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Why don't we move down even further toward the masses by setting this up on an IBM PC clone(probably needs to be a 386 or a 486) with a sound blaster and a V.32bis modem. Those components are very widely available. I don't know if the PC has enough horsepower to encrypt the data at realtime, but the sound blas...
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Hi there, I was wondering if anyone knew if John Wetteland was put on the DL again after his first 15-day period was up? I read in the USA Today Sports section that he is on for "surgery to repair broken toe", and was wondering if that was new. I thought he was just letting it heal. An...
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. Of some relevance to the posts on this subject might be Deut.23:2,
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From article <1r8uckINNcmf@gap.caltech.edu>, by wen-king@cs.caltech.edu (Wen-King Su): --Yes, it does come with the Maxima GXE engine mated to the Maxima SE transmission. And it has decent power for a minivan also. Check again. --Aamir Qazi --
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Well, on the contrary, I thought Dave was rather taken with her and her accent..."(H)ockey is my passion"...
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The domain address of the WHO is: who.arcom.ch So try sending email to postmaster@who.arcom.ch Josh backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
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Are you kidding? I'm stuck with the Toronto SkyDome, where their idea of a 7th inning stretch is that "Blue Jays" song where everyone gets to yell: "Okay, okay, Blue Jays, Blue Jays, Let's Play Ball!" Wow.. what genius did it take to compose that one, to outshine the old classic. And there are women on the field t...
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I would have to say that the "greatest philosopher" title would have to go to Plato since the whole enterprise of philosophy was essentially defined by him. Although he got most of his answers wrong, he did definitively identify what the important questions are. I think it was Descartes who said that "All philos...
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Dancing With Idjits.
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I believe Acker got a ring from his wife when they were married I don't know why you guys keep bickering about Morris. The stats show he is a mediocre pitcher at best (this year is another case), he just happened to win 21 games. I saw many of his games last year, he did pitch some good games. But this crap about...
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Try swapping the phone cables in the back of the modem.
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Sorry, forgot to add its a Jap. import Andy
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stuff deleted - but message is: : : : >He is God. : : In other words, the right of might. : : >He is God. : : In other words, the right of might. : : : : >God granted you the gift of life whether you were sinner or saint. : : In other words, he can do it, he did it, and your in no position to : argue about i...
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I'm a little worried about this pitching thing. 6.08 is scarry even for the first 16 games of the season. Mesa (sp?) seems to be settling down. He pitched well against the Red Soxs, but The Rocket matched him. I got a chance to watch them play against California Wednesday and he pitched well also. Then the dam br...
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Lexus es300, gs300, sc300, Infiniti J30, Dozens of others, including common cars like the Toyota Camry (as an option). Lexus ls400, sc400, Acura Legend, Infiniti Q45, Lincoln Mark VIII, some cadillacs and other luxury autos. V10 - Dodge viper (?)
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[ to a .rle file ^^^^^^^] I thought I'd reply to this, though I ain't brad. AT any case, a lot of picture-file viewers that will convert, say, between .gif,etc, to .bmp *will* convert to .rle. I Know for a fact that PaintShop (shareware from cica; /desktop, I think, filena...
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VW and Mercedes have tinkered with particulate traps. Also, VW uses a kind of turbocharger on their Jetta ECOdiesel that helps reduce particulates as well, although I don't know the mechanics of it. Many diesel cars,busses, and trucks in Europe are now being equipped with catalysts and traps in an effort to clean up...
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From: bsw@utrc.utc.com (Bruce S. Winters) Subject: Re: Warped brake discs on '91 Taurus L >In the past few years I have owned 3 Mustang GTs and now own a 91 T-Bird >SC. They all have had this problem. There was a recall on the T-bird for >the brake problem. The Ford dealer replaced the rotors and pads but th...
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Wood is fairly small for an enforcer-type. I mean, Fleury does a pretty good job and isn't that large, but Dody is no Fleury. Having been witness to three or four of his fights closeup, he simply isn't ready to fight at an NHL level (assuming that it's his role, which is ALL he really showed us in his few games up ...
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This was posted by Lyn Bates to the firearms-politics mailing list: I recently learned that Don Kates was going to be in Boston to give a talk at the Harbard Law School about the Waco situation. (Of course, this was all set up after the incident started but long before its unhappy conclusion.) So, yesterday I went t...
