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Tickets midweek are now down to $34. They will be $25 starting last week in April, or maybe first week in May. By the way, the current conditions (was there Apr 12-13) are great for spring skiing, with excellent coverage, most stuff open, and no lift lines.

misc.forsale

Sjogren's syndrome has been known to induce dryness in vaginal tissue as well as induce primary biliary cirrhosis. Otherwise the abdominal swelling could be due to a complication of Sjogren's known as pseudolymphoma which *can* produce a splenomegaly (enlarged spleen). She should definitely see a rheumatologist. Since you don't mention skin disorder, anemia, or joint pain you'd probably rule out erythema nodosum or scleroderma. Josh backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL

sci.med

Okay all my friends are bitching at me that the map I made in Appsoft Draw can't be displayed in "xv"... I checked... It's true, at least with version 1.0. My readers on the NeXT have very little trouble on it (Preview messes up the .eps, but does fine with the TIFF and ImageViewer0.9a behaves with flying colors except it doesn't convert worth *&^^% ;-) ) Please is there any way I can convert this .drw from Appsoft 1.0 on the NeXT to something more reasonable like .gif? I have access to a sun4 and NeXTstep 3.0 systems. any good reliable conversion programs would be helpful... please email, I'll post responses if anyone wants me to... please email that to. Yes I used alphachannel... (god i could choke steve jobs right now ;-) ) Yes i know how to archie, but tell me what to archie for ;-) Also is there a way to convert to .ps plain format? ImageViiewer0.9 turns out nothing recognizable.... terrychay --- small editorial -rw-r--r-- 1 tychay 2908404 Apr 18 08:03 Undernet.tiff -rw-r--r-- 1 tychay 73525 Apr 18 08:03 Undernet.tiff.Z

comp.graphics

I found a Mopar spec sheet this weekend: model wgt hp Stealth 3086 164 Stealth ES 3186 222 Stealth RT 3373 222 Stealth RT TT 3803 300 Okay, I'll take "their" word for it. Seems that the 1993 Mustang 5.0 is rated at 205 hp ONLY because Ford changed its testing procedures. Under the older procedures, it still rates closer to 225 hp. That means that the Mustang has 3 hp more. And you still haven't posted any weight figures for the Mustang. Yeah, sure, in your wet dreams. And that's probably where you got that 11.2 second 0-60 for the Stealth. For 3 posts now you've been harping on this May 1991 issue of Car & Driver without posting any numbers. Why not? Because they prove me right and you ain't got the guts to admit it? Yeah, thought so. No, I'm going to play your game - No way, Sentra's are SLOW! I took a test drive and it took 21.7 to go 0-50! Why, even the Hyundai Excel blows it doors off. Any 12 yr old knows that! I race and I'll kick your butt! blah, blah, blah... Let's see ... yep, that sounds just like you. Oh man, I just got it! Beavis & Butthead - that's you! I dunno, why did you? But why would someone pick the Dodge Stealth RT over the Nissan Sentra? All it takes is one look.

rec.autos

As quoted from <C5J5IM.3C9@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> by rats@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Morris the Cat): If anybody wanted proof of the nonsense of the "you can't build guns" claim, they need look no farther than the Philippines. Amateur gunsmiths there regularly produce everything from .45 automatics to full auto shotguns. Now if this guy wants to claim that the Philippines is either technologically superior to the US or that their transportation is better than ours, all I can say is that he's living in a fantasy world.

talk.politics.guns

Sounds similar to something Wally Schirra said.

sci.space

Which listsev was this and is the discussion still current? My questioning is based on some information presented from the Essene NT that challenges some of my eating choices. As the info came from a biased (opposed to my preferences) third party I am looking for info as to whether I should dismiss this work or put some consideration into it. Thanks again for info!

soc.religion.christian

Why not? This is rather disappointing...

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

New Jersey 1 0 2--3 Pittsburgh 2 3 1--6 First period 1, Pittsburgh, Tocchet 1 (Stevens, Lemieux) pp, 1:40. 2, New Jersey, Barr 1 (Guerin, Holik) 6:24. 3, Pittsburgh, Lemieux 1 (Jagr, Ramsey) 9:33. Second period 4, Pittsburgh, Lemieux 2 (Stevens, Murphy) pp, 4:11. 5, Pittsburgh, Francis 1 (Ramsey, Mullen) 12:57. 6, Pittsburgh, Tippett 1 (Jagr, McEachern) 17:13. Third period 7, Pittsburgh, Jagr 1 (Samuelsson, Lemieux) pp, 8:35. 8, New Jersey, Stevens 1 (Niedermayer, Driver) pp, 11:48. 9, New Jersey, Stevens 2 (Semak, Niedermayer) 18:56. Pittsburgh: 6 Power play: 8-3 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Francis 1 0 1 Jagr 1 2 3 Lemieux 2 2 4 McEachern 0 1 1 Mullen 0 1 1 Murphy 0 1 1 Ramsey 0 2 2 Samuelsson 0 1 1 Stevens 0 2 2 Tippett 1 0 1 Tocchet 1 0 1 New Jersey: 3 Power play: 8-1 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Barr 1 0 1 Driver 0 1 1 Guerin 0 1 1 Holik 0 1 1 Niedermayer 0 2 2 Semak 0 1 1 Stevens 2 0 2 ----------------------------------------- St Louis 0 2 2--4 Chicago 1 2 0--3 First period 1, Chicago, Noonan 1 (Larmer, Brown) 8:17. Second period 2, St Louis, Brown 1 (Shanahan, Emerson) 3:12. 3, Chicago, Noonan 2 (Roenick, Chelios) pp, 5:40. 4, Chicago, Noonan 3 (Matteau, Sutter) 8:51. 5, St Louis, Felsner 1 (McRae, Janney) 12:49. Third period 6, St Louis, Shanahan 1 (Brown, Hull) pp, 11:12. 7, St Louis, Hull 1 (Emerson, Brown) pp, 11:29. St Louis: 4 Power play: 4-2 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Brown 1 2 3 Emerson 0 2 2 Felsner 1 0 1 Hull 1 1 2 Janney 0 1 1 McRae 0 1 1 Shanahan 1 1 2 Chicago: 3 Power play: 7-1 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Brown 0 1 1 Chelios 0 1 1 Larmer 0 1 1 Matteau 0 1 1 Noonan 3 0 3 Roenick 0 1 1 Sutter 0 1 1 ----------------------------------------- Los Angeles 1 3 2--6 Calgary 0 1 2--3 First period 1, Los Angeles, Sydor 1 (Gretzky, Sandstrom) 0:16. Second period 2, Calgary, Suter 1 (Fleury) sh, 2:48. 3, Los Angeles, Carson 1 (Shuchuk, Sydor) pp, 3:13. 4, Los Angeles, Huddy 1 (Taylor, Rychel) 3:37. 5, Los Angeles, McSorley 1 (unassisted) 6:36. Third period 6, Los Angeles, Millen 1 (Granato, Donnelly) 1:06. 7, Calgary, Dahlquist 1 (Otto) 4:23. 8, Calgary, Yawney 1 (MacInnis, Reichel) 8:47. 9, Los Angeles, Carson 2 (Sandstrom, Robitaille) pp, 10:32. Los Angeles: 6 Power play: 10-2 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Carson 2 0 2 Donnelly 0 1 1 Granato 0 1 1 Gretzky 0 1 1 Huddy 1 0 1 McSorley 1 0 1 Millen 1 0 1 Robitaille 0 1 1 Rychel 0 1 1 Sandstrom 0 2 2 Shuchuk 0 1 1 Sydor 1 1 2 Taylor 0 1 1 Calgary: 3 Power play: 8-0 Special goals: sh: 1 Total: 1 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Dahlquist 1 0 1 Fleury 0 1 1 MacInnis 0 1 1 Otto 0 1 1 Reichel 0 1 1 Suter 1 0 1 Yawney 1 0 1 ----------------------------------------- First period 1, NY Islanders, Ferraro 1 (Flatley, Vaske) 5:56. Second period No scoring. Third period 2, Washington, Hunter 1 (Elynuik, Krygier) 3:18. 3, Washington, Hunter 2 (Khristich, Johansson) pp, 7:01. 4, Washington, Khristich 1 (Pivonka, Johansson) pp, 15:25. Washington: 3 Power play: 5-2 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Elynuik 0 1 1 Hunter 2 0 2 Johansson 0 2 2 Khristich 1 1 2 Krygier 0 1 1 Pivonka 0 1 1 NY Islanders: 1 Power play: 5-0 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Ferraro 1 0 1 Flatley 0 1 1 Vaske 0 1 1 ----------------------------------------- Buffalo 2 1 1 1--5 Boston 0 2 2 0--4 First period 1, Buffalo, Hannan 1 (unassisted) 2:32. 2, Buffalo, LaFontaine 1 (Mogilny) 9:26. Second period 3, Boston, Juneau 1 (Neely, Oates) pp, 7:20. 4, Boston, Neely 1 (Oates, Juneau) 14:42. 5, Buffalo, Mogilny 1 (Hawerchuk, Smehlik) 19:55. Third period 6, Buffalo, Mogilny 2 (unassisted) 3:46. 7, Boston, Neely 2 (Juneau, Oates) 15:44. 8, Boston, Heinze 1 (Juneau) 17:00. Overtime 9, Buffalo, Sweeney 1 (Khmylev, Smehlik) 11:03. Buffalo: 5 Power play: 3-0 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Hannan 1 0 1 Hawerchuk 0 1 1 Khmylev 0 1 1 LaFontaine 1 0 1 Mogilny 2 1 3 Smehlik 0 2 2 Sweeney 1 0 1 Boston: 4 Power play: 7-1 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Heinze 1 0 1 Juneau 1 3 4 Neely 2 1 3 Oates 0 3 3 ----------------------------------------- Montreal 1 1 0 0--2 Quebec 0 0 2 1--3 First period 1, Montreal, Dionne 1 (Dipietro, Brunet) 5:52. Second period 2, Montreal, Bellows 1 (Muller, Desjardins) 9:58. Third period 3, Quebec, Rucinsky 1 (Lapointe, Sundin) pp, 18:31. 4, Quebec, Sakic 1 (Lapointe) 19:12. Overtime 5, Quebec, Young 1 (Ricci, Duchesne) 16:49. Quebec: 3 Power play: 4-1 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Duchesne 0 1 1 Lapointe 0 2 2 Ricci 0 1 1 Rucinsky 1 0 1 Sakic 1 0 1 Sundin 0 1 1 Young 1 0 1 Montreal: 2 Power play: 1-0 Scorer G A Pts --------------- --- --- --- Bellows 1 0 1 Brunet 0 1 1 Desjardins 0 1 1 Dionne 1 0 1 Dipietro 0 1 1 Muller 0 1 1

