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------------------------------------- + ............The OTIS Project '93 + + "The Operative Term Is STIMULATE" + ------------------------------------- ---this file last updated..4-21-93--- WHAT IS OTIS? OTIS is here for the purpose of distributing original artwork and photographs over the network for pub...
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comp.graphics
am amazed at the number of Harley riders who ARE waving even to a lowly baby ninja. Let's keep up the good attitudes. Brock Yates said in this months Car and Driver he is ready for a war (against those who would rather we all rode busses). We bikers should be too. It's a freedom that we all wanna know and it's an o...
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rec.motorcycles
[Prof. Denning's description of SkipJack mostly omitted] CHIP STRUCTURE The Clipper Chip contains a classified 64-bit block encryption algorithm called "Skipjack." The algorithm uses 80 bit keys (compared with 56 for the DES) and has 32 rounds of scrambling (compared with 16 for the DES). It supports all 4 DES...
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sci.crypt
has no mitigate literature, First, let me offer you my condolences. I've had kidney stones 4 times and I know the pain she is going through. First, it is best that she see a doctor. However, every time I had kidney stones, I saw my doctor and the only thing they did was to prescribe some pain killers and medicati...
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sci.med
ha... all this talk about changing the clock speed of the q700 makes me ask?? if i replaced the 8mhz 68000 in my plus with a 16mhz 68000 with a 16mhz clock occilater of its own( not shared by the rest of the mac... just the new 16mhz68000) would my mac work..... and if it would work.. would you think there where be a...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
# |## |#2. Professors get summers off; industry employees don't. # |## # |## What professor gets the summer off ? The primary purpose of a professor # |## at a university is to publish. Teaching is secondary. The summer # |## is when professors are able to do the research required for their # |## papers. # |# # |#I...
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talk.politics.misc
I'm trying to write some code that lets me draw lines and do rubber-band boxes in Motif/X. I'm running on an 8-bit display for which I've created a colormap and am using almost all of the colors. I want to draw the lines in a drawing area widget -- a widget in which I'm displaying a bitmap using XPutImage(). If does...
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comp.windows.x
I differ with our moderator on this. I thought the whole idea of God coming down to earth to live as one of us "subject to sin and death" (as one of the consecration prayers in the Book of Common Prayer (1979) puts it) was that Jesus was tempted, but did not succumb. If sin is not part of the basic definition of huma...
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soc.religion.christian
-- Hi netland, I thought that I once read about the existance of a virtual mwm like vtwm. On the usual ftp sites (gatakeeper.dec.com, export.lcs.mit.edu) I can't find any trace of this program. Could anybody give me a hint where to find this program or confirm/deny the existance of this program. Regards,
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comp.windows.x
Our group recently bought a Mitsubishi P78U video printer and I could use some help with it. We bought this thing because it (1) has a parallel data input in addition to the usual video signal inputs and (2) claimed to print 256 gray level images. However, the manual that came with it only describes how to format the...
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comp.graphics
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sci.electronics
G'day all, Can anybody point me at a utility which will read/convert/crop/whatnot/ display HDF image files ? I've had a look at the HDF stuff under NCSA and it must take an award for odd directory structure, strange storage approaches and minimalist documentation :-) Part of the problem is that I want to look at lar...
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comp.graphics
Nothing but errors and omissions here!
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sci.crypt
-- Try MetaCard - a HyperCard-like programming environment on X.
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comp.windows.x
Yup. I agree with ya. I think Devils can beat Red Wings easily. SO I think all those who send in their votes should try all these diffrent teams before voting. I think Islanders and Quebec are much better then I had expected. COBRA
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rec.sport.hockey
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. Where does the authority for a belief come from? Nowhere, for a belief is itself authoratative. If I produce authority for a belief, where will I find authority for my belief in the l...
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soc.religion.christian
AH! But what, exactly, is "inherently abhorrent" and WHY is it so? What you're saying is, in effect, "I think some things are repulsive, and I know a whole bunch of other people who agree with me, so they should be deemed absolutely immoral now and forever, period". Which in and of itself is nice enough;...
