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I would guess that it probably has something to do with the ease of which ideas and thoughts are communicated on a college campus. In the real world (tm) it's easier for theists (well, people in general really) to lock themselves into a little bubble where they only see and talk to those people who are of the same op...
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I am having trouble compiling xtmenu. I am running on a Sparc IPC using SunOS 4.1.1 and OpenWindows 3. I am getting undefined references to arguments to XtSetArg such as XttextEdit, XttextRead, etc. Am I using the wrong version of a library? missing an include file? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jeff. --...
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From article <1993Apr22.145106.158@cathy.ijs.si>, by Borut.B.Lavrencic@ijs.si: [...] [...] Are you sure that the field is in the area you found the antenna farm? The tomb ("Ymvos") of Marathon which Herodotus specifies as near the fighting area is in an area open to the public. You must be referring to the U.S. army...
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Could someone please tell me how I can access the FAQ for this group? I'm relatively new, and would like to read it, but although I've seen it mentioned, I've yet to see it posted. Is it archived somewhere or does someone post it to the group on a regular basis? or, is it distributed on-demand? I'd appreciate any h...
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Wouldn't bother me. I'd laugh. It wouldn't work -- the surface of the Moon is *already* pretty dark, and the contrast would be so poor you couldn't possibly see it. The only reason the Moon looks bright is that it's in bright sunlight against an otherwise-dark sky. Evidently Heinlein didn't know that...
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Of course there is. Perhaps the Vogons will put in a hyperspace bypass so that he can get there.
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I get "antsy" about posts like this. Is the concern more for son or about ex-w ife??? The standard impartial procedure is to ask for a second opinion about son's condition. Then too, is son "acting out" games between divorced parents????
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Actually the company, and the product was ROVAC - which stood for ROTary Air Conditioning..it used a rotary compressor with what was effectively an air/air heat exchanger, and worked pretty well. The negatives were mostly that it was about 5-10% less efficient than using freon, and noise problems from the high velocit...
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Dave Edmondson, on the Wed, 21 Apr 1993 12:05:41 GMT wibbled: : : kevinh, on the Tue, 20 Apr 1993 13:23:01 GMT wibbled: : Jonathan Quist bemoaned: : : : |> Yes, it's a minor blasphemy that U.S. companies would ?? on the likes : of A.M., : : : |> Jaguar, or (sob) Lotus. It's outright sacrilege for RR to have : non-...
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Quebec dominated Habs for first 2 periods and only Roy kept this one from being rout, although he did blow 2nd goal. Canadians showed up in third but Nords were playing dump & pull back most of the time. Hextall made some good saves but really this one was lost in first period when nords scored 3 & could have had 5, pl...
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Hi, I have an application which draws graphs, bar charts etc. I need to include print support for these from within my application i.e. a user can print the graphs from within the applictaion by clicking on a print button. I am not sure if I can invoke xwd & xpr from within my application and specify the window id to...
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A friend, a 62 year old man, has calcium deposits on one of his heart valves . What causes this to happen and what can be done about it?
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It is the Serbs who were divided when Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina attempted to secede from Yugoslavia, ripping more than 2,000,000 Serbs and their property out of Yugoslavia. The Croatian and Muslim nations had the right to secede, not the Republics. Additionally, the secessions were to be negotiated, which w...
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Do you have a better e-mail address, Mr. Lurie? I'm afraid I can't get the short version to work. In any case, on Winfield. Yes, his career BA is a mere .285. He didn't beat this until his sixth year in the majors, and has only topped it once since 1988. His peak was in the early '80s, and included some rather im...
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Actually, IFF is a *format standard*. It is not a picture file format, sound file format, but there exist several formats that use the IFF standard. The IFF picture standard used by mostly everybody is a FORM ILBM (or just ILBM). The only 3D IFF specification I know of is TDDD, which is used by Imagine and it's pre...
