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I can understand your anger about the German audience. I mean, it was the Finnish team they played and they were taking advantage of the ridiculous penalties the Canadien ref called in the last period. The Germans got a match penalty and a 10 minutes misconduct for practically nothing and seconds after that the German...
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but theology is full of reason even if it is, as we believe, based on false premises etc etc. hold on there: no meaning to "consciousness" or "mind" or "self"?! what illogicality? since when is, for instance, (non-behaviourist) psychology a pipe dream? Surely the major purpose of the science of psychology is t...
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hey folks, I'm fairly new to these groups, tho' some have heard from me before. I'd like to get your comments on a question that has been on my mind a lot: What morals/ethics apply to dreams and out-of-body incidents? In normal dreams, you can't control anything, so obviously you aren't morally responsible for your ...
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Base Unit 1 Controller All Cables and hookups Games: Kieth Courage Legenary Axe Fantasy Zone Victory Run Wrestling Challenge Blazing Lasers Military...
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[..] Possibly the parallel just stems from your tending to use bad sources... Anyway, don't you think that similarity is rather shallow? You're only looking at the surface, at the way of argumentation. And now you should perhaps go a little deeper and try to find the difference, for example, find out whether you ca...
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I know nothing about Sun's but replacing pieces of libraries, shared or not, is straight forward on RS/6000's (all releases). Extract the appropriate pierce with ar; rebind the .o; and replace with ar. See Info for details.
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From article <1r0mhtINNa59@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>, by dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard): I noticed that too. Special agent (asshole actually) Ricks stated that David Koresh had "explosives that could blow up an armored vehicle 40 feet into the air." It looked like to me that the BDs had plenty of opp...
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I is a strong deterent to the teens that are executed. They won't do that again! This policy cuts way down on repeat offenders. Please do not flame me - I don't agree with capital punishment for teen's. They are also unsupervised. With proper supervision, they would not be throwing rocks. If parents cannot pro...
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4. Annex Gaza to Egypt. 5. Annex Gaza to Israel 6. Maintain the status quo. 7. Partition Gaza into a Jewish and an Arab state. I don't necisarily support any of these, I just felt like pointing out there are way more than three solutions. Next time, maybe we'll see some research into them.... Adam Adam Shostack ...
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From psc@sei.cmu.edu (Peter Capell) on rec.martial-arts... >I'm sure such weapons have been developed. Our society does not, >however, condone their possession or use. Actually, Joe, I wrote the above. Peter was responding to my article. I'm actually rather confused by your post. I suppose I didn't make...
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News: ===== For the first time all season, the Flames are now injury-free. The only player remaining on the limp is center Carey Wilson who, even when healthy, is not a major part of the team. Trent Yawney did not score a goal all season until the last regular season game against San Jose. He potted his first of the...
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I have recently purchased a PB170 and have no more use for my RasterOps 8XL. It has been a great card. I should have traded it with my IIci, but I forgot. My forgetfulness si your gain. Great 8 bit video that supports: 640x480 (Apple 13"/14") 640x870 (Apple Portrait) 800x600 (Silly DOS monitor resolution) 1024x768 ...
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FWB distributes HDT Personal Edition (HDT = Hard Drive Toolkit), which is what I own. This is less fancy than the "full" version, but good enough for what you and I want to do. Casa Blanca offers Drive7, but I'm not that familiar with it. I *think* that both Drive7 and HDT PE can be had for around US$50. I've used Si...
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I too am of the same sentiment Bart, but realistically, this town DOESN'T WANT TO pay for quality player and hence we are loosing these people left, right and center. Labour is also responsible for their boycott Pocklington movement. I would like the Oilers to stay, but realistically, given this situation, it'...
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Hello Xperts out there. I've just built X11R5 for SunOS 4.1.1/SPARC. I have gcc-2.2 and I'd like to use its 64-bit capability to generate an X11 release which will render to the frame buffer using store-double (64-bit) machine code. Can anyone tell me which directories/source files/ compiler switches to begin with? th...
