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This effect disappears if you clean your apparatus after you kirlianed
the whole leaf and before kirlianing the leaf part.
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I am looking for utilities for converting GIFs/JPEGs/PS etc to xpm format? Any
information appreciated.
Thanks,
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Anyone from Alabama knows it should be:
Is "The Bear" Catholic?
Does a Pope shit in the woods?
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That was my point. If I play poker with Monopoly money I can bet
anything I want.
This is exactly why Christianity is missionary in nature,
not just out of a need to irritate. 8-)
To the people who wrote the Bible and to whom the Bible is written,
there is evidence of love, but that is a cultural bias. This is
a poor answer which you needn't rebut.
I will now pull the old bait and switch.
I think you should use the Bible to judge man, not God.
By that I mean, if your moral intuition doesn't like what
is described in the Bible, realize that such things are going on
now. I will avoid the semantic arguments about the cause of evil
and ask what are you doing to fight it? Not you specifically,
but everyone, including myself. If I don't like the genocide
in the Bible, what about the genocide that goes on right now?
To move beyond the question of a hell, realize that many people
right now are suffering. If you think hell isn't fair and are
willing to sacrifice everything just to deny its existence,
what about how life isn't fair? Right now there is a young mother
with three little kids who doesn't know how she will get through
the day. Right now there is a sixth grader who is a junkie.
Right now there is an old man with no friends and no money to
fix his TV. Instead of why doesn't God help them ask why don't
we help them. I think you are correct to challenge any Christian
who doesn't live his life with the compassion you seem to possess.
You want evidence of God. Find someone who is making a difference,
someone you admire, someone who has been through some tough times
and has come out with his head up. Ask the person how he does it. Ask
the Vietnam vet who was battle medic how he kept his mind. Ask the
woman who was pregnant at 15, kept the baby and now is a successful
business woman. Ask the doctor who has operated on a 1-1/2 pound
baby. They won't all be Christians, or even what you might
call religious, but there will be something in common.
God is not defined in the Bible, God is defined by what is
in those people's hearts. It doesn't matter if you can't give
intellectual assent to any description you've heard, they're
all wrong anyway. The compassion you already feel in your heart
is a step in the right direction. Follow that instead.
Then come back and read the Bible and you'll see that same
thing described there.
Good, I guess we only have to work on your grammar. 8-)
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*yawn* The Church of Kibology did it first and better.
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My god, how many chances do they get? Operation Move (Philedelphia, early
80's), Black Panthers (Chicago, 1969), etc., etc. Hell, we get heavily armed
millenial cults out west every couple of years. Do with have to start a
cascade of times the feds have been in situations like this?
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I hate to belabor the obvious once again, but if there had been an Orbiter
emergency in the early stages of the original HST deployment mission, they
would have HAD to land with HST in the bay.
Indeed they were worried about that. One concern was the possibility that
they would lose a motor or something on the way up, and make orbit but one
that was too low to give HST a useful lifetime against atmospheric drag.
I believe the decision was to deploy HST even if the projected lifetime was
as short as six months. In fact we got an excellent orbit, on the upper
envelope of what the Shuttle can do.
I have never heard of any serious consideration that HST might be brought
down for refurbishment. You would have the horrendous cost of transporting,
cleaning, re-testing, and re-certifying all the hardware on the ground, in
addition to the lost observing time and the cost of a second deployment
mission with the risks that we might not get such a good orbit the second
time. And, you would probably STILL need a (third) servicing mission in a
few years as gyros and other components wear out. Better to have two
servicing missions in space (which could well happen) than to bring HST down
and take it up again.
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I've mentioned this study a couple of times now: Ingestion of yogurt
containing Lactobacillus acidophilus as prophylaxis for candidal
vaginitis, Annals of Internal Medicine, 3/1/92 116(5):353-7. Do you
have a problem with the study because they used yogurt rather than
capsules of lactobacillus (even though it had positive results)?
The study was a crossover trial of daily ingestion of 8 ounces of
yogurt. There was a marked decrease in infections while women were
ingesting the yogurt. Problems with the study included very small
numbers (33 patients enrolled) and many protocol violations (only
21 patients were analyzed). Still, the difference in rates of infection
between the two groups was so large that the study remains fairly
believable.
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Yep, you can use any type of UNIX, or maybe VMS, or buy a MAC or something...
If you want longer filenames for your documents, I heard of a wordprocessor for
windows which let you assign long names to files. Those long filenames could only be
seen from that programs open/save dialogs though... Maybe someone knows more about
this wordprocessor than I do?
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HELLO,
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH MY WINDOW 3.1 PROGRAM
SOMETIMES WHEN I SAVE SETTINGS OF PROGRAM MANAGER THE SYSTEM CORRUPT ONE OR MORE
*.GRP FILES AND PROGMAN.EXE CAN'T OPEN IT ON NEXT START.
THANKS FOR ANY ANSWER.
CHROBERT
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: I have seen the existance of electronics solder with a 2% silver
: content that seems to have good wetting and fatique reatings.
: Can anyone tell me why it is not used? (silver is not such an expensive
: metal).
:
:
: Andy
:
For the most part, silver-solder is not used for general soldering
tasks due to the mechanism of dendritic growth. Silver-solder, when
exposed to high humidity and placed in an electric field, will actually
grow dendrites which are conductive and will adventually electrically
short across closely spaced nodes which are creating the field. For this
reason, silver is allowed only in hermetically sealed assemblies.
Fortunatly, tin-lead solder is quite stable and will not grow dendrites
as fast as silver-solder. Therefore, it is used extensively.
Jerry Long
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Khufu and Khafre are both patented (#5003597). Biham and Shamir showed
that differential cryptanalysis can break 16-round Khafre with a chosen-
plaintext attack using 1500 different encryptions. Khafre with 24 rounds
can be broken with the same attack using 2^53 different encryptions.
(There are probably more efficient differential cryptanalytic attacks, if
someone wants to take the time to look.)
Khufu has key-dependent S-boxes, and is immune to differential cryptanalysis.
Source code for this algorithm (and Khafre) are in the patent.
Snefru is a public-domain one-way hash function. The version of Snefru
that produces a 128-bit hash is vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis
(vulnerable means that the attack is more efficient that brute force) for
four passes or less. Given that, SHA and MD5 are much more efficient.
Oh yes, anyone interested in licensing the patent should contact Dave Petre,
Director of Patent Licencing for Xerox, (203) 986-3231.
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If I recall, Jen said right up front how the sample set was derived.
Where's the FUD?
Does this mean I can flame you if I ever see you doing it?
Face it - the .advocacy groups are _for_ the kind of things that
you're preaching against. This is why they were created in the first
place - to filter out all the crap from the newsgroups that might
contain real information.
-Phil
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I am very interested in hearing from all of you who are using or implementing
3-D interactive applications what types of 3-D widgets you would
like to have in your applications.
A 3-D widget is usually located in the same scene as other 3-D objects of the
application. It may let you
- manipulate application data, the camera,
3-D objects in the scene and so on, or
- view the status of the application or 3-D objects
via the widget's shape, color, position, orientation and so on, or
- do whatever I missed but you think is possible.
For example, a manipulative widget can be virtual trackball (shown as a
partially transparent sphere) super-imposed on the object to be rotated.
A feedback widget can be a ruler with ends anchored to 2 objects. The length
of the ruler changes as the objects move and a numeric value is shown on the
ruler indicating the distance. A widget can provide both manipulation and
feedback. For example, the ruler can be used to change the distance between
the objects along its own axis.
Please e-mail me or post your opinions on 3-D interaction. The information
I gathered will help me design a 3-D UI construction tool.
Your help is very much appreciated.
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About 50 people so far have asked, "Once the FBI gets your Clipper keys,
won't they be able to read all your future and past traffic?"
There has been no response from NIST, NSA, Ms. Denning, Mr. Hellman, or
anyone else who might be able to give us an authoritative answer.
This is troubling.
Didn't NSA think about this? Or is it a feature, and they thought we
wouldn't notice?
I would have thought that by now they would have responded with something
of the form, "Well, that won't be a problem because ...."
Very curious.
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How about half a friend? The Motorola Codex preliminary V.Fast modem
(which you can by right now) does 24.4 kbps (raw) over standard phone
lines. 28.8 kbps is what is usually claimed for the "final" v.fast,
but you can't go out and buy that right now, the standard isn't done yet.
Again, voice can be compressed quite well down to 4000 or 8000 bps
depending on how good you want it to be, but that requires a DSP or a
special ASIC to do in real-time.
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Two LH Research SM11-1 power supplies (SM10 series).
1000W, 5V, 200A (currently wired for 115VAC).
Control lines: +/- sense, on/off, pwr. fail, high/lo margin, current monitor.
They both work!
(List price from LH Research is $824.00 f/ qty. 1-9).
Asking $150 each + shipping.
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G'day Brian,
I'll be blunt about this. The ONLY reasonable explanation of Roberts
algorithm is in
Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics
Rogers
McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1985
Go to the library and look at this.
There is also a somewhat muddled explanation in the first edition
of Newman and Sproull.
The algorithm described in PECG runs in near linear time.
Luck,
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I bought a set of ARE's a few months back and decided to add locks
so that I could keep my new rims. I haven't had a balance problem
yet so I assume that it might be just particular to your type of
stock nuts. My rims were balanced with new BFG T/A's at a speed
shop to the finest setting on their bal. machine, so that helps too.
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Some people working a few cubes over have come up with this need, and
it seems that someone out there just might have done it already, and
can point me to some tools that would help. What they'd like to do is:
Given a window that is taking a long time to draw (because either the
data is arriving over a slow link, or the $DISPLAY is across a slow
link), they would like to first paint a low-resolution version of the
picture, and then repaint it in higher resolution. Thus, the picture
might first be generated in 1/4 resolution, with each 4x4 square of
pixels being filled in with a single color. Next, each 4x4 square
would be replaced by 4 2x2 squares; finally the 1x1 version would be
painted.
Since one of the scenarios is with the window being on the other side
of a slow link, the low-res version obviously wouldn't be transmitted
as a bitmap; that wouldn't help at all. Instead, there would have to
be a process on the far end that receives the low-res picture as a
small bitmap, and blows up each pixel into a square (sorta like the
magnifier programs do). This brings up the question of whether the X
server can help. That is, when a window is opened, is there a way to
ask that a "filter" program be run to process the pixels? Or is the
only way to use something like rsh to start up a remote process
("Permission denied" ;-), and have it open a local window?
It seems the most likely scenario is a library routine that starts up
such a program remotely, and then accepts bitmaps, compressing each
one by some amount, and sending them to the remote program to expand.
