it recognized by the
Church as soon as it is possible. Because the Church
recoginizes itself as a community of believers, members
of the church, to some degree, are to be held accountable
to each other. To be less hypothetical than that mythical
couple on the desert island, there are many places in the
world that do not have priests availible for marriages
on a regular basis. Therefore, couples get married without
the priest being present, but get the priest to testify to
their marriage when one comes through the area.
I remember a religion teacher in high school saying
that the marriage ceremony is not for the benefit of the couple
as much as it is for the benefit of the community. Thus,
married couples have some responsibility to the community
to stay married, as divorce sets a bad example for the
community. Also, the couple has vowed to become one with
one another--the community should be able to rely on that
couple to be as one.
While couples may marry without witnesses, they
may NOT get anulments without a priest present. An
anulment is simply an admission of the church that what
they had declared a marriage was not, in fact, a marriage
at all, for whatever reason. So don't start getting married
in the back seat of a station wagon and giving yourselves
anulments a half-hour later!!
I tend to agree with the response back there that
said couples become married as soon as they consumate their
marriage, but I would add that couples should consider their
marriage consumated if they have sex, whether or not they
intended to be married, assuming they were both willing
partners to the sexual act. The couple must be prepared
to raise any children they may have as a result of that
sexual act with the benefit of both parents. Sex IS a
commitment, I believe, in God's eyes.
But I'm digressing....
God be with you,
Malcusco
|
8826 | From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
Lines: 17
In article <1993Apr13.093300.29529@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
>
>"Weight rebound" is a term used in the medical literature on
>obesity to denote weight regain beyond what was lost in a diet
>cycle. There are any number of terms which mean one thing to
Can you provide a reference to substantiate that gaining back
the lost weight does not constitute "weight rebound" until it
exceeds the starting weight? Or is this oral tradition that
is shared only among you obesity researchers?
--
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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."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
8827 | From: montuno@physics.su.OZ.AU (Lino Montuno)
Subject: CPU Temperature vs CPU Activity ?
Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Lines: 8
This may be a very naive question but is there any basis for the
claim that a CPU will get hotter when a computationally intensive
job is running? My friend claims that there will be little difference
in the temperature of an idle CPU and a CPU running a computationally
intensive job.
Lino Montuno
|
8828 | From: Thomas Kephart <kephart@snowhite.eeap.cwru.edu>
Subject: Re: Interesting ADB behaviour on C650
Organization: Case School of Engineering
Lines: 29
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62182.student.cwru.edu
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d20
X-XXMessage-ID: <A7F350070401F2E6@b62182.student.cwru.edu>
X-XXDate: Thu, 15 Apr 93 17:46:47 GMT
In article <16BB1A4DF.DJCOHEN@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> Daniel Cohen,
DJCOHEN@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>>I've noticed an interesting phenomenon on my Centris 650. If I unplug
the
>>keyboard and mouse and plug them in again without turning the power
off,
>>the mouse suddenly switches to about half its normal movement speed. I
>>check the "Mouse" control panel, and there's no change in its setting
>>there--it's still on full speed, the way I like it. Restarting the
machine
>>restores the normal mouse speed.
>>
>>By the way, it happens with both the newer-style mouse that came with
the
>>Centris, and the older-style mouse from my IIfx at work. Thus I don't
think
>>it has anything to do with the resolution setting in the mouse--it's
>>definitely a quirk of the ADB interface (either hardware or software)
in
>>the Centris itself.
>I have noticed this exact same phenomenon occurs with my LCIII. Perhaps
it
>is a quirk of the new machines?
Sorry, but mine works fine (C650)
My 2 cents worth...
|
8829 | From: etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson)
Subject: WC: Scores and standings, April 18
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
Lines: 71
Nntp-Posting-Host: uipc104.ericsson.se
1993 World Championships in Germany:
====================================
Group A standings (Munich) Group B standings (Dortmund)
-------------------------- ----------------------------
GP W T L GF-GA P GP W T L GF-GA P
Sweden 1 1 0 0 1-0 2 Germany 1 1 0 0 6-0 2
Italy 1 0 1 0 2-2 1 Czech republic 1 0 1 0 1-1 1
Russia 1 0 1 0 2-2 1 USA 1 0 1 0 1-1 1
Canada 0 0 0 0 0-0 0 Finland 0 0 0 0 0-0 0
Switzerland 0 0 0 0 0-0 0 France 0 0 0 0 0-0 0
Austria 1 0 0 1 0-1 0 Norway 1 0 0 1 0-6 0
April 18: Italy - Russia 2-2 Norway - Germany 0-6
Sweden - Austria 1-0 USA - Czech republic 1-1
April 19: Canada - Switzerland 15:30
Russia - Austria Finland - France 20:00
April 20: Sweden - Canada Czech republic - Germany 15:30
Switzerland - Italy Finland - USA 20:00
April 21: Germany - France 15:30
Italy - Sweden Czech republic - Norway 20:00
April 22: Switzerland - Russia USA - France 15:30
Austria - Canada Norway - Finland 20:00
April 23: Switzerland - Austria Germany - Finland 20:00
April 24: Russia - Sweden Czech republic - France 15:30
Canada - Italy USA - Norway 20:00
April 25: Sweden - Switzerland Finland- Czech republic 15:30
Russia - Canada Germany - USA 20:00
April 26: Austria - Italy France - Norway 20:00
PLAYOFFS:
=========
April 27: Quarterfinals
A #2 - B #3 15:30
A #3 - B #2 20:00
April 28: Quarterfinals
A #1 - B #4 15:30
A #4 - B #1 20:00
April 29: Relegation
A #5 - B #6 15:30
A #6 - B #5 20:00
April 30: Semifinals
A #1/B #4 - A #3/B #2 15:30
A #4/B #1 - A #2/B #3 20:00
May 1: Relegation 14:30
Bronze medal game 19:00
May 2: FINAL 15:00
--
((\\ //| Staffan Axelsson
\\ //|| etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se
\\_))//-|| r.s.h. contact for Swedish hockey
|
8830 | From: frode@dxcern.cern.ch (Frode Weierud)
Subject: Magstrip Card Reader Info
Keywords: Magstripe, Card Reader, American Magnetics, Magnetics
Reply-To: frode@dxcern.cern.ch
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Lines: 26
Can somebody please help me with information about an
American Magnetics Corporation Magstripe Card Reader that
I recently bought locally from a surplus dealer.
On the rear it has the following information:
American Magnetics Corporation
Carson, CA, USA
Magstripe Card Reader
Model 41,
P/N 507500 - 2300112311
It is fitted with a cable with a RS232 Cannon 25-pin connector on
the end and has a separate power connector like the once used with
wall chargers.
Frode
**************************************************************************
* Frode Weierud Phone : 41 22 7674794 *
* CERN, SL Fax : 41 22 7823676 *
* CH-1211 Geneva 23 E-mail : frode@dxcern.cern.ch *
* Switzerland or weierud@cernvm.cern.ch *
**************************************************************************
|
8831 | From: steveg@cadkey.com (Steve Gallichio)
Subject: Re: This year's biggest and worst (opinion)...
Keywords: NHL, awards
Article-I.D.: access.1pstuo$k4n
Organization: Cadkey, Inc.
Lines: 53
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net
Bryan Smale (smale@healthy.uwaterloo.ca) writes:
> I was thinking about who on each of the teams were the MVPs, biggest
> surprises, and biggest disappointments this year.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Team Biggest Biggest
> Team: MVP: Surprise: Disappointment:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hartford Whalers Sanderson Cassells Corriveau
My votes (FWIW):
Team MVP: Pat Verbeek. He fans on 25% of goal mouth feeds, but he still has
36 goals after a terrible start and has been an examplary (sp?) team captain
throughout a tough couple of seasons. Honorable mention: Nick Kypreos and
Mark Janssens. Probably more appropriate in the unsung heroes category than
MVP, but Kypreos (17 goals, 320+ PIM) has been the hardest working player on
the team and Janssens is underrated as a defensive center and checker. I guess
I place a greater emphasis on hard work than skill when determining value.
Biggest surprise: Geoff Sanderson. He had 13 goals and 31 points last season
as a center, then moved to left wing and has so far put up 45 goals and 80+
points. He now has a new Whaler record 21 power play goals, most all coming
from the right wing faceoff circle, his garden spot. Honorable mention: Andrew
Cassels and Terry Yake. The kiddie quartet of Sanderson, Poulin, Nylander, and
Petrovicky have been attracting the most attention, but Cassels is just 23
and will score close to 90 points this season. He has quite nicely assumed the
role of number one center on the team and works very well with Sanderson. Yake
bounced around the minors for a number of seasons but is still 24 and will put
up about 20 goals and 50 points this season. Yake, like Sanderson, started
performing better offensively once he was converted from center to wing,
although lefty Sanderson went to the left wing and righty Yake went to the
right side.
Biggest disappointment: Hands down, John Cullen. Cullen had a disasterous 77
point season last year, his first full season after The Trade. Cullen started
the season off of summer back surgery, and fell flat on his face (appropriate,
since he spent all of his Whaler career flat on his ass, and whining about it).
Cullen scored just 9 point on 19 games, was a clubhouse malcontent, commanded
the powerplay to a 9% success percentage (>21% with Sanderson), and sulked his
way out of town. Worst of all, his 4 year, $4M contract had three years left
to run, so no one would give up any more than the 2nd round draft pick the
Maple Leafs offered to Hartford. Honorable mention: Steve Konroyd, also subpar
after signing a 3 year, $2.1M contract; Eric Weinrich, who showed flashes of
competence, but overall has played poorly; Jim McKenzie, who was a much better
hockey player two seasons ago than he is now; and Frank Pietrangelo, who only
seemed to play well when Sean Burke was out for an extended period and he got
to make a number of starts in a row.
-SG (a real live Hartford Whalers season ticket holder)
-steveg@cadkey.com
|
8832 | From: skip@eco.twg.com (Skip Koppenhaver)
Subject: Pulldown menu periodically hangs application on OpenWindows 3.0
Nntp-Posting-Host: eco.twg.com
Reply-To: skip@eco.twg.com
Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
Lines: 47
Has anyone found a fix for the following problem?
Client Software: SunOs 4.1.1, X11R5
Server Hardware: Sun IPC
Server Software: SunOs 4.1.1, Open Windows 3.0 (w/ patch 100444-37)
A Motif 1.2.2 application will periodically hang when run against the
OpenWindows 3.0 server (xnews). The pulldown is displayed but then no
button actions have any effect. Sometimes pressing <Return> will
unstick the application but not usually. It looks like the pulldown is
grabbing the focus and never letting go. Other windows on the display
continue to get updated so the server isn't hanging. If I log in from
another terminal and kill the Motif application then everything gets
back to normal. The same application when run against other X servers
(including MIT X11R5 Xsun, DecWindows, Tektronix X terminal) has no
problems. This is obviously a OpenWindows problem but I need a
work-around since most of our customers are OpenWindows users.
I have tried the following things:
1. Installing the latest version of the OpenWindows server patch
(100444-37).
2. Using mwm (version 1.2.2) instead of olwm.
3. Applying the patch specified in the Motif FAQ (question 110).
This had the effect of disabling the point-and-click method of
menu interaction (as opposed to the click-and-drag method), and
screwing up the menu mnemonics keys. It did seem to help, but I
was still able to get the application to hang.
Repeat By:
This is an intermittent problem so you'll have to try several times.
