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...or centerstands, or weasel squeezers, or ....
Later,
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Does anyone know how posionous centipedes and millipedes are? If someone
was bitten, how soon would medical treatment be needed, and what would
be liable to happen to the person?
(Just for clarification - I have NOT been bitten by one of these, but my
house seems to be infested, and I want to know 'just in case'.)
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Although I don't want to muddy the waters unnecessarily I disagree. Any
discrimination based on religion is not and cannot be racist unless the
sole qualification for religious membership is racial. This is not the
case for Israel although it might get a little closer than, say, Islam.
This of course raises the vexed question of Church AntiSemitism. Jews
have been heavily discriminated against on the grounds of religion in
many Christian countries. If we take Russia as an example Jews were
seriously persecuted but that persecution in the eyes of the Church
and State stopped at the baptismal font. Officially anyway. If a Jew
converted there were no legal barriers in his way (that I know of anyway.)
Peter the Great's Interior Minister came from such a convert background.
Can we then claim that the Russian Orthodox did not teach AntiSemitism
and was not AntiSemitic? Similarly for the Roman Catholic Church? I
suspect so as this is not a racial 'taint' but one based on belief
and AS is after all a form of racism. Well maybe not. What is
AntiSemitism then if not something racially based? I wonder if Hitler
killed converts of 'pure' German blood. Does anyone know one way or
the other?
Joseph Askew
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This request goes out to medical students who have done
or are planning to sit the USMLE (or National Boards) Part 1.
My wife is sitting this examination in early June this year and would
like to have a look at some old National Boards, Part 1 questions
found in the following books. These books are currently out of print.
The books are:
(1) Retired NBME Basic Medical Science Test Items, NBME;
Published by NBME in 1991
(2) Self-test in the Part 1 Basic Medical Sciences, NBME;
Published by NBME in 1989
I would appreciate if anyone who has these books is willing
to loan it to her for a couple of days. Obviously, I would
reimburse for you all postage and related charges. Failing
that it would be beneficial if anyone could point to any
library in the NY, NJ or PA area that may have these books.
Please respond by e-mail since I do not read this newsgroup
regularly.
Thanks in advance.
Daniel
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You can get a NEW newer model for a cheaper price thru mail order....
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Wanted:
Digidesgn Audiomedia Card for the Mac
Email if you have one for sale.
Thanks
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Wouldn't this method be vulnerable against a "birthday" attack?
Currently a cracker needs to find the _only_ (*1) key that produces
the given ciphertext. He has to try about 2^63 keys on the average.
In the proposed method the cracker only needs _any pair_ of key halves.
If he can store about 2^32 guesses for one half, he is likely to find
a mathching pair in about 2^32 guesses. (Here I have assumed that the
DES-encryption is reversable, if the key is guessed. Is this so or do
the modifications of the S-boxes by the salt bits make it non-reversable?)
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I don't think any of the suspects were Americans. Consequently, they could
not be Arab-Americans.
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Wanted: Summer sublet in NW DC, on red Metro line. Have own bedroom, but can
share common areas with others. Apartment or room for $400 or less.
Move in Memorial Day weekend through end of August. No smokers.
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I have a certificate for one round-trip airfares to either Orlando,
Las Vegas and Reno/Lake Tahoe.
Expiration date is one year from now.
The maximum retail value, depending on time and location, is estimated
at $2000 for all three locations, including accommodation for 3 days
and 2 nights at a leading hotel. I am asking for $1800 or best offer.
Purchase of tickets for a single location is possible.
For more information, call Goh at
(415) 497-0663
or send mail to
kmgoh@leland.stanford.edu
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Welcome.
Hm. I get a little queasy around the phrase "aren't morally
responsible", perhaps because I've heard it misused so many times.
(I remember in college some folk trying to argue that a person who
was drunk was not morally responsible for his actions.) In general,
most folk can't control their dreams, but perhaps what you do all day
and think about has some impact on them, hm? And I'm not sure what
"actions" are in a dream. But I will note that Jesus does seem adamant
about the fact that our thought-life is at least as important as
our actions. Go lightly with this argument - we are all morally
responsible for *who we are* and dreams might well be an important
part of that.
I don't know a thing about Out Of Body Experiences. I've had dreams, some
fairly vivid ones; is an OOBE just a very vivid dream? I would argue that
extreme interest in this sort of phenomena is a tad risky; it is probably
much better to think about who Jesus is, and who we are in relation to that,
than to cultivate a strong interest in dreams. Unless you feel plagued by
dreams that are painful and out of control; then pray about it and/or get help.
What on Earth is your definition of "often"? I know exactly one case of
two people who had substantially the same dream at the same time, and
as they were brothers who had spent the day doing the same things I could
see why their dreams might be similiar. Anyway, the only "other plane" I
know of is the spiritual realm. I don't think *anyone's* dreams,
perhaps outside the occasional prophet's, represent actual actions on an
alternate plane. If they were real actions, or conscious thoughts, then
yes they would have direct moral significance.
in a different environment, then different moral laws apply" is my guess of
what you said.]
I don't see the slightest hint in Christian writings that ones "environment"
changes the way a person determines what is moral. For a Christian won't
it *always* come down to "what Jesus would have us do?"
Truth? I don't claim to be an expert in dreams. I'll note that the Bible
doesn't talk much about dreams outside of the realm of God using them to speak
to us, with the caveat that such messages are not always very clear, as it
warns somewhere in the OT. Given that, I would not give them a lot of
attention unless you feel your dreams are trying to tell you something.
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The Catholic doctrine of predestination does not exclude free will in
any way. Since God knows everything, He therefore knows everything that
is going to happen to us. We have free will, and are able to change
what happens to us. However, since God knows everything, He knows all
the choices we will make "in advance" (God is not subject to time). Too
often arguments pit predestination against free will. We believe in
both.
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Any one with experience in having a centreforce clutch (or any other)
on his/her car?
I'm considering to replace my old stock clutch on my 90 CRX Si.
What is a fair price?
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Has anybody heard about a thing called a MacWatch? I saw it on TV a
couple of years ago, it is a watch with a reviever and a transmitter for
your mac. The practical upshot is that your Mac can page your watch and
display a small message. My flatmate is off to the states for a week or
two soon and I am interested in getting one. Any info would be
appreciated.
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It wasn't that the Lawson's V&H OWO1 was faster. If you watch the tape
again, Russell had major backmarker problems before getting onto the banking.
It doesn't matter what bike you have, if you lose your drive, your hosed.
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The DeLorean had the yucky PRV V6 engine. A joint-venture between Peugout (note
spelling), Renault and Volvo. PRV. This engine is a *MIGHTY BORING* piece of
junk with approx 140hp. Doesn't like revs at all.
If you look at the DeLorean in the movie Back To the Future you will note
that they changed the engine sound to a big V8. A real DeLorean doesn't sounds
half as good. You will also note that every time they have to spin the tires
in the movie the ground is all wet. This is because a DeLorean can't make
a burnout on a dry road! The weak engine thats mounted over the rear axle
makes it almost impossible.
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[ Question about packet radio deleted ]
How about rec.radio.amateur.packet? At least at my site, there is no
general packet radio (i.e. non-amateur) newsgroup.
That said, I would definately subscribe to r.r.a.packet if you want to
learn about all aspects of amateur packet radio, at both the high and
low ends. Also, I would get the FAQ from the group, and then post any
specific questions to that group. Everything I could tell you is
probably in the FAQ, and the people who really know what's going on all
seem to be on r.r.a.packet (although they might be here too, you never know :)
Hope it helps...
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It is heavy, the 91 is mid 600's dry, that is the one major drawback
of the ST.
Can you say " tourque monster" The test drive sold me on the bike,
lot's of bite anywhere above 2500 in any gear.
Did you trythe ABS/TCS version?
After market fairing windshield for 100.00 raises the bubble 6 inches
above most heads, but hurts the looks of the bike.
This is the essence of the bike, move the throttle and itr accelerates
any gear anywhere anytime, I frequently find myself at the DOD min
during a casual passing maneuver.
This is a function of the weight, you have to be aggresive with the brake
squeze, actually as tested by Cycle world and an expert rider the ST
stopped faster then the comparable models from BMW, and YAMAHA even with
the extra weight and Gas .
You must countersteer the ST for every turn and movement short
of the classic pothole wiggle. Just forget ever leaning into a
turn again. It must be countersteered into every turn and then
responds nicely.
Faster then I've ever gone, I 'd hate to buy this bike after your
short "break in period"
Not true, the side stand is well designed for the weight and will hold
the bike nicely on dirt. I am able to easily get the bike up on
the center stand, just step down on the stand instead of pulling
up on the bike.
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Greetings!
Sorry for the typos.
clipper hooks.
Al
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In the article "At last! Now you can talk to your computer." in the May
issue of FORTUNE magazine, it was mentioned that phoneme prediction
used Hidden Markov Modeling. This was the statistical method that Markov
developed to predict letter sequences in Pushkin's novel, _Eugene Onegin_.
It was then said that this technique worked so well that the NSA used
it to crack codes.
Does anyone have any references for HMM and how the NSA used it?
Or is this just an extension of the letter frequency tables that we
are all using anyway?
