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Since swapping out my generic VGA card for a Diamod Speedstar 24X, I have noticed two new problems: * if I create a windowed MS-DOS session (386 mode), when the text starts to scroll, rather than printing characters it starts to print horizontal lines that spill out to the desktop and trash the entire display. Ctrl-alt-del terminates the dos window and restores the desktop * after a short time in NCD's PC X-remote for windows, all characters displayed on the desktop are changed to be unreadable; I am unable to restore without rebooting. These are in both 256 and 16 color 800x600 drivers, large and small fonts. DOS 5, Win 3.1, emm386 and smartdrv installed. I like the speed of the card and have had no other problems. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Well, my question still hasn't been answered: if Spanky was bad enough to release this year, why did he get so much playing time last year? Yes, I know he was part of a platoon, and that's why he got more playing time than Slaught, but that doesn't answer the question. If Slaught was so obviously better this year, wasn't this also obvious last year, and shouldn't he have been taking away some of Spanky's playing time against righties?
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You must not have tried very hard. I just opend mine in about 2 seconds. Take a look on the bottom, it has a dial that turns to open much like the older ADB mouses used to have. It's a bit harder to turn at first but it is quite simple to open. Well, if you don't match up the pins correctly you will have some problems. A close look at the socket should give you an idea of the proper orientation of the chip.
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This is not strickly correct. Only by incorrect application of the rules of language, does it seem to work. The Mercedes in the first premis, and the one in the second are NOT the same Mercedes. In your case, A = B C = D A and D are NOT equal. One is a name of a person, the other the name of a object. You can not simply extract a word without taking the context into account. Of course, your case doesn't imply that A = D. In his case, A does equal D. Try again... --- "One thing that relates is among Navy men that get tatoos that say "Mom", because of the love of their mom. It makes for more virile men." Bobby Mozumder ( snm6394@ultb.isc.rit.edu ) April 4, 1993
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Well, if police think they are so special that only _THEY_ are worthy of self-defense, perhaps we start putting the arm on police; maybe we should start demanding that police are only police when ON-DUTY, that after that they are just like the ordinary disarmed helpless chumps they consider "civilians." Let's prohibit arms carrying by police when off-duty. Or, if they make the assertion that "Well, I need to maintain my gun" let's make it regulation that they can carry an UNLOADED firearm home, that it's only fair that they be just as helpless as poor schmuck coming home from his computer operator job... NRA Director/ex-San Jose cop Leroy Pyle states in the latest SWAT magazine that anti-cops better watch out for this schism between RKBA folks and the police. He asks the rhetorical question of 'What if what's left of the gun lobby starts demanding the disarmament of the police?"
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I think the original poster meant opening the mouse, not just releasing the ball and getting to the rollers. I found that on the original ADB mouse, sometimes unscrewing the two halves allowed for easier cleaning. If the original poster has his answer, I'll ask: How do you open the new ergonomic mouse? By open, I mean split the two halves to get at the guts. It isn't obvious to me based on the 5 minute look I spent with one at the office yesterday as there are no visible screw heads.
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Go bikeless. You drink and drive, you pay. No smiley.
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Hello, my friends and I are running the Homewood Fantasy Baseball League (pure fantasy baseball teams). Unfortunely, we are running the league using Earl Weaver Baseball II with the Comm. Disk II and we need the stats for the 1992 season. (Preferably the 1992 Major League Stat Disk) We have the '92 total stats but EWB2 needs the split stats otherwise we have 200 inning games because the Comm. Disk turns total stats into vs. L's stats unless you know both right and left -handed stats.
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Sorry, I did`nt tell exactly what I need. I need a utility for automatic updating (deleting, adding, changing) of *.ini files for Windows. The program should run from Dos batchfile or the program run a script under Windows. I will use the utility for updating the win.ini (and other files) on meny PC`s. Do I find it on any FTP host?
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Take a look at ftp.cica.indiana.edu at pub/pc/win3/(util?misc?) for a program caleld vswitch.zip.It's as close to want you want as you can get in WIn3.1 ... Hope it helps...
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This is an excellent question and I'll be anxious to see if there are any such cases. I doubt it. In the medieval period (esp. 10th-cent. when Aquinas flourished) argument was a useful tool because everyone "knew the rules." Today, when you can't count on people knowing even the basics of logic or seeing through rhetoric, a good argument is often indistinguishable from a poor one. Sorry; just one of my perennial gripes...<:-> Ken
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Why retract your accusation that he's a liar? If Omran retracts his "verbal diarrohea" doesn't that only prove the liar he *really* is? A retraction would be pointless! Giving this guy the opportunity to "save face" after uttering such bullshit would just encourage him to do it again! I must say that your style is very impressive, Mark. Keep it up! - Mike
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Two LH Research SM11-1 power supplies (SM10 series). 1000W, 5V, 200A (currently wired for 115VAC) Control lines: +/- sense, on/off, pwr.fail, high/low margin, and current monitor. (The list price from LH Research is $824.00 each for qty. 1-9) Asking $500.00 for the pair.
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This may be a stupid question, but how does the government know which keys to ask for? Will owners be required to REGISTER their phones, faxes, modems, etc., and inform the government when they are moved to a different phone number? Will there be penalities if the public does not do this? Will identification (the National Health Care ID, perhaps) be required when purchasing a Clipper-equipted phone? Or will each chip transmit identifying information at the start of a conversation? Identification which could be used to automatically log who calls whom? (The _phone_ company keeps records, but this information would be accessable by a well-placed van near a microwave relay station). This raises the question of how the two phones agree on a communications encryption key. Will it be something that is derived from information exchanged at the start of the conversation -- and hence derivable by an eavesdropper?
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I have a program produces a continuous tone by calling XBell repeatedly at an interval equal to the duration of the bell. If it is run more than once on a display, the tones are buffered in the X server and the tone contunues after all occurrences of the program have exited. Is there a convenient way of preventing this, e.g., by emptying the X server bell buffer when each program exits? - Disclaimer: Please note that the above is a personal view and should not be construed as an official comment from the JET project.
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I've been saying that for at least 2 years now and even the A's conditioning guru told Jose he was carrying too much weight and losing some would help his back.Although I don't for one second believe Jose used steroids,his back problems are very similar to problems alot of steroid users experience because they are simply carrying too much weight on their frame(see Jeff Bregel ex 49er as a textbook example), and IMHO Jose is too big for his frame. I can't imagine how to estimate bat speed, but its pretty obvious that Jose is missing fastballs he used to hit, likely due to his back. I don't know, he had an even more open stance when he first came up with the A's, and had no problems with it then. It might be that pre-back problems, he was quick enough to cover up any deficiencies the stance caused, but now he's lost just enough bat speed that the stance hurts him. The old saying if you're hot its a trigger mechanism, if you're cold, its a hitch. The biggest problem IMHO is he never has found a stance he's comfortable with for more than a few months. He changes his stance so much, he loses track of where the strike zone is. In Wednesday's night game, he was clearly mad at strike calls on both corners that looked pretty good to me. I think he no longer knows where the strike zone really is because he's changed his stance so much. I'm also a bit concerned that because he's got Palmer and Gonzalez hitting all the homeruns, he'll become competitive, swing even harder and screw himself up even worse. LaRussa always said that Canseco's famous batting practice homer shows did him more harm than good as they encouraged bad hitting habits.
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Here is a copy of my first update on the Randy Weaver trial. After a large response (about 15 email messages), I've decided that there is sufficient interest here on t.p.g. to warrant posting. *** file follows *** Hi Folks; As perhaps the only Boise resident on the list, I guess it kind of falls on me to keep people updated about the Randy Weaver/Kevin Harris trial. Yesterday marked the seating of the jury. Apparently no other legal activities occurred. The jury was selected and things start today. More interesting is what happenned outside. About a dozen Weaver supporters showed up to stage a protest outside the courthouse. One woman carried a sign that read, "Who stands trial for the murder of Vicki and (son's name - I forget) Weaver?" On the evening news she said, "I am here protesting because I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of religion. I thought we all did." Nice sound bite (grin)! The news reporter also interviewed some guy named "Tim" who refused to give his last name. Not to prejudge the guy, but he looked like a neo-nazi. He also said he expected many neo-nazis to show up throughout the trial. "Tim" had been handing out leaflets in support of Weaver and Harris and the news had footage of a Boise cop telling him to move along or he'd arrest. I don't know the finer points of this one. Perhaps there's a law against political activity within X feet of a courthouse or something (what happenned to the First Amendment?!?). Most ominous of all was that the local reporter filmed an agent of the Gestapo...err...ATF with a minicam FILMING THE PROTESTORS! Welcome to the world of Big Brother. Anyhow, Gerry Spence came out and asked the protestors to leave because he didn't think it would help Weaver's case any. He said he was confident that, once the evidence came out, that Weaver would be aquitted. More stuff as it comes available.
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[bits deleted] I'd be fascinated to see such evidence, please send me your article! On the negative side however, I suspect that any such simplistic link abstinence-education => decreased pregnancy, contraceptive-education => increased pregnancy is false. The US, which I'd guess has one of the largest proportion of "non-liberal" sex education in the western world also has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates. (Please correct me if my guess is wrong.)