Click and release on a menu heading (pulldown menu will pop up)
Click and release on a menu item
Repeat until application hangs
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--
Skip Koppenhaver
skip@eco.twg.com
|
8833 | From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
Subject: Re: Insurance and lotsa points...
Nntp-Posting-Host: acs3.acs.ucalgary.ca
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
Lines: 39
In article <1993Apr18.230531.11329@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> keithh@bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan) writes:
>In article <13386@news.duke.edu> infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew Infante) writes:
>>Well, it looks like I'm F*cked for insurance.
>>
>>I had a DWI in 91 and for the beemer, as a rec.
>>vehicle, it'll cost me almost $1200 bucks to insure/year.
>>
>>Now what do I do?
>
>Sell the bike and the car and start taking the bus. That way you can
>keep drinking which seems to be where your priorities lay.
>
>I expect that enough of us on this list have lost friends because of
>driving drunks that our collective sympathy will be somewhat muted.
Look, guy, I doubt anyone here approves of Drunk Driving, but if
he's been caught and convicted and punished maybe you ought to
lighten up? I mean, it isn't like most of us haven't had a few
and then ridden or driven home. *We* just didn't get caught.
And I can speak for myself and say it will *never* happen again,
but that is beside the point.
In answer to the original poster: I'd insure whatever vehicle
is cheapest, and can get you to and from work, and suffer
through it for a few years, til your rates drop.
And *don't* drink and drive. I had one friend killed by a
drunk, and I was rear ended by one, totaling my bike (bent
frame), and only failing to kill me because I had an eye
on my mirror while I waited at the stoplight.
Regards, Charles
DoD0.001
RZ350
--
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person
|
8834 | From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
Subject: Re: Vulcan? (No, not the guy with the ears!)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Lines: 21
victor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Victor Laking) writes:
>Does anyone have any info on the apparent sightings of Vulcan?
>
>All that I know is that there were apparently two sightings at
>drastically different times of a small planet that was inside Mercury's
>orbit. Beyond that, I have no other info.
>Does anyone know anything more specific?
>(Yes, this happened LONG before Star Trek and is apparently where they
>got the reference for the "guy with the ears".)
Yes, long before Star Trek. Before Einstein, in fact.
Vulcan as a planet inside Mercury was hypothesized to explain a perturbation
of Mercury's orbit that could not be explained by the known planets. But
Einstein's theory of relativity explained Mercury's motion, and analysis
of Mercury's motion now shows there are _not_ any planets inside its orbit.
-Mike
|
8835 | From: kjetilk@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjetil Kolin)
Subject: Proteced Mode
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Lines: 1
I'm looking for information how W-NT uses Proteced Mode. (The HW support)
|
8836 | From: jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger)
Subject: Re: The Inimitable Rushdie
Organization: Boston University Physics Department
Lines: 41
In article <C5HKv2.Epv@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>In article <115256@bu.edu> jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes:
>>Judaism, for one. Maddi has confirmed this for one. And again I
>>reiterate that one can easily leave the religion at any time,
>>simply by making a public declaration. If one is too lazy to do
>>that then the religion cannot be held responsible.
>There are many "Islamic" countries where publically renouncing Islam can be
>quite dangerous. These countries might not, according to you, necessarily be
>practicing "true" Islam, but the danger still remains; one cannot blame
>failure to publically renounce Islam on "laziness" as opposed to a desire to
>stay alive and well.
Of course, if you're planning to pull a Rushdie then declaring one's
leaving the religion is little to be concerned about compared to one's
other plans.
In Rushdie's case, the one under discussion, one can. It is tragic that
in _some_ "Islamic" countries this is so. There are, however, Islamic
countries (whose constitutions contains statements that Islamic law is
to be incorporated), e.g. Kuwait, where one can freely make such
statements without fear.
>Not to mention that it has already been pointed out that Rushdie has said in
>his books that he's not a Muslim, and there have surely been enough readers of
>his books to provide the appropriate number of witnesses.
This story has become tiresome. The conditions are clear. If you care to
make your point clear then make a chronology and show that he had made
public statements about leaving Islam prior to his writing of _TSV_. If
he did make such statements then he should have made _that_ clear rather
than trying to rejoin Islam or go on talking about his personal
feelings.
Gregg
|
8837 | From: gadfly@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (Gadfly)
Subject: Re: California Insurance Commissioner Endorses Federal Legislation to Protect Consumers from Scam Insurance Companies
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Summary: "Talkin about my g-g-generation."
Lines: 41
In article <RLM.93Apr2050627@helen.surfcty.com>, rlm@helen.surfcty.com
(Robert L. McMillin) rants:
> The left likes to dodge the issues of morality and behavior, crying that
> anyone who raises them "blames the victim." Nonetheless, as a recent
> editorial in the {Los Angeles Times} pointed out, the free love
> advocates of the 1960's have demolished the poor. It's one thing to
> have children out of wedlock if you're, say, Murphy Brown (or someone
> like her), turning over a six figure salary -- and quite another if
> you're sixteen, have no skills, and no income.
And how did the "free love advocates of the 1960's" manage to perform
this demolition--forced breeding programs or something?
> By accepting and even celebrating single, out-of-wedlock parenthood, the
> 1960's radicals espousing free love set the stage for catastrophe among
> the poor. They must account for this...
Now let me get this straight. After a nice, long rant about how
people need to take personal responsibility for their economic and
social lives, all of a sudden 1960's radicals (such as me, I guess)
are responsible for poor people's lifestyles? Tell me how that
works--or do you think that poor people are just too dumb to think
for themselves?
There are many reasons for the disintegration of the family and
support systems in general among this nation's poor. Somehow I
don't think Murphy Brown--or Janis Joplin--is at the top of any
sane person's list.
You want to go after my generation's vaunted cultural revolution for
a lasting change for the worse, try so-called "relevant" or "values"
education. Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time. How were
we to know you needed a real education first--I mean, we took that
for granted.
*** ***
Ken Perlow ***** *****
05 Apr 93 ****** ****** 16 Germinal An CCI
***** ***** gadfly@ihspc.att.com
** ** ** **
...L'AUDACE! *** *** TOUJOURS DE L'AUDACE! ENCORE DE L'AUDACE!
|
8838 | From: jdz1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John D. Zitterkopf)
Subject: Info: NEC70001AB Amp. IC & ~20W AMP secs & possible PSPICE models
Keywords: Audio, AMPS
Nntp-Posting-Host: ra.msstate.edu
Organization: Mississippi State University
Lines: 40
Hi,
Being a Electronic Engineering Student with only Electronic II under
my belt, I find myself *needing* to build a moderate wattage Audio Amp. So,
I'll throw out a couple of question for the vast knowledge of the 'net'!
Please Explain how Watts are calculated in Audio Amp circuits. No,
Not P=I*E, Just how it relates to one of the following:
Ai [Current Gain]
Av [Voltage Gain]
Ap [Power Gain]
or whatever.
I already have a ?wonderful? cheap I.E <$20 schematic for a 20W amp, but
I would like to Cross/improve the circuit. The problem is that the parts
list has IC1 and IC2 as NEC70001AB amplifiers. They look like ?11 pin?
SIP packages with a heatsink. This schematic was published in a 1991 mag
so it may be non-existant now. Anyway, I tried looking up a replacement in
the latest Digi-key Cat and found it not listed 8(. The closes I could
figure was a 9 pin SIP as TDA1520BU. Anyone got any Ideas?
I thought, hey I can rin a PSPICE simulation using 741 opamp
models. Yea, great! It worked. But, I guess the 741 wasn't made for High
power amps. As a result, I got a Voltage gain of ~15mV/V. Worse than
I started with 8(... Does anyone have a PSPICE CKT file with cheap yet
good gain? How about some models for some of the chips listed in this
E-mail? Any ASCII Chip info you guys can send me?
I'm open to Suggestions/Ideas/Comments/Help!
Please E-mail since I have little time to search the News...
And I'll post if there's and interest!
John
--
____________ _------_ |||IBM & | EE majors Do it Best 8-)
--------\\ ] ~-______-~ |||Atari |~~~~~~~~~John D. Zitterkopf~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(~~~~~\\|_(__ ~~ / | \Rules!jdz1@ra.MsState.edu jdz1@MsState.bitnet
\______| ( / | \ |AOL: zitt@aol.com jdz1@isis.MsState.edu
|
8839 | From: ramarren@apple.com (Godfrey DiGiorgi)
Subject: Re: uh, der, whassa deltabox?
Organization: Apple Computer
Lines: 15
>Can someone tell me what a deltabox frame is, and what relation that has,
>if any, to the frame on my Hawk GT? That way, next time some guy comes up
>to me in some parking lot and sez "hey, dude, nice bike, is that a deltabox
>frame on there?" I can say something besides "duh, er, huh?"
The Yammie Deltabox and the Hawk frame are conceptually similar
but Yammie has a TM on the name. The Hawk is a purer 'twin spar'
frame design: investment castings at steering head and swing arm
tied together with aluminum extruded beams. The Yammie solution is
a bit more complex.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Godfrey DiGiorgi - ramarren@apple.com | DoD #0493 AMA#489408
Rule #1: Never sell a Ducati. | "The street finds its own
Rule #2: Always obey Rule #1. | uses for things." -WG
------ Ducati Cinelli Toyota Krups Nikon Sony Apple Telebit ------
|
8840 | From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Subject: Re: Fortune-guzzler barred from bars!
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Lines: 23
In article <C5qtvL.M73@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Russell.P.Hughes@dartmouth.edu (Knicker Twister) writes:
>In article <1993Apr19.141959.4057@bnr.ca>
>npet@bnr.ca (Nick Pettefar) writes:
>
>> With regards to the pub brawl, he might have a history of such things.
>> Just because he was a biker doesn't make him out to be a reasonable
>> person. Even the DoD might object to him joining, who knows?
If he had a history of such things, why was it not mentioned in the
article, and why did they present the irrelevant detail of where he
got his drinking money from?
I can't say exactly who is at fault here, but from where I sit is
looks like we're seeing the results either of the law going way out
of hand or of shoddy journalism.
If the law wants to attach strings to how you spend a settlement, they
should put the money in trust. They don't, so I would assume it's
perfectly legitimate to drink it away, though I wouldn't spend it that
way myself.
-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
|
8841 | From: v103r4g8@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (We will NOT cave in....GODS OF WAR, Def Leppard)
Subject: HELP HELP HELP
Organization: University at Buffalo
Lines: 11
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
Does anyone have the NHL STANDINGS for March 28th? I need them IMMEDIATELY
for a project. Please post or email. THANKS.
*************************************************************************
Andy Hillery --- School Of Architecture
State University of New York at Buffalo
*************************************************************************
|
8842 | From: jebright@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James R Ebright)
Subject: Re: Secret algorithm [Re: Clipper Chip and crypto key-escrow]
Keywords: encryption, wiretap, clipper, key-escrow, Mykotronx
Nntp-Posting-Host: top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University
Lines: 25
In article brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
[...]>
>The greatest danger of the escrow database, if it were kept on disk,
>would be the chance that a complete copy could somehow leak out. You
[...]>
>Of course then it's hard to backup. However, I think the consequences
>of no backup -- the data is not there when a warrant comes -- are worse
>than the consequences of a secret backup.
If the data isn't there when the warrant comes, you effectively have
secure crypto. If secret backups are kept...then you effectively have
no crypto. Thus, this poster is essentialy arguing no crypto is better
than secure crypto.
