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clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
> In article <1r1jmoINN8mb@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Sc
> >In article <DRAND.93Apr20150701@spinner.osf.org> drand@spinner.osf.org (Doug
> >>In article <randall.735251839@woof> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) wri
>
> >> Hams can legally run up to 1500 watts. It is very unlikely, however,
> >> that a ham would be running that kind of power from a car. Ham rigs
>
> >>Not possible either. You'd need about a 300 amp alternator for
> >>just the amplifier. I can just see it. You need to slow
> >>down on a downgrade, so you hit the push to talk button.
>
> >Now, that indeed is possible. A good friend of mine is running about 1 KW
> >PeP from his car. Yes, he does have a second alternator. Yes, he calls
> >the rig an "electronic brake" since the engine noticeably slows when the
> >key is down.
>
> It has been a while since I knew the electronics of ham radio, but I seem
> to remember that PeP is actually 4x the "real" power. Which makes 1KW PeP
> actually around 250W. Or was it 2x? I disremember.
>
> "Effective transmitted power" is also "odd", in that it takes into account
> antenna height and geometry. Which is why a TV station with a 50KW Klystron
> might advertise a megawatt (if their antenna is on the top of the
> CN tower ;-).
>
> This is like Sears HP ;-)
>
> Though, 1500 real watts still isn't impossible. About 125-150A with
> a 12V alternator, less if the alternator produces higher voltages.
>
> It's only three horsepower (taking into account inefficiencies). You'll
> feel it when you hit the key. But not too much.
> --
> Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
> Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
> Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
It sorta depends on what you drive. I remember running a two channel
Motorola with a vibrator power supply and about 40 tubes in a 1958
Volkwagen. The poor little 6 V generator had a heck of a time, and if you
keyed the mic at night, you needed to be stationary, because your lights
got AWFUL DIM. Isn't progress wonderful?
emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca (Robert Smits Ladysmith BC)
| 12sci.electronics
|
In article <ia522B1w165w@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl>, ferdinan@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl (Ferdinand Oeinck) writes:
|> I'm looking for any information on detecting and/or calculating a double
|> point and/or cusp in a bezier curve.
|>
|> An algorithm, literature reference or mail about this is very appreciated,
There was a very useful article in one of the 1989 issues of
Transactions On Graphics. I believe Maureen Stone was one of
the authors. Sorry not to be more specific. I don't have the
reference here with me.
The article actually was more general than this, giving a way to decide
whether a given (cubic) Bezier curve contains cusps, intersection points
or whatever wierdness. The same treatment is also available in SIGGRAPH 89
course notes for the course called "Math for Siggraph" or something like
that.
--
dr memory
jbulf@kpc.com
| 1comp.graphics
|
joakimr@ifi.uio.no (Joakim Ruud) writes:
>Recently, I've asked myself a rather interesting question: What RIGHT does
>god have on our lives (always assuming there is a god, of course...!) ??
>In his infinite wisdom, he made it perfectly clear that if we don't live
>according to his rules, we will burn in hell. Well, with what RIGHT can god
>make that desicion? Let's say, for the sake of argument, that god creates every
>one of us (directly or indirectly, it doesn't matter.). What then happens, is
>that he first creates us, and then turns us lose. Well, I didn't ask to be
>created.
i guess i ought not conclude from this, then, that since you didn't ask to
be created, you don't care if you go to hell. :)
>Let's make an analogue. If a scientist creates a unique living creature (which
>has happened, it was even patented...!!!), does he then have the right to
>expect it to behave in a certain matter, or die...?
>Who is god to impose its rules on us ? Who can tell if god is REALLY so
>righteous as god likes us to believe? Are all christians a flock of sheep,
>unable to do otherwise that follow the rest?
i don't consider myself an unthinking sheep. the bible says god created
us to be in communion and obedience to him. the first and only rule was
to not eat of a certain tree, or else the punishment is distance from him
and physical death. god's intention in creating us is to have a relationship
with us. the bible documents god's attempts to have that relationship
culminating in the person of jesus to bear the consequences of all sin so
that all who accept him can have a relationship with god again: the purpose
of creation.
who is god to impose rules on us? he's god and he created us. i suppose
he has a right based on who he is. above you mention "In his infinite
wisdom", and that's what i'd say god exemplifies. but if you were being
sarcastic up there, then this whole discussion is irrelevant, eh? and if
we believe god is infinitely wise, that belief should inform our relationship
with him.
| 19talk.religion.misc
|
I'm looking for a Singer Featherweight 221 sewing machine (old, black
sewing machine in black case).
Please contact:
Mary Flagle-Lee
mlf@unlinfo.unl.edu
| 6misc.forsale
|
In article <C5w0C9.2D0@intellection.com> emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
>In <1993Apr21.182458.12735@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> news&aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET) News (brenda kenworthy) writes:
>
>>And another thing that puzzles
>>me--why are they finding dead bodies inside who had bullet holes already in
>>them??? Don't you think it's possible that Koresh shot the TRAITORS rather
>>than letting them out???
>
>Possible. I wouldn't put it past him. It is also possible that they
>were hit by rounds exploding in the extreme heat. Remember that kept
>the cops away for hours. I have only heard that bodies were found
>shot, not any coroner's cause of death.
So far, the medical examiner (according to the news) has found NO EVIDENCE
of gunshot wounds in bodies so far examined. If this continues to be
the case, it will sort of shoot holes (pun intended) in the FBI story,
wouldn't it? And cartridges going off outside a firearm do not launch
a bullet like they do when fired from a gun. The bullet hardly moves,
it is the brass casing that goes flying, and then with less than lethal
force. It will hurt, yes, but not KILL you - I doubt if it wil penetrate
a coat, for example.
How about an INDEPENDENT investigation, with full subpoena powers, and
powers to prosecute on felony charges, to investigate for any possible
illegal/criminal activity on the part of both the BATF and FBI? I
cannot see any reason why not - to use the phrase they like to use
so often, "if they have nothing to hide..." they should welcome it,
and vigorously support it. Note that an internal investigation by the
Dept of Justice is NOT an independent investigation...
--
pat@rwing.uucp [Without prejudice UCC 1-207] (Pat Myrto) Seattle, WA
If all else fails, try: ...!uunet!pilchuck!rwing!pat
WISDOM: "Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity,
and I am not sure about the former." - Albert Einstien
| 16talk.politics.guns
|
Charles Kincy (ckincy@cs.umr.edu) wrote:
:
: All I have to say is...yeah, right. If you're willing to pay them
: mucho big bucks and/or use the routines *they* tell you to do.
: Doesn't sound very reasonable to me.
All I have to say is this is full of shit. I have negotiated a license
and the bucks are incredibly reasonable with an upfront charge on a
sliding scale depending on your capitalization. If you are a startup
and can't afford it you can't afford to start up in the first place.
Why do people insist on making unequivocal statements about that which
they know nothing.
:
: But I don't guess PKP and RSA are interested in big bucks. Maybe
: they have some other agenda? Secure communications only for
: government agents, perhaps?
Have you considered treatment for paranoia? The government is the
single biggest thorn in RSA's side.
:
: Some limitation. Let me guess: don't use the code in any way PKP or
: RSA doesn't like....such as...providing secure communications for the
: average citizen.
That was exactly its purpose if you know anything about it. There is
nothing at all preventing the average citizen using it, only selling
it.
:
: I hope my cynicism is misplaced here. Go ahead...I'm not afraid to
: be wrong every once in a while. But, I have an uneasy feeling that I
: am right. :(
It is and you are wrong yet you emotionally state a bunch of crap as fact
with a tiny disclaimer at the end. Check your facts first and grow up.
Why is there such a strong correlation between interest in cryptography
and immaturity I wonder.
Bob Cain (normally rcain@netcom.com)
| 11sci.crypt
|
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P.O. Box 382761 | even explain 1915?"
Cambridge, MA 02238 | Turkish MP, March 1992
| 17talk.politics.mideast
|
In article <1993Apr18.080719.4773@nwnexus.WA.COM>, mscrap@halcyon.com (Marta Lyall) writes:
> Organization: "A World of Information at your Fingertips"
> Keywords:
>
> In article <628@toontown.columbiasc.ncr.com> craig@toontown.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Craig S. Williamson) writes:
>>
>>I'm getting ready to buy a multimedia workstation and would like a little
>>advice. I need a graphics card that will do video in and out under windows.
>>I was originally thinking of a Targa+ but that doesn't work under Windows.
>>What cards should I be looking into?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Craig
>>
>>--
>> "To forgive is divine, to be
>>-Craig Williamson an airhead is human."
>> Craig.Williamson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM -Balki Bartokomas
>> craig@toontown.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (home) Perfect Strangers
>
>
> Craig,
>
> You should still consider the Targa+. I run windows 3.1 on it all the
> time at work and it works fine. I think all you need is the right
> driver.
>
> Josh West
> email: mscrap@halcyon.com
>
AT&T also puts out two new products for windows, Model numbers elude me now,
a 15 bit video board with framegrabber and a 16bit with same. Yesterday I
was looking at a product at a local Software ETC store. Media Vision makes
a 15bit (32,768 color) frame capture board that is stand alone and doesnot
use the feature connector on your existing video card. It claims upto 30 fps
live capture as well as single frame from either composite NTSC or s-video
in and out.
Don Lewis
<djlewis@ualr.edu>
| 1comp.graphics
|
I look at zApp and really liked it. However, I think you should
wait for version 2.0 (I think it will be out soon).
Mike Maley
maley@cs.umn.edu
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc
|
In article <1r7prg$hpq@agate.berkeley.edu> isaackuo@spam.berkeley.edu (Isaac Kuo) writes:
>In article <1993Apr22.031648.2886@a.cs.okstate.edu> kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes:
[...]
>
>You are speculating that the FBI purposely started the fire?!?!? Please,
>if you've got such a ridiculously extraordinary claim, and have no evidence
>whatsoever, at least give us a speculatory reason why the FBI would want to
>do such a thing.
>
>The possibility that the fire was started accidentally is much more reasonable,
>but we don't have anything but contradictory anecdotal evidence right now.
>--
>*Isaac Kuo (isaackuo@math.berkeley.edu) * ___
Mr. Kuo: I don't recall seeing your byline around much before (at least
on t.p.m). Let me clue you in on this newsgroup. t.p.m is populated
largely by people whose hatred for the U.S. government, especially
the government of Mr. Clinton, is literally boundless. To these
people, the suggestion that agents of the U.S. government would carry
out a spectacular massacre of its own citizens, in full view of TV
cameras, is not an 'extraordinary claim'. It's just another day in
the life of these United States.
They don't have to suggest any reason why the FBI would want to
publicly massacre citizens. Have you seen 'The Crying Game'?
"It's in their nature".
Don Pajerek
Standard disclaimers apply.
| 18talk.politics.misc
|
Here is the tollfree hotline for the Epilepsy Foundation
of America - 1-800-EFA-1000. They will be able to answer
your questions and send you information and references on
seizure types, medication, etc. They can also give you references
for a pediatric neorologist in your area. Also ask for the
number of your local Foundation who can put you in touch with
a Parent Support Group and social workers.
Good Luck.
| 13sci.med
|
In article <1993Apr22.162501.747@indyvax.iupui.edu> tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
... So how about this? Give the winning group
(I can't see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year
moratorium on taxes.
You are talking about the bozos who can't even manage in November to
keep promises about taxes made in October, and you expect them to make
(and keep!) a 50-year promise like that? Your faith in the political
system is much higher than mine. I wouldn't even begin to expect that
in Australia, and we don't have institutionalised corruption like you
do.
--
Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia
Knox's 386 is slick. Fox in Sox, on Knox's Box
Knox's box is very quick. Plays lots of LSL. He's sick!
