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From: mike.mendis@madness.network23.com (Mike Mendis) 
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: ...
Date: 25 Sep 92 14:37:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Terminal Madness BBS - Newport, RI - 401-848-9069
Reply-To: mike.mendis@madness.network23.com (Mike Mendis) 

->        I'll pay big $ for anybody who can pick my bosses lock.
->
-> Ahem.... Ed,  this is your boss. Chris... Are you planning anything?
-> We need to talk...

I am sorry but you have just been fired.
From: bobk@ESD.3Com.COM (Bob Konigsberg)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: Old Safe?
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:03:54 GMT

>In  <1a0645INNa7n@sgi2.mathstat.uoguelph.ca>  dryan@sgi1 (Dan Ryan) writes:
>> A friend of mine has an old safe ...
>> Is there some way to go about opening it

You may suggest to the locksmith that they try all standard "new"
combinations, as many people never go to the trouble of changing
the original factory combination.

(Based on Richard Feynman's autobiography)

BobK
From: mack@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mack Kuo)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: Broken key
Date: 28 Sep 92 06:29:54 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


 I was wondering. How are the "boots" that policemen attach to car tires work?
How do you lock and unlock them?
From: princecr@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: dealing with complete novices
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:59:30 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

In article <92253.131224MABBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, The Computer.... <MABBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
> In article <2aa95114@babyoil.ftp.com>, hobbit@babyoil.ftp.com (*Hobbit*) says:
>>
>>The Big Hint is that it is permissible to push against the door, with your
>>shoulder or something.  With sufficient discussion, even the seriously
>>clue-challenged will realize that one of the latches will stick open
>>and you can then let go of its knob.
>>
>>_H*
> 
>      I'm sorry but being a complete novice, such that I am, the
> first thought that comes to my mind is not one about whether a latch
> sticks or not.  As a matter of fact, the thought about any latch sticking
> didn't even come to mind.. I am sorry to appear this picky but someone
> has to stand up for all of the novices out there in Netland..
> 
	being even more of a novice I have to ask, what if it is one of those 
sidebar locks like in this months LockSmiths Ledger??

Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:26:54 -0400 
From: Joe Eddy Demers <jd4q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Sorry


Please excuse my multiple postings. The mail server was giving me error
messages, which I took to mean that it wasn't sending. Oops. 

    Joe (jerk of the day)
From: jerry@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jeremy Porter)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: auto club locks
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:07:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Sep24.150843.9850@engage.pko.dec.com> yerazunis@cthulu.enet.dec.com writes:
>In article <2033@sdrc.COM>, bsmorgan@sdrc.COM (Brian Morgan) writes...
>3) The only things that hardening protects you from is a standard hacksaw
>or standard bolt-cutters.  It won't stop a hacksaw with a carbide grit blade,
>nor against a slide hammer, or any other form of force (though I would be
>hesitant to use thermite inside a car's passenger compartment.)
Interesting comment....

>5) Does a CLUB work (despite it's shortcomings)?  Don't know.  Anybody have
>any apocryphal stories?
Does it work?  Basically, No.  A friend of mine had his car stolen with
club attached.   The car had just be fixed up and repainted, and an appointment
had been made for the next day to get a card alarm installed.
The car was found later, stripped and trashed.  The steering wheel had been
cut with a hacksaw.

Now maybe the car is less likely to be stolen if it has a club on it, but
I doubt it makes much difference to a "professional" car thief.

Jeremy Porter

Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich Greenberg)
Subject: Re: Old Safe?
Organization: Hatch Usenet and E-mail.  Playa del Rey, CA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 04:24:46 GMT

In article <1a0645INNa7n@sgi2.mathstat.uoguelph.ca> dryan@sgi1 (Dan Ryan) writes:
>A friend of mine has an old safe which has been hanging around his store
>since he bought the store.  The previous owner had remodelled around the
>safe instead of moving it.  It is a small floor save roughly 3 ft X 3ft X 3ft
>square.  Of course it has no combination.    He was hoping to 
>restore it and use it, mostly as a conversation piece.  Is there some way to
>go about opening it or is he out of luck.

Tried to email a suggestion, but the net.mail.gods forbade it :-))

Try the yellow pages under "Safes, repair".

