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2,516 | I'm currently looking for information about different graphics
formats, especially PPM, PCX BMP and perhaps GIF.
Does anyone know if there exist any files at some site
that describes these formats ???
Thanks !
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11,024 | The only ether I see here is the stuff you must
have been breathing before you posted...
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1,048 | Regarding David Wilkerson's prophecies. While I'm not real sure of
his credibility, I do remember a book he wrote, called A VISION or
something like that. He made a prediction that people who bought gold
would be hurt financially. At the time, gold was up to about $800;
now it is less than half that. This prediction stuck in my mind
because a lot of people where I worked were buying gold.
The problem is, we tend to remember predictions that come true and
forget ones that didn't (a la Jean Dixon). Does anyone know if there
any of his predictions, perhaps from the book I mentioned, that can
pretty definitely be said to have not come true? | 0 | trimmed_train |
3,114 | --
73, Tom
================================================================================
Tom Wagner, Audio Visual Technician. Malaspina College Nanaimo British Columbia
(604)753-3245, Loc 2230 Fax:755-8742 Callsign:VE7GDA Weapon:.45 Kentucky Rifle
Snail mail to: Site Q4, C2. RR#4, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, V9R 5X9 | 11 | trimmed_train |
6,011 |
I noticed this dead horse in your Keywords line. Is this the famous scarlet horse
of Babylon that the Beast (that's 666 for you illuminatti) rides on in those
wonderful mediaeval manuscripts. If so, I fear your announcement that the old
girl is dead may be premature. I bet $20 on her to place in the 6th race at The
Downs last Sunday, and she slid in a bad fifth. So she is not dead. She is just
comatose. (like god that way, I suppose).
Ninja Gourmet
Will fight for food.
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2,039 | OK, I should have read the thread before posting my own $0.02. I would
just add to Phil's very infomative discussion the following caveat: the
fifth amendment applies ONLY in crinial cases. ("...nor shall any person .
. . be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...").
Thus if the father sued for custody of the children, the case would be
civil and the defendant mother would not have fifth amendment protection.
Oddly enough, her refusal to give information in a civil case can lead to
criminal contempt charges (thus landing her in jail.) The interesting part
of all this is that in a murder trial, the woman CAN plead the fifth as
to the location of the child--this is routine. A "computer crime"
prosecution thus would seem to be fertile ground for this kind of defense,
where a suit by a party injured by "hackers" would not. If I am accused,
for example, of sending encrypted kiddie porn over the nets the fifth should
protect my key. If I am accused of sending copyrighted material, however,
it proabably will not (copyright infringement not being a "crime" in the
technical sense.) The REALLY tricky question is, say I do both (naughty
boy that I am) can the government use the information gained in the civil
trial (ie. my key) to gain access to my files for use in the criminal
prosecution. The answer should certainly be no, but lord only knows how
this would work out.
Steve.
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9,007 | I saw this article posted in a local newsgroup. I haven't seen it,
or any followup traffic relating to it in these groups or other groups
which I subscribe to. So, I am posting it here so others can read it,
check it out, and comment on it, and provide ideas for handling these
sorts of things.
I have no verification to the accuracy or lack of accuracy of this
article, but if accurate, I find it extremely disturbing, especially in
light of various abuses of the SSN number regarding privacy, (I understand
it is now to be required in CA to renew a drivers license, or to register
a car) and other proposals regarding 'smart' national Identity Cards,
wiretap proposals, and such. One simply wonders what other gems are in
the wings ready to be sprung on the people by our government. Perhaps
suggestions and ideas for preventing this and other such proposals from
acquiring the force of law would be useful. The cost simply outweighs
any possible benefits, IMO.
BTW, reading this makes me think of some ideas a Prof Denning has been
promoting, in an even more disturbing form.
That said, with no further comment, the article follows:
------------ Begin included article ---------
Note: This file will also be available via anonymous file
transfer from csrc.ncsl.nist.gov in directory /pub/nistnews and
via the NIST Computer Security BBS at 301-948-5717.
---------------------------------------------------
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 16, 1993
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
The President today announced a new initiative that will bring
the Federal Government together with industry in a voluntary
program to improve the security and privacy of telephone
communications while meeting the legitimate needs of law
enforcement.
The initiative will involve the creation of new products to
accelerate the development and use of advanced and secure
telecommunications networks and wireless communications links.
For too long there has been little or no dialogue between our
private sector and the law enforcement community to resolve the
tension between economic vitality and the real challenges of
protecting Americans. Rather than use technology to accommodate
the sometimes competing interests of economic growth, privacy and
law enforcement, previous policies have pitted government against
industry and the rights of privacy against law enforcement.
Sophisticated encryption technology has been used for years to
protect electronic funds transfer. It is now being used to
protect electronic mail and computer files. While encryption
technology can help Americans protect business secrets and the
unauthorized release of personal information, it also can be used
by terrorists, drug dealers, and other criminals.
A state-of-the-art microcircuit called the "Clipper Chip" has
been developed by government engineers. The chip represents a
new approach to encryption technology. It can be used in new,
relatively inexpensive encryption devices that can be attached to
an ordinary telephone. It scrambles telephone communications
using an encryption algorithm that is more powerful than many in
commercial use today.
This new technology will help companies protect proprietary
information, protect the privacy of personal phone conversations
and prevent unauthorized release of data transmitted
electronically. At the same time this technology preserves the
ability of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to
intercept lawfully the phone conversations of criminals.
A "key-escrow" system will be established to ensure that the
"Clipper Chip" is used to protect the privacy of law-abiding
Americans. Each device containing the chip will have two unique
2
"keys," numbers that will be needed by authorized government
agencies to decode messages encoded by the device. When the
device is manufactured, the two keys will be deposited separately
in two "key-escrow" data bases that will be established by the
Attorney General. Access to these keys will be limited to
government officials with legal authorization to conduct a
wiretap.
The "Clipper Chip" technology provides law enforcement with no
new authorities to access the content of the private
conversations of Americans.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of this new technology, the
Attorney General will soon purchase several thousand of the new
devices. In addition, respected experts from outside the
government will be offered access to the confidential details of
the algorithm to assess its capabilities and publicly report
their findings.
The chip is an important step in addressing the problem of
encryption's dual-edge sword: encryption helps to protect the
privacy of individuals and industry, but it also can shield
criminals and terrorists. We need the "Clipper Chip" and other
approaches that can both provide law-abiding citizens with access
to the encryption they need and prevent criminals from using it
to hide their illegal activities. In order to assess technology
trends and explore new approaches (like the key-escrow system),
the President has directed government agencies to develop a
comprehensive policy on encryption that accommodates:
-- the privacy of our citizens, including the need to
employ voice or data encryption for business purposes;
-- the ability of authorized officials to access telephone
calls and data, under proper court or other legal
order, when necessary to protect our citizens;
-- the effective and timely use of the most modern
technology to build the National Information
Infrastructure needed to promote economic growth and
the competitiveness of American industry in the global
marketplace; and
-- the need of U.S. companies to manufacture and export
high technology products.
The President has directed early and frequent consultations with
affected industries, the Congress and groups that advocate the
privacy rights of individuals as policy options are developed.
3
The Administration is committed to working with the private
sector to spur the development of a National Information
Infrastructure which will use new telecommunications and computer
technologies to give Americans unprecedented access to
information. This infrastructure of high-speed networks
("information superhighways") will transmit video, images, HDTV
programming, and huge data files as easily as today's telephone
system transmits voice.
Since encryption technology will play an increasingly important
role in that infrastructure, the Federal Government must act
quickly to develop consistent, comprehensive policies regarding
its use. The Administration is committed to policies that
protect all Americans' right to privacy while also protecting
them from those who break the law.
Further information is provided in an accompanying fact sheet.
The provisions of the President's directive to acquire the new
encryption technology are also available.
For additional details, call Mat Heyman, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, (301) 975-2758.
---------------------------------
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INITIATIVE
Q: Does this approach expand the authority of government
agencies to listen in on phone conversations?
A: No. "Clipper Chip" technology provides law enforcement with
no new authorities to access the content of the private
conversations of Americans.
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.
Q: Who will run the key-escrow data banks?
A: The two key-escrow data banks will be run by two independent
entities. At this point, the Department of Justice and the
Administration have yet to determine which agencies will
oversee the key-escrow data banks.
Q: How strong is the security in the device? How can I be sure
how strong the security is?
A: This system is more secure than many other voice encryption
systems readily available today. While the algorithm will
remain classified to protect the security of the key escrow
system, we are willing to invite an independent panel of
cryptography experts to evaluate the algorithm to assure all
potential users that there are no unrecognized
vulnerabilities.
Q: Whose decision was it to propose this product?
A: The National Security Council, the Justice Department, the
Commerce Department, and other key agencies were involved in
this decision. This approach has been endorsed by the
President, the Vice President, and appropriate Cabinet
officials.
Q: Who was consulted? The Congress? Industry?
A: We have on-going discussions with Congress and industry on
encryption issues, and expect those discussions to intensify
as we carry out our review of encryption policy. We have
briefed members of Congress and industry leaders on the
decisions related to this initiative.
Q: Will the government provide the hardware to manufacturers?
A: The government designed and developed the key access
encryption microcircuits, but it is not providing the
microcircuits to product manufacturers. Product
manufacturers can acquire the microcircuits from the chip
manufacturer that produces them.
Q: Who provides the "Clipper Chip"?
A: Mykotronx programs it at their facility in Torrance,
California, and will sell the chip to encryption device
manufacturers. The programming function could be licensed
to other vendors in the future.
Q: How do I buy one of these encryption devices?
A: We expect several manufacturers to consider incorporating
the "Clipper Chip" into their devices.
Q: If the Administration were unable to find a technological
solution like the one proposed, would the Administration be
willing to use legal remedies to restrict access to more
powerful encryption devices?
A: This is a fundamental policy question which will be
considered during the broad policy review. The key escrow
mechanism will provide Americans with an encryption product
that is more secure, more convenient, and less expensive
than others readily available today, but it is just one
piece of what must be the comprehensive approach to
encryption technology, which the Administration is
developing.
