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For those with out FTP access, try NitV-BBS (see .sig). I have the following: (all from nic.funet.fi, garbo.uwasa.fi, sony.com, and ftp.uni-erlangen.de) PLATFORM EXECS SOURCE PATCH4SRC XTRAS BBS FILE AREA FIDO FREQNAME DOS x x x LOGIN PGPDOS, PGPSDOS MAC x x NONIBM PGPMAC, PGPSMAC AMIGA x ? NONIBM PGPAMI ARCHIMEDES x ? NONIBM PGPARC OS/2 x ? WIN PGPOS2 NeXT x NONIBM PGPNXT UNIX x x NONIBM PGPUNX ? = haven't looked in the archive to see if it has source or not (usually because I can't handle the format). For FidoNet FREQ magic-names, the PGPS??? names are source code, others are either execs or execs + src [+ extras], or in the case of NeXT, just a patch (you still need one of the full source code packages). NitV-BBS is FREE. This is not an ad, it is a public service announcement.
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Hi All, This is the first time I've posted to the net, so I hope this is going to the right people. I'm looking for software packages that run on an IBM PC clone that allows me to display Openlook and motif windows on the PC. The idea is to use the PC as a cheap X windows terminal for use by process Engineers at work. If anyone can E-Mail me any recommended packages/horror stories/etc I would be greatful. Thanks in advance Mark Wilkinson
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In the course of discussing the Sabbath with some folks, I came across something that was completely new to me, and I thought I'd offer it for comment. To keep this as brief as possible, let me state my observation as a declarative statement, and then whoever wants to can comment on it. Basically, what I think I've observed is that the phrase "the Ten Commandments", as used by Moses, is not a reference to Ex. 20:1-17, but rather a reference to ten distinct discourses from Ex. 20:1 through Ex. 31:18. That is, the phrase "the Ten Commandments" should more accurately be translated "the Ten Discourses", of which the passage we call the "Ten Commandments" is really only the first. I'm not completely convinced that the above is true, but for purposes of discussion, let me argue it as though I was sure. Arguments supporting the above idea: 1) There aren't really ten commandments in Ex. 20:1-17. In order to get 10 commandments, you have to get two of them out of verses 3-6, and the verses themselves do not support such a division because they are all about not worshipping other gods. That is, verse 3 commands to have no other gods, and verse 5 commands to not worship the idols mentioned in verse 4. You can't violate verses 5-6 without violating verse 3, indicating that the whole passage is one command, and leaving us with only Nine "Commandments". I could go on at length about this, but for now I'll just stop with this summary. 2) There ARE ten speeches between Ex 20:1 (the beginning of the traditional "Ten Commandments") and Ex 31:18 (where God actually gives Moses the two tablets with the Ten Commandments/Discourses written on them). I break these ten down as follows: 20:1-17; 20:22-26; 21:1-23:33; 25:1-30:10; 30:11-16; 30:17-21; 30:22-33; 30:34-38; 31:1-11; and 31:12-18. In most cases, each of these passages begins with some variation of the phrase, "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying..." The exception is Ex. 21:1, which begins "Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them..." 3) The word translated "commandments" in the phrase "the Ten Commandments" isn't really the word for "commandment", its the word for a speech, or an utterance. It's a word often used for longer discourses rather than individual statements; for instance, when combined with the word 'yom' (day), this word is translated "Chronicles" in such phrases as "now the rest of the acts of so-and-so, are they not written in the Chronicles of x?..." The word for "commandment" is freely used throughout the books of Moses, and perhaps it is significant that when Moses spoke of the Ten X's, he appears to have avoided the word for commandment and chosen instead a word associated with discourses longer than just a single command. 4) God tells Moses that He is going to give him the stone tablets "with the law and the commandments" (Ex 24:12), yet He does not give Moses the tablets until He has finished all ten discourses on Mount Sinai. If the Ten Commandments were only Ex. 20:1-17, it is not immediately clear why God would wait several days and nine more discourses before giving these tablets to Moses. On the other hand, if we have the Ten Discourses written on the tablets, then it makes perfect sense that God would not give Moses the tablets until He had finished delivering all Ten Discourses. 5) When Moses did get the tablets, he found that both tablets were written on both sides (Ex. 32:15). If these Ten "Commandments" were only the first 17 verses of Ex. 20, God would have had to have written in LARGE letters! Not that He couldn't have, of course, but it does seem more likely to me that this is a reference to two tablets containing ten discourses written in normal- sized letters. 6) In II Cor. 3, Paul seems to specifically single out the "commandments written on stone" as being the "ministry of death", "that which is fading away," and "the ministry of condemnation." With the possible exception of the commandment about the Sabbath, it is difficult to see why Paul would refer to the commands in Ex. 20:1-17 as being temporary, "fading away"-type commandments. This is less of a problem if the stone tablets should happen to have included all of the commandments from Ex 20 through Ex 31. Arguments against this idea: The main argument against this idea, aside from the fact that it contradicts a long-standing tradition, is that in Dt 5:22, Moses says, after quoting the commands in Ex. 20:1-17, "These words the LORD spoke...and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me." This appears to identify the words just quoted as being the only contents of the two stone tablets. That was my first impression, anyway. However, after some thought, I noted that a great deal hinges on how you understand the phrase "These words." If Moses meant "These words *which I have just related to you* were spoken by God" etc., then that would mean that only the traditional "Ten Commandments" were on the stone tablets. If, however, Moses was making a parenthetical comment--"These words *which I AM NOW telling you* were spoken by God" etc.--then that's quite different. I did note that in the Dt 5 account, Moses tells of being given the stone tablets BEFORE telling of the people asking Moses to represent them before God, whereas in the Exodus account, the people asked this of Moses between the first and second discourses, several days BEFORE God gave Moses the stone tablets. This reinforces the idea that Moses' remarks in Dt 5:22ff were intended as a parenthetical remark, rather than a strictly chronological account of when God wrote what, and at what point He stopped adding to what was on the tablets. Summary: all things considered, I find it somewhat more likely that the nine commands in Ex 20 are really only the first of what Moses regarded as the Ten Discourses of God. I don't know if anybody has ever espoused this idea before; it's brand-new to me. So, while I lean towards accepting it, I would be very interested in hearing any comments and criticisms anyone may care to offer.
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Not boring is right!!! It is more likely to cause me to have a stroke!! I had to listen to game two on the Blackhawk station and I don't think I could take another call of "And JOSEPH makes a SPEcTACular saaaaaave". Now I'm a Blues fan, but I don't want them to play "like" they played in game two. Sure the result was fine, but the Blues match up very well with the Hawks so they really don't need to treat them like the 86 Flames. We don't need a "Monday Night Miracle" to have a chance to beat Chicago. The Blues can do it on talent. At least over the hawks. Rich h.--- Go BLUES!!
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(This is a cross post to rec.gardens and sci.med. Set the follow-up (line in the header, depending on what kind of advice you give, or (e-mail directly to me: ceci@lysator.liu.se.) I have a problem with wasps -- they seem to love me. Last summer I couldn't spend more than ten to fifteen minutes at a time in my garden before one or several wasps would come for me. I am asking for advice on how to repel wasps. This year the wasps have built their nest under a stone next to one of my tiny ponds. The caretaker (poor fellow!) will have to take care of them, and that will give me a head start on them. Last year we couldn't find any nest. Even after the caretaker has gassed the nest in my tiny garden of 30 square meter, other wasps will most likely vie for the territory. Is there anything I can grow, rub on my skin or spread on the soil that will repel the black and yellow bastards? Never mind if it turns my skin purple or kills off all my beloved plants, I want to be able to spend time in my garden like everyone else. Would it help to remove the ponds and the bird bath? The wasps seem to come to drink at them, and I suppose that their prey will breed in them. The black tits seem to be afraid of the wasps, because as soon as the wasp season starts, they stop coming to have their bath. Even when I am not trying to win back my patio from 15-20 wasps, they seem to love me. The advice I usually get when I ask what to do about wasps, is to stand still and not wave my arms. I've got some painful stings when trying to follow that advice. I have also tried to use hygienic products without perfumes, to no avail. They still love me, and come for me, even when I'm in the middle of a crowd. So far only two things seem to work: To kill it dead or to run into the house and close all doors and windows. NB: I don't have a problem with bees or bumble-bees, just wasps. Patronizing advice redirected to /dev/null. --Ceci
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I have 2 OMTI 3527 SCSI adapters for sale. These make an ST-506 RLL drive look like a SCSI disk drive. Each adapter will support two RLL drives. I have used this model OMTI adapter with my Amiga A500 and a C-Ltd SCSI host adapter without problems. I'm selling these because I got them about the same time I decided to sell instead of expand my Amiga so I have never even used them. I can't guarantee they will work with every SCSI host adapter. They are essentially new in box. I paid $150/ea, make me an offer.
