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From: jpp@StarConn.com (John Pettitt)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Kahn's Corner Pharmacy - AVOID IT!!!
Date: 10 Nov 92 05:00:01 GMT
Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA  415-949-3133

root@rigel.IntelliCorp.COM (The Lord of the files) writes:
>>>Today I had the unpleasant experience of attempting to have a
>>>prescription filled at

To which I said amongst other things:

>>I would be interested to know what the scrip was for and how you were
>>dressed at the time (just being nosey :-).

To which s/he/it (say with a southern accent :-) said: 

>WHAT WAS I WEARING!!!  Oh, that must be it.  I did fail to check the
>dress code before entering the Kahn's Pharmacy.  Let's see what else
>could they need to know?  How about my gender and race?  What about
>national origin?  How about whether or not I believe in purgatory or
>a christian god?  I suppose that my HIV status is important as is the
>color of my underwear.  Are these criteria imposed all throughout
>Los Altos?  No.  They never ask anything like this when I pay my
>taxes.  This must be an anomaly specific to Kahn's...

I would have thought that serving anybody who called themselves the
`Lord of the files' in a conservative place like Los Altos would cause
problems :-).   However note the :-) in my post - for the humor imparied
this denotes sarcasm or some attempt at humor.  

>Did they ask you to show a picture ID?  What were you wearing?

No and Jeans/T Shirt/Birkenstocks - standard techie stuff.    It seems
to me that nobody I know in Los Altos has a had a problem with them
except you.  The simplest explanation that fits the facts is that you
look odd or did/said somthing to cause them to view you as weird. :-)

Los Altos is rather closer to the mid west in its outlook than say
Berkeley but even so I can't believe they just picked on you for no
reason.

Note the :-) before flaming.
-- 
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						Voice: +1 415 967 UNIX
From: schin@acs.bu.edu (neil schier)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: What do you guys think about the NeXT?
Date: 7 Nov 92 23:29:19 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: schin@acs.bu.edu


Hello

First of all let me apologize if I have posted to the wrong newsgroup.

I am curious what do you feel about the NeXT? Any and all opinions are
appreciated.

Regards
From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Two new FAQ panels (for editing): Panel 1 for dealing with flamewars
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:10:48 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <Nov.10.17.48.23.1992.18022@net.bio.net> charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
>
>Two *more* FAQs you're going to autopost?  I can't be the only one who's
>getting tired of seeing the old ones.  (And, yes, I know how to build a
>kill file, thanks.)
>
>I'd like to see some discussion on this before you barrage us with
>more automated postings.
>
Frankly, if it even just cuts down on the number of postings along
the lines of the recent Eric/Lefty/whoever flamewar, I think it's well
worth it.

Heck, if Eugene were to do the same thing for ba.singles, I'd probably
send him a dozen roses.

I don't think the posting rate of the FAQs is unduly high, and I don't
think that adding these two sections is going to be any big deal.  I
don't have a perfect memory, and even after 4 years on the net, I still
occasionally read the FAQs, just to pick up bits that I may have
forgotten.

I think the two sections are well-worded, and thought-provoking.  If
they bother you, well, my guess is that you'll be skipping them when
you skip the FAQ, anyway - weren't they meant to be included as sections
to already-existing FAQs?  

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From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Two new FAQ panels (for editing): Panel 1 for dealing with flamewars
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:48:41 GMT
	<1992Nov11.131231.23612@netcom.com>
Distribution: ca
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames

"aahz" == Mean Green Dancing Machine <aahz@netcom.com> writes:

aahz> (I don't like killfiles, either.  They slow things down too
aahz> much.)  -- --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein) @netcom.com

Get a real computer, would ya?

--
             J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311
                     '92 R100R, DoD# 0378, BMWOA, AMA, ACLU
                                "HotHead Rules!"
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: lau@sunset.ai.sri.com (Stephen Lau)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Any banks with modem access in the Bay Area?
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:23:15 GMT
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
In-reply-to: bryce_jasmer@next.com's message of 10 Nov 92 19:48:26 GMT


Bank of America has Homebanking for $14.00 a month. You can link all of your
accounts into it, transfer money between them and pay bills. The list of 
companies accepting electronic payments is pretty large. With some companies
the transfer and crediting is the same day, so you can set it up so the
payment goes through on the due date. Most of the companies, however have 
a max 5 day lag time from debit to credit.

I believe Prodigy has a few banks online too. Wells Fargo, if I'm not mistaken.

I think Security Pacific had it too, oops, I forgot, Security Pacific got
eaten by BofA.

