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4,111 | As for SF and advertising in space. There is a romantic episode
in Mead's "The Big Ball of Wax" where the lovers are watching
the constellation Pepsi Cola rising over the horizon and noting
the some 'stars' had slipped cause the Teamsters were on strike.
This was the inspiration for my article on orbiting a formation
of space mirrors published in Spaceflight in 1986. As the reviews
but is it aesthetically desirable? These days the only aesthetics
that count are the ones you can count! | 10 | trimmed_train |
7,398 |
Did they or did they not sustain Miller's conviction? I don't have the
text of the case handy.
Yes, shotguns had been used in WWI, the Spanish-American War, and the
US Civil War. That was not in question. The possession of a sawed-off
shotgun was, i.e., a weapon altered to improve concealibility.
You are free to produce evidence that I'm not willing to abide with
all the implications of this.
Just because I don't whole-heartedly endorse the NRA position does not
mean that I oppose the RKBA. This attitude is what makes the NRA
unpopular.
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7,649 |
It helps to have some idea of the source of the distortion - or at least
a reasonable model of the class of distortion. Below is a very short
description of the process which we use; if you have further questions,
feel free to poke me via e-mail.
================================================================
*ASSUME: locally smooth distortion
0) Compute the Delaunay Triangulation of your (x,y) points. This
defines the set of neighbors for each point. If your data are
not naturally convex, you may have very long edges on the convex hull.
Consider deleting these edges.
1) Now, there are two goals:
a) move the DistortedData(x,y) to the Reference(x,y)
b) keep the Length(e) (as measured from the current (x,y)'s)
as close as possible to the DigitizedLength(e) (as measured
using the digitized (x,y)'s).
2) For every point, compute a displacement based on a) and b). For
example:
a) For (x,y) points for which you know the Reference(x,y), you
can move alpha0*(Reference(x,y) - Current(x,y)). This will
slowly move the DistortedReference(x,y) towards the
Reference(x,y).
b) For all other points, examine the current length of each edge.
For each edge, compute a displacement which would make that edge
the correct length (where "correct" is the DigitizedLength).
Take the vector sum of these edge displacements, and move the
point alpha1*SumOfEdgeDisplacements. This will keep the
triangulated mesh consistent with your Digitized mesh.
3) Iterate 2) until you are happy (for example, no point moves very much).
alpha0 and alpha1 need to be determined by experimentation. Consider
how much you believe the Reference(x,y) - i.e., do you absolutely insist
on the final points exactly matching the References, or do you want to
balance some error in matching the Reference against changes in length
of the edges.
WARNING: there are a couple of geometric invariants which must be
observed (essentially, you can't allow the convex hull to change, and
you can't allow triangles to "fold over" neighboring triangles. Both of
these can be handled either by special case checks on the motion of
individual points, or by periodically re-triangulating the points (using
the current positions - but still calculating DigitizedLength from the
original positions. When we first did this, the triangulation time was
prohibitive, so we only did it once. If I were motivated to try and
change code that has been working in production mode for 5 years, I
*might* go back and re-triangulate on every iteration. If you have more
compute power than you know what to do with, you might consider having
every point interact with every other point....but first read up on
linear solutions to the n-body problem.
There are lots of papers in the last 10 years of SIGGRAPH proceedings on
springs, constraints, and energy calculations which are relevant. The
above method is described, in more or less detail in:
@inproceedings{Sloan86,
author="Sloan, Jr., Kenneth R. and David Meyers and Christine A.~Curcio",
title="Reconstruction and Display of the Retina",
booktitle="Proceedings: Graphics Interface '86 Vision Interface '86",
address="Vancouver, Canada",
pages="385--389",
month="May",
year=1986 }
@techreport{Curcio87b,
author="Christine A.~Curcio and Kenneth R.~Sloan and David Meyers",
title="Computer Methods for Sampling, Reconstruction, Display, and
Analysis of Retinal Whole Mounts",
number="TR 87-12-03",
institution="Department of Computer Science, University of Washington",
address="Seattle, WA",
month="December",
year=1987 }
@article{Curcio89,
author="Christine A.~Curcio and Kenneth R.~Sloan and David Meyers",
title="Computer Methods for Sampling, Reconstruction, Display, and
Analysis of Retinal Whole Mounts",
journal="Vision Research",
volume=29,
number=5,
pages="529--540",
year=1989 }
| 1 | trimmed_train |
5,011 | Hmmm. I seem to recall that the attraction of solid state record-
players and radios in the 1960s wasn't better performance but lower
per-unit cost than vacuum-tube systems.
Mind you, my father was a vacuum-tube fan in the 60s (Switched
to solid-state in the mid-seventies and then abruptly died; no doubt
there's a lesson in that) and his account could have been biased. | 10 | trimmed_train |
7,830 |
That's not all that Kratz doesn't know.
Now we know that Kratz doesn't understand what a safety is supposed to
do. (He also confuses "things he can see" with "things that exist";
Glocks have multiple safeties even though only one is visible from the
outside.)
A safety is supposed to keep the gun from going off UNLESS that's
what the user wants. With Glocks, one says "I want the gun to go
off" by pulling the trigger. If the safeties it has make that work,
it has a "real" safety, no matter what Kratz thinks.
-andy | 9 | trimmed_train |
4,434 |
You write as if no-one ever became a Christian except people from
Christian families. This is not true, as quite a few people on this
group can attest (including me).
| 0 | trimmed_train |
2,066 |
Why thanks for your reply to my post. By the way, I never, never ever said
that it was right to shoot "THOSE kind" of babies. However it was the Branch
Davidian people in there that insisted on staying there with their "savior"
(yeah right budy boy) because he had brain-washed them into believing that
what ever he says is the truth, even if means that they are to give up their
lives for <<<<HIS>>>> cause. Therefore it is Davids fault and not the ATF's
who gave them 50 to 51 days to get out, this was 50 days to many for me and
for many of the rest of the U.S. I am however sad to hear of the death of any
child unlike the sick bastard I supposedly am. | 9 | trimmed_train |
4,919 |
I have a promovie spectrum, it seems to work very nicely with Video for
Windows. With my setup (386-25, 17 ms HD, PAS-16, and orchid F VA), the
board could handle up to 15 frame/s. | 3 | trimmed_train |
6,106 | The Bmw speedo is triggered by a reed switch\magnet assembly in the differential. I would think that this signal would be easy to reproduce.
| 11 | trimmed_train |
10,041 |
: Upon arriving at home, Joseph probably took advantage of Mary...had his way
: with her so to speak. Of course, word of this couldn't get around so Mary,
: being the highly-religious follower that she was decided "Hey, I'll just say
: that GOD impregnated me...no one will ever know!"
:
: Thus, seen as a trustworthy and honorable soul, she was believed...
:
: And then came Jesus, the child born from violence.
:
:
:
Dave,
Can you explain the purpose of your post, I can't imagine what you
must have thougt it meant. | 8 | trimmed_train |
8,886 |
Following precedent in other areas, the government is likely to put a tax on
encryption technology. Once the tax is imposed, it becomes a federal matter
and suspicision of an unlicensed cryptographic tool will bring the BATF or
FBI tossing grenades into your house. (The BATF appears to be the logical
agency to enforce such regulations: federal control over alocohol, tobacco,
and firearms is similary based on taxes.)
Look at the FCC: they won't allow sale of any receiever that can receive
bands that are supposed to be private. This has nothing to do with any
desire to prevent harmful interference. If the government can make a radio
receiver illegal what makes you think they won't claim the right to control
encryption?
| 7 | trimmed_train |
10,579 |
The runner can leave his base at any time. If the ball is caught,
he's got to tag up. If it isn't caught, he _doesn't_ have to tag up at
all. So, if he's feeling lucky, your runner at second can sprint for glory
as soon as the ball is popped up. If it isn't caught, he's probably scored
a run. If it is, he's probably headed for AAA.
The only effect the infield fly has is to make the batter out,
thereby removing the force on the runners on base. All other rules apply,
as if you were standing second with first open and the ball is popped up.
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30 |
The front covers should be available from Sony. Check with a local car
stereo shop. You will probably (definitely) have to provide the units
serial number and hopefully you had registered the warranty card. I
don't know the cost, but replacements have to be available to people
who damage the face cover, so it stands to reason that it can be replaced.
As to deterring theft:
When I worked for a stereo shop, we referred the customer to a Sony 800
number. We would not sell the face, nor did we have them available. Most
people who came in asking for the face cover (or a pullout sleave for that
matter) would look very disheartened to find that they acquired a deck
they couldn't use. If theft occurs with these decks, notify Sony. Serial
numbers do catch theives. | 5 | trimmed_train |
679 |
Please count me in also...
Just can't tell you how excited I was when the Islanders beat the Rangers
in overtime on last Friday!!! | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,070 | In evolution of 80-x86 data path width has been doubled from
8 to 16 t0 32 bits but the speed of data processing has not increased at
same rate.The question is Why? What is relationship bettween data path width and data processing speed?
Thanks in advance for the input.
Robert.
| 3 | trimmed_train |
4,517 |
1) make sure your hard drive is defragmented. This will speed up more than
just windows BTW. Use something like Norton's or PC Tools.
2) I _think_ that leaving the wall paper out will use less RAM and therefore
will speed up your machine but I could very will be wrong on this.
There's a good chance you've already done this but if not it may speed things
up. good luck
Morgan Bullard [email protected]
or [email protected] | 18 | trimmed_train |
10,847 | OK. Instead of holding an auction, I have decided to compute prices for each comic (after many suggestions). These are the most reasonable prices I can give (not negotiable). If you would like to purchase a comic (or group), simply email me with the title and issue #'s you want. The price for each issue is shown beside each comic. First come, first served!!! There is no more bidding. Meet my price and it is yours. I can be reached at this email address:
[email protected] or
[email protected] or
[email protected] or
[email protected]
NO MORE HAGGLING ABOUT THE PRICE!!!!!!!!
LOTS OF COMICS FOR $1, $2, or $3 LOOK AT LIST!!!!!
For all those who have bought comics from me, thanks!!!
All comics are near mint unless otherwise noted (my books were graded by
mile high comics and other comic professional collectors, not me!)
