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Okay, I'm curious. Why? Are you expectin the Commissioner to fly in and
stand on the pitchers mound to yell at the fans to sit down, or what?
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Better yet: act.
John
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:So we try to ensure that the process of deciding whether to introduce
:third parties isn't random. As Steve said above, there are examples
:where third parties *are* less ignorant or corrupt than the two
:primary parties; should this knowledge not be able to help?
Of course it helps, but only if the decision to involve third parties
is the primary partis' to make. A corrupt and ignorant third party
isn't going to say, "we're corrupt and ignorant, we'll stay out of this".
Pointing out that they are corrupt and ignorant won't help, they either
won't believe you or won't care.
:> It's impossible (or at least beyond my abilities) to formulate a rule
:>that will always tell whether the involvement of a third party would be
:>good or bad, but there's one that seems better than any other I've ever
:>heard suggested: voluntary good, mandatory bad. That is, a third
:>party should involve itself in a transaction ONLY at the request of
:>the primary participants.
:So we *don't* formulate a rule that will always tell; we try to use
:knowledge about other properties of situations. To some of us, it
:appears that trying always to apply "voluntary good, mandatory bad"
:is not only less than optimal, it is in some circumstances seriously
:damaging. The interesting question is to characterize those
:circumstances as best we can.
Look, somebody has to have the power to decide whether a third party
will regulate your transactions or not. That somebody is going to
be either you or the third party. You can argue until you are
blue in the face that regulators shouldn't get involved (in fact, people
have tried this), they won't listen. The fundamental question you
have to ask is, whose decision is it whether or not to involve regulators,
ours or theirs? After you've answered thed first question, you can
try to move on to such questions as "should regulators be involved" and, if
so, "what regulations are appropriate?" Although with your answer to
the first question, the second and third are taken out of your hands.
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Great slogan! I'm ready to sign up with a crypto-lobbying effort (though
I wouldn't want to do it through an NRA offshoot). Shall we also push
for the CRA -- Cryptographic Rights Amendment ??
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I understand fire trucks had been at the site for several weeks but were
sent home three or four days before the assault. Can anyone confirm this?
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I'm new to this group and this may have been discussed already, in which case
my apologies, but...
I have a '92 Integra with an auto box. According to the manual the car has
a lock up torque converter, or something similar.
What is it, what does it do and how does it work?
(Excuse my ignorance).
Does anybody know?
--Parms.
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Total Baseball, which also tries to evaluate a player's total offensive
and defensive contributions, gives Barry Bonds a Total Player rating of
9.0 for 1992. Only one other player since Ruth attained that mark: Cal
Ripken for his 1984 season. Rounding out the top five offensive players
in the NL last season: Sheffield, 5.9; Sandberg, 5.8; Van Slyke, 5.3; and
Larkin, 4.7.
The top 5 offensive players in the AL in 1992 were: E. Martinez, 4.8;
Ventura, 4.8; Anderson, 4.5; R. Henderson, 4.4; and Thomas, 4.4
In short, Total Baseball says Bonds enjoyed one of the best seasons
ever in the game's history -- better than any year had by Mantle,
Mays, Williams, etc. (If you disagree, don't flame me; flame the
writers of Total Baseball.) Also, Martinez and Ventura are neck and
neck, so given the shortcomings of any statistical analysis, which one
had the better year can be considered a toss-up. Thus, Total Baseball
supports your choices of Bonds and Ventura as the MVPs of 1992.
--
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Not necessarily. If the body had been denatured (cooked) or dehydrated due
to the heat, a projectile needs only a minimal kinetic force to penetrate.
In fire aftermaths, bodies tend to fall apart or loose large chunks of
meat with little effort. Medical Examiners tend not to like cleaning up
such scenes.
As such, if the body had been suitably cooked, a bullet comming from a
magazine explosion would more than likely have enough force to enter and
thus it would be difficult to determine whether a bullet entered at the
time of death, or much later, unless you were trained to look for the
evidence. Texas Rangers are not pathologists.
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Easy vs. Hard .....Easy on who?
I had a rare very personal talk with my mother last year. She said
that when she and my father were raising we four children, they
did not try to raise us in this world as strictly as they were raised
in their Norwegian Lutheran community. They felt that we would be
alienated from them and it would create problems.
In other words, my parent did the very tolerant, loving thing. They
raised us without conflict, without what we saw as unreasonable
demands and were always accepting, no matter what the circumstances.
What happened was that I grew up believing in situation ethics and
never absolutes. I believed in a loving God, and my concept of God
never involved justice or punishment, nor was there any concept that
I may someday be held responsible for the things that offended
Him...sins that the "world" told me were OK.
My parents are very good, honest and moral people. They raised
four extremely honest children. Yet, before coming to a more
complete knowledge of God (which includes the knowledge of justice
and punishment)I committed what I now believe to be many, many
grave sins. I lived with a partner outside of marriage, was married
and divorced ( only after physical abuse and no apparent hope for
change...but I shouldn't have married to person in the first place )
and more....
My parents felt they were doing the loving,kind thing by allowing
us to be who we were, by not imposing their standards on us, and by
accepting unquestioningly everything we did without judgement or
counsel.
Today, it is absolutely appalling for me to look back on what they
*did* accept without a word. It takes courages to dare to help souls
because you must speak up and say what is unpopular and
difficult and what people do not want to hear. You must be able
to say what is hard, and say it as Christ would, with love and
compassion. It involves risk....perhaps someone you love may not
want to hear and will stay away from you.
This life is "but dust". As long as the comfort of this life
is our highest priority, we will fail God and fail those
with whom we come in contact.
I wonder how many who engage in sex outside of marriage, who
support the "right" to abortion, who engage in homosexuality,
or who commit any of the range of sins that are plentiful in
this time have ever heard from a quiet, thoughtful, loving
friend that these things are *wrong*. No one ever told me that
what I was doing was wrong, and I saw multitudes around me
living the same way I was and they seemed like good, decent
people. (wouldn't kick dogs or beat the elderly or babies..)
It is more difficult for sinners without a genuine prayer
life to hear the Holy Spirit than it is to hear a loving friend.
Think about this the next time the Holy Spirit tells you that
a friend is in error, but you don't want to "cause trouble".
Righteous prayers is great power, but don't forget that we are
we are Christ's lips and hands on earth. Don't be afraid to
simply voice Truth when the situation calls for it. Say a
fervent prayer and ask the Holy Spirit for Love and guidance.
In more ways than we may realize, we *are* our brother's
keeper.
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In <C601ED.CD6@cpqhou.se.hou.compaq.com>, thomasr@cpqhou.se.hou.compaq.com sez:
This is all terribly interesting, but it doesn't belong in misc.legal.
Take it elsewhere, please.
--
Have you hugged your common nucleus of operative fact today?
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[writing to someone else]
Can we get back to using the terms "strong Atheist" and "weak Atheist"
rather than this "hard Atheist" and "soft Atheist". I can imagine
future discussions with Newbies where there is confusion because of the
multiplication of descriptions.
[rest deleted]
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...
Oh they'll get it back, with exposed film. :(
Shortly after the Rodney King episode, a woman here in Dayton used a
camcorder to tape the police arresting several youths.
Upon noticing her, the police arrested her (for jaywalking!) and
"accidently" erased the tape while they had it.
Yep, they'll get their film back allright....
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Quit keeping us in suspense: who sells this remarkable bag?
Later,
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: In article <1993Apr29.121501@is.morgan.com>, jlieb@is.morgan.com (Jerry Liebelson) writes...
: > I want to know what weightlessness actually FEELS like. For example, is
: >there a constant sensation of falling?
Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) replied:
: Yes, weightlessness does feel like falling. It may feel strange at first,
: but the body does adjust. The feeling is not too different from that
: of sky diving.
I'm no astronaut, but I've flown in the KC-135 several times. I'll
tell you about my first flight.
At the on-set of weightlessness, my shoulders lifted and my spine
straightened. I felt a momentary panic, and my hands tried to grab
onto something (like the strap keeping me firmly against the floor)
to prevent me from falling; I remember conciously over-ruling my
involuntary motions. My ears felt (not heard) a rush and I could
feel fluid moving in my head (like when you get up from bed while
you have a cold).
At that point, I ceased to concentrate on my physiological response,
since I had some science to do. I was busy keeping my experiment
going and keeping track of all the parts during the "return" of
gravity and subsequent 1.8-G pull-out, so I didn't really pay
attention to physiology at that time.
After about 5 parabolas, I discovered that I was performing one
of the tricks I've discovered to keep myself from getting motion
sickness; I was keeping my head very still and moving very slowly
-- all except my hands and arms, which needed to be in rapid,
concious motion for my experiment. During the pull-out to
parabola 5, my queasiness finally started to get to me, and I
had to use one of those air-sickness bags. I was basically
useless for the rest of that flight, so I went to the seats in
the back of the plane while my partner (whom I drafted for just
this purpose) kept working on the experiment while I was ill.
(He was a vetran Vomit Comet rider, one of those anomalous
people who don't get sick on the thing.)
I didn't think of it as a "constant sensation of falling" so
much as like swimming in air. It's very close to the sensations
I feel when I'm scuba diving and I turn my head down and fins up.
Jerry:
: >And what is the motion sickness
: >that some astronauts occasionally experience?
Ron:
: It is the body's reaction to a strange environment. It appears to be
: induced partly to physical discomfort and part to mental distress.
: Some people are more prone to it than others, like some people are more
: prone to get sick on a roller coaster ride than others. The mental
: part is usually induced by a lack of clear indication of which way is
: up or down, ie: the Shuttle is normally oriented with its cargo bay
: pointed towards Earth, so the Earth (or ground) is "above" the head of
: the astronauts. About 50% of the astronauts experience some form of
: motion sickness, and NASA has done numerous tests in space to try to
: see how to keep the number of occurances down.
I'm a volunteer in JSC's Space Biomedical Laboratory where they do,
among other things, some of the tests Ron mentions. I was in one
called the Pre-flight Adaptation Trainer, which consisted of a chair on
a several-degree-of-freedom motion base with moving geometric visual
aids. The goal was to measure the victim's^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H subject's
responses and subjective physiological descriptions and see if repeated
exposure to this environment could reduce future motion sickness
symptoms.
