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I have a couple applications for high speed data links 1__replacement of ultrasonic signal coaxial cables with fiber optic cable 2__applying fiber optic slip ring for 16 channel ultrasonics inspection system for CANDU reactor inspection 3__remote data link from ultrasonic pipeline inspection device including transfer o...
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I asked some simple questions at different occations. I don't understand why some people insulted me for those SIMPLE questions! Anyway, I didn't reply to them with the same language and I won't, because 1. There is no need 2. There is no benefit 3. I don't have time to reply to those garbages By the way, do you w...
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1993 World Championships in Germany: ==================================== Group A standings (Munich) Group B standings (Dortmund) -------------------------- ---------------------------- GP W T L GF-GA +/- P GP W T L GF-GA +/- P Canada 5 5 0 0 31...
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HELLO, I HAVE SOME PROBLEMS WITH MY DIAMOND STEALTH LOCAL BUS GRAPHIC CARD. WHEN I TRY TO START WINDOWS MY SYSTEM STOP AND DISPLAY: "NO FREE FILES HANDLES,CANNOT LOAD COMMAND,SYSTEM HALTED" IT'S PERHAPS A BIOS SETUP PROBLEM BUT I'M NOT USED TO MY AMI-BIOS SETUP IF SOMEBODY CAN EXPLAIN ME;HOW TO SETUP SHADOW VIDEO ROM, ...
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Has anyone considered how to prosecute a city holding a "no questions asked" buy-back for receiving stolen property?
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Considering what you quoted and refered to was blank, I must say: touche! Of course, you are correct, there is no atheistic mythology employed on this board. Or, if there is, it is null and void. --- Private note to Jennifer Fakult. "This post may contain one or more of the following: sarcasm...
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ITEM: Sony ES-CDPX229 CONDITION: mint AGE: 1 year old PRICE: $300 ITEM: Sony CDP 770 CONDITION: excellent AGE: 2.5 years old PRICE: $250 Everything comes with the original packaging and manuals. These items have only been played through audiophile system and are in excellent shape. If you are interested, or need any...
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I'm a 2600 hacker from The Old Days. Let's see how much trouble I can get into by telling you what you want to know... ;-}
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Dale sez; I don't buy it. If the things had no value at all, people wouldn't spend money to make them. So their lack of value is just your opinion, not an actual fact, which is neither a philisophical or legal basis for prohibiting them. On the other hand, I lived in OakBrook IL for a while, where zoning laws prohib...
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Now available: xvertext 5.0 --------------------------- Another day, another xvertext release... Summary ------- xvertext provides you with several functions to draw strings at any angle in an X window (previous versions were limited to vertical text). What's new since 4.0? ---...
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I need to make a power supply that can take input from a cigarette lighter in a car (12v dc) and drive 7.5 volts at up to 3.0 amps. I know enough to know that a simple voltage divider with two resistors won't do it right. Can such a thing be made from Radio-Shack-able parts without too much difficulty? jps bf p.s. I...
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Yes, but that's because interstellar grains are very poor radiators, not remotely black bodies. As a consequence they are a lot warmer than the "ambient". When I was in graduate school, a long time ago, we used 10,000 deg K with a DILUTION FACTOR of 10+4 for representative values of the radiant energy background ...
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-- Kevin makes a good point here, and when that theists miss all-too-often. That is, the belief in a diety is not necessarily coupled with agreement/love of that diety, so really they have yet another bit of convincing to do just beyond belief. I guess the standard argumet goes something like: well, once you believe ...
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Subject: Re: Europe vs. Muslim Bosnians From: Satya Prabhakar, prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 15:50:31 GMT BIGOTRY" Muslims, This kind of racialist generalization is utterly inappropriate. SOME Bosnian Muslims cooperated with the Nazis in World War 2. Other Bosnian Muslims risked their lifes to hide ...
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Pitchers are required to pitch (or feint or attempt a pick-off) within 20 seconds after receiving the ball, not 15. Pitchers are required to pitch their warm-up throws within a one minute time frame, beginning after each half inning ends, not two minutes. And the reason why a reliever should be allowed warm-ups is si...
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Sure. It has caused my wife to conclude that I am totally insane, not just partially:-} Usually I just lift the left hand off the wheel and wave thru the windshield. Damn near the same motion as on the bike:-} tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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It's public because it belongs to everybody. It's vandalism because many people -- power companies -- do maliciously waste light. If they can sell you or your city or your state an unshielded light that wastes 30 to 50 percent of its light, they make more _money_. Never mind that your money is wasted. Never mind th...
