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From: snail@lsl.co.uk
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Drugs
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:23:30 GMT
Organization: Laser-Scan Ltd., Cambridge

In article <1993Jan8.100615.5420@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
> In article <1993Jan7.142137.23932@tadtec.uucp>, Tim Steele <tjfs@tadtec.co.uk> writes:
> |> [...]
> |> 
> |> Secondly, a friend showed me his toxicology textbook which had a whole 
> |> chapter devoted to arguing the case for banning alcohol and replacing it 
> |> with cannabis.  
> |> 
> |> - Alcohol makes some people aggressive; cannabis doesn't
> |> 
> |> - The LD50 for alcohol is less than a bottle of spirits (less than 10x MED);
> |>   the LD50 for cannabis is enormous (no-one has died of it, but 
> |>   extrapolations from mice show you'd have to eat about 300 lbs of it)

Not strictly true, the only overdose of cannabis every recorded was that of a
man in California who was crushed by 1 ton of the stuff thrown out of an
airplane!

This is true, I did not make this up. Funny though.

However, depsite learning to smoke (stupid) just so I could smoke the stuff, I
found it makes me sick and I don't like smoking anyway. So I drink.
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From: James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: VIZspeak - What is frottage ?
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In article <zlsiida.717@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> dave budd, zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk
writes:
>Now, what's the word for the equivalent at the knee?  knee-pit?

No. In "Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End" by Vivian Stanshall, Reg Smeaton, 
self-styled encyclop\aedia and general know-it-all states that "...there 
is no proper name for the back of the knee."

Besides the groin would be the legpit. The back of the knee corresponds 
anatomically to the inside of the elbow.

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From: keith@unipalm.co.uk (Keith Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Video Plus (a few questions) Phil?
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Distribution: uk
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:12:28 GMT


>mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk (Mark Powell) writes:
>: Do these new teletext aware videos set the videos clock from the teletext
>: time at the top of the page?

Mine, a Philips VR713, does indeed set its time off Teletext. It seems to repond
to packets sent out around that start/end of news programs, when it briefly
flashes on screen it is setting its clock.

I believe the Ceefax Clock comes from the MSF clock at Rugby, though it drifts
when this (frequently) goes down. I think the BBC are planning to switch it over to
their own atomic clock they use for the radio "pips".

I have no idea where the Teletext clock on ITV/CH4 comes from. Presumably NTL
have thier own atomic clock ot other source. It would be nice if a teletext
clock could be synced up to the Internet NTP world....

From what I hear of SkyText, I don't think the satellite teletext
providers even bother to get the time *right*, never mind
synchronised.

Keith Mitchell

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From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Fast & Cheap Money Xfer to USA
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Distribution: uk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:58:40 GMT

Keith McNeill (mcneill@devon.co.uk) wrote:
: What is the best (meaning fastest & cheapest) way to transfer money to the
: USA (or anywhere else I guess).  Last week I wire transferred money to my US
: bank account.  It cost about $40 in total.

Fastest and cheapest is probably to find someone you trust whose about to
go there! 

Not sure whether their service covers the USA, but a few months back
TSB announced a uniform fee of #5 (I think) for any transfer between
the UK and the rest of Europe.

I you want to be amused by "business-speak" ask your bank why they 
charge so much and you'll get a long explanation as to how the charge
is set by the bank's foreign exchange business unit which is a "totally
seperate unit" over which the personal account business unit has no
control so you have to pay whatever fee they decide to charge. Just 
another advantage of independent business units!

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From: steve@unipalm.co.uk (Steve Ladlow)
Subject: Re: Cable TV Picture Quality
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:53:56 GMT

Tim Steele <tjfs@tadtec.co.uk> writes:

>Here in Cambridge the local cable company issue the Scientific Atlanta 
>box, which only has a UHF output.  When I asked them about SCART or CV 
>outputs they said "duh? what's that?"

>Is this normal?  I suspect it does nothing for the picture quality, which 
>isn't that great on a friend's (new, large screen) TV.  (I don't have 
>cable yet).

>Tim

I have just had Cambridge Cable installed on a two month trial. I have a
smaller screen TV and have not been very impressed with picture quality
either.

