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From: tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.men
Subject: SNUFF FILMS sighted in TIME MAGAZINE!!! (Dworkin and MacKinnon, too)
Summary: Sniff, sniff, I smell SNUFF
Keywords: HEY WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING HERE FOR? SET THE FOLLOWUP LINE CORRECTLY!
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:50:17 GMT
Reply-To: tjw+@pitt.edu
Followup-To: SET THIS CORRECTLY OR YOU'LL BE SORRY!  :-P
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Here's a little excerpt from the Law section of TIME entitled
"PASSIONS OVER PORNORAPHY" by John Elson.

From the March 30th, 1992 edition of TIME (Page 52).

The article features 2 nice pictures of the mascotts of soc.men:

	Professor Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin

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"Pornography currently has more protection than women do", MacKinnon told the
statehouse committee considering the Massachusetts bill.  In corroboration,
several witnesses gave chilling testimony of being sexually abused by
husbands and boyfriends who admitted that they had been prompted by porn
films or magazines.  Fighting back tears, Pat Haas of Brookline, Mass., said
she had been beaten by her boyfriend, who forced her to act out scenes from
pornography.  "He did what was in the movies", says Haas.  "If he had seen a
SNUFF FILM, I wouldn't be here". 
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Good thing he didn't see a SNUFF FILM!  What would have happened if he had
heard about CRAIG SHERGOLD or received a chain letter.  I shudder to think!

Terry "SNUFF FILMS ARE NOT MADE BY THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY" Wood

Be sure and set your followup line appropriately, Monkey Boys.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: morris@anasaz (Bob Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The wacky, flakey State
Keywords: earthquake dam flood
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:20:39 GMT
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Az

In article <1992Apr6.165612.12002@anasaz> I muttered:
>
>Dam UL:  Boulder (aka Hoover) dam has survived a 5.4 earthquake and has
>been struck by a light plant who couldn't pull up in time.  Although it

Make that a light plane.  Who said I was a humorless SOB?  I learned more
in touch typing in high school than in any other class.  Makes you wonder
how I ever graduated, doesn't it? (The *real* reason was so I could sit
next to Suzie McCrossen.  Now you know why I never learned to type).

Bob "what kind of flowers does a 747 have?" Morris
aka morris@anasazi.com  (new address)
anasaz!morris@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (old address still works)
My opinions only, of course...
From: isaacman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Subvert the Dominant Paradigm! (301) 513-7769)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Falling Bullets and tuning musical instruments
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:46:00 GMT
Organization: NASA/GSFC-Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <1992Apr14.203051.9737@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, comjohn@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen) writes...
>billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
> 
>>: a) Sound does not travel in a vacuum - remember in space no one can
>>: hear you scream.
>>: b) About 330 metres per second
>>: c) About 1500 metres per second (this is typical of the ocean)
>>: d) I have no idea my guess (based on the sped in rocks) would be about
>>: 5000 meters per second.
> 
>>Which goes to show that speed of sound in a substance is density related.
>>Within limiting values, temperature has little effect on density for solids
>>or liquids. This is not true for air - assuming the air is allowed to
>>expand/contract with temperature changes, temperature changes have a great
>>effect on the density.  However, this does not change the fact that the
>>speed of sound in air is related to its density - not its temperature.
> 
>>Bill
> 
>Well, of course, as regards the relative importance of density versus
>temperature, I am sure you are correct.  However, temperature certainly has
>an effect.  I play the french horn.  We brasses have the problem that if we
>tune up cold, after we have played for a few minutes the instrument will go
>slightly sharper.  I am told this is because the speed of sound in the air
>inside the instrument increases as it warms up, so the pitch rises.  Before
>I tune I sit and blow through the horn for a couple of minutes to warm it
>up.  Alternately, I tune a fraction flat if I have to tune it cold.  Strings
>have the reverse problem.  They flatten as they play, which I am told is
>because the strings expand as they warm from friction with the bow,
>resulting in a slower vibration of the string and thus lower pitch.
> 
>jj
> 
>John Thayer Jensen                      64 9 373 7599 ext. 7543
>Commerce Computer Services              64 9 373 7437 (FAX)
>Auckland University                     jt.jensen@aukuni.ac.nz
>Private Bag 92019
>AUCKLAND
>New Zealand

