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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 | 0 | alt.atheism |
Ok, here's a nice easy question for all you out there.
When running DOS 5.0 under Windows 3.0, I lose the ability to do a
print-screen.
I have no problem with this when I'm running DOS not under Windows.
If it's relavant, I'm using 'Quarterdeck 6.0' expanded memory manager for
my 386.
Please e-mail any responses, since I don't get to read the news too often.
Thanks in advance.
| 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
About 18 months ago, I heard a report on NPR about a 900-number
"1-900-STO-PPER" or some such, for placing untraceable calls.
You call them, and on "bong" tone dial the number you want to
call; they told the NPR interviewer that nothing short of a
court order (which they'd fight) would make them release their
records.
Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator;
the lab net pretends to work" | 11 | sci.crypt |
That's a standby unit not a UPS, otherwise there would be no interuption.
Many standby units are labled as UPS's though.
Morgan Bullard mb4008@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu
or mjbb@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
| 12 | sci.electronics |
Politicians want to eliminate private ownership of guns before the
general public starts violently resisting the tax increases needed
to fund the federal government as an ever higher percentage of tax
revenue goes to pay interest on the national debt (currently 57 cents
out of every tax dollar collected and rising).
--
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com> | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
this week's autoweek talks about how wagons are getting back in vogue.
i wouldn't mind an audi s4 wagon (great stealth value) but you'll
never catch me dead in a minivan!
| 7 | rec.autos |
IDE does not do DMA. This is because it's like te PC AT hard disk
interface. The controller moves a sector to some buffer memory on the
controller card, then the CPU moves the data from the buffer to main
memory where it's needed. If IDE doesn't work this way, then it's not
compatible.
Heck, if IDE used DMA, then you'd hear all kinds of complaints about
ISA bus systems with more than 16M RAM not working with their IDE
drives. 16M is the DMA addressing limit of the ISA bus, and if IDE
did DMA there would be trouble.
(BTW, there are DMA-enabling signals in the IDE cable spec, but the
last report I heard was that they are never implemented, because it
would require a different kind of IDE adapter and different drivers.) | 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
They were, and even if Washington might consider Patty a bust, I'd rework
that trade in a minute. Druce has been a complete and utter bust here,
only 5 goals. | 10 | rec.sport.hockey |
As a Philly fan as as a Penna. baseball fan, I'm anxious to see the
Penna. series. Anyone know when it starts and where the first games
will be played?
This is (I think) always good baseball (to me); and the Pirates are
also off to a good start. | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
Does anybody have an algorithm for "flattening" out a globe, or any other
parametric surface, that is definied parametrically.
That is, I would like to take a sheet of paper and a knife and to be
able to calculate how I must cut in the paper so I can fold it to a
globe (or any other object).
| 1 | comp.graphics |
Update on location!!
Directory should be:
public/virtual-worlds!!
^^^^^^
Sorry! :-) | 1 | comp.graphics |
We publish plenty kiddo,you just have to look.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
.sig files are like strings ... every yo-yo's got one. | 14 | sci.space |
Car and Driver rated the 325is (1988) at 7.2 0-60 , 1/4 at 15.2 (after 30k miles) last time I checked 8#}.
Automobile magazine rated new 325is 1/4 mile@16.2.
Gee , aint quotiin funner than the dickens!
Sounds like we need a race. I'll let you have the newer version. Can someone out there lend me a 1988 325is for a day 8-]. I wont hurt it, I promise.
| 7 | rec.autos |
Also, Alomar got a FAR greater boost from his home park than Baerga did from
his. And "six or seven home runs"? Hmm.
So, if you wanted to pick a second baseman to play in Toronto, you'd take
Alomar. Anywhere else, and you'd probably take Baerga.
Mike | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
Subject says it all. Please email soon.
skcgoh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
| 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
Checker Motors went out of business in 1982. It's hard to get
old Checkers that are worth restoring, since almost every one was
a fleet vehicle that was driven into the ground. If you can get a
body in decent shape the mechanicals should all be available _somewhere_ -
Checker used whatever parts were around. For instance, I had a Chevy
straight six and a GMC Truck radiator and a Ford rear in mine.
Actually, you want a Checker Special if you can find one. | 7 | rec.autos |
Well, I'm back from Tokyo, so here are the standings after the April 13 update.
- Andrew
USENET Hockey Draft Standings
Week 27
Posn Team Pts Proj Cash Last Posn
1. Dave Wessels 1536 1572.8 1.9 (1)
2. Bob Hill 1481 1538.1 24.0 (3)
3. Gilles Carmel 1492 1529.9 1.0 (2)
4. Seppo Kemppainen 1430 1514.0 47.2 (5)
5. The Awesome Oilers 1412 1504.4 68.6 (4)
6. Hillside Raiders 1456 1495.2 7.0 (7)
7. Mak "The Knife" Paranjape 1424 1491.7 31.0 (6)
8. Jan Stein 1412 1483.2 35.3 (8)
9. this years model 1428 1479.3 17.6 (10)
10. Rangers Of Destiny 1401 1475.9 42.0 (9)
Tapio Repo 1422 1475.9 19.6 (11)
12. FRANK'S BIG FISH 1398 1453.9 22.0 (12)
13. The Underachievers 1409 1452.9 10.1 (13)
14. On Thin Ice 1380 1440.9 32.3 (14)
15. Go Flames 1367 1438.1 40.3 (17)
16. littlest giants 1370 1437.7 35.6 (16)
17. Mopar Muscle Men 1400 1431.4 3.7 (18)
18. Lindros Losers 1396 1431.2 1.7 (15)
19. DIE Penguin Bandwaggoners 1357 1411.0 20.2 (19)
20. Samuel Lau (Calgary, Alberta) 1360 1396.3 4.9 (20)
21. Boomer's Boys 1341 1371.6 0.2 (23)
22. General Accounting Office 1316 1369.4 20.9 (21)
23. Delaware Wombats 1341 1367.5 1.3 (24)
24. Migods Menschen 1307 1366.8 31.6 (22)
25. Wellsy's Buttheads DEC NH 1280 1362.3 52.6 (25)
26. Rocky Mountain High 1325 1357.2 1.8 (26)
27. Fife Flyers 1283 1348.4 31.4 (27)
28. Gerald Olchowy 1275 1340.2 33.7 (28)
29. Dave Snell 1281 1335.7 25.0 (59)
30. Fluide Glacial 1291 1333.7 18.0 (29)
31. Gaoler 1279 1321.5 11.2 (30)
32. SmegHeads 1289 1315.8 0.3 (31)
33. The Young And The Skateless 1235 1305.6 42.9 (32)
34. Sam & His Dogs 1262 1297.3 11.6 (34)
35. Neural Netters 1251 1294.2 11.3 (35)
36. Youngbucs 1206 1288.1 101.7 (36)
37. Artic Storm 1220 1287.7 39.3 (33)
38. Soft Swedes 1205 1281.5 46.9 (37)
39. Jeff Horvath 1239 1268.6 5.6 (38)
40. Milton Keynes Kings 1229 1262.5 2.8 (40)
41. Hamster from Hoboken 1223 1257.0 8.7 (41)
Kuehn Crushers 1185 1257.0 45.1 (45)
43. Le Fleur de Lys 1202 1256.9 25.3 (42)
44. Yan The Man Loke 1225 1255.5 0.7 (39)
45. Legion of Hoth 1208 1251.1 15.8 (48)
46. Simmonac 1169 1249.4 87.6 (44)
47. The Finnish Force 1192 1245.1 22.5 (46)
48. ice legion 1193 1244.8 28.8 (43)
49. Streaks 1161 1242.8 54.8 (47)
50. Brian Bergman 1190 1241.0 23.3 (55)
51. Goaldingers 1190 1239.3 22.0 (49)
52. T C OverAchievers 1209 1237.0 2.9 (52)
53. Grant Marven 1196 1231.2 2.9 (50)
54. Bozrah Bruins 1155 1223.9 45.2 (54)
55. Real Bad Toe Jam 1150 1223.4 48.9 (62)
56. Houdini's Magicians 1181 1222.4 18.3 (61)
57. Skriko Wolves 1186 1221.5 5.4 (53)
58. rec.sport.hockey choices 1196 1221.1 1.3 (63)
59. buffalo soldiers 1142 1220.3 62.1 (65)
60. bemybaby 1140 1219.9 54.2 (51)
61. LIPPE 1179 1215.2 13.9 (56)
62. Randy Coulman 1185 1214.8 5.2 (57)
63. LAMP LIGHTERS 1180 1211.6 5.9 (58)
64. Steven And Mark Dream Team 1174 1206.2 3.1 (60)
65. Indianapolis Bennies 1160 1205.4 20.8 (66)
66. Tom 1160 1202.8 13.1 (68)
67. Bloom County All Stars 1164 1198.8 4.3 (67)
68. Bruins 1174 1198.5 0.1 (72)
69. Phil and Kev's Karma Dudes 1172 1198.0 0.8 (69)