The Administration is not saying, "since encryption
threatens the public safety and effective law enforcement,
we will prohibit it outright" (as some countries have
effectively done); nor is the U.S. saying that "every
American, as a matter of right, is entitled to an
unbreakable commercial encryption product." There is a
false "tension" created in the assessment that this issue is
an "either-or" proposition. Rather, both concerns can be,
and in fact are, harmoniously balanced through a reasoned,
balanced approach such as is proposed with the "Clipper
Chip" and similar encryption techniques.
Q: What does this decision indicate about how the Clinton
Administration's policy toward encryption will differ from
that of the Bush Administration?
A: It indicates that we understand the importance of encryption
technology in telecommunications and computing and are
committed to working with industry and public-interest
groups to find innovative ways to protect Americans'
privacy, help businesses to compete, and ensure that law
enforcement agencies have the tools they need to fight crime
and terrorism.
Q: Will the devices be exportable? Will other devices that use
the government hardware?
A: Voice encryption devices are subject to export control
requirements. Case-by-case review for each export is
required to ensure appropriate use of these devices. The
same is true for other encryption devices. One of the
attractions of this technology is the protection it can give
to U.S. companies operating at home and abroad. With this
in mind, we expect export licenses will be granted on a
case-by-case basis for U.S. companies seeking to use these
devices to secure their own communications abroad. We plan
to review the possibility of permitting wider exportability
of these products.
----------- End included article -----------
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9,762 | In the mist of the Rangers soap box (i.e. Captain neMesis-ier/ex-coach
Roger Nebula bad blood bath) and with high hopes turned to new coach
Mr. Klean (Commissar Keenan)... I would like to know what procedures
hockey teams use to select their captains (including A's). Are they
selected by the coaching staff, do the players vote for a captain, or
are they appointed by management?
And, while we are on the subject, has a captain ever been traded,
resigned, or been striped of his title during the season? Any other
team captain trivia would be appreciated. | 17 | trimmed_train |
720 | Just out of curiosity, what happened to the weekly AL and NL Game
Score Reports? I used to enjoy reading them throughout the summer
for the last two years.
Inquisitively yours,
Joel | 2 | trimmed_train |
4,843 | I thought that Walt Weiss was jewish. I seem to recall this
was mentioned once while he was still at Oakland.
Also, I have my suspicions about Esther Canseco (nee Haddad).
| 2 | trimmed_train |
8,201 | : Could someone direct me to information on SCSI performance for each Mac?
: (Max throughput, etc.)
Max thruput on a Centris or Quadra is about 3.3 MB/sec.
Max thruput on IIci or IIfx or equivalent is about 1.4 MB/Sec
Max thruput on slower machines is slower. | 14 | trimmed_train |
2,818 |
Jobs? What the hell have jobs to do with it? It's another touchy-feely
program from the new, vapid administration. The fact is, the major claim
made for "universal" immunization -- that "all children will be immunized" --
has absolutely no validity. Several states already have U.I. programs, have
had these programs for _years_. The result: on average, their success rates
are no better than the national average. It seems that the gummint hasn't
yet figured out a way to MAKE parents bring their kids in. Yet another case
of shameless demagoguery from the "new" Democrats, the "agents of change."
What? Clinton using this issue for _partisan gain_? Do tell.
All together now... c'mon, you know the words... "Meet the new boss! Same as
the old boss!" And the chorus: "We won't get fooled again!"
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Paul Havemann (Internet: [email protected]) | 13 | trimmed_train |
8,391 | Gordon Rubenfeld responds to Ron Roth:
GR>
GR> RR> Well, Gordon, I look at the RESULTS, not at anyone's *scientific*
GR> RR> stamp of approval.
GR>
GR> If you and your patients (followers?) are convinced (as you've written)
GR> by your methods of uncontrolled, undocumented, unreported, unsubstantiated,
GR> subjective endpoint research - great. But, why should the rest of us care?
Gordon, even if you are trying to beat this issue to death, you'll
never get more than a stalemate out of this one!
I have never tried to force my type of medicine on any of you. Why
should I? My patients are happy. I'm happy. You and your peers seem
to be the only miserable ones around bemoaning the steady loss of
patients to the alternative camp.
Just look at Europe. There has been a steady exodus from 'synthetic'
medicine for over a decade now, and it'll be just a matter of time
before more people on this continent will abandon their drug and white
coat worship as well and visit different doctors for different needs.
GR> You see Ron, the point isn't whether YOU and your patients are
GR> convinced that whatever it is you do works; it's whether what you do is
GR> MORE effective in similar cases (of whatever it is you think you are
GR> treating) than cupping, bloodletting, and placebo.
This is very interesting. I have come exactly to the same conclusions
but in regards to *conventional* medicine.
You see, I don't just treat little old ladies that wouldn't know any
different of what is being done, but a bulk of my patients consist of
teachers, lawyers, judges, nurses, accountants, university graduates,
and various health practitioners.
If these people have gotten results with my method after having been
unsuccessful with yours or their own, I certainly wouldn't lose any
sleep over whether you or your peers approve of my treatments ---
let's face it, with all the blunders committed by "scientific" MDs
over the years, I know a lot of people who hold your *scientific*
method in much lower esteem than they hold mine!
GR> As far as we know ayurveda = crystals = homeopathy = Ron Roth
GR> which may all equal placebo administered with appropriate
GR> trappings...
Sorry, but I'm not familiar OR interested with what appears to be
'NEW AGE' medicine (ayurveda, crystals), with the exception of homeo-
pathy, of which I took a course. But Gordon, you already knew that -
you just wanted to make my system look a bit more far out, right?
I use homeopathy very little, since my cellular test (EMR) is hard to
beat for accuracy and minerals are more predictable, while homeopathy
does have a problem with reliability, especially in acute conditions.
An exception perhaps are homeopathic nosodes which act fairly quickly
and are more dependable in certain viral or bacterial situations.
GR> My colleagues and I spend hours debating study design
GR> and results, even of therapies currently accepted as "standard".
GR> As good (well, adequate) scientists, we are prepared, *if
GR> presented with appropriate data*, to abandon our most deeply held
GR> beliefs in favor of new ideas.
I have met the challenges of hundreds of sceptics by verifying the
accuracy of measuring their mineral status to their total satisfac-
tion --- in other words EVERYONE INVOLVED is happy!
If you were to cook a meal, would you worry over whether EVERYONE
in this world would find it to their liking, or only those that end
up eating it?
Since I have financed every research project that I have undertaken
entirely myself, I don't need to follow any of your rules or guide-
lines to satisfy any aspects of a grant application, which YOU may
have to; neither am I concerned of whether or not my study designs
meet your or anyone else's criteria or acceptance.
GR> Sorry Ron, if conviction were the ruler of truth, a flat Earth would
GR> still be the center of the Universe and epilepsy a curse of the gods.
I think there would be more justification for an uneducated person
growing up in an uncivilized environment to believe in a flat earth,
than for a civilized, well educated and scientifically trained mind
to follow the doctrine of evolution.
Genetic engineering of course is now the final frontier to show God
how it is (properly) done. Now we've become capable of creating our
own paradise and give disease (and God) the boot, right?
But just before we get rid of Him for good, perhaps He could leave us
some pointers on how to solve a couple of tiny problems, such as war,
poverty, racism, crime, riots, substance abuse... And one last thing,
could He also give us a hint on how to control natural disasters, the
weather, and last, but not least --- peace?
--Ron-- | 19 | trimmed_train |
8,490 |
Are you using the traditional radiosity method, progressive refinement, or
something else in your package?
If you need to project patches on the hemi-cube surfaces, what technique are
you using? Do you have hardware to facilitate the projection?
What are the guest username and password for this ftp site?
Thanks, Stephan.
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3,602 |
: From: [email protected]
: Subject: Taurus/Sable rotor recall
: My '92 Taurus GL with only 26k on the clock also has rotor warp.
: Apparently they HAVEN'T fixed the problem yet. But try convincing the Ford
: service person to fix it for free...Right!!!
: Tony
Gads, I have heard so many horror stories with Taurus and Sable cars! I thought
these were premium American automobiles. The way they sell, you'd think so.
Is Ford really no better than in the late '70s when it was turning out tin
cans like the Granada and the Fairmount? Which would you get, a Taurus or
a Camry or Accord?
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1,357 |
^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
Can we assume that this guy studied advertising and not chemistry? Granted
it probably a great advertising gimic, but it doesn't sound at all practical.
| 10 | trimmed_train |
8,579 | I recently purchased the then current Pkg.# 486dx-33 for $2395 (but changed
to NEC 3FGx monitor upgrade). Buy this Pkg. #3 now - for $100 more, you now
get a bigger HD - 340mb with @256 HD cache. 30 days ago, when I bought this
pkg., it was 245mb with @132K HD cache. This is a great deal although it is
generally recommended you at least upgrade to the 15' Zeos (CTX) monitor for
$99 more I believe. Whether you also upgrade to the Diamond Viper video
card is your choice. I stayed with the Diamond Speedstar Pro. Zeos Tech
Support is really good - call after normal business hours to get the
fastest access. The hardest part about buying a Zeos is the wait till it is
delivered - once you order you can hardly wait to get it! There are quite a
few good mail order houses around - lots of bang for buck with Zeos.
| 3 | trimmed_train |
4,554 |
But, think of the *mystique* you are buying into for that extra $7k or
more!!! | 12 | trimmed_train |
11,008 | From Denning:
the Skipjack encryption algorithm
F, an 80-bit family key that is common to all chips
N, a 30-bit serial number
U, an 80-bit secret key that unlocks all messages encrypted with the chip
E[M; K], the encrypted message stream, and
E[E[K; U] + N; F], a law enforcement block.
Where the session key is K, and is transmitted encrypted in the unit Key U.
Which along with the serial number N is encrypted in the Family key F.
Presumably the protocol can be recovered (if by nothing else, differential
analysis).
