Consider special relativity.  It hasn't be proved, nor has it been
disproved.  No one has a proof one way or the other, but many people
are interested in it!

I've satisfied myself that nothing could indicate absolutely the
existence of God one way or the other.  The two possibilities
are supernaturalism and naturalism.  Of course no set of circumstances can
be inconsistent with supernaturalism, but similarly, no set of circumstances
can be inconsistent with naturalism.  In naturalism, any phenomenon that
could be described as God is considered part of the natural world, to
be studied as any other natural phenomenon (gravity, for instance).
For example, if a loud ``godlike'' voice vociferously announced, ``I
am God, I exist, and I will prove it by reversing the force of gravity,''
and if then gravity did indeed reverse, a naturalist (probably a scientist)
would say, ``Boy, we sure didn't understand gravity as well as we
thought we did, and that loud voice is something new.  Perhaps we
didn't understand thunder as well as we thought we did either.''

I'm sure glad you don't know where I live, since you don't seem
to realize it is impossible for you to distinguish between voices
in your head, and God's voice.

You seem to have missed my point.  Even if Jim Jones and David Koresh
were not religious people, my point remains that faith and dogma
are dangerous, and religion encourages them.  Jim Jones and David Koresh
also encouraged them.  My point does not rely on Jim Jones and David
Koresh being religious.


So, that is the reason why the Toronto Blue Jays *should* keep Alfredo
Griffin, just because it "worked"?

A team winning doesn't mean that everything that it's doing is right.
A team not winning doesn't mean that everything that it's doing is wrong, or
otherwise (to borrow the Sharks' situation) you would say that George Kingston
should be fired.

By then, it's too late.  The problem with "not fixing something while it's
working" is that by then, there may not be anything left to fix.

So, the Blue Jays were simply perfect last year; there was nothing that they
could have done to have improved that team.  NOT.


Actually, both numbers are correct.  The difference is in the direction
of the acceleration.  For pilots, accelerations tend to be transverse to
the direction you're facing (pulling out from a steep dive, the
acceleration will force blood toward your feet, for instance).  In this
case, you can only put up with about 8 g's even with a pressure suit.

The record for acceleration, though, is measured along "the direction
you're facing" (for lack of a better term).  As I recall, this record
was set in rocket sleds back in the 60's -- and was about 40 g's or so.


  > anybody know the difference between the Quarda 900 and Quadra 950?
  > >Quarda 900 is a popular misspelling of Quadra 900, which has a 25 MHz
  > 040 >processor. The 950 has a 33 MHz 040, and some local buses on the
  > >motherboard run faster. The video is different also. The 950 can run a
  > 13" and I believe a 16" monitor in 16 bit color without a VRAM upgrade.
  >

Besides the faster processor, the 950 has SCSI 2, and as far as I know, faster
I/O due to separate processors handling those functions. The 950 can output 16
bit video to a 16" monitor with 1 meg of VRAM and 24 bit with 2 meg.

hope this helps
anand
armani@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca


I  _do_ know  that  IBM systems, the PS/2 56SLC2, in  particular, have
absolutely no  problem  with  OS/2--never had  a "random" crash  while
running any of  my programs under  OS/2.   In fact, I  don't  remember
_ever_ crashing.

Of course, I really don't run any  OS/2 programs, just the  same bunch
of DOS and Windows stuff that I've always been running.

And  when  I  had  the  56SLC  (this is  the  386SLC  system)  running
Dos/Windows, I had only  one crash, and it was consistent.   FTP had a
tendency  to  crash  whenever  I would  get  large  files (>1mb)  from
particularly fast  clients  (DTR's  150K-200K/sec), I  figured out the
problem was with smartdrv's write buffering--if I turned off the write
buffer, everything would work fine.

FTP under OS/2 has never locked,  though.  I can even format  floppies
(to use the most often cited example of the superiority of OS/2.)

Yeah, I guess I'm willing to admit that OS/2  is somewhat sensitive to
specific hardware.  WP51 for DOS works perfectly fine on my SLC2...

Well,  I save all  my  personal files to floppy,  and when  i did that
under Windows, a floppy save of a large file hung up the system.

I  also found  it quite bothersome to  have  to  continually tweak the
tasking options  on fractint for dos whenever I wanted to do a fractal
computation in the background.


I have the following computer items for sale:

  Item                                Condition                 Price

 (a) Color EGA card and monitor            Working                 $180.00
     Monitor made by Zenith

 (b) (3)  1Mx8 80ns SIMMS by MT            Working                 $ 25.00/each
     (16) 256K 80NS SIMMS by OKI           Working                 $  3.00/each
     (4)  256K 100NS SIMMS by IT           Working                 $  2.75/each
     (4)  256K 100NS SIMMS by Motorola     Working                 $  2.75/each
     (4)  256K 120NS SIMMS by NEC          Working                 $  2.50/each

     NOTE: All the above simms left over from  numerous Macintosh upgrade I
           did over the years. If you have questions as to which one
           fits your Mac, please mail me back.

 (c) (2) AST FASTRAM card with 512K        Working                 $ 25.00/each
         could be upgraded to 2M with
         the DRAM in item(d)

 (d) (54) 256K 100NS DRAM by TI            Working                 $  0.50/each
     (36) 256K 100NS DRAM by OKI           Working                 $  0.50/each
     (18) 256K 100NS DRAM by Hunydai       Working                 $  0.50/each

 (e) Compaq Classic "Portable" computer    Working                 $150.00
     2 360K floppy drives
     Amber 9 inch screen
     256K RAM

 (f) (2) Serial card                       Working                 $ 10.00/each

 (g) Western Digital Disk Controller       Working                 $ 30.00
     WD1003-WAH F003 X16
     16 bit card for floopy
     and harddisk

 (h) Logitech 3-buttons mechanical         Working                 $ 20.00
     serial mouse

 (i) (1) Full-size AT case with            Working                 $ 35.00
         200W power-supply

     (1) Full-size AT case with            Working                 $ 60.00
         200W power-supply
         This is the original
         case for my AST Premium/286
         computer, it could have
         up to 5 half-height devices
         (three of which could be
         floopy drives, tape drive etc).
         I am also including the original
         286 motherboard which condition
         is unknown.

 (j) (2) 1.2M 5.25" floopy drive         Working                  $ 30.00/each
     (1) 1.44 3.5" floopy drive          Working                  $ 38.00

 (k) Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter          Brand New                $220.00

 (l) Wangtek 5150ES SCSI 250M            Working                  $200.00
     1/4" tape drive

 (m) 1/2 height 40M MFM drive            Working                  $100.00
     by Miniscribe?
     1/2 height 40M MFM drive            Working                  $100.00
     by Seagate ST 251-1
     1/2 height 20M MFM drive            Working                  $ 50.00
     by Seagate

 (n) Prodigy start-up kit for            Brand New                $ 45.00
     PC with 24/96 data/fax
     modem

 The following items I am selling as is, all the them are in unknown
 condition, either I never get it to work or never try to hook it up.

 (o) EGA card                            Unknown                  $  5.00

 (p) Multi-function game/clock/          Unknown                  $  5.00
     parallel/serial port card

 (q) Monochrome Graphics 132 columns     Unknown                  $  5.00
     graphics card

 (r) CDC 94171-344 340M SCSI drive       Unknown                  $150.00

 (q) Miniscribe 20M SCSI drive           Unknown                  $ 15.00

 (r) Prodigy start-up kit                Unknown                  FREE

 (s) (2) AST-3G Plus Chip                Unknown                  $  2.00

 (t) Seagate 80M MFM drive               Unknown                  $ 80.00
     model ST-4096

 I bought the radar detector a couple years ago for obvious reason(s)
 and I have never been ticketed for the past 3 years and now I don't
 drive to work anymore so I would rather sell it.

 (u) Whristler 425 radar detector        Working                 $ 30.00
     X & K bands

 If you would like to buy any of the above items, please mail me
 at jack@acs.bu.edu. Also, a 10% automatic discount will apply if
 your total purchase price is $100 or more (except the two brand
 new items). Buyer(s) pay shipping.

 If you think the prices I listed above is unrealistic, please mail
 me back and I would take your advice into consideration and make the
 proper adjustments.

 The reason I am selling this stuff is because I have decided that
 I had enough with this hobby of PC computing and I want to move on
 other interests.

 One last thing, if you know any non-profit organization whom might
 be interested in my equipments, please let me know. Because if no
 one wants to buy them, I might as well donate them and get a tax
 break...

 Thanks.

							-Jack

							jack@acs.bu.edu

--


My wife wants to publish a newsletter. She's no artist, so she intends to
use comercial clipart and customise it a bit by drawing a circle or a box
around it etc.

We have MSPublisher for manipulating text, but it is not suitable for doing
much with graphics, so she needs a more specialised tool. Right now she's
looking at Corel Draw and Harvard Draw. There seem to be more books in the
stores on Corel than on Harvard, so she's inclined to go with Corel on the
basis of popularity. Can anyone give us an informed opinion on which
package would be more suitable or if there is an even better alternative
available? If this is a FAQ, please withhold the flames and just send the
location of the FAQ document. Thanks.

Three PS's:

1) Is it ok to use clip art from Harvard Draw or whatever for commercial
   purposes?

2) We have a 600 dpi Laser Jet 4 printer. What would be a good scanner for
   reading in paper clipart?


Yesterday I changed the US-Keyboard of my Sparc10 with a german keyboard.
And now I cannot get any "Alt Graph" characters ('tilde' usw.).
When I exit from X I can get the characters, but not under X.

Can anybody give me some hints, where to check for the correct installation
of the keyboard.


