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Well, this isn't the right group for this, but I have to say that I don't
think violence is any more socially acceptable now, by any means. How
can you say that when we used to have of pistol-toting gunslingers as
heros, or even gangland thugs being considered romantic. Do you think
our great grandparent got yelled at by their parents for playing cowboys
and indians? I don't think so. That behavior was somewhat encouraged
back then, in fact.
I think the only difference between now and then is that nowadays, when
some teenager kills another one in a classroom in California, we here
about it in MA the same day. Back in the old days, they'd never hear
about something like that, period.
Sorry about posting to rec.autos, but this is where it came up...
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How can I draw an object of a specified color over objects of varying colors
and then erase it without having to redraw everything else?
What's happening is this,
If I draw it using GXcopy, it is drawn in the specified color. If I erase
it using GXcopy with foreground and background reversed, it erases
whatever it overlayed. I then need to redraw
all of the items it crossed. Yuch.
If I draw it using GXinvert it is drawn in a random color - nothing
resembling what I requested. It properly restores the color of
underlying objects in erase mode.
What's the solution?
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I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome
all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
Luke 10:19
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Can anyone tell me the procedure for hooking a Personal Laserwriter NTR
serially to a mac? The documentation says it can be done, but I'm not sure of
the correct switch setting to use out of the given non-appletalk switch
options. Also, will I need to install a new driver so that the Chooser knows
the printer is hooked up directly (not networked)?
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------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Path: butch!netcomsv!netcom.com!csus.edu!wupost!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.ed
From: scunning@louven.berkeley.edu (Sean Cunningham)
Subject: Candlestick
Message-ID: <1993Apr21.041620.27894@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster)
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Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Hey folks,
Saw the Giants play ball at the 'Stick Saturday, April 17. It was the game
where Pendelton broke up the scoreless tie in the ninth with a two-out,
two-run homer to right to win it. (It wasn't the game where the fans
threw the give-away "fotoballs" onto the field in response to the homer --
too bad, huh?)
Well, the 'Stick is still cold. The Saturday game ended at 5:45pm, and it
was cold then. I can't imagine night games in April at the 'Stick. The
wind kicked up a little, too, and I got this idea.
At most games, there's a pile of hot dog wrappers and cups and trash on
the field a lot of the time. I propose a Kid's Clean-up Corps composed
mainly of 10-12 year old kids who would love nothing better than to run
out on the field in the fifth inning (when the guy in the Toro smooths
the infield) and grab the trash.
It might not be glamorous, but at that age I probably would have given
anything to be on the field with the ballplayers. Everybody wins here!
Whaddaya think?
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No we don't. They might be zealous, and maybe the bureau shouldn't
exist by some people, but they ARE NOT NAZIS.
Why do people toss around the Nazi label so easily?
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Anybody for carpeting in Bosnia/Serbia? I mean like, carpet bombing
of Serbian positions?
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I have already purchased 72-pin SIMMs for a Quadra 800 from
Memory Direct (on March 9). How can I tell whether or not they
are composite SIMMs? As a rule, does Memory Direct ship
composite or "regular" SIMMs?
Thank you.
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This is quite corect, but a bullet hitting a burned body with little energy
will show virtually no deformation, ie a hollow point probably would not
expand, an FMJ would be "pristene". Also the bullets will not be marked
with the lands ang grooves of a barrel, because they didn't come out of
one. A good pathologist should be able to notice this right away.
Let us hope that the ME's that handle these bodies are more competent
then the ones who did JFK's body.
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This discussion on viewing .ps files undex X11 seems rather interesting
but I fail to understand the reason it is not contained in 2 at most
newsgroups.
I am subscribed to comp.text.interleaf and I could care less about
.ps viewing under X11. I am sure that members of this group interested in
the topic can followup by looking at other newsgroups.
Could you please remove the comp.text.interleaf from your distribution?
Just as a nettish sort of courtesy.
Best regards.
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Leo J Irakliotis irakliot@longs.lance.colostate.edu
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That's not inner calm. It's boredom, and it's being spoiled. The Arena's
been as quiet as a church on many nights this year; too many of us just
take winning for granted. It's been seemingly forever since the team
lost, and we've forgotten what it's like to feel real excitement and
surprise at victory.
While I'm glad to have the Pens doing so well, in some ways it was a better
high back when the Pens beat the Bruins two years ago, and the Rangers last
year. Too much of a good thing is not always good for you.
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The 24 children were, of course, killed by a lone gunman in a second story
window, who fired eight bullets in the space of two seconds...
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Hi.
Our problem is the following:
We have to design an RF link for a distance of 250 m. We're using
standard RS232 waves (square pulses) as the modulating waves and the
carrier wave is sinusoidal. The link has to be bidirectional.
We would appreciate any advice on the type of modulating techniques
or antennas that we should use.
Please internet email us at: 007gjf3@witsvma.wits.ac.za (Nando)
or 007bww3@witsvma.wits.ac.za (Warren)
or blumenow@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za (Warren)
Thank you very much in advance.
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is this the KX-P1124 you're talking about? or is there a KX-1124, too?
I'll assume you just forgot the P....
this light is also the power light..... on (not blinking) just means that
the power is turned on. if you look at the panel, it should read
POWER
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PAPER OUT
right?
don't know why it would do this, unless you're out of paper, that is.
when you power up the printer, assuming it does have paper, the red power
light (which, when flashing, doubles as paper out) should light, and a few
seconds later, the green ONLINE light should come on.
hope this helps.....
--jim
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Article 31 of alt.graphics:
Newsgroups: alt.graphics
Path: news.nd.edu!moliere!rmalayte
From: rmalayte@moliere.helios.nd.edu (ryan malayter)
Subject: GeoSphere images via ftp?
Message-ID: <1993Apr26.213648.26856@news.nd.edu>
Sender: news@news.nd.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 21:36:48 GMT
Does anyone know if a digitized version of the GeoSphere image is
available via ftp? For those of you who don't know, it is a composite
photograph of the entire earth, with cloudcover removed. I just think
it's really cool. It was created with government funds and sattelites
as a research project, so I would assume it's in the public domain.
Thanks for any info,
Ryan
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Fred Gilham asks (May 11) whether it is true that Kurt Goedel wrote
a version of the ontological argument for the existence of God.
Yes, he did. He did not publish it, but it will be published by the
Oxford University Press in German and with English translation in
Volume 3, due to appear this fall, of his Collected Works.
Meanwhile, you can find a summary, or perhaps the whole thing, in an
article by Jordan Howard Sobel called "Goedel's ontological proof"
in the book ON BEING AND SAYING, edited by Judith Jarvis Thompson
(sp?), published by the MIT Press in 1987.
Professor C Anthony Anderson of the Philosophy Department of the
University of Minnesota has written an article, "Some Emendations of
Goedel's Ontological Proof," which appeared in the magazine FAITH
AND PHILOSOPHY, v. 7 (1990): 291-303. It discusses some objections
that various critics have raised against Goedel's proof, and offers
a revised version of the proof that is not vulnerable to these
objections.
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Or, did anyone notice that when Clinton referred to the Davidians as
'religious fanatics' that a round of spontaneous applause burst forth from
the reporters ?
To me this was not only in poor taste, but it showed the media's bias and
hostility to anyone not of the politically correct stripe. No wonder they
have been cheerleading for the kgBATF and the FBI during this whole affair.
Rod
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"It [collectivism vs individualism] is an ancient conflict. Men have come
close to the truth, but it was destroyed each time and one civilization fell
after another. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The
savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
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I don't speak for my company. We hire the 'Politically Correct' to do that.
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After hearing endless debate (READ: name-calling) over which os is better, dos
and windows or OS/2 and finally having enought resourses to play with a couple
of different operating systems, I have decided to put the two products to a
head to head test, as so many fellow newsposters have suggested. I have,
however, no desire whatsoever to use a version of os/2 which wont REALLY
do what it says (i.e. run windows apps) OS/2 2.0-2.1 will not run windows
apps in 386 enhansed mode, something that most larger windows apps require, but
OS/2 2.2, which is supposed to be in beta test, is supposed to. I have heard
that os/2 2.2 beta is available via ftp, and I was wondering if anyone knew
where to obtain a copy. I would appreciate any information, as I would like,
once and for all, to establish for myself which is the best os for my needs.
->Robbie<-
z_shererrg.sfasu.edu
If you wait until May the 18th you will be able to buy the new OS/2
2.1 since it will be released at Comdex that day. It will run Windows
3.1 apps and Windows enh. mode. If you can't wait, then you can ftp a
6 months old beta version from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, but this version is
probably a lot slower than the final product.
When you do your test, please have in mind that a single tasking
system will always be faster at doing one task. The real power of OS2
lies in the multitasking and can't really be measured by a stopwatch.
Happy benchmarking.
Hans
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The whales of the Atlantic and the people of the Faroe Islands
have coexisted in perfect harmony for the last 1000 years -
no matter what any urban navel contamplator without any real
relation to the coherence of the nature says.
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Nope, here I am: david@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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Senior Software Engineer, (818)306-6193 (do NOT use v-mail yet!)
CCCP, X and Object Guru. office: 525/C165
Jet Propulsion Lab, M/S 525-3660 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109
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"That Sun Windows thingy, what's it called? You know, its
really awful. X? Motif? That's it - Motif! Yuck!"
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Why do you let such brain dead idiots drive in the US?
Tony
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I am unable to run Quicktime 1.5 on my IIvx running System 7.1, and
I don't know why. (If there is a better group to post this to, please
let me know.) Quicktime 1.0 works fine, but when I try to run a movie
in any application that supports it, Like Simple Player, Canvas or
Word, I get the message "sorry a system error occurred '<Application>'
unimplemented trap <continue> <restart>", I press <continue> and get
"The application 'unknown' has unexpectedly quit, because an error of
type 12 occurred." Substitute Simple Player or Canvas or Word for
'<Application>, and the messages are always the same. If I restart with
Quicktime 1.0, I have no problems. Any suggestions? I am at a loss.
Thanks in advance. Oh yah, please email me as I don't check
the newsgroups very often.
Dan Bradley deb47099@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Much of the Haight-Ashbury crowd probably had pre-existing
dissatisfactions with their lives -- dissatisfactions ameliorated by
mumbo-jumbo about 'new realities'. The only change I experienced after
LSD was to gain the knowledge that I didn't enjoy how LSD twisted my
perception.
--
Mark Pundurs
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SCO ODT allows to adapt the X-Server to any non-standard (AT) keyboard
using the Xkeyboard configuration compiler xsconfig. SCO provides some
configuration files in /usr/lib/X11/xsconfig/*.kbd, e.g. for
Siemens WX200.
Question:
Is there anywhere a configuration file for the HP46021A keyboard
available ?
I am especially interested in using the HP specific keys such as
"InsertLine", "Menu".
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As far as I can see if your obstetrition has an ultrasound in his rooms
and is expirienced its use and interpretation, he should be just as
capable of reading it as any radiologist. All doctors are "qualified" to
read x-rays, u/s, ct scans etc. it is just that a radiologist does nothing
else, and thus, is only better at reading them because of all this time
spent doing this (skill in reading x-rays etc. just comes from plenty of
practice). If your obstetrition reads heaps of obstetric ultrasounds he
should be able to pick up any abnormalities that can be demonstrated by
this technique.
- Paul.
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I'm going to be purchasing one of these soom for my SS2.
Does anyone have any experience with this card?
Positive or negative comments welcome!
Please respond immediately.
Thanks,
Joe
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while I
Seeing a dermatologist sounds like a very good idea if you are
worried about your dry skin.
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When I use File Manager's disk copy, I find that
Windows (3.1) can read the whole 1.2MB disk at one time,
but only 98% of a 1.44 disk. It looks like a problem
of memory. However, The PC has 4MB RAM. There should be some
way to allocat more extended memory for disk copy.
Please advise me on this matter. Thanks in advance.
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Anyone catch the TV show Law & Order last night (at least here in
NYC)? They "the law enforcement people", needed to catch a member of
DoD (Department of Doom) for inflicting a computer virus in a
hospital's mainframe which ended up killing two people because wrong
amounts of medication were given to them.
Anyhow, is "Department of Doom" on the list?
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Apparently you *didn't* read the whole thing. You continue to miss the point.
[deletions]
Counselling that only provides alternatives to abortion would be just as
biased as counselling that only provides *abortion* information. How about
providing counselling that will give a woman help in finding what *she* is
comfortable with.
