HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Tod Mikuriya <mikuriya@igc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Date: 12 Apr 92 16:37 PDT
Subject: Gulf War Pilots on Speed
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1301300137:000:791
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!mikuriya    Apr 12 16:37:00 1992


Gulf War pilots used amphetamines

Oakland Tribune News Service
April 12, 1992

Tacoma- The Air Force has confirmed that some of its fighter pilots used
amphetamines to stay awake during the Persian Gulf War, a newspaper reported.

"They were used only under careful circumstances supervised by the flight
surgeon," said Patti Turner of the Air Force surgeon general's office at
Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC.

The pilots took Dexedrine, a brand name for dextroamphetamine, to keep alert
during flights longer than eight hours, Turner said in a story published in
The News Tribune of Tacoma.

The Air Force wouldn't reveal the number of pilots using amphetamines, allow
interviews with the pilots or say what type of aircraft they flew, the news-
paper reported Thursday (4/9/92)

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: pierre@media.mit.edu (Pierre St. Hilaire)
Subject: Re: MDMA alternative?: a rat example
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:01:11 GMT


>>     Nonneurotoxic tetralin and indan analogues of
>>   3,4-(methylenedioxy)amphetamine (MDA).
>>     Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 1990 Feb, 33(2):703-10.
>>     Unique ID:  90133772.
>
>I think somebody should try them.  Studying the effects of a proposed
>entactogen in a *rat* is pretty damn silly.  


Have you hugged your rat today ?

					Pierre St Hilaire
					MIT Media Lab

Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Subject: Re: tongue firmly in cheek
Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 06:02:35 GMT

atfurman@cup.portal.com (A T Furman) writes:
>Twenty years ago, David Nolan came up with a way out of the
>confusion caused by the conventional left-right dichotomy.  It
>was a two-dimensional representation of political views, as opposed
>to the one-dimensional left-right axis.  I am about to post an
>opinion quiz (the "World's Smallest Political Quiz") based on this
>representation.  I would first like to make a few additional points.
>
>                   Personal ^            Anarchism
>                   Freedom  | Left      Libert.
>                            |   \
>                            |    \
>                            |     \
>                            | C    \
>                            |  Fas   Right
>                            +--------------> Economic Freedom

Yeah, but you see *I* like this way better...


Free     ^             Anarch.     Right    
Market   |           Libert.         ^.
         |Fascism                    |
         |                           | 
         |                           |
         |      Soc.                 V
         |Comm.                     Left 
         +----------------> Personal Freedom
 
So now we get to argue over which 2-D model we like better.

Anyone for three or four - D models?  

(ps. turn the damn thing 90 deg CCW)
 
-- 
Lamont Granquist  lamontg@u.washington.edu  (anon: ap.4497@layout.berkeley.edu)
University of Washington, Seattle.    Disc: if UW ever finds out what I post... 
alt.drugs FTP site: milton.u.washington.edu[128.95.136.1] dir:/public/alt.drugs
               For quotes and other useless info see my .plan
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: Peter A. Cohen <peterco@eff.org>
Subject: Re: Orange County Judge: LegalizeDrugs
Organization: ON Technology, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:54:35 GMT

In article  Tod Mikuriya, mikuriya@igc.org writes:

>
>Judge backs legalizing drugs
> 
>Santa Ana  
>Oakland Tribune News Services
>April 10, 1992
> 
>Orange County officials were quick to denounce a conservative judge
>who said sales of marijuana, cocaine and heroin should be legalized
>because drug laws are ineffective and expensive to enforce.

Surprising that a judge from O.C. would have this reaction, since O.C. is
one of the capitals of facism in the U.S.  Not surprising that tightass
county officials would be quick to denounce him, braying, blind sheep
that they are.

- Peter
Xref: sparky alt.drugs:7764 talk.politics.drugs:2979
From: atfurman@cup.portal.com (A T Furman)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: WARNING ! Hot New Drug of Abuse
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 00:54:16 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Apr12.160712.27287@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  <1992Apr13.201641.1010@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>

                 Inebriate of air am I
                 And debauchee of dew...

