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I'm writing 'xwall', a simple X version of 'wall', and I want it to
put a message up on each of a default list of displays. The problem
is that XOpenDisplay hangs if one of the displays is currently
controlled by xdm (login screen). I've been through the manuals
and FAQ and don't see a simple way to see if a display is 'openable'
ahead of time, or to get XOpenDisplay to fail after a short period
of time. Any hints, suggestions, clues, or pointers to info? Thanks...
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I looked for diab in my .newsrc and came up with nuthin. Anyone have
any good sources for where I can read? In particular, I'm interested
in finding out more about intravenous insulin injection for hepatic
vein liver activation. (Whew! Wotta mouthful!)
Anything that smells like a pointer would be helpful: newsgroup,
mailinglist, etc....
Many thanks.
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My GS came with XGT V4s and they are NOT all weather tires. I took
out my right front bumper sliding on packed snow (not ice), before I learned
this fact. I immediately bought XGT H4s which are definately all-weather.
A Carrera 4 I walk by everyday has XGT V4s on it even. The Michelin dealer
where I bought my new tires said the V4s were made out of a different
rubber that gets really hard and slick when the weather gets near feezing.
Said he'd only try to sell me those tires during the winter if we were in
Texas and not Colorado.
Thanks,
Eric
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He also ignores a few other things. While organics would become
significantly more expensive were all the oil to disappear (and thus
some things would no longer be economically feasible), oil is hardly
an irreplaceable resource any more than most other consumables. As
supply decreases, prices rise and alternatives become more
competetive. He also needs to consider that there has been an
estimated 30 years of reserves pretty much as long as anyone has cared
about petroleum; whatever the current usage rate is, we always seem to
have about a 30 year reserve that we know about.
[I'm not sure that last figure is still true -- we tend not to look as
hard when prices are comparatively cheap -- but it was certainly true
during hte 'oil crisis' days of the 70's.]
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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...let me point out that both GUI-based word-processors and text-based
formatters both have a language; one happens to be mouse- and
action-based, and the other symbol-based.
True, but that's beside the point. This is a fact about an abstract model
of what the GUI users are doing, not about what they actually *are* doing.
This abstract model is only apparent from the perpective of a *programmer*
of the system. (NB: some users may see it, too, but only when they put
aside the work at hand and start thinking like a programmer.)
I'm not saying that the programmer's perspective is evil or stunted. After
all, that's what I do, too! I am saying that UI designers must carefully
distinguish between the user/programmer conceptual models, and they must
ultimately serve the user of the system, not the builder of the system.
I don't recall the actual stats, but something like 1 in 5 people can be
categorized as a "symbol manipulator".
It would be interesting to know more about the meaning and basis for this
claim. At any rate, I don't think this is evidence that 20% of users think
like programmers. Bankers, financial analysts, structural engineers ---
these are all people whose work you could characterize as primarily symbol
manipulation. But what they do is not programming, and programming is not
required to do what they do.
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The existence of repeated earth lives and destiny (karma) does not
mean that everything that happens is predetermined by past deeds.
There is an oriental view of it that tends in that direction, but I
did not subscribe to that view. God may choose one individual over
another as the fit instrument for his plans, but that does not
preclude that the development of that individual into what he is in
this earthly life is not the result of a longer course of development.
I do not, and Rudolf Steiner did not, subscribe to the oriental view
of an inexorable, mechanistic karma determining everything that
befalls one. This is a kind of shriveled caricature of a much greater
law in the context of which the deed of Christ on Golgotha and the
ultimate salvation and freedom of the human being as a working of
Christ can be seen as the master theme and, indeed, a new impulse that
was completely free of karma. Christ incarnated only once in the
flesh, and in that he had no debt of karma or sin. The oriental
concepts of reincarnation and karma, which are even more trivialized
and mechanized in some new age teachings, incorrectly assume Jesus
Christ to have been the reincarnation of a master. avatar, etc.
Their teaching of reincarnation and karma also has no concept the
continuing individuality from one life to the next (e.g. Buddhism).
More important, they have no concept of the resurrection of the body,
the ultimate continuity of the whole human being -- to ultimate
resurrection and judgement on the Last Day.
There is another biblical passage that also has a bearing. It is the
tenth chapter of John, devoted almost entirely to the man born blind.
Clearly here, Jesus tells the disciples that it was not his past karma
or that of his parents that led to his blindness, but rather that a
new impulse is to be revealed through him. But note that he does not
refute the disciples' question. In fact, they ask it as a matter of
course, the question being stated as if it were self evident that only
one of two possibilities existed - it was either the sins of the man
himself, obviously not in this incarnation, or the sins of his
parents. The fact that they even asked about the first possibility at
all indicates an awareness of the idea on their part and the form of
Christ's answer indicates that he did not disagree with it.
There is also Matthew 11:14, where Jesus says straight out about John
the Baptist,
"If you care to accept it, he himself is Elias, who was to come."
This also emphasizes that the Gospels do not have a positive teaching
either way about reincarnation -- or, in fact, about what happens to
the human being at all between death and the Last Day. Even Jesus did
not push this teaching on people who were not ready to embrace it ("If
you care to accept it"). So I took care to point out, not that the
Bible teaches reincarnation but that it does not deny it either, and
that much in both scripture and fundamental Christian doctrine becomes
understandable if reincarnation is understood in the right way. I
pointedly used "repeated earth lives" to distinguish a little from the
oriental doctrines usually associated with the word "reincarnation".
The phrase is Rudolf Steiner's (wiederholte Erdenleben). He noted too
that the idea needed to arise as a new insight in the west, completely
free from eastern tradition. It did in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, the most important expression of it being Lessing's "The
Education of the Human Race".
To return to your original point, Paul's statement about Jacob and
Esau does not contradict the idea of repeated earth lives and karma.
And both of these principles receive their fulfillment in the
incarnation, death, and resurrection, ascension and return of Jesus
Christ, in my view.
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Windows Sources Magazine reviewed a number of 17" monitors recently
and they too said that the Nanao T560i was the best monitor to get if
you had the money. But they also said that the Mitsubishi Diamond Pro
17 is the next best choice and that it has superb picture quality.
This monitor can be had for around $1070.
Has anyone actually seen any of these? I am also thinking of buying a
17" monitor and was going to consider the Mitsubishi. If I remember
correctly, I think its viewing area is 16" measured diagonally.
Thanks.
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Internal DOS commands (certainly 3.3 and before) do not set the exit
code. This is a royal pain if you want to do anything which checks for
successful deletions etc. The best suggestion is to use 4dos which
does return you exit codes. It also has move command,
Simon.
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Fulcrum Communications Ltd,
Birmingham, Condition "BRAIN_OVERLOAD$" raised at
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I have a 120 mb hard drive. What should I set the compression ratio at
using DOS'S double disk? Do I have to format erase everything to double
the full 120 mb to 240? Can I just make a mirror of my hard drive? Thanx
4 the help!
Darren Lavallee
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See, we are disagreeing on the definition of moral here. Earlier, you said
that it must be a conscious act. By your definition, no instinctive
behavior pattern could be an act of morality. You are trying to apply
human terms to non-humans. I think that even if someone is not conscious
of an alternative, this does not prevent his behavior from being moral.
I try to show it, but by your definition, it can't be shown.
And, morality can be thought of a large class of princples. It could be
defined in terms of many things--the laws of physics if you wish. However,
it seems silly to talk of a "moral" planet because it obeys the laws of
phyics. It is less silly to talk about animals, as they have at least
some free will.
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Never had any problem with mine...
Are you *SURE* the nut/bolt you are trying is really a 1/2" hex? 13mm
is just slightly larger... and a 1/2 wrench won't fit on a GM 13mm
nut (my 91 GMC pickup has several 13mm nuts on it... really annoying, metric
threads too. Seems that most of the body is metric, most of the engine is
SAE).
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Dbase IV 1.5 for sale, 3.5 inch disks, all registration included (so you
can upgrade to 2.0 if you want), manuals still shrinkwrapped, disks only
opened to verify they all work. Asking $175 or best offer.
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I posted this several days ago for Dave Butler. He may have missed it - my
Usenet board has changed a little. Just in case he missed it, here it is again.
Dave Butler writes...
From: daveb@pogo.wv.tek.com (Dave Butler)
Subject: Re: NEW BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS [Fallaciously] ANSWERED (Judas)
Date: Thu Apr 1 20:52:11 1993
"I can basically restrict this post to showing the type of evidence Mr DeCenso
has presented, and answering his two questions (and a couple of his spurious
insults and false claims)."
MY REPLY...
O.K.
DB...
[By the way Mr DeCenso, you really should have looked in the index of your
Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich Greek lexicon. You would have found that the word in
Acts for "lot" is "kleros," not "CHORION" as stated by Mr Archer, and nowhere
in the very large discussion of kleros in done the to "Theological Dictionary
of the New Testament" by Bromley, is the meaning "burial plot" discussed. It
discusses the forms of "kleros" (eg: kleros, kleroo, etc), and the various
meanings of "kleros" (eg: "plot of land," and "inheritance"), but mentions
nothing about CHORION or "burial plot." (Why does this not surprise me?) Thus
it would seem to be a very good thing you dumped Archer as a reference.]
DB later corrected himself...
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From: daveb@pogo.wv.tek.com (Dave Butler)
Subject: Re: NEW BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS [Fallaciously] ANSWERED (Judas)
Date: Fri Apr 2 02:32:11 1993
I owe the group an apology. It is my habit to check my articles before and
after their submission for errors. In my last article I stated:
I was wrong. I admit that I do not have a handle on Greek grammar, and thus
confused "kleros", the second to last word in Acts 1:17 as being the plot of
land discussed. In actuality it is "chorion", which is the last word Acts
1:18. Unfortunately my Greek dictionary does not discuss "chorion" so I
cannot report as to the nuances of the word.
I don't know if someone else would have caught this, though I am sure that
someone would be able to do so, but I have an aversion to disseminating
mistakes, especially when someone else might use that mistake to prove a point"
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MY REPLY...
Vary noble of you Dave. I didn't want to have to go to x number of sources to
show you wrong. (Although I am researching CHORION a little).
DB...
"Of course the only other reference Mr DeCenso has given is Bullinger. And
Bullinger uses such ridiculous exegisis that when I accused Mr DeCenso of
actually believing Bullinger, he replied that I misquoted him:
of > my response to see what I REALLY said in my posting of this article.
[Actually Mr DeCenso, you said that there was "benefit" to our argument, in
that it caused to to rediscover Bullinger's exegisis. I did not realize
that you would find such garbage beneficial, unless you were convinced by
it]."
MY REPLY...
Thank you for correcting your restating of my points.
DB...
"and Mr DeCenso also replied:
Thus I apologize for thinking that even Mr DeCenso could find such "drek"
convincing....he should specify which parts of Bullinger he finds convincing
and quit hiding behind a disingenuous mask of "This is what Bullinger
believed, not necessarily what I believe." So which is it Mr DeCenso? Do you
find the exegisis convincing or not?)"
MY REPLY...
One of my purposes in debating these alleged contradictions with you and
others is to diseminate many different views of possible reconciliations
raised by various Bible scholars and students alike. When I present MY VIEWS,
I will clearly distinguish them from now on.
DB...
"Of course without Archer and Bullinger we find that Mr DeCenso has presented
no Greek exegisis at all, and Mr DeCenso has made a big thing about my not
referring back to the actual Greek. Thus we find this demand on his part for
quality Greek exegisis to be a hypocritical requirement."
MY REPLY...
Good point. But in your declaring that these passages are contradictory, you
have produced only superficial reasonings and observations. Nor have you dug
deeper. I'm glad you have begun in this post. I will begin Greek studies on
these passages in more depth than I thought necessary, as well.
DB...
"It would be appropriate to look at what Mr DeCenso has actually USED as
evidence. Now we know what he claims for a standard, as he has stated it
often enough:
But are these actual standards he has used, or simply empty hyperbole. Let's
see, he has used (a), and since he is trying to reconcile it to other
passages, we see that he has also used (b). On the other hand he has
presented no use of:
(d) historical context or
(e) historical content or
(f) other pertinent historical info or
(g) cultural context or
(h) cultural content or
(i) other pertinent cultural info or
(j) grammatical construction or even
(k) Hebrew and Greek word studies [remember, Archer and Bullinger don't count]
Thus we find his vaunted criteria for exegisis is just empty mouthings."
MY REPLY...
Question: Do you find such criteria important? If so, do you plan on starting
to use them to the best of your ability, or will you continue to present
shallow observations (I don't mean this in a bad way).
At this point in our _debates_, I have not found it necessary to present a
total exegetical analysis of these passages, since we seem to keep beating
around the bush and not getting into the core of the verses. I do not believe
it necessary to use many of the above criteria to refute your arguments re:
Judas in Acts and Matthew, but I will do my best from this point on to use
several of the above criteria, since you desire me to. I hope you will also.
It will greatly enhance our study of these passages.
DB...
