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-- Also: more customizable. I can make the computer do what *I* want it to do,
Whereas with MSW I have to do what microsoft wants me to do...
How do I bind control-left mousebutton to type 'hello world!' (Not that I'd want to do THAT, but..)
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For sale:
1981 Oldsmobile Omega four door. Gray, power windows, power steering,
power brakes, remote trunk release. Starts reliably and runs well,
but needs some work. $400 obo.
For details, email or (708)864-0526.
--
Michael A. Atkinson | There is no try, there is only Dew.
asbestos@nwu.edu |
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Has anyone else observed this behaviour and if so, what have you
done to cure it?
One workstation in a WfW network goes deaf to any form of communication from
other workstations until it goes out on the network itself. From then on other
workstatons can interact with it until some time later when it goes deaf
again.
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Murderous, huh? Yeah, there was all sorts of carnage going on there in
the 60 YEARS they were there -- BEFORE the government assaulted them.
Oh, I forgot -- you probably consider self-defense as murder.
Damn right. This is not a partisan thing; it's about individual
liberties -- the right of a citizen to be left the hell alone.
That's another indication that you don't understand the issue.
"Our appropriations are coming up soon. We need a good PR boost. Let's
find a socially unpopular group who happen to have a lot of guns, go in
like gangbusters, be heros, and have the local media get it all on video
tape. Then we won't have to worry about our budget until next year."
Why don't you knit one to match his jogging outfit?
--
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What is "SO" supposed to signify? I prefer the companionship of a
person, not a euphemism.
Thankfully, you got the gender right. For I am not a deviant.
Sexual deviants do not comprise a "political minorit[y]".
I only associate with girls who do indeed have self-respect. But were
I to find myself with the sort who would be inclined to head out the
door on account of my views regarding the aberrant behavior known as
"homosexuality", I would encourage her to indeed do so, and I would
further advise her not to let the door whack her on the backside on
the way out. Who needs such an airhead?
Oh, I can't do anything _BUT_ count on it. After all, it is
inevitable, for it is part of the natural order of things. Throughout
history, nature has always asserted itself. Don't be so arrogant as
to assume that this foolish and misguided generation can change the
nature of man where practically every other generation has failed.
Greater men than you haven't been able to do this. The above _MOST_
_CERTAINLY_ _WILL_ happen, no matter how much you may wish to pretend
otherwise.
Moreover, I'm not your "sweetheart".
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Hello:
can anybody help me to find a program that converts a format named
"raw" (also known as "img") to the "gif" format or "jpeg" one.
It's desirable to be for a unix machine than for a PC.
(
"Raw" format of a N*N image is a file that contain a tail of
N*N characters, each one referencing to the k*N+j pixel of the
monocrome image, where k and j lies between 0 and N-1.
).
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Can you help me to understand how a CardPhone operates and
how the values are stored on the phonecard..
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I think the only thing to watch for is the number of attachment
straps. Most come with 3 and some with 4, I have a Bagman 4 strap
tankbag and because the rear of the tank is so narrow the fit
is not optimal.
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[Sorry if I posted this to the wrong place, wasn't sure where this
should go...]
Model PS6600 - 64K memory, storage for telephone numbers, addresses,
memos, schedule, calendar, calculator. Password protection, 6 line
display, full keyboard, 32 characters per line. Search through all data
storage areas for keywords, transmit to or receive entries via IBM
compatible computers with optional interface kit. Uses 2 AAA batteries,
and 1 lithium battery for backup. Also has world time, sound, still has
1 year Service Merchandise warranty left, with manual. Sells new for
$90, asking $65 (shipping included).
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Good - now let's look at those sections. They'll prove my point.
Note that this doesn't affect all concealed carry. (Look after the
word "except".) It always helps to read the law before commenting on
it.
Would a prudent storekeeper carry concealed? How about someone at
home? Note that both are legal, and a lot of "common" people qualify
for one or the other.
-andy
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They _finally_ started going to the net! See what happens when you
create some traffic? Muller deserves full marks (what a player!),
and Damphousse finally started skating. Roy (thankyouthankyouthankyou)
was excellent. Did you see that third period save on Young? And the
defense was taking out Quebec players in the zone.
Anybody else wonder if Hextall will feel like a dweeb when he finds
out that the winning goal went in off his own D-man's skate? Whatta
suck. Although he _is_ playing really well.
Sure it does. On Sunday when the B's are golfing and the Habs are tied
2-2 you'll see what I mean! :-) :-)
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Giday netters! Just got a used Newlife 25 accelerator, with FPU, and i
was wondering about a few points.
-Anyone know the current driver version for it??
-Can it handle the 16-bit grayscale card, if i get the video option
-Why would it be hating my hard drive?(can't use the accelerator and
hard drive at the same time). Do i need a new driver on my drive?
What make?
-Thanks,
Jason
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You hadn't made that clear; I'm glad to have it clarified! So you're
a (physical) objectivist, after all, right?
Wavicle! Next question? ;-)
--
Mark Pundurs
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I've just started messing with X Windows under Linux, and I've run into this
"-<toolkit options>" thing in the man-pages of a number of X clients.
Where can I get a list of these options? Is this only an "xview" thing?
(If so, would some kind soul show me how to set it up under Linux?)
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It troubles me that there have been so many posts recently trying to support
the doctrine of Original Sin. This is primarily a Catholic doctrine, with no
other purpose than to defend the idea of infant baptism. Even among, its
supporters, however, people will stop short of saying that unbaptised infants
will go to hell.
It's very easy for just about anyone to come up with a partial list of
scripture to support any sort of wrong doctrine. However, if we have the
heart to persevere in our beliefs to make sure that they are biblically
based, then we can come to an understanding of the truth. Let's now take a
more complete look at scripture.
Colossians 2:11-12 "In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of
the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by Christ, having been
buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the
power of God, who raised him from the dead."
In baptism, we are raised to a new life in Christ (Romans 6:4) through a
personal faith in the power of God. Our parent's faith cannot do this. Do
infants have faith? Let's look at what the Bible has to say about it.
Romans 10:16-17 "But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For
Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our message?' Consequently, faith
comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word
of Christ."
So then we receive God's gift of faith to us as we hear the message of the
gospel. Faith is a possible response to hearing God's word preached. Kids
are not yet spiritually, intellectually, or emotionally mature enough to
respond to God's word. Hence they cannot have faith and therefore cannot
be raised in baptism to a new life.
Ezekiel 18:20 "The soul who sins will die. The son will not share the
guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The
righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the
wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him."
If you read all of Ezekiel 18, you will see that God doesn't hold us guilty
for anyone else's sins. So we can have no original guilt from Adam.
Ezekiel 18:31-32 "Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committted,
and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel?
For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord.
Repent and live!"
The way to please God is to repent and get a new heart and spirit. Kids
cannot do this. Acts 2:38-39 says that when we repent and are baptized, we
will then receive a new spirit, the Holy Spirit. Then we shall live.
Now then that we have a little more background as to why original sin is
not Biblical, let's look at some of the scriptures used to support it.
Romans 5:12 "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and
death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all
sinned--"
Sin and death entered the world when the first man sinned. Death came to
each man because each man sinned. Note that it's good to read through all
of Romans 5:12-21. Some of the verses are easier to misunderstand than
others, but if we read them in context we will see that they are all
saying basically the same thing. Let's look at one such.
Romans 5:19 "For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many
were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many
will be made righteous."
Through the disobedience of each individual, each was made a sinner. In
the same way, through the obedience of Jesus, each will be made righteous.
We must remember when reading through this passage that death came to each
man only because each man sinned, not because of guilt from Adam.
Otherwise the Bible would contradict itself. I encourage you to read
through this whole passage on your own, looking at it from this point of
view to see if it doesn't all fit together.
Psalm 51:5 "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother
conceived me."
This whole Psalm is a wonderful example of how we should humble ourselves
before God in repentance for sinning. David himself was a man after God's
own heart and wrote the Psalm after committing adultry with Bathsheba and
murdering her husband. All that David is saying here is that he can't
remember a time when he wasn't sinful. He is humbling himself before God
by confessing his sinfulness. His saying that he was sinful at birth is
a hyperbole. The Bible, being inspired by God, isn't limited to a literal
interpetation, but also uses figures of speech as did Jesus (John 16:25).
For another example of hyperbole, see Luke 14:26.
Now then, even though people see that baptism requires faith and that
original sin is not Biblical, they will still argue that infant baptism is
necessary because children sin by being selfish - not sharing toys with
other children, by being mean - hitting others and fighting, etc.
Certainly we have observed children doing wrong things, but my gut feeling
is always that they don't know any better. Let's look to see if the Bible
agrees with my gut feelings.
Isaiah 7:14-15 "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The
virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him
Immanuel. He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the
wrong and choose the right."
Now just about any church leader will tell you that this is a prophecy
about Jesus. If they don't, then point them to Matthew 1:23 and find a new
leader. Jesus certainly couldn't have had less knowledge than normal human
babies. Yet this passage says that he had to mature to a certain extent
before he would know the difference between right and wrong. We see that
he did grow and become wiser in Luke 2:40 and 2:52. The implication is
that Jesus did wrong things as a child before he knew to choose right over
wrong. Since we know that Jesus was perfect -- without sin, we have rather
conclusive proof that babies cannot sin because they don't know to choose
the right instead of the wrong.
Jesus himself was baptized, albeit with John's baptism, not as an infant,
but as a thirty-year-old man (Luke 3:21-23) and started his ministry as
soon as he was baptized (Luke 3:23). Immediately afterwards, he was
tempted by the devil (Luke 4:1-13; Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13).
Thank you for your attention.
Moderator - this should finish up the subject for a while. Perhaps you
would like to make a FAQ out of this response so that you can repost it
from time to time when the topic comes up. Feel free to rearrange the
contents if you would like to, but please send me a copy of the final FAQ.
Sincerely,
Aaron Cardenas
aaronc@athena.mit.edu
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You can find what you're looking for on hundreds of sites worldwide. Try
anonymous ftp to nic.funet.fi (Finland)
/pub/unix/4.3bsd/net2/lib/libc/gen/crypt.c.Z
This includes source code for fully-functional DES encryption and decryption.
There are some who believe that public domain code is exportable, some
who don't. Make your own judgements, but it seems obvious to me.
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Are there any widgets, function
librarys for drawing networks,
graphs etc ? (Not tree views)
Freeware, shareware, comercial...
Like this, for instance:
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/ \ |
O----O.....O O
/ \
/ \
O O
* Just by giving the associations
between the nodes. Automatic
layout generation.
* It would be nice if any node
symbols could be used. Maybe
even to insert widgets as nodes.
* Using different line styles etc.
for describing associations.
Any information would be appreciated,
thanks in advance,
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It is my intent to cut the government off at the knees with the pen
(and keyboard). True, the lawyer and the lawbook only go so far, but
I agree that it is best to use those resources to the maximum extent
before seriously contemplating anything more... disruptive.
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Just use a thin film of epoxy. That!s what I did. Epoxy conducts heat
fairly well. And my heat sink gets warm to prove it. I looked for the
stuff myself & my local EE jocks said to use epoxy.
Have fun.
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How about a gun buy-back/charity? Get some sponsors to fund the
purchase of used firearms, have a gunsmith check them over, and give
or sell them at a low price to poor persons wishing to own firearms. ;-)
[OK, you guys can work out the details of who is "needy", etc...]
--
Charles Scripter * cescript@phy.mtu.edu
Dept of Physics, Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI 49931
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Society is the collection of individuals which will fall under self-defined
rules. In terms of UN decisions all the sets of peoples who are represented
at the UN are considered part of that society. If we then look at US federal
laws provided by representatives of purely US citizens then the society for
that case would be the citizens of the US and so on.
"Acceptable" are those behaviours which are either legislated for the
society by representatives of that society or those behaviours which are
non-verbally and, in effect, non-consciously, such as picking your nose on
the Oprah Winfrey show, no-one does it, but there is no explicit law against
doing it. In many cases there are is no definition of whether or not a
behaviour is "acceptable", but one can deduce these behaviours by
observation.