(Apologies to John "Iron Bar" Mackin.)
| 14sci.space
|
You can try SGS L6217A, it can achieve 256 current level(microstep),
teere is a circuit in the SGS-THOMSON - " Smart Power Applicatio
Manual", order code for the manual is AMSMARTPOWERST/1
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| 12sci.electronics
|
The Cybard (dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu) wrote:
: I have a 486DX-33 computer with a SoundBlaster 1.0 card. I'm running
: Microsoft Windows v3.1. I have the SB driver set up properly to play
: normal sounds (.WAV files, etc.). I want to play midi files through the
: Media Player that is included with windows. I know I have to set up the
: patch maps or something in the MIDI-Mapper in the Control Panel. I KNOW
: NOTHING ABOUT MIDI. (This is to be the way I'll get my feet wet.)
: How do I set up Windows so that I can play MIDI files?
If you install the Soundblaster windows drivers correctly, and have
the latest drivers, the media player should be setup to play files
authored to Microsoft's Multimedia midi authoring standard (General
Midi), see the section in the back of the Voyetra manual in the
Soundblaster midi upgrade kit.
You'll find that midi files exist with all kinds of different
mappings, so don't expect them to always sound correct without using
some kind of midi file editor, such as Voyetra's Sequencer Plus.
You can attempt to use the midi-mapper to remap the patches for
soundblaster, but since you cannot modify the sbfm.drv you are allways
stuck with the instruments that come with this driver. Unless you can
find an editor for making modifications to the instrument settings in
sbfm.drv , I would suggest you locate the early version of
soundblaster drivers that were mapped to mt32 voices, and the later
drivers that are mapped to the general midi voices.
:
: --
: David Thomas Dudek / v098pwxs@ubvms.bitnet \ __ _ The Cybard
: State University / dudek@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu \ / `-' ) ,,,
: of New York / "If music be the food of love, \ | | ()|||||||[:::}
: @ Buffalo / play on!" - Wm. Shakespeare \ `__.-._) '''
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc
|
In <Apr.15.00.58.10.1993.28876@athos.rutgers.edu> eng10205@nusunix1.nus.sg (LING SIEW WEE) writes:
>Hello, I am about to embark on a bible study on ACTS. I have online
>bible software with me. I would like to know the the background of the
>authors of its various topics articles and about the author of the
>People's New Testament. I need to know how realible is the articles in
>the Online Bible software. Specifically (for your convenience) I want to
>know about the :
> 1. Darby Translation ( I have never heard of this one)
J.N. Darby was one of the founders of the "Plymouth Brethren" and an
early supporter of dispensationalism. F.F. Bruce highly approved
of his translation. He also translated the Bible into several other
languages.
> 2. Young's Literal Translation (I have also never heard
>of)
This was from the same fellow who did Young's Concordance, which was
a standard reference work, similar to Strong's concordance.
> 3. The realiability of the Hebrew/Greek Lexicon
I believe that these just follow standard reference works.
> 4. The authors (from which denomination etc) of the
>articles in the TOPICS modules.
Some are by Larry Pierce ("Brethren"), some are by Baptists, and I
think that Thompson (of chain reference fame) was Presbyterian)
> 5. The realiability of the Treasury of Scripture
>Knowlege ( as I have never heard of too)
Another standard reference work that has been around for decades.
A new version was just released and is available through Christian
Book Distributers.
> 6. Who are the commentators, Scofield and B.W. Johnson
>who wrote the Scofield Reference Bible and the People's New Testament respectively
C.I. Scofield was the creator of the Scofield Reference Bible. For many
people (but not me), this is THE STUDY BIBLE. The notes are strongly
dispensational.
> 7. The realiability of the Strong numbers.
These are probably the most accurate Strong's numbers available.
Shawn Abigail
abigail@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
| 15soc.religion.christian
|
I'm told that VRrend386 is available on the internet. I wanted to know where it is.
Thanks in advance.
Raoul
daruwala@cs.nyu.edu
| 1comp.graphics
|
Keywords:
I am looking for some morphing programs for DEC's or pc's. I looked for a program
called dmorph using archie but could not find it. I found a progrmam call
morpho but it only did grayscale images. Does anyone know where I should look?
| 1comp.graphics
|
In article G2o@ccu.umanitoba.ca, umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Daryl Turner) writes:
>Oh yeah...and I CAN go to the Arena and see not one, not two, but
>*six* championship banners hanging from the rafters. 3 Stanley Cup
>banners, and 3 Avco Cup banners. My NHL guide says that Vancouver has
>won the Cup once (as many times as the rockin' town of Kenora has won it!)
Don't let this confuse anybody. The Winnipeg Jets have never won the
Stanley Cup (or even come that close). These Stanley Cup championships
go back a LONG way to about the turn of the century. The Winnipeg
Victorias won one or more of these Cups- the Jets didn't win any of
them.
Can you think of anything more irrelevant to argue about a playoff
series going on today than who won more Stanley Cups around the turn
of the century??
Lets face facts. The Canucks are leading the series 3-1. The Canucks
dominated the Jets in their season series. The Canucks did better in
the regular season than Winnipeg. Who is the better team? I think
that the facts show that Vancouver is better than Winnipeg.
Gregmeister
| 10rec.sport.hockey
|
In article <1pp991$t63@cc.tut.fi>, jk87377@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (Kouhia Juhana)
writes:
>In article <1993Apr5.040819.14943@kpc.com> hollasch@kpc.com (Steve
>Hollasch) writes:
>>
>> I think you're proposal would work to get an extra one, maybe two extra
>>bits of color resolution. However, if you had a display that chould do only
>>zero or full intensity for each primary, I don't think you'd get great
>>equivalent 24-bit photographs.
>
>I have not suggested to do so; I wrote about problems, and the problem
>were clearly visible with 7 bit b&w images; not to mention 24 bit images.
[ description of experiment deleted ]
>If the 1 bit images are viewed quickly and in sync with screen,
>then 100 intensities could be better than we have -- I dunno.
[ more deleted ]
>In any case, getting black color with slow machines is problem.
>I could try it on our 8 bit screens but I don't know how to
>render pixels with X in constant time. I recall our double buffer
>has other image color and one b&w -- that doesn't help either.
>Maybe I should dump photos to screen with low level code; how?
A few years ago a friend and I took some 256 grey-level photos from
a 1 bit Mac Plus screen using this method. Displaying all 256 levels
synchronized to the 60Hz display took about 10 seconds. After
experimenting with different aperture settings and screen
brightnesses we found a range that worked well, giving respectable
contrast. The quality of the images was pretty good. There were no
visible contrast bands.
To minimize the exposure time the display program built 255
different 1 bit frames. The first contained a dot only for pixels
that had value 255, the second only for pixels that had value 254,
etc. These frames were stored using a sparse data structure that was
very fast to 'or' onto the screen in sequence. Creating these
frames sometimes took 5-10 minutes on that old Mac, but the camera
shutter was closed during that time anyway. And yes, we wrote
directly to the screen memory. Mea culpa.
Our biggest problem was that small images were displayed in the
top left corner of the screen instead of the center. It took
an extra week to have the film developed and printed, because the
processors took the trouble to manually move the all images into
the center of the print. Who'd have guessed?
regards,
Jon Rowlands
| 1comp.graphics
|
My mom has just been diagnosed with cystic breast disease -- a big
relief, as it was a lump that could have been cancer. Her doctor says
she should go off caffeine and chocolate for 6 months, as well as
stopping the estrogen she's been taking for menopause-related reasons.
She's not thrilled with this, I think especially because she just gave
up cigarettes -- soon she won't have any pleasures left! Now, I thought
I'd heard that cystic breasts were common and not really a health risk.
Is this accurate? If so, why is she being told to make various
sacrifices to treat something that's not that big of a deal?
Thanks for any information.
-- Chris
--
black@sybase.com
Note: My mailer tends to garble subject lines.
| 13sci.med
|
In article <93103.071613J5J@psuvm.psu.edu> John A. Johnson <J5J@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>Standard groups (sci, soc, talk) must conform to stricter rules when being
>established and must show a certain volume of postings or else they will
>cease to exist. These groups also reach more sites on USENET than alt
>groups. I already posted my opinion to mathew's suggestion, which was that
>alt.atheism is on the verge of having too many garbage postings from
>fundies, and "elevating" its status to a standard group (and consequently,
>the volume of such postings) could make it unreadable.
I tend to agree. I came here when it first started and watched it grow
from the roots on talk.religion.misc. It seemed to take a while for enough
atheists to come forward to get past the "Let's trash Xians" and such.
Now there's a stable core, and frankly there's a feeling that this is
_our_ group.
If we go mainstream, we're going to be in a lot more places. And every
fucking fundy loonie freshman will be dumping on us to find Jeesus! and
warn us that we're all going to Hell.
Want to see what we'll get? Go real alt.fan.brother-jed and imagine that
those imbecilic tirades will be here. All the time. Every other post.
I'm being selfish. I find I really learn a lot here and the S/N isn't too
bad. The Browns and the Boobys are a distraction, but they are few enough
that they even bring in some of the leavening needed to offset them. But
I greatly fear that mainstreaming would basically put us at the swamping
level of the Conners of the world.
Regards,
Dew
--
Dewey Henize Sys/Net admin RISC hardware (512) 891-8637 pager 928-7447 x 9637
| 0alt.atheism
|
One thing to consider is time division multiplexing the EMG
channels to reduce the number of RF carriers you have to generate.
If you multiplexed the EMG inputs at 10KHz, that would probably be
sufficient for most physiology studies (you'd have ~ 330 Hz per
channel sampling rate.) That level of analog multiplexing should
be rather easy to accomplish.
Combining a lot of RF carriers is pretty tricky to do without
generating intermodulation. A system to be carried by a runner is
in a fairly harsh environment and would probably be difficult to
keep balanced.
A commercial hand-held transciever could probably be employed with
a little modification to accomodate widening the bandwidth.
Obviously, this has to be done in accordance with whatever laws
govern the use of transeivers in your location.
--
Bill Mayhew NEOUCOM Computer Services Department
Rootstown, OH 44272-9995 USA phone: 216-325-2511
wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (140.220.1.1) 146.580: N8WED
| 12sci.electronics
|
In article <edm.735510069@wrs.com>, edm@wrs.com (Ed McClanahan) writes...
{Jim_Johnson@abcd.houghton.mi.us (Jim Johnson) writes:
K{
{<speaking of CPU fans>
{
{> Many use clips - make sure you use heat sink
{>grease, or heat transfering tape, or you will have wasted your money.
{
{Do these CPU Fans also have heat sinks? Do you recommend using both
{on the same chip (i.e. heat sink sandwiched between CPU and Fan)?
{
{If we are just talking about a CPU Fan blowing directly on the CPU chip,
{I can't see how "heat sink grease" is necessary (or even desireable).
{--
{
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{
{ Edward McClanahan edm@wrs.com
I have a PC Power and cooling fan and it is a heat sink with a built in fan
that glues on top of the CPU. Even if the fan quits you still have the heat
sink fins to aid cooling. The glue, of course, is the type that has high
thermal conductivity.
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
In article <1993Apr19.043654.13068@informix.com> proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
>In article <1993Apr12.165410.4206@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:
>>
>>I recall reading somewhere, during my youth, in some science popularization
>>book, that whyle isotope changes don't normally affect chemistry, a consumption
>>of only heavy water would be fatal, and that seeds watered only with heavy
>>water do not sprout. Does anyone know about this?
>>
>
>I also heard this. I always thought it might make a good eposide of
>'Columbo' for someone to be poisoned with heavy water - it wouldn't
>show up in any chemical test.
No one else seems to know, so I'll post this.
This topic came up on sci.physics.fusion shortly after the cold-fusion
flap started. As I recall, its been done to some experimental mice.