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After reading many postings concerning hard drives I'm still unclear about one thing. These new "cached hard drives" - is the cache on the drive itself or is it separate, like on the controller or something? Thanks to anyone who can clear this up. --
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As of the third edition (June 92) the O'Reilly book (Vol 2) under BadMatch Any invalid setting of a window attribute Attribute besides win_gravity, event_mask, do_not_propogate+mask, override_redirect, or cursor specified for InputOnly window depth non-zero for InputOnly Parent of InputOutput is InputOnly b...
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And then cosper@seq.uncwil.edu (Kit Cosper) quoth: =>A comment made by one of the Braves announcers, attributed to =>an anonymous player after Friday night's game, => => "I'm sorry we didn't tie it up, I wanted to see some more => umpiring." => =>Just about sums it up............. Sure, like Ron Gant wasn't completel...
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Just ask postmaster for the e-mail address of the printer. :-)
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The annihilation of Islam ("Turks") is an older Serbian agenda. But I strongly dispute your notion that Croats had a similar older agenda, in fact, for the past century or two, Croats and Muslims have seen themselves as having a lot in common, and they generally had friendly relations. Your suggestion that Croat-Mu...
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I find this remark to be awfully arrogant. I would venture to say that there are many people who are Christians now, who at one point in their lives had no intention of ever becoming a Christian. I was certainly one such person. I am quite thankful that there were Christians who were willing to continue to talk to ...
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+--------------+ ||+----------+ | Are +-------------+ ||| All The | | there | ===========+| ||| PC News | | any? |' Mac SE || ||| That Fit | | | |' or || ||| on TV | | | ...
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I don't know for sure that this will work, but you might try MEK (methyl ethyl keytone?). It worked getting the stickum left over from shelf paper, and is available at paint stores. Use a carbon gas mask and lots of ventilation--this stuff really stinks!
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Having vainly looked for devices capable of dealing to the NEC 77P20 DSP chip which dont require taking out a mortgage, i decided to roll my own. Not a difficult task for an 8751, given that all the timing relationships are set out in the databook. One thing bothers me, that is the accursed 50ms 21 volt Vpp pulse. Sure...
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Even better, let's pass a law making it illegal to kill people with bombs of *any* sort. --henry schaffer
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Just thought of something. Yes, laptops can still be read, but it's not quite as easy as a normal pc with a CRT. My thought, Airline pilots lately have been complaining about how laptops being used in flight mess with the plane's instruments. If this can be hyped up, manufacturers may start building laptops with eve...
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Me too!
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Frequently-asked questions about the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface. If your question isn't here, please try (at *least*) man openwin man xnews man 7 xview and looking in the appropriate manuals listed in the Bibliography below before posting to the comp.windows.open-look, comp.windows.x or alt.toolkits.xview n...
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Lisa Rowlands, on the Wed, 21 Apr 1993 10:13:31 +0000 wibbled: : Can anyone recommend a good place for reasonably priced bike paint jobs, preferably but not essentially in the London area. : Thanks : Lisa Rowlands : -- : Alex Technologies Ltd CP House : 97-107 Uxbridge Road : Tel: +44 (0)81 566 2307 Ealing :...
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Hi there (I posted this to comp.windows.x.intrinsics but got no response, so I'm posting here.) I'm wanting to connect a digitiser made for PCs into my workstation (an HP 720). It is my understanding the X windows can understand a variety of input devices including digitiser tablets. However, this digitiser makes us...
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He's mistaken. They exist, the semiconductor is silicon carbide, and they are inefficient and expensive. The bandgap is around 2.7 ev. The ones I have are clear plastic. Pray tell, what would make a "typical" LED emit blue light?
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For starters, they could have gone on waiting and negotiating. The Davidians weren't going anywhere, and their supplies had to be limited. Large, perhaps, but limited. If they had simply fired the compound by themselves without gov't tanks smashing down their walls, then at least the gov't would not be guilty of ha...
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You're confused. You are talking about KIRILIAN photography. Bill is talking KRILLEAN photography.
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and Mentioning that Turkic people are wide-spread means desiring a Turkish empire? Is that the logical thing to conclude from a statement like that? To me it just says that Turkey may have economical benefits from that if she can be competitive enough. No more than that. But of course you have the freedom of extrapol...