rec.sport.hockey

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release April 15, 1993 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT JOSEPH DUFFEY NAMED TO HEAD USIA, MICA TO CHAIR BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING Washington, D.C. - President Clinton today announced his intention to nominate American University President and former State Department Assistant Secretary Joseph Duffey to be Director of the United States Information Agency. The President also designated Daniel Mica Chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting. "Joe Duffey's expertise in the fields of education, communications and foreign affairs is vast and will serve him well as he takes the helm at USIA and works to promote the ideals of democracy and freedom abroad," the President said. President of American University in Washington, D.C. since 1991, Duffey previously served nine years as Chancellor and President of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1977 he served as Assistant Secretary of State, Education and Cultural Affairs in the State Department. Duffey served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under both Presidents Carter and Reagan. In 1978 and 1980, Duffey served as a United States delegate to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In 1991, Duffey served as joint head of the U.S. Delegation observing national elections in Ethiopia. USIA, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, is an independent foreign affairs agency within the executive branch that explains and supports U.S. foreign policy and national security interests abroad through a wide range of information programs. Among the agency's programs are the Fulbright academic program, Voice of America, the Worldnet satellite television system and a network of overseas libraries and cultural centers. The agency has more than 210 posts in more than 140 countries. (more) Press Release pg. 2 Mica becomes Chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting after serving as a member of the board since 1991. "Dan Mica has done an excellent job on the Board of International Broadcasting and I expect he will continue as chairman to promote the cause of democracy abroad," the President said. Biographical sketches of the appointees follow: Joseph Duffey has served as President of American University since 1991. Prior to his tenure at American, Duffey served as Chancellor and President of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1982 - 91) and as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution (1982). He served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1977 - 82 and as Assistant Secretary of State, Education and Cultural Affairs with the Department of State in 1977. Duffey holds 14 honorary degrees from American colleges and universities. In 1980 he was named Commander of the Order of the Crown by the King of Belgium and he has been a member of the Council of Foreign Relations since 1979. Duffey received a BA from Marshall University in 1954, a BD from the Andover Newton Theological School in 1958, a STM from Yale University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the Harvard Seminary Foundation in 1969. Duffey is a member of the National Business- Higher Education Forum and a founder and co-chairman of the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Conference. Duffey is married to Anne Wexler and has four sons. Daniel Mica is a former U.S. Representative from the 14th District of Florida and has served on the Board of International Broadcasting since 1991. During his tenure in Congress from 1979 - 89 he served on the House Committee on Foreign Relations and was appointed by President Reagan as the Congressional Representative to the United Nations.

talk.politics.misc

Actually, an apostle is someone who is sent. If you will, mailmen could be called apostles in that sense. However, with Jesus, they were designated and were given power. Remember that there were many thousands of people who witnessed what Jesus did. That didn't make them apostles, though.

soc.religion.christian

Done. But did it change the fact that during the period of 1914 to 1920, the Armenian Government ordered, incited, assisted and participated in the genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people because of race, religion and national origin? By the way, you still haven't corrected yourself. During World War II Armenians were carried away with the German might and cringing and fawning over the Nazis. In that zeal, the Armenian publication in Germany, Hairenik, carried statements as follows:[1] "Sometimes it is difficult to eradicate these poisonous elements (the Jews) when they have struck deep root like a chronic disease, and when it becomes necessary for a people (the Nazis) to eradicate them in an uncommon method, these attempts are regarded as revolutionary. During the surgical operation, the flow of blood is a natural thing." Now for a brief view of the Armenian genocide of the Muslims and Jews - extracts from a letter dated December 11, 1983, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, as an answer to a letter that had been published in the same journal under the signature of one B. Amarian. "...We have first hand information and evidence of Armenian atrocities against our people (Jews)...Members of our family witnessed the murder of 148 members of our family near Erzurum, Turkey, by Armenian neighbors, bent on destroying anything and anybody remotely Jewish and/or Muslim. Armenians should look to their own history and see the havoc they and their ancestors perpetrated upon their neighbors... Armenians were in league with Hitler in the last war, on his premise to grant them self government if, in return, the Armenians would help exterminate Jews...Armenians were also hearty proponents of the anti-Semitic acts in league with the Russian Communists. Mr. Amarian! I don't need your bias." Signed Elihu Ben Levi, Vacaville, California. [1] James G. Mandalian, 'Dro, Drastamat Kanayan,' in the 'Armenian Review,' a Quarterly by the Hairenik Association, Inc., Summer: June 1957, Vol. X, No. 2-38. Serdar Argic

talk.politics.mideast

I am selling a one way ticket from Washington DC to Champaign, IL ( the home of the University of Illinois). Am willing to offer a good price. If you are interested, please email me at: eshneken@uiuc.edu

misc.forsale

Flights of fancy, and other irrational approaches, are common. The crucial thing is not to sit around just having fantasies; they aren't of any use unless they make you do some experiments. I've known a lot of scientists whose fantasies lead them on to creative work; usually they won't admit out loud what the fantasy was, prior to the consumption of a few beers. (Simple example: Warren Jelinek noticed an extremely heavy band on a DNA electrophoresis gel of human ALU fragments. He got very excited, hoping that he'd seen some essential part of the control mechanism for eukaryotic genes. This fantasy led him to sequence samples of the band and carry out binding assays. The result was a well-conserved, 400 or so bp, sequence that occurs about 500,000 times in the human genome. Unfortunately for Warren's fantasy, it turns out to be a transposon that is present in so many copies because it replicates itself and copies itself back into the genome. On the other hand, the characteristics of transposons were much elucidated; the necessity of a cellular reverse transcriptase was recognized; and the standard method of recognizing human DNA was created. Other species have different sets of transposons. Fortunately for me, Warren and I used to eat dinner at T.G.I. Fridays all the time.) I'm not sure that it's random. But there is no known rational mechanism for generating a rich set of interesting hypotheses. If you are really working in an unknown area, it is unlikely that you will have much sense of what might or might not be true; under those circumstances, the best thing to do is just follow whatever instincts you have. If they are wrong, you will find out soon enough; but at least, you will find out _something_. If you try to do experiments at random, with no prior conceptions at all in mind, you will probably get nowhere. Unfortunately, the critical function does sometimes become hostage to non-rational forces. Then we get varieties of pathological science: Lysenko, Mirsky's opposition to DNA-as-gene, cold fusion, and so forth. I don't agree that this follows. In fact, this is _exactly_ the point at which I disagree with Feyerabend. It is a most important part of the culture of science that one keeps one's jealousies out of the refereeing process. Failures there are aplenty, but, on the whole, things work out. Another point: there are a couple of senses of the phrase ``experimental design''. I'd say that the less rational part is in experimental _choice_, not design. Alexander Fleming (Proc. Royal Soc., 1922) chose to look for bacteriophage in his own mucus for strange reasons (Phage had previously been found in locust diarrhea; Fleming probably thought runny bottom, runny nose, what the hell, it's worth a try.) but his method of looking for phage was well-designed to detect anything phage-like; in fact, he found lysozyme. It is not clear to me what you mean by rational vs. irrational. Perhaps you can give a few examples of surprising experiments that were tried out for perfectly rational reasons, or interesting new theories that were first advanced from logical grounds. The main examples I can think of are from modern high-energy physics which is not typical of science as a whole.

sci.med

Was it Pascal, or maybe Descartes, who first used this figure of speech? I seem to have some vague recollections from reading some of their essays, but I certainly couldn't say it was one of them for sure.

soc.religion.christian

For Sale: 1990 Pontiac Grand Prix SE White, White rims, Gray interior. 58K miles (mostly highway), 3.8 Litre V6 multi-port fuel-injected engine, 5 speed manual transmission. Options include: A/C, Rear defogger, Power steering, Power brakes, Power windows, Power locks, Power mirrors, Cruise control, Power glass moonroof with sunshade, Power seat/recliner (driver's), Power seat/comfort/lumbar/headrest (both), AM/FM cassette stero, Electronic monitor/service system with graphic compass, Stereo controls duplicated on steering wheel, Remote-keyless entry, and others. Asking $11,500. The car looks and rides like it just rolled off of the dealers lot. It has been garaged and pampered. It gets an average of 27.5 mpg highway, sometimes better; city is around 19-23 mpg, depending on how it is driven. Selling because of baby coming soon. Need 4-door family car. Will consider trade or partial trade with Ford Taurus, Mercury Sable, or 4-door Pontiac Grand Am or similar American car.

misc.forsale

I have a 386/40 motherboard with AMI BIOS. I haven't located the little motherboard manual yet, and suddenly it's giving me 10 beeps when I turn the power on. It was working fine this morning, then gave all kinds of problems, in Windows and outside it. After multiple reboots, now it only gives 10 beeps and sits there?

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

Almost one third of the world's population claim to be Christian. But any similarity between their beliefs and lifestyle to the first century model is purely coincidental. At Luke 18:8 it states, "...nevertheless, when the son of man returns, will he really find the faith on the earth?"

talk.religion.misc

If you want to have some fun. Plug the basic formulas into Lotus. Use the spreadsheet auto re-calc, and graphing functions to produce bar graphs based on latitude, tilt and hours of day light avg.

sci.space

Hi *, Has anyone out there compile a list of X security holes?? If yes, will you please send me a copy of this?? If this is a wrong group, please point me to a right one. Thanks!! BTW, the list doesn't have to contain the info "How to use the holes?". Instead, I need the info of how to detect the holes, how to seal the holes, and how to monitor the activities if possible. Any info is welcomed. Thanks!! --Eric

comp.windows.x

One way ticket (return leg of roundtrip ticket) for female traveler San Francisco ==> St. Louis ==> Philadelphia May 21, 1993 (Friday) leaves SFO 10:25 am arrives Phila. 8:43 pm .............$150 or best offer

misc.forsale

+ +I know of no law, either on the books or proposed, that bans motorcycles +from any place that i want to go to. Many private places ban bikes. For example, the famous 17 mile drive at the Monterrey Peninsula. And I have stayed at resorts that sported a "No motorcycles allowed" sign at the entrance. And there have been public places. Call the AMA and ask for Jim Bensberg (sp?) or any one else in their Legislative Office. They will recound the many public places that they had to bring to court to reverse their ban on bikes. That includes everything from public parks to full cities. There are probably a few fights on their books as we now speak. That is another good reason to donate to their legislative fund. ____________________________________________________________________________ Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired -- R. Geis

