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Not clear to me at all. I'd certainly rather have a team who was winning
4-1 games than 2-1 games. In the 2-1 game, luck is going to play a much
bigger role than in the 4-1 game. | 2 | trimmed_train |
7,164 | The Casio 7500 lectric diary has a 3-wire serial interface with param
setting like RS232, for which one get a magic but expensive cable to
connect to a PC. Does anyone know the spec of this interface, e.g., it
needs inverting and boosting from CMOS signals to match RS232 lines? | 11 | trimmed_train |
5,871 |
They don't move, to anybody much bigger than an electron :-)
noah | 14 | trimmed_train |
6,774 |
The Cold War has not ended. The only thing that has happened is that
the two sides have exchanged roles.
The USA has a higher imprisonment rate (400 per 100,000 population)
than any country in Europe by a factor of 10 or so. In California,
it is over 600 per 100,000 population. The prison population in
California is now over 100,000, a quadrupling since 1980. Most of
these inmates were convicted under the drug prohibition laws. Police
now confiscate property, without trial, under a "good faith probable
cause" standard, in the name of depriving the horrible ghastly drug
dealers of their ill-gotten gains. Conduct an opinion poll, and a
majority will answer "yes" if you ask them whether civil liberties and
due process should be diluted in order to Send Our Young People The
Message That We Are Serious About Winning The War On Drugs. I don't
know whether anyone has measured such a figure among gun owners, but
I would expect the same result. They certainly seem to vote that way.
According to Jack Herer's book _The Emperor Wears No Clothes_, over
TWELVE MILLION YEARS of prison time have been served under the
marijuana prohibition laws, by people who were minding their own
business and causing no harm to others (and less harm to themselves
than users of tobacco, with 400,000 confirmed kills/year). Under
the "War on Drugs" campaign of "zero tolerance" due process protections
have eroded, and mandatory sentences of ten years without parole have
proliferated. By and large, gun owners have voted for the politicians
who favor such measures. And now, all the precedents--not only
legal, but political: "My fellow Americans, we must send our young
people the message that we are serious about winning the War On
Murder"--are going to be applied to the oncoming wave of gun
prohibition laws. Gun owners are about to get a taste of the medicine
they voted for believing it would be used only on those with different
tastes in recreational drugs.
What goes around comes around.
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2,174 | > [A very nice article on the DSS, which I thought answered
> David Cruz-Uribe's original queries quite well]
Here are some books I have read recently that helped me not only
prepare for a 5 week series I taught in Sunday School, but greatly
increased my knowledge of the Qumran scrolls. [...]
One other recent book I would heartily recommend is Joseph Fitzmyer's
_Response to 101 Questions about the Dead Sea Scrolls_ (Paulist,
1992).
Fitzmyer is one of the preeminent modern NT scholars. He was also one
of the early workers on the DSS. His book is written in a
straightforward Q&A that allows it to serve as a source for a great
wealth of clearly presented basic, up-to-the-moment information about
the DSS.
(This book is something of a companion volume to Raymond Brown's
_Response to 101 Questions about the Dead Sea Scrolls_.)
Nichael | 0 | trimmed_train |
1,479 | Hi,
Can anyone tell me the difference between ~30-pin and 72-pin Simms?
I wish to get detailed information about the origin of these two
different types of Simms, preferably a magazine review aricle.
By the way, if there is a FAQ for this group which covers the Simms
information, please also direct me to it.
Any help/information would be very much appreciated.
Sincerely, | 3 | trimmed_train |
10,132 | 3 | trimmed_train |
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8,399 |
I agree we need sleep & etc, but I disagree we are _just_ animals.
That statement is a categorical negative; it's like saying there are
_no_ polkadoted elephants. It may be true but one would have to be
omniscient to know for sure.
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3,248 | Mark Gregory Foster writes (concerning 1 Corinthians 16:2):
> The idea was introduced to me once that the reason Paul wanted
> the Corinthians to lay aside money for the collection on the
> first day of the week was that this was when they received their
> weekly wages.
But the ancient Romans did not observe a seven-day week. Unless a
man was working for a Jewish employer, he is unlikely to have been
paid on the first day of a seven-day week. Nor would a Jewish
employer have kept his wages over the week-end (see Lev 19:13; Dt
24:15). | 0 | trimmed_train |
7,380 |
True, but will traditional encryptions schemes, when further encrypted
by Clipper, be _more_ vulnerable to attacks such as partially known
plaintext? | 7 | trimmed_train |
1,897 |
For your information, Lankford is injured (I think it is his shoulder or rib
cage), so he could not use him as a pinch hitter.
I do believe that Whiten was a very good aquisition for the Cards. He does
not have too much offensive capabilities, but he is an awesome defensively.
Since when have the Cardnials actually thought of offense instead of defense?:)
I forgot who St. Louis gave up for him, but it was not too much.
As far as Gilkey is concerned, he is a leftfielder and so is Brian Jordan, who
beat him out. I expect to see a Gilkey/Jordan platoon in LF.
I agree with you on this one. As soon as Larkin threw that ball, I knew that
Lankford was a dead bird. But how could Dent have known that Larkin would make
a perfect throw?
I strongly believe that Torre is one of the best managers in baseball. Don't
forget the overachieving Cards of '91 that won all those close games and went
from last place to second place (although they were oveshadowed by the Braves/
Twins last to first climb). He won a division title, and barely lost a pennant
race when he was with the Braves (why Atlanta ever even considered firing him I
will never understand). With Torre at the controls, the Cardinals are heading
in the right direction.
One more thing, one game does not make a season. Yes, they lost to the Reds,
but with the second best pitching staff in the National League (first in the
East), and a pretty good offense, the Redbirds will win a lot more than they
lose. Maybe this is the year that they will go all the way.
Charles, a very enthusiastic Cardnials fan
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º Charles Rosen º THIRTY-FOUR TO THIRTEEN!!! º
º University of Alabama º NATIONAL CHAMPS!!! ROLL TIDE!!! º
º Tuscaloosa, AL º (Need I Say More?) º | 2 | trimmed_train |
7,558 | [stuff deleted]
Smart indeed. If what you're saying is true, Greeks who visit are happy,
the Turkish merchants are happy; who is harmed? No one. So not only was
it a smart move, it was also a good move for it adds to the happiness of
200.000 Greeks per week and however many Turkish merchants they interact with.
One simple move in the paperwork arena -> lotsa happy people of both
nationalities. Just and observation.
cheers,
BM | 6 | trimmed_train |
1,421 |
Applied Engineering makes a NuBus card called the QuadraLink which is
a board that contains 4 serial ports, which I believe can be used
simultaneously. I'm not a user of one of these, but I have installed
a couple for people at work (I'm a technician). Hope this helps.
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3,351 | I am in need of all of the players wearing #77 in the NHL. I know now only
of one, Ray Borque for the Bruins. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx.
| 17 | trimmed_train |
11,037 | -> >Now let me get this straight. After a nice, long rant about
-> >how people need to take personal responsibility for their
-> >economic and social lives, all of a sudden 1960's radicals
-> >(such as me, I guess) are responsible for poor people's
-> >lifestyles? Tell me how that works--or do you think that poor
-> >people are just too dumb to think for themselves?
-> >
-> >There are many reasons for the disintegration of the family
-> >and support systems in general among this nation's poor.
-> >Somehow I don't think Murphy Brown--or Janis Joplin--is at
-> >the top of any sane person's list.
-> >
-> >You want to go after my generation's vaunted cultural
-> >revolution for a lasting change for the worse, try so-called
-> >"relevant" or "values" education. Hey, it seemed like a good
-> >idea at the time. How were we to know you needed a real
-> >education first--I mean, we took that for granted.
->
-> The 1960's generation were the most spoiled and irresponsible.
->
-> The Depression had create mothers and fathers that were determined that their
-> kids would not want for anything -- going overboard and creating a nation of
-> brats.
->
-> Consider the contrast between two famous events in July of 1969.
->
-> Apollo 11 and Woodstock.
->
-> Which group had large numbers of people that could not feed themselves and
-> reverted to the cultural level of primitives (defecation in public etc.).
->
-> And which group assembled, took care of itself, and dispersed with no damage,
-> no deaths, no large numbers of drug problems ....
->
Wasn't Woodstock also called the biggest parking lot in
history? They rejected society and went back to nature in their
parent's cars. | 13 | trimmed_train |
10,262 |
Since the actual verdicts were not known by the authorities, it was
smart not to allow "Friday night for fighting" (sorry, Elton) and to
seal them for this morning. Also, it allows for maximum daylight to
wear down and frustrate any potential troublemakers, as well as give
more preparation time.
Are you a local news intern? (-;
Actually, that was 8 PM 'cos it was shown live on our 11 PM news
and cut into CNN's 11 O'clock Sports (sorry, but I didn't watch
the Devils-Islanders game! No SportsChannel ...).
We had cutovers to LA's KNBC on our WNBC, and I didn't recall this
detail. But I'll not comment further on that ...
A net-contact in L.A. tells me that the alert will remain over this
weekend, as some elements may find excuse over the not-guilty verdicts
on three of five charges (the aiding-and-abetting). Those acquittals
seem to balance out the fact that Rodney King himself was not any kind
of angel that night, speeding and fleeing et al. However ... Another
consideration is any street celebrations over the two convictions on
the excessive force charges (Koons for incompetance, and Powell for
overreacting --- both guilty as heck even from the view of NYPD cops
interviewed) that might get out of hand. )-; Also, some elements
may take the acquittals as an excuse to challenge the cops (a dumb
move, obviously). And, Koreans are still scared and certain people
are really mad over how they have armed themselves in the last year.
A Commander from Nassau, Long Island was questioned about how his
people would have handled Rodney King, and he said "We'd have let
him roll around in the dirt 'til he got tired, then handcuff him".
gld | 13 | trimmed_train |
6,035 | To make room for Harkey, the Cubs sent Shawn Boskie down to AAA.
| 2 | trimmed_train |
6,733 | 386DX 25Mhz (DTK motherboard Intel microprocessor)
128k internal cache
4 megs Ram
89 meg Harddrive (IDE controller)
1.2 meg floppy drive
1.44 meg floppy drive
2 serial ports
1 parallel port
Samsung VGA monitor
VGA graphics card
101 key keyboard
2400 baud internal modem
MS-DOS 6.0
Procomm Plus ver. 2.0
Norton Utilities ver. 4.5
other varius utilities
I'm upgrading and need to sell. The system is reliable and ready to go.
I've never had any problems with it.
I'm asking $1050 o.b.o.
If you're interested, please respond by either E-mail or phone.
[email protected]
or
409-696-6043 | 5 | trimmed_train |
11,215 |
I have the ARRL Handbook for the Radio AMateur, and I'm getting the
Solid STate Design for the Radio Amateur. | 11 | trimmed_train |
10,226 | Hi to all out there. We have this problem, and I'm not certain I'm solving it
in the correct way. I was wondering if anyone can shed light on this, or point
me in the right place to look...
