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Ok, so there are in fact two distinct components transmitted by the
chip; the real message encrypted with the "conventional" key, and the
serial number and encrypted "conventional" key encrypted with the
(IMHO kind of bogus, as the whole concept of "one key that millions of
people use which can't be changed" doesn't seem reasonable) "family
key".
Suppose I analyze the output of this chip and I'm able to determine
which bits are the encrypted packet which contains the serial number
and session key. Suppose I also design a simple algorithm based on
this information which takes the data containing the encrypted session
key and twiddles a bit (or several) before it's sent down the line.
Mind you, I'm sure the NSA thought of this along with a dozen other
attacks I can't imagine, and the system is probably somehow designed
so that manipulation of this information will cause a compliant
receiving chip to somehow fail to decrypt successfully. But how?
What if the two parties agree in advance on some kind of consistent
bit-twiddling scheme, so the decryption chip sees the restored
"proper" bitstream but an eavesdropper gets a E[K; UK] packet that's
wrong?
I suppose this could be easily defeated if the chip "sends" that
information out many times in slightly different ways, making it
effectively impossible to be certain you know all the information
being sent. | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,298 |
Here in the UK, the bandwidth restriction apparently only apply to
local lines.. ie those used by the average domestic client. Private
lines which are run from the local exchange to the leasing client are
usually capable of a higher bandwidth if the exchange is digital.
Don't quote me on that..... But I think I remember a BT engineer
saying something to that effect when I was doing some work
shadowing a few years ago.
Byeeeee !
Chris ;-)
+====================================================================+
|Name : Mr Chris Smith | Twang on that 'ole guitar ! |
|Addrs: [email protected] | |
|Uni : Liverpool University |Quest: To build more and more hardware |
|Dgree: Computer Science | |
+====================================================================+
"What ever the sun may be, it is certainly not a ball of flaming gas!"
-- D.H. Lawrence. | 11 | trimmed_train |
7,844 | Well, I'm afraid the time has come; my rice-burner has finally died.
I'd always promised my wife that we would do a Scandanavian tour when
my car died and pick up a Volvo in Sweden, drive it around and then
import it home.
Can anyone give me 1) advice on feasibility and relative costs 2)
references where I might learn more 3) Personal experience?
Please email | 4 | trimmed_train |
2,523 |
Look in xfig. It has two types of spline algorithms and is relatively simple.
Xfig is available from export.lcs.mit.edu in
/contrib/R5fixes/xfig-patches/xfig.2.1.6.tar.Z
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1,558 | :An 'edu'er not towing the "party" line, thank you!
:
:Jim
You're welcome! ;) Actually, I'm probably something of an outcast, because
I've committed the ultimate college-student heresy: I'm not a liberal.
(This is NOT liberal-bashing.)
Mike | 9 | trimmed_train |
2,811 |
Christians through ages have had to learn to be patient. I do think
it's time to face the reality. The events during the last 52 two
days showed what the world is really like.
Kent | 15 | trimmed_train |
3,480 | LARSONIAN Astronomy and Physics
Orthodox physicists, astronomers, and astrophysicists
CLAIM to be looking for a "Unified Field Theory" in which all
of the forces of the universe can be explained with a single
set of laws or equations. But they have been systematically
IGNORING or SUPPRESSING an excellent one for 30 years!
The late Physicist Dewey B. Larson's comprehensive
GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe, which he
calls the "Reciprocal System", is built on two fundamental
postulates about the physical and mathematical natures of
space and time:
(1) "The physical universe is composed ENTIRELY of ONE
component, MOTION, existing in THREE dimensions, in DISCRETE
UNITS, and in two RECIPROCAL forms, SPACE and TIME."
(2) "The physical universe conforms to the relations of
ORDINARY COMMUTATIVE mathematics, its magnitudes are
ABSOLUTE, and its geometry is EUCLIDEAN."
From these two postulates, Larson developed a COMPLETE
Theoretical Universe, using various combinations of
translational, vibrational, rotational, and vibrational-
rotational MOTIONS, the concepts of IN-ward and OUT-ward
SCALAR MOTIONS, and speeds in relation to the Speed of Light
(which Larson called "UNIT VELOCITY" and "THE NATURAL
DATUM").
At each step in the development, Larson was able to
MATCH objects in his Theoretical Universe with objects in the
REAL physical universe, (photons, sub-atomic particles
[INCOMPLETE ATOMS], charges, atoms, molecules, globular star
clusters, galaxies, binary star systems, solar systems, white
dwarf stars, pulsars, quasars, ETC.), even objects NOT YET
DISCOVERED THEN (such as EXPLODING GALAXIES, and GAMMA-RAY
BURSTS).
And applying his Theory to his NEW model of the atom,
Larson was able to precisely and accurately CALCULATE inter-
atomic distances in crystals and molecules, compressibility
and thermal expansion of solids, and other properties of
matter.
All of this is described in good detail, with-OUT fancy
complex mathematics, in his books.
BOOKS of Dewey B. Larson
The following is a complete list of the late Physicist
Dewey B. Larson's books about his comprehensive GENERAL
UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe. Some of the early
books are out of print now, but still available through
inter-library loan.
"The Structure of the Physical Universe" (1959)
"The Case AGAINST the Nuclear Atom" (1963)
"Beyond Newton" (1964)
"New Light on Space and Time" (1965)
"Quasars and Pulsars" (1971)
"NOTHING BUT MOTION" (1979)
[A $9.50 SUBSTITUTE for the $8.3 BILLION "Super
Collider".]
[The last four chapters EXPLAIN chemical bonding.]
"The Neglected Facts of Science" (1982)
"THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION" (1984)
[FINAL SOLUTIONS to most ALL astrophysical
mysteries.]
"BASIC PROPERTIES OF MATTER" (1988)
All but the last of these books were published by North
Pacific Publishers, P.O. Box 13255, Portland, OR 97213, and
should be available via inter-library loan if your local
university or public library doesn't have each of them.
Several of them, INCLUDING the last one, are available
from: The International Society of Unified Science (ISUS),
1680 E. Atkin Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah 84106. This is the
organization that was started to promote Larson's Theory.
They have other related publications, including the quarterly
journal "RECIPROCITY".
Physicist Dewey B. Larson's Background
Physicist Dewey B. Larson was a retired Engineer
(Chemical or Electrical). He was about 91 years old when he
died in May 1989. He had a Bachelor of Science Degree in
Engineering Science from Oregon State University. He
developed his comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the
physical universe while trying to develop a way to COMPUTE
chemical properties based only on the elements used.
Larson's lack of a fancy "PH.D." degree might be one
reason that orthodox physicists are ignoring him, but it is
NOT A VALID REASON. Sometimes it takes a relative outsider
to CLEARLY SEE THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES. At the same
time, it is clear from his books that he also knew ORTHODOX
physics and astronomy as well as ANY physicist or astronomer,
well enough to point out all their CONTRADICTIONS, AD HOC
ASSUMPTIONS, PRINCIPLES OF IMPOTENCE, IN-CONSISTENCIES, ETC..
Larson did NOT have the funds, etc. to experimentally
test his Theory. And it was NOT necessary for him to do so.
He simply compared the various parts of his Theory with OTHER
researchers' experimental and observational data. And in
many cases, HIS explanation FIT BETTER.
A SELF-CONSISTENT Theory is MUCH MORE than the ORTHODOX
physicists and astronomers have! They CLAIM to be looking
for a "unified field theory" that works, but have been
IGNORING one for over 30 years now!
"Modern physics" does NOT explain the physical universe
so well. Some parts of some of Larson's books are FULL of
quotations of leading orthodox physicists and astronomers who
agree. And remember that "epicycles", "crystal spheres",
"geocentricity", "flat earth theory", etc., ALSO once SEEMED
to explain it well, but were later proved CONCEPTUALLY WRONG.
Prof. Frank H. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of UW-Superior,
was/is a STRONG PROPONENT of Larson's Theory, and was (or
still is) President of Larson's organization, "THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF UNIFIED SCIENCE", and Editor of
their quarterly Journal "RECIPROCITY". He moved to
Minneapolis after retiring.
"Super Collider" BOONDOGGLE!
I am AGAINST contruction of the "Superconducting Super
Collider", in Texas or anywhere else. It would be a GROSS
WASTE of money, and contribute almost NOTHING of "scientific"
value.
Most physicists don't realize it, but, according to the
comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the late Physicist
Dewey B. Larson, as described in his books, the strange GOOFY
particles ("mesons", "hyperons", ALLEGED "quarks", etc.)
which they are finding in EXISTING colliders (Fermi Lab,
Cern, etc.) are really just ATOMS of ANTI-MATTER, which are
CREATED by the high-energy colliding beams, and which quickly
disintegrate like cosmic rays because they are incompatible
with their environment.
A larger and more expensive collider will ONLY create a
few more elements of anti-matter that the physicists have not
seen there before, and the physicists will be EVEN MORE
CONFUSED THAN THEY ARE NOW!
Are a few more types of anti-matter atoms worth the $8.3
BILLION cost?!! Don't we have much more important uses for
this WASTED money?!
Another thing to consider is that the primary proposed
location in Texas has a serious and growing problem with some
kind of "fire ants" eating the insulation off underground
cables. How much POISONING of the ground and ground water
with insecticides will be required to keep the ants out of
the "Supercollider"?!
Naming the "Super Collider" after Ronald Reagon, as
proposed, is TOTALLY ABSURD! If it is built, it should be
named after a leading particle PHYSICIST.
LARSONIAN Anti-Matter
In Larson's comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the
physical universe, anti-matter is NOT a simple case of
opposite charges of the same types of particles. It has more
to do with the rates of vibrations and rotations of the
photons of which they are made, in relation to the
vibrational and rotational equivalents of the speed of light,
which Larson calls "Unit Velocity" and the "Natural Datum".
In Larson's Theory, a positron is actually a particle of
MATTER, NOT anti-matter. When a positron and electron meet,
the rotational vibrations (charges) and rotations of their
respective photons (of which they are made) neutralize each
other.
In Larson's Theory, the ANTI-MATTER half of the physical
universe has THREE dimensions of TIME, and ONLY ONE dimension
of space, and exists in a RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP to our
MATERIAL half.
LARSONIAN Relativity
The perihelion point in the orbit of the planet Mercury
has been observed and precisely measured to ADVANCE at the
rate of 574 seconds of arc per century. 531 seconds of this
advance are attributed via calculations to gravitational
perturbations from the other planets (Venus, Earth, Jupiter,
etc.). The remaining 43 seconds of arc are being used to
help "prove" Einstein's "General Theory of Relativity".
But the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson achieved results
CLOSER to the 43 seconds than "General Relativity" can, by
INSTEAD using "SPECIAL Relativity". In one or more of his
books, he applied the LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION on the HIGH
ORBITAL SPEED of Mercury.
Larson TOTALLY REJECTED "General Relativity" as another
MATHEMATICAL FANTASY. He also REJECTED most of "Special
Relativity", including the parts about "mass increases" near
the speed of light, and the use of the Lorentz Transform on
doppler shifts, (Those quasars with red-shifts greater than
1.000 REALLY ARE MOVING FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT,
although most of that motion is away from us IN TIME.).
In Larson's comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the
physical universe, there are THREE dimensions of time instead
of only one. But two of those dimensions can NOT be measured
from our material half of the physical universe. The one
dimension that we CAN measure is the CLOCK time. At low
relative speeds, the values of the other two dimensions are
NEGLIGIBLE; but at high speeds, they become significant, and
the Lorentz Transformation must be used as a FUDGE FACTOR.
[Larson often used the term "COORDINATE TIME" when writing
about this.]
In regard to "mass increases", it has been PROVEN in
atomic accelerators that acceleration drops toward zero near
the speed of light. But the formula for acceleration is
ACCELERATION = FORCE / MASS, (a = F/m). Orthodox physicists
are IGNORING the THIRD FACTOR: FORCE. In Larson's Theory,
mass STAYS CONSTANT and FORCE drops toward zero. FORCE is
actually a MOTION, or COMBINATIONS of MOTIONS, or RELATIONS
BETWEEN MOTIONS, including INward and OUTward SCALAR MOTIONS.
The expansion of the universe, for example, is an OUTward
SCALAR motion inherent in the universe and NOT a result of
the so-called "Big Bang" (which is yet another MATHEMATICAL
FANTASY).
THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION
I wish to recommend to EVERYONE the book "THE UNIVERSE
OF MOTION", by Dewey B. Larson, 1984, North Pacific
Publishers, (P.O. Box 13255, Portland, Oregon 97213), 456
pages, indexed, hardcover.
It contains the Astrophysical portions of a GENERAL
UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe developed by that
author, an UNrecognized GENIUS, more than thirty years ago.
It contains FINAL SOLUTIONS to most ALL Astrophysical
mysteries, including the FORMATION of galaxies, binary and
multiple star systems, and solar systems, the TRUE ORIGIN of
the "3-degree" background radiation, cosmic rays, and gamma-
ray bursts, and the TRUE NATURE of quasars, pulsars, white
dwarfs, exploding galaxies, etc..
It contains what astronomers and astrophysicists are ALL
looking for, if they are ready to seriously consider it with
OPEN MINDS!
The following is an example of his Theory's success:
In his first book in 1959, "THE STRUCTURE OF THE PHYSICAL
UNIVERSE", Larson predicted the existence of EXPLODING
GALAXIES, several years BEFORE astronomers started finding
them. They are a NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE of Larson's
comprehensive Theory. And when QUASARS were discovered, he
had an immediate related explanation for them also.
GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
Astro-physicists and astronomers are still scratching
their heads about the mysterious GAMMA-RAY BURSTS. They were
originally thought to originate from "neutron stars" in the
disc of our galaxy. But the new Gamma Ray Telescope now in
Earth orbit has been detecting them in all directions
uniformly, and their source locations in space do NOT
correspond to any known objects, (except for a few cases of
directional coincidence).
Gamma-ray bursts are a NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE of the
GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe developed by
the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson. According to page 386 of
his book "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION", published in 1984, the
gamma-ray bursts are coming from SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS in the
ANTI-MATTER HALF of the physical universe, which Larson calls
the "Cosmic Sector". Because of the relationship between the
anti-matter and material halves of the physical universe, and
the way they are connected together, the gamma-ray bursts can
pop into our material half anywhere in space, seemingly at
random. (This is WHY the source locations of the bursts do
not correspond with known objects, and come from all
directions uniformly.)
I wonder how close to us in space a source location
would have to be for a gamma-ray burst to kill all or most
life on Earth! There would be NO WAY to predict one, NOR to
stop it!
Perhaps some of the MASS EXTINCTIONS of the past, which
are now being blamed on impacts of comets and asteroids, were
actually caused by nearby GAMMA-RAY BURSTS!
LARSONIAN Binary Star Formation
About half of all the stars in the galaxy in the
vicinity of the sun are binary or double. But orthodox
astronomers and astrophysicists still have no satisfactory
theory about how they form or why there are so many of them.
But binary star systems are actually a LIKELY
CONSEQUENCE of the comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of
the physical universe developed by the late Physicist Dewey
B. Larson.
I will try to summarize Larsons explanation, which is
detailed in Chapter 7 of his book "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION"
and in some of his other books.
First of all, according to Larson, stars do NOT generate
energy by "fusion". A small fraction comes from slow
gravitational collapse. The rest results from the COMPLETE
ANNIHILATION of HEAVY elements (heavier than IRON). Each
element has a DESTRUCTIVE TEMPERATURE LIMIT. The heavier the
element is, the lower is this limit. A star's internal
temperature increases as it grows in mass via accretion and
absorption of the decay products of cosmic rays, gradually
reaching the destructive temperature limit of lighter and
lighter elements.