rec.motorcycles

Archive-name: space/addresses Last-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:38:55 $ CONTACTING NASA, ESA, AND OTHER SPACE AGENCIES/COMPANIES Many space activities center around large Government or International Bureaucracies. In the US that means NASA. If you have basic information requests: (e.g., general PR info, research grants, data, limited tours, and ESPECIALLY SUMMER EMPLOYMENT (typically resumes should be ready by Jan. 1), etc.), consider contacting the nearest NASA Center to answer your questions. EMail typically will not get you any where, computers are used by investigators, not PR people. The typical volume of mail per Center is a multiple of 10,000 letters a day. Seek the Public Information Office at one of the below, this is their job: NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is the civilian space agency of of the United States Federal Government. It reports directly to the White House and is not a Cabinet post such as the military Department of Defense. Its 20K+ employees are civil servants and hence US citizens. Another 100K+ contractors also work for NASA. NASA CENTERS NASA Headquarters (NASA HQ) Washington DC 20546 (202)-358-1600 Ask them questions about policy, money, and things of political nature. Direct specific questions to the appropriate center. NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) Moffett Field, CA 94035 (415)-694-5091 Some aeronautical research, atmosphere reentry, Mars and Venus planetary atmospheres. "Lead center" for Helicopter research, V/STOL, etc. Runs Pioneer series of space probes. NASA Ames Research Center Dryden Flight Research Facility [DFRF] P. O. Box 273 Edwards, CA 93523 (805)-258-8381 Aircraft, mostly. Tested the shuttle orbiter landing characteristics. Developed X-1, D-558, X-3, X-4, X-5, XB-70, and of course, the X-15. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Greenbelt, MD 20771 [Outside of Washington DC] (301)-344-6255 Earth orbiting unmanned satellites and sounding rockets. Developed LANDSAT. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology 4800 Oak Grove Dr. Pasadena, CA 91109 (818)-354-5011 The "heavies" in planetary research probes and other unmanned projects (they also had a lot to do with IRAS). They run Voyager, Magellan, Galileo, and will run Cassini, CRAF, etc. etc.. For images, probe navigation, and other info about unmanned exploration, this is the place to go. JPL is run under contract for NASA by the nearby California Institute of Technology, unlike the NASA centers above. This distinction is subtle but critical. JPL has different requirements for unsolicited research proposals and summer hires. For instance in the latter, an SF 171 is useless. Employees are Caltech employees, contractors, and for the most part have similar responsibilities. They offer an alternative to funding after other NASA Centers. A fact sheet and description of JPL is available by anonymous FTP in ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/JPLDescription NASA Johnson Manned Space Center (JSC) Houston, TX 77058 (713)-483-5111 JSC manages Space Shuttle, ground control of manned missions. Astronaut training. Manned mission simulators. NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center (KSC) Titusville, FL 32899 (407)-867-2468 Space launch center. You know this one. NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) Hampton, VA 23665 [Near Newport News, VA] (804)-865-2935 Original NASA site. Specializes in theoretical and experimental flight dynamics. Viking. Long Duration Exposure Facility. NASA Lewis Research Center (LeRC) 21000 Brookpark Rd. Cleveland, OH 44135 (216)-433-4000 Aircraft/Rocket propulsion. Space power generation. Materials research. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Huntsville, AL 35812 (205)-453-0034 Development, production, delivery of Solid Rocket Boosters, External Tank, Orbiter main engines. Propulsion and launchers. Michoud Assembly Facility Orleans Parish New Orleans, LA 70129 (504)-255-2601 Shuttle external tanks are produced here; formerly Michoud produced first stages for the Saturn V. Stennis Space Center Bay St. Louis, Mississippi 39529 (601)-688-3341 Space Shuttle main engines are tested here, as were Saturn V first and second stages. The center also does remote-sensing and technology-transfer research. Wallops Flight Center Wallops Island, VA 23337 (804)824-3411 Aeronautical research, sounding rockets, Scout launcher. Manager, Technology Utilization Office NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility Post Office Box 8757 Baltimore, Maryland 21240 Specific requests for software must go thru COSMIC at the Univ. of Georgia, NASA's contracted software redistribution service. You can reach them at cosmic@uga.bitnet. NOTE: Foreign nationals requesting information must go through their Embassies in Washington DC. These are facilities of the US Government and are regarded with some degree of economic sensitivity. Centers cannot directly return information without high Center approval. Allow at least 1 month for clearance. This includes COSMIC. The US Air Force Space Command can be contacted thru the Pentagon along with other Department of Defense offices. They have unacknowledged offices in Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Colorado Springs, and other locations. They have a budget which rivals NASA in size. ARIANESPACE HEADQUARTERS Boulevard de l'Europe B.P. 177 91006 Evry Cedex France ARIANESPACE, INC. 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 875 Washington, DC 20006 (202)-728-9075 EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) 955 L'Enfant Plaza S.W. Washington, D.C. 20024 (202)-488-4158 NATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NASDA) 4-1 Hamamatsu-Cho, 2 Chome Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105, JAPAN SOYUZKARTA 45 Vologradsij Pr. Moscow 109125 USSR SPACE CAMP Alabama Space and Rocket Center U.S. SPACE CAMP 1 Tranquility Base 6225 Vectorspace Blvd Huntsville, AL 35805 Titusville FL 32780 (205)-837-3400 (407)267-3184 Registration and mailing list are handled through Huntsville -- both camps are described in the same brochure. Programs offered at Space Camp are: Space Camp - one week, youngsters completing grades 4-6 Space Academy I - one week, grades 7-9 Aviation Challenge - one week high school program, grades 9-11 Space Academy II - 8 days, college accredited, grades 10-12 Adult Program - 3 days (editorial comment: it's great!) Teachers Program - 5 days SPACE COMMERCE CORPORATION (U.S. agent for Soviet launch services) 504 Pluto Drive 69th flr, Texas Commerce Tower Colorado Springs, CO 80906 Houston, TX 77002 (719)-578-5490 (713)-227-9000 SPACEHAB 600 Maryland Avenue, SW Suite 201 West Washington, DC 20004 (202)-488-3483 SPOT IMAGE CORPORATION 1857 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 22091 (FAX) (703)-648-1813 (703)-620-2200 OTHER COMMERCIAL SPACE BUSINESSES Vincent Cate maintains a list with addresses and some info for a variety of companies in space-related businesses. This is mailed out on the space-investors list he runs (see the "Network Resources" FAQ) and is also available by anonymous ftp from furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.209.111) in /usr/vac/ftp/space-companies.

sci.space

A "new Christian" wrote that he was new to the faith and learning about it "by reading the Bible, of course". I am not at all sure this is the best path to follow. While the Bible is, for Christians, the word of God, the revelation of God is Jesus Christ and the chief legacy of this revalation is the Church. I am not recommending any one denommination, but I do recommend finding a comfortable christian congregation in which to develop your faith, rather than just reading the Bible. This does not mean that the Bible should not be read, although I would stick to the Gospels, epistles, and Psalms and avoid the Book of Revelation altogether [until you are with friends you are comfortable with]. I am sure that mistakenly fervent projects to read the entire Bible have frequently bogged down with a remarkable lack of fervour somewhere in the middle of Leviticus, or for the really sturdy, somewhere in Chronicles. The point is that the Bible is their to illustrate the Faith of Christians, but does not provide the totality of that faith. Vital beliefs of virtually all Christians are simply not mentioned - the Trinity, the duality of natures in Christ, types of Church organization. All these beliefs and practices have developed from the lived experience of the Christian people, an experience lived one hopes in the Spirit. As such the Bible, I think, is better studies in the context of a congregation, and the context of other reading. Following up on a suggestion of an old confessor of mine, I would even suggest that a good novel is a good way to reflect on the christian life. [Most novels of any profundity are actually discussing the nature of good and evil in the human heart]. My own induction into the christian faith was brought about [after grace] through reading Graham Greene: _The Power and the Glory_ and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. I would also recommend Graham Greene's _Monsignor Quixote_ and any novel by Iris Murdoch. The last is not even a Christian, but such is her insistence on the need for the good life, that, frankly, I often am more uplifted and God directed after reading her than after reading many parts of the Bible. And that after all is what being a Christian is all about: letting your soul and your life be, in some way, directed towards the infinite, represented to us by the person of Jesus Christ.

soc.religion.christian

Charles Parr, on the Tue, 20 Apr 93 21:25:10 GMT wibbled: : >If Satan rode a bike (CB1000?) would you stop to help him? : Of course! We riders have to stick together, you know...Besides, : he'd stop for me. : Satan, by the way, rides a Vincent. So does God. : Jesus rides an RZ350, the Angels get Ariels, and the demons : all ride Matchless 500s. : I know, because they talk to me through the fillings in my teeth. : Regards, Charles : DoD0.001 : RZ350 : -- : Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of : separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time, : struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing : gourd. --Unknown net.person I think that the Vincent is the wrong sort of bike for Satan to ride. Honda have just brought out the CB1000 (look in BIKE Magazine) which looks so evil that Satan would not hesitate to ride it. 17-hole DMs, Levi 501s and a black bomber jacket. I'm not sure about the helmet, oh, I know, one of those Darth Vader ones. There you go. Satan. Anybody seen him lately? Just a cruisin'? God would ride a Vincent White Lightning with rightous injection. He'd wear a one-piece leather suit with matching boots, helmet and gloves. -- Nick (the Righteous Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford New (non-leaky) gearbox M'Lud.

rec.motorcycles

Actually, I was simply relaying the reasoning of this so-called genius BW writer. I agree. The reasoning was foolish. Next time, before you say something foolish, be aware what you are responding to.

rec.sport.baseball

I'm getting a sad Mac icon on a black screen with the error code 0300FF. Could someone please tell me what's wrong? Memory? Thanks a lot. I'd appreciate it infinitely...

comp.sys.mac.hardware

I'm an new to this. Having found some files (public) to look into, I ftp'ed them to a system I have access to. I then used kermit to transmit them via modem to my host computer, a PC-based file system. I access internet through modem access to a university mainframe. From the PC file server, I pull the files to a disk, and then pull them from disk to a SGI Indigo (the SGI is not networked yet). When I try to uncompress and un-tar the files, they either come out as garbage or I get an error in the tar process about directories being invalid. What I'm wondering about is the transfer of UNIX files (compressed, binary,ascii) about multiple platforms. My guess is that it is the copy to a 'dos' disk that is screwing things up. Any help is appreciated. bob

comp.windows.x

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.

comp.graphics

sci.crypt

Only the most comprehensive survey on sexuality in 50 years. Chance and size have nothing in common on the multimillion number scale we are talking about. Nobody said that you were. Chill. Well said. Actually, the Kinsley Report in 1947(or 48?) used a high percentage of prisoners so...........

talk.politics.misc

I think you can do this with REGEDIT, which can make changes to the OLE registration database. From Program Manager (or File Manager) choose RUN and type REGEDIT. You do have it- its included with Windows, but not well documented.