M -->
M --> Look for the Leafs, led by a healthy Doug Gilmour and a confidence-restored
M --> Felix Potvin to do the Blues in 6.  The Leafs will have 3 more games with the
M --> Wings and that should give Joseph a few extra days to pass those horshoes.
M -->

HA! Roger the dodger is back! (on the bandwagon, that is.)

- Jack

 * Please Tell Me if you Don't Get This Message


Local media hasn't said much, if anything, about the MOW.  Also, when
I called a straight friend in Arlington to tell him I would be on his
doorstep this weekend, he didn't know anything at all about the march.
This is a gay-sympathetic person who notices things like this.  I
thought it was strange that he was unaware of what was happening.  It
made me wonder just how much coverage is getting to "mainstream" America.


I am new to Windows and I wanted to know how to setup the terminal program.
I have a modem in COM4, but when it try to configure it inside Windows
I get the messare "Unsupported COM ..."

Can anyone help me?


Judging from the responses so far, I have not made clear enough in my
article quoted above that Imake-TeX is not for installing TeX, but for
*using* it. With Imake-TeX, you will never again have to fiddle around with
calling latex and its various utility programs (makeindex, bibtex). Simply
type "make" and your document's DVI file will be up-to-date. All you have
to do is to write a simple Imakefile and let Imake generate a suitable
Makefile for you. Here is such an Imakefile:

	#include "TeX.tmpl"
	PaperFormatA4()
	SimpleLatexTarget(document)

The generated Makefile provides the following commands:

    make depend:    Searching the TeX source files for dependencies like
                    \input{somefile}

    make dvi:       Generate an up-to-date DVI file

    make viewdvi:   Display it on your screen

    make ps:        Generate a PostScript version of your document

    make viewps:    Display it

    make clean:     Remove unnecessary things

    make veryclean: Remove even the DVI file

    make Makefiles: Generate Makefiles in subdirectories

If ...

a) ...this seems attractive to you,
b) ...you are willing to test Imake-TeX and send me a short test report,
c) ...you are willing to cope with a rudimentary English documentation
   (however, the German version is completed and included),

then you are invited as a beta tester. I am looking forward to your e-mail.

--
  Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute      I R B :  immer richtig beraten
  Univ. Dortmund, IRB
  Postfach 500500         |)|/    Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
D-W4600 Dortmund 50       |\|\    Fax : +49 231 755-2386


I've got a 386DX-40, 4MB and I'm using Windows 3.1. Sometimes I wondered why
Windows worked endlessly on my HD when I was doing nothing (execpt having lunch
or something like that). Then I turned this virtual memory swapfile off, and
Windows became quite faster, but now having less memory free. And so I'm still
wondering, why windows is reading everything from virtual memory when the
convertional is sufficient? Any common-sense-explanation is really appreciated.


    Hello, I'm looking for information on Alphanumeric pagers
and *how* the data is sent from the paging transmitter and how
I would go about building a device to decode the paging data
(like my pager does) and feed it though an RS232 port.
    I'm planning on seperating different paging messages and
different pagers in software to keep amount of hardware I need
down....  Does anyone know what chips (Motorola?) are good for
decoding Numeric and Alphanumeric paging data (and then stuffing
it down an RS232 port (basically any baud rate is fine!) ?
    (I already have a radio reciever with headphone level
output for the audio signal from the paging tower, but I'd be
interested in anything you know about pagers, including the
type of radio recievers they use!)
    Thanks in advance!
-theo
EMAIL = theo@walt.caps.maine.edu


Hello out there,
If your familiar with the COMET program then this concerns you.
COMET is scheduled to be launched from Wallops Island sometime in June.
Does anyone know if an official launch date has been set?


Did anyone else notice how the question of what federal
laws were violated was brushed aside? I'd like to know
what laws were violated, and on what evidence the orignial
BATF warrants were based.


This is the most unmitigated bilge I've seen in a while. Jim Brown obviously
has possession of the right-wing token.

"In December, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told a
Senate committee that sanctions were costing Iraq $100 million per day, and
that the multinational coalition could take all the time in the world.
Iraq, he suggested, was losing badly every day it defied the UN demands,
while the community of nations won every day -- with no taking of life or
loss of life."  -- FCNL Washington Newsletter.

Wrongful actions of murderers like leaders of the US government, perhaps?
Regrettable, of course; The-Way-It-Is - certainly not.

Good heavens! An escapee from Rush Limbot Land! "Conservative", my ass.

BULLSHIT!!! In the Gulf Massacre, 7% of all ordnance used was "smart." The
rest - that's 93% - was just regular, dumb ol' iron bombs and stuff. Have
you forgotten that the Pentagon definition of a successful Patriot launch
was when the missile cleared the launching tube with no damage? Or that a
successful interception of a Scud was defined as "the Patriot and Scud
passed each other in the same area of the sky"?

And of the 7% that was the "smart" stuff, 35% hit. Again - try to follow me
here - that means 65% of this "smart" arsenal missed.

Prove it. I have a source that says that to date, the civilian death count
(er, excuse me, I mean "collateral damage") is about 200,000.

-s
--
   "No one has attempted to calculate the costs of an execution in
Washington state, but studies elsewhere suggest it costs far more than
incarceration.
   "California is spending more than $90 million annually on capital cases,
and until this year hadn't executed anyone since 1972.  Texas, the national
leader in the number of executions, spends an estimated $2.3 million per
execution.  That compares to an average cost of incarceration in Washington
state of $25,000 per maximum-security prisoner per year."


What are peoples opinions on the above make of hard drives, I seem to have
found a really good bargain on a 170meg drive but I thought I'd check if
anyone had any comments to say on this make?

Also I'm a bit of a novice with PC's (but an experienced computer user), when
connecting and fitting this drive into one of my spare 5 1/4 bays what extras
will I need, a cable for starters (I guess :-) , but what about brackets etc...

Also I think I might have to change some jumpers on the drive and my original
Connar 211meg one. I'll be attaching the second drive to a seperate IDE socket
on my controler card. What will I need to change ????

Yet again many thanks to all that have answered me in the past and to any that
answer me in the future :-)


Exactly what would that show, ?! the "law enforcement block" is easy to
create, given the Government key and any serial number.

*IF* it comes to trail about the wiretap.... ya, some safegaurd that is.
What if they just harass people as a result, or learn things they shouldn't
have learned, etc?

The whole point of the Escrow system is to prevent the FBI from making
illegal wiretaps. Why not have the FBI holds the
keys and that's it? Why do we need the escrow system at all?

Unless a 3rd party (a judge) verifies that the requested serial number
is "right", and the FBI can get any key they like at anytime, the escrow
system is useless.


[reply to tgk@cs.toronto.edu (Todd Kelley)]

Agreed.

It is hard for me to understand, but quite a few professional scientists
and philosophers are theists.

But also intolerance and superstition.  I'm not sure that in the balance
it is not detrimental.

Sure would!


I am looking for a tandem bicycle, any make, any model, and any condition.  I
would prefer a complete bike, but just a tandem frameset is OK, too.  Please
email me if you have one for sale.

P.S.  I will pay shipping from anywhere in Canada or U.S.


My 3.5" floppy drive stopped recognizing low density (720K) floppies.

The controller and drive works fine in another system. I was told it
could be the DMA chip. The system is a 386DX-25 using Chips & Technology
chip set. I'm open to all suggestions. Please send your replies to:

		ken@jazz.concert.net


I've spent the past week tearing my hair out, trying to get the output of
a piped "tail -f" to end up in a widget.  I've managed to make it work in
some ugly ways, but either a) X blocks on the tail and won't allow user
input, b) the "tail -f" functions like just "tail" and doesn't follow the
expansion of the file, c) the "tail -f" doesn't die after I've closed
the pipe and destoryed the widget, or d) pclose() blocks forever waiting
for tail to die.
	I _know_ this code has to exist.  Anybody have it?  A general
popen() case would be perfered but at this point I'll take anything...
Thanks.


I've had the same problem with a Maxtor 7213A.  Turned off
smartdrive, 32 bit disk access, etc.  This same disk aborts
Norton Speed Disk (NU 4.5), up to 8 times, requesting NDD to be
run when attempting to defrag drive.  At Some peoples' suggestion
I reformatted my drive and reloaded DOS 5.0, Win 3.1 from
scratch.  A few people found that installing 3.1 on top of 3.1
beta on top of 3.0 caused a similar problem, So I tried this
drastic solution.  When the problem reoccurred, I didn't have the
brains not to load 6.0 and dblespaced the drive.

I get arround the annoyance by copying my *.grp files to *.gro.
when I get the message, I run file manager and copy the
offeniding group files from *.gro ove rthe *.grp.  Then I quit
and restart windows(If the group is an often used important one.)

This really sucks.  But I'm pretty sure that the problem is the
drive (especially with the NSD problem).  I will be going with
out over 66% of my memory after finals for 2 to 4 weeks, while
the guy I bought the disk and system from, goes over it and
either fixes it or replaces the drive.  I can't wait to have a
system that will run consistently with all hte goodies!


If you use MEK for your sake wear safty glasses or better still
industrial goggles. The small est drop in the eye will casue
blindness by a catalysis reaction that is non cureavble once it starts.
The results are similar to mustard gas contamination. Note MEK peroxide
is a hardner form fibreglass resins.


Firearm?  Let's not even consider long knives (swords), which were also
common militia weapons in the 18th century, and which, if anything, are
often restricted more heavily than firearms.  Whatever sense gun control
makes, knife control makes even less.
--


A friend of mine has a complete set of AIX-PS/2 1.2 software
	and manuals for sale. (NEW) (all on 1.44 Meg floppies)
	including:

		Base OS
		Development tools (including C Compiler)
		Administration extensions
		X Windows / Motif
		TCP/IP
		PC simulator (DOS Merge)
		etc. etc.....

