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Just out of curiousity, how old is Worden? -- _______________________________________________________________________________
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I asked a question a week or so ago about getting more res. on my monitor. I have a Magnavox MagnaScan/17 and am wondering what video cards it supports. ALso, does anybody have Magnavox's EMail ID (if there is one) or maybe a phone number? Please reply by email as I don't read much news. Thanks, Steve --
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
I'm sorry, but He does not! Ever read the FIRST commandment?
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talk.religion.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There is a picture in the May 1993 edition of European Car (although, it may not be on the shelf yet). - prototype has front wheel drive (first front drive for Mercedes since the beginning of WWII) - wheelbase 3.15m - 7 seater - they claim that the price will be about the same as a ...
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rec.autos
In a cell church, the fundamental building block is the "cell group" -- a small group of no more than 15 believers. The small groups are responsible for the ministry of the church: evangelism and discipleship. The emphasis is on relationships, not on programs, and both the evangelism and the discipling are relation...
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soc.religion.christian
: The Selective Service Registration should be abolished. To start with, the : draft is immoral. Whether you agree with that or not, we don't have one now, : and military experts agree that the quality of the armed forces is superior : with a volunteer army than with draftees. Finally, the government has us : on man...
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talk.politics.misc
I'm confused. How is it Hal McRae's fault that he can't win with a team whose best offensive player is Phil Hiatt? I mean, let's be real. Kansas City will have to get outstanding years from their entire staff just to end up near .500; they have less offense than any other team in baseball, even if you count the e...
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rec.sport.baseball
The Red Sox usually have 2 catchers. I don't think they have a backup now, but they used to use Randy Kutcher as a backup catcher, as well as a middle infielder and outfielder. You don't need a good 3rd catcher, just a competent one, so you can afford to lose a little catching ability and pick a player who can be of ...
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rec.sport.baseball
From Denning: the Skipjack encryption algorithm F, an 80-bit family key that is common to all chips N, a 30-bit serial number U, an 80-bit secret key that unlocks all messages encrypted with the chip E[M; K], the encrypted message stream, and E[E[K; U] + N; F], a law enforcement block. Where the...
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sci.crypt
>Thousands? Tens of thousands? Do some arithmetic, please... Skipjack >has 2^80 possible keys. Let's assume a brute-force engine like that >hypothesized for DES: 1 microsecond per trial, 1 million chips. That's >10^12 trials per second, or about 38,000 years for 2^80 trials. Well, >maybe they can...
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sci.crypt
From article <93111.225707PP3903A@auvm.american.edu>, by Paul H. Pimentel <PP3903A@auvm.american.edu>: There is one big difference between Israel and the Arabs, Christians in this respect. Israel allows freedom of religion.
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talk.politics.mideast
And the Commonwealth of Virginia has not exactly butted against the issue on those grounds. The claim is that AS A MATTER OF TRAFFIC SAFETY one is not allowed to have a functioning radar detector on the dashboard while operating a motor vehicle. Yes, the argument is bogus, BUT... it hasn't been successfully chall...
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sci.electronics
Here are the standings after game 1 of each of the divisional semi-finals. (Hey, look who's #4!) I'll try to post the standings after "each game" (i.e. every two days). I managed to recover the email lost up to Saturday night, so all I'm missing is mail that arrived between early Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon...
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rec.sport.hockey
Damn right you can't provide any evidence for it. Rarely are any widespread social phenomenon reducible to such a simple premise. If they were, psychology would be a hard science with roughly the same mathematical soundness as physics. Your premise may well be right. It is much more likely, however, ...
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alt.atheism
REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION This is a request for discussion on the creation of a newsgroup concerning Saab cars. It will allow participaants to exchange information on purchasing, maintaining, repairing, and outfitting Saabs. Group Name: rec.autos.saab Status: Unmoderated Rationale: There may be enough people wi...