                           -- Emily Dickinson
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: hacker@uts.edu.au (Mark hacker)
Subject: Re: tongue firmly in cheek
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 07:37:00 GMT

> Would someone please explain to me in clear words what do "leftist",
> "left", "left-wing", "right-wing", "rightist" etc. mean?  

I like this definition of right & left wingers:
Left wingers care more about people, than institutions.
Right wingers care more about institutions than people.

chris.chesher.humancomputer@boronia.uts.edu.au

Mark A. Hacker
Design Computing Unit
School of Design
University of Technology,Sydney.
Australia
Phone (02) 330 2917 Fax (612) 330 2933
Alink: AUST0475     Internet: hacker@uts.edu.au

Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Invade Colombia ?!?
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:41:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.183834.6608@pimacc.pima.edu> ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu writes:
>
>These drugs cannot be used responsibly IMHO. Who still has to pay when
>the user needs medical treatment.

They do, I hope.  Any society that controls its citizens by setting up free
medicine and using it as an excuse to prevent them from doing dangerous
things, is beneath contempt.

>For crack babies?

Actually, there's no such thing as a crack baby.  

What happened: a few years ago, someone came out with a study showing that
women who use crack tend to have babies with severe developmental deficits.
Shocking, right?  The media sure thought so, and put the phrase "crack baby"
on everyone's lips.  It's been heavy ammo in the Drug Warriors' bandolier.

Problem is, that study wasn't controlled.  Women who use crack, you see,
tend to also do a lot of nicotine and alcohol.  About half a year ago,
someone did another study, which corrected for such factors.  Presto - no
more crack babies. Instead it turned out to be Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and
lack of nurturing, which societies have been dealing with for quite a while.

Needless to say, these results didn't cause quite as much of a sensational
splash in the press.

>For your information the current violence in the drug scene goes back quite
>a ways before prohibition.

Yeah.  It also goes back a long ways before drugs.

>Pretending that the laws are the problem is like suggesting that all crime
>be eliminated by rescinding all laws. Intoxicated people are dangerous &
>making more drugs avail. in purer forms will just make the situatiom worse.

"Intoxicated people are dangerous?"

Hell, man, _people_ are dangerous.  Being intoxicated doesn't excuse people
from responsibility for their actions.  Some drugs, though, do have a very
strong effect on the brain centers that inhibit people from doing things
they might otherwise not.  The best example of this is - surprise -
alcohol.  We've known how to deal with drunks for thousands of years.  "Drug
fiends" aren't any worse.

In fact, most drugs are easier to deal with.  Commonly demonized drugs like
marijuana, LSD, and heroin make a user pretty much incapable of violence,
while he's high.  Of course, if he's sober and needs money because illegal
drugs cost so much, he just might well kill you for it.

The media would like you to believe that most drug violence is caused by
stoned maniacs.  (Well, the media doesn't give a fuck what you believe, but
it makes a better story that way.)  Not so.  Most drug violence is caused by
the perfectly sober people who sell drugs and make a lot of money off it.
Illegal drugs, that is.  Do you see liquor stores taking each other out in
drive-bys?

>Inner-city residents would differ on this, IMHO.

Ask Kurt Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore.

c
From: PXC111@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: SMART DRUG
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:27:33 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

I've heard of a drug that enhances awareness, memory, and cognitive
abilities.  The cool thing about this particular drug is that it is
legal!  I have never seen it used personally, or have even seen what
form(s) it is in.  If anyone has any information on this drug,
please e-mail me, and i guess it would be cool to post it.  Or just
e-mail me that you've posted it.  I'd like to try this drug out before
the fascists get to it.  Thanks.