Postulate if you will, a chip (or logic) sitting between the clipper chip
and its communications channel. The function of this spoof chip is twofold:
1) Transmit Channel
The spoof chip XORs the 30 bit encrypted serial number with
a secondary keying variable. This renders the serial number
unrecoverable with just the family key
2) Receive Channel
The spoof chip XORs the incoming encrypted serial number
with a secondary keying variable (assuming integrity of the
law enforcement block is necessary for local operation -
checksums, sequence control, etc.).
This has the net result of hiding the serial number. It is probable theere is
a known plaintext pattern used as a filler in the block containing N (34 bits
as used in generating U, U1,U2) correctness of the law enforcement block
can be determined with only the family key F. Whereas, no one has proposed
Federal Agencies be denied F, and because they could recover it themselves,
The correctness of the serial number can be tested by examining the pad bits
of N in E[N; F].
The one could selectively alter the law enforcement block as above, but the
mutilation could be detected. A better approach would be to mutilate the
entire law enforcement block. If it were done with a group encryption scheme
such as DES or (presumably) Skipjack, the chances the law enforcement block
can be recovered are lessened.
What do you want to bet the transmission protocol can be recognized and the
serial numbers decrypted in a target search? When digital transmission
becomes widely available, would there be a requirement that clipper protocol
transmissions be refused when containing mutilated law enforcement blocks?
One way to avoid notice, would be to spoof protocol information of the block
containing M, as well as spoofing the law enforcement block.
The goal is to use a secure communications scheme, without redress to
detection or key K interception (contained encrypted within the law
enforcement block). The data stream is returned to its original state
for use by the clipper chip (or system) if required, for proper operation.
It is somewhat improbable that the entire protocol will be contained within
the clipper chip, yet likely that sequence of events will be tested for,
requiring a valid law enforcement block to be received before accepting
and decrypting E(M; K);
The spoof chip could be implemented anywhere in the protocols, including
on the resulting serial data stream. Existing clipper products could
be subborned. After all, they are high security encryption systems right?
Super encipherment/encryption could allow the chip to be used without
redress to detection of the use of the chip, or disclosure of the serial
number. Security must be adequate to deny the serial number, which should
not be recoverable by other means. One can see the use of cut outs for
procurring clipper phones, or once the number of units is high enough,
stealing them. It would be a mistake on the part of authority, but nice
from a point of privacy, if the serial number N were not associated with
a particular clipper chip or lot of chips through the manufacturing and
distribution process. Hopefully the list of known missing or stolen
clipper serial numbers N encrypted with F, and the protocols are not
sufficient plaintext to attact the super encrypted clipper stream.
This could be further made difficult by altering the temporal and or
spatial relationship of the clipper stream to that of the super encrypted
stream.
Detection of an encrypted stream could tip off the use of the aforementioned
scheme.
******************************************************************************
If you could capture valid law enforcement blocks not your own, and use
them in a codebook sustitution with your own, where they point to a valid
law enforcement block stored in a library utilizing a session key matching
the remainder of the transmission, you could simply out and out lie, yet
deliver to monitoring and/or hostile forces a seemingly valid law enforcement
block. These captured law enforcement blocks would be used as authenticators,
such as in a manually keyed encryption system. Fending this off would require
escalation in examining the protocols and blocks in the transmission.
The M code stream might be independently attacked based on knowledge of
clipper chip protocols as revealed plaintext. This could be invalidated
by changing the temporal and or spatial relationship of the clipper M stream
and the actual transmitted stream, under the control of a secure key
generator synchronized between endpoints.
The useful life time of captured law enforcement blocks might be limited
based on hostile forces using them as targets following transmission
interception. You would need a large number of them, but, hey there's
supposed to be millions of these things, right? Adding time stamps to
the encrypted law enforcement block is probably impractical, who wants
an encryption chip with a real time clock?
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6,297 | ...
Funny. A bit disturbing. Forging a posting seems somewhat unethical, even
if the subject is as notorious as McElwaine.
Followups should definitely not go to sci.space.
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10,663 |
Wow! A 68070! I'd be very interested to get my hands on one of these,
especially considering the fact that Motorola has not yet released the
68060, which is supposedly the next in the 680x0 lineup. 8-D | 1 | trimmed_train |
493 | The xgolf program was an April Fool's joke <sigh>. | 16 | trimmed_train |
5,773 | Hi! Everyone,
Because no one has touched the problem I posted last week, I guess
my question was not so clear. Now I'd like to describe it in detail:
The offset of an ellipse is the locus of the center of a circle which
rolls on the ellipse. In other words, the distance between the ellipse
and its offset is same everywhere.
This problem comes from the geometric measurement when a probe is used.
The tip of the probe is a ball and the computer just outputs the
positions of the ball's center. Is the offset of an ellipse still
an ellipse? The answer is no! Ironically, DMIS - an American Indutrial
Standard says it is ellipse. So almost all the software which was
implemented on the base of DMIS was wrong. The software was also sold
internationaly. Imagine, how many people have or will suffer from this bug!!!
How many qualified parts with ellipse were/will be discarded? And most
importantly, how many defective parts with ellipse are/will be used?
I was employed as a consultant by a company in Los Angeles last year
to specially solve this problem. I spent two months on analysis of this
problem and six months on programming. Now my solution (nonlinear)
is not ideal because I can only reconstruct an ellipse from its entire
or half offset. It is very difficult to find the original ellipse from
a quarter or a segment of its offset because the method I used is not
analytical. I am now wondering if I didn't touch the base and make things
complicated. Please give me a hint.
I know you may argue this is not a CG problem. You are right, it is not.
However, so many people involved in the problem "sphere from 4 poits".
Why not an ellipse? And why not its offset?
Please post here and let the others share our interests
(I got several emails from our netters, they said they need the
summary of the answers). | 1 | trimmed_train |
564 |
--AutoWeek had an article about the car within the past six weeks.
It was the issue with the Diablo VT AWD on the cover. Naturally, I
don't remember the date of the issue offhand, but I can check it if
anyone is interested.
--Aamir Qazi
-- | 4 | trimmed_train |
5,273 | Does anyone know what hardware is required and where I could find it for
sound recording on the Mac Portable.
Thanks | 14 | trimmed_train |
4,917 | This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
| 5 | trimmed_train |
1,297 | Article 10886 of alt.radio.scanner:
Path: usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!aj008
From: [email protected] (Aaron M. Barnes)
Subject: Realistic PRO-2024 for sale-was $200,sell for $150 obo
Date: 20 Apr 1993 16:01:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Message-ID: <[email protected]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu
Hello.
I have a Realistic PRO-2024 scanner for sale.Here is a small desc
ription:
60 programible chanels
fully detailed backlighted digital display
headphone jack
antenna jack
removable telescoping antenna
auto search
coverage:
30-50mHz
118-174mHz
380-512mHz
It originally cost $200, but I will sell for $150.
Thank You.
--
/ / Buchanan in `96!
/ / Fear the goverment that fears your guns.
\ \/ / Without the 2nd amendment, we cannot guarantee ou
\/ / r freedoms. [email protected] | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,050 | You are quite the loser | 6 | trimmed_train |
6,310 | }>}>}(a) out of context;
}>}>Must have missed when you said this about these other "promises of god" that we keep
}>}>getting subjected to. Could you please explain why I am wrong and they are OK?
}>}>Or an acknowledgement of public hypocrisy. Both or neither.
}>}
}>}So, according to you, Jim, the only way to criticize one person for
}>}taking a quote out of context, without being a hypocrite, is to post a
}>}response to *every* person on t.r.m who takes a quote out of context?
}>
}>Did I either ask or assert that? Or is this your misaimed telepathy at work again?
}
}(1) Stephen said you took a quote out of context
}(2) You noted that Stephen had not replied to some other t.r.m article
} (call it A) that took a quote out of context
}(3) But the lack of evidence for X does not constitute evidence for the
} lack of X (a common creationist error)
}(4) So the fact that Stephen did not reply to A does not justify the
} conclusion that Stephen condoned taking quotes out of context in A
Excellent. Now under what conditions could such a conclusion be made, other
than a direct assertion by his part. For instance, am I to assume that
you have no position on eating shit merely because you have not said
your position, or might a conclusion be made by observing that you do not.
}(7) I assumed you were being logical, and that the sentence that begins
} "Could you please explain ..." was not a nonsequitur, but was intended
} to follow from the sentence that preceded it.
}Is that better Jim? It's called an argument. If you disagree with it,
}explain why the argument is not sound. (I admit that my assumption in (7)
}may have been a bit hasty.) If you agree with it, just say "yup." | 15 | trimmed_train |
5,782 | Giant's have a five man rotation of John Burkett, Trevor Wilson,
Bill Swift, Jeff Brantley, and Bud Black/Dave Burba. Black has
been put on the 15 day disables and Dave Burba will take his starts.
| 2 | trimmed_train |
8,377 |
Make sure to take the Sutcliff, Fisk, ect. factor into account.
| 2 | trimmed_train |
2,748 |
The IIvx...LCIII performance at a Centris 610 price. The only reason
to get an IIvx is if you really need the full-size Nubus slots. Keep
in mind that the 610 supports all Apple monitors and has optional Ethernet.
This lessens (but doesn't eliminate) the need for Nubus cards. And unless
you're running FPU-intensive software, the 610 will blow the doors off the
LCIII and the IIvx. The LCIII, on the other hand, is sufficient for most
people and has a great price.
If you haven't guessed, I find halving the bus clock (the IIvx 32MHz uP vs.
16MHz bus) a throughly bad thing and I hope Apple never does it again.
--
______________________________________________________________________________ | 14 | trimmed_train |
2,184 | Some time ago I sent the following message:
Every once in a while I design an orbital space colony. I'm gearing up to
do another one. I'd some info from you. If you were to move
onto a space colony to live permanently, how big would the colony have
to be for you to view a permanent move as desirable? Specifically,
How many people do you want to share the colony with?
What physical dimensions does the living are need to have?
