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7,896 | Hey Serdar,
What are you retarded? | 6 | trimmed_train |
7,486 |
Ergo, if your life is sufficiently boring, you have no need for privacy?
(This is not meant to be personal, just the logical conclusion of your
statement.) | 7 | trimmed_train |
8,720 |
Did the Russian spacecraft(s) on the ill-fated Phobos mission a few
years ago send back any images of the Martian moon? If so, does anyone know if
they're housed at an ftp site?
Thanks.
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10,091 |
I have heard that the sabbath was originally determined by the phases of
the moon, and had elements of moon worship. Early stuff, Egyptian in nature.
| 15 | trimmed_train |
4,710 |
Your machine will run at whatever the bus is jumpered to/CMOS is set to
(usually wait states) regardless of what speed RAM is installed. No
motherboard can sense the speed of the RAM installed, unless you call
failing as a sort of auto-sense. This is how you can sometimes use
"slower" RAM in a machine. You either set the number of wait states to
accomodate the slow RAM (in which case, all memory will run at that
slower rate) or you reduce the wait states and take the chance that the
slower RAM will act like faster RAM and you won't crash.
Putting faster RAM in won't speed things up unless you tell the machine
it has faster RAM.
Mixing fast and slow RAM will not help you if you have to keep the bus
slowed down to accomodate slow RAM.
JimL
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Mailer address is buggy! Reply to: [email protected] | 3 | trimmed_train |
1,215 | I have the following GameBoy Games available for TRADE!
Pitfighter
Metroid II
Bases Loaded
Blades Of Steel
Malibu Beach Volleyball
World Cup Soccer
Tennis..
Spiderman
Robocop
Motocross Maniacs
Double Dribble 5 on 5 Basketball
Looking for:
Genesis Games
Missile Command (Gameboy)
Game Gear games
Please leave e-mail if interested!
Thanx
Dave Webb
P.S.
I'm still waiting to hear from Allen Thoren Jr. about trading MB Volleyball for
Missile Command... Please get in touch. | 5 | trimmed_train |
695 |
Refer to patents by JAMES HARRIS ROGERS:
958,829; 1,220,005; 1,322,622; 1,349,103; 1,315,862; 1,349,104;
1,303,729; 1,303,730; 1,316,188
He details methods of underground and underwater wireless communications.
For a review, refer to _Electrical_Experimenter_, March 1919 and June 1919.
Rogers' methods were used extensively during the World War, and was
unclassified after the war. Supposedly, the government rethought this
soon after, and Rogers was convieniently forgotten.
The bottom line is that all antennas that are grounded send HALF of
their signal THRU the ground. The half that travels thru space is
quickly dissapated (by the square of the distance), but that which
travels thru the ground does not disapate at all. Furthermore,
the published data showed that when noise drowned out regular
reception, the underground antennas would recieve virtually noise-free.
IF you find this hard to believe, then refer to the work of the
man who INVENTED wireless: Tesla. Tesla confirmed that Rogers' methods
were correct, while Hertzian wave theory was completely "abberant".
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ET "Tesla was 100 years ahead of his time. Perhaps now his time comes." | 11 | trimmed_train |
9,468 | there is a file out there (look for it with archie) that is called
'theref22.zip' which has lots of info on various PC things,
amongst which is also a detailed description of all Floppy controller
commands, I think hard drive controller commands are not there.
it is possible to read an entire track including all gaps, sector
headers etc. by setting sector size to something very large (like
8K). | 3 | trimmed_train |
9,633 |
Well, knowing Greek and Hebrew, I'm probably not as picky about translations
as I would be if English translations were my only source of information.
BUT...
(1) Any verse that comes out substantially different in different trans-
lations is almost certainly unclear in the original.
(2) It is very bad practice to "shop" for a translation that fits your own
doctrinal positions.
Personally, I still like the RSV. NRSV and NASV are also very good.
I have a strong preference for editions that do _not_ indent the beginning
of each verse as if verses were paragraphs. The verse numbering is a
relatively modern addition and should not be given undue prominence.
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8,774 | I'm having trouble receiving News at the moment due to an overloaded
News server. I think that I can post out reasonably quickly, though.
I'm in a couple of threads at the moment which may be pending replies.
If anyone wants a reply from me over something I've posted then I
suggest sending an e-mail copy of the point to me so that I can reply by
News.
This is one way to shut me up!!
Cheers,
David.
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On religion: | 15 | trimmed_train |
10,063 | Hi
I am trying to implement a pointer feature in Xlib
I have multiple windows and all can take input and
show output simultaneously on all other displays
I want to implement a pointer feature
I would like to get the pointer to come up on all windows once
I choose pointer in the menu and every one should be able
to see it
Can you give me some hints as to how I should proceed
replies will be greatly appreciated | 16 | trimmed_train |
10,727 | I bought the diamond stealth 24 a few months ago. it seems to be a
great card especially with my multimedia presentations. It runs graphics
and animation as well as some near full motion video very well. The only
thing I can tell that it lacks is speed above 256 colors. Its qualit in
between 256 and 16.7 million collors un unreal but you definitly
compromise speed. It seems to be a great card for graphics and it comes
with some great software, but Im not so sure about the excelerator
part. I used to own a paridise and it doesnt seem to be much faster
than that. One thing I do like is that it loads its own vesa driver
from ROM at startup, (I think) because I have never had to load it for
links386 or any other programs that require special VESA drivers at
startup.
gromi a16pd
[email protected]
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1,075 | -*-----
I hope Gordon Banks did not mean to imply that notions such as
hard-to-see candida infections causing various problems should not
be investigated. Many researchers have made breakthroughs by
figuring out how to investigate things that were previously thought
"virtually impossible to test for."
Indeed, I would be surprised if "candida overbloom" were such a
phenomena. I would think that candida would produce signature
byproducts whose measure would then set a lower bound on the
extent of recent infection. I realize this might get quite
tricky and difficult, probably expensive, and likely inconvenient
or uncomfortable to the subjects, but that is not the same as
"virtually impossible." | 19 | trimmed_train |
4,929 |
Yes, it's a shame that the NHL lost a fine team in one of the best
hockey markets in the country. Being a North Stars fan, it is sad to
see all of the tradition of the last 26 years get thrown into oblivion
at the hands of a truly crappy owner.
Hopefully the NHL will install an expansion franchise in the Twin Cities
within the next five years. Even if this is the case, a lot has been
lost in the North Stars move... | 17 | trimmed_train |
2,016 |
Robert,
You have probably solved your problem by now. Anyway, if you can get your
hands on QA Plus (version 4.21, maybe others as well), it will let you write
the COMPAQ CMOS settings. I know because I just did it.
I was just about to search for such a diagnostic disk when my brother-in-law
fixed an old DESKPRO with it. You might try the simtel mirror FTP sites. | 3 | trimmed_train |
6,537 |
What about guns with non-lethal bullets, like rubber or plastic bullets. Would
those work very well in stopping an attack? | 9 | trimmed_train |
5,572 | A few points about Mary's being taken into heaven at the end of her life on
earth:
One piece of evidence for Mary's assumption into heaven is the fact
that no Christian church ever claimed to be the sight where she was
buried. Some Christian churches claimed to be located at the final
resting places of Peter, Mark, and other saints, but no one ever
claimed to possess the body of Mary, the greatest of the saints. Why?
Because everyone knew that she had been taken up into heaven.
Although there is no definitive scriptural proof for the assumption of
Mary, some passages seem suggestive, like the passage in Revelation
that describes a woman giving birth to a Son and later being crowned
in the heavens. Of course, the woman in this passage has other
interpretations; she can also be taken a symbol for the Church.
The assumption of Mary makes sense because of her relationship to
Christ. Jesus, perfect God and perfect man, fulfilled the
requirements of the law perfectly. Under the law God gave to us, we
are to honor our mother and father, and Christ's act of taking his
mother into heaven is part of his fulfillment of that law. Also, he
took his flesh from her, so it seems appropriate that he decide not to
allow her flesh to rot in the grave.
One last point: an ex-Catholic attempted to explain Catholic doctrine
on the assumption by asserting it is connected to a belief that Mary
did not die. This is not a correct summary of what Catholics believe.
The dogma of the assumption was carefully phrased to avoid saying
whether Mary did or did not die. In fact, the consensus among Catholic
theologians seems to be that Mary in fact did die. This would make
sense: Christ died, and his Mother, who waited at the foot of the
cross, would want to share in his death. | 0 | trimmed_train |
4,310 | :As a matter of fact, i do keep random files on my disk. The reason is,
:without special-purpose hardware, it takes a long time to generate good random
:bits. I have programs that crank out a couple bits per minute, which is
:pretty conservative, but over time that's more than i need.
Sounds like a useful program - interested in posting it to alt.sources? | 7 | trimmed_train |
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1,067 |
Agressive actions are taken by both sides. Tough talk is done by both sides.
When an arab leader is menacing to throw all jews in the water is also tough talk,
I think. And killing people is mildly agressive (justified, in your opinion
if they are israeli soldiers, justified, in others' opinion if they are jews, not
justified at all in others opinion).
When Brad wrote the article about 3 Israelis killed, ther was a lot of pride
and satisfaction in his lines. That's what I feel disgusting. We may agree
or not when a killing is 'technically' murder, but being enthousiastic about it?
