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From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:36:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.171638.14756@osf.org> kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:

>Every time I go thru Jersey, it amazes me to see how *everybody*
>immediately gravitates to the leftmost lane, no matter what. I was able to
>do a sustained 80 because the two right lanes on the GSP were empty, while
>the leftmost lane was moving at 60-65.

When I drove westbound on the Mass Pike December 24 (i.e. heavy traffic) I
came over the top of a hill and got a good look at traffic patterns for the
next mile or two.  The left lane was most crowded, followed by the middle,
and the right lane was almost empty.  Speed was about the same in all lanes.
I managed to go faster than the rest of traffic for a while by travelling in
the right lane.

>Noone in Connecticut can drive. Period. The anti-driver stance of the CT
>gubmint must have taken away whatever spirit they had.

All the roads were closed in the 1980s, so people forgot how to drive.

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Passing Lane? (was: flavors of MA cops
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:36:16 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

In article <106129@bu.edu>, heiser@acs.bu.edu 
(William Heiser) writes:

=> I would too!  However driving in Massachusetts for a number of years
=> has thoroughly convinced me that most people don't know the purpose of
=> the *passing lane*.  I know when I took driver ed (in New Hampshire),
=> the use of Passing Lanes was emphasized.  Perhaps Massachusetts doesn't
=> make such an emphasis?  Perhaps most drivers in Mass haven't taken
=> driver ed?  Perhaps most drivers in Massachusets just coun't give
=> a damn?

You furrina's are all alike. You assume that there's no rhyme
or reason to Boston driver's habits. Driving in the left hand
lane accomplishes a three fold purpose:

	1) A defensive position - you only have to worry about
	drivers on 3 sides: front, back and right. You can
	forget about the left side, and concentrate on your
	vulnerable points. (unless someone is passing you
	on the median strip, which is rather infrequent
	and considered slightly bad etiquette when the breakdown
	lane is open.)

	2) When making a lane change, you only need one directional
	that works: the right one. If that one's not working,
	you can just wave with your right hand while still keeping
	the left one free for the telephone. If you weren't in
	left lane, you might have to switch your phone hand to
	give somebody the finger when he honks at you for 
	cutting him off.

	3) Showtime! When exiting a 3 or 4 lane highway, it is
	most impressive to exit directly from the left hand
	lane without signaling. This gets you extra style
	points and impresses the girls with the big hair.
	Extra points if you advertise WAAF by way a bumper
	sticker that suuddenly appears two feet in front of
	the people whose lanes you cut to make the exit.

C'mon now. Please give the Boston drivers the benefit of the
doubt. They're much more devious than you give them credit
for :-)

- Bill Lambert
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bsmith@crustacean.osf.org (Bruce Smith)
Subject: Re: Packies, was Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Keywords: Beantown, aliens, and pickles.
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:38:15 GMT

In article <lkoqdfINNp4d@news.bbn.com> kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan7.144304.17478@osf.org> bsmith@crustacean.osf.org
>(Bruce Smith) writes:
>>In article <106313@bu.edu> heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser) writes:
>
>>>Seriously though, I agree - Western Mass is more like upstate NY than like
>>>a part of Massachusetts.
>>>
>>Western Massachusetts is just another part of the state. Eastern Massachusetts,
>>on the other hand, is more like part of another planet.
>
>Just because you feel like an alien living in this area doesn't mean we all
>do.  I happen to be a native of Boston, and I like it here.  Maybe you
>should try the western part of the state, you might feel right at home there.
>
Feel like an alien? Not me. You gotta admit, though, that the local driving
customs are....ah....different from most other places. I am *not* a native of
Boston, although I have lived here now for ~20 years. I like it quite well
enough to stay, any invitations for me to leave notwithstanding. Of course,
if Cape Cod disappeared (as it will someday), I'd be outta here!

Hey, I happen to be a native of New York City. G'wan and say whatever you
want about it, or about people who move up here from there and then have the 
gall to poke fun or complain. 

Bruce Smith
 



Newsgroups: ne.general
From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Reply-To: dlw@odi.com
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 17:08:24 GMT

In article <RG.92Dec25185605@nymph.msel.unh.edu> rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:

   Also, why do you call liquor stores "Package Stores"?  Or "Packies", as the
   local yokels in Newburyport persist in calling them..

I always assumed that this was a euphemism.  As seen from outside,
customers enter the stores, and come out holding packages, hence it
can be explained as a "package store", saving the explainer from
having to admit shamefully that it sells the demon rum.  I don't have
any evidence for this but it's the only explanation I could come up with.

Newsgroups: ne.general
From: mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman)
Subject: Boston Computer Society Address?
Reply-To: mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman)
Organization: Bull HN Info Sys, Billerica MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:15:59 GMT

Does someone have the address/phone # of the Boston Computer Society?
Do they have an email address?