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No, but some OS's ( COHERENT , etc ) are able to drive one of the ports in polled mode without using the IRQ. In your example, after accessing the modem, the mouse won't work until you reboot, because the IRQ is used by the modem. Yes, you can change the IRQ's for com3/4, but it depends on your other hardware. com1 uses IRQ4, com2 IRQ3. If you have only one printerport ( IRQ7 ), you can change com3 to IRQ5 ( normally 2nd printer ). For com4, you can assign IRQ2, if its free. As far as I know, no other IRQ can be used until your I/O-card is 16bit and caould access IRQ's > 8. Michael
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(Pleading mode on) Please! I'm begging you! Quit confusing religious groups, and stop making generalizations! I'm a Protestant! I'm an evangelical! I don't believe that my way is the only way! I'm not a "creation scientist"! I don't think that homosexuals should be hung by their toenails! If you want to discuss bible thumpers, you would be better off singling out (and making obtuse generalizations about) Fundamentalists. If you compared the actions of Presbyterians or Methodists with those of Southern Baptists, you would think that they were different religions! Please, prejudice is about thinking that all people of a group are the same, so please don't write off all Protestants or all evangelicals! (Pleading mode off.) God.......I wish I could get ahold of all the Thomas Stories......
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Way back in the early years (~50's) it took 8 wins to garner the Stanley Cup. Soooooo, a couple of local fish mongers (local to the Joe Louis Arena, that is) started the tradition of throwing an octopi onto the ice with every win. After each victory, one leg would be severed before the octopus found its way to the ice. (They are dead by the way.) It was a brilliant marketing strategy to shore up the demand for one of their least popular products. Hope this helps.
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As for advertising -- sure, why not? A NASA friend and I spent one drunken night figuring out just exactly how much gold mylar we'd need to put the golden arches of a certain American fast food organization on the face of the Moon. Fortunately, we sobered up in the morning. Hmmm. It actually isn't all that much, is it? Like about 2 million km^2 (if you think that sounds like a lot, it's only a few tens of m^2 per burger that said organization sold last year). You'd be best off with a reflective substance that could be sprayed thinly by an unmanned craft in lunar orbit (or, rather, a large set of such craft). If you can get a reasonable albedo it would be visible even at new moon (since the moon itself is quite dark), and _bright_ at full moon. You might have to abandon the colour, though. Buy a cheap launch system, design reusable moon -> lunar orbit unmanned spraying craft, build 50 said craft, establish a lunar base to extract TiO2 (say: for colour you'd be better off with a sulphur compound, I suppose) and some sort of propellant, and Bob's your uncle. I'll do it for, say, 20 billion dollars (plus changes of identity for me and all my loved ones). Delivery date 2010. Can we get the fast-food chain bidding against the fizzy-drink vendors? Who else might be interested? Would they buy it, given that it's a _lot_ more expensive, and not much more impressive, than putting a large set of several-km inflatable billboards in LEO (or in GEO, visible 24 hours from your key growth market). I'll do _that_ for only $5bn (and the changes of identity).
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Why must it be a US Government Space Launch Pad? Directly I mean.. I know of a few that could launch a small package into space. Not including Ariadne, and the Russian Sites.. I know "Poker Flats" here in Alaska, thou used to be only sounding rockets for Auroral Borealous(sp and other northern atmospheric items, is at last I heard being upgraded to be able to put sattelites into orbit. Why must people in the US be fixed on using NASAs direct resources (Poker Flats is runin part by NASA, but also by the Univesity of Alaska, and the Geophysical Institute). Sounds like typical US cultural centralism and protectionism.. And people wonder why we have the multi-trillion dollar deficite(sp). Yes, I am working on a spell checker..
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Well, I dropped by the library yesterday, and picked up back copies of the National Crime Survey (1986-1990) in an effort to examine what it said about self-defense with a firearm. I haven't ground through much in the way of numbers yet, but a couple of things jumped out at me. First only 1986 and 1987 specify the type of weapon used in self defense. 1988, 1989, and 1990 refer only to "weapon." The second is that while assaults rose about 3% from 1986 to 1987, w/gun defenses reported *fell* by almost 25%. Unless there's an explanation for this, I'm tempted to mark it as a reporting problem, and as such going ahead with any examination of the numbers would be a waste of time. Anybody have an idea what might have cause a real difference, and not just a reporting difference? The survey doesn't appear to have changed significantly between 1986 and 1987.
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^^^^^^^ Huh! I though Beamers were IBM employees :-)
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:-) T'was a time when I could get a respectable response with a posting like that. Randy's post doesn't count 'cause he saw the dearth of responses and didn't want me to feel ignored (thanks Randy!). I was curious about this DoD thing. How do I get a number? (:-{)}
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I've got the 6.0 spec (obviously since I quoted it in my last posting). My gripe about TIFF is that it's far too complicated and nearly infinitely easier to write than to read, which I think hurts your acceptance by anything that will need to read those images (e.g., paint programs). In a nutshell, I don't think TIFF is salvageable unless the fat is trimmed significantly- and then it wouldn't be TIFF anymore. They keep trying to cut it back, but it's late now. Maybe they >will< fix it, and change that magic number to signify the lack of compatibility. That would probably make me happy.
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To: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) There is a person on the FIDO CFS echo who claims that he was cured of CFS by taking accutane. He also claims that you are using it in the treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome. Are you using accutane in the treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome? Have you used it for CFS? Have you gotten good results with it? Are you aware of any double blind studies on the use of accutane in these conditions? Thank you in advance for all replies.
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I tried the right set and it didn't work. I'm on the phone to their tech support right now and the guys doesn't know what a desktop rebuild is!!! He's got me holding for someone else............... And holding, and holding, and holding.
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Exsqueeze me? I saw *your* original post in alt.discrimination. Your post was cross-posted to three groups. My followup was cross-posted to two of those three (omitting soc.motss). Now, instead of engaging in meta-discussion off the topic, could you answer the question posed? If your statement is so "beign"(!?), you should have no trouble politely responding to a polite query.
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The New York talk shows are just awful in this regard. People are constantly calling WFAN and WABC with (stuff like) "I was thinking, why don't the Yankees trade Kaminicki and Silvestri to Seattle for Ken Griffey Jr and Randy Johnson, that would really help the team" or "Do you think the Yankees can get Roger Clemens?". The show hosts are pretty good about handling these guys, but it's still annoying. The best one was at the end of one show, a caller started out with "I was thinking, why don't the Yankees trade for..." and then the host hung up on him. I cheered!
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I was *hoping* somebody would mention clutch. Clutch? Baerga? The two words simply do not go together. With runners in scoring position, Baerga batted .308/.366/.418 last year. This doesn't quite *suck*, but most batters hit *better* in this situation. Alomar? He hit .354/.439/.517 with runners in scoring position! The difference? Alomar had 68 RBIs in 147 such AB. Baerga had 81 RBIs in 182 such AB. Baerga got 25% more chances, yet succeeded only 20% more times. Frankly, I don't believe in clutch. But if I did, my vote would go to Alomar for MVP (let alone "best 2B in the AL").
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I envision incorporation of new standart into various communication systems, thus making it prevalent on the market & therefore cheap. The way to do that may be detaching crypto chip from communication equipment. It seems logical to provide Clipper chip to the end-user not as a part of phone, fax, modem & like but in the form of smart-card compatible with various telecomm. products. Banks will encourage extensive use of new cards to make transactions by phone. Natural step will be to cross-reference this card to the person in the government databases - or else this new version of "wiretap proposal" make no sence at all; one wish to eavesdrop (spell.) on the particular person, not on the particular modem or phone. As a side note, I disagree with one poster, who said he won't care about ability of the government to eavesdrop, since they can do that now anyway. Clipper will take away electronic survelliance from citizens, making it monopoly of the government. May be, we can find examples when interceptions made by (unauthorised) people uncovered crimes of state officials ? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PGP2.1 public key finger mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu
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[Lots of trippy stuff deleted] Wow... What is this guy smoking and WHERE can I GET SOME? Dan
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Sorry, I don't follow your reasoning. You are proposing to punish people *before* they commit a crime? What justification do you have for this?
