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"Diet Evangelist". Good term. Fits Atkins to a "T".
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
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Yet again,
the escape sequences you are speaking about here are non standard and
dangerous. In fact, an ANSI compliant sequence parser HANGS on them.
Why are there such strange ESC sequences instead of compatible DSC ?
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I think that part of the problem is that I have proposed a
definition of science that I intended to be interpreted broadly
and that Lee Lady has interpreted fairly narrowly. My definition
is this: Science is the investigation of the empirical that avoids
mistakes in reasoning and methodology discovered from previous
Unless one classifies "thinking and informal exploration" as a
mistake, they fall under my definition. I hope no one would
consider speculation, thinking, and informal exploration as
unscientific.
Here is where I think we are talking at cross-purposes. It is not
clear to me that the kind of definition I have proposed should be
taken as describing what "science is mainly about." Consider,
for example, a definition of invertebrates as all animals lacking
a backbone. This fairly tells what is an invertebrate and
what is not an invertebrate, but it hardly tells you what
invertebrates are all about. One can read this definition and
still not know that 95% of all animal species are invertebrates,
that invertebrates possess a remarkably broad range of form, that
some invertebrate groups -- such as insects and nematodes -- are
ubiquitous in all ecosystems, etc. In short, knowing the
definition of invertebrates does *not* tell one what they are
"mainly about."
The misunderstanding here is my fault. I did not give sufficient
context for people to understand my proposed definition.
I agree on both counts. As an example of the second, it would only
take a few cases of curing rabies to convince most veterinarians
that a treatment was effective, despite a lack of controls.
As to the first, I do not think it is useful to talk about
"absolute scientific truth." I think it is more useful to talk
about the kinds of evidence that various claims have and the
kinds of evidence IN PARTICULAR FIELDS that in the past have
proven faulty or reliable. The latter is obviously a matter of
degree, and in each field, practitioners try to discover the
relevance of different kinds of evidence.
One of the primary mistakes that marks the advocacy of an idea as
psuedo-science is that the advocacy lacks any sense of proportion
regarding the kinds of evidence related to the proposed claim,
the kinds of evidence that are actually relevant to it, and the
historical reasons in the field that certain kinds of evidence
are given more weight than others. It is perfectly alright to
speculate. I have read quite a few refereed papers that
speculated left and right. But the authors were careful to
identify the notions as speculative, to list what little evidence
was presently available for them, and to describe how research
could proceed to either put the notion on more firm footing or to
uncover its problems. Often what distinguishes whether a paper
of this sort passes muster is the thoughtfulness with which the
author sets the context and paves the way for future work. (It
is in this area that many proponents of speculative ideas fail.)
I think a lot of scientists steer away from things that --
deserving or not -- garner a patina of kookiness. When
proponents of some practice see no value in more careful
investigation of that practice, that sets alarms ringing in many
researchers' minds.
This is unfortunate, because there is undoubtedly some
intersection between things that are worth investigating and
things that are advocated by those who seem careless or
unreasonable in their advocacy. On the other hand, I can
understand why many scientists would just as soon select other
directions for research. As Gordon Banks has pointed out, no one
wants to become this generation's Rhine.
I think this is absurd.
I wonder why the results were not published. In my field,
dissertation results are typically summarized in papers that are
submitted to journals. Often the papers are accepted for
publication before the dissertation is finished. (This certainly
eases one's defense.)
Finally, I hope Lee Lady will forgive me from commenting either
on NLP or the discussion of it in sci.psychology. I know little
about either and so have nothing to offer.
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If the emphasis is on the "in general", then of course you're
correct, since you haven't really said anything. If we restrict
our observations to practiced religions, there are lots of
examples of god mandated genocide. Just ask the Canaanites. The
point is that if you believe in a god, and if you believe he has
ordered you to eliminate an entire race, you will likely make the
attempt. After all, if it was OK in the past, it could surely be
OK in the present.
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Bob Beauchaine [email protected]
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea.
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I think I have updated info on this. My understandingis that
former officer Cranston approached a teenager who was being questioned
by another officer. Officer Cranston struck Teenager A in the head
with a heavy police flashlight, causing a significant, though not
life-threatening. THere is no evidence that Teenager A was
doing anything threatening at the time. Teenager A was released
on bail/recognizance and filed a formal complaint against Officer
Cranston. The Police Chief suspended Cranston pending an
investigation into the use of excessive force.
The above is pretty clear... but what seems to have
happened is this. The Chief requested Cranston's gun, but Cranston
refused to turn it over until the Chief went the Cranston's home
to get it. Sources said Cranston had always wanted to be
a cop and was very afraid of loosing his job because of the complaint
against him.
A few days afterward, Cranston allegedly walked into
Wilson's Garage, where Teenager A and friends were known to
hang out and work on cars as a hobby. Cranston fatally shot
Teenager A as well as TEenagers B and C. Teenager D was shot once
in the shoulder/chest. Teenager E was working under the car
and was not noticed by Officer Cranston. Teenager D went to a home
and summoned police, who went to Wilson's Garage and found the
3 corpses and one unscathed survivor.
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ALL I CAN SAY IS
G O T I G E R S!!!!!!
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: >True, man did not invent the need for food, shelter, warmth and the ilk,
: >but man did invent the property laws and the laws of trespass.
: But how do you think property is generated ? Does it grow automatically
: on trees when we wish so, or someone has to produce it ?
Some say it was generated by God or Goddess; some say it was the result of
the coalescence of billions of tons of interstellar debris. In either case,
the property of which Xavier speaks has been around for millions of years.
: It all follows from the fact that Mother Nature does not
: provide us automatically with our needs,
Oh? When did She *stop*? Mother Nature has been automatically providing
us with her bounty ever since we crawled out of the primordial ooze. It
is not "produced": it produces itself, year after year. Last night, for
example, I saw four deer crossing the road (pretty sight, too); in an
earlier time, one of them would have been dinner.
: There are 2 ways to go with produced things: the first is to
: _trade_ it with the the person(s) who produced it.
: The other one is to take it with a gun from the person who produced
: it. The first way is the civilized method, the second is how savages
: arrange their affairs.
The American Indians had no concept of ownership of property, and often
freely gave of their supplies to neighboring tribes, trading food and
clothing for weapons or services. The Native Hawaiians, like their
Polynesian ancestors, also could not conceive of that idea, and shared
many things with the other Islanders. In fact, "hi'ipoi", the Hawaiian
word for "cherish" means "sharing food". The Great Mahele, in which
the Islands were divided up more-or-less evenly between the rich and
the poor, was a white man's idea. In Africa, villagers will often
share tools, crops, and clothing with other members of their own village
and neighboring villages. Every anthropologist who has ever been to
Africa has at least one tale of the difficulties arising from the so-
called "theft" of the scientists possessions -- two concepts of which,
until the visitors came along, the natives had no understanding.
These are the people we call "savages".
On the other hand, car-jackings and muggings are up from last year.
Dov, before you make further comment on this thread, I think it would
behoove you to study *all* of the facts.
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Adam Benson
Mt. Pearl, NF
[email protected]
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No.
In what still, IMHO, ranks as the all-time greatest PR blunder (not to
mention on-ice blunder) the Whalers ever committed, GM Eddie Johnston and
Coach Rick Ley 'decided' that Francis was incapable as a leader and stripped
him of the Captain's "C" in December of 1990. The whole organization (read:
EJ and Ley, and by default owner Richard Gordon because he was too much of
a dupe to know how much he was being blind-sided by EJ) dumped on Francis all
season, starting with refusing to sign him to a new contract, publicly
humiliating him, stripping him of the "C", and then trading him that Spring
to the Penguins. Classy guy, that EJ.
The loss of Francis (and too a lesser extent, Ulf), was one of a series of
decimating player moves by EJ which stripped the personality and fan-awareness
from the team that has put them in the precarious position they are in today.
[Gratuitous good EJ note...he did preside over the organization when it
acquired Verbeek, Cassels, Sanderson, Poulin, Nylander, etc. He stripped the
roster but he DID lay a foundation.]
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Once the chips are released (in phones, or whatever), they are vulnerable to
phsyical inspection and observation. Now, I will grant that there will no
doubt be safeguards against "peeling" the chip, but the NSA has no monopoly
on cleverness. The chip, and the algorithms it uses, will not remain secret
for very long. Any university with a VLSI lab has the required equipment, as
does any offshore semiconductor manufacturer.
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Thanks for the information!
I assume p is the semi-major axis and e the eccentricity. The peri-
helion and aphelion are then given by p(1-e) and p(1+e), i.e., about
2.90 and 3.95 AU respectively. For Jupiter, they are 4.95 and 5.45 AU.
If 1977 was after the temporary capture, this means that the comet
ended up in an orbit that comes no closer than 1 AU to Jupiter's --
which I take to be a rough indication of how far from Jupiter it could
get under Jupiter's influence.
Where 1 Jupiter radius = 71,000 km = 44,000 mi = 0.0005 AU. So the
1970 figure seems unlikely to actually be anything but a perijove.
Is that the case for the 1973 figure as well?
--
Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto "Remember the Golgafrinchans"
utzoo!sq!msb, [email protected] -- Pete Granger
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The following was posted and no doubt retyped by Yigal Ahrens and considering
the importance of the issue and the almost total blackout except in
California, I am reposting to other appropriates groups.
From LA Times, Friday, April 9, 1993. P. A1.
EVIDENCE OF ADL SPY OPERATION SEIZED BY POLICE
By Richard C. Paddock, Times staff writer
SAN FRANCISCO -- Police on Thursday served search warrants on the
Anti-Defamation League here and in Los Angeles, seizing evidence of a
nationwide intelligence network accused of keeping files on more than
950 political groups, newspapers and labor unions and as many as
12,000 people.
Describing the spy operation in great detail, San Francisco
authorities simultaneously released voluminous documents telling how
operatives of the Anti-Defamation League searched through trash and
infiltrated organizations to gather intelligence on Arab-American,
right-wing and what they called "pinko" organizations.
Representatives of the Anti-Defamation League, a well-known
organization in the U.S. Jewish community dedicated to fighting
anti-Semitism, declined detailed comment Thursday but denied breaking
any laws.
Police allege that the organization maintains undercover operatives to
gather political intelligence in at least seven cities, including Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
Groups that were the focus of the spy operation span the political
spectrum, including such groups as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Aryan
Resistance, Operation Rescue, Greenpeace, the National Assn. for the
Advancement of Colored People, the United Farm Workers and the Jewish
Defense League. Also on the list were Mills College, the board of
directors of San Francisco public television station KQED and the San
Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper.
People who were subjects of the spy operation included former
Republican Rep. Pete McCloskey, jailed political extremist Lyndon H.
LaRouche and Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent Scott Kraft, who
is based in South Africa.
Authorities said much of the material collected by the groups was
confidential information obtained illegally from law enforcement
agencies. They also alleged that data on some individuals and
organizations was sold separately to the South African government.
In addition to allegations of obtaining confidential information from
police, the Anti-Defamation League could face a total of 48 felony
counts for not properly reporting the employment of its chief West
Coast spy, Roy Bullock, according to the affidavit filed to justify
the search warrant.
The Anti-Defamation League disguised payments to Bullock for more than
25 years by funneling $550 a week to Beverly Hills attorney Bruce I.
Hochman, who then paid Bullock, according to the documents released in
San Francisco. Hochman, a former president of the Jewish Federation
Council of Greater Los Angeles and one of the state's leading tax
attorneys, will be out of the city until late next week and could not
be reached for comment, his office said.
Until 1990, Hochman, a former U.S. prosecutor, also was a member of a
panel appointed by then-Sen. Pete Wilson to secretly make initial
recommendations on new federal judges in California. Hochman is a
former regional president of the Anti-Defamation League.
The league, which initially cooperated with police, has denied
repeatedly that its intelligence-gathering operation broke any laws.
League officials will not confirm or deny whether Bullock was an
employee and have said they simply traded information with police
departments about people who might be involved in hate crimes.
But in an affidavit filed to obtain warrants for Thursday's searches,
San Francisco police alleged that "ADL employees were apparently less
than truthful" in providing information during an earlier search
conducted without a warrant.
David Lehrer, executive director of the Los Angeles ADL office, said
the organization has not violated the law. "There is nothing
nefarious about how we operate or what we have done," he said. "Our
record speaks for itself."
The police affidavit contends that Lehrer had sole control of a secret
fund used to pay for "fact-finding operations." Lehrer, according to
the documents, signed checks from the account under the name L.
Patterson.
An ADL official said the account was used to pay for subscriptions to
a wide variety of extremist publications that might balk at sending
them directly to the Anti-Defamation League.
Bullock, 58, who has been collecting intelligence for the ADL for
nearly 40 years, defended his efforts during a lengthy interview with
San Francisco police. He said that he gathered names from many
sources and entered them into his computer under headings such as
"Skins" and "Pinkos," but that did not necessarily mean that they were
under surveillance.
"I might never see or call up on 99% of them again," Bullock said.
"And it doesn't mean anything that they're in the files. It's not a
threat to anyone's civil rights that a name appears in my files under,
say, 'Pinko.'"
In recent years, Bullock worked closely with San Francisco Police
Officer Tom Gerard, who fled to the Phillippines last fall after he
was questioned by the FBI in the case.
A former CIA employee, Gerard supplied Bullock with criminal records
and Department of Motor Vehicles information such as home addresses,
vehicle registration, physical characteristics and drivers license
photographs.
Using files gathered for the Anti-Defamation League, Gerard and
Bullock also provided information to the South African government,
receiving $16,000 over four years, the documents show.
The file on Times staff writer Kraft, which was apparently sold to the
South African government, provides some insight into the hit-and-miss
nature of the spy operation.
The file notes that Kraft's articles "appear frequently in The Times
and are well researched and written," but little else about the file
is accurate. The brief entry confuses The Times' Kraft with another
Scott Kraft and provides the South African government with the wrong
Kraft's physical description, photograph and other personal
information.
Nevertheless, the documents provide illuminating details of how
Bullock for decades infiltrated all manner of organizations, from
skinheads to left-wing radicals, searching regularly through the trash
of target groups. Using Anti-Defamation League funds, he also ran his
own paid informants under code names such as "Scott" and "Scumbag."
He worked closely with police officers up and down the coast,
exchanged information with the FBI and worked with federal agencies,
including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
It was Bullock's work as a paid informant for the FBI -- while spying
on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League and the South African
government -- that proved his undoing. The FBI learned that he was an
agent of a foreign government and began investigating, leading to the
probe of the Anti-Defamation League's intelligence network. The
Anti-Defamation League employed undercover operatives to gather
information in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington,
Chicago, St. Louis and Atlanta, according to the affidavit and
investigators. Joining San Francisco police in searching league
offices and a Los Angeles bank were investigators from the office of
San Francisco Dist. Atty. Arlo Smith and the state Franchise Tax
Board. The Los Angeles Police Department, which earlier refused to
cooperate with the investigation, was informed of the searches in Los
Angeles but not invited to participate. Investigators suspect that
some confidential information in the Anti-Defamation League files may
have come from Los Angeles police officers.
From Los Angeles Times, Saturday, April 10, 1993. P. A23.
ADL VOWS TO COOPERATE WITH SPY INVESTIGATION
By Richard C. Paddock, Times staff writer.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Anti-Defamation League defended its record as a
civil rights group Friday and said it will cooperate with authorities
who are investigating whether the organization collected confidential
police information on citizens and groups.
But San Francisco Dist. Atty. Arlo Smith said that Anti-Defamation
League employees involved in intelligence gathering could face many
felony counts of receiving confidential files, eavesdropping, tax
violations and conspiracy.
Police have accused the Anti-Defamation League of not being truthful
about its spying operations, which collected information on more than
12,000 individuals and 950 political groups across the political
spectrum.
Hundreds of pages of documents released by prosecutors Thursday show
that the ADL maintained a nationwide intelligence network and kept
files on political figures.