Here is the list:
Incredible Hulk
156 (vs another Hulk) $3
195 $2
196 $2
246 (vs Captain Marvel) $1
248 $1
249 $1
250 (Double size issue vs Silver Surfer) $5
255 (vs Thor) $1
279 $1
300 $2
312 $2
313 $1
316 (vs Bi Coastal Avengers) $1
347 $1
348 $1
350 (vs Thing) $2
354 $1
358 $1
360 $1
362 (vs Werewolf By Night) $2
364 $1
365 $1
366 $1
379 (1 copy) $5
Punisher
50 $1
57 $2
Punisher War Journal
29 (Ghost Rider) $2
30 (Ghost Rider) $2
Punisher Armory
1 $4
2 $2
Original Ghost Rider Rides Again (Reprint)
1 $1
Ghost Rider (old series)
37 $3
43 (vs Johnny Blaze) $3
77 (2 copies, origin of GR dream) $4 each
Ghost Rider (new series)
15 (1st print, Green glow in dark cover, 1 copy) $5
15 (2nd print, gold cover w/ glow cover) $3
Web of Spiderman
56 (2 copies) $2 each
60 $3
69 (vs Hulk, 1 copy left!!!) $2
70 (SpiderHulk, 1 copy left!!!) $2
71 $1
72 $1
78 $1
Deadly Foes of Spiderman
1 (2 copies) $2 each
2 $2
3 $2
Amazing Spiderman vs Dr. Octopus (special NACME issue) $2
Amazing Spiderman
350 (vs Dr. Doom, 1 copy LEFT!!!) $2
Spiderman (1990)
1 (silver, not bagged) $4
6 $3
7 $3
8 (2 copies) $2 each
9 (w/ Wolverine, 1 COPY LEFT!!!) $2
10 $2
11 $1
13 $5
16 $1
New Warriors
1 (gold cover) $2
8 $4
10 $2
11 $1
12 $1
13 $1
14 (w/ Darkhawk) $1
15 $1
Superman Man of Steel #1 $2
Superman (new)
53 (2 copies) $1 each
55 $1
56 $1
Adventures of Superman
479 $1
Annual #3 $1
Superman Annual #3 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Action Comics #666 $1
Avengers West Coast #69 (Hawkeye vs US Agent) $1
Batman
465 (Robin returns) $2
466 $1
467 $1
Annual #15 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $3
Captain America
230 (vs Hulk) $2
257 (vs Hulk) $1
Armegedon 2001
1 $4
2 $2
Foolkiller #1 $2
Infinity Gauntlet
1 $6
4 $3
5 $3
Double Dragon #1 $1
Deathlok (series)
2 $1
Transformers #80 (last issue) $2
Wonder Man
1 $1
2 $1
Flaming Carrot #25 (w/ Ninja Turtles) $2
The Comet #1 $1
Legend of the Shield #1 $1
Justice Society of America
1 $1
2 $1
3 $1
4 $1
Official movie mag from Turtles II movie (sealed w/ Jelloman comic) $5
Robin
1 (1 copies w/ poster) $3
1 (3rd print) $1
5 (6 copies) $1 each
Guardians of the Galaxy
1 $6
2 $3
3 $2
4 $2
5 $2
6 $2
7 $2
8 $2
9 (2 copies) $3 each
10 $2
11 $2
12 $1
13 $3
14 $3
15 $1
16 $1
17 $1
18 (2 copies) $2 each
Superman vs Amazing Spiderman (oversized issue from 70's) $7
DarkHawk
1 (3 copies) $8 each
2 (2 copies) $6 each
3 $5
4 $4
5 $4
6 $3
7 $2
8 $2
9 $3
10 $1
Thor
246 $1
428 $1
429 (vs Juggernaut) $2
430 (w/ Ghost Rider) $1
431 $1
432 (Thor vs Loki, 2 copies) $3 each
433 (new Thor) $2
Annual #16 $1
What if....
13 $1
23 $1
25 $2
26 $1
Alpha Flight
29 $1
51 $6
53 $6
94 (vs Fant. 4) $1
New Mutants
22 $2
100 (last issue, 1st look at X-Force, 1st print, 2 copies) $5 each
100 (2nd print, gold cover) $4
Flash (new)
43 $1
48 $1
49 $1
50 $2
51 $1
Annual #4 $1
X-Men (new)
1 (all 5 covers) $1 each but $2 for magneto foldout cover
Uncanny X-Men
191 $3
215 $2
255 (2 copies) $2 each
258 $6
268 (1 sold,1 copy left!, Lee reg artist) $10
275 (1 COPY LEFT 1st print) $6
275 (gold 2nd print) $3
276 $3
277 $3
278 $2
279 $2
280 $2
281 $3
282 $4
283 $6
Defenders
52 (Hulk vs Sub Mariner) $2
Fantastic Four
347 $4
348 $2
349 (3 copies) $2 each
Wolverine
11 $3
20 $2
41 (w/ Cable, 2 copies) $6 each
42 $4
43 $3
Silver Surfer (1987)
1 $6
2 $3
3 $3
4 $3
5 $2
6 $2
8 $2
22 $2
24 $2
32 $2
49 $2
50 (Foil cover, only 1 copy left!!) $6
51 $2
52 $2
53 $1
54 $1
55 $1
56 $1
58 $2
59 $2
Avengers
326 $3
328 (origin of Rage) $3
X-Factor
40 $6
67 $3
68 $6
71 $3
73 $1
Quasar
21 $1
22 $1
23 $1
24 $1
Green Lantern (1990)
3 $2
9 (2 copies) $1 each
10 $1
11 $1
12 $1
Toxic Avenger
1 (3 copies) $1 each
2 $1
Sleepwalker
1 (3 copies) $2 each
3 $1
7 $1
Kool Aid Man #1 (sealed in white bag, 2 copies) $2 each
X-Force
1 (bagged w/ Cable Card) $4
1 (bagged w/ Shatterstar Card) $3
2 $2
3 $1
4 $1
NFL Superpro
1 $1
Dr. Strange #31 $1
Hawkworld Annual #2 (2nd print, Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Hawk & Dove Annual #2 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Justice League of America Annual #5 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Send all bids and comments to
[email protected]
Thanks
Sam (the "ex" comic book collector)
| 5 | trimmed_train |
6,328 |
If I recall correctly, the bill would provide for concealed carry if
the person takes a 15-hr DPS safety course in firearms and pays a $150
fee for the license. The bill is apparently veto-proof in the House,
but LtGov Bullock has said it will never come to the floor of the
Senate and Dreamboat Annie has vowed to veto it if it comes to her
desk. *shrug* | 9 | trimmed_train |
435 | Hello,
I am planning on attending Podiatry School next year.
I have narrowed my choices to the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric
Medicine, in Philadelphia, or the California College of Podiatric
Medicine in San Francisco.
If anyone has any information or oppinions about these two schools, please
tell me. I am having a hard time deciding which one to attend, and must
make a decision very soon.
thank you, Larry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Live From New York, It's SATURDAY NIGHT... | 19 | trimmed_train |
2,800 | Archive-name: space/net
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The space and astronomy discussion groups actually are composed of
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A second mechanism is Usenet 'netnews'. This is somewhat like a bulletin
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(Included at the suggestion of Eugene Miya, who wrote the item)
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Contractors must renegotiate their contracts. The Fair and Open
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Contractors and outsiders caught using this type of information can
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10,964 |
I think you missed one of my points there. It takes *more* than a great
GM to win a stanley cup, even once. Some of the guys on the list you
gave earlier never won one. I agree that you and I could probably argue
back and forth for days to no avail about who is the best GM in hockey-
that is a matter of opinion, and who is to say my opinion is any better
than yours or yours than mine? But the point of my *original* original
post (if not well stated) was that Murray has the GM abilities but not
the coaching abilities. Which leads to below:
I think at this point there's a personal, emotional element involved here
which transcends Murray's logical thought. As outsiders, it's fine for
us to say, "He should hire a different coach." In fact, he has talked about
doing so in the past. But, the press (here in Detroit, at least) has so
built up this business about Murray never getting past the second round of
the playoffs as a coach, that I think he has taken it upon himself to
prove to the world that he *is* capable of coaching a team past the second
round. He needs to, as the papers say, "get that monkey off his back."
So it becomes a matter not of intelligence, but of pride. Is it foolish
to let pride stand in the way of sound logic? Perhaps, but we're all
a little that way from time to time. I think eventually he'll step down
from behind the bench and concentrate on his GM duties, and the team will
improve as a result.
I think his coaching duties take away time he might have otherwise spent
on GM work. In that sense, once he steps down as coach, we'll see how
good of a GM he really is.
I may not agree with everything you've said, but it's been fun discussing
it with you.
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9,009 | : |>
: |> XmDrawingArea for drawing with Xlib. But I would like to take advantage of
: |> the Graphics Library (GL) available on our IBM RS/6000 (SGI's GL i believe).
: |> Is it possible to mix X and GL in one application program?
: |> Can I use GL subroutines in an XmDrawingArea or in an X window opened by me
: |> with XOpenWindow?
You can't make GL calls in an XmDrawingArea widget for sure.
:
: There is a widget already defined for GL. It is the GlxMDraw (motif) or
: GlxDraw (athena) widget. It is similar to a XmDrawingArea, except that it
: allows you to use GL calls to render into the window. Look at glxlink,
: glxunlink, glxgetconfig, and glxwinset in the man pages.
:
:
: The GlxMDraw widget works pretty well. OpenGL will be an improvement.
I can vouch for that. The GL Widget works pretty well. I have been using it
for sometime now. I'm not sure though whether you can use Xlib calls to draw
into the GL widget. I haven't tried it yet nor have I read the accompanying
documentation completely. Try posting to comp.sys.sgi for more information.
Better still,you will find most of the answers in the SGI manuals .. there
is a little transition guide which explains the "mixed-model programming"
paradigm(Mixing X and GL).
: |> Does PEX (graPHIGS?) have the same functionality of GL?
:
: I think GL is a little easier to use and a little more powerful, but
: that's just an opinion. Mileage may vary.
Well, PEX is designed as an extension to X and will be more seamless but
then, it is buggy to start with .. opinions again.
__
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__)/(_( __) (_(_ /_)| )_ | 16 | trimmed_train |
2,840 | My family has never been particularly religious - singing Christmas
carols is about the limit for them. Thus I've never really believed in God and
heaven, although I don't actually believe that they don't exist either -
I'm sort of undecided, probably like a lot of people I guess.
Lately I've been thinking about it all a lot more, and I wondered how
religious people can be so convinced that there is a God. I feel as though
I want to believe, but I'm not used to believing things without proof -
just as I can't believe that there definitely isn't a God, so I can't
definitely believe that there is. I wondered if most of you were brought up by
religious families and never believed any different. Can anyone help me to
understand how your belief and faith in God can be so strong.
Another question that frequently crosses my mind is which religion is
correct?? How do you choose a religion, and how do you know that the Christian
God exists and the Gods of other religions don't?? How do you feel about
people who follow other religions?? How about atheists?? And people like me -
agnostics I suppose. Do you respect their religion, and accept their
beliefs as just as valid as your own?? Isn't there contradiction between
the religions?? How can your religion be more valid than any others?? Do
you have less respect for someone if they're not religious, or if they follow
a different religion than you would if they were Christian??
