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I just wanted to know:
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rec.autos
Even more interesting: the SMTP server at csrc.ncsl.nist.gov no longer recognizes the 'expn' and 'vrfy' commands... telnet csrc.ncsl.nist.gov smtp Trying 129.6.54.11... Connected to csrc.ncsl.nist.gov. Escape character is '^]'. 220 first.org sendmail 4.1/NIST ready at Tue, 20 Apr 93 17:01:34 EDT exp...
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sci.crypt
So what's your point? Mark's comment still is valid. To suggest that AIDS is "deserved" IS ludicrous. I sin. I can resolve to abstain from sin, and do weekly (more often, actually). Yet I routinely fail. I surely do deserve what I get, yet God compassionately provided the Incarnate Logos, Jesus, as a rememdy an...
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soc.religion.christian
To: milsh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn) AM> Having said that, i might add, that in MHO, MSG does not enhance AM> flavor enoughf for me to miss it. When I go to chinese places, AM> I order food without MSG. To me, MSG tastes just like a mixture of salt and sugar. I don't think that is the case with mo...
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sci.med
We've heard a lot of talk about brainwashing in Waco but the brainwashing of the general population never ceases to amaze me. Here is an example of action being taken which results in the worst possible outcome and despite people's deep intuition telling them something is wrong the programming will still cut in and s...
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talk.politics.guns
Re: Space billboards Even easier to implement than writing messages on the Moon, once upon a time a group of space activists I belonged to in Seattle considered a "Goodyear Blimp in orbit". The idea was to use a large structure that could carry an array of lights like the Goodyear Blimp has. Placed in a low Earth orb...
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sci.space
... You can tell, folks, when the man has run out of reason: attack the man's beliefs (in legal terminology, argument ad hominem: attack the man, not what he did that has yet to be proven illegal)> WRONGo. Remember the fire movie a couple of years ago? "Backdraft"? The scene in the factory with propane gas...
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talk.religion.misc
Reading newspapers to learn about this kind of stuff is not the best idea in the world. Newspaper reporters are notoriously ignorant on the subject of religion, and are prone to exaggeration in the interests of having a "real" story (that is, a bigger headline). Let's back up to 1935. At this point, we have the Ma...
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alt.atheism
I was at a Cincinnati Cyclones game a year ago when the local country station sponsored a kazoo giveaway. After a particularly bad call by the underexperienced ECHL ref, it was Kazoostorm time down on the ice. I thought this was a pathetic display by the fans, but they were rightfully unhappy.
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rec.sport.hockey
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sci.crypt
The current mining regulations and fees were set in the 1800's! What the so-called "eco-freaks" want to do is to simply bring those fees in line with current economic reality. Currently, mining companies can get access to minerals on public lands for ridiculously low prices -- something like $50! The mining lobby ha...
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sci.space
Do you happen to know what a .SCO RIX file is?
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comp.graphics
sm[?]>a real Christian unless you're born again is a very fundamental biblical sm[?]>conversion and regeneration are 'probably' part of some small USA-based cult Some of these "cults", which seems like a rather dismissive term to me, are pretty big here in the USA. Most of them are quite respectable & neiborly & do ...
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talk.religion.misc
I am looking for one of those color LCD screens you place on an overhead projector and control the presentation with a Mac. Can you recommend me a particular brand? What price are we talking about? Thanks,
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
The FBI released large amounts of CS tear gas into the compound in Waco. CS tear gas is a fine power. Is CS inflammable. Grain dust suspended in air can form an explosive mixture, will CS suspended in air form an explosive mix? Could large quantities of CS have fueled the rapid spread of fire in the compound? Plea...
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talk.politics.guns
The point is that the original poster was talking about connecting ground and neutral in the *outlet* box (big NO NO), and you are talking about them being connected in the breaker box (as things should be). If this is not obvious, the point is that there should be current flow in the white, i.e. neutral/return wires...
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sci.electronics
Actually, Gaetti's first year with California was 1991. His .632 DA wasn't out of line with his career averages, and his .616 was actually below average in 1988. But check out the last three years at the Metrodome. 1990 Gaetti .655 AL Avg .604 1991 Pags .744 Leius .653 Al Avg .620 1992 Leius .680 A...
