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Yes, yes, yes. Motorcycling is slightly different to each and every one of us. This
is the nature of people, and one of the beauties of the sport.
And what view exactly is it that every single rider of cruiser bikes holds, a veiw
that, of course, no sport-bike rider could possibly hold? Please quantify your
generalization for us. Careful, now, you're trying to pigeonhole a WHOLE bunch
of people.
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: >I have a SoundBlaster board in a 486-SX PC, and I have it
: >jumpered to IRQ 7, port 220h. Will this conflict with my
: >parallel port? I just have an IDE controller, a multi-IO board
: >with 2ser, 1Par port and a VGA board. Should I choose
: >another IRQ besides 7? Or is IRQ 7 safe to use on 486 Motherboards?
: Recently I was adding a modem to my computer, and I noticed that LPT1 uses
: IRQ-7 and so does my SB card (220h). I've never had a problem, but I'm
: just wondering why not. I thought this would cause a conflict.
I would also like an explanation of this. If anyone can explain
why the SB Pro and LPT 1 can share an IRQ, please do so.
Thanks
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Huh, if ignorance is strength, then I won't distribute this piece
of information if I want to follow your advice (contradiction above).
Cheers,
Kent
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I may not wave: I just wink at you with one eye. 'Course, it's hard to see
that through a shield and sunglasses, but hey, if you're a "true rider with
the real riding attitude," you'll sense it.
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Hi Folks.
As part of my self-introduction to X I've been trying to do some simple
icon animation (sort of like icondoit from mswindows). Changing your
own applications icon is fairly simple: If you have a widget ID you can
just XtSetValues on XtNiconifyPixmap (or whatever) and you're done. Alternately
you can set window manager hints. These methods don't seem to work with
icons which your application doesn't specifically own.
In my situation I have to change the icon of random windows sitting there in
my icon box so my question is: Given a window-id, how do you change the
icon pixure ? A working example would be very much appreciated. If it makes
any difference, I'm using motif 1.1 on VMS T6.0-5KE.
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I guess your strength isn't in math. Clinton hasn't been president for
6 months. In other words, it's BUSH'S Wiretapping Initiative.
Have you?
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"Who said anything about panicking?" snapped Authur. Garrett Johnson
"This is still just culture shock. You wait till I've [email protected]
settled into the situation and found my bearings.
THEN I'll start panicking!" - Douglas Adams
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Note that TEMPEST is the name of the shielding standard. TEMPEST is not
the name of the surveillance technique.
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Hi Guys,
It has been a long time since I wrote a program using X. I am trying to
get myself re-familiarize with X. I would appreciate your help regarding
the following problem.
I am trying to compile a simple X program on sun running sunOS 4.1.2.
using
cc -o ex ex.c -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lm
I am getting an error
ld: Undefined symbol
_get_wmShellWidgetClass
_get_applicationShellWidgetClass
The simple program I tried to compile is given below.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
#include <X11/StringDefs.h>
#include <X11/Xaw/Form.h>
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
Widget topLevel;
Widget frame;
topLevel = XtInitialize("ex","Ex",NULL,0, &argc,**argv);
frame = XtCreateManagedWidget("Form",formWidgetClass,topLevel,NULL,0);
XtRealizeWidget(topLevel);
XtMainLoop();
}
I got the same error when I tried to build "xpostit" using the Imakefile
provided with the software.
I have compiled X programs before (not on this machine, but on other
machines running sunOS 4.0 and X11 R4). I did not get this error message
Can anybody tell me why I am getting these messages.
I would appreciate if you can email your responses to me at
[email protected].
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Would you please define "nth derivative of debt"? Last time I asked
you seem to have disappeared....
And it's the deficits themselves that came down to 2.9% of GNP. The
numbers are posted in the previous posting.
Cute, Paul, but with no numbers you still look foolish.
Paul, like many others, is confusing the deficit with the debt.
Not in terms of GNP, the one universally accepted measure of deficits
(at least among rigorous economists :)
...
Semantics. Lindsey proves otherwise. Taxes make people change their
economic activities.
Or shall we debate whether it is the gun, the bullet, or the person who
does the killing?
Or whether this gentleman can win the same praise as Lindsey. :)
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The latest news seems to be that Koresh will give himself up once he's
finished writing a sequel to the Bible.
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ITEM: Sony ES-CDPX229*
CONDITION: excellent
AGE: 1 year old
PRICE: $300
*includes TOS.LINK
ITEM: Sony CDP 770
CONDITION: excellent
AGE: 2.5 years old
PRICE: $250
Everything comes with the original packaging and manuals. These items have
only been played through audiophile system and are in excellent shape. If you
are interested, or need any additional information, please e-mail
([email protected]) or call me at home.
Thanks,
Jon
(412) 882-6425
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Hello,
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knew of a PC or MAC
implementation of the marching cubes algorithm that will output
the individual faces. If there is no such application, might there
be some C source code that I could modify to implement the
algorithm and get to the individual faces.
Thanks in advance
Sincerly
Tracy
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I wouldn't give baserunning that much value.
The above effect is clear, but there are other effects as well. If
Olerud hits a double, any runner on first will score; if Alomar legs an
extra base onto a hit in the gap, the runner on first may need to hold
at third. Thus Olerud's doubles have more advancement value than
Alomar's. (Of course, Alomar is more likely to score after hitting a
double.)
Another reason not to give too much extra value to baserunning is that
the runs created formulas work for very fast and very slow teams. No
team in the 1950's ran much, but some teams certainly had faster players
than others. Still, the current runs created formulas work just as well
in the 1950's for all teams.
Bill James gives the 1955-1958 Senators as an example. They used Harmon
Killebrew regularly as a pinch runner, and in 1957, stole 13 bases with
38 times caught stealing. Yet they scored slightly more runs than
predicted by Runs Created.
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: >: > Last year the US suffered almost 10,000 wrongful or accidental
: >: > deaths by handguns alone (FBI statistics). In the same year, the UK
: >: > suffered 35 such deaths (Scotland Yard statistics). The population
: >: > of the UK is about 1/5 that of the US (10,000 / (35 * 5)). Weighted
: >: > for population, the US has 57x as many handgun-related deaths as the
: >: > UK. And, no, the Brits don't make up for this by murdering 57x as
: >: > many people with baseball bats.
: [snip]
: If you examine the figures, they do. Stabbing is favourite, closely
: followed by striking, punching, kicking. Many more people are burnt to
: death in Britain as are shot to death. Take at look and you'll see for
: yourself.
It means that very few people are shot to death in Great Britain.
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People get a life !!!!!!!!!!
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Gretzky, Lemieux, Gilmour etc do not play the role of checking centreman.