If the data isn't there when the warrant comes, then the government will
just have to use normal law enforcement techniques to catch crooks. Is
this so bad? BTW, bugging isn't YET a normal law enforcement technique.
With the privacy clipper, it WILL become a normal technique.
/Jim
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Information farming at... For addr&phone: finger A/~~\A
THE Ohio State University jebright@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu ((0 0))____
Jim Ebright e-mail: jre+@osu.edu \ / \
(--)\
|
8843 | From: klj@titan.ucs.umass.edu (KATHERINE L JEFFERS)
Subject: MAC SE FORSALE
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lines: 11
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu
This is a repost of an earlier. Thanks to several of you for
offering advise on realistic prices.
MAC SE/ 2.5 megs ram, 20 meg hard disk, 800 K Floppy.
In absolutely perfect condition.
Includes Word 5, pagemaker, quark xpress, quicken and the
latest versions of about a dozen other programs.
Price: 475.00
|
8844 | From: kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan)
Subject: Re: [soc.motss, et al.] "Princeton axes matching funds for Boy Scouts"
Article-I.D.: po.kmr4.1447.734101641
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Lines: 28
NNTP-Posting-Host: b64635.student.cwru.edu
In article <1993Apr6.041343.24997@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:
>The point has been raised and has been answered. Roger and I have
>clearly stated our support of the BSA position on the issue;
>specifically, that homosexual behavior constitutes a violation of
>the Scout Oath (specifically, the promise to live "morally straight").
Please define "morally straight".
And, don't even try saying that "straight", as it is used here,
implies only hetersexual behavior. [ eg: "straight" as in the slang word
opposite to "gay" ]
This is alot like "family values". Everyone is talking about them,
but misteriously, no one knows what they are.
---
"One thing that relates is among Navy men that get tatoos that
say "Mom", because of the love of their mom. It makes for more
virile men."
Bobby Mozumder ( snm6394@ultb.isc.rit.edu )
April 4, 1993
The one TRUE Muslim left in the world.
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8845 | From: will@futon.webo.dg.com (Will Taber)
Subject: [soc.religion.christian] Re: The arrogance of Christians
Lines: 50
In a previous message aa888@freenet.carleton.ca (Mark Baker) writes:
>If I don't think my belief is right and everyone else's belief is wrong,
>then I don't have a belief. This is simply what belief means.
[More stuff deleted]
This seems to be a pretty arogant definition of belief. My beliefs
are those things which I find to be true based on my experience of the
world. This experience includes study of things that I may not have
experienced directly. But even then, I can only understand the
studies to the extent to which I can relate what I study back to what
I have experienced.
Which means that by beliefs about God are directly related to my
experience of God. Having experienced God, I try to make sense of
that experience. I study religion and read the Bible. I find things
that echo what I have already experienced. Out of this I build my
beliefs. I also find things that don't match my experience. That
doesn't make them false. They just don't match my experience. Maybe
I will understand that stuff later. I don't know. Maybe all of my
beliefs are wrong. I can change my beliefs.
If someone else has beliefs that are different from mine, so what.
Neither of us are necessarily wrong. Someone else is making sense out
of a different set of experiences. Even though we have different
explanations and beliefs, if we talk we might even discover that the
underlying experiences are similar.
Some people approach religion as a truth that can only exist in one
form, and usually has a single revelation. The more dogmatic and
inflexible the belief system, the more arrogant it will appear to an
outsider. There is another approach possible, however. God is a
mystery. I am trying to solve the mystery, so I look at the evidence
available to me. I try to arrive at the best understanding that I can
based on the evidence. New evidence may cause me to change my
understanding. When I encounter someone with a different belief than
my own, it isn't a threat, it is an opportunity to perhaps discover
something new about this mystery I can never fully comprehend.
Peace
Will Taber
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8846 | From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Subject: Re: text of White House announcement and Q&As on clipper chip encryption
Organization: Computing Research Lab
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Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: lole.nmsu.edu
In-reply-to: clipper@csrc.ncsl.nist.gov's message of Fri, 16 Apr 1993 15:19:06 GMT
nobody seems to have noticed that the clipper chip *must* have been
under development for considerably longer than the 3 months that
clinton has been president. this is not something that choosing
choosing bush over clinton would have changed in the slightest; it has
been in the works for some time.
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8847 | From: ptg2351@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Panos Tamamidis )
Subject: Re: Turkey-Cyprus-Bosnia-Serbia-Greece (Armenia-Azeris)
Article-I.D.: news.C5Jowp.KJG
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 58
<FINAID2@auvm.american.edu> writes:
> Mr. Tamamidis:
>Before repling your claims, I suggest you be kind to individuals
>who are trying to make some points abouts human rights, discriminations,
>and unequal treatment of Turkish minority in GREECE.I want the World
>know how bad you treat these people. You will deny anything I say but
>It does not make any difrence because I will write things that I saw with
>my eyes.You prove yourself prejudice by saying free insurance, school
>etc. Do you Greeks only give these things to Turkish minority or
>everybody has rights to get them.Your words even discriminate
>these people. You think that you are giving big favor to these
>people by giving these thing that in reality they get nothing.
No. I do not thing we are doing them a favor. I have simply stated that
they are not treated as a second class citizens. That was my point.
I fail to see how my words show discrimination. And what do you mean that
they do not get nothing? Is, for example, helth insurance, food, and tuition
nothing?
>If you do not know unhuman practices that are being conducted
>by the Government of the Greece, I suggest that you investigate
>to see the facts. Then, we can discuss about the most basic
>human rights like fredom of religion, fredom of press of Turkish
>minority, ethnic cleansing of all Turks in Greece,fredom of
>right to have property without government intervention,
>fredom of right to vote to choose your community leaders,
>how Greek Government encourages people to destroy
>religious places, houses, farms, schools for Turkish minority then
>forcing them to go to turkey without anything with them.
I'm sorry, but I cannot see any logical order in the above argument.
>Before I conclude my writing, let me point out how Greeks are
>treated in Turkey. We do not consider them Greek minority, instead
>we consider a part of our society.
What part exactly is this one? The people cannot even sell their property
if they want to leave Turkey. The patriarch could not get a permision to
renovate some buildings for decades; it needed a special agreement between
the two goverments for this. Talk about a part of the society? Why has the
size of the Greek community reduced to 1,500 old people and priests then?
>There is no difference among people in Turkey.
Yeah, you bet.
>All big businesses
>belong to Greeks in Turkey and we are proud to have them.unlike the
>Greece which tries to destroy Turkish minority, We encourage all
>minorities in Turkey to be a part of Turkish society.
You are far off from the reality.
>Aykut Atalay Atakan
Panos Tamamidis
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8848 | From: fierkelab@bchm.biochem.duke.edu (Eric Roush)
Subject: Re: Young Catchers
Article-I.D.: news.12799
Organization: Biochemistry
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Nntp-Posting-Host: bruchner.biochem.duke.edu
Since I was the one responsible for these divergent threads of
approx. 40+ posts (going back to: The Braves could be better off
if an injury happens), I may as well inject a little more
fuel to the flame!
1) Back at the beginning of Spring Training, I though
Lopez would make the squad easily. Olson was still
recovering from his late-season injury (knee, I believe),
and there were questions as to whether he would be
able to play before June. And then Berryhill was dinged up.
I was looking forward to this, because I believe that Lopez
can hit AND field the position. Before last season, he was
the Braves "Defensive Catcher" prospect, while Brian Deak was
the Braves "Offensive Catcher" prospect. Besides, Olson
and Berryhill couldn't hit their way out of a wet cardboard
box, and don't walk enough to be useful.
But Olson recovered quickly, Berryhill recovered, and the Braves went
with the two vets. I still say that if one of those two had been down
at the start of the season, he wouldn't have gotten his job back.
2) There is a certain logic to keeping Olson and Berryhill around.
After all, ML catchers are in short supply and suffer from wear and
tear. There are teams out there without ONE average ML catcher
(California and Seattle come to mind). Certainly, trying to
move Olson or Berryhill through waivers would be unlikely to work.
Plus, you'd have to eat that salary, which isn't huge, but isn't
tiddleywinks either (I think Olson's at about $800,000, Berryhill
at $450,000, but that's only what I recall).
3) Yes, I think arbitration-eligibility may have a role to
play in this also. What is it, that 5/6 of the 2+year players
aren't eligible for arbitration? Only the 1/6 that were on the roster
the longest are eligible? Of course, the system may change,
but the extent of that change is not yet known. From a business
standpoint, it may make sense to keep Lopez down until June/the
first time Olson/Berryhill go on the DL.
4) I am still disappointed that Lopez isn't on the team.
I still prefer to think of myself as a fan when it comes to the Braves,
and the truth is that I'd rather see our best team on the field,
which, IMO, includes Lopez.
Of course,today we play the Cubs. Hopefully, we won't need him. ;)
As for the Schuerholz/Cox conversation, I imagine it went
like this: (Remember, they've BOTH been GM's)
(the following is not meant to be read by the humor-impaired)
Cox: OK, we've sent Jones down. His fielding could be a
little smoother. Besides, Blauser can hit OK and his fielding
is better than it used to be.
Schuerholz: Well, we'll have to send Nieves down too. Deion
just won't sign that baseball only contract. We can't count
on him in October, so we have to keep Nixon around for the
defense. Besides, Gorman's not ready to give up on
Billy Hatcher yet. Once Hatcher's gone AND Deion signs,
we can move Nixon for Frankie Rodriguez. That ought to
give us some pitching depth in 1995.
Cox: Yep, that'll be nice. Too bad Deion won't sign.
OK, I'll look for Nieves when Justice starts having
Berry-Berry...er, back problems again. Now, what about
Klesko?
Schuerholz: Well, we've still got to fork out another 1.5 mil
for Bream. If we keep Klesko, we either lose the money
or Cabrera. I keep dangling Sid in front of Dal Maxwell,
but somehow he doesn't seem to be the same GM. First
Jeffries for Jose, and now Whiten for Clark! If he
gets rid of Brian Jordan, then I'd HAVE to believe that he
and Whitey Herzog switched bodies at the Winter Meetings!
Cox: OK, keep trying on Bream, and I'll wait til the trading
deadline for my Hunter/Klesko platoon. Maybe I can get a few
extra at-bats for Cabrera while we wait. Try California...
if Snow starts slowly, maybe WhiteyDal will bite on Sid.
And if that doesn't work, then perhaps Sid's knees
could be "persuaded" to act up. There's always the
15-day DL! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Schuerholz: What about Caraballo?
Cox: Well, he's not that much better than Lemke. Maybe if he starts
in Richmond, he'll start walking more. Besides, if he's going to be
arbitration-eligible, better to stretch him out so that we actually
get some value from him before he makes the big bucks.
Schuerholz: Now, let's see. That leaves Lopez.
Cox: NOOOOO! I gotta keep Lopez! Sure, I didn't think Olson
would recover this quickly. Maybe I can talk Caminiti into
running into him again?
Schuerholz: Nope, Lopez has gotta go. You know that he'll get
$3 million in arbitration. May as well put it off that one
extra year. Besides, until Olson's shown his stuff a little
bit, I can't trade him. Besides, Berryhill's a left-handed
hitter. You know how rare that is?
Cox: Don't you mean a left-handed whiffer? Pretty common,
if you ask me. I mean, he made Pat Borders look good in
the World Series. PAT BORDERS!!!
Schuerholz: Hey, you're the one who wouldn't write Lopez
into the lineup.