OK, physics time.  In a three-dimensional medium the speed of sound is 
equal to (fasten your seat belts) the square root of the reciprocal of 
the product of the density and the compressibility.  That is:

           speed = sqrt (1/(density x compressibility))

The density of air is in turn proportional to the pressure divided by 
the the temperature.  So...high temperature air leads to increased speed 
of sound.

There is an analogous expression for one-dimensional media, i.e. 
strings.  The equation is

           speed  = sqrt (tension x length / mass)

..which confirms that a less tense string (in this case a warmer and 
hence more relaxed one) has a slower sound speed that leads to a lower 
pitch.

Everybody got that?


Rich Isaacman

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:11667 alt.folklore.science:1337
From: MEDELMA@cms.cc.wayne.edu (Michael Edelman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Cable TV cheater spotters (was Re: FCC Call letters)
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:47:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: cms.167C297AB.MEDELMA
Organization: Wayne State University

In article <1992Apr7.133344.23647@alf.uib.no>
s082@brems.ii.uib.no (Ketil Malde) writes:
 
>     (stuff deleted)
 
>I've noticed that people say it is relatively simple to tap the
>radiation off someones computer screen, and see what they're seeing
>on your TV across the street.  Couldn't the same be done within a van?
>
>And while we're at it, I always had this dream of jamming the police
>'radars' to show, say 300km/h while you're driving along at 30 :-)
>Could this be done?
>
>(I assume the radars work by emmitting sound, and measuring the frequency
>it is returned with, so you'd probably need a source of high volume, high
>frequency sound...would this work?)
>
Police radar is very simple: The radar unit is a basic kind of transceiver
containing an oscillating microwave diode and a detector diode in a
tuned cavity with a hown at one end (Yes, I'm simplifying greatly).
Microwaves are emitted at one end and are reflected back by large metal
objects- like cars. Stationary objects don't change the signal as they
reflect it, but moving objects add a small but significant doppler shift.
 
The reflected signal enters the radar unit and mixes with the originally
emitted signal, producing a number of "mixer products". The one we're
interested in is (reflected signal)-(original signal). The greater the
speed of the vehicle, the greater the doppler, hence the greater the
difference in frequency, hence the higher the frequency of the difference
signal. Add a few chips to convert that frequency into a velocity readout
and that's it. (There are also some more complex systems, but they're rare)
 
Jamming this is easy. You generate a microwave signal reasonably close to
the police radar frequency and at a power of a few milliwatts. The
signal from your device will swamp any faint reflected signal, and you don't
have to be smack-on frequency as these devices are not narrowly tuned and
tend to wander anyhow. Modulate your signal with a low-frequency audio
signal. Since the police radars tend to read the *highest* doppler received,
modulate your jammer to produce a reading of around 170 mph, and let the
cops try to claim your '64 Ford pickup was going 170...
 
Now for the folklore:
Such devices have been sold for years, often at truckstops across the
south and midwest. Supposedly, one trucker had one set to generate a solid
55mph and drove with impunity. But when he pulled off the e-way, he
forgot to turn it off, and the cop on the shoulder gave him a ticket for
going 55mph in a 30mph zone. Or so I was told. :-)
 
Another bit of true folklore: A jammer is a great toy for making holes
in traffic. As soon as you turn one on, half the cars (and all the Cameros
and Corvettes) will immediately slow down as their radar detectors go off.
You don't even need a full jammer; just a microwave oscillator and
horn. A microwave burglar alarm module works very well.
       --mike
From: tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Whacky Flakey License plates
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:13:46 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <92106.221901AAFEG@ASUACAD.BITNET>, AAFEG@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:

> Amazingly enough the great state of Georgia (pronounced jaw-ja) has ventured
> in the opposite direction on the issue of free speach and car bumpers.  When
> I was in grad school in Atlanta, a guy was prosecuted in Cobb county Georgia
> for having a bumper sticker which proudly proclaimed that "_ _ IT HAPPENS".

