HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ping@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Shiping Zhang)
Subject: Re: fun problem No.2
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:45:21 GMT

In article <1005@blue.cis.pitt.edu> yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding) writes:
>In article <1992Dec20.025137.12633@bnlux1.bnl.gov> ping@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Shiping Zhang) writes:
>>   As I understand it, it is 1/2.  For the remaining two doors, the chances
>>   are 50:50 to either have them both with goats or to have one door with a
>
>You are right if the host only open a remainning door randomly.  In this
>case, host may open a door with a car and you lost.  But if host only
>open a door with goat behind it, the chance of the other door is car is
>the same as the door you choose is goat = 2/3.

  I agree on 2/3, though with a different reasoining.

-ping

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: dg40@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Duanyang  Guo)
Subject: help wanted
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:12:54 GMT

hi, this msg is for a friend who does not have
account. 

-----------------------------
anyone knows what is the procedure for a F-1 student
to divorce with spouse who is with F-2 currently? 
the information about the procedure in the US side
and in the China side(without going back to China)
will be helpful. 

thanks in advance, 

------------------------------
From: hxie@dps91a.cis.upenn.edu (Hong Liang Xie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Another situation puzzle
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:23:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.200528.18499@ee.rochester.edu>, yao@ee.rochester.edu (Meng Yao) writes:

|> >***************************
|> >A man is sitting in bed in a hotel room.  He makes a phone call,
|> >saying nothing, and then goes to sleep. 
|> >***************************
|> 
|> As other netters have mentioned, there are too many possibilities here.
|> One possibility is that he made a call to his office phone number to
|> see if there were important messages. Apparently there were not, so he just
|> went to sleep.
|> 
|> Meng

Yes, there are many possibilities.  But some possibilities are more convincing
and interesting, this is exactly what situation puzzle is about.

For your answer, can I ask why the man sat in bed before making the phone
call, but not any other time?  Any robust reason?

A hint is that the man apparently couldn't fall into sleep, this was why 
he sat in bed and made a phone call.  And merely ringing a number without
speaking helped him falling into sleep.  

-Hongliang
From: zdchang@coos.dartmouth.edu (David Z. Chang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: test
Summary: This is just a test
Keywords: test
Date: 30 Dec 92 04:27:48 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

This is just a test. Pleas ignore.
From: ph279sw@prism.gatech.EDU (FR Siqing WEI)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Two puzzles
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:45:41 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <00965714.FA6CDFC0@Msu.oscs.montana.edu> uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
 writes:
>In article <9211217249.AA72498@ccmail.uoregon.edu>, Tuya@ccmail.uoregon.edu (Tu
ya) writes:

>>          1.  John starts to walk at


|        The real question associated with this famous problem is how
|many people have attempted and successed to solve it by series
|summation method?

AND: asking "how the hell you do it otherwise?" (same guy :^) )

Wei
|
|        (Someone did that in about 10 sec., in his head!  :-)  )
|    Eddie
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: yan@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Yongfei Yan)
Subject: Announcement of the Establishment of SUOAA
Summary: SUOAA is established, e-mail me you e-mail address if you are
		from Shandong University.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:39:16 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada
Keywords: Alumni, Shandong University

*****************************************************************
* If you are from Shandong University, I would be very          *
*  appreciative if you can e-mail me your email address and     *
*  other alumni addresses if you know.                          *
*															    *
*  Remember: your friends and classmates are looking forward to *
*            hearing from you!!!                                *
*  															    *
*  You may send an e-mail message to yan@cs.uregina.ca if you   *
*  don't want to be involved. Shandong University Overseas      *
*  Alumni Association (SUOAA) appreciates your wish to join in  *
*  and understands your inclination to leave also.              *
*****************************************************************


******************************************************************
*       Shandong University Overseas Alumni Association          *
******************************************************************

	The association is established by overseas students and visiting scholars 
	from Shandong University.The association is a non-political, 
	non-profitable organization.

	The objectives of the association are to:
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1. Enhance communications among Alumni and organize social activities;

   We should probably set up an Alumni network to promote more
   scientific and job-oriented ( more important to most of our members )
   information exchange. We can also help each other find old pals and
   classmates.

2. Serve members' interests;

	The organization has the right and responsibility to represent
	and serve our members. The association has the right to contact
	any institution or make any statements on behalf of its members.

3. Promote scientific and technological exchanges between China,
   especially Shandong University, and overseas organizations;

	Practically, don't forget to give a seminar at Shandong
	University whenever you have a chance to visit China.

4. Promote involvement in helping China into the 21st century. 

   We are walking toward the 21st century, which obviously belongs 
   to our Asians. Our history books have been filled with foreign 
   invasions and repressions, but our brothers and sister 
   are writing a new chapter. We should not be buried with books 
   and concerned with only bread anymore. Let's be involved in this 
   great era.

