	Interesting.  All I can say is that I haven't seen any wear in the
1000 miles I've used the stuff on the Ninja, and the bike stays soooo clean.

	I'll check back again in a few thousand more miles.

	While we're on the subject, whereinthehell can I find a 532x110
endless chain, other than the dealer (no, rivet-type master links are not
acceptable)?

Later,


If you are just getting sick of the real estate used by the HCT373, you could
always use the approach I have seen one designer take - he stuck the chip in
the middle of the EPROM socket, under the EPROM.  Naturally, you have to use
an IC socket with the right dimensions, but layout is really easy.


We had a senior NSA scientist in Cambridge at one of our workshops recently
(in fact he was here when the Clipper announcement was made, but we didn't
learn of it till after he'd gone). He said on this point that he was forbidden
by law to monitor conversations between US nationals (and he is a chap who is
very precise about his choice of words). So I don't expect he'd have any qualms
about monitoring a domestic US conversation if one of the parties was an alien.

However it got me thinking of the Navajo code talkers. Just imagine:

+ `Hello, is that the Iraqi mission in New York? This is the Iraqi foreign
+ ministry in Baghdad, I am Farouq Hussein, US citizen, social security number
+ so-and-so'

+ `Yes, indeed, this is the New York mission, Mustafa Jadid speaking, also a
+ US citizen, my social security number is such-and-such, here is our report
+ on activities against the Satan Clinton'


they weren't even carrying extra suits.

So how much mass is saved by not burning the OMS?  That's the critical question.
My data shows that the OMS engines hold 10,900 kg of propellant.  Of that, a
substantial fraction is going to be used for the first OMS burn, the reentry
burn and the reserve.  So Pat, tell us how much fuel the altitude change is
going to take, and how much the EDO pallet, BUS-1 and extra parts are going
mass.  If you can make the numbers work out, _then_ I'll be interested.  After
you show us that it can be done, then tell us how much the EDO pallet, BUS-1
and extra equipment is going to cost.

First, while astronauts certainly have done EVAs with minimal planning, that was
because they _had_ to.  They don't like to do that as a general rule.

Second, remember why they had to improvise during Intelsat 6?  They were trying
to attach a motor to a piece of hardware that wasn't designed to do that.
Trying to shortcut the training is only going to make a repeat more likely.

Third, they don't have eight months.  They have however much time is left
after someone comes up with a plan, shows it can work and gets it approved.
You may think I have a pessimistic attitude.  I think it's realistic.  I'm not
saying that the engineering task is impossible (few engineering tasks are).
What I'm saying is that this is neither cost effective nor feasible under NASA
management.

"All they have to do is soup it up?"  Just what does that mean?

The second servicing mission is a contingency.  You have neither shown that it
would be necessary without your plan nor that it would be unnecessary with your
plan.

No, Pat, I haven't forgotten.

No Pat.  That's $500 million minus the cost of the new hardware, minus the cost
of the extra struff you want to bring along, minus development and mangement
costs, minus extra operating costs.  TANSTAAFL.

I'm sure that if you reread this you'll see that your argument is falacious.

Pat, not only is this messy and less reliable than a device that's _made_ to
perform this task, it also ignores the point.  There is a desire to have
astronauts available so that if the door fails to open, something can be done
about it.  Unless you can provide a very reliable way of reopening the door,
you haven't solved the problem.


What is "aluminium siding"?  I keep seeing references to it.  Something to do
with railway lines, perhaps?

E-mail reply please, I'll never find it otherwise.


Organization: Compact Solutions, Canberra ACT Australia

 > This may be a very naive question but is there any
 > basis for the
 > claim that a CPU will get hotter when a
 > computationally intensive
 > job is running? My friend claims that there will be
 > little difference
 > in the temperature of an idle CPU and a CPU running a
 > computationally
 > intensive job.

From what I've seen in coursework, most CPUs never actually
"idle".  They will continue to service interrupts, etc.,
etc.  The clock will always be running at n Mhz no matter
what it's doing.

I suppose depending on the instruction, the CPU may use
circuitry which has more transistors than other
instructions, but if you consider the additional heat
generated by only a handful of additional, tiny resistors
and then spread that heat dissipation over the CPU's
packaging, the change in temperature to the immediate
environment (ie. the surface of the package) will be
negligible.

Cheers, Ben
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My suggestion look at your current insurance card, there will be a name
accross the top telling you which insurance company you are insured by.
Call information in Houston and get the number of a branch office in the
Houston area, call the insurance company.

Your rates will vary depending on the amount of coverage you want,
do you want to carry comp and collision (probably not on an 82),
what your driving record is.  You mentioned none of these things in your
posting so how can anyone give you accurate information.

Like I said, pick up the phone and make a few calls, it won't kill you.


   Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
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   From: ptm@xact.demon.co.uk (Paul Thomas Mahoney)
   Organization: X-Act Solutions Limited
   X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
   Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 15:28:07 GMT
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   I am looking of information regarding UIMX. I believe this is an application
   front end generator tool for Motif (among others). Whould someone given me a
   contact? I need to get hold of the programmers' guide, or something like it.
   --
   Paul Mahoney, X-Act Solutions Limited
   smail: 20 Shipley Lane, Cooden, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN39 3SR
   email: ptm@xact.demon.co.uk ... pmahoney@cix.compulink.co.uk
   phone: +44 424 846368

I went to the XWorld convention in NY and talked to the people
from Bluestone who make UIMX.  They sent me a HUGE 3 ring binder
of info and a demo tape.  Let me know what you need.


I'm glad to see this idea come up because I've had something similar in mind.
What if you had an authorization key that computed from the name and address
data.  When the user registers, you don't even need to send executable code,
just compute his/her key and send him/her instructions to enter in the
appropriate place the following:

Name=Joe Doe
Address=123 Main Street
City=Anytown, CA
key=ldslfoialsdkcdsngsikhsfd


I have enrolled in "The History of Christianity" at a college here in
St. Louis. The teacher of the class is what I consider to be
closed-minded and bigotted on the subject of what the definition of
Christianity is.  His definition is tied directly to that of the
Trinity and the Catholic church's definition of it and belief in
Jesus Christ is not sufficient to call one's self a Christian.

While his saying it doesn't make it so,  I nevertheless feel insulted
(or am I just neurotic? :^) ). I would like to be able to respond to
him with some sense of literacy while maintaining an amiable
student-teacher relationship.

So, is there common definition of what Christianity is?  As the
previous discussion of the Trinity did not lend itself to an exchange
of flames, I am hopeful that this will also not produce major
flames.

Regards,
--
Larry Autry
Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
autry@sgi.com

[Often we get into discussions about who is Christian.  Unfortunately
there are a number of possible definitions.  Starting from the
broadest, commonly used definitions are:

  a historical definition
  people who accept Christ as Lord and savior
  a broad doctrinal definition
  narrow doctrinal definitions

1) By a historical definition I mean the sort of definition a secular
historian would likely use.  This would include any group that
developed out of the Christian church, and continues within the same
broad culture.  E.g. some Unitarians would fail just about any
doctrinal test you could come up with.  Yet it's clear that that group
developed from Christianity, and people from very different
backgrounds (e.g. Hindus) would likely see them as part of
Christianity.  This is not a definition most Christians like, but it's
relevant in some political and ethnic contexts.

2) Accepting Christ as Lord and savior is a test used by many
Christian groups for membership, e.g. the Southern Baptists and
Presbyterian Church (USA).  I would qualify it by saying that what
most people have in mind is an exclusive commitment to Christ, so that
someone who accepted Christ as one of many gods would not fit.  It's
an attempt to formulate a criterion that is religious but is not based
on technical doctrine.  By this definition, groups such as Arians
would be viewed as heretical Christians, but still Christians.  In the
modern context this would include Mormons, JW's, and "oneness
Pentecostals".  They would be viewed as heretical Christians, but
still Christian.  In practice I believe just about everyone who falls
into this category would accept the Apostle's Creed.