In an increasingly litigation mad society, this trap is becoming exceedingly
difficult to avoid. With the infusion and strengthening of ethnic cultures
in American (and Australian, to bring in my local perspective) culture the
boundaries of acceptable behaviour are ever widening and legislation may
eventually become the definition of moral behaviour. For instance, some
cultures' dominant religion call for live sacrifice of domesticated animals.
Most fundamental christians would find this practice abhorrent. However, is
it moral, according to the multicultural american society? This kind of
problem may only be definable by legislation.
Obviously within any society there will be differences in opinion in what is
acceptable behaviour or not, and much of this will be due to different
environmental circumstances rather than merely different opinions.
One thing is for sure, there is no universal moral code which will suit all
cultures in all situations. There may, however, be some globally accepted
mores which can be agreed upon and instantiated as a globally enforcable
concept. The majority of mores will not be common until all peoples upon
this earth are living in a similar environment (if that ever happens).
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me at home.
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Hi all,
I am working on a project in which I need to brake an image
into sub-bands and then work with them. Since I have never done
anything like this, don't even understand the concept of sub-bands, I
was wondering if there is some software out there that would allow me
to do this. Any hints?
Thanks,
--
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Greetings all,
Can anyone let me know status of UK law about riding motorcycles.
I used to ride one about 12 years ago and never took my DOT test ( One
of a whole list of things I wished I had done when I was young),but I have passed
my car driving test. I now travel from Littlehampton to Brighton every day
and I'm getting PISSED off with the traffic/road works. I thinking about getting
a 100cc bike ( Don't Laugh ) just to get "Streetwise" and to take my test, then
to get a bigger one ( 400 to 600 cc ).
Now I have been told I don't have to do the CBT but what will I have
to do to get a full licence ?
Thanks in advanced
Leigh
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Quotes from Our Daily Bread
Our Daily Bread is a devotional help for spiritual growth. One can spend some
ten to fifteen minutes at most reading the daily portion of scriptures and a
related short article that brings the scriptures alive in applying in today's
society. It ends with a saying at the bottom. This article is a collection
of these sayings.
Our Daily Bread is one of the many ministries/services provided by Resources for
Biblical Communication. It is FREE. To receive the literature, just write and
ask for it. The contact addresses are listed below. Write to Radio Bible Class.
Copyright 1989 Radio Bible Class, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49555-0001
Canada: Box 1622, Windsor, Ontario N9A 6Z7
Australia: Box 365, Ryde, 2112 NSW
Europe: Box 1, Carnforth, Lancs., England LA5 9ES
Africa: Box 1652, Manzini, Swaziland
Africa: PMB 2010, Jos, Nigeria
Philippines: Box 288, Greenhills, 1502 Metro Manila
Sayings with related scriptures in December/January/February 89-90 issue of Our Daily Bread
When God saves us, all our sins are forgiven, forgotten, forever!
Romans 5:1-11
Life with Christ is difficult; without Him it's hopeless.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-6
It's the sin we cover up that eventually brings us down.
Psalm 19:7-14
You're not ready to live until you're ready to die.
Acts 21:1-14
Trusting in God's power prevents panic.
Isaiah 40:6-17
The Bible is a record of man's compete ruin in sin and God's compte remedy in Christ. - Barnhouse
2 Timothy 3:10-17
Jesus can change the foulest sinners into the finest saints.
Ephesians 2:1-10
They witness best who witness with their lives.
Acts 4:23-33
God came to dwell with man that man might dwell with God.
Philippians 2:5-11
A hurting person needs a helping hand, not an accusing finger.
Psalm 109:1,2, 14-31
What you decide about Jesus determines your destiny.
John 20:24-29
We must go to sinners if we expect sinners to come to the Savior.
Romans 1:8-15
Knowing that God sees us brings both conviction and cofidence.
Job 34:21-28
God's chastening is not cruel but corrective.
Hebrews 12:4-17
When you think of all that's good, give thanks to God.
Psalm 44:1-8
Man's greatest goal: give glory to God.
1 Peter 5:5-7
God loves every one of us as if there were but one of us to love.
Romans 8:31-39
Only the bread of life can satisfy man's spiritual hunger.
John 6:28-41
Conscience can be our compass if the word of God is our chart.
1 Timothy 4:1-5
Salvation is free, but you must receive it.
Isaiah 55:1-5
If we're not as spiritual as we could be, we're not as spiritual as we should be.
2 Timonty 1:1-7
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal what he's made of.
Matthew 1:18-25
Make room for Jesus in your heart, and he will make room for you in heaven.
Matthew 2:1-18
Heaven's choir came down to sing when heaven's king came down to save.
Luke 2:1-20
God's highest gift awakens man's deepest gratitude.
Luke 2:21-38
Serving the Lord is an investment that pays eternal dividends.
1 Peter 4:12-19
Time misspent is not lived but lost.
Psalm 39:4-13
The measure of our love is the measure of our sacrifice.
1 Peter 4:7-11
God requires faithfulness; God rewards with fruitfulness.
Luke 19:11-27
How you spend time determines how you spend eternity.
Psalm 90:1-12
If you aim for nothing, you're sure to hit it.
Daniel 1:1-8
The Christian's future is as bright as the promises of God.
Psalm 23
Christ as Savior brings us peace with God; Christ as Lord brings the peace of God.
Colossians 1:13-20
They who only sample the word of God never acquire much of a tast for it.
Psalm 119:97-104
Unless one drinks now of the "water of life", he will thirst forever!
Revelation 22:12-17
A hyprocrite is a person who is not himself on Sunday.
Daniel 6:1-10
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it is lived for.
Ecclesiates 9:1-12
God loves you and me - let's love each other.
2 Corinthians 13
It's always too soon to quit.
Genesis 37:12-28
The character we build in this world we carry into the next.
Matthew 7:24-29
God sends trials not to impair us but to improves us.
2 Corinthians 4:8-18
Marriage is either a holy wedlock or an unholy deadlock.
2 Corinthians 5:11-18
We are adopted through God's grace to be adapted to God's use.
Galatians 6:1-10
Our children are watching: what we are speak louder than what we say.
Proverbs 31:10-31
Union with Christ is the basis for unity among believers.
Psalm 133
Keep out of your life all that would crowd Christ out of your heart.
Romans 6:1-14
Don't try to bear tomorrow's burdens with today's grace.
Matthew 6:25-34
Pray as if everything depends on God; work as if everything depends on you.
2 Kings 20:1-7
Some convictions are nothing more than prejudices.
Galatians 3:26-29
Unless you velieve, you will not understand. - Augustine
Hebrews 11:1-6
Christ is the only way to heaven; all other paths are detours to doom.
2 Corinthians 4:1-7
Many Christians are doing nothing, but no Christians have nothing to do!
John 4:31-38
We bury the seed; God brings the harvest.
Isaiah 55:8-13
The texture of eternity is woven on the looms of time.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-6
It's not just what we know about God but how we use what we know.
1 Corinthians 8
The best way to avoid lying is to do nothing that needs to be concealed.
Acts 5:1-11
God transforms trials into blessing by surrounding them with His love and grace.
2 Chronicles 20:1-4, 20-30
Confessing your sins is no substitute for forsaking them.
Psalm 51:1-10
If you shoot arrows of envy at others, you would yourself.
Philippians 1:12-18
He who has no vision of eternity doesn't know the value of time.
Ephesians 5:8-17
He who abandons himself to God will never be abandoned by God.
Psalm 123
No danger can come so near the Christian that God is not nearer.
Psalm 121
Many a man lays down his life trying to lay up a fortune.
Matthew 6:19-24
God's grace is infinite love expressing itself through infinite goodness.
Philippians 1:1-11
One way to do great things for Christ is to do little things for others.
Romans 16:1-16
You rob yourself of being you when you try to do what others are meant to do.
Romans 12:1-8
Don't pretend to be what you don't intend to be.
Matthew 23:1-15
Meeting God in our trials is better than getting out of them.
Psalm 42
If sinners are to escape God's judgement, God's people must point the way.
Matthew 24:15-27
It's not a sin to get angry when you get angry at sin.
John 2:13-22
We prepare for the darkness by learning to pray in the light.
1 Samuel 2:1-10
Christianity is not a way of doing certain things but a certain way of doing all things.
Ephesians 5:1-7
Better to know the truth and beware than to believe a lie and not care.
Jeremiah 28
A true servant does not live to himself, for himself, or by himself.
Genesis 13
Those who do the most earthly good are those who are heavely mined.
Philippians 1:19-26
A good marriage requires a determination to be married for good.
Genesis 2:18-24
If you're looking for something to give your life to, look to the one who gave His life for you.
1 Corinthians 3:1-11
When we have nothing left but God, we discover that God is enough.
Psalm 46
God is with us inthe darkness as surely as He is with us in the light.
1 Peter 1:1-9
Some people spend most of their life at the complaint counter.
1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
Of all creation, only man can say "yes" or "no" to God.
Genesis 9:8-17
The most rewarding end in life is to know the life that never ends.
Ecclesiates 8:10-15
One of the marks of a well-fed soul is a well read Bible.
Joshua1:1-9
Because God gives us all we need, we should give to those in need.
Proverbs 14:20-31
It's never too early to receive Christ, but at any moment it could be too late.
Luke 16:19-31
God's grace keeps pace with whatever we face.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
When we give God our burdens, He gives us a song.
Psalm 57
Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. - Emerson
1 Corinthians 2:1-8
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In a 25-pin serial loopback plug, you need to connect the following
pins:
pin 1 to pin 7
pin 2 to pin 3
pins 4, 5 and 8 together
pins 6, 11, 20 and 22 together
pins 15, 17 and 23 together,
pin 18 to pin 25.
That should do it. Note that *a lot* of these pins are redundant
in many implementations....
Phil
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speaking of the sick bastard, i noticed he attends Kent State University.
i guess we have come full circle here. Someone from Kent favoring excessive
force by the govenment to subdue polically incorrect thinking.
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Yes.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No, look again. While you never *said* it, the implication is pretty clear.
I'm sorry, but I can only respond to your words, not your true meaning. Usenet
is a slippery medium.
[deleted wrt the burden of proof]
Look, I'm not supporting *any* dogmatic position. I'd be a fool to say that
in the large group of people that are atheists, no people exist who wish to
proselytize in the same fashion as religion. How many hard atheists do you
see posting here, anyway? Maybe I'mm just not looking hard enough...
I never meant to do so, although I understand where you might get that idea.
I was merely using the 'bible' example as an allegory to illustrate my
point.
Evidence for what? Who? I think I may have lost this thread...
[why theists are arrogant deleted]
Guilty as charged. What I *meant* to say was, the theists who *are* arrogant
are this way because they say ... Other than that, I thought my meaning
was clear enough. Any position that claims itself as superior to another with
no supporting evidence is arrogant. Thanks for your apology, btw.
Explained above.
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Hey Nick! I got a bounce from postmaster@bnr.ca, it seems that they've never
heard of a user 'npet'. You should sort these guys out.
Tony
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Does anyone know how can I get detailed information about PALs and GALs.
Please reply via e-mail.
Thanks a lot in advance.
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An extremely good example of "circumstantial evidence!"
Every time these right-wing control-freaks start spouting
about prayer in schools, I get this nagging commentary
from the Sermon on the Mount [Matt: 6:5-6] "And when you
pray, do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their
prayers standing up in the synagogues and at the street
corners for people to see them. I tell you solemnly, they
have had their reward. But when you pray, go to your
private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to
your Father who is in that secret place."
But no. THEY want PUBLIC prayers, the better to manipulate
children. "Amen" indeed.
I hope you don't mind if I say "amen" to this? :-)
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A CNN factiod in the last few months stated that 40% of all the computers
in the U.S. are left on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I don't recall
CNN's source.
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_get_wmShellWidgetclass
_get_applicationshellwidgetclass
I use -lXaw -lXmu -lXext -lX11 -lXt not in this order but in a proper order
I am wondering if there has to be some changes in my link libraries or should
i include some more libraries.
