HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.activism.d,alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Media Bias at Republican Convention
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:19:08 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

brianc@jekyll.ucsf.edu (Brian Colfer) writes:
%jswitzer@afit.af.mil (Chip Switzer) writes:
%>In my continuing attempt to enlighten those of you who refuse to believe
%>there is a liberal bias in the news media, let me give an example. 
%[...]
%>And please don't say something like, "it was just a coincidence that he
%>happened to on camera at that time..."  It was an obvious attempt to 
%>draw attention to Quayle's own military record.
%
%I think each party controls the camera shots for their convention... 
%
%So, maybe its the Republicans want to make the Quayle look bad or maybe
%they are just incompetent.

Each party may try to stage an event to get the camera shots (is perhaps
a more accurate statement), but it's the producers that are in the
control booths. And it's the editors who select the shots on video tape
to show to the public. Sure, some of Quayle's bits are very funny, but
someone blew a circuit in his brain at NBC when they decided to pull
away from Phil Gramm's speech last night.

Oh, according to NBC, the reason why they did that was to be sure "The
Tonight Show" got on time without encroaching into local news time. Uh,
excuse me!!!! ABC does that all the time on Monday Night Football !!!!

And news commentators wonder why there isn't more voter participation.

-- 
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Biomedical Engineer 1993	1992 EAST REGIONAL CHAMPIONS!!
Duke University, Durham, NC	AND 1992 NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
August 31, 1992 - May 16, 1993	Duke football? What's that?
Newsgroups: alt.activism
From: armtrout@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Armantrout)
Subject: Bill Will, Bush Can (*JOKE*)
Summary: this is only a joke
Keywords: clinton, bush, joke
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:12:37 GMT

(the following is just a little joke; [Lighten Up On])

With a little forced confusion, crowds could scream anything...

Bill Will!
Bill Will!
Bill Will! Bill Will! Bill Will! Bill Will! Bill Will Bill Will! Bill! Will
Bill! Will Bill! Will Bill?! Will Bill? Will Bill?
Will Bill?
Will Bill?

Bush Can!
Bush Can!
Bush Can! Bush Can! Bush Can! Bush Can Bush Can Bush Can! Bush Can Bush!
Can Bush! Can Bush! Can Bush! Can Bush!
CAN BUSH!

(this probably doesn't belong here, but oh well. )
-- 
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armtrout@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 	       I will explain my sarcasm to you - ask.
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Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.discrimination,talk.abortion
From: drm@esl.com (Don McGregor)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: More on Phone Zap
Date: 16 Aug 92 06:26:38 GMT
Reply-To: drm@esl.com
Organization: ESL, a TRW Subsidiary

Aside from the ethical question of harrassing a corporation, there's 
another problem I have with the phone campaign.  The organization
promoting the harrassment seems to think the company is charging
too much for the medication, but provided no data at all regarding
what it cost the company to develop the drug, how many other similar
programs failed and yielded no revenue at all, and a rationale as to
just why someone would hire a bunch of biology types and sink a few
million dollars into research if it wasn't for profit.  Would they prefer
that no private sector research at all be done?

---
Don McGregor | Life is like high school, only with money and guns. 
drm@esl.com  | 
Newsgroups: alt.activism
From: maxwell@fnala.fnal.gov
Subject: Re: reagan
Organization: What does *this* button do!?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:01:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: fnala.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

zenith89@bwdlh130.bnr.ca (Chris VanFleet) writes:
> cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY) writes:
>>	i suppose everyone saw the convention last night. i think my blood 
>>pressure rose perceptably. pat buchannan, what a man -- i couldn't have said 
>>anything any more damming about the republican party than what came out of 
>>that mans mouth. whose side is he on anyway? 
> 
> He's on the side of those who work for a living. He's NOT on the
> side of the layabouts who prefer government cheques or stealing
> instead of working.
> 

Pig.


and now for some gratuitous .ca bashing:
Canada is the only place where I've heard the idiom "I must be black" used.
(It means: "I feel ignored.")

disgusted.max
Newsgroups: alt.activism,misc.headlines,sci.econ,talk.politics.misc
From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Re: Derailing ... NO.  Bush _is_ a wimp
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 09:21:14 GMT

Re. the Bush Tax hike:
> ...
>>>         It was supposed to be used to take a bite out of the debt. 
>>> Hmmm.  I wonder where those dollars went?