	(This software requires a PS/2 with 386 processor or higher,
	ample disk space and memory :-) it can coexist with dos and
	OS/2 on the same machine, and selectively booted at startup.)

	If you are interested email me your offer and I will pass
	it along. Keep in mind that the manuals and software fill
	up a 12x12x18 box so shipping is a consideration.


I posted this question about colorizing motif widgets. I got it working
fine. There was one bug in my .Xdefault file. It should work fine in normal
case.

Thanks


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who is
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: Build 59 causes 2 exceptions when I exit Windows. In fact, I have had
: this happen on all builds after 44, which shipped with my Gateway
: system.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this problem commonly
: overlooked?

I have never had "exceptions" with build 44, 50, or 59 drivers.  I have a
GW2000 DX266.

--


For all those people flaming John Bradley, the author of xv - he's on
vacation till May 10 (or 15, I don't remember). Maybe we all should slow
down and wait to hear his side wrt copyrights, fees, etc.


TO: rych@festival.ed.ac.uk (R Hawkes)

RH>I've noticed that if you only save a model (with all your mapping planes
RH>positioned carefully) to a .3DS file that when you reload it after restarting
RH>3DS, they are given a default position and orientation.  But if you save
RH>to a .PRJ file their positions/orientation are preserved.  Does anyone
RH>know why this information is not stored in the .3DS file?  Nothing is

    This is because the PRJ (Project) format saves all of your settings,
    right down to the last render file's name.

RH>I'd like to be able to read the texture rule information, does anyone have
RH>the format for the .PRJ file?

    Sorry... Don't have anything on that or the CEL format.

....r.c V.t.ell. .r...


Brian Ceccarelli wrote (that's me):

Kent Sandvik responds:

I think I see where you are coming from Kent.  Jesus doesn't view
guilt like our modern venacular colors it.

"Feelings" have nothing to do with guilt.  Feelings arise from the state of
being guilty.  Feeling and guilt are mutally exclusive.  Feelings are a
reaction from guilt.  Jesus is talking about the guilt state, not the
reaction.   Let me give you an example:

Have you ever made a mistake?  Have you ever lied to someone?  Even a
little white lie?   Have you ever claimed to know something that you really
didn't know?  Have you ever hated someone?  Have you ever been selfish?
Are you guilty of any one of these?   The answer is of course, YES.  You
are guilty.  Period.  That is it what Jesus is getting at.  No big surprise.
Feelings do not even enter the picture.   Consider Jesus's use of the word
"guilt" as how a court uses it.

Jesus is concerned that everyone should admit that they are guilty of being
imperfect.  The Bible calls it the state that we are all sinners.  We all do
bad things.  Even the most insignficant thing that we do wrong is proof of our
guilt that we are all sinners.     It is it in our nature to do bad things.
We are sinners, therefore we do bad things.  Being a sinner is fact.  It is
not a pleasant fact.  But it is just a fact.  We are not perfect.   Calling us
sinners should have no more emotional charge to you than calling you a
human being.  Guilty as charged.

You can handle your guilt in one of two ways:  Acknowledge you
made a mistake, learn from it, and try to not do it again--in
the meantime, not punishing yourself for it:  which is the
way Jesus wants you to handle or it.  This is the healthy way.

Or two, the destructive way:  put yourself down, slap yourself
and feel like crap, never forgive yourself, force yourself to
say a thousand Hail Marys . . . even to suicide.  This the way
Jesus does NOT want us to deal with it.   All people fall into this
category to some extent in their lives.

Jesus is not in the business of saving us from this guilt
feeling.  Jesus is in the business of showing us how much he
loves us despite our guilt.  Jesus knows we are guilty.  That
isn't new to him.  It is no big deal to him. He just wants you to realize
that this sinful nature destroys the relationship between you and him.
That is what he wants you to know.  Why, because he wants to
have your company.  You are immensely valuable to him.
Jesus wants a relationship with you, however, in our present
sinful nature, we are incapable of having this relationship.

God is perfect.  We are not.  You cannot fit a square peg into
a round hole.  However, God has provided a way for us to
change our nature so that we can have a relationship with him.
God has provided Jesus, so that whosoever just believes in
Jesus, will have their nature changed.  The Holy Spirit will
move it.  And now divine nature is now within lives our very
being--and us and God communicate with each through his
unifying Holy Spirit.  The benefits of this are endless.  For
with the divine nature living within us, we can now see
our imperfections better.  We can now head them off at the pass.  With
the power of the Holy Spirit living in us, we now have his power
to help us overcome our shortcomings.   Because the divine nature lives
within us, we can now understand profound Bible passages that never before
we could understand.  Because the divine nature now lives within us, we now
have authority over demonic forces.  And lastly, because the divine
nature now lives within us, we have eternal life--for the Holy Spirit
is eternal.

The relationship with Jesus is of the utmost importance.  Because
it is not what you do in life that qualifies you to belong to
heavenly kingdom, it is your relationship to the living God.
Remember what Jesus said at the tail end of Matthew when he
separated the "goats from the sheep".   Many people in the
last day will ask him, "Didn't I prophesy in your name and do
miracles, and do good things in your name?"   And what did Jesus say?
"Depart from me, for I never *knew* you."  That is the cornerstone of
Christianity, Kent.  Jesus must know you as his friend.  It is your
relationship to Jesus.  If he is your friend and you are his, you will
be counted among those who will share in his inheritance in heaven.

Good.  It shows that you have a strong self-image--that you
love yourself.  That is the second greatest commandment Jesus
taught.  If only more people could do as you do.   As I said before,
in the common english venacular, "feeling guilty" has a
different meaning than the state of guilt.

I believe what we all need in our personalities is a lot less ego,
a lot less self-centeredness, and a lot more unconditional love.


I would like to buy a 4 channel multitrack recorder.  I would
prefer a cassette machine such as those made by Fostex, Tascam,
Yamaha, etc. but would consider reel-to-reel as well.  Write me
if you know of anything.

Thanks.

--
W. Craig Scratchley                       | internet:  scratch@sce.carleton.ca
Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering |    phone:  (613) 788-5740 (Dept.)
Carleton University                       |            (613) 241-6952 (Home)
Ottawa, ON, CANADA  K1S 5B6               |      fax:  (613) 788-5727 (Dept.)


Everyone seems to think that this man's mouse problem is mechanical (its dirty)
 I have been having a similar problem with my mouse, and it only occurs when ru
nning windows and therefore cannot be mechanical in nature. I'm running a mouse
 systems compatible mouse on a 486 66 DX2 with a trident 1 meg video card and a
m experienceing similar jumpiness as well as strange font subsitutions and mous
e traces left on screen and windows gpf errors. HELP!!!


: Just curious why floptical drives never seemed to catch on. Remember
: those 21 Mb disks that look and feel like 3.5" floppies? These drives
: are SCSI devices and can read and write both 720 Kb and 1.44/21 Mb
: disks. Sounds to me to be one great product for the PC market. Are the
: prices really that unaffordable compared to CD-ROMs which are currently
: not rewritable? I know about the new rewritable CDs and expect SONY to
: develop the first MDs for the computer. My question is: why isn't there
: any substantial interest in developing the flopticals?

Certainly in the UK the 21Mb flopticals are about the same price as a
cheap CD-ROM now (you seem to be able to get them for around GBP
200-250). However the bigger optical drives (e.g. 128Mb) are much more
expensive - around the GBP 1000 mark.

A couple of questions that someone may be able to answer - the 21Mb
flopticals - are they direct drop in replacements for a floppy or do
they need driver software etc. I.e. do you just rip out the floppy
drive, plug the same cables into the floptical, stick in a flopti-disk
and hey presto you have a 21Mb floppy. This sounds far too easy.

On the subject of Sony developing MDs for computers, I have reread a
PCW article on this subject and there it says that Sony have been doing
optical drives for other people for some time and may be about to do a
product themselves. From the article it seems that the audio MD format
is a byproduct of their computer storage work - the MD  mechanism is
identical to their MO computer optical drives. A Sony spokesman was
quoted as saying that a 2.5" MD disk would hold about 100Mb of data
though he refused to comment on any possibility of this being
productized.

The article said that one of the problems holding back development in
this area was lack of sensible standards plus there are at least 2
distinct optical storage mechanisms around at present. Given that it
probably needs MDs being used as a distribution medium to get it
into the market and since this has already been cornered by CDs it
probably needs someone to come in with a very strong marketting lead
to get MDs accepted.

--


The arrest of Noriega did not have any major adverse effect on the
drug trade going through Panama. Money laundering continues to be
Panama's main industry. In fact, it is bigger now than before Noriega
was arrested [1]. Panama's current administration also has ties with
the Colombian cocaine cartels [2]. And large amounts cocaine still
flow through Panama on a regular basis [3].

Oh well...

Sources (from the book _Drugs in America_ by Vincent Bugliosi):
[1] IRS Criminal Investigations Divison
[2] _New York Times_
[3] U.S. State Department


Do I assume correctly from the above aricle that your mother has a historyy
of cancer?  I was just wondeing, since you mentioned thhat she has an
oncologist.

A bone scan is a nuclear scan.  Thperson receivving the scan is gven a
dose of a radioactive tracer, and an imaging device is used to track the
distribution of the tracer wwithin the body.  The tracer is usually given
intravenously.  (IV) This means that the physician or his assistant will
insert a needle into a vein and inject  medicine into the vein.

After a few minutes has passed for the tracer to circulate through the
body, the person is scanned with an imaging device to detect high
concentrations of the tracer.  The radiologist or doctor is looking for
areas that take up more of the radioactive tracer or less of it.