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Not only have I not heard of the Western Business School, or the University of Western Ontario, I've never even wondered if there WAS a western Ontario. And judging by the quality of the posts coming from there, I'm still not sure that the place exists. Perhaps I should be impressed, though, since it appears that gr...
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: : >You might -- except that gay men are MUCH more promiscuous than : >straight men -- which shows how damaged and screwed up gay men are. : : Okay Claytoon, let us say that hypothetically I agree with you that : gay men are much more promiscuous than straight men. Why does : this indicate they are screwed up peopl...
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>Qualcomm had spare cycles in the DSPs for their new CDMA digital >cellular phones. They wanted to put strong crypto into them since they >had the capacity. The government decided to "discourage" them. You're blowing smoke. Qualcomm wants to sell to nice, lucrative overseas markets like Japan and the E...
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Wing ding XV will take place in Louisville, Kentucky from 15 June-18 June. For more info, or to register, contact GWWRA, P.O.Box 14350, Phoenix, AZ, 85017, Tel. (602) 269-1403. --
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.... Thanks for posting the references. I do not normally read t.p.m., and I posted my request for references because Jim's article was cross-posted to soc.culture.jewish. Allegations of Jewish disrespect for the objects and buildings of other religions are one of antisemitic stereotypes that permeate western culture,...
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What sadist brought up this vein about Malarchuk? When I saw what happened I wanted to throw up, and at the same time I was devastated, since I thought that Malarchuk wouldn't survive. BTW, I believe he picked up an alcohol problem after (before?) the incident. To radically change the subject, the Caps must be havin...
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NCD just announced a new generation of PC-Xview. They changed the name a little though and I can't remember exactly... PC-Xsomething.
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[...] The President is not competent to plan or judge the planning of such a raid, nor does he need to be. His job is to set basic policies and manage the people under him. If Clinton instructed Reno to preserve lives, and if she confirmed that the plan for the raid was a safe as could be, then he did his job. The ...
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I think its a great, but idealistic idea. A reseacher will first of all try to publish a worthy paper in a credible, professional magazine and not in a community like USENET which is infamous for lots (not all) of junk information. The papers that will be "published" here will, in general, be of low quality. Also...
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Well, this is *only* a guess: If it goes by the "true" meaning of "bit map", then it holds (x,y,c) where x pixel number in th ex-direction, y: pixel-number in the y-dir, c: colour.
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To: All Uniden Cordless Phone-Model XE 300. Perfect working condition, but base station is missing its antenna (the antenna mount is intact). $25, shipping included if prepaid. DO NOT REPLY TO: dino.fiabane@pics.com. Your mail will bounce if it is sent to that address. Instead, please reply only via private E-Mail ...
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I heard they were posted somewhere, but I can not find them. Please e-mail location. Thanks, -Jody -- Jody Hagins -- hagins@avlin8.us.dg.com Data General Corporation, Linthicum, MD
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...... When did Koresh go on a rampage? What I saw was an unnecessary, unprovoked massive attack on Feb. 28th. Probably even an illegal action by ATF, certainly way out of proportion to anything reasonable. And yet, according to a pole taken yesterday, 95% of the people poled believe the government forces acted app...
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Can some kind soul point me to references for the above formats? Thanks,
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Um, I sortof hesitate to bring this up, but owning even a single share entitles you to attend the annual shareholders meeting, and under most corporate charters to introduce topics to be discussed. While I *don't* suggest the tactic used by some in Japan (go to the shareholders meeting, and disrupt the bejeezus out ...
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According to MacWeek of 2-22-93: The Cyclone will come in the same metal minitower case as the Quadra 800, while the Tempest will share the low-slung case of the Centris 610. Apple will offer a miniature video camera that can be mounted above the user's monitor or moved about on the end of its cable to take pictures...
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I posted a message here some time ago asking why my mouse was so jumpy. Well, I think I know why, and it doesn't have anything to do with the mouse. It seems to be the video driver! Here's why I think that: A few weeks ago I helped a guy install the driver for his S3 video card for windows. He had been using th...
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Jasen Mabus RPI student I am looking for a hman brain in any CAD (.dxf,.cad,.iges,.cgm,etc.) or picture (.gif,.jpg,.ras,etc.) format for an animation demonstration. If any has or knows of a location please reply by e-mail to mabusj@rpi.edu.
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I imagine that was the MKS Toolkit, from Mortice Kern Systems. Another third party add-in, and a good one too.
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I believe that that would be the same as a system error #64. Since there is no error #64, then I would guess that it would be a -64 error. Which is a font manager error of "error during font declairation". I would assume that the system that's on the floppy that you are trying start up on has a corrupted font in it, o...