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=>Yup. The demonstration to which you refer consists of placing a leaf between
=>the plates, and taking a Kirlian photograph of it. You then cut off part of
=>the leaf, put the top plate back on, and take another Kirlian photograph. You
=>see pretty much the same image in both cases. Turns out the effect isn't
=>nearly so striking if you take the trouble to clean the plates between
=>photographs. Seems that the moisture from the leaf that you left on the place
=>conducts electricity. Surprise, surprise!
=
= This is true, but it's not quite the whole story. There were
= actually some people who were more careful in their methodology
= who also replicated the 'phantom leaf effect.'
You can also replicate the effect with a rock: Take your first Kirlian
photograph. Then moisten one edge of the rock. Lo! and behold! Phantom rock!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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: > Does anyone know of any studies done on the long-term health effects of a
: > man's vasectomy on his female partner?
: >
: > ...
: I've heard of NO studies, but speculation:
: Why on _earth_ would there be any effect on women's health? That's about
: the most absurd idea I've heard since Ted Kaldis's claim that no more than
: 35,000 people would march on Washington.
: Ok, _one_ point: Greatly reduced chance of pregnancy. But that's it.
: --Josh
Well, there might be another: Since I'm sterile my wife can enjoy sex
without fear of getting pregnant.
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I was wondering this myself.
Unfortunately it does. I don't agree with the logic of NT at an X windows
conference. Perhaps some good will come of it, but the two are so dissimilar
and the NT marketing stuff is so large in the Xhibition adds that I was
coming to a similar conclusion as Jesse...
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I always use the following in my .[t]cshrc:
...
f ( $?LOGIN == 0 ) then
source $home/.login
endif
...
and in .login:
...
setenv LOGIN 1
...
So I don't need to set all environment variables in my .cshrc, but they get
set if I login via xdm or xon | xrsh | rx and so on.
Hope this helps,
Bernward
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Thanks for the enlightening post. Is there a Technical Note on this?
The desktop machine I was referring to was actually not a Mac,
but rather, any of various workstations that use the
68030@25MHz, such as old Suns or old NeXTs. I used to own a NeXT
68030 cube.
But I will try rebooting without extensions to see what kind of
a speed difference I get with my powerbook Duo. I did notice an
extreme slowdown to unusability with a Mac Plus after
installing system 7 on it. Why does the OS suck up so much CPU
power?
Also, you're right--software does make a HUGE difference. I
have the misfortune of using MS-Works on my Duo. When editing
relatively small (40K) files, cut or copy takes several
seconds, often more than 6 seconds!! This happens with power
cycling turned off. As usual, MS software is maggot-infested
feces.
I'm getting Nisus to replace it for my text editing.
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You can't think of any valid reason to own a gun that can't wait?
Either you have a very limited imagination or a strange definition of
the word "valid".
Here are a few reasons you might want a gun *right now*:
You're a Korean greengrocer in LA and a riot has just started in a
nearby neighborhood.
You've received a death threat.
Your SO has just broken your arm and you fear for your life if you
stay with him and he's said he'll kill you if you leave him.
A psychopath is breaking into people's houses in your neighborhood and
robbing and killing people inside.
A violent mugger is operating on the route you have to take to get to
your night job.
There are lots of dangers you might be in that won't wait for the
waiting period for you to purchase a gun.
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[continuing with Dr. DeYoung's article-]
SURVEY OF NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF ARSENOKOITAI
D.S. Bailey
D.S. Bailey was perhaps the trailblazer of new assessments of the meaning
of arsenokoitai. He takes the term in I Cor 6:9 as denoting males who actively
engage in homosexual acts, in contrast to malakoi ("effeminate"), those who
engage passively in such acts.*4 However, he insists that Paul knew nothing
of "inversion as an inherited trait, or an inherent condition due to
psychological or glandular causes, and consequently regards all homosexual
practice as evidence of perversion" (38). Hence Bailey limits the term's
reference in Paul's works to acts alone and laments modern translations of the
term as "homosexuals." Bailey wants to distinguish between "the homosexual
*condition* (which is morally neutral) and homosexual *practices*" [italics in
source]. Paul is precise in his terminology and Moffatt's translation
"sodomites" best represents Paul's meaning in Bailey's judgment (39). Bailey
clearly denies that the homosexual condition was known by biblical writers.
J. Boswell
The most influential study of arsenokoitai among contemporary authors is
that of John Boswell.*5 Whereas the usual translation*6 of this term gives
it either explicitly or implicitly an active sense, Boswell gives it a passive
sense.
In an extended discussion of the term (341-53), he cites "linguistic
evidence and common sense" to support his conclusion that the word means "male
sexual agents, i.e. active male prostitutes." His argument is that the arseno-
part of the word is adjectival, not the object of the koitai which refers to
base sexual activity. Hence the term, according to Boswell, designates a male
sexual person or male prostitute. He acknowledges, however, that most
interpret the composite term as active, meaning "those who sleep with, make
their bed with, men." Boswell bases his interpretation on linguistics and the
historical setting. He argues that in some compounds, such as paidomathes
("child learner"), the paido- is the subject of manthano, and in others, such
as paidoporos ("through which a child passes"), the paido- is neither subject
nor object but simply a modifier without verbal significance. His point is
that each compound must be individually analyzed for its meaning. More
directly, he maintains that compounds with the Attic form arreno- employ it
objectively while those with the Hellenistic arseno- use it as an adjective
(343). Yet he admits exceptions to this distinction regarding arreno-.
Boswell next appeals to the Latin of the time, namely drauci or exoleti.
These were male prostitutes having men or women as their objects. The Greek
arsenokoitai is the equivalent of the Latin drauci; the corresponding passive
would be parakoitai ("one who lies beside"), Boswell affirms. He claims that
arsenokoitai was the "most explicit word available to Paul for a male
prostitute," since by Paul's time the Attic words pornos ("fornicator") and
porneuon ("one committing fornication"), found also in the LXX, had been
adopted "to refer to men who resorted to female prostitutes or simply committed
fornication."*7
In the absence of the term from pagan writers such as Herodotus, Plato,
Aristotle, and Plutarch, and from the Jewish writers Philo and Josephus,
Boswell finds even more convincing evidence for his affirmation that
arsenokoitai "did not connote 'homosexual' or even 'sodomite' in the time of
Paul" (346).*8 He also demonstrates its absence in Pseudo-Lucian, Sextus
Empiricus, and Libanius. He subsequently finds it lacking in "all discussions
of homosexual relation" (346)*9 among Christian sources in Greek, including
the Didache, Tatian, Justin Martyr, Eusebius,*10 Clement of Alexandria,
Gregory of Nyssa, and John Chrysostom. Chrysostom is singled out for his
omission as "final proof" that the word could not mean homosexuality.*11
Boswell next appeals to the omission of the texts of I Cor and I Tim from
discussions of homosexuality among Latin church fathers (348).*12 Cited are
Tertullian, Arnobius, Lactantius, and Augustine. The last named uses
"circumlocutions." Other Latin writers include Ausonius, Cyprian, and Minucius
Felix. The term is also lacking in state and in church legislation. By the
sixth century the term became confused and was applied to a variety of sexual
activities from child molesting to anal intercourse between a husband and wife
(353).
Having surveyed the sources, Boswell concludes,
There is no reason to believe that either arsenokoitai or malakoi connoted
homosexuality in the time of Paul or for centuries thereafter, and every
reason
to suppose that, whatever they came to mean, they were not determinative of
Christian opinion on the morality of homosexual acts (353).
It is clear throughout that Boswell defines arsenokoitai to refer to male
prostitutes. He even goes so far as to conclude that Paul would probably not
disapprove of "gay inclination," "gay relationships," "enduring love between
persons of the same gender," or "same-sex eroticism" (112, 166-17).
________________________________________________________
4. D.S. Bailey, Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition. (London:
1975) 38.
5. J. Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality (Chicago:
1980).
6. Several tranlation of I Tim 1:10 are: KJV, "them that defile themselves
with mankind"; ASV, "Abusers of themselves with men"; NASB, "homosexuals";
RSV, NKJV, NRSV, "sodomites"; NEB, NIV, "perverts"; GNB, "sexual perverts"; In
I COr 6:9 these occur: KJV, "abusers of themselves with mankind"; ASV,
"Abusers of themselves with men"; NASB, RSV, "homosexuals"; NKJV, "sodomites";
NEB, "homosexual persversion." The RSV and NEB derive their translation from
two Greek words, malakoi and arsenokoitai which GBN has as "homosexual
perverts." NRSV has the two words as "male prostitutes" in the text, and
"sodomites" in the footnote. The active idea predominates among the
commentators as well; it is the primary assumption.
7. Boswell, Christianity 344. Yet this was no a word "available to Paul for a
male prostitute," for it does not occur at all in any literature prior to Paul
(as a serach in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae using IBYCUC confirms). If Paul
coined the term, it would have no prior history, and all such discussion about
its lack of usage in contemporary non-Christian and Christian literature is
meaningless.
8. Again this would be expected if Paul coined the word.
9. The key phrase here apparently is "discussoin," for Boswell admits later
(350 n.42) that it occurs in quotes of Paul but there is no discussion in the
context. Hence the implication is that we cannot tell what these writer
(Polycarp "To the Philippian 5:3"; Theophilus "Ad Autolycum 1.2, 2.14";Nilus
"Epistularum libri quattuor 2.282"; Cyril of Alexandria "Homiliae diversae
14"; "Sybilline Oravle 2.13") meant. Yet Polycarp, who was a disiple of Hohn
the Apostle and died about A.D. 155, argues in the context that young men
should be pure. He uses only the three terms pornoi, malakoi, and arsenokoitai
from Paul's list. This at least makes Boswell's use of "all" subjective.