Jerry --
I don't know of any former or active-duty astronauts who personally
read this group. I know that Bruce McCandless's office had been
waiting anxiously for the Space Station Redesign option I posted
last week, but I don't think Bruce reads the group himself.
-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368
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[ a whole lot of completely ignorant stuff about Pitt. ]
Give this guy a drug test, and some Ridalin whale you are at it.
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I've never heard of the Bob Dylan Baseball Abstract, but I am curious.
Could someone clue me in?
--
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I have recently used the 4066 to switch a bipolar signal. I simply
ran the 4066 off a bipolar supply, +/- 8V in this case. As long as your
analog input signal stays between the supply rails, the 4066 will work fine.
Of course, your control (logic) input must use -8V as the logic LOW and
+8V as the logic HIGH reference, so that either (1) all your driving logic
must be 4000 CMOS with the same bipolar supply or (2) you must provide
some kind of voltage level shifting circuit between the 4066 and the
control logic. In my case, I was able to use the bipolar supply all the
way.
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I've been playing with a program called PICLAB to modify some .gif files. The
problem is it keeps displaying only 50% of the image. Starting from the top, it
displays20%, leaves 20% blank, then down another 20% etc. ANyone know what I'm
doing wrong, or is there another piece of software I should use instead?
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After the initial gun battle was over, they had 50 days to come out
peacefully. They had their high priced lawyer, and judging by the
posts here they had some public support. Can anyone come up
with a rational explanation why the didn't come out (even after
they negotiated coming out after the radio sermon) that doesn't
include the Davidians wanting to commit suicide/murder/general mayhem?
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Hey folks,
Saw the Giants play ball at the 'Stick Saturday, April 17. It was the game
where Pendelton broke up the scoreless tie in the ninth with a two-out,
two-run homer to right to win it. (It wasn't the game where the fans
threw the give-away "fotoballs" onto the field in response to the homer --
too bad, huh?)
Well, the 'Stick is still cold. The Saturday game ended at 5:45pm, and it
was cold then. I can't imagine night games in April at the 'Stick. The
wind kicked up a little, too, and I got this idea.
At most games, there's a pile of hot dog wrappers and cups and trash on
the field a lot of the time. I propose a Kid's Clean-up Corps composed
mainly of 10-12 year old kids who would love nothing better than to run
out on the field in the fifth inning (when the guy in the Toro smooths
the infield) and grab the trash.
It might not be glamorous, but at that age I probably would have given
anything to be on the field with the ballplayers. Everybody wins here!
Whaddaya think?
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You just don't get it, do you?
I think the discussion is more like this...
Me: [ happily picking daisies by the side of the road ]
BC: [ dancing on the double yellow broken line ]
"Come on out and play on the highway!"
Me: "Why?"
BC: "The highway was put here for people to be on. We must work towards
fulfilling its purpose."
Me: "But --"
BC: "Look, the highway has been here for several generations. Look, I
have a story about how it was actually created by a divine being!
And several people actually saw Elvis bless it!"
Me: "But --"
BC: "Look, are you going to come out here, or not?"
Me: "But --"
BC: "You probably think that picking daisies is fun. Well, you're wrong."
Me: "Where in blazes did you get this silly idea that you're supposed to
be playing on the highway? You'll get yourself killed!"
BC: "Better to be killed on the highway than to live an empty life off
of it. Besides, you're just asking pointless questions. You know
you really want to be playing on the highway too; you're just
denying it."
Me: "If you want to get run over, then fine, but I'd much rather enjoy
the daisies, if you please."
BC: "Why do you shun me like this? The Creator of the Highway will flatten
you with a steamroller if you don't see the light and come join me!"
Me: "Well, if he's gonna be THAT way about it, maybe I want to get as
far from the highway as I can..."
BC: [ incoherent but quite familiar righteous sputtering ]
Brian C., don't you see? I do not believe that your god is:
(a) real, or even
(b) beneficial.
In fact, I believe your religion is imaginary and, carried to
extremes, harmful. I would like to help you see its shortcomings, and
perhaps someday finally become strong enough to see it for what it is:
an elaborate lie, kept alive by the elite priesthood to keep the
masses properly submissive to their influences.
Please offer me an argument that's more convincing than "you just
don't believe 'cos you don't want to." Everything you've said so far
could apply equally to any religion -- why do you believe yours is the
real one?
(Note that saying "it's the only one that promises eternal life" or
something like that isn't an answer to my question, unless you show
that (a) no other religion promises eternal life and (b) it is
unarguably true that eternal life must be a reality.)
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I would stongly recommend a factory service manual, and if you are not
an experienced machanic then get a chiltons or haynes (sp?) ALSO.
Make sure the bike has cooled at least 6 hours since being run.
Read the books and if you have more questions you could mail me.
Also, be very careful when tightening valve cover bolts. They take
very little torque and breaking one is disaster.
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Dear Netters:
I am looking for C source code to test if a 3D point lies within a
concave polyhadra. I have read a few articles about this and know
that two solutions exist: parity counting and angle sumation. Both
ideas are pretty simple but coding is not. So I wonder if there exists
public domain source code for this.
Another 'rough' solition (don't care special cases) is ray-casting
which is reported to be more or less independent of number of faces
consisting the polyhedra if a special space indexing is used
(M. Tamminen, et. al., 1984. "Ray-casting and block model conversion
using a spatial index". Computer-Aided-Designs. 4, 1984, 60-65).
But the prerequirement is that all the facets of polyhedra have their
normal pointing outside of polyhedra. How this could be done in practice ?
I have a set of trangles consisting the polyhedra. How could I ensure their
normals pointing outside the polyhedra ? The paper mentioned above assumed
this is already the case.
I have also read some standard computer graphics textbook about hidden
line removal. It says "if we make the rule that the normal of a facet pointing
toward viewer standing far away from the polyhedra...". Again how to make
sure ?
Any pointers are welcome ?
Yaohong Jiang
Queen's University
Kingston, Ont.
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I'm glad Grant Fuhr will never be as over-confident after two wins
as you are...it takes four wins to defeat an opponent...each tougher
to obtain than the previous one. Buffalo is off to a good start...
Fuhr is proving the Fuhr-bashers wrong, but Boston is an awfully
good team.
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...
Does it matter that the study (yes, singular) that showed LSD causing
birth defects also holds true for aspirin? Does it matter that
this study is flat-out wrong, and LSD does not give you a greater
risk of having children with birth defects?
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I am asked to design a video-aid system for teacher to show their students
how to work their way round in Windows.
I have seen people using video projector, TV set and large size monitor as
thrir display for presentations. I am told that there are three ways to
connect to a video projector: composite, Y/C & RGB.
Can anyone explain to me the different between the three and the likely cost
for each of them?
I would also like to know if there are TELNET or KERMIT for Windows.
Please reply to me via E-amil as well as bulletin. My internet account is
u129008@sparc20.ncu.edu.tw
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I recently saw a message here (posted by Bob Silverman, I think) which
referred to a "birthday" attack on a cryptosystem. I'm looking for
references on, and explanations of, this type of attack.
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I thought your nickname was "UnEnlightened"
--
Maddi Hausmann madhaus@netcom.com
Centigram Communications Corp San Jose California 408/428-3553
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stem
I
I've had the same experience actually. I love the Mac interface and any number
of the features, but am sorely dissapointed with the speed. I use macs daily
and am a Moc consultant for OSU Statistics department; I'm familiar with almost
every model out there, and my experience is that both the Amiga and the Atari
ST simply "blow the Mac out of the water" in terms of performance. At this time
I would in general say that the other advantages of the Mac outweigh the
advantages of the Amiga or the ST (and Falcon), but I really wish Apple would
get their heads together on speed... :-((((( They could take a real lesson in
muli-tasking from the Amiga OS or the MultiTOS in the Atari Falcons too :-(((
> I'm still happy with my ci, but I don't understand why the performance is
I just hope that someone comes out with a machine that does *everything* well
someday. If I had my choice, I would go with Mac in most aspects, but add the
speed and superior Multi-Tasking of the other platforms.
As for the original topic; Trying to compare *just the chip* in a machine seems
almost worthless. A fast 386 with a wiz-bang graphics accelerator will be
faster in productivity for many applications than a even a stock Quadra. Add a
graphics accelerator to a 486 and you *really fly*. Of course, add one the the
Quadra and then you're blowing the 486 away... etc...
I think mine was only worth $0.01.......
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This is ridiculous, and your doctor sounds like a nut, if what is
reported here is what the doctor actually said. If your wife's
pancreas stops producing insulin and therefore becomes diabetic, she'll
need insulin replacement. That doesn't mean she's "dependent" on
insulin, anymore than she was beforehand--if her body doesn't make
enough, she'll have to get it elsewhere. Oral thyroid replacement
hormone therapy is the cornerstone of treatment for hypothyroidism, and
it's really the only effective therapy available anyway. Plus, it's
cheap. Taking thyroid hormone when it isn't needed does cause your
thyroid gland to reduce its own production of the hormone, but that's a
_feature_, not a _bug_, and it's irrelevant in any case in the face of
hypothyroidism, because her problem that her gland isn't producing
enough. There isn't a clinical phenomenon of "thyroid insufficiency"
caused by a sudden discontinuation of exogenous thyroid hormone
analogous to adrenal insufficiency caused by the sudden cessation of
prolonged administration of corticosteroids, so there should be no
worry about inappropriately "suppressing" the thyroid gland.
Homeopathy is nonsense. Tell her to stop wasting her money, health and time,
and get her to a legitimate doctor who will be in a position to make
a proper diagnosis and recommend the right therapy.
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My roommate, the atheist, says "to anyone out there who might be
listening."
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Wasn't the shareware fee a "suggestion" by John?
Is so then it's up to the individual to make the choice whether or not to
honour it and part with money. Personally if I was in his position I would
do exactly the same thing, John has obviously put in lot of time and effort
into xv and why shouldn't he receive some money for it.