Your adoption-funding idea may be a good one. Any idea if it is feasable?
Making adoption easier on the birth-mother may help reduce abortion, but
it will *not* eliminate the need for it. Abortion is not done just because
the mother can't care for the child and doesn't feel good about giving it
to strangers. Abortion is done because the mother can not afford the
*pregnancy*.
Then please justify why being "human" automatically makes something valuable.
And why that includes the unborn.
No, they are not guaranteed to become productive members of society. Even
if they do that is *MANY YEARS* in the future--until which they are a burden
on someone, or society. There is also the matter of the mother. Forcing
her to carry a pregnancy to term at a critical time in her life could prevent
her from being a productive member of society.
Ok, look. It's like this. We *are* footing the bill. Maybe they will
take choice A. Maybe they will take choice B. Maybe they will take choice
C. They can't afford any *one* of them. If they take choice A we'd have
to pay them, say $5. If they take choice B it would cost us $20. If they
take choice C it will cost us $20 now and a hell of a lot more for the next
18 years. Which one sounds the most realistic for us to be willing to pay
for? Now some people happen not to like choice A. Other people happen
not to like choice C (paying for it, that is). C has been around and paid
for for years. Even though it means we spend a lot of money, we can't in
conscience refuse to pay for it. Now A has been around and is perfectly
legal, but it hasn't been funded in the past. Now A is going to be funded
but some people object. They don't like the idea of their tax money going
to pay for choice A. So we could refuse to fund A at all. Then those
women who can't afford any of those choices will be forced to take choice
B or C, which will cost *all of us* more money. Most of us don't see any
reason at all why *more money* should be spent to the effect of *removing
personal choice* from some women. The alternative is to fund A if that is
what the mother chooses. We will also still fund B and even C if *that*
is what the mother chooses. However, some women will certainly choose A,
and that will then save us $15 we otherwise would have had to spend. Your
"taxes" are not being raised to fund a choice you object, they are being
*lowered* because we will fund a choice that is *legal*, despite your
objections to it. (Actually, your taxes are not really going to go down,
as I'm sure you would point out. But the amount that is saved in that
area can help out in another--like our massive debt.)
Those other procedures you mention only cost money. There is no savings
in other procedures that would be required down the road without them.
(In fact, there could be additional costs down the road *because* of them.)
This is quite different from the case of abortion.
This is bullshit. We are *not* refusing "to make the alternative affordable
too". If we refused to pay for the more expensive choice of birth, *then*
your statement would make sense. But that is not the case, so it doesn't.
If Clinton tried to block funding for pre-natal care and delivery (or left
it out of his health-care plan), I would certainly object. I would also be
quite surprised.
Yes, but probably not your definition of it, or for the reasons you think.
YOU STUPID FUCK! *WE DO* want to fund *all* the choices. *YOU* are the
one who wants to *NOT* fund all the choices.
Your humble opinion is still wrong. Even with easy adoption, there is still
the fact that pregnancy takes several months. Months in which a young woman
could need to be getting an education. (like finishing High School, entering
college, finishing college, getting a job...things that are much harder to
do if you have to "take a break" for a few months...things that have a massive
impact on her future productivity.)
You *can* have a conversation with the "mentally incompetant". And even
though *you* personally may refuse to have a conversation with "people
you just don't like", it is still *possible* for others to have a conversation
with them. It is *not* possible for *anyone* to have a conversation with
a fetus.
He was still biologically independent. At least to the same extent you are
now. He consumed nutrients and digested them in the normal manner. He
breathed his own air. A fetus on the other hand, gets it's nutrients already
digested by the mother. It gets its oxygen from the mother as well. That
is not biologically independent.
Awareness is only *part* of what makes a "member of society". It is the
minimal conceivable requirement, yet many people seem to think that something
without awareness could still be important enough to justify the suffereing
of a true member of society. I keep asking, but I still haven't seen a real
justification for why the life of a non-sentient creature should be worth the
suffering of a sentient being. (I haven't read every response on the threads
I've been asking on, yet, so we'll see if I see one later.)
Anyone who can program in UNIX has a lot of experiences in the real world.
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: > > However, legalizing it and just sticking some drugs in gas stations to
: > > be bought like cigarettes is just plain silly. Plus, I have never
: > > heard of a recommended dosage for drugs like crack, ecstasy, chrystal
: > > meth and LSD. The 60 Minute Report said it worked with "cocaine"
: > > cigarettes, pot and heroin.
: >
: > Or, the government could adopt the radical and probably unAmerican idea
: > that citizens are free to live their lives as they wish, and simply
: > decriminalize cocaine, marijuana, heroin, LSD, etc. Please explain why
: > the idea of allowing recreational drugs to be "bought like cigarettes"
: > is "just plain silly." After all, it works just fine for nicotine...
: I'm all in favor of drug legalization, but I do see some problems with
: it. My hope is that people disposed to doing so would simply overdose
: quickly, and be done with it, before making a mess of thisgs.
It's actually quite simple. We sell Drug Use Licenses to anybody over age
18 who wants one. Costs $100 and you're required to attend a week of
night classes on the effects of drugs on the human body. At the end of the
class, you sign an informed consent waiver acknowledging that you've been
told that drugs are bad for you, but you want them anyway. In doing so,
you giver up ANY right to state-paid medical care for whatever might
happen to you as a result of doing drugs, or any right to collect welfare
or unemployment should you lose your job as a result of using drugs. You'd
also give up your right to drive a car.
Anybody caught using drugs without a license has a choice; pay a $1000
fine and accept a backdated drug user's license, or go to prison.
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Oh really? I seem to remember this year's woofers consisting mainly of
yourself and Roger. Boston fans were relatively quiet.
I guess the concept of a fan who is not cocky is something you couldn't
possible understand, eh?
Nah. I doubt you really would. You're just being a PROVOCATIVE SOB
as usual with a large stick up your but. Of course, I mean that in the
nicest way. :-)
And just how much bragging did YOU do, "wobbie," on r.s.b.c after
UMASS!!! beat your Quakers?
BTW. Congratulations should go to the Sabres. They are playing more
diciplined, and with more will to win. They deserve it.
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Except the drivers.
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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Look up the facts first, post second. Bernadotte was assassinated
in September 1948 by Lehi under the orders of its three commanders
(one of whom was Yitzhak Shamir). There is no hard evidence of
complicity of the Israeli government despite some effort by the UN
and other organizations (US intelligence, Swedish government) to
find it. However a great fuss was made over the apparent lack of
zeal of the Israeli government to track down the killers. The Lehi
man who actually pulled the trigger later became a personal friend
of David Ben-Gurion. The best published account in English is A. Ilan,
Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948 (Macmillan, 1989).
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> Public revelation, which is the basis of Catholic doctrine, ended
> with the death of St John, the last Apostle. Nothing new can be
> added.
Every so often, the Pope declares that some departed Christian is
now in Heaven, and may be invoked in the public rites of the Church.
It is my understanding that Roman Catholics believe that such
declarations by the Pope are infallible. I see three possibilities:
1) The Church has received a Public Revelation since the death
of (for example) Joan of Arc.
2) The Church was given a list before the death of St John
which had Joan's name on it.
3) There is no public revelation about Joan, and Roman
Catholics are free to doubt that she died in a state of grace, or
even that she is a historical character.
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An application we *must* use requires upper-case input. I'd like to be
able to simply move my cursor into the window where that application is running
(just a text window, xterm or some such) and have everything I type be entered
as ALL CAPS. When the cursor is in any of my many other windows, I want to
automatically return to normal functionality. I have point-to-type set.
Is there a way to do this in X (specifically OW 3.0 on SPARCs)? Is there a
way to mess with .Xdefaults to make a category of window do this? Any
hints would be most appreciated. I program in C but not X, although I can
pick up somthing that's not too involved.
Thanks kindly.
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..
funny, if Koresh did say that, he was quoting St. Paul. of course,
the early Christians were persecuted too. if Koresh is a loony
because he quotes the Bible, how long is it before mainstream
Christians become the target of the FBI's loving care and attention?
jason
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There is a description of something called a "fair crypto system" in the
May 1993 issue of BYTE, p. 134, attributed to MIT professor Silvio Micali.
The way it works is as follows:
You generate your private key S, and break it up into pieces s1, s2, s3,
s4, and s5, such that (s1 + s2 + ... + s5) mod p = S.
You give each piece s1, s2, etc. to a different escrow agency.
The agencies each compute g^sn mod p, and forward the result to the public
key telephone book keeper.
The public key telephone book keeper multiplies all the g^sn mod p, reduces
the result to mod p, and this will be the user's public key.
Now, if there were several hundered recognized escrow agencies, and the user
could give a piece of the key to each of the ones he trusted, the result would
be something of an improvement over the proposed Clipper system.
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I have tried others, but I think that the Adaptec is best value for money.
I dont think you can mix the two types of drive, unless you have one of the
SCSI/IDE cards that is available. You will have to turn your IDE off.
Instructions for drive type are included with the controller. With some it may be
a type 1. no matter what the disk is. With others it may be a type 47. I had one
controller that I had to tell the BIOS that no hard disk was installed.
Do not low level format a SCSI unless you have the SCSI low level format program.
First use fdisk to set the partitions, then use format.
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I do not know of any "VGA" type cards that have BNC outputs but, EXTRON
sells a VGA to BNC cable set that works good with my 5FG. If you are
trying to optimize the display with a good video card try contacting #9,
@ 1-800-get-nine. I use and like the level 9 card.
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Anyone have any experiences to report using PhoneNet PC?
We're thinking about investing in one of these cards for
our lone PC at work.
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Ken Gantz kgantz@cup.portal.com
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A few questions for Janet Reno:
Why don't you think generals have any place in law enforcement?
If the ATF/FBI had proof that Koresh was:
A child molester
A child abuser
A wife abuser
Bigamist
Sexual Deviant (not a crime in all 50 states, yet)
As well as
Illegally modify weapons
Why wasn't he simply arrested during one of his morning jogs? Why did
the allegations of child/wife/sex crimes only come out after the Branch
Davidians repelled the initial assualt?
Was it because it became necessary to demonize David Koresh? Do you
feel responsible for the deaths of over 80 people? How many would be alive to
day if Koresh had been arrested outside the compound?
Inquiring minds want to know.
[Although Janet was installed after the siege began, her purge of the
justice dept. leaves only her people in charge.]
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Users can't find the cursor? Run "xneko" - it'll turn the cursor into a
mouse (rodent variety (-: ). If your users still can't find it, the cat will!
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Actually, just after the FIRST world war, many Muslims were killed by Serbs.
Under Serbian-led regime between the two world wars, many Croats were
also killed (especially during the dictatorship introduced on Jan. 6, 1929).
Some Croats formed a resistance movement "Ustashas" (Insurgents) and
were forced into exile, to fascist Italy, which sheltered them. In exile,
they practiced a terrorist approach to liberating Croatia; while Croats in
Croatia followed the approach of peaceful negotiations under the leadership
of Vladko Macek. After the Axis powers took control in the SECOND world
war, Vladko Macek refused to collaborate, so Ustashas were brought in
to run the newly formed puppet state. This state included both Croatia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and its ideology saw Muslims as the best Croats
("flowers of Croatian people"). Some Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina
therefore joined Ustashas. However, even more others did not; they
joined Tito's Partisans. The Ustashas membership peaked at
less than 1% of Croat and Muslim population of that area at that time.
After WWII, Muslims were still considered a religious minority descended
from Croats or Serbs who converted to Islam centuries ago. But, in 1968,
it was decided that forcing Muslims to declare their nationality as
either Serbs or Croats is not a good policy. Dobrica Cosic, the current
president of the rump Yugoslavia, was strongly opposed, and sought to
prevent the category "Muslim" (in an ethnic sense) from appearing on the
next census. He was criticized and expelled from the party. So, since
that time, Bosnian Muslims are considered a separate nationality, although
some still deny this and insist that they choose either Serb or Croat
nationality.
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Could you be more specific? I need that file too but couldn't find it
amongst ALL the directories at wuarchive.
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Well that's really great Pat. I guess since you've played a little you thereby
qualify as an expert. Especially since you watch all the games on t.v. All
that qualifies you as is a armchair quarterback or a coach potato
Pat Walker
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Indeed Yaqouv, just like the ugly hatred spread by Kahane and
Kahanists, right? Or they are exempt from condemnation, and allowed
to hate?
