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Joe, your description sounds like one of the gravity probe spacecraft ideas.
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sci.space
4 month old Sega Genesis, barely used, one controller, in original box, with Sonics 1 and 2. $130 gets the whole bundle shipped to you. Turns out they're not as addictive when they're yours. Anyway, mail me if you're interested in this marvel of modern technology.
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misc.forsale
The Ottwawa Senators fired Mel Bridgman at 1:00 PM today. Randy Sexton is gonna replace him.
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rec.sport.hockey
It has actually come up (or it will in a week or two) in NZ. I'll post the outcome when the trial finishes (which could take months BTW). Overall it looks like you can't be forced to reveal a password, if anyone can provide a convincing legal argument to the contrary (ie an actual court case) I'd be most interested...
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sci.crypt
This is exactly what I have heard before. If you were to fade away and nobody saw you what kind of evidence would they be able to get to catch you (this is assuming that you either collected your brass or had a revolver)? Guess it's time to take a trip to the library and look at the Illinois statutes again :-) Just...
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talk.politics.guns
I am in the process of looking for a half decent aftermarket sport exhaust for my 1981 BMW 320i. So far, I have found a Pacesetter exhaust for $219 and an Ansa exhaust for $190 (Canadian funds). I was wondering if anyone could tell me anyhting about either of these exhausts or any other possible exhausts that I may be ...
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rec.autos
Please note that there are some radiosity packages in my Resource Listing (under the Subject 3: FTP list) Greetings, Nick. -- Nick (Nikolaos) Fotis National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece HOME: 16 Esperidon St., InterNet : nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr Halandri, GR - 152 32 UUCP: mcsun!ariadne!t...
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comp.graphics
[more about the Messier-Samuelsson incident] I agree with Rick that Ulf's cross check wasn't illegal. It was the kind of check you see a dozen times during a game without being called. Slo-mos sometimes have a tendency to make things look worse than they really are. Besides, if Messier can't take the heat, he shoul...
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rec.sport.hockey
Detroit is a very disciplined team. There's a lot of Europeans in Detroit which would make the game fast, so Toronto would have to slow the game down, which means drawing penalties, as a last resort anyway. Toronto will be a good team as soon as they get more good players. Toronto is just an average team, Detroit is...
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rec.sport.hockey
Bill Gripp writes ok, but didn't Jesus figure somewhere into their beliefs? Anyway, my original question regarding christians and weaponry still stands.
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talk.religion.misc
The protocol/key-management description published so far is either incomplete or incorrect. It leaves me with no idea of how the system would actually _work_. I hope the CPSR FOIA request succeeds so that we get full details. Wouldn't it be easier just to ask denning@cs.georgetown.edu? ;-)
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sci.crypt
If gamma ray bursters are extragalactic, would absorption from the galaxy be expected? How transparent is the galactic core to gamma rays? How much energy does a burster put out? I know energy depends on distance, which is unknown. An answer of the form _X_ ergs per megaparsec^2 is OK.
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sci.space
DROPLET VOL 1, No 11, Part 3 D R O P L E T From The Vast Ocean Of The Miraculous Qur'an Translations from the Arabic and Turkish Writings of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, The Risale-i Noor VOL 1, No 11, Part 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ NINETEENTH LETTER MU'JIZAT-I AHME...
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talk.religion.misc
You must be _incredibly_ bored. Have you considered reading the phone book?
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rec.autos
I posted this to sci.psychology on April 3, and after seeing your post here on panice disorder thought it would be relevant. ----- My research indicates that two schools of thought exist. the literature promoting medication says it's the superior treatment. Not surprisingly, literature promoting cognitive therapy al...
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sci.med
These word processing utilities all include complete printed manuals and registration cards. I need to get rid of some excess. They're the latest versions. I've priced these programs at less than half the list price and significantly less than the cheapest mail-order price around. * GRAMMATIK 5 FOR WINDOWS, top-rated...
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misc.forsale
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 g...
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comp.graphics
Yes some radar detectors are less detectable by radar detector detectors. ;-)
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sci.electronics
I will sell it for $33 including shipping...
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misc.forsale
ONLY if you weight Americans equal to SAlvadorans.
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talk.religion.misc
how so? i think you're making assumptions here that might not necessarily be true. -my- personal choice would be a semi-auto, but revolvers are just as effective, if not more so. relevancy, please? you sound shocked, but that hardly proves anything. wait, doesn't Chicago have -serious- gun control? if so, why do...
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talk.politics.guns
Oh? What is wrong with *this* motto, now? If you wouldn't approve of even that one, I am beginning to think that you just have something against mottos in general. What do you think of "E plurbis unum?"