Apparently Clement of Alexandria "Paedogogus 3.11"; Sromata 3.18"; also belong
here.
10.. Yet Eusebius uses it in "Demonstraionis evangelicae 1."
11. Either Boswell is misrepresenting the facts about Chrysostom's use of
arsenokoitai and its form (about 20) in the vice lists of I Cor 6 or I Tim 1,
or he is begging the question by denying that the word can mean homosexual when
Chrysostom uses it. Yet the meaning of arsenokoitai is the goal of his and our
study, whether in the lists or other discussions. Boswell later admits (351)
that Chrysostom uses the almost identicl form arsenokoitos in his commentary on
I Cor. Although Boswell suggests that the passage is strange, it may be that
Paul is seeking to make a refinement in arsenokoitai.
12. Apparently Jerome is a significant omission here, since he renders
arsenokoitai as "masculorum concubitores," corresponding "almost exactly to the
Greek" (348 n.36).
footnotes:
_______________________
5. D.S. Bailey, Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition. (London:
1975) 38.
6. J. Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality (Chicago:
1980).
Several tranlation of I Tim 1:10 are: KJV, "them that defile themselves
with mankind"; ASV, "Abusers of themselves with men"; NASB, "homosexuals";
RSV, NKJV, NRSV, "sodomites"; NEB, NIV, "perverts"; GNB, "sexual perverts"; In
I COr 6:9 these occur: KJV, "abusers of themselves with mankind"; ASV,
"Abusers of themselves with men"; NASB, RSV, "homosexuals"; NKJV, "sodomites";
NEB, "homosexual persversion." The RSV and NEB derive their translation from
two Greek words, malakoi and arsenokoitai which GBN has as "homosexual
perverts." NRSV has the two words as "male prostitutes" in the text, and
"sodomites" in the footnote. The active idea predominates among the
commentators as well; it is the primary assumption.
7. Boswell, Christianity 344. Yet this was no a word "available to Paul for
a male prostitute," for it does not occur at all in any literature prior to
Paul (as a serach in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae using IBYCUC confirms). If
Paul coined the term, it would have no prior history, and all such discussion
about its lack of usage in contemporary non-Christian and Christian literature
is meaningless.
8. Again this would be expected if Paul coined the word.
9. The key phrase here apparently is "discussoin," for Boswell admits later
(350 n.42) that it occurs in quotes of Paul but there is no discussion in the
context. Hence the implication is that we cannot tell what these writer
(Polycarp "To the Philippian 5:3"; Theophilus "Ad Autolycum 1.2, 2.14";Nilus
"Epistularum libri quattuor 2.282"; Cyril of Alexandria "Homiliae diversae
14"; "Sybilline Oravle 2.13") meant. Yet Polycarp, who was a disiple of Hohn
the Apostle and died about A.D. 155, argues in the context that young men
should be pure. He uses only the three terms pornoi, malakoi, and arsenokoitai
from Paul's list. This at least makes Boswell's use of "all" subjective.
Apparently Clement of Alexandria "Paedogogus 3.11"; Sromata 3.18"; also belong
here.
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I'm not an expert, but having spent much too much of my life looking for
the power switch, or the brightness control, or the de-gauss, etc., etc.,
etc. it is my firm belief that the only reason any
controls/switches/knobs/whatever in places where they are hard to reach is
because the designers put them there deliberately.
The real question is weather this is because of stupidity, or
maliciousness.
--
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You could, but it would be considerably cheaper to spend $8 or so on
a trickle charger from K-Mart, Venture, or Target, then it would be
to replace the halogen lamp power supply after you fuse it trying to
pump current into the battery...
While charging, the charger should be putting out around 14 or 15 volts
as well...
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Items for sale.....
Nishika 3D camera It takes very good picture, never been opended
or used. It came with wide angle flesh, carring
case, film, and a instruction video. It has four
lens and created a 3D effect on a regular 35mm
film.
Jewelry It came with the package as additional gift.
Bahama vacation voucher The voucher is good for two RT airfare to Freeport.
The users get a special hotel rate of $27 per-person
per-night. Meals, ground transfer, hotel tax is
_not_ included.
Las Vegas, Reno, Orlando The voucher provides one RT airfare, and
hotel accomodation for 3 days/ 2 nights.
Meals, ground transfer, hotel tax is not
included. The voucher is good for all 3
locations, but you can't travel to all 3
places at once.
Cancun, Mexico The voucher provides one RT airfare, and hotel
accomodation for 3 days / 2 nights. Meals and
ground transfer, hotel tax is not included as
usual.
Asking for $500 or best offer...
I paid $697 for the whole package. And it is too late for me to get the
refund. I would sell it for $500 for the whole package. Details could be
provided by request. I do wish to sell the whole package at once. So if
you are just looking for the vacation vouchers, I don't care if you
sell the camera to other for a higher price. If you are interested in
the camera, you could treat the vacation vouchers as gift.
Some of you might receive a letter in your mail box which says that you
are selected to be part of the sweeptake and you have at least one out
of five awards. Trust me, you would get the exactly the same package as
I did. There is only one award which will be given away. So don't
bother even to call them back, if you are really interested, you could
get it from me for a cheaper price. And you could receive the package
within a week ( I waited three months to get my first and final packages).
Also, they would ask for your credit card number and you have to pay
for the interest to the credit card company. So why spend more than you
should when you could get them from me for a cheaper price.
If you are interested, please reply to me as soon as posible. I really
wish to get this over with. Make me an offer, if I am confortable with
your offer, I would send the package by U.P.S. the next day morning.
More details could be given if you wish.
Please contact me at koutd@hirama.hiram.edu
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If everything I've read is correct, Ford is doing nothing but "re-
skinning" the existing Mustang, with MINOR suspension modifications.
And the pictures I've seen indicate they didn't do a very good job
of it.
The "new" mustang, is nothing but a re-cycle of a 20 year old car.
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Hello,
I've been on the DKBtrace/PoVray mailing list out of trearn.bitnet
for some time now, but when I tried to post the other day the
listserv told me that the list doesn't exist! So I got a global
list of groups from the listserv and - - NOTHING! I grepped every
string I could think of. If Frank, Ville Saari, Andre Beck, or anyone
else who's a regular on DKB-L can tell me what is going on, please do!
Regards,
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DB-25 DB-9
Pin # Pin # Name EIA CCITT DTE-DCE Description
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 FG AA 101 ---- Frame ground
2 3 TD BA 103 ---> Transmitted data
3 2 RD BB 104 <--- Received data
4 7 RTS CA 105 ---> Request to send
5 8 CTS CB 106 <--- Clear to send
6 6 DSR CC 107 <--- Data set ready
7 5 SG AB 102 ---- Signal ground
8 1 DCD CF 109 <--- Data carrier detect
9 -- -- - - Positive DC test voltage
10 -- -- - - Negative DC test voltage
11 QM -- - <--- Equalizer mode
12 SDCD SCF 122 <--- Secondary data carrier detect
13 SCTS SCB 121 <--- Secondary clear to send
14 STD SBA 118 ---> Secondary transmitted data
15 TC DB 114 <--- Transmitter clock
16 SRD SBB 119 <--- Secondary receiver clock
17 RC DD 115 ---> Receiver clock
18 DCR -- - <--- Divided clock receiver
19 SRTS SCA 120 ---> Secondary request to send
20 4 DTR CD 108.2 ---> Data terminal ready
21 SQ CG 110 <--- Signal quality
22 9 RI CE 125 <--- Ring indicator
23 -- CH 111 ---> Data rate selector
24 -- CI 112 <--- Data rate selector
25 TC DA 113 <--- Transmitted clock
.-.-.- from another posting in c.s.i.p.h .-.-.-
.-.-.- sorry, don't know the author .-.-.-.-.-.
Connecting devices
------------------
Normally, a 7 wire connection is used. Connect:
GND1 to GND2
RxD1 to TxD2
TxD1 to RxD2
DTR1 to DSR2
DSR1 to DTR2
RTS1 to CTS2
CTS1 to RTS2
If a modem is connected, add lines for the following:
RI, DCD
If software wants it, connect DCD1 to CTS1 and DCD2 to CTS2.
BEWARE! While PCs use pin 2 for RxD and pin 3 for TxD, modems normally
have those pins reversed! This allows to easily connect pin1 to pin1, pin2
to pin 2 etc. If you connect two PCs, cross RxD and TxD.
If hardware handshaking is not needed, a so-called null-modem connection
can be used. Connect:
GND1 to GND2
RxD1 to TxD2
TxD1 to RxD2
Additionally, connect (if software needs it):
RTS1 to CTS1 & DCD1
RTS2 to CTS2 & DCD2
DTR1 to DSR1
DTR2 to DSR2
You won't need long wires for these!
The null-modem connection is used to establish an XON/XOFF-transmission
between two PCs (see software section for details).
Remember: the names DTR, DSR, CTS & RTS refer to the lines as seen from
the PC. This means that for your data set DTR & RTS are incoming signals
and DSR & CTS are outputs!