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Hi, I have been told by a local sales that Asante has come out with this LCIII PDS Ethernet adapter with an optional 68882 socket on the board. My question is will the FPU performance degrade will I put the 68882 on the PDS card socket instead of on the motherboard itself? Intuitively, the math co-p...
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I looked back at this, and asked some questions of various people and got the following information which I had claimed and you pooh-poohed. The US has not sold Iraq any arms. Their navy is entirely made of F-USSR vessels. Their airforce (not including stuff captured from Kuwait which I am not as sure about), doesn'...
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Spring break, I went through the four corners area and back. The most beautiful stop I made was in Utah at the Needles Overlook. Though this is a bit further east than where you appear to be going, I highly recommend it. IMHO it is far more beautiful than the Grand Canyon. It was not well marked, but was one of fe...
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only (to was mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
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Yes it invokes the associated application. That takes but 10 seconds?
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: Hi All, : Would anyone out there in 'net-land' happen to have an : authentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that : is used to adorn Gyro's and Souvlaki? : Thanks, I have a receipe at home that was posted to me by one of our fellow netters about a month ago. I am recalling this from memory but I think ...
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Um... they've sold the Cray. They realised that spending two years on numbercrunching the finite stress analysis figures for the complex injection-molded cases was not the way to go, and was holding up development work. Especially when the first FEA model for the portable left out the battery cover, and it had to be r...
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Has anyone noticed that all this happened since Chris Perez was gifted with a membership? Anyone for rec.motorcycles.beemer.club.whiner? I know this might get confused with K-whiners, but maybe there's a connection?
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of an interface to od ( octal dump ), I assume it would be called xod. Actually, any viewer for a core file will do. I looked at export ( @ mit ) in the index of /contrib, but didn't find anything relevant.
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No, what it means is that I, like a majority of environmental scientists/researchers, agree that El Nino/La Nina and the Southern Oscillations are the systems involoved in that climatic phenomena categorized by humans as a drought(1988). Furthermore, in response to an earlier message, the 1992 U.S. est. output of su...
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A search for illegally held weapons (IF there were any, no evidence yet produced to this effect) does not justify firing into a house with women and children, either. It also does not justify shooting first without identifying oneself (the ATF and FBI have done this before, so don't say they haven't, please) or produc...
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Oh, yeah. This is a fine place. We haven't had the "why does concrete kill lead-acid batteries" thread in at least six months. The concrete simply sucks all the electrons out of the battery and drains them into the ground. Another explanation, implausible as it is, is that the lead-acid battery needs to be perio...
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(deletion) Bogus. I just said that theism is not the only factor for fanatism. The point is that theism is *a* factor. That's a claim you have to support. Please note that especially in the field of theism, the leaders believe what they say. That's a straw man. And as usually in discussions with you...
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>If this idea goes through, it's the thin end of the wedge. Soon >companies will be doing larger, and more permanant, billboards in the >sky. I wouldn't want a world a few decades from now when the sky >looks like Las Vegas. That would _really_ make me sad. Think for a moment about the technology re...
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If you check the news today, (AP) the "authorities also found a state-of-the-art automatic machine gun that investigators did not know was in the cult's arsenal." [Carl Stern, Justice Department] I imagine the authorities know the difference between semi and fully automatic and probably knew weather the guns were leg...
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Here we are with the Sabres up 2-0 to the Bruins and the Sabres' farm team, the Rochester Amerks, on their way to the Calder Cup (urp!) and what kind of hockey coverage are we getting? The same Penguins/Devils every other day crap that everyone else gets. What's worse, the SportsChannel coverage of the Islanders appear...
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We just received an AppleOne Color Scanner for our lab. However, I am having trouble getting reasonable scanned output when printing a scanned photo on a LaserWriter IIg. I have tried scanning at a higher resolution and the display on the screen appears very nice. However, the printed version is coming out ugly! ...