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alt.atheism
Too right it does! The --VERY VERY FIRST-- thing you do is make sure that --ALL-- files on the floppies that you can currently read in the drive, which aren't already on your HD or another floppy (if you have -two- floppy drives) get copied to your HD (and/or to a floppy in your other drive). If you don't do this ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
THe following listed tapes are priced to sell. A friend of mine wants to get rid of them, so let's just have some bids, why don't we? All Are Tapes, BTW. AC/DC Back in Black good condition Razor's edge excellent Poison Open up and... Excellent Flesh & Blood Excellent Guns & Roses ...
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misc.forsale
And they're rather tasty. Per gallon (bushel) perhaps. Unfortunately they eat the same amount every day no matter how much you ride them. And if you don't fuel them they die. On an annual basis, I spend much less on bike stuff than Amy the Wonder Wife does on horse stuff. She has two horses, I've got umm, lessee...
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rec.motorcycles
ALL I CAN SAY IS G O T I G E R S!!!!!!
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rec.sport.baseball
My CorelDRAW 3.0.whatever write SCODL files directly. Look under File|Export on the main menu.
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comp.graphics
I'm writing an application running under X (using Motif), and I need to do some stuff when the application quits. Now, when I shut down my X Windows session, it doesn't seem to send a SIGTERM (or whatever) signal to my application (I'm trapping various signals like that). Therefore, I thought I could use an X signal ...
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comp.windows.x
For those of you with motorcycles of the liquid-cooled persuasion, what brand of coolant do you use and why? I am looking for aluminum-safe coolant, preferably phosphate-free, and preferably cheaper than $13/gallon. (Can you believe it: the Kaw dealer wants $4.95 a QUART for the Official Blessed Holy Kawasaki Coolant...
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rec.motorcycles
Gee, what do I do? My LDL is only 50-60. (and my HDL is only 23-25) I must be risking something, but Is it the same risk as those with very high LDL? What about exercise and a low-fat diet? What are the long-term effects of this drug?
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sci.med
The amount of energy being spent on ONE LOUSY SYLLOGISM says volumes for the true position of reason in this group.
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alt.atheism
If I'm not mistaken, San Jose had more wins than Ottawa. First tiebreaker in the NHL is always most wins.
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rec.sport.hockey
Okay, I'll bite. I should probably leave this alone, but what the heck... But didn't he credit the actual flag design to a party member - some dentist or other? I believe he gives such credit in Mein Kampf. Well, I'm no expert, but all of the histories of Nazi Germany assert this. They make reference to several sca...
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talk.religion.misc
Dennis Deconcini, 1982 ...In these and similar areas, the Bureau has violated not only the dictates of common sense, but of 5 U.S.C. Sec 552, which was intended to prevent "secret lawmaking" by administrative bodies. These practices, amply documented in hearings before this Sub- committee, leave little doubt that ...
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talk.politics.guns
[STUFF DELETED] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A friend who owns a company that builds clones shared with me the fact that the PCI chipset is NOT expensive -- how about $12? Many money-hungry-clone makers, no doubt, will attempt to price the boards high only because it's new technology. Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.aust...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
[Patrick's example of anti-competitive regulations for auto dealers deleted.] Let me try to drag this discussion back to the original issues. As I've noted before, I'm not necessarily disputing the benefits of eliminating anti-competitive legislation with regard to auto dealers, barbers, etc. One ...
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talk.politics.misc
Vell...Let's see...vas you muzzah in der passenger seat? Or vas you muzzah in der leefing room, vit you fazah?
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rec.autos
[reply to Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com (Daniel Prince] Yes. It seems to work equally well for CFS, another hint that these may be different facets of the same underlying process. Yes. The benefit is usually evident within a few days of starting it. Most of the patients for whom it has worked...
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sci.med
While Atlanta has the undisputed best starting rotation, I feel that their relief staff may be suspect. They don't have a real closer -- although Mike Stanton (4 saves) has been used in that role. Didn't Stanton start off great last year and then falter? Despite this, your point is well taken. Atlanta doesn't see...
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rec.sport.baseball
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talk.religion.misc
You might visit some congregations of Christians, who happen to be homosexuals, that are spirit-filled believers, not MCC'rs; before you go lumping us all together with Troy Perry. The Lord IS working in our community (the homosexual community, that is). He's not asking us to change our sexual nature, but He is ca...