Even so, Smith suggested that if the Anti-Defamation League shut down
its spy operation, prosecutors would take that into account when
deciding what charges to file.
In a statement released in Washington, National Director Abraham H.
Foxman described the ADL as "a Jewish defense agency which has fought
to protect all minorities from bigotry and discrimination for 80
years."
Foxman said the organization is regarded as a credible source on
extremist groups and has a tradition of routinely providing
information to police, journalists, academics, government officials
and the public. It has never been the policy of the ADL to obtain
information illegally, he said.
"Like other journalists, in order to protect the confidentiality and
physical safety of its sources, ADL will not comment on the nature or
identity of any source of information," Foxman said.
The Anti-Defamation League refused to acknowledge that one of its
longtime employees, Roy Bullock, was anything more than "a private
individual who is alleged to be an ADL 'informant.'"
Among the documents released by prosecutors were detailed statements
showing how the ADL funneled weekly payments to Bullock through
Beverly Hills attorney Bruce I. Hochman.
"Roy would penetrate organizations and needed this arrangement to be
distanced from ADL," Hochman told a San Francisco police investigator.
Hochman could not be reached Friday at his home or office for comment.
Despite the Anti-Defamation League's assertion that it will cooperate
with authorities, San Francisco police said the group did not turn
over all pertinent documents during a voluntary search of the group's
offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco last fall.
A second round of searches Thursday, this time with search warrants,
produced a vast quantity of records, primarily dealing with financial
transactions, Smith said. Further searches may be necessary and it
will be at least a month before any charges are filed, he said.
"The investigation, of course, will go wherever the facts lead us,"
the district attorney said.
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Other idea for old space crafts is as navigation beacons and such..
Why not?? If you can put them on "safe" "pause" mode.. why not have them be
activated by a signal from a space craft (manned?) to act as a naviagtion
beacon, to take a directional plot on??
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Alomar fans left RBI fans and Runs off this list because they are dependant
on the team. (To a large extent). If Frank Thomas hit first, he'd lose a LOT
of RBI's; and anyways how many 2nd place hitters have you known to drive
in 100 runs? Doesn't happen that often.....very unlikely with Devon White's
~.300 OBP in front of you...
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I'd love to see a Shea Stadium gif.
-Sean
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Are you trying to say that there were no massacres in Deir Yassin
or in Sabra and Shatila? If so then let me tell you some good jokes:
There is not and was not any such thing like jewish killing in WWII
Palestinians just did what Davidians did for fourty years and more.
In fact no one was killed in any war at any time or any place.
People die that is all. No one gets killed.
Maybe also vietamiese didn't die in Vietnam war killed by american
napalm they were just pyromaniacs and that's all.
Maybe jews just liked gas chambers and no one forced them to get in there.they
may be thought it was like snifing cocaine. No?
What do you think of this ? Isn't it stupid to say so?
Well it is as stupid as what you said .Next time you want to lie do it
intelligently.
Sincerely yours.
Hassan
Arab civilians did die at Dir yassin. But there was no massacre. First
of all, the village housed many *armed* troops. Secondly, the Irgun
and Stern fighters had absolutely no intentions of killing civilians.
The village was attacked only for its military significance. In fact,
a warning was given to the occupants of the village to leave before
the attack was to begin.
By all rational standards, Dir Yassin was not a massacre. The killing
was unintentional. The village housed Arab snipers and Arab troops.
Thus it was attacked for its military significance. It was not
attacked with intentions of killing any civilians.
To even compare Dir Yassin, in which some 120 or so Arabs died, to the
Holocaust is absurd. The Irgun did not want to kill any civilians. The
village had almost 1000 inhabitants, most of whom survived.
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Danny Rubenstein, an Israeli journalist, will be speaking tonight
(Wednesday, 7:30 pm) on the messy subject of politics in Israel.
He is speaking at Hillel on the U.C. Berkeley campus.
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: It is a dead and useless faith which has no action behind it. Actions
: prove our faith and show the genuineness of it.
A good example of this is Abraham (referred to in the James passage). Hebrews
says that Abraham was justified by faith -- but his faith was demonstrated
through his works (i.e., he obeyed what God told him to do).
Reading Abraham's ``biography'' in Genesis is very instructive. He was a man
beset by *lack* of faith a lot of the time (e.g. lying about Sarah being his
wife on 2 occasions; trying to fulfil God's promise on God's behalf by
copulating with Hagar). . . yet it seems that God didn't evaluate him on the
basis of individual incidents. Abraham is listed as one of the ``heroes of
faith'' in Hebrews 11. i.e., when it really came to the crunch, God declared
Abraham as a man of faith. He believed God's promises.
This gives us confidence. Although real faith demonstrates itself through
works, God is not going to judge us according to our success/failure in
performing works.
``Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy
he saved us, through the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy
Spirit.'' (Titus 3.5)
Amazing Grace! Hallelujah!
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I heard that Eli is selling the team to a group in Cinninati. This would
help so that the O's could make some real free agent signings in the
offseason. Training Camp reports that everything is pretty positive right
now. The backup catcher postion will be a showdown between Tackett and Parent
although I would prefer Parent. #1 Draft Pick Jeff Hammonds may be coming
up faster in the O's hierarchy of the minors faster than expected. Mike
Flanagan is trying for another comeback. Big Ben is being defended by
coaches saying that while the homers given up were an awful lot, most came
in the beginning of the season and he really improved the second half. This
may be Ben's year.
I feel that while this may not be Mussina's Cy Young year, he will
be able to pitch the entire season without periods of fatigue like last year
around August. I really hope Baines can provide the RF support the O's need.
Orsulak was decent but I had hoped that Chito Martinez could learn defense
better and play like he did in '91. The O's right now don't have many
left-handed hitters. Anderson proving last year was no fluke and Cal's return
to his averages would be big plusses in a drive for the pennant. The
rotation should be Sutcliffe, Mussina, McDonald, Rhodes, ?????. Olson is an
interesting case. Will he strike out the side or load the bases and then get
three pop outs? You never know.
The way I see the AL East this year (with personal biases mixed in)
Baltimore
New York
Toronto
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Boston
Detroit
(The top 4 are the only true contenders in my mind. One of these 4 will
definitely win the division unless it snows in Hell/Maryland :). I feel
that this Baltimore's season to finally put everything together.)
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With regards to my condemnation of Marc's ridiculous attacks on the
American Department of Justice, and further attacks on Jews, to
anyone who took offense to my calling Marc stupid, I
apologize for pointing out the obvious. It was a waste of the
Net's time. I hope, though, that most American citizens have
the basic knowlege of the structure of American government to
understand the relationship between the Justice Department
as a part of the Executive Branch, and the Courts, which
are of the Judicial Branch.
Marc's ignorance of basic civic knowlege underscores his
inability to comprehend and interpret foreign affairs.
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Hola amigos,
Quiero... I need an answer to a pressing question. I now own two
bikes and would love to keep them both. One is a capable and
smooth street bike, low and lightweight with wide power and great
brakes; the other is a Beemer G/S, kind of rough for the city but
great on the long road and backroad. A good start at a stable, but
I don't think it's going to work. Unfortunately, insurance is going
to pluck me by the short hairs.
Unless... some insurance agent offers a multi-vehicle discount. They
do this all the time for cars, assuming that you're only capable of
driving one of the things at a time. I don't think I'll ever manage
to straddle both bikes and ride them tandem down the street. (Turn left...
accelerate the Zephyr; turn right... accelerate the Beemer.) Does
anybody know of an agency that makes use of this simple fact to
discount your rates? State Farm doesn't.
By the way, I'm moving to the Bay area so I'll be insuring the bikes
there, and registering them. To ease me of the shock, can somebody
guesstimate the cost of insuring a ZR550 and a R800GS? Here in Tucson
they only cost me $320 (full) and $200 (liability only) for the two,
per annum.
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I just noticed that my halogen table lamp runs off 12 Volts.
The big thinngy that plugs into the wall says 12 Volts DC, 20mA
The question is: Can I trickle charge the battery on my CB650
with it?
I don't know the rating of the battery, but it is a factory
intalled one.
Thanks,
Sanjay
--
'81 CB650 DoD #1224
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Oh, darn.
Okay, okay, let's stop slamming Ipser, and get on with making fun of other
people.
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Uh... slight clarification: That should be a printer driver for the
c.itoh LIPS10 laser printer.
Thanks again
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As someone who reads Israeli newpapaers every day, I can state
with absolute certainty, that anybody who relies on western media
to get a picture of what is happening in Israel is not getting an
accurate picture. There is tremendous bias in those stories that
do get reported. And the stories that NEVER get mentioned create
a completely false picture of the mideast.
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I'm looking for any leads to the source of a good Windows
Meta File converter or interpreter. I need this for use
outside the Windows environment. PD sources preferred, but
not a requirement. Please reply to the address below.
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: ..continuing on my build problems, I got stuck here build xterm...
:
: gcc -fpcc-struct-return -o xterm main.o input.o charproc.o cursor.o util.o tabs.o screen.o scrollbar.o button.o Tekproc.o misc.o VTPrsTbl.o TekPrsTbl.o data.o menu.o -O2 -R/usr/wgep/X11R5.sos5/lib${LD_RUN_PATH+\:$LD_RUN_PATH} -L../.././lib/Xaw -lXaw -L../.././lib/Xmu -lXmu -L../.././lib/Xt -lXt -L../.././extensions/lib -lXext -L../.././lib/X -lX11 -L/usr/wgep/X11R5.sos5/lib -lsocket -lnsl -ltermcap
: Undefined first referenced
: symbol in file
: index /usr/ucblib/libtermcap.a(termcap.o)
: rindex /usr/ucblib/libtermcap.a(termcap.o)
: ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to xterm
: *** Error code 1
: make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xterm'
:
: Any clues for help?
Either:
* Add -lucb -lelf to the list
or
* #define index() and rindex() to strchr() and strrchr() respectively.
Both use same args. Former are bsd, latter are SysV.
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too bad he doesn't bring the ability to hit, pitch, field or run.
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As a followup, this is a co-worker's machine. He has the latest 2.03 drivers.
It only happens using the 1024x768x256 driver. Sometimes it takes a minute
or so for the cursor to wig out, but it eventually does in this mode. I
susect something is stepping on memory the video card wants. I excluded
a000-c7ff in the EMM386 line and in system.ini The problem persisted.
Perhaps it is something specific to the Gateway machine or it's components.
It is a 66mhz DX/2 Eisa bus with an Ultrastore (24xx?) controller. Ah well,
I was hoping this was some kind of 'known problem' or somebody had seen it
before. Perhaps a call to Gateway is in order, but I do find folks here
usually are far more in the know.
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However, don't forget that the police in Chicago can carry just about
anything they want except for the Glock, which is not approved for
carry (Guess they figure all cops are like the Police Chief of Winnetka,
who happened to let off a stray round of 9mm. This is the same anti-gun
police chief that wanted full-auto Uzis for his patrol cars...).
Perhaps in the judgement of the majority of Chicago's finest, a close-to-
100% reliable weapon like a revolver is preferable to a 99.99% reliable
automatic. I note that in Germany, where certainly the 9mm semi-auto
handgun is king, some of the more elite police types want revolvers.
I don't think the issue is cost, because Chicago police certainly make
on the order of at least $40K/year.
Your presumption of "disadvantage" I think is not borne out by the
experiences of New York City's cops; there the cops usually come out
on top with their standard .38 Spl revolvers.
I've seen S&Ws, Rugers and Beretta 9mms in addition to the revolvers
carried by Chicago cops.... in the past, I've seen .45 M1911s; others
have seen Browning Hi-Powers...
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#In article <[email protected]> "Casper C. Knies" <ISSCCK@BYUVM#.B
#>As a Latter-day Saint, I found John's statement *not at all* ludicrous...
#>
#>Please allow me to explain myself. In 1838, the governor of Missouri,
#>governor Boggs, issued his so-called "Mormon extermination order." The
#>only crime ("illegal activity") the Latter-day Saints had committed, was
#>their religious affiliation, their anti-slave stance (Missouri still
#>allowed slave practices), and their growing numbers/influence in Missouri.
#>
#>I guess the Mormons "got what they deserved," because they refused to bow
#>to the will of (corrupt and evil) secular authorities. This "disobedience"
#>brought upon them persecution, murder, and finally forced expulsion from
#>their lands and settlements...
#
#It is significant to remember that these secular positions were held by
#"average" people, and that at the time, almost all Americans were pretty
#homogeonously Christian. It was largely the mainstream Christian's disgust
#at such practices as polygamy which resulted in their irrational hatred.
True, but that is exactly the "problem": the Mormon extermination order
was issued not just by a Christian, it was ALLOWED under the Constitution
of the United States, which was instituted precisely to prevent incidents
like this "order" from occurring in the first place... As I indicated in
an earlier posting, your "irrational hatred" is clearly evidenced by
individuals like Robert Weiss (who could have been Gov. Boggs' Lieutenant;
he would have fitted right in, drewling et al), and seems a modern-day
occurrence, based on results (slander, persecution, misrepresentation,
lies, denying Mormons representation in their own user group, etc. etc.
In intent and purpose, what really has changed?
#The situation is not entirely different today. Many irrational feelings
#and beliefs are justified through religion. I don't think most of them
#are started because of religion, but religion certainly helps justify and
#perpetuate prejudices and practices by providing a neat justification
#which discourages critical thought.
True, as evidenced by numerous examples, as I am sure you're aware.
#>In any regard, Mormon history alone indicates that secular authorities (and
#>I don't even discuss how Uthan's were suckered into allowing part of their
#>lands in becoming nerve-gas and atomic bomb testing grounds...) is far from
#>being trusted or righteous. Have things really changed for the better? I
#>may be a born cynic, but I have NO reason whatsoever that such has been the
#>case. In the early 1980s, I believe, the late President Kimball (lds church
#>leader) strongly protested federal attempts to locate the MX-"Peace Keeper"
#>missile maze from being built in Utah (yet another "inspired" decision from
#secular authorities). Fortunately, his opposition was influential enough
#for the feds to back off.
#
#Do you mean that the "secular authorities" are some continuous group of
#people with the common and uninterrupted goal of harrassing/eradicating the
#Mormons? Do you honestly believe that the main reason for using Utah for
#nuclear testing etc.. was to "get them thar Mormons"? And what about the
#majority of Uthan's who aren't Mormons? You seem to be searching for enemy
^^^^^^^^
(Correction: the majority of Utahn's ARE Mormon (60-70% I believe, up to a
100% in many cities and settlements throughout the Western states.)
#conspiracies. It is paranoid to believe that everything that affects you
#badly must have been done primarily for that purpose.
What I mean is that secular authorities are to be watched, as we believe
that Satan has been given some power and dominion over the earth to divert
truth, judgment, and justice. In addition, we believe that the adversary
has power to influence the unjust and idolatrous (greed for money would be
a good example) in order to bring about persecution, war, oppression, and
evil combinations. As an intelligent being, don't you suppose that the
destroyer would yield his influence foremost on those with political power?
As far as Utah is concerned, what I pointed out were some horrible examples
of environmental nightmares imposed upon by secular authorities, which have
brought death, disease, (i.e. the "downwinders") and environmental contami-
nation. I am hardly "paranoid," I am just not "expecting" too much from a
secular government that may not share our values and faith, and which indeed
(as Gov. Boggs et al.) may be out to harm and destroy us. As a matter of
fact, prophecies in my church indicate that in future years, (global)
persecution against Mormons will so increase in intensity and scope, that
(paraphrasing) "all those who wish to escape persecution and murder must
flee to Zion." Zion (the "pure in heart") will be re-established in those
days, and it AIN'T our current secular authorities who will rule over it...
#>... David Koresh did NOT pose a great
#>threat to the federal authorities or the security of this nation, and with
#>John, I too wonder who or what's next...
#
#I personally feel that we should try to stop anyone who is a threat to the
#life of even one person. Sure, he did not pose a threat to the security of
#this nation. But he did pose a threat to the lives of his followers. That
#much is definite.