.-.-.-.- end .-.-.-
Michael
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2-The-Max VESA VL video controller/ Cirus Logic chipset
(2Mb ram, 24-bit color, 1280x1024 NI)
Does XFree1.2 (or 2.0) support this card?
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Turkish Historical Revision in auto-scribal residue <9305091835@zuma.UUCP>,
sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic), posted the following:
[(*] Source: "Adventures in the Near East" by A. Rawlinson, Jonathan Cape,
[(*] 30 Bedford Square, London, 1934 (First published 1923) (287 pages).
[(*] (Memoirs of a British officer who witnessed the Armenian genocide of 2.5
[(*] million Muslim people)
Bull!
[(*] p. 184 (second paragraph)
[(*]
[(*] "I had received further very definite information of horrors that
[(*] had been committed by the Armenian soldiery in Kars Plain, and as
[(*] I had been able to judge of their want of discipline by their
[(*] treatment of my own detached parties, I had wired to Tiflis from
[(*] Zivin that 'in the interests of humanity the Armenians should not
[(*] be left in independent command of the Moslem population, as, their
[(*] troops being without discipline and not under effective control,
[(*] atrocities were constantly being committed, for which we should
[(*] with justice eventually be held to be morally responsible'."
On page 184 in my copy of the Rawlinson book, we find following facsimile.
Note the word Armenian doesn't even appear!
184 ADVENTURES IN THE NEAR EAST
disposal for our journey, I foresaw it would have to become
our headquarters for a considerable time, and therefore went
to some trouble to make it habitable. We had a most peculiar
little locomotive, originally built in America for the Russian
Government, adapted to burn either wood or oil; one covered
truck as men's quarters; one similar, which I fitted up for my-
self and a railway officer; and also a truck to carry wood, three
cars being the utmost our small engine could pull. With this
small outfit we started, rumours of all kinds reaching us before
our departure indicating that the whole situation was rapidly
coming to a head, it being evident that the Turks were becoming~
more and more restive in the face of the inexplicable delay of
the Allies in reaching any definite decision with regard to the
future.
Travelling on this little "war-time" railway was indeed an
experience, and it was necessary to carry a "gauge," and to
test the rails with it frequently, for in many places, owing to
the sinking of the embankments and the washing away of the
ballast, the rails required rectification before we were able to
get our train over, even at a foot pace; each bridge also re-
quired elaborate examination before adventuring the train upon
it, and eventually we were obliged to carry large baulks of tim-
ber to temporarily shore up many of the bridges and culverts
whilst we passed over them.
Under these circumstances it may be imagined that our prog-
ress was by no means rapid, and as we had frequently to halt
also to replenish our supply of wood fuel, we considered we
had achieved wonders when, on the evening of the second day,
60 hours and 70 miles out from Erzeroum, we finally entered the
gorge of the mountains where we understood our worst troubles
to lie. This is the same gorge into which the road from
Erzeroum to Kars descends from the foot-hills to cross the
frontier; the railway, however, follows the main Aras River val-
ley till the frontier gorge enters it, whilst the road cuts off the
corner and joins the rail again at the frontier post of Zivin,
some 15 miles from the main valley.
Soon after entering the gorge, we were confronted by the
first serious fall of rock--about 2,000 tons having fallen from
the cliff face and entirely obliterated the railway track. Here,
therefore, we halted, and, sending our engine back, prepared to
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On 21 Apr 93 00:07:20 GMT, Theodore A. Kaldis observed:
: > because if she heard
: Thankfully, you got the gender right. For I am not a deviant.
Bigots aren't classified as deviants? How sad.
: > how disparaging you are towards political minorities,
: Sexual deviants do not comprise a "political minorit[y]".
So, what's this I hear about a March on Washington...assuming
you are still considering homosexuality and bisexuality
as subsets of "sexual deviants?"
: > and if she had any shred of self-respect, she'd be out the door.
: I only associate with girls who do indeed have self-respect.
I trust that many self-respecting *women* might take some sort
of offense to your use of the term "girls" in the above sentence.
--
Michael D. Adams (starowl@a2i.rahul.net) Enterprise, Alabama
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I agree. I'll delete more as well.
Still, if the 'whispers' reached San Francisco, it is certainly possible they
were stronger elsewhere. Also, it was teammates making the aspersions. In any
event, I know of no other player to be maligned in the last couple years.
Uh, the original author's point was that black and white players were por-
trayed differently by "the media", and towards this, he gave a highly selected
list to "prove" his case. Sanders' name showed up eventually. I dispute that
Sanders has ever been called lazy by "the media".
Uh, that poster specifically stated "allow me to be the first". It is NOT a
quibble, then, to state that "the media" did not portray Canseco as being
lazy. If the other person chooses to so accuse him, after my post, that does not
make it a quibble. And in fact, the media around here tend(ed) to play up his
time in the wieght room. Hardly "lazy", and hardly a "quibble". Have you ever
seen any "mediot" portray Canseco as "lazy"? Unconcerned with his fielding, yes.
Lazy, no.
Well, Canseco has been involved in several felonies, including his high-speed
record, carrying concealed fire-arms, and of course the domestic violence.
Clemens had a run-in at a bar. Canseco had that, as well, and in both cases, the
coverage was relatively minimal.
Uh, if the only evidence offered is anecdotal, how can it be objected that the
counter to it is also anecdotal?
Uh, yes, and I agree with your assesment of Boggs, rather specifically. However,
you did say "everybody who has ever won a batting title" has been accused of
selfishness. I have not ever, anywhere, heard this said of Puckett. Pendleton,
either. Similarly, Brett, B Williams, and others.
There are others. Perhaps they are simply not as outspoken, except in the
case of the "born-again" types I mention.
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I'd bet cash 90% of the people couldn't find the window after six
minutes! Ask anybody who's taken basic training in the military. It is
not at all uncommon for a few soldiers who have not properly attached
and cleared their masks to require assistance exiting the chamber. Since
that chamber has a door, not just a window, it's likely a hell of a lot
easier to exit than a multi-room, damaged house.
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Forwarded from the Mars Observer Project
MARS OBSERVER STATUS REPORT
April 28, 1993
12:40 PM PDT
Flight Sequence C9 is active as of 00:11 AM, Tuesday, April 27. With
activities beginning at shortly before 5:00 AM yesterday, C9 commanded
the spacecraft to execute a series of slews and rolls to provide the MAG
(Magnetometer) Team data points in varying spacecraft attitudes and
orientations for the purpose of better characterizing the
spacecraft-generated magnetic field and its effect on their instrument.
The spacecraft was commanded back to Sun Star Init state at 9:07 AM to
re-establish Inertial Reference. Transition back to Array Normal Spin
began at 11:17 AM, after which the sequence powered on the on-board
transmitter at 11:18 AM. Telemetry reacquisition occurred at
approximately 11:30 AM at the 4 KBS Science and Engineering downlink
data rate on the High Gain Antenna. Subsystem engineers report that all
systems appear to be nominal. The command to terminate using the Low
Gain Antenna for uplink was sent at 12:31 PM. Uplink and Downlink are
currently via the HGA.
MAG Calibration data has been recorded on Digital Tape Recorders 2 and 3.
Playback of DTR 2 is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning between
8:11 AM and 12:42 PM. Playback of DTR 3 is scheduled to take place
tomorrow evening beginning at 11:57 PM and ending at 4:28 AM on Friday.
DTR playback will be performed via the High Gain Antenna at 42,667 bits
per second. Upon verification of successful DTR playbacks, downlink will
be maintained at the 4K S & E rate.
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[By default, followups to 3 newsgroups.]
A short excerpt:
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I've had pretty good success autotracing line art with Adobe
Streamline 2.0. The key to controlling excessive points, etc. is
to take some time and do some test conversions using various
Tolerance settings.
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My experience is when they pound their fists on your back it means "slow down".
Seriously, concentrate on being very smooth, and you will make her
experience much more enjoyable. Even a normal upshift causes your
passenger to bob, so I ease off the throttle before pulling in the
clutch to eliminate this. It's more work, but your passenger will
appreciate it! Also, I've found that using more rear brake than normal
helps keep the bike from diving as much during routine stops, which
makes it much easier for the passenger to hang on. If you're going
sport riding, have the passenger reach around you and brace themselves
against the tank so you don't have to bear both your weights with your
arms. (Again your bike will dive less too)
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The current Adaptec drivers do not support the Toshiba 3401. you should
get the Corel SCSI drivers, which do support it.
This is the method that I used, and it works well.
Corel's phone number is 1(613) 728-3733
Just a satisfied user.
JB
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# : # Can someone tell me why when Mr. Cramer spouts on about homosexuals,
# : # he only addresses homosexual men, and never, in any post I've read,
# : # addressed lesbians?
#
# : I can't really speak for Mr. Cramer here, but I can say that a
# : homosexual [male] is an entirely different animal than a lesbian.
# : There is virtually nothing that is analogous or related between the
# : aberrant behaviors practiced by these two groups of deviants.
#
# The last time I checked homosexual men and women were both human.
I think Mr. Kaldis was using the expression in the slang sense,
though I agree it is NOT an appropriate expression to use in this
context.
