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And does it not say in scripture that no man knows the hour of His coming, not even the angels in Heaven but only the Father Himself? DK was trying to play God by breaking the seals himself. DK killed himself and as many of his followers as he could. BTW, God did save the children. They are in Heaven, a far better place. How do I know? By faith. God be with you,

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In Windows I created a permanent Swap-file of 7771Kb as win3.1 recommended me to do that (32bit access). If I use EMM386.EXE, after win3.1 startup I have 6689K of memory free, if I leave EMM386.EXE out of my config.sys I have 9935K of memory free, and windows recommends me a swap file of 11769K. I use DOS6, with memmaker, have 4MB of internal Memory and a 486DX, Does anybody knows why this is happening (possibly win needs some UMB's to manage virtual memory?, If true, which UMB's, those that EMM386 can find without including suspicious parts?) I need an optimized DOS-environment, because i develop applications for DOS using a windows programming environment.

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The VESA standard can be requested from VESA: VESA 2150 North First Street, Suite 440 San Jose, CA 95131-2029 Ask for the VESA VBE and Super VGA Programming starndards. VESA also defines local bus and other standards. The VESA standard only addresses ways in which an application can find out info and capabilities of a specific super VGA implementation and to control the video mode selection and video memory access. You still have to set your own pixels. VESA defines a "window" that is used to access video memory. This window is anchored at the spot where you want to write, and then you can write as far as the window takes you (usually 64K). Windows have granularities, so you can't just anchor them anywhere. Also, some implementations allow two windows. This is VESA mode 101h. There is a Set Display Start function that might be useful for scrolling. Your best bet is to write VESA for the info. There have also been announcements on this group of VESA software.

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I dunno, on my old GS1000E the tank-seat junction was nice and smooth. But if you were to travel all the way forward, you'd collect the top triple-clamp in a sensitive area. I'd hate to have to make the choice, but I think I'd prefer the FJ's gas tank. :-)

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Oh yeah, Israel was really ready to "expand its borders" on the holiest day of the year (Yom Kippur) when the Arabs attacked in 1973. Oh wait, you chose to omit that war...perhaps because it 100% supports the exact OPPOSITE to the point you are trying to make? I don't think that it's because it was the war that hit Israel the hardest. Also, in 1967 it was Egypt, not Israel who kicked out the UN force. In 1948 it was the Arabs who refused to accept the existance of Israel BASED ON THE BORDERS SET BY THE UNITED NATIONS. In 1956, Egypt closed off the Red Sea to Israeli shipping, a clear antagonistic act. And in 1982 the attack was a response to years of constant shelling by terrorist organizations from the Golan Heights. Children were being murdered all the time by terrorists and Israel finally retaliated. Nowhere do I see a war that Israel started so that the borders could be expanded. Steve --

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Thanks for the Update.

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The reason they place their outside corner at the location you requested is because that's what the ICCCM says they should do. This code will almost certainly break. Calling XMapWindow and then XFlush does not guarantee that the window is visible and managed by the window manager. Even if this did work, there isn't a reliable way to find out how much decoration the window manager placed around your window, so you don't know how far to move it. And what if the window manager refuses to move your window?

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A word of warning, though: Kryptonite also sells almost useless cable locks under the Kryptonite name. When I obtained my second motorcycle, I migrated one of my Kryptonite U-locks from my bicycle to the new bike. I then went out shopping for a new lock for the bicycle. For about the same money ($20) I had the choice of a Kryptonite cable lock (advantages: lock front and back wheels on bicycle and keep them both, Kryptonite name) or a cheesy no-name U-lock (advantages: real steel). I chose the Kryptonite cable. After less than a week, I took it back in disgust and exchanged it for the cheesy no-name U-lock. First, the Krypto cable I bought is not made by Kryptonite, is not covered by the Kryptonite guarantee, and doesn't even approach Kryptonite standards of quality and quality assurance. It is just some generic made-in-Taiwan cable lock with the Kryptonite name on it. Secondly, the latch engagement mechanism is something of a joke. I don't know if mine was a particularly poor example, but it was often quite frustrating to get the latch to positively engage, and sometimes it would seem to engage, only to fall open when I went to unlock it. Thirdly, the lock has a little plastic door on the keyway which serves the sole purpose of frustrating any attempt to insert the key in the dark. I didn't try it (obviously), but I have my doubts that the lock mechanism would stand up to an "insert screwdriver and TORQUE" attack. Fourthly, the cable was not, in my opinion, of sufficient thickness to deter theft (for my piece of crap bicycle, that is). All cables suffer the weakness that they can be cut a few strands at a time. If you are patient you can cut cables with fingernail clippers. Aviation snips would go through the cable in well under a minute. --

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First game, first at bat.

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That's nothing. When a friend of mine went shopping for a small sedan a few years ago, she brought me along as a token male so the salespeople wouldn't give her the "bimbo" treatment. Her first choice was a Mazda 323, and second choice was a Nissan Sentra. We went to a Mazda dealership and described what "we" wanted. We started negotiating on the price, and the salesdroid kept playing the "let me run this price by the sales manager". After playing the "good salesman, bad salesman" game, we finally told him that if he didn't have the authority to negotiate a price, perhaps we should be speaking directly to someone who did. He brought in the sales manager who proceeded to dick us around with every trick in the book. (Read Remar Sutton's "Don't Get Taken Every Time" for a list.) Finally, after playing a few more rounds of "you'll have to work with us on this price", also known as "each time you come up a thousand dollars we'll come down ten", the salesmanager gave a signal to his two sales cronies, stood up, and said "well, we can't come down any more so I guess we can't help you" and they trouped out of the room, leaving us sitting in the salesman's office all by ourselves. Hmm. I'd read that sleazy salesmen sometimes bug their own offices so they can leave and listen in on couples discussing the sales offer, and I mentioned this aloud to my friend while we were sitting there wondering why they would leave us in the office instead of showing us to the door. For lack of anything better to do, I picked up the phone on the desk and called another Mazda dealership, asked for a salesman, and began discussing what kind of price they would consider. A few sentences into the conversation, Mr. Salesmanager broke into the line (!) and began telling me how rude he thought it was that I would call another dealership from "his" phone! I said that since he'd announced that our business was over, he shouldn't care, and every time I tried to talk to the other sales guy the sales manager would drown out our voices with his own. (How did he know that I was using the phone, anyway?) Finally, I hung up and we headed out of the showroom. Sales manager and cronies come out of a little unmarked room and he begins to berate us again. We say that we won't bother him anymore, we're going next door to the Nissan dealership. Then comes the part I wish I could have videotaped. As we go out the front door, the sales manager SHOUTS across the entire showroom, customers and all, "Go ahead! You DESERVE to buy a Nissan!" So my friend bought a Sentra.

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I have and use xrecplay for X11R5. Does one exist for X11R4??? I have tried to contact one of the developers, Eric Swildens, at [email protected] but he is no longer there and has no forwarding email address. Archie is no help either. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

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<stuff deleted> <other stuff deleted> Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a little fourteen inch colour tv? Just curious... --

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I have a 486 machine with a 3.5" A: drive and a 5.25" B: drive. I want to swap them so 3.5" drive is A: What do I have to do? TIA

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Yeah, the "Feingold Diet" is a load of crap. Children diagnosed with ADD who are placed on this diet show no improvement in their intellectual and social skills, which in fact continue to decline. Of course, the parents who are enthusiastic about this approach lap it up at the expense of their children's development. So much for the value of "interesting anecdotal results". People will believe anything if they want to.

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I strongly disagree that absolute truth would not require interpretation. That's because truth may be absolute, but it may not be obvious. Like so many things, the truth is always subject to misinterpretation. I strongly suspect that we are reaching an impasse here, which is why I deign from commenting much further. Now hold it. I never said that Christians cannot be arrogant. Indeed, as many other Christians on SRC have stressed before, this is a trap that Christians must always be wary about. However, this does not mean that if you believe in the absolutes established by the Bible, you are necessarily being arrogant. A Christian can believe that the Word of God is absolute, but he or she should not expect this to be immediately evident to everyone. Not quite. You say that according to my stance, we cannot *reliably* determine what is true. That is not what I said. I say that as fallible human beings, we cannot discern the truth with 100% certainty. The distinction is subtle yet important. When a scientist performs an experiment, he can claim that his results are reliable, without claiming that absolutely no mistake whatsoever could have been made. In other words, he can admit that he could be mistaken, without sacrificing his convictions. Nobody can establish what absolute truth is with 100% certainty. Throughout the centuries, philosophers have argued about what we can know with complete certainty and what we cannot. Descartes made a step in the right direction when he uttered, "Cogito, ergo sum," yet we have not advanced much beyond that. Do you believe that other people aside from you exist? Do you believe that the computer terminal you are using exists? If so, can you be absolutely certain about that? Are you sure it is not some grand illusion? Of course, you have no such assurance. This does not mean, however, that for all practical purposes, you can be certain that they exist. So it is with Christianity. The most mature Christians I know have deep convictions about absolute morality, yet they acknowledge that there is a non-zero probability that they are wrong. This does not, however, mean that they should (or do) abandon these absolutes. As I said, we can never be absolutely certain that we are correct. This does not mean that we cannot be certain enough, in light of the evidence, to render all doubts unreasonable.