Hmmm. "definite" by whom? --Until such has been established beyond reason-
able doubt, this alleged "threat" may have been less than the "threat"
imposed upon him and his followers by the BATF and FBI...
#>Who killed who? What constitutional right did the ATF officers have to
#>invade upon private land and to force themselves into the compound?
#>What REALLY caused the "murder" of the little children? Could it be that
#>the ATF/FBI presence has any bearing upon the events? How would you
#>interpret the Mt. Masada events? --Blame the Jews? (What the heck did
#>the Romans do there anyway? What business did the ATF/FBI has in Waco,
#>Texas???) The Branch Davidians NEVER posed any threat to society.
#
#This is like asking who REALLY caused the deaths of the Israeli Olympic
#team in 1976? In that case, the police botched the job as well. But to
#lay a heavier burden on them than the terrorists would be a terrible
#mistake. I think the same sort of reasoning applies in this case.
#Certainly, if David Koresh chose any peaceful option, the ATF and FBI
#would have complied. The responsibility is more his than the authorities.
Come now, at issue is in how much the authorities escalated an otherwise
peaceful stand-off: "let's get it over with, and "force" David Koresh to
come out???" --By gassing them??? Were they naive, or what? They played
right into the hands of an apocalyptic-thinking individual (he had prepared
his people for this eventuality for years), and not *one* firetruck or plan
was in place to deal with this scenario??? I feel that the authorities
had "some" responsibility to protect their own citizens, even if they were
religious zealots, and guilty of ... not paying a $200 gun license???
(Has the BATF become an extension of the local tax-collectors?)
#>David Koresh, no doubt, will be described as the "evil" guy (by the
#>executioners), while the actions of all those "valiant and brave" officers
#
#Characterizing the ATF/FBI as executioners is inaccurate and unfair. In
#order to be an executioner, the least one must have done is have the intent
#to kill.
Que?? --Intrusion into private property with semi's, loaded with life
ammunition, isn't that implicit "intent (or at least "prepared") to kill"?
I ask you, would the BATF warrant stand up in a civil court of justice?
I do not mind if criminals (such as dangerous drug lords) are brought to
justice, but escalating events to the point of allowing to, if not compli-
city with, the destruction of a people?
#--
#*Isaac Kuo ([email protected]) * _____
#*"How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing.* ______//_o_\\__
#* For us, it is a mundane and functional item. For you, *(==(/___________
#* the basis of an entire culture!" Manfred von Richtofen * \==\/ \
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OK all you experts!
Need answer quick.386 machine ,1.44 floppy ; unable to write to a formated
720 disk.Machine claims that disk is write protected,but it is not.
Note: It 'll read 720's with no problem.
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Hmmm. These don't look like references to me. Is passive-aggressive
behavior associated with weight rebound? :-)
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An earlier article in this newsgroup made reference to
WinQVT/Net version 3.4. Realy? Where? I tried archie
with no luck. It's probably just a typo.
But I sure would like to get one if it's real as I too
have a printer problem in WinQVT.
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God being unknowable, I can't comment on His motives, but it would be
distressing if He allowed us to misunderstand Him through no fault of
our own. For sanity's sake we must assume, if we believe in Him at all,
that His message comes through somehow. The question is whether it comes
through immediately to every individual, or is contained in a complex
canon that must be interpreted by experts in consultation with one another,
or is transmitted directly through appointed representatives who are free
to interpret, extend and modify the canon. If God's message is indeed
mediated, the further problem arises as to whether the individual under-
stands the mediated message fully and clearly. Since the responsibility
for understanding lies ultimately with the individual, we must assume that
God in His benevolence guides each individual to the appropriate source
for that individual, whereof the person may or may not drink.
Your example is complicated in our age by the thin line between morality
and politeness. You might have said "burp", for burping and swearing carry
about the same stigma today. If you are talking about "taking the Lord's
name in vain" as a serious transgression, then this example is more a case of
hypocrisy than of varying moral codes.
If there is an absolute moral code, propositions or laws in that code apply
absolutely and universally, by definition. Conceivably some moral codes
could be subsets of the universal code, as you say at the outset. So, for
example, God's code could include, "Thou shalt not create Beings without
a hospitable planet to live on", but this law would be inapplicable to us.
Nevertheless, we would be entitled to suppose that all laws applicable
to us are also applicable to God.
But when you begin to ask what laws might appear in God's moral code, you have
a sense of the absurdity of the question. Does God make laws for Himself to
follow? Perhaps God is not the sort of being to which the category "morality"
can be sensibly applied.
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I don't think we've got a conspiracy on our hands, or anything
vaugely similar. I do think that the Feds showed a distinct lack of
both intelligence and disregard for others safety throughout this whole
mess.
I do think the FBI and the BATF screwed up big. What made me
really concerned was FBI director William Sessions being on CNN engaging
in what could only be called spin control before the place had even
cooled down. Evertyhing had literally blown up in their faces and I felt
there had to be something more important he should have been doing...
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I'm trying to figure out how to operate a Pioneer Laserdisc LD-1000 that I bought at a surplus store. It is reputedly from some kind of computerised viewing
and/or ordering system. THere is what may be an HPIB connector on the back. When
I power it up, the front panel power light comes on, but no activity, and the
door doesn't open. Anyone have any experience with this unit or any ideas on how
to obtain documentation?
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Wait a minute. I agree with you that people have to take responsibility
for their own behavior (I assume that's what you meant by the word
"account"), but also for "the behavior of their immediate community"?
First of all, how "immediate" are you talking about, and secondly, I
have a lot of trouble with any theory of social behavior or justice
which charges anyone with the duty of taking responsibility for or
accounting for the actions of a different person...
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#The better question should be.
#Why not transfer O&M of all birds to a separate agency with continous funding
#to support these kind of ongoing science missions.
Since we don't have the money to keep them going now, how will
changing them to a seperate agency help anything?
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posting for a friend
1982 porsche 928 new this vehicle was $74,000
today book list this vehicle between 11,500 to 15,000
perfect in every way with all options including new paint, leather interior,
sunroof and low miles
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From article <[email protected]>, by [email protected] (Sabri T Atan):
There were a couple millions of Greeks living in Asia Minor until 1923.
Someone had to protect them. If not us who??
Compromise on what, the invasion of Cyprus, the involment of Turkey in
Greek politics, the refusal of Turkey to accept 12 miles of territorial
waters as stated by international law, the properties of the Greeks of
Konstantinople, the ownership of the islands in the Greek lake,sorry, Aegean.
There are some things on which there can not be a compromise.
Any person who supports the policies of the Turkish goverment directly or
indirecly is a "bad" person.
It is not your nationality that makes you bad, it is your support of the
actions of your goverment that make you "bad".
People do not hate you because of who you are but because of what you
are. You are a supporter of the policies of the Turkish goverment and
as a such you must pay the price.
You do not need brainwashing to turn people against the Turks. Just talk to
Greeks, Arabs, Slavs, Kurds and all other people who had the luck to be under
Turkish occupation.
They will talk to you about murders,rapes,distruction.
You do not learn about Turks from history books, you learn about them from
people who experienced first hand Turkish friendliness.
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I am glad that you recognize that people should not engage in denial
and repression, and should acknowledge such. The United States, with
its people, have recognized that repression has taken place, with the
loss and outright abrogation of civil liberties and constitutional
protections of citizens. This recognition has taken the form of the
civil rights law (let's just discuss the federal level for now), such
as 18 USC 241 et. seq., 42 USC 1981 et. seq, et. al.
With this recognition of repression, at times manifested in the
form of collective guilt, I want people to recognize denial.
Though it can be said that white people numerically commit more
crimes in the United States, because white people are a majority,
it can also be said that black people commit a disproportionate
amount of crime in the United States, in their relation to their
numbers in population.
My views are out of experiences when I was a police officer
in a large metropolitan area, and of a citizen. Unless people
account for their behavior, and for the behavior of their immediate
community, nothing will improve.
Regards,
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Could anyone direct me to the FTP site where I can find the DOS-based
morphing package called DMORF12.ZIP? I had downloaded this file last week,
but the new DOS 6 crashed my hard drive and I lost it. Now I can't find the
site where I got it from.......
Also, are there any other morphing packages out for DOS (freeware or shareware)
Thanks in advance,
Barry
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Ack! Sorry for the repeat posts: I thought I was posting to the newsgroup
on which this appeared. Couldn't figure out why it wasn't appearing in
my newsgroup. Stupid of me. Slap my hands. Bang my head against the wall.
Sorry! Bloody public anouncements...mumble mumble mumble...
============================================================================
David Matthew Deane ([email protected])
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Hell, just set up a spark jammer, or some other _very_ electrically-noisy
device. Or build an active Farrady cage around the room, with a "noise"
signal piped into it. While these measures will not totally mask the
emissions of your equipment, they will provide sufficient interference to
make remote monitoring a chancy proposition, at best. There is, of course,
the consideration that these measures may (and almost cretainly will)
cause a certain amount of interference in your own systems. It's a matter
of balancing security versus convenience.
BTW, I'm an ex-Air Force Telecommunications Systems Control Supervisor and
Telecommunications/Cryptographic Equipment Technician.
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I will try to answer some of Dorin's questions, even though they were
not addressed to me specifically, but I feel that I am a bit concerned
by the thread since I am a Southern Lebanese from a village that is
often on the receiving end of Israel's bombs.
In the first place the death of three soldiers on a patrol in occupied
Lebanese terrritory is NOT an act of terrorism or murder. It is
disingeneous to compare their death to that of athletes in Munich
or any other act of terrorism or mrder. This exercise is aimed
solely at diverting the issue and is far from the truth.
It seems to me, Dorin, that, you are so remote and ignorant of the problem
on the ground that your comments can only be charactrized as irrelevant,
and heavily colored by the preconceptions and misinformation.
I will try to paint the most accurate picture I can of
what the situation really is in South Lebanon.
I am. I was back in my home village this last summer. For your information
we are PEOPLE, not a bunch of indiscriminate terrorists. Most of the
people in my village are regular inhabitants that go about their daily
business, some work in the fields, some own small shops, others are
older men that go to the coffe shop and drink coffee. Is that so hard to
imagine ???? It is NOT a "terrorist camp" as you and the Israelis like
to view the villages they are small communities with kids playing soccer
in the streets, women preparing lunch, men playing cards, etc.....
SOME young men, usually aged between 17 to 30 years are members of
the Lebanese resistance. Even the inhabitants of the village do not
know who these are, they are secretive about it, but most people often
suspect who they are and what they are up to. These young men are
supported financially by Iran most of the time. They sneak arms and
ammunitions into the occupied zone where they set up booby traps
for Israeli patrols. Every time an Israeli soldier is killed or injured
by these traps, Israel retalliates by indiscriminately bombing villages
of their own choosing often killing only innocent civilians. Once they
are back they announce that they bombed a "terrorist hideout" where
an 8 year old girl just happened to be.
We are now accustomed to Israeli tactics, and we figure that this is
the Israeli way of telling us that "if you're gonna hurt our soldiers
you're gonna pay the price". We accept this as a price we have to pay
to free our land, Israel knows very well that it is not really hurting
the resistance that much militarily with these strikes, but rather
just keeping the pressure on the villagers to demand from their young
men to stop attacking Israeli soldiers since these attacks are
taking a heavy toll on the lives of the civilian villagers.
Israel's retalliation policy is cold hearted, but a reality that
we have come to accept and deal with, the Lebanese Resistance
on the other hand is not going to stop its attacks on OCCUPYING
ISRAELI SOLDIERS until they withdraw, this is the only real
leverage that they have to force Israel to withdraw.
The people of South Lebanon are occupied, or shelled by Israel on a
regular basis. We do not want to be occupied. If Israel insists that
the so called "Security Zone" is necessary for the protection of
Northern Israel, than it will have to pay the price of its occupation
with the blood of its soldiers. If Israel is interested in peace,
than it should withdraw from OUR land. We are not asking for the
establishment of a Lebanese occupied zone in northern Israel to protect
our villages that are attacked on a regular basis by Israel, so the
best policy seems to be the removal of Israeli occupation and the
establishment of peace keeping troops along the border.
I have written before on this very newsgroup, that the only
real solution will come as a result of a comprehensive peace
settlement whereby Israel withdraws to its own borders and
peace keeping troops are stationed along the border to insure
no one on either side of the border is shelled.
This is the only realistic solution, it is time for Israel to
realize that the concept of a "buffer zone" aimed at protecting
its northern cities has failed. In fact it has caused much more
Israeli deaths than the occasional shelling of Northern Israel
would have resulted in.
If Israel really wants to save some Israeli lives it would withdraw
unilaterally from the so-called "Security Zone" before the conclusion
of the peace talks. Such a move would save Israeli lives,
advance peace efforts, give Israel a great moral lift, better Israel's
public image abroad and give it an edge in the peace negociations
since Israel can rightly claim that it is genuinely interested in
peace and has already offered some important concessions.
Along with such a withdrawal Israel could demand that Hizbollah
be disarmed by the Lebanese government and warn that it will not
accept any attacks against its northern cities and that if such a
shelling occurs than it will consider re-taking the buffer zone
and will hold the Lebanese and Syrian government responsible for it.
There seems to be very little incentive for the Syrian and Lebanese
goovernment to allow Hizbollah to bomb Israel proper under such
circumstances, and now the Lebanese government has proven that it is
capable of controlling and disarming all militias as they did
in all other parts of Lebanon.
I agree, only in the case of the Isareli soldiers their killing
CANNOT be qualified as murder, no matter what you say.
I have the feeling that you may be able yourself to make
Yes, we have no quarrel with Jews, or Israeli civilians.
The real problem is with OCCUPYING Israeli soldiers and those brave
Israeli pilots that bomb our civilian villages every time an
occupying soldier is attacked.
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Mark Ashley's account of private revelation does not, as some might
think, contradict my posting in which I said that the Catholic Church
believes that public revelation, on which Catholic doctrine is based,
ended with the death of St. John, the last Apostle. In that posting
I made sure I used the word "public". Public revelation contains
God's truth intended for everyone to believe. The revelation contained
in the Bible is a significant subset of public revelation. Private
revelation is revelation that God gives to an individual. He may speak
directly to the individual, He may send an angel, or He may send the
Virgin Mary or some lesser saint. The only person who is required to
believe a private revelation is the person to whom it is revealed.
Devotional practices may be based on reported private revelations,
but doctrines can not.
When an alleged private revelation attracts sufficient attention, the
Church may investigate it. If the investigation indicates a likelihood
that the alleged private revelation is in fact from God, it will be
approved. That means that it can be preached in the Church. However,
it is still true that no one is required to believe that it came from
God. A Catholic is free to deny the authenticity of even the most
well attested and strongly approved private revelations, such as those
at Fatima and Lourdes. (I suspect that few if any Catholics do reject
Fatima and Lourdes, but if any do their rejection of them does not
mean they are not orthodox Catholics in good standing.)
I do not have at hand a list of the criteria the Church uses in
evaluating an alleged private revelation--it's not something I need
every day--but I know that one of the primary requirements is that
nothing in the alleged private revelation can contradict anything
known through public revelation
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Marty Helgesen
Bitnet: mnhcc@cunyvm Internet: [email protected]
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A 1 of 4 decoder need not be the same as a 1 to 4 demultiplexer, although
many commercial SSI implementations allow you to use one as such. Strictly,
a 1 of 4 decoder need only take two lines in and make one output change
state, according to the inputs.
A demux, on the other hand, uses two control inputs to determine which
of four outputs will reflect the state of the input signal. So there are
three inputs required.
A decoder can be used as a demux if it is equipped with an output enable
input, since this can be used as the data input (e.g. when high, all
outputs are high; when low, only the selected (by control inputs) output
will be low).
An eight way decoder is created by using the high order bit (bit 2) to
select which of two four way demuxes is enabled. Thus you achieve your
aim of having only one output of eight reflecting the input bits. Note
that this method cannot be used to create a true eight way demux, since
you have no data input (the enable line on a four way decoder) left
once you commit the enable lines to their intended purpose.
