HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ratner@cs.columbia.edu (Michael Ratner)
Subject: Re: CIS on Internet?
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:04:09 GMT

I think the time has come to shed some light on the issue of
US - CIS communication through Internet.

The reason some people are able to connect to hosts in Russia and
others aren't is that ANS (Advanced Network and Services), the company
that runs NSFNET, does not allow SU-destined or SU-originated packets
into NSFNET (ANSNET).  If your connection to the 'Big Internet' is
through NSFNET (directly, or via a regional network) as is the case
with most educational and research institutions in the US, then you
cannot communicate with CIS.  On the other hand, if your network
service provider is a member of CIX (Commercial Internet Exchange)
such as, say, Alternet or PSI -- then you CAN communicate with CIS.
There has been (or used to be) an explicit ban on exchanging network
traffic with the Soviet Union, issued by the Federal Government (I
think it was the Department of Commerce).  Alternet says the ban has
recently been lifted and thus announced CIS networks to CIX.  ANS is
still in the process of confirming the lifting of the ban; once it is
confirmed, CIS will be announced to ANSNET and all the problems will
go away :)

						-- Mike Ratner

Disclaimer: I do not speak for ANS.  Opinions expressed above are the
best of my knowledge and may not represent the official position of
ANS.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: svangav@eng.clemson.edu (sreedhar vangavolu)
Subject: Re: US childens are best (Repost from Clari).
Reply-To: svangav@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:07:53 GMT

In article 19137@watson.ibm.com, bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy) writes:
>Reprinted without permission from <Bny-briefsURd13_2SU@clarinet.com> 
>by clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI-Radio):
>>                                -30-
>>	(ALBANY) -- A two-year study headed by a State University at Albany
>>professor portrays U-S students as good readers. Nine-year-olds and 14-
>>year-olds in the U-S finished second only to Finland in their reading
>>skills... and finished ahead of students in 29 other countries. Alan
>>Purves of SUNY Albany's Center for Writing and Literacy says the study
>>shows American kids have strong encouragement to read at home... and
>>calls that the ``absolute key'' to reading skills. But Purves says
>>American children lag behind when it comes to reading documents and
>>tables.

	Hmmm!! I am really surprised to know that. I always thougt that American
	children are Computer Worms (sorry to put it hard way). Also I am interested
	in knowing the statistics of Russia or the former USSR. Given the amount of
	educated people (above 98%), where does it stand? Also I think many of the
	europian nations have high literacy rate than US. Where are all of them ?

	Does that mean that most of the children in those countries just do their
	home work and freek.

		Flames are welcome.	
>
>Sebya ne pohvalish' - nikto ne pohvalit, ili 
>Gde zh nashli takie strany.
>:-)
>	-igor

	Sree.





Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman)
Subject: Re: Does Hollywood support black racism?
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:54:18 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

In article <NIKOLAY.92Oct7211203@husc10.harvard.edu> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
...
>Go fuck yourself, and try to find a better place to stink up
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>than this newsgroup. I've always been amazed by people for whom
>the best resolution of racial matters is each side's right to
>freely hurl abuse at the other.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...

    HY-POC-RI-SY    The practice of professing beliefs, feelings,
                    or virtues that one does not hold or posess

    HY-PO-CRITE     A person given to hypocrisy.

    The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition


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From: smir+@CS.CMU.EDU (Yury Smirnov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Lenin's Embalmers Speak
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:35:21 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

In article <84600006@glas.apc.org>, margaret@glas.apc.org (Patricia Schwartz) writes:
|> And by the way, did you all know that Agatha Christi is a Russian 
|> prose writer? Also Harold Robbins and Isaac Asimov.

   Two years ago I heard a wonderful talk :
   a girl was seating and reading Asimov's book, her boyfriend came up to her
   and wondered what she was doing. She answered :
   "Look here, he is an uzbekian, but writes so nice."

