					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I am sure your numbers are far better then mine.  As i said above,
i don't have exact numbers.

How different would the contamination threat of a small manuevering tug
be from that of the Shuttle and it's OMS engines??????

I know that no small manuevering tug exists,  but maybe  one could
soup up a Bus 1.   Does anyone out there have the de-clasified
specs on hte BUS 1?  would it be able to provide enough  control
force to balance the HST,  and  still have the rocket thrust
to hurl her into a decent high orbit?

Sorry,  that should be intrument pointing.

Plus, if the second box gets fritzy, you could be in shitter ville
real fast.

The problem is no-one seems to have the exact numbers.  When the mission
was planned originally at 3 spacewalks,  and 3 astronauts,  there was
enormous concern over the mass margins for the flight.  THey
have now planned for 5 EVA's,  an 11 day mission and have 2 reserve
EVA's and an emergency EVA.  Obviously that is coming from somewhere.
My guess is the OMS burn  fuel,  or  re-boost  margin.

I just figured, if GOldin wants to really,  prove out faster, cheaper
better,   have some of the whiz kids  slap together an expendable
space manuevering tug  out of a BUs1,  and use that for the re-boost.
it has to be better then using the Discovery as a tow truck.


I seem to recall graphic news file of buddhist monks setting themselves on fire
in the streets of Saigon. Yes, its a horrible way to go, but apparently not
so horrible that someone with enough religious conviction might not be able to
carry it through. And, since they've discovered bullet wounds in a couple of
the bodies from the compound, there is the possiblity that those with the will power to self immolate also had the will power to take out the ones who had
less constitutional fortitude. Then again, maybe the FBI ran in while the fire
was raging, executed those two, and ran out again.


I don't know the specifics of the compression algorithm, but I've used the
shareware program, PaintShop, to convert between the two.  You can download
it from ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but I don't know what the file is called
or what directory it is in (you can start by looking in pub/pc/win3 or try
scanning the index files).

To convert a .BMP file to a .RLE file, you just load the .BMP file and do a
"Save as..."  Select "Windows bitmap" and "Compressed" (or is it "RLE"?)
Whatever it is, it's fairly intuitive...

Sorry I don't have all the details, but I'm currently on an IBM3151 dumb
terminal and can't do much researching...Good luck!


Does anyone know how to access and/or display multiple pages in mode 13h
while still maintaining the 1 byte per pixel memory organization?
Examples in C or Assembly would be appreciated...
Thanks
Scott


i need to get some info a.s.a.p. about the cellular
antenna market out there right now:  who are the main
companies making them, how much do they cost, what are
the specs (such as gain , directivity, etc.), and who
is the contact person because a group of us here are
at the Univ.of IL are researching into this technology

I will personally mail you a copy of our entire busineess
plan and paper if you can be of any help..


/>/:/g
j:Maybe they WANTED it to look like murder. He had 50+ days. I think this was
:>coming the whole time. He didn't even put the children in the buried bus or
:>the underground bunker during the CS seige. He put them up into the tower
:>to die.
:
:	Is CS gas lighter or heavier than air?  Do you know?  If the

CS is heavier than air... most chemical weapons are...


I am pleased to announce that a *revised version* of _The Easy-to-Read Book
of Mormon_ (former title: _Mormon's Book_) by Lynn Matthews Anderson is now
available through anonymous ftp (see information below). In addition to the
change in title, the revised ETR BOM has been shortened by several pages
(eliminating many extraneous "that's" and "of's"), and many (minor) errors
have been corrected. This release includes a simplified Joseph Smith Story,
testimonies of the three and eight witnesses, and a "Words-to-Know"
glossary.

As with the previous announcement, readers are reminded that this is a
not-for-profit endeavor. This is a copyrighted work, but people are welcome
to make *verbatim* copies for personal use. People can recuperate the
actual costs of printing (paper, copy center charges), but may not charge
anything for their time in making copies, or in any way realize a profit
from the use of this book. See the permissions notice in the book itself
for the precise terms.

Negotiations are currently underway with a Mormon publisher vis-a-vis the
printing and distribution of bound books. (Sorry, I'm out of the wire-bound
"first editions.") I will make another announcement about the availability
of printed copies once everything has been worked out.

FTP information: connect via anonymous ftp to carnot.itc.cmu.edu, then "cd
pub" (you won't see anything at all until you do).

"The Easy-to-Read Book of Mormon" is currently available in postscript and
RTF (rich text format). (ASCII, LaTeX, and other versions can be made
available; contact dba@andrew.cmu.edu for details.) You should be able to
print the postscript file on any postscript printer (such as an Apple
Laserwriter); let dba know if you have any difficulties. (The postscript in
the last release had problems on some printers; this time it should work
better.) RTF is a standard document interchange format that can be read in
by a number of word processors, including Microsoft Word for both the
Macintosh and Windows. If you don't have a postscript printer, you may be
able to use the RTF file to print out a copy of the book.

-r--r--r--  1 dba                   1984742 Apr 27 13:12 etrbom.ps
-r--r--r--  1 dba                   1209071 Apr 27 13:13 etrbom.rtf

For more information about how this project came about, please refer to my
article in the current issue of _Sunstone_, entitled "Delighting in
Plainness: Issues Surrounding a Simple Modern English Book of Mormon."

Send all inquiries and comments to:

    Lynn Matthews Anderson
    5806 Hampton Street
    Pittsburgh, PA 15206


Here's the situation:

At home, I have MS Word for windows but no printer.  At work, I
have windows + a postscript printer, but not MS Word.  So, I
configure my machine at home to use a postscript printer, and use
the print to file option, which produces a nice postscript file,
which I then bring to work.

My question:  how do I print this postscript file through the print
manager at work? If, for example, I select print from the file
manager, it treats the postscript as a text file, and gives me
several pages of postscript gibberish.

I know that I can open a DOS window and do:

	 copy file.ps com1:

which does work, but seems not to multitask very well -- other applications
run rather slowly and often pause for 10's of seconds.

There ought to be a way of passing the postscript file to the Print
Manager, but if there is, I can't find any mention of it in the
documentation.

Anyone know how to do this?


I'm looking for a circuit that will flash an led on in response
to the output from a walkman cassette player. How could I do this?
I don't want it just to turn on, I want it to 'strobe' once so to speak,
per every beep I put on a cassette tape.

     Would it be better to use a circuit based on the volume of the beeps
on the cassette, or better for the leds to respond to a tone of a certain
frequency? Is there any easy way to do either of these? I'm looking for
the simplest circuit possible. I guess what I'm asking for is some sort of
color organ, but not quite. Let me trt to explain again...

     I'm going to have a pattern of beats (or beeps) on a cassette tape.
So on the tape you'd hear:   beep! (pause) beep! (pause) beep! (pause)..etc.
, with speed increasing as time goes on. I want to synchronize an LED (
probably two of them) with the beeps on the cassette tape. So the LED, with
each beep, would go on and off real quick, generating a strobe light sort
of effect. The rapidity of the beeps on the tape would in turn effect the
rapidity of the blinking of the LEDS. And if there was no sound on the tape
(except for background his), the LEDs would remain off. Please help!

  Thanks,


: Size is another factor.  The BJ-200 is much smaller, but the HP is built
: like a tank.  I bet the BJ-200 would get damaged first.

You bet your bippy it's built like a tank.. and not just mechanically either!

This past weekend we had a nasty thunderstorm and the impossible (*&^%)
happened - I got a direct lightning strike on my house - and to the second
floor outlet box into which my faithful DeskJet 500C was connected. There
was a .303-bullet-sized hole in the aluminum siding with some solidified
aluminum slag dripping from it. You could actually see the electrical box
through the hole! The outlet itself was fried and I'm still amazed the
whole damn house didn't burn down.

I lost 2 electric garage door openers,  2 vcr's, 2 telephones (all of which
were on the opposite side of the house), a ZyXEL U-1496E high speed modem,
a VGA monitor, a 1024x768 color monitor, the RS232 and parallel ports on my
X terminal and a WD LAN card in my PC. Not a good night!

But, the DeskJet ran as soon as I found a functioning serial and parallel
port to connect to it.


I remember as a kid visiting my relatives on Kauai, and one of the things
that really frightened me was centipedes.  I'd been told they were poisonous
and infrequently one would pop up and scare the heck out of me.  Once
one came out of the vacuum cleaner and it seemed like it was at least a foot
long and moving at 35 miles an hour!


That is the result of living in an alternate universe with 'Arromdians'
of the ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism and Revisionism Triangle. Are you '*ians'
for real?

A Final Goodbye in Azerbaijan:

[Photo by Associated Press]: "At a cemetery in Agdam, Azerbaijan, family
members and friends grieved during the burial of victims killed in the
fighting in Nagorno-Karabagh. Chingiz Iskandarov, right, hugged the
coffin containing the remains of his brother, one of the victims. A copy
of Koran lay atop the coffin."
The New York Times, 3/6/92

Final Embrace :

[Photo by Associated Press]: "Chingiz Iskenderov, right, weeps over
coffin holding the remains of his brother as other relatives grieve
at an Azarbaijani cemetery yesterday amid burial of victims killed
in fighting in Nagorno-Karabagh."
The Washington Post, 3/6/92

Nagorno-Karabagh Victims Buried in Azerbaijani Town :

"Refugees Claim Hundreds died in Armenian Attack...Of seven bodies seen
 here today, two were children and three were women, one shot through
 the chest at what appeared to be close range.  Another 120 refugees
 being treated at Agdam's hospital include many with multiple stab
 wounds."
 Thomas Goltz
 The Washington Post, 2/28/92

Armenians Burn Azeri Village in New Unrest:

"Armenian guerillas attacked a strategic Azeri village...in Nagorno-Karabagh
 and burned it to the ground on Tuesday, Commonwealth television reported.
 Channel one television said the village of Malybeili, in the Khodzhalin
 district, was now cut off and a large number of wounded were left stranded.
 Itar-Tass news agency said several people were killed and 20 wounded in
 the attack on the village... Tass also said shells fired from Armenian
 villages into the Azeri populated town of Susha, just 6 miles south of
 Stepenakert, demolished two houses and damaged five others...Fierce fighting
 flared two weeks ago following the crash of an Azeri helicopter in Karabagh
 in which 40 people died." (Reuters)
 Turkish Daily News, 2/12/92

CIS Commander Pulls Troops Out of Karabagh :

