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Anyone who dies for a "cause" runs the risk of dying for a lie. As for people being able to tell if he was a liar, well, we've had grifters and charlatans since the beginning of civilization. If David Copperfield had been the Messiah, I bet he could have found plenty of believers. Jesus was hardly the first to cl...
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alt.atheism
[...] [...] [...] Try something like 24.2 feet. EdGetACalculator ----- Tommy McGuire mcguire@cs.utexas.edu mcguire@austin.ibm.com
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rec.motorcycles
Yes, Colin... I have to agree with you here... I've put the puck in my own net the same way Smith did... (only once, mind you :-) and it was definitely my fault. It is NOT a common play to play the puck the way that Smith did. Luckily, for me... when I did it... it was only a scrimmage :-)
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rec.sport.hockey
Finally, an objective source. Alomar's a great player, but so is Baerga. Nice to see the objective source cited rather than "my dad's bigger than your dad" posts.
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rec.sport.baseball
I'd like this too... maybe you should post an answer key after a while? Nanci
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alt.atheism
[KK] david Yes? [KK] give it a rest. will you ??? No. [KK] it is increasingly becoming very annoying... Barbarism is rather annoying for you, now isn't it, especially when it comes from from a country, Azerbaijan, that claims Turkey as its number one ally, protector, and mentor!
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talk.politics.mideast
Insurance companies sure seem to go for No-Fault coverage. Since the majority of accidents are the cagers' fault, doesn't this imply that we would have to pay much higher rates under a No-Fault system? With a cars-only system, it seems to make sense on the surface: take the legal costs out of the system. But it look...
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rec.motorcycles
Does anyone have the addresses to any of the following hockey teams located in the Czech/Slovak Republics, Finland, Russia or Sweden? Any information on how to find these addresses would also be appreciated. Aik Assat Brynas Budejovice Chelabinsk Djurgarden Dynamo Eskulap Espoo Farjestad Frolunda HPK HV-71 Hifk Ilves ...
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rec.sport.hockey
Yes, and what about Paul saying: 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: (Ephesians 4:26). Obviously then, we can be angry w/o sinning. Jon ------------------------------------------------ Jon Ogden - jono@mac-ak-24.rtsg.mot.com Motorola Cellular - Advanced Products Division V...
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soc.religion.christian
NEW POSTING, LOWER PRICES!! MAKE OFFERS ON ANYTHING THAT SEEMS INTERESTING!! A company I'm associated with is closing out some inventory and office equipment. Here's what's available: Quan. Item Description Price ea. ******* NEW ADDITIONS!! ******** 1 ...
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misc.forsale
Am I supposed to take that as a compliment or a put down? Just wondering. I do this as a service to the entire baseball world on USENET, especially for those in the East Coast who can't get final scores for West Coast games in their newspapers or late TV newscasts. This is helpful to fans in other countries who either...
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rec.sport.baseball
They did. For $950K.
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rec.sport.baseball
imho, you did the wrong thing. You could have been shot or he could have run over your bike or just beat the shit out of you. Consider that the person is foolish enough to drive like a fool and may very well _act_ like one, too. Just get the heck away from the idiot. IF the driver does something clearly ille...
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rec.motorcycles
Our shop uses a package called CADCore - very good - to scan and subsequently vectorize original maps into digital maps. The problem is that once the raster file is loaded into the CADCore package, a header is added to the .HRF file which makes it unreadable by the supplied converter. We would like to be able to ship s...
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comp.graphics
Good point...also, I wouldn't be surprised that the components they use off-shore are of inferior quality. As long as it was properly designed and robust, premium components are used, it shouldn't matter where it is assembled. An amp that runs hot has no bearing on how it's gonna sound. The amp you have probably is...
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sci.electronics
Boy, Travis.. Were you LUCKY!!.. you went under the new Texas Rangers Stealth Patrol Car! Good thing you slowed down!
