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173 | I am looking for Super 8mm Projector with SOUNDS.
If anybody out there has one for sale, semd email with
the name of brand, condition of projector, and price for
sale to [email protected]
(IT MUST HAVE SOUND CAPABILITY) | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,508 |
I feel the need to repeat myself: Kekule's dream is a rather bad example
of much of anything. Read Root-Bernstein's book on the history of the
benzene ring. | 19 | trimmed_train |
8,906 |
> Why Paul, it's obvious.
> Once chlorine chemistry has been banned on Earth,
> as is being advocated by some groups, Ti prices will
> :-) :-) :-)
Well, there already is a sulfate process for TiO2 purification. The
chlorine process is cleaner, however, and for that reason is achieving
dominance in the marketplace.
Darn, caught by the white hot heat of technological progress again...
Most Ti is used in pigment, btw (as the oxide), where it replaced
white lead pigment some decades ago. Very little is reduced to the
metal.
Spoilsport. Hence the need for increasing fashion
emphasis on anodise Ti jewelry...
> Seriously, I'd say there is a flaw in Gary's analysis
> in that he assumes an export oriented economy, maybe
> the lunatics will just want some native Ti for local
> use...
Which merely evades the issue of why those lunatics are
there at all (and, why their children would want to stay.)
I did not evade the issue at all. I clearly stated that
this would be from diabolical foresight in establishing
a sheltered industrial base for the upcoming Great War ;-)
Very cost effective if you use the right accounting method :-) | 10 | trimmed_train |
6,612 | Hi!
Could anyone tell me if it's possible to save each frame
of a .gl (grasp) animation to .gif, .jpg, .iff or any other
picture formats.
(I've got some animations that I'd like to transfer to my Amiga)
I really hope that someone can help me.
Cheers | 1 | trimmed_train |
10,283 |
I've noticed some of you mentioning owning a Quadra 800 8/230 with CD300
and 1meg of VRAM. It seems that this configuration was purchased
complete; that is, the CD300 and VRAM were already installed in the box.
I am interested in that exact configuration and will be buying with an
educational discount but have not found the CD300 bundled with any Q800
smaller than the 8/500.
If you bought or know how to buy the 8/230 with CD installed, please let
me know what you know via email:
send messages to [email protected]
Thanks, all.
Diane Maluso
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4,535 |
It wasn't especially prominent, as I recall. However, quite possibly it's
no longer on display; NASM, like most museums, has much more stuff than it
can display at once, and does rotate the displays occasionally. | 10 | trimmed_train |
10,061 |
Not really, though I wouldn't personally say "the most deserving
candidate wins". Rarely does a player win ROY when called up in mid
season, and there have been several duds in recent years. But this is
more a factor of mediot biases than anything else. (I wonder. If
Amaral hits like he is capable of, will he receive ROTY votes? He's
only 31, he could have a long career ahead of him! :-)
I think they are a second-division team. They should finish ahead of
the Royals, Mariners, and *possibly* Athletics. But I don't think
they'll be above .500. (I think the East is stronger this year.)
Last year their pitching was bad and their offense was horrible. This
year their offense is better, but their pitching is still pretty bad.
Even if Finley returns to form, he won't replace what they lost in
Abbott. Sanderson? Farrell? I don't believe it.
And while their BA may be good, and they have decent speed, their
offense lacks punch. They don't have any bona fide power hitters.
(Salmon, Snow, Davis, and Curtis? None with more than 20 HR
potential.)
Cheers,
-Valentine | 2 | trimmed_train |
2,834 | : significantly less than the value of many automobiles. And for those who will
: argue that the animals out there stealing cars and everything else (not to
: mention committing COMPLETELY senseless acts of violence, such as rape) cannot
: be valued in terms of money because they are human beings, I submit that they
: are not human beings. Jim Callison, I think, is on the right track. And | 4 | trimmed_train |
10,901 | Hi Xperts, some simple questions for you:
I've seen a lot of different terms, which seem to mean the same thing.
Who can give an exact definition what these terms mean:
-) multi-screen
-) multi-headed
-) multi-display
-) X-Server zaphod mode
Is there a limit how many screens/displays a single server can handle
(in an articel a read something about an upper limit of 12) ?
How is the capability called, if I want to move the cursor from one
screen/display to another.
Any hints welcome.
Thanks, rainer. | 16 | trimmed_train |
3,636 | Article 10886 of alt.radio.scanner:
Path: usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!aj008
From: [email protected] (Aaron M. Barnes)
Subject: Realistic PRO-2024 for sale-was $200,sell for $150 obo
Date: 20 Apr 1993 16:01:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Message-ID: <[email protected]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu
Hello.
I have a Realistic PRO-2024 scanner for sale.Here is a small desc
ription:
60 programible chanels
fully detailed backlighted digital display
headphone jack
antenna jack
removable telescoping antenna
auto search
coverage:
30-50mHz
118-174mHz
380-512mHz
It originally cost $200, but I will sell for $150.
Thank You.
--
/ / Buchanan in `96!
/ / Fear the goverment that fears your guns.
\ \/ / Without the 2nd amendment, we cannot guarantee ou
\/ / r freedoms. [email protected] | 11 | trimmed_train |
2,261 | For Sale : Casio Digital Diary Electronic Organizer (SF-4000)
32k RAM
will hold approxmiately 1500 names/phone numbers
Big 6 line display
200 Year Visible Calendar
Schedule Function
Memo Bank
Telephone Name, Number, Address Storage
Calculator
Compact folding design fits in your pocket | 5 | trimmed_train |
3,692 | But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds."
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what
I do. | 0 | trimmed_train |
5,056 | Wanted: Summer sublet in NW DC, on red Metro line. Have own bedroom, but can
share common areas with others. Apartment or room for $400 or less.
Move in Memorial Day weekend through end of August. No smokers. | 5 | trimmed_train |
10,248 | I would realy like to hear from someone that has one of these NANAO T560i
monitors that is driving it with a Diamond SpeedStar 24x. With the 24x
set up to run at its 58.1 khz 72.0hz output mode, and realy driving the
hell out of the monitor. Just woundering if the NANAO T560i would fall
apart with poor low capabilities like my (3) Sony 1604s did with the 24x
driving their balls off...Sam | 3 | trimmed_train |
733 |
Hey Valentine, I don't see Boston with any world series rings on their
fingers. Damn, Morris now has three and probably the Hall of Fame in his
future. Therefore, I would have to say Toronto easily made the best
signing. And don't tell me Boston will win this year. They won't
even be in the top 4 in the division, more like 6th. | 2 | trimmed_train |
9,338 |
You have just reminded me of an old Tom Paxton song...
I"M CHANGING MY NAME TO CHRYSLER
(Tom Paxton, 1980)
Oh the price of gold is rising out of sight
And the dollar is in sorry shape tonight
What the dollar used to get us
Now won't buy a head of lettus
No the economic forecast isn't right
But amidst the clouds I spot a shining ray
I caneven glimpse a new and better way
And I've devised a plan of action
Worked it down to the last fraction
And I'm going into action here today.
Chorus:
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am going down to Washington D.C.
I will tell some power broker
What they did for Iacoca
Will be perfectly acceptable to me.
I am changing my name to Chrysler
I am heading for that great receiving line
So when they hand a million grand out
I'll be standing with my hand out
Yes sir I'll get mine
When my creditors are screaming for their dough
I'll be proud to tell them all where they can go
They won'y have to scream and holler
They'll all be paid to the last dollar
Where the endless streams of money seam to flow
I'll be glad to tell them all what they can do
Its just a matter of a simple form or two
It's not renumeration it's a liberal education
Ain't you kind of glad that I'm in debt to you
Chorus
Since the first first amphibians crawled out of the slime
We've been struggling in an unrelenting climb
We were hardly up and walking before money started talking
And it's sad failure is an awful crime
It's been that way for a millennium or two
But now it seems there's a different point of view
If you're a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic
Down in congress there is a safety net for you.
Chorus...
Perhaps Steven Jobs should take Paxton's advice and change his name to
Chrysler, or perhaps set himself up as an S&L, maybe Neil Bush could
give him a hand?
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[email protected]
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn...
J.Morrison | 13 | trimmed_train |
2,406 |
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the T800 was a 25MHz transputer? so ya tie
a gazillion of them together to get 100mips. (The newest is the T9000
which kicks anyone's butt :)... haven't seen them used much though).
Anyway, to respond, I think the Pentium (CISC) is better than the more advanced
RISC (e.g., like the alpha, etc. the 66MHz Pentium has approximately the
same "performance" as the superduper 133MHz Alpha - here, performance is the
weird Specint92 that everyone refers to? - this is what I *heard* - the
Alpha still kicks in the P5's butt in fp - again, this is what I *heard*).
and in the computing world, if you sell lots of chips (like intel), and
make it faster (like intel), you are the winner (like intel), even though
you have a sucky architecture from over 10 years ago (like intel :0).
If you can make a "CISC" chip (superscalar, superduperpipelined, superfast)
with the ideas behind the "RISC" ideology, you got a CISC chip. And then
I admit I can't see the advantages of RISC over CISC...
If the latest technology is a generation behind, then it sucks (relatively
speaking).
Now I may sound like I like intel, but I'll have to say that the P5 is some
real kick butt pile of Si and SiO2...
But I hope that Motorola really catches up with the 68K line... or I'm gonna
start crying...
brian
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Brian "Hojo" Lee | "Hey, excuse me miss, could I have a .GIF of you?"
[email protected] |
[email protected] | (try Linux... the best and free UN*X clone!) | 18 | trimmed_train |
2,467 | I have a problem with icon pixmap. My application has to run
under openwindow and motif. I wrote my program in Motif with pixmap and
icons. It runs fine under motif/motif window manager and X11R5/mwm. But
the icon pixmap does not show up under openwin/olwm and X11R5/olwm.
Has anybody got into this kind of problem? Need a clue. An
example which works in both X11R5/motif and openwindow will be great.