-- 
                
Rich Greenberg - N6LRT - 310-649-0238 - richg@hatch.socal.com
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter F. Couvares)
Subject: Re: War on Drugs
Organization: Amherst College
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:26:26 GMT

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter F. Couvares) writes:
[...]
>: 	The FDA should do a lot -- it should strictly test all drugs for
>: purity, safety, and accurate labelling. It should leave the final decsion
>: up to the individual, however. In other words, it should serve as an
>: advisory organization and not as a prohibitor. Give people all the accurate
>: information you can, then leave the decision up to them.
>
>Nope. The FDA should provide testing for those manufacturers who wish FDA
>approval of the purity/effectiveness of their drugs. Such testing should not
>be required - for any drug. If a person wishes to buy an uncertified chemical,
>that should be their choice.

	That was careless wording, I actually agree with you--though I do
think if a drug refuses FDA certification it should be labeled as such
(i.e. "Not Certified by the FDA"). Otherwise it would be too easy for
people to assume that it is "guaranteed safe". In an ideal society
no one would be dumb enough to think that anything they buy is implicity
"guaranteed" to be safe, but this is the real world (and the requirement
wouldn't hurt or inconvenience the producers at all).

-Peter

pfcouvar@amhux3.amherst.edu (Peter Couvares)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes)
Subject: Re: [anonymous] ibogaine query
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:46:42 GMT

I'm in the middle of a Hunter S. Thompson book and I'm pretty certain that
he had mentioned ibogaine in one of the artricles - I think he had written
an article accusing Hubert Humphrey as being on it, based on descriptions
of the effects he had read about. The effects listed there included a few
less glowing things than the description posted, but this was from years ago
and it was Hunter writing this... 

  - Malcolm  
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,soc.motss
From: "Paul Hager" <hagerp@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Get Out The Vote (Clinton the Square)
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:27:28 -0500

jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:

>>>Doesn't Clinton have asthma?  Inhaling would be kind of stupid, wouldn't
>>>it?
>>
>>Yes!

>Excuse me?  Hemp has been used to relieve asthma attacks due to its
>bronchodilating effects.  Why would it be stupid for someone with
>asthma to inhale?

>//Jyrki

CAUTION, ANECDOTE:

	One of the heaviest pot smokers I ever knew was an asthmatic.
I never knew of him having a problem as a result of using MJ.  I had
always wondered why he DIDN'T have problems -- it was only later
when I found out that cannabis has the bronchodilating effect that
I had a possible answer.

-- 
paul hager		hagerp@moose.cs.indiana.edu

"I would give the Devil benefit of the law for my own safety's sake."
                       --from _A_Man_for_All_Seasons_ by Robert Bolt
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: china white
Date: 26 Sep 1992 07:02:21 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: boa.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep22.213616.20876@ctp.com> ebail@ctp.com (Erik Bailey) writes:
|
|2) again, side-by-side comparison of heroin vs. cocaine, this time
|long-term mortality. The results? After some period of time (I think 30
|days), 30% of the heroin rats were dead, while 90% of the cocaine rats were
|dead.

Damn good thing, innit, that people aren't rats.

c
From: RR04@bunny.gte.com (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Talking to kids
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:26:04 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories


In article <1992Sep29.230243.8478@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> 
glen@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Glen Sonnenberg) writes:

> A friend of a friend of a distant cousin would like to know how people 
> on the net deal with talking to there kids about drugs?  I know it's
> a long shot and this may not be the place :) but is there anyone out 
there
> that smokes MJ and has to deal with kids?  Do you tell them what it is?

Sure this is the place. It seems like a valid question, as long as noone 
turns it into a casc... I mean, uh, question, you had a question, and a 
fine one at that!

I have an 11 year old daughter and the question of "what do you tell the 
kids?" is my main motivation for reading this newsgroup. I have some 
(ahem) first-hand experiences with different substances dating back to... 
a long time ago and I think my own experiences along with what I've seen 
of people around me can go a long way in educating her to the dangers and 
perils of drugs, as well as some of the real benefits.

  If she asks, I'm usually very open about it. You can't lie to kids and 
say "Cocaine is BAD BAD BAD, NO NO NO" 'cause they're gonna try it and say 
"hey, this is GOOD GOOD GOOD, YES YES YES". So I might tell her, it feels pretty good at first, but it MIGHT  take over your life and then it feels pretty bad, so find another way to feel really good that doesn't cause so much 
damage to you and is (preferably) legal. At least that's the general idea 
I try to present.

  As far as observing my drug habit, the only drugs I use with any 
regularity are cigarettes and alcohol, which I feel are the worst, but I 
still try to explain it as evenly and plainly as possible.

  MJ is a whole 'nother story, legality wise. I'm trying to ease her into 
the idea of civil disobedience/personal responsibility as it relates to 
being a fully conscious, self-actualized member of society, and even at 
her young age I think she gets some of the subtleties of the situation. 
Usually it's in the context of "yeah, these cigarettes are real bad for 
you. I don't know why they're legal and something as harmless as say, oh, 
I don't know, marijuana, isn't. Just please resist the urge to start the 
cigarette habit or you'll regret it for the rest of your life."

