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I remember a commercial for some cheap, top-
heavy import cage a while back, where the
driver says while wearing a stuck-up fake
TV anouncers smile:
"It Really goes Straight!" | 12 | trimmed_train |
1,964 | You can't. But good luck trying. | 17 | trimmed_train |
2,252 | [...]
Wait a minute. I thought you said that Allah (I presume Allah == God) was unknowable,
and yet here you are claiming to know a very concrete fact about him.
You say that God does not have a "face". Doesn't the bible say that God has hindparts?
How do you suggest I decide which (if any) of you is right? Or are you both right?
God has hindparts but no face? Or does your use of quotation marks:
God does not have a "face".
allow you to interpret this to mean whatever you like?
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I've been told by our local computer guru that you can't do this unless you
perform a low level format on your existing hard drive and set your system
up for two hard drives from the beginning. I took him at his word, and I
have not tried to find out any more about it, because I'm not going to back
everything up just to add another HDD. If anyone knows for sure what the
scoop is, I would like to know also. Thanks in advance also. | 3 | trimmed_train |
1,858 |
I have a question that is a slight variation on the previously mentioned
examples that perhaps people could give me some pointers on (it has been a
couple of years since my Con Law class in college so I hope I am not
missing something obvious here...)
Basic Scenario:
I set up a bbs that uses public-key encryption and encryption of
files on disk. The general setup is designed so that when users
connect they send a private key encrypted using the system public
key and the user's public-private keypair is used to wrap the
one-time session keys used for encrypting the files on disk. The
result of this is that even if I reveal the system private key it
is impossible for anyone to gain access to the files stored on the
machine. What is possible is for someone to use the revealed
system private key to entice users into revealing thier personal
private keys during the authentication sequence.
Questions:
Does the fact that the system private key does not provide any
information useful for a search give me any protection as far as
being coerced to reveal the key? (I doubt it myself..)
It seems providing the system private key does not mean that I am
assisting in "entrapment" (the users would send thier key anyway
and are not being enticed into doing something they would not
otherwise do) but is there any other hook that can be used?
Would the user private-key enticement require wiretap approval?
Any answers or general musings on the subject would be appreciated...
jim | 7 | trimmed_train |
4,925 |
Pierre,
For purposes of the tie breaker, you only count the first three games in
each city. Therefore, Quebec cannot possibly be ahead of Montreal 4-3,
and there's probably only one game that counts remaining between Boston
and Quebec, which means Boston has probably already won. | 17 | trimmed_train |
8,514 |
More info please. I'm not well exposed to these ideas.
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Bob Beauchaine [email protected]
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea. | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,863 |
Women who are known not to want abortion services, for example,
might be judged to be more likely to require prenatal care &
coverage for childbirth... which can be an order of magnitude
more expensive than abortion.
This topic should really be restricted to talk.abortion, which
exists to relieve t.r.m & t.p.m of abortion flamage.
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This sounds a bit high to me. Still higher accelerations have been endured
*very briefly*, during violent deceleration. If we're talking sustained
acceleration, I think 30-odd gees has been demonstrated using water immersion.
I doubt that any of this generalizes to another order of magnitude. | 10 | trimmed_train |
257 | >a real RNG ? This turns those S1,S2 in a kind of bottleneck for system-
>security. | 7 | trimmed_train |
5,022 | THE FOLLOWING POSTING WAS FORGED IN MY NAME! PLEASE IGNORE SUCH POSTINGS!
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4,055 | I am getting Garbled output when serial printing thru Windows & works
etc. This has occurred on several systems and goes if a LaserJet 4 is
used. I suspect that there is no need for handshaking in this case due
to the capacity (memory/speed) of it. There is no problem printing from
DOS. Are there any obvious tweaks I'm missing. I'm sure its not JUST
me with this problem. Thanks for reading.... John Atherton
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4,485 |
What he said. Most of my friends refer to them as "ground magnets." One
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5,161 | Well Bruins fans it's playoff time again.
It looks like the B's have peaked at the right time.
Getting out of the Adams is going to be a cat fight to the end.
After what they did to Montreal and Quebec, these teams will be out for
revenge. If Neely can stay healthy, and both Bourque and Moog stay sharp,
we should get to see Neely finally take out two years of frustration
on Ulf (I don't fight) Samuelson. I don't agree with fighting in the NHL,
but if there is one guy who deserves to be taken out good, it's him.
This is going to be a good series, Go Bruins!!!!
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3,050 | I have a Microsoft Serial Mouse and am using mouse.com 8.00 (was using 8.20
I think, but switched to 8.00 to see if it was any better). Vertical motion
is nice and smooth, but horizontal motion is so bad I sometimes can't click
on something because my mouse jumps around. I can be moving the mouse to
the right with relatively uniform motion and the mouse will move smoothly
for a bit, then jump to the right, then move smoothly for a bit then jump
again (maybe this time to the left about .5 inch!). This is crazy! I have
never had so much trouble with a mouse before. Anyone have any solutions?
Does Microsoft think they are what everyone should be? <- just venting steam!
---
Sean Eckton
Computer Support Representative
College of Fine Arts and Communications
D-406 HFAC
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)378-3292 | 18 | trimmed_train |
9,812 | I have received my copies of Cosmonautics 1990 and
Cosmonautics 1991, as well as Soviet Space 1990 and Space
Station [MIR] Handbook from Aerospace Ambassadors with no
problem.
I'm getting ready to FAX them some material in Huntsville,
and I'll include a printout of your inquiry.
____________________________________________________________ | 10 | trimmed_train |
3,067 | I don't want to do this, but I need money for school. This is
a very snappy bike. It needs a little work and I don't have the
money for it. Some details:
~19000 miles
Mitsubishi turbo
not asthetically beautiful, but very fast!
One of the few factory turboed bikes... not a kit!
Must see and ride to appreciate how fun this bike is!
I am asking $700 or best offer. The bike can be seen in
Bennington, Vermont. E-mail for more info! | 12 | trimmed_train |
1,533 | *******
******* This is somewhat long, but pleas read it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*******
Boy am i glad you decided to read this. I've got a problem that
I need as many people's help from as possible.
Before I go in to the details of this, let me go ahead and tell
you that (though it may sound it) this is not one of those boy
meets girl problem...at least not totally like that to me....Anyway...
OK, I am a 19 year old Sophmore at NCSU. About 10 years ago, my family
and I were vacationing at the coast in a cottage we rented. Across the
street, was ths girl who would whistle at me whenever she saw me...
her name in Erin. Well, we became friends that week at the beach and have
been writing each other for about 10 years....there was a period of about
2 years we lost contact..but that was a while ago.
By the way...Erin lives in Kansas and me in NC.
OK, last year in one of her letters, she says that she is coming
back to NC to see some of her family who are gonna be there. So I
drove about 4 hours to see her. This is where it begins....I spent
the whole day with Erin....one of the best days of my life. Even though
we had been writing each other, we still had to get used to being
in person....she has got to be the most incredible woman I ever met.
(She's one year older than me BTW). I mean, no person in the world could
ask for a better person. Not only was she incredibly beautiful (not to
mention WAY out of my league...although I'm not unattractive mind you), but
she had a great personality and a great sence of humor. Her family
is one of those families who goes to church but that is about the
extent of their Christianity...you know the kind of people. But she
knows I am a Christian.
Well, you get the idea of what I think of her. If there is ever such
a thing as love at first sight....I found it. That was last year...I kid
you not when I say that I have thought about her EVERY day since then.
In out letters, Erin and I always kid each other about not finding
dates..(which is true for me, but I know it can't be for her).
She has had some problems at home, her folks split up and she ended
up leaving school....Now we are at the present...
Let me give you part of the letter I got from her last week....
"Okay, now I'm going to try to explain my life to you. I'm not
going to KU anymore because something just isn't right. College
just wasn't clicking with me here. Greek life is really big here and
that just isn't my way. I wasn't taking any classes that truly interested
me & i really have no idea of what i want to do with my life. I was
interested in something medical (Physical Therpy) & I love working with
kids, but 'it' just didn't work for me at this university. And my parents
could tell.
"So I'm working full time at the Bass Store [Bass shoes that is] and now
I have a part-time job at a local daycare. I work in the infant room
M-W-F. I've really enjoyed it so far. It spices up my week a little bit and
it's great experience.
"As of now, I'm not planning on going back to school in the very
near future. The main reason being my indecision on what I want to
study. But I definatley plan on going back within the next couple of
years. Where? I have no idea--except for one thing, it won't be
to Kansas.
"Right noew I'm discussing a promotion with my boss and district
manager. It looks like I'll train at the store I work at now for
about 4-6 months as Assistant Manager and when that's done, I'll
basically be given a list of stores (newly or soon to be built) to
chose where i would like to manage. I've pretty much decided on either
one of the Carolinas (hopeully close to the beach) Wouldn't it
be fun to actually see each other more than once every few years??
What do you think abou that? I would like to know your opinion.
"This job would pretty much be temporary. But it is VERY GOOD pay
and any thye of management experience would look good on an application
or resume. The company is solid and treats it employees very well. Good
benefits, bonuses & medical plans. Plus- after 1 year of full-time
service, they will reimburse tuition. I do have school money waitng
for me, but this will help, especially since I will probably end up
paying out of state tuition wherever I go.
"Chris, i really would like to know what you think of my decision. I
respect your opinion. I've been completely lost for what to do for
soooo long that when the opportunity came along it sounded really
good. I do like my job although I'm about 99.9% sure that i want
to do more with my life than reatil management..but it IS something.
I don't think earning about $20,000 a year for a 20 year old female
is too bad.
"Anyway, onto your career decisions. I'll solve your problem right now,
MARRY ME...
"You can do your pilot thing-- I like to be by myself sometimes! Seriously
(or not as seriously)- do what will make you the happiest, worry about the
home life later."
***********
OK, well I'm sure you see what has got me so uptight. What do you
think she meant about the marraige thing??
I dream at night about marrying her, and then she mentions it in her
letter!!! I don't know what to think??
