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Our shop uses a package called CADCore - very good - to scan and
subsequently vectorize original maps into digital maps. The problem is that
once the raster file is loaded into the CADCore package, a header is added
to the .HRF file which makes it unreadable by the supplied converter. We
would like to be able to ship some of the already-altered raster images for
further use on our workstations. So, here are my questions:
(1) What is the Hitachi format? - I need this format so I can recognize
precisely what to strip out. I strongly suspect that it's a compressed
format - if so, then t might not be possible for me to strip out the
offending header.
(2) Are there any UNIX packages that read and recognize HRF? It would be
really nice to find some sort of "hrftopbm" converter out there. ;)
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I have just checked it and you have three files that are loaded:
PROTMAN : 128 Bytes
DRIVER : 9072 Bytes
WORKGRP : 4416 Bytes
No W4WG uses it's own drivers.
Not that I know of, I bought two copies, had some problems with one
installed both from the same copie, no problems. Do worry I just had
a really old BIOS and that's the only problem I got.
It will replace all older files (I think) and prompt you for the
others.
This I do not know...
Hope this helps
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: > This is not a new idea. At least 10 years ago I got this little gadget with
: > a keyboard on the back and 8 LED's in a vertical row on the front. It has a
: > long handle and when you wave it in the air it "writes" the message you typed
: > on the keyboard in the air.
:
: This is not news. In fact it's where I got the idea from, since it was
: such a neat item. Mattell made it, I believe, modeled after a "space
: saber" or "light sword" or something likewise theme-y. My addition was
: using a motor for continuous display, and polar effects in addition to
: character graphics. I should have protected it when I had the chance.
: No one to kick but myself...
:
: Ten years ago is about right, since I built mine in '84 or '85.
It's even older than that. I remember seeing a description of
a garage operation selling them at some of the early Computer Faires
in San Francisco about 5 years before that.
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We're looking at a series of chips by WSI, the PSD3xx series. They have
_mega_ address decoding logic on them, various ROM sizes (upto 1Mbit),
various RAM sizes (upto 16 K), and 19 I/O ports which can be chip select
lines, I/O or the buffered address lines.
Cute chip, 44 pin PLCC package.
Second sourcing may be a problem though :-(
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;
;>Most people wave or return my wave when I'm on my Harley.
;>Other Harley riders seldom wave back to me when I'm on my
;>duck. Squids don't wave, or return waves ever, even to each
;>other, from what I can tell.
;
; When we take a hand off the bars we fall down!
The problem is that Squids and BadAssBikers can't recognize
each other's waves. When you're riding a cruiser, you "wave"
by lifting two or three fingers of the left hand, without
first removing that hand from the handlebar. When you're
riding a crotch rocket, you lower the left hand to about
ankle level, palm forward, and call that a wave.
Generic bike riders actually seem to raise the hand entirely
off the handlebar and wave it around, so it's easy to tell
when they're waving.
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Dr. cheghadr bA namakand! They just wait until they are teenagers to kill
them!
huh?
Yup. IRI also granted a great deal of reconstruction of houses and
buildings in war torn areas to Malaysia. Khak too sareshoon, one of the
only industries we really have is construction, and there are all these
unemployed youth, and they give money to Malaysia to do what Iranians
can and should be doing.
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Now, that Clinton can get e-mail, i'm wondering if Congress is also
going on line.. If so, does anyone have the address to reach them??
I'm also looking for Bill's e-mail address.
please e-mail me, i am not a regualar reader of this newsgrouop.
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Be sure to say "chronic" dizziness, not just dizziness. Most
patients with acute or subacute dizziness will get better.
The vertiginous spells of Meniere's will also eventually go
away, however, the patient is left with a deaf ear.
This may have helped you, but I'm not sure it is good general
advice. The odds that you are going to find some miracle with
your own research that is secret or hidden from general knowledge
for this or any other disease are slim. When good answers to these
problems are found, it is usually in all the newspapers. Until
then, spending a great deal of time and energy on the medical
problem may divert that energy from more productive things
in life. A limited amount should be spent to assure yourself
that your doctor gave you the correct story, but after it becomes
clear that you are dealing with a problem for which medicine
has no good solution, perhaps the best strategy is to join
the support group and keep abreast of new findings but not to
make a career out of it.
--
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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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What 4 or more com port boards are available for PCs?
We want standard com ports, so no need to mention the expensive
coprocessed ones.
They should either be able to share IRQs or be able to use IRQs 8-15.
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The letter implies that both warrants were issued before the Feb 28th
shootout but doesn't say so exlicitly. ACK!
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not a flame, just a point: I'd be scared at 130 here, not because i feel
drivers who are STUPID. Like the ones who are doing 130 also, and so
they pull in right behind you at maybe 1-2 car lengths....oh yeah, real
smart... This scares me in cities at 50. When i can't see enough of
the car to make it recognizable, they are following TOO CLOSE. And
when i see them doing this AND reading a newspaper.....*sigh*...this
is why America has 55-65 speed limits: our drivers are TOO DUMB to realise
that reading the paper should be done at breakfast, or work, not in their
car.
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I have the "osculating elements at perigee" of an orbit, which I need
to convert to something useful, preferably distance from the earth
in evenly spaced time intervals. A GSM coordinate system is preferable,
but I convert from other systems. C, pascal, or fortran code, or
if you can point me to a book or something that'd be great.
here's the first few lines of the file.
0 ()
1 (2X, A3, 7X, A30)
2 (2X, I5, 2X, A3, 2X, E24.18)
3 (4X, A3, 7X, E24.18)
1 SMA SEMI-MAJOR AXIS
1 ECC ECCENTRICITY
1 INC INCLINATION
1 OMG RA OF ASCENDING NODE
1 POM ARGUMENT OF PERICENTRE
1 TRA TRUE ANOMALY
1 HAP APOCENTRE HEIGHT
1 HPE PERICENTRE HEIGHT
2 3 BEG 0.167290000000000000E+05
3 SMA 0.829159999999995925E+05
3 ECC 0.692307999999998591E+00
3 INC 0.899999999999999858E+02
3 OMG 0.184369999999999994E+03
3 POM 0.336549999999999955E+03
3 TRA 0.359999999999999943E+03
3 HAP 0.133941270127999174E+06
3 HPE 0.191344498719999910E+05
2 1 REF 0.167317532658774153E+05
3 SMA 0.829125167527418671E+05
3 ECC 0.691472268118590319E+00
3 INC 0.899596754214342091E+02
3 OMG 0.184377521828175002E+03
3 POM 0.336683788851850579E+03
3 TRA 0.153847166458030088E-05
3 HAP 0.133866082767180880E+06
3 HPE 0.192026707383028306E+05
Thanks in advance,
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I'm interested in getting an external hard drive for my SE/30. I've
got an internal 40MB that's pretty full, even with compression s/w.
Alot of people talk about $/MB, what's a good ratio? I'm thinking of adding
either an 80 or a 100 (or 105). What brands would people suggest? Finally,
places to buy from? Are more popular mail-order places better to order from
or the places that JUST sell hard drives (e.g. ones that advertise in the back
of MacWorld and MacUser).
Thanks in advance. If e-mail replies are sent, I'll compile them and post
them.
-- Drew
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I did the same thing to my drain plug for the same reasons. I was wondering
how you filled your crankcase though as I welded my hood shut also out of fear
that somebody might steal my air-filter.
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And if the Lord God Almighty parted the sky and make a personal
appearance at their Board of Directors meeting, they would also change
their policies. The odds are about equal.
You'll be extremely lucky if you ever get one through.
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thus
Curiously, in modern PostScript, the point in a polygon problem can
be solved even more easily. To wit:
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%%Creator: Allen B ([email protected])
%%For: the amusement of comp.graphics regulars
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%DocumentNeededResource: humor sense thereof
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% This program will test whether a point is inside a given polygon.
