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MLB Standings and Scores for Wednesday, April 21st, 1993 (including yesterday's games) NATIONAL WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road San Francisco Giants 09 05 .643 -- 8-2 Won 2 05-02 04-03 Houston Astros 07 06 .538 1.5 7-3 Lost 1 02-04 05-02 Atlanta Braves 08 07 .533 1.5 4-6 Won 1 04-03 04-04 Los Angeles Dodgers 06 08 .429 3.0 4-6 Lost 1 03-03 03-05 San Diego Padres 05 08 .385 3.5 4-6 Lost 1 03-04 02-04 Colorado Rockies 04 08 .333 4.0 4-6 Lost 2 03-03 01-05 Cincinnati Reds 04 09 .308 4.5 3-7 Won 2 02-04 02-05 NATIONAL EAST Philadelphia Phillies 10 03 .769 -- 7-3 Won 2 06-01 04-02 St. Louis Cardinals 08 05 .615 2.0 6-4 Won 1 05-02 03-03 Chicago Cubs 07 06 .538 3.0 6-4 Won 1 04-03 03-03 Montreal Expos 07 06 .538 3.0 5-5 Won 2 04-03 03-03 Pittsburgh Pirates 07 06 .538 3.0 4-6 Lost 4 03-03 04-03 New York Mets 06 06 .500 3.5 4-6 Lost 2 02-04 04-02 Florida Marlins 04 09 .308 6.0 3-7 Lost 2 02-05 02-04 AMERICAN WEST Won Lost Pct. GB Last 10 Streak Home Road Texas Rangers 08 04 .667 -- 6-4 Lost 1 04-02 04-02 California Angels 07 04 .636 0.5 6-4 Won 1 04-02 03-02 Minnesota Twins 07 05 .583 1.0 6-4 Won 1 04-03 03-02 Chicago White Sox 06 07 .462 2.5 4-6 Won 1 02-03 04-04 Oakland Athletics 05 06 .455 2.5 4-6 Won 1 05-02 00-04 Seattle Mariners 05 08 .385 3.5 3-7 Lost 1 03-03 02-05 Kansas City Royals 04 09 .308 4.5 4-6 Won 2 02-05 02-04 AMERICAN EAST Boston Red Sox 11 03 .786 -- 8-2 Won 4 06-01 05-02 Detroit Tigers 08 05 .615 2.5 7-3 Won 1 06-01 02-04 Toronto Blue Jays 07 06 .538 3.5 5-5 Lost 1 04-02 03-04 New York Yankees 06 07 .462 4.5 5-5 Lost 3 03-03 03-04 Milwaukee Brewers 04 06 .400 5.0 4-6 Lost 1 02-02 02-04 Cleveland Indians 05 09 .357 6.0 3-7 Lost 2 04-03 01-06 Baltimore Orioles 04 08 .333 6.0 4-6 Lost 1 02-04 02-04 YESTERDAY'S SCORES (IDLE teams listed in alphabetical order) NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston Astros 1 Chicago White Sox 2 Chicago Cubs 2 Baltimore Orioles 1 (14) Los Angeles Dodgers 3 Texas Rangers 1 Montreal Expos 7 Detroit Tigers 3 Cincinnati Reds 5 Milwaukee Brewers 0 Pittsburgh Pirates 0 Minnesota Twins 10 Atlanta Braves 5 Toronto Blue Jays 2 Florida Marlins 4 Kansas City Royals 8 San Diego Padres 3 Cleveland Indians 2 Philadelphia Phillies 4 (14) California Angels 7 San Francisco Giants 4 New York Yankees 7 New York Mets 1 (11) Oakland Athletics 9 (10) Colorado Rockies 0 Boston Red Sox 5 St. Louis Cardinals 5 Seattle Mariners 2 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Hernandez | RAMS | | /.\ ******* _|_|_ / | LAKERS [email protected] | KINGS | |__ | | DODGERS _|_|_ | | RAIDERS [email protected] | ANGELS |____||_|_| ******* | | |___| CLIPPERS

Well they could unseal the original warrent (Why was i sealed in the first place?), release their video & tapes (from their listening devices inside the compound) and quit makeing contradictory statements. Do you believe their statement that the children were killed by lethal injection? They later stated that the childrens bodies were burned to the point the would be hard to identify. So how did they come up with the lethal injection theory? Unless the evidence was destroyed or other evidence planted. You mean "Magic bullet" Spector? I know, a lone gunman killed all the Branch Davidians. :-) || :-(