Steve
steve@unipalm.co.uk

Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: gtoal@cursci.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Ariston music for TV Advert 
Distribution: world
Organization: Current Drugs
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:04:45 +0000


In article <1349@dsbc.icl.co.uk> mbm@oasis.icl.co.uk writes:
>In article <JRG.93Jan8210015@oak50.doc.ic.ac.uk> jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James> Grinter) writes:
>>Last August/September time, BBC 2 had a dance programme on the air
>>which showed a film by someone (name and director completely
>>forgotten) which was clearly where the Ariston idea came from.
>>
>>It began with a boy thowing a ball through a window, then climbing in
>>to fetch the ball. Anyone else see this, or know what the film is
>>called?
>
>I remember seeing it - it was truly amazing.  There was also a programme
>describing how it was made.  Unfortunately I can't remember what it was
>called or who made it - I would like to see it again if it is available
>on video.

Yep, and I've been going nuts trying to remember the name of it to
get a greasy tenner off Private Eye :-)

G
From: ndl@unix.brighton.ac.uk (  The Unix Guru)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: New teletext franchise
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:02:47 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

What are peoples opinions on the new teletext service providers ?

Personally, I thik it has been completley jumbled up with pages everywhere
and the subtitles in the meridian area still do not work.

It has become very "tabloid-ish" with adult sex help pages etc, and 
local information is now split over channel 3 + 4, where as before you
only needed to be on channel 3.

Nathan.
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Oil spills - history
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:21:11 GMT
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David Shepherd (des@inmos.co.uk) wrote:
: Philip Hazel (ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: : Anybody remember the year of the Torrey Canyon disaster? Everybody interviewed
: : on News at Ten last night seemed to be too young to remember it, as they were
: : all claiming yesterday's accident was the first major oil spill on British
: : shores. But then we found we couldn't remember when the Torrey Canyon wreck
: : actually happened...

: (I think that) I can very dimly remember it so I'd guess at it happening
: in about 1967/8. However I may well be quite wrong as I can only remember
: being aware of it, I can't remember any other events at the same time
: which would help fix the date.

just read in todays guardian that it was 1967 - so my memory was right

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From: martin@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Martin Gorman)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Drugs
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:25:48 GMT
Organization: British Telecom

>In article <29979@castle.ed.ac.uk> D I Laurenson, dil@castle.ed.ac.uk
>writes:
>>I'd like to see the emetic part - but it is very true that NO DRUGS ARE
>>SAFE.
>
And

>>Each one must be used within the guidelines dictated for that
>>drug eg. not operating machinery when on anti-histamines etc.

Given this qualifier for "safe", can anyone think of a single object or
activity that is "safe"? Doesn't have to be related to drugs or
machinery. Anything. If, as I suspect, no-one can, why concentrate on
drugs? Certainly, when compared with the problems caused by alcohol abuse,
the risks of crossing the road, the general appallingness of life and
man's inhumanity to man, it seems a little like passing the buck,
sweeping it under the carpet, wallowing in a sea of self-delusion and
other metaphores to put so much blame on a few harmless tokers. Physician
heal thyself!
From: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Transport subsidies - Was: Car Parking
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:52:06 GMT
Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Organization: Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.

In article <30047@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
writes:
>I have established by repeated trials that it is possible to get a
>completely full supermarket shopping trolley loaded onto a motorcycle,
>using panniers, tank top bag, and rear carrier.

	But then you have to make an extra journey to take the trolley
back to the supermarket after you've emptied it at home.

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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Hi-fi TV sound?
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:07:09 GMT


Can my cable company add NICAM? MTV (and many other stations) transmit
in stereo, but I only have a NICAM decoder. The BBC/ITV NICAM comes
down the cable just fine!

Gordon.
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From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Mornington Crescent rules anyone?
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:38:43 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

In article <29905@castle.ed.ac.uk>, fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
|> gerry@keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt) writes:
|> 
|> >Ok - I give in. Please let me in on what Mornington Crescent (THE GAME) is
|> >all about. Is it a wind-up or what. I am confused.
|> 
|> I can email you a copy of the English Standard Rules. These will be
|> superseded this year though when the Channel Tunnel is opened.