Assume 1g living (the colony will rotate). Assume that you can leave
from time to time for vacations and business trips. If you're young
enough, assume that you'll raise your children there.
I didn't get a lot of responses, and they were all over the block.
Thanx muchly to all those who responded, it is good food for thought.
Here's the (edited) responses I got:
How many people do you want to share the colony with?
100
What physical dimensions does the living are need to have?
Cylinder 200m diameter x 1 km long
Rui Sousa
[email protected]
=============================================================================
100,000 - 250,000
100 square kms surface, divided into city, towns, villages and
countryside. Must have lakes, rivers amd mountains.
=============================================================================
1000. 1000 people really isn't that large a number;
everyone will know everyone else within the space of a year, and will probably
be sick of everyone else within another year.
Hm. I am not all that great at figuring it out. But I would maximize the
percentage of colony-space that is accessible to humans. Esecially if there
were to be children, since they will figure out how to go everywhere anyways.
And everyone, especially me, likes to "go exploring"...I would want to be able
to go for a walk and see something different each time...
=============================================================================
For population, I think I would want a substantial town -- big enough
to have strangers in it. This helps get away from the small-town
"everybody knows everything" syndrome, which some people like but
I don't. Call it several thousand people.
For physical dimensions, a somewhat similar criterion: big enough
to contain surprises, at least until you spent considerable time
getting to know it. As a more specific rule of thumb, big enough
for there to be places at least an hour away on foot. Call that
5km, which means a 10km circumference if we're talking a sphere.
Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
[email protected] utzoo!henry
=============================================================================
My desires, for permanent move to a space colony, assuming easy communication
and travel:
Size: About a small-town size, say 9 sq. km. 'Course, bigger is better :-)
Population: about 100/sq km or less. So, ~1000 for 9sqkm. Less is
better for elbow room, more for interest and sanity, so say max 3000, min 300.
-Tommy Mac
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Tom McWilliams | 517-355-2178 (work) \\ Inhale to the Chief!
[email protected] | 336-9591 (hm)\\ Zonker Harris in 1996! | 10 | trimmed_train |
9,901 |
There is NO TEAM, repeat, NO TEAM, that is America's team. This is a diverse
country with 26 MLB teams (+2 up north) and there is no one team that is
America's. Who would the other teams belong to?
And how does it happen? Well, teams receive this monicker through success
(Cowboys), national exposure (Cubs), or both (Braves). It spreas aby
successful advertising campaigns. Harry Caray, Ted Turner, amd other dupe
people into thinking that their representative teams are "hip" so that people
will watch them on TV and buy their products. Arrogant local fans adapt the
monicker and think that "their" team is the one that America idolize | 2 | trimmed_train |
4,286 | On the Lindros "trade": Like Ottawa would be stupid enough to get
Lindros. Why do you think Quebec traded him? Lindros would go on
personal strike again...maybe I should talk to Ottawa mgmt. about
arranging such a trade.... ;-)
On that xenophobe: Thankfully nobody agreed with him publicly. Maybe we
should look at baseball, the supposed "American" pasttime (sp?). Look at
all the damn Latin Americans playing there! They should all be deported!
They aren't American! (add sarcasm to taste)
To Roger: Wow, for once we agree. I hope this isn't a sign of things to
come.... I'll become a ranting lunatic who talks about nothing but the
Leafs being the best in the Campbell. ;-)
On the Rangers: I told someone that nothing that happened in the Patrick
would surprise me anymore. I lied. How the hell can a team go into
Washington, earn a shutout, then come back home and lose to pitiful
Hartford? The absolute *pinnacle* of mediocrity. I can't stand it.
From what I've read, the goalie is to blame this time, as Beezer played
pretty poorly. Smith is talking about calling up Corey Hirsch from
Binghamton, everybody is pointing fingers... this is definitely not the
same team which wanted to prove itself in Washington. *Now* nothing that
happens in the Patrick will surprise me. (Yeah, right... ;-)
--
Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
[email protected] IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!! | 17 | trimmed_train |
9,139 | Could someone direct me to information on SCSI performance for each Mac?
(Max throughput, etc.)
Kurt Tiedtke
[email protected] | 14 | trimmed_train |
6,653 |
--
Gosh..I think I just installed a virus..It was called MS DOS6...
Don't copy that floppy..BURN IT...I just love Windows...CRASH...
| 3 | trimmed_train |
202 |
Great interview with Benjamin Netanyahu on CNN - Larry King Live (4/15/93)
This guy is knows what he is talking about. He is truely charismatic,
articulate, intelligent, and demonstrates real leadership qualities.
I agree, but I wish I liked his politics.
| 6 | trimmed_train |
4,776 | The fact that Israel is already discussing with some Palestinians what the composition
of the armed Palestinian Police Force in the territories will be during the transition
phase indicates some real solid concessions and liberal thinking on the part of the
Israeli side. | 6 | trimmed_train |
2,000 |
_Cycle World_ puts one out, but I'm sure it's not very objective. Try talking
with dealers and the people that hang out there, as well as us. We love to
give advice.
Most of the bigger banks have a blue book which includes motos -- ask for the
one with RVs in it.
Couldn't help you here.
You're reading it.
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480 |
That's the entire point!
Yes!
Natural morality is a morality that developed naturally.
Huh? | 8 | trimmed_train |
9,312 | Hi,
Iam looking for information on any work that deals with real-time
support in X-windows????!!
Would be happy if you could provide any pointers or information
thanks
Lakshman
[email protected]
| 16 | trimmed_train |
1,841 |
I remember reading somewhere (QEMM manual, I think) that
STACK=9,256 is needed only for the Windows SETUP program.
Otherwise, use STACK=0,0. | 3 | trimmed_train |
4,308 |
True in theory. In practice? The technology of cellular phones will
probably be spread spectrum and quite difficult to record the crypttext
without the key. If the frequency path depends on they key, as I
understand it to, it *could* be made effectively impossible to record.
Once it hits land you can record it if you have telco access. The
telco isn't supposed to give that without a warrant. That's the rule
today.
But even so, the evidence would not be admissible, I think, unless the
judge so ordered. I think that even interception of the crypttext
without a warrant would be illegal. Cops can't record today's plain
cellular calls and then ask a judge, "Hey, can we have permission to
listen to those tapes?" can they?
Yes, that is a major concern, but I think that they think they can
win just by having 99.5% of the USA use this system. They don't even
have to care about the cautious .5% that's left. They don't catch the
really smart crooks anyway. John Gotti, who would have to be retarded
not to realize he was likely to be wiretapped, glibly chatted away
on his tapped phone about murder plans. That's why he's in jail now.
Hard to believe, but true.
This scheme can succeed without laws forbidding more, which people would
fight a lot harder. They like this enough that they are dropping the so
called "Digital Telephony" proposal, according to rumours. However the
meaning of that is complex, since they still want to get at the crypttext
on telco systems, and that requires a bit of work. | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,010 |
When the Lunar Society's $500M estimate of the cost of a lunar colony was
mentioned at Making Orbit, somebody asked Jerry Pournelle "have you talked
to Bill Gates?". The answer: "Yes. He says that if he were going to
sink that much money into it, he'd want to run it -- and he doesn't have
the time."
(Somebody then asked him about Perot. Answer: "Having Ross Perot on your
board may be a bigger problem than not having the money.") | 10 | trimmed_train |
7,873 |
This is the second post which seems to be blurring the distinction
between real disease caused by Candida albicans and the "disease"
that was being asked about, systemic yeast syndrome.
There is no question that Candida albicans causes thrush. It also
seems to be the case that active yogurt cultures with acidophilous
may reduce recurrences of thrush at least for vaginal thrush -- I've
never heard of anyone taking it for oral thrush before (though
presumably it would work by the same mechanism).
Candida is clearly a common minor pathogen and a less common major
pathogen. That does not mean that there is evidence that it causes
the "systemic yeast syndrome".
| 19 | trimmed_train |
3,240 |
Indeed, if the color teal on a team's uniforms is any indication of the
future, the Marlins are in dire trouble! Refer to the San Jose Sharks for
proof... But I have hope for the Marlins. I was a sometime member of the
Rene Lachemann fan club at the Oakland Coliseum, and have a deep respect
for the guy. He's a gem. And, of course, Walt Weiss gives that franchise
class. But yeah... whoever designed those uniforms was guilty of a paucity
of style and imagination. Ugghhh! | 2 | trimmed_train |
5,031 |
Sorry to disappoint you but the Red Wings earned the victory...easily.
I watched most of the game on ESPN (as soon as I realized that they
were televising the game which was at the beginning of the second).
The Maple Leafs were flat. Very flat. Meanwhile, the Red Wings were
skating very freely and dictating the pace of the game. I didn't
detect any bad penalty calls (Van Hellemond did his usual good job).
Toronto looked like how I expected them to for their first playoff
game in a few years -- nervous.
For the Leafs sake, I hope they can rid themselves of the butterflies
for game 2. If game 1 is indicative of the series, it's gonna go
quick. | 17 | trimmed_train |
10,992 | There was a recent post about a BBS where you could download a replacement
for comm.drv (Win 3.x) that fixed a lot of the problems with high-speed
modems. Does anyone know of an ftp site where I can get it?
Thanks,
Alec Lee | 18 | trimmed_train |
1,094 |
Basically, any prophet I've ever dealt with has either been busy
hawking stolen merchandise or selling swampland house lots in
Florida. Then you hear all the stories of sexual abuse by prophets
and how the families of victims were paid to keep quiet about it.
Never mind that, but let me tell you about this Chevelle I bought
from this dude (you guessed it, a prophet) named Mohammed. I've
got the car for like two days when the tranny kicks, then Manny,
my mechanic, tells me it was loaded with sawdust! Take a guess
whether "Mohammed" was anywhere to be found. I don't think so.
Oh, Mohammed!
Yeah, you, Mohammed!
You slimy mass of pond scum!
Yeah, right! You're the one should be watching your butt. You and
your buddy Allah. The stereo he sold me croaked after two days.
