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Proper counter to this claim: "Forensic analysis of the WTC bomb by
means of taggants would have been as impossible as semantic analysis
of NYT editorials by means of taggants -- the difficulty in both cases
being to have persuaded the bull to consume the taggants before
production of either item."
-- | 9 | trimmed_train |
2,541 | Has anyone written or seen a C library or C++ class for fixed-point math,
or good articles about same?
I pretty much know how to do this, but I have a few other wheels to invent
at the moment...
Thanks! | 1 | trimmed_train |
5,983 | Sorry, ARF - you dog,
That news was suppressed because the Israeli national volleyball team
repeatedly spiked it.
Let this be a lesson to others not to invoke the wrath of sports nuts.
(Brits lead the way in this regard, with ~220 casualties in the last 2
years.)
Anyway, Yigal would never sue. His life is (presumably) so pristine
that its most intimate details could be revealed without harm to
anyone. Might even be good instruction for some people I can think of. | 6 | trimmed_train |
1,778 | : What is a general rule of thumb for sobriety and cycling? Couple hours after
: you "feel" sober? What? Or should I just work with "If I drink tonight, I
: don't ride until tomorrow"?
It depends on how badly you want to live. The FAA says "eight hours, bottle
to throttle" for pilots but recommends twenty-four hours. The FARs specify
a blood/alcohol level of 0.4 as legally drunk, I think, which is more than
twice as strict as DWI minimums.
BTW, alcohol metabolizes in your blood at a fixed rate -- one beer/hour will
keep your blood/alcohol level barely street-legal. Coffee, hyperventilation
and other bar tricks won't speed it up nor will they fool Mr. Ranger. | 12 | trimmed_train |
9,456 |
greetings:
you may be in luck. i seem to recall seeing a blurb in one of
the kit car magazines about a company in norway who pulled a
mould (sp?) off a real kubel, and has adapted it to the beetle
floorpan. as for the suspension, all i can remember about the
vw thing i used to own is that it had about 3" more suspension
travel than a stock beetle, but i'd heard that there were after-
market parts for off-road use that were as good or better. note
that the major difference (looks wise) between a kubel & a thing
are the hood and the fenders. the kubel had an external spare
mounted *on* the hood, and the hood sloped down (for visibility?)
sharply, and had rounded fenders. the thing has a lightly sloped
hood with the spare mounted inside (unless moved to make for more
luggage space...) and has half-hexagon shaped fenders (imagine a
nut large enough to put a tire *in*, and cut off the bottom half
of it...).
unfortunately, i don't have that info anymore. try stopping
at a local bookstore and copying down the phone numbers for the
two big mag's and calling them. they might be able to get the
number for you (don't forget to calculate the time difference to
norway before calling...).
later,
kc | 4 | trimmed_train |
5,602 | I'm interested if anyone out here can point me towards a review of the
following book in any scholarly Christian journal, whether it be
conservative or liberal, Protestant or Catholic.
_The_Lost_Years_of_Jesus_ (documentary evidence for Jesus' 17 year
journey to the East), by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Supposedly this
is a theory that was refuted in the past, and she has re-examined it.
I thought this was just another novel book, but I saw it listed as
a text for a class in religious studies here. Also, the endorsements seem
to come from some credible sources, so I'm wondering if scholars have
reviewed it (or anyone on the net, for that matter).
| 0 | trimmed_train |
774 |
Morphine or demerol is about the only effective way of stopping pain
that severe. Obviously, she'll need a prescription to get such drugs.
Can't she go to the county hospital or something?
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Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
[email protected] | it is shameful to surrender it too soon." | 19 | trimmed_train |
907 |
Is the answer as simple as that you dislike russians???
And where would canadian hockey be today without the europeans?? Dont say
that the european influence on the league has been all bad for the game.
I mean, look at the way you play these days. Less fights and more hockey.
Imho, canadian hockey has had a positive curve of development since the
70's when the game was more brute than beauty......
Oh, look!! You don't like Finns either....
Too bad almost all of you northamericans originates from europe.....
Hmmm... And what kind of a name is Rauser. Doesn't sound very "canadian" to
me. ;-) | 17 | trimmed_train |
7,114 | Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My computer from Gateway is freezing up on me.
Gateway tech support couldn't help me. They want more specifics on when
it freezes up. I DID! Anyway, here it is. If the keyboard is left idle
in Dos for more than 15 minutes, I can type on the command line, but as
soon as I hit a carraige return, the computer locks up. This will happen
almost every time, whether I've just booted up, reset, or finished using a
dos program. Everything works fine if I don't let it sit. Windows is a
different story. If I let the machine sit while in windows for 15 minutes
or more, it does not freeze up. However, I do get frequent application
errors that kick me out of an application unexpectedly, losing my work.
I just don't know if this is a hardware or software problem. Any help
in diagnosis or things to try, would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I do not run any TSRs (except smartdrive) and QAplus diagnostics
says everything is good.
System is: 486SX-33
15" Crystalscan Gateway Monitor
VLB-ATI ultra pro (using mach32 driver build 55)
Winchester 170MB HD
Microsoft mouse
Thanks, | 3 | trimmed_train |
141 | Here is the OPI (Offensive Production Index) for all NL players with at
least 10 at-bats.
It is early in the season so there are some high numbers. Barry Bonds
finished last season at 0.795.
I welcome comments and suggestions.
Kevin
League OPI: 0.410
League BA: 0.252
League SLG: 0.375
League OBA: 0.321
Rank Player OPI BA SLG OBA
-----------------------------------------------------
1 Phi,daulton 1.101 0.333 0.875 0.515
2 Phi,kruk 1.069 0.429 0.821 0.529
3 Cub,grace 1.007 0.452 0.742 0.514
4 Cub,may 0.931 0.389 0.889 0.421
5 Col,boston 0.888 0.545 0.545 0.545
6 Pit,bell 0.873 0.429 0.714 0.467
7 Col,galarraga 0.867 0.458 0.708 0.458
8 StL,pena 0.833 0.400 0.600 0.516
9 StL,zeile 0.811 0.440 0.560 0.500
10 Cin,mitchell 0.810 0.429 0.643 0.467
11 Mon,lansing 0.792 0.419 0.677 0.438
12 Pit,slaught 0.754 0.474 0.526 0.474
13 Mon,vanderwal 0.746 0.389 0.556 0.476
14 NYM,tfernandez 0.709 0.300 0.400 0.500
15 SnF,martinez 0.697 0.300 0.400 0.500
16 Hou,bagwell 0.695 0.367 0.567 0.424
17 Col,hayes 0.686 0.333 0.667 0.364
18 Col,eyoung 0.682 0.333 0.500 0.407
19 Mon,alou 0.675 0.371 0.600 0.389
20 Cin,milligan 0.659 0.333 0.375 0.515
21 Phi,dykstra 0.646 0.214 0.571 0.405
22 SnF,bonds 0.624 0.280 0.680 0.333
22 Flo,conine 0.624 0.393 0.393 0.469
24 SnD,plantier 0.603 0.286 0.571 0.375
25 Hou,gonzalez 0.596 0.296 0.667 0.296
26 Hou,anthony 0.594 0.320 0.480 0.414
27 Col,cole 0.579 0.318 0.409 0.400
28 Atl,sanders 0.576 0.357 0.643 0.357
29 Mon,berry 0.566 0.273 0.273 0.500
30 Cub,sosa 0.558 0.303 0.545 0.343
31 StL,jefferies 0.551 0.269 0.692 0.296
32 Pit,vanslyke 0.549 0.296 0.444 0.387
33 *Montreal 0.548 0.312 0.490 0.367
34 Los,butler 0.545 0.296 0.333 0.457
35 Mon,grissom 0.542 0.333 0.455 0.371
36 Pit,king 0.536 0.308 0.346 0.438
37 SnD,gwynn 0.533 0.280 0.400 0.379
38 Pit,merced 0.532 0.300 0.400 0.391
39 NYM,murray 0.521 0.308 0.462 0.357
40 StL,gilkey 0.514 0.312 0.438 0.353
41 NYM,bonilla 0.507 0.292 0.417 0.370
42 SnD,walters 0.501 0.300 0.500 0.333
43 Cub,wilson 0.497 0.323 0.452 0.344
44 Flo,weiss 0.492 0.261 0.348 0.433
45 *Philadelphia 0.487 0.243 0.431 0.348
46 Atl,justice 0.480 0.207 0.448 0.361
47 *Pittsburgh 0.479 0.292 0.428 0.351
48 StL,osmith 0.476 0.310 0.448 0.355
49 Phi,incaviglia 0.473 0.250 0.500 0.308
50 Pit,young 0.470 0.286 0.500 0.310
51 *StLouis 0.467 0.275 0.445 0.344
52 *Colorado 0.459 0.287 0.426 0.327
53 NYM,hundley 0.458 0.300 0.450 0.333
54 NYM,orsulak 0.454 0.357 0.429 0.400
55 SnF,benjamin 0.440 0.200 0.500 0.273
56 Atl,gant 0.438 0.214 0.464 0.333
56 *NYMets 0.438 0.261 0.345 0.356
58 *Houston 0.436 0.260 0.415 0.318
59 Mon,pitcher 0.434 0.312 0.375 0.353
60 Phi,morandini 0.433 0.240 0.360 0.321
61 Hou,cedeno 0.427 0.280 0.440 0.308
62 Cin,sabo 0.423 0.226 0.452 0.273
63 SnF,manwaring 0.413 0.261 0.435 0.292
64 *SnFrancisco 0.412 0.253 0.396 0.315
65 Atl,blauser 0.409 0.276 0.310 0.364
66 SnF,thompson 0.408 0.278 0.389 0.316
66 Hou,caminiti 0.408 0.259 0.481 0.286
68 Flo,barberie 0.405 0.267 0.267 0.371
69 Mon,cordero 0.400 0.276 0.345 0.323
70 SnD,sheffield 0.397 0.241 0.448 0.267
71 Los,karros 0.392 0.259 0.296 0.355
72 SnF,williams 0.391 0.226 0.452 0.250
72 SnD,mcgriff 0.391 0.192 0.385 0.276
74 Flo,destrade 0.390 0.267 0.333 0.333
75 Col,girardi 0.388 0.238 0.381 0.304
76 Atl,bream 0.386 0.182 0.409 0.250
77 Mon,wood 0.385 0.200 0.300 0.333
78 Flo,santiago 0.384 0.200 0.360 0.286
79 Phi,thompson 0.383 0.227 0.273 0.320
80 SnF,clayton 0.382 0.345 0.379 0.345
80 Los,piazza 0.382 0.304 0.391 0.333
82 SnD,bell 0.378 0.273 0.364 0.304
83 Los,wallach 0.374 0.200 0.400 0.273