   The association is run according to democratic procedures:
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1. The association is run by president, vice-president, and committee
   members.

2. President, vice-president and committee members are elected by voting.

	The cheapest and fastest way is to vote by e-mail.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: dong@phage.cshl.org (Benhao Dong in Krainer Lab - CSHL)
Subject: To all Shanghai Medical University alumni
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Long Is New York
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:44:47 GMT

***************************************************************************
          Announcement of the alumni directory of
                Shanghai Medical University

To all those of you who had attended Shanghai Medical University, formerly
Shanghai First Medical College, I am setting up an alumni directory. If
you are interested in adding your name to the directory, please e-mail me,
or send me a brief letter, indicating your class (attended), current work
address(and home address if you like),field of research or specialty(for those
who are doing a residency :) ), e-mail or fax(if any), or phone#.

The purpose of this directory is to promote exchange of information, be it
personal or academic,among us schoolmates. The unversity also would like to
keep in touch with its former students, and to invite them back for seminars
or to establish joint research projects.

e-mail me if you have any questions.

My address is: Benhao Dong
               Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
               P.O.Box 100
               Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
Fax            (516)367-8815


-Benhao dong-

Xref: sparky soc.culture.china:33519 soc.culture.taiwan:16544 soc.culture.korean:6665 soc.culture.japan:12847
From: x0x6117@zeus.tamu.edu (XU, XIE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: looking for student association at Baylor Univ. at Waco, Texas
Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:04 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Hi, everyone!
I have a friend who is coming from China to attend Baylor Univ. at Waco, Texas.
He needs to share a room with Chinese student at Waco.
I would appreciate if someone let me know who we can contact! Is there a 
Chinese student association in Baylor University? Can we find someone from the 
school to pick him up in Dallas airport?
Thank you for your time!
-Xu 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: joseph@hardy.u.washington.edu (Joseph Chan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: RMB vs. US$  -- Re: The depreciation of RMB
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:04:39 GMT
Reply-To: joseph@hardy.u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


Look at the inflation rates for US and China and the prime interest rate,
the RMB is on the continuous depreciation trend.  It is not easy to
buy US$ in China.  In order to keep up with the inflation and currency
depreciation, one way is to buy some real property, a flat, or a house in China
by borrowing RMB.  With the low interest rate and the high inflation rate,
you can borrow RMB with negative real rate.

Good luck.

Joseph
From: jfeng@vax.cns.muskingum.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Yan Xin and his Qi Gong
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:08:53 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.china
Organization: Muskingum College

In article <105976@bu.edu>, jeffy@bass.bu.edu (jeff yuan) writes:
> OK use your common sense:
> 
> If those Qi Gong masters can really move objects at a distance, alter
> matter, and cause chemical reactions, why the F*CK are they peddling 
> it like snake oil ??!!
> 
    

     >I think you have some good points in your articles, and I agree that
Yan's Qi Gong is more mental and psychological than material and physiological. 
There may be some truth to his Gong, but if Master Yan overdoes it, myth
prevails.  For those who faithfully believe in Yan and his Qi Gong, I advise
you read a series of articles by Li Han-Xiang in the World Journal on the truth
and the myth of Qi Gong. In those articles, Li tore the mask off some skilled
tricks by well reputed Qi Gong masters in China.  I hope those will be
enlightening to some people.  Let's all learn to be a little scientifically
critical. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan,talk.politics.china
From: utingli@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tingli Pan)
Subject: Re: Chinese Running Dog
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:21:33 GMT

In article <BzoFJy.py@ulowell.ulowell.edu> cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi) writes:
>In article <Bzo0q1.5sK@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> utingli@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tingli Pan) writes:
>>In article <1h6ph5INNd91@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> jlam@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lord Automato) writes:
>>>
>>>In article <2B33AF4A.14932@news.service.uci.edu>, ygu@eve.eng.uci.edu (Yifan Gu) writes:
>>>
>>>|> No, running dogs are chinese people who serve the interests of their foreign
>>>
>>>No, running dogs are those who serve for their own self-interests and betray
>>>the interests of others fellow countrymen.
>>>
>>I think this definition isn't very accurate. And seems almost all the
>>CCP Gao Gang will be covered under it.
>>
>>Tingli Pan   
>>>Lin Can
>There is no room for argument about the definition of "running dog". That
>was a phenomena among among Chinese since late last centry.
>Someboudy(running dog) is trying to twist to definition to be off the hood.