ANy help in this matter will be very useful and highly appreciated
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This claim hasn't been retracted or contradicted yet, as many earlier
government claims have? At least one clip showed a fire erupting
after a tank busted in a wall. We have unsubstantiated claims by
the government about the FLIRs spotting "simultaneous" fires.
That's easy. Six hours of CS gas, heavy smoke from a rapidly spreading
fire, confusion, panic. Only 10% got out. The building was collapsing
all around them and finding the way out was a matter of luck.
The Davidians may have committed suicide, or some few zealots among
them might have started the fires -- that is possible. But, given
the government's earlier inability to tell a straight story, I find
my above scenario equally possible. I wait for some independent
investigation to look into the whole thing.
It would be one thing if the government spokespeople had been
consistent and forthright throughout. Keeping the press far away
and ghettoized in "pools" was not conducive to building up trust.
Sealing the warrants was non-optimal, as well. This operation
was out of control from the git-go.
Speaking only for myself, I think Bush and Reagan should have been
impeached over Iran-Contra.
In 1979, I would probably have given the benefit of the doubt to
the government. No more. Like I said, I'll wait to see the
results of an independent investigation -- if there is one --
before I choose whom to believe.
But you got one, anyway.
I generally vote for the lesser of two evils. This last time, it
was the least of three evils.
It was a bureaucratic execution. Out of control bureaucracies driven
by percieved self-interest and gross stupidity.
Clinton is just another statist. My only problem with Clinton on this
is that he is apparently willing to blindly back the ATF and FBI.
--
paul hager hagerp@moose.cs.indiana.edu
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Keywords:
All items were bought in August 1992. They are undamaged and like
new. If you are interested in the following, please send e-mail to
IO20648 on the main frame or car@gandalf.
Queen size box spring and mattress $200
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Sofa- slate blue-three pillows-6 foot seating area- $200
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After a quick start, Pena has been stuck in a rut. Torre gave Alicea
the start to try to get Pena out of whatever funk he is in. It has
worked in the past.
Bob
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Which was my point. By converting to another religion I do not loose
my cultural identity, I just loose my religious identification.
I consider that defining the belonging to a nation that claims the
right to have a State based on religious belief is a form of racism.
To be a part or not of the Jeish Nation is defined by my culture and not
by my religion. Actually, if I am an atheist, which is in fact like
converting into a non-Jewish in terms of religion, I am still considered as
part of the Jewish Nation.
I can be proud of my Jewish culture while not giving any importance to the
Jewish religion. Or, even more, I can be proud of my Jewish culture while
still be convinced that the real god is another one.
I do not know anyone who lost his memebership to the American nation
because he changed of god.
I still believe that we should never confusse the actions of States with
the individuals who happen to live there.
In the same way that I do not think it is right to blame all Israelis for the
human rights violations of Israel, I do not think that we should assume
that all Arabs are guilty of the actions of the Arab States.
Some people fled their homes because they were scared. Now they are in
there, still suffering for what they are not responsible.
And, remember that we also were told the same at some point. We ended in
the diaspora. And, of course, I am not for doing to others what I did not
want done to me.
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: My girlfriend is in pain from kidney stones. She says that because she has no
: medical insurance, she cannot get them removed.
:
: My question: Is there any way she can treat them herself, or at least mitigate
: their effects? Any help is deeply appreciated. (Advice, referral to literature,
: etc...)
:
: Thank you,
:
: Dave Carvell
: pk115050@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
First off, I would consider the severity of the pain. I had stones
several years ago, and there's now way I could have made it without
heavy duty doses of morphine and demerol and a two week stay in the
hospital. I was told that there was nothing that I could take that would
dissolve them. If the stones are passible, the best thing she could do
is drink LOTS of water, and hope that they pass, but every time they
move a little, the pain will be excrutiating. I was told by my doctor
at that time that the pain was comparable to that of childbirth. (Yes,
by a male doctor, so I'm sure some of you women will disagree). I'd
really like to know the truth in this, so maybe some of you women who
have had a baby and a kidney stone could fill me in.
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. BDI cagers usually move back then.
Hyperagressive assholes just move closer. (Something about
testosterone-stimulated behavior, I think.) It's kinda like waving a red
flag at a bull. All in all, if you can't move over and let the jerk by,
it's better than nothing...
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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What frequency is your carrier?
Have you considered using two tones, one for 1 and another for 0?
How high is your RS-232 data rate?
Can you use more than one carrier freq?
Have you considered hiring an RF data transmission consultant?
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# when soaking in water). Lasers are slightly sharper, but the only
# instance where I needed precise layouts was Printed Circuit Board
# Transparencies for PhotoEtching. I found a Textronix color Phaser
# Postscript (Thermal Wax Transfer) to work the best to make PCB
# negatives directly onto a transparency.
#
Did the deskjet work at all when printing on transparencies ? If it
did, what sort of resolution could it manage ?
-adrian
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Excuse me? Are you one of those people who *enjoy* working w/win? Come talk
to a house-mate of mine and tell him how productive his life is when he
encountered yet another sudden appearence of the DOS-prompt while cutting
and pasting in win! Or an empty win screen without any tasks running (i.e.
^ESC brings up an empty list, progman has done it again.)
Leo
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Does anyone know if there is such an animal. I have a Mouse Systems
trackball and would like a driver for this device that would allow me to use
the mouse within a DOS window the same way Microsoft's mouse driver works.
Thanks,
Chris
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Chris Shenefiel:
Who does not represent his company in any way, shape or form on this forum.
Nor do his opinions or comments represent the opinions of his company.
Nor do his opinions or comments even merit consideration of any kind.
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Here's my system desc:
4 megs on the main board, 1 on the accelerator board
mac -plus, with the most recent roms (D)
trying to run system 6, but would like to run 7
the hard drive is a jasmine, works fine if i start up with the
accelerator disabled
i also seem to get the problem of when i try to start up from floppy
with the hard-drive disconnected, all i get is the disk loading,
but the screen is black, except for a happy mac in the middle,
and it never gets anywhere
-Jason
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I didn't say that pitcher's fear of throwing strikes to guys like
McGwire, Bonds, and Frank Thomas was rational.
I just said that it exists.
I don't know Alex Cole's batting style at all. Some questions:
How tall is he?
Does he go into a crouch like Rickey Hederson/Pete Rose?
Does he foul off a lot of pitches like Brett Butler?
Does he take 1 or 2 strikes in each at bat?
It could be the Cole has a good batting "eye".
Look above, I said that *many* high OBP guys draw their walks because
pitchers are afraid to throw a strike to them, not "all" high OBP guys.
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Limited Tort Option will lower your rates. If you choose it, you can't
sue others for pain & suffering, but you still can sue for economic loss.
So you can sue for your wrecked car and for medical bills, but you can't
sue for $1000000 for pain and suffering.
At least, that's how I understand it.
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Doesn't sound like they attended, though, does it? In fact, if we riders
need friends, it sounds a lot like we might have a whole townfull from
Lynn's description, especially if the same crowd gets invited back
to party some more year after year.
You seem to be one of very few bent out of shape over these "lesser
indiscretions". If the towns-people aren't ruffled by the
"indiscretions" and the partyers aren't either, maybe the "indiscretions"
don't amount to anything more threatening or damaging than harmless
good-natured rowdiness among consenting adults. The only thing that
really bothered me about the description was the knee-deep empty beer cans
in the street, but maybe the town had a plan to deal with that since they
helped set up the party in the first place. If I lived there and the
bikers' previous visits had established a record of mutual cooperation
and good intentions, I'd certainly rather they stick around and party
than go riding off into the night impaired and maybe get hurt or killed.
If it doesn't hurt anyone, and all the parties to the party benefit
and consider the entire activity to be benign and harmless, then who
needs to "permit" or "justify" it? You? Why do *you* need to do that?
Ironically, these particular townsfolk probably are in the minority that
don't happen to fit the stereotype you describe. They've developed a
friendly long-term mutually-beneficial relationship with a group of
motorcyclists, and aren't as burdened with MC-ignorance as is the general
population because of it.
If such a need exists, it surely must come from within.
Well, you got the "self-righteous wusses" part right, anyway.
Chuck Rogers
car377@torreys.att.com
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I've sent Gordon R. my posts on protein, vitamin C and vitamin A prior to
posting on internet as a professional courtesy. Somehow I've managed to
delete my vitamin A post from my text file. Gordon R. had promised to send
it back to me but he's pretty mad at me right now so I'll just retype it.
Since digging through all my references is very time consuming(took me all
day for that PMS post), I'm not going to cite any references(Gordon R. has
them). I'm going to include some of the material from Weinsier and
Morgan's new Nutrition textbook(which was not in my original material) to
point out that what I'm going to say has some support in the medical
community.
Diet has been know to affect the immune system of man for a very, very long
time. Protein has always had the biggest role in infection and I've
already covered the role of protein in protecting you against infection.
Now I'm going to hit what I consider to be the most important nutrient in
the U.S. as far as infection is concerned(vitamin A).
When vitamin A was originally discovered, it was commonly referred to as
the anti-infection vitamin. Many people(Linus Pauling being one) have
decided to take this title away from vitamin A and give it to vitamin C
(which I've already covered). Big mistake(in my opinion). Vitamin A is
also getting a reputation as an anti-cancer vitamin(with good reason).
The NCI currently has numerous clinical trials in progress to see if
vitamin A can not only prevent cancer but cure it as well. It's role in
both cancer and infection is almost identical(but not quite).
Vitamin A comes in two completely different forms(retinol and
beta-carotene). Retinol is the animal form and it's toxic, beta-carotene
is the plant form and it's completely nontoxic. Both retinol and beta-
carotene display good absorption in the human gut if bile is present
(60-80%). The liver stores all of your retinol and doles it out for other
tissues to use by synthesizing retinol binding protein(RBP). A normal human
adult liver should have 500,000IU to 1,000,000IU of retinol stored. We
are born with 10,000IU in our liver. U.S. autopsy has shown that about
30% of Americans die with the same(or less) amount of vitamin A as they
were born with. If you don't believe that nutritional reserves(like that
of retinol in the liver) are important, then this low vitamin A reserve is
not going to affect you. But if you believe(like I do) that the nutrient
reserves are important, then there is a problem with vitamin A in the U.S.
The U.S. RDA for vitamin A in an adult male is 1,000 RE or 5,000IU of
vitamin A. For adult feamles its 800 RE or 4,000IU of vitamin A. Diet
surveys show that most Americans are getting this amount of vitamin A
(either retinol or Beta-carotene) from their diet. But the NRC(National
Research Council) was going to release a new RDA table in 1985 that had the
RDA for both vitamin A and vitamin C raised(C to 90mg per day and A to
7,500IU per day for adult males). That report and it's recommendations was
killed. Why? Concern over the increasing supplementation was the main
reason. RDAs are set to prevent clinical disease, not to keep nutrient
reserves full. Many scientist in the U.S. feel that the time has come to
move away from the prevention of clinical pathology concept and move
towards the promotion of optimum health concept, especially since we have
some very good data now that show that nutrient reserves are extremely
important during periods of stress. The nutritonal concervatives won that
battle and a new group of scientist were collected to come out with the
1989 RDA list which lowered the RDA for several nutrients and moved the
dietary guidelines back to where they were when we first started in the
1940's(get enough to prevent clinical pathology, but not enough to fill
the reserves).
We know from autopsy that only about 10% of Americans have a liver with a
normal vitamin A reserve(500,000IU to 1,000,000IU). I preach nutrient
reserves to my students and tell them to measure them in their patients.
But for vitamin A, only a liver biopsy(or autopsy data) will tell you how
much somebody has stored. We can tell very easily if someone has
overfilled his or her liver with vitamin A by measuring the serium retinol
level(levels above 450ug/dl are highly suggestive that you have filled your
liver with vitamin A and it's time to stop taking retinol). The normal
range of serum retinol will be 20-100ug/dl. Hypervitaminosis A is
diagnosed with a serum retinol level of 2,000ug/dl or higher(Interpretation
of Diagnostic Test, Wallach, M.D., a Little Brown Series book). This level
of vitamin A in blood means that medical attention is necessary due to
vitamin A toxicity. Weinsier and Morgan take a much more conservative
approach to vitamin A toxicity than does Wallach, as you will see later in
this post. Between 450ug/dl and 2,000ug/dl you should have plenty
of warning that it's time to eliminate the retinol from your diet(headache,
redness of the skin, hair loss, joint pain).
