HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:51:35 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

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.
>Even if you don't believe Dr. Strecker's conclusions, at least you'll
>realize alternative possibilities that actually aren't far fetched 
>when you think about it.

Darryle, where did you get the info that viruses can't cross
species?  This is just plain flase.

Swine flu is probably the most well-known, but there are many viruses
that cross species lines.
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: ATM fraud
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:33:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov2.195627.26512@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>The only problem I have with the idea of the PIN being in the card is - why
>would it be? There is absolutely no reason for it to be put there.  It would
>not speed up verification at all.

It's not... when I got a MasterCard, it originally wasn't set up for ATM
use... I had to call the bank and ask for that service.  I was asked to
choose a PIN, or accept a random one.  This number was then sent to me by
mail, and my card worked immediately, without having to be encoded.
-- 
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    If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, go real limp, so people will think
    you're a dummy, and they'll try to catch you, because hey, free dummy!
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: ATM fraud
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 16:37:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.173558.17185@chpc.org>, Rob Boudrie writes:
> 
> The PIN is not secure if someone from YOUR BANK who has the PVK can
> read you card, and has details of the way the encryption is implemented
> in the standard.  (The PVK is "secret", the "implementation standard" is 
> not).

There was a long discussion on this in one (or more) of the security groups
some time ago. One of the things I noticed was:

ObUL: Some banks choose really daft PVKs

---
YuNoHoo  "guess PVK is a German acronym as well"
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kryptonite Locks - Nitrogen/Freon chilling
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:03:02 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
: 
: The series in the New York Times earlier this year (June?) on auto
: theft in New Jersey cited this as a method for getting around the
: Club.  The series ran for about a week on the front page.  The
: reporter wrote that the auto thieves identified this as the way they
: defeated the Club.

Well, they are correct - it is a way that will work. At least, it will
when using liquid nitrogen. I don't think that freon would give you any
advantage over just beating the lock without chilling it.

If I were an auto thief, I certainly would not admit to having an alternate
method, that takes all of a minute or so. I would want the public to keep
believing that it take 15 to 20 minutes and makes a lot of noise to steal
a car.

Now, why wouldn't a thief - if he had to carry a large and heavy bottle of
freon or liquid nitrogen - simply carry a small oxyacetylene set instead?

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:07:31 GMT


Scott Cromar (cromar@math.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
: >   +Bill "Not a Terry and, after the above comment, no chance of becoming one
: >   +either" Nelson
: 
: > Okay, that's it.  Terry, get the gun.
: 
: 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).  
                        ------

Who ever said that *any* of the Terries were male?

Terry "guess" Monks
-- 
Terry Monks        Automata Design Inc    (703) 742-9400

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: frank@rover.uchicago.edu
Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:09:00 GMT

In article <1does6INNlgf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>, smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes...
>One of my friends (in the UK) asked an ATM machine for #200. It hummed & 
>clicked for a while & then informed him that it only had #140 and would he
>like that. He pushed the YES button, & the machine dutifully delivered
>#140, and a reciept for #140.
> 
>When he checked his next statement he discovered that the full #200 had
>been deducted from his account.  Luckily he had kept the receipt & was
>eventually able to persuade the ATM owners (with considerable difficulty)
>that there had been a mistake.

	I got bit by one series of machines (quickly withdrawn from service,)
	that would shove the money out held in a spring loaded hand, and then
	yank if back again if you didn't grab it within 10 seconds or so. I
	had dropped my checkbook where I was logging the transaction and got
	up just in time to see the $200 disappear back into the bowels of the
	machine. And no, the machine did not give a corrected receipt.

	I must have not been the only one to have this happen because my
	bank routinely credited my account after a quick audit of the machine,
	nd that type of machine _quickly_ disappeared from the area.