I know you'll answer me indirectly, it doesn't bother me a bit.
Keep it up.
Steel (who's never pissed off).
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Hello,
I am new to this news group, but I need some info. I am
currently doing a project for a class on the Internet. I am
looking for good sources of information on space and astronomy,
more notably, our own solar system. If anyone knows any good
sites where I can get information about this kinda stuff, please
e-mail me at STK1663@VAX003.STOCKTON.EDU. Thanx.
----Steve
(my newsreader doesn't have a .sig yet, sorry.)
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Most commercial switchers do NOT use magnetics for their energy storage;
that's handled by the big caps on the primary side, those which in a
linearly-regulated power supply would be considered the "filter" caps,
coming right after the bridge. The transformer is just that - a
transformer. It's there primarily to step the voltage up or down. (Although
the inductance seen by the switch transistor on the primary side is NOT
negligible, as anyone who's zapped said transistor from either failing to
get one with a high enough breakdown voltage or neglecting to include a
"snubber" diode across it would tell you. Actually, many transistors intended
for switcher use today have the diode built in.)
The basic switched-mode power supply operates something like this (in
a somewhat simplified manner): The AC line is rectified to produce a
high voltage, more-or-less unregulated DC rail. The energy storage (or
"filter") caps appear across this rail, as does the switching transistor.
The transistor chops the current into the primary side of the transformer,
resulting in stepped-up or stepped-down pulses out the secondary, which
are then rectified and filtered. At least one of the transformer's outputs
is sampled and fed back to the control circuit for the switching transistor,
which acts in a "pulse-width modulation" (PWM) fashion to control (by varying
the pulse width) the amount of energy being dumped into the primary, and
therefore the voltage coming out at the secondary. The remaining outputs
may be allowed to simply run at whatever value they will, more-or-less
tracking the regulated output, or they may have some additional linear
regulation added. You may also note that the feedback between the
regulated output and the PWM control (which is most typically an IC)
is not done via a direct electrical connection; this is due to various
safety standards which require primary and secondary circuits to be
electrically isolated. Often, the feedback path involves an optoisolator
to meet this requirement.
While the transformer isn't the primary energy-storage device in these
designs, this does not mean that the energy stored in the transformer can
be ignored; besides the inductive "kick" giving the switch transistor a
bad time (as noted above), you also need to worry about getting all the
energy that went *in* to the transformer back *out* again, one way or another.
In some designs, this happens more or less automatically - but in others,
you need to take special care to ensure that the transformer core doesn't
saturate, which again would have disastrous results (best left to the
imagination! :-)).
I'm NOT by any stretch of the imagination a power-supply designer;
hopefully, a real one will come along soon and clean up any gross errors
in the above.
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Again -- I'm extremely sorry about this.. I got this message several
months ago (quite a bit before the clipper chip proposal) when it was posted
to a different newsgroup. It was very startling to me as well, and I guess
I should of verified the source at least to some extent before reposting..
Aaack..
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: Then again, maybe $2445 for the gateway system isn't too cheap.
:
: I have a system from Micron computers:
:
: 486-2-50, 16 meg ram, 245 Maxtor HD, Local bus IDE / 2 meg video card, and
: the same 15" monitor. The system with shipping came to $2200. I sold the
: sx-33 chip that came with it and bought a dx2-50. Total price $2300-2400.
I think you got something wrong here. You state that the system was a
486dx250, then say that you sold the sx-33 chip that came with it. This
does not make sense.
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I am aware of the restrictions imposed by the munitions act
on the export of cryptographic technology, however, is it illegal to
transmit encrypted data from the U.S. to another country? If so,
then which laws apply to this situation?
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ONCE A YEAR...FOR A LIFETIME VIDEO KIT. This kit
includes a 25-minute VHS videotape that presents common
misconceptions about mammography. It tells of the
benefits gains by the early detection of breast cancer.
Jane Pauley and Phylicia Rashad are the narrators. Kit
includes a guide, poster, flyer, and pamphlets on
mammography. This kit is available directly by writing
to: Modern, 5000 Park Street North, St. Petersburg, FL
33709-9989.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
COMBINED HEALTH INFORMATION DATABASE (CHID). A computerized
bibliographic database developed and managed by agencies of
the U.S. Public Health Service. It contains references to
health information and health education resources. The
database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts for
journal articles, books, reports, pamphlets, audiovisuals,
product descriptions, hard-to-find information sources, and
health promotion and education programs under way in state
and local health departments and other locations. In
addition, CHID provides source and availability information
for these materials, so that users may obtain them directly.
At present, there are twenty-one subfiles on CHID. The
National Cancer Institute created the Cancer Patient
Education subfile in 1990. It serves as a resource for the
CHID user who is interested in identifying patient education
programs for specific cancer patient populations, as well as
for the user who is trying to locate educational resources
available for patient or family cancer education. Citations
include the contact person at cancer centers, so the user
can follow up directly with the appropriate person.
To access CHID, check with your local library. Most medical
school, university, hospital, and public libraries subscribe
to commercial database vendors.
HICNet Medical Newsletter Page 28
Volume 6, Number 11 April 25, 1993
FINAL REPORT: AN INTEGRATED ONCOLOGY WORKSTATION (revised
5/92). This book provides a conceptual overview of what a
clinical information system for practicing oncologists might
include: a database of electronic patient chart records
combined with access to a knowledge base of information
resources such as PDQ, CANCERLIT, and MEDLINE--an
integration of data and knowledge combined to create a
clinical "oncology workstation." The concept was developed
as a means to assist the oncologist and his or her office
staff in the daily management of patient care and clinical
trials. This book can be obtained by contacting: Dr.
Robert Esterhay, Project Officer, Computer Communications
Branch, Building 82, Room 201, Bethesda, MD 20892.
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CANCER
INSTITUTE. (91-2683). This booklet from the International
Cancer Information Center (ICIC) describes each ICIC product
or service, including scientific journals (Journal of the
National Cancer Institute and NCI Monographs), specialized
current awareness publications (CANCERGRAMS, and ONCOLOGY
OVERVIEWS), and online databases (PDQ and CANCERLIT). To
obtain copies of the booklet, write to: International Cancer
Information Center, Dept. JJJ, National Cancer Institute,
Bldg. 82, Rm. 123, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 or fax your
request to 301-480-8105.
HICNet Medical Newsletter Page 29
Volume 6, Number 11 April 25, 1993
Publications for Patients Available from the NCI (1/93)
Free copies of the following patient education materials are available (in
single copy or bulk) by calling the NCI's Publication Ordering Service, 1-800-
4-CANCER.
CANCER PREVENTION
CHEW OR SNUFF IS REAL BAD STUFF. This brochure, designed
for seventh and eighth graders, describes the health and social
effects of using smokeless tobacco products. When fully opened,
the brochure can be used as a poster.
CLEARING THE AIR: A GUIDE TO QUITTING SMOKING. This
pamphlet, designed to help the smoker who wants to quit, offers a
variety of approaches to cessation. [24 pages]
DIET, NUTRITION & CANCER PREVENTION: THE GOOD NEWS. This
booklet provides an overview of dietary guidelines that may
assist individuals in reducing their risks for some cancers. It
identifies certain foods to choose more often and others to
choose less often in the context of a total health-promoting
diet. [16 pages]
WHY DO YOU SMOKE? This pamphlet contains a self-test to
determine why people smoke and suggests alternatives and
substitutes that can help them stop.
EARLY DETECTION
BREAST EXAMS: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW. This pamphlet provides
answers to questions about breast cancer screening methods,
including mammography, the medical checkup, breast self-
examination, and future technologies. Includes instructions for
breast self-examination. [10 pages]
CANCER TESTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT: A GUIDE FOR PEOPLE 65
AND OVER. This pamphlet describes the cancer tests important for
people age 65 and older. It informs men and women of the exams
they should be requesting when they schedule checkups with their
doctors. It provides a checklist for men and women to record
when the cancer tests occur, and it describes the steps to follow
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should cancer be found. [14 pages]
DO THE RIGHT THING: GET A MAMMOGRAM. This brochure targets
black women age 40 or older. It describes the importance of
regular mammograms in the early detection of breast cancer. It
states the NCI guidelines for mammography.
ONCE A YEAR FOR A LIFETIME. This brochure targets all women
age 40 or older. It describes the importance of regular
mammograms in the early detection of breast cancer. It states
the NCI guidelines for mammography.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT BREAST LUMPS. This pamphlet
describes some of the most common noncancerous breast lumps and
what can be done about them. Includes instructions for breast
self-examination. [22 pages]
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT CHOOSING A MAMMOGRAPHY FACILITY.
This brochure lists questions to ask in selecting a quality
mammography facility. Also discusses typical costs and coverage.
TESTICULAR SELF-EXAMINATION. This pamphlet contains
information about risks and symptoms of testicular cancer and
provides instructions on how to perform testicular self-
examination.
THE PAP TEST: IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE! This easy-to-read
pamphlet tells women the importance of getting a Pap test. It
explains who should request one, how often it should be done, and
where to go to get a Pap test.
GENERAL
RESEARCH REPORTS. In-depth reports covering current
knowledge of the causes and prevention, symptoms, detection and
diagnosis, and treatment of various types of cancer. Individual
reports are available on the following topics:
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Cancer of the Colon and Rectum
Cancer of the Lung
Cancer of the Pancreas
Melanoma
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Oral Cancers
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM - HOW IT WORKS. This booklet, written at
a high school level, explains the human immune system for the
general public. It describes the sophistication of the body's
immune responses, the impact of immune disorders, and the
relation of the immune system to cancer therapies present and
future. [28 pages]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CANCER. This series of
pamphlets discusses symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, emotional
issues, and questions to ask the doctor. Includes glossary of
terms and other resources. Individual pamphlets are available on
the following topics:
Bladder
Bone
Brain
Breast
Cervix
Colon and Rectum
Dysplastic Nevi
Esophagus
Hodgkin's Disease
Kidney
Larynx
Lung
Melanoma
Multiple Myeloma
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Oral Cancers
Ovary
Pancreas
Prostate
Skin
Testis
Uterus
PATIENT EDUCATION
ANTICANCER DRUG INFORMATION SHEETS IN SPANISH/ENGLISH. Two-
sided fact sheets (in English and Spanish) provide information
about side effects of common drugs used to treat cancer, their
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proper usage, and precautions for patients. The fact sheets were
prepared by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc., for
distribution by the National Cancer Institute. Single sets only
may be ordered.
ADVANCED CANCER: LIVING EACH DAY. This booklet addresses
coping with a terminal illness by discussing practical
considerations for the patient, the family, and friends. [30
pages]
CHEMOTHERAPY AND YOU: A GUIDE TO SELF-HELP DURING
TREATMENT. This booklet, in question-and-answer format, addresses
problems and concerns of patients receiving chemotherapy.
Emphasis is on explanation and self-help. [64 pages]
EATING HINTS: RECIPES AND TIPS FOR BETTER NUTRITION DURING
CANCER TREATMENT. This cookbook-style booklet includes recipes
and suggestions for maintaining optimum nutrition during
treatment. All recipes have been tested. [92 pages]
FACING FORWARD: A GUIDE FOR CANCER SURVIVORS. This booklet
presents a concise overview of important survivor issues,
including ongoing health needs, psychosocial concerns, insurance,
and employment. Easy-to-use format includes cancer survivors'
experiences, practical tips, recordkeeping forms, and resources.
It is recommended for cancer survivors, their family, and
friends. [43 pages]
PATIENT TO PATIENT: CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS AND YOU. This
15-minute videocassette provides simple information for patients
and families about the clinical trials process (produced in
collaboration with the American College of Surgeons Commission on
Cancer).
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT PAIN CONTROL: A GUIDE FOR
PEOPLE WITH CANCER AND THEIR FAMILIES. This booklet discusses
pain control using both medical and nonmedical methods. The
emphasis is on explanation, self-help, and patient participation.
This booklet is also available from the American Cancer Society.
[44 pages]
RADIATION THERAPY AND YOU: A GUIDE TO SELF-HELP DURING
TREATMENT. This booklet addresses concerns of patients receiving
forms of radiation therapy. Emphasis is on explanation and
self-help. [52 pages]
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TAKING TIME: SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH CANCER AND THE PEOPLE
WHO CARE ABOUT THEM. This sensitively written booklet for
persons with cancer and their families addresses the feelings and
concerns of others in similar situations and how they have coped.
