HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Allergist Recommendations
Date: 1 Jan 93 15:11:18 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University

Can anyone in the area recommend a good allergist in the Boston area?
Preferably someone whose solution to my sniffles won't involve getting
rid of my cat.
Thanks.
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From: heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:21:11 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Raytheon Company, Equipment Division

In article <1992Dec30.185427.10831@news.cs.brandeis.edu> shogan@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>What's lidar?  Is this something I should worry about...something my 
>detector can't pick up?!

Do you find your detector to even be useful at all in a city environment
like that?  I stopped using mine becuase it just wasn't useful - too many
false alarms by all the various signal-emitting things in the city and
nearby environs.

-- 
Bill Heiser   Work:  heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM
              Other: heiser@world.std.com
From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Public vs. private
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:48:05 GMT
Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA

In article <9212221621.AA23928@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
> You will observe that there's only one set of phone wires out on the pole.

Last time I looked my poles had 4 sets of wires that carried 4 signals.
(1) power signal from the electric company
(2) phone signal from the phone company
(3) tv signal from the cable tv company
(4) cambridge fire-box signal, a kind of telegraph.
From: tmcinern@newcomer.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Timothy McInerney x0 14-2)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:26:05 GMT
Organization: Computervision Corp.


>Just wondering, does anyone out there know how they determine who gets their
>mailings???  I never get anything from them, and I was wondering why.  It's
>not important, I'm just really curious.  Thanks

>Jessica Thornburg


>The BORG are DEAD!!!!
>Long live the Federation!!!



You probably need to order something through the mail and be
put on the mailing list!  I would just save my time if I 
were you!

Timothy McInerney

The BORG know where you live...
DEAD is irrelevant
the Federation is irrelevant
We are on our way.

Fourteen of Ninteen Thousand, four hundred, twenty six
Collective # 164
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: ne.personals?
Date: 2 Jan 93 23:14:06 GMT
Followup-To: ne.general
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

Someone posted once looking to meet females on this sig and was
booed... I guess the holidays make people more mellow (he was a nice
person and left a polite note.)
  Cyber singles bars are easy to do in real life. I've met computer
people before. You  just pick some random place, like, say, the
Commonwealth Brewery and some random time like, umm, Jan 21 at 7:30 and
post it. The hard part is, umm, finding people of the female
persuasion to go. And getting people to stop talking about computers
when they get there :-)

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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: The World
	<PSHUANG.92Dec21195828@ninja.mit.edu>
	<1992Dec22.154606.8643@m5.harvard.edu>
	<zippy.725042900@berry.cs.brandeis.edu>
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:49:41 GMT


>That is - while "we", the T riders, also pay taxes, there are many
>taxpayers who do not use the T, and would likely prefer the current
>pay-to-use setup over increased taxes.

But riding the T is a service to non-riders also, less traffic, less
pollution, more parking, bringing customers into the downtown business
district (for those who benefit from that), cutting gas consumption,
etc.

Tax-supported programs don't each have to be a 100% fit, only the sum
total has to be reasonably fair (e.g. should non-handicapped people
resent handicapped services?  elderly, children, etc.)

I strongly believe that anything which encourages people to use the
public transit system will ultimately benefit me and everyone I know,
and I only use the T occasionally, personally.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Date: 22 Dec 92 15:46:06 GMT
Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

In article <PSHUANG.92Dec21195828@ninja.mit.edu> pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.153135.8027@dunsel.harvard.edu> borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden) writes:
>
> > What this city should do is allow private bus lines to run at night,
> > and in my opinion, in the daytime as well.  Why should the MBTA have
> > a monopoly on mass transit?
>
>I don't know what kind of charter the MBTA operates under, but I don't
>agree that private bus lines should be necessarily permitted to operate
>in the daytime. As a public utility, the T doubtlessly operates lines
>and times which are profitable, which helps to subsidize the lines and
>times which are not profitable. Allowing a private bus line to compete
>during the day (I do agree that private bus lines at night would be
>nice, but I doubt a private concern would have any chance of turning a
>profit at it) would permit them to compete on the profitable lines and
>times while not running the unprofitable lines, taking money away from
>the T and therefore costing more tax-payer money to fund MBTA operation.

