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Woops! This is rec.sport.hockey! Not rec.sport.golf! Hope you check the
newsgroup header next time before posting!
Steve
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10,163 | Heard minutes ago on KOA radio, Denver.
Nolan Ryan to have arthroscopic on a knee, and
to miss 2 - 5 weeks.
Rockies (Nied) lead Mets (Gooden) 4 - 0 in 7th.
All runs in first inning. | 2 | trimmed_train |
9,557 | [Cross-posted from alt.psychology.personality since it talks about
physician's personalities. Apologies to sci.med readers not
familiar with the Myers-Briggs "NT/NF" personality terms. But,
in a word or two, the NTs (iNtuitive->Thinkers) are approximately your
philosophy/science/tech pragmatic types, and the NFs (iNtuitive-Feelers)
are your humanities/social-"science"/theology idealistic types. They
hate each others' guts (:-)) but tend to inter-marry.
The letter "J" is a reference to conscienciousness/decisiveness.]
Jon Noring emits typical NF-type stuff
Please get it right, Jon.
(This NTJ has a strong desire to correct semantic mistakes,
because the NFs of this world are fouling the once-pristine NT
intellectual nest with their verbal poop.)
The dominant correlation is NT <-> Phlegmatic (and _not_ NT <-> Choleric).
One of the semantic roots of "choleric" is the idea of "hot" (emotional)
and one of the semantic roots of "phlegmatic" is "cold" (unemotional).
Here is a thumbnail sketch (taken from Hans Eysenck, refering to Wundt)
relating the Ancient Greek quadratic typology with modern terms:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Emotional
^
("Melancholic") | ("Choleric")
|
Thoughtful Suspicious | Quickly-aroused Hotheaded
Unhappy Worried | Egocentric Histrionic
Anxious | Exhibitonist
Serious | Active
Unchangeable < ------------------------------------------------> Changeable
Calm | Playful
Reasonable | Carefree
Steadfast Persistent | Hopeful Sociable
Highly-principled Controlled | Controlled Easy-going
|
("Phlegmatic") | ("Sanguine")
|
v
Non-emotional
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I suspect that your characterisation of NTs as "choleric" is what
you psych-types call a "projection" of your own NF-ness onto us.
Perhaps in serious pediatics and "my little boy's got a runny
nose, doctor" general practice, but, please God, not in neurology,
opthamology, urology, etc. etc. And NF-psychiatry should seperate
from NT-(i.e. real) psychiatry and be given a new name .. something
like "channeling" :-).
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3,446 |
I'm sick too watching all-american names like GRETZKY etc.
Which names you accept ? Sitting bull and dances with wolves ?
It is North America. What are you doing here ?
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7,540 |
You're correct, except that's Quadra 800 not Centris 800. | 14 | trimmed_train |
5,794 |
Your last remark is a contradiction, but I'll let that pass.
I was addressing the notion of the Great Commission, which
you deleted in order to provide us with dull little homilies.
Thank you, Bing Crosby. Now you go right on back to sleep
and mommy and daddy will tuck you in later.
Oh, and how convenient his bible must have been to Michael
Griffin, how convenient his Christianity. "Well, I'll just
skip the bit about not murdering people and loving the sinner
and hating the sin and all that other stuff for now and
concentrate on the part where it says that if someone is doing
something wrong, you should shoot him in the back several times
as he tries to hobble away on his crutches."
I'll leave the "convert or die" program of the missionaries and
their military escorts in the Americas for Nadja to explain as
she knows much more about it than I.
Must be awfully convenient, by the way, to offer platitudes
as you have done, David, rather than addressing the arguments. | 15 | trimmed_train |
3,860 |
There is just something disconcerting about the name of this group. :)
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2,752 |
What astounded me on moving to the left coast from
the right coast, was to actually get waves from
HARLEY riders! No, Really! I remember the first time
as a truely memorable event.
It might have something to do with the...
No. I refuse to bring that up again.
Thanks EVO, for being a Harley rider that waves
first.
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9,476 | For those missing the context of this thrilling discussion between
Jim and I, Jim wrote the following to me in e-mail after I pointed out
that he (Jim) had taken a quote out of context:
He directed a similar accusation of hypocrisy, again based on a lack of
response to an article by Robert Weiss, toward Stephen.
I pointed out that I did, in fact, agree that both Robert Weiss and
Jim Meritt took quotes out of context. Hence, I find it difficult to
understand why Jim thinks I am a hypocrite. Needless to say, I don't
have time to reply to *every* article on t.r.m. that takes a quote
out of context.
I asked Jim the following:
Jim replied by saying
But today we find four articles from Jim, one of which has the subject
"Silence is concurrence":
Which is, of course, a complete red herring. Taking quotes out of
context isn't a crime. I don't have time to read every article on
t.r.m., and I'm certainly under no obligation to reply to them all.
Does "silence is concurrence" imply that Jim thinks that because I
didn't respond to Weiss' articles I must condone Weiss' taking quotes
out of context? Jim doesn't want to give a direct answer to this
question; read what he has written and decide for yourself.
But back to the context of my conversation with Jim. Jim's next
gambit was to claim that he was using inductive logic when he
concluded that I was being a hypocrite. I challenged him to provide
the details of that logic that led him to an incorrect conclusion.
Today we find another obscure article (posting it twice didn't help
make it more clear, Jim), titled "Inductive Logic":
More red herrings. Could Jim mean that he has read an uncountably large
number of my articles? Could Jim mean that because I "axed" his articles,
but not Weiss' articles, he wants to conclude inductively ...
Well, I can't see where he is going with this.
But I can help him with his induction. I've written roughly 80
articles since January. The vast majority of them are discussions with
Frank DeCenso and other inerrantists, where I take the position that
they are making bad arguments. Some are discussions with Jim Meritt
where I take the position that he is making bad arguments (a straw man
argument earlier, and taking quotes out of context more recently.)
Think hard about this Jim. See the pattern? Think harder. Run it
through your induction engine and see what pops out. | 15 | trimmed_train |
9,650 |
A suggestion: cameras panning over planted automatic weapons, followed by
a show trial and medals all around for the valiant forces of Lawn Order?
-- | 9 | trimmed_train |
5,076 | Hi... what alternatives to the Express modem do Duo owners have (if
they want to go at least 9600 baud)?
Every place in town says they are back ordered, and part of the reason
I want a laptop mac is so I can use it as a remote terminal from
wherever I am, but I really would hate to have to wait 2 months to get
a modem in or have to settle with 2400 baud. | 14 | trimmed_train |
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6,769 | with
model
toward | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,908 | [deleted for a very good reason which I'm sure you can guess]
0. Enact a law that bans people without a sense of humor from
posting allegedly humorous items. If he did this, I think
his approval rating would go through the roof!
This means we can't quote Ed without his permission. No using these lists
in your .sigs, folks!
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7,847 | : I would like to get your opinions on this: when exactly does an engaged
: couple become "married" in God's eyes? Some say that if the two have
: publically announced their plans to marry, have made their vows to God, and
: are unswervingly committed to one another (I realize this is a subjective
: qualifier) they are married/joined in God's sight.
The way I read Scripture, a couple becomes married when they are *physically*
married, i.e. when they first have sexual intercourse.
e.g. the end of Genesis 2 (quoted from memory) ``for this reason, a man shall
leave his parents and be joined to his wife, and they will become one flesh''
(Jesus also quotes this scripture referring to marriage).
If you read through Genesis in particular, you will often come across the
phraseology: ``[man] lay with [woman], and she became his wife''. This
implies that she became his wife when they lay together, i.e. at the
point of intercourse.
Compare this with Jewish tradition: Joseph, when he heard that Mary
was pregnant, had it in mind to divorce her quietly -- but Mary and Joseph were
*betrothed*, not married. i.e., they were in a binding relationship (which
required a divorce to get out of), but *marriage* would not occur until Mary
and Joseph went to bed together.
Compare with Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5, Revelation 19): the church is
described as the ``bride'' of Christ, but the *marriage* of the Lamb takes
place when Jesus returns. i.e., we are in a binding love-relationship with
Jesus, but we are still looking forward to the time when the marriage will
take place. I see this as the spiritual equivalent of sexual intercourse,
because it represents the most intimate fellowship possible between man and God.
In summary, engagement should be honoured as a binding relationship, but it is
not marriage. A civil ceremony is not marriage either. Marriage occurs at the
point when the betrothed couple go to bed together. (I don't mean to demean the
civil or church ceremony -- ours was great! I don't mean to be too pedantic.)
Historically, I think I am correct in stating that the civil ceremony (i.e. a
marriage recognised by the state), has only been around in the West since
Napoleon, who introduced it to keep tabs on the people (although I'm ready to be
corrected on that point!)
This view obviously raises some questions:
What about those who have had sex with one or more partners, without considering
marriage. Are those people also ``married''?
If it is true that marriage occurs at the point of intercourse, is it necessary
to be married in the eyes of the state? (I would say Yes, because this honours
the laws of our nations in the West. Although it is not illegal to sleep
together though unmarried in most Western countries, I believe that it is God-
honouring to proclaim our marriage to the state and to our friends before
actually consummating our marriage. Its to do with our being salt and light, and
also to do with how people will perceive us; i.e. it is culturally insensitive
to declare yourself married without going through a civil ceremony.)