As far as pain, the only pain comes from the needle stick that is required
to start the IV line.

What the doctor is probably looking for are changes in the bones that may
have resulted from cancer.  This is also why I was wondering if your mother
has had cancer, since cancer can spread from one site and wind up in the
skeletal system.

I hope I have answered some of your questions.  Feel free to e-mail me if
you have more questions related to the bone scan or anything else related
to your mother's care.  I'm a newly graduated nurse, and I enjoy sharing
information with other people to help them understand things that they did
not know about before.

My thoughts are with you both.


From Israeline 4/27/93

Peace Talks Resume Today; Israel to Offer Palestinians New
Proposals

Israel Radio, KOL YISRAEL, reports on today's resumption in
Washington of the bilateral peace talks, following a recess which
lasted over four months. According to the report, Israel is
expected to offer the Palestinians new proposals regarding the
authority of the Palestinian Executive Council, general elections,
control over land and human rights issues in the Territories.
Israel will express its readiness to give the Palestinians control
of more land than previously offered. According to the radio
report, one estimate is that Israel will give the Palestinians
control over as much as two thirds of the administered lands, as
well as broad authority on water issues. Israel will seek to
promote its offer to hold elections in the Territories in hopes of
strengthening the position of the Palestinian delegation to the
peace negotiations. According to Israel Radio, the Israeli
delegation to the bilateral talks with the Palestinians will offer
greater responsibilities to the Palestinian Executive Council
allowing it certain legislative capabilities, without making it a
symbol for Palestinian sovereignty. U.S. Secretary of State Warren
Christopher invited all the heads of delegations to a gathering
tonight. It will be the first such event since the Madrid
conference. Head of the American team at the bilateral peace talks,
Edward Djerejian, said that tonight's gathering is meant to
demonstrate the U.S.' active role in the peace process.


celular phones...........


That's what the pseudo-disclaimer is supposed to say, sorry for the confusion.

-nate


The last V8 in Mad Max is based on a Holden (Australia). Holden is
linked with GM (Vauxhall GB) and so they're quite unlikely to use
Ford parts.


These substances are normally not the secret, but how to get at them. The
method of preperation is normally patented, which means that no-one else can
make the chemical in the same way, without undergoing an agreement with
American Cyanamid. (But I guess you knew what a patent is :-) )

If you know what substance is used, you'll also know its toxicity.

The Luminol reaction has the disadvantage of not lasting as long as the
commercial version.

Remember that cyano compounds are found in nature, and not all are poisonous.

Regards,


Hello, I'm curious what sort of neat features exist on high-end
answering machines today. In particular, I'm interested in
features of digital answering machines. Also, what is the
typical amount of storage(in minutes) for these digital answering
machines?

The reason? I'm hacking together an answering machine program
for my ZyXEL modem and I'm wondering if I'm missing something
on my wish list.

arthur


                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Laser holes are (or were) used to prevent someone from making exact copies
of a disk. You do not want to write to the damaged disk, only read and use
the programs.

I remember a program called Copywrite that could copy a disk with a laser
hole in it. I think it simulates the laser hole. After copying the disk the
program is, if necessary, used in conjunction with a program called Nokey or
something. (The program tells you which program to use)

No solution.


Has anyone had experience buying computers from Comtrade?  When I asked about
TC, I got one reply describing problems returning a defective hard drive.
Should I expect any problems from Comtrade?

Thanks,


The borders of the Jewish state as drawn by the U.N. included the areas which
contained mostly Jews,  that's what the surveys and the numerous commitees
where after when they visited here.

I never touched an Arab during my army service and never voted for anyone more
right than the Green party.  Will I be spared by these "humanist standards"?
(or will anyone stop to consider this before sloughtering me?)

I doubt it.  And not only because of the past record of murdering helpless
women and children since the turn of the century up to these days.


What about including points?  Probably no goals (at least against
opponents) but there have been several assists given.


It does sound funny, I will admit.  But for me it is true.  Windows crashed on
all of the time (and from what I have read in PC Mag, this is not the exception)
.  OS/2 gives each windows app a VDM and they can't touch each other or
(generally) anything they aren't supposed to have.  If windows works for you,
then great.  Maybe this is why some people don't see why OS/2 is the OS of
choice.  If windows doesn't crash on you, and you don't mind waiting on each
task, and not being able to adress your memory better than DOS, some of the
key reasons for using OS/2 are gone.  I probably  would still use it, but it
would be more of an even fight.
Brett


The thing is, I know what arms and legs are.  It's therefore generally easy to
tell whether or not someone has arms and legs.  This "sinful nature", since it
does not require that the baby actually perform any sins, seems to be totally
invisible.  As far as I know, maybe half the babies have a sinful nature and
half don't--it'd look exactly the same, since there is no way to tell the
difference.

So what's so bad about a sinful nature, then?  I could understand it being
bad if it always results in people committing sins, but babies can have it,
never commit sins, die, and they still have it.  So the bad part about can't
merely be that it results in people committing sins--so what _is_ bad about it?
--
"On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Leftover Turkey!
On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Turkey Casserole
    that she made from Leftover Turkey.
[days 3-4 deleted] ...  Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
   -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)


That's the trouble: *what* peak years?  He wavers between excellent and
very good, with no real bell-shaped pattern in there.  1979 was a fine
year; 78 and 80 were merely really good.  With the Yankees, 84 (I think)
was the best; that was the one with the .340 BA.

Of course, 1992 wasn't bad, either.  He's been in the bigs since 1973,
with a one-year intermission for surgery.  Though he doesn't have the
mix of skills that Pete Rose did, he's like Pete Rose in one way: he's
not a natural hitter.  Winfield's swing used to be the ugliest thing
in New York, and that includes the Gulf+Western Building.  But his sheer
athletic prowess and physical size made up for a lot.

Fascinating player to watch, even now.  Not obviously great in any one
way; but able to do quite a few things in surprising ways and at surprising
levels.


Ilyess sez:
  >So how would have *you* defended Saudi Arabia and rolled
  >back the Iraqi invasion, were you in charge of Saudi Arabia???

  All Muslims knew that the whole thing was set up to destroy Iraq, not
  to "Liberate Kuwait", The people who were killed by the invasion are
  more (many many more), than the ones that were killed by the Iraqis
  in their smaller invasion. I lived in the west, and I have seen how
  your media prepared you (helpless naive Americans) for a war against
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No doubt you plan on exploiting "helpless naive Americans" for your own
purposes. Hmm...let's see:

  Iraq even before the artificial conflict between Iraq and Kuwait that
  led to the invasion, as the CIA correctly predicted (and pretended to
  be surprised not to know).
  It just happened that Saddam was so predictible and so arrogant and stupid.

  What would I have done: Most Muslims would choose 300 dead Kuwaitis   over
  200,000 dead Iraqis and 1000 dead Kuwaitis. The first case would happen
  if no western intervention happened, and the second case was a direct
  or indirect result of western envolvement.

Possibly, if 200,000 Iraqis had indeed died, but this number is based on
Greenpeace estimates.  Greenpeace had compromised its alleged
impartiality during the war by condemning the potential environmental
consequences of Allied miiltary action, while initially *completely*
ignoring Iraq's horrible environmental crimes, starting with the dumping
of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf at Ahmadi to the blowing of
over 700 oil wells.  What is the real number?  There has been a lot of
work on this in the last two years, none of it reported as the
Greenpeace figure seems to get continuously bandied about.  The real
number seems to be around 10,000, on the same order as the number of
Kuwaitis killed, tortured and kidnapped during the occupation.  I've
included an article I recently posted below, but this is really old
news.  Independent Television News reported a figure around 15,000 only
a few months after the war, but it was hardly reported.

For the Allies to have killed 200,000 Iraqis, they would have had to
kill twice the *total* number of Iraqis in Kuwait.

The favored image of the hysterics is the last battle of the war at
Mutla'.  This was yet another example of the American and European media
playing into the hands of Iraq and its de facto allies.     The
destruction of the Iraqi convoy at Mutla' was portrayed as an all-out
slaughter.  This is simply not true.  The head and tail of the convoy
was bombed initially, resulting in a lot of casualties at these points.
 Before bombers came back, most of the rest of the Iraqi soldiers fled
on foot.

Furthermore, your estimates of Kuwaiti war dead if Allies hadn't invaded
is completely ridiculous.  You have acknowledged (certainly implicitly)
 that Saddam is a barbarous brute.  You have acknowledged the hundreds
of thousands he has been responible for killing *in his own country*.
You *know* that the man he appointed as governor of Kuwait,  Ali Majid,
was his most brutal henchman, presiding over the near genocide of the
Kurds  in the late 80's and, more recently, the Shi'a.    Yet, when it
comes to his treatment of Kuwaitis, he is an angel.  In your estimate,
he would've killed *fewer* than he already had when the war started.
What a joke!

APn  03/09 0006  Iraq War Dead

Copyright, 1993. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


Some of the survivors have been "interviewed" on TV as they were going
to or returning from court. They basically said, no way was there any
kind of suicide pact or attempt.


I have seen the existance of electronics solder with a 2% silver
content that seems to have good wetting and fatique reatings.
  Can anyone tell me why it is not used? (silver is not such an expensive
metal).

Andy


If you don't agree with Joseph's accurate statement of the Catholic dogma
of Mary's perpetual sinlessness, then how do you interpret Luke 1:28,

	And when the angel had come to her, he said, "Hail, full of
	grace, the Lord is with thee.  Blessed art thou among women."

and Luke 1:48?