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Newsgroup: sci.electronics From: martin.vuille@synapse.org Subject: PCMCIA Does anyone know who to contact to obtain a copy of the PCMCIA standard? Thanks MV
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Buffalo fans: Some people in the discussion group, as well as "commentator Al" on ESPN, believe that game 3 is critical for the Sabres. HELLOOOO!!!!! The Sabres are AHEAD 2 games to 0, not behind. As a life-long Sabres fan, I am well aware of their ability to choke, but let's not exaggerate that. As long as the...
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That wasn't my point. My point is that your implied position about the "Waco Massacre" is an assertion cum political position. According to a CNN poll, about 86% of Americans think the FBI acted properly, and a majority think they should have done it (the tear gas) a lot sooner. A large majority also believe the FBI ...
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But I believe that there is a fundamental difference here. The other x three instruments are focusing instruments, that, more or less, form an image, so positional errors are limited by craft attitude and the resolving power of the optics. BATSE is an altogether different beast, effectively just 8 coincidence coun...
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Could someone give me some information on the cause, pathophysiology and clinical manifestations and treatment of this type of cancer.
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I have to say I think this is the first time there has been something posted that opposed me without making personal insults. Congradulations tim. I think the other people answered you on most of the factual parts(esp. about the internal conflicts policy). Israel very often gets away with more than most other nation...
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Some TV's, including my RCA set at home, uses simple carriers which I think run between 32 and 36 or 38 KHz. There is no tone decoding in it. All one has to do to piss the thing off :-) is just hook an IRLED up to a variable oscillator and tune through. Wreaks all kinds of havoc. :-) Similarly, my VCR remote c...
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A bright light phenomenon was observed in the Eastern Finland on April 21. At 00.25 UT two people saw a bright, luminous pillar-shaped phenomenon in the low eastern horizont near Mikkeli. The head of the pillar was circular. The lower part was a little winding. It was like a monster they told. They ...
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Have you ever noticed that after a hockey player has been interviewed in between periods on a tv game. That they usually get a goal or an assist. can you explain this or is it that they usually talk to stars more than regular players which explains the hight percentage of results after. Just wondering how everybody ...
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For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, Ephesians 2:14
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2) Hitting....Hawks tried to outmuscle Blues but could not do it. Instead, Blues matched Hawks hit for hit and crunched the shit out of them in game #4.....Scud line, Shanahan, Butcher, and Zombo particularly took turns bashing favorite targets like Chelios. 3) Skating.....when the Hawks tried to outskate Blues, they...
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: : I am interrested in the extrodinarily simple concept of the null modem : cable. (Actually I have NO idea, so don't count that last statement.) What I'm : asking is what pins does it use (or what are it's specifications?) I just want : to solder one myself instead of buying one. I don't even know what port is :...
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[ There are actually some talk.abortion related comments below, believe it or not... ] Well, if our observer X is as likely to be in A's position as B's, and if he agrees that both A and B are making appropriate observations and inferences regarding the situation, then I would expect him to conclude that there is n...
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Claude, I've not heard or read anything that would suggest that vitamin A( retinol) could reverse hearing loss due to nerve damage(usually caused by high sound levels, but also occassionally due to severe infection). The types of cells that vitamin A regulates are the general epithelial cells and these cell types a...
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Having upgraded to a Supra 9600 Fax modem, my Supra 2400 Modem is for Sale at 50$ + S/H. Approx 1.3 years old. Excellent working condition. send email rosen@ringer.cs.utsa.edu, or call at 210-691-5696.
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es: A couple other problems with the 486DX/50: 1.) System manufacturers had MAJOR problems solving the electromagnetic interference problems with 486DX/50 systems. Getting an FCC-B (home use) certification required additional shielding in the system. 2.) HEAT...a lot of people seem to be installing heat sinks a...
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In the videos of the original BATF attack on the BD church, did anyone happen to see BATF agents on the highest structure, where Koresh's room was? I don't recall seeing BATF agents higher than the roof of the lowest structures, so I made an assumption that BATF helos did the firing down into the tower. Any other info...