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Dear Netters, My sister has an Apple 12" Color Display hooked up to an LC. Problem: There is an annoying, horizontal, ghost-like stripe that precesses vertically about once per second. It is about 1 cm high. She is in grave danger of going insane because of it. Any ideas of what it might be and how I might cure it for her? -Joe Betts betts@netcom.com
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Hello, in the EDN magazine I found a note about the new C&T 82C735 I/O Controller. It support several parallel port protocols, including Fast Centronics Microsoft Enhanced Capabilities Protocol (ECP) Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) The last two handle data rates up to 2Mbytes/sec. Is there any specification about these protocols available? Regards, Christian Franke
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Hello, does somebody know the functions XtShellStrings and XtStrings? I haven't found them in any librarys not Xm, Xt, nor X11, and I need them to install a tool. Any hints greatly appreciated! Please reply via e-mail. Thanks in advance! _______________________________________________________________________________
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As am I If "high quality secure NSA classified technology" means handing my key over to whomever, I'll take PGP any day. Right now they are billing it as voluntary, i.e. bend over, here it comes. As soon as enough Wiretap chip based units are out there, how much easier do you think it will be to redefine "on your own" to mean write it yourself and don't even THINK about distributing it...? Get honest, no one is going to buy this trash if they KNOW it's compromised already, and less will buy it if the algorithm is not disclosed. The NSA knows that making this stuff available to the public means handing it to whatever foreign powers are interested in the process. Since when has export control stopped anyone (especially software wise) Ask yourself carefully if " high quality secure NSA classified technology " is something they are going to hand out. Not unless you can drive a NSA van through the holes. uni (Dark)
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It's come to this, has it? Defending Al Gore by comparing him to Dan Quayle? I'd say that about says it all... back to the pit with ye, back to alt.fan. dan-quayle! Begone! ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ Paul Havemann (Internet: paul@hsh.com)
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1993 Andrew Tutorial and Technical Conference When: Thursday and Friday, June 24 and 25, 1993 (Deadline for Registration: June 4, 1993) Where: Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sponsor: Andrew Consortium of CMU's School of Computer Science. Schedule: The Tutorial will be on Thursday, followed by dinner and the Annual Meeting. The Conference proper will be on Friday. All Conference attendees are welcome at the Annual Meeting. Wednesday, June 23 Check in: After 4:00 PM Informal Reception: 7:30 PM Thursday, June 24 Tutorial: 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 PM Conference Dinner: 6:30 PM Annual meeting: 8:00 PM Friday, June 25 Technical Conference: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Cost: Tutorial fee includes breaks, lunch and tutorial materials: $100 Conference fee includes conference dinner, breaks and proceedings: $100 Rooms (student housing): $50 / night Housing is tight around the campus area, so please register soon. If you prefer to stay in off-campus housing, please contact us for suggestions. Mary Anne Cowden will be handling registration. You can contact her by email, mc8b+@andrew.cmu.edu, or by phone, (412) 268-6710. Registration Form Please complete the attached form and return it to: Mary Anne Cowden Andrew Consortium Technical Conference Carnegie Mellon University Smith Hall 106 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 <- cut along here -> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Name: ______________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Organization: ______________________________________________ Email: ______________________________________________ Phone: ______________________________________________ Tutorial $ ___________ $100 Conference $ ___________ $100 Housing $ ___________ $50/night TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ___________
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------------ Actually, it's Transoft now, and that's what I meant ;)
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<looking around> Who? Where? Don't look at me. I want to send aid to Russia. Many other conservatives do as well.
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Wow, what a concept! Does anybody want to speculate on how this "non-connection" would fit into the theft of cable services laws? It seems to me that unless this case is specifically written into the legislation that the cable company would not have a leg to stand upon in court. Does anybody out there have any specific legal knowledge on this?
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Sure. Why keep using oil? A hydrogen/electric economy would likely be cleaner and more efficient in the long run. The laws of supply and demand should get the transition underway before we reach a critical stage of shortage.
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AHL CALDER CUP PLAYOFF GAME(S) PLAYED ON 4/16 Providence 3 SPRINGFIELD 2 (OT) Baltimore 4 BINGHAMTON 3 Utica 3 ROCHESTER 2 (OT) Cape Breton 5 FREDERICTON 2 GAME(S) SCHEDULED FOR 4/17 Capital District at Adirondack Providence at Springfield Baltimore at Binghamton Utica at Rochester Moncton vs St John's at Halifax SERIES STATI (plural of status? :) Adirondack leads CDI, 1-0 Springfield leads Providence, 2-1 Baltimore leads Binghamton 1-0 Utica leads Rochester, 1-0 St John's leads Moncton, 1-0 Cape Breton tied w/Fredericton, 1-1 ================================================= ================================================= FULL 1993 CALDER CUP PLAYOFF SCHEDULE AND RESULTS home team in CAPS *=if necesary FIRST ROUND Springfield Indians vs Providence Bruins Gm 1: Springfield 3 PROVIDENCE 2 Gm 2: Springfield 5 PROVIDENCE 4 Gm 3: Providence 3 SPRINGFIELD 2 Gm 4: 4/17 Providence at Springfield Gm 5: 4/22 Springfield at Providence Gm 6: 4/24 Providence at Springfield * Gm 7: 4/27 Springfield at Providence * CD Islanders vs Adirondack Red Wings Gm 1: ADIRONDACK 6 CDI 2 Gm 2: 4/17 CDI at Adirondack Gm 3: 4/18 Adirondack at CDI Gm 4: 4/21 Adirondack at CDI Gm 5: 4/23 CDI at Adirondack * Gm 6: 4/24 Adirondack at CDI * Gm 7: 4/26 CDI at Adirondack * Baltimore Skipjacks at Binghamton Rangers Gm 1: Baltimore 4 BINGHAMTON 3 Gm 2: 4/17 Baltimore at Binghamton Gm 3: 4/23 Binghamton at Baltimore Gm 4: 4/24 Binghamton at Baltimore Gm 5: 4/26 Baltimore at Binghamton * Gm 6: 4/28 Binghmaton at Baltimore * Gm 7: 4/30 Baltimore at Binghamton * Utica Devils vs Rochester Americans Gm 1: Utica 3 Rochester 2 (OT) Gm 2: 4/17 Utica at Rochester Gm 3: 4/20 Rochester at Utica Gm 4: 4/22 Rochester at Utica Gm 5: 4/24 Utica at Rochester * Gm 6: 4/26 Rochester at Utica * Gm 7: 4/28 Utica at Rochester * Moncton Hawks vs St John's Maple Leafs Gm 1: St John's 4 Moncton 2 Gm 2: 4/17 Moncton vs St John's at Halifax Gm 3: 4/21 St John's at Moncton Gm 4: 4/23 St John's at Moncton Gm 5: 4/26 Moncton vs St John's at Halifax * Gm 6: 4/28 St John's at Moncton * Gm 7: 4/30 Moncton vs St John's at Halifax * Cape Breton Oilers vs Fredericton Canadiens Gm 1: FREDERICTON 4 Cape Breton 3 (2OT) Gm 2: Cape Breton 5 FREDERICTON 2 Gm 3: 4/20 Fredericton at Cape Breton Gm 4: 4/22 Fredericton at Cape Breton Gm 5: 4/24 Cape Breton at Fredericton Gm 6: 4/26 Fredericton at Cape Breton * Gm 7: 4/28 Cape Breton at Fredericton *
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Hi, I have a problem when using subscripts with MSWord. The problem is the subscripted characters get cut off on the display, but print out ok. Anyone know how to fix the subscripts so I can see them on the screen? Many thanks,
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Are you switching high level signals or low level signals like pre-amp out level signals? Also, are the clicks you mentioning the big clack that happens when it switches or are you refering to contact bounce? How are you driving the relays? TTL gate output? Switching transistor? How are the relays connected to what you are driving?
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Now, my ego with regards to my shifting ability is as big as anyone else's, but I just ordered my first car with an auto trans. I wasn't planning on it; but after driving a few I was convinced: Things have changed since the days of "Slip 'n' Slide Withe Powerglide". They shift *better* than I do, there's no clutch to wear out (Honda wanted $800 for my 4WD wagon last year!- got it done for $500), it only costs about 5% in gas milage on the highway and it makes it easier to concentrate on all the radios in my car ;-) (Oddly enough, while two of my best friends- both in the auto industry here in the Motor City- have switched wholeheartedly to autos, their wives *insist* on manual. Shift envy?) Braggadocio aside, given today's technology and the warranties they're handing out the auto trans seemed like an excellent choice. Call me a convert.
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Who does the categorizing? --- " I'd Cheat on Hillary Too."
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Sorry for wasting your time with a probably simple question, but I'm not an computer graphic expert. I want to read TIFF-Files with a PASCAL-program. The problem is, that the files I want to read are in compressed form ( code 1, e.g. Huffman ). All books & articles I found describe only the plain (uncompressed) format. I don't know where to get the original TIFF specification, furthermore I haven't any access to a realy complete library. Can anybody direct me to a good book or (even better) to an specification available via ftp ? Thanks in advance - Thomas Wolf
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A section of Richard Badenas' book, "Christ The End of the Law, Romans 10.14 in Pauline Perspective." The section I have is on the Contextual setting and meaning of Romans 9-11. In addition, there are 111 endnotes. Since the file is so long, and because of other reasons, I will take requests for the article personally. Of course, I believe Badenas' insights to be true, and, quite damaging to the traditional Augustinian/Calvinist view.
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Many Companies package Syquest drives for the mac already.... So unless you are using one for the IBM world, Id buy a Mac ready Config.