And again, I may appreciate some of your points, but you are not objective. That
is not a blame, just a remark.
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9,583 | I just thought I'd share a nice experience before my exam today.
I was walking down the streets on our campus, and a beggar came up and asked
me for any spare change I might have. I had a dollar or so that I gave her,
and - not wanting to give away all my money to strangers (I generally give
a dollar as that will buy a little food at McDonalds or something) - I offered
her some "spiritual gifts," as I called them, rather than gifts of money.
I talked of how great I felt that God had made such a pretty day, and how
nice it was to give to people - she then said she was getting married soon.
She talked about how she and her husband had very little (they may not have
even had a house, for all I know), but that they felt a very special love in
the Lord, an unselfish kind of caring. It warmed my heart to know that 2
people can have so little monetarily, and realize that spiritually they are
indeed very rich. A good lesson for all of us who say we want more, more,
more; what we really need cannot be counted, or sold, or bought. | 0 | trimmed_train |
11,074 |
I think your experiences under the Bulgarian regime are highly relevant.
We have too many people with their heads in the sand saying it cannot
happen here, as our Constitutional Rights are being trashed every day
because the government justifies doing some end-run around the protections
by a 'crisis' requiring 'drastic action'. It is most likely that in the
future possession of secure encryption tools will be regarded as possession
of 'terrorist and drug dealers tools', and be some serious Fedaral Felony.
Just like common tools are 'burgular tools' if the police say so, common
computer programs (even computers themselves) are now 'hackers tools',
and will become 'terrorist tools'. BET ON IT.
The insights of someone who has lived throught this are very important.
If the US goes the way of the old Soviet Union and its client states
as far as individual rights, privacy and overall freedom are concerned,
the rest of the world (remember 'New World Order'?) will not be far
behind - only a few years.
Please keep posting anything you find that is deficient or that threatens
ones rights in this thing.
For example, a conversation between a suspect and a lawyer will no longer
be private from Big Brother eavesdropping. Political dissent allready
is very dangerous in this country, all it takes is the government to
decide that enough people will take one seriously, then one becomes
guilty of 'plotting to overthrow the government by illegal means'. The
phrase 'illegal means' is defined as whatever the government wants it
to be defined as.
Couple this with Clinton's pressing for a 'smart' National ID card (an
'Internal passport'?), with the added wrinkle that anything about you and
your past can be put on it, and you can only take the government's
word as to what is really on it (since they will be the only ones
with the means to completely read and reprogram the thing). Isn't
that nice?
While the Feds can bust into one's safe without the keys, the owner
knows his safe has been broken into. When they break into your 'secure'
phone conversations (or other stored/transmitted data in the near future)
you have no way of knowing, so accountability as to the legalities has
gone out the window. Just like a safe, if they have a legal cause, they
can get the keys from the suspect, just like they can get the keys to
a safe or the combination from the suspect. Same with encryption:
Record everything, get the warrants, THEN decode it with the keys
obtained from the suspect.
This Clinton Cripple, along with its natural extensions, will make any
priviliged communications between client and lawyer, and any meaningful
political dissent virtually impossible. Which is the general idea.
Any propeganda about its being secure, and the safeguards, and all
of that are just that - propeganda to reassure people so they will
by into this monstrosity. DON'T BE SUCKERED.
BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING!!!
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6,433 |
I agree, I had a hard feeling not believing my grand-grand mother
who told me of elves dancing outside barns in the early mornings.
I preferred not to accept it, even if her statement provided
the truth itself. Life is hard.
Cheers,
Kent | 8 | trimmed_train |
7,032 |
Good point. The New Testament does not quote Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther,
Ruth, Job, Ecclesiastes, or Song of Songs, just as it does not quote
from the Deuterocanon. But if the non-quotation of the former does not
disqualify them, neither does the non-quotation of the later. And the
Wisodm of Solomon was quite clearly an influence on St. Paul, especially
in the letter to the Romans (cf especially Romans 1.18-32 and Wisdom
13-14).
[stuff deleted]
True. Not all accepted them as Scripture, though niether were all the
books of the New Testament so accepted, which puts to the lie the whole
argument of the books being excluded because they were debated and not
universally accepted. Hebrews, the Apocalypse, 2 Peter, Esther, and
others were debated at various times, but eventually retained. As for
the Codexes you mention, both Vaticanus and Sinaitcus include the
Deuterocanon, bothe of the New and Old Testaments, and Vaticanus (I
think) inlcudes 1 Clement, the Shepard of Hermas, and the Epistle of
Baranabas. As for the Muratorian Canon, it deals with the New Testament
only, though it is very valuable in its witness to those books.
You're not wrong! It is a `tradition of men' to exlcude them, as I
will explain below.
"That nothing be read in the Church under the nmae of Divine Scripture,
except the canonical Scriptures, and the canoncial Scriptures are -
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth,
Four books of Kingdoms [being 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings], Two books of
Paralpomenon [being 1&2 Chronicles], Job, the Psalter of David, the Five
books of Solomon [being Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of
Solomon, and [misatributed to him] the Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach],
The books of the Twelve (Minor) Prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah [being
Jeremiah, the Lamentations, Baruch, and the Letter, all of which were
formerly counted as one], Ezekiel, Daniel, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Two
books of Ezra [being Ezra and Nehemiah], Two books of Maccabees. And of
the New Testament: Four books of the Gospel, One book of the Acts of the
Apostles, Thirteen letters of Paul the Apostle, One Letter of the same
to the Hebrews, two of Peter the Apostle, Three of John, One of the
Apostle Jude, One of the Apostle James, One book of the Apocalypse of
John."
-Council of Hippo, Statute 36, (393 AD)
This same list was promulgated again at the Third Council of Carthage
(397 AD), and at the Sixth Council of Carthage (419 AD) - at which
council the same list was enumerated with the words "Because we have
recieved from the Fathers that these are the books to be read in the
Church." Which ought to quiet those who assert "in the name of Holy
Scripture we do understand those books of whose authority there was
never any doubt in the Church," as the Episcopal Church does in removing
the Deuterocanon from the realm of Scripture. (Though the Episcopalians
hold them in high regard and read them in the Church, they are not
counted as Scripture by them, and may not be used to prove dogma. The
Lutherans hold out similarly.)
Earlier mention of the so-called Apocrypha as divine scripture can also
be found, and below I inlcude only a portion of the quotes calling it
divine scripture that could be found among the writings of the Fathers.
"And this is the reason why the Law of the old Testament is reckoned as
consisting of twenty-two books: so that they may correspond to the
number of letters [in the Hebrew alphabet].... It is to be noted also
that by adding to these Tobias and Judith, there are twenty-four books,
corresponding to the number of letters used by the Greeks."
-St. Hillary of Poitiers, "Commentaries on the Psalms," prologue, 15 (365 AD)
"The twenty-two books according to the Hebrews are .... Jeremiah, with
Lamentations and the Letter, reckoned as one .... and [also] there is
Maccabees."
-Origen, "Commentaries on the Psalms," Psalm 1 (245 AD)
"Divine Scripture, addressing itself to those who love themselves and to
the boastful .... says most excellently [Baruch 3.16-19 follows]."
-St. Clement of Alexandria, "The Instuctor of Children," 2, 3, 36, 3, (203 AD)
"....I learned accurately the books of the Old Testament ... Proverbs of
Solomon, and also Wisdom ..."
-St. Melito of Sardes, fragment found in Eusebius' "History of the
Church," and dating from crica 177 AD, Book 4, 26, 14
"It is likewise decreed: Now, indeed, we must treat of the divine
Scriptures: what the universal Catholic Church accepts and what she must
shun. The list of the Old Testament .... Wisdom, one book;
Ecclesiasticus, one book .... Tobit, one book .... Judith, one book; of
Maccabees, two books."
-St. Damasus I, Pope, "The Decree of Damsus," section 2 (382 AD) | 0 | trimmed_train |
9,291 |
You're being too generous to the communists, I think. In practice,
communism has "solved" the problem by killing off anybody who is _too_
productive, and who therefore raises embarrassing questions about why the
rest of the group is a bunch of sluggards. The mass butchery of "kulaks"
in the USSR is a good instance of this.
A poor second best is to have a neighboring capitalist country to which
people of politically incorrect skill and ambition flee. I often wonder
just what Castro would have done if the Cubans presently in Miami would
have been forced to remain in Cuba. Would they have revolted and killed
him off, or been killed?
Best of all is to build a wall locking the citizens of your country in,
load it up so heavily with attack dogs, barbed wire, and land mines that
most people fleeing over it die, and then give everyone the choice of
obedience, prison, or flight. This would be a bad science-fiction novel,
if the East Germans hadn't actually done it. The last person to die
crossing the wall, as I recall, was an unarmed woman who was shot in the
back. Erich Honecker was going to go on trial for that, but he fled to
socialists in Chile.
It's good to be kind to one's intellectual opponents, but sometimes
it's a sheer waste of time. | 13 | trimmed_train |
3,023 | A colleague has a bizarre font problem on his new MIPS workstation.
When he first logs on (via xdm), he has a single xterm window appear
with the mwm window manager running. In this configuration, X windows
applications (particularly xdvi) work fine. However, if he opens up a
second xterm application, suddenly xdvi cannot start in either window,
giving the error: Unable to load ISO 8859-1 font.