% Currently it uses the even-odd rule, but that can be changed by
% replacing ineofill with infill. These are Level 2 operators,
% so if you've only got Level 1 you're out of luck.
%
% The result will be printed on the output stream.
%
% Caution: only accurate to device pixels!
% Put a huge scale in first if you aren't sure.
% Point to test
% PUT X AND Y COORDINATES HERE
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% Vertices of polygon in counter-clockwise order
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A judge denied GM's new trial motion, even though GM says it has two
new witnesses that said the occupant of the truck was dead from the impact, not
from the fire.
Thoughts?
It's kind of scary when you realize that judges are going to start
denying new trials even when new evidence that contradicts the facts that led
to the previous ruling appear.
Or has the judge decided that the new witnesses are not to be believed?
Shouldn't that be up to a jury?
And what about members of the previous jury parading through the talk
shows proclaiming their obvious bias against GM? Shouldn't that be enough for
a judge to through out the old verdict and call for a new trial?
Whatever happened to jurors having to be objective?
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I have the local bus card also, and don't have any such problems with it
now, but this is the second card I've gotten - the first card didn't work
in VGA mode correctly. Maybe they still have some quality control problems.
I would suggest checking with ATI (I went through the vendor I bought the
card from since the problem showed up immediately). I never was able to
get through to ATI's technical support number.
I sure like the way the card performs though. I have the 2MB ATI ultra
pro - local bus, and it is fast even in 1024x768x16bpp mode.
Cheers,
Phil
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All humans suffered emotionally, some Jews and many
others suffered physically. It is sad that people like you are
so blinded by emotions that they can't see the facts. Thanks
for calling me names, it only assures me of what kind of
ignorant people I am dealing with. I included your letter since
I thought it demonstrated my point more than anything I could
write.
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It's all my fault.
I am in violation of one of my own rules:
"Avoid FollowingUp to a Barf posting."
Those damned, spiking Israelists, right, Barfling?
"Trained Seals"? You mean the ones that flap their flippers making
"Arf, Arf! Arf, Arf!" sounds?
In your own diseased mind, you now seem to believe that tax exemption
is equivalent to government funding. Holy Shit, Batman! The US
government is now one of the major supporters of the Catholic Church
-- in violation of the rules of separation of Church and State!
Quick, Bill! Commandeer all the churches and give them to the People!
Or does your anti-logic only apply to the mosques belonging to what
you have described as "Ragheads" or perhaps the synagogues of those
you have characterized as "Hymies"?
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Hi,
I am going through a box of old IBM card and came across one called a
Rapid Technology SQUEEZE card. It is dated 1990 and has a 54mhz crystal on
it and a big chip that has 'C-Cube' on it.
No connectors to the outside, but a ribbon-type 50-pin connector on the board.
It is a 16-bit board.
Any ideas what it is?
Phil
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Phil Hunt "Wherever you go, there you are!"
Howtek, Inc.
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#
# > In Re:Syria's Expansion, the author writes that the UN thought
# > Zionism was Racism and that they were wrong. They were correct
# > the first time, Zionism is Racism and thankfully, the McGill Daily
# > (the student newspaper at McGill) was proud enough to print an article
# > saying so. If you want a copy, send me mail.
# >
# Was the article about zionism? or about something else. The majority
# of people I heard emitting this ignorant statement, do not really
# know what zionism is. They have just associated it with what they think
# they know about the political situation in the middle east.
#
# So Steve: Lets here, what IS zionism?
Assuming that you mean 'hear', you weren't 'listening': he just
told you, "Zionism is Racism." This is a tautological statement.
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Hello netters,
I have a question concerning SCSI on DOS.
I have a ST01 SCSI controller and two hard-disks conected
(id's 0 and 1). I'd like to connect a SCSI streamer, but I
don't have software to access it. Does such a beast exist
as shareware or PD ?
Also what if I want a third disk ? I know that DOs only can
"see" two two physical and four logical disks. Will it be
possible to use extra disks ?
Thanks in advance.
Ib
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%
% Request for opinions:
%
% Which is better - a one-piece Aerostitch or a two-piece Aerostitch?
%
Like most everyone else, I ended up getting two different sizes for
the top and bottom. My top is a 46L and the bottom is a 48L. For the
bottom, the waist is far too large, but the thighs fit just right (the
46 had a better waist, but cut off the circulation in my legs, I have
large, muscular thighs, and no, I didn't use the thighmaster to get
them :-). The jacket fits me ok in the chest, slightly snug at the
waist, and too small in the arms. I can't imagine finding a one-piece
size that would have fit correctly, as even the 2 piece has it's
problems (strange, since my V-Pilot jacket fits great all over, and
when I tried the matching pants, they fit like a glove as well).
I can only assume the models Aero Design uses to design its suits are
in some way different from us real folks.
Also, even though it's related to convienience, you look pretty damn
wierd walking around with the tops and bottoms while running errands.
I've gotten some really suspicious looks, and sweated a lot while in a
store wearing the whole suit, since you can't fit the top and bottom
in any motorcycle storage device yet devised (except the trunk in my
sidecar rig :-). With the two piece, I unzip the pants (I generally
leave the two pieces zipped together, primarily because the pants fall
down unless I pull the cheesy elastic belt-type band real tight),
stuff them in one of my spacious BMW saddlebags (the pants just fit),
and run errands just wearing the jacket. Actually, if I know I'll be
running errands, I just wear my V-Pilot jacket, but that's just me...
As far as crash protection, I'd say that both suits are probably
equal. It seems that for weather protection, if anything the 2 piece
provides a little more because of the jacket overlapping the pants by
3 inches. The 2 piece is probably a little less comfortable around
the waist, just because of the extra layer of stuff, but maybe not.
So I'd have to vote for the two piece. Despite the slightly odd fit,
I still find the suit the most versatile piece of riding clothing I
own. Wouldn't go long distance without it.
Ken Wallich <[email protected]>
[email protected] ~ [email protected] ~ [...]decwrl!vixie!amber!ken
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This discussion is better followed in talk.politics.space
Joseph Cain [email protected]
[email protected] scri::cain
(904) 644-4014 FAX (904) 644-4214 or -0098
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Well, maybe it will be. Banks is a 24 year-old prospect who "hasn't
matured as quickly as they would have liked. Mahomes is a 22 year-old
who is very highly touted. Tapani and Erickson are also young, and
have looked very good this spring. The last spot was between Jim
Deshaies, formerly of Houston and S.D. and Mike Trombley. Deshaies
hasn't looked very good this spring, so I believe that the spot has
gone to Trombley, although they hadn't wanted 3 starters this unproven.
I personally believe very highly in Mahomes and Trombley.
Well, Scott Leius is the shortstop. He played mostly 3B last year, but
was a SS in the minors, and moved back after Gagne left to K.C. 3B is
split (maybe) between Pagliarulo, who has had a great spring, and Terry
Jorgenson, a good looking kid who has languished in Portland for 3
years. I'm not sure how the time will be divided, but they seem to be
happy with what they have here. I like Jorgenson, but I fear they
might give too much time to Pags.
Sorry, can't help you here.
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May I respectfully suggest you NOT do this?? The ground is
supposed to be a protective ground, and though what you suggest
looks good on paper, it's dangerous to rely on the same wire for
power and protection. It'd never meet code, and if you now own
the property and later sell it, you may end up with liabilities
you don't want, and if you _don't_ now own it, well...
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Well, I gotta tell ya,
last night's Leafs game vs the Devils was a nail-bitter LET ME TELL YOU!
It was a well played game by BOTH teams (I thought) but according to the
Don and Ron it was the an "off-night" for the Leafs and the Devils
were outplaying Toronto. Well, I BEG to differ....
IMHO, Clark deserved to be a first star as much as Gilmour did. His
fast breaks towards the net and the good opportunites that he
created reminded me of the Clark of old. (But not to take any of the
credit away from Gilmour).
I think the Leafs are playing GREAT hockey. WHY?