# They both prefer to engage in sexual acts with people of the same
# gender. There is nothing inherently wrong with the "trademark behaviour"
# of either homosexual men or homosexual women, except in the minds of
# misinformed folk, clueless folk, and bigots.
#
# So what makes homosexual men and homosexual women different animals?
#
# Michael D. Adams (starowl@a2i.rahul.net) Enterprise, Alabama
1. That homosexual men are extremely promiscuous, and homosexual women
are, if any more promiscuous than heterosexual women, it's not by
much.
2. That homosexual men are overrepresented among child molesters
(about 30% of child molestation is done by homosexual or bisexual
men), while homosexual women don't appear to be similarly over-
represented.
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For what it's worth, my experience has been that the educational
discount (which my S.O. has taken advantage of, as a teacher) is roughly
equivalent to the corporate discounts that I'm able to get as an employee of
a fairly large multi-state corporation, which is usually at least as good as
what one can get at one of the "discount" computer chains (e.g. CompUSA).
For purposes of budget estimation around here, we usually just knock
around 20% off SRP.
************************************************************
* The_Doge of South St. Louis *
* Dobbs-Approved Media Conspirator(tm) *
* "One Step Beyond" -- Sundays, 3 to 5 pm *
* 88.1 FM St. Louis Community Radio *
* "You'll pay to know what you *really* think!" *
* -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs" *
************************************************************
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I have a copy. Why are you interested?
Lance
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We've been progressing towards that goal for 30 years now. We precede
any orbiting mission with flyby missions. Of course, it gets harder to
do as we work our way farther away from Earth. We're just starting to
work out to the outer planets: Galileo will orbit Jupiter, and Cassini around
Saturn.
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pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney) writes...
Never lived out in the country I see. 4 years ago I had a place
where I had to carry in propane every month, hook the bottle up
to copper line, to supply both the stove, and a type of water-
heater called a flash-heater. A flash heater has a pilot lamp.
Here's the point. If the Davidians had their propane tanks hooked
up to copper (or some such) lines, run through the ceiling spaces
-- when the FBI started wrecking the place, they could easily have
ruptured the lines. Which then would start spreading out through
the overhead. And since it was a country home, it wasn't necessarily
built with non-flamable insulation.
It's probably more plausible than anything else, that the fire started
mainly as a result of accident -- or willful negligence on the part of
the FBI, which should have known better (ie. manslaughter).
It's certain that if the tanks hadn't been used that day -- the fire
wouldn't have started.
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I am replying to this because I haven't seen anyone else do so yet. It
seems rather odd really as there are so few really wierd posters left
who aren't fascists or Arab extremists.
Yes it was and it was clearly admitted so by the troops who carried it
out and then stupidly deposited testimony in their own archives to that
effect.
Source? Noone is claiming this anymore except you. Would you like
to name one credible historian who asserts this? I believe that
even Begin has the decency not to claim this.
Yes they did and thye said so - they said they went their with the
intention of killing all the men and all the women who got in their
way. Their *own* archives remember, this is not hostile testimony.
Sound van bogged down in a ditch. No warning given.
Yes it was and no it was not. It was a massacre - the murder of hundreds
of unarmed civilians who had no part in the fighting. The surviving men
were taken to the local quarry and shot in the back of the head. Not
intentional? Yeah right.
No it did not - you have a source for this slander of course?
The men involved said clearly that the intention was to kill all the
men. It was a premeditated mass murder nothing else.
On that we agree at least.
Yes they did want to kill the inhabitants and many of them were killed.
This is of course simple to resolve, the Haganah sent a soldier to report
on the massacre. He brought a photographer with him. He sent in a report.
The Israeli government suppressed it. Now the government was a Labour
Government. Since then the Revisionists have gotten into power but for
some reason Likud didn't release the report and its pictures either.
Perhaps you might want to tell me why? If it happened as you claim then
there will be no pictures of men shot in the head with their hands tied
behind their backs, no women and children shot as they slept. Yet for
some reason they did not take the chance to clear their own name. You
have a reason for this don't you? I somehow doubt it. The facts are
exactly as the people responsible claim - a premeditated mass murder
nothing else. No Iraqi soldiers, no other fighting. Just ethnic cleansing
at work.
Joseph Askew
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Try looking in a Magizine called Radio Electronics, May 1992 issue,
page 41. There is a circuit for a Midi Light controller there.
-=- Andy -=-
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Hello everyone. I just wanted to let everyone know that I have just
been selected as part of the Reduction In Force here at Amdahl. For all
that are currently in a dialog with me, or are waiting letters from me,
I have saved your letters on floppy and will continue when I get back
on the net from another account in the future.
For those who are on the GEnie network, my email address there is:
T.ROSE1
God Bless and Goodbye until then. If you want to continue dialogs with
me via US MAIL, I can be contacted at:
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The belief that the churches of Egypt and Syria were (or are) monophysite is
false, as is the belief that they often held that the Council of Chalcedon
was Nestorian.
These misunderstandings were exacerbated by political factors, and thus led
to schism - a schism that is on its way to being healed.
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B
B
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He
dimmagio's.
Henderson's stat's are probably closer to DiMaggio's than you
think.
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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Department of Computer Science
GRADUATE STUDIES IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Applications are invited for graduate students wishing
to specialize in computer graphics and related fields.
Active research is being conducted in the fields of
image rendering, geometric modelling and computer animation.
State of the art graphics workstations (Sun, Silicon Graphics)
and video equipment are available.
The Technion offers full scholarship support (tuition and
assistantships) for suitable candidates.
For more information contact
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What about GREASE II?????
Arun.
Cool Rider.
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-> 4) Are there any fairly cheap (<$150 or so) ways to increase the
-> performance on this car? Unfortunately, a Taurus is not exactly a
-> muscle car, so I'm looking for ways to increase the performance.
There is a company in Florida that sells computer chips that supposedly
get a few HP and Torque out of the 3.0. Don't have the address, but saw
the ad in Hot Rod and some other car magazines. Also, you could open up
the exhaust (get an exhaust with a larger i.d.)
Hope this helps. If you find anything else, let me know. I've got a 1990
Taurus L.
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Thank you very much. These computers behave exactly like what
you're describing. Now, my question. I am running on the lowest of all
budgets, public education. How can I analyze this? All I need is some
sort of packet counter. Do any exist, and where are they?
Thanks again,
-- Andrew Geweke
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This may be an FAQ (if so, please direct me to the known answer) but I
am getting frustrated and looking for help.
I am running Win 3.1 with NDW 2.2 on a 486sx with 8 meg of memory and a
6 meg perm swap file and am getting exceedingly frustrated that my
applications are not giving back system resources when I close them.
When I load windows I start with about 83% resources available but many
of the application programs I run regularly (WPWIN 5.2, VB 2.0, WINQVT
2.8, Lotus Organizer, etc.) seem to not return all their resources when
I exit them. After a day or two of work I often find myself down under
50% of available resources even when I have no applications other than
my shell running.
I am aware this is a known problem; what I am looking for are some
suggestions of what I might do to mitigate it.
1. What software is the culprit? Win 3.1, NDW, my applications? Are
some modes of Win 3.1 (standard, real, enhanced) better than others at
plugging this leak?
2. Are their system.ini switches i can set to help plug this leak?
3. Do people know of patches or third party software that help with
this? Seems like increasing or better managing system resources is a
great market for a third party memory company like QEMM.
4. If I run Progman instead of NDW will the leak subside? (I was
hoping that NDW 2.2 would have plugged this, but it seems no different
than 2.0 in how it deals with memory and resources.)
5. When I am writing VB code are there things I can do to make it less
likely my code will eat resources?
6. Any other suggestions that I don't know enough to ask for
specifically?
Thanks for your help. As this is a common problem and I have seen only
a little discussion of it on the net there are probably others who
would like to read answers so please publish here rather than sending
me email.
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So Rick, why not read the Bible for yourself? It is written in plain
english. Decide for yourself.
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Please help with MPEG description or sources:decoders &
encoders. Great thanks in advance.
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Yet another XView question: is there an (easy) way of detecting when a user
has resized a frame _externally_ by way of the window manager (e.g. grabbing
and letting go of the frame resize corners under olwm)? If so, please let me
know!
Derek
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I hooked up an old 40meg external mac hardrive to a Powerbook 230. I
reformatted the drive, copied all the files from the powerbook except the
systemfolder, deleted the files from the powerbook (my biggest error, sigh)
and then rebooted the whole set up and... chimes of death.
I get the following sad mac error,
00000F
000003
I ran Norton and it claims its a bad SCSI driver and suggests replaceing it.
I used Apples Disk Tools but I couldn't update the hardrives SCSI driver
as it claimed it was in use, but I couldn't even mount the thing (though
I could see it when checking the SCSI bus, after turning it on after booting
my machine first).
What does that error above refer to? Am I on the right track? Is there
anything I can do short of intialising the drive, since I need the data
on there!
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Since I don't think Tom always gets time to read this group, I'll take the
liberty of responding to some of this. If you really want Tom to reply
you should send mail to support@qdeck.com.
A 64k line is certainly going to restrict you far more than the 10mbps
ethernet that we typically run. How restrictive it will be depends on
what you run and how you run it. I would think that a couple of instances
of some really nasty program like "Smoking Clover" would make the link
useless for anyone else. On the other hand, probably 50 xclocks quietly
updating every 10 seconds or so wouldn't impact it too much. In the real
world, you will be somewhere in between these two extremes.
