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i think you got it the other way round: the Ferrari flat 12 is a 180
degree v12 and not a "true" boxer, while the subaru and porsche are
true boxers. don't know about the vw bug though, but i suspect that
it is also a true boxer.
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Ah, those poor genocide apologists. Such quaintly charming habits of the
Armenian barbarism and fascism. No swinging of lies will be enough to cover
up the crimes of the x-Soviet Armenian Government. Not a chance. Now let
the Kurdish scholars speak for themselves.
Source: Hassan Arfa, "The Kurds," (London, 1968), pp. 25-26.
"When the Russian armies invaded Turkey after the Sarikamish disaster
of 1914, their columns were preceded by battalions of irregular
Armenian volunteers, both from the Caucasus and from Turkey. One of
these was commanded by a certain Andranik, a blood-thirsty adventurer.
These Armenian volunteers committed all kinds of excesses, more
than six hundred thousand Kurds being killed between 1915 and 1916 in
the eastern vilayets of Turkey."
Sources: (The Ottoman State, the Ministry of War), "Islam Ahalinin
Ducar Olduklari Mezalim Hakkinda Vesaike Mustenid Malumat," (Istanbul, 1918).
The French version: "Documents Relatifs aux Atrocites Commises par les Armeniens
sur la Population Musulmane," (Istanbul, 1919). In the Latin script: H. K.
Turkozu, ed., "Osmanli ve Sovyet Belgeleriyle Ermeni Mezalimi," (Ankara,
1982). In addition: Z. Basar, ed., "Ermenilerden Gorduklerimiz," (Ankara,
1974) and, edited by the same author, "Ermeniler Hakkinda Makaleler -
Derlemeler," (Ankara, 1978). "Askeri Tarih Belgeleri ...," Vol. 32, 83
(December 1983), document numbered 1881.
"Askeri Tarih Belgeleri ....," Vol. 31, 81 (December 1982), document
numbered 1869.
"Those who were capable of fighting were taken away at the very beginning
with the excuse of forced labor in road construction, they were taken
in the direction of Sarikamis and annihilated. When the Russian army
withdrew, a part of the remaining people was destroyed in Armenian
massacres and cruelties: they were thrown into wells, they were locked
in houses and burned down, they were killed with bayonets and swords, in places
selected as butchering spots, their bellies were torn open, their lungs
were pulled out, and girls and women were hanged by their hair after
being subjected to every conceivable abominable act. A very small part
of the people who were spared these abominations far worse than the
cruelty of the inquisition resembled living dead and were suffering
from temporary insanity because of the dire poverty they had lived
in and because of the frightful experiences they had been subjected to.
Including women and children, such persons discovered so far do not
exceed one thousand five hundred in Erzincan and thirty thousand in
Erzurum. All the fields in Erzincan and Erzurum are untilled, everything
that the people had has been taken away from them, and we found them
in a destitute situation. At the present time, the people are subsisting
on some food they obtained, impelled by starvation, from Russian storages
left behind after their occupation of this area."
Source: "Adventures in the Near East" by A. Rawlinson, Jonathan Cape,
30 Bedford Square, London, 1934 (First published 1923) (287 pages).
(Memoirs of a British officer who witnessed the Armenian genocide of 2.5
million Muslim people)
p. 184 (second paragraph)
"I had received further very definite information of horrors that
had been committed by the Armenian soldiery in Kars Plain, and as
I had been able to judge of their want of discipline by their
treatment of my own detached parties, I had wired to Tiflis from
Zivin that 'in the interests of humanity the Armenians should not
be left in independent command of the Moslem population, as, their
troops being without discipline and not under effective control,
atrocities were constantly being committed, for which we should
with justice eventually be held to be morally responsible'."
p. 177 (third paragraph)
"Armenian troops, who, having pillaged and destroyed all the
Moslem villages in the plain...."
"Caravans of refugees were in the meanwhile constantly arriving from the
plain, from which the whole Moslem population was fleeing with as much of
their personal property as they could transport, seeking to obtain security
and protection..."
p. 178 (first paragraph)
"In those Moslem villages in the plain below which had been searched
for arms by the Armenians everything had been taken under the cloak of
such search, and not only had many Moslems been killed, but horrible
tortures had been inflicted in the endeavour to obtain information as
to where valuables had been hidden, of which the Armenians were aware
of the existence, although they had been unable to find them."
p. 181 (first paragraph)
"the Armenians from the plain were attacking the Kurdish line with
artillery, with probably a large force in support."
p. 175 (first paragraph)
"The arrival of this British brigade was followed by the announcement
that Kars Province had been allotted by the Supreme Council of the
Allies to the Armenians, and that announcement having been made, the
British troops were then completely withdrawn, and Armenian occupation
commenced. Hence all the trouble; for the Armenians at once commenced
the wholesale robbery and persecution of the Muslem population on the
pretext that it was necessary forcibly to deprive them of their arms.
In the portion of the province which lies in the plains they were able
to carry out their purpose, and the manner in which this was done will
be referred to in due course."
Serdar Argic
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The IBM XGA SVGA VESA driver is on the 2.02 reference diskette, available
from the IBM BBS. It's also on Compu$erve, or you can bang on your sales
rep to get you a later version.
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It seems that Egypt is only interested in fighting wars against its own
people, while objecting to any steps for Bosnia.. I am not surprised,
WHo said that Mubarak represents Egypt (Hell he does not even represent
all the criminals of Egypt)
....
Thanks Saudia for the pocket change.
Compare that to the "Liberation of Q8" and to what they gave to some
weird causes.. O.K at least they are paying.
Mr. Amr Moussa was not worried about International law when he tortured
to death many of his citizens and when he shot people praying in a Mosque,
or when he is causing trouble to his neighbor just becasue the CIA says so.
Why doesn't he just shut up, he won't be involved in any Bosnian effort
anyway, or does the west have to be represented even in an Islamic conference?
The more I hear about the Egyptian regime, the more I understand the
existence of the "Jamaa Islamiyah" there. After all most of its members
and leaders are former and current victims of government torture, injustice,
or relatives of victims. In some other places they get psychiatric care AND
revenge in the COURTS. But all they got is more of the same resulting in a
cycle of madness that is initiated by the government with the illicit support
of the west who is more concerned about the safety of half naked tourists in
conservative neighborhoods than the dignity, social justice, and safety of the
majority of the poor oppressed people of Egypt. Enough said.
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o Kenwood Audiophile Cassette Tape Deck
Asking $199.00 obo + shipping, (original price I paid - $450.00),
excellent condition, well maintained, rarely used.
- Model KX-900
- Kenwood Audiophile Series (Kenwood highend stereo component)
- Programmable playback with Memory System (used to program the playback
order if selection. Program is stored in RAM (Random Access Memory)
System with digital display of the song # being played)
- Counter Memory Index (when this mode is selected, count '000' of the
Tape Counter can be stored in memory. This function is useful when it
is necessary to stop of restart the tape at '000' during fast forward
or rewind.
- Search Mode (Searching for a selection, skipping a selection or
repeating a selection can be preformed at a touch.)
- Time stand by switch (this is used along with an audio timer when an
unattended timer-recording or timer-playback is performed.)
- Dolby NR with MPX filter
- Bias adjustment (used to obtain optimum bias that matches the type of
type to be played)
- Tape selector switch (CrO2, FeCr, Normal, Metal)
- REC MUTE key (When recording, press this key to delete undesired portions
between programs such as announcements and commercials. When this key
is pressed, the tape runs forwards for 5 seconds to make an unrecorded
section, then the PAUSE function automatically stops the tape. To
restart recording, press PAUSE key once.)
- Flurescent PEAK PROGRAM METERS
- Rec level controls
- Phone Jack
- Mic Jacks
- Input Selector switch
- SPECS:
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Actually, I've heard that some M1 Abrams tank commanders take the
governers off their turbine engines, and can acheive 90MPH on a
paved road. Never seen it myself, but I believe it...
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Disclaimer: These opinions are mine, obviously, since they end with my .sig!
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Though there is a command in the law not to heed to one who prophecies
falsely, it is still possible for the one who has prophecied falsely
to prophecy truely again. Take, for example the story in Kings about the
man of God from Judah who came to israel and prophecied against a king.
The Lord had commanded him to not eat or drink till he returned home.
Another prophet wanted this man of God to stay in his house, so he
prophecied falsely that the Lord wanted the man of God to stay in his
house. While they ate and drank in his house, the Lord gave the prophet
who lied a word that the man of God would die from breaking the word of
the Lord. It came to pass.
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I heard that there will be an Apple price drop coming June 30th. Can
anyone second this rumour?
--
A motion picture major at the Brooks Institute of Photography, CA
Santa Barbara and a foreign student from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Probably, but the point is THE COMPANY make the registration patch, NOT
YOU. Sure, you can probably find another registerred user and compare notes,
but WHY? It's not hindering you in any way unless you are just hacking.
[Problem about people who cut TOO MUCH from quoting...]
Nothing, but if you read my WHOLE suggestion, I'm saying that you register
via MAIL by mailing in your registration card, THEN the company send you
the patch which includes the info you put on the registration card.
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I'd like to install an Apple (Quantum) 40 MB hard drive taken from a IIsi in an
external PowerDrive box from Hard Drives International that currenty has a dead
Conner mechanism in it. Have you done this (or do you know how)? If so, could
you please walk me through it, in as much detail as possible?
Please email me directly. If anyone else is interested in this, email me and
I'll forward responses to you. If enough people want instructions, I'll post a
summary within a week or so.
Thanks in advance,
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I hadn't heard of the Valentine-1 before. Car&Driver and other auto
magazines
recommend BEL detectors. I was considering their latest - the 966STi -
which picks up Super Wideband Ka and Laser as well. It also avoids
radar detector detectors (although I really don't care about this since I
doubt I'll be driving in Virginia anytime soon - or have any other states
also made detectors iilegal?)
How does the Valentine-1 compare with the BEL products?
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please subscrive me.
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C&T chip set 286-12 mother board C&T BIOS with 2 meg RAM (80ns). Reply
with reasonable offer if you are interested... Thanks! :)
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> Just curious, how would the Clipper Chip system handle
> conference calls?
It's not Clipper, it's any encryption system. I've seen a number of
designs; they generally involve a multi-line cleartext bridge.
Depending on the encryption system, so long as everyone has the same
key, it can be done. For example, I was using "vat", which is an
Internet Audio tool, for a conference call, and we were encrypting the
session. (Unfortunately, one site was doing more work, and didn't
have the CPU for it, so it didn't sound all that good at a different
site)
So, you don't neccessarily have to have a clear-text bridge. But if
you do, its totally internal to one of the sites involved in the
conversation....
-derek
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Somewhere or other I read that when a person of Chinese heritage was
told that he had high blood pressure he responded by eating celery
(sorry, I don't recall the "dosage"). Apparently this is supposed to
work in reducing hypertension.
Can anyone out there verify this? And if it does work, does anyone
know the appropriate amounts and possible side-effects?
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I hope there is not one- with a subject like this you just have a spiral. What
would then be a morality of a morality of morals. Labels don't make arguments.
One really needs a solid measuring stick by which most actions can be
interpreted, even though this would hardly seem moral. For example "The best
thing for me is to ensure that I will eat and drink enough. Hence all actions
must be weighed against this one statement." whatever helps this goal is
"moral", whatever does not is "immoral"
Of course this leads such a blank space: there are so many different ways to
fulfill a goal, one would need a "hyper-morality" to apply to just the methods.
Seems to me we only consider something moral or immoral if we stop to think
about it long enough :) On the other hand, maybe it is our first gut
reaction... Which? Who knows: perhaps here we have a way to discriminate
morals. I don't instinctively thing vegetarianism is right (the same way I
instinctively feel torture is wrong), but if I thought about it long enough and
listened to the arguments, I could perhaps reason that it was wrong (is that
possible!? :) ) See the difference?
--
best regards,
--Adam
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I think this didn't get posted before (I've been reading
USENET for the longest time, but never had much interest in posting
until recently). This is what I typed before:
I have written Mr. Limbaugh before, and I loathe to use the
name Rush in association with him, because he is unworthy to have a
name in common with some of the greatest musicians in our time, the
BAND, Rush.
His address, as some of you wanted is:
70277.2502@compuserve.com
He has been to wrapped up in himself to respond to me, but
maybe some of you will have better luck. :) bye!
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g'bye for now...
-=I Tree I=- a.k.a. Andy Novak
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anovak@twain.ucs.umass.edu
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g'bye for now...
-=I Tree I=- a.k.a. Andy Novak
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anovak@twain.ucs.umass.edu
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Regarding the consequences of the original sin:
Catholics believe that what Adam primarily lost by his sin, for
himself and the human race, was sanctifying grace. This is basically
a share in the Divine life. Take a rock and make it able to talk:
what God does to a human being through sanctifying grace is similar.
It makes such a one able to live on a plane that is above the powers
of any possible creature. This is the "everlasting life" that the New
Testament speaks of.
What Christ did when he came was to restore this life of sanctifying
grace to the human race. He instituted the Sacraments as the means by
which this life is given to people, and its increase fostered.
The absence of sanctifying grace at death means automatic exclusion
from Heaven. The nature of Heaven is such that it's impossible for a
human being to have any part in it without the gift of sanctifying
grace. To use my example, it would be like taking that rock and
attempting to hold a conversation with it: rocks cannot talk. Neither
can human beings live in Heaven without sanctifying grace.
This all obviously applies equally well to infants or adults, since
both have souls. Infants must be baptized, therefore, or they cannot
enter into Heaven. They too need this form of life in them, or they
cannot enter into Heaven.
Turning it around, infant baptism is good supporting evidence for the
Catholic belief in sanctifying grace. Unless Baptism causes some
change in an infant's soul, there is no particular reason to insist on
the practice. Yet infant Baptism was probably practiced by the
Apostles themselves, and was *certainly* part of the Church shortly
thereafter.