70. smithw 1146 1194.5 21.0 (73)
71. Iowa Hockeyes 1149 1193.8 16.3 (64)
72. Doug Bowles 1146 1190.6 20.0 (71)
73. The Great Pumpkin 1108 1187.3 54.4 (74)
74. NON! 1145 1186.4 16.4 (77)
75. shooting seamen 1161 1183.3 0.1 (75)
76. Frank Worthless 1149 1182.7 6.3 (76)
77. AIK Exiles 1116 1179.8 34.5 (70)
78. Invisible Inc 1156 1177.4 1.1 (78)
79. Brad Gibson 1126 1176.9 27.2 (79)
80. Cougarmania 1114 1165.7 24.8 (88)
81. Kortelaisen Kovat 1086 1165.2 164.1 (85)
82. PLP Fools 1135 1163.1 0.1 (81)
83. David Wong 1082 1161.6 66.1 (84)
84. John Zupancic 1102 1160.7 27.1 (82)
85. garryola 1121 1159.4 9.7 (89)
86. Gary Bergman Fan Club 1128 1157.6 5.1 (93)
87. Staffan Axelsson 1120 1157.1 15.1 (83)
88. Chubby Checkers 1110 1156.2 16.3 (80)
89. Derrill's Dastardly Dozen 1109 1155.0 22.1 (90)
90. Chocolate Rockets 1121 1150.7 2.5 (86)
91. Ken DeCruyenaere 1113 1147.9 5.0 (87)
92. Fisher Dirtbags 1119 1147.4 0.7 (94)
93. KODIAKS 1122 1146.0 1.3 (95)
94. No Namers 1067 1145.8 58.2 (91)
95. The Campi Machine 1061 1145.2 65.3 (92)
96. BSC Oranienburg 1115 1142.4 7.1 (98)
97. The Kamucks 1064 1141.5 76.1 (97)
98. Arsenal Maple Leafs 1108 1138.4 3.8 (96)
99. Ellis Islanders 1096 1128.0 7.6 (100)
100. Mombasa Mosquitos 1090 1122.4 6.1 (101)
101. Zachmans Wingers 1051 1122.1 49.8 (103)
102. Edelweiss 1091 1121.0 2.9 (102)
103. Bjoern Leaguen 1039 1118.5 61.4 (112)
104. Dirty White Socks 1050 1116.5 43.4 (105)
105. Wormtown Woosbags 1039 1116.1 72.6 (104)
106. Neil Younger 1036 1115.0 77.7 (114)
107. Hurricane Andrew 1082 1114.8 7.6 (106)
108. King Suke 1089 1114.5 0.1 (110)
109. Larry 1078 1114.3 11.8 (107)
110. Het Schot Is Hard 1076 1113.6 18.1 (115)
111. VoteNoOct26 1056 1112.6 31.8 (108)
112. Bloodgamers 1046 1111.6 42.1 (99)
Bruce's Rented Mules 1077 1111.6 11.9 (108)
114. Teem Kanada 1075 1110.6 16.0 (111)
115. Frank's Follies 1063 1106.5 24.2 (113)
116. Oklahoma Stormchasers 1053 1103.6 28.3 (121)
117. SPUDS 1068 1103.4 12.6 (119)
118. Pond Slime 1081 1102.3 0.7 (117)
119. PSV Dartmouth 1071 1101.4 7.1 (116)
120. Mark Sanders 1065 1099.2 11.1 (120)
121. Blue Talon 1062 1096.5 13.3 (126)
122. Stanford Ice Hawks 1043 1094.7 28.2 (118)
123. Aye Carumba!!! 1063 1089.6 3.9 (124)
124. Kokudo Keikaku Bunnies 1021 1088.0 40.3 (125)
125. Timo Ojala 1059 1085.7 0.3 (122)
126. Haral 1057 1085.3 7.3 (128)
127. Cluster Buster 1048 1083.4 7.6 (136)
128. Dirty Rotten Puckers 1054 1082.7 1.2 (135)
129. Apricot Fuzzfaces 1037 1081.1 23.3 (127)
130. The Lost Poots 1048 1080.5 6.7 (132)
131. Nesbitt 1058 1078.6 1.1 (123)
132. Gary Bill Pens Dynasty 1035 1077.8 19.6 (144)
133. garys team 1035 1076.2 17.1 (129)
134. Arctic Circles 1012 1074.1 37.6 (131)
135. Seattle PFTB 1028 1074.0 22.9 (132)
136. Late Night with David Letterman 1049 1073.7 0.0 (130)
137. Le Groupe MI 1020 1073.2 30.2 (141)
138. GO BRUINS 1046 1072.7 6.2 (140)
139. Scott Glenn 1038 1069.7 10.2 (138)
140. Flying Kiwis 1035 1068.7 9.1 (136)
141. team gold 1029 1067.4 16.7 (142)
142. Closet Boy's Boys 995 1064.6 48.0 (143)
143. Wild Hearted Sons 1036 1064.4 4.9 (153)
144. boutch 92-93 1023 1063.2 20.0 (134)
145. Andy Y F WONG 1019 1062.6 21.5 (147)
Wembley LostWeekenders 1040 1062.6 0.3 (152)
147. McKees Rocks Rockers 1036 1062.4 5.1 (144)
148. Book 'em Danno's Bushbabies 1032 1062.1 10.5 (163)
149. Dree Hobbs 1020 1060.2 13.4 (139)
150. GO HABS GO 1027 1058.1 8.0 (151)
151. Goddess Of Fermentation 1005 1057.8 30.2 (156)
152. Tim Rogers 1024 1056.8 8.1 (146)
153. convex stars 1026 1055.9 5.6 (160)
154. Einstein's Rock Band 1033 1055.7 0.0 (154)
155. Princeton Canucks 979 1055.5 124.2 (150)
156. Tap 1028 1055.2 0.5 (155)
157. Hubert's Hockey Homeboys 1030 1053.9 0.6 (163)
Buttered Waffles 981 1053.9 46.0 (148)
159. MY TEAM 977 1052.0 174.8 (162)
160. Bob's Blues 980 1050.9 46.8 (149)
161. furleys furies 1021 1046.6 3.6 (159)
162. HUNTERS & COLLECTORS 982 1045.9 42.4 (157)
Les Nordiques 974 1045.9 60.4 (161)
164. Satan's Choice 1012 1045.3 14.5 (173)
165. Dr Joel Fleishman 1020 1043.9 3.7 (158)
166. Sundogs 1017 1040.9 0.4 (166)
167. Pierre Mailhot 1017 1039.9 2.6 (175)
168. Slap Shot Marco 966 1037.8 51.8 (168)
169. San Jose Mahi Mahi 989 1037.6 31.8 (178)
170. The Leafs Rule!!!! 990 1037.3 25.8 (174)
171. Jeff Nimeroff 963 1036.5 48.8 (167)
172. Stimpy ADG Zeta 996 1035.2 21.0 (178)
173. The Dreamers 958 1034.6 63.7 (170)
174. East City Jokers 956 1033.7 69.1 (171)
175. Daryl Turner 1008 1033.1 2.4 (169)
176. riding the pine 988 1031.8 20.7 (165)
177. Flowers 957 1030.4 113.6 (172)
178. Darse Billings 975 1029.3 34.7 (185)
179. Chappel's Chumps 984 1027.9 24.0 (186)
180. LANA Inc 982 1027.2 27.3 (182)
181. Spinal Tap 963 1026.6 41.4 (177)
182. JimParker 949 1025.9 179.0 (187)
183. Enforcers 980 1023.9 28.1 (189)
184. Jeff Bachovchin 949 1020.7 46.7 (180)
Big Bad Bruins 981 1020.7 18.5 (183)
186. Mike Mac Cormack Sydney NS CAN 944 1020.6 107.2 (184)
187. Bulldogs 973 1019.7 23.4 (181)
188. voyageurs 996 1017.2 2.7 (176)
189. Absolut Lehigh 984 1015.4 8.9 (190)
190. Republican Dirty Tricksters 930 1010.4 66.0 (188)
191. Henry's Bar B Q 990 1007.7 0.7 (197)
192. Dr.D And The S.O.D. 968 1007.3 17.1 (192)
193. Bunch of Misfits 957 1006.9 23.8 (193)
194. Robyns Team 955 1005.5 30.0 (198)
195. Yellow Plague 969 1003.4 14.2 (191)
196. Ninja Turtles 982 1003.0 1.3 (194)
197. Team Melville 930 999.1 46.9 (199)
198. Acadien 962 998.6 18.3 (201)
199. DARMAN'S Dragons 950 998.4 28.3 (209)
200. Kuta Papercuts 961 998.2 18.5 (207)
201. Great Expectations 972 998.0 2.3 (195)
202. Cobra's Killers 942 996.4 31.7 (205)
203. Cherry Bombers 971 995.6 1.2 (196)
204. Jayson's Kinky Pucks 943 989.9 26.9 (204)
205. Killer Apes 947 989.7 24.3 (208)
206. Kaufbeuren Icebreakers 929 989.1 37.6 (202)
207. Umpire 4 life 950 987.8 11.1 (200)
208. Roger Smith 927 987.0 39.6 (210)
209. Firebirds 960 983.8 3.9 (203)
210. Those 1st few weeks hurt! 905 982.9 55.9 (211)
211. IKEA Wholesale 958 982.0 1.7 (213)
212. Outlaws 903 975.6 164.9 (206)
213. The 200 Club 944 969.4 6.8 (219)
214. Thundering Herd 887 966.7 163.6 (212)
215. Believe it or dont 926 966.6 21.1 (214)
216. Creeping Death 924 965.7 21.3 (217)
217. Knee Injuries 932 965.6 10.4 (218)
218. Crazy Euros 927 965.3 17.9 (220)
219. Frack Attack 918 965.0 27.3 (221)
Todd's Turkeys 942 965.0 1.9 (222)
221. Ryan's Renegades 893 961.7 50.9 (223)
222. fred mckim 889 961.5 93.0 (215)
223. 400 Hurricane 909 960.4 32.1 (216)
224. pig vomit 936 958.3 1.3 (225)
225. Ice Strykers 882 955.4 105.4 (226)
226. Fighting Geordies 882 953.7 141.6 (227)
227. CDN Stuck in Alabama 925 951.6 10.3 (228)
228. dayton bomber 932 951.5 0.0 (236)
229. Cafall and Crew 892 948.2 38.3 (224)
230. Chris of Death 872 945.0 83.6 (232)
231. Swillbellies 902 941.9 18.7 (230)
232. Banko's Beer Rangers 913 940.4 4.2 (233)
Zipper Heads 892 940.4 33.9 (237)
234. NY Flames 907 938.8 7.8 (234)
235. Ship's Way 913 938.7 8.7 (229)
236. Laubsters II 861 937.6 201.6 (235)
237. Oz 878 934.1 35.0 (231)
238. Joliet Inmates 872 933.5 45.8 (239)
239. Ninja Bunnies 858 925.9 44.9 (238)
240. Great Scott 853 924.6 73.3 (242)
241. Widefield White Wolves 861 919.7 36.9 (240)
242. The Ice Holes 890 912.7 2.7 (246)
243. SANDY'S SABRES 886 910.8 4.7 (244)
244. Daves Team 858 910.7 32.0 (241)
245. South Carolina Tiger Paws 835 909.0 78.4 (243)
246. Florida Tech Burgh Team 844 908.9 49.3 (245)
247. Leos Blue Chips 874 902.5 10.4 (247)
248. For xtc 874 900.0 8.2 (248)
249. roadrunners 861 899.7 18.5 (249)
250. Mudville Kings 851 897.8 27.6 (250)
251. New Jersey Rob 876 894.2 0.7 (253)
252. Redliners 856 893.3 15.9 (251)
253. Pat Phillips 859 887.6 10.1 (252)
254. Stewart Clamen 851 869.6 1.6 (254)
255. Demon Spawn 820 866.1 25.0 (255)
256. Sunnyvale Storm 804 818.4 0.2 (256)
257. Allez les Blues 738 809.1 476.9 (257)
258. Up For Sale Hockey Club 749 789.4 23.0 (258)
259. Petes Picks 721 788.0 168.5 (259)
260. RINACO 709 781.8 114.0 (260)
261. Brenz Revenge 691 713.3 4.0 (261)
262. Dinamo Riga 595 663.9 571.6 (262)
--
Andrew Scott | andrew@idacom.hp.com
HP IDACOM Telecom Operation | (403) 462-0666 ext. 253 | 10 | rec.sport.hockey |