The only difference between the two xterm windows is that the initial
one references a different name in the Xsession file, with prettier
colours and other slight changes. Further investigation shows that only
opening a default xterm causes this behaviour, and more significant, ALL
X applications can no longer load any fonts if they are invoked from the
command line in either window. If I start the xterm with a different
font (using the -fn option), no problems. It would seem that the
default xterm is loading a font which somehow causes the server to lose
all of its fonts. Note: xlsfonts in either window shows all of the
fonts available, so there doesn't appear to be a problem in the font
directories/hash-tables.
Other than rewriting the XTerm app-defaults file to use a different
font and hope for the best, does anyone have any ideas? | 16 | trimmed_train |
4,383 | For image display, about 10 frames per second seems to be the lower limit
for interactive operations. For just bringing up an image for viewing less
than 1 second seems to be a good number. Of course the measure of response
time should be based on the applications you are planning to run.
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1,926 | Does anybody know the FTP site with the latest Windows drivers for the ATI
GUP?
Thanks
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1,216 | I have a small Windows program which I can not get to work;
The program looks vaguely like this:
=============================================
char f1[80];
int WinMain(...
{
lstrcpy ((LPSTR)f1, "Hello");
...
}
long far pascal WndProc(...
{
lstrcpy ((LPSTR)f1, "Hello");
...
}
=============================================
I am using large model under Windows 3.1; after linking without
errors, the RC program said
Sorting preload segments and resources into fast-load section
Copying segment 1 (53679 bytes)
RC : fatal error RW1031: Segment 1 and its
relocation information is too large for load
optimization. Make the segment LOADONCALL or
rerun RC using the -K switch if the segment must
be preloaded.
Using the -K switch seems to interfere with the proper function of
the second lstrcpy call... can anybody explain what is going on and/or
how to fix it?
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4,157 | There is this newsgroup sci.med.physics and there has been quite a lot
discussion in this group about many chemical items e.g. prolactin
cholesterol, TSH etc. Should there also be a newsgroup sci.med.chemistry?
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9,481 | Remember the good old days, when Hexadecimals, and even Binaries
were still legal? Sure, they smoked a little blue stuff out the
pipes, but I had a hex 7 that could slaughter any decimal 10 on
the road. Sigh, such nostalgia!
Regards, Charles
DoD0,001
RZ350 | 12 | trimmed_train |
9,793 |
Is there any Israeli a civilian, in your opinion ?
Now, I do not condone myself bombing villages, any kind of villages.
But you claim these are villages with civilians, and Iraelis claim they are
camps filled with terrorists. You claim that israelis shell the villages with the
'hope' of finding a terrorist or so. If they kill one, fine, if not, too bad,
civilians die, right ? I am not so sure.
As somebody wrote, Saddam Hussein had no problems using civilians in disgusting
manner. And he also claimed 'civilians murdered'. Let me ask you, isn't there
at least a slight chance that you (not only, and the question is very general,
no insult) are doing a similar type of propaganda in respect to civilians in
southern Lebanon ?
Now, a lot people who post here consider 'Israeli soil' kind of Mediteranean sea.
How do you define Israeli soil ? From what you say, if you do not clearly
recognize the state of Israel, you condone killing israelis anywhere.
I do not know what was the pupose of the action you describe. If it was
to kill civilians (I doubt), I certainly DO NOT CONDONE IT. If civilians were
killed, i do not condone it.
Mr. Hernlem, it was YOU, not ME, who was showing a huge satisfaction for 3
israelis (human beings by most standards, Don't know about your standards) killed.
If you ask me those questions, I will have no problem answering (not with a
question, as you did) : No, NOBODY is qualified candidate for murder, nothing
justifies murder. I have the feeling that you may be able yourself to make
similar statements, maybe after eliminating all Israelis, jews, ? Am I wrong ?
Now tell me, did you also condone Saddam's scuds on israeli 'soldiers' in, let's
say, Tel Aviv ? From what I understand, a lot of palestineans cheered. What does
it show? It does not qualify for freedom fighting to me ? But again, I may be
wrong, and the jewish controlled media distorted the information, and I am just
an ignorant victim of the media, like most of us.
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4,119 |
Well, I could become a fan ... (-;
Seriously, this news coming since Thursday has effectively robbed the
Islanders and the Devils of any airtime on sports talk shows almost
everywhere that I've sampled ... in fact, the playoffs almost don't
exist now. )-; Ranger fans calling in to WFAN or to New York One's
midnight sports talk were in a mix of fury over this season and near-
orgasm over Keenan's hiring. (Summarizing: Keenan is a winner and
will give the Broadway Bums 'da business' in pursuing the next Cup
chase ...)
This will be an interesting combination to watch ... Keenan has been
paid enough money to put up and shut up and just be a coach, but his
advice on any player moves will be listened to closely. A lot of big
player moves will happen --- remember that Keenan got rid of Denis
Savard. The country club days are over ...
If Paramount had given Smith an earlier sign of support and offered
Keenan the big money to put-up-and-shut-up back in January, the
Rangers might not be heading for golf now ...
One of Keenan's first statements was a reaffirmation that Mark Messier
will be the team's captain.
By then, Smith might have some bargains on Keenan's advice ... like
maybe unloading Phil Bourque for Tie Domi ... (-;
gld | 17 | trimmed_train |
466 |
If we do, I think you'd loose. Sure, you're hand's already on the
throttle. And your thumb is already near the horn button. Pushing the
horn button is one simple move. Revving the throttle requires either
engaging the clutch, or accelerating. The first is a more complex
manuver than a simple horn button push, and the second ain't too bright
when there is a potential hazard ahead. Besides, the unique sound of a
horn is more effective in attracting the attention of BDI cagers than
is the sound of an engine, which is what they expect to hear (you are
on the road!).
As is usually the case, a single anecdote hardly constitutes sound
safety procedure.
The answer is 161.33 feet.
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8,582 |
Now doesn't this sound a lot like the "colorful (or otherwise) story
from antiquity that somehow tries to (or does) explain natural pheno-
mena"? I think I hear what you're saying, but I'm not convinced that
I know what you mean. The possibility exists that what _looks_ like
"myth" on the surface may be after all much more than "just" a story.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * | 15 | trimmed_train |
2,711 |
[ANAS] There are many neutral human rights organizations which always report
[ANAS] on the situation in the O.T. But, as most people used to see on TV, the
[ANAS] Israelis do not allow them to go deep there in the O.T. The Israelis
[ANAS] used to arrest and sometimes to kill some of these neutral reporters.
[ANAS] So, this is another kind of terrorism committed by the Jews in Palestine.
[ANAS] They do not allow fair and neutral coverage of the situation in
[ANAS] Palestine.
Bring me one case where Israeli Soldiers deliberately killed a "neutral
reporter". This is another one of your wet dreams.
Unlike many countries, Israel does allow reporters in and out of the O.T.
That is what the problem is. If Israel were a country like China, then
nothing would transpire from what is happening in the O.T. But there
seems to be a proliferation of journalists in Israel always trying to show
how evil the Israeli monster is. Arab countries don't allow journalists
anywhere, we have yet to hear about the massacres of Kurds, the destruction
and annihilation of Hama, the killings of moslem fundamentalists in mosques
in Egypt and Algeria etc... Why is it we only get state reports? How accurate
are they?
Anas, go give a lesson of freedom of speech to your Arab bretheren before
telling us what to do.
Tsiel | 6 | trimmed_train |
7,231 | The car might also need a front end alignment, particularly if you're
describing wandering.
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5,919 | In <[email protected]> [email protected] (Marc Horowitz
I have also been in contact with Mitch about this. I believe
him when he says he didn't ask to be on the "clipper" list.
He also forwarded the traffic he had recieved through that list to
me which will be placed at some ftp site.
However, the first alias on the "clipper list" was csspab which was
another mailing list. It basically contained the addresses for
staffers and board members of the NIST security board. Several of
these people had their accounts within the dockmaster domain.
These are the people we might wish to FOIA...
/harry | 7 | trimmed_train |
9,317 | Yes, I know this is not Rec.music, (as someone has already pointed out, thanks I know that), I'm trying to get a random sample and also I'm desperate for respones.
So please, don't mail me complaining that it doesn't belong here or that it is wasting bandwidth.
This affects EVERYBODY not just readers of music groups. Please either complete the survey, or hit 'n', because I'll just bounce back complaints.
Thank you
-Matt
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5,262 |
Once in a while you have to put in a good word for something that works
well. I have had no problems with my Toshiba 3401. It works very well with
DOS and OS/2. For OS/2, you don't need to load any special drivers. The
installation will detect that it is a Toshiba drive and you are done.
BTW, it's also very fast! | 3 | trimmed_train |
5,676 |
There's a program called "Icon Frightener" included with the book Stupid
Windows Tricks by Bob LeVitus and Ed Tittel (Addison-Wesley, 1992). It's
freeware. If it's not on the net anywhere, I'll happily email a copy to
someone who's willing to upload it (I can't upload through our Internet
firewall).
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10,931 | : Could some one tell me what:
: Phar Lap err 35: The 386 chip is currently executing in virtual
: 8086 mode under the control
: of another program. You must turn off this other program in order
: to use 386|DOS-Extender to run in protected mode.
: means.