--
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Michael Davis ([email protected]) | 0 | trimmed_train |
4,235 | As of today I will no longer be a contact for Zeos International on the net.
This responsibility has been taken over by another tech ([email protected]) and I
am moving up and on (mo money, mo money :)). I just wanted to thank all of the
netters who have supported and encouraged the participation of Zeos on the net.
I personally feel it is important for companies such as Zeos to provide their
customers with as easy access as possible when they have questions/problems and
being on the net is an big step in the right direction. I hope that other
companies will follow suit (as Weitek and others have done). Again, thanks.
---JRE---
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64 | : Ford and his automobile. I need information on whether Ford is
: partially responsible for all of the car accidents and the depletion of
: the ozone layer. Also, any other additional information will be greatly
: appreciated. Thanks.
:
SSSSSoooooooooooo!!!!! Its all HIS fault!! Thank God Louis Chevrolet is
innocent! and that guy Diesel, HE otto feel guilty!
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7,113 | Hello World,
just bought a new Stealth two weeks ago. Got a grad student
rebate. Someone told me that there's another $400 reabet for 1st time
Chrysler buyer. True ? If yes can I still get it or am I too late ?
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9,520 | 11 | trimmed_train |
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8,323 | Dear Netters
I want to send EMG-signals from a running person to a computer.
Each signal is 4KHz wide and there is up to 30 of them on each
running person. The signal is only to be sent over a few hundred
meters. It seems to me that the frequency intended for this use is
about 150MHz and about 440MHz.
To make the transmitters as light as possible I suppose it will be best
the to send the signals in an analog form. As this application is rather
specialized I do not expect to be able to buy the exact transmitter-
units i need.
On the other hand I imagine that I can buy the receiver somewhere. I
need a multichannel (up to 30 channels) receiver or 30 complete
receivers in some rack system where one can add as many receivers
as needed in the particular case.
DO ANYBODY KNOW IF THERE IS EXISTING SUCH RECEIVER
SYSTEM ON THE MARKET? | 11 | trimmed_train |
5,316 | First, I thank collectively all people who have given good answers
to my questions. In my follow-up to Jason Smith's posting, I will
address some issues that have caused misunderstanding:
Yes, to some degree. There was an excellent discussion in sci.skeptic
on the nature of scientific work two weeks ago, I hope it did not
escape your notice.
The correct word is 'likely'. There is no way to be sure our models and
theories are absolutely correct. Theories are backed up by evidence,
but not proved - no theory can be 'true' in a mathematical sense.
However, theories are not mere descriptions or rationalisations of
phenomena. It is extremely important to test whether theories can
_predict_ something new or not yet observed. All successful theories
science has come up with have passed this test, including the Big
Bang theory of cosmic evolution, the theory of natural selection etc.
It does not mean they _must_ be correct, but they are not mere
'best fits' for the data.
Well, yes, if you want to _believe_ in them. This is not what science
requires - take a good look at the theory and the evidence, see if
the theory has made any successful predictions, and use your reason.
Disbelievers are not punished.
This is what puzzles me - why do we need to have faith in _anything_?
My fellow atheists would call me a weak atheist - someone who is
unable to believe, ie, fails to entertain any belief in God.
Yes, I know that one can't believe without God's help; Luther makes
this quite clear in his letter to Erasmus. I'm afraid this does not
change my situation.
(deletions)
No, it is not, although it does look like one. This is a true dichotomy,
either something exists, or nothing exists. If nothing exists, nobody
would ask why. If something exists, it is possible to ask why, but
actually no existing being could give an answer.
Imagine, for a moment, that the nobodies in non-existence could also
ask: "Why nothing exists?" This is equivalent to my counter-question,
"why nothing exists in nothingness".
Now, "why anything exists" is equivalent to "why something exists in
somethingness". _This_ is what I meant with my tautology, my apologies
for the poor wording in my previous post.
I do indeed think there probably _is_ no reason for being, or existence,
in general, for reasons I stated above. However, they will still
leave open the question "why this, and not that", and this is where
theistic explanations come in.
Science cannot give reasons for any _particular_ human being's existence.
This is a deep philosophical question - is determinism true, or not?
Also, is God deterministic or not? I tend to think this question has
no meaning in His case.
If I am for a reason, I've yet failed to see what it would be.
From our perspective, it looks like 'I' exist for truly random
reasons. I just rolled two dice - why did I get 6 and 1? How can
I believe there is any better reason for my existence?
Yes, I am satisfied with this reason, until I find something better.
My 15 years of Christianity were of no help in this respect, I have
to admit, but I am patient.
No, it doesn't, but I think an existing God cannot know why He exists,
for an answer to this question is not knowable. Of course, this
should not be any obstacle to belief in His existence.
It is impossible to know unknowable things. However, the question
"why do I exist, in particular" is _not_ an invalid question - this
is not what I said. But from our perspective, it is impossible to
tell, and I can't just believe in any given explanation instead of
another, especially since I found I was deluding myself.
I think "pre-existence" is an oxymoron. There is no time 'outside' of
this spacetime (except in some other universe), and from that
perspective, our universe never was. It exists only for those who
are inside it.
No. The validity of the question has to be discussed separately; I think
philosophy is of great help here. What can be known, and what is not
knowable?
This is a very good question. In trying to answer this, and numerous
other questions that bothered me, I finally found nothing to base
my faith on.
I think it would be honest if we all asked ourselves, "why do I believe"
or "why I don't believe".
Petri
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8,999 | Does anybody know the details of the Shriners All-Star game that featured the
best seniors in college hockey in a game in Orono, Maine? If you do, please
reply.
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1,523 |
IMO any good player should score on power plays because of the man
advantage. Very good power play scorers tend to become overrated
because their point totals are inflated by power play points.
+/- tends to expose these overrated players such as Brett Hull,
John Cullen and Dave Andreychuck.
Given the opportunity to play power play consistently, any player can
inflate his totals. | 17 | trimmed_train |
9,597 | It is usually possible to reach people at IKI (Institute for Space
Research) in Moscow by writing to
[email protected]
This is a machine at ESA in Darmstadt, Germany; IKI has a dedicated
phone line to this machine and someone there logs in regularly to
retrieve mail.
In addition, there are several user accounts belonging to Russian
scientific institutions on
<user>@sovam.com
which is a commercial enterprise based in San Francisco that provides
email services to the former USSR. For example, [email protected] is the
"PHysics Institute of the Academy of Sciences" (initials transliterated
from Russian, of course). These connections cost the Russians real
dollars, even for *received* messages, so please don't send anything
voluminous or frivilous.
=====================================================================
Larry R. D'Addario
National Radio Astronomy Observatory | 10 | trimmed_train |
6,372 |
And thus, we come to one of the true beauties of baseball; these things, along
with many others will never be separated. Almost *everything* in baseball is
situational and interdependent. This is what allows us to carry on all the
arguments that we have. If everything could be explained and balanced on a
statistical basis, none of the wonder and mystery would be left. Why we might
have to resort to just going out the ballyard and enjoy the game itself.
--->Paul, feeling a little anti-stathead today
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We will stretch no farm animal beyond its natural length
[email protected] Paul Andresen Hewlett-Packard (503)-750-3511 | 2 | trimmed_train |
2,999 | Regards,
Steve. | 5 | trimmed_train |
11,070 |
So where was she? And would she consider staying there?
-- | 9 | trimmed_train |
2 | well folks, my mac plus finally gave up the ghost this weekend after
starting life as a 512k way back in 1985. sooo, i'm in the market for a
new machine a bit sooner than i intended to be...
i'm looking into picking up a powerbook 160 or maybe 180 and have a bunch
of questions that (hopefully) somebody can answer:
* does anybody know any dirt on when the next round of powerbook
introductions are expected? i'd heard the 185c was supposed to make an
appearence "this summer" but haven't heard anymore on it - and since i
don't have access to macleak, i was wondering if anybody out there had
more info...
* has anybody heard rumors about price drops to the powerbook line like the
ones the duo's just went through recently?
* what's the impression of the display on the 180? i could probably swing
a 180 if i got the 80Mb disk rather than the 120, but i don't really have
a feel for how much "better" the display is (yea, it looks great in the
store, but is that all "wow" or is it really that good?). could i solicit
some opinions of people who use the 160 and 180 day-to-day on if its worth
taking the disk size and money hit to get the active display? (i realize
this is a real subjective question, but i've only played around with the
machines in a computer store breifly and figured the opinions of somebody
who actually uses the machine daily might prove helpful).