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>Does anyone know how to size cold gas roll control thruster tanks >for sounding rockets? Well, first you work out how much cold gas you need, then make the tanks big enough. Our sounding rocket payload, with telemetry, guidance, etc. etc. and a telescope cluster, weighs around 1100 pounds. It uses freon jets for steering and a pulse-width-modulated controller for alignment (ie during our eight minutes in space, the jets are pretty much continuously firing on a ~10% duty cycle or so...). The jets also need to kill residual angular momentum from the spin stabilization, and flip the payload around to look at the Sun. We have two freon tanks, each holding ~5 liters of freon (I'm speaking only from memory of the last flight). The ground crew at WSMR choose how much freon to use based on some black-magic algorithm. They have extra tank modules that just bolt into the payload stack. This should give you an idea of the order of magnitude for cold gas quantity. If you really need to know, send me email and I'll try to get you in touch with our ground crew people. Cheers, Craig
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That would be neat, but nowhere in the Bible does it say that one who has the gift of tounges can do this. If the gift of tounges were the ability to be understood by everyone, no matter what languages they know, there would be no need for the gift of interpretation, and I Corinthians 14 would not have had to have been written. That's a pretty harsh assumption to make about a several million Christians world wide. Sure, there are some who want glory for themselves who speak in tounges, just as there are among those who do not have this gift. There were people like this in the Corinthian church also. that does not mean that there is no true gift or that all who speak in tounges do it for their own glory in the sight of men. I would venture to say that a large percentage of those who do speak in tounges do so more often in private prayer than in public. Link Hudson
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We were talking about Migraine and Exercise (I'm the one who can't fathom the thought of exercise during migraine...). Anyway, turning the thread around, the other day I played tennis during my lunch hour. I'm out of tennis shape so it was very intense exercise. I got overheated, and dehydrated. Afterwards, I noticed a tingling sensation all over my head then about 2 hours later, I could feel a migraine start. (I continued to drink water in the afternoon.) I took cafergot, but it didn't help and the pain started although it wasn't as intense as it usually is and about 9pm that night, the pain subsided. This isn't the first time that I've had a migraine occur after exercise. I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same experience and I wonder what triggers the migraine in this situation (heat buildup? dehydration?). I'm not giving up tennis so is there anything I can do (besides get into shape and don't play at high noon) to prevent this? Thanks,
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]I'm going to buy a BMW just to cast a vote for Groucho. I thought you were gonna buy a BMW for its superior power and handling...
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Hi, I'm trying to write a Motif program on an Interactive Unix machine, and I'm observing very strange behavior when my program attempts to expose a DrawingArea. Namely, some Xlib operations work, and some do not. In particular, the expose consist of two XFillRectangle calls followed by some XDrawPoint calls, and for reasons unknown to me the point calls are failing whenever a pulldown or popup up menu is (clicked on and) moved in the rightward direction over the drawing area, but after the move, is still on some part of the drawing area. This also happens less consistently when the pulldown/popup is moved in the leftward direction. Assuming that my code is not doing anything incredibly odd, is this a server bug? Thanks,
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I think a new organization would be a much better idea, as the NRA carries as much undesireable baggage for me as the EFF and CPSR do for others. Are any hot-shot, reputable organizers reading this message? If an effective group comes into existence, it can count on me signing up.
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Game two of the Detroit - Toronto series will be a rougher game. I believe that Clark will be coming out hitting on all cylindars. I believe that Probert will take exception to this and a fight between Clark and Probert will result. I know this sounds kind of ridiculous, but I know game two Toronto will come out hitting. Any takers on this issue?
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[followups to talk.politics.guns] rl> Russell Lawrence kr> Karl Rominger kr> I support the right of any citizen with out a criminal history to own and use firearms, regardless of race, gender, and RELIGION. rl> Thanks for admitting that you, yourself, adhere to an illogical dogma. Well, folks in t.p.guns, want to show how Russell's "illogical dogma" is wrong?
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I totally agree with that sentiment. But why do you have to go further and advocate violating what God has set up? That is the question which you have not answered from Scripture. You can worship on every day, as long as you work. But God says the Sabbath is all mine.
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(WEBSTER: myth: "a traditional or legendary story... ...a belief...whose truth is accepted uncritically.") How does that qualify? Indeed, it's almost oxymoronic...a rather amusing instance. I've found that most atheists hold almost no atheist-views as "accepted uncritically," especially the few that are legend. Many are trying to explain basic truths, as myths do, but they don't meet the other criterions. Also... You accuse him of referencing mythology, then you procede to launch your own xtian mythology. (This time meeting all the requirements of myth.) Ah, but not everyone "knows" that god exists. So you have a fallacy. And that makes it true? Holding with the Bible rules out controversy? Read the FAQ. If you've read it, you missed something, so re-read. (Not a bad suggestion for anyone...I re-read it just before this.) ...should I repeat what I wrote above for the sake of getting it across? You may trust the Bible, but your trusting it doesn't make it any more credible to me. If the Bible says that everyone knows, that's clearly reason to doubt the Bible, because not everyone "knows" your alleged god's alleged existance. 1) No, they don't have to ignore the Bible. The Bible is far from universally accepted. The Bible is NOT a proof of god; it is only a proof that some people have thought that there was a god. (Or does it prove even that? They might have been writing it as series of fiction short-stories. As in the case of Dionetics.) Assuming the writers believed it, the only thing it could possibly prove is that they believed it. And that's ignoring the problem of whether or not all the interpretations and Biblical-philosophers were correct. 2) There are people who have truly never heard of the Bible. 3) Again, read the FAQ. Bzzt...wrong answer! Gravity is directly THERE. It doesn't stop exerting a direct and rationally undeniable influence if you ignore it. God, on the other hand, doesn't generally show up in the supermarket, except on the tabloids. God doesn't exert a rationally undeniable influence. Gravity is obvious; gods aren't. No, human reason hasn't always come back to the existance of "God"; it has usually come back to the existance of "god". In other words, it doesn't generally come back to the xtian god, it comes back to whether there is any god. And, in much of oriental philosophic history, it generally doesn't pop up as the idea of a god so much as the question of what natural forces are and which ones are out there. From a world-wide view, human nature just makes us wonder how the universe came to be and/or what force(s) are currently in control. A natural tendancy to believe in "God" only exists in religious wishful thinking. Xtianity is no more reasonable than most other religions, and it's reasonableness certainly doesn't merit eminence. Divine justice...well, it only seems just to those who already believe in the divinity. First, not all atheists believe the same things about human nature. Second, whether most atheists are correct or not, YOU certainly are not correct on human nature. You are, at the least, basing your views on a completely eurocentric approach. Try looking at the outside world as well when you attempt to sum up all of humanity.
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I found the MS defrag looks very much like Norton Speedisk. Is it just a strip-down version of the later? I have both Norton Speedisk and Backup, so I was wondering if I need to install MS Backup?
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Where the hell do you get off calling it "Arab land"? Jews have been living there for a long time. Jews didn't just start arriving in 1900, they've been living there for thousands of years, except for periods when they were expelled but they always returned home. Steve --
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Stacker achieves better compression ratio than DOS6, yet the latter comes with virus detection, memory manager, and multiple booting. Each of them are not so good as the NAV, QEMM or NDOS in my opinion, but with a package of only $45, it's nice if haven't yet installed all of those stuffs. Both certainly work with Win31.
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Sell the bike and the car and start taking the bus. That way you can keep drinking which seems to be where your priorities lay. I expect that enough of us on this list have lost friends because of driving drunks that our collective sympathy will be somewhat muted.
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Well, you really can't dig a hole with a stock Shovel; you at least need some performance mods like stroking and cams. Besides, it's REAL bad on the rear tire.
