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That sounds like an old _Dragnet_ episode.
"Joe and I went to the apartment of Prime Suspect. Nobody answered the
door, but his landlord gave us permission to search the apartment."
Perhaps that worked in California in the 60's, but as I understand the
law landlords do _not_ have authority to grant permission to search space
rented by a third party, provided the lease is not in default, etc.
(I'm not even sure if they can provide the master key, when shown a search
warrant, since the _subject_ of the search is supposed to be notified).
At this point the question becomes: did the user "rent" the disk space
her encrypted file occupies? If she did, it _should_ fall under the same
body of case law that applies to apartments, storage lockers, etc. (As
to whether any court would recognize this fact....) If she did not (i.e.,
no compensation exchanged), I don't know how it would be treated -- there
doesn't seem to be a non-cyberspace equivalent.
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490 |
The briefing documents for the raid had a notation on them about a
similar local property which had sold for $800,000 prior to the
raid, if recent TV coverage can be believed.
The Ventura County DA came to the same conclusion in the report he
released, which lambasted the Sheriff's Office.
Too bad the old man was nearly blind, and didn't take a few
goose-stepping Drug Warriors (TM) with him.
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3,475 | Accounts of Anti-Armenian Human Right Violations in Azerbaijan #011
Prelude to Current Events in Nagorno-Karabakh
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| |
| "Right, we should slaughter the Armenians!" and |
| "There's no need to be afraid, all of Moscow is |
| behind us." I even heard that: "All Moscow is |
| behind us." Well I watched and listened in and |
| realized that this was no joke. |
| |
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DEPOSITION OF YURI VAGARSHAKOVICH MUSAELIAN
Born 1953
Line Electrician
Sumgait Streetcar and Trolleybus Administration
Resident at Building 4/21, Apartment 29
Block 14, Narimanov Street
Sumgait [Azerbaijan]
I spent almost all of February doing overhaul. The 27th was a short day at
work, we worked until eleven or eleven-thirty and left for home. I decided
to go for a short walk. I went to Primorsky Park. I walked past the Eternal
Flame and saw a group of about 8 to 10 people standing there. When I had
walked another 15 to 20 yards I heard the screech of automobile brakes
behind me. I turned my head toward the sound. It was a light blue GAZ-24
Volga. I see that the people who were standing there have gone over to the
car. A man and a woman get out. The man is expensively dressed, in a suit,
and the woman has a raincoat on. She doesn't have anything on her head, and
her hair is let down, sightly reddish hair, a heavy-set woman. They're 40 to
45 years old. They get something out of the trunk. The people start to help
them. I become curious just what are they pulling out of there?
When I got up close I heard them turn something on. I didn't see what it was,
but it was probably a tape recorder. They put it on the ground near the
Eternal Flame honoring the 26 Baku Commissars and formed a tight circle
around it. I ask, "What's going on?" Someone tells me, "Come listen." Well
they were Azerbaijanis, I had asked in Azerbaijani. I hear appeals: "Brother
Muslims, our time has come . . . " and something else along that line. I
didn't understand what it was all about. I walked around the group trying to
get a look at the owner of the tape recorder. But the circle drew in tighter.
New people started coming from various directions, five here, seven there. And
the comments started: "Right, we should slaughter the Armenians!" and "There's
no need to be afraid, all of Moscow is behind us." I even heard that: "All
Moscow is behind us." Well I watched and listened in and realized that this
was no joke. I quietly left and went home.
Now before that at work I had heard that something was going on in Karabagh,
that there were demonstrations there. Well, people were saying all kinds of
things, but I didn't have any idea what was really going on.
My wife and son were at home, but my daughter was at my aunt's house in Baku.
I didn't say anything to my wife. We sat and drank tea. Sometime around two
o'clock right behind our house suddenly there is noise, whistling, and
shouting. I looked out the window and saw a crowd. The crowd is moving slowly,
like they show on TV when blacks in South Africa are striking or having a
demonstration and move slowly.
My wife asks what's going on out there. I say I don't know. I put on some
outdoor clothes and went out to find out what it was all about. In the crowd
people are shouting "Down with the Armenians!" and "Death to the Armenians!" I
waited for the entire crowd to pass. At first they went down Narimanov Street
on the side with the SK club and the City Party Committee; then they turned
and went against the traffic--it's one way there--down the Street of the 26
Baku Commissars toward the streetcar line. I went home and told my wife there
was a demonstration going on. In fact I thought that we were having the same
kind of demonstrations that they had had in Yerevan and in Karabagh. Aside
from the things they were shouting, I was surprised that there were only young
people in the crowd. And they were minors, under draft age.
My wife and son wanted to go upstairs to visit a friend, but I was kind of
uneasy and said, "No, let's stay at home instead." An hour went by, or maybe
an hour and a half. Well, I wasn't keeping track of the time, I can't say
exactly how long it was. I look and see another crowd on Narimanov, but now on
the side with the microdistricts, the bazaar, and the Rossiya movie theater.
I put outside clothes on and went out again. There's noise, an uproar outside,
and the crowd has grown. There are more people. And whereas the first time
there were individual shouts, this time they are more focused, more
aggressive. No, I think, something's wrong here, this isn't any demonstration.
They would run, stop, then walk quickly and make sharp dashes, and then run
again. I was walking along the sidewalk and they were in the street. I
followed them. I was thinking I'd just watch and see. Who knew where this was
leading? We came out on Lenin Square. At the square the SK club is on one
side, and the City Party Committee is on the other. I went toward the square
and heard noise and shouting, as though the whole town had turned out. There
was some sort of a rally going on. I go closer and hear exclamations, appeals.
I heard both anti-Armenian and anti-Soviet appeals. "We don't need
perestroika, we want to go on living like we have been." Now what did they
mean by "living like we have been?" The Azerbaijanis work like everyone else.
But too many people live at the expense of the government and at the expense
of others. Speculation, theft, and cheating go on all the time. And not just
in Azerbaijan, everywhere, in all the republics, but I've never seen it
anywhere else like I have in Azerbaijan.
Now at this rally someone says that they should go around to the Armenians'
apartments and drive them out, beat them and drive them out. True, I didn't
hear them say "kill them" over the microphone, I only heard "beat them and
drive them out." I stayed at the square a few minutes longer. First one, then
another are going up onto the stage, and no one tries to stop the crowd. Off
to the side of the crowd there were small groups of three or four people, and
I think they were MVD [Ministry of Internal Affairs] or State Security KGB.
There were also uniformed policemen there, but I didn't see any of them try
to pacify the crowd. New people kept coming up onto the stage.
Well I had finally decided that this could end badly: This was no
demonstration, and I had to protect my family.
I left the Square to return home and suddenly noticed a truck. It was next
to the City Party Committee, on Narimanov Street, it stood next to the tai-
lor's shop there, a low truck, and it had low, wooden panels. I see that some-
thing is being unloaded, crates of some sort. I decided to go look because
after all those appeals I was apprehensive and thought there might be weapons
in there. They pulled the crates out onto the square, not toward the City
Party Committee, but toward the SK club. And when I went right up to them I
saw that they were cases of vodka. There were two people handing down the
cases from the bed of the truck, and on the ground there were many people, 15
to 20. They were handing them down from the truck and each case was carried
off by two people. Two people, one case of vodka. And there was a man standing
right next to the truck and he was handing out roundish black lumps, maybe
about the size of a fist, maybe a little bigger or smaller. It was anasha.
When I passed next to that person, he stood with his side to me. There was
about a yard and a half between us, and two people were standing near him. He
has a package in his hand, and he's pulling out anasha and handing it out. I
have never smoked it myself. Once I tried it for fun, but I've seen a lot of
people smoke it, I've seen it many times, and I know what it is. I strolled
around and no one asked me who I was or what I was doing there.
Before I got to the Glass Bazaar I heard more howling, more warlike shouting.
I turned around and saw them running. Well I'll just keep on going like I am,
I thought. When they caught up with me I saw that they were carrying flags.
And I recognized the person who was carrying the flag on my side of the
street. He's a young guy, 21 or 22 years old. He was carrying a red flag,
which had "Ermeni oryum" written on it in Azerbaijani, that means "Death to
Armenians!" That guy used to live off the same courtyard as us. I don't really
know what his name is, but I know his father very well. His father's name is
Rafik; he used to be a cook, and then became head chef. He used to have a dark
blue Zhiguli van, then he sold it and now he has a white Zhiguli 06. His
family, as I said, lived on the same courtyard as we did. Our building was on
Narimanov Street, and theirs was on the Street of the 26 Baku Commissars;
their apartment was in the far entryway, on the fifth floor, the door on the
left. Now Rafik's little brother lives there, and he, Rafik, I heard, got a
new apartment either in the forth or eighth microdistrict. In a word, his son
was carrying a flag that said "Death to Armenians!" I was surprised because
before this I had gotten the impression that all of this nonsense was being
done not by people from Sumgait, but by Azerbaijanis from Agdam and Kafan.
Well anyway I went home. My wife was upset. I told her, "It's OK, it'll pass,
they're young kids, they've just gotten all whooped up." Naturally I didn't
want her to get overly upset. After a while a new surge of crowd went by. And
this time they were breaking glass. I could hear it breaking, but I couldn't
see where. Well I think, here we go, the machine's in motion. They weren't
handing out that vodka and anasha for nothing. I didn't see people drinking
and smoking on the spot, but they certainly hadn't unloaded the vodka and
hashish to put in a store window!
So the thought flashed through my head that the machine was running, no one
would stop them now, they weren't even trying, although, I'll say it again,
the police were there, I saw them. And it's not just that the police weren't
breaking them up, they were joking with them, they were having a good time.
True, at the time I couldn't even imagine that under our government, our much-
vaunted leadership--and I'm not afraid to say these words: so many people
died, So many women were abused, and how many abominations there were!--I
couldn't imagine that under our much-vaunted authorities, and if I were to be
specific, I would say under the much-touted authorities in our city of
Sumgait, I couldn't imagine that such things could take place.
When they started breaking glass I told my wife and son: "Let's go upstairs."
We went to our neighbors, the Grigorians, on the fourth floor. And in the
evening, when those crowds started going past again, I went outside once more.
I stopped at "The Corner," a place called that right next to the bazaar. I
look and see a crowd on the run. And there, a few yards from the entrance to
the bazaar, are three respectable-looking men of around, say, 50 years old.
The crowd was running and one of the three waved with his arm and pointed
toward the bazaar. And then the whole crowd, as though it were one person,
wheeled and raced toward the bazaar. And not a soul went past those three, as
though it were off limits! Well everything got all churned up, there was more
noise, and the glass was flying again.
We spent the night at the neighbors'. My apartment was on the first floor,
there was really no way to defend yourself there.
In the morning I went out to buy bread and to see what was happening in town.
On the way I saw someone hunched up, still. I never found out who it was or
what happened to him. There were 10 to 15 people standing near him. I got the
bread and on my way back, they had gathered around the person who was lying
there hunched up, sort of enclosing him; because of the way they were standing
you couldn't even see him.
That was on the morning of February 28. Everyone knows the rest.
May 17, 1988
Yerevan
- - - reference - - -
[1] _The Sumgait Tragedy; Pogroms against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijan,
Volume I, Eyewitness Accounts_, edited by Samuel Shahmuradian, forward by
Yelena Bonner, 1990, published by Aristide D. Caratzas, NY, pages 161-164
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834 |
xdtm is working looking at, as is ftptool. There really isn't anything of
any quality that I've seen though, and I'm seriously considering writing one
on my own.
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[email protected] | 16 | trimmed_train |
1,113 |
The current mining regulations and fees were set in the 1800's!
What the so-called "eco-freaks" want to do is to simply bring those
fees in line with current economic reality. Currently, mining companies
can get access to minerals on public lands for ridiculously low prices --
something like $50! The mining lobby has for decades managed to block
any reform of these outdated fees. In fact, the latest attempt to reform
them was again blocked -- President Clinton "compromised" by taking the
mining fee reforms out of his '94 budget, and plans to draft separate
legislation to fight that battle.
If you want to discuss this further, I suggest you take this to talk.environment. | 10 | trimmed_train |
1,231 | Forsale
1 Desktop Case, 200 Watt power supply 2 internal 5 1/4" bays and
2 external 5 1/4" origanaly Dell System 200 case. looks real good
all hardware included.
I would like $80 + shipping or best offer.
1 Western Digital MFM controler, 16 bit 2 floppy 2 hard, never had a
problem with it.
I would like $30 + shipping or best offer.
1 Game card, works well nothing fancy just a joystick port.
I would like $10 + shipping or best offer.
1 INNOVATION Game / Sound Card, Has one game port and an adlib port.
I never used it. ( I got a soundblaster cheep before I installed it)
I would like $5 + shipping
All offers considered, Buyer pays shipping.
please resopnd to
[email protected]
or
(919) 834-3290 | 5 | trimmed_train |
9,207 | I'm currently having trouble connecting my PB to a true blue (IBM Model
1513) VGA monitor. The display is bearly readable but all the details are
seperated into yellow and red colors. ie. a window will have two images one
in yellow and a ghost image in red. The background is also a little
greenish. I read some time ago, before I ever thought I would hook my mac
up to a VGA screen, about an incompatability with some VGA monitors due to
the sync on green signal. Does this sound like it could be the same demon?
I also read that there are both hardware (putting a diode on the green
signal?) solution and a software solution to this problem. I don't the
details does somebody have them the can e-mail to me or post them? I
checked all the FAQ's for this and didn't find anything about it. Did I
miss it somewhere? This sure seems that it would be a good thing to have
in one. Thanks for any replys. | 14 | trimmed_train |
1,760 | Date: 19 Apr 93 19:57:21 GMT
From: [email protected] (Jim Hart)
"Simply?" "Everyone" should have this attitude? The only people
who can have this attitude are the most hard-core
computer hackers, who never make phone calls away from their
computer | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,297 |
Remember the armor of God? The sword that Christians wield is the
Word of God, the Bible.
God be with you,
Malcolm Lee :)
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9,087 | I thought that the Clipper Chip that was posted to t.p.g (sorry, I lost
the original post) was a joke. I really did. I didn't believe it for
a second. But on the way to work this morning, I heard about it on NPR.