We have an X-ray imaging camera and a metallic tube with a cylindrical hole
passing through it at a right angle to the tube's axis:
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|| [ image
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X-ray source ] || | screen
metallic || tube |
|| |
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We know source--screen centre distance, radius of the tube, radius of the hole.
We do some calculations based on the image of the hole on the screen. However,
the calculations are mathematically highly complex, and must assume that the
object's hole projects an image (resembling an ellipse if the tube is not
parallel to the screen) in the centre of the screen. However, it is unlikely
that the object is placed so conveniently.
Firstly, we must transform the major and minor axis of the ellipse. I cannot
know what the angle between the tube and screen is. Do I have to assume that
they are parallel to do the transformation? How do I do this transformation?
Secondly, there is a distortion of the image due to the screen being planar
(the source--screen distance increases as we move away from the centre of the
screen). How can I compensate the ellipse's axis for this image distortion?
So, please can anyone give us a few pointers here? How do we transform the
image so it appears as it would if it were in the centre of the screen, and how
do I deal with distortion due to the shape of the screen?
We'd appreciate any help, either posted or emailed.
Thanks in advance, Simon. | 1 | trimmed_train |
1,303 |
Since our doctors are private and the "system" is just an insurance
plan, litigation would not involve the insurance fund. Our lawyers
do not work on contingency, so that if you were to sue for malpractice
then you'd better be sure of winning to cover your fees ... likewise,
if you were a doctor and subject of a suit, it's time to sweat.
A few weeks ago, the president of the Canadian MA wrote a letter to
the NYT to decry a lobbyist's advert repeating the same old trash.
This is significant because the AMA and the CMA are interlinked
organizations and he would not have done it without the approval
of his AMA cronies.
It serves the same purpose as the Bethesda Naval Hospital ... since
not all hospitals can provide everything, maybe they have some stuff
that others don't? (Ottawa's population is only a quarter million,
if you include the surrounding counties.)
People of influence will get their way in any system, American or
European. It's the "Golden Rule" - he who has the gold makes the
rules. (-;
As for annual budgets, those are actually annual grants for facilities
(e.g., mops, pans, etc.) given to hospitals of which most are private
nonprofit foundations (btw, I have no problem with having aggressive
for-profit hospitals like the French, who use our approach ... but in
the Paris region they have almost as many people as Canada does so
their market is much more diverse). The rest has to be made up for
by billings from patients who use their services.
The GDP figures are combined public and private expenditures for total
outlay, and are compiled use the same methods by the OECD that yield
the 13-14% figure for the U.S.
How? They are collecting premiums ... and I'm an advocate of having
copayments like the French do in their system in order to make it look
more like the real insurance that it is. The private doctors and
hospitals will still be there after the insurance (hypothically)
disappears, as they were there before it appeared.
For one thing, I think that Bob Rae is an idiot ...
Most of OHIP comes from separate premiums on your paycheck if you are
a player ... he wants to spend our money on other things than the
health insurance. Our high taxes are high for other spending but
health insurance, which is separate and optional, and it is being
spent in a nonpartisan manner by every party. )-;
OHIP is just a health insurance plan; it does not provide any kind
of health care, that is up to you and your private doctors.
Some of the companies providing extra insurance are subsidiaries of
American companies, and their parents provide full insurance down
here. Regardless, all firms up north can easily turn on cable TV
to see how well the American firms are doing by being involved in
basic coverage. The private firms are making too much money after
having gotten rid of basic coverage. They run around patting them-
selves on the back for their own cooperation in providing extras
for those people who "deserve it".
I agree ... they were in a win-win situation. But right now, it seems
that they have won bigger, when you look at how full their coffers
are. Friends from my sisters' MBA class were still being flown out
for job interviews individually with insurance firms in London, ON,
(Canada's insurance capitol a la Hartford) along with generous expense
privileges this year despite the ongoing post-recession blues.
gld | 13 | trimmed_train |
6,590 | [...]
[...]
I just found out from my source that this article was a joke. Heh heh..
It seemed pretty damn convincing to me from the start -- I just didn't
notice the smiley at the end of the article, and there were a few other
hints which I should of caught.
Anyway -- I guess this 'joke' did turn out to resemble Clinton's true
feelings at least to some extent.
Sorry about that... | 7 | trimmed_train |
1,471 | Well, the temp file thing creates an obvious problem: it is impossible to use
cview for viewing CD-ROM based picture collections. And it is the ONLY non-
windows viewer that works properly with my Cirrus-based 24 bit VGA.
| 1 | trimmed_train |
9,649 |
BUT... If you are in the habit of trying to repair old and obsolete
machines, the old data books are a goldmine of information you can
not get anywhere else. If you are trying to find a modern replacement
for an obsolete part, the original specs really come in handy. Design
out of the new books but save the old ones (or donate them to a ham).
If anybody in Phoenix disagrees, I'll drive over and help them 'get rid'
of all their old data books. | 11 | trimmed_train |
8,905 |
Are you sure that he needs a two way converter? If he wants only
RS232->TTL I would suggest the MC1489, its very cheap (0.80 DM in
Germany). This chip needs only +5V. The MC1488 TTL->RS232-Converter
uses +12V and -12V.
BTW... The MAX232 and compatibles seem to be expensive in the USA...
I paid 2.95 DM for a ITS80272 (made by Harris), its absolutely
compatible with the MAX232 or the ICL232.
Gerrit
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10,349 |
I can only comment on thermal recalibration in general. Some new
drives perform it in order to increase overall integrity of data
writes. Basically, the firmware instructs the actuator to perform
a test to see if the data tracks are within a certain physical
tolerance, since when the media heats up or cools down, *some*
track drift is inevitable, and the drive has to monitor it. This
becomes especially critical at very high recording densities, and
so was used primarily on very large-capacity mechanisms, but it
seems to be finding its way into more smaller drives as a way of
boosting the drive's long-term reliability and MTBF ratings.
I first became aware of thermal recalibration when it was pointed
out that the technique conflicts with prolonged write times when
digitizing, say, audio or video to hard disk. Some manufacturers
explicitly state that drives with thermal recalibration are NOT
to be used for applications that have prolonged disk writes.
Hope this helps. | 14 | trimmed_train |
1,130 | As I promised, I would give you the name of the Panther's president.
After Huizenga announced the team name, he announced that Bill
Torrey is named the first president of the Panthers.
A little Bio from _Sun-Sentinel_
Torrey, the architect of four consecutive Stanley Cup champions as
persident and general manager of the New York Islanders.
Throughout his 27 years in the NHL, Bill Torrey's bow ties have become
as much of a signature as Andre Agassi's hair.
The Panthers will introduce a uniform, insignia, and ticket-price
information in early next month. In the meantime, Huizenga leaves the
day-to-day operation in the hands of Torrey and Bob Clarke, the VP and
GM.
The Florida Panthers was chosen as the name of South Florida's NHL team
to focus attention on an endangered species. There are 30 to 50 Florida
Panthers in the Everglades National Park, the Big Cypress National
Preserve and other parts of southwestern Florida.
"The Panther is the quickest-striking of all cats," Torrey said.
"Hopefully that's the way we'll play on ice."
More BIO:
In Torrey, Huizenga has the first man hired by the expansion Islanders
in 1972 and the one most responsible for guiding the Islanders to four
consecutive Stanley Cup championships (their first after only eight
seasons) and 14 consecutive winning seasons. As executive vice president
of the California Golden Seals, Torrey watched the Seals go to the play-
offs in 1968, only their second NHL season.
"I guess this completes my own personal hat trick", said Torrey, 58, a
native of Montreal but a resident of Bear Lakes Country Club in Palm
Beach.
Jim G.
other accounts:
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"I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat..." Adrian Belew, "Indicipline" | 17 | trimmed_train |
3,235 |
No, he gives the keys to the FBI (who may then give them to the local police
on request) who then simply put some alagator clips on your phone junction
box and conduct an illegal tap. They then decrypt when they recover the tape.
Its just doing what the government does best: breaking the law. | 7 | trimmed_train |
3,988 |
: >Compiled from the last five Defensive Average reports, here are the career
: >DAs for the individual players in the reports. Stats are courtesy of
: >Sherri Nichols. Players are listed in descending order.
: And some comments, with some players deleted.
: >Third Basemen
: >-------------
: >Leius, Scott ---- ---- ---- .653 .680 0.672
: Looks good. Too bad he's moving to short.
: >Pagliarulo, Mike .631 ---- .575 .744 ---- 0.649
: This is an interesting line. His 1988 figure was slightly below average.
: His 1990 was pathetic, and his 1991 was the next best year by anybody. Part of
: that may be his mobility. 1988 was with the Yankees. 1990 was with the
: Padres, who appear to have a rotten infield. 1991 was with the Twins, and
: judging by Leius and Gaetti, the Metrodome may be a good place to play
: third.
Gaetti, Gary .616 .638 .655 .632 ---- 0.637
Apologies if I don't know what I'm talking about :-), but as a Twins fan,
I like to think they have good players in any park. Not sure if I remember
completely or not, but I think Gaetti played with the Twins in '87 for the
world series, and again in '88 (note that's his lowest of the 4). I believe
the next 3 (or at least the last two) were played with the Angels. Lots
of factors make a player excell... I hate it when so many use the dome.
It may not be ideal, but nice to comfortably enjoy baseball and football
even when it's snowing and raining.
-Craig | 2 | trimmed_train |
4,784 | I have a Hallicrafters S120 SW radio for sale. Worked the last time I
tried it out. Make offer.
MD | 5 | trimmed_train |
2,641 |
I think this is mostly the fault of the people who write up the
literature and price lists being confused themselves. Since there are
two possible processor configurations and one of the them doesn't have
an FPU it does seem to be an option, even though it really isn't.
Well, then allow me to end your confusion. The C650 ONLY come with
an LC040 in the base 4/80 configuration. If you are not getting this
configuration then you are getting an FPU.
Good question. I have been wondering that since Feb. 10th.
This is possible, but an option is something that you are supposed
to be able to request when you want it. What Apple has done is given the
buyer a CHOICE between configurations and not an OPTION.
This is not unclear at all. In fact Apple has included in the ROMs
of those machines with LC040s code to recognize the presence of the full
040's FPU and use it. Thereby making the upgrade as easy as switching
chips. You pop the LC040 out and pop in a full '040.
They did? I think I would double-check this. It has been stated
countless times in this newsgroup by two of the Centris hardware
designers that the LC040 and the full '040 are pin compatible and that
the C610 can be upgraded to a full '040. | 14 | trimmed_train |
6,319 | About this QUADRA 700, 800 clock acceleration: has anyone heard
of anything like it for the QUADRA 950?