Well first look at their injury list which includes, Cullen, Ellet,
Zezel, Macoun. Of course my question is this....how will the Leafs
fare when they are once again "healthy" if they are playing this well
so far??
Second, just look at their standings, still second in defence,
moved from 11th overall to 6th over in the last month, haven't lost
at home in last 12 games, 8 game undefeated streak..etc.
(BTW, am I wrong or was this Potvin's first shut-out? I can't
remember him having any as of yet.)
Well, as of April 3 we see that the race for first in the Norris
has truly begun and it will be a VERY CLOSE race between Chicago and
Toronto. And the best game of the season will probably be their last
against each other. (is anyone lucky enough to have tickets to
see this one?)
Coming to the stretch and still a ROAR'IN!!!!!
Go LEAFS Go!!!!
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How can car be any good that has
S N A C
U D N E
written on the back with crooked letters as if a 2-year-old had
written it? Hehhehehehahaha!
(About as silly as Crysler's attemps to make the label on the back
of some of their other cars appear like they are Mercedes.)
Sorry, I couldn't resist...
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Because that would contradict your religious beliefs; therefore,
you feel more comfortable simply accusing his sincerity, so you will
not have to critically examine your religious beliefs.
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Wanted: color monitor >= 14" suitable for use on a Macintosh
Centris 610. I am planning on purchasing one of these machines
soon and don't want to have to pay full price for a new monitor
when a used one will do me just as well. If you have one you'd
like to part with, please email me with the specs and price.
Thanks.
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Well, if they were Satanists, or followers of an obscure religion,
then I would be sure that Christians would in unison condemn and
make this to a show case. But when we are dealing with a fanatical
Revelation preacher that kills ultimately everyone, including the
innocent children, then it seems that we are dealing with Christians
and christians (note the spelling).
And does not this show the dangers with religion -- in order
word a mind virus that will make mothers capable of letting
their small children burn to ashes while they scream?
Cheers,
Kent
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So now we're judging the Qur'an by what's not in it?
How many mutton headed arguments am I going to have to wade
through today?
One would hope.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Bob Beauchaine [email protected]
They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away,
and sank Manhattan out at sea.
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Ah I love posts like this. Many people have already replied to this one as I
knew they would. I'm not going to say much as this just seems like baiting to
me. Someone decided to post to see how many people would get mad and reply. I
am just going to ignore it but I do have one thing to say. See below.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Listen buddy, if you're going to quote Star Trek get the quote right. It was
"Resistance is futile". Get it right the next time :-)
Jason - [email protected]
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Storage space for sale:
Iomega 44 MB removeable HD for sale w/ 16 cartridges.
Total storage space comes out to be about 750 MB. 6 cartridges still in
original shrinkwrapping, unused. Note: this is NOT compatible with
SysQuest 45 cartridges.
SCSI interface required... plugs right into the back of Macintoshes,
but I don't have a controller for the IBM. All utilities I have for it
are for the Mac. If you have a Mac, then this is for you! I have a
ton of software on these disks that I don't use anymore, because I sold
my mac system. Stuff included: Most of the PD stuff from info-mac
site, LOTS of GIF's, and LOTS of sound effects. (1 entire disk with
just sounds)
I am asking $900 for all, plus shipping.
For more information, send me mail ([email protected]) or call
(716) 427-0701... ask for Sawran
cheers
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I've even seen pictures of an installation where the ham pulled a little
trailer behind his car with a 4KW generator, and ran the full legal limit
while mobile. I don't know what his gas mileage was like, though, or
where he found resonators able to stand the gaff.
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I haven't heard any news about ASN carrying any games but the local
cable station here in St. John's (Cable 9) is carrying the games live!
Hey, it's better than nothing!
GO LEAFS GO!!!
Dale
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Suggest McQuires #1 plastic polish. It will help somewhat but nothing
will remove deep scratches without making it worse than it already is.
McQuires will do something for fine or light stuff.
Also suggest calling your local plastic shop. In Calif. "TAP PLASTIC" is
a chain that carries most of what is needed for repair and sometimes
replacement of plastic bits. Telephone in the Bay area is 415-962-8430.
I'm not sure how amenable they are to shipping. I have found that they
have several excellent products for cleaning, and removing crap from
windscreens and face shields. Also they have one called "lift-it" which
works real well in removing sticky stuffs such as adhessives from plastic
wihtout scratching same.
Luck,
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/(hudson)
/Yes you do. Who is to say that it is immoral for onesself to experience
/pain or to be hurt in some other way. Maybe unpleasant, but that doesn't
/say anything about morality.
It violates free will, Hudson.
(me)
/(hudson)
/Why is making someone a less productive member of society immoral?
Hudson, you are screwing up again. Morality does not (I say again, DOES
NOT) define only "right and wrong". It also defines "acceptable social
behavior", without any overtones of good and evil. Picking up your trash
is not really a right/wrong moral issue in the eternal sense of Good
and Evil. Yet it is moral in the sense that it is acceptable social
behavior".
Your definition of the word "morality" is what is causing you to trip over
yourself here.
/(me)
/And since
/>I, selfish being that I am, want to maximize my gains from society, I will
/>not do anything to another member of society if that action might cut down
/>on how much benefit I can derive from society.
/(hudson)
/Why is your benefit somehow related to morality.
Again, your definition is causing you to shoot yourself in the foot.
/(hudson)
/What about if someone feels that their own personal benefit is enhanced
/more than it would be damaged by depleting the overall resources of society?
/Maybe something might hurt society, but it would help him immensly?
That is irrational thinking.
There may also be people out there who think that death by atomic
destruction is a sublime and wonderful thing. I am not going to let them
execute that idea just because they want to do it.
Simply because I let people make up their minds about what morals they
have doesn't prevent me from spotting and stopping a madman when I see
one, Hudson. And even then, I will only stop him when he interferes
with me and my life. That is the difference between me and you: you
want to interfere in people's lives even when they aren't affecting
you.
/(hudson)
/The central character in Dostoevsky's novel, Crime and Punishment,
/(R something or other) reasoned that if killed this old Jewish woman and
/stole her money to educate and establish himself financially, he could
/make a great contribution to society. He reasoned that she was not of
/much profit to society. She just collected rents, and hoarded money.
One of the central points of any (that's ANY) moral system is that is
has to be internally consistent.
By killing her, the character had to accept the premise that the ends
justify the means. If he accepted that premise, then (in order to be
consistent), he must accept the idea that some day another person may
apply the same standard to HIS life. Now, if he is unwilling to accept
this premise (which he will not be willing to accept), then he has
behaved inconsistently with his own moral standard.
/(me)
/[football example deleted]
/(hudson)
/Now suppose a freshman on the bench will only get to play if one of the
/players in the field/on the court is injured (or killed.) This freshman
/wants to play in the big game so a talent scout can see him. If he hurts
/a player on the team, it might slightly lessen the chances of the team to
/win, but he might gain great personal benefit. So, operating on purely
/selfish (immorally selfish) motives, he arranges for a sniper to shoot a
/team player in the leg. He gets to play in front of the talent scout.
/Did that freshman behave morally?
/Selfish intentions may sometimes generate (apparently) moral actions, but
/not always.
Two problems right off the bat:
1. The problem with your analogy is that it doesn't address the goal
that I started with: winning the game. Playing in front of the talent
scout != winning the game. Try creating the same analogy and keep the
ultimate goal the same, will you?
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A little bit off of the subject but here goes
yes he is one in the same (i.e. Chevrolet Motor Div)
also his brother Gaston raced at Indy and was the winner in 1920.
I have also seen the name Arthur Chevrolet in the early teens (1911 and on)
I assume he is related
Keith Nuetzman, [email protected]
Motorola Inc.
Paging and Wireless Data Group
Boynton Beach, Fl
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Does anybody have an X server for NT that they're willing to share files
or experiences?