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I don't know who either is, but I think I see your problem. You've got Cecil King and Don Douglass. What you need is Don King and Cecil Adams. Or maybe Rodney King and Beanie & Cecil?
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FOR SALE Sony 8mm camcorder model PRO V9 - top-of-the-line a few years ago. - autofocus with macro capability - 6x zoom - 5 lux rating - 360,000-pixel CCD chip, the best made for a 8mm camcorder - AV input/output jacks (all cables included) - RF convertor/switcher for TV without AV input - AC adaptor/charger - 1.5A battery - neck trap - user's manual - mint condition List price for this model was $1600, I paid $1330 mail-order a few years ago. Will sacrifice for $500 or best offer. Reason for sale: upgrade to Hi8 model.
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Oh my god, I made a typo AND used the word "god". Come burn my house down, I must deserve it.
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But they also might have run out of fire-wood (maybe chopping up furnature?). They also may not have been cooking, but eating MREs and other delicacies stored for just such an occation... Just a thought. Brent "Yes I am well aware that their electricity was cut, thanks to the HUNDREDS of E-mail messages and replies to my post" Irvine
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Xircom Pocket Ethernet Adapter Connects any PC with a parallel port to the network Make offer
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Can anyone help with this? System: SPARC Classic, Solaris 2.1, gcc 2.3.3, X11R5 When I try to build the XView libraries (xview3, patched with the patch from the X11R5-Solaris kit), I get the following error: rm -f ndet_loop.o shared/ndet_loop.o gcc -fpcc-struct-return -E -O2 -I../../.././build/include -I/usr/X11R5/include -DSVR4 -DSYSV -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DOS_HAS_LOCALE -DOS_HAS_MMAP ndet_loop.c \ gcc -fpcc-struct-return -fPIC -O2 -I../../.././build/include -I/usr/X11R5/include -DSVR4 -DSYSV -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DOS_HAS_LOCALE -DOS_HAS_MMAP -c x.c \ -o shared/ndet_loop.o In file included from ../../.././build/include/xview/notify.h:29, from ../../.././build/include/xview_private/ntfy.h:24, from x.c:18: /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:25: parse error before `sigset_t' /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:25: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:26: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:29: parse error before `}' /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:29: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from ../../.././build/include/xview_private/ntfy.h:24, from x.c:18: ./../.././build/include/xview/notify.h:286: parse error before `*' ./../.././build/include/xview/notify.h:286: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from x.c:35: /usr/include/sys/user.h:226: `MAXSIG' undeclared, outside of functions ndet_loop.c:71: `NSIG' undeclared, outside of functions ndet_loop.c:85: variable `ndet_sigvec' has initializer but incomplete type ndet_loop.c:88: parse error before `*' ndet_loop.c:88: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ndet_loop.c: In function `ndet_fig_sig_change': ndet_loop.c:687: `NSIG' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:687: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once ndet_loop.c:687: for each function it appears in.) ndet_loop.c: In function `ndet_signal_catcher': ndet_loop.c:751: parse error before `ucontext_t' ndet_loop.c:764: `sigset_t' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:764: parse error before `newmask' ndet_loop.c:766: `newmask' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:769: `oldmask' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:777: parse error before `)' ndet_loop.c:795: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast ndet_loop.c:798: parse error before `)' ndet_loop.c: In function `ndet_send_delayed_sigs': ndet_loop.c:825: `sigset_t' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:825: parse error before `newmask' ndet_loop.c:837: `newmask' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:839: `oldmask' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:848: parse error before `)' ndet_loop.c: At top level: ndet_loop.c:1022: parse error before `*' ndet_loop.c:85: storage size of `ndet_sigvec' isn't known *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ndet_loop.o' rm -f ndet_loop.o shared/ndet_loop.o gcc -fpcc-struct-return -E -O2 -I../../.././build/include -I/usr/X11R5/include -DSVR4 -DSYSV -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DOS_HAS_LOCALE -DOS_HAS_MMAP ndet_loop.c \ gcc -fpcc-struct-return -fPIC -O2 -I../../.././build/include -I/usr/X11R5/include -DSVR4 -DSYSV -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DOS_HAS_LOCALE -DOS_HAS_MMAP -c x.c \ -o shared/ndet_loop.o In file included from ../../.././build/include/xview/notify.h:29, from ../../.././build/include/xview_private/ntfy.h:24, from x.c:18: /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:25: parse error before `sigset_t' /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:25: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:26: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:29: parse error before `}' /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:29: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from ../../.././build/include/xview_private/ntfy.h:24, from x.c:18: ./../.././build/include/xview/notify.h:286: parse error before `*' ./../.././build/include/xview/notify.h:286: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from x.c:35: /usr/include/sys/user.h:226: `MAXSIG' undeclared, outside of functions ndet_loop.c:71: `NSIG' undeclared, outside of functions ndet_loop.c:85: variable `ndet_sigvec' has initializer but incomplete type ndet_loop.c:88: parse error before `*' ndet_loop.c:88: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ndet_loop.c: In function `ndet_fig_sig_change': ndet_loop.c:687: `NSIG' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:687: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once ndet_loop.c:687: for each function it appears in.) ndet_loop.c: In function `ndet_signal_catcher': ndet_loop.c:751: parse error before `ucontext_t' ndet_loop.c:764: `sigset_t' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:764: parse error before `newmask' ndet_loop.c:766: `newmask' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:769: `oldmask' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:777: parse error before `)' ndet_loop.c:795: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast ndet_loop.c:798: parse error before `)' ndet_loop.c: In function `ndet_send_delayed_sigs': ndet_loop.c:825: `sigset_t' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:825: parse error before `newmask' ndet_loop.c:837: `newmask' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:839: `oldmask' undeclared (first use this function) ndet_loop.c:848: parse error before `)' ndet_loop.c: At top level: ndet_loop.c:1022: parse error before `*' ndet_loop.c:85: storage size of `ndet_sigvec' isn't known *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ndet_loop.o' Obviously, most of this is due to the problem encountered while including <sys/ucontext.h> - I've tried several approaches, but can't get past this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mahalo nui o kakou, _______________________________________________________________________________ Henry Stilmack ) Computing Systems Manager ) Perform random kindnesses UK/Netherlands/Canada Joint Astronomy Centre ) and senseless acts of beauty 660 N. A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720 ) hps@jach.Hawaii.Edu 808-969-6530 )
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Hello, Subject says it all. I need a GIF to Targa converter, so that my dta15 could make a .FLI of them. Krzysztof
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-- -- 99 99 Sombody's data is wrong. Since Mac OS, Finder, Systerm or whatever you want to call it doesn't appear in the first survey, I tend to doubt their results more. Just because sombody wrote it doesn't mean its correct.
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"The security of the system should depend only on the secrecy of the keys and not on the secrecy of the algorithms" -- Dorothy Denning
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Hi there, Could someone please suggest one of the better _shareware_ replacements for Win3.1's Program Manager and File Manager? And which ftp site are they located at? Thanks in advance for e-mail response.
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My agent is Daniel Sui, and he's done quite a good job for me. You might check with him, as he's located in San Francisco and specializes in bike insurance: Daniel Sui Insurance 338 Balboa Street San Francisco, CA 94118 1-415-752-3157 Michael
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yeah, but most of those are Big Hulking Mainframes which have no monitors. factoid : FAbricated or Corrupted Tidbit of Ordinary Information (Diluted) ok dpm
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[ ..see previous article on this debate for the rests.. ] I can see XV-3.00 agree with my view in cases you don't -- even I say my personal opinion (as above), it doesn't mean that it is not most obvious thing. Please, if you use my previous writings as contradicting argument, please do read them -- you have not saw them at all; you just refered to text from which I wrote 'something' -- and you make hard decisions from that, without reading what exactly I have written. It is really hard read when one writes a reply line by line method and don't understand include previously written material with the new sentences to give them meaning. You seem to be one such. You also start replying to my articles, even you don't understand what is going on; you ask me repeatedly to decsribe my views what were wrong with XV 2.21 even I posted them within the article you did reply to. Believe me, it is not nice to get flamed specially when I know that you have not read my article carefully in the first place. XV-3.00 and JPEG FAQ and users I have written to agree me with the places you didn't; I'm sure you just didn't undertand what about I wrote. We can blame my writing skills (in English?) for that, or? Better stop the discussion and check what new ideas XV-3.00 gives; I allready mailed one to Bradley...
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Brad McCrimmon was the captain of the Flames when he was traded to Detroit following the 1989-90 season. This was during the off-season though. There's countless examples of captains being traded, I'm sure.