They play an offensive role as opposed to a defensive one. If they
were used as defensive centres it would be a waste of their offensive
abilities.
When you compare Gretzky et al to Jarvis, Gainey etc you are comparing
apples and oranges. It is like me telling you that Felix Potvin isn't
very good because a team would be better if the had Lemieux instead of
him. Sure Lemieux is a better player, but he is a different type of
player. For a team to be successful, they need to have all types of
players- this includes defensive forwards.
When compared with other defensive forwards, Bob Gainey is the greatest
defensive forward ever. He is the player who's talents best suited being
a defensive forward- who completely dominated the game when he played.
Maybe if a more talented player such as Gretzky had decided to waste his
offensive talents and play defensively, he could have been a better
defensive forward, but he wasn't.
Bob Gainey is the best defensive forward that has ever played hockey.
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Subject: options before back surgery for protruding disc at L4-L5
From: Alex Miller, [email protected]
Date: 13 Apr 93 18:30:42 GMT
rest
You don't say whether or not you have any symptoms other than pain.
If you have numbness, weakness or bladder problems, for example,
these would suggest a need for surgery. If pain is your only symptom
you might do well to find a reputable, multi-disciplinary pain
clinic in your area. Chronic low back pain generally doesn't do well
with surgery, acute on chronic pain (as only symptom) doesn't fare
much better.
e correlation between MRI findings and symptoms is controversial.
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toyota has cornered the market on ugly station wagons.
after seeing the new camry sedan, i had thought toyota would
finally turn out something nice-looking. the new camry station
wagon bears a strong resemblance to a hearse, and a weird looking
one at that.
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>
> Besides, there's no case that can be made for US military involvement
> there that doesn't apply equally well to, say, Liberia, Angola, or
> (it appears with the Khmer Rouge's new campaign) Cambodia. Non-whites
> don't count?
Hmm...some might say Kuwaitis are non-white. Ooops, I forgot, Kuwaitis are
"oil rich", "loaded with petro-dollars", etc so they don't count.
...and let's not forget Somalia, which is about as far from white as it
gets.
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For those of you who couldn't find X-Appeal, it is availible at
the following sitex:
ascwide.ascii.co.jp in the /pub/MSDOS/xappeal dir
wuarchive.wustl.edu in the /mirrors4/garbo.uwasa.fi/demo
directory
The three files are xap13exe.aip, xap10fon.zip and
drivers.zip.
Josh
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At the company I worked for previously, I received a file that was des encryped
and the person that had sent it, went on vaction. Rather than wait two weeks
I set up a straight frontal attack with one key at a time. It only took two(2)
days to crack the file. No, I don't have any faith in DES.
A.G.
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Several years back one of the radar detectors manufacturers, in
defiance to Virginia's law against radar detectors, passed out
thousands of fake cardboard radar detectors at truck stops near
the Virginia State lines. At that time there were no radar
detector Detectors! I am not sure of the impact but I would
imagine that enforcement of the law by visually sighting a
radar detector became difficult - if not impossible!
As I said earlier, efforts to throw out or eliminate the VA law
against radar detectors has been in vain. In fact, effective
Jan. 1, 1993, the fine for possession of a radar detector
accessable to the driver of a vehicle in VA is now $250.00.
I have noted an interesting anomality with my Alinco DR-100 2
meter ham transceiver.... It will make a *cheap* radar detector
scream! I am not sure of the range, but it is obvious by the
brake lights that it can be at least 50 feet at 50 watts! :-)
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It was no criticism of Islam for a change, it was a criticism of the
arguments used. Namely, whenever people you identify as Muslims are
the victims of the attacks of others, they are used an argument for
the bad situation of Muslims. But whenever deeds by Muslim that victimize
others are named, they do not count as an argument because what these
people did was not done as a true Muslims. No mention is made how Muslims
are the cause of a bad situation of another party.
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Hello everybody,
I am searching for (business) information of Motif applications, to create a
TOP-30 of most used WordProcessors, Spreadsheets, Drawing programs, Schedulers
and Fax programs, etc..
Please mail me all your information or references. I will summaries the
results on this media.
Thank you in advance,
Anton de Ruiter.
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* the Sony CPD-1304 has better video circuitry than either of the
other two monitors. It can display Apple 640x480, VGA 640x480, VGA
800x600 (though this has 56 Hz flicker), and Apple 832x624 (75 Hz
refresh: no flicker at all). It might be able to display Apple's
1024x768, but I'm not sure about this, and the pixels would be real
small anyway so it might not be that useful.
Note that with either Sony monitor, you will need the proper adapter,
which both connects the video signals properly, but also informs the
Macintosh video hardware of which display mode to use.
[part of posting removed]
--
Fred Martin | [email protected] | (617) 253-7143 | 20 Ames St. Rm. E15-301
Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Lab | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
I'm assuming that the cabling tells the Mac, at startup, what kind of
monitor is connected. Now I think I've seen ads in popular Mac
magazines for products (I'm not sure if it's just a monitor, just a
video card, or a package of both) that allow you to change resolutions
on the fly (w/o restarting the Mac).
If you were to buy a 1304, would it be possible to switch back and
forth between Apple 640x480 and Apple 832x624 without restarting the
Mac? Is this strictly a hardware startup function, or can software
intervene, or does the Mac hardware occasionally probe the cable
setting and switch automatically?
Thanks,
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When I got my knee rebuilt I got back on the street bike ASAP. I put
the crutches on the rack and the passenger seat and they hung out back a
LONG way. Just make sure they're tied down tight in front and no problemo.
--
Go fast. Take chances.
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So does clear lipstick/chapstick/etc. fit under the "natural look" or
the "waxy shit" category? I wear something on my lips to keep them from
drying out. Kissing dry, cracked, parched lips isn't too fun either.
Not if Tom has anything to say about it you won't! Noemi speaks for
herself.
Beth
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P R A Y E R
6 M A Y 1 9 9 3
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: :
: JOIN AMERICA IN PRAYER TO: :
: :
: * Acknowledge our dependence upon God; :
: :
: * Give thanks for His many blessings; :
: :
: * Ask God to guide our leaders and to :
: bring healing, reconciliation and whole- :
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OUR FOUNDING FATHERS SAID...
George Washington: "I now make it my earnest prayer that God...
(A.D. 1783) would be pleased to dispose us all to do
justice, to love mercy, and to demean
ourselves with charity and humility, and a pacific temper of mind,
which were characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed
Religion, and without an humble imitation of Whose example in
these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation."
John Adams: "It must be felt that there is no national security
(A.D. 1853) but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence
upon God and His overruling providence."
Abraham Lincoln: "It is the duty of nations, as well as of men,
(A.D. 1863) to own their dependence upon the overruling
power of God, to confess their sins and
transgressions...and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in
the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations
only are blessed whose God is the Lord..."