Since she wants to move to the Carolina's should i search out a
Bass store near here and aske her to come to Carolina???
I always pick on those people who graduate from high school and
get married....but what does she mean???
I've had a lot of stress lately with exams and also the fact that
I don't date beacause 1) No time 2) Not that much $$ 3) that
most college women are wrapped up in the social scene with the
Greeks whic as a Christian I can't support-----and here
she says she doesn't like the Greek thing either!!
Maybe I'm so stunned because there is actually a girl that I am
so attracted to paying some real attention to me.
I mean, what if she did move to NC...what would I do??? I'm
only 19 and she 20....I'm only a Sophmore struggling through
classes..
I have prayed about this over the past year from time to time..
saying, "God if she is the right one, let the situation open up.."
Could this be my sign???
I would do ANYTHING to get her to NC...here is some moree that makes
it worse..
Should I call her?? I'm terrible over the phone. I don't even like
to talk to my friends here for longer than 3 minutes.
I mean, what would a girl as perfect as her want with a very
average guy like me??
I'm really confused....I would really appreciate any help i can get.
Thanx
Chris | 0 | trimmed_train |
7,273 |
Question:
If a team uses 40 players in a season do you merely divide the total +/-
by 40? If so, a player who plays in only 1 game is considered equally
valuable as a player who plays in all of them.
Since the standard deviation for each team is different, I am unsure how
"transferable" between teams that these stats are. Shouldn't the average
standard deviation in the league be used?
I am interested in seeing each method.
But I still think that mine is the best. If for no other reason than familiarity. | 17 | trimmed_train |
4,216 |
They are illegal here in Manitoba as well though I don't know what
methods are used to detect them.
It has always amazed me with the way the laws work. It is not illegal to
sell them here in Manitoba, only to have them within a vehicle. (Last I
heard, they don't have to be installed to be illegal.) | 11 | trimmed_train |
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The difference in the litigation environment is reflected in the fees.
Lack of defensive medicine and near-absence of malpractice is really
why we spend less using the most expensive approach of pure insurance
in Canada (along with France and Germany) without HMO's --- the NYT
has admitted that malpractice insurance fees are an order of magnitude
lower in Canada but doctors take-home pay is almost equal to American
doctors; also, minimal bureaucracy 'cos the system is so-o-o simple
(early March).
Part of the deal for using the all-insurance approach like the French
and Germans do (hey, why don't they criticize France and Germany? Is
it because too many people take French and German in college to make
the accusations stick? (-;) was to preserve the doctors independance.
Since the provincial wings of the CMA are the ones that go to bat when
the fee schedule hikes are presented, the politically-bent doctors
were just cackling when they realized the CMA would grow in strength
rather than diminish, especially when unopposed unlike in socialized
medicine approaches like Britain's National Health Service.
For non-life threatening things, market arguments adequately cover why
certain procedures are in scarcer demand. I have MD friends who can't
make a living as specialists back in Manitoba not due to the insurance
rates but because they won't get enough customers -- the CMA medical
monopoly's grip on doctors licencing (as in the US) aside -- so they
must move to larger places. However, this does not refute debunking
of waiting lines for urgent AND routine care, as has been done in the
U.S. by Consumers Reports, health policy studies cited by Prof. Dennis
E. Shea on USENET, CNN, NYT, etc.
Doug Fierro has posted a NYT article from 3 weeks ago about Canada's
health insurance approach, on Talk.politics.medicine. There is one
small error in the article: not all of our hospitals are private.
Of course, the one thing to note is that in the Canada/France/Germany
case, private insurance *offloaded* the basic coverage to the public
sector. They realized they were keeping low-risk/high-profit extra
insurance for things like private/semi-private rooms (vs. ward
accomodation), dental, glasses, etc. for corporate or personal
benefits, they'll have nothing to do with you if you want to be
covered for basic care.
At that point, they wouldn't even consider a "voucher" approach
to broker the universal coverage and sell policies to make up
the difference in the federal guidelines and market stuff.
It is "free" in that there are no deductibles nor copayments (two
things which I advocate to make the Canadian insurance look more like
real health insurance -- which actually it is). I know that when
working in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, I was aware that I was paying
for health insurance - e.g., in Toronto, OHIP fees were listed on my
pay stub; Manitoba did not collect at paycheque time, but only
annually at income tax time (built into the tax rate). Only fiscal
naifs will proclaim that it's free, along with the Canadian Left for
that is part of their brainwashing agenda.
The French do have copayments, though. France Magazine's Summer
1992 edition has a fantastic presentation of their basic insurance
coverage, including a sample chart of copayment percentages. For
1-30 days, you're covered for 80% of the public hospital rate, 100%
afterward. With extra private insurance, you can get into a private
hospital and be covered for any differences beyond the public hospital
rate. The public insurance covers 100% beyond 30 days, or the same
cash amount for a private hospital and the difference is paid
out-of-pocket or according to your supplementary private insurance.
Over 2/3rds of French have some form of extra private insurance. So,
the other 30% of health costs in Europe are out of private funds, not
gleaned from other taxes. The GDP figures are combined public and
private expenditures for total outlay using the same methods that
yield the 13-14% figure for the U.S.
Health insurance does exist in Canada and in Western Europe, its
just that it doesn't cover basic care. You can opt out in Canada
and Germany, but you'll have to go uninsured as a result because
there are too few other people that do so --- i.e., no market.
When private insurance realized how much money they'd make without the
risks involved in basic insurance (e.g., neurosurgery) versus deluxe
amenities (e.g., having to call Granada TV to replace a rental set on
the fritz in someone's private hospital room), they started to pat
themselves on the back for their social responsibility. In Quebec
last spring, a consortium of private insurers publicly warned against
any thoughts of privatizing routine, low cost parts of that province's
public health insurance plan.
gld | 13 | trimmed_train |
6,000 | :You are loosing.
"Loosing"? Well, I'll avoid the spelling flames and see if this person
can make up for it.
:There is no question about it.
Oh, there's LOTS of question about it. People are becoming more aware each
day that their rights are being threatened, so much so that NRA membership
is growing at the rate of nearly 2,000 per *day*. We are slowly gaining
our rightful voice, despite the biases, prejudices, and veiled motives of
the liberal media and anti-gun politicians. We will win.
:Of those who vote, your cause is considered an abomination. No matter
:how hard you try, public opinion is set against the RKBA.
What do you base this on? Some highly-skewed poll conducted by NBC News?
The same group who faked GM pickup explosions just to make "news"? Right.
:This is the end. By the finish of the Clinton administration, your
:RKBA will be null and void. Tough titty.
It is true that we face even greater obstacles to our rights, betrayed by
those lying politicians who swear an oath to protect the Constitution "from
all enemies, both foreign and domestic." But the People will take only so
many lies and deceits.
:You had better discover ways to make do without firearms. The number of
:cases of firearms abuses has ruined your cause. There is nothing you
:can do about it. Those who live by the sword shall die by it.
Then the criminals who live by murder shall die by it. Honest, law-abiding
citizens need have no fear on that count. You, however, will evidently
die by (or at least in) ignorance. And the number of firearms self-defenses
shall spell out our ultimate victory.
:The press is against you, the public (the voting public) is against
:you, the flow of history is against you ... this is it !
The flow of history was against the Founding Fathers, but they managed to
successfully form the first real free republic on the face of this planet,
a republic that has become the model for all others to follow. The press
is against us, for its own selfish motivations. And the people will soon
realize the depths of deceit being spread by that media, and nullify its
ill-directed power. The People are with us.
:Surrender your arms. Soon enough, officers will be around to collect
:them. Resistance is useless. They will overwhelm you - one at a time.
:Your neighbors will not help you. They will consider you more if an
:immediate threat than the abstract 'criminal'.
I shall never submit to an illegal, unConstitutional police state. I will
take my own vow to uphold the Constitution, and I shall defend it and my
country against a tyrannical government gone mad, should it become
necessary.
:Too fucking bad. You have gone the way of the KKK. Violent solutions
:are passe'. Avoid situations which encourage criminals. Then you will
:be as safe as possible. Such as it is ...
I will not be your sacrificial sheep, and I shall not bow down to you or
anyone else who seeks to control my life. Being an unarmed target is the
SUREST way of encouraging criminals, and believe me, I shall avoid it as
much as possible. Then I shall be as safe as possible. I will answer
with violence only when no other option exists, but I shall surely answer.
Mike Ruff
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10,310 | Does anyone have a schedule of Kol Israel broadcasts in different
languages that could be posted or e-mailed to me. Your
assistance would be greatly appreciated | 6 | trimmed_train |
4,900 |
Ah, now here is the core question. Let me suggest a scenario.
We will grant that a God exists, and uses revelation to communicate
with humans. (Said revelation taking the form (paraphrased from your
own words) 'This infinitely powerful deity grabs some poor schmuck,
makes him take dictation, and then hides away for a few hundred years'.)
Now, there exists a human who has not personally experienced a
revelation. This person observes that not only do these revelations seem
to contain elements that contradict rather strongly aspects of the
observed world (which is all this person has ever seen), but there are
many mutually contradictory claims of revelation.
Now, based on this, can this person be blamed for concluding, absent
a personal revelation of their own, that there is almost certainly
nothing to this 'revelation' thing?
Absent this better language, and absent observations in support of the
claims of revelation, can one be blamed for doubting the whole thing?
Here is what I am driving at: I have thought a long time about this. I
have come to the honest conclusion that if there is a deity, it is
nothing like the ones proposed by any religion that I am familiar with.
Now, if there does happen to be, say, a Christian God, will I be held
accountable for such an honest mistake?
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles [email protected] | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,012 | henrik]Let me clearify Mr. Turkish;
henrik]ARMENIA is NOT getting "itchy". SHE is simply LETTING the WORLD
henrik] KNOW that SHE WILL NO LONGER sit there QUIET and LET TURKS get
henrik] away with their FAMOUS tricks. Armenians DO REMEMBER of the TURKISH
henrik] invasion of the Greek island of CYPRESS WHILE the world simply WATCHED.