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6,267 | Cloak yourself in God's sustaining and abiding love. Pray, pray, pray.
Pray for your brother, that he will assume the Godly role that is his.
Pray for your sister-in-law, the what ever is driving her to separate
your brother and herself from the the rest of the family will be healed.
Pray for God to give you the peace in the knowledge that you may not be
able to 'fix' it. From your description it would appear that it will
require devine intervention, and the realization by your brother as to
what his responsibilities are. Seek Godly counsel from your pastor, or
other spiritually mature believer. Know always that He is akways there
as a conforter, and will give you wisdon and direction as you call on
Him.
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2,235 |
Maybe...then again did you get rid of that H/D of yorn and buy a rice rocket
of your own? That would certainly explain the friendliness...unless you
maybe had a piece of toilet paper stuck on the bottom of your boot...8-).
Rich
| 12 | trimmed_train |
10,305 | According to the OSF/Motif Style Guide, one should use cursor shapes to give
the user a visual clue of what is happening or what is expected of him. So
a "hourglass" cursor should be shown when the application is busy, or a
"caution" cursor should be shown over an area when input is expected in
another. Defining cursors for widgets has to be done at rather low level.
So defining a cursor for all widgets in an application but not for a certain
subpart of it, is a rather complicated matter. When cursors have been defined
for some windows, e.g. a "crosswire" cursor for a DrawingArea, things get even
more complicated. My intuition says that things should be easier, but is this
so? If anyone has a solid and complete solution to my problem, please let me
know. The topics on "busy cursors" in the several FAQ's are not helpful, since
they only work for applications where all windows have the cursor window
attribute set to 'None'. | 16 | trimmed_train |
7,062 |
Try sizeit.zip from ftp.cica.indiana.edu [129.79.20.84] in the directory
ftp/pub/pc/win3/desktop. It's freeware.
Also noticed there a program called sizer110.zip, which from the description
looks like it also does what you want.
Hope this helps. | 18 | trimmed_train |
8,475 | I apologize for the long delay in getting a response to this posted.
I've been working reduced hours the past couple of weeks because I had
a son born (the day after Umar's article was posted, btw). I did
respond within a couple of days, but it turns out that a a
coincidental news software rearrangement caused postings from this
site to silently disappear rather than going out into the world. This
is a revision of that original response.
[this was in response to the claim that "Rushdie made false statements
about the life of Mohammed", with the disclaimer "(fiction, I know,
but where is the line between fact and fiction?) - I stand by this
distinction between fiction and "false statements"]
I had not seen that claim, or I might have been less sweeping. You
have made what I consider factual misstatements about events in the
book, which I have raised in the past, in the "ISLAM: a clearer view"
thread as well as the root of the "Yet more Rushdie [Re: ISLAMIC LAW]"
thread. My statement was not that you had not read the book, but that
you had not convinced me that you [inter alia] had. As I said before,
if you want to defend your position, then produce evidence, and
respond to the evidence I have posted; so far you have not. Of
course, my statement was not directly aimed at you, but broadly at a
number of Muslim posters who have repeated propaganda about the book,
indicating that they haven't read it, and narrowly at Gregg Jaeger,
who subsequently admitted that he hadn't in fact read the book,
vindicating my skepticism in at least that one case.
So far, the only things I have to go on regarding your own case are a)
the statements you made concerning the book in the "a clearer view"
posting, which I have challenged (not interpretation, but statements
of fact, for instance "Rushdie depicts the women of the most
respected family in all of Islam as whores"), and b) your claim (which
I had not seen before this) that you have indeed read it cover to
cover. I am willing to try to resolve this down to a disagreement on
critical interpretation, but you'll have to support your end, by
responding to my criticism. I have no doubt as to the ability of a
particular Muslim to go through this book with a highlighter finding
passages to take personal offense at, but you have upheld the view
that "TSV *is* intended as an attack on Islam and upon Muslims". This
view must be defended by more than mere assertion, if you want anyone
to take it seriously.
And I appreciate it, but welcome to the club. I am defending my
honest opinion that this book should not be construed as a calculated
(or otherwise) insulting attack on Islam, and the parallel opinion
that most of the criticism of the book I have seen is baseless
propaganda. I have supported my statements and critical
interpretationa with in-context quotes from the book and Rushdie's
essays, which is more than my correspondents have done. Of course,
you are more than welcome to do so. | 8 | trimmed_train |
8,318 | The only reason for the death penalty is revenge?? If you are going to
try to refute a position, try to refute the whole position or acknosledge
that you are only speaking to small piece of the problem. Broad sweeping
"the only reason, " etc on as tough nut to crack as the death penalty
reallly doesn't help much.
Every year the FBI releases crime stats showing an overwhelming amount of
crime is committed by repeat offenders. People are killed by folks who
have killed (who knows how many times) before. How aobut folks who are for
the death penalty, not for revenge, but to cut down on recidivism?
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3,691 | Sounds as though his heart's in the right place, but he is not adept at
expressing it. What you received was _meant_ to be a profound apology.
Apologies delivered by overworked shy people often come out like that...
| 19 | trimmed_train |
9,905 |
I sometimes wonder if Kekule's dream wasn't just a wee bit influenced by
aromatic solvent vapors ;-) heh heh.
| 19 | trimmed_train |
3,264 | We have been using Iterated Systems compression board to compress
pathology images and are getting ratios of 40:1 to 70:1 without too
much loss in quality. It is taking about 4 mins per image to compress,
on a 25Mhz 486 but decompression is almost real time on a 386 in software
alone.
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4,011 | The scenario and genocide staged by the Armenians 78 years ago in
x-Soviet Armenia is being reenacted again - this time in Azerbaijan.
The stories of survivors of Karabag massacre are in 'Milliyet' today.
69 year old Hatin Nine telling:
-''My Twin grandchildren were cut to pieces in front of my eyes. They told
me: We won't kill you. But the babies have to die in front of your eyes.''
72 year old Huseyin Ibrahimoglu:
- ''Our Turkish village in Khojalu Town was blown up in two hours.
Turks, you must die.''
28 year old Gulsum Huseyin:
- ''They bayonetted my 3 year old daughter in her stomach in front of
my eyes.''
Are these stories lies? Have the eye-witnesses been day-dreaming?
Were these stories forged by Turkish journalists in the region?
The nonsense of such a claim is clear from the writings of British
Journalists, too. Two days before we had quoted from a Sunday Times
article. They[British] reported the events in Karabag even before
Turkish journalists. What is more here are the pictures. Pictures
of people who were bayonetted, whose eyes were gouged, ears cut off.
Even the Armenian Radio couldn't claim these "lies." They are saying
"exaggeration." That means ''somethings'' have happened but the
situation is not as bad as reported. Perhaps that village of Khojalu
town was destroyed in 4 hours, instead of 2... Or Gulsum Huseyin's
3 year old daughter was bayonetted in her chest instead of stomach...
The massacre is clearly seen with all its dimensions. The effects of
this massacre on Karabag and environs cannot be reduced by any word.
Some of the western press', led by some French Newspapers, ability
to ''close their eyes'' is nothing but complicity in this massacre.
Yesterday we gave samples from Le Figaro. Until yesterday's print
no news about the real events in Karabag were printed. So were the
French TV channels.. The subject they considered related to Karabag
was ''The necessity of protecting Armenians against Azeri attacks.''
The age we are living in is termed a human rights age. There are lots
of organizations such as United Nations and CSCE(Conference on Security
and Cooperation in Europe), and rules, all designed to fight against human
rights violations. International reactions must be made with international
cooperation. With support of everybody and every organization claiming
to be civilized.
Could there be a more serious human rights violation than that of the
right to live -and with such levels of barbarity and cruelty-? Where
is the cooperation? Where are the reactions? And the intellectuals,
journalists, writers, TV stations of certain western countries such
as France who are fast to claim leadership of "human rights?"
Where are you?
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
3,878 | Does anyone work with the A/ROSE card?
We have the problem that after certain crashes the card disappears from the
system, and lets crash the Mac then.
Okay, we don't use the card quite like one should, because we simulate
errors in the 68000. Before every instruction some specified registers are
masked, eg. to simulate a stuck-at-1-error in certain bits.
Normally, the "crash instance" of A/ROSE notices a crash, sets a flag and
stops working. By reading the mentioned flag the Mac can notice a card
crash. That works fine for almost all crashes, but as said, sometimes the
card doesn't set the flag and disappears from the system.
The documentation of A/ROSE does not tell us anything about its behavior
when crashing, and so at the moment we are trying to understand by analyzing
the assembler code, and that's both frustrating and lengthy.
So, can anyone help?
Please only reply via email, as I don't read this group.
--
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_ Department of Computer Science IV
/ \ |\/| University of Dortmund, Germany
\_/laf | |aennig e-mail: [email protected]
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"In the beginning God created Adam ... ahem! ... atoms. Atoms of hydrogen." | 14 | trimmed_train |
416 | i read about the code you can put in to most applications so that
the virtual desktop stuff in tvtwm doesn't confuse them (or is the
application confusing the virtual-ness? [chicken & the egg?]
but wanted to see if it has been applied to a version of xroach
i never could quite get ssetroot to work either? any suggestions.
luckily xv -root -quit does the trick for the most part
also, i'ld be quite interested in hearing more about the icon region
for each virtual window under tvtwm that i read a thread on last week
here
thanx,
fish | 16 | trimmed_train |
7,404 | Hello.
Is it possible to know minimize program manager when starting an
application and to restore it when the application is ended ?
If possible, please tell me how to do it !
| 18 | trimmed_train |
4,593 | One pair of kg1's in Oak finish with black grilles.
Includes original packaging.
$200 + shipping Firm.
| 5 | trimmed_train |
4,403 | I have a friend who has just been diagnosed with Lupus, and I know nothing
about this disease. The only thing I do know is that this is some sort of
skin disease, and my friend shows no skin rashes - in fact, they used a
blood test to determine what had been wrong with an on going sacro-
illiac joint problem.