Generally I try to stress the idea of morality over legality whenever I 
can. I'd rather have a kid who grows up to value honor and integrity even 
if it means breaking the law to achieve it, as opposed to someone who 
blindly follows all laws regardless of how short-sighted and amoral they 
may be.

Good luck to... whomever. When all else fails, try the truth.

Rob


Rob Robertson
GTE Laboratories          (617)466-4144 vox
40 Sylvan Rd.                (617)890-9320 fax
Waltham, Mass. 02254
"There is nothing new under the sun..."
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:46:12 GMT

In article 9181@ctp.com, ebail@ctp.com (Erik Bailey) writes:
>In article <207@mindlink.bc.ca> Marc_North@mindlink.bc.ca (Marc North) writes:
>>LSD -- My Problem Child
>>    REFLECTIONS ON SACRED DRUGS, MYSTICISM, AND SCIENCE
>>    Albert Hofmann
>
>An online copy of this (really!) floated around here a few years ago; don't
>know if it still exists.

It's available in the UUNET ftp archives (ftp.uunet.net).  Sorry, don't
have the exact filename, but it's somewhere under the "doc" directory.

---
Richard Stueven        gak@wrs.com         attmail!gakhaus!gak        107/H/3&4
          To sight it must ring clear as a bell, it must snap
          in the ear, feel pleasantly sticky between the fingers,
          smell fresh and tempting and taste heavenly.

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: ap.2363@cupid.sai.com (Anonymous)
Subject: [anonymous] test
Originator: lamontg@hardy.u.washington.edu
Keywords: anonymous
Reply-To: ap.2363@cupid.sai.com
Organization: Somewhere
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:22:46 GMT


thank you for your support

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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: "Paul Hager" <hagerp@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Thankless task ... (was Re: New Universe Discovered)
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 01:45:17 -0500


The poster who offered 3 possible responses to the question of how
to synthesize LSD made the basic point well.  I would just like to
add the following.

Lamont and others in the .drugs newsgroups have devoted countless hours
to the unpaid and essentially thankless task of doing research and
providing information.  Because the "thanks" come few and far between
and because we all have lives to lead that contribute to our general
stress levels, burnout is a constant threat.  And, given the nature of
the net -- with many social cues missing and only characters on the
phosphor to reveal intent -- misunderstandings are an all too frequent
occurence.

Given that there is a political element to everything that goes on
in the .drugs groups, I strongly urge people to choose stress managment
strategies that don't involve injudicious flamings -- flaming, in 
general, is unproductive in my opinion.  Certainly, we should avoid
flaming allies.  I think we should also avoid flaming enemies.  Don't
forget, the facts on our side are so strong that we do win converts,
even from our enemies.  (I personally have received e-mail from people
whose opinions have been changed after reading these groups -- and a
heady experience it was!)

So, my recommendation is: if burnout threatens, take a break, chill out,
and come back when you've recharged your batteries.

And, for what its worth: thanks to Lamont and all the other people
whose efforts have cast light in the darkness.
-- 
paul hager		hagerp@moose.cs.indiana.edu

"I would give the Devil benefit of the law for my own safety's sake."
                       --from _A_Man_for_All_Seasons_ by Robert Bolt
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
Subject: Re: Smoking ephedrine?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:00:45 GMT

In article <BvEEHs.o8@cmptrc.lonestar.org>, neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard) writes:
>In article <kaz.717797783@vincent1.iastate.edu> kaz@iastate.edu (Jimmy Buffet) writes:
>>I have these spiffy little 25 mg ephedrine tablets, and was wondering if 
>>crushing them and smoking them would be effective and safe.  Thanks!
>
>I think you'll find that the ephedrine HCl (assuming you mean those
>Mini-Thin tablets) will decompose and you'll be inhaling something that'll
>be extremely irritating to your lungs. You'll feel like you just smoked
>pure HCl vapors.

Actually, you probably wouldn't get very far trying.  Foo HCL is generally a
salt with a very high boiling point.  To smoke it, you'd have to turn it
into a free base first.  I have no idea whether smoking freebase ephedrine
would be dangerous.  

But you'd probably get the same effect from those athsma inhalers
(epinephrine?).  And you wouldn't have the binders and freebase impurities.
Read the label, though.  There may be other drugs bundled in.