Very interesting, but I also believe that you have presented a
misleading argument. Christianity is not the cause of the massacres
and horrific injustices that you relate, rather they are the fault
of people who misunderstand Jesus Christ's message, and modify
it to suit their own beliefs and aims, rather than alter their
ambitions to be more in line with those presented as desirable in
the New Testament. With every truthful and good message that
carries authority or implied authority, comes the inevitable
fact that some (many?) people will understand it in a distorted
way, with inevitable consequences.
The Bible's message is that we are to love all people, and
that all people are redeemable. It preaches a message of
repentance, and of giving. Unfortunately, all people have
deceitful hearts, and are capable of turning this message
around and contorting it in sometimes unbelievable ways.
This is also a fundamental Christian doctrine.
One of the problems is that you look at the world through
the eyes of Western history. I think that you will find
many, many cases of massacres that were instigated by
people who never claimed they were Christian. I am not saying
this to justify the massacres that were, but I am merely
pointing you to a tendency which is present in humans already.
Consider the world without Christianity. I doubt that we
would have the same freedoms in the countries in which we
live, if it wasn't for the peaceful doctrines of Jesus Christ.
Perhaps we would even be confronted by a very harsh religion
(I won't name any here, though one comes to mind) which
would not even allow us the freedom of speech to debate such
subjects.
Point the blame at inherent human tendencies of thirst for
power, greed and hatred. Please don't point the blame at
a message which preaches fundamental giving and denial, in
love for others.
Yours in Christ,
Andrew McVeigh
p.s. I believe that a line of questioning like you presented
is, strangely enough, compatible with becoming a Christian.
Certainly Christianity encourages one to question the behaviour
of the world, and especially Christians. I praise God for
Jesus Christ, and the fact that we can doubt our beliefs
and still come back to God and be forgiven, time and time
again.
--
*****
| 15 | soc.religion.christian |
Wow, you're quicker to point out heresy than the Church in the
Middle ages. Seriously though, even the Sheiks at Al-Azhar don't
claim that the Shi'ites are heretics. Most of the accusations
and fabrications about Shi'ites come out of Saudi Arabia from the
Wahabis. For that matter you should read the original works of
the Sunni Imams (Imams of the four madhabs). The teacher of
at least two of them was Imam Jafar Sadiq (the sixth Imam of the
Shi'ites). | 0 | alt.atheism |
...
Another April 1 posting. Ahhh. | 12 | sci.electronics |
Two-volume soft-cover repair manuals
for all models of '91 Toyota Celicas.
(Probably good for '92 models as well.)
Like new condition.
These are the manuals used by the
Toyota dealers' mechanics - they normally
cost over $80 new.
$50 OBO | 7 | rec.autos |
[...deleted...]
Unfortunately, I think you've got it figured pretty well. I also ask
myself the question "Why did they plan for so many months. Why was
this so important to them? What was the government really up to?
Why did they seal the warrant? Were they after Koresh or were they after
the first and second amendments, among others?
| 19 | talk.religion.misc |
I got just this far. What do you mean by "goal"? I hope you
don't mean to imply that evolution has a conscious "goal". | 0 | alt.atheism |
How about a Geeky temporary tatoo? I mean, why should the
RUBs be exempt from a little razzing. | 8 | rec.motorcycles |
There are many organisms, viral, bacterial, and fungal, which can
cause meningitits, and the course of these infections varies
widely. The causes of bacterial meningitis vary with age: in adults
pneumococcus (the same organism which causes pneumococcal pneumonia)
is the most common cause, while in children Hemophilus influenzae
is the most common cause.
What you are describing is meningitis from Neisseria meningitidis,
which is the second most common cause of bacterial meningitis in
both groups, but with lower incidence in infants. This organism
is also called the "meningococcus", and is the source of the
common epidemics of meningitis that occur and are popularized in
the press. Without prompt treatment (and even WITH it in some cases),
the organism typically causes death within a day.
This organism, feared as it is, is actually grown from the throats
of many normal adults. It can get to the meninges by different
ways, but blood borne spread is probably the usual case.
Rifampin (an oral antibiotic) is often given to family and contacts
of a case of meningococcal meningitis, by the way.
Sorry, but I don't have time for a more detailed reply. Meningitis
is a huge topic, and sci.med can't do it justice.
| 13 | sci.med |
Hamza answers one of my articles:
[TO] If indeed Israeli soldiers killed a "Hamas Mujahid" with an anti-tank
[TO] missile then I'm almost sure that the "terrorist zionists" would not
[TO] have been able to cut up a body which was probably desintegrated by the
[TO] missile.
[Hamza] maybe the missile didn't hit directly such that his body
[Hamza] gets "desintegrated." of course, destroying 10 houses to
[Hamza] kill someone is not a surgical operation, or is it?
Well done Hamza. You edited my answer to Anas Omran, took everything out
of context and then replied to it the way you wanted.
Now I really understand why the peace process is not making any progress.
You guys ain't listening, just babbling away to your same old rhetoric. | 17 | talk.politics.mideast |
Lets hear it for Dan Goldin...now if he can only convince the rest of
our federal government that the space program is a worth while
investment!
I hope that I will live to see the day we walk on Mars, but
we need to address the technical hurdles first! If there's sufficient
interest, maybe we should consider starting a sci.space group
devoted to the technical analysis of long-duration human spaceflight.
Most of you regulars know that I'm interested in starting this analysis
as soon as possible. | 14 | sci.space |
I bought the diamond stealth 24 a few months ago. it seems to be a
great card especially with my multimedia presentations. It runs graphics
and animation as well as some near full motion video very well. The only
thing I can tell that it lacks is speed above 256 colors. Its qualit in
between 256 and 16.7 million collors un unreal but you definitly
compromise speed. It seems to be a great card for graphics and it comes
with some great software, but Im not so sure about the excelerator
part. I used to own a paridise and it doesnt seem to be much faster
than that. One thing I do like is that it loads its own vesa driver
from ROM at startup, (I think) because I have never had to load it for
links386 or any other programs that require special VESA drivers at
startup.
gromi a16pd
HINTMATT@BA.BA.ISU.EDU
| 1 | comp.graphics |
<<Posting deleted. The moderator replies:
That is generally accuate, but contains one serious error. We Catholics
do believe that God's revealed truth that is not explicitly recorded in
the Bible can be and is passed on through the Tradition of the Church.
It should be noted that the Tradition of the Church, otherwise known as
Sacred Tradition, is not the same as ordinary human traditions.
However, we do not believe that additional truth will be revealed to
the Church. Public revelation, which is the basis of Catholic doctrine,
ended with the death of St. John, the last Apostle. Nothing new can
be added. Theologians study this revelation and can draw out implications
that were not recognized previously, so that the Council of Nicea could
define statements about the theology of the Trinity and the Incarnation
that were not explicitly stated in the Bible and had been disputed
before the council, but there was no new revelation at Nicea or at
any subsequent council.