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soc.religion.christian
HI, I was just wondering if anyone knew when Erickson and Keith Miller are expected to come back and what exactly ails them. -- Sincerely,
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rec.sport.baseball
True enough. I put it on the ground if it's free of spooge, or directly on my head otherwise. Not exactly. The helmet has a lot less energy if your head isn't in it, and there's no lump inside to compress the liner against the shell. Is a drop off the seat enough to crack the shell? I doubt it, but you can always se...
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rec.motorcycles
Non-smoking roommate needed to sublet 1BR in 2BR carpeted apt. in Evanston, IL near the Dempster el stop parking is available Rent is $322.50/mo. + 1/2 utils. avail. May 1 - beg./end Aug. (entire apt. available Sept. 1) Roommate is 26 years-old, vegetarian, non-smoking female who...
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misc.forsale
#In article <93109.231733ISSCCK@BYUVM.BITNET> "Casper C. Knies" <ISSCCK@BYUVM#.B #>As a Latter-day Saint, I found John's statement *not at all* ludicrous... #> #>Please allow me to explain myself. In 1838, the governor of Missouri, #>governor Boggs, issued his so-called "Mormon extermination order." The #>only crime...
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talk.religion.misc
Unless I'm imaging things, (always a possibility =) 1992 QB1, the Kuiper Belt object discovered last year, is known as Smiley.
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sci.space
The Royals are darkness. They are the void of our time. When they play, shame descends upon the land like a cold front from Canada. They are a humiliation to all who have lived and all who shall ever live. They are utterly and completely doomed. Other than that, I guess they're OK. --
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rec.sport.baseball
I have one of the original Powerbook 170's (with 4Mb of Ram) and find that 4Mb is a drag when trying to do my work. So, what is the best way to get the maximum RAM for this unit, and what's it going to cost me? I'm hoping I can get the latest and best info from real users by posting to this group.
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
I searched the U Mich archives fairly thoroughly for 3D graphics packages, I always thought it to be a mirror of sumex-aim.stanford.edu... I was wrong. I'll look into GrafSys... it does sound interesting! Thanks Cheinan.
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comp.graphics
Unworthy of comment. Nor would they have died if they had come out with their hands empty. That is undeniable truth. My heart bleeds just as much as yours for the children who were never released given 51 days of ample opportunities to do so. My heart also bleeds for people so blinded by religious devotion to n...
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talk.politics.guns
Now we have strong evidence of where the CPR really stands. Unbelievable and disgusting. It only proves that we must never forget... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not so unconventional. Eugenic solutions to the Jewish Problem have been suggested by Northern Europeans in the past...
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talk.politics.mideast
What does "DC" stand for? Couldn't be an antichiropractic posting from a chiropractor, could it? My curiosity is piqued. Prostate CA is an especially troublesome entity for chiropractors. It so typically causes bone pain due to spinal metastases that it gets manipulated frequently. Manipulating a cancer riddled b...
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sci.med
Are you people sure his posts are being forwarded to his system operator??? Who is forwarding them??? Is there a similar file being kept on Mr. Omran??? Salam, John Absood
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talk.politics.mideast
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I thought it was: "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think there are two kinds of people and those who don't." And then there's: "There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who like math and those who don'...
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rec.motorcycles
103D CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 1276 To establish the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right. ======================= ...
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talk.politics.guns
How about contaminants on the corn, e.g. aflatoxin???
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sci.med
Did I claim that there was an absolute morality, or just an objective one?
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alt.atheism
: : Once again we are waiting. I have been thinking that it would be good : to get to as large a group as possible to see if anyone has any : experience with this kind of thing. I know that members of the medical : community are sometimes loathe to admit the importance that diet and : foods play in our general health...
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sci.med
iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes... More along the lines of Hebrews 12:25-29, I reckon... See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: Whose voice then shook the ea...
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talk.religion.misc
Hello, I have been searching for a quality image enhancement and manipulation package for Unix/X/Motif platforms that is comparable to Adobe Photo Shop for the Mac. I have not been able to find any, and would appreciate any information about such products you could provide. I would be particu...
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comp.graphics
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sci.med
Heres a story of a Saint that people might like to read. I got it from a The Morning Star, and am posting it with the permission of the editor. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga The Patron of Youth The marquis Gonzaga had high aspirations for his son, the Prince Gonzage. He wanted him to become a famous,...
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soc.religion.christian
Yeah, of course... The term 'mach banding' was not the correct one, it should've been 'color quantization effect'. Although a bad color quantization effect could result in some visible mach-bands on a picture that was smooth before it was quantizised.