Please reply e-mail, I don't get to the news very often. Thanks!! | 14 | trimmed_train |
5,607 | Are you using Windows 3.0 or 3.1? If you're still on 3.0, 3.1 devotes about
twice as much memory to these and runs out much less frequently. If 3.1,
you might use one of the resource monitors (such as the one that comes with
the Windows 3.1 Resource Kit or one of the many shareware ones available)
to see which programs are hogging the resources (every icon, internal
graphics brush, etc. in every program running uses a certain amount of
this limited memory area. Also, some don't give it back when they're
finished). | 18 | trimmed_train |
1,600 | Kermit Tensmeyer quoted from a few sources and then wrote something.
I will attempt to construct a facsimile of what was previously said, and
then address Kermit's offering.
John Redelfs originally wrote...
jr> I learned that a man cannot frustrate justice by repenting on his
jr> death bed because repentance is more than a feeling of remorse. It
jr> requires faith in Christ proven by following him, by keeping his
jr> commandments. Such cannot be accomplished on ones deathbed.
Tom Albrecht responded...
ta> So Jesus must have lied to the thief on the cross.
John Redelfs wrote back that...
jr> Paradise and salvation are not the same thing. Salvation is better.
jr> Refer to John 14:2.
I responded to John that...
rw> I don't see the effort to equate salvation with paradise.
rw>
rw> Rather, I see implied the fact that only those who are saved
rw> may enter paradise.
To which Kermit wrote...
kt> Incomplete reference:
kt>
kt> See also the discussion: Did Jesus go into Hell in the BibleStudy group
kt> for the arguments that Paradise and Hell(sheol) are places after death
kt> The discussion (no LDS were involved as far as I could see) argued using
kt> standard Christian argument from the Bible that pretty much support the
kt> LDS position.
kt>
kt> Christ went to paridise after his death and burial.
kt>
kt> He taught the prisoners and freed them from Darkness.
kt>
kt> When he was resurrected, he had not yet ascended to his father.
kt>
kt> The arguement centered around what was or wasn't the proper biblical
kt> terms for those places.
I respond.
The question that was raised was not if Jesus went to infernal Paradise
before entering into heaven. No one has made a point for or against
that issue, nor have they compared the LDS position against orthodox
belief. The infernal paradise is held to be Abraham's bosom (Luke 16),
the place of the righteous dead in sheol (equivalent to hades).
The point that was raised by John was that someone could not repent
on their death bed. Tom Albrecht pointed to a Biblical example that was
contradictory to what John's position put forward. The thief on the
cross was promised by Christ to be with Him in Paradise, the abode of
the righteous dead. John's position possibly needs to be reworked.
Kermit needs to address the topic at hand. | 15 | trimmed_train |
5,663 |
As has been noted before, there is the distinction between _motivation_
and _method_. No experimental result should be accepted unless it is
described in sufficient detail to be replicated, and the replications
do indeed reproduce the result. No theoretical argument should be
accepted unless it is presented in sufficient detail to be followed, and
reasonable, knowlegeable, people agree with the force of the logic.
But people try experiments, and pursue arguments, for all sorts of crazy
reasons. Irrational motivations are not just curiousities; they are a
large part of the history of science.
There are a couple of negative points to make here:
1) A theory of qi could, conceivably, become accepted without direct
verification of the existence of qi. For example, quarks are an accepted
part of the standard model of physics, with no direct verification. What
would be needed would be a theory, based on qi, that predicted medical
reality better than the alternatives. The central theoretical claim could
lie forever beyond experiment, as long as there was a sufficient body of
experimental data that the qi theory predicted better than any other.
(I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the triumph of qi, though.
I don't think that there is even a coherent theory based on it, much less
a theory that explains anything at all better than modern biology. And it
is hard to imagine a qi theory that would not predict some way of rather
directly verifying the existence of qi.)
2) Science has not historically progressed in any sort of rational
experiment-data-theory sequence. Most experiments are carried out, and
interpreted, in pre-existing theoretical frameworks. The theoretical
controversies of the day determine which experiments get done. Overall,
there is a huge messy affair of personal jealousies, crazy motivations,
petty hatreds, and the like that determines which experiments, and which
computations, get done. What keeps it going forward is the critical
function of science: results don't count unless they can be replicated.
The whole system is a sort of mechanism for generate-and-test. The generate
part can be totally irrational, as long as the test part works properly.
Pasteur could believe whatever he liked about chemical activity and crystals;
but even Mitscherlich had to agree that racemic acid crystals were handed;
that when you separate them by handedness, you get two chemicals that rotate
polarized light in opposite directions; and the right-rotating version was
indistinguishable from tartaric acid. Pasteur's irrational motivation had
led to a replicable, and important, result.
This is where Lysenko, creationists, etc. fail. They have usually not
even produced coherent theories that predict much of anything. When their
theories do predict, and are contradicted by experiment, they do not
concede the point and modify their theories; rather they try to suppress
the results (Lysenko) or try to divert attention to other evidence they
think supports their position (creationists). | 19 | trimmed_train |
9,595 | I used to be a marriage commissioner for the Alaska Court
System (sort of a justice of the peace). I had great difficulty
with that duty. I used to pray earnestly in the courthouse
bathroom before the ceremonies, mostly asking that the couples
would come to appreciate and fulfill the true holiness and
divine purpose in marriage--couples who obviously didn't realize
that marriage is God's institution, not the state's. Gradually,
however, I came to conclude that because I was acting in a
strictly secular, public capacity, established as such by both
the state and the expectations of the couples involved, I was
really conducting a purely secular, legal civil event, with no
greater moral or religious implications than if I had been
conducting a civil trial (the couple who told me, mid-ceremony,
to "please hurry it up" may have helped me to this conclusion).
I thought I had neatly rationalized a clear and sharp
distinction between marriage before God, and "marriage" before
the state, until I had to deal with my own divorce. Keeping
Matthew 19:6 in mind, I felt that the state had no business
dissolving my marriage established before God, but of course it
assumed jurisdiction nonetheless.
I would ask those of you proposing answers to this
question to consider this issue's logical extension: If
intercourse, or the mental intent of the parties, or the
ceremony of the church, or any combination thereof, establishes
marriage, then at what moment is it dissolved? | 0 | trimmed_train |
1,553 |
Perhaps so. I was only responding to the "Yankees of the 20's and 30's"
part of the comment. If those teams were a 'sure thing' and lost,
then it's probably not so unreasonable for someone to pick another
team (not that I did). | 2 | trimmed_train |
10,548 | Several people have enquired about the availability of the book about the
Great 72" reflector built at Birr Castle, Ireland in 1845 which remained the
largest in the world until the the start of the 20th century.
"The Astronomy of Birr Castle" was written by Patrick Moore who now sits on
the committee which is going to restore the telescope. (The remains are on
public display all year round - the massive support walls, the 60 foot long
tube, and other bits and pieces). This book is the definitivie history of
how one man, the Third Earl of Rosse, pulled off the most impressive
technical achievement, perhaps ever, in the history of the telescope, and
the discoveries made with the instrument.
Patrick Moore is donating all proceeds from the book's sale to help restore
the telescope. Astronomy Ireland is making the book available world wide by
mail order. It's a fascinating read and by ordering a copy you bring the day
when we can all look through it once again that little bit nearer.
=====ORDERING INFORMATION=====
"The Astronomy of Birr Castle" Dr. Patrick Moore, xii, 90pp, 208mm x 145mm.
Price:
U.S.: US$4.95 + US$2.95 post & packing (add $3.50 airmail)
U.K. (pounds sterling): 3.50 + 1.50 post & packing
EUROPE (pounds sterling): 3.50 + 2.00 post and packing
REST OF WORLD: as per U.S. but funds payable in US$ only.
PAYMENT:
Make all payments to "Astronomy Ireland".
CREDIT CARD: MASTERCARD/VISA/EUROCARD/ACCESS accepted by email or snail
mail: give card number, name & address, expiration date, and total amount.
Payments otherwise must be by money order or bank draft.
Send to our permanent address: P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 1, Ireland.
You can also subscribe to "Astronomy & Space" at the same time. See below:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 1, Ireland.
6 issues (one year sub.): UK 10.00 pounds, US$20 surface (add US$8 airmail).
ACCESS/VISA/MASTERCARD accepted (give number, expiration date, name&address). | 10 | trimmed_train |
8,883 | Hi,
I have a Quantum ProDrive LPS 40 MB SCSI hard drive for sale.
It came with my MacIIsi and was replaced by a larger hard drive.
In great working condition. Fast and quiet. Never had a problem.
Asking $100+COD shipping or reasonable offer.
Also for sale with the drive:
Brand new mounting bracket for MacII or MacSE. It also includes
SCSI data and power cable. $10 with the HD.
Please reply with email or call (217)337-5710 and leave message.
Thanks.
Ding-Kai Chen
[email protected] | 5 | trimmed_train |
9,383 |
: >EVER HEAR OF
: >BAPTISM AT BIRTH? If that isn't preying on the young, I don't know what
: >is...
: >
: RB>
: RB> No, that's praying on the young. Preying on the young comes
: RB> later, when the bright eyed little altar boy finds out what the
: RB> priest really wears under that chasible.
Does this statement further the atheist cause in some way, surely it's
not intended as wit ... | 8 | trimmed_train |
11,284 |
And they're more like 1024x1024x8 charging & discharging capacitors in a DRAM
SIMM =-) | 14 | trimmed_train |
6,863 | [email protected] (James A. Donald) writes...
Hello? What the Sloan decision means is that the tax protestors
were wrong.
Demonstrate, please! The rules of procedure make this very
unlikely.
FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY
Which makes it legally unsound. If I were representing Mr. Teel,
I'd try a procedural approach if I could find one, or recommend
he plea-bargain. He's setting himself up to be in hot water.
Daniel Reitman
HOW NOT TO WRITE A DEED
One case involved the construction of a conveyance to grantees "jointly, as
tenants in common, with equal rights and interest in said land, and to the
survivor thereof, in fee simple. . . . To Have and to Hold the same unto the
said parties hereto, equally, jointly, as tenants in common, with equal rights
and interest for the period or term of their lives, and to the survivor thereof
at the death of the other." | 13 | trimmed_train |
7,195 | 1st round:
----------
PITT vs NYI: PITT in 4.
It looks like a safe bet. NYI has been bagging it of late.
NYI and NJD have a showdown Friday night for the honour
of Pittsburg anyway. Pigsburg in 4.
WASH vs NJD: WASH in 6.
I think that NJD have a solid team and will compete with
WASH. I agree though with WASH in 6.
BOS vs BUF: BOS in 5.
The B's have been playing awesome hockey in the last
two weeks. The only question is how long will it last?
Fuhr is a dud. BOS in 4.
QUE vs MON: MON in 7.
It seems to me that MON is much like the VAN - no chemistry.