3) The next level is an attempt to give a broad doctrinal definition,
which includes all of the major strands of Christianity, but excludes
groups that are felt to be outside "historic Christianity."  This is
of course a slippery enterprise, since Catholics could argue that
Protestants are outside historic Christianity, etc.  But I think the
most commonly accepted definition would be based on something like the
Nicene Creed and the Formula of Chalcedon.  The attempt is to
characterize doctrines that all major strands of Christianity agree
are key.  Obviously this is to some extent a matter of judgement.  A
Mormon will regard the LDS church as a major strand, and thus will not
want to include anything that contradicts their beliefs.  But I think
this definition would have fairly broad acceptance.

4) Finally, some people use definitions that I would say are limited
to a specific Christian tradition.  E.g. some evangelicals only
consider someone Christian if he has had an evangelical-style
conversion experience, and some I've even heard of groups that limit
it to their specific church.

I think you can find contexts where each of these definitions is used.
A lot is going to depend upon the purpose you're using it for.  If
you're using it descriptively, e.g. in history or anthropology, you'll
probably use definition 1 or 2.  If you're using it normatively, i.e.
to say what you believe the Christian message is, you'll probably use
a definition like 3 or even 4.


The probability is that the Oilers are not going anywhere.

Pocklington has chosen this moment to make his "last" stand is
because he is at the moment of maximum advantage...the provincial
government is months away from a provincial election...it is
the moment when he has maximum power to convince Northlands
to give him a better arena deal or a better purchase price...
and it is before the NHL's new collective agreement with
the players which might involve some enhanced revenue-sharing.

Pocklington is many things...stupid is not one of them.

He can dictate terms...because other cities will pay his
price if Edmonton doesn't.

Edmonton has already fucked up its international airport, and
surrendered supremacy to Calgary, and over the next few years
Edmonton is going to take a hard hit from government cutbacks.
It will screw itself beyond recogniton if it manages to find
a way to lose its hockey team too...because Northlands wants
to continue to use the Oilers to subsidize horse racing.

However, in this case, about the long-term financial
viability of the Oilers, the fact is that Pocklington is basically
right, regardless of who owns the team, and it is right to provoke
the crisis now, before the team accumulates millions of dollars
in losses, or becomes habitually uncompetitive because of lack
of money.

Sather has done his job...the Oilers are poised to be competitive
again very soon (Al Strachan, one of the most knowledgeble hockey
writers in Canada in a post-mortem of the Oilers season in
the Globe and Mail recently agrees with me.)


The OED gives the etymology of "sibyl" as coming from the ancient Greek

	sigma iota beta upsilon lambda lambda alpha
	( S i b ih l l a )

which is claimed to come from the Doric

	sigma iota omicron beta upsilon lambda lambda alpha
	( s i o b ih l l a )

which (if I read it properly) in turn came from the Attican (Athenian)

	theta epsilon omicron beta omicron upsilon lambda eta
	( th eh o b o ih l ae )

I don't know much about Attis, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that
this God was tied to the Athenian capital

	Alpha tau tau iota kappa upsilon sigma
	(a t t i k u s)


Kidding, right?

Corvette, several MBZ's and BMW's, Mustang GT, etc., etc. There's a lot of
them. You from a European site?

	-Kenny


Probably not! The jesus freak's post is probably JSN104@PSUVM. Penn State
is just loaded to the hilt with bible bangers. I use to go there *vomit* and
it was the reason I left. They even had a group try to stop playing
rock music in the dining halls one year cuz they deemed it satanic. Kampus
Krusade for Khrist people run the damn place for the most part....except
the Liberal Arts departments...they are the safe havens.
-wdb


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Italy-Sweden 2-6 (0-1,1-2,1-3)
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	While dedicating the Holocaust Memorial Museum, President
Clinton remarked:

	``The evil represented in this museum is incontestable,
but as we are its witness, so must we remain its adversary in the
world in which we live, so we must stop the fabricators of history
and the bullies as well."

	Clinton made this comment shortly after giving Janet Reno
the go-ahead to hastily construct a gas chamber and crematorium
in Waco... on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw uprising.

	Say, wasn't Monday also the anniversary of Paul Revere's ride?
Is that a clue?


From: Center for Policy Research <cpr>
Subject: Zionist leaders' frank statements

The following are quotations from Zionist leaders. They appear in
numerous scholarly works dealing with the Palestine question. I urge those
who have access to original sources, to verify the authenticity of the
source and post here their finding, adhering to the truth whatever it be.
Thanks.
Elias Davidsson
------------------------------

Quotations from Zionist leaders

1. "There was no such thing as Palestinians"
(Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, London Sunday
Times, 15 June 1969)

2. "There is, however, a difficulty from which the Zionist
dares not avert his eyes, though he rarely likes to face it.
Palestine proper has already its inhabitants."
(Israel Zangwill, The Voice of Jerusalem, London 1920,
p.88)

3. "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be
able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged
cockroaches in a bottle."
(Raphael Eitan, Israeli Chief of Staff, New York Times, 14
April 1983)

4. "[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs."
(Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel in a speech to
the Knesset,
quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, 'Begin and the "Beasts", New
Statesman, 25 June 1982)

5. "Both the process of expropriation [of the Palestinians]
and the removal of the poor must be carried out
discreetly and circumspectly".
(Dr. Theodor Herzl, The Complete Diaries, Herzl Press,
1960, I., p.88)

6. "Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no
room for both people together in this country...The only
solution is a Palestine.....without Arabs. And there is no
other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to the
neighboring countries, to transfer all of them; not one
village, not one tribe, should be left."
(Joseph Weitz, Jewish National Fund, administrator
responsible for Zionist colonization. Davar, 29 September
1967).

7."We shall try to spirit the penniless population [the
Palestinians] across the border by procuring employment
for it in the transit countries, while denying it any
employment in our own country"
(Theodor Herzl, The Complete Diaries, Herzl Press, 1960,
I, p.88)

8. "[Zionists]...looked for means...to cause the tens of
thousands of sulky Arabs who remained in the Galilee to
flee...I gathered all the Jewish muktars, who have contact
with Arabs in different villages and asked them to
whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish
reinforcement has arrived in Galilee and that it is going
to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should
suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while
there is still time....The tactic reached its goal....wide
areas were cleaned."

(Yig'al Alon, Sepher Ha Palmach, in Hebrew, II. p.268,
quoted in Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest, IPS, 1971).

10. "[Jews] must expel Arabs and take their place"
(David Ben Gurion, 1937, quoted in Shabtai Teveth, Ben
Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press,
1985, p. 89)

11. "We must do everything to ensure they [the
Palestinian refugees] never do return"
(David Ben Gurion, in his diary, 19 July 1948, quoted in
Michael Bar Zohar, Ben Gurion: The Armed Prophet,
Prentice-Hall, 1967, p.157)

12. "The country was mostly an empty desert, with only
a few islands of Arab settlement"
(Shimon Peres, Minister of Defense, quoted in David's
Sling: The Arming of Israel, Weidenfeld and Nicholson,
1970, p.249)

13. "All this story about the danger of extermination [of
Jews] has been blown up....to justify the annexation of
new Arab territories"
(Mordechai Bentov, Israeli Cabinet Minister, Al
Hamishmar, 14 April 1972)

14. "Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can
disqualify terrorism as a means of combat"
(Yitzhak Shamir, Hehazit, Summer 1943 [Journal of the
LEHI, the Stern Gang], translated from the Israeli daily
Al-Hamishmar, 24 December 1987

14. "The domination of Jewish agriculture by Arab
workers is a cancer in our body"
(A. Uzan, Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Ha'aretz, 13
December 1974)

15. "There can be only one national home in Palestine,
and that a Jewish one, and no equality in the partnership
between Jews and Arabs"
(Montague David Eder, President of the Zionist
Federation of Great Britain, 1931,
in Doreen Ingrams, comp., Palestine Papers 1917-1922,
Seeds of Conflict, George Braziller, 1973, p. 135)

16. "I hope that the Jewish frontiers of Palestine will be
as great as Jewish energy for getting Palestine"
(Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of the State of
Israel, Excerpts from His Historic Statements, Writings
and Addresses, Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1952, p.48)

17. "There is not a single Jewish village in this country
that has not been built on the site of an Arab village"
(Moshe Dayan, Ha'aretz, 4 April 1969...)