: This shows up on a CompuAdd Express 486-33 whenever a program
: such as Matlab or Maple is run. It has been tried under dr-dos
: 6.0, msdos 5.0, and 4dos 4.01. There is nothing, nada, in memory.
: Nothing appears on a virus check.
: Anybody?
: --
: [email protected] [email protected]
: "This world? And everything in it? *Illusions*, Richard! Every bit
: of it *illusions!* *Do you understand that?*" -- Donald Shimoda
I used to get this problem with AutoCad when using the NOEMS switch with
EMM386.EXE in DOS 5.0. If you allocate some ram to EMM386 the problem
should go away. | 3 | trimmed_train |
11,237 |
Dynamic RAM is not based on flip-flops; there's basically a single
transistor and capacitor to store each bit! Static RAM is based on
flip-flops, and is much more expensive and much less dense. And
neither has any parts that "move", if electrons and thermal expansion
are ignored...
Chris
| 14 | trimmed_train |
3,027 | I just bought a new IDE hard drive for my system to go with the one
I already had. My problem is this. My system only had a IDE cable
for one drive, so I had to buy cable with two drive connectors
on it, and consequently have to switch cables. The problem is,
the new hard drive's manual refers to matching pin 1 on the cable
with both pin 1 on the drive itself and pin 1 on the IDE card. But
for the life of me I cannot figure out how to tell which way to plug
in the cable to align these.
Secondly, the cable has like a connector at two ends and one between them.
I figure one end goes in the controler and then the other two go into
the drives. Does it matter which I plug into the "master" drive
and which into the "Slave"? any help appreciated. thanks...
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6,984 |
There are many neutral human rights organizations which always report
on the situation in the O.T. But, as most people used to see on TV, the
Israelis do not allow them to go deep there in the O.T. The Israelis
used to arrest and sometimes to kill some of these neutral reporters.
So, this is another kind of terrorism committed by the Jews in Palestine.
They do not allow fair and neutral coverage of the situation in Palestine.
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10,263 |
Where do I get hold of these widgets? | 16 | trimmed_train |
3,701 | [again, poseted for a friend]
Okay, I got such great response from my last question (thanks, everyone),
lets try again:
How can I tell if a colorcell is read-only?
I want to use any read-only cells that are already in my colormap
once I start running out of allocatable cells, using some arbitrary
nearest color matching scheme to get those cells that come closest to
a requested color.
Once I determine if a cell is read-only, I assume I can then just request
an XAllocColor() with the exact same color specifications and it will
then be flagged as 'used' by my application so that it doesn't later get
freed by someone else and allocated again as read-write to another
application.
So far, the only way I've figured out to do this is to write my own
error handler and just go ahead and request the cells colors, once my
colormap is all full up. It should error out if the cell is non-shareable.
But life would be much easier if I could just detect the
read-only/shareable stuff directly...
Any ideas? | 16 | trimmed_train |
3,994 |
Bzzzt! Thanks for playing. If he'd been making a right
turn, the sucker would have been a couple feet off the
ground.
Michael
| 12 | trimmed_train |
611 |
"Finally, brethern, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is
right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your
mind dwell on these things." Phil. 4:8. | 15 | trimmed_train |
1,399 | This might a real wierd idea or maybe not..
I have seen where people have blown up ballons then sprayed material into them
that then drys and makes hard walls...
Why not do the same thing for a space station..
Fly up the docking rings and baloon materials and such, blow up the baloons,
spin then around (I know a problem in micro gravity) let them dry/cure/harden?
and cut a hole for the docking/attaching ring and bingo a space station..
Of course the ballons would have to be foil covered or someother radiation
protective covering/heat shield(?) and the material used to make the wals would
have to meet the out gasing and other specs or atleast the paint/covering of
the inner wall would have to be human safe.. Maybe a special congrete or maybe
the same material as makes caplets but with some changes (saw where someone
instea dof water put beer in the caplet mixture, got a mix that was just as
strong as congret but easier to carry around and such..)
Sorry for any spelling errors, I missed school today.. (grin)..
Why musta space station be so difficult?? why must we have girders? why be
confined to earth based ideas, lets think new ideas, after all space is not
earth, why be limited by earth based ideas?? | 10 | trimmed_train |
2,313 | I have a 386/40 motherboard with AMI BIOS.
I haven't located the little motherboard manual yet,
and suddenly it's giving me 10 beeps when I turn the power on.
It was working fine this morning,
then gave all kinds of problems, in Windows and outside it.
After multiple reboots, now it only gives 10 beeps and sits there? | 3 | trimmed_train |
3,381 | Hello,
When starting bx if you recieve an error message saying
"cannot load app-defaults file..." check your XAPPLRESDIR
environment variable and then put the file BuilderXcessory
( this is the app-defaults file for BX ) in the directory
specified by the XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environment variable.
If you don't have an XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environment variable
then set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to be the directory where the
BuilderXcessory file is. You can do this using the setenv
command under csh. Note that the name ends in .ad so you will
have to set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to {BX}/%N.ad to get the
app-defaults to load correctly.
To make sure the the app-defaults file can be read by all
the users, make sure that a copy of or a link to the app-defaults
file exists in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults or
/usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults, depending on how your system is
set up.
Once you have taken care of this set the *systemDirectory
resource to be the directory in which you have installed BX.
For example let's say I've installed BX in /t then my system
directory resource should be set like this :
*systemDirectory: /t/builderXcessory | 16 | trimmed_train |
11,311 | I just installed a DX2-66 CPU in a clone motherboard, and tried mounting a CPU
cooler on the chip. After about 1/2 hour, the weight of the cooler was enough
to dislodge the CPU from its mount. It ended up bending a few pins
on the CPU, but luckily the power was not on yet. I ended up
pressing the CPU deeply into its socket and then putting the CPU
cooler back on. So far so good.
Have others had this problem? How do you ensure that the weight of
the CPU fan and heatsink do not eventually work the CPU out of its
socket when mounting the motherboard in a vertical case?
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3,705 |
To start with, no methodology or form of reasoning is infallible. So
there's a question of how much certainty we are willing to pay for in a
given context. Insistence on too much rigor bogs science down completely
and makes progress impossible. (Expenditure of sufficiently large sums
of money and amounts of time can sometimes overcome this.) On the other
hand, with too little rigor much is lost by basing work on results which
eventually turn out to be false. There is a morass of studies
contradicting other studies and outsiders start saying "You people call
THIS science?" (My opinion, for what it's worth, is that one sees both
these phenomena happening simultaneously in some parts of psychology.)
Some subjective judgement is required to decide on the level of rigor
appropriate for a particular investigation. I don't believe it is
ever possible to banish subjective judgement from science.
My second point, though, is that highly capable people can often make
extremely reliable judgements about scientific validity even when using
methodology considered inadequate by the usual standards. I think this
is true of many scientists and I think it is true of many who approach
their discipline in a way that is not generally recognized as scientific.
Within mathematics, I think there are several examples, especially before
the twentieth century. One conspicuous case is that of Riemann, who is
famous for many theorems he stated but did not prove. (Later
mathematicians did prove them, of course.)
I think that for a good scientist, empirical investigation is often not
so much a matter of determining what is true and what's not as it is a
matter of convincing other people. (People have proposed lots of
incompatible definitions of science here, but I think the ability to
objectively convince others of the validity of one's results is an
essential element. Not that one can necessarily do that at every step
of the scientific process, but I think that if one is not moving toward
that goal then one is not doing science.)
When a person other than a scientist is quite good at what he does and
seems to be very successful at it, I think that his judgements are also
worthy of respect and that his assertions are well worth further
investigation.
Admittedly, my question was not at all well posed. A considerable
amount of effort in a "serious scholarly investigation" such as I
suggested would be required simply to formulate an appropriately
specific question to try and answer.
The "science" I was thinking of in my question is the actual science
currently practiced now in the last decade of the twentieth century.
I certainly wasn't thinking of some idealized science or the mere use
of "reason and observation."
One thing I had in mind in my suggestion was the question as to whether
in many cases the subjective judgements of skilled and experienced
practitioners might be more reliable than statistical studies.
Since Russell Turpin seems to be much more familiar than I am with
the study of scientific methodology, perhaps he can tell us if there
is any existing research related to this question.
--
In the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems
less like a science than a collection of competing religious sects. | 19 | trimmed_train |
668 |
Nice dodge. I give it a 9.2.
Now to answer your questions. I do not believe that there should be a
draft. The armed services should be voluntary. Can you say the same
about taxes.
I've answered your question. Would you now answer mine. | 13 | trimmed_train |
8,411 |
...for very small values of six and nine. | 1 | trimmed_train |
7,205 |
How about the nickname Bake "Flamethrower" Timmons?
You weren't at the Koresh compound around noon today by any chance, were you?
Remember, Koresh "dried" for your sins. | 8 | trimmed_train |
5,880 | Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. April 23, 1993
(Phone: 202/358-1780)
Kyle Herring
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 713/483-5111)
RELEASE: 93-76
HUBBLE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION SCHEDULED FOR ELEVEN DAYS
The December flight of Endeavour on Space Shuttle mission STS-61 to
service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been scheduled as an 11 day
mission designed to accommodate a record five spacewalks with the capability
for an additional two, if needed.
The decision to schedule five extravehicular activities, or EVAs, was
reached following extensive evaluations of underwater training, maneuver times
required using the Shuttle's robot arm based on software simulations and actual
EVA tasks on previous missions.
