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This is for a friend of mine. Please send answers directly to him (E-Mail
adress see below )!
HIGHSPEED ANALOG-DIGITAL PC-BOARD
Hello LAdies and Gentleman !
I am looking for a highspeed A/D PC-Board with a sampling rate above 250 MHz an a
resolution of 8-bit. The sampling rate can be arranged by an interleave mode where
the time equivalent sampling yields 2, 4 or 8 times higher sampling rate than
the A/D-Converter uses in non interleave mode.
The board must content an A/D-Converter similar to Analog Devices AD 9028 or
AD 9038 or if available a faster on.
If you a PC-Board (16-bit slot, ISA) with this specification or better, please
send me an EMail
hansch@cdc2.ikph.uni-hannover.dbp.de
or a Telefax to: ++49 / 511 / 7629353
Thanks in advance for your help !
Sincerely
Matthias Hansch
IKPH, University of Hannover, Germany
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Andreas Heinbokel
heinboke@tnt.uni-hannover.de
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My Native American Girlfriend asks: "If the government really doesn't
'care a hill of beans' about our religion, how come they're still
busting us for it in Oregon, Washington, and a few other places?
You'd be a Christian, too, if the U.S. Army marched you into church
at gunpoint."
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Are the Serbs doing the work of God? Hmm...
I've been wondering if anyone would ever ask the question,
Are the governments of the United States and Europe not moving
to end the ethnic cleansing by the Serbs because the targets are
muslims?
Can/Does God use those who are not following him to accomplish
tasks for him? Esp those tasks that are punative?
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What are you, retarded?
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Hmmmmmm. I think I'll let everyone make there own comment on this one.
Neilson and Smith are bad. Kovalev is magical.
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I think this is a weak argument. The fact is, there are *two* references to
Jesus in _Antiquities of the Jews_, one of which has unquestionably at least
been altered by Christians. Origen wrote, in the third century, that
Josephus did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah, while the long passage
says the opposite. There is an Arabic manuscript of _Antiquities of the
Jews_ which contains a version of the passage which is much less gung-ho
for Jesus and may be authentic.
There is no question that Origen, in the third century, saw a reference
to Jesus in Josephus. There are no manuscripts of _Antiquities_ which
lack the references.
It is possible that it was fabricated out of whole cloth and inserted, but
I don't think it's very likely--nor do I think there is a consensus in
the scholarly community that this is the case. (I know G.A. Wells takes
this position, but that's because he takes the very small minority view
that Jesus never existed. And he is a professor of German, not of
biblical history or New Testament or anything directly relevant to
the historicity of Jesus.)
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We really should try to be as understanding as we can for Brad, because it
appears killing is all he knows.
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To what follows, our moderator has already answered the charge of
arrogance more ably that I could have done so, so I will confine
myself to answering the charge of illogic.
This is how everyone in the western intellectual tradition is, or was,
taught to think. It is the fundamental premis "A is not not-A". If a thing
is true then its converse is necessarilly false. Without this basic
asumption theology and science as we know them are alike impossible. We
should distinguish the strong and weak meanings of the word "believe",
however. The weak sense means I am not sure. "I believe Tom went to
the library." (but he could have gone to the track). The strong sense
means I am so certain that I use it as a basis of thought. "I believe
that nature operates according to certain fundamental laws." (despite
the fact that nature *appears* capricious and unpredictable). Christian
belief is of the strong kind. (Though Christians may well hold beliefs
of the weak kind on any number of theological and ecclesiological
topics.)
Note that these are two separate ideas. Most hold the first view, but the
majority do not hold the second. Is is again a matter of pure logic that
if Christanity is true, then Hinduism (for example) must necessarilly be
false, insofar as it contradicts or is incompatible with, Christaianity.
(And, as a matter of *logic*, vice versa.)
It is arrogant to claim to know what *anyone* thinks or wants, unless
they have told you. Christians believe God has told us what he thinks
and wants.
Most Christians do not base their belief on the Bible, but on the living
tradition of the Church established by Christ and guided constantly
by the Holy Spirit. The Bible is simply the written core of that tradition.
If depends what you mean by differing. If I believe Tom is six feet
tall and you believe he weighs 200 pounds, our beliefs differ, but we
may both be right. If I believe Tom is six feet tall and you beleive
that he is four foot nine, one of us, at least, must be wrong.
Thus you believe that there is a single truth but that no human being
can find it. You assert that anyone who believe that we can find
absolute truth is mistaken. In short, you believe that anyone who
does not share your belief on this point is wrong. QED.
Here I begin to suspect that your real difficulty is not with the
knowability of truth, but simply with language. Saying that the glass
is half empty is not a contradiction of the statement that it is half
full: it is the same fact expressed in different words. (The whole
point of this phrase is to illustrate the different ways the pessimist
and the optimist express the *same* fact.)
It is, of course, quite true that different people may express the
same belief in different words. It is also true that they may fail
to understand each other's words as expressions of the same belief
and may argue bitterly and believe that they are miles apart. Great
scisms have occurred in just this way, and much ecumenical work has
been done simply in resolving differences in language which conceal
agreement in belief. This does not mean, in any sense, that all beliefs
are equally valid. Since some of the beliefs people hold contradict
some other beliefs that other people hold, after all obfuscations
of language and culture in the expression of those beliefs have
been stripped away, some of the beliefs that some people hold must,
**necessarilly** be false, and it is neither arrogant nor illogical
to say so. If I believe X and you believe Y we may both be correct,
but if Y is equivalent to not-X then one of us is wrong and as long
as we hold our respective beliefs, we must each regard the other
as in error.
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I'm looking for a Cache card for my IIsi. I can spend $250 Max for it,
what i need is 64 kb cache with a fpu socket and a dual slot adapter.
Or at least a passe_through connector so i can keep my graphic card.
I need your advice about the best card i can buy. How much performance
increase i should expect, does the performance increase between the
32 and 64 kb Cache worths the price difference ?. And what's the best
price i can get for such a card (i really need to spare each possible
$).
I have an Ethernet card for the LC with fpu. I don't think it would
work for the IIsi but the fpu is socketed. Do you think i can take the
fpu out of the card and put it in the empty fpu socket ?. Would it work
at 20 Mhz ?. If not, how much should i pay for an extra fpu ?.
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TO: saz@hook.corp.mot.com
SZ>Does anybody know of a program that converts .GIF files to .BMP files
SZ>and if so, where can I ftp it from? Any help would be greatly
SZ>appreciated.
Sure... A GREAT shareware program is Graphic Workshop (the newest
version is 6.1). Although I don't know where you can ftp it from. It
also converts to about 15 other formats, and does MANY other things.
....r.c V.t.ell. .r...
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Because you are uptight?
Many computer-literate people see advantages in each system.
You act like a Mac ate your cat.
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It's an interesting idea, but the worst-case data patterns developed to
test magnetic media are totally different than the patterns used to detect
common faults in memory chips.
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Ya, Fat Chance. The "offending" rider was a moto journalist. Those
guys can sell hundreds of bikes with one stroke of the pen and
as such get away with murder when it comes to test bikes.
One way or the other, it was probably worth the early expiration of
one mufler to see a bone head get his butt baked.
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So what should I carry if I want to comply with intelligent helmet laws?
(The above comment in no way implies support for any helmet law, nor should
such support be inferred. A promise is a promise.)
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There's a pretty good article in the the March 6, 1993 New Scientist titled
"Pouring cold water on Lorenzo's oil". The article states that research
has shown that the oil has no discernable effect on the progression of the
disease in patients in which demyelination has begun. In patients with
AMN (a less acute form of the same disease) there is some improvement
seen in the ability of nerve fibres to conduct impulses. In ALD patients
who have not yet begun demyelination, the jury is still out.
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(a) To use for sensitive but not strategically important traffic,
(b) if the system was cheap.
For example, I don't own a cordless phone. With Clipper, I would. If the
local men in blue really want to listen to me talk to my friends or order
pizza, I'm no worse off than I am now, and I don't have to worry about
local kids or nosy neighbors.
That is to say, Clipper "raises the bar" on insecure channels. It doesn't
make them secure, by any means, but a wall, even if the FBI can get a master
key by court order, is still better than a "keep off the grass" sign.
So, where can I buy a DES-encrypted cellular phone? How much does it cost?
Personally, Cylink stuff is out of my budget for personal use :)...
The Second and Fourth Amendments do come to mind.
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There are definitely quite a few horrible deaths as the result of both
atheists AND theists. I'm sure Bobby can list quite a few for the atheist
side but fails to recognize that the theists are equally proficient at
genocide. Perhaps, since I'm a bit weak on history, somone here would like
to give a list of wars caused/led by theists? I can think of a few (Hitler
claimed to be a Christian for example) but a more complete list would
probably be more effective in showing Bobby just how absurd his statement
is.
On a side note, I notice you always sign your posts "Peace". Perhaps you
should take your own advice and leave the atheists in peace with their
beliefs?
Nanci
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Heres a story of a Saint that people might like to read. I got it from
a The Morning Star, and am posting it with the permission of the
editor.
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
The Patron of Youth
The marquis Gonzaga had high aspirations for his son, the Prince
Gonzage. He wanted him to become a famous, brave and honoured
soldier. After all, he must carry on the great family name of
Gonzaga. Of course, he was to become far more famous, brave and
honoured than his father could ever have imagined; though not in
the manner expected.
Saint Aloysius' mother was a woman who received immense joy from
praying to God and meditating on the divine mysteries and the
life of Our Lord. She had little time for the pleasures of this
life. As Saint Aloysius grew, he began to resemble his mother
more than his father.
Saint Aloysius had learned numerous expressions from his father's
soldiers, but the moment he discovered that they were vulgar, he
fainted from shock. This shows his immense hatred of sin (What an
example for us of the contempt we must have for sin).
About the time of his First Holy Communion (which he received
from the Archbishop of Milan, Charles Borromeo, whom himself
became a great Saint), he con-secrated his purity to God and
asked the Blessed Virgin to protect his innocence for life.
He wanted to share Our Lord's suffering to show his reciprocal
love. He started by denying his passions; he avoided eating the
finest foods, wearing the best clothes, and would put pieces of
wood in his bed in order to mortify himself for the love of God.
While he was in his early teens his father sent him (and his
younger brother) to the court of the Spanish King, Phillip 11.
Obediently, he set out to make the best of it. He mixed in well
with the people of the royal court, for he was handsome, polite,
intelligent and always had something interesting to say.
Not long before this time, the great soldier-saint, Saint Igna-
tius of Loyola, had founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)
towards which Saint Aloysius
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began to have a yearning. When he finally told his father, the
marquis flew into a rage and forbade his son to become a priest.
After a short time, his father sent him to the great cities in
order that he be tempted away from the priesthood, but even
through these trials, Saint Aloysius grew in his desire for the
religious life and was strengthened in the virtue of purity.
The Marquis' plans were obviously failing, so he con-fronted his
son: "Will you or will you not obey me and forget this foolish-
ness?" "I will not, father," was the in-evitable reply. "Then
leave from my sight and don't return until you change your mind!"