I am finding a hard time finding information on this disease. Could
anyone please enlighten me as to the particulars of this disease.
please feel free to E-mail me at
[email protected] | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,603 |
SeAL Team six should have handled it? Delta Force? The
BATF had more than enough equipment and men. They did not have
good intel, but they did have poor planning. They fucked up. Even
in just the most basic military sense, they fucked up. Excuses do
not justify body counts.
And your excuses fall upon deaf ears when the same BATF
has shown shitty leadership despite more people, better weapons,
and exclusive use of armor against their targets. BATF is nothing
more than a private army of the government. Do the agents swear an
oath, as I did, to uphold the Constitution? You know, that document
that stipulates the highest law of the land? If they do, they should
be up for charges in a court of law. Remember, the law? That's
the whole reason for any of this.
Yeah, I've been related to many of them. This is flame-bait,
right? I'm not paying your price. Mind if I sight in my guns on
your body? Think of it as the price you have to pay that we may all
live without fear of my making a stray shot. It's fine and dandy to
revel in the other guy being the target and your supposed safety. In
the military, we called this "chicken shit." Leadership from the rear.
The War on Drugs, despite being a catchy term for nothing more than
a continuation of policy since before this century, seems to have
gotten you convinced that my rights aren't worth your good vibes.
Mind if I cut your net access, as well as access to any and all forms
of expression? See, you make me nervous, what with you being able
to influence so many. I'm sure you can see how this is the price we
have to pay for freedom and liberty in this country, as well as
a fair and unbiased judiciary.
Mind if we include you in the body count? I'm sure we could
all file it under "civic improvement" and your life wouldn't have
been sacrificed in vain. If you like, you can will your estate to
defecit reduction, too. Now, when you learn how the law protects, or
doesn't protect, everybody equally and how our collective boot may
one day be on your collective throat, perhaps at that time you will
mature enough to realize just what you're talking about and how
serious this is.
Next time, include a smiley. While I hesitate to think that
you could have meant this seriously, it deserved a small flame anyway. | 9 | trimmed_train |
9,598 | Don't get fooled by exponents 2^80 (possible keys) is not in the
same league with 10^80 (particles in the universe). 2^80 < 10^25.
Remember Avagadro's number? There are about that many elementary
particles (not molecules) in one mole. Pretty small universe! Or if
you can put 5 Gigabytes on one tape, you would need about 10 trillion
tapes (allowing several bytes per entry). Still more than all of the
existing magnetic media on the planet, but wait a few years. (I'm
including existing audio and video cassettes in the total. Ten
trillion is about 2,000 per person worldwide... Gives new meaning to
the suspicions of hiden messages.)
--
Robert I. Eachus | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,932 |
: There are a couple of things about your post and others in this thread
: that are a little confusing. An atheist is one for whom all things can
: be understood as processes of nature - exclusively.
This definition does not include all atheists (see the FAQ). However,
I (for one) do think there is no need to invoke any divine or
spiritual explanations.
It makes a big difference to claim that all things can be understood
as natural processes, and to claim that our observations do not
require us to postulate any divine intervention, or anything spiritual,
for that matter. Humans are not omnipotent, and neither is science.
However, science has one advantage theology doesn't: it is self-
correcting, with nature as its judge.
It is delightful to see how scientific inquiry is revealing a self-
consistent, simple picture of our universe. Science is no longer
a bunch of separate branches, it is one. From particle physics to
psychology. And no aspect of our life, or our universe, is safe
from its stern and stony eye. Not even our consciousness.
There is no need
: for any recourse to Divnity to describe or explain anything. There is
: no purpose or direction for any event beyond those required by
: physics, chemistry, biology, etc.; everything is random, nothing is
: determnined.
Actually, determinism vs. indeterminism is a philosophical question,
and science cannot say whether the whole thing is actually somehow
superdeterministic or not. I think the question does not have
any meaning, as far as individual human beings go. If their apparent
free will is an illusion, it does not appear to be so from their
perspective. Bill, can you say _for sure_ whether you have a free
will or not?
: This would also have to include human intelligence of course and all
: its products. There is nothing requiring that life evolve or that it
: acquire intelligence, it's just a happy accident.
Maybe. Who are we to tell? It seems intelligence is useful - when
during the history of Earth has _one species_ been able to control
one third of the whole biosphere? This can still be a result of
numerous happy accidents our genetic machinery blindly replicates
and preserves. Even that machinery can be result of the same
principle - only the systems that can start replicating will
survive, those which don't don't make it. (Recommended reading: t.o)
: For an atheist, no
: event can be preferred to another or be said to have more or less
: value than another in any naturalistic sense, and no thought -about-
: an event can have value.
From whose perspective? I value events and things subjectively, from
my perspective. Nature does not have values, because it does not have
a perspective - values arise from awareness. If I have a subjective
perspective, it is easy to assume that other people also do, and if
I think about what it would it be like in their position, I will
eventually discover the Golden Rule. Morality is not necessarily
a gift from heavens, in fact, it may be a product of evolution.
Perhaps we are aware of ourselves because a sense of identity
is helpful, allows us to play the roles of others and make us respect
others who seem to have identity, too.
Bill, have you ever read Aristotle? Try his Ethica Nikomakhea (sp.)
for starters.
: How then can an atheist judge value? What is the basis for criticizing
: the values ennumerated in the Bible or the purposes imputed to God? On
: what grounds can the the behavior of the reliogious be condemned? It
: seems that, in judging the values that motivate others to action, you
: have to have some standard against which conduct is measured, but what
: in nature can serve that purpose? What law of nature can you invoke to
: establish your values.
C.S. Lewis tells us that this argument was the main reason why
he abandoned his atheism and became Christian. The argument is
severely flawed.
Some values, such as the Golden Rule, can have a rational basis. Some
others, like the basic idea of wanting to live, has probably its
roots in the way our brains are wired. Lewis ignored the very real
possiblity that natural selection could also favour altruistic
behaviour, and morality as well. Indeed, as humans evolved better
and better in building and using tools, they also became better
at killing each other. It is a logical necessity that evolution could
only favour those who knew how to use tools, but not against one's
own people.
The Bible reveals quite nicely that the morality of the early Jews
was not beyond this. A simple set of rules to hold the people
together, under one god. Their god did not care much about people
of other nations.
At the time of the NT, things were quite different - the Jews
were under rule of an _empire_, and could no longer simply ignore
the Gentiles. A new situation required a new morality, and along
with it a new religion was born. (A mutation in a meme pool.)
: Since every event is entirely and exclusively a physical event, what
: difference could it possibly make what -anyone- does, religious or
: otherwise, there can be no -meaning- or gradation of value. The only
: way an atheist can object to -any- behaviour is to admit that the
: objection is entirely subjective and that he(she) just doesn't like it
: - that's it. Any value judgement must be prefaced by the disclaimer
: that it is nothing more than a matter of personal opinion and carries
: no weight in any "absolute" sense.
It looks like you haven't bothered to read philosophy. Whenever there
is an observer, there is a subjective point of view, which may
value its existence and happiness (even if that were just a result
of some physical event), and other's happiness, too, if the observer
comes to think about it. In an absolutely objective sense, that is,
without any observers or subjects, moral judgments lose their
meaning.
It is not possible for a value to simply exist without a point of
view. This includes gods, too, their values are only _their_
personal judgments, not absolute truths, since such truths
do not exist.
The fact that most people do not deliberately want to hurt others
is a manifestation of the way we have fought for our existence
by becoming social beings who can think and value others'
existence.
Morality is not property of humans alone - chimps, dolphins and
many other species show great care for each other. Dolphins have
sometimes saved humans from drowning, a good deed indeed.
: That you don't like what God told people to do says nothing about God
: or God's commands, it says only that there was an electrical event in your
: nervous system that created an emotional state that your mind coupled
: with a pre-existing thought-set to form that reaction. That your
: objections -seem- well founded is due to the way you've been
: conditioned; there is no "truth" content. The whole of your
: intellectual landscape is an illusion, a virtual reality.
The last statement does not logically follow. In fact, there is
every reason to believe our thoughts can model reality very
well, and our senses can convey reliable information. Solipsism
is still a logical possibility, but not a very likely one.
You are continuously mixing two different views: the subjective
point of view (which we all share) and an objective point of view,
_which does not exist_. Any observer or thinker, any personal being,
has its own point of view. It does not matter whether this point
of view is a result of some physical events or not, it does not
cease to be subjective.
From a non-observers non-point of view, values do not exist. Neither
does pain, or pleasure, or beauty, or love. Such things are
inherently subjective.
Once again, if god wants wives to submit to their husbands, or even
to make a leap of faith into the unknown, or wants to punish us if
we don't, I disagree with his morals. I do not think my morals come
from any supreme being - to remove my morals means the same than
to make me a zombie, a machine without a single thought. If god
gave us morality to judge, but I disagree with him, it is not my
fault. He is free to replace my morals. I cannot see what is the
point of giving someone a moral system which disagrees with one's
own and then to get mad at this.
God must be schizophrenic.
: All of this being so, you have excluded
: yourself from any discussion of values, right, wrong, goood, evil,
: etc. and cannot participate. Your opinion about the Bible can have no
: weight whatsoever.
Neither can the opinion of any god, for that matter. I cannot understand
why a subjective opinion of a thing made of matter is in any way
less credible than an opinion of a thing made of something else.
Bill, take note: Absolute values must be independent of _any_ being,
_including_ gods. If god has a subjective viewpoint, it is his
own point of view, and his morals are his own.
Petri
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7,504 |
1. You need these resources :
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XTerm*EightBitOutput: true
2. In the shell you need to do :
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Good luck .
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8,500 | Correction:
|The story I related is one of the seven apparitions
|approved by our Church as worthy of belief. It happened
|in La Salle, France.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That should be La Salette, France, 1846.
