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5,731 | For Sale:
1982 - 16' Hobie Cat Special, very good condition with
trailer, catbox, righting system, many extras. Boat
is currently garaged in Natick MA, 25 miles east of
Boston. | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,625 |
Yup! Ruins your sex life!
Tony
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167 | Would someone please give me the address for Texas Ranger
ticket orders. Thanks very much. | 2 | trimmed_train |
5,450 |
The only time I've seen similar behaviour is when an X application forked a child
without setting close on exec on the X display connection file descriptor.
The shell waited for a ConfigureNotify event that never arrived because it got
picked up by the child. Sometimes the shell correctly got the ConfigureNotify if
the timing was 'right'.
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10,788 | The real problem w/ the Stealth from what I've heard is that Diamond won't
tell anyone how to program their proprietary clock stuff, so X under Linux
and 386BSD won't run....
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6,383 |
Mike Vernon is now 3 wins 11 losses plus that All-Star game debacle in
afternoon games during his career...with another afternoon game with
Los Angeles next Sunday...has the ABC deal doomed the Flames? | 17 | trimmed_train |
9,068 |
Perhaps it's time to start rec.sport.baseball.graffiti, where the kiddies
can go yell taunts and insults at each other and leave the rest of us in
peace. | 2 | trimmed_train |
3,944 |
Gretzky averaged 2.69 pts/game
Check your information before posting, Gretzky's record is 215 pts in 80 games.
Over 84 games, Gretzky's total projected 226 points.
The 76-77 Canadiens had .825 percentage, 132 pts in 80 games. (60-8-12).
The 29-30 Bruins had a .875 winning percentage.
Also the 77-78 Canadiens had a .806 percentage with a 59-10-11 record.
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9,487 |
Kovalev is too talented a player to play for Roger Nielson...Roger needs
players who can't think for themselves and can only skate in straight
lines up and down the ice. Dudley and Nielson are the only two coaches
bad enough in the league to take talents like Mogilny and Kovalev and
not know how to turn them into Bure and Selanne.
Get Muckler as coach, and Kovalev will look like Mogilny.
The trouble with the Rangers is that Neil Smith went out and got
players like Messier, Kovalev, and Graves who have been schooled in
taking the game to their opponent and attacking, while hiring coaches
who are interested in "rope-a-dope" strategies. If you want the
Roger Nielsons of the world to be your coach you don't go out and
get a Mark Messier, who is an old dog who can't learn new tricks
from a known loser, and you don't waste your draft picks on players
like Kovalev.
Gerald | 17 | trimmed_train |
6,978 | Hi,
I just got XFree86 running on my pc with Consensys and encountered a few
minor (I hope) probems.
The pc is hooked up to a LAN where I want remote X applications to
connect to my X-server. I believe the command to permit this is
xhost. When I'm logged on my pc and type 'xhost + ' , I get the error message saying
"You must be on local machine to enable access".
what does this mean ? ain't I already on the local machine?
Another problem I have is with the mouse movement. I find that the
mouse cursor moves extremely slow and choppy.
How can I make the mouse cursor move more accurately?
thank in advance.
Any help is much appreciated.
please send replies to [email protected].
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232 |
SPECIFIC:
Basically to be able to do the things the big dadies can do.. Monitor, and
control if need be the Shuttle...
Such as the one in Australia and such.... | 10 | trimmed_train |
3,014 |
I've seen them in surplus stores. All they are are fluorescent bulbs
without the phosphor, and a UV transparent bulb (special glass). I've
also seen incandescent versions that you screw into an ordinary 120VAC
socket, probably not what you want.
As far as I know, near UV (as opposed to far-UV) is longwave UV (near
the visible spectrum). Longwave UV is safer as far as accidental (I hope)
exposure to the eyes. As far as fluorescent minerals go (the reason a
friend has a UV lamp), some only respond to only one of short or long UV.
Hope this helps.
Dave.
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1,863 |
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My Problem: I wasn't aware of the fact that I would need an *SCSI*-CD-ROM for
Windows NT when ordering the Beta-SDK-Package. So my question: Is there any driver
available that will allow me to use my Mitsumi (Non-SCSI) CD-ROM for installation ?
If there is one, from which place (ftp-site) can I get it ?
Many thanks in advance
Stefan Kuehnel
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|/ [email protected]
|\ [email protected] (neu ab. 17.04.1993)
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\/ Die oben wiedergegebene Meinung ist meine private und nicht die
des RRZN, des LG RVS der UH oder einer anderen Institution. | 18 | trimmed_train |
7,027 | We have recently obtained a copy of color_xterm (from export.lcs.mit.edu) after
seeing it mentioned in a previous article. On compilation, it reports the
following undefined symbols:
_get_wmShellWidgetClass
_get_applicationShellWidgetClass
but still runs. When sending escape sequences to set the colour,
any colour comes out as black text on a black background. Any Ideas?
Has anyone used this program in colour successfully?
Can anyone point me to any other colour terminal emulators?
We are running OpenWindows 3 on Sun Sparcs running SunOS 4.1.3.
advaTHANKSnce Ben Kelley. | 16 | trimmed_train |
6,862 | I have two questions (well probably more...) about how Expose & Configure
events are handled.
I have an appl. which uses 1 window to draw in. Since I give the user the
capability of scaling and zooming as well as allowing the window to be
resized, I made a translation table for the Expose & Configure events.
The Expose event calls my redraw method while the Configure event
calls my rescale method. The rescale method invokes a "fake" Expose
event (actually just calls the redraw w/ an appropriate Expose struct)
to draw the data.
Quest 1.
When the appl. is compiled/linked w/ R4 (running in either R4 or R5 env.)
I get multiple (>4) redraws when the window gets uncovered or the size
is changed. I assume I'm getting cascading events. Is that right?
Any suggestions as to how to handle/trap events in a better way?
Quest 2.
When the appl. is compiled/linked w/ R5 I get no Expose events
whatsoever. Do events and/or translation tables act differently in R5?
Thanks in advance
Steve
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5,610 | Is there a version of Wcl that has been ported to Solaris 2, including
ANSI C? I had numerous problems trying to compile Wcl under Solaris,
and the functions do not have prototypes.
I have Wcl 2.01 from the Sun User Group's 1992 CDs.
Please email answers as I am not on this list.
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7,961 | Hi,
I just got a problem, I have a cheapo 2400bps modem which I use to connect
to my university, but I get too much garbage on the screen. I do know it's
because the noise in the line (I can actually hear it). So my question is
will an error correction protocol help to eliminate this garbage?, my modem
doesn't have any of these on hardware, can a software implemented protocol
do the trick?
Thanks.
Juan Carlos Leon
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1,211 |
Yup. Then again, there are lots of foreign-born players on the Canadian
national soccer team so the Brits give something back to you in the end:-)
---
For the record, former NY Rangers coach Ted "Darth" Sator recently led
Lion Milan (Jari Kurri's former team, only the nickname's changed
[Devils->Lion]) to their second straight Italian championship. They made the
European Final Four last autumn after losing to Swedish champs Malmo in the
semis...and accomplished this feat using FIFTEEN Canadian-born players!! Mamma
mia!
MARCU$ | 17 | trimmed_train |
213 |
It's all easy with a DSP. The Olivetti Quaderno, for example [*great* 1kg
subnotebook/palmtop PC -- sorry for the plug, folks, but Olivetti don't
seem to be doing a good job marketing it themselves :-)] includes sound
digitisation hardware; they provide vocoders for their DSP which produce
varous bit-rates. There's one which gives pretty acceptable voice
quality at 13Kbit/sec, just right for a V.32bis modem.
Their DSP can play and record at the same time, too -- so you wouldn't
need to play "two-way-radio". You can also download code to the DSP
subunit, though you'd need a software development kit for the DSP in
question [dunno which it is...] if you wanted to produce your own
vocoder for, say, V.32 speeds.
Paul | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,331 | As nobody in the food industry has even bothered to address my previous
question "WHY DO YOU NEED TO PUT MSG IN ALMOST EVERY FOOD?" I must assume
that my wife's answer is closer to the truth than I hoped it was.
She believes that MSG is added to food to cause people to eat more of it
and not quit when they shoud be sated. To put it a different way, she
believes that for some people MSG causes them to act toward food like an addict.
(Eat all the chips, chow down on several packages of noodle soup .... you get the
idea! } IF she is right, then the moral and ethical standards of the
food, chemical and regulatory groups need to be addressed!!! Can MSG
be considered a conditioning substance (not addictive but sort of habit
forming) ?
This brings up a side question of mine. I have noticed that cats (my
children's and my parent's) seem to fixate on a particular brand of pet
food. The cat will eat any product within one brand and not any other
brand. I have wondered if this is not a case of preference, but, some
sort of chemical training or addiction. My questions, for the net, are:
Does the FDA regulate the contents of pet food? Is it allowed for pet
food to contain addictive or conditioning substances? Is MSG put in
pet food?
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I speak for myself and not Motorola
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2,059 | I would like to keep track of X development on:
- A/UX
- ULTRIX
- OpenWindows
Currently I cannot use the newsgroup comp.windows.x
and would like to use the Email based info.
Thanks,
Folkert Boonstra
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4,634 | Q: Who was consulted? The Congress? Industry?
A: We have on-going discussions with Congress and industry on
encryption issues, and expect those discussions to intensify
as we carry out our review of encryption policy. We have
briefed members of Congress and industry leaders on the
decisions related to this initiative.
Congress?? So we're playing politics before we talk to CPSR, academia,
the public, internet users? I`ve heard of top-down design, but top-down
democracy?? [Just whose state/district are the chip manufacturers in?]
Q: If the Administration were unable to find a technological
solution like the one proposed, would the Administration be
willing to use legal remedies to restrict access to more
powerful encryption devices?
A: This is a fundamental policy question which will be
considered during the broad policy review. [...bs about
the wonderfulness of the key escrow system...]
The Administration is not saying, "since encryption
threatens the public safety and effective law enforcement,
we will prohibit it outright" (as some countries have
effectively done);
They'll just provide an easily-compromised version to JQ Public.
nor is the U.S. saying that "every
American, as a matter of right, is entitled to an
unbreakable commercial encryption product."
Maybe we need a CRA -- Cryptographic Rights Amendment.
There is a
false "tension" created in the assessment that this issue is
an "either-or" proposition. Rather, both concerns can be,
and in fact are, harmoniously balanced through a reasoned,
balanced approach such as is proposed with the "Clipper
Chip" and similar encryption techniques.
Nice lullaby. But why am I not soothed?
----------------
Also,
Why repeat themselves? It appears to some (and the story looks pretty
convincing to me, too) that the Justice Department stole a case-tracking
system, modified it, and distributed it to "friendly" police and suchlike
agencies around the world, eg. the Canadian Mounties. Of course, I have
no doubt they swore Scout's Honor that there were no backdoors.
With that kind of intelligence, who'd want to be swamped with terabytes
of commercial traffic? | 7 | trimmed_train |
9,773 | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
2) The system is vulnerable to simple phone swapping attacks
like this. Criminals will quickly figure this out and go to
town.
Depends.. Its possible that the phone sends its serial number in the
clear at some specified interval... So all a listener needs to do is
get that SN, and then get the key for it... So swapping phones isn't
a problem (for the gov't, that is). They still know that this line
belongs to you, so they just watch the line and see the SN, and then
they get the key for that SN...
In either case, I think we need to look at this a bit deeper."'jbl)mW:wxlD2
Well, I think this is understood. The major problem is that a lot of
people just don't trust this key escrow stuff, and the fact that the
algorithms are classified... So, yes, a lot of this needs to be looked
at closer!
- -derek
PGP 2 key available upon request on the key-server:
[email protected]
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9,859 |
Chelios is by far the MVP on Chicago...
Manson, by his own admission, had a terrible year...the Oilers
don't really have a team MVP...by default, it should go to Craig
MacTavish. Shjon Podein was the biggest surprise...Tikkanen the
biggest disappointment.