Who's funding the unprofitable lines as it is?  For the most part, T riders
are taxpayers.  If the desired goal is to keep the unprofitable lines running
despite their unprofitability, then that is just as well accomplished
through tax-subsidization as it is accomplished through fare revenue.
Either way, we pay for it, so why not pay for running the unprofitable lines
through taxes, instead of fare revenue from other lines, and allow people the
choice of more bus lines at the same time?  There's no increased cost to
society as a whole from this rearrangement of finances, and possibly a
savings, if the private lines turn out to be more efficient, and in any case,
there will be an improvement in service through the increased number of options.

The point is, the T is going to lose the same amount of money on the
unprofitable lines in either case.  It's not necessary to tie the finances
of the unprofitable lines to the finances of the profitable lines.  If we
want to subsidize them, then it's just as well done through taxes - a dollar
spent on transportation is a dollar spent on transportation, regardless of
how it gets there, and regardless of whether it's spent on public or private
transportation.  There's no advantage to spending that dollar on public
transit rather than private transit, and possibly a disadvantage, if you
believe that private industries are inherently more efficient than government
industries (which they are).  You can still subsidize the unprofitable lines,
and the cost to society as a whole will be the same.

Anyway, the T has such a large subsidy that it would probably still do well
even against competing bus lines.

   - Dave Borden
     borden@m5.harvard.edu
From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:06:19 GMT
Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

In article <1992Dec23.214506.10190@m5.harvard.edu> borden@m5.harvard.edu writes:

>them to be a different, albeit related market.  For example, I ride the T
>all the T, ...

This was supposed to read "I ride the T all the time..."

    - Dave Borden
      borden@m5.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: mguyott@eriador.prime.com (M. Guyott)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Organization: /etc/organization
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:13:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.195840.1@deep-13.gizmo.com> maxwell@deep-13.gizmo.com writes:
>
>Lidar uses a Laser instead of a microwave.
>
>Your Radar detector is utterly worthless against Lidar.

According to their latest adds, Cincinati (excuse the spelling) Microwave
(who I believe recently changed their name to "Escort") sells a radar
detector (or two) that can detect the new "laser" radar.

I don't know the details.  You might want to contact the company.

Marc
----
Two of the worst things we teach our children are that a knowledge of science
is nice but not necessary, and a knowledge of sex is necessary but not nice.

Marc Guyott              Constellation Software, Inc.          (508) 620-2800
                         Framingham, Mass. 01701 USA                Ext. 3135
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Newsgroups: ne.general,rec.arts.sf.misc
From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Subject: Re: Articles About Internet in Mass Media (Was Internet (Globe article))
Organization: I.E.C.C.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:14:55 GMT

The current year-end issue of the Economist has a somewhat tongue-in-cheek
roundup of networks, mostly cabal-type networks of people, not computers,
like Skull and Bones, Opus Dei, and the Freemasons.  The last ones they
listed were the Internet and usenet:

   Internet's speciality is sharing software and computer services, which
   enables researchers to to work closely with colleagues across the world.
   USENET specialises in argument.  In addition to electronic mail, its
   principal offering is a few hundred ``newsgroups'', which serve as an
   electronic forum for the discussion of everything from the philosophy of
   artificial intellegence (``Is semiotics an informal logic?'') to sex
   (``Shall I touch you where?''). In the high-tech world, if you're not on
   the net, you're not in the know.

-- 
John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl
"Time is Money!  Steal some today!"
From: msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:40:34 GMT
	<1ht5hdINNedc@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <lk66rrINNmq7@news.bbn.com>
Distribution: ne
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In article <lk66rrINNmq7@news.bbn.com> clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements) writes:

>   help you in court.  If you're going over the limit (and admit it,
>   with whatever excuses tacked on) they can ticket you and you lose.

In slightly the same vein, something happened to a friend of mine.  It
was 2am, and he was in an area of Somerville that was permit parking
1am-8am.  When he got to his car, he found a ticket.  However, the
time written on it was 2:45am.

He didn't bother to swing by the police station to get it certified
that the ticket was, indeed, timed in the future, but if he had, what
would have happened?  Obviously, the ticket is invalid, but in stating
that he discovered this at 2am, and was thus still parked illegally
for an hour, could/would they still ticket him?  Or can they not do
that after the fact?