84 Cin,larkin 0.367 0.281 0.281 0.361
85 Pit,garcia 0.366 0.273 0.318 0.304
85 *Cincinnati 0.366 0.256 0.319 0.326
87 NYM,coleman 0.363 0.259 0.259 0.310
88 NYM,kent 0.362 0.190 0.286 0.320
89 StL,whiten 0.361 0.240 0.360 0.321
90 Cin,roberts 0.359 0.278 0.278 0.333
90 *Cubs 0.359 0.236 0.366 0.277
92 SnF,lewis 0.354 0.227 0.364 0.261
92 Hou,finley 0.354 0.214 0.250 0.312
92 Col,clark 0.354 0.250 0.350 0.286
95 Los,pitcher 0.350 0.286 0.357 0.286
95 *SnDiego 0.350 0.219 0.357 0.268
97 Atl,lemke 0.345 0.200 0.240 0.333
98 *LosAngeles 0.339 0.221 0.275 0.311
99 SnF,mcgee 0.335 0.267 0.300 0.333
99 *Atlanta 0.335 0.199 0.308 0.287
101 Cin,sanders 0.334 0.267 0.333 0.290
101 Cin,oliver 0.334 0.208 0.208 0.345
103 SnD,gardner 0.332 0.238 0.333 0.273
103 Los,reed 0.332 0.276 0.276 0.323
105 Phi,hollins 0.327 0.226 0.290 0.294
106 *Florida 0.326 0.226 0.268 0.311
107 Los,davis 0.325 0.188 0.219 0.278
108 Atl,pendleton 0.322 0.212 0.273 0.297
109 SnF,clark 0.316 0.161 0.290 0.257
110 Los,strawberry 0.314 0.111 0.185 0.314
110 Hou,biggio 0.314 0.179 0.214 0.303
112 Phi,bell 0.304 0.182 0.364 0.217
113 Flo,magadan 0.303 0.182 0.182 0.357
114 StL,pagnozzi 0.299 0.158 0.316 0.238
115 Pit,martin 0.295 0.167 0.417 0.167
115 Col,bichette 0.295 0.222 0.389 0.222
117 Hou,taubensee 0.294 0.190 0.333 0.227
118 Mon,bolick 0.292 0.250 0.312 0.250
119 Flo,pose 0.291 0.258 0.323 0.303
120 Mon,cianfrocco 0.287 0.188 0.375 0.188
121 NYM,johnson 0.274 0.136 0.136 0.296
122 Cin,kelly 0.272 0.250 0.333 0.270
123 Atl,nixon 0.256 0.185 0.222 0.241
124 NYM,pitcher 0.255 0.167 0.250 0.231
125 Pit,pitcher 0.250 0.222 0.278 0.222
126 Cub,buechle 0.231 0.154 0.192 0.241
127 StL,lankford 0.225 0.133 0.133 0.316
128 Atl,olson 0.224 0.150 0.150 0.261
129 Cub,vizcaino 0.217 0.148 0.259 0.179
130 Cub,sanchez 0.212 0.188 0.219 0.212
131 Phi,duncan 0.202 0.214 0.214 0.214
132 Los,offerman 0.198 0.182 0.182 0.250
133 SnF,pitcher 0.197 0.176 0.235 0.176
134 Mon,laker 0.183 0.133 0.267 0.133
135 Phi,chamberlain 0.180 0.111 0.111 0.200
136 SnD,pitcher 0.164 0.182 0.182 0.182
136 Atl,pitcher 0.164 0.182 0.182 0.182
138 Phi,pitcher 0.159 0.111 0.167 0.158
139 Cub,maldonado 0.150 0.105 0.158 0.150
140 Flo,felix 0.148 0.172 0.207 0.172
141 Cin,espy 0.141 0.100 0.100 0.182
142 StL,jordan 0.140 0.105 0.211 0.105
143 Atl,berryhill 0.128 0.091 0.182 0.091
144 Cub,pitcher 0.126 0.111 0.111 0.158
145 SnD,shipley 0.122 0.087 0.174 0.087
146 StL,pitcher 0.106 0.125 0.125 0.125
147 Hou,pitcher 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
147 Col,benavides 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
147 Cin,pitcher 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
150 Cub,wilkins 0.038 0.000 0.000 0.067
151 Flo,pitcher 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
151 Col,pitcher 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
0.74*1B + 1.28*2B + 1.64*3B + 2.25*HR + 0.53*BB + 0.34*(SB-2*CS)
OPI = ----------------------------------------------------------------
AB - H
BA = H / AB
SLG = (H + 2B + 2*3B + 3*HR) / AB
OBA = (H + BB) / (AB + BB) | 2 | trimmed_train |
3,212 | There has been a lot of discussion about Tyre. In sum, Ezekiel prophesied
that the place would be mashed and never rebuilt; as there are a lot of
people living there, it would appear that Ezekiel was not literally correct.
This doesn't bother me at all, because I understand the language Ezekiel used
differently than do so-called Biblical literalists. For example, it sometimes
happens that someone says "My grandson is the cutest baby!" and then turns
around and sees the granddaughter and says "Oh! Isn't she the cutest thing!?"
This person is not literally claiming to have lined up all the babies in the
world according to cuteness and discovered his own grandchildren tied for
first. Rather, he is trying to express his emotions using words that are very
object-oriented. Because this example is one that is common to many people,
nobody misunderstands the intent of the statements; the Bible, however, is
often at the mercy of people who assume that everything within must be exactly
literally true. For those people, the existence of Tyre is a problem; for me,
it is not.
Turning to the latest person trying to defend Ezekiel, we read this from
John E King:
No, it implies nothing of the kind. If you had nothing but the prophecy from
Ezekiel, and you were told you interpret it literally, you would never say
"Oh, he means that there will be houses and businesses and plants and stuff
like that." You would read "I will make you a bare rock" and "You will never
be rebuilt", and you'd conclude that Tyre would be a bare rock. The only way
to get from `fishing nets' to `houses and buildings and a medium-large
population' is if you KNOW that all that latter stuff is there.
In other words, your answer means that Ezekiel misled everybody who read the
prophecy at the time it was written. There is no way that, given a literal
reading, they could read this passage and conclude "medium-size city".
You seem to feel that "Never be rebuilt" means "be rebuilt" -- maybe so, but
it is hardly a `clear implication'.
Well, no. That's only a bit less than the population of Annapolis, where I'm
from. You know, the Naval Acadamy, the state capital, George Washington
resigned his commission in the statehouse? Annapolis may not be New York, but
it's at least a two-horse town.
But supposing 22,000 people is a "small town" -- it's still 22,000 people
MORE than Ezekiel predicted.
And you've said nothing about the other problem. In chapter 26, Ezekiel
predicts that Nebuchadnezzar will will destroy Tyre and loot all their
valuables. However, Nebuchadnezzar did NOT destroy Tyre, and in chapter 29
Ezekiel even quotes God as saying "he and his army got no reward from the
campaign he led against Tyre."
Let's ignore Alexander for a moment, and just pay attention to chapter 26.
Ezekiel says N. would destroy Tyre, and N. did NOT destroy Tyre. Ezekiel says
that N. would plunder their valuables, but N. did NOT plunder their valuables.
Regardless of what you think about Tyre _now_, the fact is that N. died before
the place was destroyed. Ezekiel said N. was going to do it, and N. did not.
*
This post is, of course, pointless. Inerrantists have an amazing ability
to rewrite the Bible as needed to fit whatever they want it to say.
For example, I expect Mr King to respond to the comments about Ezekiel 26
by pulling some "clear implications" out of hat.
When Ezekiel said that N. would "demolish your towers", that clearly implied
that the walls would still be standing so people would know where the towers
used to be. And when Ezekiel said that N. would "demolish your fine houses
and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea", that clearly implied
that N. would never set foot on the island. And when Ezekiel wrote that N.
would "build a ramp up to your walls", that clearly implies that N. would
spend 13 years stomping around on the mainland and never get close to the
walls.
See? A few "clear implications" that are totally contrary to the text, and
you can reconcile anything you want.
| 15 | trimmed_train |
1,647 |
I was kind of half watching Street Stories last night
and one of the segments was about this doctor in
S.F. who provides a service of investigating treatment
for various diseases. I'm pretty sure his name is
Dr. Mark Renniger (sp?) or close to that.
Did anyone else watch this? I'd like to get his
correct name and address/phone number if possible.
Thanks.
| 19 | trimmed_train |
1,595 | Hello,
I am looking to slightly increase the performance of my 89 Honda
Civic Si. I was wondering if anyone could suggest upgrades that were not
too drastic. I thought that one of the easiest upgrades would be a new
header. Does anyone know what kind of increase that the header would give
me? I think I would check with Jackson Racing for the part. Are there
any other comparines would make Honda parts.
Are there any other small changes that can be easily made and won't
screw up the car. Things like new injectors?, new fuel injection chip etc?
I would welcome any suggestions of small changes that would make a
difference.
I don't really want to change the cam etc because I have heard that it
would be much harder on the engine.
E-Mail relpies prefered please and I will post a summary of all the replies.
Thanks for any help you may have to offer!
| 4 | trimmed_train |
9,614 | I have a peculiar color problem with MacX, Apple's Macintosh X server.
I'd like to know if others have seen the same problem. It's happened
with the current version (1.2), and with version 1.1.7.
When some types of client windows are displayed, parts of the windows
are in the wrong color; if the window is moved slightly, forcing the server
to repaint it, it is repainted in the correct colors. It doesn't happen
for xterm windows, but has happened for graphic windows and with some
Motif clients.
-- | 16 | trimmed_train |
3,831 |
Duh! He was making a joke about how long the Leafs would last in the
playoffs. (Y'know, hit the courses in the off season). Sheesh... People are
so quick to complain...
| 17 | trimmed_train |
5,696 |
As far as I can see, one of the big differences between Davidians and
Christians is in who they follow. I have sometimes tried to put myself
in the feet of one of Jesus's disciples. Basically, they gave up a
lot --- career, possibly family, and well, a whole bunch, to follow
Jesus.
So what is the difference? It is quite plain. Jesus was good and
David Koresh was not.