This scares me almost as much as the doublespeak emanating from the
FBI and BATF in Waco.
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3,179 | Hi,
I am one those uncles that try to please my nephews whenever possible,
so.. they have asked me to find them some Nitendo games, no, it is
not for the super nitendo.. it is for whatever model came prior to
that.
Since they are overseas, I will first ask them if they already have the
games you would have to offer me. Please send me a list, or whatever and
the price you are asking so I can send to my nephews and find out what
they have and what they want.. so bare with me, I will respond, but it
will take me a while.
Thanks,
Walter
[email protected]
Please respond directly.
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1,090 | Does anyone know how to convert a targa or similar 24 bit picture into a list
of R G B values and then convert back to targa after doing operations on the p
ixels R G B codes.
ex. Targa ---->000100255pixel 1
001200201pixel 2etc....
If no one can help me with this could someone explain how the 24 bit data is st
ored in the targa file and also how its stored in the 8 bit targas. Thanks
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10,527 |
I've seen a film of it, my memory may be faulty, but as I
remember it the vehicle was slightly over a meter long, with a
thick baseplate 30-40 cm in diameter. I think the narrative said
it was propelled by dynamite sticks. There were four detonations
within about 2 s, the second coming after about 2 m of flight in.
Max altitude seemed to be on the order of 50 m, but that is hard
to judge. | 10 | trimmed_train |
1,585 | I have a Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250 tape backup unit in my Gateway
486/33V Tower system. I have found the supplied backup capability to be
fairly unreliable. In approx 3 cases out of 10, I have had the backup fail
at one point or another, often hanging in the middle of writing the tape.
Seek errors, drive communication errors seem to be most common. I use the
DOS backup software from Colorado Memory Systems. Should I return the drive,
get some better backup software, reformat the tapes (am using CMS tapes)?
Any hints would be appreciated - this stuff is to time-consuming to do over
and over again until it cooperates... | 3 | trimmed_train |
10,380 | Help!!!
I have an ADB graphicsd tablet which I want to connect to my
Quadra 950. Unfortunately, the 950 has only one ADB port and
it seems I would have to give up my mouse.
Please, can someone help me? I want to use the tablet as well as
the mouse (and the keyboard of course!!!).
Thanks in advance. | 14 | trimmed_train |
10,952 | The only info I have is my area is not having a large march. They are leaving
it up to each congragation. IMO this means organizers found it too difficult
to manage or no one feels the need to be involved.
I'm not casting stones, my involvement with the Lord does not include the March
this year. Maybe He is giving a message by the lack of one?? JLS | 0 | trimmed_train |
7,835 |
Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm afraid your friendship is in danger.
Perhaps you should examine in yourself why as such a good friend, you
are unwilling to accept this imortant part of your friends life? Why
do you call into question his faith? Your friend has changed, he has
found something that fills a need in his life. You need to decide if
you are still his friend, whether you can accommodate his new life.
It sounds as if you are criticizing him for a fundamental belief in
the Bible, yet you are quick to reveal that your fundamental belief
that it is superstition. Perhaps if he knew you at least took him
seriously, that you at least took an interest in the light he has found,
that you at least tried to understand what has become a special part of
his life, you could together decide to become fundamentalists, respect
each others differences and remain friends, or part ways. Maybe even if
you stuck it out with him, you could help him to un-convert. Of course,
if you go in with that attitude he will surely see through your intentions
and begin to resent you.
I happen to be a person very tolerant of fundamentalists, because I know
that the idea of a simple black and white approach to life is appealing.
I don't happen to share the beliefs of fundamentalists, but I am not
offended by their prosyletizing. I had a few good conversations with
some Witnesses who came to my door. I didn't switch my beliefs, but for
those at home who maybe need a friendly face to invite them somewhere,
the Witnesses provide a wonderful service. You may have been conditioned
to believe that religion is unimportant and witnessing is obnoxious, but
why? Are you afraid you might be converted and become one of them, that
you will be swept up in fundamentalism, that you will become a weirdo.
Friendship's a two-way street. You must respect your friend, ALL of him,
including his beliefs, if you want the friendship to continue. | 0 | trimmed_train |
11,223 |
People are seeming to be less concerned about Kariya's size as he leads
teams to championships (World Junior and US College) and collects
awards...everyone is watching with interest as to how he will perform
on left wing with Eric Lindros and Mark Recchi at the world
championships.
4 months of go...chances were not very good that he would go in the
top five...now it has become probable...a great world championship
could put him in the top 3 with Daigle and Pronger. | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,897 | Chicago from what I have read is projected to run in 4M on 386 and higher.
It is definitely aimed at the desktop.
It is rumored to offer preemptive multitasking,
multithreading but will not offer multiprocessing. Is 32 bit and no reliance
on DOS. It is rumored to have an integrated file and program manager.
DOS 7 is rumored to be similar to Chicago but without the GUI. Is also
a step towards CAIRO (the next generation OS) which is rumored to be
object oriented.
I wonder where Windows 4.0 fits here is it a stepping stone to Chicago?
Hope this helps.
Thx Dave L
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4,483 |
Well, I've been informed that the price on the whole thing I'm selling is now
less than the price I'm selling it for. That will teach me to wait that long
before getting rid of electronic equipment. Nevermind, everyone, I'm keeping
the thing.
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5,689 |
I'm not quite sure how these numbers are generated. It appears that in
a neutral park Bo's HR and slugging tend to drop (he actually loses two
home runs). Or do they? What is "equivalent average?"
One thing, when looking at Bo's stats, is that you can see that KC took
away some homers. Normally, you expect some would-be homers to go for
doubles or triples in big parks, or to be caught, and for that matter you
expect lots of doubles and triples anyway. But Bo, despite his speed,
hit very few doubles and not that many triples. So I would expect his
value to have risen quite considerably in a neutral park.
Felix Jose has been a .350/.440 player in a fairly neutral park.
I would offhand guess the `89-`90 Bo at around a .330/.530 player.
Maybe .330/.550 . Not even close.
I'd put him about there too.
Note: I hadn't realized the media had hyped him so much. I thought he
was always viewed by them as a better football player, and only so-so
at baseball. He did only have one 30-hr, 100-rbi season, and KC wasn't
winning.
Note 2: I maybe have harped on this a bit in the past, but there is a
mistake being made (by the SDCN's, as they are known, on this group)
with respect to players like Bo and Deion and Lofton (and perhaps others).
We find, that if you look at a large group of players, their past major
and minor league numbers will predict their future numbers fairly well.
Their are some caveats: the younger they are, the less good the prediction;
the lower the minor league, the less good (I imagine), the more recent
the player has left college ball, etc.
Now of course, this prediction involves quite a bit of "error." Sometimes
a player with poor MLE's (Dave Justice, the 1990 Ventura) becomes a star.
Some hitters develop (Shane Mack, Brian Downing), some don't (Oddibe
McDowell, Mickey Brantley). This error involves real things: there are
real reasons why Oddibe didn't hit and Shane did. It may (who knows)
involve parks and batting coaches and wheaties and injuries and lifting
and so on.
But still, you have this big pool of players, and things work pretty well.
One of the reasons for these predictions accuracy is the common background
of the players. One thing we know about professional baseball players is
that all of them (or almost all) have spent a good deal of time playing
ball. Their backgrounds are similar.
What hasn't been established is what happens when you encounter a player
with a different background? Is there some reason to believe that a
Bo, or a Deion, or a Lofton, or a Tony Gwynn (?), or an Ainge, or so
on, has such a different background, that the standard model and standard
assumptions fit this person slowly?
It hasn't been established that you can use MLE's with two-sport players.
(It hasn't been established that you can't, but then statistics is, after
all, an art). I personally think otherwise lucid individuals continually
make completely nonsensical statements about Bo and Deion and Lofton.
"Look at those good-but-not-great minor league numbers," they say. Well,
what happens if those numbers simply don't mean what they usually mean?
It might mean that Ken Lofton suddenly has a better year in Houston than
Tuscon. It might mean that Deion suddenly has a better half-year in
Atlanta than Greenville.
Then again, it might not. Ken and Deion might go right back in the tank
this year, live up to those poor MLE's. But you guys DON'T KNOW. What's
worse, you don't know that you don't. And you don't know that there are
other players you won't know about -- injuries and lifting and wheaties
again. You seem to think that the model is perfect and eternal. It's not.
It's got some error.
Oh well.
Bill Guilford | 2 | trimmed_train |
7,527 | Yeah - they also gave it their "Editor's Choice" in the run-down of
graphics accelerators they tested in the previous issue, which is why
I bought (and then returned) mine. The only conclusion I can come up with
is that PC Magazine has wildly different ways on determining the worthiness
of a video card than I do.
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1,737 |
How do you know? Were you there?
While obviously Koresh was a nut case, the (typical) inability of the
government/media to get its story straight is quite disturbing. On
tuesday night, NBC news reported that the FBI did not know the place
was burning down until they saw black smoke billowing from the
building. The next day, FBI agents were insisting that they saw Davidians
setting the fire. The FBI was also adamantly denying that it was possible
their battery of the compound's wallks could have accidentally set the
blaze, while also saying they hadnt been able to do much investigating
of the site because it was still too hot. So how did they KNOW they
didnt accidentally set the fire.
Sounds like the FBI just burned the place to the ground to destroy
evidence to me.
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2,585 |
Geez, where have you been, Ryan? I proposed this theory *months*
ago. Let's take it one step further, even. If, as the surveys show,
up to 33% of all men have *had* a homosexual encounter, then there must
be an even *larger* percentage of people who have had homosexual erotic
fantasies. But if less than 10% of the population is gay, what can we
say about these people who don't identify as gay but have demonstrated
gay potential. Obviously, a large chunk of these people *chose* (or,
more accurately, were forced to choose by force of religion and social
sanction) to put those feelings aside, to be heterosexual.
Obviously, Cramer and Kaldis fall into this category.
These people are the ones who are so hung up on "choice."
Obviously, since *they chose*, everyone must have, and homosexuals are
just flaunting their "perversion" by choosing not to go along with what
society has dictated.
Of course, I'm that most awful of perverts. I chose, I gleefully
admit that I was heterosexual until I met the right man and *chose* to
indulge in my homoerotic potential. Take that!
Elf !!!
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[email protected] (Elf Sternberg) | 13 | trimmed_train |
2,526 |
I can wait 'cos I've already got an accelerated card. It does 1280x1024 but
only 16 colour. You may mock me, but such cards will be here quickly enough.
I only wait when the difference between my current system and the new stuff
is big enough to warrant changing. For instance, I'll be upgrading my 486 33
to a 486DX-2 66 EISA, VLB board RSN. The performance difference (under Linux)
is great enough to be worthwhile. At the same time I'll be buying a new
graphic card and new SCSI controller. I'll be buying an S3 card 'cos they're
fast enough, I have X11 drivers for them and it'll have 2MB VRAM just like
a Weitek 9000 card. It will also be MUCH cheaper. When affordable 4MB cards
arrive, I'll buy one.
Over the last year I've done much the same. But now I need a 19" monitor, more
memory (20MB just ain't enough), a GB disk (1.2GB and no space left...). Oh
well, stay single, don't smoke and you may afford it this year ;-)
| 3 | trimmed_train |
5,438 |
I am currently in the car market and would like opinions on a VW
Passat GLX. How does it compare to a Toyota Camry? I thought the car
looked very solid, stable and European. Only disappointment so far is
that that it doesn't offer an airbao my next question is, why isn't VW
offering automobiles with airbags? Should I pay the extra three
thousand for a BMW 318 is even though it is smaller and less powerful
than than the Passat?
| 4 | trimmed_train |
8,802 |
If the Clipper chip can do cheap crypto for the masses, obviously one
could do the same thing WITHOUT building in back doors.
Indeed, even without special engineering, you can construct a good
system right now. A standard codec chip, a chip to do vocoding, a DES
chip, a V32bis integrated modem module, and a small processor to do
glue work, are all you need to have a secure phone. You can dump one
or more of the above if you have a fast processor. With integration,
you could put all of them onto a single chip -- and in the future they
can be.
Yes, cheap crypto is good -- but we don't need it from the government.
You can do everything the clipper chip can do without needing it to be
compromised. When the White House releases stuff saying "this is good
because it gives people privacy", note that we didn't need them to
give us privacy, the capability is available using commercial hardware
right now.
Indeed, were it not for the government doing everything possible to
stop them, Qualcomm would have designed strong encryption right in to
the CDMA cellular phone system they are pioneering. Were it not for
the NSA and company, cheap encryption systems would be everywhere. As
it is, they try every trick in the book to stop it. Had it not been
for them, I'm sure cheap secure phones would be out right now.
They aren't the ones making cheap crypto available. They are the ones
keeping cheap crypto out of people's hands. When they hand you a
clipper chip, what you are getting is a mess of pottage -- your prize
for having traded in your birthright.
And what did we buy with our birthright? Did we get safety from
foreigners? No. They can read conference papers as well as anyone else
and are using strong cryptography. Did we get safety from professional
terrorists? I suspect that they can get cryptosystems themselves on
the open market that work just fine -- most of them can't be idiots
like the guys that bombed the trade center. Are we getting cheaper
crypto for ourselves? No, because the market would have provided that
on its own had they not deliberately sabotaged it.
Someone please tell me what exactly we get in our social contract in
exchange for giving up our right to strong cryptography?
--
Perry Metzger [email protected] | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,118 |
There are a lot of people running around saying "God told me this" and
"God told me that" these days. Some people really have heard God, and others
heard their glands. Mario Murrillo mentioned this in a sermon once. He
said someone told him, "The Lord gave me a song." He said that it was
the worst song he had ever heard.
"I know why he gave you that song," Murillo said, "He didn't want it anymore."
But God does still speak to His people today, and the idea is contrary to the
idea of a closed cannon. Ireneaus wrote about all the gifts of the Spirit
in the church of His day (2nd and 3rd century) and he was one of the first
to put forth a New Testament cannon, which was almost identical to the one
we have today. He believed in a closed cannon.
Many prophets prophesied prophecies which were not recorded in the Scriptures.
