HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: U.S. Constitution
Keywords: dorkus dweeb
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Somewhere West of Nowhere
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:27:05 GMT


In article <lflp07INNivh@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:
...
|>"After the first enumeration required by the first Article of the Constitution,
|>there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand,
|>until the number shall amount to one hundred,
|>    after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress,
|>    that there shall be
|>        not less than one hundred Representatives,
|>        nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons,
|>until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred,
|>    after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress,
|>    that there shall not be
|>        less than two hundred Representatives,
|>        nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons."
|>

Looks to me like some student code I had to assess when I worked in a CS lab.
EEEEEYUCHHH

--
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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: More odd net.acronyms (was Kryptonite bike locks)
Date: 9 Nov 1992 08:19 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

>> O Be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me-now UL (for astronomers)

> Surely that's
>   "O Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now Sweetie"
> but I can't for the life of me remember what it's a mnemonic for ...

You're both right (the words vary).

A mnemonic for the classes of stars on the main sequence, from hottest
to coolest.  The short form is "Oh be a fine girl -- kiss me" (O B A F G K M).
Add some weird stars (the celestial kind, not the movie kind, regardless
of whether they have body odor and whether you ever met them :) and you
get "Wow! Oh be a fine girl -- kiss me (right now, smack!)," meaning
W O B A F G K M R N S.  

I forget why these letters were chosen for classes of stars, but I'm sure
a good astronomy text or a query on sci.astro would tell you more than you
ever wanted to know about the subject.  

Joe "Just another personal opinion from a Class M planet of a Class G star" Chew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: Toilet paper: over or under?
Keywords: Aaron Burr: Traitor or Traitee?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:29:33 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

John Switzer Frame 3.0 writes:

         [about the ages old over or under toilet paper question]

>I hate to insert logic into a.f.u, but if you've ever had a dog (or a child),
>you'll understand why you NEVER put the toilet paper with the loose end 
>going up over the roll. All it takes is to come home once and find your 
>angry pooch has unrolled the toilet paper all over the house to convince
>you to put the loose end under.

Well, counter example time. My angry child once carried the slung
under loose end of the toilet paper roll all around the house like
Liberty leading the French. I think the thing needed is to have
a loose ends police squad make sure that the loose end clings as
tight as an Earl Scheib paint job to the bulk of the roll so
that any of an array of angry small mammals can't get to it. Of course, 
angry cats can still scratch the thing ineffectively, albeit decoratively,
sharpening their claws. Regardless of the direction the paper
lays.

-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> My bad.     
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner)
Subject: Legal Tender
Originator: davew@willow03
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:37:16 CST


What do those words "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and
private" really mean?  (i.e from a '...we don't accept bills larger than x'
point of view).



-- 
Dave Wagner                                     Cray Research, Inc
davew@cray.com , uunet!cray!davew               655F Lone Oak Drive
(612) 683-5393                                  Eagan, MN  55121
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:14:09 GMT

jordan@castor (USENET's Chuck) writes:
: 
: All these are reasons why you might not WANT to receive cash, but aren't
: really any legal basis for you to refuse cash.

As I posted, the merchant is free to set the requirements, at the time of
sale. The purchaser may either abide by the requirements, or go elsewhere.

: I believe (<- note this) that credit card companies and other institutions
: that frequently get payments through the mail can ask that you send a check
: or money order instead of cash, but (other than Oregon, like you mentioned)
: it's just an agreement, and they are legally bound to accept cash as payment.

I don't know about the laws on such things in Oregon, either. All I know is
that the State of Oregon often prohibits cash payment of some bills.

: As for the other examples, I can't see why anyone would have any legal grounds
: to deny the cash, especially if a receipt of some sort were included in the
: transaction.  It seems to me that the payee in a transaction is legally bound
: to accept cash, but as a matter of course sets up an arrangement with the payer
: to use more convenient methods.  I'm neither belligerent nor curious enough
: to test this theory, though.

Why should the seller have to do so? Doesn't he/she have the right to decide
on the reinbursement method? 

Bill
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:27758 alt.conspiracy:12033
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Trilateral commission
Date: 9 Nov 1992 02:50:27 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117



aq817@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Crocker) writes:

  +>(note 1) The Trialteral Commission (as of April 6, 1992).   
  
  +>* = Executive Committee.                                    
  +>Akio Morita, Chairman                                       

Ted the Frank writes:
 
  +I just loved him in Happy Days.

Me too.  He was okay in the _Karate Kid_ movies and of course,
_Honeymoon in Vegas_.  You can tell he's a pro and acts well
because he doesn't have to do it for the money.

Terry "Bwahahahahahaha" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran)
Subject: Philadelphia Experiment
Keywords: phillidelphia experiment cream cheese
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:52:55 GMT

I've recently been hearing vague mutterings about something called the
Philadelphia Experiment. The only P.E. I've heard of was the movie. Can someone
please explain to me:

a) What the hell was it (or supposed to be)?
b) Did it actually exist?
c) Where can I find out more about it?