Tinordi was back by mid-season last year...and when he plays he is the MVP.
King had a great year last year also.
How can Kovalev be a surprise?
Fence-sitting...look at Philly's record with Eric and without...
there is no doubt. Soderstrom is probably the biggest surprise.
Tocchet had a near 100 point season in Philly with Mike Bullard as
his center...why shouldn't he be able to do that with Mario?
Really Joseph deserves the MVP nod.
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6,089 |
Hmmmmm......what about their kids?
cpk
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It's been 80 days. Do you know where your wallet is? | 13 | trimmed_train |
10,009 |
I have written a program and I want to market it. I would like certain degree
of protection, since my main custmers are individuals and not the
cooperations. I know laser hole burning method, and hardware key method,
however, my software is going to cost only $15.00, so I can not afford that.
Also, at this low price I can not afford people make too many copy of my
software. Well, I guess say upto %20 illigal copying is ok by me.
However, I do not want someone to get a copy of PCTools and copy my software.
Off course, I never meant to forbid the true hackers from copying, since they
can develope a better program anyway.
With highest regards,
Babak Sehari.
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5,829 | Accounts of Anti-Armenian Human Right Violations in Azerbaijan #013
Prelude to Current Events in Nagorno-Karabakh
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| |
| I said that on February 27, when those people were streaming down |
| our street, they were shouting, "Long live Turkey!" and "Glory to |
| Turkey!" And during the trial I said to that Ismailov, "What does |
| that mean, 'Glory to Turkey'?" I still don't understand what Turkey |
| has to do with this, we live in the Soviet Union. That Turkey told |
| you to or is going to help you kill Armenians? I still don't |
| understand why "Glory to Turkey!" I asked that question twice and |
| got no answer . . . No one answered me . . . |
| |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
DEPOSITION OF EMMA SETRAKOVNA SARGISIAN
Born 1933
Cook
Sumgait Emergency Hospital
Resident at Building 16/13, Apartment 14
Block 5
Sumgait [Azerbaijan]
To this day I can't understand why my husband, an older man, was killed. What
was he killed for. He hadn't hurt anyone, hadn't said any word he oughtn't
have. Why did they kill him? I want to find out--from here, from there, from
the government--why my husband was killed.
On the 27th, when I returned from work--it was a Saturday--my son was at home.
He doesn't work. I went straight to the kitchen, and he called me, "Mamma, is
there a soccer game?" There were shouts from Lenin Street. That's where we
lived. I say, "I don't know, Igor, I haven't turned on the TV." He looked
again and said, "Mamma, what's going on in the courtyard?!" I look and see so
many people, it's awful, marching, marching, there are hundreds, thousands,
you can't even tell how many there are. They're shouting, "Down with the
Armenians! Kill the Armenians! Tear the Armenians to pieces!" My God, why is
that happening, what for? I had known nothing at that point. We lived together
well, in friendship, and suddenly something like this. It was completely
unexpected. And they were shouting, "Long live Turkey!" And they had flags,
and they were shouting. There was a man walking in front well dressed, he's
around 40 or 45, in a gray raincoat. He is walking and saying something, I
can't make it out through the vent window. He is walking and saying something,
and the children behind him are shouting, "Tear the Armenians to pieces!" and
"Down with the Armenians!" They shout it again, and then shout, "Hurrah!" The
people streamed without end, they were walking in groups, and in the groups I
saw that there were women, too. I say, "My God, there are women there too!"
And my son says, "Those aren't women, Mamma, those are bad women." Well we
didn't look a long time. They were walking and shouting and I was afraid, I
simply couldn't sit still. I went out onto the balcony, and my Azerbaijani
neighbor is on the other balcony, and I say, "Khalida, what's going on, what
happened?" She says, "Emma, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what
happened." Well she was quite frightened too. They had these white sticks,
each second or third one had a white rod. They're waving the rods above their
heads as they walk, and the one who's out front, like a leader, he has a white
stick too. Well maybe it was an armature shaft, but what I saw was white, I
don't know.
My husband got home 10 or 15 minutes later. He comes home and I say, "Oh
dear, I'm frightened, they're going to kill us I bet." And he says, "What are
you afraid of, they're just children." I say, "Everything that happens comes
from children." There had been 15- and 16-year kids from the Technical and
Vocational School. "Don't fear," he said, "it's nothing, nothing all that
bad." He didn't eat, he just lay on the sofa. And just then on television they
broadcast that two Azerbaijanis had been killed in Karabakh, near Askeran.
When I heard that I couldn't settle down at all, I kept walking here and
there and I said, "They're going to kill us, the Azerbaijanis are going to
kill us." And he says, "Don't be afraid." Then we heard--from the central
square, there are women shouting near near the stage, well, they're shouting
different things, and you couldn't hear every well. I say, "You speak
Azerbaijani well, listen to what they're saying." He says "Close the window
and go to bed, there s nothing happening there." He listened a bit and then
closed the window and went to bed, and told us, "Come on, go to sleep, it's
nothing." Sleep, what did he mean sleep? My Son and I stood at the window
until two in the morning watching. Well he's sick, and all of this was
affecting him. I say, "Igor, you go to bed, I'm going to go to bed in a minute
too." He went and I sat at the window until three, and then went to bed.
Things had calmed down slightly.
The 28th, Sunday, was my day off. My husband got up and said, "Come on, Emma,
get up." I say, "Today's my day off, let me rest." He says, "Aren't you going
to make me some tea?" Well I felt startled and got up, and said, "Where are
you going?" He says, "I'm going out, I have to." I say, "Can you really go
outside on a day like today? Don't go out, for God's sake. You never listen to
me, I know, and you're not going to listen to me now, but at least don't take
the car out of the garage, go without the car." And he says, "Come on, close
the door!" And then on the staircase he muttered something, I couldn't make it
out, he probably said "coward" or something.
I closed the door and he left. And I started cleaning . . . picking things up
around the house . . . Everything seemed quiet until one o'clock in the after-
noon, but at the bus station, my neighbor told me, cars were burning. I said,
"Khalida, was it our car?" She says, "No, no, Emma, don't be afraid, they
were government cars and Zhigulis.'' Our car is a GAZ-21 Volga. And I waited,
it was four o'clock, five o'clock . . . and when he wasn't home at seven I
said, "Oh, they've killed Shagen!"
Tires are burning in town, there's black smoke in town, and I'm afraid, I'm
standing on the balcony and I'm all . . . my whole body is shaking. My God,
they've probably killed him! So basically I waited like that until ten
o'clock and he still hadn't come home. And I'm afraid to go out. At ten
o'clock I look out: across from our building is a building with a bookstore,
and from upstairs, from the second floor, everything is being thrown outside.
I'm looking out of one window and Igor is looking out of the other, and I
don't want him to see this, and he, as it turns out, doesn't want me to see
it. We wanted to hide it from one another. I joined him. "Mamma," he says,
"look what they're doing over there!" They were burning everything, and there
were police standing there, 10 or 15 of them, maybe twenty policemen standing
on the side, and the crowd is on the other side, and two or three people are
throwing everything down from the balcony. And one of the ones on the balcony
is shouting, "What are you standing there for, burn it!" When they threw the
television, wow, it was like a bomb! Our neighbor on the third floor came out
on her balcony and shouted, "Why are you doing that, why are you burning those
things, those people saved with such difficulty to buy those things for their
home. Why are you burning them?" And from the courtyard they yell at her, "Go
inside, go inside! Instead why don't you tell us if they are any of them in
your building or not?" They meant Armenians, but they didn't say Armenians,
they said, "of them." She says, "No, no, no, none!" Then she ran downstairs to
our place, and says, "Emma, Emma, you have to leave!" I say, "They've killed
Shagen anyway, what do we have to live for? It won't be living for me without
Shagen. Let them kill us, too!" She insists, saying, "Emma, get out of here,
go to Khalida's, and give me the key. When they come I'll say that it's my
daughter's apartment, that they're off visiting someone." I gave her the key
and went to the neighbor's, but I couldn't endure it. I say, "Igor, you stay
here, I'm going to go downstairs, and see, maybe Papa's . . . Papa's there."
Meanwhile, they were killing the two brothers, Alik and Valery [Albert and
Valery Avanesians; see the accounts of Rima Avanesian and Alvina Baluian], in
the courtyard. There is a crowd near the building, they're shouting, howling,
and I didn't think that they were killing at the time. Alik and Valery lived
in the corner house across from ours. When I went out into the courtyard I saw
an Azerbaijani, our neighbor, a young man about 30 years old. I say, "Madar,
Uncle Shagen's gone, let's go see, maybe he's dead in the garage or near the
garage, let's at least bring the corpse into the house. "He shouts, "Aunt
Emma, where do you think you're going?! Go back into the house, I'll look for
him." I say, "Something will happen to you, too, because of me, no, Madar,
I'm coming too." Well he wouldn't let me go all the same, he says, "You stay
here with us, I'm go look." He went and looked, and came back and said, "Aunt
Emma, there's no one there, the garage is closed. "Madar went off again and
then returned and said, "Aunt Emma, they're already killed Alik, and Valery's
there . . . wheezing."
Madar wanted to go up to him, but those scoundrels said, "Don't go near him,
or we'll put you next to him." He got scared--he's young--and came back and
said, "I'm going to go call, maybe an ambulance will come, at least to take
Alik, maybe he'll live . . . " They grew up together in our courtyard, they
knew each other well, they had always been on good terms. He went to call, but
not a single telephone worked, they had all been shut off. He called, and
called, and called, and called--nothing.
I went upstairs to the neighbor's. Igor says, "Two police cars drove up over
there, their headlights are on, but they're not touching them, they are still
lying where they were, they're still lying there . . . "We watched out the
window until four o'clock, and then went downstairs to our apartment. I didn't
take my clothes off. I lay on the couch so as not to go to bed, and at six
o'clock in the morning I got up and said, "Igor, you stay here at home, don't
go out, don't go anywhere, I'm going to look, I have to find Papa, dead or
alive . . . let me go . . . I've got the keys from work."
At six o'clock I went to the Emergency Hospital. The head doctor and another
doctor opened the door to the morgue. I run up to them and say, "Doctor, is
Shagen there?" He says, "What do you mean? Why should Shagen be here?!" I
wanted to go in, but he wouldn't let me. There were only four people in there,
they said. Well, they must have been awful because they didn't let me in. They
said, "Shagen's not here, he's alive somewhere, he'll come back."
It's already seven o'clock in the morning. I look and there is a panel truck
with three policemen. Some of our people from the hospital were there with
them. I say, "Sara Baji ["Sister" Sara, term of endearment], go look, they've
probably brought Shagen." I said it, shouted it, and she went and came back
and says, "No, Emma, he has tan shoes on, it's a younger person." Now Shagen
just happened to have tan shoes, light tan, they were already old. When they
said it like that I guessed immediately. I went and said, "Doctor, they've
brought Shagen in dead." He says, "Why are you carrying on like that, dead,
dead . . . he's alive." But then he went all the same, and when he came back
the look on his face was . . . I could tell immediately that he was dead. They
knew one another well, Shagen had worked for him a long time. I say, "Doctor,
is it Shagen?" He says, "No, Emma, it's not he, it's somebody else entirely."
I say, "Doctor, why are you deceiving me, I'll find out all the same anyway,
if not today, then tomorrow." And he said . . . I screamed, right there in the
office. He says, "Emma, go, go calm down a little." Another one of our
colleagues said that the doctor had said it was Shagen, but . . . in hideous
condition. They tried to calm me down, saying it wasn't Shagen. A few minutes
later another colleague comes in and says, "Oh, poor Emma!" When she said it
like that there was no hope left.
That day was awful. They were endlessly bringing in dead and injured
people.
At night someone took me home. I said, "Igor, Papa's been killed."
On the morning of the 1st I left Igor at home again and went to the hospital:
I had to bury him somehow, do something. I look and see that the hospital is
surrounded by soldiers. They are wearing dark clothes. "Hey, citizen, where
are you going?" I say, "I work here," and from inside someone shouts, "Yes,
yes, that's our cook, let her in." I went right to the head doctor's office
and there is a person from the City Health Department there, he used to
work with us at the hospital. He says, "Emma, Shagen's been taken to Baku.