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I keep hearing this, but every assertion of this form has come from
government sources except two. As far as I am concerned, I am not
ready to stipulate that Koresh EVER promised to come out except for
his first promise and his last promise.
The first promise was conditional on his audio tape being given
NATIONAL exposure. Well, it never was -- it was broadcast locally,
in a chopped-up fashion, and that's all. And even then, they cleverly
cut it off when it got to the part where he demanded "national exposure,"
but not so cleverly that we didn't hear it.
The last promise was conditional on the finishing of his manuscript.
We'll never know if he would have kept that one.
Strangely enough, the previous day they said they were prepared to
"wait as long as it takes."
Quite possible. But arguments of intent do not mark the dividing
line between guilt and innocence -- only the line between murder and
negligent manslaughter.
This would be an interesting development.
It's too tempting for one or more of the survivors to "go state's
evidence," parrot the FBI story, hang the whole "suicide" on Koresh,
claim they only stayed at gunpoint, etc. If any of them do this
in the next few weeks, it doesn't prove much; but if none of them
do, it would be a strong indication to me that the FBI story is
dead wrong.
--
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I am curious about knowing which commericial cars today
have v engines.
V4 - I don't know of any.
V6 - Legend, MR3? MR6?
VW Golf/Passat 2.8l VR6 (inline V6!), very narrow angle (11 deg?), one head.
Audi 80/100 2.6/2.8l V6
V8 - Don't know of any.
Audi V8 3.6/4.2l
Some MBs
Some BMWs
V12 - Jaguar XJS
BMW 750/850
MB *600*
Please add to the list.
Thanks,
-S
ssave@ole.cdac.com
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Does anyone know of an X-based terminal emulator which can
emulate a color tektronics graphics terminal such as
TEK 4105 or TEK 4107, etc?
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Wood played most of his junior career in Seattle. He was one
of the leading scorers on a mediocre team when he was traded away in
1992. He rarely lost a fight and was one of the toughest players in
the WHL.
However, I was extremely surprised when he was drafted, especially in
the third round. He certainly didn't look like NHL material...
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:
: In the NT, the clear references are all from Paul's letters. In Rom
: 1, there is a passage that presupposes that homosexuality is an evil.
: Note that the passage isn't about homosexuality -- it's about
: idolatry. Homosexuality is visited on people as a punishment, or at
: least result, of idolatry. There are a number of arguments over this
: passage. It does not use the word "homosexuality", and it is referring
: to people who are by nature heterosexual practicing homosexuality.
: So it's not what I'd call an explicit teaching against all homosexuality.
That's like saying that murder is only wrong for those of us who aren't natural
murders, and stealing is only wrong for those of us who aren't natural
thieves.
Will
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This would be tedious, but if you have the time you could get the .bdf
file (I can email it to you if you don't have it or don't have easy access
to the X source), and could make your own bold font from this. Since each
glyph is just a bitmap, you could write a program to convert each
glyph to a bitmap-readable file, use bitmap to make each glyph "bold", and
convert the results back to .bdf format. Then, use "bdftopcf" to create
the .pcf file. Then, stick the .pcf in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc (or wherever)
and include it in fonts.dir and, voila, you'll have what you need!
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[...]
No no no no no no no.
It will go like this:
FEDS: We need the key to phone 334RE67D99.
ESCROW: You have a warrant to tap the line phone 334RE67D99 is on?
FEDS: Yes.
ESCROW: Fine, here is our key.
What happens is, Feds tap a line; find Clipper is being used; extract
serial number; get key; decipher convo. The serial number is never
registered to a specific owner, it is _sent_ as part of the
conversation. If I give you my Clipper phone, you do not need to
re-register it (mainly because it was never 'registered' to me in the
first place).
There are a lot of things that bother me about Clipper, but this is
not one of them. Let's get our facts straight and not waste effort
demolishing straw men.
RA
rogue@cs.neu.edu (Rogue Agent/SoD!)
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I'm trying to bring in 8+ bits to a PC, and would like
to use interrupt-driven routines. Without buying an IO
board or making a new port, _where_ can I bring in these
bits? LPT seems to have only a few inputs, but I've heard
rumours that some LPTs have bidirectional lines. Anybody
know fer sure? If any bi-d LPTs, which boards have them
(I'll be running a new 386DX-33)?
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Alan Erickson erickson@baltic.nmt.edu
to all SunRayce '93 competitors: I hope you're getting
about as much sleep as I am.....
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I read a great book about eye dominance several years ago. So there is one
book out there..at least one :).
There were several types of eye dominance. Where a person looks in their
memory usually indicates a type of eye dominanc Another type is related to
coordination activities like hitting a ball. Another for reading.
I didn't read one that discussed prescription strength. Although people
with bad vision, near or far sighted would tend to depend on the stronger
eye.
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And who was it that insisted sidestand cutout switches were right up
there with tachometers, something like a curse from God?
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I wasn't sure if this was the right newsgroup to post this to, but I guess
the misc is there for a reason. Here goes... I am getting married in June to
a devout (Wisconsin Synod) Lutheran. I would classify myself as a strong
agnostic/weak athiest. This has been a a subject of many discussions between
us and is really our only real obstacle. We don't have any real difficulties
with the religious differences yet, but I expect they will pop up when we have
children. I have agreed to raise the
children "nominally" Lutheran. That is, Lutheran traditions, but trying to
keep an open mind. I am not sure if this is even possible though. I feel that
that the worst quality of being devoutly religous is the lack of an open mind.
Anyway, I guess I'll get on with my question. Is anyone in the same
situation and can give some suggestions as to how to deal with this? We've
taken the attitude so far of just talking about it a lot and not letting
anything get bottled up inside. Sometimes I get the feeling we're making this
much bigger than it actually is. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Also, please e-mail responses since I don't get a chance to read this group
often. :-(
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Not always true. In fact, in the case of Doug Gilmour, he actually praises them.
Europeans that do those things are scum in Cherry's opinion. Canadian kids
that do them are "tough, just like a real Canadian".
Ulf Samuelsson cheap shots Mark Messier's ribs and Don wants Ulf's head. Doug
Gilmour breaks Tomas Sandstrom's arm and Don says Sandstrom had it coming.
Methinks Don is either very confused or just a bigot. Most likely the latter.
I used to like Don Cherry. I thought he was great. But I'm starting to see
his true colors (redneck) and the more I see of them, the more I think he's
just an asshole.
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Sure sounds like aXe to me.
--
Michael Salmon
#include <standard.disclaimer>
#include <witty.saying>
#include <fancy.pseudo.graphics>
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flat = 180 deg V = horizonatlly opposed
Usually, it also equals "boxer," however, I think the term is
traditionally reserved for 8's and 12's (and firing order matters).
This was talked about here in r.a many months back; I can't remember
the consensus.
Examples:
Ferrari's 512TR is a flat 12 boxer.
Porsche's 911 is a flat 6.
Subaru's Impreza is a flat 4.
Regards,
Brian
bqueiser@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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I am the engineer, I can choose K.
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Some of the MD's in this newsgroup have been riding my butt pretty good
(maybe in some cases with good reason). In this post on depression, I'm
laying it all out. I'll continue to post here because I think that I have
some knowledge that could be useful. Once you have read this post, you
should know where I'm coming from when I post again in the future.
Lida,
I can emphasize with your situation. Both my wife and I suffered from
bouts of depression. Her's was brought on by breast cancer and mine was a
rebound stress reaction to her modified radical mastectomy and
chemotherapy. Lida, I used my knowledge of nutrition to get her through
her six months of chemotherapy(with the approval of her oncologist). When
severe depression set in a few months after the chemo stopped, I tried to
use supplements to bring her out of it. I had "cured" her PMS using
supplements and I really thought that I knew enough about the role of diet
in depression to take care of her depression as well. It didn't work and
she was put on Prozac by her oncologist. Two Winters ago(three years after
by wife's breast cancer) I got hit with severe depression(pretty typical and
one reason why many marriages break up after breast cancer or another
stressor). I tried to take care of it for several months with
supplementation. Didn't work. My internist ended up putting me on Prozac.
I was going to give you a list of several studies that have been done using
B6, niacin, folate and B12 to "cure" depression. I'm not going to do that
because all you would be doing is flying blind like I was.
Lida, I do believe that depression can have a dietary component. But the
problem is that you need to know exactly what the problem is and then use
an approach which will "fix" the problem. For chemotherapy, I knew exactly
what drugs were going to be used and exactly what nutrients would be
affected. Same thing for PMS. I was flying blind for both of these
stressors but the literature that I used to devise a treatment program was
pretty good. Depression is just too complicated. What you really need is
a nutritional scan. This is not a diet analysis but an analysis of your
bodies nutrient reserves. For every vitamin and mineral(except vitamin C),
you have a reserve. The RDA is not designed to give you enough of any
nutrient to keep these reserves full, it is only designed to keep them from
being emptied which would cause clinical pathology. Stress will increase
your need for many vitamins and minerals. This is when your reserves become
very important.
Lida, without your permission, I'm going to use your post as a conduit to
try to explain to the readers in this group and Sci. Med. where I'm coming
from. I have taught a course on human nutrition in one of the Osteopathic
Medical schools for ten years now. I've written my own textbook because
none was available. What I teach is not a rehash of biochemistry. I
preach nutrient reserves(yes my lectures in this course are referred to by
my students as sermons). Here is what I cover:
Indroduction and Carbohydrates Lipids
Proteins I Proteins II
Energy Balance Evaluation of Nutritional
Status I, A Clinical
Perspective
Evaluation of Nutritional Status II, Evaluation of Nutritional
A Biochemical Perspective Status III, Homework
Assignment Using the
Nutritionist IV Diet and
Fitness Analysis Software
program
Weight Control Food Fads and Facts
Age-Related Change in Nutrient Requirements Food Additives,
Contaminants and Cancer
Drug-Nutrient Interactions Mineral and Water Balance
Sodium, Potassium and Chloride Calcium, Magnesium and
Phosphorus
Iron Zinc and Copper
Iodine and Fluoride Other Trace Minerals
Vitamin A Vitamin E
Vitamins D and K Vitamin C
Thiamin and Niacin Riboflavin and Pyridoxine
Pantothenic and Folic acids Biotin and B12
Other Nutrient Factors Enteral Nutrition
Parenteral Nutrition
Every three years I spend my entire Summer reviewing the Medical literature
to find material that I can use in my nutrition textbook. I last did this
in the Summer of 1991. I read everything that I can find and then sit down
and rewrite my lecture handouts which are bound in three separate books
that have 217, 237 and 122 pages. Opposite each page of written text(which
I write myself) I've pulled figures, tables and graphs from various
copyrighted sources. Since this material is only being used for
educational purposes, I can get around the copyright laws (so far). I can not
send this material out to newsgroup readers(as I've been asked to do).
I am now in the process of trying to get a grant to setup a nutrition
assessment lab. This is the last peice of the nutrition puzzle that I need
to make my education program complete. This lab will let me measure the
nutrient reserve for almost all the vitamins and minerals that are known to
be required in humans. The Mayo clinic already uses a similiar lab to
design supplement programs for their cancer patients. Cancer Treatment
Centers of America, which is a private for-profit organization with
hospitals in Illinois and Oklahoma(Tulsa) also operates a
nutritional assessment clinical lab. I also believe that the Pritikin
Clinic in California has a similiar lab setup.
For physicians reading this post, I would suggest that you get the new
Clinical Nutrition Textbook that has just been published(Feb) by Mosby. I
have been using Alpers Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics(a Little Brown
series book) as a supplemental text for my course but Alpers is geared more
to residency training. Two M.D's have written this new Clinical Nutrition
textbook and it is geared more towards medical student education and it
does a good job of covering the lab tests that can be run to assess a
patient's nutritional status. Let me quote a few sentences from the
Preface of this new text:
"So-called nutrition specialists were in reality gastroenterologists,
hematologists, or pediatricians who just happened to profess some knowledge
of nutrition as it related to their field of practice."
"Unfortunately, about two thirds of the medical schools in the United
States require no formal instruction in nutrition."
"But times and medical practice have changed. More than half of the
leading causes of death in this country are nutrition related."
"... this monograph should accomplish the following two objectives: (1) it
should complement your medical training by emphasizing the relevance of
nutrition to your medical practice; and (2) it should heighten your
awareness of nutrition as a medical speciality that is vitally important
for both disease prevention and the treatment of diseases of essentially
every organ system."
Roland L. Weinsier, MD, DrPH
Lida, my advise to you is that you tell your family members to try to find
a physician who has an understanding of the role that vitamins and minerals
(yes even magnesium may play a role in depression) play in depression and
who could get a nutritional profile run. Menopause is often a time when
women suffer depression. There are a lot of hormonal changes that are
occuring but they are not the same ones that occur during PMS. A
nutritionist may also be able to help. Not too long ago a poster mentioned
that his nutritionist had diagnosed a selenium deficiency based on a red
cell glutathionine peroxidase test(the specific test for the selenium
reserve). Most clinical labs will not run this test and I advised him to
try to make sure that the lab that did the test was certified. There are
also a lot of hair and nail analysis labs setup to do trace mineral
analysis but these labs are not regulated. Checks of these labs using
certified standards, and also those doing water lead analysis, showed some
pretty shoddy testing was going on. If you or anyone else finds someone
who will run these speciality nutrition tests, make sure that they are
using a lab that has been certified under CLIA(the Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Act).
A diet analysis may be helpful since many nutrient reserves have been shown
to correlate fairly well with the dietary intake as monitored by food logging
and software analysis(Nutritionist IV and other software programs). But
there are still about half of the nutrients required by humans that do not
show a very good correlation between apparent dietary intake and reserve status.