"Basically what we've done by going to five EVAs rather than three is
to repackage our margin so that we have the capability to respond to the
dynamics, or unknowns, of spacewalks," Mission Director Randy Brinkley said.
"It improves the probabilities for mission success while providing added
flexibility and adaptability for reacting to real-time situations."
In laying out the specific tasks to be completed on each of the
spacewalks, officials have determined that changing out the gyros, solar arrays
and the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC) and installing the Corrective
Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) are priority objectives
during the mission.
"When we looked at accomplishing all of the tasks, highest through
lowest priority, and recognizing that the major tasks -- gyros, solar arrays,
WF/PC and COSTAR -- would consume most of the time set aside for each
spacewalk, five EVAs were deemed appropriate," said Milt Heflin, Lead Flight
Director for the mission.
While the five spacewalks will be unprecedented, the use of two
alternating spacewalk teams will alleviate placing more stress on the crew than
previous missions requiring two, three or four EVAs.
"We have paid close attention to lessons learned during previous
spacewalks and factored these into our timeline estimates for five EVAs,"
Heflin said. "In planning for all Space Shuttle missions, it is necessary to
formulate a work schedule that represents as realistic a timeline as possible
to accomplish the mission objectives."
Planning currently calls for at least five water tank training sessions
that include support from the Mission Control Center, called joint integrated
simulations, lasting between 10 and 36 hours. In addition, many stand alone
underwater training "runs" will practice individual tasks in each spacewalk.
Various refinements to the specific tasks on each spacewalk will be
made based on actual training experience during the months prior to the
mission. Also, lessons learned from other spacewalks leading up to the flight
will be valuable in assisting the STS-61 crew in its training techniques.
Endeavour's June flight and Discovery's July mission both will include
spacewalks to evaluate some of the unique tools to be used on the HST mission.
The evaluations will help in better understanding the differences between the
actual weightlessness of space and the ground training in the water tanks at
the Johnson Space Center, Houston, and the Marshall Space Flight Center,
Huntsville, Ala.
Also, the inflight spacewalking experiences will assist in gaining
further insight into the time required for the various tasks and expand the
experience levels among the astronaut corps, the flight controllers and
trainers.
Designed to be serviced by a Space Shuttle crew, Hubble was built with
grapple fixtures and handholds to assist in the capture and repair procedures.
The telescope was launched aboard Discovery in April 1990. At that
time the NASA mixed fleet manifest showed the first revisit mission to HST in
1993 to change out science instruments and make any repairs that may have
become necessary. | 10 | trimmed_train |
8,792 | $6.95 each. add $1.05 for postage (4th class), that makes it $8.
All these 5 discs are still shrink wrapped | 5 | trimmed_train |
7,815 |
Of course a run scored is just as important as a run prevented.
Just as a penny saved is a penny earned. Enough with the cliches.
My point is that IF the Braves starters are able to live up to
their potential, they won't need much offensive support.
I realize this is a BIG IF. This staff leaves the '92 BoSox in the dust.
There is no legitimate comparison. Two Cy Young winners, and three other
pitchers that most any team in the league would kill to have as their first
or second starter. It seems to me that when quality pitchers take the
mound, the other teams score less runs. The team that scores the most
runs wins. This puts the team with the better pitching at the advantage
(providing they can stop the opposing team from scoring runs). A low
scoring game would clearly benefit the Braves. They should have many
low scoring games due to their excellent pitching and below average hitting.
On the flip side, if you had a starting lineup of great offensive players,
I would be arguing that this team would not need great pitchers.
They would have an advantage because they could simply outscore their
opponent. The name of the games is to win. Even Ray Knight knows that
you do this by putting more runs up on the scoreboard.
All I'm trying to say is that if you assemble the quality pitchers
like the Braves have, the offense doesn't need to be as strong.
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7,424 |
Has anyone taken a look at the new ViewSonic 17? They claim
1280x1024 at 76Hz. How does it compare with the T560i in terms of
price, and quality of display?
I'm interested in the new ViewSonic 17 as well. Has anyone seen one
of these monitors in the flesh?
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5,189 |
I think the legal term would be "negligent homicide"
Well, it's nice to see someone with a brain, a general lack of paranoia, and
a willingness to put his thoughts in public. I tend to agree with all you have
said.
"Never assume foul motives when stupidity will do." -- Jim's Corrolary to
Occam's Razor
semper fi, | 9 | trimmed_train |
3,774 |
In a word, yes. I don't believe that physical knowledge has a great deal of
impact on the power of God. In the past, God gave us the ability to create
life through sexual relations. Now, he is giving us the ability to create life
through in vitro fertilization. The difference between the two is merely
cosmetic, and even if we gain the ability to create universes we won't begin to
approach the glory of God.
The power we are being given is a test, and I am sure that in many cases we
will use our new abilities unwisely. But, people have been using sexuality
unwisely for millenia and I haven't heard an outcry to abolish it yet!
No matter how far we extend our dominion over the physical world, we aren't
impinging on God's power. It's only when we attempt to gain control of the
spiritual world, those things that can't be approached through science and
logic, that we begin to interfere with God. | 0 | trimmed_train |
3,594 |
Okay, here's the down side of the ESPN deal: no additional coverage.
With a split contract, SCA could have at least gotten at leftovers
like Canucks-Jets, Caps-whoever and Red Wings-Leafs (or whoever else
is playing).
For our area (Islanders-Devils), it's likely to be the Bruins, since
the other Adams series is Montreal-Quebec. I'd prefer the latter
myself ...
I'm under the impression that the ABC deal overrides the local deals,
but if St. Louis at Chicago pops up we'll know ...
gld | 17 | trimmed_train |
2,167 |
And still we wonder why they stereotype us... | 12 | trimmed_train |
2,822 | From the Santa Rosa (Cal.) Press-Democrat, April 15, 1993, p. B2:
Male sex survey: Gay activity low
A new natonal study on male sexual behavior, the most thorough
examination of American men's sexual practices published since
the Kinsey report more than four decades ago, shows about 2
percent of the men surveyed had engaged in homosexual sex and
1 percent considered themselves exclusively homosexual.
The figures on homosexuality in the study released Wednesday
by the Alan Guttmacher Institute are significantly lower than
the 10 percent figure that has been part of the conventional
wisdom since it was published in the Kinsey report.
The article also contains numbers on the number of sexual partners.
The median number of sexual partners for all men 20-39 was 7.3.
Compared to the table I have already posted from Masters, Johnson,
and Kolodny showing male homosexual partners, it is apparent that
homosexual men are dramatically more promiscuous than the general
male population. It's a shame that we don't have a breakdown for
straight men vs. gay/bi men -- that would show even more dramatically
how much more promiscuous gay/bi men are. | 13 | trimmed_train |
6,055 |
[ These two paragraphs are from two different posts. In splicing them
together it is not my intention to change Steve's meaning or misrepresent
him in any way. I don't *think* I've done so. ]
Part of what started this was my earlier example of Illinois, USA requiring
anyone doing more than X automobile transfers a year (X = 10, I think)
to become licensed as a used car dealer. In addition, it requirs anyone
with a used car dealer's license to own at least 10 cars at a time, all the
time.
Let me continue with this example and try to answer Steve's questions.
Steve, let's say you have the talent and inclination to fix up and resell
cars. Either you've gotten good enough at it in your spare time to bump
up against these limits, or you would like to do it full-time but these
stupid, arbitrary laws prevent you from starting out small and pulling
yourself up. So I'm protected from a hungry neighborhood competitor willing
to take a low profit while working extra hard to fulfill my needs, and you're
protected from doing what you want with your life.
Here's what I see libertarianism offering you:
Your money is truly yours; it belongs to you. You can use it to buy a car.
If you use it to buy a car, it is truly your car; it belongs to you. You
can use your money to fix up that car. Since it is your car, you can sell
that car.
Your life is truly yours; it belongs to you. It matters not if someone
thinks that it's "wrong" for you to buy and sell 10 cars within 12 months
rather than, say, 9 cars. They may dissaprove, but it is not their life or
their money, it is your life and your money.
My money is truly mine; it belongs to me. I can use it to buy a car.
Perhaps your car. Perhaps that 10th car, the one that someone, somewhere
dissaproves of you selling and, presumably, of me buying.
That someone could go to the government and insist that the government make
us stop it. But the government would be powerless to stop us from doing
what we like with our own property, in the abscence of fraud or agression.
And it would be powerless to stop us from associating with each other.
This does not seem to me to be a utopian dream, but basic human decency
and common sense. A real grass-roots example of freedom and liberty.
And yes, not having a few people acting as our masters, approving or
rejecting each of our basic transactions with each other, does strike me
as a wonderful way to improve the human condition. | 13 | trimmed_train |
5,567 |
This is a very good point. One that I have held for sometime. We do not
allow people to develop on the paths that they choose or desire. Even with
heterosexuals we tend to leave some hanging in the sense of knowledge and
information about sexuality and relationships.