But if there is something that X itself can do to help, it's be nice
to hear about it. (I looked in several FMs, but if it's there, I
obviously don't know the keywords ;-). If someone has a nifty tool
available that packages it all, we might want to get a copy.
Oh, yes; this is to run on some Suns. Part of the idea is to build
demos that can show such things as "If this were run across, say, a
4800-bps link, this is how fast the pictures would appear." Then the
customer would get a feel for the speed that they need to pay for.
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In my quest for speed, I've run into a problem. 66.66 mhz and 80 mhz
clock oscillators are available but I haven't found any speeds between
66.66 and 70 mhz for further testing. Fox Electronics (813) 693-0099 can make custom oscillators but if anyone knows a source cheaper than $12/osc please
let me know. Some 68 and 70 mhz units would complete my speed trials on the
old Q700
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I find it very interesting that you say there will be 2.5 million
queers in the march on Washington. The largest figure I've seen in
the press is 1 million and we all know how liberal the press is with
their numbers. :)
For another thing, 1% of 250 million is 2.5 million not 6. Maybe
that's where you got the 2.5 million number. Also, the number cited
in the actual report is 1.5% so that would be about 3.75 million.
As for this march on Washington, I wonder how much the media is
going to inflate the numbers this time. Last time, for the
pro-abortion rally, they more than doubled the actual number of
people who showed up. That and all the stories coming out of how
the press "slants" the news really makes one wonder who's watching
the watchers.
BCNU.
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Well, you can't say that it don't work. The inability to read 800k mac
disks is not a SW problem. Rather, it's a HARDWARE limmitation on PCs.
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Well, just when you think *nothing* will strike at a
BMW-key-fob/ostrich-feather-dipped-in-silly-putty-and-varnished-solid lure,
somebody comes along and inhales it right up to the lead swivel!
There *is* a Dog.
It's going to be pretty difficult to better (worsen?) a trolling scheme this
low, though.
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Would anyone have a few extra 3479P's lying around that I
could buy off of them.. Problem is that around here I can only perchase
them in $30 quantities, and I don't need this, and can't take this
financially right now....
If anyone can accomodate me with this PLEASE
reply to BOTH for the following mailing addresses...
Thanks!!!
_______________________________________________
| |
_______ | Baden de Bari |
/ \ | baden@sys6626.bison.mb.ca |
(| o o |) | baden@inqmind.bison.mb.ca |
| ^ | | >> True life can only |
\ -=- / | >> be experianced by |
\_____/ | >> those who do not fear death. |
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Not when the power has been cut off for weeks on end. Any generators are
no doubt out of fuel, too. So all they would have is wood stoves and
kerosene lanters (maybe). It is alleged that the tanks pushing in the
walls knocked over the lanters, starting the fire. Remember, the FBI
had bugs which they even used (illegally) to eavesdrop on private
conversations with the lawyers. If a suicide order were given they
WOULD HAVE KNOWN IT IN TIME. If the Feds had been concerned they would
have had emergency equipment ready. Not an hour or so later, not
leaving the water THEY TURNED OFF, off. They could have turned it back
on. They just didn't wanna. Scores to settle...
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Dateline Tue, 20/Apr93 03:38.
In , Antonio Pera of icop@csa.bu.edu wrote to All at 1:133/411,
AP> Recently, I heard the Red Sox on WROL a
AP> Spanish-speaking radio station. I thought it was so
AP> unreal. The Red Sox in Spanish? Anyway, I want to find
AP> out how widespread this is? Being a NY native, I know
AP> the scMets are on in Spanish but not the Yankmes. I
AP> wuold think that LA,SD,Texas and Fla are on in Spanish.
AP> Are there any Spanish-speaking networks or is this a
AP> local
For the last couple of years, the Braves have been fostering a program to reach to the Latin American audience. This has included licensing Spanish fan magazines, encouraging Spanish co-broadcasts, and marketing programs directed at the Latin American community. One of the biggest heros to the Latin American audience has been Francisco Cabrerra (a fact of which he was slightly embarrassed!).
One funny story is that during Spring Training, the Braves played a game in Mexico. This game was broadcast back to Atlanta in Spanish. It took the broadcasters a few innings to get a rythm going because they had to keep changing their location. Seems it took a while to find a place where they could get a clear signal on their cellular phones through which they were calling the game!
David Deitch, (GIS) Atlanta
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Unless otherwise noted, I am mainly interested in USED items.
If you have (any of) the following for sale, please contact me:
EMail mbeck@vtssi.vt.edu
Phone (703)552-4381
USMail Michael Beck
1200 Progress Street #5500E
Blacksburg, Virginia 24060
Please give as much info as possible (brand, age, condition, etc)
~~~~~~~~~~WANTED as of 10AM, 4/27/93~~~~~~~~~~
COMPUTER EQUIP:
1 CHEAP (<$100) tape drive - pretty much any kind for IBM (Used)
1 Memory expansion card for PS/2 Model 50Z
1 Memory for PS/2 Model 50Z (New or Used)
1 High Density (1.2 mb) 5 1/4 disk drive EXTERNAL
NON-COMPUTER EQUIP:
1 TV - 27" or bigger, stereo
1 VCR - 4 Heads, stereo
1 Receiver - 100 Watts or more w/ Dolby Prologic Surround Sound
capability
1 Bed - Full or Queen sized - LOCAL OFFERS only, please
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I am not a battery expert, but from recent reading, a lead acid battery
will self discharge at a relatively high rate, and if stored in a discharged
state, will develop a condition I think is called sulfation. In storage,
either the electrolyte should be removed and replaced for use (fat chance
I'd ever do that at home), or the battery should be stored on a trickle
charge. I have also (I think) read that the condition may be reversable
if hooked up to a current limited charging circuit fro a LONG period of time.
The refernce I remember is to use C/50 (where C is the amp hours) as the
charging circuit, and leave it hooked up for weeks. Some of this may
only apply to Gel type cells, but I suspect the same applies to the liquid
type.
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One more good reason for straight pipes or megaphones;-)
Regards, Charles
DoD0.001
RZ350
Ps: Does anyone know if Opti oils sells direct by the case load?
My loacl dealership is charging 12.99 for a jug of injector oil,
and it's breaking me;-)
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Boston Globe, Wednesday April 21 1993
col. 4 "Bodies found in ruins as FBI defends raid on cult ranch"
col. 5 "Clinton blames Koresh, orders probe of siege"
col. 2 "The children: panws in a horrifying game"
pg. 18, col. 1, Editorial page
"Judgment at Waco"
Now the scientific and political scrutiny of the
horror show in Waco begins, though nothing can
undo the tragedy that might have been prevented
there.
Forensic experts will study the rubble and
ashes of the Branch Davidian compound, where at
least 85 people, including 24 children, perished in
smoke and fire caused by theapocalyptic visions of
a manipulative madman AND A STUNNING LAPSE IN
JUDGMENT BY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS.
[emphasis added by me]
Investigators will re-create conditions at the
compound and identify accelerants and other fac-
tors fueling the inferno. That is their strong suit.
But the public must question why agents of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation lacked the oper-
ational skill and teh behavioral insight to resolve
the 51-day standoff free of flames and fury.
The loss of life most clearly reflects the demen-
tia of cult leader David Koresh, whose personal
delusiosn are now seared on the public conscious-
ness. His assembly of Davidians had stockpiles of
arms--and had used them. LIttle in the way of
rationality could be expected from Koresh, a self-
confsesed "sinner without equal."
What continues to mystify are th eactions of
federal agents, who bungled the case from the
start. The misadventure began on Feb. 28 when
100 agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco and Firearms storemd the compound, intent
on seizing Koresh and a cache of automatic weap-
ons. Four agents and an estimated six cult mem-
bers died inteh ensuing gun battle. Earlier
oppor-tunities to isolate and arrest Koresh outside the
complex had not been adequately explored.
Authorities prepared a siege and resolved that
those deaths would be the last. Fifty-one days into
the siege there was no public outcry to storm the
compound.
It had been correctly perceived that the chil-
dren inside "Rancho Apocalypse" were essentially
hostages. With their lives at stake, there was no
reason for the government to be impatient. The
government's superior firepower, control of water
and utilities and freedom of movement created the
conditions for a belated but bloodless resolution.
Neither Attorney General Janet Reno nor the
FBI has provided a sigle compelling reason for
abandondoning the course of patience.
If intelligence was accurate and Koresh was
growing increasingly violent and bizarre, it is diffi-
cult to see how a tear-gas attack launched by an
M-60 combat vehicle would clear his mind. If re-
ports of escalating child abuse were accurate, they
would have to be weighted against the potential for
eve ngreated hamr.
etc etc tec....
[paragraphs, 2.5 paragraphs deleted]
But some of the responsibility rests with Clinton,
and inexperienced president who did not pay
enough attention to the life-and -death decisions
being made on WAco.
If Reno is to be faulted for anything, ti would
be for her overreliance on the judgment of law en-
forcement officers--a common problem among
prosecutors.
Full investigations into th eWaco tragedy must
be conducted by both the executive and legislative
branches. The first step is to verify how the blaze
started. Though apportioning blame will play a
role, it is of greater importnace to find strategies
to elude the fire next time.
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The Waco Quiz
What would you do in the following hypothetical situations?
You have committed no crime. The BATF conducts a "no-knock" raid.
a) Hands in air. Say "Do you have a warrant?" Think of hefty suit settlement.
b) Say "You have 1 second to identify yourself as a cop or I shoot."
c) Shoot. Heck, at least in federal prison you might get to have sex.
You have killed federal agents. They blast strange music at you.
a) Come out with hands up. "I wish to turn state's evidence." Hope deal's good.
b) Wait, figuring other federal agents will get bored and go on vacation.
c) Wait. If they come after you there will be a chance to kill MORE g-men.
The FBI has you surrounded, asks you to come out immediately.
a) Come out, figuring long prison term is chance to catch up on some writing.
b) Stall. You just can't concentrate when you're on trial for some reason.
c) Decide to write novel-length prophecy now while ideas are fresh in mind.
FBI calls and says they will use tear gas if you don't come out.
a) Come out with hands up. Your radical bro-in-law hated getting gassed at UC.
b) Get out your gas mask. Really, these feds will have to give up eventually.
c) Shoot at vehicles delivering tear gas. It's rude to break down a man's door!
FBI calls and says they will use tanks to break down your walls.
a) Come out with your hands up. Flimsy cardboard construction won't last long.
b) With presence of mind, move flammable devices away from tinder-dry haybales.
c) Spread some kerosene around and hit a match. Big Schwarzenegger ending.
Points are awarded in the following manner: 0 points for every (a) answer,
-1 points for every (b) answer, and -2 points for every (c) answer.
Count 'em up and compare with your friends!