Just my pennies worth
(Keep up the good work John)
Julian
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I just read an article in another group that mentions this. I have
never heard of the VCPI memory standard. Can someone explain what
this is??? Thanks
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BIGOTRY"
Biden spoke well. Then there was John Major, the architect of the
betrayal of Bosnian Muslims to genocide.
He basically has given yet another green light to HVO Ustashe and
Mladic-Chetnik serial killers, rapists, and plunderers to continue their
genocide against Bosnian Muslims.
But Major met with Mr. Rushdie and said it was "unacceptable" that Iran
should have a death decree on him. While I disagree personally with
Fetwas against hack writers like Rushdie (it only helps them sell more
books), I find it interesting that Mr. Major finds the genocide of two
million Muslims in Bosnia acceptable, but a threat against one single
popular British writer "unacceptable."
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I just exchange ideas over the USENET with other people. I never
attacked you as to put you in the need to defend yourself against me.
I am not a violent person, and I do not see how can anyone be threatened
by the opinions and ideas of others as expressed on USENET.
I asked you to continue on email because I am not interested on a
flamefest, where you change my words or just make up some of your own
and present them as mine.
So, do not worry. You do not need to defend yourself because I am not
attacking you.
This is a good advice for yourself.
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I think there are some generally accepted criteria according to which
one can evaluate whether certain policies or practices constitute
racial discrimination. These criteria are to be found for example in the
1. International Convention for Abolition of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (ratified by most countries)
2. The International Covenant of Political and Civil Rights
3. The Human Rights Charter
4. The European Convention of Human Rights
If one reads carefully how racial discrimination is defined in these
legally binding instruments, and does not resort to sophistry, it is
obvious that the State of Israel is guilty of racial discrimination.
The people suffering the most extreme form of racial discriminatnion
by the Zionist regime are the Palestinian refugees, some of whom live
under Israeli military control and others who live in the diaspora.
They are not entitled to return to their homeland for the sole
reason that they are not Jews. International law does not include any
provisions which permits such denial of rights, under any circumstance.
Israel's actions of denial are totally illegal and immoral. By allowing
the return of the refugees and permitting them to settle in Tel in any area of
the State of Israel, the State would finally gain its legitimaty under
international law and could be justified in asking to be recognized. It
would facilitate the peaceful integration of Israel into the Middle-east
and constitute the best guarantee for permanent Jewish presence -
in the area. Any attempt to create a separation, formal and human, between the
Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arab communities, is fraught with
genociadal implications. I hope that U.S. Jews, who sincerely wish that
peace prevail in Israel/Palestine, will finally realize this fact.
Elias Davidsson
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: What if clipper is fairly secure but leaves a distinct clipper signature...
: that is, what if it's not too difficult to tell that a msg. was clipper
: encrypted, even if you can't tell the contents? In that case, anyone
: who is trying to hide behind anther encryption scheme will stand out
: from all of the other traffic and raise a red flag to the NSA, etc.
I think the obvious answer (which may have been posted, but I haven't
seen it) is to encrypt your data with some other scheme, then run it
through clipper. The only way the police will be able to detect the
other encryption is through a wiretap, so even if they do notice with
an illegal wiretap, I have a hard time seeing a judge issuing a
warrant for a search to "confiscate" the illegal scheme (assuming that
at one day, it comes to this; a worse case) based on an illegal
wiretap. Then again, maybe I am an idealist. :>
: ------------ -------- ----------------------
: Ben Liberman INTERNET ben@genesis.MCS.COM
: ben@tai.chi.il.us
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so all us hockey/automobile racing fans all know exactly where we stand
ESPN delays the martinsville race by a day for the NFL draft
ESPN shows baseball instead of the overtime of a NHL playoff game
gimme a break, guys
=> >>Does anyone know why this race is tape delay? Especially until Monday???
=> >Is this the weekend for the NFL draft?
=> >If so, postponing the race for a day is
=> >a real slap in the face for racing fans.
=> I'm afraid you're right (as usual). As I recall they've been doing this
=> ever since they started covering the draft live. I wish they could work
=> out some kind of a deal with somebody else such as TNN to get the race
=> on live, but I guess ESPN isn't much into sharing. It also clarifies
=> where auto racing stands on their priority list (as if we didn't already
=> know ;-)
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Thanks to the people who have answered here and in email to my
question about which countries engage in space surveillance.
Unfortunately, I apparently didn't make the meaning of the message
clear, since most replies have addressed satellite reconnaissance,
rather than space surveillance
What I meant was _not_ which countries use satellites to look at
the Earth (satellite reconnaissance) , but _was_ which countries have
programs to detect and track (i.e., determine the orbital elements of)
satellites as they pass overhead (space surveillance).
The US uses missile-defense radars, supplemented by a fascinating
quasi-radar operated by the Navy, to do this for satellites in LEO, and
electrooptical systems for objects at altitudes above 5,000 km or so.
The FEE, I understand, does much the same thing.
Amateur satellite observers use eyeballs, binoculars, stopwatches
and PCs for objects out to around 1500 km, enabling them to keep track
of satellites for which, ah, official element sets aren't available.
See the fascinating books by Desmond King-Hele for details, as well as
the files in the molczan directory on kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov. The
material posted in my previous message suggests that Japan engages in
optical and radar space surveillance to a modest degree, and it may be
that other countries do also.
Which was the question I meant to ask: who are they, how do they do
it, and why do they do it?
Allen Thomson SAIC McLean, VA
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Doesn't matter if we assume they are obeying the law, since they won't have
had a court order to tap calls prior to the date of the court order, and
thus won't have them available.
If they aren't obeying the law, we are in an entirely different discussion,
in which this is the least of one's worries.
David
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Perhaps I should quit eating mushrooms, soya beans, and brie cheese
which all have MSG in them. It occurs naturally.
I'm not going to quit eating something that I like just because
it *might* cause me trouble later or causes problems in *some*
people. I would much rather avoid stress by not worrying over
what goes in my mouth and not spending every day reading conflicting
reports of what is good/bad for you.
I may eat some things in quantities that may not be good for me.
Fine. I've made my decision and I don't think it's appropriate
for anyone to try to 'convert' me. "It's for your own good" are
the most obnoxious and harmful words, IMO, in the English (or
any other) language.
I think it is. I get tired of people saying 'don't eat X because
it's BAD!' Well, X may not be bad for everyone. And even if
it is, so what? Give people all the information but don't ram
your decisions down their throats.
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reasonable
That's probably true but it's the closest to it that you're going to get.
The actual dealer cost depends on a lot of things and even the dealer
probably doesn't know exactly what it will be until all the factory
kick-backs, incentives, etc. are paid and that often depends on his volume
at the end of the month/quarter/whatever. It might be a funny munber but
it's all you have to start with, except the sticker, and anyone who pays
sticker price is really being ripped off.
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Our 20-month son has started falling sick quite often every since he
started going to day care. He was at home for the first year and he did
not fall sick even once. Now it seems like he has some sort of cold or
flu pretty much once a month. Most of the time the cold leads to an ear
infection as well, with the result that he ends up being on antibiotics
3 weeks out of 4. I know kids in day care fall sick more often, but we
are beginning to wonder how often "more often" really is, whether our
son is more susceptible or has lower immunity than average, what the
longer-term effects of constantly being sick and taking antibiotics are,
and what we can do to build up his resistance. He really enjoys his day
care and we think it's great too, but we are beginning to wonder whether
we should think about getting a nanny.
Are there any studies that can help answer some of these questions?
-- How often do kids in their first, second and third years fall sick?
How often do they get colds, flus, ear infections? Is there any data on
home care vs. day care?
-- Does being sick "build immunity" (leading to less illness later),
does it make kids "weaker" (leading to more illness later), or does it
not have any long term effect?
-- Does taking antibiotics on a regular basis have any negative long
term effects?
-- How does one tell if a child is more susceptible to illness than
normal, and what does one do about it?
-- Is there any way to build immunity and resistance?
Any data, information or advice relating to this would be much
appreciated. Thanks a lot.
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X-Disclaimer: All views are my own unless expicitly stated otherwise.
That are the authorisation files for the server.
Depending on what type of key your X supports they contain magic cookies,
DES based authentication or SUN DES authentication.
The place is defined with the DisplayManager.authDir
Other things like the file name can be changed as well see XDM manual pages.
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[stuff about Ron Gant incident deleted]
I agree that Hirschbeck was just doing what he was instructed to do
and also that Gant should have listened to him. However, what is with this
policy of trying to speed up the games. You are the first person
( non-mediot ) I have seen endorse this policy. I have no problem with the
length of games at all and am tired of the ESPN crowd ( and other announcers )
bitching about it. I have never been in a ballpark filled with people looking
at their watches and shouting "Hurry up!" If I cough up big bucks for a
ticket, I don't mind a game that last more than 2:10. I really don't
understand it.
Games are longer now for several reasons: more pitching changes,
more basestealing ( and throws to first ), etc...I think a very small factor
is the increased time it takes Jose Canseco/ Deion Sanders/ [insert fancy
showboat ballplayer here] to arrange their jewelry prior to stepping in the
batter's box. My impression is that sportcasters and writers have made this
an issue because they like shorter games - they get to head back to hotel
bar, eat steaks, get drunk, tell stupid jokes with their pals and chase
stewardesses around the bar. Sure they want the game over with. Print
journalists have a slightly more legitimate reason for wanting faster games:
they have deadlines. The ESPN guys on baseball tonight drive me crazy - they
constantly harp on this - primarily because they often have to work late
when the game goes longer than 2:30.
Maybe I am just a ne'er-do-well with nothing better to do, but I
would like to hear reasons why the longer games upset you.
As a parenthetical note, it seems the league is in any case fighting
a losing battle this year. The increased offense thus far will certainly
spoil any hopes of getting the games over with more quickly.
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> I believe it is illegal to send any cryptographic code out of the
> country without an export license. (Others will correct me if
> this is inaccurate.)
Glad to! You are correct, it is illegal to send cryptographic
code (and lots of other things) out of the country without a license.
HOWEVER, every US citizen has a general export license, allowing
export of lots of things, including constitutionally protected speech.
This has the effect that it is legal for US citizens to export some
things which it is illegal for a US corporation to export without
first obtaining a license.
