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1 �]q (XD The best group to keep you informed is the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
2 of America. I do not know if the UK has a similar organization. The
3 address of
4 the CCFA is
5
6 CCFA
7 444 Park Avenue South
8 11th Floor
9 New York, NY 10016-7374
10 USA
11
12 They have a lot of information available and have a number of newsletters.
13
14 Good Luck.qX %>I dunno, Lemieux? Hmmm...sounds like he
15 %>has *French* blood in him!!! Hey! France is part of Europe! Send that
16 %>Euro-blooded boy back!!!
17 %
18 % Don't you Americans study history...the French settled in North America
19 % as early or before the British...Lemieux can probably trace back his
20 % North American heritage back a lot further than most of us.
21
22
23 <friendly-jibe mode on>
24
25 Don't you Canadians understand sarcasm? Sometimes the reader must
26 decide that what he's reading is so ludicrous that it must mean
27 the opposite of what it said...
28
29 Kinda like the "Toronto's going to win the Cup" posts. Yeah. Right.
30 And cows can fly...
31
32 <friendly-jibe mode off>
33
34 Geez, Gerald. Like anyone reading rec.flamefest.hockey.pens.are.great
35 didn't know that Le-Mow was from Quebec.qX� CB> DON'T BE SO STUPID AS TO LEAVE YOUR HELMET ON THE SEAT WHERE IT CAN
36 CB> FALL DOWN AND GO BOOM!
37
38 Ryan> Another good place for your helmet is your mirror (!). I kid you not.
39
40 This is very bad advice. Helmets have two major impact absorbing
41 layers... a hard outer shell and a closed-cell foam impact layer.
42 Most helmets lose their protective properties because the inner liner
43 compacts over time, long before the outer shell is damaged or
44 delaminates from age. Dr. Hurt tested helmets for many years
45 following his landmark study and has estimated that a helmet can lose
46 up to 80% of it's effectiveness from inner liner compression. I have
47 a video he produced that discusses this phenomenon in detail.
48
49 Puncture compression of the type caused by mirrors, sissy bars, and
50 other relatively sharp objects is the worst offender. Even when the
51 comfort liner is unaffected, dents and holes in the foam can seriously
52 degrade the effectiveness of a helmet. If you are in the habit of
53 "parking your lid" on the mirrors, I suggest you look under the
54 comfort liner at the condition of the foam. If it is significantly
55 damaged (or missing :-), replace the helmet.qX� A new alternative to Scouting for those "unacceptable to BSA" for reasons
56 of religious or sexual preference:
57
58
59 From: "BOYD R. CRITZ, III" <71611.365@CompuServe.COM>
60 Subject: EnviroLeague
61
62 "Birth Announcement" on March 7, 1993, from EARTH Forum, CompuServe
63 Information Service
64 ===================================================================
65
66 FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT
67 -------------------
68
69 (SM)
70 EnviroLeague
71
72 A new youth movement,"EnviroLeague," was recently born, according to its
73 founder, Boyd R. Critz, III (CIS ID# 71611,365), of Peoria, Illinois.
74 EnviroLeague exists for the education of youth, both male and female, in
75 matters concerning their values related to and responsibility for our
76 environment.
77
78 Incorporated as an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, its Articles and
79 initial applications for a service mark have now been filed. According to
80 Critz, its draft Bylaws contain the following statement of Mission and
81 Objectives:
82
83 MISSION
84
85 It is the Mission of EnviroLeague and its adult members
86 to foster and implement the improved education of young
87 people in the need to conduct their lives as Stewards
88 of The Earth, to leave The Earth in a better condition
89 than they found it, and to otherwise act as responsible,
90 moral and ethical users of their environment. To pursue
91 the accomplishment of this Mission, EnviroLeague shall
92 seek to serve as a catalyst, focusing in common cause the
93 separate efforts of all groups desiring the preservation,
94 improvement, and responsible use of the environment in
95 which we must all live.
96
97 OBJECTIVES
98
99 In pursuit of the Mission of EnviroLeague, its primary
100 objectives shall be:
101 (1) To establish a Movement involving as many
102 environmentally concerned organizations as
103 possible, said Movement having as its primary
104 focus the education and participatory
105 involvement of young people in appropriate areas
106 of environmental concern;
107 (2) To develop and provide to such organizations and
108 their branches a full complement of program
109 materials for their use, including suitable
110 uniforms, insignia and other badges, written
111 ideas, syllabi and information, literature and
112 other items as shall seem appropriate and
113 desirable;
114 (3) To serve as a "clearing house" for the exchange
115 of program ideas, materials and information
116 among said organizations; and
117 (4) To assist environmentally concerned
118 organizations to recruit and train the necessary
119 adult leadership for their youth programs.
120
121 EnviroLeague will operate through three "Program Divisions" serving youth in
122 the elementary, middle and high school grades, respectively. Service shall be
123 through formation of "EnviroLeague Teams," either by EnviroLeague itself or by
124 environmentally conscious organizations (or their local branches) wishing a
125 charter to use programs developed by EnviroLeague.
126
127 EnviroLeague, as it develops, will be controlled by the actual adult leaders
128 of each local Team, and will have no nationally imposed obstacles to
129 membership or adult leadership status not based upon relevant improper
130 conduct. Organizations accepting a charter may, however, impose certain
131 additional standards for their own use of the program material. Should such
132 organizations do so, EnviroLeague will commit itself to forming, as soon as
133 possible, new nearby Teams having no such restrictions, particularly as to
134 youth membership.
135
136 EnviroLeague will operate on the principle that youth will have much to
137 contribute to developing its programs. Thus, the top youth leaders of its
138 Teams for middle and high school youth may become involved in governing any
139 local administrative groups, and those for its high school youth may be
140 involved in similar functions at the national level.
141
142 Program materials are in development at this time. Copies of the "draft"
143 portions of the Mentor's Manual (manual for adult leadership) will be in the
144 EARTH Forum, Library 17. These files will be updated as development takes
145 place.
146
147 CompuServe is particularly proud that EnviroLeague's founder chose this
148 electronic medium to make the first public announcement of its formation.
149 This announcement is being made simultaneously in both the OUTDOOR and EARTH
150 Forums.
151
152 The electronic home of EnviroLeague is in CompuServe's Earth Forum - GO
153 EARTH - message and library areas 17, both named "EnviroLeague."
154 ============================================================================
155
156 Subsequently, EnviroLeague's Initial Governance Council has held its first
157 meeting. Boyd Critz was elected as the first EnviroLeague Chief Guardian
158 (equivalent to Chairman of the Board or CEO). He can be reached at home
159 (309) 675-4483 in case of real need. Also, mail can be addressed to:
160 EnviroLeague
161 P.O. Box 418
162 Peoria, IL 61651-0418
163
164 Those interested in starting an EnviroLeague Team might just establish
165 contact, to receive a diskette (IBM DOS, ASCII) with initial information.
166 -- qX�
167 Joystick A:
168 1 +5 VDC
169 2 Button 1
170 3 X Axis
171 4 Ground
172 5 Ground
173 6 Y Axis
174 7 Button 2
175 8 + 5 VDC
176 Joystick B:
177 9 +5 VDC
178 10 Button 1
179 11 X Axis
180 12 Ground
181 13 Y axis
182 14 Button 2
183 15 +5 VDC
184
185 ---
186 . SLMR 2.1 . Soft judges make hardened criminals.
187 qX�
188 There would be no problems as long as the OS didn't set up a DMA transfer
189 to an area above the 16 mb area (the DMA controller probably can't be
190 programmed that way anyways, so there probably isin't a problem with this)qX� ][bozo posts GIFS to rec.moto]
191 ]>he and his postmaster are also gonna get 500 copies of the post in their
192 ]>mailboxes.
193 ]
194 ] Hey, it's a great picture. You can't fault his taste, only his
195 ]technique. Chill out and educate instead of getting your panties in a
196 ]bunch.
197
198 ditto to you Dave. I'm using the picture as the bacground on my sun, and
199 I haven't sent a single message to the guy. looks like you get to keep the
200 panties.
201
202 --
203 Joe Senner -- joe@Rider.Cactus.Org Austin, TXqX I heard the diesels are considered cleaner-burning than
204 gas engines because the emit less of: Carbon Monoxide,
205 Hydrocarbons, and Oxides of Nitrogen. (CO, HC, NOX).
206
207 But they can put out a lot of particulate matter. I heard
208 something about legislation being discussed to "clean up
209 diesel emissions". Is there anything in the works to
210 install "scrubbers" for diesels? How about the feasibility
211 of installing them on trucks and cars? Would it be any
212 different than a catylitic converter? I'd assume easier,
213 since we're removing particulate matter instead of converting
214 gasses. Let's hear people's opinions...
215
216 --
217 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
218 -- Vel Natarajan nataraja@rtsg.mot.com Motorola Cellular, Arlington Hts IL --qXo
219 I don't think that's a problem. My face is quite oily too. I had a moderate
220 acne problem for many years. I then found that if I vigorously scrub my face
221 with a nail brush and soap (Irish Spring) twice a day the acne was not a
222 problem. I can still leave a pretty health nose print on a mirror after 45 min
223 (don't ask ;->) but acne is not a real problem anymore. q X5 Lake State/Maine in finals...WHO WON? Please post.
224 q
225 X� I don't know if it's as much an issue of their ablility to handle the
226 power as it is the power they lose (in the torque converter, etc).
227
228 However, if you encounter a '93 Formula with 5.7L & 6-Speed Manual,
229 You'll be SOL, I'm afraid. ;) BTW, I know of what I speak as a former
230 owner of a 5.7L Auto IROC (1989) and current owner of the
231 aforementioned car...
232
233 Chris S.
234 --
235 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
236 Chris Silvester | "Any man capable of getting himself elected President
237 chriss@sam.amgen.com | should by no means be allowed to do the job"
238 chriss@netcom.com | - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyq X+ I am looking for a source of American League baseball stats for
239 individual players in the same format as printed in newspapers, ie. I do
240 not want to provide a list of players and get back nice printed reports
241 for $35 a week.
242
243 Does anyone know of such statistics availability and an idea of the
244 cost?q X$ Thanks to all those who responded to my original post on this question. The
245 final diagnosis was Stress. I did not take her for a chiropractic adjustment.
246 (Rachel receives all her medical care at Keller Army Hospital since she is a
247 military dependant, and the Army does not yet provide chiropractic adjustments
248 as part of its regular health care.) I am hoping that the arrival of (1)
249 Spring Break, and (2) College Acceptance Letters, will help. *UNFORTUNATELY*
250 she was wait-listed at the college she most dearly wanted to attend, so it
251 seems as though that stressor may just continue for a while. :-(
252
253 Meanwhile she is going on a camping trip with her religious youth group for
254 spring break, which seems like a good stress-reliever to me.
255
256 Thanks again for everybody's help/advice/suggestions/ideas.
257 q
258 Xj
259 Yes, but the _rear_ wheel comes off the ground, not the front.
260 See, it just HOPS into the air! Figure.qX�
261 But why would you want to use RBI? RBI is an attempt to measure is some
262 combination of clutch hitting and power hitting. If you believe in
263 clutch hitting, then look at how the guy hit with RISP. If you want to
264 see how good of a slugger he is, then look at his slugging average.
265
266 In terms of evaluating players, RBI totals are better than nothing. But
267 why use them when so many better stats are out there?
268 qXq
269 I was hoping for something like "The chassis exhibits X
270 degrees of flex when subjected to forces of more than Y units.
271 Forces of more than Y units begin to manifest at Z miles per hour."
272
273 Not "Well, gee, it wasn't designed to go fast because, uhh,
274 well, gee, it wasn't designed to go fast. It's not a Porsche, you
275 know".
276
277
278 Well, as compared to the normal Taurus, the SHO comes
279 with more supportive seats,better brakes,a stiffer suspension,
280 different tires, and a body design that takes advantage of aero
281 effects to keep the car on the ground (or at least I think that's
282 what all that boy-racer plastic is for). You're kidding yourself if
283 you think any car on the road has a passenger compartment made to
284 withstand 130 MPH impacts.
285
286
287 Oh, right. Only 120,000 dollar cars should be driven fast.
288 They drive goddamn Rabbits at 120 MPH in Europe, pal, and I reckon
289 a Taurus is at least as capable as a Rabbit.
290
291
292 Of course not. "Speeding-is-bad. Speeding-is-illegal.
293 I-will-not-speed. I-love-Big-Brother." You had your mind made up
294 already.
295
296 It's interesting that lots of the roads out west had *NO*
297 speed limits until 1975. qX� Archive-name: space/mnemonics
298 Last-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:14 $
299
300 ASTRONOMICAL MNEMONICS (This is the last FAQ section posted to sci.astro)
301
302 Gathered from various flurries of mnemonic postings on sci.astro.
303
304 Spectral classification sequence: O B A F G K M R N S
305
306 Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now, Sweetheart. (a classic)
307
308 O'Dell's Big Astronomical Fiasco Gonna Kill Me Right Now Surely
309 Obese Balding Astronomy Found Guilty; Killed Many Reluctant
310 Nonscience Students.
311 Octopus Brains, A Favorite Gastronomical Kitchen Menu,
312 Requires No Sauce
313 Odd Ball Astronomers Find Generally Kooky Mnemonics
314 Really Nifty Stuff
315 Oh Big And Ferocious Gorilla, Kill My Roomate Next Saturday
316 Oh Boy, A Flash! Godzilla Kills Mothra! Really Not Surprising!
317 Oh Boy, An F Grade Kills Me
318 On Bad Afternoons Fermented Grapes Keep Mrs. Richard Nixon Smiling
319 On, Backward Astronomer, Forget Geocentricity; Kepler's Motions
320 Reveal Nature's Simplicity
321 Our Bad Astronomy Faculty Gets Killed Monday
322 Oven Baked Ants, Fried Gently, Kept Moist, Retain Natural Succulence
323 Overseas Broadcast: A Flash! Godzilla kills Mothra!
324 (Rodan Named Successor)
325 Overweight Boys and Fat Girls Keep Munching
326 Only Bored Astronomers Find Gratification Knowing Mnemonics
327 Oh Bloody Astronomy! F Grades Kill Me
328
329 Order of the planets:
330
331 Sun
332 Mercury
333 Venus
334 Earth (Terra)
335 Mars
336 (Asteroids)
337 Jupiter
338 Saturn
339 Uranus
340 Neptune
341 Pluto
342
343 My Very Earnest Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
344 Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest
345 My Very Erotic Mate Joyfully Satisfies Unusual Needs Passionately
346 Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes
347 Man Very Early Made A Jug Serve Useful Noble Purposes
348 My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets
349 My Very Eager Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets
350 My Very Exhausted Mother hAs Just Swept Up a Planetary Nebula
351 Most Voters Earn Money Just Showing Up Near Polls
352 My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza-pies
353 Many Viscious Elephants Made John, Suzy and Uncle Need Protection
354 Solar Mass Very Easily Makes All Jupiter's Satellites Undergo
355 Numerous Perturbations.
356
357 Mein Vater erklaert mir jeden Sonntag unsere niedlichen Planeten
358 (My Father explains to me every Sunday our nine planets)
359 Man verachte einen Menschen in seinem Unglueck nie -- Punkt
360 (Never scorn/despise a person in his misfortune/bad luck/misery
361 -- period!)
362
363 Colors of the spectrum: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet
364 ROY G. BIV (pronounce as a man's name)
365 Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
366 Read Out Your Good Book In Verse
367
368 Galilean Satellite of Jupiter: Io Europa Ganymede Callisto
369 I Expect God Cries
370 I Eat Green Cheese
371 I Embarrass Good Christians
372
373 Ich erschrecke all guten Christen
374 (I scare all good Christians)
375
376 Saturnian Satellites
377 MET DR THIP
378 Miriam's Enchiladas Taste Divine Recently. Tell Her I'm Proud.
379 (Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion,
380 Iapetus, Phoebe)
381
382 Uranian Satellites:
383 MAUTO
384 Mispronunciations Afflict Uranus Too Often
385 My Angel Uriel Takes Opium
386 (Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon)
387
388 NOTE: the remaining FAQ sections do not appear in sci.astro, as they cover
389 material of relevance only to sci.space.qX�
390
391
392 It clearly depends on the type of questions you are asking but in many
393 cases it will do fine. The critical information from the neuron is in
394 the firing frequency (maximum about 100 action potentials per
395 seconds), and not in the amplitude of the signal or in details of the
396 signal shape. So the resolution of about 0.4 % you get with an 8 bit
397 convertor is more then sufficient.
398
399 AC coupling does not have to be a problem either, since in many cases
400 you are not interested in the DC level. My pre amplifier is AC coupled
401 also. The critical point is the lowest frequency that will pass. If
402 the cutoff point is to high, the action potentials will be slightly
403 distorted. But even that normally does not matter since it is the
404 occurrence of the spike that is important.
405
406 However, I do want to know what exactly I can expect before I start
407 battling with the toolbox to get it going. As yet I have no clue were
408 to start looking for the technical specifications.qXk
409 I re-read what I wrote and it didn't say exactly what I thought.
410
411 Sure the Pens are a better team. They've got size and the best skill players
412 in the league. They've also got the best clutch goaltending. They're the
413 best team in the league.
414
415 But, my point was the Caps have not played to their ability level vs the
416 Pens since last year's choke. And that's the mental problem (the one they've
417 had for a number of years) I tried to point out. Spirit, mental preparedness,
418 will to win, whatever you want to call it, it's missing when the Caps play the
419 Pens. Actually, you're right - it won't make any difference.qX Hm... I find this hard to believe. V16T weights about the same as
420 the Red Head, but it has hell lot more horse power. Perhaps it's
421 due to pre-production glitches? Well, to me, it still got the most
422 imposing styling among all the sports cars I have seen.qXh Does anyone have any experience using LCIII with MIDI? Do they get along OK?
423 I have heard that the IIvx is not suitable for MIDI, but I have not heard anyon
424 e say anything definitive about LCIII and MIDI? If you have had experience, wh
425 at MIDI interface have you used? Anyone used Finale software in this setting?
426 Please e-mail. I will summarize.
427
428 Thanks,qX� You should be ashamed to call yourself an Ulf Samuelson fan. Anybody who plays
429 the way he does, does not belong in the NHL. There have been cheap shot artists
430 through the history of the game, but a lot of them have been talanted players.
431 Bobby Clarke, Kenny Linsemen, Pie McKenzie, Chris Chelios etc.. but nobody has been
432 out right as dirty a cheapshot coward as Ulf. Violence in hockey has got to be curbed
433 and players like (Should have been a Women) Samuelson don't belong. When players
434 like Ulf, who's main purpose is to injure the better players in the league is allowed
435 to continue, and the league won't stop it, the players should. A Christian Pro 1000
436 aluminum stick directed at his ugly head should do the trick nicely. If the Bruins get
437 a chance to meet Pittsburgh in the near future, you can bet Neely will have his day.
438 The sight of watching Ulf turtle up like the coward he is, is worth almost as much as a
439 Stanely Cup. This wimp of a player almost ruined the career of one the best right wingers
440 in the game. If you are to remove Ulf Samuelson from the lineup, the Penguins would not
441 even notice he's gone. He's an eyesore on the game of hockey.
442 qX� I have a question regarding sending a NULL character across ethernet
443 connection. The actual problem is that emacs (Unix editior) needs
444 the NULL character for setting a mark and unfortunately we don't know
445 how to sent that from IBM PCs across ethernet. I am wondering if anyboy
446 knows the keyboard combination for sending the NULL character.
447 BTW control,shift 2 which Ctrl @ does not work.
448
449 ThanksqX� My turn to jump in! :)
450
451
452 I think you mean circular, not recursive, but that is semantics.
453 Recursiveness has no problems, it is just horribly inefficient (just ask
454 any assembly programmer.)
455
456
457 The oft-quoted line that says people should be guaranteed life, liberty
458 and the pursuit of happiness as inalienable rights, is a complete lie
459 and deception, as the very authors of that line were in the process of
460 proving. Liberty is never free, it is always purchased at some cost,
461 almost always at the cost to another. Whos liberty is more inalienable?
462 Similarly for right of life. When one person must die if he is to save
463 another, or even a group of others, whos life is more inalienable?
464 That leads into the classic question of the value of the death penalty,
465 especially for serial killers. Whos life and liberty is more valuable,
466 the serial killer, or the victim? According to that beautiful line,
467 those two rights should be completely inviolate, that is, noone should be
468 able to remove them. This _includes_ government. Admittedly the serial
469 killer has restricted some people's life and/or liberty, but is not his
470 own life/liberty inviolate also? According to the declaration of independence,
471 it is.
472
473
474 Oooh, I like that. It means that killing an infant is not murder because
475 it cannot be against its will. Reason, an infant has no will as such.
476
477 Similarly for people who are brain dead (easier to see), in a coma, etc.
478
479 Also, under current law, accidental killing is still murder. How will you
480 include that?
481
482
483 The only real golden rule in life is, he who has the gold, makes the
484 rules. I.e. Might Makes Right. That is survival. Now what is wrong
485 with that?
486
487
488 If you mean the golden rule as I stated, yes, almost every system as
489 implemented has used that in reality. Sorry, I don't deal as much in
490 fiction, as I do in reality.
491
492
493 WELCOME TO OZLAND!!!!!!! :)
494
495 What is NOT arbitrary? If you can find some part of society, some societal
496 rules, morals, etc. that are not arbitrary, please tell me. I don't think
497 there are any.
498
499 Sounds like euphemisms to me. The difference seems to be, that objective
500 is some reasoning that I like, while arbitrary is some reasoning that
501 I don't like OR don't understand. qX� According to a LoJack representative I saw recently, LoJack must be installed by
502 an authorized LoJack dealer, and is placed in one of (roughly) 30 spots in the
503 car...
504 qX? Eric, send me your email address, I lost it! I've reconsidered!qX�
505
506
507
508 I think the Manta is the European name for the "GT." I'm pretty sure
509 that the only Kadett's sold here were/are the Pontiac LeMans. I think the
510 GT is just an early '70s to mid '70s Manta. qX�
511 There is NO TEAM, repeat, NO TEAM, that is America's team. This is a diverse
512 country with 26 MLB teams (+2 up north) and there is no one team that is
513 America's. Who would the other teams belong to?
514
515 And how does it happen? Well, teams receive this monicker through success
516 (Cowboys), national exposure (Cubs), or both (Braves). It spreas aby
517 successful advertising campaigns. Harry Caray, Ted Turner, amd other dupe
518 people into thinking that their representative teams are "hip" so that people
519 will watch them on TV and buy their products. Arrogant local fans adapt the
520 monicker and think that "their" team is the one that America idolizeq X, Is clear coat really worth it? Yes, on the showroom floor, the cars
521 have this deep, lustrous shine that just can't be found on paint jobs
522 that aren't clear coated. On the other hand, it seems that every clear
523 coated car that I've seen on the road (in a parking lot, etc.) has
524 fine scratches throughout the paint job. As does, alas, my 1992 Laser.
525
526 Several weeks ago I had my car professionally polished and waxed.
527 When I picked it up, it had that same showroom shine that I remember
528 from a year ago when I bought it. Several days ago I took my car
529 to the dealership for some work. As an added bonus, they washed my
530 car. Unfortunately, whoever washed it either didn't get the roof
531 (which is black, the rest of the car is red) completely clean before
532 he dried it, or he used a dirty towel. Now my showroom shine is a
533 haze of fine scratches that aren't really visible until the light
534 hits the roof at a particular angle.
535
536 I am, to put it mildy, somewhat peeved about this. Do I have any
537 chance of getting the dealership to do something about this?
538 My guess is 'no'. Is there any product on the market that provides
539 a solution to this problem? Or am I faced with the prospect of
540 having the car professionally polished again to hide the scratches?
541 Information, commiseration, and sympathy all greatly appreciated . . .q X�
542
543 Assuming you are presenting it accurately, I don't see how this argument
544 really leads to any firm conclusion. The material in John (I'm not sure
545 exactly what is referred to here, but I'll take for granted the similarity
546 to the Matt./Luke "Q" material) IS different; hence, one could have almost
547 any relationship between the two, right up to John getting it straight from
548 Jesus' mouth.
549
550
551 The version of the "usual theory" I have heard has Matthew and Luke
552 independently relying on Mark and "Q". One would think that if Luke relied
553 on Matthew, we wouldn't have the grating inconsistencies in the geneologies,
554 for one thing.
555
556
557 This is the part that is particularly new to me. If it were possible that
558 you could point me to a reference, I'd be grateful.
559
560
561
562 Because it closes up the gap between (supposed) writing and the existing
563 copy quit a bit. The further away from the original, the more copies can be
564 written, and therefore survival becomes more probable.
565
566
567
568
569 I'm not really impressed with the "theology" argument. But I'm really
570 pointing this out as an "if". And as I pointed out earlier, one cannot make
571 these arguments about I Peter; I see no reason not to accept it as an
572 authentic letter.
573
574
575
576 The best analogy would be reporters talking to the participants, which is
577 not so bad.
578
579
580 But the statement of divinity is not in that section, and in any case, it's
581 agreed that the most important epistles predate Mark.q X� ##I strongly suggest that you look up a book called THE BIBLE, THE QURAN, AND
582 ##SCIENCE by Maurice Baucaille, a French surgeon. It is not comprehensive,
583 ##but, it is well researched. I imagine your library has it or can get it
584 ##for you through interlibrary loan.
585 ##
586
587 I shall try to get hold of it (when I have time to read of course :-)
588
589 ##In short, Dr Baucaille began investigating the Bible because of pre-
590 ##ceived scientific inaccuracies and inconsistencies. He assumed that
591 ##some of the problems may have been caused by poor translations in by-
592 ##gone days. So, he read what he could find in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic.
593 ##What he found was that the problems didn't go away, they got worse.
594 ##Then, he decided to see if other religions had the same problems.
595 ##So, he picked up the Holy Qur'an (in French) and found similar prob-
596 ##lems, but not as many. SO, he applied the same logoic as he had
597 ##with the Bible: he learned to read it in Arabic. The problems he
598 ##had found with the French version went away in Arabic. He was unable
599 ##to find a wealth of scientific statements in the Holy Qur'an, but,
600 ##what he did find made sense with modern understanding. So, he
601 ##investigated the Traditions (the hadith) to see what they had to
602 ##say about science. they were filled with science problems; after
603 ##all, they were contemporary narratives from a time which had, by
604 ##pour standards, a primitive world view. His conclusion was that,
605 ##while he was impressed that what little the Holy Qur'an had to
606 ##say about science was accurate, he was far more impressed that the
607 ##Holy Qur'an did not contain the same rampant errors evidenced in
608 ##the Traditions. How would a man of 7th Century Arabia have known
609 ##what *not to include* in the Holy Qur'an (assuming he had authored
610 ##it)?
611 ##
612
613 So in short the writer (or writers) of Quran decided to stay away from
614 science. (if you do not open your mouth, then you don't put you foot into
615 your mouth either).
616
617 But then if you say Quran does not talk much about science, then one can
618 not make claims (like Bobby does) that you have great science in Quran.
619
620 Basically I want to say that *none* of the religious texts are supposed to
621 be scientific treatises. So I am just requesting the theists to stop making
622 such wild claims.
623
624 --- Vinayak
625 -------------------------------------------------------
626 vinayak dutt
627 e-mail: vdp@mayo.edu
628
629 standard disclaimers applyq X
630 q Xv Does anyone have a list of the clock counts for pentium instructions --
631 or know if the INTEGER mul is down to 1 tick?
632 q!X�
633 Depending on how you plan to use your SUV, I might recommend also
634 browsing Trailer Boats and one or more of those Pickup, Shotgun,
635 and 4WD magazines. The car rags mostly seem to consider recently
636 graded pea gravel to be offroading and ten sacks of redwood chips
637 to be a bedload. Considering that most of these SUVs seem to be
638 used mostly as robust station wagons, that's probably not a bad
639 approach, but if your applications are more demanding, pick your
640 information sources accordingly.
641
642 Of the three vehicles on your short list (Explorer, 4Runner,
643 Pathfinder), I'd recommend the 4Runner as being closely based
644 on a rather robust pickup and the Explorer for being comfortably
645 carlike. Don't know much about the Pathfinder.q"X� Writer Kathy Sawyer reported in today's Washington Post that Joseph Shea, the
646 head of the space station redesign has resigned for health reasons.
647
648 Shea was hospitalized shortly after his selection in February. He returned
649 yesterday to lead the formal presentation to the independent White House panel.
650 Shea's presentation was rambling and almost inaudible.
651
652 Shea's deputy, former astronaut Bryan O'Connor, will take over the effort.
653
654 Goldin asserted that the redesign effort is on track.q#Xk I've recently become father of twins! I don't think I can afford
655 to keep 2 bikes and 2 babies. Both babies are staying, so 1 of
656 the Harleys is going.
657
658 1988 883 XLHD
659 ~4000 mi. (hey, it was my wife's bike :-)
660 4speed, chain secondary, laced wheels, buckhorns,
661 tachometer, saddlebags & supports, sissy bar, SE
662 high-flow air cleaner
663 dark candy red
664 $3700
665 q$XP : You should be ashamed to call yourself an Ulf Samuelson fan. Anybody who plays
666 : the way he does, does not belong in the NHL. There have been cheap shot artists
667 : through the history of the game, but a lot of them have been talanted players.
668 : Bobby Clarke, Kenny Linsemen, Pie McKenzie, Chris Chelios etc.. but nobody has been
669 : out right as dirty a cheapshot coward as Ulf. Violence in hockey has got to be curbed
670 : and players like (Should have been a Women) Samuelson don't belong. When players
671 : like Ulf, who's main purpose is to injure the better players in the league is allowed
672 : to continue, and the league won't stop it, the players should. A Christian Pro 1000
673 : aluminum stick directed at his ugly head should do the trick nicely. If the Bruins get
674 : a chance to meet Pittsburgh in the near future, you can bet Neely will have his day.
675 : The sight of watching Ulf turtle up like the coward he is, is worth almost as much as a
676 : Stanely Cup. This wimp of a player almost ruined the career of one the best right wingers
677 : in the game. If you are to remove Ulf Samuelson from the lineup, the Penguins would not
678 : even notice he's gone. He's an eyesore on the game of hockey.
679
680
681 : Rich
682
683
684 Thank you for your extremely lucid and well thought out observation.
685 Now when you get back on your medication, please let us know how you
686 are feeling.
687 Thank you,q%X� : In article <1993Apr12.201056.20753@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (
688
689 : >Now, I'm not saying that culturing is the best way to diagnose; it's very
690 : >hard to culture Bb in most cases. The point is that Dr. N has developed a
691 : >"feel" for what is and what isn't LD. This comes from years of experience.
692 : >No serology can match that. Unfortunately, some would call Dr. N a "quack"
693 : >and accuse him of trying to make a quick buck.
694 : >
695 : Why do you think he would be called a quack? The quacks don't do cultures.
696 : They poo-poo doing more lab tests: "this is Lyme, believe me, I've
697 : seen it many times. The lab tests aren't accurate. We'll treat it
698 : now." Also, is Dr. N's practice almost exclusively devoted to treating
699 : Lyme patients? I don't know *any* orthopedic surgeons who fit this
700 : pattern. They are usually GPs.
701
702 No, he does not exclusively treat LD patients. However, in some parts of the
703 country, you don't need to be known as an LD "specialist" to see a large
704 number of LD patients walk through your office. Given the huge problem of
705 underdiagnosis, orthopedists encounter late manifestations of the disease just
706 about every day in their regular practices. Dr. N. told me that last year,
707 he sent between 2 and 5 patients a week to the LD specialists... and he is not
708 the only orthopedists in the town.
709
710 Let's say that only 2 people per week actually have LD. That means at the
711 *very minimum* 104 people in our town (and immediate area) develop late stage
712 manifestations of LD *every year*. Add in the folks who were diagnosed by
713 neurologists, rheumatologists, GPs, etc, and you can see what kind of problem
714 we have. No wonder just about everybody in town personally knows an LD
715 patient.
716
717 He refers most patients to LD specialists, but in extreme cases he puts the
718 patient on medication immediately to minimize the damage (in most cases, to
719 the knees).
720
721 Gordon is correct when he states that most LD specialists are GPs.
722
723 -Marc.
724 --
725 --q&X hello testing
726
727
728 q'X�
729
730 It's O- that is especially useful. Still, he isn't punishing the
731 Red Cross but some O+ person that needed his blood and couldn't
732 get it. You are right, nagging probably won't help.
733
734
735 --
736 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
737 Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
738 geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon." q(X�
739 My wife breast-fed my three boys 12 months, 16 months, and 29 months
740 respectively and they are 18, 16, and 10 years old respectively. So
741 far everybody seems fairly normal. I noticed a negative correlation
742 with ear infections and length of time nursed in my very small sample.
743 I do notice that the 16 and 18 year old seem to eat a lot, could that
744 be from the breast feeding :-) ?
745
746 I don't understand the "unfit mother" charge other than any tactic is
747 not too low down for some folks during divorce/child custody battles.
748
749 Most of the developing nations practice breast feeding to 3 and 4 years
750 old. Are they screwed up because of it ? Would they be much better
751 off if they could use cow's milk or commercial formula ? Doctors ?q)X� I don't know if this is an obvious question, but can any of the current
752 batch of windows accelerator cards (diamond etc) be used to drive a monitor
753 which has RGB and horizontal and vertical sync ( 5 BNC jacks altogether)
754 connectors out the back?? I might be able to get ahold of a Raster
755 Technologies 17" monitor (1510 ??)cheap and I was wondering if it was
756 possible to connect it via an adapter (RGB to vga ??) to my Gateway, would
757 I need different drivers etc.
758
759
760 Thanksq*X� Heard last night that Paul Kuryia will be playing for the Canadian World
761 Hockey team this year. He was on a local radio station when a friend of
762 the familty called to congratulate him on the invitation. Meekly Paul told
763 the host that he didn't think they wanted it out yet. This morning I heard
764 that he is destined to play on a line with Lindros and Recci{unsure of this
765 one}. If he plays well in this arena, he could go #1 or 2 in the draft.
766 q+X}
767 Aspartame is the methyl ester of a dipeptide, so a product of its
768 hydrolysis is going to be methanol, which can then be oxidized to
769 formaldehyde. The amounts of methanol formed from the ingestion of
770 aspartame-containing foods are completely in the metabolic noise,
771 since you're forming equally minute amounts of methanol from other
772 components of food all the time. In studies involving administration
773 of high doses of the additive, blood methanol levels were undetectable.
774 Methanol is a poison only in quantities seen in human poisonings,
775 say 5ml and above. This is a consequence of its oxidation to formaldehyde
776 and formic acid, two quite reactive compounds which at high enough levels
777 can damage tissues like the retina and kidney, because at such high doses
778 the body's detoxification system is overwhelmed. Interestingly, one
779 treatment for early methanol poisoning is to get the person drunk on
780 ethyl alcohol--vodka or an equivalent. That's because ethanol is
781 metabolized preferentially over methanol by the enzymes in the liver.
782 If the methanol stays as methanol and isn't metabolized to formaldehyde,
783 it is actually relatively non-toxic.
784 q,X�
785
786
787
788
789
790 In addition to startup time, I leave things running because my PC doubles as
791 a fax machine.
792
793 However, this is off the original subject. I didn't get the replies on BIOS,
794 CMOS, and DOS clock/date logic. All I know is that I've been running this way
795 for many months and it is only recently, the last month, that I have noticed
796 the intermittent clock problem. As I stated, it is not always the date that
797 doesn't roll forward, sometimes I notice that the clock is several minutes
798 behind where it ought to be.
799
800 When unattended, the following are generally running minimized in Win 3.1:
801
802 Clock, WinFax Pro 3.0, Print Manager, MS-Word 1.1, File Manager, Program
803 Manager
804
805 A random screen saver is generally running too.
806
807 q-X� ->In article <1993Apr9.151914.1885@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>, mccullou@snake2.cs.wisc.edu
808 ->>
809 ->>In article <monack.733980580@helium> monack@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (david
810 ->>>Another issue is that by having to request to not be required to
811 ->>>recite the "so help me God" part of the oath, a theistic jury may be
812 ->>>prejudiced against your testimony even though atheism is probably not
813 ->>>at all relevant to the case.
814 ->>>
815 ->>>What is the recommended procedure for requesting an alternate oath or
816 ->>>affirmation?
817 ->>>
818 ->>>Dave
819
820 Sorry for using a follow-up to respond, but my server dropped about a weeks worth of news
821 when it couldn't keep up.
822
823 When the you are asked to swear "So help you god" and you have to say it, ask which one; Jesus,
824 Allah, Vishnu, Zues, Odin. Get them to be specific. Don't be obnoxious, just humbly ask, then
825 quitely sit back and watch the fun.
826
827 ---
828
829 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
830 James L. Felder |
831 Sverdrup Technology,Inc. | phone: 216-891-4019
832 NASA Lewis Research Center |
833 Cleveland, Ohio 44135 | email: jfelder@lerc.nasa.gov
834 "Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, other people gargle"q.X� I am trying to get a copy of the _official_ rules of baseball.
835 Someone once sent me the ISBN number of it, but I have since lost it.
836 Can anyone give me this information, or tell me where I can find the
837 book? None of my local bookstores have it.q/X�
838 Here's one I remember: (sort of)
839 Yogi's asleep in a hotel room late at night and gets a call from someone.
840 After he answers the phone the person at the other end asks if he woke Yogi
841 up. Yogi answered, "No, the phone did."q0X
842
843 q1X�
844 There should be no worries about the trans.
845
846
847 Does this count?
848
849 $ cat dod.faq | mailx -s "HAHAHHA" jburnside@ll.mit.edu (waiting to press
850 return...)