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I've been following the Giants closely over the off-season -- newspapers, notesgroup, etc -- but I had my first up close and personal last night at the Stick. After watching Giants hitters struggle last year, Barry's swing was very impressive -- he's very quick and his swing seems effortless, even compared to Clark (particularly Clark as of late). It was interesting to see Bonds hit Maddux so well. I'm not sure if Barry was after revenge against the Braves or what but he stroked three very pretty hits (1b, 2b, hr) for 5 rbi's. The Giants as a team are doing a lot of surprising things this year in addition to Bonds. There has been some good pitching and some hitters seem to be swinging much better. Clayton's defense has been superb. McGee seems to like leading off this year. Manwaring is driving the ball. So on & so forth. I hope it continues...I think they need to continue well into June before people are really sold that they are for real--particularly the pitching. For myself, I think the fresh start of Magowan/Baker/etc has really wiped out a lot of negatives from the last few years and will be a real factor in helping them significantly improve over last year.

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Like most high-volume manufacturers, Adcom has most of its PC boards assembled off-shore (in their case, mostly in the far east). Final assembly _and testing_ are done in East Brunswick. The products are, and have always been, designed entirely in the US; by their own staff and by audiophile gurus like Walter Jung. Adcom also tends to prefer American and European components over their Japanese/Far East equivalents. Off-shore assembly is one reason that Adcom is able to make products that perform as well as those from people like Audio Research and Van Alstine (and better than Hafler and Forte'), but at a much lower cost. Of course, if your musical diet consists mostly of Rock, you might prefer components from Kenwood or Pioneer...

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%>I dunno, Lemieux? Hmmm...sounds like he %>has *French* blood in him!!! Hey! France is part of Europe! Send that %>Euro-blooded boy back!!! % % Don't you Americans study history...the French settled in North America % as early or before the British...Lemieux can probably trace back his % North American heritage back a lot further than most of us. <friendly-jibe mode on> Don't you Canadians understand sarcasm? Sometimes the reader must decide that what he's reading is so ludicrous that it must mean the opposite of what it said... Kinda like the "Toronto's going to win the Cup" posts. Yeah. Right. And cows can fly... <friendly-jibe mode off> Geez, Gerald. Like anyone reading rec.flamefest.hockey.pens.are.great didn't know that Le-Mow was from Quebec.

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Finding the circumcenter of a tetrahedron is discussed on page 33 in CONTOURING: A guide to the analysis and display of spatial data, by Dave Watson, Pergamon Press, 1992, ISBN 0 08 040286 0, 321p. Each pair of tetrahedral vertices define a plane which is a perpendicular bisector of the line between that pair. Express each plane in the form Ax + By + Cz = D and solve the set of simultaneous equations from any three of those planes that have a vertex in common (all vertices are used). The solution is the circumcenter.

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Probably within 50 years, a new type of eugenics will be possible. Maybe even sooner. We are now mapping the human genome. We will then start to work on manipulation of that genome. Using genetic engineering, we will be able to insert whatever genes we want. No breeding, no "hybrids", etc. The ethical question is, should we do this? Should we make a race of disease-free, long-lived, Arnold Schwartzenegger-muscled, supermen? Even if we can. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and [email protected] | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."

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No. No. NOOO!!! The ground (green) wire is for safety. No current is supposed to flow in it under normal conditions. This means that there's normally no voltage drop in it either. It is supposed to be safe to touch the ground wire... even if you're grounded in some other way at the same time. The neutral (white) wire is, as Dave Vanderbyl correctly said, the return for the hot wire. Since current flows in it, there's a voltage drop. If you plug a heavy load into a properly-wired grounded outlet, you can commonly measure a volt or so of difference between neutral and ground. They are supposed to be connected together at the breaker panel... but nowhere, repeat NOwhere, else. (Well, almost. There are strange exceptions for things like sub-panels.) What you CAN do if you want three-prong outlets without additional wiring is to use a GFCI outlet (or breaker, but the outlet will be cheaper). In fact, depending on where you are putting your new outlet(s), a GFCI may be *required*. There is a FAQ on electrical wiring, posted regularly to rec.woodworking and news.answers. It goes into great detail on these issues (including GFCIs) and you should probably read it before asking any more questions. I'll mail a copy to you, append a copy here, and will ask the writers to cross-post it here in the future.

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OK -- so we've got a hotly contested BMWOA election and some inept leadership. My question is the history of the BMW organization that lead to the formation of the BMWRA. Was there something going on in the OA years ago that precipitated the formation of two competing owner's groups? Just to stave off flames: I'm a (relatively new) member of both groups and besides a difference in the slickness of the magazines, it seems the major difference is that the RA guys seem to have more fun. . . Art

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Don't just nab it, POUNCE on it. These are fairly rare bikes, and they are MORE than adequate for putting a big brown stripe in your shorts. Does a 50mph power wheelie appeal to you? I thought it would... Only really bad things: the stock clutch isn't up to the task. Barnett can take care of this. The back tire wears quickly (gee, wonder why?), and the induction system is a bear to work on. Later,

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I'm sure the whole newspaper is copyrighted. They could have gotten permission to use the image under their own copyright.

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I am having trouble obtaining the specified standby current drain from a MC146818A Real Time Clock. Has anyone out there had some experience in doing this? The specs call for a few sequences to be met before standby mode is activated, and are a bit hard to decipher on that, but I thought that I had it worked out. However, with a 32kHz crystal the lowest current drain I can acheive at 3.7V Vcc is 150uA. This is three times the specified MAXIMUM under the conditions I am attempting to create. I have done the following things: 1) Made sure that RESET/ is asserted for Trlh after powerup, and AS is low during this time. 2) Made sure that there is a cycle on AS after the negation of RD/ or WR/ during which STBY/ was asserted. What am I doing wrong? Thanks very much,

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On a related note, how can I use xv to display colored GIFs on my root display with HP Vue? All I can do with Vue is display xbm's through their Backdrop Style Manager. xv does not seem to be able to override whatever Vue puts there. Thanks, Jan

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1992-93 Los Angeles Kings notes. -------------------------------- Playoffs: --------- *Stauber disturbed by third-man theme by Rick Sadowski, Daily News Barry Melrose's decision to stick Robb Stauber in the stands rather than in the crease or even on the bench for the Stanley Cup playoffs does not sit well with the rookie goaltender. "I want to be a part of the team at the most crucial time of the year, the most fun time of the year, and I'm not," Stauber said with some emotion Monday. "I think I have worked hard enough for that." Stauber said he accepts Melrose's choice of Kelly Hrudey as the teams top goalie in their playoff series with the Calgary Flames. Hrudey made 21 saves in Sundays 6-3 opening victory. But Stauber clearly is upset with his sudden status as the No. 3 man behind Rick Knickle. Stauber had a 4-1-2 record and 2.98 goals-against average down the stretch in the regular season and nearly wrestled the No. 1 job from Hrudey. Knickle? He won 2 of 3 decisions but had a bloated 5.26 average, twice was yanked from games (once for stomach cramps) and hasn't played since March 29. Yet, when the series resumes Wednesday, Knickle will serve as Hrudey's backup again and Stauber will have to satisfy his playoff hunger by munching on Olympic Saddledome popcorn. "If I'm supposedly close to being the starter or could have been the starter...I dropped too. 3. What happened to No. 2?" Stauber wondered. "Not that I'd be happy with No. 2, but I feel I should at least be a part of this team in the playoffs." Perhaps Stauber eventually will get his chance, but Melrose apparently is not convinced the 25-year old is capable of handling playoff pressure. While insisting he is the Kings' "goalie of the future," Melrose said Stauber flubbed all four of the big games he was asked to win this season. They were, according to Melrose: a 7-2 loss to San Jose on Dec. 26; An 8-3 loss to the New York Rangers on Jan. 23; a 6-6 tie with Detroit on Feb. 11; an 8-6 loss to Vancouver on Thursday. "Four times this season Robb could have emerged as the elite goalie, he could have taken it away from Kelly Hrudey, and he didn't do it," Melrose said. "An elite goaltender has to carry the ball when you give it to him. The mark of a great goalie is that he isn't satisfied to be a backup." "I'm not blaming Robb for the losses, but if you're going to be No. 1, you've got to be able to walk your talk. You've got to be able to play when everything is on the line. Robb Stauber has a great deal of ability, but maybe I expect more from him than he does." Ouch. That remark stung Stauber. He began the season 9-0-1, struggled when the team hit a mid-season slump, didn't play for a month after Knickle was signed off the San Diego Gulls roster, then came on at the end. "I expect more from myself than anybody, including Barry Melrose," said Stauber, a three-year star at the University of Minnesota who left school in 1989, only to have his development hampered by a string of serious injuries. "What I've been through the last four years - two knee operations, a herniated disk in my back, shoulder surgery - what more can I go through? I obviously do expect a lot from myself, otherwise I wouldn't be here." "Anybody who would disagree with that doesn't know me. I'm not saying Barry doesn't know me, but don't say I've been without expectations. If anything, I'm a perfectionist." Stauber acknowledged he played poorly in the four games Melrose mentioned. "But even though I didn't play well, I get knocked down from maybe on to three? It's a bit of a jump," he said. "You're almost No. 1, or if you play a good game you're No. 1 and if you don't you're No. 3? Why does Jack Nicklaus shoot a 67 and then a 75? Can you explain that? That's what barry wanted me to explain to him, why I didn't come through when he counted on me. I don't know. What I do know is, it's a sport. I'll be there." Melrose's "goalie of the future" statement doesn't mean much to Stauber. "Before you know it, I'll be 30 and there will be no future," he said. ------ *Game 1 of the Kings @ Flames playoff series drew a 4.2 Nielsen rating on ABC Channel 7 here in LA. The Kings averaged a 2.1 Nielsen rating in the 10 regular season games aired on Channel 5. Around the NHL: --------------- *San Jose fired Coach George Kingston, who lead the team to a 11-71-2 mark in their 2nd NHL season. Kingston was 28-129-7 over the past 2 years with the Sharks. ------ *Former Islander executive Bill Torrey was named as President of the expansion Florida Panthers. Bobby Clarke was named as the clubs General Manager. *Last nights games: ------------------- WIN 2 @ VAN 4 (VAN leads 1-0) TOR 3 @ DET 6 (DET leads 1-0) =============================================================================== Stan Willis ([email protected]) net contact: L.A. Kings