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alt.atheism
Motorola has a good app note on a 10 band equalizer using a 56000 DSP. It could be easily ported to an Ariel board, or even a Turtle Beach 56K development system.
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sci.electronics
>[I'm sort of mystified about how a Christian might respond to this.] I'll start with a parable. A Christian woman hires a carpenter to build her a birdhouse. When he comes over, they begin talking about religion. "So you believe that you understand God?" he asks. "Yes, I do," she replies. "Then have hi...
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soc.religion.christian
I have found that this isn't a very effective argument. Most atheists are perfectly willing to acknowledge the existence and ministry of Jesus--but are quite capable of rationalizing the miracles and the resurrection into misunderstandings, hoaxes, or simple fabrications. They can always make an analogy with the...
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soc.religion.christian
Just out of curiosity, what happened to the weekly AL and NL Game Score Reports? I used to enjoy reading them throughout the summer for the last two years. Inquisitively yours, Joel
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rec.sport.baseball
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
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talk.religion.misc
There is something going on here. It seems that once a month, the VW group must have get a specific detailed question about Hondas. I would like to ask that next month we get one about Hyundai instead of Honda. Thank you.
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rec.autos
Well, it's been a while since this was discussed so i take the liberty of reprinting (without permission, so sue me) Eric Haines reprint of the very interesting discussion of this topic... /Jonas O / \ O ------------------------- X snip snip X -----------------------...
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comp.graphics
Well, actually, most of ours is based on what really happened and yours is based on some fantasy of how it happened. But that's OK, I understand you have a hockey background. Stats like "plus/minus" make RBI look good. OK, how about a straigh answer, then. Here's a very simele question to which I'm sure a fair numbe...
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rec.sport.baseball
And the reason that the Soviet Union couldn't achieve the ideal of pure communism was the hostility of surrounding capitalist nations...Uh huh. Somehow, this all sounds familiar. Once again, utopian dreams are confronted by the real world...
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talk.politics.misc
I just recently bought a 4 MB ram card for my original mac portable (backlit) and have since had some bizarre crashes. It happens when I put the machine to sleep and wake the machine up. sometimes it will just freeze the cursor and lock the machine up forcing me to push the reset switch. Other times it will give me...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
Whether there is a "why" or not we have to find it. This is Pascal's(?) wager. If there is no why and we spend our lives searching, then we have merely wasted our lives, which were meaningless anyway. If there is a why and we don't search for it, then we have wasted our potentially meaningful lives. Suppose the univer...
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soc.religion.christian
Who compared Quayle to Gore? Mark said he had never heard of any incident in which the thrower of the ceremonial ball had been booed before. I mentioned another incident. (And if the media had a liberal bias, I'm sure he would have heard of the Quayle incident.) If I was to compare Quayle to anyone, it most likely...
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talk.politics.misc
Dyer, you're rude. Medicine is not a totallly scientific endevour. It's often practiced in a disorganized manner. Most early treatment of non-life threatening illness is done on a guess, hazarded after anecdotal evidence given by the patient. It's an educated guess, by a trained person, but it's...
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sci.med
740 Turbo in UK was good for 124mph. Useful for blowing away VW Beetles, though I believe the Beetle corners better. I can say without any doubt that I have never been blown away by any Volvo, ever. I've been blocked into a few car parks though by shit-head Volvo owners who 'only thought they'd be a few minutes'. Th...
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rec.autos
Note: These trial updates are summarized from reports in the _Idaho Statesman_ and the local NBC affiliate television station, KTVB Channel 7. Randy Weaver/Kevin Harris trial update: Day 5. Monday, April 19, 1993 was the fifth day of the trial. Synopsis: Government informant Kenneth Fadeley testified that Randy Weav...
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talk.politics.guns
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The point you all seem to have missed was covered when the UK cellphone scrambling system was discussed. Incidentally, my MP has responded to my questions on that issue, and it appears that the UK and other `approved' countries will get the secure A5 encryption, and `dodgy' countr...
