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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Caffeine and appetite
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:48:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.004808.21012@reed.edu> zeke@reed.edu (Zeke Koch) writes:
>>A friend of mine asserts that drinking a cup of coffee will
>>INCREASE one's appetite - maybe not at the exact instance that
>>it is being consumed, but within an hour or so.

Caffeine doesn't have much of an effect on appetite one way or the other.

>As I understand it ( hearsay from neurobiology) when you first start
>using stimulants they work as an appetite supressant, but then as you
>tolerate those effects go away.

Sympathomimetic amines like the amphetamines seem to lower the "setpoint";
the weight at which an animal or person will maintain a constant weight.
This so-called "tolerance" is actually a side-effect of reaching that
setpoint.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.folklore.urban
From: jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
Date: 15 Dec 92 06:36:25 GMT

In <92348.143452U56673@uicvm.uic.edu> <U56673@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

>There is a leathal dose of ANYTHING (with the exception of air)  You can OD and
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oxygen is toxic, has narcotic effects and is possibly carcinogenic
(in high doses, over extended periods of time).

	J
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey)
Subject: Re: Fried Brain on Acid
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:17:54 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.174744.10472@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes:

>	 By no means am I suggesting this as a proscription against the
>use of LSD or any other hallucinogen. 

Great Disclaimer!  :)

-Howard



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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:16:49 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <2B3189CF.9017@ics.uci.edu} honig@ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig) writes:
} billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
}}andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
}}: }
}}: }If you are referring to nicotine, then yes, it DOES carry a MUCH-MUCH-MUCH
}}: }greater risk than does LSD.  Nicotine is poison.  I believe (not sure) that
}}: }anything more than a drop of pure nicotine will kill you.
}}:
}}: Yes, nicotine is an awful poison.  A drop of _pure_ nicotine has been
}}: known to kill a person in 15 minutes.  I don't have a reference on
}}: that, though...
}}:
}}: But think about it for a second...  if you swallow even a little juice
}}: from chewing tobacco, you are not going to be a happy camper.  Even if
}}: you smoke a couple of cigarettes in a row fairly quickly you'll get
}}: nausea (unless you've been chain smoking for 15 years...).  It's sort
}}: of your body's way of saying "I hate this shit!"
}}
}}It would appear that you have never used tobacco - or really observed
}}people who do.
}}
}}I know a couple of smokers who smoke two or three cigarettes - as fast
}}as they can inhale, when they take a smoke break. One of them has been
}}smoking for less than a year. No nausea or dizziness - it is surprising
}}how fast the body can adapt to poisons.
}}
}}The people who chew absorb quite a bit of the nicotine through the gums.
}}I doubt if there is much nicotine that gets spit out. The one person I
}}know who uses chewing tobacco says that he swallows some of the juice on
}}occasion. He says it is no problem. It is a problem if he has a cud in
}}his mouth and swallows that.
}}
}}Bill
}}
}
}Agreed Bill that experienced users of pharmaceuticals can self-titrate
}to their own satisfaction.  Every smoker who says, "I'm fine" attests
}to that.  Or drinker.  But eating a couple of cigs is not a smart
}thing to do.  Its less dangerous than inhaling some plutonium oxide,
}but much more viscerally dangerous than getting carried away with
}cannabis, acid, or even the highly seductive drugs like speed and coke.

	There is enough nicotine in one cigar for about 2 fatal doses.
However, smoking isn't a very efficient dosage method, and the toxin is
metabolized quickly.  THat is why you don't get LD from cigars, cigarettes,
etc.  The same goes for chewing tobacco, not a huge amount of the nicotine
is actually absorbed, in a very short time.
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: Joe Niski <niski@ssd.intel.com>
Subject: Re: MDMA and self-esteem
X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:54:16 GMT
Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:54:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.115334.19078@u.washington.edu> Lamont Granquist,
lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu writes:

>Side effects and other crap:

re: MDA & its lovely relatives & odd side-effects:

1) back in college when everybody was doing LOTS of it, there was one
fellow who developed a dental problem after too many consecutive weekends
with that stuff: his teeth became a bit loose in their sockets from too
much tooth-grinding. This is NOT another urban-legend, he was a
classmate. He lightened up (essentially stopped), and his gums healed.

but, far more disturbing to me:
2) after a few very special experiences with very special people, i made
the mistake of doing MDMA in large group settings (eg, nearly the whole
campus at the end of spring term); imagine a thousand (well, probably
close to 50% of a student body of 1000) running around telling each other
"God, you know, i hardly know you, but i feel like you're a really _good_
person", piling into huge heaps of swarming bodies searching for the
ultimate hug (aka, group grope), etc. - people being suddenly very
_sincere_ about each other, then waking up hung over on Monday and
grumbling off to finals week, back in thier usual miserable selves.