"The only thing he has actually used, beyond the passage itself, is any other
passage. Thus Mr DeCenso should be honest and note that most of his list is
red herring and his only real criteria seems to be:
MY REPLY...
The reason is simple...you are mistating the passages. You claim that the
PASSAGES contradict one another; I do not see the PASSAGES contradicting one
another.
(1) They may very well be complimentary, as many scholarly sources mention;
(2) Matthew may not be presenting Judas' death, as you claim. But we'll look
at your defense of this later.
Also, the "reward of iniquity" in the Acts PASSAGE may not be the 30 pieces of
silver in Matthew's PASSAGES. (Although you have a valiant attempt later at
stating why you believe it is).
At this beginning stages in our debates, we are laying some Scriptural
groundwork, which will be expanded upon through deeper exegesis.
DB...
"Of course the only reason I can see to so drastically reinterpret a passage
as he has done with Judas' death, is to make it agree with another passage so
that both could be considered correct."
MY REPLY...
One of the reasons I have given a different exegetical view of the passages is
that you seem to think the majority of scholarship is wrong in concluding these
passages are complimentary. However, I see no problem in Tony Rose's
explanation of Judas' death...
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HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THE INACCURACY BETWEEN JUDAS HANGING
HIMSELF IN MATTHEW 27:5 AND "FALLING HEADLONG HE BURST OPEN"
=============================================================
This question of the manner in which Judas died is one with which we are
constantly confronted in our travels. Many people point to the apparent
discrepancy in the two accounts as an obvious, irreconcilable error.
Some have gone so far as to say that the idea of an inerrant Bible is
destroyed by these contradictory accounts. However, this is not the case at
all.
Matthew relates that Judas hanged himself, while Peter tells us he fell and
was crushed by the impact. The two statements are indeed different, but do
they necessarily contradict each other?
Matthew does not say that Judas did not fall; neither does Peter say that
Judas did not hang himself. This is not a matter of one person calling
something black and the other person calling it white. Both accounts can be
true and supplementary.
A possible reconstruction would be this: Judas hanged himself on a tree on the
edge of a precipice that overlooked the valley of Hinnom. After he hung there
for some time, the limb of the tree snapped or the rope gave way and Judas
fell down the ledge, mangling his body in the process.
The fall could have been before *or* after death as either would fit this
explanation. This possibility is entirely natural when the terrain of the
valley of Hinnom is examined. From the bottom of the valley, you can see
rocky terraces 25 to 40 feet in height and almost perpendicular.
There are still trees around the ledges and a rocky pavement at the bottom.
Therefore, it is easy to conclude that Judas struck one of the jagged rocks on
this way down, tearing his body open. It is important to remember that we are
not told how long Judas remained hanging from the tree or how advanced
was the decomposition of his body before his fall.
Louis Gaussen relates a story of a man who was determined to kill himself.
This individual placed himself on the sill of a high window and pointed a
pistol at his head. He then pulled the trigger and leaped from the window at
the same time.
On the other hand, a person could say that this man took his life by shooting
himself, while another could rightly contend he committed suicide by jumping
form the tall building. In this case, both are true, as both are true in the
case of Matthew's and Peter's accounts of the death of Judas. It is merely a
situation of different perspectives of the same event.
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Your only reason for rejecting this is, I believe, your attempt to discredit
inerrancy. You haven't related how this is IMPOSSIBLE or highly unlikely.
Here's what you said in an earlier post...
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DB [quoting Tony Rose]...
"The added text in this version is so heavy that, assuming you are truly so
opposed to such tactics, you should find it not credible. But you seem to
find Tony Rose's eisegesis satisfactory, while clearly rejecting David
Joslin's."
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Here, you discredit Tony's explanation based on what you deem too "heavy" for
the passages. But you haven't addressed why you feel that way. You can say
it's a vain attempt to reconcile the contradiction, but that doesn't tell me it
didn't happen, nor have you shown why you reject that possibility.
Questions: Is Matthew lying or is Luke lying? Or are they both lying? Or
are either or both of them misinformed? Why do you think there is such an
alleged contradiction? I do not think you have ever told us what you believe
in this respect.
DB...
"At present though, Mr DeCenso only asks two questions of me:
Actually I find question (1) to be a rather stupid request, but I will answer
it because he now restricts himself to two points. First I would point out
that hanging is a very efficient manner for ending a life. In fact it is a
bit of a fluke when someone survives hanging (except in fantasy cowboy
movies), and even then it usually referred to as an attempted hanging."
MY REPLY...
I work at an agency that investigates child abuse and neglect. Today, I got a
call re: a child that attempted suicide by hanging himself because his mother
is on crack. He failed in his attempt and is in a child's psych ward at a
local hospital. Hanging attempts are not always successful.
To assume that because most hangings are successful, this one was also is
"begging the question", if I may quote you.
[Last night, listening to _The Bible Answer Man_ broadcast, The Christian
Research Institute's show, one of the scholars on there used several of these
terms that you use. I am not all that familiar with them. The man on the BAM
show teaches Comparative Religion and Logic. It was interesting]
DB...
"This is so prevalent that, so that to say a man hung himself with no other
qualifiers is synonymous with stating that he killed himself."
MY REPLY...
Qualifiers are important at times, as we'll see in an OT passage I'll mention
below.
Does hanging ALWAYS have this outcome? Did Matthew, who is the only source we
have re: Judas hanging himself, state that Judas died as a result? To say it's
synonymous means it has the same meaning as. A boy (age 14) hung himself. But
he lived. This is only one of probably thousands of documented cases we can
discover.
DB...
"Now I am not alone in this thought; in fact, since Mr DeCenso so respects
Christian scholarly (including Greek scholars) opinion, I did some research."
MY REPLY...
Thank you, Dave.
DB...
"Interestingly, not one of the Christian references I read, interpreted the
hanging as being anything but a fatal suicide. ^^^^^^^^^^^
MY REPLY...
[^^^ above, mine]
So it's OK to use Christian sources to back your points? What about Tony's
position. Do you value it or even consider it as a valid possibility?
Also, is it possible that the sources you read may be wrong, or lying, or
deceived in other parts of their books? If so, should we do, as we have done
with Archer, toss them to the side and not value anything they say, including
their "interpretation" of the hanging of Judas? I am sure _you_ would find
some errors and maybe even some deception in those sources.
You also noted they "interpreted" the hanging as meaning he died. Although
that is very possibly true, do you find that in the text itself? Remember,
that's the first criteria we must examine.
DB...
"This included:
"The Biblical Knowledge Commentary" by Woodward and Zuck"
MY REPLY...
Which I own. It's a good source of commentary info. But not inerrant.
DB...
"The Interpreters on Volume Commentary on the Bible" by Laydon
"The one volume Bible Commentary" by J R Dunelow
"Word meanings of the Testament" Ralph Earl
"The Abingdon Bible Commentary" published by Abingdon
"Harpers Bible Commentary" by William Neal
(Actually I could have presented many more as well)
MY REPLY...
I appreciate your doing this research, Dave. Maybe we are getting somewhere
in how we both should approach these alleged contradictions - more in depth
study.
DB...
"In each case, these references specifically describe that the interpretation
of Matt 27:5 as successful, suicide and thus I can only conclude that the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Greek word "apagchw"(ie: hang oneself) is translated as a successful hanging."
MY REPLY...
[^^^ above, mine]
No you can't only conclude this, although, as Tony says, this was a highly
probable outcome. But Matthew does not state death as being a result.
The Greek word is APAGCHO. Matthew 27:5 is it's only occurrence in the New
Testament.
In the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the OT used at the time of Jesus),
it's only used in 2 Samuel 17:23 : "Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice was
not followed, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to his house, to his
city. Then he put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died; and he
was buried in his father's tomb." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Notice that not only is it stated that Ahithophel "hanged himself" [Gr. Sept.,
APAGCHO], but it explicitly adds, "and died". Here we have no doubt of the
result.
In Matthew, we are not explicitly told Judas died.
Also, there is nothing in the Greek to suggest success or failure. It simply
means "hang oneself".
DB...
"But Mr DeCenso, you are more than welcome to disagree and show more reputable
^^^^^^^^^
Christian scholars that insist that the hanging was not successful."
MY REPLY...
[^^^above, mine]
"Reputable"? You mean ones that have never erred?
As far as insisting that the hanging was unsuccessful, that can't be done,
even by me. ^^^^^^^^^
As I said in an earlier post...
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Although I still agree with Tony's exegesis as being the most probable
explanation regarding Judas' death (taking into account several criteria),
I've recently noticed some new things in Matthew.
MAT 27:5-8 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed,
and went and hanged himself. But the chief priests took the silver pieces and
said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the
price of blood." And they consulted together and bought with them the potter's
field, to bury strangers in. Therefore that field has been called the Field of
Blood to this day.
First of all, notice that the text does not say that Judas died as a result of
hanging. All it says is that he "went and hanged himself." Luke however, in
Acts, tells us that "and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all
his entrails gushed out." This is a pretty clear indication (along with the
other details given in Acts - Peter's speech, the need to pick a new apostle,
etc.) that at least after Judas' fall, he was dead. So the whole concept that
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Matthew and Luke both recount Judas' death is highly probable, but not clear
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
cut.
^^^
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I also wrote...
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MY REPLY...
Here we have a stickler, Dave, that I have to say I just recently noticed.
Let's look at the passage in Matthew:
MAT 27:4 saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said,
"What is that to us? You see to it!"
MAT 27:5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed,
and went and hanged himself.
MAT 27:6 But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, "It is not
lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood."
MAT 27:7 And they consulted together and bought with them the potter's field,
to bury strangers in.
MAT 27:8 Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
Notice verse 5..."Then he...went and hanged himself."
Matthew does not say Judas died, does it? Should we assume he died as a
result of the hanging? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What does Acts say?
ACT 1:18 (Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity; and
falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out.
ACT 1:20 "For it is written in the book of Psalms: 'Let his dwelling place be
desolate, And let no one live in it'; and, 'Let another take his office.'
Here we may have a graphic explanation of Judas' death....So, my line of
reasoning to dispel your contradiction myth re:the "two" accounts of Judas'
death is this...Matthew doesn't necessarily explain how Judas died; he does
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
say Judas "hanged himself", but he didn't specifically say Judas died in the
hanging incident. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
However, Acts seems to show us his graphic demise. Therefore, there is no
contradiction between Matthew and Acts re: Judas' `death'.
.......
MY REPLY...
...we do know from Matthew that he did hang himself and Acts probably records
his death. Although it's possible and plausible that he fell from the hanging
and hit some rocks, thereby bursting open, I can no longer assume that to be
the case. Therefore, no contradiction. Matthew did not say Judas died as a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
result of the hanging, did he? Most scholars believe he probably did, but...?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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I quoted all that to show that I highly regard the scholars' explanations, but
in looking at the texts initially, we can't assume Judas died. It is, however,
highly probable. ^^^^^^
DB...
"By the way, while all agree that Judas died from the hanging, the books had
different ways of dealing with the contradiction we are discussing. One
simply ignored it entirely and simply referred back to Matthew's version as
the correct version in both Matt and Acts. "The Biblical Knowledge Commentary"
suggested the hypotheses that Judas hung and then when he rotted, his belly
exploded (which doesn't explain his headlong fall), or that his branch or rope
broke, and he fell to his death and his gut gushed out (which doesn't explain
how a hanging man, would fall headlong rather than feet first)."
MY REPLY...
The outcome of any fall is dependent upon many factors...how high the person
was suspended before the fall, any obstructions such as tree branches that may
have deviated the fall, how steep an incline of rocky surfaces the victim fell
upon, thus possibly rolling or bouncing of several rocks, etc. In a
superficial examination of the Acts passage and the Matthew passage, we are not
given a lot of info on the geographical specifics, but Tony in the above quoted
post gave us some...
_____________________________________________________________________
A possible reconstruction would be this: Judas hanged himself on a tree on the
edge of a precipice that overlooked the valley of Hinnom. After he hung there
for some time, the limb of the tree snapped or the rope gave way and Judas
fell down the ledge, mangling his body in the process.
The fall could have been before *or* after death as either would fit this
explanation. This possibility is entirely natural when the terrain of the
valley of Hinnom is examined. From the bottom of the valley, you can see
rocky terraces 25 to 40 feet in height and almost perpendicular.
There are still trees around the ledges and a rocky pavement at the bottom.
Therefore, it is easy to conclude that Judas struck one of the jagged rocks on
this way down, tearing his body open.
_____________________________________________________________________
DB...
Now truthfully, I do not see what is comforting about Matthew confusing the
source of the Potter's field prophesy, but on the other hand the author is
correct: Matthew does make that confusion. Of course a Biblical inerrantist
who claim that every word of the Bible is guaranteed true by God, will have to
thereby add one more contradiction to the death of Judas (ie: where the
prophesy of the Potter's field came from)."
MY REPLY...
Please, when we are done with this study on his death, remind me to discuss
this with you.
DB...