With tears clouding his eyes, the Saint left the room to pray:
"Tell me Lord, what am I to do? Tell me! Tell me!" He knelt down
to flagellate himself as he had done several times before, but
this time he was seen. The onlooker rushed to the marquis. This
at last brought the proud man to his senses. "The Lord wants him,
the Lord can have him." He gave his consent for his son to become
a Jesuit.
After some years (at the end of the sixteenth century), a terri-
ble epidemic broke out in Rome. All the hospitals were full and
could house no more, so the Jesuits opened their own. Saint Aloy-
sius did all he could in the hospitals, particularly to prepare
the dying for a holy death.
Saint Aloysius himself contracted the plague from carrying and
nursing the sick. For three months he lay with a burning fever
and finally, on June 21st, 1591, he gave his soul to the Lord
while gazing at a crucifix.
Let us invoke Saint Aloysius as our patron and imitate him in his
humility, purity and confidence in prayer.
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, pray for us.
- Brendan Arthur
Prayer is as necessary to a person consecrated to the service of
others as a sword is to a soldier
God Bless
From Simon
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Or he was just convinced by religious fantasies of the time that he was the
Messiah, or he was just some rebel leader that an organisation of Jews built
into Godhood for the purpose off throwing of the yoke of Roman oppression,
or.......
Are the Moslem fanatics who strap bombs to their backs and driving into
Jewish embassies dying for the truth (hint: they think they are)? Were the
NAZI soldiers in WWII dying for the truth?
People die for lies all the time.
Was Hitler a liar? How about Napoleon, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan? We spend
millions of dollars a year trying to find techniques to detect lying? So the
answer is no, they wouldn't be able to tell if he was a liar if he only lied
about some things.
Why do you think he healed people, because the Bible says so? But if God
doesn't exist (the other possibility) then the Bible is not divinely
inspired and one can't use it as a piece of evidence, as it was written by
unbiased observers.
Were Hitler or Mussolini lunatics? How about Genghis Khan, Jim Jones...
there are thousands of examples through history of people being drawn to
lunatics.
So we obviously cannot rule out liar or lunatic not to mention all the other
possibilities not given in this triad.
Possibly self-fulfilling prophecy (ie he was aware what he should do in
order to fulfil these prophecies), possibly selective diting on behalf of
those keepers of the holy bible for a thousand years or so before the
general; public had access. possibly also that the text is written in such
riddles (like Nostradamus) that anything that happens can be twisted to fit
the words of raving fictional 'prophecy'.
[stuff about how hard it is to be a christian deleted]
I severely recommend you reconsider the reasons you are a christian, they
are very unconvincing to an unbiased observer.
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Any comments on the absorbtion of the Office of Exploration into the
Office of Space Sciences and the reassignment of Griffin to the "Chief
Engineer" position? Is this just a meaningless administrative
shuffle, or does this bode ill for SEI?
In my opinion, this seems like a Bad Thing, at least on the surface.
Griffin seemed to be someone who was actually interested in getting
things done, and who was willing to look an innovative approaches to
getting things done faster, better, and cheaper. It's unclear to me
whether he will be able to do this at his new position.
Does anyone know what his new duties will be?
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My point is that you set up your views as the only way to believe. Saying
that all eveil in this world is caused by atheism is ridiculous and
counterproductive to dialogue in this newsgroups. I see in your posts a
spirit of condemnation of the atheists in this newsgroup bacause they don'
t believe exactly as you do. If you're here to try to convert the atheists
here, you're failing miserably. Who wants to be in position of constantly
defending themselves agaist insulting attacks, like you seem to like to do?!
I'm sorry you're so blind that you didn't get the messgae in the quote,
everyone else has seemed to.
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Ed, as usual, makes a very good point.
One time a friend of mine at Sun sent me an e-mail. He composed it using the
Sun OpenWindows 3 "mailtool" which handles (non-MIME) "attachments" and the
like.
Since I don't use "mailtool", I had to manually save it, cut & paste, and
then "uudecode" the actual attachment. What I got - after a not-inconsiderable
amount of time spent doing this - was an audio file. The original message
was over 32Kb of mail headers and uuencoded data; the resulting audio message
was a single sentence that I transcribed as a 135 character message.
If he had sent me the sentence in plain text, the e-mail would have been
around 250 bytes, and it would have taken me about 3 seconds to process it at
most. Instead, it was 32k and it took at least a minute. A complete waste of
(my) time and bandwidth, as far as I'm concerned. Sending plain text is still
the most efficient method of transmission, given the same transport mechanism.
I shudder to think what would happen if everyone started posting their Usenet
articles as audio files instead of plain text! Meltdown of the Net predicted!
Film at Eleven!
Back to Mono! (-:
[This sub-thread no longer has anything to do with PEM or administrative]
[policy, so I've redirected followups back to comp.mail.mime ... - Greg ]
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We've just been donated a large machine for use in our
robotics lab. This device is complete with a 286 based
controller, running the Intel RMX operating system.
Unfortunately, we don't have any documentation on RMX.
Can anybody out there in netland help?
Please reply via email; I don't regularly catch up with
the news.
Thanks,
David Bull
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[more about the Messier-Samuelsson incident]
I agree with Rick that Ulf's cross check wasn't illegal. It was the kind
of check you see a dozen times during a game without being called. Slo-mos
sometimes have a tendency to make things look worse than they really are.
Besides, if Messier can't take the heat, he should stay out of the kitchen.
Well Matt, Mattias Timmander hasn't been playing with the MoDo elite league
team yet (just the MoDo junior team), so I predict he needs a few more years
here before he can join the B's. I saw him play in the Swedish championship
game for junior players this year, and he played very well, a physical game,
but not the kind of rough stuff that Ulfie does (I suspect you would like to
have a Ulf type-of-player on the B's team too? :)
As for Mariusz Czerkawski, he has had a *great* season for Hammarby in
division 1. He scored -if I remember correctly- 93 points this season,
and then we have to keep in mind that a 50+ point season in Sweden is
considered *very good* due to the limited number of games. Mariusz is
Djurgarden property (he was just on loan to Hammarby), so he will play
in Elitserien next season, unless the B's can get him of course.
I would say that Mariusz has to be one of the most exciting player to
watch in Swedish hockey this season.
Staffan
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This is REALLY STUPID nitpicking. Capitalization rules in the late 18th
century were quite different from today, and what was posted matches current
capitalization rules.
We also don't make 's' look like 'f' and other such things done in the late
seventeen hundreds.
In the original Constitution, "militia", "arms", etc. were capitalized simply
because they were nouns. This is also done currently in German. There is
no special significance to these words simply because they are capitalized.
The capitalization denotes no special emphasis.
-Pete Zakel
(phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)
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Sorry, but it doesn't matter what _you_ think, I am a Christian, who happens to
belong to the LDS Church. [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints].
I don't usually read t.r.m. It is truly informative to stop by, and see that there
are still people in the world like those that forced my ancestors into the deserts
of Utah, and then out of the country entirely. (My grandmother was born in Mexico,
where her family had moved to escape religious persecution in the US). I'm willing
to admit that members of other churches are Christians, if they believe in Christ and
(try to) follow his teachings, even though they have different interpretations of
the bible. And yet these other churches often go out of their way to define whether
or not I am considered to be Christian. Could someone mail me a set of rules/beliefs
that must be followed to be a Christian? Does this set of rules exclude other large
bodies of believers?
I know, this is a waste of everyone's time, this has probably been discussed N times,
etc. I guess I'm more sensitive to this 'demonization' after what went on in Texas.
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How about a group called talk.that.thomas.parsli.approves?
--
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I have become involved in a project to further develop and
improve the performance of SPECT (Single Photon Emission
Computerized Tomography) imaging. We will eventually have
to peddle this stuff somewhere, and so as I move this thing
along, I would like to know --
What is the current resolution of SPECT imaging? What kinds
of jobs is SPECT used for, specifically? What kind of specific jobs
could I hope
that SPECT could be used for, if its resolution improved,
say, to close to that of PET (Positron Emission Tomography)?
And how much does a SPECT machine cost? How much does a single
SPECT image cost?
If anyone knows the answer to any or all of these questions, OR
where I could find that answer, I would be very grateful, indeed.
Thanks in advance for any replies
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Hmmm...I also heard through the grapevine that Team Finland might try and
leave a spot open for at least one NHLer. (Some guy named Sel{nne, ever
hear of him? :) They might have to be content with Kurri, though, I hope. :)
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I have no doubt that God hears everybody's prayers.
However, He does things His way, i.e. things will happen
only if it is His will.
Now if the question really is "Does God grant everybody's wishes ?"
then you'll get a brutal shot of reality similar to when you didn't
get that toy you wanted for Christmas. You just cannot expect
to get everything you want in this world.
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I am currently doing a group research project on the drug Xanax. I would
be exponentially gracious to receive any and all information you could
provide
me regarding its usage, history, mechanism of reaction, side effects, and
other pertinent information. I don't care how long or how short your
response is.
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I've sent the article. In terms of the group discussion, I wanted to point
out that "non-liberal education" (head in the sand) is not the same as
"abstinence education".
We had "non-liberal education" regarding drugs when I was a kid in the 60's,
which didn't do us a lot of good. But "abstinence education" regarding
drugs has proven effective, I think.
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Hello,
I have the following list of books about ISA/EISA buses:
1. ISA System Architecture
by Tom Shanley/Don Anderson
MindShare Press, 1993 $34.95
2. EISA System Architecture
by Tom Shanley/Don Anderson
MindShare Press, 1993 $24.95
3. ISA, EISA: PC,XT,AT,E-ISA,ISA, and EISA I/O timing and specs.
by Edward Solari, Copyright 1992
ISBN: 0-929392-15-9
4. AT Bus Design
by Edward Solari, Copyright 1990
ISBN: 0-929392-08-6
5. Interfacing to the IBM PC/XT
by Eggebrecht, Lewis C. Copyright 1990
Do you have any comments on any of them?
Please reply by e-mail,
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The vote to create the proposed group, Sci.life-extension, was
affirmative.
Yes votes: 237.
No votes: 28.
What follows is a list of the people who voted, by vote ("no" or "yes").