I must admit, geography is not my forte.
|[...]
|Once again, the Lamb succeeds. | 0 | trimmed_train |
10,423 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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When are we going to hear a Christian answer to this question?
In paraphrase: | 15 | trimmed_train |
6,309 | All you have to do is turn it in to the police like you would an accident,
get a report and send it in to your insurance company and they will contact
the other guys insurance company and they will have to pay just as they
would in an accident they caused. Thus no need to go to court. A friend of
mine did this and he got the money so it does work.
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7,332 | Okay, I'll bite. I should probably leave this alone, but what the heck...
But didn't he credit the actual flag design to a party member - some dentist or
other? I believe he gives such credit in Mein Kampf.
Well, I'm no expert, but all of the histories of Nazi Germany assert this. They
make reference to several scandals that occurred long before "the night of the
long knives". The impression that I got was that homosexuality in portions of
the SA was common knowledge. Also, a book (by a homosexual author whose name
escapes me at the moment) called "Homosexuals in History" asserts that Roehm
and Heines were homosexuals, as well as others in Roehm's SA circle.
Well, you're the one who is in Germany. If you don't believe the history books,
look up the primary sources yourself. Those of us outside of Germany do not
have access to these. You do. It seems to me that there were plenty of
documented instances - several scandals, the fact that on the "knight of the
long knives" several SA members (including Heines) were found sleeping
together, etc. Also I believe some people were complaining about the SA's
homosexual activities (seducing young boys, etc). The histories that I've
read make a very convincing case. None of this sounds like urban legend to me.
I know next to nothing about Irving and nothing about Funk. What precisely do
you know, that would contradict all of the other history books that I have
read concerning the existence of homosexual Nazis? Are you trying to say that
all historians are taking part in an anti-homosexual smear? What about
homosexual writers who agree with the official history? Don't you think they
would have found out the truth by now if Roehm and Heines were not homosexuals?
I would think they would want to disassociate homosexuality from Nazism. No one
should use any connection between the two to bash homosexuals in any case.
If you are going to challenge *all* historians on this point (not just Irving),
then the burden of proof is on you. Track down the references. Find out where
the stories originate from. Again, you are the one in Germany, close to
archival material - most people on the net are not.
Eh? What is your agenda here? To prove that the Nazis were heterosexuals, so
that you can bash heterosexuals? Does it bother you that some of the Nazis
might have been homosexuals? Does this make all homosexuals bad if this is
true? Of course not. And what about bisexuals? Are they half-Nazis?
I don't know why it would be so difficult to believe that some Nazis were
homosexuals. The German officer corps before WW1, for instance, was notorious
for its homosexuality. There were numerous scandals which rocked the German
govt. during the late 19th and early 20th century. Many of the Kaiser's friends
were prosecuted - the Kaiser was no homosexual, but the Germany army had a long
tradition of tolerating homosexuality, going far back into Prussian history -
back to Frederick the Great at least, who was himself a homosexual. Roehm was a
product of this Prussian officer tradition, and the old German army (like the
English public school system), being a well known center of homosexuality,
would have been quite willing to overlook Roehm's homosexuality.
In addition, some Nazis complained of homosexuality in the Hitler Youth. The
Hitler Youth swallowed up all pre-Nazi youth groups, and some of the various
pre-war Vandervogel, Bund, and Volkish youth groups were known to promote
homoerotic ideals and friendship, and in many cases, homosexuality itself. So
it seems to me not unlikely that there were plenty of homosexual Nazis,
regardless of the official Nazi dogmas concerning the "evils" of homosexuality.
Why should this suprise anyone? Homosexuality has always existed, in all
societies - it would be most unusual if the Nazis were an exception.
No, I don't have any sources for you, as I think the only kind of proof you
will accept would be citations from archival material, and I do not have access
to these. Nor do I intend to reread every book on the Nazis and on modern
homosexuality that I have ever read - I don't have the time. Nothing is
stopping you, however, from chasing down those sources. Until you prove
otherwise, though, I will stick with the established histories. | 15 | trimmed_train |
665 | Compiled from the last five Defensive Average reports, here are the career
DAs for the individual players in the reports. Stats are courtesy of
Sherri Nichols. Players are listed in descending order.
Third Basemen
-------------
Name 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 88-92
Mitchell, Kevin .690 ---- ---- ---- ---- 0.690
Gonzales, Rene .685 ---- ---- ---- ---- 0.685
Leius, Scott ---- ---- ---- .653 .680 0.672
Pendleton, Terry .692 .685 .631 .689 .634 0.667
Ventura, Robin ---- ---- .641 .647 .677 0.657
Wallach, Tim .728 .674 .600 .630 .665 0.657
Gruber, Kelly .717 .657 .580 .630 .664 0.650
Pagliarulo, Mike .631 ---- .575 .744 ---- 0.649
Harris, Lance ---- ---- .642 .652 ---- 0.648
Howell, Jack .656 .666 .609 ---- ---- 0.647
Williams, Matt ---- ---- .633 .653 .656 0.647
Caminiti, Ken ---- .675 .630 .653 .596 0.642
Sabo, Chris .751 .626 .616 .613 .575 0.642
Gaetti, Gary .616 .638 .655 .632 ---- 0.637
Buechele, Steve .647 .616 .647 .681 .599 0.635
Salazar, Luis ---- .617 .643 .637 ---- 0.632
Pecota, Bill ---- ---- ---- .629 ---- 0.629
Schmidt, Mike .628 ---- ---- ---- ---- 0.628
Riles, Ernie ---- .627 ---- ---- ---- 0.627
Boggs, Wade .643 .659 .550 .653 .634 0.626
Martinez, Egdar ---- ---- .621 .645 .599 0.624
Molitor, Paul .633 .617 ---- ---- ---- 0.624
Phillips, Tony ---- ---- .623 ---- ---- 0.623
*NL Average* .643 .625 .602 .623 .603 0.619
Brookens, Tom .616 ---- ---- ---- ---- 0.616
King, Jeff ---- ---- .616 ---- ---- 0.616
Seitzer, Kevin .654 .583 .593 ---- .635 0.616
*AL Average* .641 .612 .604 .620 .602 0.615
Jacoby, Brook .624 .621 .600 ---- .597 0.613
Hansen, Dave ---- ---- ---- ---- .611 0.611
Law, Vance .635 .576 ---- ---- ---- 0.611
Magadan, Dave ---- ---- ---- ---- .609 0.609
Jefferies, Greg ---- ---- ---- ---- .606 0.606
Sharperson, Mike ---- ---- .606 ---- ---- 0.606
Zeile, Todd ---- ---- ---- .614 .593 0.605
Baerga, Carlos ---- ---- ---- .604 ---- 0.604
Hayes, Chris ---- .601 .622 .606 .574 0.602
Livingstone, Scott ---- ---- ---- ---- .597 0.597
Hamilton, J. .611 .584 ---- ---- ---- 0.595
Kelly, Pat ---- ---- ---- .595 ---- 0.595
Lyons, Steve .590 ---- ---- ---- ---- 0.590
Oberkfell, Ken .590 ---- ---- ---- ---- 0.590
Johnson, Howard .628 .549 .611 .573 ---- 0.588
Bell, Buddy .587 ---- ---- ---- ---- 0.587
Lansford, Carney .620 .578 .594 ---- .550 0.587
Presley, Jim .643 .595 .530 ---- ---- 0.584
Schu, Rick ---- .584 ---- ---- ---- 0.584
Worthington, Cal ---- .583 .575 ---- ---- 0.580
Hollins, Dave ---- ---- ---- ---- .577 0.577
Sheffield, Gary ---- ---- .584 ---- .567 0.575
Blauser, Jeff ---- .573 ---- ---- ---- 0.573
Fryman, Travis ---- ---- ---- .571 ---- 0.571
Gantner, Jim ---- ---- ---- .570 ---- 0.570
Gomez, Lee ---- ---- ---- .551 .542 0.546
Palmer, Dean ---- ---- ---- ---- .520 0.520
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Dale J. Stephenson |*| ([email protected]) |*| Grad Student At Large | 2 | trimmed_train |
988 | Last I had heard because of budget and such the Air Farce is the only "Space
Command" left.. The rest missions were generally given to the Air Farce..
Probably a good reason for me to transfer from the Army Guard to the Air
Guard..
I hate walking with a pack on my back, and how do you put on your application
for a job as a kitchen worker, that you have done a lot of KP (Kitchen
Police).. | 10 | trimmed_train |
3,688 |
Welcome to the conservative judiciary.
I think Scalia's point was that you get one chance. If new information
comes out later, tough. If the conviced want justice, they have to hope
the governor is feeling charitable.
There's a guy on death row in Texas that was denied a new trial, dispite
evidence of his inocents.
It got swept away in the Reagan Revolution...
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2,100 | Does any one know if the 6551 is timing/pin compatible with the 6551..
It seems the 6551 has in iheirent bug with cts/rts handshaking and i need
a suitable pin replacement to put in my serial card... possibly a buffered
version perhaps?
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514 | [This is a co-authored report from two of us who were there.]
Gun Owners Action League, our state rifle association, started the day
with a rally in the secluded courtyard behind the statehouse at 9:30.
It was looking sparse (about 40 people) until the speaker began,
whereupon about 120 more people followed the loudspeakers from
wherever they had been lost, and filled out the area something proud.
Mike Yacino of GOAL spoke. One of his best throwaway lines was to
remind us that all of us holders of carry permits there had been
checked and certified clear of all crimes by the state; while the
people in the Statehouse behind us only had to be certified clean of
"election fraud" to hold their jobs.
Nancy Snow and Amos Hamburger were busy handing out ID buttons and
sheets describing all the bills to be presented at the hearings, and
telling people where to find their own representatives (and in too
many cases, who they were).