When the internal temperature of the star reaches the
destructive temperature limit of IRON, there is a Type I
SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION! This is because there is SO MUCH iron
present; and that is related to the structure of iron atoms
and the atom building process, which Larson explains in some
of his books [better than I can].
When the star explodes, the lighter material on the
outer portion of the star is blown outward in space at less
than the speed of light. The heavier material in the center
portion of the star was already bouncing around at close to
the speed of light, because of the high temperature. The
explosion pushes that material OVER the speed of light, and
it expands OUTWARD IN TIME, which is equivalent to INWARD IN
SPACE, and it often actually DISAPPEARS for a while.
Over long periods of time, both masses start to fall
back gravitationally. The material that had been blown
outward in space now starts to form a RED GIANT star. The
material that had been blown OUTWARD IN TIME starts to form a
WHITE DWARF star. BOTH stars then start moving back toward
the "MAIN SEQUENCE" from opposite directions on the H-R
Diagram.
The chances of the two masses falling back into the
exact same location in space, making a single lone star
again, are near zero. They will instead form a BINARY
system, orbiting each other.
According to Larson, a white dwarf star has an INVERSE
DENSITY GRADIENT (is densest at its SURFACE), because the
material at its center is most widely dispersed (blown
outward) in time. This ELIMINATES the need to resort to
MATHEMATICAL FANTASIES about "degenerate matter", "neutron
stars", "black holes", etc..
LARSONIAN Solar System Formation
If the mass of the heavy material at the center of the
exploding star is relatively SMALL, then, instead of a single
white dwarf star, there will be SEVERAL "mini" white dwarf
stars (revolving around the red giant star, but probably
still too far away in three-dimensional TIME to be affected
by its heat, etc.). These will become PLANETS!
In Chapter 7 of THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION, Larson used all
this information, and other principles of his comprehensive
GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe, to derive
his own version of Bode's Law.
"Black Hole" FANTASY!
I heard that physicist Stephen W. Hawking recently
completed a theoretical mathematical analysis of TWO "black
holes" merging together into a SINGLE "black hole", and
concluded that the new "black hole" would have MORE MASS than
the sum of the two original "black holes".
Such a result should be recognized by EVERYone as a RED
FLAG, causing widespread DOUBT about the whole IDEA of "black
holes", etc.!
After reading Physicist Dewey B. Larson's books about
his comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical
universe, especially his book "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION", it is
clear to me that "black holes" are NOTHING more than
MATHEMATICAL FANTASIES! The strange object at Cygnus X-1 is
just an unusually massive WHITE DWARF STAR, NOT the "black
hole" that orthodox astronomers and physicists so badly want
to "prove" their theory.
By the way, I do NOT understand why so much publicity is
being given to physicist Stephen Hawking. The physicists and
astronomers seem to be acting as if Hawking's severe physical
problem somehow makes him "wiser". It does NOT!
I wish the same attention had been given to Physicist
Dewey B. Larson while he was still alive. Widespread
publicity and attention should NOW be given to Larson's
Theory, books, and organization (The International Society of
Unified Science).
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PROPULSION
I heard of that concept many years ago, in connection
with UFO's and unorthodox inventors, but I never was able to
find out how or why they work, or how they are constructed.
I found a possible clue about why they might work on
pages 112-113 of the book "BASIC PROPERTIES OF MATTER", by
the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson, which describes part of
Larson's comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical
universe. I quote one paragraph:
"As indicated in the preceding chapter, the development
of the theory of the universe of motion arrives at a totally
different concept of the nature of electrical resistance.
The electrons, we find, are derived from the environment. It
was brought out in Volume I [Larson's book "NOTHING BUT
MOTION"] that there are physical processes in operation which
produce electrons in substantial quantities, and that,
although the motions that constitute these electrons are, in
many cases, absorbed by atomic structures, the opportunities
for utilizing this type of motion in such structures are
limited. It follows that there is always a large excess of
free electrons in the material sector [material half] of the
universe, most of which are uncharged. In this uncharged
state the electrons cannot move with respect to extension
space, because they are inherently rotating units of space,
and the relation of space to space is not motion. In open
space, therefore, each uncharged electron remains permanently
in the same location with respect to the natural reference
system, in the manner of a photon. In the context of the
stationary spatial reference system the uncharged electron,
like the photon, is carried outward at the speed of light by
the progression of the natural reference system. All
material aggregates are thus exposed to a flux of electrons
similar to the continual bombardment by photons of radiation.
Meanwhile there are other processes, to be discussed later,
whereby electrons are returned to the environment. The
electron population of a material aggregate such as the earth
therefore stabilizes at an equilibrium level."
Note that in Larson's Theory, UNcharged electrons are
also massLESS, and are basically photons of light of a
particular frequency (above the "unit" frequency) spinning
around one axis at a particular rate (below the "unit" rate).
("Unit velocity" is the speed of light, and there are
vibrational and rotational equivalents to the speed of light,
according to Larson's Theory.) [I might have the "above" and
"below" labels mixed up.]
Larson is saying that outer space is filled with mass-
LESS UN-charged electrons flying around at the speed of
light!
If this is true, then the ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PROPULSION
fields of spacecraft might be able to interact with these
electrons, or other particles in space, perhaps GIVING them a
charge (and mass) and shooting them toward the rear to
achieve propulsion. (In Larson's Theory, an electrical charge
is a one-dimensional rotational vibration of a particular
frequency (above the "unit" frequency) superimposed on the
rotation of the particle.)
The paragraph quoted above might also give a clue to
confused meteorologists about how and why lightning is
generated in clouds.
SUPPRESSION of LARSONIAN Physics
The comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical
universe developed by the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson has
been available for more than 30 YEARS, published in 1959 in
his first book "THE STRUCTURE OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE".
It is TOTALLY UN-SCIENTIFIC for Hawking, Wheeler, Sagan,
and the other SACRED PRIESTS of the RELIGION they call
"science" (or "physics", or "astronomy", etc.), as well as
the "scientific" literature and the "education" systems, to
TOTALLY IGNORE Larson's Theory has they have.
Larson's Theory has excellent explanations for many
things now puzzling orthodox physicists and astronomers, such
as gamma-ray bursts and the nature of quasars.
Larson's Theory deserves to be HONESTLY and OPENLY
discussed in the physics, chemistry, and astronomy journals,
in the U.S. and elsewhere. And at least the basic principles
of Larson's Theory should be included in all related courses
at UW-EC, UW-Madison, Cambridge, Cornell University, and
elsewhere, so that students are not kept in the dark about a
worthy alternative to the DOGMA they are being fed.
For more information, answers to your questions, etc.,
please consult my CITED SOURCES (especially Larson's BOOKS).
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
IMPORTANT partial summary is ENCOURAGED.
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4,030 | << < For example: why does the universe exist at all?
<Whether there is a "why" or not we have to find it. This is Pascal's(?) wager.
<If there is no why and we spend our lives searching, then we have merely
<wasted our lives, which were meaningless anyway. If there is a why and we
..
<Suppose the universe is 5 billion years old, and suppose it lasts another
<5 billion years. Suppose I live to be 100. That is nothing, that is so small
<that it is scary. So by searching for the "why" along with my friends here
<on earth if nothing else we aren't so scared.
I find this view of Christianity to be quite disheartening and sad.
The idea that life only has meaning or importance if there is a Creator
does not seem like much of a basis for belief.
And the logic is also appalling: "God must exist because I want Him to."
I have heard this line of "reasoning" before and wonder how prevalent
it is. Certainly in modern society many people are convinced life is
hopeless (or so the pollsters and newscasts state), but I don't see
where this is a good reason to become religious. If you want 'meaning'
why not just join a cult, such as in Waco? The leaders will give you
the security blanket you desire. | 0 | trimmed_train |
4,494 | Sorry, but Mormons aren't generally considered to be Christians.
| 15 | trimmed_train |
7,069 | I am curious: what does the /double_buffer parameter in smartdrv actually do
for me? I seem to have less problems in Windows when I leave it out.
Using a PS/2 with an ESDI drive, but also a PS/2 with a SCSI.
Any response is welcome. | 18 | trimmed_train |
6,015 |
If there are many as..., er, people in the USA who reason like the
above, then it should not be surprising that the current plot has been
allowed to happen...
Regards,
Vesselin | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,789 | yeah,
They just tore down the Kmart near my house (putting in a new suptermarket). I
heard that there is a beer drinking ghost who still haunts the place! 8-{)
Tom
I liked this one I read a while ago... | 10 | trimmed_train |
4,995 |
I did not claim that our system was objective.
| 8 | trimmed_train |
10,476 | This is a general question for US readers:
How extensive is the playoff coverage down there? In Canada, it is almost
impossible not to watch a series on TV (ie the only two series I have not had
an opportunity to watch this year are Wash-NYI and Chi-Stl, the latter because
I'm in the wrong time zone!). We (in Canada) are basically swamped with
coverage, and I wonder how many series/games are televised nationally or even
locally in the US and how much precedence they take over, say, local news if
the games go into double-OT.
Email me so as not to waste bandwidth, please. My news feed is kind of slow
anyways. | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,612 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I watched the CNN report and I never heard them report that the ATF started the
fire. They did speculate that the type of CS gas might have _accidentaly_
started the fire.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
From my understanding of the CNN report it was 6 HOURS after they started.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The track vehicle that I saw in the vicinity of the building where fire was
first noticed looked more like an armored recovery vehicle (the type used to
tow tanks of battle fields) and not an armored flame-thrower vehicle.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As someone else has pointed out, why would the stove be in use on a warm day
in Texas. It seems to me that it would be very poor planing to hope for a wood
stove to ignite the "napalm" when the stove would probably not be in use. And
I doubt that it would have taken 6 hours to ignite it.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Right Clinton is in office. (Sorry I couldn't resist, please no flames :))
In short Mr. Gorman (I am assuming Mr. as a title because I don't think a woman
would be stupid enough to make this post) I don't know what episode of CNN you
were watching but it obviously was not the same one that I was watching or your
tears seamed to have blured your hearing along with your eye sight.
Please excuse any mispelled words as I am a product of the Arkansas education
system which Slick Willie of the "Double Bubba Ticket" has so greately improved
during his tenour as Governer of my great state (taking it from 49th in the
nation in 1980 and allowing it to drop to 51st, how I don't know, and bringing
it to 44st and back to either 48th or 49th in 1990--sorry I can't rember the
source of these numbers but they can be found). | 9 | trimmed_train |
7,585 | Note: I am cross-posting (actually, emailing) this to
bit.listserv.catholic while main posting goes to
soc.religion.christian.
[Quotations omitted. This is in response to a question about
the Immaculate Conception. I explained it, but left justification
up to our Catholic readers. --clh]
There is no direct reference in the Holy Scripture except for the
mention of Mary's _blessedness_/full of grace in the "Annunciation" by
Angel Gabriel in Luke 1:26-28
And in the 6th month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto
a city of Galilee, named Nazareth. To a virgin espoused to a
man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's
name was Mary. And the angel came unto her and said, _"Hail,
thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed
art thou among women."_
Now, now, hold that line of thought - "the Lord is with Mary &
blessed art thou among women" - while you read on....
In the book, "First Lady of the World, A Popular History of
Devotion to Mary" by Peter Lappin:
The _Immaculate Conception_ matter is really far more complicated
than the _Assumption_. This arose in 430 AD. It is quite possible
that the feast of _Mary's Conception_ under the title "The Conception
of Saint Anne", originally commemorated the _physical miracle_ of
a woman _beyond the age_ of child bearing, conceiving a daughter,
just as Elizabeth had conceived John the Baptist. A transfer in
emphasis from the physical miracle wrought in Anne to the miracle
of grace wrought by God in the soul of Mary was _logical_. Mary
is the incorruptible timber "out of which was hewn the _tabernacle_
of Christ's sinless body"; she is "God's Eden, in whom there is
no tree of knowledge, and no serpent that harms." Her perfect
beauty and spotlessness find their exemplar in Christ, her
purity in that of the Father. At the time of the Council of Ephesus,
she was hailed as "innocent, without blemish, immaculate, inviolate,
spotless, holy in soul and body, who was blessed as a lily from
among thorns, unlearned in the evil ways of Eve".
...
At the end of the thirteenth century, an Irish Franciscan,
John Duns Scotus (1266-1308),...God maintained that it was a
greater thing for Him to preserve His (the Son) mother from all
sin _than to use His power to clease her from it later_.
...
Now let's go to the discussion of baptism and original sin.
From "Pocket Catholic Cathechism" by John A. Hardon:
Baptism -
Concupiscence Remains after Baptism.
Concupiscence or the tendency to sin remains in the baptized
but since it is left to provide trial, it has no power to
injure those who do not consent and who by the grace of
Christ Jesus, manfully resist (Canon 5).
Original gifts of Adam and Eve before their fall:
In the light of the foregoing, we see that our first
parents were originally gifted three times over:
-They had the natural gifts of human beings especially the
power to think and to choose freely.
-The had the _preternatural_ gifts of bodily immortality
and of integrity, or the internal power to control desires.
-They had the _supernatural_ gifts of sanctifying grace,
the virtues of faith, hope, and charity and the corresponding
title to enter heaven.
By their disobedience, they lost the _supernatural and
preternatural_ gifts entirely, and were weakened (without
losing) their natural capacity to reason and to choose
freely.
Baptism restores the _supernatural_ life lost by Adam's
sin. It _does not_ restore the _preternatural_ gifts
but gifts as a title to a glorified restoration of our
bodies on the last day...
Going back to _Immaculate Conception_
(I am not sure if this interpretation is in any other
books but it may be another contribution to the 'puzzle'):
Given the miracle of St. Anne bearing a child at a
non-childbearing age, AND Christ was not yet born
AND _there was no baptism yet_ on Mary's birth but
STILL, the Angel Gabriel's greetings was:
"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Blessed art thou amongst women".
Even Mary was confused about this greeting.
Mary could very well have possessed all of the
_treefold original gifts above_ given to our first
parents (Adam and Eve before their sin):
Hail Mary (Example of praise given by the Angel Gabriel)
Full of grace (natural, preternatural, supernatural)
The Lord is with you (At those times, God would
definitely want to be with those He
has made _blessed_)
Blessed art thou amongst women (that says it all)
At the conception, God made Mary _full of grace
and blessed_ as the 'tabernacle' for the coming body
of Christ and so,
Immaculate Conception of Mary is true and Mary still
has maintained her Immaculate Heart. | 0 | trimmed_train |
553 | I think it would be a great idea to have a new group created:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.flame.therapy | 3 | trimmed_train |
10,496 |
53 seconds to hash 20M of core (I bet I know who the source of your
information is!). No, it's not acceptable if it's part of your login
process. But if you are going to use network traffic as the source of
pseudo-random information, do the right thing and pass it through a
cryptographic hash function, not a compressor. Aside from the fact
that it will run faster, it will give better results (think of a
cryptographic hash as a function that "distills" randomness).
Something along the lines of
etherfind -t -x -n | dd bs=1k count=10 2>/dev/null | md5
should do the trick. -t gives you timestamps, and the lack of -u makes
sure that dd does not get ten lines as opposed to ten K. The above
takes a couple of seconds on a lightly-loaded ethernet.
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1,510 | One way ticket (return leg of roundtrip ticket) for female traveler
San Francisco ==> St. Louis ==> Philadelphia
May 21, 1993 (Friday) leaves SFO 10:25 am
arrives Phila. 8:43 pm
.............$150 or best offer
| 5 | trimmed_train |
6,776 | General question: Since the world was discovered to be
round, the definition of Saturday is, if not ambiguous,
at least arbitrary. How would someone answer this?