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libXaw3d, the 3D Athena widget set will greatly improve the
"sculptured" look. In Linux, with its shared, jump-table libs, you
don't even have to recompile or relink. you merely have to:
ln -sf /lib/libXaw3d.so.3.0 /lib/libXaw.so.3
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Looking for people to buy brand new software packages including Microsoft
Windows, Harvard Graphics, Pagemaker, Paradox, Lotus, etc. at 20-25% off
list price.
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I have been for a fairly hard run in an MX5, what they lack in power they
surely make up for in handling. Great for back streets with heaps of corners.
They are a fairly light car with a low center of gravity and a quite free
revving DOHC engine, a fun car. Have you driven a TURBO converted
MX5? Now they are starting to perform! I've often thought a Mazda rotary
would go well in the XM5 too....anyone done it?
Regards Scott.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Scott Fisher [[email protected]] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272).
_--_|\ N
Department of Psychology / \ W + E
University of Western Australia. Perth [32S, 116E]--> *_.--._/ S
Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v
Joy is a Jaguar XJ6 with a flat battery, a blown oil seal and an unsympathetic
wife, 9km outside of a small remote town, 3:15am on a cold wet winters morning.
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Hello-- I'm currently designing the architecture of a chip which is
intended to help speed up common operations on a windowing system such as
X. A friend and I are designing the chip as the final course project for
an advanced computer architecture course taught by Dr. Fred Brooks at
UNC-Chapel Hill. While we feel that we've got a pretty solid design
currently, we'd really like to get ahold of some frequency data from an
X-Windows server so that we can make the most effective use of our bit
budget.
Unfortunately, I've been unable to find anything of this sort in the
various X FAQs, or X manuals that I've seen. Does anyone have some type of
frequency data, like how many Copy-rectangle operations vs draw-lines, and
things of that sort? Or, barring that, a program that records requests to
the server into a logfile that I can munge on myself?
Any and all help would be very appreciated.
Many thanks,
---Mark
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I've got 7 episodes left on *Beta* for Sale at US$8 each (neg.), or
for Trade 1-for-1 for movie on Beta or a used CD; or, a package deal
for $50 or whatever you care to propose in trade -- e.g., all for a
set of good stereo headphones (e.g. Sony V6 or V7), an Apple IWII
sheet feeder, a good used FM/Cassette stereo "walkman" or a hotel
coupon(s) for free stays FOB New York City (guests coming!)). The
remaining collection is as follows:
8 - Charlie X
11 - Dagger of the Mind
12 - Miri
17 - Shore Leave
20 - The Alternative Factor
29 - Operation-Annihilate!
33 - Who Mourns for Adonais?
Numbers indicate episode numbering on the tape boxes, for those who
are keeping track of what episodes they're missing in that manner.
RSVP for summaries, if necessary.
The tapes are all in excellent condition in the original packaging.
All have been played at least once, but most have been played ONLY
once, and NONE have been played more than twice. Running time: ~50
min. ea. (Unedited, uncut store-bought originals unlike those in
syndication; all have *incredible* Beta HiFi sound!)
I also have the following SF and Horror movies on Beta as well; US$10
(negotiable) or Trade (1-for-1 swap for movie on Beta or a used CD):
The Bride (Sting, Jennifer Beales)
* Buck Rogers Conquers the Universe (Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore)
RSVP for my larger Beta movies/music trade list, or find it on Misc.forsale!
gld
PS: For those of you who may wonder, Beta is alive as a pro/hobbyist
format ... there's life beyond the corner video store! (-;
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No, Brent that would be
alt.sex.bondage.holly.silva.goofy.anti.semite.... :)
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Some countries have laws about importing crypto gear--I believe the U.S.
does. Without a license the above scheme won't work (at least not legally)
in such countries, including at least France and the U.S.
David
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I've always taken Murphy's Law to be an exhortation to prudence, and
an observation about the behavior of complex systems, rather than a
denial of divine benevolence.
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No. That these drugs happen to be useful as antidepressants is neither
here nor there.
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Thus said [email protected] (D. J. Bernstein):
Given the description of the algorithm given, the only plausible
explantion I can find is that K_P must be agreed to out of bandwidth
in advance by the two parties; i.e. it's a standard shared symmetric
key.
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Hello...
Does anyone know of any C or C++ function libraries in the public domain
that assist in parsing an AUTOCAD .dxf file?
Please e-mail.
Thanks,
--
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Endometriosis is where cells that would normally be lining the uteris exist
outside the uteris. Sometimes this causes problems, often it doesn't.
There is generally no need to remove pockets of endometriosis unless they are
causing other problems. One lady I know had Endometriosis in an ovary.
This caused her a _great_ deal of pain. Another lady I know has an
endometrial cyst in her abdominal wall; she is not having it removed.
The American Fertility Society has information on this and they probably
maintain a list of physicians in all parts of the continent that deal with
endometriosis. You can reach them at:
The American Fertility Society
2140 11th Ave South
Suite 200
Birmingham, Alabama 35205-2800
(205)933-8494
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{Jason Haines} said
"what to do with old 256k"
to <All> on 04-15-93 04:38
JH> I was wondering if people had any good uses for old
JH> 256k SIMMs. I have a bunch of them for the Apple Mac
JH> and I know lots of other people do to. I have tried to
JH> sell them but have gotten NO interest.
How about collecting them all together (IE everyones) and
selling them as a lot? The other thing is to give to a
recycler.
JH> So, if you have an inovative use (or want to buy
JH> some SIMMs 8-) ), I would be very interested in hearing
JH> about it.
If they are free and you can send them real cheap! I would
be intrested in them. hehehe Are these 2 chip or 8 chip
devices what speed?
JH> I have seen RAM disc storage devices but they have been
JH> very pricey (plus I am still a little worried about having data
JH> stored on RAM).
Why? Do you use a RAM disk? :)
Stephen [email protected]
Mangled on Fri 04-16-1993 at 19:58:29
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I've just read Carol's response and I just had to get into this. I've
got some verses which are not subject to interpretation because they say
what they say. They are 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, and
Galatians 1:11-12.
Also, based on the fact that Jesus is the Word incarnate and he judges
people if they follow him (see Acts 17:29-31 and John 5:21-27) and that
those who reject Jesus' teachings are judged by the very words he spoke
(see John 12:47-50), then Jesus' words are true and do not need
interpretation, nor would it be just of God to judge based on his word
if it had to be interpreted.
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#In <[email protected]> [email protected] (Frank O'Dwyer)
#
#>In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Mike
#
#Am I making a wrong assumption for the basis of morals? Where do they come
#from? The question came from the idea that I heard that morals come from
#whatever is societally mandated.
It's only one aspect of morality. Societal morality is necessarily
very crude and broad-brush stuff which attempts to deal with what
is necessary to keep that society going - and often it's a little
over-enthusiastic about doing so. Individual morality is a different
thing, it often includes societal mores (or society is in trouble),
but is stronger. For example, some people are vegetarian, though eating
meat may be perfectly legal.
#
#>#Merely a question for the basis of morality
#>#
#>#Moral/Ethical behavior = _Societally_ _acceptable_ _behavior_.
#>#
#>#1)Who is society
#
#>Depends on the society.
#
#Doesn't help. Is the point irrelevant?
No. Often the answer is "we are". But if society is those who make
the rules, that's a different question. If society is who should
make the rules, that's yet another. I don't claim to have the answers, either,
but I don't think we do it very well in Ireland, and I like some things
about the US system, at least in principle.
#
#>#2)How do "they" define what is acceptable?
#
#>Depends.
#On.... Again, this comes from a certain question (see above).
Well, ideally they don't, but if they must they should do it by consensus, IMO.
#
#>#3)How do we keep from a "whatever is legal is what is "moral" "position?
#
#>By adopting a default position that people's moral decisions
#>are none of society's business,
#
#So how can we put people in jail? How can we condemn other societies?
Because sometimes that's necessary. The hard trick is to recognise when
it is, and equally importantly, when it isn't.