Paul Conte
pxc111 @ psuvm.psu.edu
The Pennsylvania State University
From: Randy.Baer@f310.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Randy Baer)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: hi
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 10:22:00 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/310 - Tetragrammatton, St Petersburg FL

  This is a message to see if the news group is active or not.
If you are reading this please say  boo by your leave or something
to that extent.

--  
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From: huajima@buengf.bu.edu (Jim Huang)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: Wanted
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:09:25 GMT
Reply-To: huajima@buengf.bu.edu (Jim Huang)
Distribution: usa
Organization: College of Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Hi, I am hoping to buy the following book from someone:


W.M. Wonham, Linear Mulitivariable Control: A Geometric Approach.
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979


Any help will be much appreciated!!!             Jim Huang
From: linda@sunup.West.Sun.COM (Linda)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: TEXT WANTED
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:01:58 GMT
Reply-To: linda.knapp@West.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: zigana.west.sun.com

I am trying to find a copy of Simulation Modeling and Analysis by
Averil M. Law & W. David Kelton. If anyone locates a copy please email 
me at Linda.Knapp@west.sun.com.

Thanks, Linda
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: trung@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Trung Tran)
Subject: MIDI Files and Graphics - Please Help...
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:10:14 GMT


Can someone out there please give us a helping hand...

I've posted these questions to comp.graphics and comp.music, but there
seems to be no answer so far...

Some of my friends (in Canada) are trying to integrate MIDI files with
graphics.  For example, just like those Sing-Along video, they want to play
the tunes from the MIDI files with the words (and possibly some simple
animations) running on the monitor screen.  These MIDI files are recorded
using Cakewalk 2.0 software (I think).  Anyhow, if anyone has any
information on how to accomplish this task, please enlighten us.  We would
like to know what software we need to do this or if we can program
some applications, then how...  There are at least 2 of the guys from the
group are programmers (I'm not) so I'm sure they will greatly appreciate
any hints from you.

BTW, this group is trying to program educational application for children
not for commercial purposes...

Thanks in advance for any info...
-- 
Trung Tran
(408) 924-5106
trung@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU
Math & Computer Science Dept.
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: narpet@cs.mcgill.ca (Greg WARD)
Subject: Re: Fading, GIFs, special effects
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 21:20:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.220214.28221@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> robinsonm@clvax1.cl.msu.edu writes:
>   I am wondering if anyone can point me to some source code that 
>will show me how to do fading, color cycling, swipes, etc.???  I 
>am also interested in figuring out how I can write a program to 
>display GIF images, but I don't quite know where to start.  Amy 
>help will be appreciated.

Not too sure on the fancy graphics stuff, but I can recommend a book or two:

     TITLE:       Programmer's Guide to the EGA/VGA *
     AUTHOR:      George Sutty and Steve Blair
     PUBLISHER:   Brady Books / Simon and Schuster, Inc.
     DATE:        1988

     TITLE:       Programmer's Guide to IBM PC and PS/2 Video Systems
     AUTHOR:      Richard Wilton
     PUBLISHER:   MicroSoft Press
     DATE:        1987

     TITLE:       Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards
     AUTHOR:      Richard F. Ferraro
     PUBLISHER:   Addison - Wesley Publishing Co.
     DATE:        July, 1988

Sorry no ISBN info, but these come straight out of the file
proginfo.doc which came with my ATI SVGA card.  I'm familiar with the
last two; I have Wilton's book and it looks like it has excellent
coverage of basic graphics techniques (lines, circles, fills), but I
haven't done anything with these, and I don't know about that fancier
stuff you wanted.  Ferraro's book is mostly excellent for
card-specific techie stuff -- so you want to know what bit of what
register does what, and when?  This'll tell ya.  I included the first
one because ATI recommends it.  (Hence the * next to it.)

As for GIF's -- there is a fairly helpful file out there on the GIF
format.  Check the msdos/gif directory of your friendly neighbourhood
SIMTEL mirror site.