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rec.autos
: : Where could I find a description of the JPG file format? Specifically : I need to know where in a JPG file I can find the height and width of : the image, and perhaps even the number of colors being used. : : Any suggestions? : : Peter Try ftp.uu.net, in /graphics/jpeg. --
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comp.graphics
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talk.religion.misc
Don't you GUYS think so? I mean, c'mon! What the heck are women doing even THINKING of getting into baseball. They cause so many problems. Just look at Lisa Olson. Remember that feisty reporter that entered the New England Patriots locker room? She started crying like a LITTLE GIRL! I just don't think women belo...
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rec.sport.baseball
Yes, You bought the WRONG SIMMS.....You need 1X36 or 4X36, which are 72 pin SIMMS.....These are better anyway becuase the send/receive data in 4byte (32bit+4bit parity, one for each byte) Chunks. You will undoubtedly see these SIMMS becoming more widely used in the near future. Jason --
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Just posting to John Cormack. I wanted to tell you that there is a "slight" difference between Speedstar 24 and Speedstar 24X
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comp.graphics
It is very encouraging that a number of people took so interest in my posting.I recieved a couple of letters too,some has debated the statement that events in Bosnia are unprecedented in the history of the modern world.Those who contest this statement present the figures of the World War II.However we must keep in mind...
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talk.politics.mideast
Let me begin by saying I think this is the world's first religion to use the net as its major recruitment medium. Therefore, even if this religion does not take off, its founding members will be very important historically as this method of soliciting membership will eventually become common. The basis of this relig...
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talk.religion.misc
Sun's OpenWindows imake is broken. I suggest installing imake-pure, MIT's X11R5 imake. You can get it from ftp.germany.eu.net in file /pub/X11/misc/imake/imake-pure.tar.Z (117807 Byte). -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute I R B : immer richtig beraten Univ. Dortmund, IRB Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +...
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comp.windows.x
I am looking for any information about the space program. This includes NASA, the shuttles, history, anything! I would like to know if anyone could suggest books, periodicals, even ftp sites for a novice who is interested in the space program.
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sci.space
No, just a little anger. Normally I don't rip people's lips off, except when my candida has overcolonized and I become: "Fungus Man"! :^) Jon -- Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club.
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sci.med
Squeaky BMW riders.
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rec.motorcycles
The host file requires the names that you'll be using in addition to the ip address sucb as 100.0.0.1 name.server.name 100.2.2.1 name.router.name
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
It's the "opening-game effect" maybe. Pros arrive late, nervousness for rookie WC players, and problems to get the lines clicking may make things hard to get it going against these "worse" nations. I'd guess that the better team you face in the opening game, the better it is, since the chances of an upset are grea...
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rec.sport.hockey
Pardon me, a humble atheist, but exactly what is the difference between holding a revealed truth with blind faith as its basis (i.e. regardless of any evidence that you may find to the contrary) as an absolute truth, fully expecting people to believe you and arrogance? They sound like one and the same to ...
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soc.religion.christian
I'm looking for a 1990-91 Kawasaki ZX-6 engine. Just the engine, no intake, exhaust, ignition, etc. Preferably in the central texas area, but we haven't had much luck around here so we'll take whatever we can get. Please reply via mail or call (512) 471-5399 if you have one (or more... really need a spare). Thanx
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rec.motorcycles
As one of the "Clintonites" cited above, I'll try to clarify since this is not a case of Clinton's "dishonesty." (I won't necessarily defend him on other issues.) There were NEVER any specific projects included in the Community Development Block Grant portion of the President's proposal. Congressional Republicans,...
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talk.politics.misc
The answer to both questions is yes. All Scripture is true, being inspired by God. The evidence for this claim has been discussed ad nauseum in this group. Similarly, all truth is absolute. Indeed, a non-absolute truth is a contradiction in terms. When is something absolute? When it is always true. Obviously, ...
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soc.religion.christian
The majority of those who can open their mouths in public perhaps. There seems quite alot of incentive for the British to have control of NI, like using the North Channel and Irish Sea as a waste dump (I was appalled at the dumping I saw in the harbor in Belfast). It is my understanding that quite alot of radioacti...