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: : I have 19 (2 MB worth!) uuencode'd GIF images contain charts outlining : : one of the many alternative Space Station designs being considered in : : Crystal City. [...] : I just posted the GIF files out for anonymous FTP on server ics.uci.edu. : You can retrieve them from: : ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode01.gif : ...
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Team Canada defeated Russia 3-1 to finish the priliminary round unbeaten at 5-0. Scoring for the Canadians were Kevin Dineen of the Flyers, Eric Lindros also of the Flyers and Paul Cariya of the Maine Black Bears. Cariya has put on quite a show at the Worlds. He is sure to be drafted in the top 3 this summer at the...
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This is a fundamental aspect of Novell's business; they wouldn't be where they are if they didn't live up to their "Novell Does Printing" slogan. We run 6 printers of varying types off our Novell network; I'm sure there are places with hundreds. RTFM on the CAPTURE command, PRINTCON, PSERVER, and the sections of the...
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Moving Sale ~ Large table $25 ~ Four-drawer dresser $29 ~ Five-shelf book case $19 ~ Chair $19 ~ 15-speed Bicycle (KHS brand) $69 ~ Microwave oven $59
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How quaint of you to point this out, and then to completely ignore all of the blatant lies you've trotted out. The scenario and genocide staged by the Armenians 78 years ago in Eastern Anatolia and x-Soviet Armenia is being reenacted again - this time in Azerbaijan. There are remarkable similarities between the plo...
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If you believe that, I have a nice piece for swamp for you for RE development. Microsoft does even its techpubs under Windows. That wasn't Geo Works, was it? :-) Nonsense. Sorry, I make fun of Windows all the time, but the above is simply a myth. Tell that to Microsoft, Novell and others who dominate the mark...
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A 'multi-line cleartext bridge?" ^^^^^^^^^ And just were would you put that bridge? If it isn't at one of the receiptants location, forget encryption at all. You have blown any security you thought you might have had.
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Ivan D. Reid, on the 23 Apr 1993 06:05 PST wibbled: : In article <1993Apr23.121316.1564@news.columbia.edu>, Rob Castro writes... : >When/How do you decide that it is too windy to ride? : When even the seagulls are walking. :-) : Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH. ivan@cvax.psi.ch : GSX600F, RG250WD. SI...
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I am planning a weekend in Chicago next month for my first live-and-in-person Cubs game (!!!) I would appreciate any advice from locals or used-to-be locals on where to stay, what to see, where to dine, etc. E-mail replies are fine... Thanks in advance! Teresa
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I think that's an insightful comment. Especially when at the same time we have people like Bill "Projector" Conner complaining that we are posting parodies.
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Actually, this was a school in England. This same biology teacher also told me that the reason that stars twinkle is that the small spot of light on the retina sometimes falls between the light recepive cells. So his info was suspect from the start.
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********* Sega Genesis + Sega CD Forsale ******* Recently moved in with some friends who have genesis + Cd player so I'm selling my whole setup. I'd like to sell everything together. The package come with.... Sega Genesis Sega CD 2 Joysticks 1 Pad Sewer Shark (CD) Sol-Feace (CD) Sega Classics (CD) (5 Games on...
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Gee, how about an (ahem) "accelerometer"! Such devices are available from a variety of sources (one that comes to mind is Bruel & Kjaer if you have a lot of money to spend). MOst of these sorts of devices output a voltage proportional to acceleration. You need to know what range you're talking about though.
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Which number is that? Zero? Please present "a number" of authoritative works which "suggest" that "homosexuality is a form of mental disorder, caused by childhood sexual abuse." Don't present your own biased conclusions, based on a collage of tidbits you've extracted from a few hours' research, as the conclusions o...