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My recently modified Quadra 700 with a socket for clock oscillators has now completed nearly 40 hours of error free operation at 32 mhz (with a 64 mhz clock oscillator). I have also tried a 55 mhz CMOS clock and that works as well. On the more stupid side, I've discovered you can use a 40 mhz clock and make your Q700 as slow as a Centris 610. However, a 25 mhz clock which would have yielded a 12.5 mhz Quadra 700 (Who'd want one?) didn't work at all.
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What I usually use...and this stuff is only good on glass....is either Acetone, or a little Benzene. The latter of the two is a bit dangerous (possibly a carcinogen(sp?)) but it usualy gets the job done. I imagine you can you the two solvents on most metals as well as glass, but keep the stuff away from plastic. Better yet, you may just want to go to your local hardware store and ask them what they use.
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This is true. The statement didn't say anything about Christians in general. It specifically said "strict fundamentalist" Christians. It reflects a common perception that people have about fundamentalists being strict disciplinarians. Whether or not this perception is justified is another issue.
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The 800 number for Western Digital is 1-800-832-4778.
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I want to have some info about Diamond Stealth Pro / 2 MB VRAM: - what graphics modes does it support - are HI-COLOR modes included to VESA BIOS (for use with DOS programs) - any experiences yet (bugs & advantages) - how fast is it under Windows and DOS - price Thanks...
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<more tripe deleted> Phill, are you trying to convince everyone on the net that you are in fact an abject moron for some reason? Repeating the same rubbish over and over again may make something a "fact" in whatever backwater you are posting from, but it doesn't wash here, so save it.
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What you call "the Trinity and the Catholic church's definition of it" is precisely the result of the first Christians getting together and trying to find an acceptable answer to your question "what is a Christian?". I can't see what you are objecting to: someone is saying what historians of all beliefs would agree on, and you are calling him a closed-minded bigot? You really ought to say what you mean by "belief in Jesus Christ". It is not a wording that is sufficient to describe a Christian. Muslims believe in Jesus Christ although they believe he was a prophet and not the incarnated Son of God. But followers of Eastern religions might be quite happy to say that Jesus was the incarnation of God - along with large numbers of other historical and mythical figures. So perhaps you ought to rephrase your question and say precisely what it is in the traditional definitions of what it is to be a Christian, as handed down by the Universal Church, you object to but regard as unnecessary for being a Christian.
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As a side note, in that same ad (MacWorld 6/93), they are selling the 50MHz Powercache for the IIsi with FPU for $575. For those thinking of upgrading to the 040 33 MHz Turbo (an upgrade costs $600 direct from Daystar), this comes out to $1175, about $200 cheaper than what most mail-order companies charge.
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That may change next month; at least I hope it will. A couple of hundred journalists have requested press passes for the test flights. Sustaining that publicity however, will be a problem. Allen
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I don't know the answer to your direct question, but if the Mac Superdrive can read MS-DOS disks (can it??) then you can transfer files between the NeXT and a Mac by using MS-DOS formatted disks since the NeXT *can* read/write that format. And if you're interested in transferring files, you can also do it over the serial port using kermit.
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My roommate left me his Playboy collection which he no longer wants, so I'm offering them to the general public. (THAT'S YOU!) MAKE AN OFFER FOR THE *ENTIRE COLLECTION* I will accept the best offer. (Offer does *NOT* include cheapest method of shipping from Bethlehem, PA) 1992: February (Supermodel Rachel Williams, World Tour, & POM Tanya Beyer) 1991: May (Shannon & Tracy Tweed & POM Carrie Jean Yazel) July (Tall girls, Miss Bulgaria, & POM Wendy Kaye) September (Barbi twins & POM Samantha Dorman) November (La Toya Jackson & POM Tonja Marie Christensen) December (Dian Parkinson from "The Price is Right" & POM Wendy Hamilton) 1990: July (Sharon Stone, Marilyn look-alike, & POM Jacqueline Sheen) October (Girls of the Big West, Gladiator Marisa Pare, & POM Brittany York) November (Teri Copley from "We Got It Made", Sex in Cinema, & POM Lorraine Olivia, stewardess) 1989: January (35th Anniversary Issue - Collector's Edition) February (Year in Sex, Rio's Grand, & POM Simone Eden) March (La Toya Jackson & POM Laurie Wood) August (Women of Wall St., Diana Lee from "License to Kill", & POM Gianna Amore) November (Donna Mills, Sex in Cinema '89, & POM Renee Tenison) 1988: August (Sunshine Girls & POM Helle Michaelsen) October (Girls of the Southwest Conference & POM Shannon Long) November (Women of Washington, Sex in Cinema '88, & POM Pia Reyes) December (Playmate Review, Sex Stars of '88, Lysette Anthony, & POM Kata Karkkainen) 1987: November (Jessica Hahn, Sex in Cinema '87, & POM Pam Stein) Also: *** Special Edition: "Playboy Presents: 100 Beautiful Women" *** --
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Does anyone know the pin-outs for the 27C512 EPROM?? I have bought several of them, none of which has come with the pin-outs! Any info would be appreciated....
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Special creation has not been observed in action. Bill Rawlin's assertions that man was created in his present form do not count as creation. Put another way, there are an incredible amount of species of the planet. How many species have we DIRECTLY observed being created by a god or gods?
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Your starting to sound like a little child who wants ice cream. If you kick and scream enough you think people will believe you. Sorry proof by vigorous ascertion doesn't hold any water. I can insist that cats are dogs all day, it doesn't make it so.
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Well, in my opinion the Canucks played a really strong game. I was especially pleased by a very strong game from Linden - I think he could be a key to success for them this year. Defensively, they really had a strong game. Hardly heard Selanne's name all night. Craven also played one of his best games since coming over. With a few exceptions, they really didn't let the high-flying Jets do much high-flying. I thought the Jets defence looked overmatched by the Canucks forwards - they will have to improve on that if they want to make this a series. In short, it was a great start!
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I used to hate it when people posted messages like this, but now that I am contemplating a purchase, I can see why they do. So, has anyone heard of any upcoming (within the next 6 months) advances in the Powerbook line? Can we expect to see a PowerPC PowerBook at some point in the future (I assume an 040 would take too much power and generate too much heat for installation in a PowerBook)?
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I'm trying to find some information on accelerator boards for the SE. Has anyone used any in the past, especially those from Extreme Systems, Novy or MacProducts? I'm looking for a board that will support extended video, especially Radius's two-page monitor. Has anyone used Connectix Virtual in conjunction with their board? Any software snafus? Are there any stats anywhere on the speed difference between a board with an FPU and one without? Please send mail directly to me. Thanks.
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From article <strnlghtC5tr6D.n3n@netcom.com>, by strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight): "Well Regulated", at the time of its writing and in the context of the Second Amendment, means "Properly trained and equipped." It modern language it would read: A properly trained and equipped militia, being necessary to the security of a free state <note the word "free", it doesn't say "police"), the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
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} maintenance) and probably didn't know the answer at the start of the thread. Uh, Doug, I don't know what school of thought your from, but chain drive are MUCH more efficient than shafties. End of story. Period. But I will give you that shafties are much less maintenance intensive... Ethan
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Less than 1/2 of mailorder price! I have three libraries, all on CD, which cost me over two thousand dollars mail order. They are all genuine, high quality EPS vector graphics (NOT just some scans with a silly EPS wrapper!) They are: 1. Totem Graphics color EPS library (about 1400 color EPS images). This costs a thousand bucks mailorder. I rate this clip art as high quality (much better than Dynamic Graphics clip art, SOTMC clip art, etc., in my opinion), but I rate both the 3G library and the C.A.R. library as higher. Totem's art is ALL color -- whereas most of the other's are B&W. It's the best all-color library out there, in my opinion. 2. C.A.R. Graphics library (haven't counted how many images, but you can purchase the library on 48 floppies, to give you an idea of the size). This costs about 4 hundred bucks mailorder. I rate this clip art as very high quality, but it's only B&W. 3. 3G Graphics library (very popular in all the Mac mags). This costs about 4 hundred bucks mailorder. I rate this clip art as very high quality (got some awards in one of the major Mac mags, forgot which). Some of the images are color, but most are B&W. For what it's worth, all three of the CD's are saved in multiple file formats. They are readable on Mac's and PC's. Additionally, Totem's will mount native- NeXT also, although the NeXT could just as easily mount either the Mac or PC filesystems. I've personally tested the CD's on all three machines (I've owned all three machines, although I sold my NeXT a few months ago). Also, in my opinion, the 3G and C.A.R. libraries are the best in the business (and I've seen lots). Also, Totem's is, in my opinion, the best all-color library around, although I like 3G's color art better. I want $850 for everything. Can ship certified check C.O.D., as well as VISA/MC charge. If you pay by VISA/MC, I'll ship pre-paid in the continental U.S. If I ship C.O.D., buyer pays freight and C.O.D. fee. Reason for selling: No longer have DTP business. Please respond via email or telephone, as I rarely check these news groups. Nevin
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Before you finalize your file in the FAQs (or after), you might want to correct the typo in the following: It seems one or the other end of the rating scale should be identified with "homosexual". As a personal note, I guess I differ with you on the question of work entering human life as a result of sin. Before the fall (Gen 2:15) "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." which I would call "work". For me, the difference introduced by sin is the painful aspects of work added at the fall (I take the cursing of the ground in vs.17-19 to apply to the work for sustenance). In a way, some view "work" as a blessing (Ecclesiastes is a fun book! - for melancholies). I hope I do not sound caustic, maybe you can enlighten me further. Well, this is certainly a delicate subject, and I guess you accomplished what you state as your purpose "It summarizes arguments for allowing Christian homosexuality", not for me the most noble goal, but you are writing a FAQ. I wonder if you might temporize the apparent "sentence" of the specific homosexual you propose (arguably tenuously define). Perhaps that would be true of "celibacy from homosexual relations", or refrainng from their choice relationships, but that does not forbid heterosexual. Could they not have/enjoy heterosexual relations "for what it was worth"?
