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This is the fifth request to find out about a Cardinals mailing list. It looks like one does not exist. If anyone has the initiative, creating a list might be a worthwhile activity.
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: The willingness of true believers : to die for their belief, be it in Jesus or Jim Jones, is : well-documented, so martyrdom in and of itself says little. It does say something about the depth of their belief. Religion has both deluded believers and con men. The difference is often how far they will follow their b...
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It's the applications that do this. Unfortunately, even the applets that ship with Win31 seem to have this problem (I've seen it in Solitaire, for example). None that I know of. If an application doesn't give back the resources, they are lost and gone forever, pending a restart of Windows. If the applicat...
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That's right. Despite claims that someone at Kent State fire a shotgun at the the soldiers, the only projectiles that anyone can prove where sent in the direction of the soldiers were rocks.
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Since this is alt.atheism, I hope you don't mind if we strongly disagree... : The fact is God could cause you to believe anything He wants you to. : But think about it for a minute. Would you rather have someone love : you because you made them love you, or because they wanted to : love you. The responsibility ...
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No, they do not work well. My doctor started using one recently, and I thought the concept was so amazing that I bought one too. The thing works by reading the infrared emissions from the ear drum. The ear drum is hotter than the ear canal walls, so you have to point the thing very carefully. This means tugging o...
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nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes... The rest of the story seems to be that the agreement for the broadcast was for prime-time, and that Koresh never even heard it played. Wasn't even tuned in to the radio when it aired -- so no reason to come out. If later they had given him a copy of the grossly twisted...
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Is this "White House e-mail address" really working yet? Someone posted such an address on CompuServe a few months ago, but apparently the White House wasn't really set up to recive hundreds (thousands?) of messages a day to that account and didn't want people to use it yet. So is this MCI address something the people...
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As I understand, that number is deceptive. The reason is that the money cost was in non-oil sales for the most part. Iraq still is not allowed to sell oil, or do many of the things under the initial sanctions, but is still surviving. Of the ~93% (I have heard figures closer to 80%, but I won't quibble your figures...
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Hey! What's this? We agree! No platoon advantage (Sabo vs. Samuel). Both players have a reputation of being excellent fastball hitters, and both have a reputation of being fooled too often with slow curves and change ups. Sabo has more power, and a little bit of a better batting eye. Samuel is noted as an ag...
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I'd hardly call the current Pluto Fast Flyby proposal "too large" (if the new technology insertion currently taking place succeeds, the S/C mass will drop to 110-120 kg) or "too expensive" ($400 million [FY92 $] for two S/C), especially when compared to other NASA planetary missions. This proposal would work only if...
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: >|> >(2) Having Bonds batting behind Williams means that Matt will get : >|> > more good pitches to hit. This is important since he struggles : >|> > so much with breaking balls. Opposing pitchers don't want to : >|> > walk Williams to get to Bonds. : > : >I have to wonder if this "good hitter behi...
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It's about time the boys got it together!! They were outworked and outplayed by the Wings in the first two games. But Burns must have kicked their behinds cause they sure came out in full gear (or is that high gear?) in game 3. Except for a 10-15 minute stretch in the 2nd period, they outskated and outworked the Wings...
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It is NOT a homeopathic remedy. Improvement began in a few months. I am allergic to bermuda grass and if anyone nearby was mowing a lawn my nose would start to run. Now I can walk right by and it doesn't bother me at all. The same success with desert ragweed.
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This is not flame, or abuse, nor do I want to start another thread (this is, after all, supposed to be about IMAGE PROCESSING).
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I have often thought about, if its possible to have a powerfull laser on earth, to light at the Moon, and show lasergraphics at the surface so clearly that you can see it with your eyes when there is a new moon. How about a Coca Cola logo at the moon, easy way to target billions of people. Do you know if its possible...