Also, how much of the scriptures are correct?? Are all events in
the bible really supposed to have happened, or are they just supposed to be
stories with morals showing a true Christian how to behave??
I generally follow most of the Christian ideas, which I suppose are
fairly universal throughout all religions - not killing, stealing, etc, and
'Loving my neighbour' for want of a better expression. The only part I find
hard is the actual belief in God.
Finally, what is God's attitude to people like me, who don't quite
believe in Him, but are generally fairly 'good' people. Surely not
believing doesn't make me a worse person?? If not, I find myself wondering why
I so strongly want to really believe, and to find a religion.
Sorry if I waffled on a bit - I was just writing ideas as they came
into my head. I'm sure I probably repeated myself a bit too.
Thanks for the help,
Paul Simmons | 0 | trimmed_train |
6,642 | Write a good manual to go with the software. The hassle of
photocopying the manual is offset by simplicity of purchasing
the package for only $15. Also, consider offering an inexpensive
but attractive perc for registered users. For instance, a coffee
mug. You could produce and mail the incentive for a couple of
dollars, so consider pricing the product at $17.95.
You're lucky if only 20% of the instances of your program in use
are non-licensed users.
The best approach is to estimate your loss and accomodate that into
your price structure. Sure it hurts legitimate users, but too bad.
Retailers have to charge off loss to shoplifters onto paying
customers; the software industry is the same.
Unless your product is exceptionally unique, using an ostensibly
copy-proof disk will just send your customers to the competetion.
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751 | Dear Rob,
Sometimes I do come across condesending, and I am sorry I come across that
way at times. Thank you for the reproach, I really do appreciate it. I'll
try to get better.
Rob, at the same time, I have also learned that some people respond to the gentle
approach while others respond only at a harsh rebuke. Brian K., so far,
only responds to the latter. And I am glad he responds at all. In both
cases of approach, my intention is to be loving. I am making no excuse
for myself if I am coming across condesending. I apologize for that.
Rob, sometimes Brian K. comes across as honest. I know this. But Brian K.
vasillates back and forth. One post looks honest; the next is
an excuse. Now he wants me to explain the universe in 50 words or less.
I think Brian Kendig is really trying but he is too comfortable with
his set of excuses.
I just want Brian K. to be honest with himself. If he really wants
to know, he will ask questions and stop asserting irrelevant excuses
which have nothing to do with my God. I wish Brian would read the
Bible for himself and come to his own decisions without being
sidetracked with the temptation to mock God.
From my perspective Rob, when I look at Brian Kendig, I see a man
standing out in the middle of a highway. Off into the distance I
see a Mack truck heading right for him, but Brian K. is faced away
from the oncoming truck. He doesn't see it. Here's is how I see
the dialog:
Me: "Brian K, please step aside before you get run over."
BK: "There is no truck."
Me: "Turn around at look."
BK: "No."
Me: "Look! You will be healthier if you do take a look at
the oncoming truck."
BK: "No. Explain to me why trucks exist."
Me: "Turn around or you will run over."
BK: "No. I won't because I like hiking and tomorrow is Tuesday."
Me: "You blind fool! Why do you choose ignorance? You have nothing
to lose if you look. But if do not look, you will certainly lose your life."
I do not want to see you squashed all over the road.
BK: "It is my life to lose. I rather not look.
Besides, a truck running over me will not harm me."
And by the way, I really have an open mind."
So is my motivation to belittle Brian, or to love Brian the best I know how?
I do not wish to single Brian Kendig out. Because millions if not
billions of people fall into the same category. Perhaps all people
fall have fallen into this category at one time in their lives. I have.
I can now see the truck behind Brian.
My hope is that Brian will look and will see the ramifications of the
truck coming towards him. My hope is that Brian will want to step out
of the way. My fear, though, is that Brian will instead choose to glue himself
to the middle of the highway, where he will certainly get run over. But if
he so chooses, he so chooses, and there is nothing I can do beyond that
to change his mind. For it is his choice. But at this very moment,
Brian hasn't gotten even that far. He is still at the point where he
does not want to look. Sure he moves his eyeball to appease me, but his
head will not turn around to see the entire picture. So far he is
satisfied with his glimpse of the mountains off in the distance. | 15 | trimmed_train |
7,802 |
I'll post a summary after I get enough information. I'll include
tips like "how to know when the monkey is pulling your leg". Shouldn't
monkey's have to be bonded and insured before they work on bikes?
Jack Waters II
DoD#1919 | 12 | trimmed_train |
6,811 | Doug, those stats are great! they help immensely. I tried to E-Mail
you with some comments on them but my mail server does not recognize
your address. Could you E-Mail me with some info on how to get E-Mail
to you? Thanks! | 2 | trimmed_train |
9,821 |
That reminds me of one of Texas's ads...you hear a guy speaking in
French (like it's a letter home), then the French moves to the
background, and a French-accented voice come to the foreground, talking
about how he went walking on the beach, and it felt so much like
home that he decided to take his shoes off...and the rest of his
clothes. It ended with "please send bail." :-)
I normally have an unloaded Colt Delta in my glove box with a loaded
magazine handy (which is perfectly legal in Oklahoma). For those
times that I'm travelling inter-state, I keep an unloaded
S&W .44 Magnum revolver in the glove box, with a speed-loader
in my pocket (which is legal everywhere, under Federal law, Illinois
State Police be hanged).
As I've said before, this is stricly for defense; my insurance
will pay to replace my car, but I only have one life...
James | 4 | trimmed_train |
3,186 | My little Nash has sat for about a year (had been running), but now I must move
a long distance and there are too many things to carry with me. Here are the
details of the car:
1958 Hardtop--Exterior condition:
Rocker panels rusted out at weld points, no rust at typical spots like
door hinge mounting points, back battery box, etc. Missing front bumper,
front pan dented up, one weld popped in front. This is for the most part
a solid, restorable automobile.
Interior Condition:
Missing original steering wheel, has one of the smaller aftermarket
wheels, seats need reupholstered, general fair condition.
Mechanical Condition:
Had been running, but now does not want to start...needs new rings (which
I have) also have extra parts such as complete long block, extra steering
shaft, etc.
For a car that has not been touched since 1958, it is in solid shape. It will
obviously need some work, but will make a good project.
PRICE: Well, this is a tough one, I would like to get around 800.00, but will
consider any serious offers by individuals willing to come and get it. If you
have things to trade such as tools, toys, cameras, comics, cards, etc.,
anything easily movable to Florida, I may consider that as well.
Hit <r>, or my e-mail address is [email protected]
(614) 777-0791 home (leave message)
Thanks | 5 | trimmed_train |
6,465 | I am a novice (at best) in working with pc networks, and am in the
process of planning a small accounting system for a small business.
The particular need in this case is for three machines, each in a
different office of the same building, each having access to a
Windows-based accounting system.
My first thought is to set up MS Windows for Workgroups on each of the
machines (likely a 486 and two 386's) along with the appropriate Ethernet
cards and cabling that come with the Windows for Workgroups starter kit (one
additional user kit will be necessary). It then seems logical to purchase
a simple multi-user accounting system, along the lines of DacEasy or
M.Y.O.B., and fire it all up! The 486 will more or less act as server with
a report/check printer attached to it.
Cable runs of 30-40 feet will be necessary for this setup.
Well, this all seems too easy to me. Would any of you network gurus out
there tell me if I am out of my mind here? Any and all suggestions, however
trivial, will be immensely appreciated. My apologies if this has been
brought up before.
Thanks!
John
--
John E. Martin [email protected] University of Puget Sound '92
Kent, WA (formerly [email protected]) SeinfeldSuperSonicsRushBelaFleck | 18 | trimmed_train |
1,750 | I just mailed this:
I noticed a 2-3in long cut in the tread of the rear tire on my VFR.
The cut is only about as deep as the tread block, and looks like it
only scratched the rubber at the base, but the weird thing is, it's
way over on the edge where I haven't scuffed the tire in yet.
My questions are:
1. How dangerous is this, should I replace the tire right away?
and
2. If I should, since the cut is on the unscuffed portion and the
tire only has about 330 mi on it, what do you think my chances of
getting it replaced under warranty are?
To the nedod mailing list, and Jack Tavares suggested I check out
how old the tire is as one tactic for getting it replaced. Does
anyone have the file on how to read the date codes handy?
Thanks,
Dean
| 12 | trimmed_train |
8,293 |
Yeah, make darn sure you cover all the glass, so the driver can't
reasonably expect to be able to drive with the things on the car.
| 12 | trimmed_train |
4,244 | Apple IIgs
Imagewriter II COLOR printer
Color RGB monitor
3.5" DRIVE
5.25" drive
keyboard
Mouse
lots of disks
some applications
most manuals | 5 | trimmed_train |
6,999 | Dumbest options? Well here in the UK, BMW offer a 'no-smokers' option...
It just means they take the fag lighter out.... big deal....
BTW - I just bought a Honda CRX F1..... its neat... did consider an MR2 targa,
MX5 (you guys call it Miata?).... but that CRX just one my heart with that
body kit and 8-spokes.... | 4 | trimmed_train |
2,205 |
Look, asshole, I got him confused with somebody else. I didn't flame
you, and I would appreciate it if you extended me the same courtesy.
No, I don't know everything in the world. Does that surprise you? | 2 | trimmed_train |
10,471 |
They have a few problems. The biggest technical problem is the need to find
two satellites going to the same rough orbit for a luanch.
They also don't show much interest in commercial launches. There is more
money to be made churning out Titan IV's for the government. After all,
it isn't every day you find a sucker, er, customer who thinks paying
three times the commercial rate for launch services is a good idea!
Allen
| 10 | trimmed_train |
912 | The idea of the card is bull in and of its self, but I'm curious to know, do
they plan on making it a requirement to *always* have it on you, or is it
only going to be required to be *presented* when trying to ge medical aid?
BTW, anybody planning on shaving Hillary's head to look for *666*? 8^)
Later Dave,
Days
^^^^^^^^
Goverment logic or just the Clintons?
| 9 | trimmed_train |
8,762 |
[it has to do with honoring the laws of the state, and]
I would go further: if a couple are unwilling to have their commitment
publicly witnessed and recorded, that's prima facie evidence that the
commitment isn't really there.
| 0 | trimmed_train |
7,713 | We developed a toolkit running on the X Window System.
The toolkit copes with any languages based on X11R5's i18n
facility. As you know, there are 2 kinds of i18n implementation from MIT's
X11R5 release -- Xsi and Ximp. Our original implementation of the toolkit
uses Xsi.
Our toolkit manages each character's size based on our own font management system.