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sci.crypt
Hey Valentine, I don't see Boston with any world series rings on their fingers. Damn, Morris now has three and probably the Hall of Fame in his future. Therefore, I would have to say Toronto easily made the best signing. And don't tell me Boston will win this year. They won't even be in the top 4 in the divisio...
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rec.sport.baseball
I assume you are posting to encourage comments - how much history has Tony Campello read? Not much it seems. It is good to hear that there are a few reasonable Christians about. If only those christian "scientists" would take note. (In Australia there is a very strong movement, a bunch of christian scientists w...
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alt.atheism
You are right but PLEASE DON'T DO THIS. It makes my brain hurt. USPosition and USSize should ONLY be set if the USER specified the position and size. You say: "Tom, don't blow a gasket, what's the harm?" Some window managers do very different things (besides positioning the window) when they see USPosition rather ...
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comp.windows.x
What, did you leave the room each of the 100 or so times they said that there WERE NO OTHER NIGHT BASEBALL GAMES? Every break they took back at the studio mentioned it, followed by 'so...we're gonna show you hockey instead.' My wife and I are hoping for rain at every baseball game they have a feed for tommorrow night....
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rec.sport.hockey
I'm looking for a Singer Featherweight 221 sewing machine (old, black sewing machine in black case). Please contact:
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misc.forsale
I've changed the battery in the thing (shortly after the problem first happened) and I've noticed an inordinate number of Bus errors lately...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
According to what I have read on Biblical idioms, speaking "in X's name" is a standard Aramaic/Hebrew legal idiom for what we today would call Power of Attorney. A person from Jesus' culture authorized to conduct business "in John's name" had full authority over John's financial affairs, but was held under a solemn fi...
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soc.religion.christian
In <1r1om5$c5m@slab.mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) Then it is a good thing we already have this: The csspub mailing list: csspab@mail-gw.ncsl.nist.gov, and address on the clipper mailing list, seems to contain basically the members of the NIST security board. In addition to the names already pos...
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sci.crypt
Splitfires work mainly by providing a more-or-less unshrouded spark to the combustion chamber. If an engine's cylinder head design can benefit from this, then the splitfires will yield a slight performance increase, most noticeably in lower rpm range torque. Splitfires didn't do diddly-squat for my 1992 GMC pickup (4....
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rec.motorcycles
Most of the key issues in the 284 line post to which I am following up are dealt with in the following post I made on talk.abortion yesterday, modified to correct the next to last paragraph. Message-ID: <nyikos.734890344@milo.math.scarolina.edu> References: <nyikos.734360987@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <nyikos.734640769...
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talk.religion.misc
The XView version 3 source distribution included in the contrib section of X11R5 included the source to the textedit program. I'd like to take the sources and modify them to add support for a ToolTalk-like message server, and maybe for ToolTalk while I'm at it, since the Sun-supplied textedit binary doesn't seem to...
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comp.windows.x
Hi, netters I am looking for source code that can reads the ascii file or bitmap file and produced the thinned image. For example, to preprocess the character image I want to apply thinning algorithm.
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comp.graphics
I have a similar configuration: Colorado 250mb on 66 DX/2 tower. You got suckered in the same way I did. Silly me, believing that the "250" logo on the front meant actual carrying capacity. The people who do this sort of thing for a living call it "marketing." Lawyers who prosecute it call it "fraud." Per...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Please do...and let us know specifics. (lest I'm the only one on this). Mickey
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
If you force me to do something, am I morally responsible for it? Well, make up your mind. Is it to be "instinctive not to murder" or not? It's not even correct. Animals of the same species do kill one another. Sigh. I wonder how many times we have been round this loop. I think that instinctive bahaviou...
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alt.atheism
You assume this because you believe in a designing creator, and you observe our ability to procreate... .... But then you observe our ability to modify fertility through intelligence & experiment, and draw no similar conclusions about God designing us for scientific inquiry & the use of the technology that it produc...