A sixteen way decoder obviously requires four, four-way decoders, plus
a mechanism to enable only one of the four at a time. Therefore, use
the fifth decoder, attached to the two high order bits, to provide the
four enable lines.
Of course, the two low order bits must be connected in parallel to the
four final stage decoders.
Please give me the credit when you submit your homework.
JohnH
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The book is called "27 basic fundamental beliefs" or something very close to
that. the number *IS* 27, not 30. I have a copy at home (i'm away at
school.)
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Hi ... can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of updated Canon BJ-200
printer driver for Windows 3.1, if any ? I have ver 1.0 which comes with
my BJ-200 printer, I just wonder if there is any newer version.
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Actually I don't think there is any conflict if we really understand
what these passages say. First, what is faith? If you study the
meaning of the Greek and Hebrew words so translated I think you will
come to the conclusion that the word means a *lot* more than mere
belief. Faith means both trust and action. If you do not put your
belief into action it simply cannot qualify as faith. I think this
is what James means when he says that "faith without works is dead"
and, "I will show you my faith by my works." Remember James was
writing to "the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad." This
probably means he was writing to those who would hear the gospel much
later and wouldn't understand the meaning of the original Greek.
(Indeed I suspect James was writing to us, today, among others he
intended to reach.) Paul, on the other hand wrote mostly to the
people of the Roman empire who generally understood the meaning of
the Greek.
Another key to why there is no conflict is to look at Paul's
statements in their context. I think you will find that when Paul
contrasts faith and works it is in the context of comparing the
gospel with the Law, meaning the Law of Moses. This was the great
burden of Paul's life. As the apostle to the Gentiles he would go
convert a bunch of people, then the "Judizers" would come along and
try to convince them that they also had to obey the Law of Moses (cf
Acts chapter 15). In this context Paul condemns the idea of being
saved by the works of the Law, saying that we are saved by the blood
of Jesus and our faith in him. I believe that a better translation
for today would be that we are saved by *faithfulness*. I think
"faithfulness" today has a meaning closer to what the original
writers intended.
I think you misunderstand Romans. What Paul is really saying is
that God prefers a faithful Gentile who does not "keep kosher" to a
kosher Jew who fails to stay faithful in the more important matters
of following the Lord and having charity toward his fellows.
In the sense of faith described above, you cannot have real faith and
be lukewarm. If you know God but are lukewarm (unfaithful), you are
worse off than the person who never heard of Him. Remember, Jesus in
the parable of the pearl of great price (Mat 13:45-46) and again in
the one on the treasure hidden in the field (Mat 13:44) indicates that
the price of the Kingdom of God is *all* we have.
[I agree with you in general, including the fact that "pistis" has
some of the force of "faithful". However if you take that too far,
you can end up with something that Paul definitely would not have
intended. Being faithful means following God in all things. To say
that we are saved by being faithful is very close to saying that we
are saved by commiting no sins. I assume that's not what you meant.
I have almost given up on finding a specific verbal formula that
completely captures this. However I think Paul is describing what I'd
call a basic orientation, including aspects such as trust and
commitment. Jesus speaks of it as rebirth, which implies a basic
change. We may still do things that are sinful, and may fail to show
the new life in Christ in many situations where we should. But in any
Christian there had better be the basic change in orientation that
Jesus calls being born again.
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I am selling my Global Village Teleport 2400 bps modem w/send fax. It
connects to the mac through the ADB port. The software for sending
faxes is included. I am asking $90. However, I will consider other
reasonable offers. Please E-Mail me.
Dave
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Or perhaps any planning at all. :-) Hiya Pete, still got that CBX?
Nice to hear from you again!
Ouch. :-) This brings to mind one of the recommendations in the
Hurt Study. Because the rear of the gas tank is in close proximity
to highly prized and easily damaged anatomy, Hurt et al recommended
that manufacturers build the tank so as to reduce the, er, step function
provided when the rider's body slides off of the seat and onto the
gas tank in the unfortunate event that the bike stops suddenly and the
rider doesn't. I think it's really inspiring how the manufacturers
have taken this advice to heart in their design of bikes like the
CBR900RR and the GTS1000A.
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All true. And all good points.
Well, making a career out of it is a bit strong. I still believe
that doing your own research is very, very necessary. I would
not have progressed as much as I have today, unless I had spent
the many hours in Stanford's Med Library as I have done.
And 5 years ago, it was clear that there was no medicine that
would help me. So should I have stopped searching. Thank
goodness I didn't. Now I found that there is indeed medicine
that helps me.
I think that what you've said is kind of idealistic. That you
would go to one doctor, get a diagnosis, maybe get a second
opinion, and then move on with your life.
Just as an example... having seen 6 of the top specialists in
this field in the country, I have received 6 different diagnoses.
These are the top names, the ones that people come to from all over
the country. I have HAD to sort all of this out myself. Going
to a support group (and in fact, HEADING that support group) was
helpful for a while, but after a point, I found it very
unproductive. It was much more productive to do library research,
make phone calls and put together the pieces of the puzzle myself.
A recent movie, Lorenzo's Oil, offers a perfect example of what
I'm talking about. If you haven't seen it, you should. It's not
a put down of doctor's and neither is what I'm saying. Doctors are
only human and can only do so much. But there are those of us
out here who are intelligent and able to sometimes find a missing
piece of the puzzle that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.
I guess I'm biased because dizziness is one of those weird things
that is still so unknown. If I had a broken arm, or a weak heart,
or failing kidneys, I might not have the same opinion. That's because
those things are much more tangible and have much more concise
definitions and treatments. With dizziness, you just have to
decide to live with it or decide to live with it while trying to
find your way out of it.
I have chosen the latter.
Linda
[email protected]
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It is illegal to perform acupuncture with unsterilized needles. No licensed
practitioner would dare do this. Also there is not a single documented case
of transmission of AIDS via acupuncture needles. I wouldn't worry about it.
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even a minivan based on viper running gear?
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I think it's simply because DOS doesn't use the IRQ for anything. OS/2 does,
so with that you can't share the IRQ.
Anssi
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It's the Unix Domain Socket (local connection) to your XServer.
Try to rm it :)
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Dear netters,
I have noticed something rather weared (I think) about creating a dialog shell
widget while running HP Vue's vuewm.
For some reason, every time I create a dialog shell the foreground and backgroun
d colors are different compared to my toplevel shell.
I am not doing anything special/different.
Does any body know anything about this problem?? How to fix it without hardcodin
g the colors ?
Please respond to [email protected] ....
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[Please, note the Newsgroups.]
Recent discussion about XV's problems were held in some newsgroup.
Here is some text users of XV might find interesting.
I have added more to text to this collection article, so read on, even
you so my articles a while ago.
I hope author of XV corrects those problems as best he can, so fine
program XV is that it is worth of improving.
(I have also minor ideas for 24bit XV, e-mail me for them.)
Any misundertanding of mine is understandable.
Juhana Kouhia
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[ ..deleted..]
Note that 'xv' saves only 8bit/rasterized images; that means that
the saved jpegs are just like jpeg-to-gif-to-jpeg quality.
Also, there's three kind of 8bit quantizers; your final image quality
depends on them too.
This were the situation when I read jpeg FAQ a while ago.
IMHO, it is design error of 'xv'; there should not be such confusing
errors in programs.
There's two errors:
-xv allows the saving of 8bit/rasterized image as jpeg even the
original is 24bit -- saving 8bit/rasterized image instead of
original 24bit should be a special case
-xv allows saving the 8bit/rasterized image made with any quantizer
-- the main case should be that 'xv' quantizes the image with the
best quantizer available before saving the image to a file; lousier
quantizers should be just for viewing purposes (and a special cases
in saving the image, if at all)
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==clip==
[ ..deleted..]
It is limit of *XV*, but not limit of design.
It is error in design.
It is error that 8bit/quantized/rasterized images are stored as jpegs;
jpeg is not designed to that.
As matter of fact, I'm sure when XV were designed 24bit displays were
known. It is not bad error to program a program for 8bit images only
at that time, but when 24bit image formats are included to program the
whole design should be changed to support 24bit images.
That were not done and now we have
-the program violate jpeg design (and any 24bit image format)
-the program has human interface errors.
Otherway is to drop saving images as jpegs or any 24bit format without
clearly saying that it is special case and not expected in normal use.
[ ..deleted.. ]
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Some new items follows.
==clip==
I have seen that XV quantizes the image sometimes poorly with -best24
option than with default option we have.
The reason surely is the quantizer used as -best24; it is (surprise)
the same than used in ppmquant.
If you remember, I have tested some quantizers. In that test I found
that rlequant (with default) is best, then comes djpeg, fbmquant, xv
(our default) in that order. In my test ppmquant suggeeded very poorly
-- it actually gave image with bad artifacts.
I don't know is ppmquant improved any, but I expect no.
So, use of XV's -best24 option is not very good idea.
I suggest that author of XV changes the quantizer to the one used in
rlequant -- I'm sure rle-people gives permission.
(Another could be one used in ImageMagick; I have not tested it, so I
can say nothing about it.)
==clip==
==clip==
Some minor bugs in human interface are:
Key pressings and cursor clicks goes to a buffer; Often it happens
that I make click errors or press keyboard when cursor is in the wrong
place. It is very annoying when you have waited image to come about
five minutes and then it is gone away immediately.
The buffer should be cleaned when the image is complete.
Also, good idea is to wait few seconds before activating keyboard
and mouse for XV after the image is completed.
Often it happens that image pops to the screen quickly, just when
I'm writing something with editor or such. Those key pressings
then go to XV and image has gone or something weird.
In the color editor, when I turn a color meter and release it, XV
updates the images. It is impossible to change all RGB values first
and then get the updated image. It is annoying wait image to be
updated when the setting are not ready yet.
I suggest of adding an 'apply' button to update the exchanges done.
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And how come we don't pass out bullet-proof vests in school
to promote safe gun usage?
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:> God is eternal. [A = B]
:> Jesus is God. [C = A]
:> Therefore, Jesus is eternal. [C = B]
:> This works both logically and mathematically. God is of the set of
:> things which are eternal. Jesus is a subset of God. Therefore
:> Jesus belongs to the set of things which are eternal.
Everything isn't always so logical....
Mercedes is a car.
That girl is Mercedes.
Therefore, that girl is a car?
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There is a nice little tool in Lucid emacs. It's called "calendar".
On request it shows for given longitude/latitude coordinates times for
sunset and sunrise. The code is written in lisp.
I don't know if you like the idea that an editor is the right program to
calculate these things.
Theo W.
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A friend of mine is going in later this week for tests to see if has
emphysema. His lung capacity has decreased over time. His father died
of the disease. He works in woodworking. I believe he has a very
occasional cigarette, perhaps one cigarette a day or even less. He tells
me this..I've never seen him light up. He has some pretty healthy
life style habits, good diet, exercise, meditation, retreats, therapy
etc. Anyhow..he is very concerned with this check up. I know really
nothing about the disease. I believe it interferes with the lining
of the lung being able to exchange oxygen.
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I would like to program Tseng ET4000 to nonstandard 1024x768 mode by
switching to standard 1024x768 mode using BIOS and than changing some
timing details (0x3D4 registers 0x00-0x1F) but I don't know how to
select 36 MHz pixel clock I need. The BIOS function selects 40 MHz.
Is there anybody who knows where to obtain technical info about this.
I am also interested in any other technical information about Tseng ET4000
and Trident 8900 and 9000 chipsets.
thanks very much
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Um, I hate to break this to you, but article numbers are unique per site.
They have no meaning on other machines.
You mean the responses some of which pointed to double-blind tests
which show no such "chinese restaurant effect" unique to MSG
(it's elicited by the placebo as well.)
Like youself? Someone who can read a scientific paper and apparently
come away from it with bizarrely cracked ideas which have nothing to
do with the use of this substance in human nutrition?
No, it's undisputed in the literature that glutamate is an amino acid
which is an excitatory neurotransmitter. There is also evidence that
excessive release of glutamate may be involved in the pathology of certain
conditions like stroke, drowning and Lou Gehrig's disease, just to name a few.
This is a completely different issue than the use of this ubiquitous amino acid
in foods. People are not receiving intra-ventricular injections of glutamate.
I don't know about premier, but it's certainly an important one.
Sez you. Such an effect in humans has not been demonstrated in any
controlled studies. Infant mice and other models are useful as far
as they go, but they're not relevant to the matter at hand. Which is
not to say that I favor its use in things like baby food--a patently
ridiculous use of the additive. But we have no reason to believe
that MSG in the diet effects humans adversely.
Wrong. Do you know how much aspartate or phenylalanine is in a soft drink?
Milligrams worth. Compare that to a glass of milk. Do you know how much
glutamate is present in most protein-containing foods compared to that
added by the use of MSG?
Notice the subtle covering of her ass here: "anyone _with a sensitivity_..."
We're disputing the size of that class.
Impeccable. There most certainly is a dispute.
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Does anyone know what the vfintd.386 device is used for in windows 3.1?
It's under the [386enh] section as
device=c:\dos\vfintd.386
After upgrading to dos 6 on several machines (different types), some include
it, some don't.
Any ideas?
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All they said on the radio that he developed stiffness in the shoulder
after throwing a curveball that didn't loosen. Because of the cold
night in Denver they decided to remove him from the game rather than
let him pitch. He is expected to pitch his next turn in the rotation
(expected to be April 20, at Shea vs the Giants).
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Does anyone know where Billy Taylor is? Richmond or Syracuse? He was taken
by the Jays in the Rule V draft, but not kept on the roster. Baseball Weekly
said that he was demoted to Syracuse, but a Toronto paper indicated that
the Braves took him back. Is there an Atlanta fan, or anyone reading this,
who knows?
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From article <[email protected]>, by [email protected]:
Only irrational fools such as yourself are set against RKBA. There are
*plenty* of people who support it.
The government will be overthrown *long* before that happens. A *huge*
millitia composed of all available men and women who care about their
country will defeat the forces of the evil Klintonistas. The people
*will* prevail!
Oh, so you think armed citizens alone can't overthrow the government?
Consider this: do you think *all* law enforcement officials and members
of the Armed Forces will turn against the people that they are entrusted
to serve? Not hardly. You can count on a lot of people in the Army,
Marines, Air Force, Navy, National Guard, police officers, and so on
joining in the cause to defend the liberties and freedoms of American
citizens. COUNT ON IT! THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DISARM
EVERYONE WITHOUT STARTING A CIVIL WAR!
Wrong again. People will just hide their guns so these "officers"
(more like jack-booted stormtroopers) will not be able to find them.
They will unless they are idiots. They will realize that if they don't
then they will be *next* including you. Believe me if what you describe
happens they will be coming for *more* than guns. Disarming citizens
would require that everyone's cherished freedoms and liberties be
suspended temporarily. More likely, they'd never be restored unless the
*people* do something about it.
Scott Kennedy, Brewer and Patriot
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I have an idea as to why the encryption algorithm needs to be keep secret,
and some things that i think it implies. (Of course these could all be
wrong.....)
from
THE CLIPPER CHIP: A TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Dorothy Denning
Revised, April 21, 1993
.
.
.
The Clipper Chip contains a classified single-key 64-bit block
encryption algorithm called "Skipjack." The algorithm uses 80 bit keys
(compared with 56 for the DES) and has 32 rounds of scrambling
(compared with 16 for the DES). It supports all 4 DES modes of
operation. The algorithm takes 32 clock ticks, and in Electronic
Codebook (ECB) mode runs at 12 Mbits per second.
Each chip includes the following components:
the Skipjack encryption algorithm
F, an 80-bit family key that is common to all chips
N, a 30-bit serial number (this length is subject to change)
U, an 80-bit secret key that unlocks all messages encrypted with the chip
.
.
.