   Frank R. Borger - Physicist    __       Internet:  Frank@rover.uchicago.edu
Michael Reese - Univ. of Chicago |___      Phone : 312-791-8075 fax : 567-7455
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					   American Activities Committee
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy,alt.tasteless
From: tld@moon.base.bellcore.com (Terry Davidson)
Subject: Re: Frozen Waste
Reply-To: tld@cosmos.bellcore.com
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 18:29:25 GMT

In article <pkteagarden.59@bobcat.lmc.edu>, pkteagarden@bobcat.lmc.edu (Phil Teagarden) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov7.144913.14868@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple) writes:
|> 
|> >Chicago Tribune, 11/7/92, p.16
|> 
|> >SEATTLE (Reuters) - A stinking basketball-sized chunk of frozen waste that
|> >       smashed through the roof of a suburban Seattle home came from a
|> >       United Airlines DC-10 flying overhead [...]
|> >       The FAA said such incidents occur occasionally...
|> >       Leroy and Gerri Cinnamon were watching a football game on television 
|> >       in their living room when the block of bluish ice smashed through
|> >       their roof and ceiling and shattered on the floor.
|> >       The Cinnamons summoned firefighters and a hazardous materials
|> >       response team [note to PvdL: idea for new reality-based TV show?]
|> >       to their home.
|> >       But as the ice melted, the fragments were identified as frozen waste
|> >       from an airliner [United Airlines Flight 461 from Chicago to Seattle] 
|> >       passing above.
|> >       "It stunk real bad," Gerri Cinnamon told reporters. [a.f.u. motto of
|> >        the week?]
|> >       [FAA Spokesman Dick] Meyer said service records indicated a plumbing
|> >       problem did exist and it was fixed.
|> >-- 
|> >ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
|> >also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
|> >the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
|> 
|> That's what I call, "the sh*t almost hitting the fan!"

I figure this is the first recorded incident of an `I.C.B.M.' hitting a
civilian's residence...

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From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:00:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

Heard it on NPR:  Spiro Agnew turned 74 today.

-- Ray
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: 1950's Darryle, damnit.
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:22:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpcvaac.1992Nov13.172207.3116
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

govender@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za (Govender) writes:
: >: 
: >: The London Times, May 11, 1987 ("Smallpox vaccine triggered Aids virus in
: >: Africa and Haiti") tells how the World Health Organization injected
: >: 100 million Africans (plus 14,000 Haitians working in Zaire) with AIDS
: >: infested smallpox vaccines. When the Haitians returned to Haiti, it spread 
: >: there. That's why when AIDS was first publicized, being Haitian mysteriously
: >: made you "high risk". 
: 
: i remember reading the article quoted above and my recollection of it
: differs significantly from that above.the article claimed that the hiv
: virus was a spontaneous "reaction" to the smallpox vaccines.among the 
: "evidence" presented was that large scale outbreaks of the hiv virus
: in africa and south america,twp areas where there had been intensive 
: anti-smallpox campaigns.there was no suggestion of any deliberate or
: malicious intent anywhere in the article. 

And possibly, no mention of contaminated vaccine?

Thank you, Morgan. I am still waiting for more documentation from some
of the people who claim that the contamination occurred.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
From: dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:26:26 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <1992Nov10.175826.11503@midway.uchicago.edu>
pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>Something you ought to consider is this: Where exactly is the motivation
>for "them" to try to wipe out "the undesirables"?  

The same place where the motivation for wiping out indiginous populations
existed. The same place where Hitler's motivation for exterminating the
Jews existed. The same place where the motivation for the Tuskegee experiment
existed...

>[Marxist analysis deleted]
>I'm serious; if you think about it, there is no way the upperclass could
>survive w/o the lowerclass.  

This isn't about upperclass/lowerclass within the US -- this is about
*global* populations. I'm particularly speaking of Africa, where AIDS
is running rampant (thanks in large part to WHO). The African continent
is one of the richest in natural resources -- imperialists would have
a lot to gain by significantly reducing the native population -- then
they could take over with little resistance. Before you dismiss this
as mere paranoia, consider that the same scenario was played out in what
is now North America 500 years ago.

Read the report of the Global 2000 Commission that came out under
Carter's administration.

>[stuff deleted]
>And, on a related note, I seriously that any members of the upperclass
>would want to invent something like this, given that they would have no
>way of ensuring that it wasn't ever used against them.  (Again, there
>are more of them than there are of us...)