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[I write:] #>>> Imagine that 1000000 Alterian dollars turn up in your bank account every #>>> month. Suppose further that this money is being paid to you by (a) your #>>> big-hearted Alterian benefactor, or (b) a bug in an Alterian ATM. Let's #>>> suppose that this is a true dichotomy, so P(a)+P(b)=1. Trouble is, Alt...
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[Stuff deleted] Would Mr. Hart please explain how one could get every nation on earth and every corporation to agree that astronomers own the night sky without `coercion'. Remember that not every nation follows the English common law. In most countries, for most of history, it was probably true that the rulers `ow...
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+>The paranoid assertion that the BATF fired first in an unprovoked +>assault assumes that the BATF were on a death wish. Had they +>expected the B-D to be anything other than peacefull citizens who +>would accept a search authorized by a court they would have turned up +>in a tank and broken the door down on day...
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Most DOS X servers are terribly slow to use in my experience - and no, I guess performance would be pretty bad. I believe the discussion is valid for an X server on a decent workstation.
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After setting up a very large (>4 pages) table in Word for Windows I asked word to print it to my HP laserjet II -- worked fine at first. After much editing of the table contents (but not structure) output requests now kick the LJ into manual feed mode for the document containing the table. Other documents without tab...
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[obnoxious name-calling deleted] Ok, who wants rm off of here? I say we get his net privleges revoked. Any seconds?
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IMO, the influence of Stalin, or for that matter, Ayn Rand, invalidates your assumption that theism is the factor to be considered. Gullibility, blind obedience to authority, lack of scepticism, and so on, are all more reliable indicators. And the really dangerous people - the sources of fanaticism - are often no...
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Think for a moment about the technology required to do that. By the time they could make the Earth's sky look like Las Vegas, the people could afford to go backpacking on the Moon. Round trip costs for 500 kg to the Moon would be about the same as 5000 kg in a Low Earth "advertising" orbit: Very roughly the same co...
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Note: the following article is submitted on behalf of someone (Frank daniels) who has difficulty posting to s.r.c, email replies to daniels@math.ufl.edu I am unable to post to the bitnet groups. Here is a capsule history of the Shepherding/Discipleship Movement in the Churches of Christ (i.e. Crossroads/Boston): ...
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He's a Canadian "thing". Former coach of the Boston Bruins and Colorado Rockies. From the summaries that get posted I gather that his ongoing beef this year has been the conventional wisdom that Canadian hockey is doomed to be second or third rate behind the perceived emergence of the U.S. and European programs. Aft...
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Wake up and smell the Norris!! Rick Zombo was traded to the Blues for Vince Riendo (sp?) last season.
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The paper was distributed (against the wishes of the NSA - I have a copy with a few 'illicit distribution' footnotes scribbled on it :-), and eventually published at one of the crypto conferences. Things were looking good. Then Xerox patented the algorithms. <Plonk!> I don't know of anything which uses them. Als...
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Nope. Your problem is either being caused by excessive voltage drop in the long cable from the generator, or just plain not having enough power. I would suspect that those amps are going to draw a lot of current on short peaks. You can try using larger (and shorter) cables to the generator, or try strapping the amp...
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
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[...] Does this imply the German tone dialing is compatible with the American one? I know at least the British system is not -- it is supposedly close enough though that an American phone will work. But my modem (American) has a special setting for British standards... Michael
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I am working for a company which has only one connection to the Internet. This is through a firewall gateway (unix workstation). I would like to be able to telnet to a host outside the company and set the DISPLAY to my PC which is running an X-terminal emulator (eXceed/W). The display can be set to the gateway workstat...
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If the BT phone system is anything to go by...me thinks this should be approached with great caution. Mark
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I am selling the following sets of comics. Listed are the guide prices (Overstreet, or Comics Values Monthly or Wizard if I couldn't find it in Overstreet) as well as my price. Feel free to ask me about single items from the sets, as I often have extra copies of some of the items in the set. All comics are Near Mi...
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Posted for a friend without posting access (but with e-mail access...) ---------------------------- Help, anyone! I have a X client that is abnormally terminated with the following message: XIO: fatal IO error 22 (Invalid argument) on X server "xxxxx:0.0" after 10058 requests (10057 known processed) with 78...