Cox: Well, you're the one who went out and got me Jeff
Reardon! Besides, I thought Lopez wouldn't be used
to our pitching staff's stuff. He got some time with
them this spring...looked pretty good. Come on, surely
we only need to keep one stiff behind the plate?
Schuerholz: Yeah, but which stiff? Whichever one we keep
will be hurt by May.
Cox: OK, OK, you made your point. Keep them both. Surely
one of them will be on the DL by June at the latest. Then I
can call up Lopez, and then we can win 110 games! The Pennant!
THE WORLD SERIES! I'll be up there with John McGraw! Casey
Stengel! Earl Weaver! Oh, they laughed at me in Toronto,
but have you ever had to deal with George Bell? I'll finally
get my just reward! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
Schuerholz: Easy, Bobby. Have you been taking those
"happy pills" left around by Chuck Tanner? Why'd you
ever hire that guy anyhow?
Cox: Don't ask me; ask Ted.
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Eric Roush fierkelab@ bchm.biochem.duke.edu
"I am a Marxist, of the Groucho sort"
Grafitti, Paris, 1968
TANSTAAFL! (although the Internet comes close.)
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8849 | From: sharma@tiger.vill.edu (Sanjeev Sharma)
Subject: Positioning a window, under openlook.
Keywords: Windows, openlook.
Organization: Villanova University
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Originator: sharma@tiger.vill.edu
Hi there netters,
I require a window to appear at a co-ordinates (0,0) (top left corner) of my
screen (root window). Could some windows guru out there help me on how to
go about doing this. I write the whole program which creates the window with
the image it displays - I require the image to appear at the top-left corner
so that I can grab it for recording on to video, using a MIniVas controller,
which expects the window at the same spot every time.
Thanks in advance.
sincerely,
Sanjeev Sharma
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Office: e_mail:
Deptt. of Computing Science sharma@monet.vill.edu
Villanova University (215)645-6463
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8850 | From: slegge@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Trade rumor: Montreal/Ottawa/Phillie
Lines: 20
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
TSN Sportsdesk just reported that the OTTAWA SUN has reported that
Montreal will send 4 players + $15 million including Vin Damphousse
and Brian Bellows to Phillidelphia, Phillie will send Eric Lindros
to Ottawa, and Ottawa will give it's first round pick to Montreal.
If this is true, it will most likely depend on whether or not Ottawa
gets to choose 1st overall. Can Ottawa afford Lindros' salary?
Personally, I can't see Philli giving up Lindros -- for anything.
They didn't give away that much to Quebec just to trade him away
again. Not to mention that Lindros seems to be a *huge* draw in
Phillie -- and that he represents a successful future for the
franchise.
Ottawa may be better off taking the 4 players +$15 from Montreal
for the pick.
Stephen Legge
SLEGGE@kean.ucs.munc.ca
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8851 | From: MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@rockwell.com ("RWTMS2::MUNIZB")
Subject: Long Island (was Why use AC at 20kHz for SSF power)
X-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest
Organization: [via International Space University]
Original-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU
Distribution: sci
Lines: 21
on Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 23:19:46 GMT, Edmund Hack <arabia!hack> writes:
/In article <1pgdno$3t1@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
/>
/>I always thought GD's Fighter plants were in Long Island.
/>
/No, Northrup has a plant on Long Island.
I don't think Northrup ever had a plant on Long Island. The two main airframe
manufacturers there were (Fairchild)/Republic which closed its doors after the
T-46 cancellation, and Grumman (which is still hanging on last I time I called).
I think Sperry also started there. If you're ever in the area check out the
Cradle of Aviation Museum at Mitchell field (now mostly parking lots behind the
Nassau Coliseum and the community college). Good display of vehicles from Long
Island, including a LEM flight article.
Disclaimer: Opinions stated are solely my own (unless I change my mind).
Ben Muniz MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com w(818)586-3578
Space Station Freedom:Rocketdyne/Rockwell:Structural Loads and Dynamics
"Man will not fly for fifty years": Wilbur to Orville Wright, 1901
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8852 | From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus for windows problems....
Lines: 24
Nntp-Posting-Host: pittpa.cray.com
Organization: Cray Research Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Robert J. Niland (rjn@teal.csn.org) wrote:
[Much text deleted]
: I have heard from several people about less expensive m-f I/O cards
: with 16550s:
: TSD Systems
: (407) 331-9130
: $19.95 for the card, plus $9.95 per 16550.
I can vouch for this one. I ordered it and got it for $34 including
S&H. It took me awhile to figure out how to get it working with my
system, but since I did, I get terrific results while downloading
using PCPlus for Windows. I used to get errors if I started any other
program while downloading at high speed. Not anymore.
[More text deleted]
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huot@cray.com
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8853 | From: bbenowit@telesciences.com (Barry D Benowitz)
Subject: Re: eye dominance
In-Reply-To: rsilver@world.std.com's message of Mon, 12 Apr 1993 21:02:31 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: kyanite
Organization: Telesciences CO Systems, Inc.
Lines: 24
In article <C5E2G7.877@world.std.com> rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:
> Is there a right-eye dominance (eyedness?) as there is an
> overall right-handedness in the population? I mean do most
> people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the
> other? If so, what kinds of percentages can be attached to this?
> Thanks.
Yes, there is such a thing as eye dominance, although I am not sure if
this dominance refers to perscription strength.
As i recall, if you selectively close your dominant eye, you will percieve
that the image shifts. This will not happen if you close your other eye.
I believe that which eye is dominant is related to handedness, but I
can't recall the relation at the moment.
--
Barry D. Benowitz
EMail: bbenowit@telesciences.com (...!pyrnj!telesci!bbenowit)
Phone: +1 609 866 1000 x354
Snail: Telesciences CO Systems, 351 New Albany Rd, Moorestown, NJ, 08057-1177
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8854 | From: gajarsky@pilot.njin.net (Bob Gajarsky - Hobokenite)
Subject: Re: quick way to tell if your local beat writer is dumb.
Article-I.D.: pilot.Apr.6.00.33.22.1993.26417
Distribution: na
Organization: Somewhere in Hoboken
Lines: 7
ok - sorry about that...i didn't realise he was being sarcastic about
those sort of things.
but i'll tell you, mike lupica (daily news) usually says some pretty
funny things in his "shooting from the lip" columns...
- bob gaj
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8855 | From: dyoung@ecst.csuchico.edu (Douglas Young)
Subject: Re: To be, or Not to be [ a Disaster ]
Distribution: na
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <philC5Ls4A.MEA@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
>In article <612@vega.iii.com> rhockins@enrico.tmc.edu (Russ) writes:
> >In article <philC5Ht85.H48@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil
> >Ronzone) writes:
> >
> >>Not at all. You are apparently just another member of the
> >>Religious Left.
> >>
> >Not at all. I am not a member of the Religious Left, Right,
> >or even Center. In fact I don't consider myself very
> >religious at all [ this will probably result in flames now :)
> >]. In fact Phil, you should leave religion out of it. It just
> >clouds the issue.
>
>The religous left worships trees, rivers, the planet, and hates people.
And the religious right worships engines, smokestacks, landfills,
and hates people.
What does this name-calling have to do with anything you are claiming about
the truth of environmental disaster? Nothing that I have read in this
thread, nor heard from anyone I have talked to, would suggest to me that
people fit the definition you give of the religious left. Come off it, Phil.
A prime motivation for protecting our environment is so that we,
people, can continue to live in it healthily. We just disagree on what
is necessary to maintaining a healthy environment FOR PEOPLE.
> >>Show me all these environmental "disasters". Most of them
> >>aren't. And the natural disasters we have had individually
> >>far outweigh the man-made ones.
[Russ's response deleted to save space]
>I guess you missed the newspaper articles this week about Exxon presenting
>evidnce (through the ASTM) on the issue of the Valdez incident. Seems
>that Valdez is mostly recovered, despite the Religious Left's cries of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>"hundreds of years".
What!? They have already repaired that old hulk!!!? WOW!!! ;-)
I suppose you *mean* the Alaskan shores that were devastated by the
Valdez accident? I haven't seen the articles. What do they say exactly?
Has [mostly] all the ocean and shore life returned? The sands are [mostly]
as clean as they were before? The microbial samples are [mostly] back to
a normal balance? The fish and fowl populations have [mostly] returned? What?
>Then again, the Relgious Left claimed it would take 20 yearsb to put out
>the Kuwait oil fires...
[...]
> You should face the facts. Love Canal
>was not, and is not, an environmental disaster, nor even a problem.
>
>Nor is Times Beach and TMI and acid rain killing trees and ....
Not a problem? Would you move to Three Mile Island? I would imagine
there is some cheap property available!
The naturally occurring catastrophic events [disasters] that destroy
property (ie: hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes) do not usually leave
toxic wastes that prevent people from re-building their lives there.
The man-made disasters (oil spills, toxic dumping, radioactive waste
dispersions) cause death and make an area unliveable far beyond the
initial event.
>--
>There are actually people that STILL believe Love Canal was some kind of
>environmental disaster. Weird, eh?
>
>These opinions are MINE, and you can't have 'em! (But I'll rent 'em cheap ...)
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8856 | From: dcr@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Derek C. Richardson)
Subject: Re: Animation with XPutImage()?
Nntp-Posting-Host: ioas09.ast.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: dcr@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk
Organization: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
Lines: 50
In article 4867@mlb.semi.harris.com, jmartin@egret.imagesRus (John Martin) writes:
> Animation is most frequently done by copying the the client resident XImages into
> server resident Pixmap(s) using XPutImage. Once this is done, the original XImages
> can be deleted and the animation loop can be performed using XCopyArea from the Pixmaps to the windows drawable.
>
> Hope this is helpfull.
>
> John
>
I just implemented this and it seems I can just about achieve the display
rates (20 400x400x8 frames / sec on IPX) that I get with Sunview, though
it's a bit "choppy" at times. Also, loading the data, making an XImage,
then XPut'ing it into a pixmap is a bit cumbersome, so the animation is
slower to load than with Sunview. Is there a better way to load in the
data?
rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch) writes:
> If you need speed, and your client can run on the same host as the X server,
> you should use the shared memory extension to the sample X server (MIT-SHM).
> xdpyinfo will tell you if your server has this extension. This is certainly
> available with the sample MIT X server running under SunOS.
> A word of warning: make sure your kernel is configured to support shared
> memory. And another word of warning: OpenWindows is slower than the MIT
> server.
> I have written an imaging tool (using XView for the GUI, by the way) which
> yields over 10 frames per second for 512*512*8 bit images, running on a Sparc
> IPC (half the cpu grunt of an IPX). This has proved quite sufficient for
> animations.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Gooch....
Shared memory PutImage (also mentioned by nkissebe@delphi.beckman.uiuc.edu,
Nick Kisseberth) looks interesting, but I need someone to point me to some
documentation. Is this method likely to give better results than server-
resident pixmaps? I'd also be interested in looking at the XView code
mentioned above...
Thanks for the help so far. If I get something decent put together, I'll
definitely post it to the Net.
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| Institute of Astronomy | Fax: (0223) 337523 |
| Cambridge, U.K. | |
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8857 | From: wstuartj@lucky.ecn.purdue.edu (W Stuart Jones)
Subject: Adding VRAM to Quadra 800 ?
Summary: How many 512k VRAM simms do I need to add to the Quadra 800?
Keywords: VRAM Quadra 800
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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I want to go from 512K to 1M VRAM on my Quadra 800. How many 512K SIMMS do I
need to buy? Is the current 512K soldered on the board or do I need to take
out the current VRAM before I add more?