    Unfortunately, last two-three years the rate of lumpenization in CIS
    is so high, that I can easily foresee that Einstein would be born
    in Kaluga, Kant would be born in Prussia and then would travel to and 
    live the rest of his life up to the death in Kaliningrad.

    Yury.
From: ekdug@b56vxg.kodak.com (Linda Stustman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: translation
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:57:00 GMT
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester NY
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct7.201725.1@acad3.alaska.edu>, ftsam@acad3.alaska.edu (Sergei Maurits) writes...
>In article <FRRasB1w165w@halcyon.com>, mashina <novost@halcyon.com> writes:
>> Can anyone tell me what the English translation of ototsikl is?
>> 
>>    Thanks in advance,
>>                 Jeff
> 
>It's a mistery. If you mean [m]ototsikl, the solution is cycle or motorcycle
>if you prefer.
> 
>Sergei

OTTO CYCLE? As in thermodinamics? You know, temperature goes up, pressure...
Mike.S
From: igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Does Hollywood support black racism?
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:45:11 GMT
	<rabjab.14.718496479@golem.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science

In article <rabjab.14.718496479@golem.ucsd.edu> rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:

>  >I am curious to learn if there was any
>  >examples of the opposite sort in the recent history of Holywood
>  >(namely - white guy making racially charged remarks WRT to blacks).
>  >One example: "Glory", an historical film about a black regiment in
>  >the American Civil War.

I didn't see the "Glory", but the guy who made this kind of a remark
must have been a "bad guy", am I wrong?

>   Jeff Bytof
>  rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu

--Igor <igor@cs.columbia.edu>
From: U52148@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Favorite Ethnic Groups
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:55:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: uicvm.92289.135532U52148
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

I want to throw this out for discussion to see how much of us REALLY
know about the ex- USSR.

   What I have devised, is that you tell us what ethnic groups you
   like/sympathize etc. NO! It can't be your own nationality.

   You should also tell us what you like about the particular
   ethnic group. I.E. Abkhazian women are good looking.


I'll be waiting to hear from you


-Chicago Cro
Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:8809 rec.arts.movies:30470 rec.arts.books:18462
From: c60b-2hz@web-2g.berkeley.edu (Nathaniel Meyers)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Bitchin' 'bout rainman   was Re: Movies
Date: 17 Oct 1992 02:14:21 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: web-2g.berkeley.edu

Someone earlier (I lost the post) asked wouldn't a childlike performance of
an autistic adult have to be realistic, to which the answer is no; autistics
are not at all child-like. However the original poster (lost that too) described
DH's performance as "one-dimensional" which is an odd criticism as autistics'
with their arrested emotions are by definition one-dimensional.  Wouldn't
THAT be an excellent performance.
-A third person
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: sasha@ldgo.columbia.edu (Alexander Krupitsky)
Subject: Re: Can white men jump?
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:58:30 GMT


	Yury Smirnov writes:

>                  For most of black boys sport is an excellent way to get into
>  a respectable way of life - high salary in professional boxing or basketball,
>  scolarship at a university.

So is for whites. Yes, more whites can do without sport to get on in
their lives, but I believe there are more whites who need it than
blacks, who constitute only about 20% of the population of the USA.

>				 But look at ice-hockey or swimming. Can you
>  notice a bunch of talented black hockey players or swimmers ? It confirms
>  the statistical law of great numbers :if 1000 white boys are going seriously
>  in for swimming then 10 of them will be of high level and 1-2 of the top one.
>   Just the same you can see in sprint : from 10000 black boys training in
>   sprint 3-5 will be the fastest.

All good hockey players are Canadian (OK, nearly all). It doesn't
really explain the phenomenon, I'd guess it has a lot to do with
traditions. BTW I didn't say blacks are better in all sports. It would
be natural if whites were also better in something. As for swimming
it's not paid so generously. 