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Unfortunately, if you launch this from the US (or are a US citizen), you will need a launch permit from the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, and I think it may be difficult to get a permit for an antisatellite weapon... :-) The threshold at which OCST licensing kicks in is roughly 100km. (The rules are actually phrased in more complex ways, but that is the result.)

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[deleted] Keep in mind this was in Massachussetts. Today was Patriots Day, a state holiday. I think it might be a floating holiday, but given that the Marathon also happens the same day, most people don't go in. -- #include <std_disclaimer.h>

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Hello fellow 'netters. I am asking for your collected wisdom to help me decide which printer I should purchase, the Canon BJ200 (BubbleJet) vs. the HP DeskJet 500. I thought, rather than trust the salesperson, I would benefit more from relying on those who use these printers daily and use them to their fullest potential. And, I figure all of you will know their benefits and pitfalls better than any salesperson. Now, I would greatly appreciate any information you could render on the 360 dpi of the Canon BubbleJet vs. the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 (300 dpi). Which is faster? Is there a noticeable print quality difference, particularly in graphics? Which will handle large documents better (75 pages or more) -- any personal experience on either will be appreciated here? Which works better under Windows 3.1 (any driver problems, etc)? Cost of memory, font packages, toner cartridges, etc? Basically, your personal experiences with either of these machines is highly desirable, both good and bad. Advance kudos and thanks for all your input. E-mail or news posting is readily acceptable, but e-mail is encouraged (limits bandwidth). -- Sincerely, Robert Kayman ---- [email protected] -or- [email protected]

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Mike Terry asks: No Mike. It is imposible due to the shaft effect. The centripital effects of the rotating shaft counteract any tendency for the front wheel to lift off the ground.

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I doubt there are good prospects for a self armoring system for venus surface conditions (several hundred degrees, very high pressure of CO2, possibly sulfuric and nitric acids or oxides but it is a notion to consider for outer planets rs where you might pick up ices under less extream upper atmosphere conditions buying deeper penetration. A nice creative idea, unlikly but worthy of thinking about.

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Go-Video machines used in HQ2 mode will copy even the MacroVision. Go-Video phone number (602)998-3400. Ask for sales department. Since the state of Arizona does not go on Daylight Savings time, we effectively are in Pacific time zone.

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Two follow up's to Mark's last posting: 1. As far as current investigations, the Church recently declared the crying statue and corresponding messages from Mary at Akita, Japan as approved (I found this out about a month ago.) 2. Again in the proof department, start with the appearances of Mary at Fatima. Among other things, there were pictures taken of the "miracle of the sun" that appeared in some major American newspaper (The New York Times, I believe) as well as most of the major European newspapers. I could talk (or post) for hours on this topic, but... (I have a thesis to write). God Bless, - Mike Walker

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[...] [...] Oh, lord. This is where I came in. Obcountersteer: For some reason, I've discovered that pulling on the wrong side of the handlebars (rather than pushing on the other wrong side, if you get my meaning) provides a feeling of greater control. For example, rather than pushing on the right side to lean right to turn right (Hi, Lonny!), pulling on the left side at least until I get leaned over to the right feels more secure and less counter-intuitive. Maybe I need psychological help. Obcountersteer v2.0:Anyone else find it ironic that in the weekend-and-a- night MSF class, they don't mention countersteering until after the first day of riding? ----- Tommy McGuire, who's going to hit his head on door frames the rest of the evening, leaning into those tight turns.... [email protected] [email protected]

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I have an HP 1815 TDR plug-in for an HP180 series scope or mainframe that I'm never going to use (no scope any more). If you're interested in it, please let me know. Price? Probably real cheap. This notice may have appeared once before. I posted, and it never showed up on our local server... -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Medin Phone: (205) 730-3169 (w) SSD--Networking (205) 837-1174 (h) Intergraph Corp. M/S GD3004 Internet: [email protected] Huntsville, AL 35894 UUCP: ...uunet!ingr!b30!catbyte!dtmedin ******* Everywhere You Look (at least around my office) *******