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alt.atheism
Mac Classic 2 4/40 for sale 1 year old, excellent condition Includes dustcovers, freeware/shareware (including many fonts ) $800.00 email or call 510/947-6987 (SF Bay Area)
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misc.forsale
Could be better caching on the disk. Could be faster coil for seeks. Could be that the disk spins faster so data transfers faster. Could be that data is packed tighter so it transfers faster. Could be a faster SCSI command decoder in the drive. Among other things...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
This is ok in my opinion as long as the stuff *returns to earth*. If this turns out to be true, it's time to get seriously active in terrorism. This is unbelievable! Who do those people think they are, selling every bit that promises to make money? I guess we really deserve being wiped out by uv radiation, folks. "...
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sci.space
The 1941 Lincoln Continental was the first car to sport the "continental kit." The continental kit is not to be confused with ye olde outside mounting bracket; a continental kit is a very specific ornament/storage compartment. (The 1941 Continental has a neat trunk; it looks rather like a laundry hamper, IMHO. :-) ...
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rec.autos
My very favorite ad for such a device is on the back of the latest Damark catalog. Quoting from memory: [Big flashy type] "Dual deck VCR copies any tape -- Even those that are copy protected!*" (And underneath the ad in very small print: *This device is not intended for making illegal copies of copyrighted material...
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sci.electronics
Pair of Polk S4 for sale Brand New never opened $220.00
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misc.forsale
I'd *desparately* prefer it if we didn't rehash the same arguments that went on ad infinitum last time. That's especially true for sci.crypt. For that matter, I've created alt.privacy.clipper, since the traffic is appearing in *many* different groups right now. I'm going to focus here on some technical aspects of th...
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sci.crypt
I think this is mostly the fault of the people who write up the literature and price lists being confused themselves. Since there are two possible processor configurations and one of the them doesn't have an FPU it does seem to be an option, even though it really isn't. Well, then allow me to end your confus...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
I want to achieve an overall throughput rate of around 5 megabytes / sec for very large data transfers. (Around 5 MB.) I have a Quadra 950. I have a NuBus network card that can pump data in to mac memory at 8.5 MB/s. (using block-mode transfers) I have a high-speed disk array (no asynchronous PB calls) that...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
Brent, the Feds turned off the BD's electricity a couple of weeks ago... Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the radio, TV, or newspapers, though. --
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talk.politics.guns
I used to think this way, and not just about X. For example, incorrect English constructs such as "its raining" or "it's window id" annoy me. However, there comes a time when popular usage starts to dictate the way things really are in the world. Indeed, the fact that X won out over NeWS was really down to popular opi...
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comp.windows.x
These people were very silly. Any team that gets to the World Series can win the World Series, and anybody who ever expects a sweep is crazy. If you put the best team in baseball in the Series against the worst team in baseball, the worst team would win at least a game most of the time and very well could win th...
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rec.sport.baseball
Hi, I've got a Multi I/O card (IDE controller + serial/parallel interface) and two floppy drives (5 1/4, 3 1/2) and a Quantum ProDrive 80AT connected to it. I was able to format the hard disk, but I could not boot from it. I can boot from drive A: (which disk drive does not matter) but if I remove the disk from drive A...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
[lots of editing out of previuos posts] Funny about that... my wife (my girlfriend at the time) used to get sick after eating certain foods at various Asian restaurants, and never knew why. She'd go pale, and sweaty and then vomit copiously. A couple of us ventured a connection with MSG, and her response was: ...
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sci.med
From article <1993Apr16.162950.25849@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, by markm@bigfoot.sps.mot.com (Mark Monninger): A couple of months ago I went to a dealership to test drive a car. Afterwards, we sat down to discuss prices. I explained that I wanted a car just like the one I drove, but in a different color. He said he co...
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rec.autos
There are several ways in which one can choose to intrepret any constitutational issue : (a) Original intent (b) Subjectively intrepreted accordiong to political whims of the day. If we use original intent as the basis for intrepreting the constitution, it is clear that the founding fathers intended that th...