[68 pages]
WHAT ARE CLINICAL TRIALS ALL ABOUT? This booklet is
designed for patients who are considering taking part in research
for new cancer treatments. It explains clinical trials to
patients in easy-to-understand terms and gives them information
that will help them decide about participating. [24 pages]
WHEN CANCER RECURS: MEETING THE CHALLENGE AGAIN. This
booklet details the different types of recurrence, types of
treatment, and coping with cancer's return. [28 pages]
BREAST CANCER EDUCATION SERIES
BREAST BIOPSY: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW. This booklet
discusses biopsy procedures. It describes what to expect in
the hospital and while awaiting a diagnosis. [16 pages]
BREAST CANCER: UNDERSTANDING TREATMENT OPTIONS. This
booklet summarizes the biopsy procedure and examines the
pros and cons of various types of breast surgery. It
discusses lumpectomy and radiation therapy as primary
treatment, adjuvant therapy, and the process of making
treatment decisions. [19 pages]
MASTECTOMY: A TREATMENT FOR BREAST CANCER. This booklet
presents information about the different types of breast
surgery. It explains what to expect in the hospital and
during the recovery period following breast cancer surgery.
Breast self-examination for mastectomy patients is also
described. [25 pages]
AFTER BREAST CANCER: A GUIDE TO FOLLOWUP CARE. This
booklet is for the woman who has completed treatment. It
explains the importance of checking for possible signs of
recurring cancer by receiving regular mammograms, getting
breast exams from a doctor, and continuing monthly breast
self-exams. It offers advice for managing the physical and
emotional side effects that may accompany surviving breast
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cancer. [15 pages]
PEDIATRIC CANCER EDUCATION SERIES
HELP YOURSELF: TIPS FOR TEENAGERS WITH CANCER. This
magazine-style booklet is designed to provide information
and support to adolescents with cancer. Issues addressed
include reactions to diagnosis, relationships with family
and friends, school attendance, and body image. [37 pages]
HOSPITAL DAYS, TREATMENT WAYS. This hematology-oncology
coloring book helps orient the child with cancer to hospital
and treatment procedures. [26 pages]
MANAGING YOUR CHILD'S EATING PROBLEMS DURING CANCER
TREATMENT. This booklet contains information about the
importance of nutrition, the side effects of cancer and its
treatment, ways to encourage a child to eat, and special
diets. [32 pages]
TALKING WITH YOUR CHILD ABOUT CANCER. This booklet is
designed for the parent whose child has been diagnosed with
cancer. It addresses the health-related concerns of young
people of different ages; it suggests ways to discuss
disease-related issues with the child. [16 pages]
WHEN SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY HAS CANCER. This booklet is
written for young people whose parent or sibling has cancer.
It includes sections on the disease, its treatment, and
emotional concerns. [28 pages]
YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CANCER: A HANDBOOK FOR PARENTS.
This booklet discusses the most common types of childhood
cancer, treatments and side effects, and issues that may
arise when a child is diagnosed with cancer. Offers medical
information and practical tips gathered from the experience
of others. [86 pages]
SPANISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
Si desea hablar con un especialista en informacion sobre el
cancer, por favor llame al 1-800-422-6237 (1-800-4-CANCER).
CANCER PREVENTION
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A TIME OF CHANGE/DE NINA A MUJER. This bilingual fotonovela
was developed specifically for young women. It discusses
various health promotion issues such as nutrition, no
smoking, exercise, and pelvic, Pap, and breast examinations.
[34 pages]
DATOS SOBRE EL HABITO DE FUMAR Y RECOMENDACIONES PARA DEJAR
DE FUMAR. This bilingual pamphlet describes the health
risks of smoking and tips on how to quit and how to stay
quit. [8 pages]
GUIA PARA DEJAR DE FUMAR. This booklet is a full-color,
self-help smoking cessation booklet prepared specifically
for Spanish-speaking Americans. It was developed by the
University of California, San Francisco, under an NCI
research grant. [36 pages]
EARLY DETECTION
HAGASE LA PRUEBA PAP: HAGALO HOY...POR SU SALUD Y SU
FAMILIA. This bilingual brochure tells women why it is
important to get a Pap test. It gives brief, clear
information about who needs a Pap test, where to go to get
one, and how often the Pap test should be done.
HAGASE UN MAMOGRAMA: UNA VEZ AL ANO...PARA TODA UNA VIDA.
This bilingual brochure describes the importance of
mammograms in the early detection of breast cancer. It
gives brief information about who is at risk for breast
cancer, how a mammogram is done, and how to get one.
LA PRUEBA PAP: UN METODO PARA DIAGNOSTICAR CANCER DEL CUELLO
DEL UTERO. This booklet in Spanish answers questions about
the Pap test, including how often it should be done,
significance of results, and other diagnostic tests and
treatments. [16 pages]
LO QUE USTED DEBE SABER SOBRE LOS EXAMENES DE LOS SENOS.
This booklet in Spanish explains the importance of the three
actions recommended by the NCI to detect breast cancer as
early as possible: requesting regular mammography, getting
an annual breast exam from the doctor, and performing a
monthly breast self-exam. [6 pages]
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PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS SOBRE LA SELECCION DE UN CENTRO DE
MAMOGRAFIA. This brochure lists questions and answers to
ask in selecting a quality mammography facility.
PATIENT EDUCATION
ANTICANCER DRUG INFORMATION SHEETS IN SPANISH/ENGLISH. Two-
sided fact sheets (in English and Spanish) provide
information about side effects of common drugs used to treat
cancer, their proper usage, and precautions for patients.
The fact sheets were prepared by the United States
Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc., for distribution by the
National Cancer Institute. Single sets only may be ordered.
DATOS SOBRE EL TRATAMIENTO DE QUIMIOTERAPIA CONTRA EL
CANCER. This flyer in Spanish provides a brief introduction
to cancer chemotherapy. [12 pages]
EL TRATAMIENTO DE RADIOTERAPIA: GUIA PARA EL PACIENTE
DURANTE EL TRATAMIENTO. This booklet in Spanish addresses
the concerns of patients receiving radiation therapy for
cancer. Emphasis is on explanation and self-help. [48
pages]
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AIDS News Summaries
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AIDS Daily Summary for April 19 to April 23, 1993
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National AIDS
Clearinghouse makes available the following information as a public service
only. Providing this information does not constitute endorsement by the CDC,
the CDC Clearinghouse, or any other organization. Reproduction of this text
is encouraged; however, copies may not be sold. Copyright 1993, Information,
Inc., Bethesda, MD
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April 19, 1993
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"Absence of HIV Transmission From an Infected Orthopedic Surgeon" Journal of
the American Medical Association (04/14/93) Vol. 269, No. 14, P. 1807 (von
Reyn, C. Fordham)
The risk of HIV transmission from an HIV-positive surgeon to patient is
extremely low, provided that the surgeon strictly adheres to universal
infection control procedures, write C. Fordham von Reyn et al. of the
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. The researchers contacted
2,317 former patients on whom an HIV-positive orthopedic surgeon performed
invasive procedures between January 1, 1978 and June 30, 1992. The
orthopedic surgeon voluntarily withdrew from practice after testing positive
for HIV. A total of 1,174 former patients underwent HIV testing,
representing 50.7 percent of patients on whom the orthopedic surgeon
performed invasive procedures during the 13.5-year period. Patients were
tested from each year and from each category of invasive procedure. All
patients were found to be negative for HIV by enzyme-linked-immunosorbent
assay. Two former patients reported known HIV infection prior to surgery.
The examination of AIDS case registries and vital records neglected to detect
cases of HIV infection among former surgical patients. The estimated cost of
the initial patient notification and testing was $158,000, with the single
most expensive activity being counseling and testing. This accounted for 37
percent of the total expense. The patient notification and testing were
conducted while maintaining the confidentiality of the orthopedic surgeon who
was an active participant in the planning and execution of the study.
Notifying patients of the infected surgeon's HIV-status is both disruptive
and expensive and is not routinely recommended, the researchers conclude. \
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"Investigation of Potential HIV Transmission to the Patients of an HIV-
Infected Surgeon" Journal of the American Medical Association (04/14/93) Vol.
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269, No. 14, P. 1795 (Smith Rogers, Audrey et al.)
The risk of HIV transmission during surgery is so remote that it will be
quantified only by gathering data from multiple, methodologically similar
investigations, writes Audrey Smith Rogers et al. of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. The researchers identified a
total of 1,131 persons in hospital databases who underwent invasive surgical
procedures between 1984 and 1990 and for whom the HIV-positive surgeon was
listed as the operating surgeon. The AIDS case registries were reviewed for
all patients having undergone invasive procedures and death certificates were
obtained. Among the 1,131 patients, 101 were dead, 119 had no address, 413
had test results known, and 498 did not respond to the questionnaire. No
study patient name was found in reported AIDS case registries. One newly
detected, HIV-positive patient was determined to have been most probably
infected in 1985 during a transfusion. There was no HIV transmission in 369
person-hours of surgical exposure, suggesting that HIV transmission to
patients is unlikely to occur more frequently than once per 1000 person-hours
of surgical exposure. The researchers determined there is no evidence to
suggest that the surgeon failed to adhere to standard infection-control
guidelines; over 50 percent of the patients with invasive procedures chose to
be tested, and of those whose results were revealed, only one person was
found to be infected with HIV. The study patient's infection was probably
the result of a tainted blood transfusion received in 1985. As a result,
there is no evidence that the transmission of HIV from the HIV-positive
surgeon to any patient transpired, the researchers conclude.
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April 20, 1993
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"Drug Concerns to Share AIDS Data" New York Times (04/20/93), P. C10
(Kolata, Gina)
A total of 15 major pharmaceutical companies have decided, in a highly
unusual move, to share AIDS drugs and information while the drugs are
undergoing early clinical testing. Dr. Edward Scolnick, president of the
Merck Research Laboratory in Rahway, N.J., arranged the collaboration. He
said that cooperation between companies seemed increasingly significant as it
had become clear that combinations of drugs were likely to be more effective
in fighting HIV than any drug used alone. The researchers are hopeful that
HIV, when faced with a combination of several drugs requiring mutation at
different sites for resistance to develop, will be unable to evolve all the
mutations at the same time. Therefore, several drugs taken together or one
after the other could halt the spread of HIV. Currently, the drug companies
do not know what other drugs their competitors are developing. The new
agreement allows companies to routinely exchange animal data and safety data
on new AIDS drugs. "An agreement like this will greatly facilitate
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companies' ability to choose the best drug combinations much faster and in a
much more efficient way," said Scolnick. He also said that the
collaboration would not violate antitrust laws. In creating the agreement,
Merck spoke frequently to members of AIDS advocacy groups, including ACT-UP.
Dr. Daniel Hoth, director of the division on AIDS at the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Disease said, "We're delighted to see the
pharmaceutical industry take this step because we think that increasing the
information flow will likely accelerate the discovery of better compounds for
AIDS." Related Stories: Wall Street Journal (04/20) P. B1; Philadelphia
Inquirer (04/20) P. A3; USA Today (04/20) P. 1B
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"The Next Step in AIDS Treatment" Nature (04/08/93) Vol. 362, No. 6420, P. 493
(Maddox, John)
Although AZT was found to be ineffective in prolonging the lives of
people infected with HIV, the findings do not indicate that AZT should not be
administered in people with full-blown AIDS, writes columnist John Maddox.
AZT has been used in the United States in asymptomatic HIV-positive people on
the basis that administration of the drug appeared to abate the decline of
T-cell counts. However, a report in the Lancet demonstrated that AZT should
not be used early in the course of disease. While the CD4 counts of the 877
people given AZT were consistently greater than those of patients receiving
only placebo, the first three years of follow-up have shown that the
proportions of people in the two groups progressing to overt AIDS or even to
death were not significantly different at roughly 18 percent. The
conclusions are that AZT is not an effective AIDS drug in HIV-infected
individuals, and that CD4 cell count may not be a reliable proxy for the
progression to AIDS in infected people. But nothing is implied by the study
of the utility of AZT in the treatment of those in whom symptoms have already
appeared--there is no case for abandoning that treatment, at least on the
evidence now available. It is much more alarming that the CD4 count has
proven to be an unreliable mark of the efficacy of drug treatment in HIV
infection. AIDS researchers should acknowledge HIV is alive from the
beginning of infection and turn it into a workable assay of the progress of
disease. The general application of such an assay will probably in itself
provide a better understanding of the pathogenesis of AIDS, concludes
Maddox.
