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From: mtaghavi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Amir Taghavi)
Subject: NTT and Sharp Develops Fax Machine with Display 04/06/92
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 07:08:11 GMT


TOKYO, JAPAN, 1992 APR 6 (NB) -- Japan's NTT and Sharp will
jointly develop a fax machine with a large LCD (liquid crystal 
display) and a large memory which is designed for both business and 
personal use. 

The goal is to create an advanced fax machine that is 
superior to Toshiba's display fax machine which is currently sold 
on the market.

The advantage of a display on a fax machine is that when a 
message is received, the user can read it first on the LCD, and can
elect to print it out on a paper. If printing is not necessary, the 
user can erase it, without any waste of paper. NTT claims to have 
a prototype of the system which it will finalize with Sharp, which
boasts advanced LCD technology.

Other details of the system include a 500 kilobyte memory, and the
capacity to compress the size of letters. This would enable two
to four pieces of an A4-size document to be printed out on a single 
A4-size sheet of paper. This fax machine will also be able to accept 
a B4-size document.

NTT and Sharp's new display fax machine, equipped with a detachable
scanner, is expected to be released this summer at a price of 
200,000 yen ($1,500). The machine will be manufactured
by Sharp and supplied to NTT on an OEM (original equipment
manufacturer) basis. 

Recently, Sharp has developed an unique device which is a combination
of fax machine, copier, and a scanner for a personal computer. 
Newsbytes was unable to confirm speculation that Sharp could 
also be developing another hybrid -- a personal computer with a 
built-in fax machine.
From: phd21@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A. Jaber)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Iraq combats Iranian sorties, violates peace treaty
Date: 12 Apr 92 20:02:11 GMT
Reply-To: phd21@seq1.kl.ac.uk (A. Jaber)
Organization: University of Keele, England


		This is How Neo-Khomeinists think...

	I have received this message of hate from Mr Muhammad Taqwaa
	Mr Black Jack at university of Nevada RENO in a private E-mail.
	Mr Taqwaa who is either an Iranian or an Arab Shia Ne-Khomeinist
	shows the world how he and he Khomeini gangs conduct business
	withe the people who disagree with thyem.

	Mr Taqwaa was responding to my article in which I highlighted
	the situation where Iran is hosting terrorist groups that caused
	a lot of damage to Iraq specially during and after the war with
	the USA. If it was not for the Terrorist action by those
	criminal gangs based in Iran and now in Saudi Arabia Iraq will
	never host the Mujahedee Khalq, it is the Terrorist nature of
	the Neo-Khomeinists that brings the trouble to the region.

	A Jaber

>From: taqwaa@edu.unr.equinox (Muhammad Taqwaa)
>Subject: Re: Iraq combats Iranian sorties, violates peace treaty
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
>Organization: University of Nevada, Reno
>
>
>You better shut your ... dirty nationalist.
>You don't have brain. At 80 iran was in very critical position 
>after it's grate ISLAMIC rev.  and every country was supporter of criminal s
>sadam yazid 

>now stupid sadam and you are in bad condition ready to be kiled by US
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Mr Taqwaa is threatening my life, to your knowledge Mr Taqwaa
	your name will be handed to the police both in the UK and USA.
	
>(MOSLEM IRANIAN AND MUSLEM IRAQies BR.

>shut up for ever dirty BASI
>ANd tell Rajavi shut up too.
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Reply to  Bahaies  gang
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:20:31 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

In article <1992Apr10.175613.1082@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
>
>I thought that seeghah was looked down upon in Iran. Isn't that the case? 

nope.  its very much in practice, but mostly to 'get around the system'.  
legalized rape, legalized prostitution, thinly disguised
adultery, etc, etc.  quite a departure from seeghe's 'nobel' original
intentions.

it was mentioned that ghor'aan states that one's actions were evaluated
with the persons _intentions_ in mind.  how about the opposite?  id
like to know, does ghoraan say anything about how we should punish
those who hide 'evil intentions' behind 'legal actions' such as
seeghe?