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I was convinced that no one could have a more warped sense of the world. They were 'our' grandparents who were cold-bloodedly exterminated by the Armenians between 1914 and 1920, not yours. And you can always participate in 'The Turkish Genocide Day' along with millions of Turkish and Kurdish people on April 23, 1993 in the United States and Canada. ...On this occasion, we once again reiterate the unquestioned justice of the restitution of Turkish and Kurdish rights and... - We demand that the x-Soviet Armenian Government admit its responsibility for the Turkish and Kurdish Genocide, render reparations to the Muslim people, and return the land to its rightful owners. The recognition of the Genocide has become an issue which cannot be delayed further, and it is imperative that artificial obstacles created for political manipulations be removed. - We believe the time has come to demand from the the United States that it formally recognizes the Turkish and Kurdish Genocide, adopts the principles of our demands and refuses to accede to Armenian pressures to the contrary. - As taxpayers of the United States, we express our vehement protest to the present U.S. Government policy of continued coddling, protection and unqualified assistance towards x-Soviet Armenia. - We also demand that the United States return to the policies advocated by U.S. Ambassador Bristol and other enlightened statesmen, who have undertaken a just, human and benevolent attitude towards the rights of the Muslim people and the just resolution of their Case. - Our territorial demands are strictly aimed at x-Soviet Armenia's. And in article <[email protected]>, you have blatantly lied: Well, still anxiously awaiting... CIS Commander Pulls Troops Out of Karabagh : "Elif Kaban, a Reuter correspondent in Agdam, reported that after a battle on Wednesday, Azeris were burying scores of people who died when Armenians overran the town of Khojaly, the second-biggest Azeri settlement in the area. 'The world is turning its back on what's happening here. We are dying and you are just watching,' one mourner shouted at a group of journalists." Helen Womack The Independent, 2/29/92 Armenian Soldiers Massacre Hundreds of Fleeing Families: "The attackers killed most of the soldiers and volunteers defending the women and children. They then turned their guns on the terrified refugees. The few survivors later described what happened: 'That's when the real slaughter began,' said Azer Hajiev, one of the three soldiers to survive. 'The Armenians just shot and shot. And they came in and started carving up people with their bayonets and knives.' A 45-year-old man who had been up on us and people were falling all around. My wife fell, then my child." Thomas Goltz Sunday Times, 3/1/92 Armenian Raid Leaves Azeris Dead or Fleeing: "...about 1,000 of Khojaly's 10,000 people were killed in Tuesdays attack. Azerbaijani television showed truckloads of corpses being evacuated from the Khocaly area." Brian Killen (Reuters) The Washington Times, 3/2/92 Atrocity Reports Horrify Azerbaijan : "Azeri officials who returned from the seen to this town about nine miles away brought back three dead children, the backs of their heads blown off... 'Women and children had been scalped,' said Assad Faradzev, an aide to Karabagh's Azeri governor. Azeri television showed pictures of one truckload of bodies brought to the Azeri town of Agdam, some with their faces apparently scratched with knives or their eyes gouged out." Brian Killen (Reuters) The Washington Times, 3/3/92 Massacre By Armenians Being Reported: "The Republic of Armenia reiterated denials that its militants had killed 1,000 [Azeris]... But dozens of bodies scattered over the area lent credence to Azerbaijani reports of a massacre." (Reuters) The New York Times, 3/3/92 Killings Rife in Nagorno-Karabagh, Moldova: "Journalists in the area reported seeing dozens of corpses, including some of the civilians, and Azerbaijani officials said Armenians began shooting at them when they sought to recover the bodies." Fred Hiatt The Washington Post, 3/3/92 Bodies Mark Site of Karabagh Massacre: "A local truce was enforced to allow the Azerbaijanis to collect their dead and any refugees still hiding in the hills and forest. All are the bodies of ordinary people, dressed in the poor, ugly clorhing of workers. Of the 31 we saw only one policeman and two apparent national volunteers were wearing uniform. All the rest were civilians, including eight women and three small children. Two groups, apparently families, had fallen together, the children cradled in the women's arms. Several of them, including one small girl, had terrible head injuries: only her face was left. Survivors have told how they saw Armenians shooting them point blank as they lay on the ground." Anatol Lieven The Times (London), 3/3/92 Karabagh Survivors Flee to Mountains: "Geyush Gassanov, the deputy mayor of Khocaly, said that Armenian troops surrounded the town after 7 pm on Tuesday. They were accompanied by six or seven light tanks and armoured carriers. 'We thought they would just bombard the village, as they had in the past, and then retreat. But they attacked, and our defence force couldn't do anything against their tanks.' Other survivors described how they had been fired on repeatedly on their way through the mountains to safety. 'For two days we crawled most of the way to avoid gunfire,' Sukru Aslanov said. His daughter was killed in the battle for Khodjaly, and his brother and son died on the road." Anatol Lieven The Times (London), 3/3/92 Corpses Litter Hills in Karabagh: "As we swooped low over the snow covered hills of Nagorno-Karabagh we saw the scattered corpses. Apparently, the refugees had been shot down as they ran...Suddenly there was a thump...[our Azerbaijani helicopter] had been fired on from an Armenian anti-aircraft post..." Anatol Lieven The Times (London), 3/4/92 "Police in western Azerbaijan said they had recovered the bodies of 120 Azerbaijanis killed as they fled an Armenian assault in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabagh and said they were blocked from recovering more bodies." The Wall Street Journal, 3/4/92 Exiting Troops Attacked in Nagorno-Karabagh: "Withdrawal halted; Armenians Blamed... More video footage and reports from Khocaly paint a grim picture of widespread civilian deaths and mutilation... One woman's feet appeared to have been bound..." Paul Quinn-Judge The Boston Globe, 3/4/92 Serdar Argic

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The name is a working name only; quite unofficial. The formal designation is 1993 FW.

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You really belong to the 25-30% of ignorants in USA who don't know what the Holocaust ("Shoa" should be the real word) was. First you write in Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 20:36:20 GMT ^^^^^^^ and later, as somebody informed you about your gross mistake, you write in Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 18:13:51 GMT ^^^^^^^^ instead of Joseph GOEBBELS. And you dare to say that you "know more about Nazi Germany than most people (maybe including "us")" ? I'm sure you learned the history of Nazi Germany AND Austria from your family. Trying to make comparisons between Israels politics and Nazi German- Austrian politics shows only your degree of ignorance (high), intellect (low), humanity (none) and antisemitism (average). I respect anybody who dissagrees with me as long as he respects me and discusses in a civilized manner. I would never say that anybody that critizises Israel and/or its politics is an antisemite, except he uses antisemitic vocabulary/terminology/demagogy. Israel is not a perfect country and its politicians also commits errors, even some of them are corrupt (like politicians in any other country), but they carry a huge burden: to care for the safety of ALL its citizens, and that is really not an easy task in a country that is surrounded by enemies who only expect that Israel commits the ONE BIG ERROR and wipe the country (and its Jewish citizens plus the so-called collaborators, arabs that wanted to live in peace with their Jewish neighbours) of the map. As I said, Israel is not a perfect country, but it is the ONLY democracy in the whole Middle-East and the only country in the world where Jews from everywhere can have a refuge in case of persecutions in the countries they are living. Our long history has taught us that we cannot rely on non-Jewish nations and its governments: as soon as there are more or les big social-economical-political problems in any country, the first ones that pay for the broken glasses are the Jews, and later the other minorities of the country. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is really outrageous: 6.000.000 murdered Jews, besides the thousands who survived the Shoa in some way or another, and the rest of the living ones mourning for all of them ! I don't know what you call a "Civil Libertarian" (never heard about them) but I know only one thing: if all of them think like you do it, then "Civil Libertarians" is a new denomination for Antisemites. May other Civil Libertarians come to word to this group so that we can learn if A.Beyer and me are right (that Civil Libertarians are Antisemites), or that I'm wrong and he is missusing that word. BTW, I couldn't care less for what Andi Beyer appreciates. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manfredo Tichauer M. EMAIL : [email protected] Opitzstrasse 14 VOICE : (++ 49 40) 27.42.27 2000 Hamburg 60 - GERMANY FAX : (++ 49 40) 270.53.09

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# #I'm trying to write some code that lets me draw lines and do rubber-band #boxes in Motif/X. I'm running on an 8-bit display for which I've created a #colormap and am using almost all of the colors. I want to draw the lines #in a drawing area widget -- a widget in which I'm displaying a bitmap using #XPutImage(). If doesn't matter if the lines I draw interactively stay #around when the window is refreshed. # #Currently, to draw interactively, I begin with: # # /* drawIndex is an colortable index I reserve for the Foreground */ # /* my_default_bg_color is the color index for the background of my image */ # palette_colors[drawIndex].red = palette_colors[my_default_bg_color].red; # palette_colors[drawIndex].green = palette_colors[my_default_bg_color].green; # palette_colors[drawIndex].blue = palette_colors[my_default_bg_color].blue; # XStoreColors( myDisplay, my_cmap, &palette_colors[DrawIndex], 1); # XFlush( myDisplay); # # XSetFunction( myDisplay, gc, GXxor); # XSetForeground( myDisplay, gc, drawIndex); # #Then to draw I do: # # XDrawLine( myDisplay, XtWindow( drawingArea1), gc, x1, y1, x2, y2); # XFlush( myDisplay); # #And when I'm all done, to return things to normal I do: # # XSetFunction( myDisplay, gc, GXcopy); # # #What I'd like to happen is for the lines I draw to be the inverse of #whatever I'm drawing over. Instead what happens is I get white lines. If #the lines are over a white background - nothing shows up. If the lines are #over a black area - nothing shows up! It's very strange. But the GXxor #function seems right - since if I do a rubber-banding box, it erases and #redraws itself correctly (ie. not disturbing the underlying image). # #Any suggestions what I'm doing wrong? # I believe for this to work on a color display you must set the foreground of the GC to be (foreground^background). Patrick L. Mahan --- TGV Window Washer ------------------------------- [email protected] ---------

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I think the problem here is that I pretty much ignored the part about the Jews sightseeing for 2000 years, thinking instead that the important part of what the original poster said was the bit about killing Palestinians. In retrospect, I can see how the sightseeing thing would be offensive to many. I originally saw it just as poetic license, but it's understandable that others might see it differently. I still think that Ken came on a bit strong though. I also think that your advice to Masud Khan: #Before you argue with someone like Mr Arromdee, it's a good idea to #do a little homework, or at least think. was unnecessary. Throughout all your articles in this thread there is the tacit assumption that the original poster was exhibiting casual anti-semitism. If I agreed with that, then maybe your speech on why this is bad might have been relevant. But I think you're reading a lot into one flip sentence. While probably not true in this case, too often the charge of anti-semitism gets thrown around in order to stifle legitimate criticism of the state of Israel. Anyway, I'd rather be somewhere else, so I'm outta this thread.

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Melissa, there is a simpler procedure called a "Dorsal slit" that is really the first step of the usual circumcision. It is simpler and quicker, but the pain is about the same as circumcision after the anesthetic wears off and the aesthetic result post healing is not as good. See your friendly urologist for more details. Len Howard .