The problem is, I think, is that we try to legislate what is good
and what is bad in terms of principles. For instance, there are thousands of
laws in the U.S. governing what is legal and what is not. Often, it is hard
to bring people to justice, because it is not possible to find
a legal way to do it. If only we could trust judges to be just,
then we could tell them to administer justice fairly, and justice
would be followed. But since judges don't always get it right,
we have a complicated system involving precedent and bunches
of other stuff which attempt to make the imperfect (the justice
of man) into something perfect. But what I hear about the justice
system in the U.S. tells me that quite the opposite is true.
There is also a problem that we tend to judge the presentation
more than the material being presented. So we might consider
a ranting Christian to be bad, but an eloquent person from another
religion to be good. This goes along with the American desire
to protect the Constitution at all costs, even if it allows
people to do bad things.
I think that it is the message that is important. If a man is
presenting a false message, even if he is ever ever so mild mannered,
then that man is performing a tremendous disservice.
I know that I am rambling here. I guess that what I am trying to
say is that we shouldn't be looking for principles that tell us
why the Davidians got it wrong. It is not wrong to follow and
worship a person. But it is important to choose the right person.
It is simple. Choose Jesus, and you got it right. Choose
anyone else, and you got it wrong. Why? Because Jesus is the
begotten son of God, and nobody else is. Jesus was without sin, and
nobody else was. | 0 | trimmed_train |
10,418 | Archive-name: ripem/faq
Last-update: 31 Mar 93 22:00:00 -0500
ABOUT THIS POSTING
------------------
This is a listing of likely questions and information about RIPEM, a
program for public key mail encryption. It (this FAQ, not RIPEM) was
written and will be maintained by Marc VanHeyningen
<[email protected]>. It will be posted to a variety of
newsgroups on a monthly basis; follow-up discussion specific to RIPEM
is redirected to the group alt.security.ripem.
WHAT'S NEW
----------
I am now running a World Wide Web archive of RIPEM information. It
does not contain much of anything that isn't available elsewhere, but
it has convenient pointers to the most current version of this FAQ and
some other stuff. The URL is "http://cs.indiana.edu/ripem/dir.html".
This month's version has a fair amount of new pointers to information
on patents and stuff like that. I've also reordered a few things to
have a more sensible ordering. I hope I don't have to edit this again
soon. :-)
DISCLAIMER
----------
Nothing in this FAQ should be considered legal advice, or anything
other than one layperson's opinion. If you want real legal advice,
talk to a real lawyer, preferably one with experience in patent law,
export regulations, or whatever area of law is in question.
LIST OF QUESTIONS
-----------------
1) What is RIPEM?
2) How can I get RIPEM?
3) Will RIPEM run on my machine?
4) Will RIPEM work with my mailer?
5) What is RSA?
6) What is DES?
7) What is a fingerprint, like MD5?
8) What is PEM?
9) What's this about distributing and authenticating keys?
10) Isn't it a bad idea to use patented algorithms in standards like PEM?
11) What about RSADSI/PKP?
12) Why do all RIPEM public keys look very similar?
13) What is PGP?
14) What about RPEM?
15) What is MIME?
16) What is TIS/PEM?
17) I have this simple way to defeat the security of RIPEM...
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
---------------------
1) What is RIPEM?
RIPEM is a (not yet complete, but useful) implementation of Privacy
Enhanced Mail (PEM). RIPEM allows your electronic mail to have the
four security facilities provided by PEM: disclosure protection
(optional), originator authenticity, message integrity measures, and
non-repudiation of origin (always). (See: "What is PEM?")
RIPEM was written primarily by Mark Riordan <[email protected]>.
Most of the code is in the public domain, except for the RSA routines,
which are a library called RSAREF licensed from RSA Data Security Inc.
The current version of RIPEM is 1.0.5; the current version of the
Macintosh port of RIPEM is 0.7.
2) How can I get RIPEM?
RIPEM uses the library of cryptographic routines RSAREF, which is
considered munitions and thus is export-restricted from distribution
to persons who are not citizens or permanent residents in the U.S or
Canada without an export license. No such license has been obtained
(nor would one likely be granted unless the RSA key exchange were
shortened to 512 bits and the symmetric cipher changed to something
weaker than DES. There are some suggestions that this situation may
change now that Clinton is in office.) The author requests in the
README file that this law not be violated:
#Please do not export the cryptographic code in this distribution
#outside of the USA or Canada. This is a personal request from me,
#the author of RIPEM, and a condition of your use of RIPEM.
Note that RSAREF is not in the public domain, and a license for it is
included with the distribution. You should read it before using
RIPEM.
RIPEM is available via anonymous FTP to citizens and permanent
residents in the U.S. from rsa.com; cd to rsaref/ and read the README
file for info. Note that the non-RSAREF portion of RIPEM is not a
product of RSA Data Security, Incorporated; they merely are helping
distribute it.
RIPEM, as well as some other crypt stuff, has its "home site" on
ripem.msu.edu, which is open to non-anonymous FTP for users in the
U.S. and Canada who are citizens or permanent residents. To find out
how to obtain access, FTP there, cd to pub/crypt/, and read the file
GETTING_ACCESS. For convenience, binaries for many architectures are
available here in addition to the full source tree.
3) Will RIPEM run on my machine?
Probably. It has already been ported to MS-DOS and most flavors of
Unix (SunOS, NeXT, Linux, AIX, ULTRIX, Solaris, etc.) Ports to
Macintosh include a standard UNIX-style port and a rather nice
Mac-like port written by Raymond Lau, author of StuffIt. More ports
are expected, and help of users is invited.
4) Will RIPEM work with my mailer?
Probably. How easy and clean the effective interface is will depend
on the sophistication and modularity of the mailer, though. The users
guide, included with the distribution, discusses ways to use RIPEM
with many popular mailers, including Berkeley, mush, Elm, and MH.
Code is also included in elisp to allow easy use of RIPEM inside GNU
Emacs.
If you make a new interface for RIPEM or create an improvement on one
in the distribution which you believe is convenient to use, secure,
and may be useful to others, feel free to post it to alt.security.ripem.
5) What is RSA?
RSA is a crypto system which is asymmetric, or public-key. This means
that there are two different, related keys: one to encrypt and one to
decrypt. Because one cannot (reasonably) be derived from the other,
you may publish your encryption, or public, key widely and keep your
decryption, or private, key to yourself. Anyone can use your public
key to encrypt a message, but only you hold the private key needed to
decrypt it. Note that the "message" sent with RSA is normally just
the DES key to the real plaintext. (See "What is DES?")
Note that the above only provides for disclosure protection. For
originator authenticity, message integrity, and non-repudiation of
origin services to be implemented, the fingerprint of the message
(See "What is a fingerprint, like MD5?") is encrypted with the
sender's private key. The recipient, or a dispute-resolving
authority, can use the sender's public key to decrypt it and confirm
that the message must have come from the sender and was not altered.
RSA was named for the three men (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman) who
invented it. To find out lots more about RSA and modern cryptography
in general, ftp to rsa.com and look in pub/faq/. Some information
also may be in sci.crypt.
6) What is DES?
DES is the Data Encryption Standard, a widely used symmetric, or
secret-key, crypto system. Unlike RSA, DES uses the same key to
encrypt and decrypt messages. However, DES is much faster than RSA.
RIPEM uses both DES and RSA; it generates a random key and encrypts
your mail with DES using that key. It then encrypts that key with the
recipient's public RSA key and includes the result in the letter,
allowing the recipient to recover the DES key.
DES is sometimes considered weak because it is somewhat old and uses a
key length considered too short by modern standards. However, it
should be reasonably safe against an opponent smaller than a large
corporation or government agency. It is not likely that the PEM
standard will incorporate support for other symmetric ciphers in the
near future, because there is a strong feeling that PEM should be
stable so it can become utilized widely without early problems with
interoperability.
7) What is a fingerprint, like MD5?
MD5 is a message digest algorithm produced by RSA Data Security Inc.
It provides a 128-bit fingerprint, or cryptographically secure hash,
of the plaintext. It is cryptographically secure because it is not
possible (in a reasonable amount of computation) to produce a
different plaintext which produces the same fingerprint. Thus,
instead of signing the entire message with the sender's private key,
only the MD5 of the message needs to be signed for authentication.
MD5s can also be exchanged directly for authentication; for example,
RIPEM public keys include an MD5 of the public key in the file, so
parties wishing to confirm their keys are authentic via a separate
channel merely need exchange MD5s of keys and verify their accuracy.
MD5 is sometimes used for other purposes; for example, it is often
used to map an input of arbitrary length to 128 bits of data, as a
passphrase interpreter or cookie generator.
MD5 is described in its entirety (including an implementation in C) in
RFC 1321.
There have been some recent suggestions that MD5 may not be as strong
a hash as was originally believed; presumably some other hash
function will be used if this is accepted as true.
8) What is PEM?
PEM is Privacy Enhanced Mail, a standard for allowing transfer of
encrypted electronic mail generated over a long period of time by a
working group of experts. It is described in RFCs 1421-1424; these
documents have been approved and obsolete the old RFCs 1113-1115.
RIPEM is not really a complete implementation of PEM, because PEM
specifies certificates for authenticating keys, which RIPEM does not
handle at this time. Their addition is planned.
9) What's this about distributing and authenticating keys?
For a remote user to be able to send secure mail to you, she must know
your public key. For you to be able to confirm that the message
received came from her, you must know her public key. It is important
that this information be accurate; if a "bad guy" convinces her that
his key is in fact yours, she will send messages which he can read.
RIPEM allows for three methods of key management: a central server,
the distributed finger servers, and a flat file. All three are
described in the RIPEM users guide which is part of the distribution.
None of them provide perfect security. The PEM standard calls for
key management by certificates; the addition of this feature to RIPEM
is planned, but chicken-egg issues still exist.
10) Isn't it a bad idea to use patented algorithms in standards like PEM?
This issue has been considered in the standards process. RFC 1310,
the specification for Internet standards, has a discussion (section
6) on what specifications for nondiscriminatory availability must be
met for a patented method to be included in a standard. RFC 1421
addresses this issue with regard to the patents covering public-key
cryptography.
This does not, of course, mean that all questions are settled or that
everyone is in agreement. An interesting exchange on the use of
patented algorithms in standards with regard to public-key
cryptography is in the League for Programming Freedom archive
(available via FTP: ftp.uu.net:/doc/lpf) in the files bidzos.letter
and bidzos.response. (Amusingly, the LPF files on ftp.uu.net are
compressed with a patented algorithm.)
11) What about RSADSI/PKP?