In order to do that, the 'wchar_t' typed character strings must be decomposed
to character sets. This means that if one wchar_t type compound string with
ASCII and Kanji mixed, for example, is given, each element of the wchar_t
array must be checked its corresponding character set based on a bit layout
and application environment's locale. In this case if the locale is 'japanese',
each wchar_t character will be classified either to iso8859-1, jisx0208 or so.
We need a function to do this. The function must check how many characters
from the top are the same character set and what the character set is.
We could not find any public X11R5 function to do that and inevitably, used
Xsi's internal functions to construct that function. The following is the
source code of that function 'decomposeCharacterSet()'.
//I18N.h
// This may look like C code, but it is really -*- C++ -*-
// $Id: I18N.h,v 1.1 1992/01/21 12:05:24 iima Exp iima $
#ifndef _I18N_H
#define _I18N_H
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
extern int decomposeCharacterSet(const wchar_t *wc_str, /* IN */
int wc_len, /* IN */
char *buf, /* OUT */
int *buflen, /* IN/OUT */
int *scanned_len, /* OUT */
char **charset); /* OUT */
extern XmString wcharToXmString(const wchar_t *wc_str);
extern XmStringCharSet charsetOfWchar(const wchar_t wc);
#endif /* _I18N_H */
//I18N.cc
/* $Id: I18N.cc,v 1.1 1992/01/21 12:05:05 iima Exp $ */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <X11/Xlibint.h>
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
#include "I18N.h"
extern "C" {
#include <X11/wchar.h>
#define _XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset XXX_XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset
#define _Xmbfscs XXX_Xmbfscs
#define _Xmbctidtocsid XXX_Xmbctidtocsid
#include "Xlocaleint.h"
#undef _XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset
#undef _Xmbfscs
#undef _Xmbctidtocsid
extern int _XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset(XLocale, const wchar_t*, int,
char*, int*, int*, int*);
extern Charset *_Xmbfscs(XLocale, _CSID);
extern _CSID _Xmbctidtocsid(XLocale, _CSID);
};
int decomposeCharacterSet(const wchar_t *wc_str,/* IN */
int wc_len, /* IN */
char *buf, /* OUT */
int *buf_len, /* IN/OUT */
int *scanned_len, /* OUT */
char **charset) /* OUT */
{
XLocale xlocale = _XFallBackConvert();
int ctid;
int status;
Charset *xcharset;
status = _XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset(xlocale, wc_str, wc_len, buf,
buf_len, scanned_len, &ctid);
if (status == Success) {
xcharset = _Xmbfscs(xlocale, _Xmbctidtocsid(xlocale, ctid));
*charset = (xcharset) ? xcharset->cs_name : NULL;
}
else
*charset = NULL;
return status;
}
----------------
An included file above, "Xlocaleint.h", is also Xsi internal and we copied
the file to the toolkit directory and compiled.
A serious issue occured when we tried to compile a toolkit application on
our HP machine with its OS version of HP-UX9.01.
When we tried to link an application based on our toolkit,
link errors occured saying that the following functions are missing:
_Xmbctidtocsid (code)
_Xmbfscs (code)
_XwcDecomposeGlyphCharset (code)
_XFallBackConvert (code)
We had used MIT release version of X11R5 and its Xsi implementation until
HP-UP9.0 and ran applications successfully. One of the reasons to use Xsi was that
because HP did not release HP's X11R5 until the OS 9.0 and we had no way to
know how HP's R5 would be implemented. We had hoped Xsi's popularity and used
its internal functions.
The HP's linker complains that there are no Xsi internal functions implemented.
We observe from HP's libX11.a, they used some Ximp implementation but we are
not sure if they used MIT's vanilla Ximp version or their own version of Ximp and
therefore, finding just counter part functions in MIT's Ximp for Xsi does not
seem to lead us a solution.
My question and goal is to know how we can construct a function like
'decomposeCharacterset()' listed above. Is there any function to check
character set of each element of wchar_t type strings depending on locales?
If it is a public function, that is perfect but even if it is not, we
want to use any internal functions in HP's X11R5 as we did for MIT's R5.
In order to render a 'wchar_t' type string, there must be some machinery
to judge character sets and that is how the proper fonts are selected for
the string. We have no way to find out that without any HP's X11R5 source
files. We want to know how we can use that for our goal.
Any help or comments would be highly appreciated.
I also appreciate if anyone tell me about Ximp treating around this area
even if it is not HP's implementation.
Thank you.
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793 | Hi...
I need information on scaring. Particularly as a result of grazing the skin
I really wanted to know of
1. would a scar occur as a result of grazing
2. if yes, then would it disappear?
3. how long does a graze take to heal?
4. will hair grow on it once it has healed?
5. what is 'scar tissue'?
6. should antiseptic cream be applied to it regularly?
7. is it better to keep it exposed and let fresh air at it?
Please help - any info - no matter how small will be appreciated greatly. | 19 | trimmed_train |
4,643 | : Where can I get xman source? I would like to get the binaries for
: xman for an HP 9000/700, but I would settle for source.
:
: --
Try xport.lcs.mit.edu, in direcotry /contrib.
-- | 16 | trimmed_train |
2,160 |
I was under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that most of the MSG on
our foods was made from processing sugar beets. Is this not true? Are
there other sources of MSG?
I am one of those folx who react, sometimes strongly, to MSG. However,
I also react strongly to sodium chloride (table salt) in excess. Each
causes different symptoms except for the common one of rapid heartbeat
and an uncomfortable feeling of pressure in my chest, upper left quadrant.
| 19 | trimmed_train |
4,615 | Is there a ftp.cica.indiana.edu mirror anyware that isn't so !@#$@# busy?
Thanks
Phil Trodwell | 18 | trimmed_train |
9,818 | of
A transporter operator!?!? That better be one important transport. Usually
it is a nameless ensign who does the job. For such a guest appearance I would
have expected a more visible/meaningful role.
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10,438 | When I left, it was 4-3, Blues with 2:00 to go! As I predicted in
"@#$%! I was right in the first place!!!" Blues in 6! YES!!!
Of course it's only one game -- that could be the 'Hawks stab in the face to
wake them up -- that's what playoffs are about, on any given day... :-) | 17 | trimmed_train |
10,575 |
I am not an expert in the cryptography science, but some basic things
seem evident to me, things which this Clinton Clipper do not address.
The all pertain to opportunites for abuse, and conclusions based on what
I have seen the membership of this group (except for two notable persons)
agree to. If anything bad is possible by the government in theory, it
almost always ends up happening in fact. So the key is to make abuse
IMPOSSIBLE. Question authority, and remember power DOES corrupt.
I think one has to regard this whole idea in the sense that it WILL be
expanded to include other data forms, such as data transfer and stored
data. and as such should be treated as if it were expanded (or such
expansion will be almost impossible to stop, using Clipper as a precident).
There was a hint of that in the proposal, remember. That said, please
bear with me, I am not very articulate, so I take more words to say
what others could say much more briefly. Thank you.
As I suggested this is NOW. The hint is in the proposal that this or
similar proposals are being considered for other forms of encryptions
such as data transfer, data files, and such, largely dependent on how
this thing is accepted or flies. I think one would be wise to treat
this in the manner one would when (not if) it gets expanded to other
areas than cellular phones. I think this is guaranteed to happen, if
this proposal gets by. Salami politics. It has been and is used in
several other areas, it is certain to be used here. Government is not
going to easily give up on the idea that they should be able to eavesedrop
whenever they want to. 'Court order required' has proven to be a rather
flimsy guarantee. If the case warrants, they can always sieze the
material, and force one to give the key, or sit in jail forever on
periodically renewed contempt charges. So it is not denying the justice
system the information, nor the ability to lock someone up if guilty
(or refuses to divulge the means to access the info - this is not
protected under the Fifth - one can be forced to perform ACTS that would
result in divulging incriminating evidence). So, blocking restrictions
on private encryption is not preventing LEGITIMATE law enforcement - it
does make ILLEGITIMATE law enforcement a bunch more difficult. Especially
fishing expeditions without the target's knowlege. Don't give up the
right to be safe from that - that should be non-negotiable, and Clinton
and Co. know it (which is probably why they quietly developed this thing,
figuring if they get it this far, they can ram it on through). How come
those consulted could be roughly described as "us insiders"? They cannot
quietely IMPLIMENT it though, when they ban other schemes to ensure its
exclusive use. Hence the nice PR document to try and reassure everyone.
Don't buy into it. Has government really earned that kind of trust,
past or future? To be secure and free, one must keep government honest
and the only way to do that is to make abuse IMPOSSIBLE, not 'unlikely'
or 'difficult'.
So what? One could use information gained by re-use of the keys (saved
after the last case was finished) or other means (master key, backdoor,
easily broken algorithm) to find other evidence which, given to a judge,
would authorize a tap which wouldn't have been possible otherwise. This
has been the more common manner of abuse of wiretaps in the past... For
local cops, this might be workable to keep them honest, but the Feds
have a workaround somehow, BET on it. Does anyone really believe
for example, that the government will use a scheme NSA cannot listen
in on scanning for keywords - either easily defeated in realtime or
via a 'master key'? I sure don't.
This whole thing sounds like something to eliminate the need to use
old-fashioned police work to build a case. In the past, eavesdropping
was rather easy (with or without a court order). I think the Law
Enforcement community has become a bit spoiled, and will resist changes
that require them to revert to using old-fashioned detective work. I
just find it somewhat surprising coming from a bunch that cares so much
about civil and individual rights, that "puts people first". The question
is "put people first" to WHERE?
With the innards not being revealed, how is one to be sure there DOESN'T
exist a 'master key' for use by NSA, etc (so they can do their keyword
scan, etc on conversations they routinely monitor, without a specific
court order)? Remember, the cellular phone limitiation is only TEMPORARY.
Bet on it. And so far I have not heard about police telling people that
they have been tapped and nothing incriminating was found. What is to
keep them from simply keeping the keys on file for 'next time'? After
awhile, they would have quite a collection. Kept especially for folks
they deem 'disruptive'. And if they get only one key, that would
reduce the search space a lot, unless it is an RSA scheme. Remember
Nixon years? Need for court orders really slowed them down, didn't it?
And unless the escrow accounts are not government controlled (fat chance!
I see one ending up being under, say Treasury, the other under Justice
:-)) it could be worth some serious bucks to some folks to get keys to
a competitor's Clinton Clipper (or descendent when this idea is expanded
to be used for all non-government encryption). Enough bucks would get
one the keys or the innards for this algorithm. Perhaps not an important
concern, but given past government behavior and the other problems...
What will one do when it is expanded to data storage encryption? You
can BET that if Clipper is accepted, that will be next on the agenda.