Going by the way I personally use X on a daily basis, I wouldn't want to have
to share that 64k link with more than 3-4 other people.
Our corporate WAN is as unique as any other. The usage patterns are not very
good predictors of how yours will behave. The only one of our low bandwidth
links that normally get used in this way is a 56k link to Ireland that they
often use to run a DOS text based client end of a client-server database
remotely from the DVX machine behind me. Since the server end is (or was) always
at this end (California) it is faster to remotely run the client via DESQview
X and have a short hop to the server than running the client locally and having
a long hop to the server. As I warned you, this tells us very little about
how you usage pattern will fill a 64k ISDN link.
Running Word for Windows remotely is going to itself be very usage dependent.
Let's break it into pieces and look at it. Tracking the mouse pointer is easy
and efficient to translate from Windows calls into X. Popping up a menu is a
little more involved and will generate some traffic. Restoring the screen
that was covered by that menu may be easy and may not be. Does the server
that it's displaying on have backing store? If so and the server had enough
memory the display can be updated locally and will generate little network
traffic. If no backing store, then what was being covered up? If it was a
solid colored rectangle of space we can tell your xserver to draw that quite
easily. If it was a full color backdrop of Ren & Stimpy we may have to send
it back to the X server bit by bit. DVX will do its level best to only redraw
that small area, but in some unusual cases the entire screen may need to be
repainted. Assuning a 1024x768 screen with 4 bits per pixel that's 3145728 bits
that has to be sent. Worst possible case you're looking at about 50 seconds.
In reality it would never be this bad since the screen will always have parts
that will be tranlatable into higher level X calls.
X was designed from the ground up to be efficient across a network. It's
pretty good for this. X programs are best, DOS text programs are almost
as good (since we conert them to X easily). Something like WinX is a hybrid.
We intercept the calls Windows makes to it's graphics driver/ mouse driver
keyboard driver and convert them to X. The calls Windows is making are in
no way designed to be efficient on a packet switched network. We go to a
lot of trouble to convert them to the highes level Xlib calls we can, but
we are somewhat limited because we only know what Windows and its applications
tell us.
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-*----
I believe that Maharishi is titular. (Someone please correct me if
I am wrong.) Thus, Maharishi Rajneesh is a different person from
Maharishi Mahesh, but they are both Maharishis.
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The new Cruisers DO NOT have independent suspension in the front. They
still
run a straight axle, but with coils. The 4Runner is the one with
independent
front. The Cruisers have incredible wheel travel with this system.
The 91-up Cruiser does have full time 4WD, but the center diff locks in
low range. My brother has a 91 and is an incredibly sturdy vehicle which
has done all the 4+ trails in Moab without a tow. The 93 and later is even
better with the bigger engine and locking diffs.
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BIOLOGICAL ALCHEMY
( ANOTHER Form of COLD FUSION )
( ALTERNATIVE Heavy Element Creation in Universe )
A very simple experiment can demonstrate (PROVE) the
FACT of "BIOLOGICAL TRANSMUTATIONS" (reactions like Mg + O
--> Ca, Si + C --> Ca, K + H --> Ca, N2 --> CO, etc.), as
described in the BOOK "Biological Transmutations" by Louis
Kervran, [1972 Edition is BEST.], and in Chapter 17 of the
book "THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS" by Peter Tompkins and
Christopher Bird, 1973:
(1) Obtain a good sample of plant seeds, all of the same
kind. [Some kinds might work better that others.]
(2) Divide the sample into two groups of equal weight
and number.
(3) Sprout one group in distilled water on filter paper
for three or four weeks.
(4) Separately incinerate both groups.
(5) Weigh the residue from each group. [The residue of
the sprouted group will usually weigh at least
SEVERAL PERCENT MORE than the other group.]
(6) Analyze quantitatively the residue of each group for
mineral content. [Some of the mineral atoms of the
sprouted group have been TRANSMUTED into heavier
mineral elements by FUSING with atoms of oxygen,
hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, etc..]
BIOLOGICAL TRANSMUTATIONS occur ROUTINELY, even in our
own bodies.
Ingesting a source of organic silicon (silicon with
carbon, such as "horsetail" extract, or radishes) can SPEED
HEALING OF BROKEN BONES via the reaction Si + C --> Ca, (much
faster than by merely ingesting the calcium directly).
Some MINERAL DEPOSITS in the ground are formed by micro-
organisms FUSING together atoms of silicon, carbon, nitrogen,
oxygen, hydrogen, etc..
The two reactions Si + C <--> Ca, by micro-organisms,
cause "STONE SICKNESS" in statues, building bricks, etc..
The reaction N2 --> CO, catalysed by very hot iron,
creates a CARBON-MONOXIDE POISON HAZARD for welder operators
and people near woodstoves (even properly sealed ones).
Some bacteria can even NEUTRALIZE RADIOACTIVITY!
ALL OF THESE THINGS AND MORE HAPPEN, IN SPITE OF the
currently accepted "laws" of physics, (including the law
which says that atomic fusion requires EXTREMELY HIGH
temperatures and pressures.)
"BIOLOGICAL TRANSMUTATIONS, And Their Applications In
CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY, MEDICINE,
NUTRITION, AGRIGULTURE, GEOLOGY",
1st Edition,
by C. Louis Kervran, Active Member of New York Academy of
Science,
1972,
163 Pages, Illustrated,
Swan House Publishing Co.,
P.O. Box 638,
Binghamton, NY 13902
"THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS",
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird,
1973,
402 Pages,
Harper & Row,
New York
[Chapters 19 and 20 are about "RADIONICS". Entire book is
FASCINATING! ]
For more information, answers to your questions, etc.,
please consult my CITED SOURCES (the two books).
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
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Well, apparently once you get past about 6 inches, all the luggage shifts back in the panniers, the passenger slides back, and the dog ends up hanging onto the top rack,
and they go all the way over until it's flat on it's ass, with the front wheel
straight up in the sky. Impressive, but hard on the tail lights. :)
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Is this newsgroup archived anywhere beyond the normal expiration
dates, say for the last 6 months or more?
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If I'm going to drive on a public road then I need a
speedometer, and an odometer helps for navigation.
My 1965 Chevy has a bare minimum: Engine-temp and
Oil-press warning lights and a fuel gauge.
My 1983 VW has tach, water-temp, voltmeter
and oil-temp gauges.
If I had a turbo car, I'd want a vacuum manifold/boost
gauge. An oil pressure gauge is a nice, reassuring
gauge to look at. If my car was air cooled, then I
would substitute a cyl-head-temp gauge for the water-temp
gauge.
A few years ago, I looked at the Audi Quattro Si Coupe
that Bobby Unser used to win the 1986 Pikes Peak Hill Climb.
The gauge layout, from left to right, top to bottom was:
----------------------------------
speedometer
----------------------------------
fuel tranny
press temp
----------------------------------
differential water
temp temp
----------------------------------
big orange tach
oil-press
warning light
----------------------------------
oil-temp boost
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oil-press
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I can see that some of the above verses do not clearly address the issues,
however, a couple of them seem as though they do not require "incredibly
perverse interpretations" in order to be seen as condemning homosexuality.
"... Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were
some of you..." I Cor. 6:9-11.
Would someone care to comment on the fact that the above seems to say
fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God? How does this apply
to homosexuals? I understand "fornication" to be sex outside of
marriage. Is this an accurate definition? Is there any such thing as
same-sex marriage in the Bible? My understanding has always been that
the New Testament blesses sexual intercourse only between a husband
and his wife. I am, however, willing to listen to Scriptural evidence
to the contrary.
"You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an
abomination. Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to
be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate
with it; it is a perversion." Lev. 18:22-23.
I notice that the verse forbidding bestiality immediately follows the
verse prohibiting what appears to be homosexual intercourse. I know
of no New Testament passages that clearly condemn, or even mention,
intercourse with animals. Do those who argue for the legitimacy of
homosexual intercourse believe that the Bible condemns bestiality as a
perversion, and if so, why? That is, what verses would you cite to
prove that bestiality was perverted and sinful? Could the verses you
cite be refuted by interpreting them differently? Can one be a
Christian zoophile?
By the way, I myself am subject to sexual desires that I did not
choose to have and that many people would regard as perverted and
sinful, so please understand that I am not asking these questions out
of an antipathy towards my fellow "people of alternative
orientations". I do believe, however, that one should read the Bible
with an attitude of "what is the Bible trying to say" and not "what do
I WANT the Bible to say." I choose not to give in to my "perverted"
sexual desires because I believe the Bible tries to tell me, whether I
like it or not, that such things are sin. It is frustrating at times,
and I have had days where it really got me down, but I don't blame God
for this, I blame the sin itself.
- Mark
[There's some ambiguity about the meaning of the words in the passage
you quote. Both liberal and conservative sources seem to agree that
"homosexual" is not the general term for homosexuals, but is likely to
have a meaning like homosexual prostitute. That doesn't meant that I
think all the Biblical evidence vanishes, but the nature of the
evidence is such that you can't just quote one verse and solve things.
I think your argument from fornication is circular. Why is
homosexuality wrong? Because it's fornication. Why is it
fornication? Because they're not married. Why aren't they married?