Thanks,
Wesley Stuart Jones
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8858 | From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: Cause of mental retardation?
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
Lines: 35
In article <1993Apr13.111834.1@cc.uvcc.edu> harrisji@cc.uvcc.edu writes:
>
>Chromosome studies have shown no abnormalities. Enzyme studies and
>urine analyses have not turned up anything out of the ordinary.
>MRI images of the brain show scar tissue in the white matter.
>Subsequent MRI analysis has shown that the deterioration of the
>white matter is progressive.
>
>Because neither family has a history of anything like this, and
>because two of our four children are afflicted with the disorder,
>we believe that it is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder of
>some kind. Naturally, we would like to know exactly what the
>disease is so that we may gain some insight into how we can expect
>the disorder to progress in the future. We would also like to be
>able to provide our normal children with some information about
>what they can expect in their own children.
>
It could be one of the leukodystrophies (not adrenal, only
boys get that). Surely you've been to a university pediatric
neurology department. If not that is the next step. Biopsies
might help, especially if peripheral nerves are also affected.
There are so many of these diseases that would fit the symptoms
you gave that more can't be said at this time.
I agree with your surmise that it is an autosomal recessive.
If so, your normal children won't have to worry too much unless
they marry near relatives. Most recessive genes are rare
except in inbred communities (e.g. Lithuanian Jews).
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8859 | From: tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer)
Subject: Re: Best Homeruns
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Lines: 18
In article <1qn6tqINNmnf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
>
>the best home run i have *ever* seen came off, believe it or not,
>Roger Clemens (sorry, Val) a couple of years ago. he threw a ball to
>Incaviglia which was literally at Inky's neck, and he absolutely
>hammered the crap out of it. after the swing, Clemens nonchalantly
>motioned for a new ball--he didn't even turn around to look, or
>even get upset. the ball hit the lights in the left-field standard,
>some 70 or so feet about the Green Monster (over 100 feet above the
>ground total!)
>
>truly an amazing shot.
I agree. Home runs off Clemens are always memorable. Kinda like
eclipses and hurricanes. They don't happen very often.
Cheers,
-Valentine
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8860 | From: kde@boi.hp.com (Keith Emmen)
Subject: Re: Biblical Backing of Koresh's 3-02 Tape (Cites enclosed)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4
Lines: 11
xcpslf@oryx.com (stephen l favor) writes:
: : Seems to me Koresh is yet another messenger that got killed
: : for the message he carried. (Which says nothing about the
: : character of the messenger.) I reckon we'll have to find out
: : the rest the hard way.
: :
:
: Koresh was killed because he wanted lots of illegal guns.
I haven't heard of ANY illegal guns being found. He was accused
of not paying taxes on LEGAL guns.
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8861 | From: rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele)
Subject: Re: When are two people married in God's eyes?
Reply-To: rob@ll.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lines: 15
I think it was Lewis who said that in a wedding, it's the principals
that marry each other; the church and the state are present merely as
witnesses.
------------------------------------------------------------
Rob Steele In coming to understand anything
MIT Lincoln Laboratory we are rejecting the facts as they
244 Wood St., M-203 are for us in favour of the facts
Lexington, MA 02173 as they are.
617/981-2575 C.S. Lewis
[This is not just Lewis -- it's a summary of standard Catholic
theology. However this doesn't mean that the presence of those
witnesses is optional, except in odd situations like the standard
desert island. --clh]
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8862 | From: garrett@Ingres.COM
Subject: Re: Losers (Was Re: Stop putting down white het males.)
Summary: Just my $.02
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
Keywords: racism, sexism, mysogyny
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
Lines: 107
In article <1939@tecsun1.tec.army.mil>, riggs@descartes.etl.army.mil (Bill Riggs) writes...
>In article <1993Apr2.180839.14305@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tree of Schnopia) writes:
>>In <1993Apr2.064804.29008@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes:
>>> I don't know what you as a white male did. I do know what white males,
>>>as a class, have done.
>>> They've invented the light bulb, the automobile, the airplane, printing with
>>>movable type, photography, computers, the electric guitar. anasthesia, rocket
>>>powered space flight, the computer, electricity, the telephone, TV, motion
>>>pictures, penecillin(sp), telescopes, nylon, and the X-Ray machine.
>>
>>Two glaring errors here. First, white males don't do anything as a "class."
>>INDIVIDUAL white males invented those things, which means nothing to white
>>males as a whole. Second, you neglected to mention Charles Manson, Hitler,
>>McCarthy, Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, and a whole slew of individuals who
>>have done horrible, evil things. If white males can take the credit for
>>our fellow white males' boons, we must also take the blame for our
>>fellows' blights. I claim we deserve neither credit nor blame for these
>>things.
>
>>White males need to wake up and realize that they're being unfair, yes. But
>>everyone else needs to wake up and realize that being unfair right back is
>>disgusting, racist and sexist.
>>Why can't we learn to treat everyone fairly, without generalizing? What
>>stupidity gene makes this so difficult? "I'd like to buy the world a
>>clue..."
>
> The word that is missing in this whole discourse is not the "B"
>word, or the "H" word, or even the "N" or "W" words. It is the "L" word -
>LOSER !!
>
> That's right. When we boil all the crap out of this argument, it
>is all about WINNING and LOSING, and nothing else. Let me explain.
> In the meantime, there is guilt for winning, maybe a fear that one
>doesn't deserve one's bounty - or success. So there is a "kinder and gentler
>type of politician these days, Bill Clinton, affirmative action, and lots of
>discourse about people who "don't get it". For those of us in the winning
>business, this kind of talk is mildly irritating, but there is still no
>suggestion of losing.
> Who is D-FENS, anyway ? The answer is as plain as the horn rims on
>your face. The guy is MICHAEL DOUGLAS, posing as a LOSER. This
>is known as controversial casting. But that baggy short-sleeved white shirt
>sure does look natural on Mike doesn't it. Gordon Gekko will never look the
>same. (Though Woody always dressed that way.) Did we really expect Gekko to
>take it easy and enjoy that kind of wardrobe, without putting up a fuss ?
> What we are starting to lose sight of is, that bashing D-FENS is
>the same game as bashing that poor African American slug that Clint Eastwood
>used to blow away all the time. As that arch-WASP (male gender) George C. Scott
>declaimed, "Americans traditionally LOVE TO WIN. They love a winner, and will
>not tolerate a loser." And so on.
Since we are talking in theory and opinion, then I'll put in my $.02.
First, a rebuttle. Personally, I love under-dogs. Unlike
bandwagon jumpers, I abandon teams when they start winning. People that
cheer for winners just because they are winners are insecure people who are
afraid to be associated with something negative.
> The political implications are simple. If, as many socialists - and
>Democrats - do, you consider society a finite pie to a apportioned in some
>"equitable" way, then you have to worry about who is a winner and who is a
>loser to tell whose side you are on. That could be black women today, Asian
>homosexuals tommorrow, and yes indeed, white men some yet to be determined
>day when the balance of the pie has finally swung against that (39%)
>minority.
On this one point, I agree. The reason that people bash WASP's is
because they have been on top for a long time. Whoever is on top is
going to oppress whoever is below them so that they can stay on top.
If Hannibal had pushed on to Rome after his victory at Cannae we might
all be bashing the blacks for oppressing us peacefull white people
for all these centuries. I seriously doubt that if the blacks had
conquered the world that they would have treated their colonies any
better/worse than the whites did.
The white race did some unspeakable things to the other races of
the world. But they only did what any other conquering race would have done
(ie. Khan). The real question is, should we carry over that blame to the
present generation who didn't participate in the crimes? Would it do
any good? Has it done Bosnia any good? They are fighting wars that stopped
hundreds, even thousands, of years ago.
My opinion is, if there are inequities now, then let's change
them. But don't blame me for what my ancestors did. It wouldn't settle
anything anyway.
> Either way you go, the way of the Winner is no longer the way to be
>popular - at least after you graduate from High School (but you'll still
>be popular at High School reunions). But it beats being a Nerd, as I
>would imagine Michael Douglas would now agree, and in the long run, it
>is the only way to go.
That's where you are dead wrong. You don't join up on a side just because
they are winning. That makes you spineless. Winning, in high school and
after high school, is still the best way to be popular, but it doesn't make
you right. All the best causes in history were loosing causes (with only
a couple exceptions). Winning only makes a difference to other people, not
to yourself. And what good is the opinions of other people if they only care
how you appear (ie. a Winner).
If you can't beat them, fight them every inch of the way.
>Bill R.
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8863 | From: ip02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Danny Phornprapha)
Subject: I'm getting a car, I need opinions.
Organization: Lehigh University
Lines: 14
I have $30,000 as my budget. I'm looking for a sports or GT car.
What do you think would be the best buy? (I'm looking for specific models)
Thanks,
Danny
--
===============================================================================
= "Hey! You programmers out there! | Danny Phornprapha =
= Please consider this: | ip02@lehigh.edu =
= | =
= Bugs are another endangered earth | LUCC Student Konsultant =
= Species needing your protection. | Work: (215) 758-4141 =
|
8864 | From: stusoft@hardy.u.washington.edu (Stuart Denman)
Subject: Re: 3D2 files - what are they?
Article-I.D.: shelley.1rft1nINNc7s
Organization: University of Washington
Lines: 16
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu
doug@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Doug Parsons) writes:
>I was chaining around in the anonymous ftp world looking for 3D Studio
>meshes and other interesting graphical stuff for the program, and found
>a few files with the extension 3D2. My 3DS v2.01 doesn't know this type
>of file, so what are they?
They are 3D object files for CAD 3D 2.0, a program written by Tom Hudson
for the Atari ST computers. Don't know much more about them except that
they are stored with the points first, then the surfaces are next, and are
made by listing 3 point numbers that make up the triangle surface. Then
there's a header that describes coloring, lighting, etc. Don't know much
more than this, hope this helps.
Stuart Denman
stusoft@u.washington.edu
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8865 | From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro)
Subject: Re: Circular Motif Widgets
In-Reply-To: dev@hollywood.acsc.com's message of 16 Apr 1993 17:16:02 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: spyder.crd.ge.com
Reply-To: montanaro@ausable.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro)
Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 17
If you're willing to do a little work, you can make DrawnButtons do what you
want, more-or-less. One of my colleagues here at GE CRD has done just that
in our internal LYMB system.
We have a matrix transform class that makes it easy to compute a series of
dial positions from a single set of vectors. Each set of vectors is then
drawn into a pixmap. Clicking the button advances the knob's state and
changes to the next pixmap in the sequence.
Using DrawnButtons obviously still constrains you to taking up a rectangular
portion of the parent widget, but that's normally not a big shortcoming. You
can make things look circular enough.
--
Skip (montanaro@crd.ge.com)
"Why can't X be this easy?" -- me, after learning about dlopen()
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8866 | From: kilty@ucrengr (kathleen richards)
Subject: Re: Lyme vaccine
Reply-To: karicha@eis.calstate.edu
Lines: 12
Nntp-Posting-Host: ucrengr
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Jeff,
If you have time to type it in I'd love to have the reference for that
paper! thanks!
--
kathleen richards email: karicha@eis.calstate.edu
~Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!~
-dire straits
|
8867 | From: aliceb@tea4two.Eng.Sun.COM (Alice Taylor)
Subject: accupuncture and AIDS
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Lines: 8
Distribution: world
Reply-To: aliceb@tea4two.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: tea4two
A friend of mine is seeing an acupuncturist and
wants to know if there is any danger of getting
AIDS from the needles.