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

[stuff deleted] me: David: This is a very, very good point. Who cares what kind of gun you've got if you're lying on the ground dead. [more stuff deleted. mostly mine] Another very good point that is well taken. It seems that when lots of lead is flying (either the cops or the gangs) someone innocent always gets caught in the crossfire. All points made above are well taken. I guess I am in the mindset of "having more makes it better" which is obviously not the correct mindset to take in this discussion. Now that I think about the situation a little more carefully I see your point exactly David and I wholeheartedly (sp?) agree. Like I said I'm just assuming that "more bullets and/or bigger bullets is better". Once again though I want to state that I am a pro-gun individual and do NOT believe that gun control is really a viable option here in the United States regardless of the drivel that I spout here :-)

talk.politics.guns

sci.crypt

It has been known for quite a while that the earth is actually more pear shaped than globular/spherical. Does anyone make a "globe" that is accurate as to actual shape, landmass configuration/Long/Lat lines etc.? Thanks in advance. -- bill@xpresso.UUCP (Bill Vance), Bothell, WA rwing!xpresso!bill

sci.space

Unworthy of comment. Nor would they have died if they had come out with their hands empty. That is undeniable truth. My heart bleeds just as much as yours for the children who were never released given 51 days of ample opportunities to do so. My heart also bleeds for people so blinded by religious devotion to not have the common sense to leave the compound when tanks came up and started dropping in tear gas early in the morning. I do not think this. However, if they did set the fire (which started in more than one place and spread very quickly), then they got what they wanted and put into motion themselves. I see the BATF is going to be investigated by the Justice Dept. and likely by Arlen Spectre and congress. This is good. They have bungled the affair from the start.

talk.politics.guns

I too would like a 3D graphics library! How much do C libraries cost anyway? Can you get the tools used by, say, RenderMan, and can you get them at a reasonable cost? Sorry that I don't have any answers, just questions...

comp.graphics

No. In what still, IMHO, ranks as the all-time greatest PR blunder (not to mention on-ice blunder) the Whalers ever committed, GM Eddie Johnston and Coach Rick Ley 'decided' that Francis was incapable as a leader and stripped him of the Captain's "C" in December of 1990. The whole organization (read: EJ and Ley, and by default owner Richard Gordon because he was too much of a dupe to know how much he was being blind-sided by EJ) dumped on Francis all season, starting with refusing to sign him to a new contract, publicly humiliating him, stripping him of the "C", and then trading him that Spring to the Penguins. Classy guy, that EJ. The loss of Francis (and too a lesser extent, Ulf), was one of a series of decimating player moves by EJ which stripped the personality and fan-awareness from the team that has put them in the precarious position they are in today. [Gratuitous good EJ note...he did preside over the organization when it acquired Verbeek, Cassels, Sanderson, Poulin, Nylander, etc. He stripped the roster but he DID lay a foundation.]

rec.sport.hockey

I think George is referring to switch.zip in the ~ftp/pub/pc/win3/drivers/video directory. Description reads -- Switcher: Windows Video Mode Switcher.

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Remember the OT doctrine of 2 witnesses? Perhaps the prophets testified He is coming. The Apostles, testified He came.

soc.religion.christian

We have a program written with X11R5 and Motif 1.2.1. It runs fine on the Sun X11R5 server and MacX. When that program is run under the Sparc 2 and the OW server, the program crashed itself along with the server. It crashed before the first window had showed up. I got the following error from X. XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "perot:0.0" after 62 requests (59 known processed) with 0 events remaining. The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient. I have run the program with xmon and below is the last twenty lines or so from xmon before both the program and server crashed. ............REQUEST: GetProperty delete: False window: WIN 00900001 property: ATM 00000074 type: ATM 00000074 long-offset: 00000000 ..............REPLY: GetProperty format: 00 type: <NONE> bytes-after: 00000000 ............REQUEST: GetInputFocus ..............REPLY: GetInputFocus revert-to: Parent focus: WIN 0040000d ............REQUEST: ChangeProperty mode: Replace window: WIN 00900001 property: ATM 00000074 type: ATM 00000074 format: 08 data: 42 00 00 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 75 00 00 00 00 ............REQUEST: GetInputFocus Please email to me if you have any idea of the above problem. Thanks in advance.

comp.windows.x

Well, I'm a Wings fan and I think the FIRST thing that you should do is to get the opponent's line combinations correct before you try to match up anyone with them. There is no Yzerman-Fedorov-Probert line, except for maybe on a powerplay. These three players usually play on three different lines. Which would mean that Toronto's checking line would have to pull a triple shift. The Wings' lines usually look like this: Gallant-Yzerman-Ciccarelli Kozlov-Fedorov-Drake Kennedy-Burr-Probert Ysebaert-Primeau-Sheppard Oh by the way: Start praying! : )

rec.sport.hockey

Lloyd Pettit. Yes, it is true that he refused to buy a franchise from the NHL for $50M; but at the time the reason was that the established market for teams was much less than that. He felt that no one would pay $50M for an expansion team, and that he would simply wait to buy an existing franchise for less than that. But the market fooled him, and 5 teams have been created for $50M apiece in the last three years, and even the existing teams can't be moved for less than $50M and I doubt that he could get one for that little. Pettit gambled and lost. Now he'll have to pay more.

rec.sport.hockey

Some time ago I sent the following message: Every once in a while I design an orbital space colony. I'm gearing up to do another one. I'd some info from you. If you were to move onto a space colony to live permanently, how big would the colony have to be for you to view a permanent move as desirable? Specifically, How many people do you want to share the colony with? What physical dimensions does the living are need to have? Assume 1g living (the colony will rotate). Assume that you can leave from time to time for vacations and business trips. If you're young enough, assume that you'll raise your children there. I didn't get a lot of responses, and they were all over the block. Thanx muchly to all those who responded, it is good food for thought. Here's the (edited) responses I got: How many people do you want to share the colony with? 100 What physical dimensions does the living are need to have? Cylinder 200m diameter x 1 km long Rui Sousa ruca@saber-si.pt ============================================================================= 100,000 - 250,000 100 square kms surface, divided into city, towns, villages and countryside. Must have lakes, rivers amd mountains. ============================================================================= 1000. 1000 people really isn't that large a number; everyone will know everyone else within the space of a year, and will probably be sick of everyone else within another year. Hm. I am not all that great at figuring it out. But I would maximize the percentage of colony-space that is accessible to humans. Esecially if there were to be children, since they will figure out how to go everywhere anyways. And everyone, especially me, likes to "go exploring"...I would want to be able to go for a walk and see something different each time... ============================================================================= For population, I think I would want a substantial town -- big enough to have strangers in it. This helps get away from the small-town "everybody knows everything" syndrome, which some people like but I don't. Call it several thousand people. For physical dimensions, a somewhat similar criterion: big enough to contain surprises, at least until you spent considerable time getting to know it. As a more specific rule of thumb, big enough for there to be places at least an hour away on foot. Call that 5km, which means a 10km circumference if we're talking a sphere. Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry ============================================================================= My desires, for permanent move to a space colony, assuming easy communication and travel: Size: About a small-town size, say 9 sq. km. 'Course, bigger is better :-) Population: about 100/sq km or less. So, ~1000 for 9sqkm. Less is better for elbow room, more for interest and sanity, so say max 3000, min 300. -Tommy Mac ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom McWilliams | 517-355-2178 (work) \\ Inhale to the Chief! 18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu | 336-9591 (hm)\\ Zonker Harris in 1996!

sci.space

I see no difference between Janet Reno's claim of responsibility for the Waco Massacre and the IRA's claims of responsibility for various acts of terrorism against British citizens. -- Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>

talk.politics.guns

If a large Malmute counts then yes someone has heard(and seen) such an irresponsible childish stunt. The dog needed assistance straightening out once on board. The owner would lift the front legs of dog and throw them over the driver/pilots shoulders. Said dog would get shit eating grin on its face and away they'd go. The dogs ass was firmly planted on the seat. My dog and this dog actively seek each other out at camping party's. They hate each other. I think it's something personal.

rec.motorcycles

You can avoid these problems entirely by installing an oil drain valve in place of the bolt. I have one on both of my cars. There have been no leaks in 210,000 miles (combined miles on both cars).

rec.autos

Moreover, if two riders are riding together at the same speed, one might be riding well beyond his abilities and the other may have a safety margin left. Allan, I know the circumstances of several of your falls. On the ride when you fell while I was next behind you, you made an error of judgement by riding too fast when you knew the road was damp, and you reacted badly when you were surprised by an oncoming car. That crash was due to factors that were subject to your control. I won't deny that there's a combination of luck and skill involved for each of us, but it seems that you're blaming bad luck for more of your own pain than is warranted. --

rec.motorcycles

United States Coverage: Sunday April 18 N.J./N.Y.I. at Pittsburgh - 1:00 EDT to Eastern Time Zone ABC - Gary Thorne and Bill Clement St. Louis at Chicago - 12:00 CDT and 11:00 MDT - to Central/Mountain Zones ABC - Mike Emerick and Jim Schoenfeld Los Angeles at Calgary - 12:00 PDT and 11:00 ADT - to Pacific/Alaskan Zones ABC - Al Michaels and John Davidson Tuesday, April 20 N.J./N.Y.I. at Pittsburgh - 7:30 EDT Nationwide ESPN - Gary Thorne and Bill Clement Thursday, April 22 and Saturday April 24 To Be Announced - 7:30 EDT Nationwide ESPN - To Be Announced Canadian Coverage: Sunday, April 18 Buffalo at Boston - 7:30 EDT Nationwide TSN - ??? Tuesday, April 20 N.J.D./N.Y. at Pittsburgh - 7:30 EDT Nationwide TSN - ???

rec.sport.hockey

The original one-way encryption I put into Multics about 1968 (as suggested by Joe Weizenbaum) was invertible. An Air Force tiger team demonstrated this to me in May 1973. I then asked an expert (who requested anonymity) what I should use instead; the expert's suggestion was to treat the 8-byte password as both key and data for the LUCIFER encryption algorithm, which is similar or identical to DES. This method or something stronger should take care of (a). Issue (b) is discussed in comp.security.misc: longer passwords and quality control on what users can choose as passwords are the common tactics.

sci.crypt

I have heard that the sabbath was originally determined by the phases of the moon, and had elements of moon worship. Early stuff, Egyptian in nature.

talk.religion.misc

I have a friend who has just been diagnosed with Lupus, and I know nothing about this disease. The only thing I do know is that this is some sort of skin disease, and my friend shows no skin rashes - in fact, they used a blood test to determine what had been wrong with an on going sacro- illiac joint problem. I am finding a hard time finding information on this disease. Could anyone please enlighten me as to the particulars of this disease. please feel free to E-mail me at bytor@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us

sci.med

Evelyn Wells, on the 12 Apr 1993 11:43 CST wibbled: : Once again, this morning I pulled up to the designated motorcycle : parking area, only to find a cage pulled up behind the bikes. : If people don't double-park cars, why do they do it to motorcycles? : Never mind that rhetorical question, I know *why* they do it. : What I want to know is, what can I do about it? Carry pieces of : paper that say "Don't park your car in the motorcycle area!!" ? : Call the cops? Wait until they emerge from the building and berate : them until they beg forgiveness? : Does anyone else have this problem, and what do you do about it? : Evie I don't know if you have a local branch where you are, but the preferred method over here is to 'phone the IRA and tell them about the car and that it belongs to an MP who is on a Northern Ireland Government Committee. An hour or so later, and the car is no longer a problem. It's best not to park too close to it, though. -- Nick (the Vengeful Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford Plastic M'Lud.