"Elif Kaban, a Reuter correspondent in Agdam, reported that after a battle
 on Wednesday, Azeris were burying scores of people who died when Armenians
 overran the town of Khojaly, the second-biggest Azeri settlement in the
 area. 'The world is turning its back on what's happening here. We are dying
 and you are just watching,' one mourner shouted at a group of journalists."
 Helen Womack
 The Independent, 2/29/92

Armenian Soldiers Massacre Hundreds of Fleeing Families:

"The attackers killed most of the soldiers and volunteers defending the
 women and children.  They then turned their guns on the terrified refugees.
 The few survivors later described what happened: 'That's when the real
 slaughter began,' said Azer Hajiev, one of the three soldiers to survive.
 'The Armenians just shot and shot. And they came in and started carving
 up people with their bayonets and knives.'  A 45-year-old man who had been
 up on us and people were falling all around.  My wife fell, then my child."
 Thomas Goltz
 Sunday Times, 3/1/92

Armenian Raid Leaves Azeris Dead or Fleeing:

"...about 1,000 of Khojaly's 10,000 people were killed in Tuesdays attack.
 Azerbaijani television showed truckloads of corpses being evacuated from
 the Khocaly area."
 Brian Killen (Reuters)
 The Washington Times, 3/2/92

Atrocity Reports Horrify Azerbaijan :

"Azeri officials who returned from the seen to this town about nine miles
 away brought back three dead children, the backs of their heads blown off...
 'Women and children had been scalped,' said Assad Faradzev, an aide to
 Karabagh's Azeri governor.  Azeri television showed pictures of one
 truckload of bodies brought to the Azeri town of Agdam, some with their
 faces apparently scratched with knives or their eyes gouged out."
 Brian Killen (Reuters)
 The Washington Times, 3/3/92

Massacre By Armenians Being Reported:

"The Republic of Armenia reiterated denials that its militants had
 killed 1,000 [Azeris]... But dozens of bodies scattered over the
 area lent credence to Azerbaijani reports of a massacre."
 (Reuters)
 The New York Times, 3/3/92

Killings Rife in Nagorno-Karabagh, Moldova:

"Journalists in the area reported seeing dozens of corpses, including some
 of the civilians, and Azerbaijani officials said Armenians began shooting
 at them when they sought to recover the bodies."
 Fred Hiatt
 The Washington Post, 3/3/92

Bodies Mark Site of Karabagh Massacre:

"A local truce was enforced to allow the Azerbaijanis to collect their dead
 and any refugees still hiding in the hills and forest.  All are the bodies
 of ordinary people, dressed in the poor, ugly clorhing of workers. Of the 31
 we saw only one policeman and two apparent national volunteers were wearing
 uniform.  All the rest were civilians, including eight women and three small
 children. Two groups, apparently families, had fallen together, the children
 cradled in the women's arms.  Several of them, including one small girl, had
 terrible head injuries: only her face was left. Survivors have told how they
 saw Armenians shooting them point blank as they lay on the ground."
 Anatol Lieven
 The Times (London), 3/3/92

Karabagh Survivors Flee to Mountains:

"Geyush Gassanov, the deputy mayor of Khocaly, said that Armenian troops
 surrounded the town after 7 pm on Tuesday. They were accompanied by six
 or seven light tanks and armoured carriers.  'We thought they would just
 bombard the village, as they had in the past, and then retreat.  But they
 attacked, and our defence force couldn't do anything against their tanks.'
 Other survivors described how they had been fired on repeatedly on their
 way through the mountains to safety. 'For two days we crawled most of the
 way to avoid gunfire,' Sukru Aslanov said.  His daughter was killed in the
 battle for Khodjaly, and his brother and son died on the road."
 Anatol Lieven
 The Times (London), 3/3/92

Corpses Litter Hills in Karabagh:

"As we swooped low over the snow covered hills of Nagorno-Karabagh we saw
 the scattered corpses. Apparently, the refugees had been shot down as
 they ran...Suddenly there was a thump...[our Azerbaijani helicopter] had
 been fired on from an Armenian anti-aircraft post..."
 Anatol Lieven
 The Times (London), 3/4/92

"Police in western Azerbaijan said they had recovered the bodies of
 120 Azerbaijanis killed as they fled an Armenian assault in the
 disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabagh and said they were blocked from
 recovering more bodies."
 The Wall Street Journal, 3/4/92

Exiting Troops Attacked in Nagorno-Karabagh:

"Withdrawal halted;  Armenians Blamed...
 More video footage and reports from Khocaly paint a grim picture of
 widespread civilian deaths and mutilation...
 One woman's feet appeared to have been bound..."
 Paul Quinn-Judge
 The Boston Globe, 3/4/92

                 (to be continued...)

Serdar Argic


I have two brand new Dayna Etherprint Adapters (10baset) for sale.
They convert ethertalk to localtalk. This is useful when wanting to
hook up a localtalk network printer to a ethertalk(10baset) network.
They sell for $350 each in Mac Warehouse. Will take $100 each.
Guaranteed.

email response to atg@virginia.edu


   searching out our deceased ancestors so that we can perform the
   ordinances -- such as baptism, confirmation, and marriage for time and
   eternity -- that are required for a person to obtain salvation through
   Christ and to live with Him through the eternities. These are people
   who may have not had the opportunity to know Christ in their lifetime,
   so we are making it possible for Christ's saving grace (I know there
   are thousands of interpretations of that phrase) to become fully
   effective for them if they allow it to do so on the other side.

This paragraph brought to mind a question.  How do you (Mormons) reconcile
the idea of eternal marriage with Christ's statement that in the ressurection
people will neither marry nor be given in marriage (Luke, chapt. 20)?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Hammerslag (dhammers@urbana.mcd.mot.com)
   "...there ain't nobody so bad that the Lord can't save 'em ain't
        nobody so good they don't need God's love..." -- Mullins


        Only guessing, but from his address I'd say that Jerry, like
        me, lives in Canada. Unlike me, he thinks that our friends in
        the US enjoy the same freedom that we do, and he has not seen
        the slow but steady erosion to the south of us.

        We have the benefit of relatively slow politicians and
        ineffective law enforcement. Our rednecks tend to be the
        objects of derision rather than elected officials. It's
        everything LE can do to keep up with the real criminals. Any
        time they actually go after somebody just because they don't
        like his or her attitude, it's national news (It also often
        blows up in their faces: eg. the well-intentioned but flawed
        Zundel case, which resulted in a scolding from the Supreme
        Court, not only to LE for prosecuting the case but to
        Parliament for passing the law it was prosecuted under).

        Our friends south of the border don't have as easy a time of
        it. Among other things they have as many LE agencies as we
        have agencies, and some of them have teeth. They also have the
        War on Drugs which gives law-enforcement agencies exceptional
        powers to ignore individuals' rights (the DEA has more
        arbitrary power than that given to Canadian agencies under the
        War Measures Act). We have the RCMP and CSIS who can't stop
        fighting each other long enough to do any really effective
        suppression of private citizens' rights. Not only that, our
        Police Commissions have teeth, as I learned when I had to fend
        off a bent cop.

        It may be ironic that the nation founded on Life, Liberty and
        the Pursuit of Happiness is getting government-imposed order,
        while the nation founded on Peace, Order and Good Government
        is getting in-your-face liberty.

        That's not to say our time won't come. It looks like Chretien
        is going to run on a law-and-order platform. Be afraid.

        Cheers,
                Marc

---
 Marc Thibault                             | marc@tanda.isis.org
 Automation Architect                      | CIS:71441,2226
 R.R.1, Oxford Mills, Ontario, Canada      | NC FreeNet: aa185


I want to add link encryption to a module that multiplexes upper
level routines into a single data link. The upper levels won't know
about this, and thus key exchange shall only need to occur once (at
the initial link establishment). I figure that I can do this with
DES and a Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Is using a Diffie-Hellman exchange to establish a 64 bit DES key
acceptable, in other words, what are the pro's and con's of such a
setup? Are there any important issues to watch out for (aside from
filtering out unacceptable keys)?

And in order to achieve this, I guess I will need to use 64bit math
routines (for probable prime number calculation, exponentiation etc),
so could someone point me towards a good package (this is strictly
non-commercial).

Matthew.


And the best evidence you can find is second hand hearsay from
an unnamed source? You may indeed be confusing *some* Muslims
with Nazi Armenians. Altogether 30,000 Nazi Armenians served in
various units in the German Wehrmacht, according to Ara J. Berkian.
14,000 in predominantly Armenian army units, 6,000 in German army
units, 8,000 in various working units and 2,000 in the Waffen-SS.[1]

A number of these Nazi Armenians were volunteers from France,
Greece, Rumania and Bulgaria who had chosen to commit
themselves to the German war effort. Derounian says that

"Dashnag Armenians from France bore the mark 'Legion
Armenienne.'"[2]

That Nazi Armenians like Dro 'the Butcher' and Nezhdeh sided
with the Germans probably had an impact on the decision of
Armenians who overwhelmingly opted for armed service.

[1] Enno Meyer, A. J. Berkian, 'Zwischen Rhein und Arax, 900
    Jahre Deutsch-Armenische beziehungen,' (Heinz Holzberg
    Verlag-Oldenburg 1988), pp. 118/119.
[2] John Roy Carlson (Arthur Derounian), in 'The Armenian
    Displaced Persons,' ibid., p. 19.

In fall 1942, the Armenian infantry battalions 808 and 809 were formed,
to be followed by battalions 810, 812 and 813 in spring 1943. In the
second half of 1943 infantry battalions 814, 815 and 816 were created.
These battalions together with other indigenous Caucasian units were
attached to the infantry division 162. Also attached to ID 162 were
the field battalions II/9, I/125 and I/198 which were formed between
May 1942 and May 1943. Altogether twelve Armenian battalions served the
Nazi army, if battalion II/73, which was not employed at any time, is to be
included.[1] Most battalions were commanded by Nazi Armenian officers.
Armenians wore German uniforms with an armband in the Dashnag colours
red-blue-orange and the inscription 'Armenien.'

[1] Joachim Hoffmann, 'Dies Ostlegionen 1941-1943, Turkotataren,
    Kaukasier und Wolgafinned im deutschen Heer,' (Verlag Rombach
    Freiburg 1976), p. 172.

While having collaborated with the Nazis against Stalin during the
Second World War, Nazi Armenians changed their policy after Hitler's
defeat. They now backed Stalin's claims on Eastern Turkish provinces,
hoping that these would be annexed to Soviet Armenia and their Muslim
population would be exterminated. Stalin played on Armenian national
sentiments to enlist the support of Armenians in the USSR and America
for his imperial ambitions.[1] Stalin's ultimatum to the Turkish
government led Truman to formulate his famous Doctrine.