Thanks,
-alice
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8868 | From: jprzybyl@skidmore.edu (jennifer przybylinski)
Subject: Re: Hell_2: Black Sabbath
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Lines: 14
Hey...
I may be wrong, but wasn't Jeff Fenholt part of Black Sabbath? He's a
MAJOR brother in Christ now. He totally changed his life around, and
he and his wife go on tours singing, witnessing, and spreading the
gospel for Christ. I may be wrong about Black Sabbath, but I know he
was in a similar band if it wasn't that particular group...
HOW GREAT IS TH LOVE THE FATHER HAS LAVISHED ON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE
CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD! AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE! (1 JOHN 3:1)
Grace and peace to all, (I'll see you ALL Someday!)
Jenny
jprzybyl@scott.skidmore.edu
|
8869 | From: tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu
Subject: Death and Taxes (was Why not give $1 billion to...
Article-I.D.: indyvax.1993Apr22.162501.747
Lines: 10
In my first posting on this subject I threw out an idea of how to fund
such a contest without delving to deep into the budget. I mentioned
granting mineral rights to the winner (my actual wording was, "mining
rights.) Somebody pointed out, quite correctly, that such rights are
not anybody's to grant (although I imagine it would be a fait accompli
situation for the winner.) So how about this? Give the winning group
(I can't see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year
moratorium on taxes.
Tom Freebairn
|
8870 | From: cfj@ssd.intel.com (Charlie Johnson)
Subject: Re: LH car order delay
Nntp-Posting-Host: alaska
Organization: Intel Corporation
Lines: 23
In article <1993Apr2.135926.1@skcla.monsanto.com>, mas@skcla.monsanto.com writes:
|> I read an article in the 3/25 Chicago Tribune stating that Chrysler is
|> having problems addressing the demand for the 3.5L engine for it's LH
|> cars. Can anyone post how long they are waiting for an ordered car or
|> how long they have been told they'll have to wait??
|>
|> Thanks!
|>
|> John Mas
|>
|>
|> E-Mail Address :: MAS@SKCLA.MONSANTO.COM
|>
I ordered an Intrepid ES on Jan 25th and haven't seen it yet. I called
a couple of weeks ago and was told 2-3 more weeks. It's probably time
to call again.
--
Charles Johnson
Intel Corporation
Supercomputer Systems Division
MS CO1-01
15201 NW Greenbrier Pkwy
Beaverton, OR 97006 phone: (503)629-7605 email: cfj@ssd.intel.com
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8871 | From: cbray@uafhp..uark.edu (Chris Bray)
Subject: Cassettes for Sale!!! (Update)
Organization: Kansas State University
Lines: 23
NNTP-Posting-Host: uafhp.uark.edu
Summary: Tapes for sale...
Keywords: tapes, sale, sell
Hi there again...
I still have a few tapes left...
As before they are $2.50 each (postage paid).
Multiple orders appreciated, but not necessary...
Package deals welcome...
Thanks...
Chris Bray
Lewis, Huey|Sports
Hooters|Nervous Night
Poison|Look What the Cat Dragged In
Hall & Oates|Big Bam Boom
Ratt|Out of the Cellar
Quiet Riot|Condition Critical
Seger, Bob|Like a Rock
Outfield|Play Deep
Plant, Robert|Shaken n' Stirred
Journey|Raised on Radio
Duran Duran|Duran Duran
Duran Duran|Arena
Duran Duran|Rio
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8872 | From: then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi H Engdahl)
Subject: Re: Telephone on hook/off hok ok circuit ~
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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<laird.734044906@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu>
<1ptolq$p7e@werple.apana.org.au>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lk-hp-11.hut.fi
In-reply-to: petert@zikzak.apana.org.au's message of 7 Apr 1993 05:26:18 GMT
In article <1ptolq$p7e@werple.apana.org.au> petert@zikzak.apana.org.au (Peter T.) writes:
>Since an on-hook line is aprox 48-50V, and off-hook it usually drops below 10V.
>How about an LED in series with a zener say around 30V.
>On-hook = LED on
>Off-hook = LED off.
>Would this work? If anyone tries/tried it, please let me know.
Not recommended. Your circuit would take too much current, when
telephone is on-hook. Telephone company does not like it.
--
Tomi.Engdahl@hut.fi ! LOWERY'S LAW:
then@niksula.hut.fi ! "If it jams - force it. If it breaks,
! it needed replacing anyway."
* This text is provided "as is" without any express or implied warranty *
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8873 | From: zdem0a@hgo7.hou.amoco.com (Donna Martz)
Subject: Re: BRAINDEAD Drivers Who Don't Look Ahead--
Keywords: bad drivers
Organization: Amoco
Distribution: usa
Lines: 53
hhm@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (herschel.h.mayo) writes:
>> >So, I block the would-be passers. Not only for my own good ,
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >but theirs as well even though they are often too stupid to realize it.
>> !!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !!!
>> >As a rule of philosophy, I don't feel particularly sorry when somebody gets
>> >offed by his own stupidity, but It does worry me when some idiot is in a
>> >position to cash in my chips, too.
>> > H.H. Mayo
>>
>> zdem0a@hgo7.hou.amoco.com (Donna Martz) writes:
>> Well, Aren't we just Mr. Altruism himself!! Just what the world needs,
>> another frustrated self appointed traffic cop.
hhm@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (herschel.h.mayo) writes:
>Well, if you want to stick the nose of your car up the ass of a 50 foot semi,
>I suppose it's your neck, however, I'm not going to let you kill me in the
>bargain. If you get frustrated by somebody delaying your inevitable death
>due to less that wise driving practices, then TOUGH!!!
Well, I never wrote that I would act as you described. I stated that I
would not block a would-be passer. I would not block a would-be passer
"for their own good" or for any reason other than I was prevented from
doing so due to the traffic circumstance. I fail to see how deterring a
passer under these circumstance would IN ANY WAY decrease YOUR chances
of being involved in an accident, fatal or otherwise. In fact, I could
imagine how blocking a would-be passer would actually INCREASE your
chances of being "offed" or involved in an accident, especially if
this "passer" is riding your bumper. Intentionally blocking a person
riding your bumper is certainly NOT a "wise driving practice", it
only causes the jam to become more congested.
I don't mess with trucks and I actually watch the road ahead AND the
road behind! If I perceive that I am rapidly closing on a "pack"
of vehicles, I try to avoid getting caught up in situation such as you
decribe. Usually either traffic is just building and I have to deal
with this fact of life, or I wait to a slow passer to complete their
pass and make way for the pack to clear. If someone decides then to
pull up on my bumper, I signal my intention to move to the right, and
do so at the first opportunity (& hope they will open the jam). I
feel this is not only courteous driving, but ALOT safer than the
actions you advocate!!! There are actually many courteous drivers
on the road who do not intentionally impede others.
If someone in front of me seems to be oblivious to the fact that they
are blocking traffic I use my blinker or flash my lights, or, if all
else fails, will briefly speed up /slow down so they MIGHT get the
message that I am a faster vehicle trying to pass. I feel it is never
safe to ride anyone's bumper. IF someone is intentionally blocking
traffic, because they feel that it is civil duty or philosophic duty
or for some unfathomable reason, I feel they deserve, at the very least,
derision. (Sorry this is soooooooo long.)
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8874 | From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
Subject: Re: BRAINDEAD Drivers Who Don't Look Ahead--
Keywords: bad drivers
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa
Lines: 52
In <1993Apr14.230524.9578@ctp.com> bpita@ctp.com (Bob Pitas) writes:
>In article <zdem0a.734707529@hgo7> zdem0a@hgo7.hou.amoco.com (Donna Martz) writes:
>[Stuff Deleted]
>>
>>Excuse me, but I understood what Mr. Smith meant. AND, I have often observed
>>when traffic is "blocked solid", that if a few people yeild to the "moron"
>>who is impatiently riding bumpers, the slug at the front of the pack will
>>miraculously wake up, change lanes, and viola! no more jam. Granted the
>>situation here does not apply to rush hour in a crowded city. But I have
>>observed this situation regularly on your average interstate, six or
>>eight sets of cars, side by side, bunched up in a "pack" with open
>>freeway fore and aft as far as you can see. The people who refuse to
>>yeild as a "point of honor" are just as annoying as the slug in the front.
>I agree that if traffic is all blocked up and you want to pass, you might
>not feel like moving over for someone behind you because you don't want to
>give them that one car-length, when they should just wait like you are.
>BUT, if you're one of those people that just sit's behind the person, and
>doesn't flash them with the high beams, or pull left and flash them, or
>ride their bumper, or otherwise tell them that you *do* in fact want to
>go by, and you're not just drafting them, then get the hell out of the
>way of someone who will! I especially hate it when you flash someone at
>the back of a line and they don't 'pass it on'.
So after I've flashed my lights at the chap in front and he doesn't
'pass it on' (and few if any do), what next? On major highways, 3 or more
lanes in each direction, keeping to the extreme right blocks folks who
are entering. Also, as someone posted in this thread, here in the D.C.
area we have a few left lane exits (sounds like 66). If you wait until
the last minute to get in the left lane you won't, cause these yoyos
won't make room.
We have a particularly bad strech here in Merryland just over the Cabin
John bridge. There are two very long entry ramps which all the hurry-up
yahoos dive into cause they want to get ahead. When we get to the point
where these ramps merge, all hell breaks lose. The result is that traffic
which was moving at 55 on the VA side of the bridge, stalls on t'other
side. If these dingbats had stayed in lane, allowed the folks coming up
the two ramps to merge, we would still be doing 55. Instead we do start-
stop for 4 miles. Dave Barry's idea of a laser equipped car would be
real useful here.
Bob
PS: If you drive the beltway and want to merge, look for a brown Probe
with a silver haired driver, then use your signals - I don't read minds,
but I do try to be courteous. They told me courtesy was contagious, but
I guess the folks around here have had their shots :-/
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8875 | From: lsacks@angelo.amd.com (Larry Sacks)
Subject: Re: Guns GONE. Good Riddance !
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Lines: 29
jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
>You are loosing.
[stuff deleted]
>Avoid situations which encourage criminals. Then you will
>be as safe as possible. Such as it is ...
Really? How do you avoid situations which encourage criminals? I'd
really like to know. Would you, say, prohibit female college
students from riding their bicycles near the university during the
daytime?
Sounds a bit drastic, doesn't it? Especially when the university is
locatd in a nice residential area. A friend of mine was attacked and
nearly raped in just this situation. The police didn't feel she was
in a situation which 'encouraged criminals'.
What do you think? Should we just tell her, that it was her fault
for daring to ride a bicycle in the middle of the day? That she
didn't avoid a situation that encouraged criminals? If that's the
case, then we'd all better put bars on our doors and windows and
pray for a police state to keep us all safe. Crime happens in all
situations - there are no defined areas that criminals avoid.
Larry Sacks
Advanced Micro Devices
lsacks@angelo.amd.com
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8876 | From: arc@cco.caltech.edu (Aaron Ray Clements)
Subject: Re: the usual
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Lines: 41
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu
hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
>The possession of nuclear arms (actually weapons grade fissionables) is
>currently regulated only by market forces. I.e.: To own them you have to
>either make them, buy them or steal them. The only thing that stops you
>is the staggering cost (more than most nations can afford), the fact that
>no one who has them wants to sell to you and the tight security maintained
>on existing stocks. (Just ask Saddam Hussein).