The Habs seem to be not in stride. QUE in 5.
CHI vs STL: CHI in 4.
STL should not be in the playoffs. CHI in 4.
DET vs TOR: DET in 6.
I am a diehard Leaf fan but ... It seems that the Leafs
offense is shutting down in the last week. Can they
turn it around against Detroit. As I recall, the last
couple of time these two teams met, the Leafs were pummelled.
I don't know if Bobbie is allowed in Canada yet. If he is,
DET in 5. If not, DET in 6.
VAN vs WIN: WIN in 6.
Upset in the making here. Another team with bad chemistry.
There is something gone foul among Linden, Momesso and Bure.
WIN in 6.
CAL vs LA: CAL in 5.
Anybody that says that LA could possibly beet CAL does
not watch the Smythe a whole lot. LA is a bunch of Geritols.
CAL in 4.
2nd round:
----------
PITT vs WASH: PITT in 4.
It seems to me that Pigsburg has some egos on their team. Their
saving grace though is Bowman. He can put anybody in their place.
However, if PIGS have a quick first round, they may be a little
too high. WASH could be there for a surprise. Having said that,
I will say PITT in 6.
BOS vs MON: BOS in 6.
MON will not be there. BOS is surprising me of late. Cam is great.
The couple of wins against QUE last week have sold me with the
B's. B's in 6.
CHI vs DET: CHI in 7.
Yikes. This will not be pretty. But DET is running like a machine
of late. They've had a non-busy end of the season in which they played
like killers. DET in 6.
WIN vs CAL: CAL in 5.
CAL has a solid team, a little weak in the nets. CAL will out
muscle WIN. CAL in 5.
3rd round:
----------
PITT vs BOS: PITT in 5.
I hate PITT. My logic eludes me. The dark side will take over
and give BOS the extra push it needs to dump PITT. There may
be something to this - if you think of the rivalry. BOS in 7.
CHI vs CAL: CHI in 5.
Finals:
------
PITT vs CHI: PITT in 5.
NO, no, no. We have BOS vs DET. I don't know what to say
here. Both teams will be flying and overdue. I will go
with goaltending and muscle and say DET in 7.
| 17 | trimmed_train |
7,166 |
When I'm riding my 900RR, my goodies are already up
against the tank, because the design of the Corbin seat
tends to move you forward.
Wouldn't the major danger to one's cajones be due to
accelerating into and then being stopped by the tank? If
you're already there, there wouldn't be an impact
problem, would there?
- Michael -
| 12 | trimmed_train |
3,976 | Is it possible to run an MIT R5 based Xserver on a Sun with a Rasterops TC
Colorboard (24bit board)? I have the Xsun24 patches for supporting sun's
24bit frame buffers but does the rasterops appear as if its a cgtwelve or
something else? I know nothing about the rasterops other than we might be
buying one to put in an IPX. | 16 | trimmed_train |
383 |
Well, a student body president can't exactly campaign on the stand
that he's "tough on crime". Their job is to listen to what people want
and fund things that make sense.
Condoms and marijuana aren't exactly the worst things to have available
either... | 13 | trimmed_train |
10,260 | I'm attempting to transfer files from my home computer running
Windows 3.1 Terminal to a workstation at school. The file transfer protocol
at home is Kermit for binary files. I'm running Kermit on the workstation at school and
setting the file transfer protocol to binary. I am unable to upload files
to school but can download files from school to home. During download,
Terminal displays ther retrying message several times then the message '
Verify you're using the correct protocol'.
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix? Either e-mail or post to this
group.
Thanks, in advance, | 18 | trimmed_train |
9,686 | JS>From: [email protected] (John Stafford)
JS>In article <[email protected]>,
JS>>
JS>> How about a decal of thicker vinyl?
JS> How about a Geeky temporary tatoo? I mean, why should the
JS> RUBs be exempt from a little razzing.
That's sick! I want!
You make 'em up, I promise to order. I wannabe Badtothebone!
The cheesy "Live to Ride" eagles are sitting on my shelf, waiting for
the big ride down the coast. (It now looks like we may hit points
farther south than expected. How do I get in contact with Bay Area
Denizens? Replies to address below. Me n' Charlie will be along in early
or mid May.)
Seriously. I like the idea of temporary Geekys (Geekies? Geekae?
Geekii?). It fits the whole DoD image: it sounds bad, but it's really
worse.
Ryan Cousinetc.|1982 Yamaha Vision XZ550 -Black Pig of Inverness|Live to Ride
KotRB |1958 AJS 500 C/S -King Rat |to Work to
DoD# 0863 |I'd be a squid if I could afford the bike... |Flame to
[email protected] | Vancouver, BC, Canada |Live . . .
JS>====================================================
JS>John Stafford Minnesota State University @ Winona
JS> All standard disclaimers apply.
* SLMR 2.1a * If Lucas built weapons, wars wouldn't start, either.
| 12 | trimmed_train |
6,555 | The 3FGx has a maximum horizontal scan rate of 49KHz, so driving it
at 60.24KHz to get 1024 x 768 on the Mac is WAY BEYOND the tolerance The 4FG is spec'ed at 57KHz, so going 60.24KHz is only 5-6% above
the minimally guaranteed figure.
I too doubt if the Damark monitor would sync to a Mac at 1024 x 768. Like most things, you get what you pay. That's the deal.
-John Rutirasiri. | 14 | trimmed_train |
10,238 |
I know someone had long talks about Solar Sails early this year and late last
year..Also about Solar Sailing. Not sure who captured it if possible..
I think it was one of the regulars who had most or all the data?
I think I started the latest round or the late last year round.. But the topic
has been around here, off and on for a year or two.. | 10 | trimmed_train |
3,956 |
And I was pointing out that legal precedent defines a human being as
referring only to the born, so your suggestion was incorrect.
There is a confusion here about what "bodily resources" constitutes. Blood
transfusions and organ donations involve bodily resources; your examples
do not. | 13 | trimmed_train |
1,497 |
> Clipper might be a good way to cover the use of another layer of
> encryption.
But, if you are making custom equipment in any case, why not just
roll your own Clipper implementation and report the wrong keys to the
Escrow agency? (Tells us who is going to be in the chip business if
this thing goes through--NSA, and those with something to hide from
NSA.)
If anyone can verify that your phone is not using the key registered
to that serial number, either:
1) They have a court ordered wiretap. But what are they going to
do? Tell the judge that this individual really does have privacy?
All they know is that the keys are not enough, but not why.
2) They have a court ordered wiretap on a phone in this series.
(This part is really scary. Since the "expectation" is that all
chips in a particular batch will uses seeds based on the same S1 and
S2 and the serial number, getting the keys for one of a batch may give
access to all.)
3) There is a backdoor which allows all messages to be deciphered
without the keys. I find this one especially threatening since the
scheme seems very open to known plaintext attacks. (What I need to
decipher is the data in the header. If I talk to someone who has one
of these phones, presumably there will be an automatically negotiated
key generated. I'm not trying to decipher the record of the
conversation to know what was said, I use it as a known plaintext to
recover the backdoor represented by the header, but I know what the
header says for conversations I participate in. Even worse, if the
phones in a series have related keys, I can buy a phone/chip from the
same production lot. Then I can recover its keys, either elegantly by
talking to myself, or by brute force analysis of the actual chip, then
apply the key generation process with those seeds to find the target
keys.)
Hmmm! I don't think I want to ever come close to these phones.
Even DES is starting to look good. Two cans and a string will provide
much better security.
--
Robert I. Eachus | 7 | trimmed_train |
2,314 | A few days ago there was a posting in this group by Andrea Winkler
titled "X and Security / X Technical Conference". I was one of the
instructors of that tutorial. Unfortunately, my system purged
the message before I had a chance to see it, and I don't have
Andrea's email address. If someone has Andrea's address and/or
the posting, I would really appreciate it if you'd forward it to
me!
Thanks
--Jeremy
Jeremy Epstein Internet: [email protected]
Trusted X Research Group Voice: +1 703/803-4947
TRW Systems Division
Fairfax Virginia | 16 | trimmed_train |
7,671 | THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 14, 1993
TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
TO THE SPEAKER OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND
THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE
April 13, 1993
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
As part of my continuing effort to keep the Congress fully
informed, I am providing this report, consistent with section 4
of the War Powers Resolution, to advise you of actions that I
have ordered in support of the United Nations efforts in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Beginning with U.N. Security Council Resolution 713 of
September 25, 1991, the United Nations has been actively
addressing the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. The Security
Council acted in Resolution 781 to establish a ban on all
unauthorized military flights over Bosnia-Herzegovina. There
have, however, been blatant violations of the ban, and villages
in Bosnia have been bombed.
In response to these violations, the Security Council decided,
in Resolution 816 of March 31, 1993, to extend the ban to all
unauthorized flights over Bosnia-Herzegovina and to authorize
Member States, acting nationally or through regional organi-
zations, to take all necessary measures to ensure compliance.
NATO's North Atlantic Council (NAC) agreed to provide NATO air
enforcement for the no-fly zone. The U.N. Secretary General
was notified of NATO's decision to proceed with Operation DENY
FLIGHT, and an activation order was delivered to participating
allies.
The United States actively supported these decisions. At my
direction, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent an execute order to
all U.S. forces participating in the NATO force, for the conduct
of phased air operations to prevent flights not authorized by
the United Nations over Bosnia-Herzegovina. The U.S. forces
initially assigned to this operation consist of 13 F-15 and
12 F-18A fighter aircraft and supporting tanker aircraft.
These aircraft commenced enforcement operations at 8:00 a.m.
e.d.t. on April 12, 1993. The fighter aircraft are equipped for
combat to accomplish their mission and for self-defense.
NATO has positioned forces and has established combat air
patrol (CAP) stations within the control of Airborne Early
Warning (AEW) aircraft. The U.S. CAP aircraft will normally
operate from bases in Italy and from an aircraft carrier in the
Adriatic Sea. Unauthorized aircraft entering or approaching
the no-fly zone will be identified, interrogated, intercepted,
escorted/monitored, and turned away (in that order). If these
steps do not result in compliance with the no-fly zone, such
aircraft may be engaged on the basis of proper authorization by
NATO military authorities and in accordance with the approved
more
(OVER)
2
rules of engagement, although we do not expect such action will
be necessary. The Commander of UNPROFOR (the United Nations
Protection Force currently operating in Bosnia-Herzegovina) was
consulted to ensure that his concerns for his force were fully
considered before the rules of engagement were approved.
It is not possible to predict at this time how long such
operations will be necessary. I have directed U.S. armed forces
to participate in these operations pursuant to my constitutional
authority as Commander in Chief. I am grateful for the con-
tinuing support that the Congress has given to this effort, and
I look forward to continued cooperation as we move forward
toward attainment of our goals in this region.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
| 13 | trimmed_train |
6,695 |
There's a lot of evidence, it just hasn't been adequately gathered and
published in a way that will convince the die-hard melancholic skeptics
who quiver everytime the word 'anecdote' or 'empirical' is used.
