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2,446 | I finally got the vesa driver for my ATI graphics ultra plus (2M). However,
when I tried to use this to view under 24bit mode, I get lines on the picture.
With 16bit or below, the picture is fine. Can someone tell me what was wrong?
Is it the card, or is it the software?
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Thanks
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_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/
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1,326 | To all those out there wondering about who holds the record for three
homer games ina career, the answer is Johnny Mize in his career with the
Cards and the Yanks. He hit three 6 times. I am almost sure about this. In
case anyone is wondering, the record for two homer games is held by Babe
Ruth and is 72. Mize's record may not last for much longer because of Juan
Gonzalez. He has at least three games with three and maybe 4. I know that
he had at least two last year and one as a rookie. I don't have any record
books at college for me to check on though. Please let me know, okay, if I
am wrong.
Onto the Padres. Is there anyone out there who follows them?- especial-ly those with access to local news? I don't here anything in Los Angeles and I
can't get McPaper consistently around here.
comment: It looks as though San Diego has gotten the better of the two deals
that brought Bell and Plantier to the Padres. It has also forced the team to use Darrell Shermann. Of course, Plantier could get injured again or he could
hit with the power of 91 but with a lower average. Bell always could finish
with .240 and 15-18 hrs-essentially Jerald Clark's numbers.
leadoff comment: Craig Shipley?????? I get on base 29% of the time if I'm
lucky at leadoff? Hell, of the usual starters, use Gwynn. He's got 4 steals
already. Is Shipley starting because of an injury to Stillwell, though? I
haven't seen Stillwell's name in any box scores. Anyway unless you are going
to use Shermann at leadoff then use Gwynn. He at lesat gets on base and this
year is stealing bases.
Sheffield comment: Though the season is early and stats mean nothing.
Witness Phillips batting .500+ currently. But does Sheffield have an injury,
or anythingelse wrong with him. I just don't hear anything.
Andy Benes: Is he pitching like he did in the second half of '91? or is
this a flash of promise that he throws out evrey now and then? Has anyone
seen him pitch the two good games?
score for today, Sunday april 18: Padres 10, St Louis 6. Padres sweep the
Cardinals as Gwynn goes 5 for 5 with a homer. Sheffield and Tueful also homer
in a winning cause.
Thanks for listening-reading
any comments???? | 2 | trimmed_train |
3,245 | Hello folks!
I have an Archive XL5580 (internal QIC-80) tape drive, which is pretty
comparable to the Colorado Jumbo 250. Since I have two floppy drives in
my system, I'm using a small card (not accelerated) made by Archive to
attach my tape drive as a third floppy device.
The problem: Although the DOS-based QICstream software works just fine,
both the Norton and Central Point backup programs for Windows fail unless
I switch the machine to non-turbo speed (I'm using a 486DX/33 EISA). Since
the DOS software works, it can't be a hardware problem, can it? Has anyone
seen similar problems? Any solutions? Thanks in advance. | 3 | trimmed_train |
9,475 | Hitherto have ye asked nothing
in my name:
ask, and ye shall receive,
that your joy may be full. | 15 | trimmed_train |
6,311 |
Yes, I did punch in the wrong numbers (working too many late nites). I
intended on stating 640x400 is 256,000 bytes. It's not in the bios, just my
VESA TSR.
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2,064 | Tcpview is the result of several problems we had at UW. We have several
Network General Sniffers which are heavily used to help debug problems on
several hundred subnets. These are good tools, but they are 1) heavy,
2) hard to find when you need one, 3) limited in their software expandibility,
4) difficult to use to upload data for analysis, 5) cannot be remotely
operated, and 6) cannot resolve names with DNS, requiring much manual
manipulation of the name table. We also sometimes use tcpdump, but we found
it 1) too difficult for most people, 2) did not have enough information for
many protocols, 3) could not be used interactively, 4) could not handle
TCP streams and 5) could not read Sniffer files. However, tcpdump did do
a reasonable job of decoding a large number of protocols, and could be easily
modified. Tcpview is an attempt to resolve these problems
by adding a Motif interface to tcpdump and expanding its features.
Tcpview has been tested on a DECstation 5000 and Sun 4 under Ultrix 4.2 and
SunOS 4.1 respectively. It should work on the same systems as tcpdump.
It compiles with cc and gcc on the DEC and Sun. To build tcpview you will
need Motif 1.1 or better.
The following files are available for anonymous ftp from
ftp.cac.washington.edu in /pub/networking
tcpview-1.0.tar.Z tcpview and tcpdump source code
tcpview-1.0.sun.tar.Z Sun4 binaries
tcpview-1.0.dec.tar.Z DEC Mips Ultrix 4.2 binaries
What tcpview adds to tcpdump:
- easier interface
- enhanced protocol decoding
- hex display of frame
- capture based on time, number of frames, or user interrupt
- can show ethernet addresses with manufacturer's name
- ethernet address host table
- can easily follow a stream, highlighting out-of-order frames
- can send TCP data to an external file or filter for additional
processing.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHANGES TO TCPDUMP 2.2.1
New features:
Now reads and writes Network General Sniffer files. When used with '-r', the
file type will be automatically detected.
Can now read in (and use) an SNMP MIB file.
The hex format has been changed.
New time options have been added.
Options were added to allow viewing and processing of the data in TCP packets.
Bugs were fixed in the relative TCP sequence numbers. (-S flag)
New flags:
-R read Sniffer file. Not usually needed, except for reading from stdin
-ttt prints delta times
-tttt prints times relative to the first frame
-W write a Sniffer save file (use with -w)
-x print frame (minus link-level header) in hexdump format.
Sample output:
16:36:23.349851 jeff.cac.washington.edu.1285 > nic.funet.fi.ftp: S 0:0(0) win 16384
0000 45 00 00 28 8a 98 00 00 3c 06 7c 9c 80 5f 70 02 | E..(....<.|.._p.
0010 80 d6 06 64 05 05 00 15 5b 19 4a 00 00 00 00 00 | ...d....[.J.....
0020 50 02 40 00 4e 13 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | [email protected].........
-X print TCP data in hexdump format (used with -Z)
-z write TCP data to stdout (use with -t to eliminate timestamp)
-Z write frames and TCP data to stdout
Martin M. Hunt
[email protected]
Networks & Distributed Computing
University of Washington
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1,248 |
Agreed. We need more folks to admit they're bi.
--
Michael D. Adams ([email protected]) Champaign, IL / southeast AL | 13 | trimmed_train |
7,130 |
So antihistamines can cause weight gain. NOW they tell me. :-)
Is there any way to find out which do & which don't? My doctor
obviously is asleep at the wheel.
The original poster mentioned fatigue. I had that too, but it was
mostly due to the really bizarre dreams I was having -- I wasn't getting
any rest. My doctor said that was a common reaction. If astemizole
doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, how does it cause that side
effect? Any ideas?
-- | 19 | trimmed_train |
2,872 | Hi !!! This is the response for Wayne Michael...and certainly for other-one :-)
I'm sorry for...
1) The late of the answer but I couldn't find xv221 for msdos 'cause
I forgot the address...but I've retrieve it..
2) Posting this answer here in comp.graphics 'cause I can't use e-mail,
not yet....
2) My bad english 'cause I'm a Swiss and my language is french....
After a long time I retrieve the address where you can find XV for Dos...
Site : omnigate.clarkson.edu
Aliases : grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
Number : 128.153.4.2
/pub/msdos/djgpp/pub
it's xv221.zip (?) I think...
Certainly you read the other answer from Kevin Martin... He write about DV/X
(?).
What is it ?????? Could Someone answer ????
Thanx in advance....
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* Pascal PERRET | [email protected] *
* Ecole d'ingénieur ETS | (Not Available at this time)*
* 2400 Le LOCLE | *
* Suisse *
* !!!! Enjoy COMPUTER !!!! *
* * | 1 | trimmed_train |
4,218 |
So the only way you can tell a false hadith from a true one is
if it contradicts the Quran? What if it relates to something
that isn't explicitly spelled out in the Quran?
Also, the Quran wasn't written down during the life of Muhammed
either. It wasn't long after, but 20 years or so is still long
enough to shift a few verses around.
Karl
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5,429 |
The answer to your question is...sort of. Volkswagen had a
much less robust version of this army vehicle out in the
early '70's (or thereabouts). It was called the Volskwagen
Thing, and was, of course, a convertible. I havent seen
many around then or now. Good luck...
-Mik
| 4 | trimmed_train |
4,136 | Gotta pay my WELL bill - eating is of mere passing interest in
comparison.
KAWAI K-4 Synthesizer for $400 IF YOU ACT NOW - cash only pleeze,
take delivery in Berkeley. CALL (510) 287-5737 and leave name
and number for me to call back and arrange this MARVELOUS FEAST.
OFFER EXPIRES SOON (how soon? Soon - believe it.)
ACT NOW. | 5 | trimmed_train |
6,334 | Tapes for sale, $3.00 each and the shipping is included.
Those tapes are 1 year old and are hardly used, so there should
not be any problem with it. I really want to sell them, so make
me a package offer if you wish to.
Eagles The Best of Eagles
Eagles Hotel California
Elton John Sleeping with the past
Gloria Estefan Into the Light
James Ingram The Power of Great Music
Kenny G. Duo Tones
Lethal Weapon 3 ( music from the motion picture )
Mariah Carey MTV Unplugged EP
Michael Bolton Time, Love and Tenderness
The Phantom of the Opera
Genesis We can't dance
Phil Collins ... But Seriously
Queen The Works
Queen Live Magic
Wilson Phillips
Send me your offer...
Please send your offer to [email protected]
thanks you, | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,528 |
I hope there is something I don't understand about this system, but can
someone tell me how these chips are going to be manufactured while maintaining
each half key under total control of the separate escrow agencies? Don't
both halfs of the key have to come together (in some form) at the time
the chip is constructed?
Or is it built like a fusable prom, with the chip being sent to the 1st
escrow agency to program its 1/2 key, then the 2nd agency to program its
1/2 key (but who invents the safeguards that prevent the 2nd agency from
reading the information already programmed by the 1st)?
This isn't intended to be a flame or anything, I am just really curious
how to manufacture these things while still maintaining the key escrow
security without simply saying "trust the manufacturer, they won't look". | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,591 |
As usually, you are not reading. The proposal -does- say that it is a
"voluntary program". This doesn't make it more desirable, though...
"Secure"? How do you know? Because NSA is trying to make you believe it?
"Trust us." Yeah, right.
"Otherwise you are on your own"? How do you know that tomorrow they
will not outlaw encrypring devices that don't use "their" technology?
Because they are promising you? Gee, they are not doing even that -
read the proposal again.
Regards,
Vesselin | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,815 | I don't understand who this post is directed towards; who are you
trying to convince? By its subject i would assume you are directing
the argument towards people who do not believe that Christ rose
from the dead, but in your "proof," you use the bible exclusively.
The post is therefore immediately useless to anyone who doesn't
believe that the bible is an unadulterated truth, and to everyone
else, it is just a reaffirmation of a belief already held. As far
as i know, there is no disagreement between christians over
the resurrection of christ.
so my question is: what is the purpose of this post?
tomas
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9,052 | cd's for sale:
1. jon bon jovi - new jersey $8.00
2. boomerang - soundtrack $8.00
3. the police - every breath you take $8.00
*/ $1.00 s/h | 5 | trimmed_train |
3,816 |
If no-one looks at the results, or acknowledges their correctness, in what
meaningful sense can the chip be said to "work"?? Does flibozity exist?
By "flibozity", I mean a particular, extremely complex configuration of
physical phenomena, which no-one, absolutely NO-ONE cares about in the
slightest. Does it exist, Eric?
Getting back to the question of whether the DES chip "works", doesn't "work"
mean something like "achieving the desired/expected effect"? Note the way
intentionality subtly underlies that definition. Even if we take the
definition as "expected", instead of "desired", can you deny that conformance
to expectations is itself a value of sorts, namely the scientific values of
accuracy-of-prediction and reproducibility-of-results?