[1] Walter Kolarz, 'Religion in the Soviet Union,' (London, Macmillan &
    Co Ltd; New York, St Martin's Press 1961), pp. 160-164.

Serdar Argic


Why is it going to take a year for V.fast to become a standard? Are there
technical problems to work out, or is it just bureaucratic slowdown? THANKS!


In <1r1d2r$baf@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> dlc@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (David


OK here are some usefull applications and locations and other:

On Cica or mirrors in the /desktop directory

WRKSFT16 ZIP   39798 920915 WokShift Graphical Virtual Desktop (ver 1.6)
(email author about version 2.0)

DESK240  ZIP  164690 921103 Desktop Tools For Windows 3.x
(BackMenu 2.4 & BigDesk #### Later version than BackDesk)

TOPDESK  ZIP   51051 920723 Virtual Windows for Windows
????

FINDER   ZIP ??????? 930329 A Mac Finder clone for Windows
(Works well with BackMenu)

************

Also look out for SuperBar 2.0. Due out soon.  It allows button bars
to be added to almost any application.


	As a matter of fact, I know it.

	There were several shootings recently in which the guns had
been purchased at the Baltimore Gunsmith, on Broadway - a favorite
place to get cheap "popular" pieces. By "popular" I am referring to
the kinds of guns our local youth gangs like: pistol grip shotguns,
cheap magnums, and Tec-9s.

	I hate to poke a hole in your bubble, but I was referring
to a specific gunstore, and specific incidents. Any other questions?


.
        It should be remembered that all of the first reports came from
       the FBI, and that independent observers, i.e. the press, were not
       allowed to get close and see things for themselves.  Official
       communiques tend to be self-serving for the agencies that issue
       them.
        People in general tend to believe first reports, as these get
       the most and the biggest headlines.  Corrections are often
       overlooked.
         An example is the FBI report that several of the bodies found
       in the rubble had bullet wounds.  The local coroner, who is
       independent of the FBI, has so far found no bullet wounds!


	Not necessarily.  As Shai points out, political appointments are
based on power.  They are also based on favors owed, coalition
building, and deal making.  While this may have a racist element to
it, I think that its much more fair to attribute it to the "old boy"
nature of politics.  Now, I'll freely admit that the old boy system
has racist and sexist effects, but I don't think that those are its
purpose, whether in the US, Israel, or elsewhere.

	Here again, you miss out on the old boy nature of politics,
and the existance of back-room deals.  As individuals, these arabs may
not be as well connected as the Jew who gets the job.  I don't like
this aspect of politics, but I understand it exists.

Adam

Adam Shostack 				       adam@das.harvard.edu


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Actually, I was angry when they went away from the Pens game.
Being a Pens fan in central Virginia is kinda tough.  I only
get to see them on ESPN, and when they play the Caps, cause
we're close enough to DC to get all the Caps games, so when
ESPN switched to the Caps, . . . AAAGGGHHH!


The first problem was the sound.  I tried the M0, but then even the logon was
muted.  I don't want that.  Any other suggestions for that hissing?

The second is really strange.  First, I kept mentioning that FC slowed down
all the time and took too long.  Well I just logged on with extensions off and
I didn't have any slowdown.  Also, last time I was online I quit (which
usually disconnects and quits).  It disconnected but it wouldn't quit.  I had
to force quit, and then when I launched FC again it said the modem port was in
use.  This is really strange.  I thought it might have to do with fax
software.  Or the restart could have reset the modem port (a more likely
explanation).  So, any suggestions?

-David


   ...  So how about this?  Give the winning group
   (I can't see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year
   moratorium on taxes.

You are talking about the bozos who can't even manage in November to
keep promises about taxes made in October, and you expect them to make
(and keep!) a 50-year promise like that?  Your faith in the political
system is much higher than mine.  I wouldn't even begin to expect that
in Australia, and we don't have institutionalised corruption like you
do.


Poppy cock!  This story is obviously a complete fabrication, and I'll show
you why...

           ^^^^
This establishes that the story takes place in Iowa.
               ^^^^^^^^
In Iowa?!?!?  Come on now Dan, how dumb do you think we are?  You could
have at least thrown in a llama or tennis ball reference.  Hell, you
didn't even get the speed right.

Dean

ps. :-)


We here at IBM have the same problem with our workstations.  I was also
shocked when I first realized that you have to offset lines from fills by
about 16 bits (assuming 24 bit z buffer).  This seems huge, but is only
1/256 of the dynamic range.  In those terms it doesn't seem so bad.  What
is happening is that the interpolation in z is not totally linear, due
mainly to roundoff, I believe.  So the polygon is not planar in z, but is
more like a Ruffles potato chip.  Ditto with lines.  When you start/end at
different x/y values, the "ridges" are out of phase, resulting in the
stitch effect.  You have the same problem if you try to draw 1 polygon
right on top of another, but with different vertices.  You will likely see
a smeared effect where they overlap.
  Example:
  Try Polygon 1: (100,100,100) (100,200,100) (200,200,100) (200,100,100)
      Polygon 2: (125,125,100) (125,175,100) (175,175,100) (175,125,100)

Your implementation is correct.  In fact, we do a similar trick when
rendering primitives that have lines and polygons - such as NURBS surfaces
with isoparametric lines.  Without the trick, the lines appear stitched, as
you say.  When the application draws lines/polygons independently, the
system does not have the smarts to automatically do the z shifting, so the
application must do it.  This is what you have discovered and are doing.
Bravo!

(Note to IBM'ers:  The information given here has been previously disclosed
through proper channels so I'm not giving away any new unpublished info.)


It happened to my classic ii once.  At startup, after the usual powerup
tone, there were chimes (kinda like do(1st)-mi(1st)-sol(1st)-do(2nd) or
1st C - 1st E - 1st G - 2nd C on the music scale), and it hanged before
giving the happy mac.  I had to re-powerup.

This was asked before but I can't remember the answer.  I've tried to
find the answer from the faqs and other ftp sites but to no avail.

Can anyone tell me what those unusual chimes mean?  A spurious memory
check error?


This is misleading, at best.  The question, really, has to do with the
status of the Greek Septuagint versus Hebrew scripture.  And the issue
predates the Reformation by quite a bit -- Jerome was negative about the
"deuteroncanonicals" and in fact, even though he transalted them, he put
them after the Hebrew canon (reordered from the Greek ordering to the
Hebrew one.)  His translations of them were quick-and-dirty, also (he
reports having done one of them in one day, and another overnight, just
dictating his translation to an amanuensis.

That is to say, it is the Vulgate, and all of its massive importance in
Western Christianity, along with the veneration of Jerome, which took the
first steps in "reducing" these books from the status they had (and have)
among the Greeks.

Furthermore, it is inaccurate to say that the Reformers "threw out" these
books.  Basically, they just placed them in a secondary status (as Jerome
had already done), but with the additional warning that doctrine should
not be based on citations from these ALONE.

I think that the emphasis on the Hebrew originals is sound, though it
seems somewhat arbitrary to disallow on the face of it a translation as
part of a collection whose principles of selection (in Hebrew or Greek)
are confused or unknown and likely fraught with accident.  It also seems
to play into a tendentious notion of the original languages being somehow
"more inspired" -- as if magical, and conveying a message untranslatable
-- than a translation, as if we could not hear God's word to the Jews in
Greek (or German, or English, ...).  This tendency seems to have got a
big boost in _sola scriptura_ Protestantism, even to the point of current
"inerrancy" bizarreness, despite the more basic, underlying tendency of
the Reformers to see that the texts SHOULD and COULD be translated.  If
we can profit from an English rendering of Hebrew and Greek, there is
surely little reason to keep Sirach, at least, out of our Bibles (and of
course, Anglicans don't do so :-)).  For texts originally in Greek, it
would seem more to be anti-Greek prejudice (notably, by the time the
Hebrew canon is fully attested, including anti-Christian prejudice which
led to the Jewish abandonment of the Septuagint) which is operative.

BTW: readers may enjoy some lectures of Bruce Metzger on the issues of
translation of the Bible (including some of what I said about Jerome,
above) in the current numbers of the journal _Bibliotheca Sacra_; two
of four have been published so far.


Borchevsky is 5'9" and Gilmour is 5'11"...I think Gilmour slightly
outweighs Borchevsky.  Andreychuk is also about 5'11", I think.


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Actually, that's based on the NHL's history of 7 games.  The statstical
odds of winning one straight game -- 50/50.  Two straight games -- 25%.  Three
straight games -- 12.5%, 4 straight games = 6.25%.  The odds of the Penguins
winning 14 straight games in the playoffs was 0.0061%.  Of course, this doesn't
include weighted average, but the Pens beating the Devils 3 straight (a weaker
team) along with beating the Rangers 3 straight (a much stronger team) has made
the act balanced out.  That's about right.  For Boston the odds of winning are
probably closer to 10% (with weighted average) since Buffalo's record isn't as
good and Boston has a stronger team.  Enough about my QBA probabilities though!
It's just goes to prove ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, if you integrate that to Debbie
Gibson :-)

Moog gets about ***'s out of 5 for his performance from me.  I give Blue 4
starts.  Fuhr has been too tough.  Buffalo caught a hot goaltender just in
time...I mean, after all, Buffalo is 3 wins, 7 losses in their last 10.

It's very frustrating to lose, and you've gotta say something.  Actually
it's not about winning or losing, it is how you play the game.  But when the
competition is magnified to this level, 99.9% of the people only care about
who wins or loses :-)

I think Buffalo will win in 6 -- it's not like Boston is getting blown away.
They lost 2 OT games -- with a different bounce, they could easily be up 2-1.

Good point here.  Chicago's in deep trouble tonight.  The 'Hawks have a bad
past history of winning the division and losing early.  When they don't finish
1st, they do okay.


Wow that certainly CONVINCED me that all Americans ar hung up about sex.
Just one example of something that probably ran in a Hustler mag is enough
to convince me.

Sarchasm off.


I am planning on upgrading my old XT compatible system with a new
motherboard, hard drive, and 1.4 MB floppy.

I am interested in using my old power supply (150 W) to power the new
hardware, if possible.

I have been told by the motherboard vendor that I could probably
use the supply if it had twelve wires going to the motherboard.
(Apparently some XT vintage supplies had only 11 wires -- the
12th wire is a 5v line used to charge the motherboard battery).

My question is has anybody tried bringing an additional wire
out of an 11 wire supply OR using an auxiliary power source
to charge the motherboard battery?