Steve

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Newsgroups: ba.general
From: jpp@StarConn.com (John Pettitt)
Subject: Re: Kahn's Corner Pharmacy - AVOID IT!!!
Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA  415-949-3133
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:12:04 GMT

root@rigel.IntelliCorp.COM (Operator) writes:
>Today I had the unpleasant experience of attempting to have a
>prescription filled at

>                Kahn's Corner Pharmacy

[ story of bad service deleted ]

Hmmm,  I have not had any problems with them - I have had prescriptions
for opiates (DiHydroCodine) filled by them with no question (Bad tooth - ouch).
I would be interested to know what the scrip was for and how you were
dressed at the time (just being nosey :-).

For what it is worth they won `best pharmacy in Los Altos' from the
local paper last year (they have a clipping on the wall).    I suspect
that they just had an off day - it gets us all from time to time.


-- 
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Archer N81034					apple!starnet!jpp
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						Voice: +1 415 967 UNIX
From: eap@everest.Stanford.EDU (Eric Perozziello)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Japan's tax-evasion
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:18:43 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California
Originator: eap@everest.Stanford.EDU


 TOKYO (UPI) -- Japan's top home-electronics maker Tuesday announced
 plans to work with U.S. tax agents to determine fair-market values for
 its products -- an apparent response to charges from Bill Clinton and
 others that foreign companies evade U.S. taxes.

 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which makes Panasonic and
 Technics products, said it signed an Advanced Pricing Agreement with the
 U.S. Internal Revevue Service aimed at ending so-called ``transfer-
 pricing'' schemes.

 The IRS claims some Japanese firms charge their U.S. subsidiaries
 inflated prices for imported goods, thus allowing the subsidiaries to
 record lower profits -- and pay less taxes -- when they re-sell the items
 to U.S. consumers.

 Experts estimate such ``transfer-pricing'' abuses costs the United
 States billions of dollars each year in lost revenue.

 Last year, the IRS found Matsushita had inflated prices on video-
 cassette recorders, ordering the firm to pay some $3 million in
 additional taxes.

 But Monday, Matsushita said its Advanced Pricing Agreement will allow
 the IRS to determine fair-import prices ahead of time, thus avoiding
 such problems.

 ``With this this agreement...we believe that the risk of double
 taxation will be eliminated,'' the company said in a statement.

 Matsushita said the pact would cover products imported in fiscal
 years 1991 and 1992, with fair-market prices jointly determined in
 advance by both nations' tax authorities, using an unspecified
 ``mutually agreeable method.''

 The daily Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper Tuesday reported other Japanese
 companies are following Matsushita's lead in negotiating similar deals
 with the IRS.
Newsgroups: ba.general,ucb.general
From: james@wrs.com (James Moore)
Subject: Re: Dentist recommendation wanted
Reply-To: james@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:58:05 GMT

raicu@netcom.com (Eugen Raicu) writes:

>I would appreciate recommendations of good dentists preferably in the
>downtown Berkeley area or near BART. Any suggestions?

He's not downtown, but I like Dr. Thomas Adame,
on Solano.  His phone number is 524-1172.

-- 
James Moore                            /|\                        james@wrs.com
Wind River Systems                     \|/                  Alameda, California
	 "Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half
			  didn't mean anything at all"
Xref: sparky ba.general:4999 ba.transportation:2682
From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: ba.general,ba.transportation
Subject: Re: getting to SFO from South bay
Date: 14 Nov 92 00:42:11 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Nov13.175415.12778@ntmtv>, adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
> In article <1992Nov12.215111.3190@acuson.com>, kuo@acuson.com (Ray Kuo) writes:
> |> Does anyone know of shuttle busses which run from the Mountain View
> |> area to SF airport?  Or is Caltrain the best way to go?
> 
> I've used CalTrain before.  You take it to one of either Belmont or
> Broadway or Millbrae and transfer to SamTrans bus 7F or 7B or 3B (in
> that order).
> 
> I used the Broadway/7B combination and it's the one I'd recommend if
> you're doing train->bus->airport.  The bus stop is right *at* the train
> station!  Check w/the SamTrans/CalTrain hotline for train and bus
> connection times at 1-(800)-660-4BUS.

Good point.  Though they recommend using Belmont for the 7F connection,
you're actually probably better off with San Carlos for getting to the
airport, since the train->bus connection is easier than at Belmont as
I recall.

jeremy
Newsgroups: ba.general,ucb.general
From: raicu@netcom.com (Eugen Raicu)
Subject: Dentist recommendation wanted
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:02:06 GMT

I would appreciate recommendations of good dentists preferably in the
downtown Berkeley area or near BART. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-- 
Eugen Raicu
raicu@netcom.com
1912 Addison Street Apt. 15, Berkeley, CA 94704-1128
(510) 644 3204
From: reimer@src.dec.com (Dean Reimer)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Owls
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:19:46 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center

Yes, pigeons are afraid of owls.  I have seen many a pigeon roosting next to one
of those plastic owls.  Buy a real owl.  That'll work!