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comp.graphics
2-gigabyte Fujitsu 5.25" disk drive internal drive, model M26525A (uses either a SCSI or EDI interface on your disk controller card) brand new, still in box, never used only $1800 (compare to $2400 in cheapest mail-order catalogs)
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misc.forsale
Looking at [1] we find that during Roman times "Tyre vied with Sidon for first place in the intellectual life of the period"; that Tyre was the seat of a Christian bishop, eventually with 14 dioceses under it; that "the most magnificent church of its kind in all Phoenecia" was the basilica built in Tyre ca. 314; that ...
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talk.religion.misc
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous, I saw a posting about the choice between 80486DX-50 and a 80486DX2-50. I was wondering: although a DX-50 is faster because of the path to it's external cache, shouldn't the choice be the DX2-50 as that one can be made to work properly...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
I think you meant Quadra 800 ..... (but a Centris 800 probably would be a real nice machine... :) ) But yeah, it needs 80ns not 60ns. Joel
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
In responding to the post below I have considered issues far outside the scope of revisionism and principally have considered the political implications of a racist ideology and its inevitable outcome. Thus it is tangentially relevant to soc.history and alt.revisionism but I have directed followups to t.p.m since it is...
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talk.politics.misc
Correction: _hard_ atheism is a faith. Get a grip, man. The Stalin example was brought up not as an indictment of atheism, but merely as another example of how people will kill others under any name that's fit for the occasion. So hard atheism has nothing to prove? Then how does it justify that God does not ...
0
alt.atheism
I heard he had asked the FBI to provide him with a word processor. Does anyone know if Koresh has requested that it be WordPerfect5.0? WP5.0 was written (and is owned) by Mormons, so the theological implications of requesting (or refusing) WP5.0 are profound!
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alt.atheism
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rec.autos
Why? Do you suppose he's immune to the ravages of time? He's 37. In a few years he'll be 40. He doesn't get to as many grounders as he used to, and will get to fewer still as his legs go, as they do on every human so far. Remember: Willie Mays was a defensive liability at he end of his career too. Ditto Mickey...
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rec.sport.baseball
Hi. I am working on a project for my marketing class and I'd like to ask your help. The assignment is to come up with a product and create a marketing plan for it. Technical issues are not terribly important at this point. Well, my group's plan is to market a "full page" monitor for laptop computers. It would be a...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
Not exactly dumb, but who remebers the tachometer on the 69 or 70 Firebird bulging out of the _hood_ right in front of the driver. Neat place but I love to know what the elemnts did to its internals after a few years. Also, does the speedomete pointer on many US cars have to be 3 feet long?.
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rec.autos
Hi, I just have a small question about my bike. Being a fairly experienced BMW and MZ-Mechanic, I just don't know what to think about my Honda. She was using too much oil for the last 5000 km (on my trip to Daytona bike week this spring), and all of a sudden, she trailed smoke like hell and was running only on one...
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rec.motorcycles
>say they have a "history of untrustworthy behavoir[sic]"?
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sci.crypt
Atrocity Reports Horrify Azerbaijan : "Azeri officials who returned from the seen to this town about nine miles away brought back three dead children, the backs of their heads blown off... 'Women and children had been scalped,' said Assad Faradzev, an aide to Karabagh's Azeri governor. Azeri television showed pi...
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talk.politics.mideast
A few comments on the ATF's botched handling of this case: 1. Attempting to storm the compound in broad daylight? The explanation we were given (at least at one point) was that they thought the cult members would be at religious services. My only comment on this bit of idiocy is that if you're going to oper...
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talk.politics.guns
I heard that Eli is selling the team to a group in Cinninati. This would help so that the O's could make some real free agent signings in the offseason. Training Camp reports that everything is pretty positive right now. The backup catcher postion will be a showdown between Tackett and Parent although I would prefer P...
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rec.sport.baseball
I know this isn't the EXACT right place to put this, but im desperate! I'll be going home for the summer, and wont have direct access to my VAX account....My problem is, i need a service that doesn't charge body parts, vital organs, or my first born son, that allows me access to the internet! All i really need is to ...
3
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
True, but will traditional encryptions schemes, when further encrypted by Clipper, be _more_ vulnerable to attacks such as partially known plaintext?
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sci.crypt
I have a Laserwriter IIg that has disappeared completely from the Network, i.e. it's name doesn't show up in any zone. (You can print to it from it's serial interface, tho!) I have seen some discussion here about changing the zone a IIg is in... including some PS code that lets you change the zone. Is there maybe so...
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
Alan, don't forget, a HUGE cost for airliner developement is FAA certification. the joke is when the paperwork exceeds teh weight of the airplane, it will fly. The SR-71, and teh X-15 both highly ambitious aero-space projects were done on very narrow engineering budgets. Partly because they didn't spend mu...