I do not wish to buy an entirely new power supply if I can
make use of my existing one with simple hacks.

Thank you for any information.
An email reply to rarbanas@rcsuna.gmr.com would be fine.


Excerpts from netnews.talk.politics.mideast: 16-May-93 Re: Saudi
clergy   condemns d.. Robertc. Moldenhauer@par (2149)

  The whole "saddam is going to invade Saudi Arabia" was nothing but US State
  Department propeganda.  Saddam (and Iraq in general) never recognised the
  British created Kuwait.

This is complete garbage.   It is Kuwait FAQ number 1 (maintained, but
not compiled, by me to rebut the leftist drivel frequently posted wrt
Kuwait):

------------------------------------------------------------

First is a note on the bogus arguments that the British
drew the maps to deprive Iraq of Oil. Then follows a
chronology of events in Kuwait's history.   Following
the chronology is a speech by the Kuwaiti ambassador
to the U.N.. Following this is an article on the origins
of Kuwait. Following this is a series of articles
which attest to the fact that Kuwait was independent of both
(non-existent) Iraq and the Ottoman Empire.

---

The Iraqi regime claims that Kuwait was cut from Iraq by the British
in order to deprive Iraq of its oil. The 1913 and 1932 border treaties
between Kuwait and Iraq represent clear testimonies against such an
allegation since oil was discovered in Kuwait in 1938!

---

Kuwait: A Chronology

[BC 600] The Hellens settled in Al-Khazna Hill area on Failaka
Island.

[529] Al-Monzer Bin-Ma'a Al-Sama'a defeated Al-Hareth Al-Kindi in
the Kuwaiti area of Wara.

[300] The Greeks lived on Failaka Island for two centuries.

[73] A royal message was inscribed on the Ikarus stone which is
now on view in the National Museum of Kuwait.

[AD 623] The Arabs defeated the Persians at the battle of Zat
Al-Salassel in the Kazima area.

[1672] The approximate date of the establishment of Kuwait town
when Barrak was the Amir of the Beni Khaled tribe.

[1711] Approximately when the Al-Sabah family arrived in Kuwait.

[1752] The approximate date of the election of Sabah Bin Jaber
from the Al-Sabah family to be the first ruler of Kuwait.

[1760] The first wall, 750 meters long, was built around Kuwait
City.

[1762] Abdulla Bin Sabah, the second ruler of Kuwait, came to
power.

[1765] C. Niebuhr, the Danish traveler, visited Kuwait which he
referred to on his map as ``Grane.''

[1773] Kuwait was attacked by an epidemic  and most of its
inhabitants died.

[1783] The Kuwaitis defeated the tribe of Bani K'ab in the sea
battle of Riqqa.

[1811] The second wall of Kuwait, 2300 meters long, was built.

[1871] The Al-Taba'ah accident, in which many Kuwaiti diving
ships were sunk, was caused by a massive tidal wave between India and
Muscat.

[1886] The first Kuwaiti currency was minted in copper during the
reign of Sheikh Abdulla Al-Sabah II.

[1899] Kuwait signs a treaty with Britain and becomes a protectorate.
(see note below)

[1911] December 22. Al-Mubarakiya School, the first formal
school in Kuwait, opened.

[1920] The third wall of Kuwait, 6400 meters long, was built.

[1921] Kuwait took the first step toward democracy, the formation
of a consultative council, but did not last for long.

[1922] The total number of Kuwaiti pearl diving boats reached
800, manned by over 10,000 sailors and divers.

[1922] The first public library in Kuwait was established.

[1926] The historian Abdul Aziz Al-Rasheed published the first
book on Kuwait.

[1928] Kuwait's first periodical, the ``Kuwaiti Magazine,'' was
published by Abdul Aziz Al-Rasheed.

[1930] Kuwait Municipality was established.

[1930] An Amiri Decree was issued prohibiting the wearing of the
Bisht because of soaring prices.

[1933] The Municipality installed lighting in the Kuwait market.

[1934] December 7. Heavy rainfall destroyed many Kuwaiti houses.
Therefore this year was called ``The destructive Year,'' ``Al-Sannah
Al-Hadamah.''

[1938] February. Oil was discovered in Burgan oilfield.

[1938] The first general elections, resulted in the first
Legislative Council.

[1942] The first bank in Kuwait was opened.

[1945] ``Kuwait House'' was established in Egypt to look after
Kuwaiti missions and interests.

[1946] The first Kuwaiti crude oil shipment was exported.

[1948] ``Kazima Magazine'' was issued, the first Kuwaiti magazine
to be both printed and published in Kuwait.

[1950] Sheikh Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who had ruled Kuwait for
thirty years, died.

[1951] May 12. Kuwait Radio went on the air for the first time.

[1952] The first ``Kuwait Masterplan'' was drawn up.

[1954] Khalid Al-Faraj, the man of letters and poet, died.

[1954] December, 11. ``Kuwait Al-Youm'' (Official Gazette) was
issued for the first time.

[1955] Oil was struck in Al-Rawdhatain, north of Kuwait.

[1957] Kuwait wall was demolished and removed.

[1957] The ``Social Affairs Department'' conducted the first
population census.

[1958] December 1. The first issue of ``Al-Arabi'' magazine was
published.

[1960]  The first Kuwaiti woman was employed by Kuwait Oil
Company.

[1961] April 1. The Kuwaiti Dinar became the official currency
in Kuwait.

[1961] June 19. The agrrement of January 23, 1899, concluded
between Kuwait and Great Britain, was terminated.

[1961] July 20. Kuwait became a member of the Arab League.

[1961] December, 31. Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
was established.

[1962] January 20. The elected constituent assembly met to draw
up the Constitution of Kuwait.

[1962] An Amiri Decree was issued providing for the division of
the country into three governorates.

[1962] November 11. The Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Abdulla Al-Salem
Al-Sabah ratified the first Constitution of Kuwait.

[1963] January. The first elected National Assembly of Kuwait
convened.

[1963] May 17. Kuwait became a member of the United Nations
Organization.

[1963] August 7. The great Kuwaiti poet Saqr Al-Shebaib died.

[1965] November 24. The Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Abdulla Al-Salem
Al-Sabah, passed away.

[1966] The Neutral Zone was partitioned between Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia.

[1966] November 27. Kuwait University was inaugurated.

[1968] May 13. Kuwait freed itself from all external obligations
when it canceled the agreement of June 19, 1961.

[1969] April 1. Central Bank of Kuwait was established.

[1969] October 18. The first communications satellite earth
station in Kuwait was inaugurated.

[1973] July 6. The Kuwaiti pioneer and reformer Sheikh Yousef Bin
Eisa Al-Qina'ai died.

[1975] March. The government acquired full ownership of Kuwait
Oil Company.

[1976] The Social Security Law, applicable to Kuwaiti nationals,
was issued.

[1976] The Future Generations Reserves Law was issued. It
stipulates the allocation of 10\% per annum of the State revenues for
future generations.

[1977] December 31. The Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem
Al-Sabah died.

[1981] May 25. Kuwait signed the Articles of Association of the
Gulf Cooperation Council.

[1983] The Bubiyan Bridge, linking Bubiyan Island to the
mainland, was opened for traffic.

[1985] May 25. The Amir survived an attempt
on his life when a bomb-laden car rammed into his motorcade on Arabian
Gulf Street.

---From Kuwait, Facts and Figures, 1986.

Shedding Some Light

On September 29 1990, the National Council on US-Arab Relations
invited the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States, Saud Nasser
Al-Sabah. The following are quotes of his speech:

``Kuwait itself was an entity identified as Kuwait even before
Iraq was identified as Iraq in the Ottoman Empire. Kuwait was in
existence since 1752. We continued to be in existence until the
conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the British and others in the
area. Thereafter, we signed with the British in 1899 a protective
agreement whereby the British guaranteed the sovereignty and security
of Kuwait.''

``In 1913, the British and the Ottoman signed an agreement defining
without any doubt the borders of Kuwait as they stand today. Such an
agreement was reconfirmed in 1932 between the Kuwaiti government
and the Iraqi government at that time. That is when Iraq became a state,
after Kuwait itself.''

``In 1961, when we declared our independence Iraq seized the
opportunity to claim Kuwait as part of Iraq. There were threats. The
British came in, and Arab forces came in to guarantee the sovereignty
and territorial integrity of Kuwait. In 1963, Kuwait and Iraq again
signed border agreement, thereby defining our territory and Iraq's
recognition to the sovereignty and territory of Kuwait.''

---Compiled by Firyal Alshalalbi

Origins of Kuwait

The establishment of Kuwait is attributed to Barrak b. Ghurair of the
Bani Khalid who used Kuwait as a summer residence. The beginning of
Kuwait goes back to the late 17th century and some historians go
further up to 1611. Kuwait's name is derived from al-Kut which means
fortress. Kuwait is also called Qurain, which is the diminutive of qarn, a
horn or hill. Kuwait town flourished and grew since its
establishment.

The 'Utub, al-Sabah family is a branch of 'Utub, settled in Kuwait
during the early 18th century. They lived under the protection
of Bani Khalid until 1752. After that, they became independent and
Sabah Bin Jabir was chosen as the first ruler for 'Utub.

Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) a Dutch explorer was among the first who
wrote about the Arabia. He was the mathematician in the scientific
expedition sent in 1760 by the King of Denmark to Arabia. He
documented details of Arab tribes inhabiting both coasts of the Gulf
and in the case of Kuwait, he was the first writer to give the two
names by which the town was known, Kuwait and Qurain. Niebuhr's chart
of the Persian Gulf was the best one drawn before the end of that
century, see the map from Abu Hakima, History of Eastern Arabia
1750-1800. pub.1965.

Al-Sabah ('Utub) kept good relations with other powers in the eastern
Arabia. According to Ahmed Abu Hakima's conclusions in his well
documented study about the history of eastern Arabia between 1750-1800,
there was no Ottoman rule on the region. ``In the second half of
the 18th century, there was no Ottoman ruler in Eastern Arabia.
In fact, Ottoman rule was not even nominally acknowledged. Their
attempts to restore their lost position in al-Hasa through the
campaign of Thuwayni in 1786, and Ali Pasha's expedition against the
Wahhabis in 1798, were unsuccessful. At Kuwait, the nearest point of
the Utbi domains to the Ottoman Mutasallimiyya of Basra, the Shaikh
was under no form of Ottoman control. The aim of 'Utbi external policy
was to keep on friendly relations with all the forces working in the
Gulf.'' (p. 182-183) Abu Hakima continued in his conclusions that ``Kuwait
was not a dependency of Basra, the Persian occupation of Basra
(1775-79) did not affect Kuwait.'' (p.183)

Kuwait had its own identity through the Ottoman domination on the Arab
world. This identity was clear to the British and the French who
tried to win the support of Kuwait's Sheikh between 1793-95 when the
British wanted his support in their conflict with the French in the
Gulf area.