For example, one prophet in Kings, whose name starts with an "M" who
prophecied that the king would lose a battle. That is the only prophecy
he gave recorded in Scripture, and we no that he had given other prophecies
because the king complained before he heard the prophecy, "He never prophesies
anything good about me." Yet only one little paragraph of all of his
lifetime of prophecies are recorded in Scripture. There are numerous examples.
Barnabas was a prophet, Acts says, before he was even sent out as an
apostle. Yet his writings are not recorded in Scripture. Only two of
Agabus prophecies are mentioned in Scripture. He was already a prophet
before he gave them.
So prophecy may be genuine and from God, but that does not make it
Scripture.
I don't know about translations of Scripture, but I am familiar with
prophecies that give applications for Scripture. There are also
similar examples in the Bible. Several times Peter interprets prophecies
in a seemingly prophetic way, for example, "And his bishoprick let another
take" concerning Judas office.
A clearer example can be found in Matthew 24. Jesus is prophesying about
what will happen before His return and He quotes a passage out of Joel
about the sun being darkened and the moon turning to blood. So Scriptural
prophecy can be used in later prophecy.
Sometimes this sort of thing can cross over into being a word of knowledge,
but gifts of the Spirit seem to overlap. Words of knowledge and wisdom
can overlap. The word of knowledge and prophecy can overlap.
Interpretation of tounges is very similar to prophecy. Healings are often
considered miracles. So sometimes the distinction between gifts is a
bit hazy. Imho, it doesn't usually matter that much if we are able to
label a phenomenon, as long as we recognize them as the work of the
Spirit, and use them according to His leading. | 0 | trimmed_train |
10,945 |
That happens to be a subjective example that the people of the
US would happen to agree on. Continue to move the price up;
at some point a few people would accept then more then more until
probably all would accept at a high enough number.
Endpoints of a subjective scale are not the given homes of
objective viewpoints. | 15 | trimmed_train |
10,433 | [Note, Ohio legislation unlike Federal legislation, shows the entire
law as it would be changed by the legislation. These parts are in
ALL CAPITALS, the rest (i.e., current law is in regular type)].
AS INTRODUCED
120TH GENERAL ASEMBLY
REGULAR SESSION H. B. NO. 278
1993-1994
REPRESENATIVE BEATTY
A BILL
To amend sections2923.11, 2923.17,and 2923.20 and
to enact section 2923.181 of the Revised Code
to expand the defintion of dangerous ordnance to
include military weapons that do not use bolt
action, to increase the penalty for a violation
of the prohibition against possession of
dangerous ordnance, to prohibit any person from
acquiring a military weapon on or after the act's
effective date, to require the licensure of
military weapons acquired for aproper purpose
prior to the act's effective dte, to prohibit a
person from importing, manufacturing, or selling
a military weapon, and to declare an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 2923.11, 2923.17 and 2923.20 be
amended and section 2923.181 of the Revised Code be enacted to
read as follows:
Sec. 2923.11. As used in section 2923.11 to 2923.24 of
the Revised Code:
(A) "deadly weapon" means any instrument, device, or thing
capable of inflicting death, and designed or specially adapted
for use as a weapon, or possessed, carried, or used as a weapon.
(B)(1) "firearm" means any deadly weapon capable of
expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of
an explosive or combustible propellant. "firarms" includes an
unloaded firearm, and any firearm which is inoperable but which
can readily be rendered operable.
(2) When determining whether a firearm is capable of
expelling or propelling one or more projectiles by the action of
an explosive or combustible propellant, the trier of fact may
rely upon circumstancial evidence, including, but not limited to,
the representations and actions of the individual exercising
control over the firearm.
(C) "Handgun" means any firearm designed to be fired while
held in one hand.
(D) "Semi-automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or
specially adapted to fire a single cartridge and automatically
chamber a suceeding cartridge ready to fire, with a single
function of the trigger.
(E) "Automatic firearm" means any firearm designed or
specially adapted to fire a succession of cartridges with a
single function of the trigger. "Automatic firearm" also means
any semi-automatic firearm designed or specially adapted to fire
more than thirty-one cartridges without reloading, other than a
firearm chambering only .22 caliber short, long, or long-rifle
cartridges.
(F) "Sawed-off firearm" means a shotgun with a barrel less
than eighteen inches long, or a rifle with a barrel less than
sixteen inches long, or a shotgun or rifle less than twenty-six
inches long overall.
(G) "Zip-gun" means any of the following:
(1) Any firearm of crude and extemporized manufacture;
(2) Any device, including without limitation a starter's
pistol, not designed as a firearm, but which is specially adapted
for use as a firearm;
(3) Any industrial tool, signalling device, or safety
device, not designed as a firearm, but which as designed is
capable of use as such A FIREARM, when possessed, carried, or
used as a firearm.
(H) "Explosive device" means any device designed or
specially adapted to cause physical harm to persons or property
by means of an explosion, and consisting of an explosive
substance or agency and a means to detonate it. "Explosive
device" includes without limitation any bomb, any explosive
demolition device, any blasting cap or detonator containing an
explosive charge, and any pressure vessel which has been
knowingly tampered with or arranged so as to explode.
(I) "Incendiary device" means any firebomb, and any device
designed or specially adapted to cause physical harm to persons
or property by means of fire, and consisting of an incendiary
substance or agency and a means to ignite it.
(J) "Ballistic knife" means a knife with a detachable
blade that is propelled by a spring-operated mechanism.
(K) "Dangerous ordinance" means any of the following,
except as provided in division (L) of this section:
(1) Any automatic or sawed-off firearms. zip-gun, or
ballistic knife;
(2) Any explosive device or incendiary device;
(3) Nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, PETN,
cyclonite, TNT, picric acid, and other high explosives; amatol,
tritonal, tetrytol, pentolite, pecretol, cyclotol, and other high
explosive compositions; plastic explosives; dynamite, blasting
gelatin, gelatin dynamite, sensitized ammonium nitrate, liquid-
oxygen blasting explosives, blasting powder, and other blasting
agents; and any other explosive substance having sufficient
brisance or power to be particularly suitable for use as a
military explosive, or for use in mining, quarrying, excavating,
or demolitions;
(4) Any firearm, rocket launcher, mortar, artillery piece
grenade, mine, bomb, torpedo, or similar weapon, designed and
manufactured for military purposes, and the ammunition for that
weapon;
(5) Any firearm muffler or silencer;
(6) ANY MILITARY WEAPON;
(7) ANY DETACHABLE MAGAZINE, MAGAZINE, DRUM, BELT, FEED
STRIP, OR SIMILAR DEVICE THAT HAS A CAPACITY OF, OR THAT READILY
CAN BE RESTORED OR CONVERTED TO ACCEPT, MORE THAN FIFTEEN ROUNDS
OF AMMUNITION;
(8) Any combination of parts that is intended by the owner
for use in converting any firearm or other device into a
dangerous ordinance.
(L) "Dangerous ordnance" does not include any of the
following:
(1) Any firearm, including a military weapon and the
ammunition for that weapon, and regardless of its actual
age, which employs a percussion cap or other obsolete ignition
system or which is designed and safe for use only with black
powder, and
(2) Any pistol, rifle, or shotgun, designed or suitable
for sporting purposes, UNLESS THE FIREARM IS EITHER OF THE
FOLLOWING;
(a) A military weapon as issued or as modified, and the
ammunition for that weapon;
(b) AN automatic or sawed-off firearm.
(3) Any cannon or other artilery piece which,
regardless of its actual age, is of a type in accepted use prior
to 1887, has no mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or other system
for absorbing recoil and returning the tube into battery without
displacing the carriage, and is designed and safe for use only
with black powder;
(4) Black powder, priming quills, and percussion caps
possessed and lawfully used to fire a cannon of a type defined in
division (L) (3) of this section during displays, celebrations,
organized matches or shoots, and target practice, and smokeless
and black powder, primers, and percussion caps possed and
lawfully used as a propellant or ignition device in small-arms or
small-arms ammunition;
(5) Dangerous ordinance which is inoperable or inert and
cannot readily be rendered operable or activated, and which is
kept as a trophy, souvenir, curio, or museum piece.
(6) Any device which is expressly excepted from the
definition of a destructive device pursuant to the "Gun Control
Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 1213, 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(4), as amended, and
regulations issued under that act.
(M) "MILITARY WEAPON' MEANS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING;
(1) ANY FIREARM THAT ORIGINALLY WAS MANUFACTURED FOR
MILITARY USE, OR A COPY OF ANY SUCH FIREARM, IF THE FIREARM IS
NOT A BOLT ACTION FIREARM;
(2) ANY MODEL OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FIREARMS THAT IS A
SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARM AND IS A RIFLE OR ANY MODEL OF ANY COPY OF
ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FIREARMS THAT IS A SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARM
AND IS A RIFLE;
(a) ARMALITE AR-180;
(b) AUTO-ORDNANCE THOMPSON MODELS 1927A1 AND M-1;
(c) AVTOMAT KALASHNIKOV;
(d) POLY TECH AK-47S;
(e) CHINA SPORTS AK-47 BULLPUP;
(f) MITCHELL AK-47 AND M-76
(g) BARRETT LIGHT-FIFTY MODEL 82A1;
(h) BARETTA AR-70;
(i) BUSHMASTER AUTO RIFLE;
(j) CALICO M900 AND M-100
(k) COLT AR-15
(l) COMMANDO ARMS CARBINE, MARK 111, MARK 45, AND MARK 9;
(m) UNIVERSAL 5000 CARBINE, ENFORCER;
(n) AMERICAN ARMS ARM-1 AND AKY 39;
(o) DAEWOO MAX-1 AND MAX-2;
(p) FABRIQUE NATIONALE FN/FAL, FN/LAR. AND FN/FNC;
(q) FAMAS MAS 223;
(r) FEATHER AT-9;
(s) FEDERAL KC-900 AND XC-450
(t) GALIL AR AND ARM;
(u) GONCZ HIGH-TECH CARBINE;
(v) HECKLER AND KOCH HK-91, HK-93, HK-94, AND PSG-1;
(w) MANDALL TAC-1 CARBINE
(x) RUGER MINI 14/SF FOLDING STOCK MODEL;
(y) SIG 57 AMT AND 500 SERIES;
(z) SPRINGFIELD ARMORY SAR-48, G-3, BM-59 ALPINE, AND M1A
CARBINE;
(aa) STERLING MK-6 AND MARK 7;
(bb) STEYR AUG;
(cc) UZI CARBINE AND MINI-CARBINE;
(dd) VALMET M-62S, M-76, M-78, AND M82 BULLPUP CARBINE;
(ee) WEAVER ARMS NIGHTHAWK;
(ff) MILITARY M14 AND MILITARY M1 CARBINE .30;
(gg) SPRINGFIELD ARMORY M1A ASSAULT;
(hh) THOMPSON 27A-5 WITH DRUM MAGAZINE;
(ii) PLAINFIELD COMMANDO UNIVERSE 5000 CARBINE;
(jj) COBRAY M-11 WITH OR WITHOUT SILENCER;
(kk) SPECTRE AUTO CARBINE;
(ll) SWD COBRAY;
(mm) ARMI JAGER AP-74 AND AP-74 COMMANDO;
(nn) ARMSCORP OF AMERICA ISRAELI FN-FAL;
(oo) CLAYCO SKS CARBINE;
(pp) DRAGUNOV SNIPER;
(qq) EMF AP-74;
(rr) IVER JOHNSON PM30 P PARATROOPER;
(ss) NORINCO SKS;
(tt) PARTISAN AVENGER;
(uu) SIGARMS SG 550 SP AND SG 551 SP;
(vv) SQUIRES BINGHAM M 16;
(ww) WILKINSON "TERRY" CARBINE.
(3) ANY MODEL OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FIREARMS THAT IS A
SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARM AND IS A PISTOL OR ANY MODEL OF ANY COPY
OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FIREARMS THAT IS A SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARM
AND IS A PISTOL:
(a) BUSHMASTER AUTO PISTOL;
(b) CALICO 100-P AUTO PISTOL;
(c) EBCIN NJ-IV, MP-9, AND MP-45;
(d) FEATHER MINI-AT;
(e) GONCZ HIGH TECH PISTOL'
(f) HOLMES MP-83 AND MP-22;
(g) INTRATEC TEC-9 AND SCORPION .22;
(h) IVER JOHNSON ENFORCER;
(i) INGRAM MAC-10 AND MAC-11;
(j) MITCHELL ARMS SPECTRE AUTO;
(k) SCARAB SKORPION;
(l) STERLING MK-7;
(m) UZI PISTOL;
(n) UNIVERSAL ENFORCER;
(o) WILKINSON "LINDA" AUTO PISTOL.
(4) ANY MODEL OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FIREARMS THAT IS A
SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARM AND IS A SHOTGUN OR ANY MODEL OF ANY COPY
OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FIREARMS THAT IS A SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARM
AND IS A SHOTGUN:
(a) FRANCHI SPAS-12 AND LAW-12;
(b) STRIKER 12 AND STREET SWEEPER;
(c) BENELLI M1 SUPER 90;
(d) MOSSBERG 500 BULLPUP;
(e) USAS-12 AUTO SHOTGUN.
Sec. 2923.17. (A)(1) No person shall knowingly acquire,
have, OR carry any dangerous ordnance.
(2) NO PERSON SHALL KNOWINGLY USE ANY DANGEROUS ORDNANCE.
(B) This section does not apply to ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
(1) Officers, agents, or employees of this or any other
state or the United States, members of the armed forces of the
United States or the organized militia of this or any other
state, and law enforcement officers, to the extent that any such
person is authorized to acquire, have, carry, or use dangerous
ordnance and is acting within the scope of his duties;
(2) Importers, manufacturers, dealers, and users of
explosives, having a license or user permit issued and in effect
pursuant to the "Organized Crime Control Act of 1970," 84 Stat.
952, 18 U.S.C. 843, and any amendments or additions TO or
reenactments OF THAT ACT, with respect to explosives and
explosive devices lawfully acquired, possessed, carried, or used
under the laws of this state and applicable federal law;
(3) Importers, manufactuers, and dealers having a license
to deal in destructive devices or their ammunition, issued and in
effect pursuant to the "Gun Control Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 1213.