As to your second question Mr DeCenso, you ask how we could be sure that the
money with which Judas purchased the land, was indeed for the betrayal, rather
than some other source. I would point out that in Acts, where it specifically
mention "the reward of iniquity" [Acts 1:18], it also specifically mentions
what act of iniquity they were talking about (ie: Acts 1:16 "...concerning
Judas who was guide to those who arrested Jesus."). Now I would point out
that when the Bible describes an act of "iniquity," and then immediately
discusses "*the* reward of iniquity," it would be rather inane to suggest that
it was an action of iniquity other than the one discussed."
MY REPLY...
Dave, we are getting somewhere, aren't we!
ACT 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples
(altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,
ACT 1:16 "Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy
Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide
to those who arrested Jesus;
ACT 1:17 "for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry."
ACT 1:18 (Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity; and
falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out.
ACT 1:19 And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem; so that field
is called in their own language, Akel Dama, that is, Field of Blood.)
ACT 1:20 "For it is written in the book of Psalms: 'Let his dwelling place be
desolate, And let no one live in it'; and, 'Let another take his office.'
Notice that in verse 16, the word "iniquity" is not used. Rather, it states
that Judas "became a guide to those who arrested Jesus".
But the writer DID NOT stop there...vs. 17, "for he was numbered with us and
obtained a part in this ministry." What part did Judas play in their ministry?
^^^^^^
JOH 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a
thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.
JOH 13:29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus had
said to him, "Buy those things we need for the feast," or that he should give
something to the poor.
So, now we know what part Judas played - he was a treasurer, per se.
Right after Peter stated that Judas played a part in this ministry (treasurer,
according to John), THEN Luke adds the parenthetical explanation of "wages of
iniquity" - money that should have been put into the ministry, but was stolen
by Judas to purchase a field. I believe this is a better exegetical
explanation of what the "wages of iniquity" are. What do you think, Dave?
DB...
"Now since I have given you clear answers (and even references), perhaps you
could unequivocally state what type of inerrantist you are (instead of asking
me what type I think you are, as you did to Mr Joslin)."
MY REPLY...
I will gladly admit that I am a Complete Inerrantist, although I do not have
that big a problem with the Limited Inerrancy view.
Frank
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As the Sharks' season came to a close tonight, I will start a series of posts,
trying to revisit the players, the trades, the moves, etc., that went through
for the Sharks for the past season. If you are uninterested, since I will
have the words SHARKS REVIEW in the subject heading in these postings, you can
kill them.
I will first try to evaluate how the players did. These ratings, of course,
are subject to my own biases, but I hope that I can try to be as objective as
possible. I will evalute players who finished the season with the Sharks
and/or did not play for another NHL team this season.
Thus, then, let's go to the goaltenders...
#1 BRIAN HAYWARD Season: 11th
Acquired: '91-92 from Minnesota in dispersal draft
Grade: P (D)
It is sad that his career has to come to this dim an end, a career that
featured sharing three Jennings Trophies (with Patrick Roy, in '87, '88, and
'89). It would indeed be unfair for me to do anything but give him a passing
grade (and skip the letter grading), but he had simply been awful on ice this
year, save for a bright spot or two, and even if he had been healthy, he would
not be any more than the 3rd-string goalie.
But Hayward was a classy individual, who also figured in on the Sharks' first
ever victory, the 3rd game of the season last year against the Calgary Flames.
As he retires, the fans will remember what a good guy he was.
#30 JEFF HACKETT Season: 3rd
Acquired: '91-92, from N. Y. Islanders in expansion draft
Grade: C
Hackett, after (deservedly) winning the team MVP honors last season, simply
wasted the year. Other than a few good spots (57 saves against Los Angeles,
almost-shutout against Tampa Bay, etc.), Hackett, finishing with 85.6% save
percentage and a 5.28 GAA, watched his status go from the team's #1 goalie to
bench decoration at the end of the season. He was expected, early, to carry
the team along; instead, he apparently became frustrated, but the an early
injury that forced him to miss 12 games may have been a contributing factor,
but upon return, he simply wasn't up to the task. He may not return next
year.
#31 WADE FLAHERTY Season: 1st (still eligible as rookie)
Acquired: '91-92, signed as undrafted free agent
Grade: I (A-)
It is pretty hard to evaluate a goaltender on just one game alone, thus the
incomplete grade, but yet in the one start that he did get (against the Calgary
Flames), Flaherty was nothing but sharp for at least two periods. He started
the season poorly in Kansas City, but finished strong, prompting the Blades'
owner Ron Parker to comment that he should be a candidate for the IHL MVP
honors. The upcoming IHL playoffs would be a major challenge for him as he
tries to make it into the NHL; last year, he was a capable backup for Arturs
Irbe in the throughout the season and in the Turner Cup playoffs, picking up
all-star honors along with Irbe; now it's time for him to show that he can
share the job with Irbe next year, because with prospects Dan Ryder, Trevor
Robins, and Scott Cashman coming along, if he doesn't make it next year, he
may not ever.
#32 ARTURS IRBE Season: 1st
Acquired: '91-92, from Minnesota in dispersal draft
Grade: B+
I may yet be overly critical of Irbe in a year that he clearly established that
he's a bona fide NHL goaltender, perhaps a bona fide #1 goaltender. He has
provided most of the little highlight footage that the Sharks team had, getting
the team's first ever shut-out against the Los Angeles Kings on December 26.
He has been fearless in and out of the net, aggressively playing the puck and
making passes, reminding people of a young Ron Hextall (except, of course, the
goonism). Yet he still needs to develop more consistency, which is hard to do
with such a bad defense in front of him, but if the Sharks are to challenge for
a playoff spot next season, Irbe's the key, as he demonstrated in being named
as a star of the game 13 times in 32 starts.
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I need to bring on my VW Corrado for body work (I got hit). I was
wondering if anyone has heard of any of these South Bay body shops:
Akins Collision Center of Santa Clara - on Reed St
Auto West Collision - in San Jose
Los Gatos Acura
Royal Auto Body - in Sunnyvale
Thanks!
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Hopefully, a miracle (o.k. not quite a miracle, but close!) will occur and
Pittsburgh will be elminated prior to the finals. If they make it again,
they will probably keep the Cup. If they don't, it's the Hawks' turn!
GO BLACKHAWKS!!
CONGRATS TO JEREMY ROENICK FOR BEING ONLY THE 2ND HAWKS PLAYER TO POST
BACK TO BACK 50 GOAL SEASONS!!
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[This belongs in comp.windows.x.i386unix - I've redirected followups]
I know for a fact that the EISA version of the Orchid ProDesigner IIS
works. However, an EISA SVGA card is likely a waste of money.
When XFree86 2.0 comes out, with support for accelerated chipsets, ISA,
EISA, and VLB will all be supported.
The more important question is "what chipsets are supported?". The bus
is basically irrelevent as a compatibility issue.
--
David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 Fax: (908) 957-5627
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748
XFree86 requests should be addressed to <xfree86@physics.su.oz.au>
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: Seems to me Koresh is yet another messenger that got killed
: for the message he carried. (Which says nothing about the
: character of the messenger.) I reckon we'll have to find out
: the rest the hard way.
:
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I doubt Henderson would clear waivers. And if he did, he would
instantly be signed for the major league minimum, with Oakland picking
up the remaining $3 million tab.
Some GMs value on-field performance too...
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Someone writing anonymously asks:
I *did* become a Christian without having been indoctrinated by my parents, and
having studied Buddhism fairly carefully and other religions to a lesser
degree. I made a decision to accept the truth-claims of Christianity after
having given it a lot of thought. (I have to point out that the process was not
purely a cold, rational one: there was a powerful experiential element as well.
Also, my Calvinist should rest assured that I don't lay any of the
responsibility for the outcome [my conversion] on anyone but God.)
It took me years and years for this all to happen, because I had many of the
objections that this poster puts forward. I grew up in the shadow of [generic
authoritarian conservative denomination], and I *knew* that that wasn't a way
of life that I could adopt. But I gradually learned not to tar all of
Christianity with the same brush, and realized quite suddenly one cold winter
night that I accepted what I had heretofore rejected. I am quite certain that
I was not "brain-washed".
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IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CAERE TYPIST PLUS GRAPHICS
HAND SCANNER, PLEASE READ ON AND SAVE MY LIFE.........
My problem is that my Caere Typist Plus Graphics Hand Scanner will not
connect to my PowerBook 160.
The cable from the scanner will not fit the SCSI port of the computer.
I managed to gaet a cabled assembled that adapted the cord to the
computer. However, this placed the computer into SCSI mode, that is it
acted as an external hard disk whenever i switched the computer on.
I've asked an engineer in London to assemble a new Cable for me. But
he's taken 14 weeks and has yet to find the solution, out of sheer
laziness. And I know that a cable exists to solve the problem.
If you know the solution. Please let me know what cable I need and how I
can get hold of one.
My E-Mail address is :
zia@uk.ac.ed.castle
I will be truely grateful for all your help.
Thanking you in advance,
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Does anyone know of a site where I could ftp some RenderMan shaders?
Or of a newsgroup which has discussion or information about RenderMan? I'm
new to the RenderMan (Mac) family, and I'd like to get as much info I can
lay my hands on. Thanks!
Andy Bates.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andy Bates.
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They sure make it sound like that.
Even a simpleton knows a baseball bat is considered a deadly weapon.
If one cannot run away (e.g. old, infirm, even middle-aged if the
assailant is younger), a handgun is the most effective means of
defense. You won't even have to fire a shot 98% of the time.
Any real streetfighter (and there are LOTS of them), with or without a
knife, will kick the living sh** out of most people "trained in
unarmed self defense". For the majority of people, a gun is the most
effective form of self defense.
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I don't care who told you this it is not generally true. I see EVERY single
line item on a contract and I have to sign it. There is no such thing as
wrap at this university. I also asked around here. Ther is no wrap at
Marquette, University of Wisconsin Madison, Utah State, Weber State or
Embry Riddle U. I am not saying that it doees not happen but in every instance
that I have been able to track down it does not. Also the president of our
University who was Provost at University of West Virgina said that it did
not happen there either and that this figure must be included in the overhead
to be a legitimate charge.
I did they never heard of it but suggest that, like our president did, that
any percentage number like this is included in the overhead.
No Allen you did not. You merely repeated allegations made by an Employee
of the Overhead capital of NASA. Nothing that Reston does could not be dont
better or cheaper at the Other NASA centers where the work is going on.
Kinda funny isn't it that someone who talks about a problem like this is
at a place where everything is overhead.
Why did the Space News artice point out that it was the congressionally
demanded change that caused the problems? Methinks that you are being
selective with the facts again.
If it takes four flights a year to resupply the station and you have a cost
of 500 million a flight then you pay 2 billion a year. You stated that your
"friend" at Reston said that with the current station they could resupply it
for a billion a year "if the wrap were gone". This merely points out a
blatent contridiction in your numbers that understandably you fail to see.
Dennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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Brent, the Feds turned off the BD's electricity a couple of weeks ago...
Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the radio, TV, or newspapers,
though.
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Contents:Problems with table widgets in R5
The following part of a program (an user interface for a simulation
system) did work in R4, but refused to in R5. Of cause, the R4-version
did not know about the xpTableWidgetClass (we used tableWidgetClass instead - caught from the net in times of R3) and XpTableChildPosition (formerly XtTblPosition).
Since compiling with R5, the program causes a zero width or height error
(on sparc-stations). The trouble-shooter is the (re)computation of the
model_init_table - table widget: though its childs (label and asciiText
widgets) exist, XtQueryGeometry returns a prefered width and height of zero.
Thus the following asignment cannot perform anything else but set the width and height of the newly created widget to zero. No wonder XtPopup or XtManage- Child create zero width or height errors (dependent on whether width and height of the shell widget are set in the resource file or not).
Question: Does anyone know, why XtQueryGeometry returns so low prefered
values when working on table widgets or perhaps what
to do about?
I'll be happy, if someone is able to help me.
Germans are requested to answer in german.