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Is there a way to wax out a dull finish (minor scrathes)? While "passngering" on my fiance's Bandit, my hip-pack rubbed against the tail and left a nasty dull finish and teeny scratches. Is there a way to get rid of these? Buff them out? Wax them out? help!
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I'mposting this for my emplyer who doesn't have net access, (but you can reply here, and I'll get the message to him. My boss is looking for two books on the group Mamas and Papas Papa John by John Phillips California Dreaming - (he told me who wrote it, but I don't remember) He'd prefer hardcover, but paperback will do. If you have these and are willing to sell, e-mail me here, and I'll pass the me ssage along. Thank you
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Dayley's salary was guarenteed...with Wells the Jays were only on the hook for 25%(?) of it. Give Jackson a break...he lost about 10 pounds with that flu he had when he was traded. I would rather have Molitor than Winfield...Winfield was just hogging all the credit, and he was trying to soak the Jays for a 3 year guarenteed contract... The Jays pitching can only get better...Molitor and Alomar haven't hit anything yet...and the Jays are still over .500...
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There is no doubt that Israeli authorities ordered the destruction of mosques in the vicinity of the Wailing Wall. That does not mean, however, that once can generalize from this to any other points. The entire plaza, mosques and all, was cleared to make it possible for Jews to have a place to worship in the place that was holiest to many of them, and which had been denied to them for millenia. On the other hand, throughout the rest of Jerusalem and Israel, to the best of my knowledge, Israeli authorities have scrupulously avoided damage to any Islamic religious sites. This contrasts with the policies of previous regimes which destroyed Jewish synagogues out of hate and bigotry.
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The easiest way is a user fee for each clipper chip manufactured. This makes the funding separate from government. It also has the neat side property that if the chip doesn't catch on, the scheme breaks down, and the government is back to the drawing boards, assuming that they haven't prohibited alternatives in the meantime. In fact, maybe this should be part of the "official" system. Before the government is allowed to move this past the "experimental" stage, they should have to demonstrate economic viability by mass adoption. The government is very fond of demonstration projects proving feasibility in the use of government funds for social programs--they should have to make a similar feasibility demonstration (on economic viability cum acceptance terms) for this baby as well. Let's put it to the only vote that counts--a marketplace vote among those who have to pay for it. David
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I've had cold sores in the past. But they have always been in the corner of my mouth. Recently, I've had what appears to be a cold sore, but on my lower lip in the middle (above the chin). Can cold sores appear anywhere around the mouth (or body)? Is there a medical term for cold sore?
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Ah, but when you fire at armed folks they have this nasty habit of firing back. A simple terrorist could get hurt that way.
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[...details deleted...] Oh, great. We fans can subsidize the cost of speeding up the games that we don't want to see sped up. Terrific. Oh. I forgot. Checking off that box to finance Presidential campaigns doesn't cost us taxpayers anything. Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy, too? -- The Beastmaster (sorry. I hate to be so sarcastic on such a beautiful day.)
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Sorry Geoff, Agree solder mask is green, but in the old days we didn't have wave soldering machines (which are another topic again). I had a crew of a dozen ladies which could stuff and hand solder a board like lightning! Board under the mask was the original query. BTW cheap inport electronic devices (mainly from 3rd world countries) are done with brown pheonolic boards. Is seems the electronics industry has discovered the cheap labor pools. Workers are paid by the board to assemble circuits at home. They are very obviously hand soldered. Quite a few tape recorders are being brought into Canada from Red China. In China there is no warranty for the equipment other than if you plug it in and it works it's yours. One of my co-workers spent a year there and he said the failure rate out of the box was almost 50%. Also, the original method for making printed with conductive ink on a regular printing press. An old lithographer friend had a press for this. After the etching method was developed he used the press to print wood grain on doors. -- 73, Tom ================================================================================ Tom Wagner, Audio Visual Technician. Malaspina College Nanaimo British Columbia (604)753-3245, Loc 2230 Fax:755-8742 Callsign:VE7GDA Weapon:.45 Kentucky Rifle Snail mail to: Site Q4, C2. RR#4, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, V9R 5X9
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I don't think a reboost exercise is analogous to a shuttle landing/launch in terms of stresses/misalignments/etc. I would think of the reboost as a gentile push, where a landing, then launch as two JOLTS which would put more mechanical stress on the instruments. Additionally, there might be a concern about landing loads to the shuttle in the event of a laden landing. Finally, probably some thought went into possible contamination problems if the instruments came back to earth. Of course, the cost of two shuttle launches _is_ a good reason to avoid something that might be done in one shuttle launch. Here's hoping Cepi's gang gets the job done right the first time.
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I also heard the Romans had a large Solar festival on this day because this day, about 3 days after the Winter Solstice, was when you could notice a change in the shadows and be sure that the Sun was indeed returning. In fact, I remember the latin phrase Natalis Solis Invicti (sp!) associated here. I can't say for certain when Saturnalia was, since I can't locate my Master Holiday List. I think it was 2 weeks or so however.
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Again I assume this is not just flame bait by Roger, but actually a truly held opinion. Thanks. For speaking for all those who didn't feel it was important enough to say something themselves. I wouldn't say that the letter clearly implies representation of the views of a group that you belong to. It represents a subset (that you don't belong to) of a larger group (which you do, if only because this isn't a moderated group). Look, there are several ways to state an opposing viewpoint. Three that come to mind are as follows: 1) Say it subtly. Result: it may not be clear. 2) Say it directly yet politely. Result: probably it will spark some interesting conversation. 3) Say it directly and obnoxiously. Result: validity goes right out the window. You realize that anything you say can, and most certainly will, be used against you.