It is even hinted at in the proposal - read it carefully... Expect the
argumet "well, if you got nothing to hide..." Fine. Then using that
argument, one should not object to video cameras being installed in
every room of one's home. Granted - an exteme expansion of the idea but
the principle holds. Private stuff should remain private, even from a
govt fishing expedition. And laws/rules may change in the future as
to 'safeguards'. When it comes to the Fed Government, safeguards are
pretty meaningless, if they want to do/get something.
Don't work so hard to give up some rather treasured rights, or establish
bad precidents, please. The price could be hell to pay, later.
People would fight laws forbidding more NOW, but in, say two years,
because we have this 'crisis' situation which MUST be addressed by some
'drastic action', just this added reasonable restriction will only bother
those who have someting to hide... etc. Please don't buy into it.
If the Clinton Clipper is so very good, why not make its algrithm public
so many people can exchange ideas and examine it, rather than a few
isolated 'respected experts' (respected by whom? for what? Perhaps a
certain professor who likes key banks would be one of the selected
experts... this does seem to expand on some ideas the person was
advocating, if I recall :-). How would anybody know that what the
experts examine is the same as what will end up being used in the Clipper
Chip, if it is kept secret? Perhaps the Clipper will use a crippled
version (with a 'master key' provision), or features not present in the
version subjected for study and evaluation by the experts. And who
chooses the expertes? The government? No conflict of interest there...
:-)
And isn't it a REQUIREMENT for any decent encryption scheme that it NOT
have its effectiveness reduced by having the algrorithm widely known?
I was lead to believe that one should assume the other side has everything
you have, except for the key(s)... I recall ideas presented to this
group are rejected if a requirement exists the algorithm be secret...
Another question - since it is a safe bet this Clipper thing would not
be used for government security, they are regarding it as not real secure
but "good enough" for common folk. I think I would like to see a full
description (not a PR non-statement) of just what "good enough" means?
I think when saying how strong it is, "good enough" really means "not
very". The excuse that other countries have these restrictions is not
acceptable: Other countries do not have our Bill of Rights and
Constitution (which the people, not the governments, of those other
countries often regard with envy - what we have as rights they have as
revokable privileges). And if we expect to retain those rights and
protections, we must not allow them to be gutted because we just GOTTA
have this thing to 'fight crime'. We have allready have our Bill of
Rights pretty much torn to shreds. We should not permit more weakining
for yet another 'noble cause', instead we should be trying to repair
the damage. Our crime problem may have a number of causes, but "too
many rights and safeguards" is not a signifigant one. A broken court
system and poor police work are a much more signifigant cause as having
"too many rights" (disregarding addressing the root causes for crime,
etc).
BTW - those who suggest that this is just an attack on Clinton, believe
this: I would be going ballistic reagardless WHO seriously proposed
this thing. It is just another step in a gradual erosion of our rights
under the Constitution or Bill of Rights. The last couple of decades
have been a non-stop series of end-runs around the protections of the
Constitution. It has to stop. Now is as good a time as any, if it
isn't too late allready.
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6,787 |
[Sarcastic text deleted, No value judgement implied]
At first I was going to complain that your analogy was completely
irrelevant. But then I remembered something.
Remember that move to get the U.S. to the metric system all those
years ago? As far as I know we were supposed to be there by now.
The government sold it as better for the people, easier to be in
tune with the rest of the world. They had decided it was for
our own good.
Then, when the plan was released, it soon became apparant that the
government were a bunch 'o' thickies.
Think about it, change all the railroad track widths, signs,
screws, abolish the old regime.
At the cost of millions of dollars.
Your point is well taken. You think there is nothing to worry
about, you could care less who designs your cryptography, any
more than who designs your screws or the system of measurement
you use.
Sit back, that's right, just relax, we'll take care of all your
needs Mr. Molitor.
| 7 | trimmed_train |
8,533 |
Yeah, but first they have to deal with the Devils,
who've had their number all year. I'm not saying
the Caps aren't a good team (they've been a thorn
on the Habs side for the past 10 years!!!), just
that they won't get past NJ... | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,433 | Hi
I am trying to implement a pointer feature in Xlib
I have multiple windows and all can take input and
show output simultaneously on all other displays
I want to implement a pointer feature
I would like to get the pointer to come up on all windows once
I choose pointer in the menu and every one should be able
to see it
Can you give me some hints as to how I should proceed
I am new to Xlib
replies will be greatly appreciated
Thank you | 16 | trimmed_train |
8,055 |
Dear Defiant (or Unfaithful or Pixie):
I will take up the challenge to reply, as I am a theist.
The foundation for faith in God is reason, without which the existence
of God could not be proven. That His existence can be proven by reason
is indisputable (cf. my short treatise, "Traditional Proofs for the
Existence of God," and Summa Theologica).
Now, given that God exists, and that His existence can be proven by reason,
I assert that His commands must be followed blindly, although in our fallen
condition we must always have some measure of doubt about our faith. Why?
Because God is the First Cause of all things, the First Mover of matter,
the Independent Thing that requires nothing else for its existence, the
Measure of all that is perfect, and the essential Being who gives order
to the universe (logos).
I next assert that God is all good. If this is so, then that which is
contrary to the will of God is evil; i.e., the absence of the good. And,
since God can never contradict Himself, then by His promise of a Savior
as early as the Protoevangelium of Genesis 3:5, God instructs that because
a human (Adam) was first responsible for man's alienation from the Source
of all good, a man would be required to act to restore the friendship.
Thus God became incarnate in the person of the Messiah.
Now this Messiah claimed that He is the Truth (John 14:6). If this claim
is true, then we are bound by reason to follow Him, who is truth incarnate.
You next seem to have a problem with authority. Have you tried the United
States Marine Corps yet? I can tell you first-hand that it is an excellent
instructor in authority. If you have not yet had the privilege, I will
reply that the authority which is Truth Incarnate may never be questioned,
and thus must be followed blindly. One may NOT deny the truth. For
example, when the proverbial apple fell on Isaac Newton's head, he could
have denied that it happened, but he did not. The laws of physics must
be obeyed whether a human likes them or not. They are true.
Therefore, the Authority which is Truth may not be denied.
QED
--
boundary | 0 | trimmed_train |
2,123 | Hi Xperts,
this is a repost (no one responded to my desperate yell 8-(
I can't believe there is no XView wizards any more 8-)...
I'm using sliders in my XView apps, usually with editable numeric
field. But I seem to have no control over the length of this field.
In some apps it appears long enough to keep several characters,
in some - it cannot keep even the maximum value set by
PANEL_MAX_VALUE!
As I understand, PANEL_VALUE_DISPLAY_LENGTH, which controls
number of characters to be displayed in text items, doesn't
work in the case of slider, despite the fact that <panel.h>
contains the following bit:
/* Panel_multiline_text_item, Panel_numeric_text_item,
* Panel_slider_item and Panel_text_item attributes
*/
PANEL_NOTIFY_LEVEL = PANEL_ATTR(ATTR_ENUM, 152),
PANEL_VALUE_DISPLAY_LENGTH = PANEL_ATTR(ATTR_INT, 182),
which gives a hint that this attribute can be used for sliders.
But 1) setting this attribute gives nothing, and 2) xv_get'ting
this attribute gives warning: Bad attribute, and returns value 0.
Strange thing is that DEC's port of XView gives plenty of space
in a text fields, but not Sun's Xview...
Can someone share his experience in managing sliders in XView with me,
and clear this problem?
Any help is very much appreciated.
Yuri | 16 | trimmed_train |
8,329 |
Don't you Americans study history...the French settled in North America
as early or before the British...Lemieux can probably trace back his
North American heritage back a lot further than most of us. | 17 | trimmed_train |
6,079 | Since the Quadra is the only Mac able to deal with 5MB/s and Hard drives START
at 160MB I have NO idea.
For the Mac I have the following {These are ALL external}
20MB $299 {$15/MB}
52MB $379 {$7.3/MB}
80MB $449 {$5.63/MB}
120MB $569-$639 {$4.75-$5.33/MB
210MB $979-$1029{$4.67-$4.90/MB}
320MB $1499-$1549 {$4.68-$4.84/MB}
510MB $1999-$2119 ($3.92-$4.31/MB}
etc
So scsi-1/SCSI-2 for the Mac goes down in price/MB as hard drive size goes
up {and I assume the same for the PC world.} | 3 | trimmed_train |
8,368 |
Hmmmm. I think, with really large keyspaces like this, you need to
alter the strategy discussed for DES. Attempt decryption of several
blocks, and check the disctribution of the contents. I don't think it's
at all feasible to keep 2**80 encryptions of a known plaintext block on
*any* amount of tape or CD-ROM. And certainly not 2**128 such encrypted
blocks. (Anyone know a cheap way of converting every atom in the solar
system into a one bit storage device?)
Actually, a keysearch of this kind shouldn't be much worse than the
simpler kind in terms of speed. It's just that you have to do it over
for *every* encrypted message.
Dumb question: Has anyone ever done any serious research on how many
legitimate ASCII-encoded 8-byte blocks there are that could be part of
an english sentence? For attacking DES in ECB mode, it seems like a
dictionary of this kind might be pretty valuable.... | 7 | trimmed_train |
9,428 | I have tested this on a 230 and it does work there. So it would
seem that the 140 and 170 are out though. One way to tell is to
go and open the PowerBook control panel(7.1). There is a setting
there that allows you to set the time to wake up the Mac. If it
is present when you open the control panel, then you can assume that
SetWUTime will work.
| 14 | trimmed_train |
7,257 | I would like to get your opinions on this: when exactly does an engaged
couple become "married" in God's eyes? Some say that if the two have
publically announced their plans to marry, have made their vows to God, and
are unswervingly committed to one another (I realize this is a subjective
qualifier) they are married/joined in God's sight.
Suppose they are unable to get before the altar right at the current time
because of purely logistical reasons beyond their control. What do you
think about this?
Post or e-mail me with general responses. If you need clarification as to
what I am asking, please e-mail.
Thanks and God bless! | 0 | trimmed_train |
3,246 | Hi All,
I have heard that somewhere there exist programmable keyboards, eg. one
can program displays on the keys to show some specific characters, et.c.
Does it mean that there is some way of transmitting some "non-trivial" data
to the KB (as opposed to standard NumLock/... On-Off, typeamatic specs.) from
inside the PC software? I have not found any corresponding reference in the
specs for the 8042 PC-KB interface. Anyone have any ideas? (Except that they
may encode data by the sequences of the standard commands mentioned above,
which wouldn't look too neat, besides, what would one do from an XT?)
Great thanks in advance, | 3 | trimmed_train |
8,178 | >Loud pipes are a biligerent exercise in ego projection,
No arguements following, just the facts.