RSA Data Security, Inc. (RSADSI) is a California-based company
specializing in cryptographic technologies. Public Key Partners is a
firm which holds exclusive sub-licensing rights of the following U.S.
patents and all of their corresponding foreign patents:
Cryptographic Apparatus and Method
("Diffie-Hellman")............................... No. 4,200,770
Public Key Cryptographic Apparatus
and Method ("Hellman-Merkle").................... No. 4,218,582
Cryptographic Communications System and
Method ("RSA")................................... No. 4,405,829
Exponential Cryptographic Apparatus
and Method ("Hellman-Pohlig").................... No. 4,424,414
PKP claims these four patents cover all known methods of public key
cryptography. The two businesses are rather closely related (for
example, the same person, Jim Bidzos, is president of both of them.)
PKP has licensed this technology to a considerable number of
companies (IBM, DEC, Motorola, AT&T, Lotus...) for use in their
products. PKP has also threatened and filed lawsuits defending their
patents.
RIPEM was originally created with no connection to RSADSI other than
its use of the RSAREF library, and for no reason other than its
author's desire to see widespread use of public-key cryptography.
However, after the ball started rolling, people at RSADSI got
interested. RSADSI decided to carry RIPEM on its FTP site, and some
people there started making their own RIPEM keys and contributing
code. RIPEM even won the "Best Application Built on RSAREF in 1992"
award.
12) Why do all RIPEM public keys look very similar?
RIPEM public keys begin with a PKCS (Public-Key Cryptography
Standards) identifier describing various characteristics about the
key, so the first bunch of characters in your key may be the same as
those of lots of other people's keys. This does not mean your keys
are similar, but only that they are the same class of key, were
generated with the same program, are of the same length, etc.
13) What is PGP?
PGP is another cryptographic mail program called Pretty Good Privacy.
PGP has been around longer than RIPEM, and works somewhat differently.
PGP is not compatible with RIPEM in any way, though PGP does also use RSA.
A few major differences between PGP and RIPEM:
- PGP has more key management features, particularly for users without
a direct network connection.
- RIPEM conforms to the PEM RFCs and thus has a greater probability
of working with other PEM software. PGP makes no attempt to be
compatible with anything other than itself.
- RIPEM uses RSAREF, a library of RSA routines from RSADSI which
comes with a license allowing noncommercial use. PGP uses its own
implementation of RSA. PKP claims that it is a violation of its
patents to "make, use or sell" PGP in the U.S. or Canada without
either a license or written permission. (See: "DISCLAIMER")
(See: "What about RSADSI/PKP?") Phil Zimmermann, the author of
PGP, stopped distributing it after being threatened with legal
action; he believed that a licensing scheme could be arranged, but
it hasn't happened and there seems little prospect of it happening
in the future. He acknowledges in the PGP User's Guide:
#In fact, if you live in the USA, and you are not a Federal agency,
#you shouldn't actually run PGP on your computer, because Public
#Key Partners wants to forbid you from running my software. PGP is
#contraband.
- Both PGP and RIPEM are export-restricted, and cannot be sent outside
the U.S. and Canada without an export license. However, PGP
already exists on many ftp sites in Europe and other places.
Whether you use PGP or RIPEM or whatever, the documentation to PGP is
recommended reading to anyone interested in such issues.
Unfortunately, it's not distributed separately from the program,
which can be difficult to find in the U.S. on FTP sites due to
liability concerns.
14) What about RPEM?
RPEM stands for Rabin Privacy Enhanced Mail. It was similar to RIPEM,
but used a public-key cipher invented by Rabin (which is not RSA) in
an attempt to avoid the patents on public-key systems. It was
written by Mark Riordan, who later wrote RIPEM.
Its distribution was halted when, contrary to the beliefs of many
(including Rabin), PKP claimed that their patents were broad enough
to cover the cipher employed. This claim is not universally
accepted, but was not challenged for pragmatic reasons.
RPEM is not really used anymore. It is not compatible with RIPEM or PGP.
15) What is MIME?
MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, and is
described in RFC 1341. You can find out about it in the newsgroup
comp.mail.mime; a FAQ exists on it. How PEM should interact with
MIME is not yet entirely clear; some people use the stopgap solution
of having a MIME type application/x-ripem in order to send RIPEM
messages as MIME ones. I hope some standards will emerge. Draft
Internet documents exist on the matter.
16) What is TIS/PEM?
Trusted Information Systems is working on a version of Privacy
Enhanced Mail for general availability. Last I heard, it was
rumored to be integrated into an existing mail user agent (MH)
rather than a stand-alone system, and in beta test. I don't know
much more than that.
17) I have this simple way to defeat the security of RIPEM... | 7 | trimmed_train |
7,331 |
If I'm not mistaken, San Jose had more wins than Ottawa. First tiebreaker in
the NHL is always most wins. | 17 | trimmed_train |
10,288 | : >I want to upgrade my system and was thinking of buying Adcom seperates.
: >I have heard from alot of people, though, that Adcom sounds great but
: >that the components are made cheaply and therefore won't last very long.
: >The time estimates I've heard are like only 3 or 4 years. Is this true?
I own the Adcom 60W power amp. As far as I'm concerned, there's no
amp which can touch it at the price range.
The build quality is very impressive and is far superior to other
amps in the price range. The whole amplifier is extremely solid
with massive heat sinks and very solid casing.
If you open the amp up, there are only very good quality components
in and the amp seems to be designed extremely well. Perfect
symmetry for both channels and TWO transformers - one for each
channel. The binding posts on the back of the amplifier are
virtually the same as those on the Classe model 70 ie. very good.
I was also sceptical about the amps being built in the far-east
or where-ever. But if you look in the amp and see what components
they use and how it was designed, you can easily see why the
amplifiers sound so brilliant.
I cannot see why people say the amplifier won't last - not with
those quality components inside. Sure the amp runs very fairly
hot - but that's how you get an amp to sound incredibly good.
My last point, I recently auditioned the Adcom preamp something like
the 545 or something. It was two years old and it still sounded
like new.
If you build an amplifier decently, like the Adcom's, they will
sound brilliant and last a long time - period.
Just my thoughts, but then - I do own one of Adcom's amps.
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4,397 |
I second what Spenser Aden said in reply. Additionally, it is hard to say
what type of response you ar3e having to prednisone since you did not say
how long you have been on it. Patients are generally kept on steroids for
months before thinking about tapering. Alternatives to daily dosing are
every other day dosing, in your case 20mg every other day would be a start.
Another option if it is not possible to get you off prednisone is to start
azathioprine. Like Spenser said, you should generally be on another drug
in addition to your prednisone, like asulfidine. A lot of the specifics
about options, though, depends on severity, location, and duration of
disease, as well as histology, so take advice off the net for what it
is worth.
I treat patients with UC and Crohn's. An educated patient is a good
patient, but let your doctor know where the advice came from so things
can be put in context. You should also be a member of the Crohn's and
Colitis Foundation of America. 1-800-932-2423 office / 1-800-343-3637
info hotline.
Best of Luck to you. | 19 | trimmed_train |
3,397 | ----- News saved at 23 Apr 93 22:22:40 GMT
Well, I'm working on it, but getting a little impatient. So far,
I've made it through Egyptian, Chinese, and Greek cultures, and
up through the Rennaisance. But so far, these insights just don't
seem to be gelling. Perhaps it's in an appendix somewhere. | 10 | trimmed_train |
6,302 | Hi all:
Does anyone know where I can get the cheapest price for
the Teleport Gold fax modem by Global Village?
Any answer will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, | 14 | trimmed_train |
4,926 | PLEASE: response directly to me ([email protected])
by email. IF there are a sufficient number of interesting
responses, I will post a summary (on April 24 or 25).
I have waded through the mass of SCSI-IDE posting, but
I missed any answers to a question posted early on --
Has anyone (successfully) put both SCSI and IDE hard drives
on the same system?
I am particularly interested in having the SCSI as the _boot_ drive.
For those who have managed this feat, I would appreciate
a bit more information, such as what drives, which SCSI controller,
and (if possible) what motherboard & BIOS
(plus any other relevant info.). | 3 | trimmed_train |
10,350 | Why are the Red Sox in first place? Eight games into the season, they
already have two wins each from Clemens and Viola. Clemens starts
again tonight, on three days rest.
What's up? Are the Sox going with a four-man rotation? Is this why
Hesketh was used in relief last night?
Hm. | 2 | trimmed_train |
7,029 |
Are you for real? How many Gold Gloves does Ozzie Smith have? If a
guy hung around and hit 30 homers a year for 15 years, wouldn't he
be a given for the Hall? Is defense not just as important? And if
Robin Yount couldn't hit, why would he have stuck around long enough
to get 3,000 hits? Are you saying 3,000 hits is a fluke? 3,000
hits is no big deal?
I agree, Garvey and Morris don't deserve it.
Well, based on your argument, Nolan Ryan doesn't deserve the Hall of
Fame. He is just a right hander who stuck around for a long time
and could throw hard. Very few 20 game winning seasons, lots of
losing seasons, lots of walks. No Cy Young awards. How does Nolan
Ryan compare to a guy like Steve Carlton who dominated 5 or 6 Major
League seasons, won 7 divisons, 2 World Series, and won half of his
teams games in 1972? He doesn't compare. Not even close. | 2 | trimmed_train |
8,457 |
I agree. This is the danger I see, not the system itself. That is to say,
this is a political issue, not a technical one.
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7,661 |
Since I repost this message again for the second time, I hope to hear from
some folks on this topic. Please reply.
Regards, | 14 | trimmed_train |
822 | --
*** Nothing beats skiing, if you want to have real fun during holidays. ***
*** Rob de Winter Philips Research, IST/IT, Building WL-1 ***
*** P.O. Box 80000, 5600 JA Eindhoven. The Netherlands ***
*** Tel: +31 40 743621 E-mail: [email protected] ***
| 18 | trimmed_train |
9,637 |
I don't think that's a problem. My face is quite oily too. I had a moderate
acne problem for many years. I then found that if I vigorously scrub my face
with a nail brush and soap (Irish Spring) twice a day the acne was not a
problem. I can still leave a pretty health nose print on a mirror after 45 min
(don't ask ;->) but acne is not a real problem anymore. | 19 | trimmed_train |
6,218 |
Press conference at 1PM ...
Interestingly, Keenan's co-coach (or is it his "Number One"?) on Team
Canada at the World Championships is Roger Neilsen.