I tell all my students that will use vitamin A in their practice that they
had better monitor the serum retinol level and stop when there are clear
signs that the liver is full. You will never really know if the patient
needs the vitamin A(because you can not measure the pool in liver) but you
will always know when it's time to stop(just like in those vitamin A for
PMS studies).
Beta-carotene can be taken to fill up your liver with retinol and you will
never have to worry about toxicity because the conversion of beta-carotene to
retinol that occurs in both your gut and your liver will slow down(stops in the
liver and slows down in the gut) when your liver is full of retinol. But
taking Beta-carotene as the source of retinol takes a very long time to
fill the liver up(I've seen estimates of 20-30 years) if you are in the 30%
that only has as much as you were born with in your liver(10,000IU). One
other problem with beta-carotene, if you have a zinc deficit, you will not
convert as much beta-carotene to retinol in the gut or the liver because the
enxzyme that does this conversion requires zinc. In addition, the release of
retinol from the liver is a zinc dependent process so a zinc deficit will
cause a vitamin A deficit even if your liver has plenty of vitamin A.
Now what does vitamin A do in cancer and infection protection? The body
uses vitamin A(retinol) for many different things. Vision(the first to be
nailed down and where you see overt clinical pathology) uses the aldehyde
(retinal) and alcohol(retinol) form of vitamin A. Reproduction uses the
retinol form and some retinal. Infection and cancer protection uses
retinoic acid. How do you convert retinol(which your white blood cells
and the mucosal cells get from blood) to retinoic acid? You use enzymes,
one of which requires vitamin C(this is why Pauling has tried to pull the
title of anti-infection vitamin away from vitamin A). Vitamin C does play
a role in infection(interferon production for example) but it's biggest role
is the conversion of retinol to retinoic acid. If you increase your intake
of vitamin C, you will increase your formation of retinoic acid. But
retinoic acid can not be converted back to retinol(as retinal can) and once
it's formed, it's used and then lost to the body. This is why the 1985 NRC
group wanted to increase both vitamin C and vitamin A RDA's.
Most people taking large amounts of vitamin C really think that they are
helping themselves. If they don't have much vitamin A in their liver and
they are not also increasing their intake of vitamin A, they actually do
themselves more harm than good.
Retinoic acid functions in white blood cells to promote antibody formation.
In the mucus membrane, it is the main factor in promoting good mucus
production and a good epithelial cell barrier to prevent infectious agents from
entering the blood system. The mucus membrane is referred to as the "first
line" defense against infection. For cancer, retinoic acid has been shown
to act as a cell brake(it counteracts the effect of cell promoters which
stimulate cells to divide). Cancer has two distinct steps, DNA alteration
and cell promotion. For cells that normally divide all the time, promoters
are not that important. But for lung and breast tissue which does not
normally divide, promoters are real important in the malignant process.
This is the major reason why the NCI has so many different clinical trials
in progress using retinol and/or beta-carotene.
Chronic infection(irritation) of the mucus membranes is a signal that
vitamin A may not be adequate. I tell my students that any patient who
walks into their office with a complaint of chronic infection has to be
worked up for vitamin A(along with the other factors that medicine already
has on it's list of causes for chronic infection). I drive this home in my
course at the Osteopathic College in Tulsa, when I teach at the allopathic
medical school in Tulsa(OU's branch campus) and when I give CME lectures.
Dark adaptation is the best clinical test for vitamin A status since night
vision is impacted when liver reverves drop to 50,000IU of retinol. The
serum level of retinol can also be used, but it does not drop until liver
reserves drop below 10,000 to 20,000IU. Asking a patient if they have
trouble seeing at night is a good initial screen(if cataracts are ruled
out). In one study done on U.S. Spanish-Americans where serum retinol levels
were measured, 25% of the sample population had a serum retinol level below
20ug/dl.
As more studies are done on serum retinol levels in population groups of
the U.S. that have had a history of high infection rates, we will probably
see a much stonger correlation between infection incidence rates and low
serum retinol levels.
What do Weinsier and Morgan have to say about vitamin A? Here are excerpts
from their book:
Vitamin A functions in vision in the forrm of retinol, it is necessay for
growth and differentation of epithelial tissue, and is required for
reproduction, embryonic development, and bone growth. Protein-calorie
malnutrition and zinc deficiency may impair the absorption, transport, and
metabolism of vitamin A. Retinaldehyde is converted to retinoic acid,
which has biological activity in growth and in cell diferentiation but not
in reproduction or vision. The most common procedure to evaluate vitamin A
status is to measure the retinol level in plasma or serum. The normal
range for vitamin A content for a child is 20 to 90ug/dl. Lower values are
indicators of deficiency or depleted body stores. Serum levels greater
than 100ug/dl are indicative of toxic levels of vitamin A. Dark adaptation
tests and electroretinogram measurements are also useful but difficult to
perform on young children. Rapidly proliferating tissues are sensitive to
vitamin A deficiency and may revert to an undifferentiated state. The
bronchorespiratory tract, skin, genitourinary system, gastrointestinal
tract and sweat glands are adversely affected. A daily intake of more than
7.5mg(about 37,000IU) of retinol is not advised and chronic use of amounts
over 20mg(100,000IU) can result in a dry and itching skin, desquamation,
erythematous dermatitis, hair loss, joint pain, chapped lips, hyperostois
(bony depositis), headaches, anorexia, edema and fatigue.
They recommend 30mg of retinol via IM injection in children for vitamin A
deficiency but do not discuss treatment for adults. Their toxic serum retinol
level is very conservative. I recommend that my students try 25,000IU in
adults that are having problems with chronic infection. They have to rule
out a zinc deficit first by getting an RBC zinc run(or if their clinical
lab can't run it, I tell them to do what Weinsier and Morgan suggest, give
them the zinc along with the vitamin A. At 25,000IU per day, toxicity
should not be a problem and you will not have to worry about pulling the
patient into the office on a regular basis to run a serum retinol.
Both Elaine and Jon found doctors who used a much higher dose of vitamin A.
Recall that the PMS papers were using 100,000IU to 200,000IU of vitamin A.
I don't suggest that my students use these high doses. If you wanted to
fill the liver up fast(as part of a clinical trial) and were monitoring the
serum retinol level, then you would be okay. But my knowledge of the
vitamin A literature suggests to me that 25,000IU for patients with a
demonstrated vitamin A deficit(dark adapatation test or serum retinol) will
provide a good and steady improvement(as long as zinc and vitamin C status
are good) without having to worry about toxicity. If they want to get more
agressive, fine if they follow my advise to check the serum retinol. But
vitamin A(retinol) should never be given in high dose to women who could
become pregnant since vitamin A shows teratogenicity towards the human
fetus. The dose needed to show this effect on the developing fetus is
18,000IU of retinol per day. Beta-carotene will never have this effect on
the human fetus.
Could just taking Beta-carotene instead of retinol supplements help? Yes
but the effect will take a long time to develop. My advise is to use
retinol to fill the liver up and then switch to beta-carotene to keep it
full. Vitamin A is probably one nutrient that is better off left to
prescription by doctors. But when we have the M.D.'s in this newsgroup
jumping all over me and other doctors that propose the use of vitamin A
supplements for treating patients with chronic sinus and GI distress, I
think that the most prudent option is to keep vitamin A in the OTC market
but require manufactors to provide package inserts to educate the general
public about the dangers of vitamin A supplementation.
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It is interesting to note in the past few days' correspondance that some
believe that poor old New Mexico is not capable of hosting a commercial
space launch business. For many reasons, it can, and we here on the front
lines see no reason why it should not. The 'spaceport political publicity'
referred to the other day had its intended effect - the state of New Mexico
did establish the start of the necessary government infrastructure to back a
commercial space port. The commanding general at WSMR is in full support of
dual-use for the facilities. The WSMR location also has some strategic
advantages in the form of necessary infrastructure and controlled air space
to support the project. Just because the folks involved have not done the
traditional aerospace-equivalent of vapor-ware by inviting folks out to kick
non-existent tires but have been merely doing their job to prepare for
launch, don't think that nothing has happened. From my interactions with
the MACDAC folks, I get the impression that they want to set a firm,
believable launch date based on vehicle readiness and not just some fiction
to plug a space on a calendar. I believe that all will happen this summer
and don't worry, the locals here are planning to let everyone know when it
does occur.
Stephen Horan
shoran@nmsu.edu
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You really expect a cop to answer these honestly?
(First you gotta expect a cop to be honest...that's another
story...)
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In trying to use the Equation editor in Word for Windows 2.0 I get
a couple of error messages along the lines of:
Similar for the font Fences.
I know I have these fonts on my system but are unable to use them.
I have tried both of these solutions to no avail.
If anyone has had similar problems and has found a way to fix this, could
they let me know. It is urgently required !!
Thanks ,
**** Jason Cleeve (j.cleeve@ieee.org) Q ****
*** ` Comp. Sci. (Hons) & Elect. Eng. /T\ ' ***
**** La Trobe University. Australia / \ ****
********* Email: cleeve@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au ------\ **********
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# ## Sigh. You're absolutely right. We have no political power whatsoever.
#
# #If only that were true. In California, homosexuals have enough power
# #to impose their morals on others.
#
# The only "moral" we're imposing is one which you supposedly embrace already:
# every human being's right to be treated as such.
I don't expect to be hired based on my sexual orientation. If someone
decides he wants a gay-only staff of employees, that's his business.
I won't force him to hire heterosexuals; please don't force me to
hire homosexuals.
# ## Therefore, we should be oppressed and ignored and denigrated, right? I
#
# #You aren't oppressed in California.
#
# But it's OK to oppress us, that's what you're saying!
No. I'm saying it's none of the government's business what two
consenting adults do in private. You don't believe that, unfortunately.
# ## certainly hope you don't have an SO, sir, because if she heard how
# ## disparaging you are towards political minorities, and if she had any shred
# ## of self-respect, she'd be out the door.
#
# #Why do you keep insulting women and blacks by comparing them to
# #homosexuals?
#
# This sort of crap makes me so fucking sick that I can't even bring myself to
# touch it. You're a fuckwit with no perspective, no valid life experience,
# and no true knowledge of the human condition. I see no point in trying to
# convince you politely that we're not all like the ones you've met, because
# you're showing no willingness at all to be open-minded enough to accept that
# your stupid generalizations have exceptions. You are an intellectual waste,
# and the reason you believe the worst of homosexuals is that you bring out
# the worst in them.
#
# ----bi Andrew D. Simchik SCHNOPIA!
And you are yet another reminder of the emotional instability of
homosexuals.
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A suggestion: Slave (hook in series) a small pilot light off the fan
circuit. Then, if the light goes out, you know your fan is not working.
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I have placed a new release of my aXe editor in aXe-5.0.tar.Z on
export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12) and arjuna.ncl.ac.uk (128.240.150.1).
The significant change this time, and the justification for the hike
in the major version number, is:
o undo has been implemented.
By default only the last change can be undone, but a resource is
provided to allow the user to specify how many, including unlimited,
levels of undo information should be kept. Also, undo of undo is
supported.