Here are the people who voted NO:
bailey@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Ed Bailey)
barkdoll@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu (Edwin Barkdoll)
msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
carr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Dave Carr)
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
jbh@Anat.UMSMed.Edu (James B. Hutchins)
rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
stu@valinor.mythical.com (Stu Labovitz)
lau@ai.sri.com (Stephen Lau)
plebrun@minf8.vub.ac.be (Philippe Lebrun)
jmaynard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jay Maynard)
emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)
smarry@zooid.guild.org (Marc Moorcroft)
dmosher@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Mosher)
ejo@kaja.gi.alaska.edu (Eric J. Olson)
hmpetro@mosaic.uncc.edu (Herbert M Petro)
smith-una@YALE.EDU (Una Smith)
mmt@RedBrick.COM (Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS)
urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
ac999266@umbc.edu (a Francis Uy)
werner@SOE.Berkeley.Edu (John Werner)
wick@netcom.com (Potter Wickware)
ggw@wolves.Durham.NC.US (Gregory G. Woodbury)
D.W.Wright@bnr.co.uk (D. Wright)
yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin)
ask@cblph.att.com
spm2d@opal.cs.virginia.edu
Here are the people who voted YES:
FSSPR@ACAD3.ALASKA.EDU (Hardcore Alaskan)
kalex@eecs.umich.edu (Ken Alexander)
ph600fht@sdcc14.UCSD.EDU (Alex Aumann)
franklin.balluff@Syntex.Com (Franklin Balluff)
barash@umbc.edu (Mr. Steven Barash)
build@alan.b30.ingr.com (Alan Barksdale (build))
lion@TheRat.Kludge.COM (John H. Barlow)
pbarto@UCENG.UC.EDU (Paul Barto)
ryan.bayne@canrem.com (Ryan Bayne)
mignon@shannon.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Mignon Belongie)
beaudot@tirf.grenet.fr (william Beaudot)
lavb@lise.unit.no (Olav Benum)
ross@bryson.demon.co.uk (Ross Beresford)
ben.best@canrem.com (Ben Best)
levi@happy-man.com (Levi Bitansky)
jsb30@dagda.Eng.Sun.COM (James Blomgren)
gbloom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gregory Bloom)
mbrader@netcom.com (Mark Brader)
ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eli Brandt)
doom@leland.stanford.edu (Joseph Brenner)
rc@pos.apana.org.au (Robert Cardwell)
jeffjc@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Jeffrey CHANCE)
sasha@cs.umb.edu (Alexander Chislenko)
mclark@world.std.com (Maynard S Clark)
100042.2703@CompuServe.COM ("A.J. Clifford")
coleman@twinsun.com (Mike Coleman)
steve@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Steve Coltrin)
collier@ivory.rtsg.mot.com (John T. Collier)
compton@plains.NoDak.edu (Curtis M. Compton)
bobc@master.cna.tek.com (Bob Cook)
cordell@shaman.nexagen.com (Bruce Cordell)
cormierj@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Cormier Jean-Marc)
djcoyle@macc.wisc.edu (Douglas J. Coyle)
dass0001@student.tc.umn.edu ("John R Dassow-1")
bdd@onion.eng.hou.compaq.com (Bruce Davis)
demonn@emunix.emich.edu (Kenneth Jubal DeMonn)
desilets@sj.ate.slb.com (Mark Desilets)
markd@sco.COM (Mark Diekhans)
kari@teracons.teracons.com (Kari Dubbelman)
lhdsy1!cyberia.hou281.chevron.com!hwdub@uunet.UU.NET (Dub Dublin)
willdye@helios.unl.edu (Will Dye)
155yegan%jove.dnet.measurex.com@juno.measurex.com (TERRY EGAN)
eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)
glenne@magenta.HQ.Ileaf.COM (Glenn Ellingson)
farrar@adaclabs.com (Richard Farrar)
ghsvax!hal@uunet.UU.NET (Hal Finney)
lxfogel@srv.PacBell.COM (Lee Fogel)
afoxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com (Foxx)
i000702@disc.dla.mil (sam frajerman,sppb,x3026,)
mpf@medg.lcs.mit.edu (Michael P. Frank)
Martin.Franklin@Corp.Sun.COM (Martin Franklin)
tiff@CS.UCLA.EDU (Tiffany Frazier)
Ailing_Zhu_Freeman@U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU (Ailing Freeman)
Timothy_Freeman@U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU (Tim Freeman)
gt0657c@prism.gatech.edu (geoff george)
mtvdjg@rivm.nl (Daniel Gijsbers)
exusag@exu.ericsson.se (Serena Gilbert)
rlglende@netcom.com (Robert Lewis Glendenning)
goetz@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Phil Goetz)
goolsby@dg-rtp.dg.com (Chris Goolsby)
dgordon@crow.omni.co.jp (David Gordon)
bgrahame@eris.demon.co.uk (Robert D Grahame)
sascsg@unx.sas.com (Cynthia Grant)
green@srilanka.island.COM (Robert Greenstein)
johng@oce.orst.edu (John A. Gregor)
roger@netcom.com (roger gregory)
evans-ron@CS.YALE.EDU (Ron Hale-Evans)
brent@vpnet.chi.il.us (Brent Hansen)
Ron.G.Hay@med.umich.edu (Ron G. Hay)
akh@empress.gvg.tek.com (Anna K. Haynes)
claris!qm!Bob_Hearn@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Hearn)
fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be (Francis Heylighen)
hin9@midway.uchicago.edu (P. Hindman)
fishe@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Carwil James)
janzen@mprgate.mpr.ca (Martin Janzen)
karp@skcla.monsanto.com (Jeffery M Karp)
rk2@elsegundoca.ncr.com (Richard Kelly)
merklin@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ed Kemo)
kessner@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (KESSNER ERIC M)
mapam@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R A Khwaja)
koski@sunset.cs.utah.edu (Keith Koski)
kathi@bridge.com (Kathi Kramer)
benkrug@jupiter.fnbc.com (Ben Krug)
farif@eskimo.com (David Kunz)
edsr!edsdrd!sel@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Langs)
pa_hcl@MECENG.COE.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (Henry Leong)
S.Linton@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Steve Linton)
alopez@cs.ep.utexas.EDU (Alejandro Lopez 6330)
kfl@access.digex.com ("Keith F. Lynch")
KAMCHAR@msu.edu (Charles MacDonald)
rob@vis.toronto.edu (Robert C. Majka)
phil@starconn.com (Phil Marks)
cam@jackatak.raider.net (Cameron Marshall)
mmay@mcd.intel.com (Mike May ~)
drac@uumeme.chi.il.us (Bruce Maynard)
i001269@discg2.disc.dla.mil (john mccarrick)
xyzzy@imagen.com (David McIntyre)
cuhes@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Malcolm McMahon)
mcpherso@macvax.UCSD.EDU (John Mcpherson)
merkle@parc.xerox.com (Ralph Merkle)
eric@Synopsys.COM (Eric Messick)
pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
gmichael@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (Gary R. Michael)
dat91mas@ludat.lth.se (Asker Mikael)
MILLERL@WILMA.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU ("Loren J. Miller")
minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
pmorris@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Paul Morris)
Mark_Muhlestein@Novell.COM (Mark Muhlestein)
david@staff.udc.upenn.edu (R. David Murray)
gananney@mosaic.uncc.edu (Glenn A Nanney)
anthony@meaddata.com (Anthony Napier)
dniman@panther.win.net (Donald E. Niman)
nistuk@unixg.ubc.ca (Richard Nistuk)
Jonathan@RMIT.EDU.AU (Jonathan O'Donnell)
martino@gomez.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Martin R. Olah)
cpatil@leland.stanford.edu (Christopher Kashina Patil)
crp5754@erfsys01.boeing.com (Chris Payne)
sharon@acri.fr (Sharon Peleg)
php@rhi.hi.is (Petur Henry Petersen)
chrisp@efi.com (Chris Phoenix)
pierce@CS.UCLA.EDU (Brad Pierce)
julius@math.utah.edu ("Julius Pierce")
dplatt@cellar.org (Doug Platt)
Mitchell.Porter@lambada.oit.unc.edu (Mitchell Porter)
cpresson@jido.b30.ingr.com (Craig Presson)
price@price.demon.co.uk (Michael Clive Price)
U39554@UICVM.BITNET (Edward S. Proctor)
stevep@deckard.Works.ti.com (Steve Pruitt)
MJQUINN@PUCC.BITNET (Michael Quinn)
rauss@nvl.army.mil (Patrick Rauss)
remke@cs.tu-berlin.de ("Jan K. Remke")
ag167@yfn.ysu.edu (Barry H. Rodin)
ksackett@cs.uah.edu (Karl R. Sackett)
rcs@cs.arizona.edu (Richard Schroeppel)
fschulz@pyramid.com (Frank Schulz)
kws@Thunder-Island.kalamazoo.MI.US (Karel W. Sebek)
bseewald@gozer.idbsu.edu (Brad Seewald)
shapard@manta.nosc.mil (Thomas D. Shapard)
habs@Panix.Com (Harry Shapiro)
muir@idiom.berkeley.ca.us (David Muir Sharnoff)
dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
zero@netcom.com (Richard Shiflett)
AP201160@BROWNVM.BITNET (Elaine Shiner)
robsho@robsho.Auto-trol.COM (Robert Shock)
rshvern@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Rob Shvern)
wesiegel@cie-2.uoregon.edu (William Siegel)
ggyygg@mixcom.mixcom.com (Kenton Sinner)
bsmart@bsmart.tti.com (Bob Smart)
tonys@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Anthony David Smith)
sgccsns@citecuc.citec.oz.au (Shayne Noel Smith)
dsnider@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Daniel L Snider)
snyderg@spot.Colorado.EDU (SNYDER GARY EDWIN JR)
blupe@ruth.fullfeed.com (Brian Arthur Stewart)
lhdsy1!usmi02.midland.chevron.com!tsfsi@uunet.UU.NET (Sigrid
Stewart)
nat@netcom.com (Nathaniel Stitt)
tps@biosym.com (Tom Stockfisch)
stodolsk@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David Stodolsky)
gadget@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Steve Strong)
carey@CS.UCLA.EDU (Carey Sublette)
jsuttor@netcom.com (Jeff Suttor)
swain@cernapo.cern.ch (John Swain)
szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo)
ptheriau@netcom.com (P. Chris Theriault)
ak051@yfn.ysu.edu (Chris Thompson)
gunnar.thoresen@bio.uio.no (Gunnar Thoresen)
dreamer@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Andrew Trapp)
jerry@cse.lbl.gov (Jerry Tunis)
music@parcom.ernet.in (Rajeev Upadhye)
treon@u.washington.edu (Treon Verdery)
evore@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric J Vore)
U13054@UICVM.BITNET (Howard Wachtel)
susan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Susan C Wade)
70023.3041@CompuServe.COM (Paul Wakfer)
ewalker@it.berklee.edu ("Elaine Walker")
jew@rt.sunquest.com (James Ward)
jeremy@ai.mit.edu (Jeremy M. Wertheimer)
bw@ws029.torreypinesca.NCR.COM (Bruce White 3807)
weeds@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Mark Wiedman)
wiesel-elisha@CS.YALE.EDU (Elisha Wiesel)
WILLINGP@gar.union.edu (WILLING, PAUL)
smw@alcor.concordia.ca (Steven Winikoff)
wright@hicomb.hi.com (David Wright)
ebusew@anah.ericsson.com (Stephen Wright 66667)
liquidx@cnexus.cts.com (Liquid-X)
xakellis@uivlsisl.csl.uiuc.edu (Michael G. Xakellis)
cs012113@cs.brown.edu (Ion Yannopoulos)
yazz@lccsd.sd.locus.com (Bob Yazz)
lnz@lucid.com (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
62RSE@npd1.ufpe.br
adwyer@mason1.gmu.edu
ART@EMBL-Hamburg.DE
atfurman@cup.portal.com
billw@attmail.att.com
carl@red-dragon.umbc.edu
carlf@ai.mit.edu
cccbbs!chris.thompson@UCENG.UC.EDU
CCGARCIA@MIZZOU1.BITNET
clayb@cellar.org
dack@permanet.org
daedalus@netcom.com
danielg@autodesk.com
Dave-M@cup.portal.com
F_GRIFFITH@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU
garcia@husc.harvard.edu
gav@houxa.att.com
hammar@cs.unm.edu
herbison@lassie.ucx.lkg.dec.com
hhuang@Athena.MIT.EDU
hkhenson@cup.portal.com
irving@happy-man.com
jeckel@amugw.aichi-med-u.ac.jp
jgs@merit.edu
jmeritt@mental.mitre.org
Jonas_Marten_Fjallstam@cup.portal.com
kqb@whscad1.att.com
LPOMEROY@velara.sim.es.com
lubkin@apollo.hp.com
kunert@wustlb.wustl.edu
LINYARD_M@XENOS.a1.logica.co.uk
M.Michelle.Wrightwatson@att.com
moselecw@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
naoursla@eos.ncsu.edu
ng4@husc.harvard.edu
pase70!dchapman@uwm.edu
pocock@math.utah.edu
RUDI@HSD.UVic.CA
SCOTTJOR@delphi.com
stanton@ide.com
steveha@microsoft.com
stu1016@DISCOVER.WRIGHT.EDU
SYang.ES_AE@xerox.com
tim.hruby@his.com
Todd.Kaufmann@FUSSEN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU
tom@genie.slhs.udel.edu
UC482529@MIZZOU1.BITNET
WMILLER@clust1.clemson.edu
yost@mv.us.adobe.com
(The group still passes if you don't count the people for
whom I just have email address.)