18 U.S.C. 923 and any amendments or additions TO or
reenactments OF THAT ACT, with respect to dangerous
ordnance lawfully acquired, possessed, carried, or used under the
laws of this state and applicable federal law;
(4) Persons to whom surplus ordnance has been sold,
loaned, or given by the secretary of the army pursuant to 70A
Stat. 62 and 263, 10 U.S.C. 4684, 4685, 4686, and any
amendments or additions TO or reenactments OF THAT ACT, with
respect to dangerous ordnance when lawfully possessed and used
for the purpose specified in THAT section;
(5) Owners of dangerous ordnance registered in the
national firearms registration and transfer record pursuant to
the act of October 22, 1968, 82 Stat.1229, 26 U.S.C. 5841, and
any amendments or additions TO or reenactments OF, and
regulations issued UNDER THE ACT.
(6) Carriers, warehousemen, and others engaged in the
business of transporting or storing goods for hire, with respect
to dangerous ordnance lawfully transported or stored in the usual
course of their business and in compliance with the laws of this
state and applicable federal law;
(7) The holders of a license or temporary permit issued
and in effect pursuant to section 2923.18 of the Revised Code,
with respect to dangerous ordnance lawfully acquired, possessed,
carried, or used for the purposes and in the manner specified in
THE license or permit.
(C) DIVISION (A)(1) OF THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO THE
ACQUISITION, HAVING, OR CARRYING OF DANGEROUS ORDNANCE THAT IS A
MILITARY WEAPON IF BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING APPLY:
(1) THE PERSON WHO ACQUIRES, HAS, OR CARRIES THE DANGEROUS
ORDNANCE IN QUESTION ACQUIRED IT BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
THIS AMENDMENT AS A COLLECTOR'S ITEM OR FOR A LEGITIMATE
RESEARCH, SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL, INDUSTRIAL, OR OTHER PROPER
PURPOSE;
(2) NO LATER THAN THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON THE SEVENTH DAY
AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS AMENDMENT, THE PERSON WHO
ACQUIRED THE DANGEROUS ORDNANCE IN QUESTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH
DIVISION (C)(1) OF THIS SECTION SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION PURSUANT
TO SECTION 2923.181 OF THE REVISED CODE FOR A LICENSE TO HAVE AND
CARRY IT AND THE APPLICATION HAS NOT BEEN DENIED OR A VALID
LICENSE HAS BEEN ISSUED TO THE PERSON.
(D) DIVISIONS (A)(1) AND (2) OF THIS SECTION DO NOT APPLY
TO THE ACQUISITION, HAVING, CARRYING, OR USING OF ANY DANGEROUS
ORDNANCE DESCRIBED IN DIVISION (k)(7) OF SECTION 2923.11 OF THE
REVISED CODE THAT WAS ACQUIRED PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
THIS AMENDMENT.
(E) Whoever violates this section is quilty of unlawful
possession of dangerous ordnance, a AN AGGRAVATED felony of the
FIRST degree.
Sec. 2923.181. (A) ANY PERSON WHO ACQUIRED A MILITARY
WEAPON BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION SHALL FILE A
WRITTEN APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE TO HAVE AND CARRY THE MILITARY
WEAPON WITH THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OR SAFETY DIRECTOR OR
POLICE CHIEF OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION WHERE THE APPLICANT
RESIDES OR HAS HIS PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS. THE APPLICATION
SHALL BE FILED NO LATER THAN THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON THE SEVENTH
DAY AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION AND SHALL BE
ACCOMPANIED BY A FILING FEE OF FIFTY DOLLARS. THE PERSON SHALL
FILE A SEPARATE APPLICATION AND PAY A SEPARATE FILING FEE FOR
EACH MILITARY WEAPON THAT HE HAS OR INTENDS TO CARRY. THE
APPLICATION SHALL CONTAIN ALL OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
(1) THE NAME, AGE, ADDRESS, OCCUPATION, AND BUSINESS
ADDRESS OF THE APPLICANT, IF THE APPLICANT IS A NATURAL PERSON,
OR THE NAME, ADDRESS, AND PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS OF THE
APPLICANT, IF THE APPLICANT IS A CORPORATION;
(2) A DESCRIPTION OF THE MILITARY WEAPON FOR WHICH A
LICENSE IS REQUESTED, INCLUDING THE SERIAL NUMBER AND ALL
IDENTIFICATION MARKS;
(3) A STATEMENT OF THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE MILITARY
WEAPON WAS ACQUIRED AND FOR WHICH IT IS TO BE POSSESSED, CARRIED,
OR USED;
(4) ANY OTHER INFORMATION THAT THE ISSUING AUTHORITY MAY
REQUIRE IN GIVING EFFECT TO THIS SECTION;
(5) THE OATH OF THE APPLICANT THAT THE INFORMATION ON THE
APPLICATION IS TRUE.
(B)(1) NO LATER THAN THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON THE
FOURTEENTH DAY AFTER AN APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE TO HAVE AND
CARRY A MILITARY WEAPON HAS BEEN FILED UNDER DIVISION (A) OF THIS
SECTION, THE ISSUING AUTHORITY SHALL EITHER APPROVE THE
APPLICATION AND ISSUE A LICENSE TO THE APPLICANT OR DENY THE
APPLICATION AND SEND A LETTER OF DENIAL BY ORDINARY MAIL TO THE
APPLICANT. AFTER CONDUCTING ANY NECESSARY INVESTIGATION, THE
ISSUING AUTHORITY SHALL ISSUE A LICENSE TO AN APPLICANT WHOM IT
DETERMINES SATISFIES THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
(a) THE APPLICANT IS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, IF
THE APPLICANT IS A NATURAL PERSON;
(b) IT APPEARS THAT THE APPLICANT WILL POSSESS AND CARRY
THE MILITARY WEAPON AS A COLLECTOR'S ITEM OR FOR A LEGITIMATE,
SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL, INDUSTRIAL, OR OTHER PROPER PURPOSE;
(c) IT APPEARS THAT THE APPLICANT HAS SUFFICIENT
COMPETENCE TO HAVE AND CARRY THE MILITARY WEAPON AND THAT PROPER
PRECAUTIONS WILL BE TAKEN TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF THE MILITARY
WEAPON AND THE SAFETY OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY;
(d) THE APPLICANT OTHERSWISE IS NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW FROM
HAVING OR CARRYING DANGEROUS ORDNANCE.
(2) A LICENSE ISSUED PURSUANT TO DIVISION (B)(1) OF THIS
SECTION SHALL BE VALID FOR ONE YEAR AFTER THE DATE OF ITS
ISSUANCE. THE LICENSE SHALL BE RENEWED PURSUANT TO DIVISION
(C) OF THIS SECTION.
(C)(1) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN DIVISION (C)(3) OF THIS
SECTION, ANY PERSON WHO IS ISSUED A LICENSE UNDER DIVISION (B)(1)
OF THIS SECTION SHALL RENEW THE LICENSE BY FILING AN APPLICATION
FOR RENEWAL BY REGULAR MAIL WITH THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OR THE
SAFETY DIRECTOR OR POLICE CHIEF OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION WHO
WAS THE ISSUING AUTHORITY OF THE LICENSE. AN APPLICATION FOR
RENEWAL SHALL BE FILED ANNUALLY NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE
DATE ON WHICH THE LICENSE WAS ISSUED OR LAST RENEWED.
(2) EACH SHERIFF AND EACH SAFETY DIRECTOR AND PEACE OFFICER
OF A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE APPLICATIONS FOR
THE RENEWAL OF A LICENSE ISSUED UNDER DIVISION (B)(1) OF THIS
SECTION. IN THE APPLICATION THE APPLICANT, UNDER OATH, SHALL
UPDATE THE INFORMATION SUBMITTED IN THE PREVIOUS APPLICATION FOR
A LICENSE OR THE RENEWAL OF A LICENSE.
THE APPLICATION FOR THE RENEWAL OF A LICENSE SHALL BE
ACCOMPANIED BY A FEE OF FIVE DOLLARS. THE APPLICANT SHALL FILE A
SEPERATE APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL AND PAY A SEPERATE RENEWAL FEE
FOR EACH MILITARY WEAPON THAT HE INTENDS TO CONTINUE TO HAVE AND
CARRY.
(3) A PERSON WHO HAS CHANGED HIS RESIDENCE OR PRINCIPAL
PLACE OF BUSINESS TO A LOCATION OUTSIDE OF THE JURISDICTION OF
THE ISSUING AUTHORITY SUBSEQUENT TO THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL OF A
LICENSE UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL RENEW HIS LICENSE BY FILING AN
APPLICATION IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED BY DIVISION (A) OF THIS
SECTION WITH THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OR THE SAFETY DIRECTOR OR
POLICE CHIEF OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION WHERE HE THEN RESIDES
OR HAS HIS PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS. WHEN MAKING AN
APPLICATION TO RENEW A LICENSE AFTER A CHANGE IN RESIDENCE OR
PLACE OF BUSINESS, THE APPLICANT SHALL GIVE NOTICE OF THE CHANGE
OF ADDRESS BY REGULAR MAIL TO THE ORIGINAL ISSUING AUTHORITY FOR
THE LICENSE AND THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL ON NOTIFICATION FORMS
PRESCRIBED BY THE SHERIFF, SAFETY DIRECTOR, OR POLICE CHIEF FROM
WHOM HE SEEKS RENEWAL.
(D) A LICENSE TO HAVE AND CARRY A MILITARY WEAPON SHALL
IDENTIFY THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS ISSUED, IDENTIFY THE MILITARY
WEAPON FOR WHICH IT IS ISSUED, STATE THE PURPOSE IDENTIFIED IN
DIVISION (B)(1)(b) OF THIS SECTION FOR WHICH THE MILITARY WEAPON
WILL BE POSSESSED AND CARRIED, STATE ITS EXPIRATION DATE, AND
LIST ALL RESTRICTIONS ON THE HAVING OR CARRYING OF THE MILITARY
WEAPON AS PRESCRIBED BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE AND APPLICABLE
FEDERAL LAW.
(E) ANY PERSON WHO IS ISSUED A LICENSE TO HAVE AND CARRY A
MILITARY WEAPON UNDER THIS SECTION AND WHO CHANGES HIS ADDRESS
SHALL NOTIFY THE ISSUING AUTHORITY OF THE CHANGE OF HIS ADDRESS
NO LATER THAN NINETY DAYS AFTER THE CHANGE HAS OCCURRED.
(F) THE ISSUING AUTHORITY SHALL FORWARD TO THE STATE FIRE
MARSHALL A COPY OF EACH LICENSE ISSUED OR RENEWED UNDER THIS
SECTION. THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL SHALL KEEP A PERMANENT FILE OF
ALL LICENSES ISSUED OR RENEWED UNDER THIS SECTION.
(G) THE ISSUING AUTHORITY SHALL CAUSE EACH APPLICATION FEE
OF FIFTY DOLLARS, FILED UNDER DIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION, TO BE
DEPOSITED IN THE GENERAL FUND OF THE COUNTY OR MUNCIPAL
CORPORATION SERVED BY THE ISSUING AUTHORITY. THE ISSUING
AUTHORITY SHALL CAUSE TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS OF EACH RENEWAL
FEE, FILED UNDER DIVISION (C) OF THIS SECTION, TO BE DEPOSITED IN
THE GENERAL FUND OF THE COUNTY OR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SERVED BY
THE ISSUING AUTHORITY AND SHALL SEND TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS
OF EACH RENEWAL FEE TO THE TREASURER OF STATE FOR DEPOSIT IN THE
STATE TREASURY TO THE CREDIT OF THE GENERAL REVENUE FUND.
(H) WHOEVER VIOLATES DIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION IS
GUILTY OF FAILING TO APPLY FOR THE LICENSURE OF A MILITARY
WEAPON, A FELONY OF THE FOURTH DEGREE. WHOEVER VIOLATES DIVISION
(C) OF THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF FAILING TO APPLY FOR RENEWAL OF
A LICENSE FOR A MILITARY WEAPON, A MISDEMEANOR OF THE FIRST
DEGREE.
(I) A MILITARY WEAPON THAT IS NOT LICENSED AS REQUIRED BY
THIS SECTION IS CONTRABAND, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2901.01 OF THE
REVISED CODE AND IS SUBJECT TO FORFEITURE UNDER SECTION 2933.43
OF THE REVISED CODE.
SEC. 2933.20. (A) No person shall DO ANY OF THE
FOLLOWING:
(1) IMPORT, MANUFACTURE, POSSESS FOR SALE, SELL, OR
FURNISH TO ANY PERSON ANY MILITARY WEAPON;
(2) Recklessly sell, lend, give, or furnish any firearm to
any person prohibited by section 2923.13 or 2923.15 of the
Revised Code from acquiring or using any firearm, or recklessly
sell, lend, give, or furnish any dangerous ordnance to any person
prohibited by section 2923.13, 2923.15, or 2923.17 of the Revised
Code from acquiring or using any dangerous ordnance;
(3) Possess any firearm or dangerous ordnance with
purpose to dispose of it in violation of division (A) of this
section;
(4) Manufacture, possess for sale, sell, or furnish to
any person other than a law enforcement agency for authorized use
in police work, any brass knuckles, cestus, billy, blackjack,
sandbag, switchblade knife, springblade knife, gravity knife, or
similar weapon;
(5) When transferring any dangerous ordnance to
another, negligently fail to require the transferes to exhibit
ANY identification, license, or permit showing him to be
authorized to acquire dangerous ordnance pursuant to section
2923.17 of the Revised Code, or negligently fail to take a
complete record of the transaction and forthwith forward a copy
of THE record to the sheriff of the county or safety
director or police chief of the municipality where the
transaction takes place;
(6) Knowingly fail to report to law enforcement
authorities forthwith the loss or theft of any firearm or
dangerous ordnance in such person's possession or under his
control.
(b) Whoever violates this section is quilty of unlawful
transactions in weapons. Violation of division (A)(1) OF THIS
SECTION IS AN AGGRAVATED FELONY OF THE FIRST DEGREE. VIOLATION
OF DIVISION (A)(2) OR (3) Oof this section is a felony of the
third degree. Violation of division (A) (4) OR (5) of this
section is a misdemeanor of the second degree. Violation of
division (6) of this section is a midemeanor of the fourth
degree.