For example, Dr. Ivker, who wrote the book "Sinus Survival", always gives,
before any other treatment, a systemic anti-fungal (such as Nizoral) to his
new patients IF they've been on braod-spectrum anti-biotics 4 or more times
in the last two years. He's kept a record of the results, and for over
2000 patients found that over 90% of his patients get significant relief
of allergic/sinus symptoms. Of course, this is only the beginning for his
program.
In my case, as I reported a few weeks ago, I was developing the classic
symptoms outlined in 'The Yeast Connection' (I agree it is a poorly
written book): e.g., extreme sensitivity to plastics, vapors, etc. which
I never had before (started in November). Within one week of full dosage
of Sporanox, the sensitivity to chemicals has fully disappeared - I can
now sit on my couch at home without dying after two minutes. I'm also
*greatly* improved in other areas as well.
Of course, I have allergy symptoms, etc. I am especially allergic to
molds, yeasts, etc. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that
if one has excessive colonization of yeast in the body, and you have a
natural allergy to yeasts, that a threshold would be reached where you
would have perceptible symptoms. Also, yeast do produce toxins of various
sorts, and again, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that
such toxins can cause problems in some people. In my case it was sinus
since that's the center of my allergic response. Of course, the $60,000
question is whether a person who is immune compromised (as tests showed I was
from over 5 years of antibiotics, nutritionally-deficiencies because of the
stress of infections and allergies, etc.), can develop excessive yeast
colonization somewhere in the body. It is a tough question to answer since
testing for excessive yeast colonization is not easy. One almost has to
take an empirical approach to diagnosis. Fortunately, Sporanox is relatively
safe unlike past anti-fungals (still have to be careful, however) so there's
no reason any longer to withhold Sporanox treatment for empirical reasons.
BTW, some would say to try Nystatin. Unfortunately, most yeast grows hyphae
too deep into tissue for Nystatin to have any permanent affect. You'll find
a lot of people who are on Nystatin all the time.
In summary, I appreciate all of the attempts by those who desire to keep
medicine on the right road. But methinks that some who hold too firmly
to the party line are academics who haven't been in the trenches long enough
actually treating patients. If anybody, doctors included, said to me to my
face that there is no evidence of the 'yeast connection', I cannot guarantee
their safety. For their incompetence, ripping off their lips is justified as
far as I am concerned.
Jon Noring
--
Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club. | 19 | trimmed_train |
2,986 | I've got a Racet 5.25" MO Drive with a Ricoh RO-5030E mechanism with the
new ROMs... The thing is, I have a new TOSOH Optical Disk 512/bytes per
sector cart for the thing that refuses to mount or be formatted... all the
carts that I have for the drive that work are Racet Certified Media
512k/sector carts... All I can think of is that this TOSOH cart uses some
kind of incompatible low level format... anyone know what software will
allow this to be formatted on this drive? or a new DIP setting for the
mechanism? I've tried just about every combination of drivers and custom
formatting programs I can find with no luck... any ideas? | 14 | trimmed_train |
6,545 | Does anyone has a table about the size of the wire to the amount of current it can carry. Probably in the 1-15amp range. My friend is interested in converting a Mazda into an electric car. Needed information for estimation. Thanks in advance. | 11 | trimmed_train |
2,770 | : >>My friend recently purchased a LC III and he wants to know if there is
: >>such a demon called NuBus adapter for his PDS slot?
: > The LC family of Macs can only
: > use PDS cards. They are not able to use NuBus.
: Ah, but why? Can some technically-hip Macslinger tell us what the
: difference is between PDS and Nubus?
: Is it impossible to make a gadget that plugs into PDS and ends in a
: Nubus card cage? At least, Marvin's friend has not been able to
: locate one and neither have I. What is the fundamental reason for
: this?
I think that there do exist NuBus expansion cages (I'm sure I've seen
them advertised occassionally), but I think that the main problem is that
they cost much more than the difference in price between say a LC and IIvx
so unless you need lots of NuBus slots its not worth the bother.
(Of course, it may be that these extra boxes are so expensive because
no one buys them because they are so expensive...)
NuBus technology isn't a special Apple Proprietry thing (I have this
sneaky feeling that it is licensed from Texas Instruments???) so there
is no problem building an expansion box.
The difference between NuBus and PDS is that NuBus is a clever interface
with lots of neat toys built in to make sure that lots of cards can work
together on the same computer. PDS (processor direct slot) is just that:
here are all the connections to the processor. You can do anything with
this and it is as quick as it can be, but there's no cooperation. You
may be able to get double PDS slot adaptors but you try plugging 2
video cards in, and just watch them conflict! Of course, the extra
electronics in a NuBus slot makes it appreciably more expensive, so
guess why Apple doesn't put it in it's cheaper machines?
So, yah pays yer money and yah takes yah choice. | 14 | trimmed_train |
8,335 |
When will you people realize that our right to keep and bear isn't
primarily intended to be for protecting against criminals and beasties
in the wild? Granted, it is a big part, but we also need military style
weapons so we can fight off the government when they come to our door.
When ten agents come to my door, it would be nice to be able to shoot
all of them for 'not upholding the constitution to the best of their
ability'. It will be a lot harder doing that with the puny weapons you
listed above.
Please read the Federalist papers for all clarification on RKBA. These
documents have cleared up plenty of misnomers that friends of mine have
had.
| 9 | trimmed_train |
6,426 |
Hey! My dad has an old hangar and Judy has some old rockets in her attic,
let's put on a Lunar program! . . . Sounds good, but . . .
Let's play a game - What would be a reasonable reward? What companies would
have a reasonable shot at pulling off such a feat? Just where in the
budget would the reward come from? Should there be a time limit? Would a
straight cash money award be enough or should we throw in say . . .
exclusive mining rights for the first fifty years? You get the idea.
I'd like to play but I don't have a clue to the answers. | 10 | trimmed_train |
10,978 | ...
...
Yeah...I've seen you're grand mother...I bet she could. | 17 | trimmed_train |
651 | From article <[email protected]>, by [email protected] (Manu Das):
The window is probobly on top but the lower windows are drawing over it.
Try using WS_CLIPSIBLING to keep the lower siblings from drawing on the
top sibling's space.
-- | 18 | trimmed_train |
761 |
I have never been to Wisconsin, though I have been to
neighbor Minnesota. Being a child of the Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)
I found that there were few states in the provences that stood
out in this youngster's mind: California, Texas, and Florida to
name the most obvious three. However, both Minnesota and Wisconsin
stuck out, solely on the basis of their politics. Both have
always translated to extremely liberal and progressive states.
And my recent trip to Minnestoa last summer served to support that
state's reputation. My guess is that Wisconsin is probably the
same. At least that was the impression the people of Minnesota left
with me about their neighbors.
The only question in my head about Wisconsin, though, is
whether or not there is a cause-effect relationship between
cheese and serial killers :) | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,544 | Posting for a friend.
Contact directly or leave e-mail and I can forward.
Brand spanking new.
Still in original package.
Never opened.
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ImageWriter
IBM 4216 Personal Page Printer II
Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer family
QUME printers
Can daisy-chain a maximum of 4 LocalTalk devices, such as
workstations
modems
printers
to a single EtherPrint device.
Support AppleTalk Phase 1 and Phase 2 protocols.
$300 + shipping.
Cheap ... $329 new without 10BASE-T in MAC World. | 5 | trimmed_train |
4,416 |
Fine. Libertarians and anarchists are not alone in being uncomfortable
with the use of state sponsored coercion. The notion that coercion can
be virtually eliminated in a society (or more properly that once it is
eliminated on the part of the state it is no longer worth serious
consideration) is a view that is peculiar to libertarians and anarchists.
For example, does "non-initiated force" (coercion) include tax collection?
Does it include the minimal level of regulation of commerce envisioned
by Adam Smith? Since coercion can be exercised by actors other than the
state, how is the state to deal with it? Exclusively through after the
fact arbitration/legal compulsion?
Well, I must admit that the picture of libertarians as Amway participants
is somewhat more reassuring than the idea of them trying to govern a
complex, conflictual, industrial society. I'd venture to point out,
however, that if libertarians couldn't convince at least 85% of a group
of "seminar participants" to "embrace" their philosophy, their
propaganda skills need to be honed.
Frankly, however, it is no great trick to create a government for a
society in which (almost) everyone is assumed to agree about what is a proper
government policy. Once that is assumed, all sorts of annoying formalities
can be dispensed with, elections, police, etc. And as Mr. Marx said,
the state will just wither away.
On the way there, however, would you like to explain how eliminating
virtually all policies that restrain private coercion in the
current society will help us to live happier lives? Or is it like
socialism; just some short-term pain that we'll have to bear until
everyone has had the benefit of "re-education" through regular
"seminar" training?
jsh
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3,018 |
If not for the lack of extraneously capitalized words, I'd swear that
McElwaine had changed his name and moved to Cal Poly. I also find the
choice of newsgroups 'interesting'. Perhaps someone should tell this
guy that 'sci.astro' doesn't stand for 'astrology'?
It's truly frightening that posts like this are originating at what
are ostensibly centers of higher learning in this country. Small
wonder that the rest of the world thinks we're all nuts and that we
have the problems that we do.
[In case you haven't gotten it yet, David, I don't think this was
quite appropriate for a posting to 'sci' groups.]
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden | 10 | trimmed_train |
5,073 | Hi. According to my always questionable newspaper, there's a silver
dollar being minted in Canada, the back of which commemorates the
anniversary of the Stanley Cup. Now, I know full well what coins are
used every day in Canada. I can easily fish a few out of my pocket
change right now, in fact. My question is, since the loon is the only
dollar coin that I know is legal tender, is this just a commemorative
coin with no monetary exchange value, or what? Is it the sort of
thing that only hockey buffs and coin collectors might covet, with no
chance of it being circulated? If it is an uncirculated coin, what's
the current cost and what's its potential value? Just curious. If no
one knows, I'll take this to soc.culture.canada and rec.collecting (or
whatever it is). Thanks again
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6,013 | /(emery)
/The one single historic event that has had the biggest impact on the
/world over the centuries is the resurrection of Jesus.
This is hardly possible, as the majority of people in the world were
born, lived their life, and died, without ever knowing anything about
Christ. The majority of the rest of the world have decided that he
is not who Emery thinks he is.
/(emery)
/Why were the writers of the New Testament documents so convinced that
/Jesus really did rise from the dead?
/We have four gospel accounts.
I am leaving out all "proofs" of Emery's which rely on quoting the
bible as proof. Circular reasoning, etc. There have been occasions
already stated many times for later generations of Xtians to change,
edit, or otherwise alter the bible to fit their political gospel.