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I do agree with you, in a way. The war on drugs has failed, but in my opinion,
that doesn't mean we have to give up. Only change the tactics.
For instance, here are how some penalties should be changed.
Dealing Coke -- Death
Dealing Heroin -- Death
Dealing Pot -- Death
Dealing Crack -- Death
The list goes on and on!!!......
JUST KIDDING!!!
However, on a more serious note, I do believe that we should take some money
away from the foriegn operations in South America and costly border
interdiction efforts. (Don't think I'm going to say, "spend it to educate
people", because I know plenty of educated dopers). Actually, spend it on
things like drug treatment programs.
I saw an interesting story on 60 minutes about how the British actually
prescribe and addict his "recommended" dosage, and try to ween him off from it,
or cut the amount down to levels where it is "acceptable". Sounds good so far
from what I heard with a decrease in cost, lower addiction rates by wiping out
the dealer's markets, etc. (But that was the only thing I have heard about it.)
However, legalizing it and just sticking some drugs in gas stations to be
bought like cigarettes is just plain silly. Plus, I have never heard of a
recommended dosage for drugs like crack, ecstasy, chrystal meth and LSD.
The 60 Minute Report said it worked with "cocaine" cigarettes, pot and heroin.
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The proper term for what Mike expresses is Monophysitism. This was a
heresy that was condemned in the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. It
grew up in reaction to Nestorianism, which held that the Son and Jesus
are two different people who happened to be united in the same body
temporarily. Monophysitism is held by the Copts of Egypt and Ethipoia
and by the Jacobites of Syria and the Armenian Orthodox. It believes
that Jesus Christ was God (which is correct), that he was man (which is
correct), that he was one person (which is correct), but that he had
only one nature and one will and oen energy (which is heretical, the
orthodox position is that he had two natures and two wills and two
energies, both divine and human, though the wills were in perfect
harmony). That is what Mike is trying to get across, that while Jesus
came in human form, Mike says He did not have a human nature or a human
will. In reality, he had both, though neither made him subject to
original sin.
It is interesting to note that the Monothelites were a reaction to this
conflict and attempted to solve the problem by admitting two natures but
not two wills or two energies. It also was condemned, at a late council
in Constantinople I believe.
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NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED, APR 19, 1993
Not because you were too busy but because
Israelists in the US media spiked it.
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THOSE INTREPID ISRAELI SOLDIERS
Israeli soldiers have sexually taunted Arab women in the occupied Gaza Strip
during the three-week-long closure that has sealed Palestinians off from the
Jewish state, Palestinian sources said on Sunday.
The incidents occurred in the town of Khan Younis and involved soldiers of
the Golani Brigade who have been at the centre of house-to-house raids for
Palestinian activists during the closure, which was imposed on the strip and
occupied West Bank.
Five days ago girls at the Al-Khansaa secondary said a group of naked
soldiers taunted them, yelling: ``Come and kiss me.'' When the girls fled,
the soldiers threw empty bottles at them.
On Saturday, a group of soldiers opened their shirts and pulled down their
pants when they saw girls from Al-Khansaa walking home from school. Parents
are considering keeping their daughters home from the all-girls school.
The same day, soldiers harassed two passing schoolgirls after a youth
escaped from them at a boys' secondary school. Deputy Principal Srur
Abu-Jamea said they shouted abusive language at the girls, backed them
against a wall, and put their arms around them.
When teacher Hamdan Abu-Hajras intervened the soldiers kicked him and beat
him with the butts of their rifles.
On Tuesday, troops stopped a car driven by Abdel Azzim Qdieh, a practising
Moslem, and demanded he kiss his female passenger. Qdieh refused, the
soldiers hit him and the 18-year-old passenger kissed him to stop the
beating.
On Friday, soldiers entered the home of Zamno Abu-Ealyan, 60, blindfolded
him and his wife, put a music tape on a recorder and demanded they dance. As
the elderly couple danced, the soldiers slipped away. The coupled continued
dancing until their grandson came in and asked what was happening.
The army said it was checking the reports.
....................
ISRAELI TROOPS BAR CHRISTIANS FROM JERUSALEM
Israeli troops prevented Christian Arabs from entering Jerusalem on Thursday
to celebrate the traditional mass of the Last Supper.
Two Arab priests from the Greek Orthodox church led some 30 worshippers in
prayer at a checkpoint separating the occupied West Bank from Jerusalem after
soldiers told them only people with army-issued permits could enter.
``Right now, our brothers are celebrating mass in the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre and we were hoping to be able to join them in prayer,'' said Father
George Makhlouf of the Ramallah Parish.
Israel sealed off the occupied lands two weeks ago after a spate of
Palestinian attacks against Jews. The closure cut off Arabs in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip from Jerusalem, their economic, spiritual and cultural centre.
Father Nicola Akel said Christians did not want to suffer the humiliation
of requesting permits to reach holy sites.
Makhlouf said the closure was discriminatory, allowing Jews free movement
to take part in recent Passover celebrations while restricting Christian
celebrations.
``Yesterday, we saw the Jews celebrate Passover without any interruption.
But we cannot reach our holiest sites,'' he said.
An Israeli officer interrupted Makhlouf's speech, demanding to see his
identity card before ordering the crowd to leave.
...................
If you are as revolted at this as I am, drop Israel's best friend email and
let him know what you think.
75300.3115@compuserve.com (via CompuServe)
clintonpz@aol.com (via America Online)
clinton-hq@campaign92.org (via MCI Mail)
Tell 'em ARF sent ya.
..................................
If you are tired of "learning" about American foreign policy from what is
effectively, Israeli controlled media, I highly recommend checking out the
Washington Report. A free sample copy is available by calling the American
Education Trust at:
(800) 368 5788
Tell 'em arf sent you.
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: I have a 486DX-33 computer with a SoundBlaster 1.0 card. I'm running
: Microsoft Windows v3.1. I have the SB driver set up properly to play
: normal sounds (.WAV files, etc.). I want to play midi files through the
: Media Player that is included with windows. I know I have to set up the
: patch maps or something in the MIDI-Mapper in the Control Panel. I KNOW
: NOTHING ABOUT MIDI. (This is to be the way I'll get my feet wet.)
: How do I set up Windows so that I can play MIDI files?
If you install the Soundblaster windows drivers correctly, and have
the latest drivers, the media player should be setup to play files
authored to Microsoft's Multimedia midi authoring standard (General
Midi), see the section in the back of the Voyetra manual in the
Soundblaster midi upgrade kit.
You'll find that midi files exist with all kinds of different
mappings, so don't expect them to always sound correct without using
some kind of midi file editor, such as Voyetra's Sequencer Plus.
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MIGHTY ONES GET MIGHTIER:
TPS, the Finnish Champions 1992/3, are getting still stronger!
I just heard some news, according to which TPS has acquired
the next Finnish hockey superstar(??) Jere Lehtinen from Kiekko-Espoo!
There are also some rumours about Erik Kakko (Reipas) and Marko Jantunen
(KalPa) being traded to TPS. Both of this players are currently on the
Finnish olympic team. I think that Jantunen is drafted to the NHL, too.
BTW. Is Juha Yl|nen (centre, HPK) drafted by the Jets?? During last year
he has reached the top level among Finnish centres. He had very good
playoff games against TPS!
Hannu
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Despite walks and loses, Ryan deserves to be in the Hall of Fame (IMHO)
based only on his ho-hitters. The strike-out records are an extra.
What do people think about Andre "400 HR" Dawson for the HOF?
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This may sound like a simple-minded question, but this is the first time
I've ever had a need for this:
I've been designing some relatively simple chip circuits based on things
like photoresistors (you know, no light to photoresistor, emit a logic
high, etc.).
Anyway, I've got some servos lying around, and I wanted to do some things
with them using digital logic. I know all about having to pulse the signal
and everything, I just have one problem: I'm assuming I need a negative
(yes, negative) logic high to get the thing to turn in the direction
opposite the direction it would turn under normal logic high.
Is a negative logic high (I've seen this in schematics) the same thing as
an active low, or what? I'm not using a bi-polar power source, so how
would I get a negative logic high out of this thing? I need to have all
three signals available: Logic high, logic low, and negative logic high.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, please reply via email, as I
never seem to have time to read this (or any other) group lately.
Thanks much,
-mark
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I read it refered to as the "parabolic cross-section" rule;
the idea was that if you plot the area of the fuselage cross-
section as a function of the point fore-and-aft along the
fuselage, a plot that is a **paraboloid** minimizes somethin'
or 'nother (to be technical about it).
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taken.
Hum, I guess this has some significance as opposed to having an incredible
drop during the last days in office. Unfortuantely having a loss in the
polls during the last days of office usually means no re-election. Ask
George.
Good one, Roooster. Thats hard to top.
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When posting Winmark results, it is a good idea to give the version of
WinBench that you used to obtain the scores, as well as the resolution that
you tested and the version of the drivers.