---

Independent Kuwait

This is the first of a series of articles that testify to the
independence of Kuwait throughout its history from both Iraq and the
Ottomans.

The following text is related to an expedition carried out by the
Ottomans in 1871 against the Wahhabis in Eastern Arabia (where the oil fields
in Saudi Arabia now). Kuwait and its ruler at that time, Sheikh
Abdulla Ibn Sabah Ibn Jabir, allied themselves with the Turks:}

Abdullah' role in the fighting was not a minor one. He joined the
expedition as a commander of the large Kuwaiti fleet and was the first
to use its guns against the besieged town of Al-Qatif. Had it not been
for this bombardment by the Kuwaiti fleet, Al-Qatif obviously would
not have surrendered in a mere three hours.

In relation to this, a question arises as to why the Ottoman warships
refrained from participating in the bombardment. The answer lies in
reports relating to the political movements that preceded accounts of
the progress of the expedition. Because the Ottomans were unwilling to
jeopardize the maritime peace imposed by Britain in the area,  the
Sultan and the Pasha promised their warships would not be used in the
war against Su'ud or any Sheikh in the war zone. Kuwait, which was not
a party  to the above-mentioned treaty of 1861, was under no such
obligation especially since the expedition was not directed against
those who had signed it.

[ From the above text, we can see that Kuwait was not part of the
Ottomans or the British colonies. For more details about the mentioned
expedition, please check out the source of the above text:

The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750--1965, by Ahmed Abu-Hakima, McGill
University, Canada ]

---

Independent Kuwait--2

This is another article of a series of articles that testify to the
independence of Kuwait throughout its history from both Iraq and the
Ottomans.

The following text discusses a dispute on an estate called Sufiyya in Zubair,
Iraq, between the Sheikh of Kuwait and Al-Zuhair tribe in Zubair.

In 1866, trouble developed over the possession by Sheikh Sabah of the
estate which was [purchased] by his father, Sheikh Jabir, in 1836. This
property was sequestered by a Turkish Qa'immaqam [representative] on
the basis of a claim by the Al-Zuhair that the vendor had been the
owner of a share and not of the n 100e Sufiyya. At the same time,
Sheikh Sabah was required to expel from other lands owned by him at
the island of Fao some cultivators who had immigrated from Persian
territory.

It should be recalled that  the Turkish officials from the start
showed strong prejudice in favor of the Zuhair claimants. Abdulla Ibn
Sabah,  the eldest son of the ruler of Kuwait who went to Basra as his
father's agent in the case,  narrowly escaped being thrown  into jail
upon his refusal to make a payment amounting to the value of seven
years produce which the Ottoman authorities deemed the plaintiffs were
entitled to receive.

Eventually, the dispute was settled by the Wali [Governor] of Baghdad
in favor of the Sheikh of Kuwait. The decision of the Governor of
Basra in favor of the Sheikh was apparently made for various reasons.
Some writers think that the Governor wanted to win Abdulla over to the
Turkish side, and suggest that the Governor, Namiq Pasha, even offered
him the title of Qa'immaqam, which he declined. Nevertheless,  the
proceedings of the Turks in this case were regarded by the inhabitants
of Kuwait as attempts to cause a confrontation with Zubair. It seems
that they had anticipated a conflict and according to reports by the
British Agent at Basra, the people of Kuwait were prepared to a man to
abandon their town rather than submit to Turkish rule. Lorimer suggests
that the final order of Namiq Pasha, upholding the Kuwait Sheikh's
title to Sufiyya, was perhaps due to a report that Sheikh Sabah,
``with the object of attacking Zubair if the decision should go
against him, had obtained a promise of countenance and armed support
from the Wahhabi Amir.''

In addition to this legal matter with Zubair, Kuwait had had other
problems with Basra whose courts tried to jail Abdulla Ibn Sabah, as
explained above. However, Kuwait's relations with the Ottoman
mutasallims of Basra had at times been amicable and in several
instances, those mutasallims even sought refuge at Kuwait when
pressured by the Pashas of Baghdad who exercised control over them.

[ Source: The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750--1965, by Ahmed Abu-Hakima,
McGill University, Canada ]

---

Independent Kuwait--3

This is another article that testifies to the
independence of Kuwait throughout its history from both Iraq and the
Ottomans.

When Pelly [Colonel Pelly, the British Resident in the Gulf] visited Kuwait
for the first time on March 3, 1863, he was
met at Jahra by Sheikh Mubarak, the second son of the ruler, Sheikh
Sabah. Just before he reached Kuwait town on March 4, he was met by
Sheikh Abdulla, the eldest son and heir apparent, who accompanied him
to the town gate on their way to ``a very good home,'' which had been
prepared for Pelly and his companions. ``Scarcely had we entered it,''
says Pelly, ``when Sheikh Sabah himself came.''
This description of Pelly's reception indicates that to a certain
degree it was run according to protocol.

The government system of Kuwait and administration of justice were the
subject of comments made by Pelly. ``The Government is patriarchal,''
says Pelly, ``the Sheikh managing the political, and the Cazee [Qadi]
the judicial departments. The Sheikh himself would submit to the
Cazee's decision.'' Punishment was rarely inflicted. ``Indeed, there
seems little government interference anywhere, and little need of an
army.'' Pelly in admiration of how the Sheikh ran the affairs of the
country, retold the following remark which the Sheikh had made to him:

When my father was nearly 120 years old, he called me and said, ``I
shall soon die. I have made no fortune, and can leave you no money,
but I have made many and true friends, grapple them. While other
states around the Gulf have fallen off from injustice or
ill-government, mine has gone on [flourishing]. Hold to my policy, and
though you are surrounded by  desert, and pressed by a once hostile
and still wandering set of tribes, you will prosper.''

[ Source: The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750--1965, by Ahmed Abu-Hakima,
McGill University, Canada ]

---

Independent Kuwait--4

This is another article that testifies to the
independence of Kuwait throughout its history from both Iraq and the
Ottomans.

The British had always regarded Sheikh Jabir as a ``good friend,'' but
in October 1839, an event took place at Kuwait which could have
weakened those good relations. On October 30, Lieutenant Edmunds, the
Assistant Resident at Abu Shahr [in Iran], arrived in Kuwait on  a
special mission from the Resident, Captain Hennell. His mission was to
find out if Kuwait was willing to welcome the establishment of a
British line of post across the desert from Kuwait to the
Mediterranean. The British war vessel fired the usual salute in honor
of the Sheikh after it had anchored in the waters of Kuwait Bay. The
salute was not acknowledged and Edmunds waited in the vessel for three
days before he was able to communicate with the Sheikh.

After Edmunds' return to Abu Shahr, both he and Captain Hennell
explained this unusual behavior of the Sheikh, to have been due not
to ill-will, but principally to a desire to mislead the Egyptian agent
at Kuwait as to the nature of his relations with the British.
Therefore, they considered that Jabir's conduct did not indicate any
change in his friendly policies towards the British.

If the British tolerated the attitude of Jabir towards Edmunds, so
also did the Egyptians. Earlier in the same year, some of the most
wanted men in the Wahhabi camp, such as 'Umar Ibn 'Ufaisan, the
Wahhabi general  in Al-Hasa, and Wahhabi tribes like Al-Duwaish,
sought refuge in Kuwait.

Protection of refugees seeking political
asylum in his country was a policy that had been adopted earlier by
Sheikh Abdulla Ibn Sabah. This can, therefore, be looked upon as an
indication of self-confidence; an outcome of Kuwait's independence
from foreign powers. It corroborates the fact that Kuwait, if
necessary, was prepared to defend itself against more powerful
neighbors.

This defense depended not only on the walls of the city, but also on
bedouin tribes in its neighborhood and a merchant fleet equipped with
the necessary guns comparable to other Arab fleets of the time.

As to Kuwait's position between 1815 and 1839, one can safely state
that it managed to maintain a neutral policy with regard to the
struggling Wahhabis and Egyptians. Relations with the British  and
even with the Pasha of Baghdad continued on good terms.

[ Source: The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750--1965, by Ahmed Abu-Hakima,
McGill University, Canada ]

---

  They were trying to recover land they believed
  was theirs, much like the Argentines in the Faulklands.  The Kuwaitis pushed
  just a little too far by taking Iraqi oil and Saddam thought he'd settle
  the dispute the old fashioned way...

Are you really this cartoonish?  Or do you seriously believe this?  If
so, please post  your proof.

  Everybody would have been much better off had they left the reunited Iraq
  together and concentrated on taking out Saddam.  A strong, united Iraq with
  an elected government would have gone a long way to ridding the world of
  the feudal dictatorships in the Gulf.


A HBP, but it reminds of my favorite (apochryphal ? sp ?) Don Drysdale story.

When ordered to intentionally walk a batter who had hot-dogged on him in
two previous at-bats, Drysdale reared back with the first pitch and
drilled him right in the ribs.

His manager came storming out of the dugout and yelled "What did you do that
for ?"

Drysdale growled back, "What are you complaining for ? I saved you three
pitches !"

Incidentally, if this is true, I'd love to know the other people involved.

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SUNY at Buffalo     | cracks... and the wall, cracks... and the wall comes
Dept. of Economics  | crumbling down."                - Anthrax


	This is pure bull.  I've had the 24 bit mode (640x480 and 800x600)
	working since the version before 59 (??55??).  Bld 59 added
	the 24 bit option to Flexpanel.  Try getting the drivers from
	ftp.cica.indiana.edu or wuarchive.
Mine is:
Gateway 486 DX2/50 LB
8 Megs ram
IDE HD
ATI GUP w/ 2MB (installed upgrade myself)
BLD 59 drivers.


What's with John Franco?  The Mets are hardly using him.  I heard he was
completely recovered, but now I'm not so sure.

If there is anybody out there with information about Franco, I would
appreciate it if you could drop me a line.


 I would not be suprised if the equipment is compatible, in fact New York
Telephone (NYNEX) spend a lot of money on Swedish switching equipment
recently.