The way to learn about MC is to sign up to the cryptically-named
newsgroup alt.games.mornington.cresent

Among recent posts there is my transcription of a game on ISIHAC where
the players explained the basis for each of the moves they were
making.

I don't have the rules machine-readable myself (apart from the above).
The friend of fishes and porpoises could perhaps compress a tar of his
copy and post it uuencoded in several parts...
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From: dingram@dims.demon.co.uk ("Darren P. Ingram")
Subject: Re: Video Plus 
Distribution: world
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:25:46 +0000

In article <1ipfjnINNipq@cardamom.compnews.co.uk> phil@compnews.co.uk writes:

>: general:sage$; ping regents.pa.london.press.net
>regents.pa.london.press.net is alive
>
>But everything they have we have :-)

But who is cheaper.. we may continue this by mail!

Darren

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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Hyphening
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:26:00 GMT

Geraint Jones writes:
 > Quoth ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig):
 > (  One hack mentioned recently that he'd been caught out once by writing
 >  ) something like:
 > (  
 >  )   Dr J. Smith, therapist, had just completed...
 > (  
 >  ) which came out as:
 > (  
 >  )   Dr. J. Smith, the-
 > (    rapist, had just...
 > 
 > Can you say ``Ur-ban leg-end''?
 > He me-ant ``the-rapists who pre-ached on wee-knights''.			g

Is the word "rape" ever funny? Not in my book.

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From: dave@alex.com (Dave Quinn)
Subject: Re: HYPNOSIS, Hypnotic Regression.
Organization: Alex Technologies Ltd, London, England
Apparently-To: mail2news@demon.co.uk
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:10:05 +0000

In article <29965@castle.ed.ac.uk>, eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge) writes:
|> 
|> the patient starts to invent them almost like dreaming, picking up bits 
|> and pieces of almost anything that seems to make sense and sticking them
|> together in a story.     
|> 
Really? I was aware of the problems of hypnotic suggestion but had never
heard of the mind just making things up on its own except maybe in children.

I would be very interested to know what you base that on.

|>         I've also heard scare stories that patients under regular
|> hypnosis can become highly susceptable to the situation and can easily
|> fall into a hypnotic condition without warning.    Whether this is true
|> or not I've no idea!

I somehow doubt it. Some people naturally succumb to hypnosis more readily 
than others. And I would hazard a guess that you can *learn* to go under, 
so practise would make this easier. But saying that people can sort of 
flip out with little provocation seems to be wandering into the realms 
of Science Fiction.

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From: eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Transport subsidies - Was: Car Parking
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:32:15 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Edinburgh University

nwp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Nick Phillips) writes:

>Now I've finally decided which post to use to reply to, here goes:


>It depends who you think is more important, and how good the public
>(subsidised) service is. If you think that people who can afford to
>start up bus companies should be able to make profits by providing a
>service which some people have no choice but to use, or if the public
>service is crap, then you will quite likely think that the free market
>should be left to run its course.

     The public service IS crap and people have no choice BUT to use it.
  There is NOT a free market here.   There is only a subsidised public
system that doesn't allow for any competition at all - never mind profit
making.      And anyhow if there were genuine competition then there is
unlikely to be large profit making.



>If, however, you think that in certain areas (transport, provision of water
>& other 'essential' services) the "customer"'s needs are more important than
>allowing people to make money by providing this service, then I can't see
>how leaving it to the free market can possibly be the right thing to do.

        The customers needs here are essential and not being met.  
Consequently most people have to rely on the much more expensive method
of owing cars or relying on friends to ferry them around - which is not
in the least convenient most of the time!

>If you leave public transport to the free market, then people in busy areas
>will quite possibly be well-served (well maybe not - look at London), but
>those in more remote areas will likely as not get no service at all.

       On the contrary - this is one area that would really benefit from
a small local service - which it is NOT going to get at the moment
because the bloke who would have been willing to set it up just can't
make it pay!


 In

>respect of transport, I would like to see a subsidised and efficient (ha ha)
>service, which provides everyone with what they need.
 