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Boy am I glad that I didn't start out with one of thos PS/2 computers. I started the upgrade operation out by spending $235 for a AMD386DXL-40 Forex upgradable mother board from Midwest Micro. When it was time to upgrade I bought a Intel 486DX2-50 cpu for $350 and was finished. I still don't see why they ever made the 486\50 cpu at all. Its to fast for both ISA and LB and VESA boards.. Some test results taken on my mb and 486DX2-50 cpu and some others... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ X-TAL UPGRADES & SPECS - TURBO MODE TESTS - WITH FAN & HEATSINK KIT - ISA BUS X-TAL MHZ CPU MHZ CPU SPEED MHZ FPO MHZ VIDEO CHR/MS 40.00 -386AND /3=13.33MHZ 40.544 62.37 --- 6510.00 40.00 -386AMD /4=10.00MHZ 40.544 62.37 --- 6467.00 * 50.000-486DX2-50 /2=12.5MHZ 50.041 167.22 441.53 6105.00 52.361-486DX2-50 /2=13.1MHZ 52.703 176.03 464.81 6425.00 * 54.058-486DX2-50 /2=13.5MHZ 54.120 180.81 477.40 6642.00 56.644-486DX2-50 /3=9.37MHZ 56.220 189.46 500.25 4593.00 66.666-486DX2-50 /3=11.1MHZ 66.759 222.99 588.81 5401.00 WITH ALL TESTS THE 486DX2-50 RAN ICE COLD! NOT EVEN UP TO ROOM TEMP DID IT GO! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 50.000-486DX50 /? 49.998 167.12 408.89 2463.00 ??.???-486DX2-66 /? 84.234 224.00 372.00 10570.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CPU/ISA BUS X-TAL MHZ BUS SPEED/MHZ SPEEDSTAR 24X VIDEO CARD AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /2 = 20.00 MHZ INOPERATIVE AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /3 = 13.33 MHZ 6510.00 CHR/MS AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /4 = 10.00 MHZ 6467.00 CHR/MS AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /5 = 8.00 MHZ 4020.00 CHR/MS AMD386DXL-40 40.000 /6 = 6.66 MHZ NOT TESTED ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 486DX2-50 50.000 /2 = 12.51 MHZ 6105.00 CHR/MS 486DX2-50 50.000 /3 = 8.34 MHZ NOT TESTED 486DX2-50 50.000 /4 = 6.25 MHZ NOT TESTED 486DX2-50 50.000 /5 = 5.00 MHZ NOT TESTED 486DX2-50 50.000 /6 = 4.16 MHZ NOT TESTED ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 486DX2-50 56.64 /2 = 14.16 MHZ 6826.00 CHR/MS 486DX2-50 56.64 /3 = 9.44 MHZ 4593.00 CHR/MS 486DX2-50 56.64 /4 = 7.08 MHZ NOT TESTED 486DX2-50 56.64 /5 = 5.66 MHZ NOT TESTED 486DX2-50 56.64 /6 = 4.72 MHZ NOT TESTED ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 486DX2-50 66.66 /2 = 16.67 MHZ NOT TESTED 486DX2-50 66.66 /3 = 11.11 MHZ 5401.00 CHR/MS 486DX2-50 66.66 /4 = 8.33 MHZ NOT TESTED 486DX2-50 66.66 /5 = 6.67 MHZ NOT TESTED 486DX2-50 66.66 /6 = 5.56 MHZ NOT TESTED ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 486DX2-50 54.12 /2 = 13.53 MHZ 6642.00 CHR/MS 486DX2-50 52.36 /2 = 13.17 MHZ 6425.00 CHR/MS
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I am writing a paper on religion and how it reflects and or affects modern music. This brief questionaire is summary of the questions I would like answered. A response is requested and can be mailed to me directly at: gtd259a@prism.gatech.edu *PLEASE MAIL - DO NOT POST* Thanks in advance, Matt Kressel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.) How do you feel about groups like Diecide, Slayer, and Dio who freely admit to practicing satanism and preach it in their songs? 2.) How do you feel about groups like Petra, old Stryper, Whitecross, and Holy Soldier who promote and sing about Cristianity? 3.) How do you feel about groups like Front 242, XTC, Revolting Cocks, Minor Threat, and Ministry who condone and sing about atheism? 4.) How do you feel about bands like Shelter who preach the Hare Krishna religion and other minority(but not unheard of) religions? 5.a) Do you feel there is any difference between promoting music that supports Cristianity and music that condones satanism? b) Why do you feel this way? 6.) What types of music do you listen to? 7.a) How often do you purchase music? b) How often does that music contain lyrics with undertones in religion? 8.a) Do you feel that music one listens to affects the way one views a particular religion? Religion in general? b) How does it affect the way you view your religion? All religions? 9.) FEEL FREE TO ADD ANY COMMENTS HERE
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I'm for the moment interested in this notion of the 'leap of faith' established by Kierkegaard. It clearly points out a possible solution to transcendental values. What I don't understand is that it also clearly shows the existentialism system where any leap to any transcendental direction is equal. In other words I might not jump off the cliff mentioned above, but at the same time I will decide to what direction I will go. Actually I will do it just now. Cheers, Kent
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Reposted by request ... these images are great, but they are also LARGE (1500x1500 pixels is a typical size). Be warned. regards, tom lane ------------- From: rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [rec.arts.books] Vatican Library Exhibit at Library of Congress ONLINE Date: 14 Feb 1993 22:02:59 GMT X-Original-Newsgroups: rec.arts.books X-Original-Date: 1 Feb 1993 03:09:17 GMT Archive-name: auto/rec.arts.books/Vatican-Library-Exhibit-at-Library-of-Congress-ONLINE This is from another newsgroup; looks quite interesting... rms ANNOUNCING a new ONLINE EXHIBIT from THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY & RENAISSANCE CULTURE an Exhibit at the Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 Available by anonymous FTP from seq1.loc.gov (140.147.3.12) /pub/vatican.exhibit ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome. The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance. The exhibit will be on display in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress from January 8, 1993 through April 30, 1993. The online exhibit will be available by anonymous FTP indefinitely. The exhibit is divided into nine (9) sections: The Vatican Library, Archaeology, Humanism, Mathematics, Music, Medicine & Biology, Nature Described, A Wider World I: How the Orient Came to Rome, and A Wider World II: How Rome Went to China. Each section consists of its own sub-directory within the /exhibit directory and contains the exhibit text for that section and separate JPEG image files for each object. This online exhibit includes not only objects from the Library of Congress exhibit, but also the alternate objects (brought from Rome to be used if there were a problem with one of the primary objects) and items omitted later in the planning process. This exhibit will be of interest to Medieval and Renaissance scholars in particular, but also to art historians, historians of science or medicine, early music scholars, students of the humanist movement, students of printing and the printed word, theologians, scholars of both Far and Near Eastern studies, and to librarians and information professionals. Please get the README file for details on what files this exhibit contains. If you have questions about how to use FTP, speak to your local computer support person. If you have questions or comments about the CONTENT of the exhibit, please write to vatican@kell.loc.gov while if you have any questions or comments on the SYSTEM please contact me. -- K.D. Ellis
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(stuff deleted) This sounds like what happened to my HD a month ago. My HD was stacked with Stacker v.2.0 (I run Dos5) Suddenly everything hung up, and most of the HD got corrupted (directories changed into unreadable files with 'funny' names). In other words: it is probably just the doubledisk part of Dos6 that is troublesome. I now use Stacker v 3.0, and so far I have had no trouble. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elisabeth Bull e_mail: eliza@swix.nvg.unit.no
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I have a PLP II laser printer make by GCC Technologies. I have problem with a dirty first page. The top portion of the first is always smeared with black toner across the page. If I print more than one page at the same time, the problem does not occur on other pages. I cleaned the printer but still does not help. Can anyone offer any solutions? or know the phone # to GCC Technologies? Thanks in advance Charles,
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Gerald, look at what happened to the Stars; they are off to Dallas. Gerald, the Alberta election is slated fou 7 June, unless something RE?ALLY goes wrong this time!! Pocklington could end up being THE embarassment of Klein if he goes ahead with his 'ultimatum'. Gerald, people still have an axe to grind with this guy. I CANNOT see him staying for long. But the people in Edmonton won't budge, trust me on this one. Northlands won't budge ccording to one of the board members, Bruce Campbell. I haven't heard anything, BUT attendance at the Coliseum was the lowest this year. HINT!!HINT!! Remeber what I said about a personal vendetta? Gerald, don't blame Sather. This battle between the peole and Pocklington started in 1986 and got WORST when Pocklington sold Gretzky. There were days when you can shake the hand of Pocklington when he was respectalbe( I use to do so in 1982 - 1983 season) , but those days are GOE!! BTW, when following up, please delete name of posting writer.
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The lethality in small part, but mostly what I found frightening was the fact that they were wielded by people who believed that they ate breakfast every morning with Jesus Christ. Now I wasn't there in Galilee back in the Roman occupation, so I don't know for certain that David Koresh was not Jesus Christ, but I strongly suspect that he was not (even aside from the fact of never having seen them in a photograph together). I admit I can't cite a specific, but if there isn't a law against purchasing grenade components and assembling them into functioning units then perhaps we need one. All second ammendment arguments aside, I'm just not sure that I like the idea of private citizens with hand grenades.
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You might want to get a disposible flash camera, shoot the roll of film, then take it apart (they're snapped together). We used a bunch of them at my wedding, but instead of sending the whole camera in, I just took the film out (it's a standard 35mm canister), and kept the batteries (they use one AA battery). Sorry, I didn't keep any of the flash electronics.
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I have not seen articles in comp.graphics.research for a long time. Does it/he work anymore? I have seen many conference related postings in comp.graphics, and it is hard to believe that people have not tried to post them to c.g.research. If somebody has not got his article to comp.graphics.research, then write to me or post here.