	...for, behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

I suppose that these verses might be interpreted to mean that Mary was
possessed of some limited quantity or quality of grace, just as some of
filled to the brim, incapable of containing more.  The only other people we
know of who have an abundance of grace are those souls existing in heaven now
(another Catholic dogma, based on the communion of saints, as I explained in
an earlier post).  Full of grace to me means sinless, and anyone who has
ever sinned in his life cannot be without sin in the same sense as Mary
was sinless.

As a Catholic, I too find certain of the dogmas tough to embrace.  But
that's where the Catholic faith and prayer come into play.  I pray God
to strengthen my will to accept the faith given the bride of Christ,
which in turn usually strengthens my community faith in His Church.  And,
as you probably know, faith in Christ's Church is tantamount to faith in
Christ inasmuch as the Church is Christ's Mystical Body.  A Catholic by
nature must have two aspects to his faith in Christ: (1) a personal faith in
Christ as his own personal redeemer and (2) a community faith in the Church
as the body of Christ.

--
Randal Lee Nicholas Mandock
Catechist
gt7122b@prism.gatech.edu


The main effect of the spherical aberration problems with the
primary mirror was to drive the computer engineers to develop the image
processing software that much faster. When they use the _same_ deconvolution
software on the images from the fixed Hubble, be ready for some
incredible results!  There is every reason to believe that the results will
_exceed_ the original specs by a fair margin.

Adaptive optics is a combination of hardware and software.  It works
realtime, not after the fact, as is the case with Hubble.  You might be
interested to know this technology has made it to the amateur market, in
the form of the AO-2 Adaptive Optics System.  Starting on page 52 of the
April, 1993 Sky & Telescope is a three page review of this new product.
It lists for $1,290.  The article states: "The AO-2 Adaptive Optics System
comes in a handy soft-plastic case that a three-year-old could carry
around."  Even though this device is really only good for the brightest
objects, "it could cope with image movements of up to 0.8 millimeter
in the telescope's focal plane."  Now just imagine how well this infant
technology will do in a few years, especially in a dedicated system that
has hundreds of thousands of dollars, and many man-hours invested in its
development.

George Krumins


Wonder if anyone would know where (or if) I could find the schematic for the
old Timex-sinclare (sp) computer... Or even a pin out on the expansion bus??


I'm posting this request again since the last one had no title.

  I'm looking for X server software on DOS or Windows.

  I've already seen Desqview/X and XVision but would like to be aware
 of other solutions, namely public domain or shareware implementations.

  I'd also like to know, in the commercial case, about possible problems,
 incompatibilities, available window managers and libraries, etc.

  If you have any experiences in this area please let me know.

  C U!

  By(e)


Radio Shack stores sell them here in the States. Not sure if
InterTan is carrying these for Australia or not...

Cost is $6 USD. You charge them under a fluorescent, then
they glow when exposed to IR.


You are not sticking to the original question. Imagine what it
would be like if you were human...impossible you say?

Is that not the crux of my argument? Why is this so difficult
for you to understand? Lack of intelligence?

Well, does it change the fact that during the period of 1914 to 1920,
the Armenian Government ordered, incited, assisted and participated
in the genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people because of race, religion
and national origin?

1) Armenians did slaughter the entire Muslim population of Van.[1,2,3,4,5]
2) Armenians did slaughter 42% of Muslim population of Bitlis.[1,2,3,4]
3) Armenians did slaughter 31% of Muslim population of Erzurum.[1,2,3,4]
4) Armenians did slaughter 26% of Muslim population of Diyarbakir.[1,2,3,4]
5) Armenians did slaughter 16% of Muslim population of Mamuretulaziz.[1,2,3,4]
6) Armenians did slaughter 15% of Muslim population of Sivas.[1,2,3,4]
7) Armenians did slaughter the entire Muslim population of the x-Soviet
   Armenia.[1,2,3,4]
8)....

[1] McCarthy, J., "Muslims and Minorities, The Population of Ottoman
                   Anatolia and the End of the Empire," New York
                   University Press, New York, 1983, pp. 133-144.

[2] Karpat, K., "Ottoman Population," The University of Wisconsin Press,
                 1985.

[3] Hovannisian, R. G., "Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918.
                         University of California Press (Berkeley and
                         Los Angeles), 1967, pp. 13, 37.

[4] Shaw, S. J., 'On Armenian collaboration with invading Russian armies
                  in 1914, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
                  (Volume II: Reform, Revolution & Republic: The Rise of
                  Modern Turkey, 1808-1975)." (London, Cambridge University
                  Press 1977). pp. 315-316.

[5] "Gochnak" (Armenian newspaper published in the United States), May 24,
              1915.

Source: Jorge Blanco Villalta, 'Ataturk,' TKK, 1979, pg. 234.

"They [Armenians] did not refrain from giving in to their racial
 hatred and committing acts of cruelty and massacres against the
 Moslem population, which were encouraged by the 'Tashnak' party,
 mortal enemies of Turkey."

Serdar Argic


I had a '82 Saab 900 Turbo, and now have a '87 BMW 325is

There is no comparison for handling, reliability, or overall quality of
engineering. The BMW wins hands down. After 5 years I was sick and tired
of the all the little problems and entropic decay of the SAAB. The 6-year
old BMW is still as sweet as it was new.

But I see you are posting from western MA. BMW's **SUCK** in the snow.
I have aggressive snows, plus a hundred pounds of sand in the back, and I
still try to avoid driving in the snow. I happily took the SAAB through
blizzard conditions without a worry. I would say this is the single design
flaw in the BMW.


Using greenhouses to extend the growing season shouldn't be a problem.
I'm supprised they don't do so in Alaska (cheaper to import, perhaps?)

No, the Incas had no problems with this, but the Spanish did.


Not when your talking about cryptography.

Think again.  You won't see me using apple's new signature from the
finder feature.

This analogy fails in its assumption that the government gives two
squirts about credibility.

In addition, Apple's proclaimed purpose in releasing the Macintosh wasn't
survellience.

Quite the opposite:
"On January 24, Apple will introduce.... Macintosh, and you'll see why
1984 won't be, like '1984'"

So don't give me any bullshit analogies about how we trust coke not to
put mind control drugs in every can to get us to buy more.

One of the reasons we should be all the more suspicious.  When was the
last time the president wasted his time to comfort americans?
Just another reason to look closely at exactally what's going on.

uni@acs.bu.edu


	Maybe you should contact your schools officials and make
them consider installing the necessary softwares or hardwares that
allows the Unix works stations to shuts off its monitor when
left untouched.  It does save a lot of energy.

- Chung Yang


Isn't there some *formal* action a citizen can take that *requires* the
FCC to, at least, generate some paperwork?


For those who are interested, the FCC does indeed care about cable
leakage, particularly into the aviation nav band, or leakage that
is "causing interference to other services".

Part 76.611 details specific limits to acceptable leakage, and
measurement technique.  If you will clearly document your problem,
and measurement technique (a signal level meter with dipole is the
normal approach, remember to correct between measurement data and
microvolts per meter) and fax or mail the details to Mr. John Wong
Cable Branch, FCC 1919 M st. NW Wash DC, and a copy of your letter
to the local cable company, you will get results.  In fact the cable
company will probably start treating you much better when they realize
you have figured out how to get the FCCs attention.

What is important is to document your case as it relates to the
applicable rules.  However the cable company *is required* to
at least check out every complaint of leakage.  They must file
with the commission and maintain on premises a yearly measurement
report that details the results of leakage testing.

But remember, call the cable company first, and give them a
chance to work to correct the problem before contacting
the commission.

I am in the business of measuring cable system leakage via
the airborne method.


The copyright notices themselves seem to be making conficting
restrictions.  I do not know how to reconcile:

/* Copyright Notice
 * ================
 * Copyright 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 by John Bradley
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, and distribute XV in its entirety, for
 * non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee, provided that
 * this license information and copyright notice appear in all copies.
 *

... with:

 *
 * XV is shareware for PERSONAL USE only.  You may use XV for your own
 * amusement, and if you find it nifty, useful, generally cool, or of
 * some value to you, your non-deductable donation would be greatly
 * appreciated.  $25 is the suggested donation, though, of course,
 * larger donations are quite welcome.  Folks who donate $25 or more
 * can receive a Real Nice bound copy of the XV manual for no extra
 * charge.
 *
 * Commercial, government, and institutional users MUST register their
 * copies of XV, for the exceedingly REASONABLE price of just $25 per
 * workstation/X terminal.  Site licenses are available for those who
 * wish to run XV on a large number of machines.  Contact the author
 * for more details.
...

It strikes me that the first part gives you the right to use, without
fee, the program for noncommercial purposes if the info appears in all
copies. This seems to cover educational institutions despite what the
rest of the notice says.  And the first part doesn't say subject to
the conditions outlined below...

Chris


   Romans 10:16-17 "But not all the Israelites accepted the good news.  For
   Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our message?'  Consequently, faith
   comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word
   of Christ."

   So then we receive God's gift of faith to us as we hear the message of the
   gospel.  Faith is a possible response to hearing God's word preached.  Kids
   are not yet spiritually, intellectually, or emotionally mature enough to
   respond to God's word.  Hence they cannot have faith and therefore cannot
   be raised in baptism to a new life.

Catholics view the effects of Baptism slightly differently, and that's
one primary reason why they baptize babies.  They believe that Baptism
produces a change in the soul of the baby, quite independently of any
volitional act on the part of the baby.  This change in the baby's
soul gives the infant certain capabilities that he would not have
without Baptism.  Since the infant does not have the use of his
intellect and will yet, these new faculties are dormant.  But as the
child gets older, the gifts of Baptism come more and more into play.

   Ezekiel 18:20 "The soul who sins will die.  The son will not share the
   guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son.  The
   righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the
   wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him."