18. "Some people talk of expelling 700,000 to 800,000
Arabs in the event of a new war, and instruments have
been prepared"
(Aharon Yariv, former chief of Israeli military
intelligence, 1980, Inquiry, 8 December 1980)

19. "If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace]
with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their
country."
(David Ben Gurion, in Nahum Goldmann, The Jewish
Paradox, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p.99)

20. "We should there [in Palestine] form a portion of the
rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization
as opposed to barbarism."
(Dr. Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, London, 1896, p.
29)

21. "I deeply believe in launching preventive war
against the Arab States without further hesitation. By
doing so we will achieve two targets: firstly, the
annihilation of Arab power; and secondly, the expansion
of our territory"
(Menachem Begin, in a speech to the Knesset, 12 October
1955)

22. "During the last 100 years our people have been in a
process of building up the country and the nation, of
expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional
settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no
Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that
we are near the end of the road."
(Moshe Dayan, Ma'ariv, 7 July 1968)

23. "Until the British left, no Jewish settlement, however
remote, was entered or seized by the Arabs, while the
Haganah, under severe and frequent attack, captured
many Arab positions and liberated Tiberias and Haifa,
Jaffa and Safad"
(David Ben Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel,
Philosophical Library, 1954, p.530)

24. "In the months preceding the Arab invasion [of
1948], and while the five Arab states were conducting
preparations, we continued to make sallies into Arab
territory. The conquest of Jaffa stands out as an event of
first-rate importance in the struggle for Hebrew
independence early in May, on the eve of the invasion
by the five Arab states."
(Menachem Begin, The Revolt,  Nash, 1972, p.348)

25. "What the French could do in Tunisia, I said, the Jews
would be able to do in Palestine with Jewish will, Jewish
money, Jewish power and Jewish enthusiasm"
(Dr. Chaim Weizmann, First President of the State of
Israel, Trial and Error, Harper, 1949, p.244)

26. "I do not think Nasser wanted war. The two divisions
he sent to the Sinai on May 14 [1967] would not have
been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He
knew it and we knew it."
(Yitzhak Rabin, Le Monde, 29 February 1968)

27. "To pretend that the Egyptian forces massed on our
frontiers [in 1967] were in position to threaten the
existence of Israel constitutes an insult not only to the
intelligence of anyone capable of analyzing this sort of
situation, but above all an insult to the Zahal [Israeli
army]"
(General Res. Matti Peled, Ha'aretz,  19 March 1972)

28. "when we have broken the strength of the Arab
Legion and bombarded Amman, we would wipe out
Transjordan; after that Syria would fall....we would thus
end the war, and would have put paid to Egypt, Assyria
and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors"
(David Ben Gurion in his diaries, quoted in Michael Bar-
Zohar,  The Armed Prophet, A Biography of Ben-Gurion,
Prentice-Hall, 1967, p.139)

29. "These Jews of the Diaspora would like to see us, for
their own reasons, heroes with our backs to the wall. But
this wish can in no way change the realities."
(Israeli General Ezer Weizmann, Le Monde, 3 June 1972)


This definitely had nothing to do with the entry of the government into
the support of science; some of it is relevant in technology.  There
was little involvement of federal funds, or except through support of
state universities, of state funds, for scientific research before WWII.
The US research position had been growing steadily, and the funding was
mainly from university and private foundation funds.  There were not that
many research universities, but they all provided their researchers with
low teaching loads, laboratories, assistants, and equipment, and funds for
travel to scientific meetings.  Not that much, but it was provided, and a
university wishing to get a scholar had to consider research funding as well
as salary.

During WWII, the military and the defense departments found that pure
scientists could do quite well with their problems, even though they
were not exactly in the areas of the scientists' expertise.  This is
probably because of the "research mind" approach, which is not to try
to find a solution, but to understand the problem and see if a solution
emerges.  This works in stages, and as research scientists were used to
discussion about their problems, the job got done.

The military realized the importance of maintaining scientists for the
future, and started funding pure research after WWII.  But Congress was
unwilling to have military funds diverted into this investment into the
future supply of scientists, and set up other organizations, such as
NSF, to do the job.  It also set up an elaborate procedure to supposedly
keep politics out.  Also, the government did a job on private foundations,
making it more difficult for them to act to support research.

The worst part of the federal involvement is that in those areas in which
the government supports research the university will not provide funding,
and in fact expects its scholars to bring in net government money.  Suppose,
as has been the case, I have a project which could use the assistance of
a graduate student for a few months.  What do you think happens if I ask
for one?  The answer I will get is, "Get the money from NSF."  Now the
money at the university level is a few thousand, but at the NSF level it
comes to about 20 thousand, and is likely to keep a faculty member from
getting supported.  So the government is, in effect, deciding which projects
get supported, and how much.

Also, the government decided that the "wealth" should be spread.  So instead
of having a moderate number of universities which were primarily research
institutions, the idea that more schools should get into the act came into
being.  And instead of evaluating scholars, they had to go to evaluating
reseach proposals.  As a researcher, I can tell you that any research proposal
has to be mainly wishful thinking, or as now happens, the investigator conceals
already done work to release it as the results of the research.  What I am
proposing today I may solve before the funding is granted, I may find
impossible, or I may find that it is too difficult.  In addition, tomorrow
I may get unexpected research results.  Possibly I may bet a bright idea
which solves yesterday's too difficult problem, or a whole new approach to
something I had not considered can develop.  This is the nature of the beast,
and except for really vague statements, if something can be predicted, it
is not major research, but development or routine activity not requiring
more than minimal attention of a good researcher.

I believe that at this time less quality research is being done than would
have happened if the government had never gotten into it, and the government
is trying to divert researchers from thinkers to plodders.


From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: F<O>CUS/HEALTH: Millions of Americans un-/under- covered

F<O>CUS/HEALTH: Millions of Americans un-/under- covered

		 ===================================
		 Percentage of population covered by
		  public health insurance, 1990(25)
		 ===================================

=============================================
COUNTRY      PERCENT  COUNTRY         PERCENT
=============================================
Australia      100    Sweden            100
Canada         100    United Kingdom    100
Denmark        100    Austria            99
Finland        100    France             99
Ireland        100    Switzerland        99
Italy          100    Spain              99
Japan          100    Belgium            98
New Zealand    100    Germany            92
Netherlands    100    United States      21
Norway         100

Sources: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris),
Health Data file, 1991: U.S.: National Center for Heath Statistics, Advance
Data, No. 201, June 18, 1991.

******************************************************************
"We're Number One in percentage of population without health insurance.
******************************************************************

"The main reason we're Number One in  percentage of population without
health  insurance  is  that we're last  in  percentage  of  population
covered  by public health insurance. Only about one fifth of Americans
qualify for the main types of public health insurance available in the
United States: Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans' benefits.(2l)

"Of those  who don't  qualify, many  have private  insurance.(22)  But
almost  one  in  seven  Americans  (34  million people--most living in
families with a working adult) have  no insurance  at  all, and one in
four (63 million) have been without insurance for a substantial period
of time during the last two years. Many more have inadequate coverage,
meaning that they could be bankrupted by a major illness.(23) In fact,
one  health  care  expert  says that because  only 1  percent  of  the
population  has   private   longterm-care  insurance,  "virtually  any
American could be  impoverished by a prolonged disabling illness."(24)
Additionally, as many as  40 percent of those  eligible for some forms
of public aid do not  receive  it. These  gaps in health  care  result
directly from  the  fact  that  the  United  States is  the only major
industrialized  nation (other than  South Africa) without  a  national
health insurance  plan providing  universal coverage while controlling
costs.

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
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[Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)]

    ``America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation.''


NESN owns the rights to Bruin telecasts.  I suspect that NESN was only
going to sell one telecast to ESPN (remember, ESPN only owns exclusive
rights to the FINALS, not the entire playoffs).  Since ESPN bought the
SCA contract, there are less wrangles to untie with showing the Devils
and Penguins.

I think the same broadcast rights factor comes into it.  Plus they
have no way of fitting western game times into their current schedule
unless the NHL was willing to make a western club move up their game.
I think the NHL got as much as it could when it shuffled the deck for ABC.

Same exact coverage as last week:  Pit-NJ game 4 in the east, Chi-StL
in the central, LA-Cgy in the mountains and west.