851
852 Later,q2X�
853 Apollo was done the hard way, in a big hurry, from a very limited
854 technology base... and on government contracts. Just doing it privately,
855 rather than as a government project, cuts costs by a factor of several.q3X�
856 My understanding is that the 'expected errors' are basically
857 known bugs in the warning system software - things are checked
858 that don't have the right values in yet because they aren't
859 set till after launch, and suchlike. Rather than fix the code
860 and possibly introduce new bugs, they just tell the crew
861 'ok, if you see a warning no. 213 before liftoff, ignore it'.
862
863 Good grief. And I thought the Shuttle software was known for being
864 well-engineered. If this is actually the case, every member of the
865 programming team should be taken out and shot.
866
867 (given that I've heard the Shuttle software rated as Level 5 in
868 maturity, I strongly doubt that this is the case).q4X,
869 : The Bible says there is a God; if that is true then our atheism is
870 : mistaken. What of it? Seems pretty obvious to me. Socrates said
871 : there were many gods; if that is true then your monotheism (and our
872 : atheism) is mistaken, even if Socrates never existed.
873
874
875 Jim,
876
877 I think you must have come in late. The discussion (on my part at
878 least) began with Benedikt's questioning of the historical acuuracy of
879 the NT. I was making the point that, if the same standards are used to
880 validate secular history that are used here to discredit NT history,
881 then virtually nothing is known of the first century.
882
883 You seem to be saying that the Bible -cannot- be true because it
884 speaks of the existence of God as it it were a fact. Your objection
885 has nothing to do with history, it is merely another statement of
886 atheism.q5X�
887 I may not wave: I just wink at you with one eye. 'Course, it's hard to see
888 that through a shield and sunglasses, but hey, if you're a "true rider with
889 the real riding attitude," you'll sense it. q6X� I remember hearing a few years back about a new therapy for hyperactivity
890 which involved aggressively eliminating artificial coloring and flavoring
891 from the diet. The theory -- which was backed up by interesting anecdotal
892 results -- is that certain people are just way more sensitive to these
893 chemicals than other people. I don't remember any connection being made
894 with seizures, but it certainly couldn't hurt to try an all-natural diet.
895 q7X�
896 Yes.
897
898
899 Please describe these "number of ways" in detail. Then explain the any
900 contradictions that may arise.
901
902
903 Define "difficult".
904
905
906 Explain the laws in America stating that you have to drive on the right-
907 hand side of the road.
908
909
910 So if every member of the species was homosexual, this wouldn't be destructive
911 to the survival of the species?
912
913
914 The whole "theory" needs to be reexamined...q8X q9X;
915
916 Ah, but why? Can some technically-hip Macslinger tell us what the
917 difference is between PDS and Nubus?
918
919 Is it impossible to make a gadget that plugs into PDS and ends in a
920 Nubus card cage? At least, Marvin's friend has not been able to
921 locate one and neither have I. What is the fundamental reason for
922 this?
923 q:X� a
924
925 What about positional uncertainties in S-L 1993e? I assume we know where
926 and what Galileo is doing within a few meters. But without the
927 HGA, don't we have to have some pretty good ideas, of where to look
928 before imaging? If the HGA was working, they could slew around
929 in near real time (Less speed of light delay). But when they were
930 imaging toutatis???? didn't someone have to get lucky on a guess to
931 find the first images?
932
933 Also, I imagine S-L 1993e will be mostly a visual image. so how will
934 that affect the other imaging missions. with the LGA, there is a real
935 tight allocation of bandwidth. It may be premature to hope for answers,
936 but I thought i'd throw it on the floor.q;X� try finding a friend that has caller id, then give him a call...
937
938 jb
939
940
941
942 Path: shearson.com!uupsi!psinntp!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!risky.ecs.umass.edu!umaecs!alee
943 From: alee@ecs.umass.edu
944 Newsgroups: sci.electronics
945 Date: 18 Apr 93 15:04:10 GMT
946 Lines: 13
947
948
949 Greetings!
950
951 Situation: I have a phone jack mounted on a wall. I don't
952 know the number of the line. And I don't want
953 to call up the operator to place a trace on it.
954
955 Question: Is there a certain device out there that I can
956 use to find out the number to the line?
957 Thanks for any response.
958 Al
959
960
961 --q<X.
962
963 Unfortunately, Hep B infection can eventuate in chronic hepatitis and
964 subsequent cirrhosis. Although not many patients with Hep B go on to
965 chronic hepatitis, it does still occur in a good number (20%?) and is
966 something to keep in mind. Hepatitis C (was: non-A, non-B Hep) much
967 more frequently leads to chronic hep and cirrhosis. There is also an
968 autimmune chronic hepatitis that affects mostly younger women which
969 also leads to cirrhosis.
970
971 Of course, cirrhosis is a most unkind disease. The most dangerous
972 effects relate to portal hypertension and loss of liver function.
973 Patients develop life-threatening variceal bleeds and hepatic comas,
974 among many other problems, as a result of disturbances in hepatic
975 circulation. Less ominously, they can exhibit the effects of
976 hyperestrogenemia which often characterize patients with cirrhosis.
977 These effects include telangiactasias (small red skin lesions) and, in
978 men, gynecomastia (breast development). The only real treatment for
979 cirrhosis is liver transplant.
980
981 Keep in mind that cirrhosis is not expected, at least statistically, in
982 your friend's case. Nevertheless you might want to bring up the
983 subject of chronic disease and cirrhosis with the doctor. Hopefully he
984 or she can then carefully explain these sequelae of Hep B infection to
985 you, and offer you support.q=X� Do you recall which issue this was in? I posted a message related to this a
986 while back to provoke an argument so that I could get the straight dope on
987 this. This article would probably give me all the definitive answers that I
988 want.q>X�
989 KY>To all those who have PASSATs, do you recommend using Super Unleaded or just
990 KY>regular Unleaded Gasoline. I have been using Regular Unleaded. A friend of mine has
991 KY>a Jetta and has always used Super Unleaded and thinks I should be using the same;
992 KY>however, I believe the advantages of Super Unleaded for CARs $30000 and under
993 KY>has been overplayed by guess who: the companies who sell them, because that is
994 KY>where they make the most PROFIT. A Ralph Nader report and other consumer advocates
995 KY>have in the past spoken against those oil companies.
996
997 Your Passat VR6 is designed to run on premium gasoline, however the
998 engine electronics will retard the timing so that no harm wil be done
999 to the engine with lower octane fuel.
1000
1001 You will likely, however, get somewhat more power and fuel mileage
1002 (especially in hot weather) out of this particular engine if you do
1003 run it on premium.
1004
1005 Tom Neumann
1006 ---
1007 þ DeLuxeý 1.25 #350 þ I sell Volkswagens.q?X�
1008 Xenophobic trash deleted.
1009
1010
1011 If you're going to go to those extremes, I guess you'd better start
1012 packing. Because unless you're a Native North American, this isn't
1013 your continent either. q@X� One more thing to add, the Orchid board vesa bios is only
1014 able to handle the 1 meg dram on board, the Viper however can
1015 utilize the 2 meg vram on board to support vesa modes such as
1016 1280x1024x256, 800x600x16 mil. and 1024x768x65536 under Dos.qAX0 >Loud pipes are a biligerent exercise in ego projection,
1017
1018 No arguements following, just the facts.
1019
1020 I was able to avoid an accident by revving my engine and having my
1021 *stock* Harley pipes make enough noise to draw someones attention.
1022
1023 I instinctively revved my engine before I went for my horn. Don't know
1024 why, but I did it and it worked. Thats rather important.
1025
1026 I am not saying "the louder the pipes the better". My Harley is loud
1027 and it gets me noticed on the road for that reason. I personally do
1028 not feel it is to loud. If you do, well thats to bad; welcome to
1029 America - "Home of the Free, Land of the Atlanta Braves".
1030
1031 If you really want a fine tuned machine like our federal government
1032 to get involved and pass Db restrictions; it should be generous
1033 enough so that a move like revving your engine will get you noticed.
1034 Sure there are horns but my hand is already on the throttle. Should we
1035 get into how many feet a bike going 55mph goes in .30 seconds; or
1036 how long it would take me to push my horn button??
1037
1038 And aren't you the guy that doesn't even have a bike???qBX�
1039
1040
1041
1042
1043 I'll second that!! I saw a list somewhere of all the stuff that it was
1044 unwise to buy secondhand - stuff like parachutes, toilet paper, condoms
1045 and motorcycle helmets...qCXr
1046 "May your skin stick to a frozen bed pan"
1047 "May your apple juice be mistakenly drawn from the urinalisys
1048 lab"
1049 qDX�
1050 Serum, actually, but plasma numbers are the same. Whole blood
1051 numbers for humans tend to be somewhat lower (roughly 5 to 10
1052 percent lower). I find the following range for whole blood in
1053 FUNDAMENTALS OF CLINICAL CHEMISTRY: N. W. Teitz, editor; W. B.
1054 Saunders, 1987:
1055
1056 Human glucose (whole blood, fasting levels) --> 60 - 95 mg./dL.
1057
1058
1059 Indeed, they do measure whole blood levels, although they are not
1060 as accurate as a serum test done in a laboratory. One problem is
1061 that cells in the sample continue to metabolize glucose after the
1062 sample is drawn, reducing the apparent level. According to Teitz,
1063 however, results compare "reasonably well" with laboratory results,
1064 although "values below 80 mg./dL. tend to be lower with strip tests,
1065 whereas values above 240 mg./dL. can be very erratic."
1066
1067
1068 As stated above, whole blood levels tend to be roughly 5 to 10
1069 percent lower than serum levels. Sample freshness will affect
1070 whole blood levels, however. I don't believe there is a well-
1071 defined "conversion factor," since cell metabolism will affect
1072 samples to varying degrees. The serum/plasma test is much
1073 preferred for any except general "ball park" testing.
1074 qEX6 Oops! I came across this file from last year. Thought you might
1075 enjoy some of these thoughts. The predictions were made on the
1076 date indicated. They are largely out of order.
1077
1078 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1079
1080 June 11, 1992
1081 tedward@cs.cornell.edu (ME!)
1082
1083
1084 You all know how things turned out. The Orioles, Red Sox, and Yankees
1085 all disappeared. The Jays and Tigers continued at essentially the
1086 expected pace. The Brewers and Indians cranked in the second half.
1087
1088 The Rangers predictably took a dive. That shouldn't have surprised
1089 anybody. Meanwhile, as predicted, the Mariners dropped behind the
1090 Angels and Royals. They clearly didn't deserve the 22-33 record in
1091 June. The White Sox and A's upped their game a bit, while the Twins
1092 dropped off a little. But for the most part things were as expected.
1093
1094 Okay, so there were a few blatant errors. But for a predictive
1095 calculation, I thought this did pretty well.
1096 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1097
1098 From CAVGEOE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Tue Mar 31 16:36:34 1992
1099
1100 Hm. Pete Smith made the rotation instead of Mercker. And Bielecki
1101 wasn't released until the end of the year. I won't comment on the
1102 bullpen. (Jeff Reardon??? :-)
1103
1104
1105 Right on Blauser. Wrong on Bream and Mitchell. A bit early on
1106 Lonnie, as with Bielecki. Didn't pick Sanders. (Did anybody? :-)
1107
1108
1109 Three of them went, right? Showalter is still around (and likely to
1110 stick, it seems).
1111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1112
1113
1114 From mattel.Auto-trol.COM!mattel@auto-trol.com Tue Mar 31 17:04:22 1992
1115
1116 Nope! They won the division, and so kept him for a shot at the
1117 playoffs.
1118
1119
1120 :-) Well, they didn't finish last.
1121
1122
1123 Got that one right.
1124
1125
1126 Nope.
1127
1128
1129 I guess this is why you picked the Mets to win, huh?
1130
1131
1132 Tsk Tsk. Not nice to predict something like this.
1133
1134
1135 You got that right!
1136
1137 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1138
1139 And my response...
1140
1141
1142 Okay, so the Mets finished fifth. But I got the Pirates and Expos
1143 right!
1144
1145
1146 First half? Dead on! Second half? Ummm.... I'm a Sox fan, go easy
1147 on me!
1148
1149
1150 So I got my predictions for Gooden and Saberhagen reversed. :-) I
1151 was at least *close*, and was right about Jefferies. (Though I don't
1152 know. HAS WFAN criticized the Jefferies trade?)
1153
1154
1155 Close. No cigar.
1156
1157 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1158
1159
1160 Some predictions need no introduction!
1161
1162 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1163
1164
1165 Sometimes us statheads get lucky. Grace *didn't* hit behind Dawson
1166 the entire season, but he also finished with only 79 RBIs.
1167
1168 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1169
1170
1171 Nope. He slowed down, and the injury finished him off. Didn't
1172 even reach 50. But a ballsy prediction, nonetheless.
1173
1174 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1175
1176 From ECAXRON@MARS.LERC.NASA.GOV Thu May 21 16:42:21 1992
1177
1178 The Orioles finished seven games out. None of them won 20 (though
1179 Mussina might have had a chance, with better relief and more starts).
1180
1181
1182 Except for the Brewers (who you probably forgot), you were right! The
1183 rest of the division was thoroughly mediocre. The Yankees and Indians
1184 "led" with 76 wins, the Red Sox "trailed" with 73 wins. None were
1185 horrible, but four were five or more games below .500.
1186
1187 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1188 From: djohnson@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (David Johnson)
1189 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 15:47:30 GMT
1190
1191
1192 You win!
1193
1194 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1195
1196 From king@cogsci.UCSD.EDU Thu Nov 14 14:33:45 1991
1197
1198 You were right!
1199
1200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1201
1202 From stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu Fri Sep 13 01:15:52 1991
1203
1204 He had 211 IP, but didn't win the Cy Young. Maddux surprised all.
1205
1206
1207 I don't think I want to wait that long. But they won 89 games last
1208 year, and they were fifth in the league in ERA. Not a bad start.
1209
1210
1211 Looks like it. He wasn't bad last year, just too consistent to be an
1212 ace. So far this year looks like more of the same.
1213
1214
1215 I honestly can't say. Did they get rid of him? Their BB totals were
1216 down last year.
1217
1218
1219 I just don't think he's that good....
1220
1221
1222 :-) So far, so good. I'm *definitely* not waiting to check this one.
1223
1224 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1225
1226 From panix!spira@cmcl2.NYU.EDU Fri Sep 13 12:38:08 1991
1227
1228 Current plans seem to be to use Quantrill in long relief. He has a
1229 rubber arm and unusual delivery. He might be decent in that role.
1230
1231 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1232
1233 From lyle@ecn.purdue.edu Sat Sep 14 01:51:28 1991
1234
1235 Wrong on all of the above. (Hal Morris????)
1236
1237 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1238
1239 And my favorites!
1240
1241 From tedward Sun Oct 20 23:52:57 1991
1242
1243 Belle hit 34 HR last year, walking 52 times (but five of those were
1244 intentional!). Okay, so I exaggerate. But I *might* have been right.
1245
1246 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1247
1248 From trn@strdev.jhuapl.edu Tue Mar 31 15:25:28 1992
1249
1250 How much did Cal sign for? When did he sign? If I remember
1251 correctly, he got a rather hefty contract despite a weak season.
1252
1253 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1254
1255 And finally....
1256
1257 From jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca Thu Sep 12 10:35:58 1991
1258
1259 Snyder is still in SF. Acker is gone??
1260
1261
1262 They aren't in the majors.
1263
1264
1265 Never heard of him.
1266
1267
1268 I don't *think* they are in the majors.
1269
1270
1271 Dunno what happened to him.
1272
1273
1274 If he's still around, he's stuck in the minors.
1275
1276
1277 Hm. With Raines out, Bo looks to get a lot of PT.
1278
1279
1280 :-)
1281
1282
1283 Hm.
1284
1285 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------qFX
1286
1287
1288
1289 How about Kevin Hatcher? Scored roughly 35 goals, plays 30 minutes a game.
1290
1291
1292 That's really sad when two second-rate goalies (Barasso and Belfour)
1293 are the main contenders for the Vezina. Call me crazy, but how about
1294 Tommy Soderstrom - five shutouts for a 6th place team that doesn't
1295 really play defense. It's really unfortunate that the better goalies
1296 in the league (McLean, Essensa, Vernon) had unspectacular years. BTW,
1297 if you are going to award the Norris on the basis of the last 30 days,
1298 why not give the Vezina to Moog? He has been the best goalie over the
1299 past month.
1300
1301
1302
1303
1304
1305 Arbour or King. Burns will probably win, since playoffs aren't taken
1306 into consideration - he's OK in the regular season, but I'm not sure
1307 if he's beaten anyone other than Hartford in the playoffs.qGX GS> How about transferring control to a non-profit organisation that is
1308 GS> able to accept donations to keep craft operational.
1309
1310 I seem to remember NASA considering this for some of the Apollo
1311 equipment left on the moon, but that they decided against it.
1312
1313 Or maybe not...
1314
1315 qHX Roger Maynard shares his views, with the masses, on Bob Gainey
1316 and life in general:
1317
1318
1319
1320
1321 It was Bryan Trottier, not Denis Potvin. It was a vicious
1322 'boarding' from behind...Trottier was given a major.
1323
1324 But Roger, what the hell does this have to do with Gainey's skill
1325 as a hockey player? If Probert smashes Gilmour's head into the
1326 boards next week, will that diminish your assessment of Gilmour's
1327 skills?
1328
1329
1330 I would take Fuhr and Sanderson off of the latter.
1331
1332 I think Gainey would be honoured to know that you've included him
1333 on this list. I also think you have a relatively naive view
1334 about what wins a hockey game...pluggers are an integral part of
1335 any team. The Selke is designed to acknowledge their
1336 contribution...I think that most people understand that it's not
1337 the Nobel Prize...so settle down.
1338
1339
1340
1341
1342 congenially, as always,
1343
1344 jd
1345
1346 --
1347 James David
1348 david@student.business.uwo.caqIX l
1349
1350
1351 diamond star cars (Talon/Eclipse/Laser) put out 190 hp in the turbo models,
1352 and 195 hp in the AWD turbo models, These cars also have handling to match
1353 the muscle, and are civil in regular driving conditions, rather than having a
1354 harsh, stiff ride....The AWD Turbo is clearly the better choice of the two
1355 (because of all that torque steer on the front drive model), but you may have
1356 to go with a leftover or "slightly" used model for that price range....tough
1357 decision...
1358
1359 Rob Fusi
1360 rwf2@lehigh.edu
1361 qJX�" Here is the OPI (Offensive Production Index) for all NL players with at
1362 least 10 at-bats.
1363
1364 It is early in the season so there are some high numbers. Barry Bonds
1365 finished last season at 0.795.
1366
1367 I welcome comments and suggestions.
1368
1369 Kevin
1370
1371 League OPI: 0.410
1372 League BA: 0.252
1373 League SLG: 0.375
1374 League OBA: 0.321
1375
1376 Rank Player OPI BA SLG OBA
1377 -----------------------------------------------------
1378 1 Phi,daulton 1.101 0.333 0.875 0.515
1379 2 Phi,kruk 1.069 0.429 0.821 0.529
1380 3 Cub,grace 1.007 0.452 0.742 0.514
1381 4 Cub,may 0.931 0.389 0.889 0.421
1382 5 Col,boston 0.888 0.545 0.545 0.545
1383 6 Pit,bell 0.873 0.429 0.714 0.467
1384 7 Col,galarraga 0.867 0.458 0.708 0.458
1385 8 StL,pena 0.833 0.400 0.600 0.516
1386 9 StL,zeile 0.811 0.440 0.560 0.500
1387 10 Cin,mitchell 0.810 0.429 0.643 0.467
1388 11 Mon,lansing 0.792 0.419 0.677 0.438
1389 12 Pit,slaught 0.754 0.474 0.526 0.474
1390 13 Mon,vanderwal 0.746 0.389 0.556 0.476
1391 14 NYM,tfernandez 0.709 0.300 0.400 0.500
1392 15 SnF,martinez 0.697 0.300 0.400 0.500
1393 16 Hou,bagwell 0.695 0.367 0.567 0.424
1394 17 Col,hayes 0.686 0.333 0.667 0.364
1395 18 Col,eyoung 0.682 0.333 0.500 0.407
1396 19 Mon,alou 0.675 0.371 0.600 0.389
1397 20 Cin,milligan 0.659 0.333 0.375 0.515
1398 21 Phi,dykstra 0.646 0.214 0.571 0.405
1399 22 SnF,bonds 0.624 0.280 0.680 0.333
1400 22 Flo,conine 0.624 0.393 0.393 0.469
1401 24 SnD,plantier 0.603 0.286 0.571 0.375
1402 25 Hou,gonzalez 0.596 0.296 0.667 0.296
1403 26 Hou,anthony 0.594 0.320 0.480 0.414
1404 27 Col,cole 0.579 0.318 0.409 0.400
1405 28 Atl,sanders 0.576 0.357 0.643 0.357
1406 29 Mon,berry 0.566 0.273 0.273 0.500
1407 30 Cub,sosa 0.558 0.303 0.545 0.343
1408 31 StL,jefferies 0.551 0.269 0.692 0.296
1409 32 Pit,vanslyke 0.549 0.296 0.444 0.387
1410 33 *Montreal 0.548 0.312 0.490 0.367
1411 34 Los,butler 0.545 0.296 0.333 0.457
1412 35 Mon,grissom 0.542 0.333 0.455 0.371
1413 36 Pit,king 0.536 0.308 0.346 0.438
1414 37 SnD,gwynn 0.533 0.280 0.400 0.379
1415 38 Pit,merced 0.532 0.300 0.400 0.391
1416 39 NYM,murray 0.521 0.308 0.462 0.357
1417 40 StL,gilkey 0.514 0.312 0.438 0.353
1418 41 NYM,bonilla 0.507 0.292 0.417 0.370
1419 42 SnD,walters 0.501 0.300 0.500 0.333
1420 43 Cub,wilson 0.497 0.323 0.452 0.344
1421 44 Flo,weiss 0.492 0.261 0.348 0.433
1422 45 *Philadelphia 0.487 0.243 0.431 0.348
1423 46 Atl,justice 0.480 0.207 0.448 0.361
1424 47 *Pittsburgh 0.479 0.292 0.428 0.351
1425 48 StL,osmith 0.476 0.310 0.448 0.355
1426 49 Phi,incaviglia 0.473 0.250 0.500 0.308
1427 50 Pit,young 0.470 0.286 0.500 0.310
1428 51 *StLouis 0.467 0.275 0.445 0.344
1429 52 *Colorado 0.459 0.287 0.426 0.327
1430 53 NYM,hundley 0.458 0.300 0.450 0.333
1431 54 NYM,orsulak 0.454 0.357 0.429 0.400
1432 55 SnF,benjamin 0.440 0.200 0.500 0.273
1433 56 Atl,gant 0.438 0.214 0.464 0.333
1434 56 *NYMets 0.438 0.261 0.345 0.356
1435 58 *Houston 0.436 0.260 0.415 0.318
1436 59 Mon,pitcher 0.434 0.312 0.375 0.353
1437 60 Phi,morandini 0.433 0.240 0.360 0.321
1438 61 Hou,cedeno 0.427 0.280 0.440 0.308
1439 62 Cin,sabo 0.423 0.226 0.452 0.273
1440 63 SnF,manwaring 0.413 0.261 0.435 0.292
1441 64 *SnFrancisco 0.412 0.253 0.396 0.315
1442 65 Atl,blauser 0.409 0.276 0.310 0.364
1443 66 SnF,thompson 0.408 0.278 0.389 0.316
1444 66 Hou,caminiti 0.408 0.259 0.481 0.286
1445 68 Flo,barberie 0.405 0.267 0.267 0.371
1446 69 Mon,cordero 0.400 0.276 0.345 0.323
1447 70 SnD,sheffield 0.397 0.241 0.448 0.267
1448 71 Los,karros 0.392 0.259 0.296 0.355
1449 72 SnF,williams 0.391 0.226 0.452 0.250
1450 72 SnD,mcgriff 0.391 0.192 0.385 0.276
1451 74 Flo,destrade 0.390 0.267 0.333 0.333
1452 75 Col,girardi 0.388 0.238 0.381 0.304
1453 76 Atl,bream 0.386 0.182 0.409 0.250
1454 77 Mon,wood 0.385 0.200 0.300 0.333
1455 78 Flo,santiago 0.384 0.200 0.360 0.286
1456 79 Phi,thompson 0.383 0.227 0.273 0.320
1457 80 SnF,clayton 0.382 0.345 0.379 0.345
1458 80 Los,piazza 0.382 0.304 0.391 0.333
1459 82 SnD,bell 0.378 0.273 0.364 0.304
1460 83 Los,wallach 0.374 0.200 0.400 0.273
1461 84 Cin,larkin 0.367 0.281 0.281 0.361
1462 85 Pit,garcia 0.366 0.273 0.318 0.304
1463 85 *Cincinnati 0.366 0.256 0.319 0.326
1464 87 NYM,coleman 0.363 0.259 0.259 0.310
1465 88 NYM,kent 0.362 0.190 0.286 0.320
1466 89 StL,whiten 0.361 0.240 0.360 0.321
1467 90 Cin,roberts 0.359 0.278 0.278 0.333
1468 90 *Cubs 0.359 0.236 0.366 0.277
1469 92 SnF,lewis 0.354 0.227 0.364 0.261
1470 92 Hou,finley 0.354 0.214 0.250 0.312
1471 92 Col,clark 0.354 0.250 0.350 0.286
1472 95 Los,pitcher 0.350 0.286 0.357 0.286
1473 95 *SnDiego 0.350 0.219 0.357 0.268
1474 97 Atl,lemke 0.345 0.200 0.240 0.333
1475 98 *LosAngeles 0.339 0.221 0.275 0.311
1476 99 SnF,mcgee 0.335 0.267 0.300 0.333
1477 99 *Atlanta 0.335 0.199 0.308 0.287
1478 101 Cin,sanders 0.334 0.267 0.333 0.290
1479 101 Cin,oliver 0.334 0.208 0.208 0.345
1480 103 SnD,gardner 0.332 0.238 0.333 0.273
1481 103 Los,reed 0.332 0.276 0.276 0.323
1482 105 Phi,hollins 0.327 0.226 0.290 0.294
1483 106 *Florida 0.326 0.226 0.268 0.311
1484 107 Los,davis 0.325 0.188 0.219 0.278
1485 108 Atl,pendleton 0.322 0.212 0.273 0.297
1486 109 SnF,clark 0.316 0.161 0.290 0.257
1487 110 Los,strawberry 0.314 0.111 0.185 0.314
1488 110 Hou,biggio 0.314 0.179 0.214 0.303
1489 112 Phi,bell 0.304 0.182 0.364 0.217
1490 113 Flo,magadan 0.303 0.182 0.182 0.357
1491 114 StL,pagnozzi 0.299 0.158 0.316 0.238
1492 115 Pit,martin 0.295 0.167 0.417 0.167
1493 115 Col,bichette 0.295 0.222 0.389 0.222
1494 117 Hou,taubensee 0.294 0.190 0.333 0.227
1495 118 Mon,bolick 0.292 0.250 0.312 0.250
1496 119 Flo,pose 0.291 0.258 0.323 0.303
1497 120 Mon,cianfrocco 0.287 0.188 0.375 0.188
1498 121 NYM,johnson 0.274 0.136 0.136 0.296
1499 122 Cin,kelly 0.272 0.250 0.333 0.270
1500 123 Atl,nixon 0.256 0.185 0.222 0.241
1501 124 NYM,pitcher 0.255 0.167 0.250 0.231
1502 125 Pit,pitcher 0.250 0.222 0.278 0.222
1503 126 Cub,buechle 0.231 0.154 0.192 0.241
1504 127 StL,lankford 0.225 0.133 0.133 0.316
1505 128 Atl,olson 0.224 0.150 0.150 0.261
1506 129 Cub,vizcaino 0.217 0.148 0.259 0.179
1507 130 Cub,sanchez 0.212 0.188 0.219 0.212
1508 131 Phi,duncan 0.202 0.214 0.214 0.214
1509 132 Los,offerman 0.198 0.182 0.182 0.250
1510 133 SnF,pitcher 0.197 0.176 0.235 0.176
1511 134 Mon,laker 0.183 0.133 0.267 0.133
1512 135 Phi,chamberlain 0.180 0.111 0.111 0.200
1513 136 SnD,pitcher 0.164 0.182 0.182 0.182
1514 136 Atl,pitcher 0.164 0.182 0.182 0.182
1515 138 Phi,pitcher 0.159 0.111 0.167 0.158
1516 139 Cub,maldonado 0.150 0.105 0.158 0.150
1517 140 Flo,felix 0.148 0.172 0.207 0.172
1518 141 Cin,espy 0.141 0.100 0.100 0.182
1519 142 StL,jordan 0.140 0.105 0.211 0.105
1520 143 Atl,berryhill 0.128 0.091 0.182 0.091
1521 144 Cub,pitcher 0.126 0.111 0.111 0.158
1522 145 SnD,shipley 0.122 0.087 0.174 0.087
1523 146 StL,pitcher 0.106 0.125 0.125 0.125
1524 147 Hou,pitcher 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
1525 147 Col,benavides 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
1526 147 Cin,pitcher 0.053 0.067 0.067 0.067
1527 150 Cub,wilkins 0.038 0.000 0.000 0.067
1528 151 Flo,pitcher 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
1529 151 Col,pitcher 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
1530
1531 0.74*1B + 1.28*2B + 1.64*3B + 2.25*HR + 0.53*BB + 0.34*(SB-2*CS)
1532 OPI = ----------------------------------------------------------------
1533 AB - H
1534
1535 BA = H / AB
1536
1537 SLG = (H + 2B + 2*3B + 3*HR) / AB
1538
1539 OBA = (H + BB) / (AB + BB)qKX $17-20/piece.
1540 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1541 I assume you are talking about 1meg X 9 SIMMs, or 1Meg X 9 SIPPs with
1542 speed of 70ns? I would take 10K pieces per week if you have that price.
1543 (FOB US port).
1544
1545 I am not waiting for an offer with that price, I could only dream.
1546
1547 tiger
1548 qLX� I'm considering buying one of these to offload the internal video
1549 in my IIci and to get 24 bit color capability on my 13" monitor. What's
1550 the deal on them?
1551
1552 1) Do they come with varying amounts of RAM? If so, what is the max
1553 and min? How much do I need for 640 x 480 x 24 bits?
1554
1555 2) What bit depths are supported? One, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 24?
1556
1557 3) Are all these cards accelerated or just some? Is it true that
1558 modern accelerated video cards are (at least in general) faster? What
1559 bit depths are accelerated, all or just 24 bit? I've heard that some
1560 applications actually run *slower* with this card if they write directly
1561 to the screen (or something like that). Is this a frequent problem?
1562 How much slower is it?
1563
1564 4) Didn't I read (when System 7 first came out) that the card was
1565 incompatible? If so, how was this corrected (Finder patch, some INIT,
1566 or other)? Has it been kept compatible with 7.1? Are there many other
1567 apps that it is incompatible with (games or important (i.e., non-
1568 Microsloth) apps, for example)?
1569
1570 5) If you have a strong opinion on it's value for someone in my position,
1571 let me know what you think a reasonable price is to pay for it.
1572
1573 Thanks a lot for you input.
1574 Rick
1575 qMX�
1576 yo,yo,yo .
1577 the western digital hd will hve it marked either s,m,a
1578 put jumper on the s "its printed on the circuitry underkneth it.
1579
1580 hope i helped i had the same problem.
1581 bye..
1582 later daze.
1583 oharad@wanda.waiariki.ac.nz
1584 qNX I have a 486sx25 computer with a 105 Mg Seagate IDE drive and a controler
1585 built into the motherboard. I want to add a SCSI drive (a quantum prodrive
1586 425F 425 MG formatted). I have no documentation at all and I need your
1587 help!
1588
1589 As I understand it, here is the process of adding such a drive. Could you
1590 please tell me if I'm right..
1591
1592 1- Buy a SCSI contoler. Which one? I know Adaptec is good, but they are
1593 kind of expensive. Are there any good boards in the $100 region? I want
1594 it to be compatible with OS2 and Unix if possible. Also, I have seen on
1595 the net that there are SCSI and SCSI2 drives. Is this true? Does the
1596 adapter need to be the same as the drive? What type of drive is the
1597 quantum?
1598
1599 2- connect the drive to the adapter via a SCSI cable and the power cable.
1600 Do i have to worry about the power supply? I think I have 200 watts and
1601 all I'm powering are two floppies and the seagate drive.
1602
1603 3- Setup the BIOS to recognize the drive as the second drive. What type
1604 of drive is this? I don't have the numbers for this drive.
1605
1606 4- Format and create partitions on the drive. Do I use format or fdisk? I
1607 think that IDE drives can't be low-level formatted. Is it the same with
1608 SCSI? How exactly does fdisk work? I have a reduced msdos 5.0 manual
1609 (clone obliges) and there is no mention of fdisk. Ideally, I would want
1610 the drive partitioned in to two partitions D: and E: how do I do this?
1611
1612 Well that seems to be all. Is there anythiing I'm forgetting?
1613 Any help is *really* appreciated, I'm lost...
1614
1615 -EricqOX� }Sheesh, even a trained attack dog is no match for a human,
1616 }we have *all* the advantages.
1617
1618 I agree with this 100%. After all, when you grab under his chin and
1619 are careful to keep your hands away from his twisting head, what is
1620 he going to do -- tailwag you to death? I even had one occasion where
1621 I was unexpectedly jumped by a 130 lb. German Shepherd and grabbed
1622 his upper jaw in one hand and his lower jaw in the other. Now I'm
1623 holding his mouth open (no way is he strong enough to clamp down)
1624 and he can do nothing.
1625
1626 HOWEVER, all this macho shit aside, the fact is that when you are
1627 riding a bike and a dog is arrowing to intercept, it may be unwise
1628 for you to stop and try to deal with the dog, for the simple fact
1629 that it might be through your leathers and working on your jeans
1630 before you can dismount and deal with it properly.
1631
1632 By all means, if you do kick the dog or otherwise get its attention,
1633 STOP and STAY there. If you kick the dog and ride away, that is a
1634 victory for the dog -- it drove you out of its territory. It is not
1635 even a qualified victory, it is a victory. If you kick it and STOP,
1636 and sit there, 99% of dogs will say, "Oh, shit! This guy's serious!"
1637 and back off. Now you have established your dominance over the dog,
1638 and it probably will not bother you again.
1639
1640 Llamas, however, are a different story. If you stop near a llama,
1641 it will just hop on and insist on a ride. And that's if you're
1642 lucky; if it doesn't like you it'll barf you off the bike and
1643 steal it!qPX,
1644 If the first rule of humor is never having to say you're sorry then the
1645 second rule must be never having to explain yourself. Few things are
1646 worse that a joke explained. In spite of this, and because of requests
1647 for me to post my list o' nicknames, I must admit that no such list
1648 exists. It was simply a plot device, along with me being the keeper
1649 o' the list, to make the obvious play on the last name of Fuller and to
1650 advance the idea that such a list should be made.
1651
1652 I assumed that the ol' timers would recognize it for what it is.
1653 Nevertheless, how about a list o' nicknames for alt.atheism posters?
1654 If you think of a good one, just post it and see if others like it.
1655 We could start with those posters who annoy us the most, like Bobby or
1656 Bill.
1657
1658 Jim "D'oh! I broke the second rule of humor" CopelandqQX
1659
1660 Pat> In article <SHAFER.93Apr6094402@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov>
1661
1662
1663 Pat> Gee, I thought the X-15 was Cable controlled. Didn't one of them
1664 Pat> have a total electrical failure in flight? Was there machanical
1665 Pat> backup systems?
1666
1667 All reaction-controlled aircraft are fly-by-wire, at least the RCS part
1668 is. On the X-15 the aerodynamic control surfaces (elevator, rudder, etc)
1669 were conventionally controlled (pushrods and cables) but the RCS jets
1670 were fly-by-wire.
1671
1672
1673 Pat> What do you mean? Overstress the wings, and they fail at teh
1674 Pat> joints?
1675
1676 Navy aircraft have folding or sweeping wings, in order to save space
1677 on the hangar deck. The F-14 wings sweep, all the rest fold the
1678 wingtips up at a joint.
1679
1680 Air Force planes don't have folding wings, since the Air Force has
1681 lots of room.
1682 qRX�
1683 Very possibly, but if it's still going to be backwards compatible
1684 with the ISA bus, it's going to be the same tripe that the current EISA
1685 implementation really is.
1686
1687 From what I've seen, the PCI bus will just be a new 32bit 33MHz
1688 intelligent bus (ie, bus controller takes care of interrupts and the like,
1689 not jumpers...) Hopefully it'll get somewhere up there with the AMIGA
1690 Zorro III bus....
1691
1692 VL Bus is a bit too much of a hack for my liking...qSXt
1693 Welcome. I am the official keeper of the list of nicknames that people
1694 are known by on alt.atheism (didn't know we had such a list, did you).
1695 Your have been awarded the nickname of "Buckminster." So the next time
1696 you post an article, sign with your nickname like so:
1697 Dave "Buckminster" Fuller. Thanks again.
1698
1699 Jim "Humor means never having to say you're sorry" CopelandqTX? If you think you have kidney stones or your doctor tells you that you do,
1700 DEFINITELY follow up on it. My sister was diagnosed with kidney stones
1701 1 1/2 years ago and given medication to take to dissolve them. After that
1702 failed and she continued to be in great pain, they decided she had
1703 endometriosis. When they did exploratory surgery, they discovered she
1704 had a tumor, which turned out to be rhabdomyosarcoma -- a very rare
1705 and agressive cancer. I realize this is not what happens in the majority
1706 of cases, but you never know what can happen and shouldn't take chances!