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rec.sport.baseball
Well, actually, the Davidians (Koreshians?) started the fire themselves, the last I heard ( around 15:00 EST). Eight people ran out into the feilds surrounding the compound. All were captured and two admitted to setting the fire. I don't buy your napalm theory at all (although it would have made a great commercial ...
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talk.politics.guns
Okay, lets get the record straight on the Livermore gas gun. The project manager is Dr. John Hunter, and he works for the Laser group at Livermore. What, you may ask, does gas guns have to do with lasers? Nothing, really, but the gun is physically located across the road from the Free Electron Laser building, and th...
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sci.space
~~~~~~~~~~FOR SALE as of 5PM 4/02/93~~~~~~~~~~ 1 AMIGA 3000UX 25mhz, unix compatible machine w/100 meg Hard Drive, 4 meg RAM, no monitor, keyboard (ESC and ~ keys broken) ASKING PRICE: $1700 OBO. Mind my asking why you're selling a used machine with a damaged keyboard for the about ...
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misc.forsale
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sci.med
: > Not to pick on Mr. May in particular, of course, but isn't this : >kind of the domino theory? When one little country falls, its neighbor : >will surely follow, and before you know it, we're all mining salt : >in Siberia for not turning in our Captain Crunch Secret Decoder Rings. : : But, for all the wrongness of ...
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sci.crypt
[...] According to the Defensive Average stats posted by Sherri, Baerga had the highest percentage of DPs turned in the league, while Alomar had the worst. However, Alomar had a higher Defensive Average. So who would be better? Using Alomar's opportunities (469 groundballs, 73 possible double plays) Alomar had 332...
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rec.sport.baseball
For several years I have been dealing with reccurring corneal erosion. There does not seem to be much known about the cause of such a problem. My current episode is pretty bad since it is located in the middle of the cornea. If it's bad enough, the usual treatment for it is puncture therapy. However, my doc...
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sci.med
: >If I remember correctly, the reason that BMW's come with those expensive, : >and relatively worthless, short lived Varda batteries, is 'cause BMW owns : >a controling interest in that battery Manufacturer. : What's wrong with the BMW battery? I've never had problems and I know : numerous people tha...
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rec.motorcycles
I'd bet the price of the helmet that it's okay...From 6 feet or higher, maybe not. I'd wear the full facer, but then, I'd be *way* more worried about wind blast in the face, and inability to hear police sirens, than the helmet being a little damaged. Well, my next helmet will be, subject to it fitting well, an AG...
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rec.motorcycles
I was wondering if anyone can shed any light on just how it is that these electronic odometers remember the total elapsed mileage? What kind of memory is stable/reliable enough, non-volatile enough and independent enough (of outside battery power) to last say, 10 years or more, in the life of a vehicle? I'm amazed...
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sci.electronics
the off, machine the think in it Sorry, but mine works fine (C650)
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comp.sys.mac.hardware
The law is much worse than worthless. It gives police the power to put innocent people in jail because they (the police) find something they don't understand. Most police don't know what the return key does, never mind the difference between a core file and classified military secrets. There are plenty of scenarios...
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sci.crypt
I'll pose a question here that's got me thinking: what distinguishes "true" religion from cults (I'm speaking generally here, not specifially about Christianity)? Jerry Falwell was on Good Morning America on Tuesday ostensibly to answer this question. Basically, he said that true religion follows a message whereas...
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soc.religion.christian
I will sell it for $33 including shipping...
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misc.forsale
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sci.electronics
I am developing an X (Xt,Xm) application that will include a graphics window of some sort with moving symbols among other things. A pure X application could be implemented with Motif widgets, one of which would be an XmDrawingArea for drawing with Xlib. But I would like to take advantage of the Graphics Library (GL)...
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comp.windows.x
Hmm... now where was that ad for the combination radio/hand cranked generator/flashlight/siren I saw? :-) [function generator has a 50mV offset, and the amplitude's too high] Sure, you've already got the right idea. Ignoring the 50 ohm internal resistance of the generator for a second, just run it into, say, a vol...