It'd be interesting if the Rangers call in the balance of Neilsen's
contract to be Keenan's assistant ... Roger did do a very good job
with the mediocre players, just as he handled the Cinderella Canucks
of 10 years ago ... but his mistake was playing the Rangers like those
Canucks last May ...
gld | 17 | trimmed_train |
179 |
Avery was the #2 overall pick by the Braves, behind Mark Lewis (I think) in
1988. John Smoltz came over to the Braves from the Tigers, but was developed
by the Braves. Jeff Blauser isn't a bad player.
--
Dale J. Stephenson |*| ([email protected]) |*| Baseball fanatic | 2 | trimmed_train |
6,101 | : >: >> Gilligan = Sloth
: >: >> Skipper = Anger
: >: >> Thurston Howell III = Greed
: >: >> Lovey Howell = Gluttony
: >: >> Ginger = Lust
: >: >> Professor = Pride
: >: >> Mary Ann = Envy
: >
: >Assorted Monkeys= Secular Humanism
:
: Assorted Headhunters - Godless, Heathen Savagery
: Russian Agent who looks like Gilligan - Godless Communism
: Japanese Sailor - Godless Barbarism
: Walter Pigeon - Godless Bird Turd
: The Mosquitos (Bingo, Bango, Bongo, Irving) - Godless Rock'n'Roll
: Harold Heckuba (Phil Silvers) - Hollywood Hedonism
: John McGiver - Butterfly flicking
: Tonga, the Fake Apeman - Deceit, Lust
: Eva Grubb - Deceit, lust
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2,809 | Some birds require constant management for survival. Pointing a sensor at
the sun, even when powered down, may burn it out. Pointing a
parabolic antenna at Sol, from venus orbit may trash the
foci elements.
Even if you let teh bird drift, it may get hosed by some
cosmic phenomena. | 10 | trimmed_train |
11,026 |
m> The latest news seems to be that Koresh will give himself up once he's
m> finished writing a sequel to the Bible.
Also, it's the 16th now. Can the Feds get him on tax evasion? I don't
remember hearing about him running to the Post Office last night.
| 8 | trimmed_train |
916 |
Which sort of loans and what have you heard exactly?
| 8 | trimmed_train |
6,430 | Hi all,
I don't get the sport's channel and I'm desparate for some playoff action
(especially the Cannucks). Does anyone know of a sports bar on the Bay
Peninsula that will be showing hockey games. I'm looking for something
between redwood City and Mountain View. | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,359 |
Up to that point I thought you were talking about the
Rosicrucian Order... :-) [No offense intended!] | 15 | trimmed_train |
11,259 | God CAN be seen:
"And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my backparts."
(Ex. 33:23)
"And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his
friend." (Ex. 33:11)
"For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
(Gen. 32:30)
God CANNOT be seen:
"No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18)
"And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man
see me and live." (Ex. 33:20)
"Whom no man hath seen nor can see." (1 Tim. 6:16) | 15 | trimmed_train |
3,187 |
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I have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions.
No matter how much I eat, it still seems realistic. | 19 | trimmed_train |
448 | Of course, I'd still recommend that Michael read _True and Reasonable_
by Douglas Jacoby.
Joe Fisher | 0 | trimmed_train |
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7,919 |
Aspartame is the methyl ester of a dipeptide, so a product of its
hydrolysis is going to be methanol, which can then be oxidized to
formaldehyde. The amounts of methanol formed from the ingestion of
aspartame-containing foods are completely in the metabolic noise,
since you're forming equally minute amounts of methanol from other
components of food all the time. In studies involving administration
of high doses of the additive, blood methanol levels were undetectable.
Methanol is a poison only in quantities seen in human poisonings,
say 5ml and above. This is a consequence of its oxidation to formaldehyde
and formic acid, two quite reactive compounds which at high enough levels
can damage tissues like the retina and kidney, because at such high doses
the body's detoxification system is overwhelmed. Interestingly, one
treatment for early methanol poisoning is to get the person drunk on
ethyl alcohol--vodka or an equivalent. That's because ethanol is
metabolized preferentially over methanol by the enzymes in the liver.
If the methanol stays as methanol and isn't metabolized to formaldehyde,
it is actually relatively non-toxic.
| 19 | trimmed_train |
5,507 | I don't know about the dinky little Zephyr's, but the 1100 (now
the ZR1100) looks alot like my '76 Z1/ KZ900! The one I drooled over
at Tri-Sports in Topsham, ME was a looker!
Yes, Mercury axed the Zephyr name. Guess a lot of aging Republicans
wanted a Zephyr and confused the Mercury with the Kawasaki :). Oh
well, they're better off with the Kawasaki anyways. Maybe it'll shake the
stick out of their asses and make Libertarians out of them!
As to the GPz <--> Zephyr, the only GPz I've seen had the ball-buster
gas tank profile, not the smooth saddle - to - gas tank transition.
_Motorcyclist_ claims the Zephyr / ZR is the modernized Z1 (KZ) from the
seventies.
Jeff Andle DoD #3005 1976 KZ900 [email protected] | 12 | trimmed_train |
255 |
No. When the program is run, it loads 4 configuration files; autoexec.bat,
config.sys, win.ini, and system.ini. There is no Open entry on the File
menu. You can only edit these four files. If you need to edit some other
program's .ini file, use Notepad or some other ASCII editor.
I wonder whether Microsoft intended for sysedit to be used, or if it was
just a holdover from the testing period and they forgot to take it out. The
reason I think this is because there is absolutely no mention in the manuals
about this program, and there is no online help for it (just an About entry
under the File menu). The program looks like something that was intended for
internal use only. It's kind of a shame, though. It would have made a nice
multi-file replacement for Notepad. | 18 | trimmed_train |
7,591 | Anybody seen the date get stuck?
I'm running MS-DOS 5.0 with a menu system alive all the time. The machine
is left running all the time.
Suddenly, the date no longer rolls over. The time is (reasonably) accurate
allways, but we have to change the date by hand every morning. This involves
exiting the menu system to get to DOS.
Anyone have the slightest idea why this should be? Even a clue as to whether
the hardware (battery? CMOS?) or DOS is broken? | 3 | trimmed_train |
3,231 |
While I think it is unrealistic to suppose that the federal
agencies will fail to promptly comply with a court order, there is
still a good point here. Local law enforcement will be unable to perform
a wiretap without bringing in federal agencies. Based on the (possibly
incomplete) understanding of the system quoted from D. Denning, only the
FBI will be able to decrypt the system key encryption layer, which seems
to be needed even to identify what escrowed keys to request. This moves
a great deal of law enforcement power to the federal level.
The reason I like this point is that it may sway or even persuade
people who don't generally line up with the civil liberties crowd. A
national police force is opposed by people from a broad range of political
viewpoints.
| 7 | trimmed_train |
6,424 | Posted for a friend:
Looking for tires, dimensions 14" x 3.25" or 3.35"
Also looking for brakes or info on relining existing shoes.
Also any other Maicoletta owners anywhere to have contact with.
Call Scott at 801-583-1354 or email me.
--
I saw fops by the thousand sew themselves together round the Lloyds building. | 12 | trimmed_train |
4,521 |
Might? You'd have to have no sense of humor at all not to! My favorite
stuff are the Zero Heros, players who haven't hit homers in a long time,
the LGTGAH (who is that named after, I can't remember), and the box score
line of the week. Incidentally, I just found out that the column has been
moved to Sundays. I get my Dad to send it to me up here in Boston every
week. Great stuff! | 2 | trimmed_train |
5,020 |
Here's a question: If most marijuana is domestic and
producing it here is economical, why would we expect it to be
imported?
Yet it was done. Done quite successfully for a number of years.
*Somebody* thought it was worth the risk.
Your assumption is that this "low" dollar/pound area is
sufficiently low as to make gun-running unprofitable. On what
do you base this?
And given that smuggling channels are already established,
and given the economies of scale, would it really add significantly
more expense to start smuggling firearms, especially considering
doing so would be less hazardous (in terms of getting caught) than
drugs?
Now *that* was a jump. In any case, define "local." It's
a big country.
Wow, you gotta love the speculation.
As I posted before, we import billions upon billions of raw
ores across the Mexican border. Not only that but ships come in and
out of U.S. harbors every day full stuff. And customs doesn't even
have the extra advantage of being able to sniff them out.
I'd be willing to wager that a shipload of handguns would be
worth more than a shipload of raw ore, *and* you're virtually guaranteed
to get it past customs, because they'd have to hand search every hold of
every ship which came through.
It's not simply a matter of how much money are they worth, but how
much *more* money are they worth than other goods, based on the likelihood
of being caught. Less money than drugs, but also a safer thing to smuggle.
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5,500 |
Sure, why not? But, are you using Paul to correct the words of Jesus?
"So *anyone* who dissolves even one of the smallest commands and teaches
others the same way, will be known as the lowest in the kingdom of the
skies; whereas *anyone* who keeps the commands and teaches them too, will
be known as *someone* great in the kingdom of the skies." Mat5:19 (Gaus)
Are you an "anyone" or are you a "no one?"
Why not assume, that since Jesus didn't say that his words apply only to
Jews, that they apply to all human beings, irregardless of race or sex?
Why not assume, that even though Jesus did not mention your name, still
Jesus was talking directly to you?
Does it say that it applies to *you*? Are you anyone or no one?
Ex20:8-11(JPS) Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you
shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of
the LORD your God; you shall not do any work - you, your son or
daughter, your male or female slave, or your cattle, or the stranger who
is within your settlements. For in six days the LORD made heaven and
earth and sea, and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh
day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hollowed it.
Note: There is no specific requirement for worship here, however I for
one would not be so bold as to call these verses a "ceremonial detail."
Don't many Christians still practice circumcision?
It's unfortunate that Jesus didn't use your name directly, or maybe
Jesus did? Are you somebody or nobody?
If you don't see a problem, then perhaps there is none. As Paul closes
Romans 14 (Gaus):
In short, pursue the ends of peace and of building each other up.
Don't let dietary considerations undo the work of God. Everything may be
clean, but it's evil for the person who eats it in an offensive spirit.
Better not to eat the meat or drink the wine or whatever else your
brother is offended by. As for the faith that you have, keep that
between yourself and God. The person is in luck who doesn't condemn
himself for what he samples. On the other hand, the person with doubts
about something who eats it anyway is guilty, because he isn't acting on
his faith, and any failure to act on faith is a sin. | 0 | trimmed_train |
10,773 |
Based on my experience with a '79 FJ40 ( the hard-top jeep-style model ) I
would definitely give a new model consideration if I were in the market. The
older models are VERY well built. Unless Toyota lost its mind, I would
assume, until proven otherwise, that the newer models have inherited some
if not all of the qualities of their ancestors.