ENCRYPTING WITH THE CHIP
To see how the chip is used, imagine that it is embedded in the AT&T
telephone security device (as it will be). Suppose I call someone and
we both have such a device. After pushing a button to start a secure
conversation, my security device will negotiate an 80-bit session key K
with the device at the other end. This key negotiation takes place
without the Clipper Chip. In general, any method of key exchange can
be used such as the Diffie-Hellman public-key distribution method.
Once the session key K is established, the Clipper Chip is used to
encrypt the conversation or message stream M (digitized voice). The
telephone security device feeds K and M into the chip to produce two
values:
E[M; K], the encrypted message stream, and
E[E[K; U] + N; F], a law enforcement field ,
which are transmitted over the telephone line. The law enforcement
field thus contains the session key K encrypted under the unit key U
concatenated with the serial number N, all encrypted under the family
key F. The law enforcement field is decrypted by law enforcement after
an authorized wiretap has been installed.
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suppose i knew how the algorithm worked and knew the N for my chip, but
did not know F, then by cryptanalysis i might be able to determine F from
if law enforcement field
E[E[K; U] + N; F]
not knowing N would might make this much harder.
Now suppose that I know F, (either legitimately or not),
If I know K (either because I am involved in the conversation, or I know U
for a party in the conversation), I may now be able to determine U for the
other party.
If I know F I can also defeat the law enforcement field, since I could
make my own, with a different K then the one I am using. Knowing F also
allows traffic analysis to be performed. So I might not know what you are
saying but I could know who you are saying it too.
Now I admit that someone trying to compute U will not have lots of
messages to work from, but since we have no way of knowing that the key
generation method does not (deliberately?) generate weak keys, or for that
matter that the published method is in fact used, perhaps the U's will be
chosen from know weak keys for the system.
Obviously the compromise of F would be a disaster, both to law enforcement
for whom this whole thing is designed, and for the people who believe that
it is giving them security. F is but one number, and I sure that alot of
people (more then 1) know what it is (and if some "panel of experts" is
going to check it over for flaws then many more will know F, forget
grinding chips, bribery and blackmail work just fine.
So, am I wrong? Or are these problems.
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I'm attempting to write a serious policy paper examining whether the
proposed wiretap (or "Clipper") chip is a cost-effective tool for
police investigation. That is, ignoring concerns about government
intrusions into individual privacy, is the value of easy wiretaps to
investigators greater than the cost to the communications industry,
and their customers, to support this wiretap technology?
A rough estimate suggests that wiretaps are worth about five million
dollars per year to U.S. law enforcement agencies. (In 1990, 872 U.S.
wiretaps led to 2057 arrests, while total police expenditures of $28
billion led to 11.25 million arrests [ref US Statistical Abstracts].)
I'm working on estimating this wiretap benefit more accurately, but
I'd like to ask hardware experts out there to help me with estimating
the costs of the new proposed wiretap technology.
Please send me quotable/citeable estimates for:
- How many chips which would need to be made per year to keep all
phones with wiretap chips?
- How much would it cost to make each chip?
- How much did it cost to develop this technology in the first place?
- How much more would supporting hardware, people, etc. cost, per chip?
- What percentage cheaper would encryption chips and support have been
if private enterprise could compete to meet customer encryption needs?
- What percentage of phone traffic would be taken up by the proposed
"law enforcement blocks"?
- What is the total cost of handling all phone traffic per year?
Put another way, the question I'm asking is, what if each police
agency that wanted a particular wiretap had to pay for it, being
charged their share of the full social cost of forcing communication
to be wiretap compatible? Would they choose to buy such wiretaps, or
would they find it more cost-effective to instead investigate crimes
in other ways?
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My wife's ob-gyn has an ultrasound machine in her office. When
the doctor couldn't hear a fetal heartbeat (13 weeks) she used
the ultrasound to see if everything was ok. (it was)
On her next visit, my wife asked another doctor in the office if
they read the ultrasounds themselves or if they had a radiologist
read the pictures. The doctor very vehemently insisted that they
were qualified to read the ultrasound and radiologists were NOT!
My wife is concerned about this. She saw a TV show a couple months
back (something like 20/20 or Dateline NBC, etc.) where an expert
on fetal ultrasounds (a radiologist) was showing all the different
deffects that could be detected using the ultrasound.
Should my wife be concerned? Should we take the pictures to a
radiologist for a second opinion? (and if so, where would we find
such an expert in Chicago?) We don't really have any special medical
reason to be concerned, but if a radiologist will be able to see
things the ob-gyn can't, then I don't see why we shouldn't use one.
Any thoughts?
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The following is a survey we are conducting for a term project in a philosophy
class. It is not meant to give us anything interesting statistically; we want
to hear what kind of voices there are out there. We are not asking for full-
blown essays, but please give us what you can.
As I do not read these groups often, please email all responses to me at
[email protected]. As my mail account is not infinite, if you can
delete the questions and just have numbered answers when you write back
I would really appreciate it.
Since we would like to start analyzing the result as soon as possible, we
would like to have the answers by April 30. If you absolutely cannot make
it by then, though, we would still liken to hear your answer.
If anyone is interested in our final project please send a note to that effect
would like to have the answers by April 30. If you absolutely cannot make
it by then, though, we would still like to hear your answer.
If anyone is interested in our final project please send a note to that effect
(or better yet, include a note along with your survey response) and I'll try
to email it to you, probably in late May.
SURVEY:
Question 1)
Have you ever had trouble reconciling faith and reason? If so, what was the
trouble?
(For example: -Have you ever been unsure whether Creationism or Evolutionism
holds more truth?
-Do you practice tarot cards, palm readings, or divination that
conflicts with your scientific knowledge of the world?
-Does your religion require you to ignore physical realities that
you have seen for yourself or makes logical sense to you?)
Basically, we would like to know if you ever _BELIEVED_ in something that your
_REASON_tells you is wrong.
Question 2)
If you have had conflict, how did/do you resolve the conflict?
Question 3)
If you haven't had trouble, why do you think you haven't? Is there a set of
guidelines you use for solving these problems?
Thank you very much for your time.
--
Shimpei Yamashita, Stanford University email:[email protected]
"There are three kinds of mathematicians:
those who can count and those who can't."
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Ok, it seems that everyone else in canada was treated to the
REAL ABC telecast while only the people on ROGERS TV in Surrey BC
were treated to two channels with Don "I stink as a Commentator" Whitman
doing the play-by-play.
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It is not true that dermatologists gave not reached the laser age, in
fact, lasers in dermatological surgery is a very new and exciting field.
It probably won't be effective in tinea pedis because the laser is
usually a superficial burn (to avoid any deeper damage). Limited tinea
pedis can be cured albeit sometimes slowly by topical antifungals as
well as systemic medication i.e. tablets. Finally, a self-diagnosis is
not always reliable, lichen simplex chronicus can look like a fungal
infection and requires very different treatment.
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Ok guys, I need a list of the teams who have been hot or cold during the
last 25 games. Doesn't need to be accurate, a rough guess will do. I'm
about to enter a playoff pool and I want to know who is hot going into
the playoffs. Don't need to mention Pittsburgh. They can't get any hotter
than they are now.
P.S. I need this by Sunday
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Try the firearms archive. Larry Cipriani's instructions follow. By
the way, thanks for the archive Larry..
This year is the 103rd congress directory.
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This is the INDEX file for the anonymous ftp RKBA archive.
The archive site has been moved and is now at:
godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu
in the directory
/usr0/anon/pub/firearms/politics/rkba
This archive is accessible only via anonymous ftp; instructions for
anonymous ftp are at the end of this file.
An email server is available at another site, and as a result is
not completely in sync with this archive. To get the index for
the rkba email-server send:
get rkba index
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File: rkba82
Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on
the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second
Session, February, 1982
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File: congress/102nd/HCR11
House Concurrent Resolution 11 by Mr. Crane, January 3, 1991
Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the right of all
Americans to keep and bear arms in defense of life or liberty and in
pursuit of all other legitimate endeavors.
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File: congress/102nd/HJR438
House Joint Resolution 438 by Mr. Major Owens, March 11, 1992
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
repealing the Second Amendment to the Constitution; includes comments
by Owens entered into the Congressional Record.
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File: congress/102nd/HR1133
House Bill 1133 by Mr. Goodling, February 27, 1991
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit transfer of firearm to,
or possession of a firearm by, a person convicted of a drug crime, and to
provide enhanced penalties for possession of a firearm during a drug crime.
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File: congress/102nd/HR1354
House Bill 1354 by Mr. Scheuer, March 7, 1991
To end the use of steel jaw leghold traps on animals in the United States.
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File: congress/102nd/HR1412
House Bill 1412 by Mr. Staggers, March 13, 1991
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the establishment
of a national hotline which a Federal Firearms licensee may contact to
learn if receipt of a handgun by a prospective transferee is prohibited,
and to require such a licensee to contact the hotline before the transfer
of a handgun to a nonlicensee.
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File: congress/102nd/HR1559
House Bill 1559 by Mr. Gibbons, March 21, 1991
To prohibit the importation of semiautomatic assault weapons, large
capacity ammunition feeding devices, and certain accessories.
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File: congress/102nd/HR1770
House Bill 1770 by Mr. Smith of Florida, April 15, 1991
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain handguns
which are unsuitable for lawful sporting purposes.
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File: congress/102nd/HR19
House Bill 19 by Mr. Hughes January 3, 1991
To prohibit the possession, transfer, and certain exports of restricted
weapons, the manufacture of firearms capable of accepting a silencer or
bayonet without alteration, and the possession and transfer of large
capacity ammunition feeding devices, and for other purposes.
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File: congress/102nd/HR282
House Bill 282 by Mrs. Collins, January 3, 1991
To provide for the mandatory registration of handguns.
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File: congress/102nd/HR2922
House Bill 2922 by Mr. Cardin, July 17, 1991
To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an entitlement of
States
and certain political subdivisions of States to receive grants for the
abatement of health hazards associated with lead-based paint, and to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax and establish a
trust fund to satisfy the Federal obligations arising from such
entitlement.
[This bill would impose upto a $0.75/pound tax on all new lead, and
$0.37/pound tax on recycled lead.]
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File: congress/102nd/HR318
House Bill 318 by Mr. Dornan, January 3, 1991
To amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit dog racing and dog training
involving the use of live animals as visual lure and to make such Act
applicable to facilities that are used for dog racing or dog race training.
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File: congress/102nd/HR3371
House Bill 3371
"The Violent Crime Prevention Act of 1991"
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File: congress/102nd/HR371
House Bill 371 by Mr. Marlenee, January 3, 1991
To protect persons engaged in a lawful hunt within a national forest;
establishing an administrative civil remedy against individuals or groups
intentionally obstructing, impeding, or interfering with the conduct of a
lawful hunt; and for other purposes.
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File: congress/101st/HR4079
House Bill 4079 by Mr. Gingrich, February 22, 1990
To provide swift and certain punishment for criminals in order
to deter violent crime and rid America of illegal drug use.
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File: congress/102nd/HR436
House Bill 436 by Mr. Weiss, January 3, 1991
To prohibit the manufacture, transfer, or importation of .25 caliber
and .32 caliber ammunition.
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File: congress/102nd/HR465
House Bill 465 by Mr. Rangel, January 7, 1991
To prohibit certain exports of fully automatic or semiautomatic
assault weapons.
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File: congress/102nd/HR4897
House Bill 4897 by Mr. Cunningham, April 9, 1992
To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
to deny grant funds to States unless law enforcement officers are permitted
to carry concealed firearms.
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File: congress/102nd/HR5633
House Bill 5633 by Mr. Schumer, July 21, 1992
To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope of the multiple
firearms sales reporting requirement, and to require that persons comply
with State and local firearms licensing laws before receiving a Federal
license to deal in firearms.
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File: congress/102nd/HR5807
House Bill 5807 by Mr. Schumer, August 10, 1992
To impose criminal penalties upon the failure of a Federal firearms
licensee to report to appropriate authorities the loss or theft of a
firearm from the inventory or collection of the licensee.
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File: congress/102nd/HR7
House Bill 7 by Mr. Feighan
To require a waiting period before the purchase of a handgun;
also known as "The Brady Bill"
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File: congress/102nd/HR750
House Bill 750 by Mr. Russo, January 30, 1991
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the excise tax
on handguns will be transferred to a trust fund to be used for purposes of
providing compensation to victims of crime, and for other purposes.
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File: congress/102nd/S214
Senate Bill 214 by Mr. Hatch, January 15, 1991
To provide procedures for calling Federal constitutional
conventions under article V for the purpose of proposing
amendments to the United States Constitution.
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File: congress/102nd/S2304
Senate Bill 2304 by Mr. Lautenberg, March 3, 1992
To amend title 18, United States Code, to permanently prohibit the
possession of firearms by persons who have been convicted of a violent
felony, and for other purposes.
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File: congress/102nd/S257
Senate Bill 257
To require a waiting period before the purchase of a handgun.
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File: congress/102nd/S2813
Senate Bill 2813 by Mr. Gore, June 4, 1992
To establish in the Government Printing Office an electronic
gateway to provide public access to a wide range of Federal
databases containing public information stored electronically.
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File: congress/102nd/S2913
Senate Bill 2913 by Mr. Chafee, June 30 1992
To prohibit the manufacture, importation, exportation, sale,
purchase, transfer, receipt, possession, or transportation of
handguns and ammunition, with certain exceptions.
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File: congress/102nd/S3282
Senate Bill 3282 by Mr. Mitchell, September 28 1992
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a waiting period
before the purchase of a handgun.
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File: congress/101st/S386
Senate Bill 386 by Mr. Metzenbaum, February 8, 1989
To control the sale and use of assault weapons.
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File: congress/102nd/S51
Senate Bill 51 by Mr. Moynihan, January 14, 1991
To prohibit the manufacture, transfer, or importation of .25 caliber
and .32 caliber and 9 millimeter ammunition.
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File: congress/102nd/S634
Senate Bill 634 by Mr. Symms, March 13, 1991
To amend chapter 44, title 18, United States Code, to provide clarification
of limitations on controls of firearms, and to prohibit the use of Federal
funds to political subdivisions which implement certain gun control ordi-
nances.
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File: congress/101st/S747
Senate Bill 747 by Mr. DeConcini,
To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, regarding
assault weapons.
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File: congress/102nd/S789
Senate Bill 789, by Mr. Moynihan, April 9, 1991
To prohibit the importation of semiautomatic assault weapons, large
capacity ammunition feeding devices, and certain accessories.
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File: congress/102nd/S892
Senate Bill 892, By Mr. Metzenbaum, April 23, 1991
To amend title 15, United States Code, to authorize the Consumer Product
Safety Commission to regulate the risk of injury associated with firearms.
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File: congress/102nd/S918
Senate Bill 918, by Mr. Packwood, April 24, 1991
The amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt small manufacturers,
producers, and importers from the firearms excise tax.
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File: congress/103rd/HCR3
House Concurrent Resolution 3, by Mr. Crane, January 5, 1993
Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the right of all
Americans to keep and bear arms in defense of life or liberty and in the
pursuit of all other legitimate endeavors.
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File: congress/103rd/HJR81
House Joint Resolution, by Mr. Owens, January 27, 1993
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
repealing the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
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File: congress/103rd/HR277
House Bill 277, by Mr. Mazolli, January 5, 1993
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a waiting period
before the purchase of a handgun.
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File: congress/103rd/HR544
House Bill 544, by Mr. Torricelli, January 21, 1993
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the transfer of 2 or
more handguns to an individual in any 30-day period.
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File: congress/103rd/HR661
House Bill 661, by Mrs. Collins, January 27, 1993
To provide for the manufacturer, importer, or dealer of a handgun or an
assault weapon to be held strictly liable for damages that result from the
use of the handgun or assault weapon.
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File: congress/103rd/HR737
House Bill 737, by Mr. REYNOLDS, February 2, 1993
To provide for the manufacturer or importer of a handgun or an assault
weapon to be held strictly liable for damages that result from the use
of the handgun or assault weapon, and to amend the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 to increase the excise tax on firearms and use a portion
of the revenues from such tax to assist hospitals in urban areas to
provide medical care to gunshot victims who are not covered under any
health
plan.