Esin Terzioglu] Your ignorance is obvious from your posting.
Esin Terzioglu] 1) Cyprus was an INDEPENDENT country with Turkish/Greek
inhabitants (NOT a Greek island like your ignorant
posting claims)
Esin Terzioglu] 2) The name should be Cyprus (in English)
Esin Terzioglu] next time read and learn before you post.
Aside from spelling , why is that you TURKS DO NOT want to admit your
past MISTAKES ? You know TURKISH INVASION of CYPRUS was a mistake and too
bad that U.N. DID NOT do anything about it. You may ask : mistake ?
Yes, I would say. Why is that the GREEKS DID NOT INVADE CYPRUS ?
My response to the "shooting down" of a Turkish airplane over the Armenian
air space was because of the IGNORANT posting of the person from your
Country. Turks and Azeris consistantly WANT to drag ARMENIA into the
KARABAKH conflict with Azerbaijan. The KARABAKHI-ARMENIANS who have lived
in their HOMELAND for 3000 years (CUT OFF FROM ARMENIA and GIVEN TO AZERIS
BY STALIN) are the ones DIRECTLY involved in the CONFLICT. They are defending
themselves against AZERI AGGRESSION. Agression that has NO MERCY for INOCENT
people that are costantly SHELLED with MIG-23's and othe Russian aircraft. | 6 | trimmed_train |
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Yes, this is also my understanding of the majority of Islamic laws.
However, I believe there are also certain legal rulings which, in all
five schools of law (4 sunni and 1 jaffari), can be levelled against
muslim or non-muslims, both within and outside dar-al-islam. I do
not know if apostasy (when accompanied by active, persistent, and
open hostility to Islam) falls into this category of the law. I do know
that
historically, apostasy has very rarely been punished at all, let alone
by the death penalty.
My understanding is that Khomeini's ruling was not based on the
law of apostasy (alone). It was well known that Rushdie was an apostate
long before he wrote the offending novel and certainly there is no
precedent in the Qur'an, hadith, or in Islamic history for indiscriminantly
levelling death penalties for apostasy.
I believe the charge levelled against Rushdie was that of "fasad". This
ruling applies both within and outside the domain of an
Islamic state and it can be carried out by individuals. The reward was
not offered by Khomeini but by individuals within Iran.
I would concur that the thrust of the fatwa (from what I remember) was
levelled at the author and all those who assisted in the publication
of the book. However, the charge of "fasad" can encompass a
number of lesser charges. I remember that when diplomatic relations
broke off between Britain and Iran over the fatwa - Iran stressed that
the condemnation of the author, and the removal of the book from
circulation were two preliminary conditions for resolving the
"crisis". But you are correct to point out that banning the book was not
the main thrust behind the fatwa. Islamic charges such as fasad are
levelled at people, not books.
The Rushdie situation was followed in Iran for several months before the
issuance of the fatwa. Rushdie went on a media blitz,
presenting himself as a lone knight guarding the sacred values of
secular democracy and mocking the foolish concerns of people
crazy enough to actually hold their religious beliefs as sacred.
Fanning the flames and milking the controversy to boost
his image and push the book, he was everywhere in the media. Then
Muslim demonstrators in several countries were killed while
protesting against the book. Rushdie appeared momentarily
concerned, then climbed back on his media horse to once again
attack the Muslims and defend his sacred rights. It was at this
point that the fatwa on "fasad" was issued.
The fatwa was levelled at the person of Rushdie - any actions of
Rushdie that feed the situation contribute to the legitimization of
the ruling. The book remains in circulation not by some independant
will of its own but by the will of the author and the publishers. The fatwa
against the person of Rushdie encompasses his actions as well. The
crime was certainly a crime in progress (at many levels) and was being
played out (and played up) in the the full view of the media. | 8 | trimmed_train |
5,710 | B.S. about darkness deleted.
nope The Royals are the only team in the majors that have not
finished in last place. ^^^^ Of course this doesn't include
the marlins and the rockies but they have a good chance at
finishing last also.
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7,347 | I have one of the original Powerbook 170's (with 4Mb of Ram) and find
that 4Mb is a drag when trying to do my work. So, what is the best way
to get the maximum RAM for this unit, and what's it going to cost me?
I'm hoping I can get the latest and best info from real users by posting
to this group. | 14 | trimmed_train |
2,681 |
You've overlooked a fundamental Truth:
both headcount and budget of any government agency are
monotonic increasing functions.
Given that Truth, you need to look for what the agency can do to occupy
all those people and spend all that money when crypto is unbreakable.
Perhaps they could talk the world's telephone companies into making equipment
they could break into and tap.
Maybe they could convince people that distributed computing was a good idea
so that even the internal state of a process would be available for access
by wiretapping.
Maybe....
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6,062 | I had a similar problem - try changing the netmask to 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.254.0 | 18 | trimmed_train |
8,365 | Which GERMAN satellite channels will show the World Championship action
from Dusseldorf & Munich?
Someone please tell me (must be able to root for the Red Machine)!
Thank you | 17 | trimmed_train |
10,856 | I am having trouble with SCSI on a Mac IIfx. The machine is 3 years old
and I have been using the same hard drive (internal Maxtor LXT-200S) for
two and a half years. The disk recently crashed. I reformatted (Silverlining
5.42), but during the reformat I received random write errors during testing.
The error message reported was like:
Sector 0: Write error detected after testing good - sector not mapped out.
This occurred randomly all over the hard disk (which makes me suspect the
diagnostic's reference to Sector 0 ??? ). On the third reformat and after
reinstalling the SCSI read/write loops I was able to get through passes
2,3, and 4 with no errors. (Pass 1 for some reason reported a lot of errors,
but still mapped out no sectors.) I decided to go ahead and try to resinstall
System 7 and reload my data from a backup. This proceded normally; however,
I now have sub-optimal performance. Symptoms include:
o Frequent crashes
o Instances of extremely sluggish disk access requiring a reboot to
correct.
o Instances of not finding the disk on the SCSI chain on reboot.
- If I boot from Norton Utl. after this occurs, it cannot find the
disk either.
- The only thing that fixes this is recycling the power. It sometimes
requires several attempts.
QUESTIONS:
1) Has anyone had this type of problem before?
2) Is the problem with the fx motherboard (And its non-standard
SCSI implementation) or with my Maxtor Disk? Is there some
diagnostic software that would help me make this determination?
3) Is it a termination problem? I currently have external Syquest
and an external DataFrame XP60 on the chain. The XP60 is at the
end, and has internal termination; so I am not using the IIfx
terminator. I do have the SCSI filter installed on the internal
drive. I have run with this exact steup for 2 1/2 years with
one previous disk crash requiring a reformat (about a year ago).
I also have symptoms if I disconnect the external devices;
so I don't see how SCSI termination would now be an issue. Of
course who knows :-<
Help would be much appreciated. | 14 | trimmed_train |
7,722 | : >>point of view, why does SCSI have an advantage when it comes to multi-
: >>tasking? Data is data, and it could be anywhere on the drive. Can
: >>SCSI find it faster? can it get it off the drive and into the computer
: >>faster? Does it have a better cache system? I thought SCSI was good at
: >>managing a data bus when multiple devices are attached. If we are
: >>only talking about a single drive, explain why SCSI is inherently
: >>faster at managing data from a hard drive.
: >IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
: > currently the most common standard, and is mainly used for medium sized
: > drives. Can have more than one hard drive. Asynchronous Transfer: ~5MB/s max.
: Why don't you start with the spec-sheet of the ISA bus first?
: You can quote SCSI specs till you're blue in the face, but if they
: exceed the ISA bus capability, then what's the point?
Who said ISA was necessary? EISA or VLB are the only interfaces worth
investing thousands of dollars (e.g. a new pc's worth of money ) in .
: Who says IDE is limited to 5 megs/sec? What about VLB-IDE? Does anyone
: know how they perform?
You didn't read to carefully. VLB-IDE uses the same connection mechanism
as standard IDE. If transfer rate is limited by IDE, whether it's
interfaced to ISA, EISA or VLB matters not.
: >So at its LOWEST setting SCSI-2 interface in Asynchronous SCSI-1 mode AVERAGES
: >the through put MAXIMUM of IDE in asynchronous mode. In full SCSI-2 mode
: >it blows poor IDE out the window, down the street, and into the garbage can.
: As implimented on what system?
On mine, for one thing. SCSI blows IDE out of the water, hands down. If
IDE has better throughput, why isn't it used on workstations and file
servers?
: >The problem becomes can the drive mechanisim keep up with those through put
: >rates and THAT is where the bottleneck and cost of SCSI-2 comes from. NOT
: >the interface itself but more and more from drive mechanisims to use the
: >SCSI-2 through put.
: Given the original question (SCSI used only as a single hard drive
: controller), is it then necessary to get a SCSI drive that will do
: at least 5, maybe 10 megs/sec for the SCSI choice to make any sence?
: What does a 200-400 meg 5 megs/sec SCSI drive cost?
No, that's the nice thing -- on a multitasking OS, SCSI can use both drives
at once. I've got unix loaded on one of my pcs (along with windogs) and the OS can only use one of the two IDE drives at one time. It's pretty ugly.
I just bought at Quantum 240 for my mac at home. I paid $369 for it. I
haven't seen IDE drives cheaper.
: The original CGA cart back in '84 was $300. I think the original EGA card
: (or PGA?) was $800. SCSI has stood relatively alone in not coming down
: in price, mainly because we're talking about PC's and not Sun's or Sparc
: or SGI or (name your favorite unix workstation). That is, after millions
: of PC buying decisions over the years, SCSI has had plenty of time to
: come down in price.
No, actually, we're talking about SCSI being expensive simply because
nobody did a common interface for the PC. If they had a common (read:
easily implemented) method of adding scsi to a PC (like as in a Sun or
Mac), then you'd find SCSI the connection medium of choice.