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"Infective and Anti-Infective Properties of Breastmilk From HIV-1-Infected
Women" Lancet (04/10/93) Vol. 341, No. 8850, P. 914 (Van de Perre, Philippe
et al.)
A vaccine preparation inducing a persistent immune response of the IgM
type in the mother's body fluids could be valuable to prevent transmission of
HIV-1 from mother to child, write Philippe Van de Perre et al. of the
HICNet Medical Newsletter Page 40
Volume 6, Number 11 April 25, 1993
National AIDS Control Program in Kigali, Rwanda. The researchers hypothesized
that transmission of HIV-1 through breastmilk could be favored by the
presence of infected cells, by deficiency of anti-infective substances in
breastmilk, or both factors. A total of 215 HIV-1-infected women were
enrolled at delivery in Kigali, Rwanda; milk samples were collected 15 days, 6
months, and 18 months post partum. HIV-1 IgG, secretory IgA, and IgM were
assayed by western blot, for the latter two after removal of IgG with
protein G. In the 15-day and 6-month samples, the researchers sought viral
genome in milk cells by double polymerase chain reaction with three sets of
primers (gag, pol, and env). At 15 days, 6 months, and 18 months post
partum, HIV-1 specific IgG was detected in 95 percent, 98 percent, and 97
percent of breastmilk samples; IgA in 23 percent, 28 percent, and 41 percent;
and IgM in 66 percent, 78 percent, and 41 percent. In children who survived
longer than 18 months the risk of infection was associated with lack of
persistence of IgM and IgA in their mothers' milk. The presence of HIV-1-
infected cells in the milk 15 days post partum was strongly predictive of
HIV-1 infection in the child by both univariate and multivariate analysis.
The combination of HIV-1 infected cells in breastmilk and a defective IgM
response was the strongest predictor of infection. IgM and IgA anti-HIV-1 in
breastmilk may protect against postnatal transmission of HIV, the researchers
conclude.
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April 21, 1993
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"Firms to Share AIDS Research in Global Venture" Journal of Commerce
(04/21/93), P. 7A
A total of fifteen U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies announced
Tuesday they will swap drug supplies and information on early-stage AIDS
research to hasten the search for combination therapies to fight HIV
infection and AIDS. The companies said the unusual move resulted primarily
from the increasing concentration of AIDS research on combination therapies
since realizing that HIV is likely to develop resistance to every individual
AIDS drug. Edward Scolnick, president of Merck & Co. Research Laboratories,
led the collaborative effort that took a year of negotiations to come
together, said participants. In addition to Merck, the other companies
involved in the Inter-Company Collaboration for AIDS Drug Development are
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Burroughs Wellcome, Glaxo Inc., Hoffman-La Roche,
Eli Lilly & Co., Pfizer Inc., Smithkline Beecham, AB Astra, Du Pont Merck,
Syntex Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim, Miles Inc., and Sigma-Tau. The
participants said that all companies involved in AIDS drug development they
were aware of had joined the collaboration, and that any company actively
involved in HIV anti-viral development may participate. Scolnick said the
collaborators would most likely meet every couple of months for a daylong
scientific meeting where they will review for one another their preclinical
HICNet Medical Newsletter Page 41
Volume 6, Number 11 April 25, 1993
and early clinical data. The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
was pleased with the news of the collaboration, which it hopes will lead to
the development of drug combinations that will reduce viral resistance.
Related Story: Financial Times (04/21) P. 1
==================================================================
"Guidance Over HIV-Infected Health-Care Workers" Lancet (04/10/93) Vol. 341,
No. 8850, P. 952 (Horton, Richard)
The United Kingdom's Department of Health recently followed the advice
of AIDS experts that there is no scientific reason for routine HIV testing
among health-care workers. Following recent highly publicized reports of
health professionals who contracted HIV, the department issued revised
guidelines on the management of such cases. Dr. Kenneth Calman, Chief
Medical Officer, said doctors, dentists, nurses, and other health-care
workers have an ethical duty to seek advice if they have been exposed to HIV
infection, including, if appropriate, diagnostic HIV testing. He said,
"Infected health care workers should not perform invasive procedures that
carry even a remote risk of exposing patients to the virus." The guidelines
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I heard a great Civil War story... A guy on the battlfield is shot
in the groin, the bullet continues on it's path, and lodges in the
abdomen of a female spectator. Lo and behold....
As the legend goes, both parents survived, married, and raised the child.
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My last response in this thread fell into a bit-bucket and vanished
(though appearing locally). I'll repost it, since I always feel
slighted when someone appears to ignore one of my postings in a
conversational thread, I don't want Rob to think I'm doing so. Since
this is now dated, however, don't feel compelled to respond...
I suspect you meant this in context of the Jewish tradition you have
been referring to; one problem with a highly-interpreted tradition
like this is what happens when a schism occurs, and over time certain
large and influential branches of the heretical group come to favor
exactly a "face value" interpretation...
While the context of the time is important, value judgments must
ultimately be according to current understanding, or at least to some
base standard (relative stability/success of a society, e.g.). This
is obviously true in comparing it to practices of surrounding people,
for instance: according to the Bible, the surrounding people were
immoral savages with repulsive and inhuman habits. We need to look
rather at what those peoples were *really* like. For instance, in
what way is it better to worship a single god whose presence is
symbolically strongest in a tent or temple over multiple gods some of
whose presence is symbolically represented in a statue? By the
Bible's own terms idolatry is inherently evil, but I see no evidence
that the followers of the various other religions of the area and time
were particularly bad people, relative to the people in the Bible.
Sounds good, but it presupposes teeth-rending neighbors, which I see
no support for. One can argue that post-facto assertion of inhumane
neighbors can be used to make moral points, but that doesn't mean that
the actual neighbors really were inhuman. More to the point, such
dehumanization of the people across the river or over the mountain, or
even of a different people dwelling among us, is all too common.
Note that I'm speaking of historical interpretation here, for instance
claiming that Hammurabi's "an eye for an eye" was primitive brutal
retribution, while Moses' version was an enlightened benign fine
(because the tradition has since interpreted the phrase that way). As
of 3000 years ago or so, they probably both meant the same thing.
I don't belittle the accomplishments, particularly the intellectual
ones, of the Jewish people. I have given up on trying to think by
analogy, since I don't know of any other 'tribe' that is at all
similar (the closest I can think of are the Romany, but I don't know
enough about them to make a meaningful comparison). I think a
tradition of reflective study, of flexible rather than dogmatic
interpretation, is a good thing. I think that with such an attitude a
case could be made that you could have done as well starting with a
1943 Captain America comic (or whatever the Babylonian equivalent
would have been).
--
Jim Perry perry@dsinc.com Decision Support, Inc., Matthews NC
These are my opinions. For a nominal fee, they can be yours.
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re: extended Ka bands.
I recently bought a 2 band detector. You guys must all think I'm
nuts, right? Well, I did a little research into Ka usage in this
area and found out that Ka is not currently being used in this state
as well as surrounding states. Here's how I found out:
- A cop friend who did spend time nailing speeders doesn't even know
what Ka is. He's heard of K, which is what they use here and I
explained that Ka is used for photo radar etc.. He then said, yeah,
"Ka stands for K automatic"... duuhh. He then went on to say that
plans were being made for getting laser guns as far as going high
tech were concerned, but he didn't know too much.
- My 8 year old 2 band whistler was consistently going off at speed traps,
even the real sneaky ones.
- When I called the Escort Shop, they confirmed that Ka is not used here
or in surrounding states. They did claim that Laser was being used
a lot here, which I was quite skeptical of.
So in the end, instead of spending a lot of money and/or waiting
months for a state of the art detector, I got a low priced, high
performance 2 band Escort 2200. Incidentally its performance is equal
to their top of the line model in X and K band detection. I know that
Escort has been surpassed by other brands lately, but I've never fully
relied on a detector and I was convinced that the Escorts would be at
least quite good, which was good enough for me and my wallet.
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The 9144w4 is the date code but none of my books list a W03563.
What is it out of and can you tell us what kind of circuit it is in?
In the odd case that 9144w4 is not the date code, NTE says a 9144-60
is an AM reciever subsystem and a 9144-61 is an FM subsystem, but these
are both in 16 pin packages.
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same here
I received similar information/advice about what appears to be the same problem
Benjamin has (and I still have).
NIS has all the information about the Macs
(I even put explicit entries in /etc/hosts to no avail).
Monitoring with 'snoop' on my Classic, the initial REXEC packet is sent to
the the SUN, which sends something to the correct Mac, but nothing appears
at the Mac.
'rexecd' is number one suspect, but it's more suble than the README suggests and
I haven't yet looked into it further.
--
callum.downie@brunel.ac.uk
Faculty of Technology, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK
+44 895 274000 x2730
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Subject: RE: Europe vs. Muslim Bosnians
From: f54oguocha
Date: 13 MAY 93 02:28:53 GMT
Serbs.
1929).
Islam
not
who
Croats?
has
childhood was
You've asked a crucial question that underlies much of the genocide.
Bosnian Muslims are slavic in ethnicity. They speak Serbo-Croatian. But
there is a Christo-Slavic ideology whereby all true slavs are Christian
and anyone who converted to Islam thereby must have changed ethnicity by
changing religion. See the poems of Ngegos or the novels of Ivo Andric
who brilliantly displays these attitudes on the part of what he calls
"the people" (i.e. Christian slavs). For this reason, the war-criminals
call all the Bosnian Muslims "Turks" even though they are not ethnically
Turk and do not speak Turkish as their first language. For this reason,
what is actually a genocide labeled against those who are ethnically
identical but religiously "other" is called, paradoxically, "ethnic
cleansing" rather than "religious cleansing."
Thus, while a war rages between Serbs and Croats as a continuation of
WWII, and older agenda, the annihilation of Islam and Muslims from
Bosnian, is being carried out under the cover of the Serbo-Croat war.
Regards,
Mike.
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Have any of you read Harold Camping's book "1994?"? It's about
biblical evidenc that points to September of 1994 as the probable time
of Christ's second coming It's a very informative book and a must read
for all Christians. You can get i at your local bookstore for only
$14.95.
Peace!
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I have some color gifs which I would like to archive in a much smaller
size using a grayscale palette of 16 shades. The quantization to 16 grays
introduces some ugly bands in the pictures, which can be nicely eliminated
by dithering. Up to now I have used XV to process the images, but now I
would like to automate the procedure.
The problem is that XV can't (I think) convert images automatically, and the
obvious alternative PNMPLUS (PPMQUANT and PNMDITHER) don't even get close to
XV's quality. PNMDITHER apparently dithers in RGB, even though the images
are in grayscale. The dithering routine in XV seems to use the natural image
colors for the dither. Is this or any similar routine available in the
public domain? If so, where?
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On the other hand, remember the old adage that a verbal agreement isn't worth
the paper it's printed on. Once you sign, you are going to have one hell of a
time proving fraud based on a comparison to what you thought you were going to
sign ...
Being in the right is one thing, proving it is another.
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I thumbed through the Janus Report in a bookstore recently looking
for a clue about their methodology. They were very unclear about
it, but as far as I could tell they relied on their professional
associates in the psychotherapy profession to provide the subjects,
interviews, and numbers. If so, this would hardly represent an
average cross-section. I posted to Usenet at the time asking for
more data about their methodology but answer came there none. (I
must have been out of my mind for even asking for factual information
on Usenet!)
This is the problem. People have to have a lot of confidence in
the anonymity of a study before they can counted on to speak
freely about stuff like that. But I agree that if someone's
going to lie it will be in the direction of a gay person claiming
to be straight rather than the other way around.
I don't see why there's any more evidence for this figure than any
other. It seems totally arbitrary.
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The above conveniently ignores the murder of four BATF agents by the
Branch Davidians in an unprovoked ambush.
Any government that allows tinpot dictators to set up shop and declare
a private state has drifted into anarchy. There are laws to control
the ownership of guns and the BATF had good reason to beleive that
they were being violated. They set out to obtain a legal warrant and
attempted to serve it only to be met with gunfire when they rang
the doorbell.