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Let's put it this way, they have a charter and several executive orders to obey, among other things which *explicitly* prohibit sharing this information (unless things have changed withing the last little while). I suppose they could ignore it, if they choose. But I doubt they would. For an authoritative look at t...
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Your ignorance is showing. The BATF warrant was unsealed. The entire operation was illegal from day ONE.
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[some big deletions] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Another in a string of idiotic generalizations. Gad, I'm surprised I got this far down in the post. I guess some just like seeing their names up on a CRT. Like me :-) Phil Trodwell
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Actually, I just think he's confused. *I'm* going to hell because I'm Gay, not becuase I don't believe in God. (I wonder if that means I can't come to Tammy & Deans picnic?)
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Try using Laser printer/copier paper, it works quite well and is cheaper than HPspecial paper.
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Are you sure you want to include Chalcedon here? I presume that you mean the description of Jesus as fully human and fully devine. Almost everyone would consider the majority of Copts and Armenians, and the Jacobites, as Christians, yet for 15 centuries it has been maintained that they disagree with the Formula...
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In light of the 100 letter over "What was the LISA" I thought I'd start a new one. What was the IIvx? I hear it was some machine that predated the main 040 line by about 6 mos, but used obsolete tech. Rumor has it that several were sold....
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hi folks i have a 386 25 mhz and now i'm buying a new 486 first question) which is the best way to share hard disks and printer p.s. my two pc will be far about 10 meter and i like to use a parallel port or ethernet card and i like to share resource under dos linux os2.1 and windows 3.1 & nt 2) which 486? i think to b...
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Why should he have to? This sort of thing should be included. How about the millions of people who don't have access to pd libraries over networks? Just because people can work around it, doesn't mean that something shouldn't be done to remedy the situation.
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On all 1.44Mb drives (both Mac and PC), the disk spins at a constant RPM. On 800k Mac disk drives, the spin rate of the disk is varied so that the tracks pass under the head at a constant speed; a slower rotation for the outer tracks, and a faster rotation for the inner tracks. A PC needs special controller hardwar...
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I have not seen this book, though I have had several people quote it in support of some tendentious assertions they were making, so I have become curious about it. I don't want to malign this Hislop fellow, whoever he may be, as I have only heard the arguments at second hand, but both of the arguments seemed to ...
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On the subject of the upcoming new Mustang: The car magazines have printed a lot of information about the new Mustang and the consensus about what to believe in my "car circle" is that the suspension pieces and tuning will be almost identical to the current Cobra, but on a stiffer body structure which will improve...
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fuchs@tsar.princeton.edu (Ira H. Fuchs): the the using
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Hmm, depends on how you define 'clean'. Jordan implemented the system dependent stuff in a way that you have basic implementations for, call it, operating system types, then you go ahead and write a include file for your specific machine or operating system using the basic implementations. Since both Jordan and I h...
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Pat Myrto says if law enforcement wants keys, let them get a court order and then ask him for them. Most use of probably cause wiretapping warrants isn't to decrypt historical traffic, but for prospective listening once probably cause is established. Pat's approach would tip off the crooks. David
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^^^^^^ Pardon my ignorance of foreign currency and exchange rates, but what is a quid, how does it relate to the British Pound (or whatever it's called) and what is that in American Dollars??? :-) Thanks!
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Remove LEGEND from the V-8 list, it's a 6.
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: : : "Numerical Recipes in C"..Fortran..Pascal has a nice section on : encryption and decryption based on the DES algorithm. There is : also source code provided (I think some versions of this book are : distributed with the source code on disk; the source code can : also be ordered from the publisher). : : --Vi...
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I do. Yesterday. Seriously, Countess Ada of Lovelace gets the credit. She first used it in the late 80s. Her bike: the spokeless wonder. Jack Waters II DoD#1919
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Owieneramus. Always has to stick his 'ASALA/SDPA/ARF' made nose into every discussion with non-points and lies. Well, still anxiously awaiting... Source: Cemal Kutay, "Ottoman Empire," vol. II., p. 188. "The atrocities and massacres which have been committed for a long time against the Muslim population with...
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-Allergy medicine, huh? Is this just to get rid of the resultant migraine or whatever, or does it actually suppress allergic reactions? (i.e. like an antihistamine does?) As far as doctors over here are concerned, if you slip up and eat something you're allergic to (even if they won't test you to tell you what to ...
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Is the sending of encrypted traffic without government permission legal in New Zealand? David
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Well I agree with you in the sense that they have no "moral" right to inflict these rules, but there is one thing I might add: at the very least, almost everybody wants to avoid pain, and if that means sacrificing some stuff for a herd morality, then so be it. Right, and since they grew up and learned around us, ...