The phenomenologist Husserl, for one, considered Intentionality to be the
primary ontological "stuff" from which all other ontology was built --
perceptions, consciousness, thoughts, etc. Frank is by no means alone in
seeing intentionality (or "values", as he puts it) underlying all human
experience, even the so-called "objective" experiences, such as
measurements of the natural world, or the output of your DES chip. | 15 | trimmed_train |
6,926 | Excuse me to every one.
I am an Amiga owner and tired to have the same graphic modes.
So I saw on nn there was a little bridgeboard that made the
Amiga's PC slots communicate with the stanndard Amiga's slot.
The building mother house of this little gadget assure me
that using this thing I can use all the pc boards included
the SVGA cards.
I am interested in computer graphics and I do not know many
things about pc in general.
So, what is the best (ISA slot) card on the market ?
I'd like to reach resolutions like 1280x1024 with 256
colors or 800x600 with 24 bitplanes.
Any suggestion ??
thankyou in advance
Paolo Silvera -- Certified Commodore Amiga developer | 3 | trimmed_train |
8,190 |
Still yelling at the telephone and the lawn mower? People will think
you're just some looney howling in the wires. Now any comment?
Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
"Document No: 76," Archive No: 1/2, Cabin No: 109, Drawer
No: 3, File No: 346, Section No: 427(1385), Contents No: 3, 52-53.
(To Lt. Colonel Seyfi, General Headquarters, Second Section,
Istanbul - Dr. Stephan Eshnanie)
'Neues Wiener Tagblatt' - Vienna, 'Pester Lloyd' 'Local Anzliger' - Berlin,
'Algemeen Handelsblat' - Amsterdam, 'Vakit' - Istanbul.
"I have been closely following for two weeks the withdrawal of Russians and
Armenians from Turkish territories through Armenia. Although two months
have elapsed since the clearing of the territories of Armenian gangs, I
have been observing the evidence of the cruelties of the Armenians at
almost every step. All the villages from Trabzon to Erzincan and from
Erzincan to Erzurum are destroyed. Corpses of Turks brutally and cruelly
slain are everywhere. According to accounts by those who were able to
save their lives by escaping to mountains, the first horrible and fearful
events begun when the Russian forces evacuated the places which were then
taken over by Armenian gangs. The Russians usually treated the people
well, but the people feared the intervention of the Armenians. Once these
places had been taken over by the Armenians, however, the massacres begun.
They clearly announced their intention of clearing what they called the
Armenian and Kurdish land from the Turks and thus, solve the nationality
problem. Today I had the opportunity to meet Austrian and German soldiers
who had escaped from Russian prison camps and come from Kars and
Alexander Paul (Gumru-Leninakan)...Russian officers tried to save the
Turks and there were clashes between Russian officers and Armenian gangs.
I am now in Erzurum, and what I see is terrible. Almost the whole city is
destroyed. The smell of the corpses still fills the air. Although there are
speculations that Armenian gangs murdered Austrian and German prisoners as
well, I could not get the supporting evidence in this regard, but there is
proof of murdering of Turkish prisoners of war."
Dr. Stephan Eshnanie
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
10,683 |
The argument for Luke's genealogy being that of Mary is very weak. According
to Luke 3:23
And when he began his ministry, Jesus himself was about
thirty years of age, being supposedly the son of Joseph,
the son of Eli,
Aside from the fact that Mary is not mentioned, there are two possible
interpretations: either Joseph was her father or he was her brother.
Clearly this is not acceptable. A third would be that Joseph, the son
of Eli, was her Father and just happened to have the name as the man
to whom she was betrothed. But that would seem to be grasping at
straws. The most straightforward interpretation is that Luke had no
intention of tracing Mary's genealogy (in which case he would have
named her) but that he traces her husband's, from David's son Nathan.
The Matthew descendant list most definitely traces down from David's
son, Solomon, to Joseph. Matthew 1:16 reads:
And to Jacob was born Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom was born
Jesus, who is called Christ.
There are two apparent problems. The first is, how to reconcile the
two paternal genealogies - which diverge with the sons of David,
Solomon and Nathan. The second is, why is any genealogy of Joseph
relavent at all, if Joseph had nothing to do with it. If Joseph was
not Jesus's physical father, then the original poster is quite
correct, that claims for Jesus's messianic heritage are not based on
truth but only on appearances, whatever Jesus's divine nature was.
The second problem is easy, in my mind. We assume that Joseph was not
involved in the conception of Jesus in any way. However, a Holy
Spirit capable of working a physical conception in Mary is also
capable of employing the physical agency of Joseph's seed in this
work. In our materialistic times we interpret viginity and its loss
solely in terms of a physical act, whereas it is really a matter of
purity on a much higher level as well. The important thing is that
neither Mary nor Joseph was conscious of any union between them (they
had not "known"each other). Thus the first gospel's dedication of
half its opening chapter to the genealogy of Joseph is quite relevant
to Jesus, the Virgin birth not- withstanding.
To the first question there is an answer that creates, to begin with, more
problems than it resolves. It is that the two evangelists are relating
the births of two entirely different children of two entirely different
sets of parents. Except for the names of the parents and the child, and
the birthplace in Bethlehem there is no point in common between the two
stories. Matthew and Luke converge in their accounts only thirty years
later with the Baptism of Jesus in Jordan. Rudolf Steiner offered his
explanation of how these accounts begin with two children and then converge
with their accounts of the one Jesus of Nazareth. He did not derive his
resolution from biblical study or speculation, or from other external
documents, and the discussion of "how this could be" might bring us beyond
the limits of appropriateness for this newsgroup. In any case, the
details are described in Steiner's "The Spiritual Guidance of the Human
Being and of Humanity", "The Gospel of St. Luke", and "The Gospel of St.
Matthew".
Whether or not Rudolf Steiner's methods and explanation are accepted
as valid, at least this interpretation resolves the apparent
contradictions of the two genealogies while leaving the text intact.
As for the passing of one's Jewishness through the mother, this was
never an issue with Jesus. No one ever questioned his or Mary's
Jewishness. The issue of the genealogies has to do with his paternal
line of descent from David, the king. | 0 | trimmed_train |
2,082 | Request for Information
I have been reading about an organisation called "WinWord Developer's Relations
Group". I believe they have produced publications called WinWord Software
Development Kit (or WordBasic SDK) and 'The Proceedings of the Windows
Developers' Tools Conference, WordBasic' sessions assembled by Steve Wexler.
Would you be able to help me with a contact name and address for this
organisation or these publications.
Thank you
| 18 | trimmed_train |
8,869 | In my first posting on this subject I threw out an idea of how to fund
such a contest without delving to deep into the budget. I mentioned
granting mineral rights to the winner (my actual wording was, "mining
rights.) Somebody pointed out, quite correctly, that such rights are
not anybody's to grant (although I imagine it would be a fait accompli
situation for the winner.) So how about this? Give the winning group
(I can't see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year
moratorium on taxes. | 10 | trimmed_train |
5,487 |
Still living in an alternate universe? Numerous articles in major newspapers
(London Times) and periodicals (Newsweek) during the war, had suggested
the existence of a significant collaboration between Armenians and the
Nazis. Arthur Derounian deserves credit for being the first person to
deal with this issue extensively. Derounian's motives were twofold: his
deeply held democratic convictions gave him a sense of duty and he felt
obliged to shed light on this yet another dark chapter of Armenian history.
Concurrently, Derounian embarked on what one would call 'crisis control'
or face-saving. In order to forestall any potential attacks on the larger
Armenian community in the United States, he marginalized collaboration
as deplorable but insignificant.[1]
[1] John Roy Carlson (real name Arthur Derounian), 'The Plotters,'
E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., New York 1946, p. 182.
Source: "Mitteilungsblatt, Berlin, December 1939, Nr. 2 and 5-6"
Yet another historical fact: a fact that for years has been deliberately
forgotten, concealed, and wiped from memory - the fact of Armenian-Nazi
collaboration.
A magazine called Mitteilungsblatt der Deutsch-Armenischen Gesselschaft
is the clearest and most definite proof of this collaboration. The
magazine was first published in Berlin in 1938 during Nazi rule of Germany
and continued publication until the end of 1944. Even the name of the
magazine, which implies a declaration of Armenian-Nazi cooperation,
is attention-getting.
This magazine, every issue of which proves the collaboration, is historically
important as documentary evidence. It is a heap of writing that should be
an admonition to world opinion and to all mankind.
In Nazi Germany, Armenians were considered to be an Aryan race and certain
political, economic, and social rights were thus granted to them. They
occupied positions in public service and were partners in Nazi practices.
The whole world of course knows what awaited those who were not considered
"Aryan" and what befell them.
Now wait, there is more.
Source: "From Sardarapat to Sevres and Lausanne" by Avetis Aharonian. The
Armenian Review, Vol. 16, No. 3-63, Autumn, Sep. 1963, pp. 47-57.
p. 52 (second paragraph).
"Your three chiefs, Dro, Hamazasp and Kulkhandanian are the ringleaders
of the bands which have destroyed Tartar villages and have staged
massacres in Zangezour, Surmali, Etchmiadzin, and Zangibasar. This is
intolerable. Look - and here he pointed to a file of official documents
on the table - look at this, here in December are the reports of the last
few months concerning ruined Tartar villages which my representative
Wardrop has sent me. The official Tartar communique speaks of the
destruction of 300 villages."
p. 54 (fifth paragraph).
"Yes, of course. I repeat, until this massacre of the Tartars is stopped
and the three chiefs are not removed from your military leadership I
hardly think we can supply you arms and ammunition."
"...it is the armed bands led by Dro, Hamazasp and Kulkhandanian who
during the past months have raided and destroyed many Tartar villages in
the regions of Surmali, Etchmiadzin, Zangezour, and Zangibasar. There are
official charges of massacres."
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
9,311 | Help! I'm trying to program my VGA! I've got it working
with in pascal with the following routines for mode $13h
(320*200*256). I've got a VESA compatable Trident 8900C w/1meg
and need to program in 1024*768 mode. I don't care how many colors.
Could someone take this code and help me write 2 new procedures to
replace them so that it'll work in 1024*768*16 or 1024*768*256?
That'd be GREAT! Thanks...
Here is the code I currently have for 320*200*256 mode:
Procedure GraphMode;
Begin { VideoMode }
Asm
Mov AH,00
Mov AL,13h
Int 10h
End;
End; { VideoMode }
Procedure PlotPoint (x, y, c : Integer);
Begin
Mem[$A000:x+y*320]:=c;
End;
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7,761 |
Noooooooo! I've been servicing Macs for years too, and I've had to
repair a number of motherboards that had been damaged this way. It's
rare, but it does happen.
Mind you, this doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. The parts that can
blow (the ADB power fuse and RF filter) aren't too expensive, so IF you
have a someone around who can do component-level repair, it may be worth
the risk (especially if you're around Seattle, 'cause you might get to
pay *me* to fix it :-)).. On the other hand, if your only repair option
is the Apple-standard logic board swap (major $$$$), you should probably
play it safe.
SCSI: yes, ADB: yes, Floppies: yes... They can all cause trouble.
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10,962 |
First of all, "ceremonial law" is an extraScriptural term. It is sometimes
used as a framework to view Scripture. But if you look at Collosions,
without going into it with the assumption that the Sabbath cannot be
a ceremonial law, you will see that it does refer to the sabbath.
against us to His cross, and therefore we should not be judged in what
what food we eat, what we drink, the keeping of new moons and holy days,
or the keeping of the sabbath.
The word for sabbath in this verse is "sabbaton" and is used throughout the
New Testament to refer to the 7th day. If there is any Scripture from
which we get the idea of the ceremonial law, this is one of them, and the
sabbath is listed among the ceremonial laws.
If one goes into this with the fundamental assumption "the sabbath cannot
be a ceremonial law" then he will have to find some way around it, like
saying that this can only refer to the other sabbath holy days besides the
7tH day, Because "the sabbath cannot be a ceremonial law." But
Paul is very careful in his letters to add some kind of parenthetcal
statement if there is anything that can be seen as a liscence to sin
in his writings.