* how well does hellcats perform? ;)
thanks a bunch in advance for any info - if you could email, i'll post a
summary (news reading time is at a premium with finals just around the
corner... :( )
--
Tom Willis \ [email protected] \ Purdue Electrical Engineering | 14 | trimmed_train |
2,592 | THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release March 14, 1993
PUBLIC EVENTS ON THE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE FOR
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1993
10:20 am EST The President meets with Leadership of Law
enforcement organizations -- The Rose
Garden
OPEN PRESS
3:00 AM EDT The President meets with the National
Ambassador for the March of Dimes Birth
Defects Foundation -- The Oval Office
TV POOL, OPEN STILL PHOTO, WRITING POOL
3:15 AM EDT The President meets with Mosaic Minstrels of
New York, NY -- The Rose Garden
OPEN PHOTO, WRITING POOL
3:30 AM EDT The President meets with the Berwick, PA,
High School Bulldogs, AAA State Football
Champions -- The South Lawn
OPEN PHOTO, WRITING POOL
UPCOMING EVENTS ON THE PRESIDENT'S
SCHEDULE
April 16, 1993 The President meets with
Japanese Prime Minister
Miyazawa, The White House
April 26, 1993 President Clinton meets with
President Amato of Italy, The
White House | 13 | trimmed_train |
75 | : A quick and dirty way to get higher current carrying capacity
: on PC board traces for one- or few-of-a-kind boards is to
: strip some #14 Romex house wiring cable to bare copper, form
: the bare copper to follow the trace, and solder it down.
And if it's not quick and dirty, you can get bus bars that
are stamped out with leads that insert in the PC board. | 11 | trimmed_train |
5,876 | Haven't seen this one on here yet, so here it goes:
B. arely
A. dequate,
T. otally
F. ***ed!
I don't know about adequate, but it fits the acronym. =)
--
Andrew Diederich [email protected] | 9 | trimmed_train |
6,665 | I'm using int15h to read my joystick, and it is hideously slow. Something
like 90% of my CPU time is being spent reading the joystick, and this
is in a program that does nothing but printf() and JoyRead().
The problem is that a lot of programs trap int15h ( like SMARTDRV ) and
so it is a slow as hell interface. Can I read the joystick port in
a reasonably safe fashion via polling? And that isn't platform or
clockspeed specific?
Thanks, | 3 | trimmed_train |
7,855 | We no longer use quarter inch tape for backups, and have a case of
unopened DC6150s for sale. I'll sell the lot, or in boxes of 5 tapes
each.
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9,652 |
Who cares what the fellow wrote anyway? I mean, it came from
PSUVM, so how could it possibly have been of any importance?
=====
(disperse smileys until no longer offended)
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1,337 | Apparently, my editor didn't do what I wanted it to do, so I'll try again.
i'm looking for any programs or code to do simple animation and/or
drawing using fractals in TurboPascal for an IBM
Thanks in advance | 1 | trimmed_train |
8,083 | Press Release No.19-93
Paris, 22 April 1993
Users of ESA's Olympus satellite report on the outcome of
their experiments
"Today Europe's space telecommunications sector would not
be blossoming as it now does, had OLYMPUS not provided
a testbed for the technologies and services of the 1990s". This
summarises the general conclusions of 135 speakers and 300
participants at the Conference on Olympus Utilisation held in
Seville on 20-22-April 1993. The conference was organised by
the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Spanish Centre for
the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI).
OLYMPUS has been particularly useful :
- in bringing satellite telecommunications to thousands of
new users, thanks to satellite terminals with very small
antennas (VSATs). OLYMPUS experiments have tested
data transmission, videoconferencing, business television,
distance teaching and rural telephony, to give but a few
examples.
- in opening the door to new telecommunications services
which could not be accommodated on the crowded lower-
frequency bands; OLYMPUS was the first satellite over
Europe to offer capacity in the 20/30 GHz band.
- in establishing two-way data relay links OLYMPUS
received for the first time in Europe, over several months,
high-volume data from a low-Earth orbiting spacecraft and
then distributed it to various centres in Europe.
When OLYMPUS was launched on 12 July 1989 it was the
world's largest telecommunications satellite; and no other
satellite has yet equalled its versatility in combining four
different payloads in a wide variety of frequency bands.
OLYMPUS users range from individual experimenters to some
of the world's largest businesses. Access to the satellite is
given in order to test new telecommunications techniques or
services; over the past four years some 200 companies and
organisations made use of this opportunity, as well as over
100 members of the EUROSTEP distance-learning
organisation.
As the new technologies and services tested by these
OLYMPUS users enter the commercial market, they then
make use of operational satellites such as those of
EUTELSAT. | 10 | trimmed_train |
9,560 |
Right. So who cares which PLAYER gets credited, as long as the TEAM
gets more runs? If a player helps the TEAM get more R and RBI, but
doesn't score them all himself, who cares?
Consider:
Player A: single.
Player B: grounder to short; reaches on the force at 2nd.
Player C: Double, B to 3rd.
Player D: Sac fly.
B gets a run, D gets an RBI. Are you *sure* they helped the team
more than A and C? Think hard, now.
As you wish. | 2 | trimmed_train |
274 |
I agree. Six hour long stretches behind the wheel really make me
thirsty, especially for something with caffeine. I consider it a
failing of my car that it has no cup holder nor anywhere to put a cup
holder. | 4 | trimmed_train |
6,281 | sandiego and graig nettles
| 2 | trimmed_train |
3,781 | I just visited the NY Auto Show, and saw two LH cars on the floor: Eagle
Vision and Dodge Intrepid.
Really nice I must say. Very attractive styling, lots of features and room,
at a competitive price.
Unfortunately, the workmanship is quite disappointing. On BOTH cars,
the rubber seals around the window and door fell off. It turns out
the seals are just big grooved rubber band. It goes on just by pressing
the groove against the tongue on the door frame. Surely it would come
off easily.
I am not sure how many of this kind of pooring engineering/assembly
problems that will show up later.
I may still consider buying it, but only when it establishes a good
track record. | 4 | trimmed_train |
9,363 | : Indeed, if NSA really designed the algorithm to be secure, it's very likely
: as secure as IDEA or 2-key DES. However, the system as a whole isn't resistant
: to "practical cryptanalysis." In _The Puzzle Palace_, Bamford describes how
: several NSA employees were turned by foreign (presumably KGB) agents, despite
: security measures that I doubt any Big 8 accounting firm could match. And
: NSA confidential data was *not* subject to being requested by thousands of
: police organizations and courts across the land.
Ah yes, don't anyone mention Ronald William Pelton[*], heh heh heh. How
embarrassing. | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,019 |
The fantasy was that he had found something of fundamental importance to
one of the hot questions of the day ('77). He really had very little
reason to believe it, other than raw hope. By fantasy, I certainly don't
mean Velikovskian manias.
I'm not familiar with the history of this experiment, although, arguably,
I should be.
I think that it is enough if his contemporaries found the result surprising.
That's not what I'd quibble about. What I'd like to know are Toricelli's
reasons for doing his experiment; not the post hoc _constructed_ reasons,
but the thoughts in his head as he considered the problem. It may be
impossible to know much about Toricelli's thoughts; that's too bad if
it is so. One of Root-Bernstein's services to science is that he has gone
rooting about in Pasteur's and Fleming's (and other people's) notes, and has
discovered some surprising clues about their motivations. Pasteur never
publicly admitted his plan to create mirror-image life, but the dreams are
right there in his notebooks (finally public after many years), ready for
anyone to read. And I and my friends often have the most ridiculous
reasons for pursuing results; one of my best came because I was mad at
a colleague for a poorly-written claim (I disproved the claim).
Of course, Toricelli's case may be an example of a rarety: where the
fantasy not only motivates the experiment, but turns out to be right
in the end.
Mark | 19 | trimmed_train |
3,041 | UPI Clarinet has just relayed a "scoop" from the Toronto Sun
(or was that Star? I like the Star myself ...) that Iron Mike
Keenan has come to an agreement with the New York Rangers for
next season. Interestingly, this comes the day after the Times
Sports had an editorial about how the Rangers need their own
Pat Riley ... who cares about what happens after next season?
gld | 17 | trimmed_train |
3,274 | The best thing to do is to get a full face, even if it is a
cheap brain bucket. I didn't think a full face was important
until I took a gnarly spill and ended up sliding 20 feet on my
face. Plus with the visor down, you also have no worries about
your contacts.
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9,669 |
Exactly when will the hover test be done, and will any of the TV
networks carry it. I really want to see that...
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2,037 | The Angels won their home opener against the Brewers today before 33,000+
at Anaheim Stadium, 3-1 on a 3-hitter by Mark Langston. J.T. Snow and
Gary Discarcina hit home runs for the Angels. | 2 | trimmed_train |
2,823 | Okay, here's the entry sheet. Keep in mind that not all spots are
decided, so it may change.
Series Your Pick Games
Division Semis
NY Islanders-Pittsburgh
New Jersey-Washington
Buffalo-Boston
Montreal-Quebec
St. Louis-Chicago
Toronto-Detroit
Winnipeg-Vancouver
Los Angeles-Calgary
Division Finals
Patrick
Adams
Norris
Smythe
Conference Finals
Wales
Campbell
Stanley Cup winner
See previous post for scoring. Good luck!