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It seems faith is the only tool available for emotional purposes due to the tragedy. As such it maybe fills a need, however I'm getting tired to see children dying in pain in Sudan due to lack of food, and assuming that God takes these sufferers to heaven after a painful death. Cheers, Kent
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-> >-> -> >-> For those who still doubt what is going on, this is -> >-> from the still uncensored AP wire: -> >-> -> >-> Two journalists from Houston arrested at gun-point and -> >-> cuffed and jailed for taking pictures of the compound today. -> >-> Later released on bail, but cameras and film were confiscated. -> ...
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There were a great many Germans, Poles and others who did not sympathize with the victims of the Holocaust but instead participated with enthusiasm in the killing. The Holocaust wasn't a massacre, it wasn't even killing for sport; it was an entire Industry of Death. German engineers, architects technicians and bure...
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I don't think there is a general distinction. Rather, there are two classes of chronic hepatitis: chronic active hepatitis and chronic persistent hepatitis. I can't think of any other disease where the term persistent is used with or in preference to chronic. Much as these two terms "chronic active" and "chronic pe...
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And here is the first patch :-) The following fixes some problems with the Imakefile files and makes it possible to compile xv-3.00 under Solaris without having to use the ucb stuff: *** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:05:03 --- Imakefile 1993/04/28 08:20:35 *************** *** 209,215 **** OBJS4= xcmap.o PROGRAMS= xv bgge...
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Because riding a passenger doesn't really depend on the type of bike. The things you want a passenger to do/not do is the same. Ergo, if he's asking advice, I reasoned he doesn't have much practice, period. If you say he does, fine. I still wouldn't take the uninitiated up a road that's all switch backs and reverse/...
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I have an external drive connected to my IIsi. This is never recognized and mounted on system startup. I can mount it with the SCSI control panel. I'm running system 7.0.1, and everything is properly terminated. Would anyone have a helpful idea at to the problem?
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On a similar note, a good friend of mine worked as a clerk in a chain bookstore. Several of his peers were amazing, one woman in particular: A customer asked her if they had _The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_. "Who's it by?" was her first question. Then, "Is he still alive?" Then, "Is it fiction or non-fic...
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Krishna. BG10:20(Miller) I am the self abiding in the heart of all creatures; I am their beginning, their middle, and their end. BG10:32(Miller) I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of creations, Arjuna; of sciences, I am the science of the self; I am the dispute of orators. BG10:41(Miller) Whatever is powerfu...
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To: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) RT> o Those administering the treatment do not know which subjects RT> receive a placebo or the test treatment. It seems to me that many drugs have such severe side effects that it might not be possible to keep the doctors from knowing who is getting the true drug. Thi...
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Why are circuit boards green? The material used to make them goes by two names. If it is used to make circuit boards it is called FR-4. The same material is used in the cryogenics industrya and marine industries as a structural material and is called G-10. FR-4 and G-10 are both green. They are not green because ...
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We're NOT???! Hell, I was wondering why there was all the pointless woffle about motorcycles.
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T.S.Reddy writes While the people here may be claim to be Muslim, the actions reported here, if they actually happened, are 180 degrees opposite from what Islam stands for, and I, for one, condemn them. --
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(Whatever the above comment has to do with the hazards of fighting a fire in the midst of ammo cooking off...) Maybe the fire department was loudly complaining the whole time about being diverted from their other duties, and the FBI said "FIne. Go home and we'll call you if we need you." A million things could have h...
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I suppose for the same reason Jews call the Occupied Territory, Judea and Sumaria. It's called propaganda and if you repeat lies often enough, people start to believe it.
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FOR SALE 1945 King Feature Syndicate Jaymar Specialty Company 200 Fifth Avenue New York, NY Cardboard puzzle - NO BOX Pieces worn from use NO MISSING PIECES Size: 13 3/4 inches by 21 1/2 inches ...
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acooper@mac.cc.macalstr.edu (Turin Turambar, ME Department of Utter Misery) said re. Dan Schaertel's article [if I followed the quoting right]: I think it may also be worthwhile pointing out that if we take the appellation `Rabbi' seriously then Jesus had a full grasp of contemporary `scripture' Mat21:42 Jesus sai...
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This whole discussion is just a religous war. I'd rather have a '93 RX-7 than the Mustang 5.0L for 3 times the price. That's how you explain Porsches selling. Some folks would rather have the Stang... <shrug> Sean
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Dandridge Cole and Isaac Asimov collaborated on a book titled, "Habitable Planets for Man" (I think) in 1964. It should be available in most good libraries, or through inter-library loan. It answered the questions you ask (speculatively, of course), along with many more that need to be considered in habitabilit...