This "fear" never stopped any other instrument of destruction
from being used/developed. Plus there are plenty of barriers in place
to guard against this, like restricted access to information and lab
facilities.

	Darryle
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
From: rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:48:54 GMT

In article <rKB=qf-@engin.umich.edu> dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette) writes:
>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.

Really? Viruses can't cross species?

How are chimpanzees infected with HIV for medical studies?

How do humans, cats, dogs, cats, racoons, etc. get rabies?

How can influenza vaccines be made from infecting fertile chicken eggs?

The original vaccine against smallpox was made from cow pox virus.
Wasn't that a shared disease between humans and cattle?
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (CROSBY MATTHEW JAMES)
Subject: Re: Where can I look for any scholarly info....
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 08:12:26 GMT

In article <BxD6IJ.6Bo@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>Phil "Hey, you thought snopes was mean.  For the time being, you're
>stuck with an extremely nasty Phil" Gustafson
Oh no!  Hide your diodes, everyone!!

ObUL:  Spelling hellow hello is really a secret plan to innudate the net with
spelling flames, causing it's demise.

-- 
-Matt
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the net!!!!
mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu     or     crosby@cs.colorado.edu
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Trick or Treat Tampering
Date: 10 Nov 1992 10:43 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

> some other event that predates that scare which might have been the
> source of the Halloween poison UL?

Suspicion of this type dates back at least to my own first encounters 
with trick-or-treating (in a small town in southern Indiana, mid-60s).  

The usual scare item was "a razor blade in an apple."  Looking
back on this, it has many of the canonical elements of some ULs.
For example, it was used as a cautionary tale to enforce obedience 
to and trust of authority, it presumed and expanded upon the idea 
that strangers (especially weird ones) are bad, and although 
everybody "knew" that such things went on, nobody actually seemed 
to know anyone with firsthand knowledge of apple-tampering. (Keep
in mind that a UL can be based on a true event; the folkloric 
component is the gross exaggeration of the likelihood, along with
spuriously "knowing" that proverbial FOAF.)

I dimly recall a TV movie (dim recollection being a kindness when it 
comes to TV movies, but I digress) on this subject from the mid- or 
late 70s.  Attention-hungry kid puts razor blade in apple, cuts his lip, 
blames woman whom other people in trailer park (where else? :) dislike; 
mob forms; stones and vegetables are thrown; pickup truck is attached to 
trailer for mechanized street justice; authorities step in; kid fesses up; 
moral is dispensed; cut to commercial.

ObUL: The packaging safeguards meant to (sort of) protect us against
 product tampering have probably cost more dollars per death prevented 
 than any consumer innovation in history.  Fact or folklore?

ObULprime: An unintended effect is that products stay fresher longer.

Joe "Boy, am I glad my antifreeze has a tamper-proof seal" Chew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Junkies/crack addicts don't try to share the fun?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:18:39 GMT

sab@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
: >
: >If you can find leaded gasoline. It is rare or non-existant, in most
: >states.
: >
: >Bill
: Leaded gasoline is not hard to find - check out the local airport and
: the fuel supply for non-jet aircraft.

Yeah - if you want to pay twice as much for your gasoline. 

It is funny about avgas - 100 low-lead has a higher percentage of lead
than the 80 leaded. (According to my instructor)

: Steve 'Is that why prop planes aren't lighter than air?' Bloom
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: More odd net.acronyms (was Kryptonite bike locks)
Date: 7 Nov 92 17:59:18 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

In <Bx7rvt.11I@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:

>Bruce "but what breed of dogma was it?" Tindall

Three-headed.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mhotchin@microsoft.com (Michael Hotchin)
Subject: Re: Airport security
Date: 05 Nov 92 04:23:46 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <17558@bcars664.bnr.ca> Henry.Troup@BNR.CA writes:
>In article <1co2kdINNcog@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, strange@cats.ucsc.edu
>(Joseph Russack) writes:
>|>
>|>In article <1992Oct28.223619.8998@Arco.COM> bielak@arco.com writes:
>|>>So: does anyone have a FOAF who has actually heard of a person who has
>|>>actually seen someone getting hauled off for attempting to be
>|>>humorous at the x-ray machine? Hmmmm? Or is it just legend?
>
>A Canadian MP was reported in the newspaper to have been denied access
>to his flight for such poor humour.
>                         
>Henry Troup - H.Troup@BNR.CA (Canada) - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
>		   Oxymoron of the week - "Regular novelties"


Even better than this - it has happened *twice*, both times to the then
Minister of Transportation.  Where do these people come from?