NOTE: You can join with people in your area in observing the
NATIONAL DAY Of PRAYER. To learn who is affiliated with
the Concerts Of Prayer group in your area, contact:
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Well the European Manta and US GT have entirely different bodies. There is
little or no chance that they are the same. The Manta went through several
generations as the coupe version of the Ascona and was OK in its time.
Not true. The Kadett has been in and out of the US market over the years.
The LeMans (old Kadett) is only the latest version.
Craig
Different Cars. One looks like a sports-car, the other is a coupe.
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This brings up an interesting subject that has not been discussed much,
and probably has not been studied much.
As some of you may be aware, I've posted a lot of articles lately on
personality typing (of which the MBTI is a test vehicle). To come up
to speed, just read 'alt.psychology.personality' and/or ask for by
personality type summary file.
One observation is that people have significantly different personalities
(no question on this) which seem to be essentially in-born. With respect
to church attendance and participation, some people thrive on this, while
other people have real difficulty with this because they prefer a more
solitary and contemplative lifestyle - that is, they are de-energized if
confronted with excessive closeness to outside activities and lots of
people. Of course this is measured by extroversion/introversion.
My impression is that many churches are totally blind to this fact, and
create environments that 'scare away' many who are naturally introverted
(there are many introverted characters in the Bible, btw). I know, I am
quite introverted in preference, and find the 'pressure' by many churches
to participate, to meet together in large groups, etc., to be very
uncomfortable. Knowing what I know now, these churches have been overly
influenced by highly extroverted people who thrive on this sort of thing.
(BTW, there's nothing wrong with either extroversion or introversion, both
preferences have their place in the Body).
Maybe I should define extrovert/introvert more carefully since these words
are usually not used correctly in our culture. The extrovert/introvert
scale is a measure of how a person is energized. The following is
excerpted from my summary:
1. Energizing - How a person is energized:
Extroversion (E)- Preference for drawing energy from the outside
world of people, activities or things.
Introversion (I)- Preference for drawing energy from one's internal
world of ideas, emotions, or impressions.
Hopefully this will elicit further discussion as to how churches can
structure themselves to meet the real needs of the people who comprise
the Body of Christ, instead of trying to change people's personalities
to fit them into a particular framework. I'm sure there are other aspects
of how churches have not properly understood personality variances among
their members to the detriment of all.
Jon Noring
--
Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club.
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I think if there is to be a prize and such.. There should be "classes"
such as the following:
Large Corp.
Small Corp/Company (based on reported earnings?)
Large Government (GNP and such)
Small Governemtn (or political clout or GNP?)
Large Organization (Planetary Society? and such?)
Small Organization (Alot of small orgs..)
The organization things would probably have to be non-profit or liek ??
Of course this means the prize might go up. Larger get more or ??
Basically make the prize (total purse) $6 billion, divided amngst the class
winners..
More fair?
There would have to be a seperate organization set up to monitor the events,
umpire and such and watch for safety violations (or maybe not, if peopel want
to risk thier own lives let them do it?).
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As a stong self-defense advocate, you're 'statement', does littel
but irk me. Of course shooting someone because they throw a rock at your
car is out of the question, but what if they disabled your car with their
rock and then wanted to come kill/rape/rob/beat/ or otherwise harm you,
your wife, kids?
I think you would like the power to defend yourself in this situation,
wouldn't you? Or is it that you value the lives of such rock throwers
more than your own or those of your family?
Don't think it couldn't happen to you. From the sounds of it here
it has happened to a few people.
Please do not misunderstand. The only justification for using
deadly force on someone, is that if you don't, it will mean your own
death or grave bodily harm. I am far far away from supporting
vilante justice or anything like that..
Oh, and if you mean to be funny, please add the appropriate :-)
Followups to talk.politics.guns please... we're getting a bit off track
here....
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I am testing IDEA block cipher implementations for correctness
and needs some golden test vectors. I've looked through
the postscript IDEA chapter but the single example gives me
zero degrees of freedom. I'll contact the inventor if necessary
but since we are NOT paying him money for use of his invention,
I'd like to offload this from him. Anybody got vectors?
(No disease vectors, please).
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Then by that definition, I would be in a cell church only here at IU,
not when the whole group gets together at Indianapolis (>950 every week
in attendance).
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Wrong...the major improvements for 2.01 and 2.01a are in the use of IPAS routines
for 3d studio. They have increased in speed anywhere from 30-200% depending
on which ones you use.
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[flame-bait, pure and simple]
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...
What problems have you had with UHC? I have been using their OS for 2 years
and have had very few problems.
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How many of you readers know anything about Jews living in the
Arab countries? How many of you know if Jews still live in these
countries? How many of you know what the circumstances of Arabic
Jews leaving their homelands were? Just curious.
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I have a similar configuration: Colorado 250mb on 66 DX/2 tower.
You got suckered in the same way I did. Silly me, believing
that the "250" logo on the front meant actual carrying capacity.
The people who do this sort of thing for a living call it
"marketing." Lawyers who prosecute it call it "fraud."
Perhaps we can have a bunch of other duped buyers march on
their corporate headquarters.
This is a bit long. My system takes about 45 minutes to do
the same thing. Usually 4.5 hours, particularly if the tape
is grinding away the whole time means that your block size for
the write is too small. Is there any way to change the block
size or write buffer size so it's bigger?
This is because the files are opened by DOS. The files in the
TAPE directory are likely the executable file or the configuration
file for the tape system. I would recommend running the backup
from DOS so it will make a complete backup of the TAPE directory.
The 250mb cartridges won't do you any good since the drive
won't write 250mb of physical data on the tape.
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terminated
It is very possible to connect another internal hard disk in any
macintosh if you can find the space to put it. I have a IIsi that came
with a Quantum 80 meg drive. When I ran into space problems, I slapped in
another 40 meg quantum that I had sitting on a shelf. Here is what I did.
First off, I was concerned about space. Since both drives are Quantum
quarter height drives, I finally decided that the logical place for them
was stacked one upon the other. Fine, they fit snugly. (I have not had a
problem with heat yet, and these drives have been running together for
over two months.
The next problem was connecting the drive. If you have a spare internal
hard disk power cable as I did, then half of your troubles are over. just
splice in the extra cable so that you get one square motherboard
connector and two hard disk power connectors. If you don't have a spare
cable, you will have to buy the wires and connectors which can be found
in any good electronics store for about $10. I would suggest properly
soldering/heatshrinking the connections to reduce the possibility of
shorts or bad connections.