Siegfried Kaiser
email: kaiser@uniko.uni-koblenz.de
The part of interest:
/* Graphischer Neuaufbau des Model-Init-Formulars */
/* Storing the old width and height of the viewport- */
/* widget, which is the parent of the troubling table */
/* widget, before the viewport widget is destroyed */
/* The destroying of widgets before resizing them is a */
/* relict from R3-age */
if (model_init_popped_up)
XtUnmapWidget(model_init_form_view);
XtDestroyWidget(model_init_form_view);
/* Creating the subtree within the shell, of which the */
/* root is the viewport widget */
n = 0;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNfromVert,model_init_title); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNfromHoriz,model_init_button_view); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNallowVert,True); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNforceBars,True); n++;
model_init_form_view = XtCreateWidget("form_view",viewportWidgetClass,
model_init_form,args,n);
n = 0;
model_init_table = XtCreateWidget("table",xpTableWidgetClass,
model_init_form_view,args,n);
/* create_form_widget does create and position table */
/* widget's childs. To position them it uses XpTable- */
/* ChildPosition in R5 and XtTblPosition in R4 */
create_form_widget(ptr_model_init_obj,model_init_table);
/* */
/* The crucial function call: */
/* intended to return the maximum height possible: if */
/* there isn't sufficient space to show the whole table */
/* widget, then the viewport shall grow as large as */
/* possible, but not beyond the border of screen. */
/* If there is enough space, the window is intended to */
/* shrienk to the smallest possible height. */
/* */
XtQueryGeometry(model_init_table,NULL,&pref);
/* According to the algorithms idea, the new value of */
/* viewport widget's height is selected. Unfortunately */
/* pref.height = 0 leads to new_height = 0. */
if (form_view_height > pref.height) new_height = pref.height;
else new_height = form_view_height;
/* Setting the new values to viewport widgets ancestors */
w = XtNameToWidget(model_init_form,"form_view");
XtResizeWidget(w,width,new_height,pref.border_width);
XtResizeWidget(model_init_form_view,width,new_height,
pref.border_width);
if (model_init_popped_up)
{
/* In case the shell, which contains model_init_form_- */
/* view and model_init_table, allready exists, is has */
/* to be resized, too. */
n = 0;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNwidth,&shell_width); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNheight,&shell_height); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNborderWidth,&shell_bw); n++;
XtGetValues(model_init_shell,args,n);
XtResizeWidget(model_init_shell,shell_width,
shell_height - height + new_height,shell_bw);
}; /* end of if */
n = 0;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNwidth,&width); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNborderWidth,&bw); n++;
XtGetValues(model_init_button_view,args,n);
XtResizeWidget(model_init_button_view,width,new_height,bw);
XtResizeWidget(vert_bar,sbar_width,1,sbar_bw);
resize_inits();
/* If there is the shell's height set within the */
/* resource file, the program terminates within the */
/* first XtManageChild on its second pass through the */
/* observed function. The first pass succeeds. */
XtManageChild(model_init_form_view);
XtManageChild(model_init_table);
if (!model_init_popped_up)
{
/* In case the shell isn't popped up it has to be done. */
/* If there is no value set to the shell's height within*/
/* the resource file, the program terminates here. */
XtPopup(model_init_shell,XtGrabNone);
model_init_pop_flag = True;
set_model_init_attributes();
}; /* end of if */
get_actual_init(&ptr_actual);
load_form(ptr_actual);
/* */
/* If someone suspects the creation of table widget's contents */
/* causes all the trouble, there are the sources of create_form */
/* */
create_form_widget(ptr,table)
t_obj *ptr;
Widget table;
/* ptr is a linear list containing attributes and para- */
/* meters of the model and additionally the correspon- */
/* ding widgets */
{
Arg args[10];
int n,
row,
col;
t_obj *ptr_obj;
t_ident *ptr_ident;
/* Initialization of the local variables */
ptr_obj = ptr;
col = 0;
row = 0;
/* Schleife ueber die Objekte bzw. das Pseudo-Objekt (fuer die Parameter) */
/* loop through the list of objects and pseudo-objects: */
/* every object occuring in the model has zero or more */
/* attributes and some parameters, which can be shared */
/* by several objects. */
/* Because of locality the attributes of one object are */
/* listed in a second linear list (of type t_ident), */
/* whereas the parameters, which can belong to any ob- */
/* ject are put together in a pseudo-object */
/* Thus the program loops through the list of objects */
/* and pseudo-objects and for each object through the */
/* list of its attributes resp. parameters. */
while (ptr_obj != (t_obj*)NULL)
{
/* Each object and pseudo-object is represented in a */
/* label widget */
n = 0;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNlabel,ptr_obj->name); n++;
ptr_obj->label_w = XtCreateManagedWidget("object",labelWidgetClass,
table,args,n);
XpTableChildPosition(ptr_obj->label_w,col,row);
col++;
row++;
ptr_ident = ptr_obj->ident;
/* Schleife ueber die Objekt-Attribute bzw. Parameter */
while (ptr_ident != (t_ident*)NULL)
{
/* Each attribute and parameter is represented in a */
/* label and has a corresponding asciiText widget, in */
/* which it is to be initialized. */
n = 0;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNlabel,ptr_ident->name); n++;
ptr_ident->label_w = XtCreateManagedWidget("ident",labelWidgetClass,
table,args,n);
XpTableChildPosition(ptr_ident->label_w,col,row);
col++;
n = 0;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNlength,ROW_LENGTH); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNstring,ptr_ident->text); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNeditType,XawtextEdit); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNwrap,XawtextWrapWord); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNresize,XawtextResizeHeight); n++;
XtSetArg(args[n],XtNuseStringInPlace,True); n++;
ptr_ident->text_w = XtCreateManagedWidget("text",
asciiTextWidgetClass,
table,args,n);
XpTableChildPosition(ptr_ident->text_w,col,row);
col--;
row++;
get_next_ident(&ptr_ident);
}; /* end of while */
col--;
get_next_obj(&ptr_obj);
}; /* end of while */
} /* end of create_form_widget */
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I have heard many things about the ATI Ultra Pro card. Some have
been positive but most are negative. Could people please confirm
these? (I am interested in the EISA version in particular).
1) The card does not work in a system with 32M RAM.
2) The card works in a 32M system with some switches
set but it is much slower.
3) The card is _interlaced_ in its 24bit (true-colour) modes.
4) The latest build 59 drivers still do not work in many
cases.
5) This card is the fastest full colour card for the money.
6) This card is the greatest thing since sliced bread. ;-)
Thanks for your feedback. I will summarize.
Al
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: The message from the NIST about the clipper chip comes from the
: following address:
:
: clipper@csrc.ncsl.nist.gov (Clipper Chip Announcement)
:
: Just who is that, I asked myself, or rather, I asked the computer.
:
: % telnet csrc.ncsl.nist.gov 25
...list of name elided for brevity......
:
: Well, isn't that interesting. Dorothy Denning, Mitch Kapor, Marc
: Rotenberg, Ron Rivest, Jim Bidzos, and others. The Government, RSA,
: TIS, CPSR, and the EFF are all represented. I don't suppose anybody
: within any of these organizations would care to comment? Or is this
: just the White House's idea of a cruel joke on these peoples' inboxes?
I know that at least one person on that list says the first he heard
of Clipper was in the Friday morning newspaper! And another has
already fired off a letter of protest to NIST.
My point? I suspect this list, interesting as it is for various
reasons, does not represent the cabal that put this proposal together.
Some of them, yes. Others, no.
This may be nothing more than a mailing list of people who get
crypto-related announcements from NSA, er, I mean "NIST."
-Tim May
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boards injuring his shoulder and they blotted out the injury report.
The Wings player was Yves Racine, and he returned later in that same period.
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Hello,
way back in the mists of time, I had a set of patches written
by Richard Caley (I believe to the standars distribution, patch level
6) which added regular expressions in the .tvtwmrc file, multiple icon
regions, squeezable icons, and f.deleteordestroy function. I still
have the patches, however, I can no longer find the sources to which
they applied ;-).
I'd appreciate if some kind soul could send me a pointer to
where I could find the sources. Has anyone updated the patches for R5?
(Richard? are you out there? pretty please?)
Thanks in advance.
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Huh? Did this guy just invent wreck.motorcycles?
Curious minds want to know.
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...quickly followed by...
This is the standard method for claiming non-combatant status, even
for the commanders of combat.
"Innocent civilians"??? Like the ones who set up the booby traps or
engaged in shoot-outs with soldiers or attack them with grenades or
axes?
And the rest of the world is getting used to Arab tactics of claiming
innocence for even the most guilty of the vile murderers among them.
Keep it up long enough and it will backfire but good.
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Proper counter to this claim: "Forensic analysis of the WTC bomb by
means of taggants would have been as impossible as semantic analysis
of NYT editorials by means of taggants -- the difficulty in both cases
being to have persuaded the bull to consume the taggants before
production of either item."
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Has anyone written or seen a C library or C++ class for fixed-point math,
or good articles about same?
I pretty much know how to do this, but I have a few other wheels to invent
at the moment...
Thanks!
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Sorry, ARF - you dog,
That news was suppressed because the Israeli national volleyball team
repeatedly spiked it.
Let this be a lesson to others not to invoke the wrath of sports nuts.
(Brits lead the way in this regard, with ~220 casualties in the last 2
years.)
Anyway, Yigal would never sue. His life is (presumably) so pristine
that its most intimate details could be revealed without harm to
anyone. Might even be good instruction for some people I can think of.
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: What is a general rule of thumb for sobriety and cycling? Couple hours after
: you "feel" sober? What? Or should I just work with "If I drink tonight, I
: don't ride until tomorrow"?
It depends on how badly you want to live. The FAA says "eight hours, bottle
to throttle" for pilots but recommends twenty-four hours. The FARs specify
a blood/alcohol level of 0.4 as legally drunk, I think, which is more than
twice as strict as DWI minimums.
BTW, alcohol metabolizes in your blood at a fixed rate -- one beer/hour will
keep your blood/alcohol level barely street-legal. Coffee, hyperventilation
and other bar tricks won't speed it up nor will they fool Mr. Ranger.
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greetings:
you may be in luck. i seem to recall seeing a blurb in one of
the kit car magazines about a company in norway who pulled a
mould (sp?) off a real kubel, and has adapted it to the beetle
floorpan. as for the suspension, all i can remember about the
vw thing i used to own is that it had about 3" more suspension
travel than a stock beetle, but i'd heard that there were after-
market parts for off-road use that were as good or better. note
that the major difference (looks wise) between a kubel & a thing
are the hood and the fenders. the kubel had an external spare
mounted *on* the hood, and the hood sloped down (for visibility?)
sharply, and had rounded fenders. the thing has a lightly sloped
hood with the spare mounted inside (unless moved to make for more
luggage space...) and has half-hexagon shaped fenders (imagine a
nut large enough to put a tire *in*, and cut off the bottom half
of it...).
unfortunately, i don't have that info anymore. try stopping
at a local bookstore and copying down the phone numbers for the
two big mag's and calling them. they might be able to get the
number for you (don't forget to calculate the time difference to
norway before calling...).
later,
kc
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I'm interested if anyone out here can point me towards a review of the
following book in any scholarly Christian journal, whether it be
conservative or liberal, Protestant or Catholic.
_The_Lost_Years_of_Jesus_ (documentary evidence for Jesus' 17 year
journey to the East), by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Supposedly this
is a theory that was refuted in the past, and she has re-examined it.
I thought this was just another novel book, but I saw it listed as
a text for a class in religious studies here. Also, the endorsements seem
to come from some credible sources, so I'm wondering if scholars have
reviewed it (or anyone on the net, for that matter).
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Morphine or demerol is about the only effective way of stopping pain
that severe. Obviously, she'll need a prescription to get such drugs.
Can't she go to the county hospital or something?
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Is the answer as simple as that you dislike russians???
And where would canadian hockey be today without the europeans?? Dont say
that the european influence on the league has been all bad for the game.
I mean, look at the way you play these days. Less fights and more hockey.
Imho, canadian hockey has had a positive curve of development since the
70's when the game was more brute than beauty......
Oh, look!! You don't like Finns either....
Too bad almost all of you northamericans originates from europe.....
Hmmm... And what kind of a name is Rauser. Doesn't sound very "canadian" to
me. ;-)
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Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My computer from Gateway is freezing up on me.
Gateway tech support couldn't help me. They want more specifics on when
it freezes up. I DID! Anyway, here it is. If the keyboard is left idle
in Dos for more than 15 minutes, I can type on the command line, but as
soon as I hit a carraige return, the computer locks up. This will happen
almost every time, whether I've just booted up, reset, or finished using a
dos program. Everything works fine if I don't let it sit. Windows is a
different story. If I let the machine sit while in windows for 15 minutes
or more, it does not freeze up. However, I do get frequent application
errors that kick me out of an application unexpectedly, losing my work.
I just don't know if this is a hardware or software problem. Any help
in diagnosis or things to try, would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I do not run any TSRs (except smartdrive) and QAplus diagnostics
says everything is good.
System is: 486SX-33
15" Crystalscan Gateway Monitor
VLB-ATI ultra pro (using mach32 driver build 55)
Winchester 170MB HD
Microsoft mouse
Thanks,
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Here is the OPI (Offensive Production Index) for all NL players with at
least 10 at-bats.
It is early in the season so there are some high numbers. Barry Bonds
finished last season at 0.795.
I welcome comments and suggestions.