Until we have more nutritional assessment clinical labs in operation in the
U.S. and physicians who have been trained how to use the nutritional
profile that these labs provide to devise a treatment approach that uses
diet changes and supplementation, anti-depressants will probably continue
to be the best approach to depression.
Martin Banschbach, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Chairman
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine
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: 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
: 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.
Not quite. First, the median does not imply that half of the men are
above and half below 7.3: it simply means that 7.3 is the mid-point
between the maximum number of partners and the minimum (which is most
likely zero). However, assuming your implication to be more-or-less
correct, your final result is still invalid. If 50% of *all* males
have had more than 7.3 partners, and you deduct the assumed 1% of
homosexual males, what remains is not 49.5%, but still *50%* of all
*heterosexual* males. Which is to say: hey, we're all human.
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Try rec.radio.packet
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I don't really mind the length of games either. If they want to speed
the games up in sensible ways, that's fine with me too. However, what
I object to is the assertion by baseball people (Whitey Herzog, Buck
Rodgers are who I've heard say this) that games are too long because
hitters are taking too many pitches, and that the strike zone needs to
be expanded.
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Someone please fill me in on what 3do.
Thanks,
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The following article by columnist Mike Royko is his humorous commentary
on some of the public's perception of doctors and their salaries.
I hope some of you will find it as amusing as I did.
____________________________________________________________________________
[Reprinted w/o permission]
"There's no cure for stupidity of poll on doctors' salaries"
By Mike Royko
Tribune Media Services
On a stupidity scale, a recent poll about doctors' earnings
is right up there. It almost scored a perfect brain-dead 10.
It was commissioned by some whiny consumers group called
Families USA.
The poll tells us that the majority of Americans believe
that doctors make too much money.
The pollsters also asked what a fair income would be for
physicians. Those polled said, oh, about $80,000 a year would be
OK.
How generous. How sporting. How stupid.
Why is this poll stupid? Because it is based on resentment
and envy, two emotions that ran hot during the political campaign
and are still simmering.
You could conduct the same kind of poll about any group that
earns $100,000-plus and get the same results. Since the majority
of Americans don't make those bucks, they assume that those who
do are stealing it from them.
Maybe the Berlin Wall came down, but don't kid yourself.
Karl Marx lives.
It's also stupid because it didn't ask key questions, such
as: Do you know how much education and training it takes to
become a physician?
If those polled said no, they didn't know, then they should
have been disqualified. If they gave the wrong answers, they
should have been dropped. What good are their views on how much
a doctor should earn if they don't know what it takes to become a
doctor?
Or maybe a question should have been phrased this way: "How
much should a person earn if he or she must (a) get excellent
grades and a fine educational foundation in high school in order
to (b) be accepted by a good college and spend four years taking
courses heavy in math, physics, chemistry, and other lab work and
maintain a 3.5 average or better, and (c) spend four more years
of grinding study in medical school, with the third and fourth
years in clinical training, working 80 to 100 hours a week, and
(d) spend another year as a low-pay, hard-work intern, and (e)
put in another three to 10 years of post-graduate training,
depending on your specialty and (f) maybe wind up $100,000 in
debt after medical school and (g) then work an average of 60
hours a week, with many family doctors putting in 70 hours or
more until they retire or fall over?"
As you have probably guessed by now, I have considerably
more respect for doctors than does the law firm of Clinton and
Clinton, and all the lawyers and insurance executives they have
called together to remake America's health care.
Based on what doctors contribute to society, they are far
more useful than the power-happy, ego-tripping, program-spewing,
social tinkerers who will probably give us a medical plan that is
to health what Clinton's first budget is to frugality.
But propaganda works. And, as the stupid poll indicates,
many Americans wrongly believe that profiteering doctors are the
major cause of high medical costs.
Of course doctors are well-compensated. They should be.
Americans now live longer than ever. But who is responsible for
our longevity--lawyers, Congress, or the guy flipping burgers in
a McDonald's?
And the doctors prolong our lives despite our having become
a nation of self-indulgent, lard-butted, TV-gaping couch
cabbages.
Ah, that is not something you heard President Clinton or
Super Spouse talk about during the campaign or since. But
instead of trying to turn the medical profession into a villain,
"Let us talk about medical care and one of the biggest
problems we have. That problem is you, my fellow American. Yes,
you, eating too much and eating the wrong foods; many of you
guzzling too much hooch; still puffing away at $2.50 a pack;
getting your daily exercise by lumbering from the fridge to the
microwave to the couch; doing dope and bringing crack babies into
the world; filling the big city emergency rooms with gunshot
victims; engaging in unsafe sex and catching a deadly disease
while blaming the world for not finding an instant cure.
"You and your habits, not the doctors, are the single
biggest health problem in this country. If anything, it is
amazing that the docs keep you alive as long as they do.
"In fact, I don't understand how they can stand looking at
your blubbery bods all day.
"So as your president, I call upon you to stop whining and
start living cleanly. Now I must go get myself a triple cheesy-
greasy with double fries. Do as I say, not as I do."
But for those who truly believe that doctors are overpaid,
there is another solution: Don't use them.
That's right. You don't feel well? Then try one of those
spine poppers, needle twirlers, or have Rev. Bubba lay his hands
upon your head and declare you fit.
Or there is the do-it-yourself approach. You have chest
pains? Then sit in front of a mirror, make a slit here, a slit
there, and pop in a couple of valves.
You're going to have a kid? Why throw your money at that
overpaid sawbones so he can buy a better car and a bigger house
than you will ever have (while paying more in taxes and
malpractice insurance than you will ever earn)?
Just have the kid the old-fashioned way. Squat and do it.
And if it survives, you can go to the library and find a book on
how to give it its shots.
By the way, has anyone ever done a poll on how much
pollsters should earn?
Royko is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for Tribune Media
Services.
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The following program is a very quick hack I created a few months
ago to determine whether a Sun Sparcstation IPC could perform
real-time, full-duplex encrypted audio with resulting data rates
sustainable by today's modems.
This test program reads linearly-encoded audio from the audio device,
compresses it with GSM 06.10 (compresses frames of 160 13-bit samples
recorded at 8kHz into 260 bits resulting in a 50 Hz frame rate), encrypts
it with DES, then reverses the process and sends the reconstructed audio
back to the audio device. The compressed, encrypted audio stream
is 13 kbits/s (!).
My Sparcstation IPC (not exactly a very fast machine these days,
certainly slower than an ELC) would just barely sustain this activity
(audio underruns would occcur but the speech was very intelligible). I
ran it as a real-time process to get the best results. Remember,
though, that this program is a quick hack and the performance can
certainly be improved.
The audio compression routines can be ftp'd from tub.cs.tu-berlin.de,
I believe (look for gsm or toast). I used Eric Young's DES
implementation but I no longer know where I got it from.
Cheers!greg
<--------------------------- CUT HERE ----------------------------->
/*
* Test program to see how much CPU it takes for secure digital audio.
* Written by G. Onufer (greg@cheers.Bungi.COM).
*
* Written on a Sun IPC running Solaris 2.2 with a Sun ISDN S-Bus card
* and a SpeakerBox.
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/audioio.h>
#include <stropts.h>
#include <gsm.h>
#include <des.h>
boolean_t
svs_audio_init(int fd, audio_info_t *prev_info)
{
audio_info_t info;
if (prev_info != NULL) {
if (ioctl(fd, AUDIO_GETINFO, prev_info) < 0) {
perror("AUDIO_GETINFO");
return (B_FALSE);
}
}
AUDIO_INITINFO(&info);
info.record.pause = B_TRUE;
info.play.pause = B_TRUE;
info.play.sample_rate = 8000;
info.play.encoding = AUDIO_ENCODING_LINEAR;
info.play.channels = 1;
info.play.precision = 16;
info.record.sample_rate = 8000;
info.record.encoding = AUDIO_ENCODING_LINEAR;
info.record.channels = 1;
info.record.precision = 16;
info.record.buffer_size = 320 * 4;
if (ioctl(fd, AUDIO_SETINFO, &info) < 0) {
perror("AUDIO_SETINFO");
return (B_FALSE);
}
if (ioctl(fd, I_FLUSH, FLUSHRW) < 0) {
perror("I_FLUSH");
return (B_FALSE);
}
AUDIO_INITINFO(&info);
info.record.pause = B_FALSE;
info.play.pause = B_FALSE;
if (ioctl(fd, AUDIO_SETINFO, &info) < 0) {
perror("AUDIO_SETINFO");
return (B_FALSE);
}
return (B_TRUE);
}
boolean_t
svs_in(int ifd, gsm handle, gsm_byte *buf)
{
gsm_signal sample[160];
if (read(ifd, sample, sizeof (sample)) != sizeof (sample)) {
fprintf(stderr, "svs_in: short read\n");
return (B_FALSE);
}
gsm_encode(handle, sample, buf);
return (B_TRUE);
}
boolean_t
svs_out(int ofd, gsm handle, gsm_byte *buf)
{
gsm_signal sample[160];
if (gsm_decode(handle, buf, sample) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "svs_out: gsm_decode failed\n");
return (B_FALSE);
}
if (write(ofd, sample, sizeof (sample)) != sizeof (sample)) {
fprintf(stderr, "svs_out: short write\n");
return (B_FALSE);
}
return (B_TRUE);
}
main()
{
gsm handle;
gsm_frame frame;
int audiofd;
int option;
des_cblock key, ivec_in, ivec_out;
des_key_schedule ks_in, ks_out;
des_cblock cbuf_in[4], cbuf_out[4], cbuf_buf[4];
audiofd = open("/dev/audio", O_RDWR);
if (audiofd < 0) {
perror("open");
exit(4);
}
/*
* Initialize GSM compression code
*/
if ((handle = gsm_create()) == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "svs: gsm_create failed\n");
exit(4);
}
option = B_TRUE;
if (gsm_option(handle, GSM_OPT_FAST, &option) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "svs: gsm_option (FAST) failed\n");
exit(4);
}
/*
* Initialize DES code
*/
des_random_key(&key);
if (des_set_key(&key, ks_in) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "svs: des_set_key failed\n");
exit(4);
}
if (des_set_key(&key, ks_out) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "svs: des_set_key failed\n");
exit(4);
}
memset(ivec_in, 0, sizeof (ivec_in));
memset(ivec_out, 0, sizeof (ivec_out));
/*
* Open audio device and configure it
*/
if (!svs_audio_init(audiofd, NULL))
exit(3);
for (;;) {
/*
* Get 160 samples (16-bit linear 8000Hz) and
* convert to a 33 byte frame
*/
if (!svs_in(audiofd, handle, frame))
exit(1);
/*
* Encrypt/Decrypt block
*/
des_cbc_encrypt(frame, cbuf_out, (long)32, ks_in, ivec_in,
DES_ENCRYPT);
des_cbc_encrypt(cbuf_out, cbuf_buf, (long)32, ks_out, ivec_out,
DES_DECRYPT);
memmove(frame, cbuf_buf, 32);
#if 0
if (memcmp(cbuf_in, cbuf_buf, 32) != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "svs: memcmp failed\n");
exit(4);
}
#endif
/*
* Take 33 byte frame and convert to 160 samples
* and play
*/
if (!svs_out(audiofd, handle, frame))
exit(2);
}
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^^^^^^^^^^
Zounds! There's a blast from the past indeed! I'd nearly forgotten
about the strategic significance of strabismic in r.m lore. It's
really good to see it proudly displayed again, although I'm sure
by now that its carbs are spooge-o-rama from long disuse.
Gosh, I'm tingling all over!
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Claris Filemaker Pro Database Manager for sale. Still in package.
$240 or best offer.
Call (415) 824 6209, ask for Larry.
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Yes. It was the strangest series I have ever watched. And the ending
fit perfectly.
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Radio-Electronics sends each company a bunch of computer-printed address
labels for all the people who circled that company's number.
The company sends whatever it wants to -- normally a catalog.
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Let me salute Gary Chin for speaking the gospel which is our source
of life. Any who will follow his example, and accept the priorities
Christ commands of us, that the weightier matters of the law are justice
and mercy and good faith, is my brother or sister in Christ, and I will
attend to such a person with humility and charity. We may not, in the
end, agree -- siblings often don't -- but we can at least talk.
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: Very true (length of time for discussions on creationism vs evolutionism).
: Atheists and Christians have been debating since ?? and still debate with
: unabated passion 8-).
Mike,
I've seen referrences to "Creation vs Evolution" several times in a.a
and I have question. Is either point of view derived from direct
observation; can either be scientific? I wonder if the whole
controversy is more concerned with the consequences of the "Truth"
rather than the truth itself.
Both sides seem to hold to a philosophical outcome, and I can't help
wondering which came first. As I've pointed out elsewhere, my view of
human nature makes me believe that there is no way of knowing
anyhthing objectively - all knowledge is inherently subjective. So, in
the context of a.a, would you take a stand based on what you actually
know to be true or on what you want to be true and how can you tell
the difference?
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above
Robinson's
average.
the
easliy
REAL stats
water boy!
tons
Check your facts....Andre dawson's career Slugging pct is in the .480's
So is Winny's I would like to see your facts. Winny has probably done
better than 129 points above with a carrer SLG of 480. Check on more
important stats. DEFENSE, and HEART. BATTING AVERAGE. RBI's
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This is not a good idea.. I upgraded my motherboard last fall. I
would have been quite pissed at any software that would have forced me to
reinstall simply because I changed motherboards.
Any info in the BIOS is too volatile to use as a checksum. Are you
going to require that a user re-install all their software if they add 4Mb
of RAM to their computer? I did that a couple of weeks ago. It's in the
BIOS, and if software had told me "this isn't the machine you installed me
on" I would never have used that software again. Really bad idea.
This is silly. It's much easier to loan disks to a friend and let
them do an install than to backup your copy already on disk, and then give
them that. Your scheme isn't going to stop anyone.