Keith Lewis             klewis@mitre.org          "Mr. Cheap"
I don't dance to music; music dances to me.  Email me for my PGP key.
The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Nitrous Oxide
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 07:47:27 GMT
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <jah.718135272@mits> jah@mits.mdata.fi (Jani A. Heinonen) writes:
>>That's a less than scientific description.  Nitrous oxide does NOT
>>"react" with your body in any normal sense of the word.
>
>   Then how come it alters the mood? Inhaling inert gases (e.g. helium)
>have no effect on the human body besides hypoxia, as far as I know.

It depends on the gas and its oil/water solubility (which probably
reflects the gas's solubility in cell lipid membranes and the resulting
disruptive effect.)  Nitrous oxide is just barely an anesthetic gas
at one atmosphere.  Nitrogen at high pressures, such as are seen in deep-
sea diving, demonstrates far different physical properties as far as its
lipid solubility.  This is the cause of nitrogen narcosis.  Xenon, an
inert gas, is an anesthetic at ordinary atmospheres.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: kunorml@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: KU NORML & American Rights Festival 9/25,26/92
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:01:03 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

University of Kansas N.O.R.M.L. is happy to report that the
American Rights Festival, outside of Lawrence, Kansas, was a
complete success and a lot of fun, too.  With near perfect
weather 90% of the time (one very short rain storm), and an
attendance of over 2700, we got the hemp message across to
everyone, along with  samples of hemp paper out to everyone
who came to our booth.  The Nebraska Freedom Fighters also
came down and sold T-Shirts, books (including the Emperor),
stickers, and much more. They were a welcome addition to this
year's festival.  Many other groups participated including the
FIJA association, Amnesty, the Libertarian Party, Adapt, Free
Leonard Peltier, along with many other 'rights' based
organizations. 
     Richard Small, Independent candidate for the Kansas House
of Representatives, was next to our booth registering people to
vote. Excellent! 
     Rich Wensel, founder of Kansas N.O.R.M.L., was the principle
force behind the American Rights Foundation's annual music
festival this year. We always appreciate all of the work he does
for ARF and N.O.R.M.L.
     Mark Creamer, of Kansas NORML, and David Cook, President of
University of Kansas NORML, gave great speeches to the crowd,
enlightening everyone about the benefits of hemp and encouraging
everyone to sign our petition to Kansas governor Joan Finney,
demanding that cannabis be prescribed to patients who are in
need of the benefits it provides.  We now are approaching 3000
signatures and will be hand delivering them to Governor Finney
around election day.
     We invite all to make it to next year's ARF. We guarantee
you will have the time of your life- camping, listening to great
live music, and learning about the organizations who are fighting
every day for your rights and mine.

Talk to you all soon.

David Almquist

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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: procha@titan.ucc.umass.edu (PAUL ROCHA)
Subject: Re: Cocaine
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:45:47 GMT

cbsmith@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Smith) writes:

>I have a friend who has used cocaine twice, and both times reported *no effect*
>despite taking "resonable" quantities. Now, first of all I'm wondering if this
>is realistic, or if it was maybe just cheap cocaine. Secondly, I'm curious about
>the *real* consequences of cocaine use. Just how dangerous is it? What ill effects can one expect? I've heard everything to relatively harmless until you are addicted to deadly to brain damage do to dedrite problems, and frankly I don't know what to believe.
>
>--Chris

I too have a friend who actually has used cocaine several times, always to
no avail.  Once it was even cocaine by itself, no drinking or other drug use,
and they experienced no real effects.  He's a rather large guy, 6'4" 240lbs, 
but I wouldn't think that would make much of a difference.

Does this seem reasonable?  It's a silly drug anyways, stay away from it.



-- 
P. Rocha					Don't shoot, it's only me!
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom)
Subject: Re: cocaine (was Re: china white)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 05:21:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.011132.23860@muddcs.claremont.edu> ebrandt@jarthur.
laremont.edu (Eli Brandt) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.164901.9119@ctp.com> ebail@ctp.com (Erik Bailey) w
ites:
>>Not exactly earth-shattering. But cocaine -- that stuff is pure evil (b
t
>>from your body's point of view, it's pure pleasure; it prevents dopamin

>>reuptake).
>
>NE reuptake, I believe.  But there's more to it than that, anyway...
>there are drugs (e.g. desipramine) which are also effective at
>inhibiting NE reuptake, but which have little euphoriant effect in
>those not initially depressed.  (What the "more to it" is, I don't
>know... just potency?  kinetics?)
>
>>--Erik
>
>   Eli   ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu



 As I understand, cocaine inhibits reuptake of _both_ NE and DA, although
I've read references to the latter more frequently.

St. Anthony

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