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For Sale: 386SX-16Mz, 8 meg RAM!, 120 meg Maxtor IDE hard disk, AMI BIOS STB PowerGraph SVGA, 1MB (up to 1024x768x256) LOOP 14" color SVGA monitor (.28 dot pitch) 1.2 & 1.44 diskette drives Desktop case, turbo & reset switches, Hard Drive LED 101 keyboard, 2 Ser...
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From: Center for Policy Research <cpr> Subject: Labour's enclaves policy.IMPORTANT Labour's enclaves policy in the occupied territories by Israel Shahak publ. in Middle East International, London, 30.4.93 It is not difficult to discover Israel's policy towards the Palestinians at any given time. It can be easily i...
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Bzzzzt. THANK you for playing, but obviously you are not reading the material as it is presented. According to the report I've got in my hands, the Newsweek article (which reported that "2 to 3 percent" of the population is gay) used the criteria of "No heterosexual contact in the past year." But at...
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Those are pretty typical, I believe.
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I'd like to add that I think Canadian hockey fans like Don because his kind of hockey (the hockey he promotes in his TV appearances) is the kind that they think used to get played in the old 6 team NHL. So there's a kind of nostagia for the old days, before expansion, the Soviet series, Gretzky and even Bobby Orr, whe...
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Feeding frenzy!!! Ah, 'tis April in rec.moto and the newbies are bitin'! Catch all you want, we'll make more!
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Hijaak claims to convert .dxf to .iff, although Hijaak claims some stuff that I have never gotten to work (for example, not long ago I tried to convert some .iff files from an Amiga video toaster (using CrossDos, so my PC could read the disks) int Targa files. Hijaak made some gorgeous 1.5 megabyte Targa files from...
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... I must object to the characterization of those opposed to the government's handling of the Waco situation as "gun supporters". Your argument tries to paint the BATF critics as right-wing gun nuts, and just mixes up two issues. I am one of the BATF/FBI critics, and yet I am a liberal and just as anti-gun as you a...
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Sorry, this must be a FAQ, but it's a quick fix that I need to take care of before a demo in less than 24 hours from now! Couldn't think of a better place for a rapid answer than comp.sys.mac.hardware. I need to connect the Serial A of a Compac 386/20 PC to the printer port of a Mac IIci. Does anyone have handy ...
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... The so-called Athanasian Creed has never been a recognized standard of faith in the Orthodox Church. It was introduced (without the Filioque) in certain service-books in the 17th and 18th centuries at a time when there was a strong Western influence on Orhtodoxy.
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My Windows 3.1 installation has somehow gone awry. Whenever I try to run Windows now, the logo comes up OK, but when it tries to enter Windows itself, the screen gets totally screwed up as if it's in the wrong graphics mode or something. It's completely illegible although functional as I can still exit to DOS with an...
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If you brighten up the dark part of CV043015.GIF with your viewer you will see two other objects near the upper left part of the moon. One is actually between the weather satellite and the moon.
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The temperature of intergalactic space (or intercluster or intersupercluster space) would be very, very close to the microwave background temperature, 2.73 kelvins. I recall that in interstellar space in our neighborhood of the galaxy it's something like 4 K. Is that what you were looking for?
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Frankly, I'm sick of being lied to. It was bad before Clinton, and now it's worse. Here, listen to Ricks' ( FBI ) words, ONE-HALF hour before the fire: " Come out with your hands up. This matter is NOW OVER. " Now, I hear Ricks ( and REno ) claiming that this was just "anoth...
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The concrete floor accelerates the problem because it is a heat sink and a colder lead-acid battery self-discharges at a slightly faster rate. That's why the old wives' tale of sitting it on a piece of wood on the floor works to help keep from killing the battery as fast ---- it insulates the battery thermally. It you...