rec.motorcycles

OK, as one last attempt, I'll take a different tack. We all seem to be in agreement that there are two explanations for why one can use the handlebars to lean a moving motorcycle. The question is, is one of the effect dominant, and which one is it? The idea would be to design an experiment which would seaprate the two characteristics, and see which effect produces a similar result to the one with which those of us who have bikes are familiar. Let's look at the one that, so far, has sparked no controversy on its own, gyroscopic precession. To examine this alone, we would have to get rid of the contact patch effect, by not allowing the contact patches to transmit any force. The wheels and steering mechanism would have to remain, and be attached to a vehicle with about the same weight as a bike, through suspension (so that the wheels transmit forces to the bike the same way) similar to a bikes. An experiment would be to ride a bike along a dry road to get moving and to get the wheels spinning, then change surfaces to something that won't transmit forces through the contact patches, and try a steering manoeuvre to see if the bike leans. It probably would, since some of us know how easy it is to fall down on ice, but we wouldn't get a good idea of how well or what it feels like because, without the contact patches, we can't turn. Maybe there's a better way. Besides, even ice doesn't get rid of the contact patch forces altogether, so we'd have to find a really frictionless surface. You'd have to try it again with the wheels locked to really know if it was the rotation that did it. Looking at the contact-patch effect only, however, is fairly simple. Now we have to find a vehicle that gets the about the same magnitude and direction of cantact patch forces as a motorcycle, and transmits them about the same way to the vehicle, but without rotating wheels. How it gets the contact patch forces is irrelevant, we're just looking for something that has contact patches that can go straight and not sideways, and skis or skates would do fine. I don't know of any snow-ski or skate bikes, but up here we have the Suzuki Wetbike that is arranged like a motorcycle but has fat water skis where there should be wheels. I think the propellor is in front of the rear ski, or something like that, but we could try it at a coast to get rid of most of its effect. Now I admit that this is second hand info (although I'd love to try one of these), but the review in the local cycle rag and a guy in a bike shop that sells them both say that this machine handles very much like a motorcycle, in that you countersteer it to turn. So we have contact patches that transmit similar forces to a bike's, a similar suspension arrangement, and no gyroscopes, but we do have countersteering. Conclusion: you don't need gyroscopes to countersteer vehicles that have motorcycle-like contact patch arrangements. We still don't know what real effect the gyroscopes have when they're there, but from my observations of how handlebar angle, force, etc. relate to steering in general, I'm willing to bet that they're not the dominant factor in countersteering. If you don't like this conclusion, then don't accept it, but my motorcycle's behaviour is consistent with it. If someone can prove otherwise, go ahead.

rec.motorcycles

That I did not do; however, the sample bolt I took to the store fit rather well in the following: 1/2" open end wrench, 1/2" box end wrench, 1/2" 12-point normal socket. I take that as meaning it's a 1/2" bolt head. Yup. At $6 a socket, I want the @#$@# thing to FIT! Later,

rec.motorcycles

I recall reading that the Mac LC (and presumably the LC II & III) can use stand ard VGA monitors, with appropriate cable adapters. I am uncertain of this sinc e I have asked other people who say this is not so. So can all vga monitors be used on the Mac LC? What are the specs needed for a PC monitor to work with a Mac LC (horizontal nad vertical frequencies)?

comp.sys.mac.hardware

Hi... can anybody give me book or reference title to give me a start at fractal image compression technique. Helps will be appreciated... thanx

comp.graphics

Unless I am completely misunderstanding you, try using either Notepad or sysedit.exe (found in your system subdirectory) to edit you .ini files. The sysedit.exe program is cool because it automatically opens you win.ini, system.ini, autoexec.bat and config.sys files to be edited.

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

From: Center for Policy Research <cpr> Subject: From Israeli press. Short notes. /* Written 4:43 pm Apr 16, 1993 by cpr@igc.apc.org in igc:mideast.forum */ /* ---------- "From Israeli press. Short notes." ---------- */ FROM THE ISRAELI PRESS Hadashot, 14 March 1993: The Israeli Police Department announced on the evening of Friday, March 12 that it is calling upon [Jewish] Israeli citizens with gun permits to carry them at all times "so as to contribute to their security and that of their surroundings". Ha'aretz, 15 March 1993: Yehoshua Matza (Likud), Chair of the Knesset Interior Committee, stated that he intends to demand that the police department make it clear to the public that anyone who wounds or kills [non-Jewish] terrorists will not be put on trial. Ha'aretz, 16 March1993: Today a private security firm and units from the IDF Southern Command will begin installation of four magnetic gates in the Gaza strip, as an additional stage in the upgrading of security measures in the Strip. The gates will aid in the searching of [non-Jewish] Gaza residents as they leave for work in Israel. They can be used to reveal the presence of knives, axes, weapons and other sharp objects.

talk.politics.mideast

IDE does not do DMA. This is because it's like te PC AT hard disk interface. The controller moves a sector to some buffer memory on the controller card, then the CPU moves the data from the buffer to main memory where it's needed. If IDE doesn't work this way, then it's not compatible. Heck, if IDE used DMA, then you'd hear all kinds of complaints about ISA bus systems with more than 16M RAM not working with their IDE drives. 16M is the DMA addressing limit of the ISA bus, and if IDE did DMA there would be trouble. (BTW, there are DMA-enabling signals in the IDE cable spec, but the last report I heard was that they are never implemented, because it would require a different kind of IDE adapter and different drivers.)

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

Just to make sure everyone is clear on this: "it never has" refers to "protects", not "fails to protect"; i.e., in my lifetime I have never seen the U.S. government consistently protect the interest of U.S. citizens, except by accident.

sci.crypt

I agree, I reckon it's television and the increase in fundamentalism.. You think its the increase in pre-marital sex... others thinks its because psychologists have taken over the criminal justice system and let violent criminals con them into letting them out into the streets... others think it's the increase in designer drugs... others think it's a communist plot. Basically the social interactions of all the changing factors in our society are far too complicated for us to control. We just have to hold on to the panic handles and hope that we are heading for a soft landing. But one things for sure, depression and the destruction of the nuclear family is not due solely to sex out of marriage. Jeff.

alt.atheism

I've been following discussions about the Delta Clipper program, and I have one small question. As I understand it, the DC-X derived orbital vehicle (DC-Y & 1) is to reenter the atmosphere sort of sideways, not completely nose-first. So why is the DC-Y look symmetric in every drawing I've seen? I would think that an asymmetric design, sort of like wingless Orbiter, may work better, since less shielding is required on the top side. Can anybody explain? - Ken Kobayashi kkobayas@husc.harvard.edu --

sci.space

PC Mag only got around 9-10 Winmarks when they tested the Steal 24. It sounds like you are ok. jamesc

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

I've heard about Ottomenu which should be a good desktop on Windows 3.0/3.1 . Can anybody tell me where I can get it ? It should be on CICA in /pub/pc/win3/util but it is not. It is also not an WUSTL,SIMTEL and a great number of other sites. Just post it or mail me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andreas Gloege Kazmaierstr.48 (bei Klarmann) 8000 Muenchen 2 089/508336 email : gloege@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Does anyone know if the Dick Estelle who does the Radio Reader on NPR is one in the same with the lefty who pitched briefly for the Jints in '64 & '65? Just curious. --->Paul, spending too much time reading the baseball encyclopedia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We will stretch no farm animal beyond its natural length paula@koufax.cv.hp.com Paul Andresen Hewlett-Packard (503)-750-3511

rec.sport.baseball

Not so. Surveys have shown while the public thinks certain types of gun control may be acceptable they do believe they have an individual right to keep and bear arms, and that the police should not have /discretion/ over who may and may not own firearms. By the end of the Clinton administration a lot of things will be screwed up. Hell, we'll probably be just like England. "Tough titty" ? My how eloquent you are. As for your claim, I think Clinton has a big fight ahead of him if he thinks he's going to pass some comprehensive gun legislation. He will sign the Brady Bill if it gets to his desk. We will do whatever we can to either keep that from happening, or modify it such that it is acceptable to us. Sorry, that's not possible. And that's why we won't give them up either. Legally or illegally, American's will keep their firearms. The number of unregistered weapons in New York City is in the millions. There aren't even close to that number of violent criminals there. If the gov't was serious about stopping violent crime they would keep violent criminals in jail for a long long time where they belong instead of letting them out on early release. Hey, we can go into politics too if we feel like it. I don't believe this one bit. Snore. Like I take advice on the RKBA from a Brit. No way. You watch too much "Star Trek". Actually, this is an understandable attitude from a Brit; you are a subject of the state. Not necessarily. There are ways of resisting oppression without getting caught by the gov't. The "abstract criminal" like the ones who killed a relative of mine while she was working in a carry-out. While undesirable, they are sometimes unavoidable. If you don't want to resist a criminal attack by all means do nothing. I will (a) take my chances resisting violent attack, and (b) stand a better chance of being unharmed than someone who does nothing. What a joke. Criminals want a disarmed population. How can you keep criminals from preying on us after our best means of self defense is taken away ?

talk.politics.guns

I guarantee that if Bonds wins the MVP the Giants will finish higher than 6th. luigi

rec.sport.baseball

Library of Congress to Host Dead Sea Scroll Symposium April 21-22 To: National and Assignment desks, Daybook Editor Contact: John Sullivan, 202-707-9216, or Lucy Suddreth, 202-707-9191 both of the Library of Congress WASHINGTON, April 19 -- A symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls will be held at the Library of Congress on Wednesday, April 21, and Thursday, April 22. The two-day program, cosponsored by the library and Baltimore Hebrew University, with additional support from the Project Judaica Foundation, will be held in the library's Mumford Room, sixth floor, Madison Building. Seating is limited, and admission to any session of the symposium must be requested in writing (see Note A). The symposium will be held one week before the public opening of a major exhibition, "Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship," that opens at the Library of Congress on April 29. On view will be fragmentary scrolls and archaeological artifacts excavated at Qumran, on loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority. Approximately 50 items from Library of Congress special collections will augment these materials. The exhibition, on view in the Madison Gallery, through Aug. 1, is made possible by a generous gift from the Project Judaica Foundation of Washington, D.C. The Dead Sea Scrolls have been the focus of public and scholarly interest since 1947, when they were discovered in the desert 13 miles east of Jerusalem. The symposium will explore the origin and meaning of the scrolls and current scholarship. Scholars from diverse academic backgrounds and religious affiliations, will offer their disparate views, ensuring a lively discussion. The symposium schedule includes opening remarks on April 21, at 2 p.m., by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, and by Dr. Norma Furst, president, Baltimore Hebrew University. Co-chairing the symposium are Joseph Baumgarten, professor of Rabbinic Literature and Institutions, Baltimore Hebrew University and Michael Grunberger, head, Hebraic Section, Library of Congress. Geza Vermes, professor emeritus of Jewish studies, Oxford University, will give the keynote address on the current state of scroll research, focusing on where we stand today. On the second day, the closing address will be given by Shmaryahu Talmon, who will propose a research agenda, picking up the theme of how the Qumran studies might proceed. On Wednesday, April 21, other speakers will include: -- Eugene Ulrich, professor of Hebrew Scriptures, University of Notre Dame and chief editor, Biblical Scrolls from Qumran, on "The Bible at Qumran;" -- Michael Stone, National Endowment for the Humanities distinguished visiting professor of religious studies, University of Richmond, on "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Pseudepigrapha." -- From 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. a special preview of the exhibition will be given to symposium participants and guests. On Thursday, April 22, beginning at 9 a.m., speakers will include: -- Magen Broshi, curator, shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, on "Qumran: The Archaeological Evidence;" -- P. Kyle McCarter, Albright professor of Biblical and ancient near Eastern studies, The Johns Hopkins University, on "The Copper Scroll;" -- Lawrence H. Schiffman, professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies, New York University, on "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism;" and -- James VanderKam, professor of theology, University of Notre Dame, on "Messianism in the Scrolls and in Early Christianity." The Thursday afternoon sessions, at 1:30 p.m., include: -- Devorah Dimant, associate professor of Bible and Ancient Jewish Thought, University of Haifa, on "Qumran Manuscripts: Library of a Jewish Community;" -- Norman Golb, Rosenberger professor of Jewish history and civilization, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, on "The Current Status of the Jerusalem Origin of the Scrolls;" -- Shmaryahu Talmon, J.L. Magnas professor emeritus of Biblical studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, on "The Essential 'Commune of the Renewed Covenant': How Should Qumran Studies Proceed?" will close the symposium. There will be ample time for question and answer periods at the end of each session. Also on Wednesday, April 21, at 11 a.m.: The Library of Congress and The Israel Antiquities Authority will hold a lecture by Esther Boyd-Alkalay, consulting conservator, Israel Antiquities Authority, on "Preserving the Dead Sea Scrolls" in the Mumford Room, LM-649, James Madison Memorial Building, The Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. ------ NOTE A: For more information about admission to the symposium, please contact, in writing, Dr. Michael Grunberger, head, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540. -30-