Mike warned us that the committee was going to suspend its rules and
discuss a bill that hadn't made it onto the official list. It seems a
delegation of students from Simon's Rock of Bard College (alma mater
of Wayne Lo, who shot up the place with an SKS late last year) was
being bussed in to testify for a bill to ban all sales of firearms or
ammo to anyone who is not a state resident.
The hearings were originally scheduled in the (large) Gardner
Auditorium at 10:30, but that had been pre-empted by the Governor's
hearings on the Framingham Eight (women in prison for killing abusive
husbands, and seeking release). So we had until 1:30 to buttonhole
our representatives, after which we would be squashed into an
inadequate hearing room.
One of my representatives' staffers was somewhat offensively smarmy.
He said, "Oh, it must be gun hearings day again! The gun lobby is
always so organized every year." I got a little pissed, and replied,
"I'm not from the gun lobby -- I'm from your district."
At 12:30, your second reporter arrived in time to notice a
demonstration going on in front of the statehouse (where the
pro-gunners weren't). Randy Price from the TV News was there, in his
mirror reflective shades, talking to one of the anti-gun types, and
several Simon's Rock anti-gun "close-the-loophole" protestors.
(Earlier, Randy had covered the GOAL rally.)
The room we had been assigned seated about 50. Remember, there were
about 160 gun owners there, plus another 20-30 students and teachers
from Bard. One of us had already reserved a seat; the other never got
closer than the atrium outside -- and there was a crowd behind HIM. A
cop took up station at the entrance and prevented the rest of the
crowd from coming in. Soon after the debate started, a loudspeaker
was set up outside in the hall for the benefit of everyone else.
Everyone who was there (inside and outside) got to sign up on a sheet
saying what their position was on which bills. Most of us signed up
to "support GOAL's position" on "all bills."
First, because of their time constraints, public officials got to
testify. And first up was the bill that nobody had seen (the students
had some curfew, I guess).
Currently, Massachusetts law allows a non-resident to purchase long
guns or ammo from a local dealer provided he complies with the laws of
his own state. Previously, the law was similar, but applied only to
non-residents from states adjoining Massachusetts. The Simon's Rock
folks called the current law a "loophole" and wanted it closed.
Two of their reps spoke about Wayne Lo and his "SKS assault rifle."
The second one, Hodgekiss, a co-sponsor, had done his homework so well
that he kept confusing Montana (Wayne Lo's home state) with Missouri,
and became belligerent when about five gun owners in the gallery
corrected him after his second muff. Carr, from Gloucester, claimed
that the new bill would put the law back the way it was, but he was
lying: the new bill allows purchases by non-residents of adjoining
states ONLY if they have licensing in their own state "as strong as"
that in Massachusetts. Since none of them do, that's that.
Some of the things these two said were really offensive. "In some of
these other states, anyone can buy a gun as long as he's breathing!"
(Oooooo!) "We have some very, very good gun laws in Massachusetts; if
only the other states would adopt the same type of laws, we wouldn't
be having this situation -- but they won't." (Naughty, naughty!)
Next up was Boston city councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neill. He was
there to testify pro-gun, but in some ways he was a liability. He's
reasonably elderly and tends to wander and repeat himself, plus he's
almost a caricature of a law-n-order politician. He badmouthed the
ACLU, said violent criminals should be executed, and that if he were
judge, he'd give arrestees their "last rights" (pun intended) on the
spot (at which many of the gun owners applauded, which bothered me.)
He said that all the proposed gun restrictions were a step in the
right direction -- for the criminals. He said this FOUR times :-(
Two of the bills under consideration would allow police to rescind a
CCW or FID, and confiscate all your guns, if someone had filed a
restraining order against you. (Note that the filing of a restraining
order requires no warrant, no hearing, no evidence, and no conviction
-- just an accusation.) Senator Barrett of Reading testified in favor
of it, and patronized the pro-gunners there several times by saying,
"I'm sure all the gun owners here will agree with me that we have to
get these weapons out of the hands of people that our courts have
convicted." I haven't seen such a disgustingly disingenuous
performance since Nixon whined that he wasn't a crook.
Barrett also spoke in favor of the bill making the FID card renewable
every five years, instead of permanent as it is now. The stated
purpose is to remove FID cards from those who have become ineligible.
"Revenue has nothing to do with it." (Yeah, right.) Apparently, some
congressmen think we're stupid enough to swallow the argument that
it's preferable to process 1.6 million renewals every cycle in the
vague hope of catching a recent felon than to simply take the goddamn
card away from a criminal at conviction time. As usual, hassle the
law-abiding instead of the crook.
The two co-chairs of the committee were Rep. Caron and Sen. Jujuga.
Jujuga didn't say much (he was a co-sponsor of both "restraining
order" bills) but Caron struck me as a sharp guy that wouldn't let any
bad logic or lies on the part of either side to go unchallenged. (He
was a co-sponsor of one of the "restraining order" bills as well.) One
of the younger reps on the committee (forgot his name) was
vociferously pro-gun, somewhat embarrassingly so. His heart was in
the right place, but his arguments seemed to be confined to, "every
year it's the same damn thing, you come in here with this crap..."
It's nice to have a friend on the committee, but he could have been
more effective.
At about 3:00, it was clear that the hall-jam couldn't continue.
Someone came out of another meeting hall and yelled at the cop because
the loudspeaker was disturbing their meeting, so the loudspeaker was
disconnected. So they found a bigger hall upstairs. One of us had
to leave to catch his charter bus, and so missed the "public"
testimony; the other got a seat this time.
Caron began by talking about how he got his FID 16 years ago, left the
state, and then returned without notifying them of his address change.
He complained that the state record system was not up-to-date and that
his PD back in his city of birth still thought he lived there. Great
quote: "If you purchase a gun today, it will not get into the state
computer system until 1999." (This was also an argument he used
against the renewable FID card.)
Testimony was heard from several "battered women," one of whom had
been attacked by some guy in his 20's who had an FID card because he
got it when he was 15 or thereabouts. They used a lot of emotion and
said how they were scared of these men. A staffer of Attorney General
Harshbarger testified in favor of this anti-gun bill, saying how
50,000 restraining orders were granted last year, and how these women
needed to be protected. Caron noted that a restraining order was
granted for 10 days, and then a hearing was held to determine whether
the order would be extended to a year. He asked whether she would be
satisfied if the FID were revoked at the time of this hearing rather
than after the initial issuance of the FID. She gave some long
rambling circumlocution in response.
Then testimony against the bill was heard. Mike Yacino (who looks
something like Einstein) got up and made the point that restraining
orders were issued on too little evidence, that judges like to issue
restraining orders just to let things cool off no matter who they
think is right (man or woman), and that the hearings for restraining
orders are lightning sessions with little time to consider facts.
Atty. Karen McNutt spoke with him a few times during his testimony.
Other pro-gunners got up to testify. One said he had had to file a
restraining order against a tenant to clear her out, and that she
countered by filing one against him! He noted that this would have
allowed the state to confiscate his guns if the new bill became law.
One of the junior reps noted that "this is America" and we have to be
certain that individual rights are respected. Senator Jujuga
reiterated this, saying that "people who abuse smaller people can go
to Hell as far as I care, but we have to be careful about equating
conviction with a restraining order." (Point and match, Senator.)
Another pro-gunner got up and testified that he didn't know his
citizenship "expired every 5 years," and that a driver's license was a
privilege, not a right like the right to keep and bear arms.
A third got up and said the problem was with the criminal justice
system, and argued in favor of a death penalty bill and public
hangings. Senator Jujuga said he had himself tried to get a death
penalty bill passed, and joking responded that he, too, favored public
hangings. The speaker then responded, "I'll make you a deal. You get
me the rope, and I'll tie the noose."
Next came public testimony on the Simon's Rock bill. A teacher
testified that she had been the teacher of Wayne Lo, and that "he
wouldn't have been able to shoot people inside a building while he was
outside" without his evil gun. She said that the "loophole" should be
closed to prevent something like this from "ever happening again".
Four or five other kids testified in favor of this bill, one of
spilling tears for the good legislators. One of the students actually
shot by Wayne Lo was also there. Many of them had T shirts on,
saying, "As long as one person can buy a gun in anger, none of us are
safe -- support gun control." The committee was reluctant to grill or
correct the kids, except for Caron, who corrected one student who had
claimed that anyone could apply for an FID. "Only residents can get
FID's," he said. (How much do you want to bet that this kid had no
idea he had been conned into testifying for a bill that would cut
out-of-staters completely off?)
Yacino and McNutt spoke again, this time noting that the bill as
written would affect both ammo AND ALL guns possessed by
out-of-staters. Karen also noted that hunters in CT, NH, and VT could
be put away for a year if they wandered across the MA boundary
somewhere in the woods and got challenged by game wardens. Yacino
underscored the fact that Lo COULD have gotten an FID as a resident
student -- and, hell, even an CCW, as he had NO criminal or mental
record.
One junior rep was upset that it would take MA residents longer to buy
a gun than out-of-staters, and thought it was "elitist". Another
(Caron?) said that we need the protection of preventing non-residents
from buying without an FID because only two other states in the union
had "FID-type" cards, so complying with all the laws of one's home
state was "not enough." One pro-gun speaker replied that this
resembled a mother watching her son in a marching band and exclaiming,
"Everyone's out of step but Johnny!"
All the Bard College people were filing out as the pro-gun testimony
for this bill was made, and thus only pro-gunners were around when the
other bills came under consideration. The main bills remaining (and
GOAL's position) were:
o H.4375 and four others: Notify police chiefs so they can pull
licenses when a holder is convicted (strongly supported)
o H.1732: Require trigger locks on all handguns sold (opposed)
o H.962: Require trigger locks on all loaded firearms (strongly
opposed)
o H.1350: Allow every municipality to enact their own gun laws
(opposed)
o H.1731: Fund bullet-proof vests for municipal police (supported)
o S.1097: State Constitutional Amendment for the RKBA (supported)
o Several on police discretion in the issuance of FID cards (opposed)
o Several altering non-resident license conditions (supported)
o H.1135: Ban damn near all guns everywhere in the state (guess!)