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Correct, we have no parallax measurements on the bursts. Therefore, we can't tell whether they're slightly extra solar or not! (which means that parallax can't tell us whether or not it's real close.)
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This week, many of you have asked about my earlier postings on OT, NT and Intertestiment exegesis on the homosexual issue. I have refered you to the FAQ files, which I find out, no longer contains them. They are too long for me to mail to each of you, each article, but will try to get them back on the FAQ file. Be...
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Does anyone else make low radiation emission monitors besides NEC? How do they compare to NECs (quality and emission-wise)? TIA, Les
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Interesting that Janet Reno has publically announced that we need steal ourselves for more Wacos. I wonder if I can get the gasoline concession. Yup. Kill that bastard! Ah, yes. The ILLEGAL helicopter, searchign for the non-existent PCP lab. I remember it well, even...
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I believe it is illegal to send any cryptographic code out of the country without an export license. (Others will correct me if this is inaccurate.) Dunno if you'd get one for the particular code you have; the only way to find out is to apply for a license. Note that you need to distinguish between what is legal to ...
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Am I correct in assuming that the science instruments buffer their acquired data in onboard RAM, which is then downloaded upon receipt of the MRO command?
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This is also being replied to via e-mail. I dialed my university librarian, and he looked it up: Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, CA 92350 I don't know an Internet address for them, but they can be reached by telephone at (714) 824-4300. Good luck.
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: Hello : I've got an old Trident 8800CS SVGA card, but lacking suitable drivers : for windows 3.1. The drivers for the 8900 series seem to be incompatible. : Does anyone have an idea of where to get these drivers? Address for an : ftp-site would be nice. : Thanks in advance : Jouni : _____________________________...
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Here are the ones I can remember offhand: KDKA 1020 AM Pittsburgh Penguins WABC 770 AM New Jersey Devils WBBM 780 AM Chicago Blackhawks WJM (?) 720 AM Detroit Redwings KMOX 1120 AM St. Louis Blues Are the Flyers on 1210? That's all I can think of.
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I've got a very nice collection of historical books on medical quackery, and on the topic of massage this is a recurring theme. Ordinary massage is intended to make a person feel better, especially if they have muscular or joint problems. But -- like chiropracty -- there are some practitioners who take the technique...
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On the subject of the V4,Ford in the UK used V4 engines exstensively in their Ford Transit vans.This brings back a memory from the seventies.I played in a band at the time and for something like 180 pounds four of us bought a 1967 "tranny" to cart the gear around in.It was in terrible shape (cosmetically) because it's ...
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Heck, I seem to feel like that *every* time I eat out. Including in the cafeteria at work. About half the time, the headache intensifies until nothing will make it go away except throwing up. Ick. As you might imagine, I don't eat out a lot. I guess my tolerance for food additives has plummeted si...
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( I AGREE ! ) I think the problem here is that Mrs. Reno strikes me ( After watching NightLine Last night ) as a person who is incapable of understanding OR dealing with a great number of things.
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The following comics are for auction. The highest bid takes them! TITLE Minimum/Current -------------------------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight 51 (Jim Lee's first work at Marvel) $ 5.00 Aliens 1 (1st app Aliens in comics, 1st prnt, May 1988) $...
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This is something I've always found a little curious. I've never quite understood the trinity thing. On the one hand, Jesus is supposed to be God incarnate. But, at the same time, he is God's son "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son". First question is, if Jesus was God in human form, how c...
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This was a concession to Mansbridge and CBC News, they argued that if you're going to play havoc with the schedule, you should at least make sure that Prime Time is aired as soon as possible. News got a commitment that the post-game show would be scrapped and that the network would go to PTN within one minute or so ...