soc.religion.christian

My online Bible is on a CD, but I don't own a CD-ROM system for the time being, so I can't search for the famous cite where Jesus explicitly states that he didn't want to break existing (Jewish) laws. In other words technically speaking Christians should use Saturday and not Sunday as their holy day, if they want to conform to the teachings of Jesus. Cheers, Kent

talk.religion.misc

You may also want to buy a 'self injector' or something like that. My friend is diabetic. You load the hyperdermic, put it in a plastic case and set a spring to automatically push the needle into the skin and depress the plunger. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Live From New York, It's SATURDAY NIGHT...

sci.med

If the free market places an attractive price on the screwing in of a light bulb, you can bet your bottom dollar that the light bulb will most certainly get screwed in -- and most promptly at that, too.

talk.politics.misc

They spent quite a bit of time on the wording of the Constitution. They picked words whose meanings implied the intent. We have already looked in the dictionary to define the word. Isn't this sufficient? But we were discussing it in relation to the death penalty. And, the Constitution need not define each of the words within. Anyone who doesn't know what cruel is can look in the dictionary (and we did).

alt.atheism

The following is posted for a friend. Send replies to the address at the end of the post please. Attention Zenith Z-248 owners!!! upgrade your 8 MHz AT-class machine to '386 performance with a genuine Zenith motherboard for a clone price! Motherboard and I/O card pop right in to your Z-248 case while keeping your existing video and disk controllers. Zenith Z-386/25 motherboard featuring 16kb of 16-layer, posted-write cache using 15 ns SRAM; 8 Mb of 70 ns DRAM included, accepts 20 Mb on motherboard (further RAM upgrades available via SuperSlots running at memory bus speeds; 7 Expansion slots feature 4 Zenith 32-bit SuperSlots: autodetects 8/16/32-bit adapters; latest rev. of Z-300 setup/monitor ROMs, two serial ports, one parallel port, secondary fan for improved system cooling, Z-386 User's Guide, Z-386 Maintenance Guide and diagnostics disk included. $575 (includes S/H/insurance). Replies to: stann@aol.com Replies to me will be forwarded. Thanks..... brian

misc.forsale

I don't think anyone is arguing that there would be no effect. But there would be no _net_ _positive_ effect. You also have to consider the negative side: Law abiding citizens, armed with fireamrs (pistols for the most part), prevent between 80,000 (National Crime Survey) and 1,000,000 (Dr. Kleck) crimes each year. (Those are the extremes. Most studies find the number to be 500,000 to 600,000.) About 1% of those crimes are homicides, so private ownership of firearms _saves_ approximately 5,000 lives each year. There are roughly 12,000 criminal homicides and fatal accidents involving guns each year. For there to be any net benefit, you would have to show that gun control measures would disarm over 40% of the criminals currently using guns. That would be very hard to do: According the the federal BATF, only 8% of criminals buy their guns over the counter. Since gun control laws, by their very nature, only effect legal sales, such a law would remove all the benefits of armed, law-abiding citizens while having only a minimal effect on armed criminals (who, by and large, get their guns illegally.) That doesn't sound like a net benefit to me. Since most were with licensed weapons, I assume you are not supporting "reasonable" laws (i.e. waiting periods, background checks, licenses, etc...). Since only a complete ban would alter the statistic you refer to, I assume that's what you are supporting. By the way, 1135 people dies in 1986 from falling down stairs. 250 accidental handgun deaths isn't significant next to other household accidents. 1080 children under the age of 10 died by drowning, 69 from drinking poisonous household chemicals (like Drano), 139 from falls. If the real goal is to reduce the tragic, accidental deaths of children, wouldn't a ban on drain cleaners be a better palce to start? (Or, perhaps, restricting ownership to professionals like plumbers?) While you might call it "emphasis", refering to completely two statistics in the same sentence _implies_ a comparison. If it isn't valid, and you put the numbers together to convince people you are right, the kindest thing I could call it is propaganda.

talk.politics.guns

Title says it all: I'm in need of a Truetype OEM character set font - ie one that contains the line drawing and other characters in the PC character set similar to those you get when running a text mode application. If anyone could point me at such a thing, I'd be grateful. [The only OEM fonts included with Windows are not Truetype.] Regards,

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

(Deletion) For me, it is a "I believe no gods exist" and a "I don't believe gods exist". In other words, I think that statements like gods are or somehow interfere with this world are false or meaningless. In Ontology, one can fairly conclude that when "A exist" is meaningless A does not exist. Under the Pragmatic definition of truth, "A exists" is meaningless makes A exist even logically false. A problem with such statements is that one can't disprove a subjective god by definition, and there might be cases where a subjective god would even make sense. The trouble with most god definitions is that they include some form of objective existence with the consequence of the gods affecting all. Believers derive from it a right to interfere with the life of others. (Deletion)

alt.atheism

I need a complete list of all the polygons that there are, in order. I'll summarize to the net. -------------------------------------------------------- "If only I had been compiled with the '-g' option."

comp.graphics

The article that follows was taken from the Wednesday, April 14, 1993 issue of USA Today ("Drug Use Up Among U.S. eighth-graders" by Mike Snider, p. 6D). A new national survey says drugs are easier to get, more teens are using them and fewer deem drug use as risky. For the last two years, government officials have trumpeted results from the National High School Survey as signs that the drug war is being won. But this year, officials are retreating - drug use by eighth-graders has risen, according to the survey of 50,000 students nationwide. Possible reason for the increase: more experimentation. Why? If drug use dropped during the '80s, eventually some students will have fewer "drug-using contemporaries" who act as examples of substance abuse's drawbacks, says social psychologist Lloyd Johnston, one of the survey authors. Each new wave of youths "must be given the knowledge, skills and motivation to resist using these drugs," Johnston says. This type of resurgence "is possible," says Eileen Shiff, author of "Experts Advise Parents" (Delta, $14.95). But that's not the issue, she says. The prevalence of alcohol and drugs among teens today could result in more alcoholic adults decades from now. Aggravating the problem: baby boomer parents - who experimented with drugs and alcohol as teens - trying to be friends, not parents, to their children. "I've even seen parents serving kegs of beer" to their underage kids and friends, Shiff says. For a recent graduation, Shiff and other parents organized an all-night, "lock-in" party where no booze or drugs were allowed. "We need to fulfill that parental role, otherwise the peer group takes over," she says. Officials may "talk about the war on drugs, but they really haven't done anything that I've seen," says Suzanne Linkous, Scottsdale, Ariz., 16, a volunteer who talks with teens about drugs, dating and other issues on a peer counseling and suicide hot line. Linkous, a member of USA Today's Teen Panel, says "there's always going to be experimentation" with drugs. A real war on drugs could be waged "education-wise," she says. But "some don't want to give kids the facts. They think it will give them ideas; it's the same with birth control. I think you should give the kids the information or have it accessible" through classes, pamphlets and speakers, she says. Education efforts need to start as soon as kids get in school - in kindergarten, says Dallas Owens, 17, teen panelist from Miami Shores, Fla. "I remember in kindergarten, I used to see (drugs). I think kids in the 10th and 12th grades have already made up their minds (about using drugs)," he says. Scare tactics in public service announcements aren't working; only one commercial has gotten it right, he says. The commercial opens with two "good-looking girls" in the restroom talking about having no prom date. Then they take a hit off a joint. "That hits home because it's not attractive," he says. "You can't be doing drugs if you want somebody to like you." Adolescents' choices Drugs used by eighth graders in the last month: Estimated, per 100 students 1991 1992 Pct. chg. Alcohol 25.1 26.1 +4% Cigarettes 14.3 15.5 +8% Marijuana 3.2 3.7 +16% Amphetamines 2.6 3.3 +27% LSD 0.6 0.9 +50% Cocaine 0.5 0.7 +40% Crack 0.3 0.5 +67% Source: University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, 1993 report Scott Kennedy, Brewer and Patriot

talk.politics.misc

This is the second post which seems to be blurring the distinction between real disease caused by Candida albicans and the "disease" that was being asked about, systemic yeast syndrome. There is no question that Candida albicans causes thrush. It also seems to be the case that active yogurt cultures with acidophilous may reduce recurrences of thrush at least for vaginal thrush -- I've never heard of anyone taking it for oral thrush before (though presumably it would work by the same mechanism). Candida is clearly a common minor pathogen and a less common major pathogen. That does not mean that there is evidence that it causes the "systemic yeast syndrome".

sci.med

Hi. I was doing research on subliminal suggestion for a psychology paper, and I read that one researcher flashed hidden messages on the TV screen at 1/200ths of a second. Is that possible? I thought the maximum rate the TV was even capable of displaying images was 1/30th of a second. (or 1/60th of a second for an image composed of only odd or even scan lines)

sci.electronics

Are there any PDS expansion cards out there that specifically take advantage of the LCIII's 32 bit data path and 25MHz clock speed? If they exist, are they significantly faster than the LC/LCII versions?