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sci.electronics
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sci.space
[...] ^^^^^ [...] [...] Given my desire to stay as far away as possible from farming and ranching equipment, I really hate to jump into this thread. I'm going to anyway, but I really hate it. Ed, exactly what kind of mutant horse-like entity do you ride, anyway? Does countersteering work on the normal, g...
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rec.motorcycles
I apologize for the long delay in getting a response to this posted. I've been working reduced hours the past couple of weeks because I had a son born (the day after Umar's article was posted, btw). I did respond within a couple of days, but it turns out that a a coincidental news software rearrangement caused posting...
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alt.atheism
I had a friend in Pittsburgh who had a CB1000C with the dual-range tranny on it. He usually only used the "economy" range to get an overdrive sixth gear out of it. He had 59000 miles on it when it was stolen. It was recovered shortly after that, repaired, and, for all I know, it's still going strong. The CB1000C...
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rec.motorcycles
grady@netcom.com suggests using a common but restricted-distribution private key to allow public key system encrypted postings. In theory that will work fine as long as the privae key remains secure. In practice it would be a good idea to check to see if that would be a violation of some net rule, practice, custom, et...
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sci.crypt
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talk.politics.guns
Undoubtedly people adopt atheism for many reasons, but I suspect that a biggie is that the God they've believed in is (in J.B. Phillips's words) "too small". If a person's understanding of God is not allowed to grow and develop, it will eventually become inadequate. The grey-haired gentleman on a throne who was a com...
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soc.religion.christian
INteresting question about Galileo. Galileo's HGA is stuck. The HGA was left closed, because galileo had a venus flyby. If the HGA were pointed att he sun, near venus, it would cook the foci elements. question: WHy couldn't Galileo's course manuevers have been designed such that the HGA did not ever do a...
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sci.space
Actually, they won't. What they'll tell you is that if you add up the number of suicides, murders of one drug dealer by another, legit self-defenses of a battered spouse, and so on, you'll end up with a number that is much larger than the number of self-defense killings against strangers committed in the bedroom. (B...
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talk.politics.guns
Short reply: We can never achieve perfect health, yet we always strive for it. We don't seek to do God's will because we're forced to, we follow His way because His way is best. The reason it's hard is because we are flawed, not because He's unreasonable. But we seek to follow His way because we want to improv...
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soc.religion.christian
The one I got only does about 4kb/s in text and 320x200 (VGA/MCGA) mode, which is almost identical to the other W5186 based cards (ATI 68800 does about 6kb/s). This is weird since the Orchid supposedly should be much faster (and I was told by someone that it can do almost 16 kb/s), since the VGA chip is covered by ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Could somebody provide an overview of the proposed systems using the chip? (Ought to see if ATT has a spec sheet) Skipjack sounds like a normal digital encryption algorithm, so the data path will have to be voice --> digitize --> compress --> encrypt Compression will be necessary to fit the data on the wire, unles...
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sci.crypt
How does that compare with JPEG on the same images and hardware as far as size, speed, and image quality are concerned? Despite my skeptical and sometimes nearly rabid postings criticizing Barnsley and company, I am very interested in the technique. If I weren't I probably wouldn't be so critical. :-)
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comp.graphics
I ran in to this problem I while ago, and from what I remember you should use XtTranslateCoordinates etc. after realizing the main widget to calculate the location of the popup, then use something like XtVaSetValues on the popup widgets before ever using them. Calling SetValues repeatedly (e.g. every time something p...
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comp.windows.x
No, obviously talking about Research Assistants. I favor a high protein, low fat diet, barely adequate salary on a fixed time schedule, four hours of sleep a night, continuous infusion of latte, unpredictable praise mixed randomly with anxiety-provoking, everpresent glances with lowered eyebrows, unrealistic prom...
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sci.med
It seems likely to me that that a large subset of encrypted communications would be archived to tape so they could be read if sometime in the future probable cause arises and a warrant is obtained. I can even imagine this being found legal and constitutional, since nothing is actually listened to until a valid warran...