Because the church refuses to do a marriage ceremony. Why does the
church refuse to do a marriage ceremony? Because homosexuality is
wrong. In order to break the circle there's got to be some other
reason to think homosexuality is wrong.
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Damn, you're dead right! That pretty much settles it. Not to worry.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Hesse | A man,
jhesse@netcom.com | a plan,
Moss Beach, Calif | a canal, Bob.
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Does anyone know how to decode the color information of a NTSC signal ?
I need to convert this data to RGB for a Video Capture Utility I am
writing for use with an IBM M-MOTION Video adapter card...
I need to know the how the V and U signals work in the color process.
Thanks in advance for any information or algorythms etc.
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:
: >What kind of power must he be putting out to cause the effects?
: >The affected equipment is about 100 feet from the road...
:
: Might be a couple of hundred watts, from the sound of it. Kicking sound
: out of the TV and stereo speakers by direct RF rectification requires a
: mighty strong carrier! [I've heard of linears so powerful that
: triggering them while the car was idling, would stall the engine by
: pulling down the battery voltage.]
It would take a lot more than that. It sounds like the radio equipment is
actually not shut completely off - but just goes to a standby situation.
I suspect that the stories are just that, stories. The voltage can only
be sucked down so far instantaneously. When you try to jumpstart someones
car, when your vehicle is at idle, does your car stall? No, the other car
just does not crank well. Now, the engine might stall because the idle
was too low to start with. When the extra current is drawn, the idle speed
will drop - as the alternator loads down the engine to compensate for the
increased amperage requirement.
: >Is resolution of this problem a matter for the power company, the fcc, or both?
:
: Ultimately it's likely to be your problem to resolve, I'm afraid. The
: FCC is so understaffed that they don't pay much attention to citizen
: complains about RFI (or so I've heard)... they'll just send you a
: pamphlet describing how you can apply corrective measures.
:
: Talking to the power company might help - they might be able to install
: filtering devices at your service panel (or recommend a type which you
: could have installed by a licensed electrician).
A transmitter is not going to be affecting house power. If surges are
occurring there, it is due to another cause - not a transmitter.
: Unfortunately, there's a fair chance that enough signal is being picked
: up by your house wiring that a simple service-panel filter won't
: suffice. You may need to install heavy-duty RFI filters at the power
: connections of your affected equipment.
It is probably not that much of a problem. Often - toroid coils on the
power leads will solve that part of the interference problem. It will
not solve internal equipment deficiencies.
: If the problem occurs regularly, you may need to "stake out" the street
: in question, and watch for trucks or cars with big antennae driving by
: at the time interference occurs. If you can identify the vehicle which
: is transmitting, you may be able to contact its owner and complain.
It is probably not the transmitter that is at fault. If the person is an
amateur, then he/she will probably be willing to help - if you explain
that the person is causing interference.
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to take this to its, er, "logical" conclusion, it is impossible to
ascertain whether or not i am a better hitter than roberto alomar,
or a better pitcher than juan guzman, or a better center fielder than
devon white. after all, if i were on the blue jays, can you really
prove that they wouldn't have won the world series in both 1991 AND
1992?
while i thank you, mister maynard, for your faith in my atheletic
prowess, i can assure you that your faith is misplaced.
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One way to make cheap trimmable resistors is to use a high-wattage carbon
composition resistor, and saw a notch in it with a triangular file.
Of course, you can only increase the resistance, not decrease it.
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I need 3 tickets to the cleveland showing of phantom of the opera.
I will pay face value for tickets in the 50 dollar and lower range
preferably a matinee show but any in middle to late may will be bought.
please leave mail.
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[This was crossposted to a zillion groups. I don't intend to
carry an entire discussion crossposted from alt.sex, particularly
one whose motivation seems to be having a fun argument. However
I thought readers might be interested to know about the
discussion there. --clh]
I intend to endeavor to make the argument that homosexuality is an
immoral practice or lifestyle or whatever you call it. I intend to
show that there is a basis for a rational declaration of this
statement. I intend to also show that such a declaration can be
made without there being a religious justification for morality,
in fact to show that such a standard can be made if one is an atheist.
Anyone who wants to join in on the fun in taking the other side,
i.e. that they can make the claim that homosexuality is not immoral,
or that, collaterally, it is a morally valid practice, is free to do
so. I think there are a lot of people who don't believe one can have
a rational based morality without having a religion attached to it.
This should be fun to try and figure this out, and I want to try and
expose (no pun intended) my ideas and see other people's and see where
their ideas are standing. As I'm not sure what groups would be interested
in this discussion, I will be posting an announcement of it to several,
and if someone thinks of appropriate groups, let me know.
If someone on here doesn't receive alt.sex, let me know and I'll make
an exception to my usual policy and set up a mailing list to automatically
distribute it in digest format to anyone who wants to receive it as I'll
use that as the main forum for this. By "exception to usual policy" is
that I normally charge for this, but for the duration the service will be
available at no charge to anyone who has an address reachable on Internet
or Bitnet.
I decided to start this dialog when I realized there was a much larger
audience on usenet / internet than on the smaller BBS networks.
To give the other side time to work up to a screaming anger, this will
begin on Monday, May 24, to give people who want to make the response
time to identify themselves. Anonymous postings are acceptable, since
some people may not wish to identify themselves. Also, if someone else
wants to get in on my side, they are free to do so.
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From: dhammers@pacific.? (David Hammerslag)
How do you (Mormons) reconcile the idea of eternal marriage with
Christ's statement that in the resurrection people will neither
marry nor be given in marriage (Luke, chapt. 20)?
Footnotes in some bibles reference this verse to the Book of Tobit.
Tobit is in the Septuagint. Goodspeed published it in a book called
"The Apocrypha". Most any bookstore will have this. At any rate, the Jews
of Christ's day had this book. It is a story mostly centered around the
son of Tobit who was named Tobias. There was a young lady, Sarah, who had
entered the bridal chamber with seven brothers in succession. The brothers
all died in the chamber before consumating the marriage.
Tobias was entitled to have Sarah for his wife (3:17) because Tobias was
her only relative and "...she was destined for [Tobias] from the beginning"
(6:17).
Tobias took her to wife and was able to consumate the marriage. The
seven husbands would not have her as a partner in heaven. That does not
eliminate Tobias, her eighth husband. Tobit is a fun and interesting
story to read. It's kind of a mythical romance. It's a little shorter
than Esther.
The LDS also have scriptures that parallel and amplify Luke 20. Most
notably Doctrines and Covenants 132:15-16.
"Therefore, if a man marry him a wife in the world, and he marry
her not by me nor by my word, and he covenant with her so long as
he is in the world and she with him, their covenant and marriage
are not of force when they are dead, and when they are out of
the world; therefore, they are not bound by any law when they
are out of the world.
"Therefore, when they are out of the world they neither marry nor
are given in marriage; but are appointed angels in heaven, which
angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are
worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of
glory."
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I have tried that with one font, if your xterm terminfos/termcaps are set up
to NOT remap bold (which they are be default) to reverse, then nothing happens
when bold is displayed. It would appear (at least in X11R4) than you cannot
display bold in an xterm without specifying two fonts; a normal and a bold.
I wish someone would prove that incorrect.
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I heard about the arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Now, how is it such a grave
mistake to sell Saudi Arabia weapons? Or are you claiming that we shouldn't
sell any weapons to other countries? Straightforward answer please.
Who benefits from arms sales? Hint, it isn't normally the gov't. It is
the contractor that builds that piece of equipment. Believe it or not,
the US and UK don't export the huge quantities of arms that you have
just accused them of doing. Arms exports are rare enough, that it
requires an act of congress for non-small arms to most countries, if
not all. Do you believe in telling everyone who can do what, and who
can sell their goods to whom?
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Alright, that's enough. I've suffered with all kinds of insults (as
typical for the net), but give me a break. Galarraga is currently
batting over .400 and you guys are complaining that he isn't drawing
enough walks. What would he have to do to please you guys, bat 1.000?
You can hardly claim that he is "hurting his team".
If it happens that the pitchers start throwing him fewer good pitches
and he starts making lots of outs (as someone speculated might happen),
*THEN* I would agree with you that he isn't taking enough pitches. My comment
that "he isn't paid to walk" doesn't mean that he should have a license
to swing at bad pitches and make outs; it's more along the lines of: he's
batting .400 and leading the league in RBI's so what bloody difference
does it make if he isn't drawing a lot of walks? Sheesh.
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a 286 upgrade would probably cost about $50, 386 about $150 or so.
Coprocessors or accelerator cards would cost at least that much.
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Hi there again...
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There was at least one blast consistent with petroleum products that I
saw, however propane is interesting stuff. It doesn't explode on contact with
air. It is *possible* for a tank to rupture without exploding. Far more
likely, however, is that the compound was equipped with NG outlets running to
the tank. Damage from the CEV's could have ruptured the gas lines, allowing
the gas to spread, unnoticed in the CS fumes and general excitement (propane
typically has a distinctive odor added to it for just this reason -- to smell
leaks), until reaching a flame or spark, and then Whooosh! Fire everywhere,
and maybe an explosion. Use of NG is pretty common in Texas, especially
semi-rural areas.
This is true, but so far the FBI/BATF track record on this incident is very
bad.
I think it would have disarmed many people if the FBI followed this same
policy. They have not. They are making claims without evidence, and what
evidence we have so far tends to refute their story.
semper fi,
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Stay away from GEICO.