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soc.religion.christian
April 24th is approaching, and Armenians around the world are getting ready to remember the massacres of their family members by the Turkish government between 1915 and 1920. At least 1.5 Million Armenians perished during that period, and it is important to note that those who deny that this event ever took place...
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talk.politics.mideast
------------- cut here ----------------- Volume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993 +------------------------------------------------+ ! ! ! Health Info-Com Network ! ...
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sci.med
Dear Rob, Sometimes I do come across condesending, and I am sorry I come across that way at times. Thank you for the reproach, I really do appreciate it. I'll try to get better. Rob, at the same time, I have also learned that some people respond to the gentle approach while others respond only at a harsh rebuke. ...
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talk.religion.misc
Are there any graphics cards for the SE/30 that also have, say, an 040 accelerator? There seem to be plenty of accelerator/graphics cards for the _SE_, but none (that I've seen) for the SE/30. Thanks
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
I wondered the same thing. When he first mentioned it, I thought he was just making a mistake but then he said it over and over. And then in the examples from other years, he gave stats for players from both leagues even when only one league expanded. So (since stats *NEVER* lie :-) ), I guess there is an effect on...
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rec.sport.baseball
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rec.autos
Hi folks! Recently saw one post about KREME being a *bad idea*, but that was only one man's opinion.
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rec.motorcycles
Yea, thanks to lots of good information in this newsgroup, I was prepared for lots of details (even shipping time ... got my C610 8/230/CD in 5 weeks). I guess my biggest disappointment is the lack of detail in the written specs and documentation. The case load spec is an example -- the setup section says Apple 14" a...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
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rec.autos
Hey!? What happened to the solar sail race that was supposed to be for Columbus+500?
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sci.space
Oh contrer mon captitan! There is a way. Certainly it is not by human reason. Certainly it is not by human experience. (and yet it is both!) To paraphrase Sartre, the particular is absurd unless it has an infinite reference point. It is only because of God's own revelation that we can be absolute about a thing. ...
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soc.religion.christian
In order of your questions, I oppose it, I oppose it, I oppose it and (Huh? Wha? Where did _that_ topic come from and what's it got to do with the discussion at hand? :-) When I was discussing the concept of different criminal laws for crimes against different classes of people (and yes, I do consider laws which a...
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talk.politics.misc
I have never been to Wisconsin, though I have been to neighbor Minnesota. Being a child of the Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA) I found that there were few states in the provences that stood out in this youngster's mind: California, Texas, and Florida to name the most obvious three. However, both Minnesota and Wisconsi...
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alt.atheism
Their Hiten engineering-test mission spent a while in a highly eccentric Earth orbit doing lunar flybys, and then was inserted into lunar orbit using some very tricky gravity-assist-like maneuvering. This meant that it would crash on the Moon eventually, since there is no such thing as a stable lunar orbit (as far as...
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sci.space
We had those f*****g photo-radar things here in Sweden a while ago. There was a lot of fuzz about them, and a lot of sabotage too (a spray-can with touch-up paint can do a lot of good...). Eventually they had to drop the idea as there were a lot of court-cases where the owner of the car could prove he didn't drive i...
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rec.autos
massacre. Answer: a(1-1/2-1/4-1/11)=280 -> a = 1760
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talk.politics.mideast
I have a Radius Precision Color 24x video card for the Mac that fits in a NuBus slot. The card has 3 Mb of VRAM on it, which means that 24-bit color is possible on the card! The card supports just about any monitor scan rate you can think of (I used it at 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768, but it can go higher). You c...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
I don't personally, but Clay just posted it. Yes, we do. Unfortunately, it shows that Lopez wasn't as good an example as Nieves would have been, since his last year numbers were out of line with the previous years (which I didn't have access to). The point remains, though; knowing a guy's minor league history is ...
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rec.sport.baseball
If you're thinking of reactive polymers they're making ESD safe contauiners out of it. As far as being conductive goes anything with a resistance less than 10 to the fouthrth power ohms per cubic measure is classed as conductive per MIL-STD-1686 for ESD protection. My $0.02 ($0.016 US).