>I know in Sunniyah it is forbidden to have a temporay wife.

you dont have to answer this if you prefer not to, but have you
had premarital sex?  if so, did you seeghe somone?  was that person
aware of it?  how did you explain this to her (assuming she didnt know
what it was)?  im simply curious...

>
>zafar
From: sepehr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ramin S.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Terrorist Khomeini regime attacks an NLA Base
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:01:58 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Apr7.181424.1054@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:


>We should be doing both. "God doesn't change the condition of a
>people until they try and cahnge it themselves." - Quran
>
>sincerely
>
>zafar

I knew that line from quran , and I totaly agree with it ( though does
not mean I believe in Quran ) anyway , but could you read it again , 

No read it out loud.....  it is like your professor telling you :

" I am not gonna give you an A unless you do good and get it yourself "

But why do I need to beg my professor to give me an A when I can get
it myself ...

Nobody is gonna change our situation unless we , yes we , do something
about it . So praying to god and begging for help is just to get a
little motivation and self-confidence and whoever that prays for that
kind of thing is not confident to him/herself .

Everyone needs a little push and motivation, so look into yourself and
you will find something that will give you that, and you can call it
the motivating god  ...  

Cheers

Ps: Name is Sepehr Not Sepehri ... Goodday
From: kambizm@ifi.uio.no (Mobarekeh Kambiz Iranpour)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Iran and future
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:25:47 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: kambizm@svarte.ifi.uio.no


 I see a lot of discussion on ideological grounds. Even if there is no way to
abstract ideology and political issues from concrete and down to earth issues
but I would like very much to start a debate with a limited platform. I hope
some people are interested out there. I know that there are a lot of experts
on the net and I think it is nice to bring their experience and answers or
proposals to each others attention. Many countries like the eastern europeans
and some third world countries are undergoing a restructuring process both in
the economical and social spheres. Iran has a better start point and
potentials. This is because of the energy resources and the fact that country
does not need paying hard currency to buy energy. But ofcourse educational
capital and cultural start points are different. International Monetary Fund
(IMF) is giving everybody the same receipt. 
As an example:
What do you think are the best areas for investment taking the constraints of
the country into consideration? 
Priority areas in education.
regional cooperation.
Nationality issues.
Monetary policy. International debt. Foreign policy. Managerial issues. etc.
etc. 
The reason that I think that ideology should not part of it is that it
shadows everything else and people have difficulties to participate in a
constructive discussion. Ofcourse there is no use to say that we should use a
lot of money on research and development when there is not ample
money,  or to  say that we should bring education closer to indusry when
Iranian industry not covers many areas. 
One more example:
Should the country emphasize on volatile currency bringing export oriented
economy. Should it give priority to light industry and consumer goods
production or heavy industry and infrastructure. Thailand f.exa. is having
problem with an infrastructure which can not support its rapid growth but
they have earned enough money recently to correct it. China is afraid the
social upheavals and inflation caused by rapid growth. East asian countries
see political stability as a part of their growth policy, while eastern
european countries see political pluralism as a priori to market economy and
growth. What can be right for us?     
                                              Kambiz
From: maxda@rocketer.ism.isc.com (Max D.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: IRANIAN REVOLUTION DATE!
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:00:40 GMT
Reply-To: maxda@rocketer.ism.isc.com (Max D.)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rocketer.west.sun.com

Just a test
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bes@cco.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
Subject: Re: Regime's motivations behind the defeated attack on an NLA base
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 00:19:46 GMT

In article <saied.703100201@odin> saied@odin.unomaha.edu (Saied*) writes:
>bes@cco.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi) writes:
>>>What are regime motivations? Here are my own guesses:
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                ^^^^^^^^^
>>It doesn't require much thought or "guesses" to know what the
>>government's motivation was in attacking the MKO base.  The
>>so-called National Liberation Army has claimed that it will
>>overthrow the government militarily.  In the past, it has 
>>participated in military operations against Iran.  So, isn't
>>the motivation obvious?
>
>Of course! You must then admit that the regime's baseless
>claim that an NLA unit attacked a border town was but a lie.