Can a theist be truly objective? Can he be impartial when questioning the truth of his scriptures, or will he assume the superstition of his parents when questioning? I've often found it to be the case that the theist will stick to some kind of superstition when wondering about God and his scriptures. I've seen it in the Christian, the Jew, the Muslim, and the other theists alike. All assume that their mothers and fathers were right in the aspect that a god exists, and with that belief search for their god. Occasionally, the theist may switch religions or aspects of the same religion, but overall the majority keep to the belief that some "Creator" was behind the universe's existence. I've known Muslims who were once Christians and vice versa, I've known Christians who were once Jewish and vice versa, and I've even known Christians who become Hindu. Yet, throughout their transition from one faith to another, they've kept this belief in some form of higher "being." Why? It usually all has to do with how the child is brought up. From the time he is born, the theist is brought up with the notion of the "truth" of some kind of scripture-- the Bible, the Torah, the Qur'an, & etc. He is told of this wondrous God who wrote (or inspired) the scripture, of the prophets talked about in the scripture, of the miracles performed, & etc. He is also told that to question this (as children are apt to do) is a sin, a crime against God, and to lose belief in the scrip- ture's truth is to damn one's soul to Hell. Thus, by the time he is able to read the scripture for himself, the belief in its "truth" is so ingrained in his mind it all seems a matter of course. But it doesn't stop there. Once the child is able to read for himself, there is an endeavor to inculcate the child the "right" readings of scripture, to concentrate more on the pleasant readings, to gloss over the worse ones, and to explain away the unexplainable with "mystery." Circular arguments, "self-evdent" facts and "truths," unreasoning belief, and fear of hell is the meat of religion the child must eat of every day. To doubt, of course, means wrath of some sort, and the child must learn to put away his brain when the matter concerns God. All of this has some considerable effect on the child, so that when he becomes an adult, the superstitions he's been taught are nearly impossible to remove. All of this leads me to ask whether the theist can truly be objective when questioning God, Hell, Heaven, the angels, souls, and all of the rest. Can he, for a moment, put aside this notion that God *does* exist and look at everything from a unbiased point of view? Obviously, most theists can somewhat, especially when presented with "mythical gods" (Homeric, Roman, Egyptian, & etc.). But can they put aside the assumption of God's existence and question it impartially? Stephen _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ * Atheist _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ * Libertarian _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ * Pro-individuality _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ * Pro-responsibility _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Jr. * and all that jazz...

... Apologies, I've not been paying attention.

Lawson was on the Yamaha. Not taking anything away from Russel, but, well... __ Jorg Klinger | GSXR1100 | If you only new who Arch. & Eng. Services |"Lost Horizons" CR500 | I think I am. UManitoba, Man. Ca. |"The Embalmer" IT175 | - anonymous

Yeah, diesels are cleaner than petrol powered cars. They even have catalysts fitted to disels now! Oh and Citroen have even launched the 'First sports diesel car in the world'. Which is probably true if you assume if its for production purposes (Merc-Benz had a prototype which runs on diesel back in around 1968..... it did - and read this! - 200 MPH!!!) ....Shaz....

Indirect compared to what? Did Voyager 2 traverse a substantially greater distance than, say, a Hohmann orbit? I've never heard Voyager's path described as "indirect" before...

Just because those "marriages" are more stable and loving and long-lasting, doesn't make it right. Same-sex partners could have been best friends, without getting sexually involved with each other.

I'm looking for a copy of "Bela Lugosi's last film." If anyone has a copy of this stinker, please e-mail me. (Also, if anyone knows a better place to post this, please tell me).

I think you're both right. Teflon was actually discovered by accident before WWII. From what I've heard, they had some chemical (I assume it was tetrafluoroethylene) in a tank and but the valve got gummed up. Cutting it open revealed that it had polymerized. The material was useful for seals, but it had a major problem for, say the linings of vessels: it wouldn't stick to metal. What the space program did was to find a way to get it to stick. Thus we had no-stick frypans on the market in the late '60s.

This is certainly not the case. There is no significant *ability* toi perform in the clutch, but clutch performance certainly happens every time there is a game-winning hit. The "clutch pitching" quoted above is something which happened, not a claim that any particular player should be expected to be a clutch pitcher. Simple statistics tell me that there is a 2% chance an average clutch hitter would have this large a split (the average decrease is 7 points, standard deviation about 30). There will be such hitters in any league, just as there will be hitters who hit poorly on Tuesdays. And there is only a very weak correlation (.01 in my best study) between clutch hitting in the last four years and clutch hitting this year, probably because most of the clutch data is determinaed by luck rather than any ability. *Based only on this data*, I don't see any reason to pinch-hit for Sabo, or any other player who had been a poor clutch hitter in the past. But there are many other factors involved in a decision to pinch-hit. Does the pinch-hitter give you a platoon advantage? (Any portion of Sabo's clutch split that results from his platoon split is certainly a real ability, even if it has nothing to do with clutch hitting.) Do you have a singles hitter at the plate when you need a home run? Do you have a curveball pitcher facing a batter who has trouble with curves?