	Mike Hotchin
	mhotchin@microsoft.com

Me? Speak for Microsoft? Yeah, right.
"Yeah, I can pass."

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From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:53:10 GMT
Organization: SunConnect
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.france.sun.com

In article <1992Nov10.065905.4363@spcvxb.spc.edu>, terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
> 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". 
> > [...]
> 
>   Well, one bug which I found while consulting for a bank [different division]
> was a glaring hole in the logic. These machines have all been scrapped for at
> least 5 years now, and the bank built their own, so no other bank has any of
> these machines, so the story is safe 8-)

That story reminds me of another one, a programming error rather than a
hardware one.

One of my friends (in the UK) asked an ATM machine for #200. It hummed & 
clicked for a while & then informed him that it only had #140 and would he
like that. He pushed the YES button, & the machine dutifully delivered
#140, and a reciept for #140.

When he checked his next statement he discovered that the full #200 had
been deducted from his account.  Luckily he had kept the receipt & was
eventually able to persuade the ATM owners (with considerable difficulty)
that there had been a mistake.

Steve

-- 
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From: styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Pleasant Dreams
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 23:25:54 GMT

jt29+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Thomas) writes:
: I recently heard a story that over the counter sleeping pills
: impede R.E.M. sleep (Rapid Eye Movement dream stage of sleep, not
: the band).  These pills normally contain "Doxylamine Succinate"---
: in dosages of 25mg.  If this is true, then taking sleeping pills
: would cause you to experience less restful sleep.  Is this true or
: do we have a new UL?

There are a lot of pills out there, some of them will make you sleep.
I've looked up pills that'll disturb your REM sleep. These pills aren't
very useful for the occational sleepless night.

There's no UL here, but it's not surprising that people use the wrong
kind of sleeping pill.

---
YuNoHoo  "my sleepless nights are due to a newsfeed in my bedroom"
From: hbishop@ttsi.lonestar.org (Huett Bishop)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Frozen Waste
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:36:01 GMT
Organization: Tandem Telecommunications Systems Inc.

In article <1992Nov8.184909.8710@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>In article <1992Nov7.144913.14868@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple) writes:
>> Chicago Tribune, 11/7/92, p.16
>> 
>> SEATTLE (Reuters) - A stinking basketball-sized chunk of frozen waste that
>> 	smashed through the roof of a suburban Seattle home came from a
>> 	United Airlines DC-10 flying overhead [...]
>> 	The FAA said such incidents occur occasionally...
>> 	Leroy and Gerri Cinnamon were watching a football game on television 
>> 	in their living room when the block of bluish ice smashed through
>> 	their roof and ceiling and shattered on the floor.
>> 	The Cinnamons summoned firefighters and a hazardous materials
>> 	response team [note to PvdL: idea for new reality-based TV show?]
>> 	to their home.
>> 	But as the ice melted, the fragments were identified as frozen waste
>> 	from an airliner [United Airlines Flight 461 from Chicago to Seattle] 
>> 	passing above.
>> 	"It stunk real bad," Gerri Cinnamon told reporters. [a.f.u. motto of
>>         the week?]
>> 	[FAA Spokesman Dick] Meyer said service records indicated a plumbing
>> 	problem did exist and it was fixed.
>
>
>10 bucks says these two were living in a trailer court.
>
>Mike "These things ALWAYS happen in trailer courts!"  


It just goes to show you, no matter where you live,
you are never safe from an ICEY BM.


From a very stupid joke told by my ex-roomie Corky. Who was very tasteless
as room mates go


Huett Bishop
Just wondering "what do they grow on a penal farm" and can women be sent to penal
colonies and why?
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