Also, why is the sabbath absent from the epistles (except for Hebrews 4, which
talks about the rest that comes through faith?) Surely it would have
been a big problem for first century Christians living in a society
that did not rest on the 7th day. Especially slaves. Many new converst were
slaves. It would have been difficult for slaves to rest on the sabbath
if it had been mandatory. Why is there no mention of this in the epistles? | 0 | trimmed_train |
9,825 | Actually they synth used in "JUMP" was an Oberheim. Watch the video....... | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,347 |
(From the Windows Resource Toolkit (for Win4Workgroups)), add an entry to
your "system.ini" file under the [NonWindowsApp] section:
CommandEnvSize=NNNN
"This sets the COMMAND.COM env size, where NNNN must either be 0 or
between 160 and 32768. A value of 0 disables the setting. If this
value is too small or too big, it is rounded up to 160 or down to 32768.
If the value is less than the current size of the actual environment,
this setting is disabled, as if it were 0. If you specify the
environment size in a PIF file for COMMAND.COM, the PIF setting
overrides this setting. The default is 0 with MSDOS versions earlier
than 3.2. Otherwise, the default value is the /e: option in the
SHELL= command in CONFIG.SYS. To set this value, you must edit your
SYSTEM.INI [and reboot]."
I have used this entry, as well as relied on the default /e: from
the CONFIG.SYS shell= line, and both give larger environments. If
you don't use one of these, then the environment passed by windows
to each new DOS box is just a little bit bigger than the environment
_variables_ present when windows was started. (No matter how big
the DOS env was, when windows starts, it truncates all unused space
except for a few bytes.) This should allow your batch file to run,
but your mileage may vary.
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3,800 |
I agree very much. I have read almost every article written about
the Glock, and IMO, it is probably the safest auto-loader made. It
has the best safty of all, Jeff Cooper's First Rule, "Keep your finger
OFF the trigger until you want to shoot." If everyone just observed
this, there would be fewer "accidents".
David N. Bixler
Auburn University | 9 | trimmed_train |
3,945 |
I purposefully left off the page numbers to encourage the reader to
study the volumes mentioned, and benefit therefrom.
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6,064 |
I could give much the same testimonial about my experience as a scout
back in the 1960s. The issue wasn't gays, but the principles were the
same. Thanks for a well put testimonial. Stan Krieger and his kind who
think this discussion doesn't belong here and his intolerance is the
only acceptable position in scouting should take notice. The BSA has
been hijacked by the religious right, but some of the core values have
survived in spite of the leadership and some scouts and former scouts
haven't given up. Seeing a testimonial like this reminds me that
scouting is still worth fighting for.
On a cautionary note, you must realize that if your experience with this
camp leader was in the BSA you may be putting him at risk by publicizing
it. Word could leak out to the BSA gestapo. | 8 | trimmed_train |
5,485 | What is the expected run time (+/- a factor of 10) on a 486DX/50
using the best known algorithm for finding the shortest path
solution for Rubicks Cube from a randomly chosen position?
I have read the FAQ and followed the recent discussion on Rubicks
Cube but I don't believe this question has been answered. Notice
that I am specifically looking for an algorithm that finds the
SHORTEST path, not just any solution.
It seems to me that the underlying assumption is that such a program
would need to do a brute force search though 10^20 positions. That
seems an unreasonably pessimistic assumption to me and I want to
know if someone has significantly improved on that.
I have some ideas of my own on how to approach this problem, but
before I spend to much time developing them I wanted to know if
someone else has already done the work.
ADMINISTRIVIA: I have posted this to three groups and attempted
to set the followup to rec.puzzles which seems to me to be the
place to continue this discussion. I will cross post a summary
when and if it becomes appropriate. Email replies gladly accepted. | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,059 | In <[email protected]> NEIL B. GANDLER
:> I am an electrical engineering student and its a must that I get familiar
:> with spice. I have been using it and getting used to it but it would
:> be great to have a good reference manual that explains everything in an
:> organized and concise. I current have "A guide to circuit simulation &
:> Analysis using spice". I feel it has the information is just randomly placed
:> in the book and its not easy to look up small things when you just
:> need a good reference book. I would appreciate any info. Thanks
There is a postscript manual at ic.berkeley.edu in pub/spice3/um.3f.ps
directory (about 650kbytes, 126 pages). | 11 | trimmed_train |
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2,352 | <>
<> QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S
<> TELECOMMUNICATIONS INITIATIVE
<>
<> Q: Suppose a law enforcement agency is conducting a wiretap on
<> a drug smuggling ring and intercepts a conversation
<> encrypted using the device. What would they have to do to
<> decipher the message?
<>
<> A: They would have to obtain legal authorization, normally a
<> court order, to do the wiretap in the first place. They
<> would then present documentation of this authorization to
<> the two entities responsible for safeguarding the keys and
<> obtain the keys for the device being used by the drug
<> smugglers. The key is split into two parts, which are
<> stored separately in order to ensure the security of the key
<> escrow system.
I apologize for being so dense but this sentence reads as if it
was lifted from a Luis Bunuel screenplay. Am I missing something?
Why on earth would drug smugglers even _use_ the device then?
Obviously, they'll be using something like triple encryption DES instead.
As long as alternatives to Clipper remain legal, Clipper accomplishes
absolutely nothing, ZERO, as far as law enforcement is concerned.
The whole scheme is an absolute, total, incredible, waste of government
time and money AS LONG AS other encryption schemes that are any good
remain legal. In order for Clipper to work as intended all strong
cryptosystems have to be outlawed. | 7 | trimmed_train |
9,084 | As you can see, I have two 1987 cars, both worth about $3000 each.
The problem is that maintenance costs on these two cars is
running about $4000 per year and insurance $3000 per year.
What am I doing wrong?
Within the last two months, the follows costs have occured:
Dodge 600 SE (Dodge's attempt at the American German car!)
$1,000 - replace head gasket
$300 - new radiator
Chevy Nova CL (Chevy's attempt at a Japan import!)
$500 - tune-up,oil change,valve gasket,middle exhaust pipe, misc.
Note also that the Chevy Nova CL (1987) has only 70 horsepwer!
Does anyone out there have a Chevy Nova with enough power
to get up even a small hill without knocking? Is there
something wrong with my car, I even use 93 octane gas!
(I have consider going to 110 octane if I can find it!)
Anyway, what are the best maintenance items to do-it-yourself,
and what equipment is needed? | 4 | trimmed_train |
6,074 | this must be a FAQ from the very first days of the 13"RGB!!!! | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,784 |
Ok, here could be the first question or answer or something:
Q: I want to copyprotect a program I wrote. How should I do it?
A: You would be wise not to copyprotect that program. You see, those
people that wants to get a cracked copy of your program will go to
various length to crack your program, and some of those crackers
are good, and know the common tricks.
So, the copy protection wouldn't stop those.
Ok, then. What about legitimate users? Copy protection can be a hassle
for legitimate users, and can hinder them in their work, expecially
if there is some "key" item that can get lost.
So, the copy protection wouldn't help much of the legitimate users, but
would make life somewhat of a misery for them.
(This is my opinion, and I speak as a legitimate user :-)
You are of course free to have your opinion about this subject....
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6,476 | CDs for sale shipping is included
Barcelona Gold Freddie Mercury, Tevin Campbell, En Vogue
INXS, Madonna, Eric Clapton, Sarah Brightman
($9.00)
Wayne's World Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice Cooper
Eric Clapton
($9.00)
Extreme II Pronograffitti
($9.00)
Saturday Night Live Band Live from New York
($7.00)
Harry Connick, JR. Blue Light *Sold*
(just open, $10.00)
Dances with Woives ($9.00) *Sold*
Handel Classical ($ 6.00) *Sold*
Please send your reply to [email protected]
Package deal is welcome. | 5 | trimmed_train |
2,750 | [...]
Don't bother. <[email protected]> has pretty much made
your pathetic ass superfluous. You lose. Pack up your bags and
go home.
Well, if the shoe fits.... | 7 | trimmed_train |
9,335 |
I suppose these illegal guns have been found? I suppose he was going to kill a
bunch of people with them?
--Ray Cote | 15 | trimmed_train |
7,694 |
What sort of traffic is generated with the X-calls? I am curious to find
out the required bandwidth that a link must have if one machine running
DV/X is supporting multiple users (clients) and we require adequate response
time. Anyone have any ideas ??
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6,583 |
-> According to the TIFF 5.0 Specification, the TIFF "version number"
-> (bytes 2-3) 42 has been chosen for its "deep philosophical
-> significance".
-> Last week, I read the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, and rotfl the
-> second time. (After millions of years of calculation, the second-best
-> computer of all time reveals that 42 is the answer to the question
-> about life, the universe and everything)
-> Is this actually how they picked the number 42?
-> Does anyone have any other suggestions where the 42 came from?
At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in
his note-book, called out "Silence!" and read out from his book
"Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court."
Everybody looked at Alice.
"I'm not a mile high," said Alice.
"You are," said the King.
"Nearly two miles high," added the queen.
"Well, I sha'n't go, at any rate," said Alice; "besides, that's not
a regular rule: you invented it just now."
"It's the oldest rule in the book," said the King.
"Then it ought to be Number One," said Alice.
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4,084 |
Is there no JUSTICE?!
If I lost my leg when I was 19, and had to give up motorcycling
(assuming David didn't know that it can be done one-legged,) I too would want
to get swamped.... maybe even for ten years! I'll admit, I'd probably prefer
homebrew to pubbrew, but still...
Judge Coterill is in some serious trouble, I can tell you that. Any
chance you can get to him and convince him his ruling was backward, Nick?
Perhaps the lad deserved something for starting a brawl (bad form...
horribly bad form,) but for getting drunk? That, I thought, was ones natural
born right! And for spending his own money? My goodness, who cares what one
does with one's own moolah, even if one spends it recklessly?
I'm ashamed of humanity. | 12 | trimmed_train |
5,074 |
I am not aware of any "Turkish Caliphate" viewpoint on this. Can you
reference?
However, I found a quote due to Imam Ali, whom the Shias follow:
"Men, never obey your women in any way whatsoever. Never let them give their
advice on any matter whatsoever, even those of everyday life. Indeed, allow
them freely to give advice on anything and they will fritter away one's
wealth and disobey the wishes of the owner of this wealth.
We see them without religion, when, alone, they are left to their own
devices; they are lacking in both pity and virtue when their carnal
desires are at stake. It is easy to enjoy them, but they cause great
anxiety. The most virtious among them are libertines. But the most
corrupt are whores. Only those of them whom age has deprived of any
charm are untainted by vice. They have three qualities particular to
miscreants; they complain of being oppressed, whereas it is they
who oppress; they make oaths, whereas they are lying; they pretend
to refuse men's solicitations, whereas they desire them most ardently.
Let us beg the help of God to emerge victorious from their evil deeds.
And preserve us in any case from their good ones."
(Quote from Mas'ud al-Qanawi, ref. A. Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam,
p. 118).
I wouldn't consider this quote as being exemplary of the Islamic (TM)
viewpoint though. For all we know, the prophet's cousin and
the Fourth Khalif Hazret-i Ali may have said this after a frustrating
night with a woman.
Selim Guncer
| 8 | trimmed_train |
8,304 | Let me tell you my story.
I grew up catholic. Up until I was 14, it wasn't an issue for me. Then I met
a born-again christian, a very sweet person, not proseletyzing(sp?), not
imposing. I tried to get into being as christian as I could, as I felt I
'should'.
But the more I tried, the more depressed I got. I felt guilty for some of my
own personal, honest feelings. I tried so hard to reconcile this conflict.
until I was 23.
Then I taught myself to think rationally. I read a lot of books, pro and con
religion in general and, specifically, catholicism. I came to a crisis point,
then it finally clicked and now I am a staunch atheist.
This is a very loose explanation, but it's the gist of it.