# and only interfering when it's truly
#>necessary.
#
#Why would it be necessary? What right do we have to interfere?
IMO, it isn't often that interference (i.e. jail, and force of various
kinds and degrees) is both necessary and effective. Where you derive
the right to interfere is a difficult question - it's a sort of
liar's paradox: "force is necessary for freedom". One possible justification
is that people who wish to take away freedom shouldn't object if
their own freedom is taken away - the paradox doesn't arise if
we don't actively wish to take way anyone's freedom.
#
# The introduction of permissible interference causes the problem
#>that it can be either too much or too little - but most people seem
#>to agree that some level of interference is necessary.
#
#They see the need for a "justice" system. How can we even define that term?
Only by consensus, I guess.
# Thus you
#>get a situation where "The law often allows what honour forbids", which I've
#>come to believe is as it should be.
#
#I admit I don't understand that statement.
What I mean is that, while thus-and-such may be legal, thus-and-such may
also be seen as immoral. The law lets you do it, but you don't let yourself
do it. Eating meat, for example.
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[Also posted in misc.forsale.wanted,misc.wanted,ne.wanted,ny.wanted,nj.wanted]
WANTED: Optical Shaft Encoders
Quantity 2
Single-ended
Incremental
Needed to encode the movements of a 16" Cassegrain telescope. The telescope
is in the observatory of the Univ. of Mass. at Boston. The project is being
managed by Mr. George Tucker, a graduate student at UMB. Please call him, or
email/call me, if you have one or two of the specified type of encoder. Of
course, due to our low funding level we are looking for a price that is
sufficiently lower than that given for new encoders. :)
George Tucker
617-965-3408
ME:
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: really involved there). Many people using Linux like to stay at the cutting
: (bleeding) edge: ie. when kernel patches, C library or compiler patches come
: out, people like to rebuild their entire systems. The prime requirement for
: all Linux software is that it is available under a GNU style public license.
: Hence, Linux software uses either the Athena widgets or XView.
: Individuals may write software requiring Motif, but I doubt it is widely
: adopted.
Shameless plug -- the Xaw3d widgets make Athena a much nicer
alternative than the stock MIT Athena code.
...Mike
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MLB Standings and Scores for Friday, April 16th, 1993
(including yesterday's games)
NATIONAL WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road
San Francisco Giants 06 04 .600 -- 6-4 Won 1 03-01 03-03
Houston Astros 05 04 .556 0.5 5-4 Lost 1 00-03 05-01
Atlanta Braves 06 05 .545 0.5 5-5 Lost 2 03-03 03-02
Colorado Rockies 03 05 .375 2.0 3-5 Won 1 03-03 00-02
Los Angeles Dodgers 03 07 .300 3.0 3-7 Lost 4 00-03 03-04
San Diego Padres 02 07 .222 3.5 2-7 Lost 4 00-04 02-03
Cincinnati Reds 02 07 .222 3.5 2-7 Lost 3 01-02 01-05
NATIONAL EAST
Philadelphia Phillies 08 01 .889 -- 8-1 Won 5 05-01 03-00
Pittsburgh Pirates 07 02 .778 1.0 7-2 Won 4 03-02 04-00
St. Louis Cardinals 07 02 .778 1.0 7-2 Won 3 04-02 03-00
New York Mets 04 04 .500 3.5 4-4 Lost 1 02-03 02-01
Chicago Cubs 04 05 .444 4.0 4-5 Won 1 01-02 03-03
Montreal Expos 04 05 .444 4.0 4-5 Won 1 01-02 03-03
Florida Marlins 03 06 .333 5.0 3-6 Won 1 02-04 01-02
AMERICAN WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road
Texas Rangers 06 02 .750 -- 6-2 Lost 1 04-02 02-00
California Angels 05 02 .714 0.5 5-2 Won 3 03-02 02-00
Chicago White Sox 04 04 .500 2.0 4-4 Won 1 02-03 02-01
Minnesota Twins 04 04 .500 2.0 4-4 Lost 1 01-02 03-02
Oakland Athletics 04 04 .500 2.0 4-4 Lost 2 04-02 00-02
Seattle Mariners 04 04 .500 2.0 4-4 Lost 1 03-02 01-02
Kansas City Royals 02 07 .222 4.5 2-7 Won 1 01-05 01-02
AMERICAN EAST
Boston Red Sox 07 02 .778 -- 7-2 Won 3 03-00 04-02
Toronto Blue Jays 05 03 .625 1.5 5-3 Won 1 04-02 01-01
New York Yankees 05 04 .556 2.0 5-4 Lost 1 02-01 03-03
Detroit Tigers 04 04 .500 2.5 4-4 Won 2 02-00 02-04
Cleveland Indians 03 06 .333 4.0 3-6 Lost 3 02-01 01-05
Milwaukee Brewers 02 05 .286 4.0 2-5 Lost 4 00-02 02-03
Baltimore Orioles 02 06 .222 4.5 2-6 Won 1 00-02 02-04
YESTERDAY'S SCORES
(IDLE teams listed in alphabetical order)
NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE
Houston Astros 1 Seattle Mariners 1
Montreal Expos 2 Toronto Blue Jays 3
New York Mets 3 Oakland Athletics 2
Colorado Rockies 5 Detroit Tigers 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 5 Kansas City Royals 5
San Diego Padres 4 (13) New York Yankees 4
St. Louis Cardinals 4 Cleveland Indians 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 2 Boston Red Sox 4 (13)
Atlanta Braves 1 California Angels PPD
San Francisco Giants 6 Milwaukee Brewers RAIN
Chicago Cubs IDLE Baltimore Orioles IDLE
Cincinnati Reds IDLE Chicago White Sox IDLE
Florida Marlins IDLE Minnesota Twins IDLE
Philadelphia PhilliesIDLE Texas Rangers IDLE
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Joseph Hernandez | RAMS | | /.\ ******* _|_|_ / | LAKERS
[email protected] | KINGS | |__ | | DODGERS _|_|_ | | RAIDERS
[email protected] | ANGELS |____||_|_| ******* | | |___| CLIPPERS
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Firstly, I would never consider trying to make a one-shot timer. Your 2F2 cap
will have been designed as a RAM battery substitute, rather than for use in
applications where you wish to drain the cap with a constant current. Their
performance, in some respects, is more akin to batteries than to a normal cap.
The other point is that big electro's are usually rated with -5%+20% tolerances,
so calculating exactly what capacitance you have (particularly when considering
the cold).
You should be looking at designing a micropower oscillator and divider chain,
that "rolls over" (from zero to maximum count, or vice-versa) once every
1,209,600 seconds. If you were to use something like a 110Hz clock, you would
need a divider chain of 2^27, to give an error of less than one percent in the
firing times over the six week period. Of course, you could trim the 110Hz
oscillator to give you exact time, but the likelyhood of the oscillator
remaining exactly constant at -40 is low anyway.
I would suspect that there would be far more battrey drain in firing the
solenoid than there would be in the timer circuit.
Caveat - I'm not experienced in low temperature electronics, so I can't
guarantee that this (or any other) approach is the best for inhospitable
conditions.
JohnH
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From article <[email protected]>, by [email protected] (GRUBB):
[Tons of stuff deleted on SCSI vs. IDE question...]
Wow, you guys are really going wild on this IDE vs. SCSI thing, and I think
it's great!
Like lots of people, I'd really like to increase my data transfer rate from
the hard drive. Right now I have a 15ms 210Mb IDE drive (Seagate 1239A), and
what I would say is a standard (not special, no cache I believe) IDE controller
card on my ISA 486-50.
I'm currently thinking about adding another HD, in the 300Mb to 500Mb range.
And I'm thinking hard (you should hear those gears a-grinding in my head)
about buying a SCSI drive (SCSI for the future benefit). I believe I'm getting
something like 890Kb/sec transfer right now (according to NU). How would this
number compare if I bought the state-of-the-art SCSI card for my ISA PC, and
the state-of-the-art SCSI hard drive (the wailing-est system I could hope for)?