Do you know any assembly language at all? All anyone needs to do if
find the part of the code that does the quiz, and insert a JMP instruction
to just completely skip it. Not that difficult, really! And there is very
little that commpanies can do to stop this type of thing. Using PKLITE or
some similar utility would help, but only if the resulting compressed .EXE
were tagged as uncompressable.
This is by far the best idea you presented in your post. Making it
plainly obvious who registered is going to stop casual pirates. But, the
determined ones are just going to answer "Joe Blow" to the question of
"what's your name" so this won't stop them in the long run.
Pirates are always going to win this fight. They simply have more
time to work on the software and figure out the protection scheme.
--
Steve Madsen
sjmadsen@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu
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[Description of Boeing study of two-staged spaceplane using
supersonic ramjets deleted.]
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Roger, you should check your facts before posting! The Kings have
conceded 12 goals in 2 games.
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I've got 2 foot switches for sale. They appear to be designed
for studio use (ie: they're very well built) - 1" in diameter, 6'
cord. I'd like $15, but I'd also like to sell them, so make me an
offer.
Also I just bought a new Ibanez guitar so I need to sell one
of my others. It's a Kramer with passive EMG pickups (2 single, one
double). These pickups sound GREAT and are whisper-quiet. I'd like
to get $250 for it.
-Jason
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I build two executables for the same application.
Let's call them Papp (uses shared libs) and SPapp (statically linked).
The problem is that I get problems when trying to build the *static one*,
but not the dynamic one. See the trace below.
BTW, the static one runs fine despite the ominous error message.
Can someone clue me in as to why the static one bombs at link time?
Thanks very much,
Sandiway
Dr. Sandiway Fong
NEC Research Institute Inc.
4 Independence Way
Princeton NJ 08540
(609) 951-2733
(609) 951-2482 (FAX)
Here is the linking stage...
/usr2/quintus/bin3.1.1/sun4-4.1/ld -e start -Bstatic Papp.o \
/usr2/quintus/generic/qplib3.1.1/library/sun4-4/libpl.a \
/usr2/quintus/generic/qplib3.1.1/library/sun4-4/libplm.a \
/usr2/quintus/bin3.1.1/sun4-4.1/libqp.a \
-lsspkg -lXpm -lm -L/usr/local/guide/lib -lguidexv -lxvps -lxview \
-lolgx -lX11 -lXext -lcps -lc -lpixrect -o SPapp
Undefined:
_XESetCreateGC
_XESetFreeFont
_XESetCloseDisplay
_XESetError
_XInitExtension
_XESetFreeGC
_XESetCopyGC
_XESetCreateFont
_XESetFlushGC
_XESetEventToWire
_XESetErrorString
_XESetWireToEvent
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `SPapp'
ldd SPapp
SPapp: statically linked
The shared lib version is linked in exactly the same way save for the omission
of -Bstatic.
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I don't think that a transmission fluid change will solve your problem.
Unless you are in an extremely cold climate and using a very heavy weight
fluid. Follow the manufacturer's recommended oil weight. Some of the
cars I have had (all standard transmissions 4 or 5 speeds) recommend
changing the transmission fluid at 30,000 miles under normal driving
conditions. I've gone 100,000 without changing the transmission oil (and
had to replace the transmission bearings!). My older cars used 85 weight
oil whereas my 92 Honda uses 10-30 motor oil (or maybe 30 weight).
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How much room can 6 videotapes take up in the moving van?
Why not just take them with you?
--
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I've got an idea that would remove most of the political complaints
I have about the Clipper chip. Pass a law stating that if, within a
year of performaing a wiretap on someone, a police agency hasn't
managed to convict the suspect of the crime the warrant/wiretap was for,
then that agency owes the suspect $1 million to repay him/her for
lost privacy.
Of course, there are *still* problems with the technical aspects of
Clipper, and with the one-size-fits-all mentality that would be behind
an attempt to enforce it as a standard. But this would be a way for
those in favor of allowing continued wiretaps to assure us that it will
only be used in cases where the crime is important and the police are
all but certain that there really will be a conviction....
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I used to be on lopid. It did a good job of reducing cholesterol (295
down to around 214), as well as LDL and triglycerides. Then, I got
pneumonia, and for some reason, the Lopid stopped working very well;
cholesterol and triglycerides soared. The levels might have stabilized
over time, but a new doctor had me quit, wait a month, then switch
to Mevicore.
On Mevicore, my total cholesterol was down to 207, LDL was 108,
and HDL was 35; but the trig's were still
very high, around 318, and my liver tests came back slightly abnormal,
SGOT = 83 (N = 1-35), GGTP(?hard to read copy) = 42 (N = 0 - 35).
He said the liver numbers were not offbase enough to cause him
concern, and the triglycerides are not as important as the cholesterol
figures. He had me stop the Mevicore to allow the liver to heal ("Just
to be extra cautious, though I'm sure it's not a problem."),
and wants me to go back on it after that. I suggested maybe Lopid might
be the better choice, and he said that he wouldn't object if that's what
I want to do. But Lopid has one particular side effect I'm not fond of.
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Go to hell. I'm no "government [-] following fanatic." Your sweeping
generalizations evince your own ignorance. What were they supposed to do?
Just let him be? Fuck him. Fuck the ATF, too. They should've done it right
the first time.
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PC TOOLS 8.0
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I don't think we should draw borders around newsgroups, christians
are free to read and post entries on the atheist newsgroups, and
muslims are free to so so in other groups as well.
It's up to each individual to define their time schedule concerning
postings. The problems we all have noticed on various newsgroups
is the evangelistical method of telling that 'I am right, and you are
wrong'. This is true of both theists and atheists.
Hopefully a more constructive dialogue between the groups
would help concerning assumptions and colorization of views.
Cheers,
Kent
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I recall reading a review article in PC Computing wherein they reported
a reduction in the loading time for lengthy programs using Stacker 3.0.
This was not due to the compression algorithm per se, but to the fact
that fewer fetches were required during the sequential file access. Does
anyone have any actual performance numbers relating to speeds of Stacker
and Dblspace?
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I would guess that they won't use Clipper at all. What they will
do is use their STU-IIIs amoung themselves and the governmental agencies
they need to talk to, and ignore Clipper. After all, if it's not secure
enough for the agency/department they are communicating with why should
the coprations trust it?
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Paul-
You did a wonderful job of not doing anything humany possible to
offend us Catholics; hopefully I can be just as careful in my wording as you
were.
I also don't want to extend this topic into an entire major issue of
debate (anymore than it already is), but just a note or two:
1. Please don't talk about Jesus' "parents"--the doctrinal positions
of the church an unequivocally different regarding Mary and
Joseph. I (personally) have never heard of anything being
attributed to St. Joseph other than his sainthood; that is,
no reference *ever* to him being sinless, assumed into heaven,
immaculately conceived, etc.--all these ideas apply only to
Mary.
2. I would agree there is very little scriptural evidence for our
doctrines about Mary. Needless to say, that presents a
significant problem to those who accept the bible as the only
source of doctrine. If, however, one turns to the sacred
traditions of the undivided Christian Church, there is no
problem finding plently of evidence that it was basically a
unanimous belief among the apostles and all the early
generation that Mary was assumed into heaven, body and soul,
etc. etc. It wasn't until the reformation that these doctrines
were called into question. As far as I am concerned (again, my
personaly feelings) if it's a choice between the apostles or
Luther, I'll choose the apostles every time, whether or not
it is recorded within the writings that the traditions of men
have determined to be "the bible".
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From article <93859@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone):
I second that motion wholeheartedly. Also, how about s**tcanning the
cigarette cops (a.k.a. as the ATF). Comments anyone?
Scott Kennedy, Brewer and Patriot
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My friend has a Macintosh IIfx on which he is running System 6.0.7 (not enough
memory yet to run Sys7 adequately), and he noticed that when he tries to use
Multifinder on this machine, the machine will beep every few seconds
incessantly, nonstop.
Now, this friend has a tendency to "install" things on his machine rather
haphazardly, but he *did* rebuild his System from scratch and it still occurs.
Does this problem sound familiar at all to anyone? For all I know the problem
is caused by something really obscure but if this is a known simple thing
(yeah, right...) that someone is familiar with (like "System 6.0.7 Multifinder
doesn't run on a Mac IIfx"), or if someone here knows what he should be looking
for, please send e-mail either to me or to him (smh@vaxf.acdnj.itt.com).
Thanx in advance.
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I'm 99&44/100% positive that uwm isn't ICCCM compliant. If you want it,
the R4 sources are still available on export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12)
in /pub/R4.
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Recently I've come upon a body of literature which promotes colon
cleansing as a vital aid to preventive medicine through nutrition. In
particular, Dr. Bernard Jenssen in his book "Colon Cleansing for
Health and Longevity" -- the title actually escapes me, but it is very
similar to that -- claims that regular self-administered colonics,
along with certain orally ingested "debris-loosening agents", boosts
the immune system to a significant degree.
He also plugs a unique appliance called the "Colema Board", which
facilitates the self-administration of colonics. It sells for over
$100 from a California-based company. He also plugs Vitra-Tox
products as his chemical agents of choice: these include volcanic ash,
supposedly for its electrical charge, and psyllium powder, for its
bulkiness.
If anyone knows anything about colon cleansing theory, its
particulars, or the Colema Board and related products, I'd be very
interested to hear about research and personal experience.
This article is crossposted to alt.magick as the issue touches upon
fasting and cleansing through a "ritual" system of purification.
-- Eli
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No. All that I've seen have also an on-board BIOS which enables you to
use up to 2 hard drives directly under DOS (2 drives is a DOS
limitation and you have the same problem with IDE and all other
standards for that matter). Software drivers often allow for better
performance, though. You have to use them if you want to use other
devices besides hard disks or have more than 2 disks.
Obviously these are not able to use the 16-bit real mode BIOSes that
are written for DOS, so you need software drivers. That's not a big
deal (as long as the drivers are available), because you won't have to
fight with any low memory problems either.
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Oboy, this is exciting. First you discuss your non-existent literature
tastes, then your fantasies, and now your choices of historical revisionism.
Are you related to 'Arromdians' of the ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism and
Revisionism Triangle?
The Agreement on the Exchange of Minorities uses the term 'Turks,'
which demonstrates what is actually meant by the previous reference
to 'Muslims.' The fact that the Greek governments also mention the
existence of a few thousand non-Turkish Muslims does not change the
essential reality that there lives in Western Thrace a much bigger
Turkish minority. The 'Pomaks' are also a Muslim people, whom all the
three nations (Bulgarians, Turks, and Greeks) consider as part of
themselves. Do you know how the Muslim Turkish minority was organized
according to the agreements?
It also proves that the Turkish people are trapped in Greece
and the Greek people are free to settle anywhere in the world.
The Greek authorities deny even the existence of a Turkish
minority. They pursue the same denial in connection with
the Macedonians of Greece. Talk about oppression. In addition,
in 1980 the 'democratic' Greek Parliament passed Law No. 1091,
virtually taking over the administration of the vakiflar and
other charitable trusts. They have ceased to be self-supporting
religious and cultural entities. Talk about fascism. The Greek
governments are attempting to appoint the muftus, irrespective
of the will of the Turkish minority, as state official. Although
the Orthodox Church has full authority in similar matters in
Greece, the Muslim Turkish minority will have no say in electing
its religious leaders. Talk about democracy.
The government of Greece has recently destroyed an Islamic
convention in Komotini. Such destruction, which reflects an
attitude against the Muslim Turkish cultural heritage, is a
violation of the Lausanne Convention as well as the 'so-called'
Greek Constitution, which is supposed to guarantee the protection
of historical monuments.
The government of Greece, on the other hand, is building new
churches in remote villages as a complementary step toward
Hellenizing the region.
The longstanding use of the adjective 'Turkish' in titles
and on signboards is prohibited. The Greek courts have
ordered the closure of the Turkish Teachers' Association,
the Komotini Turkish Youth Association and the Ksanti
Turkish Association on grounds that there are no Turks
in Western Thrace. Such community associations had been
active until 1984. But they were first told to remove
the word 'Turkish' on their buildings and on their official
papers and then eventually close down. This is also the
final verdict (November 4, 1987) of the Greek High Court.
Helsinki Watch, a well-known Human Rights group, had been investigating
the plight of the Turkish Minority in Greece. In August 1990, their
findings were published in a report titled
'Destroying Ethnic Identity: Turks of Greece.'
The report confirmed gross violations of the Human Rights of the
Turkish minority by the Greek authorities. It says for instance,
the Greek government recently destroyed an Islamic convent in
Komotini. Such destruction, which reflects an attitude against
the Muslim Turkish cultural heritage, is a violation of the
Lausanne Convention.
HELSINKI WATCH: "PROBLEMS OF TURKS IN WESTERN THRACE CONTINUE"
Ankara (A.A) In a 15-page report of the "Helsinki Watch" it is
stated that the Turkish minority in Western Thrace is still faced
with problems and stipulated that the discriminatory policy being
implemented by the Greek Government be brought to an end.
The report on Western Thrace emphasized that the Greek government
should grant social and political rights to all the members of
minorities that are equal to those enjoyed by Greek citizens and
in addition they must recognize the existence of the "Turkish
Minority" in Western Thrace and grant them the right to identify
themselves as 'Turks'.
NEWSPOT, May 1992
GREECE ISOLATES WEST THRACE TURKS
The Xanthi independent MP Ahmet Faikoglu said that the Greek
state is trying to cut all contacts and relations of the Turkish
minority with Turkey.
Pointing out that while the Greek minority living in Istanbul is
called "Greek" by ethnic definition, only the religion of the
minority in Western Thrace is considered. In an interview with
Turkish origin. The individuals of the minority living in Western
Trace are also Turkish."
Emphasizing the education problem for the Turkish minority in
Western Thrace Faikoglu said that according to an agreement
signed in 1951 Greece must distribute textbooks printed in Turkey
in Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace.