I always think it is not a strategic way to put a name to the
opponents, as the other side can do the same easily. For example, if A
calls B as KMT's running dog, then B can easily call back A as CCP's
running dog. Both sides can manipulate the definition conviniently to suit
their own requirment. That is what we've seen recently. It is fun for
the bystanders, but for A and B, well, at least they practise their
English writing.

Again, you can say almost everybody is a running dog, for their
girlfriends, children, parents and etc... 

Tingli Pan
From: color93@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: re: Old Man Cross River
Date: 26 Dec 92 21:24:48 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

When the weather is cold enough, and the water is changed into ice, the old man
can walk thru.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb)
Subject: Re: Chinese Manifest Destiny
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 11:22:18 GMT

Jianfeng Li writes:

> To China, being the super power for over 15 centuries(from -300 to
> +1,200),chinese enjoied a far more advanced society than the rest
> of the world.

"Super power"?  Nice dream.  China, throughout its history, has never been
more than a regional power at best, and it has barely been able to control
even the territory it now claims as its own.  China has had extremely little
political or military power over people outside its own borders - hardly a
"super power."

> It is not only because we are proud of being chinese,but also
> our responsibility to take over the leadship in next century....
> Please be prepared for the coming century.
>
> We are the only capable candidate for the leadship.
> Come on,be a member of the family which will make history again.
> a chinese.

"Only capable candidate for the leadership".  Why, thank you, Mr. Li.  What a
refreshing reinvention of the master race theory!  Pray tell, which previous
model do you intend to follow, the German or the Japanese?

(P.S. - Don't mean to be impolite, Jianfeng, but it's my wager that the rest
of the world will resist your dreams of Chinese hegemony just as successfully
as your other totalitarian friends were resisted in the 1930s and 1940s.
We're not as poorly armed as the Tibetans, you know.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin)
Subject: Re: Bosnia Rape, What Could the World Do?
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:05:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.235136.4719@news.acns.nwu.edu> carl_@nwu.edu  writes:
>In article <C03HJs.8qL@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin)  
>writes:
>> In article <BznAqx.4sG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> xlli@silver.ucs.indiana.edu  
>(xiao-lin li) writes:
>> >
>> >The following is a horrible story article from NYT. It reads much
>> >like what I read about "The Rape of Nainjing".
>> >
>> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >	Copied without permission from:
>> > 	The New York Times OP-ED Sunday, December 13, 1992
>> >
>> >	Rape After Rape After Rape
>> >
>> >	ZAGREB, Croatia.  What is happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina to 
>>      
>>    I didn't finish reading it, because I just DON't BELIEVE IT IS TRUE!
>> 
>>    If people in that country(former Yogoslavia) can commit this kind of
>> crime, I can't trust the woman who told the story.....
>> 
>> YY
>
>You are right. The news is not from People's Daily. It is a lie. Only People's  
 If people's daily tell the same story, I will believe it's true.
 but so far I haven't seen PD's report yet.

>Daily has truth. You don't even need to comment on this. Everybody knows that  
>only People's Daily speaks of truth.

  Mostly.

> Long live Mao Zhuxi!
  
  I shout this many decades ago.        
  Chairman Mao stands for honest, justice, truth, progress, correctness,
  peace, love, care..... that's the reason you guys hate him.

  
>
>Carl


Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong
From: becker@shell.portal.com (CELIA TONY BECKER)
Subject: Re: Mongolia
Organization: Portal Communications Company
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:09:57 GMT

To all concerned about Mongolia's relation to China:

Please read a little more history beyond the abridged and reformed
materials fed to you by the communist Chinese government.  There are
many excellent books by historians of many countries in most 
university libraries.

Many authorities consider the Mongol-Chinese empire to have been the 
largest and best run until the 20th century--even with all its 
brutality.  No one else until quite recently was very humane either.

Many authorities consider the Ming dynasty to be equal or greater in
development than the Tang dynasty.  After all, the only time China
had a formidable navy, albeit briefly, was during the Ming Dynasty. 
Porcelain was considered to reach its perfection in this dynasty,
as was jade carving.  The Ching dynasty's work is considered to be
"overdone" and somewhat stylized, lacking the real feeling of the
Ming dynasty.  Also wouldn't it be an insult to say that all Chinese
since the Yuan dynasty are inferior to their ancestors and not
capable of doing as well?

Last, what ever happened to democracy in this discussion?  Shouldn't
the Mongolians have the same right to self-determination as the
Chinese or any other nation's people?  Shouldn't a plebiscite among
Mongolians determine any merger with China?  That so many people
in this discussion argued so strongly for "taking over Mongolia,"
or not recognizing it as an independent nation, shows how much 
mainland Chinese have yet to learn about democracy and fairness.