In the night they took the wounded and the dead, all of them, to Baku." I
say, "Doctor, how will I bury him?" He says, "We're taking care of all that,
don't you worry, we'll do everything, we'll tell you about it. Where did you
spend the night?" I say, "I was at home." He says, "What do you mean you
were at home?! You were at home alone?" I say, "No, Igor was there too." He
says, "You can't stay home, we're getting an ambulance right now, wait just
one second, the head doctor is coming, we're arranging an ambulance right
now, you put on a lab coat and take one for Igor, you go and bring Igor here
like a patient, and you'll stay here and we'll se~ later what to do next ..."
His last name is Kagramanov. The head doctor's name is Izyat Jamalogli
Sadukhov.
The "ambulance" arrived and I went home and got Igor. They admitted him as a
patient, they gave us a private room, an isolation room. We stayed in the
hospital until the 4th.
Some police car came and they said, "Emma, let's go." And the women, our
colleagues, then they saw the police car, became anxious and said, "Where are
you taking her?" I say, "They're going to kill me, too . . . " And the
investigator says, "Why are you saying that, we're going to make a positive
identification." We went to Baku and they took me into the morgue . . . I
still can't remember what hospital it was . . . The investigator says, "Let's
go, we need to be certain, maybe it's not Shagen." And when I saw the caskets,
lying on top of one another, I went out of my mind. I say, "I can't look, no."
The investigator says, "Are there any identifying marks?" I say, "Let me see
the clothes, or the shoes, or even a sock, I'll recognize them." He says,
"Isn't they're anything on his body?" I say he has seven gold teeth and his
finger, he only has half of one of his fingers. Shagen was a carpenter, he had
been injured at work . . .
They brought one of the sleeves of the shirt and sweater he was wearing, they
brought them and they were all burned . . . When I saw them I shouted, "Oh,
they burned him!" I shouted, I don't know, I fell down . . . or maybe I sat
down, I don't remember. And that investigator says, "Well fine, fine, since
we've identified that these are his clothes, and since his teeth . . . since
he has seven gold teeth . . . "
On the 4th they told me: "Emma, it's time to bury Shagen now." I cried, "How,
how can I bury Shagen when I have only one son and he's sick? I should inform
his relatives, he has three sisters, I can't do it by myself." They say, "OK,
you know the situation. How will they get here from Karabagh? How will they
get here from Yerevan? There's no transportation, it s impossible."
He was killed on February 28, and I buried him on March 7. We buried him in
Sumgait. They asked me, "Where do you want to bury him?" I said, "I want to
bury him in Karabagh, where we were born, let me bury him in Karabagh," I'm
shouting, and the head of the burial office, I guess, says, "Do you know what
it means, take him to Karabagh?! It means arson!" I say, "What do you mean,
arson? Don't they know what's going on in Karabagh? The whole world knows that
they killed them, and I want to take him to Karabagh, I don't have anyone
anymore." I begged, I pleaded, I grieved, I even got down on my knees. He
says, "Let's bury him here now, and in three months, in six months, a year,
if it calms down, I'll help you move him to Karabagh . . . "
Our trial was the first in Sumgait. It was concluded on May 16. At the
investigation the murderer, Tale Ismailov, told how it all happened, but then
at the trial he . . . tried to wriggle . . . he tried to soften his crime.
Then they brought a videotape recorder, I guess, and played it, and said,
"Ismailov, look, is that you?" He says, "Yes." "Well look, here you're
describing everything as it was on the scene of the crime, right?" He says,
"Yes." "And now you're telling it differently?" He says, "Well maybe I
forgot!" Like that.
The witnesses and that criminal creep himself said that when the car was going
along Mir Street, there was a crowd of about 80 people . . . Shagen had a
Volga GAZ-21. The 80 people surrounded his car, and all 80 of them were
involved. One of them was this Ismailov guy, this Tale. They--it's unclear
who--started pulling Shagen out of the car. Well, one says from the left side
of the car, another says from the right side. They pulled off his sports
jacket. He had a jacket on. Well they ask him, "What's your nationality?" He
says, "Armenian." Well they say from the crowd they shouted, "If he's an
Armenian, kill him, kill him!" They started beating him, they broke seven of
his ribs, and his heart . . . I don't know, they did something there, too
. . . it's too awful to tell about. Anyway, they say this Tale guy . . . he
had an armature shaft. He says, "I picked it up, it was lying near a bush,
that's where I got it." He said he picked it up, but the witnesses say that he
had already had it. He said, "I hit him twice," he said, " . . . once or twice
on the head with that rod." And he said that when he started to beat him
Shagen was sitting on the ground, and when he hit him he fell over. He said,
"I left, right nearby they were burning things or something in an apartment,
killing someone," he says, "and I came back to look, is that Shagen alive or
not?" I said, "You wanted to finish him, right, and if he was still alive, you
came back to hit him again?" He went back and looked and he was already dead.
"After that," that bastard Tale said, "after that I went home."
I said, "You . . . you . . . little snake," I said, "Are you a thief and a
murderer?" Shagen had had money in his jacket, and a watch on his wrist. They
were taken. He says he didn't take them
When they overturned and burned the car, that Tale was no longer there, it was
other people who did that. Who it was, who turned over the car and who burned
it, that hasn't been clarified as yet. I told the investigator, "How can you
have the trial when you don't know who burned the car?" He said something, but
I didn't get what he was saying. But I said, "You still haven't straightened
everything out, I think that's unjust."
When they burned the car he was lying next to it, and the fire spread to him.
In the death certificate it says that he had third-degree burns over 80
percent of his body . . .
And I ask again, why was he killed? My husband was a carpenter; he was a good
craftsman, he knew how to do everything, he even fixed his own car, with his
own hands. We have three children. Three sons. Only Igor was with me at the
time. The older one was in Pyatigorsk, and the younger one is serving in the
Army. And now they're fatherless...
I couldn't sit all the way through it. When the Procurator read up to 15
years' deprivation of freedom, I just . . . I went out of my mind, I didn't
know what to do with myself, I said, "How can that be? You," I said, "you are
saying that it was intentional murder and the sentence is 15 years'
deprivation of freedom?" I screamed, I had my mind! I said, "Let me at that
creep, with my bare hands I'll . . . " A relative restrained me, and there
were all those military people there . . . I lest. I said," This isn't a
Soviet trial, this is unjust!" That's what I shouted, l said it and left . . .
I said that on February 27, when those people were streaming down our street,
they were shouting, "Long live Turkey!" and "Glory to Turkey!" And during the
trial I said to that Ismailov, "What does that mean, 'Glory to Turkey'?" I
still don't understand what Turkey has to do with this, we live in the Soviet
Union. That Turkey told you to or is going to help you kill Armenians? I still
don't understand why "Glory to Turkey!" I asked that question twice and got no
answer . . . No one answered me . . .
May 19, 1988
Yerevan
- - - reference - - -
[1] _The Sumgait Tragedy; Pogroms against Armenians in Soviet Azerbaijan,
Volume I, Eyewitness Accounts_, edited by Samuel Shahmuradian, forward by
Yelena Bonner, 1990, published by Aristide D. Caratzas, NY, pages 178-184
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8,681 |
No the members of the first group are not necessarily
arrogant. But when I ask them if they are absolutely certain
that the volcano will erupt, I expect them to say so "No,
but I've chosen to believe some knowledgable people who have
determined that the volcano will erupt," rather than, "Yes, I am
absolutely certain." When it comes to religious discussions,
arrogance or at best naivete is reflected in the latter type of
statement.
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9,916 | Candidate Clinton promised to tax the rich, and most folks thought that
was a pretty nifty idea. Then President Clinton said he wanted families
who make more than $100,000 to bear 70% of the new tax burden, and many
were quick to complain that their six-figure income does not make them one
of the well-to-do. It's particularly ironic (to me) that it's in those
traditionally liberal enclaves of the Bay Area and academia where the
wealthy are struggling so to fit themselves into the mantle of "just
regular working-class folk".
Nobody will ever admit to being rich; everybody's middle class. So who
are The Rich? Well, I'll throw out some stats from the 1990 Census and
let you be the judge...
Va negvpyr <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Michael Zimmers) jevgrf:
} In article <[email protected]>
} > [...]
} >that would be about $55 to 65 thousand US, and that is what tenured
} >professors can expect to make. For a PhD with say 10 years experience,
} >$65,000 is a lot less than what he could be making in industry.
}
} Oh? As a 12-year veteran of Silicon Valley, I've seen precious few
} employment ads that call for PhDs. And $65K is hardly chump change;
} it's well above the median *household* income for the state.
Bay Area average household income is in the mid-$40,000 range. National
average is $31,889. The Bay Area has nearly twice the national average
of six-figure income households (9.1% vs 4.8%*). The cost-of-living here
may be high, but I don't think it's twice the national average...
} >In Los Angeles, modest home prices can be $500,000.
A 1,500-square-foot tract house in a Bay Area working-class neighborhood
goes for about $250,000. I doubt that the Los Angeles market is all that
different. It would appear that this definition of "modest" is perhaps a
bit immoderate...
} So what? They're no cheaper for those who are gainfully employed.
}
} >In California, $65,000 is not upper-middle-class.
}
} It depends upon your definition; it's clearly above average.
It is more than what two-thirds of California households make. Seems
to me that belonging to the upper one-third is not an unreasonable
definition of "upper-middle-class". Note that if that professor's
spouse earns $35,000 they become one of Clinton's "rich" families.
Here's a breakdown of national, California, and Bay Area household incomes:
<$30K $30-50K $50-100K $100K+
------------------------------------
US 49% 24% 23% 4% * the Census Bureau did some weird
CA 41% 26% 26% 7% rounding here...more like 5%
BA 34% 25% 31% 9%
And to add a little prespective:
A minimum wage earner working 40 hours/week makes $8,840/year. The poverty
line for a family of four is $15,171. If they make up to twice that, the
government considers them to be "working poor". Say we decide to call this
the "lower-middle-class". Then how 'bout:
$30-50K annual income is "middle-class". $50-100K is "upper-middle-class".
$100K+ is "rich". $1,000K+ is "filthy-rich". and $10,000+ is "Bill Gates".
make sense? ;^)
-timr
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5,809 | I'm looking for software (hopefully free and runs on Unix box) which will
keep track of statistics for my company softball team (batting avg. etc.).
If you know of any please post or respond to me by e-mail. Many thanks.
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8,921 |
I can't tell if Matt is being sarcastic here or not, but to be honest, many
automobiles are worth far more to their owners (in $$ value and $$ investment)
than the people that would take them. I don't have figures on average property
tax in the U.S. or how much of it is allocated for housing projects, inferior
public schools, jails, or the like, but I have a feeling that the amount the
government steals from an honest, productive citizen to breed this trash is
significantly less than the value of many automobiles. And for those who will
argue that the animals out there stealing cars and everything else (not to
mention committing COMPLETELY senseless acts of violence, such as rape) cannot
be valued in terms of money because they are human beings, I submit that they
are not human beings. Jim Callison, I think, is on the right track. And
Chintan Amin remarked earlier that we cannot blame environment for the actions
of a single criminal. I couldn't agree more. One could trace any crime back
to the environment/upbringing of the criminal; should we let all of them out,
from pickpockets to rapists to inside traders, because what they did wasn't
their fault? Where does one draw the line?
$0.02 | 4 | trimmed_train |
4,969 |
Squids are everybody but me and you. Chris Behanna is especially a squid.
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3,710 |
You are so correct - Clinton did not initiate it. He just cast it in
GRANITE by implimenting, NOT stopping the DECISION. I also stated in another
post I don't give a damn what administration does it, I still find it
totally unacceptable, and whoever impliments it or rams it down our throats
ought to be run out of office.
Also, Bush was not trying to deprive us of our Second Amendment rights.