Next, you need a ribbon cable connection. Again, I had a spare hard disk
ribbon cable, and I wanted to be careful in case this didn't word so what
I did was purchase a crimp on 50 pin cable connector that gave me another
male connector in the middle of my spare cable. The part cost $10 again,
and is easily attached with any good wood vice. The theory behind using a
crimp on connector is that if this doesn't work, my original cable is not
damaged, and I can go back to the original setup.
Having done all that, I couldn't be bothered to check the dev notes for
power consumption so I plugged it in and it works like a charm to this
day.
In a mac II, everything should work the same. Be careful with the ID's of
the drive, and ensure that the terminating resistors on both drives are
intact. I did not try this without the terminating resistors but it
seemed logical that if I am splitting the SCSI chain, that the signal
should be terminated at all the ends.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
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It was my impression watching the Mets & Rockies that umpires were
calling strikes above the belt, too, but not as far up as the letters.
It would be nice if this were the case.
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I am using WFW 2.0c with a Canon BJ10e. The printer driver is that
which comes with Windows 3.1. Unfortatunately, I am having a problem with
printing page numbers on the bottom of the page. I can print page number
on the top of the page, but not on the bottom. Has anybody had a similar
problem and/or does anybody have a solution for such a problem.
Thanks
[email protected]
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Hey, man, you brought it up. I agree completely, driving drunk is really
stupid, and I understand and appreciate that you feel bad about it. But
DWI is endemic in our society. It is a REAL problem. And we, as
motorcyclists, can be in the worst of vulnerable positions around a drunk
driver. (Alert readers might remember that last year I witnessed a DWI
accident (right bloody in front of me), and was unable to save the life
of one of the participants, as I reported here.) Also, drunk driving by
motorcyclists is a prime cause of their injury and death, which raises the
insurance rates, forces stupidly restrictive laws, and turns the public
against those of us who ride responsibly.
In my view, drunk driving should carry a mandatory prison sentence.
It is one of the traffic offenses which is NOT a public funds issue,
but a genuine safety issue. So if YOU bring up the subject on rec.moto,
admitting having been caught DWI, and looking for sympathy over the
consequences, don't expect people to respond with warm wishes.
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Go back to nursery school jerk.
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I'm looking for a c.itoh printer driver for Windows 3.1. Does anybody
happen to know where I could find such a beast?
Thanks in advance,
Jerry
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Right. ROM numbers (easy to remember) 100 mph ~= 150 ft/sec.
tom coradeschi <+> [email protected]
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I am sorry. My card can display about 17000K colors not 1700K colors.
I hope some one could answer my question !
Thanks.
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I remember seeing an artical on large-engine oil
requirements, and one of the ways of prolonging
the life of the oil was to run through a heated
un-presurized chamber to allow water and volitiles
to boil off. This made such long-term usage of
oil practical.
Isn't the Discovery channel great!?!
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Yup. By the way, what planet are you from, and once you got here, did
you encounter those prejudices against foreign medical graduates?
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4 month old Sega Genesis, barely used, one controller, in original
box, with Sonics 1 and 2. $130 gets the whole bundle shipped to you.
Turns out they're not as addictive when they're yours. Anyway, mail me if
you're interested in this marvel of modern technology.
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It worked!!!
Thank you very much!
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OK, here's at least one Christian's answer:
Jesus was a JEW, not a Christian. In this context Matthew 5:14-19 makes
sense. Matt 5:17 "Do not think that I [Jesus] came to abolish the Law or
the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill." Jesus lived
under the Jewish law. However, He was the culmination of the promises
of the Prophets. He came to *fulfill* the prophecies and fully obey
God's purposes.
Verse 18 says "For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass
away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law,
until all is accomplished." The key to this verse IMHO is the last
phrase. Jesus, as the fulfillment of the law, "accomplished" what the
Law was supposed to accomplish.
Verse 19: "Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments,
and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven." Taken in the context of Jesus teaching Jewish
people about living lives under the law, this makes sense.
In general, it appears that Jesus is responding to some criticism he
must have received about "doing away with the Law." That was not
Jesus' intent at all. He had come to earth to live the Law as it
should be lived and fulfill the promises made by God to his
people all the way back to Eve [Gen 3:15-The serpent will bruise your
heel, but *He* will bruise his head.] Jesus appeared to be "doing
away with the Law" because he did not honor the traditions of men as
equal to the Law of God. He regularly locked horns with the religious
leaders of the day because he would not conform to *their* rules, only
God's Law.
In the Matthew passage Jesus is defending his dedication to the Law
and defending himself against his accusors. Almost the entire Sermon
on the Mount (Matt. 5-7) is dedicated to helping the Jewish people
understand the true intent of the Law, sweeping away the clutter which
had been introduced by the Pharasees and their traditions.
In Galatians 3:23-26, Paul describes the relationship of Jesus to the
Law in this way:
[23] But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being
shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. [24] Therefore
the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we may be
justified by faith. [25] But now that faith has come, we are no
longer under a tutor. [26] For you are all sons of God through faith
in Christ Jesus.
I believe this says that after Christ was revealed, the Law had
served it's purpose, i.e. "our tutor to lead us to Christ," and
now, "we are no longer under a tutor." The law has been "fulfilled"
as Christ said he would do.
God, the author of the old Law, and the Christ/Man, Jesus, are the same
personality. Therefore, the old Law and the new Testament (the "last
will and testament" of Jesus) are based on the same moral principles.
It makes sense that many of the principles in the old Law are
re-expressed in Christianity.
On the other hand, now that the Law has fulfilled it's purpose and
Christians relate to God through Christ, not the Law, it also makes
sense that new practices and new symbolisms were established to
represent the "mysteries" of this new relationship. i.e. Baptism
representing Christ's death, burial, and resurrection (Rom. 6:3-8),
The Lord's supper as a memorial to His sacrifice (I Cor. 11:26), and
Sunday as a day of worship commemorating His resurrection (Matt 28:1ff,
Acts 20:7)
OK, That's one Christian's explanation. I don't claim to have all
these issues completely settled even in my own mind and I welcome
other Christians to offer other alternatives.
Please excuse the long posting. Thanks for your interest if you have read
this far...
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Is there a QIC-80 format tape drive that comes
with an EISA controller ?
Colorado's 250 only has ISA and MCA controllers.
Thanks. e-mail please.
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Hi,
I am looking to buy an accelerated video card for my 486 DX 50 with
ISA bus. I have a 14" SVGA NI monitor. I'm currently running
DOS 5.0 and windows 3.1, although I'm considering OS/2 in the
future. Can anyone make a suggestion for a video card that would
suit my needs? How is Diamond speedstar? Stealth? Etc....
Thanks.