						Michael

--
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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: wfp@world.std.com (William F Phillips)
Subject: G.O.H.D.I.N.E.S.S.
Organization: Nat'l Foundation of the Cluely Impaired^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HChallenged, Persons' Republic of Cambridge (MA, USA)
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:19:00 GMT


				G.O.H.D.I.N.E.S.S.

	     Greatly Overstated Holiday Decorations & Illuminations 
			  New England Spotting Society

		       First Annual No-Prize Competition

				     for

		       Gohdiest Display in Greater Boston


			   (Private Residences only!)


Post your nominations, including estimated number of lights, special features,
etc., gross power consumption, or anything else you can think of to this 
newsgroup.

No-judges will not award No-prizes at any time.  That way nobody loses.

				    PEACE!

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From: brighid@hern.stonemarche.org
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: G.O.H.D.I.N.E.S.S.
Date: 25 Dec 92 22:36:59 EST
Distribution: ne
Organization: Hern the Hunter, Stonemarche (NH)

In article <BzoLzp.Dv7@world.std.com>, wfp@world.std.com (William F Phillips) writes:
 
> Post your nominations, including estimated number of lights, special features,
> etc., gross power consumption, or anything else you can think of to this 
> newsgroup.

Route 202 North, in Winchendon, just outside of the center of town there's
a structure that is overwhelmingly lit! People slowed down just to try to
figure out what was underneath all the lights.

-- 
Brighid				
brighid@hern.stonemarche.org
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: The World
	<zippy.725042900@berry.cs.brandeis.edu>
	<1992Dec22.175531.8885@m5.harvard.edu>
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:04:04 GMT


>I see the issue of subsidization as an essentially separate issue.  We can
>make everyone pay the full cost of the services they receive, or we can
>subsidize the services and thereby encourage the use of mass transit and help
>out lower income people.

I don't think it's just lower-income people by any means. If you have
to go to two or three or four places that are covered by the T in one
day don't you often take your car because you feel that paying two or
three or four fares is a bit excessive somehow? I know whenever I've
been in a city where I can buy flat fare cards (day, week, month or
whatever) cheaply I find myself just popping here and there on their
transit system.

I know you can buy monthly cards here in Boston, what about daily and
weekly at a good discount? How about shopper's specials on weekends
where for around 2xfare (say, $1.50) you can travel all day?

I think one of the most important missions of a good public transit
system is getting people into the habit of using it.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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From: heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:27:38 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Raytheon Company, Equipment Division

In article <1ht41pINNb6i@transfer.stratus.com> savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia) writes:
>
>And I ask again:  Who's going to pull him over and give
>him a ticket?

Isn't there something (theoretically) called "citizens arrest"?  Would
that (theoretically) work in this situation?  i.e. you report the cop
has having been speeding, etc.,etc.

I'm sure the mere mortal wouldn't stand a snowflake's chance in Hell
of winning such a case though.



-- 
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              Other: heiser@world.std.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: The World
	<1992Dec23.214506.10190@m5.harvard.edu>
	<1992Dec23.220619.10364@m5.harvard.edu>
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:49:45 GMT


>>them to be a different, albeit related market.  For example, I ride the T
>>all the T, ...
>
>This was supposed to read "I ride the T all the time..."

oh, i thought it was supposed to finish with "and nothing but the T."

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: whalen@starch.enet.dec.com (Rich Whalen)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Reply-To: whalen@starch.enet.dec.com (Rich Whalen)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Shrewsbury, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:16:42 GMT


In article <1ht41pINNb6i@transfer.stratus.com>, savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick
Savoia) writes:
|>From: savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia)
|>Newsgroups: ne.general
|>Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
|>Date: 30 Dec 92 21:24:09 GMT
|>Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
|>
|>In article <JPT.92Dec30152510@telecaster.think.com>,
|>jpt@telecaster.think.com (James P. Taylor) writes:
|>> In article <1hsrt9INN7tl@transfer.stratus.com> savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick
|>Savoia) writes:
|>
|>> 
|>>    Nobody pulls a cop over.  If you are stupid enough to follow him at his
|>|>>    speed, then don't cry injustice if you get a ticket!
|>> 
|>> Long ago when I took drivers ed in Mass, the state law read that police
|>> vehicles could only exceed the speed limit if they were on "emergency
|>> service".  
|>
|>And I ask again:  Who's going to pull him over and give
|>him a ticket?
|>-- 
|>==========================================================
|>Rick Savoia                     | "I'm just very selective
|>savoia@watts.sqa.stratus.com    | about the reality 
|>Rick_Savoia@vos.stratus.com     | I accept" - Calvin
|>==========================================================
|>