: I won't argue that the SCSI standard makes for a good, well implimented
: data highway, but I still want to know why it intrinsically better
: (than IDE, on an ISA bus) when it comes to multi-tasking OS's when
: managing data from a single SCSI hard drive.
On a single drive, SCSI is more expensive. But, you bought your PC for
expandibility, so, you'd want to add more drives or whatever. The
following are why I find SCSI intrinsically better than IDE:
A (partial?) list:
1. You can add many different types of devices and access them
concurrently.
2. A SCSI device works on many different machines (I have a mac
and a PC at home and moving hard drives between them is VERY nice
with SCSI -- hook them up and away they go)
3. SCSI devices work together better than IDE devices. For
instance, recently, I added an older connor 100 meg IDE to a maxtor
212 meg IDE. The connor *MUST* be setup as the slave. It will
work no other way. On SCSI, you set the address, check the
termination, plug it in, and away it goes.
4. I have a problem with IDE's mutual exclusion - I notice that
the time it takes to switch from accessing drive c: to drive d: is
quite long as compared to the time it takes to switch from drive c:
to d: on a SCSI system. Under a multitasking OS, this is very
noticable, as many things can be going on at once.
One neat thing that I've noticed lately (a fringe benefit) has been the
ability to add older (almost dead) drives as storage on a SCSI system with
little problem -- we've got a bunch of almost dead 20 meg drives that I've
added to my PC. I've now got the interface full, but, it does allow me to
have 4 20 meg drives, 1 240 meg drive, 1 tape drive, and 1 105 meg drive
all on the same card.
Simply put, SCSI is handier than IDE. No mysterious jumpers to figure out.
Greg. | 3 | trimmed_train |
10,817 |
I agree and disagree. John is saying that the batters efforts will result
in 4 more wins then losses. While you are probably correct that 400%
does not mean 4 more wins then losses, it means something. I would
rather have a player who increased my teams chances of winning by 1% in
each of 400 PAs then I would a player who increased my chances of winning
by .5% in each of 400 PAs. Thus, there appears to me to be an obvious
positive association between John's statistic and winning games. Thus,
before you disregard this stat, it appears to me that further study must
go into what sort of relationship there is.
The only problem here is an insistance that these number mean exactly
how many wins the team has. First, we are using averages over many
seasons and applying them to one game. Second, remember some players
performance take away from the chance of you winning. That is a
player who gets an out gets a "negative probability" in most cases.
Thus, I'm not sure in any given game when you add up all the numbers
for a team who won that they will add up to 1 in that game. Sometimes,
they will add up to more then one sometime, less than one. Also,
the pitchers' bad performances (giving up 6 runs) may have given
them a large negative percentage for that game. Also, any batter that
pulled an 0-4 night would give large negatives.
No, but really only because you have a smaller sample size. I would
think however, that the number of runs you score in the first inning
would be just as good as a prediction as how many runs you score
in the last inning. And, realize something else a closer usually
comes in in a close situation, not a blow out. It is hard to argue
that any runs that a closer gives up in a game have equal importance
to those given up in the first inning. Look, a closer giving up runs
often means a team will lose many games. On, the other hand a starter
who gives up runs often still leaves his team a chance to win. The
offence has many more outs to do something about. But, I am not
saying all late inning situations are equally important either. If
I am down 8 runs in the ninth, it really does not matter how many
runs my pitcher gives up in the ninth.
No, but why would you assume that the teams probability of winning would
be 0 before the possesion in which the free throws were made. Look,
if you are down 1 point with 5 seconds left, there is a fairly high
probability that you will win the game if you are in possesion of the
ball. And, do not forget that somebody elses missed shots, turnovers,
fouls, bad defense, etc. caused a "negative chance" that the team
would win.
From reading all of the discussion on this statistic, I feel that those
who critisize it to a certain extent are doing so out of an agenda.
At first look this statistic valadates clutchness. But, it really
does not. Cluthness revolves around the idea that certain players
in crucial situation elevate their performance and others performance
goes down. I've never seen convincing proof that this really happens.
So, if you assume there is no clutchness, then that means that except
for a lot of noice, this statistic has a positive association to
player performance. There is a way to get rid of the noice if you
do not believe in clutchness. Certainly, we could find out what
the average value of a home run is for example. We may find for
instance, that a home run increases your chance of winning by 15%
on average while a strikeout decreases your chance of winning by 5%.
I bet if this were done we would find that this statistic was just
as good as other statistics we have for predicting wins and losses.
How do we evaluate relief pitchers? Say John and Sam have the
exact same pitching statistics (runs, earned runs, K's, BB's,
etc.) Both had exceptional numbers. John, however only pitched
in closer situations, while Sam was a Mop up man. Who was more
valuble to their team? Probably John. Who was the better
pitcher? They were probably about the same. | 2 | trimmed_train |
9,062 | [stuff delete]
Hear! Hear! I agree completely. One thing I can't stand about
the Mac interface is its shear determination to FORCE you to use
the mouse(what if your mouse breaks--your whole system is
down!). I like the mouse--it is handy on some occassions such
as cut and past and moving icons around, etc. But for most
work, the keyboard and hot keys are 10-20 times faster than
using the mouse. Sure it is a plus to be able to do something
simple if you are an inexperienced user, but how long is it
before your are experienced? A month? Two? (Speaking of PCs at
the moment.)
I don't think it is too much to ask that window
programmers provide not only a menu/mouse interface but also
look forward to those who would like to move on to hot keys and
command line interfaces, which usually allows you to do more in
less time IF you are experienced.
All of the above equally applies to windowing systems on
UNIX (especially since Unix is at least 500% more powerful than
DOS).
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148 |
Actually, an apostle is someone who is sent. If you will, mailmen could
be called apostles in that sense. However, with Jesus, they were
designated and were given power. Remember that there were many
thousands of people who witnessed what Jesus did. That didn't make them
apostles, though. | 0 | trimmed_train |
9,866 | Does anyone know a program that will record keyboard sequences that I
do in a windowed dos box? I would like to have something that starts a
telnet program and then logs me into my accounts. Windows Recorder doesn't
seem to be able to record the key sequences. | 18 | trimmed_train |
10,279 | Hi. I've looked in the FAQ and the O-Reilly books and was unable to
find (an easy) means of finding out the state of state keys such as
CapsLock and NumLock. I can certainly track the events inside of my
window and set a boolean there, but what if CapsLock is pressed in
another window? I looked at XGrabKey() and decided it was definitely
NOT what I wanted to do. I could find no convenience function to tell
me that information.
My question is this: Is there a means of determining what the state
of CapsLock and/or NumLock is?
An even more pointed question: Is there an easy means of making an X
keyboard act like a PC keyboard? ie, CapsLock is active, and the user
presses shift-a, I'd like to get a lowercase 'a' instead of 'A'.
Any input is greatly appreciated. Please respond via email. I will
repost a summary of my findings. | 16 | trimmed_train |
10,936 | I've been to three talks in the last month which might be of interest. I've
transcribed some of my notes below. Since my note taking ability is by no means
infallible, please assume that all factual errors are mine. Permission is
granted to copy this without restriction.
Michael Sternberg, Cheif of Operations of RIMSAT, was invited to speak at an
informal lunch held by ACDIS here on the campus of the University of Illinois.
ACDIS is an organization on campus that deals with Arms Control, Disarmament and
International Security. RIMSAT was considered an appropriate topic because the
company is using Russian launchers and satellites. I think it also helped that
his daughter is a grad student in the International Relations program.
The concept behind RIMSAT apparently began when Matt Neilson (?) went to Tonga
to visit a friend. While he was there, he somehow ended up visiting the king,
who happened to be a big TV fan. Matt bought the King a satellite dish, which
the king thought was really nifty. Since Tonga has a GNP of about $70 million,
His Majesty asked if there was any way to make money off this. Matt thought
there probably was, so at his suggestion, Tonga applied for 31 geosynchronous
satellite slots. While this isn't entirely off the wall, it was very unusual,
seeing as Tonga was a tiny kingdom with no space program, and 31 is a lot of
slots.
The whole thing was debated in the appropriate regulatory agency and Carl
Hilliard (who is apparently a respected space lawyer) wrote several opinions
supporting Tonga's case. Eventually Tonga ended up with 7 slots, ranging from
70 E to 170 E (slots are designated by the longitude over which they reside).
According to Sternberg, four of these, from 130 E to 142 E are the best in the
world because they are excellently placed for communications between Hawaii and
the Pacific Rim.
RIMSAT was formed to use these slots. It was officially formed in Nevis as a tax
haven. They tried for a few years to raise funds in the west, however, to
fill 7 slots with western satellites launched on western launchers would have
cost approximately $2 billion. It's not easy to raise that kind of money.
Eventually, they hit upon the idea of using Russian hardware. They began
negotiating with Glavkosmos for hardware. Mr Sternberg describes operating in
Moscow in such harsh terms that I don't think I'll visit there for a long time.
Besides a significant lack of creature comforts, he was not happy with the way
that people operate. For example "everybody can sell you everything."
Everyone can show the proper documents and licenses that indicate they are the
only ones who have the authority to sell what ever you want to by.
Eventually, RIMSAT arranged a deal with Glavkosmos for 6 satellites at a cost
of $150 million. However, Glavkosmos lost favor after the coup. Sternberg
says that this is because they were basically a bunch of KGB operatives who
went to trade shows and picked up lots of brochures. Since Glavkosmos was
out of power, he had to renegotiate the deal with the new authorities. He
again described life in a Moscow hotel in rather unfavorable terms. Eventually,
he worked out a deal and on Dec 4, 1992 he met with Koptev, who heads the
Russian space program, to sign the deal. Koptev insisted on a few concessions
before signing and according to Sternberg he arranged these new rules to
allow himself to form another company to do the exact same thing as RIMSAT.