> Dunno if you'd get one for the particular code you have; the only
> way to find out is to apply for a license.
Nope, talk to a good lawyer in the area of export law. But, in
general, the government has to have a very good national security case
to try prevent the export of anything you personally might wish to
publish. (Yes, I worded that the way I did intentionally. It is a
lot easier for the government to TRY to prevent the export of
information than to charge someone with a crime after the fact.
Espionage is probably the only exception.)
> Note that you need to distinguish between what is legal to send
> to Canada if YOU have such a license, and what is legal to send
> if you don't.
If you are a US citizen, you have a general license. (I am not a
lawyer, so take some of this with a grain of salt. However, I have
also had to swim through both ITAR and export regs in a few cases.)
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One of the most popular methods of course is the password check where they ask
you for a word from page x, line y, and word z, but this is pitifully simple to
remove unless you throw some checksums into the main part of your program, and
some self-rewriting code to confuse some people. Also, make sure that your
program can not be run out a debugger.
Another method of course is to not even make bad sectors on the original disk,
just write a certain key to a certain unallocated sector. To help you here,
you also must do the code protection schemes mentioned in the first paragraph.
Make sure you also fill the rest of the unallocated parts of the disk with
garbage as well, or they (wanna be crackers) can just look for the junk in
some random sector.
Like you mentioned, there are the laser holed disks and hardware keys, but they
are both expensive and a pain in the butt for the end-user, which you is the
opposite of what you want.
Another configuration that can be used is to save the configuration of the
machine that it is being installed to in the most undecipherable format you can
think of. If the program does not find that this is the same system, it
requests being installed by the original disk again. The original disk should
be encrypted, compacted, have many sectors that should be checked, and anything
else you can think of to make sure that the original cannot be copied. Once
again, you MUST put code-encryption, self-rewriting code, and multiple CRC
checks in the program to make sure that it does not get changed. Among other
things, this also protects your program from virii. If the program detects a
change in its code, tell the user that a virus has been detected in the
program. Tell them the program is "VIRUS SECURE", and remember, you have
helped the world kill some pirating and kill some viruses. Feel good.
I hope that I have helped. Have fun. Knock some cracking out (well, you can't
do it, everything that can be written can be cracked, but you'll piss'em off in
the process!). Goodbye.
What is the program that will be sold?
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ag625@yfn.ysu.edu ggruscho@nyx.cs.du.edu
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A world creator god does, the moment it creates the world. And to sayi
that you can't recall *anyone* is even below your usual standard of
a"arguing".
My argument is based on quite usual theistic assumptions, namely god
is perfect, god is all-knowing god sets the rules. The rules don't
work for whatever reason. Because of its omniscience, the god has
known it. In advance.
(Deletion)
It is not a question of grammar, it is a question of modelling. Has been
discussed in the wonderful time when you were not posting to this group.
When A is contradictorily defined A does not point to an instance in
reality. Unless there is more information in the definition of A that
allows me to find it somehow. However, when the contradictory attribute
is said to be essential, ie has not got that attribute => not the A I
am looking for, I can conclude that A does not exist.
That's quite like: I predict coins falling
Predicted Happened
1. Heads Tails
2. Tails Tails
3. Heads Tails
4. Heads Tails
I take 2. and dismiss the rest because of the unnecessary complexity
the other evidence causes.
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Hindsight's 20-20. Nobody expected Kisio to have his 2nd best career year.
I didn't mean to imply that Gund's offer wasn't enough. Gund's offer
was the right $, but too late in the season. $2M offered in November
lets Sather buy a replacement for Murphy *this* season and make the
playoffs *this* year. $2M in March doesn't help Sather with his
immediate objectives, doesn't help with long term objectives (only a
prospect or draft pick does, and no way should the Sharks do that).
However, getting back to what-if games, had Kisio been traded to
Chicago last year, then the Sharks go 0 for October, and maybe Gund
panicks sooner in November. And here's another what-if twist: Chicago
would have had Kisio this season; they *never* go after Murphy in the
first place because Kelly is having his *best* season (bigger guys in
Chicago). So Gund has no competition. So Ferriera, Sather, and Keenan
all look like geniuses.
A broken fax machine, and Ferriera, Keenan, and maybe Kingston
(and maybe even Green) lose their jobs. Kind of makes you
shiver doesn't it. :-)
Bottomline, for every black scenario any of you can concoct for
Kisio leaving, I can concoct an equally bright one.
Are you serious?
- Let Ferierra go,
- fire Kingston (these last two basically mean that
Sharks are starting over again in terms of the
timetable to capture the Cup. As I've stated
frequently: 5 out 6 expansion teams had the same GM
from inception through Cup season)
- broadcast more home games than away games
- broadcast very few road Pacific and Mountain time games
- jack up my ticket prices from $27 to $38 in two years (not that I'm
going to pay 120 bucks for 3 seats. I'll probably next to the
virtual 107 folks)
- not tell me my priority #
- not let me sell my priority #
- in order for me to get the free jacket, force me to order my tickets
for next season before I get to select my section
- not let me park at the new arena after paying for their
privileged parking lot (which was sometimes full when
I got there) for 2 straight years.
I've been a loyal ticket holder, since day 1 (literally) in spring of
'90 when the team was announced. and I'm not getting that loyalty
returned. Wirtz treats his fans far better by comparison. And
Pocklington with his cheap tix is the best owner of all.
I know one isn't suppose to make negative comments on signatures, but
what did us Oiler fans do to you to deserve the "Stay in Edmonton"
part? I'd never wish the Kings to leave metro-LA; it's too much fun
watching the Shark's beat them.
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Correction, and some more info: The Kaliningrad that Mr. Larrison
writes about is indeed near Moscow. I've read that it may also be known by
the name Podlipk, and is a short distance from Zvezdny Gorodok (Star
City) and the Cosmonaut Training Center there. I read that the Tsniimach
(Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building, est. 1961)
Enterprise was also responsible for creating the NKIK (Ground Command and
Measurement Complex) including the Kaliningrad Flight Control Center
which has controlled all Soviet/Russian manned spaceflights since its
completion in 1973. However, it appears to have been a part of the
Ministry of General Machine Building which was not part of the military
(Ministry of Defense) but would have been a part of the military-industrial
complex.
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There will always be a zillion lawyers who, if they get paid well
enough, will sue your brains out. Gosh! Can't anyone send them off to
another planet?!
Well maybe, it would be better to just send Apple, Microsoft and a few
others (that way we would get rid of some terrible products as well :)
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Hi,
I'm having problems tying to get a Sony DAT drive to work. I'm using
Retrospect 1.3Ci,
and my only luck with getting the drive to work has been with a Mac IIci,
which has
now unfortunately gone to another department.
Ideally, we want to attach it to our Quadra 950 setup. I can't seem to
get the
Retrospect software to recognize the media at all. When in the "Devices"
dialog,
it can see the DAT device, but comes up with, firstly, 'Running', secondly
'Media Failure' and then immediately 'Contents Unknown'. This does not
happen with the
Mac IIci setup, which simply says 'Ready'.
I'm hoping someone else will have had similar problems but found some
solution... I
know some others who have had problems with DAT devices and their Quadra,
but they have
a Mac IIci which they can use!
THE SYMPTOMS
System software is 7.1, also didn't
work with 7.0.1
I have tried the following:
Turn off all extensions, except Retrospect SCSI (required)
Tested on a variety of machines: Quadra, IIsi, and LC (at least).
Connected no other SCSI devices
Tested all varieties of SCSI termination etc.
Replaced the DAT unit with a new one (Yes! we got that desperate!)
Read the Retrospect manual (EVEN MORE DESPERATE :))
Replies via email would be greatly appreciated... thanks in advance.
I'll post any
solutions to this group.
Cheers,
Matt.
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TWINS UPDATE -- Posted April 22, 1993
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The Twins defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 today to conclude a three game
homestand with the Brew crew. The Twins took two of three games in the series,
with scores as follows:
Tuesday April 20th MN 10
Mil 0
Winning Pitcher Banks (2-0)
Wednesday April 21st Mil 10 (10)
MN 8
LP - Hartley ( 0-1 )
Thursday April 22nd MN 5
Mil 4
WP - Deshaies (4-0)
Sa - Aguilera
Highlight/Low Lights of the Series:
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Jim Deshaies continues to be the surprise of not only the Twins, but of
the American League as well. Going into today's game, Deshaies was 3-0
with a 1.74 ERA. Deshaies allowed 2 Earned runs in 6 2/3 innings, meaning
his ERA will climb slightly. Deshaies, who came to MN via a trade with
Philadelphia which sent David West there, continues to make Andy MacPhail
look like a true genius.
Willie Banks has put together two solid starts for the Twins, going 6.1 innings
on Monday while coasting on solid Twins hitting. Deshaies and Banks now
combine for 6 of the Twins eight victories, while Tapani/Mahomes/Erickson are
0-5.
Wednesday's game marked the first opposing left-handed starting pitcher for the
Twins this year (Rickey Bones). The Twins teed off against both him and
subsequent relief, including a Grand Slam by Kent Hrbek which pushed the lead
to 7-3. The Twins pitching staff could not hold the lead, though, allowing
4 walks in the 7th inning, 2 of which scored and coming with bases loaded.
Tapani gave up one walk before being relieved, Guthrie two walks, and Mike
Hartley one walk before the inning was over. This tied the game at 7-7, and
the Brew Crew rocked Mike Hartley for 3 runs in the top of the tenth to win
it.
Aguilera continues to be shaky against the Brew Crew. 6 of 20 career blown
saves have come against the Brew Crew, and today's game was shaky as well.
Coming into the ninth with a 5-2 lead, Aguilera gave up a solo HR to Vaughn,
then hits to Darryl Hamilton and Dickie Thon before finally retiring the
side. Once again, the tying run made it to second base on Aggie.
Weak hearted Twins fans are advised not to watch Aggie in the ninth.
General News
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Pedro Munoz continues to improve as an outfielder, playing in left field on
Tuesday's game. He continues to bat weakly against right handed pitching,
though, which has limited his playing time. Gene Larkin and JT Bruett(former
Gopher) have been playing right field, as both can bat left handed.