Now, (at 26) I feel better about myself, better self-esteem, a generally
stronger person. I have well-defined goals. I have a strong and stable sense
of morals and values. I am not a neo-nazi or a corrupt politicain, etc. I
believe in human rights and 'live and let live' among other things. I am very
anti-violent and anti-hatred. (This is to debunk the myth that atheists are
depraved.)
Religion has no place in my system.
Tough.
Bertrand Russell said that we cannot *know* god doesn't exist, we can't prove
it. So, in that sense, we can only truly be agnostic. But, for all practical
purposes there is no god. | 0 | trimmed_train |
5,295 | Hello,
I purchased my new 486 with a NoName graphics card installed which is obviously
Speedstar 24 compatible. Its name is "VGA 4000 TrueColor".
It is accompanied with some drivers and the utilities VMODE, XMODE and
at least one more MODE, as well as some drivers for Lotus, Windows, etc.
Only one of the drivers is told to provide the TrueColor mode, namely
the Windows 3.1 driver.
Nowhere else, except in the ad, is any pointer to the TrueColor mode.
Some articles in this group about the Speedstar 24 and some other facts
made me believe that my card is compatible to that one.
Does anybody out there know how this mode can be adjusted? How can I write
a driver which allows me to have 16.7 millions of colors with a resolution
of 640 x 480 with 45 Hz interlaced ? | 1 | trimmed_train |
1,349 | Hello folks,
I'm seeing these errors when I try to modify my key map:
mwm: invalid accelerator specfication, line x
I've added a line in the start up file before the line
that starts mwm. It looks like the following:
xmodmap keymapfile
mwm
I think that the problem has to do with a conflict between
function keys F1 through F7 which already have assigned
functions (e.g. Move, Minimize, etc).
The odd thing is that I don't see these errors if I run
xmodmap keymapfile
from an xterm.
Can anyone suggest a way to modify the key map, specifically
F1 through F7 AND not have mwm (Motif Window Manager) complain.
I realize this is a bit stupid, but we only have time to
implement, not time to learn how to implement. | 16 | trimmed_train |
8,708 | For sale:
Model : Husqvarna 510 TE (enduro model)
Year : 1988
Engine : 500 cc Four Stroke
Extras : - 1992 ignition (for easy starting)
- Suspension by Aftershock
- Custom carbon fiber/Kevlar skid plate
- Quick steering geometry
- Stock (EPA legal and quiet) exhaust system
- Bark busters and hand guards
- Motion Pro clutch cable
Price : $2200
Contact: Denis Concordel E-Mail: [email protected]
MaBell: (415) 570 6667 (work)
(415) 494 7109 (home)
I am selling my trusty Husky... hopefully to buy a Husaberg... This is
a very good dirt bike and has been maintained perfectly. I never had
any problems with it.
It's a four stroke, 4 valves, liquid cooled engine. It is heavier than
a 250 2 stroke but still lighter than a Honda XR600 and has a lot better
suspension (Ohlins shock, Husky fork) than the XR. For the casual or non
competitive rider, the engine is much better than any two stroke.
You can easily lug up hills and blast through trails with minimum gear
changes.
The 1992 ignition and the carefully tuned carburation makes this bike
very easy to start (starts of first kick when cold or hot). There is a
custom made carbon/kevlar (light 1 pound) wrap around skid plate to protect
the engine cases and the water pump. The steering angle has been reduced
by 2 degree to increase steering quickness. This with the suspension tune-up
by Phil Douglas of Aftershock (Multiple time ISDE rider) gives it a better
ride than most bike: plush suspension, responsive steering with no head shake. | 12 | trimmed_train |
7,573 | I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and word has it that
something similar is on its way here. Since we apparently
don't have the sensor base you folks have, they're installing
cameras at strategic points along the freeways (initial tests
are going to be in the Santa Clara area I'm told), with the
video being piped into a command center they're building
somewhere in the East Bay. I'm not sure if frame grabbers or
cheap labor will be used to interpret the data, but large
multi-colored status displays will show the various routes
using different colors to represent the various average speeds
for each stretch of highway. An announcer will sit in front
of the status 'wall', and will relay continuous verbal traffic
status to those who want to receive it. They're apparently also
looking into licensing a low-AM frequency to be dedicated to
providing continuous audio from this system.
In the mean time, they'll set up large incandescent display
boards along the test stretch to provide commuters with data
on traffic conditions up ahead. My understanding is that the
system is subsidized as a pilot program, and information from it
will be available free of charge. Perhaps the LA system is
similarly free or provided at an obviously subsidized rate (read
"cheap").
We also have the traffic reports that are broadcast on the SAP
audio channel of television channels 2 and 36. These are verbal
reports, qualified with a identification tone to tell in-vehicle
receivers like the 'Auto Talk' that the information coming next is
applicable to a given area. In LA, they're probably using some
other TV channels, but the concept is the same. Try setting your
stereo TV or VCR to receive the SAP audio channel, and go station
jumping to find out which one is broadcasting this information.
I believe this program is also subsidized, making the in-vehicle
receivers cheap to purchase (and without having to incur monthly
fees to use it). Since the makers of these in-vehicle receivers
don't have to pay for the broadcast (this may not be completely
true), they likely have no investment in keeping the system
up and running when the Cal Trans stuff hits the airwaves. You
may have a nifty little TV audio receiver in your car, nothing
more, when this happens. Perhaps a word to the wise...? ;)
I think we'd all be interested in a summary post if you get more
info on how the LA system is networked and paid for. | 11 | trimmed_train |
1,795 | I just purchased a Viewsonic 17 and and Orchid P9000. In short, I am happy
with the monitor and unhappy with the card. I have spent a lot more time
futzing with the card, so that is what I am going to write about. The monitor
is pretty. The moires I had under Simcity on my 17" Magnavox went away. It
isn't as heavy as I thought it would be (45 lbs, I think). So much for the
monitor. On to the bitch session and test results.
In going with the modern trend, the Orchid P9000 card only supports 16 colors
in 640x480 mode without a driver. Of course, this breaks any DOS program
which uses SVGA modes (like most of my CD-ROMs). The Compudyne Whiplash VGA,
Orchid Fahrenheit 1280, and Orchid F. VLB all share this limitation. Those
are all S3 cards, which means it is an S3 problem for them (the P9000 uses
a Weitek VGA chip which also doesn't support them). The Hercules Graphite
card does seem to have these modes, but I didn't run the same test cases as
I did on the other boards during the brief time I had it. It was able to
print the splash screen for the Grolier's Encyclopedia, though, which the S3
cards just printed as hash, which is why I suspect the SVGA modes are supported.
The supported resolutions really annoy me. You can do 1280x1024 at 75Hz if
you tell the driver you have an NEC 5FG (they only have about six monitors
listed plus 'Generic', and if you choose Generic you can't get any high
refreshes at ALL). But at 1024x768 you are limited to 70Hz. Seems to me
that the hardware should be able to support the bandwidth (if it can do 75Hz
at 1280 it sure should be able to do it at 1024!). Higher vertical resolution
was the main reason I bought the card over the Orchid F. VLB I currently have,
and it will do 1024x768x70 Hz as well.
The higher graphics modes all crash HP Dashboard. I just got off the phone
with Orchid, and with the 1.1 drivers (I don't know what I have) he was unable
to recreate the problem. On the plus side, their tech rep was as helpful as
he could be and booted up the program on his computer to verify he didn't have
the problem. He didn't know why they limited the refresh to 70 Hz either.
The board is faster that the OFVLB for most things according to the Hercules
Speedy program. This program tests various operations and reports the results
in pixels/second. I don't have the numbers for the Graphite card, but they
were close to half of the OFVLB (ie, slower) but that was running in a 20MHz
386, ISA, so the numbers aren't really comparable. The following numbers
were all obtained using a 486, 33 MHz, AIR motherboard (UMC chipset), with
8 MB memory. I give ranges because the program reports the numbers as it
computes them, and these tend to jump around a bit.
K means thousand (not 1024), M means million, pixels per second
Orchid Fahrenheit VLB Orchid P9000
Chip S3 805 Weitek 9000
DIB to Screen 182K - 190K 228K - 240K
Memory to Screen 5.9M - 6.2M 8.4M - 8.9M
Screen to Screen 14M - 14.8M 29M - 30.8M
Vector, solid 2.4M 2.8M - 2.9M
Vector, styled 55K - 58K 449K - 473K
Polygon, shaded 1.8M - 2.1M 1.6M - 1.9M
Polygon, hatched 6.9M - 7.9M 1.3M - 1.7M
Ternary Rops 1.9M - 2.4M 477K - 520K
Font 130K - 160K 46K - 55K / 1.2M
The DIB to Screen test takes a device independent bitmap of a face and transfers
it to the screen. I have no idea what is being done internally as far as
conversions go. The memory to screen takes the same face and copies it to
the screen, my guess is after it has been rasterized into a bitmap that can
just be copied to the video display. The screen to screen test copies that
face from place to place on the screen. Awesome! Interestingly, the solid
vectors and shaded polygons show no improvement, and hatched polygons (ie,
filled with cross-hatching) and Ternary Rops (whatever they are. Graphics
operations like XORs maybe????) are a dead loss on the 9000. I give two
numbers for the 9000 fonts, because I think they are caching.
When the fonts are first drawn on the screen they are done fairly slowly --
1/3 the speed of the OFVLB. Then the speed increases dramatically. Sounds
like programming to a benchmark to me....
I make no claims that these numbers mean anything at all. Its just what
I saw when I ran them on my computer. I normally don't write disclaimers,
but this time maybe I'd better. My testing is totally unconnected with my
work (I program under UNIX on Decstations) is done completely without the
knowledge, blessing, or equipment of my company. | 3 | trimmed_train |
5,790 |
Gerry Cheevers used to have a mask that had stitches painted all over
it. | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,353 |
Just a question.
As a provider of a public BBS service - aren't you bound by law to gurantee
intelligble access to the data of the users on the BBS, if police comes
with sufficent authorisation ? I guessed this would be a basic condition
for such systems. (I did run a bbs some time ago, but that was in Switzerland)
You are obliged to let the police search the equipment if they have a
proper court order. You are under no legal obligation to keep the data
intelligble. If you wish to run your BBS entirely with all data
encrypted such that if the police show up they cannot read anything,
well, thats their problem. There are no legal restrictions on domestic
use of cryptography in the United States -- YET.
--
Perry Metzger [email protected] | 7 | trimmed_train |
7,609 | The Duo Powerbooks seem to park the heads after a few seconds of
inactivity... is that builtin into the drive logic or is it being
programmed via software, any way to tune the iddle timeout that
makes the heads park themselves... I think the heads are being
parked since after a few seconds of inactivity you can hear the
clunk of heads parking. | 14 | trimmed_train |
5,299 |
Nothing is perfect. Nothing is perpetual. i.e. even if it is perfect,
it isn't going to stay that way forever.
Perpetual machines cannot exist. I thought that there
were some laws in mechanics or thermodynamics stating that.
Not an atheist
BN
-- | 8 | trimmed_train |
2,574 |
So what are you?
I don't think that, you are just making noise.
That's true. I try to learn from people who know more than me,
not from useless farts.
Of course, I have said that more times in this group than
anyone else, I'd think.
Quite true, that's why I am so careful in selecting quotes.
Oh bullshit. Fanatic my bum. Prove your blah or cork it.
How would you know what I consider? Read my mind?
I looked very closely at a large number of sources. You have no
idea what you are talking about.
That's true about the accounts of both Irgun and Arab propagandists.
Like Begin, for example.
No, I never got that feeling. I got rather opposite feelings
about people like you, though.
Honesty? Perhaps you would explain the testimony from members
of the Irgun, to be found in their own handwriting in the
Irgun Archives in Tel Aviv, that the wounded Arabs were killed,
that a group of 80 prisoners was massacred, that Lehi proposed
exterminating everybody at the pre-raid meeting. Exactly what
reasons can you propose that this testimony should be rejected
in favour of Begin's?