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I have a 1986 Acura Integra 5 speed with 95,000 miles on it. It is positively
the worst car I have ever owned. I had an 83 Prelude that had 160k miles on
it when I sold it, and it was still going strong . This is with religious
attention to maintenance such as oil changes etc. Both cars were driven in
exactly the same manner..
1. It has gone through two clutches (which are underrated.)
2. 3 sets of tires (really eats tires in the front even with careful align)
3. All struts started leaking about 25-30k miles
4. Windshield wiper motor burned up (service note on this one)
5. Seek stop working on radio about 20k miles
6. Two timing belts.
7. Constant error signals from computer.
8. And finally. A rod bearing went out on the No. 1 piston seriously damaging
the crankshaft, contaminating the engine etc. When the overhaul was done
last week it required new crankshaft, one new cam shaft (has two) because
the camshaft shattered when they tried to mill it. The camshaft took 4
weeks to get because it is on national back order.
Everything on the engine is unique to the 1986 year. They went to a new
design in 87. Parts are very expensive.
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I really must object to that last statement. Having a lot of experience
with a '92 Grand Am coupe, I can firmly state that they do have a lot of
outstanding qualities. Very reliable throughout. Great layout of controls
and components. Very roomy considering the exterior size of the car. They
look sharp inside and out. The V6 that I drive has exceptional power and
drivability compared to other similar cars that I have driven.
All in all, it's a fun-to-drive, dependable, and reasonably priced vehicle.
Please don't knock it with a statement like that unless you back it up with
specific reasons why you feel that way.
Rob
bell@plains.nodak.edu
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Aargh!
Paul Stewart is the worst and most biased ref. presently in the NHL.
He called a total of 4 penalties on the Habs and one on the Nordiques.
The Nords' penalty came in O.T. Stewart, being an ex-Nordique himself,
was looking to call penalties on the Habs while letting the Nords
get away with murder...WE WAS ROBBED!!!!
It was an excellent game with plenty of end-to-end rushes and tremendous
goalkeeping. The Nords tied it with over 1 minute to go while Lebeau
was serving a penalty. I don't mind Stewart calling a penalty in the
last 5 min. of the game, but AT LEAST BE FAIR ABOUT IT. The Nords were
caught with their hand in the cookie jar more than once. Stewart turned
the other cheek...BASTARD!
Patrick Roy collapsed after letting in the tieing goal. He was shaky and
on his knees for the rest of the night. The winning goal shouldn't have
gone in.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the loss on Stewart. The Habs had
plenty of chances to capitalize, Muller, LeClair, Haller, etc. but
failed to put the puck in the net. That's what did them in. But
Mr. Stewart didn't help matters at all.
Oh well, at least the Bruins lost in O.T. also Ha, Ha!!--)
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McGill University
--> I'M TOO SEXY FOR COBOL.
---> Habs...will beat the Nords in 7!!!!
---> Let's Go Expos!
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| Hickory, dickory doc, |
| She took a good look at your cock. |
| It's really scary all rinkled and hairy,|
| It smells like a 10 year old sock! |
| --Andrew Dice Clay |
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Do anyone know about any shading program based on Xlib in the public domain?
I need an example about how to allocate correct colormaps for the program.
Appreciate the help.
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There is no contradiction here. It is essential in the sense that your
body needs it. It is non-essential in the sense that your body can
produce enough of it without supplement.
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Seems to me that the driver was driving the vehicle visually impaired.
Isn't that like not scraping ice and snow off your windshield and such?
Say, that's another thing that bugs me. Why don't people scrape their
damn windows? I've seen people driving cars with *barely* the driver's
half of the windshield cleared. Nothing else cleared. This seems
pretty stupid and isn't there something (probably varies state to state)
that says a certain percentage of the glass must be clear? Oh, well.
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There are several star map programs available. Your
job is to choose that you like. Try anonymous-FTP
from:
ftp.funet.fi:pub/astro/pc/stars
pc/solar
mac
amiga
atari
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: I believe this raid was ill planned because they only had 2 days to plan it,
: and it was continued when failure was obvious because it had a bit part
: in the much larger political agenda of President Clinton. I would even
: suggest that the loss of 4 ATF agents is inconsequential in this the
: context of his political agenda. It MIGHT even be beneficial to his agenda,
: as it helps point up just how evil these assualt weapons are. Further proof
: might be that the ATF denied their agents (Street Stories report) requests
: for sufficient fire power.
:
: Important dates:
: Feb 25th - NJ assembly votes to overturn assault weapon ban.
: Feb 28th - Compound in Waco attacked.
:
: On Feb. 25th the New Jersey assembly voted to overturn the assault weapon
: ban in that state. It looked like it might be a tight vote, but the Senate
: in N.J. was going to vote to overturn the ban. It would not sit well to have
: an Eastern state overturn an assault weapon ban, given Clintons stated
: agenda on gun control. I suspect Clinton gave the order to get someone or
: some: group with assualt weapons and have the press present (they were
: initially
: at the incident in Waco) to record the event for the TV audience. The agent
: on "Street Stories" reported that a supervisor was urging them all to "get
: ready fast", as "they know we are coming". I believe this attack continued,
: even tho the probablility of failure was high, because it came from the top
: down. After the N.J. assembly vote, the ATF had a limited amount of time to
: come up with something, and the Wackos in Waco fit the bill nicely.
:
: ...rich
I don't know Rich. Last year when the congress was debating the Bushmans
'Crime Bill', the incident at Lubys' cafe occured. Most of the anti-gun
crap was amended out of the bill anyway.
Could a president 'order': go find some 'assault weapons' and bring the
media". I hope not. Frankly, the Toon-meister* scares me. Of course
having a Democratic majority in congress doesn't help. (Apologies to all
Demos' who support RKBA)
( *definition: toon-meister - a characatureic name for the current
president of the U.S.: Clinton aka, Clintoon aka Toon-meister.)
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As you have presented it, it is indeed an argument from incredulity.
However, from what I have seen, it is not often presented in this manner.
It is usually presented more in the form, "And *besides*, I cannot see...
...nor have I ever been offered a convincing explanation."
Moreover, it is not unreasonable to ask for an explanation for such
phenomena. That theism does not provide a convincing explanation is not
an argument in theism's favor. Especially when different theisms offer
different explanations, and even different adherents of what is purportedly
the same theism give different explanations...
Not im my experience. In my experience, the most common reason is the
lack of evidence in theism's favor. You mileage may vary. :->
Oh, heck, I'll be snide this once. :-> It's also fairly easy to attack
arguments that are not made. (I.e. 'strawmen'.)
Sage advice indeed.
Sincerely,
Raymond Ingles ingles@engin.umich.edu
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Or, with no dictionary available, they could gain first hand
knowledge by suffering through one of your posts.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea.
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DN> From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
DN> A neurology
DN> consultation is cheaper than a scan.
And also better, because a neurologist can make a differential
diagnosis between migraine, tension-type headache, cluster, benign
intracranial hypertension, chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, and other
headache syndromes that all appear normal on a scan. A neurologist
can also recommend a course of treatment that is appropriate to the
diagnosis.
DN> >>Also, since many people are convinced they have brain tumors or other
DN> >>serious pathology, it may be cheaper to just get a CT scan then have
DN> >>them come into the ER every few weeks.
DN> And easier than taking the time to reassure the patient, right?
DN> Personally, I don't think this can ever be justified.
Sigh. It may never be justifiable, but I sometimes do it. Even
after I try to show thoroughness with a detailed history, neurologic
examination, and discussion with the patient about my diagnosis,
salted with lots of reassurance, patients still ask "why can't you
order a scan, so we can be absolutely sure?" Aunt Millie often gets
into the conversation, as in "they ignored Aunt Millie's headaches
for years", and then she died of a brain tumor, aneurysm, or
whatever. If you can get away without ever ordering imaging for a
patient with an obviously benign headache syndrome, I'd like to hear
what your magic is.
Every once in a while I am able to bypass imaging by getting an EEG.
Mind you, I don't think EEG is terribly sensitive for brain tumor,
but the patient feels like "something is being done" (as if the
hours I spent talking with and examining the patient were
"nothing"), the EEG has no ionizing radiation, it's *much* cheaper
than CT or MRI, and the EEG brings in some money to my department.
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That's why the Zionists decided that Zion must be Gentile-rein.
What?! They didn't?! You mean to tell me that the early Zionists
actually granted CITIZENSHIP in the Jewish state to Christian and
Muslim people, too?
It seems, Elias, that your "first point to note" is wrong, so the rest
of your posting isn't worth much, either.
Ta ta...
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a quirk of the new machines?
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Judging from postings I've read all over Usenet and on non-Usenet
BBs conferences, Barney is DEFINITELY an endangered species. Especially
if he runs into me in a dark alley.
A.Lizard
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Ladies and gentleman,
Step one was taken on the Phils' triumphant trip this year tonight!
(Yes, that was English!)
Mulholland's ERA after tonight's game? 0.00...nice try Drabek!
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The Phillies were picked to be in first.
Someone replied that the people who picked them were the same people who
picked the Mets last year.
My reply: Yeah, that may be true, but this IS the Phillies.
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Long time, no see.
Andreas
--
Andreas - Siperian Sirri Siberian Stint
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Is Kratz claiming that he can reliably visually distinguish an M-16
from an AR-15? That he can see the difference between a semi-auto and
a full-auto UZI? That he can see the difference between the various
versions (some full-auto, some semi-auto only) of the M-11/9?
If so, I'd love to hear the details, if only because they'll demonstrate
that Kratz is blowing smoke.
Considering that one can design a gun so that it looks just like
another gun, yet have very different properties, and that that's
quite common....
Most kids in my neighborhood were quite young when they figured out
that my parents car wasn't much like Richard Petty's, even though it
looked just like it (except for the paint job). Things must have been
different with Kratz.
No, it doesn't, but that's irrelevant. If visual inspection of the
outside worked, TV would be acceptable, but since it doesn't, the fact
that it's just as good as seeing in person doesn't mean much.
-andy gave Kratz a chance to back down on this in private
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From: "Preston K. Covey" <covey+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Gun Stats & Mortal Risks
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 18:35:05 -0500 (EST)
Folks,
Hail from the nether world. On February 4th, the Wall Street Journal
carried a front-page article by Erik Larson entitled "Armed Force." I
felt a reply was in order to his citation of the notorious scare stat
that "A Gun is 43 times more likely to kill than to protect." I sent
the following to the WSJ.