You don't see why you think I "must" believe that the report
of the Mujahedin attack on the villiages was a lie.  There is
a non-zero probablility that it was a lie.  There is a much
greater probability that it was true [Reportedly, U.N. team visited the
two border villages, talked to the injured and witnesses and observed
the damages.  The UN team is stationed in the border area to 
monitor the cease-fire between Iraq and Iran.]

In any case, whether the villages were attacked or not is
entirely immaterial to the point I made.  As I said, the MKO
has attacked Iran in the past, has often boasted of the number
of the Iranian troops it has killed, and continues to promiss
a military march all the way to Tehran.  This makes Iran's
motivation to punish the MKO quite obvious. 

>>>   To silence the people, the regime attempted to show some
>>>   muscle but obviously was very unsuccessful. It killed one
>>>   NLA combatant but lost two pilots to the NLA and got
>
>>You must say: "ACCORDING TO IRAQ, it killed one NLA combatant...."
>
>No, according to many reporters that reported the incident
>from Ashraf base.

I saw pictures of the base *after* the attack; I am not aware
of any reporters who were there when the air raid took place.

Behnam Sadeghi
From: minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Az Div o Dad Maloolam
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:56:50 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

In article <CMM.0.90.2.702657546.kambizm@svarte.ifi.uio.no>, kambizm@ifi.uio.no (Mobarekeh Kambiz Iranpour) writes:
> Di Sheikh ba cheragh hami gasht dor shahr 
>                        Az div o dad mallolam o ensanam arezoost
> 
> This board has become " meydan yeke taze" ultra nationalsts and rude
> fundamentalists. I here by plead normal people to come out of their holes and
> contribute with their intelligence and some originality. If nothing is done
> soon we will have a Islamic.soc instead of our board.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>                                                 Kambiz

Could you please explain what you mean? Isn't Islam a part of the culture of 
Iran? Or is it that whenever Islam is being talked about the only thing you 
want to hear is voices disgreeing or attacking it, never mind whether they 
know anything about it or not? You know the way others say if one doesn't like
an article just type "n", why don't you do the same thing as well?

zafar
From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Lets start yet once again (was: Re: For Babak wuz Re: ...)
Keywords: scitiquette : -)
Date: 17 Apr 92 20:04:22 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu

---
Dear Mr. David Fayegh,

I should say, even though we might have disagreement in the past; all such
disagreement was discussed logically on the net.  I should say I even
found most of your articles very interesting and informative.  We even share
many common ideas. 

Keep up the good work.

                         With highest regards,
                              Babak  Sehari.
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: ARE YOU ALL LIKE THIS
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:08:25 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

In article <1992Apr11.150911.1@wharton.upenn.edu> wrightb@wharton.upenn.edu writes:

no we're not.  its really just a flame war between a few 
specific people.  we should have taken it offline or to alt.flames
long ago.  and you're witnessing chapter 8, that may explain it.

besides, if suddenly hardcore christianity took over united states,
goverment was run (dragged?) by clergy, religous fanatics
terrorized the masses, etc.  youd see some pretty heated debates in
other newsgroups too.  in fact, you can go to pretty much any newsgroup
without a moderator and youll eventually witness a food fight.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mtaghavi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Amir Taghavi)
Subject: ****Japan: Computers Driving Cars 
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:38:27 GMT


TOKYO, JAPAN, 1992 APR 13 (NB) -- Mitsubishi Motor has developed
a technology to automatically control the driving of a car. It is
called the "INVECS" system and Mitsubishi plans to 
actually install the technology in future cars.

Mitsubishi says INVECS is based on so-called "fuzzy" logic,
allowing a computer to determine gray areas of logic, rather than 
just a right or wrong.
 
According to Mitsubishi Motor, this system controls the gear
changes according to the conditions of the road. For example, the
system automatically lowers the gear when the car goes down a
hill. When the car goes around a curve, it can adjust the rotation
speed of the front wheel, then and rear wheel. A sensor 
attached to the system enables it to recognize a slippery road or
a rough road, for instance. Then, the fuzzy system controls the
speed and the suspension of the car.

A Mitsubishi Motor spokesman says this INVECS system is a
landmark development in the car industry. With this system,
almost any driver can drive the car smoothly and safely, it contends.