Also, when the calendar was changed (Gregorian to Julian?)
was the day of the week changed or just the date? Once again
this points to the arbitrariness of the days.
Chris Mussack | 0 | trimmed_train |
1,302 |
Yes, victims exist. There are a staggering number of victims in the world and
more each day. I think on balance, intervention would create more victims,
including American ones. Since the first responsibility of the US government
is to protect Americans, I think they serve that role best by staying away
from Bosnia and other regional conflicts.
Of course not. The Jews were not trying to carve a territory out of Germany
either, and except for small-scale resistance and a few larger uprisings, did
not have an army or a government.
I see the pattern of atrocities as a fairly often practiced tactic of a
colonizing power - driving away and/or eliminating the population of an
area they want to control. The US tried basically that in Vietnam, the Iraqis
in Kuwait, the Israelis in Palestine, South Africa, etc, etc, etc. It sucks,
it's ugly, and it's saddening. But it is not genocide.
It is not my impression that the Serbs want to eliminate every Muslim in
Yugoslavia. I still say the Bosnians are getting their asses kicked; they
should surrender and evacuate the areas they can't hold.
I am a staunch Republican, BTW. The irony of arguing against military
intervention with arguments based on Vietnam has not escaped me. I was opposed
to US intervention in Somalia for the same reasons, although clearly it was
not nearly as risky.
Well, one thing you have to remember is, the press likes a good story. Good
for business, don't you know. And BTW, not "everyone" wants to help the
side that is less like us.
I never said the two sides were morally equivalent, I said neither one is
innocent.
There are just too many good reasons to stay away:
1) The Europeans are perfectly able to deal with this dispute on their borders
in any way we do it. Put another way, we have no assistance to offer the
Europeans which they do not already possess themselves. It is not good to
promote the idea in anyone's mind that the United States is responsible
for cleaning up every bloody mess in the world.
2) Clinton is not the man to lead this country into a military adventure. Full
stop. | 6 | trimmed_train |
3,295 |
Well, if you're going to get upset with this, you might as well direct
some of this moral outrage towards Glavcosmos as well. They pioneered
this capitalist application of booster adverts long before NASA.
(Sign of the times: a Sony logo on a Soyuz launcher...)
This sounds like something Lowell Wood would think of. Does anyone
know if he's involved?
This may be the purpose for the University of Colorado people. My
guess is that the purpose for the Livermore people is to learn how to
build large, inflatable space structures.
If this is true, I think it's a great idea.
Learning how to build to build structures in space in an essential
step towards space development, and given that Freedom appears to be
shrinking towards the vanishing point, I question whether NASA's space
station is going to provide much, if any, knowledge in this area.
(Especially if a design such as Faget's wingless orbiter is chosen...)
If such a project also monitors ozone depletion and demonstrates
creative use of (partial) private sector funding in the process -- so
much the better.
And does anyone have any more details other than what was in the WN
news blip? How serious is this project? Is this just in the "wild
idea" stage or does it have real funding?
Not yet. Though, if this project goes through, I suppose The Return
of Jeremy Rifkin is inevitable...
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3,257 |
Of all the stupid postings you've brought here recently, it is
illuminating that you chose to put your own name on perhaps the
stupidest of them.
Does this mean that you are calling for the dismantling of the Arab
states?
Apparently, your answer is yes.
Attempts to solve these problem by traditional military means and
non-traditional terrorist means has also failed. But that won't stop
them from trying again. After all, it IS a Holy War, you know....
"No just solution possible." How very encouraging.
You mean that it gets even funnier?
[...]
No, the Fund should be financed by the Center for Policy Research. It
IS a major organization, isn't it? Isn't it?
Yeah, just like marriages among Arabs has strengthened their
societies.
The world could do with a bit less Middle Eastern "grace".
Boy, you're a one-man band. Listen, if you'd like to Followup on your
own postings and debate with yourself, just tell us and we'll leave
you alone.
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10,429 | Sorry for the repeat of this request, but does anyone know of a good
free/shareware program with which I can create ray-traces and save
them as bit-mapped files? (Of course if there is such a thing =)
Thanks in advance | 1 | trimmed_train |
7,360 | 19 | trimmed_train |
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9,498 |
Although, others have in the past and will continue to disagree
i think that it is worthwhile to get an alarm.
I think that it is important to protect your trunk, engine bay, all
doors. I'd get flashing lights, LED's mounted on the drivers and
passenger door and a relay to disable engine operation. Toss in
a glass break sensor, and shock sensor. Door lock and unlock,
two remotes and panic feature are also nice to have.
Most important is where you have the installation done! Some places
may cost a little more, but a poorly installed alarm (no matter how
much it cost) will be a major burden.
IMO, things like engine starters, voice alarms, window/sunroof open
and close, and most other conveniences.
.
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Larry __/ _______/_
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The fact that I need to explain it to you indicates
that you probably wouldn't understand anyway! | 4 | trimmed_train |
2,264 |
I had a friend in Pittsburgh who had a CB1000C with the dual-range
tranny on it. He usually only used the "economy" range to get an overdrive
sixth gear out of it. He had 59000 miles on it when it was stolen. It was
recovered shortly after that, repaired, and, for all I know, it's still going
strong.
The CB1000C was a shaft-driven overbore version of the CB900 and was
made for exactly one year (yep, head and base gaskets are VERY expensive).
Helluva bike.
A data point, | 12 | trimmed_train |
9,218 | FOR SALE:
* Besler 23C II Enlarger
(including filters & negative carriers)
* Darkroom supplies
(containers, trays, thermometer, beakers,
paper focuser, etc...I also have paper &
chemicals, but I think these 2 are past
expiration date)
Everything is in great working condition. I bought it
about a year ago and it has served its purpose well.
It hasn't been used it in a few months because I don't
have the time or money to keep up with it and its just
sitting in my bathroom taking up space I'd like to use.
So, I'd like to sell it to someone who would use it
rather than it collect dust in my bathroom.
If you are interested in the whole package, I will sell
everything (including shipping) for $300. If you have
something else in mind, I'm open to suggestions.
Please reply to this account. | 5 | trimmed_train |
8,435 |
You mean he talks about those Jews, who, because of their self
hatred, spend all their time attacking Judaism, Jews, and Israel,
using the most despicable of anti-Semetic stereotypes?
I don't think we need to coin a term like "Jedeo-Nazism" to
refer to those Jews who, in their endless desire to be accepted by the
Nazis, do their dirty work for them. We can just call them house
Jews, fools, or anti-Semites from Jewish families.
I think "house Jews," a reference to a person of Jewish
ancestry who issues statements for a company or organization that
condemn Judaism is perfectly sufficeint. I think a few years free of
their anti-Semetic role models would do wonders for most of them.
Adam
Adam Shostack [email protected] | 6 | trimmed_train |
1,569 | > Hi there,
> Can anyone tell me where it is possible to purchase controls found
> on most arcade style games. Many projects I am working on would
> be greatly augmented if I could implement them. Thanx in advance.
HAP controls just outside Chicago sells these. I don't remember which
suburb they are in. The prices are pretty reasonable and they are
easy to hook up. I bought a new coin mechanism from them for $25.00
a couple of years ago. | 11 | trimmed_train |
9,288 | I am writing some utilies to convert Regis and Tektonic esacpe sequences
into some useful formats. I would rather not have to goto a bitmap format.
I can convert them to Window Meta FIles easily enough, but I would rather
convert them to Corel Draw, .CDR, or MS Power Point, .PPT, files.
Microsoft would not give me the format. I was wondering if anybody out
there knows the formats for these two applications.
| 1 | trimmed_train |
3,064 | Sorry for taking this off of Sharon's resp, but I'd also like to add
some more verses to that and perhaps answer the second Q.
Verses:
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Colossians 3:5-10
As for knowing when, that's a bit tricky. People normally have
consciences which warn them about it. However, as in my case, a
conscience can be hardened by sin's deceitfulness (Hebrews 3:12:13) so
that the person has no idea (or doesn't care about it) that they are
sinning. Of course, there are those sins which we do when we don't know
that they're sinful to begin with. Those take searching and examining
of Scripture to find out that they are sinful and then repent and
change. The best question to ask in every circumstance to judge sinful
possibilities is: "Would Jesus wholeheartedly do this at this point in
time?" I know, it sounds like a cop-out, but it truly is a stifling
question.
Joe Fisher | 0 | trimmed_train |
3,698 |
Could someone please send me the postal and email address of
Congruent Corporation (and any competitors they may have).
Thank you.
--
[email protected] | 16 | trimmed_train |
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limits of AZT's efficacy and now suggest using the drug either sequentially
with other drugs or in a kind of AIDS treatment "cocktail" combining a number
of drugs to fight the virus all at once. "Treating people with AZT alone
doesn't happen in the real world anymore," said Dr. Mark Jacobson of the
University of California--San Francisco. Also, with recent findings
indicating that HIV replicates rapidly in the lymph nodes after infection,
physicians may begin pushing even harder for early treatment of HIV-infected
patients.
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"New Infectious Disease Push" American Medical News (04/05/93) Vol. 36, No.
13, P. 2
The Center for Disease Control will launch a worldwide network to track
the spread of infectious diseases and detect drug-resistant or new strains in
time to help prevent their spread. The network is expected to cost between
$75 million and $125 million but is an essential part of the Clinton
administration's health reform plan, according to the CDC and outside
experts. The plan will require the CDC to enhance surveillance of disease in
the United States and establish about 15 facilities across the world to
track disease.
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April 13, 1993
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"NIH Plans to Begin AIDS Drug Trials at Earlier Stage" Nature (04/01/93) Vol.
362, No. 6419, P. 382 (Macilwain, Colin)
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The National Institutes of Health has announced it will start treating
HIV-positive patients as soon as possible after seroconversion, resulting
from recent findings that show HIV is active in the body in large numbers
much earlier than was previously believed. Anthony Fauci, director of the
U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said,
"We must address the question of how to treat people as early as we possibly
can with drugs that are safe enough to give people for years and that will
get around microbial resistance." He said any delay would signify questions
over safety and resistance rather than a lack of funds. Fauci, who co-
authored one of the two papers published last week in Nature, rejects the
argument by one of his co-authors, Cecil Fox, that the new discovery
indicates that "$1 billion spent on vaccine trials" has been "a waste of time
and money" because the trials were started too long after the patients were
infected and were ended too quickly. John Tew of the Medical College of
Virginia in Richmond claims that the new evidence strongly backs the argument
for early treatment of HIV-infected patients. AIDS activists welcomed the
new information but said the scientific community has been slow to understand
the significance of infection of the lymph tissue. "We've known about this
for five years, but we're glad it is now in the public domain," said Jesse
Dobson of the California-based Project Inform. But Peter Duesberg, who
believes that AIDS is independent of HIV and is a result of drug abuse in the
West, said, "We are several paradoxes away from an explanation of AIDS--even
if these papers are right."
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April 14, 1993
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"Risk of AIDS Virus From Doctors Found to Be Minimal" Washington Post
(04/14/93), P. A9
The risk of HIV being transmitted from infected health-care
professionals to patients is minimal, according to new research published in
today's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). This finding
supports previous conclusions by health experts that the chance of
contracting HIV from a health care worker is remote. Three studies in the
JAMA demonstrate that thousands of patients were treated by two HIV-positive
surgeons and dentists without becoming infected with the virus. The studies
were conducted by separate research teams in New Hampshire, Maryland, and
Florida. Each study started with an HIV-positive doctor or dentist and
tested all patients willing to participate. The New Hampshire study found
that none of the 1,174 patients who had undergone invasive procedures by an
HIV-positive orthopedic surgeon contracted HIV. In Maryland, 413 of 1,131
patients operated on by a breast surgery specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital
were found to be HIV-negative. Similarly in Florida, 900 of 1,192 dental
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patients, who all had been treated by an HIV-positive general dentist, were
tested and found to be negative for HIV. The Florida researchers, led by
Gordon M. Dickinson of the University of Miami School of Medicine, said,
"This study indicates that the risk for transmission of HIV from a general
dentist to his patients is minimal in a setting in which universal
precautions are strictly observed." Related Story: Philadelphia Inquirer
(04/14) P. A6
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"Alternative Medicine Advocates Divided Over New NIH Research Program" AIDS
Treatment News (04/02/93) No. 172, P. 6 (Gilden, Dave)
The new Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of
Health has raised questions about the NIH's commitment to an effort that uses
unorthodox or holistic therapeutic methods. The OAM is a small division of
the NIH, with its budget only at $2 million dollars compared to more than $10
billion for the NIH as a whole. In addition, the money for available
research grants is even smaller. About $500,000 to $600,000 total will be
available this year for 10 or 20 grants. Kaiya Montaocean, of the Center for
Natural and Traditional Medicine in Washington, D.C., says the OAM is afraid
to become involved in AIDS. "They have to look successful and there is no
easy answer in AIDS," she said. There is also a common perception that the
OAM will focus on fields the NIH establishment will find non-threatening,
such as relaxation techniques and acupuncture. When the OAM called for an
advisory committee conference of about 120 people last year, the AIDS
community was largely missing from the meeting. In addition, activists'
general lack of contact with the Office has added suspicion that the epidemic
will be ignored. Jon Greenberg, of ACT-UP/New York, said, "The OAM advisory
panel is composed of practitioners without real research experience. It
will take them several years to accept the nature of research."
Nevertheless, Dr. Leanna Standish, research director and AIDS investigator
at the Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine in Seattle, said, "Here is a
wonderful opportunity to fund AIDS research. It's only fair to give the
Office time to gel, but it's up to the public to insist that it's much, much
more [than public relations]."
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"Herpesvirus Decimates Immune-cell Soldiers" Science News (04/03/93) Vol. 143,
No. 14, P. 215 (Fackelmann, Kathy A.)
Scientists conducting test tube experiments have found that herpesvirus-
6 can attack the human immune system's natural killer cells. This attack
causes the killer cells to malfunction, diminishing an important component in
the immune system's fight against diseases. Also, the herpesvirus-6 may be a
factor in immune diseases, such as AIDS. In 1989, Paolo Lusso's research
found that herpesvirus-6 attacks another white cell, the CD4 T-lymphocyte,
which is the primary target of HIV. Lusso also found that herpesvirus-6 can
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kill natural killer cells. Scientists previously knew that the natural
killer cells of patients infected with HIV do not work correctly. Lusso's
research represents the first time scientists have indicated that natural
killer cells are vulnerable to any kind of viral attack, according to Anthony
L. Komaroff, a researcher with Harvard Medical School. Despite the test-tube
findings, scientists are uncertain whether the same result occurs in the
body. Lusso's team also found that herpesvirus-6 produces the CD4 receptor
molecule that provides access for HIV. CD4 T-lymphocytes express this surface
receptor, making them vulnerable to HIV's attack. Researchers concluded that
herpesvirus-6 cells can exacerbate the affects of HIV.
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April 15, 1993
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"AIDS and Priorities in the Global Village: To the Editor" Journal of the
American Medical Association (04/07/93) Vol. 269, No. 13, P. 1636 (Gellert,
George and Nordenberg, Dale F.)
