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It is the new command with Dos 6 that allows you to erase your directory and all the files in it, without first erasing the individual files. --
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I asked him, and Don Cherry denies being Roger Maynard and he denies any knowledge of Usenet. :-)
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Perhaps Iranians are not Arabs even not-so-strictly-speaking ?
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I've been getting seemingly random disk accesses on my Centris 610 with a Quantum 240 LPS, but this is NOT the regular recalibration it has been doing since I got it.... This is sometimes short, sometimes long, accesses that sound like there is some read/writing going on. I have SAM 3.5, and Disinfectant 3.0, but nei...
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I am trying to obtain a HI-FI copy of Guns N' Roses pay per view last summer from Paris. If anyone has a copy they would like to sell, or could make me a copy, please e-mail me. Thanks
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I use those routines in a widget which only redraws exposed areas. here's a small piece of code that uses those routines static void Redisplay(pw, ev, region) XtpManagerWidget pw; XExposeEvent *ev; Region region; /* pp->exposure_region is an XRegion */ XtpManagerPart *pp = &pw->plotter; pp->exposure_region = XCreateR...
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No, MIS folks have infinite budgets of death, and they also get parts of their budget allocated "upgrades", "maintenance", and "new purchases", and a lot of IBM mainframe purchases are actually "leases" and so is the software. Basically, the engineers who have tight budgets, i.e. the coders and designers of a company...
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Human infants do have bown fat deposits while adult humans are believed not to have brown fat. Also while brown fat may play an important role in rousing hibernators, it is definitely not limited to hibernating animals -- it is a common energy source for nonshivering thermogenesis.
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[ Questions deleted ] Does any one know what the PAS16 SCSI port is? I counted the pins on the board displayed in their ad and it only got 40! What happened to the other 50? Did they junk a whole bunch of grounds or what? Guy
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All right, listen up.... What are the possibilities of transmission through swimming pool water? Especially if the chlorination isn't up to par?
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"Personal gain": for his own monetary advantage. I don't think anyone would dispute that he both violated his oath of office, and abused his powers. But that's not for personal gain.
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Take a look at WinQVT/net -- the latest version is QVT/net 3.4 It comes in versions that are direct to packet driver, as well as a PC NFS version. It is priced quite low; registration = $40, student registration = $20, and is a nice package -- comes complete with VT220 terminal emulation, FTP, POP3 client, LPR, ...
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Haven't we wasted enough bandwidth on this silly discussion already!! [Please no flames -- let sanity prevail]
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About 2 years ago, there was a lot of noise about a Church in the Old City of Jerusalem being taken over by a Jewish group. In fact, the building in question was a dormitory that belonged to a church and was not physically connected to any church. It had been leased to a Palestinean Arab for 99 years and a Jewish ...
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Hooray, I hear on TSN that the Jets have won a game, Selanne getting a hat-trick! Of course, here in GOD'S COUNTRY (read Ontario!) I couldn't see that game, nor any other in the VAN-WPG series so far, because our beloved CBC figures no one out here cares about this series (which has looked pretty competitve so far... ...
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Selling: Coleco Base Unit with: 2 Controllers 1 Atari Game Adapter to Play Atari games 12 games (Ms. Pac Man, Smurfs, etc..) Will ship COD Price$: MAKE AN OFFER
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# Mr. Cramer, I am still waiting for your response to my requests regarding # the information you claim to have. I respectfully request that you either # provide the information or withdraw the various assertions you make below. # # Item number 1: in a previous posting, you stated that you had found # "overwhelming ...
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I posted on here about a problem with a Datadesk 101e keyboard that failed to rebuild the desktop with the command-option keys pressed or to shut off inits when pressing the shift key. After absolutely no help from Datadesk I called MacConnection tech support. They tried it out on their Centris 610 and had the same p...
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On the other hand, I'm hard pressed to think of any other real mistakes Fereirra made. Imagine indeed, but then again we have the benefit of hindsight. Let's say that in the view of the Sharks' upper management, the attempt to trade Kisio was a major factor in the decision to fire Feirerra. I'm inclined to take exac...
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Well, I am placing a file at my ftp today that contains several polygonal descriptions of a head, face, skull, vase, etc. The format of the files is a list of vertices, normals, and triangles. There are various resolutions and the name of the data file includes the number of polygons, eg. phred.1.3k.vbl contains 1300 ...