Your ass is grass!
Jim | 8 | trimmed_train |
11,171 |
Ask the Brits. Enough people have been killed by rubber bullets that they now
use them under only certain "controlled" circumstances. And they are fired
from something that looks like a tear gas launcher.
There are smaller rubber bullets and pellets (for shotguns). I understand that
they are only intended to be discouragers, ie. for the snapping but not truly
dangerous animal. In general, they do not seem capable of really stopping
someone who wants you or past you. They are fired at very low muzzle velocity
(the .38 ball round is intended for a 400fps load). Finally, as your mother
warned you, you can put an eye out with that thing. :-) | 9 | trimmed_train |
7,343 | Non-smoking roommate needed
to sublet
1BR in 2BR carpeted apt.
in Evanston, IL
near the Dempster el stop
parking is available
Rent is $322.50/mo. + 1/2 utils.
avail. May 1 - beg./end Aug.
(entire apt. available Sept. 1)
Roommate is 26 years-old, vegetarian,
non-smoking female who works at
Northwestern
No neat freaks please! | 5 | trimmed_train |
2,434 | 4 | trimmed_train |
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4,121 |
Some tape archivists suggest what they were after had something to do with
the Kennedy assasination. Let's hear all of the tapes real soon, shall we?
| 13 | trimmed_train |
7,675 |
Why don't you consider PHIGS in X or PEX lib? | 1 | trimmed_train |
6,348 | Just to let all you faithful Mitsumi CD Rom owners....
Ever notice QEMM can't load you CD Rom driver high? Ain't it a bitch?
Well, you can call up Quarterdeck's BBS and get a hold of the new drivers
that CAN be loaded high. Sorry , I don't have their # on me. :-(
I tested them out and the seem to work great! | 3 | trimmed_train |
10,327 |
"Widely reported", eh? Remember, this has had a news blackout since day 2.
The FBI is the single, sole, source of these rumors. It may be the truth, but
it may not be. We may never know. We MUST question it, though. Why no media
coverare? What were they hiding?
It would seem so.
They would still be alive, today. Another day is another chance.
action?
I think it contributed to the outcome. Folks that are sleep deprived tend not
to think clearly
I feel strongly they were NOT proper.
As expected. If it had come out well, he would not have hesitated to take full
credit.
Jim
--
[email protected] | 9 | trimmed_train |
7,227 |
Something else to consider:
Alomar's H-R splits were .500-.363 SLG, .444-.369 OBP! Baerga's was .486-.424
and .392-.318. Pretty clearly, Alomar got a HUGE boost from his home park.
I'd say you could make a good for them being about equal right now. T&P
rated Baerga higher, actually.
Mike | 2 | trimmed_train |
5,711 |
She hasn't. Dorothy Denning has spent many years earning the
professional respect of her colleagues, and something won in this
manner is not easily lost. Her support of the clipper -- no matter
how unpopular that position may be -- serves far more to enhance the
clipper's respectability than to diminish her own.
:: Jeff Makey | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,570 | In the words of Doktor Kultur, in the Ottawa Citizen,
"Remember to unhook the Nitrous Oxide before you leave
the Dentist Chair!" 8^) | 17 | trimmed_train |
7,314 | I posted this to sci.psychology on April 3, and after seeing
your post here on panice disorder thought it would be
relevant.
-----
My research indicates that two schools of thought exist.
the literature promoting medication says it's the superior
treatment. Not surprisingly, literature promoting cognitive
therapy also claims to be superior.
What are the facts? Early in my research I didn't have a
bias towards either medication or cognitive therapy. I
was interested in a treatment that worked. After reading
journals published after 1986, the cognitive therapy camp
claims a higher success rate (approx 80%), a lower drop-out
rate, and no side effects associated with medication.
Lars-Goran Ost published an excellent article titled
"Applied Relaxation: Description of a coping technique and
a review of controlled studies." This is from Behav. Res. Ther.,
vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 397-409, 1987. The article provides
instructions on how to perform applied relaxation (AR).
Briefly, you start with two 15 minute sessions daily, and
progress in 8-12 weeks to performing 10-15 thirty second sessions
daily.
I'll snail mail this article to anyone interested (USA only please;
International please pay for postage). | 19 | trimmed_train |
4,361 | Boy, hats off to any Cubs fan who can actually muster up the courage to put
down Braves fans. I mean, all the Braves have done is gone to two consecutive
world series. Also, being the Cubs fan that I am, I really have to hand it to
all the Braves fans out there that are capable of driving me crazy with that
infernal cheer that they have.
However, I do have to protest anyone saying that all Cubs fans are stupid. The
way I see it, either I'm just too stupid to acknowledge it, or that observation
was just plain wrong. You might have us confused with Bear fans. ;)
Anyway, about a two weeks ago just about everyone was saying that the Cubs
would finish up last in their division. (Even behind Florida?!? Sheesh!)
These same people were predicting the Braves to clean up in their respective
division. Well, we're ten games into the season and these people are a little
less vocal now. I wonder why.
Well, the way I see it, the East is up for grabs, and whoever wants it most is
going to take it, with the exception of Florida. Every team seems to have
good batting and pitching, with Philly presently leading the pack. But, I just
have to point out, if the Cubs do take the East, they'll do it without the
benefit of a competent manager. However, and it pains me to say it, the
pennant is going to go to the West.
Just had to get that off my chest.
Doc | 2 | trimmed_train |
9,160 | Name your price, cap colours & quantity available.
cheers
Mike
| 11 | trimmed_train |
2,792 | 2nd uptade:
Here are the standings for the poll after 29 votes: 5 points for 1st, 4 for 2nd,... 1 point for 5th:
EA/ NHLPA game
1. DET 78
2. CHI 67
3. VAN 60
4. NY 59
5. MTL 54
6. PIT 23
7. WAS 20
8. BOS 17
9..QUE 9
10.CAL 8
11.ASW 7
12.LA 5
TOR 5
14.ASE 4
WIN 4
16.BUF 3
PHI 3
18.SJ 2
19.MIN 1
OTW 1
Atlanta to win Turner Cup 1 (not in the game, but 1 person vote)
Continue to send your votes in this format (until April 20th, approximately)
------------------------------------------------
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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6,342 | Another issue of importance. Was the crucification the will of God or
a tragic mistake. I believe it was a tragic mistake. God's will can
never be accomplished through the disbelief of man. Jesus came to
this world to build the kingdom of heaven on the earth. He
desperately wanted the Jewish people to accept him as the Messiah. If
the crucification was the will of God how could Jesus pray that this
cup pass from him. Was this out of weakness. NEVER. Many men and
women have given their lives for their country or other noble causes.
Is Jesus less than these. No he is not. He knew the crucification
was NOT the will of GOD. God's will was that the Jewish people accept
Jesus as the Messiah and that the kingdom of Heaven be established on
the earth with Jesus as it's head. (Just like the Jewish people
expected). If this had happened 2000 years ago can you imagine what
kind of world we would live in today. It would be a very different
world. And that is eactly what GOD wanted. Men and women of that age
could have been saved by following the living Messiah while he was on
the earth. Jesus could have established a sinless lineage that would
have continued his reign after his ascension to the spiritual world to
live with GOD. Now the kingdom of heaven on the earth will have to
wait for Christ's return. But when he returns will he be recognized
and will he find faith on this earth. Isn't it about time for his
return. It's been almost 2000 years.
Mike
And the two simplest refutations are these:
(1) What impact? The only record of impact comes from the New Testament.
I have no guarantee that its books are in the least accurate, and that
the recorded "impact" actually happened. I find it interesting that no other
contemporary source records an eclipse, an earthquake, a temple curtain
being torn, etc. The earliest written claim we have of Jesus' resurrection
is from the Pauline epistles, none of which were written sooner than 20 years
after the supposed event.
(2) It seems probable that no one displayed the body of Jesus because no
one knew where it was. I personally believe that the most likely
explanation was that the body was stolen (by disciples, or by graverobbers).
Don't bother with the point about the guards ... it only appears in one
gospel, and seems like exactly the sort of thing early Christians might make
up in order to counter the grave-robbing charge. The New Testament does
record that Jews believed the body had been stolen. If there were really
guards, they could not have effectively made this claim, as they did. | 0 | trimmed_train |
3,631 | Hi all,
I've been following this thread about jacob's ladder for a few weeks and I
happened to come across one of the best project books that I've seen in a
while. The book "Gadgeteer's Goldmine" by Gordon McComb offers over 55
excellent low cost projects including: Jacob's Ladder, tesla coils, plasma
spheres, a Van de Graaff generator, robots, an IR scope, and several laser
projects. The instructions come with complete part lists, warnings and
diagrams. For those of you who are interested in building any of the above
listed projects, you should seriously consider getting this book. The
paperback version is only $19.95 too.
For those who want more information:
Title: Gadgeteer's Goldmine! 55 Space-Age Projects
Auth: Gordon McComb
Pub: TAB Books
CW: 1990
ISBN: 0-8306-8360-7
0-8306-3360-X (paperback)
Price: $19.95 (paperback)
-Scott | 11 | trimmed_train |
10,035 | Cheap airline ticket to L.A. on April. 21 (tuesday) from Indi. or
Chicago and return about in 10 - 14 days wanted. | 5 | trimmed_train |
713 |
--
Try MetaCard - a HyperCard-like programming environment on X.
| 16 | trimmed_train |
10,122 |
You could use DOS 6 to do this partly. You can set up different config.sys
and autoexec.bat commands for each user, and they just have to select their
menu option on bootup. Then you can have the autoexec.bat copy the win.ini
and system.ini files and change directories for them. When they exit windows,
it can copy back generic .ini files if you want.
This is the only way I can think of. There may be some programs somewhere
that allow you to do this better, though using DOS 6 allows each person to
have a custom config.sys and autoexec.bat. | 18 | trimmed_train |
5,185 | I have the following for sale:
TI 855 Printer in excellect working condition
$100 + postage
Game = The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
Original box and contents used 1 time and
unregistered $30 + postage
If iterested EMAIL me at:
EMAIL = [email protected] | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,255 |
Not entirely. Its not a premise, its a conclusion. Second, that scientists
(for the most part) exlude the possibility is not a problem, its a necessity.