This is very funny. You carried on about unsupported evidence,
propagandists, axes to grind, and you end up telling us to stick
to the account of the leader of the alleged killers. You are
obviously a hopeless case, as everyone can plainly see.
| 6 | trimmed_train |
6,656 |
Well, one reason for getting conflicting answers is that it depends on
what you want the ground plane to do. A continuous conductor is a good
electrostatic shield. Do you have signals on your board that need
shielding rom other things? This shielding won't do much good for magnetic
fields, unless you make it continuous around the circuit to be shielded,
like a Faraday cage. | 11 | trimmed_train |
2,946 | 7 | trimmed_train |
|
4,041 | This is message is only of interest to those going to
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems that is being
held in Chicago this May.
I checking to see if there is any people out there who would be
interested in getting together for a pickup game of soccer during
the off hours of the conference. If so could you e-mail me at:
[email protected]
I'll bring a ball. If you know someone who is going to the
conference and you know that they are avid soccer players
please pass on this message to them. Also if someone in
Chicago is going to the conference please let me know if
there is any field near the hotel where we can play.
Thanks. Bye. | 11 | trimmed_train |
10,308 |
Actuallay I don't, but on the other hand I don't support the idea of having
one newsgroup for every aspect of graphics programming as proposed by Brian,
in his reply to my original posting.
I would suggest a looser structure more like a comp.graphics.programmer,
comp.graphics.hw_and_sw
The reason for making as few groups as possible is for the same reason you
say we shouldn't spilt up, not to get to few postings every day.
I takes to much time to browse through all postings just to find two or
three I'm interested in.
I understand and agree when you say you want all aspects of graphics in one
meeting. I agree to some extension. I see news as a forum to exchange ideas,
help others or to be helped. I think this is difficult to achive if there
are so many different things in one meeting.
Good evening netters|-) | 1 | trimmed_train |
3,977 | Ummm...did you have any bikes other than that KX80? If not, I'd suggest you
look for an '89 ZX-7, since they only have about 90 horsepower, whereas the
'90 has over 100 and might be a bit much for you...
Sincerely,
Nathaniel | 12 | trimmed_train |
7,218 |
According to _The Complete Guide To Specialty Cars_, 7th Edition, from
Crown Publishing, it's the VW Kubelwagen (w/ 2 dots over the 'u').
The company is:
Wolfkam
P.O. Box 1608, Vika
0119 Oslo 1, Norway
011-47-30-26601 voice line
011-47-2-166138 FAX line
An excerpt from the blurb:
...This fine Kubel clone from Wolfkam is a very close copy of
the original, and offers the same all-weather and cross-country
capabilities as its WWII forebears. The robust fiberglass body
kit is very complete, and includes all the hardware you will
need, except for your own VW donor car. The phone number [...]
is the entire AT&T dialing sequence; call and ask for Karl
Torum, or send $5 cash or _International Money Order_
for a complete literature package.
George.
P.S., I'd be happy to share what info I have on other kit cars and
kit car manufacturers. | 4 | trimmed_train |
987 |
I think he just wanted to get Henneman some work, because the
Tigers had days off both the day before and the day after. | 2 | trimmed_train |
7,523 |
While your 0-60 time is consistent with most car magazines and reports, I saw
the PBS MotorWeek show clock a 5-speed SL2 at 7.9 seconds. I'm sure that most
SL2 owners will be VERY lucky to get this speed, but 7.9 seconds is still
astonishingly fast for a small 4-door. A new Civic EX runs about 8.2 seconds
0-60, if I'm not mistaken. Most cars in this class are lucky to be in the
9-second range.
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8,572 | How can I get the font family, weight and slant from an
instance of a widget? Using initFontContext(), getNextFont()
and freeFontContext() I can get the size of the font (and a
bunch of other stuff concerning the font) but nowhere have
I found family, weight and slant. Assume that I do not have
access to the source where family, weight and slant were
orginaly used when creating a fontlist.
Thanks a bunch and have a great day,
Carl
[email protected]
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Open letter by Dr. Paul H. Blackman, Research Coordinator for
NRA-ILA. NRA Official Journal 1/89.
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Dear sir:
By now, we are used to the New England Journal of Medicine's publication
of small-scale studies related to firearms from which conclusions are
drawn which are quantum leaps from the data, followed by announcements of
momentus "scientific" findings. These are regularly released to the press
without the caveats which riddle the conclusory paragraphs, and
often accompanied by an editorial calling attention to the findings.
Generally, while they at least present a few interesting data, however
meaningless, the studies misinterpret statistics, and ignore or belittle
serious studies by criminologists.
The latest effort -- "Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide:
A Tale of Two Cities," by J.H. Sloan, et al., with the accompanying
editorial, "Firearms Injuries: A Call for Science," by two employees
of the Centers for Disease Control (November 10), however, is an insult
to the intelligence of any serious scholar in any field and have so few
data and so many flaws that I feel compelled to write at some length
to call attention to various major and minor failings, in no particular
order.
1. The authors misleadingly cite Wright, et al. (Ref. 1) to
support the statement that "some have argued that restricting
access to handguns could substantially reduce our annual rate
of homicide." Wright, et al., in fact studied and rejected that
contention.
2. The authors pretended that Vancouver and Seattle are very
similar cities with similar economic circumstances, histories,
demographic characteristics, and the like. In fact, the cities
are very different with very different demographic characteristics
which appear to explain completely the higher homicide rate in
Seattle. Both cities are over three-forths non-Hispanic white
and *the non-Hispanic white homicide rates are reported to be
the same in Seattle and Vancouver*. It is the different back-
grounds, problems, circumstances, and behaviors of the various
ethnic minorities which explain the difference in homicide.
3. The authors pretend they are evaluating Canada's gun law,
compared to Washington State's. But they do not examine at all
the situation in Vancouver prior to the gun law taking effect
in 1978. As it happens, in the three years prior to that (1975-
1977), Vancouver averaged 23 homicides per year, one-eighth
involving handguns, (Ref. 2) and in the seven years of the NEJM
article there were 29 homicides per year, one-eigth involving
handguns. Surely even the medical profession recognizes that
one must look to see the prior situation was before concluding
that a change made a difference? Would a physician conclude that
a patient was benefiting from eating oat bran muffin each day
for seven years because his cholesterol level was 200 without
at least seeing if it was 180 before he started the regimen?
4. The authors pick two medium-sized cities to evaluate a national
gun law. Nothing can be learned from such a tiny and arbitrarily
selected sample. Seattle appears to have been selected because
it was convienient for the authors rather than for any scientific
reason. Would physicians call something a scientific study which
involved one experimental subject and one dissimilar "control"?
Had different arbitrarily selected cities been chosen, opposite
"scientific" conclusions would follow: Vancouver's homicide
rate *exceeds* that of such "wild west" cities in Texas as
El Paso, Corpus Christi, Austen, and, in Colorado, Colorado
Springs. (Ref. 3)
5. The authors fail to clearly demonstrate that firearms or
handguns "are far more commonly owned in Seattle than in
Vancouver." They use two surrogate approaches in pretending
to study the availability of firearms/handguns. The first is
an apples-and-oranges effort to compare the number of carry
permits in Seattle to the number of registered handguns in
Vancouver. But the number clearly understates the number of
handguns in Seattle, and counts primarily *protective* handgun
owners. The second, however, tells nothing about the number
of handguns in Vancouver, and counts *non-protective* handguns
for the most part. Where is it difficult to obtain handguns
legally for protection, registration figures are
meaningless. There are 66,000 registered handguns in New York
City (New York Daily News, Sept. 27, 1987). Comparing the two,
that method suggests about 930 handguns per 100,000 population
in New York City compared to 960 in Vancouver, meaning Vancouver
has a greater "prevalence of weapons" than New York City.
The second method of measuring gun density is "Cook's gun
prevalence index, a previously validated measure of intercity
differences." But the validation was by Cook of his own
theory. (Ref. 4) Normally, second opinions are sought from a
different doctor. More significantly, the Cook index is
based on the average of the percentage of firearms involvement
in suicide and homicide. So the authors are basically taking
a measure of misuse. Unsurprisingly, gun misuse in homicide
(42% in Seattle, 14% in Vancouver) is related to gun misuse in
homicide plus suicide, divided by two (41% in Seattle, 12% in
Vancouver). The authors are not measuring the relative avail-
ability of firearms, or of handguns, in Seattle and
Vancouver.
6. The authors misstate the laws of both Washington and
Canada. They neglect to mention the significant fact that
Washington has a waiting period and background check prior to
the purchase of a handgun, and that provisions exist in Canadian
law for owning and carrying handguns for personal
protection. The authors also make it appear that it is more
difficult to get a handgun legally in Canada than is actually
the case.
7. The authors ignore all other factors which might explain
the differences in crime rate, beyond some vague mention of the
penalities provided by law and the roughest of estimates of
clearence for one particular offense -- homicide involving a
firearm. There is no measure of: the differences in the number
of law enforcement officers; their aggressiveness in making
arrests for gun law violations in the two jurisdictions; arrest
rates for other offenses; conviction rates; actual sentences
imposed for gun-related crimes, violent crimes without guns,
or gun law violations; or incarceration rates. Whereas social
scientists would attempt to measure and hold for such differences,
the authors of the NEJM "tale of two cities" fail even to mention
most factors related to crime control.
8. The authors dismiss claims that handguns are an effective
means for protection unless the criminal is killed. Such is not
the case. Criminologists (Ref. 5-8) have found that almost
650,000 Americans annually use handguns for protection from
criminals, and that using a gun for protection reduces the
liklihood that a crime -- rape, robbery, assault -- will be
completed by the criminal and reduces the likelihood of injury
to the victim. It is interesting, nonetheless, that the authors
reported the same number (four) of civilian justifiable homicides
without firearms in each city but that less restrictive Seattle
accounted for 100% of the reported civilian justifiable homicides
involving firearms.
9. The Centers for Disease Control, which funded the "study,"
editorially praised the paper, (Ref. 9) saying it "applied
scientific methods to examine a focus of contention betweeb
advocates of stricter regulation of firearms, particularly
handguns." There is nothing in the paper which could possibly
be mistaken for "scientific methods" by a sociologists or
criminologists. The Vancouver-Seattle "study" is the equivolent
of testing an experimental drug to control hypertension by finding
two ordinary-looking middle-class white males, one aged 25
and the other 40, and without first taking their vital signs,
administering the experimental drug to the 25-year-old while
giving the 40-year-old a placebo, then taking their blood pressure
and, on finding the younger man had a lower blood pressure,
announcing in a "special article" a new medical breakthrough.
It would be nice to think that such a "study" would neither be
funded by the CDC or printed by the NEJM.
Since the longstanding anti-gun biases of the NEJM and the CDC
make them willing to present shoddy research as "scientific
breakthroughs" in "special articles" and editorials relating
to firearms, we are obligated to correct the record by notifying
the news media and those with congressional and executive oversight
over the activities of the Centers for Disease Control about
the distortions contained in "Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults,
and Homicides: A Tale of Two Cities" and "Firearm Injuries: A Call
for Science." Clearly, all scientific standards go by the wayside
whenever the CDC and the New England Journal of Medicine seize
an opportunity to attack firearms ownership in America.
REFERENCES
1. Wright JD, et al, *Weapons, crime and violence in America*: a literature
review and research agenda, Washington, D.C.: Department of Justice,
1981.
2. Scarff E. *Evaluation of the Canadian gun control legislation*: final
report. Ottawa: Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada, 1983,
p. 87.
3. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, *Crime in
the United States*, 1987 (Uniform Crime Reports). Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1988
4. Cook PJ. *The role of firearms in violent crime*. In: Wolfgang M.
Weiner NA, eds. *Criminal violence*, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1982:
236-90, pp. 270-271.
5. Kleck G. *Crime control through the private use of armed force*.
Social Problems 1988: 35:1-21.
6. Ziegenhagen EA, Brosnan D. *Victim responses to robbery and crime
control policy*. Criminology. 1985: 23:675-695.
7. Lizotte AJ. *Determinants of completeing rape and assault*. Journal
of Quantitative Criminology. 1986: 2:203-217.
8. Sayles SL, Kleck G. *Rape and resistance*. Paper at the American Society
of Criminology convention, Chicago, 1988.