It is very difficult for a young person to develop and build a positive
view of themself when they are constantly being told implicitly and explicitly
that they are wrong and immoral. | 13 | trimmed_train |
10,149 |
I don't believe IRQ5 is the problem. I tried a mouse on COM3, IRQ4 (the
usual place) and it still did not like it. Simply, Windows seems to only
support mice on COM1 or COM2. The funny part is, though, that
Microsoft's own mouse driver (8.xx) was quite happy with my mouse
sitting on COM3. Why can't Windows use the mouse driver, or at least
support COM3? :-)
I've tried this too. Actually, I wanted to be able to use my second
modem (COM3/IRQ5) from Windows. It still will not talk to that modem. I
created two profiles, AMSTRAD (for my Amstrad modem on COM1/IRQ4) and
MAESTRO (for my Maestro on COM3/IRQ5). It will not talk to the Maestro
at all.
Nor here. (Windows 3.0).
I've seen nothing like that. I've experimented with Logitech's mouse
driver too, with no sucess.
If you have a SoundBlaster Pro, it should support IRQ10 as well.
Finally, a board that supports IRQs >9. The only one I have (except my
IDE controller).
hamish
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947 | Please realize that I am frequently getting in trouble for
straying from orthodoxy, but here is my opinion:
I never thought of these two ideas being "against" each other.
People might quibble about what "intrinsically" means but the
reason we are sinners is because we do not behave as good as we
are. The message of Christ is that each of us are not only good,
but great, that we can approach perfection, albeit perhaps through a
different technique than you claim Buddhism teaches. Because we do
not realize our greatness, we sin. Peter had no problem walking
on water until a little doubt crept in.
Doesn't David ask in the 8th Psalm "what is man that you [God]
should care for him, but you have made him just a little lower
than the angels"?
I probably exagerate in my mind what a scrawny little kid David
was, just as I probably exagerate what a gigantic monster Goliath
was, but David's power easily defeated Goliath's.
Remember the rich young man who comes up to Jesus and asks what
he can do to enter the Kingdom, Jesus says follow the commandments.
I always picture the smug look on his face as he says he's done that
his whole life, probably anticipating an "attaboy" from the
Messiah. Instead Jesus gives him a harder task, sell everything
and follow Him. Jesus is raising the bar. The desciples say
how can anyone do this if it's so hard even for rich people.
Jesus says anyone can do it, with God's help.
Jesus says not only can we avoid killing people, we can avoid
getting angry at people. Not only can we avoid committing
adultery, we can control our own desires.
I realize this was not your main point, but I wonder how other
people see this.
(Please forgive any generalizations I am about to make.)
Your point about how "hard" other religions are is a good one, just
as your "Parting Question" is a tough question. I think that Muslims
worship the same God as I do, we can learn from their name "submission".
Hindus and Buddhists and Taoists, etc. claim that "God" is impersonal.
Is God personal or impersonal? I say yes, but if I think a little
more my answer is whichever is greater. I think it is greater
to be a personal entity, with an individual consciousness, but
you're right that that might be a cultural bias. If I think more
I must admit that God's personal nature is as far beyond my
conception as His impersonal nature is beyond the Hindu's
conception. If somehow Jesus could fit into Hindu cosmology
then maybe I wouldn't have a problem, though that is hard to imagine.
Are there any former (or present) "Eastern Religion" members here
who could comment? | 0 | trimmed_train |
8,602 |
subscribe [email protected]
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10,930 | I've installed X11R5 with patches for Solaris 2.1 on our SPARCstation LX /
SPARCclassic pool. On the LX, X11R5 runs fine, but on the classics,
after giving the command startx, Xsun prints the following messages:
WARNING: cg3_mmap: can't map dummy space!
Mapping cg3c: No such device or address
and exits.
Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance.
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6,289 |
WFWG does use NDIS but it cooperates well with the NDIS shim for ODI.
(I've heard that it is as fast as NDIS direct)
The additional TSR load is minimal. I think I eat another 20K total.
This is worth it to me since it allows me to get to my Windows NT
box. Novell hasn't released a decent NT Novell client yet so I share
through my WFWG box. | 18 | trimmed_train |
247 | -*-----
These effects are a very real concern in conducting studies of new
treatments. Researchers try to limit this kind of effect by
performing studies that are "blind" in various ways. Some of these
are:
o The subjects of the study do not know whether they receive a
placebo or the test treatment, i.e., whether they are in the
control group or the test group.
o Those administering the treatment do not know which subjects
receive a placebo or the test treatment.
o Those evaluating individual results do not know which subjects
receive a placebo or the test treatment.
Obviously, at the point at which the data is analyzed, one has to
differentiate the test group from the control group. But the analysis
is quasi-public: the researcher describes it and presents the data on
which it is based so that others can verify it.
It is worth noting that in biological studies where the subjects are
animals, such as mice, there were many cases of skewed results because
those who performed the study did not "blind" themselves. It is not
considered so important to make mice more ignorant than they already
are, though it is important that in all respects except the one tested,
the control and test groups are treated alike. | 19 | trimmed_train |
4,695 |
...
Why do you say this? As of now, the Pens and Bruins have played the
same number of games, and given up the same number of goals. They are
tied for the third and fourth best defenses in the league, behind
Chicago first and Toronto second. The Pens' weak spot is defense? Only
by comparison to their offense, which is second in the league to
Detroit. But the Pens are no weaker on defense and goaltending than the
Bruins are; that is, they are both very strong.
| 17 | trimmed_train |
7,348 | I searched the U Mich archives fairly thoroughly for 3D graphics packages,
I always thought it to be a mirror of sumex-aim.stanford.edu... I was wrong.
I'll look into GrafSys... it does sound interesting!
Thanks Cheinan. | 1 | trimmed_train |
49 | Pat sez;
Yeah, but a windscreen cut down most of it. Canopies ended it completely.
Of course, the environment in space continues to suck :-)
-Tommy Mac
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Tom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk \\ As the radius of vision increases,
[email protected] 336-9591 hm \\ the circumference of mystery grows. | 10 | trimmed_train |
145 |
I would say there are also significant numbers of unscrupulous doctors (of
the squeaky-clean, traditional crew-cut, talk to the AMA before starting
any treatment, kind) who recommend treatments that, though "accepted", may
not be necessary for the patient at the time. And all for making a quick
buck. I would not be surprised if the cost of medical services in the U.S. is
significantly inflated by these "quacks of a different color". In fact, I'd
say these doctors are the most dangerous since they call into question the
true focus of the medical profession. The AMA and the Boards should focus
on these "quacks" instead of devoting unbelievable energy on 'search-and-
destroy-missions' to pull the licenses of those doctors who are trying non-
traditional or not fully accepted treatments for their desperate patients
that traditional/accepted medicine cannot help.
***************************************************
Now to make a general comment on many recent posts:
***************************************************
Lately I've seen the word "quack" bandied about recklessly. When a doctor or
doctor-wanna-be has decided to quit discussing any controversial medical
subject in a civilized manner, all he/she has to do is say "quack-quack" and
somehow they magically expect the readership of this newsgroup to roll over
on their backs and pee-pee on themselves in obedience. What do they teach
you in medical school - how to throw your authority around?
Let me put it another way to make my point clear: "quack" is a nebulous word
lacking in any precision. Its sole use is to obfuscate the issues at hand.
The indiscriminate use of this word is a sure sign of incompetency; and coming
from any medical doctor (or wanna-be), where competency is expected, is real
scary.
But what do I know, I've already been diagnosed by the sci.med.gods in this
newsgroup as being 'anal retentive', and 'psychotic'. I look forward to more
net.diagnoses. Hey, they're free.
Jon "Quacks 'R Us" Noring
(p.s., may I suggest - seriously - that if the doctors and wanna-be-doctors on
the net who refuse to have an open mind on alternative treatments and
theories, such as the "yeast theory", should create your own moderated group.
You can call it sci.med.traditional.moderated or sci.med.AMA-approved, so you
can keep anal-retentives like me out of it.)
--
Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club. | 19 | trimmed_train |
1,092 |
There is a number you can call which will return a synthesized
voice telling you the number of the line. Unfortunately, for the
life of me I can't remember what it is. The telephone technicians
use it all the time. We used to play around with this in our
dorm rooms since there were multiple phone lines running between
rooms.
sorry! | 11 | trimmed_train |
6,791 |
And who is responsible for it not happening?
Certainly not the children. Koresh was calling the shots. He was
talking with his lawyer and the FBI. Since others were released safely,
there is no sane reason for keeping the children inside the compound.
Not at all. Are you a Koresh worshiper?
Thanks for my laugh of the day! Definitely a very silly supposition.
I would if I could. The news show that showed the lengthy excerpts also
had interviews with the filmmaker who made the documentary who basically
confirmed what was shown in the excerpts from the time he spent at the
compound in 1992.
I believe that this was reported by local radio reporters on site.
A fire started in a three story tower at the same time as the two
story window shown on the tv coverage.
I thought about mentioning how Reagan and the military treated the press
in Grenada and how that set the precedent, but decided it wasn't worthy
of discussion. If the news reporter got shot, you can bet his family
would sue the government for letting him into the danger area.
The root cause of suspicion in my mind is why 100 people wouldn't flee
a building that had numerous exits during the 30 minutes time it took
to burn down. Or why didn't they flee hours earlier when the tear gas was
first introduced? I can find no rational explanation for their behavior.