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# Recent studies have shown that the number of men who have # engaged in homosexual activities in the last decade is 2.3% # and the number of men who are exclusively homosexual is 1.1%. # These figures are much less than those that came from earlier # studies that showed that homosexuality among men is a lot # higher. ...
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\\). Silly you. Don't you know the only division at Apple allowed to use the Cray is the legal department?
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fc> Exactly what fraction of current research is done on the big, fc> visable light telescopes? From what I've seen, 10% or less fc> (down from amlost 100% 25 years ago.) That sounds like "dying" fc> to me... That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. Infrared astronomy didn't really get started until somethin...
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Hi there kids and kidlets... It your ol' pal the KotPM (Keeper of the Pin Money!) I've got good new and bad news... Good news - I got laid..er... The pins will be coming, to use the computer software phrase, "real soon now" Bad news - Right after we placed our order, the company upped its minimum order for...
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Someone mentioned a while ago that the Duos were scheduled for a 10-18% price reduction, according to 'newsbytes'. Is this definite? Does anyone know when it will take effect? And what is 'newsbytes'? Thanks.
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Novell 386dx16 motherboard with cpu, 4 megs of memory and I/O ports for $160 + shipping / firm. let me know if you are interested.
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Does anyone have a listing of Pontiac's three-letter option codes and what they mean? Thanks. -Oliver --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Scholz DG4NEM Graduate Student of Computer Sciences at the University of...
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# #However, monogamous homosexual male sex is so rare that for practical # #purposes, homosexuality spreads AIDS. # #-- # #Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine! # #Relations between people to be by mutual consent, or not at all. # You fucking homophobic moron!!!!!!!!! What about I...
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It would help if his OBP were higher than his batting average. Yes, the April 12 USA Today lists Le Grand Chapeau as having a .422 batting average and a .413 OBP. That's on 19-for-45 hitting with 0 (zip, nil, nada) walks. The reason a lot of us are down on Galarraga is that he's has a long history of showing that this...
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[much deleted] [much deleted] It bugs me when I see this kind of nonsense. First, there is no reasonable evidence linking Masonry to ancient Egypt, or even that it existed prior to the late 14th century (and there's nothing definitive before the 17th). Second, worship of Osiris is not, nor has it ev...
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"I have no question that our plan was correct?" Months to get ready, unlimited funds, knowledge of a threatened mass suicide by fire, and no fire trucks on hand? This is "extreme professionalism and care?" I can understand the first screwed-up raid by the BATF. They underestimated the opposition, whic...
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I'm personally expecting Moog. Blue played fairly decent (alright spectacular at times) in his 1/2 a game but Moog has the experience. What Did Blue have going for him, nothing, What would happen in a Tie game, the prssure is then on the Goal tender to insure that you keep the puck out (at the very least until your te...
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I was wondering if a group called 'sci.pharmacology' would be relevent. This would be used for a more formal discussion about pharmacological issues (pharmacodynamics, neuropharmacology, etc.) Just an informal proposal (I don't know anything about the net.politics for adding a newsgroup, etc.) [more alt.psychoactive...
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Well, here goes. The first item of business is to establish the importance space life sciences in the whole of scheme of humankind. I mean compared to football and baseball, the average joe schmoe doesn't seem interested or even curious about spaceflight. I think that this forum can make a major change in that lack...
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ESPN is pathetic, I have been watching everybody complain about ESPN's coverage and I agree with all of you. Might I suggest that we are getting all worked up over nothing. We ALL knew that ESPN's coverage was going to suck. I mean have you ever watched during the regular season Sportscenter coverage of hockey? It s...
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Bufflo Sabres has just finished their great four wins over Boston. All Sabres players contribute to those great wins but those talent players including Mogily, Fuhr, Kemhlev and Lafontin impressed me most. Their skills showed the art of sport, not like the garbage speech from the coach's corner.
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My apologies if this is a re-post - I submitted it on Friday, but got a message that my post might not have gone out. Considering the confusing spitting contest over 'rights', (there are TOO inalienable rights damn it! The majority can be just as destructive of liberty as a despot), I suspect that my post did no...