Clinton is BUSTING HIS BUTT in that regard. That reveals a total difference
in philosophy. Clinton appears to support the idea of TOTAL people
control. Eavesdropping whenever they feel like it, no real security
for the common person, and no ability to defend oneself against illegal
attack, from whatever source. "Trust us, we will protect (and control)
you... if we don't find it inconvenient..."
Clinton has also shown his utter contempt for public disclosure and
accountability, as well. He had plenty of time to change the policy.
HE DIDN'T. HE EXPANDED ON IT.
I bet had Bush been in office, you would be in there howling louder
than I.
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8,193 | Hello, I am about to embark on a bible study on ACTS. I have online
bible software with me. I would like to know the the background of the
authors of its various topics articles and about the author of the
People's New Testament. I need to know how realible is the articles in
the Online Bible software. Specifically (for your convenience) I want to
know about the :
1. Darby Translation ( I have never heard of this one)
2. Young's Literal Translation (I have also never heard
of)
3. The realiability of the Hebrew/Greek Lexicon
4. The authors (from which denomination etc) of the
articles in the TOPICS modules.
5. The realiability of the Treasury of Scripture
Knowlege ( as I have never heard of too)
6. Who are the commentators, Scofield and B.W. Johnson
who wrote the Scofield Reference Bible and the People's New Testament respectively
7. The realiability of the Strong numbers.
I will be most happy to receive a reply of any of you who knows about
the above. Also, please 'qualify' yourself so that I may know that I am
not receiving a 'rubbish' letter. I just want to make sure.
Wilfred Ling
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8,024 |
First, off I'd say that the impact if right before your eyes! 8-) That we are
even discussing this is a major impact in and of itself. Further, the early
church bears testimony to the impact.
Of course they knew where it was. Don't forget that Jesus was seen by both
the Jews and the Romans as a troublemaker. Pilate was no fool and didn't
need the additional headaches of some fishermen stealing Jesus' body to
make it appear He had arisen. Since Jesus was buried in the grave of a
man well know to the Sanhedrin, to say that they didn't know where He was
buried begs the question.
Now, you say that you think that the disciples stole the body. But think on
this a moment. Would you die to maintain something you KNEW to be a
deliberate lie!? If not, then why do you think the disciples would!? Now, I'm
not talking about dying for something you firmly believe to be the truth,
but unbeknown to you, it is a lie. Many have done this. No, I'm talking about
dying, by beheading, stoning, crucifixion, etc., for something you know to
be a lie! Thus, you position with regards to the disciples stealing the
body seems rather lightweight to me.
As for graverobbers, why risk the severe penalties for grave robbing over
the body of Jesus? He wasn't buried with great riches. So, again, this is
an argument that can be discounted.
That leaves you back on square one. What happened to the body!?
IHL, Gene
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7,794 | On 15 Apr 1993 22:34:40 GMT, Eric Sieferman observed:
: Christian: washed in the blood of the lamb.
: Mithraist: washed in the blood of the bull.
: If anyone in .netland is in the process of devising a new religion,
: do not use the lamb or the bull, because they have already been
: reserved. Please choose another animal, preferably one not
: on the Endangered Species List.
How about "washed in the blood of Barney the Dinosaur"? :)
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3,196 |
I just got through listening to the 10 o'clock news on Channel 4 here in
Dallas. They trotted out a list of justifications produced by the ATF after
"months of investigation" for their raid.
I couldn't believe the junk on this list! For example, the BDs were accused
of stockpiling a bunch of "9mm and .223 ammunition that can be used in M15
and M16 assault rifles". Imagine that--they had ammunition! They also had
aluminum dust! (Yeah, it's a component of thermite, but so far I haven't
heard that it's illegal to take a grinder to the aluminum lawn
furniture...) The only thing on the list that could conceivably have been
illegal was an M-79 grenade launcher. (Anybody know about this?)
Months of investigation! For this 80+ people died!
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8,224 | From: Center for Policy Research <cpr>
Subject: Symbiotics: Zionism-Antisemitism
Zionism and the Holocaust
-------------------------- by Haim Bresheeth
The first point to note regarding the appropriation of the history
of the Holocaust by Zionist propaganda is that Zionism without
anti-semitism is impossible. Zionism agrees with the basic tenet
of anti-Semitism, namely that Jews cannot live with non- Jews.
The history and roots of the Holocaust go back a long way. While
the industru of death and destruction did not operate before 1942,
its roots were firmly placed in the 19th Century. Jewish
aspirations for emancipation emerged out of the national struggles
in Europe. When the hopes for liberation through
bourgeois-democratic change were dashed, other alternatives for
improving the lot of the Jews of Europe achieved prominence.
The socialist Bund, a mass movement with enormous following, had
to contend with opposition from a new and small, almost
insignificant opponent, the political Zionists. In outline these
two offered diametrically opposed options for Jews in Europe.
While the Bund was suggesting joining forces with the rest of
Europe's workers, the Zionists were proposing a new programme
aimed at ridding Europe of its Jews by setting up some form of a
Jewish state.
Historically, nothing is inevitable, all depends on the balance of
forces involved in the struggle. History can be seen as an option
tree: every time a certain option is chosen, other routes become
barred. Because of that choice, movement backwards to the point
before that choice was made is impossible. While Zionism as an
option was taken by many young Jews, it remained a minority
position until the first days of the 3rd Reich. The Zionist
Federation of Germany (ZVfD), an organisation representing a tiny
minority of German Jews, was selected by the Nazis as the body to
represent the Jews of the Reich. Its was the only flag of an
interantional organisation allowed to fly in Berlin, and this was
the only international organisation allowed to operate during this
period. From a marginal position, the leaders of the Zionist
Federation were propelled to a prominence and centrality that
surprised even them. All of a sudden they attained political
power, power based not on representation, but from being selected
as the choice of the Nazi regime for dealing with the the 'Jewish
problem'. Their position in negotiating with the Nazis agreements
that affected the lives of many tens of thousands of the Jews in
Germany transformed them from a utopian, marginal organisation in
Germany (and some other countries in Europe) into a real option to
be considered by German Jews.
The best example of this was the 'Transfer Agreement' of 1934.
Immediately after the Nazi takeover in 1933, Jews all over the
world supported or were organising a world wide boycott of German
goods. This campaign hurt the Nazi regime and the German
authorities searched frantically for a way disabling the boycott.
It was clear that if Jews and Jewish organisations were to pull
out, the campaign would collapse.
This problem was solved by the ZVfD. A letter sent to the Nazi
party as early as 21. June 1933, outlined the degree of agreement
that existed between the two organisations on the question of
race, nation, and the nature of the 'Jewish problem', and it
offered to collaborate with the new regime:
"The realisation of Zionism could only be hurt by resentment of
Jews abroad against the German development. Boycott propaganda -
such as is currently being carried out against Germany in many
ways - is in essence unZionist, because Zionism wants not to do
battle but to convince and build."
In their eagerness to gain credence and the backing of the new
regime, the Zionist organisation managed to undermine the boycott.
The main public act was the signature of the "Transfer Agreement"
with the Nazi authorities during the Zionist Congress of 1934. In
essence, the agreement was designed to get Germany's Jews out of
the country and into Mandate Palestine. It provided a possibility
for Jews to take a sizeable part of their property out of the
country, through a transfer of German goods to Palestine. This
right was denied to Jews leaving to any other destination. The
Zionist organisation was the acting agent, through its financial
organisations. This agreement operated on a number of fronts -
'helping' Jews to leave the country, breaking the ring of the
boycott, exporting German goods in large quantities to Palestine,
and last but not least, enabling the regime to be seen as humane
and reasonable even towards its avowed enemies, the Jews. After
all, they argued, the Jews do not belong in Europe and now the
Jews come and agree with them.
After news of the agreement broke, the boycott was doomed. If the
Zionist Organization found it possible and necessary to deal with
the Nazis, and import their goods, who could argue for a boycott ?
This was not the first time that the interests of both movements
were presented to the German public as complementary. Baron Von
Mildenstein, the first head of the Jewish Department of the SS,
later followed by Eichmann, was invited to travel to Palestine.
This he did in early 1933, in the company of a Zionist leader,
Kurt Tuchler. Having spent six months in Palestine, he wrote a
series of favourable articles in Der STURMER describing the 'new
Jew' of Zionism, a Jew Nazis could accept and understand.
This little-known episode established quite clearly the
relationship during the early days of Nazism, between the new
regime and the ZVfD, a relationship that was echoed later in a
number of key instances, even after the nature of the Final
Solution became clear. In many cases this meant a silencing of
reports about the horrors of the exterminations. A book
concentrating on this aspect of the Zionist reaction to the
Holocaust is Post-Ugandan Zionism in the Crucible of the
Holocaust, by S. B. Beth-Zvi.
In the case of the Kastner episode, around which Jim Allen's play
PERDITION is based, even the normal excuse of lack of knowledge of
the real nature of events does not exist. It occured near the end
of the war. The USSR had advanced almost up to Germany. Italy and
the African bases had been lost. The Nazis were on the run, with a
number of key countries, such as Rumania, leaving the Axis. A
second front was a matter of months away, as the western Allies
prepared their forces. In the midst of all this we find Eichmann,
the master bureaucrat of industrial murder, setting up his HZ in
occupied Budapest, after the German takeover of the country in
April 1944. His first act was to have a conference with the Jewish
leadership, and to appoint Zionist Federation members, headed by
Kastner as the agent and clearing house for all Jews and their
relationship with the SS and the Nazr authorities. Why they did
this is not difficult to see. As opposed to Poland, where its
three and a half million Jews lived in ghettoes and were visibly
different from the rest of the Polish population, the Hungarian
Jews were an integrated part of the community. The middle class
was mainly Jewish, the Jews were mainly middle-class. They enjoyed
freedom of travel, served in the Hungarian (fascist) army in
fronline units, as officers and soldiers, their names were
Hungarian - how was Eichmann to find them if they were to be
exterminated ? The task was not easy, there were a million Jews in
Hungary, most of them resident, the rest being refugees from other
countries. Many had heard about the fate of Jews elsewhere, and
were unlikely to believe any statements by Nazi officials.
Like elsewhere, the only people who had the information and the
ear of the frightened Jewish population were the Judenrat. In this
case the Judenrat comprsied mainly the Zionist Federation members.
Without their help the SS, with 19 officers and less than 90 men,
plus a few hundred Hungarian police, could not have collected and
controlled a million Jews, when they did not even know their
whereabouts. Kastner and the others were left under no illusions.
Eichmann told Joel Brand, one of the members of Kastner's
committee, that he intended to send all Hungary's Jews to
Auschwitz, before he even started the expulsions! He told them
clearly that all these Jews will die, 12,000 a day, unless certain
conditions were met.
The Committee faced a simple choice - to tell the Jews of Hungary
about their fate, (with neutral Rumania, where many could escape,
being in most cases a few hours away) or to collaborate with the
Nazis by assisting in the concentration process. What would not
have been believed when coming from the SS, sounded quite
plausible when coming from the mouths of the Zionist leadership.
Thus it is, that most of the Hungarian Jews went quietly to their
death, assured by their leadership that they were to be sent to
work camps.
To be sure, there are thirty pieces of silver in this narrative of
destruction: the trains of 'prominents' which Eichmann promised to
Kastner - a promise he kept to the last detail. For Eichmann it
was a bargain: allowing 1,680 Jews to survive, as the price paid
for the silent collaboration over the death of almost a million
Jews.
There was no way in which the Jews of Hungary could even be
located, not to say murdered, without the full collaboration of
Kastner and his few friends. No doubt the SS would hunt a few Jews
here and there, but the scale of the operation would have been
miniscule compared to the half million who died in Auschwitz.
