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From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: Re: Child Molestors - internationally organized?
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 09:03:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.215112.15463@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>: >   In  response,  and  I  draw  from  memory  of the conversation
>: >   [with the police officer],  Child molestation   and  pedophiles   are
>: >   a   well-organized  group   both  nation-wide  and internationally.
>
>According to some people from the UK - pedophilia seems to be fairly
>well established there. It is not in the US.
>
>Here in the US - most child molesters are relatives of the child, usually
>the father or uncle. There are no organized groups anywhere in the world,
>that has been documented.
Our local news here in Austin reported that most child molesters make
contact with other child molesters on "computer bulletin boards." Now
we're worse than the "hackers" they're always reporting on, we may just
be child molesters too. Hide your modem!

ja"I heard it on TV so of course it's true"m
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From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:59:50 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1992Nov17.021106.10158@vax.oxford.ac.uk> mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>In article <1992Nov15.051857.25110@oracle.us.oracle.com>, mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
>> In article <ISBELL.92Nov9074842@panther.ai.mit.edu> isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell) writes:
>>>thf2@quads.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple) writes:
>>>|>|I've seen a similar stat somewhere.  The theory has been most recently
>>>|>|espoused by noted epidemologist and viral specialist Spike Lee, and the
>>>|>|media's been dutifully reporting his ravings.
>>>|>Spike Lee aside, have any of you read _Bad Blood: The Tuskegee
>>>|>Syphilis Experiment_?  

>>>|No, but I'm aware of it.

>>>|>Since the events described therein are true and
>>>|>given the other facts of recent history, why would anyone actually be
>>>|>surprised that there is a large minority of people who believe such
>>>|>things about AIDS, etc?  And in fact, why would anyone dispute the
>>>|>reality, however remote, of the possibility?

>> Sigh.

>> It is impossible because tissue samples containing AIDS dating back to
>> the fifties have been found preserved at various hospitals arround the
>> world.  Back in the fifties we did not have the faintest idea how to
>> create a disease like AIDS.  Therefore, AIDS was not created by anyone
>> unless it was by accident (ala the Wistar theory.)

>Am I missing sonething here?  They didn't create syphillis but they sure as
>hell experimented with it, so why couldn't AIDS experiments have been conducted
>(irrespective of whether they did or not).  It would seem logical that it
>wasn't genetically engineered but that don't stop them from injecting it... 
>Whether it was done I leave that to you guys to thrash out.

McBean, they didn't spread it to experiment with it because by the
time they knew it existed and was interesting they had a full fledged
epidemic on their hands and plenty of people available begging to be
experimented on.

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From: rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Stupid Quote
Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:41:33 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) quotes;
                                 ^^^^^^^
 
>I don't have a reference for that (yet), but I do have one for this:
>Ma Ferguson "ordered the elimination from state schools of textbooks 
>upholding Darwinism: ... she declared, 'I am not going to let that 
>kind of rot go into Texas schoolbooks.'"  -- G. Tindall, "America: 
                                                 ^^^^^^^
>A Narrative History" (okay, okay, the ISBN is 0-393-95680-6).  
				
>Bruce "What kind of rot? Rot-13?" Tindall
                                   ^^^^^^^
>Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
       ^^^^^^^
Is this a clever commerical advertisement for said book ?
 
Randy 'Or a plot to replace Terry as the current nom-de-UL?' Holt
 
 
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From: Martin A Laster <mlaster@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Write a short story
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:14:28 GMT


This is for all you creative story writers.  Let's see how well you can write.

If you could create a character for you to be for only one night at your
favorite night club, what would you think would happen that night at that
club.  Explain in detail the following;
 
	1) your character (i.e. employee, user)
	2) your night at the club (i.e. things you did, people you met)
  
Please keep it as realistic as possible, but also creative as possible.
This is for a study that I am doing for a night club owner who is planning
to open a new club.

Send all replies to this post to vlusane@magnusug.acs.ohio-state.edu

Have Fun !!!!!!!!!