A recent CAR & DRIVER issue has an article about GEICO giving free
laser guns to police departments to increase they're speed limit
enforcement. The article also said that if you get a speeding ticket
your premium will increase dramatically based on how much "over the
limit" you were. If I remember correctly, at "more than 20 over",
you'll get something like a 65% increase.
If you have a radar detector, you will be denied coverage or dropped
immediately.
One accident claim and you will be dropped.
After many years with GEICO, my father who had 0 tickets and had made
0 claims, had an accident and filed an $800 claim. He was dropped
immediately. Since then he has been with State Farm for years with
no complaints.
I have been with State Farm for about 20 years - no complaints.
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I add my congratulations as well. To all those who survive the gauntlet,
cheers.
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Habital planets are also dependent on what kind of plant life can be grown..
and such.. Length of growing season (that is if you want something more than
VAT food, argh, Id ratehr eat an MRE for along period of time).
I know in Fairbanks (Furbanks to some) the winter can get to -60 or so F, but
in the summer can get to +90 and such.. I know of worse places..
Incans and Sherpa and other low pressure atmosphere and such are a limit in
human adaptability(someone mentioend that Incan woman must come to lower
elevations to have babies brought to term? true?) I remember a book by
Pourrnelle I think that delt with a planet was lower density air..
I wonder what the limit on the other end of atmospheres?
I am limiting to human needs and stresses and not alien possibilties..
Thou aliens might be more adapted to a totally alien to human environment, such
as the upper atmosphere of Jupiter or??
Almost makes bio-engineered life easy...
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Antonio,you weren't alone.
ABC ratings were very good. I was schocked to hear that ABC's telecast
was the fifth most watched sporting event over the weekend. National
rating came out to a very respectable 3.3. Top-29 Nielsen markets were
at 2.9. In Boston,the game scored lower at 2.4 but it had some competion
from local sports teams.
Quite frankly, I expected ABC's ratings to be under 2.0. But I'm happy
to be proven wrong!
Well,well...Sometimes it pays off clicking away on your cable-tv remote
control.:-) And if you happen to be a hockey fan,you could just stumble
upon a playoff hockey game...
ESPN picked up Detroit-Toronto game on Monday night because the only
night game in MLB was being rained out in Chicago. You have to give
ESPN credit for switching to Detroit's FOX-50 coverage and having Bill
Clement at a Pittsburgh's TV station(WATE?) for intermission analysis.
Maybe,ESPN people were giddy over perliminary over-night ABC ratings
for Sunday's telecast and thought it was a good idea to feature the
Norris division showdown rather than a monster truck competion.
Good move,ESPN!
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All Muslims knew that the whole thing was set up to destroy Iraq, not
to "Liberate Kuwait", The people who were killed by the invasion are
more (many many more), than the ones that were killed by the Iraqis
in their smaller invasion. I lived in the west, and I have seen how
your media prepared you (helpless naive Americans) for a war against
Iraq even before the artificial conflict between Iraq and Kuwait that
led to the invasion, as the CIA correctly predicted (and pretended to
be surprised not to know).
It just happened that Saddam was so predictible and so arrogant and stupid.
What would I have done: Most Muslims would choose 300 dead Kuwaitis over
200,000 dead Iraqis and 1000 dead Kuwaitis. The first case would happen
if no western intervention happened, and the second case was a direct
or indirect result of western envolvement.
Human rights in Kuwait? what about human rights in Iraq? why the west
gave Saddam a green light to slaughter his own people? I will give my
reason: because the rich Kuwaitis do not mind to be your salves, so
they deserve some democracy, but Iraqis might not, so they don't.
As simple as that, whether or not you want to admit it.
Not necessarily the best solution, my view of an Islamic state (and
that of Turabi that your media made you hate) includes all the benefits
of a secular state minus the injustices. Did you ever read a book by
Rashid Al-Ghannoushi (Tunisia), Hassan Turabi (Sudan)? You only know
about them from your Self-censured, self-controlled media.
If they make this kind of campaign against such a moderate thinker as
Turabi is, and keep quite about such an extremist Muslim scholar as Bin
Bez of Saudi Arabia is, it just does not encourage any moderation in
our ARab world.
No it was not that, it was just some irrelevent stuff that I took out
to go around the copyright (;-))
I ceased to take the Newyork times seriously. In issues concerning Islam
it has become one of the biggest enemies (although less than the other
NewYork daily since Mortimer took it over). It lies, selects facts that
fits its agenda and even prints racist and open anti-Muslim editorials.
What they claimed in that articles is a bunch of lies because while
the selected facts are true about some of those persons, the other members
are actually defence lawyers and University science professors who wanted
to fight corruption, uncover atrocities against opposition activists and
Shia minority, and generally increase awareness about the rights of all
citizens. The only thing that is common between those people is their concern
for the deterioration of human rights since the Saudi clan took a green
light from AMerica (after the gulf) to do whatever is necessary to stay
in power.
Do you know that ALL OF THE SAUDI ULEMA have been taught the same things?
the ones in the official Iftaa are as conservative as the ones that are
opposing it. SOme of the members of the human rights committe are MORE
PRO-WOMEN and wanted to defend them, and that is precisely one reason that
Bin Bez's Fatwah implied for the "Illegality " of this committee
and for his claim that it represents "Outside interests"
There is a human rights issue in Saudi ARabia, and YOU and NY times chose
to ignore the main issue and select some of the members of that committee
and actually defend the actions done against them (including banning them
from their Jobs.
What a hypocricy. I am not surprised really, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME.
The official Ulema are the most extremist anti-women meat-heads in Saudi
Arabia, the west continues on its campaign to discredit itself in the
Muslim community, by supporting them. Well after Bosnia, I guess it has
ZERO credibility to begin with, so what the heck.
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Hi
I would like to know if there is any software, PD or not, who
could produce X11 output of HPGL file on RS/6000. And same kind of
software who could produce hardcopy on postscript and lasetjet.
Thank You
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Perhaps you have a different understanding of what "physics" is. If we
can't measure anything objectively, then the answers we get from physics
aren't objective either. That's what I mean when I say there's no objective
physics.
Sure, we can all agree that (say) F = GMm/r^2, but that's maths. It's only
physics when you relate it to the real world, and if we can't do that
objectively, we're stuck. (Of course, this displays my blatant bias towards
applied science; but even theoretical physics gets applied to models of real
world situations, based on real world observations.)
It's an axiom that it's invariant. But if the two of us measure it, we'll
get different answers. Yes, we call that experimental error, but it's not
really "error" in the conventional sense; in fact, if you don't get any,
that's an error :-)
You could argue that the value of c is "objective, to within +/- <some
value>". But I'd call that a rather odd usage of the word "objective", and
it opens the way for statements like "Murder is objectively wrong for all
people, to within 1% of the total population."
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[DD] Not taking sides leaves one in a state of perpetual indecision because
[DD] both sides in this issue have their own logic at any given time. As an
[DD] Armenian I am partisan -- by definition. However, this does give me the
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obviously a "not" goes here--+ as
evidenced by the context.
[DD] license to lie, cover-up, or revise events under question as we have read
[DD] on UseNet in postings by agents of the Turkish government. I understand
[DD] both sides of the issue, but this does not mean I will advocate both sides
[DD] when it suits me. Such a position would make me a hypocrite. I am also not
[DD] being paid by agents of Turkey nor Azerbaijan as are many proponents of
[DD] the Azeri side. I refer to agents such as Captioline International Group,
[DD] Ltd., being paid in excess of $30,000/month by Azerbaijan. I state my case
[DD] unencumbered by such advocacy or prostitution.
Thanks to Mr. CG.
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Here is something crossposted from the AHL mailing list:
In a discussion between me and Chris Lerch, the subject of Springfield's
1st round upset of the Providence Bruins
came up. Chris basically raised the possibility that the AHL
hierarchy is biased in favor of the Indians. He noted that the offices
for the league are in Spring. and many ex-Indians are working for the AHL.
Furthermore, he also informed me that back a few years ago in the Cup
finals between Roch and Spring, that the Amerks charged favoritism by the office
and that:
"...there were little questionable things liket he AHL president and
staff attending all games with the Springfield brass, including sitting
in their box for the game in Springfield and, according to the Rochester
media, openly cheering for Springfield."
Certainly this is something that is quite serious if any of this
is true. I don't know if this is anything more than whining on the
part of the Amerks (they have pulled this sort of crap against the
Wings before) but if true, this is somthing that seriously raises
questions about President Jack Butterfield's leadership.
BTW- This was posted with the permission of Chris
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If you want parallels the best source is probably the book _Temple
and Cosmos_ by Hugh Nibley. It is not light reading however.
As to why these early practices "only parallel" and do not exactly
duplicate the modern LDS ceremony, there are a couple of reasons:
1. Quite likely we do not have the exact original from ancient
times. This stuff was not commonly known but bits and pieces
undoubtedly spread. (Much as bits and pieces of the modern ceremony
get known.) What we have in the 40 day literature, the Egyptian
ceremonies, and certain Native American ceremonies is almost
certainly not exactly what Jesus taught.
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If companies compressed their executables with LZW andd did some kind of
encryption in the process, this "change two bytes here" thing would go right
out the window.
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