They showed various ill effects and eventually died. The reason is
that deuterium does not have exactly the same reaction rates as
hydrogen due to its extra mass (which causes lower velocity, Boltzman
constant, mumble). This throws various bits of body biochemistry out
of kilter, and you get sick and die.
I've never heard of anyone being poisened this way, in or out of real
life. The process takes quite a while. If anyone wants to write this
book, I would imagine you would have to:
1: Replace a significant fraction of the water in the body with heavy
water.
2: Wait while normal breakdown and repair processes cause other
molecules in the body to be synthesised using the deuterium.
During this process the victim would gradually deteriorate and
eventually die, but I imagine it would take weeks during which the
poisoner would have to ensure that a significant proportion of the
water the victim ingested was heavy.
You would get such a mess of symptoms that the doctors would be both
alarmed and confused. Why should every organ in the body suddenly
begin to deteriorate? If you can figure out how the poisoner gets the
heavy water into the victim in a hospital then you could have a real
story here.
Come to think of it, <2> would continue even after the heavy water was
no longer being ingested, so hospitalisation might be too late.
The most detectable effect would be that the victim's body fluids
would literally be "heavy". Water has a molecular weight of 18 and
heavy water has a MW of 20. Thus the victim's weight will increase by
about 1% for every 10% of body water replaced by heavy water. Maybe
the detection occurs because some pathologist in the lab notices that
the victim's urine is strangely dense. Is there any medical test
involving the specific gravity of a body fluid?
Paul.
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|
In article <1993Apr15.202729.6649@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>,
brian@lpl.arizona.edu (Brian Ceccarelli 602/621-9615) wrote:
> Jesus gives more reasons in John 16:7. But one obvious reason
> why Jesus died, (and as with everything else, it has nothing do with
> his punishment) was that he could rise to life again--so that
> we would "stop doubting and believe" (John 21:27). The fact
> that Jesus rose from the dead is my hope that I too will rise
> from the dead. It is an obvious point. Do not overlook it.
> Without this obvious point, I would have no hope
> and my faith would be vanity.
Glad to hear this, just a note, Osiris, Mithras and many other
cult gods resurrected as well, so there's a good chance for all of
us to maybe end up in a virtual reality simulator, and live forever,
hurrah!
Sorry, this was a joke, some sort of one anyway. I'm the first
that connected Osiris with a virtual reality personality database.
Time to write a book.
Cheers,
Kent
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|
[questions and issues WRT congress raised and discussed}
Dennis Replies;
>Now black when it is white is just white. Except that when black is called
>white money is put into the system in a study to find out just when it is
>justified to call black, white. It is also apparant that when white is called
>black, just the opposite occurs. Now white is a color, but when white is
>called black, it calls into question the validity of the color spectrum.
...
>It is a given however that NASA nor the military, whose competence in
>differentating black from white is well known (remember the black and
>white paint on the Saturn V rocket?) That nothing will occur here either.
>When black and white are used by congress, who cares nothing for results,
>just more money for pork barrel jobs brought about by the black/white
>controversy....
Dennis, why must you always see things in black and white terms? :-)
-Tommy Mac
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jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:
>I have believed all along that they could not let them live, the
>embarrassment to the BATF and the FBI would've been too severe.
>Remember, this was a suspicion of tax-evasion warrant. There were no
>witnesses, except the FBI. All information filtered through the FBI. All
>they had to do was allow one remote controlled pool camera be installed
>near the building, and the press could've done their job, and would've
>been able to back the FBI's story with close up video, while incurring no
>risk to the press. Unless they did not want the public to see something.
>The complete lack of any other source of information other than the
>FBI really causes me concern.
>Sick to my stomach, and getting sicker from all the Government apologists
Well put, Jim. I am as concerned about the media's complicity in this
growing coverup. Can you imagine the media outrage, the lawsuits, the
investigations that would emit if the government kept the media away from
any other story? Particularly if a Republican administration had been
behind it. What's going on here?
Let's look beyond the initial blunder and examine what happened next.
I'm a student of human phychology, particularly in the area of psy-ops
because I've found some of the techniques to be useful in business
negotiations. That puts me firmly in the amateur ranks. This AMATEUR
knows that the first thing to do when sizing up the opponent is to do a
psychological profile on him. You can bet your ass the FBI had
professionally done profiles on Koresh. Koresh's behavior was
emminently predictable. It is typical of people who move away from
civilization to be willing to fight to the death to preserve their
isolation. It would also be typical, given Koresh's religious
orientation, for such an individual to interpret a government assault as
the apocalypse. Suicide is as an acceptable alternative to being
consumed in the apocalypse.
IMHO, the FBI knew all this and decided after 50 days of concentrated
psy-ops to initiate that apocalypse. I believe they chose a course of
action designed specifically to push Koresh over the edge while publicly
appearing to be acting reasonably. They KNEW that Koresh considered the
tanks to be the Chariots of Fire mentioned in the Book of Revelations.
They KNEW that sending tanks, oops, combat engineering vehicles,
obstensibly to perform "gas insertions" (love that NewSpeak) WOULD push
him over the edge.
Look at some supporting evidence. Koresh's attorney mentioned on TV
earlier today (4/20) that one of Koresh's major concern was the biblical
role of the tanks stationed around the compound. The FBI (through Reno
on Larry King last night and at the news conference this morning)
claimed to have listening devices in the compound. If that was true
they KNEW their actions were driving him to the brink. They KNEW they
were pushing the Davidians toward mass suicide. Any rational and
reasonable agency NOT interested in killing those people would, at
the first sign of preparations for suicide, have pulled completely back and
would have gotten rid of all the armor. Instead they continued with the
"gas insertion" right up to the point where flames appeared. The image
that will remain etched in my mind is that of the tank strutting back
and forth in front of the burning compound, gloating over the kill.
Let's step back and assess how this thing could have been ended without
bloodshed. This technique would have required a law enforcement agency
interested in constitutionally enforcing the law and in the preservation
of life instead of achieving a military victory and of vengence.
The way to have nabbed Koresh was simply to have announced a pull back,
abandoned the assault, torn down the concertina wire and removed the
armor, maintained covert surveillance of the compound and then exploited
his ego to flush him out. Exploiting his ego would have been simple. A
simple invite or two from the tabloid talk shows to come on TV and tell
how he whipped the US government would have been something he could not
have resisted. He could have then been nabbed when he left the
compound. Simple, clean and safe but because it would have required the
FBI to execute a tactical retreat and would have deprived them of the
revenge they sought, it was totally out of the question. Not without
all that testesterone floating around. After all Jannet Reno had to
show the world how big her balls are.
Yesterday was a sad, sad day for the American system. I am sick to my
very soul.
John
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epritcha@s.psych.uiuc.edu ( Evan Pritchard) writes:
> No, I would not want to see a Ballard division. But to say
>that these owners are assholes, hence all NHL management people are
>assholes would be fallacious. Conn Smythe, for example, was a classy
>individual (from what I have heard).
Depends on what you mean by classy. From what I've heard about
him, he was about as classy as Harold Ballard. Only difference was
that back then almost all the owners were like that, so he seemed okay
by comparison. Read the book "Net Worth" for one view of what Smythe
(and Norris and Adams and Campbell) were like.
> Also, isn't the point of "professional" hockey to make money
>for all those involved, which would include the players. What I think
>you might be saying is that the players have not made as much money as
>should have been their due, and it is the players that are what make
>the game great not the people who put them on the ice, so naming
>division after management people rather than players is adding insult
>(in the form of lesser recognition) to injury (less money than was
>deserved).
Even more specifically, I think what Roger was saying (and I said
it previously too) is that these are NOT the people who made the
league great, so why should divisions, conferences etc. be named after
them instead of Morenz, Vezina, Howe, Orr etc., the people who DID
make it great. Instead, the NHL has chosen to immortalize the men who
got rich off of the men who made the game great.
--
Chris Roney (e-mail chris_roney@sfu.ca)
| 10rec.sport.hockey
|
I have a small Windows program which I can not get to work;
The program looks vaguely like this:
=============================================
char f1[80];
int WinMain(...
{
lstrcpy ((LPSTR)f1, "Hello");
...
}
long far pascal WndProc(...
{
lstrcpy ((LPSTR)f1, "Hello");
...
}
=============================================
I am using large model under Windows 3.1; after linking without
errors, the RC program said
Sorting preload segments and resources into fast-load section
Copying segment 1 (53679 bytes)
RC : fatal error RW1031: Segment 1 and its
relocation information is too large for load
optimization. Make the segment LOADONCALL or
rerun RC using the -K switch if the segment must
be preloaded.
Using the -K switch seems to interfere with the proper function of
the second lstrcpy call... can anybody explain what is going on and/or
how to fix it?
Thanks...
Pugsley (dpugsle@nswc-wo.nswc.navy.mil)
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc
|
In article <1993Apr21.045548.17418@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st922957@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>
>Y'know, when the right to bear arms was "invented", all we had to worry
>about was the shotgun and pistol.
Don't forget rifles.
>Just because someting was good once, does not mean it will be forever.
The Amendment in question was "invented" so that a government that had it in mind to
oppress its people would have cause to think twice. Governments are still doing
this kind of thing today.
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marcc@ecs.comm.mot.com
| 16talk.politics.guns
|
From article <1993May12.111030@IASTATE.EDU>, by jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan):
>>
>> Actually, this strife in Yugoslavia goes back a long way. Bosinan Muslims,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> in collaboration with the Nazis, did to Serbians after the first world
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> war what Serbs are doing to Muslims now. This is not a fresh case of
>>
>
>
> I dont think you're correct here. There have been no reports of the Bosnians
> Muslims supporting the Nazis in their genocide against the Serbians. The
> fact is that the Croat govt. using their secret police (called the Ustache,
> I think) were the prime agents of the Nazis in Yugoslavia against the Serbs.
>
> --Javed.
First of all, this is NOT a strife; this is a massacre of innocent
Moslem poeples by the Christian West.
Since Ottoman lost the control of Balkans, many tens and hundereds
of millions of Muslem peoples (Turks, Albanians, Bosnians, and others)
have been tortured, raped, massacred, and driven out of their homes
by the Cristians of both the region and Europe. Some lucky ones
escaped to relative safety in Turkiye. The remaining others are being
finished now by local Christians, the USA, and the rest of Europe.
The Christian West is maintaining a tight arms ambargo on the Muslem
peoples of Bosnia so they cannot deffend themslves while letting
Christian Serbs and Croats torture, rape, and massacre the innocent
Moslem peoples of Bosnia.
It took Christian Europe for almost six centuries to achieve this
objective of theirs and I do not think they will let it up. This will
go on untill every single Moslem person (Bosnian, Turk, Albanian, etc)
is tortured, raped, massacred, and driven out of their homes.
| 17talk.politics.mideast
|
watson@sce.carleton.ca (Stephen Watson) writes:
>kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan) writes:
>>In article <healta.171.735538331@saturn.wwc.edu> healta@saturn.wwc.edu
>>(Tammy R Healy) writes:
>>>> "FBI officials said cult leader David Koresh may have
>>>> forced followers to remain as flames closed in. Koresh's
>>>> armed guard may have injected as many as 24 children with
>>>> poison to quiet them."
>>>>
>>>Do the FBI have proof of this yet?!
>
>> Why ask me? I am only quoting the FBI official. Why not ask the FBI?
>
> Myabe they're lying to cover up, or maybe they're telling the truth.
The 24 children were, of course, killed by a lone gunman in a second story
window, who fired eight bullets in the space of two seconds...
mathew
| 0alt.atheism
|
Various posts about shafties can't do wheelies:
>: > No Mike. It is imposible due to the shaft effect. The centripital effects
>: > of the rotating shaft counteract any tendency for the front wheel to lift
>: > off the ground
>
>Good point John...a buddy of mine told me that same thing when I had my
>BMW R80GS; I dumped the clutch at 5,000rpm (hey, ito nly revved to 7 or so) and
>you know what? He was right!