Recalling his activities and those of Komotini independent MP Dr.
SadIk Ahmet to defend the rights of the Turkish minority,
Faikoglu said. "In fact we helped Greece. Because we prevented
Greece, the cradle of democracy, from losing face before European
countries by forcing the Greek government to recognize our legal
rights."
On Turco-Greek relations, he pointed out that both countries are
predestined to live in peace for geographical and historical
reasons and said that Turkey and Greece must resist the foreign
powers who are trying to create a rift between them by
cooperating, adding that in Turkey he observed that there was
will to improve relations with Greece.
NEWSPOT, January 1993
MACEDONIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO FACE TRIAL IN GREECE.
Two ethnic Macedonian human rights activists will face trial in
Athens for alleged crimes against the Greek state, according to a
Court Summons (No. 5445) obtained by MILS.
Hristos Sideropoulos and Tashko Bulev (or Anastasios Bulis)
have been charged under Greek criminal law for making comments in
an Athenian magazine.
Sideropoulos and Bulev gave an interview to the Greek weekly
magazine "ENA" on March 11, 1992, and said that they as
Macedonians were denied basic human rights in Greece and would
field an ethnic Macedonian candidate for the up-coming Greek
general election.
Bulev said in the interview: "I am not Greek, I am Macedonian."
Sideropoulos said in the article that "Greece should recognise
Macedonia. The allegations regarding territorial aspirations
against Greece are tales... We are in a panic to secure the
border, at a time when the borders and barriers within the EEC
are falling."
The main charge against the two, according to the court
summons, was that "they have spread...intentionally false
information which might create unrest and fear among the
citizens, and might affect the public security or harm the
international interests of the country (Greece)."
The Greek state does not recognise the existence of a
Macedonian ethnicity. There are believed to be between 350,000 to
1,000,000 ethnic Macedonians living within Greece, largely
concentrated in the north. It is a crime against the Greek state
if anyone declares themselves Macedonian.
In 1913 Greece, Serbia-Yugoslavia and Bulgaria partioned
Macedonia into three pieces. In 1919 Albania took 50 Macedonian
villages. The part under Serbo-Yugoslav occupation broke away in
1991 as the independent Republic of Macedonia. There are 1.5
million Macedonians in the Republic; 500,000 in Bulgaria; 150,000
in Albania; and 300,000 in Serbia proper.
Sideropoulos has been a long time campaigner for Macedonian
human rights in Greece, and lost his job as a forestry worker a
few years ago. He was even exiled to an obscure Greek island in
the mediteranean. Only pressure from Amnesty International forced
the Greek government to allow him to return to his home town of
Florina (Lerin) in Northern Greece (Aegean Macedonia), where the
majority of ethnic Macedonians live.
Balkan watchers see the Sideropoulos affair as a show trial in
which Greece is desperate to clamp down on internal dissent,
especially when it comes to the issue of recognition for its
northern neighbour, the Republic of Macedonia.
Last year the State Department of the United States condemned
Greece for its bad treatment of ethnic Macedonians and Turks (who
largely live in Western Thrace). But it remains to be seen if the
US government will do anything until the Presidential elections
are over.
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: I heard on the radio today about a Christian student conference where
: Christians were called to "repent" of America's "national" sins, such
: as sexual promiscuity.
:
: To which I reply: ...whoa there!
:
: How can I repent of _someone else's_ sin? I can't.
:
: And when I claim to "repent" of someone else's sin, am I not in fact
: _judging_ him? Jesus equipped us to judge activities but warned us
: not to judge people. "Judge not that ye be not judged."
:
: C. S. Lewis made the same point in an essay after World War II,
: when some Christian leaders in Britain were urging "national repentance"
: for the horrors (sins???) of World War II.
: --
I see your point, but I cannot more strongly disagree.
To repent means to turn around. We, as a nation, have behaved incredibly
arrogantly toward God condoning, encouraging, and even forcing folks to
participate in activity directly opposed to the written Word of God. We
have arrogantly set our nation far above the God who created it and allowed
us the luxury of living in this land. We have set a bad example for other
nations. We've slaughtered unborn children by the millions. We have
stricken the name of God from the classroom. We've cheated God out of the
honor due Him at every turn, and we owe God an apology every bit as public
as our sins have been.
When Jesus said "Judge not that ye be not judged", he was not addressing
those like John the Baptist who had repented and were calling others to
repent. He was addressing those who remained in sin while heaping down
condemnation on others for their sins. His message to us all was to remove
the log from our own eye before removing the speck from our brother's. But
He also said to rebuke and to reprove. Don't forget that this is a command
too.
Our problem today is that we tend to judge and condemn as though we were
rebuking and we tend to neglect bringing folks back to the Lord with the
excuse that we don't want to judge anyone.
In truth, what we need to do is to judge less and call others to repent more
and to be able to distinguish between the two in our own motives. Call sin
what it is and do so openly. Let it's charge fall correctly where it should.
But instead of running someone into hell over it, pull them out of their
hellward path and onto the heavenward path.
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"I deplore the horrible crime of child murder...
We want prevention, not merely punishment.
We must reach the root of the evil...
It is practiced by those whose inmost souls revolt
from the dreadful deed...
No mater what the motive, love of ease,
or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,
the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...
but oh! thrice guilty is he who drove her
to the desperation which impelled her to the crime."
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Given that all the source code contains explicit permission to use or
modify the code without fee in addition to the shareware notice, I would
say that the shareware notice is unenforceable. All you need to do is
make minor changes to create a derivative work which is explicitly allowed
under the first part of the copyright notice. Of course, this would be
circumventing the author's wishes on the subject, but I'd say if you're
not going to pay him no matter what, you'd be on relatively safe ground
with that approach... In fact, given the internal contradictions of the
copyright notices, I'd guess none of it could ever be enforced, but not being
a lawyer, I can't be positive.
Regardless, the fees he's asking are not excessive, and I would encourage
anyone who wants to use the program to pay them if at all possible. Even
though it is unlikely that you have actual legal obligations to pay the
author, it would be reasonable to do so, to support his efforts if nothing
else.
- Brad
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Typical (in the old 2x-oversampling units) was a thirteen-tap
FIR, implemented as a dedicated hardware addition circuit. At this kind
of speed (slow, by digital standards) such an adder is much less
expensive than analog components of comparable precision.
I gleaned this information from a hardware manual for
an old CD player design; where one would find similar info for
a particular CD (the digital filter IS an interesting component,
from my point of view), I have no idea. The digital filter
is a kind of interpolation scheme (read a book on numerical
analysis, to see just how BROAD the term 'interpolation' is...),
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Saw it in t.p.m., thanks.
Yes, and the individual is not omitted; I just didn't fully articulate the
principles of Fractal Federalism. All government powers derive from the
People; each level can receive a new power from the level below through
the amendment process, where a true consensus (say a 3/4 majority) writes
that power into the Constitution of the level above (in the case of the
lowest level, an amendement is passed by a 3/4 majority vote; in the case
of higher levels, it must be passed by 3/4 of the legislatures. We can
of course haggle about the specifics of "true consensus" when we hold our
Constitutional Convention :-). Once a power has been granted, it may be
exercised by the legislature. Powers not in the original Constitutions must
percolate upward, starting from the individual. The ratification process
for the original Constitutions should involve consensus and not simply a
plurality or majority.
Granting a "right" in a constitution is of course the same as empowering
the government at that level to restrict the activities of the governments
at the lower levels, so it operates in the same way as the amendment process
(again, that crazy resemblance to the supposed-but-not-actual U.S. government
structure).
This government structure is a very frustrating one for those people (read-
"liberals") who would like to have concentrated power to use the government
to force people to do "good" (a difficult-to-define word, and one that it
is difficult to reach a consensus on). It is also a frustrating structure
for those who want to use the government to dictate personal behavior (read-
"big-government conservatives"). I personally would rather see those types
of people frustrated than the incredible erosion of liberty (both civil and
economic) that is going on now.
This is IMHO a "good" government stucture for those who see the role of
government as the protection of individual liberties, while still recognizing
that individuals need to have some influence in the type of community that
they live in.
One which maintains peace, liberty, and the opportunity for happiness for its
people, while working within the realities of human nature. You do bring
up the point (intentional or not) that a "lasting" idea is by no means
necessarily a "successful" idea. I believe that Fractal Federalism would
at least bring many ideas to light, and The People would have the opportunity
to democratically choose between "good" ideas and "bad" ideas. If the
Docialists, er, I mean Democrats are right and government activism fosters a
prosperous People, they will have a plethora of local opportunities to
check their thesis. If Libertopia is possible, it will arise. If a balanced
Conservative Republic is democratically received as the best level of
government activity, it will become clear to The People that it is best.
Right, and people would not rescind any freedoms (read- "empower the
government") except through the amendment process. That is how the Federal
Government is supposed to work now, but the Supreme Soviet, er, I mean the
Supreme Court put a stop to that "republican government" nonsense.
In my hypothetical government, if there were a constitutional provision
empowering the government to regulate churches the government (whatever
level we are talking about) could indeed ban churches. The constitutional
provision would be invalid if a higher level had a constitutional provision
protecting free exercise of religion. The uppermost Constitution is still
the Supreme Law of the Land.
It is a matter of individuals being able to control their own associations
and environment, not a matter of suppression of ideas.
One dilemma of the human condition is that individuals need liberty, and
they also need to have some control over their environment. In my
"Fractal Federalism" government, certain "rights" are protected by the
constitutions. Other "rights" are protected simply because the government
has not been empowered to infringe upon them. When a consensus is reached
that the government should have a certain power, then freedom is infringed
upon. This cannot be avoided -- murder statutes infringe upon freedom,
but I think that the consensus of the American people is that murder statutes
are a good idea.
I am sure that many parents believe that they have a "right" to control
the environment that their children live in. People feel that they have
a "right" to sleep peacefully at night; thus, there are noise ordinances.
There are zoning laws that keep businesses from overrunning residential
neighborhoods. I do not view these as bad things (certainly some individual
instances are bad, but the concept is not necessarily bad), I view them
as the people in a community having some control over the type of community
that they live in. I see the alternative as near anarchy.
Like I said in another post, if you can come up with a scenario where an
individual can do something truly autonomously -- with absolutely zero
effect on anyone else -- then no individual or government has the right
to restrict that activity. There are simply not very many behaviors that
fit into the category of the truly autonomous, so the whole thing becomes
an issue of one individual or group having power over another individual
or group. I think that the "Fractal Federalism" approach is a sound, if
not ideal, approach to limiting this restrictive power. The libertarian
scenario degenerates to "might makes right," and the system we have right
now is one of "lawyers abusing natural rights philosophy to decide what
powers the government should have by subverting the democratic process
though the Supreme Court."
I think I answered this above already, but let me expand a little more
with an example. If I stand naked in front of your house and masturbate
in front of your children while they play, in your libertarian (small 'l')
scenario the only recourse you have is to yell at me. "Autonomous" is
a value judgement 99.99% of the time, it is not a scientific reality with
a clear definition. Exactly who would you empower to make that value
judgement?
Lots of people are long on complaints and short on practical solutions.
Although I am pessimistic that my idea will ever bear fruit, I am at least
trying to be long on solutions also. I am truly interested if you have
any improvements to make on my ideas (I call them "my ideas", but they
all come from an "average guy" reading of the U.S. Constitution without
benefit of the indoctrination of Constitutional Law academia).
Sorry, the confusion was my fault. When I said that "Fractal Federalism"
resembles the U.S. constitution, I meant it and thought it was pretty clear.
I should have more clearly explained that the ultimate derivation of government
power is from the CONSENSUS of the people (although not the CONSENT of every
individual; a practical observation, not a moral judgement). It is certainly
better than having all government power derive from nine lawyers, which is the
situation we have now. That is why I think the Supreme Court should be
a jury court, with a different jury for each case.
It is certainly not perfect (no philosophy of government is), but do you still
find it a repugnant idea? If so, what is your solution?
I think that you misunderstood the structure of the form of government I
advocate, and it was my fault for not being more clear.
The majority does not make the rules. The majority (or possibly a
plurality) simply elects representatives to exercise limited government
powers; those limited government powers derive from a large consensus,
not a simple majority. And the Federal Government, in my scenario, still
has the power to protect freedoms.
Matt Freivald
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LiBORGalism:
THINKING IS IRRELEVANT. INTEGRITY IS IRRELEVANT.
FREE SPEECH IS IRRELEVANT. PRIVATE PROPERTY IS IRRELEVANT.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS IRRELEVANT.
CONSERVATIVISM IS FUTILE.
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.
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THESE ARE MY OPINIONS ONLY AND NOT THOSE OF MY EMPLOYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Does anyone know what the differences are between the Stylewriter
and the Stylewriter II?
Please respond via e-mail to:
l.d.sanders@larc.nasa.gov
Thanks.
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I think it's known, but it's neat.
Can it be extended to 3D?
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Does anyone know where I can get some voice synthesis chips??
I am looking for something like the ones that do the time and date
stamp on answering machines.
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: >Prove it. I have a source that says that to date, the civilian death count
: >(er, excuse me, I mean "collateral damage") is about 200,000.
:
: I have _never_ seen any source that was claiming such a figure. Please
: post the source so its reliability can be judged.
This figure would not simply be deaths by bombing, but also death later
from disease (the sewer system of Baghdad was deliberately targeted) and
starvation. I believe (but when I get a copy of the latest research in
June or July) that this was the figure proposed in the Census Bureau
report on the matter. The report was suppressed and the CB attempted to
sack the author of the report, but failed due to procedural technicality.
The author is now on permanent leave.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Please note that the following speech was made by Chuck Hammill
in 1987. Address all letters to his address, given at the end
of this document.