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I'm looking for recommendations for a laser printer. It will be used mostly for text by a single user. It doesn't need to be a postscript printer. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Charlie Brett's suggestion -- buy one of the disposable flash cameras, use the film, then take the thing apart -- is a good one. Note, though, that you won't get a particularly precise voltage out of such a thing, and it may be a single-point design that won't adapt well to off-nominal operation. The things are easy...
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Well, they never should have gotten into this situation. Look at the history of this group. David Koresh has been arrested ?twice? by local police. Both times, he accepted the arrest warrant and went peacefully. So, the feds decide to arrest him. How do they choose to arrest a person with a record of peaceful obedie...
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I am urgently looking for the following article, but I can't seem to find it anywhere here: "The Multi-Threaded X Server" John Allen Smith The X Resource Issue 1, pp. 73-89, Winter 1992 If anyone can tell me where to find it, it WILL be much appreciated. H.F. Sadie Departement of Computer Scie...
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: In article <1993Apr22.170418.15799@news.eng.convex.com> gardner@convex.com ...cascades elided to preserve our sanity.... : That wasn't my point. My point is that your implied position about the "Waco : Massacre" is an assertion cum political position. According to a CNN poll, .... : What you call the "Big Brother C...
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: : >Recently my cousin got a second internal IDE drive (a Seagate 210MB, : >I can look up the model number if it's important) and I've been : >trying to help him install it. [I've got a vested interest, since : >my machine's busted and I have to use his until I get mine fixed.] : >He already has a Seagate 85MB IDE H...
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What??? I heard there was a new engine slated for the mustang...something like 280hp (ok, it was from one of their other lines...)... --
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WOW! Another Clayton wannabe. Typical response: lack of logic. Define 'deviant': someone who deviates from the normal. Ok, so far. Define 'normal': erm, umm. If you define yourself as normal then it is for you to prove that you are (within limits, which then brings in the question, what are the limits? For yo...
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mark> *WE* are the ones in control of what we use. It is those who mark> follow like blind sheep which cause the markets to skew. I'm sure mark> there will be enough "paid market hipe NT conferences" without it mark> needing to be in what was once a conference for open windowing mark> enviroments. I know...
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... I have seen it used in an Orthodox church once, although I can't recall why. I found it odd, to say the least. Also, I object to the statement that the Orthodox DELETE the filioque from the original form of the Creed. The creed originally did NOT contain that phrase, and it is not present in the Greek original, ...
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RIDING"? >> Here in Louisiana the State Sign is "CAUTION - SUB-STANDARD ROADWAY". ----===== DoD #8177 = Technician(Dr. Speed) .NOT. Student =====----
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Wm Hathaway comments; I agree that the desire for beauty is valid, but I think your desire to impose your vision of beauty is not. You mention the age-old desire to somehow get up there, but ignore the beauty of the actual achievment of that vision. You mention the beauty of a very dark sky, not impeded by the eff...
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Ok, so in my ongoing search for a sport utility, here's the latest; Toyota 4runner: Small. Small Small Small. The interior of this vehical is impossible for a large person. Too bad; it would have been the winner otherwise. Nissan Pathfinder: Very low ceiling. My head hit the roof, Fun on bumps, no? Also has ...
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How did the Leafs turn it around??? I couldn't get the Leaf games on the weekend in CA. Did the Leaf defense wise up overnight? Did the Leafs get in the slot or was it just "fluke" goals in a goalie duel? Did the Wings turn off the jets or muscle? What gives here? I caught game 1 on satellite. I figured my Le...
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I just got a bug report and a fix for this exact problem from fisher@iscp.bellcore.com (Greg Fisher): He isolated the problem a proposed a workaround which seems precisely correct. Here is the new implementation of XmpTableNewProposedLayout which will be released with the next update in 5 weeks: Xmp/Table.c: void ...
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I once heard an arguement from a xtian friend similar to this. "Christianity is a Higher Logic. Athiest like u will not be able to understand it. Your atheist logic is very low. Only thru faith can we understand the Higher Logic in God". So I asked him, "So what is this Higher Logic?" His answer, "I don't know...