Uh, folks, the shaft doesn't have diddleysquatpoop to do with it. I can get
the front wheel off the ground on my /5, ferchrissake!
Bill
__
wrs@gozer.mv.com (Bill Slack) DoD #430
But her tears were shed in vain and her every word was lost
In the rumble of his engine and the smoke from his exhaust! Oo..o&o
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
Do all SCSI cards for DOS systems require a separate device driver to be loaded
into memory for each SCSI device hooked up? Will this also be true of the 32-bit
OS's?
Thanks.
Randy
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
I was wanting to ask the same question Dan Bernstein asked--how does the
Clipper chip exchange keys? If the public key is only 80 or 160 bits long,
does anyone know of any public-key schemes that are secure with that key
size? (Diffie-Hellman or maybe El Gamal, with p set to a constant value?)
Presumably, the real scheme is something like:
1. Exchange/verify public keys.
2. Send encrypted (randomly-generated) session key.
3. Encrypt / Decrypt voice trafic with some sort of fast stream cipher.
Can anyone elaborate on this, or show me what I'm missing here?
--John Kelsey, c445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu
| 11sci.crypt
|
>Hi, We are trying to develop a image reconstruction simulation for the skull. The problem we are having is that we cannot obtain 3D data for the skull. We can just video a rotating skull, but that will only give us 2 dimensions.
>Anyone out there got any suggestions?
Yup, you can get a skull contained in the Cyberware_demo from the
following location:
In order to get the Cyberware_demo via ftp do the following:
1) ftp taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
2) login as anonymous, guest as the password
3) cd pub/dabro
4) binary
5) get cyberware_demo.tar.Z
Once you get the demo onto your workstation:
1) uncompress cyberware_demo.tar.Z
2) tar xvof cyberware_demo.tar
The skull data is called 'phred' and resides in the data directory.
george dabro
dabro@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
--
george dabrowski
Cyberware Labs
dabro@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
| 1comp.graphics
|
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| 6misc.forsale
|
I own an 80386sx, 16Mhz, 2Mb ram machine and am finding it too slow for
certain games such as X-wing. I was in a Computer store there the other
day and saw a series of Gamecards which claim to speed up your machine
to up to 80Mhz! I was wondering if anyone out there who has a similar
machine had bought one or seen one of these Gamecards and whether or not
they do actually work!
Any help here would be much appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
Greg.
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| or does he....?.......EGGMAN...............|
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
In article <1993Apr16.172502.2301@osf.org> dswartz@osf.org (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
} In article <4200419@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> boell@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Donald P Boell) writes:
} >I'd have to say the most impressive HRs I've ever see came from Dave Kingman
} >and his infamous moon-raker drives...
}
} I remember one he hit circa 1976 at Wrigley Field that went across
} the street (in dead center field) and hit a house on the roof. He
} whiffed a lot, but when he *did* connect, watch out!
the best home run i have *ever* seen came off, believe it or not,
Roger Clemens (sorry, Val) a couple of years ago. he threw a ball to
Incaviglia which was literally at Inky's neck, and he absolutely
hammered the crap out of it. after the swing, Clemens nonchalantly
motioned for a new ball--he didn't even turn around to look, or
even get upset. the ball hit the lights in the left-field standard,
some 70 or so feet about the Green Monster (over 100 feet above the
ground total!)
truly an amazing shot.
-*-
charles
| 9rec.sport.baseball
|
Andrew Hilmer (hilmera@storm.cs.orst.edu) wrote:
: At the risk of beginning a cascade, I'll start with a possibly cheesy
: good 'ol Uhmericun:
: "Our shield is freedom"
Or, considering what our government has been doing for the past 50 years,
perhaps this would be more appropriate:
"100% Debt"
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| 0alt.atheism
|
In <1993Apr16.205724.26258@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes:
>In article <1993Apr12.171250.486@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>>I almost got a hernia laughing at this one.
>You'll probably get one when you realize that your $100 vesa super
>dooper local bus ultra high tech controller sucks...
>>If anything, SCSI (on a PC) will be obsolete-> killed off by Vesa Local
>With any luck PC bus archeitecture will be doen any with by sbus.
>Have you ever seen what happens when you hook a busmaster controller to
>a vesa local bus. It actually slows down your system
>>Bus IDE. It must be real nice to get shafted by $20-$100 bucks for the
>>extra cost of a SCSI drive, then pay another $200-$300 for a SCSI controller.
Yeah, there is absolutely no use for VLB except for video graphics.
And no IDE could possibly take advantage the VLB, because it runs at
8 Mhz and 16 bits. Do people forget that the IDE was specifically
designed to interface directly with the AT ISA bus? We've seen
IDEs come out for EISA, XT ISA, and now even MCA, but at all times
it was a 16 bit standard, running at somewhere near 8-10 Mhz. When
you run an IDE off of the VLB, there's no way that you're running it
at 33 Mhz, it would burn up. Of course same goes for SCSI, ESDI, whatever,
none of them run at CPU speed.
The only way to gain advantage with a VLB IDE is to hook it up to
a caching controller. I suspect it would be much, much better to
get a software disk cache instead, since you get write-caching as well.
>because you have an ide and no one makes ide disks that big.
I've seen some Fuji IDE drives going as high as 1G.
Yousuf Khan
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
> for each_student do
> begin
> Lowest_Score_Found := Max_Possible_Value
> for I := 1 to Number_Of_Assignments do
> begin
> if Score[I] < Lowest_Score_Found then
> Lowest_Score_Found := Score[I]
> end
> Total_Score := SUM(all scores) - Lowest_Score_Found
> end
Couldn't you simply use MIN() as you use SUM() and than subtract it
from SUM() ??
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In article <C5u4qI.Mz4@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
>
> BTW, with Bosnia's large Moslem population, why have nations like
> Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and others with either money
> or strong military forces not spoken out more forcibly or offered
> to help out Bosnia?
Obviously, you really don't know.
They *have* spoken out (cf Sec'y of State Christopher's recent trip to the ME),
they have provided millions in aid, and they have participated in the airlifts
to Sarajevo. They *would* supply military aid, if the UN would lift the embargo
on arms sales.
> The Turkish ambassador has ocassionally said
> a thing or two, but that's all; I see no great enthusism from any
> of those places to get *their* hands dirty. Why does the US always
> get stuck with this stuff?
>
See above. (Kuwait has directly participated in the airlift of food to
Sarajevo.)
> Besides, there's no case that can be made for US military involvement
> there that doesn't apply equally well to, say, Liberia, Angola, or
> (it appears with the Khmer Rouge's new campaign) Cambodia. Non-whites
> don't count?
Hmm...some might say Kuwaitis are non-white. Ooops, I forgot, Kuwaitis are
"oil rich", "loaded with petro-dollars", etc so they don't count.
>
>
>---peter
>
>
>
| 17talk.politics.mideast
|
Does anyone know of software that will allow
you to convert CorelDraw (.CDR) files
containing bitmaps to SCODAL, as this is the
only format our bureau's filmrecorder recognises.
Jeff Lyall
Inst.Geo.Nuc.Sci.Ltd
Lower Hutt New Zealand
| 1comp.graphics
|
Isn't there a differentiation, though, between improper use or definition or
practice as regards objective morals and whether they actually exist?
MAC
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class to pay for my programs." Champaign-Urbana
-Bill Clinton 3rd Debate cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
With new taxes and spending cuts we'll still have 310 billion dollar deficits.
| 19talk.religion.misc
|
In article <1993Apr5.200623.15140@dsd.es.com>, Bob.Waldrop@f418.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Waldrop) writes:
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>These hearings will investigate charges that the governments
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>democratic rights of political minority parties. Persons
>interested in testifying at these hearings, or in submitting
>written or documentary evidence, should contact:
>
> Bob Waldrop
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>Examples of possible information of interest includes
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>
>(1) Unfair or unequal treatment of political minorities;
>
>(2) Physical assaults on volunteers, candidates, or
> members of minority parties;
>
>(3) Arrests of minority party petitioners, candidates, or
> members while engaged in political activity;
>
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> running for office as anything other than a Democrat
> or Republican (e.g. signature totals required for
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> RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE DOCUMENT OF THE
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>"(The participating States) recognize that pluralistic
>democracy and the rule of law are essential for ensuring
>respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms. . .
>They therefore welcome the commitment expressed by all
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>pluralism. . . The participating States express their conviction
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>merely a formal legality which assures regularity and
>consistency in the achievement and enforcement of
>democratic order, but justice based on the recognition and
>full acceptance of the supreme value of the human
>personality and guaranteed by institutions providing a
>framework for its fullest expression."
>
>"(3) They reaffirm that democracy is an inherent element of
>the rule of law. They recognize the importance of pluralism
>with regard to political organizations."
>
>"(4) They confirm that they will respect each other's right
>freely to choose and develop, in accordance with
>international human rights standards, their political, social,
>economic and cultural systems. In exercising this right, they
>will ensure that their laws, regulations, practices, and policies
>conform with their obligations under international law and
>are brought into harmony with the provisions of the
>Declaration on Principles and other CSCE commitments."
>
>"(5) They solemnly declare that among those elements of
>justice which are essential to the full expression of the
>inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all
>human beings are the following. . ."
>
>". . . (5.4) -- a clear separation between the State and political
>parties; in particular, political parties will not be merged with
>the state. . ."
>
>". . . (7) To ensure that the will of the people serves as
>the basis of the authority of government, the participating
>states will. . ."
>
>"(7.4) -- ensure . . . that (votes) are counted and reported
>honestly with the official results made public;"
>
>"(7.5) -- respect the right of citizens to seek political or public
>office, individually or as representatives of political parties or
>organizations, without discrimination."
>
>
> RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE
> INTERNATIONAL COVENANT OF 5 OCTOBER 1977
> REFERENCED ABOVE
>
>The States Parties to the present Covenant. . . Recognizing
>that. . . the ideal of free human beings enjoying civil and
>political freedom and freedom from fear and want can only
>be achieved if conditions are created whereby everyone may
>enjoy his civil and political rights, as well as his economic,
>social, and cultural rights, Considering the obligation of
>States under the Charter of the United Nations to promote
>universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and
>freedoms. . . Agree upon the following articles. . .
>
>Article 2. (1) Each State Party to the present Covenant
>undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within
>its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights
>recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of
>any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion,
>political or other opinion, national or social origin, property,
>birth, or other status.
>
>(2) Where not already provided for by existing legislative or
>other measures, each State Party to the present Covenant
>undertakes to take the necessary steps, in accordance with its
>constitutional processes and with the provisions of the
>present Covenant, to adopt such legislative or other measures
>as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in
>the present Covenant. . .
>
>Article 3. The States Parties to the present Covenant
>undertake to ensure the equal right of men and women to
>the enjoyment of all civil and political rights set forth in the
>present Covenant. . .
>
>Article 25. Every citizen shall have the right and the
>opportunity, without any of the distinctions mentioned in
>article 2 and without unreasonable restrictions: (a) to take
>part in the conduct of public affairs, directly or through
>freely chosen representatives; (b) to vote and to be elected at
>genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and
>equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot,
>guaranteeing the free expression of the will of the electors; (c)
>to have access, on general terms of equality, to public service
>in his country.
>
>Article 26. All persons are equal before the law and are
>entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of
>the law. In this respect, the law shall prohibit any
>discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and
>effective protection against discrimination on any ground
>such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other
>opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other
>status.
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When the words fold open,
it means the death of doors;
even casement windows sense the danger. (Amon Liner)
| 18talk.politics.misc
|
In article <ls8lnvINNrtb@saltillo.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu
(Russell Turpin) writes:
> ...
>*not* imply that all their treatments are ineffective. It *does*
>imply that those who rely on faulty methodology and reasoning are
>incapable of discovering *which* treatments are effective and
>which are not.)