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talk.politics.guns
Check with Kyocera America, Inc. 24 Prime Park Way, Suite 150 Natick, MA 01760 They are one of the largest manufacturers of IC packaging in the world. It sounds like you would be a good candidate for wafer probing or at least IC probing to test performance. HP, Cascade Microtech and Tektronix ...
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sci.electronics
Hey folks, on the course to develope a X window application, we encountered a problem. How could I transform a X window bitmap into a postscript files ? Is there any library routines or source code I can call to do the job ?
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comp.windows.x
[reply to ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)] Ron, you're an endless source of misinformation! There ARE no sacral vertebrae. There is a bone called the sacrum at the end of the spine. It is a single, solid bone except in a few patients who have a lumbarized S1 as a normal variant. How do you adjust a solid bone, brea...
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sci.med
I'd love to know how "Jesus only" proponents would answer questions like: -Who is this "Father" Jesus keeps referring to? Why does He call Himself "the Son"? -Why does He pray to the Father, and not to himself? -Why does He emphasize that he does his Father's will, and not his own? If He was doing his own will, w...
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soc.religion.christian
Of course, free trade and slavery don't make much sense together in a phrase anyway. Perhaps Mr. Depken meant, "low import tariffs," but that is quite a bit less than "free trade."
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talk.politics.misc
The one I got only does about 4kb/s in text and 320x200 (VGA/MCGA) mode, which is almost identical to the other W5186 based cards (ATI 68800 does about 6kb/s). This is weird since the Orchid supposedly should be much faster (and I was told by someone that it can do almost 16 kb/s), since the VGA chip is covered by ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
I agree that a fully-loaded SL2 would come close in price to a LOWER-END Ford Taurus. A FULLY-LOADED Taurus, on the other hand, would still be substantially more expensive than even the most glitzy SL2. A fully loaded SL2 would run somewhere around $17,000, while a fully loaded Taurus LX would be somewhere around t...
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rec.autos
When is Apple supposed to start bundlign the new ergonomic ADB Mouse II with all CPUs sold? jas --
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
Th following cd's are for sale. Each cd cost 10$ except otherwise indicated which includes shipping and handling. Achtung baby U2 * Joshua tree U2 ** The immaculate collection Madonna ** $12 Love hurts Cher * Garth brooks Garth brooks * Red h...
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misc.forsale
I'd recommend that you hop on the back of it and cruise - that's a really nice ride, if you choose your route with any care at all. Shouldn't cost more than about $30 in gas, and maybe a night's motel bill... _MelloN_
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rec.motorcycles
The father of a friend of mine is a police officer in West Virginia. Not only is his word as a skilled observer good in court, but his skill as an observer has been tested to be more accurate than the radar gun in some cases . . .. No foolin! He can guess a car's speed to within 2-3mph just by watching it b...
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sci.electronics
Can you aswer me one question? How did you get to be so retarded?
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talk.politics.mideast
I have a quick question regarding the Rockwell Chipset that's`come out relatively recently--It supports v.32, v.32bis, v.42, Group III Fax, and so on... However, I heard there are bugs in the chipset. I know someone that has a ZOOM 14.4 Modem that uses the chipset, and he hasn't had a problem. What's the word on the...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Any advice on HOW to buy a Land Cruiser? My local Toyota dealer says they get two a year, and if I want one I can just get on the waiting list. Forget about a test drive or even kicking the tires. And if they are that rare, I doubt there is much of a parts inventory on hand.
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rec.autos
but what is Saturn's motivation here? they're already selling every car they make, with multiple shifts in the plant. given this, what possible motivation could they have to lower prices? cheers, richard
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rec.autos
I would like advice on how to configure my 486 to accept: - Com1 + Com2 (currently on IRQ 4 and 3) - LPT1 (IRQ7) - Bus Mouse (IRQ5) - Sound Card (no idea what to do - can be set to any) - using IRQ2 for Bus MOuse gobbled up too many cycles, and caused loss of communications with floppy disks, and a few other problem...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
When you have no principles, you can't admit that someone else might, and everyone who acts differently from what you expect can only be a nutcase. -- Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
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talk.politics.guns
"Women are only interested in clothes and shopping" "Whites are imperialist colonial fascists" "Blacks are lazy uneducated scum" "Men are rapists" "Homosexuals support child-molesting" Slogans, my dear Cramer, are not an adequate substitute for thought.