Section 2. That existing section 2923.11, 2923.17 and
2923.20 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency
measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health, and safety. The reason for this necessity is that
with immediate action, this act will prohibit the continued
purchase, possession, and use of military weapons and as a result
will ameliorate a substantial threat of death and injury to the
public caused by the misuse of improper use of these weapons.
Therefore, this act shall go into immediate effect. | 9 | trimmed_train |
5,145 | Is there a workaround which will enable me to print to a HPLJ4 from my
Powerbook 100? (Actually I'm going to a 4M which will have an Ethernet card in
the LocalTalk slot!!!GRRRRR). Is there some hardware which will enable me to
this easily (kind of plug and play!). | 14 | trimmed_train |
5,061 | Looking for a VIDEO in and OUT Video card for the IBM. One that will
allow you to watch TV (coax) or video IN, and will do Video out,
digitize pictures. and if I am in Windows, and would like to be able to
look the RCA out for the card to my TV and have it display on there, as
well as DOS apps.
I heard of these SNES and Genesis copiers, that will copy any games, are
those for real?
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6,001 | Pete Young, on the Tue, 20 Apr 93 08:29:21 GMT wibbled:
: : Tsk, tsk, tsk. Another newbie bites the dust, eh? They'll learn.
: Newbie. Sorry to disappoint you, but as far as the Internet goes I was
: in Baghdad while you were still in your dads bag.
Is this bit funny?
: Most of the people who made this group interesting 3 or 4 years ago
: are no longer around and I only have time to make a random sweep
: once a week or so. Hence I missed most of this thread.
I'm terribly sorry.
: Based on your previous postings, apparently devoid of humour, sarcasm,
: wit, or the apparent capacity to walk and chew gum at the same time, I
: assumed you were serious. Mea culpa.
I know, I know. Subtlety is sort of, you know, subtle, isn't it.
: Still, it's nice to see that BNR are doing so well that they can afford
: to overpay some contractors to sit and read news all day.
That's foreign firms for you.
..and a touchy newbie, at that.
What's the matter, too much starch in the undies?
--
Nick (the Considerate Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford None Gum-Chewer
M'Lud. | 12 | trimmed_train |
5,632 |
Er, without a bike (Ed, maybe you ought to respond to this...), how
you gonna get there?
If yer going by cage, what's this got to do with r.m?
Maybe somebody oughta gang-tool-FAQ this guy, hmmm?
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10,286 | Mark McWiggins <[email protected]> reminds us:
MM> Also, don't forget that it's better for your health
MM> to enjoy your steak than to resent your sprouts ...
YES!
I call this notion "psychological health food" and, in fact, have
determined that the Four Food Groups are Ice Cream, Pizza, Barbecue, and
Chocolate. Ideally, every meal should contain something from at least two
of these four groups. Food DOES serve functions other than nutrition, and
one of them is keeping the organism happy and thus aiding its immune
system.
And I didn't spend a million bucks commissioning a study that told me to
redraw my silly little pyramid in different colors and with a friendlier
typeface, either. (Ref: Consumer Reports' back page--one of the best
things ever to turn up there.)
Rich Young <[email protected]> writes of one of six impossible things:
RY> to consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a time."
Donald Mackie <[email protected]> confesses:
DM> I have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions.
DM> No matter how much I eat, it still seems realistic.
Yeah, I want to try one of those 42oz steaks (cooked over applewood) at
Wally's Wolf Lodge Inn in Coeur d'Alene. That seems quite
unrealistic--unrealistically SMALL. And a few slabs of ribs from the East
Texas Smoker (RIP, again) in Louisville is not at all unrealistic either.
What say we have a rec.food.cooking dinner at the Moonlite Bar-B-Que Inn in
Owensboro? (It's all you can eat including lamb ribs & mutton for about
$10.) We could invite Julie Kangas as guest of honor and see if the
Moonlite's Very Hot Sauce is too hot for her. (It IS too hot for me, and I
don't say that very often.) And she could bring ice cream with crushed
dried chiltepins for dessert.
And we could see if there IS such a thing as an "unrealistically large
quantity" of barbecue--the owner of the Moonlite estimates that the
Owensboro restaurants serve a hundred thousand pounds of meat a week in the
summer, and forty thousand in the winter--in a town of 50 000 or so. Two
pounds per person per week? Again, sure sounds unrealistic to me--thats
just too meager to be healthy.
~ Kiran (Now a two-pound slab of ribs a day, THAT's realistic.)
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462 | sorry about that last post, my server neglected to send the message: | 4 | trimmed_train |
4,724 | w/o actually executing it? somehow one of my xterminal users has made it
so that a click of MB3 (right) automatically kills all clients - oh my :-(
thanx,
fish | 16 | trimmed_train |
8,204 |
Really? What makes you think the Islanders have a better shot? They
couldn't even beat the Whalers in two games!
(Well, since you're a Pens fans the whole question is moot. I think
the teams most likely to beat the Pens are the Bruins, Nordiques, and
Blackhawks but I don't think they can really do it. :-)) | 17 | trimmed_train |
8,207 | Just a pointer to the article in the current Science News article
on Federal R&D funding.
Very briefly, all R&D is being shifted to gaining current
competitive advantage from things like military and other work that
does not have as much commercial utility. | 10 | trimmed_train |
10,031 |
I agree. I also think Roy needs a good kick sometimes...that horrible
4-0 loss to the Capitals last week...yeeeech!
Here's to Cup #23...this year!
--
Richard J. Rauser "You have no idea what you're doing."
[email protected] "Oh, don't worry about that. We're professional
WNI outlaws - we do this for a living." | 17 | trimmed_train |
8,018 | Paul Prescod pontificating:
PP>> Libertarians oppose BOTH waiting periods AND background checks
PP>>-- or ANY prerequisite for exercising rights that are supposed to
PP>>be guaranteed.
PP>Let me get this straight. Unlike the other idiots in this newsgroup,
PP>you actually support anybody having unlimited access to guns,
PP>inclucing criminals. (or would you prohibit them from owning them,
PP>but not from buying them?)
PP>You are a supreme idiot. You make the other idiots look like Mensa members.
Thanks Paul, for yet another fine example of the holier than thou gun control
mindset. Why don't you add something intelligent to the debate, like maybe
nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.
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8,021 | The subject-line says it: every time I run a fever, I get an amazing
rosy rash over my torso and arms. Fortunately, it doesn't itch.
The rash always comes on the day after the
fever breaks and no matter what the illness was: cold, flu, whatever.
It started happening about four years ago after I moved to my current
town, although I don't know if that has anything to do with anything.
Severity and persistance of the rash seems to vary with the fever:
a severe or long-lasting fever brings a long-lasting rash. A mild fever
seems to bring rashes that go away faster.
Anybody know what might be causing this? It's no more than an
embarassment, but I'd be curious to know what's going on. Am I carrying
some kind of fever-resistant bug that goes wild when fever knocks out
its competition? | 19 | trimmed_train |
10,789 | [email protected] (Brad Templeton):
}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.
Hmm, my first thought was that they're using Diffie-Hellman exponential
session key exchange, or an equivalent. However, the Diffie-Hellman
patent, like the Hellman-Merkle one on public key systems, claims
all equivalents, so the basic point stands.
Interestingly, a quote from Jim Bidzos showed up in the media real
soon after the announcement, and he sounded very pissed. Maybe he hadn't
yet realized that PKP might have just struck gold? All they have to
do is get someone to admit the general scheme that the Clipper uses.
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Jef | 7 | trimmed_train |
5,207 |
I attended a colloquium at Goddard last fall where the head of the
operations section of NASA was talking about what future missions
were going to be funded. I don't remember his name or title off hand
and I have discarded the colloquia announcement. In any case, he was
asked about that very matter: "Why can't we spend a few million more
to keep instruments that we already have in place going?"
His responce was that there are only so many $ available to him and
the lead time on an instrument like a COBE, Magellan, Hubble, etc
is 5-10 years minumum. If he spent all that could be spent on using
current instruments in the current budget enviroment he would have
very little to nothing for future projects. If he did that, sure
in the short run the science would be wonderful and he would be popular,
however starting a few years after he had retired he would become
one of the greatest villans ever seen in the space community for not
funding the early stages of the next generation of instruments. Just
as he had benefited from his predicessor's funding choices, he owed it
to whoever his sucessor would eventually be to keep developing new
missions, even at the expense of cutting off some instruments before
the last drop of possible science has been wrung out of them.
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10,006 | hmm - i thought francesca's predictions ALWAYS hovered at or below
.500, especially in the nfl. (not counting college football
bowl day).
he's a nice analyst for explaining past tense, and for mapping out
what plays teams might do - but for predicting the future, he only
looks good whne compared to russo. | 2 | trimmed_train |
8,963 |
The Delaunay triangulation is the geometrical dual of the
Voronoi tessellation and both constructions are derived from
natural neighbor order.
Aurenhammer, F., 1991, Voronoi Diagrams - A Survey of a
Fundamental Geometric Data Structure:
ACM Computing Surveys, 23(3), p. 345-405.
Okabe, A., Boots, B., and Sugihara, K., 1992, Spatial
tessellations : concepts and applications of Voronoi diagrams:
Wiley & Sons, New York, ISBN 0 471 93430 5, 532p.
Watson, D.F., 1981, Computing the n-dimensional Delaunay
tessellation with application to Voronoi polytopes:
The Computer J., 24(2), p. 167-172.}
Watson, D.F., 1985, Natural neighbour sorting: The Australian
Computer J., 17(4), p. 189-193.
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11,117 | Here's how I talk to non-Christians who are complaining about Hell.
ME: "Do you believe you're going to Heaven?"
HIM: "I don't believe in Heaven."
ME: "So are you going there?"
HIM: "If there was a heaven, I would."
ME: "But since there isn't a Heaven, you're not going there, are you?"
HIM: "No."
The point is that Heaven is based on faith--if you don't believe in heaven,
there's no way you're going to be in it.
Of course, the next step is, "I don't believe in Hell either, so why will I
be there?" It seems to me that Hell is eternal death and seperation from God.
Most atheists do believe that when they die they will die forever, and never
see God--so they do, in fact, believe that they're going to Hell.
Hell doesn't have to be worse than earth to be Hell--because it's eternal,
and it's a lot worse than Heaven. That's the only comparison that matters. | 0 | trimmed_train |
10,620 |
Ditto here too...
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1,780 |
DEC does this only for their PX and PXG servers, known as 3D accelerators.
This boards have local offscreen memory which is limited and slow to
handle, thus they set this limit.
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5,369 |
Good I had a bad feeling about this problem because of a special case
with no solution that worried me.
Four coplanar points in the shape of a square have no unique sphere
that they are on the surface of.
Similarly 4 colinear point have no finite sized sphere that they are on the
surface of.
These algorithms being geometrical designed rather than algebraically design
meet these problems neatly.
When determining which plane the 3 points are on if they are colinear
the algorithm should afil or return infinite R.
When intersecting the two lines there are 2 possibilities
they are the same line (the 4 points were on a planar circle)
they are different lines but parallel. There is a sphere of in radius.
This last case can be achieved with 3 colinier points and any 4th point
by taking the 4th point and pairs of the first 3 parallel lines will be produced
it can also be achieved by
If all 4 points are coplanar but are not on one circle.
It seems to me that the algorithm only fails when the 4 points are coplanar.
The algorithm always fails when the points are coplanar.
(4 points being colinear => coplanar)
Testing if the 4th point is coplanar when the plane of the first 3 points
has been found is trivial.
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6,167 |
Hmmmmmm....put your butt in the seat and follow the road signs?
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2,403 | Does any one know of any shareware/freeware software which lets one display
EPS files on a PC with DOS and/or Windows???
Your reply would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Hal Adam, [email protected]
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10,737 |
I would suggest you take the car to the nearest Chevron dealer, with
your own oil and filter. Ask for an oil change. It will cost less
than $10. Watch him/her do it. Just from watching someone do a job,
you will be able to learn and remember the sequence, and do it right
when you do it yourself the next time. Besides, when he/she loosens
the drain nut, the next time around it will be easier for you.
If it is stuck, use an impact wrench. Not too much force though.
Use a new washer each time you put the nut back..... | 4 | trimmed_train |
5,806 | Two-part question:
1) What is Windows NT - a 'real' windows OS?
2) This past weekend, a local 'hacker' radio show metioned a new product
from Microsoft called 'Chicago' if I recall. Anyone know what this is?
That is it -
Thanks a heap.
- Alan
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10,484 | My mom has just been diagnosed with cystic breast disease -- a big
relief, as it was a lump that could have been cancer. Her doctor says
she should go off caffeine and chocolate for 6 months, as well as
stopping the estrogen she's been taking for menopause-related reasons.
She's not thrilled with this, I think especially because she just gave
up cigarettes -- soon she won't have any pleasures left! Now, I thought
I'd heard that cystic breasts were common and not really a health risk.
Is this accurate? If so, why is she being told to make various
sacrifices to treat something that's not that big of a deal?
Thanks for any information.
-- Chris
--
[email protected] | 19 | trimmed_train |
931 | I have lurked here a bit lately, and though some of the math is
unknown to me, found it interesting. I thought I would post an article I
found in the Saturday, April 17, 1993 Toronto Star:
'CLIPPER CHIP' to protect privacy
Washington (REUTER) - President Bill CLinton announced yesterday a
plan to plant a new "Clipper Chip" in every government telephone and
computer line to prevent eavesdropping.
Eventually the chips, developed by the government's National
Institute for Standards and Technology, would be used by commercial and
private electronics communication users.
The White House said that to assure privacy, each device containing
the encryption devices would be assigned two unique "keys" - numbers
that will be needed by government agencies to decode messages.
The attorney-general has been assigned the task of arranging that the
keys are deposited in two "key-escrow" data bases. Access to them would
be limited to government officials with legal authorization to conduct a
wiretap, the White House said in a statement.