There is no truth in the rumour that the next version will be EmaXe 19 :-)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
For those who have not encountered aXe before here is a summary of
what it is all about:
aXe is a simple to use text editor for X that represents a significant
improvement over xedit. Also built around the Athena Text Widget it
features, amongst other things,
o multiple windows
o multiple buffers
o default menu interface
o optional button interface, with choice and layout of buttons
under user control
o minibuffer for expert use and access to external filters
o provision for defining a keyboard macro
o geometry specification and resizing in terms of characters
o file selection via a browser
o knowledge of line numbers
o parenthesis matching
o regular expression searching
o restricted or unlimited undo
o ability to change font
o easy entry of control codes
o xterm-like keymap feature
o easy runtime setting of selected preferences (resources)
o both brief and comprehensive on-line help
o server mode with cooperating client programs
o optional extension language using Tcl
o optional Xaw3d widget set compatability
o collection of reusable widgets that embody the functionality of aXe
I have personally built and run core aXe, i.e. without the Tcl and
Xaw3d options, on the following systems:
Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1.x MIT X11R5
Sun SPARC SunOS 5.1 MIT X11R5
Encore Multimax UMAX 4.3 MIT X11R5
DEC 5000/120 ULTRIX 4.2 MIT X11R5
HP 9000/710 HP-UX 8.07 MIT X11R5
MAC IIci AU/X 3.0 MIT X11R5
but not all have been subject to the same level of testing. I have
only tested the Tcl and Xaw3d options on the first.
A number of '#ifdef SYSV'-isms that have been fed back to me have been
incorporated into the code and a possible scandir replacement is
provided for those systems that do not have one.
Although aXe will probably build under R4 run-time problems have been
encountered in the past. I have not bothered to try this version under
R4, and have not put any effort into solving previously known
problems. Therefore, if you are at R4 you very much take pot luck. If
it doesn't work the only alternative is to try the last release,
2.1.1, of version 2 which should still be around. It doesn't have as
many features and uses the Widget Creation Library (Wcl). Not only
that, it requires an old version of Wcl, 1.06 or 1.05. Version 3 of
aXe was nearing completion when version 2 of Wcl came out so aXe 2
never got converted to make use of it.
aXe is available by anonymous ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12)
and arjuna.ncl.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) initially, and probably in due
course from several other ftp sites. Check your nearest using
xarchie.
If you can't ftp, try sending email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with the
word "help" alone in your message body. You will receive instructions
on how to ftp via email.
Jim
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I'm a nursing student, and I would like to respond to #66966 on haldol
and the elderly.
Message-ID: <25APR199316225142@fsphy1.physics.fsu.edu>
Organization: Florida State University - School of Higher Thought
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
First, I'm sorry to hear that you have had to see your grandmother go
through this. I know it has to have been tough.
There are many things that can cause long term confusion in elderly
adults. The change in environment can cause problems. Anesthetic agents
can cause confusion because the body cannot clear the medicines out of
the body as easily. In addition, medications and interactions between
medications can cause confusion.
As far as whether or not haldol can have long lasting effects even after
the drug has been discontinued, I do not know. I have not _seen_ anything
to that effect. However, I also had not been looking for that information.
I can see what I can find...
I can tell you that haldol is an antipsychotic drug, and, according to
the Nursing93 Drug handbook, it is "Especially useful for agitation
associated with senile dementia" (p. 400). It also should not be
discontinued abruptly. It did not say anything about long lasting
effects.
Because so many things can cause confusion, it is hard for me to know
what else was going on at the time; if I had more history, i might be able
to answer you better. If you want to send me e-mail with more information,
I would be happy to try to help you piece together what might have
happened.
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A lot of the time, when you're dealing with someone who has no financial
interest in selling you the machine, you get a lot of opinion (as opposed
to factual information, etc.). What it sounds like to me is that this guy
has had an experience with one flaky Centris 610 and formed an
all-encompassing opinion on the rest of the 610's. I've seen lots of
people who frustrated me to no end because they refused to believe any
other Mac Xyz would be any good, since their experience (with >one<
machine) with a Mac Xyz had been bad. Their loss, eh?
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Interesting. All I can say is that I haven't seen any wear in the
1000 miles I've used the stuff on the Ninja, and the bike stays soooo clean.
I'll check back again in a few thousand more miles.
While we're on the subject, whereinthehell can I find a 532x110
endless chain, other than the dealer (no, rivet-type master links are not
acceptable)?
Later,
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If you are just getting sick of the real estate used by the HCT373, you could
always use the approach I have seen one designer take - he stuck the chip in
the middle of the EPROM socket, under the EPROM. Naturally, you have to use
an IC socket with the right dimensions, but layout is really easy.
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We had a senior NSA scientist in Cambridge at one of our workshops recently
(in fact he was here when the Clipper announcement was made, but we didn't
learn of it till after he'd gone). He said on this point that he was forbidden
by law to monitor conversations between US nationals (and he is a chap who is
very precise about his choice of words). So I don't expect he'd have any qualms
about monitoring a domestic US conversation if one of the parties was an alien.
However it got me thinking of the Navajo code talkers. Just imagine:
+ `Hello, is that the Iraqi mission in New York? This is the Iraqi foreign
+ ministry in Baghdad, I am Farouq Hussein, US citizen, social security number
+ so-and-so'
+ `Yes, indeed, this is the New York mission, Mustafa Jadid speaking, also a
+ US citizen, my social security number is such-and-such, here is our report
+ on activities against the Satan Clinton'
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they weren't even carrying extra suits.
So how much mass is saved by not burning the OMS? That's the critical question.
My data shows that the OMS engines hold 10,900 kg of propellant. Of that, a
substantial fraction is going to be used for the first OMS burn, the reentry
burn and the reserve. So Pat, tell us how much fuel the altitude change is
going to take, and how much the EDO pallet, BUS-1 and extra parts are going
mass. If you can make the numbers work out, _then_ I'll be interested. After
you show us that it can be done, then tell us how much the EDO pallet, BUS-1
and extra equipment is going to cost.
First, while astronauts certainly have done EVAs with minimal planning, that was
because they _had_ to. They don't like to do that as a general rule.
Second, remember why they had to improvise during Intelsat 6? They were trying
to attach a motor to a piece of hardware that wasn't designed to do that.
Trying to shortcut the training is only going to make a repeat more likely.
Third, they don't have eight months. They have however much time is left
after someone comes up with a plan, shows it can work and gets it approved.
You may think I have a pessimistic attitude. I think it's realistic. I'm not
saying that the engineering task is impossible (few engineering tasks are).
What I'm saying is that this is neither cost effective nor feasible under NASA
management.
"All they have to do is soup it up?" Just what does that mean?
The second servicing mission is a contingency. You have neither shown that it
would be necessary without your plan nor that it would be unnecessary with your
plan.
No, Pat, I haven't forgotten.
No Pat. That's $500 million minus the cost of the new hardware, minus the cost
of the extra struff you want to bring along, minus development and mangement
costs, minus extra operating costs. TANSTAAFL.
I'm sure that if you reread this you'll see that your argument is falacious.
Pat, not only is this messy and less reliable than a device that's _made_ to
perform this task, it also ignores the point. There is a desire to have
astronauts available so that if the door fails to open, something can be done
about it. Unless you can provide a very reliable way of reopening the door,
you haven't solved the problem.
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What is "aluminium siding"? I keep seeing references to it. Something to do
with railway lines, perhaps?
E-mail reply please, I'll never find it otherwise.
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Organization: Compact Solutions, Canberra ACT Australia
> This may be a very naive question but is there any
> basis for the
> claim that a CPU will get hotter when a
> computationally intensive
> job is running? My friend claims that there will be
> little difference
> in the temperature of an idle CPU and a CPU running a
> computationally
> intensive job.
From what I've seen in coursework, most CPUs never actually
"idle". They will continue to service interrupts, etc.,
etc. The clock will always be running at n Mhz no matter
what it's doing.
I suppose depending on the instruction, the CPU may use
circuitry which has more transistors than other
instructions, but if you consider the additional heat
generated by only a handful of additional, tiny resistors
and then spread that heat dissipation over the CPU's
packaging, the change in temperature to the immediate
environment (ie. the surface of the package) will be
negligible.
Cheers, Ben
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Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) \\\//
University of Canberra (@ @)
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Email: compsol@fir.canberra.edu.au V
Also: ellib@cbr.cpsg.com.au
UUCP: ..!uunet!munnari!sserve.adfa.oz.au!compsol!root
FidoNet: 3:620/262
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My suggestion look at your current insurance card, there will be a name
accross the top telling you which insurance company you are insured by.
Call information in Houston and get the number of a branch office in the
Houston area, call the insurance company.
Your rates will vary depending on the amount of coverage you want,
do you want to carry comp and collision (probably not on an 82),
what your driving record is. You mentioned none of these things in your
posting so how can anyone give you accurate information.
Like I said, pick up the phone and make a few calls, it won't kill you.
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Path: linus.mitre.org!linus!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!uknet!warwick!qmw-dcs!qmw!demon!xact.demon.co.uk!ptm
From: ptm@xact.demon.co.uk (Paul Thomas Mahoney)
Organization: X-Act Solutions Limited
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 15:28:07 GMT
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I am looking of information regarding UIMX. I believe this is an application
front end generator tool for Motif (among others). Whould someone given me a
contact? I need to get hold of the programmers' guide, or something like it.
--
Paul Mahoney, X-Act Solutions Limited
smail: 20 Shipley Lane, Cooden, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN39 3SR
email: ptm@xact.demon.co.uk ... pmahoney@cix.compulink.co.uk
phone: +44 424 846368
I went to the XWorld convention in NY and talked to the people
from Bluestone who make UIMX. They sent me a HUGE 3 ring binder
of info and a demo tape. Let me know what you need.
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I'm glad to see this idea come up because I've had something similar in mind.
What if you had an authorization key that computed from the name and address
data. When the user registers, you don't even need to send executable code,
just compute his/her key and send him/her instructions to enter in the
appropriate place the following:
Name=Joe Doe
Address=123 Main Street
City=Anytown, CA
key=ldslfoialsdkcdsngsikhsfd
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I have enrolled in "The History of Christianity" at a college here in
St. Louis. The teacher of the class is what I consider to be
closed-minded and bigotted on the subject of what the definition of
Christianity is. His definition is tied directly to that of the
Trinity and the Catholic church's definition of it and belief in
Jesus Christ is not sufficient to call one's self a Christian.
While his saying it doesn't make it so, I nevertheless feel insulted
(or am I just neurotic? :^) ). I would like to be able to respond to
him with some sense of literacy while maintaining an amiable
student-teacher relationship.
So, is there common definition of what Christianity is? As the
previous discussion of the Trinity did not lend itself to an exchange
of flames, I am hopeful that this will also not produce major
flames.
Regards,
--
Larry Autry
Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
autry@sgi.com
[Often we get into discussions about who is Christian. Unfortunately
there are a number of possible definitions. Starting from the
broadest, commonly used definitions are:
a historical definition
people who accept Christ as Lord and savior
a broad doctrinal definition
narrow doctrinal definitions
1) By a historical definition I mean the sort of definition a secular
historian would likely use. This would include any group that
developed out of the Christian church, and continues within the same
broad culture. E.g. some Unitarians would fail just about any
doctrinal test you could come up with. Yet it's clear that that group
developed from Christianity, and people from very different
backgrounds (e.g. Hindus) would likely see them as part of
Christianity. This is not a definition most Christians like, but it's
relevant in some political and ethnic contexts.
2) Accepting Christ as Lord and savior is a test used by many
Christian groups for membership, e.g. the Southern Baptists and
Presbyterian Church (USA). I would qualify it by saying that what
most people have in mind is an exclusive commitment to Christ, so that
someone who accepted Christ as one of many gods would not fit. It's
an attempt to formulate a criterion that is religious but is not based
on technical doctrine. By this definition, groups such as Arians
would be viewed as heretical Christians, but still Christians. In the
modern context this would include Mormons, JW's, and "oneness
Pentecostals". They would be viewed as heretical Christians, but
still Christian. In practice I believe just about everyone who falls
into this category would accept the Apostle's Creed.
3) The next level is an attempt to give a broad doctrinal definition,
which includes all of the major strands of Christianity, but excludes
groups that are felt to be outside "historic Christianity." This is
of course a slippery enterprise, since Catholics could argue that
Protestants are outside historic Christianity, etc. But I think the
most commonly accepted definition would be based on something like the
Nicene Creed and the Formula of Chalcedon. The attempt is to
characterize doctrines that all major strands of Christianity agree
are key. Obviously this is to some extent a matter of judgement. A
Mormon will regard the LDS church as a major strand, and thus will not
want to include anything that contradicts their beliefs. But I think
this definition would have fairly broad acceptance.