Some of these took only 30 seconds to consider, as the remaining
pro-gunners raised hands in unison either for or against them.
Mike Yacino noted that, besides the danger in screwing with a trigger
lock on a loaded gun, that bill would make it illegal for a licensee
to carry his concealed handgun unless it were locked.
Caron blew right through H.1350 when he saw that we opposed it.
Again, he brought up the state's archaic records capability and said,
"This would create hundreds of different licensing systems."
The session ran late -- since it was the last scheduled hearing, it
could not be adjourned until everyone who wanted to had testified. It
ended at about 6:30.
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496 |
And you know why this is? Because you've conveniently _defined_ a theist as
someone who can do no wrong, and you've _defined_ people who do wrong as
atheists. The above statement is circular (not to mention bigoting), and,
as such, has no value. | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,673 |
: I've been trying to view .tga files created in POVRAY. I have the Diamond
: SpeedStar 24 Video board (not the _24X_). So far I can convert them to
: jpeg using cjpeg and view them with CVIEW but that only displays 8 bit color.
..
: Just want to see the darn things in real color...
I have an ATI ultra pro card, and have found that the easiest way to view
true color images is using their windows drivers and something like winjpeg
or photofinish.
If anyone has a non-windows solution, I'd love to hear it! | 1 | trimmed_train |
8,752 |
The Wall Street Journal had an article on how the police were whining
about all the new guns; excuse me, but police are EMPLOYEES of the
government. Rather like having your janitor complain about job
conditions.
I say Californians should form armed block clubs that would engage
in coordinated strategies should BATF attempt to disarm them based
on the "nefarious tipster" theory of law enforcement. Unlike Waco,
Californians should be able to destroy armored vehicles in city
streets with incendiary weapons, acetylene after slowing them down
with abandoned car blockades. M-1 Garands should easily outclass
BATF shock troops with their H&K MP-5 SMGs, and there should be
enough Sony Walkmans and Boom Boxes to overwhelm any FBI psy-war
operation... yes, a good time would be had by all. Billary Clinton
would get what he wanted, a War on Gunowners, the BATF would attempt
to show the anti-gun press they they really, REALLY were in charge
with a 500-man "Charge of the Light Brigade," and the FBI would attempt
to show how _THEY_ really were in charge by asking the Californian
National Guard to level the area with artillary! | 9 | trimmed_train |
1,143 | IRWIN suggests the use of pre-formatted tapes for their tape drives, as
you often can't successfully format a tape and need bulk-erase it before
you can format it again. Anyway, I have some new, preformatted tapes for
IRWIN 250 tape drives.
IRWIN accuTRAK series 120-250MB, $16/ea. New never used.
3M DC2120, RHOMAT Format. $16/ea. Wraped.
Email if interested.
Feng | 5 | trimmed_train |
3,898 | The part about spending $5000-7000 on repairs reminds me
of an article I read in a magazine comparing the 5 year ownership costs
of a Toyota Camry and a Ford Taurus or something like that. The result,
which they announced with great flourish was that it cost the same at the
end of the period. That was their argument to prove that you don't go
wrong buying the Ford Taurus over the Camry.
Now, if I remember correctly, the Camry costs about $4000 or so more
in initial costs. Essentially, it means that you spend about $4000 extra
on repairs on the Taurus. That is ridiculous. Every time your car
needs repairs, it is extra hassles, loss of time and a dozen other things.
I would much rather spend $5000 more in initial costs than spend $4000 more
in repair costs.
| 4 | trimmed_train |
10,093 | Once, on Jeopardy, the category was "Jewish Sports Heros," believe it
or not. The answer was, "This pitcher had four no-hitters with the
Dodgers in the 60s." The contestant said, "Who is Hank Aaron?" Alex
Trebek said something like, "I don't think Hank Aaron was a pitcher." | 2 | trimmed_train |
10,383 | Are there any vendors supporting pressure sensitive tablet/pen with X? I
will appreciate any pointers.
Thanks, Sanjay
| 16 | trimmed_train |
8,450 | ...
Open up the .PIF file with the PIF Editor, click on the "Advanced" button,
and then reserve the PrtSc key for the application. Any keys that you
select in this section will be passed along to the application rather than
being processed by Windows.
| 18 | trimmed_train |
431 | I have a problem with the battery on my '83 Honda CB650 NightHawk.
Every week or so it is dead and I have to recharge it. I ride the bike
every day, the battery is new and the charging system was checked
thoroughly and it seems fine. My suspicion is that it is draining
somewhere.
Do you have any idea about what is causing this problem?
Please help since my mechanic and me are clueless!... | 12 | trimmed_train |
3,728 |
Your statement is a common misconception, but it just isn't true. In the
German Weimar system, the Chancellor was not necessarily the leader of the
largest Reichstag party; the Chancellor was appointed by the President and
generally was the leader of a coalition of parties who could form an effective
majority in the Reichstag. Beyond that, the implication that Hitler rose to
the Chancellorship because a majority of Germans wanted Nazi rule is false
as well. Before President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor in January
1933, the German people did not show a particular desire to be led either by
Hitler or by the Nazi party. These are the results of the March 1932 election
for President, the closest Hitler ever came to direct election: Hindenburg
49.6%, Hitler 30.1%, Thaelmann 13.2%, Duesterberg 6.8%. In the runoff election
in April the results were: Hindenburg 53%, Hitler 36.8%, Thaelmann 10.2%.
So we can see that Hitler personally was supported by only about a third of
German voters.
Similarly, the Nazi party never received more than 37% of the vote in
Reichstag elections. That occurred in July 1932. In the November 1932 election
the Nazis *lost* two million votes and 34 seats, down from 230 to 196 out of
the 608 in the Reichstag. Comparitively, the Socialists had 121 and the
Communists 100. The Communists had gained 11 seats, and the German National
party, which had supported the previous government, had picked up a million
of the Nazis' lost votes to gain 15 seats (up to 52). I think the other large
party was the Catholic Center party (I don't know how many seats they had but
I think they were declining), and there were numerous other small parties.
Thus the Nazi vote was on the decline at the time Hitler was appointed
Chancellor.
What brought Hitler to power was *not* the demand of the German people for
Hitler or the Nazis to run things, but the inability of the other parties to
put their differences behind them in favor of forming an effective government
for the country. Germany did not have an enduring democratic tradition, and
their parliamentary system lacked effective center parties that favored the
interests of the majority of the population. Instead what they had was a
number of small parties who were unable to put aside their own specific
objectives in order to combine against the Nazis, who were out to end the
democratic process. In fact, part of the problem was that some of the other
parties with substantial representation, like the Communists, were also
out to end the democratic process, but with different results in mind, and
generally didn't mind seeing parliamentary democracy go under.
Germany had already had a non-Nazi Chancellor with a majority coalition
for five months while the Nazis had been the largest Reichstag party, and
there certainly was no danger of a revolution in favor of the Nazis.
If anything the Nazis were starting to get desperate because they had failed
to get enough support to make Hitler President and their popular vote had
begun to decline.
Hitler was not Hindenburg's first choice to be Chancellor, not even his
second choice. First, von Papen had been Chancellor since June 1932. After
the November election when the Nazis *lost* seats, Hindenburg first prevailed
on von Papen to remain as Chancellor. But there were intrigues behind his back
and support for him was lacking. So then Hindenburg turned to von Schleicher,
who became Chancellor for two months. Eventually he too was unable to hold
together a working coalition of parties to oppose the Nazis, who refused to
participate in any government that was not led by a Nazi Chancellor. Some of
the Nazi leadership, particularly Gregor Strasser who was the #2 man in the
party at the time, wanted to participate in a coalition government. But others,
knowing the party's support was waning, figured that their best hope to gain
power lay in undermining the democratic process. Nevertheless, the country
was governed for seven months by Chancellors who were not Nazis, even though
the Nazis were the largest Reichstag party. The failure of these men to
achieve a working coalition was due to the inability of their coalition
parties to work together.
Here's how William Shirer puts it in _The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_:
The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their
failure to unite against it. At the crest of their popular strength,
in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 percent of
the vote. But the 63 percent of the German people who expressed their
opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine
against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm
them unless they united, however temporarily, to stamp it out.
True, the German people supported Hitler after he became Chancellor. But
that doesn't change the fact that there was not overwhelming support for him
*before* he was in power. The German people were not crying out for Hitler to
take over, no matter how bad economic conditions were. The leftist parties
(Socialists/Communists) probably had more support in total than the Nazis.
Hitler used the fact that others were passively or actively willing to see
the government paralyzed as a means to taking it over.
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6,540 |
Maybe cyclical is not the best word. That is one aspect of it. In the
case of the virgin birth prophecy, it applied to the then and there, and
also prophetically to Christ. The army that threatened the king would
cease to be a threat in a very short time. Yet it also prophecied of
Christ.
Several prophecies that refered to Christ also had application at the
time they were made. "Out of Egypt have I called my Son" refers both
to Israel, and prophetically to Christ. "Why do the heathen rage"
was said of David and also of Christ.
Another example would be the Scripture quoted of Judas, "and his bishoprick
let another take." Another example is something that Isaiah said of His
disciples which is also applied to Christ in Hebrews, "the children thou
hast given me."
How does the preterist view account for this phenomenon.
Link
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10,497 |
These substitutes exist, and at this time are available. Its the future
availability that is in doubt.
1) GHG-12
Get it from People's Welding Supply 800-382-9006
2) butane/propane
You can mix this yourself so no one can ever regulate it away.
Just make sure you use good quality (dry) gases.
I don't know of any 200mpg carb distributors :-) | 4 | trimmed_train |
1,283 |
We've got a tempest receiver in the lab here, and there's no difficulty in
picking up individual monitors. Their engineering tolerances are slack enough
that they tend to radiate on different frequencies. Even where they overlap, you
can discriminate because they have different line synch frequencies - you can
lock in on one and average the others out.