--Mike Gelman

-- 
Michael Gelman -- M.Gelman@ma30.bull.com 
Bull HN Info Systems -- Advanced Engineering Program 
(Any similarity between my opinions and those of Bull, living or dead, are
entirely coincidental.)
From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Passing Lane? (was: flavors of MA cops
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:42:33 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <7569@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
>
>You furrina's are all alike. You assume that there's no rhyme
     ^^^^^^^^

What's a "furrina"?
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: What to do with 12 yr olds in Boston
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:29:13 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>> In article <1993Jan2.225818.19202@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>,  
>johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>> > Next month we will have the pleasant company of twin twelve-year old
>> > nieces for five days.  Not having been 12 for a while, and never, to the
>> > best of my recollection, having been a 12 year old girl, I'm a little
>> > short of ideas for things to do.  There are some obvious things: Freedom
>> > Trail, clothes shopping, movies, etc.
>> 
>> I'd take them for some decent Chinese food or maybe to Chinatown for
>> dim sum.  I'd take them for a cruise on Boston Harbor, and maybe over to
>> the Science Museum (they are probably a little old for the Children's
>> Museum, but if they like computers, the Computer Museum isn't a bad idea).
>> 
>> If you want to go out to the "sticks" for a day, you could take them
>> out to Old Sturbridge Village or down to Plymouth Plantation (note, though
>> I have a 12 year old myself, I still haven't done either of these things).
>
I'd take them to the Omnimax theatre at the Museum of Science
If you're familiar with it skip the next paragraph

The Omnimax costs 6.50 per person (less for kids; call & reserve tix) It is
possibly the largest movie screen in the state, including the Wang Cntr. It
is approximately the size of a 3-story building, from top to bottom, 

                 |
though it doesn't appear that big because it's set at a 45 degree angle.
The idea is that if you look at the center of the screen, it covers your
entire field of vision. Because the seats are at a 45 agle, it doesn't
matter where you sit; the person in front of you's head is about level with
your ankles. 

I've seen both the shows currently playing; the Mountain Gorrilla film
isn't at all scary, it would easily be a "G" film or a PBS special if it
wasn't made in the Imax format. The Antarctica film is much more engaging
to kids I would think
-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson)
Subject: Re: ne.singles? (was Re: ne.personals?)
Organization: Zenith Data Systems / Bull, Billerica MA USA
Date: 4 Jan 93 12:24:45
Followup-To: ne.general
	<1i46ltINN6jg@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>

I agree.  There should be a ne.singles rather than a ne.personals so
that there will be a place to discuss and announce singles activities.
However, I think there should also be a group called ne.personals.ads
which in theory would be a write-only group where people can post
personal ads.
From: msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Channel 68
Date: 5 Jan 93 19:06:13 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In article <1993Jan5.150926.15191@mips2.ma30.bull.com> mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman) writes:

>Since we're speaking of tv stations, I noticed that I'm no longer
>receiving 68.  Is it off the air or is my TV broken?

Channel 68's transmitter was damaged in the electrical fire in the Pru
a few weeks ago.  They're off the air until repairs are made.  Though
I don't understand why their cable broadcasts are out, too...


						Michael

--
Michael J. Saletnik, Tufts University E'91 G'93
michael@binkley.ext.tufts.edu msaletni@pearl.tufts.edu
Manager of Computer Resources, Dept. of Civil Engineering
From: gaf@alpha.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Gerald Feldman)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: MBTA Bus schedules
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:31:11 GMT
Reply-To: gaf@aosg.gsf.dec.com
Distribution: ne
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <12JAN199309304996@pearl.tufts.edu>, jkwashna@pearl.tufts.edu (J.J. Kwashnak) writes:
|> In article <C0pIFq.Csz@world.std.com>, lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth) writes...
|> > 
|> >Does anyone know if a book of bus schedules exists?
|> > [stuff deleted] 
|> >Maybe a private publisher prints such a book?
|> > 
|> >Thanks-
|> > 
|> >Layne
|> >
|> 
|> Try _Car Free in Boston_.  Many newsstands carry it along with bookstores.
|> It doesn't have timetable per say, but it does give the busses and how often
|> they run, so you are not waiting for a bus that only comes once every hour
|> and a half.