9. Mercy JA, Houk VN. *Firearm injuries: a call for science*.
NEJM: 319:1283-1285.
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GUNS AND SPUTTER
by James D. Wright
(from July 1989 issue of REASON, Free Minds & Free Markets)
suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." The problem is demonstrated
by the most recent entry in a long line of scientific research purporting
to show a causal link between gun availability and homicide. Funded by
the federal government and published last year in the New England Journal
of Medicine, the study compared homicide rates in Seattle and Vancouver and
suggested that a handgun ban "may reduce the rate of homicide in a
community."
The nine medical doctors who published "Handgun Regulations, Crime,
Assaults, and Homicide" essentially reasoned in three steps: (1) Despite
many historical, social, and demographic similarities, (2) Vancouver
has a markedly lower homicide rate (3) because its stricter gun regulations
make guns less available. The second step in their reasoning seems
indisputable. The overall homicide rate in Seattle (for the period
1980-86) was 11.3 per 100,000 popuation, compared with 6.9 in Vancouver.
Homicide is definitely more common in Seattle. The question then becomes,
Why?
The authors present a believable although not entirely accurate case
to support the notion, as claimed in the third step of their reasoning,
that Vancouver's handgun regulations are much more stringent. But their
evidence on the difference in gun *availabilty* is indirect and
unpersuasive; indeed, they acknowledge that direct evidence on the point
does not exist. They offer two fragments of inferential data in support
of the claim that guns are more available in Seattle; but for all anybody
knows as a matter of empirical fact, the opposite could be true. We
are therefore being asked, at the conclusion of the study, to believe that
a difference in gun availability explains the difference in homicide rates
when a difference in gun availability has not itself been established.
Indeed, the situation is even more troublesome. The first of the two
indirect bits of evidence is a difference between the number of concealed-
weapons permits issued in Seattle and the number of restricted-weapons
permits issued in Vancouver. Differences between the two cities in the
permit regulations render these two numbers strictly noncomparable.
* The second bit of evidence is "Cook's gun prevalence index," which stands
* at 41 percent for Seattle but only 12 percent for Vancouver. Cook's index
* however, does not measure the relative prevalence of gun ownership in
* various cities. It measures gun misuse--it is an average of the percentage
* of homicides and suicides involving firearms.
* In the present case, the index shows only that in homicides and suicides,
* firearms are more likely to be used in Seatte than in Vancouver. To take
* Cook's index as a measure of general firearms availability, it must be
* assumed that the proportional involvement of guns in homicides and suicides
* is directly related to their relative availability in the general
* population. But this is exactly what the authors are seeking to prove. To
* assume what one is seeking to prove, then to "prove" it on the basis of
* that assumption does ot constitute scientific evidence for anything.
Even if we were to grant, on the basis of no compelling evidence, that
guns are less common in Vancouver, we might still question what causes what.
The authors attribute Seattle's higher crime rate to a higher rate of gun
ownership. But it might well be argued that low crime or homicide rates
reduce the motivation for average citizens to obtain guns--in other words,
that crime rates explain the variation in gun ownership, not vice versa.
In fact, it was once commonly argued that Great Britain's low rate of
violent crime was a function of that nation's strict gun laws and the
consequent low rate of gun ownership--until British researcher Colin
Greenwood found that Great Britain had enjoyed low rates of violent crime
for many decades before strict firearms controls were enacted. To invoke
an ancient methodological saw, correlation is not cause.
Nor do the problems with this study end with its lack of direct data
on gun ownership. The authors say Seattle and Vancouver are "similar in
many ways," implying that they differ mainly in gun availability, gun-law
stringency, and crime rates. This is an evident attempt to establish
the ceteris paribus condition of a sound scientific analysis--that "all
else is equal" among things being compared.
* Clearly the two cities are similar in some ways, but a closer look
* reveals differences in ways that are relevant to their respective crime
* or homicide rates. The cities are closely matched in what percentage
* of their population is white (79 percent and 76 percent). But Seattle
* is about 10 percent black, while Vancouver is less than 0.5 percent.
* Vancouver's minority population is overwhelmingly Asian. So although the
* authors show that th two cities are approximately comparable on a half-
* dozen readily available demographic indicators, they have not shown
* that all potentially relevant sources of variation have been ruled out.
* In fact, the differences in racial compositions of the two cities is
* particularly relevant in light of the study's breakdown of homicide rates
* according to the race of the victim. For the white majority, the homicide
* rates are nearly identical--6.2 per 100,000 in Seattle, 6.4 in Vancouver.
* The differing overall homicide rates in the two cities are therefore due
* entirely to vastly different rates among racial minorities. For blacks,
* the observed difference in homicide rate is 36.6 to 9.5 and for Hispanics
* 26.9 to 7.9. (Methodoligical complexities render the Asian comparison
* problematic, but it too is higher in Seattle than in Vancouver.) Racial
* minorities are much more likely to be the victims of homicide in Seattle
* than in Vancouver; the white majority is equally likely to be slain
* in either city.
Since the nearly 2:1 initial difference in homicide reates between the
cities is due exclusively to 3:1 or 4:1 differences between minority
groups, it is fair to ask why postulated difference in "gun availability"
(or gun-law strigency) would matter so dramatically to minorities but not
matter at all to whites. Can differential gun availability explain why
blacks and Hispanics--but not whites--are so much more likely to be killed
in Seattle than in Vancouver? (Studies in the United States, incidentally,
do not show large or consistent racial differences in gun ownership.)
Or are other explanations more plausible? Could the disparity between
Canadian and American rates of poverty among racial minorities have
anything to do with it? What are the relative rates of drug or alcohol
abuse? Of homelessness among each cty's minority population? (The city
of Seattle runs the largest shelter for homeless men west of the
Mississippi.) Unemployment among young, central-city, nonwhite men in the
United States usually exceeds 40 percent. What is the comparable Canadian
percentage?
The crucial point is that Canada and the United States differ in many
ways, as do cities and population subgroups with the two countries. Absent
more detailed analysis, nearly any of these "many ways" might explain part
or all of the difference in homicide rates. In gross comparisons such
as those between Seattle and Vancouver, all else is *not* equal.
* The authors of this study acknowledge that racial patterns in homicide
* result in a "complex picture." They do not acknowledge that the ensuing
* complexities seriously undercut the main thrust of their argument. They
* also acknowledge that "socio-economic status is probably an important
* confounding factor in our comparison," remarking further that "blacks
* in Vancouver had a slightly higher mean income in 1981 than the rest of
* Vancouver's population." Given the evidence presented in the article,
* it is possible that all of the difference in homicide rates between Seattle
* and Vancouver results from greater proverty among Seattle's racial
* minorities. But the authors pay no further attention to this possibility,
* since "detailed information about household incomes according to race
* is not available for Vancouver."
The largely insurmountable methodological difficulties confronted in
gross comparative studies of this sort can be illustrated with as simple
example. If one were to take all U.S. couties and compare them in terms
of (1) pervalence of gun ownership and (2) crime or homicide rates, one
would find an astonishing pattern: Counties with more guns have less crime.
Would one conclude from this evidence alone that guns actually reduce
crime? Or would one insist that other variables also be taken into
account? In this example, the "hidden variable" is city size: Guns are
more common in small towns and rural areas, whereas crime is a big-city
problem. If researchers failed to anticipate this variable, or lacked the
appropriate data to examine its possible consequences, they coud be very
seriously misled. In the study at hand, the authors matched two cities
for size but not for minority poverty rates or other hidden variables,
and their results are impossible to interpret.
In the editorial "Firearm Injuries: A Call for Science" accompanying
the study, two officials from the Centers for Disease Control lauded the
authors for applying "scientific methods" to a problem of grave public
heath significance. But in attempting to draw causal conclusions from
nonexperimental research, the essence of scientific method is to anticipate
plausible alternative explanations for the results and try to rule them
out. Absent such effort, the results may well seem scientific but are
little more than polemics masquerading as serious research. That this
study is but one of a number of recent efforts--all employing practical
identical research designs and published in leading scientific journals--
is cause for further concern.
[James D. Wright is professor of sociology at Tulane University. He has
researched extensively on the relationship of firearms and crime.]
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1,052 | If you hold off, there are a number of interesting convertibles coming
to market in the next few years.
The new LeBaron will be based on the Mitsubishi Galant, which should
be an improvement over the current model.
The new PL compact will have a convertible option (also a chrysler
product)
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9,135 | heat
This tops the cold-hearted bastard list! Unbelievable! Had this countries
morals sunk this low, that the death of innocent people is so callously viewed?
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assuming yours is a non turbo MR2, the gruffness is characteristic of
a large inline 4 that doesn't have balance shafts. i guess toyota
didn't care about "little" details like that when they can brag about
the mid engine configuration and the flashy styling.
myself, i automatically cross out any car from consideration (or
recommendation) which has an inline 4 larger than 2 liters and no
balance shafts.. it is a good rule of thumb to keep in mind if you
ever want a halfway decent engine.
if the noise really bugs you, there is nothing else that you can do
except to sell it and get a V6.
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After comparing the above strings with my AT commands reference guide, I
came up with:
ATZ0L2N2X5&D0S11=50^M
This is entered in the 'Initialize' box on the 'Modem Preferences' in Zterm.
Quick summary of each commmand:
Z0 - Reset modem to User Profile 0.
L2 - Speaker volume at 2 (fairly quiet)
N2 - Ring volume at 2 (fairly quiet)
X5 - Display connect info according to setting 5 (see manual)
&D0 - Assume DTR (computer) is always on
S11=50 - Dial speed at 50 (as fast as ZyXEL can handle)
In FirstClass, I used this same string, with the addition of S0=0 right
before the S11 command, in the setup box. This disables the auto-answer
function of the modem for FirstClass. I based my modem setting on the Supra
14.4FAX, and just changed the above mentioned string.
In Telefinder, I based my setting on the Zoom V42 - HH setting. I changed
the 'Modem Initialization' string to the same one I used for FirstClass, and
everything seems to work fine.
Sorry it took so long to get this summary out. If someone wants to forward
this to the /info-mac/reports directory at sumex-aim, it might save other
newbie ZyXEL users like myself the trouble of setting up their strings, and
also save the net some redundant messages. If anyone else has something
to add, feel free.
Marcus
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3,838 | Larry L. Overacker writes, responding to Simon:
I may be interesting to see some brief selections posted to the
net. My understanding is that SSPX does not consider ITSELF in
schism or legitimately excommunicated. But that's really beside
the point. What does the Roman Catholic church say?
Excommunication can be real apart from formal excommunication, as
provided for in canon law.
Here's some of the theology involved for the interested.
There is confusion over this issue of the SSPX's "schism"; often the
basic problem is lack of an ability to distinguish between:
- true obedience
- false obedience
- disobedience
- schism
Take the various classifications of obedience first. There are 2
important elements involved here for my purposes:
1) a command
2) the response made to the command
As far as the command goes, commands can be LEGITIMATE, such as the
Pope ordering Catholics to not eat meat on Fridays. Or they can be
ILLEGITIMATE, such as the Pope ordering Catholics to worship the god
Dagon when every other full moon comes around.
As far as the response to a command goes, it can be to REFUSE to do
what is commanded, or to COMPLY.
Making a table, there are thus 4 possibilites:
command response name
-----------------------------------------------------
LEGITIMATE COMPLY true obedience
ILLEGITIMATE REFUSE true obedience
LEGITIMATE REFUSE disobedience
ILLEGITIMATE COMPLY false obedience
So now you see where my 3 classifications of obedience come from.
Obedience is not solely a matter of compliance/refusal. The nature of
the commands must also be taken into account; it is not enough to
consider someone's compliance or refusal and then say whether they are
"obedient" or "disobedient". You also have to take into consideration
whether the commands are good or bad.
In my example, if the Pope commands all Catholics to worship the god
Dagon, and they all refuse, they aren't being disobedient at all!
As far as the Society of Saint Pius X goes, they are certainly
refusing to comply with certain things the Pope desires. But that
alone is insufficient to allow one to label them "disobedient". You
also have to consider the nature of the Papal desires.