I was under the impression that to obtain fissionable materials (i.e.,
plutonium or reactor/weapons-grade uranium) one was required to obtain
a federal permit to own such materials.
>Given a source of fissionables, you can build a bomb in your garage with
>parts from hardware stores and electronic junk supplies. You might have
>to engage in some shady dealings to get the explosive charge, but that's
>trivial compared to getting the plutonium. The basic information on the
>design was declassified years ago and can be dug out of any technical
>library by a physics grad student.
Actually, why bother looking it up? From the material we covered last
term (in 10 weeks) of Ge/Ch 127 (Nuclear Chemistry), I could *derive*
what it would take to build a bomb. And as far as the explosive charge,
I (as a chemist) could synthesize a variety of explosives from commonly
available chemicals in the garage if I felt like. The electronics
behind the detonator and the shaped charges are a little trickier,
however . . . but not impossible using a few "tricks of the trade."
And if I really wanted to be nasty, I could include a core of
hydrogen and deuterium . . .
Of course, the hardest part is getting the fissionable material
to start with, and living long enough to put a bomb together.
(Plutonium has some *nasty* properties . . .)
>The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
>Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp Laws define crime.
>3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (310) 450-9111, x2483 Police enforce laws.
>Santa Monica, CA 90405 Citizens prevent crime.
aaron
arc@cco.caltech.edu
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8877 | From: ayari@judikael.loria.fr (Ayari Iskander)
Subject: Re: How to beat Pittsburgh!
Organization: Crin - Inria-Lorraine
Lines: 55
In article <1993Apr15.214902.3372@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>, apanjabi@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
|> In article <AfnKOVK00UhB01RDtJ@andrew.cmu.edu>, Robert Angelo Pleshar <rp16+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> > <kfnJYea00Uh_I1VmUs@andrew.cmu.edu>
|> > NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu
|> > In-Reply-To: <kfnJYea00Uh_I1VmUs@andrew.cmu.edu>
|> >
|> > from Anna Matyas:
|> >>>Now if we could just clone Chelios's personality and transplant it
|> >>>into all of the defensemen on the Islanders, Capitals, and Devils...
|> >>>
|> >>>Gerald
|> >>
|> >>In other words, you want to turn them all into assholes so they
|> >>will spend lots of time in the penalty box and get lots of
|> >>misconducts?
|> >>
|> >>And this comes from a Chelios fan...
|> >
|> > Yeah, and also be second in the team in scoring and play about 35
|> > minutes a game and play on the power play and kill penalties and be the
|> > best defenseman in the league. I'd take a whole team of Chelioses if I
|> > could. (That way, when one got a penalty the others could kill it!)
|> >
|> > Ralph
|>
|> >HOW TO BEAT PITTSBURGH???
|>
|> I.Mario Lemieux
|> A.Death
|> 1.Too much Kimo
|> 2.Slash to skull
|> 3.Ask the Rangers (Slashing his wrist????)
|> II.Jaromir Jagr
|> A.Deportation
|> 1.Send him back to whatever Commie country
|> he's from
|> 2.Tell him that Bill Clinton is going too
|> III.Kevin Stevens
|> A.Fighting
|> 1.Call Bob Probert
|> 2.Call Tie Domi
|> 3.Call my grandmother (She'd kick his ass)
|>
Since everybody wants to see Pittsburgh players not playing, the
Stanley cup would be devaluated.
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Email : Iskander.Ayari@loria.fr ou ayari@loria.fr
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8878 | From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: tuberculosis
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
Lines: 26
In article <1993Mar29.181406.11915@iscsvax.uni.edu> klier@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>
>Multiple drug resistance in TB is a relatively new phenomenon, and
>one of the largest contributing factors is that people are no longer
>as scared of TB as they were before antibiotics. (It was roughly as
>feared as HIV is now...)
>
Not that new. 20 years ago, we had drug addicts harboring active TB
that was resistant to everything (in Chicago). The difference now
is that such strains have become virulent. In the old days, such
TB was weak. It didn't spread to other people very easily and just
infected the one person in whom it developed (because of non-compliance
with medications). Non-compliance and development of resistant strains
has been a problem for a very long time. That is why we have like 9
drugs against TB. There is always a need to develop new ones due to
such strains. Now, however, with a virulent resistant strain, we
are in more trouble, and measures to assure compliance may be necessary
even if they entail force.
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8879 | From: jfox@hooksett.East.Sun.COM (John Fox - SunExpress IR)
Subject: Re: Jeep Grand vs. Toyota 4-Runner
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Lines: 54
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jfox@hooksett.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: hooksett.east.sun.com
In article IGw@world.std.com, edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards) writes:
>I am considering buying one of these two vehicles (new).
>I want a fun-to-drive family vehicle that can go through anything.
>The Jeep is very popular, and has the features. All-Wheel-Drive, 4 wheel
>anti-lock, roomy passenger cabin (but limited cargo with an internal spare).
>THe Toyota is an aging design with only part-time 4-wheel and only rear
>anti-lock (and no anti-lock in 4WD!). It also has a very inconvenient
>rear gate, not to mention awkward ingress to the passenger cabin.
>
Any reason you are limited to the two mentioned? They aren't really at
the same point along the SUV spectrum - not to mention price range.
How about the Explorer, Trooper, Blazer, Montero, and if the budget
allows, the Land Cruiser?
Bear in mind that 90% of all SUV's purchased never venture off-road.
Carefully weigh the trade-off between comfort and off-road performance
when choosing one, and realistically decide whether you'll actually
make enough use of the off-road-ability to sacrifice (some of) the
on-road comfort.
John
John
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8880 | From: bob@nntp.crl.com (Bob Ames)
Subject: Re: UNIX PC Software for sale
Organization: CRL Internet Dialup Access (415-389-UNIX login: guest)
Lines: 1
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com
|
8881 | From: ffujita@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Frank Fujita)
Subject: Re: "Choleric" and The Great NT/NF Semantic War.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 6
Also remember that most people map the
sanguine/choleric/melencholic/phlegmatic division onto the extraversion
and neuroticism dimensions (Like Eysenck) and that the MBTI does not
deal with neuroticism (Costa & McCrae).
Frank Fujita
|
8882 | From: msnyder@nmt.edu (Rebecca Snyder)
Subject: public awareness (wasRe: text of White House announcement and Q&As on clipper chip encryption)
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Distribution: na
Lines: 50
In article <2076@rwing.UUCP> pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto) writes:
>I think this is no accident. It comes from the same philosophy that
>the government rules/controls the people, not the people controlling
>the government, that the unconnected citizens are not sophisticated enough
>to know what is best for them, so the government must tell the people
>what they need or do not need ... "we know best...". And the idea that
>that a commoner can defend himself against government eavesdropping
>or unlawful attack is totally unacceptable to people with this outlook.
>
>
>Combine this all with pushing for national identity cards with 'smart
>chips' to encode anything they please (internal passport) under the
>guise of streamlining the State People's Health Care System, and with
>(you can be certain) more jewels yet to come, and one sees an extremely
>ominous trend. So what if "1984" will be ten years late... it still is
>turning out to be an amazingly accurate prophecy... unless a LOT of
>people wake up, and in a hurry.
>
>One should ALWAYS have every red warning light and bell and danger flag
>come up when the government seeks to set itself apart in regard to
>rights, etc. from the unconnected/unprivileged citizen (or should we
>now be saying 'subject' instead?)... Why SHOULDN'T the average person
>have a good, secure system of data security, not dependent on nebulous
>'safeguards' for maintaining that security? Why SHOULDN'T the average
>person be able to defend himself from an agency gone rogue? 0I am sure
>the Feds could break into any data they really wanted to (but it would
>take some WORK), and using the same logic, one should not be allowed to
>have a good safe, unless a duplicate of the key(s) or combination are
>submitted for 'safekeeping' by the government? I don't really see a
>difference, philosophically. Encrypted data sure won't evaporate, not
>with such high-tech tools as a TAPE RECORDER...
>
The average amerikan today seems to think that the government should be
able to eavesdrop on everyone (else). Opinion polls show that most
people belive the Bill of Rights to grant too much freedom to people,
when it is not identified as such (BTW, if anyone knows of a cite for that,
I'd love to have it). Not only does this mean that these people are
willing to give up everyone (else's) rights, they don't even know what
the Bill of Rights actually says.
How can we show the average person (not the average USENET reader) that
people are actually entitiled to these rights? So many people don't
care if the government is taking more and more control of us all, a little
at a time.
If there was some sort of awareness of what the government is trying
to do by a majority of the US population... Just think about what
could be accomplished - but there are so many that trust, unthinkingly,
in whatever the media and government tell them.
|
8883 | From: dcg6759@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
Subject: Quantum SCSI 40mb Hard Drive For Sale
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 30
Hi,
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misc.forsale.computer.mac
misc.forsale.computer.other
misc.forsale.computer.pc-clone
|
8884 | From: bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman)
Subject: More on Center for Anti-Irsael Rhetoric
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Lines: 9
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu
Dear Mr. Davidsson,
You claim that your purpose is to fight racism. But you don't
seem to have any interest in injustice except that which may have
been committed by Israel. The treatment of Jews in Arab nations,
an injustice of staggerring proportions, is an injustice that you
do not seem to care the least bit about. Why not?
|
8885 | From: jbore@cosmos.shearson.com (Joe Bore)
Subject: Re: Need to find out number to a phone line
In-Reply-To: alee@ecs.umass.edu's message of 18 Apr 93 15:04:10 GMT
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Lines: 33
try finding a friend that has caller id, then give him a call...
jb
In article <20756.2bd16dea@ecs.umass.edu> alee@ecs.umass.edu writes:
Path: shearson.com!uupsi!psinntp!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!risky.ecs.umass.edu!umaecs!alee
From: alee@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Date: 18 Apr 93 15:04:10 GMT
Lines: 13
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
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|
8886 | From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: Don't fight Clipper Chip, subvert or replace it !
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lines: 22
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: achates.mit.edu
In article <ygoland.735123994@wright>
ygoland@wright.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester) writes:
>Ignoring for the moment the question of patented processes (such as
>Public Keys), can the government stop me from using an encryption
>process?
Following precedent in other areas, the government is likely to put a tax on
encryption technology. Once the tax is imposed, it becomes a federal matter
and suspicision of an unlicensed cryptographic tool will bring the BATF or
FBI tossing grenades into your house. (The BATF appears to be the logical
agency to enforce such regulations: federal control over alocohol, tobacco,
and firearms is similary based on taxes.)
Look at the FCC: they won't allow sale of any receiever that can receive
bands that are supposed to be private. This has nothing to do with any
desire to prevent harmful interference. If the government can make a radio
receiver illegal what makes you think they won't claim the right to control
encryption?
--
John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
|
8887 | From: yuri@physics.heriot-watt.ac.UK (Yuri Rzhanov)
Subject: XView slider
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 31
NNTP-Posting-Host: enterpoop.mit.edu
To: xpert <xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Hi netters,
I'm using sliders in my XView apps, usually with editable numeric
field. But I seem to have no control over the length of this field.
In some apps it appears long enough to keep several characters,
in some - it cannot keep even the maximum value set by
PANEL_MAX_VALUE!