Recall that it was the Chinese government's murder of Genghis Khan's
father that prompted him to take over China.  This wasn't the first
time the Chinese had murdered Mongolian leaders to try to divide or
weaken the nation.  This was in addition to the constant encroachments
on our lands and forced marches westward of the Mongolian losers of some
battles as we tried to defend ourselves.  

We descendants of Genghis Khan in the U.S. and East Europe "remember"
how difficult it has been to live in Caucasian territories after being
booted out of our original homeland in northwestern China by the imperial
Chinese.  After you have rejected us so often and murdered our leaders,
we say that's enough!  Don't even think about conquering Mongolia! 
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From: jlam@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lord Automato)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan,talk.politics.china
Subject: Re: Chinese Running Dog
Date: 22 Dec 1992 21:09:41 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au


In article <2B33AF4A.14932@news.service.uci.edu>, ygu@eve.eng.uci.edu (Yifan Gu) writes:

|> No, running dogs are chinese people who serve the interests of their foreign

No, running dogs are those who serve for their own self-interests and betray
the interests of others fellow countrymen.

Lin Can
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:09:57 EST
From: <JXL19@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Looking for Ms Jie Min [from J-M]

J-M L is looking for Ms Jie MIN who came from Beijing in 1988. If you get
this message please contact me in

                  JXL19@psuvm.psu.edu

Please.....

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

J-M
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: yzhang@math15.math.umbc.edu (Yin Zhang)
Subject: Re: Two puzzles
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:07:40 GMT

In article <9211217249.AA72498@ccmail.uoregon.edu> 
Tuya@ccmail.uoregon.edu (Tuya) writes:
>          1.  John starts to walk at
>              5 miles/hour from point A to point B which are 10 miles
>              apart.  The problem is his dog, which runs twice as fast
>              as he does, starts with him and go back and forth in
>              between him and point B during his walk.  Now the
>              question is:  By the time John reaches point B, how many
>              miles has his dog run?
>
>          2.  A guy is told to draw one note from a box containing
>              two.  One note is supposed to write "live" and the other
>              "die."  But someone told him that his enemy has put down
>              "die" on both of these notes.  When he hears this, he
>              said: "I am saved!"  Why?
>
	1. 20 miles.
	2. He swallows one note, the one left is "die", so the one
           he swallows must be supposed to be "live".
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Life in this United States of America (4)
From: <JXL124@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:39:01 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization: Penn State University

Your stories are interesting.  I wonder if you could be ripped off just once
please?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: Tuya@ccmail.uoregon.edu (Tuya)
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:42:18 GMT


                        SILENT SYMPHONY
                                        by 12/28/1992

          --------------------------------------------------------

          *      *              *   *             *    *

             *    *   *       *  (snow flowers)     *
                                     *
          *      *        *             *     *       *

             *      *            *                 *
                        *            *     *                   *


          ****************************************************
               ^
                  Music accumulated over night
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: wang@math.psu.edu (Feng Wang)
Subject: Re: An Old Arithmatic Problem
Reply-To: wang@math.psu.edu
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:37:37 GMT

In article 92Dec24102412@dblab3.dblab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp, chx@dblab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp (Chen Han Xiong) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.030842.3141@news.cs.brandeis.edu> xi@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>
>
>  >> 5 * ( 5 - 1/5) = 5*4.8 = 24
>
>It's a funny you calculated this way. So,
>
>7*(3+3/7) = 7*3.4285714... =(?)= 24
>--

Sure, why not?  What's wrong with this?





Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong
From: phsj@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Su Jianfeng)
Subject: Re: Looking Back From 2992 - The disastrous 21st century
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 10:08:09 GMT

How can economies in Hong Kong, Canton, Fujian, etc., develop without
strong relationships with other parts of China ?



J Su

In article <say.725920160@sfu.ca> say@monashee.sfu.ca (Daniel Say) writes:
>  It will be the Federal Republic of China, parallell with the
>Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
>   Hong Kong and Guangzhou with Hunan, Fujian and Taiwan in a loose
>association.  Zizang with Xinjiang and Nei Mongol in a loose association
>with the Federation.  Dongbei, Beijing with Tianjin, Shanghai as the 
>powerhouse economies.
>   There was a conference, covered by the Economist, on the war and breakup
>of China, in London in April 1992.
>


Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: Mike.Chang@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Chang)
Subject: Playing music on PC?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:36:54 GMT

I tried to download some Chinese songs from ifcss.org last weekend. I
also downloaded shareware "plany" from simtel, which is supposed to play
.voc, .au  files on a PC (oh, yes, my PC has a Thunder Blaster, which is
100% compatible with Sound Blaster and Adlib.). After type "plany musicname"
I only got discounted music -- there is a pause every a few seconds in the
songs. How can I correct them? Is it a bug in the "plany", or my procedure
is wrong?  
--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china