Kevin
League OPI: 0.410
League BA: 0.252
League SLG: 0.375
League OBA: 0.321
Rank Player OPI BA SLG OBA
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1 Phi,daulton 1.101 0.333 0.875 0.515
2 Phi,kruk 1.069 0.429 0.821 0.529
3 Cub,grace 1.007 0.452 0.742 0.514
4 Cub,may 0.931 0.389 0.889 0.421
5 Col,boston 0.888 0.545 0.545 0.545
6 Pit,bell 0.873 0.429 0.714 0.467
7 Col,galarraga 0.867 0.458 0.708 0.458
8 StL,pena 0.833 0.400 0.600 0.516
9 StL,zeile 0.811 0.440 0.560 0.500
10 Cin,mitchell 0.810 0.429 0.643 0.467
11 Mon,lansing 0.792 0.419 0.677 0.438
12 Pit,slaught 0.754 0.474 0.526 0.474
13 Mon,vanderwal 0.746 0.389 0.556 0.476
14 NYM,tfernandez 0.709 0.300 0.400 0.500
15 SnF,martinez 0.697 0.300 0.400 0.500
16 Hou,bagwell 0.695 0.367 0.567 0.424
17 Col,hayes 0.686 0.333 0.667 0.364
18 Col,eyoung 0.682 0.333 0.500 0.407
19 Mon,alou 0.675 0.371 0.600 0.389
20 Cin,milligan 0.659 0.333 0.375 0.515
21 Phi,dykstra 0.646 0.214 0.571 0.405
22 SnF,bonds 0.624 0.280 0.680 0.333
22 Flo,conine 0.624 0.393 0.393 0.469
24 SnD,plantier 0.603 0.286 0.571 0.375
25 Hou,gonzalez 0.596 0.296 0.667 0.296
26 Hou,anthony 0.594 0.320 0.480 0.414
27 Col,cole 0.579 0.318 0.409 0.400
28 Atl,sanders 0.576 0.357 0.643 0.357
29 Mon,berry 0.566 0.273 0.273 0.500
30 Cub,sosa 0.558 0.303 0.545 0.343
31 StL,jefferies 0.551 0.269 0.692 0.296
32 Pit,vanslyke 0.549 0.296 0.444 0.387
33 *Montreal 0.548 0.312 0.490 0.367
34 Los,butler 0.545 0.296 0.333 0.457
35 Mon,grissom 0.542 0.333 0.455 0.371
36 Pit,king 0.536 0.308 0.346 0.438
37 SnD,gwynn 0.533 0.280 0.400 0.379
38 Pit,merced 0.532 0.300 0.400 0.391
39 NYM,murray 0.521 0.308 0.462 0.357
40 StL,gilkey 0.514 0.312 0.438 0.353
41 NYM,bonilla 0.507 0.292 0.417 0.370
42 SnD,walters 0.501 0.300 0.500 0.333
43 Cub,wilson 0.497 0.323 0.452 0.344
44 Flo,weiss 0.492 0.261 0.348 0.433
45 *Philadelphia 0.487 0.243 0.431 0.348
46 Atl,justice 0.480 0.207 0.448 0.361
47 *Pittsburgh 0.479 0.292 0.428 0.351
48 StL,osmith 0.476 0.310 0.448 0.355
49 Phi,incaviglia 0.473 0.250 0.500 0.308
50 Pit,young 0.470 0.286 0.500 0.310
51 *StLouis 0.467 0.275 0.445 0.344
52 *Colorado 0.459 0.287 0.426 0.327
53 NYM,hundley 0.458 0.300 0.450 0.333
54 NYM,orsulak 0.454 0.357 0.429 0.400
55 SnF,benjamin 0.440 0.200 0.500 0.273
56 Atl,gant 0.438 0.214 0.464 0.333
56 *NYMets 0.438 0.261 0.345 0.356
58 *Houston 0.436 0.260 0.415 0.318
59 Mon,pitcher 0.434 0.312 0.375 0.353
60 Phi,morandini 0.433 0.240 0.360 0.321
61 Hou,cedeno 0.427 0.280 0.440 0.308
62 Cin,sabo 0.423 0.226 0.452 0.273
63 SnF,manwaring 0.413 0.261 0.435 0.292
64 *SnFrancisco 0.412 0.253 0.396 0.315
65 Atl,blauser 0.409 0.276 0.310 0.364
66 SnF,thompson 0.408 0.278 0.389 0.316
66 Hou,caminiti 0.408 0.259 0.481 0.286
68 Flo,barberie 0.405 0.267 0.267 0.371
69 Mon,cordero 0.400 0.276 0.345 0.323
70 SnD,sheffield 0.397 0.241 0.448 0.267
71 Los,karros 0.392 0.259 0.296 0.355
72 SnF,williams 0.391 0.226 0.452 0.250
72 SnD,mcgriff 0.391 0.192 0.385 0.276
74 Flo,destrade 0.390 0.267 0.333 0.333
75 Col,girardi 0.388 0.238 0.381 0.304
76 Atl,bream 0.386 0.182 0.409 0.250
77 Mon,wood 0.385 0.200 0.300 0.333
78 Flo,santiago 0.384 0.200 0.360 0.286
79 Phi,thompson 0.383 0.227 0.273 0.320
80 SnF,clayton 0.382 0.345 0.379 0.345
80 Los,piazza 0.382 0.304 0.391 0.333
82 SnD,bell 0.378 0.273 0.364 0.304
83 Los,wallach 0.374 0.200 0.400 0.273
84 Cin,larkin 0.367 0.281 0.281 0.361
85 Pit,garcia 0.366 0.273 0.318 0.304
85 *Cincinnati 0.366 0.256 0.319 0.326
87 NYM,coleman 0.363 0.259 0.259 0.310
88 NYM,kent 0.362 0.190 0.286 0.320
89 StL,whiten 0.361 0.240 0.360 0.321
90 Cin,roberts 0.359 0.278 0.278 0.333
90 *Cubs 0.359 0.236 0.366 0.277
92 SnF,lewis 0.354 0.227 0.364 0.261
92 Hou,finley 0.354 0.214 0.250 0.312
92 Col,clark 0.354 0.250 0.350 0.286
95 Los,pitcher 0.350 0.286 0.357 0.286
95 *SnDiego 0.350 0.219 0.357 0.268
97 Atl,lemke 0.345 0.200 0.240 0.333
98 *LosAngeles 0.339 0.221 0.275 0.311
99 SnF,mcgee 0.335 0.267 0.300 0.333
99 *Atlanta 0.335 0.199 0.308 0.287
101 Cin,sanders 0.334 0.267 0.333 0.290
101 Cin,oliver 0.334 0.208 0.208 0.345
103 SnD,gardner 0.332 0.238 0.333 0.273
103 Los,reed 0.332 0.276 0.276 0.323
105 Phi,hollins 0.327 0.226 0.290 0.294
106 *Florida 0.326 0.226 0.268 0.311
107 Los,davis 0.325 0.188 0.219 0.278
108 Atl,pendleton 0.322 0.212 0.273 0.297
109 SnF,clark 0.316 0.161 0.290 0.257
110 Los,strawberry 0.314 0.111 0.185 0.314
110 Hou,biggio 0.314 0.179 0.214 0.303
112 Phi,bell 0.304 0.182 0.364 0.217
113 Flo,magadan 0.303 0.182 0.182 0.357
114 StL,pagnozzi 0.299 0.158 0.316 0.238
115 Pit,martin 0.295 0.167 0.417 0.167
115 Col,bichette 0.295 0.222 0.389 0.222
117 Hou,taubensee 0.294 0.190 0.333 0.227
118 Mon,bolick 0.292 0.250 0.312 0.250
119 Flo,pose 0.291 0.258 0.323 0.303
120 Mon,cianfrocco 0.287 0.188 0.375 0.188
121 NYM,johnson 0.274 0.136 0.136 0.296
122 Cin,kelly 0.272 0.250 0.333 0.270
123 Atl,nixon 0.256 0.185 0.222 0.241
124 NYM,pitcher 0.255 0.167 0.250 0.231
125 Pit,pitcher 0.250 0.222 0.278 0.222
126 Cub,buechle 0.231 0.154 0.192 0.241
127 StL,lankford 0.225 0.133 0.133 0.316
128 Atl,olson 0.224 0.150 0.150 0.261
129 Cub,vizcaino 0.217 0.148 0.259 0.179
130 Cub,sanchez 0.212 0.188 0.219 0.212
131 Phi,duncan 0.202 0.214 0.214 0.214
132 Los,offerman 0.198 0.182 0.182 0.250
133 SnF,pitcher 0.197 0.176 0.235 0.176
134 Mon,laker 0.183 0.133 0.267 0.133
135 Phi,chamberlain 0.180 0.111 0.111 0.200
136 SnD,pitcher 0.164 0.182 0.182 0.182
136 Atl,pitcher 0.164 0.182 0.182 0.182
138 Phi,pitcher 0.159 0.111 0.167 0.158
139 Cub,maldonado 0.150 0.105 0.158 0.150
140 Flo,felix 0.148 0.172 0.207 0.172
141 Cin,espy 0.141 0.100 0.100 0.182
142 StL,jordan 0.140 0.105 0.211 0.105
143 Atl,berryhill 0.128 0.091 0.182 0.091
144 Cub,pitcher 0.126 0.111 0.111 0.158
145 SnD,shipley 0.122 0.087 0.174 0.087
146 StL,pitcher 0.106 0.125 0.125 0.125
147 Hou,pitcher 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
147 Col,benavides 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
147 Cin,pitcher 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
150 Cub,wilkins 0.038 0.000 0.000 0.067
151 Flo,pitcher 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
151 Col,pitcher 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
0.74*1B + 1.28*2B + 1.64*3B + 2.25*HR + 0.53*BB + 0.34*(SB-2*CS)
OPI = ----------------------------------------------------------------
AB - H
BA = H / AB
SLG = (H + 2B + 2*3B + 3*HR) / AB
OBA = (H + BB) / (AB + BB)
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There has been a lot of discussion about Tyre. In sum, Ezekiel prophesied
that the place would be mashed and never rebuilt; as there are a lot of
people living there, it would appear that Ezekiel was not literally correct.
This doesn't bother me at all, because I understand the language Ezekiel used
differently than do so-called Biblical literalists. For example, it sometimes
happens that someone says "My grandson is the cutest baby!" and then turns
around and sees the granddaughter and says "Oh! Isn't she the cutest thing!?"
This person is not literally claiming to have lined up all the babies in the
world according to cuteness and discovered his own grandchildren tied for
first. Rather, he is trying to express his emotions using words that are very
object-oriented. Because this example is one that is common to many people,
nobody misunderstands the intent of the statements; the Bible, however, is
often at the mercy of people who assume that everything within must be exactly
literally true. For those people, the existence of Tyre is a problem; for me,
it is not.
Turning to the latest person trying to defend Ezekiel, we read this from
John E King:
No, it implies nothing of the kind. If you had nothing but the prophecy from
Ezekiel, and you were told you interpret it literally, you would never say
"Oh, he means that there will be houses and businesses and plants and stuff
like that." You would read "I will make you a bare rock" and "You will never
be rebuilt", and you'd conclude that Tyre would be a bare rock. The only way
to get from `fishing nets' to `houses and buildings and a medium-large
population' is if you KNOW that all that latter stuff is there.
In other words, your answer means that Ezekiel misled everybody who read the
prophecy at the time it was written. There is no way that, given a literal
reading, they could read this passage and conclude "medium-size city".
You seem to feel that "Never be rebuilt" means "be rebuilt" -- maybe so, but
it is hardly a `clear implication'.
Well, no. That's only a bit less than the population of Annapolis, where I'm
from. You know, the Naval Acadamy, the state capital, George Washington
resigned his commission in the statehouse? Annapolis may not be New York, but
it's at least a two-horse town.
But supposing 22,000 people is a "small town" -- it's still 22,000 people
MORE than Ezekiel predicted.
And you've said nothing about the other problem. In chapter 26, Ezekiel
predicts that Nebuchadnezzar will will destroy Tyre and loot all their
valuables. However, Nebuchadnezzar did NOT destroy Tyre, and in chapter 29
Ezekiel even quotes God as saying "he and his army got no reward from the
campaign he led against Tyre."
Let's ignore Alexander for a moment, and just pay attention to chapter 26.
Ezekiel says N. would destroy Tyre, and N. did NOT destroy Tyre. Ezekiel says
that N. would plunder their valuables, but N. did NOT plunder their valuables.
Regardless of what you think about Tyre _now_, the fact is that N. died before
the place was destroyed. Ezekiel said N. was going to do it, and N. did not.
*
This post is, of course, pointless. Inerrantists have an amazing ability
to rewrite the Bible as needed to fit whatever they want it to say.
For example, I expect Mr King to respond to the comments about Ezekiel 26
by pulling some "clear implications" out of hat.
When Ezekiel said that N. would "demolish your towers", that clearly implied
that the walls would still be standing so people would know where the towers
used to be. And when Ezekiel said that N. would "demolish your fine houses
and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea", that clearly implied
that N. would never set foot on the island. And when Ezekiel wrote that N.
would "build a ramp up to your walls", that clearly implies that N. would
spend 13 years stomping around on the mainland and never get close to the
walls.
See? A few "clear implications" that are totally contrary to the text, and
you can reconcile anything you want.
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I was kind of half watching Street Stories last night
and one of the segments was about this doctor in
S.F. who provides a service of investigating treatment
for various diseases. I'm pretty sure his name is
Dr. Mark Renniger (sp?) or close to that.