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sci.crypt
(a.k.a. Serdar Argic, The Merciful and Compassionate) [Serdar Argic's bountiful, divine, all-knowing, and footnoted wisdom is regrettably omitted for this solemn tribute.] WHERE CAN I JOIN THE SERDAR ARGIC FAN CLUB? DO I GET A T-SHIRT? --The Friendly Neighborhood Alien--
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talk.politics.mideast
I'm just guessing here, but I'd guess that X11R5 expects the CG3 to have 1152x900 resolution, and the version of the CG3 in the SPARCclassic is 1024x768. --
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comp.windows.x
:>It looks like Dorothy Denning's wrong-headed ideas have gotten to the :>Administration even sooner than we feared. : :I'd lay long odds that it was the other way around. Clinton didn't :just pull this plan out of any bodily orifices; the NSA has to have :been working on it for years. While it's possible that Dennin...
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sci.crypt
I would like to program Tseng ET4000 to nonstandard 1024x768 mode by switching to standard 1024x768 mode using BIOS and than changing some timing details (0x3D4 registers 0x00-0x1F) but I don't know how to select 36 MHz pixel clock I need. The BIOS function selects 40 MHz. Is there anybody who knows where to obtain te...
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comp.graphics
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sci.electronics
If this question is covered elsewhere, I apologize, but I need information fast. My department has been given a large sum of money to install a video system on our network of IBM RS6000 workstations. This is not an area in which I have any expertise, so I wonder if anyone out there can offer advice. We would like a ...
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comp.graphics
SOmebody mentioned a re-boost of HST during this mission, meaning that Weight is a very tight margin on this mission. How will said re-boost be done? Grapple, HST, stow it in Cargo bay, do OMS burn to high altitude, unstow HST, repair gyros, costar install, fix solar arrays, then return to earth? My ...
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sci.space
Where in the Bible is there *any* teaching about an immaterial afterlife? I was always taught that both the O.T. Jews and the N.T. Christians would have found the notion incomprehensible--as do I. Don't we christians believe in the resurrection of the body? Or do you mean by material simply the stuff made of the 100+...
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soc.religion.christian
I just got through listening to the 10 o'clock news on Channel 4 here in Dallas. They trotted out a list of justifications produced by the ATF after "months of investigation" for their raid. I couldn't believe the junk on this list! For example, the BDs were accused of stockpiling a bunch of "9mm and .223 ammunitio...
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talk.politics.guns
Any suggestions as to what a better solution might be? I realize the off-hand nature of the numbers I used. And I can't answer as to what an acceptable loss rate is. However, as I said in another post, I despise the idea of supporting criminals for life. It's the economics of the situation that concern me most. ...
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alt.atheism
: >baseball players, past and present. We weren't able to come up : >with much, except for Sandy Koufax, (somebody) Stankowitz, and : >maybe John Lowenstein. Can anyone come up with any more. I know : >it sounds pretty lame to be racking our brains over this, but : >humor us. Thanks for your help. :
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rec.sport.baseball
: : >> Please enlighten me. How is omnipotence contradictory? : : >By definition, all that can occur in the universe is governed by the rules : >of nature. Thus god cannot break them. Anything that god does must be allowed : >in the rules somewhere. Therefore, omnipotence CANNOT exist! It contradicts : >the rules of...
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alt.atheism
Well, these are Armenian and Jewish scholars, not me. Denying the obvious? Source: Hovannisian, Richard G.: Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918. University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles), 1967, p. 13. "The addition of the Kars and Batum oblasts to the Empire increased the area of Transcaucas...
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talk.politics.mideast
Not one, but two: Obesity in Europe 88, proceedings of the 1st European Congress on Obesity Annals of NY Acad. Sci. 1987
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sci.med
1/64th or 63/64th? I must congratulate your analytical and excellent reportage about Diana. From the writings of tye biographers you quoted, I can perceive, maybe chauvinistically, the remnants of her Armenian genes. Even though she is only 1/64th Armenian, she seems to have many of the ...