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sci.electronics
The oclock widget was written using the SHAPE extension. You can do the same in your widgets. Few current widgets support SHAPE, so you'll have to subclass them to add that functionality.
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comp.windows.x
Help me make money for a new modem $180.00 takes it ALL ***** SHIPPING NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE ***** * All original documentation & disks are include. Some software unregistered, others will have letter for transfer of ownership. * Will sell software seperatel...
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misc.forsale
Note: These trial updates are summarized from reports in the _Idaho Statesman_ and the local NBC affiliate television station, KTVB Channel 7. Randy Weaver/Kevin Harris trial update: Day 4. Friday, April 16, 1993 was the fourth day of the trial. Synopsis: Defense attorney Gerry Spence cross-examined agent Cooper und...
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talk.politics.guns
Why don't you look again at Motor Trend's, slalom times, they are 67.9, right along with the Integra, and the car does that with small 14 inch tires that are all -weather XGTV4, not to mention that the Integra rides alot better than a Beretta. Your acceleartion times also vary, magazine to magazine Road & Track and Car...
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rec.autos
Might the problem not be with the video monitor instead? Many of our monitors, as they age, develop shadows on white and bright colors.
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
I need some advice on having someone ride pillion with me on my 750 Ninja. This will be the the first time I've taken anyone for an extended ride (read: farther than around the block :-). We'll be riding some twisty, fairly bumpy roads (the Mines Road-Mt.Hamilton Loop for you SF Bay Areans). I'd say th...
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rec.motorcycles
Morphine or demerol is about the only effective way of stopping pain that severe. Obviously, she'll need a prescription to get such drugs. Can't she go to the county hospital or something? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the ...
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sci.med
John Berryhill, Ph.D. writes umm, please don't lump us all together. It's those blatant, fundamentalist pickers that give the rest of us a bad name. Some of us try very hard to be discreet and stay alert.
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talk.religion.misc
Help!! I need code/package/whatever to take 3-D data and turn it into a wireframe surface with hidden lines removed. I'm using a DOS machine, and the code can be in ANSI C or C++, ANSI Fortran or Basic. The data I'm using forms a rectangular grid. Please post your replies to the net so that others may benefit. I...
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comp.graphics
So what does that have to do with RBI's? The team with the most RBI's doesn't necessarily win the game. Yes, runs are the most important statistice -- for a *team*. (So why does every newspaper rank team offense by batting average?) But for an individual player, runs and RBIs are context-dependent, and tell us ver...
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rec.sport.baseball
Concerning the proposed newsgroup split, I personally am not in favor of doing this. I learn an awful lot about all aspects of graphics by reading this group, from code to hardware to algorithms. I just think making 5 different groups out of this is a wate, and will only result in a few posts a week per group. I kin...
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comp.graphics
Hi I have an Orchid Fahrenheit VLB with 2MB of DRAM. It is an S3 86c805 based card. I had a problem for a while after installing my second meg of DRAM for the video, and thanks to Orchid, I got a fix from their tech support (it was jumper settings not given in the ordinary manual. I assume it would come with memory...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
too bad he doesn't bring the ability to hit, pitch, field or run.
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rec.sport.baseball
Excerpts from netnews.comp.windows.x: 19-Apr-93 Monthly Question about XCop.. Buzz Moschetti@bear.com (1055) Hmmm.... Clearly? Depends on your programming model. It is not at all forbidden to draw outside the context of an expose event. Certainly any internal data structures should be maintained such that the vis...
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comp.windows.x
This is the final public update to my dragon magazine auction. If there are no new bids then the current bids stand (like that's gonna happen. :) ). After this, any updates will be by E-mail *ONLY*. The entire auction will end as soon as the bids stop coming in. So if you want to get in on this, be sure to bid n...
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misc.forsale
Responding to the moderator: Yes, I agree. What I'm trying to point out is that, in matters of faith (i.e. tenets which are not logically persuasive), one may be convinced of the truth of certain things through, for instance, personal revelation. And its certainly fine to share that revelation or those beliefs with...