Two major differences in the running gear (that I'm aware of) need study.
My '79 has a solid front axle housing whereas the newer models have
independant front suspension. The solid axle is theoretically stronger and
more reliable than the newer model, but only experience will tell. The
independant front suspension is, no doubt, a compromise made to satisfy
the typical user, who will never need a real utility vehicle. The second
difference is the type of transfer case used on the newer models. I'm
not sure, but I think Tioyota went to a full-time 4WD or all-wheel drive
system. The older Landcruisers have a "lock-up" type. Both have their
advantages and disadvantages. | 4 | trimmed_train |
5,954 | 2 | trimmed_train |
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4,981 |
Actually the book is called "Seventh Day Adventists believe..." And there
are 27 basica beliefs. I believe it is printed by the Reveiew and
Herald Publishing Association.
--
"Competition is the law of the jungle.
Cooperation is the law of civilization." -- Eldridge Cleaver | 0 | trimmed_train |
2,976 | :
: I am a Mormon. I believe in Christ, that he is alive. He raised himself
: [Text deleted]
:
: I learned that the concept of the Holy Trinity was never taught by Jesus
: Christ, that it was "agreed to" by a council of clergymen long after Christ
: was ascended, men who had no authority to speak for him.
:
If Jesus never taught the concept of the Trinity, how do you deal with the
following:
Mat 28 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven
and on earth has been given to me.
Mat 28 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in¹ the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Also Jesus speaking:
Act 1 5 For John baptized with¹ water, but in a few days you will
be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
I believe that you may have overlooked some key verses, that are crucial to
the Christian faith. | 15 | trimmed_train |
6,705 |
This only makes sense if the government prohibits alternative non-escrowed
encryption schemes. Otherwise, why not just use the front end without
clipper?
David
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10,809 | a
What about positional uncertainties in S-L 1993e? I assume we know where
and what Galileo is doing within a few meters. But without the
HGA, don't we have to have some pretty good ideas, of where to look
before imaging? If the HGA was working, they could slew around
in near real time (Less speed of light delay). But when they were
imaging toutatis???? didn't someone have to get lucky on a guess to
find the first images?
Also, I imagine S-L 1993e will be mostly a visual image. so how will
that affect the other imaging missions. with the LGA, there is a real
tight allocation of bandwidth. It may be premature to hope for answers,
but I thought i'd throw it on the floor. | 10 | trimmed_train |
6,411 | 15 | trimmed_train |
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9,710 | Heard last night that Paul Kuryia will be playing for the Canadian World
Hockey team this year. He was on a local radio station when a friend of
the familty called to congratulate him on the invitation. Meekly Paul told
the host that he didn't think they wanted it out yet. This morning I heard
that he is destined to play on a line with Lindros and Recci{unsure of this
one}. If he plays well in this arena, he could go #1 or 2 in the draft.
| 17 | trimmed_train |
4,096 | Hi,
We've been having problems on a few setups when printing to a
serial printer (dmp or Laser). I have used Works and Windows Write. The
output is OK from DOS and if I send plain text output, but anything
fancy garbles or just doesn't output. The exception is outputting to a
Lserjet 4 which 'appears' to be fast enough receiving data, not to
bother about handshaking messages. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I've
tried most of the Print/Network manager options I can think of. Anyone
had similar problems they've cured and would like to tell me 'bout it??
Thanks | 18 | trimmed_train |
6,504 | I recently aquired a Quantum Q250 harddisk. It is a 50 meg 5.25"
mechanism. It is SCSI. I have a few questions and a few problems. First
there seems to be an extra connector socket on the back that I can't
figure out what it is for. The address is set by some jumpers on the
bottom so I don't think it is for that. Any ideas?
Second, it would be nice to get a hardware manual for the drive. There are
a lot of jumpers on it that we don't know what they are for.
Third, I have got the drive to format. It took a while to get things to
work and most of it is fine for now. The formating initialy was
troublesome but seems to be ok. The main problem is if you do a reset on
the MacPlus the drive disappears. If I shut the mac off and then back on
agian then the drive comes up fine. Any ideas.
Please reply to one of the email addresses below.
Thanks | 14 | trimmed_train |
945 |
I don't think so at first, but solid state offered better reliabity,
id bet, and any lower costs would be only after the processes really scaled up. | 10 | trimmed_train |
8,693 | ..continuing on my build problems, I got stuck here build xterm...
gcc -fpcc-struct-return -o xterm main.o input.o charproc.o cursor.o util.o tabs.o screen.o scrollbar.o button.o Tekproc.o misc.o VTPrsTbl.o TekPrsTbl.o data.o menu.o -O2 -R/usr/wgep/X11R5.sos5/lib${LD_RUN_PATH+\:$LD_RUN_PATH} -L../.././lib/Xaw -lXaw -L../.././lib/Xmu -lXmu -L../.././lib/Xt -lXt -L../.././extensions/lib -lXext -L../.././lib/X -lX11 -L/usr/wgep/X11R5.sos5/lib -lsocket -lnsl -ltermcap
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
index /usr/ucblib/libtermcap.a(termcap.o)
rindex /usr/ucblib/libtermcap.a(termcap.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to xterm
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xterm'
Any clues for help?
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6,095 | Stupid me. I believed the Democrats stood for principles of personal
privacy while it was the Neanderthal Republicans that wanted into every
aspect of our lives.
Clinton is just more clever than the other guy. Looks like gun control for
privacy technology. One small step at a time.
Wait a minute.... Let me think about this.
Hmmm, I feel better now. I believe the White House when they tell us
this first step is, in fact, the final step. All is OK. We've nothing to fear.
They're here to help us.
God bless America.
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John Hesse | A man,
[email protected] | a plan,
Moss Beach, Calif | a canal, Bob. | 7 | trimmed_train |
7,293 | [...deleta...]
Heavy for a beginner bike it is; 415 pounds it isn't, except maybe in
some adman's dream. With a full tank, it's in the area of 550 lbs,
depending on year etc.
The 1980 and '81 versions had a much better seat, IMO.
My regulator lasted over 100,000 miles, and didn't overcharge the battery.
The wiring connectors in the charging path did get toasty though,
tending to melt their insulation. I suspect they were underspecified;
it didn't help that they were well removed from cool air.
Battery access on the earlier bikes doesn't require tank removal.
After you learn the drill, it's pretty straightforward.
[...]
Having bought replacement parts for several brands of motorcycles,
I'll offer a grain of salt to be taken with Dale's assessment.
[...] | 12 | trimmed_train |
2,277 |
It certainly is multi-user. What I have seen from the March Beta is
that it doesn't yet come with the stuff which exploits multi-user
features. I remember somebody from MS stating that it doesn't allow
two users share one GUI. My interpretation of this was that one user
per console but all the networking and RPC based stuff you want.
I believe ftp and rlogin deamons for NT systems will come from third
party. Somebody already has a Beta version of an unsecure ftpd on the
net. There is no reason why one cannot write a posix based shell like
csh on Unix for remote logins.
In general I liked NT when I checked it out. It slow compared to
Win3.1 (just like any other real OS). The beta version, although being
slow, botts up much faster than my SUN workstation. Windows subsystems
also start up a lot faster than X windows. I believe Bill Gates was
right when he stated that NT was not for everybody. After playing
around with it for a while I was convinced. If I owned a busines using
a "business computer" from IBM or some other established vendor, I
would consider moving to NT platform because it would provide a much
cheaper solution (If you are running SQL servers etc.). It provides
the robustness such an application requires.
On the other hand if you like your DOS games, more or less forget
about NT. You can always boot to DOS but in general that defeats
the purpose of using NT. Most of NT's features are visible in a
networked environment and in such an environment you can't reboot your
machine at will. For personal use, I would rather wait for the Win32
based Windows release (whatever you name it) than jump to NT bandwagon.
I expect most applications will keep on using Win16 until Win32
becomes widely available.
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6,825 |
And the initiative for actual implementation. Clinton is not just an
innocent bystander here - They didn't just slap his name on it without
consulting him. What exactly is his extensive history of individual
rights advocacy that people are assuming he really has nothing to do
with this? He just went back on his pledge to cut the espionage
budget, and is now asking for more money than even Bush wanted. | 7 | trimmed_train |
1,572 | ************************************************************
* *
* ATTENTION ALL FOUR WHEEL OFF ROAD ENTHUSIASTS *
* *
* On/Off Road Rally - Sunday, April 25th *
* Joliet Illinois *
* *
************************************************************
The Event:
* The Joliet Mud Turtles, a Chicago land four wheel drive club, is
sponsoring an On/Off Road Rally Sunday April 25th.
* For those who ask "What is an on/off road rally?", well...
An On/Off Road Rally consists of the following:
1. An on-the-road rally where participants are given a set of
directions and clues guiding participates around the
Joliet/Plainfield area. The object is to navigate a course
based on a set of directions and clues. Participants will
be given a set of questions pertaining to the course which
they must answer along the way. Points are awarded for the
number of correct answers given. Directions will ultimately
lead to an off-road area where a four-wheel drive course is
set-up. At various locations in the on-road course, check-points
will be set-up where participants will be asked other questions
or requested to perform some activity (e.g. tire roll, truck tow,
basketball free-throw, etc.) for additional points.
2. An optional off-road, four wheel drive course where participants
will navigate off-road trails, mud bogs and/or hill climbs.
Points are awarded for successfully navigating off-road obstacles
without getting stuck. If you should get stuck (which is half
the fun anyway), there will be assistance to get your vehicle
unstuck so you can try it again. The off-road course will
divided up based on tire size, so stock 4x4s as well as modified
4x4s can run the course.
At the end of the rally, trophies will be awarded to top scoring
participants. Door prizes and dash plaques will also be given out.
Food and drinks also available at the conclusion.
* This is an organized activity sponsored by the Joliet Mud Turtles
so safety and fun is our foremost concern. All 4x4s must be
street legal and have solid tow points for the off-road section
of the course - we don't want to have to separate someone's bumper
from their vehicle :) .
The Particulars:
* Rally begins at Instant Replay, 2409 Plainfield Road, Joliet Il.
(815)436-9382 (see map below)
* Registration is between 9 and 10:30 a.m. First truck out at 10:00 a.m.
* Rally date is Sunday April 25th, rain or shine
* There is an entry fee of $10 per truck.