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Someone once sold heated motorcycle grips via mail order. The were aftermarket replacement grips that had the heating elements mlded into the grip itself. Wires ran outside of the bars, from the grips to a switch and finaly the battery. Cycle Magazine tested them YEARS ago and liked them. Dunno if they are ...
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Or perhaps David Koresh didn't listen too well?? Just because mistakes were made does not mean the President *lied*.
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Precisely, why not Cuba?? Why not??? The Hatians are being ruled by thugs and their elected leader has asked support to reestablish the peoples will. If the U.S. or any other democracy wishes to, they are in the perfect right to help them without any whining from thir parties. After all if it turns out to be ...
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Oooo,I hope it's nothing like I had on my Seca turbo. I had locked up the back wheel and forgot about it. When I took off I heard a 'clunk', but I just drove away leaving the lock broken on the ground. Real security in action.
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Your Price List Price ========== ========== C Memory Management Techniques $22.00 $32.95 Len Dorfman & Marc J. Neuberger (Includes disk) 1993 Borland C++ Handbook $18.00 $29.95 Second Edition (Covers version 3.0) Chris H. Pappas & William H. Murray, III 1992 Converting C to Turbo C++ $18.00 ...
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Doesn't anybody actually read the licence agreement of WinBench before blindly running it? The licence agreement very clearly says that details about hardware configuration, driver, resolution and other relevant facts *MUST* be included when giving WinMark results. Ziff-Davis wants everybody to do this and that requi...
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#I find myself unable to put these two statements together in a #sensible way: # #>Abortion is done because the mother can not afford the *pregnancy*. # #[...] # #>If we refused to pay for the more expensive choice of birth, *then* #>your statement would make sense. But that is not the case, so it doesn't. # #Are we p...
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It is not a question of an individuals standing. When a party puts up an Arab for a Cabinet post and that Arab is rejected but the position is given to a Jew from the same party we are not talking about power but racism. Would you care to deny this has happened on several occasions with Labour coalitions? Not thei...
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Hello. I have (4) SIMMS for sale. They are 1 megabyte each, and are of the 3-chip variety. These are very high quality SIMMS, and are nearly brand new. Best of all: they are ***60*** nanoseconds (the fastest available!) Please make an offer. I prefer to sell all four SIMMS to the same person (to lessen ship...
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And guess who's here in your place. Please finger xyzzy@gnu.ai.mit.edu for information, or if you are a mail/news only site, mail xyzzy@gnu.ai.mit.edu with the subject line "SEND FINGER".
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If you are a user of Autodesk 3D Concepts, and are willing to answer a small number of short questions, then please send me Email.
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So, hey, like, does this work the other way? If I was to like, you know, strap a generator to my FZJRR11000KRX and route its output to the chain, could I increase the horsepower? 32 meters a sec is pretty nice and all, but, I'd still like to be able to blow away a Goldwing without going to nitro...
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I'm just starting out with motorcycles, I've read up on the subject a bit, talked to many of my friends who own/ride bikes and encourage me to do the same. But when I ask about what kind of bike i should be looking at... i get varied answers. I'm 6'3", about 230#, large/athletic build... I suppose that would help ...
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Sure, a person could have great respect for Jesus and yet be an atheist. (Having great respect for Jesus does not necessarily mean that one has to follow the Christian [or Muslim] interpretation of his life.)
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xli, xloadimage or ImageMagick - export.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.0.12] /contrib
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: To wheelspin in an auto, you keep the gear in N - gas it - then stick the : gear in D... I've never tried this but am sure it works - but does this screw : up the autobox? We're having a bit of a debate about it here... I've known more people to leave their rear ends in pieces doing this, especially if they have ...
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Very interested indeed! This is against this kind of "changes" that the GNU COPYLEFT is protecting us. Anyway, at SIMULOG, we will abandon xv. We were using it mostly for slide- shows because of its "-loop" feature that display does not have (display from the *wonderful* ImageMagick package! :-D), but I think I will ...
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: Mike Adams suggested discussions on long-term effects of spaceflight : to the human being. I love this topic, as some of you regulars know. : So, having seen Henry's encouraging statement about starting to talk : about it; I shall. : I feel that we as a community of people have unique resources : to deliver to the...
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Not to mention how those those liberal presidents, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush. did nothing to support true commercial space activities.