--
Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
[email protected] IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!! | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,756 | A very simple question : it seems to me that the contraceptive
pill just prevents the ovule to nest in the vagina and forces it to
fall every month. But it does not prevent the fertilzation of the
ovule. Is it true ? If yes, is there a risk of extra-uterine
pregnancy, that is the development of the ovule inside the Fallopian
tube ? | 19 | trimmed_train |
2,777 | :
: Of course, penalties will have to be changed:
:
: Roughing: Chauvanistic Males Being Aggressive
: Slashing: Chauvanistic Males Venting Frustration
: Fighting: Proof That Males Cannot Cope With Their Feelings
:
NO NO NO! since all the penalties fall into three classes, there should
only be three penalties:
1. Foul (Any illegal contact with the other player or his stick with your
body or stick). If you get 5 you are out for the game.
2. Unsportsmanlike contact. (An intentional foul). This inlcludes all the
current flavours of roughing, fighting and boarding. If you get two you
are thrown out of the game, and fined.
3. Technical foul. Bad mouthing the ref, by player or coach. Penalty shot
is awarded. Two and you are thrown out of the game.
Besides the penalty shot for one technical, if the team gets 5 penalties
in a period, the opposing team gets a penalty shot for every additional one,
until the end of the period. The victim gets two shots if he/she was in
the act of shooting when the foul ocured.
This works well for several reasons. First, penalty shots are the most
exciting thing in hockey, right? So, it follows that the more the better.
Next, when the player is setting up for a penalty shot, the network can
take a commercial. Finally, with only three penalties, the network
announcers (Don Meredith, Dick Vitale, John Madden, Pat Summerall, and
Marv Levy, among others) will be able to tell the viewers what happened before
the PA announcer says it.
Oh, one other rule. When a goal is scored (10-20 times a period), the play
cannot resume until the PA announcer announces it. This way, the network
can sneak in a few more commercials. Then, once the PA announcer has told
them who scored, the TV announcer can tell you the viewer, and even have a
chance of pronouncing his name right.
Seriously, though, I actually went to see a NBA basketball game last week,
for the first time in my life. I was amazed how boring it was. The play is
so slow they actually had fans come out for things like free-throw shooting
contests DURING THE PERIOD!. Of course the 'Laker Girls' get to do their
routines at least 6-8 times during the game, and not just between periods
either. There is a whistle every 30 seconds on average, maybe less. The
game is 48 minutes, with 2 minutes between quarters 1-2 and 3-4 and a
10 minute halftime, and it still takes over 2 hours.
The reason for this has to be TV. There is plenty of room to throw in
commercials, and have the announcer jabber while nothing else is happening.
On TV, basketball is fairly entertaining, IMHO. But, it is better to watch
it on TV than to be there. If this is the road the NHL is following, then
it truly is a sad day.
Enough for now. | 17 | trimmed_train |
3,226 | Wharf Wrat rites:
Ever' once in a while, you still see a reference to the super-
slab system as "Interstate and Defense Highways." But whether
the military has much of anything that goes 80 on the road is
another matter. A few of their most whomped-up diesel trucks,
maybe, load permitting. The military surplus stuff I've
driven -- "Jeep Classic" (Willys/Kaiser/AMC, pre-independent
suspension) and Power Wagons (Slant 6 in a crew-cab pickup)
weren't exactly congenial at highway speeds, and I wouldn't
swear any of them would do 80 except as a bedload on a semi.
You just gotta love the standard military tire, too, or at
least the one they used to use. Designed circa WW II as a
compromise between traction in icky sticky goo and longevity
on sharp rocks and so forth, it's quite ill-adapted to high
speeds on civilian roadways. For those who can't remember
what they look like, imagine a mountain-bike tire with a
road rib in the middle, scaled up to car size. Oh, yeah, and
narrow too. One of the standard mods for civilizing a surplus
Jeep was to install tires and wheels that reflected some of
the advancements made in ride and handling since D-Day.
But the point made by Wharfie and others still stands: if
you're going to do 80 in a mil-spec '58 Power Wagon (or a
Jeep or a tank transporter or other unwieldy rubber-tired
vehicle) anywhere, I'd suggest the American interstate.
Your safe speed there tends to be limited more by your car
and skills, road maintenance, and the swarms of fools around
you; the roads were designed for going like the devil.
Naturally, neither I nor my employer advocates unsafe or
unlawful driving. | 4 | trimmed_train |
1,636 | What can be done, short of circumcision, for an adult male
whose foreskin will not retract?
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7,607 |
Yes. He thought about it.
Jack Waters II
DoD#1919 | 12 | trimmed_train |
7,535 | 930418
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. [Honestly.]
The word of Sin is Restriction. [Would I kid you?]
Does one man's words encompass the majestic vision of thousands
of individuals? Quoting a man is not the same as quoting the
Order. Taken out of context, words can be interpreted much
differently than had one applied them within the confines of
their original expression.
I think this is the case regarding Hymenaeus Beta, Frater Superior
of the Order to which I belong. When he included that bit
from Merlinus X' he did us all a service. He showed us the extremes
to which Order members have been known to go in their fervor.
I have little knowledge regarding Reuss' background, but surely
he was an unusual man, and he was an important force in the Order
for many years.
Yet as people change so do Orders change, and while we look back
so carefully at the dirty laundry of O.T.O. remember that this is
only the surface skim and that many perspectives are now encompassed
which extend beyond any one individual. I hope to show that there
was and is much room for a difference of opinion within the Order
itself, perhaps by testing the limits myself.
Let us examine this issue a bit more closely....
"In 1895, Karl Kellner (1850-1905), a wealthy Austrian industrialist
and paper chemist, as well as a high-grade Mason, founded the Ordo
Templi Orientis. Kellner had traveled widely in the East, where he
met three adepts who instructed him specific magical practices.
Kellner's efforts to develop the Order were later assisted by Franz
Hartmann, Heinrich Klein and Theodore Reuss, who had worked together
prior to joining the O.T.O. The Order was first proclaimed in 1902
in Reuss's Masonic publication, 'Oriflamme'. On Kellner's death,
Reuss succeeded him as Outer Head [O.H.O.]. The 'Jubilee' edition of
the 'Oriflamme', published in 1912, announced that the Order taught
secret of sexual magic.
"Theodore Reuss was an interesting character. Born June 28, 1855 in
Augsburg, he entered Masonry in 1876. He was a singer, journalist and
possibly a spy for the Prussian political police, infiltrating the Socialist
League founded by Karl Marx's daughter and her husband. Reuss was
later associated with William Wynn Westcott, a leader of the Golden
Dawn, who later introduced him to John Yarker. Yarker chartered Reuss to
found the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim in Germany. After several
attempts to concretize various Masonic Rites, Reuss settled on the
development of the O.T.O.
"The Order experienced reasonably steady growth under Reuss' leadership.
For example, he chartered Papus in France, Rudolph Steiner in Berlin
and H. Spencer Lewis in the USA. In 1912, the historic meeting between
Reuss and Crowley occurred. Crowley wrote that Reuss came to him and
accused him of revealing Order secrets. When Crowley looked at it afresh,
the initiated interpretation of sexual magick unfolded itself to him for
the first time. Reuss appointed Crowley as Supreme and Holy King of all
the English speaking world, and it was this authorization that he invoked
when publishing the material of the Equinox.
"Reuss resigned as Outer Head of the Order in 1922 after suffering a
stroke and named Crowley his successor. All was well until 1925 when
_The Book of the Law_ was translated into German. There was a break
in the continuity of the Order. Manyk members split with the new O.H.O.
over the book, which Crowley was actively promulgating through the Order.
He had earlier revise dthe Order rituals at Reuss's request, deeply
infusing the doctrines of the New Aeon revelation."
_An Introduction to the History of the O.T.O._, by Ad Veritatem IX'
Within _Equinox III:10_, Edited by
Hymenaeus Beta, Frater Superior, Rex Summus Sanctissimus,
Caliph of the United States of America,
Published by Samuel Weiser, 1990.
There are many possible reasons that our Frater Superior included this
material in _Equinox III:10_. And this is the real point, is it not?
Why did he wish to publish such things about the history of his own
organization? Does he represent a dogmatic threat to the principle
of Thelema? Or is he exercising his True Will and putting forth very
complex pictures with no easy answers? A picture which leaves room
for very many interpretations.
It is quite easy for me to see, for example, that all of O.T.O. derived
out of the dribble of faltering Masonry, purchased by clever hucksters
with an ounce of courage and some writing ability to aid them. And I
can take that all the way down to our present Caliph, whose feeble
support of the 'Law of Thelema' is laughable at best.
Would I be thrown out of the Order for speaking in this way?
Will I?
I think not.
Why? Because my Frater will see it as a perspective, an interjection
I am using as an example. My illustration shows that we may express things
in the context of a larger work and the true significance of this may be
quite difficult to apprehend at first.
So it may be with OTO and Merlinus X'. Please look O.T.O. more carefully.
I do not support Reuss's words myself, as I am not qualified to assess
them, and I am critical of their pomposity. If I who am a member of
the Order take such a stand and am allowed to continue doing so, then
what can this say about the health of the Order? Does it mean that
the Order has 'gone soft' and abandoned its moral principles? Or
does it mean that it is strong in its ability to let the will of
universal kinship arise on its own, not shackled by some dogmatic
requirement? How shall we resolve these two possibilities?