1707 qUXq
1708 Yo' Joe, why don't you post what you really think?
1709
1710 If there are any rational BMWMOA folks left out there, may the rest of
1711 us please have a brief summary of the current state of affairs in your
1712 esteemed organization, together with an historical outline of how you
1713 got to the above contretemps?
1714
1715 Points will be deducted for shouting or bulging veins in the temple area.qVX� How many runs will be scored in Denver?
1716 I don't know.
1717
1718 but some idea can be gotten by looking at the runs scored in
1719 Mile High Stadium during the last few years of the Bears/Zephyrs
1720 tenure in the American Association.
1721
1722 Here's the total runs scored per game in Zephyrs games,
1723 all league games and the ratio. I found the same ratios for HR.
1724
1725 Year rpg lea ratio hrpg lea ratio
1726 1992 10.22 9.10 1.12 1.65 1.58 1.04
1727 1991 9.53 8.87 1.07 1.41 1.26 1.12
1728 1990 10.71 8.72 1.23 1.49 1.24 1.20
1729 1989 9.07 8.34 1.09 1.27 1.11 1.14
1730 1988 9.90 8.37 1.18 1.29 1.08 1.19
1731 1987 12.55 10.70 1.17 2.39 1.92 1.24
1732 1986 9.45 9.33 1.01 1.35 1.38 .98
1733 1985 9.50 8.54 1.11 1.53 1.34 1.14
1734 1984 9.99 9.10 1.10 1.55 1.59 .97
1735 1983 10.60 9.99 1.06 2.03 1.74 1.17
1736 1982 11.29 10.35 1.09 2.24 1.91 1.17
1737 1981 10.29 9.25 1.11 1.43 1.49 .96
1738 1980 10.59 9.43 1.12 1.63 1.46 1.12
1739 1446/13-->1.11 1444/13-->1.11
1740
1741 It seems pretty clear that Denver will have a large effect
1742 on runs scored (I'll stick with my prediction from last year
1743 that it'll be one of the top 3 in the NL this year)
1744 and a fairly large effect on Homeruns - though apparently not as large as
1745 Atlanta, Wrigley, Cincinnati and San Diego.
1746 Still it ought to be a pretty decent home run park.qWX0
1747 Fred Rice answered this already in an early posting:
1748 "The problem with your argument is that you do not _know_ who is a _real_
1749 believer and who may be "faking it". This is something known only by
1750 the person him/herself (and God). Your assumption that anyone who
1751 _claims_ to be a "believer" _is_ a "believer" is not necessarily true."
1752
1753 In other words it seems that nobody could define who is a true and
1754 false Muslim. We are back to square one, Khomeini and Hussein are
1755 still innocent and can't be defined as evil or good Islamic
1756 worshippers.
1757
1758 Cheers,
1759 Kent
1760 qXX�F GREAT post Martin. Very informative, well-balanced, and humanitarian
1761 without neglecting the need for scientific rigor.
1762
1763
1764 (Cross-posted to alt.psychology.personality since some personality typing
1765 will be discussed at the beginning - Note: I've set all followups to sci.med
1766 since most of my comments are more sci.med oriented and I'm sure most of the
1767 replies, if any, will be med-related.)
1768
1769
1770
1771
1772 They are just responding in their natural way: Hyper-Choleric Syndrome (HCS).
1773 Oops, that is not a recognized "illness" in the psychological community,
1774 better not say that since it therefore must not, and never will, exist. :^)
1775
1776 Actually, it is fascinating that a disproportionate number of physicians
1777 will type out as NT (for those not familiar with the Myers-Briggs system,
1778 just e-mail me and I'll send a summary file to you). In the general
1779 population, NT's comprise only about 12% of the population, but among
1780 physicians it is much much higher (I don't know the exact percentage -
1781 any help here a.p.p.er's?)
1782
1783 One driving characteristic of an NT, especially an NTJ, is their obvious
1784 choleric behavior (driver, type A, etc.) - the extreme emotional need to
1785 control, to lead, and/or to be the best or the most competent. If they are
1786 also extroverted, they are best described as "Field Marshalls". This trait
1787 is very valuable and essential in our society - we need people who want to
1788 lead, to strive to overcome the elements, to seek and thirst for knowledge,
1789 to raise the level of competency, etc. The great successes in science and
1790 technology are in large part due to the vision (an N trait) and scientifically-
1791 minded approach (T trait) of the NT personality (of course, the other types
1792 and temperaments have their own positive contributions as well). However,
1793 when the NT person has self-image challenges, the "dark-side" of this
1794 personality type usually comes out, which should be obvious to all.
1795
1796 A physician who is a strong NT and who has not learned to temper their
1797 temperament will be extremely business-like (lack of empathy or feeling),
1798 and is very compelled to have total control over their patient (the patient
1799 must be obedient to their diagnosis and prescription without question). I've
1800 known many M.D.'s of this temperament and suffice to say I don't oblige them
1801 with a followup visit, no matter how competent I think they are (and they
1802 usually are very competent from a knowledge viewpoint since that is an
1803 extreme drive of theirs - to know the most, to know it all).
1804
1805 Maybe we need more NF doctor's. :^)
1806
1807 Enough on this subject - let's move on to candida bloom.
1808
1809
1810
1811 You've helped me already by your post. Of course, I believe that I have
1812 been misdiagnosed on the net as suffering from 'anal retentivitis', but being
1813 the phlegmatic I am, maybe I was just a little too harsh on a few people
1814 myself in past posts. Let's all try to raise the level of this discussion
1815 above the level of anal effluent.
1816
1817
1818
1819 In my well-described situation (in prior posts), I definitely was immune
1820 stressed. Blood tests showed my vitamin A levels were very low. My sinuses
1821 were a mess - no doubt the mucosal lining and the cilia were heavily damaged.
1822 I also was on antibiotics 15 times in 4 years! In the end, even two weeks
1823 of Ceftin did not work and I had confirmed diagnoses of a chronic bacterial
1824 infection of the sinuses via cat-scans, mucus color (won't get into the
1825 details), and other symptoms. Three very traditional ENT's made this
1826 diagnosis (I did not have any cultures done, however, because of the
1827 difficulty of doing this right and because my other symptoms clearly showed
1828 a bacterial infection). Enough of this background (provided to help you
1829 understand where I was when I make comments about my Sporanox anti-fungal
1830 therapy below).
1831
1832
1833 The first question I have is this. Can fungus penetrate a little way into poor
1834 mucus membrane tissue, maybe via hyphae, thus causing symptoms, without being
1835 considered 'systemic' in the classic sense? It is sort of an inbetween
1836 infection.
1837
1838
1839
1840 I was concerned, too, because of the toxicity of vitamin A. My doctor, after
1841 my blood tests, put me on 75,000 IU of vitamin A for one week only, then
1842 dropped it down to 25,000 IU for the next couple of weeks. I also received
1843 zinc and other supplementation, since all of these interrelate in fairly
1844 complex ways as my doctor explained (he's one of those 'evil' orthomolecular
1845 specialists). I had a blood test three weeks later and vitamin A was normal,
1846 he then stopped me on all vitamin A (except for some in a multi-vitamin)
1847 supplement), and made sure that I maintain a 50,000 IU/day of beta carotene.
1848 Call me carrot face. :^)
1849
1850 Hopefully, Elaine's doctor will take a similar, careful approach and to
1851 all supplements. I'm even reevaluating some supplements I'm taking, for
1852 example, niacin in fairly large dosages, 1 gram/day, which Steve Dyer had
1853 good information about on sci.med.nutrition. If niacin only has second-order
1854 improvement in symptomatic relief of my sinus allergies, then it probably is
1855 not worth taking such a large dose long-term and risking liver damage.
1856
1857
1858
1859 Though I do now believe, based on my successful therapy with Sporanox, that
1860 I definitely had some excessive growth of fungus (unknown species) in my
1861 sinuses, I still want to ask the question: have there been any studies that
1862 demonstrate candida "blooms" in the sinuses with associated sinus irritation
1863 (sinusitis/rhinitis)? (My sinus irritation reduced significantly after one
1864 week of Sporanox and no other new treatments were implemented during this
1865 time - I did not have any noticeable GI track problems before starting on
1866 Sporanox, but some for a few days after which then went away - considered
1867 normal).
1868
1869 BTW, my doctor dug out one of his medical reference books (sorry, can't
1870 remember which one), and found an obscure comment dating back into the 1950's
1871 which stated that people can develop contained (non-lethal or non-serious)
1872 aspergillis infestations (aspergiliosis) of the sinuses leading to sinus
1873 inflammation symptoms. I'll have to dig out that reference again since it
1874 is relevant to this discussion.
1875
1876
1877
1878 My doctor tested me (I believe a RAST or RAST similar test) for allergic
1879 response to specificially Candida albicans, and I showed a strong positive.
1880 Another question, would everybody show the same strong positive so this test
1881 is essentially useless? And, assuming it is true that Candida can grow
1882 part-way into the mucus membrane tissue, and the concentration exceeds a
1883 threshold amount, could not a person who tests as having an allergy to
1884 Candida definitely develop allergic symptoms, such as mucus membrane
1885 irritation due to the body's allergic response? As I said in an earlier post,
1886 one does not need to be a rocket scientist, or have a M.D. degree or a
1887 Ph.D. in biochemistry to see the plausibility of this hypothesis.
1888
1889 BTW, and I'll repost this again. Dr. Ivker, in his book, "Sinus Survival",
1890 has routinely given, before anything else, Nizoral (a pre-Sporanox systemic
1891 anti-fungal, not as safe and not as good as Sporanox) to his new chronic
1892 sinusitis patients IF they have been on antibiotics four or more times in
1893 the last two years. He claims that out of 2000 or so patients, well over
1894 90% notice some relief of sinus inflammation and other symptoms, but it
1895 doesn't cure it by any means, implying the so-called yeast/fungus infection
1896 is not the primary cause, but a later complication. He's also found that
1897 nystatin, whether taken internally, or put into a sinus spray, does not help.
1898
1899 This implies (of course assuming that excessive yeast/fungus bloom is
1900 aggravating the sinus inflammation) that the yeast/fungus has grown partway
1901 into the tissue since nystatin will not kill yeast/fungus other than by
1902 direct contact - it is not absorbed into the blood stream. Again, I admit,
1903 lots of 'ifs', and 'implies', which doesn't please the hard-core NT who
1904 has to have the double-blind study or it's a non-issue, but one has to start
1905 with some plausible hypothesis/explanation, a strawman, if you will.
1906
1907
1908
1909 This brings up an interesting observation used by those who will deny
1910 and reject any and all aspects of the 'yeast hypothesis' until the
1911 appropriate studies are done. And that is if you can't observe or culture
1912 the yeast "bloom" in the gut or sinus, then there's no way to diagnose or
1913 even recognize the disease. And I know they realize that it is virtually
1914 impossible to test for candida overbloom in any part of the body that cannot
1915 be easily observed since candida is everywhere in the body.
1916
1917 It's a real Catch-22.
1918
1919 Another Catch-22: Those who totally reject the 'yeast hypothesis' say that
1920 no studies have been done (actually studies have been done, but if it's not
1921 up to a certain standard then it is, from their perspective, a non-study which
1922 should not even be considered). I agree that the appropriate studies should
1923 be done, and that will take big $ to do it right. However, in order to
1924 convince the funding agencies in these austere times to open their wallets,
1925 you literally have to give them evidence, and the only acceptable evidence to
1926 compete with other proposals is paradoxically to do almost the exact study
1927 needed funding. That is, you have to do 90% of the study before you even get
1928 funding (as a scientist at a National Lab, I'm very aware of this for the
1929 smaller funded projects). I'm afraid that even if Dr. Ivker and 100 other
1930 doctors got together, pooled their practice's case histories and anecdotes
1931 into a compelling picture, and approach the funding agencies, they would get
1932 nowhere, even if they were able to publish their statistical results.
1933
1934 It is obvious from the comments by some of the doctors here is that they have
1935 *decided* excessive yeast colonization in the gut or sinuses leading to
1936 noticeable non-lethal symptoms does not exist, and is not even a tenable
1937 hypothesis, so any amount of case histories or compiled anecdotal evidence
1938 to the contrary will never change their mind, and not only that, they would
1939 also oppose the needed studies because in their minds it's a done issue -
1940 excessive yeast growth leading to diffuse allergic symptoms does not, will
1941 not, and cannot exist. Period. Kind of tough to dialog with those who hold
1942 such a viewpoint. Kind of reminds me of Lister...
1943
1944
1945
1946 Aren't there also other nutrients necessary to the proper working of the
1947 sinus mucus membranes and cilia?
1948
1949
1950
1951 Again, the evidence from mycological studies indicate that many yeast/fungus
1952 species can grow hyphae ("roots") into deep tissue, similar to mold growing
1953 in bread. You can continue to kill the surface, such as nystatin does, but
1954 you can't kill that which is deeper in the tissue without using a systemic
1955 anti-fungal such as itraconazole (Sporanox) or some of the older ones such
1956 as Nizoral which are more toxic and not as effective. This is why, as has
1957 been pointed out by recent studies (sent to me by a doctor I've been in
1958 e-mail contact with - thanks), that nystatin is not effective in the long-
1959 term treatment of GI tract "candidiasis". It's like trying to weed a garden
1960 by cutting off what's above the ground but leaving the roots ready to come
1961 out again once you walk away.
1962
1963 The $60000 question is whether a contained candida "bloom" can partially
1964 grow into tissue through the mucus membranes, causing some types of symptoms
1965 in susceptible people (e.g., allergy), without becoming "systemic" in the
1966 classical sense of the word - something in between strictly an excessive
1967 bloom not causing any problems and the full-blown systemic infection that
1968 is potentially lethal.
1969
1970
1971
1972 Also, if one is an 'anal retentive', like I've been diagnosed in a prior
1973 post, that can also provide more sites for excessive candida growth. ;^)
1974
1975
1976
1977 As I've said in private e-mail, there are flaws in our current medical system
1978 that make it difficult or even impossible for a physician to attempt
1979 alternative therapies AFTER the approved/proven/accepted therapies don't work.
1980 For example, I went to three ENT's, who all said that I will just have to live
1981 with my acute/chronic sinusitis after the ab's failed (they did mention
1982 surgery to open up the ostia, but my ostia weren't plugged and it would not
1983 get to the root cause of my condition). After three months of aggressive and
1984 fairly non-standard therapy (Sporanox, body nutrient level monitoring and
1985 equalization, vitamin C, lentinen, echinacea, etc.), my health has vastly
1986 improved to where I was two years ago, before my health greatly deteriorated.
1987 Of course, skeptics would say that maybe if I did nothing I would have
1988 improved anyway, but that view is stretching things quite far because of the
1989 experience of the three ENT's I saw who said that I'd just have to "live with
1990 it". I'm confident I will reach what one could call a total "cure". The
1991 anti-fungal program I undertook was one necessary step in that direction
1992 because of my overuse of ab's for the last four years. (Note: for those
1993 having sinus problems, may I suggest the book by Dr. Ivker I mention above.
1994 Be sure to get the revised edition.)
1995
1996
1997
1998 Dr. Ivker started off having chronic and severe sinus problems, and his
1999 visits to several ENT's totally floored him when they said "you'll just have
2000 to live with it". He spent several years trying everything - standard and
2001 non-standard, until he was essentially cured of chronic sinusitis. He now
2002 shares his approach in his book and I can honestly say that I am on the road
2003 to recovery following some parts of it. His one recommendation to take a
2004 systemic anti-fungal at the beginning of treatment IF you have a history of
2005 anti-biotic overuse has been proven to him time and time again in his own
2006 practice. I'm sure if I commented to him of the hard-core beliefs of the anti-
2007 "yeast hypothesis" posters that he would have definite things to say, such as,
2008 "it's worked wonders for me in almost two thousand cases", to put it mildly.
2009 I also would not be surprised if he would say that they are the ones violating
2010 their moral obligations to help the patient.
2011
2012 Maybe those doctors who are reading this who have a practice and are
2013 confronted by a patient having symptoms that could be due to the "hypothetical
2014 yeast overgrowth" (e.g., they fit some of the profiles the pro-yeast people
2015 have identified), should consider anti-fungal therapy IF all other avenues
2016 have been exhausted. Remember, theory and practice are two different things -
2017 you cannot have one without the other, they are synergistic. If a doctor does
2018 something non-standard yet produces noticeable symptomatic relief in over a
2019 thousand of his patients, shouldn't you at least sit up and take notice?
2020 Maybe you ought to trust what he says and begin hypothesizing why it works
2021 instead of why it shouldn't work. I'm afraid a lot of doctors have become
2022 so enamored with "scientific correctness" that they are ignoring the patients
2023 they have sworn to help. You have to do both; both have to be balanced, which
2024 we don't see from some of the posters to this group. There comes a point when
2025 you just have to use a little common sense, and maybe an empirical approach
2026 (such as trying a good systemic anti-fungal such as Sporanox) after having
2027 exhausted all the other avenues. I was one of those who the traditional
2028 medical establishment was not able to help, so I did the natural thing: I
2029 went to a couple of doctor's who are (somewhat) outside this establishment,
2030 and as a result I have found significant relief.
2031
2032 Would it not be better if the traditional medical establishment can set up
2033 some kind of mechanism where any doctor, without fear of being sued or having
2034 his license pulled, can try experimental and unproven (beyond a doubt)
2035 therapies for his/her patients that finally reach the point where all the
2036 accepted therapies are ineffective? I'd like to hear a doctor tell me:
2037 "well, I've tried all the therapies that are approved and accepted in this
2038 country, and since they clearly don't work for you, I now have the authority
2039 to use experimental, unproven techniques that seem to have helped others. I
2040 can't promise anything, and there are some risks. You will have to sign
2041 something saying you understand the experimental and possibly risky nature of
2042 these unproven therapies, and I'll have to register your case at the State
2043 Board." Anyway, if my ENT had suggested this to me, I would've jumped on this
2044 pronto instead of going to one of those doctors who, for either altruistic
2045 reasons, or for greed, is practicing these alternative therapies with much
2046 risk to him/her (risk meaning losing their license) and possibly to the
2047 patient. Such a mechanism would keep control in the more mainstream medicine,
2048 and also provide valuable data that would essentially be free. It also would
2049 be morally and ethically better than the current system by showing the
2050 compassion of the medical community to the patient - that it's doing everything
2051 it can within reason to help the patient. It is the lack of such a mechanism
2052 that is leading large numbers of people to try alternative therapies, some of
2053 which seem to work (like my case), and others of which will never work at all
2054 (true quackery).
2055
2056 I better get off my soapbox before this post reaches 500K in size.
2057
2058
2059
2060 What dosage of B6 appears to be necessary to promote the healing and proper
2061 working of the mucos memebranes?
2062
2063
2064
2065 I'd like to see the role of complex carbohydrates, such as starch.
2066
2067
2068
2069 Brave soul you are. The venom on Usenet can be quite toxic unless one
2070 develops an immunity to it. One year ago, my phlegmatic self would have
2071 backed down right away from an attack of cholericitis. But my immune
2072 system, and my computer system, have been hardened from gradual
2073 desensitization. I now kind of like being called "anal retentive" - it has
2074 a nice ring to it. I also was very impressed by how it just flowed into the
2075 post - truly classic, worthy of a blue (or maybe brown) ribbon. I might
2076 even cross-post it to alt.best.of.internet. Hmmm...
2077
2078
2079
2080 Thanks again for a great and informative post. I hope others who have
2081 researched this area and are lurking in the background will post their
2082 thoughts as well, no matter their views on this subject.
2083
2084 Jon Noring
2085
2086
2087 --
2088
2089 Charter Member --->>> INFJ Club.qYXn Just to complete that thought, the cooling towers cool water that
2090 circulates through heat exchangers that recondense the turbine
2091 exhaust back into feedwater for the heat exchangers that transfer
2092 energy from the reactor's cooling circuit.
2093
2094
2095 |---------------| |------turbine, etc---| |---------|
2096 | > > > > .
2097 reactor < < < > .
2098 | > > > > C. T.
2099 |---------------| |--------------------| |----------
2100
2101 The reactor has a closed loop circuit to prevent radioactive
2102 contamination of the the turbine feedwater.
2103
2104 The cooling tower is a separate circuit to avoide contamination of
2105 the turbine feedwater with atmospheric contamininats, etc.
2106 Purifying boiler feedwater is important business at both fossil
2107 fired and nuclear generation facilities.
2108
2109 qZX�
2110 You'd have to purify the river water first. I'm not sure how practical
2111 that is with the Mississippi. You'd better check with health agencies
2112 along the way to see if there are toxic chemicals in the river. If
2113 it is just microorganisms, those can be filtered or killed, but you
2114 may need activated charcoal or other means to purify from chemicals.
2115 Better be same than sorry. Obviously, drinking the river without
2116 processing it is likely to make you sick from bacteria and parasites.
2117 --
2118 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2119 Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
2120 geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon." q[X� I have a DEC NT 486DX33 that has an Adaptec SCSI controller, hard disk
2121 and cd-rom drive. When I add a 3COMM Ethernet card (3C503) and reboot
2122 the system I receive an error message that a boot device cannot be
2123 found. Pull the 3COMM card and reboot, everything is fine. I've moved
2124 the controller and 3COMM card to various slots, different positions
2125 (slot before the controller, slot after the controller) with the
2126 same result. DEC hasn't responded to the problem yet. Any help would
2127 be appreciated.q\Xl Well, I'm afraid the time has come; my rice-burner has finally died.
2128 I'd always promised my wife that we would do a Scandanavian tour when
2129 my car died and pick up a Volvo in Sweden, drive it around and then
2130 import it home.
2131
2132 Can anyone give me 1) advice on feasibility and relative costs 2)
2133 references where I might learn more 3) Personal experience?
2134
2135 Please emailq]X� {Michael Fulbright} said
2136 "Analog switches/Balanced"
2137 to <All> on 04-15-93 01:08
2138 MF> I am trying to build a synchronous demodulator and I've hit a snag.
2139 MF> In my application I want to be able to change the gain of an
2140 MF> op amp amplifier from 1 to -1, controlable via a digital input.
2141 MF> The most obvious way I've come up with is to use analog switches
2142 MF> to adjust the gain of the op amp. The only analog switch I have
2143 MF> experience with it the 4066. Unfortunately I want to switch an
2144 MF> AC signal which goes from about -5V to 5V, and the 4066 is only
2145 MF> for positive signals.
2146
2147 How about using a 4053 it has a seperate ground for the
2148 analog outputs. It would get you 3 bits.
2149
2150 MF> Another part which caught my eye was the Analog Devices AD630. This
2151 MF> is a balanced demodulator which appears to fill exactly the need I
2152 MF> have. The data sheet was somewhat skimpy on application notes. Could
2153 MF> someone comment on using this chip for the following application?
2154
2155 Or how about a multiplying D/A convertor? This is
2156 essentiallty what you are makeing.
2157
2158
2159 Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
2160 Mangled on Fri 04-16-1993 at 13:36:11
2161
2162 ... Catch the Blue Wave!q^X�
2163 I've seen them in surplus stores. All they are are fluorescent bulbs
2164 without the phosphor, and a UV transparent bulb (special glass). I've
2165 also seen incandescent versions that you screw into an ordinary 120VAC
2166 socket, probably not what you want.
2167
2168
2169 As far as I know, near UV (as opposed to far-UV) is longwave UV (near
2170 the visible spectrum). Longwave UV is safer as far as accidental (I hope)
2171 exposure to the eyes. As far as fluorescent minerals go (the reason a
2172 friend has a UV lamp), some only respond to only one of short or long UV.
2173
2174 Hope this helps.
2175
2176 Dave.
2177
2178
2179
2180 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- q_X� If the nose culture shows Staph, then Ceftin or even Ceclor
2181 are better. Suprax does not kill Staph. Treating bacterial
2182 infections involves a lot of try-and-fail because the
2183 infections often involve multiple organisms with many resistant
2184 strains. Some 60% of Hemophilus Influenza strains are now
2185 resistant. What works for me and my organisms may not work
2186 for you and yours. Keep experimenting.
2187 Ken Colby
2188
2189 q`X : As far as I can tell, the MD is an offshoot of technology that already exists.
2190 : It is an MO drive. MO drives exist already for computers. They're expensive
2191 : and a bit slow, but the disks are cheep (128 mb disks). Dan.
2192
2193 I read a recent article in Personal Computer World mainly about the new
2194 digit audion formats (DCC and MD) but at the end talked about how nice
2195 it would be to use these for data storage with a brief calculation of
2196 how much data you could store. The author had been talking to someone
2197 from Sony about these formats and mentioned this to get the reply "MD
2198 is a purely audio format, we wouldn't use it for data", then when
2199 pressed for info about MO the Sony man basically admitted that it was
2200 no more than a slight adaptabtion on MD!
2201
2202 What I think the original poster was wanting was MO drives at MD audio
2203 player prices. I'd assume that the problem here is that an MD system
2204 can have higher tolerances than an MO system as the ear doesn't pick up
2205 the occasional bit error as well as an archiving program!
2206
2207 --qaX�
2208
2209 Actually, for the Padres this year so far it's 23%. They are 5th in
2210 the league in HRs, and ALL have been solo shots.
2211
2212 Pythagorean projection puts them at .360 winning percentage
2213 or 58-104. Need some pitching help, fast!
2214
2215 Good news, though, is that Hurst has been throwing curveballs
2216 w/o any pain. Threw 80 pitches yesterday. Should be back
2217 in a couple of weeks. Maybe we can trade him to the Yankees
2218 for Militello.
2219
2220 DaveqbX< ALL I CAN SAY IS
2221
2222
2223
2224
2225 G O T I G E R S!!!!!!
2226
2227
2228
2229 qcX� Is there anybody who has (or can point me in the right direction) any
2230 information about protected mode? Also interested in protected mode viewed from
2231 a OS point of view.qdX
2232
2233 Say, you bought your Saturn at $13k, with a dealer profit of $2k.
2234 If the dealer profit is $1000, then you would only be paying $12k for
2235 the same car. So isn't that saving money?
2236
2237 Moreover, if Saturn really does reduce the dealer profit margin by $1000,
2238 then their cars will be even better deals. Say, if the price of a Saturn was
2239 already $1000 below market average for the class of cars, then after they
2240 reduce the dealer profit, it would be $2000 below market average. It will:
2241
2242 1) Attract even more people to buy Saturns because it would SAVE THEM MONEY.
2243
2244 2) Force the competitors to lower their prices to survive.
2245
2246 Now, not only will Saturn owners benefit from a lower dealer profit, even
2247 the buyers for other cars will pay less.
2248
2249 Isn't that saving money?
2250
2251 qeX�
2252
2253 Perhaps you should try nic.funet.fi instead of funet.fi ??!?!?
2254 nic.funet.fi is THE biggest (?) ftp site from Europe, but
2255 the stuff available there should (?) also be available at the other site
2256 of the "big pool".qfX�
2257
2258 as someone else already mentioned, don't "carry thru" the other 23 pins.
2259
2260 plan A, minimal null modem:
2261 SG(7) - SG(7)
2262 TD(2) - RD(3)
2263 RD(3) - TD(2)
2264 if you're transfering files betwen 2 PCs, this ought to work (unless
2265 you have a persnickity comm program).
2266
2267 plan B, null modem with modem control:
2268 SG(7) - SG(7)
2269 TD(2) - RD(3)
2270 RD(3) - TD(2)
2271 DCD(8) - DTR(20)
2272 DTR(20) - DCD(8)
2273 some comm software will wait for DCD before transferring anything.
2274 such software will raise DTR to enable the modem to accept a call.
2275 with this cable, each side's DTR will drive the other's DCD.
2276
2277 plan C, null modem with hardware flow control:
2278 SG(7) - SG(7)
2279 TD(2) - RD(3)
2280 RD(3) - TD(2)
2281 RTS(4) - CTS(5)
2282 CTS(5) - RTS(4)
2283 for high-speed transfers, you want the flow control.
2284
2285 plan D, deluxe null modem (combine B and C):
2286 SG(7) - SG(7)
2287 TD(2) - RD(3)
2288 RD(3) - TD(2)
2289 RTS(4) - CTS(5)
2290 CTS(5) - RTS(4)
2291 DCD(8) - DTR(20)
2292 DTR(20) - DCD(8)
2293 this one is ideal. it leaves out DSR and RI (rarely used anymore).
2294 if you're really paranoid, or you just have an 8th wire to spend,
2295 you might add:
2296 FG(1) - FG(1)
2297
2298 the pin numbers above are (obviously) for 25-pin connectors.
2299 i don't have a 9-pin pinout handy.
2300 qgX�
2301
2302 Close. My mother comes from Gainesville Tex, right across the border.
2303 They claim to be the chigger capitol of the world, and I believe them.
2304 When I grew up in Fort Worth it was bad enough, but in Gainesville
2305 in the summer an attack was guaranteed.qhX�
2306
2307 This is the crux of the argument (to me at least). Both the
2308 SDCN and the non-SDCN camps seem to agree on the fact that a catcher's
2309 defense is basically nonmeasurable at present. You can talk about how
2310 important calling a game is, or framing the pitches, or blocking balls
2311 in the dirt. But there is little or no way to tell exactly how various
2312 catcher's rank in "defense".
2313
2314 Looking at Lopez specifically; is there any reason to suspect
2315 that he is a bad defensive catcher other then the fact that the Braves
2316 (or the media) has labeled him a bad defensive catcher? As far as I
2317 can tell he doesn't have any particular problem in his mechanics
2318 (such as Sasser). He might be a little rough around the edges in blocking
2319 the ball, or framing the pitch to get a good call but all he needs to
2320 clear that up is playing and practice time. I can't see how repetitions
2321 at AAA are any better then reps in the majors!
2322
2323 All we're left with is the calling the game aspect. Olsen and
2324 Berryhill at always given credit for calling good games and helping
2325 the pitchering staff. But this is a reputation that is given to almost
2326 all veteran catchers. How is catching at AAA going to help Lopez learn
2327 the major league pitching staff? The only way any catcher is going to
2328 learn Tom Glavine's pitches is to catch Tom Glavine. Similarly, I wouldn't
2329 be supprised if the pitcher's claimed to prefer pitching to Olsen over
2330 pitching to Lopez because they are used to pitching to Olsen. But
2331 given time they will say they are comfortable with Lopez.
2332
2333 Now, since Lopez can't learn how to handle the major league
2334 pitcher's while he's in AAA and since he doesn't have any glaring
2335 problem in his mechanics, what is he going to learn in AAA that he
2336 can't learn just as well while in the majors? qiX
2337 Bubblejets often splatter a little bit, whereas LaserJets (given half-way decent
2338 toner, like HP's "Microfine" stuff) don't. Both produce very good output,
2339 but you don't have to look too closely at the two to tell that LaserJet
2340 output is definitely superior.
2341
2342 On the other hand, LaserJets which haven't been maintained properly and use
2343 the cheapest toner the owner could find often produce awful output, much
2344 worse than a bubblejet. :-)
2345
2346 One other thing... there are bubblejets, and then there are BubbleJets.
2347 There are a few bubblejets out there that produce rather mediocre output
2348 (such as HP's dinky little BubbleJet), whereas most produce really good
2349 looking output (such as HP's DeskJets). IBM and Canon both produce some of
2350 the really good style bubblejets.
2351
2352 ---Joel KolstadqjXG Does that mean that they're gonna bring back the Biscayne and Bel Air?
2353 qkX7
2354
2355 Going into the ninth with a 3 run lead, ...2 runs score...runners on
2356 first and second...RD throws, "there's a drive waaaaaayyyyyyy back,
2357 Puckett to the wall, leaps, He CAUGHT THE BALL!!!! WHAT A CATCH BY KIRBY!!
2358 TWINS WIN!" and RD gets the save. His line 1 IP, 2 walks, 2 hits, and
2359 one robbed home run...qlX� I have before me a pertinent report from the United States General
2360 Accounting Office:
2361
2362 National Aero-Space Plane: Restructuring Future Research and Development
2363 Efforts
2364 December 1992
2365 Report number GAO/NSIAD-93-71
2366
2367 In the back it lists the following related reports:
2368
2369 NASP: Key Issues Facing the Program (31 Mar 92) GAO/T-NSIAD-92-26
2370
2371 Aerospace Plane Technology: R&D Efforts in Japan and Australia
2372 (4 Oct 91) GAO/NSIAD-92-5
2373
2374 Aerospace Plane Technology: R&D Efforts in Europe (25 July 91)
2375 GAO/NSIAD-91-194
2376
2377 Aerospace Technology: Technical Data and Information on Foreign
2378 Test Facilities (22 Jun 90) GAO/NSIAD-90-71FS
2379
2380 Investment in Foreign Aerospace Vehicle Research and Technological
2381 Development Efforts (2 Aug 89) GAO/T-NSIAD-89-43
2382
2383 NASP: A Technology Development and Demonstration Program to Build
2384 the X-30 (27 Apr 88) GAO/NSIAD-88-122
2385
2386
2387 On the inside back cover, under "Ordering Information" it says
2388
2389 "The first copy of each GAO report is free. . . . Orders
2390 may also be placed by calling (202)275-6241
2391 "
2392
2393 Dani
2394 qmX� Reply address: mark.prado@permanet.org
2395
2396 > From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
2397 >
2398 > In article <1993Apr19.230236.18227@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>,
2399 > > |> AW&ST had a brief blurb on a Manned Lunar Exploration
2400 > confernce> |> May 7th at Crystal City Virginia, under the
2401 > auspices of AIAA.
2402 >
2403 > Thanks for typing that in, Steven.
2404 >
2405 > I hope you decide to go, Pat. The Net can use some eyes
2406 > and ears there...
2407
2408 I plan to go. It's about 30 minutes away from my home.
2409 I can report on some of it (from my perspective ...)
2410 Anyone else on sci.space going to be there? If so, send me
2411 netmail. Maybe we can plan to cross paths briefly...
2412 I'll maintain a list of who's going.
2413
2414 mark.prado@permanet.orgqnXS
2415
2416
2417 Back to the F1 stuff for a second, note that the `auto' tranny in F1
2418 _STILL_ shifts at the driver's command, not some preselected schedule. The
2419 driver still controls the shifting, not the transmission.
2420
2421
2422 ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
2423
2424 I have yet to see a torque multiplier installed on a production automobile.
2425 Such systems do exist, but none are presently installed in production autos
2426 that I am aware of. These are commonly called viscous drive CVTs or
2427 fluidic amplifiers.
2428
2429
2430 What the convertor _does_ allow is for the engine to be closer to its
2431 torque peak during the launch before a clutched car can fully engage it's
2432 driveline. Chevy proved it many years ago with the '70 Camaro (ETs and
2433 terminal 1/4 mile times were close enough tpo be identical for 4 speed and
2434 auto cars). Note that this is also the major reason that an auto car can
2435 get away with fewer gears than a manual, the slip in the convertor makes up
2436 for the fewer ratios (and before everyone starts yelling about the proposed
2437 5 sspeed autos soon to be out, note that some manufacturers are using 6
2438 speed manulas now).
2439
2440
2441 Correct.qoX�
2442
2443
2444
2445
2446
2447
2448 Also, has anyone heard any rumors that the new docks (the ones with the CPU
2449 :-) will be better designed that this first batch? I love my Duo, but
2450 installing cards in the dock is not much fun.
2451
2452 -BobqpX� :
2453 : Okay, here is my configuration:
2454 :
2455 : 80486-33 Gateway 433C Micronics ISA
2456 : 12MB RAM
2457 : WD212MB IDE HD ( drive C: )
2458 : ST3144A 125MB IDE HD ( drive D: )
2459 : Adaptec SCSI 1542B controller, with SCSI BIOS enabled
2460 : Seagate ST296N 80MB SCSI drive
2461 :
2462 : Alrighty, when I boot up I get the Adaptec BIOS message, but it says
2463 : something like:
2464 :
2465 : "Drive C: installed"
2466 : "Drive D: installed"
2467 : "ADaptec SCSI BIOS not installed!"
2468 :
2469 : And I can't get to the Seagate drive.
2470 :
2471 : I go into PhoenixBIOS setup, remove the entry for drive D:, and BOOM, I can
2472 : access the Seagate. Is there a way to get two IDE drives and the Seagate
2473 : at the same time? I have ASPI4DOS.SYS, but it just hangs the system.
2474 :
2475 : Brian
2476 :
2477
2478 There is a simple answer. If my memory serves me the scsi bios will only
2479 work as the first or second drive. Any "built-in" drives e.g. IDE are
2480 installed first and then when the scsi bios runs it will try to install
2481 as the next drive. But if there are already two drives, then no can do.
2482
2483 The solution is simple: use the aspi4dos device driver and disable the
2484 scsi bios (as it is useless in your case). It works like a champ! I
2485 have seen a similar situation before.
2486
2487 Good Luckqqh9XD #### ####
2488 # ### #
2489 # 1 2 3 #
2490 Facing # #
2491 Female Plug End # 4 5 6 #
2492 # #
2493 # #
2494 # 7 8 #
2495 # #
2496 #############
2497
2498 Anyone Recognize this? It's my little layout of a eight pin female plug
2499 connector used for many mac peripherals.
2500
2501 #####Problem########Problem#########Problem########
2502 Printer (cheap) cables using this configuration switch a couple of
2503 pins between one end and the other. I want to use cheap cables for an
2504 A-B box. Anyone know which pins get reversed so I can do some
2505 creative editing on the internals of my box? Any help would be
2506 greatly appreciated.
2507 qrX3
2508 I find this method much better myself, too, although I do really
2509 hate it when the bolt finally comes loose and the wrench and my
2510 hand both come crashing into my face. After coming to, which is
2511 about 15 minutes later, I change my clothes (because by this time
2512 all the oil has drained *on* me), and ice my entire face and suck
2513 down about 20 Tylenol to ease the pain. Later in the day I then
2514 proceed with refilling the engine oil.