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File: congress/103rd/HR1025
House Bill 1025, by Mr. Schumer, February 22, 1993
To provide for a waiting period before the purchase of a hadgun,
and for the establishment of a national instant criminal
background check system to be contacted by firearms dealers
before the transfer of any firearm.
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File: congress/103rd/S108
Senate Bill 108, by Mr. Moynihan, January 21, 1993
To prohibit the importation of semiautomatic assault weapons, large
capacity ammunition feeding devices, and certain accessories.
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File: congress/103rd/S109
Senate Bill 109, by Mr. Moynihan, January 21, 1993
To amend section 923 of title 18, United States Code, to require the
keeping
of records with respect to dispositions of ammunition, and to require a
study
of the use and possible regulation of sales of ammunition.
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File: congress/103rd/S178
Senate Bill 178, by Mr. Moynihan, January 21, 1993
To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the
manufacture, transfer, or importation of .25 caliber and .32 caliber
and 9 millimeter ammunition.
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File: congress/103rd/S179
Senate Bill 179, by Mr. Moynihan, January 21, 1993
To tax 9 millimeter, .25 caliber, and .32 caliber bullets.
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File: congress/103rd/S376
Senate Bill 376, by Mr. Lautenberg, February 16, 1993
To prohibit the transfer of 2 or more handguns to an individual in any
30-day period.
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File: congress/103rd/S414
Senate Bill 414, by Mr. Metzenbaum, February 24, 1993
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a waiting period
before the purchase of a handgun.
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File: gun-free-zones
Text of the GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONES ACT OF 1990 from PUBLIC LAW 101-647
NOV. 29, 1990
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File: aclu
A collection of articles on the ACLU's position on gun control.
Included is ACLU Policy Statement #47 which gives the ACLU interpretation
of the Second Amendment.
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File: dcm-info
A collection of articles explaining the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
In other words, "Why does the United States Department of Defense sell
battle rifles to civilians ? "
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File: dial911
"Dial 911 and Die!" By Aaron Zelman and Jay Simkin of Jews for the
Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
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File: fija-info
The Fully Informed Jury Amendment, and what it means to gun owners
and the right to keep and bear arms.
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File: whitemanslaw
White Man's Law by William R. Tonso, from the December 1985
Reason magazine
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File: jefferson
The First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd president of the
United States.
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File: jewishistory
Jewish History Rufutes Gun Control Activists, by Elliot Rothenberg
from the February 1988 *American Rifleman*.
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File: law-abiding
The Law-Abiding Gun Owner as Domestic and Acquaintance Murderer
from "Guns, Murders, and the Constitution: A Realistic Assessment of
Gun Control," by Don B. Kates, February, 1990, pp.45-49.
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File: second-ideology
"The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection" by
Don B. Kates, Jr. Reprinted from CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY,
Vol. 9. No. 1. Winter 1992, (c) 1992 by Constitutional Commentary,
Kates puts the Second Amendment and philosophies of self-protection
into a historical perspective
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File: new-understa
Toward a New Understanding of the Second Amendment, by David T. Hardy
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File: to-bear-arms
"To Bear Arms for Self Defense: Our Second Amendment Heritage" by
Stephen P. Halbrook.
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File: no-treason
No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
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File: resistance
Excerpts from the study "Crime Control Through the Use of Armed Force",
by Associate Professor Dr. Gary Kleck, Florida State University School
of Criminology, published in the February 1988 issue of SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
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File: waitper-qna
Waiting Period -- Questions and Answers by Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI)
and Citizens for Safe Government (CSG)
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File: warsaw
"The Warsaw Ghetto; 10 Handguns Against Tyranny",
by Dr. David I Caplan from February, 1988 American Rifleman.
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File: wethepeople
Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment.
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File: sc-ftp
How to retreive Supreme Court decisions via anonymous ftp.
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File: alternative-policy
ALTERNATIVE POLICY FUTURES by Franklin E. Zimring
from THE ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Volume 455, May 1981; published by The American Academy of Political
and Social Science; 1981.
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File: embarassing.2nd.amendment
The Embarassing Second Amendment by Sanford Levinson, Yale Law Journal
Volume 99, pp 637-659 (1989)
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File: nra800
Phone numbers for the NRA, many are toll-free 800 numbers
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File: nradrugs
A collection of articles on the NRA's position on the War on Drugs.
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File: fl-aw-part1
Florida A.W. Commission - Exec Summary Part 1,
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File: fl-aw-part2
Florida A.W. Commission - Exec Summary Part 2,
STOCKTON -- THE FACTS by Martin L. Fackler, MD
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File: iwba
Information about the International Wound Ballistics Association,
Martin Fackler, president
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File: gunshyjudges
Gun-Shy Judges by Jacob Sullum, from the May 1991 issue of Reason Magazine
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File: heatofmoment
In the Heat of the Moment, By James D. Wright
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File: racist-soil
Article "Gun Control Sprouts from Racist Soil." by Roy Innis,
from the Wall Street Journal 11/21/91
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File: core-policy
"Bearing Arms for Self-Defense -- A Human and Civil Right" by
Roy Innis, National Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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File: righttobear
The Right to Bear Arms By Sanford Levinson from the
Daily News, Ft Walton Beach, FL. (1991)
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File: rock-island
United States of America v. Rock Island Armory, US District Court for
the Central District of IL; the court ruled that making a post '86
machine gun is not illegal -- believe it or not.
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File: dalton
United States of America v. John William Dalton, US Court of Appeals,
Tenth Circuit, 91-1149; the court ruled that owning or transferring
a post '86 machine gun is not punishable under the NFA -- believe it
or not.
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File: waitdanger
Why Gun Waiting Periods Threaten Public Safety By David B. Kopel,
March 25, 1991
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File: aw-qna
Assault Weapon Questions & Answers
by Handgun Control, Inc. and Citizens for Safe Government (CSG)
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File: ccw-survey
A state by state survey of Carrying Concealed Weapons laws.
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File: us-vs-miller
United States vs. Miller et al., Appeal from the District Court of the
United States for the Western District of Arkansas.
Argued March 30, 1939 -- Decided May 15, 1939
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File: presser
The history of Presser v Illinois is a fascinating exercise of how
politically based decisions on our Constitutional rights have come back
to haunt us.
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File: cia-ncbh
A column by Neal Knox presenting evidence that former CIA agent
Edwin O. Welles played a major role in founding HCI and NCBH.
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File: conphone
A list of voice and fax phone number for representatives and senators.
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File: billofrights
The first 10 articles of amendment to the United States Constitution.
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File: constitution
The Constitution of the United States of America
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File: decl-of-indp
The Declaration of Independence
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File: dont-wait
"Criminals Don't Wait -- Why Should You ?" from the NRA. Exposes the
fraudulent arguments made for waiting periods.
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File: external
Positive Externalities of Gun Ownership, by John Kell, from
"The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, October 1991 "
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File: english-hist
Firearms Legislation in Great Britain, by Jan A. Stevenson
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File: simkin
"Control Criminals, Not Guns" by Jay Edward Simkin found in the
March, 25 1991 [or '92?] Wall Street Journal:
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File: unabridged
The Unabridged Second Amendment, by J. Neil Schulman
An interview with Roy Copperud, retired professor of journalism at
USC and author of "American Usage and Style: The Consensus". Copperud
offers his professional opinion on the meaning of the Second Amendment.
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File: uzitruth
A letter from J. Harper Wilson, Director FBI Uniform Crime Reporting
Program to Paul H. Blackman, Research Coordinator of the NRA stating
that only one police officer, of Puerto Rico, was shot and killed with
a semi-automatic 9mm Model A Uzi.
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File: maketheirday
"How to Make Their Day" by Don B. Kates Jr. and Patricia Terrell Harris
in the National Review, October 21, 1991
Kates and Harris debunk several myths about firearms, criminals, and
violence.
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File: two-myths
Two myths of gun control from "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in
America" by Gary Kleck.
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File: aw-not-problem
"Assault Weapons Aren't the Problem", by Gary Kleck, published in
The New York Times Tuesday, September 1, 1992
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File: oregon-study
1990 Oregon Study of Retail Firearm Sales and CHL Licensing
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File: children
Fighting for Children's Hearts and Minds by Robert Pew, American
Rifleman - April 1992
Discusses how HCI and it's Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
have set out to use public schools as forums for their anti-gun
propaganda.
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File: gunssputter
"Guns and Sputter" by James D. Wright, from July 1989 issue of REASON.
Wright exposes the flaws in the New England Journal of Medicine study
comparing the homicide rates of Seattle and Vancouver.
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File: nejm-info
A collection of articles and information on the New England Journal of
Medicine Vancouver/Seattle handgun crime comparison study.
See also the file gunssputter, authored by James Wright.
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File: dcstudy.1
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1991 Dec 5. 325 (23).
pp 1647-1650.
Editorials: Firearms And The Killing Threshold.
Kassirer-Jerome-P.
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File: dcstudy.2
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1991 Dec 5. 325 (23).
pp 1615-1620.
Special Article: Effects Of Restrictive Licensing Of
Handguns On Homicide And Suicide In The District Of Columbia.
Loftin-Colin. McDowall-David. Wiersema-Brian. Cottey-Talbert-J.
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File: nejm-editorial
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1988 Nov 10. 319 (19).
pp 1283-1285.
Editorial: Firearm Injuries: A Call For Science.
Mercy-James-A. Houk-Vernon-N.
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File: nejm-letters
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1989 May 4. 320 (18).
pp 1214-1217.
Correspondence: Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, And
Homicide: A Tale Of Two Cities.
Blackman-Paul-H. Hagen-Tim. Morris-David-C.
Stolinsky-David-C. Tirer-Samuel. Gryder-John-W.
Kuziak-John-D. Sloan-John-H. Kellerman-Arthur-L-Kellermann.
Rivara-Fred-P. Koepsell-Thomas. Reay-Donald-T.
LoGerfo-James-P. Rice-Charles. Ferris-James-A. Gray-Laurel-
A. Mercy-James-A. Houk-Vernon-N.
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File: suicide.1
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1990 Feb 8. 322 (6).
pp 369-373.
Special Article: Firearm Regulations And Rates Of Suicide:
A Comparison of Two Metropolitan Areas.
Sloan-John-Henry. Rivara-Frederick-P. Reay-Donald-T.
Ferris-James-A-J. Kellermann-Arthur-L.
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File: suicide.2
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1990 Jul 12. 323 (2).
p 137.
Correspondence: Firearm Regulations and Rates of Suicide.
Blackman-Paul-H. Sloan-John-Henry. Rivara-Frederick-P.
Kellermann-Arthur.
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File: totc
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1988 Nov 10. 319 (19).
pp 1256-1262.
Special Article: Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, And
Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities.
Sloan-John-Henry. Kellermann-Arthur-L. Reay-Donald-T.
Ferris-James-A. Koepsell-Thomas. Rivara-Frederick-P.
Rice-Charles. Gray-Laurel. LoGerfo-James.
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File: nra.cdc
An open letter from Paul H. Blackman, of NRA to the Director, Office
of Scientific Integrity Review, U.S. Public Health Service, detailing
why they should evaluate the integrity and competency of firearms research
conducted by and for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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File: RKBA.000
What the RKBA.nnn files are all about.
The RKBA.nnn series are set of small (60-100 lines typically) postings
that address common questions and myths about all aspects of firearms.
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File: RKBA.001
Accidental deaths by firearms and by other means.
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FILE: RKBA.002
Declining trend of accidental deaths by firearms
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File: RKBA.003
Homicide per capita in the US
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File: RKBA.004
Children and firearms
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File: RKBA.008
Annual firearm manufacture in the United States
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File: RKBA.010
Declaration of Independence
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File: RKBA.013
Trend in weapons use for robberies (1974-86)
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File: RKBA.014
Reasons for homicide and non-negligent manslaughter
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File: RKBA.015
Are firearms a leading cause of death of children?
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File: RKBA.016
Is the United States the most violent nation?
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File: RKBA.999
Complete list of all sources used for the RKBA.nnn series.
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File: cox-study
Analysis of the Cox Atlanta Journal Constitution, 21 May 1989 article
on Assault Weapons, by James J. Baker of NRA-ILA, before the Select
Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, U.S. House of Representatives.
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File: feder11.txt
The Federalist Papers, as transcribed by Project Gutenberg 1.1
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File: great-quotes
Thomas Jefferson quotes and more ...
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File: civilian
Civilian Possession of Military Firearms, by Richard A. I. Munday,
from the January/February 1988 issue of the UK Handgunner.
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File: good-go-bad
"When Good, Law-Abiding Citizens Go Bad", from UK Handgunner No. 46
Jan-Feb 1989. Discusses how the rate of compliance of gun control
laws is always very low, even among otherwise law abiding citizens.
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File: tory-national-socialism
"Tory National Socialism", by Richard A.I. Munday, UK Handgunner,
Jul-Aug 86. Discusses the gun control leanings of socialists of
the right.
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File: the-big-lie
" Gun Grabbers vs. Assault Rifles: The Big Lie" by Neal Knox,
Semi-auto military-styled "assault" rifles are not now nor have they
ever been a threat to society. These facts have been determined by
the government - but never released to the public!
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File: ff-47
"The Founding Fathers and the AK-47", by Sue Wimmershoff-Caplan
Discuss the question if the Founding Fathers would have approved of
the AK-47 for civilian ownership.
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File: hcikkk
"Handgun Control, Inc., & the KKK" by David Kopel, from the Oct 91
issue of Gun World magazine. Discusses the parallels in the hate
campaigns of the Ku Klux Klan and Handgun Control, Inc.
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File: rkba-orgs
A list of organizations devoted to the preservation of the Second
Amendment.
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File: victoria
"The Gun Law Handbook" for the state of Victoria, Australia (Oct 1988).
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File: nra-purposes
A summary of the NRA's purposes and objectives, and positions on some
gun control issues.
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File: ktw
A collection of articles relating to teflon coated, armor piercing
bullets.
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File: thompsoncenter
The Supreme Court decision in the case:
United States of America v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.
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File: DMN_Gratia_CCP
"Concealed weapons can prevent tragedies like Killeen's" by
Dr. Suzanna Gratia in the Dallas Morning News, Sunday April
29th, 1992
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File: Knox_AW_lies
Neal Knox on how military style semi-auto's are not a threat
to public safety, how they are not fundamentally different
than ordinary hunting weapons, and how the gun grabbers are
exploiting the bad image this class of weapons has to enact
further gun control.
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File: WSJ_Crimestrik
"The NRA Mounts a Militant Campaign Taking Aim at Criminal-Justice
System" by Alix M. Freedman staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal.
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File: med-media
"Gun Prohibition in the Medical Literature - Telling the Truth?" by
Edgar A. Suter, MD ; discusses anti-gun bias in medical journals.
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File: toy-guns
"Court Psychologist Says Toy Guns Are Good For Children" from Gun Week,
1989.
Glen David Skoler, court psychologist for the Arlington County, VA,
claims "toys of violence" -- including toy guns are, in fact, good
for children.
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File: awca89-appeal
Text of the 9th Circuit court of Appeals in the Fresno Rifle and Pistol
Club challenge to California's Roberti-Roos Assault Weapon Control Act
of 1989.
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File: lp92-rkba
The right to keep and bear arms plank of the 1992 National Platform of
the Libertarian Party.
And a reproduction of the Libertarian Party brochure
"Responsible Gun Ownership: Equal Rights for America's Gun Owners"
The entire 1992 National Platform of the LP is available via anonymous
ftp on think.com in the file /pub/libernet/LP/libertarian-platform-1992
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File: let-july91
An article from the July/August 1991 issue of Law Enforcement Technology
with a survey of police officers on their views of gun control.