Thank you
From: alan@essex.ac.uk [Alan M Stanier]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:18:01 GMT
Reply-To: alan@essex.ac.uk
Organization: University of Essex Computing Service, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK

Also sprach tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
}If you all are REAL GOOD, I'll post in AFU about what happens when guys like
}YOU get a hard-on at the nude beach.
}
}Terry "An inside joke by a Terry" Wood

OK, I've been good. Actually, I've been good twice: once on 18 May 1975, and
once on 7 July 1988.

So you can tell us now.

Please?


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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Easterbrook Opinions (was: Question about "T." in James . . .)
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:06:44 GMT

In article <94e202Bk2bUw01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>I ran across a cute Easterbrook opinion the other day.  US v. Beasley, 809 
>F.2d 1273 (Cir. 7, 1987)  

You mean, of course, United States v Beasley, 809 F2d 1273 (7th Cir 1987).

>[for you Maroon bookers: the volume is 809, the 
>page is 1273; also, the little hand is on the 5 and the big hand is on the 
>12].

Yeah, that.

>Anyway, J. Easterbrook's most excellent line is "Beasley says the vegetables 
>took their medicine.  The U.S. Attorney believes that the drugs were sold on 
>the black market and turned at least one person into a vegetable."

I liked the line about "Horny Boar" much more.

Ted "or was it the movie with the snakes?" Frank
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From: philo@orion.IntelliCorp.COM (Philip R. Obermarck)
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:45:08 GMT
Reply-To: pobermarck@intellicorp.com
Organization: IntelliCorp Inc.

In article <...>, joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes:
>
> >: >Shot Old Yeller? Me thinks your memory is worse than mine. 
> >
> 
>I can't recall the movie's ending (although it was a Disney flick, so they
>may well have sanitized it by removing the nasty bits) but the book ended with
>Travis shooting Yeller in the corncrib because the dog had "hydrophobia"...
                        ~~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~~

Ouch!  I got kicked in the "corncrib" once, and it hurt like the Dickens!


-- 

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  PObermarck@IntelliCorp.COM
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Child Molestors - internationally organized?
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:15:40 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>contact with other child molesters on "computer bulletin boards." Now
>>we're worse than the "hackers" they're always reporting on, we may just
>>be child molesters too. Hide your modem!

>Just around the corner from me, earlier this year, they arrested a child
>molester who was meeting his victims through BBS systems.  As I remember
>there were at least two accounts of rape of a child against him.
>-- 
This sounds awfully perjorative.  An arrest doesn't mean he's guilty,
and in most states, sex with somebody below the legal age of consent
is rape, even when willful informed consent is present.
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	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
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From: dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM (James Bielak)
Subject: Re: Soldiers breaking step across bridge
Originator: dbsjwb@doofus
Reply-To: bielak@arco.com
Organization: ARCO Exploration and Production Technology
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:20:57 GMT


In article <1992Nov14.072125.14579@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com
(bill nelson) writes:
|> colombo@bronco.fnal.gov (Rick Colombo - Fermilab) writes:
|> : > 
|> : > It talks about resonance occurring when "the frequency of the forcing
|> function
|> : > is the same as the natural frequency of the system" (no, I don't know
|> what
|> : > this means yet, we just started the chapter).  Then, the juicy stuff: 
|> "For
|> : > example, soldiers traditionally break step when crossing a bridge to
|> eliminate
|> : > the _periodic_ force of their marching that could resonate a natural
|> frequency
|> : > of the bridge."  (Their emphasis.)
|> : 
|> : Of course it's true, anyone from the State of Washington should know
|> this.
|> : That's what caused the Tacoma Narrow's bridge to collapse in Nov. of
|> 1940.
|> 
|> Except it wasn't from soldiers marching across the bridge. It was due to
|> the wind providing the energy. The film footage of Galloping Gerty bucking
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> is quite spectacular.
|> 
|> : A hotel (in Texas?) had some sorta christmas party and people dancing on
|> : an overhead walkway caused it to collapse, due to resonance, not weight.
|> 
|> I believe the determined that it was weight - not resonance. The builder
|> used substandard materials and construction techniques.
|> 
|> Bill

Consequently, soldiers traditionally avoid breaking wind when crossing a
bridge.

jw "isn't there something on the bottom of YOUR shoe? b

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon (was Calvin/Hobbes...)
Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:01:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

In article <41182@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:

   [RE "Puff the Magic Dragon" - the song]
 
  +And, in fact, it was _written_ by Peter Yarrow (he was in Peter Paul
  +and Mary; I forget which one he was).