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Free Pets -> lab test animals ???
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 07:22:20 GMT

maynard@sarah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
: In article <1992Nov2.061209.21614@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>,
: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
: >spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep) writes:
: >: 
: >: Consensus: scratches are trenches in the CD surface. They have sharp
: >: edges. Sharp edges are highly reflective. (Why is the Stealth so
: >curved?
: >: Guess...) The abrassives in toothpaste smooth the edges, making them
: >: less attractive for laser beams to track instead of the music.
: >: 
: >: (Note, when you do this, rub in a radial fashion, and rinse with luke
: >: warm water, and clean hands... dry on a soft towel, again in radial
: >: fashion - dont want to add more scratches. This DOES work. I've fixed 5
: >: CDs this way... also gets reflective fingerprints off...)
: 
: Is this stuff about Stealths being curved actually true? I was under the
: impression (but I'm no conoisseur of military hardware) that this was due
: to bogus artist's impressions and that real Stealth planes (both the bomber
: and the fighter) looked VERY angular with sharp edges everywhere.

Note that I did not write any of the above.

You are correct - the Stealth fighter is composed of many flat planes and
sharp edges. I have no idea why. 

Bill
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28037 soc.culture.african.american:10878 sci.skeptic:19323
From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:37:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov10.193756.8705
Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95

danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock) writes:
>   (1) The government does not now have the technology needed to make the 
>       conspiracy work.

Out of curiosity, how do we know this?  Compare the situation in
cryptography, where I believe that it is generally accepted that
the NSA is something like 10 to 20 years ahead of academic and
industrial research groups.

Or compare with aeronautical engineering, where the secret government
stuff is way ahead of civilian technology.

I would guess that we know the situation in biotech by noting where
bright graduate students end up after they get the PhDs (e.g., if the
number ending up in government work seems reasonable in light of the
public research produced by government labs, then we can be reasonably
sure that there is not a secret biotech program that is way ahead of
academic and industrial biotech, whereas the government gobbles up
many more bright cryptographers and aeronautical engineers than their
public research would accout for).  Is this the case?

--Tim Smith
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28072 soc.culture.african.american:10898 sci.skeptic:19350
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: 1950's Darryle, damnit.
Date: 11 Nov 1992 03:27:33 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <XrB=1k@engin.umich.edu>, dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette) writes:
>Even if AIDS appeared in the 50's (what evidence is there of this?)
>and is a naturally occurring virus, that doesn't preclude its use in wiping 
>out populations just as smallpox was used to wipe out the indiginous people 
>of North America.

First of all, you mean measles, not smallpox.  Second, measles is contagious;
AIDS is merely infectious.  Do you understand the difference?  Third, Europeans
had developed a resistance to measles, while the American Indians hadn't.  Are
you claiming that white Americans have a resistance to AIDS?

>So you are wrong if you think everything I'm saying is
>rendered nonsense by your dubious claim. 

No, it's rendered nonsense by the fact that it IS nonsense.  Take you extremely
flawed analogy above as an example.
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Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rubis@gagme.chi.il.us (Dave Svoboda)
Subject: Re: Dry Towel in the DRYER?
Originator: rubis@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:39:28 GMT

In article <1dhse4INNcaq@moe.ksu.ksu.edu> diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson) writes:
|In <1992Nov6.161521.25357@engage.pko.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
|
|>As another post pointed out this is exactly backwards, moist air is less dense
|>and tends to rise, not sink.
|
|Then why does fog hang out in valleys and thick heavy rain clouds are so
|close to the earth.  I can't say exactly whether 20 degree dry air is
|heavier than 20 degree wet air.  

Yes, it is.

Any pilot should know that higher humidity air is less dense than lower
humidity, and that warm air is less dense than cool.

Fog is not humidity, it is condensation.  And the heat of condensation comes
from the surrounding air, which cools (and condenses more water out, which
cools...) and drops.  This effect is MUCH stronger than the change in density 
due to humidity.  Anyway, the relative humidity stays constant while the
cloud condenses and cools.

|But the evaporation of water off of the towel will cool the air down quite considerably, and I know that cool air is
|definitely more dense than warm air.

Yes, and that would be the strongest effect.

|Maybe what you're refering to is this:  Sunshine hits the earth and warms
|the air up.  Warm air rises, and warm air can also carry a lot of moisture. 
|So a lot of moisture is carried aloft by the warm air.  Yes?

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that dry air is denser.

|-David Iverson

I know that David Iverson is probably a common name, but I seem to remember
that an Aero prof I had a Iowa State had a son named that.  Is that you?