As I understand, PANEL_VALUE_DISPLAY_LENGTH, which controls
number of characters to be displayed in text items, doesn't
work in the case of slider, despite the fact that <panel.h>
contains the following bit:
/* Panel_multiline_text_item, Panel_numeric_text_item,
* Panel_slider_item and Panel_text_item attributes
*/
PANEL_NOTIFY_LEVEL = PANEL_ATTR(ATTR_ENUM, 152),
PANEL_VALUE_DISPLAY_LENGTH = PANEL_ATTR(ATTR_INT, 182),
which gives a hint that this attribute can be used for sliders.
But 1) setting this attribute gives nothing, and 2) xv_get'ting
this attribute gives warning: Bad attribute, and return value 0.
Can someone share his experience in managing sliders in XView with me,
and clear this problem?
Any help is very much appreciated.
Yuri
yuri@uk.ac.hw.phy
|
8888 | From: pierson@phakt.usc.edu (Harry Pierson)
Subject: Embedded TrueType Fonts
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Lines: 16
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu
OK...I've heard rumors about this...I might have even seen it in a few places.
And I'd like some info...Is it possible to embed fonts in a document (Like
Write, Word, or Ami Pro?) so the file can be printed on another machine that
doesn't have the font? If possible, how is it done?
I'm sorry if this is a faq...I couldn't find a faq list...I would also
apreciate knowing where that is...if a windows faq exsists.
Thanks in advance
--
===============================================================================
Harry Pierson | "Come and be with me, Live my twisted dream
The Audio Mercenary | Pro devoted pledge, Time for primal concrete sledge"
pierson@usc.edu | -Pantera
|
8889 | From: tclock@orion.oac.uci.edu (Tim Clock)
Subject: Re: Go Hizbollah II!
Nntp-Posting-Host: orion.oac.uci.edu
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Lines: 26
In article <Apr26.175327.86241@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> bh437292@lance.colostate.edu writes:
>In article <1993Apr24.202201.1@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>, ifaz706@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Noam Tractinsky) writes:
>|> Paraphrasing a bit, with every rocket that
>|> the Hizbollah fires on the Galilee, they justify Israel's
>|> holding to the security zone.
>|>
>|> Noam
>
>
>
>I only want to say that I agree with Noam on this point
>and I hope that all sides stop targeting civilians.
>
>Basil
>
Absolutely. I'm sure that civilians on both sides would be pleased
if the fighters (military, guerilla, whatever) would just take their
argument elsewhere, find an unpopulated area somewhere, and slug it out.
At that point, we will all breath a sigh of relief *and* cheer for
our side in the struggle.
--
Tim Clock Ph.D./Graduate student
UCI tel#: 714,8565361 Department of Politics and Society
fax#: 714,8568441 University of California - Irvine
Home tel#: 714,8563446 Irvine, CA 92717
|
8890 | From: servis@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Brian K Servis)
Subject: Re: Ghostscript for win fonts????
Keywords: ghostscript,fonts
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Lines: 26
servis@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Brian K Servis) writes:
That's me....
>I just downloaded the Windows Ghostscript package(gswin252.zip,gs252ini.zip)
>from ftp. When I load a PS file it says it cant find font and substitutes a
>font called Ugly. It is substituting for basic fonts such as Helv, and Cour.
>I would imagine that these fonts are included in its font library. Is there
>something I am doing wrong or am missing? These Ugly fonts are not very clear
>and well defined, as in sharpness, etc, basically they are ugly! Any advice
>is welcome.
Ok, I realize I have to get the font files from some ftp site. I found them
at cica but I now have another question.....
Are the 24*.zip fonts compatible with gswin252??
>Please email
Brian Servis
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8891 | From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Subject: Re: Thumbs WAY WAY WAY DOWN to ESPN
Keywords: Baseball, goddamn Baseball
Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: PhDs In The Hall
Lines: 36
cdash@moet.cs.colorado.edu (Charles Shub) writes:
>Tuesday, and the isles/caps game is going into overtime.
>what does ESPN do.....
>
>Tom Mees says, "we are obligated to bring you baseball"
We're probably stuck, as Mike Burger pointed out that the baseball
deal was made far in advance of the NHL contract. WABC did the same
thing; they were thankful that the Devils were wiped out by 9:30,
because they had to switch over to Yankees baseball. The proof of
the reasons for this is left to the reader ...
It's too bad, but I wonder if ESPN is stuck with other US local team
coverage for their alternate games? We got NESN's coverage of the
Bruins-Sabres with the Boston homers ... they were awful!!! I've read
that Derek Sanderson is the colour analyst ... I wonder if he spent
his early years after hockey as an intern at PRAVDA before landing
this job? *Everything* had to be twisted into something good to say
about the Bruin(s) involved ... not even Bill Wirtz's shills on SC
Chicago (Pat Foley, Dale Tallon) were this bad. And just to be fair,
SC used to take their feed from ESN (Empire Sports Network), the Sabre
homers and they were horrible too ... but they were spacy.
From the CNN highlights, I hear Chris Cuthbert's voice from the CBC
coverage of the Habs-Nords series. Too bad that we couldn't get it
on ESPN, with all due respect to the Sabres and the Bruins.
Mike Emrick is substituting on the Devils SCNY team for Gary Thorne.
Mike was the original Devils TV play-by-play announcer, by the way.
gld
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Je me souviens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gary L. Dare
> gld@columbia.EDU GO Winnipeg Jets GO!!!
> gld@cunixc.BITNET Selanne + Domi ==> Stanley
|
8892 | From: Mike Diack <mike-d@staff.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Husky Programmer bits req'd
X-Xxdate: Sat, 17 Apr 93 04:10:01 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: dialup-slip-1-90.gw.umn.edu
Organization: persian cat & carpet co.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Lines: 5
Help !! - I'm looking for a ISA driver card and driver software for a
Logical Devices Husky programmer (It aint mush good without these)
can anyone help with either of these items ?
cheers
Mike.
|
8893 | From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: Final Solution for Gaza ?
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
Lines: 31
In article <1483500354@igc.apc.org> Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes:
Other people have commented on most of this swill, I figured
I'd add a few comments of my own.
>The Gaza strip, this tiny area of land with the highest population
>density in the world, has been cut off from the world for weeks.
Hong Kong, and Cairo both have higher population densities.
>The Israeli occupier has decided to punish the whole population of
>Gaza, some 700.000 people, by denying them the right to leave the
>strip and seek work in Israel.
There is no fundamental right to work in another country. And
the closing of the strip is not a punishment, it is a security measure
to stop people from stabbing Israelis.
>The only help given to Gazans by Israeli
>Jews, only dozens of people, is humanitarian assistance.
Dozens minus one, since one of them was stabbed to death a few
days ago.
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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8894 | From: jamal@socrates.umd.edu (Jamal Asi)
Subject: Comics : The complete set of the ad. of Buck Rogers in the 25th century
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Lines: 5
The complete set of the adventures of Buck Rogers is forsale. Make a
REASONABLE offer. Email me back if interested. Thanks.
jamal@socrates.umd.edu
|
8895 | From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
Subject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)
Originator: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com
Nntp-Posting-Host: theseus.unx.sas.com
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Lines: 43
In article <1993Apr15.200344.28013@cs.rochester.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:
|> 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.
I think we agree on much. However the paragraphs above seem to repeat
uncritically the standard Kuhn/Lakatos/Feyerabend view of "progress" and
"rationality" in science. Since I've addressed these issues in this
newsgroup in the not too distant past, I won't go into them again now.
What is wrong with the above observation is that it explicitly gives the
impression (and you may not in fact hold this view) that the common (perhaps
even the "correct") approach for a scientist to follow is to sit around
having flights of fancy and scheming on the basis of his jealousies and
petty hatreds. It further at least implicitly advances the position that
sciences goes "forward" (and it is not clear what this means given the
context in which it occurs) by generating in a completely non-rational
and even random way a plethora of hypotheses and theories that are then
weeded out via the "critical function" of science. (Though why this critical
function should be less subject to the non-rational forces is a mystery.
If experimental design, hypotheses creation, and theory construction are
subject to jealousies and petty hatreds, then this must be equally true
of the application of any "critical function" concerning replication.
This is what leads one (ala Feyerabend) to an "anything goes" view.)
True, the generation part *can* be totally irrational. But typically it is
*not*. Anecdotes concerning instances where a hypothesis seems to have
resulted in some way from a dream or from one's political views simply
do not generalize well to the actual history of science.
--
Gary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]
SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC 27513 / (919) 677-8000
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|
8896 | From: hardwick@panix.com (Paul Hardwick)
Subject: Re: PC Syquest on a Mac??
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Lines: 35
In <1qsk6u$d8l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rcs8@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert C. Sprecher) writes:
>Is it possible, ie via creative cable splicing or whatever, to
>hook a Syquest 44MB removable drive to a Mac?
>Is there any difference with the guts of the drive or is it
>just cable differences?
>Thanks.
Their should be no difference in the drive itself between IBM-PC and Mac.
The two main differences are the formatting of the disk itself (but with
the correct software each can read the others) and maybe the cable
(depends on your SCSI board on IBM-PC).
If you get some Mac softawre to allow mounting of ANY IBM-formatted disk
and the correct cable you should br able to mount and read your IBM-PC
syquest.
good luck,
--Paul
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8897 | From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
Subject: Re: Stephen Hawking Tours JPL
Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA
Lines: 23
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net
Keywords: JPL
In article <23APR199317325771@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
> Using a model of Mars Observer, Albee spent several minutes
>describing the project and the spacecraft's features. In answer
>to a question from Hawking, Chahine described a proposed
>drag-free satellite, but confirmed that at this point, "it's only
>a concept." Chahine, who had met Hawking at Caltech about five
Too bad they didn't give him a tour of the CGRO data?
I think he'd be fascinated by the Gamma ray bursters. The mind of
hawking might even propose a mechanism.
SO what's a drag free satellite? coated with WD-40? carries an
aluminum-gold set of grateful dead albums? inquiring minds
want to know?
And why would MO carry any features for being drag free? I thought
aero-braking was a possible MO experimental activity?
pat
|
8898 | From: smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy)
Subject: Re: Can men get yeast infections?
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: na
Lines: 25
In article <noringC5Fnx2.2v2@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:
>In article Tammy.Vandenboom@launchpad.unc.edu (Tammy Vandenboom) writes:
>
>>Here's a potentially stupid question to possibly the wrong news group, but. .
>>
>>Can men get yeast infections? Spread them? What kind of symptoms?
>>Similar as women's? I have a yeast infection and my husband (who is a
>>natural paranoid on a good day) is sure he's gonna catch it and keeps
>>asking me what it's like. I'm not sure what his symptoms would be. .
>
>The answer is yes and no. I'm sure others on sci.med can expand on this.
>
>Jon
I know from personal experience that men CAN get yeast infections. I
get rather nasty ones from time to time, mostly in the area of the
scrotum and the base of the penis. They're nowhere near as dangerous
for me as for many women, but goddamn does it hurt in the summertime!
Even in the wintertime, when I sweat I get really uncomfy down there. The
best thing I can do to keep it under control is keep my weight down and
keep cool down there. Shorts in 60 degree weather, that kind of thing. And
of course some occasional sun.
Lost Boy
|
8899 | From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: Medication For Parkinsons
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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In article <19621.3049.uupcb@factory.com> jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) writes:
>If you want to throw around names, Drs. Donald Calne, Terry Elizan,
>and Jesse Cedarbaum don't recommend selegiline (not to mention Dr.
>William Landau).
>
Gosh, Jesse is that famous now? He was my intern. Landau not liking
it makes me like it out of spite. (Just kidding, Bill).
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