And there's the rub: SSPX says the Popes since Vatican II have been
commanding certain very bad things for the Church. The Popes have of
course disagreed.
So where are we? Are we in another Arian heresy, complete with weak
Popes? Or are the SSPX priests modern Martin Luthers? Well, the only
way to answer that is to examine who is saying what, and what the
traditional teaching of the Church is.
The problem here is that very few Catholics have much of an idea of
what is really going on, and what the issues are. The religion of
American Catholics is especially defective in intellectual depth. You
will never read about the issues being discussed in the Catholic press
in this country. (On the other hand, one Italian Catholic magazine I
get -- 30 Days -- has had interviews with the Superior General of the
Society of Saint Pius X.)
Many Catholics will decide to side with the Pope. There is some
soundness in this, because the Papacy is infallible, so eventually
some Pope *will* straighten all this out. But, on the other hand,
there is also unsoundness in this, in that, in the short term, the
Popes may indeed be wrong, and such Catholics are doing nothing to
help the situation by obeying them where they're wrong. In fact, if
the situation is grave enough, they sin in obeying him. At the very
least, they're wasting a great opportunity, because they are failing
to love Christ in a heroic way at the very time that He needs this
badly.
Schism... let's move on to schism. What is it?
Schism is a superset of disobedience (refusal to obey a legitimate
command). All schismatics are disobedient. But it's a superset, so
it doesn't work the other way around: not all disobeyers are
schismatics. The mere fact that the SSPX priests don't comply with
the Holy Father's desires doesn't make them schismatics.
So what is it that must be added to disobedience to constitute a
schism? Maybe this something else makes the SSPX priests schismatics.
You must add this: the rejection of the right to command. Look in any
decent reference on Catholic theology, and that's what you'll find:
the distinguishing criterion of schism is rejection of the right to
command.
Here's what the Catholic Encyclopedia says, for example:
... not every disobedience is a schism; in order to possess this
character it must include besides the trangression of the commands
of superiors, denial of their Divine right to command.
(from the CE article "Schism")
Is the Society of Saint Pius X then schismatic? The answer is a clear
no: they say that the Pope is their boss. They pray for him every
day. And that's all that matters as far as schism goes.
What all this boils down to is this: if we leave aside the
consideration of the exact nature of their objections, their position
is a legitimate one, as far as the Catholic theology of obedience and
schism goes. They are resisting certain Papal policies because they
think that they are clearly contrary to the traditional teaching of
the Papacy, and the best interests of the Church. (In fact, someone
who finds himself in this situation has a *duty* to resist.)
Now, what is the stance of Rome on all this? Well, if you read the
Holy Father's motu proprio "Ecclesia Dei", you can find out. It's the
definitive document on the subject. A motu proprio is a specifically
Papal act. It's not the product of a Roman congregation, a letter
that the Pope has possibly never even read. It's from the Pope
himself. His boss is God... there's no one else to complain to.
In this document, the Holy Father says, among other things:
1) The episcopal consecrations performed by Archbishop Lefebvre
constituted a schismatic act.
2) Archbishop Lefebvre's problem was a misunderstanding of the nature
of Tradtion.
Both are confusing: I fail to see the logic of the Pope's points.
As far as the episcopal consecrations go, I read an interesting
article in a translation of the Italian magazine "Si Si No No". It
all gets back to the question of jurisdiction. If episcopal
consecrations imply rejection of the Pope's jurisdiction, then they
would truly constitute a schismatic act, justifying excommunication
under the current code of canon law. But my problem with this is
this: according to the traditional theology of Holy Orders, episcopal
consecration does not confer jurisdiction. It only confers the power
of Order: the ability to confect the Sacraments. Jurisdiction must be
conferred by someone else with the power to confer it (such as the
Pope). The Society bishops, knowing the traditional theology quite
well, take great pains to avoid any pretence of jurisdiction over
anyone. They simply confer those Sacraments that require a bishop.
The "Si Si No No" article was interesting in that it posited that the
reason that the Pope said what he did is that he has a novel,
post-Vatican II idea of Holy Orders. According to this idea,
episcopal consecration *does* confer jurisdiction. I lent the article
to a friend, unfortunately, so can't tell you more. I believe they
quoted the new code of canon law in support of this idea.
The Pope's thinking on this point remains a great puzzle to me.
There's no way there is a schism, according to traditional Catholic
theology. So why does the Pope think this?
As far as the points regarding the nature of Tradition goes, here's
the passage in question:
The root of this schismatic act can be discerned in an incomplete
and contradictory notion of Tradtion. Incomplete, because it does
not take sufficiently into the account the living character of
Tradition, which, as the Second Vatican Council clearly taught,
comes from the apostles and progresses in the Church with the
help of the Holy Spirit. There is a growth in insight into
the realities and words that are being passed on. This comes
about in various ways. It comes through the contemplation and
study of believers who ponder these things in their hearts.
It comes from the intimate sense of spiritual realities which
they experience. And it comes from the preaching of those who
have received, along with their right of succession in the
espiscopate, the sure charism of truth.
But especially contradictory is a notion of Tradition which
opposes the universal Magisterium of the Church possessed by the
Bishop of Rome and the body of bishops. It is impossible to
remain faithful to the Tradition while breaking the ecclesial bond
with him to whom, in the person of the Apostle Peter, Christ
himself entrusted the ministry of unity in His Church.
(Papal motu proprio "Ecclesia Dei", 2 July 1988)
It seems to me that the Holy Father is making two points here that can
be simplified to the following:
- Vatican Council II has happened.
- I am the Pope.
The argument being that either case is sufficient to prove that
Archbishop Lefebvre must be wrong, because he disagrees with them.
This is weak, to say the least!
It would have helped clarify things more if the Pope had addressed
Archbishop Lefebvre's concerns in detail. What is John Paul II's
stand on the social Kingship of Christ, as taught by Gregory XVI, Pius
IX, Leo XIII, Pius XI and Pius XII, for example? Are we supposed to
ignore what all these Popes said on the subject?
I don't know what the future will hold, but the powers that be in the
SSPX are still talking with Rome and trying to straighten things out.
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[Many people would prefer to call a justified refusal to obey
"justified disobedience" or even "obeying God rather than man".
Calling a refusal to obey obedience puts us into a sort of Alice in
Wonderland world where words mean whatever we want them to mean.
Similarly, schism indicates a formal break in the church. If the Pope
says that a schism exists, it seems to me that by definition it
exists. It may be that the Pope is on the wrong side of the break,
that there is no good reason for the break to exist, and that it will
shortly be healed. But how can one deny that it does in fact exist?
It seems to me that you are in grave danger of destroying the thing
you are trying to reform: the power of the papacy. What good will it
do you if you become reconciled to the the Pope in the future, but in
the process, you have destroyed his ability to use the tools of church
discipline? It's one thing to hold that the Pope has misused his
powers, and excommunicated someone wrongly. It's something else to
say that his excommunication did not take effect, and the schism is
all in his imagination. That means that acts of church discipline are
not legal tools, but acts whose validity is open to debate. Generally
it has been liberal Catholics who have had problems with the Pope.
While they have often objected to church sanctions, generally they
have admitted that the sanctions exist. You are now opening the door
to people simply ignoring papal decisions, claiming to be truly
obeying by disobeying, and to be in communion while excommunicated.
This would seem to be precisely the denial of Divine right to command
that you say defines schism. | 0 | trimmed_train |
11,272 |
How about:
The Holocaust
The Spanish Inquisition
Jonestown
(just to name a few) ?
Authorities sometimes tell people to do evil things. People who "just
follow orders" have tortured and killed others in very large numbers,
and protest their innocence afterwards.
When your authority starts telling you to do things, you should ask
questions. Except for situations of pressing need ("I said shut the
hatch because the submarine is filling with water!"), any reasonable
authority should be able to give at least some justification that you
can understand.
Just be sure to listen when authority answers.
(If anybody is interested in questions of psychological pressure and
following orders, you might want to read about a study done by Solomon Ashe
in 1951 on conformity, and another done by Stanley Milgram in 1963 on
obedience. Both should be in any good book on psychology/sociology. The
results are both fascinating and terrifying.)
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10,888 |
Is any education a prerequisite for employment at IHR ?
Is it true that IHR really stands for Institution of Hysterical Reviews?
Curious minds would like to know...
Hap
| 6 | trimmed_train |
1,736 | My roommate is selling a Sega Genesis system with Sonic I,
in very nice condition, for $100 obo. Please respond via
email to:
[email protected]
Alternate email addresses are [email protected] and [email protected]. | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,542 | For Sale: 1990 Pontiac Grand Prix SE
White, White rims, Gray interior.
58K miles (mostly highway),
3.8 Litre V6 multi-port fuel-injected engine,
5 speed manual transmission.
Options include:
A/C,
Rear defogger,
Power steering,
Power brakes,
Power windows,
Power locks,
Power mirrors,
Cruise control,
Power glass moonroof with sunshade,
Power seat/recliner (driver's),
Power seat/comfort/lumbar/headrest (both),
AM/FM cassette stero,
Electronic monitor/service system
with graphic compass,
Stereo controls duplicated on
steering wheel,
Remote-keyless entry,
and others.
Asking $11,500.
The car looks and rides like it just rolled off
of the dealers lot. It has been garaged and pampered.
It gets an average of 27.5 mpg highway, sometimes better;
city is around 19-23 mpg, depending on how it is driven.
Selling because of baby coming soon. Need 4-door family
car. Will consider trade or partial trade with Ford Taurus,
Mercury Sable, or 4-door Pontiac Grand Am or similar American
car. | 5 | trimmed_train |
9,553 | I want to connect a very small "home-made" speaker
up to the headphone jack on my macintosh LC for an experiment.
The dc resistance of the speaker is 1 ohm. Any ideas how I can
do this safely? I think I need some kind of an impedance
transformer or something.?
-tony
[email protected]
| 11 | trimmed_train |
578 | I recently upgraded to a 486 and have found out I don't really have a need
for my old 386. I'd prefer to sell just the motherboard and keep the case
etc, so I'll offer the motherboard and case separately and let you decide.
I'm asking $325 for the motherboard, which has:
25Mhz 386 DX (not SX)
8 megabytes of 32-bit, 70ns memory
AMI BIOS
based on C&T NEAT chipset
(this means the motherboard and bus circuitry timings are
programmable - the BIOS' advanced configuration menus let you
select system, DMA, bus clock, wait states, command delays, etc.)
"baby AT" sized - fits in mini-tower, full-sized or most any other case
(Includes User's Guide and a copy of the BIOS reference manual)
For $150 more you could have the rest of the system too:
full-size AT case with 200(?) watt power supply
2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game ports
20Mb hard disk
1.2Mb floppy disk
keyboard
video card (choice of VGA or ???)
If you're interested, please give me a call. The system is set up at my house
in Aloha, and you're welcome to come test drive it. | 5 | trimmed_train |
10,719 | ...
Another April 1 posting. Ahhh. | 11 | trimmed_train |
6,770 |
A remark I heard the other day is beginning to take on increasingly
frightening significance. The comment was made that "In other parts
of the world the Democrats [note the big "D"] would be known as
Socialists"
A [note the small "d"] democrat who wonders what Thomas Jefferson, on
this the 250th anniversary of his birth, would have thought of the state
of affairs between the government and the governed.
------- Any views expressed are those of myself and not my employer. --------
Steven C. Johnson, WB3IRU / VK2GDS |
TRW | [email protected]
FP1 / 3133 | [129.193.172.90]
1 Federal Systems Park Drive | Phone: +1 (703) 968.1000
Fairfax, Virginia 22033-4412 U.S.A. | Fax: +1 (703) 803.5189 | 7 | trimmed_train |
11,231 | from Dean:
Yes, you're right. After going home and reading the paper, I got the
full details. That's what I get for making a post based on WDUQ's news.