I find a high calibre of individual associated with Ordo Templi Orientis.
They are often quite intelligent and sometimes very well versed in arcane
or usual information. They are quite often artists and geniuses.
Having met some 20 longstanding members in the SF Bay Area (many who are or
were very heavily involved with the Order), I can vouch for the integrity
of the organization as it stands.
I have sometimes questioned the policy of Hymenaeus Beta. In these moments
I followed my intuition, and I've found little to stop me from requesting
a Second initiation from a different O.T.O. body. I'm happily participating
in social groups (Feasts or Initiations) and have come to know the Gnostic
Mass well enough for my tastes.
This doesn't make me an authority on Order politics and explanations, however.
I can only hypothesize and relay to you what I understand based on my
limited contact with other members.
I urge you not to take the words of Merlinus X too far. There are many
ways to interpret words, and many people who have become involved with
the Order feel very strongly about the sanctity of personal freedom
and the preservation of individual vision.
I welcome other comment on this issue and will be writing more in response
to other posts in this thread.
Invoke me under my stars. Love is the law, love under will.
I am I! | 15 | trimmed_train |
3,772 | Hi all,
I would like to purchase CD-ROM drive. The specs I would like to have is:
* Applicable to Kodak multisession Photo-CD
* SCSI(2) Interface
* Compatible with Adaptec-1542B
* Does not need any caddies
* Cheaper ( < $500 if possible)
* Double Speeded
I believe there are no drives satisfying all of the above condition,
so I would like to know all of your opinion. The above conditions
are sorted by my priority.
I think NEC CDR74-1/84-1 is a little bit expensive, but it DOES satisfy
almost all of the above conditions. The problem is that I do not know
the compatibility with 1542B. Has someone succeeded to connect these
NEC drives to 1542B? I have heard a rumor that NEC drive is incompatible
with 1542B adapter.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. | 3 | trimmed_train |
3,221 | i have a question for you all related to this. jesus condemns divorce
several times in the new testament, and i have a hard time with this.
the catholic church (as far as i can tell) does grant annulments with
the statement that the marriage never really existed in God's eyes.
(please, if i am mistinterpreting, correct me.) however, i have
witnessed marriages where two people were very much in love but
recognized that they were destroying themselves and each other by
staying in a marriage, and that the problems were due to personal
childhood issues that had never been resolved. i ask you, is divorce
justified in such a case? they knew who they were, what they were
doing, they were deeply in love, but in the end, it did not work out.
i must admit that i don't see jesus forcing them to live together, or
even condemning that they go and seek happiness with someone else
later on. opinions?
vera
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I am your CLOCK! | I bind unto myself today | Vera Noyes
I am your religion! | the strong name of the | [email protected]
I own you! | Trinity.... | no disclaimer -- what
- Lard | - St. Patrick's Breastplate | is there to disclaim?
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849 | My insurance company encourages annual physicals, and at my age [42] i'm
thinking that BIannual physicals, at least, might be a good idea. Therefore,
i'm shopping for a GP. Might as well get a good one.
Could the Assembled Net Wisdom suggest things i should look for, or point me to
the FAQ archive if on this topic if there is one?
Please EMail; i suspect that this topic is real Net Clutter bait. | 19 | trimmed_train |
9,789 |
Ok if you are so right, name a few good examples that were brought up.
john | 4 | trimmed_train |
9,418 |
This is similar to my saying that Clinton's timber summit does little to
fix the health care problem. Look at the whole picture, not just
randomly picked libertarian positions. If government is not allowed to
use "non-initiated force" to achieve its goals, than no special interest
can influence the government to use non-initiated force on their behalf.
The means to reaching such a restricted government is another topic
which I'll address briefly. It certainly won't happen until
libertarianism is the dominate philosophy. What means do we have to
make libertarianism the dominate philosophy? Statists run the education
monopoly, so we have to be creative. The Advocates for Self-Government
reports 85% of their Seminar 1 participants "embrace" libertarianism.
That's the best means I've seen yet. We should lobby for compulsory
Seminar 1 attendance. :) [in jest!]
Roger Collins | 13 | trimmed_train |
9,390 | Joe Torre has to be the worst manager in baseball.
For anyone who didn't see Sunday's game,
With a right hander pitching he decides to bench Lankform, a left handed
hitter and play jordan and gilkey, both right handers.
Later, in the ninth inning with the bases loaded and two outs he puts
lankford, a 300 hitter with power in as a pinch runner and uses Luis
Alicea, a 250 hitter with no power as a pinch hitter. What the Hell
is he thinking.
Earlier in the game in an interview about acquiring Mark Whiten he commented
how fortunate the Cardinals were to get Whiten and that Whiten would be a
regular even though this meant that Gilkey would be hurt, But torre said
he liked Gilkey coming off the bench. Gilkey hit over 300 last year,
what does he have to do to start, The guy would be starting on most every
team in the league.
Furthermore, in Sundays game when lankford was thrown out at the plate,
The replay showed Bucky Dent the third base coach looking down the line
and waving lankford home,
I can't take this anymore
brian, a very distressed cardinal fan.
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10,048 | where can I buy 1 or 2 of these chips (pref in Australia)?
What is name and address of `UMC'?
Dan
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Adrian Blockley ! I may say something profound
Environmental science ! here one day.
Murdoch University !
Western Australia, 6153 !
[email protected] !
phone 09-360 2737 ! | 11 | trimmed_train |
9,805 |
Ed:
Before you ridicule the intelligence of other people, LEARN TO SPELL.
Your typographical errors are, indeed, "embarassing" to those of us who
read alt.politics.libertarian for its allegedly superior ideas and writing. | 13 | trimmed_train |
6,884 | 8 | trimmed_train |
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342 | I need to have PCs and SPARCstations run the same application ( namely
MicroSoft Project ). The original system ran on the PC. Now it needs to
be expanded to allow UNIX users to work with the application. The
current proposal is to use DESQview/X as a display server for the
application.
I would like to know your experiences with using DESQview/X to run an
application on a PC and displaying on a SPARCstation. I've heard that
the network traffic is slow.
Replies only by e-mail please.
Thanks, in advance. | 16 | trimmed_train |
539 |
I'm just guessing here, but I'd guess that X11R5 expects the CG3 to have
1152x900 resolution, and the version of the CG3 in the SPARCclassic is
1024x768.
-- | 16 | trimmed_train |
2,448 | 04 Apr 93, David Cruz-Uribe writes to All:
DC> Also, what is Orthodox practice regarding communion? I read
DC> a throw-away remark someplace that the Orthodox receive less
DC> frequently than Catholics do, but was is their current practice?
DC> Have their been any variations historically?
I think Orthodox practice varies from place to place, from parish to parish and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some parishes here in South Africa the only ones who receive communion are infants (i.e. children under
7). In our parish it is expected that one will have been to Vespers and confessional prayers the evening before, and that one will have been fasting. As we have to travel 70km to the church, we don'
t receive communion every Sunday, but about every third Sunday.
Steve | 0 | trimmed_train |
8,868 | Hey...
I may be wrong, but wasn't Jeff Fenholt part of Black Sabbath? He's a
MAJOR brother in Christ now. He totally changed his life around, and
he and his wife go on tours singing, witnessing, and spreading the
gospel for Christ. I may be wrong about Black Sabbath, but I know he
was in a similar band if it wasn't that particular group...
HOW GREAT IS TH LOVE THE FATHER HAS LAVISHED ON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE
CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD! AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE! (1 JOHN 3:1) | 0 | trimmed_train |
1,529 | Readers,
I have found that the cache upgrade options for the Mac IIsi include the
following: 1) AE QuickSilver
2) Daystar Fastcache IIsi
3) Daystar ComboCache IIsi
4) LogiCache IIsi 64k cache
I'd be interested in hearing opinions on any or all of these options.
The other alternative is to upgrade to a CPU accelerator such as the
LogiCache 50 MHz. Ideas, comparisions? | 14 | trimmed_train |
3,126 | X Window installation on a Sun4/470 with CG6 alone and with CG2 as
screen:0.0 and CG6 as screen:0.1.
Questions:
1) Are there any hardware configuration changes on the CG2 and/or
CG6 devices that need to be made other than pulling out and inserting the
CG2 frame buffer in the vme bus?
2) The CG6 is called a 'graphics accelerator' as apposed to a 'frame buffer'.
What is the significance of this to the X server and how do we install
the SunOS driver / X to be compatable.
-----------------------
I would appreciate any information on this.
I am posting this on the behalf of Dr. John Charlton (who does not have net
access). Please reply to him directly at [email protected] or just send
it at this address and I will forward it.
Thank you for your help! | 16 | trimmed_train |
3 |
Do you have Weitek's address/phone number? I'd like to get some information
about this chip.
| 1 | trimmed_train |
8,120 |
Geez. Everyone comes up with Clark, Williams, Thompson. These guys
were all up in 1987. That's ancient history. So in the last 6 years,
noone, right? Beck doesn't count. I said 2 solid years.