And if we accept the bible as true just because the bible says it
is true, then (to be fair) we have to do the same to the Bhagavad-Gita
and the Koran, both of which contradict the bible.
Enough said.
/(emery)
/Yet we have no reason to believe these disciples to be immoral and dishonest.
/We have no historic information that would lead us to the conclusion that
/these people were not God-fearing people who sincerely and whole-heartedly
/believed that the resurrection of their Lord Jesus was a real event.
/And for what gain would they lie? To make a stand at that time meant
/persecution, imprisonment, and perhaps even death.
Again, this is only the biblical account and there is no independent proof
of any of this happening. It just isn't there.
Besides, simply being sincere or willing to die for your faith does not
make your faith correct. There are Muslims dying in Bosnia right now;
does the fact that they are willing to die for Islam mean that Islam is
the correct religion?
(emery)
/History bears out the persecution of Christians. Roman historian, Cornelius
/Tacitus, Govenor of Asia, in A.D. 112, writing of Nero's reign, alluded to
/the torture of Christians in Rome:
All you have proven is that these people were tortured for their faith. That
does not prove that their faith is true or correct; it just means that they
were sincere in their beliefs.
Being willing to die for what you believe doesn't make your belief the truth.
It's not that easy. And minority religions have always suffered torture;
Muslims suffer torture and harassment in India and Bosnia today. All religions
are harassed in China today. You haven't proven anything so far.
/(emery)
/With all the suffering and persecution that it meant to be a believer, it
/would be quite probable that at least one of those in the supposed conspiracy
/would come forward and confess that the whole thing was a big hoax.
Not if they didn't believe that it was a hoax.
/(emery)
/Yet not one did. It seems rather reasonable that the disciples did not make
/up the resurrection but sincerely believed that Jesus had actually risen
/from the dead; especially in light of the sufferings that came upon those
/who believed.
The followers of Muhammad firmly believed in the miracles that the Koran
says Muhammad performed. They were attacked and slaughtered for their
beliefs. They didn't denounce Muhammad or Islam. If you are correct,
then that means Islam is the true faith. | 15 | trimmed_train |
2,411 |
Some thoughts:
Has any work been done on encapsulating encrypted data inside "non-encrypted"
data files? Many file formats can be written with "gaps" in them to hide
other data. New file formats could be designed to have alternate data hidden
by dispersing it amongst the "legitimate" data. The hidden data would only
show up with the right key(s), and a file with hidden data would be
indistinguishable from one without. So, only the correct key(s) would reveal
the presence of an "illegal" document.
If I devise a custom file compression algorithm and only I and a friend have
the uncompressor, and otherwise the file appears to be total gigerish, do I
have the right to transmit the file? Will we have to "escrow" all our data
file formats? Are gangs required to escrow their hand signals, colors and
catch phrases? | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,223 | My mac monitor displays about 20 vertical lines when I use it.
It means that either my display memory goes wrong or monitor is bad
or video card is bad.
I checked my monitor, it works fine with other Mac.
I checked my video card, it's also fine.
I replaced all the RAMs, it still didn't give me right answer.
Hence I assume something wrong with some part of my motherboard.
I don't know hardware architecture of the Macintosh.
Can anyone tell me what's the problem ????
It's a Mac IIcx.
MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE.
[email protected]
--
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10,735 |
Ahem!!! Hrumph!!!! You have encurred the wrath of Glock owners. We will beat
you with our hammers. Oooops, don't have any :-)
Seriously. There is no difference in the safeties betweena Glock and any DA
revolver. Intellectually, think of the Glock as a very high cap revolver.
Ignoring stove pipes, misfeeds and all the other bonus exercises that
autoloaders give you, that is.
Every gun has its safe moment and its dangerous moment. If you just learn how
to handle it, it becomes a lot less dangerous (to you). | 9 | trimmed_train |
1,809 | Amazingly, pitchers, no matter how good their mechanics, are
not machines. Cy Young winners don't pitch in a vaccuum, unaware
of how their offenses are doing.
The Braves' pitching staff is already showing signs of
cracking under the strain of knowing they're not going to get many
(if any) runs. Unfortunately, the Braves' pitchers were so bad for so
long that the organization put so much stress (and I mean *stress*)
on pitching that they completely ignored hitting.
The Braves right now are looking woefully similar to the Braves of
the mid-seventies. Heaven help us.
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2,422 | UPI Washington DC, Update Desk 4/15/93
For the past several months the Clinton administration has been
stymied by mixed signals coming from the economy. While most
leading indicators has shown an apparent improvement in the
economy, there has been no corresponding improvement in the area
of jobs creation.
The unemployment figures seem stalled at the 7% mark. last month,
in an effort to understand this problem, President Clinton appointed
a blue ribbon panel to try to resolve the apparent conflicting
economic signals. This panel was chaired by Vice President Gore.
Today the panel released their results, providing a shocking conclusion.
"It's the guns" Vice President Gore said. Apparently NRA members, and other
"gun-nuts" are purchasing firearms at in record numbers, pulling the
economy out of the recession. "Their buying them five times faster than
ever before, and stockpiling left and right", the Vice President said.
However, since many domestic firearm and ammunition manufacturers have
been experiencing hard times during the past few years, including several
declarations of bankruptcy by many leading American gun makers, they have
not rushed to increase hiring to meet the new demand.
"We want to see if this run will continue before hiring more people", said
the President of Colt industries. "As long as Clinton is in office, we
suspect it will", he added.
In response to this new information, President Clinton announced a new
Gun Control measure to be introduced into Congress this session. It's
called the "Ban-One-A-Month" Gun Control Bill. Under the terms of this law,
every make and model of all firearms will be written on individual index
cards. The cards will all be put in a big hat and the President will draw
one card every month. Sixty days later that gun will be banned from any
further manufacture/importation or sale in this country, except to the
politically connected and to members of the National Police Force.
The President said, "This law will benefit America two ways. When the
Gun-Of-The-Month is announced every thirty days, the gun-nuts will run
out and buy thousands of them, boosting the economy even more. In addition,
over the long run, we will get all of these icky-evil guns off of the
street." He also announce the appointment of Sarah Brady to oversee
this program, citing her "Honesty, and unbiased view on the subject
of gun control".
Senators Metzenbaum, DeConcini, Feinstein, and Boxer have proposed an
amendment to the Bill which would add additional index cards containing
caliber designations for all know ammunitions. "Their stockpiling,
stockpiling, stockpiling" screamed Metzenbaum during a press conference
at the national Headquarters of Handgun Control Inc.
Senators Simon, Metzenbaum, and Moyenhan also introduced an amendment
that would make all guns illegal to possess once the last card has been
drawn from the hat. Senator Simon was quoted as saying, "First we'll
fuck em, then we'll kick em out of bed in the morning", during a press
conference he held in the second floor Mens Restroom of the Senate
building. He of course was referring to the fact that he would allow
the people to purchase the guns to help the economy, but would require
the BATF to seize all of the guns in America sometime in the year 2008,
after all of the cards have been drawn.
The head of the BATF responded by saying, "We will have to see if this
thing in Waco is over by then. We may be too busy to seize all those
guns".
US House Representatives Pat Schroeder and David Skaggs of Colorado
declared this proposed law as being "reasonable gun control which won't
affect anybodys Constitutional right to own sporting guns".
- end article -
For the humor impaired :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Bill Vojak
[email protected]
NRA, ILA,
Colorado Firearms Coalition
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The CBS Nightly Propaganda With Dan Rather. (RATHER NOT!)
The CBS Nightly Propaganda With Dan Rather. (RATHER BIASED!) | 9 | trimmed_train |
4,731 | The Chevrolet brothers were respected racers & test drivers for the
Buick Co. when Durant was there.
When the directors kicked Durant out of GM in 1910 he took Chevrolet and
others with him. As mentioned before, they founded the successful
Chevrolet company.
A little-known fact is that the Chevrolet Co. actually took over GM!
That was how Durant got back in charge of GM-- legally his new company
Chevrolet Co. did the buying, and GM was a division of Chevrolet!
After 1920 and into the Sloan era, GM shuffled things so that the GM
board was superior, but there was always a degree of autonomy given
the Chevy division, presumably because of the initial structure.
(If you look at the organization chart for GM in Sloan's book, Chevy
division reports directly to 14th floor, not through the "passenger
car division" which covers Buick, Olds, Cadillac, and Oakland/Pontiac) | 4 | trimmed_train |
1,088 | What are the Leafs to do? I am a Leaf supporter and
I say the Leafs are going down in four unless there
is nothing short of a miracle or a stroke of genenius hits
Pat Burns.
If you were Pat Burns what would you do?
Living in the Bay area, I do not get enough Leaf coverage
to pull something out of the bag, (I would appreciate comments
on the Leaf/Detroit 3rd line match-ups) but here is the basic
idea...
Andreychuck and Borchevsky have no business playing against
the Wings. They are too small. The key to any Leafs success
will have to be Clark. He is the only centre who can have
any presence within 3-stick lengths of the slot. Where the
hell is Anderson? Anderson can (in days past) get under peoples
skin. Put a little more bluntly, Anderson has to be an asshole.
He used to be good at it. We need him now.
Perhaps, perhaps the Leafs can shut down Detroit's second line.
I was dissappointed to see Shepard and Yserbeart flying last night.
These guys are the "swing" players for the Wings. Last year they
did a major choke in the playoffs and were to blame for the quick
exit of the Wings. **THis has to happen again**. Clark-Anderson-Gilmour
should be able to out hustle this line. Anderson should do a
nasty on Yserbeart. Clark should bang the hell out of Sheppard.
Score Gilmour score!
Suggestions: Clarke-Anderson-Gilmour vs. Sheppard-Yserbeart-??
Andreychuck-Borchevsy-?? vs. Detroit checking line
Toronto's checking line vs. Yzerman-Fedorov-Probert (pray lots)
* as suggested - i would bench Andreychuck and Borchevsky to stir things up
and through a monkey wrench into Detroits game plan. However,
if the Detroit coaching would be dumb enough to play their
checking line against these "finesse" players - well then
let them play.
** Potvin can not be faulted on 5 of the goals - keep him in.
** Van Hellamond can not be faulted for the Leafs demise either.
** The Wings defense shut down the Leafs (especially in the slot).
I hope Pat Burns realizes that his team was out-hit, out-skated, and
out-coached on Monday night. This was not a loss because of poor goaltending
or officiating. This calls for drastic measures ... or tee off is next Monday.
-jake.
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1,457 | wing the suggestion of Stu Lynne, I have posted the Image File Format executable and source code to alt.sources. | 1 | trimmed_train |
6,445 | Just a quick note about Manon's immediate future: Rumor has it(USA Today's spor
ts page) that she will be playing with Tampa Bay's affiliate in the ECHL(I Thin
k. It's been a couple of days. :)) She will supposedly be competing for the num
ber 2 goaltender spot. I think, after her performance, which was damn good for
someone who hasn't played squat all year, that we'll be seeing a lot more of h
er in Atlanta in the years to come.