-- Russell
FROM CROSSBOWS TO CRYPTOGRAPHY: THWARTING THE STATE VIA
TECHNOLOGY
Given at the Future of Freedom Conference, November 1987
You know, technology--and particularly computer
technology--has often gotten a bad rap in Libertarian cir-
cles. We tend to think of Orwell's 1984, or Terry Gilliam's
Brazil, or the proximity detectors keeping East Berlin's
slave/citizens on their own side of the border, or the so-
phisticated bugging devices Nixon used to harass those on
his "enemies list." Or, we recognize that for the price of
a ticket on the Concorde we can fly at twice the speed of
sound, but only if we first walk thru a magnetometer run by
a government policeman, and permit him to paw thru our be-
longings if it beeps.
But I think that mind-set is a mistake. Before there
were cattle prods, governments tortured their prisoners with
clubs and rubber hoses. Before there were lasers for
eavesdropping, governments used binoculars and lip-readers.
Though government certainly uses technology to oppress, the
evil lies not in the tools but in the wielder of the tools.
In fact, technology represents one of the most promis-
ing avenues available for re-capturing our freedoms from
those who have stolen them. By its very nature, it favors
the bright (who can put it to use) over the dull (who can-
not). It favors the adaptable (who are quick to see the
merit of the new (over the sluggish (who cling to time-
tested ways). And what two better words are there to de-
scribe government bureaucracy than "dull" and "sluggish"?
One of the clearest, classic triumphs of technology
over tyranny I see is the invention of the man-portable
crossbow. With it, an untrained peasant could now reliably
and lethally engage a target out to fifty meters--even if
that target were a mounted, chain-mailed knight. (Unlike
the longbow, which, admittedly was more powerful, and could
get off more shots per unit time, the crossbow required no
formal training to utilize. Whereas the longbow required
elaborate visual, tactile and kinesthetic coordination to
achieve any degree of accuracy, the wielder of a crossbow
could simply put the weapon to his shoulder, sight along the
arrow itself, and be reasonably assured of hitting his tar-
get.)
Moreover, since just about the only mounted knights
likely to visit your average peasant would be government
soldiers and tax collectors, the utility of the device was
plain: With it, the common rabble could defend themselves
not only against one another, but against their governmental
masters. It was the medieval equivalent of the armor-
piercing bullet, and, consequently, kings and priests (the
medieval equivalent of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Crossbows) threatened death and excommunication, respec-
tively, for its unlawful possession.
Looking at later developments, we see how technology
like the firearm--particularly the repeating rifle and the
handgun, later followed by the Gatling gun and more advanced
machine guns--radically altered the balance of interpersonal
and inter-group power. Not without reason was the Colt .45
called "the equalizer." A frail dance-hall hostess with one
in her possession was now fully able to protect herself
against the brawniest roughneck in any saloon. Advertise-
ments for the period also reflect the merchandising of the
repeating cartridge rifle by declaring that "a man on
horseback, armed with one of these rifles, simply cannot be
captured." And, as long as his captors were relying upon
flintlocks or single-shot rifles, the quote is doubtless a
true one.
Updating now to the present, the public-key cipher
(with a personal computer to run it) represents an equiv-
alent quantum leap--in a defensive weapon. Not only can
such a technique be used to protect sensitive data in one's
own possession, but it can also permit two strangers to ex-
change information over an insecure communications
channel--a wiretapped phone line, for example, or
skywriting, for that matter)--without ever having previously
met to exchange cipher keys. With a thousand-dollar com-
puter, you can create a cipher that a multi-megabuck CRAY
X-MP can't crack in a year. Within a few years, it should
be economically feasible to similarly encrypt voice communi-
cations; soon after that, full-color digitized video images.
Technology will not only have made wiretapping obsolete, it
will have totally demolished government's control over in-
formation transfer.
I'd like to take just a moment to sketch the mathemat-
ics which makes this principle possible. This algorithm is
called the RSA algorithm, after Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman
who jointly created it. Its security derives from the fact
that, if a very large number is the product of two very
large primes, then it is extremely difficult to obtain the
two prime factors from analysis of their product. "Ex-
tremely" in the sense that if primes p and q have 100
digits apiece, then their 200-digit product cannot in gen-
eral be factored in less than 100 years by the most powerful
computer now in existence.
The "public" part of the key consists of (1) the prod-
uct pq of the two large primes p and q, and (2) one fac-
tor, call it x , of the product xy where xy = {(p-1) *
(q-1) + 1}. The "private" part of the key consists of the
other factor y.
Each block of the text to be encrypted is first turned
into an integer--either by using ASCII, or even a simple
A=01, B=02, C=03, ... , Z=26 representation. This integer
is then raised to the power x (modulo pq) and the resulting
integer is then sent as the encrypted message. The receiver
decrypts by taking this integer to the (secret) power y
(modulo pq). It can be shown that this process will always
yield the original number started with.
What makes this a groundbreaking development, and why
it is called "public-key" cryptography," is that I can
openly publish the product pq and the number x , while
keeping secret the number y --so that anyone can send me
an encrypted message, namely
x
a (mod pq) ,
but only I can recover the original message a , by taking
what they send, raising it to the power y and taking the
result (mod pq). The risky step (meeting to exchange cipher
keys) has been eliminated. So people who may not even trust
each other enough to want to meet, may still reliably ex-
change encrypted messages--each party having selected and
disseminated his own pq and his x , while maintaining
the secrecy of his own y.
Another benefit of this scheme is the notion of a "dig-
ital signature," to enable one to authenticate the source of
a given message. Normally, if I want to send you a message,
I raise my plaintext a to your x and take the result (mod
your pq) and send that.
However, if in my message, I take the plaintext a and
raise it to my (secret) power y , take the result (mod my
pq), then raise that result to your x (mod your pq) and
send this, then even after you have normally "decrypted" the
message, it will still look like garbage. However, if you
then raise it to my public power x , and take the result
(mod my public pq ), so you will not only recover the ori-
ginal plaintext message, but you will know that no one but I
could have sent it to you (since no one else knows my secret
y).
And these are the very concerns by the way that are to-
day tormenting the Soviet Union about the whole question of
personal computers. On the one hand, they recognize that
American schoolchildren are right now growing up with com-
puters as commonplace as sliderules used to be--more so, in
fact, because there are things computers can do which will
interest (and instruct) 3- and 4-year-olds. And it is pre-
cisely these students who one generation hence will be going
head-to-head against their Soviet counterparts. For the
Soviets to hold back might be a suicidal as continuing to
teach swordsmanship while your adversaries are learning
ballistics. On the other hand, whatever else a personal
computer may be, it is also an exquisitely efficient copying
machine--a floppy disk will hold upwards of 50,000 words of
text, and can be copied in a couple of minutes. If this
weren't threatening enough, the computer that performs the
copy can also encrypt the data in a fashion that is all but
unbreakable. Remember that in Soviet society publicly ac-
cessible Xerox machines are unknown. (The relatively few
copying machines in existence are controlled more inten-
sively than machine guns are in the United States.)
Now the "conservative" position is that we should not
sell these computers to the Soviets, because they could use
them in weapons systems. The "liberal" position is that we
should sell them, in the interests of mutual trade and
cooperation--and anyway, if we don't make the sale, there
will certainly be some other nation willing to.
For my part, I'm ready to suggest that the Libertarian
position should be to give them to the Soviets for free, and
if necessary, make them take them . . . and if that doesn't
work load up an SR-71 Blackbird and air drop them over
Moscow in the middle of the night. Paid for by private sub-
scription, of course, not taxation . . . I confess that this
is not a position that has gained much support among members
of the conventional left-right political spectrum, but, af-
ter all, in the words of one of Illuminatus's characters, we
are political non-Euclideans: The shortest distance to a
particular goal may not look anything like what most people
would consider a "straight line." Taking a long enough
world-view, it is arguable that breaking the Soviet govern-
ment monopoly on information transfer could better lead to
the enfeeblement and, indeed, to the ultimate dissolution of
the Soviet empire than would the production of another dozen
missiles aimed at Moscow.
But there's the rub: A "long enough" world view does
suggest that the evil, the oppressive, the coercive and the
simply stupid will "get what they deserve," but what's not
immediately clear is how the rest of us can escape being
killed, enslaved, or pauperized in the process.
When the liberals and other collectivists began to at-
tack freedom, they possessed a reasonably stable, healthy,
functioning economy, and almost unlimited time to proceed to
hamstring and dismantle it. A policy of political
gradualism was at least conceivable. But now, we have
patchwork crazy-quilt economy held together by baling wire
and spit. The state not only taxes us to "feed the poor"
while also inducing farmers to slaughter milk cows and drive
up food prices--it then simultaneously turns around and sub-
sidizes research into agricultural chemicals designed to in-
crease yields of milk from the cows left alive. Or witness
the fact that a decline in the price of oil is considered as
potentially frightening as a comparable increase a few years
ago. When the price went up, we were told, the economy
risked collapse for for want of energy. The price increase
was called the "moral equivalent of war" and the Feds swung
into action. For the first time in American history, the
speed at which you drive your car to work in the morning be-
came an issue of Federal concern. Now, when the price of
oil drops, again we risk problems, this time because Ameri-
can oil companies and Third World basket-case nations who
sell oil may not be able to ever pay their debts to our
grossly over-extended banks. The suggested panacea is that
government should now re-raise the oil prices that OPEC has
lowered, via a new oil tax. Since the government is seeking
to raise oil prices to about the same extent as OPEC did,
what can we call this except the "moral equivalent of civil
war--the government against its own people?"
And, classically, in international trade, can you imag-
ine any entity in the world except a government going to
court claiming that a vendor was selling it goods too
cheaply and demanding not only that that naughty vendor be
compelled by the court to raise its prices, but also that it
be punished for the act of lowering them in the first place?
So while the statists could afford to take a couple of
hundred years to trash our economy and our liberties--we
certainly cannot count on having an equivalent period of
stability in which to reclaim them. I contend that there
exists almost a "black hole" effect in the evolution of
nation-states just as in the evolution of stars. Once free-
dom contracts beyond a certain minimum extent, the state
warps the fabric of the political continuum about itself to
the degree that subsequent re-emergence of freedom becomes
all but impossible. A good illustration of this can be seen
in the area of so-called "welfare" payments. When those who
sup at the public trough outnumber (and thus outvote) those
whose taxes must replenish the trough, then what possible
choice has a democracy but to perpetuate and expand the tak-
ing from the few for the unearned benefit of the many? Go
down to the nearest "welfare" office, find just two people
on the dole . . . and recognize that between them they form
a voting bloc that can forever outvote you on the question
of who owns your life--and the fruits of your life's labor.
So essentially those who love liberty need an "edge" of
some sort if we're ultimately going to prevail. We obvi-
ously can't use the altruists' "other-directedness" of
"work, slave, suffer, sacrifice, so that next generation of
a billion random strangers can live in a better world."
Recognize that, however immoral such an appeal might be, it
is nonetheless an extremely powerful one in today's culture.
If you can convince people to work energetically for a
"cause," caring only enough for their personal welfare so as
to remain alive enough and healthy enough to continue
working--then you have a truly massive reservoir of energy
to draw from. Equally clearly, this is just the sort of ap-
peal which tautologically cannot be utilized for egoistic or
libertarian goals. If I were to stand up before you tonight
and say something like, "Listen, follow me as I enunciate my
noble "cause," contribute your money to support the "cause,"
give up your free time to work for the "cause," strive
selflessly to bring it about, and then (after you and your
children are dead) maybe your children's children will actu-
ally live under egoism"--you'd all think I'd gone mad. And
of course you'd be right. Because the point I'm trying to
make is that libertarianism and/or egoism will be spread if,
when, and as, individual libertarians and/or egoists find it
profitable and/or enjoyable to do so. And probably only
then.
While I certainly do not disparage the concept of poli-
tical action, I don't believe that it is the only, nor even
necessarily the most cost-effective path toward increasing
freedom in our time. Consider that, for a fraction of the
investment in time, money and effort I might expend in try-
ing to convince the state to abolish wiretapping and all
forms of censorship--I can teach every libertarian who's in-
terested how to use cryptography to abolish them
unilaterally.
There is a maxim--a proverb--generally attributed to
the Eskimoes, which very likely most Libertarians have al-
ready heard. And while you likely would not quarrel with
the saying, you might well feel that you've heard it often
enough already, and that it has nothing further to teach us,
and moreover, that maybe you're even tired of hearing it. I
shall therefore repeat it now:
If you give a man a fish, the saying runs, you feed him
for a day. But if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him
for a lifetime.
Your exposure to the quote was probably in some sort of
a "workfare" vs. "welfare" context; namely, that if you
genuinely wish to help someone in need, you should teach him
how to earn his sustenance, not simply how to beg for it.
And of course this is true, if only because the next time he
is hungry, there might not be anybody around willing or even
able to give him a fish, whereas with the information on how
to fish, he is completely self sufficient.
But I submit that this exhausts only the first order
content of the quote, and if there were nothing further to
glean from it, I would have wasted your time by citing it
again. After all, it seems to have almost a crypto-altruist
slant, as though to imply that we should structure our ac-
tivities so as to maximize the benefits to such hungry
beggars as we may encounter.
But consider:
Suppose this Eskimo doesn't know how to fish, but he
does know how to hunt walruses. You, on the other hand,
have often gone hungry while traveling thru walrus country
because you had no idea how to catch the damn things, and
they ate most of the fish you could catch. And now suppose
the two of you decide to exchange information, bartering
fishing knowledge for hunting knowledge. Well, the first
thing to observe is that a transaction of this type
categorically and unambiguously refutes the Marxist premise
that every trade must have a "winner" and a "loser;" the
idea that if one person gains, it must necessarily be at the
"expense" of another person who loses. Clearly, under this
scenario, such is not the case. Each party has gained some-
thing he did not have before, and neither has been dimin-
ished in any way. When it comes to exchange of information
(rather than material objects) life is no longer a zero-sum
game. This is an extremely powerful notion. The "law of
diminishing returns," the "first and second laws of
thermodynamics"--all those "laws" which constrain our possi-
bilities in other contexts--no longer bind us! Now that's
anarchy!