          
>I suppose it comes down to individual laziness and, for want of a better word,
>greed again. Even if the London underground were cheap and efficient and clean
>and wonderful, I can imagine stereotypical 'rich executives' still demanding
>to be driven around because of the way they perceive public transport.
>Even if British Rail ran services which ran quickly, cheaply, regularly, on
>time etc. people would still want cars because they would be slightly more
>convenient - people would still perceive them as being 'door-to-door'
>transport, even if parking problems meant that they couldn't park within a
>mile of either door.

         Each to their own choice.    It's just there isn't much of an
opportunity to choose in most cases at the moment!


cheers

jill
Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: Tim Steele <tjfs@tadtec.co.uk>
Subject: Drugs
Organization: Tadpole Technology plc
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:21:37 GMT
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Two comments: firstly, given a choice of aspirin, paracetamol and 
ibuprofen, which should you take for most common problems?  I take the 
aspirin for colds, paracetamol for hangovers and ibuprofen for headaches, 
but I suspect this is entirely arbitrary.  Anyone know better?

Secondly, a friend showed me his toxicology textbook which had a whole 
chapter devoted to arguing the case for banning alcohol and replacing it 
with cannabis.  

- Alcohol makes some people aggressive; cannabis doesn't

- The LD50 for alcohol is less than a bottle of spirits (less than 10x MED);
  the LD50 for cannabis is enormous (no-one has died of it, but 
  extrapolations from mice show you'd have to eat about 300 lbs of it)
  
Makes you think!

Tim
From: adcrumpler@npe.isnet.inmos.co.uk
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Video Plus
Date: 4 Jan 93 05:54:30 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Inmos Limited
Nntp-Posting-User: adcrumpler

>In an article about the Videoplus video programmer :-
>
> keith@unipalm.co.uk (Keith Mitchell) writes:
>
>  : ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps) writes:
>  
>> : I prefer Teletext Program Delivery Control myself, buried but not
>> : dead (see pages 300/301) by the new teletext service on Channel 4.> 
> 
> When a television programme is being broadcast, it's unique number is being
> transmitted along with the images. When the video receives a number that
> it has in it's program memory, it starts recording. When it stops receiving
> that number it stops recording. Simple stuff. If PDC codes are not being
> transmitted then the video defaults to Method A.
> 
> The best video we have found for using PDC codes is the Philips VR 323.
> 


Can any video recorder interpret these PDC codes or must it be one of 
the types that can display teletext images ?


Stan C.
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From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
Subject: Re: Mornington Crescent rules anyone?
Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:55:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.154030.30@condor> whiskerp@logica.co.uk writes:
>In article <C0Fq8x.4F2@exnet.co.uk>, dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon) writes:
>> In article <1993Jan6.095202.27792@medusa.prime.com> richm@CIS.Prime.COM writes:
>>>Please, if anyone does really know the rules, and if there are
>>>any, could they post them to this group or Email them to me
>>>as well. This game has always perplexed me, and everyone
>>>seems very coy about it. Perhaps it's a case of the King's
>>>invisible clothes, and people don't really know - well Damon?
>> 
>> Well, shall we tell them?  B^>
>> 
>You obviously don't realise that London Underground have closed Mornington 
>Crescent for refurbishment.
>
>Under rule 147(b) of the new (post Channel Tunnel) rules, all play has to 
>be suspended until normal service is resumed. I thought that everybody knew 
>that!

I'm sure they played it on ISIHAC just the other day (last prog of
series?).  Anyway, their MC Escalator Refurbishment Fund should be
helping out LT a little.

Damon
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From: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Video Plus (a few questions) Phil?
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:58:24 GMT
Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Organization: Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.

In article <1993Jan8.152957.12280@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk>
mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk (Mark Powell) writes:
>Do these new teletext aware videos set the videos clock from the teletext
>time at the top of the page?

	Mine does.  But there is a "gotcha" -- it only does it when the
"preferred channel" [BBC1, in my case] is actively being "watched".  So,
for a programme being taped just after the summer-time changeovers, it
won't auto-reset for the start time, but the finish time would be correct
if [and only if] the programme is on BBC1.  This is irrelevant for
programmes under PDC, of course.

-- 
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