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talk.politics.misc
Being a proud BU alumnus, I'd like to get a list of BU players in the NHL so I can keep an eye on their progress. A lot of Terriers are graduating this year so I hope to see them soon in the NHL. If somebody could post or send me a list, I'd appreciate it. Please note if the player graduated from here or not.
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rec.sport.hockey
Well it looks as if Digi-Key sells a chip with the number ICL232 that does what you want. They are selling it for about $3.50... Hope this helps... Frank -- ************************************************************************** * Customer asked "What's that thing?". * * I...
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sci.electronics
: At the company I worked for previously, I received a file that was des encryped : and the person that had sent it, went on vaction. Rather than wait two weeks : I set up a straight frontal attack with one key at a time. It only took two(2) : days to crack the file. No, I don't have any faith in DES. : A.G. Fun! ...
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sci.crypt
I guess the San Jose Mercury news is wrong then, and if so, why is the DA involved?
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talk.religion.misc
Let's face it, if the words don't get into your noggin in the first place, there's no hope. Now tell us, 'SDPA.ORG', a mouthpiece of the fascist x-Soviet Armenian Government: what was your role in the murder of Orhan Gunduz and Kemal Arikan? How many more Muslims will be slaughtered by 'SDPA.ORG' as publicly decl...
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talk.politics.mideast
Can someone please help me understand the current situation regarding SIMMS? I have a IIsi which I will probably keep for another 2 years. I would like to add more memory, ie go from 5 MB to 17 MB. I know that I will need 4 x 4MB, 80ns or faster SIMMS. Which SIMMS, 30 pin or 72 pin? Would the SIMMS I get today be u...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
One thing is certain, though, its still too cold. After about 40 Hell! This is WARM. I retired my fleece from under the Aerostich last month when the temperature got aboce 40. Try living a couple of years on the dole, so you cant afford any heating. You put the gear on in October, abd you take it off again in May. ...
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rec.motorcycles
Oh yeah, and men just haaaaate to brag about "how many woman they've had."
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talk.politics.misc
I have a problem with icon pixmap. My application has to run under openwindow and motif. I wrote my program in Motif with pixmap and icons. It runs fine under motif/motif window manager and X11R5/mwm. But the icon pixmap does not show up under openwin/olwm and X11R5/olwm. Has anybody got into th...
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comp.windows.x
But I gotta tell ya, If the Hawks can't beat the Blues in a game that IS significant I can't wait to see how the Blues might do against Toronto ;) BTW, if you think that the Hawks deserved to win that game I think you were not watching the same one everyone else was. ROAR'IN LEAF FAN
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rec.sport.hockey
We're considering getting a Ford Explorer XLT with 4WD and we have the following questions (All we would do is go skiing -- no off-roading): 1. With 4WD, do we need the "performance axle" - (limited slip axle). Its purpose is to allow the tires to act independently when the tires are on different terrain. 2. Do we n...
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rec.autos
My impression is that *for advanced work* you will be much better off with German reference works (lexicons, concordances especially). For a first-time encounter, my *personal* preference would be to deal with a textbook written in my native language. But if you know German and are in Germany, pick up all the refer...
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soc.religion.christian
True to a point. If you were to ask a Buddhist atheist... Actually, yes and no, Hell is eternal death. Actually, the way I've had it related to me, it's more of an eternal damnation, where sinners will feel the licking flames of Hell. If I supposedly can feel these flames, I would assume I'm s...
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soc.religion.christian
You've overlooked a fundamental Truth: both headcount and budget of any government agency are monotonic increasing functions. Given that Truth, you need to look for what the agency can do to occupy all those people and spend all that money when crypto is unbreakable. Perhaps they could talk the world's telephone ...
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sci.crypt
(2nd posting of the question that just doesn't seem to get answered) Suppose you have an idle app with a realized and mapped Window that contains Xlib graphics. A button widget, when pressed, will cause a new item to be drawn in the Window. This action clearly should not call XCopyArea() (or equiv) directly; instea...