The paranoid assertion that the BATF fired first in an unprovoked
assault assumes that the BATF were on a death wish. Had they
expected the B-D to be anything other than peacefull citizens who
would accept a search authorized by a court they would have turned up
in a tank and broken the door down on day one.
The stupidity was the attempt to serve a warant on the place by
ludicrously underarmed and unprotected police.
If anyone on the net cares to suggest a sure fire method of bringing
the murderes of four police officers to justice perhaps we could
hear it.
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NOTE: followups to comp.dcom.modems (for obvious reasons)
the Courier is their top-of-the-line product, thus the higher price. I've
never taken a real look at the Sportster line (only Couriers), but from what
I've gathered, it's basically more of an entry-level modem. probably
doesn't meet the same specifications that the Courier does. I'm not sure
if the Sportster line is fully DSP driven like the (more recent) Courier
modems are, so upgrades in the future may be an issue.
again, take all of the above with a grain of salt...I've never evaluated
the Sportster, so I'm going by bits and pieces that I've heard. if you
want a real answer, post the question in comp.dcom.modems and you'll find
people who HAVE worked with the Sportster.
personally, though, if I were going to look at the Courier modems, I'd
buy the Dual Standard...then I'd get both HST and V.32bis. in fact, this
is exactly what I did. :-) I'm sitting here looking at my USR DS right
now.
and now, to correct a few VERY incorrect statements.... folks, if you want
to get reliable answers to modem and/or UART questions, post them to
comp.dcom.modems. if you post in other groups, you never know what you'll
get in the way of an answer (you may very well get a good answer...or you
may get something like the one below). at least in cdm, if someone posts
complete and utter bs, you'll see a flurry of folks correcting them (to
avoid spreading faulty info).
just as it does at lower speeds, too. there is absolutely nothing in
either CCITT Recommendation V.42 or V.42bis that says that they can only
operate on modems that are running V.32bis. V.42bis, of course, is
currently only *STANDARDIZED* for operation on top of V.42 (in its primary
mode of operation, LAPM), but that's about as far as that goes.
and just in case there's some confusion on this, V.42/V.42bis are also
supported by the Courier line (unless you have a really ancient one).
take a second look at the original question:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
see the V.32bis up there? the question was not about the Courier HST
modem, or about the Courier Dual Standard...it was about the Courier
V.32bis modem. the modem in question does not support HST, period. it
therefore does not support the 16.8 kb HST.
also, not all Courier HST / Courier Dual Standard modems support the 16.8 kb
version of HST. my Dual Standard only supports HST at 14.4 kb. there are
even older models that only run HST at 9.6 kb.
HST is USR's proprietary modulation scheme.... but we're not talking about
HST, we're talking about V.32bis. V.32bis is most definitely *NOT* a
proprietary modulation scheme.
I do hope you didn't mean for these two sentences to be related in some
way.....
first off, V.32 and V.32bis are both synchronous and asynchronous. this is
part of the CCITT Recommendation (i.e., part of the standard). it isn't a
feature unique to the Sportster (I just looked at the appropriate chapter
in the Courier DS manual).
second, HST is not ``one way only.'' more correctly put, it is an
asymmetrical modulation scheme, meaning it doesn't work at the same speed
in both directions. HST operates at [9.6 / 14.4 / 16.8] in one direction,
and has a low-speed back-channel in the other direction. the high-speed
channel goes in the direction of the higher data flow. this is fine if
you're logged on to say, a BBS, and type one letter and get screens of
info back, transfer files (not using bimodem), etc.... there is, of course,
a penalty for turnaround time when the high-speed channel needs to reverse
directions.
V.32 and V.32bis are both symmetrical, meaning they do transfer the full
data rate in both directions at the same time.
third, synchronous vs asynchronous has absolutely nothing to do with
symmetrical vs asymmetrical...they are two completely different topics.
again, more correctly put, *SOME* of the Courier line will be upgradeable
to whatever ``V.fast'' is called when it's complete. if you have the large
footprint Courier modems (like I do), you're S.O.L..... there was an
upgrade plan a while back to upgrade to a small footprint variety, which
could eventually be upgraded to support V.fast, but the cost of the two
upgrades together pretty much put it higher than just buying a new modem.
later.....
--jim
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My god, a sane person! Somebody asking intelligent questions rather
than spouting of unsubstantiated drivel and making comparisons to Nazi
Germany. I question, along with others, the initial raid by the ATF.
There are some definite questions needing answers.
Probably. Which is why there are so many people angry at the
initial confrontation. Why attack a compound with as many people in that
compound who are willing to die for their leader? Further, they attacked
in the daylight hours without proper backup, medical support, etc. That
was rather stupid...
This I doubt. While I question the ATF's initial raid, I believe
that the remainder of the standoff was handled fairly well with the single
exception of the psychological "warfare" by blaring music, etc. I think
that was uncalled for and probably hindered the outcome.
See above...
Agreed.
Which is actually rather refreshing nowadays. Most of the time, the
higher-ups claim "I don't remember..." or "I had no involvement..." :-)
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Actually, the situation is even worse than that. The *total mass* of the
Pluto Fast Flyby spacecraft is only 250ish pounds, and most of that is
support equipment like power and communications. The mass available for
instruments is maybe 10% of that. I don't think a BATSE will fit...
Actually, would you need the shielding? My understanding is that it's
mostly there to give the detectors some directionality. No point in
doing that if you've only got one. I'm sure the burst detectors that
have flown on other deep-space missions haven't weighed that much.
(Mind you, they're probably still too heavy -- the PFF people would put
more Pluto-specific instruments on first, if they had any mass to spare.)
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Kaufman,
I think we have a problem in this newsgroup: every time somebody puts
down serious questions on Israel, the first response would be "what about
the Arab countries?" ...
Most of the Arab countries governments are ruling their people with Iron
fist policy and Dark Ages democracy (if exists). Ironically, these are
the countries that the "West" would like to deal with and would wage
massive wars to protect them and their resources.
For Israel the situation is different, Israel claims it is a
democracy -- I would call it selective democracy, that abides by Western
democratic standards. If Israel is saying that then
it has to be compared to Western standards. If this comparison is the
advertized propaganda from Israel, then we have to look at seriously at
question that can and should be asked regarding any country advertizing
this standard.
That is very incorrect, I see you have been brain-washed well, I would
recommend non-Zionist history books).
Please, speak for yourself. Do not imagine that "everyone" subscribes to
your beliefs, you would be lucky if you believe them yourself.
What is this, you trying to destroy the credibility of the author, why?
all of this because he asked some serious question. These tactics of
destroying the credibility of a person beacuse you do not agree with
her/him is old and does not work anymore, go tell your superiors
(AIPAC?) to change their guide books.
Salam,
Eyad Nuweiri
Software Engineer
Unify Corp.
*** Disclaimer: This is my personal views, not of my employer ***
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It was unlikely, improbable. For the Bruins, it was the stuff of
nightmares; for the Sabres, it was a taste of heaven.
For the first time since 1983, the Sabres have won the first three
games of a series. Last time was a three games to none victory in a
best of five against the Canadiens. It takes a little more work this
time. The Sabres seem ready to put in the extra work.
On the heels of a shutout, one that took away Boston's home ice
advantage, the Sabres came back with a four to three overtime win. It
wasn't easy. It wasn't always pretty. It still worked.
John Blue got the nod for Boston, supplanting Andy Moog as starting
goaltender. Moog was pulled midway through game 2 on Tuesday.
Buffalo started with a goal by Mogilny, his fourth of the playoffs, on
the powerplay, with Boston's Don Sweeney and Gord Roberts in the box.
LaFontaine and Hawerchuk had the assists. Goal number two was
Khmylev's first of the playoffs, a pretty goal scored when the Sabres
stole the puck and passed to an open and waiting Khmylev. Smehlik and
Hannan assisted. Determined not to be shut out, Boston tallied on a
shot by Ray Bourque on the powerplay, with Colin Patterson and Bob
Sweeney both in the box. Period two was scoreless, a split of
penalties between the two clubs. The third saw Boston's Smolinski get
his first, courtesy of Oates. Buffalo resecured the lead two minutes
later, from former Bruin Bob Sweeney (Khmylev and Carney). Neely tied
the game 3/4 of the way through the third, sending it into overtime.
Last year overtime meant a Bruin win. Last night, it spelled sweet
revenge, as Buffalo scored with Ray Bourque in the penalty box, on a
tip in by Khmylev (Hawerchuk and LaFontaine) a minute into overtime.
Both teams finished with 34 shots.
Power-play conversions--Boston 5-1. Buffalo 7-2.
Referee--Rob Shick.
Comments: Shick pocketed the whistle in the third, allowing a lot of
clutching and grabbing. Buffalo's penalty killing unit was fantastic
again. Mogilny was checking. Granted he missed once and instead
flung his body into the boards, but checking like this is a novel idea
to Mogilny. The crowd was unbelievable. I don't think I've ever
heard a crowd that loud in the Aud for a Sabres game (remember, I was
only five when they played for the cup. I don't remember it and no
one took me to the games). Doug Bodger, in a postgame interview,
noted that he tried to say something to Hawerchuk, but the crowd was
too loud, even though he was shouting. It didn't seem to matter, as
most of the Sabres and even Muckler said it was great. Yuri Khmylev
didn't seem to realize that he was the game's third star and didn't
skate out when his name was called. Sweeney (2) and Fuhr (1) each
were out before Yuri made his appearance, sans jersey. When asked in
an interview later whether he knew how big a goal that was, he
responed yes (ok, it was through an interpreter and he said more than
that, even more than the interpreter said, but I digress). The
interviewer seemed to think just because he doesn't speak English, he
must not understand playoffs. Uh-huh.
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[I'm going to cut "Rex"'s ramblings down a bit.]
[...]
Rex, there are literally hundreds of thousands of 32nd degree
Masons in this country, and thousands of 33rds. If nasty stuff was
really going on, don't you think you'd have more than a couple of
disgruntled members "exposing" it? Heck, if what you say is true, then
Rev. Norman Vincent Peale is an Osiris worshiper.
[...
Long quote from someone named Hislop (source not given) deleted. I'm
attempting to extract from it the relevent points:
* Osiris is actually Nimrod, a Babylonian Deity.
* "It is admitted that the secret system of Free Masonry was originally
founded on the Mysteries of the Egyptian Isis, the goddess-mother, or
wife of Osiris."
* The Babylonian Nimrod and Osiris are both connected with the building
trade, ie, with Masonry.
* Nimrod, as the son of Cush, was a negro. [isn't this refering to a
Biblical Nimrod, rather than the Babylonian god?]
* ...there was a tradition in Egypt, recorded by Plutarch, that 'Osiris
was black'.
...]
There is a long tradition in Masonry of claiming ancient lineage
for the order, on the flimsiest of grounds. This dates right back to
the Constitutions of 1738, which cite Adam as the first Mason. I've
seen other claims which place Masonry among the Romans, Greeks, and
Egyptians, and Atlanteans. I even have a book which claims to prove
that Stonehenge was originally a Masonic temple.
Claims prove nothing. Where's the beef, Rex?
[...Claims ex-Mason showed him leopard skin he wore in lodge]
I'd have to check this. The tomb paintings I remember don't show
this.
Can you give ancient citations for this? The druids were suppressed
over 2000 years ago. What's your point?
This whole "leopard skin" business sounds bizarre. I have not yet
gone through the Scottish Rite (which contains all of those "higher
degrees" anti-Masons get so excited about, and which was invented in
the 1750's), but I know enough people who have (and who are good
Christians), that I reject your claim.
Not so much a 'slap in the face' as 'a weary feeling of deja vu'. I'm
going through a very similar argument over on soc.culture.african.american.
Why don't you try reading some serious books on Masonic history, such
as Hamill's "The Craft"?
Because we got honest. If you can come up with actual evidence that
Masonry existed prior to 1390, I'd be VERY impressed (actually,
anything earlier than 1630 would be pretty good.)
Peter Trei
ptrei@mitre.org
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: >the Single Launch Core Station concept. A Shuttle external tank and solid
: >rocket boosters would be used to launch the station into orbit. Shuttle
: >main engines would be mounted to the tail of the station module for launch
: >and jettisoned after ET separation.
Karl Dishaw (0004244402@mcimail.com) replied:
: Why jettison the SSMEs? Why not hold on to them and have a shuttle
: bring them down to use as spares?