All health-care workers are obligated and responsible for not only
ensuring that politicians understand the dimensions of certain health
problems, but also to be committed to related policies, write George Gellert
and Dale F. Nordenberg of the Orange County Health Care Agency, Santa Ana,
Calif., and the Emory University School of Public Health in Atlanta, Ga.,
respectively. Dr. Berkley's editorial on why American doctors should care
about the AIDS epidemic beyond the United States details several reasons for
the concerted interest that all countries share in combating AIDS. It should
be noted that while AIDS leads in hastening global health interdependence, it
is not the only illness doing so. Diseases such as malaria and many
respiratory and intestinal pathogens have similarly inhibited the economic
development of most of humanity and acted to marginalize large populations.
Berkley mentions the enormous social and economic impact that AIDS will have
on many developing countries, and the increased need for international
assistance that will result. Berkley also cites the lack of political
aggressiveness toward the AIDS epidemic in its first decade. But now there
is a new administration with a promise of substantial differences in approach
to international health and development in general, and HIV/AIDS in
particular. Vice President Al Gore proposes in his book "Earth in the
Balance" a major environmental initiative that includes sustainable
international development, with programs to promote literacy, improve child
survival, and disseminate contraceptive technology and access throughout the
developing world. If enacted, this change in policy could drastically
change the future of worldwide health.
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"AIDS and Priorities in the Global Village: In Reply" Journal of the American
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Medical Association (04/07/93) Vol. 269, No. 13, P. 1636 (Berkley, Seth)
Every nation should tackle HIV as early and aggressively as possible
before the disease reaches an endemic state, even at a cost of diverting less
attention to some other illnesses, writes Seth Berkley of the Rockefeller
Foundation in New York, N.Y., in reply to a letter by Drs. Gellert and
Nordenberg. Although it is true that diseases other than AIDS, such as
malaria and respiratory and intestinal illnesses, have similarly inhibited
economic development in developing countries and deserve much more attention
than they are getting, Berkley disagrees with the contention that AIDS is
receiving too much attention. HIV differs from other diseases, in most
developing countries because it is continuing to spread. For most endemic
diseases, the outcome of neglecting interventions for one year is another
year of about the same level of needless disease and death. But with AIDS
and its increasing spread, the cost of neglect, not only in disease burden
but financially, is much greater. Interventions in the early part of a
rampantly spreading epidemic like HIV are highly cost-effective because each
individual infection prevented significantly interrupts transmission. Berkley
says he agrees with Gellert and Nordenberg about the gigantic social and
economic effects of AIDS and about the need for political leadership. But he
concludes that not only is assertive political leadership needed in the
United States for the AIDS epidemic, but even more so in developing countries
with high rates of HIV infection and where complacency about the epidemic
has been the rule.
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First HIV Vaccine Trial Begins in HIV-Infected Children
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
March 29, 1993
First HIV Vaccine Therapy Trial Begins In HIV-Infected Children
The National Institutes of Health has opened the first trial of experimental
HIV vaccines in children who are infected with the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS.
The trial will compare the safety of three HIV experimental vaccines in 90
children recruited from at least 12 sites nationwide. Volunteers must be HIV-
infected but have no symptoms of HIV disease.
HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala said this initial study can be seen as "a
hopeful milestone in our efforts to ameliorate the tragedy of HIV-infected
children who now face the certainty they will develop AIDS."
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases and of the NIH Office of AIDS Research, said the trial "is
the first step in finding out whether vaccines can help prevent or delay
disease progression in children with HIV who are not yet sick." If these
vaccines prove to be safe, more sophisticated questions about their
therapeutic potential will be assessed in Phase II trials.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 10,000 children in
the United States have HIV. By the end of the decade, the World Health
Organization projects 10 million children will be infected worldwide.
The study will enroll children ages 1 month to 12 years old. NIAID, which
funds the AIDS Clinical Trials Group network, anticipates conducting the trial
at nine ACTG sites around the country and three sites participating in the
ACTG but funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development.
Preliminary evidence from similar studies under way in infected adults shows
that certain vaccines can boost existing HIV-specific immune responses and
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stimulate new ones. It will be several years, however, before researchers
know how these responses affect the clinical course of the disease.
The results from the pediatric trial, known as ACTG 218, will be examined
closely for other reasons as well. "This trial will provide the first insight
into how the immature immune system responds to candidate HIV vaccines," said
Daniel Hoth, M.D., director of NIAID's division of AIDS. "We need this
information to design trials to test whether experimental vaccines can prevent
HIV infection in children."
In the United States, most HIV-infected children live in poor inner-city
areas, and more than 80 percent are minorities, mainly black or Hispanic.
Nearly all HIV-infected children acquire the virus from their mothers during
pregnancy or at birth. An infected mother in the United States has more than
a one in four chance of transmitting the virus to her baby. As growing
numbers of women of childbearing age become exposed to HIV through injection
drug use or infected sexual partners, researchers expect a corresponding
increase in the numbers of infected children.
HIV disease progresses more rapidly in infants and children than in adults.
The most recent information suggests that 50 percent of infants born with HIV
develop a serious AIDS-related infection by 3 to 6 years of age. These
infections include severe or frequent bouts of common bacterial illnesses of
childhood that can result in seizures, pneumonia, diarrhea and other symptoms
leading to nutritional problems and long hospital stays.
At least half of the children in the trial will be 2 years of age or younger
to enable comparison of the immune responses of the younger and older
participants. All volunteers must have well-documented HIV infection but no
symptoms of HIV disease other than swollen lymph glands or a mildly swollen
liver or spleen. They cannot have received any anti-retroviral or immune-
regulating drugs within one month prior to their entry into the study.
Study chair John S. Lambert, M.D., of the University of Rochester Medical
School, and co- chair Samuel Katz, M.D., of Duke University School of
Medicine, will coordinate the trial assisted by James McNamara, M.D., medical
officer in the pediatric medicine branch of NIAID's division of AIDS.
"We will compare the safety of the vaccines by closely monitoring the children
for any side effects, to see if one vaccine produces more swollen arms or
fevers, for example, than another," said Dr. McNamara. "We'll also look at
whether low or high doses of the vaccines stimulate immune responses or other
significant laboratory or clinical effects." He emphasized that the small
study size precludes comparing these responses or effects among the three
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products.
The trial will test two doses each of three experimental vaccines made from
recombinant HIV proteins. These so-called subunit vaccines, each genetically
engineered to contain only a piece of the virus, have so far proved well-
tolerated in ongoing trials in HIV-infected adults.
One vaccine made by MicroGeneSys Inc. of Meriden, Conn., contains gp160--a
protein that gives rise to HIV's surface proteins--plus alum adjuvant.
Adjuvants boost specific immune responses to a vaccine. Presently, alum is
the only adjuvant used in human vaccines licensed by the Food and Drug
Administration.
Both of the other vaccines--one made by Genentech Inc. of South San Francisco
and the other by Biocine, a joint venture of Chiron and CIBA-Geigy, in
Emeryville, Calif.--contain the major HIV surface protein, gp120, plus
adjuvant. The Genentech vaccine contains alum, while the Biocine vaccine
contains MF59, an experimental adjuvant that has proved safe and effective in
other Phase I vaccine trials in adults.
A low dose of each product will be tested first against a placebo in 15
children. Twelve children will be assigned at random to be immunized with the
experimental vaccine, and three children will be given adjuvant alone,
considered the placebo. Neither the health care workers nor the children will
be told what they receive.
If the low dose is well-tolerated, controlled testing of a higher dose of the
experimental vaccine and adjuvant placebo in another group of 15 children will
begin.
Each child will receive six immunizations--one every four weeks for six
months--and be followed-up for 24 weeks after the last immunization.
For more information about the trial sites or eligibility for enrollment, call
the AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service, 1-800-TRIALS-A, from 9 a.m. to 7
p.m., EST weekdays. The service has Spanish-speaking information specialists
available. Information on NIAID's pediatric HIV/AIDS research is available
from the Office of Communications at (301) 496- 5717.
NIH, CDC and FDA are agencies of the U.S. Public Health Service in HHS. For
press inquiries only, please call Laurie K. Doepel at (301) 402-1663.
HICNet Medical Newsletter Page 49
Volume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993
NEW EVIDENCE THAT THE HIV CAN CAUSE DISEASE INDEPENDENTLY
News from the National Institute of Dental Research
There is new evidence that the human immunodeficiency virus can cause disease
independently of its ability to suppress the immune system, say scientists at
the National Institues of Health.
They report that HIV itself, not an opportunistic infection, caused scaling
skin conditions to develop in mice carrying the genes for HIV. Although the
HIV genes were active in the mice, they did not compromise the animals'
immunity, the researchers found. This led them to conclude that the HIV
itself caused the skin disease.
Our findings support a growing body of evidence that HIV can cause disease
without affecting the immune system, said lead author Dr. Jeffrey Kopp of the
National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR). Dr. Kopp and his colleagues
described their study in the March issue of AIDS Research and Human
Retroviruses.
Developing animal models of HIV infection has been difficult, since most
animals, including mice, cannot be infected by the virus. To bypass this
problem, scientists have developed HIV-transgenic mice, which carry genes for
HIV as well as their own genetic material.
NIDR scientists created the transgenic mice by injecting HIV genes into mouse
eggs and then implanting the eggs into female mice. The resulting litters
contained both normal and transgenic animals.
Institute scientists had created mice that carried a complete copy of HIV
genetic material in l988. Those mice, however, became sick and died too soon
after birth to study in depth. In the present study, the scientists used an
incomplete copy of HIV, which allowed the animals to live longer.
Some of the transgenic animals developed scaling, wart-like tumors on their
necks and backs. Other transgenic mice developed thickened, crusting skin
lesions that covered most of their bodies, resembling psoriasis in humans. No
skin lesions developed in their normal, non-transgenic littermates.
Studies of tissue taken from the wart-like skin tumors showed that they were a
type of noncancerous tumor called papilloma. Although the papillomavirus can
cause these skin lesions, laboratory tests showed no sign of that virus in the
animals.
Tissue samples taken from the sick mice throughout the study revealed the
presence of a protein-producing molecule made by the HIV genetic material.
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Evidence of HIV protein production proved that the viral genes were "turned
on," or active, said Dr. Kopp.
The scientists found no evidence, however, of compromised immunity in the
mice: no increase in their white blood cell count and no signs of common
infections. The fact that HIV genes were active but the animals' immune
systems were not suppressed confirms that the virus itself was causing the
skin lesions, Dr. Kopp said.
Further proof of HIV gene involvement came from a test in which the scientists
exposed the transgenic animals to ultraviolet light. The light increased HIV
genetic activity causing papillomas to develop on formerly healthy skin.
Papilloma formation in response to increased HIV genetic activity proved the
genes were responsible for the skin condition, the scientists said. No
lesions appeared on normal mice exposed to the UV light.
The transgenic mice used in this study were developed at NIDR by Dr. Peter
Dickie, who is now with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases.
Collaborating on the study with Dr. Kopp were Mr. Charles Wohlenberg, Drs.
Nickolas Dorfman, Joseph Bryant, Abner Notkins, and Paul Klotman, all of NIDR;
Dr. Stephen Katz of the National Cancer Institute; and Dr. James Rooney,
formerly with NIDR and now with Burroughs Wellcome.
HICNet Medical Newsletter Page 51
Volume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993
Clinical Consultation Telephone Service for AIDS
H H S N E W S
********************************************
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
March 4, 1993
HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced the first nationwide
clinical consultation telephone service for doctors and other health care
professionals who have questions about providing care to people with HIV
infection or AIDS.
The toll-free National HIV Telephone Consulting Service is staffed by a
physician, a nurse practitioner and a pharmacist. It provides information on
drugs, clinical trials and the latest treatment methods. The service is
funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration and operates out of
San Francisco General Hospital.
Secretary Shalala said, "One goal of this project is to share expertise
so patients get the best care. A second goal is to get more primary health
care providers involved in care for people with HIV or AIDS, which reduces
treatment cost by allowing patients to remain with their medical providers and
community social support networks. Currently, many providers refer patients
with HIV or AIDS to specialists or other providers who have more experience."
Secretary Shalala said, "This clinical expertise should be especially
helpful for physicians and providers who treat people with HIV or AIDS in
communities and clinical sites where HIV expertise is not readily available."
The telephone number for health care professionals is 1-800-933-3413, and
it is accessible from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST (7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST)
Monday through Friday. During these times, consultants will try to answer
questions immediately, or within an hour. At other times, physicians and
health care providers can leave an electronic message, and questions will be
answered as quickly as possible.
Health care professionals may call the service to ask any question
related to providing HIV care, including the latest HIV/AIDS drug treatment
information, clinical trials information, subspecialty case referral,
literature searches and other information. The service is designed for health
care professionals rather than patients, families or others who have alternate
sources of information or materials.
When a health care professional calls the new service, the call is taken
by either a clinical pharmacist, primary care physician or family nurse
practitioner. All staff members have extensive experience in outpatient and
inpatient primary care for people with HIV-related diseases. The consultant
asks for patient-specific information, including CD4 cell count, current
medications, sex, age and the patient's HIV history.
This national service has grown out of a 16-month local effort that
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responded to nearly 1,000 calls from health care providers in northern
California. The initial project was funded by HRSA's Bureau of Health
Professions, through its Community Provider AIDS Training (CPAT) project, and
by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
"When providers expand their knowledge, they also improve the quality of
care they are able to provide to their patients," said HRSA Administrator
Robert G. Harmon. M.D., M.P.H. "This project will be a great resource for
health care professionals and the HIV/AIDS patients they serve."
"This service has opened a new means of communication between health care
professionals and experts on HIV care management," said HRSA's associate
administrator for AIDS and director of the Bureau of Health Resources
Development, G. Stephen Bowen, M.D., M.P.H. "Providers who treat people with
HIV or AIDS have access to the latest information on new drugs, treatment
methods and therapies for people with HIV or AIDS."
HRSA is one of eight U.S. Public Health Service agencies within HHS.
AIDS Hotline Numbers for Consumers
CDC National AIDS Hotline -- 1-800-342-AIDS
for information in Spanish - 1-800-344-SIDA
AIDS Clinical Trials (English & Spanish) -- 1-800-TRIALS-A
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1,100 |
Well, it's said that people get the government they deserve.
Don't worry, you'll get yours. You'll sleep much better when
everyone with thoughts not on the government 'approved' list
is rounded up and executed. | 9 | trimmed_train |
8,951 |
Look for a happier-looking KZ440?
Suzuki used to have an L designation, for example my former boss had a
GS850L which had a seat a couple inches lower than the "regular"
GS850, but it was certainly no cruiser. | 12 | trimmed_train |
573 |
It's exactly as dangerous as it looks. You're hard to see and have little
protection. Keeping out of trouble means knowing your limits, keeping your
machine in good shape and being able to predict and make up for every stupid
move that drivers make out there. We deal with it because it's fun, but
staying alive takes a conscious effort. | 12 | trimmed_train |
8,825 |
I originally wrote to the person who asked this question
personally, but decided to post the information I had on the topic.
I spoke to the pastor of my parish (Catholic) recently,
by coincidence, on this subject. His explaination was that
while it is possible for a couple to marry without the presence
of a priest, it is important to have it recognized by the
Church as soon as it is possible. Because the Church
recoginizes itself as a community of believers, members
of the church, to some degree, are to be held accountable
to each other. To be less hypothetical than that mythical
couple on the desert island, there are many places in the
world that do not have priests availible for marriages
on a regular basis. Therefore, couples get married without
the priest being present, but get the priest to testify to
their marriage when one comes through the area.
I remember a religion teacher in high school saying
that the marriage ceremony is not for the benefit of the couple
as much as it is for the benefit of the community. Thus,
married couples have some responsibility to the community
to stay married, as divorce sets a bad example for the
community. Also, the couple has vowed to become one with
one another--the community should be able to rely on that
couple to be as one.
