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From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,sci.skeptic,alt.astrology
Subject: Re: Did Nostradamus predict the end of communism?
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:07:53 GMT
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA

In article <1992Sep12.105336.12176@cuug.ab.ca> rpjday@cuug.ab.ca (Robert P.J. Day 277-3175) writes:
}In article <9pvn-2d.sheaffer@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
}>Upon careful examination, Nostradamus will be found to have predicted
}>EVERY significant event. However, the prediction itself cannot be
}>understood, or even recognized, until after the event has occurred.
}
}  Well, I wouldn't go quite this far.

Oh, I would.  Not only did he predict EVERY significant event, he also
predicted every insignificant event, and quite a few fictional ones as well.

There are those who can find absolutely ANYTHING in what he wrote, hence he
predicted EVERYTHING.
From: blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: NOTICE:"Bigfoot/Sasquatch" Sightings Request
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:30:44 GMT
Reply-To: blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Organization: Horizon Research

In article <190u6fINNghh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:
=> 
=>    Our research group is currently investigating reports and
sightings of the
=> animal known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch". If you or somebody you know
has had
=> such a sighting, or come across what may be evidence supporting the
existance
=> of such an animal, please get in contact with us in one of the following
=> formats:

The "World Weekly News" - that prestigious journal found near the
batteries at the supermarket checkout counter, had the following
headline as its lead story last week:

	"Woman Gives Birth to Bigfoot's Baby"

The accompnaying photo showed a woman holding what might pass
for a baby gorilla on her lap.... wearing overalls and a T-shirt.

Find that woman!
From: ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: NOTICE:"Bigfoot/Sasquatch" Sightings Request
Date: 14 Sep 1992 02:42:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


   Our research group is currently investigating reports and sightings of the
animal known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch". If you or somebody you know has had
such a sighting, or come across what may be evidence supporting the existance
of such an animal, please get in contact with us in one of the following
formats:
 
o Leave a private message in electronic mail.
o Call Thomas Hill at 216-362-6529.
o Or write:
 
  Thomas E. Hill
  16124 Richard Dr.
  Brook Park, OH 44142
 
 Contact with us can be totally anonymous if you wish. We are especially
interested in Ohio sightings but are by no means limited to investigations in
that state. Please, serious responses only.
-- 
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and as it went away from me I seen the backside of it walking as a man would
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From: v122pewm@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (APPRENTICE)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: Re: Request Info: Dudleytown, Conn.
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:39:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep8.213640.4615@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu writes...
>In article <Bu9w3w.IE5@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v122pewm@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (C.S. Flunky) writes in part:
>|> 
>|> I am searching for info concerning the weird things that have been going on 
>|> in Dudleytown over the past two hundred years.  
>Huh?  What weird things?

I am doing research for a friend who is investigating Dudleytown.  I don't know 
a lot but I will tell you what I know.  Dudleytown was fist settled by English 
settlers about 200 years ago.  It was settled by the Dudley family who was known
for their bad luck.  The town was built on a Indian burial ground.  The Dudleys
scared the Indians away.  There has been a long history of the residents going
insane and talking of the same paranormal experience.  The place is deserted now
but my friend went there and came back with some interesting stories as well as
pictures that picked up images that weren't there when the pictures were taken.
One of the people on this trip was slapped by an unseen force when she walked 
into the foundation of one of the old buildings.  

Mostly what I am looking for is information on what ever happened to the Dudley
family.  Any information pertaining to Dudleytown is welcome and I would love to
hear from anyone who has been there.

						Thanx,
						    Apprentice
From: v085r6qm@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Erin D Markle)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
Subject: great books
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:10:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Skeptic?
         Skeptic of Skepticism?
                                Tired of consensus reality?

These are some particularly cool books that tend to
blow holes in the realities of even the most resistant
materialists:

(especially this one) COSMIC TRIGGER (vols. 1 and 2)
                      SEX AND DRUGS
                              by: Robert Anton Wilson
        --- you'll probably find yourself blowing through
            vol. 1 of Cosmic Trigger in a sitting or two

                      THE ARCHAIC REVIVAL
                      THE INVISBLE LANDSCAPE(S?)
                              by: Terence McKenna
        --- Though I haven't read Landscapes (written
            with his brother, Dennis), by the way Archaic
            Revival went, i'ts sure to prove more than
            interesting.

                     MAGIC: AN OCCULT PRIMER
                     THE SECRET DOCTRINE
                               by: David Conway
       --- A real, live, practicing magician.

Hope someone will give them a shot..... especially COSMIC
TRIGGER
                    | Friend of Erin|
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
From: echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu (EDWARD CRAIG HYATT)
Subject: Re: Future People
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:33:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.024915.9458@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski) writes:
>
>How do we KNOW that there aren't human beings from the future mingling with
>us, having learned our customs and habits enough to blend in, undetected,
>but who know the future of the world and their place in it, and who have
>powers and abilities about which we can only dream.
>
>And how do you know that such people aren't your neighbors, your friends, your
>tax preparer, Dan Rather...
>
>Just food for thought.