Did anyone else watch this? I'd like to get his
correct name and address/phone number if possible.
Thanks.
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Hello,
I am looking to slightly increase the performance of my 89 Honda
Civic Si. I was wondering if anyone could suggest upgrades that were not
too drastic. I thought that one of the easiest upgrades would be a new
header. Does anyone know what kind of increase that the header would give
me? I think I would check with Jackson Racing for the part. Are there
any other comparines would make Honda parts.
Are there any other small changes that can be easily made and won't
screw up the car. Things like new injectors?, new fuel injection chip etc?
I would welcome any suggestions of small changes that would make a
difference.
I don't really want to change the cam etc because I have heard that it
would be much harder on the engine.
E-Mail relpies prefered please and I will post a summary of all the replies.
Thanks for any help you may have to offer!
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I have a peculiar color problem with MacX, Apple's Macintosh X server.
I'd like to know if others have seen the same problem. It's happened
with the current version (1.2), and with version 1.1.7.
When some types of client windows are displayed, parts of the windows
are in the wrong color; if the window is moved slightly, forcing the server
to repaint it, it is repainted in the correct colors. It doesn't happen
for xterm windows, but has happened for graphic windows and with some
Motif clients.
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Duh! He was making a joke about how long the Leafs would last in the
playoffs. (Y'know, hit the courses in the off season). Sheesh... People are
so quick to complain...
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As far as I can see, one of the big differences between Davidians and
Christians is in who they follow. I have sometimes tried to put myself
in the feet of one of Jesus's disciples. Basically, they gave up a
lot --- career, possibly family, and well, a whole bunch, to follow
Jesus.
So what is the difference? It is quite plain. Jesus was good and
David Koresh was not.
The problem is, I think, is that we try to legislate what is good
and what is bad in terms of principles. For instance, there are thousands of
laws in the U.S. governing what is legal and what is not. Often, it is hard
to bring people to justice, because it is not possible to find
a legal way to do it. If only we could trust judges to be just,
then we could tell them to administer justice fairly, and justice
would be followed. But since judges don't always get it right,
we have a complicated system involving precedent and bunches
of other stuff which attempt to make the imperfect (the justice
of man) into something perfect. But what I hear about the justice
system in the U.S. tells me that quite the opposite is true.
There is also a problem that we tend to judge the presentation
more than the material being presented. So we might consider
a ranting Christian to be bad, but an eloquent person from another
religion to be good. This goes along with the American desire
to protect the Constitution at all costs, even if it allows
people to do bad things.
I think that it is the message that is important. If a man is
presenting a false message, even if he is ever ever so mild mannered,
then that man is performing a tremendous disservice.
I know that I am rambling here. I guess that what I am trying to
say is that we shouldn't be looking for principles that tell us
why the Davidians got it wrong. It is not wrong to follow and
worship a person. But it is important to choose the right person.
It is simple. Choose Jesus, and you got it right. Choose
anyone else, and you got it wrong. Why? Because Jesus is the
begotten son of God, and nobody else is. Jesus was without sin, and
nobody else was.
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Archive-name: ripem/faq
Last-update: 31 Mar 93 22:00:00 -0500
ABOUT THIS POSTING
------------------
This is a listing of likely questions and information about RIPEM, a
program for public key mail encryption. It (this FAQ, not RIPEM) was
written and will be maintained by Marc VanHeyningen
<mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu>. It will be posted to a variety of
newsgroups on a monthly basis; follow-up discussion specific to RIPEM
is redirected to the group alt.security.ripem.
WHAT'S NEW
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I am now running a World Wide Web archive of RIPEM information. It
does not contain much of anything that isn't available elsewhere, but
it has convenient pointers to the most current version of this FAQ and
some other stuff. The URL is "http://cs.indiana.edu/ripem/dir.html".
This month's version has a fair amount of new pointers to information
on patents and stuff like that. I've also reordered a few things to
have a more sensible ordering. I hope I don't have to edit this again
soon. :-)
DISCLAIMER
----------
Nothing in this FAQ should be considered legal advice, or anything
other than one layperson's opinion. If you want real legal advice,
talk to a real lawyer, preferably one with experience in patent law,
export regulations, or whatever area of law is in question.
LIST OF QUESTIONS
-----------------
1) What is RIPEM?
2) How can I get RIPEM?
3) Will RIPEM run on my machine?
4) Will RIPEM work with my mailer?
5) What is RSA?
6) What is DES?
7) What is a fingerprint, like MD5?
8) What is PEM?
9) What's this about distributing and authenticating keys?
10) Isn't it a bad idea to use patented algorithms in standards like PEM?
11) What about RSADSI/PKP?
12) Why do all RIPEM public keys look very similar?
13) What is PGP?
14) What about RPEM?
15) What is MIME?
16) What is TIS/PEM?
17) I have this simple way to defeat the security of RIPEM...
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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1) What is RIPEM?
RIPEM is a (not yet complete, but useful) implementation of Privacy
Enhanced Mail (PEM). RIPEM allows your electronic mail to have the
four security facilities provided by PEM: disclosure protection
(optional), originator authenticity, message integrity measures, and
non-repudiation of origin (always). (See: "What is PEM?")
RIPEM was written primarily by Mark Riordan <mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu>.
Most of the code is in the public domain, except for the RSA routines,
which are a library called RSAREF licensed from RSA Data Security Inc.
The current version of RIPEM is 1.0.5; the current version of the
Macintosh port of RIPEM is 0.7.
2) How can I get RIPEM?
RIPEM uses the library of cryptographic routines RSAREF, which is
considered munitions and thus is export-restricted from distribution
to persons who are not citizens or permanent residents in the U.S or
Canada without an export license. No such license has been obtained
(nor would one likely be granted unless the RSA key exchange were
shortened to 512 bits and the symmetric cipher changed to something
weaker than DES. There are some suggestions that this situation may
change now that Clinton is in office.) The author requests in the
README file that this law not be violated:
#Please do not export the cryptographic code in this distribution
#outside of the USA or Canada. This is a personal request from me,
#the author of RIPEM, and a condition of your use of RIPEM.
Note that RSAREF is not in the public domain, and a license for it is
included with the distribution. You should read it before using
RIPEM.
RIPEM is available via anonymous FTP to citizens and permanent
residents in the U.S. from rsa.com; cd to rsaref/ and read the README
file for info. Note that the non-RSAREF portion of RIPEM is not a
product of RSA Data Security, Incorporated; they merely are helping
distribute it.
RIPEM, as well as some other crypt stuff, has its "home site" on
ripem.msu.edu, which is open to non-anonymous FTP for users in the
U.S. and Canada who are citizens or permanent residents. To find out
how to obtain access, FTP there, cd to pub/crypt/, and read the file
GETTING_ACCESS. For convenience, binaries for many architectures are
available here in addition to the full source tree.
3) Will RIPEM run on my machine?
Probably. It has already been ported to MS-DOS and most flavors of
Unix (SunOS, NeXT, Linux, AIX, ULTRIX, Solaris, etc.) Ports to
Macintosh include a standard UNIX-style port and a rather nice
Mac-like port written by Raymond Lau, author of StuffIt. More ports
are expected, and help of users is invited.
4) Will RIPEM work with my mailer?
Probably. How easy and clean the effective interface is will depend
on the sophistication and modularity of the mailer, though. The users
guide, included with the distribution, discusses ways to use RIPEM
with many popular mailers, including Berkeley, mush, Elm, and MH.
Code is also included in elisp to allow easy use of RIPEM inside GNU
Emacs.
If you make a new interface for RIPEM or create an improvement on one
in the distribution which you believe is convenient to use, secure,
and may be useful to others, feel free to post it to alt.security.ripem.
5) What is RSA?
RSA is a crypto system which is asymmetric, or public-key. This means
that there are two different, related keys: one to encrypt and one to
decrypt. Because one cannot (reasonably) be derived from the other,
you may publish your encryption, or public, key widely and keep your
decryption, or private, key to yourself. Anyone can use your public
key to encrypt a message, but only you hold the private key needed to
decrypt it. Note that the "message" sent with RSA is normally just
the DES key to the real plaintext. (See "What is DES?")
Note that the above only provides for disclosure protection. For
originator authenticity, message integrity, and non-repudiation of
origin services to be implemented, the fingerprint of the message
(See "What is a fingerprint, like MD5?") is encrypted with the
sender's private key. The recipient, or a dispute-resolving
authority, can use the sender's public key to decrypt it and confirm
that the message must have come from the sender and was not altered.
RSA was named for the three men (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman) who
invented it. To find out lots more about RSA and modern cryptography
in general, ftp to rsa.com and look in pub/faq/. Some information
also may be in sci.crypt.
6) What is DES?
DES is the Data Encryption Standard, a widely used symmetric, or
secret-key, crypto system. Unlike RSA, DES uses the same key to
encrypt and decrypt messages. However, DES is much faster than RSA.
RIPEM uses both DES and RSA; it generates a random key and encrypts
your mail with DES using that key. It then encrypts that key with the
recipient's public RSA key and includes the result in the letter,
allowing the recipient to recover the DES key.
DES is sometimes considered weak because it is somewhat old and uses a
key length considered too short by modern standards. However, it
should be reasonably safe against an opponent smaller than a large
corporation or government agency. It is not likely that the PEM
standard will incorporate support for other symmetric ciphers in the
near future, because there is a strong feeling that PEM should be
stable so it can become utilized widely without early problems with
interoperability.
7) What is a fingerprint, like MD5?
MD5 is a message digest algorithm produced by RSA Data Security Inc.
It provides a 128-bit fingerprint, or cryptographically secure hash,
of the plaintext. It is cryptographically secure because it is not
possible (in a reasonable amount of computation) to produce a
different plaintext which produces the same fingerprint. Thus,
instead of signing the entire message with the sender's private key,
only the MD5 of the message needs to be signed for authentication.
MD5s can also be exchanged directly for authentication; for example,
RIPEM public keys include an MD5 of the public key in the file, so
parties wishing to confirm their keys are authentic via a separate
channel merely need exchange MD5s of keys and verify their accuracy.
MD5 is sometimes used for other purposes; for example, it is often
used to map an input of arbitrary length to 128 bits of data, as a
passphrase interpreter or cookie generator.
MD5 is described in its entirety (including an implementation in C) in
RFC 1321.
There have been some recent suggestions that MD5 may not be as strong
a hash as was originally believed; presumably some other hash
function will be used if this is accepted as true.
8) What is PEM?
PEM is Privacy Enhanced Mail, a standard for allowing transfer of
encrypted electronic mail generated over a long period of time by a
working group of experts. It is described in RFCs 1421-1424; these
documents have been approved and obsolete the old RFCs 1113-1115.
RIPEM is not really a complete implementation of PEM, because PEM
specifies certificates for authenticating keys, which RIPEM does not
handle at this time. Their addition is planned.
9) What's this about distributing and authenticating keys?
For a remote user to be able to send secure mail to you, she must know
your public key. For you to be able to confirm that the message
received came from her, you must know her public key. It is important
that this information be accurate; if a "bad guy" convinces her that
his key is in fact yours, she will send messages which he can read.
RIPEM allows for three methods of key management: a central server,
the distributed finger servers, and a flat file. All three are
described in the RIPEM users guide which is part of the distribution.
None of them provide perfect security. The PEM standard calls for
key management by certificates; the addition of this feature to RIPEM
is planned, but chicken-egg issues still exist.
10) Isn't it a bad idea to use patented algorithms in standards like PEM?
This issue has been considered in the standards process. RFC 1310,
the specification for Internet standards, has a discussion (section
6) on what specifications for nondiscriminatory availability must be
met for a patented method to be included in a standard. RFC 1421
addresses this issue with regard to the patents covering public-key
cryptography.
This does not, of course, mean that all questions are settled or that
everyone is in agreement. An interesting exchange on the use of
patented algorithms in standards with regard to public-key
cryptography is in the League for Programming Freedom archive
(available via FTP: ftp.uu.net:/doc/lpf) in the files bidzos.letter
and bidzos.response. (Amusingly, the LPF files on ftp.uu.net are
compressed with a patented algorithm.)
11) What about RSADSI/PKP?
RSA Data Security, Inc. (RSADSI) is a California-based company
specializing in cryptographic technologies. Public Key Partners is a
firm which holds exclusive sub-licensing rights of the following U.S.
patents and all of their corresponding foreign patents:
Cryptographic Apparatus and Method
("Diffie-Hellman")............................... No. 4,200,770
Public Key Cryptographic Apparatus
and Method ("Hellman-Merkle").................... No. 4,218,582
Cryptographic Communications System and
Method ("RSA")................................... No. 4,405,829
Exponential Cryptographic Apparatus
and Method ("Hellman-Pohlig").................... No. 4,424,414
PKP claims these four patents cover all known methods of public key
cryptography. The two businesses are rather closely related (for
example, the same person, Jim Bidzos, is president of both of them.)