To start, Mitsubishi Motor is preparing to install this system in
an economy car, which will be released in the near future.





Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mtaghavi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Amir Taghavi)
Subject: India Producing Own Supercomputer
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 04:17:00 GMT


NEW DELHI, INDIA, 1992 APR 8 (NB) -- India's own supercomputer is 
now on a commercial production line. Last week, the Pune and
Bangalore-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing 
(CDAC), a government-aided mission, displayed two of its recently 
developed supercomputing products in New Delhi - Param and Paras.

Param is a massively parallel processing computer and Paras is a 
parallel applications development tool. The Param 8600 series, 
which uses a combination of INMOS transputers and Intel's i860 
chip, is capable of providing a scalable performance of about six
gflop (peak) over 3000 mips (peak). It has 256 processing nodes, 
each with a 32-bit integer processor with a 64-bit floating point
processor.

"Developing such a powerful system was a dream four years 
ago,'' said Sam Pitroda, advisor, technology missions, to the 
prime minister and an erstwhile telecom czar. (He has recently fallen 
out of the official favour due to several controversies raked up 
by the press about his CDOT -- Centre for Development of Telematics --
that has been in pursuance of designing and developing India's 
own digital switching systems.) "Today, it is a classic example 
of self-reliance,'' he added. What he didn't mention was 
controversy. Quite a few eyebrows were raised, when CDAC 
announced Indian entry into the "supercomputing era" in August 
1990 with its 64-node parallel machine. Internally, controversies 
arose about the system architecture. Its software brain A. Paulraj, 
director of the Bangalore unit, resigned in disgust to move to 
Stanford University a few months ago. Even now, some question 
Param's power as it is claimed to be. But, it has undoubtedly launched 
India into the league of nations with competence to develop computers 
with computational power beyond 1000 mflops.

Param series of supercomputers has been designed for large-
scale scientific and engineering applications like image 
processing, computational fluid dynamics, remote sensing, 
oil reservoir modelling, seismic data processing, finite 
element analysis, and signal processing. CDAC has already 
received orders from the Institute of Computer-aided Designing 
of Russia, University of Bremmen, Germany, and National 
Physical Laboratory, Delhi. And the centre has signed with a 
Pune-based firm, Thermax Ltd., transferring the technology to 
manufacture Param which means "super" in Sanscrit - India's 
ancient and holy language. 

Tata Unisys Ltd. has also taken CDAC's parallel processing 
technology to incorporate into its Unix machine, U6000 range.
From: minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Reply to  Bahaies  gang
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:44:28 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

In article <ku171rINNoip@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi) writes:
> In article <1992Apr5.023820.1038@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
>>> 
>>> ah! thats my cue.  well, wrong again, seyyed.  you lose the bet.  gee,
>>> and i feel soooo bad that i dont know which emaam followed which (yeah,
>>> right).  but i sure remember how much character assassination of bahaa,
>>> budaa, and others our teacher engaged in.  and our mosalmoon and
>>> khodaadoost teacher was later expelled because of attempting to rape a
>>> schoolgirl!
>>> 
>>> oon az mo'alemeshoon, eenam az talabashoon...  beechaare deene eslaame
>>> be gonaah.
>>
>>what does the misdeed of your talimate dini (religious education?) teacher have 
>>to do with islam. 
>>if i were to steal something would you blame it on islam
>>because i am muslim and happen to know something about the religion, never mind
>>whether i practice it or not?
>>
>>of course [beechaare deene islaame be gonaah]
>>
>>never blame islam for the non-practice of it coming from muslims.
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> which part of my post gave you the impression that i blamed 'eslaam'
> for the man's actions?  please point it out.  the 'poor _inocent_ islam' 
> part perhaps?

Hey man, i was agreeing with you.

> 
> i did however unflatteringly refer to the all too common trait amongst
> moslem fanatics such as seyyed & our teacher who desperately try to
> lift eslaam _up_ by putting other religions _down_.  its fascinating to

if there are muslims who try to uplift islam by putting down the prophets, then
they are doing a terrible job because all of the prophets are prophets of islam
from adam all the way down to mohammad. by insulting the prophets one is for
all practical purposes trying to put down islam.