It is important to realise that Kastner was not an aberration,
like say Rumkovsky in Lodz. Kastner acted as a result of his
strongly held Zionist convictions. His actions were a logical
outcome of earlier positions. This is instanced when he exposed to
the Gestapo the existence of a British cell of saboteurs, Palgi
and Senesh, and persuaded them to give themselves up, so as not to
disrupt his operations. At no point during his trial or elsewhere,
did Kastner deny that he knew exactly what was to happen to those
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6,473 |
I would just like to point out that it is much easier to place an
object at orbital altitude than it is to place it with orbital
velocity. For a target 300 km above the surface of Earth,
you need a delta-v of 2.5 km/s. Assuming that rockets with specific
impulses of 300 seconds are easy to produce, a rocket with a dry
weight of 50 kg would require only about 65 kg of fuel+oxidizer.
A small dispersal charge embedded in about 20 kg of sand or
birdshot (depending on the nature of the structure) would be
the payload. I am sure the whole project is well within
the capability of the amateur rocketry community.
It sounds like a good Science Fair project--'Reduction
of Light Pollution Through Applied Ballistics'.
Or, it could be part of the Challenge Prize being discussed
here: $1 billion for the first person to spend 1 year
on the moon, $1 million for the first erradication of
an orbital eyesore/CCD burner. I wouldpledge $1000
for the first person to bring it down, and I am sure
there are at least 999 other astronomers, nature lovers,
or just plain people of good taste who would do likewise.
Of course, a Gerald Bull solution might be simpler.
(Either the solution Gerald Bull would apply--the use
of a large caliber gun; or the solution which was applied
to Gerald Bull--the use of a small caliber gun.) | 10 | trimmed_train |
8,163 |
I have a Centris 610 & want to get an IBM machine as well.
To save space on my desk, I would like to use one monitor
for both, with a switch-box. Does anyone know of a way to do
this?
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7,067 |
The equation of the sphere through the 4 points (x1,y1,z1),...,(x4,y4,z4) is
| x^2+y^2+z^2 x1^2+y1^2+z1^2 ... x4^2+y4^2+z4^2 |
| x x1 ... x4 |
| y y1 ... y4 | = 0
| z z1 ... z4 |
| 1 1 ... 1 |
When this 5 by 5 determininant is expanded on its first column you get the
equation in the form
A(x^2+y^2+z^2) + Bx + Cy + Dz + E = 0
If you need the center and radius, jyst divide through by A (it cannot be
zero if the 4 given points form a non-degenerate tetrahedron) and complete
the square on x, y, and z to obtain
(x-xc)^2 + (y-yc)^2 + (z-zc)^2 = r^2 | 1 | trimmed_train |
798 |
[...]
Note that I _never_ said that depression and the destruction of the
nuclear family is due _solely_ to extra-marital sex. I specifically
said that it was "a prime cause" of this, not "the prime cause" or "the
only cause" of this -- I recognize that there are probably other factors
too, but I think that extra-marital sex and subsequent destabilization
of the family is probably a significant factor to the rise in
psychological problems, including depression, in the West in the 20th
century. | 8 | trimmed_train |
549 |
There was apparently a 30 minute special here on the Penguins'
season on ABC (WTAE - channel 4), immediately preceding the opening
game against the Devils on Sunday. I only turned it on in time to
watch the credits. If anyone taped it and is willing to let me borrow
it to dub it, I would appreciate it. I would be willing to come pick
it up, and I'll return it the next day and buy you a beer. Please
respond via e-mail. Thanks a lot.
Oh yeah. Was it any good?
-Billy
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3,072 | FOR SALE: ****************************************************************
386-40 with VGA Color Monitor, dual floppy, VGA card with 1MB on board, joystick,
mouse, 2 MB RAM, no hard drive.
FOR ONLY $500! Respond quickly!
| 5 | trimmed_train |
10,644 | In <[email protected].>, [email protected] (David Vergolini) writes...
There's quite a few Wings fans lurking about here, they just tend
to be low key and thoughtful rather than woofers. I suppose every
family must have a Roger Clinton, though. But remember (to paraphrase
one of my favorite Star Trek lines), "if we adopt the ways of the Leaf
fans, we are as bad as the Leaf fans".
Ron | 17 | trimmed_train |
10,127 | You might want to clarify the 11 game winning streak. That Pens streak
is a PLAYOFF streak (tied by the Chicago Blackhawks, who had won 11 in a row
until they met the Pens in the finals last year) The 18 game unbeaten, so far,
is a regular season unbeaten streak. But hey, don't take it personally. I'm a
Flyers fan and two in a row is a stretch. But with a healthy Lindros, Recchi,
Brind'amour and Tommy Soderstrom, they'll be there next year!
By the way, since the Flyers need defenseman, what kind of trade would
anybody suggest from the existing Flyers roster since the scuttlebutt is that
Terry Carkner won't be there next year and apart from him a piece of notebook
paper would be better defense. | 17 | trimmed_train |
10,603 |
IF it were'nt for the sin of men, none of this killing would have been
necesarry, He is KIND and LOVING, but also RIGHTEOUS,
SIN MUST BE PUNISHED.
Before Jesus, man had to take the sins on himself.
But Jesus died and took it all upon Him, so now we also have a FORGIVING GOD. | 15 | trimmed_train |
1,641 | I have a new 25 MHz Motorola 68040 that I am willing to sell if I get
a good enough offer. It is still in its static free sealed package.
If I don't get a good enough offer, I will use it to replace my 68LC040.
Any takers?
Supposedly you can get one of these for $375. However, at the moment the
demand is higher than the supply so I think $400 is a good round number.
I will pay shipping, of course. | 14 | trimmed_train |
10,083 | After watching the Pengiuns all year (and as many other teams as
possible), I've really noticed an increase in Tom Barasso's cheap shots
this year (and not noticed a corrsponding increase with other
goaltenders). I've also noticed that he usually gets away with it. Just
as examples last night, I noticed him elbowing Scott Stevens in the
head, which basically started the whole shoving match that got Stevens
(Scott) and Tocchet 2 minute minors. He also KICKED John McLean. Of
course he wasn't called for that. Isn't kicking an automatic match
penalty and 10 game suspension? I think Glenn Anderson got one a few
years ago for kicking Gaetan Duchesne in the chest. There's no doubt in
my mind that Barasso is the dirtiest golatender since Hextall. He's also
very good.
How about that Tocchet head-butt? Is there an automatic susppension that
goes along with a (non-kicking) match penalty? I can't remember anymore. | 17 | trimmed_train |
8,632 | I have following softwares for sale:
NEW ITEMS (never opened):
1. Lucid 3-D, three dimensional spreadsheet:
with pull-down menus, on-line help, up to 8 pages of notes behind every
cell for dynamic detail, 3-D capability, compatible with Lotus 1-2-3, etc.
$15 including shipping (manual, 5.25" disks)
2. Turbo Pascal Express
with 250 ready-to-run assembly language routines that make Turbo Pascal
faster, more powerful, and easier to use.
2 5.25" disks and manual
$15 (including shipping)
3. Dr. Halo III
much more than an icon driven paint program - it's a complete page
composition and presentation graphics package. Automatic aspect ratio
correction for WYSIWYG printing. True color or grey scale output and partial screen prints.
3 5.25" disks and manual
$12 (including shipping)
4. Key Form Designer Plus
software for making professional business forms.
3.5" disks and manual
$25 plus shipping
Like-new items (package is opened but not registered):
1. JetFighter II
Advanced tactical fighter F-23 as well as F-14, F-16, F/A-18, and F-22.
3.25" disks and manuals
$30 plus Shipping OBO
2. Nighthwak F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0
The definitive simulation of America's radar-elusive jet.
Sensational sound, nine world's "hot spots": Cuba, North Korea, the Kuwaiti T Theatre of operations, central Europe, the North Cape, Libya, the persian Gul f, Vietnam and the Middle East. Awesome missions to challenge you.
5.25" disks and manual
$35 plus shipping OBO
3. Grammatik IV - $20 plus shipping
4. Quattro Pro 1.0 - make an offer
5. GEM chart, graphics, word, publisher, ... V.3.0 - make an offer. | 5 | trimmed_train |
2,008 |
Well, if you want to stick the nose of your car up the ass of a 50 foot semi, I
suppose it's your neck, however, I'm not going to let you kill me in the bargain.
If you get frustrated by somebody delaying your inevitable death due to less that
wise driving practices, then TOUGH!!!
"Thank God for the Fourth of July, for it yearly rids the earth of a considerable
load of fools" | 4 | trimmed_train |
9,646 | I've gotten very few posts on this group in the last couple days. (I
recently added it to my feed list.) Is it just me, or is this group
near death?
-- | 16 | trimmed_train |
2,492 | : Here is a disturbing thought.
....good stuff elided....
: Don't pretend that no one unauthorized will ever get their hands on
: the escrow databases.
:
.......
: secret. The escrow databases aren't the sorts of secrets that our
: teachers told us about, but they are the sort of big secrets they
: would lump into this category. Imagine trying to replace 100 million
: Clipper chips.
Sounds to me like a *great* gimmick for a replacement market...every
so often issue a "Clipper Alert" announcing that some key backup tapes
are missing, that some Drug Lords got 'em, whatever. Then the owners
of these $1200 Clipperphones have to trot down to their local Key
Escrow Agency and buy new chips and have them programmed.
Microtoxin, the Clipper supplier, will make a killing...maybe this was
the real idea. (Anybody know if Janet Reno has stock in Microtoxin,
VLSI Technology, or AT&T?)
Could be a good opportunity to undermine this with some
disinformation: float rumors that the key database has been stolen.
All the chips need replacing. It angers people, undermines confidence
even more, and kills sales.
After the Waco Massacre and the Big Brother Wiretap Chip, any tactic
is fair.
-Tim May
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3,590 | Hi all,
I'm an assistant manager at a local art theater here in Columbus. I'd
like to expand our show automation a bit- namely add the capability to
use cue tapes to bring the houselights up. Our current automation
consoles date from the early 60's and don't provide this function.
We already have the combo failsafe/contact rollers to read the cuetapes,
and our dimmer system will raise the houselights when its fade-up control
circuit (120 VAC) is momentarily closed, for at least 0.5 second.
I've tried wiring the dimmer control to a 12V relay, activated when the
cue tape completes the circuit. Low tech and simple, but there's one
problem: In order to get the 1/2 second pulse, there needs to be
a sh**load of cuetape on the film. (35mm runs at 90 feet per minute,
so to get a 1/2 second pulse, there needs to be at least 9 inches of solid
cuetape!)
Ideally, I would like to use a single cross-cue to accomplish this function.
(A single strip of cuetape perpendicular to the length of the film)
This would give a pulse of approximately 1/100 of a second.
What I need is a circuit to detect the short cue and activate the relay
for around 1/2 second. The ability to adjust how long the relay
is activated would be nice. I figure this would require an RC circuit
of some sort. I'm sure some of you already have the solution figured
out in your heads. Any suggestions and schematics would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Mark Fontana
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4,099 |
I don't know if this is still true, but at one time Coca-Cola
took elaborate measures to keep the formula secret. For instance,
several plants in different cities each made one of six partial
concentrates, which were then shipped back-and forth and remixed
in a complicated scheme so that no single plant made the whole
formula. By now, I would guess that PepsiCo's chemists would have
reverse-engineered it; can't be all that exotic. Actually I
prefer Pepsi anyhow; in about 3 minutes I'm gonna put money
into a Pepsi vending machine...
Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator;
the lab net pretends to work" | 7 | trimmed_train |
6,069 | ku> From: [email protected] (Kin Hung Au) Date: 13 Apr 93
ku> 07:22:05 GMT Organization: California State University, Fresno
ku> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Newsgroups:
ku> comp.sys.mac.hardware
ku>
ku> In Hong Kong , you can buy a cheap PC 386 or 486 based computer.
ku> However, it is very experience to buy a Macintosh. Last winter, I was
ku> back to Hong Kong. I saw the price of Mac Classic in Hong kong is same
ku> price to buy a LC in the U.S.
ku>
ku> I am not recommended to buy MAc in Hong Kong since Mac is not popular
ku> in HK.
ku>
ku> Kin Hung Au
Hello Mr. Au,
I have to disagree regarding your assessment of Macintosh in Hong Kong. The Mac has a sizeable share of the typesetting market, as in the U.S. A local magazine, Next Magazine (similar to Newsweek here), uses the Mac extensively. I have seen Sir Speedy and other franchises in Hong Kong equipped with Mac-based systems. True, the discount is not as steep as here because customers in Hong Kong cannot buy from gray market, nor are Mac being sold thru mass merchandisers like Apple does here with the Performa lin
e. At this point the sale of Mac is handled by one exclusive distributor. On the other hand, you can always get a PC clone or in the earlier days, illegal clones of the Apple IIe.