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Having run completely out of time, I've got to get my prophesies and predictions for the A.L. out. Qualifications -- one of the worse finishes in last year's prediction contest. AL East -- 1993 1. Baltimore Orioles Why the Orioles? Well, I pondered long and hard, and it all came down to this: -- The Blue Jays are going the wrong direction. -- Can't bring myself to pick the Yankees -- Milwaukee was a fluke -- Indians aren't ready to contend -- Red Sox were bad last year, and didn't get any better -- Detroit's pitching will be the new definition of "replacement level" "But you don't really think the Orioles will win, do you." No. As a matter of fact, I can't see any team in the American League winning either division on paper (with the possible exception of the Yankees, who I hate). But some- body has to win, so I pick the Orioles. "You don't really think that Brady Anderson is going to repeat, do you?" No. I'm basing the Orioles prediction on the expectation of big years from Cal Ripken and Glenn Davis. "Glenn Davis? That's insane". Yes. So, without further ado: STRONG POINTS: Hoiles, Ripken some years, Olson, getting rid of Billy Ripken. WEAK POINTS: Segui may start. Valenzuela (the original 30-something) may be the fifth starter. Oates puts his best hitters at the bottom of the lineup. (Does anybody else think that might be a calculated maneuver to minimize the effect of a slumping Ripken? If you can't move Ripken out of the #3 spot, why not move the rest of the line up?) WOULD BE A GOOD SIGN: Glenn Davis wins comeback player of the year. WOULD BE A BAD SIGN: In a tight pennant race, team trades for Pecota. ObPrediction: "The Streak" continues. Harold Reynolds leads the team in caught stealing. 2. New York Yankees. STRONG POINTS: Abbot, Key, Perez. Could have best pitching in American League. Boggs should improve on Hayes. WEAK POINTS: Mattingly still considered best hitter. The Steinbrenner factor. (The Yankees lost to the Mets. Can wholesale changes be far behind?) Never count on rookie pitchers (i.e. Wickman & Millitello) to win a division. WOULD BE A GOOD SIGN: Boggs hits over .300 WOULD BE A BAD SIGN: Howe gets arrested again. ObPrediction: Mattingly won't top a 700 OPS. 3. Toronto Blue Jays STRONG POINTS: Management willing to make big deals. Management has eerie power to convince other teams its prospects are not suspects. Olerud. Guzman. Alomar. WEAK POINTS: The Jackson for Bell trade has shaken my faith in Gillick. Losing Stewart may hurt rotation (that's *really* a bad sign). No one in the outfield can get on base. Pitching is thin behind Guzman and Ward. WOULD BE A GOOD SIGN: Jack Morris considered Cy Young contender in August WOULD BE A BAD SIGN: Club makes no major deals in August. ObPrediction: Morris will post better ERA and WHIP totals than last year. And have a losing record. 4. Milwaukee Brewers STRONG POINTS: Pitching staff was exceptional -- last year. WEAK POINTS: Molitor gone. Surhoff at third? Why? Eldred can't keep it up. WOULD BE A GOOD SIGN: Listach and Eldred play like last year. WOULD BE BAD SIGN: Bones plays like last year. ObPrediction: Surhoff won't finish the year at third. 5. Cleveland Indians STRONG POINTS: Baerga, Belle, Nagy WEAK POINTS: Pitching staff thin -- losing Olin really hurts. Starts Felix Fermin. WOULD BE A GOOD SIGN: Bielecki's ERA is consistent with his Atlanta starts. WOULD BE A BAD SIGN: Ted Power -- bullpen ace. ObPrediction: Alomar will be back on the DL by the all-star break. 6. Boston Red Sox STRONG POINTS: Clemens, Viola, Clemens, Detroit, Clemens WEAK POINTS: Most incompetent GM in baseball. Key free agent signing -- Andre Dawson. Burks is gone -- Hatcher in center. WOULD BE A GOOD SIGN: Rainouts in between Clemens starts. WOULD BE A BAD SIGN: Clemens on the DL ObPrediction: Russell will make Sox fans forget Reardon. Interpret that how you will :-> 7. Detroit Tigers STRONG POINTS: Tettleton, Phillips, Whitaker WEAK POINTS: If Fielder keeps declining, he'll be a shortstop this year. Worst rotation in baseball entirely replaced -- but not necessarily better. This year could be *very* ugly. WOULD BE A GOOD SIGN: Cecil Fielder deserving the MVP. WOULD BE A BAD SIGN: Cecil Fielder not whining about deserving an MVP. ObPrediction: Cecil *won't* lead the league in RBIs. One more division to go.... -- Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Baseball fanatic
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I need some advice on having someone ride pillion with me on my 750 Ninja. This will be the the first time I've taken anyone for an extended ride (read: farther than around the block :-). We'll be riding some twisty, fairly bumpy roads (the Mines Road-Mt.Hamilton Loop for you SF Bay Areans). I'd say this is a very bad idea - you should start out with something much mellower so that neither one of you get in over your head. That particular road requires full concentration - not the sort of thing you want to take a passenger on for the first time. Once you both decide that you like riding together, and want to do something longer and more challenging, *then* go for a hard core road like Mines-Mt. Hamilton. In any case, it's *your* (moral) responsibility to make sure that she has proper gear that fits - especially if you're going sport riding.
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I'm in Edmonton, and while that's usually (or at least OFTEN) the case, here we were "treated" to the actual ABC telecast of the Kings/Flames game. I'm with whoever said it earlier - Don Witless (er, Whitman) is a poor commentator, and not just for hockey. Normally, if the Oilers were still playing (augh), I would turn off the sound and listen to the radio broadcast to get decent play-by-play announcing.
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Can somebody help me out there? I have just purchased Win 3.1 and I just can't get DOS apps (text mode apps) to run in a window on their own. I've tried mucking around with the PIF settings etc, but to no avail. What am I doing wrong? (I didn't get this problem under v3.0). Thanks in advance ...
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WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT _________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Heidi Kukis THURSDAY, April 15, 1993 202-456-7035 Julia Payne 202-456-7036 GORE JOINS STUDENTS IN ORLANDO FOR FIRST KIDS EARTH SUMMIT Will Take Part in Special Town Meeting On the Environment ******** SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1993 - ORLANDO, FLORIDA ********** WASINGTON -- Joining students from across the United States and around the world for the first ever Kids Earth Summit, Vice President Al Gore will travel to Orlando, Florida, on Saturday (4/17) and participate in a special town hall meeting, hosted by Linda Ellerbee for broadcast on Nickelodeon, to hear the young people's concerns and share ideas about the environment. The Vice President will take part in the "Kids World Council: Plan It for the Planet" from 2-5 PM (EDT) Saturday (4/17) in Orlando, Florida. He will tour a display of student environmental projects, then videotape the town hall meeting where he will discuss with student delegates their concerns about the environment and their plans for an environmentally sound future. The town hall meeting will be moderated by Linda Ellerbee and taped for a news special, "Nickelodeon Special Edition: Plan It for the Planet," which will air on Sunday, April 18 at 8 PM (EDT). It is sponsored by Nickelodeon and the Children's Earth Fund. "Young people care about the environment because they know it affects our future. Across the country and around the world, young people are speaking out about the environmental challenges we face. They are identifying problems, thinking about solutions, and they are demanding action from their leaders," the Vice President said. The Kids World Council delegates are meeting for three days in Orlando to discuss how to save energy and switch to renewable energy. They will be following the format and goals of the Earth Summit that took place last year in Rio de Janeiro. The Vice President led the Senate Delegation to the Earth Summit. "I look forward to hearing what young people have to say about the environment and their future. Their insight into the world around us is important," the Vice President said. (MORE) SCHEDULE FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT Saturday, April 17, 1993 2:15 PM (EDT) VICE PRESIDENT TOURS display of student environmental projects. Nickelodeon Studios Orlando, Florida 3:30 PM (EDT) VICE PRESIDENT TAKES PART IN TOWN HALL MEETING with Kids World Council delegates and Linda Ellerbee. Nickelodeon Studios Orlando, Florida 5 PM (EDT) VICE PRESIDENT DEPARTS from Kids World Council for Washington, D.C. NOTE: PRESS THAT WISH TO ATTEND SHOULD CONTACT EILEEN PARISE OR MARTY VON RUDEN IN FLORIDA AT 407-352-7589.
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I got a question from my dad which I really can't answer and I'd appreciate some net.wisdom. His question is about some 18-24" diameter balls which are attached to electric power lines in his area. He's seen up to a half dozen between two poles. Neither of us have any experience with electric power distribution. My only guess was that they may be a capacitive device to equalize the inductance of the grid, but why so many between two poles?. Anyone know what they really are? Is there a related FAQ for this? Is there a better group to submit to? We'd both appreciate some enlightenment.
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Both Christians and non-Christians laugh at this quote because it exaggerates something we all feel, but know is not true. Us Christians just KNOW that a little better! :) In God we trust! -Christopher
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Note that if you get the external CD300 for your Centris or Q800 you will miss out on the sound mixing feature unless you are willing to run a wire from the motherboard sound input connector to the stereo output on the CD. Connecting to the sound input port on the back of the computer won't do unless you can live with mono.
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Yes, and the idea was ripped off from Adobe, which has had a program called TypeAlign for a few years now. TypeAlign does the same thing for Adobe Type 1 fonts; *and* Adobe has said that the next version will work with both Adobe Type 1 and TrueType. And TypeAlign does some things that TrueEffects does not - including some things you apparently want ...
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I heard third-hand (not the best form of information) that there was recently published results of a study on Multiple-Personality-Disorder Syndrome patients revealing some interesting clues that the root cause of allergy may have a psychological trigger or basis. What I heard about this study was that in one 'personality', a MPDS patient exhibited no observable or clinical signs of inhalant allergy (scratch tests were used, according to what I heard), while in other personalities they showed obvious allergy symptoms, including testing a full ++++ on scratch tests for particular inhalants. If this is true, it is truly fascinating. But, I'd like to know if this study was ever done, and if so, what the study really showed, and where the study is published. Any help out there? Jon Noring -- Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club.