-30-
Dan McKinnon | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,795 | Here's a question for all you electrical engineers out there:
I bought an 'Infrared detector module' at Radio Shack for $3.95 - it is a
little gizmo that senses infrared remotes and produces an output signal. Then
I hooked the output through a transistor to an infrared LED. The circuit works
like a minature remote control extender in my car - All remote commands are
relayed to the CD player hidden in the glove compartment. It works fine with
my Denon CD player, but when I tried to build the same circuit for a friend's
VCR, it didn't work.
The circuit appears to work for other remotes (you can see infrared with a
Sony CCD camcorder) but coincidentally it only seems to work for my CD
player...
Any advice would be appreciated....
Brian
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2,860 | DM> Fact or rumor....? Madalyn Murray O'Hare an atheist who eliminated the
DM> use of the bible reading and prayer in public schools 15 years ago is now
DM> going to appear before the FCC with a petition to stop the reading of the
DM> Gospel on the airways of America. And she is also campaigning to remove
DM> Christmas programs, songs, etc from the public schools. If it is true
DM> then mail to Federal Communications Commission 1919 H Street Washington DC
DM> 20054 expressing your opposition to her request. Reference Petition number
DM> 2493.
False. This story has been going around for years. There's not a drop of
truth. Note that I don't care for O'Hare (O'Hair?) myself, but this
is one thing she's not guilty of.
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10,883 |
Hear, hear! Thanks, Robbie.
You also don't read that much about violence *against* teenagers, such as
George Bush burying alive tens of thousands of unarmed Iraqi 17-year-olds,
who were trying to surrender, with bulldozers.
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7,393 | Coming from a long line of "hot tempered" people, I know temper when I see
it. One of the tell tale signs/fruits that give non-christians away - is
when their net replies are acrid, angry and sarcastic.
We in the net village do have a laugh or two when professed, born again
christians verbally attack people who might otherwise have been won to
christianity and had originally joined the discussions because they were
"spiritually hungry." Instead of answering questions with sweetness and
sincerity, these chrisitan net-warriors, "flame" the queries.
You don't need any enemies. You already do yourselves the greatest harm. | 0 | trimmed_train |
4,676 | Hi,
I have got a Quantum ProDrive 80AT IDE harddisk and would
like to format it. When trying to format it (*no* low-level
format, just FDISK and DOS FORMAT), I somehow messed up the
parameters... I had entered FDISK /MBR not exactly knowing
what this does.
The suggested drive type 38 formats the drive only to 21MB.
I tried type 25, but this gives only around 70MB and not
the nominal 80MB.
Could I use user type 47? However, I don't know the actual
parameters (cylinders, heads,...) Could someone give me them?
And how does FDISK work together with user type 47?
Please reply by email to [email protected]
Thank you,
Thomas
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1,223 |
The word "released" is loaded: until convicted in CXOurt,
my children are my own. | 15 | trimmed_train |
9,751 |
In mentioning some nonsense about psychology :) and atheism, Bob Muir asks
the following question.
I answer in the affirmative. Now this answer might sound a little
intellectually dishonest to Bob, but I think I have been accused before
of that heinous crime and am man enough to take it. !-) What thinking
person has not at one time or other been accused of it? Is it
politically correct for Christians to be the only besieged group
permitted the luxury of arrogance?
Now I have a question for Bob. Why in the world would any self-respecting
atheist want to subscribe to a Christian news group? I have a
difficult enough time keeping up with it, and I think I know something
about the subject.
Bob reminds me of my roommate. In order to disbelieve atheism, he says
he will need to be proven wrong about it. Well, I don't even waste
my time trying. I tell him that he'll just have to take my word for it.
In response, he tells me he will say an "atheist's prayer" for me.
Good luck, Bob. And, best regards.
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10,139 | I have an IBM and run Windows 3.1. A friend installed Norton Desktop For
Windows on top of this. It loads automatically when I type "win", and
surely adds to the (already dismally slow) process of starting up.
I would like to know how to STOP or uninstall this program!!
I have taken it out of win.ini, but it still pops up running with windows.
I did a big search and found reference to it in ndw.ini, system.ini and
progman.ini. Removing it here causes a failure when starting up windows
(progrman.ini has a "group 7 = ...ndw.exe..." which can't be deleted.)
Is there anyone familiar with NDW who can tell me how to turn it off??
thanks! Chet | 18 | trimmed_train |
74 | B
BK>Is it possible to plug in 70ns or 60ns SIMMs into a motherboard saying
BK>wants 80ns simms?
You shouldn't have troubles. I have heard of machines having problems
with slower than recommended memory speeds, but never faster.
BK>Also, is it possible to plug in SIMMs of different
BK>speeds into the same motherboard? ie - 2 megs of 70ns and 2 megs of 6
BK>or something like that?
Sure. I have 4 70ns SIMMs in one bank and 4 60ns SIMMS in the other ( I
have a 486 ). I wouldn't recommend mixing speeds within a bank, just to
be on the safe side.
-rdd
[email protected]
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10,232 | Since I have seen various different numbers to dial to get your number read
back to you by the phone company, could someonepost a list or point me to a
book where I could get a list of all the different numbers for the U.S.?
Failing that, could someone tell me Ohio's?
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1,974 | [...]
the
I guess that just means "Everyone else" was mistaken?
Jim
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8,218 |
Ed of course has never demonstrated remarkable knowlege of socialism,
or any other political system come to that.
That leaves Germany, Japan and the UK as examples of a country where the
right wing government is on the verge of collapse. Oh and of course the USA
which just elected a socialist government :-)
Etc, unfortunately you can't pin this on the left or the right, both are
to blame. Both sides are equally deep into the corruption scandal. The only
untained party is the northern league which is a bunch of nationalist
separatists and the communist party which has collapsed.
Ed should take a look at the budget deficit Regan and Bush created together
before he starts to make claims about europe collapsing based on the budget
deficits here. None of them are serious on the USA scale.
And here in Europe we have zero interest in Ed-Ipser type freed thank you.
We do not want our countries to be run by a narrow elite of rich lawyers
for the benefit of the super wealthy. We are quite happy with social
democracy and despite the fuss made in Time and Newsweek there is remarkably
little being done to reverse the social welfare reforms brought in by
socialism.
The problem with socialism is that it started with the aims of free education
and health care and provision of the welfare state. This has been achieved
across the whole of Europe, only the USA is struggling to catch up. The
problem for socialism is what to do now it has succeeded.
Ed starts to discus LA, presumably he thinks that it is in Europe. On
the other hand he most probably hasn't heard of a European city.
Rather the opposite. What is happening in Italy is that the communist party
has collapsed. This has meant that the grand coalition between right and
left wing parties to keep out the communists has also collapsed. The
magistrates have seized this opportunity to crack down hard on fraud and
corruption and have arrested half the politicians. The fact that the socialists
are in charge this week is incidental, the right is into the corruption just
as baddly.
What looks likely to happen is the fringe parties are going to do much
better in the next election. Most of the parliamentary deputies are going
to get replaced and the parties are going to be forced to look to people
who are free of any hint of corruption. Look out for a parliament of
Pavarotti's and porn stars.
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9,617 | I recently learned about these devices that supposedly induce specific
brain wave frequencies in their users simply by wearing them. Mind machines
consist of LED gogles, head phones, and a microprocessor that controls them.
They strobe the (closed) eye and send sound pulses in sync with the flashing
LEDs. I understand that these devices are experimental, but they are available.
I've heard claims that they can induce sleep, and light trance states for
relaxation. Essentially they are supposed to work without aid of drugs etc...
I would think that if they work as reported they would be incredibly useful,
The few sources I've seen are biased (they are selling the things, and a
friend who has tried them claims that "every home should have one"). So
do these mind machines (aka Light and Sound machines) work? can they induce
alpha, theta, and/or delta waves in a person wearing them? What research if
any has been done on them? Could they be used in lieu of a tranquilizer?
Or are they just another bit of quackery?
Web Homer | 19 | trimmed_train |
11,280 |
The lengthy article you quote doesn't imply this. It only states that
it is somehow POSSIBLE, not that it is in any way likely. This is akin
to an article saying that it is POSSIBLE that the USAF has several
captured UFOs, without supporting the liklihood of such an assertion.
In other words, they were telling a pesky reporter to keep guessing.
Israel maintains this same attitude about nuclear weapons it may or
may not have. The US maintains the same attitude about the presence
of nuclear weapons on specific naval craft. By refusing to
acknowledge the existence of such weapons on specific ships, US
warships have, I believe, become unwelcome in New Zealand, which has
declared itself a nuclear-free-zone.
The USAF has never officially admitted to having any UFOs, either.
This is stated as a fact without supporting evidence. It would've
been more convincing if your reporter had come up with just one name
of someone who is sitting in jail, lost to the world, as he suggests.
Maybe Elvis, or JFK, somebody.
Let's put it this way: If Israel has put people away without
publicizing their arrests or the legal proceedings against them, how
has their disappearance been explained? People have relatives,
friends and colleagues, you know. Israel is not known as a place
where people are made to vanish. Would you care to give us a list of
people whose whereabouts are unknown? People who are presumed to be
imprisoned? This whole conspiracy story isn't something that we've
come to associate with Yigal Arens before. Perhaps from now on, we
should.
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10,204 | I'm looking for the following paper:
Marlow, S. and Powell, M.J.D.
A FORTRAN subroutine for plotting the part of a conic that is inside a given
triangle. Rep. R-8336, Atomic Energy Res. Establishment, Harwell, England
1976
Or anything related (including 3D cases)
Max
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Laboratoire d'Informatique | "Always better, never first."
Fondamentale de Lille | - Tigran Petrossian
France | | 1 | trimmed_train |
9,567 |
I think this is a little inaccurate, based on Feynman's account of the
software-development process *before* the standdown. Fred is basically
correct: no sophisticated tools, just a lot of effort and painstaking
care. But they got this one right *before* Challenger; Feynman cited
the software people as exemplary compared to the engine people. (He
also noted that the software people were starting to feel management
pressure to cut corners, but hadn't had to give in to it much yet.)
Among other things, the software people worked very hard to get things
right for the major pre-flight simulations, and considered a failure
during those simulations to be nearly as bad as an in-flight failure.
As a result, the number of major-simulation failures could be counted
on one hand, and the number of in-flight failures was zero.
As Fred mentioned elsewhere, this applies only to the flight software.
Software that runs experiments is typically mostly put together by the
experimenters, and gets nowhere near the same level of Tender Loving Care.
(None of the experimenters could afford it.) | 10 | trimmed_train |
8,607 | FOR SALE
Apple Macintosh SE/30
8MB RAM, 80MB HD
System 7.1 Installed
RasterOps 264/30 24-bit video card for SE/30
Apple 13" Monitor
Targus carrying case
I'm after offers in the region of 1250 pounds. I'm in the
north London area.
Contact Mark Allerton
E-Mail:
[email protected]
[email protected] | 14 | trimmed_train |
1,995 |
How would you deal with Arabs who ALWAYS threaten to drive you into the sea or
burn half your conuntry? Would you talk nicely? Would you say please? You
wouldn't. The language of the middle east is power and force. Sorry - that
is the way it is now. If you aren't strong, you go down. Israel has to talk
and act tough. Notice, Israel talks and acts tough in battle, but is willing
to talk peace.
True - and they have brainwashed their people into thinking Jews are some sort
of monsters. Arab non-recognition of Israel and support of war and terror
is also an important factor, wouldn't you say?
What do you want Israel to do? They are negotating? I'm sick of people calling
for Israel to withdraw from the territories now. That's not realistic, don't
you realize that? A solution must be negotiated. It is on the table. Have
patience. | 6 | trimmed_train |
6,937 | 6 | trimmed_train |
|
7,992 | > The algorithm is classified because a military contract (or similar
>government equivalent to military) has been let for this "proprietary"
>design that the Feds say that NSA developed. Is there a patent? Is that
>patent publicly available? My betting is that that too is classified.
Unless there has been a _major_ change in the law, there's no such beast
as a "classified patent." Patents exist to encourage communications and
develop the state of the art.
While there aren't classified patents, there are "patent secrecy orders".
Suppose you invent a voice scrambler for CB radio, and apply for a patent.
The Patent Office decides the NSA might be interested, gives them a copy
of your application, and you get a nice note back saying your patent
application has now been classified for national security reasons and
you're no longer allowed to make and sell it.
I'm picking this example because it happened in the late 1970s.
It was probably some analog scrambler, and would have probably
violated FCC rules anyway, but it did get classified.
Or suppose you publish a paper on your Really Spiffy Algorithm and
then file a patent application. Since it's been published,
they can't gain anything by classifying it, though you can't get
patents in most countries other than the US, where patent laws are different.
Obviously a system of classified patents would be highly bogus
"You can't sell that widget, because there's a classified patent on it.
You're not allowed to see the patent, or know who owns the design,
so just give us all your money and work in progress and maybe we won't throw
you in jail for espionage." Some countries might have that kind of
system :-(, but we don't have that here. Quite. Yet. | 7 | trimmed_train |
3,192 |
This deserves framing. It really does. "[Atoms] aren't even real."
Tell me then, those atoms we have seen with electron microscopes are
atoms now, so what are they? Figments of our imaginations? The
evidence that atoms are real is overwhelming, but I won't bother with
most evidence at the moment. | 15 | trimmed_train |
8,643 |
There would be no problems as long as the OS didn't set up a DMA transfer
to an area above the 16 mb area (the DMA controller probably can't be
programmed that way anyways, so there probably isin't a problem with this) | 3 | trimmed_train |
3,323 |
First, thanks to all who replied to my original question. | 1 | trimmed_train |
6,415 | has
^^^^^^^^
Oops, I meant fair, not unfair.
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6,173 | THE DIVINE MASTERS
Most Christians would agree, and correctly so, that
Jesus Christ was a Divine Master, and a projection of God
into the physical world, God Incarnate.
But there are some very important related facts that
Christians are COMPLETELY IGNORANT of, as are followers of
most other world religions.
First, Jesus Christ was NOT unique, John 3:16 NOTWITH-
STANDING. There is ALWAYS at least one such Divine Master
(God Incarnate) PHYSICALLY ALIVE in this world AT ALL TIMES,
a continuous succession THROUGHOUT HISTORY, both before and
after the life of Jesus.
The followers of some of these Masters founded the
world's major religions, usually PERVERTING the teachings of
their Master in the process. Christians, for example, added
THREATS of "ETERNAL DAMNATION" in Hell, and DELETED the
teaching of REincarnation.