2515
2516 It's just crazy how I try and change the oil on my cars in one
2517 weekend---I go through about 3 bottles of Tylenol and 2 bags of ice.qsX� ********* 1990 Integra LS for Sale *********
2518
2519 5 speed, sunroof, rear spoiler, new tires
2520 59.7K miles
2521
2522 $ 7950 or best offer.
2523
2524 call 908-949-0878
2525 908-938-4101
2526
2527 email att!hotsoup!pengqtX� I'm plannig to trade my Sentra SE-R in with a NX2000. My car has 11,500
2528 miles on it and is a '92 model. The NX2000 the dealer is selling is a '91
2529 model with 23,000miles on it. It has a T-Bar Roof, a/c, and an airbag,
2530 which my Sentra does not have. They are asking for $1500. Is that a fair
2531 deal? The only thing I noticed about the NX2000 is that the engine did not
2532 seem to have as much torque as my Sentra which has the same identical
2533 engine. I presume that the last lady owner did not really push the engine
2534 to it's limits occassionaly while I did that on mine, thuis the NX2000's
2535 engine is a little "tight." So, if I buy the NX2000 and "excercise" it
2536 well, should that slight power problem go away? Any advice on this will be
2537 much appreciated. Thanks. Please reply via e-mail if possible.
2538 --
2539 A motion picture major at the Brooks Institute of Photography, CA
2540 Santa Barbara and a foreign student from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.quh9X� Since everyone else seems to be running wild with predictions, I've
2541 decided to add my own fuel to the fire:
2542 They might seem a bit normal, but there are a few (albeit, small) surprises.
2543
2544 American League East W L GB
2545 1)New York Yankees 93 69 --
2546 2)Baltimore Orioles 90 72 3
2547 3)Toronto Blue Jays 86 76 7
2548 4)Cleveland Indians 84 78 9
2549 5)Boston Red Sox 77 85 16
2550 6)Milwaukee Brewers 74 88 19
2551 7)Detroit Tigers 73 89 20
2552
2553 American League West W L GB
2554 1)Minnesota Twins 94 68 --
2555 2)Kansas City Royals 92 70 2
2556 3)Texas Rangers 85 77 9
2557 4)Chicago White Sox 77 85 17
2558 5)Oakland Athletics 74 88 20
2559 6)Seattle Mariners 70 92 24
2560 7)California Angels 65 97 29
2561
2562 AL MVP-Kirby Puckett
2563 AL Cy Young-Kevin Appier
2564 AL Rookie of the Year-Tim Salmon
2565 AL Manager of the Year-Buck Showalter
2566 AL Comeback Player of the Year-Ozzie Guillen
2567
2568 National League East W L GB
2569 1)St. Louis Cardinals 91 71 --
2570 2)Philadelphia Phillies 89 73 2
2571 3)Montreal Expos 88 74 3
2572 4)New York Mets 84 78 7
2573 5)Chicago Cubs 79 83 12
2574 6)Pittsburgh Pirates 73 89 18
2575 7)Florida Marlins 54 108 37
2576
2577 National League West W L GB
2578 1)Atlanta Braves 96 66 --
2579 2)Cincinnati Reds 94 68 2
2580 3)Houston Astros 89 73 7
2581 4)Los Angeles Dodgers 82 80 14
2582 5)San Francisco Giants 81 81 15
2583 6)San Diego Padres 75 87 21
2584 7)Colorado Rockies 59 103 37
2585
2586 NL MVP-Barry Larkin
2587 NL Cy Young-John Smoltz
2588 NL Rookie of the Year-Wil Cordero
2589 NL Manager of the Year-Joe Torre
2590 NL Comeback Player of the Year-Eric Davis
2591
2592 NL Champions-St. Louis Cardinals
2593 AL Champions-Minnesota Twins
2594 World Champions-St. Louis Cardinals
2595
2596 The St. Louis picks are what my heart says.
2597 What my brain says, is they will win the division, lose to the Braves
2598 in the NLCS, and the Braves will win the Series against Minnesota.
2599 But for now, I'll stick with the Cards all the way.qvXU
2600
2601
2602 Seems to me that I read in either a recent NY Times
2603 Science Times or maybe it was Science News that there is
2604 evidence that ex-smoker's risk of lung cancer never returns
2605 to that of a person who has never smoked (I think it may
2606 get close). I'll find the article and post it since my
2607 memory is hazy on the specifics - if you are interested.qwX
2608
2609
2610
2611
2612 Sorry, I should have been more specific. The 750 SS ran the quater in
2613 12.10 @ 108.17. The last small V-twin Duc we got in the US (and the 400 is
2614 a Pantah based V-twin) was the 500SL Pantah, and it ran a creditable 13.0 @
2615 103. Modern carbs and what not should put the 400 in the high 12s at 105.
2616
2617 BTW, FZR 400s ran mid 12s, and the latest crop of Japanese 400s will out
2618 run that. It's hard to remember, but but a new GOOF2 will clobber an old
2619 KZ1000 handily, both in top end and roll-on. Technology stands still for
2620 no-one...
2621 qxX�
2622
2623
2624 If you culture out the spirochete, it is virtually 100% certain
2625 the patient has Lyme. I suppose you could have contamination
2626 in an exceptionally sloppy lab, but normally not. There are no
2627 false positives.
2628
2629
2630 --
2631 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2632 Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
2633 geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon." qyX� If you get teh IIvx ->C650 upgrade, does it include a new sticker to
2634 cover the IIvx identifier with a Centris 650 indetifier?
2635
2636 jas
2637 --qzX@ Hi, baseball fans! So what do you say? Don't you think he deserves it?
2638 I
2639
2640 mean, heck, if Dave Winfield (ho-hum) is seriously being considered for it,
2641 as
2642
2643 is Lee Smith (ha), then why don't we give Dave Kingman a chance? Or Darrell
2644
2645 Evans! Yeah, yeah! After the Hall of Fame takes in them, it can take in
2646 Eddie
2647
2648 Murray and Jeff Reardon.
2649
2650 Well, in any case, I am sick and tired (mostly sick) of everybody
2651 giving
2652
2653 Hall of Fame consideration to players that are by today's standards,
2654 marginal.
2655
2656 Honestly, Ozzie Smith and Robin Yount don't belong there. They're both
2657
2658 shortstops that just hung around for a long time. Big deal.
2659
2660 Let's be a little more selective, huh? Stop handing out these honors
2661 so
2662
2663 liberally. Save them for the guys who really deserve it. Face it, if
2664 something
2665
2666 isn't done, there will be little prestige in the Hall of Fame anymore. When
2667
2668 certain individuals believe that Steve Garvey or Jack Morris are potential
2669
2670 candidates, the absurdity is apparent. Gee, can these guys even compare to
2671
2672 the more likely future Hall of Famers like Kirby Puckett or Nolan Ryan?
2673 q{X
2674
2675
2676
2677 First I've heard of it. Offhand:
2678
2679 Griffin is no longer an "office" head, so that's bad.
2680
2681 On the other hand:
2682
2683 Regress seemed to think: we can't fund anything by Griffin, because
2684 that would mean (and we have the lies by the old hardliners about the
2685 $ 400 billion mars mission to prove it) that we would be buying into a
2686 mission to Mars that would cost 400 billion. Therefore there will be
2687 no Artemis or 20 million dollar lunar orbiter et cetera...
2688
2689 They were killing Griffin's main program simply because some sycophants
2690 somewhere had Congress beleivin that to do so would simply be to buy into
2691 the same old stuff. Sorta like not giving aid to Yeltsin because he's
2692 a communist hardliner.
2693
2694 At least now the sort of reforms Griffin was trying to bring forward
2695 won't be trapped in their own little easily contained and defunded
2696 ghetto. That Griffin is staying in some capacity is very very very
2697 good. And if he brings something up, noone can say "why don't you go
2698 back to the OSE where you belong" (and where he couldn't even get money
2699 for design studies).q|X� Several years back one of the radar detectors manufacturers, in
2700 defiance to Virginia's law against radar detectors, passed out
2701 thousands of fake cardboard radar detectors at truck stops near
2702 the Virginia State lines. At that time there were no radar
2703 detector Detectors! I am not sure of the impact but I would
2704 imagine that enforcement of the law by visually sighting a
2705 radar detector became difficult - if not impossible!
2706
2707 As I said earlier, efforts to throw out or eliminate the VA law
2708 against radar detectors has been in vain. In fact, effective
2709 Jan. 1, 1993, the fine for possession of a radar detector
2710 accessable to the driver of a vehicle in VA is now $250.00.
2711
2712 I have noted an interesting anomality with my Alinco DR-100 2
2713 meter ham transceiver.... It will make a *cheap* radar detector
2714 scream! I am not sure of the range, but it is obvious by the
2715 brake lights that it can be at least 50 feet at 50 watts! :-)q}X� [...]
2716
2717 Wait a minute. I thought you said that Allah (I presume Allah == God) was unknowable,
2718 and yet here you are claiming to know a very concrete fact about him.
2719
2720 You say that God does not have a "face". Doesn't the bible say that God has hindparts?
2721
2722 How do you suggest I decide which (if any) of you is right? Or are you both right?
2723 God has hindparts but no face? Or does your use of quotation marks:
2724
2725 God does not have a "face".
2726
2727 allow you to interpret this to mean whatever you like?
2728 q~XY <<I wrote>
2729 <Is there a resource available to the consumer comparing all of the makes
2730 <and models of automobiles, trucks, vans, etc. for survivability in a
2731 <crash of different severities?
2732 <...
2733 <Also, I've found very little objective data comparing different
2734 <vehicles for handling, pick-up, braking, expected maintenance, etc.
2735 <I recall years ago Consumer Reports annual buyer's guide was much more
2736 <informative in those aspects than it is now.
2737
2738 Thanks to a reply from someone I looked a little further and found what
2739 I was looking for. The April CR magazine has most of the above things.
2740 Despite recent articles here the ratings looked pretty good for
2741 relative comparison purposes. Unfortunately the crash test comparisons
2742 didn't include half of the cars I'm comparing.
2743 Anybody know how '93 Honda Civic hatchbacks and Toyota Tercels fare in
2744 an accident?
2745
2746 qX� I need to know the Pins to connect to make a loopback connector for a serial
2747 port so I can build one. The loopback connector is used to test the
2748 serial port.
2749
2750 Thanks for any help.
2751 q�X
2752 writes a "Who woulda thunk it" article which is really the same piece
2753 every time. "Who would have thought that [Buddy Biancalana] would have
2754 more home runs than [the Colorado Rockies, Babe Ruth, Omar Vizquel and
2755 Nolan Ryan] COMBINED!" He's an idiot, if it's the same guy.
2756 q�X�
2757 This is a good point, but I think "average" people do not take up Christianity
2758 so much out of fear or escapism, but, quite simply, as a way to improve their
2759 social life, or to get more involved with American culture, if they are kids of
2760 immigrants for example. Since it is the overwhelming major religion in the
2761 Western World (in some form or other), it is simply the choice people take if
2762 they are bored and want to do something new with their lives, but not somethong
2763 TOO new, or TOO out of the ordinary. Seems a little weak, but as long as it
2764 doesn't hurt anybody...
2765
2766
2767 These are good quotes, and I agree with both of them, but let's make sure to
2768 alter the scond one so that includes something like "...let him be, as long as
2769 he is not preventing others from finding their peace." or something like that.
2770 (Of course, I suppose, if someone were REALLY "at peace", there would be no
2771 need for inflicting evangelism)
2772
2773
2774 Well, it is a sure thing we will have to live with them all our lives. Their
2775 popularity seems to come and go. I remember when I first entered High School,
2776 I was an atheist (always had been) and so were about 7 of my friends. At this
2777 time, 5 of those 7 have converted, always to Christianity (they were all also
2778 immigrants from Taiwan, or sons of immigrants, hence my earlier gross
2779 generalization). Christianity seems a lot more popular to people now than it
2780 ever has before (since I've been noticing). Maybe it is just my perceptions
2781 that are chagning. Who knows?
2782 I for one am perfectly willing to live and let live with them, so long as we
2783 have some set of abstract rights/agreements on how we should treat each other:
2784 I have no desire to be hurt by them or their notions. For all the well-put
2785 arguments on this usenet, it never does any good. Argumentation does not
2786 really seem to apply to Christians (or even some atheists)- it must simply be a
2787 step the person takes naturally, almost, "instinctively"...
2788
2789
2790 best regards,
2791
2792 ********************************************************************************
2793 * Adam John Cooper "Verily, often have I laughed at the weaklings *
2794 * who thought themselves good simply because *
2795 * acooper@macalstr.edu they had no claws." *
2796 ********************************************************************************q�XI
2797 How exactly would Ferreira accomplished this? The three-headed GM-ship has
2798 taken a lot of heat, but nobody's explained how things would have been any
2799 different had Ferreira still been there. Would Ferreira have made more
2800 trades? Who would have he had traded? Would he have made fewer trades?
2801 Who should not have been traded?q�Xj Tonight in Boston, the Buffalo Sabres blanked the Boston
2802 Bruins 4-0 tonight in Boston. Looks like Boston can hang
2803 this season up, because Buffalo's home record is awesome!!!!
2804 This is great.. Buffalo fans might get to see revenge for
2805 last year!!!!! :)
2806 --
2807 delarocq@eos.ncsu.edu
2808
2809
2810
2811 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2812 1988,1989,1990,1991 AFC East Division Champions
2813 1991,1992, AND 1993 AFC Conference Champions!!!!!!!! :)
2814
2815 Squished the Fish ............... Monday Night Football, November 16, 1992..
2816 SQUISHED THE TRASH TALKING FISH.. AFC CHAMPIONSHIP, JANUARY 17, 1992..q�X� Hey everyone, I'm new to this newsgroup so please excuse me if this is a
2817 dumb question....I want to build a crossover for my stereo and I need
2818 a coil with an inductance of 6.8mH (actually I need 4). I was wondering
2819 if anyone knew where I could buy these or how to make these. I've called
2820 many places and no one I can find sells them. If you have the answers just
2821 E - mail me....
2822 Thanks in advance....
2823 Chris
2824
2825
2826
2827 q�Xa {Kris Gleason} said
2828 "Re: what to do with old 2"
2829 to <All> on 04-15-93 11:02
2830 KG> Yeah... keychains. I have seen 64K simms with a silver
2831 KG> keyring attached, big seller at the computer store. I'm
2832 KG> sure you could find a bunch of geeks^H^H^H^H^H^H computer
2833 KG> science majors around that would buy them for $10. Maybe
2834 KG> $15, if you're lucky.
2835
2836 Untrue they would check JDR first and say 5. That's how much
2837 they are worth AT MOST. My guess is they are worth 1 buck
2838 a peice.
2839
2840 Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
2841 Mangled on Sat 04-17-1993 at 20:26:37q�X�
2842 The same Bill James? Why do you say that? It sounds like you're suggesting
2843 Bill James had something to do with overhyping the kid to death. Au contraire;
2844 he was fairly critical of him after his ROY campaign, noting that he wasn't
2845 all-world as a catcher or a hitter. He called him basically average when
2846 everyone *else* in the media was predicting the next Johnny Bench or Roy
2847 Campanella.
2848
2849
2850 Which reports are those?
2851
2852
2853 I like Hernandez a lot, but if Piazza can catch the ball, you've gotta play
2854 him IMHO. He's a much better hitter, although Hernandez isn't a *bad* hitter.
2855 Right now, it sounds like Piazza will catch most of the time and Hernandez
2856 will be Candiotti's caddy since he can catch the knuckler. As long as they
2857 play up to their abilities, the Dodgers could have a very good catching
2858 tandem.
2859
2860
2861 I think both are overrated defensively (see Nichols' Law of catcher
2862 defense), but that's something that's difficult to prove or disprove from
2863 your viewpoint or mine. About the only tangible thing we can look at is
2864 opponent's SB%, and that's clouded by how well your pitchers hold runners.
2865 Catchers ERA is a possibility, but it's subject to way too many biases.
2866
2867 As for them 'playing on a team that is not so much in need of another big
2868 bat', I disagree here too. About the only chink in the Braves' armor is that
2869 they're weak offensively at several positions (CF, C, 2B, SS if Belliard
2870 plays, 1B unless Bream and Hunter form another super-platoon) and very weak
2871 defensively if Blauser plays. I'd like to see the Braves give at least one of
2872 Mel Nieves, Javy Lopez or Chipper Jones a shot, but much like the talent-rich
2873 Jays of recent years they'll be conservative and stick with what they have.
2874 I'm not saying that's wrong, just conservative.
2875 q�X�
2876 If we do, I think you'd loose. Sure, you're hand's already on the
2877 throttle. And your thumb is already near the horn button. Pushing the
2878 horn button is one simple move. Revving the throttle requires either
2879 engaging the clutch, or accelerating. The first is a more complex
2880 manuver than a simple horn button push, and the second ain't too bright
2881 when there is a potential hazard ahead. Besides, the unique sound of a
2882 horn is more effective in attracting the attention of BDI cagers than
2883 is the sound of an engine, which is what they expect to hear (you are
2884 on the road!).
2885
2886 As is usually the case, a single anecdote hardly constitutes sound
2887 safety procedure.
2888
2889 The answer is 161.33 feet.
2890 q�h9X# (I deleted your name because I don't want to sound accusative in my remark)
2891 I'm not going to argue the issue of carrying weapons, but I would ask you if
2892 you would have thought seriously about shooting a kid for setting off your
2893 alarm? I can think of worse things in the world. Glad you got out of there
2894 before they did anything to give you a reason to fire your gun.
2895
2896 We can all ask "what's happening to society these days", but don't forget to
2897 ask another important question too: What effort am I expending to make it any
2898 different than it is?q�X�
2899
2900
2901
2902
2903 I'm not sure I understand this question. When the IF rule is invoked,
2904 the batter is automatically out. This relieves the runners from being
2905 forced to advance to the next base if the ball is not caught. Other
2906 than that, isn't it just the same as any situation in which a runner on
2907 a base is not forced to the next base on a dropped fly ball? That is,
2908 if the ball is caught he can tag up and run (or decide to stay), and
2909 if the ball is dropped he can have left the base at any time.
2910 q�X8
2911 We're probably stuck, as Mike Burger pointed out that the baseball
2912 deal was made far in advance of the NHL contract. WABC did the same
2913 thing; they were thankful that the Devils were wiped out by 9:30,
2914 because they had to switch over to Yankees baseball. The proof of
2915 the reasons for this is left to the reader ...
2916
2917 It's too bad, but I wonder if ESPN is stuck with other US local team
2918 coverage for their alternate games? We got NESN's coverage of the
2919 Bruins-Sabres with the Boston homers ... they were awful!!! I've read
2920 that Derek Sanderson is the colour analyst ... I wonder if he spent
2921 his early years after hockey as an intern at PRAVDA before landing
2922 this job? *Everything* had to be twisted into something good to say
2923 about the Bruin(s) involved ... not even Bill Wirtz's shills on SC
2924 Chicago (Pat Foley, Dale Tallon) were this bad. And just to be fair,
2925 SC used to take their feed from ESN (Empire Sports Network), the Sabre
2926 homers and they were horrible too ... but they were spacy.
2927
2928 From the CNN highlights, I hear Chris Cuthbert's voice from the CBC
2929 coverage of the Habs-Nords series. Too bad that we couldn't get it
2930 on ESPN, with all due respect to the Sabres and the Bruins.
2931
2932 Mike Emrick is substituting on the Devils SCNY team for Gary Thorne.
2933 Mike was the original Devils TV play-by-play announcer, by the way.
2934
2935 gldq�X�
2936 The Fujitsu 2322 uses what is known as an 'SMD' interface (Storage Module
2937 Device?). A lot of older minis used it. Sun still does on their server
2938 models. There are several different speeds of SMD, and I think that the
2939 Fuji drive you have is rated at about 24 Mb/sec (thats megabits). There
2940 used to be several companies that made couplers for the PC (Interphase in
2941 Texas being one), but I think that the market pretty much has dried up.
2942 Controllers for this type of drive are readily available for VME buses
2943 though. Rumor has it that there is a SMD to SCSI adapter available, but
2944 I think that it was designed for slower SMD devices. In other words,
2945 if you have a PC or Mac, that drive is pretty much dogmeat.
2946 Cheers,
2947 Corwin
2948 q�X I'm trying to transfer some software between two machines
2949 and I'm having real trouble. My own Intel 14.4k (
2950 v32/v32bis/v42/v42bis) works fine--I just talk to it
2951 at 56k and everything comes out clear. This other modem,
2952 at the other machine, is a "Turbomodem+" from "The
2953 Complete PC" (the machines are in seperate houses,
2954 so a direct serial link is impossible, and copying this
2955 much data to disk is a pain--easier to turn the machines
2956 on for a few hours and go see a movie--no, this is not
2957 pirated software).
2958
2959 I am having no end of trouble trying to set it up. It will
2960 dial and connect just fine--at 9600 baud. But if I try to
2961 set the comm at 19k2, 38.4k or 56kbps, the stupid thing
2962 connects, but just gives garbage (it connects 14.4k).
2963 His machine (a dx48633) has a 16550AFN UART, so that's
2964 not the problem.
2965
2966 It seems to me that the stupid thing wants to talk to
2967 a comm program _at_ 14.400bps, even though it will take
2968 dialing instructions at 56k (and respond OK, etc. to
2969 other commands). I don't have a comm program that can
2970 do precisely 14.4k.
2971
2972 I looked at the manual but it was unclear. All I know is,
2973 I didn't have this trouble with the Intel--it came
2974 ready to connect this way. Do I need to initialize it
2975 any way in particular?
2976
2977 Also, it's _using_ V.42bis and V.42 (and MNP5) when connecting
2978 here (i.e., at 9600, since our tests at 14k4 are zip so far)
2979 but it doesn't _say_ so there. any ideas?
2980
2981 (BTW: I tried the initialization string that I use for
2982 my modem, but it just gives ERROR on that one)
2983
2984 q�X�
2985 According to the (seen several times) postings from Dale Adams of Apple
2986 Computer, both the 610 and the 650 require 80ns SIMMS - NOT 60 ns. Only
2987 the Centris 800 requires 60 ns SIMMs.q�X� In Article <1993Apr16.075822.22121@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
2988
2989 60ns 72 pin simms.
2990
2991 2 configs: 4mb & 8mb. In each case the memory is soldered on the board
2992 leaving the 4 simm sockets open. 132mb is the total addressable memory for a
2993 650.
2994
2995 q�X! You can't. But good luck trying.q�X, I was recently thumbing through the 1993 Lemon-Aid New
2996 Car Guide. What I found was a car would be given a 'Recommended'
2997 under the picture while a few sentences later noting how a
2998 driver and passenger were virtually guaranteed to be killed
2999 in a front end collision. The most highly recommended small
3000 car (The Civic) has the worst crash rating of all of the small
3001 cars listed. There were many such cases of 'great' vehicles
3002 where you wouldn't survive an accident. Is it only me, or is
3003 safety not one of the most important factors when buying a car?
3004
3005
3006 q�X Hartford 1 1 3--5
3007 NY Rangers 1 2 1--4
3008 First period
3009 1, Hartford, Cunneyworth 5 (Janssens, Greig) 12:21.
3010 2, NY Rangers, Graves 34 (Turcotte, Zubov) 18:39.
3011 Second period
3012 3, NY Rangers, Kovalev 19 (Turcotte, Graves) 2:12.
3013 4, Hartford, Sanderson 44 (Cassels) pp, 4:54.
3014 5, NY Rangers, Amonte 30 (Andersson, Vanbiesbrouck) pp, 19:13.
3015 Third period
3016 6, NY Rangers, M.Messier 25 (Amonte, Andersson) 2:26.
3017 7, Hartford, Sanderson 45 (Cassels) sh, 5:23.
3018 8, Hartford, Nylander 6 (Ladouceur) 8:35.
3019 9, Hartford, Verbeek 36 (Zalapski) 17:43.
3020
3021 Hartford: 5 Power play: 4-1 Special goals: pp: 1 sh: 1 Total: 2
3022 Scorer G A Pts
3023 --------------- --- --- ---
3024 Cassels 0 2 2
3025 Cunneyworth 1 0 1
3026 Greig 0 1 1
3027 Janssens 0 1 1
3028 Ladouceur 0 1 1
3029 Nylander 1 0 1
3030 Sanderson 2 0 2
3031 Verbeek 1 0 1
3032 Zalapski 0 1 1q�X� }Honda: a "V" designates a V engine street bike. "VF" for V-4, "VT" for V-twin.
3033
3034 So how about my Honda Hawk (NT 650)? It's a twin, but not called a VT.q�X B.S. about darkness deleted.
3035 nope The Royals are the only team in the majors that have not
3036 finished in last place. ^^^^ Of course this doesn't include
3037 the marlins and the rockies but they have a good chance at
3038 finishing last also.
3039
3040
3041 q�X�
3042
3043 I don't think so at first, but solid state offered better reliabity,
3044 id bet, and any lower costs would be only after the processes really scaled up.q�X� The 3FGx has a maximum horizontal scan rate of 49KHz, so driving it
3045 at 60.24KHz to get 1024 x 768 on the Mac is WAY BEYOND the tolerance The 4FG is spec'ed at 57KHz, so going 60.24KHz is only 5-6% above
3046 the minimally guaranteed figure.
3047
3048 I too doubt if the Damark monitor would sync to a Mac at 1024 x 768. Like most things, you get what you pay. That's the deal.
3049
3050 -John Rutirasiri.q�X>
3051
3052 Well, had you been a bit less exuberant in both the tone and substance of
3053 your predictions, the responses would probably have been a bit more
3054 measured. Be that as it may....
3055
3056 Clemens is always in this form, and Viola isn't really performing beyond
3057 what might reasonably have been expected. How do you know that the Sox are
3058 responding to them, and not to Al Bumbry, Hobson, or (my most likely
3059 suspect) new hitting coach Mike Easler? I certainly am more likely to give
3060 Easler credit for Mo Vaughhn's hot start than Clemens or Viola.
3061
3062 This was the optimistic scenario, but not unreasonably so. He hasn't shown
3063 much power yet, though.
3064
3065 How can you tell that Dawson is providing the leadership? Perhaps it's
3066 Calderon? Perhaps it's Clemens and Viola? Maybe Hobson is finally showing
3067 those people skills he was supposed to have when they hired him. Or maybe
3068 it's all a myth. And Dawson has been hitting reasonably well, but not as
3069 well as Greenwell, Vaughn, Cooper, or Fletcher.
3070
3071 In three games. Why don't we look at this one again in, say, July?
3072
3073 A bit better than could reasonably have been expected. But don't forget that
3074 Zupcic looked like Wade Boggs lite for about 75 AB's last year. Beware of
3075 small sample sizes. Still, if Fletcher hits as well as he did last year he'd
3076 be a great improvement over any Sox leadoff hitter from last year. Be aware
3077 that his career numbers seem to indicate that he puts up good numbers as
3078 long as he doesn't have to make more than 300 AB or so in a year.
3079
3080 Ummm...sorry, no. I can buy the "in the field" part, and I think he'll be
3081 better at the plate than the 1992 Boggs, but in general Cooper, while he'll
3082 be a pretty good hitter, couldn't carry Boggs' jockstrap. With a little
3083 luck, he could be the fourth or fifth best 3B in the AL (Martinez, Boggs,
3084 Ventura, and Palmer will all be better).
3085
3086
3087 See, here is where you make that quick left turn off into the aether. .500
3088 is plausible, third is not unlikely, but phrases like "could run away with
3089 the division" are likely to get you a visit from the men in the white
3090 coats. It's not really clear that their staff is better than last year. If
3091 Russell does well, Darwin doesn't go on the DL, and Hesketh doesn't pitch
3092 just barely well enough to avoid losing his spot in the rotation, they could
3093 be better. On the other hand, if Hesketh pitches miserably and they're too
3094 stupid to move him to the pen and bring up Conroy or somebody, Fossas
3095 continues to pitch dismally but they keep giving him innings becasue he's a
3096 lefty, and Russell explodes they could be pretty bad.
3097
3098 Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.comq�X� Thanks, Steve, for your helpful and informative comments on Mac stereo
3099 sound.
3100
3101 Too bad some developers aren't addressing the problem.
3102
3103 This did make my trusty old Mac II superior to the Quadra I replaced
3104 it with in one way though! :)
3105
3106
3107 Thanks,q�Xs I'm looking for a sport-cruiser - factory installed fairings (
3108 full/half ), hard saddle bags, 750cc and above, and all that and still
3109 has that sporty look.
3110
3111 I particularly like the R100RS and K75 RT or S, or any of the K series
3112 BMW bikes.
3113
3114 I was wondering if there are any other comparable type bikes being
3115 produced by companies other than BMW.
3116
3117 Thanks for the info,
3118 Jae
3119 q�X� why does my keyboard not have a cents key ?
3120 C
3121
3122 like to have my 2 cents worth or $ 0.02 (boaring)
3123
3124 -David
3125
3126 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=q�X� Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used
3127 to compute sunrise and sunset times.
3128
3129 I would appreciate any advice.q�Xq
3130
3131
3132
3133
3134
3135 No one says you have to read any of it Ralph.. Go play in traffic.., or take
3136 a nap... They work for me.. q�X They
3137 three
3138 more
3139 division.
3140
3141 Jason, I am going to a yankee game wed night at cleveland stadium. I am so
3142 happy.
3143
3144
3145 But Cleveland is a very bad team who lost severalrs. They were an up and
3146 coming team, now they are just a sad excuse for a better average.
3147
3148 q�X"
3149
3150
3151
3152
3153
3154
3155 Yeah, do you expect people to read the FAQ, etc. and actually accept hard
3156 atheism? No, you need a little leap of faith, Jimmy. Your logic runs out
3157 of steam!
3158
3159
3160
3161
3162
3163
3164
3165 Jim,
3166
3167 Sorry I can't pity you, Jim. And I'm sorry that you have these feelings of
3168 denial about the faith you need to get by. Oh well, just pretend that it will
3169 all end happily ever after anyway. Maybe if you start a new newsgroup,
3170 alt.atheist.hard, you won't be bummin' so much?
3171
3172
3173
3174
3175
3176
3177 Bye-Bye, Big Jim. Don't forget your Flintstone's Chewables! :)
3178 --
3179 Bake Timmons, IIIq�X^ The Red Sox usually have 2 catchers. I don't think they have a backup now,
3180 but they used to use Randy Kutcher as a backup catcher, as well as a middle
3181 infielder and outfielder. You don't need a good 3rd catcher, just a
3182 competent one, so you can afford to lose a little catching ability and pick
3183 a player who can be of use elsewhere on the field.
3184
3185
3186 q�X
3187
3188
3189 This is indeed one function, but more sophisticated ones do level control
3190 and ground-lift (separating the keyboard and mixer earths) aswell.
3191
3192
3193 Simple ones are just that - a transformer. A decent quality audio trans-
3194 former will cost most of that $50. They are wired thus...
3195
3196
3197 HOT --------------| |----------------- HOT
3198 )||(
3199 Input from )||( Balanced out to mixer
3200 Keyboard )||(
3201 | |----------------- COLD
3202 |
3203 GND --------------|-------------------- GND
3204
3205 The ground-lift switch disconnects the GND line from the mixer. The
3206 transformer ratio depends on the precise application, but around 10:1
3207 turns ratio may be a good place to start.
3208
3209 Christopherq�X� just a suggestion:
3210 take a motorola mc14536B set it up to give you a pulse once every sec or ten
3211 secs with either a RC or xtal clock input. then feed to a MC14521B as clock
3212 input and decode output for 1,209,600 sec output ,might have to add a few 'and'
3213 gates or decoder chips to get output and reset pulse back to the'521 to restart
3214 cycle... Trigger a oneshot from the decoded riseing edge ;the one shot then
3215 goes to a mosfet to drive the mechanism to fire the pellet launcher..
3216 these ckts require uAmps of current,between 5 - 15 volts, so a 12 volt
3217 gel cell of a few Amphours would last the six weeks.
3218 Then take the ckt board & battery wrap in 3" or 4" of foam or build a box
3219 of out of the stuff...with plywood or metal exterior...
3220 build a small heater out of 10-50 Watt resistors in series to keep the battery
3221 and ckts warm.
3222 2nd thought use 2 batteries one for heater one for timer and pellet trigger.
3223
3224 Insolate-insolate.......even though the chips state that the - AL
3225 rated devices are good to -55 C.. The batteries have a considerable reduction
3226 in capacity...oh make sure the area inside has minium air leakage..
3227
3228 hope this helps
3229 RW ( is this to long winded for the net??)(be gentle)...q�X�
3230 Well, you really can't dig a hole with a stock Shovel; you at least need some
3231 performance mods like stroking and cams. Besides, it's REAL bad on the
3232 rear tire.q�X!
3233 HI,
3234 Recently, when I run the Norton Disk surface test, I realize a slow
3235 down in harddisk accessing. At begining of the test, the harddisk will
3236 be checked at the speed that usually is. As the surface test scaned
3237 half way through my harddisk, a tremendous slow down occured. The
3238 expected time for operation will jump from 3 to 6 minutes. I try to use
3239 some of the harddisk tools to check if there is any physical damage to
3240 my harddisk and report always turn out to be none. The surface test
3241 only slow down for a certain section of the disk and turn back to the
3242 original speed after it gets over the section. I am wondering whether
3243 it is a harddisk problem or some other problems. Anyway help or comment
3244 will be appriciate....
3245 Shane Cheney Wang
3246 q�X
3247 The father of a friend of mine is a police officer in West Virginia. Not
3248 only is his word as a skilled observer good in court, but his skill as an
3249 observer has been tested to be more accurate than the radar gun in some
3250 cases . . .. No foolin! He can guess a car's speed to within 2-3mph just
3251 by watching it blow by - whether he's standing still or moving too! (Yes,
3252 I realize that calibrated guns are more accurate than this, but . . .).
3253 His ability is not that uncommon among people who watch moving things for a
3254 living, I have heard . . ..
3255
3256 So what good is a radar detector except to give you a split second warning
3257 that the guy who just cut you off to pass the guy ahead and to your left
3258 is about to panic stop from 85 on a crowded freeway???q�XE :
3259 : McGuire's makes a plastic scratch/removing compound and a plastic
3260 : polishing compound which really work great as well.
3261
3262 A useful tip.
3263
3264 How about someone letting me know MOTORCYCLE DETAILING TIP #19 ?
3265
3266 The far side of my instrument panel was scuffed when the previous owner
3267 dumped the bike. Same is true for one of the turn signals.
3268
3269 Both of the scuffed areas are black plastic.
3270
3271 I recall reading somewhere, that there was some plastic compound you could coat
3272 the scuffed areas with, then rub it down, ending with a nice smooth shiny
3273 finish ?
3274
3275 Anyone any ideas.
3276
3277 thanks
3278
3279 tonyq�X� : I think Dean got hit by a pitched ball the other night... he got pinch hit for
3280 : and didn't play against Baltimore tonight... whats up with that? Is he hurt?
3281 : Please tell me he's not...
3282
3283 He evidentally got hit in the elbow by a Fernando pitch. His arm swelled
3284 from the elbow to the wrist (or something like that). They took X-rays
3285 of the arm and there is nothing damaged. He missed the last game with the
3286 Orioles, but he is suppose to be ready for the next game.
3287
3288 Hope this helps.q�Xa
3289 Didn't Alicea get a hit, though?
3290
3291 See y'all at the ballyard
3292 Go Braves
3293 Chop Chop
3294
3295 Michael Mule'
3296 q�X7 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
3297 Don't be so sure, the Blues played the Hawks pretty well this season,
3298 and won twice at the Stadium. The Blues will give the Hawks a hard time.
3299 This series is one of the best first round matchups, could go either way.
3300 The Hawks will probably prevail in seven games.q�X� As the subject says - Can I use a 4052 for digital signals? I don't see
3301 why it couldn't handle digital signals, but I could be wrong. Anyone have
3302 any advice? Thanks.
3303 q�X) ) The documentation says that Wordperfect for windows, requires 4 M of ram, but
3304 )when I try to install it on my laptop I get a not enough memory error message.
3305 )I've unloaded everything that I possibly could but still, NOT ENOUGH MEMORY.
3306 )Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening. q�X� On the other side of the fence, I owned a Bieffe off-road helmet.
3307 Took what I would consider a minor fall, and had visible damage
3308 to the shell. Yes, the helmet did its job. But the damage/impact
3309 ratio was scary. I own Bell Moto-5 now, have taken impacts on
3310 order of twice the Bieffe impact (we do this frequently in MX),
3311 and don't even have a scratch on it after two seasons. My
3312 recommendation is to buy _high_ quality gear. YMMV.q�X{
3313 I, too, have a XC68882RC50 math coprocessor, which I installed
3314 succesfully in my Mega Midget Racer (clocked at 33 MHz). I have tried
3315 clocking my FPU at 28 to 50 MHz and it all worked just fine. I have a
3316 MC68030-33 CPU. I don't know why my FPU has an XC (my original 33MHz FPU
3317 was label MC68882-33), but it seems to work fine on my system. Maybe you
3318 just have a bad chip.
3319
3320 Stefanq�X� Ditto...
3321
3322 If we allow people like him to continue to do what he does, it's a
3323 shame. People say that cheap shots and drawing penalties by fake-
3324 ing is part of the game, I say "Bullsh-t!". If he ever tried some
3325 like that on a Yzerman, he'd would have to deal with Probert now
3326 wouldn't he? What Ulf does isn't even retaliatory! There's now
3327 way one could justify what he does and if they do they're fools.