--Kent
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When is Apple supposed to start bundlign the new ergonomic ADB Mouse
II with all CPUs sold?
jas
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: > MVP Biggest Biggest
: > Suprise Disappointment
:
: >Los Angeles Kings Robitaille Donnelly Hrudey
:
:
: I would have chosen Alex Zhitnik for biggest suprise. They
: did expect that he would become a great defenseman, but I don't
: think anyone knew that he was going to be this impressive in his
: rookie year. His speed, skating ability, and puck control is
: exceptional -- he is the one to watch on the Kings.
:
I agree, with Marty McSorely and Warren Rychel running a close second and
third. I am surprised more people have not noted Knickle as the biggest
surprise, even though I personally do not really rate him well. The biggest
disappointment has to be Carson. Though this is really unfair, since too much
was expected of him. The second biggest disappointment is Melrose, with his
adolescent handling of the goaltending problems. Putting Hrudey on the bench
for a month is just stupid. It did not contribute to the team coming out of
its slump. MVP is surely Robitaille.
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I "think" you should try linking to /usr/lib/libXmu.a instead of
-lXmu. At least that solved the problem for me!
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So long as we think that good things are what we *have* to do rather than
what we come to *want* to do, we miss the point. The more we love God; the
more we come to love what and whom He loves.
When I find that what I am doing is not good, it is not a sign to try
even harder (Romans 7:14-8:2); it is a sign to seek God. When I am aware
of Jesus' presence, I usually want what He wants. It is His strenth, His love
that empowers my weakness.
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I have $30,000 as my budget. I'm looking for a sports or GT car.
What do you think would be the best buy? (I'm looking for specific models)
Thanks,
Danny
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If these folks are who I think they are, Lyme-knowledgeable may
mean a physician to whom everything that walks in the door is
lyme disease, and you will be treated for lyme, whether or not
you have it. Hope you have good insurance.
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
[email protected] | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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In the interests of completeness, I thought readers of these
newsgroups would want to see FBI Director William Sessions'
statement, as released by the FBI press office.
FBI Director's Statement On Waco Standoff
To: National Desk
Contact: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Press Office,
202-324-3691
WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The following is a statement by
FBI Director William S. Sessions regarding the Branch Davidian
incident in Waco, Texas:
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I believe it's XtVaAppInitialize or something like that.
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Are we talking about an xterm which would accept the same escape sequences
as that for VT340 (or colour decterm/dxterm)? I thought that was called
colxterm (and my testing of it shows some oddities that might be bugs or
might be my program going wrong).
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The Illiad contains more than one word. Ergo: it can not be
the Word of God.
But, if you will humbly agree that it is the WORDS of God, I
will conceed.
:-D
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"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
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The economic and political ignorance of most Americans can be truly scary.
Price controls and government intervention. The surest route to
disaster. It's amazing, people never seem to learn from history (or
common sense). Price controls do not, and cannot work. I would have
thought our last experiment in the 70's would have been enough to
dampen the belief that price controls can actually work. As for
government intervention, people never seem to get the irony of what
the are saying. We are told that entitlements are the biggest portion
of the budget and they must be 'controlled'. We are presented with
horror stories of waste and fraud in almost all government agencies.
We are shown stories about the miserable treatment our veterans get
in our government run hospitals. We are just now seeing stories about
how Social Security isn't going to cut it in the future (as if that
should come as any surprise). And yet, people choose to ignore all
of that and believe in the fairy tale of the government coming to
the rescue. Simply amazing.
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Yes, I do. A couple of years ago, I did a comparison of the two
products. Some of this may have changed, but here goes.
As far as a PHIGS+ implementation, Figaro+ is fine. But, its PHIGS!
Personally, I hate PHIGS because I find it is too low level. I also
dislike structure editing, which I find impossible, but enough about
PHIGS.
I have found HOOPS to be a system that is full-featured and easy to
use. They support all of their rendering methods in software when
there is no hardware support, their documentation is good, and they
are easily portable to other systems.
I would be happy to elaborate further if you have more specific
questions.
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Hi folks,
Can anyone give me some information, the location of some
information, or some reference material for the following
file formats: WIFF, MO;DCA/IOCA, PCX.
If this is not quite the appropriate place to ask such
questions, please let me know a more appropriate one and
accept my apologies in advance.
Thanks for your help,
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There was an interesting column on the editorial page of the Dallas
Morning News on Saturday by Walter Williams, who I believe is a
professor at Georgetown (I wonder if he knows of Dorothy "you're not in
Kansas anymore" Denning). The article was titled "Government slowly
eroding our liberties", and in it he tells a story attributed to the
late Leonard Read who
explained that if you wanted to take liberty away from
Americans, you had to know how to cook a frog. Mr. Read
said you can't cook a frog by boiling a pot of water and
then throwing the frog in. His reflexes are so quick that
as soon as his feet touch the water, he will leap away.
You must put the frog in a pot of cold water and heat it
up bit by bit. By the time the frog realizes he's being
cooked, it is too late. It is the same with Americans.
If anyone tried to take our freedoms all at once, we
would naturally rebel and suppress the tyrant. But as
with successful frog cooking, our liberties can be taken
a little bit at a time.
The last line of the article says, "It's not too late for us, but the
water is getting pretty warm." I'd have toagree that it's warm and the
Clipper is keeping the temperature on an upward course.
NOTE: followups redirected to alt.privacy.clipper
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Yes. Unfortunately, there is also the concept that the owner of a car
is not responsible for the actions of any (authorized) user of the car.
That's one of the biggest arguments against photo-radar ticketing
systems.
Trouble with that is, you then have no recourse if a mis-issued ticket
or a clerical error on a computer follow you around. The City of Chicago
(the informal motto of which being "The City the Works") issues dozens
of parking tickets each year to people who have never set foot (or tire)
in the city.
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Well, actually, most of ours is based on what really happened and yours is
based on some fantasy of how it happened. But that's OK, I understand you
have a hockey background. Stats like "plus/minus" make RBI look good.
OK, how about a straigh answer, then. Here's a very simele question to which
I'm sure a fair number of us are very interesed in the answer to. Please
answer yes or no, Roger:
Can a pitcher cause the offensive players on his team to score more runs?
AL only, please.
For anyone else following along, it is a well-known and demonstrable fact
that a team's win-loss record is closely related to the number of runs the
team scores and the number the team allows. It's not a definite,
hard-and-fast function, but there is definitely a correlation. In fact, as a
rule of thumb, if teams A and B both score X runs and team A allows Y runs,
for every 10 runs fewer than Y that team B allows, it will win another game.