The signals are weird in any case, with varying polarisations and all sorts
of interactions with the building. Just moving a folded dipole around is also
highly effective as a (randomised) means of switching from one monitor to
another, | 7 | trimmed_train |
340 | 15 | trimmed_train |
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7,159 |
This rumor didn't happen to appear on April 1st?
If this DigiKey rep was serious, I think I will buy my parts elsewhere.
If that is the way they do business, you cannot trust them. | 11 | trimmed_train |
8,645 | Just my luck. I did however call my local Apple dealer and he said that
the he thinks the serial numbers of the machines that are covered begin
with either 70 or 53-56, and maybe one other. He also told me that Apple
had extended the service on these serial numbers for another year!!!
So there is still hope - Get those monitor in!!
| 14 | trimmed_train |
8,008 |
I called the Texas bill tracking people (800/253-9693) again today
regarding HB 1776 -- Concealed Carry. Well, it was supposed to come
up for a vote this past Wednesday, but the bill got sent back to
the Public Safety Committee. The PSC gave it a favorable rating
AGAIN, and the bill must now be scheduled for debate by
the Calendars Committee AGAIN.
Daryl Biberdorf N5GJM [email protected]
+ Sola Gratia + Sola Fide + Sola Scriptura
| 9 | trimmed_train |
7,762 | Hi,
Since the original buyer found out he couldn't use this modem
for his Mac (I beleive I mentioned that it's an internal in my
former post), the modem is re-available now. This modem is
SupraFaxModem V.32bis. If interested, please e-mail.
Thanks! | 5 | trimmed_train |
9,885 | Since swapping out my generic VGA card for a Diamod Speedstar 24X, I have
noticed two new problems:
* if I create a windowed MS-DOS session (386 mode), when the text starts
to scroll, rather than printing characters it starts to print
horizontal lines that spill out to the desktop and trash the entire
display. Ctrl-alt-del terminates the dos window and restores the
desktop
* after a short time in NCD's PC X-remote for windows, all characters
displayed on the desktop are changed to be unreadable; I am unable to
restore without rebooting.
These are in both 256 and 16 color 800x600 drivers, large and small fonts.
DOS 5, Win 3.1, emm386 and smartdrv installed.
I like the speed of the card and have had no other problems. Any ideas?
Thanks! | 18 | trimmed_train |
9,788 |
Well, my question still hasn't been answered: if Spanky was bad enough to
release this year, why did he get so much playing time last year? Yes, I know
he was part of a platoon, and that's why he got more playing time than
Slaught, but that doesn't answer the question. If Slaught was so obviously
better this year, wasn't this also obvious last year, and shouldn't he
have been taking away some of Spanky's playing time against righties? | 2 | trimmed_train |
990 |
You must not have tried very hard. I just opend mine in about 2
seconds. Take a look on the bottom, it has a dial that turns to open
much like the older ADB mouses used to have. It's a bit harder to turn
at first but it is quite simple to open.
Well, if you don't match up the pins correctly you will have some
problems. A close look at the socket should give you an idea of the
proper orientation of the chip. | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,627 |
This is not strickly correct. Only by incorrect application of the
rules of language, does it seem to work.
The Mercedes in the first premis, and the one in the second are NOT
the same Mercedes.
In your case,
A = B
C = D
A and D are NOT equal. One is a name of a person, the other the
name of a object. You can not simply extract a word without taking the
context into account.
Of course, your case doesn't imply that A = D.
In his case, A does equal D.
Try again...
---
"One thing that relates is among Navy men that get tatoos that
say "Mom", because of the love of their mom. It makes for more
virile men."
Bobby Mozumder ( [email protected] )
April 4, 1993 | 8 | trimmed_train |
2,885 |
Well, if police think they are so special that only _THEY_ are worthy
of self-defense, perhaps we start putting the arm on police; maybe
we should start demanding that police are only police when ON-DUTY,
that after that they are just like the ordinary disarmed helpless
chumps they consider "civilians."
Let's prohibit arms carrying by police when off-duty. Or, if they make
the assertion that "Well, I need to maintain my gun" let's make it
regulation that they can carry an UNLOADED firearm home, that it's
only fair that they be just as helpless as poor schmuck coming home
from his computer operator job...
NRA Director/ex-San Jose cop Leroy Pyle states in the latest SWAT
magazine that anti-cops better watch out for this schism between
RKBA folks and the police. He asks the rhetorical question of 'What
if what's left of the gun lobby starts demanding the disarmament
of the police?" | 9 | trimmed_train |
4,771 |
I think the original poster meant opening the mouse, not just
releasing the ball and getting to the rollers. I found that on the
original ADB mouse, sometimes unscrewing the two halves allowed for
easier cleaning.
If the original poster has his answer, I'll ask: How do you open the
new ergonomic mouse? By open, I mean split the two halves to get at
the guts. It isn't obvious to me based on the 5 minute look I spent
with one at the office yesterday as there are no visible screw
heads. | 14 | trimmed_train |
4,398 |
Go bikeless. You drink and drive, you pay. No smiley.
| 12 | trimmed_train |
5,229 | Hello, my friends and I are running the Homewood Fantasy Baseball
League (pure fantasy baseball teams). Unfortunely, we are running the league
using Earl Weaver Baseball II with the Comm. Disk II and we need the stats
for the 1992 season. (Preferably the 1992 Major League Stat Disk) We have
the '92 total stats but EWB2 needs the split stats otherwise we have 200
inning games because the Comm. Disk turns total stats into vs. L's stats
unless you know both right and left -handed stats. | 2 | trimmed_train |
58 | Sorry, I did`nt tell exactly what I need.
I need a utility for automatic updating (deleting, adding, changing) of *.ini files for Windows.
The program should run from Dos batchfile or the program run a script under Windows.
I will use the utility for updating the win.ini (and other files) on meny PC`s.
Do I find it on any FTP host? | 18 | trimmed_train |
10,857 |
Take a look at ftp.cica.indiana.edu at pub/pc/win3/(util?misc?)
for a program caleld vswitch.zip.It's as close to want you want as you can
get in WIn3.1 ...
Hope it helps...
| 18 | trimmed_train |
7,814 |
This is an excellent question and I'll be anxious to see if there are
any such cases. I doubt it. In the medieval period (esp. 10th-cent.
when Aquinas flourished) argument was a useful tool because everyone
"knew the rules." Today, when you can't count on people knowing even
the basics of logic or seeing through rhetoric, a good argument is
often indistinguishable from a poor one.
Sorry; just one of my perennial gripes...<:->
Ken | 0 | trimmed_train |
536 |
Why retract your accusation that he's a liar? If Omran retracts his "verbal
diarrohea" doesn't that only prove the liar he *really* is? A retraction
would be pointless! Giving this guy the opportunity to "save face" after
uttering such bullshit would just encourage him to do it again! I must say
that your style is very impressive, Mark. Keep it up!
- Mike
| 6 | trimmed_train |
3,036 | [A lot of this article has been deleted for space.]
| 7 | trimmed_train |
8,161 | Two LH Research SM11-1 power supplies (SM10 series).
1000W, 5V, 200A (currently wired for 115VAC)
Control lines: +/- sense, on/off, pwr.fail, high/low margin, and
current monitor.
(The list price from LH Research is $824.00 each for qty. 1-9)
Asking $500.00 for the pair. | 5 | trimmed_train |
3,170 | This may be a stupid question, but how does the government know which keys
to ask for?
Will owners be required to REGISTER their phones, faxes, modems, etc.,
and inform the government when they are moved to a different phone number?
Will there be penalities if the public does not do this? Will identification
(the National Health Care ID, perhaps) be required when purchasing a
Clipper-equipted phone?
Or will each chip transmit identifying information at the start of
a conversation? Identification which could be used to automatically
log who calls whom? (The _phone_ company keeps records, but this
information would be accessable by a well-placed van near a microwave
relay station).
This raises the question of how the two phones agree on a communications
encryption key. Will it be something that is derived from information
exchanged at the start of the conversation -- and hence derivable by
an eavesdropper?
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9,013 | I have a program produces a continuous tone by calling XBell
repeatedly at an interval equal to the duration of the bell. If it is
run more than once on a display, the tones are buffered in the X
server and the tone contunues after all occurrences of the program
have exited. Is there a convenient way of preventing this, e.g., by
emptying the X server bell buffer when each program exits?
- Disclaimer: Please note that the above is a personal view and should not
be construed as an official comment from the JET project.
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4,393 |
I've been saying that for at least 2 years now and even the A's conditioning
guru told Jose he was carrying too much weight and losing some would help
his back.Although I don't for one second believe Jose used steroids,his
back problems are very similar to problems alot of steroid users experience
because they are simply carrying too much weight on their frame(see Jeff
Bregel ex 49er as a textbook example), and IMHO Jose is too big for his
frame.
I can't imagine how to estimate bat speed, but its pretty obvious that
Jose is missing fastballs he used to hit, likely due to his back.
I don't know, he had an even more open stance when he first came up with
the A's, and had no problems with it then. It might be that pre-back
problems, he was quick enough to cover up any deficiencies the stance
caused, but now he's lost just enough bat speed that the stance hurts
him. The old saying if you're hot its a trigger mechanism, if you're
cold, its a hitch.
The biggest problem IMHO is he never has found a stance he's comfortable
with for more than a few months. He changes his stance so much, he loses
track of where the strike zone is. In Wednesday's night game, he was
clearly mad at strike calls on both corners that looked pretty good to
me. I think he no longer knows where the strike zone really is because
he's changed his stance so much.
I'm also a bit concerned that because he's got Palmer and Gonzalez hitting
all the homeruns, he'll become competitive, swing even harder and screw
himself up even worse. LaRussa always said that Canseco's famous batting
practice homer shows did him more harm than good as they encouraged
bad hitting habits.