4) Finally, some people use definitions that I would say are limited
to a specific Christian tradition. E.g. some evangelicals only
consider someone Christian if he has had an evangelical-style
conversion experience, and some I've even heard of groups that limit
it to their specific church.
I think you can find contexts where each of these definitions is used.
A lot is going to depend upon the purpose you're using it for. If
you're using it descriptively, e.g. in history or anthropology, you'll
probably use definition 1 or 2. If you're using it normatively, i.e.
to say what you believe the Christian message is, you'll probably use
a definition like 3 or even 4.
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The probability is that the Oilers are not going anywhere.
Pocklington has chosen this moment to make his "last" stand is
because he is at the moment of maximum advantage...the provincial
government is months away from a provincial election...it is
the moment when he has maximum power to convince Northlands
to give him a better arena deal or a better purchase price...
and it is before the NHL's new collective agreement with
the players which might involve some enhanced revenue-sharing.
Pocklington is many things...stupid is not one of them.
He can dictate terms...because other cities will pay his
price if Edmonton doesn't.
Edmonton has already fucked up its international airport, and
surrendered supremacy to Calgary, and over the next few years
Edmonton is going to take a hard hit from government cutbacks.
It will screw itself beyond recogniton if it manages to find
a way to lose its hockey team too...because Northlands wants
to continue to use the Oilers to subsidize horse racing.
However, in this case, about the long-term financial
viability of the Oilers, the fact is that Pocklington is basically
right, regardless of who owns the team, and it is right to provoke
the crisis now, before the team accumulates millions of dollars
in losses, or becomes habitually uncompetitive because of lack
of money.
Sather has done his job...the Oilers are poised to be competitive
again very soon (Al Strachan, one of the most knowledgeble hockey
writers in Canada in a post-mortem of the Oilers season in
the Globe and Mail recently agrees with me.)
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The OED gives the etymology of "sibyl" as coming from the ancient Greek
sigma iota beta upsilon lambda lambda alpha
( S i b ih l l a )
which is claimed to come from the Doric
sigma iota omicron beta upsilon lambda lambda alpha
( s i o b ih l l a )
which (if I read it properly) in turn came from the Attican (Athenian)
theta epsilon omicron beta omicron upsilon lambda eta
( th eh o b o ih l ae )
I don't know much about Attis, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that
this God was tied to the Athenian capital
Alpha tau tau iota kappa upsilon sigma
(a t t i k u s)
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Kidding, right?
Corvette, several MBZ's and BMW's, Mustang GT, etc., etc. There's a lot of
them. You from a European site?
-Kenny
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Probably not! The jesus freak's post is probably JSN104@PSUVM. Penn State
is just loaded to the hilt with bible bangers. I use to go there *vomit* and
it was the reason I left. They even had a group try to stop playing
rock music in the dining halls one year cuz they deemed it satanic. Kampus
Krusade for Khrist people run the damn place for the most part....except
the Liberal Arts departments...they are the safe havens.
-wdb
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Italy-Sweden 2-6 (0-1,1-2,1-3)
W D L
Canada 2 2 0 0 6-1 4
Sweden 3 2 0 1 8-6 4
Russia 2 1 1 0 6-4 3
Italy 3 1 1 1 5-8 3
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While dedicating the Holocaust Memorial Museum, President
Clinton remarked:
``The evil represented in this museum is incontestable,
but as we are its witness, so must we remain its adversary in the
world in which we live, so we must stop the fabricators of history
and the bullies as well."
Clinton made this comment shortly after giving Janet Reno
the go-ahead to hastily construct a gas chamber and crematorium
in Waco... on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw uprising.
Say, wasn't Monday also the anniversary of Paul Revere's ride?
Is that a clue?
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From: Center for Policy Research <cpr>
Subject: Zionist leaders' frank statements
The following are quotations from Zionist leaders. They appear in
numerous scholarly works dealing with the Palestine question. I urge those
who have access to original sources, to verify the authenticity of the
source and post here their finding, adhering to the truth whatever it be.
Thanks.
Elias Davidsson
------------------------------
Quotations from Zionist leaders
1. "There was no such thing as Palestinians"
(Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, London Sunday
Times, 15 June 1969)
2. "There is, however, a difficulty from which the Zionist
dares not avert his eyes, though he rarely likes to face it.
Palestine proper has already its inhabitants."
(Israel Zangwill, The Voice of Jerusalem, London 1920,
p.88)
3. "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be
able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged
cockroaches in a bottle."
(Raphael Eitan, Israeli Chief of Staff, New York Times, 14
April 1983)
4. "[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs."
(Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel in a speech to
the Knesset,
quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, 'Begin and the "Beasts", New
Statesman, 25 June 1982)
5. "Both the process of expropriation [of the Palestinians]
and the removal of the poor must be carried out
discreetly and circumspectly".
(Dr. Theodor Herzl, The Complete Diaries, Herzl Press,
1960, I., p.88)
6. "Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no
room for both people together in this country...The only
solution is a Palestine.....without Arabs. And there is no
other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to the
neighboring countries, to transfer all of them; not one
village, not one tribe, should be left."
(Joseph Weitz, Jewish National Fund, administrator
responsible for Zionist colonization. Davar, 29 September
1967).
7."We shall try to spirit the penniless population [the
Palestinians] across the border by procuring employment
for it in the transit countries, while denying it any
employment in our own country"
(Theodor Herzl, The Complete Diaries, Herzl Press, 1960,
I, p.88)
8. "[Zionists]...looked for means...to cause the tens of
thousands of sulky Arabs who remained in the Galilee to
flee...I gathered all the Jewish muktars, who have contact
with Arabs in different villages and asked them to
whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish
reinforcement has arrived in Galilee and that it is going
to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should
suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while
there is still time....The tactic reached its goal....wide
areas were cleaned."
(Yig'al Alon, Sepher Ha Palmach, in Hebrew, II. p.268,
quoted in Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest, IPS, 1971).
10. "[Jews] must expel Arabs and take their place"
(David Ben Gurion, 1937, quoted in Shabtai Teveth, Ben
Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press,
1985, p. 89)
11. "We must do everything to ensure they [the
Palestinian refugees] never do return"
(David Ben Gurion, in his diary, 19 July 1948, quoted in
Michael Bar Zohar, Ben Gurion: The Armed Prophet,
Prentice-Hall, 1967, p.157)
12. "The country was mostly an empty desert, with only
a few islands of Arab settlement"
(Shimon Peres, Minister of Defense, quoted in David's
Sling: The Arming of Israel, Weidenfeld and Nicholson,
1970, p.249)
13. "All this story about the danger of extermination [of
Jews] has been blown up....to justify the annexation of
new Arab territories"
(Mordechai Bentov, Israeli Cabinet Minister, Al
Hamishmar, 14 April 1972)
14. "Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can
disqualify terrorism as a means of combat"
(Yitzhak Shamir, Hehazit, Summer 1943 [Journal of the
LEHI, the Stern Gang], translated from the Israeli daily
Al-Hamishmar, 24 December 1987
14. "The domination of Jewish agriculture by Arab
workers is a cancer in our body"
(A. Uzan, Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Ha'aretz, 13
December 1974)
15. "There can be only one national home in Palestine,
and that a Jewish one, and no equality in the partnership
between Jews and Arabs"
(Montague David Eder, President of the Zionist
Federation of Great Britain, 1931,
in Doreen Ingrams, comp., Palestine Papers 1917-1922,
Seeds of Conflict, George Braziller, 1973, p. 135)
16. "I hope that the Jewish frontiers of Palestine will be
as great as Jewish energy for getting Palestine"
(Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of the State of
Israel, Excerpts from His Historic Statements, Writings
and Addresses, Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1952, p.48)
17. "There is not a single Jewish village in this country
that has not been built on the site of an Arab village"
(Moshe Dayan, Ha'aretz, 4 April 1969...)
18. "Some people talk of expelling 700,000 to 800,000
Arabs in the event of a new war, and instruments have
been prepared"
(Aharon Yariv, former chief of Israeli military
intelligence, 1980, Inquiry, 8 December 1980)
19. "If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace]
with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their
country."
(David Ben Gurion, in Nahum Goldmann, The Jewish
Paradox, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p.99)
20. "We should there [in Palestine] form a portion of the
rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization
as opposed to barbarism."
(Dr. Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, London, 1896, p.
29)
21. "I deeply believe in launching preventive war
against the Arab States without further hesitation. By
doing so we will achieve two targets: firstly, the
annihilation of Arab power; and secondly, the expansion
of our territory"
(Menachem Begin, in a speech to the Knesset, 12 October
1955)
22. "During the last 100 years our people have been in a
process of building up the country and the nation, of
expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional
settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no
Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that
we are near the end of the road."
(Moshe Dayan, Ma'ariv, 7 July 1968)
23. "Until the British left, no Jewish settlement, however
remote, was entered or seized by the Arabs, while the
Haganah, under severe and frequent attack, captured
many Arab positions and liberated Tiberias and Haifa,
Jaffa and Safad"
(David Ben Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel,
Philosophical Library, 1954, p.530)
24. "In the months preceding the Arab invasion [of
1948], and while the five Arab states were conducting
preparations, we continued to make sallies into Arab
territory. The conquest of Jaffa stands out as an event of
first-rate importance in the struggle for Hebrew
independence early in May, on the eve of the invasion
by the five Arab states."
(Menachem Begin, The Revolt, Nash, 1972, p.348)
25. "What the French could do in Tunisia, I said, the Jews
would be able to do in Palestine with Jewish will, Jewish
money, Jewish power and Jewish enthusiasm"
(Dr. Chaim Weizmann, First President of the State of
Israel, Trial and Error, Harper, 1949, p.244)
26. "I do not think Nasser wanted war. The two divisions
he sent to the Sinai on May 14 [1967] would not have
been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He
knew it and we knew it."
(Yitzhak Rabin, Le Monde, 29 February 1968)
27. "To pretend that the Egyptian forces massed on our
frontiers [in 1967] were in position to threaten the
existence of Israel constitutes an insult not only to the
intelligence of anyone capable of analyzing this sort of
situation, but above all an insult to the Zahal [Israeli
army]"
(General Res. Matti Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972)
28. "when we have broken the strength of the Arab
Legion and bombarded Amman, we would wipe out
Transjordan; after that Syria would fall....we would thus
end the war, and would have put paid to Egypt, Assyria
and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors"
(David Ben Gurion in his diaries, quoted in Michael Bar-
Zohar, The Armed Prophet, A Biography of Ben-Gurion,
Prentice-Hall, 1967, p.139)
29. "These Jews of the Diaspora would like to see us, for
their own reasons, heroes with our backs to the wall. But
this wish can in no way change the realities."
(Israeli General Ezer Weizmann, Le Monde, 3 June 1972)
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This definitely had nothing to do with the entry of the government into
the support of science; some of it is relevant in technology. There
was little involvement of federal funds, or except through support of
state universities, of state funds, for scientific research before WWII.
The US research position had been growing steadily, and the funding was
mainly from university and private foundation funds. There were not that
many research universities, but they all provided their researchers with
low teaching loads, laboratories, assistants, and equipment, and funds for
travel to scientific meetings. Not that much, but it was provided, and a
university wishing to get a scholar had to consider research funding as well
as salary.
During WWII, the military and the defense departments found that pure
scientists could do quite well with their problems, even though they
were not exactly in the areas of the scientists' expertise. This is
probably because of the "research mind" approach, which is not to try
to find a solution, but to understand the problem and see if a solution
emerges. This works in stages, and as research scientists were used to
discussion about their problems, the job got done.
The military realized the importance of maintaining scientists for the
future, and started funding pure research after WWII. But Congress was
unwilling to have military funds diverted into this investment into the
future supply of scientists, and set up other organizations, such as
NSF, to do the job. It also set up an elaborate procedure to supposedly
keep politics out. Also, the government did a job on private foundations,
making it more difficult for them to act to support research.