In other words, doing it in a general social setting _cheapened_ the
ecstatic, expansive experiences i'd had previously, and made me really
question the validity of my experineces with it & perceptions while on it
(not to mention what it did for my already cynical view of my fellow
students). My physiological experience didn't seem to change with
successive uses (though i did want a bit more each time), but my
emotional reaciton to the experience certainly did. Those "very special
people" were/are still very special to me (and some of us have done it
again, but in a more private/personal setting) - however, the
substance(s) no longer hold any attraction - i'd rather use various other
psychedelics, even though they offer less emotional "oomph", because the
experience and insights gained feel more honest somehow.

Several other friends from college days report the same perspective on
the MDA family of toys.

just spewing.........

Joe
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.co-evolution
Subject: Descriptive bibliography anyone?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 06:01:47 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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This looks like good WER stuff, please contact Brett direct.  thanks.  --Ed

[ Article crossposted from k12.library ]
[ Author was Brett.Charbeneau@p36.f300.n271.z1.fidonet.org ]
[ Posted on Fri, 11 Dec 92 22:53:00 PDT ]

     Hello!

          Anyone out there interested in the book arts or
analytical bibliography?

          The Research Libraries Group?

          Fine bindings?

          Letterpress Printing?

          Special Collections?

          Paper conservation?

          Papermaking?

          MARC (this especially)?

          Looking forward to hearing from all of you!  Until then,
the subscribers will find me,

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Xref: sparky alt.books.reviews:115 alt.native:1494 rec.arts.books:22849 sci.anthropology:1595
From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,alt.native,rec.arts.books,sci.anthropology
Subject: Re: Several reviews on Native American topics
Date: 19 Dec 92 16:27:20 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <BzBwMD.tG@csn.org> sbrock@teal.csn.org (Steve Brock) writes:
>Here are several short reviews of new books on Native Americans:
>
After see the following review I just had to comment:

>
>LONG BEFORE COLUMBUS: HOW THE ANCIENTS DISCOVERED AMERICA by Hans
>Holzer.  Bear and Co., P.O. Drawer 2860, Santa Fe, NM  87504-2860. 
>Illustrated, maps.  121 pp., $12.95 paper.  0-939680-93-9
>
>                             REVIEW
>
>     Holzer, of the television show "In Search Of..." fame, has
>found Mystery Hill, at North Salem, New Hampshire and its
>archaeoastronomic significance.  The site, an ancient repository of
>megalithic records, is undeniable evidence that North America was
>occupied by intelligent and reverent people.

America was occupied by intelligent people- the American Indians.

However, they didn't build Mystery Hill.  In fact , NO ancient people built it,
it was created in the last hundred years or so.

  The existence of this
>site and others such as the Kahokia Mounds, completely debunk the
>popular (but becoming less so) notion that Columbus "discovered"
>the "New World."

That's "Cahokia".  Cahokia was built by the Mississippian Mound Builder Culture.
The same culture that erected Ocmulgee, Etowah, Spiro, Moundville, etc.

As to Columbus, we know that Norsemen did hit America.

As to others,  there is VERY little evidence, Barry Fell et al no withstanding.

>     There is considerable controversy as to whether the site was
>erected and maintained by indigenous people or European seafarers,
>and Holzer leans toward the explanation that the builders were of
>Phoenician extraction, and sailed from Portugal.

Controversy?  What controversy?  Most archeaologiest KNOW the site was NOT
erected by ancient peoples.  And certainly not people from Portugal.

>     While the debate goes on, there is no disputing the phenomenal
>arrangement of stones at the site, making it a solar and lunar
>calculator and another example of an ancient people harmonizing
>with the earth and the sky.
>     The goal of the book is to expose academic indifference to the
>prehistory of North America, and Holzer's research and the emotion
>of his presentation make the needed attention unavoidable.
>
"Academica Indifference" to NA Prehistory? A better book to read then this 
nonsence is _Fantastic Arcaheology_ which debunks many of the nonsense many
hold about NA prehistory.