>   Try to ask yourself : can I spent 4-5 hours and a lot of power every day
>   in running, rowing or boxing ? Being honestly everybody should answer no. 
>   Why ? Because you will be tired ? No, because you have good brains and wish 
>   to implement them in orther ways. But I knew some runners in xSU who 
>   preferred to train up to the retirement in order not to work, as it was the
>   only thing that they could do well. 

Of course, this is generally true of all pro sports supported by the
Soviet state. But didn't you see how after all this years of slow
improvement he (I especially mean boxing) runs across 18 years old
black guy from Cuba or USA, who smashes him very easily?

>   Probably, somebody is too lazy ? 
Yeah, I also think it's important. It'd be exciting to have some exact info. 

>  My opinion : All races are quite equal both in sports and intellectual life,
>  but differences in cultural levels and ways of life lead to different stimuls
>  and forms of children development, which begins from the period of pregnancy.

My opinion is different. I realize it might be based on prejudices, or
on something real, or both. My intention was not to go into subtle
details of sport or any other kind of human activity, but rather to
understand how other people think and why.

>    Yury.


Sasha
From: oleg@cs.sunysb.edu (Oleg Sokolsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Exam question
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:29:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: sblapis2.OLEG.92Oct15182951
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook Computer Science Dept.

Isn't it on a memorial plaque on one of the houses where he used to
stay? I might as well be wrong, I'm not a Moscovite after all...

Let me know the answer, please.

Oleg

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From: Patricia Schwartz <margaret@glas.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Date: 11 Oct 92 01:59 MDT
Subject: Exam question
Nf-ID: #N:glas:84600004:000:129
Nf-From: glas.UUCP!margaret    Oct 11 01:59:00 1992


Kak chasto v gorstnoi razluke
v moei bluzhdaiushchee sud'be
Moskva! Ya dumal o tebe...

Test: where does one see this in Moscow!
From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: One God in Ukrainian Spy satellites
Date: 10 Oct 92 04:28:03 GMT
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal

In article <9210092136.AA01453@feds66.Prime.COM> 
"soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu> writes:

>>From: "(Zhenya Gorokhovsky)" <gorokho1@HUSC10.HARVARD.EDU>

ZG:
>>Subject:      Re: One God in Hinduism?
>>
>>It is clear from your lame remark that you have no clue about
>>Hinduism, Gandhi or G-d.
>>Shalom,
>>Zhenya Gorokhovsky
>>gorokho1@husc.harvard.edu

Zhenya clearly is the expert on Hinduism and Gandhi, but I really have no
clue about what this bizarre thingumajig, "G-d", might be.

ZG:
>>Subject:      Re: Ukrainian concert
>>
>>If you must advertise on USENET, which is a questionable practice,
>>at least advertise _decent_ performances. It is as transparent as
>>water in Charles River that you are completely out of touch with
>>both modern and traditional Ukrainian culture.
>>Shalom,
>>Zhenya Gorokhovsky
>>gorokho1@husc.harvard.edu

Zhenya the polymath is evidently equally at home with both modern and
traditional Ukrainian culture.  For less fortunate readers, I recommend
the article "A Nasty New Ukraine" by Abraham Brumberg, in the current
issue of the New York Review of Books.

ZG:
>>Subject:      Re: Spy satellites
>>
>>It is painfully obvious from your absolutely moronic response that
>>you _never_ read _any_ literature on the topic you are so eagerly
>>discussing. Keep your opinions shut in your dandruff-ridden head.
>>Shalom,
>>Zhenya Gorokhovsky
>>gorokho1@husc.harvard.edu

Zhenya is clearly an unparallelled expert both on the title subject and
on seborrhoeic disorders.  One is indeed fortunate to have opinions of
this peerless quality coming forth from such an unprepossessing
individual, at no cost to the reader.

DL:
>Zhenya, could you please shut up your ..ck-sucking hole, no matter
>what real topic is, just shut it up, you dandruff-ridden kike?
>Just very personal, kind request, shut up. Please.