While couples may marry without witnesses, they
may NOT get anulments without a priest present. An
anulment is simply an admission of the church that what
they had declared a marriage was not, in fact, a marriage
at all, for whatever reason. So don't start getting married
in the back seat of a station wagon and giving yourselves
anulments a half-hour later!!
I tend to agree with the response back there that
said couples become married as soon as they consumate their
marriage, but I would add that couples should consider their
marriage consumated if they have sex, whether or not they
intended to be married, assuming they were both willing
partners to the sexual act. The couple must be prepared
to raise any children they may have as a result of that
sexual act with the benefit of both parents. Sex IS a
commitment, I believe, in God's eyes.
But I'm digressing....
God be with you, | 0 | trimmed_train |
937 |
I'll throw in a vote for a Metzler "economy" tire, the ME77. Good
for mid-size older bikes. Rated to 130mph. Wearing well and handles
my 12 mile ride(twisties) to work well on the SR500. Costs a bit
more than the Chengs/IRC's etc, but still less than the Sport
Metzlers for the newer bikes. Cost from Chaparral is about $60 for the
front, and $70 for the rear. | 12 | trimmed_train |
9,865 |
Sorry, but it is *virtually* impossible to win a division with "no talent"
over 162 games.
I would amend your definition to:
underdog: a team expected to lose, but which wins thanks to underestimated
talent. | 2 | trimmed_train |
7,064 |
There was an interesting article in Scientific American some time ago
about breathing liquid. (It was a few months before _The Abyss_ came out.)
As far as I can remember, they mentioned three things that were difficult
to do at once with a substitute breathing fluid:
- low viscosity --- if it's too difficult to force the fluid in & out
of the lungs, you can't extract enough oxygen to power your own
breathing effort (let alone anything else)
- diffusion rate --- obviously, not all the air in your lungs is
expelled when you breathe out; and the part that isn't expelled
is the part that's nearest the walls of the alveoli. (alveolus?)
So the trip from the blood vessels to the new air has to be done
by diffusion of the gas through the fluid. Apparently oxygen
tends to diffuse more readily than CO2, so even if you can get enough
oxygen in, you might not be able to get enough CO2 out.
- oxygen/CO2 capacity --- you have to be able to dissolve enough
gas per unit volume.
Oh, and of course, your new breathing fluid must not irritate the lungs
or interfere with their healing or anything like that...
| 10 | trimmed_train |
2,684 | Distribution: usa
Reply-To: [email protected]
While I'm on the net bugging everyone, is there such a thing as a chip
or chipset to decode Code 39 barcode? I ask for a couple of reasons --
mainly I want a reasonably compact encoding scheme to write information
on magstripe cards and Code 39 appears to be about right. (If the 'right'
way to do it is something else, and it's reasonably easy, can someone let
me know?)
I might not get a chance to reply too quickly to this or my earlier post,
but I'll get to them within a couple days, I think .. | 11 | trimmed_train |
4,110 | }Out of what hat did you pull this one? dB is a ratio not an RBOC!
} [...]
}Sorry. The unit for current is the AMPERE which is the name of a french-man
}named AMPERE who studied electrical current. The term AMP is just an abbreviation
}of it. The company AMP came after the AMPERE unit was already in use.
} [...]
}I don't know about this one, but it doesn't sound right.
} [...]
}Well you got one thing right!
Hello? John? Oh, nevermind...
Jeff | 11 | trimmed_train |
9,360 | This is for a friend of mine. Please send answers directly to him (E-Mail
adress see below )!
HIGHSPEED ANALOG-DIGITAL PC-BOARD
Hello LAdies and Gentleman !
I am looking for a highspeed A/D PC-Board with a sampling rate above 250 MHz an a
resolution of 8-bit. The sampling rate can be arranged by an interleave mode where
the time equivalent sampling yields 2, 4 or 8 times higher sampling rate than
the A/D-Converter uses in non interleave mode.
The board must content an A/D-Converter similar to Analog Devices AD 9028 or
AD 9038 or if available a faster on.
If you a PC-Board (16-bit slot, ISA) with this specification or better, please
send me an EMail
[email protected]
or a Telefax to: ++49 / 511 / 7629353
Thanks in advance for your help !
Sincerely
Matthias Hansch
IKPH, University of Hannover, Germany
---
Andreas Heinbokel
[email protected] | 3 | trimmed_train |
2,028 | Panasonic KX-T3000H, Combo black cordless & speaker phone all in one.
new- $160, now- $100 + shipping OBO.
Curtis Mathes VHS VCR Remote included and it works with universal remotes.
Works great but I replaced it with a Stereo VCR.
paid $300 years ago, will sell for $125 delivered OBO.
Radio Shack stereo amp. 2 inputs, tone, and left and right volume. Speakers
not included. $20 plus shipping.
If you are interested in either of the above mail me at
[email protected]. | 5 | trimmed_train |
11,082 | A shareware graphics program called Pman has a filter that makes a picture
look like a hand drawing. This picture could probably be converted into
vector format much easier because it is all lines. (With Corel Trace, etc..)
| 1 | trimmed_train |
1,823 |
box, manual, phonecord $25 + shipping
Dennis
| 5 | trimmed_train |
9,067 | Joint Press release ESA/UN No 18-93
Paris, 19 April 1993
UN/ESA joint training course on satellite applications
to be held in Italy, 19-30 April
The United Nations and the European Space Agency (ESA)
are jointly organising a training course on the applications of
satellite data gathered by the European Remote Sensing
Satellite (ERS-1), to be held in Frascati, Italy, from 19 to 30
April. The training course will discuss the applications of
satellite data concerning natural resources, renewable energy
and the environment.
The training course, organised for the benefit of francophone
African experts, will be hosted by ESRIN, the European Space
Agency's establishment in Frascati, which is responsible for
coordination with the users of data from ESA's remote sensing
satellite. Twenty-four experts in the field of remote sensing,
selected from 19 francophone countries from northern, western
and central Africa, and three regional African centres, will
attend the two-week session. The course will focus on remote
sensing techniques and data applications, particularly ERS-1
data.
The ERS-1 satellite, developed by ESA and launched in 1991
with the European Ariane launcher, carries an advanced radar
instrument and is the first in a series of radar remote sensing
missions that will ensure availability of data beyond the year
2000. The aim of the training course is to increase the
potential of experts using the practical applications of radar
remote sensing systems to natural resources, renewable energy
and the environment, with particular emphasis on applications
to geology and mineral prospecting, oceanography and near-
coastal areas, agriculture, forestry and meteorology.
The education and practical training programme was
developed jointly by the United Nations and ESA. The
facilities and the technical support, as well as lecturers and
information documents for the training course, will be
provided by the Agency. Lecturers at the training course will
include high-level experts from other European and African
organisations active in remote sensing applications. Funds for
the training course are being provided by the United Nations
Trust Fund for New and Renewable Sources of Energy; the
primary contributor to that Fund is the Government of Italy. | 10 | trimmed_train |
5,114 | Last week I asked for help in getting an old homemade amp working with
my Sun CD-ROM drive. It turns out that the channel I was testing with
was burned out in the amp. The other channel works fine.
So now I need a new amplifier chip. My local Radio Shack no longer
carries components! The chip is a 12 pin SIP (?) labelled with BA5406
and then "502 515" below that.
Does anyone have a source? Thanks, | 11 | trimmed_train |
7,793 | A SIMM is a small PCB with DRAM chips soldered on.
--maarten | 14 | trimmed_train |
6,521 | In <[email protected]> [email protected] (Frank O'Dwyer)
How do we measure truth, beauty, goodness, love, friendship, trust, honesty,
etc.? If things have no basis in objective fact then aren't we limited in what
we know to be true? Can't we say that we can examples or instances of reason,
but cannot measure reason, or is that semantics?
MAC
--
****************************************************************
Michael A. Cobb
"...and I won't raise taxes on the middle University of Illinois
class to pay for my programs." Champaign-Urbana
-Bill Clinton 3rd Debate [email protected] | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,702 |
[KAAN] Who the hell is this guy David Davidian. I think he talks too much..
I am your alter-ego!
[KAAN] Yo , DAVID you would better shut the f... up.. O.K ??
No, its' not OK! What are you going to do? Come and get me?
[KAAN] I don't like your attitute. You are full of lies and shit.
In the United States we refer to it as Freedom of Speech. If you don't like
what I write either prove me wrong, shut up, or simply fade away!
[KAAN] Didn't you hear the saying "DON'T MESS WITH A TURC!!"...
No. Why do you ask? What are you going to do? Are you going to submit me to
bodily harm? Are you going to kill me? Are you going to torture me?
[KAAN] See ya in hell..
Wrong again!
[KAAN] Timucin.
All I did was to translate a few lines from Turkish into English. If it was
so embarrassing in Turkish, it shouldn't have been written in the first place!
Don't kill the messenger!
| 6 | trimmed_train |
589 | : write over the "Licensed to:", but you can't change the name underneth it. I
: think if you wish to change this you would have to be a pirate, and we're not
: going to promote that here.
:
Not so! My computer was supplied with my name in an 'interesting'
mix of upper and lower case, and my workplace mis-typed. I'm
getting fed up with being 'CMyearslEY' at 'KEEL UNVERSITY'!
It took me 20 (!) phone calls to the supplier to get the computer
working at all. I really can't face tackling them again....
| 18 | trimmed_train |
6,608 | The Roman Catholic conservatives are coming out in the open to line
up with Pat Robertson and his ultra Right Wing Christian Coalition.
Former Secretary of Education William Bennet, a Roman Catholic, stood
beside the Christian Coalition's spokesman Ralph Reed at a March 3
conference in Washington. The purpose of the conference was to
publish results of a Christian Coalition poll which was designed
to prove that the Republican party would lose major support if it
backed away from the "Family Values" positons of the '92 convention.
Conservative Catholics have swung behind Robertson's organization
with political expertise, legal assistance and high tech communications
support.
The Catholic Campaign for American, designed as a Catholic version
of the Moral Majority, was founded by Marlene Elwell and Tom Wykes.
Ms. Elwell has been with Robertson since the days of his Freedom
Council in 1985 and worked for him in his presidential bid in 1988.
Ms. Elwell was hired by Domino's Pizza magnate, Tom Monaghan, in 1989
to manage Legatus, a "nonpolitical", Catholic businessmen's group.
Membership is limited to Catholics who head corporations with a least $4
million in annual revenues. Relying on a network of wealthy contacts
at Legatus, Elwell and Wykes had little trouble forming and funding the
Catholic Campaign.
The Campaign's list of national committee members includes U.S. Rep.
Robert K. Dornan, Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum, the lovely
Pat Buchanan and Rev. Richard J. Neuhaus. Also on the national
committee is Keith Fournier, a Catholic who heads Pat Robertson's
American Center for Law and Justice. Another Catholic, Thomas
Patrick Monaghan, senior counsel of Robertson's ACLJ, is also an
active supporter of the Catholic Campaign.
The board of directors includes Frank Shakespeare, broadcasting exec
and former U.S. ambassador to the Pope, Wall Street executive Frank
Lynch, former Reagan official Richard V. Allen, Bishop Rene Gracida
of Corpus Christi and Mary Ellen Bork, wife of unsuccessful Supreme
Court nominee Robert Bork.
In the Winter 1992 issue of _Campaign Update_ the organization's
quarterly newsletter, Rocco L. Martino, a Philadelphia business
that must finally be cast aside and replaced by the true meaning of
our constitution."
Oh yes, the organization's "national ecclesisatical advisor" is
Catholic politician Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York. | 15 | trimmed_train |
7,018 | : >over where it places its temp files: it just places them in its
: >"current directory".
: I have to beg to differ on this point, as the batch file I use
: to launch cview cd's to the dir where cview resides and then
: invokes it. every time I crash cview, the 0-byte temp file
: is found in the root dir of the drive cview is on.
I posted this as well before the cview "expert". Apparently, he thought he
knew better. | 1 | trimmed_train |
6,622 | Hi all you Ryno fans (and those interested...)
Todays Chicago Tribune had this written in it today in regards to
Ryne Sandberg...
"Ryne Sandberg is ahead of schedule in his recovery from a broken
left hand and could be back in the lineup by May 1, manager Jim
Lefebvre said Friday.
Doctors cleared Sandberg to swing a padded bat at a ball in his
gloved hand.
'' I'm not surprised his rehabilitation has been moved up,'' said
Lefebvre. '' He's a fast healer, and he doesn't like being on the
disabled list. He's been running since he was hurt [March 5] and
is in the best shape of his life. May 1 is his target date for
getting back in the lineup."
Hold on to your hats Cub fans...more later as information
presents itself. | 2 | trimmed_train |
3,564 | Archive-name: space/acronyms
Edition: 8
Acronym List for sci.astro, sci.space, and sci.space.shuttle:
Edition 8, 1992 Dec 7
Last posted: 1992 Aug 27
This list is offered as a reference for translating commonly appearing
acronyms in the space-related newsgroups. If I forgot or botched your
favorite acronym, please let me know! Also, if there's an acronym *not*
on this list that confuses you, drop me a line, and if I can figure
it out, I'll add it to the list.
Note that this is intended to be a reference for *frequently seen*
acronyms, and is most emphatically *not* encyclopedic. If I incorporated
every acronym I ever saw, I'd soon run out of disk space! :-)
The list will be posted at regular intervals, every 30 days. All
comments regarding it are welcome; I'm reachable as [email protected].
Note that this just tells what the acronyms stand for -- you're on your
own for figuring out what they *mean*! Note also that the total number of
acronyms in use far exceeds what I can list; special-purpose acronyms that
are essentially always explained as they're introduced are omitted.
Further, some acronyms stand for more than one thing; as of Edition 3 of
the list, these acronyms appear on multiple lines, unless they're simply
different ways of referring to the same thing.
Thanks to everybody who's sent suggestions since the first version of
the list, and especially to Garrett A. Wollman ([email protected]),
who is maintaining an independent list, somewhat more verbose in
character than mine, and to Daniel Fischer ([email protected]),
who is maintaining a truly HUGE list (535 at last count) of acronyms and
terms, mostly in German (which I read, fortunately).
Special thanks this time to Ken Hollis at NASA, who sent me a copy of NASA
Reference Publication 1059 Revised: _Space Transportation System and
Associated Payloads: Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations_, a truly
mammoth tome -- almost 300 pages of TLAs.
Special Bonus! At the end of this posting, you will find a perl program
written by none other than Larry Wall, whose purpose is to scramble the
acronym list in an entertaining fashion. Thanks, Larry!