To start with, no methodology or form of reasoning is infallible. So
there's a question of how much certainty we are willing to pay for in a
given context. Insistence on too much rigor bogs science down completely
and makes progress impossible. (Expenditure of sufficiently large sums
of money and amounts of time can sometimes overcome this.) On the other
hand, with too little rigor much is lost by basing work on results which
eventually turn out to be false. There is a morass of studies
contradicting other studies and outsiders start saying "You people call
THIS science?" (My opinion, for what it's worth, is that one sees both
these phenomena happening simultaneously in some parts of psychology.)
Some subjective judgement is required to decide on the level of rigor
appropriate for a particular investigation. I don't believe it is
ever possible to banish subjective judgement from science.
My second point, though, is that highly capable people can often make
extremely reliable judgements about scientific validity even when using
methodology considered inadequate by the usual standards. I think this
is true of many scientists and I think it is true of many who approach
their discipline in a way that is not generally recognized as scientific.
Within mathematics, I think there are several examples, especially before
the twentieth century. One conspicuous case is that of Riemann, who is
famous for many theorems he stated but did not prove. (Later
mathematicians did prove them, of course.)
I think that for a good scientist, empirical investigation is often not
so much a matter of determining what is true and what's not as it is a
matter of convincing other people. (People have proposed lots of
incompatible definitions of science here, but I think the ability to
objectively convince others of the validity of one's results is an
essential element. Not that one can necessarily do that at every step
of the scientific process, but I think that if one is not moving toward
that goal then one is not doing science.)
When a person other than a scientist is quite good at what he does and
seems to be very successful at it, I think that his judgements are also
worthy of respect and that his assertions are well worth further
investigation.
In article <C53By5.HD@news.Hawaii.Edu> I wrote:
> Namely, is there really justification for the belief that
> science is a superior path to truth than non-scientific approaches?
Admittedly, my question was not at all well posed. A considerable
amount of effort in a "serious scholarly investigation" such as I
suggested would be required simply to formulate an appropriately
specific question to try and answer.
The "science" I was thinking of in my question is the actual science
currently practiced now in the last decade of the twentieth century.
I certainly wasn't thinking of some idealized science or the mere use
of "reason and observation."
One thing I had in mind in my suggestion was the question as to whether
in many cases the subjective judgements of skilled and experienced
practitioners might be more reliable than statistical studies.
Since Russell Turpin seems to be much more familiar than I am with
the study of scientific methodology, perhaps he can tell us if there
is any existing research related to this question.
--
In the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems
less like a science than a collection of competing religious sects.
lady@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu lady@uhunix.bitnet
| 13sci.med
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>>papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) said:
>>
>>> Sorry. Reading this newsgroup I can't help but get the impression of
>>> frothing at the mouth lunatics. I get a lot of:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>> c) Constitution worshiping "It's right because it's in the
>>> constitution" As if the constitution wasn't framed by men, centuries
>>> ago in a totally different world.
We have three options with respect to the Constitution:
1. Abide by it.
2. Duly amend it.
3. Abandon those parts of which a majority disapproves.
Of course, since the whole point of the Constitution is to restrain the
will of the majority, and since even in unfettered democracy we have
nothing to fear from minorities, #3 amounts to abandoning the
Constitution altogether.
Which will it be?
---
Mark Pundurs
any resemblance between my opinions and those
of Wolfram Research, Inc. is purely coincidental
| 18talk.politics.misc
|
Very true (length of time for discussions on creationism vs evolutionism).
Atheists and Christians have been debating since ?? and still debate with
unabated passion 8-).
MAC
--
****************************************************************
Michael A. Cobb
"...and I won't raise taxes on the middle University of Illinois
class to pay for my programs." Champaign-Urbana
-Bill Clinton 3rd Debate cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
With new taxes and spending cuts we'll still have 310 billion dollar deficits.
| 0alt.atheism
|
In article <1993Apr27.072512.439@bby.com.au>, gnb@baby.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
> In article <1993Apr22.162501.747@indyvax.iupui.edu> tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
>
> ... So how about this? Give the winning group
> (I can't see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year
> moratorium on taxes.
>
> You are talking about the bozos who can't even manage in November to
> keep promises about taxes made in October, and you expect them to make
> (and keep!) a 50-year promise like that?
We want to give lawyers something to do in the 21st cen., don't we?
>Your faith in the political
> system is much higher than mine. I wouldn't even begin to expect that
> in Australia, and we don't have institutionalised corruption like you
> do.
Oh I bet you do. They are probably just better at it than our crooks. :-)
> --
> Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia
> Knox's 386 is slick. Fox in Sox, on Knox's Box
> Knox's box is very quick. Plays lots of LSL. He's sick!
> (Apologies to John "Iron Bar" Mackin.)
Tom Freebairn | We came.
| We saw.
| We went home.
Some early 20th cen. baseball player
Anybody know who or why? (definitly e-mail stuff.)
| 14sci.space
|
> I just read articals on this in Road and Track and Car and Driver
> (Is that one mag or two? =B^), and I was wondering if people out
> there have any opinions that differed from what these mags have to say...
Depending on how you plan to use your SUV, I might recommend also
browsing Trailer Boats and one or more of those Pickup, Shotgun,
and 4WD magazines. The car rags mostly seem to consider recently
graded pea gravel to be offroading and ten sacks of redwood chips
to be a bedload. Considering that most of these SUVs seem to be
used mostly as robust station wagons, that's probably not a bad
approach, but if your applications are more demanding, pick your
information sources accordingly.
Of the three vehicles on your short list (Explorer, 4Runner,
Pathfinder), I'd recommend the 4Runner as being closely based
on a rather robust pickup and the Explorer for being comfortably
carlike. Don't know much about the Pathfinder.
Good luck,
--Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
| 7rec.autos
|
ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch) writes:
>In <C5nGII.BGx@news2.cis.umn.edu> bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu (Monthian
>Buntan-1) writes:
>>Does anyone know why Apple has an ambiguous message for C650 regarding
>>fpu? In all Mac price lists I've seen, every C650 as the message "fpu:
>>optional". I know from what we've discussed in this newsgroup that all
>>C650 have the fpu built in except the 4/80 configuration. Why would they
>>be so unclear about this issue in their price list?
>Perhaps the reason is simple--maybe the marketing people who put together
>the brochures and price lists weren't clear on the FPU issue.
Perhaps the marketing people don't KNOW what an FPU is!
-Terry
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
|
>Probably within 50 years, it will be possible to disassemble and
>re-assemble our bodies at the molecular level. Not only will flawless
>cosmetic surgery be possible, but flawless cosmetic PSYCHOSURGERY.
>
>What will it be like to store all the prices of shelf-priced bar-coded
>goods in your head, and catch all the errors they make in the store's
>favor at SAFEWAY? What will it be like to mentally edit and spell-
>check your responses to the questions posed by a phone caller selling
>VACATION TIME-SHARE OPTIONS?
You are absolutely daft. No flame required. You lack a brain.
> ...[sic]...
>Memes are the basic units of culture, as opposed to genes
>which are the units of genetics.
Well... at least you're educated, it seems. But give credit
where credit is due: to Richard Dawkin(s?)
(the meme is a meme he invented)
-zone
| 13sci.med
|
The Microsoft Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK) documentation (blurb)
states that the user must separately acquire the Microsoft Windows
Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the Windows tools
to build the drivers. If we are using Borland C++ with Application
Frameworks, is this necessary? We also have a copy of the Microsoft
Press Programmer's Reference Library (books) which normally comes
with the SDK, and Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.0. Why is the SDK
neccessary for development of Virtual Device Drivers?
- Steven Murray
(posted on behalf of Brian Davies)
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc
|
Can taking the car to a car wash hurt the car's finish?
And if so, is it better to hand wash it about once a month, or just take it
to the car wash anyway?
Are detailing places worth the money? if i do a good, careful job on washing
and waxing, is a detail place going to be worth it?
reply to my email address: pfk1@crux1.cit.cornell.edu
pk4
My views reflect Cornell's. Sue them dry.
| 7rec.autos
|
In article <1rhb0e$9ks@europa.eng.gtefsd.com>, draper@gnd1.wtp.gtefsd.com (PAM
DRAPER) says:
>
>This homeopathic remedies. I tried the dander one for a month. 15 drops
>three times a day. I didn't notice any change whats so ever. How long
>were you using the drops before you noticed a difference?
>
It is NOT a homeopathic remedy. Improvement began in a few months.
I am allergic to bermuda grass and if anyone nearby was mowing a lawn
my nose would start to run. Now I can walk right by and it doesn't bother
me at all. The same success with desert ragweed.
Bruce Long
| 13sci.med
|
:> :
:> : Basically, the Mac Pluses are constantly rebooting themselves, as if the
:> : reboot button were being pushed. Sometimes the Mac is able to fully boot
:
well this threads been going long enough... I'll add a diferent twist.
I found that the constant rebooting was due to overheating. We
had added 4Mb ram, and were operating in a non AC environment.
Adding an external cooling fan fixed it right up. ( over a
year ago )
--
/ george jefferson
\/ * george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
|
harden@skate.ics.com (Aub Harden) writes:
>In article <1993May14.191035.19271@vpbuild.vp.com>, jessea@u013.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>|> I've been getting mail from Xhibition about the June conference and I was
>|> wondering if Microsoft had bought Xhibition? The front says "Conference
>|> from Microsoft Windows NT Developers". What's the deal? I thought
>|> "X"hibition was for "X-windows"??
>|>
>|> --
>|> Jesse W. Asher
I was wondering this myself.
>and (not surprisingly when you look at the audience) Windows NT.
>With the bulk of the Xhibition audience (and the UNIX community) developing
>applications for in-house or custom use, a new 32-bit operating system from a
>player as large as Microsoft needs to be evaluated. With MS Windows on so many
>desktops, and the price of computing power dropping, its successor needs to be
>evaluated. As corporations begin to look at NT, so must their developers and
>suppliers.
>what you need. Conference attendees will receive NT Software Development
>Kits- to bang on, evaluate, and generally to see for yourself.
>I hope this doesn't sound like an NT commercial (it should sound like an
>Xhibition commercial:-).
Unfortunately it does. I don't agree with the logic of NT at an X windows
conference. Perhaps some good will come of it, but the two are so dissimilar
and the NT marketing stuff is so large in the Xhibition adds that I was
coming to a similar conclusion as Jesse...
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| 5comp.windows.x
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One thing I think is interesting about alt.athiesm is the fact that
without bible-thumpers and their ilk this would be a much duller newsgroup.
It almost needs the deluded masses to write silly things for athiests to
tear apart. Oh well, that little tidbit aside here is what I really wanted
write about.
How can anyone believe in such a sorry document as the bible? If you
want to be religious aren't there more plausable books out there? Seriously,
the bible was written by multiple authors who repeatedly contradict each
other. One minute it tells you to kill your kid if he talks back and the next
it says not to kill at all. I think that if xtians really want to follow a
deity they should pick one that can be consistent, unlike the last one they
invented.
For people who say Jesus was the son of god, didn't god say not to
EVER put ANYONE else before him? Looks like you did just that. Didn't god
say not to make any symbols or idols? What are crosses then? Don't you think
that if you do in fact believe in the bible that you are rather far off track?
Was Jesus illiterate? Why didn't he write anything? Anyone know?
I honestly hope that people who believe in the bible understand that
it is just one of the religious texts out there and that it is one of the
poorer quality ones to boot. The only reason xtianity escaped the middle east
is because a certain roman who's wine was poisoned with lead made all of rome
xtian after a bad dream.
If this posting keeps one person, just ONE person, from standing on a
streetcorner and telling people they are going to hell I will be happy.