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---------------------- LightWave3D Mail-List ---------------------- -- WHAT IS LightWave? -- LightWave3D is part of a suite of programs that come bundled with a device called the "Toaster" (from NewTek, Inc.) that operates on an Amiga platform. The LightWave software (LightWave=LightWave3D and LightWave Modeler) allows and artist to create three dimensional photo-realistic images for a variety of purposes. -- WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? -- This mailing list is for those interested in the LightWave software, how it operates and in ideas on how to obtain the best quality images available to them. The list is for those who own the Toaster and LightWave as well as those just interested in what can be done with the package. We hope to share information, tips, procedures and to bond as a group. -- WHAT ARE THE RULES? -- Since LightWave/Modeler are just a part of the Newtek Video Toaster software, I'm sure we will discuss a few items related to the operation of the Toaster. However, we will strive to keep the subject revolving specifically around the 3D software, related tools and products. You do NOT have to own a Toaster to join this list! -- OK! HOW DO I JOIN? -- To become a member of the LightWave3D mailing list you must send a mail message to the address: lightwave-request@bobsbox.rent.com In the body of the message enter: subscribe lightwave-l your.name@your.site.domain Or just ask to be signed up and I will sign you up to the list. At this point in time the process is manual but I hope to get an automated script based system in place soon. There shouldn't be too much of a delay in joining. Expect a "welcome" message within 5 days after you send your request. Then, expect the mail to start flowing in! -- HOW DO I POST TO THE LIST? -- Contributing to the list is simple. Just mail your articles to the following address: lightwave@bobsbox.rent.com Your article will be processed by the system and distributed to all others joined to the list. Your articles will also be sent to you so you know that your article has made it to the list. However, those addresses that are either no good or no longer active will bounce back to you. So, if you post an article and another members address is no longer valid, your original article will be returned to you. This doesn't mean it hasn't been posted to the list. In fact, just the opposite is true. It means that your article WAS posted and that it couldn't be sent to one or more of the members of the list due to a bad address. NOTE: I hope to have a fix for this behavior soon. -- HOW DO I QUIT THE LIST? -- Simply mail a request to be removed from the list to the same address you used to sign up: lightwave-request@bobsbox.rent.com In the body of the message enter: unsubscribe LightWave-l your.name@your.site.domain I will remove your name from the list of members. PLEASE, if you join the list and your account is going to be closed or if you will not be able to receive mail for a while, send a request to be removed from the list! If you are just going to lose access for a short while still send a request for a suspension of your membership and I will suspend forwarding of the articles to you. -- WHAT ABOUT OLD ARTICLES? -- I am currently archiving all the articles posted to the list at the originating site (bobsbox). However, I can not continue to do this due to lack of disk space. What we need is a volunteer that will maintain a compendium of articles sent to the list. They can compress and store them in archives on their system. They can then periodically post an index of the contents of the compendium and any other information that relates. If there are no volunteers then maybe someone can donate a large SCSI hard drive to me for archival purposes. <grin> I have setup a mail-based file server so that anyone interested in the list can obtain information as well as the entire archive of past articles, the membership listing and other information pertaining to the LightWave3D mailing list. For information on this service, please send a mail message to: fileserver@bobsbox.rent.com The first command to the server must be "HELP" or "USER name <passwd>". Use HELP to request a current copy of the helpfile. Use USER name [passwd] to connect to the service. Use ? to get a short listing of all available commands. -- NOW WHAT DO I DO? -- Well, sit back and enjoy the pouring out of information. If you have something to offer, please feel free to contribute that information to the list. Every little bit helps. Questions are welcomed! It makes some of us feel important when we can answer them. <grin> If you have any questions or comments regarding the list, please contact me at the address: lightwave-admin@bobsbox.rent.com Cheers,
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Meeting of the UK Cryptoprivacy Association - ------------------------------------------- Saturday, 8 May 1993, 1500 To be held at the offices of: FOREST 4th floor 2 Grosvenor Gardens London SW1W 0DH This is located at the corner of Hobart Place, a couple of blocks west of Victoria Station, and almost directly across from the dark green cabbie shelter. If you have trouble finding the place, please call the office on 071-823-6550. Or, call me (Russell Whitaker) on my pager, 081-812-2661, and leave an informative message with the telephone number where you can be reached; I will return the call almost immediately. Discussion will range from the usual general topics, such as the use of secure public key cryptosystems to protect message data, to specific topics, such as recent moves by the U.S. government to restrict choice in data privacy (reference recent discussion on Usenet groups, e.g. sci.crypt and alt.security.pgp). All are invited. Particularly welcome are members of the newly-formed UK CommUnity group ... the local EFF-in-spirit-if-not-in-name folks. Those who plan to attend should email me and let me know. Please. All attendees are requested to bring diskettes - preferably MS-DOS - with their PGP 2.+ public keys. As is usual at these gatherings, several of us will bring our laptops, and will sign public keys, subject to the usual caveats (reference the documentation for PGP 2.2, specifically files PGPDOC1.DOC and PGPDOC2.DOC). If you do not already have a copy of PGP 2.2 (MS-DOS), and would like to have a copy of this public domain program, please bring a formatted, medium or high density 3.5 inch floppy PC diskette; you will be provided a copy of the program. Of course, you might prefer to ftp a version of the program from one of the various archive sites. I suggest trying Demon Internet Systems, which carries the full range of PGP (Phil Zimmerman's "Pretty Good Privacy") implementations: directory /pub/pgp at gate.demon.co.uk. Meetings are of indeterminate time. Those who are interested are invited to join the rest of us at a pseudorandomly determined pub afterwards. Please note: - ------------ In the past few months, interested people have emailed me, requesting FAQs and special information mailings. I regret that, except in very unusual cases (e.g. working press), I cannot, in a timely manner, respond to these requests. I will, however - and for the first time - do a writeup of this meeting, which I will post in various places. What I *am* willing to supply is general information on our activities for the maintainers of existing FAQs, such as that for alt.privacy. FAQ maintainers can contact me at whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk Russell Earl Whitaker whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk Communications Editor AMiX: RWhitaker EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought Board member, Extropy Institute (ExI) ================ PGP 2.2 public key available ======================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.2
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my 14" compacq vga monitor id dead due to the transformer's failure. if you have this part and would like to get rid of it, pls let me know. thanks.
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But it's STILL HAPPENING. That's the entire point. Only last month, John Major hailed it as a great victory that he had personally secured a sale of arms to Saudi Arabia. The same month, we sold jet fighters to the same Indonesian government that's busy killing the East Timorese. It's all very well to say "Oops, we made a boo-boo, better clean up the mistake", but the US and UK *keep* making the *same* mistake. They do it so often that I can't believe it's not deliberate. This suspicion is reinforced by the fact that the mistake is an extremely profitable one for a decrepit economy reliant on arms sales. No, I thought both were terrible.
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No, that's the point of evolution, not the point of "natural morality". Unless, of course, as I have suggested several times already, "natural morality" is just a renaming. But your "yes?" is actually stronger than this. You are agreeing that "every time an organism evolves cooperative behaviour" you are going to call it a "natural morality." Bee dance is a naturally developed piece of cooperative behaviour.
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}It is so simple.... I'm surprised that this subject gets }beat to death about once a month. A quick glance in a dictionary }would clear up 99% of the confusion and bandwidth in this }newsgroup. Reading Stephen Jay Gould's essay "Evolution as Fact and Theory" wouldn't hurt, either. It appears in _Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes_. } Then we could talk about really important things }like, why do men have nipples? See Gould's "Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples" in _Bully for Brontosaurus_. Gee, this is easy.
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I didn't know God was a secular humanist... Kent
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Not to start *another* shaft effect discussion, but the twist you feel when revving sitting still is due to the larger fly-wheels that the BMW R-bikes (maybe K's too, dunno) use. If you whack the throttle at stop lights, it'll really rock the bike over (to the right). <snip> <snip> Please post if you come to any conclusion on this. I am thinking of putting a light on each cylinder guard on my R100S, and was wondering whether I was going to have to switch lights off every time I was under 5,000 RPM :-)
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What, pray tell, are you putting together? And what about costs? And does it have to be transparent as in totally transparent? Or just transparent enough to allow light from the other side to shine through?
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This is really uncalled for. You cannot expect a European, growing up in a culture of "rulers" and "subjects," to immediately grasp the concepts of individual independence and citizen sovereignity in the US. He's less at fault than the countrymen we have here who also can't grasp it. --
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The patents don't apply in Canada. I think the free trade agreement may provide for recognition of new patents, but not old ones.
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Autodesk Animator is a good tool. The one I like is Show Partner/FX. If you want it, I could give a copy to you. I did a lot of advertising with it - it lets you create both graphics (ANY resolution) and text frames, run it all as a "film", you can make choices and include music - I guess that's just what you need. If you're really interested, email me.