Or consider another possibility: Suppose this hungry
Eskimo never learned to fish because the ruler of his
nation-state had decreed fishing illegal. Because fish
contain dangerous tiny bones, and sometimes sharp spines, he
tells us, the state has decreed that their consumption--and
even their possession--are too hazardous to the people's
health to be permitted . . . even by knowledgeable, willing
adults. Perhaps it is because citizens' bodies are thought
to be government property, and therefore it is the function
of the state to punish those who improperly care for govern-
ment property. Or perhaps it is because the state gener-
ously extends to competent adults the "benefits" it provides
to children and to the mentally ill: namely, a full-time,
all-pervasive supervisory conservatorship--so that they need
not trouble themselves with making choices about behavior
thought physically risky or morally "naughty." But, in any
case, you stare stupefied, while your Eskimo informant re-
lates how this law is taken so seriously that a friend of
his was recently imprisoned for years for the crime of "pos-
session of nine ounces of trout with intent to distribute."
Now you may conclude that a society so grotesquely
oppressive as to enforce a law of this type is simply an
affront to the dignity of all human beings. You may go far-
ther and decide to commit some portion of your discretion-
ary, recreational time specifically to the task of thwarting
this tyrant's goal. (Your rationale may be "altruistic" in
the sense of wanting to liberate the oppressed, or
"egoistic" in the sense of proving you can outsmart the
oppressor--or very likely some combination of these or per-
haps even other motives.)
But, since you have zero desire to become a martyr to
your "cause," you're not about to mount a military campaign,
or even try to run a boatload of fish through the blockade.
However, it is here that technology--and in particular in-
formation technology--can multiply your efficacy literally a
hundredfold. I say "literally," because for a fraction of
the effort (and virtually none of the risk) attendant to
smuggling in a hundred fish, you can quite readily produce a
hundred Xerox copies of fishing instructions. (If the tar-
geted government, like present-day America, at least permits
open discussion of topics whose implementation is re-
stricted, then that should suffice. But, if the government
attempts to suppress the flow of information as well, then
you will have to take a little more effort and perhaps write
your fishing manual on a floppy disk encrypted according to
your mythical Eskimo's public-key parameters. But as far as
increasing real-world access to fish you have made genuine
nonzero headway--which may continue to snowball as others
re-disseminate the information you have provided. And you
have not had to waste any of your time trying to convert id-
eological adversaries, or even trying to win over the unde-
cided. Recall Harry Browne's dictum from "Freedom in an
Unfree World" that the success of any endeavor is in general
inversely proportional to the number of people whose persua-
sion is necessary to its fulfilment.
If you look at history, you cannot deny that it has
been dramatically shaped by men with names like Washington,
Lincoln, . . . Nixon . . . Marcos . . . Duvalier . . .
Khadaffi . . . and their ilk. But it has also been shaped
by people with names like Edison, Curie, Marconi, Tesla and
Wozniak. And this latter shaping has been at least as per-
vasive, and not nearly so bloody.
And that's where I'm trying to take The LiberTech
Project. Rather than beseeching the state to please not en-
slave, plunder or constrain us, I propose a libertarian net-
work spreading the technologies by which we may seize
freedom for ourselves.
But here we must be a bit careful. While it is not (at
present) illegal to encrypt information when government
wants to spy on you, there is no guarantee of what the fu-
ture may hold. There have been bills introduced, for exam-
ple, which would have made it a crime to wear body armor
when government wants to shoot you. That is, if you were to
commit certain crimes while wearing a Kevlar vest, then that
fact would constitute a separate federal crime of its own.
This law to my knowledge has not passed . . . yet . . . but
it does indicate how government thinks.
Other technological applications, however, do indeed
pose legal risks. We recognize, for example, that anyone
who helped a pre-Civil War slave escape on the "underground
railroad" was making a clearly illegal use of technology--as
the sovereign government of the United States of America at
that time found the buying and selling of human beings quite
as acceptable as the buying and selling of cattle. Simi-
larly, during Prohibition, anyone who used his bathtub to
ferment yeast and sugar into the illegal psychoactive drug,
alcohol--the controlled substance, wine--was using technol-
ogy in a way that could get him shot dead by federal agents
for his "crime"--unfortunately not to be restored to life
when Congress reversed itself and re-permitted use of this
drug.
So . . . to quote a former President, un-indicted co-
conspirator and pardoned felon . . . "Let me make one thing
perfectly clear:" The LiberTech Project does not advocate,
participate in, or conspire in the violation of any law--no
matter how oppressive, unconstitutional or simply stupid
such law may be. It does engage in description (for educa-
tional and informational purposes only) of technological
processes, and some of these processes (like flying a plane
or manufacturing a firearm) may well require appropriate li-
censing to perform legally. Fortunately, no license is
needed for the distribution or receipt of information it-
self.
So, the next time you look at the political scene and
despair, thinking, "Well, if 51% of the nation and 51% of
this State, and 51% of this city have to turn Libertarian
before I'll be free, then somebody might as well cut my
goddamn throat now, and put me out of my misery"--recognize
that such is not the case. There exist ways to make your-
self free.
If you wish to explore such techniques via the Project,
you are welcome to give me your name and address--or a fake
name and mail drop, for that matter--and you'll go on the
mailing list for my erratically-published newsletter. Any
friends or acquaintances whom you think would be interested
are welcome as well. I'm not even asking for stamped self-
addressed envelopes, since my printer can handle mailing la-
bels and actual postage costs are down in the noise compared
with the other efforts in getting an issue out. If you
should have an idea to share, or even a useful product to
plug, I'll be glad to have you write it up for publication.
Even if you want to be the proverbial "free rider" and just
benefit from what others contribute--you're still welcome:
Everything will be public domain; feel free to copy it or
give it away (or sell it, for that matter, 'cause if you can
get money for it while I'm taking full-page ads trying to
give it away, you're certainly entitled to your capitalist
profit . . .) Anyway, every application of these principles
should make the world just a little freer, and I'm certainly
willing to underwrite that, at least for the forseeable fu-
ture.
I will leave you with one final thought: If you don't
learn how to beat your plowshares into swords before they
outlaw swords, then you sure as HELL ought to learn before
they outlaw plowshares too.
--Chuck Hammill
THE LIBERTECH PROJECT
3194 Queensbury Drive
Los Angeles, California
90064
310-836-4157
hammill@netcom.com
[The above LiberTech address was updated December 1992, with the
permission of Chuck Hammill, by Russell Whitaker]
Those interested in the issues raised in this piece should participate
in at least these newsgroups:
alt.privacy
alt.security.pgp
comp.org.eff.talk
sci.crypt
A copy of the RSA-based public key encryption program, PGP 2.1 (Pretty
Good Privacy), can be obtained at various ftp sites around the world.
One such site is gate.demon.co.uk, where an MS-DOS version can be had by
anonymous ftp as pgp22.zip in /pub/pgp.
Versions for other operating systems, including UNIX variants
and Macintosh, are also available. Source code is also
available.
Here's the blurb for PGP, by the way:
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PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) ver 2.2 - RSA public-key encryption freeware
for MSDOS, protects E-mail. Lets you communicate securely with people
you've never met, with no secure channels needed for prior exchange of
keys. Well featured and fast! Excellent user documentation.
PGP has sophisticated key management, an RSA/conventional hybrid
encryption scheme, message digests for digital signatures, data
compression before encryption, and good ergonomic design. Source
code is free.
Filenames: pgp22.zip (executable and manuals), pgp22src.zip (sources)
Keywords: PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, RSA, public key, encryption,
privacy, authentication, signatures, email
- ---------------------- End Quote -------------------------------------
Russell Earl Whitaker whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk
Communications Editor AMiX: RWhitaker
EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought
Board member, Extropy Institute (ExI)
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And this search procedure must also follow the rule of law.
It may, if necessary, when the search is executed in an illegal and
violent fashion.
These "criminals" were threatening the lives of NO ONE -- they were fired
on FIRST, according to a number of accounts.
Wrong. Firing a gun at someone is lethal force, even if no one is hit.
Of course, they DID hit AND kill people.
You are silly. There are no such warrants in existence, Phill.
Thanks, Phill, for another example of that great socialist sensitivity.
"Obey the government or die."
*PLONK*
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. . . David gives good explaination of the deductions from the isotropic,
'edged' distribution, to whit, they are either part of the Universe or
part of the Oort cloud.
Why couldn't they be Earth centred, with the edge occuring at the edge
of the gravisphere? I know there isn't any mechanism for them, but there
isn't a mechanism for the others either.
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Within a few months, I'll be looking for a job in 3d computer graphics
software. I'm in need of info on companies that do it. There's nothing
in any of the FAQ's for this group, and nothing at siggraph.org (at least
I couldn't find anything.) The last Computer Graphics Career Handbook was
dated 1991, had info on 40 companies, but nothing specific on any of them.
Can people please direct me towards more current and detailed sources of
information? I'll post a summary of sources if there's interest.
Also, could you please e-mail me, our news server is on the fritz. :(
Thanks,
Brandon
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I was curious as to what people thought of the VW Corrado VR6?
That's about it...
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The disease you are talking about is toxoplasmosis. It is a protozoan that
lives and multiplies within cells. In cats, the protozoan multiplies in the
intestinal cells and eggs are shed in the cat's feces. The protozoa can
cross the placenta to infect the fetus. The disease may be asymptomatic
after the baby is born, or it may be very severe. Toxo may cause blindness
and mental retardation.
Having a cat in the same apartment should not be a problem; however, pregnant
women should not scoop or change the cat's litterbox. In addition, whoever
does empty the litterbox should thoroughly wash his/her hands before handling
anything else, especially food.
Information came from _The Merck Manual, 15th Ed._
I hope this information is helpful to you.
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Israeli nationalism (also known as Zionism) is the nationalism of the
Jewish people. The Jewish people are not a new phenomenon at all.
Palestinean nationalism is the nationalism of Arab people. Arabs have
been around for a long time. They already have some 2 dozen states,
large and small, covering 98% of the Middle East.
More specifically, Palestinean nationalism is the nationalism of Arabs
from the region of Palestine, just as Egyptian nationalism is the
nationalism of Arabs from the region of Egypt. One Palestinean state
already exists in what was once known as Palestine: - it is called
Jordan.
There is no justification in carving out a second and tiny Palestinean
state out of the only Jewish state, itself very, very small, just as
there is no justification in carving out another American state out of
Mexico.
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In the Dallas area, I just bought a can (it's for my best friend's bike... a
1986 XLH883, mines got a belt hahahahaha!!!) for $6.79 ($7.35 with tax) at
Bates Discount Cycle Parts on the southbound I-35E service road in Farmers
Branch just a couple miles north of the I-635/I-35E interchange. They have
about a dozen cans left.
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Tim> NNTP-Posting-Host: nwfocus.wa.com
Tim> I saw the film on CNN *as* it happend. It was clear from that
Tim> tape that the fire started in ONE location. Right where the
Tim> tank was attacking, and then had pulled back. There were not
Tim> several spots where the fire started, it started in one
Tim> location and was spread in the direction of the heavy wind.
Tim> The FBI claims to have seen or filmed several starting
Tim> points. Yet they keep this hidden. They have spread so much
Tim> lies. Well I guess if I was responsible for the mass murder
Tim> of 80 people who were exercising constitutional rights, I
Tim> would lie about it too...
Gosh, Tim, you must have seen a different live broadcast than I did. While
the smoke did emerge from one place initially, it was a considerable
distance from the tank, and in a very short time, fire appeared at several
places a good distance apart from there.
Then there's that nagging question about why, out of all those people,
only a few made any attempts to escape or save the children. If it were
me, with my child, [and I wasn't committing suicide,] I believe I would have
made SOME attempt to at least save the child. As it was, at least one of
the survivors was attempting to GO BACK INTO THE FIRE when they were
physically removed. No one lifted a finger to bring out a child, apparently.
How do you explain that? And the two survivors who claimed to have doused
the place with lantern oil and SET the fire (no doubt on David's orders).
[At least until the lawyers talked to them.]
Tim> And also, why have they not yet released the search warrant????
That *is* a good question. Maybe because it would be a further
embarrassment, seeing as how the ATF went in there in Dirty Harry mode
initially.
As stupidly as it all was handled, I find it difficult to believe that the
entire FBI has completely gone corrupt under a new administration less
than 100 days old. Stupidity and bad decisions and plans have always been
with us. They just had an alignment at Waco.
Tim> Seeeeee Ya turmoil@halcyon.com FUCK THE POLICE!!!!
See? Freedom of speech abounds.
L.
"Yeh, Buddy.. | larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)| _~~_
I've got your COMPUTER! | % Physical Science Laboratory | (O)(-)
Right HERE!!" | New Mexico State University | /..\
(computer THIS!) | Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 88003 | <>
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What can people tell me about apple's new keyboard, the one that is designed
to be more ergonomically friendly? I have begun to experience wrist and hand
pains using a standard keyboard, and using a powerbook. What can people with
similar experiences tell me? Replies to email please. Paul G.
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You don't mention your platform but Digital has a custom widget, NetEd,
which does exactly what you want to do. Cost is nominal 300 or so - call your
local office. The widget is supported on a variety of platforms and I heard
rumblings of porting to Sun, etc. so it may be worth the check.
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Well, no, during the original deployment mission the HST aperture door was
not opened until after the Shuttle had landed.
I presume that during a re-boost mission HST would be berthed in the orbiter
with the orbiter bay doors shut; but still there would be lots of contamination
worries. I understand that the EVA suits are one of the hardest things to
keep clean.