Scientists are empircists, not theologians.
So do scientists, and long before you did. Clearly you have a deep and
fundamental misunderstanding of science.
Absolutely and utterly false (except for some were AMHs). Lucy (Australopithecus
afarensis, ca. 3 to 3.25 mya) is 40% complete, and about 80% taking into
consideration bilateral symmetry. Lucy walked upright and bipedally, just
like humans, and the two share a remarkably similar dental pattern. Her
cranial morphology is unlike humans or modern apes. There are hundreds of
other specimens of this and other species, of which only some are *partially*
reconstructed. They exist Bill. You can touch them, feel them, hold them.
But forget hominids. The earth, the universe, the cultural record all look and
test out as ancient indeed. They are not reconstructions. Has God has tricked
us here too? It won't go away, Bill.
So *you* and other fundamentalists say. What about the billions who don't
say so? Beware of people who say they have the truth, Bill, and reconsider
each time you think you do.
That was not your point, Bill. Your point above was God *has* the power ....
Scientists generally agree with that. That's a far cry from saying God did.
Please attempt to understand your own posts.
I have your info, and I have replied - several days ago. Hope you have it.
Somehow your post above appeared at my server only today.
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3,279 |
Well....I don't know about its competing with 3D studio, but
it's pretty powerful allright.
Yes, send e-mail to:
[email protected]
With a header of something like subscribe.
I actually work on the FAQ (frequently asked questions). We
should have the new version out of it by next week, but if you want, I
could e-mail you the previous one. It details what the list is etc...
as well as answering basic questions about Imagine.
Hope this helps!
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4,207 | ===============================================================================
I'm looking for the E_Mail Address of the Caere Corporation.
Their Address is:
CAERE CORPORATION
100 COOPER COURT
LOS GATOS
CALIFONIA 95030
If you know the address o have access to find it. Please could
you send it to me.
My E_Mail Address is:
<[email protected]>
Thanking you in advance, | 14 | trimmed_train |
8,884 | Dear Mr. Davidsson, | 6 | trimmed_train |
875 |
I think you would lose your money. Julius was actually rather tall
for a Roman. He did go on record as favouring small soldiers though.
Thought they were tougher and had more guts. He was probably right
if you think about it. As for Napoleon remember that the French
avergae was just about 5 feet and that height is relative! Did he
really have a complex?
ObSpace : We have all seen the burning candle from High School that goes
out and relights. If there is a large hot body placed in space but in an
atmosphere, exactly how does it heat the surroundings? Diffusion only?
Joseph Askew
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5,258 | Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, April 13, 1993. P. A1.
NEW DETAILS OF EXTENSIVE ADL SPY OPERATION EMERGE
* INQUIRY: Transcripts reveal nearly 40 years of espionage
by a man who infiltrated political groups
By Richard C. Paddock, Times staff writer.
SAN FRANCISCO -- To the outside world, Roy Bullock was a small-time
art dealer who operated from his house in the Castro District. In
reality, he was an undercover spy who picked through garbage and
amassed secret files for the Anti-Defamation League for nearly 40
years.
His code name at the prominent Jewish organization was Cal, and he was
so successful at infiltrating political groups that he was once chosen
to head an Arab-American delegation that visited Rep. Nancy Pelosi
(D-San Francisco) in her Washington, D.C., office.
For a time, Cal tapped into the phone message system of the White
Aryan Resistance to learn of hate crimes. From police sources he
obtained privileged, personal information on at least 1,394 people.
And he met surreptitiously with agents of the South African government
to trade his knowledge for crisp, new $100 bills.
These are among the secrets that Bullock and David Gurvitz, a former
Los Angeles-based operative, divulged in extensive interviews with
police and the FBI in a growing scandal over the nation-wide
intelligence network operated by the Anti-Defamation League.
Officials of the Anti-Defamation League, while denying any improper
activity, have said they will cooperate with the investigation. They
have refused to discuss Bullock and Gurvitz.
Transcripts of the interviews -- among nearly 700 pages of documents
released by San Francisco prosecutors last week -- offer new details
of the private spy operation that authorities allege crossed the line
into illegal territory.
At times, the intelligence activities took on a cloak-and-dagger air
with laundered payments, shredded documents, hotel rendezvous with
foreign agents and code names like "Ironsides" and "Flipper."
On one occasion, Gurvitz recounts, he received a tip that a
pro-Palestinian activist was about to board a plane bound for Haifa,
Israel. Although the Anti-Defamation League publicly denies any ties
to Israel, Gurvitz phoned an Israeli consular official to warn him.
Shortly afterward, another official called Gurvitz back and debriefed
him.
The court papers also added to the mystery of Tom Gerard, a former CIA
agent and San Francisco police officer accused of providing
confidential material from police files to the Anti-Defamation League.
Gerard fled to the Philippines last fall after he was interviewed by
the FBI, but left behind a briefcase in his police locker. Its
contents included passports, driver's licenses and identification
cards in 10 different names; identification cards in his own name for
four American embassies in Central America; and a collection of blank
birth certificates, Army discharge papers and official stationery from
various agencies.
Also in the briefcase were extensive information on death squads, a
black hood, apparently for use in interrogations, and photos of
blindfolded and chained men.
Investigators suspect that Gerard and other police sources gave the
ADL confidential driver's license or vehicle registration information
on a vast number of people, including as many as 4,500 members of one
target group, the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Each case of obtaining such data from a law enforcement officer would
constitute a felony, San Francisco Police Inspector Ron Roth noted in
an affidavit for a search warrant.
The Anti-Defamation League, a self-described Jewish defense and civil
rights organization, acknowledges it has long collected information on
groups that are anti-Semitic, extremist or racist. The ADL's
fact-finding division, headed by Irwinn Suall in New York, enjoys a
reputation for thoroughness and has often shared its information with
police agencies and journalists.
However, evidence seized from Bullock's computer shows he kept files
on at least 950 groups of all political stripes, including the
American Civil Liberties Union, Earth Island Institute, the United
Farm Workers, Jews for Jesus, Mother Jones magazine, the Center for
Investigative Reporting, the Bo Gritz for President Committee, the
Asian Law Caucus and the AIDS activist group ACT UP.
The computer files also included information on several members of
Congress, including Pelosi, House Armed Services Committee Chairman
Ron Dellums (D-Berkeley) and former Republican Rep. Pete McCloskey
from the Bay Area.
In their statements, Bullock and Gurvitz said the Anti-Defamation
League has collected information on political activists in the Los
Angeles area for more than 30 years. They said they worked closely
with three Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies who specialized in
intelligence work, a Los Angeles Police Department anti-terrorism
expert and a San Diego County Sheriff's Department intelligence
officer.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said he knew
nothing of any contact between the deputies and the ADL. The Los
Angeles Police Department, which earlier refused to cooperate with the
investigation, and the San Diego Sheriff's Department declined
comment.
Bullock, 58, is one of the most intriguing characters in the spy
drama. Although he is not Jewish, he began working undercover as a
volunteer for the ADL and the FBI in Indiana in 1954 after reading a
book about a man who infiltrated the Communist Party.
Bullock moved to Los Angeles in 1960 and was given a paid position by
the ADL as an intelligence operative, he told authorities. In the
mid-1970s, he moved to San Francisco and continued his spy operations
up and down the West Coast.
To keep his identity secret, his salary has always been funneled
through Beverly Hills attorney Bruce I. Hochman -- who has never
missed a payment in more than 32 years, Bullock said.
"I was an investigator for the ADL. I investigated any and all
anti-democratic movements," Bullock said. ". . . Officially, I'm only
a contract worker with Bruce Hochman. That way, the league would not
be officially connected with me."
Bullock said he became a master at infiltrating groups from Communists
to Arab-American to gay radicals to skinheads, usually using his own
name but once adopting the alias Elmer Fink.
"I'm one of a kind," he told police.
In recent years, however, his ADL affiliation has increasingly become
known, and at one point he was confronted by a skinhead armed with a
shotgun who threatened to kill him.
In the mid-1980s, he helped San Francisco police solve a bombing at a
synagogue by combing through the trash of extremist Cory Phelps and
matching handwriting with samples on a threatening letter obtained by
police. In part because of this investigation, he became close
friends with Gerard, who at the time was working in the San Francisco
police intelligence division.
Bullock frequently searched through the garbage of target groups. An
FBI report noted how he investigated one Palestinian group:
"Bullock would write reports based on what he found in the trash, and
would share the reports with Gerard. Bullock also gave the trash to
Gerard for Gerard to examine. Gerard would later return the trash to
Bullock."
From a wide range of sources, Bullock compiled files on 9,876
individuals and more than 950 political groups. Gerard, whose files
contained many identical entries, kept files on 7,011 people.
In 1987, Bullock and Gerard began selling some of their vast wealth of
information to the South African government. Bullock tells of
meetings secretly with South African agents at San Francisco hotels
and receiving envelopes filled with thousands of dollars in new $100
bills.
Bullock insists the information he sold consisted of data he culled
only from public sources. Once he rewrote an innocuous item published
by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen about South African
Bishop Desmond Tutu and the wife of prominent attorney Melvin Belli --
and submitted it as his own work.
Bullock said it was Gerard who sold official police intelligence.
Bullock said he split about $16,000 from the South African government
evenly with Gerard, telling him at one point, "I may be gay but I'm a
straight arrow."
In his interviews with the police and FBI, Bullock talked freely about
engaging in certain activities that prosecutors say would appear to
violate the law.
For example, Bullock admitted to receiving driver's license records
and criminal histories from Gerard on about 50 people -- a fraction of
the confidential police data found in his computer. And he said
Gerard gave him complete San Francisco Police Department intelligence
files on various Nazi groups that were supposed to be destroyed under
department policy.