Cardinal Newman's _An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine_,
written while he was still an Anglican, is an excellent discussion of
of this point. It was recently reprinted as a Doubleday Image Books
paperback with some related shorter works under the title _Conscience,
Consensus, and the Development of Doctrine_.
-------
Marty Helgesen
Bitnet: mnhcc@cunyvm Internet: mnhcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu | 15 | soc.religion.christian |
Not to mention that the G-men believed the children didn't have gas masks.
But that was not, with respect to the children, the point of the gassing.
The feds *knew* that the children's health would be in danger and proceeded
under the assumption that the "motherly instinct" of the Davidian women
would remove them from harm's way. I busted a gut on that one.
Someone else on the net observed that the administration's appeal to a
woman's "motherly instinct" would never wash with feminists and liberals
if a republican were in the White House. I say that such an justification
could *only* come from a feminist mindset.
BTW - I'd read in the paper yesterday that the type of gas used was CS2.
The paper didn't provide any specifics about it. | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not Logitech had
Windows TWAIN drivers for the Scanman. If so, are the drivers on the
net somewhere? My Scanman is the model one down from the Scanman 256.
Thanks in advance.
Ross Barclay
| 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Dear Reader,
I'am searching for an implementation of a polygon reduction algorithm
for marching cubes surfaces. I think the best one is the reduction algorithm
from Schroeder et al., SIGGRAPH '92. So, is there any implementation of this
algorithm, it would be very nice if you could leave it to me.
Also I'am looking for a fast !!! connectivity
test for marching cubes surfaces.
Any help or hints will be very useful.
Thanks a lot
| 1 | comp.graphics |
[h] The Armenians in Nagarno-Karabagh are simply DEFENDING their RIGHTS
[h] to keep their homeland and it is the AZERIS that are INVADING their
[h] territorium...
[HE] Homeland? First Nagarno-Karabagh was Armenians homeland today
[HE] Fizuli, Lacin and several villages (in Azerbadjan)
[HE] are their homeland. Can't you see the
[HE] the "Great Armenia" dream in this?
Greater Armenia would stretch from Karabakh, to the Black Sea, to the
Mediterranean, so if you use the term "Greater Armenia" use it with care.
[HE] With facist methods like
[HE] killing, raping and bombing villages. The last move was the
[HE] blast of a truck with 60 kurdish refugees, trying to
[HE] escape the from Lacin, a city that was "given" to the Kurds
[HE] by the Armenians.
It has always been up to the Azeris to end their announced winning of Karabakh
by removing the Armenians! When the president of Azerbaijan, Elchibey, came to
power last year, he announced he would be be "swimming in Lake Sevan [in
Armeniaxn] by July". Well, he was wrong! If Elchibey is going to shell the
Armenians of Karabakh from Aghdam, his people will pay the price! If Elchibey
is going to shell Karabakh from Fizuli his people will pay the price! If
Elchibey thinks he can get away with bombing Armenia from the hills of
Kelbajar, his people will pay the price.
It also seems other non-Azeri minorities in Azerbaijan have understood they
are next in line in this process of forced Azerification or deportation. Just
look at the situation with the Lezgians.
About the Kurds...what Kurds! According to the Azerbaijani government, there
are no Kurds in Azerbaijan. Can't they make up their minds? Oh I see, there
are only Kurds when the Azeris want them to be Kurds! And anyway, this "60
Kurd refugee" story, as have other stories, are simple fabrications sourced in
Baku, modified in Ankara. Other examples of this are Armenia has no border
with Iran, and the ridiculous story of the "intercepting" of Armenian military
conversations as appeared in the New York Times supposedly translated by
somebody unknown, from Armenian into Azeri Turkish, submitted by an unnamed
"special correspondent" to the NY Times from Baku. Real accurate!
[h] However, I hope that the Armenians WILL force a TURKISH airplane
[h] to LAND for purposes of SEARCHING for ARMS similar to the one
[h] that happened last SUMMER. Turkey searched an AMERICAN plane
[h] (carrying humanitarian aid) bound to ARMENIA.
[h]
No, Henrik, these Turkish planes should be shot down with no questions asked.
[HE] Don't speak about things you don't know: 8 American Cargo planes
[HE] were heading to Armenia. When the Turkish authorities
[HE] announced that they were going to search these cargo
[HE] planes 3 of these planes returned to it's base in Germany.
[HE] 5 of these planes were searched in Turkey. The content of
[HE] of the other 3 planes? Not hard to guess, is it? It was sure not
[HE] humanitarian aid.....
Your "facts" in error. Shipments of all kinds that have transversed Turkey
have been either searched, re-routed or confiscated. Some American planes
were searched, others were re-routed, others were untouched. Rail shipments
were held up last fall and last winter from entering Armenian from Turkey
for the purpose of aiding in the economic collapse of Armenia. Wheat was
confiscated, other shipments were exchanged with "crap" and dirt, then
shipped to Armenia. U.S. planes don't have to use Turkish air bases. The U.S.
uses these bases to bomb Iraq. Anyway, U.S. planes can fly over Georgia, which
they have found is easier than to endure unnecessary expressions of Turkish
chauvinism through searches of cargo which to this day have not revealed
anything other than a paranoid Turkish military.
[HE] Search Turkish planes? You don't know what you are talking about.
[HE] since it's content is announced to be weapons?
Well, big mouth Ozal said military weapons are being provided to Azerbaijan
from Turkey, yet Demirel and others say no. No wonder you are so confused!
[HE] Turkey's government has announced that it's giving weapons
[HE] to Azerbadjan since Armenia started to attack Azerbadjan
[HE] it self, not the Karabag province. So why search a plane for weapons
[HE] since it's content is announced to be weapons?
You are correct, all Turkish planes should be simply shot down! Nice, slow
moving air transports!
| 17 | talk.politics.mideast |
100% Israeli citizens. The ethnic composition depends on what
you mean by formed. What the UN deeded to Israel? What it won in war?
Were there anti-trust laws in place in mandatory Palestine?
Since the answer is no, you're argument, while interestingly
constructed, is irrelevant. I will however, respond to a few points
you assert in the course of talking about anti-trust laws.
And those fleeing Arab lands, where Jews were second class
citizens.
Jews often paid far more than fair market value for the land
they bought.
You know, Sam, when people start talking about an
International Jewish conspiracy, its really begins to sound like
anti-Semitic bull.
The reason there is no conspiracy here is quite simple.
Zionists made no bones about what was going on. There were
conferences, publications, etc, all talking about creating a National
home for the Jews.
[...]
Because you've never heard of it, its dead? The fact is, you
claimed Israel had to give arabs rights because of (non-existant)
International aid. Then you see that that argument has a hole you
could drive a truck through, and again assert that Israel is only
democratic within the (unexplained) constraints of one ethnic group.
The problem with that argument is that Arabs are allowed to vote for
whoever they please. So, please tell me, Sam, what constraints are
there on Israeli democracy that don't exist in other democratic
states?
I've never heard anything about the Khazakistani arab
population. Does that mean that they have no history or roots? When
I was at Ben Gurion university in Israel, one of my neighbors was an
Israeli arab. He wasn't really all that different from my other
neighbors. Does that make him dead or oppressed?
How recent is recent? I can probably build a case for a
Jewish Gaza city. It would be pretty silly, but I could do it. I'm
arguing not that Jerusalem is Jewish, but that land has no ethnicity.
Adam
Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu | 17 | talk.politics.mideast |
For the purpose of a contest, I'd bet some things could be cut. Like fuel
for re-entry, any kind of heat shielding, etc., etc. Even still, if the
contest participants had to fund DC-1 development, it probably wouldn't be
worth it to develop DC-1 (just for the contest). Just give me the cheapest
heaviest lift man rated (or at least under 6 or so Gs) booster... If I
don't have to pay for DC-1 development, great!, I'll use it.
But back to the contest goals, there was a recent article in AW&ST about a
low cost (it's all relative...) manned return to the moon. A General
Dynamics scheme involving a Titan IV & Shuttle to lift a Centaur upper
stage, LEV, and crew capsule. The mission consists of delivering two
unmanned payloads to the lunar surface, followed by a manned mission.
Total cost: US was $10-$13 billion. Joint ESA(?)/NASA project was $6-$9
billion for the US share.
I didn't find a mention of how long the crew could stay, but I'd bet that
its around 30 days. And the total payload delivered was about 30 metric
tonnes. So if you ignore the scientific payload, hitch a ride in the crew
habitation module (no return trip...), and toss in a few more tonnes for
the additional consumables to last another 11 months, then you *might* be
able to get a year visit out of 15 tonnes (and in case its not obvious,
that's a wild ass guess). A pretty boring visit, since every trip outdoors
eats up a bit of LOX. And I'm not certain if a home brewed (or
college-brewed) life support system could last a year. But let's round
this up to 19.4 tonnes (convient, since the GD plan talks about 9.7 ton
payloads delivered to the lunar surface. This adds up to two Centaurs, two
LEVs, two Shuttle flights... All to put a single man on the moon for a
year. Hmmm. Not really practical. Anyone got a cheaper/better way of
delivering 15-20 tonnes to the lunar surface within the decade? Anyone
have a more precise guess about how much a year's supply of consumables and
equipment would weigh?
And I was wondering about the GD LEV. Is it reusable? Or is it discarded
to burn up on return to LEO? If its not discarded, could it be refueled?
Henry: Do you know anything about the GD LEV? I noted that it uses RL-10
engines. Aren't they reusable/restartable? Would a LEV fit in a DC-1?
