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hypodermic it. there is me. Looking in The Evolution of Anaesthesia by M.H. Armstrong Davison (pub Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore 1965) I found the following chronology: "1853. Charles-Gabriel Pravaz (1791-1853), inventor of the galvanocautery, describes a glass syringe with tapered nozzle. This syringe was intended...
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There is also the question of cause and effect. Lock a mostly straight guy up for 10 years with only guys, ask ten years later if he has ever had sex with a guy. Closing your eyes and pretending its a girl sucking you still counts as sex with a guy on the survey....
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[....] Thanks Jon. I had forgotten about the 1912 and 1927 invasions (if I had ever learned of them. I mean I *really* forgot!) But I read the context as more recent, such as when the Sandinistas were expecting an "imminent" invasion from the U.S. which never happened. I stand corrected. Thanks. I remembered t...
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A great many computer programmers read "Dr. Dobb's Journal". In a recent issue, there was a paragraph in an article that pained me greatly to read. It "There's nothing wrong if Microsoft setting the standards for the computer industry. The industry NEEDS an IBM for the 90's." Where has the hacker ethic gone? ...
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Has anyone got an active filter design program that runs on an IBM PC ?? Something that will easily let me specify bandpass filter parameters, and it will give me the appropriate component values ?? It has to be public domain, if anyone has one, could you mail it to me. Thanks in advance, Scott u9035710@wraith.cs....
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Hi, I'd like to thank you all for the fast responses. Special thanks go to those who replied (lexical order): Marcus J Ranum <mjr@TIS.COM> Paul Crowley <pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) tarnold@vnet.IBM.COM (Todd W. Arnold) wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart) My question was: How much of the DES...
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Sorry, you have a _wish_ for an uncluttered night sky, but it isn't a right. When you get down to it, you actually have no rights that the majority haven't agreed to give you (and them in the process). It's a common misconception that being born somehow endows you with rights to this that and the other. Sadly this is...
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I would not be too quick to say that they are almost certainly untrue. Even strong minded people may fall back on childhood indoctrination, grasp at straws, or do other strange things when faced with extreme suffering, not to mention physiological problems which may lead to diminished mental capacity. At the risk of ...
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way.qub.ac.uk writes (single angle brackets): ng There is no question of similarity in Jesus indication about John. The passage in Matthew is very direct. Where Luke (1:17) reports the angel Gabriel prophesying that John will go before Christ "in the power and spirit of Elias", In Matthew 11: 14, Jesus himself say...
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John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, German Jiminez, Dale Murphy, Bruce Sutter, Pete Smith, Rick Mahler, Jim Acker, Jim "Break on Through" Morrison, Ron Gant, Andres Thomas, Gerald Perry, Ozzie "The Aeneid" Virgil, Lonnie Smith, Jerry Royster. How'm I doing so far? NOTE: I am not a Braves fun.n On the other hand, ask any ...
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From 9150618 Thu Apr 29 16:36:43 1993 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 16:36:42 +1000 From: 9150618 (Gavin Fairlamb) To: 9130037 Status: R Hello, folks... I am doing a uni. project and was wondering if you could supply with some specific info. or references for info. regarding 1). Considerations for installatio...
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The 486 at the same CLOCK is NOT as fast as the 040 at the same clock speed. The '040 also has much better floating point unit. Now the DX2-66 is faster than the '040 at 33Mhz. But for your reference the 486 at 33 mhz gets ~14MIPS while the '040 at 33mhz gets ~20MIPS.
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Son of the Return of the "How much does Americans know about the rest of the word?"-flamewar anyone? -bertil-
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Certainly many religious beliefs seem to be positive principles for everyday living. Indeed, I believe it is the Islamic religion which avoids alcohol (I apologize if I name the wrong religion) and that is certainly a physical positive in many respects. However, this proves nothing. Just because something is a "bas...
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Try this one on for size. I'd rather not post her name, but if you email me, I'll tell you who she is. Enjoy! begin 640 big1.zip M4$L#!!0 ( ,!V?AKDL':76L$! +8[ P ( 0E545"Y"35"L?%]H&W>^ M[YQ[6TBA#^5P!'K8A\#HH6 ]I&%G8J$5=[BH:(;X@CP[#WT8C(578JPLP\I8 MID93B-D>8HN%#;D]KH,=&D,3"LE"T0F+P^[AIJ0L1:E-+]XN)BI8M'I(((9Z ...