The Twins begin a three game series with the Detroit Tigers tomorrow. Starting
Pitching is tentatively scheduled as Erickson, Mahomes, Banks. The Detroit
Tigers have had TWO 20 run games in the last ten days, and should provide
quite a challenge to the young MN pitching staff.
The Twins have 9 HR's this year, three each from Puckett, Hrbek, and Winfield,
the third, fourth, and fifth batters, respectively.
Brian Harper pegged 4 of the first 6 baserunners attempting to steal second
this year, and shows much improvement in this category.
Jim Deshaies has three pick-offs and one balk this year. Some say he
has the best 1st base move in baseball. This move has enabled him to pitch
out of some tight early jams, and has certainly contributed to his 4-0
start. Watch to see if umpiring crews began calling the balk more tightly
in response to opposing team complaints about his leg kicking behind the
rubber on the pick-off move.
Current MLB AL West Standings( from Joesph Hernandez, jtchern@ocb.berkeley.edu )
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My schedule is flexible so any games are candidates
AC>(though I'd prefer to see Texas.)
Hi Tony.I think that I might be able to help you out!The Rangers are
here in Toronto Thursday July 8th through Sunday July 11th and
tickets should not be hard to find if you order them far enough in
advance.Although I don't have a ticket broker's telephone number off
hand if you give me a couple of days I will be able to get a hold a=
of a couple.The Blue Jays ticket info # is (416)341-1111 or if you
want to order by credit card,call (416) 341-1234.If you let me
know,when you want the tickets I can save you a possible long
distance call.If all else fails I might be able to pull a few strings
and get you a pair.Let me know whats happening.
Drew Carley,Toronto Canada
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I have manual transmission 5 speed. It difficult to engage gear. Does xmission oil change improve this situation?
What do you think about the most favorable xmission oil change period?
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Ladies & Gentlemen... Please keep this discussion in
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy where it belongs.
Thank you.
John A. Grant jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
Airborne Geophysics
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
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They lowered the mound first (before the 69 season). The shrinkage of
the strike zone didn't start until the mid-70s.
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This is a fine strategy if you expect to run away with the division.
But the Giants are going to need every break they can get, if they
want too hold that lead. I don't think they can afford to be
lackadaisical, and say "well it has worked pretty well so far, and
while we might be able to improve the results, we don't think it is
worth the risk".
The two tend to go hand in hand...
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I was wondering, since I've got a few fax machine scanners
intact, if they could be integrated to the pc environment as a
mono-scanner? If so, where to start?!
Thanks.
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This is not a trend. The Caps were done. Goneso in five games, and it saves
us Caps fans a lot of pain.
I mean, it would be more painful if the Caps were up 3-1, watching them
tumbled when they need ONE MORE WIN to clinch the series. How many times
have they done that in their history?
1985 up 2-0 in a five game series against the Isles, lost 3 straight
1987 up 3-1 against the Isles, lost 3 straight
1992 up 3-1 against the Pens, lost 3 straight
In other words, when they were about to clinch with 3 games to go, they
were a pitiful 2-9, the lone wins being
1) a sweep of Philly in 1984
2) the 1990 win against the Rangers in the Patrick finals, the ONLY TIME
they managed to get out of the division.
Actually, Saturday's blown lead wasn't anything new. We all know the Caps
are famous lead blowers in crucial playoff games. Examples:
1) game 4 against the Isles, 1985, led 4-2 after two, lead series 2-1,
gave up 4 goals in the 3rd period, including the game winning goal in the
last minute. After that goal, Bobby Carpenter botched a penalty shot.
Series tied 2-2, lost game 5 a few days later.
2) game 4 against the Rangers, 1986, led series 2-1, led by 2 in the 3rd
period, blew it. Lost game in OT and three consecutive games.
3) game 6 against Pittsurgh, 1992, led series 3-2, led by 2 in 2nd period.
Blew it and the series.
4) game 3 against Isles, 1993, series tied 1-1, led by 2 after 2. Blew it.
5) game 4 against Isles, 1993, trailed series 2-1, led by 3 in 2nd period.
Blew it again.
When they were leading by 3 in game 4, I said to myself: "if they blew this
lead, the series is OVER". They have lost all the momemtum. The Islanders
believe they can come back no matter what the score is.
I am still waiting for a Cap goalie who can carry the team, who can
completely shut down the opposition when they are hanging on their dear
lives in a crucial game.
Well, some teams such have it and some teams just don't. When the Caps
were frustrated year in year out by the Islanders, I was thinking "wait
until Potvin/Bossy/Trottier/Smith retire". Well, they retired (even though
Trottier was still able to haunt the Caps on a Pens uniform), yet another
generation of Islanders were still doing the same thing. Well, I guess
it has nothing to do with the players.
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: In article <C5Mw03.9qr@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu>, bil@okcforum.osrhe.edu
: > I'd say that what one chooses to observe and how the observation is
: > interpreted and what significance it's given depends a great deal on
: > the values of the observer. Science is a human activity and as such,
: > is subject to the same potential for distortion as any other human
: > activity. The myth that scientists are above moral influence or
: > ethical concern, that their knowledge can be abstacted whole and pure
: > from nature untainted by the biases of the scientist, is nonsense.
: Bill, this is wonderfully phrased. I assume you understand that your
: statement is also undermining such human constructs as religion
: as well.
Kent,
I'll accept this as a compliment although I'm always a little paranoid
when visiting a.a, thanks. Yes I do know the extent of the statements
relevence, it's what I think of as human nature. I'm not sure it
undermines either religion or atheism since both claim special
knowledge about the Truth and since such claims are always suspect,
all we can learn from it is that humans are a very arrogant species.
My point is that we cannot ignore human nature when examining human
claims. The trick here then, is to find some way to abstract our
infinitely fallible nature from whatever reality is out there so we
can see what there is to see. I can think of no way this can be done.
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Could anybody tell me if exists any program to convert AUTOCAD graphics to
another format (GIF, TIFF, BMP, PCX ...) and where to get it?
Thanks in advance
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Why don't you tell us, Tony? I'm sure what you THINK you know adds up to a
lot more than what Casper has.
Doesn't it frustrate you to consider how many intelligent, thoughtful
people you have prepared for the Mormon missionaries with your rant? The
more you talk, the better we look. Nothing makes the truth look better
than a background of falsehood.
Sic 'em, Tony!
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This was all badly reported in the news. There is no evidence that
signs of life found in old rock predate putative planet-sterilizing
events. Rather, the argument was that if life arose shortly the last
sterilizing event, then it must be easily formed. The *inference*
was that life originated before and was destroyed, but there was
no evidence of that.
However, even this argument is flawed. It could well be that origin of
life requires specific conditions (say, a certain composition of the
atmosphere) that do not last for long. So, perhaps life formed
early only because it would have had no other chance to do so,
not because it was likely that life would originate under those
conditions.
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I'd guess this was a garbled report of the NERVA effort to develop a
solid-core fission rocket (the most mundane type of nuclear rocket).
That was the only advanced-propulsion project that was done on a large
enough scale to be likely to attract news attention. It *could* be any
number of things -- the description given is awfully vague -- but I'd
put a small bet on NERVA.
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The curiosities that you speak of are EL (Electro-Luminescent) pads. They
are mostly used as backlights for LCD's, and as you pointed out, comes
in several different colors. Many of them emit white-ish colors ("true"
white, and blue-whiteis-blue are the ones that I've personally encountered
the most often.)
They vary in their input requirements, however, they tend to operate at
about 100 Vrms, and at much higher than 60 Hz. (400 Hz to 1 kHz, if I
recall correctly.) You can get them to work at 120 Vrms, 60 Hz (i.e.,
line) but they don't glow as brightly, and they will degrade much faster.
(Oh yes, almost forgot, EL's have this tendency to wear out over time...)
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You are correct WRT the idea of some heating being nice that morning. But
part of that line was also for the guy who said "minutes later, the fires
started". I did forget how cool it was that day.
When you got 30-40 mph winds swinging across the Texas plain, a couple of
Hueys don't add one whole hell of a lot.
semper fi,
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By then it might be already 200$ cheaper :-))
Same here at the U of MN, 1599$ for that bundle.
Peter
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If you would like to understand better the sort of behavior
that we saw in connection with the Waco tragedy, I'd strongly
recommend reading _When Prophecy Fails_, by Leon Festinger,
Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter (available as a Harper
Torchbook). It goes a long way towards explaining how a
belief system can be so strong as to withstand even overwhelming
disconfirmatory evidence. At least, read the first chapter.
Interestingly, just as the Branch Davidians had roots in the
Seventh-Day Adventist movement, the SDAs themselves had their
roots in the Millerite movement of the first half of the 19th
century--a movement that expected the end of the world in 1843,
was disappointed when it did not take place, and wound up as
a church.
Bill
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I'm looking to buy machinist tools of any kind. If you have
any or know of any for sale please leave me e-mail and I'll
get back to you promptly.
Frank
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I am wondering how to change the English fonts in an existed
API to some multi-bytes fonts ? (such as Chinese, Japanese...)
Someone told me X11R5 supports some internationalization
features, but I cannot find any examples for my need. Is there
anybody has done some similar jobs ?
By the way, all the English fonts should be replace by Chinese or
Japanese fonts, that means in windows, menubar, button....
That will be great if someone can share us what you have done.
Thanks in advance.
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The Moderator of the General Assembly, the Rev. John Fife, visited our
church about a week ago (just 4 days after Rev. Spahr--it's been a busy
week for our small church!!). He was asked specifically about the issue
of homosexuality and what he thinks will happen at the GA meeting next
month. Evidently, there are 15-20 known resolutions pending that range
the gamut from "outlawing" homosexuality altogether to "legalizing" it
completely. He will readily admit that this is probabaly the most difficult
issue that the church has had to deal with since the Presbyterian church
split in two over the issue of slavery more than 100 years ago. Without
question, the issue may split the church again after we've been reunited
for all of a dozen years or so. He is hopeful that it will not and is
pushing the same attitude that helped the church deal with the abortion
issue last year as a solution.