As a kike who is still proud of having been accused of similar personal
hygiene problems by the sorely missed Dimitri Vulis, I must take
exception to the estimable Mr Leshchiner's request.  I hereby encourage
little Zhenya to keep his "..ck-sucking hole" open as wide as he can, no
matter what the real topic might be.  His patience is bound to be rewarded.

>Shalom,
>Dima Leshchiner
>dleschin@feds66.prime.com

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Nous donnons la mort, nous saurons la subir."
From: vadim@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Does Hollywood support black racism?
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:50:24 EDT

In article <1b4q6dINN4hj@agate.berkeley.edu>, muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:
> In article <NIKOLAY.92Oct9015945@husc10.harvard.edu> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
> 
>>vas vsekh nuzho unichtozhit, tak chto pridetsia vam poterpet',
> 
> Nu priletajte, razberemsja, a to chto zh tam izdaleka rugat'sja. Tak daleko
> dazhe veter ne nosit.
> 
> Yury.
  A vot i ne poderetes'! A vot i ne poderetes'!
From: U60829@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Religion and the Ex-SU
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:30:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: uicvm.92290.103002U60829
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

I recently went to church after a long absence and the priest brought up

a story about the Lady of Fatima.  Essientially (sp?) the Virgin Mary appeared
to some childern in, I guess, Fatima, in the early 1900's.  She said that
Russia would have a revolution, lose its King, and then would be a athesit
dictatorship.  She then said that the Second Coming of Christ would occure
(I spelt that word wrong) after the dictatorship fell and Russia was re-
converted to Christianity.

Now is ther someone who might know  what
the current situation in the Russia is?  Is there a religious
revival in Russia?  I'm curious if the apperant prophesy by Mary is being
fullfilled, I just need some information.

Also did I hear the story about Mary right?  Post replies or email them.


Jim Pacella
Univerisity Of Illinois @ Chicago

I would give a disclamer, but I don't work.
From: shimkevi@buchmf.bu.edu (Sergey Shimkevich)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Does Hollywood support black racism?
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:16:33 GMT
Organization: Boston University Chemistry Department

Gospoda,

It would be better not to discuss this topic, 'cause this is the easiest way
to wreck one's career :-(

Flame to Mr. Dudinsky:

Would you be so kind as to take your PC drivel elsewhere? 

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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Ex-soviet banknotes
Date: 12 Oct 92 00:30:05 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

I just received from somebody a number of ex-soviet banknotes.  The
denominations are 1, 3, 5 and 10 rubles.  The 1, 3 and 5 ones are
old (dated 1961), the 10 rubles note is dated 1991.  The most
interesting thing about the 1, 3 and 5 rubles notes is that they
have the denomination in 15 languages.  I have some trouble identifying
the languages.  One language (I presume Russian) is very dominant, in
addition there is a small box with 14 languages.  Of these I only
recognize Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Armenian and Georgian
(helped by the scripts of course).  Could somebody tell me what
other languages there are (I presume Bjelorussian and Ukrainian
will be present, but I have no idea which is which).

Thanks in advance.  (And if you have other bills you want to exchange
for Western currency, drop me a mail message; I am a collector of bills.)
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn  amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Electricity and phones in Russia
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:55:17 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Oct14.074135.7630@pony.Ingres.COM> elvira@Ingres.COM (Eric Elvira) writes:
>I have a couple of questions:

>	1) What's the electricity in Moscow? 220v? 50Hz? What types of
>	   plugs? I'm asking because I wonder, if I take a game there
>	   like a gameboy or sega (the handheld video games) for a child,
>	   can I get an electricity convert in a radio shack type store
>	   or do I have any other options besides batteries.

 Right 220V 50Hz. Plugs have round pins 20 mm apart and 2.5 mm in diameter.
 You can buy adapters in Radio Shack. 
 I don't advice you to use cheap Radio Shack power converter which can
 be only used with heaters. Find a transformer based one.


>	2) Telephones. Can an American phone work over there? Do they
>	   use the same number of cables for connections?