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Would someone be kind enought to document the exact nature of the evidence against the BD's without reference to hearsay or newsreports. I would also like to know more about their past record etc. but again based on solid not media reports. My reason for asking for such evidence is that last night on Larry King Live...
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I have for sale the following: Hewlett Packard 500 Deskjet 4 Additional Deskjet Ink Cartridges 8 ft. Parallel Printer Cable The printer is approx. 2 years old (7 months of use, and then a year in storage during my relocation from Illinois to Columbus) and in excellent condition. All original manuals, and boxes are...
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Several ways are available -- pageview (which I think came with our system, so I can't point), ghostview (with ghostscript), and the new xv 3.00 package all do so. I recommend the latter two, especially xv if you want to do any conversion. I'm not sure offhand, but I will attempt to mail you the comp.lang.postscri...
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1. You haven't shown any disproportionate involvement. 2. The Janus Report, which came out recently, gives 9% as the percentage of exclusively or predominantly gay men. 3. No one is presumably going to say they're gay if they're not. But some no doubt are going to hide their homosexuality in surveys. Thus the 1-2% ...
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Pioneer VSX-501 Audio/Video Receiver -Dolby Pro Logic Surround, 3CH Logic -Studio and Simulated Surround Playback -Video Signal Selector (Simulcast function) -Two-way VCR Copying and Monitoring -Acoustic Memory Function -Custom Memory Function -Sleep Timer -Multi-Room Remote Jack -AV Remote Control Unit Less than one...
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Alison J Wyld wrote to All: AJW> Does anyone know of an English language edition that does not show the AJW> verse (or even chapter) numbers. [...] clh> [The original NEB put verse numbers only in the margin [...] Kenneth Wuest's expanded translation of the New Testament does the same - it puts the range of ve...
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This is not at all comparable. Christianity is the main stream in western culture. You are trivializing the experiences of others. I remember what it was like being "different" as a Christian. We were told all the time that we were different, and in fact that only members of the our church were really Christians (tho...
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Isn't that one of those self-evident things like, "how do you decide that you're out of gas"? I have never experienced wind so severe it physically precluded operation of a motorcycle. It's more a matter of deciding whether the aggravation is more trouble than it's worth. This of course, depends entirely on your ow...
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@> A few things about the University. It is more fun than some may @> admit. Partying does go on and it has consistently been ranked @> one of Playboy's top party schools. ...
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Same old bullshit. Not being given to delusions and wishful thinking I do not have the option of either loving or obeying that which I have so reason to believe. More bullshit. I assure you in my misguided youth I made a sincere effort. It was very painful being a rational person raised in Christian home. Many other...
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[stuff about hardware keys] True, which is why many of the newer keys ship out, oh, maybe 32 bits or so, have the key encrypt them, and return them to the PC. Making a bunch of these 32 bits part of your program code is a good way to make sure things won't run without the key. :-) Anyway, then, this scheme at leas...
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Kent Sandvik and Jon Livesey made essentially the same response, so this time Kent's article gets the reply: This begs the question of whether it ever "started"-- perhaps because accuracy was always an intention. It makes little difference if you have eyewitnesses or people one step away (reporters, if you will). ...
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If you had free reign to design your own instrument cluster, which gauges would you choose to have beyond the basic set? I consider the basic set to be: - tach - coolant temp (or cylinder head temp for air-cooled engines) - oil pressure - amps - speedo - fuel others that are nice to have: - volts (maybe th...
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Muslims already have, they accepted the Vance Owen plan that gives 50% of the population (Serbian statistics put it at 44%) only 25% of the territory. They gave some totally Muslim villages and areas to Croatia and Serbia, they in effect gave the Serbs the land they grabbed while slaughtering the Muslims anbd raping...
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I'd say the subject line about covers it. I need a MC68881 Floating point Co-processor for my SUN 3 system. Please reply via Email if you've got one of these thingies that you'ld like to sell me. Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Paul L. Moreau | ...
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dead? I saw David Koresh at a local 7-11......