One performance reason comes to mind: if you jettison the SSME's, you
don't have to drag them with you when you perform your circularization
burn(s). On-orbit, SSME's are just dead weight, since we don't have an
SSME H2/O2 pressurization mechanism which works in zero-G. This means
that you can't use them for re-boost or anything else. Dead weight has
a couple of advantages, but more disadvantages.
Throw-away SSME's might let us use some of the old SSME's which are not-
quite-man-ratable. But I doubt we'd do that; the cost of a launch
failure is too high.
-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368
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I am running windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. The sound card I have
is the ATI Stereo F/X-CD sound card which claims Adlib and Soundblaster
compatibility.
Using Windows MediaPlayer, I can play the midi files that came with
my sound card. However, I can't play any of the midi files that belong
to the WinJammer midi editor that I ftp'd from cica. I also can't
play any midi files I generate with muzika (also from cica). When I
try to play the files, a dialog box pops up saying that the music
may not play right, and it has a checkbox asking me if i wish to disable
this message in the future.
Is this normal, or do I have something set wrong? I would really like
to be able to write music on muzika and have my computer play it.
I also ftp'd the game dare2dream for windows (from cica) and its music
won't play either - I get the same dialog box.
The MIDI Mappers that I have are ATI Ext MIDI, ATI OPL3 MIDI, and Vanilla.
I have tried using all three.
Any help, suggestions, shoulders to cry on, etc. would be appreciated
very much.
John P.
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Oh my, a REAL honest-to-goodness flamewar fired up here..... and it even has
some relevance to motorcycling. Amazing.
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Actually, the iAPX86 family has a HALT instruction that causes the CPU to
cease processing instructions. The CPU resumes processing either by being
reset or by receiving an external (hardware) interrupt. This is different
from the power management facilities Victor mentions. Of course, whether an
operating system's idle loop uses the HALT instruction is another matter
entirely.
--
Kenneth R. Ballou VOICE: (617) 494-0990
Oberon Software, Inc. FAX: (617) 494-0414
One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 Internet: ballou@oberon.com
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Cross-posted to talk.politics.guns from can.politics:
# >been to Waco, Texas lately? yes, the government takes care of us
# >all, doesn't it? as long as you belong to a government-sanctioned
# >religion.
#
# Excuse me, but didn't these gun-ladden cult members threaten, shoot and kill
# some people?
They threatened no one. Their neighbours thought they were a little
strange but all in all the kind of people you would want to live
next door to.
One version has the BATF serving a *search* warrant by jumping out
of a horse trailer with guns and tossing concussion grenades. If
this is the true order of events then the 'cult' could not know
that a search warrant was being served and since there was no proof
that these guys were police, the 'cult' had every right to defend
themselves.
: Torching themselves shows briliant tactics, and convinces me
: they *realy* belong in society ...
If you watch actual footage of the fire from start to finish it
is not at all clear that fire wasn't started by the tanks. The
people who survived are claiming that the fire was started by
the tanks knocking over some kerosene lanterns. The FBI is
claiming that the 'cult' started the fire.
'they *realy* belong in society' is a catchy phrase but
I'm personally waiting to see what the Texas Rangers have to say
about it all before I pass judgment. Why don't you do the same.
Some more interesting facts about the Waco incident:
1) The original assault was conducted by BATF officers wearing
an assorted types of camouflage. I saw, on CNN, at least
three different types. I would be hard pressed to identify
a bunch of guys in 'bring-your-own' battle fatigues as
uniformed officers of the law even if they were claiming to
be police.
2) The BATF has been lying from the beginning:
+ "We only had handguns" - the original footage showed 4 BATF
officers on a roof top getting shot at, one had an MP-5
assault sub-machine gun.
+ "We were out gunned" - sub-machine guns and shotguns are the
BEST in quarters weapon, you can't be out gunned when you
have the best guns available for the job.
+ "We didn't know they had guns that would shoot through doors!" -
this one is the best, there are very few guns that won't shoot
through a household door, or through a house WALL for that
matter. Since officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
*Firearms* should know that, they are either lying or incredibly
incompetent. Not to mention criminally negligent if they are
shooting bullets that they think will stop when the encounter
plywood.
+ "We had a search warrant. Actually, we had an arrest warrant.
No, wait, we had both. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Oh, and they're child molesters too. And they make *drugs*.
Did we mention we think they have rocket launchers."
- The story from BATF and FBI spokespeople has changed daily
and their claims were getting increasingly outrageous.
3) Throughout the siege the FBI and BATF have be claiming that one
of their biggest concerns was that Koresh and his followers would
mass suicide. Now they are claiming that that's what he did
AND that they are surprised that he did. Huh?
All in all I think that anything the FBI and BATF say should be
taken with a grain or two of salt.
Rob.
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I am willing to pay a reasonable amount for AIRLINE CERTIFICATE/VOUCHER,
AM LOOKING FOR:
1) CERTIFICATE/VOUCHER THAT IS VALID FOR A ROUND-TRIP
TICKET (COAST TO COAST OR ANYWHERE IN US)
2) TRANSFERRABLE TO MY NAME
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Monday, April 12, 1993
Kamloops 4 @ Spokane 1 (Kamloops wins 3-0)
***
Western Final Matchup
Kamloops @ Portland
***
Tuesday, April 13, 1993
No games necessary.
Wednesday, April 14, 1993
No games necessary.
Thursday, April 15, 1993
No games scheduled.
Friday, April 16, 1993
Regina 2 @ Swift Current 7 (Series: 0-1)
Kamloops 3 @ Portland 6 (Series: 0-1)
Saturday, April 17, 1993
Kamloops 4 @ Portland 8 (Series: 0-2)
Sunday, April 18, 1993
Swift Current 5 @ Regina 2 (Series: 2-0)
WHL Playoff Scoring Leaders
April 18, 1993
Player GP G A Pts
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Jamie Black, Tacoma 7 7 15 22
Andy Schneider, Swift Current 8 7 13 20
Valeri Bure, Spokane 9 6 11 17
Allan Egeland, Tacoma 7 9 7 16
Dean McAmmond, Swift Current 8 9 6 15
Jason Krywulak, Swift Current 8 6 9 15
Cam Danyluk, Medicine Hat 10 9 5 14
Todd Holt, Swift Current 8 5 9 14
Tyler Wright, Swift Current 8 5 9 14
Mike Mathers, Kamloops 10 5 9 14
Jeff Friesen, Regina 11 5 9 14
Rick Girard, Swift Current 8 3 11 14
WHL Playoff Leading Goaltenders
April 18, 1993
(minimum 60 minutes)
Player MP GA SO GAA
-------------------------------------------------------
Scott Langkow, Portland 295 12 0 2.44
Milan Hnilicka, Swift Current 497 21 1 2.54
Trevor Robins, Brandon 258 11 0 2.56
Steve Passmore, Kamloops 341 16 1 2.82
Mark Dawkins, Red Deer 269 13 0 2.90
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Okay... here's some gripe"ing" (?griping?... whatever).
(I live in Santa Barbara... for reference... I think)
Okay, ABC showed the Kings/Flames... fine... YAWN.
ESPN (through a fortunate rainout of a baseball game) showed the
Red Wings/Toronto game... cool.
But I SWEAR that the advertisements all week long had said that
ESPN would show Pitt/NJ on Tuesday and Bos/Buff on Thursday.
I raced home from work early (4:30 Pacific) to catch the game, but
ALAS, it was the Boston/Buffalo game and then they promised that they would
show the Pitt/NJ game on Thursday. OVERNIGHT they changed their mind.
I didn't mind THAT MUCH. I watched the game (hockey is MUCH better
than NO hockey). During the game their were no video highlights from the
Patrick division. What the hell was going on? At least they should show
video highlights of the other games (especially the NYI/Caps game that was
so close). My father (lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky [Bumbf*ck, Egypt])
got to watch the Pens game on ESPN. I just don't get it.
The biggest problem is that Buffalo or Boston fans who didn't want
to see the Pittsburgh/New Jersey game 2, will turn on their TVs on Thursday
and see the Pittsburgh/New Jersey game 3 instead of the Buffalo/Boston game
3. At least, in my case, I just had to wait 2 more days to see my game.
If I were a big Boston or Buffalo fan and I missed the game on
Tuesday due to false advertising on the part of ESPN, I'd be mad as
hell.
Oh well... hopefully we'll get better coverage next year OR
SOMETHING.
Matt Coohill
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I know this has been asked a million time, but..
What was the ftp site carrying 30-40 .ZIPs of full POV "source" files,
including JACK.ZIP and KETTLE.ZIP? I've once been there but
unfortunately lost the address.
I'm in a little hurry with it, so please e-mail me at
jtheinon@kruuna.helsinki.fi. Thanks..
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Hello All!
I recently acquired a CD-ROM drive, a Mitsumi (mfg. Feb/93) [Hey, it
was free :-) ] I'm quite pleased with the performance, but it seems
to crash a lot when I use PLAYCD.EXE that came with it a DESQview 2.31 -
Thoughts? This mainly happens when my BBS is running in the background and
I load the program up.. If I load the program, it doesn't crash, and I start
the disk, stop the program and start the BBS its OK, but otherwise I have
big problems.. (IE, they can only be solved with a cold boot).
If -anybody- can mail me to help me, I would be eternally grateful
(unfortunately, my feed to this group is a little unreliable so I would appreciate
if you could mail, but by all means, post it too because I'm sure somebody else
would like to know...)
Cheers,
Wes
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What is the basis of the idea of hell being a place of eternal
suffering? If it is Biblical, please reference.
Here's my train of thought: If God is using the Earth to manufacture
heavenly beings, then it is logical that there would be a certain
yield, and a certain amount of waste. The yield goes to Heaven, and
the waste is burned (destroyed) in Hell. Why is it necessary to
punish the waste, rather than just destroy it?
Peace and joy,
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The IRQ and interface-select jumpers are pretty straightforward, but I
don't grok the settings of W10-W18 (also labelled A15 through A18).
Could somebody tell me which settings of these four jumpers correspond
to what I/O addresses?
The U-B PCNIC (also OEMed by IBM for a while) is the only Ethernet card I
know of that doesn't use I/O addresses. It only has interrupts and shared
memory. The jumpers you see control bits 15-18 in the base address of the
shared memory. I can't recall which is 1 and which 0, but that's easy
to determine with DEBUG.
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The "low radiation" claims one sees on monitors these days pertain to
allegedly harmful electromagnetic emissions, which does not necessarily have
anything to do wtih TEMPEST security.
(I think the alleged hazard is BS, but that's another topic.)
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The above explained propaganda which certainly has nothing to do with
the true facts is also today the main source of ASALA/SDPA/ARF terrorists'
illegal activities that still try to make money out of the bodies of
the innocent victims of the Turkish genocide.
The criminal acts of the x-Soviet Armenian Government come directly
under the scope of the Convention on Genocide adopted by the General
Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1948, containing the
following provisions:
The Contracting Parties, having considered the declaration made
by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution
95 (1) dated December 11, 1946, that genocide is a crime under
international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United
Nations and condemned by the civilized world;
Recognizing that in all periods of history genocide has inflicted
great losses on humanity; and
Being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such odious
scourge, international cooperation is required;
Members agree as hereinafter provided:
Article 1. The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether
committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under
international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Article 2. In the present Convention genocide means any of the
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or
in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
A) Killing member of the group;
B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole
or in part;
D) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
E) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group;
Article 3. The following acts shall be punishable:
a) Genocide
b) Conspiracy to commit genocide
c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide
d) Attempt to commit genocide.
Article 4. Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts
enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are
constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private
individuals.
Had the Convention on Genocide existed before the Armenian
massacres of the Turks and Kurds, it would probably have been
difficult for the x-Soviet Armenian Government and its responsibles
to start murdering of civilian, defenseless, faithful Ottoman
citizens, children and women, (GENOCIDE AND ATTEMPT TO GENOCIDE),
to make plans to exterminate, as they have done also to Urartus
and Jews, faithful Ottoman citizens (CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT GENOCIDE),
to incite Armenians to armed revolt against the legal authority
and to commit Genocide, (DIRECT AND PUBLIC INCITEMENT TO COMMIT
GENOCIDE).