Let's see what he does w/o the help of a pitchout every other pitch.
As I remember, even Bob Brenly had a good throwout percentage under
Roger Craig, who loved to sacrifice the count for runners being thrown
out. Of course, he suffered from 3 ball 1 strike homers a lot too.
I am not a big fan of Manwaring.
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8,412 |
None. You need to buy 2 80ns 256k VRAM SIMMs. They cost about $30
each from your favorite memory distributor.
The 512k is soldered to the logic board. There are 2 SIMM slots for
expansion. | 14 | trimmed_train |
6,502 | Look in the /pub/SPACE directory on ames.arc.nasa.gov - there are a number
of earth images there. You may have to hunt around the subdirectories as
things tend to be filed under the mission (ie, "APOLLO") rather than under
the image subject. | 1 | trimmed_train |
5,808 | each | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,985 | ZOROASTRIANISM
SAN JOSE, CA, USA
Monday April 5, 1993
San Jose Mercury News, Page 1
[Reproduced without permission]
_3,700-year tradition still glows -
'Assimilation in U.S. threatens ancient Zoroastrian religion'_
By Jeanne Huber, Mercury News Staff Writer
HIGH ON A HILLSIDE above San Jose, flames leap up 24 hours a day from a
gleaming brass urn in a temple - one of only four in the United States -
dedicated to one of the world's most ancient religions.
With the flames go the prayers of about 1,200 Bay Area Zoroastrians that
their faith will survive this land.
"There is a fear - a real fear, too," said Silloo Tarapore of Lafayette.
"We have one generation to do it or to die."
Many immigrant groups struggle to maintain an identity in a strange land.
But for Zoroastrians, it is an especially poignant concern.
Their religion has been around for perhaps 3,700 years, a heritage so deep
it scarcely seems comprehensible in a state where "historical sites" are
sometimes less than 100 years old. It was the religion of the great Persian
Empire under kings Cyrus and Darius. And tradition says that when Christ
was born about 500 years later, he was honored by a visit from three
Zoroastrian priests, the Magi. Scholars say many key beliefs of Christians,
Jews and Muslims can be traced to the teachings of Zoroaster, the
Zoroastrian prophet.
Yet, with only about 150,000 Zoroastrians in the entire world, they are
a miniscule minority in every country in which they live. Survival as a
people is very much on their minds.
Ironically, local Zoroastrians fear that the almost unlimited tolerance
of the United States may do what hundreds of years of persecution followed
by nearly 1,000 years of benign religious segregation could not do: cause
their young people to stop thinking of themselves as Zoroastrians.
Zoroastrians do not believe theirs is the only right religion, and they
actually shun the notion of trying to win converts. So if their children
become totally assimilated, they say, it's their children - rather than
the world at large - who will be the losers.
"It's important to have an identity," said Maneck Bhujwaia of San Jose,
a leader among Zoroastrians who came here from India. "It's important
for everybody - Irish, Scottish, Americans. It gives meaning to life.
You don't have to depend on the majority community to give you respect.
You can fall back on your own identity."
For Zoroastrians, there's much to be proud of.
Their prophet, Zoroaster, seeking to make sense of a culture in which
animal sacrifice to multiple gods was common, preached that there was
only one god, a good one. Zoroastrians call their god Ahura Mazda, which
translates as Lord of Wisdom and Light.
_Good vs. evil_
Zoroaster saw life as a constant struggle between good and evil, with
the good eventually winning. Men and women could join in the battle for
good, he said, and he warned that they would inevitably suffer consequences
such as shame and sorrow if they did wrong. He preached honesty, charity,
kindness to animals, respect for the environment, hard work, equality of
men and women - basic virtues preached by prophets of many religions.
But Zoroaster was perhaps unusual in that he told his followers not to
follow him blindly. He demanded they think for themselves. In fact,
Joseph Campbell, the famous scholar of the history and meaning of myths,
traced the Western emphasis on individual thought to the Zoroastrians.
Zoroastrians have many words for thought. Their motto, leaded into a
stained glass window over the sacred fire at the temple on the slopes of
Mount Hamilton, is "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds."
So it's not surprising that Zoroastrians value education highly. In India,
where a contingent of Zoroastrians arrived in the ninth century to escape
persecution by Muslims in Iran, Zoroastrians claim 100 percent literacy;
the overall statistic in India is just 60 percent.
About half of the Bay Area Zoroastrian community came here from India
and Pakistan, mostly to study at universities. The other half fled from
Iran after the 1979 revolution made that a fundamentalist Islamic state
where others had no rights.
Local Zoroastrians point with pride to ways their emphasis on "good
deeds" has improved life in every country they inhabit. In San Jose,
the recent restoration of the Hotel Sainte Clarie came about because
Manou Mobedshahi, a San Francisco-based hotelier, passed the boarded-up
downtown landmark on his way to and from the temple. At the temple's
dedication, the chief guest of honor was the mother of Zubin Mehta, the
Zoroastrian conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
The temple exists because of another good deed: the decision by an
Iranian emigre, the late Arbab Rustom Guiv, to buy land for six temples
in North America. Besides the 10-acre site off Crothers Road on Mount
Hamilton, he paid for land in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Toronto,
and Vancouver. Until his gifts, there were no Zoroastrian temples on
this continent.
Local Zoroastrians raised money to build the actual temple, and the
property already had a large house that they have converted to a
community center.
The temple, dedicated a year ago on the birthday of the prophet
Zoroaster, is a simple structure with gleaming white walls, vaulted
ceilings and oak floors, partially covered with huge Oriental carpets.
Its central feature is the fire, set in the middle of a partly-glassed-
in area at the center of the building. Although Zoroastrians are
sometimes called "fire worshippers," they actually consider fire just
a symbol of God. "It helps us concentrate, just like Christians use the
cross and Muslims use the Holy Book," Bhujwala said.
The biggest celebration of the years occurs in early spring. For all
Iranians, including Zoroastrians, the New Year begins on the first day of
the season because of its symbolism as the start of new life. With
Zoroaster's birthday just six days later, the combination of religious
and secular holidays creates something on par with what most of the
United States celebrates between Christmas and Jan. 1.
For this year's celebration of the prophet's birthday, about 500 people
came to worship and revel.
"The good things in life are not forbidden," Esfandiar Anoushiravani,
a leader of the Iranian members, had said beforehand, and what followed
proved him right.
Inside the temple, worshipers filled every chair and sat or stood
around the edges of the room as about a half-dozen priests chanted
thanksgiving prayers around a table laden with braziers of smoking
sandalwood, glasses of milk and water, and a tray heaped with dried fruit
and nuts.
Kids crowded around, grabbing handfuls of the treats. "People eat the
fruit," Tarapore said. "It's a way to participate in the ceremony."
_Santa Claus, sort of_
The gathering even had a Santa Claus, Iranian style. With flowing white
hair and a bag of gifts for the children, this Amownaroz wore green
symbolic of spring) and red.
He was ushed in by a sort of spring clown, Hajefyrouz, who danced and
played a tambourine.
The Zoroastrians from India were charmed. "This is all new for us, too,"
one told a visitor who asked what was going on.
A visitor, John A. Sabanovich of Folsom, said he became intrigued with
the religion years ago while on business trips to Iran. Zoroastrians have
no procedure for accepting converts - a result, some say, of their
centuries of persecution in Iran followed by their promise to the Hindu
king who allowed them into India that they would not interfere with his
people's religion.
But that does not stop Sabavich from joining in the celebrations at the
San Jose temple whenever he can.
"When I first heard about this religion," he said, "I thought, my God,
this is what a religion should be. They think for themselves and do good.
"People who don't have a tradition, something to lean on, what's the
difference with the lower animals?" | 15 | trimmed_train |
259 | Hello all,
You, the Net, are my last resort, or I'll just change my job :-)
This might be a FAQ (e.g. mixing controllers) but haven't seen any.
Sys: 486/33, AMI BIOS, and your run-of-the mill multi-I/O card with
serials/paral/floppies and
- IDE controller "clone" Gw2760-EX
there are no jumpers affecting the HD or ctrller :-(
- Quantum ProDrive LPS (3" 105M type 47: 755cyl, 16hds, 17spt).
Pb: I want to bring in this (2nd hand, neat price):
- Maxtor XT-B380E (~330M, <15ms, BIOS type 1, ctrller manages
the real geom: 1630cyl, 8hds, 52spt)
- Western Digital WD1007V-SE1 ESDI ctrller: no floppies.
(jumpers set IRQ 14/15, hw port addr 1F0/170,
and BIOS addr CC00/C800, and other floppy/format stuff)
Goal: have the WD ESDI as a secondary/controller and have both disks
simultaneously working. Being able to boot from the ESDI too would be
a nice bonus but is not expected.
Ultimate goal: have room for Linux et al.
Ex of scheme I have in mind: boot from IDE (HD or floppy) and mount
the ESDI as root. Not booting from ESDI, or even from HD, is acceptable.
I have tried numerous (all!!) combinations to no avail. They work alone,
or can coexist witout hang-ups but can't access the ESDI or the IDE,
depending on setup/jumpers.