>> Are you saying that Ronald Reagan was *wrong* for raising the capital gains tax?
> 
> 	You're evading the question.  Congress was given a big sack of money,
> with which to take a bite out of the debt.  What happed to the money?
> 
> 	Do the words "pork" and "barrel" make it clearer?
> 
> 	(And yes, he was wrong to go along with it.)

I used to be a Republican voter.  I used to think that the Bush 'wimp thing'
was a plot.  Now I know I was wrong.  

Come on George.  In fact, Je*** H Ch***, George.  Saying 'the devil made me do 
it and then he didn't follow the rules' is the excuse of a wimp or an 
incompetent or both.  (Did you ever try something like that in the Navy after
a SNAFU and do you care to mention how well it worked for you?)

An experienced negotiater who has a vision for what the post-negotiation world
should appear like usually demands things like guarantees when negotiating with
the devil.  I mean George, the 'guarantee thing' is really elementary when
negotiating with equals.  If you don't understand that you damned well don't
deserve to be president.


Yes.  I feel betrayed.

John Garland
jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
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From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ))
Subject: Re: Public warning, J*m
Organization: The Rhode Island Internet Systems Cooperative Network
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 11:06:59 GMT

First harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (Harel Barzilai) claims:

>In light of Brett's threats to sue Jym, I would like to state that I
>would be all too happy to testify that Brett Kottmann's "mailing back
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^


Yet Jim seems content with claiming its:

>> =o= Brett Wright ("demon@desire") did letterbomb Harel Barzilai 
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^


Which, rightfully so, sparks a rather nasty reply from Brett Wright:

>	    J*m, you fucking liar.


Of course, since Harel et. al. are changing their October Surprise
theories on a daily basis, its certainly not surprising that they
can't even get the name of someone who letterbombed Harel straight.
Who was it? Brett Wright? Brett Kottmann?

And, if the latter, when can we expect to see a public apology to
Brett Wright posted by Jim?

MD
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From: harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc
Subject: NAFTA COULD DISPLACE THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN FARM  WORKERS
Date: 21 Aug 92 23:49:05 GMT
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB


    "You're going to have vast out-migration from the Mexican
    countryside, but not enough to absorb all the workers," said Raoul
    Hinojosa-Ojeda," a UCLA urban planner.
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Topic
148 TRADE.NEWS 8-21-92 kmander Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations
11:55 am Aug 21, 1992
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
TRADE NEWS BULLETIN 
Friday, August 21, 1992 
_________________________________________________________ 
NAFTA News Summary 
_________________________________________________________ 
NAFTA COULD DISPLACE THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN FARM  
WORKERS 

Supporters of NAFTA often argue the treaty would decrease  
Mexican immigration to the United States, but a group of experts  
said immigration will grow in the next few years.  NAFTA,  
combined with Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's  
agricultural reforms, could put thousands of Mexican farm  
workers out of work, forcing them to look elsewhere for jobs and  
increase the pressure on border states.  "You're going to have  
vast out-migration from the Mexican countryside, but not  
enough to absorb all the workers," said Raoul Hinojosa-Ojeda," a  
UCLA urban planner. 

Salinas' reforms, which include abolishing the state monopoly on  
corn production and increasing agriculture imports from the U.S.,  
could displace Mexican farmers.  

"If anything we'll see an upward spiral, not a downward one, in  
immigration over the next few years," said Roberto Martinez,  
director of the U.S.-Mexico border program for the American  
Friends Service Committee in San Diego. 

Source: Michael Zielenziger, "Free-Trade Agreement Could Uproot  
Thousands of Mexican Farm Workers," JOURNAL OF COMMERCE,  
August 18, 1992, p. 5A. 
_________________________________________________________ 
Resources: 

1.  U.S. apparel and textile workers have been vocal in their  
opposition to international free trade agreements.  In its March  
1992 issue of JUSTICE, the International Ladies' Garment  
Workers' Union argues that GATT and NAFTA will benefit  
corporations at the expense of workers.  An article states that  
GATT's plan to end all apparel and textile quotas by the year  
2002 would mean job losses totaling 1-1.4 million of the 1.8  
million apparel and textile jobs in the U.S.  Ten issues of JUSTICE  
are produced a year.  For a  subscription, send $2 to JUSTICE,  
1710 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, USA.  
_________________________________________________________ 
Produced by: 
Kai Mander     
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) 
1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303 
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA 

Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982  
E-Mail:kmander@igc.org 
_________________________________________________________ 

Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.latin-america
From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
Subject: Re: Nicaragua Myths #3: "Sandinista Economic Mismanagement" (1)
Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:58:54 GMT


The funny thing about this is that in Feb. 1989 the Sandinistas
where wondering just why they went from one of the richest
countries in the region to one of the poorest on Earth and why
their inflation rate was one fo the highest on Earth.