So, for instance, if we look at the 1991 Toronto Blue Jays, we find that
they scored 780 runs and allowed 682, of which Morris allowed 114. All other
things being equal, if Frank Viola, with his 3.44 ERA had replaced Jack
Morris for the 240.2 innings Morris threw (plausible, since Viola threw 238
for Boston), the "Red Jays" would have allowed about 15 fewer runs, or
enough for 1-2 more wins. Now, that doesn't take into account that Viola
pitched half his innings in Fenway, which is a harder park to pitch in
(particularly for a lefthander) than Skydome. So, um, Roger. Unless you
really do believe that a pitcher can somehow affect the number of runs
his team scores, could you enlighten us to the fallacy in this
analysis? Clearly, it would be foolhardy to claim that Viola would
necessarily have put up a 3.44 if he had been on the Jay last year, but
that is not the claim. We look at what the actual performances were and
evaluate Viola's as better than Morris' in the sense that "had Morris
performed as Viola did, his team would have been better off."
This is true, but not so open that your brain falls out.
Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | [email protected]
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I want to start of list for Syclone and Typhoon owners. If you are interested
in participating, please contact me via e-mail.
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(Deletion)
No it in the way it is usually used. In my view, you are saying here that
driving a car requires faith that the car drives.
For me it is a conclusion, and I have no more faith in it than I have in the
premises and the argument used.
No, that's a word game. The term god is used in a different way usually.
When you use a different definition it is your thing, but until it is
commonly accepted you would have to say the way I define god is ... and
that does not exist, it is existence itself, so I say it does not exist.
Interestingly, there are those who say that "existence exists" is one of
the indubitable statements possible.
Further, saying god is existence is either a waste of time, existence is
already used and there is no need to replace it by god, or you are implying
more with it, in which case your definition and your argument so far
are incomplete, making it a fallacy.
(Deletion)
(Deletion)
Where does that follow? Aren't observations based on the assumption
that something exists?
And wouldn't you say there is a level of definition that the assumption
"god is" is meaningful. If not, I would reject that concept anyway.
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If you are looking for viewer try VPIC60
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I am unable to get my Gateway 486DX2/66 to run Windows
in 1280x1024. I ordered a 2M ATI Ultra Pro, and I'm pretty
sure the 2M is really there because I *can* select
1024x768x65536. But no matter what I do with the Flex program
in the ATI's program group, 1280x1024 remains ghosted out.
I have Windows 3.1, build 59 of the drivers, DOS 5.0. The
drivers were installed by Gateway, not by me, so perhaps there's
a file missing from the hard drive. It runs 1024x768 just fine.
I did go into the Desktop window and select 1280x1024. Sometimes
it refuses (ghosted out), other time it accepts it, but when I hit
OK and re-enter Desktop, it's back to 1024x768. At no time does
it unghost 1280x1024 in the main Flex window. Help!
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Well what do you expect...Burns was playing him with Krushelnyski
and Baumgartner...Anderson is a finisher...unless you play him with
someone to can get him the puck in a finishing position...he ain't
going to do much scoring!
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I have a chance to buy a used PS/2 Appletalk card to create a network with
my home machines. However, the guy who has the card tells me there's a
DB-9 or DB-15 (can't remember now) on the back of the card, rather than
the 8-pin (or 4-pin) mini-din that I expect. This sounds more like a
Thicknet ethernet card. Should there be a transciever on it, like on the
Quadras? What would be a reasonable price to expect to pay for one of
these cards, keeping in mind that it's Micro-Channel Architecture, which
means take your best guess and double it.
Email replies would be appreciated, to here or to [email protected]
Thanks.
[RICHR]
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Ok, here's what I understand:
The SL/SL1/SL2/SW1/SW2 was meant to compete with the following cars:
Honda Civic
Toyota Tercel (SL,SL1)
Toyota Corolla (SL1,SL2)
Nissan Sentra
Mazda 323/Protoge'
Subaru Loyale/Impreza
Isuzu Stylus
Geo Prizm
Ford Escort
Mercury Tracer
Mistubishi Mirage
Plymouth/Dodge Colt
Their core competition is the Civic, Corolla, and Sentra. Most of the other
models are in the same class, but aren't the first cars you would think of.
I threw in the Escort/Tracer because it has a good amount of Japanese
technology and has similar reliability stats. I didn't include domestic small
cars such as the Cavalier, Sunbird, Shadow, Sundance, Tempo, and Topaz, since I
think Saturn is going after cars that have at least some degree of Japanese
roots.
The SC1/SC2 was meant to compete against the following cars:
Toyota Paseo
Honda Civic Si/Civic Coupes/del Sol Si
Nissan NX1600/NX2000
Mazda MX-3
Isuzu Impulse
Geo Storm
Ford Escort GT
If you look at the prices of these cars, they're more expensive than they're
4-door counterparts. The is good reason for this. It is a more upscale and
trend-driven market. Even though many of these models are based on sedan
platforms, their interior, etc. is good enough to warrant slightly higher
prices. Here are some of the platform derivations I can think of:
Tercel -> Paseo
Sentra -> NX1600/NX2000
Civic -> del Sol
323 -> MX-3 (not sure on this one)
Stylus -> Impulse/Storm
To illustrate, a Tercel starts at around $8000, while the Paseo starts at
around $11,000. Even a 4-door Tercel will cost less than a 2-door Paseo. Now,
you might be saying that the Tercel doesn't offer the power that some 4-doors
offer. What I mean is that there is no 4-dr Tercel with a comparable
powerplant as its sport coupe derivative. Let's take another example: the
Isuzu Stylus XS and Impulse XS/Storm GSi. Both have the same powerplants (a
1.6L 140hp engine), but the smaller 2-dr coupes are generally more expensive.
Again, this is because the two-door sport coupe market is a more
fashion-oriented and trend-setting segment. People are willing to pay more
money for this type of car.
In short, even though the SC1/SC2 may be smaller, hence "less" car, it's market
orientation dictates a slightly higher price than its mechanically equivalent
sedan (SL1/SL2) version.
I hope this clears things up a bit......
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Where could I find a description of the JPG file format? Specifically
I need to know where in a JPG file I can find the height and width of
the image, and perhaps even the number of colors being used.
Any suggestions?
Peter
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Looking at historical evidence such 'perfect utopian' islamic states
didn't survive. I agree, people are people, and even if you might
start an Islamic revolution and create this perfect state, it takes
some time and the internal corruption will destroy the ground rules --
again.
Cheers,
Kent
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Looking at [1] we find that during Roman times "Tyre vied with Sidon
for first place in the intellectual life of the period"; that Tyre was
the seat of a Christian bishop, eventually with 14 dioceses under it;
that "the most magnificent church of its kind in all Phoenecia" was the
basilica built in Tyre ca. 314; that Tyre was well known for its
exports of glassware, wine, white marble, and dyed cloth; that Tyre,
along with other seaports, "provided outlets for South Arabian, Indian
and even Chinese trade"; that Tyre had to accomodate its growing
population by "following a perpendicular, rather than horizontal, line
of growth" (because it was running out of land to build on); that Tyre
established colonies of its own. None of this sounds like a "small
fishing village" by any stretch of the imagination.