If you answered (a) all the time, you are probably in jail, but alive.
If you answered (b) all the time, you may still be holed up in your compound.
If you answered (c) all the time, you are probably dead.
(Feel free to copy this and distribute to your friends.)
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I too have seen the miracle of Maxima Chain Wax. Not only does it lube
and stay where it's supposed to, but I swear I can ride faster now. Yes,
not only does it lube your chain, it makes you a better rider. And more
attractive to members of the opposing sex. And smarter. And....
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Title says it all, I'm after a Vectrex system. If you have one and want
to get rid of it let me know.
I can offer cash, or possible trades with Megadrive and SNES games.
Cheers
Marc
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That's surprising -- I haven't seen any incompatibilities with mine,
version 6.01. The version that came with my upgrade to 6.01 had some
problems, but Symantec fixed those and I've haven't seen anything wrong
since.
I'm not running Windoze, by the way.
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In <1993Apr24.214843.10940@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu
If the ONLY people proposing a "moment of silence" are doing so as a
sham to sneak in prayers, then it MUST be opposed. What the HELL have
prayers to do with public schooling? [I ask this question as a devout
Christian.]
Their kids can bloody-well pray any God-damned time they WANT to. And
nothing, on heaven or earth, in government or the principal's office,
can prevent or in any other way deal with their doing so. *Especially*
if the prayer is silent (as bursting out into the "Shema Yisrael" or
some other prayer *might* be construed as disruptive if audible :-))
No one ever prevented ME from praying in public school! They hardly
even prevented me from masturbating in study hall.
I should have thought better of someone posting from a UChicago address.
How can you manage to say such nonsense without shame?
Muslim students might have a complaint, if they are prevented from setting
out their rugs and doing the proper ablutions before prayer at the times
specified in the Qu'ran. Jews would probably like the opportunity to daven
with tefillim and whatever else *they* require, at *their* appropriate times.
I do not see THEM complaining (though Muslims and Jews have a case that no
Christian I have ever heard has been able to make.)
The "Christian" insistence on a PUBLIC, UNIVERSAL, ENFORCED "moment of
prayer^H^H^H^H^H^Hsilence" is nothing but the Inquisition "naturalized"
into the American context. It is offensive to the Gospel of Christ.
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Interesting development. Especially since the Feds (and the U.N.)
accused Saddam Hussein of using illegal chemicals on his own
citizens as well. Hmmm... Republican Guard/Iraqu Army = FBI/BATF?
You decide.
--
I hope very much that others who will be tempted to join cults
and to become involved with people like David Koresh will be
deterred by the horrible scenes they have seen over the last
seven weeks.
-President William Jefferson Clinton, April 20, 1993,
at a press conferance held the day after the Branch Davidians
"compound" went up in flames while under attack by the FBI/ATF
near Waco, Texas. Is your church U.S. Government approved?
CONNECT THE GOD-DAMNED DOTS!!! Ministry, TV Song
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About two years ago I posted the following:
I am planning to write a new book called "Great Canadian Scientists."
Please forward your nominations to me: shell@cs.sfu.ca
The rules are that the person must be a Canadian citizen. They don't have
to be born in Canada or even live in Canada, but they must have (or have
had, if they are dead) Canadian citizenship while they are/were great
Canadian scientists.
About 70 people have been nominated already and they are listed at the
end of this posting.
I'm not quite sure what should constitute greatness, and there may be a
gray area here. If you have any ideas on criteria for greatness, I would be
pleased to hear them. In any event, please nominate people even if you are
not sure they are great. I would like as big a list as possible.
Please give me a name and email address, phone number or mail address, so
that I can contact the person. If you don't know any of the above, then
give me their last known whereabouts. Also please give your reason for why
you think the person should be considered a great Canadian scientist.
After I have the list, I will choose about six of the most interesting ones
and do in-depth biographies of those individuals in the style of Tracy
Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine" or some other dramatic technique.
The rest of the great Canadian scientists will appear in an appedix with
one paragraph biographies.
If you have any other ideas about this project, I am interested to hear
them.
So far, I have received 68 nominations as follows:
First Name Last Name Nominator Famous For
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Sid Altman Kuszewski, John Catalytic RNA(Nobel Chem 89)
Frederick Banting me Insulin (Nobel U23 medicine)
Davidson Black Stanley, Robert Discovered Peking Man
James R. Bolton Warden, Joseph chemistry?
Raoul Bott Smith, Steven Math: algebraic topology.
Willard Boyle Chamm, Craig Co inventor of CCD
Gerard Bull Stanley, Robert Ballistics and gunnery
Dennis Chitty Galindo-Leal, Carlos First animal ecologist
Brian C. Conway Tellefsen, Karen Electrochemistry
Stephen Cook Mendelzon, Alberto NP-completeness, complexity
? Copp Kuch, Gerald biochem aspects of physiol
H.S.M. Coxeter Calkin, Neil J. Regular polytopes (math)
P. N. Daykin Palmer, Bill Chem, mosquito repellant
H. E. Duckworth anonymous Mass Spectroscopy, admin
Jack Edmonds Snoeyink, Jack Math, Operations research
Reginald Fessenden Johnsen, Hans Wire insulation, light bulb
Ursula Franklin McKellin, William Physics archeol. materials
J. A. Gray Gray, Tom Nuclear physics, The Gray
E. W. Guptill Chamm, Craig Slotted array radar
Donald Hebb Lyons, Michael Learning (Hebbian synapses)
Gerhard Herzberg me Optical spectr Nobel 71
James Hillier me Electron Microscope (Can/Am)
Crawford S. Holling Galindo-Leal, Carlos Ecology, predators and prey
David Hubel Lyons, Michael Visual cortex (Nobel med ?)
Kenneth Iverson Dare, Gary Invented APL
J. D. Jackson Austern, Matt Elementary Particle Theory
Andre Joyal Pananagden, Prakash Category theory, categ Logic
Martin Kamen me Carbon-14 (Canadian/Amer.)
Irving Kaplansky Knighten, Bob Algebra, functional analysis
George S. Kell Kell, Dave Hot water freezing
T. E. Kellogg Palmer, Bill Chem, mosquito repellant
Geraldine Kenney-Wallace Siegman, Anthony Chemistry ? Administration
Brian Kernaghan Brader, Mark C programming language
Michael L. Klein Marchi, Massimo Theoretical Chemistry
Charles J. Krebs Galindo-Leal, Carlos Ecology, Krebs effect
K. J. Laidler Tellefsen, Karen Chemical Kinetics
G. C. Laurence Palmer, Bill Physics ????
Raymond Lemieux Smith, Earl First synthesized glucose
Martin Levine Meunier, Robert Computer vision
Edward S. Lowry himself Computer programming
Pere Marie-Victorin Meunier, Robert Jardin Botanique de Montreal
Colin MacLeod Turner, Steven Nobel (?) DNA discovery?
Marshall McLuhan Clamen, Stewart Social sci, communications
Ben Morrison Willson, David Aurora Borealis
Lawrence Morley Strome, Murray Plate Tektonics/Remote sense
Farley Mowat Abbott, John Northern Animal rights?
Kevin Ogilvie Kendrick, Kelly Genetics, cure for herpes?
Sir William Osler Lyons, Michael Medicine
P.J.E. Peebles Vishniac, Ethan Most important cosmologist
Wilder Penfield Perri, Marie Anatomical basis for memory
John Polanyi me chemiluminescensce Nobel86
Denis Poussart Meunier, Robert Computer Vision
Anatol Rapoport Lloyd-Jones, David conflict theory, game theory
Howard Rapson Sutherland, Russell Pulp chemistry
Hans Selye Goel, Anil K. Psychology of stress.
William Stephenson Wilkins, Darin WW2 Enigma code, Wire photo
Boris Stoicheff Siegman, Anthony Raman Spectroscopy
David Suzuki Meister, Darren Science communication
Henry Taube Parker, Wiley Physical Chemistry Nobel83
Richard Taylor Manuel, John Verified Quark model Nobel90
David Thompson Eisler, Michael Mapped western Canada
Endel Tulving Green, Christopher Psychology of memory
Bill Tutte Royle, Gordon matroid theory (math)
I Uchida Palmer, Bill Down's syndrome
J. Tuzo Wilson Collier, John Continental Drift theory
R. H. Wright Palmer, Bill Chem, mosquito repellant
J.L.(Allen) Yen Leone, Pasquale VL baseline interferometry
Walter Zinn me Breader Reactor (Can/Amer.)
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The list is growing nicely. It's amazing to see just how much was discovered
by Canadians. Actually there are many more who were born in Canada, but
became Americans after graduate school.
Please note: a lot of people have nominated Alexander Graham Bell but I
feel he was really a Scottish/American with a summer home in Canada. Now
I know this is debatable, but please don't nominate him again.
If anyone can fill in some of the question marks on the list, please drop
me a line.
==================================================
That was two years ago. Since then, I have received a grant from Science
Culture Canada, a division of Supply and Services Canada to research the
book. Since my old posting the book has evolved into an educational book
for kids aged 9 - 14 (though this may change again) It will have about
40 two-page spreads with a large graphic in the middle and text/graphic
boxes all around on the following subjects: Vital statistics and photo of
the scientist, Personal statement from the scientist, Narrative of a few
moments in the life of the scientist, "What I was doing when I was 12",
So you want to be a <insert kind of scientist>, Experiment you can do. There
will be an appendix with 100 - 200 more scientists with one paragraph
biographies who didn't quite make it to the double spreads. The whole thing
will then be published on CD-ROM with video and sound clips for added
richness. I am looking for a CD-ROM publisher as well. The text part may
also be available on the CANARIE electronic highway being developed in
Canada as well.
I am still looking for a publisher though Penguin Canada came close
to being it. Hope to find one soon.
I would like to again ask for more nominations, especially in the
pure sciences of Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Also criticisms of
the list are welcomed. Also women and French-Canadian scientists are needed.
I hope this posting will get others to nominate more Great Canadian
Scientists, and to discuss what is "great" what is "Canadian" and what is
"scientist".
Please respond to:
shell@sfu.ca
or
Barry Shell 604-876-5790
4692 Quebec St. Vancouver, B.C. V5V 3M1 Canada
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# # A new natonal study on male sexual behavior, the most thorough
# # examination of American men's sexual practices published since
# # the Kinsey report more than four decades ago,
#
# Right off the bat this information is flawed. "Most throrough"? I'm
# sorry, but Masters & Johnson put out a report within the past few
# years. The Kinsey Institute has been quite active since it was
# founded oh-so-many years ago. They, too, recently put out a new
# report on sexuality.
I was quoting a news story. I have no idea why they claim this was
the most "through examination."