* You must have a co-driver (passengers allowed)
* A valid drivers license is required
* Suggested equipment:
CB Radio
Compass
Tow Strap and Clevis
Clip Board and Pencil
* No alcohol during rally
* For more information contact
Gary (815)727-3415
Tom (815)485-9346
Norm Jr. (815)741-4853
Brian (708)979-6083
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9,147 | What else do you expect? Israel is trying to portray itself
as the great democracy. One requirement is to have a leader
who previously had an extra-marital affair (e.g. Bill Clinton)
It helps if your wife says it's OK. | 6 | trimmed_train |
10,126 | I have the following 45 rpm singles for sale. Most are collectable 7-inch
records with picture sleeves. Price does not include postage which is $1.21
for the first record, $1.69 for two, etc.
Beach Boys|Barbara Ann (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beach Boys|Califonia Girls (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$15|45
Beach Boys|Fun, Fun, Fun (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beach Boys|Little Girl I Once Knew (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beach Boys|Please Let Me Wonder (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beach Boys|Rock n Roll to the Rescue (Capitol Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$15|45
Beach Boys|When I Grow Up to Be a Man (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Beatles|Im Happy Just to Dance with You (Capitol Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Doctor & the Medics|Burn (I.R.S. Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
General Public|Too Much or Nothing (I.R.S. Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Go Gos|Our Lips are Sealed (I.R.S. Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Lennon, John|Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) (Apple Picture Sleeve)|$15|$45
Lennon, John|Mind Games (Apple Picture Sleeve)|$10|$45
Madonna|Open Your Heart (Sire Promo)|$5|45
McCartney, Paul|Coming Up (Columbia. Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
McCartney, Paul|Mull of Kintyre (Capitol. Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
McCartney, Paul|Stranglehold (Capitol Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
McCartney, Paul|Wonderful Christmastime (Columbia. Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Mercury, Freddie|I Was Born to Love You (Columbia Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Pink Floyd|Learning to Fly (Columbia Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Queen|Kind of Magic (Capitol Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Ramones|Sheena is a Punk Rocker (Sire Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Rolling Stones|19th Nervous Brakdown (London Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Rolling Stones|Jumpin Jack Flash (London Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Rolling Stones|Mothers Little Helper (London Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Rolling Stones|Paint It, Black (London Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Starr, Ringo|Photograph (Apple Picture Sleeve)|$15|$45
Starr, Ringo|Youre Sixteen (Apple Picture Sleeve)|$15|$45
Talking Heads|Road to Nowhere (Sire Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$5|45
Waters, Roger|Sunset Strip (Columbia Promo/Picture Sleeve)|$10|45
Waters, Roger|Sunset Strip (Columiba Promo)|$5
Waters, Roger|Who Needs Information (Columiba Promo)|%10|45
If you are interested, please contact: | 5 | trimmed_train |
4,943 |
In the game *I* have seen yesterday in the Olympiahalle of Munich
Canada won 4-1 against Sweden! The last goal for Canada was at 19:59 in
the 3rd period. Maybe you shouldn't go and get you another beer
before the game is over and then post imaginary results...
Holger
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1,428 |
Complete Q700 are best obtained from your dealer or some recent
copy of MacWorld or MacUser. My foggy memory suggests that the most relevant
comparison factors vis-a-vis a IIci are as follows:
25 MHz 68040
16 Mhz data path (don't recall this for sure, but it's slower
than Q 950 style machines for sure).
Ethertalk card on-board
Audio in/out
4 MB RAM on motherboard
4 SIMM slots
2 NuBus slots.
More flexible build-in video than the CI. Uses VRAM.
In comparison, a IIci with an accelerator won't give you
audio or ethernet or the same video options.
With a 68040 accelerator, CPU performance can be comparable but I
think it ends up costing more. | 14 | trimmed_train |
9,875 |
Are you certain you didn't mean to post
to alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg?
You'd better rush home...I hear Kruschev
calling "Come to papa, [email protected]!" | 9 | trimmed_train |
3,708 |
Lets carry this one step further. Suppose the text of the key is
in itself conclusive evidence of the SAME CRIME for which the
encrypted material is further evidence. I find myself envisaging a
scenario like this:
You have made some scans of Peanuts strips. You encrypt them. The key
is a phrase.
The Comic Police haul you in. They seize your system. They find the
encrypted file.
CP: "Whats that file?"
You: "I take the fifth."
CP: "What's the keyphrase to that file?"
You: "I take the fifth."
Judge: "You have to reveal the keyphrase" [I disagree, but I'm not a judge.]
You: "Your Honor, revealing the keyphrase, in it's own right, would
tend to incriminate me of breaking laws, independent of what
may or may not be in the encrypted file."
Judge: "I grant you immunity from whatever may be learned from the key
itself"
You: "The keyphrase is: "I confess to deliberately evading copyright;
the file encoded with this keyphrase contains illegal scans of
copyrighted Peanuts strips.""
Judge and CP: "Oh."
How will they get you now? I'm not saying that they won't, or
can't (or even that they shouldn't :-), but what legal mechanism will
they use? Should we be crossposting this to misc.legal? | 7 | trimmed_train |
3,273 |
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?
| 14 | trimmed_train |
1,456 | Hello,
I am looking for a PC card with the following features:
- Controller for IDE(AT-Bus)-HardDiskDrive
- Controller for 2 FloppyDiskDrives
- Standard(256KB) VGA Graphics INCLUDING FEATURE CONNECTOR (important!)
===========================
There *are* some manufacturors/distributors of this kind of card, but I have
not found them yet.
If you can help me, please mail to: ICH344@DJUKFA11
[email protected]
| 3 | trimmed_train |
7,340 |
You might visit some congregations of Christians, who happen to be homosexuals,
that are spirit-filled believers, not MCC'rs; before you go lumping us all
together with Troy Perry.
The Lord IS working in our community (the homosexual community, that is). He's
not asking us to change our sexual nature, but He is calling us to practice
the morality that He established from the beginning.
Isn't Satan having a hayday pitting Christian against Christian over any issue
he can, especially homosexuality. Let's reach the homosexuals for Christ.
Let's not try to change them, just need to bring them to Christ. If He
doesn't want them to be gay, He can change that. If they are living a moral
life, committed to someone of the same sex, and God is moving in their lives,
who are we to tell them they have to change?
That's my two cent. | 0 | trimmed_train |
8,334 | The story I related is one of the seven apparitions
approved by our Church as worthy of belief. It happened
in La Salle, France.
The moral lesson of the story is:
The Lamb of God has been sacrificed and His blood has
been used to cleanse us of our sins every moment as God perceives
worthy of being done in Heaven. Mary weeps for The Lamb and
for the rest of her offsprings. This will continue while we
disobey God or sin against Him. Mary, as a messenger,
has been given the task to make us be 'aware' of the evil
serpent (communism, wars, famine, unfaithful, disobedience
to God, etc.) running after the rest of her offsprings.
The children who went astray by disobedience led by the dragon is
brought back by her peace and loving messages, reparations for sins,
to obey God's commandments and be more worthy to be in the presence
of The Lamb.
As she was conceived without sin to be worthy of bearing the
Son of God in her womb, Mary has been preparing us, the Church,
the Body of Christ, for His second coming (making sure we are
protected from the dragon). Also, she has been preparing the new
Eden, by reversing the deed of the ancient Eve. The new Eden will be
the sanctuary of the righteous as judged by Christ in His
next coming.
I relate the story again:
I believe this and Mary, in one of her apparitions
in 19th or 20th century, she appeared to these
two children who tends goats and cows (I forgot
the exact place). She was weeping and telling the
children that she is afraid she's "going to lose her
Son's arm". She is mourning too for these
townfolks because it was their fault that there
would be drought in their harvest; not much good
food again this year as it was last year.
Mary tells the children:
* Most of the townfolks in this place worked whole *
* week even on Sundays when they should be in church *
* honoring God. These townfolks swears and *
* uses her Son's name in bad words. That is *
why her Son's arm is so heavy in pain.
Then she asked them if they pray. The children
said "hardly". She asked them to pray every
morning and night. When the children went back
from work they had to tell somebody about this.
When the news was spred and after thorough
* investigation of the incident, the townfolks *
* were converted and faith and obedience to God *
* were restored in their community. *
Once again, the Lamb succeeds. | 0 | trimmed_train |
8,766 |
DAMN RIGHT it doesn't! Ohm's come from the greek letter omega, which
is used for resistance/impedance.
Of course, the original poster MAY have been being facetious (let's hope
so). | 11 | trimmed_train |
38 |
The word is "subrogation." Seems to me, if you're willing to wait
for the money from scumbag's insurance, that you save having to pay the
deductible. However, if scumbag's insurance is Scum insurance, then you may
have to pay the deductible to get your insurance co.'s pack of rabid, large-
fanged lawyers to recover the damages from Scum insurance's lawyers.
Sad, but true. Call it job security for lawyers.
Later, | 12 | trimmed_train |
6,839 |
I don't buy this at all. Roy was the reason the game was tied... and that
would *not* have been the case had Dionne kept his cool.
Hextall gave up 2 very questionable goals himself ...
Both Dionne's and Bellows' shots were misplayed by Hextall, but just because
his gaffes were early in the game, no one seems to care. Roy stood on his head
for the first 15 minutes of the game when the Nords were rushing from
end-to-end. Kamensky's mini-break after the tying goal and the first shot by
Young in OT were both excellent chances stopped by Roy. Roy outplayed Hextall
for most of the game, but Roy becomes the villain and Hextall the hero
because Roy's team didn't make full use of their opportunities.
Hextall, on the other hand, had a lot of lucky bounces ... he played very
well, but the Haller shot off the post in OT, the rebound bouncing over
Bellows' stick, the Brunet breakaway, the 3 chances for LeClair ... all
those opportunities were *not* finished off by Montreal, and it cost them.
Hextall wasn't particularly brilliant on those plays ...
Sure, no excuse ... but it was just the 1 goal. The timing stank, but against
an explosive team like Quebec, they gave them 1 opportunity too many with
a powerplay that was totally unnecessary.
I disagree. Roy played well because he wasn't screened the whole night.
The defense, for the 1st time this season, played remarkably, keeping Sakic,
Nolan, and Sundin out of the slot most of the night.
This most certainly was a team loss... Leclair missed his opportunities,
as did Bellows and Brunet. Dionne took a bad penalty. Damphousse and Lebeau
were *silent*. Carbonneau and Savard were a step behind all night. Roy gave
up the bad goal. Roy, by no means, can be singled out for this loss.
And Hextall didn't on Dionne's goal? Please. Roy is paid big money because
that is his value compared to other goalies ... and he still is in the top 5,
when you consider the defense, or lack of one, that played in front of him
for most of the season.