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: : So in conclusion it can be shown that there is essentially no : : logical argument which clearly differentiates a "cult" from a : : "religion". I challenge anyone to produce a distinction which : : is clear and can't be easily knocked down. : How about this one: a religion is a cult which has stood the test : o...
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I am having troubleloading my Logitech Scanman Driver (latest version) into high memory with the devicehigh command in MSDOS 6. It gives me an 'invalid parameters' message. Is it necessary to change some of the scanner driver parameters when loading high? Any help would be appreciated
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This must vary from state to state, because our old company Kemper wanted to drop me (keeping my wife) or tripple our premium because i had 1 ticket. Only 2 points for 10 mph over speed limit. Well i called Geico, and they insured both my wife and i for less then we were previously paying Kemper. Generally i hate th...
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The number you gave is the Borland BBS, and darned if I can find any stealth drivers there! Diamond's BBS is 1-408-730-1100 - according to the manual I got with my Stealth-24. I have had a bunch of trouble using the RIGHT drivers that came with the card (locking up, de-syncing, etc.) so I hope you do better t...
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: : >: > HELP!!! : >: > my wife has informed me that she wants a convertible for her next car. : >: FYI, just last week the PBS show Motor Week gave the results of what they : >: thought were the best cars for '93. In the convertible category, the : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
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If this is the same as adjusting the shims between cam and valve, I have the same question. Do you buy a FULL set of shims before starting the adjustment process, or do you calculate the shims you need and then run off to the dealer in the cage to see if the right shims are in stock? Obviously the latter would be c...
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I know that there is a relationship between Fibromyalgia and deep sleep. I believe that there are five levels of sleep. I think that R.E.M. sleep is the third deepest level of sleep and that there are two deeper levels of sleep. If I am in error in any of this, please let me know. Which level of sleep is though...
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Assuming you are refering to standard POTS or ground start lines: If you are looking at loop start lines under idle conditions, the RING conductor is the one with approximately -48 to -52 vDC with respect to ground while the TIP conductor is at or very near ground potential (be sure to reference the telco ground when...
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It is true the convex algorithm is faster than a general concave/multi outline algorithm, but not tremendously faster. I spent awhile implementing and optimizing both flavors, and the convex turned out about 10% faster. This is all C (on HP PA-RISC the compiler got the inner loop [shooting the span] as fast as possi...
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Has this video been made public? The FBI spokesman also said they first knew of the fire when black smoke started pouring out, but later said that *three* different FBI agents saw B-D members starting the fires. Also the FBI claims to have listening devices (bugs) in the compound. Will they make public the tapes ...
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I need some help in tracking down a dvi viewer for X. I have xdvi but we have not got the X libraries and includes installed- so i) is there a way around this, as we are trying to avoid installing the stuff (space is at a premium). ii)would someone be prepared to make the binaries available. We have a HP...
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Yes, we Put any book on disk for you. Fast and accurate. We can also put any typewritten or printed articles, thesis, term papers, etc. on disk for you.
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An even better strategy is to leave less of a buffer between you and the car in front, but enough to manuver around it. Keep the bike in 1st gear with the clutch handle squeezed in (how's that for engaged/disengaged?), until there are two cars stopped behind you. When the next BDI cager comes screaching in, simply r...
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5 Apr 93 MOSCOW (UPI) -- ... ``It's horrible. People are trying to get their wives and children out, men are leaving their defense positions, it's total anarchy,'' said Mekhman Aliyev, a spokesman for the Azerbaijani president. Aliyev said 210 people -- three-quarters of them civilians, the r...
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The following announcement is from the Bosnia Task Force, USA. Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens of London) and Muhammad Ali (former heavyweight champion) will be the grand marshals of the Washington rally on Saturday, May 15, 93 ------------------------------...
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Somebody in comp.multimedia was also having trouble using a Spigot in his LC III. It turned out he needed the latest version of ScreenPlay (1.1.1), which fixed things.
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Um... 1) Your Professor if just plain wrong. Although blue LEDs are one heck of a lot less efficient than red ones. 2) "Typical visible light LEDs" don't really exist. LEDs have a fairly narrow region of transmittence. (Since the Fermi energy around either side of the band gap falls off exponentially, blah, blah.....
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I've had similar problems downloading using WinCIM, I discovered that if I disabled data compression on my modem, it works fine.