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comp.windows.x
Can anyone tell me where I might find stereo images of planetary and planetary satellite surfaces? GIFs preferred, but any will do. I'm especially interested in stereos of the surfaces of Phobos, Deimos, Mars and the Moon (in that order). Thanks.
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sci.space
Distribution: usa Reply-To: lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu While I'm on the net bugging everyone, is there such a thing as a chip or chipset to decode Code 39 barcode? I ask for a couple of reasons -- mainly I want a reasonably compact encoding scheme to write information on magstripe cards and Code 39 appears to be about ...
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sci.electronics
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sci.space
condom during wone of the 500 times i had to go over my accident i was asked if i was wearing "protection" my responces was "yes i was wearing a condom"
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rec.motorcycles
Could somebody provide an overview of the proposed systems using the chip? (Ought to see if ATT has a spec sheet) Skipjack sounds like a normal digital encryption algorithm, so the data path will have to be voice --> digitize --> compress --> encrypt Compression will be necessary to fit the data on the wire, unles...
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sci.crypt
I have already called senators, legislators and the Governor demanding that the warrants be unsealed, and that all involved in this atrocity (including the President, Attorney General and Governor) be suspended pending an investigation. I seriously doubt, however, that anything will ever be done. Welcome to Amerika...
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talk.politics.guns
W/r/t performance, converter lockup is purely irrelevant. The lockup only occurs at light throttle settings and serves only to improve MPG. Mind you, a converter clutch does a lovely job of improving MPG, but the additional mechanical advantage of the converter gives you more acceleration (vs. locked converter clu...
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rec.autos
Hello! This isn't of much help! Especially when doing Phigs (PEX) via the libphigs as supplied by MIT, I have much trouble together with PEX-terminals that don't have enough memory! Performing the following: visual.visualid = CopyFromParent; bg_pix = WhitePixel( grafik_display, DefaultScreen( grafik_display ...
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comp.windows.x
It was around 1969 in the Shenandoah Valley near Woodstock, Virginia. Me, my wife, a friend, his wife, and his 2 kids were hiking in a totally desolate mountain area. All of a sudden, large rocks began raining down on us. Looking up, we saw at least 3 punks gleefully letting loose rocks from what was an obvious st...
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talk.politics.guns
Gamepro magazine published pictures a few months ago and Computer Chronicles (a program that is syndicated to public tv stations around the nation) spent several minutes on it when it was shown at CES. It was very impressive what it can do in real time. John Munsch
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comp.graphics
Hello, Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of a PC or MAC implementation of the marching cubes algorithm that will output the individual faces. If there is no such application, might there be some C source code that I could modify to implement the algorithm and get to the individual faces. Thanks in advance ...
1
comp.graphics
Didn't you hear? His address has changed. He can be reached at the following address: dkoresh@branch.davidian.compound.waco.tx.us I think he was last seen posting to alt.messianic. Jim
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alt.atheism
I'm look for current patches for color xterm for X11R5 pl19 ro higher. Could someone please tell me where to get them for e-mail them to me. Thanks.
5
comp.windows.x
I am looking for any information about the Sigma Designs double up board. All I can figure out is that it is a hardware compression board that works with AutoDoubler, but I am not sure about this. Also how much would one cost?
4
comp.sys.mac.hardware
You'll have fun looking for the rear-end gears on an SHO--the Taurus is a front-wheel-drive vehicle... I went back and checked the article again; The SHO Wagon is quicker than the SHO automatic, but significantly slower than the REAL SHO. Why anyone would order an SHO with an automatic transmission is beyond me; if ...
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rec.autos
That's the craziest thing I ever heard. Are you serious? "it doesn't take much work to be moral?" Really? And that's why people discuss morality on a daily basis? Because it's a kind of evolutionary hangover, like your little toe? This must be some novel use of the phrase "based on" with which I am not suffi...
0
alt.atheism
Hello everybody... Are there any ftp-sites with wav-files available??? Frode Kvam :-) -- _______________________________________________________________________________ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _...
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