I should know by now they get just about every sports related item wrong. | 17 | trimmed_train |
2,842 | : The Swiss population is (and well was) far larger than that. I think
: your question should be, "...losing sleep over a million expert
: riflemen?" Certainly he could have conquered Switzerland, but
: a million armed militiamen (especially in a mountainous area,
: where tanks' effectiveness is limited) would have made it a
: real pain. The question a conqueror would ask, is "is it worth
: the trouble?" The more difficult an invasion is, the more likely
: the answer would be "no." Certainly a million riflemen (as
: opposed to a professional army of only ten or twenty thousand, the
: best a country the size of Switzerland could support), makes
: invasions more difficult.
Hitler invaded Yugoslavia and occupied it. The mountainous portions were
sometimes patrolled by the wermacht, but they were certainly not in control.
There were two major native factions opposing each other and the germans,
It was basically useless to the germans (no production) and a drain on their
resources (a armored division and a couple of infantry divisions) Which if
my memory is correct, were kind of stuck there up until the allies accepted
their surrender. (I think that the allies also let the germans keep some
of their weapons for self defense unitil they were able to get to the
lowlands, away from the resistance factions. This is from memory, and
it is unreliable. | 9 | trimmed_train |
299 |
Right now, I'm just going to address this point.
When the Jewish National Fund bought most of its land,
It didn't buy it from the Palestinians themselves, because,
for the most part, they were tenant farmers (fallahin),
living on land owned by wealthy Arabs in Syria and Lebanon.
The JNF offered a premium deal, so the owners took advantage of
it. It's called commerce. The owners, however, made no
provisions for those who had worked for them, basically shafting
them by selling the land right out from under them.
They are to blame, not the Jews.
| 6 | trimmed_train |
10,578 |
No need to correct it, it stands as it is said.
You miss the point entirely. Things defined by contradictory language
do not exist. Though something existing might be meant, conclusions
drawn from the description are wrong, unless there is the possibility
to find the described, and draw conclusions from direct knowledge of
the described then. Another possibility is to drop the contradictory
part, but that implies that one can trust the concept as presented
and that one has not got to doubt the source of it as well.
Neither am I. But either things are directly sensed (which includes
some form of modelling, by the way) or they are used in modelling.
Using something contradictive in modelling is not approved of.
Wonder why? | 8 | trimmed_train |
5,821 | Hi,
I have a friend who is working on 2-d and 3-d object recognition. He is looking
for references describing algorithms on the following subject areas:
Thresholding
Edge Segmentation
Marr-Hildreth
Sobel Operator
Chain Codes
Thinning - Skeletonising
If anybody is willing to post an algorithm that they have implemented which demonstrates
any of the above topics, it would be much appreciated.
Please post all replies to my e-mail address. If requested I will post a summary to the
newsgroup in a couple of weeks.
Thanks in advance for all replies | 1 | trimmed_train |
5,044 |
Well, I didn't bother writing to Boxer, Feinstein or Eshoo, the terrible
trio who allegly represent me. Instead, I wrote to Bentsen. My letter
was not exactly strongly-worded; I simply stated that the BATF approach
was immoral (military-style assault, firing into a house where they knew
there were kids).
Aparently, Bentsen forwarded my letter to the BATF and they responded to
me directly. It follows the text of your reply pretty closely. However,
I intend to send another letter directly to them, in return.
This section is not in the letter that I received. The parts about ATF
logo and steenking badges or their loss of the element of surprise
were not included, either.
The same guy with the bad handwriting apparently signed my letter, "for
Richard L. Garner; Chief, Special Operations Division". | 9 | trimmed_train |
6,210 |
When were you in Britain?, my information is different.
From Miranda Castro, _The Complete Homeopathy Handbook_,
ISBN 0-312-06320-2, oringinally published in Britain in 1990. | 19 | trimmed_train |
5,918 | Since someone brought up sports radio, howabout sportswriting???
(Anyone give an opinion)
Which city do you think has the best sports coverage in terms of
print media?
(these are general questions)
Is the Washington Post better than the Philadelphia Inquier or the NY
Times?
Howabout the Philadelphia Daily News compared to the New York Daily
News?
| 2 | trimmed_train |
3,329 | The dead giveaway is the repeated protestations that the new plan is aimed
at "criminals", "drug dealers", "terrorists", etc. You'd think the tactic
would be too obvious to trot out yet again after a decade of Sarah and the
rest of the Brady Bunch using it to destroy the Second Amendment, but evidently
the control nuts feel it will serve them one more time. | 7 | trimmed_train |
244 | 7 | trimmed_train |
|
2,939 |
Blood glucose levels of 40 or so are common several hours after a
big meal. This level will usually not cause symptoms.
If you mean "reactive" hypoglycemia, there are usually no symptoms,
hence there is no disease, hence the dietary recommendations are the
same as for anyone else. If a patient complains of dizziness,
faintness, sweating, palpitations, etc. reliably several hours after
a big meal, the recommendations are obvious - eat smaller meals. | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,080 | Ever since the siege at Waco started the FBI spokesman has been
stressing how unstable and paranoid David Koresh was. He stressed how
likely it was the the Branch Davidians would commit mass suicide. He
was concerned with the safety of the children.
What did the FBI do to defuse the situation, Did they try to reassure
Koresh? DId the FBI offer medical assistance to the BD? Did the FBI
offer them a supply of water when the BD pump stoped working? Did the
permit Koresh to communicate with anyone outside the compound?
What the FBI did was harass the Branch Davidians as much as possible.
They kept powerful lights shining on the compound, shut off their
electrical power, put their pump out of action, assaulted their ears
with loud noise, cut off their communication with the outside and kept
limiting their permitter. The stated goal was to put pressure on
David Koresh.
Was the FBI attempting to get Koresh to surrender or were they hoping
to get Koresh so mad that he and some of his followers would attack
the the tanks.
It appears that the tactics employed by the FBI did drive Koresh over
the edge. The blame for the deaths should be shared by both the
federal experts whose tactics drove Koresh over the edge and the fools
at the ATF who planed the raid.
Stupidity and incompetence of the BATF and the FBI leadership have
resulted in the needless death of 90 innocent people.
If every thing had gone as planned 90 people would be alive today.
Instead the ATF screwed up and caused the death of 90+. Incompetent
law enforcement can kill you!
| 9 | trimmed_train |
1,483 | INteresting question about Galileo.
Galileo's HGA is stuck.
The HGA was left closed, because galileo had a venus flyby.
If the HGA were pointed att he sun, near venus, it would
cook the foci elements.
question: WHy couldn't Galileo's course manuevers have been
designed such that the HGA did not ever do a sun point.?
After all, it would normally be aimed at earth anyway?
or would it be that an emergency situation i.e. spacecraft safing
and seek might have caused an HGA sun point? | 10 | trimmed_train |
7,626 | In <[email protected]> [email protected] (Antero
It's got potential. Instead of *.chemistry, how about splitting the
classification into *.biochemistry (which are probably the topics
you're thinking of) and *.pharmaceutical (which otherwise might end up
in *.(bio)chemistry)?
(This is separate from the issue of whether there is sufficient potential
news volume to support either or both groups.)
I'll add 'em to my medical/health newsgroup wish list (which I'm looking
forward to posting and discussing -- but not for another 10 days or so). | 19 | trimmed_train |
9,857 | 8 | trimmed_train |
|
613 | Subject pretty much says it all - I'm looking for Johnny Hart's (creator
of the B.C. comic stip) mailing address.
For those of you who haven't seen them, take a look at his strips for Good
Friday and Easter Sunday. Remarkable witness!
If anyone can help me get in touch with him, I'd really appreciate it!
I've contacted the paper that carries his strip and -- they'll get back to
me with it!
Thanks for your help,
Dave Arndt
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. Peter, MN 56082 | 0 | trimmed_train |
5,601 | Hi there netters,
I have a question I would very much like to see some discussion on:
Is there such a thing as a 'justifible' war?
What I would love to see it some basis from scripture for either: "All war
is wrong", or "Some war is justifiable".
To get things started I would like to outline why I am asking the
question. In my high school days I had been quite involved in the the New
Zealand Cadet Forces (This is a bit like ROTC from what I understand of
it, but with a lot more emphasis on fun than military career training).
Through this I became extremely enamoured of flying, have become involved
in the sport of gliding, and have a great interest in military aviation
hardware as the very best a 'real' flyer could ask for. My favourite
computer games are the accurate simulations of military aircraft, both
past and present.
I became a Christian about 10 years ago, and at the time rejected all
military activity as immoral. For me, all war was in complete opposition
to God's commandments to love one another, especially one's enemies.
During the war in Iraq, I found myself with great excitement listening to
the reports of the effectiveness of the the attacks using the aviation
technology I so admire - The F117A 'Stealh' bomber, the F14, F15 and F16
strike aircraft, etc. After the war concluded I began to really enjoy
simulations based around this conflict - Great to go and bomb Saddam's
bio-weapons plants in an F117A on my computer, or shoot down some of his
Mig's in an F16. The simulation of the death of people was a wonderful
game. I imagine the real pilots view the real thing in much the same way.
One only has to look at the language used to see that the personal impact
of war is ignored: A building containing people, or an aircraft flown by a
pilot is simply a 'target'. Dead civilians are 'collateral damage'. These
euphanisms are a way of removing the reality of war from the people whose
support are necessary for the continued waging of war - One only has to
look at Vietnam to see how important public opinion is.
Now we see troops sponsored by the United Nations entering Somalia, and
the prospect of military intervention in the Muslim/Croat/Serb conflict in
the former Yugoslavia. My revulsion in particular to the siege of
Sarajevo, and in the last few days of (sorry 'bout spelling) Sebrenitsa,
has caused me to rethink where I stand on 'justifiable' war.
I will list several wars in the last 50 years I can look at each, and say
- Yes this may have been justifible, this may not. These are simply my gut
reactions to each - In many cases with the benefit of the impartiality
history brings. Let me go through a few and state some of my reasons for
my reaction - I am not a historian, so excuse any historical blunders, I
am working from popular history as it is known in New Zealand.
1. The Second World War
- Murder of Jews - Hitler had to be stopped.
- Massive civilian casualties on both sides
- Dresden, Hiroshima/Nagasaki
- Probably justifiable.
2. Korean war
- Political expansionism by North Korea, basically
communism vs. capitalism.
- Probably not justifiable.
3. Vietnam
- As above, worsened by US involvement.
4. Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
- Genocide by Khmer Rouge.
- Probably justifiable.
5. Iraq (Desert Storm)
- Political expansionism, threat to world oil supply
- Other factors such as genocide.
- Not sure, but probably justifiable
6. A future involvement in Bosnia
- Genocide - so called 'Ethnic Cleansing'
- Emotive - much TV coverage of atrocities and civilian casualties.
- Probably justifiable
7. Possible future use of nuclear weapons - tactical or strategic,
somewhere in the world by the US in response to someone else - e.g. Libya
or Israel.
- My feelings in this are simple
- Nuclear war/weapons are abhorrent
- I love the New Zealand government's stand on banning all nuclear
armed or powered warships from NZ port.
- Never justifiable.
These are my own views, I have looked at scripture, and I am confused. I
would appreciate others view, particularly those based on scripture. I
*don't* want a - Naaahh, yer wrong - I think answers 8-).
Thanks for your help.
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Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347
Chief Programmer, | Fax +64-3-479-8529
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New Zealand |
"God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in
our place, so that we may have eternal life" John 3:16, paraphrase | 0 | trimmed_train |
4,165 | Even more interesting: the SMTP server at csrc.ncsl.nist.gov no longer
recognizes the 'expn' and 'vrfy' commands...
telnet csrc.ncsl.nist.gov smtp
Trying 129.6.54.11...
Connected to csrc.ncsl.nist.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 first.org sendmail 4.1/NIST ready at Tue, 20 Apr 93 17:01:34 EDT
expn clipper
500 Command unrecognized
Seems like sombody didn't like your snooping around, Marc.
Or mine. Or the dozen or so other people who probably had the same idea :-)
So does this rush to shut it down imply that some of the names on that
list *are* heavy-duty spooks? :-))) | 7 | trimmed_train |
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