   If you read all of Ezekiel 18, you will see that God doesn't hold us guilty
   for anyone else's sins.  So we can have no original guilt from Adam.

Adam was given a number of gifts by God.  The chief among them was
what Catholics call "sanctifying grace".  (In the New Testament, the
word used for this is "charity".)  By his sin, Adam lost this grace.
He didn't lose it just for himself, however, he lost it for the whole
human race.  Because once he lost it, he couldn't pass it on to his
descendents.

That's why Catholics baptize babies.  Through his Original Sin, Adam
lost sanctifying grace for all his descendents.  Christ instituted
Baptism to give it back to everyone.


<> Somebody asked me what was wrong about overreacting in cases such as this.
<
<That was probably me.
<I meant only that nobody has overreacted yet.  It seemed to me that
<Jerry was suggesting that people are currently overreacting, and I
<vehemently disagree.  I see a lot of talk, but not much action.
<I see now that I misunderstood Jerry's position.
<
<> The reason is very simple:  How many people do you want to die in a riot?
<> In a new Civil War?
<>
<> Everybody is jumping up and down and screaming about it, and I'm worried
<> that people are going to reach for their hammers and rifles before their pens
<> and paper.
<
<Not this bunch.  They'll just bitch on the Net for a while, and
<then go back to lurking.
<
<> Can people work within the system before trying to break it?  Examine your
<> history books, and find out how many armed revolutions led to Democratic
<> (or Democratic style) governments.  I think you'll only find one in over
<> five thousand years of written history.
<
<Actually, it's not quite that bad, but it's close.

I think everyone would just as soon work within the system.  The presence
of the POSSIBILITY of using the bullet box instead of the ballot box
is supposed to be a deterrent - by keeping the price of massive abuse
unacceptable.  However, governments being what they are, sure would
like to REMOVE that deterrence, which will make the need for armed
citizens all the more great (you don't need 'em till you don't have 'em).
Then I think we can be more accurately called 'subjects' instead of
'citizens'.  The idea of the people being sovereign over the government
is sure not in vogue in the Beltway these days, that is for sure...
The Administration is saying "We know best.  We will tell you what
you need, or don't need..."  "After, that old-fashioned anachronism
called the Bill of Rights is not needed in these 'enlightened times'...

<Look, we (collectively) have the power to throw the bums out, but we
<don't use it.  We clearly don't need to go burning things down, but we

Not if the government has its way:  There are EIGHT bills before Congress
that will either ban, tax exhorbitantly, or register all useful weapons
in the hands of the unconnected US subject.   Can you say $200.00 just
for a box of cartridges for practice?  One of the current Administrations
top priority items is to disarm all who are not well-connected, or that
work for the government.

<clearly do need to throw at least some of the bums out.
<Unfortunately, the bums have learned to target only small groups of
<people at a single time, so the masses won't react and throw them out.
<Eventually, the masses will react, unless the bums cease their
<relentless encroachment on liberty and despoilment of the economy.
<The sooner it happens, the less the damages will be.  I don't want to
<live in a war zone, either -- I want to see the bums thrown out before
<they do some *real* damage.

Another tactic is to toss out so many outrages at once that nobody can
give justice to them all.  Like is being done RIGHT NOW.

<Lyle		Transarc		707 Grant Street
<412 338 4474	The Gulf Tower		Pittsburgh 15219


Infact on tuesday, the Bosnian foreign minister asked formally the UN to leave Bosnia,
just to show how much hypocracy is there in Europe. These so called UN is actually
helping Serbs carry out their etnic-clensing/murders/rapes. In Zepa the UN effectively
helped the Serbs carry out their heinous crimes by spreading conflicting reports that
nothing was going on there. The cowards, or so called UN peacemakers, only "attempted" to
go out there for a fact finding mission -as if with all the ham-radio operators were lying
and all the US war planes out there have no means of flying over there. This is the biggest
farce in the history of the world and the same act has been repeated over and over again in
different beseiged Bosnian towns....

Yes! I heard today that the president of Bosnia- under pressure from the "civilized nations"
has appealed to the UN to stay there in Bosnia. He should know better..

These hypocrates (Sadly! it includes Clinton administration too) all came out and said
that the call for a referendum from bosnian serbian perliment (or a bunch of
rapists/criminals) is a farce and yet they have to wait for the result of this referendum
to act....

For those of you who are against US to commit ground troops, fine just lift the arms-embargo on BOTH
sides (since we know that serbs always got the heavy weapons form federal army).

Wake up West!! and admit that you are the most uncivilized, the most hypocratic and the most violent
bunch on this earth...

-Khalid


From article <1r19l9$7dv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, by oldham@ces.cwru.edu (Daniel Oldham):

They did have the proper equipment.  The problem is that they went about
things the wrong way.  The ATF should have served the warrant in a
peacable manner instead of going in there like a bunch of Rambos with
guns blazing.  I'm not trying to excuse what David Koresh did.  I'm
just saying that the ATF (henceforth to be known as the cigarette cops :-)
went about the "raid" in an improper manner.

Let the FBI, Customs, and local police officers do the ATF's job.  WE
DON'T NEED THEM ANYMORE!!!  The cigarette cops are just leftovers
from Prohibition days.  They are an anachronism!

Including you?  What if the cigarette cops kicked down your door and
cut you in half with a machine gun?  THIS COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN.
Maybe they get the wrong address and then raid *your* home, for example.
It's happened before and it can happen *again*.  I have heard of more
than one instance of a no-knock raid going sour.  Just recently I
heard about a case in which police raided this guy's home because they
thought he had dope or something.  The guy blew both of the officers
away and he didn't go to jail for it.  The judge hearing the case
ruled that the man was acting in self-defense.

Are you sure that that would have been the way to go?  Surely the FBI
and ATF could have handled this fiasco better.  They didn't have to
massacre all those people.  As Stimpy said in "Fake Dad", "Shame, shame,
double shame!"  The FBI and ATF should be ashamed of theirselves.

Scott Kennedy,  Brewer and Patriot


Hi, folks out there !

I don't know whether I am in the right newsgroup, but I have a question.

If I am completely wrong here in this group, could you mail me the right name
of the correct newsgroup ?

A friend of mine is studying electronics at the Technical University in
Karlsruhe/Germany since one year.

He wants to know whether there are possibilities to study audio control
engineering in the U.S.A. .

Does anybody know how to get information about these studies in the U.S.A. ?
Could you send me information like (e-mail)adresses of the universities,
"quality" of these studies, and so on ?

Is it possible to e-mail the universities directly to get information ?

Do the universities send information via e-mail ?

Please could you answer via e-mail, because I don't read this newsgroup
regularly.

Thanks in advance.

Stephan Jaeger


I have a few the original IBM 10Mb harddisks for sale. They are actually
Seagate's ST412, MFM, full height,  has the IBM logo and black face plate.

  Each disk is checked and formatted with DOS 5.0. It can be doubled to
20Mb or so with dblspace or stacker if you so desire.  Have the original IBM
foam fitted boxies and anti-static bags. I am not sure if they were ever
used, but each drive that is sent out will be quarenteed in good working order.

 $30 each plus shipping cost, (about $5),


Simple, eh?


Sounds to me like your dealer really wants to get rid of the IIvx's he has in
stock.  I can imaging that they are getting hard to sell, given that
 1. a C610 is way faster, and is comparable in price.
 2. an LCIII is about the same speed, and is way cheaper.
So your dealer may well be trying as hard as he can to convince people
that IIvx's are a much better buy than a C610 just so he can get rid of all
his old stock!

No disrespect to dealers or the IIvx intended!


Claris Filemaker Pro Database Manager for MacIntosh, still unpackaged.


	I wonder how hard it would be (i.e. what it would add to the cost)
to design desktop machines with a power saver feature built in which would
reduce power consumption automatically if the machine is idle for more than
some amount of time.  This is pretty standard in portable machines, and the
same kinds of tricks could be played; spinning down disks, turning off
screens, reducing clock speed, etc.  The advantage of this over just turning
the thing off would be 1) you don't have to remember to do anything and 2)
the machine is still available over the network.

	The tricky part might be in defining what constitutes inactivity.
Certainly, you don't want to wake up from sleep mode just because somebody
pinged you, but you do want to wake up (at least the CPU) if somebody
logs in via a telnet connection.

	I wouldn't worry too much about wasting electricity in the winter
months; that energy is just getting turned into heat.  It may not be as
efficient a way to heat a building as the central heating plant, but it's
not too bad.  In the summer though, it's a disaster.  Not only are you
wasting that power, but you're probably also running the air conditioning to
get rid of the waste heat.


[i agree wholeheartedly!!]

not sure about there in CA, but here in US, the manuals are quite often the
standard equipment.  Of course, FINDING a car with one might be hard, but
if you read the sticker on the window, there is usally an additional 2k or
so tacked on for that lousy  tranny.  So you actually ARE paying more, just
that it's sometimes hard to find one that is equipped "standard".  (this
applies to MOST cars, but not to the luxoyachts..eg caddilac, licolns, etc..)


Yes, it's easy to use. It's just like an ordinary controller.
You don't have to change the bios config.

It's transparent. It works with any drive. If you change the
drive you only need to change the bios config. as usual.

Yes, no problem.

That depends. You will get a little better performance
if you use smartdrive and buffers in addition. That's
because access to the card through the ISA bus is slower
than access to system RAM. I don't use smartdrive myself,
but I have a few buffers.


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

My vivid imagination sez this is almost close enuff.

$mail_to 00cjmelching@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu /users/neal/dod/faq.dod

but...... naw!!!