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Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Energy. Energy Secretary Hails President's Plan For Alternative Fuel Vehicles To: National Desk, Environment and Energy Reporters Contact: Larry Hart of the U.S. Department of Energy, 202-586-5806 WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Secretary of Energy Hazel R. O'Leary t...
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I would like to know the regular/international phone number of a computer supplier called "Computer Component Source". Their free phone number is 1-800-356-1227. This number is no use to customers outside the US. I wish to upgrade the power supply on a couple of Mac Plus computers and would like to make contact with "C...
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I replied to this query via e-mail, but I think there are some issues that are worth discussing in public. I would recommend you to take a look at 1) your dictionary 2) alt.atheism FAQ files to notice that atheism is _not_ a belief system, and what is common to all atheists is not a belief, but a _lack of belief in...
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I want to buy a LCII ( yes LCII not LCIII). None of the dealer seems to have them anymore. Does anybody know where I can buy this beast?. I wanted 4/80 with standard keyboard package. Please let me know. thanx --Aravind S. Melligeri ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
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And it has worked again. Pena went 3 for 3 last night against Colorado.
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Come back ten years from now and look at the careers of Juan Gonzalez vs. Mark McGuire, and then tell us how bogus the Juanderful one's 1992 HR title was. I'd say that by 2003, Juan will be preparing his HOF acceptance speech while the voters will be saying "Mark McWho?"
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My theory is that Koresh was seriously wounded in the initial gunbattle and died on Day 9 of the siege. On Day 11 of the siege he rose from the dead and periodically appeared to his followers and the FBI over the next 40 days. Living with someone who's risen from the dead isn't easy, as Timmy Baterman's father in *Pe...
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We're about to have our first baby, and have a few questions that we dont seem to be able to get answered to our satisfaction. Reguarding having a baby boy circumsized, what are the medical pros and cons? All we've heard is 'its up to the parents'. How about the pregnant woman sitting in a tub of water? We've hear...
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Baltimore Baseblazers? Where the hell did you come up with that? The Orioles are not a base-stealing team except for Anderson. Besides we would never call them anything but the Baltimore Orioles. Why? The ballpark has all these orthologically (spelling error?) correct BALTIMORE ORIOLES all over the place. I bet you...
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I just bought a little gizmo that is supposed to be installed "in series with the tip or ring lines" of the phone wire. Which ones are those? Suppose I am holding a regular phone wire, such that the little plastic tooth (on the little plastic square thing with the naked lead ends that you plug into the phone) is facing...
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I agree about the durability of the old TH400 trannies from GM. While I never intentionally slamed my '68 Firebird 400 ci Conv. into gear, I would leave the trannie in Low (read 1st), grab hold, hit the pedal, and once the tires grabbed, take off. When I reached about 57-60mph the turbo 400 Auto would shift to S ...
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Hi folks, I borrowed a VHS tape from a friend and it has a warning in the begining saying that attempts to copy the tape will result in destroying the copy and the original. I found this unbelievable as playing and recording are two different processes. However, I've never seen this tape being sold anywhere so I don't...
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I don't know about C-5's, but on C-130's which are regularly used for Medium haul Personnel transport by the Army, only have a funnel and a garden hose in the aft. The female personnel hate long trips in the box cars.
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"traction control" as far as the optional feature that one buys with cars is not the same thing at all as a torque sensing differential. a torque sensing differential is a type of LSD, but not all LSD's are torque sensing. viscous coupled differentials (as opposed to viscous couplings) are rotational sensing, not to...
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CHEERS Brandon. That's the best suggestion I have seen that. !!!
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From his Topps "rookie" year (as coach) card (74-75): "For the past couple of seasons, Don has been the highly-successful coach of the Rochester Americans of the AHL, but he is getting his first shot at an NHL job with the Bruins. Named Coach of the Year in the AHL the last two years, and he aims to make the Bru...
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Throw away the FAQ. We can all just ask Mr O'Dwyer, since he can define the thing that the rest of us only talk about.
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Why not try to eliminate discrimination from existing laws instead of trying to add discrimination that favors your group.
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Actually, no I don't have a tape drive. In the event of a total hard disk failure, I reinstall the apps from originals, and restore the data from the backups I keep of that. With upwards of 100Mb of stuff on my hard disk, there is no way I'm going to try and back it all up without a tape drive. :) Would be nice ...