Dean
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann)
Subject: Re: United in route dispute with Japan
Organization: Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:56:42 GMT

Your all-Japan station, all the time!  Keep reading ba.general
for quick and convenient rants from Eric!


-- 
Maddi Hausmann                madhaus@netcom.com
Humorist, Satirist, Tech Writer.  Take your pick.

Centigram Communications Corp, San Jose California  408/428-3553
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: root@rigel.IntelliCorp.COM (The Lord of the files)
Subject: Re: Kahn's Corner Pharmacy - AVOID IT!!!
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:53:56 GMT

jpp@StarConn.com (John Pettitt) writes:

>root@rigel.IntelliCorp.COM (Operator) writes:
>>Today I had the unpleasant experience of attempting to have a
>>prescription filled at

>>                Kahn's Corner Pharmacy

>[ story of bad service deleted ]

>Hmmm,  I have not had any problems with them - I have had prescriptions
>for opiates (DiHydroCodine) filled by them with no question (Bad tooth - ouch).
>I would be interested to know what the scrip was for and how you were
>dressed at the time (just being nosey :-).

>For what it is worth they won `best pharmacy in Los Altos' from the
>local paper last year (they have a clipping on the wall).    I suspect
>that they just had an off day - it gets us all from time to time.


>-- 
>John Pettitt					jpp@starconn.com
>Archer N81034					apple!starnet!jpp
>Me, say that, never: It's a forged posting!	Fax:   +1 415 967 8682
>						Voice: +1 415 967 UNIX
 

WHAT WAS I WEARING!!!  Oh, that must be it.  I did fail to check the
dress code before entering the Kahn's Pharmacy.  Let's see what else
could they need to know?  How about my gender and race?  What about
national origin?  How about whether or not I believe in purgatory or
a christian god?  I suppose that my HIV status is important as is the
color of my underwear.  Are these criteria imposed all throughout
Los Altos?  No.  They never ask anything like this when I pay my
taxes.  This must be an anomaly specific to Kahn's...

Did they ask you to show a picture ID?  What were you wearing?


Newsgroups: ba.general
From: charleen@ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
Subject: The holiday season:  a time for charity.  Maybe.
Organization: The Original Estrogen-Crazed Lust Bunnies
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:55:31 GMT

It's that time of year again, when we all get a little misty-eyed,
nostalgic and get to feeling a little bit guilty about how good we
have it.

Yep, they're starting to solicit for charity at work.

I feel that charitable donations are an intensely personal thing, best
done in privacy and (if the donor wishes) anonymity.  But workplace
charity drives strip away the privacy and attempt, in many cases, to
make a competition out of giving. 

What's worse, a person who wishes to exercise his right to donate
to the charity of his choice in the fashion he wishes *still* gets
strong-armed by the do-gooders at work, often by his boss.

This is not right.  I'm sorry.  I don't care how "good" the cause is.
It is wrong for a boss to solicit his employee for sexual favors, it
is wrong for a boss to coerce an employee into voting the way the boss
demands and it is wrong for a boss to suggest, in any fashion that can
be thought of as linking the employee's future with the size or fact
of the contribution, that an employee make a charitable donation.

Period.

I have no problem with a company making it easy for people to make
donations; we're all busy folk.  But repeated urgings to donate, one-on-one
discussions, the monitoring of size and type of donation...all these things
are inappropriate for the workplace, IMHO.

Charleen

--
"I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries
 that still has a Communist Party."
                             - Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmy Awards
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner)
Subject: mazda mechanic: summary
Organization: Watch the Skies
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:58:42 GMT

here's all i received:

From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)

   Try Far Performance in Mt. View.  

   Avoid Sunnyvale Mazda and Putnam Mazda like the plague.

From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)

   About the only thing I don't like about Far Performance is the
   brake pads they use.  Theirs squeal like everything.  I finally
   removed theirs and put in factory style.  

   Other than that, I've always gotten great service at reasonable
   prices...on a car with over 107K miles on it.

From: Landon Dyer <landon@apple.com>
To: tnt@netcom.com
Subject: Re: mazda mechanic

i was happy with far performance in mountain view.  this *was*
about five years ago, before i decided that two wheels were
sufficient and sold my rx-7...




-- 
terry
	tnt@netcom.com
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Owls
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:23:59 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Nov6.005602.25559@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
>I've seen these plastic/inflatable (Don't laugh) owls, and I was
>wondering if owls are a deterrent to pigeons.