But I still don't know where the idea is coming from that HST _NEEDS_ a
re-boost. We have many problems but our orbit is the least of them. There
is certainly no plan to change the orbit in the first servicing mission in
December.
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My CB750 does it too. The "Switch Continuity" section of the wiring diagram
looks something like this:
HL L H
x--x Low
x--x--x (N)
x-----x High
Dean
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In God,
whose word I praise,
in God I trust;
I will not be afraid.
What can mortal man do to me?
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> Can't someone describe someone's trinity in simple declarative
> sentences that have common meaning?
I offer him four attempts.
First is an essay by me (largely indebted to Attempts Two and
Three), obtainable by sending the message GET TRINITY ANALOGY to
LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET or to LISTSERV@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU
Second is a couple of books by Dorothy L Sayers: a play called THE
ZEAL OF THY HOUSE, and a non-fiction book called THE MIND OF THE
MAKER. The play can be found in the book FOUR SACRED PLAYS, and
also in various other collections, including one called RELIGIOUS
DRAMA (Meridian Books) and one called BEST PLAYS OF 1937.
Third is the book MERE CHRISTIANITY by C S Lewis, particularly the
last section, called "Beyond Personality".
Fourth is a book called THEOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS, by the Roman
Catholic writer Frank Sheed. I will say that I do not find Sheed's
approach altogether satisfying, but I know some persons whose minds
I respect who do.
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I have the same problem with a Diamond Stealth VRAM card.
Daniel> .
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Hello,
Does anyone know of an image format conversion tool that will convert a
raw (8 bit grey scale) image to Gif or Tif format. It would be great if the tool
ran on a PC, was a Windows application, and supported other formats, but I'll be
happy with anything that works.
Attn: Code L10MP Robert LaFollette
Dahlgren Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Dahlgren, VA 22448-5000
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It's not a question just of who is holding the phone. It's a question of
what circuit to wiretap in the first place. If two drug dealers are both
using stolen cellular phones, the FBI doesn't know which lines to tap
-- unless of course they're tapping *all* phones (maybe *all* cellular
phones). If they haven't tapped the connection (ie., at least one end of
the connection) then they don't know what key to request.
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From Bit.listserv.christia
Zane writes...
From: FACN34B@SAUPM00.BITNET (zane of dhahan)
Subject: Christianity in Crisis
Date: Wed May 12 14:43:19 1993
"Frank, first of all, thanks for all of the great Scripture verses. It
was a pleasure to read them."
MY REPLY...
You are welcome, Zane.
Zane...
"I am sure nothing that I will say will change your mind about it... but I
would like to ask you if the book in question really does anything for you.
I mean, were you all caught up in the word/faith thing, but now that you
have read the book you've been rescued from all of the error and pain that
will result in your Christian life?"
MY REPLY...
(1) When I first became a Christian, I entered into the Word/Faith
movement. It was easy. I wasn't grounded in the Word of God and sound
doctrine. When I visited Christian book stores, the cheapest books I
could find to buy were the .50 and $1.00 books by Hagin and others.
Consequently, I began receiving Hagin's monthly magazine (and they
still send it to me), and also Copeland's (also, still sent to me).
It wasn't until I read a booklet by Jimmy Swaggart called _Hyper Faith:
The New Gnosticism_ that I began to realize the teachings I were
partaking of were error. I started reading the Bible more and studying
more. Sure enough, Jimmy was right in many points. As part of my
experience, I am alerting Christians, particularly new Christians, that
these teachings are heretical and they need to do as the Bereans did in
Acts 17:11 - check these teachings out with Scripture!
(2) My brother in law was involved in a Word/Faith "cult" in my area - it's
leader is real good friends with Benny Hinn. Rather then going into
much detail about this, suffice it to say he was deceived, mistreated, and
has now fallen into atheism. I'm still praying for him (Phil. 1:6).
(3) The assistant pastor at the church I teach adult Sunday School in has been
a `follower' of Copeland for 15 years. He has thousands of tapes by the
Faith teachers. In the class recently, I quoted several of the teachers'
heretical statements to his surprise. Since then, I've been able to talk
to him at length about these issues.
(4) The leader of the Women's Group at my church is a Benny Hinn `fan'.
Recently, I found that she has been lending _Good Morning, Holy Spirit_ to
women in the church. That prompted my quotes in Sunday School, as well as
my lending CIC to people in the church.
I'm well aware of the abuses and heresies perpetrated in this movement and
have an urgency in my heart and life to warn people about the heresies.
What heresies?
A. Jesus became sin - took on the very nature of the devil, and became
one with him.
B. Jesus' death on the cross wasn't enough to atone.
C. Jesus was dragged to hell after His death, was beat and abused by
Satan and demons, thus finishing our atonement. Satan was ruling
over Him there.
D. Jesus was `born-again' in hell.
E. Jesus died spiritually, lost His divinity, and reassumed it after
the resurrection.
F. We are gods.
These are heresies. Documentation will be provided re: these teachings
upon request.
Zane...
"Or what does it do for you? Is it preventing you from going out and
joining up with the word/faith movement which you'd been contemplating
joining for so long, but now that you've read the book, you've been saved
from all of that?"
MY REPLY...
It wasn't _Christianity In Crisis_ that helped me; it was a booklet by
Swaggart that I mentioned above. But CIC is MUCH, MUCH better - tremendous
documentation and insights.
Zane...
"I don't have a nice Scriptural answer for why I believe it is at best un-
profitable for Christians to engage in this type of activity - heresy hunting."
MY REPLY...
Why do you call it "heresy hunting"? "Hunting" implies it isn't readily
accessible or available. This movement is the fastest growing movement in
Christendom. Hagin has sold over 40 million books and booklets. Hinn has sold
more books in the last couple of years than Swindoll and Dobson combined. Fred
Price has the largest church in terms of seating capacity in the USA. Doesn't
sound like much "hunting" is needed.
It is Scriptural to expose doctrinal error. I gave some verses to you before.
More can be given. Most of the epistles were written due to error (doctrinal,
practical) in the churches. The early church had numerous councils to expose
error and heresy. It's not a new thing. Remember Luther?
Zane...
"I would like to point out though, that historically those who hunt heretics
often end up causing a bigger mess than the heretics... but this is my un-
documented opinion."
MY REPLY...
(1) If you can provide documentation, it would be appreciated.
(2) Read Ephesians 4:11-16, esp. vss. 13 and 14 and tell me what causes
disunity and immaturity in the body.
EPH 4:13-14 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning
craftiness of deceitful plotting....
Disunity, contrary to popular opinion, isn't caused by exposing error; it's
caused by error.
Zane...
"There are many who probably give no place for seeing the Scriptures as
documenting a Spiritual development or growth in its writers - but I would
suggest that the fiery Paul of the letter to the Galatians mellows and
matures into the one who loses all for the sake of Love in the End."
MY REPLY...
Most scholars believe Paul wrote 2 Timothy last. Let's examine his admonitions
to Tim to ascertain how mellow he had become...
2TI 1:13-15 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me,
in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was
committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. This you know, that
all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and
Hermogenes.
2TI 2:15-18 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does
not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane
and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. And their
message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, who
have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already
past; and they overthrow the faith of some.
2TI 2:24-26 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all,
able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if
God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and
that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having
been taken captive by him to do his will.
2TI 3:6-9 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make
captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as
Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of
corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no
further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
2TI 3:12-17 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer
persecution. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving
and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned
and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from
childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise
for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be
complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2TI 4:2-5 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince,
rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires,
because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and
they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an
evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
2TI 4:14-15 Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him
according to his works. You also must beware of him, for he has greatly
resisted our words.
Zane...
"The picture I have of Paul is not of one who goes out of his way to destroy
the ministry of wolves... but of one who teaches the sheep, with many tears,
the necessity of absolutely not allowing themselves to be transformed into
wolves to protect themselves."
MY REPLY...
ACT 20:26-31 "Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the
blood of all men. "For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel
of God. "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which
the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He
purchased with His own blood. "For I know this, that after my departure savage
wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. "Also from among
yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the
disciples after themselves. "Therefore watch, and remember that for three years
I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.
Zane...
"For all the warning Paul does, it is of note that he never once drops a name
of a wolf.... - but I will admit he cries in his beard at the end over those
who have abandoned him - everyone in Asia wasn't it ?"
MY REPLY...
Paul mentioned names...
1TI 1:18-20 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the
prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good
warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected,
concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, of whom are Hymenaeus and
Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
2TI 1:15 This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among
whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
2TI 2:16-18 But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more
ungodliness. And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus
are of this sort, who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the
resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.
2TI 4:10 for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has
departed for Thessalonica--Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.
2TI 4:14-15 Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him
according to his works. You also must beware of him, for he has greatly
resisted our words.
So did John...
3JO 1:9-10 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the
preeminence among them, does not receive us. Therefore, if I come, I will call
to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And
not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids
those who wish to, putting them out of the church.
Jesus also singled out teachings and doctrines...
REV 2:14-16 "But I have a few things against you, because you have there those
who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block
before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit
sexual immorality. "Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 'Repent, or else I will come to you quickly
and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
REV 2:20-23 "Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow
that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My
servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. "And I
gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
"Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her
into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. "I will kill her
children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches
the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your
works.
Zane...
"I question too, the purposes of those who write books and build ministries
on the faults - deliberate or otherwise - of others. Maybe if they would
wander around in the desert eating locust and honey, or barely cakes...with
no worldly goods at stake, money to be made, or no reputations to maintain...
I would question their motives - conscious or otherwise - less."
MY REPLY...
I won't comment on this because it deals with the intangible motives of others.
But even if they had bad motives, remember what Paul said...
PHI 1:15-18 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also
from good will: The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely,
supposing to add affliction to my chains; but the latter out of love, knowing
that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. What then? Only that in
every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I
rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
Zane...
"If we want to be true to the admonitions of Scripture - many of which you
list - about protecting ourselves and the flock from wolves and winds of
doctrines, I suggest we start by allowing the wolf-program in our own noetic
pasture to be nailed to the Cross."
MY REPLY...
Please explain.
Zane...
"Secondly, I suggest any heresy hunting be restricted to our own fellowships -
which in the strict Scriptural sense is the local city-church."
MY REPLY...
If heresy was not being propagated over the mass media, then it may not be
needed to go mass media with the exposure. Unfortunately, heresy is being
taught not just in Copeland's church or Hagin's or Hinn's or Price's, but all
over the radio, in print, etc. No pastor or church leader knows what materials
the sheep are feeding on outside the church. It's imperative that leadership
be made aware of this, and CIC does just that.
Also, let's examine a passage of Scripture...
* EPH 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some
evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
* EPH 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ,
These ministry gifts that the Lord installs in the church are not just for one
individual church, but for "the body of Christ".
Paul was an apostle - he traveled all over distilling his message. He was also
a teacher -
1CO 4:17 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and
faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach
everywhere in every church.
1CO 7:17 But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each
one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.
Also -
1CO 12:28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second
prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps,
administrations, varieties of tongues.
* EPH 4:13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ;
Notice that the "Five-Fold" ministries are going to be around "till" the church
is in "unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect
man". This, I believe will not occur fully until the Lord Jesus returns (see
1Cor. 13:9-12). But God wants the body to continue on maturing. What hinders
maturity and unity of the body?
* EPH 4:14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning
craftiness of deceitful plotting,
It's clear that false doctrine, integrated into the church "by the trickery of
men" causes (1) disunity [the thing we are striving for] and (2) spiritual
immaturity - the church continues in spiritual childhood when Christians are
"tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine".
The "Five -Fold" ministry, of which there does not appear to be clear
Scriptural denominational boundaries ("pastors" appear responsible for their
individual flock), is to deal with these doctrines (when necessary) in their
struggle to equip the body.
All believers are called to do this to a degree...
JUD 1:3-4 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our
common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend
earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For
certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this
condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny
the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Zane...
"If you'll notice, in Scripture the heresy hunters that went from Church to
Church and area to area, were the "bad guys" and they went after the "good guy"
namely Paul - who they considered to be the arch heretic."
MY REPLY...
They were themselves heretics trying to discredit Paul who was preaching
contrary to what they taught!
Zane...
"Let's face it, the wolves are here for a reason. And we are here for the
Reason. And let's hope the wolves become sheep, and the sheep, lambs."
MY REPLY...
Yes!
2TI 2:24-26 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all,
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able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if
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God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and
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that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having
been taken captive by him to do his will.
AMEN!
Frank
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Subject says it all, though I should specify that I'm looking for solutions
that DON'T require me purchasing specific chips, etc....
In other words, is there some sort of neural network circuit I could build
after a visit to a local R-Shack?
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yet.
I'm not bored either. Most people I know say that winning the second Cup
was better than the first but to me nothing will ever top that first one.
But I'm every bit as excited this year and I am experiencing that inner calm
to which Susan originally referred. Inner calm is not boredom.
As far as the arena in general being boring, well Richard's got that right.
It's been that way all season. I attribute it to a lot of new fans who
just don't have the same spirit and knowledge as long-time fans. At
last Tuesday's game, I overheard a man express surprise that a
goaltender can get an
assist.
Anyone who follows sports with regularity knows that anything can happen
at any time. I'm confident in the Pens but I'm also not stupid enough to
think for one minute that it's impossible for New Jersey to blow them out
of this series. I doubt that will happen but it's possible. Bored? Uh-uh.
Spoiled? Not in the least. Forgot what excitement is like? Living through
that amazing streak wasn't exciting?! I don't take a darned thing for
granted. God, look at Chicago...
And I see no problem with quietly savoring all of this anyway. It isn't gonna
last forever and I intend to enjoy it while I can.
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I use the new keyboard with a IIfx, and I like it. I am not a touch typist
so some of the advantage is loss on me - but there is difference and less
stress on my wrists.
Dan
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