PKP has licensed this technology to a considerable number of
companies (IBM, DEC, Motorola, AT&T, Lotus...) for use in their
products. PKP has also threatened and filed lawsuits defending their
patents.
RIPEM was originally created with no connection to RSADSI other than
its use of the RSAREF library, and for no reason other than its
author's desire to see widespread use of public-key cryptography.
However, after the ball started rolling, people at RSADSI got
interested. RSADSI decided to carry RIPEM on its FTP site, and some
people there started making their own RIPEM keys and contributing
code. RIPEM even won the "Best Application Built on RSAREF in 1992"
award.
12) Why do all RIPEM public keys look very similar?
RIPEM public keys begin with a PKCS (Public-Key Cryptography
Standards) identifier describing various characteristics about the
key, so the first bunch of characters in your key may be the same as
those of lots of other people's keys. This does not mean your keys
are similar, but only that they are the same class of key, were
generated with the same program, are of the same length, etc.
13) What is PGP?
PGP is another cryptographic mail program called Pretty Good Privacy.
PGP has been around longer than RIPEM, and works somewhat differently.
PGP is not compatible with RIPEM in any way, though PGP does also use RSA.
A few major differences between PGP and RIPEM:
- PGP has more key management features, particularly for users without
a direct network connection.
- RIPEM conforms to the PEM RFCs and thus has a greater probability
of working with other PEM software. PGP makes no attempt to be
compatible with anything other than itself.
- RIPEM uses RSAREF, a library of RSA routines from RSADSI which
comes with a license allowing noncommercial use. PGP uses its own
implementation of RSA. PKP claims that it is a violation of its
patents to "make, use or sell" PGP in the U.S. or Canada without
either a license or written permission. (See: "DISCLAIMER")
(See: "What about RSADSI/PKP?") Phil Zimmermann, the author of
PGP, stopped distributing it after being threatened with legal
action; he believed that a licensing scheme could be arranged, but
it hasn't happened and there seems little prospect of it happening
in the future. He acknowledges in the PGP User's Guide:
#In fact, if you live in the USA, and you are not a Federal agency,
#you shouldn't actually run PGP on your computer, because Public
#Key Partners wants to forbid you from running my software. PGP is
#contraband.
- Both PGP and RIPEM are export-restricted, and cannot be sent outside
the U.S. and Canada without an export license. However, PGP
already exists on many ftp sites in Europe and other places.
Whether you use PGP or RIPEM or whatever, the documentation to PGP is
recommended reading to anyone interested in such issues.
Unfortunately, it's not distributed separately from the program,
which can be difficult to find in the U.S. on FTP sites due to
liability concerns.
14) What about RPEM?
RPEM stands for Rabin Privacy Enhanced Mail. It was similar to RIPEM,
but used a public-key cipher invented by Rabin (which is not RSA) in
an attempt to avoid the patents on public-key systems. It was
written by Mark Riordan, who later wrote RIPEM.
Its distribution was halted when, contrary to the beliefs of many
(including Rabin), PKP claimed that their patents were broad enough
to cover the cipher employed. This claim is not universally
accepted, but was not challenged for pragmatic reasons.
RPEM is not really used anymore. It is not compatible with RIPEM or PGP.
15) What is MIME?
MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, and is
described in RFC 1341. You can find out about it in the newsgroup
comp.mail.mime; a FAQ exists on it. How PEM should interact with
MIME is not yet entirely clear; some people use the stopgap solution
of having a MIME type application/x-ripem in order to send RIPEM
messages as MIME ones. I hope some standards will emerge. Draft
Internet documents exist on the matter.
16) What is TIS/PEM?
Trusted Information Systems is working on a version of Privacy
Enhanced Mail for general availability. Last I heard, it was
rumored to be integrated into an existing mail user agent (MH)
rather than a stand-alone system, and in beta test. I don't know
much more than that.
17) I have this simple way to defeat the security of RIPEM...
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: >I want to upgrade my system and was thinking of buying Adcom seperates.
: >I have heard from alot of people, though, that Adcom sounds great but
: >that the components are made cheaply and therefore won't last very long.
: >The time estimates I've heard are like only 3 or 4 years. Is this true?
I own the Adcom 60W power amp. As far as I'm concerned, there's no
amp which can touch it at the price range.
The build quality is very impressive and is far superior to other
amps in the price range. The whole amplifier is extremely solid
with massive heat sinks and very solid casing.
If you open the amp up, there are only very good quality components
in and the amp seems to be designed extremely well. Perfect
symmetry for both channels and TWO transformers - one for each
channel. The binding posts on the back of the amplifier are
virtually the same as those on the Classe model 70 ie. very good.
I was also sceptical about the amps being built in the far-east
or where-ever. But if you look in the amp and see what components
they use and how it was designed, you can easily see why the
amplifiers sound so brilliant.
I cannot see why people say the amplifier won't last - not with
those quality components inside. Sure the amp runs very fairly
hot - but that's how you get an amp to sound incredibly good.
My last point, I recently auditioned the Adcom preamp something like
the 545 or something. It was two years old and it still sounded
like new.
If you build an amplifier decently, like the Adcom's, they will
sound brilliant and last a long time - period.
Just my thoughts, but then - I do own one of Adcom's amps.
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I second what Spenser Aden said in reply. Additionally, it is hard to say
what type of response you ar3e having to prednisone since you did not say
how long you have been on it. Patients are generally kept on steroids for
months before thinking about tapering. Alternatives to daily dosing are
every other day dosing, in your case 20mg every other day would be a start.
Another option if it is not possible to get you off prednisone is to start
azathioprine. Like Spenser said, you should generally be on another drug
in addition to your prednisone, like asulfidine. A lot of the specifics
about options, though, depends on severity, location, and duration of
disease, as well as histology, so take advice off the net for what it
is worth.
I treat patients with UC and Crohn's. An educated patient is a good
patient, but let your doctor know where the advice came from so things
can be put in context. You should also be a member of the Crohn's and
Colitis Foundation of America. 1-800-932-2423 office / 1-800-343-3637
info hotline.
Best of Luck to you.
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Well, I'm working on it, but getting a little impatient. So far,
I've made it through Egyptian, Chinese, and Greek cultures, and
up through the Rennaisance. But so far, these insights just don't
seem to be gelling. Perhaps it's in an appendix somewhere.
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Does anyone know where I can get the cheapest price for
the Teleport Gold fax modem by Global Village?
Any answer will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
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by email. IF there are a sufficient number of interesting
responses, I will post a summary (on April 24 or 25).
I have waded through the mass of SCSI-IDE posting, but
I missed any answers to a question posted early on --
Has anyone (successfully) put both SCSI and IDE hard drives
on the same system?
I am particularly interested in having the SCSI as the _boot_ drive.
For those who have managed this feat, I would appreciate
a bit more information, such as what drives, which SCSI controller,
and (if possible) what motherboard & BIOS
(plus any other relevant info.).
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Why are the Red Sox in first place? Eight games into the season, they
already have two wins each from Clemens and Viola. Clemens starts
again tonight, on three days rest.
What's up? Are the Sox going with a four-man rotation? Is this why
Hesketh was used in relief last night?
Hm.
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Are you for real? How many Gold Gloves does Ozzie Smith have? If a
guy hung around and hit 30 homers a year for 15 years, wouldn't he
be a given for the Hall? Is defense not just as important? And if
Robin Yount couldn't hit, why would he have stuck around long enough
to get 3,000 hits? Are you saying 3,000 hits is a fluke? 3,000
hits is no big deal?
I agree, Garvey and Morris don't deserve it.
Well, based on your argument, Nolan Ryan doesn't deserve the Hall of
Fame. He is just a right hander who stuck around for a long time
and could throw hard. Very few 20 game winning seasons, lots of
losing seasons, lots of walks. No Cy Young awards. How does Nolan
Ryan compare to a guy like Steve Carlton who dominated 5 or 6 Major
League seasons, won 7 divisons, 2 World Series, and won half of his
teams games in 1972? He doesn't compare. Not even close.
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I agree. This is the danger I see, not the system itself. That is to say,
this is a political issue, not a technical one.
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Since I repost this message again for the second time, I hope to hear from
some folks on this topic. Please reply.
Regards,
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*** Nothing beats skiing, if you want to have real fun during holidays. ***
*** Rob de Winter Philips Research, IST/IT, Building WL-1 ***
*** P.O. Box 80000, 5600 JA Eindhoven. The Netherlands ***
*** Tel: +31 40 743621 E-mail: dewinter@prl.philips.nl ***
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I don't think that's a problem. My face is quite oily too. I had a moderate
acne problem for many years. I then found that if I vigorously scrub my face
with a nail brush and soap (Irish Spring) twice a day the acne was not a
problem. I can still leave a pretty health nose print on a mirror after 45 min
(don't ask ;->) but acne is not a real problem anymore.
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Press conference at 1PM ...
Interestingly, Keenan's co-coach (or is it his "Number One"?) on Team
Canada at the World Championships is Roger Neilsen.
It'd be interesting if the Rangers call in the balance of Neilsen's
contract to be Keenan's assistant ... Roger did do a very good job
with the mediocre players, just as he handled the Cinderella Canucks
of 10 years ago ... but his mistake was playing the Rangers like those
Canucks last May ...
gld
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Avery was the #2 overall pick by the Braves, behind Mark Lewis (I think) in
1988. John Smoltz came over to the Braves from the Tigers, but was developed
by the Braves. Jeff Blauser isn't a bad player.
--
Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Baseball fanatic
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: >: >> Gilligan = Sloth
: >: >> Skipper = Anger
: >: >> Thurston Howell III = Greed
: >: >> Lovey Howell = Gluttony
: >: >> Ginger = Lust
: >: >> Professor = Pride
: >: >> Mary Ann = Envy
: >
: >Assorted Monkeys= Secular Humanism
:
: Assorted Headhunters - Godless, Heathen Savagery
: Russian Agent who looks like Gilligan - Godless Communism
: Japanese Sailor - Godless Barbarism
: Walter Pigeon - Godless Bird Turd
: The Mosquitos (Bingo, Bango, Bongo, Irving) - Godless Rock'n'Roll
: Harold Heckuba (Phil Silvers) - Hollywood Hedonism
: John McGiver - Butterfly flicking
: Tonga, the Fake Apeman - Deceit, Lust
: Eva Grubb - Deceit, lust
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Some birds require constant management for survival. Pointing a sensor at
the sun, even when powered down, may burn it out. Pointing a
parabolic antenna at Sol, from venus orbit may trash the
foci elements.
Even if you let teh bird drift, it may get hosed by some
cosmic phenomena.
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m> finished writing a sequel to the Bible.
Also, it's the 16th now. Can the Feds get him on tax evasion? I don't
remember hearing about him running to the Post Office last night.
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I don't get the sport's channel and I'm desparate for some playoff action
(especially the Cannucks). Does anyone know of a sports bar on the Bay
Peninsula that will be showing hockey games. I'm looking for something
between redwood City and Mountain View.
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Up to that point I thought you were talking about the
Rosicrucian Order... :-) [No offense intended!]
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God CAN be seen:
"And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my backparts."
(Ex. 33:23)
"And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his
friend." (Ex. 33:11)
"For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
(Gen. 32:30)
God CANNOT be seen:
"No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18)
"And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man
see me and live." (Ex. 33:20)
"Whom no man hath seen nor can see." (1 Tim. 6:16)
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I have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions.
No matter how much I eat, it still seems realistic.
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Of course, I'd still recommend that Michael read _True and Reasonable_
by Douglas Jacoby.
Joe Fisher
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Aspartame is the methyl ester of a dipeptide, so a product of its
hydrolysis is going to be methanol, which can then be oxidized to
formaldehyde. The amounts of methanol formed from the ingestion of
aspartame-containing foods are completely in the metabolic noise,
since you're forming equally minute amounts of methanol from other
components of food all the time. In studies involving administration
of high doses of the additive, blood methanol levels were undetectable.
Methanol is a poison only in quantities seen in human poisonings,
say 5ml and above. This is a consequence of its oxidation to formaldehyde
and formic acid, two quite reactive compounds which at high enough levels
can damage tissues like the retina and kidney, because at such high doses
the body's detoxification system is overwhelmed. Interestingly, one
treatment for early methanol poisoning is to get the person drunk on
ethyl alcohol--vodka or an equivalent. That's because ethanol is
metabolized preferentially over methanol by the enzymes in the liver.
If the methanol stays as methanol and isn't metabolized to formaldehyde,
it is actually relatively non-toxic.
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I don't know about the dinky little Zephyr's, but the 1100 (now
the ZR1100) looks alot like my '76 Z1/ KZ900! The one I drooled over
at Tri-Sports in Topsham, ME was a looker!
Yes, Mercury axed the Zephyr name. Guess a lot of aging Republicans
wanted a Zephyr and confused the Mercury with the Kawasaki :). Oh
well, they're better off with the Kawasaki anyways. Maybe it'll shake the
stick out of their asses and make Libertarians out of them!