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The NY Times is in error. This is not simply my opinion; even the Arab sources that I use do not make this claim. This, of course, is assuming that the NY Times was refering to the islands that I named above. Of those islands, only Abu Musa has been in dispute and Iranian occupation of that island predates the exist...
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Accounts of Anti-Armenian Human Right Violations in Azerbaijan #015 Prelude to Current Events in Nagorno-Karabakh +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | | | . . . They beat up the husband, dra...
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Yup, I think you're right. My mistake. Now, how do I make an "R" backwards using a computer keyboard? I'll bet the gods know how (this is alt.atheism, after all). Tell you what, if all my "R"s start coming out backwards when I type from now on, I'll become a believer. (And that's not asking for miracles. If I as...
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What we call today the "Old Testament" was being written up to approx- imately 168 BCE, according to most modern scholars. Aside from the book of Daniel, the whole OT predates Alexander (the Great). These books were written (predominantly) in Hebrew. There were also other books being written at about this time and l...
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Message-ID: <1993Apr26.202714.4519@Virginia.EDU> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 20:27:14 GMT First, the following two quite normal phrases: ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ and then he shows us what HE means by "intelligent and unoffending manner" and "INTELLIGENT conversation"...
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I have found a situation which I think is a bug in X or Motif, but I'm hoping is really just a mistake on my part. Does anyone know anything about this problem........ - I am using an XmTextField, and setting its XmNvalue to a hardcoded text string (ascii or Kanji) either via XtSetValues or XmTextSetString. The p...
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I definitely do. That's why I don't like going to see games played on artificial turf :-) Well, your idea of "interesting" differs from mine. I think batting practice is interesting, for example, and make a special effort to get to the game very early in order to see it. I think the delaying tactics of batters, ...
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I don't remember the formula's off hand as it has been awhile since I took aerodynamics and haven't used the stuff since. The Cd is related to the drag force which is what effects top speed and fuel consumption. When the drag force on the car or aircraft is greater than what the vehicle's engine can overcome it h...
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My wife has requested that I poll the Sages of Usenet to see what is known about the use of chromium in weight-control diet suppliments. She has seen multiple products advertising it and would like any kind real information. My first impulse was "Yuck! a metal!" but I have zero data on it. What do you know?
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No joke. Here's another copy for you to save. NPR, hmmm? Did they mention the part about "The fact of law enforcement access to the escrowed keys will not be concealed from the American public." ...? ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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A program called Mac-ette allows you to read Mac 3.5" high-density disks on a DOS machine. You can get the program from simtel-20. I'm not sure of the directory location.
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A-hem. Two words: Russell Davis. Playing in the cavern at Albany (AA) last year (375/410/385 down the alleys and to center), Davis went .285/.355/.483 with 22 homers. There aren't any small parks on the road in the Eastern League, either. He's 23(!) and his MLE was .258/.308/.416, 17 HR. I have no fielding statistics,...
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[some deletions] Well, we agree on the last part.:-) One of the basic things you need to have in a statistic to be able to predict a player's performance on it in the future is for there to be a correlation from year to year. A player's batting average is correlated fairly well from year to year. A player's abilit...
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I would appreciate any thoughts on what makes a planet habitable for Humans. I am making asumptions that life and a similar atmosphere evolve given a range of physical aspects of the planet. The question is what physical aspects simply disallow earth like conditions. eg Temperature range of 280K to 315K (where temp i...
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[much munching and editing to get to the point] [Brett D. Sherron-Ferrell writes] [Mike Timbol responds] While I do not think he is lying, I also feel hesitant to take anybody "on their word" unless they can attribute a source for thier claims. With all the FUD and misinformations and misconceptions and outright li...
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Hi there, I'm looking for tools that can make X programming easy. I would like to have a tool that will enable to create X motif GUI Interactivly. Currently I'm Working on a SGI with forms. A package that enables to create GUI with no coding at all (but the callbacks). Any help will be appreciated.