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Hi! I'd like to switch my floppy drives so that my 3.5" b: drive becomes a:, while my 5.25" a: becomes b:. I'm having a few problems, though. I know that the ribbon cable must be switched, as well as the CMOS settings, to reflect this change, and I think that I've done that correctly. However, the drives do not operate correctly in this configuration. From the C:> prompt, if I type a:, the 5.25" drive light comes on; if I type b:, both the light for the 5.25" and 3.5" drives come on. There are some jumpers on each drive: 5.25" Label Original Pos. Pos. I changed it to DS0 ON OFF DS1 OFF ON DS2 ON ON DS3 OFF OFF IO OFF OFF MS1 OFF OFF D-R ON ON MS2 ON ON FG OFF OFF 3.5" DS0 OFF ON DS1 ON OFF DS2 OFF OFF DS3 OFF OFF MM ON ON DC ON ON MD OFF OFF TTL/C-MO8 ON ON Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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##It should be noted that NAMBLA has not been present in the ##other 600 or so gay parades in the nation. While I view this ##as an isolated event, I am very troubled by its reccurence. Thank you for correcting the error in my post to the net. This information came from a newspaper article that was fuzzy in my mind. I can only wonder if there have been similar outcries about NAMBLA's presence in the parades of New York and Boston. Yours in Liberation from Molestation, Mark North American Micro-Biological Laboratories Association For a packet containing a sample bulletin, publications list and membership information send $1.00 postage to... Note: Sometimes I do the darndest things while trying to squelch my desire to flame the living daylights out of somebody for their beliefs and/or associations, especially if they are so genial... Phil, take it away! :-)
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Well, first you work out how much cold gas you need, then make the tanks big enough. Working out how much cold gas is another problem, depending on vehicle configuration, flight duration, thruster Isp (which couples into storage pressure, which may be a factor in selecting tank wall thickness etc.)
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Hm. A previous poster argued that the fact that the BD's did not rush to escape the burning building indicated that it was they, and not any of the government actions, that started the fire. On the other hand, I wonder if, with a face full of "massive amounts of CS," *I* would be able to escape a burning tinder-box like that ranch house assuming my best efforts. --
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[ ... ] To which I say: Hear, hear. Motion seconded. Hovig
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If I have a habit that I really want to break, and I am willing to make whatever sacrifice I need to make to break it, then I do so. There have been bad habits of mine that I've decided to put forth the effort to break, and I've done so; there have been other bad habits that I've decided are not worth the effort to break. It's my choice, either way. I am my own master. I choose what I want to do. I weigh the benefits of my actions against their consequences, and I use my experience to help me deal with the unexpected, which in turn make me more experienced. I don't always succeed, but I never fail, either -- I learn. Do *you* have any habits you can't break? Why not? I have arrived at my own understanding of Christianity, just as you've probably arrived at your own understanding of Islam that is most likely very different from the way a Moslem thinks of his religion. Are you "unable to master your lack of desire to understand even the slightest concept of the Quran"? If that's different, then how is it different from what you accuse me of? Can I accuse you of having no desire to understand even the slightest concept of atheism? Of COURSE not. That's disgusting. For centuries, religions have been discriminating on sex and treating women as second-class humans; that's one of the reasons I renounced my Christianity. No. I don't insult people. Period. It's not in my nature, and it's not something that I want to do, either. Not yet -- but my life is the ground I use to practice on. The fun is in the getting there! We don't start out perfect; we've got to strive to be something better. I know my shortcomings, and I know my strengths, and I live my life according to the decisions I make, and I am content to abide with the consequences of my decisions as easily as I'll accept the praise for them. There have been times in my life when I've made mistakes, yes; I try to never make the same mistake twice. I regard Christ as a myth. I feel that there are far too many people offering far too many interpretations of what he supposedly said and did. The only person who can really judge me is *me*. I choose the roads I travel, and I decide whether or not I want to reach the end of any given road or turn back -- and as long as I don't *always* turn back, there's no shame in it. When I need help, I seek out my friends. And you don't have a clue about what I'm saying, either. Open your eyes and SEE; open your ears and LISTEN. I'm not just spouting off empty words. This is my LIFE, this is what gives me MEANING. Huh? You're going WAY off the track here. I say my mother loves me. How do I know, you ask? I can point to definite things she's done for me, and I can even just bring her to you so you can ask her, face-to-face. You say your deity loves you. How do you know, I ask? You can't even convince me that it exists! If any god dangles 'heaven' before me like a carrot, promising untold pleasures to me if I'll only suspend my disbelief and ignore my rationality for just this once, then I would choose 'hell'. I can *not* lie to myself to placate another being, no matter how powerful it is. Note also that there are several gods trying to lure me this way: Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Odin, Ra... Please give me a solid reason to choose one of them over the others. [ description of Kendigism deleted -- hee hee! ] That paragraph demonstrates that you haven't listened to a single word I've said. Have you ever gone to an amusement park? Why? I mean, after a few hours, it closes, and nothing's different except that you're a few dollars lighter. Going to the amusement park doesn't do you any good at all. Why do you do such a meaningless thing? The answer is that you think it's fun. You play the skee-ball over and over because you'd like to get better at it, even though you're not going to win anything better than a stuffed animal even if you blow ten dollars on it. You ride the roller coaster because it's an thrilling experience, even though (because?) it scares the dickens out of you. In the same way, I think life is fun. And I don't intend to leave the amusement park of life until they close down for the night! :-D So you (and your holy book) say. By the same token, therefore, Santa Claus delivers toys every xmas. Don't you see? I have NO REASON to believe that what you say is true. Please give me some reason that I can't similarly apply to Santa Claus. I can't do it, because your existence means nothing more to me than just your communications over the net. You have no more bearing on nor importance in my life than that; remove it, and you will cease to be significant to me. Are you thereby inferring that your deity is nothing more than a collection of verses in a book, and cannot be supported without invoking them? Or do you mean that the existence of your deity (and, in fact, any other deity that can be written about) is as real as your own existence? Why do you believe what you believe?
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From mikefran Wed Apr 21 10:55:39 EDT 1993 Article: 56 of csc.general Newsgroups: dc.forsale,dc.general,um.general,csc.general Path: wam.umd.edu!mikefran From: mikefran@wam.umd.edu (Michael Francis) Subject: Car for Sale Message-ID: <1993Apr21.142729.7039@wam.umd.edu> Keywords: 1981 Volkswagon Scirocco Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: rac3.wam.umd.edu Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park Distribution: csc,um,dc Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 14:27:29 GMT 1981 Volkswagon Scirocco Gold exterior and interior 5 speed transmission AM/FM Stereo with cassette Sunroof Engine in good condition New Tires Needs $300 work on front left control arm because of damage caused by pothole. Runs well Asking $800.00 AS IS / OBO.
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Sooner than you expect. Remember 'Cyprus'? Too bad. In fact, by 1942, Nazi Armenians in Europe had established a vast network of pro-German collaborators, that extended over two continents. Thousands of Armenians were serving the German army and Waffen-SS in Russia and Western Europe. Armenians were involved in espionage and fifth-column activities for Hitler in the Balkans and Arabian Peninsula. They were promised an 'independent' state under German 'protection' in an agreement signed by the 'Armenian National Council.' (A copy of this agreement can be found in the 'Congressional Record,' November 1, 1945; see Document 1.) On this side of the Atlantic, Nazi Armenians were aware of their brethrens alliance. They had often expressed pro-Nazi sentiments until America entered the war. In summary, during World War II Armenians were carried away with the German might and cringing and fawning over the Nazis. In that zeal, the Armenian publication in Germany, Hairenik, carried statements as follows:[1] "Sometimes it is difficult to eradicate these poisonous elements (the Jews) when they have struck deep root like a chronic disease, and when it becomes necessary for a people (the Nazis) to eradicate them in an uncommon method, these attempts are regarded as revolutionary. During the surgical operation, the flow of blood is a natural thing." Now for a brief view of the Armenian genocide of the Muslims and Jews - extracts from a letter dated December 11, 1983, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, as an answer to a letter that had been published in the same journal under the signature of one B. Amarian. "...We have first hand information and evidence of Armenian atrocities against our people (Jews)...Members of our family witnessed the murder of 148 members of our family near Erzurum, Turkey, by Armenian neighbors, bent on destroying anything and anybody remotely Jewish and/or Muslim. Armenians should look to their own history and see the havoc they and their ancestors perpetrated upon their neighbors... Armenians were in league with Hitler in the last war, on his premise to grant them self government if, in return, the Armenians would help exterminate Jews...Armenians were also hearty proponents of the anti-Semitic acts in league with the Russian Communists. Mr. Amarian! I don't need your bias." Signed Elihu Ben Levi, Vacaville, California. [1] James G. Mandalian, 'Dro, Drastamat Kanayan,' in the 'Armenian Review,' a Quarterly by the Hairenik Association, Inc., Summer: June 1957, Vol. X, No. 2-38. Serdar Argic
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Note the clause "more forcibly", above. My point is that they have made a few pro-forma, perfunctory remarks, and sent in a few C-130's and so forth, but it's clearly not something they're losing much sleep over. They're just going through the motions, while Moslems are being "ethnically cleansed" out of what used to be Yugoslavia. The US has been speaking out far more loudly than the Moslem nations in the UN and other world forums. Precisely. Humanitarian concerns were not the primary justification for US involvement in the Gulf - oil and geopolitics were. If the the Kuwaitis didn't have oil (and assuming Iraq still saw fit to invade them) I doubt you would have seen Operation Desert Storm.