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Gun Stats & Mortal Risks
Preston K. Covey
Erik Larson~s even-handed article on Paxton Quigley (~Armed Force,~
2/4/93, WSJ) cites the world~s most notorious ~statistic~ regarding guns
in the home: ~A pioneering study of residential gunshot deaths in King
County, Washington, found that a gun in the home was 43 times more
likely to be used to kill its owner, spouse, a friend or child than to
kill an intruder.~ The ~43 times~ stat is everywhere these days; it
has grown in media lore like the proverbial urban myth: it was inflated
by one pugilistic talk-show pundit to ~93.~ Given the shock value of
the finding, the conclusion of the 1986 New England Journal of Medicine
(NEJM) study is remarkably understated: ~The advisability of keeping
firearms in the home for protection must be questioned.~
Responsible people should indeed question the risks and benefits of
bringing a firearm into their home. But what we need to know is this:
What exactly are the risks and benefits? The NEJM testimony is neither
the whole truth about the benefits nor nothing but the truth about the
risks. Further, as with motor vehicles, we want to know: What control
do we have over the risks and benefits? And, as with the risks of
cancer or heart disease or auto accidents: How can we minimize the
risks? Like raw highway death tolls, the NEJM stat is not very helpful
here.
The NEJM finding purports to inform us, but it is framed to warn us
off. It is widely promulgated in the media as a ~scare stat,~ a
misleading half-truth whose very formulation is calculated to prejudice
and terrify. The frightful statistic screams for itself: The risks far
outweigh the benefits, yes? What fool would run these risks? If your
car were 43 times more likely to kill you, a loved one, a dear friend or
an innocent child than to get you to your destination, should you not
take the bus?
Uncritical citation puts the good name of statistics in the bad company
of lies and damned lies. Surely, we can do better where lives are at
stake. Let~s take a closer look at this risky business:
The ~43 times~ stat of the NEJM study is the product of dividing the
number of home intruders/aggressors justifiably killed in self-defense
(the divisor) into the number of family members or acquaintances killed
by a gun in the home (the dividend). The divisor of this risk equation
is 9: in the study~s five-year sample there were 2 intruders and 7 other
cases of self-defense. The dividend is 387: in the study there were 12
accidental deaths, 42 criminal homicides, and 333 suicides. 387 divided
by 9 yields 43. There were a total of 743 gun-related deaths in King
County between 1978 and 1983, so the study leaves 347 deaths outside of
homes unaccounted.
The NEJM~s notorious ~43 times~ statistic is seriously misleading on
six counts:
1. The dividend is misleadingly characterized in the media: the ~or
acquaintances~ of the study (who include your friendly drug dealers and
neighborhood gang members) is equated to ~friends.~ The implication is
that the offending guns target and kill only beloved family members,
dear friends, and innocent children. Deaths may all be equally tragic,
but the character and circumstance of both victims and killers are
relevant to the risk. These crucial risk factors are masked by the
calculated impression that the death toll is generated by witless
Waltons shooting dear friends and friendly neighbors. This is
criminological hogwash.
2. The study itself does not distinguish households or environs
populated by people with violent, criminal, or substance-abuse histories
-- where the risk of death is very high -- versus households inhabited
by more civil folk (for example, people who avoid high-risk activities
like drug dealing, gang banging and wife beating) -- where the risk is
very low indeed. In actuality, negligent adults allow fatal but
avoidable accidents; and homicides are perpetrated mostly by people with
histories of violence or abuse, people who are identifiably and
certifiably at ~high risk~ for misadventure. To ignore these obvious
risk factors in firearm accidents and homicides is as misleading as
ignoring the role of alcohol in vehicular deaths: by tautology, neither
gun deaths nor vehicular deaths would occur without firearms or
vehicles; but the person and circumstance of the gun owner or driver
crucially affect the risk.
3. One misleading implication of the way the NEJM stat is framed is
that the mere presence of a gun in the home is much more likely to kill
than to protect, and this obscures -- indeed, disregards -- the role of
personal responsibility. The typical quotation of this study (unlike
Larson~s) attributes fatal agency to the gun: ~A gun in the home is 43
times as likely to kill . . . .~ (The Center to Prevent Handgun
Violence, a major promulgator of the NEJM statistic, uses this
particular formulation.) We can dispense with the silly debate about
whether it~s people or guns that accomplish the killing: again, by
tautology, gun deaths would not occur without the guns. The question
begged is how many deaths would occur anyway, without the guns. In any
case, people are the death-dealing agents, the guns are their lethal
instruments. The moral core of the personal risk factors in gun deaths
are personal responsibility and choice. Due care and responsibility
obviate gun accidents; human choice mediates homicide and suicide (by
gun or otherwise). The choice to own a gun need not condemn a person to
NEJM~s high-risk pool. The gun does not create this risk by itself.
People have a lot to say about what risk they run with guns in their
homes. For example, graduates of Paxton Quigley~s personal protection
course do not run the touted ~43 times~ risk any more than skilled and
sober drivers run the same risks of causing or suffering vehicular death
as do reckless or drunk drivers. Undiscriminating actuarials disregard
and obscure the role of personal responsibility and choice, just as they
disregard and obscure the role of socio-economic, criminological and
other risk-relevant factors in firearm-related death. This is why we
resent insurance premiums and actuarial consigment to risk pools whose
norms disregard our individualities. Fortunately, nothing can consign
us to the NEJM risk pool but our own lack of choice or responsibility in
the matter.
4. Suicide accounts for 84% of the deaths by gun in the home in the
NEJM study. As against the total deaths by gun in King County,
including those outside the home, in-house suicides are 44% of the total
death toll, which is closer to the roughly 50% proportion found by other
studies. Suicide is a social problem of a very different order from
homicide or accidents. The implication of the NEJM study is that these
suicides might not occur without readily available guns. It is true
that attempted suicide by gun is likely to succeed. It is not obviously
true that the absence of a gun would prevent any or all of these
suicides. This is widely assumed or alleged, but the preponderance of
research on guns and suicide actually shows otherwise, that this is
wishful thinking in all but a few truly impulsive cases. (See: Bruce
L. Danto et al., The Human Side of Homicide, Columbia University Press,
1982; Charles Rich et al., ~Guns and Suicide,~ American Journal of
Psychiatry, March 1990.) If suicides were removed from the dividend of
the NEJM study~s risk equation, the ~43 times~ stat would deflate to
~six.~ The inclusion of suicides in the NEJM risk equation -- like the
causes, durability, or interdiction of suicidal intent itself -- is a
profoundly debatable matter. Quotations of the NEJM study totally
disregard this issue.
5. Citations of the NEJM study also mislead regarding the estimable
rate of justifiable and excusable homicide. Most measures, like the
NEJM homicide rate, are based on the immediate disposition of cases.
But many homicides initially ruled criminal are appealed and later ruled
self-defense. In the literature on battered women, immediate case
dispositions are notorious for under-representing the rate of
justifiable or excusable homicide. Time~s January 18, 1993, cover story
on women ~Fighting Back~ reported one study~s finding that 40% of women
who appeal have their murder convictions thrown out. Time~s July 17,
1989, cover story on a week of gun deaths reported 51% of the domestic
cases as shootings by abuse victims; but only 3% of the homicides were
reported as self-defense. In a May 14, 1990, update, Time reported
that 12% of the homicides had eventually been ruled self-defense. In
Time~s sample, the originally reported rate of self-defense was in error
by a factor of four. The possibility of such error is not acknowledged
by promulgators of the NEJM statistic.
6. While both the dividend and the product of the NEJM risk equation
are arguably inflated, the divisor is unconscionably misleading. The
divisor of this equation counts only aggressors who are killed, not
aggressors who are successfully thwarted without being killed or even
shot at. The utility of armed self-defense is the other side of the
coin from the harms done with guns in homes. What kind of moral idiocy
is it to measure this utility only in terms of killings ? Do we measure
the utility of our police solely in terms of felons killed -- as
opposed to the many many more who are otherwise foiled, apprehended, or
deterred? Should we not celebrate (let alone count ) those cases where
no human life is lost as successful armed defenses? The question posed
to media that cite the NEJM scare stat is this: Why neglect the
compendious research on successful armed defense, notably by
criminologist Gary Kleck (Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America ,
Aldine de Gruyter, 1992)?
Kleck~s estimations of the rate and risk of defensive firearm use are
based on victimization surveys as well as other studies: the rate is
high (about one million a year) and the risk is good (gun defenders fare
better than anyone, either those who resort to other forms of resistance
or those who do not resist). Dividing one million gun defenses a year
by 30,000 annual gun deaths (from self-defense, homicides, suicides, and
accidents) yields 33. Thus, we can construct a much more favorable
statistic than the NEJM scare stat:
A gun is 33 times more likely to be used to defend against assault or
other crime than to kill anybody.
Of course, Kleck~s critics belittle the dividend of this calculation;
what is good news for gun defenders is bad news for gun control. We
should indeed question the basis and method of Kleck~s high estimation
of defensive firearm use, as I have questioned the NEJM statistic.
Clearly, the issue of how to manage mortal risks is not settled by
uncritical citation of statistics. One thing troubles me still: we
can hardly escape the unquestioned NEJM scare stat in our media, but we
hardly ever find Kleck~s good work mentioned, even critically.
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C-3's bird may be flaking out and expecting to die soon.
or C-3 may orbit over major users areas, and it may be
needed to provide redundancy on that plane while b-4 may orbit
over hicksville, and not have muc of a user community.
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: >After agreeing to terms I signed the contract and drove home in my new
: >car. Later that same night I noticed that the terms in the were
: >different from the terms I had agreed to. (I made the stupid mistake
: >of not checking everything on the contract). This all happened last
: >Saturday.
: >
: >I have heard that there is a "cooling-off" law allowing me three days
: >to reconsider the contract. Is this true? Can anyone point me to the
: >law? The transaction happened at the dealership, if it matters.
:
: This cooling off period applies only in certain situations - lik ewhen
: you are solicited at home. I also think the cooling off period ends
: if you actually accept the merchandise.
:
: If this were not the case, any car buyer would have the right to return
: a slightly used, highly devalued, car 2 days after buying it. Yeah -
: that's the trick - if I want to buy a new car, I'd have a firend buy
: & return one, then go in and negotiate a better deal on a pre-owned
: used car.
However, if you agree some terms, and then, when about to sign, the
dealer slips you a contract with different terms, and leads you to
believe that it embodies the terms you verbally agreed to, that
is fraud. There is no 3 day limit on restitution for fraud.
You may have to sue (and win) to get out of this. You will almost
certainly have to threaten to sue.
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Items for sale.....
This package was bought throught a award give-away company. I attempted
to cancel my order before I received the package, but I was too late and
the company refused to take the package back for refund. I know the truth
which I would never get my $697 back, but I wish to get my money back as
close as possible. Here is the describtion of the package...
Nishika 3D camera It takes very good picture, never been opended
or used. It came with wide angle flesh, carring
case, film, and a instruction video. It has four
lens and created a 3D effect on a regular 35mm
film.
Jewelry It came with the package as additional gift.
Bahama vacation voucher The voucher is good for two RT airfare to Freeport.
The users get a special hotel rate of $27 per-person
per-night. Meals, ground transfer, hotel tax is
_not_ included.
Las Vegas, Reno, Orlando The voucher provides one RT airfare, and
hotel accomodation for 3 days/ 2 nights.
Meals, ground transfer, hotel tax is not
included. The voucher is good for all 3
locations, but you can't travel to all 3
places at once.