Obviously money factors into this choice as well as any other, but what would
YOU want to use on your ISA system? And how much would it cost?
Along those lines, what kind of transfer rate could I see with my IDE HD's if I
were to buy the top-of-the-line IDE caching controller for my 200Mb, 15ms HD?
And how much would it cost?
I actually have a PAS-16, and could (what a waste I guess it would be...) hook
up a SCSI HD through it's SCSI port which yields an optimum of 690Kb/sec.
Actually, I have a borrowed 12ms Fujitsu HD hooked up through it now (and
own the Trantor HD drivers for the PAS-16 SCSI port). Is this SCSI port a
SCSI-2 port? How could I tell? Is the Fujitsu 2623A a SCSI-2? Are all SCSI
HD's SCSI-2?
Thanks for any comments on these rephrased questions.
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I have a pair of AKG 340 headphones for sale. They are an electrostatic
dyanmic headphone; a dynamic element for the bottom end and an electrostatic
for the high end. They are very comfortable and sound very nice. They are
in like new condition. I would like $220CDN for the pair.
Brett Maraldo
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I am trying to get a copy of the _official_ rules of baseball.
Someone once sent me the ISBN number of it, but I have since lost it.
Can anyone give me this information, or tell me where I can find the
book? None of my local bookstores have it.
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Alright, beat this automobile sighting.
Driving along just a hair north of Atlanta, I noticed an old, run down
former car dealership which appeared to deal with, and repair, older
rare or exotic foreign sports cars. I saw:
Ford GT-40 (!), the famous model from Ford, that seemed to win most of
its races in the late 60s, including Le-Mans 4 or 6 times.
Two Jensen Interceptors, one a convertable, one a hatchback?
Porsche 911 (boring compared to the rest)
THREE Ferarries, a Mondial, a 308 prepared for racing, and a red 60s model
that I couldn't identify.
And at the bottom, a late 70s MG convertable.
Outside there was a rotting Rover 3500 saloon, which was never regularly
sold in the U.S.
And in the showroom, there was a small italian body, either an Alpha Romeo
or a Lancia. It was about the size of an Austin Mini.
The trunklid was missing, exposing a boot with a voltage regulator
in the upper left corner of the wall, and a chunk of metal removed from
the floor on the right hand side as if something would leave the trunk
and go to the outside from here.
The taillights looked like they
would be the round type (if they were there). Does anyone know what the
make of this one is?
Certainly made my day...
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1/64th or 63/64th?
I must congratulate your analytical and excellent
reportage about Diana. From the writings of tye
biographers you quoted, I can perceive, maybe
chauvinistically, the remnants of her Armenian
genes. Even though she is only 1/64th Armenian,
she seems to have many of the strong
characteristics of Armenian women. Her Armenian
ancestry is traced to Eliza Kewark (an Armenian
from India), who married the Scottish merchant
Thedore Forbes. From the union was born Kathleen
Scott Forbes, who married James Crombie from
Aberdeen. They had a daughter Jane, who married
David Littlejohn. Their daughter Ruth married
William Gill. Ruth Silvia Gill, the grandmother of
Lady Diana, married Lord Fermoy, and their
daughter, Frances Ruth Burke Roache, married the
eight Earl of Spencer, who was the father of Lady
Diana. It is noteworthy that Eliza Kewark was also
referred to as Mrs. Forbesian (a characteristic
Armenian surname ending). An Armenian-Scottish
gene mix is dynamite.
Levon K. Topuzian
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Skoie, Illinois.
TIME, December 21, 1992 'Letters'
You have set up straw horses and knocked them down. I'm not impressed.
Anyway, the Armenians tore apart the Ottoman Empire's eastern provinces,
massacred 2.5 million defenseless Turkish women, children and elderly
people, burned thousands of Turkish and Kurdish villages and exterminated
the entire Turkish population of the Armenian dictatorship between
1914-1920. Such outrageous sleight of hand that is still employed today
in Armenia brings a depth and verification to the Turkish genocide
that is hard to match. A hundred years ago Armenians again thought
they could get whatever they wanted through sheer terror like the
Russian anarchists that they accepted as role models. Several Armenian
terror groups like ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism and Revisionism Triangle
resorted to the same tactics in the 1980s, butchering scores of innocent
Turks and their families in the United States and Europe. It seems that
they are doing it again, at a different scale, in fascist x-Soviet Armenia
today.
Source: Stanford J. Shaw, on Armenian collaboration with invading Russian
armies in 1914, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Volume
II: Reform, Revolution & Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975)."
(London, Cambridge University Press 1977). pp. 315-316.
"In April 1915 Dashnaks from Russian Armenia organized a revolt in the city
of Van, whose 33,789 Armenians comprised 42.3 percent of the population,
closest to an Armenian majority of any city in the Empire...Leaving Erivan
on April 28, 1915, Armenian volunteers reached Van on May 14 and organized
and carried out a general slaughter of the local Muslim population during
the next two days while the small Ottoman garrison had to retreat to the
southern side of the lake."
"Knowing their numbers would never justify their territorial ambitions,
Armenians looked to Russia and Europe for the fulfillment of their aims.
Armenian treachery in this regard culminated at the beginning of the First
World War with the decision of the revolutionary organizations to refuse
to serve their state, the Ottoman Empire, and to assist instead other
invading Russian armies. Their hope was their participation in the Russian
success would be rewarded with an independent Armenian state carved out of
Ottoman territories. Armenian political leaders, army officers, and common
soldiers began deserting in droves."
"With the Russian invasion of eastern Anatolia in 1914 at the beginning of
World War I, the degree of Armenian collaboration with the Ottoman's enemy
increased drastically. Ottoman supply lines were cut by guerilla attacks,
Armenian revolutionaries armed Armenian civil populations, who in turn
massacred the Muslim population of the province of Van in anticipation of
expected arrival of the invading Russian armies."
Serdar Argic
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I would doubt any civil rights case would be in order for the point that you
mentioned. Even if it were possible, I think it is a bad idea since it smacks
real strongly of double jeopardy. A civil case for damages is fine since that
is a trial that would proceed regardless of the first. I think a bad precedent
has already been set in the King trial in L.A. and something like this would
make it worse. Regardless of how bad anybody feels about this decision, it
must stand that charges of assault were not not proven against the three
marines and that's how it should stand.
Frank (who is still mad, but now somewhat sane)
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Frank R. Chloupek
[email protected]
Department of Physics -- *The* Ohio State University
(Not just any Ohio State University)
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It's the "opening-game effect" maybe. Pros arrive late, nervousness for
rookie WC players, and problems to get the lines clicking may make things
hard to get it going against these "worse" nations.
I'd guess that the better team you face in the opening game, the better
it is, since the chances of an upset are greater then.
Some other reasons why the "worse" teams are so tough to beat was presented
by Hans "Virus" Lindberg (former coach in Switzerland).
1) The "worse" teams (referring to France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy etc)
have now usually world class goalies.
2) Their defensive play have become much more disciplined, they take much
less unnecessary penalties.
3) They use four lines which makes it harder to make them "run out of gas."
4) The ice quality in the German WC rinks is poor.
Another weird thing was that the Czechs played entertaining hockey..
err.. just kidding, David.
Alex? That's a new name for me ;)
OK, I forgot the Czech roster at home yesterday, but now I have it.
I don't know the teams for all players, so I would appreciate if
you guys could fill in the blanks for me (especially I think some
of these players play in Finland).
The Czech Republic
------------------
Goaltenders: 1. Petr Briza (Finland somewhere, right?)
2. Roman Turek Motor C. Budejovice
Defense: 3. Leo Gudas ?
4. Milos Holan TJ Vitkovice
5. Drahomir Kadlec ?
6. Bedrich Scerban Brynas, Sweden
7. Antonin Stavjana HV 71, Sweden
8. Miroslav Horava MoDo, Sweden
9. Ales Flasar TJ Vitkovice
Forwards: 10. Petr Rosol ?