		Svoboda
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
From: Seth Malcolm Redmore <sr2s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 1992 07:06:20 -0500 
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



Randall writes:
>< long list of items removed from recta .>
>
>
>Please add to the list, from MRI cases I have seen ;
>
>9/16" Crescent Wrench
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                 On an MRI study?  Holy Shit...
>Plastic Film Cannister
>1 peeled potato (already sprouting)
>Randy 'or was that a potatoe?' Holt
>
>--
>Randall W. Holt      rxh6@cwru.po.edu

Seth "I sure hope they were dead first." Redmore
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28055 rec.arts.startrek.misc:11536 alt.fan.lemurs:96 alt.cascade:3156
From: vcsc458@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Roy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,alt.fan.lemurs,alt.cascade
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:26:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: csus.1992Nov10.232607.21250
Organization: San Francisco State University

In article <1992Nov10.212428.100792@watson.ibm.com> rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers) writes:
>In <1992Nov10.203818.14246@dsd.es.com> pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) writes:
>>In article <BxIEtG.AEs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, miles@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Derick) writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov10.051247.26359@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>>In article <BxGwLn.HEo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Benjamin Warre Brock) writes:
>>>>>Tiberius
>>>>Terry
>>>Timmy
>>Testicular
>Tasteless
Transvestyte


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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Date: 12 Nov 1992 05:47:11 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Distribution: na
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes
  +
  +>cj "So what does the middle initial 'T' in MTV stand for?" l
  +>(Music Terry-Vision?)

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

  +Only in Japan.

Oh yeah?  Well if you really believed that, why did you keep the
distribution only to the US?  Huh?  Huh?  That's because it's
true WORLDWIDE (or at least everywhere).

Terry "Telly?" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:21:40 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <Nov.11.01.15.25.1992.4109@math.rutgers.edu>, 
cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
> Bill, you can make your getaway during the confusion about WHICH Terry
> is going to go get the gun.  Unless there is really only ONE Terry
> (who likes to talk to himself in public).  

There is but one Terry, and Terry is but his prophet.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28054 soc.culture.african.american:10891 sci.skeptic:19332
From: bocmunro@bnr.co.uk (Bruce Munro)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 10 Nov 1992 20:43:27 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe, New Southgate, London.
NNTP-Posting-Host: bnsgs179.bnr.co.uk

In article <rKB=qf-@engin.umich.edu> dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette) writes:
>I'd suggest viewing "The Strecker Memorandum" video. In this video
>a (white) doctor explains in scientific detail how the AIDS virus
>is genetically engineered (ie. man-made). Among other things, it is
>not possible for viruses to cross species, so that story about AIDS
>originating from the African green monkey is even more impossible.

So you would be unconcerned if you had just been bitten by a rabid dog?
After all viruses can't cross between species.

-- 
Bruce Munro.  <B.Munro@bnr.co.uk> || ...!mcsun!uknet!bnruk!B.Munro
BNR Europe Ltd, Oakleigh Rd South, London N11 1HB. | Note the change
Phone : +44 81 945 2174 or +44 81 945 4000 x2174   | of e-mail address.
"There are no strangers, only friends we don't recognise" - Hank Wangford
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28004 alt.folklore.computers:16043
From: colombo@bronco.fnal.gov (Rick Colombo - Fermilab)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:36:38 -0600
Organization: Fermilab Computing Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: bronco.fnal.gov

In article <1992Nov8.103101.166@gems.vcu.edu>, hleaves@gems.vcu.edu writes:
> I was reading an article in an "anarchist" magazine (I can't remember which
> one) that was talking about ATM (teller machine) "jackpotting". "Jackpotting"
> an ATM machine involves cutting the data lines to the machine and splicing in
> your personal computer. When you put an ATM card in the machine your computer
> intercepts the ATM's account inquiry messages. It then returns, of course, an
> infinite balance on the account, along with other appropriate information
> allowing you to withdraw as much money as you can from the machine. The article
> said someone had succesfully done this for a take of several thousand dollars.
> The article did not give any technical details about the procedure. My question
> is: Is this really possible or is this article just a figment of someones
> overactive imagination? Has anyone else heard of this being done? Would anyone
> care to speculate on how they pulled it off?
> 
> -- 

Ok, I've got my PC but I need to get at the data lines...  Ah ha, I'll
use the bumper mounted winch on my 4x4 truck and pull the front off the
wall.  What a mess, $20,000 dollars in 10's and 20's all over the place.
Anyway, I wade my way through the bills littering the sidewalk to look
for the data wires, but how the f*ck do I know which is *transmit* and
which is *receive*???

( for the humor impaired :-)

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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28352 misc.legal:19859 soc.culture.british:15775
From: Geraint.Jones@comlab.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.legal,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: The amazing disappearing British Constitution
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:31:44 GMT
Organization: Cheeses of Nazareth, Dairy Products, Ltd
Originator: geraint@pierrot.comlab

tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) wrote:
(  It should be noted that England is one of the oldest nations on the face of 
 ) the planet, and it predates literacy by some centuries, which accounts in a 
(  large manner for why its constitution is unwritten, and instead relies upon 
 ) the traditions which served as law for so many generations.

You would be hard pushed to argue that England as a single political entity of 
any sort predates the Norman Conquest.  That makes it less than a thousand years
old, and neatly draws your attention to good hard evidence of literacy in the
Doomsday book.  If you meant Britain, as you probably did, you have to cut that
thousand years down to a measly few centuries since one or another of the many
acts of union.  There are many nations who can look down their noses at such  /
newcomers, particularly in Asia and Africa, I suppose, but several in North  /
America even.  Goodness, even Mann is older than that.                      / g
___
Don't be silly.  Surely you didn't catch me joining an annual Consitution spat?