I've forgotten (if I ever knew) what the cargo bay dimensions are for the
DC-1.
All in all, I'm not certain that the single goal/prize of staying on the
moon for a year is wise and/or useful. How about: A prize for the first
non-government sponsered unmanned moon landing, then another for a manned
moon landing, then yet another for a system to extract consumables from
lunar soil, another for a reusable earth/moon shuttle, and so forth. Find
some way to build civilian moonbase infrastructure... Having a single goal
might result in a bunch of contestents giving up after one person appeared
to win. And for those that didn't give up, I find something a little scary
about a half dozen people huddling in rickety little moon shelters. I'd
like to see as much a reward for co-operation as for competition.
Lastly, about ten or fifteen years back I seem to recall that there was an
English space magazine that had an on-going discussion about moonbases on
the cheap. I recalled it discussed things like how much heat the human
body produced, how much lunar material it'd need for protection from solar
flares, etc. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of this magazine.
Does this ring a bell to anyone? | 14 | sci.space |
Ahem!!! Hrumph!!!! You have encurred the wrath of Glock owners. We will beat
you with our hammers. Oooops, don't have any :-)
Seriously. There is no difference in the safeties betweena Glock and any DA
revolver. Intellectually, think of the Glock as a very high cap revolver.
Ignoring stove pipes, misfeeds and all the other bonus exercises that
autoloaders give you, that is.
Every gun has its safe moment and its dangerous moment. If you just learn how
to handle it, it becomes a lot less dangerous (to you). | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
COD is fine until the buyer opens the box to find they paid 150.00
for a brick. Or if it the seller allows for a personal check to be used
on a COD it's fine till a stop payment is made. There are few methods
to protect both buyer and seller in any sort of transaction. Even with
merchants and customers there are problems...stolen credit cards,
chargebacks, no return policies and getting the wrong item, etc.
About the only protection available to to do business with someone you
trust....someone who has been around for a while.
Jeff
________________________________________________________________________ | 6 | misc.forsale |
I would suggest you take the car to the nearest Chevron dealer, with
your own oil and filter. Ask for an oil change. It will cost less
than $10. Watch him/her do it. Just from watching someone do a job,
you will be able to learn and remember the sequence, and do it right
when you do it yourself the next time. Besides, when he/she loosens
the drain nut, the next time around it will be easier for you.
If it is stuck, use an impact wrench. Not too much force though.
Use a new washer each time you put the nut back..... | 7 | rec.autos |
The answer is obvious: ZX-11 D. | 8 | rec.motorcycles |
I have a UREI 527A 27-band (mono) Equilizer for sale. Anyone who knows
this unit knows it's been a recording studio standard for years. It's a
pretty straightforward unit, with balanced ins and outs. Power supply caps
were recently replaced, and I added XLR connectors (which can be easily
removed if you prefer, as I mounted them on a bracket outside the case).
The unit is in good shape, and is sonically very clean.
I'm asking $225 + UPS shipping. They're going for $250 generally. Make me
an offer.
| 6 | misc.forsale |
good job to whoever posted the article. I'd
been saving that NYTimes edition for a while, planning to ytpe it
in myself, but now I don't have to.
For all of those people who were worried about whether or not
the media would even question the raid, we owe it to the
NY Times (despite their rabidly anti-gun editorials) for
being willing to talk to these 4 BATF agents. | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
I recently purchased a Centris 610 and am having difficulty getting
my computer to recognize my hard disk drive (external) Using both the
disk uitily of TMS (Diskwriter) and Jasmine's software, neither one
will show the drive. The drive is the only device connected to the
scuzzi port. I cant find the manual to the tms pro 120 and seem to
remember that it is "terminated". Is there something else that I am
doing (or not doing) that does not allow my 610 to recognize my external
disk drive?.
thanks in advance for the information. | 4 | comp.sys.mac.hardware |
I ride my bike regularly to classes with my book bag. I take
the shoulder straps on the bag, and hook them around the rear turn
signals. I works fine. You probably will want to attach it with
a bungee cord to keep it from shifting to one side or another.
| 8 | rec.motorcycles |
Hello,
I have three software packages for sale:
1. The Norton pcANYWHERE version 4.5 for dos. This software
include host and remote software. It can control both
dos and windows 3.1 (both standard and enhanced modes)
activities. Registration card is enclosed.
Price: $40.00
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can update virus information any time. It also support
networks. Registration card is enclosed.
Price: $40.00
3. DeltaGraph Professional for Windows 3.1. This is the BEST
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card is enclosed. Reg. Price: $495.00
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Thank you for your attention. | 6 | misc.forsale |
Bully, Them; Bludgeon Them, Bury Them.
--
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com> | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
The wars of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1978 were definitely started by the Arabs.
The war in 1982 was instigated by the Arabs who continually murdered
Israeli children with their rocket attacks. Israel was only trying to
stop this.
Last what the heck are you talking about with "1968 (Karama)"? There was
no war in 1968!
Steve
-- | 17 | talk.politics.mideast |
[Excellent discussion of DC-X landing techniques by Henry deleted]
The DC-X will not take of horizontally. It takes of vertically.
For several reasons. Vertical landings don't require miles of runway and limit
noise pollution. They don't require wheels or wings. Just turn on the engines
and touch down. Of course, as Henry pointed out, vetical landings aren't quite
that simple.
Well, to be blunt, yes. But at least you're learning.
The Soyuz vehicles use parachutes for the descent and then fire small rockets
just before they hit the ground. Parachutes are, however, not especially
practical if you want to reuse something without much effort. The landings
are also not very comfortable. However, in the words of Georgy Grechko,
"I prefer to have bruises, not to sink."
| 14 | sci.space |
For those of you who don't need 24 bit, I got a 32 colour Amiga IFF
of a cloudless Earth (scanned). Looks okay when mapped on a sphere.
E-mail me and I'll send it you...
Louis
| 1 | comp.graphics |
So what should I carry if I want to comply with intelligent helmet laws?
(The above comment in no way implies support for any helmet law, nor should
such support be inferred. A promise is a promise.) | 8 | rec.motorcycles |
That's nothing. They wouldn't let the British buy Inmos Transputer systems
because of security concerns. And we designed the damn things!
| 11 | sci.crypt |
Hmmmmmm...I got my comp with windows pre-installed, and stacks is still
9,256. if it was needed only for setup, wouldn't the morons take it
off??? (also, I don't have the qemm manual, as verything came with the
comp, but not the qemm manual, so could anyone verify this???)
Mickey | 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
: The Bible says there is a God; if that is true then our atheism is
: mistaken. What of it? Seems pretty obvious to me. Socrates said
: there were many gods; if that is true then your monotheism (and our
: atheism) is mistaken, even if Socrates never existed.
Jim,
I think you must have come in late. The discussion (on my part at
least) began with Benedikt's questioning of the historical acuuracy of
the NT. I was making the point that, if the same standards are used to
validate secular history that are used here to discredit NT history,
then virtually nothing is known of the first century.
You seem to be saying that the Bible -cannot- be true because it
speaks of the existence of God as it it were a fact. Your objection
has nothing to do with history, it is merely another statement of
atheism. | 0 | alt.atheism |
A good vocoder like ours will give you 8000 bits per second locked at
full rate (it's a variable rate voice activity vocoder). If you want
less quality, cut that to 4000 bps (half rate). At full rate variable
you could put two full-duplex conversations on a V.32bis modem. This
requires a DSP or ASICs, though. An RS-6000 has a CPU that could
probably do it in real-time, because it has the add-and-multiply
instruction and a few other DSP things.
If you want to do speech in real-time you need about 4000 samples a
second (for not very good voice) with your 8 bit samples (ISDN is 8000
8-bit samples a second), which is 32 kbps. You could do a fast 2:1
compression on that to get it down to 16 kbps, which is just about
V.32bis. The quality at this point is very bleah, but it should work.
Now add in the time for your encryption method. You're going to need
sampling hardware, which is no problem on a new Mac, an Amiga. Or a
PC with a SoundBlaster card (just because they're so popular and cheap
- you could also build a simple ADC). The problem with the
SoundBlaster is that it doesn't seem to be full duplex - you can't
sample and play backq at the same time, making a two-way conversation
a bit tough. The special hardware or a more capable sound card may be
required.
The only thing that worries me is that 2:1 compression - the
SoundBlaster can do it automatically in hardware, but other than that
I don't have a good feel for how processor intensive it is, so I can't
estimate how fast a PC you'd need.
| 11 | sci.crypt |
I've been trying to figure out a way to get Adobe Illustrator
to auto-trace >exactly< what I see on my screen. But it misses
the edges of templates by as many as 6 pixels or more - resulting in images
that are useless - I need exact tracing, not approximate.
I've tried adjusting the freehand tolerances as well as autotrace
tolerances but it doesn't help. Any suggestions?
| 1 | comp.graphics |
[ Much deletion. He is trying to explain the Immaculate Conception
and the Assumption of Mary.]
If this is true than why in the Genesis story is God concerned that
Adam and Eve might also eat from the Tree of Life and live forever and
be like gods? Eating of the tree of life would not take away the
effects of eating of the Tree of Knowledge. Is there any reason to
assume that they had already eaten of the Tree of Life and so had
already attained to eternal life? If so, what basis is there for
saying that this was taken away from them? To me the wages of sin are
a spiritual death, not necessarily a physical death. I
can attest to the truth of this interpretation from my own experience.
I suspect that many others could attest to this as well.