Useful suggestions might be:
- How do I tell the BIOS setup about two ctrllers (I guess the 2nd HD
is expected to hang off the same ctrller as the 1st).
- Do I need some driver to make it work?
- --- " --- some new BIOS/chip for any of these cards?
- do I have to buy another controller to make them HDs happy? IDE
is cheaper; ESDI is hard to find and rather costly. I'm not
rich or I wouldnt' try to scavenge around, so soft slns are preferred.
- adapters of some sort; I can hold a soldering iron, and can change
a chip or put a jumper!
Also useful:
- BBS or Hot-line of Western Digital.
- ftp archives with relevant info.
- expert stores in Toronto, Ontario area (that would be a miracle! haven't
seen any really knowledgeable ppl in a while)
- any hints into inner workings of the system ...
- anything else that helped you in similar situations (prayers :-) )
Direct or posted replies are ok.
Many thanks,
Cat. | 3 | trimmed_train |
2,907 | It seems to me that all discussions about Clipper security are almost
irrelevant - if I cannot choose the key, but have to use a key chosen for
me by the foundry, the security of the WHOLE UNIVERSE OF USERS is as good
(or as bad) as the security of VLSI Technologies Inc.
It is a trivial effort to run any ciphertext agains ALL THE KEYS EVER
MANUFACTURED - after all we are talking about 1 to 100 million keys that
will ever be manufactured. The key depositories can be as secure and
incorruptible as they wish to be, nobody cares anyway...:-(
Now if someone would convince me that the shipping docks of VTI, ATT and
others are impenetrable (remember: the chips have to ship with the key -
you or the dealer are going to submit it to the authorities eventually)
I'd be a bit happier. But do we really believe that the various governments
(including ours) won't have the full lists of all the keys ever manufactured?
Did I miss something here?
My own opinions, quite obviously...
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4,960 | Greetings!
HP 20s forsale.
comes with case
no manuals
excellent condition
asking for $13.00
If interested, please E-mail today. | 5 | trimmed_train |
7,187 |
What about his rectum?
| 17 | trimmed_train |
8,300 |
> Is there an Xt call to give me my application context?
> I am fixing up an X/Motif program, and am trying to use XtAppAddTimeOut,
> whose first argument is the app_context. What call can I use
> to give me this value?
XtAppContext XtWidgetToApplicationContext(Widget) | 16 | trimmed_train |
7,181 | Were the early Christians weird? Yes! So were their non-Christian
contemporaries (the more familiar you are with late Republican Rome
or the Pricipate, the weirder those people will seem -- forget the
creative filtering done by Renaissance and Eighteenth Century hero
worship.) So are modern non-Christians. And Christians.
You are pretty weird, yourself, with your rather acid dismissal of
Luther and of Protestantism -- and in apparently buying into a
simplistic propaganda model about Catholicism *not* being faddish.
Sure, it's so large that global fads take longer cycles than they
do in smaller denominations (and local ones are not usually visible
unless you do a lot of traveling to exotic lands :-)). May I recom-
mend, as a salutary antidote to this nonsense Philippe Aries' book
_The Hour of our Death_, a longitudinal study of death customs in
Western [specifically Catholic] Christendom?
And it won't help to escape into the obscurity of the first Christian
century. Paul was pretty weird, too; as were Peter and the others in
the (apparently quite weird) circle around Jesus.
What I think you might find helpful is a bit more charity -- try to
understand these weirdos and nutcases with the same respect and love
you would expect others to show YOUR notions. We *are* commanded to
love one another, after all. And Brown's book is, in fact, a heroic
attempt to SEE the groupings he talks about as motivated in love and
the gospel and their social contexts. (If anything, Brown is *too*
heroic here -- he manages to overstrain himself at times :-))
I don't suggest that we *follow* any of these old cult paths -- and
it raises hard questions from the skeptic inside me that so much of
early Christianity *was* like the weird (Christian and non-Christian)
cults we see today. To that extent, I think you raise a serious
problem (and perhaps your phrasing is implicitly self-deprecatory
and ironic.)
But the first principle for *answering* these questions is respect and
love for those we do not understand. And it helps to *work* at under-
standing (as long as we do not get overwhelmed by revulsion and begin
to withdraw our respect for them as people.) I would advise, in other
words, MORE historical reading (Brown's other books are also good, most
especially his bio. of Augustine; also try Robin Lane Fox's _Christians
and Pagans_, maybe the Paul Veyne ed. _History of Private Life_, some
of Foucault's books on sexuality in the ancient world ...)
Humanity *is* weird -- we have known ONE sane person, and we killed Him.
Fortunately for us, this has proved a Comedy rather than a Tragedy.
Easter, 1993.
(yes; this is a tad early -- our Vigil service here has been moved forward
because so many churches in the area have taken to doing their own Vigils,
and the seminarians must therefore worship-and-run if they are to do it
here and there as well. Think of this as an Anglican fad. :-)) | 0 | trimmed_train |
7,680 | :Thousands? Tens of thousands? Do some arithmetic, please... Skipjack
:has 2^80 possible keys.
We don't yet know if all 80 bits count. Anyway, its looking like the
keys and escrow arrangements are smoke and mirrors to cover the way the NSA
can regenerate the key from the transmitted serial number. | 7 | trimmed_train |
6,212 | [email protected] (Frank Crary @ University of Colorado, Boulder):
These stats are invalid; we're talking BACKCOUNTRY. These stats for
rapes/assaults/deaths do not represent the backcountry singularly; the
great majority represent urban incidents. You should have pointed this out. | 9 | trimmed_train |
10,261 | As promised, I spoke today with the company mentioned in a Washington
Times article about the Clipper chip announcement. The name of the company
is Secure Communicatiions Technology (Information will be given at the end
of this message on how to contact them).
Basically they are disturbed about the announcement for many reasons that
we are. More specifically however, Mr. Bryen of Secure Communications
brought to light many points that might interest most of the readers.
His belief is that AT&T was made known of the clipper well before the
rest of the industry. This is for several reasons, several of which are:
- A company of AT&T's size could never be able to make a decision to use
the new chip on the SAME DAY it was announced.
- Months ago they proposed using their own chip for AT&T's secure telephone
devices. AT&T basically blew them off as being not interested at all.
This stuck them as strange, until now...
Also I spoke with Art Melnick, their cryptographer, he expressed several
concerns over the new Clipper Chip:
- The obvious backdoor will be able to let many people decrypt the code.
- Once the key is released to authorities the security of the crypto
system is lost forever. These keys can end up in the hands of any agency
of the government.
- The fact that the escrowed keys never change means that the algorithm
is vulnerable over time to an attacker.
- The classified algorithm may hide another backdoor. But he feels that
it is probably to keep people from forging fake serial numbers, or
changing the keys themselves.
- Additionally he feels that the NSA has probably spent enough time and
money in working on a way to keep this chip from being reversed
engineered, that he feels that reverse engineering it will be very
difficult to do. He feels that they have developed a suitable technique
to protect the chip from this attack. Also he feels that the chip is
hardware encoded with the algorithm and not microcoded onto the chip.
Additonally I spoke with Mr. Melnick about their algorithm. He couldn't tell
me much about their new agorithm because it hasn't been patented yet.
However he told me a little:
- The algorithm will be released for public review after patents have been
granted for it. This is so the crypto community can see that it is
secure.
- The algorithm is called NEA for New Encryption Algorithm.
The details were sketchy because now it is held as a trade secret
until the patent was issued, but I was told that it will incorporate
the following:
- It will have fast encryption of data (Exact specs not given, but
Mr. Melnick stated "Much faster than what an RS-232 can put out.")
- It is a symmetric cipher, just like IDEA and DES.
- It will use 64 bit data blocks for encryption (like DES and IDEA).
- The key length was not given to me, but Mr. Melnick states that
it is _adujustable_ and is "More than adequate for security."
- The algorithm is written in C and Assembler in software form, and
can be ported to many platforms (Unlike the the Clipper Chip which
is hardware ONLY and cannot be made into software) This I
consider a definite plus for the NEA for widespread use.
- The algorithm will accomodate public key distribution techniques
such as RSA or Diffie-Hellman. This will also be supported in the
hardware chip.
- Right now the projected cost of the NEA chip will be about 10 dollars
for each!! (Clipper will run 25 each chip [that is if it is produced
enough, which probably won't happen]).
- They currently sell a program called C-COM that uses the algorithm
and a special streaming protocol that does not divide the encrypted
data into "blocks." This could prevent plaintext attacks if you know
what the block header is. This program operates at all supported
RS-232 speeds and uses the software implementation of the algorithm.
- Most importantly: IT DOES NOT HAVE A BACKDOOR!!
Right now the company is afraid that the new clipper chip will put them out
of business. This is a very real possibility. So they really need help in
stopping the clipper chip from becoming a standard. If you want to contact
them, they can be reached at..
Secure Communications Technology
8700 Georgia Ave. Suite 302
Silver Spring, MD
(301) 588-2200
I talked to Mr. Bryen who represents the company. He can answer any
questions you have.