3328 q�Xb Does anybody else think that WS stats should become part of
3329 a player's career stats? Why not?
3330
3331 q�h9X� For an upcoming project I want to use 4 Megs of DRAM configured as two 2
3332 Meg banks of 16 bit data. I was wondering if anyone out there knows of a
3333 DRAM controller which will handle refreshing the data. It's ok if the
3334 controller doesn't handle bank switching - that part is easy.
3335
3336 The only controllers I know of are the ones out of the National
3337 Semiconductor DRAM Management Handbook (1988 edition) eg. DP8429. I would
3338 like to know if another manufacturer produces one which may be easier to
3339 implement in my circuit.
3340
3341 BTW, if anyone is wanting to hook up DRAM to a microcontroller, Dallas
3342 Semiconductor makes a neat chip: the DS1262 Serial DRAM Nonvolatizer
3343 Chip. It uses the SPI (I2C) bus and refreshes/controls up to 16Mx1 of DRAM
3344 memory. It can use an external battery to refresh the DRAM when the
3345 power is off. Price is $11.75 from Dallas (quan 1). I wish I could use
3346 this chip but its maximum SPI clock rate is 1 MHz (too slow for me...).
3347
3348 Thanks in advance,
3349
3350 Wayne Schellekens
3351 <schellew@wu2.wl.aecl.ca>q�X�
3352 I think it all depends on your motherboard and the cards you have in your system. Your HD stopped boot probably because your HD controller can't handle the faster BUS speed. I have a 486-33DX, I set my bus divider to CLK/2.5, that is close to 13MHz. I can gain singificant performace increase on my Video card and harddisk transfer rate when I boost the bus speed. And my system work flawlessly under this setting. And you know what, when I go to CLK/2(17MHz BUS), my HD refuse to boot.
3353
3354 Just my 2 cent.q�h9h9X�
3355 My T-Bird SC's manual says to replace the platinum plugs every 60,000mi.
3356 Wal-Mart has Autolite platinum plugs for $2.00 each. Are these "real"
3357 platinum plugs? (I had Bosch platinums in my '80 Fiesta and my dad
3358 had 'em in his '84 Bronco--note the keyword "had." They didn't last
3359 very long (much less than 50,000mi) before they had to be replaced.
3360 I agree that they weren't the greatest.)
3361
3362 Jamesq�X�
3363
3364 George.
3365
3366 It's called a democracy. The majority rules. sorry.
3367 If ytou don't like it, I suggest you modify the constitution to include
3368 a constitutional right to Dark Skies. The theory of government
3369 here is that the majority rules, except in the nature of fundamental
3370 civil rights. If you really are annoyed, get some legislation
3371 to create a dark sky zone, where in all light emissions are protected
3372 in the zone. Kind of like the national radio quiet zone. Did you
3373 know about that? near teh Radio telescope observatory in West virginia,
3374 they have a 90?????? mile EMCON zone. Theoretically they can prevent
3375 you from running light AC motors, like air conditioners and Vacuums.
3376 In practice, they use it mostly to control large radio users.q�X`
3377 Poor Matthew. A million posters to call "you car drivers" and he
3378 chooses me, a non car owner.q�XI Okay, I don't use it very much, but I would like for it to keep working
3379 correctly, at least as long as Apple continues to make System software
3380 that will run on it, if slowly :-)
3381
3382 Here is the problem: When the screen is tilted too far back, vertical
3383 lines appear on the screen. They are every 10 pixels or so, and seem
3384 to be affected somewhat by opening windows and pulling down menus.
3385 It looks to a semi-technical person like there is a loose connection
3386 between the screen and the rest of the computer.
3387
3388 I am open to suggestions that do not involve buying a new computer,
3389 or taking this one to the shop. I would also like to not have
3390 to buy one of Larry Pina's books. I like Larry, but I'm not sure
3391 I feel strongly enough about the computer to buy a service manual
3392 for it.
3393
3394 On a related note: what does the monitor connector connect to?q�X�' There has been quite a bit of discussion about house wiring and grounding
3395 practices here. A few points need to be clarified:
3396
3397 The Equipment GROUNDING conductor, Green, green with a yellow stripe, bare, or
3398 the metal sheath or pipe of SOME wiring methods, is used as a safety ground, to
3399 carry fault currents back to the circuit breaker panel, and to limit the
3400 voltage on the metal case of utilization equipment or other metal objects. It
3401 should never (except for a few exceptions to be discussed later) carry the
3402 normal operating current of a connected load. Some equipment has filters in
3403 the power supply which may cause some slight current flow through the grounding
3404 conductor.
3405
3406 Much communications or audio equipment is sensitive to noise or slight voltages
3407 on the grounding conductor, and may require special wiring of the grounding
3408 conductors to provide reliable operation ("orange" outlets are often used for
3409 this, with insulated grounding conductors wired back to the panel box, and in
3410 many cases back to the service. Anyone installing such a system should read
3411 both the section on grounding in the National Electric Code and publications on
3412 installing quiet isolated ground systems. The code requires the insulated
3413 grounding conductors (green wires) to run with the current carrying conductors
3414 back to the panel box, and, if required, back all the way to the service
3415 entrance , where it is bonded to the service ground (water pipe or rod) Many
3416 of these systems are installed illegally or unsafely, where they do not provide
3417 a safe ground or a quiet ground or either.
3418
3419 The GROUNDED conductor of a circuit, often called the NEUTRAL, which is
3420 referred to in the code as the "identified" conductor and is supposed to be
3421 white or natural grey. This conductor is supposed to be connected to ground in
3422 most electrical systems at a single point, generally at the service entrance
3423 panel. This connection is through the Main Bonding Jumper. (In many household
3424 service panels, the main bonding jumper is actually a bonding screw which
3425 attaches the neutral busbar to the case of the panel)
3426
3427 The Grounded conductor (neutral) is generally a current carrying conductor. In
3428 the case of a 120 volt circuit it is one of the two conductors completing the
3429 circuit from the panel to the load device.
3430
3431 Since the grounded conductor (neutral) is only connected to the grounding
3432 conductor (bare or green) at the service entrance, if the load is any distance
3433 from the service and draws any significant current, there will be a small but
3434 measurable voltage between the grounded and grounding conductors at the load,
3435 under normal operating conditions. If you should (incorrectly) connect the
3436 grounded (neutral) conductor to the grounding conductor at the load, some of
3437 the neutral current will flow instead through the grounding conductor. Since
3438 there will now be current flowing through the grounding conductor, it will also
3439 no longer be quite at ground potential at the load end. If the load equipment
3440 has a metal case, which is connected to the grounding conductor through the "U"
3441 ground plug, the metal case is now also no longer quite at ground potential.
3442 The difference (under normal, non short-circuit conditions) may be only a few
3443 tenths of a volt, but it could also be a volt or two. This normally does not
3444 present a shock hazard.
3445
3446 HOWEVER, if you let the metal case of the grounded equipment come into contact
3447 with an independently grounded object such as a water or gas pipe, a radiator,
3448 a metal air conditioning duct or such, part of the neutral current will try to
3449 flow through this aalternate ground path. If the contact is not solid, you
3450 will get a significant arc (a low voltage, but possibly moderate current arc)
3451 Under the wrong conditions, this arcing could start a fire. It is possible in
3452 some cases that the sneak ground current could also flow through a wire of
3453 inadequate size, causing it to overheat.
3454
3455 With the incorrect non single-point grounding of the neutral, if there is a
3456 short circuit from hot to neutral, the high short circuit current which may
3457 flow will cause a much higher voltage on the grounding conductor, which
3458 increases the possibility for shock or fire.
3459
3460 Also if you incorrectly multiply connect the neutral and ground, the voltage on
3461 the ground system is seen as noise bu computer or audio equipment, often
3462 causing malfunction. I have spent some hours tracking down such shorts in
3463 technical facilities where they were inducing severe hum into equipment.
3464
3465 The Neutral is usually bonded to the ground at the distribution transformer as
3466 well as at the service entrance of each dwelling. This is done primarily for
3467 lightning protection, so that induced lightning currents have a short path back
3468 to ground, and also to assure that the currents drawn by shorts to grounded
3469 objects like pipes draw enough current to trip circuit breakers or blow fuses
3470 quickly. The bad side of this is that not all the neutral current from the
3471 dwelling goes through the neutral wire back to the transformer. Some of it
3472 flows through the grounding electrode (water pipe, etc.) this may cause
3473 corrosion in the pipes and possibly in things like underground fuel oil tanks,
3474 and it may also cause measurable AC magnetic fields due to the large loop
3475 between the "hot" conductors in the service and the neutral current in the
3476 water pipe and ground. There are those who feel these fields may be unhealthy.
3477 (don't flame ME on this, I'm just telling you where the field comes from, not
3478 it's health effect, as far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out on this.)
3479
3480 Note that the bonding jumper is only installed at the main panel, NOT at any
3481 sub distribution panels. This is one reason why it is illegal to run service
3482 entrance cable with the sheath used as a neutral to a sub panel, you must have
3483 a seperate insulated conductor for the neutral. The sheath can be used in this
3484 application only as the groundING conductor. If the neutral is bonded to the
3485 grounding conductor in the sub panel, say by forgetting to remove the bonding
3486 screw, all the grounding conductors of the loads on that panel will be above
3487 ground, with the possible problems listed above.
3488
3489 The code makes exceptions for ranges and dryers, as well as feeds from one
3490 building to another. In the cases of the range and dryer, the neutral may be
3491 used as the equipment ground under certain conditions, instead of a seperate
3492 wire. Every time the code is revised, these exceptions come up for review.
3493 These exceptions were, in fact the first required safety grounds, in the days
3494 before U ground outlets and such. The appliance manufacturers don't want to
3495 have to redesign their ranges and driers, and the contractors don't want to
3496 have to run four wire cable (with four fairly heavy, expensive wires) in place
3497 of three wire to the appliances. No question it would be safer with seperate
3498 neutrals to the stove, but the neutral current is low for most burner settings
3499 (since most current is in the 220 volt "hots" except at some low settings, the
3500 wires are large gauge, and there are few reported cases of injury or damage.
3501 So far, the exceptions have survived. In the case of feeds between buildings,
3502 it's primarily for lightning protection.
3503
3504 People doing wiring should be aware what is and what isn't a legal grounding
3505 conductor. Obviously, the bare wire in "romex" 'with ground' is. Anywhere
3506 there is a green wire installed, such as in a portable cord, that is a good
3507 grounding conductor. The sheath of BX clamped in BX connectors in metal boxes
3508 is a legal grounding conductor (in the US). (BX has an aluminum band run under
3509 the steel sheath to lower the resistance of the sheath. You can just cut this
3510 aluminum band off at the ends, you don't have to bond it to anything, it does
3511 its job by touching every turn of the BX sheath.) Conduit or EMT (thinwall
3512 tubing) is generally a legal grounding conductor, but may require a bonding
3513 locknut where it enters a box or panel, particularly for larger pipes.
3514
3515 "Greenfield" (looks like big BX, but you pull your own wires in the empty
3516 sheath after you run it) is NOT a legal grounding conductor, as it doesn't have
3517 the aluminum band to bond it, and the spiral steel has too much resistance and
3518 inductance. You have to run a seperate green grounding conductor inside the
3519 greenfield.
3520
3521 "Wiremold" is also not a legal grounding conductor, as the paint on the boxes
3522 often prevents good contact, and the "feed" to the wiremold extension is often
3523 from a box in the wall that may not be well connected to the first wiremold
3524 box. I have personally discovered cases where the entire run of wiremold and
3525 the cases of everything plugged into all the outlets on the run were "hot" with
3526 120 volts (Why do I get a shock every time I touch my computer and the radiator
3527 here in the office?) because there was no ground wire in the wiremold and one
3528 of the outlets had shorted to the edge of the wiremold box. You must run a
3529 ground wire back in the wiremold from the outlets at least to the first box in
3530 the original wiring (conduit, BX, etc.) where you can "bond" the wire to the
3531 box with a screw, bnding clip, or whatever.
3532
3533 On another issue, while you should ground the green wire/lug on GCFI outlets
3534 when ever there is a place to ground them, it is legal in the NEC to use them
3535 without a ground if no ground is available. It is better to have the
3536 protection of the Ground fault interrupter than no protection if you don't
3537 install it. The interrupter doesn't depend on the ground to trip. It is
3538 desirable to connect the ground if available, because if the ground is
3539 connected, the interrupter will trip as soon as a faulty device is plugged in,
3540 whereas without the ground, it will not trip until someone or something
3541 provides a ground path. For those questioning the legal use of ungrounded
3542 GCFI's, read in the NEC, 210-7 (d) exception. (This is the 1990 code, my '93
3543 code is in the city, but I know the rule hasn't changed. It might be
3544 renumbered though.)
3545
3546 We have only touched the surface concerning grounding ;-} , there is much more
3547 to this subject, but most of you have fallen asleep by now.
3548
3549 Johnq�X�
3550
3551 OTOH, some of us get lucky-- I've unplugged and replugged SCSI and ADB
3552 quite often, and never blown anything. I blew out the ADB by shorting
3553 the cable, though.
3554 q�X�
3555 Stuff deleted
3556
3557
3558 I have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions.
3559 No matter how much I eat, it still seems realistic.q�XK
3560
3561 Aw, just take a moment to digest it and I'm sure you'll see the humour...q�X�
3562
3563 You missed something. I think it takes off vertically and is intended
3564 to land the same way.
3565
3566 --
3567 "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
3568 in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Drydenq�X1
3569 Ahhh go back to alt.autotheism where you belong!q�X�
3570
3571 This posts contains too many fallacies to respond too.
3572
3573 1) The abolishment of divinity requires the elimination of
3574 freewill.
3575
3576 You have not shown this. You have not even attempted to. However,
3577 the existance of an Omniscience being does eliminate freewill in mortals.*
3578
3579 * Posted over five months ago. No one has been able to refute it,
3580 nor give any reasonable reasons against it.
3581
3582 --
3583
3584
3585 "Satan and the Angels do not have freewill.
3586 They do what god tells them to do. "q�XJ Any new reports about iisi clock upgrade to 25 mhz, 33 mhz?
3587 Any failures?q�X� ^^^
3588 Wow! Courses in Georgia are much cheaper. $85 for both.
3589
3590 The list looks good, but I'd also add:
3591 Heavy Boots (work, hiking, combat, or similar) $45q�X<
3592 Disgruntled Volvo drivers. What are they rebelling against?q�X� ->
3593 -> Some recent postings remind me that I had read about risks
3594 -> associated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens
3595 -> are generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function
3596 -> of the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of
3597 -> the cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish
3598 -> to know more. Thanks.
3599
3600 I've read mixed opinions on this. Singed meat can contain
3601 carcinogens, but unless you eat barbecued meat every meal, you're
3602 probably not at much risk. I think I will live life on the edge and
3603 grill my food.
3604
3605 I've also read that using petroleum based charcoal starter can
3606 put some unwanted toxins in your food, or at least unwanted odor.
3607 I've been using egg carton cups dipped in paraffin for fire starters,
3608 and it actually lights faster and easier than lighter fluid. Several
3609 people have told me that they have excellent results with a chimney,
3610 basically a steel cylinder with wholes punched in the side. I've been
3611 meaning to get one of these, but one hasn't presented itself while
3612 I've been out shopping. You can make one from a coffee can, but I buy
3613 my coffee as whole beans in a bag, so I haven't had a big enough can
3614 laying around.q�X� On an ISO/ANSI-standard 5.25" magneto-optical disc, how many sectors
3615 are there per track (or disc revolution), and how many tracks per
3616 disc?
3617
3618 Thanks,q�XX
3619
3620
3621 I also use Retrospect, but I noticed that Central Point Software's
3622 "MacTools Backup" also supports the Apple tape drive under 7.x.
3623 The Apple tape drive is quite slow, so the advantages of Retrospect
3624 relative to the simpler MacTools Backup are less significant than
3625 might be the case for someone backing up a large server to a DAT drive.
3626
3627 Used Apple tape drives are going for ~$100, so it might make less
3628 economic sense to pay an extra ~$140 for Retrospect when MacTools
3629 is cheaper and includes other worthwhile utilities.
3630
3631 Retrospect is nice, though, and I'm probably going to upgrade to 2.0.q�X.
3632
3633 Is the distinction important?
3634
3635
3636 Well, our moral system seems to mimic the natural one, in a number of ways.
3637
3638
3639 I don't know. What is wrong? Is it possible for humans to survive for
3640 a long time in the wild? Yes, it's possible, but it is difficult. Humans
3641 are a social animal, and that is a cause of our success.
3642
3643
3644 Isn't it? Why don't you think so?
3645
3646
3647 No. As noted earlier, lack of mating (such as abstinence or homosexuality)
3648 isn't really destructive to the system. It is a worst neutral.
3649
3650
3651 Again, the mating practices are something to be reexamined...q�XX Is there a typical component or set of components
3652 that are at fault when a switch mode power supply
3653 goes south?
3654
3655 The supply is for a disk drive. Any general hints
3656 would be appreciated!
3657
3658 Thanks!
3659 Mark-Tarbell@suite.com
3660 at fault when a switch mode power supply
3661 goes south?
3662
3663 The supply is for a disk drive. Any general hints
3664 would be appreciated!q�X�
3665 If you force me to do something, am I morally responsible for it?
3666
3667
3668 Well, make up your mind. Is it to be "instinctive not to murder"
3669 or not?
3670
3671
3672 It's not even correct. Animals of the same species do kill
3673 one another.
3674
3675
3676 Sigh. I wonder how many times we have been round this loop.
3677
3678 I think that instinctive bahaviour has no moral significance.
3679 I am quite prepared to believe that higher animals, such as
3680 primates, have the beginnings of a moral sense, since they seem
3681 to exhibit self-awareness.
3682
3683
3684 So what? Are you trying to say that some killing in animals
3685 has a moral significance and some does not? Is this your
3686 natural morality>
3687
3688
3689
3690 Are you blind? What do you think that this sentence means?
3691
3692 "There must be the possibility that the organism - it's not
3693 just people we are talking about - can consider alternatives."
3694
3695 What would that imply?
3696
3697
3698 I find the fact that they do to be significant. q�X� }first I thought it was an 'RC31' (a Hawk modified by Two Brothers Racing),
3699 }but I did not think that they made this huge tank for it. Additionally,
3700
3701 As someone who was told quite firmly by 2 Honda sales/service weenies
3702 that there is no larger tank available for the Hawk (I have a '91
3703 Hawk with the puny 3.2 gal tank), I'd be very interested to know if
3704 there is any decent aftermarket solution. I'd love to have at least
3705 a 4 gal tank.q�X5
3706
3707 > be the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no
3708 > materials we can't get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids
3709 > and comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low
3710 > grade fusion reactors.
3711
3712 problem with 3He (aside from the difficulty in making any fusion
3713 reactor work) is that its concentration in lunar regolith is just so
3714 small -- on the order of 5 ppb or so, on average (more in some
3715
3716 This thread reminds me of Wingo's claims some time ago about the moon
3717 as a source of titanium for use on earth. As I recall, Wingo wasn't
3718 ...
3719 even 1% of the basalts are 5% TiO2, this is trillions of tons of TiO2
3720 at concentrations only a factor of 2-3 less than in lunar high-Ti
3721 basalts. It is difficult to see how the disadvantages of the moon
3722 could be overcome by such a small increase the concentration of the
3723 ore (never mind the richer, but less common, terrestrial ores being
3724 mined today).
3725
3726 Why Paul, it's obvious.
3727 Once chlorine chemistry has been banned on Earth,
3728 as is being advocated by some groups, Ti prices will
3729 sharply increase (we are of course not allowed to
3730 assume any developments in Ti processing).
3731 Lunar Ti will then be eminently competitive for
3732 the trendy jewelry market and certain applications
3733 of National Importance
3734
3735 :-) :-) :-)
3736
3737
3738 (oops, this is sci.space... wrong rules of debate ;-)
3739
3740
3741 Seriously, I'd say there is a flaw in Gary's analysis
3742 in that he assumes an export oriented economy, maybe
3743 the lunatics will just want some native Ti for local
3744 use... as to why Lunar natives are cost effective,
3745 analysis has shown they will be critical in providing
3746 a sheltered manufacturing base, technological innovation,
3747 critical materials and manpower in the war between
3748 the Allies and Central Powers in about two hundred years...
3749
3750 ;-)q�X�
3751 Gee, you'd think Winnipeg would be tops on that list, what with 8 regulars
3752 being European.
3753
3754
3755
3756 Well, being a Jet fan, I sometimes wish that Bure would get knocked silly
3757 too. (Nothing serious, just enough to keep him out of a game. :)
3758
3759
3760
3761 In most cases, the owners have very little to do with it. They give their
3762 general managers one order when it comes to the draft...find me the best
3763 players so that our team will win the Stanley Cup. Whether that player is
3764 in Kindersley, Saskatchewan or Chelyabinsk, Russia, if the GM believes him
3765 to be the better player, the GM should be drafting him.
3766
3767 Where do you get off calling the NHL THEIR league, when referring to Canadian
3768 players. It doesn't belong to them, it belongs to the owners. The owners
3769 can do what they want. While a 'Canadian content' rule might be enforcable
3770 here in Canada, there is enough doubt that it would be enforcable in the US
3771 that the CFL (sorry for the football reference) didn't even TRY to push their
3772 import ratio rule on the Sacromento Goldminers.
3773
3774 Increasing the competition for the 'elite' positions, in most cases, would
3775 make players better anyways. (Oh yeah, and how many Europeans play at the
3776 lower levels of professional hockey in North America? While there are some
3777 that play in the AHL, or the IHL where that's an NHL team's primary farm
3778 club, you don't hear of many Europeans playing in the CHL, the ECHL, or on
3779 the secondary farm teams in the IHL. (ie. the Jets do have a few Russian
3780 players in Moncton, but I don't believe there are any Europeans in Ft. Wayne.))
3781 So with all those teams, there are plenty of positions for hockey players
3782 in North America.
3783
3784
3785 I'm in favour of the NHL being the league for the premier players in the
3786 world. I've grown up with Europeans playing on 'my' team, and some of those
3787 players were the among the best in the world. From Hedberg, Nilsson, and
3788 Sjoberg, to Sel{nne, Zhamnov, and Olausson, and all those in between and to
3789 come, I wouldn't have it any other way.q�X Subject: Re: Eugenics
3790 /
3791 ;Probably within 50 years, a new type of eugenics will be possible.
3792 ;Maybe even sooner. We are now mapping the human genome. We will
3793 ;then start to work on manipulation of that genome. Using genetic
3794 ;engineering, we will be able to insert whatever genes we want.
3795 ;No breeding, no "hybrids", etc. The ethical question is, should
3796 ;we?
3797
3798 Two past problems with eugenics have been
3799 1) reducing the gene pool and
3800 2) defining the status of the eugenized.
3801
3802 Inserting genes would not seem to reduce the gene pool unless the inserted
3803 genes later became transmissible to progeny. Then they may be able to
3804 crowd out "garbage genes." This may in the future become possible. Even if
3805 it does, awareness of the need to maintain the gene pool would hopefully
3806 mean provisions will be made for saving genes that may come in handy
3807 later. Evidently the genes for sickle cell disease in equatorial Africa
3808 and for diabetes in the Hopi *promoted* survival in some conditions. We
3809 don't really know what the future may hold for our environment. The
3810 reduced wilderness- and disease-survival capacity of our relatively inbred
3811 domesticated animals comes to mind. Vulcanism, nuclear winter, ice age,
3812 meteor impact, new microbiological threats, famine, global warming, etc.,
3813 etc., are all conceivable. Therefore, having as many genes as possible
3814 available is a good strategy for species survival.
3815
3816 Of course, the status of genetically altered individuals would start out
3817 as no different than anyone else's. But if we could make
3818 "philosopher-kings" with great bodies and long lives, would we (or they)
3819 want to give them elevated status? We could. The Romans did it with their
3820 kings *without* the benefits of such eugenics. The race eventually
3821 realized and dealt with the problems which that caused, but for a while,
3822 it was a problem. Orwell introduced us to the notion of what might happen
3823 to persons genetically altered for more menial tasks. But there is nothing
3824 new under the sun. We treated slaves the same way for millennia before
3825 "1984."
3826
3827 I see no inherent problem with gene therapy which avoids at least these 2
3828 problems. Humans have always had trouble having the virtue and wisdom to
3829 use any power that falls into their hands to good ends all the time. That
3830 hasn't stopped the race as a whole yet. Many are the civilizations which
3831 have died from inability to adapt to environmental change. However, also
3832 many are the civilizations which have died from the abuse of their own
3833 power. The ones which survived have hopefully learned a lesson from the
3834 fates of others, and have survived by making better choices when their
3835 turns came.
3836
3837 Not that I don't think that this gene altering power couldn't wipe us off
3838 the face of the earth or cause endless suffering. Nuclear power or global
3839 warming or whatever could and may still do that, too.
3840
3841 The real issue is an issue of wisdom and virtue. I personally don't think
3842 man has enough wisdom and virtue to pull this next challenge off any
3843 better than he did the for last few. We, as eugenists, may make it, an we
3844 may not. If we don't, I hope there are reservoirs of "garbage" people out
3845 in some backwater with otherwise long discarded "garbage" genes which will
3846 pull us through.
3847
3848 I believe that the real problem is and will probably always be the same.
3849 Man needs to accept input from the great spirit of God to overcome his
3850 lacks in the area of knowing how to use the power he has. Some men have,
3851 and I believe all men may, listen to and obey the still small voice of God
3852 in their hearts. This is the way to begin to recieve the wisdom and virtue
3853 needed to escape the problems consequent to poor choices. Peoples have
3854 died out for many reasons. The societies which failed to accept enough
3855 input from God to safely use the power they had developed have destroyed
3856 themselves, and often others in the process. It is self-evident that the
3857 ones which survive today have either accepted enough input from the Spirit
3858 to use their powers wisely enough to avoid or survive their own mistakes
3859 thus far, or else haven't had enough power for long enough.
3860
3861 In summary, I would say that the question of whether to use this new
3862 technology is really an ancient one. And the answer, in some ways hard, in
3863 some ways easy, is the same ancient answer. It isn't the power, it is the
3864 Spirit.
3865
3866 Sorry for the long post. Got carried away.q�X8 According to BBC Radio this morning, UK, Denmark, Portugal & a few
3867 others have vetoed a proposal to limit EC-sold bikes to 100 BHP. The
3868 reason is that such a limit is not supported by accident statistics - a
3869 rare example of governmental wisdom. The limit has a five year
3870 moratorium on it, and "specialist" manufacturers will be exempt anyway.
3871 Any suspicion that this is a crafty trick to restrict that end of the
3872 market in Europe to Triumph, Norton (who? :-)), BMW, Cagiva & Ducati is
3873 the sort of dangerous rubbish which stalls GATT talks.
3874
3875 You heard it here first.q�Xn
3876 It also gave me lots of problems with joint and muscle pain. Seemed to
3877 trigger arthritis-like problems.
3878
3879 Sueq�X
3880 Oh, that was just a bet.
3881 q�X& I don't know if anyone knows about this topic: electrical heart
3882 failure. One of my friends has had to go to the doctor because
3883 he had chest pains. The Doc said it was Arythmia. So he had to
3884 go to a new york hospital for a lot of money to get treated. His
3885 doctors said that he could die from it, and the medication caused
3886 cancer ( that he was taking). Well, I suggested that he run, excersize
3887 and eat more, ( he is very skinny) but he says that has nothing
3888 to do with it. Does anyone know what causes arythmia and how
3889 it can be treated?
3890 Thanks
3891
3892 q�XG I was laughing about the law part.
3893
3894 I've driven thru SOHO...manahattan, _I_ know what' you're talking 'bout...
3895
3896 :^)
3897
3898 Not that Durham, NC is any better...
3899
3900 (well, maybe a little bit anyway, but the NC DOT takes more
3901 money from road taxes and puts it in their own pockets and
3902 into the pockets of the guys building the large condos that
3903 need their own roads than they do back into fixing roads, but
3904 hey, the local paper did a report of this last summer, and
3905 boy, am I glad I don't work for the DOT, 'cause they got SHAT
3906 on, bigtime....wonder who lost their jobs? ED? Got any idea?)
3907
3908 q�XX
3909 You probably mean "RoHypnol", a member of the benzodiazepine family,
3910 chemical name is flunitrazepam. It is such a strong tranquilizer that it is
3911 probably best refered to as a hypnotic, rather than a tranquilizer. Just one
3912 pill will knock you on your ass. Side effects may be similar to valium, xanax,
3913 serax, librium and other benzodiazepines. q�X|
3914 I'll probably get flamed for this, but when I was a kid we would go to
3915 my uncles cabin on Middle Bass Island on Lake Erie. We always came home
3916 with a nasty case of jiggers (large red bumps where the buggers had
3917 burrowed into the skin). My mother would paint the bumps with clear
3918 finger nail polish. This was repeated daily for about a week or so. The
3919 application of the polish is supposed to suffocate them as it seals of
3920 the skin. All I can say is it worked for us. One word of caution
3921 though. Putting finger nail polish on a jigger bite stings like hell.
3922
3923 (If I do get flamed for this just put jam in my pockets and call me
3924 toast.:)
3925 q�X Sorry if this has been beaten to death on this forum.
3926
3927 I am looking seriously at buying a 486 DX / 33 from Gateway.
3928 I will probably buy it without a monitor, as I've heard negative
3929 stuff about Gateway monitors.
3930
3931 I've also heard its tough to get through to technical
3932 support.
3933
3934 I'm seeking opinions on whether or not its wise to go ahead
3935 based on criteria such as price, warranty service, general
3936 ruggedness of the system, reliability of the machine and of
3937 Gateway too, and so on.
3938
3939 Please advise!!
3940
3941 Thanks in advance!
3942
3943 Vasudev Murthyq�X"
3944
3945 Would you say the same thing about the Dodgers in '65 or '66? True,
3946 Cone is probably as good as Drysdale, and they have no Koufax, but still,
3947 these teams were winning with home run leaders who had very bad totals, with
3948 lots of low-scoring games, etc. And they didn't use relievers, whereas
3949 Jeff Montgomery is having a super season for them.
3950 That being said, I still picked them 5th or so, but I think a superb
3951 pitching team can win if they have enough hitting. There's more of a
3952 chance of that, I think, than of a team with tremendous hitting but no
3953 pitching. At least, to me.
3954 I wonder, though - which one do you people think would do better - a team
3955 with Johnson, Koufax in his prime, Seaver, Carlton, and Young, in no real
3956 order, as the starters, with Sutter, Fingers, and Lyle in the bullpen, but
3957 with a puny offense (assuming good defense, like Mazeroski, Maranville, etc.)
3958 Or a team with poor pitching, but with an offense of Cobb, Carew, Ruth, Gehrig,
3959 Mays, Schmidt, Wagner, and Bench - again,you pick the order.
3960 I would postulate that the pitching one would be several games better by
3961 seasons' end. Even the best hitters can succeed only 2/5 of the time in
3962 their best years, but a great pitcher can throw lots of shutouts - taking all
3963 the players in their prime, they might throw 50 shutouts in a year. And all
3964 the offense would have to do is get 1 run across.
3965 I wonder if someone with Stratomatic or something could plug such all-
3966 time teams into a regular season, have it played, and report the results
3967 I would love to see that.q�Xs
3968 Relying on Canadian tourists and transplanted Northeasterners to
3969 support a team in Miami is crazy; espaecially when you have really deserving
3970 cities without a team such as San Diego & Milwaukee. I wish the Panthers or
3971 whatever their name is well but if they can't sell to Hispanics, they're in
3972 deep doo-doo. Already, there are rumors that Tampa may move to Milwaukee.
3973 q�X�
3974 Yes, Ivan Rodriguez, last year. Batted .260 and threw out 51% of the
3975 baserunners. Not too shabby for a rookie from AA. 20 years old last
3976 year.
3977 q�XI
3978 Science is the process of modeling the real world based on commonly agreed
3979 interpretations of our observations (perceptions).
3980
3981
3982 Values can also refer to meaning. For example in computer science the
3983 value of 1 is TRUE, and 0 is FALSE. Science is based on commonly agreed
3984 values (interpretation of observations), although science can result in a
3985 reinterpretation of these values.
3986
3987
3988 The values underlaying science are not objective since they have never been
3989 fully agreed, and the change with time. The values of Newtonian physic are
3990 certainly different to those of Quantum Mechanics.q�XQ I finally got the vesa driver for my ATI graphics ultra plus (2M). However,
3991 when I tried to use this to view under 24bit mode, I get lines on the picture.
3992 With 16bit or below, the picture is fine. Can someone tell me what was wrong?
3993 Is it the card, or is it the software?
3994 --
3995 Thanks
3996 8)
3997 _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/
3998 _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
3999 _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/
4000 _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
4001 _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ q�X
4002 An added advantate of waiting for the DayStar for the SE/30 is that,
4003 just as with the '030 power cache, the '040 accelerator will plug into
4004 the CPU socket, leaving the PDS slot free for a video card or ethernet
4005 card. With DayStar's upgrade path, it's a no lose situation.
4006
4007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
4008
4009 Earl D. Fife | Department of Mathematics
4010 fife@calvin.edu | Calvin College
4011 (616)957-6403 | Grand Rapids, MI 49546q�X� I've heard that you can score on Belfour by shooting high
4012 because he goes down a lot, and on Potvin by shooting high
4013 on him and then getting the rebound in because he plays so
4014 deep in the net. Any truth to these?
4015
4016
4017 Bradq�XW Now, my ego with regards to my shifting ability is as big as anyone else's, but
4018 I just ordered my first car with an auto trans. I wasn't planning on it; but
4019 after driving a few I was convinced: Things have changed since the days of
4020 "Slip 'n' Slide Withe Powerglide". They shift *better* than I do, there's no
4021 clutch to wear out (Honda wanted $800 for my 4WD wagon last year!- got it done
4022 for $500), it only costs about 5% in gas milage on the highway and it makes it
4023 easier to concentrate on all the radios in my car ;-)
4024
4025 (Oddly enough, while two of my best friends- both in the auto industry here in the
4026 Motor City- have switched wholeheartedly to autos, their wives *insist* on
4027 manual. Shift envy?)
4028
4029 Braggadocio aside, given today's technology and the warranties they're handing
4030 out the auto trans seemed like an excellent choice. Call me a convert.q�X� [Newsgroups: m.h.a added, followups set to most appropriate groups.]
4031
4032 In <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu> todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M.
4033
4034
4035 (It's "Kirlian". "Krillean" pictures are portraits of tiny shrimp. :)
4036
4037 [...]
4038
4039
4040 I think it's safe to say that anything that's not at 0 degrees Kelvin
4041 will have its own "energy signature" -- the interesting questions are
4042 what kind of energy, and what it signifies.
4043
4044 I'd check places like Edmund Scientific (are they still in business?) --
4045 or I wonder if you can find ex-Soviet Union equipment for sale somewhere
4046 in the relcom.* hierarchy.
4047
4048 Some expansion on Kirlian photography:
4049
4050 From the credulous side: [Stanway, Andrew, _Alternative Medicine: A Guide
4051 To Natural Therapies_, ISBN 0-14-008561-0, New York: Viking Penguin, 1986,
4052 p211, p188. A not-overly critical but still useful overview of 32
4053 alternative health therapies.]
4054
4055 ...the Russian engineer Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina during the
4056 1950s. Using alternating currents of high frequency to 'illuminate'
4057 their subjects, they photographed them. They found that if an object
4058 was a good conductor (such as a metal) the picture showed only its
4059 surface, while the pictures of poor conductors showed the inner
4060 structure of the object even if it were optically opaque. They found
4061 too that these high frequency pictures could distinguish between dead
4062 and living objects. Dead ones had a constant outline whilst living ones
4063 were subject to changes. The object's life activity was also visible in
4064 highly variable colour patterns.
4065
4066 High frequency photography has now been practised for twenty years in
4067 the Soviet Union but only a few people in the West have taken it up
4068 seriously. Professor Douglas Dean in New York and Professor Philips at
4069 Washington University in St Louis have produced Kirlian photographs and
4070 others have been produced in Brazil, Austria and Germany.
4071
4072 Using Kirlian photography it is possible to show an aura around people's
4073 fingers, notably around those of healers who are concentrating on
4074 healing someone. Normally, blue and white rays emanate from the fingers
4075 but, when a subject becomes angry or excited, the aura turns red and
4076 spotty. The Soviets are now using Kirlian photography to diagnose
4077 diseases which cannot be diagnosed by any other method. They argue that
4078 in most illnesses there is a preclinical stage during which the person
4079 isn't actually ill but is about to be. They claim to be able to
4080 foretell a disease by photographing its preclinical phase.
4081
4082 But the most exciting phenomenon illustrated by Kirlian photography is
4083 the phantom effect. During high frequency photography of a leaf from
4084 which a part had been cut, the photograph gave a complete picture of the
4085 leaf with the removed part showing up faintly. This is extremely
4086 important because it backs up the experiences of psychics who can 'see'
4087 the legs of amputees as if they were still there. The important thing
4088 about the Kirlian phantoms though is that the electromagnetic pattern
4089 can't possibly represent a secondary phenomenon -- or the field would
4090 vanish when the piece of leaf or leg vanished. The energy grid
4091 contained in a living object must therefore be far more significant than
4092 the actual object itself.
4093
4094 [...]
4095
4096 Kirlian photography has shown how water mentally 'charged' by a healer
4097 has a much richer energy field around it than ordinary water...
4098
4099
4100 From the incredulous side: [MacRobert, Alan, "Reality shopping; a
4101 consumer's guide to new age hokum.", _Whole Earth Review_, Autumn 1986,
4102 vNON4 p4(11). An excellent article providing common-sense guidelines for
4103 evaluating paranormal claims, and some of the author's favorite examples
4104 of hokum.]