I was able to avoid an accident by revving my engine and having my
*stock* Harley pipes make enough noise to draw someones attention.
I instinctively revved my engine before I went for my horn. Don't know
why, but I did it and it worked. Thats rather important.
I am not saying "the louder the pipes the better". My Harley is loud
and it gets me noticed on the road for that reason. I personally do
not feel it is to loud. If you do, well thats to bad; welcome to
America - "Home of the Free, Land of the Atlanta Braves".
If you really want a fine tuned machine like our federal government
to get involved and pass Db restrictions; it should be generous
enough so that a move like revving your engine will get you noticed.
Sure there are horns but my hand is already on the throttle. Should we
get into how many feet a bike going 55mph goes in .30 seconds; or
how long it would take me to push my horn button??
And aren't you the guy that doesn't even have a bike??? | 12 | trimmed_train |
5,943 |
What are the volumes that it speaks besides the fact that he leaves your
choices up to you?
I definitely agree that it's rather presumptuous for either "side" to give some
psychological reasoning for another's belief.
MAC
--
****************************************************************
Michael A. Cobb
"...and I won't raise taxes on the middle University of Illinois
class to pay for my programs." Champaign-Urbana
-Bill Clinton 3rd Debate [email protected] | 8 | trimmed_train |
11,058 | 16 | trimmed_train |
|
10,865 | I assume that can only be guessed at by the assumed energy of the
event and the 1/r^2 law. So, if the 1/r^2 law is incorrect (assume
some unknown material [dark matter??] inhibits Gamma Ray propagation),
could it be possible that we are actually seeing much less energetic
events happening much closer to us? The even distribution could
be caused by the characteristic propagation distance of gamma rays
being shorter then 1/2 the thickness of the disk of the galaxy.
Just some idle babbling,
--
Jim Batka | Work Email: [email protected] | Elvis is
| Home Email: [email protected] | DEAD! | 10 | trimmed_train |
1,792 | I'm considering adding a floptical drive to my current system.
What I would like to know is which floptical drives are recommended for
their quality and performance.
My preference would be floptical drives capable of handling both 800k and
1.4k floppies, but handling 800k floppies is not a necessity.
So far, I only know a bit about the Iomega floptical and the Infinity
floptical drives. Are there any comments/recommendations for either of these?
Are there any other floptical drives that are worth looking into and where
can they be purchased (i.e. which mail order places, etc).
Thanks in advance.
Please send replies directly to [email protected]
| 14 | trimmed_train |
9,158 |
The proper spelling is Kirlian. It was an effect discoverd by
S. Kirlian, a soviet film developer in 1939.
As I recall, the coronas visible are ascribed to static discharges
and chemical reactions between the organic material and the silver
halides in the films.
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4,516 | OK. Instead of holding an auction, I have decided to compute prices for each comic (after many suggestions). These are the most reasonable prices I can give (not negotiable). If you would like to purchase a comic (or group), simply email me with the title and issue #'s you want. The price for each issue is shown beside each comic. First come, first served!!! There is no more bidding. Meet my price and it is yours. I can be reached at this email address:
[email protected] or
[email protected] or
[email protected] or
[email protected]
NO MORE HAGGLING ABOUT THE PRICE!!!!!!!!
LOTS OF COMICS FOR $1, $2, or $3 LOOK AT LIST!!!!!
Shipping is $2 for 1-3 comics. For more than 3, the price will be determined by the volume of the purchase (I may have to use a big heavy box for large orders which costs more to mail).
For all those who have bought comics from me, thanks!!!
All comics are near mint unless otherwise noted (my books were graded by
mile high comics and other comic professional collectors, not me!)
Here is the list:
Incredible Hulk
156 (vs another Hulk) $3
195 $2
196 $2
246 (vs Captain Marvel) $1
248 $1
249 $1
250 (Double size issue vs Silver Surfer) $5
255 (vs Thor) $1
279 $1
300 $2
312 $2
313 $1
316 (vs Bi Coastal Avengers) $1
347 $1
348 $1
350 (vs Thing) $2
354 $1
358 $1
360 $1
362 (vs Werewolf By Night) $2
364 $1
365 $1
366 $1
379 (1 copy) $5
Punisher
50 $1
57 $2
Punisher War Journal
29 (Ghost Rider) $2
30 (Ghost Rider) $2
Punisher Armory
1 $4
2 $2
Original Ghost Rider Rides Again (Reprint)
1 $1
Ghost Rider (old series)
37 $3
43 (vs Johnny Blaze) $3
77 (2 copies, origin of GR dream) $4 each
Ghost Rider (new series)
15 (1st print, Green glow in dark cover, 1 copy) $5
15 (2nd print, gold cover w/ glow cover) $3
Web of Spiderman
56 (2 copies) $2 each
60 $3
69 (vs Hulk, 1 copy left!!!) $2
70 (SpiderHulk, 1 copy left!!!) $2
71 $1
72 $1
78 $1
Deadly Foes of Spiderman
1 (2 copies) $2 each
2 $2
3 $2
Amazing Spiderman vs Dr. Octopus (special NACME issue) $2
Amazing Spiderman
350 (vs Dr. Doom, 1 copy LEFT!!!) $2
Spiderman (1990)
1 (silver, not bagged) $4
6 $3
7 $3
8 (2 copies) $2 each
9 (w/ Wolverine, 1 COPY LEFT!!!) $2
10 $2
11 $1
13 $5
16 $1
New Warriors
1 (gold cover) $2
8 $4
10 $2
11 $1
12 $1
13 $1
14 (w/ Darkhawk) $1
15 $1
Superman Man of Steel #1 $2
Superman (new)
53 (2 copies) $1 each
55 $1
56 $1
Adventures of Superman
479 $1
Annual #3 $1
Superman Annual #3 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Action Comics #666 $1
Avengers West Coast #69 (Hawkeye vs US Agent) $1
Batman
465 (Robin returns) $2
466 $1
467 $1
Annual #15 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $3
Captain America
230 (vs Hulk) $2
257 (vs Hulk) $1
Armegedon 2001
1 $4
2 $2
Foolkiller #1 $2
Infinity Gauntlet
1 $6
4 $3
5 $3
Double Dragon #1 $1
Deathlok (series)
2 $1
Transformers #80 (last issue) $2
Wonder Man
1 $1
2 $1
Flaming Carrot #25 (w/ Ninja Turtles) $2
The Comet #1 $1
Legend of the Shield #1 $1
Justice Society of America
1 $1
2 $1
3 $1
4 $1
Official movie mag from Turtles II movie (sealed w/ Jelloman comic) $5
Robin
1 (1 copies w/ poster) $3
1 (3rd print) $1
5 (6 copies) $1 each
Guardians of the Galaxy
1 $6
2 $3
3 $2
4 $2
5 $2
6 $2
7 $2
8 $2
9 (2 copies) $3 each
10 $2
11 $2
12 $1
13 $3
14 $3
15 $1
16 $1
17 $1
18 (2 copies) $2 each
Superman vs Amazing Spiderman (oversized issue from 70's) $7
DarkHawk
1 (3 copies) $8 each
2 (2 copies) $6 each
3 $5
4 $4
5 $4
6 $3
7 $2
8 $2
9 $3
10 $1
Thor
246 $1
428 $1
429 (vs Juggernaut) $2
430 (w/ Ghost Rider) $1
431 $1
432 (Thor vs Loki, 2 copies) $3 each
433 (new Thor) $2
Annual #16 $1
What if....
13 $1
23 $1
25 $2
26 $1
Alpha Flight
29 $1
51 $6
53 $6
94 (vs Fant. 4) $1
New Mutants
22 $2
100 (last issue, 1st look at X-Force, 1st print, 2 copies) $5 each
100 (2nd print, gold cover) $4
Flash (new)
43 $1
48 $1
49 $1
50 $2
51 $1
Annual #4 $1
X-Men (new)
1 (all 5 covers) $1 each but $2 for magneto foldout cover
Uncanny X-Men
191 $3
215 $2
255 (2 copies) $2 each
258 $6
268 (1 sold,1 copy left!, Lee reg artist) $10
275 (1 COPY LEFT 1st print) $6
275 (gold 2nd print) $3
276 $3
277 $3
278 $2
279 $2
280 $2
281 $3
282 $4
283 $6
Defenders
52 (Hulk vs Sub Mariner) $2
Fantastic Four
347 $4
348 $2
349 (3 copies) $2 each
Wolverine
11 $3
20 $2
41 (w/ Cable, 2 copies) $6 each
42 $4
43 $3
Silver Surfer (1987)
1 $6
2 $3
3 $3
4 $3
5 $2
6 $2
8 $2
22 $2
24 $2
32 $2
49 $2
50 (Foil cover, only 1 copy left!!) $6
51 $2
52 $2
53 $1
54 $1
55 $1
56 $1
58 $2
59 $2
Avengers
326 $3
328 (origin of Rage) $3
X-Factor
40 $6
67 $3
68 $6
71 $3
73 $1
Quasar
21 $1
22 $1
23 $1
24 $1
Green Lantern (1990)
3 $2
9 (2 copies) $1 each
10 $1
11 $1
12 $1
Toxic Avenger
1 (3 copies) $1 each
2 $1
Sleepwalker
1 (3 copies) $2 each
3 $1
7 $1
Kool Aid Man #1 (sealed in white bag, 2 copies) $2 each
X-Force
1 (bagged w/ Cable Card) $4
1 (bagged w/ Shatterstar Card) $3
2 $2
3 $1
4 $1
NFL Superpro
1 $1
Dr. Strange #31 $1
Hawkworld Annual #2 (2nd print, Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Hawk & Dove Annual #2 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Justice League of America Annual #5 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1
Send all bids and comments to
[email protected]
Thanks
Sam (the "ex" comic book collector)
| 5 | trimmed_train |
10,339 |
Like who, f'rinstance? When I bought my system (November), no first, second,
or third tier vendor could touch the price for the hardware/software
combination I got from GW2000.
If you were selling as many systems as fast as GW2000, you'd end up with four
or five pissed-off customers too. And four or five ecstatic ones. And lots
of satisfied ones...
Don't minimize this; if you buy mail order, it's a good thing to know that
you'll get replacements parts, no questions asked, in a day or two, via FedEx.
Which they do in the vast majority of cases. Remember that it's only the
people on the tails of the curve who are motivated to write -- the ones who
love it, and the ones who hate it. You don't hear from the folks in the
middle very often... | 3 | trimmed_train |
2,242 |
Pardon me Tim, but I do not see how it can be possible for the IDF to fail
to detect the presence of those responsible for planting the bomb which
killed the three IDF troops and then later know the exact number and
whereabouts of all of them. Several villages were shelled. How could the IDF
possibly have known that there were guerrillas in each of the targetted
villages? You see, it was an arbitrary act of "retaliation".