Peace
Will
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6 | misc.forsale |
|
I appreciate if anyone can point out some good books about the dead sea
scrolls of Qumran. Thanks in advance. | 15 | soc.religion.christian |
I have a Tektronix T921 15Mhz scope for sale. It is a nice, simple
unit to learn on. I used it while I was in school. If you want one
to play with at home, this is easy and inexpensive. It has a nice
handle and is quite lightweight and easy to move around.
I will consider selling the probes seperately for $25 ea. They are HP
10017A probes suitable for this type of scope. The probes are NOT
included in the price of $99 for the scope.
If you need more technical info, you will have to come look at it, as
I am not a scope expert and what I have said is all I know. | 6 | misc.forsale |
Bzzzt. The 750SS is 40 pounds lighter than the 900SS. I personally,
and recently, witnessed my 750SS do a stoppie with a larger-than-
average rider aboard. He said it took two fingers on that measely
single front disk to accomplish the task. How much more brake do
you need?
I haven't gone over 4000 rpm yet (still in break in) and haven't
had a problem with the 750SS being too slow. The limited steering
lock can be a problem if you aren't prepared for it. The mirrors
are very good, IMHO. Someone forgot to tell their designer about
the "whazza behind you, she no matta" philosophy.
Hmmmm. I don't see a 400, 750 _or_ 900SS in your .sig. Did I miss
something?
Beth | 8 | rec.motorcycles |
Hi, I was looking for some helpful advice.
I'm a university student with about $7000 to spend, and I'm looking for a
used car. Does anyone have any useful advice they could offer to a first-
time buyer? I'm not looking for anything sporty, just something functional
and reliable (less maintenance costs). Anybody have any ideas on what models
might suit me?
Thanks | 7 | rec.autos |
9 | rec.sport.baseball |
|
From: Center for Policy Research <cpr>
Subject: Zionism - racism
Diaspora 'a cancer'
------------------- by Julian Kossoff and Lindsay Schusman in:
Jewish Chronicle, London, 22. Dec. 1989
Leading Israeli author and cultural commentator, A.B. Yehoshua,
launched a ferocious attack on diaspora Jewry at a Zionist Youth
Council meeting in North London, last week.
The diaspora, he claimed, "was the cancer connected to the main
tissue of the Jewish people". He was scathing about its failure to
act before the Holocaust.
He said the diaspora's religious and secular leadership had
ignored the warning signs in the 1920s, and had fiercely opposed
Zionism. Consequently, he considered the Holocaust, "the failure
of Judaism".
His talk, entitled "Diaspora: A Neurotic Solution", covered 5,000
years of Jewish history.
Mr. Yehoshua's other targets included Soviet Jews who were, he
said "not staying [in Israel], but running [away]", and all Jews
outside Israel "who were using other people's countries like
hotels".
The only conclusion he could draw was that the diaspora was
immoral, because it looked to Israel for its identity but lived
elsewhere.
Worse, it threatened Israel itself, creating a distraction for her
citizens, who were leaving by the thousands.
Mr. Yehoshua, who described himself as "a soldier for aliyah",
ended by calling for the creation of a new "total Jew", living in
Israel.
Earlier, speaking at a meeting of Jewish students on the
difficulties of forging a national identity in Israeli literature,
Mr. Yehoshua claimed that Israeli writers were paralyzed by the
country's political situation.
He said Israel's wars had once provided writers with a vital
source of inspiration. Today, Israeli writers avoided writing
directly about the Arab-Israeli conflict. No major work had been
produced about the intifada.
Instead, writers were tackling themes such as Jewish identity,
emigration from Israel and personal and family issues.
Mr. Yehoshua admitted he also felt unable to write about the
Israeli political situation. He could no longer step into an
Israeli Arab's shoes and portray him as a real "flesh and blood
character".
He claimed that after 40 years of statehood, the problem of
Israeli identity had not been solved. He said Jews remained too
pre-occupied with the borders of identity between Jew and non-Jew,
and were not concerned with the nature of that identity.
Jewish values in Israel embraced every aspect of daily life,
unlike in the diaspora, where Jews had no responsibility for the
country they lived in, he said.
He warned that modern Hebrew, a unifying force for the Jewish
people, would have to struggle for its future, especially in
literary circles. It faced fierce competition from the English
language.
| 17 | talk.politics.mideast |
From: "Phil G. Fraering" <pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu>
Right, the Profiting Caste is blessed by God, and may
freely blare its presence in the evening twilight ..
| 14 | sci.space |
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware: 19-Apr-93 AMD i486
clones: Now legal .. by poe@wharton.upenn.edu
It's true. I read about it from an article in ClariNet (can't send it
here though). U.S. District Court Judge William A. Ingram, of San
Francisco, threw out the jury verdict prohibiting AMD from using Intels'
microcode for the 486. | 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
oh yes, i'm quite sure they will :) | 8 | rec.motorcycles |
Pardon me?
"Greece Government Rail-Roads Two Turkish Ethnic Deputies"
While World Human Rights Organizations Scream, Greeks
Persistently Work on Removing the Parliamentary Immunity
of Dr. Sadik Ahmet and Mr. Ahmet Faikoglu.
Dr. Sadik Ahmet, Turkish Ethnic Member of Greek Parliament, Visits US
Washington DC, July 7- Doctor Sadik Ahmet, one of the two ethnic
Turkish members of the Greek parliament visited US on june 24 through
July 5th and held meetings with human rights organizations and
high-level US officials in Washington DC and New York.
At his press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC,
Sadik Ahmet explained the plight of ethnic Turks in Greece and stated
six demands from Greek government.
Ahmet said "our only hope in Greece is the pressure generated from
Western capitals for insisting that Greece respects the human rights.
What we are having done to ethnic Turks in Greece is exactly the same
as South African Apartheid." He added: "What we are facing is pure
Greek hatred and racial discrimination."
Spelling out the demands of the Turkish ethnic community in Greece
he said "We want the restoration of Greek citizenship of 544 ethnic
Turks. Their citizenship was revoked by using the excuse that this
people have stayed out of Greece for too long. They are Greek citizens
and are residing in Greece, even one of them is actively serving in
the Greek army. Besides, other non-Turkish citizens of Greece are
not subject to this kind of interpretation at an extent that many of
Greek-Americans have Greek citizenship and they permanently live in
the United States."
"We want guarantee for Turkish minority's equal rights. We want Greek
government to accept the Turkish minority and grant us our civil rights.
Our people are waiting since 25 years to get driving licenses. The Greek
government is not granting building permits to Turks for renovating
our buildings or building new ones. If your name is Turkish, you are
not hired to the government offices."
"Furthermore, we want Greek government to give us equal opportunity
in business. They do not grant licenses so we can participate in the
economic life of Greece. In my case, they denied me a medical license
necessary for practicing surgery in Greek hospitals despite the fact
that I have finished a Greek medical school and followed all the
necessary steps in my career."
"We want freedom of expression for ethnic Turks. We are not allowed
to call ourselves Turks. I myself have been subject of a number of
law suits and even have been imprisoned just because I called myself
a Turk."
"We also want Greek government to provide freedom of religion."
In separate interview with The Turkish Times, Dr. Sadik Ahmet stated
that the conditions of ethnic Turks are deplorable and in the eyes of
Greek laws, ethnic Greeks are more equal than ethnic Turks. As an example,
he said there are about 20,000 telephone subscribers in Selanik (Thessaloniki)
and only about 800 of them are Turks. That is not because Turks do not
want to have telephone services at their home and businesses. He said
that Greek government changed the election law just to keep him out
of the parliament as an independent representative and they stated
this fact openly to him. While there is no minimum qualification
requirement for parties in terms of receiving at least 3% of the votes,
they imposed this requirement for the independent parties, including
the Turkish candidates.
Ahmet was born in a small village at Gumulcine (Komotini), Greece 1947.
He earned his medical degree at University of Thessaloniki in 1974.
he served in the Greek military as an infantryman.
In 1985 he got involved with community affairs for the first time
by collecting 15,000 signatures to protest the unjust implementation
of laws against ethnic Turks. In 1986, he was arrested by the police
for collecting signatures.
Serdar Argic | 17 | talk.politics.mideast |
The kit is for an already existing Laserwriter IINTX. It is a ROM
upgrade that replaces the font rasterizer code with the more
efficient, speedier code that first became available in Adobe Type
Manager 1.0.
That software came out after the original NTXes and the so-called
ATM rasterizer is now standard on Postscript printers. | 4 | comp.sys.mac.hardware |
Hi again!
Okay, am getting an old AT type together as well.
Anyone have a 16 bit MFM HDC they'd like to sell? WD is preferred, but
Adaptec and DTK are fine too......for that matter, almost anything
so long as it works! | 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
If given a definite definition of "God", it is sometimes possible to
falsify the existance of that God.
But, when one refuses to give an immutable definition, one can not.
---
" Whatever promises that have been made can than be broken. " | 19 | talk.religion.misc |
: My 9 yr old son has signed up to do a science report on batteries. I was
: wondering if anyone could provide me with some information as to how to
: construct a home-built battery. In my grade school days, I remember seeing
: the 'ice cube tray' version, but I don't remember what to use as a good
: electrolyte or what the easily obtainable metals were.
: Thank you in advance.