comp.sys.mac.hardware

I would be concerned about how the car was driven and how well it was maintained. I own a turbocharged one, and I would never buy a turbocharged vehicle unless I knew the owner and his/her driving/maintenance habits. I have been wondering about that myself. The '90 AWD models and the '91s were identical (except for the ABS option). Yes. Some owners had problems with the transaxles. Using synthetic lubricants in the transaxles solved the problem in most cases. The problem was not unique to the AWDs, however. It was common to all models. The Galant VR4 and GSX had the same transaxle, but I didn't see those listed in CR. I don't know of any major complaints in this area, except that the battery that was installed at the factory had a low current rating. The first FWD models (those built before May 1989) were recalled for brake upgrades. Some FWD and AWD owners had problems with warped rotors. Those of us who insist on using manual torque wrenches every time the lug nuts are tightened have never had a problem. I can refer you to someone who has gone through a set of pads in one day! It all depends on how you drive. It seems that most owners have been getting between 40-70k on a set of pads. First time I hear about a problem with the valve train on these cars, other than timing belt failures. If your friend "beats" on the car, then his unit is not a representative sample of the car's reliability. My suggestion is instead of listening to the useless Consumer Reports, talk to several owners (the mailing list may be the best way to reach a few of them). #if (humor_impaired) skip_to TheEnd No matter how much you pay, you won't get all three. Examples: NSX: reliability and looks. Ferrari: reliability ^H^H^H^H^H^H (yeah, right!) speed and looks TheEnd -- The opinions stated above are not necessarily my employer's.

rec.autos

And some comments, with some players deleted. Yep, that Kevin Mitchell. I never would have expected him in the #1 spot. It's no accident that the first two names are 1988 only. As with first and second base, 1988 was the year of the glove. Average DA was 20 points higher in both leagues than any other year. Looks good. Too bad he's moving to short. Highest five-year regular, though he's only had one year as good as Kevin Mitchell :->. The other elite fielders in the league. This is an interesting line. His 1988 figure was slightly below average. His 1990 was pathetic, and his 1991 was the next best year by anybody. Part of that may be his mobility. 1988 was with the Yankees. 1990 was with the Padres, who appear to have a rotten infield. 1991 was with the Twins, and judging by Leius and Gaetti, the Metrodome may be a good place to play third. Add another to the elite fielders list. Too fielders whose career average may overstate their value. I don't know what happened to Caminiti -- judging by the three previous years, his low 1992 may be a fluke. Sabo is merely average, however. His incredible 1988 (best year ever) brings his average up a lot. Strange last two years. According to reputation, one of the best fielders ever at third base. But at the end, he was below average. (Average in 1988 was .643). Boggs has been pretty good. I don't know what happened in 1990, but every other year he has been above average, usually by quite a bit. Last year -- a fluke or a portent? Why is it that the two leagues usually have defensive averages very close to one another, but very different from year to year? Any ideas? Brook is declining. Three first-time regulars, above average in 1992. I'm not sure why Jefferies gets all the grief about his fielding. He's never had a good year, but while at second he improved to become an average fielder, and is an average fielder at third. Zeile, on the other hand, is a below average fielder. Each year he's about 10 points below average. And it's probably not just the park, since Terry Pendleton had excellent DAs in the three years before this. Moving back to second was a good idea. So why is Hayes supposed to be good defensively? He's had a grand total of one year above the league DA, and was pretty bad last year. Howard Johnson and Carney Lansford -- separated at birth. To his credit, HoJo did have one above average year (1990). Lansford couldn't even break the .600 mark without the help of the year of the glove. Good hitter, but his fielding needs work. Not a good fielder. Both are better off at shortstop. Two consecutive horrible years for Leo. Camden Yards doesn't seem to have helped his fielding any. Texas slugger debuts with not only the lowest career DA, but the lowest DA at third ever. Congratulations, Dean. -- Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Grad Student At Large

rec.sport.baseball

re: is "John Q. Public with a gun" protected? Miller was convicted of owning a sawed-off shotgun and not paying the NFA '34 tax. Snatches of the court's decision: The Second Amendment was intended to "assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness of such a force [the militia]... It must be interpreted and applied with that end in view." The militia includes "all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense." However, regarding sawed-off shotguns, "certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common defense." "Judicial notice" is the term of art here -- it meant that no such evidence had been formally presented. This is different from claiming that they had ruled that it wasn't. I'm not talking about plain shotguns in war -- I'm talking about short- barrelled ("sawed-off") shotguns in war. Compare Revolutionary War blunderbusses; luparas in the Spanish-American War; and trench-cleaners in WW I. They were also put to good use by US soldiers in WW II, not to mention being invaluable to "tunnel rats" in Vietnam, but, of course, "Miller" took place in 1939. Here is my quandary: you seem to be arguing that certain types of guns fall outside the scope of the Second. This isn't a useful argument unless you believe that some significant gun or class of gun belongs in that class. I think we both agree that zip guns probably aren't protected. Maybe we also both agree that all the weapons that random state governments have been banning or trying to ban because they have "no sporting purpose" and "no provate citizen would ever need these guns" DO fall under the protection of the Second. So, given that damn near any gun of any practical utility is or has at some time been used by the military, even if only for marksmanship training purposes, I need to understand why you are intent on pressing this point, arguing that that SOMETHING is not protected by the Second. Often, what makes someone unpopular is what other people say about him. How much did any of us fear or abhor the Branch Davidians six months ago? How many of us feared or abhorred Saddam Hussein five years ago? --

talk.politics.guns

From what I've seen in my 17 years as an MOA member, most of the folks in the RA are also in the MOA... I guess it's called covering all the bases to get some idea of what is really happening.. How else does one think the RA gets all the juicey news about what's happen' inside the MOA?

rec.motorcycles

comp.sys.mac.hardware

Large bedroom for rent from June 1-Aug 15 in row house near JHU (Homewood). No smokers or pets. Share house with 2 or 3 F law students. F professional/ student wanted. 2 bath,large kitchen - remodeled last summer, hardwood floors, lr,dr, washer and dryer. Beautiful details. Rent $325 + 1/4 utilities. Located on bus lines.

misc.forsale

Is this being done with the motherboard's SCSI interface? If this is possible then a bit of experimenting with just plain old clock oscillators may be in order. Give us some more details please.

comp.sys.mac.hardware

soc.religion.christian

Jim, Please feel free to correct me and give me some texts. As far as I can see the only text which vaugely relates to jewish evangelism is found in Mt. 23:15. However since this is found only in Mt. it cannot be dated before 90CE which makes it unusefull for understanding Second Temple Judaism.

soc.religion.christian

First, off I'd say that the impact if right before your eyes! 8-) That we are even discussing this is a major impact in and of itself. Further, the early church bears testimony to the impact. Of course they knew where it was. Don't forget that Jesus was seen by both the Jews and the Romans as a troublemaker. Pilate was no fool and didn't need the additional headaches of some fishermen stealing Jesus' body to make it appear He had arisen. Since Jesus was buried in the grave of a man well know to the Sanhedrin, to say that they didn't know where He was buried begs the question. Now, you say that you think that the disciples stole the body. But think on this a moment. Would you die to maintain something you KNEW to be a deliberate lie!? If not, then why do you think the disciples would!? Now, I'm not talking about dying for something you firmly believe to be the truth, but unbeknown to you, it is a lie. Many have done this. No, I'm talking about dying, by beheading, stoning, crucifixion, etc., for something you know to be a lie! Thus, you position with regards to the disciples stealing the body seems rather lightweight to me. As for graverobbers, why risk the severe penalties for grave robbing over the body of Jesus? He wasn't buried with great riches. So, again, this is an argument that can be discounted. That leaves you back on square one. What happened to the body!? IHL, Gene -- The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service. internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80

soc.religion.christian

Does anyone know if a source for the TCM3105 modem chips (as used in the Baycom and my PMP modems)? Ideally, something that is geared toward hobbyists: small quantity, mail order, etc. For years, we've been buying them from a distributor (Marshall) by the hundreds for PMP kits. But orders have dropped to the point where we can no longer afford to offer this service. And all of the distributors I've checked have some crazy minimum order ($100, or so). I'd like to find a source for those still interested in building PMP kits. Any suggestions?

sci.electronics

Even if they outlawed private posession of firearms, there would be no moral force behind that law; I imagine compliance would be low.