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sci.space
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comp.graphics
SP> From: paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Sharon Paulson) SP> to describe here. I have a fourteen year old daugter who experienced SP> a seizure on November 3, 1992 at 6:45AM after eating Kellog's Frosted SP> Flakes. SP> Well, we were going along fine and the other morning, April 5, she had SP> a bowl of another Kellog'...
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sci.med
Actually, they're pretty worthless, if you want to evaluate players with stats. RBIs and Runs Scored should be banned; all they do is confuse victims of mediot brainwashing like yourself. You Uh, so? You've just explained why we use OBP and SLG to evaluate players. Precisely because the team that scores more...
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rec.sport.baseball
Correction: The *FBI* *says* that two of the nine who escaped said the fire was deliberately set by cult members. Since the press was kept miles away, we have absolutely no independent verification of any of the government's claims in this matter.
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talk.politics.guns
I am having something very unusual happen. First some background on my system. I have a Mitsubishi 63 meg Hard Drive, and am running Smartdrv (the version that comes with Windows 3.1) on it. I rarely use Windows. I use a program called Disk Technician Gold v1.14 to do diagnostics live time on my hard drive. It...
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
I had a catalog with membrane keypads, but I dunno what happened to it, and it was so long ago that I forget the name of the company. Anyway, you could make your own legend and slip it behind the bezel. Really nice and reasonably priced. Can anyone tell me where to get some more of these critters? I've tried sever...
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sci.electronics
One of the rules for a permanent swap file is that it must be contiguous (non-fragmented) space. I suspect that is more responsible for the difference than the amount of free disk, in your case. It depends on what you are running. We had to increase our swap file (I think it is now 20MB) when some applications cou...
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Hmmm, this gave me an interesting idea. How about this argument: 1) Second Amendment gives us the right to keep and bear arms. 2) Strong cryptography is "arms", according to the U.S. government (that's why it's so hard to export). Therefore, we have a constituitional right to strong cryptography! Q.E.D. ...
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sci.crypt
I think he means Girlie Photography. A good place to find it is in non-descript little places that usually just say "Books" on the outside of the building in black and white. --
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sci.med
Hmmm...what about walks and SB? Baerga got clobbered by Alomar in OBP and beat him in SLG by a lesser margin. Even putting aside any other factors, a player with a 51 point edge in OBP is more productive than a player with a 28 point edge in SLG. The issue has been studied before, and I doubt you could come up with...
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rec.sport.baseball
Coming from a long line of "hot tempered" people, I know temper when I see it. One of the tell tale signs/fruits that give non-christians away - is when their net replies are acrid, angry and sarcastic. We in the net village do have a laugh or two when professed, born again christians verbally attack people who mig...
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soc.religion.christian
Mel is alive and well and playing in Japan. (The Yanks let him go because he was asking for too much money, and because they thought that they were going to get Barry Bonds, making Hall obsolete. Oopsie! Well, at least they got O'Neill to replace the Mel-man). --I'm outta here like Vladimir! -Alan
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rec.sport.baseball
DEG has many german-born forwards in the team. In fact the majority of players are german-born. 1992-93 DEG had 11150 average in 11800 spectator arena. My Possible-NHL(European league)-site list: Switzerland : Berne, Zurich (Lugano and 1-2 others) Germany : Dusseldorf, Cologne, Berlin, Munich (Mannheim, Rosenhe...
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rec.sport.hockey
Good statement! Should we apply empirical measurements to define exact social morals? Should morals be based on social rules? On ancient religious doctrines? It seems there will *NEVER* be a common and single denominator for defining morals, and as such defining absolute and objective morals is doomed to fail as long ...
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alt.atheism
Sorry, but *neither* 'dictates' the cost. It's a negotiation. Whether it's up front at a honda dealership in an all out dickering war, or more removed on a larger economic scale (ie, if saturn can't sell at it's price, the price drops, or the company stops building them), it remains a negotiated value controlled by m...
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rec.autos
Did they or did they not sustain Miller's conviction? I don't have the text of the case handy. Yes, shotguns had been used in WWI, the Spanish-American War, and the US Civil War. That was not in question. The possession of a sawed-off shotgun was, i.e., a weapon altered to improve concealibility. You are free to p...
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talk.politics.guns
I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get more information about the graphics in the WingCommander series, and the RealSpace system they use. I think it's really awesome, and wouldn't mind being able to use similar features in programs. Thanks in advance.
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comp.graphics