Any factual errors occurring in this write up are my own and I apologize for
them ahead of time.
| 7 | trimmed_train |
8,269 |
I use an H11F1 FET optoisolater to switch microphone level signals.
There is no click, since I put a .1uF cap across the LED. Distortion
measurement are very low with mic level, and they went up to 0.03% at a
+ 14 dB line level. All I did was put the FET in series with one leg
of the balanced line. No hums, pops, just audio jumping out of silence.
The FET runs about 100 million ohms with the LED dark and drops to 150-200
ohms with it on. | 11 | trimmed_train |
1,794 | I need to know the Pins to connect to make a loopback connector for a serial
port so I can build one. The loopback connector is used to test the
serial port.
Thanks for any help.
| 3 | trimmed_train |
3,290 | Could someone mail me the archive location of the MSF Program (for
an IBM, right?)?
Thanks,
| 12 | trimmed_train |
9,814 |
I might suggest giving the management some more mumble time by asking
the very leading question (in two or three parts)
What are your long term expectations of space market, what projects
specifically are they funding by internal funds and at what levels
and what competition do you expect in this area. (This last point
is always worth hitting upper management with "gently" if you want
them to think and as hard as you can if you have a good case that
there really is competion)
| 10 | trimmed_train |
807 | I can't imagine why someone would leave their computer on all of
the time to start with. Its like leaving your lights tv, radio
and everything in the house on all of the time to me.....Nuts | 3 | trimmed_train |
3,835 | 11 | trimmed_train |
|
1,152 |
It's not the picture tube. More likely the flyback. Emerson? can't admire.
Han | 11 | trimmed_train |
1,462 | }For those missing the context of this thrilling discussion between
}Jim and I, Jim wrote the following to me in e-mail after I pointed out
Hate to shatter your self image of perfection that you appear to hold, but
your language is wrong: Jim and me.
}I pointed out that I did, in fact, agree that both Robert Weiss and
}Jim Meritt took quotes out of context. Hence, I find it difficult to
}understand why Jim thinks I am a hypocrite. Needless to say, I don't
}have time to reply to *every* article on t.r.m. that takes a quote
}out of context.
Of course not - just the ones you disagree with. Q.E.D.
}>}So, according to you, Jim, the only way to criticize one person for
}>}taking a quote out of context, without being a hypocrite, is to post a
}>}response to *every* person on t.r.m who takes a quote out of context?
}
}Jim replied by saying
}>Did I either ask or assert that?
}
}But today we find four articles from Jim, one of which has the subject
So? As of then, and pointing out a specific instance. Wrongo again.
}>Is it not the case that, in the eyes of the law, when someone is aware of
}>something and has the capability of taking action and does not, that individual
}>may be held responsible for that action?
}
}Which is, of course, a complete red herring. Taking quotes out of
}context isn't a crime. I don't have time to read every article on
}t.r.m., and I'm certainly under no obligation to reply to them all.
So? Check the newsgroups?
}Does "silence is concurrence" imply that Jim thinks that because I
}didn't respond to Weiss' articles I must condone Weiss' taking quotes
}out of context? Jim doesn't want to give a direct answer to this
}question; read what he has written and decide for yourself.
Telepathy again? You claim to know what I "want".
}But back to the context of my conversation with Jim. Jim's next
}gambit was to claim that he was using inductive logic when he
}concluded that I was being a hypocrite. I challenged him to provide
}the details of that logic that led him to an incorrect conclusion.
No. YOu asked specifically what was wrong with yours.
}Today we find another obscure article (posting it twice didn't help
Maybe to the ignorant. I accept your classification.
}More red herrings. Could Jim mean that he has read an uncountably large
}number of my articles?
Do you know what "uncountably large" means? It does not appear so.
}Could Jim mean that because I "axed" his articles,
}but not Weiss' articles, he wants to conclude inductively ...
}Well, I can't see where he is going with this.
I am not suprised.
}But I can help him with his induction. I've written roughly 80
That does not appear to be the case. The appearance of your "Argument"
is more like that Captain Kirk would have gotten from Mr. Spock - written
by a stagehand at Paramount.
}Think hard about this Jim. See the pattern? Think harder. Run it
}through your induction engine and see what pops out. | 15 | trimmed_train |
8,586 | >specific objections that don't sound frighteningly technical. | 7 | trimmed_train |
5,502 | ---
Then let me ask you for a "workable" solution. We have a name
here that implies certain things to many people. Rather than trying
to educate each and every person that comes to the group -- is there
some "name" that would imply what this group was originally
intended for?
My dad was a lawyer -- as such I grew up with being a stickler
for "meaning". In my "reality", psychoactives *technically* could
range from caffeine to datura to the drugs you mention to more
standard recreational drugs. In practice I had hoped to see it
limited to those that were above some psychoactive level -- like
some of the drugs you mention, but also possibly including *some*
recreational drugs -- but with conversation limited to their psychoactive
effects -- the recent query about "bong water", I thought was a bit
off topic -- so I just hit "k".
But back to the original question -- what is a workable solution --
what is a workable name that would imply the topic you with to
discuss? It sounds like there should be a alt.smartdrugs, or something
similar -- I don't feel psychoactives would generally be used to
describe alot of those drugs. There is a big difference between a
drug that if taken in "certain doses, over a period of days may have
a psychoactive effect in some people", vs. many of the drugs in
PIHKAH which *are* psychoactive.
wm
-- | 19 | trimmed_train |
4,851 |
According to reports, if you don't have DOS yet, and don't have any
utilities (QEMM, Stacker, PCTools, Norton, ...) then DOS6 may be worth it.
For people who have DOS5, and some sort of utility, DOS6 doesn't offer
much. You'd never know it from the usual hype that marketing is able
to create, however. :-) | 5 | trimmed_train |
1,172 |
Since the DC-X is to take off horizontal, why not land that way??
Why do the Martian Landing thing.. Or am I missing something.. Don't know to
much about DC-X and such.. (overly obvious?).
Why not just fall to earth like the russian crafts?? Parachute in then...
==
Michael Adams, [email protected] -- I'm not high, just jacked | 10 | trimmed_train |
5,358 | Folks,
I am assembling info for a Film Criticism class final project.
Essentially I need any/all movies that use motos in any substantial
capacity (IE; Fallen Angles, T2, H-D & the Marlboro Man,
Raising Arizona, etc).
Any help you fellow r.m'ers could give me would be much `preciated.
(BTW, a summary of bike(s) or plot is helpful but not necessary)
Thanx
-Erc.
_______________________________________________________________________________
C Eric Sundheim [email protected]
GrandRapids, MI, USA
`90 Hondo VFR750f
DoD# 1138 | 12 | trimmed_train |
2,258 | I own a Mac IIsi and am considering upgrades (cards, hard drive, etc).
Can you tell me what the power limitations are for 1) the PDS slot
and 2) the hard drive power feed. Secondly, Can you tell me if there
is a separate limit for each, or if instead, there is a single limit
for both combined? | 14 | trimmed_train |
401 |
In the interests of saving badnwidth during this "heated" time of the
year (viz. the early flurry of "retard" comments coming from a certain
state whose name starts with P and ends with A), why don't you tell us
something we don't already know?
George | 17 | trimmed_train |
6,652 |
Does anyone know what countries are these?
With the following logical consequences
(a) Using any code designed to obscure informatio which is
not easily breakable will be illegal, including
(i) Using code words such as ``Project P5''
(ii) Speaking a language other than English
(iii) Ever refering implicitly to events not known to
everyone, eg
"Hi John. How was last night?"
For all the listener knows, this may be a code for
"Did you pick up the drugs OK last night?"
of be a code for
"OK. We blow up the Pentagon at midnight."
(iv) Mentioning anything that could not be perfectly
understood by an average person with no education.
(v) Words with more than one syllable.
(vi) Speaking with a heavy accent that could bemisunderstood
by people not used to it.
(vii) books with an "Inner meaning"...such
as "Animal Farm".
Yes.
I have a wonderful encrypter you can borrow that converts a message
eg "Meet me at 11:30 to bomb the White House. Bring some dynamite"
to an apparently (relatively) innoculous message. This message
here is an example of the output for the above message :-).
It is shockiong that it could happen anywhere.
It is shocking that it could happen in a country
that has the arrogance to call itself free.
What you can do:
(1) Write to your congress person in plain text.
(2) Write to your congress person in encrypted text.
(decrypter optional)
(3) Send some random keystroked to your congressperson
(4) Send some random keystrokes accross the US boundaries,
and keep the spooks busy trying to decode it.
(5) Write your own encryption algorithms.
(6) Don't buy clipper products.
P.S. I can't work out why the US government doesn't want to sell
them overseas. After all, they are rather easy for US interests to decode,
so make a perfect tool for industrial/military espionage...lulling
anyone stupid enough to buy it into a false sense of security. You will
notice that there is NO mention anywhere about safety for non-Americans.
Disclaimer: My opinions are mine alone, and do not represent anyone elses.
I have nothing that I particularly want to hide at the moment...though I
consider the right
to be able to use whatever method of coding data I like to be high on my
list of priorities.
-- | 7 | trimmed_train |
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