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: |> : |> None of this changes the fact that MSW3.1 is objectively inferior to its : |> : |> competition. : |> : |> : Do you mean that MSW3.1 is objectively inferior in _some_ respects (which : |> : is trivially true), that it is objectively inferior in _all_ respecets : |> : (which is trivially false) or do you mean ...
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And done in SECRET ... :-) Did anybody notice it is the TREASURY DEPT (The FBI and BATF, in other words) that Clinton wants to do the investigation? In other words, investigating themselves? He sure didn't seem very enthusiastic about Congress doing the investigation, I notice: "... well, they can do what they wan...
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I'm a hockey fan from way back, and maintain an interest as best I can here in the hockey hinterlands (Oklahoma). I'm hoping I can get a reading from some of you about the move of the North Stars to Dallas. I've been under the impression that Minnesota was one of, or possibly, THE hockey state in the U.S. So why is ...
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According to an article in the LA Times, Todd Worrell will not be ready to come off the DL list Friday. It sounds like he has had another set back in his come back. At present, he has stopped throwing the ball. Supposedly, he had no velocity. It doesn't sound like there is any particular time table at this point fo...
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My mistake.
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I have a new (opened box, tested drive) Toshiba MK438FB disk for sale. 3.5" 877 mb formatted 12 ms SCSI-2 3 year warranty
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Not everyone should be trusted with tools. ;-)
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This is just a test to see if this works.
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Try to get axe - It's a wonderful X based editor and much simpler to use than emacs what is a overkill. Of course, emacs is no editor but a religion. 1) Don't call going from an Amiga to a IBM 'upgrade' 2) The Amiga Workbench did the job of a Desktop manager, and there is no really amazing good X Desktop manager ...
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Maxim makes a chip that does exactly what you want. The MAX7219 drives 8 7 segment LED displays with full decode or drives 64 discrete LED's with a 3 wire serial interface. The chips can also be cascaded to allow very large arrays. I am working on a sign display using this part. I'll have to post the contact info ...
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-=> Quoting Cire Y. Trehguad to All <=- CYT> Hey I am in Iowa and I do not mind ESPN showing the PITT/NJD games. CYT> At least I get to see the DEVILS...even if they are gettin there ass CYT> kicked Perhaps they will score and even win a game or two CYT> GO DEVILS I am sorry to tell you this, but I don't think...
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Is anybody using David Rapier's Hebrew Quiz software? And can tell me how to *space* when typing in the Hebrew? (space bar doesn't work, for me anyway...) Email please; thanks. Ken
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Finally, someone seems to be making sense in this thread.
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Buy Adobe Streamline. Problem solved.
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Can anyone give me information or lead me to electronic information (not books; I'm too poor...) regarding programming the standard graphics modes? 320x200x4 and 640x200x2 are easy enough, but I'm not so sure about the rest. Something about planes or something, and writing to ports and the like, but I don't know the n...
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The Civic does still come in a 4 door model. My wife and I looked quite seriously at the 626, Prizm (Corolla), and Civic, as well as some other cars. Our impressions: all three seemed well built and had the features we wanted - these are similar to the features you want except for cruise control, and we want a manua...
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only appreciated. Pierre Turgeon, formely of the Sabres and now of the Isles wears #77 (at least he did in Buffalo ...)
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I am interested in finding a supplier for an array of leds on material which is transparent when nothing is lit. I'm not quite sure what LCD screens are like away from the laptop but I would guess they are not too clear. An ideal item would be an LED array for which each LED is about 1/2" square. (Yes very course)...
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My ENT doctor recommended surgery to fix my sinuses. I have a very deviated nasal septum (probably the result at least partially from several fractures). One side has approximately 10-15% of normal flow. Of course I have known this for years but recently discovered that I suffer from chronic sinus infection, discover...
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<: ....other good stuff about the Drs idiocy Ok, much as I hate to do it, here I am posting an EVEN BETTER "Dr. Idiot" story. I was in my 18th hour of labor, had been pushing for 4.5 hours and was exhausted. My OB and I decided to go for a csec. The OB called in the anesthisiologist (sp?) and asked him to help p...
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: Does anyone know about these studies? Or have experience with feverfew? I keep an accurate log of my migraine attack frequency; feverfew didn't seem to do anything for me. However, eliminating caffeine seems to pre- vent the onset of migraine in my case. In other words, no caffeine, no migraines.