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rec.autos
I have 2 new SMC 270E ARCNET cards for sale . They are brand new. $50 each
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Well they don't export anywhere near 50% of their GNP. Mexico's perhaps but not their own. They actually export around the 9-10% mark. Similar to most developed countries actually. Australia exports a larger share of GNP as does the United States (14% I think off hand. Always likely to be out by a factor of 12 or mo...
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sci.space
Auto Logic Panasonic answering machine with dual cassette system. I will include cassettes and AC power adaptor. Excellent condition. Asking $30 with accessories.
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misc.forsale
^^^^^^^^^ Maybe we should ask the 83,103 people who were laid off this January whether or not we're in a recession. That was a figure that was reported in the New York Times. There is no official figure, because the Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped government tracking of layoffs eight mon...
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talk.politics.misc
Interesting. I'd fight the ticket. First off, there's a 50/50 chance the cop won't show up. Secondly, if he does show up, you should point out that he lied (purgered) on the ticket. Why 70+? I beleive that if yo're charged with going more than 15mph that the posted speed it's a more severe ticket. You couldn't ha...
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rec.motorcycles
Being a parent in need of some help, I ask that you bear with me while I describe the situation which plagues me... I am a divorced father. Chance would have it that "my weekend" with my daughter has fallen upon Easter Weekend this year. Although I am Presbyterian, I had married a Catholic woman. We decided that the...
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soc.religion.christian
grady@netcom.com suggests using a common but restricted-distribution private key to allow public key system encrypted postings. In theory that will work fine as long as the privae key remains secure. In practice it would be a good idea to check to see if that would be a violation of some net rule, practice, custom, et...
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sci.crypt
But the interesting comparision is how fast clock-cycle chips you can get - an Alpha is WAY slow at 66 MHz, but blazes at 200 MHz. But the 68040 is (or will soon be) available in 40 MHz version, making it "comparable" to a 486DX2-80 I think you have that one turned around; they have faster clock cycles but less ...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
seningen@maserati.ross.com (Mike Seningen) The funny thing about the digital dash (87 T-bird) with the 85mph speedo limit was that if you pressed the button to convert to kilometers it would read all the way up to 187kph. At this point the stock anemic 302 would get short of breath. This of course was equivalen...
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rec.autos
The only ether I see here is the stuff you must have been breathing before you posted...
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sci.space
Do anyone know about any shading program based on Xlib in the public domain? I need an example about how to allocate correct colormaps for the program. Appreciate the help.
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comp.windows.x
m> The latest news seems to be that Koresh will give himself up once he's m> finished writing a sequel to the Bible. Also, it's the 16th now. Can the Feds get him on tax evasion? I don't remember hearing about him running to the Post Office last night.
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alt.atheism
The best group to keep you informed is the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. I do not know if the UK has a similar organization. The address of the CCFA is CCFA 444 Park Avenue South 11th Floor New York, NY 10016-7374 USA They have a lot of information available and have a number of newsletters. Good L...
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rec.autos
Not necessarily. It could mean that, or it could mean that he just hit a lot better at home than he did on the road (see Frank Thomas' home/road splits in '91 for an example). I would guess that some of Alomar's split is due to the Skydome, but most of it is probably due just to coincidence. There's no way to be su...
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rec.sport.baseball
I simply wish to thank Dave Mielke (dave@bnr.ca) for sharing the tract concerning God's love. It was most welcome to me and a great source of comfort.
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soc.religion.christian
OK will some one out there tell me why / how DOS 5 can read (I havn't tried writing in case it breaks something) the Win/NT NTFS file system. I thought NTFS was supposed to be better than the FAT system
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
Are you trying to say that there were no massacres in Deir Yassin or in Sabra and Shatila? If so then let me tell you some good jokes: There is not and was not any such thing like jewish killing in WWII Palestinians just did what Davidians did for fourty years and more. In fact no one was killed in a...