Cancun, Mexico The voucher provides one RT airfare, and hotel
accomodation for 3 days / 2 nights. Meals and
ground transfer, hotel tax is not included as
usual.
I paid $697 for the whole package. So try not to be cold-blooded when you
make your offer. Details would be provided by request. I do wish to sell
the whole package at once. So if you are just looking for the vacation
vouchers, I don't care if you sell the camera to other for a higher pric
If you are interested in the camera, you could treat the vacation vouchers
as gift.
If you receive a letter in your mail box which says that you are selected
to be part of the sweeptake and you have at least one out of five awards.
Trust me, you would get the exactly the same package as I did. There is
only one award which will be given away. So don't bother even to call them
back, if you are really interested, you could get it from me for a cheaper
price. And you could receive the package within a week ( I waited three
months to get my first and final packages). Also, they would ask for your
credit card number and you have to pay for the interest to the credit
card company. So why spend more than you should when you could get them
from me for a cheaper price.
If you are interested, please reply to me as soon as posible. I really
wish to get this over with. Make me an offer, if I am confortable with
your offer, I would send the package by U.P.S. the next day morning.
More details could be given if you wish.
Please contact me at koutd@hirama.hiram.edu
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Can anyone recomend a good book or article on inter-client communications
BESIDES I.C.C.M.?
I've looked everywhere I can and it seems everyone tells you how to do it
but nobody SHOWS you how. O'Reilly has no examples, ICCM has no examples,
Asente & Swick give no examples - in fact most of the books I've looked at,
if they discuss ICC at all, simply give a condensed version of the ICCM and
then refer you to the ICCM. I did find one example of how to use Atoms and
Properties in Young's book and five hours after I bought Young's book I had
my applications talking to each other.
I am not sure, however, if thats the best way. I'd like to stay independent
of Unix so pipes and/or sockets probably aren't the way to go. But within X
one can also use messages, the clipboard, and perhaps window groups.
I need a text that discusses the various methods, discusses which method is best
for which purpose, and gives examples. Without examples it's all just words.
Thanks in advance
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Please excuse the interruption.
I am seeking pro-life activists to fill out a 13-page questionnaire
on attitutes, opinions, and activities. If you would be willing
to participate in this research, please email me privately at
KSTE@PURCCVM.BITNET. All replies and questionnaires will be
made anonymous prior to printout and will be kept confidential.
Thank you very much for your help.
--Kerry at Purdue
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Apparently not.
In response to his claim that it "terrifies" gay people not to be able
to "indoctrinate children to our lifestyle" (or words to that effect),
I sent Roger a very calm, carefully-written, detailed letter
explaining simply why the BSA policy does, indeed terrify me. I did
not use inflammatory language and left myself extremely open for an
answer. Thus far, I have not received an answer. I can conclude only
that Roger considers his position either indefensible or simply not
worth defending.
In fact, that's exactly the point: people can control their behavior.
Because of that fact, there is no need for a blanket ban on
homosexuals.
You tell me.
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And who's advocating that? Hate crimes laws are aimed at the motivations
of the acts. Just like premeditated homicide is treated stricter than
heat-of-passion homicide.
So if I set off a bomb in the World Trade Center, I can only be charged with
more than one murder, and not the other five deaths and extensive property
damage? After all, the bomb was a single act.
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And has been rather thoroughly demolished as myth by Robert Scott Root-
Bernstein. See his book, "Discovering". Ring structures for benzene
had been proposed before Kekule', after him, and at the same time as him.
The current models do not resemble Kekule's. Many of the predecessors
of Kekule's structure resemble the modern model more.
I don't think "extra-scientific" is a very useful phrase in a discussion
of the boundaries of science, except as a proposed definiens. Extra-rational
is a better phrase. In fact, there are quite a number of well-known cases
of extra-rational considerations driving science in a useful direction.
For example, Pasteur discovered that racemic acid was a mixture of
enantiomers (the origin of stereochemistry) partly because he liked a
friend's crank theory of chemical action. The friend was wrong, but
Pasteur's discovery stood. A prior investigator (Mitscherlich), looking
at the same phenomenon, had missed a crucial detail; presumably because he
lacked Pasteur's motivation to find something that distinguished racemic
acid from tartaric (now we say: d-tartaric) acid.
Again, Pasteur discovered the differential fermentation of enantiomers
(tartaric acid again) not because of some rational conviction, but because
he was trying to produce yeast that lived on l-tartaric acid. His notebooks
contained fantasies of becoming the "Newton of mirror-image life," which
he never admitted publically.
Perhaps the best example is the discovery that DNA carries genes. Avery
started this work because of one of his students, and ardent Anglophile
and Francophobe Canadian, defended Fred Griffiths' discoveries in mice.
Most of Griffiths' critics were French, which decided the issue for the
student. Avery told him to replicate Griffiths' work in vitro, which the
student eventually did, whereupon Avery was convinced and started the
research program which, in 15 or so years, produced the famous discovery
(Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty, JEM 1944).
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For the most part, this is a bunch of bunk. I've got a Computer Engineering
degree, yet I've spent the last 7 years writing software that people actually
use. Moreover, the salary distinctions are incorrect; I received 3 job offers
upon graduation; the two jobs that actually used my hardware experience were
$7000/year lower! My advice is to decide which classes and projects most
interest you, and pick the major that allows you to take them.
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Not any more so than
holding people against their will is wrong
if you hold people against their will we will punish you
our punishment will be to hold you against your will
Is there any punishment which isn't something which, if done by a private
person to another private person for no apparent reason, would lead to
punishment? (Fines, I suppose.)
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I don't believe in the "Wave Theory".
My mother-in-law, who grew up in Germany, doesn't believe in
money at all. She started out as a real estate developer, and now raises
horses. She keeps telling me that inflation is coming back, and to lock
in my fixed rate mortgage as low as possible.
Maybe you'd like to invest in some foreign currency.
Which one would you guess to come out on top ?
(Sigh - speculators never learn.)
Bill R.
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I have an Adcom GFA-555 that I got in 1985. There certainly isn't
anything magic about it. The components used are decent, but
nothing uncommon with respect to consumer grade components.
The GFA-555 is a nice piece of equipment. I'm glad that Adcom had
the guts to not over-do the packaging. It irks me when I see
audiophile oriented equipment whose case and heat sinks probably
cost much more and receive more attention than the electronics they
are supposed to serve.
I don't see any big deal about the geographic region in which
something is assembled. This is especially true for something as
low-technology as a GFA-555.
I'd hope that a GFA-545 would still work well after several years.
Except under conditions of extreme abuse, there isn't much there to
go wrong.
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I just purchased The Norton Desktop for windows, and I also have
Norton Utilities. When I installed NDW, it wanted to rem out the line
that installed EP (EP /ON) and the command to invoke the Image utility.
It replaced the Image command with a new image command that invokes the
version of Image that came with NDW. This makes sense, as presumably the
Image version with NDW is newer than the one with NU. It did not, however,
install smartcan in the autoexec. Now two questions:
1: Will NU use the image data saved by the newer version of image invoked.
i.e. Are the two version of Image compatable?
2: Will erase protect use the info from smartcan, and vice versa?
I use both dos and windows, and I want to make sure that when I
erase files in either environment, they are going to be protected.
From the experiments I have run, The two programs (Erase Protect and
smart Erase) don't use each others info.
I currently have both EP and smartcan loading within my autoexec, and
I don't see any conflicts;
FYI : Norton Desktop for Windows version 2.2
Norton Util's version 6
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>...
>In the near future, federal martials will come for your arms.
>No one will help you. You are more dangerous, to their thinking,
>than the 'criminal'. This is your own fault.
>
>The 2nd amendment is dead. Accept this. Find another way.
You know, in many ways this might be just the kick we need to straighten
things out in this country. Also, people would have a need to replace
guns with something else, perhaps deadly sprays that would make Mace and OC
seem like water. They would be lighter and easier to conceal.
Guns are really "old" in design and as long as we have tons of them, no one
is motivated to design something better. I'm sure we could come up with
some real nasty stuff if we tried and getting rid of these guns would get
us moving on this track asap. This is what we really want, right? Stuff
that's smaller, lighter and far more deadly.
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Great, the first advantage of cheap coax, I've ever heard.
Cheers Robert (HB9NBY)
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Fellow netters,
I'm in the market for a hand scanner. However, I don't know anyone who has
one. I have my eye on two choices.
Dexxa: This scanner is available at Wal-Mart for $90. It includes GrayWorks
software and provides 400 dpi and 32 grayscales (I think). The OCR software
Catchword is available through mail-order for about $90 also.
Mustek: (Gray Artist for Windows) This scanner offers 256 grayscales
(according to Cad & Graphics) and 800 dpi. It is available for $169
mail-order and comes with Perceive OCR and Picture Publisher LE.
I am also looking at a Genius hand scanner (B105) from Cad & Graphics. It
is basically the same as the Mustek scanner except for the resolution (400
dpi) and price ($149).
Basically, I would like recommendations on which to buy. I have heard that
Logitech makes the best and manufactures Dexxa scanners. But which one is the
best buy? Would 800 dpi really be helpful (output would be no better than HP
LaserJet III or Canon BJ-200 - 300x300 to 360x360)? I am leaning toward the
Mustek because it offers the most features and is in the middle in terms of
prices. Which should I buy?
If you have a hand scanner, please let me know whether or not you would
recommend it. Also, if you know of another scanner within the price range
(under $225) that would be a better deal, please E-Mail me. Any and all help
would be greatly appreciated.
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Archive-Name: rec-autos/part6
[New article as of 4 February 1993 -- rpw]
Many people want to set up mailing lists for their favorite
automotive topics; rather fewer know how to do it. This article
will provide the essential information for doing so on standard
Unix systems. A shell script and examples of alias file setups
are included which presently run on a Sparc 2 here at balltown.cma.com
for a number of mailing lists. Note that if you do set up an automotive
mailing list, please let me know of the -request address so that I can
list it in the montly rec.autos posting. Also inform the keeper of the
Usenet list-of-lists (check news.answers for this monthly posting.)
First of all, to get anywhere, you need to either 1) be a sysadmin,
or 2) have some measure of assistance from your sysadmin. It is also
important that you have reasonably good network connectivity; if it seems
like you get everything several days after anyone else, or that you
have trouble getting email through, then your network connectivity is
probably not good enough.
Listserv:
There is a handy automated mailing list package named listserv, which
is available from several ftp servers on the network. Details of
the installation and operation of listserv are beyond the scope of this
article, but anyone who is considering running a large mailing list should
probably look at listserv carefully.
The Alias file:
On a typical unix system; there is a file named /usr/lib/aliases on
whichever file server is your mail host; it contains lines such as:
foo: bar, baz, bletch
which means that any email sent the name `foo' on that host is
redistributed to users bar, baz, and bletch. thus, the simplest
possible email list is
my-favorite-car: member1, member2, member3, my-address
my-favorite-car-request: my-address
this has a couple of problems; the most noticeable one being that
you have to be superuser to edit the alias file. however, you can
do the following, with the connivance of your sysadmin:
my-favorite-car: :include:/home/mydir/misc/autos/my-favorite-car-list
my-favorite-car-request: my-address
Where the file specified is a list of comma and newline separated
addresses. This file can be in the list admin's home directory,
owned by the list admin.