# # shows about 2
# # percent of the men surveyed had engaged in homosexual sex and
# # 1 percent considered themselves exclusively homosexual.
#
# I hate to be picky, but let's do the math. If we take the cities of
# New York City and Los Angeles alone, we can find approximately 3.5
# million gay people...making about 1.75 million gay men.
WHAT? Even in San Francisco, the Dept. of Public Health estimates
that only 11% of the male population is gay. What you are claiming
is that of the 16 million people in the NYC and LA areas, that more
than 10% are gay. What is the source of your numbers? Keep in
mind that attempts by CDC to determine homosexual percentage in
American cities have given numbers <3%.
# 1% of the American male population is about 1.25 million.
#
# So what this study says is that all gay males live in New York City or
# Los Angeles, and about half-a-million people are lying about being gay.
#
# Something smells funny....
Yes, your 1.75 million number smells funny.
# Brian Evans | "Bad mood, bad mood...Sure I'm in a bad mood!
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ites:
I realized that my generalizations would probably have problems
under scrutiny from various Asian points of view. They need to be
discussed in detail, indeed. But for the purposes of this newsgroup
and thread thus far and in this newsgroup, I risked oversimpli-
fication. My main purpose was to emphasize that I was not coming
from a Buddhist or Hindu point of view. As you observed, the
main context is that of Christianity. But by all means, add comments
and corrections as you find them.
I wrote a longer reply addressing some of your points, but decided
to not post it. Perhaps it would be more appropriate for soc.religion.
eastern. Instead I just add the following couple of items about karma
and reincarnation as I see the matter from an anthroposophical and
a Christian point of view.
1. Karma is not simple reward and punishment dealt out by a "judging
deity".
2. Reincarnation is not the same as being born again.
3. Reincarnation is not the same as the resurrection of the body.
4. Reincarnation and karma do not contradict the fundamental teachings
of Christianity about God, the fall, the being. incarnation, death,
and resurrection of Christ, his coming again, sin, grace, forgiveness,
salvation, and the last judgement.
Origen's work was mostly lost. He was not anathematized, to my knowledge,
but his writing comes down largely in fragments and quotations from enemies.
Perhaps someone else can comment on Origen. I don't know if there
is a specific statement about reincarnation from him, but from what I do
know about him he probably did hold to the teaching in one form or another.
I don't know too much about the history of the idea of reincarnation in
the Church. However, I heard an interesting story about Pope John Paul II
from an astronomer who teaches at the University of Cracow. The Pope likes
to go to Poland for a scientific conference every couple of years so he
can relax and talk Polish to friends and fellow countrymen. My acquaintance,
an anthroposophist, related the fact that Woitila knew about Steiner and
Anthroposophy from his early days. Before he became a priest he was an
actor in a dramatic company in Cracow whose leader was a pupil of Steiner
and based his acting and directing methods on Steiner's indications. Part
of the work was the study of the basic works of anthroposophy. Well,
going to this conference with him a few years ago, the astronomer and another
Polish anthroposophist thought they would ask the Pope what he thought about
Anthroposophy. They chickened out at the last minute, but one of them did ask
him what he thought about reincarnation. The Pope smiled and said,
"Actually there have been quite a few good Catholics who believed in
reincarnation," and he proceeded to name several from the earliest times
to modern times. Then he changed the subject. My Polish friend did not
say whether Origen was among those he mentioned.
Gerry Palo (73237.2006@compuserve.com)
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Same engine, different state of tune (less hp and maybe more torque). My
friend at work regularly takes 6 people in his and it seems to haul around
just fine.
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The Denver Post (supposed voice of the supposed Rocky Mountain Empire)
ran the following in the 'Firearms, Supplies' classified heading on
Friday, 23 April 1993. If you have an opinion about their new found
wisdom, I am told that the person to speak with is one Mr. Walters,
(303)820-1267.
Notice
The Denver Post will no longer
knowingly accept any advertise-
ment to buy or sell assault weap-
ons. The Denver Post finds that
the use of assault weapons poses
a threat to the health, safety, and
security of its readers.
Let 'em know what you think...
--Dan
--
Spooksmoke: Revolution, Assasination, Thorium, Cobalt-60, Clintin, CIA, NSA, SHC
DoD #202 / loki@acca.nmsu.edu / liberty or death / taylordf@ucsu.colorado.edu
Send me something even YOU can't read...
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I don't buy this at all. I think things are colored to a very large
degree of preconceived notions of who the players involved are. Try
this exercise:
XXX is pitching today. His team scores 4 in the first inning, and 3
in the fourth. XXX gives up 0 in the 1st through 4th. In the fifth,
he gives up 3 runs. In the 6th, he gives up 2 more. The score is now
7-5, with XXX's team still on top.
I contend that if XXX were Jack Morris, the assessment would be "he is
a gutty veteran who pitches only as well as he has to to win."
If XXX were Mike Trmbley, the assessment would be "he is an
inexperienced rookie who doesn't know how to pitch. Needs more
seasoning. Send him to AAA. Or to the spice rack."
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Iff the phones transmit their serial nos. as part of the message then what
is to say that each phone can take that serial number and use it to generate
the required key....
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See if Radio Shack has a National Semiconductor Adjustable Voltage
Regulator, (National) part number: LM350T or LM350K. These devices are
rated for an input to output differential of up to 35 Volts @ 3 Amps.
Digi-Key Corp. has these parts, as well as several other useful regulators.
If you don't have their catalog, their phone number is: 1-800-344-4539.
I can only guess that you may intend to recharge a 7.5 VDC nicad battery
with this device, and if I'm right, you may want to look through some of the
hobbiest books to get various ideas for battery charging circuits, first.
If you get stuck, e-mail me your FAX number, if you have one, and I'll send
you some suggestions or schematics.
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I'm no defender of the AEC, but it is worth noting that it is unfair to tar
that organization with the decidedly minority scientific views of its
former chairperson and one term Washington governor, Dr. Dixie Lee Ray.
Dr. Ray's political agenda is well-known and documented. Likewise, her
lack of objectivity in analysing scientific data is well-known.
jsh
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Hi! I recently got hold of an old/obsolete PC. First thing I am trying to do
with it, is making it work. Seems the switches in the back have been toggled
since last it was used, and I do not have the manual.
Can anybody help me to identify this beast, and mail me the prober switch-settings?
All I know is that is is a Bondwell 38, made in 1986, most likely a 286,
can be toggled between 4.77 and 8 mHz, and looks like no changes have been made.
Any information would be appreciated.
--
Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.
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Okay, okay. I forgot about that. Sheeesh.
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We use it as starting fluid for jet ski's. The fact that its a lubricant
works very well since jet ski's are 2 cycle. It also helps when a ski
floods with water because we clean the spark plus with the stuff.
OB sci.electronics:
I have an office/studio in my garage with a phone in it. Our wireless phone
has a page feature where you can make the phone or hand set ring to get
the attention of the other person. Is there a simple circuit that I can use
over the second pair of wires (or the first pair) to emulate this effect
with the phone in the garage? (ie push a button to make the phone ring in the
house or push a button to make it ring in the garage.)
Thanks
Xavier
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I'm in need of a videotaped copy of a pc (pd) program. Please let me know if
you can do this.
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(Re: the newsgroup -- followups set to talk.politics.mideast where this
belongs.)
This may make the term 'civil war' dubious, but it does nothing to the
phrase 'destroy the government'. An occupying government is still a govern-
ment, and the Palestinians have made it quite clear that their goal is
not simply to prevent it from occupying the territories that don't con-
fer citizenship (which is your own determination of the distinction) but
to wipe it out entirely (and, not incidentally, the entire Jewish population
it rules with it). This is an intent to 'destroy the government', no
matter where the government happens to be from.
Wasn't a requirement for democracy in Athens. For that matter, isn't
a requirement for the term democracy in the United States, which doesn't
let non-citizens vote either. Both the United States and Israel have
processes whereby it is possible to acquire citizenship, with a great
deal of effort and a modicum of screening -- it's just that it isn't
automatic for living in the territories. It isn't automatic for living
in New York, either.
That said, suit yourself. Having never considered democracy the ultimate
in Good In This World, I could care less if you feel like calling Israel,
or America, or anywhere else, a democracy. Personally, I withhold the
term from Israel for the same reason I withhold it from Britain... the
parliamentary system is a serious handicap.
Again, suit yourself. In which case Israel is *not* attacking its own
people, it is fighting a war on foreign soil, in which case the residents
are entitled to play rough, yes -- but Israel's allowed to get just as
rough, within the bare limits of the rules of war. This includes, among
other things, the right to shoot or bomb *anyone* a national of the coun-
try in question who is fighting them (which permits mass frontal assault
on all rock-throwers), along with the right to take out any installation
of military importance (certain villages with too-good fortifications can
be handled by aerial bombing, as can waterways since they count as supply
lines to the enemy), and the right to do anything whatsoever to whatever
constitutes a government that they can lay hands on (if Hamas is trying
to set up as the ruling party, let them beware).
If this is not the scenario you want, I recommend you go back to calling
it a civil war. Civil wars have to be handled nicer. You cannot say the
Palestinians are a nation fighting a resistance war against a foreign
nation and still call Israel a government who is treating its own people
cruelly. If the Palestinians are fighting a war against a foreign country,
so is Israel, and the gloves come *off*.
-Naomi
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For those of you still unsure whether this is satire, the jury is still out:
"Also yesterday, even though the compound no longer exists, the
US attorney's office here released formerly sealed documents,
including a search warrant and related affidavits, that authorities
planned to use when the siege was over.
"These documents did not include the original warrants the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms had in late February, which to this
day have never been released.
"...one of the documents indicated the agency planned to seek
samples of Koresh's handwriting not only to verify that he had
signed for some gun purchases, but also that he espoused
'certain doctrines hostile to law enforcement and particularly
the ATF.'"
So, one of the charges against Koresh seems to be Contempt of Cop -- he
expressed hostility to the BATF. That chilly feeling in your gonads is
perfectly normal, folks... it should go away in about 51 days.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
That should save them the trouble of subpoena-ing samples. Heavens knows
I want to cooperate fully, meinherren.
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I am looking for a printer utility which stay in Window 3.1 as an icon and
let you drag a file to it to issue the printing.
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(1)
You know ed,... You're right! Andi shouldn't be comparing
Israel to the Nazis. The Israelis are much worse than the
Nazis ever were anyway. The Nazis did a lot of good for
Germany, and they would have succeeded if it weren't for the
damn Jews. The Holocaust never happened anyway. Ample
evidence given by George Schafer at Harvard, Dept. of History,
and even by Randolph Higgins at NYU, have shown that the
Holocaust was just a semitic conspiracy created to obtain
sympathy to piush for the creation of Israel.