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talk.politics.mideast
How 'bout some more info on that alleged supernova in M-81? I might just break out the scope for this one. ____________________________________________________ "No sir, I don't like it! "-- Mr. Horse Dan Kelo dkelo@pepvax.pepperdine.edu ____________________________________________________
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sci.space
[] "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??" Ordered mine December 30, got it nine weeks ...
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rec.autos
At the risk of starting the 'my gun is better than yours' flame war, I must disagree. There is no secret in handling a Glock. In fact, it is often chosen (besides its other merits) because it shoots like a revolver does basically. It can limit the training time (read budget $$$) due to the fact there are no 'ext...
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talk.politics.guns
-> >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 t...
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talk.politics.misc
: >: English cars:- : > : >: Rover, Reliant, Morgan, Bristol, Rolls Royce, etc. : > ^^^^^^ : > Talk about Harleys using old technology, these : >Morgan people *really* like to use old technology. : Well, if you want to pick on Morgan, why not attack its ash (wood) : frame or its hand-bent metal skin...
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rec.motorcycles
You forgot the smiley-face. I can't believe this is what they turn out at Berkeley. Tell me you're an aberration.
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sci.med
I can't say for sure with the IIvx -> C650 upgrade, but I wondered the same thing when I ordered my LC -> LC III upgrade. Turns out the "upgrade" is actually an entire CPU minus any disk drives. You pull the floppy and hard drives out of the old one, stick them in the new one, and you've got an LC III. The IIvx -> ...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
Whatabout, Schools, Universities, Rich Individuals (around 250 people in the UK have more than 10 million dollars each). I reecieved mail from people who claimed they might get a person into space for $500 per pound. Send a skinny person into space and split the rest of the money among the ground crew! Agreed. I volu...
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sci.space
Word 2.0c doesn't show the period-centred character to indicate spaces if I use the TTFonts from CorelDraw. Our editors need to be able to see how many spaces are in text but the character displayed is a large hollow box. They overlap each other and characters on each side, which is useless. I believe the character...
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
and and about Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola and what they can teach us. Surely, if we must use pop patent law examples to discuss RC2 and RC4, it would make more sense to consider the case of RC Cola?
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sci.crypt
Exactly. C. S. Lewis has taken a couple of pretty severe hits in this group lately. First somebody was accusing him of being self-righteous and unconvincing. Now we are told that we Christians should be embarrassed by him. (As well as by Josh McDowell, about whom I have no comment, having never read his work.) An...
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soc.religion.christian
Yes, "Clipper" is a trademark of Intergraph. Its the RISC chip used in some of thier workstations. I wonder what Intergraph is going to do to this infringement on thier name sake?
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sci.crypt
-=> Quoting Cire Y. Trehguad to All <=- : >And, while we are on the subject, has a captain ever been traded, : >resigned, or been striped of his title during the season? Any other : >team captain trivia would be appreciated. CYT> ; CYT> : Wasn't Ron Francis captain of the Whalers when he was traded to CYT> : Pi...
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rec.sport.hockey
I hate to admit this but there does seem to be some sort of twisted logic to this approach. It's the bikers against the world and the dogs are just another worthless adversary. So remember to wear at least calf height leather boots, ( in case the dog gets lucky and sinks his teeth into your attacking foot) and go...
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rec.motorcycles
Wow. So that's probably the reason why current assistant coach Drew Ramenda hinted that he won't be back. Thanks for the news, Mikko; can you (or any of our Finnish netters) comment on Tichonov?
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rec.sport.hockey
Well, simply put, drinking is irrelavent. Driving drunk is indefensable and unforgivable. There is a large differnece. But, then, with an attitude like yours, I expect you'll be dead soon. I just hope you don't take a human being out with you.
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rec.motorcycles
*This is what kills me: ******************************************************************************* Speaking of "die hard", that's what I did when I read this, died hard laughing! Toronto, to the Cup finals??? First of all, has anyone on the planet heard of the team from Detroit? Al Morgani (or however you s...