A&A: Astronomy and Astrophysics
AAO: Anglo-Australian Observatory
AAS: American Astronomical Society
AAS: American Astronautical Society
AAVSO: American Association of Variable Star Observers
ACE: Advanced Composition Explorer
ACRV: Assured Crew Return Vehicle (or) Astronaut Crew Rescue Vehicle
ADFRF: Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (was DFRF) (NASA)
AGN: Active Galactic Nucleus
AGU: American Geophysical Union
AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIPS: Astronomical Image Processing System
AJ: Astronomical Journal
ALEXIS: Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
ALPO: Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
ALS: Advanced Launch System
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
AOA: Abort Once Around (Shuttle abort plan)
AOCS: Attitude and Orbit Control System
Ap.J: Astrophysical Journal
APM: Attached Pressurized Module (a.k.a. Columbus)
APU: Auxiliary Power Unit
ARC: Ames Research Center (NASA)
ARTEMIS: Advanced Relay TEchnology MISsion
ASA: Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
ASI: Agenzia Spaziale Italiano
ASRM: Advanced Solid Rocket Motor
ATDRS: Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
ATLAS: Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
ATM: Amateur Telescope Maker
ATO: Abort To Orbit (Shuttle abort plan)
AU: Astronomical Unit
AURA: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
AW&ST: Aviation Week and Space Technology (a.k.a. AvLeak)
AXAF: Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
BATSE: Burst And Transient Source Experiment (on CGRO)
BBXRT: Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope (ASTRO package)
BEM: Bug-Eyed Monster
BH: Black Hole
BIMA: Berkeley Illinois Maryland Array
BNSC: British National Space Centre
BTW: By The Way
C&T: Communications & Tracking
CCAFS: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
CCD: Charge-Coupled Device
CCDS: Centers for the Commercial Development of Space
CD-ROM: Compact Disk Read-Only Memory
CFA: Center For Astrophysics
CFC: ChloroFluoroCarbon
CFF: Columbus Free Flyer
CFHT: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
CGRO: (Arthur Holley) Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (was GRO)
CHARA: Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
CIRRIS: Cryogenic InfraRed Radiance Instrument for Shuttle
CIT: Circumstellar Imaging Telescope
CM: Command Module (Apollo spacecraft)
CMCC: Central Mission Control Centre (ESA)
CNES: Centre National d'Etude Spatiales
CNO: Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen
CNSR: Comet Nucleus Sample Return
COBE: COsmic Background Explorer
COMPTEL: COMPton TELescope (on CGRO)
COSTAR: Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
CRAF: Comet Rendezvous / Asteroid Flyby
CRRES: Combined Release / Radiation Effects Satellite
CSM: Command and Service Module (Apollo spacecraft)
CSTC: Consolidated Satellite Test Center (USAF)
CTIO: Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
DCX: Delta Clipper eXperimental
DDCU: DC-to-DC Converter Unit
DFRF: Dryden Flight Research Facility (now ADFRF)
DMSP: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOD: Department Of Defense (sometimes DoD)
DOE: Department Of Energy
DOT: Department Of Transportation
DSCS: Defense Satellite Communications System
DSN: Deep Space Network
DSP: Defense Support Program (USAF/NRO)
EAFB: Edwards Air Force Base
ECS: Environmental Control System
EDO: Extended Duration Orbiter
EGRET: Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (on CGRO)
EJASA: Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
ELV: Expendable Launch Vehicle
EMU: Extravehicular Mobility Unit
EOS: Earth Observing System
ERS: Earth Resources Satellite (as in ERS-1)
ESA: European Space Agency
ESO: European Southern Observatory
ET: (Shuttle) External Tank
ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym
ETR: Eastern Test Range
EUV: Extreme UltraViolet
EUVE: Extreme UltraViolet Explorer
EVA: ExtraVehicular Activity
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
FAST: Fast Auroral SnapshoT explorer
FFT: Fast Fourier Transform
FGS: Fine Guidance Sensors (on HST)
FHST: Fixed Head Star Trackers (on HST)
FIR: Far InfraRed
FITS: Flexible Image Transport System
FOC: Faint Object Camera (on HST)
FOS: Faint Object Spectrograph (on HST)
FRR: Flight-Readiness Review
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
FTS: Flight Telerobotic Servicer
FUSE: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
FWHM: Full Width at Half Maximum
FYI: For Your Information
GAS: Get-Away Special
GBT: Green Bank Telescope
GCVS: General Catalog of Variable Stars
GEM: Giotto Extended Mission
GEO: Geosynchronous Earth Orbit
GDS: Great Dark Spot
GHRS: Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (on HST)
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format
GLOMR: Global Low-Orbiting Message Relay
GMC: Giant Molecular Cloud
GMRT: Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time (also called UT)
GOES: Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite
GOX: Gaseous OXygen
GPC: General Purpose Computer
GPS: Global Positioning System
GRO: Gamma Ray Observatory (now CGRO)
GRS: Gamma Ray Spectrometer (on Mars Observer)
GRS: Great Red Spot
GSC: Guide Star Catalog (for HST)
GSFC: Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
GTO: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
HAO: High Altitude Observatory
HD: Henry Draper catalog entry
HEAO: High Energy Astronomical Observatory
HeRA: Hermes Robotic Arm
HF: High Frequency
HGA: High Gain Antenna
HLC: Heavy Lift Capability
HLV: Heavy Lift Vehicle
HMC: Halley Multicolor Camera (on Giotto)
HR: Hertzsprung-Russell (diagram)
HRI: High Resolution Imager (on ROSAT)
HSP: High Speed Photometer (on HST)
HST: Hubble Space Telescope
HUT: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (ASTRO package)
HV: High Voltage
IAPPP: International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry
IAU: International Astronomical Union
IAUC: IAU Circular
ICE: International Cometary Explorer
IDA: International Dark-sky Association
IDL: Interactive Data Language
IGM: InterGalactic Medium
IGY: International Geophysical Year
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion
IOTA: Infrared-Optical Telescope Array
IOTA: International Occultation Timing Association
IPS: Inertial Pointing System
IR: InfraRed
IRAF: Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
IRAS: InfraRed Astronomical Satellite
ISAS: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan)
ISM: InterStellar Medium
ISO: Infrared Space Observatory
ISO: International Standards Organization
ISPM: International Solar Polar Mission (now Ulysses)
ISY: International Space Year
IUE: International Ultraviolet Explorer
IUS: Inertial Upper Stage
JEM: Japanese Experiment Module (for SSF)
JGR: Journal of Geophysical Research
JILA: Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JSC: Johnson Space Center (NASA)
KAO: Kuiper Airborne Observatory
KPNO: Kitt Peak National Observatory
KSC: Kennedy Space Center (NASA)
KTB: Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary (from German)
LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory
LaRC: Langley Research Center (NASA)
LDEF: Long Duration Exposure Facility
LEM: Lunar Excursion Module (a.k.a. LM) (Apollo spacecraft)
LEO: Low Earth Orbit
LeRC: Lewis Research Center (NASA)
LEST: Large Earth-based Solar Telescope
LFSA: List of Frequently Seen Acronyms (!)
LGA: Low Gain Antenna
LGM: Little Green Men
LH: Liquid Hydrogen (also LH2 or LHX)
LLNL: Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory
LM: Lunar Module (a.k.a. LEM) (Apollo spacecraft)
LMC: Large Magellanic Cloud
LN2: Liquid N2 (Nitrogen)
LOX: Liquid OXygen
LRB: Liquid Rocket Booster
LSR: Local Standard of Rest
LTP: Lunar Transient Phenomenon
MB: Manned Base
MCC: Mission Control Center
MECO: Main Engine CutOff
MMH: MonoMethyl Hydrazine
MMT: Multiple Mirror Telescope
MMU: Manned Maneuvering Unit
MNRAS: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
MOC: Mars Observer Camera (on Mars Observer)
MOL: Manned Orbiting Laboratory
MOLA: Mars Observer Laser Altimeter (on Mars Observer)
MOMV: Manned Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle
MOTV: Manned Orbital Transfer Vehicle
MPC: Minor Planets Circular
MRSR: Mars Rover and Sample Return
MRSRM: Mars Rover and Sample Return Mission
MSFC: (George C.) Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA)
MTC: Man Tended Capability
NACA: National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (became NASA)
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA: NAtional Space Development Agency (Japan)
NASM: National Air and Space Museum
NASP: National AeroSpace Plane
NBS: National Bureau of Standards (now NIST)
NDV: NASP Derived Vehicle
NERVA: Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application
NGC: New General Catalog
NICMOS: Near Infrared Camera / Multi Object Spectrometer (HST upgrade)
NIMS: Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (on Galileo)
NIR: Near InfraRed
NIST: National Institute for Standards and Technology (was NBS)
NLDP: National Launch Development Program
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAO: National Optical Astronomy Observatories
NRAO: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRO: National Reconnaissance Office
NS: Neutron Star
NSA: National Security Agency
NSF: National Science Foundation
NSO: National Solar Observatory
NSSDC: National Space Science Data Center
NTR: Nuclear Thermal Rocket(ry)
NTT: New Technology Telescope
OAO: Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
OCST: Office of Commercial Space Transportation
OMB: Office of Management and Budget
OMS: Orbital Maneuvering System
OPF: Orbiter Processing Facility
ORFEUS: Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer
OSC: Orbital Sciences Corporation
OSCAR: Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
OSSA: Office of Space Science and Applications
OSSE: Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (on CGRO)
OTA: Optical Telescope Assembly (on HST)
OTHB: Over The Horizon Backscatter
OTV: Orbital Transfer Vehicle
OV: Orbital Vehicle
PAM: Payload Assist Module
PAM-D: Payload Assist Module, Delta-class
PI: Principal Investigator
PLSS: Portable Life Support System
PM: Pressurized Module
PMC: Permanently Manned Capability
PMIRR: Pressure Modulated InfraRed Radiometer (on Mars Observer)
PMT: PhotoMultiplier Tube
PSF: Point Spread Function
PSR: PulSaR
PV: Photovoltaic
PVO: Pioneer Venus Orbiter
QSO: Quasi-Stellar Object
RCI: Rodent Cage Interface (for SLS mission)
RCS: Reaction Control System
REM: Rat Enclosure Module (for SLS mission)
RF: Radio Frequency
RFI: Radio Frequency Interference
RIACS: Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
RMS: Remote Manipulator System
RNGC: Revised New General Catalog
ROSAT: ROentgen SATellite
ROUS: Rodents Of Unusual Size (I don't believe they exist)
RSN: Real Soon Now
RTG: Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
RTLS: Return To Launch Site (Shuttle abort plan)
SAA: South Atlantic Anomaly
SAGA: Solar Array Gain Augmentation (for HST)
SAMPEX: Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle EXplorer
SAO: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAR: Search And Rescue
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar
SARA: Satellite pour Astronomie Radio Amateur
SAREX: Search and Rescue Exercise
SAREX: Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
SAS: Space Activity Suit
SAS: Space Adaptation Syndrome
SAT: Synthetic Aperture Telescope
S/C: SpaceCraft
SCA: Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
SCT: Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative
SDIO: Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
SEI: Space Exploration Initiative
SEST: Swedish ESO Submillimeter Telescope
SETI: Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
SID: Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance
SIR: Shuttle Imaging Radar
SIRTF: Space (formerly Shuttle) InfraRed Telescope Facility
SL: SpaceLab
SLAR: Side-Looking Airborne Radar
SLC: Space Launch Complex
SLS: Space(lab) Life Sciences
SMC: Small Magellanic Cloud
SME: Solar Mesosphere Explorer
SMEX: SMall EXplorers
SMM: Solar Maximum Mission
SN: SuperNova (e.g., SN1987A)
SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
SNR: SuperNova Remnant
SNU: Solar Neutrino Units
SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
SOHO: SOlar Heliospheric Observatory
SPAN: Space Physics and Analysis Network
SPDM: Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator
SPOT: Systeme Probatoire pour l'Observation de la Terre
SPS: Solar Power Satellite
SRB: Solid Rocket Booster
SRM: Solid Rocket Motor
SSF: Space Station Fred (er, Freedom)
SSI: Solid-State Imager (on Galileo)
SSI: Space Studies Institut
SSME: Space Shuttle Main Engine
SSPF: Space Station Processing Facility
SSRMS: Space Station Remote Manipulator System
SST: Spectroscopic Survey Telescope
SST: SuperSonic Transport
SSTO: Single Stage To Orbit
STIS: Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer (to replace FOC and GHRS)
STS: Shuttle Transport System (or) Space Transportation System
STScI: Space Telescope Science Institute
SWAS: Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
SWF: ShortWave Fading
TAL: Transatlantic Abort Landing (Shuttle abort plan)
TAU: Thousand Astronomical Unit (mission)
TCS: Thermal Control System
TDRS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
TDRSS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
TES: Thermal Emission Spectrometer (on Mars Observer)
TIROS: Television InfraRed Observation Satellite
TLA: Three Letter Acronym
TOMS: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TPS: Thermal Protection System
TSS: Tethered Satellite System
UARS: Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UBM: Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism
UDMH: Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine
UFO: Unidentified Flying Object
UGC: Uppsala General Catalog
UHF: Ultra High Frequency
UIT: Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (Astro package)
UKST: United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope
USAF: United States Air Force
USMP: United States Microgravity Payload
UT: Universal Time (a.k.a. GMT, UTC, or Zulu Time)
UTC: Coordinated Universal Time (a.k.a. UT)
UV: UltraViolet
UVS: UltraViolet Spectrometer
VAB: Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building)
VAFB: Vandenberg Air Force Base
VEEGA: Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist (Galileo flight path)
VHF: Very High Frequency
VLA: Very Large Array
VLBA: Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI: Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLF: Very Low Frequency
VLT: Very Large Telescope
VMS: Vertical Motion Simulator
VOIR: Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM)
VPF: Vertical Processing Facility
VRM: Venus Radar Mapper (now called Magellan)
WD: White Dwarf
WFPC: Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on HST)
WFPCII: Replacement for WFPC
WIYN: Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / NOAO telescope
WSMR: White Sands Missile Range
WTR: Western Test Range
WUPPE: Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment (Astro package)
XMM: X-ray Multi Mirror
XUV: eXtreme UltraViolet
YSO: Young Stellar Object
#!/usr/bin/perl
# 'alt', An Acronym Scrambling Program, by Larry Wall
$THRESHOLD = 2;
srand;
while (<>) {
next unless /^([A-Z]\S+): */;
$key = $1;
$acro{$key} = $';
@words = split(/\W+/,$');
unshift(@words,$key);
$off = 0;
foreach $word (@words) {
next unless $word =~ /^[A-Z]/;
*w = $&;
vec($w{$word}, $off++ % 6, 1) = 1;
}
}
foreach $letter (A .. Z) {
*w = $letter;
@w = keys %w;
if (@w < $THRESHOLD) {
@d = `egrep '^$letter' /usr/dict/words`;
chop @d;
push(@w, @d);
}
}
foreach $key (sort keys %acro) {
$off = 0;
$acro = $acro{$key};
$acro =~ s/((([A-Z])[A-Z]*)[a-z]*)/ &pick($3, $2, $1, ++$off) || $& /eg;
print "$key: $acro";
}
sub pick {
local($letter, $prefix, $oldword, $off) = @_;
$i = 0;
if (length($prefix) > 1 && index($key,$prefix) < 0) {
if ($prefix eq $oldword) {
$prefix = '';
}
else {
$prefix = $letter;
}
}
if (length($prefix) > 1) {
local(*w) = substr($prefix,0,1);
do {
$word = $w[rand @w];
} until $word ne $oldword && $word =~ /^$prefix/i || ++$i > 30;
$word =~ s/^$prefix/$prefix/i;
$word;
}
elsif (length($prefix) == 1) {
local(*w) = $prefix;
do {
$word = $w[rand @w];
} until $word ne $oldword && vec($w{$word}, $off, 1) || ++$i > 10;
$word = "\u\L$word" if $word =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
$word;
}
else {
local(*w) = substr($oldword,0,1);
do {
$word = $w[rand @w];
} until $word ne $oldword && $word =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/ == 0 || ++$i > 30;
$word;
}
}
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10,469 | About a year ago I started work on a problem that appeared to
be very simple and turned out to be quite difficult. I am wondering if
anyone on the net has seen this problem and (hopefully) some published
solutions to it.
The problem is to draw an outline of a surface defined by two
roughly parallel cubic splines. For inputs the problem essentially
starts with two sets of points where each set of points is on the
edge of an object which we treat as two dimensional, i.e. only extant
between the edges, but which exists in three dimensional space. To draw
the object we
1) fit a cubic spline through the points. Each spline is effectively
computed as a sequence of line segments approximating the
curve. Each spline has an equal number of segments. We assume
that the nth segment along each spline is roughly, but not
exactly, the same distance along each spline by any reasonable
measure.