Serdar Argic
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Exactly. Although this may be a dissapointing answer, there has to be an
interplay of the two. Personal Ethos and Societal Morality. A person's
self-generated/learned set of beliefs are usually expressed on a purely
mental/verbal level, and don't usually find expression in society except in an
impure (not in the sense of bad :) ) state. Sometimes this has to be so.
Also, what if one feels oneself to be part of more than one society, in a very
real sense? To use the obvious example, there is a political society, and a
racial society, and a gender society, and sometimes they do not always agree on
every issue...
Yes. Perhaps with an infamous "do what you want so long as it doesn't hurt
others?" The problem with this is that it is merely saying what you CAN do: it
is not a morality in that it doesn't propound any specifically preferred
behaviours.
I'll add a hearty "me two". However, one could just as well say just because
certain actions are moral does not make them legal: one still doesn't really
get an impression of which one is truly "right".
best regards,
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Yep, though my reasons for being relatively quiet are simple...last year
I woofed when we went up 3-1 on the Canucks...and look where it got me. :)
Domi got tossed in the 2nd with a high-sticking major. He had been
playing with Kris King and Stu Barnes...and it was this line that was
arguably the best in the first two games.
Definitely a good thing...every little cheer helps, Evan. :)
Good thing the net doesn't need a voice to operate...I won't have one
Sunday night when I get home, I hope. White noise here we come! ;)
One thing, I WILL say though...Vancouver can KEEP Steve Armitage and
John Garrett as a broadcast team...those two are BAD, especially when
you are spoiled by Don Wittman. (At least four or five times, Steve called
Barnes Selanne. Whoops! :)
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No, it is more because van drivers need a little support for driving
such underpowered pathetic and truly utilitarian vehicles. Me and
my '71 used to wave and be waved at all across the country between
NH and CO. Now that we live in So. Cal., though, I find you'd have
to damn near wave your arm off to keep up with all the van drivers!
This is truly vee-dub heaven.
peace,
Taffe
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Because much of the public aren't even aware of the NAMES of informative
publications. Look at the 'wealth' of material on the typical newsstand.
Unless the person is working in some kind of technical environment, with
the usual trade journals, all they ever see is the media (note: media
in this context is the popular media - TV, radio, daily newspapers, and
such publications as Time, Newsweek, and all that). And they all say
pretty much the same thing. I see most of them being in the range of
center-left to far Left, and generally supportive of pie-in-sky
we-will-take- care-of-you-think-for-you-cradle-to-grave. There seems
to be an air of arrogance that the individual is not capable of
understanding major issues so the media doesn't bother to inform them
(as with Clipper, for example) or tells the people how to interpret
events in others. What is lost sight of is that the people are not good
at understanding things because they are not TOLD accurate information
about them. It is a lot to expect of the people for them to be
clarirvoyant. For example, I would have been unaware of Clipper had
I not picked it up on USENET. How much of the population has USENET,
let alone Internet access?
For access to better publications, the person has to spend time digging.
Many folks, especially who work long hours, have families, etc., do not
have TIME to go digging, and many are not (yet) aware things are wrong,
so are not motivated to dig. Not saying its right, just saying that is
the way things are. People aren't upset about things when they aren't
TOLD. And the less than objective media is a major contributer to the
problem.
And then compound that with an attitude of arrogance in the civil service
(bureaucrats, politicians) that act as if the person without political
connections, or deep pockets (potential contributer) should have few if
any rights, being a resource to be used by those in control for their
polticial or financial gain. Some Law Enforcement agencies act as if
they regard the common person with a rather intense degree of contempt,
peons that are supposed to do what they are TOLD, and get very nasty
when someone questions them. The media pundits/editors, etc tend to
fall into those with privilege, and tend to not be upset by the current
state of affairs. The fellow in DC, who shot the swimmer in his Jacuzzi
for daring to swim in it, with an ILLEGALLY owned gun (violating the law
he pushed to be foisted on everyone else), ends up walking where a less
well-connected person would have been crucified. A typical example of
one standard for 'us', a much more restrictive standard for 'other folk'.
Perhaps I am not real eloquent in expressing this, but the solution
sure as hell is NOT to make it HARDER for people to find out what is
going on, or dismiss their concerns because one happens to be in a position
where one feels they are exempt or insulated. Such as that hypocrite of
a journalist in DC described above. One notices that these less-than
complimentary points about that double-standard was NOT covered in the
media. I feel the reason was it dovetailed with their political views
on the subject, and it involved a 'brother' journalist.
Isn't it time for our 'objective' media, the MAIN SOURCE of info for the
average person, to start being what they claim to be, instead of spin
doctors for the Statist elements?
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Germans are just more organised; you can't blitz all of Europe in a
matter of , what, 9 months, unless you're pretty organised. If we tried
that, there'd just be a whole bunch of tanks backed up at the border,
waiting for some jerk in the right lane trying to get over to make a
left turn.
"This, of course, caused Germany to invade Belgium. One of the important
lessons of history is that anything, including late afternoon
thundershowers, will cause Germany to invade Belgium."
--Dave Barry
Happy Motoring!
JMR
'93 SL2, blue-green
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Hi there,
I'm using POv-Ray on my IBM compatible at home, but I would like to
run some things at work on our VAX computer. I believe there is a version
of the source code for POV-ray that is VAX specific, but I'm not sure where
to find it (I've looked at the several sites where the IBMPC version of it
can be found). Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance,
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How come noone mentions Eric Hoffer when talking about
fanatic behavior anymore?
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There's also a program called ODYSSEY (MODEM directory on the Simtel
archives) that emulates MNP 4 and 5 (others, too, I think, but these were
what I was interested in). I was getting a lot of garbage when I called
one number, and MNP 4 cleared it up completely on my ordinary 2400 modem.
(Fortunately, the remote end had an MNP modem.)
I tried MNP 5, too, but it seemed to lock up the computer. Your mileage
may vary.
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I'm about to revise my resume and was wondering if I should put on there the
fact that I'm a Christian. Give me some input on what you think.
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That's one way to put it. Keeping the algorithm classified means that
disclosure of it falls under the rubric of "national security." Nothing like
federal marshalls to guard a monopoly...
Agreed, although this is still somewhat better than the status quo :).
Sounds like a job for the Free Software Foundation :)/2...
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>Bull shit. There is no reason in the world why we can't say that
>taking views analogous to the KKK's or some such organization is
>wrong. There is no reason why some morality may not be legislated. As
>it is we do not allow theft, or murder, or rape. Why should we allow
>hateful sppech whose only purpose is to stir anger and violence.
>Harry.
I think the answer to Mr. Mayamsky's question can be found in the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^(Mr. Mamaysky's)
first amendment to the US Constitution.
Amendment I (1791)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances.
Steve
I do not say that freedom of speech should be banned. Far from it.
I am merely suggesting that there are certain things which can be
universally agreed to be morally incorrect. There are not many such
things. But there are some. As an example:
(1) murder is morally incorrect
(2) the idea that one group of people is somehow racially inferior to
another is morally incorrect
etc.
The point is that any action which serves to promote a morally
incorrect action should be forbidden. This implies that no one has the
right to say that an innocent person should be murdered. Regardless of
freedom of speech, I may not stand on a street corner and advocate the
murder of innocent people. The reason for this is that murder is a
morally incorrect action.
In the same way, since bigotry is morally incorrect in the narrow
definition which we have given it, (2), I, nor any one else, has the
right to stand on a street corner and promote bigotry. Such an
enforcement does in no way deny any one their rights as guaranteed by
the first amendment. It merely ensures that no person may be the
target of an attempt to deny him a fundamental moral right, such as
the right to not be murdered, and the right not to be discriminated
against.
I believe, Mr. Berson, that to blindly accept the constitution is a
terrific mistake. We must cinstantly question the constitution and
interpret it in a way befitting the society in which we live. Anything
short of such an effort would render us little more than trained
monkeys, who are able to merely repeat what they have heard without
paying the slightest bit of attention to the intent of the document in
question.
Would you disagree, Mr.Berson?
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Just in case the original poster was looking for a serious answer,
I'll supply one.
Yes, even when steering no hands you do something quite similar
to countersteering. Basically to turn left, you to a quick wiggle
of the bike to the right first, causing a counteracting lean to
occur to the left. It is a lot more difficult to do on a motorcycle
than a bicycle though, because of the extra weight. (Ok, so my
motorcycle is heavy. Maybe yous isn't.)
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Mike, Ring is the RED wire. Tip is the GREEN wire of most standard
phone lines. They two constitute the two wires most often used for
voice telephone (the two live lines). They are the two innermost
connectors of an RJ-11 phone jack.
Another way of telling is that if you measure voltage from RED to
GREEN (ring to tip. tip/green being at ground potential of the
voltmeter), it should read -48 volts in the on-hook no-ring position).
I am 98% sure it's -48 V and not +48 volts. Doesn't hurt a phone too
much if they're reversed, it's just bad if one happens to somehow get
grounded to earth ground elsewhere).
Additionally, when off-hook, the voltage drops to about -4 to -9 Volts
DC. I think it is supposed to correspond to a 36 to 40 mA current
loop. And lastly, when ringing, the two wires develop an AC potential
of about 80 V p-p at 20 to 30 Hz across them (where you get the
electromechanical old fashioned bell ringer from).
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I tried to send this as private mail, but mail to benj@ossa.hq.nasa.gov was
rejected, so here it is:
Here is an extract from the README file that comes with MacX:
Users of remote commands with Sun machines may find that their remote commands
appear to do nothing and there is no output from the Sun machine. This is due
to a feature of the Sun rexecd network daemon which quietly disconnects from
requesting machines that are not known to the Sun|s network address (/etc/hosts
or NIS hosts) database. To successfully use remote commands with a SunOS-based
machine, there must be an entry in the network address database for the
Macintosh which is running MacX.
--
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They do interpolate - it's not linear interpolation though. You are correct
that the frequency content is not altered (more specifically, the baseband
spectrum is preserved, and so is every Nth image spectrum. The other
(N-1) in N image spectra are removed, where N is the oversampling rate)
Ideally the filter has a gain of 1 from 0Hz to 22050Hz, and a gain of 0
from 22050 to the new Nyquist frequency. In practice a finite transition
band is required, and there is also a certain amount of pass-band ripple
and stop-band leakage. With a high order (eg 200 taps) digital filter,
a very good approximation can be easily achieved.
<<< BIT DELETED ABOUT OBSERVATIONS OF INTERPOLATION FILTER AT WORK >>>
No, they actually use a digital FIR just like yours, but built in hardware,
on custom VLSI chips for (mainly) economic reasons.
I guess that the answer is somewhere between the two.
As an interesting (?) aside, some of you out there may be aware of a scheme
used by Pioneer and Wadia, which is called (by Pioneer, at least) Legato
Link. I haven't heard one of these players, but by reading advertising
blurb, and a couple of pseudo-technical articles I deduced that all they
do is build a lousy digital oversampling filter, and let a load of the
first image (ie aliassed) spectrum through. Talking to Bob Stuart (of
Boothroyd Stuart, aka Meridian) confirmed my suspicion. He said that it
sounded awful, but then he would, wouldn't he...
Christopher
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I was annoyed to find that this guy posted my private e-mail response to
him, but since I believe what I said, I'll defend it anyway.
By "almost" I mean the differential cryptanalysis attack. The chosen
plaintext attack requires a detailed analysis of about 2^36 chosen plaintexts
drawn from a total of about 2^47 that need to be run, if I understand the
situation correctly. This is certainly a "break" under the meaning of the
Act, but does not constitute much less work than the brute force keysearch.
The rest of his article assumes that we can figure out the Skipjack
encryption algorithm E by choosing the correct data to send through it and
observe the results. I wish him joy of it, and choose not to try that attack.
I am not defending the system, and in fact am offended by the ideas of
escrowed keys or a secret algorithm becoming a de facto industry standard.
However, I also object to opposing it for the wrong reasons, since that
weakens the case against it.
I said (in my private e-mail):
No, it's quite different. The government would have no percentage in
choosing F to be a weak key, since it's not to their advantage to have
anybody else know it. The "experts" could thus assume that F is no worse
than anything else during their analysis. Totally different situation
from unknown S-boxes. Again, I'm not saying it would be good or
satisfactory for the experts to just be given the raw algorithm without
the rest of the surrounding details regarding the chip and protocols and
so on -- simply that I doubt that they <would> be given all the
information.
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