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rec.sport.hockey
According to my TI databook, the pinouts for the TIL311 display are as follows: Pin 1 - LED supply voltage Pin 2 - Latch data input B Pin 3 - Latch data input A Pin 4 - Left decimal point cathode Pin 5 - Latch strobe input Pin 6 - Omitted Pin 7 - Common ground Pin 8 - Blanking input Pin 9 - Omitted Pin 10 ...
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sci.electronics
ok, i have a 486dx50(ISA) w/ Diamond Stealth VRAM 1MB. I was really satisfied w/ its performance in windows. but now more and more games needs higher frame rates in DOS' VGA, especially this new Strike Commander. ;-) this stealth vram can only give me 17.5 fps. ;-( (i use 3dbench). my winmark was 6.35 million, i think....
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
[horror story about FBI ruining a guy's life for the hell of it omitted] So, is this a real story or a work of fiction? How about some sources? When, where, and in what newspaper did you get all this from? Or is it all hypothetical?
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talk.religion.misc
I'd bet the price of the helmet that it's okay...From 6 feet or higher, maybe not. I'd wear the full facer, but then, I'd be *way* more worried about wind blast in the face, and inability to hear police sirens, than the helmet being a little damaged. Well, my next helmet will be, subject to it fitting well, an AG...
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rec.motorcycles
... I tried to respond by email, but all attempts bounced. The condition of the Ctrl key BEFORE you press the mouse button makes no difference whatsoever. You have to be holding the Ctrl key when you RELEASE the mouse button if you want to force a copy operation. Here's a simple experiment. Select a file and begin...
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Anyone familiar with this video card? What chipset does the winjet use - S3? As I am in the market for a VLG video card, what is the best chipset among S3, Cirrus Logic and Tseng Lab (ATI is out of the question - too expensive) ?
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Re: Problems with S3-initialization As described the manual the following steps must be done for th initialization of the S3 card. InitDisplay; (*BIOS-Call with AX-Reg = 4F02H with BX-Reg = 105H for 1024 x 768 x 256 resolution Interrupt 10H *) Unlock Register Lock 1 (CR38) (* For access to S3 Register Set *) ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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comp.windows.x
What do you mean "more comfortable putting it up to." That seems a bit hard to evaluate. At least for me it is. Stare straight Point with both hands together and clasp so that only the pointer fingers are pointing straight forward to a a spot on the wall about eight feet away. First stare at the spot with both...
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sci.med
I too would like a 3D graphics library! How much do C libraries cost anyway? Can you get the tools used by, say, RenderMan, and can you get them at a reasonable cost? Sorry that I don't have any answers, just questions...
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comp.graphics
Ahhh, the classic Truth By Blatant Assertion technique. Too bad it's so demonstrably false. Take a look at Great Britain sometime for a nice history on drug criminalization. The evidence there shows that during periods of time when drugs (such as heroin) were illegal, crime went up and people did die from bad drug...
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talk.politics.misc
This doesn't handle superencrypted traffic. If the clipper doesn't impose any unfortunate performance side-effects there's no reason not to use it to superencrypt a stream of triple-DES encrypted traffic. That way your traffic looks "normal" and perhaps anyone desiring to listen in won't even bother, since they know ...
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sci.crypt
>In article <1993Apr19.020359.26996@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) MB> So the MB> 1970 figure seems unlikely to actually be anything but a perijove. JG>Sorry, _perijoves_...I'm not used to talking this language. Couldn't we just say periapsis or...
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sci.space
& Can somebody tell me what all the letter spesifications on motorcycle models & really mean. & Example: What means the C, the B and the R in Honda CBR. - Or the V, S, G, L & and P in Suzuki VS750GLP Honda: a "V" designates a V engine street bike. "VF" for V-4, "VT" for V-twin. "CB" is a street bike with an parall...
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rec.motorcycles
) )That's your mistake. It would be better for the children if the mother )raised the child. ) )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. )Compare that with how homos are raised. Do a study and you will get my )point. ) )...