Your perception of the Mac not being too popular in Hong Kong is simply because most hobbyists and users find it much cheaper to go to one of those basement stores that sell PC clones with probably illegal copies of BIOS than to pay for a Mac.
Similarly you cannot say Lotus 1-2-3 surely is not well accepted in Hong Kong because the sale is so low. May be it is because of all those places in Kowloon where illegal copies of Lotus 1-2-3 can be bought for $20 and $10 for a professional looking but illegal copies of the manuals. | 14 | trimmed_train |
11,088 |
Also would maybe get the Russians Involved. After all they do have the resources
to do it in part.. But they need the capital and the goal..
I wonder if renting the russians resources would be a disqualification?
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2,086 | In response to a post about SUV's, I got several unsolicited recommendations to
check out the Land Cruiser, despite its astronomical price.
The Toyota dealer told me it's a "cult car".
If a car is good enough to create a passionate and loyal following, there
must be something really extraordinary about it.
So, all you Land Crusher Cultists - here is your chance to convert me.
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10,649 | It's like refusing 'God's kingdom come'.
In one of Jesus' revelation in this century, "...same thing as in
the old days. People refuse to believe my messengers. Even when
I was alive here on earth, they refuse Me. What more when I am just
talking through somebody else?" (paraphrased).
With all the knowledge believers accumulated, He would think that
we would be 'enlightened' enough to detect which ones are
'authentic and divine' as opposed to 'evil or man-made'.
These signs, these miracles, are you afraid that they are not from God?
That these are the signs we should not open our hearts and mind to for thinking
they are evil?
Well, is faith in God evil?
Is true peace evil? Is true love that is divine and pure evil?
Why can't someone accept that God can do what He wants in fulfillment of His
generous love and Jesus' never ending forgiveness to those who turn back to
Him for salvation?
Why are we refusing God's messenger of this truth? The mother to all who are
in Christ?
What brings us these:
fears of being shamed by what others will think or say about us?
which, in contrary, could be pleasing to God?
fears of being humbled?
fears of being judged as wrong (wrt mainstream standard of what is right)?
Why can't we tolerate non-believers' mockery or ridicule of us for the
sake of peace, love and obedience to God? The humbling lessons left to us
by martyrs and saints?
We'd rather engage in never-ending bickering and disproof of each other's
opinion - looking at each other's mistakes - for the sake of arguments,
instead of having communion in one body with Christ.
What makes us go blind to the truth that God is All Powerful and that He can
not be binded by what people wrote and have written about Him in all ages?
Why is our faith in God limited? By all the words and literature we muster?
What prevents us from going *beyond* being saved and extend God's rich love
to others who are not?
Why are our eyes not wide open to see that He continuously sees our faith, hope
and love which glorify Him and so He gives us indications of His
acknowledgements with signs/miracles (ordinary/common or divinely inspired)
everywhere? Isn't that like an atheist/agnostic's view that all these
are just ordinary here on earth and not caused by anything supernatural?
Why then does the Holy Mother comes back to remind us:
"We must really __accept that prayer__ changes the course of things and that
with prayers __even wars can be prevented__."
but then she continues:
"You often have an egotistic attitude. Dear children, in these days you
have prayed very much, __but your hands have remained empty__."
Why hesitate in proclaiming what needs to be done:
"prayer, conversion, peace, penance, fasting, the Holy Mass, living life
as what the Gospel brings."?
Why not do so? How? To the world?
"Start in your family. Be a good example. Live the Word."
Why worry if it is going to be of good use to many?
"The fruits, __leave them to the Lord__, do not worry about anything or
anyone but entrust yourself to the Lord."
Although the Holy Mother does not insist because:
"You are free; I bow before the freedom which God gives you."
but she follows this with:
"You are surprised because I say to you: Decide for God and yet, see how
you have lived this day."
Why does she constantly conveys:
"Take this life toward God in the way as to __experience__ the Lord Himself
in your __behavior__ and __not only__ when you pray" or one time when we
decide that we are saved, or talk/write about God, etc.
The Holy Mother warns:
"Satan (the serpent) is always trying to dissuade you to turn you away from
my peace plan and prayer." (Rev 12:17, the dragon became angry with the woman
and went off to wage war against the rest of her offsprings, those who keep
God's commandments, and bear witness to Jesus.)
Do you have fear or hate for God's current messenger of true peace, love and
our motherly protector from the anti-Christ?
The one who is being apprehensive of communism, wars, famine and other evils
that the serpent brings upon us?
This obedient and blessed new Eve?
The mother who warns us so we can be prepared and be strong against Satan?
Haven't there been renewed faith, hope, love, peace and obedience wherever
this messenger has shared her blessings and graces that God has given her
in good purpose?
Why do we choose to be blind?
Why fear the truth that God has been giving us a chance and sharing Christ's
ever-forgetting forgiveness to us through the obedient mother?
The mother who has been consecrated the task __to reverse__ the disobedient
harm and example done by the ancient Eve.
She has been preparing the new Eden with her Immaculate Heart.
The new Eden as sanctuary (the womb) for the next coming and judgement of the
righteous by our Lord, Jesus Christ; when The Lamb marries His bride.
Shouldn't we give her a hand in her exhaustive job of preparing us for the
second coming of her Son as she has been conceived without sin to bear
the Son of God in her womb?
Why fear true peace, love and renewed faith and obedience to God that Mary
faithfully brings to God's children? She has been protecting the flock
(the rest of the offsprings) from the greedy dragon so as to present more
righteous members for her Son's coming.
Not all apparitions and miracles that resulted from them are worthy
of belief. With prayer and guidance from the Holy Spirit and, of course,
approval of our Church authorities, we should be aware of the true and
divinely inspired ones; specifically, the ones which aligns with the
Scripture.
Also, our Lady reminds us of recommendation of __silence__ in our prayers:
"If you speak unceasingly in your prayers, how will you be able to hear
God? Allow Him room to answer you, to speak to you."
She encourages us (with motherly nurturing) to continue in exuberant
faith, hope and love to Jesus, constantly. NOT with mere emotions,
but with deep, constant obedience to Jesus, her Beloved Son and
acknowledgement of our need to have Him as part of our lives.
Let's not wait to the last minute to renew our faith and the life
that God wants us to live; when there won't be enough time or when
it will be late.
Nowadays, Mary says,
"Pray, pray, pray for peace...reconciliation, my children."
Have peace within yourself first before you can promote peace to
others. For without peace, you can not fully accept my Son."
And you think she's just an ordinary lady. Not to me. She's
our good Mother/messenger from God and she is so nice enough to
share God's kingdom to us through her Son and experience it.
With Mary, we are assured that The Lamb always succeeds.
-----
Note: All enclosed in quotes are from "Latest News of Medjugorje"
Number 10, June, 1991 by Fr. Rene' Laurentin.
----- | 0 | trimmed_train |
9,229 | Those things,
which ye have both learned, and received,
and heard, and seen in me,
do:
and the God of peace shall be with you. | 15 | trimmed_train |
2,478 | And why is this Freeman? Even if a pro-gun person doesn't know what they are
talking about there is always the possibility that they will learn a thing or
two. I am and will continue to post even if people get angry with what I have
to say. I have several good sources of material now that I know where to look
so calm down.
Ah, Freeman seems to forget from my statement that I am learning. I have also
asked several of the not-so-hostile folks on this group for sources of
information to read. Do you think, Freeman, that maybe this means I am
interested in learning? I think it does because as you said people who don't
know anything won't be good for the pro-gun cause.
Another good habit to get into is to realize that not everyone is you Freeman
and accept mistakes. Sure, maybe it could have been some type of
misinformation being slung by some anti-gun nut but it wasn't. I made my
statement to inform everyone of this and everyone who replied said don't worry
about it but also to learn as much as you can. They accepted my mistake and
gave me sources of information and told me to read as much as possible. I have
read several posts of yours and have found them informative. Why don't you
give me the same chance?
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10,400 | This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
| 1 | trimmed_train |
1,782 |
I could never find the Microsoft mouse driver on my Windows 3.1 installation
disks, but DOS 6.0 also has version 8.20 of MOUSE.COM.
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410 |
Any projectile traveling at or near typical bullet speeds is potentially
lethal. Even blanks [which have no projectile] can cause death if the
muzzle is in close proximity to the victim. I have heard of rubber or
plastic bullets being used effectively during riot situations [where the
intent is crowd control, rather than close range self defense]; i've also
seen reports of deaths caused by them [the British in Northern Ireland].
Use of a firearm for self defense is appropriate and lawful only in the
gravest of situations; at that point, i consider deadly [lethal] force to
be a proper reaction [and so does the law].
Furthermore, use of less effective [but still potentially lethal] force
has its own set of problems. It may well take more applications of the
less effective force to stop the incident; this places all parties at some
risk; the victim because the attack has not stopped, and the assailent
since the aggregate damage done by the multiple applications may well be
more deadly.
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8,590 |
Take a look at mini-vans. I sat in a Dodge Caravan, which had a high seat
and plenty of headroom.
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6,100 | Thanks to all those who responded to my original post on this question. The
final diagnosis was Stress. I did not take her for a chiropractic adjustment.
(Rachel receives all her medical care at Keller Army Hospital since she is a
military dependant, and the Army does not yet provide chiropractic adjustments
as part of its regular health care.) I am hoping that the arrival of (1)
Spring Break, and (2) College Acceptance Letters, will help. *UNFORTUNATELY*
she was wait-listed at the college she most dearly wanted to attend, so it
seems as though that stressor may just continue for a while. :-(
Meanwhile she is going on a camping trip with her religious youth group for
spring break, which seems like a good stress-reliever to me.
Thanks again for everybody's help/advice/suggestions/ideas.
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9,945 |
For better worse, the source on this on is Michael Barnsley. His article
in The Science of Fractal Images (Peitgen et al) is a fair-to-middling
intro. Barnsley's book Fractals Everywhere is a more thorough treatment.
The book covers Iterated Function Systems in general, and their application
to image compression is clear from the text. | 1 | trimmed_train |
10,253 | 2 | trimmed_train |
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5,624 | A member of the local BBS I frequent is looking for Mac oriented BBSs based in
Chicago.
Any leads would be most appreciated.
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1,069 |
Speaking of spelling errors on the Cup, I wonder if the "h" in
Pittsburgh made it to the Cup. You know how funny people can
be about spelling Pittsburgh. | 17 | trimmed_train |
11,236 |
Again, Mr. Frank has come to the rescue with his cool headed reason. How
about, "One charge per victim?" Of course I'll think about it in a few days
and find a case where this doesn't apply either.
What the heck, I don't study law, I just hate lawyers. :)
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1,408 |
Hmmm. "Check your facts." Good advice. Let's check Mr. Cain's
facts a bit, shall we?
FACT: It is unlawful to distribute code implementing RSA without a license
to do so from PKP, whether or not one is charging for it. Furthermore,
any use of RSA, other than for research purposes allowed under US patent
law, is similarly unlawful. Therefore, the "average citizen" cannot use
RSA to encrypt message traffic in the US without a license from PKP.
There is no licensed, freely available product in the US that uses RSA
encryption other than RSAREF (and hence RIPEM), at least as far as I am
aware. If you know of another, please post it here.
FACT: The last contact I had with RSA Data Security, Inc was with some
guy trying to sell me a license (unsolicited, I might add) for TIPEM.
Cost: $15K plus 2-5 percent royalties.