The problem, Tim, is that the original reason for the invasion was Palestinian
attacks on Israel, NOT Lebanese attacks.
First, I believe that my statement applies to both sides.
Having said that, I think it is neccessary to separate what is legitimately
negotiable and what is not. For example, no country has the right to abuse
one's human rights. Deciding whether there will be one or two states in
Palestine is a legitimate question. While de facto one state exists, Israel
must treat all within its domain equitably.
Yes, I am afraid that what you say is true but that still does not justify
occupying your neighbor's land. Israel must resolve its disputes with the
native Palestinians if it wants peace from such attacks.
Not true. Lebanese were not attacking Israel in the 1970s. With a strong
Lebanese government (free from Syrian and Israeli interference) I believe
that the border could be adequately patrolled. The Palestinian heavy
weapons have been siezed in past years and I do not see as significant a
threat as once existed. | 6 | trimmed_train |
7,557 |
Imagine if this were available during the 1992 elections; instead of
clumsily searching through the Clinton passport file, they could have
just done a "voice-grep" (as someone stated earlier) on his telephone
conversations for the last 10 years.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't even play one on TV, but intuitively there's
something wrong with having one's words archived for possible future
use against you. This possibility frightens me more than any of the
talk about the Clipper Chip, right to cryptography, etc.
I'm afraid it just might.
-nhy
-- | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,345 |
Contrary to what the "Protocols of Zion crowd" might suggest,
Judaism does not have any such goals.
The question you ask is complicated and deserves an honest answer.
I am going to provide one from my own current perspective, not a historical
one. Currently, as a non-observant jew/Israeli/American, my own feeling
is that Jews from the diaspora do not have a greater right in Palestine or
Israel, than the palestinians or Israelis (both arab and jew) do.
With regard to Jewish Israelis, they should have the same rights
in Israel as do all other Israelis.
Who are them? If by them you mean the non-religious Jews, I think
you should be aware by now that the majority of the settlers and their
supporters are religious. The other part of the problem is, to my
knowledge, not that the palestinians don't want to be a part of Israel,
as much as they would accept (for the most part) being full citizens
of Israel, with all the priviliges and responsibilities accorded Israeli
citizens. What they object to is the current limbo in which they find
themselves.
| 6 | trimmed_train |
980 |
Actually the govrnment is telling you that if you want to use their
"product" the manufacturer (actually better yet, some "trusted" pair
of escrow agencies) has to have the key.
Most of us already are in this situation--our car makers have keys to our
cars (or can get them quickly from the VIN number), and I have no doubt
that if presented with a court order, they'd surrender copies to the
government.
Chances are that many locksmiths have the code numbers for house locks
they've installed, and in an emergency can cut keys; thus they'd also
provide such keys to the government pursuant to a court order.
The state has no difficulty gaining access to your safe deposit box if they
have a court order.
Bad analogy.
This is not to argue for or against the proposal, but rather better
distinctions are required in thinking about it than "house key, safe-deposit
keys, etc.".
David | 7 | trimmed_train |
107 |
Umm, when I was doing sound reinforcement for a living, I used to get direct boxes (which convert
unbalanced 1/4" jacks to balanced XLRs) for about $25 each, or a little more for higher
quality. You'll need two for a stereo signal, of course, and a little adapter thingy from
Radio Sh#$&^t to convert from RCA to 1/4". Total cost should be around $50. You can also buy
transformers for quite a bit less and wire them yourself. Total cost there should be under $30.
You can get all this stuff from any pro music shop that sells sound reinforcement gear.
The benefit? NO noise that you can hear will be generated in the cables going to the component
with the balanced inputs, even when you run them in bad places, like next to power lines.
| 11 | trimmed_train |
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>So, don't just think of replacements for clipper, also think of front
>ends.
This only makes sense if the government prohibits alternative non-escrowed
encryption schemes. Otherwise, why not just use the front end without
clipper?
David
David, they (== the gov't) have already said that they hope to DO THIS
in the long run...
- -derek
PGP 2 key available upon request on the key-server:
[email protected]
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2,864 | I was wondering if the FAQ files could be posted quarterly rather than monthly. Every 28-30 days, I get this bloated feeling.
| 10 | trimmed_train |
6,192 |
You're assuming that their normal rotation carries all areas of the surface
into sunlight. Not so. Even on Earth, each pole gets several weeks without
sunlight in mid-winter. Pluto and Charon have much more extreme axial
tilt and a much longer orbit. Pluto's north pole, for example, gets over
a century of darkness followed by over a century of perpetual light.
At the moment, we're in luck -- Pluto and Charon are just past their
equinox, when the Sun was just on the horizon at both poles (of each).
If we get probes there soon, only the immediate vicinity of one pole
(on each) will be in long-term shadow. This will get steadily worse the
longer we wait. | 10 | trimmed_train |
5,284 |
Can You report CRT and other register state in this mode ?
Thank's. | 1 | trimmed_train |
8,100 | MJM>HI, I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me on twwo related
MJM>subjects. I am currently learning about AM/FM receivers and recieving
MJM>circuits. I understand a lot of things ,but a few things I am confused
MJM>abuot. The first is the MIXER, to mix the RF and local oscillator
MJM>frequencies to make the IF. Does anyone have any cicruit diagrams (as
MJM>simple as possible) for this kind of mixer? I have come across a
MJM>MC-SBL mixer chip But I have not been able to find it in any catalogs
MJM>(ACTIVE,etc...)
MJM>Along the same note, are there any SIMPLE fm receiver circuits anyone
MJM>may have stashed away somewhere and they couold let me see?.
MJM>P.S. any REALLY GOOD BOOKS on AM/FM theory ALONG WITH DETAILED
MJM>ELECTRICAL DIAGRAMS would help a lot.
MJM>I have seen a lot of theory books with no circuits and a lot of
MJM>circuit books with no theory, but one without the other does not help.
Digi-key has the NE-622 chip which has a local oscillator and mixer on
one chip.
For a great combination of theory with actual circuits, the best
reference for non-engineers is probably the Radio Amateur's Handbook
from the ARRL. Most library's have it in the reference section.
* SLMR 2.1 * If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy folk?
| 11 | trimmed_train |
9,197 | Danhy,
As you think Bedouin will be surprised by the posted article, I
would be happy to have some feedback from Bedouin readers, if you
will. I cannot judge the accuracy of the article, but assumes that
it is no fabrication. Any critical review would be helpful. | 6 | trimmed_train |
10,080 |
It appears that Walla Walla College will fill the same role in alt.atheist
that Allegheny College fills in alt.fan.dan-quayle.
Converts to xtianity have this tendency to excessively darken their
pre-xtian past, frequently falsely. Anyone who embarks on an
effort to "destroy" xtianity is suffering from deep megalomania, a
defect which is not cured by religious conversion.
Different perspective? DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE?? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
(sigh!) Perhaps Big J was just mistaken about some of his claims.
Perhaps he was normally insightful, but had a few off days. Perhaps
many (most?) of the statements attributed to Jesus were not made by
him, but were put into his mouth by later authors. Other possibilities
abound. Surely, someone seriously examining this question could
come up with a decent list of possible alternatives, unless the task
is not serious examination of the question (much less "destroying"
xtianity) but rather religious salesmanship.
How many Germans died for Nazism? How many Russians died in the name
of the proletarian dictatorship? How many Americans died to make the
world safe for "democracy". What a silly question!
Is everyone who performs a healing = God?
It's probably hard to "draw" an entire nation to you unless you
are crazy.
Anyone who is convinced by this laughable logic deserves
to be a xtian.
| 8 | trimmed_train |
2,416 |
I'll take a wild guess and say Freedom is objectively valuable. I base
this on the assumption that if everyone in the world were deprived utterly
of their freedom (so that their every act was contrary to their volition),
almost all would want to complain. Therefore I take it that to assert or
believe that "Freedom is not very valuable", when almost everyone can see
that it is, is every bit as absurd as to assert "it is not raining" on
a rainy day. I take this to be a candidate for an objective value, and it
it is a necessary condition for objective morality that objective values
such as this exist.
| 8 | trimmed_train |
1,046 |
Sigh.
Farwell LA, Donchin E. The truth will out: Interrogative polygraphy ("lie
detection") with event-related brain potentials. Psychophysiology
1991;28:531-547
"The research reported here was supported in part by contract number 87F350800
with the Central Intelligence Agency. Preliminary reports were presented at the
1986, 1988, and 1989 meetings of the Society for Psychophysiological Research".
Donchin happens to be an Israeli.
Do you really think that Israel needs something as primitive as torture when it
has THIS as well as something brought over by a Russian mathematician from the
Lenningrad Military Hospital in 1979 (factor-analysis of multiple unit
activity of the brain) ??? Surely you jest.
When Israel sics trained dogs on Arab prisoners the way it's commonly done on
prison farms in Mississippi or Alabama, *then* you have a right to protest
against torture. When Israeli security personnel beat Arab prisoners the way
Chicago police do, *then* you have a right to complain. Since it does NOT
practice physical torture in any way, kindly refrain from using this word.
Josh
[email protected]
| 6 | trimmed_train |
2,107 |
This is an interesting notion -- and one I'm scared of. In my
case I'm a Finnish citizen, I live in USA, and I have to conform
to the US laws. However, the Finnish government is not actively
checking out what I'm doing in this country, in other words checking
out if I conform to the Finnish laws.
However, Islamic law seems to be a 'curse' that is following you
everywhere in the world. Shades of 1984, eh?
Cheers,
Kent | 8 | trimmed_train |
601 |
)Do you know what frequencies chanels 17 to 19 use and what is usually
)allocated to those frequencies for broadcast outside of cable?
17 is air comm.
18 is amateur
19 is business and public service
| 11 | trimmed_train |
9,301 | One presumes the system could work as follows:
a) Blank clips are manufactured by Mykotronx and VLSI. The number
produced is carefully audited and they are shipped to the first
escrow house.
It programs the chips with its half the key, and prints out a paper slip
with the key half and non-secret chip serial number. The reams of paper
are filed in locked boxes in the vault, a fuse is burnt in the chip so
that the key is now unreadable.
The chip then goes to the next escrow house, where the same thing is
done. This continues through N escrow houses, perhaps, could be more than
2.
The last one provides the chip to the cellular phone maker.