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _____________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release April 5, 1993 PRESS BRIEFING BY GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS The Briefing Room 10:10 A.M. EDT MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: As you know, the President is soon to be on his way, on Amtrack to Camden Yards. He'll be throwing out the first pitch. Q It's MARC, the Maryland Area Transit, it's not Amtrack. MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Oh, it's not Amtrack? Well, he's going from Union Station, you're right. Excuse me. Q George, what exactly are you prepared to do to break the logjam with ??? Senate? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, as you know, there are discussions between Senator Mitchell and Senator Dole this morning, and I think that the President is going to continue to make the point that he believes that our investment package, our jobs package needs to be passed as quickly as possible. We need this investment for summer jobs, for immunization, for highway construction, for the important programs that will put people back to work right away this summer. And the President continues to believe his program should be passed. Q Will he compromise, that's the question? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, as you know, the discussions are going on this morning in the Senate betwen Senator Mitchell and Senator Dole, let's see what they come up with. But the President believes his jobs program should go forward. Q George, would the President be willing to accept $8 billion for one year, which apparently appears to be the compromise being offered by -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I don't know what is being offered by either side. The Senate discussions are going on right now, let's see what happens today. Q Would he go that far -- no matter what the Republicans have offered so far, would he go that far, $8 billion per year? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: The President believes that his program should be passed at this time. Clearly, we're going to be willing to listen to what the Senators might or might not be able to come up with, but I'm not going to get into figures right now. Let's see what happens. Q It's reasonable to assume, isn't it, from what has happened so far that a compromise is going to be necessary in order to get a vote? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, the Republicans seem more intrested in stopping progress on the President's jobs bill, than in doing something to create -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, the Republicans seem more interested in stopping progress on the President's jobs bill than in doing something to create real action, real jobs this summer for the American people. I think there's no question about that. There's been some frustration of legislative activity over the last few days. Q So, you'll need to compromise to get your package through? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll see what happens with the conversations between Senator Mitchell and Senator Dole this morning. Q prepared to compromise -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: The President's prepared to listen to what Senator Mitchell has to say this morning after his meeting with Senator Dole. Q Does he feel that he has been defeated in his -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Not in the least. In fact, he's been very successful so far in the beginning of his term. Q How? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: He passed his budget in record time, in six weeks, and it's a budget which reduces the deficit by $500 billion over five years. And it's a budget which provides for important investments in our future. Right now we've also had strong passage of his jobs program through the House. Simply because a minority of Republicans in the Senate choose to perpetuate gridlock and hold up action on the President's jobs program is not a sign that he is not succeeding overall. Q He can't beat this, can he? Q The fact is they can do that? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, the Republicans can stop action. There's no question about that. Q What are you going to do about it? Q George, what do you know about these alleged notes taken by Boris Yeltsin during one of the meetings in which it appears that the President told Boris Yeltsin not to trust the Japanese; that when they say yes they mean no? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I think that's a complete misreading of what happened at the meeting. The context of the conversation was that President Clinton was actually reassuring President Yeltsin at the time about his conversations with Prime Minister Miyazawa over the Kuril Islands and the Prime Minister's belief that Japan would play a constructive role in the G-7 process. I mean this was a casual comment about Japanese courtesy and etiquette but overall it was in the context of a conversation where he was reassuring President Yeltsin that he believed the Japanese were serious about their commitment to the G-7 process. Q Are you saying that the President said that when the Japanese say yes they mean no? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: That's not -- I don't know the exact words and there was a much longer discussion about he did say something along the lines that he believes that on this issue Prime Minister Miyazawa intends to really go forward with the G-7 process. Q Have there been any attempts to explain this to the Japanese because apparently the Japanese press has picked this up and there appears to be -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I've seen the reports in the Japanese press and it actually does put the situation in context. It does talk about the Japanese -- understanding the Japanese points of view. I don't think it's going to be a problem. I believe that there may have been some diplomatic context just to clear things up but I'm not positive. Q George, was the specific comment that was made specific to the Kuril Island situation or was it a general observation on Japanese etiquette? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: The discussion was about -- Q The specific comment is what I'm asking about that has alleged to have been translated from the Russian notes, "when the Japanese say yes they mean no." MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, it was a combination. I mean I don't think that's the whole sentence. I think that the specific comment was a broad, general observation followed up by a specific finish to the sentence where he said in this case he believes that Prime Minister Miyazawa means to keep the commitment. Q Was he saying it facetiously first? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I think it was just a casual observation. Q And then you say diplomatic contacts were made to clear it up. Has the President sent a message? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: No, I don't think the President spoke; I believe that Secretary Christopher has made some calls but I'm not sure exactly how many. Q Well, this obviously is a bigger deal than you're making it out to be if Christopher has had to make some calls. MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: No, no. It was just that we got the reports in Vancouver and the Secretary wanted to make sure that it was understood and make sure there was absolutely no MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: -- reports in Vancouver, and the Secretary wanted to make sure that it was understood, and make sure there is absolutely no misunderstanding, and I don't believe there is on. Q What is our position about the Japanese? That they may have to say one thing, but actualy mean another? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: No. The position on the Japanese is as the President stated to President Yeltsin throughout the two days. He said that he had had a good conversation with Prime Minister Miazawa prior to the Summit. He reiterated the U.S. position, the long-standing support for the Japanese position on the Kuril Islands, but also reiterated Prime Minister Miazawa's commitment to move forward on the G-7 process and to play a constructive role. And I think President Yeltsin was very glad to hear that. Q After listening to Secretary Christopher on Iraq for the last few days, I'm a little confused. What is the U.S. policy? Do you want to see Saddam Hussein overturned? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: It's the same policy that Secretary Christopher has reiterated, and all of the U.S officials have reiterated. We expect full and complete and unequivocal compliance with all U.N. resolutions. Right now we do not have that compliance. Q throwing it out further that if Iraq complies, Saddam can't stay in office? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Right. I think that that's -- our judgment is that it is not possible for Saddam Hussein to comply with the resolutions and stay in power. But the important point is that we expect compliance by Iraq with all U.N. resolutions, and we will continue to demand it. Q And are you concerned the Iran will become the dominant power in the area -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Secretary Christopher has also spoken to Iran over the last several days, and he says we also expect full Iranian compliance with all international norms, and stopping support of terrorism. Q That's a very glib statement that he won't stay in power if he complies with U.N. resolutions. On what logic do you base that? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Right now Saddam Hussein is not complying with the U.N. resolutions at all. He is not respecting the rights of his people, as is required by the U.N. resolution. He is not fully complying with all the resolutions regarding inspections. He is not fully complying with all the resolutions regarding armaments. Q Well, when do you think that if he did comply he would be out of power? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, right now his power rests on the repression of his people. If he stopped doing that it would make it more difficult for him to stay in power. Q George, back on the stimulus package, why is it that you and the President accuse the Republicans of playing pure politics and perpetuating gridlock? Why is it that -- what evidence do you have that they just don't have a genuine idealogical difference with you that's in good faith? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, the fact that several times in the past the Republicans, many of the ones who are now leading the fight for the filibuster, have supported the very funding they now seek to stop, most especially, the highway funding. Q George, in regards to that, some of the moderate Republicans said that the White House erred by not being more open to them during the -- while the plan was put together, that they had one, sort of, proforma meeting between the White House and the Senate Republicans, and that was it. Does the Administration look back and thinks perhaps it could have done a better job of working with some - - MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I'm not sure that it's true that there was only one meeting. I mean, the President met with the Republican leadership on at least two occasions before the introduction of his package. He met with the entire Senate Republican Caucus also for lunch, and went up there. We are continually in contact with as many Republicans as we can find who have an interest in the President's package. We are interested in what they have to say, as well. But we believe that this program is important, and we're going to continue to fight for it. Q your all or nothing, do it with the Democrats alone strategy, did you maybe miscalculate the ability to get it through? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I mean, I think that there is no question that under the Senate rules a determined minority can frustrate activity. I mean, there is just no question about that. You only need 40 plus one to keep going. 40 plus one to keep going and to stop any action, and that's what the Republicans are doing. Q going to rethink the way you attempt to get other things passed as you go through this process for the rest of the summer? Q work with Republicans and try to woo some Republicans into your camp? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I think we're going to continue to look for the support of Republicans whenever we can get it on the President's intiatives? Q But on this one -- how are you going to do it differently than you did it on this one because on this one you really did stiff the Republicans from the beginning and made it clear that it was a Democratic majority that would get this through and could get it through and you really didn't need Republican votes? Are you going to take a different tack when you have to go for particular votes? When you have to go through -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I can't see into the future and understand every possible turn in the legislative road. Clearly the President's going to continue to reach out when he can. Q You don't have any regrets then about the way you have handled it up to now and you don't plan any changes in your approach in dealing with the Republicans in Congress based on this experience? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Obviously the President would like his package passed as quickly as possible and he's going to continue to press for that. We will continue to reach out to Republicans, there's not question about that. And we'll continue to reason with them and try and find appropriate avenues for cooperation. In this case the Republicans have chosen to unify around a filibuster, around a plan to frustrate action not a plan to move forward. Q They're being denied any other legislative means of putting their proposals forward. MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I think they're being -- Q any ideas. MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I think their amendments are being defeated; I don't know that they're being denied. Q to present them. MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: That's not exactly true. I mean they get the votes -- Q that theirs can be passed though by the parliamentary rules under which they're playing. MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Unless they get a majority in support all the way around, no, that's not exactly true. Q George, one more on Iraq. Is the administration backing any of the Iraqi opposition? Grooming any new leadership? Q backing any of the Iraqi -- leadership? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Oh, I -- again, we're pressing for Iraqi compliance. I don't know if we can get into the business of grooming leadership. I believe there have been some contacts, at some levels, with Iraqi opposition groups. I don't know about anything recently. Q Jesse Jackson, who, of course, is not the President's best friend, has, however, been told that there is to be some kind of town meeting, or some kind of involvement by the President, pre-empted the ball game -- Los Angeles. Will he consider something like that, or any other kind of intervention there? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, as you know, the President appointed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, about 10 days ago, to be a special envoy to California, and coordiante cabinet activities around the California economic situation, including the situation in Los Angeles. I believe there will also be visits out to Los Angeles by the Education -- or have been visits by the Education Secretary, Mr. Riley. I believe that Transportation Secretary Pena and HUD Secretary Cisneros are also going out. And there may be other visits by Cabinet officials over the next several days and weeks. I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a visit by President Clinton to California. Obviously, he is following the situation closely, and is concerned about making sure that we make the right long term policy decisions that will help create the kind of economic opportunities which help prevent disturbances. But we're going to continue to watch it. Q George, as a follow-up, Reverend Jackson is also supposed to be outside the ball park today, in Baltimore, with a group of supporters protesting the lack of minorities in baseball management. Does the President have a position on that? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: The President has received correspondence from Reverend Jackson. I know that Reverend Jackson has also spoken with the White House Chief of Staff, Mack McLarty. He clearly raises serious questions. There has been some progress in baseball over the last several years, but still not enough. But the President intends to continue to go to the ball game. Q Is he going to say anything about it today, or see Reverend Jackson while he's out there? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I don't know if he is going to see them, but as I said, the President believes that Reverend Jackson has raised some serious questions, and it's something that, as I said, even though there has been progress, it's clearly not enough. Q Did Reverend Jackson ask him not to go to the ball game? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm not sure about that. I believe the characterization the Reverend Jackson is talking about is an informational pickett. I don't know that he asked him not to go to the ball game, but he sent a long, detailed, formal letter outlining his concerns with the situation in major league baseball and the President read it. Q George, the Orioles are playing the Rangers, the managing partner of the Rangers is George W. Bush. Is he going to be there, and is he going to meet with the President? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I don't know. Q What is the Mubarak schedule? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I know that President Mubarak is coming tomorrow morning for a working meeting, they will have a lunch, and I believe that he is having dinner tonight with Vice President Gore. Q And joint statements tomorrow -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I believe so, yes. At the end, yes. Q Is there evidence, George, that the Egyptians did warn the U.S. about a potential terrorist bombing -- terrorist activities? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: As reported in The New York Times, I mean, I think that President Mubarak did say that there has been general conversations with the Egyptians, as there have been for a long period of time. We do have general intelligence sharing, I mean. But President Mubarak was very careful to point out that there was no specific information on this visit that was passed forward. The President will continue to investigate the situation, but he also reiterates his belief that we cannot tolerate terrorism of any kind. Q George, he did make specific -- or the Egyptians, apparently, did issue specific warnings about this individual who, forgive me --this individual who, forgive me the name escapes me at the moment, and said the Egyptians were more or less rebuffed in their attempts to get some kind of action. MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Again, I don't know if I would agree with your characterization of the Mubarak interview. He did say that they gave general warnings about the possibility of a network in the United States and upon which we took appropriate action. But there was no specific information on this specific operation at all. Q So, the White House doesn't feel that any of the law enforcement agencies whether it be the CIA or FBI who would have received this kind of information was lax or derelict in its duty in not pursuing some kind of -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: No, not at all. Q What's next with Serbia? It got only a passing mention in the news conference yesterday -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't get to ask your question. Q Yes, exactly. Was there any agreement on concerted action between the two countries? And even if there wasn't, what does the U.S. do next? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I think the U.S. is clearly going to move forward in the U.N. today continuing discussions with our allies on a sanctions resolution and we'll continue to look for ways to press the Serbians to come to the negotiating table and sign an agreement. Q George, why do you think sanctions is still an option? I mean the Serbians make it clear that at least the leadership is surviving just fine and they feel like they can wait you out and even the administration officials we had in the other day said there's no evidence that they're going to have an effect any time soon. The Bosnian Serbs have said no to the peace plan. When does no mean no and you have to do something different? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I mean we are doing something different. We're moving forward on further sanctions through the U.N. and those discussions will continue. We're going to continue to try and tighten the noose on Serbia, and I think that every opportunity we have to do that will have an effect over time. Q Are we looking again at lifting the arms embargo? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: The President has said that this is something that is under consideration. Q George, do you have any more on Hugh Rodham's condition, how he's doing? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: As far as I know nothing's changed. Q George, -- week after Mr. Mubarak? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a little unclear. I think we'll be able to get you more either tonight or tomorrow morning after the Mubarak visit. Q Is he going somewhere for Easter? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Not that I know of. Q What more can you tell us about the additional aid to Russia that the President plans to ask Congress about? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: He's going to be consulting with the Congress and with our G-7 partners over the next couple of weeks. I know that he spoke last evening with Congressman Gephardt and their delegation before the -- the congressional delegation meets with the Russians this week and those consultations will continue over the next several weeks. Q Do you expect that package to be of the magnitude of the one announced Sunday? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm not going to discuss the magnitude. Q How about the list of Cold War restrictions, where do you stand on that -- MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: As the President said yesterday, he's going to be looking for that list from the Congress this week and reviewing it. He believes -- he's going to try and get it this week and he's going to review the list, and we're going to take a hard look at it. Q But they're making it up? I mean it's no White House involvement, Congress is compiling this list? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I think he's going to talk to the congressional leaders about compiling the list but I'm certain we'll be able to get our own researchers working as well. Q George, isn't lifting the arms embargo more of a probability than a possibility? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: It's something that's under discussion. Q Secretary Christopher has said that it's a matter of time and -- for months before that happens. MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Again, all I can say is that it's something that the President is reviewing. Right now we're working with our allies in the U.N on a sanctions resolution, and we'll continue to review other matters. Q George, can you tell us anything about the schedule this week? Any travel? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: They just asked about that. I don't have anything more beyond tomorrow's visit with Mubarak right now. Q Are there consultations, George, with any Jewish American organizations concerning Jackson-Vanick? MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: As you know the National Conference of Soviet Jewry has a list of, I believe, MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: -- as you know, the National Conference of Soviet Jewry has a list of, I believe, 200 Refuseniks. We'll certainly take a look at that and continue appropriate discussions. Thanks.
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Just a shot here, but ya never know: I once bought a (REAL) cheap equalizer / power amp for my car tape player at one of those motel-room truckload sales, and it sounded great. For a while, that is. Then one channel quit entirely. I opened it up, and the amplifier chip for the bad channel had simply melted some of its solder joints attaching it to the PCB. I soldered them back and it worked fine. I just had to keep the volume a bit lower than I did before. Probably lousy heat sinking. You said "a nice Alpine" which I'm sure is a few orders of mag higher in quality than the P.O.S. I had. But the point is - look inside before you scrap it, since you OCCASIONALLY find something you can repair. Maybe even the same thing I found.
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Many of you at this point have seen a copy of the Lunar Resources Data Purchase Act by now. This bill, also known as the Back to the Moon bill, would authorize the U.S. government to purchase lunar science data from private and non-profit vendors, selected on the basis of competitive bidding, with an aggregate cap on bid awards of $65 million. If you have a copy of the bill, and can't or don't want to go through all of the legalese contained in all Federal legislation,don't both - you have a free resource to evaluate the bill for you. Your local congressional office, listed in the phone book,is staffed by people who can forward a copy of the bill to legal experts. Simply ask them to do so, and to consider supporting the Lunar Resources Data Purchase Act. If you do get feedback, negative or positive, from your congressional office, please forward it to: David Anderman 3136 E. Yorba Linda Blvd., Apt G-14, Fullerton, CA 92631, or via E-Mail to: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org. Another resource is your local chapter of the National Space Society. Members of the chapter will be happy to work with you to evaluate and support the Back to the Moon bill. For the address and telephone number of the nearest chapter to you, please send E-mail, or check the latest issue of Ad Astra, in a library near you. Finally, if you have requested, and not received, information about the Back to the Moon bill, please re-send your request. The database for the bill was recently corrupted, and some information was lost. The authors of the bill thank you for your patience.
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Hi ! I am interested in the source of FEAL encryption algorithm. Does someone of you know where I can get the source from, or where I can find documentation about FEAL. Thanks in advance Ciao Hermann
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:Is erythromycin effective in treating pneumonia? : :-fm Not only is it effective, it is in fact the drug of choice for uncomplicated cases of community-acquired penumonia.
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