The Montreal media is the quickest to heap praise and then hurl derogatory
comments against the Habs. They are no better than uninformed fans. Why should
they read the papers? They played 58 minutes of "Burnsian" hockey to shut
down Quebec. All they need tonight, and for the rest of the series is the
extra 2.
Red Light to face Quebec...rubbish. That's a guaranteed way to end the
series 4-0. Who would be taught a lesson by this ?
The fans, the media, and Racicot, perhaps. Certainly not the rest of the team.
If you mean the goal should never have gone in, because there should never
have been an OT, then I agree. But the goal itself was a great piece of work
by Young. Roy had both the near and far posts covered, but Young flipped the
puck up under Roy's arm as he wrapped-around the net ... not a bad goal at all. | 17 | trimmed_train |
1,811 |
John White from STAC Electronics can be reached at compuserv as 72370,1005.
For me [email protected] would as email address work from Internet.
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internet: [email protected]
phone: Germany 7243 602296
address: Fromut FRITZE, Waldbronn Analytic Division R&D,
Hewlett Packard Str, D 7517 Waldbronn 2, Germany | 18 | trimmed_train |
6,446 | Well, I was told that my last message came through without anything
in it, so I'll try again.
I have a Leading Edge 386SX 16 with a flaky motherboard and a friend
game me one to replace it, but he didn't have any docs for the
mother board. It's a CHEERTRON board with Award bios and has a
sticker on it that says VI 1 T1 3 T2 3 on it. I can tell what
most of the switches on the blue blocks mean. except FDC and
SH, but I have no idea about all the jumpers. I've replaced hard
drives and modems and installed math co-processes, but this is a
bit out of my league and without the docs, I'm really lost.
If anyone could give me some help on this, I'd really appreciate
it. I don't get on news regularly, so if you can help, please
e-mail me at [email protected]
Thanks. | 3 | trimmed_train |
8,351 | : Marian CATHOLIC high school, outside of chicago:
:
: 666 south ASHLAND avenue.
:
Actually, Satanism is technically inverted Catholicism.
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3,918 |
Hello, is there anybody in there? You think you have to pay for this idiot's
problem now, who's going to pay for the ballooning number of addicts and
all of the associated problems with them. I don't even want to think about
it with Hillary in the White House and an administration that "feels our
pain".
No harm but to himself? What about when he drives his school bus full
of kids into a train. When he gets stoned and drives up on a sidewalk
and kills 5 people. When he lives off me on Welfare for the rest of his
life. | 13 | trimmed_train |
1,996 |
Why not? Horner played 130 games in 1985 and hit 27 HR.
Murphy played 162 and hit 37.
In 1986 Horner hit 27 in 141 games and Murphy hit 29 in 160 games.
(and the Braves lost 96 and 89 games). | 2 | trimmed_train |
5,978 | I am most embarassed that my irrate, intemperate post is still
circulating.
I have been chided by experts for my behavior. I now agree with
all of them, although some were no more restrained in their
speech than I was 8)
I have apologized to Robin Hanson.
Lew | 7 | trimmed_train |
5,885 |
[deletia- and so on]
I seem to have been rather unclear.
What I was asking is this:
Please show me that the most effective substance-absure recovery
programs involve meetinsg peoples' spiritual needs, rather than
merely attempting to fill peoples' spiritual needs as percieved
by the people, A.A, S.R.C. regulars, or snoopy. This will probably
involve defining "spritual needs" (is it not that clear) and
showing that such things exist and how they can be filled.
Annother tack you might take is to say that "fulfilling spiritual
needs" means "acknowledging a "higher power" of some sort, then
show that systems that do require this, work better than otherwise
identical systems that do not. A correlation here would help you,
but as you point out this might just be demonstrating swapping
one crutch for annother. (however, I do feel that religion is
usually a better crutch than alchohol, as it is not usually
poisonous! :) )
I hope with that clarification, my question will be answerable. I actually
did know about the 12 step program, its the question of what it does,
rather than what it tries to do, that makes a difference to me.
---
- Dan Johnson
And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0 | 0 | trimmed_train |
3,250 | What is Pink noise and how is it used in sound experiments?
-tony
[email protected]
| 11 | trimmed_train |
5,730 | TOSHIBA P321SL
-track/friction feeds
-LCD display
-3.5 months old
-like new
-sample print-out sheet (GEOWORKS) available
-EMULASER (a 2-month old program by VERTISOFT
makes print-out look like an inkjet print-out)
-$175 firm.
| 5 | trimmed_train |
4,017 |
Hello, I know that this has been discussed before. But at the time
I didn't need to teselate a sphere. So if any kind soul has the code
or the alg, that was finally decided upon as the best (as I recall it
was a nice, iterative subdivision meathod), I would be very
appreciative.
Thomas DeWeese
[email protected]
| 1 | trimmed_train |
11,188 | TEXT 44
bhogaisvarya-prasaktanam
tayapahrta-cetasam
vyavasayatmika buddhih
samadhau na vidhiyate
bhoga--to material enjoyment; aisvarya--and opulence; prasaktanam--for
those who are attached; taya--by such things;
apahrta-cetasam--bewildered in mind; vyavasaya-atmika--fixed in
determination; buddhih--devotional service to the Lord; samadhau--in
the controlled mind; na--never; vidhiyate--does take place.
TRANSLATION
In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and
material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute
determination for devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take
place.
PURPORT
Samadhi means ``fixed mind.'' The Vedic dictionary, the Nirukti,
says, samyag adhiyate 'sminn atma-tattva-yathatmyam: ``When the mind is
fixed for understanding the self, it is said to be in samadhi.''
Samadhi is never possible for persons interested in material sense
enjoyment, nor for those who are bewildered by such temporary things.
They are more or less condemned by the process of material energy.
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
Books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
---------------------------------------------------------
| Don't forget to chant: |
| |
| Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare |
| Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare |
| |
| Kalki's Infoline BBS Aiken, South Carolina, USA |
| ([email protected]) | | 15 | trimmed_train |
1,520 | I've got two lines coming into my apartment. Two different telephone numbers.
When I ordered the second line installed, instead of bringing out another 4
wire bundle, the telco just connected up to my yellow and black wires. So I
have one line on red & green and the other on yellow & black.
Today I was monitoring the voltage on both lines. I had a voltmeter across
the red and green and read back 52 volts. I then lifted up the receiver on my
second line.(black & yellow wires) The voltage dropped to 31 volts on the first
line. (red & green wires) I repeated this experiment with the second
line(monitoring black & yellow and lifting the handset off the cradle on the
red and green line.) It also dropped to 31 volts.
Why is this ? I thought these were separate lines.
Next I went to the 66 block and disconnected the blue and white lines coming in
from the telco cable. I then disconnected all the phones in my apartment and
went back to the 66 block and did some resistance measurements. Both lines read
open.
I'll appreciate any help on this. Is this considered normal ?
Guy Urbina | 11 | trimmed_train |
1,354 |
Hmm... now where was that ad for the combination radio/hand cranked
generator/flashlight/siren I saw? :-)
[function generator has a 50mV offset, and the amplitude's too high]
Sure, you've already got the right idea.
Ignoring the 50 ohm internal resistance of the generator for a second, just
run it into, say, a voltage divider made of 990 ohms in series with 10
ohms. This new circuit is the Thevenin equivalent of one that puts out
1/100 of the original voltage, and has an output impedence of negligibly
less than 10 ohms. You may want to monkey with the values a little
depending on whether you care more about the _exact_ dividing ratio or
the availability of parts.
Hows that sound?
---Joel Kolstad | 11 | trimmed_train |
3,033 |
Before the S4 became the S4 it was called the 200 turbo quattro 20v.
This model did come in a wagon, a very quick wagon. Very rare also. | 4 | trimmed_train |
4,089 |
Or John Edgar Hoover's USA.
yet.
yet.
so far.
What harm is there in overreacting?
This may be the largest single threat to civil liberties yet in my
lifetime. The US has done some pretty heinous things in the past,
and we haven't yet recovered from all of them. There certainly seems
to be a historical trend towards less liberty, with occasional
perturbations.
Time to break out the quotes from American political radicals.
Lyle Transarc 707 Grant Street
412 338 4474 The Gulf Tower Pittsburgh 15219 | 7 | trimmed_train |
10,465 |
A book that I can somewhat recommend is :
Pratical Image Processing in C
by Craig A. Lindley
published by Wiley | 1 | trimmed_train |
10,556 |
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Who's the mindscheme(?) behind this one -- Ted
Simmons? As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I'm 230
miles from home (during the school year) and will never be able to pick up
DVE. At least now I can sort of make out what Mike and Steigy say through
all the static on KDKA. This just may be enough reason for me to transfer
to Duquesne and live at home. Who's going to announce on DVE anyway?
Paulson and Krenn? (Just kidding.) | 17 | trimmed_train |
9,594 | In regards ot some of the posts concerning bias in articles of k bikes
versis /2's or boxers of a later date or whatever.. Jeezzz, Lighten up!
I wrote the slash two blues for a bit of humor which seems to be lacking
in the MOA Owners News, when most of the stuff is "I rode the the first
day, I saw that, I rode there the second day, I saw this"
any body out there know were the sense if humor went in people?
I though I still had mine, but I dunno...
Regards
Craig Vechorik
BMW MOA Ambassador #9462
DOD #843
And hey, I just want ya'll to vote.. O.K.? for SOMEBODY instead of throwing
it in the trash...
| 12 | trimmed_train |
3,368 |
CONGRAULATIONS !!!! Your helmet just passed the Snell Test.
Oh well, as least it looks ok now. Still, it may not save your head as well
as before you dropped it.
Mike | 12 | trimmed_train |
6,086 | : You know, it just occurred to me today that this whole Christian thing
: can be blamed solely on Mary.
:
: So, she's married to Joseph. She gets knocked up. What do you think
: ol' Joe will do if he finds she's been getting around? So Mary comes up
: with this ridiculous story about God making her pregnant.
:
Nice attempt Chris . . . verrry close.
You missed the conspiracy by 1 step. Joseph knew who knocked her up.
He couldn't let it be known that somebody ELSE got ol' Mary prego. That
wouldn't do well for his popularity in the local circles. So what
happened is that she was feeling guilty, he was feeling embarrassed, and
THEY decided to improve both of their images on what could have otherwise
been the downfall for both. Clever indeed. Come to think of it . . . I
have gained a new respect for the couple. Maybe Joseph and Mary should
receive all of the praise being paid to jesus. | 8 | trimmed_train |
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