-- 
The MBTA publishes schedules for all their bus lines. Many of these are
available at some of the larger MBTA terminals (Like the Park St.
misinformation boot, Forest Hills, etc. Also all busses are supposed to
carry copies of their route schedules. I have also found that the MBTA
employees who answer the info lines are reasonably helpful with
schedules. The problem is that sometimes the driver may not be too
familiar with his/her route, and one may get taken for an nteresting
sight seeing tour :-)
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
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Mailstop: GSF1-1/K13	   DTN:264-5863
Digital Equipment Corp.    EXT:(603)884-5863
5 Wentworth Drive          ip(DEC): gaf@aosg.gsf.dec.com
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Newsgroups: ne.general,ne.wanted
From: dave@galaxia.network23.com (David H. Brierley)
Subject: Need access to writable optical disk or CD rom manufacture facilities
Organization: Galaxia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:33:01 GMT

As part of my church's 100th year celebration, we opened up the
cornerstone of the church and now are preparing to replace the time
capsule that was left for us by the original builders with a time
capsule of our own.  Rather than leaving a lot of paper documents which
would decay fairly quickly, it was suggested that we leave some form of
computer media.  The rectors first thought was to leave a couple of
floppy disks but I pointed out the fact that the magnetic information on
the disk would probably decay sooner than a paper document would.  It
then occurred to me that writable optical disks and CD roms have a much
longer life expectancy.

So, does anyone in the Rhode Island or southeast Mass area have the
facilities for creating a writable optical disk or a CDrom and would be
willing to donate the use of those facilities for the purpose of
creating a disk to be placed in a time capsule for my church?  If you
would also be willing to donate the cost of the media that would be
fantastic but the church is able to pay for the media if need be.  In
addition to being able to take a tax credit for a charitable donation
you could probably get some nice publicity from this.

We realize that there is a possibility that the disk will not be readable
when it is retrieved in the future, both due to disk failure and to the
fact that the disk format will likely be ancient, but we are willing to
take that risk.
-- 
David H. Brierley
Home: dave@galaxia.network23.com; Work: dhb@quahog.ssd.ray.com
Send comp.sources.3b1 submissions to comp-sources-3b1@galaxia.network23.com
%% Pardon me Professor, can I be excused, my brain is full. **
From: loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: RFD: A singles discussion group for the ne distribution
Date: 10 Jan 1993 13:37:26 -0500
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
Distribution: ne
NNTP-Posting-Host: functor.systemsz.cs.yale.edu
In-reply-to: drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com's message of 8 Jan 93 22:40:53 GMT

drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson) writes:

   ne.personals (unmoderated)

   Charter: For the posting of personal advertizements.  Any discussion
   arising from posts in this group should be shifted to ne.singles.

I don't think the charter for this group should include an explicit
mention of ne.singles as the "right" place to redirect followup
discussion, since not all discussion arising out of things posted in
ne.personals might be appropriate for ne.singles.  (For example,
consider the periodic flames directed against gays or married people
that now show up in alt.personals.)

-Sandra
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
Subject: Re: 401K--to rollover or not?
Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:53:10 GMT

In article <1288@ki.com> dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts) writes:
>Something else to remember.  The IRS changed the rules on rollovers
>as of 1-Jan-93.  If you don't have your rollover funds sent directly
>to their new home via electronic transfer [ie: you ask for a check],
>the company giving you the money from the 401K will only give you 80%
>of your $$.

Believing this to be true in the literal sense, I ran all over the place
this week opening an account and filing papers.  Turns out that, at
least the way my former employer's 401K trustee implements it, you
***don't*** have to have an EFT transfer into a new plan.

All they wanted on the form was the name of the new trustee.  When I
asked where they wanted the EFT account-transfer info, the H.R. person
said they won't do EFTs at all.  I will be sent a check in the mail for
100% of the balance, made out to the new trustee.

Apparently this is legal even under the 1-Jan-93 legislation.  What is
now illegal is for the current trustee to send you a check _in your name_
for more than 80% of the balance.

So I could've saved myself some driving.  The new account doesn't have
to be opened until up to 60 days after the check is withdrawn from my
former 401K account.

I'm wondering if there's a loophole in this.  I specified the new
trustee as "Fidelity Trust"; it could've been most any reasonable-
sounding name.  I'm sure the check will be marked 401K, but what's to
prevent you from putting it into a non-IRA investment?  (Other than,
of course, the certainty that the IRS _will_ eventually catch up with
you and take the $$$ out of your hide if there's no other way!)  Looks
like Congress must've run into a problem when drawing up this legislation;
it's probably illegal to _require_ that a transaction use wire-transfer
media.

-rich
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Subject: Re: ne...
Organization: Software Tool & Die
	<JAMES.93Jan2195350@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
	<C09o6I.AHI@merk.com>
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:01:11 GMT

In article <C09o6I.AHI@merk.com> mike@merk.com (Mike Sullivan) writes:
<Somebody set us straight!  Is it NEbraska, NorthEastern, or New England?

New England as in:

ne.news                 New England news (USENET) administration.
ne.food                 New England food and restaurant reviews.
ne.forsale              Short postings on items for sale in New England.
ne.general              General interest discussions pertinent to New England.
ne.seminars             New England upcoming talks, seminars, etc.
ne.wanted               New England want-ads.