Try this one, a favorite around here:

Bureau of Assholes, Tightwads, and Facists.

And remember, they were created by the Infernal Revenue Code.

			--msa


(Deletion)

The reference to it's not yet being ethics is dubious. You have used the terms
absolute, objective and others interchangeably. Same with moral values, values,
at all, worth, measuers, and usefulness. You infer from them as if they were
the same.

To the IF. When the If is not fulfilled, your intermission is a waste of time.
Assuming that you don't intend this, it is reasonable to conclude that you
want to argue a point.

You have made a interesting statement here, namely that of the disinterested
observer. There is no such thing in morals. Probably the shortest proof for
objective and morality being a contradiction.

Fine. And that freedom is valuable is not generally agreed upon. I could
name quite a lot of people who state the opposite. (Not that that wasn't
mentioned before). In other words, you have nothing to fulfill your strong
claims with.

Clutching a straw. I don't believe in mappings into metaphysical sets were
loaded terms are fixpoints. Those who deny the morality of freedom make quite
clear what they say, their practice is telling. Yes, there are even those who
are willingly unfree. It is quite common in religions, by the way. For one,
there is a religion which is named Submission.

Don't even try to argue that submission is freedom.

If it were so, it would argue my case. But I am afraid that that is considered
proof.


I have a 386 clone, and an internal modem set to COM4.
It worked fine until I upgraded to DOS 6.0 and at the
same time reloaded Windows 3.1  Now the system can't
find COM4; MSD says COM4 is "N/A", and three of my
four comm programs say "hardware not present" or some
similar error message.  Procomm, however, finds the modem
no problem and works fine!  Curiouser and curiouser.  Any
hints/help?  Thanks.

Mike
m14494@mwvm.mitre.org


Hi there,

    I plan on upgrading my monitor and video card to 1280x1024. I have
    a DX2/66 ISA (no local bus) system. I would appreciate if anyone can
    drop me an email of your experience with high-resolution
    video board/monitor. Thanks.

-Ming T. Lin


My interpretation of Denning's description is that S1 and S2 are chosen
randomly by agents of the key escrow companies at the start of each 300-
chip programming session.  I imagine that the chips are in a carrier which
will allow them all to be programmed fairly quickly - there would not be
a need to transfer chips one at a time into a little PLA programmer as some
people have envisioned.

My guess as to why this procedure is used is that basing the keys on the
S1 and S2 using a specified algorithm provides an (in-principle) checkable
way to verify that no back doors exist in the choice of the random numbers
used to generate the keys.  Since we have to trust the escrow companies
anyway, it does not weaken the system to have the keys be generated from
random seeds entered by the escrow agents.  And since the algorithm for
key-generation is public (modulo Skipjack secrecy) then in principle an
agent could challenge the procedure, ask for S1 and S2 to be exposed, and
run his own independent calculation of U1 and U2 to verify that that is
what is actually being put onto the floppies.

And yes, there are many ways in which failures to follow this scheme could
be hard to check.  The laptop probably will not really be destroyed each
time.  Hidden cameras in the ceiling could see the S1 and S2 entered by
the trusted escrow agents.  Back doors in the chip could allow U to be
recovered.  Heck, each chip could be recorded with the same U, ignoring
what was on the floppy.


I'm trying to get a hold of an IBM Quietwriter II printer driver for
Windows 3.1. If such a beast exists, can someone suggest how I get
it? Please mail me a reply directly as I don't normally read this
group. Many thanks.


Yeah, it's impossible to be a tough biker when a 5 year old
starts waving at you.


Sounds as though you are confused between "what I want" and "what
I think is morally right".


It depends on wether you are going to replace this with an icon that
comes standard with windows, or with an icon from some other icon manager.

Well, if it is one of those that comes with windows, just highlight the
item by clicking once on it, click on 'File' and then on 'Properties'.
You should see a box which says 'Change icon'. Click on it. You are going
to be presented with some icons (sometimes just one). If you don't like
any of those presented, click on the 'browse' box, and look for the file
'moricons.dll' Select it. Browse through the icons presented, and just
double click on your desired icon.

If you want to replace it with an icon from some other icon manager,
say iconPower for instance, open the icon manager at the bottom of your
screen, where it will not block the application icon you wish to replace.
When you have found your desired icon, click on it once, and while holding
the mouse button down, pull this icon over the one you wish to change.
And thats it!

regards

___________________________________________________________________________


I do not understand what you are saying here.  What is improved, what
is Significant, and what does this have to do with carrying more
equipment on a servicing mission?  Also, as implied by other posters, why
do you need to boost the orbit on this mission anyway?  Maybe you have
something here, but could you please clarify it for us on the net?

From what I've heard, the motors are fine - it is one of the two
sets of electronics that control the motors that needs a fix.  The
motors and electronics are separate pieces of hardware.  I expect
to be corrected if I'm wrong on this.


  close. Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter.

   Even if you are running DOS, if your CPU can't handle the speed of the
interrupts, you will still lose characters.  I have one 286/10 machine with
an external 9600 bps modem attached and can't drive the serial port any faster
than 19.2k without losing characters.

                                           Rob


I recall a discussion I had heard years ago. It went something like this:
The problem with omnipotence (at least as I perceive it) as personified by
the christian God ideal is that it is potentially contradictory.  If a
manifestation such as God is truly infinite in power can God place limits
upon itself?
.
.
Some stuff I can't recall.
Then some other questions I think I recall correctly:
Can God unmake itself?
Can God make itself (assuming it doesn't yet exist)?
Has God has always existed or is it necessary for an observer to bind all of
Gods potential quantum states into reality?
Was God nothing more than a primordial force of nature that existed during
the earliest stages of universal (inflationary?) creation?
Is God a vacuum fluctuation?
Given a great enough energy density could we re-create God?
Would that make US God and God something else?
.
.
Some more stuff I don't recall concerning creating God.  Followed by:
Is God self-aware?
Is it necessary that God be self-aware?
Is God a living entity?
Is it necessay that God be a living entity?
Is God unchanging or does it evolve?
.
.
Any comments? Post them so that others might benefit from the open inquiry
and resulting discussion.


True of all security sytems, I think, and it is the fundamental measure to
be used in establishing a requisite security level.

--


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	Compression and encryption of multimedia

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 > I'm leaning... SIRACH... is more directly referenced by JAMES
 > than JOB or RUTH is... in any NT verse I've seen.

It would help if you mentioned chapter and verse from SIRACH and
from JAMES.

Job 5:13 ("He taketh the wise in their craftiness") seems to be
quoted in 1 Corinthians 3:19.

James 5:11 ("You have heard of the patience of Job"), while not a
quote, implies that James and his listeners are familiar with a
story of a man named Job who exhibited exemplary patience. It is
possible that the story they know is not that found in the Hebrew
Bible, but rather another similar and related story. (One has the
same problem with direct quotes.)

Again, Matthew 1:5 ("Boaz begat Obed of Ruth") tells us that Matthew
knew a story about a woman named Ruth who married a man called Boaz
and  became the ancestor of David. Since Ruth is not mentioned in
the OT outside the Book of Ruth, it seems likely that Matthew was
familiar with the book and respected it, and thought Ruth important
enough to be one of the few women mentioned in the genealogy.

References like this do not prove that the NT writer considered his
OT source inspired or inerrant or canonical. But neither do direct
quotes.


I don't know about you, but I have nearly forgotten how to generate paper
mail.

If I had e-mail to Congress, I would have written many letters by now.
I haven't written one yet, as it turns out.  Writing on paper is such
a complicated job, for those of us hooked on our way-cool Internet.


Alltronics in San Jose (408) 943-9773 sells the Votrax Sc-01 Speech Synthesis
chip for about $5.00. Also I noticed that Radio Shack sells the ISD chip which
 will store small amounts of digitized speech.


Bzzzzzt! Wrong answer.  The UK tone dialling is identical to the US system.
The different settings on your modem are so that it uses CCITT V21 & V22
tones for data transmission, rather than Bell 103 & Bell 121 tones, which are
used only in the USA and canada AFAIK.  As most people now use at least
V22bis, this is largely irrelevant.

Tony


  What crap, Phil. 50mm? Wrong. To give you a clue as to how big 50mm is, the
 F-16 fighter aircraft have 20mm gattling guns used to shoot down other
 aircraft. A 50mm gun would be somewhere in the `cannon' realm. They might
 have had .50 calibre but definitely not 50mm.

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 Paul R. Busta	                                    Busta@kozmic.enet.dec.com
 Salem,N.H.
 603-894-3962


The following comics are for auction.  The highest bid takes them!

All are near mint to mint condition!

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--------------------------------------------------------------
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Aliens 1 (1st app Aliens in comics, 1st prnt, May 1988)	$20.00/KrisM./SOLD

Amazing Spider-Man 136 (Intro new Green Goblin)         $20.00

Amazing Spider-Man 238 (1st appearance Hobgoblin)	$50.00

Archer and Armstrong 1 (Frank Miller/Smith/Layton)	$ 7.50

Avengers 263 (1st appearance X-factor)                  $ 3.50

Bloodshot 1 (Chromium cover, BWSmith Cover/Poster)	$ 5.00/SamE/SOLD

CyberRad 1 (Reintro CyberRad, Prestige silver edition)	$15.00

Daredevil 158 (Frank Miller art begins)                 $35.00

Dark Horse Presents 1 (1st app Concrete, 1st printing)	$ 7.50

Detective 657 (Azrael appears, Intro Cypher)		$ 5.00

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Harbinger 10 (1st appearance H.A.R.D. Corps)		$ 7.00/B.Matthey/SOLD

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Web of Spider-Man 30 (Origin Rose, Hobgoblin appears)   $ 7.50

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Wonder Woman 267 (Return of Animal Man)                 $12.50

X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, X-Force card)     $20.00

X-Force 1 (Signed by Liefeld, Bagged, Shatterstar card) $10.00

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a large enough amount of stuff.  I am willing to haggle.