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The simplest one is easy. Take a lemon or other citrus type fruit, and
stick a pair of metal strips into it for the contacts. The two strips must
be of disimelar metals like copper and zinc. Then connect a voltmeter to
the contacts and read the voltage.
bill@xpresso.UUCP (Bill Vance), Bothell, WA
rwing!xpresso!bill | 12 | sci.electronics |
After I have produced a schematic with PADS-LOGIC, how do I import it into
PADS-PCB to create a PCB pattern? The only way I've gotten it to work is
to output a FutureNet netlist, and then import this into PADS-PCB. Is there
another way of doing this? I didn't see any information in the instructions
provided, but I might have missed something. Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks!
| 12 | sci.electronics |
There's also Billy Jack, The Wild One, Smokey and the Bandit
(Where Jerry Reed runs his truck over Motorcycle Gangs Bikes),
and a video tape documentary on the Hell's Angels I
found in a rental store once
| 8 | rec.motorcycles |
Hi ... can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of updated Canon BJ-200
printer driver for Windows 3.1, if any ? I have ver 1.0 which comes with
my BJ-200 printer, I just wonder if there is any newer version. | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Based on my experience with a '79 FJ40 ( the hard-top jeep-style model ) I
would definitely give a new model consideration if I were in the market. The
older models are VERY well built. Unless Toyota lost its mind, I would
assume, until proven otherwise, that the newer models have inherited some
if not all of the qualities of their ancestors.
Two major differences in the running gear (that I'm aware of) need study.
My '79 has a solid front axle housing whereas the newer models have
independant front suspension. The solid axle is theoretically stronger and
more reliable than the newer model, but only experience will tell. The
independant front suspension is, no doubt, a compromise made to satisfy
the typical user, who will never need a real utility vehicle. The second
difference is the type of transfer case used on the newer models. I'm
not sure, but I think Tioyota went to a full-time 4WD or all-wheel drive
system. The older Landcruisers have a "lock-up" type. Both have their
advantages and disadvantages. | 7 | rec.autos |
I remember reading about a program that made windows icons run away
from the mouse as it moved near them. Does anyone know the name
of this program and the ftp location (probably at cica)
| 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
This brings up an interesting subject that has not been discussed much,
and probably has not been studied much.
As some of you may be aware, I've posted a lot of articles lately on
personality typing (of which the MBTI is a test vehicle). To come up
to speed, just read 'alt.psychology.personality' and/or ask for by
personality type summary file.
One observation is that people have significantly different personalities
(no question on this) which seem to be essentially in-born. With respect
to church attendance and participation, some people thrive on this, while
other people have real difficulty with this because they prefer a more
solitary and contemplative lifestyle - that is, they are de-energized if
confronted with excessive closeness to outside activities and lots of
people. Of course this is measured by extroversion/introversion.
My impression is that many churches are totally blind to this fact, and
create environments that 'scare away' many who are naturally introverted
(there are many introverted characters in the Bible, btw). I know, I am
quite introverted in preference, and find the 'pressure' by many churches
to participate, to meet together in large groups, etc., to be very
uncomfortable. Knowing what I know now, these churches have been overly
influenced by highly extroverted people who thrive on this sort of thing.
(BTW, there's nothing wrong with either extroversion or introversion, both
preferences have their place in the Body).
Maybe I should define extrovert/introvert more carefully since these words
are usually not used correctly in our culture. The extrovert/introvert
scale is a measure of how a person is energized. The following is
excerpted from my summary:
1. Energizing - How a person is energized:
Extroversion (E)- Preference for drawing energy from the outside
world of people, activities or things.
Introversion (I)- Preference for drawing energy from one's internal
world of ideas, emotions, or impressions.
Hopefully this will elicit further discussion as to how churches can
structure themselves to meet the real needs of the people who comprise
the Body of Christ, instead of trying to change people's personalities
to fit them into a particular framework. I'm sure there are other aspects
of how churches have not properly understood personality variances among
their members to the detriment of all.
Jon Noring
--
Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club. | 15 | soc.religion.christian |
Does anyone out there have any info on the up and coming fall comdex '93? I was
asked by one of my peers to get any info that might be available. Or, could
anyone point me in the right direction? Any help would be appreciated.
| 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
Inguiry by address:er1@eridan.chuvashia.su
| 6 | misc.forsale |
It depends on the algorithm used. 128-bit secret keys for RSA are
definitively not secure enough.
Regards,
Vesselin | 11 | sci.crypt |
But you haven't taken into the account of propoganda. Remember, if you
asked Germans before WWII if the Jews shoudl be slaughtered, they would
probably answer no, but, after the propoganda machine rolled through, at
least some were able to tolerate it.
You see, it only takes a small group of fanatics to whip up a general
frenzy.
Well, they haven't managed to outlaw abortion due to the possible objectivity
of the courts. But, they have managed to create quite a few problems for
people that wanted to have an abortion. They could create similar problems
for us. And, it could be worse. They can try to stop abortions by blocking
clinics, etc., but imagine what they'd have to do to stop atheism.
So, you are able to convince them individually, but could you convince a
whole room of them? A whole nation?
Yes, I'd be glad if it were gone to. I've never supported it. However,
I think that it is a minor problem that can be easily ignored, contrasted
with what *could* happen (an what may be likely).
Well, I am not clear on the religious convictions of Francis Scott Key (the
motto can be attributed to him), but it is at least clear that he believed
in a god. And, surely there are a few Christians that think as you say,
but I don't think that most do. Do you think that all Christians actively
despise other religions? Most that I have met haven't and don't do so.
Well, I have asked a Hindu, Moselem, and a few Jews, and all of them think
that it is applicable to them. Of course, I can't say that these people
(just some that I know pretty well) are accurate representations of their
faiths.
Well, I'd really like to, and I've tried, but I really don't know where to
get access to _Congressional Records_ from the 1950's. Can anyone help
out here?
Only in the sense that neither can probably convinced to change their beliefs.
So, are you saying that they redesign the plates each year?
Anyway, your whole argument (conveniently deleted I see) was that the motto
somehow costs us all a lot of money. This is just not correct.
That is to say, the religion of this country, and the non-religion of
the USSR. That was what most of those quotes were about, and some included
all atheists, in general, as well. I don't think that any of the quotes
(although I seem to have lost them) mentioned anything at all about Jesus.
They advocated religion over non-religion. A specific religion was not
mentioned.
So, you are saying that all Christians must believe that all other religions
should be outlawed, just because they think they are wrong? That's silly.
I think the Flat-Earthers are wrong, but I don't advocate their banishment.
I think that any such cost would be insignificant. I mentioned the slight
cost because you said that the motto was costing us a lot of money by
being on our currency.
Well, mottos in general don't really have purposes... I don't think it
should be removed because I think the benefit would be outweighed by the
consequences.
Then you should be concerned with the opinion of the entire congress.
Why not? It is the majority that put it there.
But do they remember the debate surrounding the motto? Do they remember
that some people intended it to be a message against atheists? Why don't
you include this in your little survey that you were conducting?
[...]
What? Should I ask some scientists the probability that something Einstein
said about relativity is worthy? I mean, if Einstein said it, there's a
good chance that it was right (at least at the time).
You need not agree with them all of the time, but you would certainly think
that their decisions would be good evidence in favor of some point.
No, I think that it would be clearly inappropriate for a Supreme Court
Justice to testify before Congress during the consideration of a
Constitutional Amendment.
And, in order for the Court to rule on something, a case usually must be
presented.
Yes, some mushrooms can be planted. And, I don't appreciate mushrooms on
my pizza, either.
Who was forced to put the motto there? What do you mean? | 0 | alt.atheism |
I've already corrected my mistake earlier in this thread. I saw a brief
news report which led to the above inaccuracy. I have since seen detailed
summaries that show the tanks returned in the late morning.
So, why didn't the BD's leave when the gas was first introduced much
earlier in the morning? Didn't they care about the children?
Why didn't they release the children weeks ago?
| 16 | talk.politics.guns |
Hello,
I thought this problem might have something to do with Windows 3.1 SMARTDRV and
a VESA video card...any ideas???
I recently purchased a 486DX-33 machine and am having problems where the
machine will suddenly freeze or reboot. This may happen in Windows 3.1 or DOS
5.0. Sometimes it is after printing a document, sometimes after using the
mouse, and sometimes just when I am sitting there. Twice when it happened, the
machine rebooted and sounded seven beeps. I looked in the documentation and
the seven beep code meant a problem with interrupts. The machine has the
following configuration and files:
486DX-33
AMI BIOS
5.25 and 3.5 floppies
170 Meg IDE hard drive
256k cache
Microsoft compatible mouse on com1
Citizen GSX-145 on lpt1
NI SuperVGA Monitor with VESA Windows Accelerator Card w/ 1Meg
Two VESA slots
Windows 3.1
DOS 5.0
CONFIG.SYS
==========
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
FILES=20
BUFFERS=20
STACKS=9,128
AUTOEXEC.BAT
============
@ECHO OFF
LH C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE 1024
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\MOUSE
LH C:\MOUSE\MOUSE
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
LH C:\DOS\DOSKEY
When the machine freezes, I can't use the mouse or keyboard or use Ctrl-Alt-Del
to reboot. If any one can give me any help, I would greatly appreciate it. If
anyone can help configure this machine for the best efficiency (memory wise) I
would appreciate that also.
--
Douglas B. Dodson Internet: DBD@ICF.HRB.COM
HRB Systems, Inc.