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File: nacp-poll
A study conducted by the National Association of the Chiefs of
Police (NACP) through its American Law Enforcement Survey for 1989,
in which 16,259 chiefs of police, sheriffs and law-enforcement command
personnel were polled with a list of 30 questions, it was determined
the overwhelming majority of officers support the right of private
arms ownership, and agreed that gun bans had little effect on crime.
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File: hci-advert
A example of the propaganda used by HCI in soliciting contributions.
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File: hci-transcript
A transcription of the HCI video tape "America Needs a National
Handgun Control Policy"
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File: gartner
Michael Gartner, president of NBC News, calls for a ban on handguns
in this USA TODAY Thursday January 16th 1992 editorial.
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File: nra-lp
A resolution passed by the voting membership of the NRA at its national
convention in Anaheim, CA stating the NRA will support third party
candidates.
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File: cooley
Thomas M. Cooley, LL.D., General Principles of Constitutional Law in
the United States of America, 298-299 (3rd ed. 1898), a leading
constitutional commentator discussed the rights protected by the Second
Amendment:
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File: kilpatrick
"Gun Law Might Curb Rising Murder Rate" by James Kilpatrick, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch Tuesday June 23, 1992. Kilpatrick expresses support for
a national firearms law as proposed by C. Everett Koop, that is, a
requirement that gun owners pass a competency test, among other things.
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File: vanity-fair
A summary of the 10 page article on Jim and Sarah Brady which appeared
in the January '91 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine.
Question: "Was it true you wanted to get a gun to protect
yourself against Hinckley?"
Answer Jim brady: "I had a gun"
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File: goldwin
"Gun Control Is Constitutional," by Robert A. Goldwin from the
Wall Street Journal edtorial page, Thrusday, December 12, 1991
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File: anniston
Two articles on a murder averted in Anniston, Alabama by a man
with a CCW permit. The importance of this event is that it closely
followed the murders by Hennard in Texas, but the media did not
cover Anniston.
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File: staggers-brady
A survey of public support for the Staggers Instant Background
Check and the Brady Waiting Period. The basic finding is that
once the public understands the advantages of the instant background
check vs. the problems with the Brady waiting period support for
the Brady waiting period diminishes greatly.
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File: brady-vote
How Congress voted on the Staggers Instant Background Check and
the Brady Waiting period.
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File: vs-vote
How Congress voted on the Volkmer-Sensenbrenner Amendment to
strike the new gun control sections from the administration
crime bill.
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File: dc-vote
How the U.S. Senate voted on S. 2113, the repeal of the District
of Columbia's anti-gun strict liability law.
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File: covey
"Gun Control: Trying the Facts, Weighing the Values" A monograph based
on "Crime, Inequality, Guns, & Equity" by Preston K. Covey, Ph.D.,
Director Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon
University.
Addresses the desirability of gun bans: ethical aspects, equity issues,
and other values at stake in the management of mortal risks, deadly
force and its instruments.
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File: assays-of-bias
"Assays of Bias on the Second Amendment: The Media Elite" by
Preston K. Covey, Director Center for the Advancement of Applied
Ethics [excerpts from a longer monograph]
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File: cleveland
A critique of:
ACCIDENTAL FIREARM FATALITIES IN A METROPOLITAN COUNTY (1958-1973)
Rushforth, Hirsch, Ford, and Adelson
American Journal of Epidemiology #100, 1974, pp. 499-505.
This is THE study that lies at the heart of the gun control
claim that owning a firearm for self-defense is too dangerous.
The claims that a defensive gun is X (=6 in this study)
times more likely to be used against an innocent person than
in lawful self-defense originated with this report in 1974.
by Robert I. Kesten
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File: tiananmen-lessons
"LESSONS FROM TIANANMEN SQUARE" by Neal Knox reprinted from
Guns & Ammo, September 1989
Why the Second Amendment is so important, even in todays more
"progressive" era. Included is a description of the 1932
Bonus March in Washington, DC in which Gen. Douglas MacArthur
opposed unemployed WWI veterans lobbying for the government to
immediately pay their promised Veteran's Bonus.
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File: forward-trace
"California FFL Dealer Defies "Forward Trace"" by Neal Talbot in
The New Gun Week, March 1, 1991.
Details how the BATF bullies FFL holders into giving BATF copies
of 4473's in violation of federal law.
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File: justice-stats
"Handgun Crime Victims", by Michael R. Rand, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Statistician, U.S. Department of Justice.
This Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report describes the key findings
from an analysis of handgun crimes reported in the National Crime Survey
for 1979-87. It describes the victims of hand-gun [sic] crime, how the
handgun was used during the crime, and the nature and extent of handgun
crime injury. It also provides information on handgun offenders, the
location of handgun crimes, and whether the crime was reported to the
police.
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File: chafee
Included are:
1) Transcript of press conference with Senator John Chafee, and former
Supreme Court justice Warren Burger on S. 2913, Chafee's, handgun ban.
Also speaking was Vernon Jordan, former member of the Jimmy Carter
White House; Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly; Michael Beard of National
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence; Michael Casserly (executive director,
Council of the Great City Schools); Dr. Carden Johnston representing
the American Academy of Pediatrics;
2) An article by Neal Knox in which he describes how Sarah Brady kicked
out HCI president Charles Orasin because of a disagreement on Chafee's
handgun ban.
3) An article on Burger's support for S. 2913.
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File: alarmist-view
"Gun Registration: An 'Alarmist' View" by Jon vanWormer; reprinted
from the December 1985 Guns & Ammo. How an rkba moderate became a
radical.
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File: fackler-papers
A list of articles by "Col. Martin L. Fackler, M.D., F.A.C.S."
Wound Ballistics Lab, and where to write for copies of them.
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File: gun-war
"THE GREAT AMERICAN GUN WAR" by Barry Bruce-Briggs,
_The_Public_Interest_ No. 45, Fall 1976, pp 37-62
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File: george-will
"Repeal Second Amendment and Save Lives", by George Will
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File: reeves
"Drastic Steps to End the War at Home" by Richard Reeves, no date
nor publication available; placed in rkba archive 9/2/92
"Studies _Prove_ Gun Control Works" by Richard Reeves, from the
Kansas City Star, 9/28/92.
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File: canada-ban-list
A reproduction of a brochure from the Canadian Department of Justice
listing newly prohibited and restricted firearms (as of June 1992).
Also included is the "point system" used to determine if a firearm
should be reviewed for possible banning.
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File: copkiller
Lyrics to the rock song "Cop Killer" by Ice-T on the album Body Count.
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File: cva.1
A letter from the California Voters Alliance, asking for support in
their effort to defeat anti-gun California Assemblyman Terry Friedman,
co-author of California's waiting period law for rifles and shotguns.
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File: astrology
"CRIMINOLOGY'S ASTROLOGY: The CDC Approach to Public Health Research
on Firearms and Violence" by PAUL H. BLACKMAN, Ph.D., Institute for
Legislative Action, National Rifle Association, 1990
A paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of
Criminology, Baltimore, Maryland, November 7-10
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File: aw-panic
The Assault Weapon Panic: "Political Correctness" Takes Aim,
at the Constitution, by Eric Morgan and David Kopel
Published by The Independence Institute, October 10, 1991
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File: state-rkba
A collection of RKBA provisions from State constitutions.
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File: too-late
Chapter 13 "But then it was too Late" of "THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE
FREE: The Germans, 1933 - 1945", by: Milton Mayer, University of
Chicago Press
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File: militia-code
The legal definition of the militia of the United States of America
taken from:
United Stated Code (USC), TITLE 10, Section 311 and Section 312.
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File: legal-mg-crime
Report No. 32 of the Firearms Coalition of Silver Spring, MD. 11/29/89
by Neal Knox. Knox reports that a legally registered machine gun was
used in a drug hit. Subsequent reports said charges were dropped for
lack of evidence.
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File: hci-cash
HCI donation records to US Senators and Congressmen.
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File: paulreverenet
Information about the "Paul Revere Net", a network of 2nd Amendment
Bulletin Boards
The Paul Revere Network (PRN) is a coast-to-coast network of
committed grass-roots gun rights activists who rely upon computer
bulletin board systems for their primary mode of communication.
Leroy Pyle (NRA Director and 27-year San Jose police veteran)
is Founder and Director of the PRN. Based in San Jose, CA,
Pyle's BBS (1:143/223) currently hubs all network message
traffic.
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File: gun-talk
Information about the NRA-ILA Bulletin Board "Gun Talk"
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File: congressgrades
A grading of congressmen based their votes on 1) the Brady Bill
(HR7), 2) Staggers (HR1412) and 3) the Volkmer-Sensenbrenner amendment
to strike the anti-gun provisions from the house crime bill (HR3371).
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File: lawmaster
"FEDS TRASH LAW-ABIDING GUN OWNER'S HOME", NRA official journal March
1992, by Richard E. Gardiner. Details how the BATF raided the home of
Johnny Lawmaster in search of a non-existent unregistered M-16 auto-sear.
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File: point-blank
The concluding chapter to "Point Blank" by Gary Kleck.
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File: purdy-rapsheet
Patrick Purdy's criminal record.
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File: progundocs
Statement of purpose and contact information for "Doctors for Integrity
in Research & Public Policy"
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File: orlando
A summary of the effects of the highly publicized Orlando training
program in which over 6000 women were trained in basic pistol
marksmanship and the law of self-defense.
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File: form4signoff
A letter from Wayne Miller, Chief National Firearms Act Branch of
BATF stating that local law enforcement signoff on the ATF Form 4,
application for Taxpaid Transfer and Registration of Firearm [i.e.,
machine gun], is completely discretionary.
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File: badlands.txt
New Zealand Firearms Control by Robert Badlands.
A paper presented at a conference on Gun Control held at Melbourne
University-Union Theatre 27-28 August 1988. The conference was
sponsored by the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia.
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File: danto.txt
Issues Regarding Gun Control in America by Bruce L. Danto
A paper was presented at a conference on Gun Control held at Melbourne
University-Union Theatre 27-28 August 1988. The conference was
sponsored by the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia.
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File: fine.txt
Impediments to the Purposeful Reform of (Australian) Firearms Laws by J. D.
Fine
A paper presented at a conference on Gun Control held at Melbourne
University-Union Theatre 27-28 August 1988. The conference was
sponsored by the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia.
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File: greenwd.txt
Untitled paper by Colin Greenwood
A paper presented at a conference on Gun Control held at Melbourne
University-Union Theatre 27-28 August 1988. The conference was
sponsored by the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia.
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File: kates.txt
Gun Control: Recent Research on the American Experience by Don B. Kates,
Jr.
A paper presented at a conference on Gun Control held at Melbourne
University-Union Theatre 27-28 August 1988. The conference was
sponsored by the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia.
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File: marsden.txt
Gun Control: A Banker's Perspective, by ??? Marsden
A paper presented at a conference on Gun Control held at Melbourne
University-Union Theatre 27-28 August 1988. The conference was
sponsored by the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia.
Note, this paper is almost impossible to read currently as the original
would not scan well. A more readable copy will be supplied later.
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File: backdoor
Back Door Gun Control by Peter Alan Kasler from the January 1993
issue of American Survival Guide magazine.
Kasler discusses four examples of innocent people whose firearms
are confiscated, and/or charged with a crime when none was committed,
as examples of how gun control is implemented in the real world.
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File: armed-citizen
"The Armed Citizen" feature from "The American Rifleman" and "The
American Hunter"; these stories show how firearms are indeed useful
for self-defense.
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File: botsford
The Case Against Gun Control by David Botsford
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File: academia-bias
"Fighting Anti-Gun Bias in Academia -- an article downloaded from the
NRA-ILA BBS "Gun Talk"
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File: story-of-gun
"The Story of a Gun" by Erik Larson, from "The Atlantic", January 1993.
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File: hcr**
Reports to the Firearms Coalition, by Neal Knox.
All these files are named hcr then two numbers, e.g., hcr51 for
"Report No. 51 to the Firearms Coalition"
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File: whose.txt
"Whose Side Are They On ?"
"Freedom From War: The United States Program For General and Complete
Disarmament in a Peaceful World." an official publication of the United
States of America government.
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File: nccfa
Contact information for the "National Collegiate Coalition for Firearms
Awareness"
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File: canada
Some facts about Canadian gun control laws, gun ownership and violent
crime.
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File: time-letter
Time magazine's form letter response to criticism of their
"Death By Gun" issue.
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File: gun-in-school
"Health Objectives for the Nation: Weapon-Carrying Among High School
Students -- United States, 1990" edited by David Dodell, D.M.D.
Proposes ways to reduce carrying of firearms by high school students.
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File: congress-cover
"Congress Covers Itself But Not Public" by Paul Craig Roberts, printed
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer October 2nd, 1992.
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File: hamper
"Restrictions hamper law abiding folks, not criminals." by
David B. Kopel, printed in the Columbus OH Dispatch, January 16th.
Points out how waiting periods can cause a great deal of harm.
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File: schumer-gripe
A "Washington Post" letter to the editor by Congessman Charles E. Schumer
discussing his bill, H.R. 5633, which requires law enforcement sign-off
on FFL applications.
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File: sof
A UPI article on a lawsuit against "Soldier of Fortune" which forced
them out of business.
This article is copyright by UPI, and archived with permission; please
respect the re-distribution prohibition.
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File: fl-stats
A summary of CCW permit statistics for the state of Florida, e.g.,
the number of permits issued, number revoked, number denied, etc.
This proves that people obtaining CCW permits are law abiding
citizens and are not wreckless with their firearms.
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File: knox-on-ruger
"Knox Replies To Comment From Ruger Counsel's" from
The New Gun Week, December 1, 1989.
Neal Knox discusses how Sturm, Ruger Inc. are willing to sacrifice the
RKBA for the benefit of their business.
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File: american-blacks
"Gun Control and American Blacks" by Raymond G. Kessler (pp. 476-478)
In the United States, the experience of blacks from slavery
through the 1960's was one of the clearest and best-documented
examples of the political functions of gun control.
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File: nraction*
The NRA-ILAs little known newsletter "NRAction"; names will have the
month and year at the end, e.g., nraction0291.
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File: americamilitia
"America's Militia" by David B. Kopel, appeared in "Gun World" magazine
December 1992.
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File: hci93agenda
The "Action Agenda for a National Gun Policy" by HCI.
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File: hci-newsletter
The Handgun Control Semi-Annual Progress Report for December 1992.
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File: hattoripetition
A petition written by the host family of Japanese exchange student
Yoshihiro Hattori, who was killed when he went to the wrong home for
a Halloween party:
"To protest the easy availability of firearms in the United States"
which will be presented to President Clinton.
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File: hci-election
"What the Election Means for Our Gun Control Movement" by Sarah Brady.
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File: centerwall
University of Washington Pyschiatrist Dr. Brandon Centerwall writing
in the April 1989 American Journal of Epidemiology says that television
exposure is related to half of the homicides in the United States.
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File: va-outrage
"An Outrage in Virginia" by Neal Knox. Describes how BATF used a
Virginia gun dealer to general strawman sales and then later "traced"
those guns back to VA so they could claim 40% of guns they traced
came from VA. When the dealer stopped cooperating they were convicted
of conducting strawman sales, one of the owners committed suicide.
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File: factcard93
The 1993 Firearms Fact Card published by the NRA-ILA
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File: nejm43
A letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal by Preston Covey
on the factoid "You are 43 times more likely to kill someone you know
with a gun than a criminal."
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File: gifford
An op-ed piece by Dan Gifford which appeared in the March 8 1993 issue
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; it discusses the issue of police abuses
and citizen self defense against such abuses.
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File: reynolds
An editorial "Gun Makers Must Pay the Price" by Mel Reynolds (D-IL),
member US House of Representatives, which appeared in the 02/15/93
issue of the Chicago Tribune.
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File: pozner
"Gun Control" with Vladamir Pozner (yes, the commie) and Phil Donahue
from a Feb. 25 1993 broadcast on CNBC.