As to the GPz <--> Zephyr, the only GPz I've seen had the ball-buster
gas tank profile, not the smooth saddle - to - gas tank transition.
_Motorcyclist_ claims the Zephyr / ZR is the modernized Z1 (KZ) from the
seventies.
Jeff Andle DoD #3005 1976 KZ900 REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
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No. When the program is run, it loads 4 configuration files; autoexec.bat,
config.sys, win.ini, and system.ini. There is no Open entry on the File
menu. You can only edit these four files. If you need to edit some other
program's .ini file, use Notepad or some other ASCII editor.
I wonder whether Microsoft intended for sysedit to be used, or if it was
just a holdover from the testing period and they forgot to take it out. The
reason I think this is because there is absolutely no mention in the manuals
about this program, and there is no online help for it (just an About entry
under the File menu). The program looks like something that was intended for
internal use only. It's kind of a shame, though. It would have made a nice
multi-file replacement for Notepad.
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Anybody seen the date get stuck?
I'm running MS-DOS 5.0 with a menu system alive all the time. The machine
is left running all the time.
Suddenly, the date no longer rolls over. The time is (reasonably) accurate
allways, but we have to change the date by hand every morning. This involves
exiting the menu system to get to DOS.
Anyone have the slightest idea why this should be? Even a clue as to whether
the hardware (battery? CMOS?) or DOS is broken?
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While I think it is unrealistic to suppose that the federal
agencies will fail to promptly comply with a court order, there is
still a good point here. Local law enforcement will be unable to perform
a wiretap without bringing in federal agencies. Based on the (possibly
incomplete) understanding of the system quoted from D. Denning, only the
FBI will be able to decrypt the system key encryption layer, which seems
to be needed even to identify what escrowed keys to request. This moves
a great deal of law enforcement power to the federal level.
The reason I like this point is that it may sway or even persuade
people who don't generally line up with the civil liberties crowd. A
national police force is opposed by people from a broad range of political
viewpoints.
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Posted for a friend:
Looking for tires, dimensions 14" x 3.25" or 3.35"
Also looking for brakes or info on relining existing shoes.
Also any other Maicoletta owners anywhere to have contact with.
Call Scott at 801-583-1354 or email me.
--
I saw fops by the thousand sew themselves together round the Lloyds building.
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Might? You'd have to have no sense of humor at all not to! My favorite
stuff are the Zero Heros, players who haven't hit homers in a long time,
the LGTGAH (who is that named after, I can't remember), and the box score
line of the week. Incidentally, I just found out that the column has been
moved to Sundays. I get my Dad to send it to me up here in Boston every
week. Great stuff!
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Here's a question: If most marijuana is domestic and
producing it here is economical, why would we expect it to be
imported?
Yet it was done. Done quite successfully for a number of years.
*Somebody* thought it was worth the risk.
Your assumption is that this "low" dollar/pound area is
sufficiently low as to make gun-running unprofitable. On what
do you base this?
And given that smuggling channels are already established,
and given the economies of scale, would it really add significantly
more expense to start smuggling firearms, especially considering
doing so would be less hazardous (in terms of getting caught) than
drugs?
Now *that* was a jump. In any case, define "local." It's
a big country.
Wow, you gotta love the speculation.
As I posted before, we import billions upon billions of raw
ores across the Mexican border. Not only that but ships come in and
out of U.S. harbors every day full stuff. And customs doesn't even
have the extra advantage of being able to sniff them out.
I'd be willing to wager that a shipload of handguns would be
worth more than a shipload of raw ore, *and* you're virtually guaranteed
to get it past customs, because they'd have to hand search every hold of
every ship which came through.
It's not simply a matter of how much money are they worth, but how
much *more* money are they worth than other goods, based on the likelihood
of being caught. Less money than drugs, but also a safer thing to smuggle.
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Sure, why not? But, are you using Paul to correct the words of Jesus?
"So *anyone* who dissolves even one of the smallest commands and teaches
others the same way, will be known as the lowest in the kingdom of the
skies; whereas *anyone* who keeps the commands and teaches them too, will
be known as *someone* great in the kingdom of the skies." Mat5:19 (Gaus)
Are you an "anyone" or are you a "no one?"
Why not assume, that since Jesus didn't say that his words apply only to
Jews, that they apply to all human beings, irregardless of race or sex?
Why not assume, that even though Jesus did not mention your name, still
Jesus was talking directly to you?
Does it say that it applies to *you*? Are you anyone or no one?
Ex20:8-11(JPS) Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you
shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of
the LORD your God; you shall not do any work - you, your son or
daughter, your male or female slave, or your cattle, or the stranger who
is within your settlements. For in six days the LORD made heaven and
earth and sea, and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh
day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hollowed it.
Note: There is no specific requirement for worship here, however I for
one would not be so bold as to call these verses a "ceremonial detail."
Don't many Christians still practice circumcision?
It's unfortunate that Jesus didn't use your name directly, or maybe
Jesus did? Are you somebody or nobody?
If you don't see a problem, then perhaps there is none. As Paul closes
Romans 14 (Gaus):
In short, pursue the ends of peace and of building each other up.
Don't let dietary considerations undo the work of God. Everything may be
clean, but it's evil for the person who eats it in an offensive spirit.
Better not to eat the meat or drink the wine or whatever else your
brother is offended by. As for the faith that you have, keep that
between yourself and God. The person is in luck who doesn't condemn
himself for what he samples. On the other hand, the person with doubts
about something who eats it anyway is guilty, because he isn't acting on
his faith, and any failure to act on faith is a sin.
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Based on my experience with a '79 FJ40 ( the hard-top jeep-style model ) I
would definitely give a new model consideration if I were in the market. The
older models are VERY well built. Unless Toyota lost its mind, I would
assume, until proven otherwise, that the newer models have inherited some
if not all of the qualities of their ancestors.
Two major differences in the running gear (that I'm aware of) need study.
My '79 has a solid front axle housing whereas the newer models have
independant front suspension. The solid axle is theoretically stronger and
more reliable than the newer model, but only experience will tell. The
independant front suspension is, no doubt, a compromise made to satisfy
the typical user, who will never need a real utility vehicle. The second
difference is the type of transfer case used on the newer models. I'm
not sure, but I think Tioyota went to a full-time 4WD or all-wheel drive
system. The older Landcruisers have a "lock-up" type. Both have their
advantages and disadvantages.
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Actually the book is called "Seventh Day Adventists believe..." And there
are 27 basica beliefs. I believe it is printed by the Reveiew and
Herald Publishing Association.
--
"Competition is the law of the jungle.
Cooperation is the law of civilization." -- Eldridge Cleaver
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: I am a Mormon. I believe in Christ, that he is alive. He raised himself
: [Text deleted]
:
: I learned that the concept of the Holy Trinity was never taught by Jesus
: Christ, that it was "agreed to" by a council of clergymen long after Christ
: was ascended, men who had no authority to speak for him.
:
If Jesus never taught the concept of the Trinity, how do you deal with the
following:
Mat 28 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven
and on earth has been given to me.
Mat 28 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in¹ the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Also Jesus speaking:
Act 1 5 For John baptized with¹ water, but in a few days you will
be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
I believe that you may have overlooked some key verses, that are crucial to
the Christian faith.
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This only makes sense if the government prohibits alternative non-escrowed
encryption schemes. Otherwise, why not just use the front end without
clipper?
David
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What about positional uncertainties in S-L 1993e? I assume we know where
and what Galileo is doing within a few meters. But without the
HGA, don't we have to have some pretty good ideas, of where to look
before imaging? If the HGA was working, they could slew around
in near real time (Less speed of light delay). But when they were
imaging toutatis???? didn't someone have to get lucky on a guess to
find the first images?
Also, I imagine S-L 1993e will be mostly a visual image. so how will
that affect the other imaging missions. with the LGA, there is a real
tight allocation of bandwidth. It may be premature to hope for answers,
but I thought i'd throw it on the floor.
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Heard last night that Paul Kuryia will be playing for the Canadian World
Hockey team this year. He was on a local radio station when a friend of
the familty called to congratulate him on the invitation. Meekly Paul told
the host that he didn't think they wanted it out yet. This morning I heard
that he is destined to play on a line with Lindros and Recci{unsure of this
one}. If he plays well in this arena, he could go #1 or 2 in the draft.
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Hi,
We've been having problems on a few setups when printing to a
serial printer (dmp or Laser). I have used Works and Windows Write. The
output is OK from DOS and if I send plain text output, but anything
fancy garbles or just doesn't output. The exception is outputting to a
Lserjet 4 which 'appears' to be fast enough receiving data, not to
bother about handshaking messages. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I've
tried most of the Print/Network manager options I can think of. Anyone
had similar problems they've cured and would like to tell me 'bout it??
Thanks
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I recently aquired a Quantum Q250 harddisk. It is a 50 meg 5.25"
mechanism. It is SCSI. I have a few questions and a few problems. First
there seems to be an extra connector socket on the back that I can't
figure out what it is for. The address is set by some jumpers on the
bottom so I don't think it is for that. Any ideas?
Second, it would be nice to get a hardware manual for the drive. There are
a lot of jumpers on it that we don't know what they are for.
Third, I have got the drive to format. It took a while to get things to
work and most of it is fine for now. The formating initialy was
troublesome but seems to be ok. The main problem is if you do a reset on
the MacPlus the drive disappears. If I shut the mac off and then back on
agian then the drive comes up fine. Any ideas.
Please reply to one of the email addresses below.
Thanks
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I don't think so at first, but solid state offered better reliabity,
id bet, and any lower costs would be only after the processes really scaled up.
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..continuing on my build problems, I got stuck here build xterm...
gcc -fpcc-struct-return -o xterm main.o input.o charproc.o cursor.o util.o tabs.o screen.o scrollbar.o button.o Tekproc.o misc.o VTPrsTbl.o TekPrsTbl.o data.o menu.o -O2 -R/usr/wgep/X11R5.sos5/lib${LD_RUN_PATH+\:$LD_RUN_PATH} -L../.././lib/Xaw -lXaw -L../.././lib/Xmu -lXmu -L../.././lib/Xt -lXt -L../.././extensions/lib -lXext -L../.././lib/X -lX11 -L/usr/wgep/X11R5.sos5/lib -lsocket -lnsl -ltermcap
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
index /usr/ucblib/libtermcap.a(termcap.o)
rindex /usr/ucblib/libtermcap.a(termcap.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to xterm
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xterm'
Any clues for help?
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Stupid me. I believed the Democrats stood for principles of personal
privacy while it was the Neanderthal Republicans that wanted into every
aspect of our lives.
Clinton is just more clever than the other guy. Looks like gun control for
privacy technology. One small step at a time.
Wait a minute.... Let me think about this.
Hmmm, I feel better now. I believe the White House when they tell us
this first step is, in fact, the final step. All is OK. We've nothing to fear.
They're here to help us.
God bless America.
--
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John Hesse | A man,
jhesse@netcom.com | a plan,
Moss Beach, Calif | a canal, Bob.
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[...deleta...]
Heavy for a beginner bike it is; 415 pounds it isn't, except maybe in
some adman's dream. With a full tank, it's in the area of 550 lbs,
depending on year etc.
The 1980 and '81 versions had a much better seat, IMO.
My regulator lasted over 100,000 miles, and didn't overcharge the battery.
The wiring connectors in the charging path did get toasty though,
tending to melt their insulation. I suspect they were underspecified;
it didn't help that they were well removed from cool air.
Battery access on the earlier bikes doesn't require tank removal.
After you learn the drill, it's pretty straightforward.
[...]
Having bought replacement parts for several brands of motorcycles,
I'll offer a grain of salt to be taken with Dale's assessment.
[...]
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It certainly is multi-user. What I have seen from the March Beta is
that it doesn't yet come with the stuff which exploits multi-user
features. I remember somebody from MS stating that it doesn't allow
two users share one GUI. My interpretation of this was that one user
per console but all the networking and RPC based stuff you want.
I believe ftp and rlogin deamons for NT systems will come from third
party. Somebody already has a Beta version of an unsecure ftpd on the
net. There is no reason why one cannot write a posix based shell like
csh on Unix for remote logins.
In general I liked NT when I checked it out. It slow compared to
Win3.1 (just like any other real OS). The beta version, although being
slow, botts up much faster than my SUN workstation. Windows subsystems
also start up a lot faster than X windows. I believe Bill Gates was
right when he stated that NT was not for everybody. After playing
around with it for a while I was convinced. If I owned a busines using
a "business computer" from IBM or some other established vendor, I
would consider moving to NT platform because it would provide a much
cheaper solution (If you are running SQL servers etc.). It provides
the robustness such an application requires.
On the other hand if you like your DOS games, more or less forget
about NT. You can always boot to DOS but in general that defeats
the purpose of using NT. Most of NT's features are visible in a
networked environment and in such an environment you can't reboot your
machine at will. For personal use, I would rather wait for the Win32
based Windows release (whatever you name it) than jump to NT bandwagon.
I expect most applications will keep on using Win16 until Win32
becomes widely available.
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