 American phone will work, but you need a pulse-dialing one. As any
phone they use 2-lines cables.

>Eric

 S.B.
From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Yes, Sokurov is definitely not an...
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:49:19 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I sincerely suggest that we'd rather stop this discussion
for it has begun to repeat itself. 

And now - a few more stupid, boring, disgusting comments:


















>>  Hmm... To be frank, I've never seen a film made by an asshole, but have
>>  all reasons to suppose that some assholes might make much better movies
>>  than Sokurov (it's not a statement, it's but a guess).
>
>What does being an asshole have to do with one's ability to create?
>"Geniy i zlodeystvo"?.. It is a well known fact that V. van Gogh was
>not really a very nice person, to say the least. Some people still
>like his paintings, and even consider him to be a genious...

To make a good movie, an asshole does not need to be a film director.
Just zoom a camera at it, and if it's a good asshole, it'll make a
good movie. Though some hypocrites will probably call it pornography
or something. So please do not look for deep sense in my remarks -
looking for something where it has never been may lead to brain damage
and pathologic rabidity.


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From: vadim@bolvan.ph.utexas.edu (Vadim S. Kaplunovsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Spy satellites
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:46:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.023323.11951@emr1.emr.ca> davidson@ccrs.emr.ca (David  
Davidson) writes:
> ..........
> The quality of the satellites?, well the Soviets and Americans have always
> had a different approach to technology. The Soviets satellites still record
> on film and drop it by parachute. I know people who laugh at this, but if 
> it works well, is reliable and does the job for a fraction of the price,
> then sounds like good use of resources to me.......

Soviet spysats didn't para-drop film because their makers didn't know how
to beam the data down via microwaves, but because they didn't want to.
Electronic communications can be jammed by an adversary; a film, physically
para-dropped to the ground, is unjammable.  This consideration may seem
irrelevant in times of peace, but in times of conflict, unjammability
of military inteligence can become vital.  For the same reason, Soviets
kept their spysats cheap, but made a whole lot of them: not because they
could not make sophisticated American-style spysats, but because it made
space-based intelligence less vulnerable to ASAT weapons and easier to
replace in case of enemy action.

Moral: sometimes, oldfashioned techology works better.
(And then again, sometimes it doesn't.)
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: kardanev@hanoi.cern.ch (A. Kardanev)
Subject: Re: Cyrillic Terminals
Organization: CERN, European Research Center for Particle Physics
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 10:25:20 GMT

Article-I.D.: rigel.1992Oct6.204733.22884

>>>>> On 6 Oct 92 20:47:33 GMT, jeffrey@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Jeffrey A.
JT> Thompson) said: Does anyone know of a Cyrillic serial terminal
JT> that I could buy? I would like to hook it up to a UNIX system
JT> running on an intel 486 computer.  I would appreciate any help you
JT> could give me.

JT> Thank you very much,

JT> Jeffrey Thompson

There are many ways to do this.
1) Buy IBM PC with MS-DOS and install cyrillic driver (TSR programm).
As far as I know there exist such TSR's for EGA and VGA. Maybe for CGA
and Hercules, but I don't know about these.
2) Buy VT200 compatible DEC terminal with availability to load fonts.
I have a KOI-8 cyrillic loadable font for these type of terminals.
3) Install X-11 system and buy X-terminal. There are many russian
cyrillic fonts for X windows.
4) Try to russify original computer. As far as I know in Russia there
are many IBM PC with Xenix on they which can display rcyrillic fonts
on its.
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 12 Oct 1992 16:44:00 CDT
From: ---  BORYS  --- <U52539@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Ukrainian Studies at Harvard this Summer

      Does anyone have any information about the courses
that will be offered this summer at Harvard?  HAs anyone attended
these courses in the past?


      I would like to attend the Ukrainian studies this summer ('93)
and would like some info.

Borys Bodnaruk
  u52539@uicvm.uic.edu
  University of Illinois at Chicago