4105
4106 The crank usually works in isolation from everyone else in his field of
4107 study, making grand discoveries in his basement. Many paranormal
4108 movements can be traced back to such people -- Kirlian photography, for
4109 instance. If you pump high-voltage electricity into anything it will
4110 emit glowing sparks, common knowledge to electrical workers and
4111 hobbyists for a century. It took a lone basement crank to declare that
4112 the sparks represent some sort of spiritual aura. In fact, Kirlian
4113 photography was subjected to rigorous testing by physicists John O.
4114 Pehek, Harry J. Kyler, and David L. Faust, who reported their findings
4115 in the October 15, 1976, issue of Science. Their conclusion: The
4116 variations observed in Kirlian photographs are due solely to moisture on
4117 the surface of the body and not to mysterious "auras" or even
4118 necessarily to changes in mood or mental state. Nevertheless,
4119 television shows, magazines, and books (many by famous
4120 parapsychologists) continue to promote Kirlian photography as proof of
4121 the unknown.
4122 q�X�
4123 Here is a list of the FirstClass systems in Illinois:
4124
4125 Chicago Machine Chicago, IL (312) 233-9607
4126 Insane Domain Chicago, IL (312) 274-9515
4127 MAC Universe BBS Chicago, IL (312) 235-6794
4128 The NET Rockford, IL (815) 968-4729
4129 MacTRIPP Wilmette, IL (708) 251-4158
4130 Innovators Vernon Hills, IL (708) 918-1231
4131
4132 If anyone wants the numbers to more FirstClass systems, I would be glad to
4133 post the complete list.
4134 - Jason Hyerstay
4135 - Adrenaline Adminq�X<
4136 Thanks for the info.
4137
4138
4139 How much more does the F550iW cost?
4140 q�X� There have been a *lot* of posts lately about "I wanna buy my first bike - is a
4141 GSXR/ZX/CBR/FZR a good bike to learn on?" etc.
4142
4143 I think I'm going to put together a FAQ on buying a new bike. Ravi used to post
4144 one all the time.q�X� From: "Phil G. Fraering" <pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu>
4145
4146 Right, the Profiting Caste is blessed by God, and may
4147 freely blare its presence in the evening twilight ..
4148 q�X-
4149 That would be a very expensive toxin indeed!q�X� The O's just lost to the Rangers a few minutes ago I was not too happy about
4150 the pitching of Rick Sutcliffe (6 runs in 6 innings, 5 in the 3?) This puts
4151 me in remembering the 1990 O's season. After '89 we didn't do much over
4152 winter and we wound up in 5th. Now I know that Mussina, McDonald, and Rhodes
4153 are better pitching prospects than Ballard and Milacki but are any other
4154 Oriole fans scared out there?
4155
4156 Admiral Steve C. Liuq�X� --
4157
4158 I would like to be able to detect the angular position (low accuracy) of an
4159 IR emitting source at a distance of about 100 meters (more is better) in
4160 daylight. The IR source could be emitting a signature; I'm leaning toward
4161 30 KHz square wave with 50% duty cycle.
4162
4163 I am considering the use of a quadrant detector from Centronic Inc. to give
4164 information to a pan/tilt head to point the sensor and thus determine the
4165 angles. For the source I am considering wazing the heck out of an IR LED(s),
4166 possibly an Optek OP290 or Motorola MLED81. Wazing would mean at least 1 Amp
4167 current pulses. At this current the duty cycle of the LED drops to 10% and I
4168 would need to cycle five of them in turn to get the 50% required.
4169
4170 Has anyone done something like this?q�X The above does not tell the proper story of SCSI:
4171 SCSI-I: 8-bit asynchronous {~1.5MB/s ave}, synchronous {5MB/s max} transfer
4172 base.
4173 SCSI-1{faster} this requires a SCSI-2 controller chip and provides
4174 SCSI-2 {8-bit to 16-bit} speeds with SCSI-1 controlers.
4175 SCSI-2: 4-6MB/s with 10MB/s burst{8-bit}, 8-12MB/s with 20MB/s burst {16-bit},
4176 and 15-20MB/s with 40MB/s burst{32-bit/wide and fast}. 16-bit SCSI can be
4177 wide or fast, it depends on how the port is designed{The Quadras will support
4178 fast SCSI but not wide when the OS SCSI manager is rewritten since the
4179 Quardas use a SCSI-1 {non-wide} port}.
4180
4181 The article in PC Mag 4/27/93:29 was talking about SCSI-1 {SCSI-2 uses
4182 TEN (10) devices in it native mode, outside its native mode it behaves a
4183 lot like SCSI-1 (7 devices, slower through put}
4184
4185 From your own figures SCSI-1 is indeed twice ESDI as the article pointed out
4186 as for "20% faster then IDE" that seems to be 8-bit SCSI-1 using a SCSI-2
4187 contoler chip {The Mac Quadra uses a SCSI-2 controler chip for its SCSI-1
4188 and gets 6MB/s through put for asynchronous {8-bit} SCSI-1, far in excess of a
4189 normal SYNCHRONOUS SCSI-1 output} 120% of 8.3 is 9.96 which is near
4190 the burst of a SCSI-1 machine with a SCSI-2 controller chip.
4191
4192 The PC world seems to have SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 mixed up. Fact is SCSI-2
4193 controler chips allow near SCSI-2 speeds through a SCSI-1 device
4194 {As shown in the Mac Quadra} which skews some of the data of SCSI-1 vs
4195 IDE or ESDI test. I agree that the article COULD have stated that the "20%
4196 faster then IDE" came off a SCSI-1 device with a SCSI-2 chip. Maybe it
4197 was there and the EDITOR killed it because the article was dealing with
4198 SCSI-1 NOT SCSI-2 and he did not understand the effect of a SCSI-1 device
4199 with a SCSI-2 controller chip.
4200 SCSI-1 chips are limited to 5/MB max. SCSI-1 devices with SCSI-2 chips
4201 {becoming common} produce up to 10Mb/s in 8-bit mode and 20MB/s in 16-bit
4202 mode {the fast version, SCSI-1 ports cannot use wide SCSI}. Of cource
4203 the prime piece of wierdness is that SCSI-1 devices HAVE SCSI-2 chips
4204 {or more accurately the machine does}. This allows the best of BOTH
4205 worlds: high SCSI-2 speeds and cheeper SCSI-1 costs {FULL SCSI-2 hardware
4206 (port, electronic controller, etc) is VERY expensive. It ALSO creates
4207 a logistic NIGHTMARE as to how fast SCSI-1 goes.q�h9X� I am interested to know if there is any Pontiac e-mail car clubs out
4208 there? Has anyone started one, or is anybody thinking about starting one.
4209 Thanks for any info you can give meq�X�
4210 There is something going on here. It seems that once a month, the VW
4211 group must have get a specific detailed question about Hondas. I
4212 would like to ask that next month we get one about Hyundai instead of
4213 Honda. Thank you.q�X
4214
4215 Sell the bike and the car and start taking the bus. That way you can
4216 keep drinking which seems to be where your priorities lay.
4217
4218 I expect that enough of us on this list have lost friends because of
4219 driving drunks that our collective sympathy will be somewhat muted.q�X�
4220 Actually I favor government funded research. It *is* a pump prime
4221 for a lot of basic technologies. I also understand the short term
4222 value of high tech welfare programs. But they can't substitute for
4223 long range wealth generation via commercial enterprise. That's what's
4224 needed to maintain a healthy economy *anywhere*, on Earth or Luna.
4225 I don't see that long term potential on Luna due to a bunch of
4226 factors I outline in another post.
4227
4228 Garyq�Xx
4229
4230 Boy, Travis..
4231
4232 Were you LUCKY!!.. you went under the new Texas Rangers
4233 Stealth Patrol Car! Good thing you slowed down!q�X
4234 Brian Yamauchi asks: [Regarding orbital billboards...]
4235
4236 Well, I had been collecting data for next edition of the
4237 Commercial Space News/Space Technology Investor... To summarize:
4238
4239 SPACE ADVERTISING
4240 First, advertising on space vehicles is not new -- it is very
4241 common practice to put the cooperating organization's logos on the
4242 space launch vehicle. For example, the latest GPS launcher had the
4243 (very prominent) logos on its side of
4244 - McDonnell Douglas (the Delta launcher)
4245 - Rockwell International (who built the GPS satellite)
4246 - USAF (who paid for the satellite and launch), and
4247 - the GPS/Navstar program office
4248 This has not been considered "paid advertising" but rather
4249 "public relations", since the restrictions have been such that only
4250 organizations involved in the launch could put their logos on the
4251 side, and there was no money exchanged for this. [However, putting
4252 a 10' high logo on the side of the launch vehicle facing the cameras
4253 is "advertising" as much as it is "public relations", in my
4254 opinion.] [And by the way, I note that the DC-X test vehicle has
4255 rather prominent McDonnell-Douglas and SDIO logos on the side...]
4256 There have been several studies looking at the revenue potentials
4257 for use of space vehicles for advertising, or placing large
4258 advertising signs in orbit. On the shuttle, for example, I know of
4259 several serious studies in the early and mid 1980's which looked at
4260 putting logos on the external tank, or on the sides of the payload
4261 bay. These ventures would be different than "public relations", in
4262 that the logos or displays would not be restricted to the firms
4263 participating on that flight, and would involve payment of sums for
4264 the right to fly the logos in a prominent organization. (For
4265 example, painting the ET to look like a Pepsi can, or putting a
4266 Disneyworld logo on the inside of the payload bay where the cameras
4267 would scan past it.)
4268
4269 ADVERTS ON LAUNCH VEHICLES
4270 The first paid advertising was done on a Soviet launcher in about
4271 1990, when several non-involved foreign organizations were allowed
4272 to pay to put their logos on a Proton launch. (An Italian shoe
4273 company was one of the first advertisers, I remember.) Similarly,
4274 Soviet cosmonauts on Mir made a paid advertisement for the last
4275 Olympic games, and have gleefully shown banners and other items from
4276 participating firms and organizations. Mars candy bars, for
4277 example, got a plug from orbit as a sponsor of the launch of the
4278 British visiting cosmonaut to Mir.
4279 Now US firms are starting to put paid advertisements on launch
4280 vehicles. The upcoming Conestoga launch (in June) putting the COMET
4281 recoverable payload capsule into orbit will have paid advertisements
4282 on the side, for Arnold Schwarzenegger's upcoming movie "The Last
4283 Action Hero". Besides the usual logos of the participating
4284 organizations, Columbia pictures has paid $500,000 to put ads on the
4285 main fuselage of the mission's Conestoga rocket, its booster
4286 rockets, and on the COMET payload, which will orbit the Earth for
4287 one month. A concept for this advertising display was published in
4288 Space News magazine a couple of months ago.
4289 (As a side note: Robert Lorsch, an advertising executive, is
4290 talking about suing NASA. He charges NASA with appropriating an idea he
4291 created with the space agency in 1981 to form corporate advertising
4292 sponsorships on NASA spacecraft as a way to get funding for the
4293 space program. Lorsch contends that in selling advertising space on
4294 the upcoming COMET, NASA violated an agreement that it "would not use
4295 his idea without him being the exclusive representative for NASA and
4296 receiving compensation." This is being disputed, since the launch
4297 is a "commercial launch" and NASA is receiving none of the
4298 advertising revenues, but the funding for the COMET program is
4299 coming from NASA.)
4300
4301 ORBITAL "BILLBOARDS"
4302 Orbital "billboards" have been the staple of science fiction for
4303 some time. Arthur C. Clarke wrote about one example, and Robert
4304 Heinlein described another in "The Man Who Sold the Moon". Several
4305 different potential projects have been developed, although none have
4306 been implemented, but the most real prior to 1993 being the "Eiffel
4307 II" project, which would have placed a large inflatable sculpture in
4308 orbit to celebrate the French Republic's Bi-centennial.
4309 (cont)q�XW
4310 And they're more like 1024x1024x8 charging & discharging capacitors in a DRAM
4311 SIMM =-)q�X� Farewell, Minnesota fans. Get stuffed, Dallas Stars.
4312
4313 As the North Stars fade to black, I hope that Minneapolis/St. Paul are
4314 not long without an NHL team. It just seems "right" that the hotbed of
4315 amateur hockey in the USA should have an NHL team as well. The loss of
4316 the team is certainly not the fault of the fans (though the start of the
4317 1989-90 season made it look real bad for a while).
4318
4319 I wish now that I kept the North Stars cap I bought at Maple Leaf
4320 Gardens the morning after they eliminated Montreal in 1980. (I got it
4321 to spite the Montreal fans in the small town where I grew up.) What a
4322 glorious season that was for the North Stars!
4323
4324 dwarfq�X�
4325 Indeed, if the color teal on a team's uniforms is any indication of the
4326 future, the Marlins are in dire trouble! Refer to the San Jose Sharks for
4327 proof... But I have hope for the Marlins. I was a sometime member of the
4328 Rene Lachemann fan club at the Oakland Coliseum, and have a deep respect
4329 for the guy. He's a gem. And, of course, Walt Weiss gives that franchise
4330 class. But yeah... whoever designed those uniforms was guilty of a paucity
4331 of style and imagination. Ugghhh!q�X�
4332
4333 Sorry, but it is *virtually* impossible to win a division with "no talent"
4334 over 162 games.
4335
4336 I would amend your definition to:
4337
4338 underdog: a team expected to lose, but which wins thanks to underestimated
4339 talent.q�X
4340
4341
4342 The name is rather descriptive. It's a command to the spacecraft that tells
4343 it "If you don't hear from Earth after 264 hours, assume something is wrong
4344 with your (the spacecraft) attitude, and go into a preprogrammed search mode
4345 in an attempt to reacquire the signal from Earth."q�XX
4346
4347 Could you use some sort of mechanical chest compression as an aid.
4348 Sorta like the portable Iron Lung? Put some sort of flex tubing
4349 around the 'aquanauts' chest. Cyclically compress it and it will
4350 push enough on the chest wall to support breathing?????
4351
4352 You'd have to trust your breather, but in space, you have to trust
4353 your suit anyway.q�X�
4354 Ok, but have you seen Tabaracci play yet? In his two starts and
4355 his relief effort for Beaupre, he has looked mighty sharp - don't
4356 forget the shutout. I think he's let in just four goals over eight
4357 periods of play. I like Hrivnak, but we might actually have to give
4358 some credit to David Poile for a change after this trade.
4359
4360 Hopefully if Tabaracci starts against the Isles tonight, I haven't
4361 jinxed him.q�X� ^^^^^^^^^^
4362 I have a 92 Wrangler Sahara and paid $14.1 new (including the rebate).
4363
4364 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
4365 After driving a CJ-5 for 6 years, that fancy stuff is pretty nice.
4366
4367 ^^^^^^^^^^^
4368 I like my Wrangler, but when doing some serious off roading, it can't
4369 keep up with a CJ-5 because of ground clearance and limited suspension
4370 travel. I do have a winch and would like to get an ARB air-locker in the
4371 future.
4372
4373
4374 I love the 4.0.
4375 q�h9X� * FOR SALE *
4376 From Ann Arbor, Michigan
4377
4378 1988 Kawasaki EX-500
4379 6682 miles
4380 Cherry Red
4381 Excellent condition
4382 Asking $2300q�Xb
4383
4384
4385
4386
4387
4388 Phil> Didn't one of the early jet fighters have these? I also think
4389 Phil> the germans did some work on these in WWII.
4390
4391 The NACA came up with them before World War II. NASA is directly
4392 descended from the NACA, with space added in.
4393
4394 You'll notice that I didn't mention sweep wings even though the
4395 X-5, tested at what's now Dryden, had them. We did steal that one
4396 dirctly from the Germans. The difference is that swept wings don't
4397 change their angle of sweep, sweep wings do. Perhaps the similarity
4398 of names has caused some confusion? 747s have swept wings, F-111s
4399 have sweep wings.
4400
4401
4402 Phil> A lot of this was also done by the military...
4403
4404 After NASA aerodynamicists proposed them and NASA test teams
4405 demonstrated them. Richard Whitcomb and R.T. Jones, at Langley
4406 Research Center, were giants in the field.
4407
4408 Dryden was involved in the flight testing of winglets and area
4409 ruling (in the 70s and 50s, respectively). It's true that we
4410 used military aircraft as the testbeds (KC-135 and YF-102) but
4411 that had more to do with availability and need than with military
4412 involvement. The YF-102 was completely ours and the KC-135 was
4413 bailed to us. The Air Force, of course, was interested in our
4414 results and supportive of our efforts.
4415
4416 Dryden flew the first digital fly by wire aircraft in the 70s. No
4417 mechnaical or analog backup, to show you how confident we were.
4418 General Dynamics decided to make the F-16 flyby-wire when they saw how
4419 successful we were. (Mind you, the Avro Arrow and the X-15 were both
4420 fly-by-wire aircraft much earlier, but analog.)
4421
4422 Phil> Egad! I'm disagreeing with Mary Shafer!
4423
4424 The NASA habit of acquiring second-hand military aircraft and using
4425 them for testbeds can make things kind of confusing. On the other
4426 hand, all those second-hand Navy planes give our test pilots a chance
4427 to fold the wings--something most pilots at Edwards Air Force Base
4428 can't do.
4429
4430 q�X�
4431 Apple uses the IEEE Nubus-90 standard for their 32 bit backplane bus.
4432 (I got this from a technote that I reada couple of weeks ago)
4433
4434
4435 Hope this helps,
4436 Bret Chase
4437
4438 q�X# From: thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang)
4439 Subject: Advise needed in buying Automobile
4440
4441 >I am in search of a dependable automobile to purchase. Below
4442 >are its requirements:
4443 > 5. V6 or above
4444
4445 Most of the cars you mentioned are below (smaller than) V6 engine.
4446
4447 Tony
4448 --q�X�
4449
4450
4451
4452 Don't you think it would be better to E-mail back to you that we read sci.space
4453 so that you can count them and every server in the world does not have to get
4454 BW'd to death. Or instead you could possible cut and past all the senders into
4455 a single post and save on header bandwidth.... Not meaning to be taken as a
4456 flame it's late and we have to work toward a demo .... little punchy
4457 -- q�Xj
4458 I'll throw in a vote for a Metzler "economy" tire, the ME77. Good
4459 for mid-size older bikes. Rated to 130mph. Wearing well and handles
4460 my 12 mile ride(twisties) to work well on the SR500. Costs a bit
4461 more than the Chengs/IRC's etc, but still less than the Sport
4462 Metzlers for the newer bikes. Cost from Chaparral is about $60 for the
4463 front, and $70 for the rear.q�X�
4464
4465 I think I can. Largely as a result of efforts by people reading this group
4466 writing letters and making phone calls the following has happened:
4467
4468 1. NASA reprogrammed funds to keep NASP alive in 1991.
4469 2. Efforts to kill DC-X and the SSRT progam where twice twarted
4470 (Feb. and June of last year).
4471 3. Gouldin kept his job in spite of heavy lobbying against him.
4472
4473 This may not be what Mark was thinking of but it shows that the
4474 readers of sci.space DO have power and influence.
4475
4476 Allen
4477 q�XU Just my luck. I did however call my local Apple dealer and he said that
4478 the he thinks the serial numbers of the machines that are covered begin
4479 with either 70 or 53-56, and maybe one other. He also told me that Apple
4480 had extended the service on these serial numbers for another year!!!
4481
4482 So there is still hope - Get those monitor in!!
4483
4484
4485 q�X
4486 Mark Prado
4487
4488
4489 Old pioneer song from the 1850's or so goes as follows:
4490
4491 "In a cavern, in a canyon,
4492 Excavating for a mine,
4493 Dwelt a miner, forty-niner,
4494 And his daughter, CLEMENTINE"
4495
4496 Chorus:
4497 "Oh my darling, Oh my darling,
4498 Oh my darling Clementine.
4499 You are lost and gone forever,
4500 Oh my darling Clementine."
4501
4502 I've also had it explained (but not confirmed from a reliable data
4503 source) that CLEMENTINE is an acronym. Something like Combined
4504 Lunar Elemental Mapper Experiment on Extended Non Terrestrial
4505 Intercept Near Earth. Personally, I think that acronym was made up
4506 to fit the name (if it really is an acronym).
4507 ------------------------------------------------------------------
4508 Wales Larrison Space Technology Investorq�X5 Les Bartel's comments:
4509
4510 Let me add my .02 in. I had a A/C installed by the Ford garage and it did not
4511 work as well as the A/C that was installed by the factory in pickups
4512 identical to mine. I have talked to other people that have had the same
4513 result. Don't know if this is just a probable with Ford or what??q�X� What exactly are knots, those sore, tight spots in your muscles?
4514 In certain kinds of massage, people try and break up these knots; it this
4515 really helpful?
4516 q�X� Awhile back someone posted some information on where you can get
4517 kits to build an EEG. Does anyone remember where you could get
4518 this. I'm very interested in getting some info on this. Thanks
4519 in advance.
4520
4521 ericq�X� Sayeth sjwyrick@lbl.gov (Steve Wyrick):
4522 $Anybody keeping track of how many of these there are? So far I have
4523 $Miata, Tredia, Previa, Sentra, Maxima, Altima, Camry, and Justy, not to
4524 $mention Lexus, Acura and Infiniti!
4525
4526 You're apparently including names that are, or appear to be,
4527 derivatives of real words in English or some other language (e.g.
4528 Acura, Infiniti, Maxima, Altima), in which case you missed ones such
4529 as Integra, Supra, Allante', Capri and Calibra. In Canada, add Serenia and
4530 Precidia. If you count misspellings, add Protege and (in Canada)
4531 Vigor. How about the forthcoming Mondeo, if it is given that name
4532 in North America?
4533
4534 Others might include Celica, Corolla, Paseo, and Tercel. In Canada,
4535 add Asu"na.q�X|
4536
4537 ames.arc.nasa.gov not sure what subdirectory thou..
4538
4539 ==
4540 Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jackedq�X5 The problem is this:
4541 After starting up my machine it gives a high pitched sound once at the desktop also it only does it when the mouse is up or a menu is not showing.
4542
4543 as if I click the mouse the noise goes away for the amount of time the mouse is down. also this problem only happens for about 5-10 minutes.q�XC
4544 This kind of behavior is what I was shocked by in my 'experience'. For
4545 crying out loud, how do these turkeys think they can talk to customers
4546 this way and still stay in business? Again, I don't expect sales people to
4547 bow, scrape, and grovel in my presence but I sure don't expect to be
4548 abused either. I was very surprised by the way the sales people talked to
4549 me and in other 'negotiating' sessions I overheard in neighboring sales
4550 cubicles. Evidently, their success rate is high enough that they continue
4551 to do business this way. There must be a lot of people out there who are
4552 easy to intimidate.
4553
4554 On the other hand, I'm not sure about the 'one price, no haggling'
4555 approach that Saturn and other are starting to use. I guess if their fixed
4556 price is fair it's OK. Maybe the best approach is to do your homework
4557 before you go in. Find out the invoice prices of the car, add a reasonable
4558 profit for the dealer ($200-$300??), offer them that price and stick to
4559 it. If they get abusive, just leave. Then, don't let them try to screw you
4560 after the deal is agreed on.q�X;
4561 You still need to supply a proper ground for a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter!
4562 So rewiring is still a part of this job, however, the ground may be connected to
4563 a local earth ground, rather than back at the breaker box.
4564
4565 As Jamie said, GFCI devices are required by code in a number of places, most
4566 notably: bathrooms, and outside the house. I do suggest the use of GFCI outlets,
4567 rather than the breakers. You will end up with much less headaches. Noise pickup
4568 in long cable runs is sometimes enough to cause frequent tripping of the breakers.
4569
4570 GFCI devices do save lives, if you decide to install them, be sure to check them
4571 regularly (using the test button).
4572
4573 Running the family business (electrical supplies and lighting) for many years, I
4574 have seen too many seasoned electricians fried, because they forgot to double check
4575 their common sense list. Please exercise caution.
4576 ---
4577 Gary Gendel
4578 Vice President: Current consulting assignment:
4579 Genashor Corp Mentor Graphics Corporation
4580 9 Piney Woods Drive 15 Independence Boulevard
4581 Belle Mead, NJ 08502 Warren, NJ 07059r X� If you want a summer without rain, you're in the wrong place. You must not
4582 have been here a whole year yet. Keep the Rain-X handy my friend.
4583
4584
4585 Thatchr X� Greetings. I've been seeing the word "storage" mentioned
4586 around oscilliscopes but I'm curious, what does it mean?
4587
4588 If my life depended on it, I'd say that it's a scope that
4589 uses long-persistance phosphor to keep the successive
4590 taces on the screen for some unit of time - "store" them.
4591 Do I get to live?
4592
4593 Also, I've been shopping for a decent, used, [old] scope
4594 since my Tek 514A (portable...NOT!) and my Heathkit O-1000
4595 are all single trace and I need more... like 2 or 3 and at
4596 least 50MHz (maybe 100...)
4597
4598 During my shopping at hamfests etc. I've run into the
4599 problem of "old scope" terminology. I can imagine what
4600 a "mainframe" and "plug-in" are but some things like
4601 the above "storage", "coax input" (Hey, where do I get a
4602 probe that fits this? I had to fiddle with mine for a week
4603 before I got anything resembling "a good trace" - they all
4604 come with BNC connectors!), "unblanking" (huh?), and, oh,
4605 just like my 514 manuals, MANY changes were made along the
4606 way to the schematic - scopes, even with IDENTICAL model
4607 numbers, have different (better?) response/performance than
4608 others - how can I pick the better one? Does the rule of the
4609 higher SN the better apply?
4610
4611 Take care.r X� I can't believe that the NY Rangers would force its
4612 players to go to Binghamtom to play in the AHL playoffs instead
4613 of letting them represent their countries in the World Championships.
4614
4615 Anderrson and Zubov are waiting for the NHL to make a decision to this,
4616 while Kovalev has given in and gone down to the minors.
4617
4618 The Rangers are a disgrace.
4619
4620 ps. it has been reported that Neil Smith was very much against
4621 the hiring of Mike Keenan. How long will Smith be in NY for?r XB If I have one thing to say about "No Fault" it would be
4622 "It isn't"r XG
4623
4624 Don't believe the hype. There is no such thing as a PowerPC slot.r Xr
4625
4626
4627 Vell...Let's see...vas you muzzah in der passenger seat? Or vas you muzzah in
4628 der leefing room, vit you fazah?r Xn
4629
4630
4631 I suspect you mean laparoscopic instead of orthoscopic.
4632
4633
4634
4635
4636
4637 By far the (still) best method to diagnose a hernia is old fashioned
4638 physical examination. If you have an obvious hernia sac coming down
4639 into your scrotum, or a bulge in your groin that is brought about by
4640 increasing intra-abdominal pressure....
4641 Sometimes is not that obvious. The hernia is small and you can only
4642 detect it by putting your finger into the inguinal canal.
4643 Whether you have a recurrent hernia, or this is related to the previous
4644 operation, I can't tell you. The person that examined you is in the best
4645 position to make that determination.
4646
4647 Are there non-invasive ways of diagnosing a hernia? Every now and then
4648 folks write about CT scans and ultrasounds for this. But these are far
4649 too expensive, and unlikely to be better than a trained examining finger.
4650
4651
4652 ====================================r X\ I'm having a real tough time finding out the proper adapters to use a VGA
4653 monitor (an IBM 8513 sold w/ many PS/2's to be exact) on the Mac LC III.
4654 All of the vendors I have called say that the internal video will not work
4655 on a true VGA monitor but will work on a IBM Compatible multisync like the
4656 sony's or the NEC monitors. I thought the VGA capability of LCIII was very
4657 attractive because it allowed you to use inexpensive VGA monitors. Am I
4658 confused or are these vendors just not up to speed? Has anyone used an
4659 LCIII with a non multisync VGA monitor and if so where did you get your
4660 adapter (please be specific w/ vendor and cat #)? I would prefer to get a
4661 apple monitor for these LCIII's (it's unseemly to see the finder inside an
4662 IBM bezel) but the more money we save on monitors the more LCIII's we can
4663 afford and the more PS/2's we can get rid of!r Xr
4664
4665 Agreed.
4666
4667 --
4668
4669
4670 "Satan and the Angels do not have freewill.
4671 They do what god tells them to do. "r X�
4672 No, do I have to? I'm just commenting that it makes very
4673 little sense to consider everything we inherit to be the default.
4674
4675 Seen any steam trains recently?r
4676 X� What is the deal with life on Mars? I save the "face" and heard
4677 associated theories. (which sound thin to me)
4678
4679 Are we going back to Mars to look at this face agian?
4680 Does anyone buy all the life theories?
4681 r Xp
4682
4683
4684
4685 Yet another Jeep wannabe designed for yuppies who will never take it off road but want
4686 to look "outdoorsey".r X� :Just a bit off, Phil. We don't reprocess nuclear fuel because what
4687 :you get from the reprocessing plant is bomb-grade plutonium. It is
4688 :also cheaper, given current prices of things, to simply fabricate new
4689 :fuel rods rather than reprocess the old ones, creating potentially
4690 :dangerous materials (from a national security point of view) and then
4691 :fabricate that back into fuel rods.
4692
4693 Fabricating with reprocessed plutonium may result in something that may go
4694 kind of boom, but its hardly decent bomb grade plutonium. If you want bomb
4695 grade plutonium use a research reactor, not a power reactor. But if you want
4696 a bomb, don't use plutonium, use uranium.
4697 r
4698 X� Well thank you dennis for your as usual highly detailed and informative
4699 posting.
4700
4701 The question i have about the proton, is could it be handled at
4702 one of KSC's spare pads, without major malfunction, or could it be
4703 handled at kourou or Vandenberg?
4704
4705 Now if it uses storables, then how long would it take for the russians
4706 to equip something at cape york?
4707
4708 If Proton were launched from a western site, how would it compare to the
4709 T4/centaur? As i see it, it should lift very close to the T4.r Xx
4710
4711 Wow. I was beginning to think that I had made that up. I remember that
4712 movie (it was about 1.5 hours long). I don't think they ended up anywhere
4713 in the known universe.
4714
4715 I remember they got a message halfway out to Proxima Centauri, that Earth
4716 transmitted a day after they launched, timed to catch up with them at the
4717 halfway point. I thought it was neat, I think I was all of 10 at the time.
4718
4719
4720 Space:1999 has just come out with 4 episodes released in American stores.
4721 I will look for the Into Infinity show, I never did know that was the
4722 name of it, I thought the show was called "the day after tomorrow", and
4723 that was it.
4724 r X$ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: OASIS (310) 364-2290
4725
4726 15 April 1993 Los Angeles, CA
4727
4728 LOCAL NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY CHAPTERS SPONSOR TALK BY L.A.
4729 ADVOCATE OF LUNAR POWER SYSTEM AS ENERGY SOURCE FOR THE WORLD
4730
4731 On April 21, the OASIS and Ventura County chapters of the National
4732 Space Society will sponsor a talk by Lunar Power System (LPS) co-
4733 inventor and vice-president of the LPS Coalition, Dr. Robert D.
4734 Waldron. It will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Rockwell Science
4735 Center in Thousand Oaks, CA.
4736
4737 Dr. Waldron is currently a Technical Specialist in Space
4738 Materials Processing with the Space Systems Division of Rockwell
4739 International in Downey, California. He is a recognized world
4740 authority on lunar materials refinement. He has written or
4741 coauthored more than 15 articles or reports on nonterrestrial
4742 materials processing or utilization. Along with Dr. David
4743 Criswell, Waldron invented the lunar/solar power system concept.
4744
4745 Momentum is building for a coalition of entrepreneurs, legal
4746 experts, and Soviet and U.S. scientists and engineers to build
4747 the Lunar Power System, a pollution-free, energy source with a
4748 potential to power the globe.
4749
4750 For the past three years members of the coalition, nearly half
4751 from California, have rejuvenated the commercial and scientific
4752 concept of a solar power system based on the Moon.
4753
4754 The LPS concept entails collecting solar energy on the lunar
4755 surface and beaming the power to Earth as microwaves transmitted
4756 through orbiting antennae. A mature LPS offers an enormous
4757 source of clean, sustainable power to meet the Earth's ever
4758 increasing demand using proven, basic technology.
4759
4760 OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Space
4761 Industrialization) is the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the
4762 National Space Society, which is an international non-profit
4763 organization that promotes development of the space frontier.
4764 The Ventura County chapter is based in Oxnard, CA.
4765
4766 WHERE: Rockwell Science Center Auditorium, 1049 Camino
4767 Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, CA.r X= I own an 8088 640K clone which does all I want except run 1 game I want
4768 to buy. The game says it requires a 80286 with 640K. Game tech. support
4769 says game will run on 8088 but uses a some digitized graphics which would
4770 make it run really *slow* (it's a card game - Hoyles Classic Card Games,
4771 digitized graphics are photos artwork of game fictional card players).
4772
4773 What can I do to speed up how this game would run, short of an 80286
4774 motherboard upgrade. Co-processor? Accelerator card mimicking 80286?
4775 My 8088 can run at 10 Mhz. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.r X�
4776
4777
4778 Thanks again. One final question. The name Gehrels wasn't known to
4779 me before this thread came up, but the May issue of Scientific American
4780 has an article about the "Inconstant Cosmos", with a photo of Neil
4781 Gehrels, project scientist for NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
4782 Same person?
4783 --
4784 Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto "Information! ... We want information!"
4785 utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com -- The Prisonerr X�
4786
4787 Specifically, which changes are you talking about? Are you arguing
4788 that the motto is interpreted as offensive by a larger portion of the
4789 population now than 40 years ago?r X�
4790 Let's start over. I'm not arguing about who is the better goaltender. I'd
4791 take Soderstrom right now. What I am saying is that Roussel can be a #1
4792 netminder. The GAA difference is less than half a goal per game (less than
4793 that after last night), their save percentages are close, and their records
4794 are similar. And with that, I just don't see how you can label Roussel as
4795 the most disappointing player on the Flyers this season.
4796
4797 You say Soderstrom played against better competition. That may very well
4798 be, but there is no way of knowing how Roussel would have performed in
4799 those games. Besides, against the better scoring teams like Pittsburgh,
4800 the defense is more keyed up than they are against San Jose.
4801
4802
4803 But I'm not just judging Roussel on that game alone. I've seen him play
4804 for the past two seasons in Philly and before that in Hershey. It's just
4805 my opinion, but I think he's got what it takes. Of course, I thought that
4806 about Mark LaForest, too. But I never did about Wendell Young. So I'm
4807 batting .500 in judging Hershey talent since the Hextall-era.
4808
4809 As for the Rangers game, you can say he was saved by a mistake by the
4810 offensive player if you like. But Rou had his leg in position to make the
4811 save. If he didn't, it wouldn't have mattered if the Rangers player didn't
4812 get the puck up or not. It would have been a goal. On a breakaway that's
4813 what the goalie wants to do, take away as much as possible and force the
4814 shooter to beat him.
4815
4816
4817 I seem to remember Roussel doing an excellent job against Pittsurgh on
4818 opening night to give the Flyers a tie against the two-time defending
4819 champs. And not to take anything away from Soderstrom because he was
4820 senational in that game agains the Habs. But you can't tell me that a
4821 Montreal player had an open net to shoot at some point during that game
4822 and just flat out missed it. Mistakes, both on offense and defense are
4823 part of the game. Or there'd never be shutouts.
4824
4825 Anyway, I'm happy the Flyers have both Soderstrom and Roussel and
4826 I'm not going to argue about it anymore. Besides, with the current
4827 7-game winning streak and expectations soaring for next year, I
4828 don't want to piss you off to the point that you don't sell me any
4829 tickets next season:-).r XO I have a 512k VRAM chip for sale. Worked fine in my LCII and will give 256
4830 colors on 640 x 480 size screen. Asking $50. I'll cover postage. Speaking
4831 of which, does anyone know what the best way to send a chip is. I have a
4832 plastic antistatic sleeve, but what's the best way to send it? In an
4833 envelope? First class? All info appreciated.r Xf I write:
4834
4835
4836 and a
4837 (You've
4838 hardware
4839 The
4840 the
4841 set
4842 same
4843 programs
4844 programs
4845 forget
4846 having
4847
4848 After comparing the above strings with my AT commands reference guide, I
4849 came up with:
4850 ATZ0L2N2X5&D0S11=50^M
4851 This is entered in the 'Initialize' box on the 'Modem Preferences' in Zterm.
4852 Quick summary of each commmand:
4853 Z0 - Reset modem to User Profile 0.
4854 L2 - Speaker volume at 2 (fairly quiet)
4855 N2 - Ring volume at 2 (fairly quiet)
4856 X5 - Display connect info according to setting 5 (see manual)
4857 &D0 - Assume DTR (computer) is always on
4858 S11=50 - Dial speed at 50 (as fast as ZyXEL can handle)
4859
4860 In FirstClass, I used this same string, with the addition of S0=0 right
4861 before the S11 command, in the setup box. This disables the auto-answer
4862 function of the modem for FirstClass. I based my modem setting on the Supra
4863 14.4FAX, and just changed the above mentioned string.
4864
4865 In Telefinder, I based my setting on the Zoom V42 - HH setting. I changed
4866 the 'Modem Initialization' string to the same one I used for FirstClass, and
4867 everything seems to work fine.
4868
4869 Sorry it took so long to get this summary out. If someone wants to forward
4870 this to the /info-mac/reports directory at sumex-aim, it might save other
4871 newbie ZyXEL users like myself the trouble of setting up their strings, and
4872 also save the net some redundant messages. If anyone else has something
4873 to add, feel free.