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: From: [email protected] (Brad Yearwood) : Assume in this case the usual canard-adversary of narcotraficantes. They : probably have more cash than the KGB did, and they're probably more generous : at handing it out. It will be easier than ever to find or cultivate Walkers : and Pollards for the keys, and it will be easy enough to find someone to : reverse-engineer the chip (unless the tamper proofing is damned clever and : effective). If the administration *really* believes big-time drug dealers are the threat (personally I thought it was the CIA and the air force that did all the real drug shipping :-) ) then they *ought* to take this seriously: unlike the KGB, drug dealers can make a most convincing argument for cooperation: "help us and we'll be nice and give you some money, don't help us and we'll start cutting off your favourite body parts" After all, it was probably an argument like that that persuaded Jack Ruby to shoot Oswald in full view of the police. Life in jail probably seems much more preferable to most people than several weeks of something nasty followed by no life at all...

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Anyone have figures or pointers to references about how fast/much car prices have gone up in the last decade?

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I bought this chip from Suncoast Technology and tried to build their dtmf decoder circuit. But it's not working... If anyone has the pinouts and possibly the voltage specs I'd sure appreciated it. If someone could fax, email, or snail mail a copy of the spec sheet for this chip that would be even better. :) Please email me if you can help. Thanks in advance, -- Mont Pierce

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I hate to pour cold water on this, but currently seawater extracted uranium, even using the new, improved fiber absorbers from Japan, is about 20 times more expensive than uranium on the spot market. Uranium is *very* cheap right now, around $10/lb. Right now, there are mines closing because they can't compete with places like Cigar Lake in Canada (where the ore is so rich they present safety hazards to the mines, who work in shielded vehicles). Plenty of other sources (for example, uranium from phosphate processing) would come on line before uranium reached $200/lb. "Demand and supply balance will collapse" is nonsense. Supply and demand always balance; what changes is the price. Is uranium going to increase in price by a factor of 20 by the end of the century? Not bloody likely. New nuclear reactors are not being built at a sufficient rate. Uranium from seawater is interesting, but it's a long term project, or a project that the Japanese might justify on grounds of self-sufficiency.

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Reading newspapers to learn about this kind of stuff is not the best idea in the world. Newspaper reporters are notoriously ignorant on the subject of religion, and are prone to exaggeration in the interests of having a "real" story (that is, a bigger headline). Let's back up to 1935. At this point, we have the Masoretic text, the various targums (translations/commentaries in aramaic, etc.), and the Septuagint, the ancient greek translation. The Masoretic text is the standard Jewish text and essentially does not vary. In some places it has obvious corruptions, all of which are copied faithfully from copy to copy. These passages in the past were interpreted by reference to the targums and to the Septuagint. Now, the septuagint differs from the masoretic text in two particulars: first, it includes additional texts, and second, in some passages there are variant readings from the masoretic text (in addition to "fixing"/predating the various corrupted passages). It must be emphasized that, to the best of my knowledge, these variations are only signifcant to bible scholars, and have little theological import. The dead sea scroll materials add to this an ancient *copy* of almost all of Isaiah and fragments of various sizes of almost all other OT books. There is also an abundance of other material, but as far as I know, there is no sign there of any hebrew antecdent to the apocrypha (the extra texts in the septuagint). As far as analysis has proceeded, there are also variations between the DSS texts and the masoretic versions. These tend to reflect the septuagint, where the latter isn't obviously in error. Again, though, the differences (thus far) are not significant theologically. There is this big expectation that there are great theological surprises lurking in the material, but so far this hasn't happened. The DSS *are* important because there is almost no textual tradition in the OT, unlike for the NT.

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WANTED: Refrigerator.

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DROPLET VOL 1, No 11, Part 1 A D R O P L E T From The Vast Ocean Of The Miraculous Qur'an Translations from the Arabic and Turkish Writings of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, The Risale-i Noor VOL 1, No 11, Part 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ NINETEENTH LETTER MU'JIZAT-I AHMEDIYE RISALESI (A TREATISE ON THE MIRACLES OF MUHAMMAD SAW) (SAW: PEACE AND BLESSINGS BE UPON HIM) In His Name (ALLAH) , Be He (ALLAH) Glorified! There is Nothing But Glorifies His (ALLAH's) Praise. In The Name Of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful "He is who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to make it supreme over all religion: and sufficient is Allah as a Witness. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are firm against the unbelievers and merciful among each other. You will see them bowing and prostrating themselves, seeking Allah's grace and His pleasure. Their mark is on their face the sing of prostrafion; this is their similitude in the Torah and Indgil." [the Our'an 48:28-29] Since the Nineteenth and Thirhy-first Words concerning the mission of Muhammad (SAW) prove his prophethood with decisive evidences, we assign the verification of that subject to those Words. As a supplement to them, we will merely show here in Nineteen Signs, some of the flashes of that great truth. FIRST SIGN: The Owner and Master of this universe does everything with knowledge, disposes every affair with wisdom, directs everything all-seeingly, treats everything all-knowingly, and arranges in everything with His will and wisdom such causes, purposes and uses that are apparent to us. Since the One who creates knows, surely the One who knows will speak, since He will speak, surely He will speak to those who have consciousness, thought, and speech. Since He will speak to those who have thought, surely He will speak to humankind, whose make-up and awareness are more comprehensive of all conscious beings. Since He will speak to humankind, surely He will speak to the most perfect of mankind and those most worthy of address and highest in morality, and who are qualified to guide humanity; then He will certainly speak to Muhammad (SAW), who, as friend and foe alike testify, is of the highest character and morality, and who is obeyed by one fifth of humanity, to whose spiritual rule half of the globe has submitted, with the radiance of whose light has been illumined the future of mankind for thirteen centuries, to whom the believers, the luminous segment of humanity, renew their oath of allegiance five times a day, for whose happiness and peace they pray, for whom they call down Allah's blessings and bear admiration and love in their hearts. Certainly, He will speak to Muhammad (SAW), and Indeed He has done so; He will make him the Messenger, and Indeed He has done so; He will make him the guide for the rest of humanity, and Indeed He has done so.

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I have a CASIO B.O.S.S. SF-9500 Digital Dairy/organizer for sale. The unit has 64 kb with the expansion card slot. Very good condition. Asking $110.00 plus shipping.

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I want to be able to take a bunch of home-made songs (from DAT or other suitable master) and output them to a short run (10-20 off) of standard music CDs. Would one of the CD recorders designed for writeable CD ROMs work for this purpose? Alternatively, is there a service that does this sort of thing for a fee? I'm after as much information as possible on the alternatives (cost, lead time, equipment required, procedure to follow, etc.) Email replies would be appreciated.

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Unfortunately your phrasing is ambiguous. Re-writing more carefully, we have (at least) two possibilities. The first: Things called "Mercedes" are cars That girl is called "Mercedes" Therefore that girl is a car That is entirely valid as a piece of logical deduction. It is not sound, because the first statement is false. Similarly, I would hold that Jim's example is valid but not sound. Another possible interpretation of what you wrote is: There exists at least one car called "Mercedes" That girl is called "Mercedes" Therefore that girl is a car -- which isn't valid.

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NUT CASE PANICS!!!!REALIZES HE'S MADE A COMPLETE FOOL OF HIMSELF IN FRONT OF THOUSANDS OF NETTERS!!!!BACKS AWAY FROM EARLIER RASH STATEMENTS!!!!GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIM!!!!

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Yah. So? He certainly didn't earn his last one. *HOW* many games did he blow in the World Series? All of the ones he started? Oh, yes. Definitely. Therefore Morris is better than Clemens. Don't give me that shit. If Boston had Alomar, Olerud, Henke, and Ward while Toronto had Rivera, Jack Clark, Jeff Reardon, things would have looked a little different last fall. Give credit where credit is due. This lavishing of praise on Morris makes me sick. I'm willing to bet they don't finish sixth. I'm also willing to bet they don't finish first. And if you give me 3-2 odds, I'm willing to bet that they finish ahead of the Blue Jays.