This reminds me of an thought-provoking quote I saw in some other newsgroup.
Sorry I don't know the original author...

"Time travel must be impossible.  If it were possible somebody
would have come from the future to tell us."

Of course, this quote assumes that the person from the future
would be willing to contact us.  I liked the quote, though.

>
>
>John
>zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


-- 
--------------------
Craig Hyatt
NCSU@Raleigh, NC USA
echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu
--------------------
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
From: REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Rebecca Drayer)
Subject: Re: "Great Books," Indeed...
Organization: Yale University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 21:32:27 EDT

In article <BuA9By.3EM@acsu.buffalo.edu>
v085r6qm@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Erin D Markle) writes:
 
>        I'm talking about the material scientist that can
>tell me incredible amounts of information about the sub-atomic
>particles in the atoms in the molecules in the cells of my
>hand, but can't tell me anything about the mind-to-matter
>impulse that allows me to close my hand into a fist.
 
Actually, the mind-to-matter impulse that allows one to make a fist has
been mostly characterized by scientists.  Voltage-gated sodium ion channels
in nerve cell membranes open, allowing positively charged sodium ions to flow
into the cell.  This causes a depolarizing action potential, which is
conducted down the axons of neurons to synapses with muscle cells.  At the
synapses, neurotransmitters are released which ultimately cause an action
potential in the muscle cells.  And voila, the hand curls into a fist.
 
(You've gotten me started; I'm taking two neurobiology classes this
semester!  :))
 
 
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New Haven, CT 06520           |    Silliman College, Yale University
 
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you.  This is the principle difference between a dog and a man."
                                                        -Mark Twain
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Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,sci.skeptic,alt.astrology
From: rpjday@cuug.ab.ca (Robert P.J. Day 277-3175)
Subject: Re: Did Nostradamus predict the end of communism?
Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
Distribution:  world
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 10:53:36 GMT

In article <9pvn-2d.sheaffer@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
>Upon careful examination, Nostradamus will be found to have predicted
>EVERY significant event. However, the prediction itself cannot be
>understood, or even recognized, until after the event has occurred.

  Well, I wouldn't go quite this far.  He only wrote 997(?) quatrains,
so, from anyone's point of view, he could only have predicted this many
events, unless we allow quatrains to start doing double or triple duty.
I think I would draw the line there.

R. Day
Member, Alberta Skeptics
... the pit bull of skepticism ...
Xref: sparky alt.paranormal:2265 alt.conspiracy:10588 alt.alien.visitors:6603
From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,alt.conspiracy,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Matrix III Review
Date: 13 Sep 92 15:22:46 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1992Sep11.182734.6003@lmt.mn.org> alexa@county.lmt.mn.org (Alex Alexander) writes:

>MATRIX III: THE PSYCHO-SOCIAL CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL AND ELECTRONIC
>            MANIPULATION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

>If you live in this society today this book is a must-have item.

Sounds very nasty. Am I glad that not only do I not live in that
society, but I don't even live in that universe!
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205
Xref: sparky alt.paranormal:2270 sci.skeptic:16380 alt.astrology:1670
From: RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,sci.skeptic,alt.astrology
Subject: Re: Did Nostradamus predict the end of communism?
Date: 13 Sep 92 17:59:41 GMT
 <92257.122510RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>

hi again, the "in short.." part and the "how did you..." part were meant to
go after all of the notes, not in the middle of them.  i'm not quite sure
about this editor yet, and i apologize for any confusion which may have been
caused because of that.
From: dewind@acsu.buffalo.edu (Idbil Fubar)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: Re: Cyberspace BBS 1 zer0 BBS 301-589-4064
Keywords: BBS UNIX Cyberspace Pk Dick SciFi Psychotronic VR MIDI
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:31:31 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: UB

jhurwitz@access.digex.com (j. hurwitz) writes:

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Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
From: jhurwitz@access.digex.com (j. hurwitz)
Subject: Cyberspace BBS  1 zer0 BBS 301-589-4064
Keywords: BBS UNIX Cyberspace Pk Dick SciFi Psychotronic VR MIDI
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: all
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Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [comp.security.misc]  Re: Locking terminals (was Re: New Princeton Policy)
Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.security.misc
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:40:04 GMT

[A repost - Carl]

From: tmal@cl.cam.ac.uk (Mark Lomas)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject:  Re: Locking terminals (was Re: New Princeton Policy)
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:54:24 GMT

The technique that I favour, and which has been adopted by at least two
workstation vendors, is to provide a key sequence that restarts the server
that is driving the console.  The code to recognise this key sequence should
be embedded in the device driver in such a position that it cannot be
switched off under any circumstances.

First, if the server hangs you can restart it without something as drastic
as a reboot.  Second, if somebody writes their own version of the lock
utility then you can defeat it without the attendant risk that you gain
access to their account.  Third, you can ensure that nobody is running a
program that masquerades as the login utility.