The next step was to meet with the builders of the hardware, NPO Applied
Mechanics -- NPO PM to use their acronym. This organization is located in
Siberia (can't figure out how to spell the town, I need an atlas) and has built
about 1500 vehicles since the dawn of the space age. Sternberg commented that
siberians are very different from Musovites. They are hard workers, honest
people who team up to get things done, very much like midwesterners. At this
point there were some comments from the audience that agreed with his opinion on
both siberians and midwesterners :-)
Sternberg had lots of good things to say about NPO PM. His company is
apparently lookng for $100 million to invest in the firm to become 50% partners.It apparently costs the Russians about $4 million to build a satellite that
would sell for $50 million in the west. If you want to give them
specifications, they'll build you a satellite. For the particular satellites
that RIMSAT will be using, costs run about $378,000 per transponder year. This
compares to $810,000 t/y in the U.S. They can sell their time for about $1.1
million compared to $2.6 million in the U.S. RIMSAT will launch their
satellites on Protons. To get the best prices, they bought in bulk. They
have the rights to twelve launches, so if any of you need a lift I can give
you their address. The first launch is scheduled for October and they are
getting one used satellite from the Russians, which is being moved into place
now.
Tidbits:
* Sternberg says this kind of thing has to be done by entrepreneurs, not big
business because big business is just like what they have over there, except
that "we have better paper, both in the bathroom and in the copier."
* Russian launches are self insured. The promise to replace a failed launch
within 9 months.
* Major investors in RIMSAT include Russell 20/20, which is a huge retirement
fund organization, Cellsat, which is a big telecom business in southeast Asia,
and a fund operated by some of the big names in U.S aerospace which he says is
sort of an insurance policy for them if this really takes off.
* He downplayed the instabilites in the ex-USSR saying that we are worried
partly because we aren't used to seeing Russia as anything but an unvarying
monolith. Italy gets a new government "every two weeks" but we don't worry
because we're used to it. He predicted that once we get used to seeing what
really goes on in Russia we won't worry about their stability as much.
* Part of the problem with cooperative ventures is the problem of transfering
money. The central bank has a policy of taking hard currency payments, putting
25% in their coffers and replacing the rest with the "equivalent" value in
rubles. To get around this, RIMSAT pays their hard currency into an Austrian
bank account. NPO PM then pays their contractors with foreign currency so that
the only the contractors get swindled by the government.
* One of the big problems RIMSAT has had is stonewalling by the western
satellite industry. However, Intelsat recently bought three of the same type
of satellites, which was rather reassuring.
* The biggest worry most people have about russian satellites is the primitive
technology and shorter lifetime. The older Gorizont (Horizon) satellites have
a lifetime of about 5 years, while the more modern Express satellites compare
well with western technology and last about 8 years. While this is much
shorter than 15 years for western satellites, Sternberg downplayed the
difference. At these prices they can afford to launch new ones. In addition,
shorter lifetimes mean that they can replace their equipment with newer
technology so they will be able to compete better than older, out of date
hardware.
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1,967 |
Me too! I would like any park or action gif or jpeg about baseball. | 2 | trimmed_train |
9,109 |
I'd go for a '39 Lincoln Continental if I could find one. Sad part is
that Edsel Ford designed it, and look at the abortion they named after
him. Ain't no justice.
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5,618 | My friends and I have a buch of books for sale. They are not
being used due to change of job, loss of interest etc.
Rather than letting them gather dust, we would like to pass them
on to others who may use them (of course at a price :-)
Topics Include:
- C/C++/Other Programming Languages
- UNIX/DOS/OS2/Windows/Other Operating System topics (General)
- X/Motif/OLIT/Xwin
- Networking and Digital Signal Processing
- Computer Graphics
- Microprocessors and Computer Architecture
- Math
- Software Engineering/Algorithms/Software Testing
- Databases
- Expert Systems
The list is long and rather than posting it here I will email
it by request. I am going to keep the list updated and so will
respond to all requests (lucky me :-)
If you are interested drop me a line | 5 | trimmed_train |
4,375 | Hi All,
Would anyone out there in 'net-land' happen to have an
authentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that
is used to adorn Gyro's and Souvlaki?
Thanks, | 19 | trimmed_train |
5,834 | Hi netters,
Does anyone know have any info on the Ultrastor line of controller?
I'm especially interested in the 14F and 34F SCSI controllers.
Please email any info ASAP. I'm building a system and that's one
of the few conponents that is missing. Thanks. | 5 | trimmed_train |
6,912 | I believe that Rusty Staub was also a jewish ball-player
Also, Mordaci Brown back in the early 20th century. He was a pitcher whose
nickname was "3 fingers" Brown....for obvious reasons....he had 3 fingers.
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3,278 |
They aren't going to leave a loophole as glaring as space mining. Quite a
few of those people are, when you come right down to it, basically against
industrial civilization. They won't stop with shutting down the mines here;
that is only a means to an end for them now.
The worst thing you can say to a true revolutionary is that his revolution
is unnecessary, that the problems can be corrected without radical change.
Telling people that paradise can be attained without the revolution is
treason of the vilest kind.
Trying to harness these people to support spaceflight is like trying to
harness a buffalo to pull your plough. He's got plenty of muscle, all
right, but the furrow will go where he wants, not where you want. | 10 | trimmed_train |
499 | 1987 ARIENS RIDING LAWN MOWER
This mower is in perfect condition and
contains the following features:
- Electric Start
- 26 inch cut
- Double Rear Baggers
- New Battery
- New Engine (one year old)
- Inflatable Tires (gives nice ride)
- Cushioned Seat (gives nice ride)
I am moving into a house that has a
small area of grass to cut and does not
require such large mower. The engine was
replaced, not rebuilt, last year due to
some faulty work done by a lawn mower
repair shop. | 5 | trimmed_train |
7,066 | 4 | trimmed_train |
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11,147 | I posted this to the apps group and didn't get any response, so
I'll try here. I am trying to use the latex help feature
available in emacs for windows and read that you need a separate
latexhlp.zip file along with a vms2hlp.zip file to convert this
to windows help. Has anyone found these files or gotten this
command help to work? | 18 | trimmed_train |
3,803 | Sketch: Rotate so cylinder axis is || Z axis.
Intersect X/Y projection of line with projected cylinder (similar to,
but easier than, sphere intersection). Result: no intersection, one
intersection, or two intersections, parameterized along line by t0 and
t1. Now look at Z, and compute intersections of line with top and
bottom planes of cylinder. This gives t0' and t1'. The interval of
intersection is then the bit of the line from [t0,t1] INTERSECT [t0',t1'].
Details left as an exercise for the reader.
=S | 1 | trimmed_train |
905 |
Why should he have been any different "then"? Ozzy Osbourne,
ex-singer and main character of the Black Sabbath of good ole days past,
is and always was a devout catholic. Or so I've heard over on the
alt.rock-n-roll.metal newsgroups, an' I figure those folks oughta know..
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8,755 | Thanks to all who responded. The three items (electric vest,
Aerostitch Suit, and Scarf) are all spoken for.
-Gary
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1,743 | Try MaxAppleZoom ( a shareware init ) if your monitor is not driven by internal
video. | 14 | trimmed_train |
10,440 |
These new rule changes are great! However, I think that your rules are
MUCH too complicated. How will the normal average fan be able to count
how many fouls a player has? And then we would even have to remember the
names of the players, in order to determine who drew the foul! And, of
course, there will have to be new "sub-positions", like the power center
who just sits in the slot until the (blue, of course) puck comes near him,
and the "shooting defenseman" and the "point defenseman". Finally, we'll
be able to keep stats on the best and the worst penalty-shot takers.
Since almost everyone on the ice will be getting fouled, we'll be able to
see Ulf Samuellson (sp?) and Tie Domi miss penalty shots like crazy.
;-) ;-) ;-)
--
Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
[email protected] IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!! | 17 | trimmed_train |
7,813 | I recall reading that the Mac LC (and presumably the LC II & III) can use stand
ard VGA monitors, with appropriate cable adapters. I am uncertain of this sinc
e I have asked other people who say this is not so. So can all vga monitors be
used on the Mac LC? What are the specs needed for a PC monitor to work with a
Mac LC (horizontal nad vertical frequencies)?
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3,084 |
Hey, sounds great. Does that mean that W4WG works with ODI? I thought it
uses NDIS.
My problem is that Lan Workplace with all its drivers uses up most of my
UMBs, so I'd hate to have to load many more drivers to make W4WG work
along.
I read in a German computer magazine that TCP/IP support for W4WG is just
around the corner. Anybody have any news about this?
Regards, Richard
PS: I possibly caused a dupe with this message. If this message was spread
twice outside of Munich, please send me a short note. It would help
me debug my news application.
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8,598 | I understand how israel captured the teritory and feels that it
is its right to annex it. I can't fully understand why it has
to deal with palestinians much the same way jews were treated
before the holocaust (the Final Solution) by Hitler. What I
totally don't get is why the U.S. has to subsidize the
existance of such a thorough abuser of human rights.
Just wondering
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9,168 | (note: this is not about the L.A. or NY Times)
A few times a year, a funny thing happens: the bike engine runs
perfectly. Completely smooth. Not that it runs poorly normally, but
on these days, it is exceptional. My theory is that the air density
and moisture content of the air are such that I get complete
combustion. Needless to say, it puts me in a great mood.
The mood lasted for about 20 miles. Heading north on the 405
freeway, about a mile or two south of the 10, my throttle stopped
responding.... and I was between lanes. Nothing to do but make
my way over 4 lanes to the shoulder... initially by gliding, then
by pushing. At least traffic was heavy enough so that cars did
not mind stopping for me.
Turned out to be a screw unscrewed inside my Mikuni HS40
carb. I keep hearing that one should keep all of the screws
tight on a bike, but I never thought that I had to do that
on the screws inside of a carb. At least it was roadside
fixable and I was on my way in hardly any time.
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Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired -- R. Geis | 12 | trimmed_train |
4,317 | We are looking for a X client which can convert a xwd or a bitmap
file into a gif file for use on a Macintosh.