2) Take each segment (n) along each spline and match it to the nth segment
of the opposing spline. Use the pair of segments to form two
triangles which will be filled in to color the surface.
3) Depth sort the triangles
4) Take each triangle in sorted order, project onto a 2D pixmap, draw
and color the triangle. Take the edge of the triangle that is
along the edge of the surface and draw a line along that edge
colored with a special "edge color"
It is the edge coloring in step 4 that is at the heart of the
problem. The idea is to effectively outline the edge of the surface.
The net result however generally has lots of breaks and gaps in
the edge of the surface. The reasons for this are fairly complicated.
They involve both rasterization problems and problems resulting
from the projecting the splines. If anything about this problem
sounds familiar we would appreciate knowing about other work in this
area. | 1 | trimmed_train |
6,362 | B(>i am interested in getting the pulse of this group regarding
B(>extended operation of my G2K 486-33V with the cover removed
B(>from the enclosure. there are a # of reasons i am considering
B(>this, including quick access to jumpers during complex i/o card
B(>setups.
B(>my concern is that without a complete enclosure to direct the
B(>cooling flow of air from the fan, "hot spots" may develop on my
B(>motherboard or elsewhere.
If you have an adequate supply of air moving over the system (most
offices or homes have positive ventilation) you can generally run a
system without the cover for extended periods without a problem. (I'm
talking about completely removing the cover - not just leaving the slots
uncovered.) HOWEVER, the biggest reason you have a cover to begin with
is RF sheilding. Operating a system without the full cover may create
problems with other equipment such as your neighbor's TV or Ham radio
station - very much a no-no in the eyes of the law.
* SLMR 2.1a * Remember - They're only tools, not a way of life!
| 3 | trimmed_train |
9,061 | [most of post deleted]
There is an easy way out....
Post the flyers on the stall doors, but add at the bottom, in nice large
capitals,
EMERGENCY TOILET PAPER
:)
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3,562 | Reply to [email protected] or call 708 674-2603: | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,532 | Vielen dank
Desperate Fan | 17 | trimmed_train |
10,960 |
I'll point out that the whole point of the difficult amendment
process was to require a super-majority to change the Supreme Law,
making it impossible for a "majority" of the people to simply change
the law on a whim. Simply changing the meaning based on "the
representatives" of the people effectively destroys the amendment
process. The State's, you know, are also entitled to a say under
that process.
I'll note that that right could be considered protected under
the first amendment's protection of peaceful assembly. Unless
you would consider a militia inherently non-peaceful, then they've
stated the same thing twice.
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1,058 | .
.
Tell him he probably needs to upgrade to a faster video card! My 9600 baud
modem was one of the reasons I sought out the Diamond Speedstar 24X. I get
about 7 million WinMarks on my 386-25 and it just about keeps up with the
modem speed (using procomm plus for windows, too). He should get over
10 million on his machine with the same card. Anything 10+ should yield
acceptable speed...
| 18 | trimmed_train |
374 |
The previous article referred to the fact that you could only use 20ns SIMMs in
a 50MHz machine, but that you could use 80ns SIMMs in slower machines. I just
pointed out that if you could only use 20ns SIMMs in a 50MHz machine, you can't
use 80ns SIMMs in anything faster than a 12.5 MHz machine. Bank switching and
caches were not considered in either example (although both would help memory
access).
--
Ravikumar Venkateswar
[email protected] | 14 | trimmed_train |
10,224 | I'd appreciate if you can email or post you positive
or negative experience with this monitor, especially
compared to to Nanao 550i.
I'd summarize if I got multiple responses.
Thanks.
--
-kin | 18 | trimmed_train |
10,324 | :Just a bit off, Phil. We don't reprocess nuclear fuel because what
:you get from the reprocessing plant is bomb-grade plutonium. It is
:also cheaper, given current prices of things, to simply fabricate new
:fuel rods rather than reprocess the old ones, creating potentially
:dangerous materials (from a national security point of view) and then
:fabricate that back into fuel rods.
Fabricating with reprocessed plutonium may result in something that may go
kind of boom, but its hardly decent bomb grade plutonium. If you want bomb
grade plutonium use a research reactor, not a power reactor. But if you want
a bomb, don't use plutonium, use uranium.
| 10 | trimmed_train |
5,036 |
Undoubtedly. In fact, it is the fact that hospitals frequently compete
for physicians rather than for patients that (in part) complicates and
undermines a simplistic free-market analysis of the market for medical care.
Once again, there is no evidence that this is true in regard to kidney
dialysis. Although price controls have promoted an expansion of services
to a much greater volume of patients, RD is still a profitable service.
Otherwise, one would expect to see evidence of rationing rather than the
vast expansion that has occurred.
Can you spell "loss leader?" I knew you could. Grocery stores do not
attempt to make up the loss on an individual product by selling more of
it. In fact, your argument above is that kidney dialysis is a loss leader
for other medical treatments where lost revenue can be regained.
But the evidence does not support this contention. Rather, it appears that
price controls have disciplined the market by forcing an expansion of
service and development of improved lower-cost technology to provide
comparable benefits. Providers continue to profit from RD, they simply
make less on each treatment than they would have if the price had
risen at the rate that uncontrolled treatments have.
There is no question that had price controls forced the price of RD
substantially below its actual cost that some or all of the doomsday
predictions of free-market advocates would have been seen -- restriction
of service, lagging technological development, etc. Likewise, it appears
that in the VA and armed forces medical care systems, where providers
are government agencies, some of these negative impacts may occur.
(RD patients in the VA system in Spokane, for example, must travel to
Seattle, 300 miles away, for treatment.)
The bottom line, however, is that this is an example of government
intervention (of a rather extreme sort) that appears to have had beneficial
results for both providers and consumers. Claims that "government
bureaucracy" inevitably leads to undesirable outcomes in the marketplace
should take such such cases into account.
jsh
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8,320 | I have some brand-new shrinkwrapped boxes of 8" floppy disks that I
would like to sell. They are all 3M disks:
40 (4 boxes of 10) SS/SD 8" floppy disks
60 (6 boxes of 10) DS/DD, W/WP 8" floppy disks
Misco is selling the SS/SD 3M disks for 25.90 for a box of ten and they are
selling the DS/DD 3M disks for 31.90 for a box of ten. I will take the
best offer I can get for the disks (as many boxes as you want).
I also have a quantity of 8" floppy disks that
some people were getting rid of, probably due to an upgrade to a newer drive
system. All the disks are used and most have labels on them, but they all
appear to be in good physical shape. However, I make no guarantees of the
quality of these disks. Here are the statistics:
Quantity Make Type
10 3M Single side/Double density,soft sector,128 bytes/record
66 Memorex Single side/Double density,soft sector,128 bytes/record
I will accept the best offer I receive for the disks and I'm willing to sell
them off in different amounts, the minimum being a box of ten (if I get no
offers on these disks I would considering throwing them in with the new
disks I'm selling above).
I also have a head-cleaning kit for 8" disk drives for which I will take
the best offer I can get.
All sales are final.
I would prefer to ship COD and add the shipping costs onto the total order
cost.
Please send E-mail to [email protected] if interested. | 5 | trimmed_train |
3,068 | Reposted, without permission, from rec.music.dylan:
| 2 | trimmed_train |
3,823 |
And all this time I thought it was the US & Britian invading
Normandy, the constant, round the clock bombing, and the fact that the
Germans were fighting on two fronts. How silly of me. :)
This is not to devalue the actions of the resistance
movements, but resistance movements did not defeat the Nazis.
Israel has repeatedly stated that it will leave when the
Lebanese government shows that it can prevent attacks on Israel, and
when the Syrians agree to leave.
The Lebanese have not tried diplomacy for very long, or maybe
they're not capable of getting rid of the Syrians and Iranians who
occupy their land. If they closed down the Hezbolah, and negotiated a
withdrawl of Syrian forces, Israel would be happy to leave.
Adam
Adam Shostack [email protected] | 6 | trimmed_train |
1,539 | I need some help with a multi port serial board of unknown origin. I'm
hoping someone knows what this board is, or, even better, what the various
switches and jumbers are used for.
Anyway, here's description of the card: It is a 16-bit card, although
I noticed that none of the contacts in the 16-bit extension are connected
to anything. It has 4 NS16550AN chips in sockets, and 4 corresponding
connecters labeled COM1 - COM4. There is also an external female connector
with 37 pins. There are 8 banks of 8 switches, 2 banks of 4 switches, and
7 jumpers. I believe that I have determined, by following traces, that
SW5 and SW6 (12 switches in all) control the interrupt level for each of
the COM ports. SW5[1-4] are for IRQ3, SW5[5-8] are for IRQ4, and SW6[1-4]
are for IRQ5. The other switches are beyond my meager ability to follow.
The only identification printed on the board is "MULTI SERIAL PORT BOARD"
across the bottom. There is a box for serial number, but it is blank.
Immediately below the words "SERIAL NO", but not in the box left for
the S/N, are the numbers "1990 2 8".
Anyone have any clues? Your help is greatly appreciated.
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979 | My wife and I looked at, and drove one last fall. This was a 1992 model.
It was WAYYYYYYYYY underpowered. I could not imagine driving it in the
mountains here in Colorado at anything approaching highway speeds. I
have read that the new 1993 models have a newer, improved hp engine.
I'm quite serious that I laughed in the salesman face when he said "once
it's broken in it will feel more powerful". I had been used to driving a
Jeep 4.0L 190hp engine. I believe the 92's Land Cruisers (Land Yachts)
were 3.0L, the sames as the 4Runner, which is also underpowered (in my
own personal opinion).
They are big cars, very roomy, but nothing spectacular.
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10,064 | Though I agree this is not the place to discuss guns, I note in passing that
a number of gun apologists seem to have ignored the words "well regulated"
in their distorted interpretations of the Second Amendment.
David | 9 | trimmed_train |
1,746 |
I'd lay long odds that it was the other way around. Clinton didn't
just pull this plan out of any bodily orifices; the NSA has to have
been working on it for years. While it's possible that Denning (and
other prominent people) just happened to start arguing for such a
system, it seems more likely that there was a suggestion involved.
If this guess is wrong, I apologize. | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,541 | [...]
I struggled with the margin problem for ages as well, until I
finally got hold of the shareware binary editor BEAV133, and dug into
NOTEPAD.EXE (there is no SETUP facility to force NOTEPAD to default to
0.0 margins- it's hardwired into code!!!).
Do a SEARCH for ".75", then change the offending bytes to ".00",
et viola. Who are the guys who hardcode these "options" anyway?
I'm interested in whether the problem only rears it's ugly head for
certain printers- I'm using an old Epson LX-800 (or is that EX-800? never can
remember). | 18 | trimmed_train |
5,504 |
Nec Toshiba and Sony (Apple) nearly deliver the same speed.
As apples prices are very low (compared to there RAM SIMMS)
You should buy what is inexpencive. But think of Driver revisions.
It is easier to get driver kits from Apple than from every other
manufacturer
Christian Bauer | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,011 |
Up to this point, I really thought this had been written by a
pro-SDCN, anti-mediot poster blessed with a certain talent for
sarcasm and biting remarks. Somebody like me, for instance.
The lurid overstatements were obviously intended to humiliate the
original poster.
But then the scales were lifted from my eyes. Looks like Robert is
really being serious. Oh, well.
I compare the performance of the 1992 Phillies with the 1987 edition,
which had outstanding run producers at every position except SS, yet
finished at a frustrating sub-.500 level. The 1987 folks didn't
ever amount to anything, and neither will the 1992 squad, IMHO.
Any other parallels with previous years' teams for this year's
editions (in the style of 1993 Braves = 1971 Orioles)?
--
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin "Interracial mixing encompasses a lot lot more
[email protected] than mingling between G7 races." -- robohen | 2 | trimmed_train |
8,447 | I have a 486DX 25mhz with local bus. Would I see much of an increase in
speed in my drives if I got a VESA IDE controller card? I need advice!
| 3 | trimmed_train |
3,680 | As we don't get a newsfeed I was wondering whether there was such a
thing as a Xt mailing list (other than [email protected]). I
would appreciate any info on this, (or X related mailing lists.)
Thanks in advance,
Leon | 16 | trimmed_train |
6,698 |
When the PLO moved into Lebanon and became, in parts of Lebanon, an
Occupying Power itself, these same practices were common against
non-Palestinean and Palestinean alike. They are simply Standard
Operating Procedures among Palestineans and have been for a very long
time. In fact, the greatest bloodbath of Palestineans will happen
when they get self-rule. Can you possibly deny this?
When the PLO is the Occupier, who are you NOW going to blame?
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2,318 |
BM] Gimme a break. CAPITAL letters, or NOT, the above is pure nonsense.
BM] It seems to me that short sighted Armenians are escalating the hostilities
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The winding down of winter puts you in a heavy 'Arromdian' mood? I'll
see if I can get our dear "Mehmetcik" to write you a letter giving
you and your criminal handlers at the ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism and
Revisionism Triangle some military pointers, like how to shoot armed
adult males instead of small Muslim children and pregnant women.
Source: 'The Times,' 3 March 1992
MASSACRE UNCOVERED....
By ANATOL LIEVEN,
More than sixty bodies, including those of women and children, have
been spotted on hillsides in Nagorno-Karabakh, confirming claims
that Armenian troops massacred Azeri refugees. Hundreds are missing.
Scattered amid the withered grass and bushes along a small valley
and across the hillside beyond are the bodies of last Wednesday's
massacre by Armenian forces of Azerbaijani refugees.
From that hill can be seen both the Armenian-controlled town of
Askeran and the outskirts of the Azerbaijani military headquarters
of Agdam. Those who died very nearly made it to the safety of their
own lines.
We landed at this spot by helicopter yesterday afternoon as the last
troops of the Commonwealth of Independent states began pulling out.
They left unhindered by the warring factions as General Boris Gromov,
who oversaw the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, flew to Stepanakert
to ease their departure.
A local truce was enforced to allow the Azerbaijaines to collect their
dead and any refugees still hiding in the hills and forest. All the
same, two attack helicopters circled continuously the nearby Armenian
positions.
In all, 31 bodies could be counted at the scene. At least another
31 have been taken into Agdam over the past five days. These figures
do not include civilians reported killed when the Armenians stormed
the Azerbaijani town of Khodjaly on Tuesday night. The figures also
do not include other as yet undiscovered bodies
Zahid Jabarov, a survivor of the massacre, said he saw up to 200
people shot down at the point we visited, and refugees who came
by different routes have also told of being shot at repeatedly and
of leaving a trail of bodies along their path. Around the bodies
we saw were scattered possessions, clothing and personnel documents.
The bodies themselves have been preserved by the bitter cold which
killed others as they hid in the hills and forest after the massacre.
All are the bodies of ordinary people, dressed in the poor, ugly
clothing of workers.
Of the 31 we saw, only one policeman and two apparent national
volunteers were wearing uniform. All the rest were civilians,
including eight women and three small children. TWO GROUPS,
APPARENTLY FAMILIES, HAD FALLEN TOGETHER, THE CHILDREN CRADLED
IN THE WOMEN'S ARMS.
SEVERAL OF THEM, INCLUDING ONE SMALL GIRL, HAD TERRIBLE HEAD
INJURIES: ONLY HER FACE WAS LEFT. SURVIVORS HAVE TOLD HOW THEY
SAW ARMENIANS SHOOTING THEM POINT BLANK AS THEY LAY ON THE GROUND.