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Archive-name: cryptography-faq/part02 Last-modified: 1993/4/15 FAQ for sci.crypt, part 2: Net Etiquette This is the second of ten parts of the sci.crypt FAQ. The parts are mostly independent, but you should read the first part before the rest. We don't have the time to send out missing parts by mail, so don't ask. Notes such as ``[KAH67]'' refer to the reference list in the last part. The sections of this FAQ are available via anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu as /pub/usenet/news.answers/cryptography-faq/part[xx]. The Cryptography FAQ is posted to the newsgroups sci.crypt, sci.answers, and news.answers every 21 days. Contents: * What groups are around? What's a FAQ? Who am I? Why am I here? * Do political discussions belong in sci.crypt? * How do I present a new encryption scheme in sci.crypt? * What groups are around? What's a FAQ? Who am I? Why am I here? Read news.announce.newusers and news.answers for a few weeks. Always make sure to read a newsgroup for some time before you post to it. You'll be amazed how often the same question can be asked in the same newsgroup. After a month you'll have a much better sense of what the readers want to see. * Do political discussions belong in sci.crypt? No. In fact some newsgroups (notably misc.legal.computing) were created exactly so that political questions like ``Should RSA be patented?'' don't get in the way of technical discussions. Many sci.crypt readers also read misc.legal.computing, comp.org.eff.talk, comp.patents, sci.math, comp.compression, et al.; for the benefit of people who don't care about those other topics, try to put your postings in the right group. Questions about microfilm and smuggling and other non-cryptographic ``spy stuff'' don't belong in sci.crypt either. * How do I present a new encryption scheme in sci.crypt? ``I just came up with this neat method of encryption. Here's some ciphertext: FHDSIJOYW^&%$*#@OGBUJHKFSYUIRE. Is it strong?'' Without a doubt questions like this are the most annoying traffic on sci.crypt. If you have come up with an encryption scheme, providing some ciphertext from it is not adequate. Nobody has ever been impressed by random gibberish. Any new algorithm should be secure even if the opponent knows the full algorithm (including how any message key is distributed) and only the private key is kept secret. There are some systematic and unsystematic ways to take reasonably long ciphertexts and decrypt them even without prior knowledge of the algorithm, but this is a time-consuming and possibly fruitless exercise which most sci.crypt readers won't bother with. So what do you do if you have a new encryption scheme? First of all, find out if it's really new. Look through this FAQ for references and related methods. Familiarize yourself with the literature and the introductory textbooks. When you can appreciate how your cryptosystem fits into the world at large, try to break it yourself! You shouldn't waste the time of tens of thousands of readers asking a question which you could have easily answered on your own. If you really think your system is secure, and you want to get some reassurance from experts, you might try posting full details of your system, including working code and a solid theoretical explanation, to sci.crypt. (Keep in mind that the export of cryptography is regulated in some areas.) If you're lucky an expert might take some interest in what you posted. You can encourage this by offering cash rewards---for instance, noted cryptographer Ralph Merkle is offering $1000 to anyone who can break Snefru-4---but there are no guarantees. If you don't have enough experience, then most likely any experts who look at your system will be able to find a flaw. If this happens, it's your responsibility to consider the flaw and learn from it, rather than just add one more layer of complication and come back for another round. A different way to get your cryptosystem reviewed is to have the NSA look at it. A full discussion of this procedure is outside the scope of this FAQ.

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My wife has one of these. I have not had much chance to fiddle with it, but in comparison to our Laserwriters with Canon engines, she complains that the print is too light for her taste. The difference is quite apparent even when the print setting on the Select 310 is adjusted to the darkest possible level. I don't find it objectionable, and indeed rather like it, but be warned that some people don't care for it and it is considerably different.

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Not too hard to remember, I bought a GS1000 new in '78. :-) It was 3rd place in the '78 speed wars (behind the CBX & XS Eleven) with a 11.8 @ 113 1/4 mile, and 75 horses. That wouldn't even make a good 600 these days. Then again, I paid $2800 for it, so technology isn't the only thing that's changed. Of course I'd still rather ride the old GS across three states than any of the 600's. I guess it's an indication of how much things have changed that a 12 second 400 didn't seem too far out of line.

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But, the goal need not be a subjective one. For instance, the goal of natural morality is the propogation of a species, perhaps. It wasn't really until the more intelligent animals came along that some revisions to this were necessary. Intelligent animals have different needs than the others, and hence a morality suited to them must be a bit more complicated than "the law of the jungle." I don't think that self-actualization is so subjective as you might think. And, by objectivity, I am assuming that the ideals of any such system could be carried out completely.

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Hey, it's better than the status quo. I am far less worried about "the feds" tapping my phone than high school scanner surfers who get their kicks out of eavesdropping on cellular and cordless phone calls. It would be stupid to rely on even a "Clipperized" channel for truly sensitive material, but it *does* seem to finally offer a reasonable way to guard against casual eavesdropping. For example, even with my strong "right to bear arms" view of the private right to possess and use strong cryptosystems, the system as described provides enough security that I would actually buy a cordless phone, and would be much less wary of using cellular phones, walkie-talkies, and so on. As long as it's only used for mass-market voice scrambling, I actually don't see a problem with it. If you want more security than it offers, use something different. Use PKCS for electronic mail, CELP over DES or triple DES with Diffie-Hellman key exchange for your voice traffic, or whatever. And yes, I'd rather just see all crypto restrictions lifted, but this is at least an incrememental improvement for certain applications...

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Unfortunately, Hep B infection can eventuate in chronic hepatitis and subsequent cirrhosis. Although not many patients with Hep B go on to chronic hepatitis, it does still occur in a good number (20%?) and is something to keep in mind. Hepatitis C (was: non-A, non-B Hep) much more frequently leads to chronic hep and cirrhosis. There is also an autimmune chronic hepatitis that affects mostly younger women which also leads to cirrhosis. Of course, cirrhosis is a most unkind disease. The most dangerous effects relate to portal hypertension and loss of liver function. Patients develop life-threatening variceal bleeds and hepatic comas, among many other problems, as a result of disturbances in hepatic circulation. Less ominously, they can exhibit the effects of hyperestrogenemia which often characterize patients with cirrhosis. These effects include telangiactasias (small red skin lesions) and, in men, gynecomastia (breast development). The only real treatment for cirrhosis is liver transplant. Keep in mind that cirrhosis is not expected, at least statistically, in your friend's case. Nevertheless you might want to bring up the subject of chronic disease and cirrhosis with the doctor. Hopefully he or she can then carefully explain these sequelae of Hep B infection to you, and offer you support.

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: What are the Leafs to do? I am a Leaf supporter and : I say the Leafs are going down in four unless there : is nothing short of a miracle or a stroke of genenius hits Root for another team. ;-) : Andreychuck and Borchevsky have no business playing against : the Wings. They are too small. The key to any Leafs success : will have to be Clark. He is the only centre who can have .. Andreychuk, is NOT small, slow and sloth-like, maybe, but he is about 6'4" and that is not what I would consider as small. As an aside, The big AndreyCHUNK as I call him has been known to disappear come playoff time. This was one of his main problems when playing for Buffalo. : GO LEAFS !!! GO SABRES !!!

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Suppose you have an idle app with a realized and mapped Window that contains Xlib graphics. A button widget, when pressed, will cause a new item to be drawn in the Window. This action clearly should not call XCopyArea() (or equiv) directly; instead, it should register the existence of the new item in a memory structure and let the expose event handler take care of rendering the image because at that time it is guaranteed that the Window is mapped.

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I wrote... and it has since turned out that all the mirror sites I looked at were fooled by a restructuring at the original site - zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu - and hence were in a mess. That and a pointer to 'imconv' should get me started. Ta muchly. Cheers Markus

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Graham E. Thomas, [email protected] sighting. I can top that one. Friday afternoon 4-16-93 I look out my window in Long Beach CA. What do I see but the new Ferrari. I looks like a mix between the ragtop testarossa (sp?) and the batman car. It seems Ferrari had their Annual dinner at the place downstairs. Sweet car.

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: Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation : who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. : Then you'd see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin : to be developed. THere'd be a different kind of space race then! I'm an advocate of this idea for funding Space Station work, and I throw around the $1 billion figure for that "reward." I suggest that you increase the Lunar reward to about $3 billion. This would encourage private industry to invest in space, which should be one of NASA's primary goals. -- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office [email protected] (713) 483-4368