Holzer's research sounds like it's at the level of Barry Fell.  Give me a
break.

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Xref: sparky alt.books.reviews:114 rec.arts.books:22810
From: chandana@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (S. Chandana)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: Desperately looking for the book "Numerical Recipes in C"
Summary: Looking for the book "Numerical Recipes in C"
Keywords: Numerical Recipes in C
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:37:34 GMT

Hi there.
I am looking for the book "Numerical Recipes in C".
I am only looking for the algorithms used to find statistical
stuff.

If any body out there can tell me where to find the book
or can send me the required algorithms or can tell
me where to get them (FTP sites) it will be a great help.

			:-)

Thanx,
Chandana.

My e-mail is "chandana@ee.pdx.edu"

Newsgroups: alt.books.technical,misc.books.technical,sci.math
From: dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson )
Subject: Looking for Introduction to Logic by Suppes (still)
Summary: Can anyone help me find this book, please?
Organization: These opinions are mine!
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:32:33 GMT

I am still looking for the book:

Introduction to Logic by Suppes

Does anyone know where I can purchase a copy of this book, new or used?


Signature follows:
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and there is none else."  Isaiah 45:22

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Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
From: bagchi@eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Drzzzzt!  Bagchi)
Subject: Book on Applied Math
Organization: Recreational Creationists, Inc.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:32:33 GMT

	Hi folks, 
	
	As the subject says, I'm looking for something well-written which'll
give me an idea of the methods and ideas in applied math.   My background
is that of a pure math type who's done a fair bit of graduate coursework.

	Ideas?

	-rj
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Xref: sparky alt.books.technical:373 comp.sys.sun.admin:9532
From: tabata@dcl.co.jp (Super Y.S.T.)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: books/articles on DNS & sendmail
Keywords: DNS, sendmail
Date: 17 Dec 92 07:13:31 GMT
Followup-To: alt.books.technical
Organization: YDC Matsumoto R&D Center

I am looking for detailed documents (other than RFC's and manuals come with
the system) on the following subjects;

1) how to set up DNS

2) how to write/modify sendmail.cf

Any info will be appreciated.

Thanks.

--
Yoshikazu Tabata
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
From: tbbusser@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Tod B Bussert)
Subject: Computer Book Clubs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:43:42 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Keywords: book clubs 
Followup-To: poster 

   It is time to increase my selection of computer books and I am
considering joining a book club.  A friend of mine is in the
Library of Computer and Information Sciences book club and is
happy with it, but the selection does not seem to be that great.

   What I am interested in knowing is what computer book clubs
there are, how is their selection and prices, and have you had
problems with them.

   Please email your responses and I will summarize.

Thanks,
Tod
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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: MS C++ ver. 7 Is Shit !
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:48:06 GMT
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN

8910782@sunvax.sun.ac.za (Roger) writes:

> Did MS tried to make the slowest most un user friendly programming
> environment in the world?

Yep.  Stop complaining, and take a coffee break every build.  Good way
to get lots of slack time at work.  (remember, that obnoxious beep after
a build in PWB is an alarm clock... since you may well have dozed off
waiting for the #*#^%*^^#@%* build to finish)
--
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                         "I'm a model citizen."
                                      -- Warren Zevon
From: heard@public.BTR.COM (Charles M. Heard  heard@btr.com)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: This is strange, div doesn't work....
Date: 20 Dec 92 07:34:59 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. For info contact: info@BTR.COM

Michael Duffy (mduffy@aludra.usc.edu) wrote:
>: The following code gives me a divide error:
>: 
>:  mov  ax,0035h
>:  mov  dx,01h
>:  div  dx

Yes indeed.  The 80x86 will give you a divide error anytime the quotient is
too large to fit into the destination register.  This code divides the 32-bit
unsigned integer in DX:AX -- namely 010035H -- by the 16-bit unsigned integer
in DX -- namely 0001H -- and is supposed to return the quotient -- 010035H --
in AX (with the remainder in DX).  It won't fit, so a divide exception is
raised.

In article <1992Dec18.094825.14710@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> sjmadsen@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu (Steve Madsen) writes:
>	You could try changing DX to DL and see if that works.  Since
>you are assigned DX to what looks like a byte value anyway, this might
>solve your problem. 