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5,836 | What are the consequences of the homophobic ranting of the
self-righteous? Well, I just noted this on another group,
and thought I'd pass it along. The context is talk.origins,
and a report of yet another "debate" that was nothing but an
attempt at mindless bullying and factless assertion by a
standard-issue Creationist. The writer reflects that the
behavior reported reminds him of some Christian groups he has
known. I believe that the writer is a (non-homosexual) Christian:
+ There is a very effective technique used to promote
+ unit cohesion among the Soldiers of the Lord. It is
+ called "witnessing"... I've seen this process used well
+ and poorly; the near devil worship I mention was a group
+ ... that was using the witnessing to get people lathered
+ up to go kill homosexuals or at least terrorize them off
+ campus as it was clearly God's will that they do so.
I have deleted the specifics of the location, as I do not
believe it characteristic of the place (a state in which I
spent my formative first 10 years), though it *does* have,
unfortunately, a subpopulation that this remark fits to a tee. | 15 | trimmed_train |
9,153 | That plastic bodywork is useless. That torque, and an upright riding position is
better than a slightly or radically forward riding position combined with a high-rpm
low torque motor.
To a cruiser-motorcyclist, chrome has some importance. To sport-bike motorcyclists
chrome has very little impact on buying choice.
Unless motivated solely by price, these are the criteria each rider uses to select
the vehicle of choice.
To ignore these, as well as other criteria, would be insensitive. In other words,
no one motorcycle can fufill the requirements that a sport-bike rider and a cruiser
rider may have.(sometimes it's hard for *any* motorcycle to fufill a person's requirements)
You're fishing for flames, Dave.
This difference of opinion is analogous to the difference
between Sports-car owners, and luxury-car owners.
This is a moot conversation.
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=> Dan DeClerck | EMAIL: [email protected] <=
=> Motorola Cellular APD | <=
=>"Friends don't let friends wear neon"| Phone: (708) 632-4596 <= | 12 | trimmed_train |
2,577 | Just a quick THANKS to the many who explained the backing up of my
masters. Apparently they are NOT copy-protected; I just used a program that
is unable to handle high-density (old shit). I was surprised to hear that
"NO programs on high-density disks have copy protection," which someone
back there said. Huh! Learn something new every day! | 3 | trimmed_train |
1,708 | 5 | trimmed_train |
|
7,522 |
I contacted Lotus about this problem today. It has been reported previously
and there is a fix. Apparantly the problem only occurs when TAB characters
are used immediately preceding the equation frame. The work around when
equations are expected to touch the right margin is to delete at least one
preceding TAB and use SPACE to align the frame (or use set frame where
placed w/no text wrap around). Unforutnately, once the page run-on has
occured you are hosed. So the moral of the story is use only SPACE characters
to align equation frames.
Hope this helps the rest of you who have already contacted me with this
problem. | 18 | trimmed_train |
4,644 | For Sale:
Turbo Pascal 5.5 - all original manuals and disks: $30 obo + shipping
Borland Paradox 3.5 with tall boxed manual set & Kallista desktop - all
original disks. $50 obo + shipping
Borland Paradox 4.0 - opened but never used. All manuals & disks.
$125 obo + shipping
Borland Quattro Pro 4.0 (DOS) all manuals & disks. $40 obo + shipping
E-mail or phone if interested.
John Hansen
(513) 257-6084 | 5 | trimmed_train |
9,730 | This may be a simple question but:
We have a number of PC's which we use to link to a mainframe using
Novell LAN WorkPlace for DOS (via WIndows 3.1).
Now, to make life easier for us we are thinking of using Windows for
Workgroups to allow file sharing across our PC network.
Now does anyone know if it is possible to use W4WG and Lan Workplace
for DOS at the same time.
ie Can I access a file on another PC while being logged on to the
mainframe at the same time, simultaneously.
Any help well appreciated. | 18 | trimmed_train |
4,066 | Go easy on him drieux. It is the right of every American to
know nothing about anything.
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"Who said anything about panicking?" snapped Authur. Garrett Johnson
"This is still just culture shock. You wait till I've [email protected]
settled into the situation and found my bearings.
THEN I'll start panicking!" - Douglas Adams | 13 | trimmed_train |
4,564 |
[ stuff deleted ]
|> Are you calling names, or giving me a title? If the first, read your
|> paragraph above, if not I accept the title, in order to let you get into the
|> um, well, debate again.
Hasan replies:
I didnot know that "Master of wisdom" can be "name clling" too,
unless you consider yourself deserve-less !
Unless you are referring to someone else, you have in fact given me a name
I did not ask for, hence the term 'name calling'.
|> So what do you expect me to tell you to tell you, Master of Wsidom,
|> ^^^
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------
I replied:
|> If you insist on giving me names/titles I did not ask for you could at
|> least spell them correctly. /sigh.
Hasan gloats:
That was only to confuse you! (ha ha ha hey )
Hell-bent on retarding into childhood, no?
|>when you are intentionally neglecting the MOST important fact that
|>the whole israeli presence in the occupied territories is ILLEGITIMATE,
|>and hence ALL their actions, their courts, their laws are illegitimate on
|>the ground of occupied territories.
|>
>No, I am _not_ neglecting that, I'm merely asking you whether the existance
>of Israeli citicens in the WB or in Gaza invalidates those individuals
>right
^^^^^^^ are you trying to retaliate and confuse me here.
No, I really do try to spell correctly, and I apologize if I did confuse you.
I will try not to repeat that.
|> to live, a (as you so eloquently put it) human right. We can get back to the
|> question of which law should be used in the territories later. Also, you have
|> not adressed my question if the israelis also have human rights.
First, my above statement doesnot say that "the existence of israeli citizens
in the WB revoke their right of life" but it says "the israeli occupation
of the WB revoke the right of life for some/most its citizens - basically
revokes the right of for its military men". Clearly, occupation is an
undeclared war; during war, attacks against military targets are fully legitimate.
Ok, let me re-phrase the question. I have repeatedly asked you if the
Israelis have less human rights than the palestinians, and if so, why.
From your posting (where you did not directly adress my question) I inferred
that you thought so. Together with the above statement I then assumed that the
reason was the actions of the state of Israel. Re: your statement of
occupation: I'd like you to define the term, so I don't have to repeat this
'drag the answer out of hasan' procedure more than neccesary.
Secondly, surely israeli have human rights, but they ask their goverment to
protect it by withdrawing from the occupied terretories, not by further oppressing
Palestinean human rights.
I'm sorry, but the above sentence does not make sense. Please rephrase it.
|> If a state can deprive all it's citizens of human rights by its actions, then
|> tell me why _any_ human living today should have any rights at all?
Because not all states are like Israel, as oppressive, as ignorant, or as tyrant.
Oh, ok. So how about the human rights of the Syrians, Iraqis and others?
Does the name of Hama sound familiar? Or how about the kurds in Iraq and
Turkey?
How about the Same in Sweden (Ok, maybe a bit farfetched..) the Russians in
the Baltic states or the Moslem in the old USSR and Yugoslavia?
Do the serbs have any human rights remainaing, according to you?
|> |> And which system do you propose we use to solve the ME problem?
|>
|> The question is NOT which system would solve the ME problem. Why ? because
|> any system can solve it.
|> The laws of minister Sharon says kick Palestineans out of here (all palestine).
|>
|> I asked for which system should be used, that will preserve human rights for
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> all people involved. I assumed that was obvious, but I won't repeat that
|> mistake. Now that I have straightened that out, I'm eagerly awaiting your
|> reply.
So you agree that that an israeli solution wouldnot preserve human rights.
(i am understanding this from your first statement in this paragraph).
No, I'm agreeing that to just kick all the Palestinians out of Israel proper
would probably lead to disaster for both parties. If that's what you refer
to as the 'Israeli solution' then so be it.
|> Joseph Weitz (administrator responsible for Jewish colonization)
|> said it best when writing in his diary in 1940:
|> "Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both
|> peoples together in this country.... We shall not achieve our goal
|> ^^^ ^^^
|> of being an independent people with the Arabs in this small country.
|> The only solution is a Palestine, at least Western Palestine (west of
|> the Jordan river) without Arabs.... And there is no other way than
|> to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries, to
|> transfer all of them; not one village, not one tribe, should be
|> left.... Only after this transfer will the country be able to
|> absorb the millions of our own brethren. There is no other way out."
|> DAVAR, 29 September, 1967
|> ("Courtesy" of Marc Afifi)
|>
Oh? Have you met with them personally, to read their diaries? Fascinating.
What do you _do_ for a living?
Above you wrote that you understood what i meant (underlined by ^ ):
any system can be used to solve the conflict , but not any system would
resolve it JUSTLY.
An unjust solution would be a non-solution, per definition, no?
You said the following:
For all A it holds that A have property B.
There exists an A such that property B does not hold.
Thus, either or both statements must be false.
|> Guess where that takes your logic? To never-never land.
I was merely pointing out a not so small flaw in your reasoning.
Since you claim to be logical I felt it best to point this out
before you started using your statements to prove a point or so.
Am I then to assume you are not logical?
Any quote can be misused, especially when used to stereotype all
individuals by a statement of an individual. If you use the same
methods that you credit 'Zionists' with, then where does that place you?
Oh, by the way, I'd advice you not to assume anything about my 'loyalties'.
I will and am condemning acts I find vile and inhuman, but I'll try as
long as I can not to assume those acts are by a whole people.