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In an earlier article, I explained that what many people find arrogant about Christians is that some Christians profess absolute certianty about their beliefs and doctrines. That is, many Christians insist that they CANNOT have made any mistakes when discovering their beliefs, which amounts to saying that they are infallible. Impicitly claiming to be infallible is pretty arrogant, most of us will probably agree. In short, the problem is that no matter how good your sources are, if any part of your doctrines or beliefs rest on your own thinking and reasoning, then those doctrines are suspect. So long as your own brain is involved, there is a possibility for error. I summarised the problem by writing "There is no way out of the loop." Someone called `REXLEX' has claimed that there IS a way out of the loop, but he did not bother to explain what it was, preferring instead to paraphrase Sartre, ramble about Wittgenstein, and say that the conclusion of my argument leads to relativism. As I have explained to him before, you cannot reject an argument as false because you dislike where it leads: the facts do not change just because However, as any first-year philosophy student can explain, what `REXLEX' has written does not constitute a refutation. All he has said is that he does not like what I wrote -- he has done nothing at all to dispute it. * There were two sentences in `REXLEX's post that seemed relevant to the point at hand: I do not dispute that some truths can be verified through experience. I have, for example, direct experience of adding numbers. I don't claim to be infallible at it -- in fact I remember doing sums incorrectly -- but I do claim that I have direct experience of reasoning about numbers. However, once we go past experiencing things and start reasoning about them, we are on much shakier ground. That was the point of the earlier article. Human brains are infested with sin, and they can only be trusted in very limited circumstances. But how far does that get you? Once God's revelation stops, and your own reasoning begins, possibility for error appears. For example, let's suppose that our modern Bible translations include a perfect rendering of Jesus words at the Last Supper, and that Jesus said, exactly, "This is my body." We'll presume that what he said was totally without error and absolutely true. What can we be certain of? Not much. At the moment he stops speaking, and people start interpreting, the possibility of error appears. Did he mean that literally or not? We do not have any record that he elaborated on the words. Was he thinking of Tran- or Con- substatiation? He didn't say. We interpret this passage using our brains; we think and reason and draw conclusions. But we know that our brains are not perfect: our thinking often leads us wrong. (This is something that most of us have direct experience of. 8-) Why should anyone believe that his reasoning -- which he knows to be fallible -- can lead him to perfect conclusions? So, given the assumptions in this example, what we can be certain of is that Jesus said "This is my body." Beyond that, once we start making up doctrines and using our brains to reason about what Christ revealed, we get into trouble. Unless you are infallible, there are very few things you can be certain of. To the extent that doctrines rely on fallible human thinking, they cannot be certain. That is the problem of seeming arrogant. The non-Christians around us know that human beings make mistakes, just as surely as we know it. They do not believe we are infallible, any more than we do. When Christians speak as if they believe their own reasoning can never lead them astray -- when we implicitly claim that we are infallible -- the non- Christians around us rarely believe that implicit claim. Witnessing is hardly going to work when the person you are talking to believes that you are either too foolish to recognise your own limits, or intentionally trying to cover them up. I think it would be far better to say what things we are certain of and what things we are only "very confident" of. For example, we might say that we know our sin, for recognising sin is something we directly experience. But other things, whether based on reasoning from Scripture or extra-Biblical thinking, should not be labled as infallible: we should say that we are very confident of them, and be ready to explain our reasoning. But, so far as I am aware, none of us is infallible -- speaking or acting as if our thinking is flawless is ridiculous. * `REXLEX' suggested that people read _He is There and He is Not Silent_, by Francis Schaeffer. I didn't think very highly of it, but I think that Mr Schaeffer is grossly overrated by many Evangelical Christians. Somebody else might like it, though, so don't let my opinion stop you from reading it. If someone is interested in my opinion, I'd suggest _On Certainty_, by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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I'm not surprised that you see no wisdom in them. That is because your premises are wrong from the word "Go". You claim that Christianity is based on blind faith, but this simply is not so. Just look at the current thread on the evidence for Jesus' resurrection for evidence that Jesus was real and that he triumphed over death. Furthermore, you say that Christians hold to their beliefs "regardless of any evidence that you may find to the contrary." Without any evidence to support your claim, this statement is little more than an ad hominem argument. Mind you, I don't mean this as a personal attack. I'm merely pointing out the intellectual dishonesty behind condemning Christianity in this fashion. It would make much more sense if you could prove that all Christians do base their belief on empty nothings, and that they do ignore all evidence to the contrary. Only then can you expect your attack to make sense.

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The 5426 has its own set of drivers. You may be using the drivers intended for the 5420 or 5422 by mistake. Be sure you have the 5426 driver version 1.2 Don't quote me on this one, but I'd steer clear of the multi resolution driver that allows you to change resolution without exiting Windows. I think it's buggy. Version 1.3 drivers are due to be release by Cirrus soon. Unfortunately, their not available via FTP, you have to dial up their BBS in the USA. I do this from NZ using a 14.4k modem to cut down on phone bills. It took me around 7 minutes to download the v1.2 driver. Good Luck,

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How long has Don Cherry been a student at SFU? (or is that Arche Bunker?) Please, keep this racist drivel off of the net. You're an embarassment to Canadians everywhere.

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Let us not forget the Nazi Armenians. Nazi Armenians were of service to Germans in Arab countries as well. As Uzun put it, one well-known case which received a lot of media-coverage involved two Nazi Armenian agents which were dropped over Syria by Italian war planes. The mission of the agents was to mingle among the Armenian population in Syria and to acquire relevant information for the German Wehrmacht on the allied forces in the area.[1] Nazi Armenians also helped German propaganda efforts in Arab countries designed to promote pro-Nazi sentiments among the French- and British-ruled Arab populations. Beirut had traditionally been strong-hold of the Nazi Armenians and until very recently it was the center of international Armenian terrorism. In Russia General Dro (the Butcher), the architect of the Turkish genocide in WWI, was working closely with the German Secret Service. He entered the war zone with his own men and acquired important intelligence about the Soviets. His experience with the Turkish genocide in x-Soviet Armenia made him an invaluable source for the Germans.[2] [1] Meyer, Berkian, ibid., p. 150. [2] Meyer, Berkian, ibid., p. 113; Patrick von zur Muehlen, ibid., p. 84. Serdar Argic

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Please get a REAL life.

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Hi! Anyone know anything about the Interdisciplinary Bible Research Institute, operating out of Hatfield, Pa? I'm really interested in their theories on old-earth (as opposed to young earth) and what they believe about evolution. Thanks, In the Master, Charley. -- Seek God and you will find, among other things, piercing pleasure. Seek pleasure and you will find boredom, disillusionment and enslavement. John White (Eros Defiled).

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If the heading is true, Mr. Frank should be ashamed of himself. Nothing makes me gag more than people who don't respect the rights of others to voice their opinions. My idol Lenny Bruce once commented about "that asshole Time Magazine" when they advocated censorship of his material. Time actually sided with the cops' and their arresting of Bruce at his shows, whereby he routinely would say "cocksucker", then the cops would rush the stage to arrest him. My, how the times haven't changed... I can't help but think of how Lenny would be received in today's politically correct arena. Heck, I even support the right of neo nazis to speak their opinions and march down the streets. And before Mr. Frank or anyone else makes any wisecracks about anti-Semitism...I'm Jewish, a longtime member of AIPAC and the JNF, and have contributed over $1000 apiece to these fine groups. I'm a regular contributor to every pro-Israel group I can find, but I still support the right of people like Arf to speak up and vomit his propaganda. I want to know just WHO these people are !!! I'm basing all this on the assumption that Mr. Frank did indeed write to some sysadmin requesting Mr. Teel to be admonished. If this is not the case, I hereby retract these nasties directed toward him. If not, I stand against Mr. Frank and his trashing of the First Amendment.

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Today's atrocity in Waco has finally impelled me to start working on something I've been thinking about for some time. Over the last few years I have heard of one case after another of government running completely amok. Unfortunately, most people are oblivious of the government's crimes and still think of it as their protector. So I intend to put together what I call the "American Horror File": a compilation of cases where the American government has run roughshod over the rights of its citizens over the last few years, focusing especially on deaths and injuries resulting from no-knock warrants, and financial ruin to innocents resulting from civil forfeiture laws, but including any other cases for which I can find decent documentation. I hope to make people blood-boiling, artery-bursting, red-hot enraged at their government. The end result will probably be a book in electronic form (ASCII text and postscript files) detailing the government's crimes of recent years. This book will be distributed at cost, and I will encourage people to post copies to BBS's, send copies on disk to friends, and print out copies and give them to neighbors. This is a call for your help. Any information that you can send me on how government is running amok will be greatly appreciated. I would prefer information that is well-documented, with sources given, about specific instances of governmental abuses. I also welcome anyone who wants to join me in collecting and researching information for this project.

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Whether a scientific idea comes while one is staring out the window, or dreaming, or having a fantasy, or watching an apple fall (Newton), or sitting in a bath (Archimedes) ... it is ultimately the result of a lot of intense scientific thinking done beforehand. Letting one's mind roam freely and giving rein to one's intuition can be a useful way of coming up with new ideas, but only when one has done a lot of rational analysis of the problem first. Scientific intuition is not something one is born with. It is something that one learns. Maybe we don't understand completely how it is learned, but training in systematic scientific thinking is certainly one of the key elements in developing it. Informal exploration is also often an important element in finding new scientific ideas. One thinks, for instance, of Darwin's naturalistic studies in the Galapagos islands, which led him to the ideas for the theory of evolution. This is why I am offended by a definition of science that emphasizes empirical verification and does not recognize thinking and informal exploration as important scientific work. I agree that mere speculation does not deserve to be called science. I also think that mere empirical studies not directed by good scientific thinking are at best a very poor kind of science. I don't think that science should be defined in a way that some of the activities that lead to really important science --- namely thinking and informal exploration --- are not recognized as scientific work. -- In the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems less like a science than a collection of competing religious sects.

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Mr. water-head, i never said that israel diverted lebanese rivers, in fact i said that israel went into southern lebanon to make sure that no water is being used on the lebanese side, so that all water would run into Jordan river where there israel will use it !#$%^%&&*-head.