I just posted this reply to comp.risks (answering RISKS DIGEST 14.53).
Summary: Re: [14.53 Mark Seecof] "key escrow"

It is tempting (albeit chauvinistic) to believe that we have a new situation
here, thanks to our pet computers.  This is not true.  David Kahn's "The
Codebreakers", a history of cryptography, makes two things obvious:

1.	Cryptography is a spontaneous invention of private human individuals
	and has been going on for thousands of years.  [Teen-age slang and
	cipher inventions provide a modern example of this spontaneous
	creation.]

2.	The systems people created on their own were roughly as secure as (and
	sometimes more secure than) those used by military and diplomatic
	users *of that time* (although they seem very simple and insecure
	today). [e.g., In places, the Bible used a more complex simple
	substitution than Caesar did for his military dispatches, but before
	Caesar.]

I commend Kahn's book to all who might be interested.


A student told me today that she has been diagnosed with kidney stones, a
cyst on one kidney, and a kidney infection.  She was upset because her
condition had been misdiagnosed since last fall, and she has been ill all
this time.  During her most recent doctor's appointment at her parents'
HMO clinic, she said that about FORTY! x-rays were made of her kidney.
When she asked why so many x-rays were being made, she was told by a
technician that they need to see the area from different views, but she
says that about five x-rays were made from EACH angle.  She couldn't help
feeling that something must be wrong with the procedure or something.  She
is a pre-med student and feels she could have understood what was
happening if someone would have explained.  When nobody would, she got
worried.
	Also, she is told that thre are 300! surgery patients ahead of her
and that they cannot do surgery until August or so.  It is now April...
She is supposed to rest a lot and drink fluids.  But she has to go to
classes.  She wonders why they have given her no medicine.  She plans to
call back her doctor's office / clinic and try to get answers to these
questions.  But I told her I would also write in to sci.med and see what I
could find out about why there were so many x-rays and whether it seems
o.k. to wait in line 3 or more months for surgery for something like this
or whether she should be looking elsewhere for her care.  She does plan to
get a second opinion, too.

	I will pass info on to her.  It never hurts to get information
from more than one source.

You can e-mail me or post.

Thanks.


I will poke around in the U of M archives and see if I find something. If
anyone else finds this, please post the location! :-)


yes

yes, seen glue-on, tape-on, clip-on, one-inch square and larger.
my favorite is the 3.5 inch plastic U.S.Toyo fan I use just plopped
down on top of the chip during open-case service.

depends on the mounting

only if the manufacturer was smart

only if it goes out - got that "blanket" effect which doesn't help chip life

longer system life makes good economic sense to me

yes - well, not the melted cheese

lets you touch the surface - the "rule of thumb" for cooling solid-state

the "attached" fans look slick and work well but I'm bothered by the potential
loss of cooling if the fan goes out. at least with the power supply fan you
can reach back there every few days and feel the fan blowing.

I prefer to put a stock fan off the drive brackets or front panel
to blow air across the cpu - depends a lot on case and board layout, though.

on-chip fans from Fry's Electronics in the SF Bay Area are about 30.00. I
get the stock power supply fans for about 11.00.


Hi,

    Does anyone know how to redirect the stdout and stderr of a program to
    a callback function in X ? The program does not fork() a child process
    so I guess I can't use pipes.

    Can anyone help ?

    Thanks,


[...]

And presumably this is a matter of degree; it must be common to prescribe
a drug that has _some_ chance of giving _some_ benefit, but not a high
probability of it, and/or not a large benefit.  Right?


The general consensus seems to be that an extended keyboard (or the new
ergonomic keyboard) with mouse is ok. The PB160 is rated for 200mA which is
apparently identical to the LC and the LC works fine with said attachments.

Thanks very much to those who replied...I am now on my way to order a Battleship
and a mouse....    :)


Ahh, perhaps that's why we've (astronomers) have just built *2* 10-meter
ground-based scopes and are studying designs for larger ones.
Seriously, though, you're never going to get a 10-meter scope into orbit
as cheaply as you can build one on the ground, and with adaptive optics
and a good site, the difference in quality is narrowed quite a bit
anyway.  Also, scopes in low orbit (like Hubble) can only observe things
continuously for ~45 minutes at a time, which can be a serious
limitation.

I sure as hell does if the 'point of light' is half a degree in extent
and as bright as the moon.  Have you ever noticed how much brighter the
night sky is on a moonlit night?

Existing satellites *are* points of light, but an advertising sign that
appeared as a point would be useless, so I rather think these will
appear larger than a 'typical' satellite.  Also, satellite tracks *are*
ruining lots of plates in the current Palomar Sky Survey.

What deparment are you in anyway, Philosophy?  You obviously are not
qualified to speak about astronomy...


OK.  Instead of holding an auction, I have decided to compute prices for each comic (after many suggestions).  These are the most reasonable prices I can give (not negotiable).  If you would like to purchase a comic (or group), simply email me with the title and issue #'s you want.  The price for each issue is shown beside each comic.  First come, first served!!!  There is no more bidding.  Meet my price and it is yours.  I can be reached at this email address:

02106@chopin.udel.edu or
02106@ravel.udel.edu or
02106@bach.udel.edu or
02106@brahms.udel.edu

NO MORE HAGGLING ABOUT THE PRICE!!!!!!!!
LOTS OF COMICS FOR $1, $2, or $3 LOOK AT LIST!!!!!

Shipping is $2 for 1-3 comics.  For more than 3, the price will be determined by the volume of the purchase (I may have to use a big heavy box for large orders which costs more to mail).

For all those who have bought comics from me, thanks!!!

All comics are near mint unless otherwise noted (my books were graded by
mile high comics and other comic professional collectors, not me!)

Here is the list:

*reserved* means that I have made a deal with a person and I am waiting for the check to arrive.
*reserved* comics are as good as sold (sorry!)

Incredible Hulk
156 (vs another Hulk) $3
195 $2
196 $2
246 (vs Captain Marvel) $1
248 $1
249 $1
250 (Double size issue vs Silver Surfer) $5
255 (vs Thor) $1
279 $1
300 $2
312 $2
313 $1
316 (vs Bi Coastal Avengers) $1
347 $1 *reserved*
348 $1
350 (vs Thing) $2
354 $1
358 $1
360 $1
362 (vs Werewolf By Night) $2
364 $1
365 $1
366 $1 *reserved*
379 (1 copy) $5

Punisher
50 $1
57 $2

Punisher War Journal
29 (Ghost Rider) $2
30 (Ghost Rider) $2

Punisher Armory
1 $4
2 $2

Original Ghost Rider Rides Again (Reprint)
1 $1

Ghost Rider (old series)
37 $3 *reserved*
43 (vs Johnny Blaze) $3 *reserved*
77 (2 copies, origin of GR dream) $4 each

Ghost Rider (new series)
15 (1st print, Green glow in dark cover, 1 copy) $5
15 (2nd print, gold cover w/ glow cover) $3

Web of Spiderman
56 (2 copies) $2 each
60 $3
69 (vs Hulk, 1 copy left!!!)  $2
70 (SpiderHulk, 1 copy left!!!)  $2
71 $1
72 $1
78 $1

Deadly Foes of Spiderman
1 (2 copies) $2 each
2 $2
3 $2

Amazing Spiderman vs Dr. Octopus (special NACME issue) $2

Amazing Spiderman
350 (vs Dr. Doom, 1 copy LEFT!!!) $2

Spiderman (1990)
1 (silver, not bagged) $4
6 $3
7 $3
8 (2 copies) $2 each
9 (w/ Wolverine, 1 COPY LEFT!!!) $2
10 $2
11 $1
13 $5
16 $1

Enemy Ace Special #1 $2

New Warriors
1 (gold cover) $2
8 $4

Superman Man of Steel #1 $2

Superman (new)
53 (2 copies) $1 each
55 $1
56 $1

Adventures of Superman
479 $1
Annual #3 $1

Superman Annual #3 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1

Action Comics #666 $1

Avengers West Coast #69 (Hawkeye vs US Agent) $1

Batman
465 (Robin returns) $2
466 $1
467 $1
Annual #15 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $3