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If you _know_ that the number is "so high", would you care to provide it? To tell you the truth, Hamid, most of those killed by the Israeli Army were agressors who were invading or attacking Israel with the intention of murdering Jews and destroying the Jewish State. Thus, I have no sympathy for them and I really ...
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There are a number of inaccuracies here: 1) In fact, a colder battery will self-discharge more slowly. This is why batteries should be stored in a COOL, dry place. 2) An battery placed on concrete does not become colder than one placed on wood. The battery, the wood, and the concrete will all be at the sam...
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{Gladman Aviv} said "Re: Blue LED's" to <All> on 04-24-93 01:51 GA> In order to emit blue light, a semiconductor must have a band gap GA> energy within the region of 2.6 to 2.8 electron Volts. According to my GA> physical electronics prof, you can't get an LED with that band gap. GA> That's why you don't...
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Deletions... Correction. I think it was 1978. Also, contrary to earlier belief, it is now widely accepted that not all committed suicide, but were actually killed. In the end, they did die for a lie, but some not out of conviction alone. Thought I try to make this point clear. --
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Hi all, Has anyone heard of this board? It's a 486DX2-33/66. If so, does anyone know if it will work with BSD or Linux? A local PC vendor has this. He says it's a U.S. brand. Please e-mail if possible. Thanks,
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Whoa there! Lighten up, Andrew! When I was referring to "you dorks at the Western Business School", I was specifically referring to those assholes writing obnoxious comments insulting the state and people of Minnesota for no apparent reason. Being Canadian, and one who has friends who attended UWO, I personally do...
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Acetone will likely damage the carpet. First solvent to try is denatured alcohol. Do not waste your time with rubbing alcohol. You can use methyl alcohol instead of denatured alcohol. If you want to have a cocktail while you are removing the goo, use pure grain alcohol :-). If the alcohol does not work try carbon tetra...
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Any Tcpview-for-Sun users out there? I pulled down the pre-compiled executables made for Sun for Tcpview, but I'm getting a whole slew of the following types of error messages when I try to start it up: Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key...
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Hi -- sorry if this is a FAQ, but are there any conversion utilities available for Autodesk *.DXF to Amiga *.IFF format? I checked the comp.graphics FAQ and a number of sites, but so far no banana. Please e-mail. Thanks.
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I have 9 of these mice which are just taking up space in my office. Please buy them. The price is only $11 and it will only cost you 2.90 to ship USPS if you prepay. Here is all I know about them: Mice 2-button high resolution 400cpi The mice are acutally quite comfortable, much like the new hp ergo mouse. Snugs t...
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Double speed performance from a CD drive does not require SCSI-2 interfacing. The resultant 300 kbps speed is well within the transfer rate of an LC. In other words, I believe you have been given incorrect information.
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This is such Bullshit. Deir Yassin was an unprovoked attack on the part of the Jews, and a massacre defines it best in my opinion. The village of Deir Yassin had had a pact with the Jews, a peace pact, but the Irgun purposely broke this agreement in order to scare off the Palestinians. I might gra...
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I know that I've seen this question asked before, but I don't remember seeing any answers..So here it is again: Does any one know of an ftp site where the WD90C31 driver might reside? I've checked cica, and I'm sure it's not there (I'm refering to the new version of the driver that came out in 2(?)/93). I have s...
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ABOLISH CULTS!
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I wonder where you have been getting your mis-information from. Straight from the BATF itself? Koresh and his followers did not -capture- the compound a few years ago, it has always been theirs. A few years ago their was an argument over who should lead the group, a gunfight erupted *one* person died. Koresh was c...
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I have the following prerecorded VHS tapes for sale. All are in great shape and are being sold since I have replaced all of them with laserdiscs: Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi Batman Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade E.T.
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Doesn't MS do the same? (I.e., subsidize app development) I seem to remember someone at RPI who received an entire (expensive, to run NT) machine to develop for NT. Free. And that's just the small fry...