Bullock said he also received a confidential FBI report on the Nation
of Islam that he later shredded at the Anti-Defamation League's San
Francisco office.
Bullock seemed proud of his "Operation Eavesdrop," in which he used a
paid informant, code-named Scumbag, to help tap into a White Aryan
Resistance phone message network, listening to the messages left by
members of the right-wing group. "For a short time, it was
wonderful," he told police.
In Los Angeles, ADL operative Gurvitz was hired about four years ago
as a "fact-finder" to keep intelligence files and occasionally go
undercover to the meetings of target groups.
Among other things, he told San Francisco authorities, the Los Angeles
ADL office kept a record of any Arab-American who had "anti-Israel
leanings" or who wrote a letter to a newspaper expressing such
sentiment.
Gurvitz was recently forced to resign after an incident in which he
attempted to misuse the ADL intelligence network to seek revenge on a
rival who got a job Gurvitz wanted at the Simon Wiesenthal Center for
Holocaust Studies. Gurvitz got confidential police data on the rival
and threatened to expose him as a Jewish spy to a right-wing hate
group.
Gurvitz has since begun cooperating with police and the FBI in the
probe, providing considerable information about the ADL operation.
Unlike Bullock, he has been assured he is not a subject of the
investigation.
Gurvitz declined through his father in Los Angeles to be interviewed
by The Times. Bullock's attorney said his client would not comment. | 6 | trimmed_train |
1,472 | Sorry to clog up the news group with this message.
Wayne Rigby, I have the info you requested, but for some
reason I can not mail it to you. Please contact me!
Send email address.
j
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"You are not drunk until you have to grab the grass,
to keep the grass from falling off the earth" - Some Stupid Comedian | 1 | trimmed_train |
5,819 | I just bought an actix graphics engine 32 plus with 2 megs.
I am not impressed...
I have been having all sorts of problems with the board. Various lock-ups
in windows, problems with the screen not centering, no flexibilty in choosing
synch rates for a monitor, buggy windows drivers, lack of 1024x768x64k driver,
If anyone else has one of these cards, please e-mail me...
Looks like i'm going to try the ati ultra plus...
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8,480 | William December Starr writes...
in a typical lawyer baiting fashion, as usual.
(All the while ignoring every principle of the ACLU.)
Good to see your still out there WDS. Surely we've
been around the ring enough by now, that you know
you can't spin me up with expletives.
Let's see if there's anything left worth responding to...
E for effort. Heard about the folks who live around foghorns and
airports?
Seems right in character to me -- creature of the state.
Btw, are you still happy with your presidents?
See the part about the children following the "and" in the first line
above.
As to a connection, your "cult" is "faith in rules".
Sure. My concern is the well being of the children.
{Interesting that you would respond "emotionally" in defense of the
government. Maybe there is a beating heart there.}
For the record though, the biggest-baddest goverment on earth claims
the most sovereignty over man. Best I can tell God allows anyone to
go to hell who wants to. Omnipotency logically determines that "allowing"
and "sending" mean the same thing. (Mere human concepts of course.)
So come on WDS. Why bother to try some flimsy facade of logic. Waco
proves it's not needed -- the demonstration that government can walk
over it's own rules in the name of justice has been made. No problem
by me. Noted and announced -- for the record. Just giving the govern-
ment it's due, and getting back to more worthwhile non-government
concerns. | 13 | trimmed_train |
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2,920 | I don't know if you could call him rushed, but "Big" Ben McDonald didn't
much time at all in the minors. Of course that was because the balls used
in AAA had seams too large and gave McDonald blisters forcing him to go
on the DL several times. He's done most of his learning here in the majors.
Of course Gregg "Wild Thing" Olson and Mike "Deserved a Cy Young" Mussina
didn't spend much time in the minors either. I read somewhere that pitchers
are less likely to need that much time in the minors anyway so maybe that
has something to do with it.
Let's go O's! Why Not?
Admiral Steve "Still reliving Sept. 30, 1989" Liu
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6,060 | Is it just me, or does Bichette look totally lost in the outfield? He
misplayed Martinez fly-out into a double against the Expos, misplayed
Alou's single into a triple (Alou tagged out at 3rd after over-sliding
the bag) and now he misplays another out into a 3 run triple...add in his
wonderful batting average and we have one heck of a player! | 2 | trimmed_train |
354 |
Why would you say "especially Christianity"?
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6,929 | Since the wiretap chip is being distributed internationally,
allowing the U.S. government to spy on foreign governments,
companies and people as as well as to wiretap domestic citizens,
this is a world-wide issue. Please put DISTRIBUTION: WORLD on the
Distrubution: line. Thank you.
You don't care that people are being lied to, fooled into believing
the chip gives "privacy" when it fact it allows wiretaps? You
don't give a shit about anybody's privacy except your own? (And
not even your own; are you so smart that you know when you're talking to
somebody who has a wiretap chip on their phone instead of a privacy
chip with private keys?)
"Simply?" "Everyone" should have this attitude? The only people
who can have this attitude are the most hard-core
computer hackers, who never make phone calls away from their
computer, who apparently never call anybody except another computer
hacker, or perhaps another spook (U.S. classified agents refuse to use
their own system, only oblivious civilian dupes get that dubious privilege).
Only spooks and hard-core hackers need privacy, huh?
We *do* need an alternative to NSA-bugged telephones, but
we're talking inexpensive *telephones* here, including hand-sized
cellulars, that need strong crypto, real privacy. Make-shift
computer hacker rigs that require living by your computer to
talk privately over the phone are just a dumb stunt that doesn't
do anything for anybody's privacy in the real world.
What we need is a true *privacy chip*. For example, a real-time
voice-encryption RSA, put it into a silicon compiler and spit out ASIC.
Put this chip on the market as a de facto standard for international
business, diplomats, and private communications. If the U.S. bans
it, we make it somewhere else and import it. The Japanese, German,
Dutch, Taiwanese, Korean, etc. electronics companies don't want the
NSA spying on them. U.S. workers lose more jobs to government fascist
stupidity. | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,346 |
Probably not--he's just singing someone else's opera. He's good, too; perhaps he should get "The Best Supporting Singer..."
I can give you a Q/A account that is well documented (just go back and reread some of the articles that appeared after this "joke"):
Q: How many antisemites does it take to come up with another anti-Israeli
provocation on the net?
A: Just one. He'll fabricate a lie, and many more will applaud
I would much prefer if Mr. Steel would refrain from this kind of jokes in the
future. They're not just offensive. They also have a very negative effect on
the state of things between Jews and Arabs. So thanks for nothing, clown! | 6 | trimmed_train |
8,497 | Our Lord and Savior David Keresh has risen!
He has been seen alive!
Spread the word!
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1,623 |
[stuff deleted]
Ok, here's the solution to your problem. Move to Canada. Yesterday I was able
to watch FOUR games...the NJ-PITT at 1:00 on ABC, LA-CAL at 3:00 (CBC),
BUFF-BOS at 7:00 (TSN and FOX), and MON-QUE at 7:30 (CBC). I think that if
each series goes its max I could be watching hockey playoffs for 40-some odd
consecutive nights (I haven't counted so that's a pure guess).
I have two tv's in my house, and I set them up side-by-side to watch MON-QUE
and keep an eye on BOS-BUFF at the same time. I did the same for the two
afternoon games.
Btw, those ABC commentaters were great! I was quite impressed; they seemed
to know that their audience wasn't likely to be well-schooled in hockey lore
and they did an excellent job. They were quite impartial also, IMO.
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8,122 |
This entire dispute over a chip has deluged this newsgroup with a
lot of posts that have nothing to SELL. It all harkens back to a
certain user's post of a month or so ago: STOP POSTING COMPUTER
EQUIPMENT HERE!!! Save it for the computer.forsale newsgroups!
If you don't GET the computer.forsale newsgroups, then ask your
sysadmin. to try to subscribe to it at your location. Otherwise,
knock it off!
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3,557 | It's truly unfortunate that we don't have the Japanese tradition of
Hari-Kari for public officials to salvage some tatters of honor after
they commit offenses against humanity like were perpetrated in Waco,
Texas today.
--
Dave Feustel N9MYI <[email protected]> | 9 | trimmed_train |
6,450 | I've borrowed the 1992-93 version of this book from a friend...holy
moley! What a wealth of contacts. Five-hundred pages of information
about electronic artists and organizations around the globe (many have
email addresses). An up to the minute database of this information is
also available on Minitel (the book's based in France...are there any
Internet=>Minitel gates?). The book is printed in French and English.
To have you or your organization listed in IDEA, just send your
information to:
Annick Bureaud
IDEA
57, rue Falguiere
75015 Paris
France
It's free to be listed in it, I'm not sure how widely distributed the
book is or how much it costs. I'm not affiliated with them in any way,
I was just impressed by their collection of organizations and artists.
I highly encourage all involved in electronic media (video, music,
graphics, animation, etc.) to send in your entry and encourage them to
make their database available on Internet.
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5,545 | =
= : [ The discussion begins: why does the universe exist at all? ]
=
= : One of the Laws of Nature, specifying cause and effect seems to dictate
= : (at least to this layman's mind) there must be a causal event. No
= : reasonable alternative exists.
=
= I would argue that causality is actually a property of spacetime;
= causes precede their effects.
And I must concede here. Cause *before* effect, implies time, time is part
of spacetime. Hense, the argument would be valid. I could return and say
that this does not infer the cause and effect relationship being *unique*
to *this* spacetime, but I won't 8^), because the point is moot. Doesn't
address why (which Petri Pikho addresses below).
I also concede that I was doubly remiss, as I asserted "No reasonable
alternative exists", an entirely subjective statement on my part (and one
that could be invalidated, given time and further discovery by the
scientist). I also understand that a proving a theory does not necessarily
specify that "this is how it happened", but proposes a likely description of
the phenomena in question. Am I mistaken with this understanding?
= But if you claim that there must be
= an answer to "how" did the universe (our spacetime) emerge from
= "nothing", science has some good candidates for an answer.