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I laugh at you now, and I will laugh at you again, equally publicly, when the Jays finish third due to the severe depletion of their talent. I think Bill James put it best (about Sparky Anderson, _Abstract_ 1983): "There are a million guys in this country with great attitudes, but there are only about five hundred w...
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I beg to differ, he had a couple 3 hit games after he came back. He did get caught stealing though. He also missed sunday's game. Did he play tonight? If not, I'm worried. He's on my team too.
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They are using some technology developed by VLSI systems, the other manufacturer of the Clipper Chips, that produces chips that are supposed to be highly resistant to reverse engineering. --
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I need a graphics display program that can take as a parameter the name of the file to be displayed, then just display that image and then quit. All of the other graphics display programs come up with a menu first or some other silliness. This program is going to be run from within another program. I have lots of me...
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Well, you were going well until you hit this one. Hawaii was an independent country. A coup by Americans led to a request to annex it. The US refused, but eventually did annex it several years later during the Spanish-American War. -- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey! O...
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Typical 'virvir' drivel. People will think you're just some looney howling in the wires. If you think that this 'clears things up' for me or anyone else, you must also believe that aliens from outer space come to earth regularly and abduct 'Arromdians' of ASALA/SDPA/ARF for medical experiments. There is stronger...
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The best one I saw last year was Willie McGee off Matthews (I think?) in Phillie. A fierce line drive that was still rising when it hit thE second deck facade at the Vet. Willie McGee had one homerun last year.
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I don't think they can do that without changing the law. The chip itself isn't classified, and reverse engineering is allowed by law (possibly) unless prohibited by a valid contract. The algorithm may be classified, but there are many court cases ruling that information identical to classfied information, but obta...
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: I live up in British Columbia, Canada.The cable company I use is called : Rogers Cable. Does anyone know of their scrambling techniques, and ways of : getting : around them? Any suggestions of what they might use? : I don't know the answer to your question, but I am sure Rogers Cable can so I tool the libery of forw...
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This question came up in Sci. Med. Nutrition and I'm posting my answer here. Only 22 medical schools in the U.S. teach courses on human nutrition. We have already seen what a lack of nutrition education can do when candida and kidney stones present themselves to the medical community. I think that the best example...
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Please excuse the length of this post, but for personal reasons, I must go on at some length. [...more deleted...] Perhaps it would be instructive to see what my original post had to say: [followed by my signature] I was extremely careful in this posting not to say anything which was not factual. ...
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Does it in the I have had a Nikon L35AW since 1988. Unfortunately it is no longer made. It is a P & S sealed to resist water to a depth of 12 feet. It is not really an underwater camera but it has been great in wet and dusty conditions. It takes AA batteries (hooray). It has the solid, heavy feel of old-style Nikons an...
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Hi, I have a few questions about laying out a PCB. I am using easytrax for dos which is a great program. But what my question is When laying out traces what thickness should they be? I am mainly designing low voltage low current boards for micro controller apps. What should pad sizes be for resistors? I will be turnin...
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[snip] ANYTHING you store in there will eventually cause some discomfort over time.
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ed>1. All of us that argue about gyroscopes, etc., throughly understand ed>the technique of countersteering. me>Including all the ones who think that they countersteer all the way me>through a corner?? ed>Well... all the way through a decreasing-radius corner, anyway... Maybe they are riding around an ever-decreas...
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Brian, it doesn't offend me if you decide to reject Jesus Christ. I only wish you would make that decision after you learn who Jesus is.
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I know of at least one ftp-site from which you can download the cracks of about any commercial game in existence. The names of the companies (yes, companies!) are also blatantly advertised with the crack codes. According to them, it is not illegal (at least in the USA, according to a statute or something) to remove t...
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That has not been demonstrated. Had he come to trial, there was a very real possibility that Koresh would have gotten an acquittal on grounds of self- defense. All survivors of the debacle have sworn that the BATF shot first. They "rang the doorbell" using a concussion grenade! And if the bloody warrants were "l...
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I need some advice regarding monitor to use with Xfree86. I have an ET4000 based graphic card with 1 Meg of memory. I know this card is supported in Xfree86 because a friend of mine has one of these in his PC. His monitor is 17" colour capable of displaying 1280x1024 resolution. I cant afford this kind of expensive mon...
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Oh no! Oh no! They've taken over comp.windows.misc and now THEY'RE COMING FOR US! --berry
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It's not true. IDE bus uses signals which has similar name and same meaning to the counterpart of ISA bus but its (IDE bus) signal timing doesn't have to be same to ISA signal timing. My VL-IDE bus card has a set of jumpers to set its transfer rate from 3.3MB/sec up to 8.3MB/ sec (the manufacturer might have to corr...