*** Only hatred and snap judgements can guide your robots through life. ***
*** Dr. Clayton Forester ***
*** Mad Scientist ***
| 0alt.atheism
|
Andrew A. Houghton" writes:
>I'm still waiting to hear a good response from a christian type.. how
>is christ's word (as quoted by Paul) reconciled with current christian
>beliefs?
Almost one third of the world's population claim to be Christian. But
any similarity between their beliefs and lifestyle to the first century
model is purely coincidental. At Luke 18:8 it states, "...nevertheless,
when the son of man returns, will he really find the faith on the earth?"
Jack
| 19talk.religion.misc
|
Ed's heading out on the highway?
Did he finally buy a bike or is he a passanger?
Jeff Andle DoD #3005 1976 KZ900 REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
IntermittentNet access arranged through Bowdoin College. Please reply
via e-mail, since a followup might expire before I see the Net again.
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
In article warda@land.vf.ge.com (Andrew Ward) writes:
|> I am looking for a graphing program that will fit my data to a straight
|> line. Any program that estimates a closest fit curve or gives any
|> statistics would be helpful.
Many spreadsheets do regression analysis. The topic is also well covered
in most undergraduate statistic books. Cubic Splines are usually well
covered in any undergraduate computer science numerical analysis text.
I am sure ge/mm has a well stocked library.
I have never used mathematica, but I would be surprised if it could not do a
spline.
--
Edmond L. Meinfelder Programmer, Virtual Guy,
"My aardvark is bigger." -Anon. Hack for hire.
| 5comp.windows.x
|
We are developing an MS-Windows based product that uses a full screen window
to display ~24 rows of textual data. Is there any product for Microsoft Windows
that will enable blind individuals to access the data efficiently (quickly) ??
Please email responses and I will post a summary to this group.
Thanks for any help
--- John Bruno
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc
|
Q: Who was consulted? The Congress? Industry?
A: We have on-going discussions with Congress and industry on
encryption issues, and expect those discussions to intensify
as we carry out our review of encryption policy. We have
briefed members of Congress and industry leaders on the
decisions related to this initiative.
Congress?? So we're playing politics before we talk to CPSR, academia,
the public, internet users? I`ve heard of top-down design, but top-down
democracy?? [Just whose state/district are the chip manufacturers in?]
Q: If the Administration were unable to find a technological
solution like the one proposed, would the Administration be
willing to use legal remedies to restrict access to more
powerful encryption devices?
A: This is a fundamental policy question which will be
considered during the broad policy review. [...bs about
the wonderfulness of the key escrow system...]
The Administration is not saying, "since encryption
threatens the public safety and effective law enforcement,
we will prohibit it outright" (as some countries have
effectively done);
They'll just provide an easily-compromised version to JQ Public.
nor is the U.S. saying that "every
American, as a matter of right, is entitled to an
unbreakable commercial encryption product."
Maybe we need a CRA -- Cryptographic Rights Amendment.
There is a
false "tension" created in the assessment that this issue is
an "either-or" proposition. Rather, both concerns can be,
and in fact are, harmoniously balanced through a reasoned,
balanced approach such as is proposed with the "Clipper
Chip" and similar encryption techniques.
Nice lullaby. But why am I not soothed?
----------------
Also,
In article 15472@leland.Stanford.EDU, arc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Richard Conway) writes:
>P.S. I can't work out why the US government doesn't want to sell
>them overseas. After all, they are rather easy for US interests to decode,
>so make a perfect tool for industrial/military espionage...lulling
>anyone stupid enough to buy it into a false sense of security. You will
>notice that there is NO mention anywhere about safety for non-Americans.
>
Why repeat themselves? It appears to some (and the story looks pretty
convincing to me, too) that the Justice Department stole a case-tracking
system, modified it, and distributed it to "friendly" police and suchlike
agencies around the world, eg. the Canadian Mounties. Of course, I have
no doubt they swore Scout's Honor that there were no backdoors.
With that kind of intelligence, who'd want to be swamped with terabytes
of commercial traffic?
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/ iftccu:talk.politics.guns / jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu / 6:26 am Apr 14, 1993 /
> The vast majority get through life without ever having to
> own, use or display a firearm.
I suppose that depends on how you define 'vast' majority....
You are correct about 'majority.' Somewhere between 1 out of three and
one out of 10 will at some period in their lives experience a violent
assault. The risk is generally higher than emergency medical problems
like heart attack and stroke.
'Vast' is probably too loose a term. With approximately 1,000,000 Americans
using firearms each year, over a 30 year period we get (roughly, since some
may have to do this more than once) 30 MILLION Americans with experience in
using firearms for self defense. 30/250 yields 12 percent of the population.
(Yes, I know that is a REAL rough estimate. We're closer to 270 million now,
but many of these are minors and should be included etc, thus the percentage
if anything is low.)
At any rate, most minority groups in this range are not usually referred
to as 'tiny' minorities, so I don't see how the other part of the group
can be referred to as the 'vast' majority. A little more work might
support a 'simple' majority of Americans never use, own or display a firearm.
Certainly when you are talking about OWNERSHIP you are wrong. Nearly half
of your fellow citizens own one or more firearms.
> Besides, there are other
> means of self-protection which can be just as effective
> as firearms.
Please provide a list of other means that are as effective. Then you might
convince your local police departments to switch. Good luck.
Rick.
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I agree! Rob Shick sucks big time. He did the same thing last night's game
between Boston & Buffalo.
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Ken:
Your arguments are thoughtful but you are going up against the Big
Boys if you're tackling Henry. Allen Sherzer will doubtless chime in
on the subject of staggering operational costs, too. Good luck, son.
In article <1sp513$beo@hsc.usc.edu>, khayash@hsc.usc.edu (Ken Hayashida) writes:
>Shuttle is the only method in the free world of orbiting large life sciences
>and medical related packages.
Ahem. The Russians are in the Free World now, or at least it would be
Politically Correct to contend so.
>I am hopeful that DC-X, or whatever the follow-on is eventually called,
>will perform as you state. But right now, I must admit that I am more
>skeptical than ever.
It will be tough to make DC-X succeed, and to turn it into an
operational orbital vehicle. Doubtless it will fail to meet some of
the promised goals. The reason people are so fond of it is that it's
the *only* chance we have now, or will have for a *long* time to come,
to develop a launch vehicle with radically lower costs.
There is no Shuttle successor in funded development, NASP is dwindling
away, and ALS/NLS/Spacelifter sure as hell aren't gonna knock any
zeroes off that $2000-$3000 per pound cost. Part of the blame for
this must be placed on a Shuttle program that consumes many annual
billions of the, er, Free World's available space cash. As you will
no doubt hear from many correspondents in the days to come. (-:
DC-X is an attempt to break out of the vicious cycle by keeping
development costs low and flying incremental "X-plane" hardware.
It's been, to my mind, incredibly successful already-- they've built a
complex prototype in under 600 days for under 60 megabucks. I would
have been extremely skeptical that this could be accomplished in 1990s
America, never mind flying the thing, getting a successor funded, or
building the DC-Y.
I'm sure you know well that launch costs are THE basic problem for any
expansion of astronautics. I don't see a realistic prospect for
beating down those costs, for multi-ton payloads, anywhere else. If
the DC flops, it'll be business as usual in space. The Nineties and
the Double-Oughts will look just like the Seventies and Eighties, a
prospect too depressing to bear.
(Pegasus represents another assault on the problem from a different
direction. It doesn't lower cost-per-pound but it offers an orbital
launch for under ten megabucks. It's creating its own market for
small payloads.)
I read the magazines and I've attended the last two IAFs. There are
plenty of engineers with paper ideas for cheaper launch systems, some
of them as good as or better than SSTO. There is no sign in today's
world that any of these designs will be allowed anywhere near an
assembly line.
>You could change my view on DC-X if you could prove the following:
[...deleting some things I'm not going to prove tonight...]
>3 that the shuttle need not go on hiatus to allow development of a man-ratable
>DC-X successor
Strawman. Is anybody seriously proposing this? References, please.
The DC must be developed in the real-world funding climate, which
includes a NASA ferociously committed to continuing Shuttle
operations, as well as the "bird in the hand" argument your common
sense tells you. If DC-Y flies at all, it flies alongside the
Shuttle, not instead of it.
Also, of course, DC-Y and its operational descendants will be useful
for a wide variety of jobs even if they are *not* man-rated.
>4 Most importantly, that the DC-X will open up LEO to more scientific and
>technical payloads.
If a DC-X successor can fly a 10,000-kg payload for $1M, or even $5M,
rather than the $40M it now costs, more people will be able to afford
more payloads... for the same money, you can fly several satellites
instead of one. Big outfits can fly multi-satellite series. Little
outfits will be able to fly spacecraft of their own, instead of
begging a ride. This is just supply and demand. You should be able
to convince *yourself* that point 4 will be true, assuming DC makes a
big difference in costs. Do you have some reason to think not?
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One of those "morning, just getting the coffee in me" thoughts:
Waving at other bikers makes more sense than just "Hey, how's it going,
nice to meet you on the road, have a good ride"
1) If you're watching for other bikes to wave to, it means your attention
is on the road, where it should be, and you're more likely to see cages.
2) It keeps you in the habit of watching really carefully for bikes when
you're IN a cage. This is a Good Thing.
| 8rec.motorcycles
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In article <1r9hbsINNavr@shelley.u.washington.edu> dudgeon@opus.cheme.washington.edu writes:
} pb6755@csc.albany.edu (BROWN PHILIP H) writes:
}
} >I watched the final inning of Bosio's no-hitter with several people at
} >work. After Vizquel made that barehanded grab of the chopper up the
} >middle, someone remarked that if he had fielded it with his glove, he
} >wouldn't have had time to throw Riles out. Yet, the throw beat Riles
} >by about two steps. I wonder how many others who watched the final out
} >think Vizquel had no choice but to make the play with his bare hand.
}
} In this morning's paper (or was it on the radio?), Vizquel was quoted as
} saying that he could have fielded the ball with his glove and still
} easily thrown out Riles, that he barehanded it instead so as to make the
} final play more memorable. Seems a litle cocky to me, but he made it
} work so he's entitled.
i guess so.
still, that's kind of a stupid move, IMO. he'd be singing a different
tune if he had booted it, and the next guy up had hit a bloop single.
stranger things have happened (hey, i used to be a big Dave Stieb fan...)
and unfortunately, there's no such thing as an "unearned hit". :^)
cheers,
-*-
charles
| 9rec.sport.baseball
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>So, you can't ride the bike, but you will drive truck home? The
>judgement and motor skills needed to pilot a moto are not required in a
>cage? This scares the sh*t out of me.
>
This is a piece of psychology its essential for any long term biker to
understand. People do NOT think 'if I do this will someone else suffer?'.
They assess things purely on' if I do this will I suffer?.
This is a vital concept in bike-cage interaction.
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
I read in MacWeek that some developers are getting NuBUS cards from apple
with pre-release PowerPC chips on them. Does this mean that when the
chip is released, those of us with old apples will be able to take
advantage of the PowerPC RISC technology just by inserting a card?
I don't know anything about hardware, so can someone tell me how much of
a cludge this would be?
Archon
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
|
In rec.motorcycles, cookson@mbunix.mitre.org (Cookson) writes:
>To the nedod mailing list, and Jack Tavares suggested I check out
>how old the tire is as one tactic for getting it replaced. Does
>anyone have the file on how to read the date codes handy?
It's quite simple; the code is the week and year of manufacture.
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<========================================================>
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
In article <C4wKFs.BC1@eskimo.com> maven@eskimo.com (Norman Hamer) writes:
>Question for the day:
>
>What protective gear is the most important? I've got a good helmet (shoei
>rf200) and a good, thick jacket (leather gold) and a pair of really cheap
>leather gloves... What should my next purchase be? Better gloves, boots,
>leather pants, what?