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alt.atheism
[ ... ] Then it also supports basing such regulations on ignorance. Miller had disappeared, and nobody bothered to present _his_ side to the Supreme Court -- in particular, that sawed-off shotguns were used in the World War I trenches, and in other tight spots ever since guns had been invented. Would _you_ turn one ...
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talk.politics.guns
I recently purchased a Diamond Stealth 24 Video card and received the wrong drivers. Does anyone know where I can ftp the proper drivers? The dstlth file at cica does not work with this video card. Please respond to doug@sun.sws.uiuc.edu
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
W.K. Gorman: <3>> Maybe now's the time for us, the NRA, GOA, CCRTKBA, SAF, et al to band <3>> together and buy CNN as *our* voice. Wouldn't that be sumpin....broadcast <3>> the truth for a change and be able to air a favorable pro-gun item or two.. <3>I would like to see this happen. I don't think it will. I don't <3...
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talk.politics.guns
Posting for a friend. Reply to him, not to me. For Sale: Micro Soft DOS v. 5.0 Micro Soft DOS v. 5.0 Release date: 11/11/91 3 1/2" diskettes manual in perfect conditioni best offer accepted (I pay shippinig) Contact Randall at:
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misc.forsale
So where was she? And would she consider staying there? --
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talk.politics.guns
This isn't inherently bad. This isn't really light pollution since it will only be visible shortly before or after dusk (or during the day). (Of course, if night only lasts 2 hours for you, you're probably going to be inconvienenced. But you're inconvienenced anyway in that case). Finally: this isn't the Bro...
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sci.space
Hmm ... Turks sure know how to keep track of deaths, but they seem to lose count around 1.5 million.
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talk.politics.mideast
@>> @>>Has anyone had any experience with GEICO's extended @>>warranty plan. It seems to be slightly less expensive than @>>the normal dealer-sponsored policy. @>> @>and once again....*never* buy extended warranties....they are a complete and @>total ripoff period!!!! you are better off taking your money and putting ...
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rec.autos
I think your experiences under the Bulgarian regime are highly relevant. We have too many people with their heads in the sand saying it cannot happen here, as our Constitutional Rights are being trashed every day because the government justifies doing some end-run around the protections by a 'crisis' requiring 'drasti...
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sci.crypt
I bought a Bernoulli 90pro drive last year after comparing it with lots of diffrent storage solutions, OPTICAL drives are SLOW, very slow compared to 13 to 19ms access of Bernoulli. Since I needed additinol online storage (rather than just a backup or archiev e disk), I choosed Bernoulli drive. I use Adobe Preimere ...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
I am posting this for a friend. Please do not respond to me. Thanks. House for Sale!!!!! 16 Brockton Road, Mercerville, New Jersey Description: Beautiful 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath cape cod located on a large tastefully landscaped corner with fenced in lot. This home features an eat-in kitchen with built-in corner ...
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misc.forsale
For an all out sports car, I'd go for the RX-7 without the sports suspension (which is too stiff.) For a little more practicality and more comfort, the Nissan 300ZX Turbo is a good buy. And for a good dose of luxury, the Lexus SC300 is perfect (with a manual transmission of course.) However, the Toyota Supra is co...
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rec.autos
Version 1.3 of Xew widgets is available at export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/Xew-1.3.tar.Z export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/Xew-1.3.README For better details, check the README. (For extensive details, you have to with Xew-1.1.ps.Z, still haven't had time to update this one). No new functionality has been added since 1.2 vers...
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comp.windows.x
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sci.space
My company has developed an application for the Mac that emulates a chart recorder - virtual pen traces scroll smoothly across the screen. As we tested the application on a number of computers we discovered some surprising performance differences across products. The scroll performance of the IIsi and LCII was better...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
Currently, there is a bill before the Texas legislature that would make it legal for some ordinary folks to carry concealed weapons. I don't have the details, sorry. semper fi,
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talk.politics.guns
A shareware graphics program called Pman has a filter that makes a picture look like a hand drawing. This picture could probably be converted into vector format much easier because it is all lines. (With Corel Trace, etc..)