Just wait until they see your posting.  I understand they've passed a law
making the use of the first amendment a crime.

Flordia is just as bad when it comes to bumper stickers too.  They arrested
a fellow for having a "NEW KIDS SUCK" bumper sticker.  The arresting officer
thought that the bumpersticker was obscene.

Terry "vote libertarian" Wood
From: luden@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu (Dean E. Nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Perfume and whale vomit
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:09:27 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University Computing Center

When I was a lad in school, one of my science teachers told the class that 
whale vomit was used in perfumes to make the scent linger longer.   He said 
that very little of it was needed, and that finding a 50 pound chunk on the 
beach would be worth a small fortune.

Dean Nelson  luden@soren.cc.lehigh.edu
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From: psb@remarque.berkeley.edu (psb)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: McMouse!
Date: 14 Apr 1992 00:17:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

In article <Qdu9Mza00iUxA26cER@andrew.cmu.edu> dc4l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Dean Calloway) writes:
>
>BTW I found a bone in a cheeseburger from McDonalds one time.  Does this
>qualify?
>
Depends. What animal was it from?

								--psb



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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Falling Bullets
From: derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 21:43:59 GMT
Reply-To: derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Organization: Task Management Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

In article <1992Apr8.134711.28085@sunova.ssc.gov> chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams) writes:
>In article <1992Apr6.204125.3576@fivegl.co.nz> derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek 
>Tearne) (Me)writes:
>
>Much talk of Space Shuttle/speed of sound/falling objects etc. deleted
>
>> 2) The speed of sound in air varies depending on exactly how much 
>> air there is and is much higher at higher altitudes. Therefore Terminal
>> velocity is greater at higher altitudes.
>
>Reading this paragraph would indicate that you believe that Terminal 
>Velocity (tm) is somehow related to the speed of sound in air.  It is not. 
> Terminal Velocity (tm) would be higher at higher altitudes only because 
>the density of air is less.  The speed of sound at higher altitudes is 
>also higher, also due to the fact that the density of air at the higher 
>altitude is less, but the two are not directly related.

[SHEEPISH MODE ON]

Re-reading my paragraph it would certainly appear that I implied a 
relationship between the speed of sound and terminal velocity.

That was not my intention. The two things are completely unrelated.
It is my belief that the speed of sound is different at altitude. I am
sure that terminal velocity varies with the density of the medium and 
therefore altitude. I DO NOT believe that the speed of sound has any
affect whatsoever on terminal velocity. I shall now cut of the fingers
which typed ahead of my brain. Sorry.

[SHEEPISH MODE OFF]

Typing with some different fingers which I had lying around doing nothing.
Is it really true that density of medium has nothing to do with the
speed of sound? 
Can anyone tell me the speed of sound in the following 
a: Vacuum
b: Air ( at 18C and sea level )
c: Water
d: Steel

I would look it up but my book of data is in England. Will have to get 
it sent to me.

Derek "I don't always say what I intend to say, but then, who does" Tearne
-- 
Derek Tearne      derek@fivegl.co.nz | If yo
  rek      l   .nz                   | yo
New Zea
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Subject: Re: idiomatically speaking... (Was: Re: other fun mistranslations)
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 17:33:18 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.203628.1508@aus.intel.com> robin@aus.intel.com (robin rosenbaum) writes:
>When, where, and how did this one get started:
>
>     "If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a locomotive!"
>
>(Meaning, Don't waste your time in should-have's and if-only's.)

Sounds like an update to
	"if wishes were horses, beggars would ride".