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Cool! I think you mean Moon. (Sorry, I had to.) ; )
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I also experience this kinda problem in my 89 BMW 318. During cold start ups, the clutch seems to be sticky and everytime i drive out, for about 5km, the clutch seems to stick onto somewhere that if i depress the clutch, the whole chassis moves along. But after preheating, it becomes smooth again. I think that you...
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Um. Would you mind telling us what state/municipality you live in? There are different laws in different places, you know. tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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Oh, do please try not to be ludicrous. SO=Significant Other, a term I employed to avoid the awkward construction "girlfriend or wife". A "deviant" is someone who does not fit an "accepted norm." By that definition, I would certainly be a deviant, as bisexuality is not an accepted norm in American society so fa...
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I've been in two _major_ auto accidents, both were multiple car. The worst was a head-on three car collision (T intersection and one person ran a stop sign). In both cases I was stopped and had no place to go (and I saw it coming both times). If you _really_ want to add safety to _any_ car, simply add a cage...
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Agree 100%, personally I cannot flip from page to page on a screen and retain information as easily as in the written page. Ditto's ... in fact .. at work, where things are dead if the backup is no good, I insist on having at least a 2 level backup system. It seems that whenever you have 2 good backups, you never ...
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I *cannot* *believe* I am posting in this thread, but what the hell, he asked for it. I had sort of the same reaction myself when I was first realizing I was bi. "So what, >90% of everyone else is straight, I'd never end up with a guy anyway." As several people on soc.bi pointed out to me, this is true only if you ...
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What worked for me on my RD350 was to lean towards the dog as I modulated throttle to keep my ankle just ahead of his teeth. After a few seconds of warm pipe firmly wedged on his shoulder he turned his face sideways to see what was so warm and got his mouth/nose/muzzle burned on the pipes. One yip and he veered away,...
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V4s? I don't know of any. I4s and flat4s are abundant. A whole $h!tload. Minivans, pickups, just about any car above the subcompact/compact range and below the full-size range (with a few exceptions). I6s are much more rare now; the only one I personally know of that's still in production is the venerable Ford 300C...
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Archive-name: x-faq/speedups Last-modified: 1993/4/20 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE PERFORMANCE OF X -- monthly posting - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Compiled by Art Mulder (art@cs.ualberta.ca) More RAM, Fa...
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Not sure. But the number of Israelis killed defending Israel is a little more than 17,000 in the last 45 years and 61,000 injured. You must try to make a mockery out of everything, don't you? Pathetic.
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I asked for opinions yesterday on Gateway machines. All the e-mail I received indicated that they were solid, reliable machines and technical support was very good. Well, Gateway faxed me a price sheet just now. It seems to be on the higher side, but then again, maybe not. Dell's price for a similar price is a whole l...
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From article <C5n90x.EsJ@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, by gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy): Really? I thought that insurance companies hired all of their actuarial staffs to determine the risks correlated with all groups of people, and that gays are more likely to have AIDS than are those of other sexual ...
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Having had my car die on me(engine fire, insurance agent said it was probably totaled), I am in the market for a another vehicle. I saw a Toronado that was within my expected price range and was wondering if anybody could relate their experiences with me. Namely: 1. Does it have accceptable power(it has a 305 in it)...
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I'm sure all the religious types would get in a snit due to Asimov's atheism. Do we have any atheists on stamps now?
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Why would Pollin want to move the Caps, because I think he owns the Cap Centre. I know they don't sell out all of their games, but they draw a lot more than the Bullets. If you had the situation that Abe had, would you move if you were guaranteed that anyone who went to the games would have to park at the stadium, ...
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There is a known problem with the seals on the taillights of <93 probes. Complain loudly to your dealer and get them to install new seals. It is a known problem, present on most (if not all) pre-93 Probes, so you shouldn't have to pay them to fix it. In my case, they fixed it on my extended warranty (I just had to ...
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The killing of the ATF agents is a separate issue. My point is that many children died because of Koresh defending himself. Did he have what you call the "moral right" to keep those children in a dangerous enviroment in order to defend himself?