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talk.politics.mideast
I think many reading this group would also benefit by knowing how deviant the view _as I've articulated it above_ (which may not be the true view of Khomeini) is from the basic principles of Islam. So that the non-muslim readers of this group will see how far from the simple basics of Islam such views are on th...
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alt.atheism
I'll tell youm all one thing. Steve howe and FARR are much better then the worst pitcher in yankee Pitching ___________________
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rec.sport.baseball
Farr's ERA is in the
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rec.sport.baseball
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 fil...
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rec.autos
The Centaur is controlled technology.. State Dept will not allow it to be used outside of US. Sorry.
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sci.space
You're assuming that "go solar" = "photovoltaic". Solar dynamic power (turbo-alternators) doesn't have this problem. It also has rather less air drag due to its higher efficiency, which is a non-trivial win for big solar plants at low altitude. Now, you might have to replace the *rest* of the electronics fairly oft...
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sci.space
Begging everyone's pardon, I was not slamming Motif, nor was I necessarily plugging/flaming the two. I was responding to the sweet blithe statement in: <rick.734610425@digibd> from rick@digibd.digibd.com (Rick Richardson) rick> This is one area where Microsoft NT has a big advantage. Since rick> they control th...
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comp.windows.x
From article <1993Apr18.001319.2340@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>, by jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu: It certainly is provable. Around a million Americans every year defend themselves with firearms. In many of these cases the defender doesn't even have to fire a shot! The mere presence of a gun is oftentimes all the deterrent that is ne...
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talk.politics.guns
What group is this? This is not a MAC group. Why the spec list again? We are talking SCSI on a PC, not on a MAC or a UNIX box. And we are talking ISA bus, or possibly EISA or VLB. This isin't comp.periphs.SCSI. Tell me what the performance figures are with a single SCSI drive on a PC with an ISA (or EISA or VLB)...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Surprise surprise, different people react differently to different things. One slightly off the subject case in point. My brother got stung by a bee. I know he is allergic to bee stings, but that his reaction is severe localized swelling, not anaphylactic shock. I could not convince the doctors of that, however, becau...
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sci.med
Damn right you can't provide any evidence for it. Rarely are any widespread social phenomenon reducible to such a simple premise. If they were, psychology would be a hard science with roughly the same mathematical soundness as physics. Your premise may well be right. It is much more likely, however, ...
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alt.atheism
Bill Vojak: BV>I read in the paper yestarday that Ted Turner wants to "trim" down BV>his media holdings and is putting CNN up for sale. The #1 potential BV>bidder? TIME/Warner of course. Sigh . . . . . Just what we need. :-( Maybe now's the time for us, the NRA, GOA, CCRTKBA, SAF, et al to band together and b...
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talk.politics.guns
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Netters! I need a cdrom drive as my order was cancelled and thought 'Why not ask the net.community'? I was ordering a Nec CDR-74 but saw so much cheaper ones that I want to know more. The drive will be used to install software and (if available)...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
This is one of the differences between OT prophecy and NT prophecy. In the NT, it is expected that when believers gather, - people will prophesy - the prophecy must be judged (1 Cor 14:29) There is nothing about killing someone who makes a mistake. Scripture is scripture; there is no "gift of scripture". And ...
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soc.religion.christian
Well, the fact of the matter is that poverty is imperfectly related to social and political instability, while economic inequality is much more strongly related. In virtually all major revolutions including England (the Puritan revolution), France, Russia and China, the revolutions occurred as economies were underg...
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talk.politics.misc
No. This is only relevant for OpenWindows 3.x as shipped with SunOS. It is not relevant for MIT R5. MIT R5 should compile without problems.
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comp.windows.x
It's made by Rohm. (as is all BAxxx parts). Call 714-855-2131 and ask if you can get a sample (it's only like a $2 part).
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sci.electronics
Dear friends, I am a graduate student in Education at the University of Tennessee. As part of the requirements for a research class in music education I designed a questionnaire to colect data for my research project. The study intends to determine which techniques (if any) have been used to teach music for the deaf. ...
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talk.politics.mideast
(Robert L. McMillin) rants: And how did the "free love advocates of the 1960's" manage to perform this demolition--forced breeding programs or something? Now let me get this straight. After a nice, long rant about how people need to take personal responsibility for their economic and social lives, all of a sudden 1...