		Greg Ward (narpet@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: goss@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Timothy D. Goss)
Subject: Re: tricky batch - help
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 02:26:01 GMT

A tricky way to do it would be to write a small subroutine using only commands
built in to the DOS batch file language (and a good getkey program) which
would build the file name in an environment variable.  It wouldn't be too hard.
If anyone wants such a beast I could probably do it.  The suggestion offered
about writing a program is not within everyone's reach but is also doable if
anyone is interested...

 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 |         _   /|                                                             |
 |         \'o.O'	    We the unwilling, led by the unknowning,          |
 |         =(___)=          are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.      |
 |            U             We have done so much, for so long, with so little |
 |     Timothy D. Goss      we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. |
 | goss@micor.ocunix.on.ca                                                    |
 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Monday, 6 Apr 1992 22:30:02 EDT
From: <L28BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: tricky batch - help

I am trying to find a way to prompt a user to enter a filename.  The computer
will then search for an existing filename and insert the filename and path
into a variable.  Does anyone know or have an idea how to search for the files
and insert their filename and path into a varialbe, if they exist or not ?


                                              Thanks in advance
                                                 - Jack -
Xref: sparky alt.msdos.programmer:1161 comp.lang.pascal:2910 alt.binaries.sounds.d:754
From: jonas@udac.uu.se (Jonas Fogelberg)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.pascal,alt.binaries.sounds.d
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster inoformation requested
Date: 16 Apr 92 05:53:22 GMT
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala University, Sweden

In article <1992Apr12.165044.2718@vax1.umkc.edu> khill@vax1.umkc.edu writes:


>       About a week ago I bought a SoundBlaster.  Since that time, I have
>been sucking down files from every FTP sight that I got a reference to.  Not
>to mention every NEWS GROUP that I thought might possibly have a discussion
>on the SoundBlaster.  Well, to no avail, I have not found what I wanted so,
>I realize this is probably a common question, I need info on how to program
>the SoundBlaster -- IMHO, $150 for the card, a decent set of speakers, and
>a decent mic needs a little more use than just to play video games.

...<text deleted>

>============================================================================
====>| Ken Hill              | The opinions in this letter are not mine.  
They were |>| Amateur Mathematician | created by an evil computer with a 
mind of its own!  |>| Professional Paper 
boy|                                                      |>| KHILL@VAX1.
UMKC.EDU   |   :)<-<   "HELP, I've fallen and I can't get 
up!"    |>================================================================================

You can buy the SoundBlaster Developers Kit for DOS or Windows from Creative 
Labs. It cost around $100 I think. We have used the Windows version and it 
is quite simple to use and it has good documentation, with several examples.

Hope this helps,

Jonas.

--
Just my own personal humble opinions...
Jonas Fogelberg, UDAC (Uppsala University Computing Centre), Sweden.
EMAIL: jonas.fogelberg@udac.uu.se. PHONE: +46 18187878. FAX: +46 18187770.
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard)
Subject: Re: How do you tell which key is about to be pressed?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 06:17:29 GMT

Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:

>Could someone tell me if there is a DOS or BIOS system call that
>can tell me which key the user is about to press? One user of
...
>So here I am, stuck with my one last hope: that the hesitating
>finger of the user, hovering over the "X" key, then the "Enter"
>key, then the "Print Screen" key, can be detected by the hardware
>(why DO they call it an 'enhanced' keyboard, anyway?), evaluated
>for likelihood of being what the user really wants, and substitute
>the correct keystroke instead.

I believe this is going to require a further hardware upgrade.

>Any suggestions will be collected and reposted, depending on
>how well they help me forget (oops, I meant *solve*) my problems.

I would suggest just forgetting it.
From: gstoltz@usdsd1.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Gregory D Stoltz)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.msdos.programmer
Subject: DOS Error B0
Keywords: Error
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:47:57 GMT
Reply-To: gstoltz@usdsd1.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Gregory D Stoltz)
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR USG Data Services Division

Does anyone on the net have any idea what an MS DOS error B0 means?
I've looked through out my DOS documentation and I can't find any reference to
such an error.