Thanks | 16 | trimmed_train |
8,523 |
Does anyone know if there will be alternate games in cities where local
broadcast rights are being protected? I'd really love to see the Bruins a
couple times, and with this pro-Patrick bias shown by ESPN something tells me
that I will have to wait until the conference finals to see them :-}.
-JPC
-- | 17 | trimmed_train |
2,602 |
Yes, Colin... I have to agree with you here... I've put the puck in
my own net the same way Smith did... (only once, mind you :-) and it
was definitely my fault. It is NOT a common play to play the puck the
way that Smith did.
Luckily, for me... when I did it... it was only a scrimmage :-) | 17 | trimmed_train |
8,112 |
xdm does XGrabServer when it's running in secure mode (so do some
screen-locks). There's really no simple way to tell this is the case.
You can take xdm out of secure mode; probably not too cool.
You can wrap your call to XOpenDisplay in some code which solicts
a future SIGALRM and longjmps past the XOpenDisplay from the signal
handler. An example of this can be seen in the xdm sources. | 16 | trimmed_train |
1,932 | I am looking for a large futon and frame. | 5 | trimmed_train |
8,443 | 13 | trimmed_train |
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6,737 |
> be the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no
> materials we can't get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids
> and comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low
> grade fusion reactors.
problem with 3He (aside from the difficulty in making any fusion
reactor work) is that its concentration in lunar regolith is just so
small -- on the order of 5 ppb or so, on average (more in some
This thread reminds me of Wingo's claims some time ago about the moon
as a source of titanium for use on earth. As I recall, Wingo wasn't
...
even 1% of the basalts are 5% TiO2, this is trillions of tons of TiO2
at concentrations only a factor of 2-3 less than in lunar high-Ti
basalts. It is difficult to see how the disadvantages of the moon
could be overcome by such a small increase the concentration of the
ore (never mind the richer, but less common, terrestrial ores being
mined today).
Why Paul, it's obvious.
Once chlorine chemistry has been banned on Earth,
as is being advocated by some groups, Ti prices will
sharply increase (we are of course not allowed to
assume any developments in Ti processing).
Lunar Ti will then be eminently competitive for
the trendy jewelry market and certain applications
of National Importance
:-) :-) :-)
(oops, this is sci.space... wrong rules of debate ;-)
Seriously, I'd say there is a flaw in Gary's analysis
in that he assumes an export oriented economy, maybe
the lunatics will just want some native Ti for local
use... as to why Lunar natives are cost effective,
analysis has shown they will be critical in providing
a sheltered manufacturing base, technological innovation,
critical materials and manpower in the war between
the Allies and Central Powers in about two hundred years...
;-) | 10 | trimmed_train |
4,653 |
And some BDC in a Volvo comes careening off the freeway and lands on top of
you in said pool. You can't win.
jim | 12 | trimmed_train |
5,428 |
Depending on how you plan to use your SUV, I might recommend also
browsing Trailer Boats and one or more of those Pickup, Shotgun,
and 4WD magazines. The car rags mostly seem to consider recently
graded pea gravel to be offroading and ten sacks of redwood chips
to be a bedload. Considering that most of these SUVs seem to be
used mostly as robust station wagons, that's probably not a bad
approach, but if your applications are more demanding, pick your
information sources accordingly.
Of the three vehicles on your short list (Explorer, 4Runner,
Pathfinder), I'd recommend the 4Runner as being closely based
on a rather robust pickup and the Explorer for being comfortably
carlike. Don't know much about the Pathfinder. | 4 | trimmed_train |
4,103 |
NuBus is a much more robust system for system for installing multiple
cards without configuration problems. I know that when I was checking
into expasion options for an SI there were a number of PDS video cards
that would not work with certian Dual slot cache adapters. | 14 | trimmed_train |
8,543 |
code deleted...
XmNverifyBell
Specifies whether a bell will sound when an action is reversed
during a verification callback.
You are setting doit to false in the callback, and Text[Field] is beeping
as it should. To turn off this behavior, set this boolean resource to false. | 16 | trimmed_train |
1,258 | What is the status of cruptology for private citizens throughout the
world? or, more clearly, is there a listing of countries and their
policies on citizens encrypting electronic data?
I'm curious how the Europeans handle this, for instance. | 7 | trimmed_train |
3,056 | There was an article on Jewish major leaguers in a recent issue of "Elysian
Fields", what used to be the "Minnesota Review of Baseball". As I recall,
it had an amazing amount of research, with a long list of players and a
large bibliography. | 2 | trimmed_train |
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9,524 | Hello.
I just read my first newspaper in a while and noticed an article on a
'messianic cult' leader named 'David Koresh'.
I'd like to know more about this and what is going on with them.
Please email me as I don't normally read this newsgroup. Thanks.
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8,745 |
Yes. But this is *irrelevant*. You're talking about averages, when we
have lots of information about THIS PLAYER IN PARTICULAR to base our
decisions on.
I might as well say "We know that very, very few people are more than 7 feet
tall, so chances are that Manute Bol is really only 6 foot 4."
Why isn't Lopez likely to hit that well? He hit that well last year (after
adjusting his stats for park and league and such); he hit better (on an
absolute scale) than Olson or Berryhill did. By a lot.
As for rushing... If there really is a qualitative difference between the
minors and the majors that requires a period of adjustment (and I don't
believe there is), then wouldn't you rather waste Lopez's 22-year old good
season than his 23-year old very good season or his 24-year-old excellent
season? The sooner you get him acclimated, the more of his prime you get to
use.
The point was not that 17 AB is a significant sample, but rather that he
hadn't done anything in spring training to cause even a blockhead manager
to question whether his minor league numbers were for real, or to send him
down "until he gets warmed up".
Most players are *never* ready for the bigs. What does this have to do
with Javy Lopez?
See above.
But I could apply the same reasoning to Frank Thomas or Barry Bonds. Most
players aren't that good, so they probably won't be that good this year
either.
And demonstrated inabilities to hit their way out of a soap bubble.
Not superstars, not stars, not even good players. Maybe average, if we're
being charitable.
Ummm. Justice is a very fine hitter. Pendleton might have another big year
in his bat, but he might also spend the season in Hamstring Hell. Gant is a
big question mark. The Bream/Hunter platoon is decent (not excellent) and
has rotten OBP or SLG (depending on who's in). Blauser is a very valuable
bat... for a shortstop.
Wanna bet? The difference between Lopez's bat and Olson/Berryhill could be
20 or 30 runs over the course of the season. Given a choice between a player
with experience and a player who can play, I'll take the latter every time.
Just like Keith Mitchell did?
That was me, and you so far your only counter-proposal is that they
really don't understand how good Lopez is, or overvalue experience,
or some combination of the two. I think my interpretation was more
flattering to the organization.
[Well-argued but inflammatory reply deleted.]
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6,760 | My wife has become interested through an acquaintance in Post-Polio Syndrome
This apparently is not recognised in New Zealand and different symptons ( eg
chest complaints) are treated separately. Does anone have any information on
it
Thanks
| 19 | trimmed_train |
2,405 | [email protected] (Frank O'Dwyer) writes ...
To the degree that relativism is a more accurate decription of the
truth than is objectivism, it provides more power and ability to
control events.
Assuming, for the moment, that morals _are_ relative, then two
relativists can recognize that neither has a lock on the absolute
truth and they can proceed to negotiate a workable compromise that
produces the desired results.
Assuming that there is an absolute morality, two disagreeing
objectivists can either be both wrong or just one of them right; there
is no room for compromise. Once you beleive in absolute morals,
you must accept that you are amoral or that everyone who disagrees
with you is amoral.
Given a choice between a peaceful compromise or endless contention,
I'd say that compromise seems to be "better".
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8,881 | Also remember that most people map the
sanguine/choleric/melencholic/phlegmatic division onto the extraversion
and neuroticism dimensions (Like Eysenck) and that the MBTI does not
deal with neuroticism (Costa & McCrae). | 19 | trimmed_train |
5,699 |
That's right, and this is pretty impossible, right? It would be ideal if
we could believe for a while, just to try out religion, and only then
determine which course of thought suits us best. But again, this is not
possible. Not that religion warrants belief, but the belief carries with
it some psychological benefits. There are also some psychological
burdens, too.
Well, if there were some psychological or other benefits gained from racism,
they could only be fully understood or judged by persons actually "believing"
in racism. Of course, the parallel happens to be a poor one, but you
originated it. | 8 | trimmed_train |
11,244 |
Does it do it to all tapes? Were the two tapes that it unwound of the same
type from the same batch? The reason I ask is that I bought some generic tapes
that did this and found that the tape markers were not fully punched out and
had closed the little marker hole. It was only on a few tapes of a set.
Did you open up the tape cartridge and put the tape back on the reels?
If you have not yet, open it up by removing the two screws on the bottom of
the tape cartridge and snap the plastic shell away from the metal base.
As you are pulling the tape through the assembly try not to touch any more
than you have to. As you are doing it, look for a couple of little holes in
the tape. These are the marker holes which let the tape drive know when it is
at the end of the tape. The holes are spaced a couple of inches apart. My best
guess is that the drive finds the first marker and then stops on the second
marker?
Anyhow, If the tape has the holes, then check to see if the mirror on the tape
is clean. The function of the mirror is to detect the marker holes. The
tape drive shines a light at the mirror and has a pickup in the area where
the reflection would come out. When the hole goes by, the pickup detects the
light that was allowed to pass and it knows when to stop. If the mirror is dirty
or out of alighment (unlikely since it is made into the case) you might have
a problem detecting the end of the tape.
If the tape drive does it on all tapes and the tapes all look good, then either
the pickup or the LED of the sensor system has failed or is dirty. If you open
the drive door you will see the sensor assembly to the left of the R/W head
assembly. If it looks clean and nothing is in its way, then the drive may
need to be serviced. It is possible that the LED is burned out or the sensor
is out.
If it is still in warranty, you might be able to send it back to CMS for
repair.