I have thousands and thousands of other comics, so please let me know what
you've been looking for, and maybe I can help.


Gravity?  Doesn't gravity pull down the photons and cause a doppler shift
or something?


Victor Johnson, on the Thu, 22 Apr 1993 00:01:10 GMT wibbled:

: > }Honda:  a "V" designates a V engine street bike. "VF" for V-4, "VT" for V-twin.
: >
: > So how about my Honda Hawk (NT 650)? It's a twin, but not called a VT.
: > --

:   That's because they took the old VT 500 engine and stepped on it to make
:   the plant for the Hawk -> "New Twin".  Or does that only fly for Microsoft
:   NT (New Technology)?

:   I've been at this too long today ...

:   Cheers,
:   Victor "Dances with Hawks" Johnson
:   ----------------------------------

Also the BMW stuff.  K100RS.  K = Kraut, RS = Really Slow,  100, I
suppose that's how much you have to spend each week to keep the damn
thing on the road.
--

Nick (the Pissed Off With His Bike Again Biker)   DoD 1069   Concise Oxford

M'Lud.


Hi, I 've a series of images in sun raster formats. I've converted them
to PCX formats (I can do the conversion to others like gif as well). I
would like to know of any software that is able to do animation for
these formats, and to record the animation onto a video tape.

Thank you.

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Suppose you want to change the particular icon for a program in
windows such as the MS-DOS one.  Would someone let me know how you can
do this?

Thanks a million.


I am think of buying a new computer through the mail order, I am looking at
the Gateway 2000 66V systen and the Zeos's system. Which is better (in terms of
value, price, ungrade, service), because I am in canada, I wonder can i have
the same level of service as in the states?


	Huh?  Mohamed Salimeh was perhaps a Korean?  How do you claim
arab-americans had no involvement in the WTC bombing?

	Ok, his involvement is alleged by the FBI, which doesn't seem
to reliable these days.  But honestly, there is a pile of evidence
pointing to them, and it seems those 5 were involved.

	This does not mean that all arab-americans were involved, nor
should they be blamed for it, but denying that there were some
arab-americans involved sounds sorta silly to me.

Adam
Adam Shostack 				       adam@das.harvard.edu


Do all those who are saying the government is responsible for the death
of those in the compound also say that the Isrealis are responsible
for the death of the Isreali athletes at the Olympics? Hey, the
Palestinians and the Dividians COULD have given up peacefully ('yeah,
and monkey could fly out my butt' - Wayne).


Hello.
I just like to share this rosary and other prayer propagation
practice we do in my country.  I am not sure if it is going on
also here in the US or any other country.  In all these 4 1/2
yrs. I've been here in Illinois, USA, I have not encountered
it.  May I just call it "Traveling Fatima" since I don't know
of an exact translation of what we call it in my native language.

For certain regions in a district in a town or city, an image/
statue of our Lady of Fatima is moved from one home (originating
from owner) to another.  This will stay with that family for
one (1) week and this family is required to pray the rosary and
other prayers (prayer sheets accompany the image) to our Lady
of Fatima.  The move will be like a simple procession of folks
picking up the image from its current 'home' after 'departing'
prayers and proceeds to move it to the next home which has the
prior notification about the move.  There will be the 'receiving'
prayers at the next home to welcome our Lady of Fatima image
there.  It does not have to be that only members of the family
in that home who must pray to the image.  They may invite others
(or others/friends can invite themselves in ;^)) to participate
during prayer time in that 'new' home everyday for one week.
This image is moved from one family to the next within the
bounded region of that district, until it goes back to the owner
of the image.

This is probably going on around there (Philippines) right now
(or somebody correct me when exactly since I forgot) and every
year, this is part of our devotion to our Lady of Fatima.

It has been easy to facilitate this back home because it is more
likely that your next door neighbor is a Catholic and the image
then is just moved next door.

I am thinking of starting something like it in the village where
my sister and her family lives.  Most of our friends and neighbors
there are Catholics and practicing ones.

I'd like to know if there are any state/community laws that this
practice will violate, whatsoever, before I go for it.  Thank you
for any comments or help about this matter.


OK. I know I look pretty desperate on this bboard. I think I have posted
3 or 4 messages already on the issue of NHL telecats over the last few weeks.
But, hey. I am pretty desperate. What I am interested is not just a
sportsbar with multiple screens so thast I can watch the game on one
of those silent screens. Are there any hockey oriented bars in this area.
Or does some Patrick division or Adams division fan have a satellite dish?
I don't mind paying an admission fee, if necessary.


What is the proper way to dispose of old blessed palms?
I`ve have a bunch that I`ve been holding onto.  In addition,
my mom has been giving me her's.  I used to give them to my
uncle who would burn them (and leave the ashes to seep into the
ground).  Should I do the same?  Could I just bury them?  Could
I add them to my compost bin?

Thanks in advance.


pete zakel is right, we don't need to worry about capitalization
rules. after all, the punctuation gives all the necessary information
about the sentence structure. why should anyone worry about whether the
text is as close to the original as possible. (sarcasm intended).

Then you didn't understand my grumble...  Again, I said to get a
CORRECT version of the Constitution.  The first indicator that
something is wrong (i.e. the copy has been modernized) is the modern
capitalization rules.  The next thing to go is the spelling, and then
I've even seen versions where the GRAMMAR was modernized (oh, but
don't worry, modernizing the grammar won't change the meaning of the
text, right?... ;-)  [p.s.  I have found about 10 *different* versions
of the Constitution on the network; And accuracy DOES matter...]

--
Charles Scripter   *   cescript@phy.mtu.edu
Dept of Physics, Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI 49931


Bye.

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 come." --Tussman                                           Garrett@Ingres.com
"The probability of someone watching you is proportional
to the stupidity of your action." - Unknown


One usual suggestion is to put everything into your every-time shell rc-file
instead of your login-only one, which is fair enough if you only have a few
users who know what they're doing.  If you have several hundred users who do
what the books tell them, though, then it's confusing at best.  Another is to
have your xterms run login shells, but that still leaves the window manager
and the things that get started from its menus with the wrong environment.

Our alternative is that instead of having xdm run the client startup scripts,
it runs the user's favourite shell as a login shell, and has *it* then run the
rest of the startup scripts.  That way the user's usual environment gets set
up as normal and inherited by everything.  You can find an almost-current copy
of our scripts and things in contrib/edinburgh-environment.tar.Z, available
from the usual places.


   Some countries have laws about importing crypto gear--I believe the U.S.
   does. Without a license the above scheme won't work (at least not legally)
   in such countries, including at least France and the U.S.

   David

BZZT!

Wrong.  The US does NOT have crypto import laws.

-derek


What a JOKE! You can't actually believe what you just said. Can you? We
bombed and invaded these countries.

Notice the definition of war (from the American Heritage Dictionary):
	1) A state or period of armed conflict between nations or states.
This qualifies the invasions of Cambodia and Laos as wars.

Then let me explain this to you REALLY slowly. Why did he abuse the
powers of his position? Could it have been to gain personal political
power? Naw, that would be too obvious.

And anyone who can only call names because his position is defensless is
breathtakingly ignorant and desperate. I noticed that you edited out the
other points were I proved you and Phil to be completely wrong.

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 every letter that passed through his hands went every      Garrett@Ingres.com
 adverb and adjective. The next day he made war on articles.
 The following day he blacked out everything in the letters
 but "a", "an", and "the".  - Joseph Heller's Catch-22


You fall if it opens, too.

Gravity:  it's not just a good idea; it's the law.


What ever happened to the idea that the Customer is ALWAYS right?

-- Joe


[ . . .]

I am a relativist who would like to answer your question, but the way you
phrase the question makes it unanswerable.  The concepts of "right"
and "wrong" (or "correct/incorrect" or "true/false") belong to the
domain of epistemological rather than moral questions.  It makes no
sense to ask if a moral position is right or wrong, although it is
legitimate to ask if it is good (or better than another position).

Let me illustrate this point by looking at the psychological derivatives
of epistemology and ethics:  perception and motivation, respectively.
One can certainly ask if a percept is "right" (correct, true,
veridical) or "wrong" (incorrect, false, illusory).  But it makes little
sense to ask if a motive is true or false.  On the other hand, it is
strange to ask whether a percept is morally good or evil, but one can
certainly ask that question about motives.

Therefore, your suggested answers (a)-(c) simply can't be considered:
they assume you can judge the correctness of a moral judgment.

Now the problem with (d) is that it is double-barrelled:  I agree with
the first part (that the "rightness" of a moral position is a
meaningless question), for the reasons stated above.  But that is
irrelevant to the alleged implication (not an implication at all) that
one cannot feel peace is better than war.  I certainly can make
value judgments (bad, better, best) without asserting the "correctness"
of the position.

Sorry for the lengthy dismissal of (a)-(d).  My short (e) answer is
that when two individuals grotesquely disagree on a moral issue,
neither is right (correct) or wrong (incorrect).  They simply hold
different moral values (feelings).


       While also allowing law enforcement agencies to intercept phone
conversations of criminals *and* non-criminals unlawfully.  ("No, Rev.
King, we aren't spying on you.")

       I wonder how long it will take for "the wrong people" to put their
hands on the equipment necessary to read this stuff.  It'll probably
be as safe as weapons locked safely in evidence rooms.

       And people to whom they sell them to.  All it takes is corrupting
the right guy.  No, that never happens.