(2)
Just kidding.
Be careful rj3s. When people start finding humour in the Holocaust
they often run the danger of exposing themselves for the hateful
refuse that they really are.
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Serdar, I have been told that you are not real, your account is fake (which I
confirmed by trying to E-mail you) and advised not to waste my time writing to
"you". But, I get pleasure from watching you make a fool of yourself.
So you stand by the statement that all Armenians are barbarians. OK, I see.
Lets not even act as if there is a chance they are human. See Serdar, when you
judge people because of their race this is called racism. I tend to frown on
this sort of thing. Obviously you don't. When you label an entire race the
way you do, it is easy to stop thinking of them as human beings, and this can
make GENOCIDE possible. But I guess (and this is where Serdar will fill the
page with quotes taken out of context) you know that, huh?
Don't you find it weak that all of Serdars enemies are
Fascist/NAZI/barbarian/_________fill in the blank with any catch all bad term.
Public knowlege? I was not aware of that. NOW I see, the ARMENIANS decide to
kill the Israeli athletes in 1972 as PRACTICE. I was confused, but thanks for
clearing that up.
Wow, you are on a roll with the accusations today Serdar, so how did the
Armenians steal from the Turkish children? Was it their lunch money? This is
very cute how you inserted children in this fill in the blank accusation sheet
you fill out every day. It really touches my heart. Oh and thank you for
letting me know that Kurds and Armenians hate each other. I was not aware of
this. The only time I have ever talked about Kurds it was about the WONDERFUL
treatment they were recieving in Turkey. They must have a high incedence of
insanity because there sure are a lot of them fighting against the
non-oppresive Turkish government that has let their culture flower over the
past 70 years.
Thanks for the unbiased TURKISH MEDIA SOURCE. I am sure the Milliyet is rated
number one for accuracy and truth.
Innocent? Is that what terrorists call their victims? I have never heard of
terrorists calling their victims innocent. "Yes, folks in other news the IRA
public relations department reported that it had killed 20 innocent victims in
a car bombing... " Nope Serdar, I don't think so.
Oops you almost forgot to fill in the "Say something about Turks being killed
by Armenians here" section of your note.
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I have the following games for sale/trade. Make an offer.
Hu-Cards:
R-Type
Sidearms
Alien Crush
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Tricky Kick
Ninja Spirit
Somer Assault
CD:
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--
brian
oplinger@ra.crd.ge.com
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I have an 8000S I'd like to sell. Now that I'm finished with my TAing,
I don't have nearly as many appoints to miss, and I'd like to put the
money toward a laptop.
Asking $200. I bought it last Christmas. It's in great shape and
includes (as an added bonus!) a nice, padded leather carrying case.
--
Blair MacIntyre --- bm@cs.columbia.edu --- CS Department, Columbia University
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Pennicillin if i have everything correct, was a highly valuable
Myco-toxin, discovered during WW2. It proved to have an amazing
Bacterio-cidal effect without human toxicity. It's immediate
administration showed immediate dramatic results solving
problems that previously were fatal. Although initially
enormously expensive to culture, within 3 years,
the price had fallen at least two orders of magnitude,
and within 10 years, was not much more expensive then
aspirin. Penicillin was also usable for an amazingly wide
class of infections.
Centoxin is a drug that is not passing FDA approval. It promised
amazing results for Toxic shock, a rapidly fatal disease.
It consumed enormous amounts of funding in testing and
developement, However it works less then 1 in 5 times
of administration and costs $2,000 per administration
with no promise of any reduction in manufacturing cost.
The drug thus costs $10,000 per useful case, and is
implicated in a slight increase in mortality for some
patients.
I would not dare to compare the shuttle to Pennicillin,
but to centoxin.
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Arab citizens have the all the same rights as Jews. Arabs are
exempt from military service, but that is about it. Arabs have a
full voice in Israeli politics, to the degree that they choose to
get involved. They may vote. There are Arabs in the Cabinet.
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Were.
In urban areas.
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i heard a news report indicating research showing improved
hearing in people taking vitamin A. the research showed that new
growth replaced damaged "hairlike" nerves. has anyone heard about
this?
thanks,
claude
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 20, 1993
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
DURING PRESENTATION OF TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
The Rose Garden
1:25 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Please be seated. I
want to say, first, how delighted I am to be here with Secretary
Riley and with Senator Graham. The three of us served as governors
together during the 1980s when we worked constantly on strategies to
improve our schools, when we led often difficult and long efforts to
upgrade the standards in American education and to improve the
quality of instruction our children were receiving.
There were no two governors whom I admired more during
that period than the two who now stand on this stage with the Teacher
of the Year. And I think both of them would join me in saying that,
after all the testimony has been heard and all the bills have been
passed and the funds have been raised and allocated, it all comes
down to what happens between the teacher and the students in the
classroom.
That's why today's ceremony honoring the National
Teacher of the Year is so important. Tracey Leon Bailey is one
recognition all across our country for highly advanced and innovative
science programs. He's developed and introduced into Florida's
classrooms cutting-edge programs in molecular biology and DNA
fingerprinting -- subjects usually taught only in college and, I
might add, probably only dimly understood here in the Nation's
Capital. (Laughter.)
Within three years of being hired by a satellite high
school, Mr. Bailey's institution had one of the strongest science
programs in the entire state of Florida, and it won numerous national
and international awards. These advanced programs aren't just for a
favored few. Tracey Bailey has inspired all kinds of students,
including those previously known as low-achieving or at-risk to reach
for excellence and to attain it. This is what our students need and
what our country needs.
Today, we know that a good future with high wages and
rich opportunities rests on the foundation of quality education for a
lifetime. The basics aren't enough anymore. All our kids need
competence in math and science and advanced problem-solving. That's
why Tracey Bailey's accomplishments are so important and why I am so
pleased and proud to participate in recognizing and honoring these
accomplishments.
Tracey, you represent the best in the United States.
I'm glad to recognize you today and to formally present you with this
Apple Award as the Teacher of the Year for 1993. (Applause.)
MR. BAILEY: Thank you, Mr. President. It is indeed a
great honor and a tremendous responsibility to represent the nation's
2.5 million teachers. And we appreciate the support that you have
shown for education, and we're looking forward to working with you to
help redesign and improve our nation's schools.
We know that the quality of our children's education
will directly impact the future of our economic and social landscape
in the years to come. And we thank you so much for your continued
support and commitment to our children's education. Thank you again.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: In closing, I would like to also welcome
the education leaders in Florida who are here, those representing the
national education groups who have also come. I'd like to recognize
Tracey's congressman, Representative Jim Bacchus in the back, himself
a great advocate of education. And I'd like to remind all of you
that the ultimate purpose of the National Teacher of the Year Award
is to find a way for the rest of us to express our appreciation to
people all across this country who give their lives to our children,
all of the teachers of this country who get up every day and do their
best to try to advance the cause of learning for all the children of
America. They are, in so many ways, our most important public
servants.
Thank you very much. (Applause.)
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Sells for $570 here (Southern California) almost everywhere.
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I don't want to attack anyone's personal opinions and thus have not
included any articles - but it seems to me incredibly ridiculous
and pompous for someone to sit back with the benefit of hindsight
and point fingers at Clinton, Reno, the FBI, or whomever.
First of all, it is a knee-jerk judgement. The facts are quite
muddled at this point and will likely be for quite a while.
Secondly, things do not improve by pointing blame and accusatory
fingers. Pointing fingers is a destructive action. If everyone
sat around pointing fingers all the time, nothing would get done
and nothing would ever get any better. And despite the tragedy,
we can learn something from this - if it is approached in a
constructive manner. Doesn't it seem that working together is
more productive than working against one another?
Thirdly, it seems incredibly hypocritical to place blame given
the benefit of hindsight - something that those who made the
decisions did not have the benefit of. Why not give them the courtesy
of acknowledging that they did the best they could with the
data they had - in a very, very difficult situation. Some
responses have gone so far to suggest that the actions were done
without regard for the lives of the people in the compound - give
me a break.
Be part of the solution - not the problem.
And that's MY opinion -
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You haven't been facing major league pitching.
Maybe more... you have to be good at the plate, and most
STATS did a little study in the 1993 Scoreboard book entitled "Can
you hit sacrifice flies on purpose?" A summary of the findings:
Over the 5 year period, sac-fly type fly balls were produced 17.6
percent of the time in situations where a sac fly was useful, and
17.7 percent of the time when a sac fly wasn't useful.
They looked at the leaders in sac flies, and found that the leaders
in sac flies - in other words, the guys you would expect to be good
at it it - hit sac fly type fly balls only 3% more often when they
needed to - a difference way too small to be the result of a skill.
Essentially, the players who hit a lot of sac flies seem to do
so because they hit hit sac fly type flies often, with and without
a runner on third.
STATS concludes "So it appears conclusive that hitters cannot hit
sacrifice flies on purpose - even if they practice in the bATTING
cage."
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I prefer InfoSelect myself, but it is a strange kind of PIM.
Well, a few things might help you like the 3.1 File Manager better.
1) To get more than one window simply double click on a drive icon.
That it only gives you one window to work with is a fallacy. You
can drag files between windows, to any icon on the tree on the left
side of the window, and to any drive icon. This beats your "left
and right window" as you can have as many open as you wish instead
of just two.
2) You can launch any app from within File Manager by double clicking
on the executable's icon.
3) You can launch any application and open a document file by double
clicking on the document file's icon, provided you have
associations set correctly. This is easily done with the menus. The
"browse" capability adds a lot of functionality to 3.1. So if you
name all your text files with .txt and point all GIF, TIFF, etc.
files towards Paintshop or WinGIF, this takes care of your
requirement for "text reading and graphics viewing".
I know someone who prefers using File Manager as his shell. Setting up
all the associations you need is the way to do it.
If Directory Opus is half as good as File Manager then it must be
pretty good indeed! File Manager just needs you to understand how
some things are done.
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Uh oh, Michael; you typed "hell" and capitalized it to boot! Now
Peter Nyikos will explain that you're not a real Christian!
BZZT! Sorry Michael--the Nyikos Inquisition pointed out that I was
hell-bound after one mildly scurrilous pun on "revealing oneself."
Admitting to masturbation--well, I'm just shocked!
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Um, I think you and the Bible are the ones inside the wall. There's a
really wonderful world out here. You really should peek out at it sometime.
The silly things you keep saying only reinforce the fact that we *are*
on opposite sides of a very high wall. I see how incredibly beautiful
things are on my side, and I only keep telling you about it because
I'd like to you come join me here.
I never said that. I said that I would PREFER to cease to exist than
to be tossed into any god's version of Hell.