---
Scott Hiles
[email protected] | 3 | trimmed_train |
4,369 |
This probably only tells you that the DC blocking capacitor that's in series
between the one-chip, single-ended audio amp and the speaker terminal is there.
Open it up and look for the power amp "ICs". They'll be fairly obvious.
Replace the one connected to the dead output.
Well, one thing you should do is poke around the terminals of the power amp
chips. Use a probe with a 10M resistor (like a scope probe) connected to the
input of a small audio amp w/speaker. If you find line-level input to both
chips, one of the chips is bad and can probably replaced pretty easily.
If you want to pick off a near-line-level signal, suitable for feeding to an
outboard amp, the outer legs of the volume control pot will often be good
enough. This is *before* the volume control (and usually before the tone and
balance controls too). If you take off from the center and ground legs of
the volume pot, this will be after the volume control (but again, probably
before the other controls).
If the unit is a modern type with an electronic volume control chip, you should
probably forget the whole thing. | 11 | trimmed_train |
10,617 | I noticed several years ago that when I took analgesics fairly regularly,
(motrin at the time), I seemed to get a lot of migraines. But had
forgotten about that until I started reading some of the posts here.
I generally don't take NSAIDS or Tylenol for headaches, because I've
found them to be ineffective. However, I have two other pain sources
that force me to take NSAIDS (currently Naprosyn). First, is some
pelvic pain that I get at the beginning of my period, and then much
worse at midcycle. I have had surgery for endometriosis in the past
(~12 years ago), so the Drs. tell me that my pain is probably due
to the endometriosis coming back. I've tried Synarel, it reduced
the pain while I took it (3 mos), but the pain returned immediately
after I stopped. Three doctors have suggested hysterectomy as the
only "real solution" to my problem. Although I don't expect to have
any more children, I don't like the idea of having my uterus and
one remaining ovary removed (the first ovary was removed when I had
the surgery for endometriosis). One of the Drs that suggested
I get a hysterectomy is an expert in laser surgery, but perhaps thinks
that type of procedure is only worthwhile on women who still plan
to have children. So basically all I'm left with is toughing out
the pain. This would be impossible without Naprosyn (or something
similar - but not aspirin, that doesn't work, and Motrin gave me
horrible gastritis a few years ago, so I'm through with it). In
fact, Naprosyn works very well at eliminating the pain if I take
it regularly as I did when I had severe back pain (and pain in both
legs) as I'll discuss in a moment. Generally though, I wait until
I have the pain before I take the Naprosyn, but then it takes
several hours for it reduce the pain (it's actually quite effective
at reducing the pain, it just takes quite a while). In the meantime
I'm frequently in severe pain.
The other pain source I have is chronic lower back pain resulting in
bilateral radiculopathy. I've had MRIs, Xrays, CT scan, and EMGs
(I've had 2 of them, and don't intend to ever do that again) with
nerve conduction tests. The tests have not been conclusive as to
what is causing my back and leg pain. The MRI reports both say I have
several bulging, degeneratig disks, and from the Xrays (and MRI, I think)
it is apparent that I have arthritis. The reading on the CT scan
was that there are two herniations (L3-L4, and L4-L5), but others
hav looked at the films and concluded that there are no herniations.
The second EMG and nerve conduction studies shows significant denervation
compared to the first EMG. Oh yeah, I had some other horrible test,
called something like Somatic Evoked Response which showed that the
"internal nerves" are working fine. Anyway, the bottom line is that
I sometimes have severe pain in both legs and back pain. The back pain
is there all the time, but I can live with it. When the leg pain is there,
I need some analgesic/anti-inflammatory medication to reduce the pain
to a level where I can work. So I took Naprosyn regulary for 6-9
months (every time I tried to stop the leg pain got worse, so I'd
always resume). Since last November I have taken it much less frequently,
and primarily for the pelvic pain. I have been going to physical
therapy for the last 8 months (2-3 times a week). After the first month
or so, my therapist put me on pelvic traction (she had tried it earlier,
but it had caused a lot of pain in my back, this time she tried it at
a lower weight). After a month or two, the pain in my legs began going
away (but the traction aways caused discomfort in my lower back, which
could be reduced with ultrasound and massage). So now, I don't have
nearly as much pain in my legs, in fact my therapist took me off
traction about 2 weeks ago.
Getting back to my original reason for this post... Even if I can avoid
taking analgesic for headaches, I really can't avoid them entirely because
I have other pain sources, that "force" me to use them (Oh, I forgot
to mention that it has been suggested to me that I have back surgery,
but I'm avoiding that too). I find the migraines difficult to deal with,
occassionally I have to take off work, but usually I can work, but at
a reduced capacity (I'm a systems engineer and do a lot of reading
and writing). When the pelvic pain is bad, I can't concentrate much,
I usually end up jumping out of my chair every few minutes, because
the pain is so bothersome. When the pain in my back is bad, it can
cause severe burning in both legs, shooting pains in my legs, electric
shock type of pain in my feet and toes, and basically when it gets bad
I can't really sit at all. Then I end up spending most of my time home
and in bed. So even if the analgesics contribute to the migraines, the
migraines are more tolerable than the other pain sources. I get a lot
of migraines, an average of 3 to 4 a month, which last 1-3 days.
I've taken cafergot (the first time the caffiene really got to me so
I reduced the dosage), but I don't like the side effects (if I take
more than two I get diahrea). If I get a very bad headache, I will
eventually take the cafergot. My neurologist wasn't very helpful when
I told him my problems with cafergot, he said that when sumatriptan
becomes available, I should try that. I've tried several other medications
(fiornal, midrin, fiornal with codeine, tegretol, and inderal) but
they either didn't work, or I couldn't tolerate them. So what can I do?
My doctor's seem to be satisfied with me just trying to tolerate the
pain, which I agree with most of the time, but not when I have a lot of
pain. I've had some bad experiences with surgery (my heart stopped
once from the anesthesia - I was told that it was likely the
succinylcholine), and I've already had surgery several times.
Anyway, the point of what I'm saying is that even if analgesics can contribute
to migraines, some people NEED to take them to tolerate other pain. | 19 | trimmed_train |
4,277 | [..stuff deleted]
Oh, but can Big Brother afford such things in these times of tight
budgets?
I don't know how many folks noticed it, but Dorothy "Trust Me" Denning gave
a real clue to the current state of the art at NSA on decrypto machines when
she said the NSA told her they didn't even want to be the holder of any
part of the key.
Now why is that? I doubt there is a trapdoor in Skipjack. (But we will
never know). And I doubt the NSA would promote a mass market chip they
couldn't compromise. Ergo, NSA is now capable of compromising (probably
with brute force keysearch) engines of the complexity of Skipjack. Look
at the specs. Why, I bet they have thousands of little chips chugging
away in their crypto busters... Maybe even tens of thousands. Complexity?
Not much more than a 3090. How many such machines will fit into Fort Meade?
I think PGP2.3 should have 256 bit IDEA keys...
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2,767 |
Good!
Not very. Thanks to the filibuster in the Senate, things are backing up. The
House judiciary is going to start looking at our friends from the ATF, so that
bill will be held up a little, too. NOTE: Things can change quickly.
I thought there was a correction process in both bills for both parts.
Very correct.
Welcome to the world of "the privileged".
How about no compulsion to allow purchase if there is no evidence against?
It is already illegal to do this.
This is the "health" card. Or so some "paranoids" claim. I say that just
because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. :-) 1/2
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5,608 |
From THE TUFTS UNIVERSITY GUIDE TO TOTAL NUTRITION: Stanley Gershoff,
Ph.D., Dean of Tufts University School of Nutrition; HarperPerennial, 1991
(ISBN #0-06-272007-4):
"The greatest hazard of barbecuing is that the cook will not use
enough caution and get burned. Some people suggest that the
barbecuing itself is dangerous, because the smoke, which is
absorbed by the meat, contains benzopyrene, which, in its pure form,
has been known to cause cancer in laboratory animals. However,
in order to experience the same results, people would have to
consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a
time."
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4,510 |
You've got to set border_pixel in your window attributes. The default
is CopyFromParent which gives the BadMatch. Do this:
...
unsigned long valuemask;
...
/*
* if border_width is non-zero you'd better alloc a colour from cmap
* rather than use any old pixel value. Also, use valuemask, it makes
* the code more obvious.
*/
attr.colormap = cmap;
attr.border_pixel = 0;
valuemask = CWColormap | CWBorderPixel;
win = XCreateWindow(
dpy,
DefaultRootWindow(dpy),
10,10,
width,height,
0, /* border width. see comment below */
8, /* depth */
InputOutput, /* class */
vinfo.visual, /* visual */
valuemask,
&attr
);
A note on border_width: your code looked like this:
border_width set to CopyFromParent works but doesn't make sense.
border_width should be an unsigned int. You get away with it because
CopyFromParent is #define'ed to be zero in X.h. If it happened to be
defined as -1 you'd get a very interesting looking window! | 16 | trimmed_train |
1,299 |
Without getting into the *really* *thorny* questions about reverse
engineering and all of that, let me just point out that there already
exist gate arrays and suchlike that have what's known as a security fuse
which can be programmed after you've verified all other programming --
this makes it impossible to read out the programming of the device
(again, ignoring the reverse engineering questions). Speaking from
experience here: I had to completely reinvent one of my designs some
six or seven years ago when the disk file was zapped, the backups were
all bad, and the devices were unreadable because of the security fuses.
Made me appreciate the value of printouts. ;-)
So on this point at least there's not so much worry.
But whether or not we can get the chips made reliably and securely is
really secondary to the question of whether use of the chip is itself
likely to be secure, methinks. | 7 | trimmed_train |
9,243 |
(regarding NSA monitoring of US military code traffic)
On the contrary- The Walker spy case is one where the KGB was
given keys (as I recall)
--
| 7 | trimmed_train |
6,558 | Hello all:
I was wondering, is the "Kermit" package (the actual package, not a
different program with Kermit file transfers) available for Microsoft
Windows 3.0/3.1?
Any information would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail or post.