Carrie		ceb@dbrus.unify.com	x6244     ----------------------------+
| ... one of those cliches that are always lying in wait to fill a vacuum in  |
| the brain.		- H.W. Fowler					      |
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From: dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Fluorescent Pens
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:00:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: nsisrv.1992Apr8.210031.28082
Organization: NASA GSFC CDP VLBI

In article <1992Apr7.211927.2166@fivegl.co.nz> derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>In article <92094.090924ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET> ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>
>They probably do cause cancer, if you smoke 20 a day... 
>
>>>--
>>This reminds me of a story I heard in a grade school science class in the
>>early 50's.  People were hired to paint the numbers on those luminous dials
>>on watches.  The substance that made the paint luminous was radium.  The
>>painters, to keep the tip of the brush neat, would lick it now and then.
>
>...
>
>>One day, several were in a rest room when the lights went out in the building.
>>To their amazement they could see their skeletons outlined in the mirrors,
>>they were so radioactive... 
>
>Pretty unlikely I would say. Anyway wouldn't their wives have noticed well
>before this! 
>
Not likely, because all of the painters were women.  They became known as
the 'radium sisters.'
From: tzf@cs.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Falling bullets on Marilyn's Parade
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:23:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: optima.15059
Reply-To: tzf@cs.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1992Apr8.143446.10293@athena.mit.edu>, wjeuerle@athena.mit.edu (William J Euerle) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr8.033845.5938@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
|> |> In article <1992Apr8.013957.8139@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
|> |> >Well, look at it this way. After you pick a door, there are 4 possibilities.
|> |> >Assume the doors are as you describe.
|> |> >
|> |> >Pick A and be shown C - switch and get a car.
|> |> >Pick C and be shown A - switch and get a car.
|> |> >Pick B and be shown C - switch and get a goat.
|> |> >Pick B and be shown A - switch and get a goat.
|> |> >
............
|> |> 
|> |> NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
|> |> 
|> |> Okay, there are *nine* possibilities.  Car in A, B, or C; first pick
|> |> being A, B, or C.
|> |> 
...........
|> |> 
|> |> Switching gets you two-thirds.  Period.
|> 
|> 
|> Why not count the 2 cases of what Monty shows you as 2 seperate cases, because
|> they ARE!  this gives you  a new table with 12 possibilities, 6 of which get you
|> the goat, 6 the car.  That's only 50%.

The solution isn't simply in counting possibilities, but in looking at the
probabilities associated with each outcome. Sorry, Einstein-Bose statistics
don't apply here !-) ... taking the way Bill Nelson is looking  the problem
(assume car is in B and all choices are random) ...
1) you choose A, B, or C, each with an equal p=1/3
2) for choices A the remaining steps are determined: be shown C, switch to
   B, get car, p=1/3 still
3) ditto after you choose C.
4) if you choose B then Monte makes a choice (show A or C), p=1/2 for each
   choice, so the outcomes are:
	you choose B, Monte shows A: p=1/3 x 1/2 = 1/6
	you choose B, Monte shows C: p=1/3 x 1/2 = 1/6
5) the steps after 4 are determined: you switch & get the goat, no change in p.

Summing it up, you have 2 cases with a p=1/3 each where you get the car, and
2 cases with a p=1/6 where you get the goat. thus p(car) = 2 x 1/3 = 2/3 using
the switching strategy.
	... a similar analysis gives the same result when you examine Ted &
Bill's 9-12 outcome breakdown. Each of Ted's outcomes has a p=1/9; when
Bill.E refines it into 12 cases he gets 6 cases with p=1/9 (where you get the
car) and 6 cases with p=1/18 (where you get the goat). p(car) = 6 x 1/9 = 2/3 still.
	terry "usually I AM the goat" friedman
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: French found Atom Glass in Algeria!
Keywords: abombs, french test, nuke algeria, green glass
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:07:17 GMT
Reply-To: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <14937@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, tzf@cs.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman) writes...
>I dunno nuthin' about the French in Algeria, but ... when I was interested
>in strange phenomena, a friend sent me an article about a similar site
>in (I think) Mexico: no known nuclear tests there, but a glass surface
>that looked fused. Sorry I can't give details; the article is maybe
>locked away in storage in Michigan.