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I think the Blue Book is the NADA handbook for used car prices, no? Is the Blue Book value given the retail or wholesale value??? The Blue Book value isn't set in stone, though. Low milage, extra addons and stuff like that there can increase the resale price of the car, you may want to head on over to the local library or borrow your friends Blue Book and read up on that sort of stuff. I paid ~$400 under BB (retail) for my '87 Civic in 1990, and it was in perfect condition and had only ~14.5K miles on it. The guy was desparate to sell, new kid on the way, etc., but it was a good price. Remeber, both you and the buyer, if he has any sort of brains at all, are using the Blue Book, so you should pick a fair price. Chintan Amin llama@uiuc.edu
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Hello all, I know that after market sunroofs may have left a bad taste in some of your mouths, but I am really interested in finding a "good" brand if one exists. Please let me know if you have heard of any makers with a good reputation (few failures, no leaks, that sort of thing) and whether or not you have had first hand experience with that manufacturer. Who is generally regarded in the industry as the "best" (price no object) maker of power sunroofs?? --Steve
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As a child i can remember picking up a centipede and getting a rather painful sting, but it quickly subsided. Much less painful compared to a bee sting. Centipedes have a poison claw (one of the front feet) to stun their prey, but in my single experience it did not have a lot of "bite" to it.
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Hi, I have a HP LaserJet III for sale. It's been printed for less than 1500 pages according the self test report. I am asking $1000 for it. If interested, please e-mail.
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Isn't that just a variation of the "Achilles & the turtle" paradox, which states that achilles could never possibly overtake a turtle? How should one deal with a man who is convinced that he is acting according to God's will, and who there- Jokke fore believes that he is doing you a favour by stabbing you in the back?
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: >In fact, the tradition has been passed down to their affiliate : >in Adirondack. In Gm 6 of last yr's finals, an 8 legged creature was : >hurled onto the frozen pond and landed right at the feet of ref : >Lance Roberts. : It may have been passed to Toronto, but I've even seen an octopus at : the Aud -- last year's Bruins-Sabres game. I knew all about the : Detroit version, but seeing at the Aud was a bit puzzling. :-) I don't think it's puzzling a bit. It's called "unoriginality". (no, i'm not bitter :)
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... Thanks for posting the exact wording which I had not seen previously. The part I quote above seems to me to indicate disapproval of capital punishment - it is to be used only when other means are not sufficient; I would say this is a stronger restriction than saying that capital punishment is useable when justifiable. I would certainly say there are cases where a crime justifies death (perhaps this is the Old Testament interpretation), but my reverence for life would say that I would oppose the actual infliction of the death penalty (a New Testament interpretation?). It is a matter for debate whether the death penalty works to keep the peace in a way that non-violent provisions do not. I don't believe it does, and I would certainly observe that in the USA, where you have the death penalty, there is a far higher murder rate than here in the UK, where we do not.
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No. The simple $25 style IDE controller does not use DMA. The CPU performs the data transfer with a string move instruction. This requires that the CPU stop what it had been doing and transfer the data. Only the smart drive controllers, be they IDE or SCSI, can transfer via DMA. These controllers tend to cost the same wether they are IDE or SCSI. To get the DMA benefits, IDE must sacrifice it's price advantage *on the controller*. Floppies aren't on the IDE bus, your arguement makes no sense, this isn't an IDE issue. The floppys have their own processor on their controller board which handles all of these commands. The difference between IDE and SCSI is that all SCSI peripherials are intelligent. They each have their own controller. They depend on the CPU to do fewer things for them, i.e. IDE drives needing a processor to transfer their data. The dettach/callback mechanism alows the CPU to make requests of the devices on the SCSI bus and then dettach and go about its business. Later, when the device is done, it issues a callback to say that the data has arrived or the function has completed. Most SCSI cards will also DMA the data into memory without the interupting the CPU, therefore allowing it to continue working uninterupted. IDE supports no such concept as dettach/callback. Can you see how this would be a win in any multitasking system? --David Willmore -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- willmore@iastate.edu | "Death before dishonor" | "Better dead than greek" | David Willmore | "Ever noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely!" |
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Could anyone give me information on Umbilical hernias. The patient is over weight and has a protruding hernia. Surgery may be risky due to the obesity. What other remedies could I try? Thanx in advance
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Interstellar grains are not at all close to blackbodies. The "large" grains have sizes of order 0.1 micron and absorb visible light with fair efficiency. However, at temperatures below 100 K, 90% of the thermal emission will be beyond 22 microns, where radiating efficiency is poor. (A small antenna cannot easily radiate at long wavelengths.) Thus the grains must heat up more in order to radiate the energy they have absorbed. Moreover, the IRAS observations had a maximum wavelength of 100 microns. Grains colder than 30 K will radiate primarily at longer wavelengths, and IRAS would be relatively insensitive to them. In the extreme limit, grains as cold as 5 K will be almost undetectable by any conceivable observation. Worse still, IRAS color temperatures are heavily contaminated by a population of "small" grains. These grains have only perhaps 50 atoms, and when they are hit by a single photon they heat up to temperatures of several hundred or 1000 K. Of course they cool quickly and then stay cold for a while, but _when they are radiating_ the characteristic temperature is several hundred K. Even a small population of these grains can dramatically raise the observed "average" temperature. A model for local infrared emission consistent with COBE data has three components. These represent scattered radiation from Zodiacal dust (color temperature 5500 K), thermal emission from Zodiacal dust (Tc = 280 K), and thermal emission from Galactic dust (Tc=25 K). At the ecliptic poles, the emissivities or dilution factors are respectively 1.9E-13, 4E-8, and 2E-5. The first two are roughly doubled in the ecliptic plane. To find the thermal equilibrium temperature, we add up the dilution factor times the fourth power of temperature for all components, then take the fourth root. In the table below, starlight comes from Allen's number that stellar emission from the whole sky is equivalent to 460 zero mag stars with B-V color of 0.75. No doubt careful work could do much better. (The person who suggested starlight had a dilution factor of E-4 must have been remembering wrong. We would be cooked if that were the case. In any event, the energy density of starlight comes out about the same as that of the microwave background, and I believe that to be correct.) Dilution Temp. DT^4 Microwave background 1 2.7 53 Galactic dust 2E-5 25 8 Zodiacal dust (emission) 6E-8 280 369 Zodiacal dust (scattering) 3E-13 5500 275 Starlight 1E-13 5500 92 ----- 797 The fourth root of 797 is 5.3 K. Outside the Solar system, the result would be 3.5 K. I find these results surprising, especially the importance of Zodiacal dust, but I don't see any serious mistakes.
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I saw an ad for this and it basically is an advanced print manager... it lets you monitor your printing more closely and comes with a bunch of True type fonts... anyone have this? Good? Bad? Worth it?
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I am setting up my DOS/UNIX box on a 116M IDE and a 412M SCSI drive and was wondering about the use of the (MS-DOS 5.0) JOIN command. I like the way it sets things up since I won't have to stick with the C: D: & E: (crap) that DOS enforces. I like how it would mimic mount points of UNIX filesystems. I have heard that there were problems with using it, or at least under older versions of DOS. Please tell!