Ward | 17 | trimmed_train |
5,934 |
Maybe its a monitor problem. You mentioned that you swapped cards, but not
monitors. Perhaps that could be it.
Dan
| 3 | trimmed_train |
2,982 |
I wouldn't trust Mitre for another reason:
remember "The Cuckoo's Egg"? How great was
their security, eh?
NSA - well, with the list of known "turncoats",
does it make you wonder how many more unknown
still are there?
(:-) (:-(
--
Regards,
Uri. [email protected] scifi!angmar!uri | 7 | trimmed_train |
11,154 | One thing to consider is time division multiplexing the EMG
channels to reduce the number of RF carriers you have to generate.
If you multiplexed the EMG inputs at 10KHz, that would probably be
sufficient for most physiology studies (you'd have ~ 330 Hz per
channel sampling rate.) That level of analog multiplexing should
be rather easy to accomplish.
Combining a lot of RF carriers is pretty tricky to do without
generating intermodulation. A system to be carried by a runner is
in a fairly harsh environment and would probably be difficult to
keep balanced.
A commercial hand-held transciever could probably be employed with
a little modification to accomodate widening the bandwidth.
Obviously, this has to be done in accordance with whatever laws
govern the use of transeivers in your location.
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604 |
Take a look over in alt.folklore.urban. There is a thread about subliminal
messages on TV. The fact that subliminal messages don't work aside, an image
can't be flashed on a TV screen fast enough to not be noticed.
--
Bob Billson, KC2WZ | internet: [email protected]
$nail: 21 Bates Way, Westfield, NJ 07090 | uucp: ...!uunet!kc2wz!bob | 11 | trimmed_train |
6,732 |
I've used that reference, and found that I needed to go to their
original tech report:
Maureen Stone and Tony DeRose,
"Characterizing Cubic Bezier Curves"
Xerox EDL-88-8, December 1988
This report can be obtained for free from:
Xerox Corporation
Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, California 94303
+1-415-494-4440
The TOG paper was good, but this tech report had more interesting details ;-) | 1 | trimmed_train |
8,706 | Does anyone out there have or know of, line drawing USA map?
Thanks very much in advance,
Hoi
| 1 | trimmed_train |
10,028 | Here is another way of looking at it.
When we die we are released from the arc of time, and able
to comprehend our lives in toto. To visit each moment in
time sequentially or all at once, but not able to alter the
actions thoughts or feelings we had/have/will have in this
life.
From that perspective, I posit that all will have direct knowledge
of God, and be able to recognize at each moment of time wether
we were doing what we ought. That the experience of having
lived a life far from God will be an eternal torment. That
having lived a life of grace, will be an eternal joy. That the
resurrection of the body comes not from any physical reconstitution
of our present forms, but knowledge of our present forms by our
fully cognizant souls.
As an Aside: If we were to be restricted for all time to
our present form, would you opt for immortality?
James Sledd | 0 | trimmed_train |
7,453 |
Never. I don't know whether anybody formulated and proposed such an
index or criteria to determine the magnitude of a genocide as mentioned
and advised by Toynbee. If one ever does you will easily see the magnitude
of the crime of genocide committed by the Armenians, by massacring an alien
population under their rule which constituted about 40% of their total
population and they did it only within a time period of a little over
two years in which they enjoyed having full control over this population.
Now I would like to ask you:
Is there any other genocide in the history of mankind similar to
this one?
And again I would like to ask you:
Whether the silent and unmourned martyrdom of these hundreds of thousands
of Turks of the Republic of Armenia who were exterminated as a "Final
Solution" to Turco-Tartar problems in Armenia is similar or not
to the martyrdom of six million Jews in Europe as a final solution to
Jewish problems?
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
4,441 | Can a theist be truly objective? Can he be impartial
when questioning the truth of his scriptures, or
will he assume the superstition of his parents
when questioning?
I've often found it to be the case that the theist
will stick to some kind of superstition when
wondering about God and his scriptures. I've
seen it in the Christian, the Jew, the Muslim,
and the other theists alike. All assume that
their mothers and fathers were right in the
aspect that a god exists, and with that belief
search for their god.
Occasionally, the theist may switch religions or
aspects of the same religion, but overall the
majority keep to the belief that some "Creator"
was behind the universe's existence. I've
known Muslims who were once Christians and vice
versa, I've known Christians who were once
Jewish and vice versa, and I've even known
Christians who become Hindu. Yet, throughout
their transition from one faith to another,
they've kept this belief in some form of higher
"being." Why?
It usually all has to do with how the child is
brought up. From the time he is born, the
theist is brought up with the notion of the
"truth" of some kind of scripture-- the Bible,
the Torah, the Qur'an, & etc. He is told
of this wondrous God who wrote (or inspired)
the scripture, of the prophets talked about in
the scripture, of the miracles performed, & etc.
He is also told that to question this (as
children are apt to do) is a sin, a crime
against God, and to lose belief in the scrip-
ture's truth is to damn one's soul to Hell.
Thus, by the time he is able to read the
scripture for himself, the belief in its "truth"
is so ingrained in his mind it all seems a
matter of course.
But it doesn't stop there. Once the child is able
to read for himself, there is an endeavor to
inculcate the child the "right" readings of
scripture, to concentrate more on the pleasant
readings, to gloss over the worse ones, and to
explain away the unexplainable with "mystery."
Circular arguments, "self-evdent" facts and
"truths," unreasoning belief, and fear of
hell is the meat of religion the child must eat
of every day. To doubt, of course, means wrath
of some sort, and the child must learn to put
away his brain when the matter concerns God.
All of this has some considerable effect on the
child, so that when he becomes an adult, the
superstitions he's been taught are nearly
impossible to remove.
All of this leads me to ask whether the theist can
truly be objective when questioning God, Hell,
Heaven, the angels, souls, and all of the rest.
Can he, for a moment, put aside this notion that
God *does* exist and look at everything from
a unbiased point of view? Obviously, most
theists can somewhat, especially when presented
with "mythical gods" (Homeric, Roman, Egyptian,
& etc.). But can they put aside the assumption
of God's existence and question it impartially?
Stephen
_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ * Atheist
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ * Libertarian
_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ * Pro-individuality
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ * Pro-responsibility
_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Jr. * and all that jazz...
-- | 0 | trimmed_train |
6,531 |
I don't think they provide homeopaths, heck the heir apparent was trying to
promote Osteopaths to the ranks of eligibility a couple of years back... It
pleased my family no end, since I'm at an Osteopathic school, sort of
validated it for them...then I told them that the name was the same but the
practice was different....oh.
If you're seeking validation for your philosophy on the strength of
the national health service adopting it, I suggest that you are not very
sure of the validity of your philosophy. I believe in 1946, the NHS was
still having its nurses taught the fine art of "cupping", which is the
vacuum extraction of intradermal fluids by means of heating a cup, placing
it on the afflicted site and allowing it to cool.
I wouldn't take my sick daughter to a homeopath.
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2,944 | }Sheesh, even a trained attack dog is no match for a human,
}we have *all* the advantages.
I agree with this 100%. After all, when you grab under his chin and
are careful to keep your hands away from his twisting head, what is
he going to do -- tailwag you to death? I even had one occasion where
I was unexpectedly jumped by a 130 lb. German Shepherd and grabbed
his upper jaw in one hand and his lower jaw in the other. Now I'm
holding his mouth open (no way is he strong enough to clamp down)
and he can do nothing.
HOWEVER, all this macho shit aside, the fact is that when you are
riding a bike and a dog is arrowing to intercept, it may be unwise
for you to stop and try to deal with the dog, for the simple fact
that it might be through your leathers and working on your jeans
before you can dismount and deal with it properly.
By all means, if you do kick the dog or otherwise get its attention,
STOP and STAY there. If you kick the dog and ride away, that is a
victory for the dog -- it drove you out of its territory. It is not
even a qualified victory, it is a victory. If you kick it and STOP,
and sit there, 99% of dogs will say, "Oh, shit! This guy's serious!"
and back off. Now you have established your dominance over the dog,
and it probably will not bother you again.
Llamas, however, are a different story. If you stop near a llama,
it will just hop on and insist on a ride. And that's if you're
lucky; if it doesn't like you it'll barf you off the bike and
steal it! | 12 | trimmed_train |
9,239 | I have two questions:
1) I have been having troubles with my Wordperfect for Windows.
When I try to select and change fonts, etc. some of the text
disappears. I tried to center two lines once, and the second
line disappeared. I can not find the error, and I do not
know how to correct it.
2) Is this the right newsgroup? Where should I go?
E-mail prefered...
_____
Who else is still waiting for "Naked Gun Part (Pi) | | " | 18 | trimmed_train |
8,056 | Source: "Men Are Like That" by Leonard Ramsden Hartill. The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Indianapolis (1926). (305 pages).
(Memoirs of an Armenian officer who participated in the genocide of 2.5
million Muslim people)
p. 19 (first paragraph)
"The Tartar section of the town no longer existed, except as a pile of
ruins. It had been destroyed and its inhabitants slaughtered. The same
fate befell the Tartar section of Khankandi."
p. 22 (second paragraph)
"Many of our men had served in the Russian Army, and were trained soldiers.
We Armenians were rich and possessed arms. Tartars had never received
military training. They were poor, and possessed few arms beyond knives.
Shortly after the killing of the Tartars in our village, the revolution
in Russia was suppressed."
Serdar Argic | 6 | trimmed_train |
146 | My suggestion would be to contact Microsoft about the Video4Windows SDK.
You would need to call Developer Services at (800)227-4679 extension 11771
from 6:30am to 5:30pm Pacific time.
| 18 | trimmed_train |
9,054 | Attention Israel Line Recipients
Friday, April 16, 1993
Two Arabs Killed and Eight IDF Soldiers Wounded in West Bank Car
Bomb Explosion
Israel Defense Forces Radio, GALEI ZAHAL, reports today that a car
bomb explosion in the West Bank today killed two Palestinians and
wounded eight IDF soldiers. The blast is believed to be the work of
a suicide bomber. Radio reports said a car packed with butane gas
exploded between two parked buses, one belonging to the IDF and the
other civilian. Both busses went up in flames. The blast killed an
Arab man who worked at a nearby snack bar in the Mehola settlement.
An Israel Radio report stated that the other man who was killed may
have been the one who set off the bomb. According to officials at
the Haemek Hospital in Afula, the eight IDF soldiers injured in the
blast suffered light to moderate injuries.