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Does anyone know where I can find a code which would take concave polygons and break them up into a set of convex polygons? Thanks,
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A quick search of the index at mac.archive.umich.edu shows the following as available by anonymous ftp from that site: /mac/util/developer/diagnosticsoundsampler.hqx 9 7/24/90 BinHex4.0 That "chord" you hear when you push the start-up on your Mac II means more than just "I'm on". it's passed it's ...
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Could an atheist accept a usage in which religious literature or tradition is viewed in a metaphorical way? Of course: this is essentially what we do with Homer, or with other concepts such as fate, luck, free will ;-)... However, there remains the question of whether the religious literature of -- say -- Christiani...
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********** Hitachi CD player (needs cd spin motor) $30 shipped JoYSTICKS.. an IBM/apple joystick three fire buttons apple joy stick (//c //e) kraft track ball make offers.. coleco vision items: two working Consoles w/ working controllers in great shape one roller ball controller two Super ACtion conrolle...
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James Madison, Federalist Paper 41: "It has been urged and echoed, that the power ``to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,'' amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise ...
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On a related note (since UPS lost my Chain Wax and I'm still using PJ-1/Goo), I found some great stuff to clean chain spooge of wheels. It's called Goo Gone and cleaned the spooge off my rear wheel faster than the Simple Green cleaned the bug guts off my headlight. Wonderful stuff. I recommend that we officially de...
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None of the SUNs, DECs, or RS6000s I've used have turned off the monitor automatically.
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>there's no problem. The Feds don't care whose phone instrument is used, just >that the conversation is by the suspect on the tapped line. They get the >serial number, get the keys, and they are in business. So, you admit that Clipper opens the doors wide for the following scenario: FEDS: We need the keys to J...
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Yesterday, a friend of mine got a new driver for his card that more than doubled the speed... Naturally, besides being a tad jealous (same machine -- different cards), it got me thinking... What if I am using a slow driver? Wouldn't that be _horrible_ ? :) So netlanders, I need samples of your collective experience (s...
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Fine. I'll buy from George. GEORGEEE!!!! That assumes I can't weasel out a cooperative venture of some sort (cut me a break on the launcher, I'll cut you in on the proceeds if it works). Only the government pays higher-than-list price. Unless you're Martin Marietta, since (as I recall) they bought out the GD lin...
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I am looking for a copy of the first World Wrestling Federation album in Record format. Will pay $10 for a good condition record and original album jacket and inserts. The album I am looking for has a picture of a bunch of the wrestlers ina recording studio front and back with the good guy wrestlers and the bad guy w...
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I'll leave questions 1 and 2 to be answered elsewhere, but on question 3) something in the noos today might be an example of the restoration might be. Namely, that the Clinton Administration is considering asking the UN to establish a police force for Haiti. I didn't hear any thing that said that the current Govt. o...
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The major problem with this analysis is that it ignores age. Even if Morris were performing as well as Clemens right now, and were likely to this season, nobody would trade Clemens for Morris straight up because Clemens has more of his career left.
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Here are the standings after game 2 of each of the divisional semi-final series. - Andrew USENET Hockey Playoff Draft Standings Posn Team Pts Rem Last Posn 1. Sneddon Scorers 77 25 (1) 2. Arctic Circles 75 25 (75) Northern Lights 75 25 (33) Threepeat ...
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> I'm wondering if I can tote my American touch tone phone around with me > to Sweden and Germany. It's DC powered, and I can buy a special adapter > for that in Europe. The question is if the general electronics work > the same. I can buy a different wall plug and refit it (I'm sure I'd > have to), ...
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Wayne: Look for these advertised in sailboat supplies catalogs and sail-related magazines (eg. SAIL ...).
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Secaris is reasonably inexpensive ($6.00 Cdn for a tube), and is indeed an over the counter medication. Why it does not appear to be available in the US, I don't know. It's manufactured in Montreal. It's a nasal lubricant, and is intended to help nosebleeds that result from dry mucous membranes. From some of the re...