12. Kamil Kastak HV 71, Sweden
13. Richard Zemlicka ?
14. Jiri Kucera ?
16. Jan Caloun HC Litvinov
18. Petr Hrbek ?
19. Tomas Kapusta ?
20. Otakar Janecky (Finland?)
21. Roman Horak Motor C. Budejovice
22. Martin Hostak MoDo, Sweden
24. Radek Toupal ?
26. Jiri Dolezal ?
Staffan
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Western Digital 1-800-832-4778.....Sam
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<MUNCH!>
It would be funny if it wasn't so damn *NASTY*; and as non-xian as I am,
it's hard to believe that someone is pushing black is white and freedom
is slavery so blatantly.
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Water gradually builds up in the trunk of my friend's 89 Ford Probe. Every
once in a while we would have to remove the spare and scoop out the water
under the plywood/carpet cover on the trunk. I would guess this usually happens
after a good thunder storm. A few Qs:
1) Is this a common problem?
2) Where are the drain holes located for the hatch?
Thanks for any info.
Tom
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I think you need the EMM386.EXE noems
This will let the expanded mem be active but not use any, therefore
this will give you more extended mem for windows yet have all the
bases covered.
I do not use dos6 so I am not familiar with this.
c-ya..... /\/\artin
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Hi everyone. I recently posted about how I received a bad vram chip for my
new LCIII, and someone responded that it may not actually be bad, but it may
be a 512K LC vram chip, and thus doesn't work properly with my computer. So
I'm wondering if anyone can interpret these codes for me, so I can figure
out what type of chip MacConnection sent me.
2515251
On the back of the card, it says 0593
I believe from the numbers that means it is an 80ns chip, but I can't figure
out what the size is supposed to be. If anyone can help, I'd be grateful.
Please email me your response. Thanks a lot!
--
Hillel Sims ----- [email protected] ----- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Gee, you'd think Winnipeg would be tops on that list, what with 8 regulars
being European.
Well, being a Jet fan, I sometimes wish that Bure would get knocked silly
too. (Nothing serious, just enough to keep him out of a game. :)
In most cases, the owners have very little to do with it. They give their
general managers one order when it comes to the draft...find me the best
players so that our team will win the Stanley Cup. Whether that player is
in Kindersley, Saskatchewan or Chelyabinsk, Russia, if the GM believes him
to be the better player, the GM should be drafting him.
Where do you get off calling the NHL THEIR league, when referring to Canadian
players. It doesn't belong to them, it belongs to the owners. The owners
can do what they want. While a 'Canadian content' rule might be enforcable
here in Canada, there is enough doubt that it would be enforcable in the US
that the CFL (sorry for the football reference) didn't even TRY to push their
import ratio rule on the Sacromento Goldminers.
Increasing the competition for the 'elite' positions, in most cases, would
make players better anyways. (Oh yeah, and how many Europeans play at the
lower levels of professional hockey in North America? While there are some
that play in the AHL, or the IHL where that's an NHL team's primary farm
club, you don't hear of many Europeans playing in the CHL, the ECHL, or on
the secondary farm teams in the IHL. (ie. the Jets do have a few Russian
players in Moncton, but I don't believe there are any Europeans in Ft. Wayne.))
So with all those teams, there are plenty of positions for hockey players
in North America.
I'm in favour of the NHL being the league for the premier players in the
world. I've grown up with Europeans playing on 'my' team, and some of those
players were the among the best in the world. From Hedberg, Nilsson, and
Sjoberg, to Sel{nne, Zhamnov, and Olausson, and all those in between and to
come, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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The points raised about checking what is actually -in- the chip, as
opposed to what is allegedly programmed therein, raise yet another trust
issue. Even if we assume that these "trusted agents" are really entering
a wide range of S1 and S2 seeds (rather than using the same one all the
time to reduce the key search space to 30 bits), I assume they are not
doing so by picking up an iron filing and poking it into the circuitry
at carefully selected points to encode data. They would presumably be
punching numbers into a computer, which for all they know could program
the chips in a manner completely independent of the S1 and S2 values they
are feeding into the system.
S1 and S2 are clearly the backdoor - we should assume they are all
compromised. If they're not compromisable, why the hell not use a
hardware true random number source. There isn't a random number
source *anywhere* in this proposal. The whole thing is deterministic
from the day the serial number is stamped on the chip.
Nope, it can't be trusted. This is all about two levels of access -
the (possibly honest) key escrow that police forces have to use, and
ostensibly the FBI; and the back door that lets the NSA decode *everything*
on the fly - and maybe some back-handers to the FBI when they want a
warrantless tab in exchange for favours.
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I found a Mopar spec sheet this weekend:
model wgt hp
Stealth 3086 164
Stealth ES 3186 222
Stealth RT 3373 222
Stealth RT TT 3803 300
Okay, I'll take "their" word for it.
Seems that the 1993 Mustang 5.0 is rated at 205 hp ONLY because Ford
changed its testing procedures. Under the older procedures, it still
rates closer to 225 hp. That means that the Mustang has 3 hp more.
And you still haven't posted any weight figures for the Mustang.
Yeah, sure, in your wet dreams. And that's probably where you got
that 11.2 second 0-60 for the Stealth.
For 3 posts now you've been harping on this May 1991 issue of Car & Driver
without posting any numbers. Why not? Because they prove me right and you
ain't got the guts to admit it? Yeah, thought so.
No, I'm going to play your game -
No way, Sentra's are SLOW! I took a test drive and it took
21.7 to go 0-50! Why, even the Hyundai Excel blows it doors
off. Any 12 yr old knows that! I race and I'll kick your butt!
blah, blah, blah...
Let's see ... yep, that sounds just like you.
Oh man, I just got it! Beavis & Butthead - that's you!
I dunno, why did you?
But why would someone pick the Dodge Stealth RT over the Nissan Sentra?
All it takes is one look.
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Yes, that's known as "Bresenhams Run Length Slice Algorithm for
Incremental lines". See Fundamental Algorithms for Computer Graphics,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1985.
Hmm. I don't think I can help you with this, but you might
take a look at the following:
"Double-Step Incremental Generation of Lines and Circles",
X. Wu and J. G. Rokne, Computer Graphics and Image processing,
Vol 37, No. 4, Mar. 1987, pp. 331-334
"Double-Step Generation of Ellipses", X. Wu and J. G. Rokne,
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, May 1989, pp. 56-69
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For a brief, but pretty detailed account, try Hempel's _Philosophy of
Natural Science_.
This smacks a bit of ideology -- the supposition being that Toricelli's
subsequent descriptions of his reasoning are not veridical. It gets dangerously
close to an unfalsifiable view of the history and methodology of science if
we deny that no subsequent reports of experimenters are reliable descriptions
of their "real" reasons.
But my point is that this type of case is *not* a rarity. In fact, I was
going to point to Pasteur as yet another rather common example -- particularly
the studies on spontaneous generation and fermentation. I will readily
concede that "ridiculous reasons" can play an important role in how
scientists spend their time. But one should not confuse motivation with
methodology nor suppose that ridiculous reasons provide the impetus in the
majority of cases based on relatively infrequent anecdotal evidence.
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I know this is a little weird, but I know that World magazine (you know,
National Geo. for children) did a very simple and concise article on Kirlian
photography. They had some neat pictures, too. A friend of mine's mother had
a book on Kirlian photography, only it's photographs took a radiologist to
interpret. They (World magazine) warned us all that it was very dangerous,
probably to stop curious children from experimenting with it. Mind you, this
was 10 years ago, at least. (And boy, does that say something about my age)
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All of this talk about a COMMERCIAL space race (i.e. $1G to the first 1-year
moon base) is intriguing. Similar prizes have influenced aerospace
development before. The $25k Orteig prize helped Lindbergh sell his Spirit of
Saint Louis venture to his financial backers.