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
6,071 | Hell, the Orioles' Opening Day game could easily be the largest in history
if we had a stadium with 80,000 seats. But unfortunely the Yards (a
definitely excellent ballpark) only holds like 45,000 with 275 SRO spots.
Ticket sales for the entire year is moving fast. Bleacher seats are almost
gone for every game this year. It's a extremely likelyhood that the O's
could sell out every game this year (especially if we lead the division for
most of the year like '89).
On another front, the sale of the Orioles to anyone is likely to be
forced upon Eli Jacobs who is major debt apparently. Maybe we can get an
owner willing to spend on a proven rightfielder free agent in the winter.
Fernando has made the O's as the fifth starter. The O's pitching
staff looks pretty good. Sutcliffe, Mussina, McDonald, Rhodes, and Fernando.
Baltimore is my pick for the victors in a very competitive AL East.
__________________________________________________________________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Second to last day of the season - Gregg (The True Wild Thing) Olson
uncorks a wild pitch allowing the Blue Jays to tie. Blue Jays win in the
11th and ends the Baby Birds' miracle season of '89.
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7,476 |
I would suggest Draw for Windows (by Micrografx). I have this on my
home box. Its quite impressive and only cost UKL100. It has a rather
nice clip-art library facility which you can expand with your own
drawings. There is no circuit component clip-art included, but you
could add your own quite easily.
It works with any Windows printer driver of course, and can also
export embedded postscript and PCX files.
Note: I am not connected with Micrografx in any way.
Paul. | 11 | trimmed_train |
2,485 | Please satisfy my curiosity. I'm interested in finding out who is using the
e-mail system. Please do not flood me with mail after April 21st. Thanks!
Maria Alice Ruth [email protected] or @psuvm.psu.edu
1. Are you male or female?
2. How long have you been using the e-mail system?
3. How do you have access (at work, at school, etc)?
4. Who taught you how to use the system? Is that person male or female?
5. Have you helped anyone to learn the system? Was that person(s) male or
female?
6. Which net did you find my questions on?
7. Which other nets are you interested in? | 4 | trimmed_train |
1,514 | Well, there *is* a difference.
I don't happen to have my SAE manual handy, but oil viscosity in general
_decreases_ with temperature. The SAE numbers are based on a `typical'
curve that oils used to all have, running from (say) the viscosity of a
room-temperature 90-weight at 0C, down to (say) that of a room-temperature
5-weight at 20C, for a typical 40-weight oil.
Oils that are designed for operation in `normal' temperatures just have
a weight specification. Oils that are designed for operation in exceedingly
cold temperatures have a `W' tacked on the end, so in winter in a cold
place, you'd stick 10W in your car in the winter and 40 in it in the summer,
to approximate the appropriate viscosity throughout the year.
Modern multi-viscosity oils change viscosity much less with temperature.
As a result, their viscosity graphs cross over several curves. A multi-vis
specification pegs the curve at two temperatures, a `normal' operating
temperature and a `cold' one (though I can't remember the numbers...).
In any event, the weights do indicate a significant difference. Remember
that your engine is temperature-regulated (by the thermostat and
radiator or air fins) most of the time -- unless you overheat it or
something.
Any weight of oil is better than no oil, or than very old, carbonized
oil. Thin oil won't (in general) lubricate as well at temperature,
thicker oil will (like a 20W50) will lubricate better at temperature,
but not as well during startup, when most engine wear occurs.
If you're planning on making long drives, the 20W50 is probably fine
(esp. in the summer) in your 10W40 car. But if you're making short drives,
stick to the 10W40.
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1,822 | Can anybody please help me with information on the use of the bi-directional
printer port.
I have successfully used one on a Toshiba laptop by enabling bit 0 of port
0x37f and controlling bit 7 of port 0x37a for the direction of data flow (ie
"0" for output, "1" for input).
The same code does not work on my desktop machine. I have heard that i might
have to use bit 5 of port 0x37a, however this also does not work.
For a parallel port i am using one of those IDE SUPER I/O cards and have been
running a tape backup unit off it via a parallel to scsi converter so i am
pretty sure that the printer port is bi-directional.
Any information would be greatly appreasiated.
Please post a reply here or Email me on
INTERNET [email protected]
Thanks
Richard Muratti. | 3 | trimmed_train |
9,377 |
Oh yeah, how come Dino could never take the Caps out of the Patrick
Division? He choked up 3 games to 1 last year and got swept away in
the second round two years ago. He rarely, if ever, makes it out of the
division.
So are the Islanders, but they can still pull it out. Vancouver has Winnipeg's
number, so it really doesn't matter.
Kings always seem to go at least 6 or 7, they never play a four or five
game serious. There's a difference between battling it out and pulling it
out, as I take Calgary to pull it out in 7. | 17 | trimmed_train |
3,567 | For those of you interested, I just finished talking with a
representative of Senator Bob Krueger's reelection campaign about his
position on the RTKBA. Krueger was appointed by the Democratic Governor
of Texas to complete Lloyd Bentsen's unexpired term.
The representative said that Senator Krueger did not have a position and
would only comment on specific legislation that was pending. No comment
was available on the various versions of the Brady Bill. | 9 | trimmed_train |
8,311 | I've pursued and researched this question over the last month or so because I have the same requirements you do......and the long and short of it is that the windows mouse drivers don't accept mice at any but com1 and com2 using irq4 or irq3 unless you buy special drivers from someone who has them.....I've talked to Mouse Systems who say their driver doesn't support other than com1 and com2 as above , but who claim to be releasing one that will SOON!??.
The other alternative seems to be possible, but in one case prohibitively expensive, i.e. 4 port card for $600??????!!, and in the other, the author(s) of PowerBBS for Windows claim to have a 4 port serial card with buffered 16550 UARTS and drivers for windows to match (i.e. com3 irq5) for $120......
The second paragraph is hearsay, because I haven't checked it out yet.....but intend to as soon as I can free up $120 <g> | 18 | trimmed_train |
4,339 |
Make that 20%. Where did I see that poll recently about the
very religious and adultery? Was it this newsgroup or alt.atheism
or some other place? | 15 | trimmed_train |
2,548 |
Assuming one has been cultured as having a throat laden with
neiseria meningococcus and given (and taken) a course of ERYC
without the culture becoming negative, should one worry about
being a carrier? | 19 | trimmed_train |
7,507 | 3 | trimmed_train |
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8,081 |
And the 'Turkish Karabag' is next. As for 'Cyprus', In 1974, Turkiye
stepped into Cyprus to preserve the lives of the Turkish population
there. This is nothing but a simple historical fact. Unfortunately,
the intervention was too late at least for some of the victims. Mass
graves containing numerous bodies of women and children already showed
what fate had been planned for a peaceful minority.
The problems in Cyprus have their origin in decades of
oppression of the Turkish population by the Greek Cypriot
officials and their violation of the co-founder status of
the Turks set out in the constitution. The coup d'etat
engineered by Greece in 1974 to execute a final solution
to the Turkish problem was the savage blow that invoked
Turkiye's intervention. Turkiye intervened reluctantly and
only as a last resort after exhausting all other avenues
consulting with Britain and Greece as the other two signatories
to the treaty to protect the integrity of Cyprus. There simply
was not any expansionist motivation in the Turkish action at
all. This is in dramatic contrast to the Greek motivation which
was openly expansionist, stated as 'Enosis,' union with Greece.
Since the creation of independent Cyprus in 1960, the Turkish
population, although smaller, legally had status as the co-founder
of the republic with the Greek population.
The Greek Cypriots, with the support of 'Enosis'-minded
Greeks in the mainland, have consistently ignored that
status and portrayed the Island as a Greek island with
a minority population of Turks. The Turks of Cyprus are
not a minority in a Greek Republic and they found the
only way they could show that was to assert their
autonomy in a separate republic.
Turkiye is not satisfied with the status quo. She would
rather not be involved with the island. But, given the
dismal record of brutal Greek oppression of the Turkish
population in Cyprus, she simply cannot leave the fate
of the island's Turks in the hands of the Greeks until
the Turkish side is satisfied with whatever accord
the two communities finally reach to guarantee that
history will not repeat itself to rob Turkish Cypriots
of their rights, liberties and their very lives.
Source: 'Cyprus: The Tale Of An Island,' A. H. Rizvi, p. 42
21-12-1963 Throughout Cyprus
"Following the Greek Cypriot premeditated onslaught of 21 December,
1963, the Turkish Sectors all over Cyprus were completely besieged
by Greeks; all telephonic, telegraphic and postal communications
between these sectors were cut off and the Turkish Cypriot
Community's contact with each other and with the outside world
was thus prevented."
21-12-63 -- 31-12-63 Turkish Quarter of Nicosia and suburbs
"Greek Cypriot armed elements broke into hundreds of Turkish
homes and fired at the unarmed occupants with automatic
weapons killing at random many Turks, including women, children
and elderly persons (51 Turks were killed and 82 wounded). They
also carried away as hostages more than 700 Turks, including
women and children, whom they forced to walk bare-footed and
in night-dresses across rough fields and river beds."
21-12-63 -- 12-12-64 Throughout Cyprus
"The Greek Cypriot Administration deprived Turkish Cypriots
including Ministers, MPs, and Turkish members of the Public
services of the republic, of their right to freedom of movement."
In his report No. S/6102 of 12 December, 1964 to the Security
Council, the UN Secretary-General stated in this respect the
following:
"Restrictions on the free movement of civilians have been one of
the major features of the situation in Cyprus since the early
stages of the disturbances, these restrictions have inflicted
considerable hardship on the population, especially the Turkish
Cypriot Community, and have kept tension high."
25-9-1964 -- 31-3-1968 Throughout Cyprus
"Supply of petrol was completely denied to the Turkish sections."
Makarios Addresses UN Security Council On 19 July 1974
After being Ousted by the Greek Junta Coup
"In the beginning I wish to express my sincere thanks to all the
members of the Security Council for the great interest they have
shown in the critical situation which has been created in Cyprus
after the coup organized by the military regime in Greece and
carried out by the Greek army officers who were serving in the
National Guard and were commanding it.
[..]
13-3-1975 On the road travelling to the South to the freedom of
the North
"A Turkish woman was seriously wounded and her four-month old
baby was riddled with bullets from an automatic weapon fired by
a Greek Cypriot mobile patrol which had ambushed the car in which
the mother and her baby were travelling to the Turkish region.
The baby died in her mother's arms.
This wanton murder of a four-month-old baby, which shocked foreign
observers as much as the Turkish Community, was not committed by
irresponsible persons, but by members of the Greek Cypriot security
forces. According to the mother's statement the Greek police patrol
had chased their car and deliberately fired upon it."
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
325 | : From: [email protected] (Ken Shirriff)
: Message-ID: <[email protected]>
: It seems likely to me that that a large subset of encrypted communications
: would be archived to tape so they could be read if sometime in the future
: probable cause arises and a warrant is obtained.
I think it is unlikely that data like this could be used in court.
Currently LEAs can install wiretaps on large numbers of phones, record
calls without listening to them, and then post-facto obtain warrants
and listen to calls after probable cause is established. But this
strategy wouldn't get the stuff admitted in court. (At least, not
in the near term.)
In other words, near as I can tell, the thing that makes such evidence
inadmissable is the interception without a warrant, not the attempt to
interpret what was intercepted without a warrant. I'd be surprised
that archiving data without consent would be interpreted as anything
but analogous to a wiretap by the courts.
Note that that doesn't mean I think it won't be done if technically
feasible. Just as I'm sure many wiretaps are done now without
warrants, just to fish for avenues to investigate. So in the future,
start surveilance, start archiving data, trump up some probable cause,
decrypt post-facto after the warrant is in hand, and the investigation
gets a boost from data that, sadly, won't ever be presented to a jury.
While I'm posting... for an interesting cautionary tale projecting this
archiving scenario to extremes, read "Lacey and his Friends", a
collection of sf stories by David Drake. The US starts down the
slippery slope by archiving *everyghing*. But don't worry folks, it's
stored in a secure repository where nobody but LEAs with warrants can
get to it. And by the way, we'll be installing cameras on all major
streets. Hey, this is nothing new, we already have cameras in banks and
teller machines, don't we?
And then we'll pass laws requiring cameras covering *all* public
places. Then in some private places. Then we'll make it a crime ever
to be out of range of a camera, except in legally licensed privacy
cubicles. Only alone. And with a thorough body search before and
after. But, see, there's still a right to privacy. We haven't
curtailed any rights, not really. And just think how much easier it'd
be to solve crimes in such a situation: just obtain a warrant, put on a
VR helmet and take a walk down memory lane.
And hey, nobody'll be tracking *you* or *me*, no need to be self-conscious.
After all, if you're not doing anything illegal...
Funny, though. While speeding and the radar detector industry became
pretty much a thing of the past, somehow all this didn't elminate all
crime in the story. And somehow, politicians got exemptions on grounds
of national security, and rich corporations got exemptions for their
execs on grounds of industrial espionage and the preservation of
competition. And not everybody was exactly happy with the system.
I can't imagine why.
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1,649 |
perhaps you can quote just a bit of her argument? | 15 | trimmed_train |
4,529 |
The Selke candidate forwards main purpose on a shift is to prevent goals
from being scored- not to score them. When Lemieux or Gilmour play their
number one purpose is to score- defence is secondary- especially considering
the line that plays against them is probably a defensive one. That is
why they are not Selke candidates.
Someone posted something about this assumption being lost in translation
(it was a few months ago). Whoever this was please repost it.
Gainey is the best defensive forward ever. I stand by that assessment.
He was a very good player who belongs in the hall of fame. Did you
ever watch him play? He never made a technical error.
<Babbling deleted>
Who are these pundits?? Gilmour was good with St Louis- but he was not the
best two-way player in the game when he was with them. You have overhyped
Gilmour on this net for months. He is a very good forward- but hardly the
best in the NHL. | 17 | trimmed_train |
7,017 |
Well, let me see. UZI, no. M-11/9, no. M-16/AR-15, maybe. I remember there
being a selector swtich on the AR-15. If I remember correctly (please correct
me if I'm wrong) the switch would set to an "off" position or an "on" position
because the gun (AR-15) is semi-automatic. Wouldn't the M-16 have a position
for semi-auto fire and full-auto fire (or maybe 3 round bursts)? If this is
correct wouldn't it be easy to distinguish each gun by this alone? Of course
if the AR-15 were modified to full-auto fire I wouldn't think it would be that
easy but I'm talking about distinguishing between an unmodified AR-15 and M-16.
How about the other guns? Do they also have selector switch to switch between
semi-auto and fully-auto fire?
Actually it was pretty hard for the kids in my neighborhood to figure that out
as Richard Petty lived in my neighborhood and left his stock car in the
driveway. ;-)
Well, what about what I said above? If that is correct I guess TV would be
acceptable (if you had a good enough picture and a picture of the lower
receiver of the AR-15/M-16). | 9 | trimmed_train |
2,869 | Hi,
xtici worked for my system.
I'm using X11R5 pl 17 clientside only on a DEC 5000/240 on Ultrix 4.3
May be you have a serious floatingpoint compilation problem ?
| 16 | trimmed_train |
704 | ha... all this talk about changing the clock speed of the q700 makes me ask??
if i replaced the 8mhz 68000 in my plus with a 16mhz 68000 with a 16mhz
clock occilater of its own( not shared by the rest of the mac... just the new
16mhz68000) would my mac work..... and if it would work.. would you think there
where be any problems with sound, vidio,scsi........
it seems like a simple solution to keepa dead slow mechine a
live a little longer..
Oh if this would not work any idears on how to make it work???
thanks
alex | 14 | trimmed_train |
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