The error occurs when attempting to execute an application from the drive of a
NETBIOS based network server (this particular NOS is a special purpose LAN
that very few people will ever have the misfortune of using). This error only
occurs on three of the five workstations on the LAN.  The two workstations
that work properly are COMPAQ and the ones that don't work are NCR.  All
configuration files on all of the machines are identical (well the COMPAQs use
COMPAQ DOS and the NCR machines use NCR DOS so the actual DOS files are
different).

Thanks in advance

-- 
 Gregory D. Stoltz,Systems Analyst  
 NCR Data Services, Dayton OH       
 Phone (513)445-1976 VOICEplus 622-1976
From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Interupts
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:10:52 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Originator: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <702604379snx@whizbang.ncoast.org>, mark@whizbang.ncoast.org (Mark W. Schumann) wrote:
}Get INTER27A.ZIP and INTER27B.ZIP from PD:<MSDOS.INFO> on the Simtel
}archive or its mirrors.

You're six months behind.  The current version is INTER29A, INTER29B, and
INTER28C (yes, twenty-eight; there weren't any changes to that part).
INTER30 will be going out in about three weeks.

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From: Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: How do you tell which key is about to be pressed?
Date: 17 Apr 92 05:14:48 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Could someone tell me if there is a DOS or BIOS system call that
can tell me which key the user is about to press? One user of
some application software I wrote has complained, in somewhat
hand-waving terms, that an order entry module requires too much
input, and interrupts the entire order-taking process by immediately
responding to invalid product codes or postal codes (zip codes
for you americans). He has asked me to propose some improvements
that will, quote, "make it go faster without so many ways to
choose the wrong option when you are in a hurry" (yes, I try,
how I try, to give the user choices from a menu, to "remember"
and regurgitate values that might have to be entered repetitively).

So here I am, stuck with my one last hope: that the hesitating
finger of the user, hovering over the "X" key, then the "Enter"
key, then the "Print Screen" key, can be detected by the hardware
(why DO they call it an 'enhanced' keyboard, anyway?), evaluated
for likelihood of being what the user really wants, and substitute
the correct keystroke instead.

Any suggestions will be collected and reposted, depending on
how well they help me forget (oops, I meant *solve*) my problems.
--
Mischa Sandberg ... Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca
                 or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Mischa_Sandberg
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Engineers think equations are an approximation of reality.
Physicists think reality is an approximation of the equations.
Mathematicians never make the connection.
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: joe@proto.com (Joe Huffman)
Subject: Re: Has anyone used VESA SVGA BIOS?
Organization: Prototronics @ Sandpoint, Idaho
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1992 17:13:09 GMT

genius@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Michael Cooper) writes:

>Regarding the VESA SVGA.  I have got that, but everytime I try to use it in 
>C++, I get nothing.  I am actually using just the IBM8514 graphics mode, but 
>I have an emulator for it which came with the card (Trident).  Does anyone 

The last time I tried the Trident 8514/A emulator I got off the Trident BBS,
it didn't work.  The Trident VESA TSR seems to work fine however.

You need to get a graphics driver (such as BGI) that supports VESA.  I don't 
know if a BGI version exists or not.  There are BGI SVGA drivers for various 
cards available at various ftp sites (I don't have ftp access and don't 
keep track of those sort of details), but I don't know if Trident is 
supported.

You could also buy another graphics library that support Borland C/C++ and
VESA.  For example, both Metagraphics and FlashTek, Inc. have such 
libraries.  FlashTek, Inc. also has a BGI interface available to make the
porting of BGI applications easier.

I work for FlashTek, Inc.

You can contact FlashTek as follows:

FlashTek, Inc.
804 Airport Way Suite D
Sandpoint, Idaho 83864

FAX:    208-263-8772
Voice:  208-263-7311
Orders: 800-397-7310
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