So they commissioned a study by some of the finest economists they
could find. I can only assume they met ideological muster as well.

The conclusion of the economists hand picked by the Sandinistas was that
the problems where the economic policies of the Sandinistas which where
mostly to blame. Most of the damage  was done long before there where any
Contras.

  Allen

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Newsgroups: alt.activism,soc.women,soc.motss,alt.save.the.earth
From: buckmr@vccsouth29.its.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: FOCA: And I quote.....
Keywords: From: decay@
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 04:07:11 GMT

garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:

>In article <1992Aug16.232711.3481@anasazi.com> john@anasazi.com writes:

>#Hmmm... that's odd. I heard a PRO-CHOICE advocate state that 1% of
>#abortions in the US are in the 3rd trimester. These must be very
>#busy and rich doctors.

>That's *less* than 1%.  

>Do a little research.
According to the January 5, 1992 _New York Times_ 0.1% of all abortions in the
United States occur in the third trimester.

-- 
RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ``D.C. in 93!'' 
vox:(518)-276-8910 fax:(518)-276-6920 buckmr@rpi.edu buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet
"Somewhere between Kate Bush and Madonna." - Sinead O'Connor, about her music.
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Jeez, H*r*l, for not reading NEWS you sure get around
From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:43:13 EST
Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.

In article <9208160601.AA05004@poly.math.cornell.edu>, harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (Harel Barzilai) writes:

	Posting email is very bad manners.

	Bad H*r*l, bad!

	Of course posting N+1 500 lines messages to the net is A-OK....

	[That's lesson #1235-A for activists :\]

Brett                                                      
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Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.desert-storm
From: rchilder@us.oracle.com (Richard Childers)
Subject: Re: Catastrophe In Iraq : Followup
Organization: Memes-R-Us
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:10:34 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:

>So Harel, what would you have us do about all this now? So far you
>have been strangely silent about this.

So, Allen, what would you have us do about all this now? So far you
have been deranged and violent about this.	(-:

-- richard

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                   Klein flask for rent. Inquire within.
From: cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: reagan
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:43:21 GMT
Organization: Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ


	i suppose everyone saw the convention last night. i think my blood 
pressure rose perceptably. pat buchannan, what a man -- i couldn't have said 
anything any more damming about the republican party than what came out of 
that mans mouth. whose side is he on anyway? i loved the homophobia bit, the 
anti-feminisim bit, the anti black bit. the guy is such a biggot and proud 
of it. and that melodramatic story at the end about the mob of blacks who 
had looted and burned every building on the block except for the old folks 
home, and the two national guardsmen who stood down the mob to protect old 
folks that they didn't even know (sob!) was so corny ... ag! god!
	and then reagan -- i must admit, the gipper got a pair of good jokes 
on ("don't inhale," and "i knew thomas jefferson..." -- how is it that he 
can remember thomas jefferson and not remember giving stinger missles to 
khomeni?)
	i think they ought to let quayle run the whole show. :-) between him 
and pat buchannan, they'd have clinton in the white house a month early ....

kc
From: harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (Harel Barzilai)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: VOLKSWAGEN SHUTS 14,000 WORKERS OUT OF MEXICO PLANT
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:55:15 GMT

Has been posted to misc.activism.progressive

    "The plant will remain closed and guarded by the police until the
    government's department of labor justice makes a decision on 
    whether or not Volkswagen's decision was correct [..]
Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.discrimination,talk.abortion
From: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
Subject: Re: FOCA: And I quote.....
Followup-To: talk.abortion
Reply-To: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:33:17 GMT

<.. note follow-ups to talk.abortion, once again ..>

In article <1992Aug18.055058.14190@watson.ibm.com> 
margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:

>dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:

>> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
>>>dsh@zeus.csc.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
>>>> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
>> >>>john@anasazi.com writes:

>>>>>> Hmmm... that's odd. I heard a PRO-CHOICE advocate state that 1% of
>>>>>> abortions in the US are in the 3rd trimester. These must be very
>>>>>> busy and rich doctors.

>>>>> That's *less* than 1%.

>>>> The annual number of abortions performed at 21 weeks and after tends
>>>> to number in the thousands.