Secondly, and more importantly, after a particular
Master physically dies and leaves this world, there is
NOTHING that He can do for ANYbody except for the relatively
few people that He INITIATED while He was still PHYSICALLY
alive. (THAT IS SIMPLY THE WAY GOD SET THINGS UP IN THE
UNIVERSES.)
Therefore, all those Christians who worship Jesus, and
pray to Jesus, and expect Jesus to return and save them from
their sins, are only KIDDING THEMSELVES, and have allowed
themselves to be DUPED by a religion that was mostly
MANUFACTURED by the Romans.
And emotional "feelings" are a TOTALLY DECEIVING
indicator for religious validity.
These things are similarly true for followers of most
other major world religions, including Islam.
Thirdly, the primary function of each Master is to tune
His Initiates into the "AUDIBLE LIFE STREAM" or "SOUND
CURRENT", (referred to as "THE WORD" in John 1:1-5, and as
"The River of Life" in Revelation 22:1), and to personally
guide each of them thru the upper levels of Heaven while they
are still connected to their living physical bodies by a
"silver cord".
True Salvation, which completes a Soul's cycles of
REincarnation in the physical and psychic planes, is achieved
only by reaching at least the "SOUL PLANE", which is five
levels or universes above the physical universe, and this
canNOT be done without the help of a PHYSICALLY-Living Divine
Master.
One such Divine Master alive today is an American, Sri
Harold Klemp, the Living "Eck" Master or "Mahanta" for the
"Eckankar" organization, now headquartered in Minneapolis,
(P.O. Box 27300; zip 55427).
Another Divine Master is Maharaj Gurinder Singh Ji, now
living in Punjab, India, and is associated with the "Sant
Mat" organization.
One of the classic books on this subject is "THE PATH OF
THE MASTERS" (Radha Soami Books, P.O. Box 242, Gardena, CA
90247), written in 1939 by Dr. Julian Johnson, a theologian
and surgeon who spent the last years of his life in India
studying under and closely observing the Sant Mat Master of
that time, Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji.
Several of the Eckankar books, including some authored
by Sri Paul Twitchell or Sri Harold Klemp, can be found in
most public and university libraries and some book stores, or
obtained thru inter-library loan. The book "ECKANKAR--THE
KEY TO SECRET WORLDS", by Sri Paul Twitchell, is ANOTHER
classic.
Many Christians are likely to confuse the Masters with
the "Anti-Christ", which is or was to be a temporary world
dictator during the so-called "last days". But the Masters
don't ever rule, even when asked or expected to do so as
Jesus was.
People who continue following Christianity, Islam, or
other orthodox religions with a physically-DEAD Master, will
CONTINUE on their cycles of REincarnation, between the
Psychic Planes and this MISERABLE physical world, until they
finally accept Initiation from a PHYSICALLY-LIVING Divine
Master.
RE-INCARNATION
The book "HERE AND HEREAFTER", by Ruth Montgomery,
describes several kinds of evidence supporting REincarnation
as a FACT OF LIFE, including HYPNOTIC REGRESSIONS to past
lives [about 50% accurate; the subconscious mind sometimes
makes things up, especially with a bad hypnotist],
SPONTANEOUS RECALL (especially by young children, some of
whom can identify their most recent previous relatives,
homes, possessions, etc.), DREAM RECALL of past life experi-
ences, DEJA VU (familiarity with a far off land while travel-
ing there for the first time on vacation), the psychic read-
ings of the late EDGAR CAYCE, and EVEN SUPPORTING STATEMENTS
FROM THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE including Matthew 17:11-13 (John the
Baptist was the REINCARNATION of Elias.) and John 9:1-2 (How
can a person POSSIBLY sin before he is born, unless he LIVED
BEFORE?!). [ ALWAYS use the "KING JAMES VERSION". Later
versions are PER-VERSIONS! ]
Strong INTERESTS, innate TALENTS, strong PHOBIAS, etc.,
typically originate from a person's PAST LIVES. For example,
a strong fear of swimming in or traveling over water usually
results from having DROWNED at the end of a PREVIOUS LIFE.
And sometimes a person will take AN IMMEDIATE DISLIKE to
another person being met for the first time in THIS life,
because of a bad encounter with him during a PREVIOUS
INCARNATION.
The teaching of REincarnation also includes the LAW OF
KARMA (Galatians 6:7, Revelation 13:10, etc.). People would
behave much better toward each other if they knew that their
actions in the present will surely be reaped by them in the
future, or in a FUTURE INCARNATION!
"2nd COMINGS"
If a Divine Master physically dies ("translates")
before a particular Initiate of His does, then when that
Initiate physically dies ("translates"), the Master will meet
him on the Astral level and take him directly to the Soul
Plane. This is the ONE AND ONLY correct meaning of a 2nd
Coming. It is an INDIVIDUAL experience, NOT something that
happens for everyone all at once. People who are still
waiting for Jesus' "2nd Coming" are WAITING IN VAIN.
PLANES OF EXISTENCE
The physical universe is the LOWEST of at least a DOZEN
major levels of existence. Above the Physical Plane is the
Astral Plane, the Causal Plane, the Mental Plane, the Etheric
Plane (often counted as the upper part of the Mental Plane),
the Soul Plane, and several higher Spiritual Planes. The
Soul Plane is the FIRST TRUE HEAVEN, (counting upward from
the Physical). The planes between (but NOT including) the
Physical and Soul Planes are called the Psychic Planes.
It is likely that ESP, telepathy, astrological
influences, radionic effects, biological transmutations [See
the 1972 book with that title.], and other phenomena without
an apparent physical origin, result from INTERACTIONS between
the Psychic Planes and the Physical Plane.
The major planes are also SUB-DIVIDED. For example, a
sub-plane of the Astral Plane is called "Hades", and the
Christian Hell occupies a SMALL part of it, created there
LESS THAN 2000 YEARS AGO by the EARLY CATHOLIC CHURCH by some
kind of black magic or by simply teaching its existence in a
THREATENING manner. The Christian "Heaven" is located
elsewhere on the Astral Plane. Good Christians will go there
for a short while and then REincarnate back to Earth.
SOUND CURRENT vs. BLIND FAITH
The Christian religion demands of its followers an
extraordinary amount of BLIND FAITH backed up by little more
than GOOD FEELING (which is TOTALLY DECEIVING).
If a person is not HEARING some form of the "SOUND
CURRENT" ("THE WORD", "THE BANI", "THE AUDIBLE LIFE STREAM"),
then his cycles of REINCARNATION in this MISERABLE world WILL
CONTINUE.
The "SOUND CURRENT" manifests differently for different
Initiates, and can sound like a rushing wind, ocean waves on
the sea shore, buzzing bees, higher-pitched buzzing sound, a
flute, various heavenly music, or other sounds. In Eckankar,
Members start hearing it near the end of their first year as
a Member. This and other experiences (such as "SOUL TRAVEL")
REPLACE blind faith.
For more information, answers to your questions, etc.,
please consult my CITED SOURCES (3 books, 2 addresses).
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
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6,263 | ] > I think the dialogue would go better if (at least some) gays
] >showed awareness of a practical issue. For example. men and women use
] >different toilets. Hence men who are likely to abuse girls have that
] >avenue closed to them. There are many other situations where it is easy
] >to prevent sexual abuse BETWEEN the two sexes through such measures and
] >social conventions. It is harder to prevent it with gays but if those
] >gays who do not abuse children (nor want to) became aware that this is
] >a practical problem that we can solve with good will on both sides, then
] >we can have protection for parents and children at the same time as
] >protection for gays in those ways that are of importance to their
] >pursuit of happiness in their own way.
] >
] >Just a thought
] >
] >Rohit Parikh
] -------------------
] Sorry, Rohit, but you are responding to someone well-recognized as a
] flaming nut, i.e., Clayton Cramer. He must have been abused by a man and is
] living his life in an attempt to vilify all men who like sex with other men
] something slightly similar to the way his assailant liked it with him. He
] will alter or misrepresent anything he finds to try to prove that there are
] homosexuals who wish to rape little boys like he was coming out of the
] woodwork. There is no hope for him. In all probability he is secretly gay,
] which compounds his neurosis in his own mind, by thinking that someone else
] made him that way. I don't personally see how someone like him could walk
] and chew gum at the same time, as mentally crippled and dominated as he is
] by his fantasies.
]
] He would have you believe that the figures on the percentage of people who
] like to do it with the same sex sometime or all the time is way smaller
] than it is, but then he will virtually assert that everyone's queer and
] they're trying to get him. He actually believes, despite all evidence that
] homosexuals do some huge disproportionate amount of child sexual abuse,
] even though he insists that there may be as few as 1% of them in the male
] population! If there were that few of them in the population, San Francisco
] would currently be empty, because a significant portion of them have sought
] a tolerant atmosphere in that city, and the numbers simply do not work when
] you add up their home town origins. There is nothing to be gained by
] communicating with Clayton Cramer, he is unable to listen to anyone.
] -RSW
]
]
] --
] * Richard STEVEn Walz [email protected] (408) 429-1200 *
] * 515 Maple Street #1 * Without safe and free abortion women are *
] * Santa Cruz, CA 95060 organ-surrogates to unwanted parasites.* *
] * Real Men would never accept organ-slavery and will protect Women. *
Sorry, but I don't see how the response applies to what was posted.
Unless I am badly mistaken, Rohit is suggesting that protecting boys
from men is different than protecting girls from men. There are situations
in which boys and girls are apart from members of the *opposite* sex
(due to social convention or whatever) and thus are safe (in at least
some sense). These same situations don't (necessarily) protect the
children from abuse by members of the *same* sex.
If we can understand that, it's not such a tremendous leap to suggest
that if we all think about it hard, *someone* may come up with a
practical solution (or even a partial solution) to some of the situations
in which children are made vulnerable to homosexuals who wish to abuse
them. By working together "with good will on both sides", we may be
able to start solving problems without restricting anyone's freedoms.
Mr. Walz on the other hand is using Rohit's post as an excuse for
personal attacks on Mr. Cramer. While Mr. Walz hasn't (by a *long*
stretch) been the only one to flame Mr. Cramer, it is no less childish
and it only serves to weaken any other arguments he may make in the
future.
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5,815 |
Another program which produces this effect is:
- SpyGlass Transform 2.1 (while contouring a big 257*257 array).
Thanks for any information about this problem, | 14 | trimmed_train |
8,656 |
: [ The discussion begins: why does the universe exist at all? ]
: One of the Laws of Nature, specifying cause and effect seems to dictate
: (at least to this layman's mind) there must be a causal event. No
: reasonable alternative exists.
I would argue that causality is actually a property of spacetime;
causes precede their effects. But if you claim that there must be
an answer to "how" did the universe (our spacetime) emerge from
"nothing", science has some good candidates for an answer.
I have always wondered why Christians use the "There are questions
science (or atheism) cannot answer" argument; I hope this is the
appropriate group to ask this question.
The most popular question is the question of origins. Why does the
universe exist, or anything, for that matter?
I think this question should actually be split into two parts, namely
1) Why is there existence? Why anything exists?
and
2) How did the universe emerge from nothing?
It is clear science has nothing to say about the first question. However,
is it a meaningful question, after all?
I would say it isn't. Consider the following:
A die-hard skeptic being (be it human or whatever) attempts to doubt
one's very existence. Since it is so easy to doubt everything else -
I cannot be _sure_ the world exists, it may be my mind fooling me -
can I ever be sure I exist?
However, it is only possible to exist or not to exist. (Someone
insert an appropriate Shakespeare quote here ;-) )
A being that does not exist cannot doubt one's existence.
A being that does exist can doubt one's existence, but this would be
pointless - the being would exist anyway.
Let us return to the original question: why? A being that does not
exist does not need any reasons for its non-existence. This being
is not _sure_ whether anything else exists but his mind, but let
us assume that the world exists independent of the mind (the objectivity
postulate). The question "why anything exists" can be countered by
demanding answer to a question "why there is nothing in nothingness,
or in non-existence". Actually, both questions turn out to be
devoid of meaning. Things that exist do, and things that don't exist
don't exist. Tautology at its best.
I seriously doubt God could have an answer to this question.
Some Christians I have talked to have said that actually, God is
Himself the existence. However, I see several problems with this
answer. First, it inevitably leads to the conclusion that God is
actually _all_ existence, good and evil, devils and angels, us and
them. This is pantheism, not Christianity.
Another answer is that God is the _source_ of all existence.
This sounds much better, but I am tempted to ask: Does God
Himself exist, then? If God is the source of His own existence,
it can only mean that He has, in terms of human time, always
existed. But this is not the same as the source of all existence.
This argument sounds like God does not exist, but meta-exists,
and from His meta-existent perspective, He created existence.
I think this is actually a nonsolution, a mere twist of words.
The best answer I have heard is that human reasoning is incapable
of understanding such questions. Being an atheist myself, I do not
accept such answers, since I do not have any other methods.
The second question: How did the universe emerge from nothing?
belongs to the domain of science, and I, for one, do not doubt the
question can be answered by its methods. Many cosmologists have
suggested that it is entirely possible for universes to emerge
from vacuum (this possibility has been suggested in a recent
Hawking biography; see also Lizhi & Shuxian: Creation of the Universe,
World Scientific, 1989). However, I think the sci groups are more
appropriate for discussions like this.
: As far as I can tell, the very laws of nature demand a "why". That isn't
: true of something outside of nature (i.e., *super*natural).
This is not true. Science is a collection of models telling us "how",
not why, something happens. I cannot see any good reason why the "why"
questions would be bound only to natural things, assuming that the
supernatural domain exists. If supernatural beings exist, it is
as appropriate to ask why they do so as it is to ask why we exist.
: I believe the "genetic code" will be entirely deciphered in our lifetimes,
: but we will not see man convert entirely inert material into self sustaining,
: reproducing life, *ever*. (I've never been much of a prophet, though. I
: can't even *picture* New York in my mind 8^] ). I don't believe *any*
: technology would be able to produce that necessary *spark* of life, despite
: having all of the parts available. Just my opinion.