He is hoping to pass a resolution that more or less states that we, the
members of the church "Agree to Disagree" on the issue, admitting that
both sides have honestly studied the Scriptures and had the Spirit lead
them to different conclusions. It worked last year when the abortion
issue threatened to do more or less the same thing, and he is hopeful that
the GA can foster a loving and caring attitude about people who disagree
with their own view.
--
Cliff Slaughterbeck |
Dept. of Physics, FM-15 | It's time for the sermon on the
University of Washington | Grand Torino!
Seattle, WA 98195 |
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********************************************************************
* *
* Announcing *
* *
* COSY_PAK *
* *
* (A symbolic COntrol SYstems analysis PAcKage) *
* *
* Version 0.9 *
* *
* (NO USER FEE RELEASE) *
* *
* for *
* *
* Mathematica Version 2.0 or higher *
* *
********************************************************************
==> INTRODUCTION
COSY_PAK is set of packages and notebooks for classical control and
(some) modern (state space) control analysis and design methods. The
notebooks in COSY_PAK follow a typical `Control Engineering I' course
taught at many universities around the world for the junior/senior
level undergraduates. There is NO FEE to use COSY_PAK but certain
responsibilities are expected of the user (see Copyright notice in the
README file included below). For starters e-mail / FAX / Mail (Post)
the registration form included in the README file.
COSY_PAK is available via `anonymous ftp' from
mishna.esys.cwru.edu (INTERNET No : 129.22.40.23)
in the /pub directory.
P.S.: A typical ftp session in UNIX is given after the README file.
==> FUTURE RELEASES
If you would like to receive updates and newer versions of
COSY_PAK please send e-mail/FAX/mail to the address
below. In addition, your comments and suggestions are
appreciated and are invaluable to us. We will do our best
to fix any reported bugs. However, we cannot fix those
bugs that have not been reported to us and those we do not
know of. We would very much appreciate you taking a few
minutes to communicate to us via e-mail / US Mail /
Telephone / FAX. This will help us to release bug-free
versions in the future. Comments are welcome.
N. Sreenath
Systems Engineering Department
Case School of Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
******************
e-mail: sree@mishna.cwru.edu
U.S. Mail:
Prof. N. Sreenath Tel.: (216) 368-6219
Systems Engg., Crawford Hall FAX: (216) 368-3123
Case Western Reserve Univ.
Cleveland OH 44106-7070
========================= Begin README file =========================
(NO USER FEE RELEASE)
COSY_PAK
(A symbolic COntrol SYstems analysis PAcKage)
Version 0.9
for
Mathematica Version 2.0 or higher
by
C.K.Chen N. Sreenath
Systems Engineering
Case School of Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, 44106-7070
e-mail: sree@mishna.cwru.edu
--> Copyright
:Copyright: Copyright 1992 by C. K. Chen and N. Sreenath, Case
Western Reserve University.
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in supporting
documentation, and the name of the Case Western Reserve University,
Case School of Engineering not be used in advertising or publicity
pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, without
prior permission. Case Western Reserve University makes no
representations about the suitability of this software for any
purpose. It is provided "as is" with out express or implied warranty.
--> Acknowledgements
Support from CWRU Information and Network Services - Dr. Ray Neff,
Case Alumni Association, The Lilly Foundation and the Systems
Engineering Department of Case Western Reserve University is
gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks to Brian Evans of Georgia Tech
for all the help.
--> FTP
COSY_PAK is available by anonymous `ftp' from
mishna.esys.cwru.edu (Internet No. 129.22.40.23). A sample ftp session
is given at the end of this file.
**********************************************************************
--> Changes in Version 0.9 (update from v0.81 to v0.9)
In this version, we have revised COSY_PAK to take advantage of
the more robust signal processing functions available in Mathematica v2.1.
Since Mathematica 2.1 provides a better and working
LaplaceTransform and InverseLaplaceTransform functions than
Mathematica v2.0 did, we adopted them. This has made COSY_PAK
smaller. Thus Brian Evans' Signal Processing packages that supported
the LaplaceTransform and InverseLaplaceTransform functions in the
COSY_PAK v0.81 are no longer needed directly by COSY_PAK v0.9. For
power users who use Signal Processing we still recommend the use of the very
fine Brian Evans package on Signal Processing (available at
the anonymous ftp site gauss.eedsp.gatech.edu or IP # 130.207.226.24). On
the downside, the disadvantage of this update
can be that Mathematica 2.1 requires more runtime resources than its
previous version.
***********************************************************************
--> For Mathematica 2.0 users
We have included the LaplaceTransform package from Mathematica 2.1 in
the directory `For_2.0'. Please move all files and directory under For_2.0 into
the Calculus directory under Mathematica Packages directory.
**************************************************************************
--> Introduction
This is an unsupported release of COSY_PAK - a COntrol SYstems
analysis PAcKage for symbolic control systems analysis using
Mathematica 2.1. Classical control systems analysis and design methods and some
modern control systems methods have been implemented in this package.
This package and the attendant notebooks were developed on a
NeXT (TM) computer (a UNIX based workstation). They have been
used as a supplementary teaching aid along with standard control
engineering texts (Ogata [1991], Phillips and Harbor [1991]) for
undergraduate courses in `Control Engineering I' taught at the Systems
Engineering Department of CWRU. In addition to the NeXT, they have
also been tested successfully on Apple Macintosh computers (TM), and,
IBM PC's (TM) running MS Windows(TM). We would be very much interested
to hear from you if you or anybody you know uses this software on
platforms not mentioned above. IBM users however will have to
evaluate the notebooks first to visualize the graphics.
Once installed (see below for instructions), this collection of
Mathematica packages can be loaded by any user. Bundled with the
packages are many notebooks ("COSY_Notes") which demonstrate
the functionality of these packages. The notebooks follow a plan of
many fine, standard, undergraduate Control Engineering text books
listed in the references. Examples used in these notebooks have
been collected from the various references given at the end of this
file. The contents of the notebooks in the "COSY_Notes" directory are
given below.
----------- Begin "COSY_Notes" Contents -----------
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 01_Introduction.ma
CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Control Systems
Sections:
Analyticity
Poles and Zeros
Signals
Forward Laplace Transforms
Inverse Laplace Transforms
Differential Equation With Zero-Valued Initial Conditions
Differential Equation With Initial Conditions
-----------
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 02_Math_Models.ma
CHAPTER 2: Mathematical Modeling of Dynamic Systems
Sections:
ODE to State Space
Linearization of a Nonlinear System of Equations
State Space to Transfer Function
-----------
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 03_*_Transient_Response.ma
CHAPTER 3: Transient-Response Analysis
(Chapter split into three sub notebooks because of file
size)
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 03_1_Transient_Response.ma
Sections :
Time Response Analysis
First order System
Second Order System
Third Order and Higher Order Systems
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 03_2_Transient_Response.ma
Sections :
First Order System (Step Response vs. Time Const)
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 03_3_Transient_Response.ma
Sections :
Second Order System (Step Response vs. Damping Ratio)
-----------
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 04_Steady_State_Response.ma
CHAPTER 4: Steady-State Response
Sections:
Routh's Stability
Steady-State Error Analysis
-----------
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 05_Root_Locus.ma
CHAPTER 5: Root-Locus Analysis
-----------
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 06_Freq_Response.ma
CHAPTER 6: Frequency-Response Analysis
Sections:
Bode Plot Analysis
Magnitude vs. Phase Plot (Nichols Plot)
Polar Plot
Nyquist Plot
Combined Example
-----------
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 07_State_Space.ma
CHAPTER 7: State Space Methods
Sections:
Introduction
State Transition Matrix
Controllability
Observability
Output Controllability
Pole Placement Design
Observer Design
Time Response Using State Space Methods
----------- End Notebook Contents -----------
--> Compressed Files
The files that contain a complete set of the COSY_PAK v0.9
packages and Notebooks for Mathematica are:
COSY_PAK_09.tar.Z compressed tar file for Unix systems
COSY_PAK_09.sit.hqx compressed sit file for Macintosh
systems and encoded by BinHex 4.0
format (requires the shareware
Stuffit file v 1.5.1 or higher).
COSY_PAK_IBM_09.zip zip file for the IBM PC running MS-DOS
Once expanded the Mathematica files can also be used on
Macintosh / IBM PC / Unix systems also.
--> Installation of COSY_PAK
o In UNIX Command line type the following command:
zcat COSY_PAK_09.tar.Z | tar xvf -
o In Macintosh open the .sit.hqx file using the shareware
Stuffit v 1.5.1 or higher.
o In IBM Command line type the following command:
pkunzip -o -d COSY_PAK_IBM_09.zip
NOTE: This .zip file was zipped by zip utility v2.0. You must use
pkunzip version 2.0 or higher to unzip it. IBM PC's may limit the
directory name characters to eight. In that event type "pkunzip -o -d
COSY_PAK.zip. You can also unzip the COSY_PAK_IBM_09.zip file on any
Unix machine if you have unzip utility on it.
Uncompressing and untarring "COSY_PAK_09.tar.Z" or unzipping
"COSY_PAK_IBM_09.zip" will create a directory called "COSY_PAK".
Once the files are expanded you should see a single directory
"COSY_PAK" containing the following three files, four
sub-directories and their contents:
SUB-DIRECTORIES in "COSY_PAK":
COSYPAK - contains control tool box packages
MANUAL - COSY_PAK manual in .ps, .rtf, .txt, and .wn formats.
COSY_Notes - contains notebooks
For_2.0 - contains Laplace transform package from Mathematica 2.1
For Mathematica 2.0 users.
FILES in directory "COSYPAK":
chap1.m chap2.m chap3.m chap4.m chap5.m chap6.m chap7.m
FILES in directory "COSY_Notes":
01_Introduction.ma
02_Math_Model.ma
03_1_Transient_Response.ma
03_2_Transient_Response.ma
03_3_Transient_Response.ma
04_Steady_State_Response.ma
05_Root_Locus.ma
06_Freq_Response.ma
07_State_Space.ma
FILES in directory "For_2.0":
LaplaceTransform.m DiracDelta.m
SUB-DIRECTORIES in "COSY_PAK": Common
FILES in directory "Common": Support.m
********************* Important ********************
The notebook example files(.ma files) will be under the
"COSY_Notes" directory. To use the notebooks, move the directory `COSYPAK' to
a
directory that Mathematica can recognize :
/LocalLibrary/Mathematica/Packages on a UNIX machine,
MY_HardDisk:Mathematica:Packages on an Apple Macintosh,
c:\winmath\packages on an IBM PC.