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I've done all those things, and I've regretted it, and I learned a lesson or two. So far an aspirin, a good talk with your wife, or a one week vacation has cured me -- no need for group therapy or strange religions! Cheers, Kent
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Where in the world did you get this? Please read history books before you start talking something
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Word 2.0c doesn't show the period-centred character to indicate spaces if I use the TTFonts from CorelDraw. Our editors need to be able to see how many spaces are in text but the character displayed is a large hollow box. They overlap each other and characters on each side, which is useless. I believe the character...
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Tony, I believe, first of all, that Max's car is an Austrailian built car. I don't think its a chopped up U.S. unit. It may be called a Kangaroo or Roo or something similar-not sure. But, I do recall reading that Austrailian cars used Ford V-8 engines. The Ford V-8 Interceptor is, I think, a 428 c.i. cop car motor...
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Hi: On the 1024x768x256 mode, the font sizes of Window Menu, Help Window are very small. Can I change the font and font size for these windows? My computer is 80486 DX-33, the Video Card is ATI D24. Could some experts please email the answer to GRZHENG@vax2.Concondia.ca. Thanks in advance.
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I believe the NHL Draft is on or the June 18th weekend.
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There are other laws and directives which bear upon the subject. For example, the National Computer Security Act of 1987 specifically directs NBS [sic] to work with NSA on developing security standards for civilian Federal computers. (Pick up the bill from cpsr.org; it also includes a report describing it, and some ...
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Once the Rushdie situation exploded into the media, the Muslim voice on the matter of the book was effectively restricted to short video bytes showing the dramatic highlights of Muslim demonstrations. For every twenty or so newspaper, magazine articles, interviews etc. supporting Rushdie, there would appear one Muslim...
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Does any one out there have experience with Planet X, I am considering buying it to use on a SPARCstation IPC, in this way I can run Mac programs from the SPARC. Would you recommend buying this piece of Software and what is the emulation on the SPARC like? Does it give a window of a Mac or does it give a window of ju...
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-- In the R5 file fix-01 there is the line that reads as the subject line here. I don't see a file fix-00. When I got a few Hmmm... lines putting on fix-01, it made me wonder if I has missed 00. Am I off the mark? Thank you. ====================================================================== Ray Stell stellr@...
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Performa 405 = LCII 4/80 with Monitor, modem and software. Performa 430 = LCII 4/120 w/ Monitor, modem and software. Performa 450 = LCIII with Monitor, modem and software. Do we detect a trend here people... The Performas are made to be low-cost, widely distributed (sold at Sears) home machine...
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I don't actually have the answer to this one. Bosio, after walking the first two batters, retired 27-straight for a "back-end" perfect game. How many other games - including extra inning games - have seen a pitcher retire 27 straight, excluding official perfect games? The only other instance of this I know about for...
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Funny . . . I and most of the detector-owning friends I have, are generally able to *REMEMBER* such things as nearby microwave towers and radar detectors going off in EXACTLY the same spon EVERY DAY . . .. I know on I-64 at the Grayson, KY exit, there's a store just off the side of the road (think it's a Liquor...
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[On secrecy in LDS ceremonies. --clh]
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Sorry. My friend's address who wants the faq and info is jjsulliv@colby.edu Sorry about that folks. Jody -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jody Rebecca Colby College Majors: History/Sociology Class o' '94 E-Mail: jrgould@colby.edu samuel@paul.rutge...
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Hi, It's time to clean my shelf, all price include shipping, so you don't have to worry about it, just pay the amount you see. Name Cover Publisher Year Origin Now ---- ----- --------- ---- ------ --- The Ultimate DOS Heavy Programmer's Manu...
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Saab Sonnet III too I believe.
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What I mean is what I said. "What I want" does not automatically translate into "what I think is right." That is, it does not translate that way for me. If you reply that "I think it is ok to kill you because that is what I decided" then what that means is that for you "What I want" does translate into "what I ...
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [underlining mine/Quean Lutibelle] Yes, those who apply it hatefully would be better served if they if they could alter the Bible to reflect their views: Scene 1:...
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I have the Logitech hand scanner for the Mac. It uses a SCSI interface box that the standard scanner unit plugs into. I have tried my friend's IBM hand scanner with the scsi box and it works. See if you can get Logitech to sell you the scsi box by itself. Warning: most of the cost of Mac handscanners is contained ...