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soc.religion.christian
Science is the process of modeling the real world based on commonly agreed interpretations of our observations (perceptions). Values can also refer to meaning. For example in computer science the value of 1 is TRUE, and 0 is FALSE. Science is based on commonly agreed values (interpretation of observations), althou...
0
alt.atheism
: I'm searching for a phonetic TrueType font for Windows 3.1. If : anybody knows one, please mail me! : : Thanks. : : dw : : : ################################################################## : Dipl.-Inform. Dietmar Weidlich # IfADo, Ardeystr. 67 # : weidlich@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de # D-4600 Dortmu...
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Yarn of Cargo of Human Bones [1] Copyright, 1924, by the New York Times Company Special Cable to The New York Times PARIS, Dec 22, -- Marseilles is excited by a weird story of the arrival in that port of a ship flying the British flag and named Zan carrying a mysterious cargo of 400 tons of human bones consi...
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talk.politics.mideast
Superficially a good answer, but it isn't that simple. An awful lot of the starvation and poverty in the world is directly caused by the economic policies of the Western countries, as well as by the diet of the typical Westerner. For instance, some third-world countries with terrible malnutrition problems export all...
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talk.religion.misc
: :> As someone else has pointed out, why would the stove be in use on a warm day :> in Texas. : :Do YOU eat all your food cold? Thank you for pointing out the obvious to people who so clearly missed it. I can't stand it when people's first reaction is to defend the aggressor. Mr. Tavares, you have a unique and thou...
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talk.politics.guns
[a list of large-integer arithmetic packages elided] I thought I would note that except Lenstra's packages, none of the large-integer packages are in the public domain. As an alternative, a straightforward *PD* implementation of Knuth's algorithms may be found as a part of Uof Arizona's ICON distribution. oz
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sci.crypt
[flame-bait, pure and simple]
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talk.politics.guns
The quotation marks should enclose "laws," not "must." If there were no such rules, even instinctive ones or unwritten ones, etc., then surely some sort of random chance would lead a chimp society into chaos.
0
alt.atheism
Yeah, Cancer is pretty cool, isn't it.
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talk.politics.misc
Hi... I need information on scaring. Particularly as a result of grazing the skin I really wanted to know of 1. would a scar occur as a result of grazing 2. if yes, then would it disappear? 3. how long does a graze take to heal? 4. will hair grow on it once it has healed? 5. what is 'scar tissue'? 6. should an...
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sci.med
For CD-Disk USERS ---------------------- This is NOT a COMMERCIAL AD! I have alot of NEW CD-Disks If You have a CDROM and are interested in purchasing some of these disks Please download the list mentioned below: ...
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misc.forsale
My T-Bird SC's manual says to replace the platinum plugs every 60,000mi. Wal-Mart has Autolite platinum plugs for $2.00 each. Are these "real" platinum plugs? (I had Bosch platinums in my '80 Fiesta and my dad had 'em in his '84 Bronco--note the keyword "had." They didn't last very long (much less than 50,000mi) befor...
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rec.autos
Does anyone know if a Nanao 750i is compatible with any popular Mac video cards? I have an oppurtunity to get a brand new one, cheap, and I am very tempted, but it will be a waste of time if I can't drive it using a standard video card. While I'm on the subject, what's everybody's reccomendations for a 21" color monit...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
I don't know about everybody else, but to me, they should have been convicted BECAUSE of the evidence, which in my mind was quite sufficient.
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talk.politics.misc
[...] Note that I _never_ said that depression and the destruction of the nuclear family is due _solely_ to extra-marital sex. I specifically said that it was "a prime cause" of this, not "the prime cause" or "the only cause" of this -- I recognize that there are probably other factors too, but I think that extra-...
0
alt.atheism
I don't care who told you this it is not generally true. I see EVERY single line item on a contract and I have to sign it. There is no such thing as wrap at this university. I also asked around here. Ther is no wrap at Marquette, University of Wisconsin Madison, Utah State, Weber State or Embry Riddle U. I am not say...
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sci.space