Thus this solution has the side-effect of improving system security.

	Mark Lomas (tmal@cl.cam.ac.uk)
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: ldg@scott.skidmore.edu (Leo D. Geoffrion)
Subject: Re: Intellectual Property Theft...Help.
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:02:36 GMT

In article <199209080137.AA01381@eff.org> DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu (Diane Kovacs) writes:
>Well folks ... I am so angry my hands are shaking.  I need advice and
>I need it badly.  What do I do when someone influential and powerful
>in my profession is taking one of my projects and apparently trying to
>pass it off as belonging to a particularly influential and powerful
>organization in my profession (names hidden to protect me.).
>

Ouch!  That is indeed a deep mess!

First question to consider...
    Do you want to fight or surrender?  Only you can decide that and
    don't let outsiders (including me) talk you in or out of fighting.
    
Assuming you do want to fight...
    Step 1:  keep a meticulous log of all contacts and conversations
    regarding the incident.  Include copies of your orignal work and 
    how the offender "doctored" it.  Documentation is the single most 
    powerful weapon in making your case.

    Step 2:  Locate the correct complaint point
    I'd take a long hard look at the organizational structure of the 
    school to see what your options may be.  The key is to locate 
    possible allies who are positioned even stronger than your
    offender.

    For example, many schools have some form of "professional conduct"
    board who's mission is to review such charges.  In other cases, it
    may be the Dean or VP for Academic Affairs.

    Step 3:  Make your case
    Most schools are highly sensitive to intellectual property issues,
    and if your case is solid, you stand a reasonable chance of a fair
    hearing.  I'd meet with the key individual(s) identified above and
    discuss the case fully and carefully.  Impress them with the
    accuracy of your facts, dates, etc...
-- 
Leo Geoffrion, Skidmore College Computer Services, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
EMAIL: ldg@scott.skidmore.edu   VOICE: (518) 584-5000 Ext. 2919

Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.org.eff.talk
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [comp.org.eff.talk]  Re: Wayne State University's Bad Behavior C
Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.org.eff.talk
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:40:31 GMT

[A repost - Carl]

Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
From: jdailey@dadd.ti.com (Jim Dailey)
Subject:  Re: Wayne State University's Bad Behavior C
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:23:33 GMT

delledg@jake.cc.wayne.edu (De Vaughn Elledge) writes:
>jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) writes:
>>delledg@jake.cc.wayne.edu (De Vaughn Elledge) writes:
>>"
>>"Wes, You took the words staight out of my mouth. If you abuse a
>>"priviledge and it is taken away by *due process* you almost have to 
>>"expect a miracle to get them back. Assuming that the event was handled 
>>"by the due process umbrella. According to the WSU department that
>>"handled the case (SECURITY OFFICE) the user had to be really screwing up
>>"and didn't take their warnings seriously. 
>>"
>>
>>There was never any due process in the case at all. The student in 
>>question had her academic performance hurt by her lack of access to 
>>the facilities. Again, like I said: There was no due process nor is
>>there a policy in place for any kind of due process. The C&IT has
>>been making excuses for years regarding this one. (The case goes 
>>back about 9 years).
>
> Don't lie John.....we both know there was due process.

Could you provide some substance, please, De Vaughn?
---
Jim  jdailey@dadd.ti.com
   TI pays absolutely no attention to me or my opinions; therefore,
   the foregoing posting cannot possibly represent TI's viewpoint.
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [comp.security.misc]  Re: Locking terminals (was Re: New Princeton Policy)
Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.security.misc
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:43:09 GMT

[A repost - Carl]

From: rik@nella13.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject:  Re: Locking terminals (was Re: New Princeton Policy)
Date: 12 Sep 92 07:33:58 GMT

ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:

>Danny> == Danny McGurl <dsm@prism.gatech.EDU> 

> Danny> Heck, we hav trouble keeping people from bringing in cokes into
> Danny> some of our clusters (even though we have huge signs).  Somehow
> Danny> I think people would laugh at a reguirement to use the system
> Danny> lockscreen :)

>Simple policy fix: ``If the terminal is locked with anything other than
>the "standard" lockscreen, it may be rebooted in order to clear the
>lock.''

There's a similar discussion going on at Monash.  Unfortunately the same
``solution'' came up here.  The problem with Christopher's method is
that the person who ran the non-standard lockscreen doesn't lose
by this (any more than a ``log out after 15 mins'' approach), but the
people who are remotely logged in do lose.  You are punishing the
remote users, just because of one idiot locking the screen the
``wrong'' way.

rik.
-- 
Rik Harris - rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au
+61 3 571-2895 (AH & ans.mach) +61 3 573-2679 (BH)
Faculty of Computing and Information Technology,
Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Australia
--
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Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [comp.org.eff.talk]  policy
Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.org.eff.talk
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:30:38 GMT

[A repost - Carl]

Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
From: newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham)
Subject:  policy
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 21:08:49 GMT


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Subject: Re: Computers and Academic Freedom News 02.28 (Digest)
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