I suppose it is a matter of opinion as to whether or not these terms count
as "mucho bucks" or "incredibly reasonable." Either way, however, this
definitely falls into the "routines *they* tell you to (use)".
FACT: There are no restrictions (yet!) on the use of cryptography under
US law, although this is beginning to look like it will change. The only
impediments to widespread use of RSA cryptography in the US are PKP's
patents.
Mr. Cain, please shut up until you get your facts straight.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
"Better than the whole world be destroyed and crumble to dust than
a free man deny one of his desires."
-Benito Mussolini, Italian anarchist and poet. | 7 | trimmed_train |
217 | the
Not Quite the point to be considdered here!
Fact: If/When Apple release system 7 (or what ever is current at the time
of release) then you will see shortly afterwards Apple no longer producing
Hardware...Look at Next with their NextStep486 to see what happens.
Who is going to pay Apples Prices when they can get the same thing cheaper
else where! (Heck we can get a Sun Workstation cheaper than a Quadra, and
infact we have a number of times!!!, it ALL comes down to $$$$)
them,
It
No the continued develeopment is because there is becomming less and less
profit in Hardware, So the Next Step (no pun intended...well sort of), is
to make the money in software (look at Microsoft if you think it can't
happen!), after all you can sell multiple pieces of software to ONE
hardware platform.
As you also said Windows is a nightmare for programmers, so will the
temptation to sell system 7 to a couple of MILLION dos users be too much
for Apple! (50 million copies @ $100 is SERIOUS money!).
--
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775 | John Berryhill, Ph.D. writes
umm, please don't lump us all together. It's those blatant,
fundamentalist pickers that give the rest of us a bad name. Some of
us try very hard to be discreet and stay alert.
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7,945 | Original to: [email protected]
G'day [email protected]
21 Apr 93 22:25, [email protected] wrote to All:
kc> [email protected] (Craig Keithley), via Kralizec 3:713/602
kc> But back to the contest goals, there was a recent article in AW&ST
about a
kc> low cost (it's all relative...) manned return to the moon. A General
kc> Dynamics scheme involving a Titan IV & Shuttle to lift a Centaur upper
kc> stage, LEV, and crew capsule. The mission consists of delivering two
kc> unmanned payloads to the lunar surface, followed by a manned mission.
kc> Total cost: US was $10-$13 billion. Joint ESA(?)/NASA project was
$6-$9
kc> billion for the US share.
kc> moon for a year. Hmmm. Not really practical. Anyone got a
kc> cheaper/better way of delivering 15-20 tonnes to the lunar surface
within
kc> the decade? Anyone have a more precise guess about how much a year's
kc> supply of consumables and equipment would weigh?
Why not modify the GD plan into Zurbrin's Compact Moon Direct scheme? let
one of those early flight carry an O2 plant and make your own.
ta
Ralph | 10 | trimmed_train |
2,332 | On the code I sent, please replace the line:
XtAddCallback(PopUpShell, XtNcallback, MyPopUp, (XtPointer)PopUpShell);
by
XtAddCallback(Button, XtNcallback, MyPopUp, (XtPointer)PopUpShell);
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The rest (and my question) remains the same... | 16 | trimmed_train |
4,382 | Would it be asking too much for you to DOCUMENT these allegations of
"Israel used to arrest and kill neutral reporters"? I think you confuse
Israel with other nations of that geographical region to which the notion
of a free, unmonitored by the government, press corps would be a joke. | 6 | trimmed_train |
6,039 | How can I obtain public information (documentation and sources)
about Xservers implemented with graphics processors?
I am specially interested in Xservers developed for the TMS34020
Texas Instruments graphic processor. | 16 | trimmed_train |
1,486 |
But,
THEY FACED THE PHILLIES -- A TEAM THAT GOT OFF TO AN 8-1 START.
To be honest, I think the city of Houston loves the new owner. He has
brought baseball back to Houston with key acquisitions -- players that
were from the Houston area and wanted to play for the Astros. I don't
think that too many people are fearful that McLane will meddle in the team
as he has already admitted that he doesn't know a whole lot about baseball.
McLane is a businessman, and doesn't like excuses. He makes a valid point
that injuries shouldn't be an excuse to this club. Look at the depth of the
bench this season.. Canadele can play 7 positions; Bass and James are solid
outfielders and can hit well too; Uribe is nice to have as well.. The
pitching staff has 6 legitimate starters. We're dealing with a young
Houston team, so injuries shouldn't play a big role. The only threat is
the bullpen -- if Jonesy goes out, we may be in trouble but with the
type of starters we have this season, there is less pressure on the pen. | 2 | trimmed_train |
4,508 | Have you tried re-installing the software? Otherwise I would be dubious about
simple ways to change that screen. Is it not designed to be an embarassment to
would be pirates?
-Charles
| 18 | trimmed_train |
8,402 |
That's open for debate. Certainly, an excessive number of people are
murdered every year but people also do save innocent lives with firearms.
The media just don't tell us when it happens...
I think there are more of us than there are federal marshalls...
Crap. It's simplistic thinking on the part of feather-headed dolts.
Nuts. | 9 | trimmed_train |
940 | VHS movie for sale
Kevin Costner Dances withs Wolves
Just open and was used once, $12.00 or best offer, buyer will have
to pay shipping. ($1.00 for shipping)
Let me know if you are interested, and send your offer to this
e-mail address. [email protected]
thanks, | 5 | trimmed_train |
6,734 |
The Fluke 87 beeps at you if you try to take it out of a current measuring
range while there is still a lead plugged in to the current sense socket.
... this should solve your problem - unless you are in a noisy environment.
JohnH
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8,237 |
Well, actually, the Davidians (Koreshians?) started the fire themselves,
the last I heard ( around 15:00 EST). Eight people ran out into the feilds
surrounding the compound. All were captured and two admitted to setting the
fire. I don't buy your napalm theory at all (although it would have made a
great commercial for my .sig). Why the hell would they have a wood stove
burning on such a warm day? Flame throwers use liquid petroleum, napalm
is more of a gel. Now to further dispute your theory, the diluted CS gas
was inserted around 06:00 if I understood correctly. The place didn't start
burning until around 10:00 or 11:00.
Calm down kid. Vernon (Koresh's real name) said himself that he would not leave
that compound alive. The inhabitants thereof had accepted the fact that they
may very well have to kill themselves before it was all over.
There are at least eight survivors. A caller on Rush Limbaugh today suggested
that the rest may even be hiding in underground bunkers. That's not such a wild
idea considering their weaponry and resolve.
Sheesh! Get over it. I haven't heard (read) such ranting since the Hindenberg
burned. This should have ended 50 days ago. I'm glad my tax dollars have
finally stopped working to pay a bunch of guys to stand around and give press
conferences. Now they can get back to more important things, like catching
cigarrette smugglers. | 9 | trimmed_train |
10,825 | I seldom see any posts in this group. Is anyone out there in Christendom
listening? If so, why don't we get some dialog going here?
Here's a topic to get things started. My daughter's Christian school sends
home a weekly update on school related topics. This week they sent
something *very* interesting. It was an article written by the leader of a
national (US) Christian school organization about a trip he recently made
to Jerusalem. While there, he was introduced to one of the rabbis who is
working on a project to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem. The article
included photos of the many furnishings that have already been made in
preparation for furnishing the rebuilt temple according to the
specifications given in the Bible.
What was even more striking is the fact that the plans for the temple are
complete and the group is only awaiting permission from the Israeli
government before beginning the building. The other startling fact is the
very recent archeological discovery that the original site of the temple is
unoccupied and available for building. Previously it has been thought that
the original site was underneath what is now a mosque, making rebuilding
impossible without sparking a holy war.
Now it appears that nothing stands in the way of rebuilding and resuming
sacrifices, as the Scriptures indicate will happen in the last days.
Although the Israeli government will give the permission to start, I think
it is the hand of God holding the project until He is ready to let it
happen. Brothers and sisters, the time is at hand. Our redemption is
drawing near. Look up! | 0 | trimmed_train |
9,195 |
{> i am interested in getting the pulse of this group regarding
{> extended operation of my G2K 486-33V with the cover removed
{> from the enclosure. there are a # of reasons i am considering
{> this, including quick access to jumpers during complex i/o card
{> setups.
{>
{> my concern is that without a complete enclosure to direct the
{> cooling flow of air from the fan, "hot spots" may develop on my
{> motherboard or elsewhere. my G2K has intake air vents in the
{> front of the enclosure right at MB level. These vents would be
{> removed along with the top cover in this scenario, rendering
{> airflow from the fan pretty useless.
{>
{> however, short periods in this mode don't seem to heat things up
{> too much, but my conclusions are far from scientific...
{>
{> -- tim
I ran a 386-33 out of a cardboard box for more than a year with no
major effects (yeah, no case at all, MB sitting on a static bag)
other than the noise from the Poersupply it ran pretty good.
as for cooling problems I bought a 12-14 inch fan and turned
it on full and set the output directly on the motherboard.
I did finally get a case though and I am still running the parts
with no ill effects.
I also had no kids to spill things on the MB> I had no cat leaving
hair on the MB etc. etc. on and on....
the two major concerns are keeping static away and keeping the MB cool
enjoy
-David
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3,417 |
If a 'dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the sky.
Did you know that the word 'Karabag' itself is a 'Turkish' name?
Before 1827, before the Russians and their 'zavalli kole' Armenians,
drove all the Turks/Muslims out, it was a Turkish majority town. Well,
anyway, it is not surprising that Armenians also collaborated with the
Nazis.
"Wholly opportunistic the Dashnaktzoutun have been variously
pro-Nazi, pro-Russia, pro-Soviet Armenia, pro-Arab, pro-Jewish,
as well as anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, anti-Communist, and
anti-Soviet - whichever was expedient."[1]
[1] John Roy Carlson (Arthur Derounian), 'Cairo to Damascus,'
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1951, p. 438.
As a dear friend put it, the Tzeghagrons (Armenian Racial Patriots)
was the youth organization of the Dashnaktzoutun. It was based in
Boston (where ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism Triangle is located) but
had followers in Armenian colonies all over the world. Literally
Tzeghagron means 'to make a religion of one's race.' The architect
of the Armenian Racial Patriots was Garegin Nezhdeh, a Nazi Armenian
who became a key leader of collaboration with Hitler in World War II.
In 1933, he had been invited to the United States by the Central
Committee of the Dashnaktzoutun to inspire and organize the
American-Armenian youth. Nezhdeh succeeded in unifying many local
Armenian youth groups in the Tzeghagrons. Starting with 20
chapters in the initial year, the Tzeghagrons grew to 60 chapters
and became the largest and most powerful Nazi Armenian organization.
Nezhdeh also provided the Tzeghagrons with a philosophy:
"The Racial Religious beliefs in his racial blood as a deity.
Race above everything and before everything. Race comes first."[1]
[1] Quoted in John Roy Carlson (real name Arthur Derounian), "The
Armenian Displaced Persons," in 'Armenian Affairs,' Winter,
1949-50, p. 19, footnote.
Now wait, there is more.
THE GRUESOME extent of February's killings of Azeris by Armenians
in the town of Hojali is at last emerging in Azerbaijan - about
600 men, women and children dead in the worst outrage of the
four-year war over Nagorny Karabakh.
The figure is drawn from Azeri investigators, Hojali officials
and casualty lists published in the Baku press. Diplomats and aid
workers say the death toll is in line with their own estimates.
The 25 February attack on Hojali by Armenian forces was one of
the last moves in their four-year campaign to take full control
of Nagorny Karabakh, the subject of a new round of negotiations
in Rome on Monday. The bloodshed was something between a fighting
retreat and a massacre, but investigators say that most of the
dead were civilians. The awful number of people killed was first
suppressed by the fearful former Communist government in Baku.
Later it was blurred by Armenian denials and grief-stricken
Azerbaijan's wild and contradictory allegations of up to 2,000
dead.