If memory serves, the $25k prize would not have been enough to totally
reimburse some of the more expensive transatlantic projects (such as
Fokker's, Nungesser and other multi-engine projects). However Lindbergh
ultimately kept his total costs below that amount.
But I strongly suspect that his Saint Louis backers had the foresight to
realize that much more was at stake than $25,000.
Could it work with the moon? Who are the far-sighted financial backers of
today?
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: >So, by going mailorder through Gateway, I save ~13%. Plus, I get
: >technical support over the phone, free software package.
: >
: Have fun trying to get hold of technical support over the phone. At least
: locally you can walk right up to the dealer and tell him what is wrong, and
: he has to fix it.
Phone support is quick and competent from many mail order firms, but not so
quick and not so competent from others (Gateway included). But my experience
with computer retailers (which is significant) has lead to the conclusion that
sales personnel and retail-technical personnel are forbidden to actually learn
about the products they sell. Talk about incompetent! O.K., so a few percent
of their answers are correct, but those salesmen don't even realize how stupid
they are. ... ....... O.K. ...I'll settle down now.... .... let me
catch my breath..... ..
Fact: retail stores never provide a better value in terms of price per product.
Retail outlets are desirable, however, to those people who aren't interested
in learning about computers enough to make their own decisions. This is fine;
for example most of my education about carpeting, wall paper, lawn mowers,
microwave ovens, etc. has come from sales personnel. I assume I must be an
idiot. But I don't care about those things. I do, however, care about my
computer - i.e. I demand features and performance, and I'll be damned if I'll
pay some high-school drop out commission on an over-rated, over-priced system
and in the process be subjected to his distorted B.S.
G.L.
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For sale 1988 Kawasaki EX-500 with 6682 miles.
Excellent condition. Kept in a garage. Asking $2200.
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This doesn't handle superencrypted traffic. If the clipper
doesn't impose any unfortunate performance side-effects there's no
reason not to use it to superencrypt a stream of triple-DES encrypted
traffic. That way your traffic looks "normal" and perhaps anyone
desiring to listen in won't even bother, since they know nobody's
going to really trust crypto that has classified internals for
important stuff.
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I had the insturment panel go out in my car (a 1990 Lincoln Contenintal) which
is a digital dash. They replaced the whole thing with a 1991 dash (thank god it
was under the warrenty ! :-) Anyway, the odometer was reading the exact milage
from the old panel. It must have a EEPROM of some sort in it that is up-dated.
Seems to me that removing the battery would erase it, but it doesn't. So I
guess they swapped the NVM chip (non-volitile memory) and installed it in the
new dash. No, they wouldn't let me have the old dash to tinker with :-(
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You're right, I bailed out in Diff Eq. Nevertheless, I would
suggest to YOU that there is a difference between a "proposed BILL,
stalled in Congress" and a "executive order, crammed down OUR
THROATS". Do you disagree?
Went to the Post Office on Friday, got my passport apps in.
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Windows NT or WNT can also be derived by the next letter in the alphabet
of VMS - same as HAL and IBM. You might recall that the chief architect
of VMS is also chief designer of WNT.
Rajiev Gupta
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I just read articals on this in Road and Track and Car and Driver
(Is that one mag or two? =B^), and I was wondering if people out
there have any opinions that differed from what these mags have to
say...
I'm looking at the following three SUV's; anyone who's driven all
three have any strong opinions?
Ford Explorer
Toyota 4Runner
Nissan Pathfinder
Currently I'm leaning toward the Toyota, 'cause I've had big success
with Toyota trucks in the past, and 'cause I think it's the best
looking of the three. But I thought I'd see if anyone has any strong
opinions....
Thanks!
-Karl
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Yes, and I do everyone else. Why, you may wonder, don't I do 'Fred'?
Well, that would just be too *obvious*, wouldn't it? Oh yeah, this
isn't my real name, either. I'm actually Elvis. Or maybe a lemur; I
sometimes have difficulty telling which is which.
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Do you have the specs for this monitor? What have they changed from the
F550i?
Do you know if their is going to be a new T560i soon? (a T560iW?)
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The National Air & Space Museum has both the prototype and the film.
When I was there, some years ago, they had the prototype on display and
the film continuously repeating.
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Just curious if anyone has started to standout early in the season in the
BB DDD this year. I expect the Phillies staff, while getting the wins,
would have to rank up there. Luis Gonzalez and Derrick May are among
the early league leaders, and all 6 of their bombs have come at the
Phils' expense. Neither of them have exactly been know for their tater
prowess in the past.
How have the Rockies been early? I know Mile High has produced a ton of
runs, but is it the launching pad everyone expected yet?
A concerned fan of the BB DDD,
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I'd be willing to make two wagers:
1) Snow doesn't win ROY.
2) Mattingly is out of baseball within five years.
I'm skeptical of the first, because I don't think Snow is that good a
player, and he is on a losing team.
I'm skeptical of the second because of his back. Mattingly is 32 this
year, and how many players play until they are 40? Not too many, and
most of them didn't have chronic back problems when they were 32.
Could be wrong on either or both, but I think that's the smart way to
bet...
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If you are interested in receiving the final player stats for
the 1992-1993 NHL Season as well as playoff box scores, stats and
scores/updates...
then e-mail my stat server
[email protected]
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Any new reports about iisi clock upgrade to 25 mhz, 33 mhz?
Any failures?
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What _is_ your problem? Hite's post wasn't a flame. It was a
correction of *your* error.
YOUR reply was a flame.
Not in the least.
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I've never seen a game where one player has committed 5
penalties. Something like this would require more attention by
the referee.
But you're creating a scoring opportunity where there might not
have been one before. I can see the relationship between free
throws awarded after a certain number of fouls, but it's
obviously easier to score in basketball, there are more
opportunities. If a basketball team scores 100 points, that's
at least fifty chances made. The average number of shots taken
by each team in a hockey game (and this is a total guess) is
probably around 40, and a team is lucky to capitalize on maybe
5 of them. You have some good ideas concerning the other
penalties, but I think that a player should be awarded a
penalty shot only when they had a chance to score and was
interfered with.
Also, later in the post, you talked about how boring the NBA
game you attended was, that play was stopped too often.
Wouldn't your penalty shot rule take up more time during a
hockey game?
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Here again, the problem with most of the individuals posting here, you take the
biblical account as though it were some sort of historical recounting in the
modern sense. I would refer you to John Dominic Crossans Book _The Cross That
Spoke_ (Pub. Harper and Row, 1988). The earliest texts which we have make no
reference to an empty tomb. Nor is an empty tomb necessary for a claim of
resurrection. Modern Evangelicals/Fundamentalists have completely missed what
the point of resurrection is -- Here the work of George Nickelsburg's work
_Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism_ (Publ
Cambridge, Havard Univ. Press, 1972) is most helpful. Look At Rom 1:1-3. Paul
here has no need of an empty tomb. Additionally in 1 Cor 15, Here again there
is no mention of an empty tomb. He was raised (note the passive), he appeared,
no ascension either.
Resurrection could be accomplished without ever disturbing the bones in the
grave. The whole idea of an empty tomb isn't broached in any of our texts
until well after the fall of Jerusalem. By that time, the idea of coming up
with a body would have been ludicrious. Moreover Mack has argued (convicingly,
I think) that the empty tomb story first appears in Mark (we have no texts
before this which mention the tomb).
You are quite right here. Even the Idea of a subjective mystical event as the
foundation of the resurrection narratives is currently becoming more untenable.
See B. Mack _A Myth of Innocence_.
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Most cars have drain petcocks in the radiators, and I've never
seen nor heard of a vandal opening one. I imagine that there
would be an even lower risk with an oil plug because you have
to crawl furthur under the car to open it.
Car vandals are usually real traditional in their methods, and do things
that don't get them dirty, like keying your car, dumping sand, sugar
or mothballs in the gas tank, TPing it, etc.
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