> observe what a warped image of other religions and prophets a typical
> kid growing up in iran can develop.  _especially_ toward bahaayees.

so when was the society of iran (or the society of any muslim country) 
as a whole ever based on islam? it is very saddening the treatment the baha'is
have been receiving at the hands of the geovernment. any bahais on the net, i
as a muslim apologize for what other muslims have done, it is a violation of
the teachings of islam, it should be made clear.


sincerely
zafar 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: alireza@eng.umd.edu (Alireza Karimzadeh-Rad)
Subject: Re: Parsi Language (was Re: Amojoon's VAjeh-nAmeh)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 06:46:35 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <ku41ccINNnlk@spim.mips.com> benf@mips.com (Ben Fathi) writes:
>In article <1992Apr2.234435.3633@watserv1.waterloo.edu> arash@sunee.waterloo.edu (Arash Jahangir) writes:
>>
>>Anyways I have two suggestions/requests:  The first is with regards to the 
>>vAjeh-nAmeh (here is another complex word that is self explanatory).  I have
>>noticed there are a number of verbs and expressions in English that have a
>>strikingly similar counter part in Parsi.  Say for example "draw" this is 
>>equivalent to "kesheedan" in Parsi.  Though the two verbs do not sound close
>>their usage is amazingly similar as in drawing a picture, drawing a sword,
>>drawing the curtains, and as I once read in Merchant of Venice, drawing breath.
>>An example of similar expression is "do-roo" and "two faced", "yek-rang" and
>>"true-colour".  My firs suggestion is to add such words to the vAjeh-nAmeh
>>or a similar listing.
>
>How about a listing of persian words/expressions that are totally bizarre
>or hilarious when translated into other languages? Here's a few to get you
>started:
>
>Expression		Literal Translation		Real Meaning
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>Zamin khordam.		I ate the ground.		I fell down.
>Pedaram dar oomad.	My father came out.		I got tired.
>Delam gerefteh.		My heart has got [it].		I'm sad.
>Booyash ra mishnavi?	Can you hear the smell?		Can you smell it?
>Dast as saram bardAr.	Take your hand off my head.	Leave me alone.
>Tokhm-e sag		Dog's egg			bastard
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>cheshmash do-do mireh.	His eyes go two-two.		He's dizzy.
>Man midoonam bA to.	I know with you.		I'll take care of you.
>							[I'll beat you up].
>Dast be delam nazAr.	Don't put your hand on my	Leave me alone.
>			heart.				[I am sad].
>Dast az rish-e ma	Take your hand off my beard.	Leave me alone.
>bardAr.							[you are bothering me].
>
>Let's hear some more. :-)
>
>	ben
>

Correct me if I'm wrong, but to the best of my knowledge this "tokhm"
is not az oon tokhmha. Let's just say the type of tokhm it's refering to
is not rare and expensive in Iran and its not sold by the "shooneh". 


Tokhm shenasan aziz lotfan feel free to expand on this subject matter.


Payandeh Baad Iran
Alireza
From: navab@tasmanie.inria.fr (Nassir Navab)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: cynical irony
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:36:04 GMT
Reply-To: navab@sophia.inria.fr
Organization: Inria Sophia Antipolis

In article <1992Apr8.201119.23449@athena.mit.edu>, nsohrabi@athena.mit.edu (Naghmeh Sohrabi) writes:
|> 
|> Hello everyone.
|> A friend of mine and I were talking the other day about the fact that neither of
|> us could come up with Persian equivalents to two words: Irony, and cynicism.
|> There are some words that have similar meanings, but nothing that actually
|> expresses the meaning of these words.  We decided that probably the reason is that
|> we have too little of one to even have a word for it, and too much of the other,
|> that we don't even need a word for it.
|> 
|> Anyway, I would appreciate suggestions.
|> 
|> Naghmeh 

What about: cynical irony <=?=>  "tanzeh talkh" or "tanzeh siah" ?

Nassir
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian