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From: adams@aurs01.uucp (Laurie Adams)
Newsgroups: triangle.general
Subject: Need Help Converting a VHS videotape to UK VHS Format
Keywords: videotape, UK format, US format, VHS
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:33:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Occasionally

I have a 19-minute videotape made here in the USA that I need to convert or
copy to a format that can be viewed on the average VCR in the UK.  

The friend in England to whom I want to send the video footage tried to look
into it, and found that although both countries use VHS, the systems are quite
different.  USA has 425 lines while Europe, Australia, and the UK have 625 lines.  Therefore there may be some technical difficulty in converting or
transferring images.  

This is not terribly important to anyone but my friend, her husband, and myself
(family pictures, so to speak) so it would be hard to justify spending a lot of
money on it.  

I would be grateful to know if anyone out there has had any luck doing this
sort of thing, and if so, how. 

If anyone else is interested I will be glad to collect/summarize replies.

Thanks in advance, and cheerio,

						laurie

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From: marshall@marshall.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan A. Marshall)
Newsgroups: triangle.general
Subject: Re: Home inspectors/Building inspectors
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:07:08 GMT
Followup-To: triangle.general
Distribution: nc

> Some weeks ago, there was a thread on building inspectors in the area.  I
> think that there was some consensus that one particular inspector was by
> far the best.  However, at the time, I did not copy down this valuable
> information.  I now find myself in need of a *good* building inspector for
> the possible purchase of a townhome.  If anyone saved the list of good home
> inspectors, I would appreciate it if they would forward me a copy.  thank
> you very much.  PS.  does anyone know where this group is archived?  that
> would save some time.  regards, jcd
> 
> \  Joseph C. Davis   jcdavis1@eos.ncsu.edu       People are not basically
> \                    (919) 515-7452              stupid, they just act
> \                                                that way...


The file is archived in /unc/csa/recommendations/house-inspectors on
machine hatteras.cs.unc.edu.  I will send you a copy.

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From: hardarso@weiss.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson)
Newsgroups: triangle.general
Subject: Cable TV and you
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:47:15 GMT
Distribution: nc
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


I (being a Cablevision customer)  received an insert with my latest
Cable bill. The headline reads: "If you are thinking of buying a new
VCR, beware of paying extra for one with the so-called 'VCR Plus+' 
feature".  It goes on to explain how this feature won't do you any good
because the VCR can't control your cable box.  The insert ends by saying:
"Look for future messages from your cable company on this and similar
consumer issues".

It almost sounds like the cable company is doing people a favor by warning
about those unscrupulous VCR makers.  I can't help but think that if
the cable boxes weren't there, this VCR Plus system would work just 
fine.  And come to think of it,  I would be able to program my VCR
to record a program into the week on a preselected channel, or watch
one channel while recording another, and I could use one remote control
instead of having to pay the Cable company extra to get a remote control
with the cable box (1-2$/month extra).

Why do we need those boxes on top of our TV?  They look ugly, they
consume energy even when turned off (mine is always hotter than skin
temperature) and they complicate TV watching in general.  Does anyone
know if they benefit the consumer in any way?

I called my friendly cable company the other day and told them that the
picture on the Pay-per-view channels was bad - interference and such.
The answer I got was: "you may come to our office and get your cable box
exchanged".  I was supposed to drive 5 miles and get another box to test
the phone operators theory that this was probably the box.  What are those
vans with Cablevision logos for?  Foreign spies tapping phones, perhaps?

While I'm on the subject of cable TV: How come the cable
company doesn't broadcast the evening program on a separate channel like
so many companies do?  Instead they have been trying to get people to
subscribe to a Cable guide for 4-5$ extra a month (which only lists a subset
of the channels, i.e. not the network programs).  And how come they
charge 23.50$ for *basic* service?  Don't they know there's a recession?

Ahhhhhh!  That felt better!


-- 
Kari Hardarson, 217 Jackson Circle, Chapel Hill NC27514, (919)-914-5910
When Cows laugh hard, does milk spill out their noses?
Does the Pope french kiss the ground of a country he likes very much?
                               - Some comedian on A&E's Improv
From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
Newsgroups: triangle.general
Subject: Re: Computer Advice
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:41:06 GMT
Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes

In article <Bx9D38.2Lt@unx.sas.com> sasjcs@canoe.unx.sas.com (Joan Stout) writes:
>settlement. I bought a computer during our marriage, so he's legally
>entitled to half its value. I have no problem with that, but I want
>to know what a fair price is for this computer. The store where I
>bought it is no longer in business. Two places told me that the marker
>value is "$400-500," but I think it's worth less, based on similar 
>This is what I have:
>IBM-compatible XT (8088)
>20mg hard drive, 5.25 floppy drive
>640K RAM
>Samsung monochrome monitor
>Enhanced keyboard
>NEC Pinwriter 2200 printer

The prices you have quoted would be what the stores
would probably try to sell the system for.  You are 
quite correct in stating that you think it is
worth less.  With a measly 20mg hard drive, and it is
a used computer, if someone offers you $250-$300
for it, take it!  You know how it is, with computers,
would YOU buy a used computer?  They depreciate 
at a rate far greater than those used by most
accounting professionals.  In fact, the standard procedure 
nowadays is to write off the computer system in the first
year or two because of the volatility of the
market.  Remember when a 386 machine was considered
to be remarkable?  Now there are the 486's, and one
can pick up good 386 machines for almost nothing now.
They are about to release the next version to supercede
the 486, called the P-5 next year.  That is going to
make the price of 486's drop like it did for 386's 
when the 486 was introduced.  
--Keith

Newsgroups: triangle.general
From: sasjzs@falcon.unx.sas.com (Joseph Slater)
Subject: Re: Toyota mechanics?
Originator: sasjzs@falcon.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:48:44 GMT
Distribution: triangle
Reply-To: sasjzs@vms.sas.com
Organization: Or lack thereof


In article <1dc27aINNkn5@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>, nick@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Nick England - Sun NC Development Center) writes:
|>I have always heard good things about Happy Jap's in Cary. Knowledgable
|>and honest folks.
|>
I've used both Happy Jap's and Phil's Toy Store. Both do a good
job. However, being smaller operations, neither one may be able
to get it done in a hurry. If you can wait, either will do a 
good job. I've also used Del Richard's for brake work and was 
pleased with them.

Joe Slater
sasjzs@vms.sas.com
Mine opinion is just that.
Lauch's Quote (or paraphrase) of the day:
"I may not oppose everything proposed by Clinton"
Newsgroups: triangle.general
From: Dennis.Sherman@launchpad.unc.edu (Dennis Sherman)
Subject: Re: Toyota mechanics?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: triangle
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:29:36 GMT

In article <Bx7GwJ.86r@unx.sas.com> markwk@mohawk.unx.sas.com (Mark Kernodle) writes:
>
>	Al's Garage, at the boundary of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, is the
>best Toyota garage in town.  Although their prices are slightly higher 
>than average, you will find them honest, which is a good tradeoff.   

Second the vote for Al's.  I've been taking my '87 Chevy Nova (Toyota
Corolla in disguise) there for 3+ years, and I've been very happy with
them.  I haven't done enough price comparison to have an opinion on their
prices, but their honesty is a welcome change from a garage I used before
I moved here from Michigan.  They even tell me I *don't* need to spend
money on things! 

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From: weiss@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Steve Weiss)
Newsgroups: triangle.gardens
Subject: Advice needed on a landscape designer
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:35:23 GMT

Can anyone recommend a good landscape designer in the Chapel Hill
area?  We've just added to our house and are now in need of substantial
landscaping.  I would like to have someone do a whole design and do
some of the implementation.  But the rest of the work has to be left
for later.

Thanks
Steve



Newsgroups: triangle.gardens
From: uvfowl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Vicki J. Fowler)
Subject: Re: Advice needed on a landscape designer
Summary: Fowler's Nursery
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:02:03 GMT

In article <17448@borg.cs.unc.edu>, weiss@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Steve Weiss) writes:
> Can anyone recommend a good landscape designer in the Chapel Hill
> area?  We've just added to our house and are now in need of substantial
> landscaping.  I would like to have someone do a whole design and do
> some of the implementation.  But the rest of the work has to be left
> for later.

Try Fowler's Nursery, on Highway 401 South in Raleigh. It used to be
the best around (when my Dad owned it), and hopefully it still is.
vicki


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From: seth@mivax.mc.duke.edu (Lone Ranger)
Newsgroups: triangle.politics
Subject: RE: gun control
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:14:00 GMT
Organization: Duke University Medical Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Gun control seems to be another slippery fish.  Personal beliefs are hard to
change.  

A new twist: Imagine if the citizens of China had ready access to guns. 
             Maybe that failed revolution would've gone differently, for
             better or worse.

             Remember the protestor in Tien Ah Mien (sp?) square who stood
             politely in front of the tanks?  The peaceful approach has
             worked before (Ghandi, Gorby), but this time it didn't.
             I wonder how polite that protestor would have been if he had 
             had a rocket launcher. 

Of course, a totalitarian state is not going to let unauthorized people
have guns, not to mention artillery.  Is the possibility of our government
becoming totalitarian a good reason to keep guns legal? Is outlawing guns one
of the first steps a governmment must take to remove all our rights?

Then again, would handguns do any good?

Last but not least: Advocating the violent overthrow of our government is
                    illegal (supposedly, any references on this?).

If our government deserves to be overthrown, is violence justified?
(If you answer no, what about the American revolution?)
(Please don't mention voting; I know we replace our gov't by voting now,
but what if it were fixed or removed for "security/emergency" measures?)

There are two side to this very sticky issue, and I'm stuck on both.  My
inclinition is that I dislike gun control a little more than I dislike guns.
Newsgroups: triangle.politics
From: Mt.Miller@launchpad.unc.edu (Mt Miller)
Subject: NC presidiential vote count needed
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:47:52 GMT

I have not been able to find the final vote count in the NC Bush/Clinton
race.  If you have the final counts handy, could you send them to me?
Thanks!

Mark T. Miller				mt.miller@lambada.acs.unc.edu
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Newsgroups: triangle.politics
From: sasazc@maggot.unx.sas.com (Al Cohen)
Subject: Re: Gun Control
Originator: sasazc@maggot.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:07:32 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <92316.101556SNOSZB@vm.sas.com>, <SNOSZB@vm.sas.com> (Sanjeev Banerjia) writes:
>Ok, so there's been lots of rhetoric (as is usual and expected) on this, and
>truly gun-control proponents & oponents both can present compelling arguments.
>
>To me the question is not so much controlling guns; that is simply the means to
>an end, that end being the reduction of gun-related violence.  I'd like to
>hear some (intelligent) discussion on how we can accomplish that.
>
>As for waiting periods & the like, I read an article about a year ago or so
>(can't remember where, but it was mainstream press) about California's
>waiting period laws.  It was stated that since the waiting period rules had
>gone into effect, the state government had compared statistics on before/after
>handgun violence; it had dropped a very meager 3%.  I'd always been a gun
>control advocate, but those numbers made be rethink my position and re-evaluate
>_why_ I had been in favor of gun control.  Hence, my query today.
>
>Also, can anyone answer what possible benefit comes from NOT outlawing assault
>rifles (not just importation, but sale also)?
>
>Sanjeev

Better question -- what possible benifit can come *from* banning "assault"
rifles?  These "assault" rifles are the same semi-automatic rifles that have
been around for almost a century.  The rifles operating mechanism hasn't
changed, but now instead of wooden stocks, they have synthetic stocks and
other cosmetic differences that make them look "less friendly" :-)  FBI 
statistics show "assualt" weapons are used in 1% of all violent crime.

You said it yourself, let's stop fighting over leglislation that, if passed,
wouldn't make a dent in the real problem (gun-related *AND* non-gun-related
violence).  Waiting periods, gun registration and gun bans don't work because
the overwhelming majority of gun-related crime occurs with guns obtained
illegally.  Let's try stiffer laws/sentencing for crimes commited with *any*
deadly weapon, reducing the amount of plea bargining, building more prisons
and instituting the instant check system as in Virginia and other states.
It would be good a start ...


-- 
Al Cohen                sasazc@unx.sas.com      (919)677-8000 x7117
SAS Institute Inc.      SAS Campus Drive        Cary, NC 27513

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
 the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
   --  Amendment II, Bill of Rights

Newsgroups: triangle.politics
From: jrtyner@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN R TYNER)
Subject: Re: Gun control and abortion - with a little different 'twist'
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:53:32 GMT

From taco!rock!concert!theo!ge Fri Nov  6 14:44:05 EST 1992
Article: 92 of triangle.politics
Newsgroups: triangle.politics
From: infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew  Infante)
Newsgroups: triangle.politics
Subject: Re: Gun control and abortion - with a little different 'twist'
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:11:33 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

Most women (and I would think this is _very_ close to _all_ women) do
NOT need an additional 24 hours to think about the decision for abortion.

Why does someone NEED a gun immediately, except to do some damage.

Women should (and will!) be allowed to have control over their own 
bodies.  The government should not have anything do do with it.

Period.

later.

andy
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Date: Wednesday, 11 Nov 1992 10:15:56 EDT
From: <SNOSZB@vm.sas.com> (Sanjeev Banerjia)
Newsgroups: triangle.politics
Subject: Gun Control

Ok, so there's been lots of rhetoric (as is usual and expected) on this, and
truly gun-control proponents & oponents both can present compelling arguments.

To me the question is not so much controlling guns; that is simply the means to
an end, that end being the reduction of gun-related violence.  I'd like to
hear some (intelligent) discussion on how we can accomplish that.

As for waiting periods & the like, I read an article about a year ago or so
(can't remember where, but it was mainstream press) about California's
waiting period laws.  It was stated that since the waiting period rules had
gone into effect, the state government had compared statistics on before/after
handgun violence; it had dropped a very meager 3%.  I'd always been a gun
control advocate, but those numbers made be rethink my position and re-evaluate
_why_ I had been in favor of gun control.  Hence, my query today.

Also, can anyone answer what possible benefit comes from NOT outlawing assault
rifles (not just importation, but sale also)?

Sanjeev
Newsgroups: triangle.politics
From: rslugg@med.unc.edu (Robert Slugg)
Subject: Re: Gun control and abortion - with a little different 'twist'
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:00:05 GMT

In the "Brady Bill," the 7 days begins when they acknowledge receipt of
your application.  Suppose they never acknowledge receipt, then 7 days
becomes eternity.  The bill as written does not specify any punishment for
officials who refuse to accept the application.   My first application for
an NC pistol purchase permit took a dozen phone calls and three months in
Orange County yet in Durham County you can get one the same day if you
happen to know a deputy.  Perhaps the same is true in Orange, but since I
don't know any deputies, why would I if I don't break the law?, I had to
get signed affadavits from friends and lots of other nonsense.  Even after
all this, the Brady law would still require a seven day wait, or should I
say a minimum seven day wait.

I too am confused by a person being opposed to a waiting period for either
abortion or a gun purchase, but not to both.  To me, in each case a right
delayed is a right denied, the only difference is time, and with no upper
limit, delay does become deny.  Those with ulterior motives choose a
tactic which seems reasonable.  If Brady does pass, how long until it
becomes a moth, 6 months, a year, and then forever.  Likewise with
abortion, how long until 24 hrs becomes a week, a month, three months, and
then nine months. 

The waiting period for guns is especially stupid when you consider a large
percentage of purchases are made by people who already own guns.  Heat of
the moment is meaningless to me as a reason, yet I will be subjected to
it.  To see how I feel about this, imagine you wanted a beer, but had to
wait a week so the store could determine that you had no prior history of
DWI.  Not a happy thought is it.  Well, that's how I feel, I'm being
inconvenienced and punished for something another person has done.  As
soon as the powers to be get away with this type of infrigement in one
area, they will be after your favorite pastime too.  Remember, Hitler
started with guns, and the rest was easy after that.

Bob

Newsgroups: triangle.politics
From: ge@mcnc.org (George Entenman)
Subject: Re: Gun control and abortion - with a little different 'twist'
Organization: MCNC Center for Microelectronics, RTP, NC
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:13:37 GMT

In article <sasrer.721022999@cinnamon> sasrer@unx.sas.com (Rodney Radford) writes:
>How can people on one hand say that a 24-hour waiting for the purchase of
>guns is a 'good thing', and that is not an "infringement on the right...",
>but at the same time state (very strongly) that a 24-hour waiting period
>on women seeking an abortion is an infringement on their right of choice.
>In neither case is the person stopped from what they were planning on doing,
>but it is just recommended that they think about it for 24-hours. 

Two things come to mind:

1) First, I believe that many people who oppose a 24-hour waiting period
	for women seeking an abortion would dispute your claim that a
	24-hour waiting period would not stop a woman from having an
	abortion.  I believe that such a waiting period would stop many
	women because clinics and hospitals that perform abortion are
	not within easy reach of many women (because of Pro-Life
	protesters mainly); many women cannot afford to stay away from
	home and work for two days.   It is a *lot* easier to get a gun
	than to get an abortion.

2) The second thing that comes to mind is the fact that ALL women have
	the right to abortion, but not all people have the right to buy
	guns.  The purpose of the waiting period in the Brady bill is to
	determine a person's eligibility (criminal record).  The Brady
	bill specifically does NOT apply to states like Virginia, where
	the information is available on-line for immediate access (at
	least, that's what Bill Clinton said during one of the debates,
	as I recall).

Your point is well taken: we must be extremely careful before taking away
anyone's rights, even if "just" for 24 hours.

I hope this helps answer your question.

>Rodney Radford          || Computer Graphics/Imaging
>sasrer@unx.sas.com      || SAS Institute, Inc.
>(919) 677-8000 x7703    || Cary, NC  27513
>

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