 You can guess what brand of equipment I refer to :-)

Michael


I have a 3 month old that seems to have acquired the jitters of late.
The 14" Apple color monitor that I'm using with an LCIII sort of jiggles to
the left and right all the time now. I have attempted to relocate the monitor
to make sure the problem isn't interference from something else, but the
problem seems to remain no matter what I do.

Has anybody encountered this problem?

Thanks,


Hello there!
A few days ago I got a mail concerning bitmap-stretching
from SCOTT LEATHAM @ Microsoft Redmond WA, USA.
I really would like to answer back to him, but I have
lost his email-address.
So if Scott or anybody that knows his email-address
reads this, please mail me his address so I can
answer his mail.

Please mail to : d91tm@efd.lth.se


The problem is that (by no fault of ESPN) ongoing games are not
covered 'til the final horn sounds.  With two channels, SCNY and SCA,
late-finishing games (up to Pacific time) and overtimes elsewhere will
kick in at the end of local coverage.  If SCNY is blocked by the Mets,
there is still some hockey on SCA (SCNY Plus).

With an ESPN 2, the current situation would be alleviated.

gld


I have an old IBM PC-XT motherboard which has TWO banks
of dip switches (eight switches per bank).  I need to
know which switch is required to install a hard disk.

Does anyone have any archived documentation that would
help me?

Thanks -jim-  jimd@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com


I've had a Valentine for about 9 months now and I agree that it is the best det
ector available. The point here is trust and reliability. I've been able to "tr
ust" the Valentine more than any other detector I've owend. If the Valentine sa
ys that there is a moderate to strong radar source in front of me, then it's mo
re than likely to be a speed trap. With my other detectors, I've gotten so many
 falses that I've begun to ignore someo of the warnings because I didn't want t
o drive like I had one foot on the brake and one on the gas pedal.

That directional indicator really, really helps. Plus, more info is almost alwa
ys better than less info. No matter how smart radar detectors get, the human br
ain is usually smarter. So, if I'm going to make a decisio based on information
 at hand, I want all the info I can get. Plus, if you divide the overall streng
th of the radar signal by the number of bogeys reported, you'll find that each
bogey is pretty weak and therefore not a radar threat. With other detectors, yo
u'll just get one strong warning. My logic may be faulty on this, but I think i
t works okay.

Although, I must admit that I haven't really noticed the reflection problem of
one radar souce.


I include the key verse (D&C 68:25) because others
may not have the reference.

"And again, inasmuch as parents have children in Zion,
or in any of her stakes which are organized, that teach
them not to understand the doctrine of repentance,
faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of
baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying
on of the hands, when eight years old, the sin be
upon the heads of the parents."

What is "the sin" of the parents?

Ezekiel 18 teaches a correct principle.
However, it assumes that fathers and sons have
equal knowledge to prepare for the judgment.

Parents are responsible to teach their children
the Gospel and other life skills.  Should they
fail to make a sufficient attempt to teach their
children, the parent would be held responsible
-- not for their children's sins, but for not
teaching them properly.

Whenever the Lord installs someone to a position
of authority in either the family or the church He
expects that person to teach those in his charge.

In Ezekiel 33:7-9 someone called to care for others
is likened to "a watchman unto the house of Israel."
"If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from
his way, that man shall die in his iniquity; but
his blood will I require at thine hand.
Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to
turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he
shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast
delivered thy soul."

Even though the D&C prefaces this commandment with
"parents have children in Zion" I believe all
parents are responsible for teaching their children
whatever good principles they understand.
However, LDS parents accept greater responsbility
and could be judged more strictly.


Well, I'm glad that there's plenty of NT stuff at Xhibition.
Not because I want to use it instead of X, but because I want to
find out what the chances are that some time in the future I may
not have any choice.


Speaking of Roger and ilk, whatever happened to good ol' gln?  I had him in
my kill file since last year's playoffs and now that I've moved to a new
news reader which doesn't have kill files, I find that he's gone.  I must
admit, however, that unlike gln, Roger seems to know something about the game
as long as the subject doesn't touch on the Leafs.


There are exactly ZERO verses that "clearly" address the issues.

The kind of interpretation I see as "incredibly perverse" is that applied
to the story of Sodom as if it were a blanket equation of homosexual
behavior and rape.  Since Christians citing the Bible in such a context
should be presumed to have at least READ the story, it amounts to slander
-- a charge that homosexuality == rape -- to use that against us.

The moderator adequately discusses the circularity of your use of _porneia_
in this.  I think we can all agree (with Paul) that there are SOME kinds of
activity that could be named by "fornication" or "theft" or "coveting" or
"reviling" or "drunkenness" which would well deserve condemnation.  We may
or may not agree to the bounds of those categories, however; and the very
fact that they are argued over suggests that not only is the matter not at
all "clear" but that Paul -- an excellent rhetorician -- had no interest
in MAKING them clear, leaving matters rather to our Spirit-led decisions,
with all the uncomfortable living-with-other-readings that has dominated
Christian discussion of ALL these areas.

Homosexual behavior is no different.  I (and the other gay Christians I
know) are adamant in condemning rape -- heterosexual or homosexual -- and
child molestation -- heterosexual or homosexual -- and even the possibly
"harmless" but obsessive kinds of sex -- heterosexual or homosexual --
that would stand condemned by Paul in the very continuation of the chapter
you cite [may I mildly suggest that what *Paul* does in his letter that
you want to use is perhaps a good guide to his meaning?]

	"'I am free to do anything,' you say.  Yes, but not everything
	is for my good.  No doubt I am free to do anything, but I for one
	will not let anything make free with me."  [1 Cor. 6:12]

Which is a restatement that we must have no other "god" before God.  A
commandment neither I nor any other gay Christian wishes to break.  Some
people are indeed involved in obsessively driven modes of sexual behavior.
It is just as wrong (though slightly less incendiary, so it's a secondary
argument from the 'phobic contingent) to equate homosexuality with such
behavior as to equate it with the rape of God's messengers.

I won't deal with the exegesis of Leviticus, except very tangentially.
Fundamentally, you are exhibiting the same circularity here as in your
assumption that you know what _porneia_ means.  There are plenty of
laws prohibiting sexual behavior to be found in Leviticus, most of
which Christians ignore completely.  They never even BOTHER to examine
them.  They just *assume* that they know which ones are "moral" and
which ones are "ritual."  Well, I have news for you.  Any anthropology
course should sensitize you to ritual and clean vs. unlcean as categories
in an awful lot of societies (we have them too, but buried pretty deep).
And I cannot see any ground for distinguishing these bits of Leviticus
from the "ritual law" which NO Christian I know feels applies to us.

I'm dead serious here.  When people start going on (as they do in this
matter) about how "repulsive" and "unnatural" our acts are -- and what
do they know about it, huh? -- it is a solid clue to the same sort of
arbitrary cultural inculcations as the American prejudice against eating
insects.  On what basis, other than assuming your conclusion, can you
say that the law against male-male intercourse in Leviticus is NOT a part
of the ritual law?

For those Christians who *do* think that *some* parts of Leviticus can
be "law" for Christians (while others are not even to be thought about)
it is incumbent on you *in every case, handled on its own merits* to
determine why you "pick" one and ignore another.  I frankly think the
whole effort misguided.  Reread Paul: "No doubt I am free to do anything."
But Christians have a criterion to use for making our judgments on this,
the Great Commandment of love for God and neighbor.  If you cannot go
through Leviticus and decide each "command" there on that basis, then
your own arbitrary selection from it is simply idiosyncracy.  In this
context, it is remarkably offensive to say:

Well, la-ti-da.  So what?  This is almost as slimey an argument as the
one that homosexuality == rape.  I know of no one who argues seriously
(though one can always find jokers) in "defense" of bestiality.  It is
absolutely irrelevant and incomparable to the issues gay Christians *do*
raise (which concern sexual activity within committed, consensual human
adult realtionships), so that your bringing it up is no more relevant
than the laws of kashrut.  If you cannot address the actual issues, you
are being bloody dishonest in trailing this red herring in front of the
world.  If *you* want to address bestiality, that is YOUR business, not
mine.  And attempting to torpedo a serious issue by using what is in
our culture a ridiculous joke shows that you have no interest in hearing
us as human beings.  You want to dismiss us, and use the sleaziest means
you can think of to do so.

Jesus and Paul both expound, very explictly and in considerable length,
the central linch-pin of Christian moral thought: we are required to
love one another, and ALL else depends on that.  Gay and lesbian Christ-
ians challenge you to address the issue on those terms -- and all we get
in return are cheap debate tricks attempting to side-track the issues.

Christians, no doubt very sincere ones, keep showing up here and in every
corner of USENET and the world, and ALL they ever do is spout these same
old verses (which they obviously have never thought about, maybe never
even read), in TOTAL ignorance of the issues raised, slandering us with
the vilest charges of child abuse or whatever their perfervid minds can
manage to conjure up, tossing out red herrings with (they suppose) great
emotional force to cause readers to dismiss our witness without even
taking the trouble to find out what it is.

Such behavior should shame anyone who claims to have seen Truth in Christ.
WHY, for God's precious sake, do you people quote irrelevant verses to
condemn people you don't know and won't even take the trouble to LISTEN
to BEFORE you start your condemnations?  Is that loving your neighbor?
God forbid!  Is THAT how you obey the repeated commands to NOT judge or
condemn others?  Christ and Paul spend ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more time in
insisting on this than the half-dozen obscure words in Paul that you are
SO bloody ready to take as license to do what God tells you NOT to do.

Why, for God's sake?

	"For God did not send the Son into the world
	to condemn the world,
	but that the world might be saved through him.
	Whoever believes in him is not condemned,
	but whoever does not believe has already been condemned
	for refusing to believe in the name of God's only Son.
	Now the judgment is this:
	the light has come into the world,
	but men have preferred darkness to light
	because their deeds were evil.
	For everyone who practices wickedness
	hates the light,
	and does not come near the light
	for fear his deeds will be exposed.
	But he who acts in truth
	comes into the light,
	so that it may be sh0own
	that his deeds are done in God."	John 3:17-21

For long ages, we (many of us) have been confused by evil counsel from
evil men and told that if we came to the light we would be shamed and
rejected.  Some of us despaired and took to courses that probably *do*
show a sinful shunning of God's light.  Blessed are those whose spirits
have been crushed by the self-righteous; they shall be justified.

However, we have seen the Truth, and the Truth is the light of humanity;
and we now know that it is not WE who fear the light, but our enemies who
fear the light of our witness and will do everything they can to shadow
it with the darkness of false witness against us.