Bounced Mail:
this still has a problem; bounced mail usually gets distributed to all the
members of the list, which is generally considered somewhat irritating.
Therefore, the way that the driving school mailing list is set up
is instructive (Thanks to harpal chohan of the bmw list for this setup,
by the way. I'm not sure where he got it from.)
school-request: welty
school-rebroadcast: :include:/home/newwelty/misc/autos/school/list
school: "|/usr/local/adm/bin/explscript school"
owner-school: school-request
owner-school-out: school-request
here's what is going on here:
the owner- and -request addresses are intended as traps for bounced mail
coming from the network. the -request address also serves as the point
of contact for administrative duties.
school is what people send mail to; instead of pointing at addresses,
it points at a shell script which rewrites headers before resending
the email. school-broadcast (of which nobody except me knows the name;
the name has been changed here to protect my own sanity) points at the
actual list members.
the shell script i use is as follows:
-----------------
#!/bin/sh
cd /tmp
sed -e '/^Reply-To:/d' -e '/^Sender:/d' -e '/^From /d' | \
(echo Reply-To: ${1}@balltown.cma.com; \
echo Errors-To: ${1}-request@balltown.cma.com; \
echo Sender: ${1}-request@balltown.cma.com; \
cat -) | \
/usr/lib/sendmail -om -f ${1}-request@balltown.cma.com \
-F "The ${1} Mailing List" ${1}-rebroadcast
exit 0
-------------------
note that this script does not know the name of the list; the name
is passed in from outside, so that the script may be used for multiple
lists (i run several out of this site.)
the script excises Reply-To:, Sender:, and From lines from the incoming
message, substitutes for Sender: and Reply-To:, and adds Errors-to:
99.9% of all email bounce messages end up being sent to the -request
or owner- addresses if this header rewrite is done.
For digested lists, there is some digestification software around.
Hopefully I'll be able to provide more information in a future version
of this posting.
richard welty (welty@balltown.cma.com)
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Ask me whether I'm surprised that you haven't managed to waddle out of
college after all this time.
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Tracy your monitor is on its way. Mike Damico
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No one says you have to read any of it Ralph.. Go play in traffic.., or take
a nap... They work for me..
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]The "corrupted over and over" theory is pretty weak. Comparison of the
]current hebrew text with old versions and translations shows that the text
]has in fact changed very little over a space of some two millennia. This
]shouldn't be all that suprising; people who believe in a text in this manner
]are likely to makes some pains to make good copies.
Tell it to King James, mate.
]C. Wingate + "The peace of God, it is no peace,
] + but strife closed in the sod.
]mangoe@cs.umd.edu + Yet, brothers, pray for but one thing:
]tove!mangoe + the marv'lous peace of God."
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For me, it would be an obvious choice: Armed self-defence is clearly
and strongly protected by the Colorado Constitution and the laws
of the state. In the very clear-cut situation of your hypothetical,
I wouldn't have anything to fear from the police (unless I had been
publicly carrying the weapon concealed, something I'm not in
the habit of doing... Even then, the worst I'd have to deal with
was a class 2 misdemeanor.) Even if the situation were not so
clear, and I might have to worry about arrest for manslaughter or
homicide, it would still be safer to wait for the police. If
I were to leave and try to avoid police involvement, I'd be committing
several felonies and ruining my chances of claiming self-defence
in court ("If it really was self-defence," the prosecuter would
ask, "why did you run away and hide from the police?")
In other states, however, this decision might not be so clear-cut:
If someone in, say, Washington D.C. were to use a gun in self-defence
he would _automatically_ be guilty of several felony violations of
that city's gun control laws. Such a person's choices would be
between certain conviction for a couple of felonies versus possible
conviction for half a dozen.
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Okay, that's good. I'm typing this from exactly the same setup.
(US-UNIX layout keyboard) I did install the sunkbd patch, though.
Make sure you're using "ssetroot", which comes with tvtwm. When tvtwm
starts up, it nukes the existing root window. Use an "ssetroot" after
tvtwm starts up. (You could spawn off a "(sleep 10; ssetroot ...)&")
You can also use "VirtualDesktopBackgroundPixmap filename" or just
VirtualDesktopBackground if you just want another color besides grey.
Did you install the sunkbd patch? It's in the contrib directory on export.
All the keys on my keyboard send events properly, except the following:
The End, PageUp, PageDown on the 6-key cluster aren't recognized.
Even the compose key works. (Though I can't seem to get the composed
characters in an xterm to get passed.)
Anyone have a fix for the last two?
--Dave
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I don't, though when I was in Israel I did make a point of listening
to JTV news, as well as Monte Carlo Radio. In the United States,
I generally read the NYT, and occasionally, a mainstream Israeli
newpaper.
What you may not be taking into account is that the JP is no longer
representative of the mainstream in Israel. It was purchased a few
years ago and in the battle for control, most of the liberal and
left-wing reporters walked out. The new owner stated in the past,
more than once, that the JP's task should be geared towards explaining
and promoting Israel's position, more than attacking the gov't (Likud
at the time). The paper that I would recommend reading, being middle
stream and factual is "Ha-Aretz" - or at least this was the case two
years ago.
And what about the "Nat'l Enquirer"? 8^)
But seriously, if one were to read some of the leftist newspapers
one could arrive at other conclusions. The information you received
was highly selective and extrapolating from it is a bad move.
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I have a Windows 3.1 package for sale. New stil in shrink wrapped. I am
asking for $35. I will consider to trade a used 1.44M floppy drive. Leave
a message if interested.
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It depends on the attack. Adding a bit to the key doubles the amount of
work to be done in a straight brute-force attack, where you try every single
possible key until one works. Processing and storage requirements for this
kind of attack on a 128-bit key seem like they ought to make it effectively
impossible. However, there may be other attacks whose difficulty is (for
example) proportional to, say, 2**sqrt(n), or some such. Also, a long
key does you little good if there is a way to incrementally guess a little
of the key at a time....
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Please point out where I have said I even _was_ a member of that group,
much less asked to be treated as such, much less insisted upon it.
Wait a minute. You've been claiming for quite a while now that
pedophilia, according to CA state law, is a sexual orientation. Now
your position is that the law doesn't specifically exclude it?
You know damn well what's going to happen. Some guy in a NAMBLA
T-shirt's going to apply at a day-care, they're going to turn him down,
he's going to take it to court, and the court's going to rule that
sexual orientation is defined as homosexuality, heterosexuality, or
bisexuality.
Unless and until that court decides that pedophilia is a sexual
orientation, you have no business saying so.
Despite the fact that all homosexuals are lying bastards?
Ah.
So, for example, you are opposed to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
There's no "for purposes of this act, the term 'sexual orientation' will
be defined as" section? No definitions anywhere? Did they run this
through the state Congress on an accelerated schedule or something?
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Hello all,
I'd like to know, how z-modem-upload is initiated in a WinQVT-Script-file,
to check how it works before registering.
Unfortunatly, nothing about that feature is mentioned in the manual.
Can anybody help me?
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Th following cd's are for sale. Each cd cost 10$ except otherwise indicated
which includes shipping and handling.
Achtung baby U2 *
Joshua tree U2 **
The immaculate collection Madonna ** $12
Love hurts Cher *
Garth brooks Garth brooks *
Red hot ..chilli peppers.. **
OOOOOHHHHH TLC **
Light and shadows wilson **
* Used only once.
** never used, most of them are still in shrink wraps
Please email to
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Dear SGI and netter GL-X Mixed-Model experts,
I am writing a mixed model application that creates a couple different
color maps for different windows, and I've been having trouble getting
the window manager to reliably honor my requests. In some environments
(entry level R3000 Indigo w/ 4.0.5) all windows are getting properly
connected to their designated color maps, but on others (an IRIS 4D 240/GTX;
also a different entry level Indigo) the color mapping is unreliable
and changes behavior when I compile at different times. The most common
problem is that all non-top-level windows fail to be displayed according
to their colormap. My application starts out by creating three top-level
windows; in some cases all but the first of these also fail to be
displayed by their colormap. This is spectacularly aggravating.
I would dearly appreciate
1. an explanation of the standard, RIGHT, CORRECT way to give a window
a colormap such that the Window Manager will Honor and Obey it;
2. any advice about problems that could cause my failure to get my
desired colormaps.
By now I have exhausted my own attempts on this, having tried everything
reasonable or imaginable.
Below is example code giving the schematic for how I have been *TRYING*
to do this. Please, please, please SOMEBODY tell me what I am doing
wrong/how to do it right!!!
Yours,
Chris Lee
/***********************************************************************/
Display* dpy; /* DECLARE SOME DATA... */
Colormap popup_cmap;
XColor mycolor;
Window win;
XSetWindowAttributes cwa;
int nwlist;
Window *wlist;
/* NB: FOR BREVITY, NOT SHOWING ALL CODE LINES--JUST A SCHEMATIC */
popup_cmap=XCreateColormap(dpy,DefaultRootWindow(dpy),vis->visual,AllocAll);
/* HERE WE STORE A BUNCH OF COLORS USING
XStoreColor(dpy,popup_cmap,&mycolor); ... */
cwa.colormap = popup_cmap;
win = XCreateWindow(dpy, parent, x, y, w, h,
borderWidth, vis->depth, InputOutput, vis->visual,
CWColormap|CWBorderPixel, &cwa);
/* LIST ALL SUB WINDOWS OF my_topwin, PARENT OF win, INTO wlist;
nwlist IS COUNTER OF ENTRIES IN wlist.
NB: wlist is static storage that can be relied on not to go away
or be corrupted. I thought of that! Does anyone know if
setting WM properties is by data copy, or by reference pointer?
ie. is it acceptable to pass data for a Property, then free
the data? */
XSetWMColormapWindows(dpy,my_topwin,wlist,nwlist);
XMapRaised(Display0,win);
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My brother is preparing to pay another year
of college expenses and asked me to post this.
1987 Alfa Romeo
Gold Milano Model
V-6 Engine
Power Everything!
Seats 4 comfortably
Looks / runs great
$3,600 O.B.O.
Contact: Brian Wall
(214) 393-1216
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So? Kratz was there - does that mean that he's a gang member?
Even in the most gang-infested areas, most of the residents ARE NOT
gang-members.
How was it obvious? Were they not trying to hit the target? Or, does
Kratz confuse "marksmanship" with "trying to simulate a post"? If so,
that excludes self-defense shooting, but the rest of us understand
that that exclusion would be an error. (It excludes a lot of legit
"gun games" as well.)
Sounds like practical pistol or maybe IPSC. It also sounds like how a
self-defense shooter might well practice. The only things that action
excludes are hunting and "like a post" shooting. Kratz should get out
more often.
-andy
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