->Spike
From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Channel 56
Date: 5 Jan 1993 14:43:44 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: ne
Reply-To: levin@powell.bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <106130@bu.edu> heiser@acs.bu.edu (William Heiser) writes:
|In article <MSALETNI.93Jan4121100@jade.tufts.edu> msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik) writes:
|>Anyone notice that channel 56 is now broadcasting in stereo?  I
|
|How about in Dolby Surround Sound?|

Any station that broadcasts stereo can broadcast Dolby Surround.  It's
encoded in the stereo information and depends on whether the material
being broadcast has surround sound or not.

	/J

(see rec.video for more information)
=
Nets: levin@bbn.com  |  "GO TO JAIL.  Go directly to jail. Do not pass
POTS: (617)873-3463  |  Go.  Do not collect $200."
              N1MNF  |           -- Parker Brothers
From: James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: ne.singles && ne.personals.ads
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 93 16:56:49 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1i46ltINN6jg@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU><DRG.93Jan4122445@candidus.ma30
 .bull.com> <106114@bu.edu> <SPIKE.93Jan4170235@world.std.com>

spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>In article <106114@bu.edu> sklarew@bass.bu.edu (daniel sklarew) writes:
><ne.singles : for the singles scene in ne
><ne.personals.ads: for those ISO-types out there
><While the gist seems similar, I think that each appeals to a different
><audience, thus confirming our need for both...
>
>        I don't think the likely level of traffic warrants two groups.
>I suggest creating ne.singles and if it becomes overrun with personal
>ads then think about ne.personals or ne.personals-ads
>(ne.personals.ads is a bad name unless you are going to have a bunch
>of ne.personals.* groups).

I agree that two groups are not warranted at the present time, and
that "ne.personals.ads" is not a good choice.
Net tradition would favor the "ne.singles" name 
(or maybe "ne.motos"? :)

>        Since the have been no objections to the idea of the group I
>will set it up as soon as an agreement on the name is reached.
>
>->Spike

By the way, obviously (and thankfully) distribution fields do not limit 
the audience that much, but it would be nice if posts to ne.singles (or 
whatever it is called) were from people who actually spend time in
New England.

If someone creates the new group, could they please let me know (by
a post to ne.general or via email?)

Jim Kowalczyk            James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com
Andover, MA
Xref: sparky ne.general:3716 misc.invest:15696
From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: ne.general,misc.invest
Subject: Re: 401K--to rollover or not?
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:47:35 GMT
Followup-To: ne.general
Organization: ki Research, Inc

In article <C04qJy.40H@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
|I have a simple financial-planning question, brought on by some paperwork
|sent me by a former employer:
|
|Given that my new employer has no retirement plan, I can't roll over my
|balance at a previous employer's 401K plan into a similar one.  It appears
|I have two options:
|
|	- Leave it where it is
|	- Roll it into a personal IRA
|
|As I understand it, I have more options as to what I can do with the money
|(such as borrowing against it) if it stays in a 401K plan, though of course
|I'd have a lot more control over investment options if I moved it.  If I
|kept this money separate from other IRA accounts, could I later roll it
|(or even some of the other accounts) into a new 401K?
|
|Which option is wisest for now?  And is it possible to set up anything
|remotely resembling a 401K while working for an employer that has
|none?  (My income is above the ceilings for IRA deductability, and in
|any case the limits on IRA contributions are IMHO too low.)
|
|-rich

Something else to remember.  The IRS changed the rules on rollovers
as of 1-Jan-93.  If you don't have your rollover funds sent directly
to their new home via electronic transfer [ie: you ask for a check],
the company giving you the money from the 401K will only give you 80%
of your $$.  The remaining 20% is withheld as an IRS withholding.  If
you reinvest 100% of your 401k funds, the IRS will refund the 20%
withholding to you at tax time.  The catch is, you have to come up with
the missing 20% to make up your 100% rollover!  If you don't invest
the full 100%, you get socked with the 10% [?] early withdrawaly fee
on the amount not reinvested.  If your 401k rollover is a large amount,
it could be quite difficult getting the missing 20% funds.


This was written up in the Sunday Boston Globe last week [27-Dec-92?].


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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: djw@wang.com (David Weinstein)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops:  LIDAR  Laser Radar? 
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:33:03 GMT

rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:


>Finally, I heard that Beantown Harley pigs were using lidar guns in one of the
>downtown tunnels at 10pm the other night, and that there was a whole line of
>cars pulled over just past the end.. anyone else seen instances of these Evil
>and Unwholesome devices in use?

>-Roger
>Roger Gonzalez - rg@msel.unh.edu     (508) 658-7800 (fax -2492

Ive heard about the new breed of "radar" which uses lasers. People
are asking what lidar is here. Well, is this it or what??!!


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