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9,661 | Here is a copy of my first update on the Randy Weaver trial.
After a large response (about 15 email messages), I've decided
that there is sufficient interest here on t.p.g. to warrant
posting.
*** file follows ***
Hi Folks;
As perhaps the only Boise resident on the list, I guess it
kind of falls on me to keep people updated about the
Randy Weaver/Kevin Harris trial.
Yesterday marked the seating of the jury. Apparently no other
legal activities occurred. The jury was selected and things
start today.
More interesting is what happenned outside. About a dozen
Weaver supporters showed up to stage a protest outside the
courthouse. One woman carried a sign that read, "Who stands
trial for the murder of Vicki and (son's name - I forget)
Weaver?" On the evening news she said, "I am here protesting
because I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
I thought we all did." Nice sound bite (grin)!
The news reporter also interviewed some guy named "Tim"
who refused to give his last name. Not to prejudge the
guy, but he looked like a neo-nazi. He also said he
expected many neo-nazis to show up throughout the trial.
"Tim" had been handing out leaflets in support of Weaver
and Harris and the news had footage of a Boise cop
telling him to move along or he'd arrest. I don't know
the finer points of this one. Perhaps there's a law
against political activity within X feet of a courthouse
or something (what happenned to the First Amendment?!?).
Most ominous of all was that the local reporter filmed
an agent of the Gestapo...err...ATF with a minicam
FILMING THE PROTESTORS! Welcome to the world of Big Brother.
Anyhow, Gerry Spence came out and asked the protestors to
leave because he didn't think it would help Weaver's case
any. He said he was confident that, once the evidence
came out, that Weaver would be aquitted.
More stuff as it comes available. | 9 | trimmed_train |
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2,798 | [bits deleted]
I'd be fascinated to see such evidence, please send me your article!
On the negative side however, I suspect that any such simplistic link
abstinence-education => decreased pregnancy,
contraceptive-education => increased pregnancy
is false. The US, which I'd guess has one of the largest proportion of
"non-liberal" sex education in the western world also has one of the highest
teenage pregnancy rates. (Please correct me if my guess is wrong.)
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5,940 |
No, but some OS's ( COHERENT , etc ) are able to drive one of the ports in
polled mode without using the IRQ. In your example, after accessing the
modem, the mouse won't work until you reboot, because the IRQ is used by
the modem.
Yes, you can change the IRQ's for com3/4, but it depends on your other
hardware. com1 uses IRQ4, com2 IRQ3. If you have only one printerport
( IRQ7 ), you can change com3 to IRQ5 ( normally 2nd printer ). For com4,
you can assign IRQ2, if its free. As far as I know, no other IRQ can be
used until your I/O-card is 16bit and caould access IRQ's > 8.
Michael | 3 | trimmed_train |
967 |
(Pleading mode on)
Please! I'm begging you! Quit confusing religious groups, and stop
making generalizations! I'm a Protestant! I'm an evangelical! I don't
believe that my way is the only way! I'm not a "creation scientist"! I
don't think that homosexuals should be hung by their toenails!
If you want to discuss bible thumpers, you would be better off singling
out (and making obtuse generalizations about) Fundamentalists. If you
compared the actions of Presbyterians or Methodists with those of Southern
Baptists, you would think that they were different religions!
Please, prejudice is about thinking that all people of a group are the
same, so please don't write off all Protestants or all evangelicals!
(Pleading mode off.)
God.......I wish I could get ahold of all the Thomas Stories...... | 15 | trimmed_train |
6,967 | Way back in the early years (~50's) it took 8 wins to garner the Stanley Cup.
Soooooo, a couple of local fish mongers (local to the Joe Louis Arena, that is)
started the tradition of throwing an octopi onto the ice with every win. After
each victory, one leg would be severed before the octopus found its way to the
ice. (They are dead by the way.) It was a brilliant marketing strategy to
shore up the demand for one of their least popular products.
Hope this helps. | 17 | trimmed_train |
2,042 |
As for advertising -- sure, why not? A NASA friend and I spent one
drunken night figuring out just exactly how much gold mylar we'd need
to put the golden arches of a certain American fast food organization
on the face of the Moon. Fortunately, we sobered up in the morning.
Hmmm. It actually isn't all that much, is it? Like about 2 million
km^2 (if you think that sounds like a lot, it's only a few tens of m^2
per burger that said organization sold last year). You'd be best off
with a reflective substance that could be sprayed thinly by an
unmanned craft in lunar orbit (or, rather, a large set of such craft).
If you can get a reasonable albedo it would be visible even at new
moon (since the moon itself is quite dark), and _bright_ at full moon.
You might have to abandon the colour, though.
Buy a cheap launch system, design reusable moon -> lunar orbit
unmanned spraying craft, build 50 said craft, establish a lunar base
to extract TiO2 (say: for colour you'd be better off with a sulphur
compound, I suppose) and some sort of propellant, and Bob's your
uncle. I'll do it for, say, 20 billion dollars (plus changes of
identity for me and all my loved ones). Delivery date 2010.
Can we get the fast-food chain bidding against the fizzy-drink
vendors? Who else might be interested?
Would they buy it, given that it's a _lot_ more expensive, and not
much more impressive, than putting a large set of several-km
inflatable billboards in LEO (or in GEO, visible 24 hours from your
key growth market). I'll do _that_ for only $5bn (and the changes of
identity). | 10 | trimmed_train |
9,101 |
Why must it be a US Government Space Launch Pad? Directly I mean..
I know of a few that could launch a small package into space.
Not including Ariadne, and the Russian Sites.. I know "Poker Flats" here in
Alaska, thou used to be only sounding rockets for Auroral Borealous(sp and
other northern atmospheric items, is at last I heard being upgraded to be able
to put sattelites into orbit.
Why must people in the US be fixed on using NASAs direct resources (Poker Flats
is runin part by NASA, but also by the Univesity of Alaska, and the Geophysical
Institute). Sounds like typical US cultural centralism and protectionism..
And people wonder why we have the multi-trillion dollar deficite(sp).
Yes, I am working on a spell checker.. | 10 | trimmed_train |
921 | Well, I dropped by the library yesterday, and picked up back copies
of the National Crime Survey (1986-1990) in an effort to examine what
it said about self-defense with a firearm.
I haven't ground through much in the way of numbers yet, but a couple
of things jumped out at me. First only 1986 and 1987 specify the type of
weapon used in self defense. 1988, 1989, and 1990 refer only to "weapon."
The second is that while assaults rose about 3% from 1986 to 1987, w/gun
defenses reported *fell* by almost 25%. Unless there's an explanation for
this, I'm tempted to mark it as a reporting problem, and as such going
ahead with any examination of the numbers would be a waste of time.
Anybody have an idea what might have cause a real difference, and
not just a reporting difference? The survey doesn't appear to have
changed significantly between 1986 and 1987.
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1,825 | ^^^^^^^
Huh! I though Beamers were IBM employees :-) | 4 | trimmed_train |
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6,996 |
:-)
T'was a time when I could get a respectable response with a posting like that.
Randy's post doesn't count 'cause he saw the dearth of responses and didn't
want me to feel ignored (thanks Randy!).
I was curious about this DoD thing. How do I get a number? (:-{)} | 12 | trimmed_train |
3,046 |
I've got the 6.0 spec (obviously since I quoted it in my last posting).
My gripe about TIFF is that it's far too complicated and nearly
infinitely easier to write than to read, which I think hurts your
acceptance by anything that will need to read those images (e.g.,
paint programs).
In a nutshell, I don't think TIFF is salvageable unless the fat is
trimmed significantly- and then it wouldn't be TIFF anymore. They
keep trying to cut it back, but it's late now. Maybe they >will< fix it,
and change that magic number to signify the lack of compatibility.
That would probably make me happy. | 1 | trimmed_train |
9,403 | To: [email protected] (David Nye)
There is a person on the FIDO CFS echo who claims that he was
cured of CFS by taking accutane. He also claims that you are
using it in the treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome. Are you
using accutane in the treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome? Have
you used it for CFS? Have you gotten good results with it? Are
you aware of any double blind studies on the use of accutane in
these conditions? Thank you in advance for all replies. | 19 | trimmed_train |
576 |
I tried the right set and it didn't work. I'm on the phone to their
tech support right now and the guys doesn't know what a desktop
rebuild is!!! He's got me holding for someone else...............
And holding, and holding, and holding. | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,251 |
Exsqueeze me? I saw *your* original post in alt.discrimination.
Your post was cross-posted to three groups. My followup was cross-posted
to two of those three (omitting soc.motss).
Now, instead of engaging in meta-discussion off the topic, could you answer
the question posed? If your statement is so "beign"(!?), you should have no
trouble politely responding to a polite query. | 13 | trimmed_train |
8,301 |
The New York talk shows are just awful in this regard. People are constantly
calling WFAN and WABC with (stuff like) "I was thinking, why don't the Yankees
trade Kaminicki and Silvestri to Seattle for Ken Griffey Jr and Randy Johnson,
that would really help the team" or "Do you think the Yankees can get Roger
Clemens?". The show hosts are pretty good about handling these guys, but it's
still annoying.
The best one was at the end of one show, a caller started out with "I was
thinking, why don't the Yankees trade for..." and then the host hung up on
him. I cheered! | 2 | trimmed_train |
1,991 |
I was *hoping* somebody would mention clutch. Clutch? Baerga? The
two words simply do not go together. With runners in scoring
position, Baerga batted .308/.366/.418 last year. This doesn't quite
*suck*, but most batters hit *better* in this situation.
Alomar? He hit .354/.439/.517 with runners in scoring position!
The difference? Alomar had 68 RBIs in 147 such AB. Baerga had 81
RBIs in 182 such AB. Baerga got 25% more chances, yet succeeded only
20% more times.
Frankly, I don't believe in clutch. But if I did, my vote would
go to Alomar for MVP (let alone "best 2B in the AL"). | 2 | trimmed_train |
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