You say to me, "Brian, come up here and take a look from this vantage
point." But you're in a valley, looking at a crayon drawing of a sun
and a tree, and I can't for the life of me figure out why you're so
immersed in it. *I*'m the one trying to get you to come up HERE,
don't you see?
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application
comp
Indeed,
of
and
Well, I thought that highmem.sys would do that too. I just took out emm386
of my config.sys, and I'm still loading my other drivers high (mouse, vga
shadow bios, dos-key etc.) I haven't checked mem/c, but I believe I have
managed to load them high (ie between 640KB and 1024KB).
Also, ever since I took out emm386, windows loads slightly faster, I get
about 3 extra meg of freemem in windows (I'm running 386 enhanced with 4
Meg RAM, 7 Meg swap) and I got rid of my ctrl-alt del reboot problem
(before, the computer would not reboot using ctrl-alt-del after exiting
windows).
I would really like to keep emm386 out of my config.sys. Anybody else have
info on this???
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These are perfectly valid points and I agree. I'm glad we (MS) are starting
to remedy this situation with DOS 6 (and it will get better in future
releases). You do need to be aware of some history, however. In the
mid-late 80's, MS's point of view was that OS/2 was going to take over
the world and DOS would be phased out. As such, resources for DOS
(and windows, for that matter) development were mostly redirected to OS/2.
The theory was to keep just enough resources on DOS to support people
until they started using OS/2, so utilities and such for DOS fell by the
wayside.
Then Windows 3.0 hit the market, OS/2 flopped (1.x, at least...2.x seems to
be doing a little better, but its future is still cloudy), and people either
stayed with their DOS (3.x and 4.x) apps or moved to Windows. About that
point in time, MS made its decision to drop OS/2 for DOS/Windows in the
short term and Windows/NT in the long term. DOS 5, much improved over DOS
3.x and 4.x, was the first result of MS's refocussing on DOS and Windows.
Version 6 takes things somewhat further and I suspect future versions will
offer even more in terms of "real" OS features (I work on NT and have no
real clue about what my coworkers over in DOSland are doing, but I do
know that there are a heck of a lot more of them than there were a
few years ago).
...Dave
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I don't know what you mean by 'edged', but surely there are two other
possibilities for an isotropic distribution: near interstellar (up to
~100 pc, i.e. within the disc), or the Galaxy's corona?
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Back in high school I used to work for a detailing company, and one of the
services we offered was an engine cleaning (remove all that oil BEFORE you
sell the car... ;-}). Unfortunately, we did not have a high pressure
washer so we would use one several miles from the shop. On more than one
occasion after washing the engine, it would not start as water would have
gotten under the distributor (I would put a plastic bag around it to try and
minimize this), around the spark plug wires, etc and it would be nearly
IMPOSSIBLE to try and wipe all these areas down with a dry rag. The usual
solution was to carry a can of WD-40, and when the car wouldn't start to spray
all the likely areas and it would then start on the very first time.
It may be a myth, but it certainly kept me from being stranded at a car wash...
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It is 'Serdar', 'kocaoglan'.
Just love it. Well, it could be your head wasn't screwed on just right.
If that does ever happen, look out the window and see if there is a
non-fascist x-Soviet Armenian Government in the East.
"In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists a single Turkish soul.
It is in our power to tear away the veil of illusion that some of us
create for ourselves. It certainly is possible to severe the artificial
life-support system of an imagined 'ethnic purity' that some of us
falsely trust as the only structure that can support their heart beats
in this alien land."
(Sahak Melkonian - 1920 - "Preserving the Armenian purity")
You sound like ASALA/SDPA/ARF idiots/clowns/crooks. If you prefer to
imagine that U.S. Ambassador Bristol and Armenian/Jewish scholars were
trying to mislead 'Arromdians', be my guest. A typical Armenian clown.
Source: "U.S. Library of Congress": 'Bristol Papers' - General
Correspondence Container #34.
"While the Dashnaks [x-Soviet Armenian Government] were in power they
did everything in the world to keep the pot boiling by attacking Kurds,
Turks and Tartars; by committing outrages against the Moslems; by
massacring the Moslems; and robbing and destroying their homes. During
the last two years the Armenians in Russian Caucasus have shown no
ability to govern themselves and especially no ability to govern or
handle other races under their power."
Source: General Bronsart wrote as follows in an article in the July 24,
1921 issue of the newspaper "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung:"
"Since all the Moslems capable of bearing arms were in the Turkish Army,
it was easy to organize a terrible massacre by the Armenians against
defenseless people, because the Armenians were not only attacking the
sides and rear of the Eastern Army paralyzed at the front by the
Russians, but were attacking the Moslem folk in the region as well."
Source: John Dewey, "The Turkish Tragedy", The New Republic, Volume 40,
November 12, 1928, pp. 268-269.
"They [Armenians] boasted of having raised an army of one hundred
and fifty thousand men to fight a civil war, and that they burned at
least a hundred Turkish villages and exterminated their population."
What a clown...Let us ask Armenian scholars - shall we?
Source: Hovannisian, Richard G.: Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918.
University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles), 1967, p. 13.
"The addition of the Kars and Batum oblasts to the Empire increased the
area of Transcaucasia to over 130,000 square miles. The estimated population
of the entire region in 1886 was 4,700,000, of whom 940,000 (20 percent) were
Armenian, 1,200,000 (25 percent) Georgian, and 2,220,000 (45 percent) Moslem.
Of the latter group, 1,140,000 were Tatars. Paradoxically, barely one-third
of Transcaucasia's Armenians lived in the Erevan guberniia, where the
Christians constituted a majority in only three of the seven uezds. Erevan
uezd, the administrative center of the province, had only 44,000 Armenians
as compared to 68,000 Moslems. By the time of the Russian Census of 1897,
however, the Armenians had established a scant majority, 53 percent, in the
guberniia; it had risen by 1916 to 60 percent, or 670,000 of the 1,120,000
inhabitants. This impressive change in the province's ethnic character
notwithstanding, there was, on the eve of the creation of the Armenian
Republic, a solid block of 370,000 Tartars who continued to dominate the
southern districts, from the outskirts of Ereven to the border of Persia."
(See also Map 1. Historic Armenia and Map 4. Administrative subdivisions of
Transcaucasia).
In 1920, '0' percent Turk.
"We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as
ways of escape for the Tartars and then proceeded in the work
of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village.
Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts
into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable
and inhabitants fled from them into fields, bullets and bayonets
completed the work. Some of the Tartars escaped of course. They
found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border
into Turkey. The rest were killed. And so it is that the whole
length of the borderland of Russian Armenia from Nakhitchevan to
Akhalkalaki from the hot plains of Ararat to the cold mountain
plateau of the North were dotted with mute mournful ruins of
Tartar villages. They are quiet now, those villages, except for
howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the
scattered bones of the dead."
Ohanus Appressian
"Men Are Like That"
p. 202.
Just say so.
Source: "Men Are Like That" by Leonard Ramsden Hartill. The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Indianapolis (1926). (305 pages).
(Memoirs of an Armenian officer who participated in the genocide of 2.5
million Muslim people)
"Foreword:"
"For example, we were camped one night in a half-ruined Tartar mosque,
the most habitable building of a destroyed village, near the border
of Persia and Russian Armenia. During the course of evening I asked
Ohanus if he could tell me anything of the history of the village and
the cause of its destruction. In his matter of fact way he replied, Yes,
I assisted in its sack and destruction, and witnessed the slaying of
those whose bones you saw to-day scattered among its ruins."
p. 202 (first and second paragraphs).
"We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as
ways of escape for the Tartars and then proceeded in the work
of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village.
Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts
into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable
and inhabitants fled from them into fields, bullets and bayonets
completed the work. Some of the Tartars escaped of course. They
found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border
into Turkey. The rest were killed. And so it is that the whole
length of the borderland of Russian Armenia from Nakhitchevan to
Akhalkalaki from the hot plains of Ararat to the cold mountain
plateau of the North were dotted with mute mournful ruins of
Tartar villages. They are quiet now, those villages, except for
howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the
scattered bones of the dead."
p. 15 (second paragraph).
"The Tartars were, for the most part, poor. Some of them lived in villages
and cultivated small farms; many of them continued in the way of life of
their nomadic forefathers. They drove their flocks and herds from valley
to valley, from plain to mountain, and from mountain to plain, following
the pasturage as it changed with the seasons. They ranged from the salt
desert shores of the Caspian Sea far into the mighty Caucasus Mountains.
Even the village Tartars are a primitive people, only semicivilized."
"I can see now that we Armenians frankly despised the Tartars, and, while
holding a disproportionate share of the wealth of the country, regarded and
treated them as inferiors. The fact that the Russians looked down upon all
Armenians in much the same way as Armenians regarded Tartars, far from proving
a bond between ourselves and our racially different neighbors, intensified
an attitude and conduct on our part that served only to exacerbate hostility."
p. 20 (second paragraph).
"Our men armed themselves, gathered together and advanced on the Tartar
section of the village. There were no lights in the houses and the doors
were barred, for the Tartars suspected what as to happen and were in great
fear. Our men hammered on the doors, but got no response; whereupon they
smashed in the doors and began a carnage that continued until the last
Tartar was slain. Throughout the hideous night, I cowered at home in terror,
unable to shut my ears to the piercing screams of the helpless victims and
the loud shouts of our men. By morning the work was finished."
p. 109 (second paragraph).
"As things were, the members of the Dashnack Party were without administrative
experience; consequently the government they instituted quickly proved itself
incompetent to rule by legitimate means.
The members of the government had been revolutionists working in secret and
outside the law. When they became a legally instituted, recognized governing
body with the destiny of Armenia in their hands, they proved incompetent to
do better than resume the terrorist tactics that had characterized their
fight against the Russian and Turkish Governments in their outlaw days.
The outstanding feature of their rule, now that they were in power, was,
as in the old days, trial and execution without hearing. A man evoking
the displeasure of the government or of some official would be tried and
condemned without arrest or preference of charges against him. The method
of execution was for a government 'mauserist' to walk up behind the
condemned man in his home or on the street, place a pistol to the back
of his head and blow out his brains. This simple way of getting rid of
those who were undesirable in the view of the government and soon became
a common way of paying debts."
p. 203 (first paragraph).
"A soldier succeeded in driving his bayonet through the Tartar. I saw the
point of the weapon emerge through his back. ...Another soldier seized a rock
and pounded the Tartar's head with it... The Armenian who had bayoneted him
sprang to his feet, wrested the weapon from the Tartar's body, and, raising
it to his lips, licked it clean of blood, exclaiming in Russian, 'Slodkey!
Slodkey!' (Sweet.)"
p. 203 (second paragraph).