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talk.politics.misc
Golly, I love stupid people. :-) Listen, Rex, this is hockey. The NHL, to be precise. And in the NHL, there exist these things called "ties". A tie occurs when a game ends with the score for each team equal. Each team gets one point for a tie. There also exits these things called "wins". A win is when one team h...
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rec.sport.hockey
A 68070 is just a 68010 with a built in MMU. I don't even think that Moto. manufactures them. - Ian Romanick Dancing Fool of Epsilon
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comp.graphics
Sometimes I have a problem with doctor's prescribing medicine like this. I of course don't know the exact situation, and anti-depressants may work, but it isn't helping the ringing at all, is it? Mine started about three years back. Turns out I have tinnitus bilateral (translation: ringing in both ears, basically...
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sci.med
Northwest Air tix - SAVE $30 ANY FLIGHT I have a $400 credit with Northwest Airlines which must be used by Nov 27, 1993. There is a $50 charge to change the ticket, so I will sell it for $320. It can be used for any Northwest flight, but I don't think they will refund cash. Please contact me at tallen@corp.hp.com ...
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misc.forsale
The N A T I O N A L D A Y o f P R A Y E R 6 M A Y 1 9 9 3 IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM; : : : JOIN AMERICA IN...
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soc.religion.christian
Actually not Jim. I just said that everyone else seemed to have skimmed by that part and not mentioned it. You can get whatever meaning you want from it.
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talk.politics.guns
Do you know if there is an airport nearby? They may just be markers to tell pilots of small planes that there are power lines nearby.
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sci.electronics
The number of civilian Iraqi deaths were way over-exaggerated and exploited for anti-war emotionalism by the liberal news media. The facts are that less Iraqis died in the Gulf War than did civilians in any other war of comparable size this century! This was due mostly to the short duration coupled with precise su...
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alt.atheism
So what's the deal with Bill Wirtz? Apparently, the Blackhawks - St. Louis game was a standing room only sell out as usual, but the Hawks reported the attendace as 16,199. Gee, I wonder if Wirtz is planning to use this as justification for continuing to keep home games off of TV? What a schmuck. In other TV news, the ...
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rec.sport.hockey
You can't be serious! I and many of my colleagues have not received any bad e-mails from Roger, in fact, Roger happens to have answered most if not all of my hockey questions and curiosities, so before you start flaming at me or Roger, better re-consider your nasty attitude towards Roger and the like!
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rec.sport.hockey
I see one thing wrong with your strategy. The boy who cried wolf. __ Jorg Klinger | GSXR1100 | If you only new who Arch. & Eng. Services |"Lost Horizons" CR500 | I think I am. UManitoba, Man. Ca. |"The Embalmer" IT175 | - anonymous
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rec.motorcycles
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rec.sport.baseball
Didn't the new study asked "have you engaged in homosexual intercourse within the last two years" whereas Kinsey asked "have you ever engaged or thought about engaging in homosexual activity". Sort of like the difference between "did you have yogurt this morning" and "are you allergic to lactose". -- ...
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talk.politics.misc
I have a problem with icon pixmap. My application has to run under openwindow and motif. I wrote my program in Motif with pixmap and icons. It runs fine under motif/motif window manager and X11R5/mwm. But the icon pixmap does not show up under openwin/olwm and X11R5/olwm. Has anybody got into th...
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comp.windows.x
I am a student at UW-Eau Claire. I am doing a paper an witches and wanted to get your point of view. I will not use you name unless you specifically tell me to do so. Please answer this question: As a Christian, are you offended by witches and Wiccan? Do you feel that tehy are pagan in the evil sense of the word? ...
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soc.religion.christian
Joe Torre has to be the worst manager in baseball. For anyone who didn't see Sunday's game, With a right hander pitching he decides to bench Lankform, a left handed hitter and play jordan and gilkey, both right handers. Later, in the ninth inning with the bases loaded and two outs he puts lankford, a 300 hitter with...
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rec.sport.baseball