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Intro to ACCESS.bus (RE: the ACCESS.bus Software Creator's Contest Announcement) WHAT IS ACCESS.bus? ACCESS.bus is a new open industry standard for computer peripheral connectivity. ACCESS.bus is a serial protocol that uses simple, low-cost I2C technology to link multiple devices to a single PC port. Peripheral devices such as keyboards or keypads, locators (Mice, Trackballs, Joysticks), printers, VR gloves, digitizers, sensors, actuators or data transmitters and others can be easily daisy chained to the host PC. Applications such as CAD/CAM, Data Acquisition, Simulation, Virtual Reality, Multiple-Player/Single PC Games, Education and many, many more can now take advantage of ACCESS.bus, the technology that puts Plug and Play on every PC. The ACCESS.bus offers advantages to end-users and developers of systems and peripherals. Multiple devices connect to the host computer with only one port. Common communication methods for a number of device types lead to simplified hardware and software development. As an open standard, ACCESS.bus enables cross- platform use of the same device. ACCESS.bus TECHNOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION: ===================================== ACCESS.bus technology is an open specification, enabling anyone to implement it on host systems or in peripheral devices without fee or royalty. ACCESS.bus has a bus topology architecture. That is, a single host can accommodate up to 125 peripheral devices. ACCESS.bus data rate is 100 Kbits/sec. ACCESS.bus Physical Layer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ACCESS.bus is a serial bus architecture, based on I2C hardware protocol, with one data line and one clock line. Standard low-cost I2C microcontrollers handle bit-level handshaking, including automatic arbitration and clock synchronization. ACCESS.bus Software Protocols ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The ACCESS.bus communication protocol is composed of three levels: I2C Protocol, Base Protocol, and Application Protocol. I2C PROTOCOL: This simple and efficient protocol defines arbitration among contending masters without losing data. I2C provides for cooperative synchronization of bus partners with different clock rates. Bus transactions include addressing, framing of bits into bytes, and byte acknowledgment by the receiver. BASE PROTOCOL: Establishes the asymmetrical interconnect between a host computer and multiple peripherals. The host becomes the ACCESS.bus manager. The Base Protocol defines the format of an ACCESS.bus message envelope, which is an I2C bus transaction with additional semantics, including checksum. Unique features of the Base Protocol are auto-addressing and hot plugging. Auto-addressing assigns devices with unique bus addresses, without the need for setting jumpers or switches. Hot plugging is the ability to attach and detach devices while the system is running, without rebooting. APPLICATION PROTOCOL: This is the highest level of the ACCESS.bus protocol which defines message semantics specific to particular types of devices. Each type requires a different Application Protocol. Three broad device types have been identified: keyboards, locators, and text devices. ACCESS.bus support on the PC ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All three levels of the ACCESS.bus protocol are supported on the PC. An add-on card implements the physical layer and uses the base protocol to communicate with physical ACCESS.bus devices. An ACCESS.bus Manager - TSR under DOS and a DLL under Windows 3.1 - controls the operation of the physical layer and interacts with the ACCESS.bus device drivers. Drivers are available for multiple ACCESS.bus keyboards, locators and printers for DOS and Windows 3.1. Also available are C language source code examples of the interface from applications to the device drivers. To Contact ABIG (the ACCESS.bus Industry Group):
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A friend was recently admitted to North Carolina Memorial Hospital because of suspected meningitis. Serious business. They wanted to do a lumbar puncture, for which a CT scan is a prerequisite. I arrived in her hospital room about an hour after she had returned from the CT. She was in tears. Evidently the technicians in the CT lab had been very unpleasant to her. To begin with, they put her on the apparatus that moves you into the machine itself, and just pushed a button to slide her straight into the machine, without any explanation. Imagine this. You worried you may have a deadly disease, and next thing you know you're being put into this big scary machine, without a word of explanation about what is going to happen to you. I believe this is inexcusable. She waved her hand as if to say what are you doing to me, and they responded with annoyance and anger. Next they inserted, or tried to insert, an IV catheter. Apparently she has a lot of trouble with these and complained of the pain. The technician just stopped and fixed her with a glare without any words of explanation. Is there anything I can do about these pigs ? I realize that these technicians do this sort of job day in and day out. And that some patients can be very irritating and uncooperative. But this is simply no excuse. Their purpose for existing is to help sick people, and there is no excuse for this sort of behavior. Fortunately my friend is fine. But I imagine a large proportion of the people who get CT scans are not fine at all. They have cancer and that sort of thing. They don't need this kind of shit. Also, since I named the hospital involved, I should also point out that neither she nor I have any complaints about the competence or compassion of any of the other personnel at NCMH.
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_The_ problem with Oort cloud sources is that absolutely no plausible mechanism has been proposed. It would have to involve new physics as far as I can tell. Closest to "conventional" Oort sources is a model of B-field pinching by comets, it's got too many holes in it to count, but at least it was a good try... So you have a plausible model for GRB's at astronomical distances? I don't have any plausible models for GRBs at any distances ;-) Recent observations have just about ruled out the merging neutron star hypothesis, which had a lot of problems, anyhow. We have to look for implausible models and what is fundamentally allowed independent of models. Hmm, the "superbowl" burst has been claimed in press releases to cast doubt on the merging NS hypothesis, from what I've read (and I haven't seen the papers, only the press) I'd say it is consistent with some of the merging NS models A paper on the possibility of GRB's in the Oort cloud just came through the astrophysics abstract service. To get a copy of this Here is the abstract of that paper. ... indicator to these events all possible sources which are isotropically distributed should remain under consideration. This is why the Oort cloud of comets is kept on the list, although there is no known mechanism for generating \GRBs from cometary nuclei. Unlikely as it may seem, the possibility that \GRBs originate in the solar cometary cloud cannot be excluded until it is disproved. This does not propose a _mechanism_ for GRBs in the Oort (and, no, anti-matter annihilation does not fit the spectra at least as far as I understand annihilation spectra...). Big difference. That's ignoring the question of how you fit a distribution to the Oort distribution when the Oort distribution is not well known - in particular comet aphelia (which are not well known) are not a good measure of the Oort cloud distribution...
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#|> # #|> #False dichotomy. You claimed the killing were *not* religiously #|> #motivated, and I'm saying that's wrong. I'm not saying that #|> #each and every killing is religiously motivate, as I spelled out #|> #in detail. #|> #|> Which killings do you say are religously motivated? # #For example, I would claim that the recent assassination of four #catholic construction workers who had no connection with the IRA #was probably religously motivated. # #|> At the time #|> of writing, I think that someone who claims the current violence is #|> motivated by religion is reaching. # #What would you call is when someone writes "The killings in N.I #are not religously motivated?" I'd say it was motivated by a primitive notion of revenge, and by misguided patriotism. Otherwise, I'd have to wonder how come mainland catholics are not killed by mainland protestants, and southern catholics are not killed by southern protestants, and so on. Take away all plausible causes bar religion, and the violence diminishes markedly. Gee, why _is_ that? #|> Now, it's possible to argue that #|> religion *in the past* is a major contributing factor to the violence in #|> the present, but I don't know of any evidence that this is so - and I'm #|> not enough of a historian to debate it. # #Given that the avowed aim of the IRA is to take Northern Ireland #into a country that has a particular church written into its #constitution, and which has restriction on civil rights dictated #by that Church, I fail to see why the word "past" is appropriate. The country also has a different official language written in its constitution (and vice versa :-) - maybe they're motivated by a love of Irish poetry. Your argument is fallacious, jon. For what it's worth, I agree with all that you say about Ireland above, and more.
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What is MTEZ? A dealer? A repository? Any details? -- Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
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But of course, it is expected that umpires will show up players. Don't get me wrong, I understand the nature of the game, but I just believe that a little ego-ectomy for the umpires would make the game much better. Ted -- "Social nags and body bags, make you dead, what a drag drag drag." -- Saigon Kick, body bags, The Lizard
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# #From the Santa Rosa (Cal.) Press-Democrat, April 15, 1993, p. B2: # # # # Male sex survey: Gay activity low # # Note this contradictory title- Gay Activity Low. Not really. The percentage of gays was low. Headline writers aren't noted for accuracy. # # A new natonal study on male sexual behavior, the most thorough # # examination of American men's sexual practices published since # # the Kinsey report more than four decades ago, shows about 2 # # percent of the men surveyed had engaged in homosexual sex and # # 1 percent considered themselves exclusively homosexual. # # # #The article also contains numbers on the number of sexual partners. # #The median number of sexual partners for all men 20-39 was 7.3. # # #It's a shame that we don't have a breakdown for # #straight men vs. gay/bi men -- that would show even more dramatically # #how much more promiscuous gay/bi men are. # #-- # # Now let's take a quick look at what you are saying. # # The median of a distribution is that variate-value which divides the # distribution halfway, i.e. 1/2 of the distribution (population) have # lower and half have higher variate-values. # # So for Males 20-39 the median=7.3, this means that half of these men # are higher than this and half are lower than this. Now if the population # sample size is 3300, and 1% of them are gay, 33 males are gay. If we Actually, 2% were either exclusively homosexual, or bisexual. You aren't readiing very carefully. # say they are distributed equally then only 16.5 are greater than 7.3 # sexual partners, of course, this means that 49.5% heterosexual men are # greater than 7.3. # # Interesting results.
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to widgets: application code to a action to do this, processing any events afterwards. sequence events the Use a workProc. See XtAppAddWorkProc(3Xt). You should split your drawing routnie up into small chunks (this is the hard part). Then, in the callback that starts the drawing, you call XtAppAddWorkProc() to call your workProc the first time. Your workProc should be a function that returns a boolean... TRUE when you are finished, and FALSE when you want to keep processing. If you return FALSE, the workProc is automatically re-installed. Note that this method is better that using a time-out loop, since events get processed in a more precedence-oriented manner. If you are using the same Ada bindings I am, however, you are hosed, and should look into XtAppAddTimeout(3Xt). ---------- Joe Hildebrand hildjj@fuentez.com Software Engineer Fuentez Systems Concepts (703)273-1447
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And just where is the evidence for this? FBI sayso. The Texas Medical Examiner refuted 2 of their lies today. Let me put you in a building, pump in CS, knock the walls down around you and see how fast you find an exit. I don't know why either, you're willing to swallow everything fed you. Good boy. Oh a Clinton apologist, why didn't you *say* so. The kgBATF was expecting a quick victory while the cameras rolled, however, they were the only ones with a script. Hey, you're the apologist, *you* tell us.
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