>>> What does "21 weeks" have to do with "third trimester"?

>> Premature infants that have been born between 21 and 24 weeks have
>> been known to survive.  The reported "third trimester" figures that
>> you cite do not represent all post-viability abortions, but only those
>> performed after 24 weeks.

> In other words, my figures address Mr. Moore's misconception regarding
> the number of third-trimester abortions, and your comments had nothing
> to do with what he said (quoted above).

I'm entitled to point out that your figures do not represent the number 
of post-viability abortions.  That's all I was doing.  Don't take it so
hard. 

Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Timed life keys - or keys that expire after MM minutes
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:27:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In  <7896@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>  dchien@boole.seas.ucla.edu (David H. Chien) writes:
>
>      Wouldn't it be great to have a key that would remember the ridges in
> your master key.  It would use some sort of mechanism to push each tumbler
> pin to the correctly configured hight when inserted, or would simply move
> flat tiny bars to match the shape of the master key, emulating the master
> key's ridges.
>      Programmed to 'remember' this shape for some period of time, you could
> give this key out to car attendants, car washers, etc.  After the time
> that was programmed into the key has expired, the key would 'forget' the
> shape, leaving it useless for future access.  So even if you forget to
> pick them up after loaning them out, they're no good.

So then the guy makes a normal copy within the time limit and doesn't
need the timed key any more.

For electronic locks, you can give each user a unique key, and simply
have an expiration for the temporary one.  For mechanical locks, I use
interchangable-core locks in my home - so if I need to give someone
a key, I pop in a core that works on that key as well as my master;
when they no longer need access, I restore the original core, and their
key (and any copies made of it) won't work any more.

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: cmarsigl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Klif Marsiglio)
Subject: Telephones
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:05:48 GMT

Anyone ever pick a pay telephone??? I never was able to get one open no matter
what we did and we finally had to shoot it open :) (It was a friends, he brought
it from home -- I would never run down a telephone booth just to steal a 
telephone :)

Klif M.

Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: jb@falstaff.MAE.CWRU.Edu (Jim Berilla)
Subject: Re: damage to locks by picking
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 00:19:19 GMT

In article <1992Aug10.131757.20752@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, bx690@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Mirza) writes:

|> Just wondered if picking locks for practice (say your front door)
|> could damage the lock in some way? 

Well, I don't know if this qualifies as damage or not, but I once picked
someone's office door and the regular key didn't work after that.  It
turned out that the lock was so dirty that it kept the pins from falling
back down.  The regular key never pushed the pins up as high as I did
while picking it.  After a good cleaning, the lock worked just fine.

-- 
      Jim Berilla / jb@falstaff.MAE.cwru.edu / +1 216 368 6776
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing,misc.consumers
From: richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich Greenberg)
Subject: Was this a ripoff? 
Keywords: locksmith
Organization: Hatch Usenet and E-mail.  Playa del Rey, CA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:50:13 GMT

Does the following tale sound like a ripoff?

A female friend owns a duplex in a middle class area near central Los
Angeles.  She is in the process of evicting the tennants in the other half
for being way behind in the rent.  Marshal, locksmith, the whole 9 yards.
The locksmith changed the locks and gave her a bill of over $800.
She called me, and I spoke to the locksmith.  Here is what he told
me he had done:
   2 hours waiting
   5 new locks @ $95(!) because the originals were too old to be rekeyed.
                        Is this possible?  My frient (later) told me they
                        had been rekeyed in the past.
   re-key 4 of the locks to match the fifth.
   A few extra keys (don't know how many.)
   Install the new locks.

Is $800 plus reasonable for this?  Was she cheated?  If so, I feel 
sorry for this locksmith if she decides to get even.

-- 
                
Rich Greenberg - N6LRT - 310-649-0238 - richg@hatch.socal.com
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: master keys
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 07:03:41 GMT

kko@philpav.UUCP (Karl-Koenig Koenigsson) writes:
: star@husc8.harvard.edu (Joshua Star) writes:
: 
: : 3) Master keys: what is the concept behind them.  I mean how does
: : one lock have more than one key that can open it?
: 
: You can of course have more than one slit in the pins. The slit
: closest to the spring is the one that corresponds to the ordinary key,
: and the one closest to the key is for the master key. This makes is
: impossible to cut a master from an ordinary, since the master is
: higher in all places than the ordinary.

More correctly, you can have more than two pins at a position.

The master pin can be either above or below the change pin.

The same key is used for either master or change keys.

Bill