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The paucity of this line of argument is that it is provably false. Texas state officials COULD and DID investigate child abuse charges. They COULD and DID apprehend Koresh peaceably. The COULD and DID impound his weapons for the duration. And Koresh was NOT CONVICTED. Note that child abuse and similar accusation...
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: Well, here goes. After lurking for a LONG time, I'll announce myself. Yes, I'm : the enemy. The enemy that also happens to ride an "arrest me red" 90 VFR. I don't generally consider police officers "the enemy". I hope you don't think bikers in general have that attitude. Stereotypes suck either way. : I'll ent...
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Exactly. You took the words right out of my mouth, Ron :-) --
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Granted. Pomeroy, Bell, Weinberg, 1967. "National Institute of Mental Health Paper 12353, ''Patterns of Adjusment in Deviant Populations.''" Cited as part of the National Institute of Mental Health Task Force on Homosexuality. Pomery concluded, "The Kinsey statistic of 37% is probably higher than is reali...
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Hello!!! The title just about says it all. I need a list of the bugs for Motif 1.2.
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>have no idea what's in Apple's patented ROMs. Many have modems connected. >How do you know all your business secrets aren't being stolen? Answer: >1. Because you trust Apple; >2. Because if any such attempt, however sophicsticated, came out, it would destroy Apple's credibility forever.
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[discussing the use of IRQ 7] To put it a little differently: - IRQ 7 is the de facto standard interrupt assigned to be used by the printer adapter to announce its completion of some activity. - DOS doesn't monitor IRQ 7; it uses other means to determine when it's time to send out another byte to the print...
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A little correction on my previous post about an hour ago. Please replace the term 'EEPROM' with the term 'EPROM' wherever it appears. (Don't not why I added that extra 'E' every time.)
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Does anyone know what the standard port addresses are for COM ports 5 through 8? (If there is a standard of any sort!) Please e-mail, as I don't read this group very often.
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A harmonic of the Earth's gravitational field? What IS a harmonic of the Earth's gravitational field? 14:1 resonance with WHAT? It's not like there's any wavelength or frequency to the Earth's gravitational field. Now, there' might be some interesting interactions with the Moon's tidal effect--is that what you're...
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The injury is to his fielding hand, which is good. Unfortunately, he may have some ligament damage and may require surgery, which would lay him up for a while. Apparently just a strain of some sort. He hasn't been put on the DL, so it's probably just day-to-day.
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Hello , I need a microsoft mouse driver, but newer as 8.6 for going in dos window under ms windows, but it is must be freeware. I have version 7.00 . Tx Mike
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Actually, David, I don't think it's any more intellectually honest to say there are no backdoors than to say there are backdoors, unless you've had a chance to examine the algorithm and the silicon closely. For all we know, skipjack could be easily broken, or impossible to break. And clearly, if skipjack is no...
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Shooting those .44 cal. blanks, I suspect. Them movie guys is dangerous. Practice with them, I hope. --
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-*---- No. It follows from the fact that most Christians' choice of interpretation stems from a mix of beliefs that are influenced by the secular ethics of their culture and that are not fully determined by scripture. Whether or not there is some "right" interpretation matters not; few Christians claim the ability ...
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I am thinking of going on a motorcycle tour in New Zealand in the November-January timeframe. There are a few tour companies doing this, notably Beach Tours. Can anyone who has done this let me know of their experiences, both good and bad? Thanks.
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Ron Miller is a space artist with a long and distinguished career. I've admired both his paintings (remember the USPS Solar System Exploration Stamps last year?) and his writings on the history of spaceflight. For several years he's been working on a *big* project which is almost ready to hit the streets. A brochur...
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It isn't. And I wasn't aware that this O'Hair chick was a reader of a.a., so that doesn't support your assertion that the argument is "the whole basis of a great many HERE rejecting...".
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How about Matt Nokes 2 run single against Ron Darling. Was that a hit or what? While watching the game yesterday they flashed up something regarding The Boss' talking about Mark Connor as bullpen coach. He said something like it's Mark Connor's fault that the bullpen is so horrible!! Here we go again!! George sti...
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Heheheheh.. Sorry, Roger, I wronged you.. You're not boring ALL the time.. This one is a classic. 'cordially, as always' HEHEHEHEHHE! Are you a jerk? Do people hate you? Are you no fun at parties? Well! Come to the ROGER MAYNARD SCHOOL OF CORDIALITY! We can teach you to be 'cordial' with the best of the...
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