State College, PA USA
16804 | 2 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc |
I am looking for a company that can make custom keys. For instance we need
a key that says HELP, MAIN MENU, etc which we are going to use instead of
F1,F2, F3 etc... Can anyone point me to a company that does this. Also
do you have to have a special keyboard, or can I just pop off the old keys
and pop in the new ones... | 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
I read it refered to as the "parabolic cross-section" rule;
the idea was that if you plot the area of the fuselage cross-
section as a function of the point fore-and-aft along the
fuselage, a plot that is a **paraboloid** minimizes somethin'
or 'nother (to be technical about it).
| 14 | sci.space |
Bob is indeed correct here in more than one way. A look in the old
RCA picture tube manual backs this up, as does SAMS Reference Data
handbook. The internal coating around the perimeter of the CRT
(not the aluminum or tin CRT face coating) is referred to as a
"dag" as well as the outer coating.
Thankfully, I didn't need to go to a f****** library to find it, either.
One sparkling water for Mr. Vanderbyl (no caffeine in that, is there).
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******* Everywhere You Look (at least around my office) ******* | 12 | sci.electronics |
It occurs to me that if they get a wiretap order on you, and the escrow
houses release your code to the cops, your code is now no longer secure.
It's in the hands of cops, and while I am sure most of the time they are
good, their security will not be as good as the escrow houses.
What this effectively means is that if they perform a wiretap on you,
at the end of the wiretap, they should be obligated to inform you that
a tap was performed, and replace (for free) the clipper chip in your
cellular phone so that it is once again a code known only to the
escrow houses.
Do the police normally reveal every tap they do even if no charges are
laid? In many ways, it would be a positive step if they had to.
Judges set time limits on warrants, I assume. At the end of the time
limit they should have to renew or replace your chip.
That's if we go with this scheme, which I am not sure I agree with. | 11 | sci.crypt |
You're getting warmer. The 'little thing in the trigger' has to be
depressed before the trigger can move. What this means is the damned
thing won't go off until the trigger is pulled. This makes it just
about (there HAVE been some problems, but we're assuming the gun is
functioning correctly..) as safe as a revolver. The gun when working
correctly is totally drop safe.
Now, in police work this is a consideration. There is not a single
documented case I'm aware of where a police officer was killed because
he failed to operate the safety on his firearm. There are quite a few
documented cases where criminals got hold of the cops gun and couldn't
figure out how to get the safety off in time to use the gun, thus the
proprietary nature of the safety (to the criminal at least) very likely
prevented the office from getting shot.
The purpose of a safety is to make the gun safe from unintentional fire.
This does not mean it should be so complicated as to slow down
intentional use! Thus the Glock safety is perfectly adequate from a
'safety' standpoint, but not necessarily the most desirable from the
standpoint of open carry where it is easily grabbed by somebody else.
By this criteria it DOES make a lot of sense as a concealed carry piece.
From the standpoint of police use, it is no better (or worse) than a
revolver as far as being 'proprietary' to the officer in the method of
firing it.
The ideal solution may someday be biometric sensing of the user so that
the firearm can't be used by anybody but it's owner, but for now the
wide variety of safety systems helps, unless the criminal happens to be
familiar with that particular type of firearm. | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
It just occurred to me why the algorithm is secret. If it were
published, one could then build physically identical clone versions
of the chip that would interoperate with official Clipper chips. But
the cloner wouldn't provide the keys to the escrow houses. Hmmn.
Or is there a technical hack that I've missed? E.g. how about if the
chips were made unprogrammed but serialized, and then shipped to the
two escrow houses who programmed in their halves of the keys, but
in a way that requires that secret keys known only to the escrow houses
be installed as well, without which clone versions wouldn't
interoperate? This is getting awfully complicated, but that's
crypto for you.
| 11 | sci.crypt |
The real problem w/ the Stealth from what I've heard is that Diamond won't
tell anyone how to program their proprietary clock stuff, so X under Linux
and 386BSD won't run....
| 1 | comp.graphics |
brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton):
}And yes, this has to be a public key system or it would be almost
}impossible to handle. It might not be RSA, but that does not mean
}that PKP doesn't get paid. Until 1997, PKP has the patent on the
}general concept of public key encryption, as well as the particular
}implementation known as RSA.
Hmm, my first thought was that they're using Diffie-Hellman exponential
session key exchange, or an equivalent. However, the Diffie-Hellman
patent, like the Hellman-Merkle one on public key systems, claims
all equivalents, so the basic point stands.
Interestingly, a quote from Jim Bidzos showed up in the media real
soon after the announcement, and he sounded very pissed. Maybe he hadn't
yet realized that PKP might have just struck gold? All they have to
do is get someone to admit the general scheme that the Clipper uses.
---
Jef | 11 | sci.crypt |
The term arrhythmia is usually used to encompass a wide range of abnormal
heart rhythms (cardiac dysrhythmias). Some of them are very serious
while others are completely benign. Having "a few irregular beats"
on an EKG could be serious depending on what those beats were and
when they occurred, or could be of no significance.
Low blood potassium levels probably predispose people with underlying
heart disease to develop arrhythmias. Very low potassium levels are
clearly dangerous, but it is not clear how much of a problem
low-end-of-normal levels are: a lot of cardiologists seem to treat
anyone with even a mildly low-normal potassium level.
| 13 | sci.med |
13 | sci.med |
|
The tribe will be in town from April 16 to the 19th.
There are ALWAYS tickets available! (Though they are playing Toronto,
and many Toronto fans make the trip to Cleveland as it is easier to
get tickets in Cleveland than in Toronto. Either way, I seriously
doubt they will sell out until the end of the season.)
| 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
Could be. There is a Jayson Stark that writes weekly for some press syndicate
and also for Baseball America.
Stark has done this sort of thing, but he has never been serious about it.
He usually states that this sort of projection is useless at the top of
such columns. I think he did it one season and some manager was "projected"
to be thrown out of 60 games and some hitter could expect to be plunked
150 times.
Stark does some really funny stuff. His weekly baseball reviews are good
collections of strange things that happened during the previous week. He
also regularly prints Kinerisms. | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
-*----
Ming-zhou Liu's main problem is that he has an incompetent
physician -- himself. This physician has diagnosed a problem,
even though he probably has never seen the diagnosed disease
before and has no idea of what kinds of problems can present
similar symptoms. This physician now wants to treat his first
case of this disease without any help from the medical community.
The best thing Ming-zhou Liu could do is fire his current
physician and seek out a better one. | 13 | sci.med |
Not just because of the riflemen. They also have many hard bunkers in
the mountains that would be nearly impossible to penetrate. As for
tanks, they would be rather useless in such mountainous terrain.
Gee, that's a new one. He thought it was a different ethnic group.
Since Hitler was determined to control, at the least, all of Europe,
do you think he gave a damn about international monetary concerns?
Also, there's a LOT of gold in Swiss vaults. Don't you think he new
that? If he could have, he would have taken Switzerland. However,
crazy as he was, he wasn't totally stupid. It would have cost him a
hell of a lot to take Switzerland, with no guarantee that an invasion
would be successful. He probably figured (or his generals did, when
he was listening to them) that it wasn't worth the cost. | 16 | talk.politics.guns |
Pentium processors / motherboards are not available to the general public as
of yet. Intel has released them to companies such as Gateway and Dell
to do testing, etc. It'll be a while...
| 3 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware |
But good ones can collapse somewhat, then come back the next year.
Burleigh Grimes went from 20+ wins and an ERA of 3 or so in '24 to 13-19 and
an ERA around 4 in '25. He pitched well for several more years. Carlton
won 13 and lost 20 the year after his 27-10 record. (Source: Bill James
Historical Baseball Abstract.)
And let's not forget John Tudor, who started 1-5 and finished 21-6 in
1985. He had a pretty bad ERA when you take Busch Stadium into account at
the start of the season.
If I recall, he had a 4.50 ERA in the 1st half and a 3.50 ERA in the
2nd half of last year.
Hmmm, 21 runs in 11 innings. Suppose he starts 30 more games, and winds
up w/200 innings pitched. If he allows 4 runs a game in the next 189
innings, he'll have a 4.75 ERA or so at the end of the year. (I think I have
his totals right.) This is going to be hard to come back from.
My 1st hunch is that Morris is very gutsy, and that he may be pitching
through an injury and not telling anyone. My 2nd guess is that he will be
banished to the bullpen the remainder of the season after a few more starts.
(Perhaps when Stewart comes off the DL? Or will Danny Cox, who went 3 or 4
scoreless innings against the Tribe today, start for Morris? He looks like
a really good one. Gaston is scrambling to find starters, I'd imagine.
Luckily, the Jays have a very good offense.)
I don't think they would dare release him before the end of the year.
He'll just be replaced by Stewart or Cox. | 9 | rec.sport.baseball |
It would also be great for another reason - when not docked, it could serve
as an ARA server to the large internal HD, your corporate email, etc. In
a pinch, you would also have two machines, instead of 1.5.
If they could couple that thought with RocketShare, and let you use both the
'030 on the PB and the '040 on the dock, it would be a mighty powerful dock.
-- | 4 | comp.sys.mac.hardware |
First of all as far as I know, only male homosexuality is explicitly
mentioned in the bibles, so you're off the hook there, I think. In
any event, there are *plenty* of people in many denominations who
do not consider a person's sexual identification of gay/lesbian/bisexual
as an "immoral lifestyle choice"
This is another misconception. You are not being told the whole story.
My former minister is a lesbian, and I know personally and
professionally several openly gay and lesbian ministers. I am
a Unitarian-Universalist and like most others in my denomination,
am pro-choice. You needn't go looking to the Unitarian Universalists
(which is a liberal religion) for acceptance of your sexual
identification and pro-choice views, however; there are many of us
who believe in spirituality AND freedom of conscience.
Good Luck on your journey!
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