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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 i...
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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? ...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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 fi...
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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 fe...
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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? -- -------------------------- Phil Brown | aka pb6755@csc.albany.edu |
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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 ...
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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'...
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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?)...
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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 fulfi...
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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 bol...
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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 fo...
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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 ...
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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 A...
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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 bo...
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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 mon...
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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. Ru...
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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 ...
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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 countrie...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 _no...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 resul...
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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 lik...
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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 probl...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. B...
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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...
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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 Instit...
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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 softw...
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TWINS UPDATE -- Posted April 22, 1993 --------------------------------------------- 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 ...
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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 d...
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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'...
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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. _________________________________________________ Inspiration | ___ | comes to | \ ...
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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 ser...
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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...
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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 b...
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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 dest...
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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 gi...
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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 v...
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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 lo...
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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 ...
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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 sho...
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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...
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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 acc...
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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 c...
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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 II...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 fill...
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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...
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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 "basi...
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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 righ...
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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 i...
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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 se...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 Tue...
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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 wit...
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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 ( ...
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