What's your favorite body part? :-)
--
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland
bgardner@dsd.es.com
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
I have been struck down this past week by a stomach bug and fever
which went away quickly when treated with an antibiotic. The
pharmacist told me the antibiotic is effective against a wide
variety of "gram-negative bacteria." I was wondering where I
might have acquired such a bacteria. Could they hang out in swimming-
pool water, or would the chlorine kill them?
Feeling better, I am
J. Bronstein
disraeli@leland.stanford.edu
| 13sci.med
|
YAHOOOOOOOOO!
The Habs tied this sucker at 2 and the teams now head for Quebec
City to play game 5. BTW, final score was Habs 3-Nords 2.
The score might be a bit misleading. The Habs dominated the game
from the 5:00 mark of the first and then on. The score should have
been 8-2 if it weren't for some miraculous save from a Ron Hextall
(bastard!). He's the reason the score was as close. Habs winning
goal was scored by Benoit Brunet at 1:07 of the 3rd.
Roy had an OK game. He made the first save (one way or another)
and the defense was there to clear any rebounds.
This just in, ESPN radio reports that the Bruins lost 6-5 in OT.
YAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Those suckers got what they deserved.
Life is just great!!!! Now if my finals would go just as well!
Nick (I'll take off my town crier hat now)
---
The Czar of Mainframe Computing
<BGK2@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>
McGill University
| 10rec.sport.hockey
|
In article <C5so84.Hxv@demon.co.uk> Graham Toal <gtoal@gtoal.com> writes:
>In article <2073@rwing.UUCP> pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto) writes:
>:If the Clinton Clipper is so very good, why not make its algrithm public
>:so many people can exchange ideas and examine it, rather than a few
>:isolated 'respected experts' (respected by whom? for what? Perhaps a
One more time...
If they released the algorithm, it would be possible for someone
to come up with an implementation which was identical, but
lacking an escrowed key.
Note that the press announcement mentioned that the algorithm was
being kept secret for security of the key escrow system. In this
case security means "an escrowed key for EVERY clipper chip".
Assuming you believed all that is said about the effective of
the algorithm, and the escrow system, which would you buy :
(a) Chip from firm A with the escrowed key
(b) Second source chip from reputable firm B with no key
in government escrow.
There would obviously be powerful economic incentives for a second
source, non escrowed, vendor.
| 11sci.crypt
|
Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca> writes:
> I feel sure
>that someone must have film of that experiment, and I'd really like to
>see it. Has anyone out there seen it?
I've seen a film of it, my memory may be faulty, but as I
remember it the vehicle was slightly over a meter long, with a
thick baseplate 30-40 cm in diameter. I think the narrative said
it was propelled by dynamite sticks. There were four detonations
within about 2 s, the second coming after about 2 m of flight in.
Max altitude seemed to be on the order of 50 m, but that is hard
to judge.
--
Urban Fredriksson urf@icl.se
| 14sci.space
|
We recently got an NCD X-terminal to evaluate. This is running XRemote over
a serial line.
I wanted to get some measurement of response time, so I wrote a small Xlib
program which simply creates a window, maps it and sends the first Expose
event to itself. The program times the delay from sending the event, to
receiving it. I thought this was the simplest way to test client/X-server
round-trip delays. It's a similar concept to the ping(8C) program.
Is this a valid test to perform ? I've also tried the xbench program, available
from ftp.uu.net, which bombards the server with graphics operations, but I
just wanted to get a quantative measure of what is "acceptable" interactive
response time. Has anyone got any ideas on this subject ?
Thanks.
Andrew. (afielden@mlsma.att.com)
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| 5comp.windows.x
|
You forgot one thing "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of
God".
Mark
| 15soc.religion.christian
|
Anyone have any recommendations/warnings about the Texel 5024 CD-ROM drive
or about any of its competitors? I'm looking for a CD-ROM drive for
connection to a PAS-16 SCSI port.
Hal R. Brand
LLNL
brand@addvax.llnl.gov
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
In article <1qocun$h2r@access.digex.net> carlaron@access.digex.com (Carl Aron) writes:
>>and the word "liberal" definitely has a different connotation
>>than what you have written above. Just ask Michael Dukakis.
>
>Yeah, the Republicans have defined it to mean "spends money on things that
>don't make our rich buddies richer"
If you have something reasoned and intelligent to say then you should
post. If all you can do is rant and rave- save it.
>
>or maybe they mean that liberals believe in "tax and spend" rather than
>"borrow and spend"
True conservatism is cutting spending and taxes. It's a matter of
debate just how succesful the last few presidents have been at that.
>
>finally, it means "open-minded about things that I don;t want to be open
>-minded about"
I hear it again and again, and I've noticed far more often from
liberals than anyone else- "if you don't agree with me you are close-minded"
Look who's talking. I suggest you take a look at your post. I see
nothing but unfair and unsubstantiated generalizations. It suggests that the
author is anything but open-minded.
Next time you feel like posting something like this- save it for
somebody who cares.
>
>Carl
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Harvy Mudd College You can't have them
*********************************************************
"The insane fear of socialism throws the bourgeois headlong into the
arms of despotism." -- Tocqueville, 1852
"The insane fear of Reaganism throws the Liberals headlong into the
arms of socialism." -- McGuinness, 1993
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| 18talk.politics.misc
|
Is there an Xt call to give me my application context?
I am fixing up an X/Motif program, and am trying to use XtAppAddTimeOut,
whose first argument is the app_context. What call can I use
to give me this value?
Thanks,
Todd Greene
masc0442@ucssun1.sdsu.edu
~
| 5comp.windows.x
|
pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto) writes:
> Can you, while my mind is on it, give us one good reason that the
> algorithm should be a secret algorithm, unless this encryption scheme
> either is a joke, or contains features like a 'master key' or other back
> door for UNAUTHORIZED eavesdropping?
Hmm, here are a couple:
1) If the algorithm becomes known, it will be easy to produce
pin-compatible non-crippled chips that provide -real- encryption and
privacy, because their keys are only in their users' hands.
2) Since SkipJack is a symmetric key cypher, it needs some way to
agree on a session key. The released information says that any
protocol may be used (e.g., DH). From a theoretical point of view,
this is probably true. However, from a practical point of view, those
chips must have some kind of key exchange protocol built-in. What if
it is good old RSA? This will mean that the producer will have to pay
lots of bucks to PKP. By keeping the details secret this can be
avoided...
Regards,
Vesselin
--
Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226 Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
< PGP 2.2 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
| 11sci.crypt
|
Any comments on the absorbtion of the Office of Exploration into the
Office of Space Sciences and the reassignment of Griffin to the "Chief
Engineer" position? Is this just a meaningless administrative
shuffle, or does this bode ill for SEI?
In my opinion, this seems like a Bad Thing, at least on the surface.
Griffin seemed to be someone who was actually interested in getting
things done, and who was willing to look an innovative approaches to
getting things done faster, better, and cheaper. It's unclear to me
whether he will be able to do this at his new position.
Does anyone know what his new duties will be?
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
Brian Yamauchi Case Western Reserve University
yamauchi@alpha.ces.cwru.edu Department of Computer Engineering and Science
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| 14sci.space
|
In article <1993Apr19.071021.14349@spdcc.com> urso@spdcc.com (Stephen Chappell) writes:
>In article <C5Kt0y.3M3@world.std.com> bearpaw@world.std.com (bearpaw) writes:
>>I believe the MOW plans and handing out some sort of wristband thingy, and
>>basing their count on those. I see two problems with this. One, can they
>>get *everybody* to take one (and only one)? Two, they couldn't possibly have
>>been able to choose a color/design that won't clash with *somebody's* outfit!
>>
>...and Three. The ads I've seen for the wristbands indicate they're
>charging $5 a wristband. As I've seen them, the wristbands look like
>clear plastic with multi-coloured "rainbow" threads in them labeled
>"1993 March on Washington 999999" (the "999999" being your particular
>wristband number).
>
>Certainly not *everyone* at the March on Washington will be willing to
>shell out five bucks for a piece of plastic.
I bought mine at the MOW storefront.
Its not plastic, its woven material.
but I think you miss the point.
its not about the five bucks in your pocket, its about supporting the
march and helping to pay for all the printed materail and scehdulkes and
organisation and...
all leading up to the literal *birth* of Queer visibility in this country.
up to this point all our news coverage has been driven by events thatb
happen to us.
this event is happening by our direct action.
of course the last MOW was the same thing but they ignored us.
I guess that was just labor pains.
perhaps they will ignore us again, in which case we will come in
even largeer numbers next time.
Lst night in DC there were so many queers out and about you could hardly get
in any place.
I suspect thatb over the next two days that will become exponentially
larger.
To my mind this is a physical bsuting down of the collective closet of
queer invisibility.
the five bucks is insignificant.
LUX ./. owen
--
D. Owen Rowley onr@netcom.com ( also owen@autodesk.com )
[ EU-PHORIA: A STATE OF WELL BEING ]
Euphoria is my natural state, I do what I enjoy and an abundance
of all good fortune comes to me for it.
| 18talk.politics.misc
|
In article <C5y93B.708@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>In article <930423.103637.3O4.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>>> > There's no objective physics; Einstein and Bohr have told us that.
>>> Speaking as one who knows relativity and quantum mechanics, I say:
>>> Bullshit.
>>Speaking as someone who also knows relativity and quantum mechanics, I say:
>>Go ahead, punk, make my day. My degree can beat up your degree.
>
>Simple. Take out some physics books, and start looking for statements which
>say that there is no objective physics. I doubt you will find any. You might
>find statements that there is no objective length, or no objective location,
>but no objective _physics_? (Consider, for instance, that speed-of-light-in-
>vacuum is invariant. This sounds an awful lot like an objective
>speed-of-light-in-vacuum.)
>--
Or, you can try not confuse a construct with the constructor. If you take
a look at Quantum Mechanics, many objective observations can be made
as well. However, Physics is not objective. Bohr said the randomness
of atomic motion is inherent in the motion itself. Einstein said that
nature is deterministic; it is our method of observation that inserts the
randomness. They were talking about the exact same results.
Depends on how you look at it, I guess.
--
jim halat halat@bear.com
bear-stearns --whatever doesn't kill you will only serve to annoy you--
nyc i speak only for myself
| 19talk.religion.misc
|
In article <1r1439$c9t@access.digex.net>, steveg@cadkey.com (Steve Gallichio) writes:
> What is the policy regarding players and the minor league playoffs versus WC?
> I know that the Rangers are holding back Kovalev, Zubov, and Andersson for
> Binghamton, but I also know that the Whalers wanted Michael Nylander to play
> for Springfield, while Nylander wanted to play for Sweden. The Whalers allowed
> the NHL to decide, and the NHL chose the WCs. How does this differ from the
> Rangers and Oilers? Did the Whalers have to go through the league, or could
> they have forced Nylander to play in Springfield?
As long as a player is under contract to an organization, he is obligated to
play only where that organization tells him to play or gives him permission
to play. The Rangers are certainly within their rights to force Zubov and
Andersson to report to Binghampton.
It certainly does reflect a lack of class on the part of the Ranger
organization, however. Is having Binghampton win the Calder Cup really more
important to them than keeping their players happy?
Alan
| 10rec.sport.hockey
|
Since the wiretap chip is being distributed internationally,
allowing the U.S. government to spy on foreign governments,
companies and people as as well as to wiretap domestic citizens,
this is a world-wide issue. Please put DISTRIBUTION: WORLD on the
Distrubution: line. Thank you.
ygoland@wright.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester) writes:
>However assuming that I can still encrypt things as I please, who
>cares about the clipper chip?
You don't care that people are being lied to, fooled into believing
the chip gives "privacy" when it fact it allows wiretaps? You
don't give a shit about anybody's privacy except your own? (And
not even your own; are you so smart that you know when you're talking to
somebody who has a wiretap chip on their phone instead of a privacy
chip with private keys?)