I don't have a stat, but, unfortunately, I did read generally that both smoking and belief in the supernatural (occultish garbage) is on the rise here. This is very interesting. I thing the principle is sort of the same though: all "philosophical" ideas are generally tried out and tested mostly during college years. Whether the idea is christian or atheist doesn't always matter. But I'd like to say it's because atheists are more intelligent :) -- regards, --Adam

#Really? I thought that insurance companies hired all of #their actuarial staffs to determine the risks correlated #with all groups of people, and that gays are more likely #to have AIDS than are those of other sexual orientations. Correlation != causality. The risk factor is having non-monogomous unprotected sex, not being homosexual.

The Microsoft Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK) documentation (blurb) states that the user must separately acquire the Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the Windows tools to build the drivers. If we are using Borland C++ with Application Frameworks, is this necessary? We also have a copy of the Microsoft Press Programmer's Reference Library (books) which normally comes with the SDK, and Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.0. Why is the SDK neccessary for development of Virtual Device Drivers?

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"Muslim" in ex-Yugoslavia was a *nation* not a religion. In fact, not all Muslims in B-H are followers of Islam. Therefore, there do (did?) exist in ex-Yugoslavia "Christian Muslims." Tito defined the Muslim nation constitutionally, adding Muslims to Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, the three founding nations which entered into a voluntary union at the end of WWI. In addition, Tito added two other nations constitutionally: Montenegrins, and Makedonijans. Nations had the right of secession, but republics did not. So, "Muslim" is much more a political term than a religious term (for those who differentiate between religion and politics, that is) in B-H. It was not a "Christo-Slavic" ideology that made a Muslim nation in Yugoslavia, it was the "Atheist Communist" ideology of Tito. Before Tito, there was no Muslim nation in Yugoslavia. The war is not a religious war, and it is not an ethnic war. It is a civil war in which the terms of secession are being negotiated with guns instead of pens. The Croat, Muslim, and Serb political leaders *all* chose to fight over the terms of secession instead of compromising and peacefully negotiating multilateral secession agreements.

Another tip is to make sure you keep well to one side of the lane. This gives you a quicker escape route.

Hello *.*, I'm looking for a good explanation and example of the usefulness of the -S option for xterm: slave mode on file descriptor xxx. Sure, but xterm -Sp00 does not seem to grab what arrives on my window. Where is my misunderstan- ding ? TIA. Fred. =========================================================================== Frederic PIERRE. ENSPS/LSIT 7 rue de l'universite F-67000 Strasbourg FRANCE Tel: (33) 88 35 80 84 Fax: (33) 88 35 31 76 e-mail: [email protected] ==========================HamRadio: FC1HFD=================================

Attention Penguins fans once again, apparently 99.999% of you understand that this was just a joke (Hence the :-) next to it) but one idiot on here doesn't as he got pissed at me and sent me two hate e-mails telling me that this is wrong. I have no intentions of sending e-mail to anyone should the Pens win tonight, and I really do not expect/do not intend to lead any of you to send this poster e-mail either. It was NOT a serious request. If you didn't know that (which you probably did) then don't do it. Thanks.

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Using the usersub stuff in perl, you can incorporate things like curses for use in perl. I was wondering if anyone had done this with X (preferably Motif), and if so, where I could get the source for it?

It is far from new. It's been around almost as long as dirt. I had one for one of my old bikes. Worked fine. I'm sure, being rigid and nonflexible, that the "Cyclelok" would yield instantly to the freeze and break routine. But then, for $40, what do ya want? Later,

Heavens! Everybody but Phill is out of step! Once again, Phill lets us all know that might makes right -- but ONLY for the all-sacred government. --