This opinion is also called vitalism; namely, that living systems are
somehow _fundamentally_ different from inanimate systems. Do Christians
in general adopt this position? What would happen when scientists announce
they have created primitive life (say, small bacteria) in a lab?
There is a problem with your prophecy: artificial life has been created,
although not yet in a chemical form. Computer simulations of evolution
contain systems that are as much alive as any bacterium, although
their code is electronic, as well as their metabolism. See a recent book
Steven Levy: Artificial life - The Quest for a New Creation. Jonathan
Cape, London 1992.
Artificial chemical life is just around the corner - after all, no
spark of life has been found to be necessary; living systems do not
violate any physical laws as we know them.
: You don't mind if a few of us send up a prayer on your behalf during your
: research, do you? After all, if we of Christ are deluding ourselves, you
: really have nothing to worry about, eh?
Exactly. This is why I think atheists should _not_ post any evangelical
atheist arguments to soc.religion groups, since people who seek to
find peace in religions must be allowed to gather together. I would
normally have asked these questions in alt.atheism or talk.religion.misc,
but it seems many Christians do not read these groups.
Petri
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4,440 | I need information on the Display PostScript strokeadjust feature.
This feature adjusts the endpoints of lines so that the displayed line
looks better on low resolution devices.
The PostScript literature explains the process to some extent. They
also give an example of how to "emulate" strokeadjust in PostScript
environments where it is absent.
The suggested emulation is to modify the coordinates of the endpoints
of a line using the following formula for each coordinate:
new_coord = (round (old_coord - 0.25)) + 0.25
Doing this we end up with all coordinates ending in ".25". From
reading I thought that what they might actually do is:
new_coord = ((trunc (old_coord * 2)) / 2) + 0.25
This results in all the coordinates ending in either "0.25" or "0.75"
whichever is closer.
By doing some actual comparisons with Display PostScript, I find that
neither of these is what DPS really uses. Since I like how the DPS
result looks better than how my stuff looks, I'd like to know if
anyone who knows how DPS does it is willing/able to tell me.
Thanks, | 1 | trimmed_train |
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10,353 | Rex Wang ([email protected]) spews forth stupidly:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me that you don't actually ATTEND Rensselaer, and
that you just work for ITS. Or that this was tounge-in-cheek.
Does this mean that I should be cutting off my alumni contributions, or
increasing them? | 17 | trimmed_train |
7,456 | Jan> Nntp-Posting-Host: 134.244.49.156
Jan> On a related note, how can I use xv to display colored GIFs on my
Jan> root display with HP Vue?
Jan> All I can do with Vue is display xbm's through their
Jan> Backdrop Style Manager.
Jan> xv does not seem to be able to override whatever Vue
Jan> puts there.
I suspect this is because VUE creates a window (probably OverrideRedirect)
that is the size of (or larger than) the Root Window. Because the window
manager does not know about this, you cannot move, resize etc. it. xv in the
mean time is busy changing your root window to whatever you have requested
but you never get to see it because VUE's window is overlaid on top of the root
window.
Contact HP support and see whether VUE can support coloured bitmap format
such as xpm, if they cant then they probably create all their coloured
backdrops inside the code. | 16 | trimmed_train |
2,133 | Here is the MacWeek article describing the DUO ram situation.
(w/o permission. I hope that is ok)
Jose
Bad RAM brings some Duos down. (random access memory boards for Apple
Macintosh PowerBook Duos)
MacWEEK v7, n7 (Feb 15, 1993):132.
COPYRIGHT Coastal Associates Publishing L.P. 1993
By Raines Cohen
Austin, Texas - Some third-party memory-expansion cards for PowerBook
Duos depart from Apple specs in ways that could cause crashes, data loss
and other problems.
Technology Works Inc., a RAM and network vendor based here, last week
issued a warning about three problems it said it had found in Duo RAM
products from some competing vendors, which it declined to identify.
Other vendors and an Apple spokeswoman confirmed that the problems exist.
> Self-refresh. The Duos require a kind of dynamic RAM called
selfrefreshing, which can recharge itself while the system sleeps. But
Technology Works said some vendors have sold Duo cards with
nonselfrefreshing DRAM, which can cause the system to lose data or fail to
wake from sleep.
Most leading memory manufacturers include the letter V in the part
number stamped on their self-refreshing chips; nonself-refreshing chips
instead have an L, according to TechWorks. The chip label, however, may
not tell the whole story. Newer Technology of Wichita, Kan., said it uses
nonself-refreshing chips but adds its own circuitry to keep them refreshed
while the Duo sleeps.
> Speed. Some RAM-card vendors have put 80-nanosecond DRAM on Duo
cards rather than the 70-nanosecond type the 230 requires, Technology
Works said. However, some chips labeled as 80- or 85-nanosecond are
certified by the manufacturer to run at a higher speed.
Kingston Technology Corp. of Fountain Valley, Calif., said it offers
Duo RAM cards with 80-nanosecond chips, but only for the Duo 210, which is
compatible with the slower chips.
> Space. Technology Works charged and Apple officials confirmed that
some third-party cards are too large to fit properly, forcing the corner
of the Duo keyboard up and preventing the system from starting up normally
when in a Duo Dock. | 14 | trimmed_train |
605 | G'day All,
I was looking to build a Parallel Port Digital to Analogue Converter the other
day and came across this schematic which I promptly threw together on a piece
of VeroBoard:
P2----22k----+
P3----48k----|
P4----100k---|
P5----200k---|
P6----400k---|
P7----800k---| 10uf electrolytic
P8----1M6----| +
P9----3M2----+---||--+----------
| +
47nF ceramic -
-
| -
P25------------------+----------
(Please excuse the obvious limits of the Lower ASCII char set :=)
I have it all constructed here and sitting inside a nice little grey ABS box.
Unfortunately I can't get it to work... I have a little demo here by the name
of Cronologia (Which the schematic came from) and all I can get it to pump
out of the box is data type hash/static with a small amount of music signal
behind it - it's even worse than the speaker inside the machine.
Does anybody out in net.colourful.computer.world have any ideas/suggestions/
better designs/improvements/wastepaper bin... etc?
Many thanks for a reply via this conference or email.
//
\X/ Regards, Jason.
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3,409 | Southern California RideList -- 4/14/93
Please send me any updates to this ride list. Remember, only street
rides that are open to all bikers are posted. Please inc. phone # for
further info. Also, send me your e-mail address if you want mailed
copies of this list.
I suggest calling first to make sure that info is current. If you
find out further info, please let me know. I strive for accuracy but
cannot be responsible for errors.
e-mail address: [email protected]
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c&d = coffee & donuts; Mx = Live Music; f&d = food & drinks available;
* = changes since last posting; ** Address at end of posting | 12 | trimmed_train |
1,579 | (NOTE: The followups are set to comp.os.os2.misc. DMQS files describe
monitors and valid modes to be used by the XGA-2 under both Windows and
OS/2.)
THESE FILES ARE UNSUPPORTED! IBM has nothing to do with these files or
this post. It's personal this time (and every time I post -- see the
signature).
Due to demand and requests, here are some additional DMQS files I've
collected for the XGA-2. These files function with the latest revision
of the drivers for the XGA-2. Not all these files will work under Windows
with the drivers available to the general public at this time. All files
will function under the most recent OS/2 2.1 beta and those I've tried have
worked under OS/2 2.0+SP. Not all files have been fully tested.
THESE FILES ARE UNSUPPORTED! They represent a personal collection, not
anything resembling an officially supported set.
As a standard disclaimer I would like to point out the following facts:
1) Some of these files may run your adapter out of spec. Doing so can
stress the ICs on the card and may result in incorrect operation or in
shorter life (how short depends on how much out of spec [boom!] :-).
2) Some of these files may run your adapter in a region that is out of
spec for your monitor, resulting in damage to your monitor.
3) You should be knowledgable about your monitor and adapter's ability
to use the mode you select. Using these files represents hacking
in a very true sense, so practice safe computing and don't play
around too much if you don't like the risks and aren't knowledgable
about what you're doing.
4) If you feel uncomfortable with all the warnings, use the DMQS files
you have or wait until IBM releases official, tested DMQS files.
Although you should be aware of warning 2) even with the IBM files.
THESE FILES ARE UNSUPPORTED! By using them you may invalidate your
warrenty. Not all have been fully tested -- I don't have that many
monitors.
Installation: unpack in your DMQSPATH environment variable, usually
c:\xga$dmqs. Then use the methods described in your XGA-2 installation
diskette to change your adapter or settings.
Packing: these files have been packed with the latest INFOZIP utility.
You will need PKZip 2.x if you don't have the INFOZIP utilities.
Submitting: feel free to send me uuencoded versions of your favorite DMQS
files for your favorite monitors. I'm always interested in collecting more.
Archive: these files have been uploaded to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in
pub/uploads/xga2dmqs.zip. | 18 | trimmed_train |
4,783 |
It's bad jokes like that which draws crohns, I mean groans from the crowd...
Don't bother looking it up in the appendix, it's useless anyway.
Just one more word of advice...
If you go to a Miami game, stay away from any foods made with "natural casings"
:)
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4,709 | ********************[ PC Game For Sale ]******************
Waxworks by Horrorsoft/Accolade (5.25") $30
By the same folks who brought you Elvira I & II. I played
Elvira I & II, and think that Horrorsoft has finally made
a very playable game with Waxworks. The look and feel is
roughly the same as in the Elvira games, though the real time
fighting is a little easier to survive. The first two games,
especially Elvira II: Jaws of Cerberus made it very tough to
stay alive and hit-point restoring was very difficult. This
is not to say that Waxworks is a walk in the park, but it is
quite fair, in that there is always some weapon to be found
that is quite effective, or hint given as to the proper fighting
strategy. In one of the four wax works to be explored, there is
no fighting at all (well almost none), though all four contain
moderately challanging puzzles.
The really interesting thing about this game is that it is really
broken up into four seperate RPGs, one for each of the four exhibits
you must enter. In starting each one, your character is transported
with no objects to use, and experience level 1. One exhibits traps
you inside a multi-level ancient Egyptian pyramid which you must
escape by fighting, mapping and puzzle solving. Another exhibit
traps you in a mine that has been taken over by creeping plant vines
and pods, while the local humans have been transformed into plant
zombies. This is a single level maze that requires you to rescue
some humans, kill the head plant alien, and figuere out how to kill
the very tuff plant zombies that are always showing up. This is
perhaps the most horrifying exhibit. Another exhibit puts you into
Jack The Ripper England where you appear by the corpse of a fresh Ripper
victim, and of course the police think you are responsible. You must
avoid police and angry mobs to unravel the mystery of The Ripper and
meet him face to face - but first get a disquise. The last exhibit
pus you in a graveyard where most of the challenge is in learning to
stop the almost indestructible zombies.
Over all the VGA graphics and music are very effective in setting a
creepy tone for the game, as was the case for the Elvira games, though
gameplay is much improved and makes for a much more enjoyable game.
I heartily recommend it for RPG and Horror fans.
*********************************************************
- All prices include shipping.
- All games are in excellent condition unless otherwise stated.
- US buyers only please.
- All games will be shipped inside a box with packing, insured,
priority USPS.
- All games include all original materials including box, manual,
disks, and registration unless otherwise noted.
The first responder offering asking price is guarenteed to
get the game. Those just asking questions get no priority until
they offer to buy the game. Lower offers may be considered
assuming no other offers at asking price are made.
**********************************************************
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8,169 | : Having met Peter Kingston (of WBT) some years back, he struck me
: as an exemplery and dedicated Christian whose main concern was with
: translation of the Word of God and the welfare of the people
: group he was serving.
: WBT literature is concerned mainly with providing Scripture
: in minority languages.
Yes, in fact Peter is now at Wycliffe HQ in the U.K., and is a member of my
church. I would fully endorse the above -- Peter is a very Godly man, with a
passion for serving Christ.
On one occasion he specifically addressed the issue of ``cultural
interference'' in a sermon, presumably from his experience of allegations
directed at Wycliffe. (Perhaps I could find the tape...?) | 0 | trimmed_train |
888 |
I totally agree. But how do you propose we take government back? They
obviously don't listen to the people or want the people to know who is
responsibile for what (a person telnetted the site of the Clipper chip
release, to see what the entity 'clipper' was, and got a few lists.
BUt when another person tried a bit later, the commands were disabled)
Does not sound like an Administration that wants to have any accountability
or information they don't control given to the people. The secret
development and implimentation of the Clipper Chip decision further
backs that up. You can bet unaurhorized encryption methods and software
will be considered 'terrorist tools' and also subject to civil forfeiture,
along with the systems that are running it. YOU WATCH, SEE IF I AM WRONG.
The government is not going to be very cooperative about the people taking
it back. And they have all the resources, unlimited access to the media
for propeganda, and almost all the guns (soon to be ALL the guns if
Clinton's agenda succeeds)... Those that do not play ball? Waco
might be a good example of what to expect... The warrant (just released)
stated the reason for the raid was the BDs spent a very large sum
for weapons, over an undetermined amount of time. I don't recall
spending a lot of money on guns, etc being illegal ... yet, that is.
Clinton might go down in history as the worst thing to ever happen to
the US of A. ... Now to be known as the 'Peoples Socalist Democratic
Republic of America' (PSDRA).
Big Brother is LISTENING!!!
Hail Big Brother... (and Sister...?) only ten years late!!!
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3,987 |
Do I smell .sig material here?
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine [email protected]
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea. | 8 | trimmed_train |
9,380 | Greetings!
I've had a bunch of problems with the 24x. Opening a DOS window on the
desktop can occasionally result in the windows "blowing up" into a set of
horizontal lines, hashing the entire desktop. Nothing can recover this
except to completely exit from Windows. The other irritating problem is
that windows that scroll often overwrite lines rather than actually
scrolling, as if a CR was printed without an LF. This seems ONLY to happen
to communications programs, but I can't nail it down any further than that.
Note, though, that the comms programs don't have to be communicating. Even
just scrolling back through capture buffers or displaying disk files in
these programs causes the problem.
Prior to the latest rev of Word Perfect for Windows, WPwin would sometimes
blow up, and the error message would cite the video driver as the source of
the problem. I've still seen this, but only once or twice with WPwin 5.2. | 18 | trimmed_train |
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