Actually, no.  The song was written by Lenny Lipton.  Peter Yarrow
wrote the melody.  How Yarrow kept Lipton as a co-writer was a
good comment on Yarrow.

Terry "Did I hear someone inhale?" Chan
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From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Yates Pinkerton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: The plant that birds don't fear
Keywords: Yes, this is why they'll nail you, you freak.
Date: 23 Nov 92 05:06:50 GMT
Organization: The non-fattening house of dog-chow
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

[This is not a secret code word]

The windows of my house are covered with bird-imprints!
Birds keep flying into the windows of my house.   Most of them
bounce off, and spiral off somewhere else.

The locals blame it on Pyracanthus -- a shrub with big red berries.

They say the berries ferment, and make the birds get drunk.

I say it's bullshit, no one forces the birds to eat the damn
berries.  But what say the good readers of AFU?




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   and became a computer programmer.   [Vol 1, "Moby Frob"]
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Subject: Re: of human or divine genius  re: AIDS
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 02:55:29 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <9809@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene) writes:
>	This is really a circus. What happened between the time between the
>publishimg of the magazine and the time a investgative panel was allowed to
>reach the vials containing the vaccine? The CIA, Wister and the FBI would
>have been at work eliminating all the evidence and even installing that which
>exculpate them from all blame.
>
>Can you imagine how many Nuclear weapons and scud missiles would turn up if the
>UN allowed Iraq to inspect itself? This is far greater scandal than that.

Exactly the same amount of Nuclear weapons would have turned up if Iraq
had inspected itself.

NONE.

If they weren't there in the first place they won't be found no matter how
hard you want to find them.

It is the same with manufactured HIV.  It wasn't man made - therefore there
is no evidence to find.  Of course wanton speculation is _much_ easier to
manufacture than a working retrovirus.  We have been able to manufacture
that for perhaps millions of years!

The scandal is that people are indulging in finger pointing instead of 
trying to help alleviate suffering.  It can only make an AIDS sufferer
feel worse to say to them 'of course the CIA made this disease'.
Great bedside manner.  Especially as it's not true.


-- 
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Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
From: tbrann@black.ox.ac.uk (Tony Brannigan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:40:05 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Engineering Dept.
Originator: tbrann@black

John Methot writes:
>This would be a great explanation except for the existence of one other
>major difference between the SX and DX intel processors.  The DX procs
>have 32 bit wide access to the motherboard's data bus, while the data
>path on SX's is only 16 bits wide.  Both have 32 bit *internal* data busses.
>The SX were actually made *on purpose* to be plug compatible with older
>(16 bit data bus) motherboards.

You are talking about the 386/386sx, Heath is talking about the
486/486sx.  The differences between them are different.  The 386sx does
have a 16 bit external bus, the 486sx has a 32 bit external bus.  The
only difference between a 486 & 486sx is the maths co-processor, and to
some extent the speeds they are produced to run at.  Whether or not the
bit about the defective maths co-pros is true I don't know.

Tony
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From: trif@bike.rad.washington.edu (To Run In Fear)
Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
	<1992Nov16.193529.1384@vicorp.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:49:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.193529.1384@vicorp.com> jmethot@vicorp.com (John Methot) writes:

   This would be a great explanation except for the existence of one other
   major difference between the SX and DX intel processors.  The DX procs
   have 32 bit wide access to the motherboard's data bus, while the data
   path on SX's is only 16 bits wide.  Both have 32 bit *internal* data busses.
   The SX were actually made *on purpose* to be plug compatible with older
   (16 bit data bus) motherboards.

   The "half defective" explanation above *does* apply to processors of
   varying speed.  A 20MHz x86 is the same as a 25 or 33MHz except for the
   existence of some manufacturing defect that prevents it from passing
   functional tests at the higher speed.

You are mixing up the 486 and 386 versions of SX and DX.  A stupid move on
Intel's part, IMHO, but c'est la vie.  A 486 SX has a disabled co-processor.
A 386 SX has the smaller external path.

As far as speed differences go, you are mostly right.  I'm not sure I would
call it a manufacturing defect in the sense that if you buy a low speed chip
that you are getting a defective chip.  A 20MHz chip just might be able to
pass a 25MHz test, but you'll never know unless you try it and blow the chip.
From: aproden@ac.dal.ca (Andrew P. Rodenhiser)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Amusing names
Date: 15 Nov 92 15:15:05 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <dlphknob.721669948@cs1.bradley.edu>, dlphknob@cs1.bradley.edu (Jemaleddin Cole) writes:
> In <3209.434.uupcb@ehbbs.gwinnett.com> harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter)  writes:
> 
>>>> Mike Hunt
>>>> Dr. Jack Meehoff
>>>> Daniel Druff
>>>>
>>>    My husband was baptized into his church many years ago by a Jack Hoff.
>>>    It's true.  I saw the baptismal certificate and Jack Hoff's signature!
> 
>>Richard Head is a real person.
> 
> Try Dick Sweat, the recently elected congressman from New Hampshire....

Or Canadian Olympic official Dick Pound....

> --
> 
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> the little boy its little avail."
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From: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Subject: Anti-matter miss manners
Reply-To: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:07:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.161407.200@news2.cis.umn.edu>, mmoore@staff.tc.umn.edu
("None of ya Bizness") writes:
>>    [I support the idea of flaming Darryle's AIDS bullshit]
> 
> Oh, so that means I can call you a shithead dickbrain? Because you are
> one and you deserve to be told so.

   Gee, thanks, but could you point out my factual errors in the process, as I
did with this Strecker/AIDS/CIA bullshit?  Then everyone could _tell_ I deserve
it rather than just having your personal opinion.  (snicker)

Dan
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From: cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Dean Cording)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.nude
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Date: 21 Nov 92 14:33:38 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.12

The reason for wearing shoes when driving is that there is a nerve running
along the bottom of your foot.  This nerve protects your foot from stepping
on dangerous things by causing a reflex action to lift your foot up.
When driving this reflex action can occur when you stamp your foot of the
brakes in an emergency - as a result you in-voluntarily lift you foot
off the brake at the time you would least want to.

Driving without shoes is dangerous and the laws exist to protect you as well
as all other road users you may have the misfortune to run into.

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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: Child Molestors - internationally organized?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:55:38 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

Well, folks, there may really be a world-wide computer net of child
porn afficianados -- naturally, funded in part by the U.S. government,
though I don't think they realize that yet.  And what is the high-tech
communications mechanism they use?  Why, it's netnews, of course,
described in today's NY Times as ``a major computer bulletin board
that is used internationally''.

Yup -- according to the paper, a Cornell sophomore's dorm room was raided
by the FBI; they're investigating whether he ``used graphics imaging
technology to copy pornographic pictures of children onto computer files''.

Someone, either the FBI agents or the reporter, doesn't have too much of
a clue about what Usenet is:  ``Investigators say they think the student
may have gained access to the bulletin board through Cornell's computer
network.''  And one of the reasons they're concerned is that ``the files
had appeared in several regions of the United States as well as "on
another continent".  Well, yes, that is the way netnews works.
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: UL in a Time Warp!
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:24:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.153534.17420@unislc.uucp> dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
>
>1) She probably has a real job, and occasionally spends time
>   doing *it* rather than fooling around on the net all day like
>   so many of us.

Cindy's occupation and marital status is none of your business, nor is the
scheduling of anyone else's life.

>3) She is just not the type to read a.f.u every day and anxiously
>   follow up most articles with short quips and attempts at humor
>   like *some* people (rot("pwy")).

Nor is she the type to make attempts at complaints or personal attacks
that have to be obfuscated by rot-13.

bik rot(1)

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