At the beginning of the "Initialization" cell of each notebook
in "COSY_Notes" directory, we list the example about how to make
Mathematica identify the directory:
(* Initialization of Path *)
(* Example For a UNIX machine (Default) *)
(*
$Path=Join[$Path,
{"/LocalLibrary/Mathematica/Packages"}];
*)
(* Example For an Apple Macintosh *)
(*
$Path=Join[$Path,
{"MY_HardDisk:Mathematica:Packages"}];
*)
(* Example For IBM PC
*)
(*
$Path=Join[$Path,
{"c:\winmath\packages"}];
*)
Change the pathname according to your machine by removing the
Mathematica comment sign `(*' and `)*' before and after `$Path'
setting.
This command makes Mathematica recognize the directory
/LocalLibrary/Mathematica/Packages on a UNIX machine
MY_HardDisk:Mathematica:Packages on a Apple Macintosh
c:\winmath\packages on an IBM PC
--> Mathematica 2.0 users
We include the LaplaceTransform package from Mathematica 2.1 in
the directory For_2.0. Please move all files and directory under For_2.0
into the Calculus directory under Mathematica Packages directory.
--> Getting started
After installation, start Mathematica and open the notebooks in
the "COSY_Notes" directory. All notebooks load their own packages.
Navigate in the notebooks and enjoy. IBM users however will have to
evaluate the notebooks to visualize the graphics.
***************************************************************
--> USER RESPONSIBILITIES
We request you to take a few minutes and fill out the
information below and mail it to us by e-mail / FAX / U.S. Mail. This
will help us to keep your abreast of the improvements and release new
versions of COSY_PAK. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
-------------------------------cut here-------------------------------
YOUR NAME: ________________________________________
ORGANIZATION: ________________________________________
TITLE: ________________________________________
e-mail: ________________________________________
POSTAL ADDRESS:________________________________________
________________________________________
Comments & ________________________________________
Suggestions: ________________________________________
________________________________________
-------------------------------cut here-------------------------------
Mail this information to (E-mail / FAX / U.S. Mail) :
INTERNET: sree@mishna.cwru.edu
U.S. Mail:
Prof. N. Sreenath Tel.: (216) 368-6219
Systems Engg., Crawford Hall FAX: (216) 368-3123
Case Western Reserve Univ.
Cleveland OH 44106-7070
***************************************************************
--> REPORT BUGS
Please report bugs and leave comments to the address above.
Any suggestion for improvements and criticism are welcome.
We will do our best to fix any reported bugs. However, we cannot
fix those bugs that have not been reported to us and those we do not
know of. We would very much appreciate you taking a few minutes to
communicate to us via e-mail / US Mail / Telephone / FAX. This will
help us to release bug-free versions in the future.
***************************************************************
--> Disclaimer and Future Releases
This software is the property of the Case Western Reserve
University. Use this software at your own risk. We make no express or
implied warranty.
The packages and the notebooks can also be made to run under
Mathematica versions 2.0 or lower with modification. We do not
guarantee the outcome.
--> Documentation
COSY_PAK functions are indexed in the files in the
`MANUAL' directory according the chapters. Usage is illustrated in
notebooks residing in `COSY_Notes' directory. If your computer does
not support notebooks find a Macintosh computer and acquire MathReader
which is a public domain notebook reader. MathReader will at least
allow you to peruse notebooks but you will not be able to evaluate
any code fragments.
--> References
Dorf, R. C., "Modern Control Systems", Sixth Edition, Addison
Wesley, New York, 1992.
Fortmann, T. E., and Hitz, K. L., "An Introduction to Linear Control
Systems", Marcel Dekker, 1977.
Franklin, G. F., Powell, D. J., and Emami-Naeini, A., "Feedback
Control of Dynamic Systems", Second Edition, Addison Wesley, New
York, 1991.
Kuo, B. C., "Automatic Control Systems", Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall,
New Jersey, 1990.
Ogata, K., "Modern Control Engineering", Second Edition, Prentice
Hall, New Jersey, 1991.
Phillips, C. L., and Harbor, R. D., "Feedback Control Systems",
Second Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1991.
========================= End README file =========================
TYPICAL `ftp' session :
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%ftp mishna.esys.cwru.edu
Connected to mishna.
220 mishna FTP server (Version 5.20 (NeXT 1.0) Sun Nov 11, 1990) ready.
Name (mishna.esys.cwru.edu:sree): anonymous
Password:
ftp> cd /pub
ftp> binary
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
COSY_PAK_09.tar.Z
COSY_PAK_IBM_09.zip
Index
README
places.wmd
COSY_PAK_untar
226 Transfer complete.
78 bytes received in 0 seconds (15.35 Kbytes/s)
ftp> get COSY_PAK_09.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for COSY_PAK_09.tar.Z (460822 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: COSY_PAK_09.tar.Z remote: COSY_PAK_09.tar.Z
460822 bytes received in 1.33 seconds (3.38e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
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Did I say that a child who unintentionally shoots someone is not negligent?
NO. I hate to repeat myself Jim, but like I told Joe, I was not attempting
in any way to justify gun control. You're right, any death is serious.
THAT was my point to Joe who said that "anti-gunners" try to convinve
the country that accidental gun deaths related to children are a serious
problem. I guess I assumed everyone thought that it was a problem.
No, I don't want to discuss match control. I don't equate a book of matches
to a loaded 9 millimeter either. Don't confuse the issue. And please don't
say that tired old NRA line "Guns don't kill people, people kill people".
Sure, people can kill people without guns. But easy access to guns makes it
a lot more convenient. "Guns don't kill people, People with easy access to
guns kill people".
Jim, I'm just saying how it is. I'm not saying if that is a good thing
or not. From the police who I have talked with who run some of these gun
buyback programs, I get the impression that they really think they are
having an impact on the community. When I ask them if they have an evaluatory
component to the program, they say "well no..." So, in answer to your
question, no, false hope is not the intent. I think the intent is to
show folks that police are attempting to do something to curb interpersonal
gun violence whether its effective or not. Look, if you can't measure
the impact of these programs using some sort of pre-test and post-test
evaluation, what is the point? It must be symbolic in nature. The police are
essentially saying "look, if you have a gun lying around and you don't
want it, we'll give you $50 for it...because we care about the community".
If you, I and Joe could think of a way to measure the effectiveness or
ineffectiveness of these programs we could become rich and famous.
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Yep. I've done this, too. The trick is to use a tiny screwdriver and push
down on the "latch" of each pin and then pull it out of the connector. Label
each one first with tape so you don't get them confused after you've pulled
them out. Compare the pinout tables in the Mitsumi and Soundblaster manuals
to get the correct orientation.
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On 4/20/93, Tim Keanini was heard to say regarding "Mac SCSI spec?:"
TK> From: blast@nntp.crl.com (Tim
TK> Keanini)
TK>
TK> I have a MacIIFX and I know that it is wired about its SCSI chain.
TK>
TK> I just bought a drive and I need to find out a few hardcore SCSI
TK> question:
TK>
TK> Does the IIFX SCSI chain want to see active or passive termination?
TK>
TK> Does the IIFX SCSI spec want me to enable the initiation of the SDTR
TK> message?
TK>
TK> WHat does the IIFX SCSI spec want as far as parity checking?
TK>
TK> These are some very good questions for the FAQ. If someone does not
TK> have time to answer these questions but does know where I can look
TK> them up please let me know and I will repost the answers for everyone
TK> to see.
TK>
Read TechNote #273...it deals with more than any sane person wants to
know about the IIfx's SCSI....
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America West Airline Tickets for Sale
Two $300 vouchers on America West Airlines, which can be used toward the purchase of tickets to wherever that airline goes. There are no restrictions and no blackout times. They're legally transferable and can be used anytime before July 1. Asking $250 each.
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My PC is a 486-33DX (ISA) with AMI BIOS and OPTI chipset. I am thinking of replacing the AMI BIOS chip (dated 6-91) with an up-to-date one (not for any reason, just messing around). My questions are:
1. Do I just take out the old one and plug in a new?
2. Anything else I have to take care of? What precautions should I take?
3. Where can I get the new BIOS chip, CompUSA, mailorder or what? (I live in Orange County California).
4. What is the most up-to-date version?
5. Very important. How much would it be?
Thank you for your help.
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Just some thoughts:
I don't usually like to post simply to make fun of a player,
but this time I couldn't resist. During the Pens-Devils game
last night, second period, I think Kevin Stevens was in the
penalty box, Nicholls punched Kjell Samuellson in the face,
then raised his stick like a two handed sword to defend
himself! All Kjell could do, at 8'7" and 355 pounds, was laugh!
And speaking of Swedish Penguins defensemen, Ulf is getting a
little out of hand lately. His cheap shots are getting more
frequent and more violent. As everybody in the Meadowlands
except for the officials could see last night, he rammed the
butt of his stick down one of the Devil's throat. I've always
supported the argument "he does his job by being irritating,"
but he's starting to push it over the edge IMHO. Of course,
Holik's chop to Barrasso's neck wasn't too sportsmanlike either.
It seems that he was following the "The only way to beat the
Penguins is to injure them" philosophy.
As my Modern Drama professor pointed out to me the other day,
Jagr was stoned pretty well Tuesday night, and last night as
well, although the 30 seconds he danced around the Devils end
was pretty exciting.
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I have been hearing bad thing about amalgam dental fillings. Some say
the lead/ mercury leeches into your system and this is bad. And I have
recently heard that there is some suspicion that the mercury is a breeding
ground for bacteria that will be resistant to antibiotics.
My dentist wants to use an amalgam filling for me in a place where I have
two cavaties in one tooth and wants to use one filling to cover both.
He says that composite filling don't hold up well when they are large.
So, I would like to know if there are any other choices besides amalgam
and composite. And, should I really even be worried about amalgam? I
heard that some scandanavian country does not even use them any more-
is this true.
Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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Its my understanding that bus mice are more accurate and "stable" in
general than serial mice. If I remember correctly, its because
of the differences in how the interrupts are handled, as well as
the fact that the mouse data is received over the computer bus
as opposed to a (9600 bps?) serial connection.
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I'm working on a system which uses a given set of 3D key frame
positions (x,y,z) to control an imaginary camera movement. I'm
using Kochanek-Bartels splines (as described in the SIGGRAPH '84
proceedings) to create a variable number of inbetweens between
the key frames. I want the inbetweens to be given in the form
(x,y,z,dx,dy,dz) where the last three argumentsa are the x, y and
z component of the viewing direction vector of the camera when
positioned at (x,y,z).
The method presented by Kochanek and Bartels only deals with the
positions of the inbetween view points to be generated. I've
tried to set the viewing direction at a view point equal to the
chord between the two adjacent view points (which in general are
not key frames), but this causes a sligt discontinuity of the
viewing direction vector at the key frame positions (although
the spatial movement seems to work fine; and I'm quite certain
- I think :) - that I've not simply made an implementation
error...)
Now I wonder if anyone out there has used this spline form for
similar purposes and how they decided the viewing vectors.
I'd appreciate replies to be emailed to me at
iharkest@lise.unit.no
Anyone else interested in the answer will be sent a summary of
the replies if they contact me.
--
_________ __________________
\\ \\ \\
\\ N G E \\==\\ A R K E S T A D iharkest@lise.unit.no Comp. Sc.
\\________\\ \\_______________ NTH (Norwegian Institute of Technology)
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Mark Ira Kaufman writes
Never mind the fact that these people were denied the right to a fair trial.
And Israel was supposed to uphold "Western values", eh?
Check your facts before bashing Islam again. While there may be Muslim
anti-semites, this is no way a tenet of the religion. Saying anti-semitism is
"basic" to Islam is implicating the entire Muslim world, based on a selective
sampling of a few people, and it flies in the face of what Islam teaches.
Peace.
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Can anyone share their experiences, good or bad, with a Tempe vendor
named Motherboard Warehouse? I'm considering purchasing one of their
486dx2/66 boards. One of the selling points is their 10 day full money
back guarantee.
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Motorola certainly makes them, but I don't know how you
would go about buying one. You'd probably have to buy one
of our secure radios.
You could also bring in encryption chips from outside the country.
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ULTRIX/X11R4 to plot surfaces and contour plots from a set of {x,y,z}.
I would really appreciate any hint on the name of such a plotting program
and where to find it.
Thanks for your help.
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I wouldn't want anyone to make kindling out of my front living-
room wall and then drive their diesel powered M-60 tank into it,
shooting super-hot soot all over my curtains and that freshly
made kindling.
In other words, please don't FLAME me!
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("Andi Beyer") responds:
Talk about generalizations. Indeed, you DO sound quite immature.
What? The ACLU fighting against an anti-hate law? You mean that the
ACLU would support gay-bashing, racial discrimination and anti-semitic
violence? Thanks, Andi, for reminding us that the constitution
preserves our rights to such fun activities.
Probably, but Galileo happened to be right.
Jews are offended by the Holocaust deniers, too. The Revisionists,
who deny that history even happened, happen to be wrong.
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Damn straight! As far as I've heard, unless the owner is _very_
hard up, the GT-40s are not for sale at any price that mere
mortals could afford.
I think the GT-40 actually _is_ street legal, although that particular
question is moot (see the price figures below).
I wish I could find my Shelby-American guide; it included the GT-40
registry (as of '88 or so). There were precious few of them made
(fifty is the number that springs to mind; they made just enough
to qualify for the Manufacturer's Cup, or whichever series it
was that Shelby broke Ferarri's 13-year winning streak in in '65),
and they are all accounted for. The last price I saw estimated on a
GT-40 was a little bit over $1,000,000 (yes, that's right, ONE MILLION
US DOLLARS; it was second only to some worthless piece of Ferrari
that it would blow the doors off of ;-).
I don't recall off-hand what the drive configuration was, although
I'm certain some must have been LHD, as they had to be sold to qualify
for racing. The drivertrain was the Ford 427 (hi-riser, I think,
and/or side-oiler) coupled to various 4-speed transmissions. They
also used 3-speed manuals; they had lots of problems with the
original trannys breaking under the load of the 427. Layout was
rear-engine, rear-drive, with the "bundle of snakes" exhaust
headers...I can remeber other bits and pieces of info, but I
can't remember whether they applied to the GT-40 or the Shelby
Cobra Daytona Coupe...I'll try and find that reference.
James
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I bought a Yamaha XS850 with 8K miles. Over the last 2 years, I've put 30K
of commute miles onnit. Valve adjustment intervals are suppossed to be every
5K. Well every 7.5K or so, I've checked the pad clearences, and they never
change! If anything, the clearances seem to be getting a little smaller which
makes no sense to me with the pad system - the pads should wear until the
clearances are too great right? I know that threaded adjusters can tighten
up, but I didn't think these kind could.
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Article #61058 (61121 is last):
From: redmond+@cs.cmu.edu (Redmond English)
Subject: Diamond Stealth: HELP!
Date: Wed Apr 21 16:54:39 1993
Hello,
I have a Diamond Stealth VRAM card (the older version
with the DIP switches on the back). I have two problems:
1 ) I've lost the manual!!!
2 ) I have it in a machine with a network card, and
everything works fine until I run windows, when
the network connection dies.
(In case it's important, the network card is an
SMC ArcNet 8-Bit compatable card. It's I/O
address is 02E0 and it's RAM base address is
D000. It's also using IRQ 2)
Shown 54%, press <SPACE> for more, 'q' to quit, or 'h' for help
I believe there is a file on the Diamond Bboard that
explains how to sort this out, but with no manual, I don't
know the Bboard number.
If you can, please help me with as many of the following
as possible:
a ) Send me the Diamond BBS number
b ) E-mail (or post) the DIP switch settings for the card
(or fax them to me at (412) 521-8668)
c ) Tell me what I'm doing wrong, so I can magicly get
everything working.
Any help at all would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Red/.
End of File, Press RETURN to quit
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Date: Thu Apr 22 02:38:16 1993
To: redmond+@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth: HELP!
Diamond BBS 2400 baud...1-408-730-1100...9600 baud 1-408-524-9301
voice 1-408-736-2000...fax 1-408-730-5750....Sam
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Press RETURN to continue:
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He's 1/2 liar, 1/2 cheat and 1/2 demagogue.
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Seeing as how _The_Two_Babylons_ has been brought up again, it is time for
me to respond , once again, and say that this book is junk. It is nothing
more that an anti-Catholic tract of the sort published ever since the there
were protestants. Its scholarship is phony and its assertions spurious.
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He's right ya know. I've helped to install Dos 6 on about 4 computers now,
mine included. On one, he bought the Stacker to Doublespace converter,
and it worked fine (rather, he sent in the coupon for the converter).
In other cases, I've run the doublespace installation without a problem
when compressing a new drive, compressing free space, or whatever else.
Seems to work for me.
Well, I ran the normal SETUP thing and it worked fine for whatever that's
worth.
Couldn't agree more. On my 486-50 I don't miss the speed. It's still
faster than a normal disk read would be. As for the less compression,
I've sacrificed that in favor of the convenience of having the dblspace.bin
load before anything else. With Stacker, any changes to your config.sys
or autoexec.bat meant rebooting twice so it could update those.
Personally, I'm waiting for Stacker 4.0 to come out and implement those
hooks and stuff. Plus, the DEFRAG that comes with DOS is okay, but I
much prefer COMPRESS from PC-TOOLS for sheer bells and whistles. Plus,
defrag is sooooo sloooow on a dblspace drive.
Ditto.
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Actually it was in the third period, his return did bring a spark to the
crowd, and to the players, who played awesome defense in the third.
You forgot about Gretzky. If any of these guys start scoring, the Kings
will be unstoppable, if they continue the great defensive work as well.
Stauber will be in net on Tuesday. Hopefully he will provide another
stellar performance and earn the name Robb "Stopper" Stauber.
I believe this is how they are...I know it is Gretzky and Sandstrom, but he
has been putting a number of people on left. Also the Carson, Robataille
Kurri line once ignited, will light the fire of the other lines.
(Hopefully!)
It is evident that the scoring drought is getting to Luc, after his slight
breakaway in the third (I think) he was steamed on the bench, this emotion
might help him break his streak. Also, I have noticed Blake has had a few
really good chances to score, but has fanned, or shot wide. Is the injury
still affecting him?
The E
D
G
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Excuse me a moment when I laugh my head off... I defy you to prove
your statement "damaged and screwed up". You can't? Oh dear. Your
argument, once again, Mr Logic(NOT!), falls flat on its face.
Take a course in civil behaviour and logic. Then come back and defend
your arguments.
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You have underlined here the battle that must be fought. It is
a battle for the "hearts and minds" of the american public.
People must realize that the government is not their a fit
"father confessor". The government does not have a right to
share our every thought the moment we decide to share that
thought with someone else at a distance. In order to protect
ourselves from a government bent on undermining the constitution
we must realize that our government is our enemy as much if not
more than the Soviet Union ever was. This is hard for
some people who have been brought up with loyalty to our government
cast as being synonmous with patriotism.
We must be vigilant and make sure that we do not let such
events go by unprotested. We must be willing to fight the
government at every step of the way.
Its time we rolled back this nonsense. Civil forfeiture is
the most effective end run around the constitution that has
ever been promulgated. Our enemy used to be the Soviets now
it is clearly our own government.
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I have a Sherwood stereo receiver which I received as a gift, and would
like to sell, as I already own a system. It is the Sherwood model RX-4010R
It is brand new, still factory sealed. This is a high quality surround-
sound amp ( 160 Watts, 250 Watts Dynamic Headroom Power ), very highly
rated by Consumer Reports ( March, 1993 ). Has 4 audio inputs, and Pre-amp
and Main-amp connection jacks for added flexibility. Includes 2-year
factory warranty. Comes with remote.
Asking $210
Reply Subject: Receiver
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