"One evening I passed through what had been a Tartar village. Among the
ruins a fire was burning. I went to the fire and saw seated about
it a group of soldiers. Among them were two Tartar girls, mere children.
The girls were crouched on the ground, crying softly with suppressed
sobs. Lying scattered over the ground were broken household utensils and
other furnishings of Tartar peasant homes. There were also bodies of the
dead."
p. 204 (first paragraph).
"I was soon asleep. In the night I was awakened by the persistent crying of
a child. I arose and went to investigate. A full moon enabled me to make
my way about and revealed to me all the wreck and litter of the tragedy
that had been enacted. Guided by the child's crying, I entered the yard of
a house, which I judged from its appearance must have been the home of a
Turkish family. There in a corner of the yard I found a women dead. Her
throat had been cut. Lying on her breast was a small child, a girl about a
year old."
p. 118.
"Slowly the train of oxcarts lumbered along through the snow, the cart
jolting and the loads swaying. Boys ran along the line of oxen, encouraging
them with shrill Tartar cries, and belaboring the beasts with sticks. In the
carts, the women, veiled as is the Tartar way, held children in their arms.
Wrapped in blankets and huddled among the goods that burdened the carts they
sought protection from the wind and cold. A few old men plodded along on foot.
Across the road through the ravine a barrier had been thrown. The leading
oxteam reached this barrier and halted. The gunmen and other ruffians
concealed among the rocks opened fire. Women and children leaped and
scrambled from the carts, screamed, ran and sought vainly for safety.
This massacre was not complete. The Armenian soldiers in the near-by
barracks, hearing the firing and the turmoil, hurried to the scene....
That same day the abandoned Tartar quarter of Alexandropol was looted
and completely destroyed."
p. 192.
"Great swarms of peasants who had come out of their hiding-places on the
retreat of the Turks followed our army as it advanced.... They entered
into the city with the army and immediately began plundering the stores
that had been left by the Turks."
p. 193.
"Terrible vengeance was taken upon Tartars, Kurds and Turks. Their villages
were destroyed and they themselves were slain or driven out of the country."
p. 195.
"The fanatical Dashnacks hated the Turks above all others and then in order
of diminishing intensity: Tartars, Kurds and Russians."
p. 218. (First and second paragraphs)
"Russian troops did terrible things in the Turkish villages...We Armenians
did not spare the Tartars....If persisted in, the slaughtering of prisoners,
the looting, and the rape and massacre of the helpless become commonplace
actions expected and accepted as a matter of course.
I have been on the scenes of massacres where the dead lay on the ground,
in numbers, like the fallen leaves in a forest. They had been as helpless
and as defenseless as sheep. They had not died as soldiers die in the
heat of battle, fired with ardor and courage, with weapons in their hands,
and exchanging blow for blow. They had died as the helpless must, with
their hearts and brains bursting with horror worse than death itself."
p. 133 (first paragraph)
"In this movement we took with us three thousand Turkish soldiers who
had been captured by the Russians and left on our hands when the Russians
abandoned the struggle. During our retreat to Karaklis two thousand of
these poor devils were cruelly put to death. I was sickened by the
brutality displayed, but could not make any effective protest. Some,
mercifully, were shot. Many of them were burned to death. The method
employed was to put a quantity of straw into a hut, and then after
crowding the hut with Turks, set fire to the straw."
p. 19 (first paragraph)
"The Tartar section of the town no longer existed, except as a pile of
ruins. It had been destroyed and its inhabitants slaughtered. The same
fate befell the Tartar section of Khankandi."
p. 22 (second paragraph)
"Many of our men had served in the Russian Army, and were trained soldiers.
We Armenians were rich and possessed arms. Tartars had never received
military training. They were poor, and possessed few arms beyond knives.
...Shortly after the killing of the Tartars in our village, the revolution
in Russia was suppressed."
p. 97 (third paragraph)
"Within a few years, following the beginning of the movement, an invisible
government of Armenians by Armenians had been established in Turkish
Armenia in armed opposition to the Turkish Government. This secret
government had its own courts and laws and an army of assassins called
'Mauserists' (professional killers) to enforce its decrees."
p. 98 (first paragraph)
"The Dashnacks were in continual open rebellion against the Turkish
Government."
p. 98 (third paragraph)
"...the Dashnacks engineered a general revolt of Armenians in Turkish
Armenia under the mistaken belief that European nations would intervene
and secure independence for Turkish Armenia."
p. 99 (second paragraph)
"The Dashnacks were fanatics."
p. 99 (third paragraph)
"The Dashnacks took advantage of this situation and extended their
revolutionary activities into the Russian province. They instituted
a campaign of terrorism and employed threats and force in securing
contributions to the party funds from rich Armenians. A wealthy
man would be assessed a stipulated sum. Refusal to pay brought upon
him a sentence of death.
Every member of the party was pledged to carry out orders without
question. If a man were to be assassinated, lots might be drawn to
select an executioner or the job might be assigned to one of the
'mauserists' of the party."
p. 130 (first paragraph)
"...in moments of victory against Turks and Kurds or Tartars, they
[Armenians] have been remorseless in seeking vengeance."
p. 130 (third paragraph)
"The city was a scene of confusion and terror. During the early days of
the war, when the Russian troops invaded Turkey, large numbers of the
Turkish population abandoned their homes and fled before the Russian
advance."
p. 159 (second paragraph)
"I made a cannon, a huge gun to lift which required four men. I made balls
for it. With my cannon the Armenians could knock down any of the Tartar
houses and so they were able to drive the Tartars out."
p. 181 (first paragraph)
"The Tartar villages were in ruins."
p. 189 (third paragraph)
"The dead Tartar lay with his head in a pool of mud and blood, his
beard still setaceous and now crimsoned."
Need I go on?
Serdar Argic
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Is it not also an abomination that somebody would spend money on "space
advertising" when those children are starving? Perhaps some redistribution
of wealth would help them ...
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It seems I'm in the fortunate position to desire what many people want to sell-
a miniature color tv. I require color and input for cable or vcr. I would
prefer a 5inch diagonal and a tube television (not lcd).
Get paid the first, make an offer by email.
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Larry -
Thanks for the reply, but this isn't quite the same thing. Like I said before,
I can understand why non-Christians would be denied *access* to holy
ceremonies, but the ceremony itself (communion) was not secret. In fact, all
four gospels record the first "breaking of the bread" in some detail.
Communion was a fellowship meal, and it was (and still should be, in my
opinion) inappropriate to invite those who did not share in the fellowship of
the Body of Christ. The fact that unbelievers, denied access to these communal
meals, began to imagine all sorts of secret and debased rituals during
communion does not by any means imply that the early Christians were in fact
hiding shameful things from the general public. In fact, I think if you read
some of the early church fathers, you will find that they were not at all
bashful about describing what went on during communion. That's why it seems
funny to me when Mormons, who claim to be the only true restoration of 1st
century Christianity, insist on hiding certain rituals on the grounds that they
are "too sacred."
- Mark
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The following is a juxtaposition of part of an ancient text known as
"de Sacramentis", usually attributed to St. Ambrose of Milan, and the
canon of the traditional Catholic Mass of the Roman rite. The
conclusion from this comparison is that the central part of the
traditional Roman canon was already fairly well in place by sometime
in the late 4th century.
Taken from "The Mass of the Western Rites", by the Right Reverend Dom
Fernand Cabrol, Abbot of Farnborough, 1934, without permission.
Excerpted from Chapter VI: THE MASS AT ROME, FROM THE FIFTH TO THE
SEVENTH CENTURIES. The paragraph at the end is from the book, not me.
Sorry about the long lines.
Joe Buehler
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TEXT OF DE SACRAMENTIS ROMAN CANON ROMAN CANON
(about 400 AD) (1962 AD) (English translation)
Te igitur ... (omitted here)
Memento Domine ...
Communicantes ...
Hanc igitur oblationem ...
Fac nobis (inquit sacerdos), Quam oblationem tu Deus, in Do thou, O God, deign to
hanc oblationem ascriptam, omnibus, quaesumus, bless what we offer, and
ratam, rationabilem, benedictam, adscriptam, make it approved,
acceptabilem, quod figura ratam, rationabilem, effective, right, and
est corporis et sanguinis acceptabilemque facere wholly pleasing in every
Jesu Christi. digneris: ut nobis corpus et way, that it may become
sanguis fiat dilectissimi for our good, the Body
Filii tui Domini nostri Jesu and Blood of Thy dearly
Christi. beloved Son, Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Qui pridie quam pateretur, Qui pridie quam pateretur, Who, the day before He
in sanctis manibus suis accepit panem in sanctas ac suffered, took bread into
accepit panem, respexit in venerabiles manus suas: et His holy and venerable
caelum ad te, sancte Pater elevatis oculis in ccelum, hands, and having raised
omnipotens, aeterne Deus, ad Te Deum Patrem suum His eyes to Heaven, unto
Gratias agens, benedixit, omnipotentem, tibi gratias Thee, O God, His Almighty
fregit, fractum quae agens, benedixit, fregit, Father, giving thanks to
apostolis suis et discipulis deditque discipulis suis Thee, He blessed it, broke
suis tradidit dicens: dicens: accipite et it, and gave it to His
accipite et edite ex hoc manducate ex hoc omnes: hoc disciples, saying: Take ye
omnes: hoc est enim corpus est enim corpus meum. all and eat of this:
meum, quod pro multis For this is my Body.
confringetur.
Similiter etiam calicem Simili modo postquam In like manner, when the
postquam caenatum est, caenatum est, accipiens et supper was done, taking
pridie quam pateretur, hunc praeclarum calicem in also this goodly chalice
accepit, respexit in sanctas ac venerabiles manus into His holy and
caelum ad te, sancte pater suas item tibi gratias venerable hands, again
omnipotens, aeterne Deus, agens, benedixit deditque giving thanks to Thee,
gratias agens, benedixit, discipulis suis, dicens: He blessed it, and gave it
apostolis suis et discipulis accipite et bibite ex eo to His disciples, saying:
suis tradidit, dicens: omnes: Hic est enim calix Take ye all, and drink of
accipite et bibite ex hoc sanguinis mei, novi et this: For this is the
omnes: hic est enim sanguis aeterni testamenti: Chalice of my Blood of the
meus. mysterium fidei; qui pro new and eternal covenant;
vobis et pro multis the mystery of faith,
effundetur in remissionem which shall be shed for
peccatorum. you and for many unto the
forgiveness of sins.
Haec quotiescumque feceritis As often as you shall do
in mei memoriam facietis. these things, in memory of
Me shall you do them.