All of which require something we Christians readily admit to: ``Faith''.
The fact that there are several candidates belies that *none* are conclusive.
With out conclusive evidence, we are left with faith.
It could even be argued that one of these hypotheses may one day be proven (as
best as a non-repeatable event can be "proven"). But I ask, what holds
someone *today* to the belief that any or all of them are correct, except by
faith?
[ a couple of paragraphs deleted. Summary: we ask "Why does the
universe exist" ]
= I think this question should actually be split into two parts, namely
=
= 1) Why is there existence? Why anything exists?
=
= and
=
= 2) How did the universe emerge from nothing?
=
= It is clear science has nothing to say about the first question. However,
= is it a meaningful question, after all?
=
= I would say it isn't. Consider the following:
Apparently it *is* for many persons. Hence, we *have* religions.
= The question "why anything exists" can be countered by
= demanding answer to a question "why there is nothing in nothingness,
= or in non-existence". Actually, both questions turn out to be
= devoid of meaning. Things that exist do, and things that don't exist
= don't exist. Tautology at its best.
Carefully examine the original question, and then the "counter-question".
The first asks "Why", while the second is a request for definition. It
doesn't address why something does or does not exist, but asks to define
the lack of existence. The second question is unanswerable indeed, for
how do we identify something as "nothing" (aren't they mutually exclusive
terms)?. How do we identify a state of non-existence (again, this is
nearing the limits of this simple layman's ability to comprehend, and I
would appreciate an explanation).
I might add, the worldview of "Things that exist do, and things that
don't...don't" is as grounded in the realm of the non-falsifiable,
as does the theist's belief in God. It is based on the assumption
that there is *not* a reason for being, something as ultimately
(un)supportable as the position of there being a reason. Its very
foundation exists in the same soil as that of one who claims there *is* a
reason.
We come to this. Either "I am, therefore I am.", or "I am for a reason."
If the former is a satisfactory answer, then you are done, for you are
satisfied, and need not a doctor. If the latter, your search is just
beginning.
= I seriously doubt God could have an answer to this question.
Time will tell. 8^)
=
= Some Christians I have talked to have said that actually, God is
= Himself the existence. However, I see several problems with this
= answer. First, it inevitably leads to the conclusion that God is
= actually _all_ existence, good and evil, devils and angels, us and
= them. This is pantheism, not Christianity.
Agreed. It would lead me to question their definition of Christianity as
well.
= Another answer is that God is the _source_ of all existence.
= This sounds much better, but I am tempted to ask: Does God
= Himself exist, then? If God is the source of His own existence,
= it can only mean that He has, in terms of human time, always
= existed. But this is not the same as the source of all existence.
This does not preclude His existence. It only seeks to identify His
*qualities* (implying He exists to *have* qualities, BTW).
= The best answer I have heard is that human reasoning is incapable
= of understanding such questions. Being an atheist myself, I do not
= accept such answers, since I do not have any other methods.
Like the theist, we come to a statement of faith, for this position assumes
that the evidence at hand is conclusive. Note, I am not arguing against
scientific endeavor, for science is useful for understanding the universe in
which we exist. But I differ from the atheist in a matter of perspective. I
seek to understand what exists to understand and appreciate the art of the
Creator.
I also have discovered science is an inadequate tool to answer "why". It
appears that M. Pihko agrees (as we shall see). But because a tool is
inadequate to answer a question does not preclude the question. Asserting
that 'why' is an invalid question does not provide an answer.
= : As far as I can tell, the very laws of nature demand a "why". That isn't
= : true of something outside of nature (i.e., *super*natural).
=
= This is not true. Science is a collection of models telling us "how",
= not why, something happens. I cannot see any good reason why the "why"
= questions would be bound only to natural things, assuming that the
= supernatural domain exists. If supernatural beings exist, it is
= as appropriate to ask why they do so as it is to ask why we exist.
My apologies. I was using why as "why did this come to be". Why did
pre-existence become existence. Why did pre-spacetime become spacetime.
But we come to the admission that science fails to answer "Why?". Because
it can't be answered in the realm of modern science, does that make the
question invalid?
= : I don't believe *any*
= : technology would be able to produce that necessary *spark* of life, despite
= : having all of the parts available. Just my opinion.
=
= This opinion is also called vitalism; namely, that living systems are
= somehow _fundamentally_ different from inanimate systems. Do Christians
= in general adopt this position? What would happen when scientists announce
= they have created primitive life (say, small bacteria) in a lab?
I suppose we would do the same thing as when Galileo or Capernicus was
*vindicated* (before someone starts jumping up and down screaming
"Inquisition!", note I said *vindicated*. I certainly hope we've gotten
beyond the "shooting the messenger" stage).
M. Pihko does present a good point though. We may need to ask "What do I
as an individual Christian base my faith on?" Will it be shaken by the
production of evidence that shatters our "sacred cows" or will we seek to
understand if a new discovery truly disagrees with what God *said* (and
continues to say) in his Word?
"Why do I ask why?" (apologies to Budweiser and company 8^]).
Jason.
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7,457 | Anyone out there have a Sony 1304S?
I have one, and it's very nice, however - If I run it in 16" mode, the
picture won't
go very big. I end up with about 1" gap either side, and .5" top &
bottom. I suspect
an internal adjustment would fix this. Anyone tried it?
Another problem is sub-brightness: Areas that are meant to be black (or
off the main
raster) are not very black. The real raster is quite visible when the
screen is blanked.
This is not too severe, but it is just not as good as other Trini screens
I have
used. If I turn the brightness/contrast down so that the raster is not
visible, the
real image virtually disappears!
The raster size is just right if I use 1024*768, but 100dpi+ is a bit too
much!
Oh, and I am using a RasterOps 24XLi card.
Thanks
Marcus Bointon
[email protected]
-------------------------------------------------------
Marcus Bointon Tel 081 852 6662
[email protected] Fax 081 244 5422
"I used Windows for a week once, but I feel better now" | 14 | trimmed_train |
11,053 |
[horror story about FBI ruining a guy's life for the hell of it omitted]
So, is this a real story or a work of fiction? How about some
sources? When, where, and in what newspaper did you get all this
from? Or is it all hypothetical? | 15 | trimmed_train |
8,256 |
ith
ork?
Sure thing - You'll have to get an FDHD upgrade kit from Apple, which
includes a HD floppy drive, 2 different chips (the SWIM chip was mentioned
in another post) and a different floppy drive cable. Get the Apple kit
through your dealer. | 14 | trimmed_train |
1,059 |
What suburban kid would want to hold down a minimum wage job when there is so
much more money to be made dealing drugs?
Yet, somehow, surburban kids do hold down minimum wage jobs. So do inner
city kids, when give the chance. Any reason you think that inner city kids
are incapable of doing legitimate work? | 13 | trimmed_train |
1,659 |
I'm no mustang head, but don't the early ones have a simple
strut suspension (that is, with no upper A-arm)? Just a strut
going down to a lower control arm (single bushing: not an A-arm), with a
tension/compression rod locating it in the forward/backward direction?
Anyway, simple strut suspensions like this can be lowered just by using
shorter springs, cutting the springs, lowering the spring perch or shortening
the strut below the perch. In each of these cases, the suspension geometry
will suffer because the lower control arms will not be at the
intended angle. A spacer placed between control arm and the bottom
of the strut (roughly the height of the reduction) will restore
the suspension geometry. IMHO, the kit that includes the spacer
is the only way to go...
--Ken | 4 | trimmed_train |
7,450 | Some time back I asked for software recommendations to allow me to
run X from my PC at home to my Sparc at the office.
Many thanks for all replies, the majority of people recommended
PCXremote from NCD. I received it yesterday and installed it on
my Sparc and PC with only one hitch.
The UNIX install consists of copying 2 files into some local bin directory.
On the PC side, I ordered the WINDOWS version which came with a slick windows
installation.
The only problem I had was that my .xinitrc in my home directory
had the line
DISPLAY=`hostname`:0.0; export DISPLAY
s.t the clients I kicked off connected to my Xserver on the Sparc console.
By removing this line from the .xinitrc everything worked as planned
and the clients connected to the server at
`hostname`:1.0
Some comments on performance, I was connected to a Sparc 2 thru
a NetBlazer Terminal Server over a 9600 baud line.
My PC is a 486-DX2 ATI Ultra, 16 MB
Bitmap Stuff Sucked.
Basic Editing and compilation stuff definitely usable.
Xmail was very usable.
At times the first time U typed in an Xclient window there was
a very noticable delay, I put this down to brain damaged "WINDOWS
should not be called a SCHEDULER", besides that this will become
my remote work environment for a while.
Has anybody tried the NON Windows version of the product, the sales
person said they performed about the same, given the over head of
WINDOWS I question this?
many thanks for help to all who responded | 16 | trimmed_train |
4,024 | OK Phil, you're right. So far the "evidence" suggests that Nixon was a victim
of overzealous underlings and Kennedy was a womanizing disgust-o-blob with
a dash of megalomania. After crushing the CIA and FBI who's to say Kennedy
wouldn't have created his own version of American Friendly Fascism?
Unfortunately however, we don't have all the evidence. So far this nation's
citizens have been privy to about 12 hours of the total 4,000 hours of Nixon's
tapes. What's on the rest of those babies? Some archivists have alluded that
there is "evidence" to suggest that Nixon and his cronies, including George
Bush, were aware of the plot to murder Kennedy before he was shot in Dallas.
Ask your local D.A. what the charges are for the above crime.
And so I must ask you, Phil me putz, when all this shit finally comes out
when you and I are old men, I would appreciate the privilege of sticking a pole
up your ass and parading you down Main Street with a sign on your chest:
"I was an Apologist for the American Fascist Regime circa 1944 -- 2010"
(How's that for a lovely Brecht-ian image:-)
There, that ought to get a reaction. Unless I'm in his killfile this week... | 13 | trimmed_train |
3,017 | WHAT IS THE FLANK DRIVE EVERYONES TALKING ABOUT?
| 12 | trimmed_train |
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