Thanks in advance! | 18 | trimmed_train |
8,961 | For Sale...:
**BRAND NEW** Hewlett Packard toner cartridge
model number HP 92295A.
o I am selling this toner because I recently
bought a Brother HL-10V printer and the
toner that I am selling. I activated the
toner, but ended up returning the printer.
The store, however would not take back the
toner. This toner has been used to print
only three pages and is in perfect condition.
I will protect it for shipment so that no
toner escapes. It comes with all original
packaging and manuals. The toner is compatible
with ANY laser printer that uses the model
number of the toner I am selling; just look in
your manual to see if it will work for you.
I will not go below $60.00. I will pay the
shipping to anywhere in the continental
United States.
If you are interested, leave me email or call Kirk
Peterson at (303) 494-7951 anytime. | 5 | trimmed_train |
8,909 | Has anyone here dealt with Tangent? I'm looking at an 486 system
they have that has an EISA backplane with a VESA slot for video.
The SCSI contoller they use is made by Aorta. I've never heard
of this brand. Can anyone comment on Tangent or the controller? | 3 | trimmed_train |
1,062 | The JP5 on the Speedstar 24x is for those systems with boot-up problems.
If your system fails to boot-up proprtly, please pull off the jumper
block from jp5. This will not affect the proformance of the SpeedStar 24x.
This is what my manual says about jp5. I never knew that it was there
but the card is a real ask kicker in my book. It beats the hell out
of my junk Sony 1604s to the point that I can't even use above 648x480
mode much...Sam
Some times an upgrage turns out to be a big overkill, like driving a Sony
with a 24x that the monitor can't handle. Or installing 60ns simms and
then finding out that your mother board doesn't have a cmos wait state
adjustment to take advantage of the new 60ns simms that you just bought! | 3 | trimmed_train |
4,040 |
duh, why not just chop out the .sig?
bob vesterman.
ps: hey kids, take all those pictures of dead presidents out of your
parents' wallets and mail them to: | 2 | trimmed_train |
4,253 | THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 17, 1993
INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT
BY MICHAEL WHITELY OF
KDKA-AM RADIO, PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh International Airport
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
10:40 A.M. EDT
Q For everyone listening on KDKA Radio, I'm Mike
Whitely, KDKA Radio News. We're here at the Pittsburgh
International Airport and with me is the President of the United
States Bill Clinton.
And I'd like to welcome you to the area and to KDKA.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Mike. Glad to be here.
Q There are a lot of things we'd like to talk
about in the brief amount of time we have, but some news is just
breaking from Los Angeles. I guess the entire country has been
kind of holding their breath, wondering what's going to happen in
the trial of the four Los Angeles police officers. We just heard
that two of those officers, the sergeant, Sergeant Koon and
Officer Powell have been found guilty, and two officers have been
found not guilty.
It's a situation that's been building for over a
year since the first trial and now this trial and this verdict.
And I wonder what your thoughts are this morning on how you see
the situation in Los Angeles in connection with your
administration and what you're trying to do.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, I think the
American people should know that this trial, in my judgment, is a
tribute to the work and judgment of the jury, as well as to the
efforts of the federal government in developing the case.
The law under which the officers were tried is a
complex one; the standards of proof are complicated. The jury
decided that they would convict the sergeant who was responsible
for supervising the officers and the officer who on the film did
most of the beating. The jury acquitted an officer who kicked
Rodney King, but also plainly tried to shield him from some
blows, and another officer who was a rookie.
No one knows exactly why they did what they did, but
it appears that they really tried to do justice here. They
acknowledged that his civil rights were violated. And I think
that the American people should take a lot of pride in that. But
I hope now we can begin to look ahead and focus on three things:
first of all, the importance of trying to bring this country
together and not violate the civil rights of any American;
secondly, the importance of renewing our fight against crime.
I think it's important to recognize that in the
poorest areas of Los Angeles and many other cities in this
country, people may be worried about police abuse, but they're
even more worried about crime. It's time that we renewed our
efforts to go to community policing -- put 100,000 more police
officers on the street; pass the Brady Bill that would require a
waiting period before people could buy a handgun, and do some
other things to reduce the vulnerability of our people to
violence and drugs.
And the last point I'd like to make is it seems to
me that we have got to rededicate ourselves to the economic
revitalization of our cities and other economically-distressed
areas. If you just think about it -- if everybody in Los Angeles
who wanted a job had one, I don't think we'd have quite as many
problems as we do.
And I laid out a very ambitious program in the
campaign to try to bring private investment and public investment
to bear in our cities. I have dispatched the Commerce Secretary,
Ron Brown, to California to try to come up with some strategies
for that state, because it's our biggest state with our highest
unemployment rate -- which could then be applied around the
country. I want to talk to him and to the Attorney General, to
the new head of the NAACP, to Reverend Jackson, and to several
other people, and then I'll decide where to go from here with
regard to Los Angeles and the other cities of the country.
Q Let's talk about what brings you to the
Pittsburgh area today. There have been -- I guess there's been a
lot of discussion on Capitol Hill about your stimulus package.
You've been locked in a battle with the GOP. Yesterday, as you
said earlier in your radio address, you made some moves to break
that gridlock. What brings you to Pittsburgh, in particular to
Allegheny County, in particular to Pennsylvania, with that
battle?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, there are two reasons. First
of all, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and Pennsylvania supported
me in the last election because they wanted a new direction in
economic policy. We have passed our overall economic plan; it
gives the country a very different budget for the next five years
than we've had in the previous 12. We reduced the deficit and,
at the same time, increased investment in jobs and education and
health care, in the things that will make us a stronger country.
But in addition to that, I asked the Congress in the
short run to spend a little more money, a modest amount of money
to create another half-million jobs in the next year and a half;
to try to cut the unemployment rate by a half a percent; but also
to try to spark job creation in the private sector more. The
plan passed the House. It has the support of a majority of the
Senate. At the present time, all the Republican senators as a
bloc are filibustering the bill. That is, they won't let it come
to a vote.
I believe that Senator Specter would like to vote
for the bill. And I believe that Senator Dole, the Republican
leader, has put a lot of pressure on a lot of the Republicans to
stay hitched. And they're all saying that this bill increases
the deficit. It doesn't. This bill is well below the spending
targets that Congress approved, including the Republicans, for
this year. This bill is paid for by budget cuts in the next five
years. This bill is designed to give a jump-start to the
economy. And I must say, a lot of the Republican senators that
are holding it up, when Mr. Bush was President, voted for
billions of dollars of emergency spending of just this kind --
much of it was totally unrelated to creating jobs.
So what I'm trying to do is to break this logjam.
I've held out an olive branch, I've offered a compromise. But I
think that we ought to try to put some more Americans to work
right now to show that we're changing the direction of the
country. And that's the purpose of the bill.
Q Have you been in touch with Senator Specter or
his office lately?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we've been trying to talk
regularly to -- through my White House Congressional Liaison
operation to the senators that we think are open to this --
Senator Specter, Senator D'Amato from New York, Senator Jeffords
from Vermont, Senator Hatfield from Oregon, and five or six
others whom we believe know we need more jobs in this economy and
know that we are paying for this with budget cuts over the life
of the budget I presented.
You know, it has a lot of appeal to say, well, we've
got a big deficit, we shouldn't increase it more. But the truth
is that we are paying for this with budget cuts in the whole life
of the budget over the next few years. And more importantly, we
have this program well below the spending targets that Congress
has already approved for this year. And they've done this for
years, with the Republicans voting for it -- many Republicans
voting for it -- for things that weren't nearly as important as
putting the American people back to work.
So I just hope that this doesn't become a political
issue. It ought to just be about the people of this country and
the need for jobs.
Q I have some questions from people who supported
you, and some people who are skeptical about your administration.
It has to do with their hopes, and also with their fears. A lot
of people who supported you and voted for you in Pennsylvania --I
think some of them are now saying, we're glad we got him in the
White House, but now look at this incredible process he has to go
through. Look at these problems. Look at this gridlock. And
they're beginning to wonder, is this going to work; can you pull
it off? And, of course, your skeptics are saying, well, I knew
it was going to be like this.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, what I would -- I'd ask
people, first of all, to remember that we are, frankly, moving
very fast. The budget resolution that the Congress passed is the
fastest they have ever passed a budget resolution -- ever -- in
history, setting out the next five-year budget targets. So we
are moving really rapidly. And we've got them working on
political reform, welfare reform, health care reform, a whole
wide range of things.
But it's a big operation. You can't expect to turn
it around overnight. It took 12 years to produce the conditions
which led to the victory I received from the people in November,
and we can't turn it around in 90 days. But I think we're making
real, real progress.
I would urge the people not to get discouraged.
We're not going to win every battle, and not everything is going
to happen overnight. But we are definitely moving and changing
things.
Q Thank you very much.
The President of the United States, Bill Clinton,
here live at Pittsburgh International Airport. I'm Mike Whitely,
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And not only that, but if the drugs were legal we could have pharmacists instead
of pushers selling them, and the pharmacists could be obligated to not only
inform the purchasers of the dangers of drug use, but also show them how to use
the drugs in relatively safe ways. And the dangers of impurities (responsible
for much of the suffering that drugs cause) would be all but eliminated.
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6,255 | Has anybody compiled VOGL-graphics library
for IBM-PC? I need to call it from MS-Fortran
but don't have MS-C to compile the sources.
Thanks for any help...
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10,085 | I spoke to a sales dweeb in 3X, a Ducati dealer here in Blighty, and he had
nothing good to say about them... it appears they are waaaay underpowered,
(basically, it's the 750/900 with a 400cc engine), and there have been some
quality problems (rusty _frame_ !!). Save your pennies... buy the 900 :)
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5,126 | Congratulations also are due to the Hamas activists who blew up the
World Trade Center, no? After all, with every American that they put
in the grave they are underlining the USA's bankrupt imperialist
policies. Go HAmas!
Blah blah blah blah blah
Brad, you are only asking that that violence that you love so much
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