4874
4875 Marcus
4876 mlobbia@ucsd.edur X
4877 Several company publish periodicals (3 or 4 times a year) which list the
4878 sticker prices and the dealer invoice prices of all the cars and their
4879 options. Edmund's is the name of one such price guide. You can find
4880 these price guides at most places which sell magazines.
4881 r X� The trackbal on my PB140 no longer moves in the horizontal direction. When I
4882 called the nearest Authorized Apple Service person I was told that it probably
4883 needed replacing and that would cost me over $150! Ouch!
4884 Can anyone recommend a less expensive way to fix this problem? One strange
4885 symptom of the problem is that when I take the ball out of the socket and shine
4886 a light into the hole I can make the cursor move horizontally by moving the
4887 wheel with my finger, it works fine that way but won't work if I turn off the
4888 light. Any suggestions or comments?
4889 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4890 Ben Roy .......just a poor college student.......internet<br4416a@american.edu>r X� As of today, April 17, Jack Morris has lost his first three starts.
4891
4892 However, the Jays are doing well without him and injured Dave Stuart.
4893
4894 This is a credit to the rest of the pitching staff.r Xk
4895
4896
4897
4898
4899 Steve Dyer points out that Sharen was probably thinking of Sulfites. But
4900 the question still stands.r X�
4901
4902 I'm looking to build a DSP for guitar processing. Hence lots of background
4903 information would be really useful !
4904
4905 If anyone's got any info, could they email.....
4906
4907 Thanks in advance...
4908
4909 Chris ;-)
4910
4911 +====================================================================+
4912 |Name : Mr Chris Smith | Twang on that 'ole guitar ! |
4913 |Addrs: scst83@uk.ac.liv.csc | |
4914 |Uni : Liverpool University |Quest: To build more and more hardware |
4915 |Dgree: Computer Science | |
4916 +====================================================================+
4917
4918 "What ever the sun may be, it is certainly not a ball of flaming gas!"
4919 -- D.H. Lawrence.r X' A friend of mine has a trouble with her ears ringing. The ringing is so loud
4920 that she has great difficulty sleeping at night. She says that she hasn't
4921 had a normal night's sleep in about 6 months (she looks like it too :-().
4922 This is making her depressed so her doctor has put her on anti-depressants.
4923
4924 The ringing started rather suddenly about 6 months ago. She is quickly losing
4925 sleep, social life and sanity over this.
4926
4927 Does anyone know of any treatments for this? Any experience? Coping
4928 mechanisms? Any opinions on the anti-depressant drugs?r Xp I'm doing sound for a couple of bands around here and we need Direct
4929 Input boxes for the keyboards. These are the little boxes that take a
4930 line level out of the keyboard and transform it into low-Z for the run
4931 to the mixer. Sadly they cost like $50 (or more) each and I'm going
4932 to need like 5 or 10 of them! I looked inside one (belonging to
4933 another band) and it looks like just a transformer. Does anyone have
4934 any plans for building them? Perhaps in Anderton's "Electronic
4935 Projects for Musicians" book (which I am having a hell of a time
4936 tracking down...)?
4937
4938 Thanks a lot!
4939
4940 .s.
4941
4942 PS: Post or email. I read this group...r X�
4943 LIST OF KILLINGS IN THE NAME OF RELIGION
4944 1. Iran-Iraq War: 1,000,000
4945 2. Civil War in Sudan: 1,000,000
4946 3, Riots in India-Pakistan in 1947: 1,000,000
4947 4. Massacares in Bangladesh in 1971: 1,000,000
4948 5. Inquistions in America in 1500s: x million (x=??)
4949 6. Crusades: ??
4950
4951 I am sure that people can add a lot more to the list.
4952 I wonder what Bobby has to say about the above.
4953 Standard Excuses will not be accepted.
4954 -- Narenr X�
4955
4956 Yep...I think it's the only CB750 with a 630 chain.
4957 After 14 years, it's finally stretching into the "replace" zone.
4958
4959
4960 <Sigh> I know .... I know.r X�
4961
4962 To put it mildly. As I watched the Flyers demolish Toronto last night, 4-0,
4963 I realized that no matter how good the Leafs' #1 line may be, they'll need
4964 one or two more decent lines to go far in the playoffs. And, of course, a
4965 healthy Felix Potvin.r X� Howdy chaps
4966
4967 Has anybody got any pointers to good C, Pascal, etc compilers for
4968 microcontrollers, shareware or otherwise ?
4969
4970 My specific need is for 8051 C, but if the responses are many and varied I
4971 will post a summary.
4972
4973 Cheers
4974 Mike
4975 r! X�
4976 This should not be the case if they are at all reputable. Fuel injector
4977 cleaning is done properly with a can of injector cleaner solvent which is
4978 hooked up to the fuel system under high pressure. The car is actually run on
4979 the solvent during the cleaning process. The equipment to properly do this is
4980 pricey, and generally not something the average home mechanic has. The solvent
4981 itself is not very expensive ($5-$8) and you could probably make up a hose to
4982 fit your system and do it yourself, but I didn't tell you that... :-)
4983
4984 Not many in-tank cleaners are worth wasting your money on. There has been a
4985 discussion of these products on here from time to time, and Chevron Techron
4986 (not Pro-Gard with Techron) is generally regarded as the best. It is, however,
4987 a bit more than $1.29 a bottle. IMHO, it will not substitute for proper
4988 injector cleaning if they are really crudded up. You'll have to decide if the
4989 $59 price is a better deal than spending your time and/or buying equipment to
4990 do it.r" Xg Well, the tentative rules, anyway. And, of course, since the season is
4991 not entirely over, tentative entry form. But who cares? The real hockey
4992 season is starting!!!!!
4993
4994 Here's the deal: You email (preferably) or post your predictions, AND the
4995 number of games you think each series will go. Each round will be
4996 weighted, so that the Stanley Cup finals will be very important, but the
4997 early rounds will still be important. Here is the scoring:
4998
4999 Pick 1st round winner, way off on games: 2 points
5000 Pick 1st round winner, within one game: 3 points
5001 Pick 1st round winner, pick # of games: 5 points
5002
5003 Pick 2nd round winner, way off on games: 3 points
5004 Pick 2nd round winner, within one game: 4 points
5005 Pick 2nd round winner, pick # of games: 6 points
5006
5007 Pick conference champ, way off on games: 5 points
5008 Pick conference champ, within one game: 6 points
5009 Pick conference champ, pick # of games: 9 points
5010
5011 Pick Stanley Cup champ, way off on games: 8 points
5012 Pick Stanley Cup champ, within one game: 10 points
5013 Pick Stanley Cup champ, pick # of games: 14 points
5014 Pick loser in 7, series goes 7: 2 points
5015 Pick loser in 7, series decided in Game 7, OT: 4 points
5016 (these last two are sympathy points, probably won't happen anyway)
5017
5018 Obviously, picking the Stanley Cup champion is important. I will do some
5019 tests to see if the format is fair, but probably I will be too lazy to
5020 modify it, so the scoring will probably be like this. As for entry forms,
5021 well, this post is getting too long, so see next post.
5022
5023 --
5024 Keith Keller LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
5025 LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
5026 kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!r# X1 [more about the Messier-Samuelsson incident]
5027 I agree with Rick that Ulf's cross check wasn't illegal. It was the kind
5028 of check you see a dozen times during a game without being called. Slo-mos
5029 sometimes have a tendency to make things look worse than they really are.
5030 Besides, if Messier can't take the heat, he should stay out of the kitchen.
5031
5032 Well Matt, Mattias Timmander hasn't been playing with the MoDo elite league
5033 team yet (just the MoDo junior team), so I predict he needs a few more years
5034 here before he can join the B's. I saw him play in the Swedish championship
5035 game for junior players this year, and he played very well, a physical game,
5036 but not the kind of rough stuff that Ulfie does (I suspect you would like to
5037 have a Ulf type-of-player on the B's team too? :)
5038 As for Mariusz Czerkawski, he has had a *great* season for Hammarby in
5039 division 1. He scored -if I remember correctly- 93 points this season,
5040 and then we have to keep in mind that a 50+ point season in Sweden is
5041 considered *very good* due to the limited number of games. Mariusz is
5042 Djurgarden property (he was just on loan to Hammarby), so he will play
5043 in Elitserien next season, unless the B's can get him of course.
5044 I would say that Mariusz has to be one of the most exciting player to
5045 watch in Swedish hockey this season.
5046
5047 Staffanr$ X�
5048 But now you are contradicting yourself in a pretty massive way,
5049 and I don't think you've even noticed.
5050
5051 In another part of this thread, you've been telling us that the
5052 "goal" of a natural morality is what animals do to survive.
5053
5054 But suppose that your omniscient being told you that the long
5055 term survival of humanity requires us to exterminate some
5056 other species, either terrestrial or alien.
5057
5058 Does that make it moral to do so?r% X� I've been intently following the MAG thread while waiting for
5059 mine to arrive in the mail. There seems to be a lot of
5060 complaints about minor alignment problems with the MX15F. One
5061 article contained a comment that the owner called the factory
5062 and was told that his screen rotation was within spec (1/4").
5063
5064 Well, my monitor arrived last night and, sure enough, it has
5065 a very noticable barrel distortion. It's not dramatic, but it
5066 is there and it is especially noticable when the image doesn't
5067 fill the entire screen. The fact that it is worse on the right
5068 side doesn't help matters.
5069
5070 What I'm trying to find out is if these minor imperfections
5071 are the norm or are most of their monitors perfect? I don't want
5072 to send it back and get one with the same or an even worse
5073 problem. Does the factory consider this kind of thing normal
5074 and ship their monitors with less than perfect alignment?
5075 Are other netters just living with these kind of imperfections?
5076
5077 -- r& X Here is a review of some of the off-ice things that have
5078 affected the AHL this year.
5079
5080
5081 ST JOHN'S MAPLE LEAFS PROBLEMS
5082 The St John's Maple Leafs sophomore season has been plagued by
5083 problems. On-ice, the Leafs won the Atlantic Division title but
5084 off ice was less happy. A strike by public workers has forced the
5085 leafs out of the Newfoundland city for much of the last half of
5086 the seaosn (since mid-Jan). They have played "home" games in places
5087 like Montreal, Cornwall and Charlottetown. Their playoff "home"
5088 games will be played in the Metro Center in Halifax, NS. One
5089 demostration got violent. Workers attacked a Leafs' bus and
5090 rocked it and broke windows in the St John's Memorial Stadium.
5091 Despite the problems, Toronto officials insist that the Leafs
5092 will return to St John's once the strike ends.
5093 ===================================================
5094 SENATORS SOLD
5095 The New Haven Senators have been sold by Peter Shipman to
5096 the Ottawa Senators NHL organization. They are the only Canadian
5097 NHL team with an American AHL affiliate, and have made it clear
5098 they intend to move the team to somewhere in the Canadian Atlantic
5099 Provinces. This sale and move has yet to be approved by the AHL
5100 head office, but is expected to pass easily at the general meeting
5101 in May. The quote in the story from Jack Butterfield made it
5102 clear the league was more interested in the stability of the
5103 AHL franchise accompanied by NHL ownership, rather than maintaining
5104 the 56-year history of the AHL in New Haven.
5105
5106 The Senators are currently in serious negotiations with Charlottetown
5107 New Brunswick and are expected to move there.
5108 ==================================================
5109 DALLAS HELPS HAWKS STAY IN MONCTON
5110 After announcing that they would pull their affiliation out
5111 of Moncton, the Winnipeg Jets changed their mind.
5112
5113 The Jets announced the move when they said that they would be slashing
5114 their minor league roster from 20-something to around a dozen; and they
5115 wanted to share with an existing AHL or IHL franchise.
5116
5117 Enter the Dallas Lone Stars. Dallas agreed to supply the remaining
5118 6 or 8 players to the Moncton franchise. Thus keeping the Hawks
5119 in the New Brunswick city.
5120
5121 The deal is for one year and will be extended to three years if
5122 the season ticket base increases to over 3000. The Hawks only sold
5123 1400 for this year.
5124 ============================================================
5125 SAINT JOHN FLAMES OFFICIAL
5126 The Calgary Flames have officially signed a deal with the city of
5127 Saint John, NB. The Saint John Blue Flames will play in the 6200
5128 Exhibition Center. The Flames still have to apply for an expansion
5129 frnachise from the AHL but are expected to have no trouble.
5130 =========================================================
5131 CAPS FOLLOW JACKS TO MAINE
5132 Despite rumors to the contrary, the Capitals will follow the Baltimore
5133 Skipjacks to Maine. The Caps' current farm team, the Baltimore Skipjacks,
5134 announced that they would move to Maine and become the Portland Pirates.
5135 There was much doubt as to if the Caps would follow but they announced
5136 a limited deal with Portland. They would supply a dozen or so players
5137 including 2 goalies. They become the third team to announce a limited
5138 farm team along with Moncton and the Capital District Islanders.
5139 ======================================================
5140 AHL GAME OF THE WEEK
5141 In early January, the AHL started a game of the week. The game, produced
5142 by, I believe, Pyman Productions, was televised across the Canadian
5143 Maritimes and northeastern US. The first few weeks saw two games of
5144 the week, one in Canada and another in the US but since then, there
5145 has been only one. Sunday afternoon and night games were covered and
5146 shown on Sportschannel NY and NE in the US and, I believe, Atlantic
5147 Sports Network in Canada (but I'm not sure about that). I am not
5148 sure if playoff games will be covered.
5149 =====================================================
5150 UTICA GONE? SYRACUSE ADDED?
5151 There were heavy rumors that the Utica Devils will not be around next
5152 season. There were rumors that they might be headed to a midwestern
5153 city and that the city of Syracuse is trying to lure them.
5154 =====================================================
5155 WHAT THE AHL MIGHT LOOK LIKE NEXT YEAR
5156
5157 ONE OPTION ANOTHER OPTION
5158
5159 Northern Division Southern Division
5160 ADIRONDACK RED WINGS ADIRONDACK
5161 SPRINGFIELD INDIANS SPRINGFIELD
5162 PROVIDENCE BRUINS PROVIDENCE
5163 CD ISLANDERS CDI
5164 PORTLAND PIRATES HERSHEY
5165 BINGHAMTON
5166 Southern Division ROCHESTER
5167 HERSHEY BEARS HAMILTON
5168 BINGHAMTON RANGERS UTICA
5169 ROCHESTER AMERICANS
5170 HAMILTON CANUCKS Atlantic Division
5171 UTICA (?) DEVILS PORTLAND
5172 ST JOHN'S
5173 Atlantic Division SAINT JOHN
5174 ST JOHN'S MAPLE LEAFS MONCTON
5175 MONCTON HAWKS HALIFAX
5176 HALIFAX CITADELS FREDERICTON
5177 CAPE BRETON OILERS CAPE BRETON
5178 FREDERICTON CANADIENS CHARLOTTETOWN
5179 SAINT JOHN BLUE FLAMES
5180 CHARLOTTETOWN SENATORS (move is unofficial as yet)r' X� I was on vacation all last week and didn't see any news at all. Could
5181 somebody fill me in on how St. Louis ended up with Mark Whiten in a
5182 trade? Who did we give up Arocha, Allen Watson, Dmitri Young, or did
5183 Dal make a decent deal?
5184
5185 :
5186 r( X! In-reply-to: todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu's message of Mon, 19 Apr 93 20:56:15 GMT
5187 Newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.image.processing,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,sci.med,alt.alien.visitors
5188 Subject: Re: Krillean Photography
5189 References: <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu>
5190 Distribution:
5191 --text follows this line--
5192
5193 I am looking for any information/supplies that will allow
5194 do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I'm thinking
5195 that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for
5196 sale, but I don't know any of the companies. Any info is greatly
5197 appreciated.
5198 In case you don't know, Krillean Photography, to the best of my
5199 knowledge, involves taking pictures of an (most of the time) organic
5200 object between charged plates. The picture will show energy patterns
5201 or spikes around the object photographed, and depending on what type
5202 of object it is, the spikes or energy patterns will vary. One might
5203 extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object within
5204 the universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.
5205
5206 There have been a number of scientific papers (in peer-reviewed journals)
5207 published about Kirlian photography in the early 1970s. Sorry I can't be
5208 more specific but it is a long time since I read them. They would describe
5209 what is needed and how to set up the apparatus.
5210
5211 These papers demonstrate that the auras obtained by Kirlian photography can
5212 be completely explained by the effect of the electric currents used on the
5213 moisture in the object being photographed. It has nothing to do with the
5214 "energy signature" of organic objects.
5215
5216 I did a science project on Kirlian photography when I was in high school.
5217 I was able to obtain wonderful auras from rocks and pebbles and the like by
5218 first dunking them in water.
5219
5220 Barbara
5221 --
5222
5223
5224 r) X, One last infield fly question that has always puzzled me and hasn't
5225 yet been addressed. I believe the rule also does *not* deal with this
5226 situation:
5227
5228 If Infield Fly is declared and the ball is caught, runners can tag up
5229 and advance at their own risk, as on any fly ball.
5230
5231 However, if the Infield Fly is *not* caught, at what point can a
5232 runner legally leave his base w/o fear of being doubled off for
5233 advancing too early? When the
5234 ball hits the ground? When a fielder first touches the ball after it
5235 hits the ground?
5236
5237 Enlightenment would be appreciated.r* X�
5238
5239
5240
5241 No, Mathew is proposing a public defence mechanism, not treating the
5242 electronic device as an impropriety on the wearer. What he is saying is that
5243 the next step beyond what you propose is the permanent bugging of potential
5244 criminals. This may not, on the surface, sound like a bad thing, but who
5245 defines what a potential criminal is? If the government of the day decides
5246 that being a member of an opposition party makes you a potential criminal
5247 then openly defying the government becomes a lethal practice, this is not
5248 conducive to a free society.
5249
5250 Mathew is saying that implanting electronic surveillance devices upon people
5251 is an impropriety upon that person, regardless of what type of crime or
5252 what chance of recidivism there is. Basically you see the criminal justice
5253 system as a punishment for the offender and possibly, therefore, a deterrant
5254 to future offenders. Mathew sees it, most probably, as a means of
5255 rehabilitation for the offender. So he was being cynical at you, okay?r+ X� Hi there,
5256
5257 when I run Disk First Aid on my external hard drive (Quantum LPS 240) I get the followinf
5258 message: Error -535: Missing thread record (TarID=31015; TarBlock 416)
5259 Disk First Aid is not able to fix this problem, Norton Utils doesn't find it at all.
5260 When I use Norton Disk editor to look at TarBlock 416 I can read something like "DirReservedArea"
5261
5262 My question: How can I get rid of this error (without reformatting of course)
5263 r, X�
5264 The best info I have seen so far is the article "Joystick Metrics:
5265 Measuring physical properties through the PC's joystick port" by
5266 Michael Covington in the May 1985 issue of PC Tech Journal. It talks
5267 about how to read all kinds of things (voltage, current, resistance) in
5268 BASIC, and even includes code for a simple "oscilloscope" display.
5269
5270 It's possible to read the joystick port directly if you don't want to
5271 use BASIC. The detailed information for this is in the PC Technical
5272 Reference under Options and Adapters. You have to provide some
5273 millisecond resolution timing functions, but that's a subject which has
5274 appeared many times in articles from Dr. Dobb's, Circuit Cellar Ink,
5275 etc. Look for the public domain ztimer package on wuarchive.
5276
5277 Good Luck,r- Xq
5278
5279 Check out the May issue of MacWorld; the new servers are on the
5280 cover. Should be at your favorite newstand.r. Xl
5281 There is a mini-epidemic of Coccidiodes that is occurring in,
5282 I believe, the Owen's Valley/ Bishop area east of the Sierras.
5283 I don't believe there has been any great insight into the
5284 increased incidence in that area. There is a low-level
5285 of endemic infection in that region. Many people with
5286 evidence of past exposure to the organism did not have
5287 serious disease.r/ X�
5288 XC units are often pre-production sample devices. Those are normally
5289 distributed for evaluation as freebies and are not guaranteed to
5290 meet every spec.
5291
5292
5293 Yep, that's for sure...that's one thing I like most about Motorola.r0 X�
5294 Nothing is perfect. Nothing is perpetual. i.e. even if it is perfect,
5295 it isn't going to stay that way forever.
5296
5297 Perpetual machines cannot exist. I thought that there
5298 were some laws in mechanics or thermodynamics stating that.
5299
5300 Not an atheist
5301 BN
5302 --r1 X� The Phillies salvaged their weekend series against the Chicago Cubs
5303 by beating them 11-10 in a wild one at Wrigley Field Sunday
5304 afternoon. It was the Phils only win in the three game series, and
5305 was the first time the Phillies have lost a series in the young
5306 season. The Phils jumped to a 6-0 lead in the game thanks to 2
5307 John Kruk 2-run homers and two Wes Chamberlain homers. However Danny
5308 Jackson, and the Phillies middle relief was unable to hold the lead.
5309 Mitch Williams entered the game with the Phillies leading 8-4,
5310 however Candy Maldonado hit a ninth inning homerun to tie it. In
5311 the 11th, Dave Hollins hit a three-run shot, his first of the year
5312 to push the Phils ahead to stay. However, in a shaky bottom of the
5313 11th the Cubs scored 2 runs and had the tying runner on base when
5314 the Cubs pinch hit Randy Myers for Bob Scanlan (they were out of
5315 position players) and Myers bunted into a double play to end the
5316 game.r2 X"
5317 The following is from a critique of a "60 Minutes" presentation on MSG
5318 which was aired on November 3rd, 1991. The critique comes from THE TUFTS
5319 DIET AND NUTRITION LETTER, February 1992. [...edited for brevity...]
5320
5321 "Chances are good that if you watched '60 Minutes' last November
5322 3rd [1991], you came away feeling MSG is bad for you. [...] In
5323 the segment entitled 'No MSG,' for instance, show host Ed Bradley
5324 makes alarming statements without adequately substantiating them
5325 ('millions are suffering a host of symptoms, and some get violently
5326 sick'); peppers his report with sensational but clinically unproven
5327 personal testimony...; and speaks of studies on MSG that make the
5328 substance seem harmful without explaining just how inconclusive
5329 those studies are.
5330
5331 Consider his making reference at the beginning of the program to
5332 a study conducted at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in order
5333 to back up his comment that there is 'a lot of evidence' that MSG,
5334 a flavor enhancer in Chinese and other Asian cuisines as well as
5335 in many supermarket items, causes headaches. What he does NOT
5336 make reference to is the fact that the study was performed not on
5337 humans but on rabbits.
5338
5339 One of the researchers who conducted the study, pharmacologist
5340 Patricia Williams, Ph.D., says it certainly is conceivable that
5341 a small minority of people are sensitive enough to MSG to get
5342 headaches from it. 'But,' she explains, 'the show probably
5343 overemphasized the extent of the problem.'
5344
5345 A second lapse comes with mention of Dr. John Olney, a professor
5346 at the Washington University School of Medicine who, Mr. Bradley
5347 remarks, 'says that his 20 years of research with laboratory
5348 animals shows MSG is a hazard for developing youngsters' because
5349 it poses a threat of irreversible brain damage. Dr. Olney's
5350 research with lab animals does not 'show' anything about human
5351 youngsters.
5352
5353 In fact, only under extreme circumsrtances did Dr. Olney's
5354 experiments ever bring about any brain damage: when he injected
5355 extremely high doses of MSG into rodents, completely bypassing
5356 their digestive tracts and entering their bloodstreams more directly,
5357 and when he used tubes to force-feed huge amounts of the substance
5358 to very young animals on an empty stomach. Of course, neither
5359 of those procedures occurs with humans; they simply take in MSG
5360 with food. And most of what they take in is broken down by
5361 enzymes in the wall of the small intestine, so that very little
5362 reaches the bloodstream -- much to little, in fact, for human
5363 blood levels of MSG to come anywhere near the high concentrations
5364 found in Dr. Olney's lab animals.....
5365
5366 The World Health Organization appears to be very much aware of
5367 that fact. And so does the European Communities' Scientific
5368 Committee for Food....Both, after examining numerous studies,
5369 have concluded that MSG is safe.
5370
5371 Their determination makes sense, considering that MSG has never
5372 been proven to cause all the symptoms that have been attributed
5373 to it -- headaches, swelling, a tightness in the chest, and a
5374 burning sensation, among others. In fact, the most fail-safe
5375 of clinical studies, the double-blind study..., has consistently
5376 exonerated the much-maligned substance.
5377
5378 That's quite fortunate since the alleged hazardous component of
5379 monosodium glutamate, glutamate, enters our systems whenever
5380 we eat any food that contains protein. The reason is that one
5381 of the amino acids that make up protein, glutamic acid, is broken
5382 down into glutamate during digestion.
5383
5384 It's a breakdown that occurs frequently. Glutamic acid is the
5385 most abundant of the 20 or so amino acids in the diet. It makes
5386 up about 15 percent of the protein in flesh foods, 20 percent in
5387 milk, 25 percent in corn, and 29 percent in whole wheat.
5388
5389 That doesn't mean it's entirely unimaginable that a small number
5390 of people have trouble metabolizing MSG properly and are therefore
5391 sensitive to it...The consensus reached by large, international
5392 professional organizations [is that MSG is safe], the same consensus
5393 reached by the FDA and the biomedical community at large."
5394 r3 X
5395
5396 r4 X� Hi everybody,
5397
5398 I will buy a Honda Civic EX Coupe. The dealer ask $12,750 for it,
5399 including A/C ( installed ), but not including stereo, tax, registration
5400 fees. I live in Mexico, so I don't have time to go to a lot of dealers
5401 and compare their prices. The dealer is in McAllen, Tx. Is this a good
5402 price for that car ? If not, how much should I pay for it ?
5403
5404 Please e-mail ASAP if you don't want to post. Thanks a lot.
5405
5406 Orlando Pugliese
5407 opuglies@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
5408
5409 r5 X� How long has Don Cherry been a student at SFU? (or is that Arche Bunker?)
5410
5411 Please, keep this racist drivel off of the net. You're an embarassment
5412 to Canadians everywhere.r6 X) completely
5413 ever be
5414 is
5415 difference
5416 etc....r7 Xb ^^^^^^
5417 perSOB, I kinda like that
5418
5419 Most people wave or return my wave when I'm on my Harley.
5420 Other Harley riders seldom wave back to me when I'm on my
5421 duck. Squids don't wave, or return waves ever, even to each
5422 other, from what I can tell.
5423
5424 --
5425 Michael Manning
5426 mmanning@icomsim.com (NeXTMail accepted.)r8 Xi Detroit's going to beat Toronto in 6 or LESS!!!
5427
5428 Granted, Gilmour should get the Hart Trophy, NOT Lemieux... Just
5429 Look at what Gilmour did for Toronto. When you think of Toronto,
5430 who comes to mind, Gilmour, Andreychuk, Potvin...ah...did I mentio
5431 n Gilmour?
5432
5433 Back to Detroit... There really isn't a team that could stand up
5434 to them if all the players on the team play to their potential,
5435 no one could stop them. Yzerman, Fedorov, Coffey, Lindstrom...
5436 there's more firepower there than Pittsburgh... and they don't tri
5437 p over their own skates!
5438 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
5439 /------------/ Detroit over Toronto in 5 Patrick Walker
5440 / /--\------/ Detroit over Chicago in 6 University of New Bruns.
5441 ! ! !---/ Detroit over Vancouver in 6 Canada
5442 \ \__/ / Detroit over Nords in 6 "Disco Still Sucks!"r9 X. For those of you interested in the above Procedure, I am able to add the
5443 following facts:
5444
5445 1) This Procedure is not done in Philadelphia.
5446
5447 2) It is performed in Maryland at Johns Hopkins for corrections between
5448 0 and -5 and from -10 to -20 (diopters, I think are the units).
5449
5450 3) It is performed in New York City at Manhattan Eye and Ear for corrections
5451 between 0 and -6.
5452
5453 The magic words to use when requesting information on this is not PRK (they
5454 think you mean RK) but the excimer laser study (or protocol). This will get
5455 you to the proper people.
5456
5457 r: X�
5458 [...]
5459
5460
5461 According to the Defensive Average stats posted by Sherri, Baerga had the
5462 highest percentage of DPs turned in the league, while Alomar had the worst.
5463 However, Alomar had a higher Defensive Average. So who would be better?
5464
5465 Using Alomar's opportunities (469 groundballs, 73 possible double plays)
5466 Alomar had 332 groundouts and turned 18 DPs.
5467 Baerga would have had (with same DA & DP%) 328 groundouts and 35 DPs.
5468
5469 Using Baerga's opportunites (545 groundballs, 99 possible double plays).
5470 Alomar would have had (with the same DA & DP%) 386 groundouts and 25 DPs.
5471 Baerga had 381 groundouts and 47 DPs.
5472
5473 Baerga looks better, though it's possible his DP% would be lower with a
5474 different SS.
5475
5476 Will Baerga consistently turn twice as many double plays, however? Alomar
5477 has established a high level of defense, Baerga has not. I would bet on
5478 Alomar to be better next year, but last year Baerga was just as good overall.
5479 --
5480 Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Grad Student At Larger; Xn The Chevrolet brothers were respected racers & test drivers for the
5481 Buick Co. when Durant was there.
5482
5483 When the directors kicked Durant out of GM in 1910 he took Chevrolet and
5484 others with him. As mentioned before, they founded the successful
5485 Chevrolet company.
5486
5487 A little-known fact is that the Chevrolet Co. actually took over GM!
5488 That was how Durant got back in charge of GM-- legally his new company
5489 Chevrolet Co. did the buying, and GM was a division of Chevrolet!
5490
5491 After 1920 and into the Sloan era, GM shuffled things so that the GM
5492 board was superior, but there was always a degree of autonomy given
5493 the Chevy division, presumably because of the initial structure.
5494 (If you look at the organization chart for GM in Sloan's book, Chevy
5495 division reports directly to 14th floor, not through the "passenger
5496 car division" which covers Buick, Olds, Cadillac, and Oakland/Pontiac)r< Xy Rogers is the "one-batter lefty" in the bullpen. Dusty has also said he
5497 trusts Rogers to get the final out in a ballgame where Beck is
5498 unavailable, so you might see a couple of saves for Kevin. Then again, if
5499 any of the regular rotation falters, Rogers is a possible candidate to
5500 start, though this would appear less likely now that Dave Burba did well
5501 in an emergency start.r= X i used to say "if i were hot enough, you could fry an egg on my oily face".
5502 i am now 50 yrs old and my skin looks younger (i'm told) than some people's
5503 skin at 30 (it's still oily). i have only a very few tiny wrinkles. Thank
5504 your lucky stars for that skin.
5505 r> X4
5506 Well, the Patrick Division got a little more interesting last night.
5507 The Islanders lost in OT and the Devils tied the Pens. That means if the Isles
5508 beat the Devils on Friday, the will meet the Caps in the playoffs.
5509
5510 However, I have some more comments on the Islanders and hockey in
5511 general that I need to get off my chest :). First of all, with the Islanders
5512 back-to-back lackluster performances against the Whalers, one may think that
5513 the Islanders are out of shape. These guys always suck wind in the 2nd period,
5514 come on a little in the 3rd and run out of gas too soon. It is unbelieveable
5515 how many one goal games these guys have lost. Anyway, the games was pretty
5516 wide open. The Isles still have tons of trouble scoring. The Whalers played
5517 a golie in is 1st NHL start, I think his name was Lenarduzzi (sp?). (His NHL
5518 debut was the Tuesday tie against the Isles). Like I mentioned before, this
5519 guy looked like the best golie on the planet for a while (until he misplayed a
5520 Mahlakov slap shot to go to OT). I say it's because the Isles don't shoot
5521 correctly. Has anyone else noticed this?
5522
5523 Also, I think it is really a shame for hockey when I guy like Mick
5524 Vukota gets as much ice time as he does. This guy has about as much hockey
5525 talent as Jiggs MacDonald (who did play hockey, I think). Anytime he gets the
5526 puck it gets stolen, and he always starts fights and gets needless penalties.
5527 Richard Pilon is another guy who is on the ice to stir up crap. And he's a
5528 defenseman. He's got to be approaching negative infinity for his plus/minus.
5529 This guy gets beaten all the time. Why the need for such "enforcers"? Not
5530 only do fights slow the game down ALOT, but it takes away from the guys who are
5531 really trying to play the game. I'll be one of the few to admit, I do enjoy a
5532 good fight once in a while, but only when it's "called for". You know, when a
5533 guy checks the goalie too hard. In other words, a violation of "hockey ethics"
5534 might cause you to get puched. But there is no need to start crap when you are
5535 losing or becuase you can get away with it!! Does anyone agree that referees
5536 need to be a little less lenient in the 3rd and OT? I mean COME ON already.
5537 I'm sick of seeing teams pulling guys down, holding guys etc. just becuase the
5538 referee doesn't call it. OT and late in the 3rd should be a time for strategy,
5539 not physical prowess. Trying to set up a goal should be first and foremost.
5540 If you are so afraid that the other team is going to score that you have to
5541 pull a guy down to prevent it, you don't deserve to win in the first place.
5542
5543 Just My Honest Opinion,r? X�
5544 Contact Circuit Cellar Inc., 4 Park St. - Suite 12, Vernon, CT 06066
5545 (203)875-2751, FAX (203)872-2204 and inquire about HAL-4 EEG Biofeedback
5546 Brainwave Analyzer.
5547
5548 In addition, if you want to build your own system from board-level compo-
5549 nents (biosignal amplifiers, analog isolators and isolated multiplexers)
5550 you can contact The Davron Group,P.O. Box 237, Deerfield, IL 60015
5551 FAX (708)948-9290.
5552
5553 - David
5554 r@ X�
5555
5556 Ok, I was under the impression that it accepted digital input.
5557
5558 I still don't know for sure if it accepts BOTH interlaced and
5559 non-interlaced as I have gotten conflicting info.rA X Sanjay Sinha, on the 12 Apr 93 00:23:19 GMT wibbled:
5560
5561 : Thanks to everyone who posted in my previous quest for camping info..
5562
5563 : Another question.
5564 : Well, not strictly r.m. stuff
5565
5566 : I am looking for a thermos/flask to keep coffee hot. I mean real
5567 : hot! Of course it must be the unbreakable type. So far, what ever
5568 : metal type I have wasted money on has not matched the vacuum/glass
5569 : type.
5570
5571 : Any info appreciated.
5572
5573 : Sanjay
5574
5575
5576 Back in my youth (ahem) the wiffy and moi purchased a gadget which heated up
5577 water from a 12V source. It was for car use but we thought we'd try it on my
5578 RD350B. It worked OK apart from one slight problem: we had to keep the revs
5579 above 7000. Any lower and the motor would die from lack of electron movement.
5580
5581 It made for interesting cups of coffee, anyhow. We would plot routes that
5582 contained straights of over three miles so that we had sufficient time to
5583 get the water to boiling point. This is sometimes difficult in England.
5584
5585 Good luck on your quest.
5586 --
5587
5588 Nick (the Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford
5589
5590 M'Lud.rB X� For those Leaf fans who are concerned, the following players are slated for
5591 return on Thursday's Winnipeg-Toronto game :
5592 Peter Zezel, John Cullen
5593
5594 Mark Osborne and Dave Ellett are questionable to return on Thursday.rC Xz
5595 I agree. Home runs off Clemens are always memorable. Kinda like
5596 eclipses and hurricanes. They don't happen very often.rD X� : My 9 yr old son has signed up to do a science report on batteries. I was
5597 : wondering if anyone could provide me with some information as to how to
5598 : construct a home-built battery. In my grade school days, I remember seeing
5599 : the 'ice cube tray' version, but I don't remember what to use as a good
5600 : electrolyte or what the easily obtainable metals were.
5601 :
5602 : Thank you in advance.
5603
5604 I remember watching a whole "Mr. Wizzard" program on this subject when
5605 I was a kid. The battery constructed on the program which made the
5606 biggest impression on me, and generated the most power, was made using
5607 a galvanized bucket (for the zinc) and a copper toilet tank float. The
5608 electrolyte was sauerkraut!
5609 rE X�
5610 Try Goldstar. They make them, and they are available immediately in Mac
5611 configurations. I ordered a pair from Computerland (8 meg variety) and
5612 they work like a charm. I've had them for two weeks.rF X
5613 Huh?rG X�
5614
5615 No, you don't understand. I said that I don't think people can discuss
5616 the subjective merits of religion objectively. This should be obvious.
5617 People here have said that everyone would be better off without religion,
5618 but this almost certainly isn't true.
5619
5620
5621 But, guns and axes are tools, both of which have been used for murder.
5622 Should both be taken away? That is to say, I don't think motto misuse
5623 warrants its removal. At least not in this case.rH X� Did you ever notice how many people on the net have trouble in the
5624 comparitively easy task of spelling the nick name of our fair city? I
5625 never knew that Philadelphia becomes Phillie or Philli when spoken of. So
5626 for all you who don't know yet here's a _little_ clue.
5627
5628 IT IS SPELLED: P H I L L Y
5629
5630 OK...thank you.
5631
5632 Oh yeah, about that drug-induced trade rumor....I don't think the Sniders
5633 are that stupid...the rumor you should be looking into is Mike Keenan
5634 coming back to coach the FLYERS.
5635
5636 later
5637
5638 Mike
5639
5640 --
5641 Mike Cornell | "There are a great many people in the country today who,
5642 mac18@po.cwru.edu| through no fault of their own, are sane." -Monty PythonrI X:
5643 SW8,SW7 number of 5.25" drives
5644 0,0 1 drive
5645 0,1 2 drives
5646 1,0 3 drives
5647 1,1 4 drives
5648
5649 SW6,SW5 type of display
5650 0,0 reserved
5651 0,1 40x25 color (mono mode)
5652 1,0 80x25 color (mono mode)
5653 1,1 mono 80x25
5654
5655 SW4,SW3 amount of memory on system board
5656 64k chips 256k chips
5657 0,0 64k 256k
5658 0,1 128k 512k
5659 1,0 192k 576k
5660 1,1 256k 640krJ X?