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OK, if I post where this comes from, will people stop sending email asking where I negotiated the deal? ;-) The deal is from "International Computer and Networking" in CA. (I saw the ad int he back of MacWorld and MacUser)... phone number is 310-441-9181 and the deal may have changed since a few weeks ago, since they...
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-- In 1972, they lowered the engine compression so that it would run on regular gas (not to mention the addition of emission controls). The '72 also added pop-out rear quarter windows... Alot of parts are available for the GT from C & R Small Cars in CT and used from Bill Daley's Opel Parts in MA.... ------------...
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I am finding the volume of stuff on rec.sport.baseball overwhelming -- ca. 200 posts/day. An effect of this is that a backlog builds up, and many posts get dumped from my system. I could probably fix that--but don't have the time to read them all in any event. My guess is that mine is a common problem. I have some ...
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From: "Phil G. Fraering" <pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu> >> Finally: this isn't the Bronze Age, [..] >> please try to remember that there are more human activities than >> those practiced by the Warrior Caste, the Farming Caste, and the >> Priesthood. F Baube responds; Right, the Profiting Caste is blessed by God,...
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Please....Apples to Apples. Nt is a beta, and as such cannot be accepted as a competitor to Win3.1-it's not on the market. Same for OS/2 2.1, for a couple or weeks...... BTW, cute sig.
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I am not exactly known as a Flower Child Pacifist, but lets call cowpoop cowpoop. "The peaceful attempt to serve the warrant" consisted of the following actions, in order: 1) BATF agents forcing their entry of the "compound" through second story windows. 2) BATF agents loosing some grenades (allegedly "stun" or "f...
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I'm having trouble with installing a second IDE drive on a Promise IDE caching controller. The first drive is a conner 3204 and works fine. The second drive is a conner 30174, it is currently unjumpered to be the slave drive. The problem is the slave drive is recognized but is reported back as having no free space. Di...
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Hi. Can anyone please give me some ftp sites to get IPAS processes for 3D Studio 2.0? Thanks. +Warren =8^)
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Please help. I have an IBM-compatible notebook computer with an LCD VGA screen. While I was working with it this morning, the screen started to flicker a little, which I thought was odd since I do use a surge-protector for my computer and all peripherals. It only did this for a second and then stopped. I left the r...
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hausner@qucis.queensu.ca (Alejo Hausner) Pontificated: To split a split hair, I believe that teflon (-CF4- monomer) was "discovered" by accident when someone I don't remember found what he thought was a liquid (or gas?) had turned to a solid... It just happend to fit the bill for the above use... I'm crossposting to...
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Hello, I install one wav driver: pc-speaker, then install mpeg 2.0 phoenix.oulu.fi:/pub/incoming/mpeg2_0/mpegexe.zip --/ in Windows 3.1. but when I load one MPEG file and make sound type to WAV or MPEG,it always say error. when I load one mpeg file which have wav file( ~.wav),then select so...
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Please, read my post carefully, I am saying that lift the arms emargo and let the MUSLIMS defend themselves. The point is these Europians "civilized countries" neither want to get intervene militarily themselves and nor they like to see the muslims of the world to help the oppressed. (Remember what happened almost...
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Hallo all...my girlfriend and I will be travelling across the US this summer, so we won't be using our tickets to return to Hawaii. Please buy them. The tickets are one-way, leaving Peoria, IL on May 17. It connects to the main route in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and from there goes on to Honolulu...you'll be in Honolulu...
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Hi I'm new to imaging, and my advisor and I would like to do some 3D reconstructions. We take slides (biological), and image them on a 486. Then the software allows us to trace the outline of the objects we want to save. The outlines are stored as a TIFF file. We would like to convert a group of these outlines in...
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Geico has purchased radar guns in several states, I know they have done it here in CT. I have also heard horror stories about people that have been insured by Geico for years and then had 1 accident and were immediately dropped. And once you've been dropped by any insruance company you become labled a high risk, an...
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