Captain America
230 (vs Hulk) $2
257 (vs Hulk) $1

Armegedon 2001
1 $4
2 $2

Foolkiller #1 $2

Infinity Gauntlet
1 $6
4 $3
5 $3

Double Dragon #1 $1

Deathlok (series)
2 $1

Transformers #80 (last issue) $2

Wonder Man
1 $1
2 $1

Flaming Carrot #25 (w/ Ninja Turtles) $2

The Comet #1 $1

Legend of the Shield #1 $1

Justice Society of America
1 $1
2 $1
3 $1
4 $1

Official movie mag from Turtles II movie (sealed w/ Jelloman comic) $5

Robin
1 (1 copies w/ poster) $3
1 (3rd print) $1
5 (6 copies) $1 each

Guardians of the Galaxy
1 $6
2 $3
3 $2
4 $2
5 $2
6 $2
7 $2
8 $2
9 (2 copies) $3 each
10 $2
11 $2
12 $1
13 $3
14 $3
15 $1
16 $1
17 $1
18 (2 copies) $2 each

Superman vs Amazing Spiderman (oversized issue from 70's) $7 *reserved*

DarkHawk
1 (3 copies) $8 each
2 (2 copies) $6 each
3 $5
4 $4
5 $4
6 $3
7 $2
8 $2
9 $3
10 $1

Thor
246 $1
428 $1
429 (vs Juggernaut) $2
430 (w/ Ghost Rider) $1
431 $1
432 (Thor vs Loki, 2 copies) $3 each
433 (new Thor) $2
Annual #16 $1

What if....
13 $1
23 $1
25 $2
26 $1

Alpha Flight
29 $1
51 $6
53 $6
94 (vs Fant. 4) $1

New Mutants
22 $2
100 (last issue, 1st look at X-Force, 1st print, 2 copies) $5 each
100 (2nd print, gold cover) $4

Flash (new)
43 $1
48 $1
49 $1
50 $2
51 $1
Annual #4 $1

Uncanny X-Men
191 $3
215 $2
255 (2 copies) $2 each
258 $6
275 (1 COPY LEFT 1st print) $6
275 (gold 2nd print) $3
276 $3
277 $3
278 $2
279 $2
280 $2
281 $3
282 $4
283 $6

Defenders
52 (Hulk vs Sub Mariner) $2

Fantastic Four
347 $4
348 $2
349 (3 copies) $2 each

Wolverine
11 $3 *reserved*
20 $2
41 (w/ Cable, 2 copies) $6 each
42 $4
43 $3

Silver Surfer (1987)
1 $6
2 $3
3 $3
4 $3
5 $2
6 $2
8 $2
22 $2
24 $2
32 $2
49 $2
50 (Foil cover, only 1 copy left!!) $6
51 $2
52 $2
53 $1
54 $1
55 $1
56 $1
58 $2
59 $2

Avengers
326 $3
328 (origin of Rage) $3

X-Factor
40 $6
67 $3
68 $6
71 $3
73 $1

Green Lantern (1990)
3 $2
9 (2 copies) $1 each
10 $1
11 $1
12 $1

Toxic Avenger
1 (3 copies) $1 each
2 $1

Sleepwalker
1 (3 copies) $2 each
3 $1
7 $1

Kool Aid Man #1 (sealed in white bag, 2 copies) $2 each

X-Force
1 (bagged w/ Cable Card) $4
1 (bagged w/ Shatterstar Card) $3
2 $2
3 $1
4 $1

NFL Superpro
1  $1

Dr. Strange #31 $1

Hawkworld Annual #2 (2nd print, Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1

Hawk & Dove Annual #2 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1

Justice League of America Annual #5 (Armegedon 2001 tie in) $1

Send all comments to

02106@chopin.udel.edu

Thanks
Sam (the "ex"  comic book collector)


: >
: >Unless, of course, the problem is that homosexuality is a form
: >of mental disorder, caused by childhood sexual abuse, as a number of
: >recent works suggest.
:
: Which number is that?  Zero?

The only time I have heard mention of such a mechanism is
with respect to FEMALE homosexuality resulting from HETEROSEXUAL
childhood abuse.
(and this as only one of several factors affecting the same person)

As Mr Cramer appears to concentrate on MALE homosexuality
I doubt this is what he has in mind.

--


Given that certain archival methods have certain key(cleartext) in a file I
used a programatic dictionary attack.  I used the DES library provided with the
system that I was using.  What is to keep anyone from being lucky with a key?

My previous employment has nothing to do with my current address, other than
the fact that the fastest machine in the office was an IBM RISC System/6000
model 530, with 16 meg of memory.(not a super-computer)

I really think this more of a statement of the limitations placed on the key
by the interface(ascii char/no padding), and most programs don't bother to
clear off the archival front and backend ID's.

Yes any moderatly bright programmer with a little idle machine time, can
crack most of todays real world encryption.  I sure that you or I could
select a key, and prepare the data inorder that the decryption will become a
worst case.  but that is not the real world, and I'm sure that is how any
agency would start an attack on a message, as you pointed out, there are some
very good recognition algorithms availible, I'm just not familiar with them.

A.G.


The entire business of a Bank is the management of risk.   That's
what a Bank is for.   That's what people who work for Banks do.

OK, but in that case why are you posting about it?   What I
hear you saying is "I don't understand this stuff, but if Islam
says it's so, it's so".


Well, Your Majesty, ;^), couldn't you just picture it?  Cherry starts doing
his first post-game interview with Barrasso;  Tommy gives him that little look
(like somebody crapped on his shoe) and then proceeds to give Don a
tonsilectomy with his Sher-Wood.  Now that you could put on pay-per-view!

Hope you had a good laugh!


Carrying in the glove box is not covered...I'm not sure what I was
thinking there. It _is_ legal in Oklahoma.

On inter-state travel, as long as it is legal for you to own
at your point of origination and destination, the gun is carried
in a locked compartment/box (glove box specifically excluded) separate
from the ammo, it is legal under Title 19, Chapter 44, Section 94(9? I
forget, and my copy of the regs is at home) of the US Code. This,
unfortunately, has not prevented the theft by state troopers of a
certain state (which shall remain nameless to protect the hopelessly
stupid) under that state's law.

Gee, and I thought Federal Law overrode state law...

				James


The subject line says it all.

	/Thanks


  Nice ridin' Tex. I use the California DMV recommended technique:
slow as you aproach said dog and wick it up as you pass. I've often
contemplated putting the boot in said dog's muzzle as I open the
throttle, but have never tried that. I figgure the impact would
unballance me and I'd dump the bike. A bicycling technique I've
employed was to use my frame mounted tire pump to fend off dog
attacks. On one occasion I was attacked by a pack of four dogs at
once while peddaling up a steep hill. I lost my right sock, but no
blood. I complained to the local Animal Control department (after
complaining to the owner of the dogs to no affect) about the dogs;
no more dogs, no more attacks. The telephone worked much better
than the tire pump.


Posted for L. Neil Smith by Cathy Smith

                         THE LIES OF TEXAS

Okay, what have we learned?

For reasons still being kept secret, a federal agency already known
-- well enough to be examined and rebuked by several legislative
committees over the years -- for a longstanding, violent disregard
of the law, invades the home of a man whose religious beliefs and
personal habits they abominate, violating his rights under the
First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to
the Constitution.

The man and his followers fight back, killing four of the outlaw
agency's minions, wounding many more, and suffering their own
losses in the process. The agency responds by cutting off his
electricity, water, and especially his contact with the outside
world. They are then free to say anything at all about him -- in
pronouncements that contradict one another daily as the agency
finds itself locked in a bitter power struggle with another outfit
eager to gain credit for "straightening out the mess" -- and, more
importantly, to script his side of the subsequent "negotiations"
any way they please.

The impasse lasts almost two months, ironically, at the same time
four L.A. cops are being given a second trial for brutalizing a
single individual, sparking one of the ugliest riots in history.
Armored vehicles surround the house, already ringed with snipers
using scoped, high-powered rifles. Loudspeakers playing obnoxious
records at the highest possible volume, and searchlights, deprive
those in the house of sleep (in the aftermath, nobody in authority
will mention the effect this technique, originated by North Korean
Communists as a battle tactic, may have had on their judgment).

Finally -- another irony -- on the 50th anniversary of the rising
of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of the armor punches holes in the house
and gas of some kind is injected. The house bursts into flame and
is reduced to ashes in less than an hour. At least 80 lives,
including those of more than a dozen children, are snuffed out.