The State Prosecuter, Aydin Rasulov, the cheif investigator of a
15-man team looking into what Azerbaijan calls the "Hojali
Disaster", said his figure of 600 people dead was a minimum on
preliminary findings. A similar estimate was given by Elman
Memmedov, the mayor of Hojali. An even higher one was printed in
the Baku newspaper Ordu in May - 479 dead people named and more
than 200 bodies reported unidentified. This figure of nearly 700
dead is quoted as official by Leila Yunusova, the new spokeswoman
of the Azeri Ministry of Defence.
FranCois Zen Ruffinen, head of delegation of the International
Red Cross in Baku, said the Muslim imam of the nearby city of
Agdam had reported a figure of 580 bodies received at his mosque
from Hojali, most of them civilians. "We did not count the
bodies. But the figure seems reasonable. It is no fantasy," Mr
Zen Ruffinen said. "We have some idea since we gave the body bags
and products to wash the dead."
Mr Rasulov endeavours to give an unemotional estimate of the
number of dead in the massacre. "Don't get worked up. It will
take several months to get a final figure," the 43-year-old
lawyer said at his small office.
Mr Rasulov knows about these things. It took him two years to
reach a firm conclusion that 131 people were killed and 714
wounded when Soviet troops and tanks crushed a nationalist
uprising in Baku in January 1990.
Those nationalists, the Popular Front, finally came to power
three weeks ago and are applying pressure to find out exactly
what happened when Hojali, an Azeri town which lies about 70
miles from the border with Armenia, fell to the Armenians.
Officially, 184 people have so far been certified as dead, being
the number of people that could be medically examined by the
republic's forensic department. "This is just a small percentage
of the dead," said Rafiq Youssifov, the republic's chief forensic
scientist. "They were the only bodies brought to us. Remember the
chaos and the fact that we are Muslims and have to wash and bury
our dead within 24 hours."
Of these 184 people, 51 were women, and 13 were children under 14
years old. Gunshots killed 151 people, shrapnel killed 20 and
axes or blunt instruments killed 10. Exposure in the highland
snows killed the last three. Thirty-three people showed signs of
deliberate mutilation, including ears, noses, breasts or penises
cut off and eyes gouged out, according to Professor Youssifov's
report. Those 184 bodies examined were less than a third of those
believed to have been killed, Mr Rasulov said.
Files from Mr Rasulov's investigative commission are still
disorganised - lists of 44 Azeri militiamen are dead here, six
policemen there, and in handwriting of a mosque attendant, the
names of 111 corpses brought to be washed in just one day. The
most heartbreaking account from 850 witnesses interviewed so far
comes from Towfiq Manafov, an Azeri investigator who took a
helicopter flight over the escape route from Hojali on 27
February.
"There were too many bodies of dead and wounded on the ground to
count properly: 470-500 in Hojali, 650-700 people by the stream
and the road and 85-100 visible around Nakhchivanik village," Mr
Manafov wrote in a statement countersigned by the helicopter
pilot.
"People waved up to us for help. We saw three dead children and
one two-year-old alive by one dead woman. The live one was
pulling at her arm for the mother to get up. We tried to land but
Armenians started a barrage against our helicopter and we had to
return."
There has been no consolidation of the lists and figures in
circulation because of the political upheavals of the last few
months and the fact that nobody knows exactly who was in Hojali
at the time - many inhabitants were displaced from other villages
taken over by Armenian forces.
THE INDEPENDENT, London, 12/6/'92
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
2,290 | There's a lot of whining about how much players are overpaid. I thought
I'd put together an underpaid team that could win a pennant. I splurged
and let four of the players earn as much as half a million dollars; the
highest-paid player is Frank Thomas, at $900K. I cut some players, like
Kenny Lofton, Chris Hoiles, Keith Mitchell, Tim Wakefield, and a bunch
of pitchers, all of whom could have arguably made the team better at a
cost of $1 million for the lot of them. The total team salary is
$7,781,500, averaging slightly over $300K a player. If that's too steep,
you can dump Thomas and Bagwell, replacing them with Paul Sorrento and
a minimum wager to save a bit over a million dollars, and still have one
of the best teams in the majors.
p, Juan Guzman, 500
p, Mussina, 400
p, Castillo, 250
p, Eldred, 175
p, Rhodes, 155
p, Militello, 118
rp, Rojas, 300
rp, Beck, 250
rp, Melendez, 235
rp, Hernandez, 185
rp, Nied, 150
c, Rodriguez, 275
c, Piazza, 126
1b, Thomas, 900
1b, Bagwell, 655
2b, Knoblauch, 500
2b, Barberie, 190
3b, Gomez, 312.5
3b, Palmer, 250
ss, Listach, 350
ss, Pena, 170
lf, Gonzalez, 525
cf, Lankford, 290
rf, R.Sanders, 275
of, Plantier, 245 | 2 | trimmed_train |
7,075 |
I apologize for posting this. I thought it was only going to talk.origins.
I also took my definitions from a 1938 Websters.
Nonetheless, the apparent past arguments over these words imply that like
'bimonthly' and 'biweekly' they have no commonly accepted definitions and
should be used with care. | 8 | trimmed_train |
4,536 |
Why are only those people in favor of the system to blame. If society
accepts such a system, then each member of society is to blame when
an innocent person gets executed. Those that are not in favor should
work to convince others.
And, most members of our society have accepted the blame--they've considered
the risk to be acceptable. Similarly, every person who drives must accept
the blame for fatal traffic accidents. This is something that is surely
going to happen when so many people are driving. It is all a question of
what risk is acceptable. It is much more likely that an innocent person
will be killed driving than it is that one will be executed. | 8 | trimmed_train |
603 |
Don't worry about leaks. Don't worry about which way to turn the damn thing.
Take a good claw hammer and pry it straight out. Now, you'll notice, after
all the oil pours out, that there are no theads where there used to be. | 4 | trimmed_train |
4,348 |
There is one reason: market size.
The market size for color quickdraw for accellerated plusses and
SEs (which don't go beyond 4 MB anyway) is just too small; the
extra cost would belike $1,000 and with that money, you can buy a
color classic instead.
Cheers,
/ h+
--
-- Jon W{tte, [email protected], Mac Hacker Deluxe -- | 14 | trimmed_train |
4,328 | I have two 4 meg SIMMS that I am trying to sell. I
had them in my LC. I would like to get $100 for
each one. They are only three months old and have a
lifetime warrenty. They are 80ns simms. I will also
consider other reasonable offers. Please E-Mail me.
Dave | 14 | trimmed_train |
2,483 | I am looking for information about this drive. Switch settings, geometry..etc.
Conner CP3204F
Please reply via e-mail. Many thanks in advance!
| 3 | trimmed_train |
8,038 | Hi Xperts!
I have a Sparc-1 with very limited disk space on /usr partition.
previously, i was able to run all x-windows applications and then
i upgraded my system to sun o.s. 4.1.3 and realized that , the hard
disk did not have enough space to load openwindows. My immediate alternative
was to load only the neccessary files to boot the system. This resulted in
not loading openwindows. As a result of which none of the X-libraries got loaded.
I am trying to load just the libraries and include files and bin/X11 files
required for running X-windows and compiling my programs written for Xlib and Xaw.
In a desperate effort to regain x-windows, i retrieved /usr/lib/libX*.* files from
the tape . /usr/bin/X11/* and /usr/include/X11/* . Is this enough for running X-windows
BUt i did not get /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ sub directories . these are mainly 100dpi, 75dpi
and misc.
when i run xinit, the error message says /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi etc are not in the
default path. But the problem is i cannot load any of those directories as there is no
disk space.
Are there any temporary suggestions before I get a 1.5 GB disk and load openwindows , to
just have my x-windows running.
Thanks
Pramod
| 16 | trimmed_train |
8,769 | > Hi.
>
> I use Emacs and I want to customize my keyboard better.
> When I set up stuff in my .emacs with a keymap and define-keys,
> I can only access certain of the keys on my X-Terminal's
> keyboard. I can't get e.g. F10, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn; they all
> seem to have either the same or no keycode. I have a feeling
> this can't be fixed in emacs itself, but that I need to do some
> xmodmap stuff. Can someone help me?
Unfortunately, the key event handling is pretty much hardwired into
emacs. I ran into this problem a while back; my solution was to
change the source code so that all of these special keys generated
character sequences which basically encoded the keysym and modifier
state as escape sequences -- for example, the sequence "ESC [ 1 B 7"
would indicate that the "HOME" key was pressed, with the shift key
down. You could also detect standard keys with odd modifiers, such
as "shift-Return".
If anybody wants these changes, they're welcome to them, but you'll
have to have the source available and be comfortable munging with
it a bit. Basically you have to replace the keypress handling code
in the source file "x11term.c". Maybe if someone at OSF is
interested, I can send them the tweaks, but I imagine they've got
bigger fish to fry (hopefully including the much talked about
emacs V19!). If there's sufficient interest, I'll post the mods
somewhere, although this probably isn't the appropriate group for it.
Notes:
* This special code will only apply if you let emacs create
its own (X11) window. If you run it in plain old tty mode (which
includes Xterm windows) then it's business as usual.
* The patches I made were to version 18.58, under Sun OS 4.1.2
[I also did this a while back under HP-UX]. The patches are
in a chunk of code between '#if sun ... #endif' but could
easily be adapted for anything else.
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4,333 | 4 | trimmed_train |
|
664 | One "t" in "Eddie Mathews"!
Because a small advantage in fielding ability comes nowhere near
making up for the large difference in hitting. Their average
seasons, using their combined average 656 (AB + BB) per 162 games:
Years AB H R 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB AVG OBP SLG OPS
Santo 14.10 577 160 81 26 5 24 94 268 79 .277 .366 .464 .830
Robinson 17.55 607 162 70 27 4 15 77 243 49 .267 .325 .401 .726
Fielding, we have, per 162 games at third,
Years P A DP E PCT
Santo 13.15 149 348 30 24 .954
Robinson 17.72 152 350 35 15 .971
Even if Robinson's extra 3 putouts, 2 assists, and 5 DPs are taken to mean
he was responsible for 10 more outs in the field, that doesn't make up
for the extra 28 outs he made at the plate, not to mention the fewer
total bases. The difference of .104 in OPS should be decreased by about
.025 to account for Wrigley, but a .079 difference is still considerable.
The Thorn & Palmer ratings are
Adjusted Adjusted Stolen Fielding Total
Production Batting Runs Base Runs Runs Rating
Santo 123 284 -14 137 41.7
Robinson 105 52 -5 151 19.8 (26.3)
Usual disclaimers about T&P's FR apply, but they really shouldn't be
way off the mark in this comparison. At least it's better than fielding
percentage: Carney Lansford has a .966 , 10th best all-time, but -225 FR,
dead last of all time. Also, since this total rating compares players
to league average instead of replacement level, Robinson should be
awarded an extra 6.5 or so for playing 653 more games. He had a great
career, but I would prefer Santo's plus 4 years of a replacement level 3Bman.
But I would knock Traynor off the list and replace him by Stan Hack.
That's a similar story, Hack's far better hitting outweighs Traynor's
superior fielding. Graig Nettles and Buddy Bell would also be better
choices (IMHO of course, though some recent net discussion supports
this point of view.)
Shouldn't that be right field?
| 2 | trimmed_train |
5,636 | Hi,
I have a simple question. Is it possible to create a OVERLAPPED THICKFRAME
window without a title bar; ie
(WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_THICKFRAME) & ~WS_CAPTION
I don't seem to be able to get rid off the title bar.
I have another question:
I have a overlapped window(say V) which has few child windows (a,b,c, etc)
The window shows up with all it's children fine. Now, I create another
child(t) with a WS_THICKFRAME style and placed on top of one or more of
it's siblings. Style WS_THICKFRAME is used so that I can resize it. How do
I make sure that the child 't' will always be at the top of it's siblings.
I used SetWindowPos() and BringWindowToTop() without success. What's happening
is that while I am resizing 't' it shows up but as soon as I let go, it goes
behild it's siblings.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Manu | 18 | trimmed_train |
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