talk.politics.guns

Dr. Goebels thought that a lie repeated enough times could finally be believed. I have been observing that 'Poly' has been practicing Goebels' rule quite loyally. 'Poly's audience is mostly made of Greeks who are not allowed to listen to Turkish news. However, in today's informed world Greek propagandists can only fool themselves. For instance, those who lived in 1974 will remember the TV news they watched and the newspapers they read and the younger generation can read the American newspapers of July and August 1974 to find out what really happened. There are in Turkiye the Greek Hospital, The Greek Girls' Lycee Alumni Association, the Principo Islands Greek Benevolent Society, the Greek Medical Foundation, the Principo Greek Orphanage Foundation, the Yovakimion Greek Girls' Lycee Foundation, and the Fener Greek Men's Lycee Foundation. As for Greece, the longstanding use of the adjective 'Turkish' in titles and on signboards is prohibited. The Greek courts have ordered the closure of the Turkish Teachers' Association, the Komotini Turkish Youth Association and the Ksanti Turkish Association on grounds that there are no Turks in Western Thrace. Such community associations had been active until 1984. But they were first told to remove the word 'Turkish' on their buildings and on their official papers and then eventually close down. This is also the final verdict (November 4, 1987) of the Greek High Court. In the city of Komotini, a former Greek Parliamentarian of Turkish parentage, was sentenced recently to 18 months of imprisonment with no right to appeal, just for saying outloud that he was of Turkish descent. This duly-elected ethnic Turkish official was also deprived of his political rights for a period of three years. Each one of these barbaric acts seems to be none other than a vehicle, used by the Greek governments, to cover-up their inferiority complex they display, vis-a-vis, the people of Turkiye. The Agreement on the Exchange of Minorities uses the term 'Turks,' which demonstrates what is actually meant by the previous reference to 'Muslims.' The fact that the Greek governments also mention the existence of a few thousand non-Turkish Muslims does not change the essential reality that there lives in Western Thrace a much bigger Turkish minority. The 'Pomaks' are also a Muslim people, whom all the three nations (Bulgarians, Turks, and Greeks) consider as part of themselves. Do you know how the Muslim Turkish minority was organized according to the agreements? Poor 'Poly.' It also proves that the Turkish people are trapped in Greece and the Greek people are free to settle anywhere in the world. The Greek authorities deny even the existence of a Turkish minority. They pursue the same denial in connection with the Macedonians of Greece. Talk about oppression. In addition, in 1980 the 'democratic' Greek Parliament passed Law No. 1091, virtually taking over the administration of the vakiflar and other charitable trusts. They have ceased to be self-supporting religious and cultural entities. Talk about fascism. The Greek governments are attempting to appoint the muftus, irrespective of the will of the Turkish minority, as state official. Although the Orthodox Church has full authority in similar matters in Greece, the Muslim Turkish minority will have no say in electing its religious leaders. Talk about democracy. The government of Greece has recently destroyed an Islamic convention in Komotini. Such destruction, which reflects an attitude against the Muslim Turkish cultural heritage, is a violation of the Lausanne Convention as well as the 'so-called' Greek Constitution, which is supposed to guarantee the protection of historical monuments. The government of Greece, on the other hand, is building new churches in remote villages as a complementary step toward Hellenizing the region. And you pondered. Sidiropoulos, the president of the Macedonian Human Rights Committee, became the latest victim of a tactic long used by the Greeks to silence critics of policies of forced assimilation of the Macedonian minority. A forestry official by occupation, Sidiropoulos has been sent to 'internal exile' on the island of Kefalonia, hundreds of kilometers away from his native Florina. His employer, the Florina City Council, asked him to depart in 24 hours. The Greek authorities are trying to punish him for his involvement in Copenhagen. He returned to Florina by his own choice and remains without a job. Helsinki Watch, a well-known Human Rights group, had been investigating the plight of the Turkish Minority in Greece. In August 1990, their findings were published in a report titled 'Destroying Ethnic Identity: Turks of Greece.' The report confirmed gross violations of the Human Rights of the Turkish minority by the Greek authorities. It says for instance, the Greek government recently destroyed an Islamic convent in Komotini. Such destruction, which reflects an attitude against the Muslim Turkish cultural heritage, is a violation of the Lausanne Convention. The Turkish cemeteries in the village of Vafeika and in Pinarlik were attacked, and tombstones were broken. The cemetery in Karotas was razed by bulldozers. Shall I go on? Why not? The people of Turkiye are not going to take human rights lessons from the Greek Government. The discussion of human rights violations in Greece does not stop at the Greek frontier. In several following articles I shall dwell on and expose the Greek treatment of Turks in Western Thrace and the Aegean Macedonians. It has been reported that the Greek Cypriot administration has an intense desire for arms and that Greece has made plans to supply it with the tanks and armored vehicles it has to destroy in accordance with the agreement reached on conventional arms reductions in Europe. Meanwhile, Greek and Greek Cypriot officials are reported to have planned to take ostentatious measures aimed at camouflaging the transfer of these tanks and armored vehicles to southern Cyprus, a process that will conflict with the spirit of the agreement on conventional arms reduction in Europe. An acceptable method may certainly be found when there is a will. But we know of various kinds of violent behaviors ranging from physical attacks to the burning of buildings. The rugs at the Amfia village mosque were dragged out to the front of the building and burnt there. Shots were fired on the mosque in the village of Aryana. Now wait, there is more. 'Greek Atrocities in the Vilayet of Smyrna (May to July 1919), Inedited Documents and Evidence of English and French Officers,' Published by The Permanent Bureau of the Turkish Congress at Lausanne, Lausanne, Imprimerie Petter, Giesser & Held, Caroline, 5 (1919). pages 82-83: << 1. The train going from Denizli to Smyrna was stopped at Ephesus and the 90 Turkish travellers, men and women who were in it ordered to descend. And there in the open street, under the eyes of their husbands, fathers and brothers, the women without distinction of age were violated, and then all the travellers were massacred. Amongst the latter the Lieutenant Salih Effendi, a native of Tripoli, and a captain whose name is not known, and to whom the Hellenic authorities had given safe conduct, were killed with specially atrocious tortures. 2. Before the battle, the wife of the lawyer Enver Bey coming from her garden was maltreated by Greek soldiers, she was even stript of her garments and her servant Assie was violated. 3. The two tax gatherers Mustapha and Ali Effendi were killed in the following manner: Their arms were bound behind their backs with wire and their heads were battered and burst open with blows from the butt end of a gun. 4. During the firing of the town, eleven children, six little girls and five boys, fleeing from the flames, were stopped by Greek soldiers in the Ramazan Pacha quarter, and thrown into a burning Jewish house near bridge, where they were burnt alive. This fact is confirmed on oath by the retired commandant Hussein Hussni Effendi who saw it. 5. The clock-maker Ahmed Effendi and his son Sadi were arrested and dragged out of their shop. The son had his eyes put out and was then killed in the court of the Greek Church, but Ahmed Effendi has been no more heard of. 6. At the market, during the fire, two unknown people were wounded by bayonets, then bound together, thrown into the fire and burnt alive. The Greeks killed also many Jews. These are the names of some: Moussa Malki, shoemaker killed Bohor Levy, tailor killed Bohor Israel, cobbler killed Isaac Calvo, shoemaker killed David Aroguete killed Moussa Lerosse killed Gioia Katan killed Meryem Malki killed Soultan Gharib killed Isaac Sabah wounded Moche Fahmi wounded David Sabah wounded Moise Bensignor killed Sarah Bendi killed Jacob Jaffe wounded Aslan Halegna wounded....>> Serdar Argic

talk.politics.mideast

Archive-name: cryptography-faq/part06 Last-modified: 1993/4/15 FAQ for sci.crypt, part 6: Public-Key Cryptography This is the sixth 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 is public-key cryptography? * What's RSA? * Is RSA secure? * How fast can people factor numbers? * What about other public-key cryptosystems? * What is public-key cryptography? In a classic cryptosystem, we have encryption functions E_K and decryption functions D_K such that D_K(E_K(P)) = P for any plaintext P. In a public-key cryptosystem, E_K can be easily computed from some ``public key'' X which in turn is computed from K. X is published, so that anyone can encrypt messages. If D_K cannot be easily computed from X, then only the person who generated K can decrypt messages. That's the essence of public-key cryptography, published by Diffie and Hellman in 1976. In a classic cryptosystem, if you want your friends to be able to send secret messages to you, you have to make sure nobody other than them sees the key K. In a public-key cryptosystem, you just publish X, and you don't have to worry about spies. This is only the beginning of public-key cryptography. There is an extensive literature on security models for public-key cryptography, applications of public-key cryptography, other applications of the mathematical technology behind public-key cryptography, and so on. * What's RSA? RSA is a public-key cryptosystem defined by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman. For full details, there is a FAQ available by ftp at RSA.COM. Here's a small example. Plaintexts are positive integers up to 2^{512}. Keys are quadruples (p,q,e,d), with p a 256-bit prime number, q a 258-bit prime number, and d and e large numbers with (de - 1) divisible by (p-1)(q-1). We define E_K(P) = P^e mod pq, D_K(C) = C^d mod pq. Now E_K is easily computed from the pair (pq,e)---but, as far as anyone knows, there is no easy way to compute D_K from the pair (pq,e). So whoever generates K can publish (pq,e). Anyone can send a secret message to him; he is the only one who can read the messages. * Is RSA secure? Nobody knows. An obvious attack on RSA is to factor pq into p and q. See below for comments on how fast state-of-the-art factorization algorithms run. Unfortunately nobody has the slightest idea how to prove that factorization---or any realistic problem at all, for that matter---is inherently slow. It is easy to formalize what we mean by ``RSA is/isn't strong''; but, as Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr., says, ``Exact definitions appear to be necessary only when one wishes to prove that algorithms with certain properties do _not_ exist, and theoretical computer science is notoriously lacking in such negative results.'' * How fast can people factor numbers? It depends on the size of the numbers. In October 1992 Arjen Lenstra and Dan Bernstein factored 2^523 - 1 into primes, using about three weeks of MasPar time. (The MasPar is a 16384-processor SIMD machine; each processor can add about 200000 integers per second.) The algorithm there is called the ``number field sieve''; it is quite a bit faster for special numbers like 2^523 - 1 than for general numbers n, but it takes time only about exp(O(log^{1/3} n log^{2/3} log n)) in any case. An older and more popular method for smaller numbers is the ``multiple polynomial quadratic sieve'', which takes time exp(O(log^{1/2} n log^{1/2} log n))---faster than the number field sieve for small n, but slower for large n. The breakeven point is somewhere between 100 and 150 digits, depending on the implementations. Factorization is a fast-moving field---the state of the art just a few years ago was nowhere near as good as it is now. If no new methods are developed, then 2048-bit RSA keys will always be safe from factorization, but one can't predict the future. (Before the number field sieve was found, many people conjectured that the quadratic sieve was asymptotically as fast as any factoring method could be.) * What about other public-key cryptosystems?

sci.crypt

Now, that Clinton can get e-mail, i'm wondering if Congress is also going on line.. If so, does anyone have the address to reach them?? I'm also looking for Bill's e-mail address. please e-mail me, i am not a regualar reader of this newsgrouop.

talk.politics.misc

davem@bnr.ca (Dave Mielke) writes, I am extremely uncomfortable with this way of phrasing it. God's love is unconditional, unqualified, unfathomable. We are capable of rejecting God's love but He never fails to love us. These verses do not show that God's love is qualified but rather that He is opposed to evil. I am uncomfortable with the tract in general because there seems to be an innappropriate emphasis on Hell. God deserves our love and worship because of who He is. I do not like the idea of frightening people into accepting Christ. I see evangelism as combining a way of living that shows God's love with putting into words and explaining that love. Preaching the Gospel without living the Gospel is no better than being a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. Here's a question: How many of you are Christians because you are afraid of going to Hell? How many are responding to God's love?

soc.religion.christian

I was playing this golf game and something interesting happened. On the 7th hole, I drove the ball down the fairway, when the ball was in mid-flight, the game completely froze. A couple seconds later, the screen went completely black, with an error message in large "Bubble" letters that said DIVISION BY ZERO. I thought it was funny considering I am a computer programmer, and I had never seen an error like this on an actual video game system like Sega or Nintendo (or even Atari or Intellevision years ago). Oh yeah, after the message, there was also what must have been an address, in hexadecimal. I forget the exact hex code that was given. HAS THIS HAPPENED TO ANYONE ELSE??? It must have, my game shouldn't have been the only one to do this.

rec.sport.hockey

I feel childish. Who mentioned dirtbikes? We're talking highway speeds here. If you go 70mph on your dirtbike then feel free to contribute. Because it wouldn't be a Jeep if it didn't. A friend of mine just bought one and it has more warning stickers than those little 4-wheelers (I guess that's becuase it's a big 4 wheeler). Anyway, it's written in about ten places that the windshield should remain up at all times, and it looks like they've made it a pain to put it down anyway, from what he says. To be fair, I do admit that it would be a similar matter to drive a windscreenless Jeep on the highway as for bikers. They may participate in this discussion, but they're probably few and far between, so I maintain that this topic is of interest primarily to bikers. Notice how Ed picked on the more insignificant (the lower case part) of the two parts of the statement. Besides, around here it is quite rare to see bikers wear goggles on the street. It's either full face with shield, or open face with either nothing or aviator sunglasses. My experience of bicycling with contact lenses and sunglasses says that non-wraparound sunglasses do almost nothing to keep the crap out of ones eyes. Ok, ok, fine, whatever you say, but lets make some attmept to stick to the point. I've been out on the road where I had to stop every half hour to clean my shield there were so many bugs (and my jacket would be a blood-splattered mess) and I'd see guys with shorty helmets, NO GOGGLES, long beards and tight t-shirts merrily cruising along on bikes with no windscreens. Lets be really specific this time, so that even Ed understands. Does anbody think that splattering bugs with one's face is fun, or are there other reasons to do it? Image? Laziness? To make a point about freedom of bug splattering?

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