Spokesmen for the outlaw agencies, the Attorney General, and the
President all hold press conferences to articulate a common theme:
blame the victim.

He had illegal weapons -- as soon as they can be prepared in a
secret government workshop and planted among the cinders being
"examined" by the agency that created them. He was abusing children
-- the tapes will be stored with the data on the JFK assassination.
He set the fire -- our snipers saw him doing it. Film at 11 -- in
3000 A.D. He shot his followers who tried to escape -- or was that
Jim Jones? Best of all, he's dead -- he can't say a damn thing to
embarrass us, any more than when his contact with the world was
severed at the start of the whole travesty.

A leading national paper claims 93% of the American people believe
that a man who resisted a savage attack on his home is somehow
responsible for everything that resulted. But when did you ever
know 93% of Americans to agree on anything -- doesn't this sound
more like the outcome of a Soviet election than an opinion poll?

Very well, what can we infer from the above? For starters, never
forget that, although Democratic careers are on the line (and
rightfully so) over this fiasco, by the outlaw agency's admission,
it was planned and rehearsed by a Republican administration. Which
may explain why Paul Harvey, who evidently used up all his courage
and integrity changing his mind (at about the same time I did)
about the war in Viet Nam -- has been acting as little more than a
mouthpiece for a state that has no regard for the Bill of Rights.

More importantly, when Rush Limbaugh, who's been a quivering tower
of Jello during the whole thing, takes essentially the same stance
as Bill Clinton, it's time for fundamental changes, if not in the
system, then at least within yourself.

On March 5, back at the beginning, Mary Gingell, national chair of
the Libertarian Party, issued a press release condemning the outlaw
agency and calling for its abolition. In fact, the LP has promised
in its platform since 1977, for at least 16 years, to abolish both
agencies involved in Waco. I'm proud to say I was there and helped
to write that plank.

True, the LP is tiny and insignificant (although less so than in
1977 -- ask the Democrats in Georgia if you doubt it). But, alone
in a howling wilderness of fascists scrambling now to cover their
behinds with phony polls and Big Lies, the LP is right about what
happened in Waco. And if their advice had been followed in 1977,
Waco never would have happened.

Think about it. And think about the fact that, if you've had enough
of political parties more interested in collecting and holding
power -- at whatever cost to the Bill of Rights, let alone human
life -- than in defending and expanding individual liberty, maybe
the change it's time for within yourself is to make the LP less
tiny and insignificant by a single voice and a single vote.

Think about it.

L. Neil Smith
Author: THE PROBABILITY BROACH, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE, HENRY MARTYN,
and (forthcoming) PALLAS
Editor: LEVER ACTION BBS (303) 493-6674, FIDOnet: 1:306/31.4
Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus
NRA Life Member


Actually, a WERA racer, William Lumsden, considered running a Vmax in
A Superstock.  He took it out to Talladega GPR for a practice day, and
_really_ annoyed the 600 riders -- they usually got caught behind a
sideways Vmax in the corners, and if they passed him going in, he'd
blow by down the straight (usually wobbling).  Needless to say, since
he was 2 seconds faster on a 1977 CB400F, he decided against the Vmax.

Too bad.


From: nataraja@rtsg.mot.com (Kumaravel Natarajan)

The technology Cummins is applying to diesels to comply with
the newer Ca. emissions laws involves three things I know of:

1. All compliant diesels are turbocharged.
2. All use an "aftercooler", which cools the air which was heated
   by compression by the turbocharger (up to about 25 PSI).
3. A gismo on the injector pump which senses the pressurized air
   intake, and limits full delivery of fuel while the pressure is
   low.

No scrubbers, catalytic converters, etc, are used.  The path from
the turbocharger to the exhaust outlet is kept very free.

Interestingly, except for the low-pressure fuel limitation, power output
and mileage are enhanced by these measures.  One can buy aftermarket
turbos and aftercoolers which generate more power, lots more power,
and these are approved by the CARB.


Sorry for the delay in replying; your message only showed up today (23 Apr)
on apple.com. QuickDraw GX is not a replacement for QuickDraw; the two of
them live quite happily together. You may write an app that only uses GX
if you want, or you may write a hybrid app that uses both. Suptayoo.


     Why don't we move down even further toward the masses by setting this
up on an IBM PC clone(probably needs to be a 386 or a 486) with a
sound blaster and a V.32bis modem.  Those components are very widely
available.  I don't know if the PC has enough horsepower to encrypt the data
at realtime, but the sound blaster has 4 to 1 hardware compression and will
work at any sampling rate from 4KHz to 23 KHz.

Doug Holland


Hi there,

      I was wondering if anyone knew if John Wetteland was put on the DL again
      after his first 15-day period was up? I read in the USA Today Sports
      section that he is on for "surgery to repair broken toe", and was
      wondering if that was new. I thought he was just letting it heal.

      Another question, Is Derek Lilliquist the main closer for the Indians now
      that Olin is gone. I need to know cause I need to find a reliever to
      replace Wetteland and so far Lilliquist is doing ok. Any information on
      either of the players would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your
      time.

      Ryan Robin.

___________________________________________________________


.
  Of some relevance to the posts on this subject might be Deut.23:2,


From article <1r8uckINNcmf@gap.caltech.edu>, by wen-king@cs.caltech.edu (Wen-King Su):

--Yes, it does come with the Maxima GXE engine mated to the Maxima SE
  transmission.  And it has decent power for a minivan also.

  Check again.

--Aamir Qazi
--


Well, on the contrary, I thought Dave was rather taken with her and her
accent..."(H)ockey is my passion"...


The domain address of the WHO is:  who.arcom.ch
So try sending email to  postmaster@who.arcom.ch

Josh
backon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL


Are you kidding?  I'm stuck with the Toronto SkyDome, where their idea
of a 7th inning stretch is that "Blue Jays" song where everyone gets
to yell:  "Okay, okay, Blue Jays, Blue Jays, Let's Play Ball!"

Wow.. what genius did it take to compose that one, to outshine the
old classic.  And there are women on the field to "lead the crowd".


I would have to say that the "greatest philosopher" title would have to
go to Plato since the whole enterprise of philosophy was essentially
defined by him.  Although he got most of his answers wrong, he did
definitively identify what the important questions are.  I think it
was Descartes who said that "All philosophy is just a footnote to Plato."

If I were to choose which philosopher made the most important advances
in human knowledge over his lifetime, that's simple...it is Aristotle.
This is so much the case that many simply refer to him as "the philosopher".

Regarding Nietzsche, he's one of the most entertaining, although since his
ideas were so fragmented (and since his life was cut short) it is doubtful
that his influence as a philosopher is likely to be very extensive 500 years
from now.  They'll probably still be reading him in 500 years though.

As for "modern" philosophers, I would have to say that Kant was the most
influential since he had such a strong influence on almost everyone who
came after him (and unfortunately, they maintained his errors and
amplified them over time).

I would say that the most influential "american" philosopher would have to
be Dewey.

But as to the question of what philosopher will be most highly regarded in
500 years, it may very well be Ayn Rand (who in every important respect
was "American", but was born in Russia).  But I guess that remains to be seen.


Dancing With Idjits.


I believe Acker got a ring from his wife when they were married

I don't know why you guys keep bickering about Morris. The stats show he
is a mediocre pitcher at best (this year is another case), he just happened
to win 21 games. I saw many of his games last year, he did pitch some good
games. But this crap about being a clutch pitcher is nonsense, he was
constantly giving up go ahead runs in the 6-8th innings (the clutch innings)
and the Jays would somehow scrape a win for him. Another major factor in
his 21 wins, is that Cito 'I dont realize i have a bullpen' Gaston would
leave Morris in for ever, therefore giving him many more chances to win
games (i believe this is the major reason he won 21 games last year).

Barry Walker
BNR
Ottawa
Canada


Try swapping the phone cables in the back of the modem.