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I have the following system for sale. 386DX 25Mhz (DTK motherboard Intel microprocessor) 64k external cache 4 megs Ram 89 meg Harddrive (IDE controller) 1.2 meg floppy drive 1.44 meg floppy drive 2 serial ports 1 parallel port Samsung VGA monitor SVGA graphics card (tseng labs w/ 1meg) aweso...
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i think those with 1.6 MR2's would describe the engine as sweet if a little loud, those with 2.2 MR2's i can't imagine any unbiased person paying it any compliments. sounded like my ex-dormmate's rusty chevy chevette. with the 1.6 i would want to redline it just for the music, with the 2.2 i would short shift so tha...
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Kent, with regards to the information contained in the Bible (which is the original context of this thread), Brian Kendig is inside a huge wall. Brian *IS* inside. The Bible and the information contained therein are outside the wall. Brian Kendig proves this very sad fact by the absurd things he says. For exa...
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Too easy. When you are dragging your pegs while driving in a straight line. Actually I've driven in 50 mph side winds with just a little difficulty.
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In <1ren9a$94q@morrow.stanford.edu> salem@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Salem) This brings up another something I have never understood. I asked this once before and got a few interesting responses, but somehow didn't seem satisfied. Why would the NT NOT be considered a good source. This might be a literary/histori...
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[...] [...] I believe you are mistaken. I don't believe the AG publishes the number of state wiretaps. - Carl
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Knowing Keith, I expect he'll bring the leather accessories. Better oil it well. Leather cracks when it dries.
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We need terrain data for a visualization research currently taking place in Tel-Aviv university. We have two databases that we are currently working on, but we would like to work on more databases, possibly more complicated and ones that will give prettier images. Before I describe what kind of data we need, let me m...
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Sounds like Darryl being Darryl, Tommy spending too much time on Slim Fast and needs a pasta fix, and the media being their usual "charming" selves. Sounds like a New York-like story to me!! :-) I saw the replay and am wondering what the big deal is? I didn't realize the folks in LA were making a big to do about i...
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Jeffrey L. Cook sez; Lazlo Nibble sez; Actually, paving ground glass over Lichtenstein wouldn't demonstrate the strength of Western Capitalism, since it's strength depends on use of the mind and materials in the fulfillment of needs and desires. Mind you, I'm not saying *no-one* would benefit from glassed-over land,...
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(Deletion) Well, yes, but that belongs in the other group, there is a interpretation found for everything. However, allowing any form of interpretation reduces the information of the text so interprteted to zero. By the way, I have checked the quote and I think the lines preceding those quoted above are more inte...
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I have a fresh stock of S-VHS broadcast master tapes, in album covers, forsale. All unopened and still in plastic. I will sell the lot for $50 (they are worth around $75 at Discount Video Warehouse). (Fuji Broadcast master )
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Try WinJPEG on oak.oakland.edu:pub/msdos/windows3/winjp210.zip It has more TIFF support than graphics workshop. It also converts to all the above formats...
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From article <67@cyberia.win.net>, by johnston@cyberia.win.net (Robert Johnston): Hmmm... I wouldn't consider encryption to be a weapon. How would the government classify encryption? Seems to me that encryption ought to be covered by the first amendment. Using this line of reasoning, the government shouldn't be ab...
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I recently heard of some testing of a new migraine drug called sumatripton (I have no idea of the actual spelling) that supposedly utilizes a chemical that trips neuro-transmitters. My mother has regular migraines and nothing seems to help - does anyone know anything about this new drug? Is it in a testing phaze or a...
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The Apocryphal books that are in the Septuagint were part of the canon used by the Greek-speaking churches from the inception of the church. They were not added later (or much later). This is a common misconception. The preference of the Hebrew canon over the Greek canon is a later innovation. The church did not ...
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I am having a really bothersome problem using the MSDOS prompt in Windows 3.1 to open a dos box. When I am done with the dos box, I cant get back to windows. If I do Alt enter to shrink the box or use 'exit' to close it, the screen goes black and I have to control-alt-delete until I kill windows. I get a couple of sc...
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NL: Chicago Wait Til Next Years New York Bunch of Egos With no Chemistrys Philedelphia Overacheivers Until Mitch Williams Blows Games Pittsburg CHeapskates Montreal Canadiens (love that name!) St. Louis Cardinals (how boring!) Miami Marlins (try telling Tampa-StPete that the Marlins are Florida's) San Diego She's Goi...
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