Centuries later, under the Abbasids, Tyre had "opulent and flourishing
bazaars" and buildings of 5-6 stories. During this period, Tyre was
"noted for its export of sugar, beads, and, as of old, glassware."
During the Crusades, Tyre was the second-most flourishing city held
by Franks. (There is a lot more, but I got tired of writing.)
In [2] we read the following description of modern Lebanon: "other
*major cities* in Lebanon include Tripoli, Sidon, Tyre, Baalbek and
Zahlah." [my emphasis] This source also discusses the impact of
the Lebanese Civil War, and the Israeli military actions (1978, 1982)
on the trading ports of Tyre and Sidon. It notes that after Israel's
withdrawel in 1984, "Tyre appeared to enjoy a revival of its local
economy."
If Tyre is such an insignificant little fishing village at present,
why is it always called a city (or, above, a "major city")? Why
does it show up on all the maps? When population figures for cities
in Lebanon are given, why is Tyre always one of the cities on the
list (even if the list is only a dozen cities long)?
[1] Philip K. Hitti, _Lebanon in History: From the earliest times to
the present_, NY, St. Martins, 1967.
[2] Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, _Lebanon: a
country study_, edited by Thomas Collelo, 1989.
A one-horse town? Sounds like a lot of work for one horse.
(Anyway, Tyre is connected by roads to the mainland. They
may even use cars these days. :-)
The 1991 Encyclopedia Britannica says "Pop. (1982 est.) 23,000."
Most other references give figures in the 14-17 thousand range.
(One atlas gives the population of Tyre as 60,000; the same
source give comparatively high figures for Sidon and Beirut, also,
so I doubt that it is a typo. Perhaps these were figures for
the cities and their surrounding areas.) I don't doubt that the
population of Tyre has fluctuated over the last few decades. In
particular, the 1982 Israeli military action hurt Tyre quite a bit.
I thought you were talking about times that Tyre was destroyed.
Don't most, if not all, of these apply not just to Tyre but to
the other cities in the area? Sidon, for example? Can you make
a case for Tyre having been singled out?
They had a good deal of autonomy under the Seleucids. From [2]:
Tyre "receiv[ed] the rights [of autonomy] from Antiochus Ephiphanes
and from 125 BC onward enjoy[ed] complete autonomy. She started a
large series of coins, occasionally in gold ..."
The descriptions of Tyre under the Romans don't seem to fit
your characterization, either. And under the Abbasids it seems
to have been allowed to flourish. I still think you are stretching
when you try to describe Tyre as having been nothing but a small
fishing village.
A Christian apologist whose standards of scholarship are quite low.
He happens to quote the same source you quote (Nina Jidejian,
_Tyre through the Ages_, Beirut, Dar El-Mashreq Publishers, 1969).
The same sentence, in fact. He defends the fulfillment of the
prophecy using the same argument you are using, an argument that
I haven't seen in print anywhere else, which is why I jumped to
the conclusion that you were quoting Josh.
(I tried to find the Jidejian book, but it isn't listed in Books
in Print. Can you tell me more about it? Her descriptions are so
much at odds with everything else I've read; I'm curious to know why.)
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my frustration when I saw the Cubs nabbing LeFebvre...ARHGGHRGHH!
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[] And as far as fully-automatic weapons, you can be a lot better
[]armed if you want to hit what you aim at.
[]
Define "armed better". Go shoot a revolver and a semi-auto like the
Colt .45. Does one fires faster than the other? Nope. Aside from which
faster rate of fire is usually not desirable. Sure it makes the other
guys duck for cover, but just *YOU* trying hitting anything with a Thompson
in hose-mode. This is why the military is limiting it's M-16 now to
3-round burst-fire. Simple semi-auto would be better, but the troops
like to be able to rock and roll even if it is wasteful of ammo (something
often in short supply when the enemy is plentiful).
A revolver is equally capable as a semi-auto in the same caliber.
- A revolver also has the advantage that if it misfires you just pull
the trigger again.
- A double-action revolver (almost all of them) can be hand-cocked first,
but will fire merely by pulling the trigger.
- A misfire in a revolver merely means you must pull the trigger again
to rotate to the next round.
- A revolver can be carried with the 6th chamber empty and under the
hammer for maximum safety, but still can be drawn and fired with an
easy motion, even one handed.
- Speedloaders for a revolver allow reloads almost as fast as magazines
on semi-autos. Can be faster depending on users.
- A misfire in a semi-auto will require you to clear a jammed shell
first, time spent which can be fatal. And a vital second or so is often
lost as you realize "hey, it's jammed!" before starting to do anything
about clearing it.
- Most semi-autos must have the slide worked to chamber the first round
and cock the hammer. Some police carry their semi-autos with the
chamber loaded and hammer cocked, but a safety engaged. I do not consider
this safe however. You must trade-off safety to get the same speed
of employment as a revolver.
- There are some double-action semi-autos out there, but the complexity of
operation of many of them requires more training.
Some police departments switched to Glocks, and then started quietly
switching many officers back to the old revolvers. Too many were having
accidents, partly due to the poor training they received. Not that Glocks
require rocket scientists, but some cops are baffled by something as complex
as the timer on a VCR.
Anyone who goes anyone saying that the criminals obviously outgun
the police don't know nothing about firearms. Turn off COPS and Hunter
and pay attention. I do not seek here to say "semi-autos are junk"
merely that assuming they are better for all jobs is stupid. A cop
with a revolver on his hip and a shotgun in the rack is more than
equipped for anything short of a riot.
Gun control is hitting what you aim at. If you whip out a
wonder-nine and fire real fast you may find you don't hit anything.
Good controlled fire from a revolver is more likely to get you a hit.
I own a 9mm Beretta myself but consider it inferior as a carry weapon
to something like the Ruger Security Six revolver. If I haven't hit
what I'm aiming at in the first 5 shots, something is quite seriously
wrong somewheres. While I might like having the backup capacity of those
extra shots in certain cases, overwhelmingly the # of shots fired in
criminal encounters is less than 5.
What do crooks overwhelmingly use in crime? Why the same nice simple
.38 revolvers that the police often use. Well actually some police
prefer the much heftier .357 Magnum, but anyway.....
ObPlea: Don't flame me, I prefer semi-autos for most things. But they
introduce unneccessary complications to something as nerve-wracking
as an abrupt encounter with a lone criminal.