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I went to a place called American Car Care Centers to check my car for A/C leak. After "checking", I was told that there is a leak in the compressor seal. At the end, in addition to the labor for the check, I was charged 12 dollars for a pound of freon, although they evacuated my A/C afterwards because of the leak. ...
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Seeking North Carolina beach rental. Desire house for two families (4 adults, 3 kids) for one week in late June/early July.
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release April 20, 1993 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH VACLAV HAVEL ...
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Thanks for the responses so far. I hope that I have sparked some thought (which is more my intent than to restart one of the Reformations). I'm just going to tug on two threads: In Message-ID: <May.10.05.07.21.1993.3479@athos.rutgers.edu> db7n+@andrew.cmu.edu (D. Andrew Byler) writes, I was simply observing that...
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Well, You can always try and find a PC dealer who sells guaranteed memory. I work at a company growing at 40% a year, we have on order hundreds of computers per year. It never fails, machines come in with BAD SIMMS. Now for those of you who are wondering just WHY your PC or MAC just crashed I can tell you I alway...
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The Shannon limit for voice lines is likely somewhere around 25kbps. We are rapidly approaching it. The fastest affordable full-duplex modems currently on the market are V32bis, which is 14400bps. CELP manages to sound decent at 4800 bps. In theory, if you built a speech recognition system that turned voice into AS...
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Funny, I thought the numbering scheme for both Lexus and Infiniti was related to sticker price more than anything else, i.e. Infiniti G20 (around 20K), Q45 (around 45K), Lexus ES250 (RIP) (around 25K), Lexus ES300 (around 30K), etc. Is there a conspiracy theory there? Spiros
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I just signed up for this group, so I hope I'm not missing something in a FAQ, but I'm looking for a good introduction to the mathematics of encryption -- particularly DES and Public-Key, though others would be interesting also. Probably a good library could help me out, but I thought it might be even easier if I coul...
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Applied Engineering used to sell a 3.5" disk drive for the Apple IIgs that read and wrote 1.6 meg on a HD disk. I wonder if the drive would work on a mac, since I'm using my old 3.5" drive from my IIgs on my IIsi now. Just a thought. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ /~~~...
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No, if you put a conductor in a changing magnetic field, it produces a voltage. The two ways you can do that with a permanent magnet is to move the magnet or move the conductor. The slow shifting of the Earth's magnetic field isn't really significant, especially when you consider how weak the Earth's magnetic field i...
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Not an astute observation -- this is a straw-bullpen. The lefties, Stanton & Mercker are strong, and Wohlers is down learning a new pitch. The bullpen is fine, probably superior. Also false. Gant, Nixon, Justice, Hunter, Blauser present a decent enough offense. EVERYONE is slumping (except Blauser), not just Pend...
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<Stuff deleted> MINOR? You put unsignalled lane change in a MINOR category? Now I know who these guys are...
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I would expect that CD-ROM software would not even need copy protection. As the program on a CD-ROM would not fit onto a hard-drive, and it is impossible for the average (and even not-so-average) user to write to a CD-ROM, copies of the software (that still work) could never be made. Hmmm.. now that I think about it...
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I am considering adding to my 386 system equipped with a 130meg Maxtor HD, a second Maxtor 245 Meg HD. I assume this will not be a problem. However, I remember reading somewhere that to do this, you needed to reformat your original drive ? Is this true ? If so why ? My drive is full and I really don't like the ...
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I am looking for a suitable UART for a project. What I require is a stand alone device (i.e. not cpu controlled) which will receive 1200 baud RS232. Also a nice extra would be a received data buffer. Please reply with any info you have. Thanks,
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My 610 is working like a charm.. In fact, if 610's are flaky, I would consider it a great computer even if I had to return a couple to Apple to get a good one.
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