By zionist above do you mean the state of Israel, the government of Israel,
the leaders of Israel (political and/or religious) or the jews in
general? If you feel the need to condemn, condemn those responsible
instead. How would you feel if we started condemning you personally
based on the bombings in Egypt?
--
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2,329 | I know that the placebo effect is where a patient feels better or
even gets better because of his/her belief in the medicine and
the doctor administering it. Is there also an anti-placebo
effect where the patient dislikes/distrusts doctors and medicine
and therefore doesn't get better or feel better in spite of the
medicine?
Is there an effect where the doctor believes so strongly in a
medicine that he/she sees improvement where the is none or sees
more improvement than there is? If so, what is this effect
called? Is there a reverse of the above effect where the doctor
doesn't believe in a medicine and then sees less improvement than
there is? What would this effect be called? Have these effects
ever been studied? How common are these effects? Thank you in
advance for all replies. | 19 | trimmed_train |
8,822 | This is a despicable LIE! It was sunny on 3rd July 1958 from 11.23am
to 11 37am. I made a note of it. Diaries are never wrong.
Do you, by any chance ride a Harley? (just a feeling...) How is your
neck? Calamine lotion is good, I'm told.
I am getting bored with winding up Americans. Its like bombing fish
in a barrel.
Haaaaaaaaaaave a Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay | 12 | trimmed_train |
3,938 |
The willingness of the majority of the people to give up their freedom in
exchange for a sense of safety is hardly limited to the USA, and is an
endemic problem in any human society of any appreciable size. The structure
of the US government does try to combat this tendency to some extent, but
fighting entropy is always a losing battle. Most people would rather have
comfort than freedom. The paradox is that you can't really have the former,
in the long term, unless you have the latter.
One of the reasons that I probably come across to some people as a weird
cross between a libertarian and an "establishment tool" is that I end up
taking an utterly pragmatic view of government. I don't get up in arms when
the government fails to protect the interests of the people, because in my
lifetime it never has--therefore, I have no expectation that it will.
As a result, I protect my own interests rather than expecting the government
to be "fair". I will use strong cryptography when I think it is needed,
whether or not it is legal at the time. Same thing with anything else the
government would rather not see in private hands--that's their problem.
What's important to me is using the right tool for the job. If it's legal,
so much the better. If it is not, but does not violate my (very strong)
sense of personal ethics, I will use it anyway as long I think it is worth
it. Expecting the government to actually protect the interests of its
citizens, except by accident, is utter folly. Even Jefferson, one of the
major architects of the American system of government, figured that in a
couple hundred years it would become so corrupt and self-serving that it
would be time dismantle it and try again, by revolution if necessary. I
agree, and while I don't go around trying to spark one, I'll certainly
participate if it happens when I'm around. There is a reason I am such a
strong supporter of individual rights while being so cynical about politics.
I've already written off politics.
And yes, this may get me in trouble some day. If so, so be it. I drive
faster than 55 MPH, too.
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3,815 | Approximately four months ago, I purchased a Quantum 240LPS HD from La Cie for
$649. After two months, the drive started having problems. First, there were
intermittent freezes, then corrupted files and resources, then Silverlining
5.41 wouldn't even recognize the drive. So I got an RMA from La Cie and
exchanged the new drive for a reconditioned one.
Well, about a month has passed now and the second drive is having problems.
Often, when I boot up my IIsi I get the flashing question mark. Sometimes, if I
then insert the Silverlining (5.42) program I can get it to recognize the drive
by making it scan over and over for drives. At that point I can restart the
IIsi and boot from the HD. I've called La Cie again and they've given me
another RMA. Their tech support people tell me that if Silverlining doesn't see
the drive there's a definite hardware problem.
Given that this is the second bad drive in four months, I asked La Cie to send
me a *new* one, but they said "no." Also, within three weeks after I purchased
my original drive, La Cie dropped the price on it by over $100.
I can accept that a drive (or two) may be bad. And I know that hardware vendors
make a practice of sending reconditioned replacements when they do repairs. And
I understand that the nature of the computer industry lends itself to sudden
price fluctuations. Nevertheless, taken together, the convergence of these
facts/events have left a bad taste in my mouth. (I should have added above that
when I asked La Cie to transfer the contents of my current drive to the one
they will send_I think the data is still in good shape and I'll have to again
reinstall everything from floppies_they said it would cost me $250 for data
recovery.)
It seems to me that reconditioned hardware should be sold as reconditioned at a
discounted price, and that replacements for new hardware gone bad (still
covered under a 90-day warranty) should be new.
I feel a little helpless about all this. I don't mean to necessarily flame La
Cie_their support staff have always been friendly and sometimes even helpful.
But c'mon. Sometimes a little extra customer service goes a long way. (I sent
a letter to La Cie's customer service when the first drive was returned and I
asked them for a credit on the price difference since I had purchased the drive
three weeks before they slashed the price. I told them I would like to apply
the credit toward the purchase of another La Cie product. They didn't even
have the courtesy to reply one way or the other.)
What's the moral of this story? I'm not sure. But I do know I won't buy any
other products from La Cie in the future.
Bill Krauthammer
[email protected] | 14 | trimmed_train |
5,582 | 5.25" Internal Low density disk drive.
Monochrome monitor
8088 motherboard, built in parallel and serial ports, built in mono and
color output, 7Mhz.
Libertarian, atheist, semi-anarchal Techno-Rat. | 5 | trimmed_train |
5,733 | Let me ask you this. Would you trust Richard Nixon with your
crypto keys? I wouldn't. | 7 | trimmed_train |
5,846 |
The company was probably "Public Missiles, Inc" of Michigan.
Yup.
Nope, it's not illegal. It is, however, closely regulated. In order to
purchase and use the big rocket motors required, it is necessary to be
one of the following:
a) An employee of a government agency.
b) An employee or student at a university doing research involving rockets.
c) A member or representative of an educational organization involved in
research or other uses of rockets. There are two such organizations:
The Tripoli Rocketry Association and the National Association of Rocketry.
Members of either organization must demonstrate proficiency in construction
and flight before they are allowed to purchase large motors on their own.
The FAA will issue a waiver of its regulations, upon request, to any
organization which can persuade them it has taken adequate precautions
to avoid conflicts with aircraft. The usual stipulations are:
- Only operation up to a specified ceiling is allowed. Depending on the
location, this ceiling may be from 5000 to 50000 feet AGL.
- The operator of the rocket is responsible for avoiding any aircraft
within the operating radius around the launch site.
- Flight into clouds or beyond visual range in haze is expressly prohibited.
- The FAA will provide a NOTAM informing other users of the airspace that
unmanned rocket operations are taking place at the specified place and time.
Most of the launches that are held (and there are dozens of them every year)
are held in areas where air traffic is relatively light, such as over the
western deserts (the Black Rock Desert north of Reno is particularly popular
since it is 25 x 150 miles of *nothing to hit* on the ground).
The two rocketry associations test and approve motors for their members'
use, to insure safety. Depending on motor size, the launcher setback is
from 50 to 500 or more feet.
By the way, rockets under 1 lb and powered by an "F" motor are exempt from
most Federal regulations on unmanned rockets anyway. See FAR 101, Subpart
C, for details.
As for recovery...although the higher altitude rockets can reach up to
50,000 feet, most of them only get to 2,000 to 5,000 feet. The typical
rocket is 2 to 6 inches in diameter, and carries a 3 to 6 foot parachute,
or multiple parachutes, depending on the payload. Many rockets also carry
either a small transmitter or an audio sounder--particularly at launches
in the eastern US, where there are more obstructions.
Camera, telemetry transmitter, and video payloads are becoming quite common.
Why not? It's a lot of fun...check out the traffic on rec.models.rockets
for information about the model (3 lb and under) and high power (everything
bigger) rocket hobbies. As with all dangerous activities, the key is to
practice safety. I've been flying consumer rockets ranging up to 4-5 lbs
takeoff weight for 27 years, and still have all my extremities intact.
That's another thing. NO EXPLOSIVE WARHEADS OF ANY KIND ARE ALLOWED ON THESE
ROCKETS. NONE! Please forgive me for shouting, but that's one of the biggest
misconceptions people have about our hobby.
True. But it will not be related to the rocket hobby, unless I get
hit while crossing a road with a rocket in my hand. | 10 | trimmed_train |
5,941 | The title says it all. I need to know the 44, 88, and 88c rom versions. | 14 | trimmed_train |
10,746 |
[Excellent discussion of DC-X landing techniques by Henry deleted]
The DC-X will not take of horizontally. It takes of vertically.
For several reasons. Vertical landings don't require miles of runway and limit
noise pollution. They don't require wheels or wings. Just turn on the engines
and touch down. Of course, as Henry pointed out, vetical landings aren't quite
that simple.
Well, to be blunt, yes. But at least you're learning.
The Soyuz vehicles use parachutes for the descent and then fire small rockets
just before they hit the ground. Parachutes are, however, not especially
practical if you want to reuse something without much effort. The landings
are also not very comfortable. However, in the words of Georgy Grechko,
"I prefer to have bruises, not to sink."
| 10 | trimmed_train |
639 |
Stone, DeRose: Geometric characterization of parametric cubic curves.
ACM Trans. Graphics 8 (3) (1989) 147 - 163.
Manocha, Canny: Detecting cusps and inflection points in curves.
Computer aided geometric design 9 (1992) 1-24. | 1 | trimmed_train |
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