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REPOST: I have two questions (well probably more...) about how Expose & Configure events are handled. I have an appl. which uses 1 window to draw in. Since I give the user the capability of scaling and zooming as well as allowing the window to be resized, I made a translation table for the Expose & Configure events....
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t The original poster never said they were afraid of King because he was black. In fact the officers were afraid of King because of WHAT HE DID, not because OF THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN. It is you, Mr. Frank that read the phrase "large black man" and cried racism in a typical knee-jerk fashion. When you (and others, I ...
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The problem is that this will also cause "a certain amount of interference" in *all* systems within the range of the device. A long time ago I built a small jammer to dissuade my brother from using his radio alarm clock at something like 4am, which had just enough range to cover my room and his. However something ...
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Yes, there are these two senses of interpretation, and certainly our decision to accept Scripture as inspired ultimately rests on our own private opinion. However, when reading Scripture, we have to remember that the Scriptures were given by God for our instruction, and that the interpretation that matters is the one...
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Hello, Can somebody tell me what kind of MOV's are most useful for a computer surge protector? Radio Shack have 2 types, both rated 130V, one for a 10A current and the other for 20A. On the other hand, commercial surge protectors I have seen claim a clamping voltage of 330V-400V, which SEEMS to me in imply a rated v...
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========================================================================== Yes, we do have a beautiful country. And I enjoy it. Most of all, I enjoy the thought that I have the means and can exercise my rights to defend me and mine. And I want to thank all of you good folks, like Prescod, who remind me of...
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I doubt if Koresh had let the BATF have a look inside his place as they intended to do, "orchestrated character assassination, noise torture, and a holocaust" would never have come to pass. The BD's killed members of the BATF on the first day. "Orchestrated character assassination and noise torture" seem like a sma...
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Well that may be true. However, the man page for pageview for OW 2.0 does not mention about DSC compliance. In any event, the point here is that if you try to display some PS files using pageview you will find out that it's not a practical tool.
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They also have a lot of the other voters really irritated at them. Okay, folks, I know I'm in the minority on this issue, but I can't let this assertion go unchallenged yet again. I'm going to say this ONLY ONCE, in the hopes of NOT starting a flame war off of the main topic. Guns are offensive. Cryptography is d...
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Either A: God exists, or B: He doesn't. We have two choices, either 1: Believe in God, or 2: Don't believe in God. If A is true, then 2 brings eternal damnation, whereas 1 brings eternal life. If B is true, then 1 has minor inconvenience compared with 2. Thus, it is rational to believe in God. This has numerou...
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Greetings! I have 2 sets of plugs for your oscilloscope or function hooks. I also have 2 sets of probes. They have multipliers of x1 and x10. There is also an REF switch. All these probes and plugs are in excellent conditions. If interested, please...
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No wonder that we don't see any detail for this claim. It is good to remember that you have answered the statement that you are a theist by another correspondent with that you are not a member of a denomination. It is either stupidity or an attempt at a trick answer. Not unlike the rest of your arguments. I a...
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Personally, I think it was Mrs. O'Leary's cow that knocked over that lantern... :*)
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I am not familiar with, or knowledgeable about the original language, but I believe there is a word for "idol" and that the translator would have used the word "idol" instead of "graven image" had the original said "idol." So I think you're wrong here, but then again I could be too. I just suggesting a way to determ...
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I don't see any way that the concrete floor could do anything to the battery. However, you would have been better off leaving them outside. Keeping them cold would have been better for them than bringing them inside. A warm battery will self-discharge faster than a cold one. When you are storing a battery it's a ...
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KS> This is the story of Kent, the archetype Finn, that lives in the KS> Bay Area, and tried to purchase Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason". This KS> man was driving around, to Staceys, to Books Inc, to "Well, Cleanlighted KS> Place", to Daltons, to various other places. KS> When he asked for this book, the well educated...
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