Sorry,  forgot to add its a Jap.  import
Andy


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:

:
: >He is God.
:
: In other words, the right of might.
:
: >He is God.
:
: In other words, the right of might.
:
:
:
: >God granted you the gift of life whether you were sinner or saint.
:
: In other words, he can do it, he did it, and your in no position to
: argue about it.
:
: >one that must be killed by Him.  Note:  I say that God and God alone is
: >worthy to be Judge, Jury and Executioner.  We are not called to carry out
: >such duties because we are not worthy.
:
: In other words, you better do what this God wants you to do, or else!
:
: >|> Who is god to impose its rules on us ? Who can tell if god is REALLY so
:
:
: >God is God.  Who are we to question the Creator?  If you doubt God's doing
: >in certain situations, do you claim to know a better solution?  Would you
: >be playing the role of God?
:
: In other words, its his game, he made the rules, and if you know whats
: good for you you'll play his game his way.
:

 Careful there, you make God out to be some spoiled little deity that when
he can't have his way takes his ball and goes home.

Now that you mention it....

Naw... Can't be right, makes sense.


I'm a little worried about this pitching thing.  6.08 is scarry even for
the first 16 games of the season.  Mesa (sp?) seems to be settling down.
He pitched well against the Red Soxs, but The Rocket matched him.  I got a
chance to watch them play against California Wednesday and he pitched well
also.  Then the dam broke.  Wickander came in and promptly it was 6-1.  (3
run homer by Snow?).

I heard the guys on ESPN say that 7 of the TRIBE's top 10 prospects are
pitchers.  Anyone out there like to post who these guys are and where they
are?
The TRIBE is on ESPN again tonight against Oakland.


Lexus es300, gs300, sc300, Infiniti J30, Dozens of others, including
common cars like the Toyota Camry (as an option).
Lexus ls400, sc400, Acura Legend, Infiniti Q45, Lincoln Mark VIII, some
cadillacs and other luxury autos.

V10 - Dodge viper (?)


                                         [ to a .rle file   ^^^^^^^]

 I thought I'd reply to this, though I ain't brad.  AT any case, a lot
of picture-file viewers that will convert, say, between .gif,etc, to
.bmp *will* convert to .rle.  I Know for a fact that PaintShop
(shareware from cica; /desktop, I think, filename psVVV.zip (I think,
where VVV is the ver. number.  If that's not true, let me know and I"ll
post a corection).

This, however, will write your .rle file with a .bmp extension, so you
have to rename it.

NOW, another thing....
this is from the windows' FAQ:

your file has to be less than 64 K
( at least that's what the faq says, but Mine wont work for more than
about 30...maybe they mend 32K, I don't know).

Your file has to fit VGA size (480 * 860, or whatever standard vga size
is.)  If you use a non-vga screen (e.g. Cga, ega, svga, there is also a
way to do it, but I thing instead of vgalogo.lgo you use another file,
such as cgalogo.lgo, egalogo.lgo, or something.  I'm not sure about
this, as I have a vga, but i'm sure you could find it in the faq (a
windows help ver. of which *is* available at cica, but don't konw the
filename).

ALSO....your .bmp has to be 16 COLOURS Or less.

These specs rule out some of the good .bmp's.  I found cartoon drawings
work quite well as they have the advantage of looking good with little
memory.

Finally, REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR CURRENT WIN.COM before, and put your
new win.com in the windows directory.  Also, don't start windows from a
directory where another win.com is present, as *that* is used instead of
the one in the windows dir, and win. won't start.

Share this fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie (PF).

Mickey


VW and Mercedes have tinkered with particulate traps.  Also, VW
uses a kind of turbocharger on their Jetta ECOdiesel that helps
reduce particulates as well, although I don't know the
mechanics of it.

Many diesel cars,busses, and trucks in Europe are now being
equipped with catalysts and traps in an effort to clean up
diesel emissions, already well below legal limits anyway.

It's a shame GM had to soil the diesel's reputation in
passenger cars and prevent further resource devotion to
research into making this outstandingly efficient engine even
further ahead of gas engines in emissions.


From: bsw@utrc.utc.com (Bruce S. Winters)
Subject: Re: Warped brake discs on '91 Taurus L

   >In the past few years I have owned 3 Mustang GTs and now own a 91 T-Bird
   >SC.  They all have had this problem. There was a recall on the T-bird for
   >the brake problem. The Ford dealer replaced the rotors and pads but the
   >rotors warp after about 10K miles. Between this problem and the fit and
   >finish problems on the T-Bird I'll never buy a Ford again.

       I just had my rotors on my '92 Taurus GL changed less than 500 miles
   ago and...you guessed it, I'm noticing slight warpage in the left rotor.
   :-(  I had a mechanic friend of mine look at it and he said that there is a
   high spot on the rotor that is causing the problem.  This is a brand new
   rotor bought from a Ford Dealership.  Can't they even produce a brand new
   rotor that is not warped?  I'm currently negotiating with them to swap it
   out for a new rotor.

       This is my first American build car and I'm not overly impressed.

   Tony
--


Wood is fairly small for an enforcer-type. I mean, Fleury does a pretty good
job and isn't that large, but Dody is no Fleury.

Having been witness to three or four of his fights closeup, he simply isn't
ready to fight at an NHL level (assuming that it's his role, which is ALL he
really showed us in his few games up from K.C. -- if he can pass, shoot or
skate, I never saw much of it). All he has is a right fist, which isn't bad,
but at the NHL level, the other players are smart enough to grab the thing
before he can land anything significant. Once you control that hand, he's a
fish flopping on the beach and the other player can do just about anything
he wants to him. His entire strategy seemed to be keep the hand out of reach
until he found an opening -- and I never once saw him find an opening worth
talking about. He got neutralized quickly, and stomped on a couple of times.

Unless he shows some new tricks in camp, he'll be on my "career minor
leaguer" list. Since this was his first taste of the NHL, I expect the
Sharks gave it to him so he'd KNOW what he'd have to work on off-season. He
needs to get stronger, he needs to get more speed and he needs to show some
versatility as something else than a simply goond, because he wasn't
particularly good as a goon.


This was posted by Lyn Bates to the firearms-politics mailing list:

I recently learned that Don Kates was going to be in Boston to give a talk
at the Harbard Law School about the Waco situation.  (Of course, this was
all set up after the incident started but long before its unhappy
conclusion.)  So, yesterday I went to hear him.  What follows is a rough
summary of what I think I heard him say, which should not be taken as
exactly what he actually said...

Kates started by saying that since he didn't know any more about the fire
than the audience did (it had just happened the day before), he would not
discuss that, but would concentrate on the original raid.

Koresh definitely was not playing with a full deck.  But so what?  This
isn't the first time that the leader of a new, small religious group has
been ridiculed by the public.  Extreme religious views nearly always fuel
hatred and mistrust.  The first amendment applies, maybe especially, to
people like Koresh.

Lengthy digression into the history of police organizations in the US.
There were none until about 1830, when they began in metropolitan areas.
Police originally were not armed; if they found a crime in progress, they
called local armed citizens to help.  Many began to carry arms for
protection despite regulations against them, eventually the laws were
changed to allow them to carry guns.  The original intent was to have many
small police departments, jealous of one another and competitive, but not
large enough to be a threat to liberty, hence the plethora of
organizations ranging from postal inspectors to the coast guard.  When the
FBI was started, agents did not have the authority oto carry guns (they
were to be, after all, a bureau of investigation, not a police force).
"All police agencies will be misused by anyone in power to maintain that
power."

The BATF started as a tax collection agency, whose primary job was to raid
illegal stills.  When the price of sugar went up so high that moonshiners
no longer found their trade no longer profitable, many illegal stills
disappeared, and the BATF needed something else to do to justify its
existence, so it turned to activities like phony raids on gun stores.
Around the time when the BATF's annual budget is under review, the media
is alerted by the BATF to come to such-and-such a place, where at a
pre-arranged time, a bunch of cars full of BATF agents roar up to the door
and the media get great pictures of the agents entering the premises of a
gun dealer suspected of not keeping books properly.  The media isn't
invited in for the boring hours of agents leafing through paperwork, but
if any irregularities are found, the media gets to cover the agents
removing armfuls of guns from the premises, and the luckless FFL in
chains.

The Waco incident happened a few weeks before BATF's budget was up for
review.

Kates' opinion is that it was a staged publicity stunt that went bad, and
that the BATF never thought for a moment that they would actually be shot
at, or they would have planned the raid differently (not sending 100
agents over open ground with no cover, for example), and would have had
some medical personnel on hand.