And yes, this has to be a public key system or it would be almost
impossible to handle. It might not be RSA, but that does not mean
that PKP doesn't get paid. Until 1997, PKP has the patent on the
general concept of public key encryption, as well as the particular
implementation known as RSA. | 7 | trimmed_train |
655 | NeXTstation 25MHz 68040 8/105
Moto 56001 DSP
Megapixel (perfect - no dimming or shaking)
keyboard/mouse (of course :)
2.1 installed
2.1 docs
Network and System Administration
User's Reference
Applications
The NeXT Book, by Bruce Webster (New Copy)
Black NeXTconnection modem cable
30 HD disks (10 still in unwrapped box, others for backing up
apps)
I NEED to sell this pronto to get a car (my engine locked up)!
Machine runs great... only used in my house. Has been covered when
not in use on the days I wasn't around.
$2,300 INCLUDING Federal Express Second Day Air, OR best offer, COD to
your doorstep (within continental US)!! I need to sell this NOW, so
if you don't agree with the price, make an offer, but within reason.
;)
Thanks,
JT | 5 | trimmed_train |
669 |
morgan and guzman will have era's 1 run higher than last year, and
the cubs will be idiots and not pitch harkey as much as hibbard.
castillo won't be good (i think he's a stud pitcher) | 2 | trimmed_train |
10,522 |
Good grief again.
Why the anger? I must have really touched a raw nerve.
Let's see: I had symptoms that resisted all other treatments. Sporanox
totally alleviated them within one week. Hmmm, I must be psychotic. Yesss!
That's it - my illness was all in my mind. Thanks Steve for your correct
diagnosis - you must have a lot of experience being out there in trenches,
treating hundreds of patients a week. Thank you. I'm forever in your
debt.
Jon
(oops, gotta run, the men in white coats are ready to take me away, haha,
to the happy home, where I can go twiddle my thumbs, basket weave, and
moan about my sinuses.)
--
Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club. | 19 | trimmed_train |
2,398 |
Well, there are two approaches we can take here. One is to ask you what this
objective morality is, assuming it's not a secret.
The other is to ask you what you think is wrong with relativism, so that we
can correct your misconceptions :-)
| 15 | trimmed_train |
7,474 | I've been intently following the MAG thread while waiting for
mine to arrive in the mail. There seems to be a lot of
complaints about minor alignment problems with the MX15F. One
article contained a comment that the owner called the factory
and was told that his screen rotation was within spec (1/4").
Well, my monitor arrived last night and, sure enough, it has
a very noticable barrel distortion. It's not dramatic, but it
is there and it is especially noticable when the image doesn't
fill the entire screen. The fact that it is worse on the right
side doesn't help matters.
What I'm trying to find out is if these minor imperfections
are the norm or are most of their monitors perfect? I don't want
to send it back and get one with the same or an even worse
problem. Does the factory consider this kind of thing normal
and ship their monitors with less than perfect alignment?
Are other netters just living with these kind of imperfections?
-- | 3 | trimmed_train |
10,240 | 13 | trimmed_train |
|
6,905 | THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 5, 1993
PUBLIC SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1993
11:15 AM EST PRESIDENT CLINTON DELIVERS REMARKS with
Egyptian President Mubarek, the East Room,
The White House
Open Press
FUTURE SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
APRIL 16, 1993 PRESIDENT CLINTON MEETS with Japanese Prime
Minister Miyazawa, the White House
| 13 | trimmed_train |
6,578 |
There are no Mariner craft from which we are still receiving data. I believe
you are referring to one or more of Pioneers 6 through 9 (launched from
December 1965 through November 1968), which were put into solar orbits to study
interplanetary space. I recall reading that at least one of them was still
functioning 25 years after launch. | 10 | trimmed_train |
1,434 | : As the subject says - Can I use a 4052 for digital signals? I don't see
: why it couldn't handle digital signals, but I could be wrong. Anyone have
: any advice? Thanks.
The switches have a non-negligable on resistance (up to 1k ohm when
powered by 5 volts) and a maximum current and a Maximum Static
Voltage Across Switch. Not a good bet for TTL. Should work for
CMOS, but slow things down a bit. There are 74HC versions that
have better specs. but lower max voltage. | 11 | trimmed_train |
5,752 | --
My boss is interested in a new 300 series Mercedes Benz wagon.
Does anyone have any testimonial evidence and/or strong opinions
on this car (or line)?
Particularly, I would like to hear about power (manual t. only)
reliability, feel, and any unusually good or bad features of the
line.
She currently drives a VW Passat, and is being plagued by its
electrical problems. The dealer claims there is nothing wrong,
even though the doors have a habit of locking and unlocking them-
selves while you are driving down the road. The automatic shoulder
restraints also like to move back and forth as you move along.
She does not have the new, larger engine and is quite
dissatisfied with its lack of power.
The MB wagon would have to have more power and no peculiar problems
such as the Passat's electrical system. She is also considering
a Saab 9000 (add some letters). Any comparisons between the 9000
line and the Mercedes would be helpful.
Price is not an impediment.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeremy J. Corry | Churchill claimed the traditions
jcorry@erasure_sl.cc.emory.edu | of the navy are rum, mutiny, and
__ | sodomy.
\/
My opinions are my own, but I probably got them from someone else. | 4 | trimmed_train |
1,158 | I am working on a problem of scheduling classroom, and I will like to know if
you have some software, papers or articles about it. If you have something
relate it, please let me know.
thanks | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,254 |
We only need to ask the question: what did the founding fathers
consider cruel and unusual punishment?
Hanging? Hanging there slowing being strangled would be very
painful, both physically and psychologicall, I imagine.
Firing squad ? [ note: not a clean way to die back in those
days ], etc.
All would be considered cruel under your definition.
All were allowed under the constitution by the founding fathers.
---
" Whatever promises that have been made can than be broken. " | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,420 | And now, I interrupt your regularly scheduled news reading to bring you
another message sponsored by the Department of Really Mundane Statistics:
I passed the final individual player stats posted here the other day through
a filter to average out games, goals, assists, points, and penalty minutes
for the mythical average NHL pro who played in the league this season. (Why?
Because it's Monday and I didn't feel like writing any REAL code...)
Anyway, after I wiped out the 60-odd goalies in the list, I came up with:
NHL average: 55 GP 11 G 19 A 30 Pts 69 PIM
Then I passed the list through a second time to come up with the players who
had the smallest percentage difference in each of the categories.
Marty McInnis (NYI) 56 GP (1%) 10 G (9%) 20 A (5%) 30 Pts (0%) 24 PIM (65%)
Igor Kravchuk (EDM) 55 GP (0%) 10 G (9%) 17 A (10%) 27 Pts (9%) 27 PIM (53%)
These two are close in games, goals, assists, and points, but are too far off
in PIM. This leaves, as the most average player in the NHL:
Bobby Carpenter (WAS) 65 GP (18%) 11 G (0%) 17 A (10%) 28 Pts (6%) 63 PIM (8%)
What an honor.
I also passed the list through with the goalies still included. Kravchuk and
Carpenter were still in the top three, but Rob DiMaio came flying up from
behind to take the title:
NHL average: 53 GP 10 G 17 A 27 Pts 64 PIM
Igor Kravchuk (EDM) 55 GP (3%) 10 G (0%) 17 A (0%) 27 Pts (0%) 27 PIM (50%)
Bobby Carpenter (WAS) 65 GP (22%) 11 G (10%) 17 A (0%) 28 Pts (3%) 63 PIM (1%)
Rob DiMaio (TB) 54 GP (1%) 9 G (9%) 15 A (11%) 24 Pts (11%) 62 PIM (3%)
It's all really kind of underwhelming when you think about it.
-SG | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,181 |
I disagree with these. What society thinks should be irrelevant. What the
individual decides is all that is important.
I think this is fairly obvious
Generally by what they "feel" is right, which is the most idiotic policy I can
think of.
By thinking for ourselves. | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,970 |
try sci.energy | 11 | trimmed_train |
8,389 |
Hi!
One of the ASPI-drivers (I think it's the ASPICD) supports a /NORST
paramter, which means to not reset the SCSI bus when it loads. This
fixed the problem a friend of mine was having with his adaptec+tosh
3401.
Regards, | 3 | trimmed_train |
1,468 |
Even though I find this to be funny on the surface, the original poster of the
joke has tried and convicted the members of the BD to be a bunch of "nuts".
This may be a dangerous thing to do. It is my opinion that most educated
or well informed people of this country have some distrust of the government.
This should exist because as a bureaucracy, any government given enough time
will tend to exist for it self and not for the original purpose it was
created for. This distrust by the people should keep those in power in-line.
That and a properly functioning press. When a sensationalism oriented press
portrays a group of people as "nuts" or crazies, a violation of those
people's civil rights seem justified. Since we, as American's, have the
gurantee of rights as enumerated in the constitution, to include the
2nd ammendment, the government must appease the public's opinion or risk
voted out of existance, or if it has become corrupt enough to tamper with
domocratic process itself, being thrown out by force.
Our government as it stands, must appease the public. Therefore the
official press releases portray the BD's as fanatics who are a threat to
public safety. We must not prejudge people based on one sided information.
So far the only information that we are being given is comming from the very
agency that was embarrased by the BD(Branch Davidians sp?). It is to their
advantage to make the BD's as fanatical and dangerous as possible. If they
were portrayed as law-abiding citizen's, then they(ATF) had no justification
what so ever of doing what they did.
So let's keep an open mind. Jokes like above, even though it may be funny,
may mislead the public from the truth of the matter.
Just as an aside, my understanding of U.S. vs Rock Island and U.S. vs Dalton
leads me to believe that the National Firearms Act, which allows the Fed's
(in this case ATF) to regulate firearms(machine guns), has been deemed to be
unconstitutional since 1986.(By two federal district courts at least).
And since, I believe the only reason ATF was involved
in this case is because of firearms violations, it would be interesting to
find out whether or not the search warrent was based on the NFA.
It would be very embarrassing indeed if a search warrent based on a possibly
unconstitutional law has resulted in 4 deaths(Law enforcement).
****************************************************************************
The above opinions are mine and mine only.
I'm solely responsible for my opinions and my actions. If you must flame
then flame away, but a well constructed argument will be much more respected. | 9 | trimmed_train |
5,769 | No, that sounds pretty reasonable for that car and that city.
Unless you have an accident, you won't need more. If you plan on
paying for the car with a credit card, check and see if your card
automatically covers rental cars. Also, your own auto insurance may
cover rental cars also.
Most rental companies here offer extra insurance when you rent, and
require you to initial in several spots if you don't want it. The
credit cards and personal auto insurance provide the same sort of
coverage that the rental agency is trying to sell.
I have never rented from Alamo, so I don't know if they follow this
same practice.
Yes. It is a compact 2-door, probably a bit dull performance and
acceleration-wise, but very adequate. It will have an automatic
transmission, AM/FM stereo, air conditioning, and possibly power
windows and door locks.
Joe
| 4 | trimmed_train |
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