This will not raise the exception, but it changes the instruction semantics.
It divides the 16-bit unsigned number in AX by the 8-bit number in DL and
returns the quotient in AL and the remainder in AH.  So "div dl" would
function as a no-op with 0035H in AX and 01H in DL.

heard
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: kspousta@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Kevin Spousta)
Subject: Re: Combining MFM and IDE drives
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:45:01 GMT

@arrakis.denver.co.us (Bob Hood) writes:


>I am in a situation where I need more disk space in my PC

What would you POSSIBLY want with more disk space?  <grin>

>I'm not (yet) asking for a method of making it work, I would just like to know
>if it is possible to intermix these two hard drive types in the same computer.

YES!  It can be done..  You'll need a special controller for the IDE and will
have to boot from the MFM.  (blech!)  Adaptec makes a controller called an
ADP-60L that will read the drive params from an IDE and make it fly.  I use
one of these cards in one of my servers because the thing is so old it won't
recognize a 210m drive.  I set the ADP as the secondary controller, the drive
type for the 2nd (210m) drive as type 1 and off I go.

Maybe an MFM controller that'd let you set it up as the secondary controller
would work.  Just a thought.
From: isc30108@nusunix1.nus.sg (AMBAT SASI S/O PALISSERY P)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: 160x100 text mode
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:00:40 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

How to achieve the above mode on a VGA ?
How to change background color MSB from blinking to high
intensity ?
Please help.

sasi.
<isc30108@nusunix.nus.sg>
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: rtczegle@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi)
Subject: Re: This is strange, div doesn't work....
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:43:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.094825.14710@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> sjmadsen@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu (Steve Madsen) writes:
>Michael Duffy (mduffy@aludra.usc.edu) wrote:
>: The following code gives me a divide error:
>: 
>:  mov  ax,0035h
>:  mov  dx,01h
>:  div  dx
>:
>
>	I'm not a genius at assembler, but after looking in my TASM 3.2
>quick-ref, this is about the only thing I could come up with:
>
>	What it appears is that you are doing a simple 16-bit divide.
>As far as my manual is concerned, if you do a div instruction with a
>16-bit operand (such as dx in your example), then it uses DX:AX as your
>dividend.  This might be why you are having a problem, but it's only a
>guess.
>
>	You could try changing DX to DL and see if that works.  Since
>you are assigned DX to what looks like a byte value anyway, this might
>solve your problem. 

You are getting divide errors because the quotient cannot be stored within
a 16 bit registers (ie. AX).  Division on an 80x86 stores the quotient in AX
and the remainder in DX assuming that you are performing 16 bit divisions.
I think that you have to check that the quotient will not be larger than
16 bits before performing the division. 
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: webbs@CS.ColoState.EDU (Steven Webb (The walking glitch))
Subject:  Anyone know of good PD standalone Motif-like env?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:00:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State University - Computer Science Dept.

	Hello.  Does anyone know of a good standalone "Motif-like" GUI
	for MSDOS?  I know that it is possible to find these, but I think
	that they are commercial products only.

	How I know:  There's a GRRRREAT PD paint program on wuarchive called
	"NEOPAINT.EXE" and the paint program is nice and all, but the REAL
	suprise is the environment!  It has the look-and-feel of Motif, and
	most definately is programmed in an OO language.  If anyone has any
	information on this PD program, like where they got the GUI from, or
	if they wrote it themselves, PLEASE TELL ME!

	If nothing is available in the public domain, I am considering writing
	one.  Hell, UNIX was originially PD, why not release a PD windowing
	system that others can add on to?   Maybee even turn it into a PD
	operating system to compete with Wnt!

	-- Steven Webb

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Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: wizard@archtwr.tower.nullnet.fi (Mikko H{nninen)
Subject: Detecting ANSI.SYS (was: Re: DOS text attributes)
Organization: Chambers of the Archmage
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:45:20 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I've received so many postings to use ANSI and no other solutions (that I can
use), so I suppose I have to use ANSI. Which leads to my next question:
I know I can detect ANSI driver by comparing an interrupt's and the CON
device's segment addresses (I think). But is this reliable? Are there any
other programs aside from ANSI that act as the CON device?

Anyway, thanks for all those who have replied to my question.

-- 
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