					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^

Hopefully EPSN will use the lesson given by the master: Ted Turner.
The season Ted introduced TNT, many cable co.'s refused to put it on,
saying that, gee we get enough old movies, miniseries, etc. on TBS,
USA, AMC, WGN, WOR, why do we need another one? This was in the fall.
Come spring, Ted fixed their little red wagons good. The previous
spring, NBA playoffs wore on TBS, now they were on TNT (and still are).
And everyone gets TNT now.

So, ESPN should put NFL football and baseball on ESPN2, and leave
hockey on ESPN. And if cable co.'s play games and drop ESPN
in favor of ESPN2, ESPN should alternate baseball and football between
channels every week.

But, do the ESPN guys collectively have the gonads of the Turner guy?


If ESPN/ABC is going to stick with one-sided Pens-Devils series(and it
looks like they will continue with it on Thursday night), I'd rather
watch pretty women in the stands than non-action on the ice where a
slow,aging NJ team being taken out to lunch by a dynamic Pens squad.


: |> Let me begin by saying I think this is the world's first religion to use
: |> the net as its major recruitment medium.  Therefore, even if this
: |> religion does not take off, its founding members will be very important
: |> historically as this method of soliciting membership will eventually become
: |> common.
:
:  So what is Kibology? Chopped liver?

Kibo Himself summed it up by saying "Kibology is not just a religion, it is
also a candy mint ... and a floor wax." I personally think that it is more
like Spam Clear.
:
:  You really should check out alt.religion.kibology, as Kibo's religion is
: slightly older than yours, makes more sense and has more slack.

Yes! Why send money to B0B when Kibo will pay you to worship him. (Funny, he
doesn't seem to have paid me...)

: ------------------------------------------------------------------
:      __  Live from Capitaland, heart of the Empire State...
:  ___/  | Jim Kasprzak, computer operator @ RPI, Troy, NY, USA
: /____ *|   "I understand the causes, and sympathize your motivations,
:      \_| But all the details of this war are just your self-infatuation."
:       ====  e-mail: kasprj@rpi.edu or kasprzak@mts.rpi.edu


It's a shame there's no law against Driving While Stupid.  After a little
while it would prevent all kinds of accidents.

Dean


I'd like to conduct a small survey relating to Americans' views on economics and on Japan.
The survey consists of just two questions.  I ask that only Americans respond; I've posted
it worldwide, however, because I think others will be interested in the results.  I'll
tabulate the results and post them with some commentary.  Please respond by email to
"borden@m5.harvard.edu".  Here are the questions:

1) As an American, would you prefer that in a given year, a) our economy grows by one
   percent, and Japan's economy also grows by one percent, or b) our economy grows by
   two percent while Japan's economy grows by three percent?

2) On what newsgroup did you read this survey?

Thank you for your participation.


Robert MacElwaine sez (again!);

OK, I got it.  Actually, these message of MacElwaine's are coded messages.
Read only the caps, and it all comes clear!:

Maybe it's a message telling us what actually happened to the legendary
Larson.  Perhaps it's a warning that one should not expend too much
effort trying to counter MacElwaine's postings.  Who can be sure? :-)

-Tommy Mac
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk   \ They communicated with the communists,
18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu 336-9591 hm \ and pacified the pacifists. -TimBuk3


James, it could be that they were determined to stay together in the compound
no matter what happened. Perhaps the fire was accidental, and the DB simply
refused to leave the compod. Perhap they died fighting the fire? who knows.
we will have to wait and see. i persaonlly find it hard to believe that they
would all agree to burn themselves up! what a horrible way to go.


Im new to Xlib programming. Im having a problem I hope someone here can
help me with. I create a window, and I want it to have some background color,
say red, and draw an oval in it. Further, when I resize the window, I want
to be able to redraw the image so that is fills the new window (whether it
is larger or smaller.) Im using AIXwindows on an RS6000.

My problem is this: when I resize the window, only the "original" part of the
window that was part of the window creation gets drawn into. Everything else
is a grey..the oval "tries" to redraw itself but gets clipped. I can see that
it WOULD be the right size if I could see all of it, but it only shows up in
the region that was the original size of the window when created.

For example, I start out the window at 200x200 in width and height. If I
resize it to 400x400, the only part that has any color drawn into it is
is from the origin out to 200x200..the rest is grey. Further the oval
only shows up in that 200x200 area.

What am I doing wrong?? How can I get a window to resize and redraw a
re-scaled image in it to take up the full size of the window?

Second question:
Could someone tell me what Xaw and Xmu are???


I didn't want to quote all the stuff that's been said recently, I
just wanted to add a point.

   The whole question of "a right to a dark sky" revolves around the
definition of a right.  Moral rights and natural rights are all well and
good, but as far as I can see, a right is whatever you or someone
representing you can enforce.  In most civilizations, the government or
the church (or both) defines what the rights of the citizens are, and
then enforces those rights for them.  Here in the U.S., the constitution
provides a "Bill of Rights" from which most if not all legal rights are
considered to derive.  I'm sure that most other countries have
comparable documents.  If you can persuade a court that you have a right
to a dark sky derived in some manner from the Bill of Rights (in the
U.S.), you can prevent (maybe) these billboards from being launched.  To
keep anyone in the world from launching then gets into international law
and the International Court of Justice (correct name?) in the Hague,
something I know little about.


I need the tool described in the subject line. Is there such a
tool available via ftp? If so, I'd appreciate it if someone could
e-mail me the location and pathname.

Thanks.

-------------
Saad Mufti
Personal Library Software


For a very long time I've had a problem with feeling really awful
when I try to get up in the morning.  My sleep latency at night is also
pretty long,  ranging from 30 min to an hour.  I get about 7 hours of
bedtime (maybe 6 of actual sleep) a night and more on the weekends.  I
will spend two or three hours laying in bed after this if I can,  because
I feel so tired when I wake up,  even more tired than I was when I
went to bed,  which is usually too tired to work.

	Anyway,  I recently had a really bad flu,  so I called a friend to
get me some cough syrup with both an expectorant and a nasal decongestant;
but he got Vicks formula 44M which has everything but an expectorant.  So
I used that anyway,  and the three nights I used it,  I fell asleep rapidly
and felt that I got really good quality sleep -- that is,  I actually
felt refreshed the next morning.

	So,  I am now trying to look into,  both in the literature and
experimentally,  the use of antihistamines as sleep aids,  since I am
presuming that it was the antihistamine that caused the effect.  The
antihistamine in Vicks formula 44 is Chloriphenamine maleate,  so I bought
some generic tablets of that,  and tried one last night and didn't
notice any improvement.  I might try one with a little alcohol (about
1 beer) to see if it is a synergism effect.  Also,  library research
seems to show that Benadryl is the antihistamine with the strongest
sedative effect of what is availible OTC.  So I might also buy a generic
form of that and try that;  the PDR seems to suggest that 50 mg is a good
dosage level to try.

	For other medical information,  I have allergies but rarely have
an allergic reaction living in New Mexico.  I also have chronically dry
eyes,  which get horrible if I try to use most underarm deoderants.  I did
guess that my problem might be caused by hypoglycemia,  so I made some
changes in my diet consistent with that,  and it didn't help,  so I
went back to a normal diet (Pretty diverse,  also taking vitamin supplements)


But one of the most basic concepts of Christian morality is that we
all have defective appetites due to original sin.  Not just
homosexuals, but everybody.  Thus we are not entitled to indulge in
whatever behavior our bodies want us to.

I think we need to keep clear the distinction between homosexual
_behavior_ (which is wrong) and homosexual _orientation_ (which is not
a sin, merely a misfortune).

[Please: NO EMAIL REPLIES.  Respond in this public forum.]


Is there an easy (ie via shell commands) way to tell what the DISPLAY
environment variable is for any given client process?  Sometimes I can
get what I want by typing ps -axe if:
   a. the client was invoked with a -display argument
      or
   b. DISPLAY is one of the first few variables defined in the environment
      (actually I've never seen b. but it's there to illustrate the type
      of thing I'm looking for)

Ultimately I wish to determine the number of displays that are simultaneously
running a given X application.

my system: SunOS 4.1.2 sun4c

thanks for any help,


[A lot of interesting stuff about gopher - deleted]

I've heard of it but lost the intro posting that came out a while back -
could you post it again?  I think it's of general interest.

Ben


That was a reasonable insertion, so folks would know "Random" hadn't made an
error reposting your message.  No one was flaming you for the typo.

I have heard such claims from disgruntled former members.  Could be true, who
knows.  No proof.  And what does all this have to do with the BATF and FBI
actions?

No, you missed his.

This from someone who does not have a return address in his header:
----
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From:  ()
Subject: Re: CLINTON JOINS LIST OF GENOCIDAL SOCIALIST LEADERS
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Lines: 65
----
Whereas David Pope (random) did, so a reasonable newsreader could simply hit
reply to his comments, but not to yours.  Get an education in Internet use, "my
man".

Jim
--
jmd@handheld.com


Don't even get hyped up.  They are still accepting submissions from the
members for various proposals of how to implement the standard.

You don't seem to realize that while v32bis was just an extension of
v32 (which took years to pass, implement, and finally sell at a reasonable
price), v.fast requires all new technology (not just faster DSP chips, etc.)
to achieve its performance.

Wait until next spring for the final ratification and modems coming shortly
after that.


[Posting the text of H.R. 893 ...]
[ ... ]
[page break]

OB ill-wind-and-all-that:  with Bill the Prez in there, at least the
anti-gunners are out of the closet.  The provision that any existing
so-called "assault weapons" die with their current owners was worked
into H.R. 3371 (102nd Congress bill number) a couple of years ago,
in a complicated way that the anti's claimed was a "drafting error."

Can't call 'em "lying bastards" any longer.  (Not all the time ...  :-)


	The best one I've seen is CEO, by Sloop Software.  They have a
	sharware version, but the retail version is only $40-50.  It's
	incredibly complete, subfolders to any level, choose any icon,
	hot keys, drop down menus, button bars, etc.  Haven't found
	anything it doesn't do.  Try mailing 72540.144@compuserve.com
	for details.

	Tom


1B Career:  DON MATTINGLY!!!!!!!!


Hello.
Hoping to net some netters
who are in the helping professions
(counseling, psychology, psychiatry, social work, therapy etc.)
to network on some topics and consider
the possibility of a sci.counseling.christian type newsgroup
or list.

The integration of psychology and counseling and theology
is a subject of great debate and one of particular interest
to me.

If you're out there, please lemme know.

Email me direct if you will so we can get to know one another
off the news.