I think meteorite impacts would melt a bunch of sand at the impact site
and give this type of glass.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Dolphins ain't so smart  (or is they?)
From: derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 20:25:35 GMT
Reply-To: derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Organization: Task Management Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

In article <4APR199205402400@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu> ae313406@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (Vance Kochenderfer) writes:
>sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
>>  look in a little window and watch the dolphins swim around. And the
>>  trainer took his finger and ran it squeakily along the glass. And
>>  The Captain asked him why he was doing that. The trainer replied,
>>  "Oh, this makes a high-pitched squeaking sound. And the dolphins
>>  hear it, think it's a dolphin calling, and come swimming
>>  over to investigate." Which they did.
>>
>>  So it occurred to me that if dolphins are dumb enough to
>>  confuse somebody's finger squeaking on the glass with the
>>  'intelligent communications' of another dolphin, then the
>
>What if you were swimming in the ocean, and there were no other
>people around, as far as you knew.  Then you hear a voice say
>"Hey, buddy, over here."  You may be tempted to investigate.
>Or even if you heard a voice that wasn't saying anything intelligible,
>you still may look for where it's coming from.

Yeah right. A human scream dosn't actually have much intelligent form
to it and sounds pretty random. If you hear someone screaming you may 
( unless you're from New York ) go over and investigate. Only to find
that it's actually cats on the roof.

And anyway who's to say that dolphins don't have different languages.
"Hey theres somedolph over there screaming in walesish let's go see"

Or

"I hate it when they scrape their fingers down the glass. They usually
stop when we go over there so I guess we had better get it over with!"

Derek Tearne
-- 
Derek Tearne      derek@fivegl.co.nz | If yo
  rek      l   .nz                   | yo
New Zea
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.kids
From: judy@locus.com (Judy Leedom Tyrer)
Subject: Re: Other Goofy Songs (was Re: Worm song?)
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 05:37:54 GMT


Add "Padaroosky Blow Your Horn" (a little known ditty from camp) and
"Pickle-O-Minnie" (equally obscure).


-- 
I finally decided what I want on my tombstone...

	"Here lies Judy Leedom Tyrer.  The world will never see another like 
	 her.  We are undecided on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing."
From: tjw@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: FCC URBAN LEGENDS
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:11:01 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


> Someone also asked if the assignment of "N" to the US has to do with the
> fact that aircraft numbers also begin with "N".  I doubt it.  All the
> aircraft call letters begin with K or W, too.  Unless I missed something
> in the list, "N" is restricted to amateur radio.  

Every plane I've ever used had an "N" callsign.  "N7892W" was the call sign
that we used on our Piper Cherokee back in the 60s.

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GENUINE URBAN LEGEND ALERT!

(To understand this little I'm about to tell, it helps to know that in the
60s/70s/80s the FCC completely lost control of the Citizen's Band (CB).

Many stations operated in complete violation of the rules; some didn't even
HAVE a license.  The FCC finally "rewrote" the rules to basically fit what was
going on in the CB band rather than admit that they couldn't make anyone
comply with the their rules). 


So here's an "FCC and Avaition" story I heard when I was a kid:

The FCC decides to "crack down" on those control towers and airplanes that
don't use their FULL call letters for every transmission.  (After initial
contact, it was customary to call "N7892W" just "92W" (actually spoken as
"Niner Two Wiskey"))  Technically, this was a violation as "92W" was not
the proper call.  But it made life easier for all concerned.

So the FCC Enforcers go to an airport and begin "sighting" a number of pilots
and control tower operators.  When the case comes to court, the judge who
hears the case happens to be a HAM radio operator and throws the case out
of court, saying that it's bullsh*t.

He then embarrasses the FCC officials by asking them if they are now
arresting pilots since they have done such a great job cleaning up 11 meters
(the CB Band) that they have nothing better to do!

Anyone else here a story like this?

Terry "Who's seen Radar Jammers in Action" Wood