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It took three days to get to us, but I'll try anyway as I naturally haven't seen the answer. SAFE. The correct call is "Infield Fly, (batter out) if fair". Runners may advance at own risk. (Gotta tag up if caught, etc.) It is not a force, and the pop was not caught, so regardless of whether the SS tags 3B or 2B (it ...
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Not only the Sonett (correct spelling), but the 95 wagon and 96 sedan used a 1500 cc or 1700 cc V-4 from Ford of Germany. This particular motor had a 60 degree vee angle, a balance shaft and siamesed exhaust ports. This motor was later stretched into the V-6 commonly seen in the Capri. The V-4 could make pretty rea...
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Also,if they did come from the Oort cloud we would expect to see the same from other stars Oort Clouds.
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: : bit of it, you could take the tape over to a local ham operator's house : : and ask him for his opinion of what you're hearing. Most communities : : You cannot do that legally. However, you can ask a ham over to listen. : If the interference occurs at a specific time each day, then it would : be possible to do s...
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Well, -I've- been reading t.p.m. for a while and here is what I saw YOU write: >For balance, perhaps you should mention the mosques in Jerusalem that >were razed after the Israeli victory in 1967. An eye for an eye, I guess. Your statment clearly tries to "balance" Arab atrocities by noting a single incident b...
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Someone named Hansk asked about pictures. Well, there is an archive of portraits in xfaces format at ftp.uu.net. Henry Spencer's picture is there somewhere, along with several thousand others. I don't remember the path, though it should be easy to find. Remember, though, it seems to use both internet and uucp address...
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Don't know who scored, but the Isles (28-7 franchise record in playoff OT games) took game four by a score of 4-3 for their third consecutive OT win over the Capitals tonight at Uniondale. If you know, please post who scored for a Isles fan living in Atlanta:Hockey Hell. Lord Stan's a Uniondale Man! GO ISLES!
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Did your ENT also tell you that this procedure may remove warts from the soles of your feet and improve your sex life?
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So far, you have presented your opinions as opposed to mine. I would hardly take them as facts. I could give you hundreds of words in my mother tongue (Spanish), that are comonly use and you will never find in a dictionary. Even more, I could show you a lot of meanings that words in Spanish have different from tho...
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PSI makes an internal fax modem for the map portable (1-800-622-1722) but asks too much for it (retail $450). I'd buy an external and save about $350. there is a manufacturer that still makes INTERNAL HD's for the portable, they're listed in some of the catalog "magazines" for apple stuff you can find at bookst...
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#In article <1r3tqo$ook@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> # #>#>|>#>#Theism is strongly correlated with irrational belief in absolutes. Irrational #>#>|>#>#belief in absolutes is strongly correlated with fanatism. #># #>#(deletion) #># #>#>|Theism is correlated with fanaticism. I have neither said that all fanatism #>#>|is caused...
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Please reply to the seller below. For Sale: Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm 5G Tape Drive -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Writes 5G per 112M 8mm data grade tape UNcompressed Latest eeprom revs - fully compatible with Sun machines Black faceplate Seen Very Little Use (due to the fact that I have no 8mm tapes) Decided ...
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Could somebody please _email_ me some info on either what gif or iff file formats are, or where I can get such info? thanx
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Could someone tell me what the density of skull bone is or direct me to a reference that contains this info? I would appreciate it very much. Thanks. Vinay
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Dear Elias, I counted at least 4 such answers in public (plus whatever private email replies you may have received), yet you refuse to accept anything. Perhaps you are better off in the private world of the "Center for Policy Research" in Iceland where you can define "sensible" in whatever way makes you feel most c...
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If there was a large propane tank, and it was breached, don't you think that there would be an identifiable explosion? Further, the BD members have as much reason to lie as the Gov't. They'd only autopsied one body when this information was released. I wouldn't doubt though The only evidence that exists...
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Hello, I am looking for a HP28s or HP28sx calculator. If anyone has one they are getting rid of please let me know. reply to jmparkin@mtu.edu thanks, Jeremy --
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I am looking for the email address of the World Health Organization, in particular the address for the Department of Nursing or the Chief Scientist for Nursing: Dr. Miriam Hirschfeld. The snail-mail address I have is the following: World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland P...
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Chronic persistent hepatitis is usually diagnosed when someone does a liver biopsy on a patient that has persistently elevated serum transaminases months after a bout of acute viral hepatitis, or when someone is found to have persistently elevated transaminases on routine screening tests. The degree of elevation (in...