5661 Any lunar satellite needs fuel to do regular orbit corrections, and when
5662 its fuel runs out it will crash within months. The orbits of the Apollo
5663 motherships changed noticeably during lunar missions lasting only a few
5664 days. It is *possible* that there are stable orbits here and there --
5665 the Moon's gravitational field is poorly mapped -- but we know of none.
5666
5667 Perturbations from Sun and Earth are relatively minor issues at low
5668 altitudes. The big problem is that the Moon's own gravitational field
5669 is quite lumpy due to the irregular distribution of mass within the Moon.rK X I don't want to sell this car, but I need money for college.
5670 1972 Chevelle Super Sport
5671 Rebuilt 402, four speed, 12 Bolt positrac
5672 Numbers match
5673 110,000 original miles
5674 no rust
5675 Looks and runs excellent
5676 $5995 or best offer.
5677 Call Dennis at (503)343-3759
5678 or email dennisk@cs.uoregon.edu
5679
5680 rL X� Group A Group B
5681 ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~
5682
5683 Cardiff Devils 7-3 Bracknell Bees Nottingham Panthers 8-3 Billingham
5684 Humberside 7-7 Whitley Warriors Murrayfield Racers 11-2 Fife Flyers
5685 Whitley Bay 6-9 Cardiff Devils Billingham Bombers 6-8 Murrayfield
5686 Humberside 8-5 Bracknell Bees Nottingham Panthers 11-5 Fife Flyers
5687 Cardiff Devils 10-4 Humberside Murrayfield Racers 6-4 Nottingham
5688 Bracknell Bees 4-9 Whitley Bay Fife Flyers 2-5 Billingham
5689 Bracknell Bees 3-8 Cardiff Devils Billingham Bombers 2-8 Nottingham
5690 Whitley Bay 5-7 Humberside Fife Flyers 3-12 Murrayfield
5691
5692 P W D L F A P P W D L F A P
5693 Cardiff Devils 4 4 0 0 34 16 8* Murrayfield Racers 4 4 0 0 37 15 8*
5694 Humberside 4 2 1 1 26 27 5 Nottingham Panthers 4 3 0 1 31 16 6*
5695 Whitley Bay 4 1 1 2 27 27 3 Billingham Bombers 4 1 0 3 16 26 2
5696 Bracknell Bees 4 0 0 4 15 32 0 Fife Flyers 4 0 0 4 12 39 0
5697
5698 * indicates qualified for Championship Finals
5699
5700 Relegation/Promotion A Relegation/Promotion B
5701 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5702
5703 Basingstoke 10-4 Swindon Wildcats Sheffield Steelers 12-8 Peterborough
5704 Durham Wasps 13-5 Romford Raiders Slough Jets 1-9 MK Kings
5705 Basingstoke 6-0 Durham Wasps Sheffield Steelers 9-4 Milton Keynes
5706 Swindon 8-5 Romford Raiders Milton Keynes Kings 4-6 Peterborough
5707 Durham Wasps 17-2 Swindon Wildcats Slough Jets 2-12 Sheffield
5708 Romford 4-10 Basingstoke Peterborough 10-2 Slough Jets
5709 Romford *8-3* Durham Wasps Peterborough 8-5 Sheffield
5710 Swindon 7-11 Basingstoke Milton Keynes Kings 10-4 Slough Jets
5711
5712 P W D L F A P P W D L F A P
5713 Basingstoke 4 4 0 0 37 15 8 Sheffield Steelers 4 3 0 0 38 22 6
5714 Durham Wasps 4 2 0 2 33 21 4 Peterborough 4 3 0 1 32 23 6
5715 Swindon 4 1 0 3 21 43 2 Milton Keynes Kings 4 2 0 2 27 20 4
5716 Romford Raiders 4 1 0 3 22 34 2 Slough Jets 4 0 0 4 9 41 0
5717 rM X�
5718 Rutin is a bioflavonoid, compounds found (among other places) in the
5719 rinds of citrus fruits. These have been popular, especially in Europe,
5720 to treat "capillary fragility", and seemingly in even more extreme cases--
5721 a few months ago, a friend was visiting from Italy, and he said that he'd
5722 had hemorrhoids, but his pharmacist friend sold him some pills. Incredulously,
5723 I asked to look at them, and sure enough these contained rutin as the active
5724 ingredient. I probably destroyed the placebo effect from my skeptical
5725 sputtering. I have no idea how he's doing hemorrhoid-wise these days.
5726 The studies which attempted to look at the effect of these compounds in
5727 human disease and nutrition were never very well controlled, so the
5728 reports of positive results with them is mostly anecdotal.
5729
5730 This stuff is pretty much non-toxic, and probably inexpensive, so there's
5731 little risk of trying it, but I wouldn't expect much of a result.
5732 rN XE
5733 Is there any games being shown here in the US from the WC???
5734
5735 ThanksrO Xq : I am in the market for a bike and have recently found a 1990
5736 : Honda VRF 750 at a dealership. The bike has about 47,000 miles
5737 : and is around $4500. It has had two previous owners, both employees
5738 : of the dealership who, I have been told, took very good care of the
5739 : bike.
5740
5741 : I have two questions: 1) Is this too many miles for a bike? I know this
5742 : would not be many miles for a car but I am unfamiliar with the life
5743 : span of bikes. 2) Is this a decent price? I am also unfamilar with
5744 : prices for used bikes. Is there a blue book for bikes like there is
5745 : for cars?.
5746
5747 : Thanks for any advice you can give.
5748
5749 : --Mark
5750 --
5751
5752 Mark,
5753
5754 47k is not too many miles on a VFR750. I sold my (well maintained)
5755 '87 VFR700 with 52k miles on it and the engine was in mint condition.
5756 All that the bike needed was steering head bearings and fork bushings
5757 and seals. The guy who bought it had a mechanic pull the valve covers
5758 to look at the top end, do a compression check etc. He confirmed it was
5759 mint.
5760
5761 As for price, $4500 seems a little steep. I bought my '90 with 12k
5762 miles on it a year ago (and in absolutely cherry condition) for $4800.
5763 There is a bluebook, ask your bank or credit union for the going price.
5764 I've seen a couple of ads for VFR's in the $4500 dollar range. They all
5765 said low miles & mint condition but I didn't actually go look at them.
5766
5767 A VFR is a very sweet bike and will last you forever if you maintain
5768 it at all. One thing to look for, BTW, is a soft front end. If my
5769 VFR is any indication, at 12k miles the fork springs were totally shot.
5770 Progressive springs ($55) fixed it right up.
5771
5772 Good luck,rP XJ
5773
5774 Well, OBP is the most important offensive statistic, and by a big margin.
5775 50 points of OBP is worth considerably more than 50 points of slugging.
5776 That being said, I still think Baerga was VERY SLIGHTLY better last year,
5777 but I think this is as close to a wash as you're likely to find.
5778
5779 I personally don't care much for Alomar's defense. I don't think he's
5780 nearly as good as people make him out to be, and he can't turn the DP
5781 to save his life. He comes across the bag improperly, and his release
5782 is slow. Considering the high leverage of the DP, this is a shortcoming
5783 I can't overlook. In the long term, I'd move Alomar to another position.
5784
5785 If the Jays could trade a hot Devon White for something, I'll be Alomar
5786 could be a hell of a CF. In the long run, I think I'd rather have Jeff
5787 Kent at 2B and Alomar in CF than Alomar/White.
5788
5789
5790
5791 rQ X The Casio 7500 lectric diary has a 3-wire serial interface with param
5792 setting like RS232, for which one get a magic but expensive cable to
5793 connect to a PC. Does anyone know the spec of this interface, e.g., it
5794 needs inverting and boosting from CMOS signals to match RS232 lines?rR X�
5795 Nope, you're confusing separate programs. Atlas was the first-generation
5796 US ICBM; Titan I was the second-generation one; Titan II, which all the
5797 Titan launchers are based on, was the third-generation heavy ICBM. There
5798 was essentially nothing in common between these three programs.
5799
5800 (Yes, *three* programs. Despite the similarity of names, Titan I and
5801 Titan II were completely different missiles. They didn't even use the
5802 same fuels, never mind the same launch facilities.)
5803 rS X
5804 Nobody is saying that you shouldn't be allowed to use msg. Just
5805 don't force it on others. If you have food that you want to
5806 enhance with msg just put the MSG on the table like salt. It is
5807 then the option of the eater to use it. If you make a commerical
5808 product, just leave it out. You can include a packet (like some
5809 salt packets) if you desire.
5810
5811 Salt, pepper, mustard, ketchup, pickles ..... are table options.
5812 Treat MSG the same way. I wouldn't shove my condiments down your
5813 throat, don't shove yours down mine.
5814
5815 WFL
5816 rT X� How long does it take a smoker's lungs to clear of the tar after quitting?
5817 Does your chances of getting lung cancer decrease quickly or does it take
5818 a considerable amount of time for that to happen?
5819 rU X
5820 ----------rV X}
5821
5822 The umps saw the weekend boxscores, too. They knew the pitchers needed
5823 some help or they would be watching the sunrise. :)rW Xe Interesting. I'd fight the ticket. First off, there's a 50/50 chance
5824 the cop won't show up. Secondly, if he does show up, you should point
5825 out that he lied (purgered) on the ticket. Why 70+? I beleive that if
5826 yo're charged with going more than 15mph that the posted speed it's a
5827 more severe ticket. You couldn't have p[ossibly been going 70+, right?!
5828 rX X
5829
5830
5831
5832
5833 rY XW
5834
5835 We have plenty of computer labs where the computers are left on all the
5836 time. I don't see any shorter lifespan than the ones we have in the
5837 offices which does get turned off at the end of the day. In fact, some
5838 of the computers in the labs have outlived some of the same ones in the
5839 offices. But it goes both ways so can't conclude anything.rZ X Hi all,
5840
5841 I don't get the sport's channel and I'm desparate for some playoff action
5842 (especially the Cannucks). Does anyone know of a sports bar on the Bay
5843 Peninsula that will be showing hockey games. I'm looking for something
5844 between redwood City and Mountain View.r[ X�
5845 Not in Indiana: they showed a tape-delay of Chicago v Boston, because
5846 WGN had the rainout of the cubs. So WGN showed reruns of Hitchcock.
5847 No hockey (at least in this part of the state).
5848
5849 Go Aeros!r\ X;
5850
5851 OOPS. My original message died. I'll try again...
5852 I always understood (perhaps wrongly...:)) that the bacteria in our digestive
5853 tracts help us break down the components of milk. Perhaps the normal flora of
5854 the intestine changes as one passes from childhood.
5855 Is there a pathologist or microbiologist in the house?r] X MELITTINr^ Xs
5856
5857 I have a Bel-966.
5858 I just looked at the manual yesterday... and it does indeed claim to be
5859 undetectable by RDD's.
5860 r_ X�
5861 They detect the oscillator operating in the detector. Saw a story about
5862 their use in Canada. Now don't go putting oscillators in your cars... :-)
5863 r` X�
5864 Three, actually. I believe I discussed countersteering a horse
5865 before.
5866
5867 Basically, there are two ways to steer a horse, plow-rein and
5868 neck-rein. Plow-reining steers him by keeping the reins separate, and
5869 you pull in the direction you wish to go. Neck-reining steers a horse
5870 by holding the reins together in one hand, and pulling against the
5871 horse's neck in the direction you wish to go. When training a
5872 plow-steering horse to neck-rein, one technique is to cross the reins
5873 under his necks. Thus, when neck-reining to the left, the right rein
5874 pulls against the right side of the neck, but the left side of the bit
5875 (which the horse is used to from his plow-reining days).
5876
5877 Are you sorry you asked yet?
5878 ra h9XW
5879 Well Sweden and Australia, and lord knows wherever else used to drive on
5880 the "wrong" side of the road, so the export market might have been
5881 larger then than just the UK.
5882
5883
5884 By the 1920s, there was a very active "good roads" movement, which had
5885 its origins actually in the 1890s during the bicycle craze, picked up
5886 steam in the teens (witness the Linclon Highway Association, 1912 or so,
5887 and the US highway support act (real name: something different) in 1916
5888 that first pledged federal aid to states and counties to build decent
5889 roads. Also, the experience of widespread use of trucks for domestic
5890 transport during WW 1 convinced the government that good raods were
5891 crucial to our national defense. Anyway, by the 20s there were plenty
5892 of good roads, at least around urban areas, and they were rapidly
5893 expanding into the countryside. This was the era, after all, of the
5894 first auto touring fad, the motel, the auto camp ground, etc. Two good
5895 books on the subject spring to mind - Warren Belasco "America on the
5896 Road" (title may not be exact - author is) and another called "The Devil
5897 Wagon in God's Country" author I forget. Also, any of John Flink's or
5898 John Bell Rae's auto histories.
5899
5900 As to placement of the steering wheel being arbitrary, by the early
5901 teens there were virtually no American cars that did not have the wheel
5902 on the left. In the early days, cars had the wheel on the left, on the
5903 right, and even in the middle, as well as sometimes having a tiller
5904 instead of a wheel. This was standardized fairly early on, though I
5905 don't know why.
5906
5907
5908 Dan
5909 dh3q@andrew.cmu.edu
5910 Carnegie Mellon University
5911 Applied Historyrb Xd
5912 Voyager has the unusual luck to be on a stable trajectory out of the
5913 solar system. All it's doing is collecting fields data, and routinely
5914 squirting it down. One of the mariners is also in stable
5915 solar orbit, and still providing similiar solar data.
5916
5917 Something in a planetary orbit, is subject to much more complex forces.
5918
5919 Comsats, in "stable " geosynch orbits, require almost daily
5920 stationkeeping operations.
5921
5922 For the occasional deep space bird, like PFF after pluto, sure
5923 it could be left on "auto-pilot". but things like galileo or
5924 magellan, i'd suspect they need enough housekeeping that
5925 even untended they'd end up unusable after a while.
5926
5927 The better question should be.
5928
5929 Why not transfer O&M of all birds to a separate agency with continous funding
5930 to support these kind of ongoing science missions.
5931
5932 pat
5933
5934 When ongoing ops are mentioned, it seems to always quote Operations
5935 and Data analysis. how much would it cost to collect the data
5936 and let it be analyzed whenever. kinda like all that landsat data
5937 that sat around for 15 years before someone analyzed it for the ozone hole.rc X1
5938
5939 Again, from my alcohol server's class:
5940 The absolute *most* that eating before drinking can do is slow the absorption
5941 down by 15 minutes. That gives me time to eat, slam one beer, and ride like
5942 hell to try to make it home in the 10 minutes left after paying, donning
5943 helmet & gloves, starting bike...
5944
5945 rd X� Count me interested in a Cardinal's mailing list. If anyone
5946 finds one or starts one, please let me know.
5947
5948 Thanks,
5949
5950 Dick Detweilerre X� Archive-name: atheism/overview
5951 Alt-atheism-archive-name: overview
5952 Last-modified: 5 April 1993
5953 Version: 1.2
5954
5955 Overview
5956
5957 Welcome to alt.atheism and alt.atheism.moderated.
5958
5959 This is the first in a series of regular postings aimed at new readers of the
5960 newsgroups.
5961
5962 Many groups of a 'controversial' nature have noticed that new readers often
5963 come up with the same questions, mis-statements or misconceptions and post
5964 them to the net. In addition, people often request information which has
5965 been posted time and time again. In order to try and cut down on this, the
5966 alt.atheism groups have a series of five regular postings under the following
5967 titles:
5968
5969 1. Alt.Atheism FAQ: Overview for New Readers
5970 2. Alt.Atheism FAQ: Introduction to Atheism
5971 3. Alt.Atheism FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
5972 4. Alt.Atheism FAQ: Constructing a Logical Argument
5973 5. Alt.Atheism FAQ: Atheist Resources
5974
5975 This is article number 1. Please read numbers 2 and 3 before posting. The
5976 others are entirely optional.
5977
5978 If you are new to Usenet, you may also find it helpful to read the newsgroup
5979 news.announce.newusers. The articles titled "A Primer on How to Work With
5980 the Usenet Community", "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet"
5981 and "Hints on writing style for Usenet" are particularly relevant. Questions
5982 concerning how news works are best asked in news.newusers.questions.
5983
5984 If you are unable to find any of the articles listed above, see the "Finding
5985 Stuff" section below.
5986
5987
5988 Credits
5989
5990 These files could not have been written without the assistance of the many
5991 readers of alt.atheism and alt.atheism.moderated. In particular, I'd like to
5992 thank the following people:
5993
5994 kck+@cs.cmu.edu (Karl Kluge)
5995 perry@dsinc.com (Jim Perry)
5996 NETOPRWA@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu (Wayne Aiken)
5997 chpetk@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Toby Kelsey)
5998 jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
5999 geoff.arnold@East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold)
6000 torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
6001 kmldorf@utdallas.edu (George Kimeldorf)
6002 roe2@quads.uchicago.edu (Greg Roelofs)
6003 arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
6004 madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann)
6005 J5J@psuvm.psu.edu (John A. Johnson)
6006 dgraham@bmers30.bnr.ca (Douglas Graham)
6007 mayne@open.cs.fsu.edu (William Mayne)
6008 ajr@bigbird.hri.com (Andy Rosen)
6009 stoesser@ira.uka.de (Achim Stoesser)
6010 bosullvn@unix1.tcd.ie (Bryan O'Sullivan)
6011 lippard@ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
6012 s1b3832@rigel.tamu.edu (S. Baum)
6013 ydobyns@phoenix.princeton.edu (York H. Dobyns)
6014 schroede@sdsc.edu (Wayne Schroeder)
6015 baldwin@csservera.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
6016 D_NIBBY@unhh.unh.edu (Dana Nibby)
6017 dempsey@Kodak.COM (Richard C. Dempsey)
6018 jmunch@hertz,elee.calpoly.edu (John David Munch)
6019 pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
6020 rz@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Richard Zach)
6021 tycchow@math.mit.edu (Tim Chow)
6022 simon@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Simon Clippingdale)
6023
6024 ...and countless others I've forgotten.
6025
6026 These articles are free. Truly free. You may copy them and distribute them
6027 to anyone you wish. However, please send any changes or corrections to the
6028 author, and please do not re-post copies of the articles to alt.atheism; it
6029 does nobody any good to have multiple versions of the same document floating
6030 around the network.
6031
6032
6033 Finding Stuff
6034
6035 All of the FAQ files *should* be somewhere on your news system. Here are
6036 some suggestions on what to do if you can't find them:
6037
6038 1. Check the newsgroup alt.atheism. Look for subject lines starting with
6039 "Alt.Atheism FAQ:".
6040
6041 2. Check the newsgroup news.answers for the same subject lines.
6042
6043 If you don't find anything in steps 1 or 2, your news system isn't set up
6044 correctly, and you may wish to tell your system administrator about the
6045 problem.
6046
6047 3. If you have anonymous FTP access, connect to rtfm.mit.edu [18.172.1.27].
6048 Go to the directory /pub/usenet/alt.atheism, and you'll find the latest
6049 versions of the FAQ files there.
6050
6051 FTP is a a way of copying files between networked computers. If you
6052 need help in using or getting started with FTP, send e-mail to
6053 mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with
6054
6055 send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq
6056
6057 in the body.
6058
6059 4. There are other sites which also carry news.answers postings. The article
6060 "Introduction to the news.answers newsgroup" carries a list of these
6061 sites; the article is posted regularly to news.answers.
6062
6063 5. If you don't have FTP, send mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
6064 consisting of the following lines:
6065
6066 send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources
6067 send usenet/alt.atheism/faq
6068 send usenet/alt.atheism/introduction
6069 send usenet/alt.atheism/logic
6070 send usenet/alt.atheism/resources
6071
6072 5. (Penultimate resort) Send mail to mail-server@mantis.co.uk consisting of
6073 the following lines:
6074
6075 send atheism/faq/faq.txt
6076 send atheism/faq/logic.txt
6077 send atheism/faq/intro.txt
6078 send atheism/faq/resource.txt
6079
6080 and our poor overworked modems will try and send you a copy of the files.
6081 There's other stuff, too; interesting commands to try are "help" and
6082 "send atheism/index".
6083
6084 6. (Last resort) Mail mathew@mantis.co.uk, or post an article to the
6085 newsgroup asking how you can get the FAQ files. You should only do this
6086 if you've tried the above methods and they've failed; it's not nice to
6087 clutter the newsgroup or people's mailboxes with requests for files.
6088 it's better than posting without reading the FAQ, though! For instance,
6089 people whose email addresses get mangled in transit and who don't have
6090 FTP will probably need assistance obtaining the FAQ files.
6091 rf X
6092 Seems like a lot of trouble to go to. Its probably better to
6093 invest in newer launch systems. I don't think a big cost advantage
6094 for using Russian systems will last for very long (maybe a few years).
6095 Lockheed would be the place to ask, since you would probably have to buy
6096 the Proton from them (they market the Proton world wide except Russia).
6097 They should know a lot about the possibilities, I haven't heard them
6098 propose US launches, so I assume they looked into it and found it
6099 unprofitable.
6100
6101
6102 Yes...
6103
6104
6105 Comparable to the Zenit I suppose, but since it looks like
6106 nothing will be built there, you might just as well pick any
6107 spot.
6108
6109 The message is: to launch now while its cheap and while Russia and
6110 Kazakstan are still cooperating. Later, the story may be different.rg XH
6111 All they said on the radio that he developed stiffness in the shoulder
6112 after throwing a curveball that didn't loosen. Because of the cold
6113 night in Denver they decided to remove him from the game rather than
6114 let him pitch. He is expected to pitch his next turn in the rotation
6115 (expected to be April 20, at Shea vs the Giants).rh X
6116 In the game *I* have seen yesterday in the Olympiahalle of Munich
6117 Canada won 4-1 against Sweden! The last goal for Canada was at 19:59 in
6118 the 3rd period. Maybe you shouldn't go and get you another beer
6119 before the game is over and then post imaginary results...
6120
6121 Holger
6122 ri X`
6123 Now, that indeed is possible. A good friend of mine is running about 1 KW
6124 PeP from his car. Yes, he does have a second alternator. Yes, he calls
6125 the rig an "electronic brake" since the engine noticeably slows when the
6126 key is down.
6127
6128 My car, unfortunately, has so much computer junk under the hood that it's
6129 astonishingly sensitive to RFI. If I key a 2W HT over the engine with
6130 the hood open, the car loses timing due to the RF leaking into the
6131 distributor pickup. Very poor design.
6132
6133 I will, however, point out that ham radio operators are usually quite willing
6134 to help when interference is detected. Remember that any interference is
6135 wasted power; if I put out 1W in the TV band, that's 1W that I am not putting
6136 out in the band I am trying to transmit on, and 1W can often be the difference
6137 between a nice card hanging on the wall, and nothing. CBers, however, are
6138 usually not as helpful. Most illegal CBers, however, will stop operation
6139 when you inform them of a problem. The rest of them will stop operation when
6140 you inform the local FCC office of the problem (in writing, and giving details
6141 and addresses).
6142 rj X5 How about posting one of her replies to your letters?rk X� Robert C Hite writes
6143
6144 I think the only Phillies in effect here are Philly Blunts. Of course, if this
6145 all becomes true, I'll be the first to smoke one myself.
6146 rl X% I once read an article on Computer technology which stated that
6147 every new computer technology was actually lower and slower then what it
6148 replaced. Silicon was less effective then the germanium products
6149 then available. GaAs was less capable then Silicon. Multi-processors
6150 were slower then existent single processors.
6151
6152 What the argument was, though was that these new technologies promised either
6153 theoretically future higher performance or lower cost or higher densities.
6154
6155 I think that the DC-1 may g=fit into this same model.
6156
6157 ELV's can certainly launch more weight then a SSRT, but
6158 an SSRT offers the prospect of greater cycle times and lower costs.
6159
6160 This is kind of a speculative posting, but I thought i'd throw it out as
6161 a hjistorical framework for those interested in the project.rm X�
6162
6163 i'm sorry, as i have never heard of any of this. Guess they don't think
6164 it's important enough for a classroom, and i was going on what i've seen
6165 in pics.(some movies--real nice scource there, huh?) I just always
6166 recall thinking that GOOD roads of asphalt didn't come around til the
6167 Interstate Hiway Act, or whatever they called it(60's?), and that wood and
6168 cobblestone roads were fairly rare up through the depression, except in
6169 overpopulated places like England and US cities. Obviously netwisdom
6170 says i am wrong.
6171
6172
6173 i knew it was almost always done, but i knew of no reason that it might not
6174 be done the other way by DeSoto for their car. Seems like they had some
6175 other deviations from the norm too, at times :-)
6176 rn h9X9
6177
6178 Nonsense. First, the uranium fuel is sealed in zirconium
6179 alloy cylinders (which don't melt in any circumstances short of
6180 major failure of the power plant). Second, the primary water
6181 (that circulates inside the reactor core) is never pumped into the
6182 cooling tower (it's the SECONDARY water cycle that goes
6183 through the cooling tower). Third, liquid uranium would burst
6184 into flame on contact with air.
6185
6186
6187 Cleaning crew working in a mist of uranium? This is a
6188 toxic heavy metal, even if it WEREN'T radioactive. Shouldn't there
6189 be some smileys here? Or frowneys? ro X The part about spending $5000-7000 on repairs reminds me
6190 of an article I read in a magazine comparing the 5 year ownership costs
6191 of a Toyota Camry and a Ford Taurus or something like that. The result,
6192 which they announced with great flourish was that it cost the same at the
6193 end of the period. That was their argument to prove that you don't go
6194 wrong buying the Ford Taurus over the Camry.
6195
6196 Now, if I remember correctly, the Camry costs about $4000 or so more
6197 in initial costs. Essentially, it means that you spend about $4000 extra
6198 on repairs on the Taurus. That is ridiculous. Every time your car
6199 needs repairs, it is extra hassles, loss of time and a dozen other things.
6200 I would much rather spend $5000 more in initial costs than spend $4000 more
6201 in repair costs.
6202 rp X� Hi:
6203
6204 I went to the orthopedist on Tuesday. He diagnosed me as having
6205 "intersection syndrome". He prescribed Feldene for me. I want
6206 to know more about the disease and the drug.
6207
6208 Thanks
6209 rq X Excerpts from netnews.alt.atheism: 15-Apr-93 Re: thoughts on christians
6210 by Dave Fuller@portal.hq.vi
6211 I think it'd help if we got a couple good atheists (or even some good,
6212 steadfast agnostics) in some high political offices. When was the last
6213 time we had an (openly) atheist president? Have we ever? (I don't
6214 actually know; these aren't rhetorical questions.) How 'bout some
6215 Supreme court justices?
6216
6217 One thing that really ticked me off a while ago was an ad for a news
6218 program on a local station...The promo said something like "Who are
6219 these cults, and why do they prey on the young?" Ahem. EVER HEAR OF
6220 BAPTISM AT BIRTH? If that isn't preying on the young, I don't know what
6221 is...
6222
6223 I used to be (ack, barf) a Catholic, and was even confirmed...Shortly
6224 thereafter I decided it was a load of BS. My mom, who really insisted
6225 that I continue to go to church, felt it was her duty (!) to bring me up
6226 as a believer! That was one of the more presumptuous things I've heard
6227 in my life. I suggested we go talk to the priest, and she agreed. The
6228 priest was amazingly cool about it...He basically said that if I didn't
6229 believe it, there was no good in forcing it on me. Actually, I guess he
6230 wasn't amazingly cool about it--His response is what you'd hope for
6231 (indeed, expect) from a human being. I s'pose I just _didn't_ expect
6232 it...
6233
6234 I find it absurd that religion exists; Yet, I can also see its
6235 usefulness to people. Facing up to the fact that you're just going to
6236 be worm food in a few decades, and that there isn't some cosmic purpose
6237 to humanity and the universe, can be pretty difficult for some people.
6238 Having a readily-available, pre-digested solution to this is pretty
6239 attractive, if you're either a) gullible enough, b) willing to suspend
6240 your reasoning abilities for the piece of mind, or c) have had the stuff
6241 rammed down your throat for as long as you can remember. Religion in
6242 general provides a nice patch for some human weaknesses; Organized
6243 religion provides a nice way to keep a population under control.
6244
6245 Blech.
6246
6247 Chris
6248
6249 rr X� I would like advice on how to configure my 486 to accept:
6250 - Com1 + Com2 (currently on IRQ 4 and 3)
6251 - LPT1 (IRQ7)
6252 - Bus Mouse (IRQ5)
6253 - Sound Card (no idea what to do - can be set to any)
6254 -
6255 using IRQ2 for Bus MOuse gobbled up too many cycles, and caused
6256 loss of communications with floppy disks, and a few other
6257 problems.
6258
6259 I could, I suppose, switch the 2 com devices externally, and disable
6260 the second port on the Super IO card, but I really want to
6261 have them both available.
6262
6263 COuld the sound card use IRQ2 without horsing up the works?
6264
6265 All replies apppreciated - and I only just subscribed to this
6266 newsgroup - I assume there is an FAQ somewhere (rather, I'm
6267 sure someone will tell me about it....)rs X�
6268
6269 Sorry to disappoint you but the Red Wings earned the victory...easily.
6270
6271 I watched most of the game on ESPN (as soon as I realized that they
6272 were televising the game which was at the beginning of the second).
6273 The Maple Leafs were flat. Very flat. Meanwhile, the Red Wings were
6274 skating very freely and dictating the pace of the game. I didn't
6275 detect any bad penalty calls (Van Hellemond did his usual good job).
6276 Toronto looked like how I expected them to for their first playoff
6277 game in a few years -- nervous.
6278
6279 For the Leafs sake, I hope they can rid themselves of the butterflies
6280 for game 2. If game 1 is indicative of the series, it's gonna go
6281 quick.rt X It's only test message.
6282
6283 ru Xp
6284 Well Bill, There are 2MB soldered on the logic board and 2MB in the RAM
6285 expansion slot giving you 4MB. The only thing you can do to upgrade to
6286 the maximum Ram is to remove the 2MB expansion and install a 6MB expansion,
6287 giving you a total of 8MB which is the max on a 170....You can try calling
6288 TechWorks, or any other memory vendors out of MacWeek, MacWorld...etc....rv Xz* 1992-93 Los Angeles Kings notes and game reports.
6289 -------------------------------------------------
6290 Kings 6 @ Calgary Flames 3 - 04/18/93
6291
6292 The third place Kings opened the 1993 Stanley Cup Playoffs in Calgary, against
6293 the second place Flames and came out with an impressive 6-3 victory in front of
6294 a non-sellout crowd of 18,605 at the Saddledome in Calgary.
6295
6296 Symthe Division playoff hockey this was. Both teams seemed a bit tense in the
6297 opening period though the Kings scored off the opening face-off. The Kings got
6298 into the flow of the game much earlier than the Flames as they played out-
6299 standing team defense. It took the Flames 9:45 of the first period to record
6300 their first shot on goal. The Kings, ranked 16th of the 16 playoff teams on
6301 penalty killing, shut down the Flames. The Flames went 0-8 on the power play
6302 and could record only 8 shot on goal in those 8 opportunities. The Kings had
6303 their problems on the power play, yet they did manager to score 2 goals in 10
6304 tries.
6305
6306 The Kings forwards back-checked while the defense stood the Flames up at the
6307 blue line, allowing the Kings to take took the home ice advantage away from the
6308 Flames. Rob Blake missed the game due to the lower back contusion but is ex-
6309 pected to be in the lineup on Wednesday. Wayne Gretzky suffered a charlie horse
6310 in his right leg. He took a few shifts in the second period before retiring to
6311 the dressing room for the rest of the game. Interviewed on the radio this
6312 morning, he stated that he was fine and would be in the lineup on Wednesday.
6313
6314 1st period:
6315 1-0. The Kings got things started right off the opening face-off. Gretzky won
6316 the draw with the puck going to Sydor. He crossed center ice and slapped the
6317 puck into the Flames zone and behind the net. The puck carried around to the
6318 far side where Robitaille wacked at it and the rebound bounced to Sandstrom. He
6319 put the puck behind the Flames net where Gretzky picked it up. Gretzky set up
6320 in 'his office', moved to the near side and passed into the near circle where
6321 Sydor had moved in. Sydor, who got the puck between the face-off dot and the
6322 hash mark, shot off the pass, beating Vernon low and between the legs.
6323
6324 Millen and Fleury went off at 4:57. Skrudland went off at 12:25 but the Kings
6325 failed to convert. Carson went off at 14:53 and the Flames failed to convert.
6326 Dahlquist went off at 18:34 and Dahl went off at 19:30, giving the Kings a 30
6327 second 5on3 which they failed to convert. The Kings recorded 2 goal posts in
6328 the period.
6329
6330 2nd period:
6331 The Kings opened with a 5on3 carried over from the 1st period which they failed
6332 to convert on. With 6 seconds left in the 5on4, Vernon put a bouncing puck into
6333 the stands and received a delay of game.
6334
6335 1-1. Calgary evened the score on the ensuing Kings power play. Kurri, with the
6336 puck in the neutral zone, tried to put the puck into the Flames zone but it hit
6337 the stick of Fleury and bounced to Suter at the Flames blue line. Suter skated
6338 down the near wing and into the Kings zone. He faked a shot at the circle and
6339 skated around Kurri. As he cut thorugh the crease, he got Hrudey to go with him
6340 and he put the puck behind Hrudey, on his stick side for a short hander.
6341
6342 2-1. The Kings reclaimed the lead 25 seconds later on the same power play.
6343 Shuchuk, in the far circle passed to Sydor at the top of the slot and headed
6344 for the net. Sydors shot hit Shuchuk in the back and dropped into the low slot
6345 where 2 Kings (Shuchuk and Granato) were being checked by 3 Flames. Carson
6346 came from the far corner, picked up the loose puck and snapped a wrist shot
6347 between the legs of Vernon from 5 feet above the crease.
6348
6349 3-1. The Kings widened their lead just 24 seconds later. Rychel was checked off
6350 the puck at the Flames blue line. Taylor picked up the puck and sent a pass
6351 cross the slot to Huddy. Huddy shot off the pass, from the near face-off dot,
6352 beating a diving Vernon on the glove side.
6353
6354 4-1. 2:59 later, the Kings had a 3 goal lead. McSorley took a shot form the
6355 near point that hit a Flame and deflected towards the boards. Marty got his
6356 own rebound, skated to the bottom of the circle and sent a pass into the low
6357 slot that hit Dahlquist on the leg and deflected past the stick of Vernon.
6358
6359 Skrudland went off at 10:53 but the Kings could not convert. Sydor went off at
6360 12:35 and Watters went off at 14:40, giving the Flames a 5 second 5-3 but they
6361 failed to convert. McSorley went off at 17:19 and the Flames had 3 consecutive
6362 power plays but the Flames killed it themselves when Suter went off for high
6363 sticking at 17:31. Sandstrom went off at 18:03 to close out the period. The
6364 Kings hit 3 goal post in the period.
6365
6366 3rd period:
6367 The Kings used the phrase "Initiate, not retaliate" and it was very evident here
6368 in the 3rd period as the Kings continued to pound the body and the Flames
6369 continued to take bad penalties to take themselves out of the game.
6370
6371 5-1. The Kings extended their lead to 4 goals at the 1:06 mark. The Kings shot
6372 the puck into the near corner of the Flames zone. Vernon went behind the net to
6373 cut off the puck but he could not control it. Donnelly, who was behind him,
6374 wacked at the puck, sending it into the low slot. As Vernon slid back in to the
6375 crease, Granato got a shot that hit a Flame and bounced to the left of the net
6376 where Millen fired the rebound behind Vernon.
6377
6378 Sydor went off at 1:24; Nieuwendyk went off at 3:22 as the teams skated 4 on 4.
6379
6380 5-2. Otto, skating down the far side, stepped around McSorley, cut to the net
6381 and passed to Dahlquist in the low slot. Dahlquist cut through the top of the
6382 crease and put the puck in under a diving Hrudey.
6383
6384 Carson and Rychel came in on a 2-1. When Carson passed across to Rychel, Fleury
6385 tripped Rychel with no call. The puck got shoveled into the far corner where
6386 Fleury knocked Rychel down and checked him from behind into the boards, drawing
6387 a 5-minute major and a game misconduct at the 6:08 mark. Unfortunately, the
6388 Kings squandered the 5 minute power play when Granato (at 6:44) and Watters (at
6389 8:19) took penalties.
6390
6391 5-3. The Flames closed to within 2 at the 8:47 mark. MacInnis, at the near
6392 point, passed to Yawney at the far point. He took a few strides towards the
6393 net, wound up and drove a shot off the near post and in over the glove of
6394 Hrudey. The play started on another faceoff that the Kings lost. Timeout - LA.
6395
6396 6-3. MacInnis took a penalty at 9:56 and the Kings converted on the power play
6397 to seal the victory. Sandstrom, skating down the far wing in the Flames zone
6398 cut towards the back of the net. Just as he crossed the goal line, he passed
6399 the puck into the low slot, on the far side, to Carson who shot off the pass,
6400 beating Vernon on the ice, stick side.
6401
6402 At the 16:17 mark, Skrudland went off for slashing and Stern went crazy as he
6403 went after Shuchuk. Stern wound up with a double minor for roughing, a single
6404 minor for cross checking and a 10 minute misconduct, and he took the Flames
6405 right out of the game.
6406
6407 On the plus side: The Kings, for the most part, played very disciplined hockey
6408 as they let Calgary retaliate. The