The worst part of the federal involvement is that in those areas in which
the government supports research the university will not provide funding,
and in fact expects its scholars to bring in net government money. Suppose,
as has been the case, I have a project which could use the assistance of
a graduate student for a few months. What do you think happens if I ask
for one? The answer I will get is, "Get the money from NSF." Now the
money at the university level is a few thousand, but at the NSF level it
comes to about 20 thousand, and is likely to keep a faculty member from
getting supported. So the government is, in effect, deciding which projects
get supported, and how much.
Also, the government decided that the "wealth" should be spread. So instead
of having a moderate number of universities which were primarily research
institutions, the idea that more schools should get into the act came into
being. And instead of evaluating scholars, they had to go to evaluating
reseach proposals. As a researcher, I can tell you that any research proposal
has to be mainly wishful thinking, or as now happens, the investigator conceals
already done work to release it as the results of the research. What I am
proposing today I may solve before the funding is granted, I may find
impossible, or I may find that it is too difficult. In addition, tomorrow
I may get unexpected research results. Possibly I may bet a bright idea
which solves yesterday's too difficult problem, or a whole new approach to
something I had not considered can develop. This is the nature of the beast,
and except for really vague statements, if something can be predicted, it
is not major research, but development or routine activity not requiring
more than minimal attention of a good researcher.
I believe that at this time less quality research is being done than would
have happened if the government had never gotten into it, and the government
is trying to divert researchers from thinkers to plodders.
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: F<O>CUS/HEALTH: Millions of Americans un-/under- covered
F<O>CUS/HEALTH: Millions of Americans un-/under- covered
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Percentage of population covered by
public health insurance, 1990(25)
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COUNTRY PERCENT COUNTRY PERCENT
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Australia 100 Sweden 100
Canada 100 United Kingdom 100
Denmark 100 Austria 99
Finland 100 France 99
Ireland 100 Switzerland 99
Italy 100 Spain 99
Japan 100 Belgium 98
New Zealand 100 Germany 92
Netherlands 100 United States 21
Norway 100
Sources: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris),
Health Data file, 1991: U.S.: National Center for Heath Statistics, Advance
Data, No. 201, June 18, 1991.
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"We're Number One in percentage of population without health insurance.
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"The main reason we're Number One in percentage of population without
health insurance is that we're last in percentage of population
covered by public health insurance. Only about one fifth of Americans
qualify for the main types of public health insurance available in the
United States: Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans' benefits.(2l)
"Of those who don't qualify, many have private insurance.(22) But
almost one in seven Americans (34 million people--most living in
families with a working adult) have no insurance at all, and one in
four (63 million) have been without insurance for a substantial period
of time during the last two years. Many more have inadequate coverage,
meaning that they could be bankrupted by a major illness.(23) In fact,
one health care expert says that because only 1 percent of the
population has private longterm-care insurance, "virtually any
American could be impoverished by a prolonged disabling illness."(24)
Additionally, as many as 40 percent of those eligible for some forms
of public aid do not receive it. These gaps in health care result
directly from the fact that the United States is the only major
industrialized nation (other than South Africa) without a national
health insurance plan providing universal coverage while controlling
costs.
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From:
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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
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[Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)]
``America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation.''
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NESN owns the rights to Bruin telecasts. I suspect that NESN was only
going to sell one telecast to ESPN (remember, ESPN only owns exclusive
rights to the FINALS, not the entire playoffs). Since ESPN bought the
SCA contract, there are less wrangles to untie with showing the Devils
and Penguins.
I think the same broadcast rights factor comes into it. Plus they
have no way of fitting western game times into their current schedule
unless the NHL was willing to make a western club move up their game.
I think the NHL got as much as it could when it shuffled the deck for ABC.
Same exact coverage as last week: Pit-NJ game 4 in the east, Chi-StL
in the central, LA-Cgy in the mountains and west.
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I just posted this reply to comp.risks (answering RISKS DIGEST 14.53).
Summary: Re: [14.53 Mark Seecof] "key escrow"
It is tempting (albeit chauvinistic) to believe that we have a new situation
here, thanks to our pet computers. This is not true. David Kahn's "The
Codebreakers", a history of cryptography, makes two things obvious:
1. Cryptography is a spontaneous invention of private human individuals
and has been going on for thousands of years. [Teen-age slang and
cipher inventions provide a modern example of this spontaneous
creation.]
2. The systems people created on their own were roughly as secure as (and
sometimes more secure than) those used by military and diplomatic
users *of that time* (although they seem very simple and insecure
today). [e.g., In places, the Bible used a more complex simple
substitution than Caesar did for his military dispatches, but before
Caesar.]
I commend Kahn's book to all who might be interested.
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A student told me today that she has been diagnosed with kidney stones, a
cyst on one kidney, and a kidney infection. She was upset because her
condition had been misdiagnosed since last fall, and she has been ill all
this time. During her most recent doctor's appointment at her parents'
HMO clinic, she said that about FORTY! x-rays were made of her kidney.
When she asked why so many x-rays were being made, she was told by a
technician that they need to see the area from different views, but she
says that about five x-rays were made from EACH angle. She couldn't help
feeling that something must be wrong with the procedure or something. She
is a pre-med student and feels she could have understood what was
happening if someone would have explained. When nobody would, she got
worried.
Also, she is told that thre are 300! surgery patients ahead of her
and that they cannot do surgery until August or so. It is now April...
She is supposed to rest a lot and drink fluids. But she has to go to
classes. She wonders why they have given her no medicine. She plans to
call back her doctor's office / clinic and try to get answers to these
questions. But I told her I would also write in to sci.med and see what I
could find out about why there were so many x-rays and whether it seems
o.k. to wait in line 3 or more months for surgery for something like this
or whether she should be looking elsewhere for her care. She does plan to
get a second opinion, too.
I will pass info on to her. It never hurts to get information
from more than one source.
You can e-mail me or post.
Thanks.
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I will poke around in the U of M archives and see if I find something. If
anyone else finds this, please post the location! :-)
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yes
yes, seen glue-on, tape-on, clip-on, one-inch square and larger.
my favorite is the 3.5 inch plastic U.S.Toyo fan I use just plopped
down on top of the chip during open-case service.
depends on the mounting
only if the manufacturer was smart
only if it goes out - got that "blanket" effect which doesn't help chip life
longer system life makes good economic sense to me
yes - well, not the melted cheese
lets you touch the surface - the "rule of thumb" for cooling solid-state
the "attached" fans look slick and work well but I'm bothered by the potential
loss of cooling if the fan goes out. at least with the power supply fan you
can reach back there every few days and feel the fan blowing.
I prefer to put a stock fan off the drive brackets or front panel
to blow air across the cpu - depends a lot on case and board layout, though.
on-chip fans from Fry's Electronics in the SF Bay Area are about 30.00. I
get the stock power supply fans for about 11.00.
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Hi,
Does anyone know how to redirect the stdout and stderr of a program to
a callback function in X ? The program does not fork() a child process
so I guess I can't use pipes.
Can anyone help ?
Thanks,
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[...]
And presumably this is a matter of degree; it must be common to prescribe
a drug that has _some_ chance of giving _some_ benefit, but not a high
probability of it, and/or not a large benefit. Right?
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The general consensus seems to be that an extended keyboard (or the new
ergonomic keyboard) with mouse is ok. The PB160 is rated for 200mA which is
apparently identical to the LC and the LC works fine with said attachments.
Thanks very much to those who replied...I am now on my way to order a Battleship
and a mouse.... :)
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Ahh, perhaps that's why we've (astronomers) have just built *2* 10-meter
ground-based scopes and are studying designs for larger ones.
Seriously, though, you're never going to get a 10-meter scope into orbit
as cheaply as you can build one on the ground, and with adaptive optics
and a good site, the difference in quality is narrowed quite a bit
anyway. Also, scopes in low orbit (like Hubble) can only observe things
continuously for ~45 minutes at a time, which can be a serious
limitation.
I sure as hell does if the 'point of light' is half a degree in extent
and as bright as the moon. Have you ever noticed how much brighter the
night sky is on a moonlit night?
Existing satellites *are* points of light, but an advertising sign that
appeared as a point would be useless, so I rather think these will
appear larger than a 'typical' satellite. Also, satellite tracks *are*
ruining lots of plates in the current Palomar Sky Survey.
What deparment are you in anyway, Philosophy? You obviously are not
qualified to speak about astronomy...
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OK. Instead of holding an auction, I have decided to compute prices for each comic (after many suggestions). These are the most reasonable prices I can give (not negotiable). If you would like to purchase a comic (or group), simply email me with the title and issue #'s you want. The price for each issue is shown beside each comic. First come, first served!!! There is no more bidding. Meet my price and it is yours. I can be reached at this email address:
02106@chopin.udel.edu or
02106@ravel.udel.edu or
02106@bach.udel.edu or
02106@brahms.udel.edu
NO MORE HAGGLING ABOUT THE PRICE!!!!!!!!
LOTS OF COMICS FOR $1, $2, or $3 LOOK AT LIST!!!!!
Shipping is $2 for 1-3 comics. For more than 3, the price will be determined by the volume of the purchase (I may have to use a big heavy box for large orders which costs more to mail).
For all those who have bought comics from me, thanks!!!
All comics are near mint unless otherwise noted (my books were graded by
mile high comics and other comic professional collectors, not me!)
Here is the list:
*reserved* means that I have made a deal with a person and I am waiting for the check to arrive.
*reserved* comics are as good as sold (sorry!)
Incredible Hulk
156 (vs another Hulk) $3
195 $2
196 $2
246 (vs Captain Marvel) $1
248 $1
249 $1
250 (Double size issue vs Silver Surfer) $5
255 (vs Thor) $1
279 $1
300 $2
312 $2
313 $1
316 (vs Bi Coastal Avengers) $1
347 $1 *reserved*
348 $1
350 (vs Thing) $2
354 $1
358 $1
360 $1
362 (vs Werewolf By Night) $2
364 $1
365 $1
366 $1 *reserved*
379 (1 copy) $5
Punisher
50 $1
57 $2
Punisher War Journal
29 (Ghost Rider) $2
30 (Ghost Rider) $2
Punisher Armory
1 $4
2 $2
Original Ghost Rider Rides Again (Reprint)
1 $1
Ghost Rider (old series)
37 $3 *reserved*
43 (vs Johnny Blaze) $3 *reserved*
77 (2 copies, origin of GR dream) $4 each
Ghost Rider (new series)
15 (1st print, Green glow in dark cover, 1 copy) $5
15 (2nd print, gold cover w/ glow cover) $3
Web of Spiderman
56 (2 copies) $2 each
60 $3
69 (vs Hulk, 1 copy left!!!) $2
70 (SpiderHulk, 1 copy left!!!) $2
71 $1
72 $1
78 $1
Deadly Foes of Spiderman
1 (2 copies) $2 each
2 $2
3 $2
Amazing Spiderman vs Dr. Octopus (special NACME issue) $2
Amazing Spiderman
350 (vs Dr. Doom, 1 copy LEFT!!!) $2
Spiderman (1990)
1 (silver, not bagged) $4
6 $3
7 $3
8 (2 copies) $2 each
9 (w/ Wolverine, 1 COPY LEFT!!!) $2
10 $2
11 $1
13 $5
16 $1
Enemy Ace Special #1 $2
New Warriors
1 (gold cover) $2
8 $4
Superman Man of Steel #1 $2
Superman (new)
53 (2 copies) $1 each
55 $1
56 $1
Adventures of Superman
479 $1
Annual #3 $1
Superman Annual #3 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Action Comics #666 $1
Avengers West Coast #69 (Hawkeye vs US Agent) $1
Batman
465 (Robin returns) $2
466 $1
467 $1
Annual #15 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $3
Captain America
230 (vs Hulk) $2
257 (vs Hulk) $1
Armegedon 2001
1 $4
2 $2
Foolkiller #1 $2
Infinity Gauntlet
1 $6
4 $3
5 $3
Double Dragon #1 $1
Deathlok (series)
2 $1
Transformers #80 (last issue) $2
Wonder Man
1 $1
2 $1
Flaming Carrot #25 (w/ Ninja Turtles) $2
The Comet #1 $1
Legend of the Shield #1 $1
Justice Society of America
1 $1
2 $1
3 $1
4 $1
Official movie mag from Turtles II movie (sealed w/ Jelloman comic) $5
Robin
1 (1 copies w/ poster) $3
1 (3rd print) $1
5 (6 copies) $1 each
Guardians of the Galaxy
1 $6
2 $3
3 $2
4 $2
5 $2
6 $2
7 $2
8 $2
9 (2 copies) $3 each
10 $2
11 $2
12 $1
13 $3
14 $3
15 $1
16 $1
17 $1
18 (2 copies) $2 each
Superman vs Amazing Spiderman (oversized issue from 70's) $7 *reserved*
DarkHawk
1 (3 copies) $8 each
2 (2 copies) $6 each
3 $5
4 $4
5 $4
6 $3
7 $2
8 $2
9 $3
10 $1
Thor
246 $1
428 $1
429 (vs Juggernaut) $2
430 (w/ Ghost Rider) $1
431 $1
432 (Thor vs Loki, 2 copies) $3 each
433 (new Thor) $2
Annual #16 $1
What if....