Ergo memores gloriosissimae Unde et memores, Domine, nos Mindful, therefore, O
ejus passionis et ab inferis servi tui, sed et plebs tua Lord, not only of the
resurrectionis, in caelum sancta, ejusdem Christi blessed Passion of the
ascensionis, offerimus tibi Filii tui Domini nostri, tam same Christ, Thy Son, our
hanc immaculatam hostiam, beatae passionis necnon et Lord, but also of His
hunc panem sanctum et ab inferis resurrectionis, resurrection from the
calicem vitae aeternae; sed et in caelos gloriosae dead, and finally His
ascensionis: offerimus glorious ascension into
praeclarae majestati tuae de Heaven, we, Thy ministers,
tuis donis ac datis, hostiam as also Thy holy people,
puram, hostiam sanctam, offer unto Thy supreme
hostiam immaculatam, Panem majesty, of the gifts
sanctum vitae aeternae, et bestowed upon us, the
Calicem salutis perpetuae. pure Victim, the holy
Victim, the all-perfect
Victim: the holy Bread of
life eternal and the
Chalice of unending
salvation.
et petimus et precamur, ut Supra quae propitio ac And this do Thou deign to
hanc oblationem suscipias in sereno vultu respicere regard with gracious and
sublimi altari tuo per manus digneris: et accepta habere, kindly attention and hold
angelorum tuorum sicut sicuti accepta, habere acceptable, as Thou didst
suscipere dignatus es munera dignatus es munera pueri tui deign to accept the
pueri tui justi Abel et justi Abel, et sacrificium offerings of Abel, Thy
sacrificium patriarchae patriarchae nostri Abrahae, just servant, and the
nostri Abrahae et quod tibi et quod tibi obtulit summus sacrifice of Abraham our
obtulit summus sacerdos sacerdos tuus Melchisedech patriarch, and that which
Melchisedech. sanctum sacrificium, Thy chief priest
immaculatam hostiam. Melchisedech offered unto
Thee, a holy sacrifice and
a spotless victim.
Supplices te rogamus, Most humbly we implore
omnipotens Deus: jube haec Thee, almighty God, bid
perferri per manus sancti these offerings to be
Angeli tui in sublime altare brought by the hands of
tuum in conspectu divinae Thy holy angel unto Thy
majestatis tuae: etc. altar above; before the
face of Thy Divine
Majesty; etc.
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(Sorry about double posting, but I forgot something.)
"make, use or sell" in this context have non-standard meanings:
"Make" means making an encrypted message. "Use" may mean using PGP, or
using an encrypted message. "Sell" would probably mean selling an
encrypted message. It is the message created by a "patented" process
incorporated in PGP, which infringes.
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This would be dumb move of the nineties...Lindros is big and strong...
but why give him a ball and chain on one leg and an anchor on the
other to drag along.
Not if Pocklington gets there first! (-...actually, if Pocklington
doesn't get a better deal, he would probably go to Hamilton...taking
the team out of Canada would get the whole country mad at him...
taking the team to Hamilton wouldn't get anybody mad at him that
isn't mad at him already...and would make him a lot of friends
in Southern Ontario...so many that the whining of the stupid politicians in
Edmonton and the fickle spoiled fans wouldn't be noticed at all.
Edmonton would wallow in anonymnity.
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Doug Holland claims Tom Clancy has provided the recipe for nuclear bombs.
Clancy himself says he has omitted certain crucial steps. Further, how do we
know Clancy knows, rather than repeating what he's read or been told in the
unclassified domain?
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In <1993Apr21.175443.5338@dct.ac.uk> mcsdc1jpb@dct.ac.uk (John Bell) dribbles
in his nappies and manages to splutter:
You know, John, if you had kept the follow-up to line here on talk
politics guns, we might have taken you a bit more seriously. It would have
at least implied that you had some backbone, perhaps a modicum of willingness
to present your views and support them. I guess we all know better now.
Really? That's interesting, as I was always of the opinion that
people dumb enough to keep a monarchy around and support them with tax
funds when said monarchy is merely a figurehead deserve all that
they get. Dunkirk, for example. What? That has nothing to do with it?
Then enjoy your helping of foot.
And they killed a few people of their own, including one child
at last report. So what? Being a federal agent is not license to kill.
Then there's CNN indicating that the ATF/FBI actually *DID* start the
fires which would mean feds killed just under 100 people. If you're
so hot to assign blame, make sure you don't overlook the obvious.
Montgomery isn't much of a hero here, either. Amazing how
different things look on the other side of the pond, isn't it? Not
that what you think makes much of a difference in the USA, though, and
for good reason. When you can vote I'll take your rhetoric a bit more
seriously. Right now, you're merely a waste of trans-atlantic bandwidth.
Proof positive that ignorance really is bliss.
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Not exactly correct, but nice try. The Catholic doctrine of infallibility
refers to freedom from error in teaching of the universal Church in
matters of faith or MORALS. It is this teaching which is taken as
doctrine.
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Oh, yea, and Chris Bosio pitched a NO-HITTER. One over the minimum, two
bases on ball in the first inning, one runner left, 95 pitches. I listened
to the game on radio and listening to Dave Niehaus call the game was a
real treat (as long as they keep Ron Fairly quite, I doubt if anyone is
better than Niehaus -- but that Fairly guy is really annoying me).
But, I guess if Clemens or Viola had been pitching, it would have
been a different story :-)
Two shutouts in two nights against the hottest, best hitting team in
Major League baseball .... Pretty impressive in any league.
Man, if Johnson, Bosio and Hanson keep going the Mariners could be a
really interesting team to follow this year. Also, John Cummings (rookie)
has had three solid outings with no support. If Fleming comes back
this may be the best starting staff in the American League this year
(relief is another story, though - grimace).
Too cool. The first no-hitter that I have been able to follow from
start to end. And again, I think Niehaus will win some kind of award
for the way he called the game. The guy is truly a joy to listen to --
he deserves a pennant race ...
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Hi!
I need a Windows 3.1 driver for the Matrox PG-1281 CV
SVGA card.
At the moment Windows runs only in the 640x480 mode.
If you have a driver for this card, please send it
with the OEMSETUP.INF to
bockamp@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
Thanks!
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I hope someone can help me with the following problem - I'm sure there
must be a known solution.
Given a rectangle defined by
-X <= x <= X and -Y <= y <= Y where X and Y are constant
and a parallelogram defined by
-C1 <= a*x + b*y <= C1 and -C2 <= c*x + d*y <= C2
where C1, C2, a, b, c, d are constants and b/a != d/c (i.e. not
parallel lines) ^^
not equal to
what is the area of their intersection?
What I'm after is some general algorithm suitable for ALL rectangles
and parallelograms that can be described by the above equations. At the
moment it looks like I'm going to have to look at all possible cases
and examine each seperately e.g.
1) rectangle encloses parallelogram.
2) parallelogram encloses rectangle.
3) two corners of parallelogram inside rectangle
^
/ \
/ \
/ \
Y ------------------------------- Y
| / \ |
| \ \ |
| \ . \ | . origin
| \ \ |
| \ / |
-Y ------------------------------- -Y
-X \ / X
\ /
\ /
"
4) two corners of parallelogram outside rectangle
I hope someone can help.
Many thanks in advance,
Dave Nettleton.
e-mail: D.J.Nettleton@durham.ac.uk
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If the Leaf's play like they did in game one they're going to need
these! Watching that game _really_ hurt!
Cheers!
i.
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Did you watch the games????
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No. Zeno's paradox is resolved by showing that integration or an infinite
series of decreasing terms can sum to a finite result.
Well, suppose a probe emitting radiation at a constant frequency was
sent towards a black hole. As it got closer to the event horizon, the
red shift would keep increasing. The period would get longer and longer,
but it would never stop. An observer would not observe the probe actually
reaching the event horizon. The detected energy from the probe would keep
decreasing, but it wouldn't vanish. Exp(-t) never quite reaches zero.
I guess the above probably doesn't make things any more clear, but hopefully
you will get the general idea maybe.
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I have written a server program which makes socket connections to many nodes
and collects data from that nodes periodically. I need to display this data on
my X Application. I tried
to invoke this server using XtAddAppTimeout which works ok. But the
problem here is some time there is delay in collecting data. So I doesn't
returns to EventLoop during that time and my application remains busy and
It doesn't respond to users input. I button press events are queued and
exected after server finished its task. Now I am going to try AppAddInput
call. So that It reads pipe only when there is something to read in pipe.
I am thinking of creating one pipe in which server will write and client
which is my X application will read. Now I have some doubts which you may
be able to clarify.
1) When I fork a process. It will create to copy of my process. Right !!
Now what does this two copies mean? Two Shells. Where should I fork
my application. What are the responsibilities of this processes. How
should I call this processes.?
2) Can I fork more than one processes. So that I can read from more
than one servers input.
Thanks
Samir Patel
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
spatel@cs.tamu.edu
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Okay, I think we all agree that singles hitters should take a
strike or two and try to get on base any way they can.
So the "No Power/Impatient" guys have no excuse.
The "No Power/Patient" guys are doing the right thing.
Now the "Impatient/Power" guys (how could you leave out the Big Cat?).
Would these guys have a better slugging percentage if they took
more pitches? Perhaps, but I doubt it. If you tell Joe Carter
to go up there and take a few pitches, he will draw more walks, but
he also won't hit as many frozen ropes into the bleachers because
he is more likely to hold back on a pitch that he used to drive.
The "Patient/Power" guys? Joe Morgan had a small strike zone and
Rickey Henderson has "a strike zone the size of Hitler's heart"
so they get their walks based on the small zone.
Look at the other 5 guys: Thomas, Bonds, McGwire, Ruth and Williams. Wow!
A lot of pitchers would rather nibble at the corners and maybe
walk these guys that to throw a clear strike to them.
The pitchers would do better (in my opinion) by just coming after
them with a good fastball for a strike on the first pitch, but pitchers
would rather nibble, go 2-0 or 3-1 and then get hurt.
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What's the best lease quote that anyone has seen on a Toyota Previa DX or DX
All-trac for a two-year lease? If you know where I can get a better
rate than $330/month, please contact me with the name and phone of
the dealership.
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I know that Apple is working on an active matrix color powerbook. When
is it going to come out. I heard on rumor that it will be in two months
and another that it will be seen at the MacWorld Expo in Boston? What's
the word?
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I saw a 3 hour show on PBS the other day about the history of the
Jews. Appearently, the Cursades(a religious war agianst the muslilams
in 'the holy land') sparked the widespread persecution of muslilams
and jews in europe. Among the supporters of the persiecution, were none
other than Martin Luther, and the Vatican.
Later, Hitler would use Luthers writings to justify his own treatment
of the jews.
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Yes, where commodities are concerned. Imagining that capitalist
theorists had software in mind when they wrote their grand treatises
on "the main point of capitalism" is non-productive.
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