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Perish the thought...but you know, you may be right, at least as far
as MAJOR LEAGUE professional sports teams go. They all seem to be
becoming BIG MONEY games, much more so than at any previous time. To
think that if I am ever able to move back home several years from now,
all that may be there is an AHL team, at best...SIGH.
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Isn't there a relatively new treatment for kidney stones involving
a non-invasive use of ultra-sound where the patient is lowered
into some sort of liquid when he/she undergoes treatment? I'm sure
I've read about it somewhere. If I remember it correctly it is a
painless and effective treatment.
A couple of weeks ago I visited a hospital here in Stockholm and
saw big signs showing the way to the "Kidney stone chrusher" ...
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Ok, then where is the info for the Licensing kept? Which file? In the
organization box I put my address, and when I moved, I wanted to change it, but
couldn't find it. I could find my name, but not the organization.
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| Robert S. Dubinski | Aliases include: Robb, Regal, Sir, Mr., and I |
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| Marquette University ||||||||||| Math / Computer Science Double-Major|
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Without doing anything really tricky, the best I've seen is the
Burr-Brown INA103. Their databook shows a good application of this
chip as a phantom power mic pre.
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Any info on modern 20MHZ or better dual trace scopes would be appreciated.
Should I buy a used one or a new one? And where?
Please E-Mail.
Thanks in advance.
Ken
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How are you sure of that? Weren't there some recent studies that
found corelations between not-yet announced decisions and market changes?
Aren't there continuing early rumors of their deliberations?
Sheesh! Remember the big scandal a year or two (or 3?) ago about
exactly such leaks?
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This is not good advice. A couple of years I was involved in a low-speed
getoff in which I landed on my back on the pavement. My head (helmeted)
hit the pavement with a "clunk", leaving a couple of dings and chips in the
paint at the point of impact, but no other visible damage. I called the
helmet manufacturer and inquired about damage. They said that the way a
fiberglass shell works is to first give, then delaminate, then crack.
This is the way fiberglass serves to spread the force of the impact over a
wider area. After the fiberglass has done its thing, the crushable foam
liner takes care of absorbing (hopefully) the remaining impact force.
They told me that the second stage of fiberglass functionality (delamination
of the glass/resin layers) can occur with NO visible signs, either inside or
outside of the helmet. They suggested that I send them the helmet and they
would inspect it (including X-raying). I did so. They sent back the helmet
with a letter stating that that they could find no damage that would
compromise the ability of the helmet to provide maximum protection.
(I suspect that this letter would eliminate their being able to claim
prior damage to the helmet in the event I were to sue them.)
The bottom line, though, is that it appears that a helmets integrity
can be compromised with no visible signs. The only way to know for sure
is to send it back and have it inspected. Note that some helmet
manufacturers provide inspections services and some do not. Another point
to consider when purchasing a lid.
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Right. We'll probably end up giving them weapons.
During WWII, the British managed to supply arms to the Yugoslavs despite
German occupation. If the Europeans had the will to do anything besides
sponsoring peace conferences, they would have no problem putting any kind of
weapon they wanted into Bosnia.
I guess I would favor ending the embargo if the Congress would pass a law
forbidding export of US military supplies to Yugoslavia, including via third
parties. Until then the risks of the US being drawn into a more active
role would be too great. I do not see the arms embargo as a major factor in
the outcome of the war.
Both sides are certainly not equal in the eyes of the press. And that's
about all we have to go on, isn't it?
And I wish you'd quit hurling words like racist around. There are many levels
at which people react to what they see. At the most fundamental level, you
do not have to consciously recognize the racial element - you simply tend to
empathize more with people who are like yourself. As far preferring
Christian over Moslem, I am an atheist myself, and I think you'll agree that
in the US, the majority of people do not typically discriminate on the basis of
religion, nor give it a particularly important place in their world view.
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Personally, I follow the no alcohol rule when I'm on a bike. My view is that you have to be in such a high degree of control that any alcohol could be potentially hazardous to my bike! If I get hurt it's my own fault, but I don't want to wreck my Katana. I developed this philosophy from an impromptu *experiment*. I had one beer at 6:00 in the evening and had volleyball practice at 7:00. I wasn't even close to leagle intoxication, but I couldn't perform even the most basic things until 8:30! This made
me think about how I viewed alcohol and intoxication. You may seem fine, but your reactions may be affected such that you'll be unable to recover from hitting a rock or even just a gust of wind. I greatly enjoy social drinking but, for me, it just doesn't mix with riding.
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I am looking for good add-on font cartridge for HP LaserJet II.
I found in PC Magazine article IQ Enginnering and Pacific Data Products
are well-known maker of cartridge for HP LaserJet series. But I couldn't find
the model name of these products.
Any suggestions please.
Thanks in advance,
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I recently read that during Bill Clinton's campaign, he stated
that if elected he would immediately recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital. According to the article, Mr. Clinton
reaffirmed this after winning the presidency. However,
during recent talks with President Mubarak, Secretary of
State Christopher stated that "the status of Jerusalem
will be a final matter of discussion between the parties".
Now I don't want to start a big discussion over the status
of Jerusalem. All I want to know is if anyone can
authenticate Mr. Clinton's statements with dates, places, etc.
Thank you.
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We publish plenty kiddo,you just have to look.
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Rick has nailed the problem down pretty well.
As I can find no Scripture (have I missed it ?) that details
when you are married, I have to make some assumptions based
on the PRINCIPLES of Scripture.
It seems to me that it takes 3 parties to make a marriage:
husband-to-be, wife-to-be, and God. If you promise before
each other and God that you will convenant together to be
married, then...you are (IMO).
So why do we have the ceremonial part ? That seems to be
there for "connectedness" in the Body of Christ. My brothers
and sisters ought to be involved so that there can be some
accountability on both our parts. That's part of the concept
from Hebrews about "not forsaking the assembling of yourselves
together as is the custom of some." We need each other because
Lone Ranger Christians and Lone Ranger Marriages smack of a
self sufficiency that the I don't see in the NT. Does anyone
see the Paul Simon "I am a rock, I am an island..." model anywhere
in Christianity. (Song lyrics show your age :-) ) ?
Further, since marriage is a legal matter/institution in the USA
and many other places, and such laws do not specifically go
crosswise to the clear teachings of Scripture, we ought to
obey them to avoid even the appearance of "evil" (I Thess 5:22)
So this would imply at least a civil ceremony before marriage,
but keep in mind we are at least doing all of this for the
conscience of others because back to the beginning...you are
married when you and your intended promise each other and God
to be in convenant. (IMO)
What ch'all think ?
Bobby - akgua!rjb
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Lets hope. Years ago a Telecom tech refused to tap a line unless he saw the
warrant. The managment type who told him to do it fired him. The appeal
against the dismissal was lost.
Good luck.
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