He confirmed that some years ago there was a warrant for Koresh's arrest
in connection with a murder charge, and the local sheriff called him on
the phone and explained about it.  Koresh sais, ok, come pick me up, and
the sheriff did, temporarily confiscating all the guns so that they could
be tested.  Koresh was later cleared, release, and presumably got his guns
back.  At least at that time, he was rational enough to be approached
rationally, and behaved in a reasonable manner.

The BATF didn't take into account that, unlike most of the FFL's they
audit, Koresh was actually paranoid, and fostered paranoia in his
followers.  Thus the pubicity stunt looked like a real attack to them, and
they reacted accordingly.

With respect to the original warrant, it had not been unsealed when Kates
was giving his talk, so he could not comment on it, except to mention that
the BATF has been known to not double-check the veractiy of their
informants, if they can manage to get a judge to issue a warrant.  He had
more to say about the way the warrant was served, which may have been
completely illegal.  Apparently the proper way to serve a warrant is to
knock on the door and announce that you're an officer with a warrant for
thus-and-so; if they don't open the door and the evidence is flushable,
then it is ok to break in the door.  But since it is hard to flush guns
down the toilet, there may have been no justification for the BATF
breaking in the way they did.  If the constitutional rights of the
Davidians were violated by an invalid warrant, or by an improperly served
warrant, then the Davidians may have been justified in their actons.  A
close look at one of the original films shows that one BATF agent _may_
have shot himself by accident when entering the building; if so, this was
the first shot fired!

The role of the media could have been a whole lot worse.  After an initial
position on the side of the BATF, the media began to come around to the
view that this might be a situation in which legally armed citizens held
off a bad, possibly illegal attack.  A real cynic might say that the FBI
went in when they did because it was clear that public opinion was
beginning to change sides, and the FBI wanted to act before they lost the
public's sympathy.

Should the BATF be abolished?  No.  Police agencies _should_ be numerous,
diverse, inefficient, decentralized, etc.  Better a few inept accidents
like this, than a move toward a single, large, well-organized,
well-trained, powerful, domestic police force, which would eventually have
even more tragic results.

   - Lyn Bates
     (bates@bbn.com)

PS Don Kates will be giving a shorter version of this talk at Boston
College Law School next Tuesday, April 27.  I don't know the exact time or
place, but presumably a phone call to the BC law school could elicit that
information.


After reading many postings concerning hard drives I'm still unclear
about one thing.  These new "cached hard drives" - is the cache on the
drive itself or is it separate, like on the controller or something?
Thanks to anyone who can clear this up.

--


As of the third edition (June 92) the O'Reilly book (Vol 2) under

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And then cosper@seq.uncwil.edu (Kit Cosper) quoth:
=>A comment made by one of the Braves announcers, attributed to
=>an anonymous player after Friday night's game,
=>
=>	"I'm sorry we didn't tie it up, I wanted to see some more
=>	 umpiring."
=>
=>Just about sums it up.............

Sure, like Ron Gant wasn't completely out of line.

If I were Hirschbeck, I would have ejected, in order, Ron Gant, every single
last Brave who came onto the field, and possibly Bobby Cox, depending on the
language he used.  Since Cox was the only Brave rung up, I suspect I would
have thrown him out too.

You simply cannot show up an umpire like Ron Gant did.  It is disrespectful
of not only the home plate umpire, but of the dignity of the game.


Just ask postmaster for the e-mail address of the printer. :-)


The annihilation of Islam ("Turks") is an older Serbian agenda.   But
I strongly dispute your notion that Croats had a similar older agenda,
in fact, for the past century or two, Croats and Muslims have seen
themselves as having a lot in common, and they generally had friendly
relations.  Your suggestion that Croat-Muslim relationship is
anything like Serb-Muslim relationship is completely wrong.

To say that Croats and Muslims have a lot in common does not imply
they are not separate peoples.  The events of the past two years
clearly show Muslim determination to remain separate: in their alliance
with Croats, they maintained this separation.  Croats would have
accepted a much closer relationship, I think.  This century plus
of building bridges between these two friendly peoples is now at
risk, because of the inexorable logic of war.

Since Bosnian Serbs (32% of population) have 10 times more heavy
weapons than Bosnian Muslims (44%) and Croats (17%) combined, they
have squeezed Muslims and Croats into only 30% of the territory.
Muslims lost more territory than Croats (who built defenses early on).

Under these conditions, any alliance is bound to fall apart since
it is easier to recover lost land from Croats than from Serbs.
The only thing keeping this in check was the hope of reversal of
fortunes through foreign military intervention and lifting of the
arms embargo.  Since Warren Christopher had no luck persuading
the Europeans to go along with this, this hope was dashed.  Having
no prospect of outside help, the former allies turned on each other,
like two starved animals in a tight cage.

This inexorable logic, of course, got plenty of help from Serbian
intelligence operatives, who were doing everything to build
mistrust between Croats and Muslims for over a year.  A timely
intervention to stop Serbian aggression would have prevented this.

Sadly, nothing was done to create a balance of power on the
ground.  As long as the Serbs enjoy 10:1 advantage, they can
break any alliance, even among friends.  This is tragic, but
hardly new: "divide et impera" was used by ancient Romans
with success.  In my view, Bosnian Muslims and Croats managed
to resist this divisive strategy reasonably well until May 9, 1993,
when the hope of reversal of fortunes was lost.

I have a question for the distinguished diplomats: do they
believe Balkan peoples are experimental cannon fodder?  I'd like to know
what did they expect when they decided to enforce the arms embargo which
solidified Serbian 10:1 advantage in heavy weapons; how did they expect
to prevent fragmentation of the Muslim and Croat defense forces;  and how
on Earth do they hope to restore peace without justice?

The implications of this immoral approach I cannot begin to predict,
but I am filled with foreboding...


I find this remark to be awfully arrogant.  I would venture to
say that there are many people who are Christians now, who at one
point in their lives had no intention of ever becoming a Christian.
I was certainly one such person.  I am quite thankful that there
were Christians who were willing to continue to talk to me, despite
the appearance that it might have been a waste of their time and
mine.  (I even married one of them.)


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 I know of several NuBus frame-grabber boards but wonder if there
 might be similar ones for the lesser Macs (those without slots),
 something permitting instant freezing of a video picture (PAL)
 and feeding it in without jaggies to a simple digitizer like
 MacVision (which takes 22 secs to scan a picture, so a frame
 grabber is a necessity).

 The objective is 512*342 1bit/ pixel (B/W) pictures stored in
 HyperCard... have tried using top-quality VCR with freeze-frame
 function but the screens come out full of streaks and garbage.

    PLEASE reply ONLY to ----------> ianf@random.se
      and I'll summarize
      to the net (cannot
   read such high-volume
    group as is c.s.m.h)             Thanks!


I don't know for sure that this will work, but you might try MEK (methyl
ethyl keytone?).  It worked getting the stickum left over from shelf paper,
and is available at paint stores.  Use a carbon gas mask and lots of
ventilation--this stuff really stinks!


Having vainly looked for devices capable of dealing to the NEC 77P20
DSP chip which dont require taking out a mortgage, i decided to roll
my own. Not a difficult task for an 8751, given that all the timing
relationships are set out in the databook. One thing bothers me, that
is the accursed 50ms 21 volt Vpp pulse. Sure, a little buck step-up
converter can achieve this (in what is otherwise an all 5 volt widget)
but i know latterday eproms dont need nearly this pulse length.
Q : has anyone come up with a more efficient programming algorithm
which is failsafe ?
cheers
Mike.


  Even better, let's pass a law making it illegal to kill people
with bombs of *any* sort.

--henry schaffer


Just thought of something.  Yes, laptops can still be read, but it's not quite
as easy as a normal pc with a CRT.  My thought, Airline pilots lately have
been complaining about how laptops being used in flight mess with the plane's
instruments.  If this can be hyped up, manufacturers may start building
laptops with even lower emmisions.  It would probably still be possible to
pick up with surveillance equipment, but at this point, it would be a lot
cheaper to mask the remaining signals with TEMPEST techniques.

Doug Holland


Me too!