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comp.graphics
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? Dear Sirs, ? ? ? ? The private agricultural firm "DINA", is breeding pedigree ? ?horse...
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misc.forsale
I would like to share with netters a few points I picked up from the PBS Frontline program regarding Iran's nuclear activities, aired on Tuesday April 13. For the sake of brevity, I'll present them in some separate points. 1- As many other western programs, this program was laid on a bed of misinfo...
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talk.politics.mideast
If this is any surprise to you, *I'm* shocked.
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sci.crypt
Say, you bought your Saturn at $13k, with a dealer profit of $2k. If the dealer profit is $1000, then you would only be paying $12k for the same car. So isn't that saving money? Moreover, if Saturn really does reduce the dealer profit margin by $1000, then their cars will be even better deals. Say, if the price o...
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rec.autos
No, the poster (me) has his brain in the wrong gear. As you can infer from the first sentence, I meant the consequences of no backup are *better* than the consequences of an easy to copy database.
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sci.crypt
Also would maybe get the Russians Involved. After all they do have the resources to do it in part.. But they need the capital and the goal.. I wonder if renting the russians resources would be a disqualification?
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sci.space
I currently use a window manager called ctwm which is very similar to hp's vuewm. (i.e. it has multiple workspaces). Is there a motif based window manager that has this same feature and is not a memory pig like vue? mike
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comp.windows.x
Actually, what I think has become more evident, is that you are determined to flaunt your ignorance at all cost. Jagr did not have a better season than Francis ... to suggest otherwise is an insult to those with a modicum of hockey knowledge. Save your almost maniacal devotion to the almighty plus/minus .....
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rec.sport.hockey
Unless otherwise noted, I am mainly interested in USED items. If you have (any of) the following for sale, please contact me: EMail mbeck@vtssi.vt.edu Phone (703)552-4381 USMail Michael Beck 1200 Progress Street #5500E ...
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misc.forsale
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is this Tony Esposito? If memory serves me correctly, Chicago. God I hope I am right, otherwise I will never hear the end of it. ;-) -- Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!! LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!! kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!
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rec.sport.hockey
In the Bible, there are a lot of instances where God speaks to people, where a person just "came to know" some piece of information, where a person walks off into the desert for "40 days", etc. With all of God's power He certainly can do whatever He wants when He wants it. The Bible "ends" with the book of Revelations...
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soc.religion.christian
3500 miles, black leather tank bra, tank bag, Corbin seat, Metzler 'B' tires. Garaged and pampered. I can't afford to continue paying NYC garage fees for two bikes so one of 'em has to go. Best offer above $4500 takes it.
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rec.motorcycles
[much deleted] amazing. I could not find _one_ reference to waffle in all of this. followups redirected out.
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Oops, sorry, my words, not the words of the Qur'an. Note that "(the celestial bodies)" in the above verse is an interpolation (which is why it is in brackets) -- it is the translator's (incorrect, IMHO) interpretation. Here is Maurice Bucaille's translation (he studied Arabic for his research into the Qur'an and ...
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alt.atheism
I have also heard it called an expression of mercy, because Heaven would be far more agonizing for those who had rejected God.
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soc.religion.christian
Let's see, if Alexander destroyed Tyre, and people move back, and they construct houses, and after a while 14000 people live there and still call it Tyre, it is not considered to be rebuilt. Instead it's considered to be 'just-some-people-that-got-together-for-fishing- and-they-needed-houses' place. Sigh, I was neve...
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talk.religion.misc
I may not be the world's greatest expert on chiggers (a type of mite indigenous to the south), but I certainly have spent a lot of time contemplating the little buggers over the past six years (since we moved to N.C.). Here are some observations gained from painful experience: 1. Reactions to chiggers vary greatly ...
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sci.med