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Thanks. Got that from two other sources as well. The full quote is as follows: From Dorothy Denning, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND DATA SECURITY, Addison-Wesley 1982,1983, page 8: "Cryptosystems must satisfy three general requirements: "1. The enciphering and deciphering transformations must be efficient for all keys. "2. The ...
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Uh, Bob, why is the battery warmer than ground temperature? On the time scales in question, and with the considerably reduced temperature swings several feet underground, there isn't going to be any major temperature difference between the battery and what it's sitting on. Because the temperature of your hand, *unl...
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xIf you put a locking lugnut on your tires, do you need to have your xtires rebalanced?? x xJohn Mas x xE-Mail Address :: MAS@SKCLA.MONSANTO.COM Since the wheel/tire is balanced off the car i.e. the lugnuts are not normally involved, how would they do that? I would think that since the lugs are so close to the...
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I would like to see a serious discussion on the best way to install windows from a Novell administrator's point of view. I just got off the phone with MS Access support and was told that they (Microsoft) has decided to implement, as a standard for software support, the LOCAL setup (described below) as the "most advan...
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... Regarding the first paragraph, I would say that I didn't write it. I don't believe that unbaptized babies are put in Hell. I don't even believe in Hell. At least, I don't believe in a fiery place where there will be "gnashing of teeth".
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I caught the tail end of a piece on NPR (National Public Radio) about Chomsky. Apparently there is a new documentary about him and his concepts on the propagandist news media of the West, or some such. The funny thing is that NPR painted Chomsky and the documentary in such a positive light, or at least ended the repor...
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My feeling on baptism is this: parents baptize their baby so that the baby has the sanctifying grace of baptism (and thus removal of original sin) on its soul in the event of an unexpected death. That is, the parents speak on behalf of the child which is too young to speak on its own. This should not surp...
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An '82 FT500 Ascot was my first bike--I recommend it. If anyone's interested, mine's for sale. It's in LA currently, with a bum starter and around 10k miles. I'd like a couple hundred for it.
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Precisely my position. As a newbie, I tried the point-by-point approach to debate with these types. It wasted both my time and my lifespan. Ignoring them is not an option, since they don't go away, and doing so would leave one with large stretches of complete anonymity in this group. What's left? ...
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Hi, I am using xdm on X11R5 with OW3 and Xview3 on Sun3s and SPARCs running SunOS 4.1.1. Prior to using xdm, I used to set PATH and other environment variables (like MANPATH, HELPPATH, ARCH, etc) in my .login file. With xdm, the .login file doesn't get executed and therefore neither the olwm root-window nor my appl...
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I am sure some bashers of Pens fans are pretty confused about the lack of any kind of posts about the recent Pens massacre of the Devils. Actually, I am bit puzzled too and a bit relieved. However, I am going to put an end to non-PIttsburghers' relief with a bit of praise for the Pens. Man, they are killing those De...
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Maddi: >> No, no, no! I've already been named by "Killfile" Keith. My nickname is Maddi "Never a Useful Post" Hausmann, and don't you DARE forget it, "Half". You really should quote Ivan Karamazov instead(on a.a), as he was the atheist. -- Maddi Hausmann madhaus@netcom.com Centigram Commun...
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What makes you say that the guns were illegal?? I understand that the BD's had a valid Class III Federal Firearms Permit, which would allow them to have pretty much anything short of a howitzer legally.
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My comment was off the top of my head; I wasn't aware that it had already been thought of. Guess it's true that there's nothing new under the sun (or in this case, the flying billboards.) --
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NO! I'm running both at home. Ok, to the cumpter is turned off right now but I did boot BSD/386 from an IDE drive, most of the system is on a SCSI drive... I'm using an Adaptec 1542B and a no-name el-cheapo IDE card. Guy
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The first and only thing I've ever tried to auto-trace was a piece of a USCG nautical chart using Adobe Illustrator 3.2. I wanted to get the outline of the coast for Western Long Island Sound. I was simultaneously suprised at how good a job it did and disappointed at how poorly it did. I suspect what I gave it was...
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Hehehe! Dontcha just love these carefully constructed arguements? Clayton, babe, please define the word `molest`. Are you using a legal term or a proper dictionary term? Molest, as far as I can remember, means `to do damage to person(s)`. My mate, Mike, was lured into a woman's parlour when he was 14. Is that ...
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Where can I get documentation about the X-Server-Internals? BTW, I'm also interested in documentation about TIGA. Any hints welcome. Thanks, rainer.
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