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Why would you want to do that? The goal is to do it cheaper (remember, this isn't government). Instead of leasing an expensive launch pad, just use a SSTO and launch from a much cheaper facility. Allen

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[email protected] suggests using a common but restricted-distribution private key to allow public key system encrypted postings. In theory that will work fine as long as the privae key remains secure. In practice it would be a good idea to check to see if that would be a violation of some net rule, practice, custom, etc. I don't say it would be, just that it would be a good idea to check. This is not like rot13 where everybody can have the key trivially. It would also be a good idea to check to see if such posts would be forwarded by the sites needed to make the chain work. Of course there'd be no problem with a discussion group travelling over facilities entirely under the control of the members. Probably there would also be no problem with a mailing list approach. It might even be fun for some.

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(Atheist drivel deleted . . .) Untitled ======== A seed is such a miraculous thing, It can sit on a shelf forever. But how it knows what to do, when it's stuck in the ground, Is what makes it so clever. It draws nutrients from the soil through it's roots, And gathers its force from the sun It puts forth a whole lot of blossoms and fruit, Then recedes itself when it is done. Who programmed the seed to know just what to do? And who put the sun in the sky? And who put the food in the dirt for the roots? And who told the bees to come by? And who makes the water to fall from above, To refresh and make everything pure? Perhaps all of this is a product of love, And perhaps it happened by chance. Yeah, sure. -Johnny Hart, cartoonist for _B.C._

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Being a big fan of the official IBM keyboards, I have a PS/2 keyboard attached to my clone computer. I want to know if there is a software utility out there that can be used to switch the locations of the ctrl and cap locks keys. Even better, does IBM or any third party make ctrl and cap lock key replacements that can be used to visually switch the keys as well?

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I didn't mean to offend or anything, I'm just quoting Stanky himself on the subject. I remember one time last year he was being interviewed by ESPN, and the interviewer (can't remember who), asked Stanky if he was Jewish because he (the interviewer) was Jewish and wanted to see more Jewish ballplayers. To which Stanky replied, "I'm Polish, not Jewish." So maybe that wasn't the most PC thing for Stanky to say, and maybe I was a little naive when I posted it. I think we should just devote this subject to finding actual Jewish ballplayers (I myself am Jewish and the only ones I ever knew until now were Koufax, Greenberg, and Blomberg).

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: Currently, I use a shareware program called Graphics Workshop. : What kinds of things will Hijaak do that these shareware programs : will not do? I also use Graphic Workshop and the only differences that I know of are that Hijaak has screen capture capabilities and acn convert to/from a couple of more file formats (don't know specifically which one). In the April 13 issue of PC Magazine they test the twelve best selling image capture/convert utilities, including Hijaak.

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I understand there have been a couple of raves in LA billing themselves as "Virtual Reality" parties. What I hear they do is project .GIF images around on the walls, as well as run animations through a Newtek Toaster. Seems like we need to adopt the term Really Virtual Reality or something, except for the non-immersive stuff which is Virtually Really Virtual Reality. etc. ___Samuel___

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Yes, it was Nixon who was most vocal about giving money to Russia. It makes me proud to be a libertarian. It appears both conservatives and liberals prefer to cold war until you win, then nurse the enemy back to health for another go around. It's like subsidizing the wealthy countries (Japan, Germany, etc.) with free defense, and then trade-warring with them because of the economic competition. It's like subsidizing tobacco farmers while paying bureaucrats to pursuade people not to smoke. I ask myself, what law could we pass to prevent government from doing stupid, frivilous things with OUR money? Then I think, the Constitution was supposed to do that. Could someone please tell me what legitimate constitutional power the federal government is using when it takes money from my paycheck and gives it to needy countries? Seriously. Roger Collins

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I found it very interesting that Atlas depended on pressure to maintain tank geometry....leads me to the question: ? have any of the SSTO concepts explored pressurized tankage such that the launch configuration would be significantly different from the reentry one? I have long been facinated by pnumatic structures as conceived and built by Frei Otto and others, a "ballon" tank SSTO sounds very clever.

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Actually, this part was really interesting. It turns out that the mask is custom-fit to the goalie's face. The goalie puts his/her face through a piece of wood (or was it plastic?) with a hole in it that allows only the face and forehead to show. Hair is covered by a cap, eyes are covered by a plastic wrap-type material, and vaseline is put on the goaltender's face. Then, a plaster is spread on their cheeks, forehead, and chin which takes about 12 minutes to dry sufficiently. When it dries, it is effectively a mold of the goalie's face. This is used as the basis of the mask (the rest involves padding the inside, hardening the exterior, fitting the cage, etc. etc. John Blue of the Bruins actually demonstrated the procedure on the show. Yeah, Essensa's mask looked really good. Actually, I thought I heard him say that it _was_ Potvin's for certain. I would bet money on it either way...and it did look awesome!

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[stuff about autobahn and safety of sho at speed deleted] The Mustang is a much worse case of design irresponsibility than the SHO. Its hard to predicatbaly drift a stock Mustang because of the suspension. Yes. When i think Mustang, I think school-bus + F16 motor. In my mind the Mustang should be fitted with a speed limiter at 80-90 or so. It just isn't safe, check out your local junkyard, Mustangs outnumber other cars by a proportion way in excess of sales in junkyards. I find it astonishing the CU or somesuchlike has not jumped on the Mustang for poor brakes in relation to power. Ford should at least standardize on the SVO rear brakes for all 5.0's. True of Northern Europe, latin countries are something else. Kindof true. remember they were build by adolf in the '30's. Yes. "Autobahn" is the german word for freeway. Other countries have different names for loose equivalents; autostrada, autoroute, motorway etc. Europe did seem on the brink of a 130kmh limit. It hasn't passed as far as I know. typical speeds in western europe are much higher than the US. Law enforcement is negligible in my experience (comapred to the US) as there is no revenue enhancement motivation. The things you really notice are the higher speed differentials, and the more professional attitude to driving. You just never see two cars running parallel at 55.1 mph oblivious to all around them. You're wrong. GTI's go this fast. Just kind of noisy, not the ideal autobahn car. A lot of times you see cars being driven with the drivers foot on the floor. How do I know? - when you're not making any ground on the identical car in front of you! If something happens at 130-150 you're dead, but the same goes for much over 35. Driving at high speed forces you to concentrate. I feel much safer driving 130+ on the autobahn than 60-80 in typical US traffic because most people seem to be awake. I've never seen any driver reading a book on an autobahn, I see it all too often in the US. Craig It just doesn't *seem* fast after 30 minutes or so of aclimation. everybody drives that fast, no big deal.

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I would recommend "Essential Truthes of the Christian Faith" by RC Sproul. It is copywrited 1992 from Tyndale House Publishers. Sproul offers concise explanations, in simple language, of around 100 different Christian doctrines, grouped by subject. I think it would be particularly good for newer Christians (and older Christians suffering spiritual malnutrition), as it gives a Biblically sound basic treatment of the issues, avoiding long in-depth analysis that can wait until after you know the basics.

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You may have to define your serial ports under windows (I think it's the Control Panel, PORTS options..) Mattias

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I've been running a daily summary of the Randy Weaver/Kevin Harris trial from here in Boise. These summaries are sent primarily to mailing lists. However, I was wondering if people would be interested in seeing them here. Post or email. Drew

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Well, there is a fair amount of evidence floating around that indicates that OTO has been around since at least the late 1800s, long before Crowley ever heard of it, how long has AMORC been around? (yes, I know that they claim to have existed as an organization clear into prehistory, but I doubt that they have any organizational paperwork as a non-profit that can be carbon-dated to 20,000 BC) A.Lizard

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I only have one comment on this: You call this a *classic* playoff year and yet you don't include a Chicago-Detroit series. C'mon, I'm a Boston fan and I even realize that Chicago-Detroit games are THE most exciting games to watch.

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Well, I also have an LC III. Popping the top revealed: One "socket" for an additional VRAM SIMM One "socket" for a 72-pin RAM SIMM One socket for a flat-pack FPU A processor-direct slot (PDS) identical to the LC/LC II, but with an additional set of connetions to one side (for the full 32-bit data path that the LC/LC II lacked That's it. I guess a board with a PowerPC chip could be made that would fit in the PDS, but that's the only place.

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Every time you read about a shuttle landing they mention the double sonic booms. Having taken various relevant classes, I have several ideas of where they come from, but none of them are very convincing. Exactly what causes them? Are they a one time pheneomenon, or a constant one like the supersonic shockwave that is constantly produced by a plane, but you hear only when it goes over you? --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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I'm really surprised Clinton hasn't already tried to do this. He seems to want to tackle other irrelevant issues first, so why not this one as well. Wrong. We need its capability. Sure it has its problems, very few airplanes haven't, but getting rid of something we need is not the answer. What do you want to do, start over a rebuild a new airplane from scatch? It'll have its problems as well and there will be calls again, for it to be scrapped. THe other option is to try to extend the life of the C-5s and C-141s that are getting extremely old. It'll cost jobs, but I'm for it. We especially don't need a B-2. THe SSN-21, I know litttle about.

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