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File: trustpeople
CATO Institute Policy Analysis No. 109, July 11, 1988
"TRUST THE PEOPLE: THE CASE AGAINST GUN CONTROL," by David B. Kopel
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File: bitterprice
The British Shooter Pays A Bitter Price, by Keith G. N. Nicholson
from the American Rifleman, March 1993.
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File: batman
"Cartoon Campaign for Gun Control" from the March 8th 1993 issue
of "New American"
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File: batfss
"Waco Shootout Evokes Memory of Warsaw '43" from the Wall Street
Journal, Monday, March 15, 1993
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File: academics
Contact information for "Academics for the Second Amendment"
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File: propaganda
Anti-Gun-Ownership Propaganda, by Doan Boal in the March, '92 issue
of Survival Guide.
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File: media-fairness
Media Fairness Action Plan Is Continuing, by James H. Warner, NRA Ass't
General Counsel, from American Rifleman, March 1993, page 54.
This describes the FCC's "personal attack" rule and how the NRA may
take advantage of this rule against broadcasters who attack the NRA.
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File: artconf
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, Proposed by Congress November 15, 1777,
Ratified and effective March 1, 1781
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File: pending-bills
A list of the currently pending gun control bills in the US Seante and
House of Representatives.
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File: noduty
Self-Reliance For Self-Defense -- Police Protection Isn't Enough!
by Peter Kasler
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File: leftout
The Second Amendment: A Right Left Out, by Doctor Linda Karen Miller
appearing in The American Rifleman, February 1993, p. 33.
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File: copsnguns
WHAT COPS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE GUN ISSUE! by Leroy Pyle,
from the May 1992 issue of Guns&Ammo.
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File: crossfire
A transcript of the Wednesday, March 3 1993 edition of the CNN
show CROSSFIRE. The participants are Michael Kinsley, John Sununu,
Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) Criminal Justice Subcmte.,
and J.F. = Rep. Jack Fields (R-TX)
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File: naziconnection
The WAR ON GUN OWNERSHIP STILL GOES ON! -- GUN CONTROL'S NAZI CONNECTION!
by Craig Peterson from the May 1993 issue of Guns & Ammo.
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File: armedcriminal
The Armed Criminal in America, by James Wright, 1986. A Research in
Brief published by the National Institute of Justice.
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File: bigotry
"BIGOTRY, SYMBOLISM AND IDEOLOGY IN THE BATTLE OVER GUN CONTROL" by
Don Kates, from the 1992 "Public Interest Law Review"
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File: flmurd.ps
File: gamurd.ps
File: idmurd.ps
File: mtmurd.ps
File: nodiscr.ps
File: ormurd.ps
File: pamurd.ps
File: philmurd.ps
File: utmurd.ps
File: vamurd.ps
File: wamurd.ps
File: wvmurd.ps
CCW laws and murder rates in several states, by Clayton Cramer. These
are all PostScript files and require the use of PostScript printer to
print.
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File: hammer
Marion Hammer on the Failure of Gun Control, downloaded from Gun Talk.
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File: threechiefs
The views of Police Chiefs Daryl Gates (LA), Lee Brown (NYC), LeRoy Martin
(Chicago) on gun control and other civil rights.
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RKBA archive: general information and anonymous ftp instructions.
The moderator of the firearms-politics mailing list, Karl Kleinpaste,
has agreed to set up an anonymous ftp archive directory for RKBA
related information. This directory can be used for things like
articles by Kates, Wright, Tonso, Levinson, Supreme Court Decisions,
the RIA vs US decision, copies of legislation, and so on. It's not
meant to be for the discussions that normally appear here.
So, in the future if you're looking for something check there first
and then ask here.
Instructions:
Short version for techies:
The site is godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu. Place contributions into the
directory /usr0/anon/pub/firearms/politics/rkba. The ftp commands
get, put, mget, or mput should work. Give the command "type binary"
to be sure files are transferred correctly. Your files will be moved
to the rkba directory. To get a file use the commands get or mget.
I will maintain an index which you should get first to check if
the file you want to read or write already is archived.
Long version for non-techies:
In order for you to use this archive your computer must be on
the Internet. To connect to the archive site run the command:
ftp godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu
If that doesn't work you cannot use this archive. If the ftp
command is successful you'll get this prompt asking you for a
login:
Name (godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu:lvc):
Instead of lvc your initials will appear. Answer this prompt with:
ftp
Next you'll get this prompt asking your for your e-mail address:
Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password:
I would enter:
[email protected]
You'll enter your own e-mail address. You'll get these lines
or similar as output:
Remote system is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
Next, the command prompt is printed:
ftp>
If you do not get the line "Using binary mode to transfer files."
Run the command:
type binary
Now you're logged in to the archive machine. There are many
directories on this machine but the two you are concerned with are
/usr0/anon/pub/firearms/politics/rkba
and
/usr0/anon/pub/firearms/politics/incoming
There are subdirectories to the rkba directory, those are discussed below.
When you login to the system your directory is /usr0/anon. To retreive
files change your current directory to the rkba directory with the command:
cd /usr0/anon/pub/firearms/politics/rkba
or
cd pub/firearms/politics/rkba
To submit files change your directory to the incoming directory with
the command:
cd /usr0/anon/pub/firearms/politics/incoming
or
cd pub/firearms/politics/incoming
Once you do this you'll get another ftp> prompt asking you to enter
another command.
To find the names of the existing files in the directory you are
in run the command:
ls -l
This will produce something like:
total 6021
-r--r--r-- 1 karl 6932 Jun 16 1992 DMN_Gratia_CCP
-r--r--r-- 1 karl 69149 Apr 5 19:20 INDEX
-r--r--r-- 1 karl 18965 Jun 16 1992 Knox_AW_lies
-r--r--r-- 1 karl 10930 Apr 30 1992 S361
-r--r--r-- 1 karl 8958 Jun 16 1992 WSJ_Crimestrike
-r--r--r-- 1 karl 2649 Jan 13 18:33 academia-bias
-r--r--r-- 1 karl 935 Mar 22 22:38 academics
-r--r--r-- 1 karl 36079 Aug 4 1992 aclu
... and so on ...
Each line corresponds to one file. Reading right to left, the fields
are the file name, the last modification date of the file, the size of
the file in bytes, and some permission fields which you do not need
to be concerned with.
To get a file run the command "get" followed by the name of the file
you want, for example:
get INDEX
or
get noduty
After the file is transfered to your machine a message like this:
Transfer complete.
19580 bytes received in 5 seconds (4 Kbytes/s)
You can repeat the get command for every file you want to retreive.
You can use the mget command to retreive multiple files. If the
file you want is in a subdirectory, for example, congress/103rd/HR1025
you should change your directory to the appropriate subdirectory first
and then retrieve it:
cd congress/103rd
get HR1025
Once you're finished you can log off with the command:
quit
If you have a file you want to contribute the procedure is a little
different. First of all you should find out if the file already
exists, so get a copy of the index file with the procedure above
and look it over to make sure you wouldn't repeat an entry. The
index will have a description of each of the files in the rkba
directory. For example:
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File: whitemanslaw
White Man's Law by William R. Tonso, from the December 1985
Reason magazine
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Once you've determined you won't be duplicating an entry, login
and change to the incoming directory command (see above). Once
you are in the incoming directory use the command:
put file_name
In this case:
put whitemanslaw
Again there'll be a "Transfer complete, so many bytes transfered
in so many seconds" message. Now your file is on the archive
machine.
Another thing to watch out for is duplicate file /names/. Be sure
there isn't a file in the incoming directory that is called the same
as the file you want to write. If you use the same name you'll
overwrite the previous file [or you'll get an error message].
Your file may have to be renamed if there is a conflict with a
file by the same name in the rkba directory.
Once your file is in the incoming directory send me an entry for
the INDEX file and I will add it to the file.
If you cannot use anonymous ftp and would still like to contribute
a file email the file to me and I'll take care of the rest.
If you submit a file and do not notify me it may be removed, so
be sure to let me know first.
If you have any questions feel free to ask me.
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--
Larry Cipriani -- [email protected]
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[email protected] (Rob Boudrie) writes...
FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY
On the other hand, if it can be proven, it's possible the changed
terms could be thrown out. The question will be whether the
agreement contains a merger clause. See UCC @ 2-202 (parol
evidence). If we're talking about warranties, then, of course,
UCC @ 2-316 should be looked at.
But we have so little information that none of us can say anything
conclusive.
Daniel Reitman
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Bryan Murray has done very little as GM...Yzerman, Fedorov, Cheveldae,
Chaisson, the whole Russian strategy was a product of the previous
GM...Murray has made a couple of decent trades...that's about it...
that would hardly rank him as the best GM.
Wasn't Primeau, Murray's first decision as GM...
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Where can I find the MS windows version of ghostscript? Thanks..
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Continuously, on this forum, and on the street, you find quite a difference
between the opinions of what motorcycling is to different individuals.
Cruiser-bike riders have a different view of motorcycling than those of sport bike riders
(what they like and dislike about motorcycling). This is not closed-minded.
To NOT RECOGNIZE this, is in effect, close-minded.
I scan it for information, a lot of it is NOISE and pointless flame-age.
(it's why I used trn, instead of rn)
If you have a problem with that, I'm really sorry for you..
--
=> Dan DeClerck | EMAIL: [email protected] <=
=> Motorola Cellular APD | <=
=>"Friends don't let friends wear neon"| Phone: (708) 632-4596 <=
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I'm trying to find Tom Haapanen, formerly [email protected]
who was the keeper of the FAQ for this newsgroup.
He was working at Watrerloo Engineering Software,
but netfind can't even find that (but it may have
been a uucp connection). If anyone knows how to
contact Tom, please let me know.
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: In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Steve
: [...]
: > I don't know how anyone can state that gun control could have NO
: > effect on homicide rates. There were over 250 >accidental< handgun
: > homicides in America in 1990, most with licensed weapons. More
: > American children accidentally shot other children last year (15)
: > than all the handgun homicides in Great Britain. (Source: National
: > Safety Council. Please... no dictionary arguments about RATES vs
: > TOTAL NUMBERS, okay? They're offered for emphasis, not comparison).
: >
: You're a great debater. You chose your sources of information, claim them
: to be superior,
I've made no such claim. Please direct my attention towards any
posting of mine where I claimed superior sources of information.
It's probably because I bothered to post any references at all while
others seem content to post numbers pulled from the ozone, that
you've confused it with fact-twisting. If so, I apologize.
: then take those twisted numbers and twist them further by trying
Well then, here's fair opportunity for you to prove that I've "twisted
numbers." On what grounds do you contradict those references? Do you have
any citations... any sources of your own that I can take similar
gratuitous shots at?
: to compare absolute numbers between two countries that have major population
: differences, the USA and GB, and then whine that you are afraid someone might
: attack your process, and so claim the numbers are for "emphasis, not
: comparison"? Emphasis of what?
Nitpicking and scolding is a whiney debating style, Jim.
: Anything else is blowing smoke.
You seddit, brudda.
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Short reply: We can never achieve perfect health, yet we always strive for it.
We don't seek to do God's will because we're forced to, we follow His way
because His way is best. The reason it's hard is because we are flawed, not
because He's unreasonable. But we seek to follow His way because we want to
improve ourselves and our lives.
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=Surprise surprise, different people react differently to different things. One
=slightly off the subject case in point. My brother got stung by a bee. I know
=he is allergic to bee stings, but that his reaction is severe localized
=swelling, not anaphylactic shock. I could not convince the doctors of that,
=however, because that's not written in their little rule book.
Of course, bee venom isn't a single chemical. Could be your brother is
reacting to a different component than the one that causes anaphylactic shock
in other people.
Similarly, Chinese food isn't just MSG. There are a lot of other ingredients
in it. Why, when someone eats something with lots of ingredients they don't
normally consume, one of which happens to be MSG, do they immediately conclude
that any negative reaction is to the MSG?
=I would not be surprised in the least to find out the SOME people have bad
=reactions to MSG, including headaches, stomachaches and even vomiting.
I'd be surprised if some of these reactions weren't due to other ingredients.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: [email protected] | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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Using the VMODE command, all you need to do is type VMODE VESA at the dos
prompt. VMODE is included with the Speedstar 24. I have used the VESA mode
for autodesk animator pro.
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It was great to hear that UMass is bringing back hockey! It reminded me that a
couple of years ago there was talk that both Bimidgi (sp?) and Mankato State
trying to upgrade their programs to Div. 1 status. I also seem to remember
that they had some trouble with new NCAA rule about just who was allowed to
compete at the Div. 1 level. Was that ever resolved? Also, I was just
wondering if there is ANY college hockey east of Colorado (Alaska excepted).
With the new popularity of hockey on the west coast, I would expect there to
be some interest building at the collegiate levels too. Anyone heard anything?
James Old, e-mail [email protected]
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It is told in the Gospels that the Pharisees (sp.?) and scribes bribed
the Roman soldiers to say that the Diciples stole his body in the night.
Good enough excuse for the Jewish and Roman objectives (of that day).
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Go for it. I have yet to see anybody justify the
prohibition on drugs and the ensuing War On Drugs. In the world of
*.politics here on Usenet, it is YOU that is crazy. ANYBODY--who gives
the matter any thought beyond reading headlines---cannot justify this
atrocity, this all out war on individual rights.
Just _TRY_ to justify the War On Drugs, I _DARE_ you!
Once again, in chorus: WHY is this "stupid"?
The above paragraph is gibberish--that all I can make of it...
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I second that suggestion. Although I don't own the HP Portable Deskjet,
I *do* own the HP Deskjet 500. It gives the nicest outputs, with only
a minor loss of quality. For all intensive purposes (papers, letters,
resumes), I treat my Deskjet like a laser printer (You *do* have to
look a bit closely to see the blurs in the characters). Only one
grudge, the ink that HP gives you does smudge rather quickly in the
presence of moisture (Even though the ink is waterproof). However,
you would have to spend about $500 more for laser quality.
The cannon bubblejets are nice, however they don't seem to have as
much support (eg: drivers for popular programs) as the HP ink-jets.
Also HP Deskjet (regular,plus,500,500c) accepts xerox paper (I believe
that the cut-sheet feeder is an option for the cannon bubblejet).
If you don't mind refilling your printer with cheap ink (say
fountain-pen ink), then the HP deskjets are *very* cheap to maintain
(I paid $3.50 for my last bottle of ink and I expect it to last 9
months).
-Kimball (who doesn't work for HP, but just loves his printer
very much!)
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]Is it possible to do a "wheelie" on a motorcycle with shaft-drive?
yes.
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Word 2.0c doesn't show the period-centred character to indicate
spaces if I use the TTFonts from CorelDraw. Our editors need to
be able to see how many spaces are in text but the character
displayed is a large hollow box. They overlap each other and
characters on each side, which is useless.
I believe the character used by W4W is the period-centred (0183).
This character shows up with the windows Charmap display as the
hollow box which tends to confirm this. I have edited the corel
font with Fontmonger and changing the font graphics for the 0183
character makes no difference to the font output in Charmap or W4W.
Altering the paragraph (0182) or cedilla (0184) does alter their font
graphics displayed however!!
Is the W4W character used to indicate spaces the period-centred
character? Has anyone been able to get this character displayed
from a CorelDraw TTF?
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MSG is common in many food we eat, including Chinese (though some oriental
restaurants might put a tad too much in them). I've noticed that when I
go out and eat in most of the Chinese food restaurants, I will usually get
a slight headache and an ununsual thirst afterwards. This happens to many
of my friends and relatives too. And, heh, we eat Chinese food all the
time at home :) (but we don't use MSG when we're cooking for ourselves)
So, when we put one and one together, it can be safely assumed that
MSG may cause some allergic reactions in some people.
Stick with natural things. MSG doesn't do body any good (and possibly
harms, for that matter). So, why bother with it? Taste food as it should
be tasted, and don't cloud the flavor with an imaginary cloak of MSG.
-michael
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Anybody use CD Speedway out there? Is it as good as they say? I hate
waiting around for my CD to finish loading the next level in WC and the
such.
How much memory does it eat up?
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