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9,575 |
As I understand it was considered unsafe for the tv networks to get
any closer. Surely the networks can judge the risks of reporting
for themselves. I haven't noticed CNN being banned from Baghdad
hotels yet despite the (all too real) risk of having a cruise
missile land in the lobby. Incidentally has that ever been explained
or are we to assume that out of the whole of the city an off-course
missile just happened to hit that hotel at a probability of about
1 in some very large number?
Unsafe for who I wonder? | 9 | trimmed_train |
2,202 |
SW8,SW7 number of 5.25" drives
0,0 1 drive
0,1 2 drives
1,0 3 drives
1,1 4 drives
SW6,SW5 type of display
0,0 reserved
0,1 40x25 color (mono mode)
1,0 80x25 color (mono mode)
1,1 mono 80x25
SW4,SW3 amount of memory on system board
64k chips 256k chips
0,0 64k 256k
0,1 128k 512k
1,0 192k 576k
1,1 256k 640k | 11 | trimmed_train |
2,435 | This is the file BIGNUMS.TXT from ripem.msu.edu, last updated April 1993.
In response to Email requests, I have assembled this list of
large-integer arithmetic packages of which I have heard.
Most of these are C function libraries, available in source form.
For your convenience, I have placed copies of
some of these on ripem.msu.edu (35.8.1.178). They are
available for anonymous FTP in the directory "pub/bignum".
However, what I have may not be the most current version in all cases.
Here they are, in no particular order:
mp
Multiple Precision package that comes with some Unixes
Multiple precision package accessed via -lmp flag on your
compiler. Provides +, -, *, /, gcd, exponentiation,
sqrt. Comes with SunOS, NeXT Mach, BBN Mach 1000,
and probably a few others. See "man mp".
Object code only, of course.
PARI
Henri Cohen, et al., Universite Bordeaux I, Paris, FRANCE
Multiple precision desk calculator and library routines.
Contains optimized assembly code for Motorola 68020,
semi-optimized code for SPARC, and apparently rather slow
generic C version. Does both integers and reals.
Does vectors and matrices as well as scalars.
Contains a number of advanced functions, some of which I've
never heard of. ("Weber's function"?)
Has a factorization function, primality test, & other related stuff.
Plenty of TEX documentation.
Public domain, but you can't distribute modified versions.
Available via anonymous FTP from math.ucla.edu. There seem to
be Mac- and NeXT-specific versions there in addition to:
Filename: pari-1.35a.tar.Z
Arithmetic in Global Fields (Arith)
Kevin R. Coombes, David R. Grant
Package of routines for arbitrary precision integers or
polynomials over finite fields. Includes basic +, -, *, /
and a few others like gcd. Source code in C.
Distributed under the terms of the GNU public license.
Includes man pages and TEX documentation.
Filename: arith.tar.Z
Arbitrary Precision Math Library
Lloyd Zusman Los Gatos, CA
C package which supports basic +, -, *, /. Provides for radix
points (i.e., non-integers). Not as polished as the others here.
Posted to comp.sources.misc in October 1988.
Filename: apml.tar.Z
BigNum
J. Vuillemin, INRIA, FRANCE, and others.
Distributed by Digital Equipment Paris Research Lab (DECPRL)
A "portable and efficient arbitrary-precision integer" package.
C code, with generic C "kernel", plus assembly "kernels" for
MC680x0, Intel i960, MIPS, NS32032, Pyramid, and of course VAX.
This is probably one of the better-known packages of this type.
Implements +, -, *, /, mod, plus logical operations OR, AND, XOR.
Both signed and unsigned arithmetic available.
Available via email from [email protected].
You will receive 5 shell archives. Give your postal address
and you will also receive printed documentation from France.
Package includes TEX documentation.
Publicly available for non-commercial use.
I removed this from my archive when I heard a rumor that PRL
doesn't like others to distribute it. However, BIGNUM *is*
distributed as part of ecpp (see below).
Lenstra's package
Arjen Lenstra Bellcore
Portable unsigned integer package written entirely in C.
Includes +, -, *, /, exponentiation, mod, primality testing,
sqrt, random number generator, and a few others. The package
was uncommented and undocumented; I have tried to add enough
comments to get by. This is the only of these packages that I
have actually used. It works well and is very portable.
I haven't done any benchmarks against the others, but the code
looks clever & Lenstra is an accomplished number theorist.
Unlike the other packages here, this one requires you to allocate
storage statically--only a problem if your numbers are really huge.
Arjen has placed the code in the public domain.
Filename: lenstra.tar.Z
lenstra_3.1
Arjen Lenstra, Bellcore
An improved version of Arjen's package above. This one
does signed arithmetic and dynamic allocation (which can be turned
off as an option). Has a few new routines, too. "lenstra_3.1" contains
minor bugfixes to the previously-available "lenstra_2" and "lenstra_3".
Filename: lenstra_3.1.c
bmp (Brent's Multiple Precision?)
R. P. Brent
1981 vintage FORTRAN code to do extended precision floating &
fixed point arithmetic. Includes most of the mathematical
functions you'd find in a FORTRAN run-time library.
This code is an ACM algorithm, number 524.
To obtain, send a mail message to [email protected]
containing the line "send mp.f from bmp" or better yet, perhaps
just start with "help".
SPX
Kannan Alagappan & Joseph Tardo, DEC
This is a huge prototype public key authentication system
based on RSA. I mention it here because those who have heard
of SPX have probably correctly guessed that it contains a large
integer package and I want to inform you that the large integer
package it contains is indeed DEC's BigNum from France.
You can get a beta test copy of SPX from crl.dec.com (192.58.206.2).
Use it only for testing, as it "may" expire on a certain date.
(I don't know whether this has expired yet.)
amp (Antti's Multiple Precision?)
Antti Louko [email protected]
Multiple precision integer package in C. Includes +, -, *, /, %,
pow, mod, 1/x mod y, random, sqrt, gcd. Available for non-commercial
use. The package includes "share-secret", a public key system based
on the Diffie-Hellman algorithm.
This is normally part of the well-known "des-dist.tar.Z",
but I have removed the DES part to avoid having to deal with
cryptographic export laws, and have named the result:
Filename: amp.tar.Z
gennum
Per Bothner U of Wisconsin-Madison
C++ routines and classes to do generic arithmetic, both
integer and rational.
Formerly available on sevenlayer.cs.wis.edu. However, it
seems to have disappeared. Sorry.
MIRACL
(By someone in Dublin, Ireland)
Integer and fractional multiple precision package.
Includes factorization, primality testing, encryption.
Not public domain, apparently. It is available from the Austin
Code Works. (See ads in Byte Magazine or Dr. Dobbs.)
precision
Dave Barrett [email protected]
Multiple precision integer package in C with +,-,*,/, sqrt, rand,
mod, pow, log. Simple vector support. Does dynamic allocation of memory.
Free as long as you don't sell it or any program that uses it.
Filename: precision.tar.Z
UBASIC
Prof. Yuji Kida, Rikkyo University, Nishi-Ikebukuro 3, Tokyo 171, Japan
[email protected]
Multiple-precision version of the BASIC programming language,
for MS-DOS. Includes floating point. Said (by Keith Briggs)
to be pretty fast. Object only, I think. [email protected]
fast arithmetic. Has a version optimized for 386 machines. Includes
routines to do MPQS, the fastest currently known general factoring
algorithm. An additional file is at both sites to allow MPQS to use
hard drives so that it can factor up to 80 digits. Many number
theoretical functions are included in UBASIC. It allows over 2500
digits of precision."
Available via anonymous FTP from shape.mps.ohio-state.edu,
or simtel20.army.mil, or wuarchive.wustl.edu.
calc_v22
Unknown
MS-DOS C-like language that allows "infinite" precision.
Nice intrinsic functions. [email protected] reports problems
when changing precision on the fly.
See simtel20 or wuarchive.
briggs_arith
Keith Briggs ([email protected])
Turbo Pascal 5 source for routines that do multiple-precision
+, -, *, /, sqrt, gcd, factoring, rand for integers; also includes
+, -, *, / and rand for rational numbers.
Filename: briggs_arith.pas
Institute fur Experimentelle Mathematik
Dr Gerhard Schneider (?)
Fast C multiple-precision subroutine library.
I don't know anything about it; [email protected] says
to contact [email protected] for more info.
Postal Address:
Institute fur Experimentelle Mathematik
EllernStr 29
D4300 Essen-12 GERMANY
LongInt
Markus Mueller ([email protected])
"Multi precision arithmetic written in MODULA-2, with the most time critical
parts written in Assembler. Includes basic arithmetics (+, -, *, /, %) as
well as arithmetics MODULO a number. An additional module provides a
collection of procedures for primality testing, gcd, multiplicative
inverse and more. The package is part of a Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM)
package which includes a PEM mailer, RSA key generator and Certificate
generation tools."
Source is in Modula-2, C, and assembler for Sun 3. LongInt has
also been ported to MS-DOS under Logitech Modula-2 and Turbo
Assembler. Availability: free for university use (research and
education); otherwise, a source license is required. To obtain,
write or email to:
Markus Mueller
Bertastrasse 7
CH-8953 Dietikon
Switzerland
email: [email protected]
bignum-1.2
[email protected]
Bignum package written in portable C. Will in the future
conform to the Common Lisp functions that handles integers.
Currently includes +, -, *, /, exponentiation, "exptmod",
comparison, random numbers, and gcd.
Filename: bignum-1.2
GNU Multiple Precision
GNU (Free Software Foundation) multiple precision package.
I haven't looked at it yet. This is current as of April 1992,
but there may be a more recent version by the time you read
this. This package is very widely available on FTP sites.
Filename: gmp-1.2.tar.Z
Elliptic Curve Primality Proving
Francois Morian, France.
Large package to prove the primality of any prime.
Includes Inria's BIGNUM package.
Obtained from ftp.inria.fr (128.93.1.26).
Filename: ecpp.V3.4.1.tar.Z
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
Philip Zimmermann [email protected]
Intel-based crypto package that includes bignum routines in C,
said to be quite fast for Intel processors. Unix and Mac
versions also available.
The crypto package violates RSA patents, but the bignum routines
can be used without fear of legal repercussions.
Bell's Arbitrary Precision Calculator
David I. Bell, Australia ([email protected])
Arbitrary-precision calculator with good online help, C-like
language, many builtin functions, support for integers,
rational numbers (they work like floating point), complex numbers,
matrices, strings, lists, files, "objects". Includes
gcd, primality testing, even trig functions. Recommended.
(Large package, though.) Obtained from comp.sources.unix.
Filename: calc-1.24.7.tar.Z
Built-in support in other languages
Various
Multiple precision arithmetic is available in a number of
programming languages, such as Lisp and ABC (cf. mcsun.eu.net).
Perl (by Larry Wall, available from devvax.jpl.nasa.gov)
includes source, in Perl, for such a package, but it's probably
not suitable for serious use.
For some of these, source code may be available. This list is
long enough, so I'm not going to pursue it aggressively.
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