13 $1
23 $1
25 $2
26 $1
Alpha Flight
29 $1
51 $6
53 $6
94 (vs Fant. 4) $1
New Mutants
22 $2
100 (last issue, 1st look at X-Force, 1st print, 2 copies) $5 each
100 (2nd print, gold cover) $4
Flash (new)
43 $1
48 $1
49 $1
50 $2
51 $1
Annual #4 $1
Uncanny X-Men
191 $3
215 $2
255 (2 copies) $2 each
258 $6
275 (1 COPY LEFT 1st print) $6
275 (gold 2nd print) $3
276 $3
277 $3
278 $2
279 $2
280 $2
281 $3
282 $4
283 $6
Defenders
52 (Hulk vs Sub Mariner) $2
Fantastic Four
347 $4
348 $2
349 (3 copies) $2 each
Wolverine
11 $3 *reserved*
20 $2
41 (w/ Cable, 2 copies) $6 each
42 $4
43 $3
Silver Surfer (1987)
1 $6
2 $3
3 $3
4 $3
5 $2
6 $2
8 $2
22 $2
24 $2
32 $2
49 $2
50 (Foil cover, only 1 copy left!!) $6
51 $2
52 $2
53 $1
54 $1
55 $1
56 $1
58 $2
59 $2
Avengers
326 $3
328 (origin of Rage) $3
X-Factor
40 $6
67 $3
68 $6
71 $3
73 $1
Green Lantern (1990)
3 $2
9 (2 copies) $1 each
10 $1
11 $1
12 $1
Toxic Avenger
1 (3 copies) $1 each
2 $1
Sleepwalker
1 (3 copies) $2 each
3 $1
7 $1
Kool Aid Man #1 (sealed in white bag, 2 copies) $2 each
X-Force
1 (bagged w/ Cable Card) $4
1 (bagged w/ Shatterstar Card) $3
2 $2
3 $1
4 $1
NFL Superpro
1 $1
Dr. Strange #31 $1
Hawkworld Annual #2 (2nd print, Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Hawk & Dove Annual #2 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Justice League of America Annual #5 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Send all comments to
02106@chopin.udel.edu
Thanks
Sam (the "ex" comic book collector)
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: >Unless, of course, the problem is that homosexuality is a form
: >of mental disorder, caused by childhood sexual abuse, as a number of
: >recent works suggest.
:
: Which number is that? Zero?
The only time I have heard mention of such a mechanism is
with respect to FEMALE homosexuality resulting from HETEROSEXUAL
childhood abuse.
(and this as only one of several factors affecting the same person)
As Mr Cramer appears to concentrate on MALE homosexuality
I doubt this is what he has in mind.
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Given that certain archival methods have certain key(cleartext) in a file I
used a programatic dictionary attack. I used the DES library provided with the
system that I was using. What is to keep anyone from being lucky with a key?
My previous employment has nothing to do with my current address, other than
the fact that the fastest machine in the office was an IBM RISC System/6000
model 530, with 16 meg of memory.(not a super-computer)
I really think this more of a statement of the limitations placed on the key
by the interface(ascii char/no padding), and most programs don't bother to
clear off the archival front and backend ID's.
Yes any moderatly bright programmer with a little idle machine time, can
crack most of todays real world encryption. I sure that you or I could
select a key, and prepare the data inorder that the decryption will become a
worst case. but that is not the real world, and I'm sure that is how any
agency would start an attack on a message, as you pointed out, there are some
very good recognition algorithms availible, I'm just not familiar with them.
A.G.
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The entire business of a Bank is the management of risk. That's
what a Bank is for. That's what people who work for Banks do.
OK, but in that case why are you posting about it? What I
hear you saying is "I don't understand this stuff, but if Islam
says it's so, it's so".
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Well, Your Majesty, ;^), couldn't you just picture it? Cherry starts doing
his first post-game interview with Barrasso; Tommy gives him that little look
(like somebody crapped on his shoe) and then proceeds to give Don a
tonsilectomy with his Sher-Wood. Now that you could put on pay-per-view!
Hope you had a good laugh!
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Carrying in the glove box is not covered...I'm not sure what I was
thinking there. It _is_ legal in Oklahoma.
On inter-state travel, as long as it is legal for you to own
at your point of origination and destination, the gun is carried
in a locked compartment/box (glove box specifically excluded) separate
from the ammo, it is legal under Title 19, Chapter 44, Section 94(9? I
forget, and my copy of the regs is at home) of the US Code. This,
unfortunately, has not prevented the theft by state troopers of a
certain state (which shall remain nameless to protect the hopelessly
stupid) under that state's law.
Gee, and I thought Federal Law overrode state law...
James
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The subject line says it all.
/Thanks
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Nice ridin' Tex. I use the California DMV recommended technique:
slow as you aproach said dog and wick it up as you pass. I've often
contemplated putting the boot in said dog's muzzle as I open the
throttle, but have never tried that. I figgure the impact would
unballance me and I'd dump the bike. A bicycling technique I've
employed was to use my frame mounted tire pump to fend off dog
attacks. On one occasion I was attacked by a pack of four dogs at
once while peddaling up a steep hill. I lost my right sock, but no
blood. I complained to the local Animal Control department (after
complaining to the owner of the dogs to no affect) about the dogs;
no more dogs, no more attacks. The telephone worked much better
than the tire pump.
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Posted for L. Neil Smith by Cathy Smith
THE LIES OF TEXAS
Okay, what have we learned?
For reasons still being kept secret, a federal agency already known
-- well enough to be examined and rebuked by several legislative
committees over the years -- for a longstanding, violent disregard
of the law, invades the home of a man whose religious beliefs and
personal habits they abominate, violating his rights under the
First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to
the Constitution.
The man and his followers fight back, killing four of the outlaw
agency's minions, wounding many more, and suffering their own
losses in the process. The agency responds by cutting off his
electricity, water, and especially his contact with the outside
world. They are then free to say anything at all about him -- in
pronouncements that contradict one another daily as the agency
finds itself locked in a bitter power struggle with another outfit
eager to gain credit for "straightening out the mess" -- and, more
importantly, to script his side of the subsequent "negotiations"
any way they please.
The impasse lasts almost two months, ironically, at the same time
four L.A. cops are being given a second trial for brutalizing a
single individual, sparking one of the ugliest riots in history.
Armored vehicles surround the house, already ringed with snipers
using scoped, high-powered rifles. Loudspeakers playing obnoxious
records at the highest possible volume, and searchlights, deprive
those in the house of sleep (in the aftermath, nobody in authority
will mention the effect this technique, originated by North Korean
Communists as a battle tactic, may have had on their judgment).
Finally -- another irony -- on the 50th anniversary of the rising
of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of the armor punches holes in the house
and gas of some kind is injected. The house bursts into flame and
is reduced to ashes in less than an hour. At least 80 lives,
including those of more than a dozen children, are snuffed out.
Spokesmen for the outlaw agencies, the Attorney General, and the
President all hold press conferences to articulate a common theme:
blame the victim.
He had illegal weapons -- as soon as they can be prepared in a
secret government workshop and planted among the cinders being
"examined" by the agency that created them. He was abusing children
-- the tapes will be stored with the data on the JFK assassination.
He set the fire -- our snipers saw him doing it. Film at 11 -- in
3000 A.D. He shot his followers who tried to escape -- or was that
Jim Jones? Best of all, he's dead -- he can't say a damn thing to
embarrass us, any more than when his contact with the world was
severed at the start of the whole travesty.
A leading national paper claims 93% of the American people believe
that a man who resisted a savage attack on his home is somehow
responsible for everything that resulted. But when did you ever
know 93% of Americans to agree on anything -- doesn't this sound
more like the outcome of a Soviet election than an opinion poll?
Very well, what can we infer from the above? For starters, never
forget that, although Democratic careers are on the line (and
rightfully so) over this fiasco, by the outlaw agency's admission,
it was planned and rehearsed by a Republican administration. Which
may explain why Paul Harvey, who evidently used up all his courage
and integrity changing his mind (at about the same time I did)
about the war in Viet Nam -- has been acting as little more than a
mouthpiece for a state that has no regard for the Bill of Rights.
More importantly, when Rush Limbaugh, who's been a quivering tower
of Jello during the whole thing, takes essentially the same stance
as Bill Clinton, it's time for fundamental changes, if not in the
system, then at least within yourself.
On March 5, back at the beginning, Mary Gingell, national chair of
the Libertarian Party, issued a press release condemning the outlaw
agency and calling for its abolition. In fact, the LP has promised
in its platform since 1977, for at least 16 years, to abolish both
agencies involved in Waco. I'm proud to say I was there and helped
to write that plank.
True, the LP is tiny and insignificant (although less so than in
1977 -- ask the Democrats in Georgia if you doubt it). But, alone
in a howling wilderness of fascists scrambling now to cover their
behinds with phony polls and Big Lies, the LP is right about what
happened in Waco. And if their advice had been followed in 1977,
Waco never would have happened.
Think about it. And think about the fact that, if you've had enough
of political parties more interested in collecting and holding
power -- at whatever cost to the Bill of Rights, let alone human
life -- than in defending and expanding individual liberty, maybe
the change it's time for within yourself is to make the LP less
tiny and insignificant by a single voice and a single vote.
Think about it.
L. Neil Smith
Author: THE PROBABILITY BROACH, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE, HENRY MARTYN,
and (forthcoming) PALLAS
Editor: LEVER ACTION BBS (303) 493-6674, FIDOnet: 1:306/31.4
Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus
NRA Life Member
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Actually, a WERA racer, William Lumsden, considered running a Vmax in
A Superstock. He took it out to Talladega GPR for a practice day, and
_really_ annoyed the 600 riders -- they usually got caught behind a
sideways Vmax in the corners, and if they passed him going in, he'd
blow by down the straight (usually wobbling). Needless to say, since
he was 2 seconds faster on a 1977 CB400F, he decided against the Vmax.
Too bad.
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From: nataraja@rtsg.mot.com (Kumaravel Natarajan)
The technology Cummins is applying to diesels to comply with
the newer Ca. emissions laws involves three things I know of:
1. All compliant diesels are turbocharged.
2. All use an "aftercooler", which cools the air which was heated
by compression by the turbocharger (up to about 25 PSI).
3. A gismo on the injector pump which senses the pressurized air
intake, and limits full delivery of fuel while the pressure is
low.
No scrubbers, catalytic converters, etc, are used. The path from
the turbocharger to the exhaust outlet is kept very free.
Interestingly, except for the low-pressure fuel limitation, power output
and mileage are enhanced by these measures. One can buy aftermarket
turbos and aftercoolers which generate more power, lots more power,
and these are approved by the CARB.
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Sorry for the delay in replying; your message only showed up today (23 Apr)
on apple.com. QuickDraw GX is not a replacement for QuickDraw; the two of
them live quite happily together. You may write an app that only uses GX
if you want, or you may write a hybrid app that uses both. Suptayoo.
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