Anybody who drove into somebody like that in this country would hopefully
lose their licence.  However, the avoidance is simple.  Don't stop behind the
cage. stop beside it, or better still, in front of it, so that it acts as a
buffer.

Tony


Not according to reports I have read. It seems that the Somalis think
of our African American Marines in less than complimentary terms, using
gestures that signify a word I refuse to use. Seems that even when you
try to help people, they still insult you.


Liefting> The alt.* hierarchie is created for 2 purposes: 1. For
Liefting> groups which do not fit under the comp.* or other 'official'
Liefting> hierarchies 2. For the fast creation of hot new newsgroups
Liefting> like alt.gulf.war

Liefting> Because there is no voting process or any other control
Liefting> facilities, sites are free to decide not to carry (some of)
Liefting> the alt groups.

Liefting> Therefore, it is (I think) desirable to try to create
Liefting> comp.graphics.  {raytrace, rendering or whatever} and not an
Liefting> alt-group

Plus, *many* sites, (especially many .com sites) do not carry any alt
newsgroups. (We don't for example.) A comp.* group will get a much broader
distribution and would be useful to many more people. Plus the topic is
important/popular enough to warrant its own group, IMHO.


Sharp Wizard: OZ-8000 electronic organizer w/ 64k RAM
     * Home and World clocks
     * Calendar
     * Schedular
     * Anniversary and periodic dates
     * 3 Telephone directories
     * Business card directory
     * Calculator
     * Outliner/Memos
     * 40x8 screen
     * QWERTY style keyboard
     * Alarms
     * Password protection
     * PC computer interface (requires cable)
     * Software card slot w/ touch screen
     * vt100 terminal builitin (requires cable and modem)

     I also have have an external battery pack that uses AA's
     Mail order price: sharp       $300
                     : battery pak $35

     Asking          : $150 for the whole deal

     Unit is in perfect shape, I just don't use as anything but an address
     book.


It's over - the Sabres came back to beat the Bruins in OT 6-5 tonight
to sweep the series. A beautiful goal by Brad May (Lafontaine set him
up while lying down on the ice) ended it. Fuhr left the game game with
an injured shoulder and Lafontaine was banged up as well; however, the
Sabres will get a week's rest so injuries should not be a problem.

Montreal edged Quebec 3-2 to square their series, which seems to be
headed for Game 7. The Habs dominated the first two periods and were
unlucky to only have a 2-2 tie after 40 minutes. However, an early
goal by Brunet in the 3rd won it.

The Islanders won their 3rd OT game of the series on a goal by Ray
Ferraro 4-3; the Caps simply collapsed after taking a 3-0 lead in the
2nd. The Isles' all-time playoff OT record is now 28-7.


And DoDers are easily recognized by their own special wave.
Pay attention and I'll tell you how to do it. Hold your left hand out
in front of you, fingers straight but apart - like a vase. You may also
use your right hand if you have a throttle lock or are stopped. Bring
your fingertips and thumb together, touch, and open back to the starting
position. While you are doing this, move your hand slowly to the left.
Do it gracefully and with a waving motion. You are now imitating a
squid propelling itself about underwater probably in search of food,
drink, squids of the appropriate sexual orientation, or other squids to
go riding with.


I have been using WinQVT/Net 2.81 under Win3.1 (dos 5.0) for quite
sometime without any problem.  I recently installed DOS 6.0 on my 386-40 PC
and I cannot run WinQVT/Net any more.  I keep getting "Packet received for
invalid port-reset sent" messages on the console window.  I can't
get more than 1 telnet window and can't use ftp!!!

   Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Forwarded from the Mars Observer Project

                       MARS OBSERVER STATUS REPORT
                             April 30, 1993
                              11:30 AM PDT

DSS-65 (Madrid 34 meter antenna) did not acquire the expected Mars Observer
Spacecraft signal at the scheduled beginning of track yesterday morning (4/29)
at approximately 6:00 AM.  Indications were that the spacecraft had entered a
Fault Protection mode sometime between that time and receipt of normal
telemetry at the end of the previous station pass (DSS-15 - Goldstone 34
meter antenna) at approximately 8:00 PM the evening before.  Entry into
Contingency Mode was verified when signal was reacquired and telemetry
indicated that the spacecraft was sun coning.  After subsystem engineers
reported all systems performing nominally, fault protection telemetry modes
were reconfigured and memory readouts of command system Audit Queue and
AACS (Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem) Starex performed.  These
readouts verified that Contingency Mode entry occurred shortly after 1:30 AM
yesterday, 4/29/93.  Preliminary indications are that a Sun Ephemeris Check
failure triggered fault protection.  However, the Flight Team will be
determining the precise cause over the next few days.

As of last evening, the spacecraft had been commanded back to Inertial
Reference and was stable in that mode.  The Flight Team is planning to
command the spacecraft back to Array Normal Spin state today.


I know for sure that the Everex Magic I/O EV-170A can be jumpered
for a printer mode, or for a general purpose bidirectional I/O mode.

Also, I know for sure that the IBM Technical Reference says the following
about the Monochrome Display & Printer Adapter and the IBM Parallel Printer
Adapter:

    It is essential that the external device not try to pull these
    lines [referring to the data lines] to ground.

And later:

    If an external device should be driving data on these pins (in
    violation of usage ground rules) at the time of an input, this
    data will be `or'ed with the latch contents.

I will accept no responsibility if you incur damages of any kind
as a result of my saying, ``I DO NOT know for sure, but I think
you should be able to use a traditional parallel port as an input
port by writing 0x to the data lines, and then reading from the
data lines, while an external device drives them.''  The input
data will not be latched, so noise could make this infeasible.


Do you know of the world-wide-web?  This is a global hypertext (well,
hypermedia) network running on the internet.  One of the nice things
about it is that is understands and incorporates virtually all of the
other systems being used, like WAIS, Gopher, FTP, Archie, etc.  It
is usually quite easy to add existing resources to the web.

If you'd like to explore, I'd suggest getting the XMosaic program,
written at the NCSA.  It's an X-windows web browser, and is pretty
slick.  It can understand and cope with more than text: gif, jpeg, mpeg,
audio, etc.  There are other browsers, including a text-mode browser
for people stuck on a text terminal, but I'm most familliar with mosaic.

Under the page "The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue"
(this is available under the Documents menu in mosaic, or by any
browser via the URL
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html )
there is a subject "Space Science."  Currently this points to a
page under construction, with only the NASA JPL FTP archive.  I've
volunteered to take over this page, and in fact I have a replacement
with all sorts of information pointers (mostly gleaned from the
sci.space FAQ).  As soon as the overworked "Subject Catalogue"
maintainer switches the "Space Science" pointer, it'll be visible.

I'll post a short note when this happens.

--
Frederick G. M. Roeber | CERN -- European Center for Nuclear Research
e-mail: roeber@cern.ch or roeber@caltech.edu | work: +41 22 767 31 80
r-mail: CERN/PPE, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland | home: +33 50 20 82 99


People who criticize "big Government" and its projects rarely seem to
have a consistent view of the role of Government in science and
technology.  Basically, the U.S. Government has gotten into the role of
supporting research which private industry finds too expensive or too
long-term.

(Historically, this role for the U.S. Gov't was forced upon it because
of socialism in other countries.  In order for U.S.  industries to
compete with government-subsidized foreign competitors, the U.S. Gov't
has taken on the role of subisizing big-ticket or long-lead R&D.)

As a Republican, I abhor the necessity for our Government to involve
itself in technology this way.  I believe that market forces should
drive technology, and the world would be a better place for it.  But
the whole world would have to implement this concept simultaneously, or
some countries would have subsidized R&D, while others would not.  So
the U.S. must subsidize because everybody else does.  (This sounds a
lot like the farm subsidies arguments behind our GATT negotiations,
doesn't it?)

But this role of Government subsidies is antithetical to
cost-effectiveness.  The general idea is to spend money on new
technology, and thereby maintain and promote our technological culture,
despite the forces in the business world (like the dreaded quarterly
earnings report) which erode the ability of U.S. industry to invest in
new technology.  And since our goal is to spend money, it makes little
sense to try to save money.

Of course, we could always spend our money more wisely, but EVERYBODY
disagrees about that the wisdom should be.

It's interesting to note that some of our best tools for cost control
available in industry today were derived from Government projects.
GANTT charts, CP/M, and most of the modern scheduling software comes
from DoD projects and their contractors.  The construction industry
has taken these tools to the core of their businesses; every large
construction project now uses these tools.

-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
      kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov  (713) 483-4368


I think a compromise would work; namely honouring personages in
Conference names, and using geographical references in the divisional
names.  Although I still do not think the move will draw fans to the
game; IMO it's a cosmetic change that Bettman and the owners _hope_
will have an effect.  And it doesn't say much for the mentality of
anybody it works on, either.

Surprise, I agree totally.  The points system is fine, if everybody at all
times has played the same number of games.  Since this is almost never the
case, winning percentage is the way to go.  I don't particularly care if it
is an "American" thing either, if it works.


I guess that nobody noticed that the calls during the world series (and, in
fact all year) have been pretty much consistently CORRECT.  Remember: the rule
says it's a strike if ANY PART of the ball passes through the strike zone.

I would certainly agree that  high strikes are not called (who could argue
this point?) but all in all I think in and out is called pretty well.


      I am aware of the restrictions imposed by the munitions act
   on the export of cryptographic technology, however, is it illegal to
   transmit encrypted data from the U.S. to another country?  If so,
   then which laws apply to this situation?

From the US law perspective, unless you're engaging in illegal speech,
it's not illegal to use encryption.  Yet.  The NSA is allowed to try
to listen, but you're not obligated to make it easy for them.  Yet.
The other country may have more repressive laws about that;
I gather France's bureaucracy wants to know what you're saying,
and in the old Soviet Union, they didn't need laws to make things illegal :-(

(paranoia follows, for those of you who want to play it safe :-)
The fact that the NSA is listening may affect your willingness to use
wimpy crypto technologies, but it may also affect your willingness to
use technologies that violate RSA's patents, e.g. if you use PGP, the
NSA may tell RSA that you're doing so, and if the Secret Service catches on,
they may decide that the mere fact that RSA hasn't filed a lawsuit
against you doesn't mean that you don't deserve to have your computer
confiscated for possible patent violation, munitions law violation,
espionage, money laundering, drug importation, and creatin' a disturbance,
and then not give it back because you *did* violate the patent even
though they had to drop all the other charges, unlike that nasty Steve
Jackson who had the gall not to be guilty of *anything*.