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Hi everyone, I just had a quick question. Does anyone know whether or not the MacIIvx supports the new SCSI-2 form, or do any Macs support it. Thanks for reading, Wes
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I'd like to get a system running OS/2 2.0 GA talking to a network of PCs running Windows for Workgroups. Acting as a server would be wonderful, but client access would be enough. Can I run WFW 's NET utilities in a DOS box? Or is there a way to actually get OS/2 to talk to WFW? Will OS/2 LanMan clients talk to WFW?...
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Aside to the moderator: I won't quote any of it, but there are several errors in the article. Not things that are just differences of opinion, but the writer just plain has his facts confused. For example, Kip McKean was *asked* to come to the Lexington church by the leaders there. He brought no team. He actually h...
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Well, I dived in feet first and reverse engineered the .PRJ file as much as I needed to - extracted the mapping icon information - which is when it dawned on me that 3D Studio is useless for my needs. I need a mapping icon per applied texture. I want to use a special purpose graphics computer for rendering the 3...
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bruce@liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens) suggests different levels of acceptance of homosexuality: I would add 4': our churches should accept homosexual orientation but hold all people to certain standards of sexual behavior. Promiscuity, abuse of power relationships, harrassment, compulsivity are equally out of place in the...
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My CD300 (external, just arrived) has 2-8 plus Cinderella & Game Demo. --Pinghua
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About a year and half ago when I first started riding, I took a MSF course. I have taken those lessons to heart. Over the past year I have had only a few near collisions with traffic morons on four wheels. Yesterday I got to add another to the list but with this one I felt the most helpless. I am sitting at a light...
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If you've got a good propulsion system that's not useful for deceleration, sure you can use chemical rockets for that part... but even just doing the deceleration chemically is a major headache. We're talking seriously high cruising velocities; taking the velocity down nearly to zero for a Pluto orbit isn't easy with...
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This is normally the case, but make sure you get a board with a plug in oscillator as you will screw up your warranty if you start to solder the board.
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[much more deleted] Here is how! Lets write a DOCUMENT which includes all the reasons we oppose Clipper, in clear, concise, non-techincal manner. I urge everyone of you to take the (very simple) "start" below and repost it with changes. Let the text evolve until we reach something most of us like. Then, all of yo...
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Hi! I have a question which is not directly related to X Screen Saver. What X Screen Saver does is to blank the screen if it has been idle for some time. I don't want my screen to go blank but to get locked or call xlock program. Is there a parallel call to XSetScreenSaver() which locks my screen or call my lock ...
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I have the following CD's for sale at $6 each ($5 for 3 or more) except where a special price is noted. Melissa Etheridge never enough Sinead O'Connor I do not want... Chicago 19 Peter Cetera One More Story Eric Clapton Layla from Unplug...
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I'll tell you all that I know about chromium. But before I do, I want to get a few things off my chest. I just got blasted in e-mail for my kidney stone posts. Kidney stones are primarily caused by diet, as is heart disease and cancer. When I give dietary advise, it is not intended to encourage people reading ...
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It depends. If, in the judgment of the umpire the batter made no attempt to avoid getting hit, the batter is awarded first for a base on balls. If the umpire rules he did try to get out of the way, he's awarded first because of a hit batsman. Ryan Robbins Penobscot Hall University of Maine
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What's so special about this label, that their discs are going for upwards of $6 more than most retail outlets average prices for CDs?
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I read in a recent Tidbits(171-2?) about the possibility of putting a 68030 in a PB100. I am interested in doing so, but would like to know more about it. Does it involve just replacing the 68000 that is on the daughterboard, or does it involve getting a new daughter- board. Also, would the 68030 be able to run QT with...
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What about black hispanics? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Man, you had better do some SERIOUS reading. I really, really doubt that you meant to say this. Mike
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This is a question aimed at those who have done some server code hacking: I am attempting to add a working SaveScreen function to a new server. I have been able to get the screen to blank out properly, and through debugging I can see that my savescreen function is being called with on=0, which (for some arcane reas...
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Have Belfour and Roenick done another disappearing act at chips are down time? When I saw them it looked like the Blackhawks' defense might carry them along way in the playoffs. Well they held St. Louis to 17 shots in game 2 and lost.
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Cause and cures for fever blisters respectfully requested. Thanks! :-D iane
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^^^^^^^^ In four of the five games Finns have played, the goalie has been chosen the best player of the opposing team. (In the fifth, the finnish goalie, Ketterer was elected the best Finn) Has this to do with the goalies having good days in these games, or are the finnish players just lousy scorers??? Any...
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