I don't know about in MA, but in CT the cops are told to drive at a speed
that
does not impede the normal flow of traffic.  If you use the idea that no one
in their right mind would pass a cop that is traveling near the speed limit,
then you quickly determine that police vehicles must travel above the speed
limit in order to minimize the chance of needlessly slowing traffic.
------------------------------------------------------
Rich Whalen

You don't know where these bits have been!
From: tgross@cvbnet.prime.com (Tom Gross)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:32:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computervision

In article <BZS.92Dec15211150@world.std.com>, bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
|> 
|> From: phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill)
|> >If you have been reading the posts in this newsgroup, you'd see that most (not
|> >all) of the people here feel that the "blue laws" are out of date, and no
|> >longer needed.
|> 
|> Doubtless, I am sure this list is well represented with people who
|> might man liquor stores on Sundays...let us allow the wolves to vote
|> the fate of the sheep.
|> 
|> >Your opinion is in the minority.
|> 
|> Among perhaps 10 people on ne.general...?

	I agree with Barry: blue laws are good.  In Germany, at least
	18 years ago when I was student there (and I doubt things have
	changed much in this regard), stores were only allowed to be
	open on Saturday MORNINGS, not at all on Sundays, and then
	once a MONTH stores could be open Saturday afternoon.  It was
	a real pain in the butt for consumers, but people survived,
	and before the latest Anschluss, the german economy seemed
	pretty healthy.  

	In Massachusetts we had a referendum on this in 1976.
	I remember how I voted, but I guess I lost. The real problem
	is NEW HAMPSHIRE.  We really need federal laws to govern this
	sort of thing...

/tom
Xref: sparky ne.general:3635 rec.arts.sf.misc:3597
From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
Newsgroups: ne.general,rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Articles About Internet in Mass Media (Was Internet (Globe article))
Date: 31 Dec 92 15:08:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: jti.C04q2p.3vv
Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA

Whilst visiting family over the Christmas weekend, I caught to my
bemusement a human-interest article in the _Washington Post_ about how
grandparents are using Internet to keep in touch with far-flung
grandchildren via email.

As I looked across the table at my own grandparents, I pondered the
following:  even with this wonderful technology, will grandchildren
every really *write back* to their elders as often as it's wanted?

-rich
P.S.  Finally, it seems, family might understand arcane Xmas gifts like
  modems!
Xref: sparky ne.general:3627 ne.wanted:1621
From: ttesta@kali.enet.dec.com (Tom Testagrossa)
Newsgroups: ne.general,ne.wanted
Subject: Re: Alternative to First Night
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:29:06 GMT
Reply-To: ttesta@kali.enet.dec.com (Tom Testagrossa)
Distribution: ne
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Ma.


In article (Michael Meissner) writes:

>Given it is end of the year time again, does anybody have any
>alternatives to First Night, particularly in the Acton/Concord (MA)
>area?  My wife and I have a 5 year old daughter, and after a few bad
>experiences at First Night (one year she got sick and threw up on
>somebody's mink coat while we were trying to guide her to a sink), we
>would like to look at alternatives.
	SO YOU'RE THE ONE....My Ex- wife NEVER forgave me for bringing	
her out that night...and we still can't find anyone who wants to buy that coat!
(Many :^).....)
From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: ne...
Date: 31 Dec 1992 21:36:59 GMT
Organization: Brown University Planetary Geology
NNTP-Posting-Host: pilsner.geo.brown.edu

In article <1992Dec13.054641.7494@news.unomaha.edu> dulcinea@cwis.unomaha.edu (Shaene Steinauer) writes:
>Since this is ne.general, I thought I'd post a general question.
>
>Shouldn't NE stand for Nebraska, not North East United States?
>
   Yes, it should.  Now that you know, all you have to do start using
it for Nebraska issues, and all those pesky northeasterners will go
away.
--
Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
Disclaimer: Involuntary vocalization may occur.