>attitude that everyone else should have. Instead of worrying about a
>clipper chip, simply connect your handset to your computer and feed
>the voice single through, process, encrypt, and transmit over the
>phone. The guy on the other hand then does the same in reverse.
"Simply?" "Everyone" should have this attitude? The only people
who can have this attitude are the most hard-core
computer hackers, who never make phone calls away from their
computer, who apparently never call anybody except another computer
hacker, or perhaps another spook (U.S. classified agents refuse to use
their own system, only oblivious civilian dupes get that dubious privilege).
Only spooks and hard-core hackers need privacy, huh?
We *do* need an alternative to NSA-bugged telephones, but
we're talking inexpensive *telephones* here, including hand-sized
cellulars, that need strong crypto, real privacy. Make-shift
computer hacker rigs that require living by your computer to
talk privately over the phone are just a dumb stunt that doesn't
do anything for anybody's privacy in the real world.
What we need is a true *privacy chip*. For example, a real-time
voice-encryption RSA, put it into a silicon compiler and spit out ASIC.
Put this chip on the market as a de facto standard for international
business, diplomats, and private communications. If the U.S. bans
it, we make it somewhere else and import it. The Japanese, German,
Dutch, Taiwanese, Korean, etc. electronics companies don't want the
NSA spying on them. U.S. workers lose more jobs to government fascist
stupidity.
jhart@agora.rain.com
| 11sci.crypt
|
VINCI (filipe@vxcrna.cern.ch) wrote:
: How about Kirlian imaging ? I believe the FAQ for sci.skeptics (sp?)
: has a nice write-up on this. They would certainly be most supportive
: on helping you to build such a device and connect to a 120Kvolt
: supply so that you can take a serious look at your "aura"... :-)
: Filipe Santos
: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics
: Switzerland
This has to be THE only, generally accepted, method of using common
physics lab equipment to find certain answers to all the questions about
afterlifes, heavens, hells, purgatory, gods etc. Krillean photography
will probably be ignored as insignificant compared to these larger
eternal verities. Publishing your results could be a bit of a problem,
though.
Cheers
David
| 13sci.med
|
I have a Microsoft Serial Mouse and am using mouse.com 8.00 (was using 8.20
I think, but switched to 8.00 to see if it was any better). Vertical motion
is nice and smooth, but horizontal motion is so bad I sometimes can't click
on something because my mouse jumps around. I can be moving the mouse to
the right with relatively uniform motion and the mouse will move smoothly
for a bit, then jump to the right, then move smoothly for a bit then jump
again (maybe this time to the left about .5 inch!). This is crazy! I have
never had so much trouble with a mouse before. Anyone have any solutions?
Does Microsoft think they are what everyone should be? <- just venting steam!
---
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Computer Support Representative
College of Fine Arts and Communications
D-406 HFAC
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)378-3292
hfac_csr@byu.edu
ecktons@ucs.byu.edu
| 2comp.os.ms-windows.misc
|
I just bought a select 300 and rushed home to print
some grayscale pictures for my kids, when I discovered that
grayscale(and photograde) are not available if you are
using an SE...even if you are running with an '030 cpu.
You won't see this in the printer's docs, and the Apple
rep didn't mention it to our users group either. It seems
that SE ROMs won't support those "features". Okay, I
guess I should have somehow known that this was the case.
Let the buyer beware, huh Apple?
Be that as it may, I have been thinking about the
problem and I'm puzzled. Why can't a defencieny in the
ROM be made up for in software. I write software for a living
(on unix platforms) and I don't understand the "it just
can't be done" responses I've gotten from those I have
asked so far. Isn't Mode32, or somesuch piece of soft-
ware, just such a fix.
Anyway, I was hoping someone knowledgeable
about Mac internals could set me straight: is it simply
impossible for a mac SE to print grayscale, or could
someone armed with enough info and a little pro-
gramming experience cook something up that would
supplement the ROM's capabilities?
Also, how does one know if one's mac can
support the grayscale and photograde that the Select 300
is supposedly capable of? ( Short of buying the printer
and trying it out like I did)
Thanks for your help.
Bill Wright
wgw@netcom.com
| 4comp.sys.mac.hardware
|
In article <1993Apr4.051942.27095@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
>
>For those of you who can only decide which team is best after you have
>seen the standings:
>
>TOR 42 25 11 95 .609
>CHI 42 25 11 95 .609
>DET 44 28 9 97 .599
>VAN 41 28 9 91 .583
>
>No team in the Campbell Conference has a better record than Toronto.
That's true, but according to your stats, Chicago has just as good a
record as Toronto. It's interesting that you should list Toronto ahead
of Chicago.
Laurie Marshall
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
Go Wings!!
| 10rec.sport.hockey
|
In article <bontchev.734981805@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes:
>and since the US constitutions guarantees the right to every American
>to bear arms, why is not every American entitled, as a matter of
Have you read the applicable part of the Constitution and interpreted it IN
CONTEXT? If not, please do so before posting this misinterpretation again.
It refers to the right of the people to organize a militia, not for individuals
to carry handguns, grenades, and assault rifles.
Robert L. Ward
| 11sci.crypt
|
Bill Willis (willisw@willisw.ENG.CLEMSON.edu) wrote:
: In article <1qn627$iv@darwin.sura.net> wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) writes:
:
: >Recently my cousin got a second internal IDE drive (a Seagate 210MB,
: >I can look up the model number if it's important) and I've been
: >trying to help him install it. [I've got a vested interest, since
: >my machine's busted and I have to use his until I get mine fixed.]
: >He already has a Seagate 85MB IDE HD (again, I forget the model number
: >but I can find out.)
:
: >Anyway, I can't seem to get the bloody thing up. I've managed to get
: >one or the other drive up (with the other disconnected), but not both
: >at the same time; whenever I try, the thing hangs during bootup -
: >never gets past the system test. The IDE controller's instruction
: >sheet says it supports two drives; I think I've configured the CMOS
: >correctly; the power's plugged in properly; I even learned about the
: >master/slave relationship that two HDs are supposed to have (didn't
: >know PCs were into S&M! 8^) and I think I configured the jumpers
: >properly (the 85MB one is the master, the new 210MB one is the slave).
:
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:
: >Many, many thanks in advance! This is practically an emergency (I have
: >two papers to do on this thing for Monday!)! Help!
: >--
: >-----------------------
: >William Barnes SURAnet Operations
: >wbarnes@sura.net (301) 982-4600 voice (301) 982-4605 fax
: >Disclaimer: I don't speak for SURAnet and they don't speak for me.
: I've been told by our local computer guru that you can't do this unless you
: perform a low level format on your existing hard drive and set your system
: up for two hard drives from the beginning. I took him at his word, and I
: have not tried to find out any more about it, because I'm not going to back
: everything up just to add another HDD. If anyone knows for sure what the
: scoop is, I would like to know also. Thanks in advance also.
:
: Bill Willis
:
1. do not do a low level format on an IDE drive unless you have the
executable for doing so supplied by the manufacturer. These are
available from bbs's or mail but the mail version costs a nominal
fee.
2. In addition to the master/slave jumper on an IDE drive there is also
another jumper to indicate whether a slave is present. Get it right!
3. The cabling is not an issue as long as pin 1 goes to pin 1 goes to
pin 1. No twisting or swapping on an IDE cable. Be sure of pin 1
on all three components - do not make assumptions (guesses are ok
but assumptions are bad).
4. If the cable and jumpers are correct, and the CMOS setup is correct,
then you may have to do an FDISK followed by a high level format.
I have NEVER personally found this necesary, but perhaps there is
something gone wrong with the data on the disks? Probably not but
I understand your predicament - You will probably throw salt over
your shoulders, wear funny clothes and do a spooky sounding chant
while dancing around the room if someone said it might help.
Good Luck
Gordon Lang
| 3comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
|
The debate over the Second Amendment rages on.
Arguments continue over what a "well-regulated militia"
is and what TRKBA means in practical terms. However, the
ONLY authority in this area, is a binding court decision
on the matter. Even a decision in this area is subject to
an overturning by a higher court. Is there anyone who
has the facts of a legal precedent, preferably a Supreme
Court decision on the specific meaning of the 2nd Amendment?
| 16talk.politics.guns
|
In article <19930430140738SFB2763@MVS.draper.com> SFB2763@MVS.draper.com
(Eileen Bauer) writes:
> Thyroxin controls energy production which explains sleepiness, coldness,
> and weight gain. There is also water retention (possibly around heart),
> changes in vision, and coarser hair and skin among other things.
Is there any relation between thyroid deficiency and depression?
| 13sci.med
|
In article <1qjn7i$d0i@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
}>On a
}>waterski bike, you turn the handlebars left to lean right, just like on
}>a motorcycle, so this supports the move-the-contact-patch-from-beneath-the
}>centre-of-mass theory on how to *lean*. This contradicts the need for
}>gyroscopic precession to have a countersteering induced *lean*.
}
}...FOR A WATERSKI BIKE. It contradicts nothing for a motorcycle.
Not only that, but this morning I saw a TV ad for a waterski bike
(a Sea Doo, for those who care). I watched the lengthy ad very
carefully, and in every case and at every speed the riders turned
the handlebars left to go left, and right to go right. In other
words, they were *NOT* countersteering.
So perhaps it is only *some* waterski bikes on which one countersteers...
--
Curtis Jackson cjackson@mv.us.adobe.com '91 Hawk GT '81 Maxim 650
DoD#0721 KotB '91 Black Lab mix "Studley Doright" '92 Collie/Golden "George"
"There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom
in the guise of public safety." -- Thomas Jefferson
| 8rec.motorcycles
|
In article <1qkq9t$66n@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
|>
|> I'll take a wild guess and say Freedom is objectively valuable. I base
|> this on the assumption that if everyone in the world were deprived utterly
|> of their freedom (so that their every act was contrary to their volition),
|> almost all would want to complain. Therefore I take it that to assert or
|> believe that "Freedom is not very valuable", when almost everyone can see
|> that it is, is every bit as absurd as to assert "it is not raining" on
|> a rainy day. I take this to be a candidate for an objective value, and it
|> it is a necessary condition for objective morality that objective values
|> such as this exist.
My own personal and highly subjective opinion is that freedom
is a good thing.
However, when I here people assert that the only "true" freedom
is in following the words of this and that Messiah, I realise
that people don't even agree on the meaning of the word.
What does it mean to say that word X represents an objective
value when word X has no objective meaning?
jon.
| 0alt.atheism
|
I have a thermal fuse from a Apple Laserwriter II power supply (Made
by Cannon) that I need to replace. The fuse is not the standard
tubular thermal fuse like those found in hair driers etc, but is a
rectangular plastic package, much like a transistor or diode. It
is about 0.2"x0.2"x0.1", with both leads coming out of one of the
0.1"x0.1" sides. I have been told that it was made by MITI, a asian
company, but I can find no information as to a supplier. This fuse
is rated at 1A, 130C. Does anyone have a source for this fuse? I
only need 5 or so, which means that the manufacturer wouldn't even want
to talk to me, let alone, deal with me.
Please advise via E-mail.
Thanks,
Pat
--
--- I like boats and bicycles, they're healthier than Valium ---
Pat Horne, Network Manager, Shop Supervisor, Hardware Guru
CS Dept, University of Texas, Austin, Tx. 78712 USA
voice (512)471-9517, fax (512)471-8885, UUCP:cs.utexas.edu!horne
| 12sci.electronics
|
I have a Sega Genesis (barely used) that IUd like to sell with the following games:
Sonic the Hedgehog (I)
Revenge of Shinobi
Thunderforce III
I'm asking $160 OBO. I can best be reached via email, or alternatively,
by phone at: (415) 497-3719.
Alexander Hinds
| 6misc.forsale
|
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