There's a store downtown with a plastic owl over the window, and a
pigeon's nest right next to it, and pigeon droppings all over the owl.
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Ya can argue all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
"No it aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
        Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"
From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Reposting
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:21:51 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

In article <7iF3TB5w165w@Garg.Campbell.CA.US> Zio zZz
<zio@Garg.Campbell.CA.US> writes:
>newsgroups devoted to reposting 
>news articles and inviting comment and discussion would be great, and a 
>definite addition to my list of groups.  Any comments or ideas, or 
>thoughts on feasibility of such an addition?  Or maybe such a newsgroup 
>exists, and my site doesn't get it?

Exists: misc.headlines.

However if Eric had real balls he would post to to the real groups
of concern as Reece did in ca.general.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
From: madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: CFV: ba.general.japan-bashing
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:30:06 GMT
Organization: Society for putting Things on Top of Other Things

This is a Call for Votes to create ba.general.japan-bashing, a
moderated newsgroup.  The moderator will be Eric Perozzielo.

The reasons for creating this group:

   Give Eric a forum for his interests
   Allow Eric to negate the existence of anyone with a different point
     of view
   Prove that the topic of Japan Bashing does indeed belong in the
     ba.general area
   Keep ba.general itself free from topics not related to either
     the Bay Area or general interest discussion, as opposed to
     appropriate groups such as misc.politics, sci.economics,
     soc.culture.japan, or even ba.politics, all of which Eric is
     determined to avoid.

Please send your votes to Eric, as he is eagerly awaiting your
opinion.  Eric's address appears daily on ba.general, or is probably
in your Kill file.

-- 
Maddi Hausmann                madhaus@netcom.com
Humorist, Satirist, Tech Writer.  Take your pick.

Centigram Communications Corp, San Jose California  408/428-3553
Newsgroups: ba.general
From: jeffj@ultra.com (Jeff Johnson)
Subject: Need San Francisco Hotel Recommendations
Reply-To: jeffj@ultra.com
Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 00:45:22 GMT

I'm looking for recommendations for hotels in San Francisco.  I'm specifically looking 
for a nice place to spend my wedding night :^).  Of course, dis-recommendations are
also welcome.  Price range?  I said it's for my wedding night...
---
    Jeff Johnson    | Ultra Network Technologies | voice: (408) 922-0100 x284
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...ames!ultra!jeffj |    San Jose, CA  95134     |   sex: (900) 976-4825
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From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Attractive Nuisance (was: East Bay Regional Parks/dog restrictions)
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:07:32 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA

In article <1992Nov7.031101.7904@netcom.com> mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers) writes:
>
>If you weren't so busy being obnoxious, you'd have had time to read
>a post I made last week identifying some of the very things that
>you mentioned.

   Of course I just wait with baited breath for every tidbit of
   coprolallia you spew.  

>
>Why are you liberals so hostile to those who question your right
>to interfere with our lives?
>
    Wrong lizard-breath, I'm a conservative.  Amusing how your tiny
    little mind insists on labelling anyone who points out opposing
    facts to you.  Go read that again and see if I made any sort of
    comment which indicated agreement or disagreement with those
    facts.
From: Zio zZz <zio@Garg.Campbell.CA.US>
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Re: Japan's tax-evasion
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 00:17:05 PST
Distribution: ba
Organization: The Land of Garg

lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell) writes:

> In article <1992Nov10.191843.21612@cascade.Stanford.EDU> eap@everest.Stanford
> >
> > TOKYO (UPI) -- Japan's top home-electronics maker Tuesday announced
> 
>   The rest of Eric's proof that he can read and type deleted.
> 
>   I wonder if UPI takes fink phone calls identifying folks violating
>   their copyrights?
> 
>   Also wonder if anyone READS these articles....
> 
> 

Usually not.  It is great that some people are willing to do article 
posting, but it is also true that it is sort of out of place in a 
newsgroup as this.  A new newsgroup (or newsgroups) devoted to reposting 
news articles and inviting comment and discussion would be great, and a 
definite addition to my list of groups.  Any comments or ideas, or 
thoughts on feasibility of such an addition?  Or maybe such a newsgroup 
exists, and my site doesn't get it?


-- 
zio@Garg.Campbell.CA.US (Zio zZz)
The Land of Garg BBS -- +1 408 378-5108
From: phani@uts.amdahl.com (Phani Bodduluri)
Newsgroups: ba.general
Subject: Recommendations for any sports bars
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:24:20 GMT
Reply-To: phani@xserver.uts.amdahl.com (Phani Bodduluri)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Hi --

I thought it'd be a great idea to watch cricket or soccer, in addition
to local sports.BTW, I prefer cricket though !! 

I'd appreciate if you can recommend any good places in and around SFO,
that provide satellite sports TV network.

Thanks alot !

phani                                   These opinions are strictly mine,
                                        NOT Amdahl's.
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                                        NOT Amdahl's.
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