I want to subscribe, I am located in Israel and my name is David Gotlieb

Re; Response from CoB of Boeing on SSTO ... Boeing has been looking at several TSTO vehicles and has carried out extensive conceptual studies of advanced launch systems for some time. A good reference on this might be: "Comparison of Propulsion Options for Advanced Earth-To-Orbit (ETO) Applications (IAF-92- 0639)." by V.A. Weldon and L.E. Fink from Boeing. The paper describes a propane-fueled TSTO launch system claimed to achieve aircraft-like operational efficiencies without the problems associated with liquid hydrogen fuel. Basically, it's a high-speed airplane launching a Hermes-type spaceplane The design (the concept is also called "Beta") as laid out in the paper can launch at least 10,000 pounds into polar orbit, or 20,000 pounds to space station orbit including a crew of eight persons and life support. System design reliability is .9995. Beta is a 360-foot-long first stage powered by two large ramjets and 12 high- speed civil transport (HSCT) turbofans. A 108-foot- long reusable orbiter is trapeze-mounted in the belly of the first- stage aircraft, which also could accommodate a longer and heavy payload on an expendable second stage. To launch the orbital vehicle, the first stage takes off like a normal HSCT and accelerates to Mach 3. At that point the turbofans, modified to burn catalyzed JP-7, would shut off and the ramjets, would take over. At Mach 5.5 the orbiter or the ELV would swing out, ignite and proceed to orbit. Both vehicles would land like aircraft at the conclusion of their respective missions. Estimated total weight of the combined configuration at takeoff is about 1.5 M lbs, roughly equivalanet to a fully loaded An-225. The orbiter stages weighs about 400,Klbs including 335 Klbs of LOX and subcooled propane to power two 250 Klbs vacuum thrust rocket engines. Propellants would be stored at 91 degrees Kelvin, with the propane in a spherical tank mounted forward of the 15-by- 25-foot cargo bay and the two-seat orbiter crew station. LOX would be stored aft. Weldon and Fink claim the key to this design's success is the structurally efficient airframe and the compact tankage allowed by the high-density supercooled hydrocarbon fuel. The paper compares TSTO design to SSTO design. They conclude while a SSTO has a slightly lower recurring cost, a TSTO is easier, cheaper, and less risky to develop, simpler to build, has greater safety and mission versatility and doesn't carry the hard-to-handle and bulky hydrogen fuel. The conlcude "In conjunction with its major use of airplane type engines and fuel, as well as its inherent self- ferry capability, it is probably the system most likely to provide as close to airline-like operations as possible with a practical configuration, until a single stage airbreather/rocket concept can be shown to be operationally viable." Weldon and others at Boeing have been working on TSTO designs for some time. I expect this, or a similar concept (perhaps the HTHL SSTO they proposed for the SDIO SSTO first phase) is being re- examined as a basis for a bid on the first phase of SpaceLifter. Does it threaten DC-???. Possibly -- There is a set of on-going studies trying straighten out the government's future space transportation strategy. MDC and Boeing (as well as other firms) are providing data to a joint study team back in DC. There are various factions and options vying for attention -- including shuttle upgrades, shuttle replacement (what was called the "4-2-3" architecture), SpaceLifter, ELV upgrades, and various advanced vehicles (ALES, Beta, DC-??, NASP, FSTS, SSTOs of several types, etc.) NASA/DOD/DOT are trying to put together a coherent strategy for future US gov't space transportation systems, and trying to juggle near-term launch needs (like for DoD and NASA) against medium-term needs (including commercial considerations), and against the investment and risk of going to "leap frog" new technologies like SDIO/SSTO and NASP and Beta. It's a heck of a problem. The worst part of the problem isn't that there aren't promising ideas and concepts -- there are dozens of them -- but how they balance cost and risk versus real needs in the near term. They should have a draft report in mid-June, with a final report coming by the end of the fiscal year. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wales Larrison Space Technology Investor

I am writing this to find out the following: 1.) Any information on surgery to prevent reflux esophagitis. 2.) The name(s) of a doctor(s) who specialize in such surgery. 3.) Information on reflux esophagitis which leads to cancer. My boyfriend, age 34 and otherwise in good health, was diagnosed with reflux esophagitis and a hiatal hernia about 2 years ago. At that time he saw a gastroenterologist and has tried acid controllers (Mylanta, Tagamet), as well as a restricted diet and raising the head of his bed. These treatments were not effective and because the damage was worsening, he opted for a surgical repair 3 months ago. He was told there were two repair techniques that could fix the problem; a Nissen wrap and a "Hill Repair". He opted for the "Hill Repair". He recovered very well from the surgery itself but the pain he had originally is worse and in addition he now has trouble swallowing (including saliva). The doctor now wants to do an endoscopy and has also informed him that a biopsy might be necessary if he has a pre-cancerous condition which he called "Barrett's Syndrome". If he can't avoid having reflux will he necessarily get cancer? Basically, if anyone has any information on what he should do now, I'd appreciate it. Thanks,

ESPN has been trying various things to get away from the follow-the-puck concept of televising hockey games. One of the main problems with hockey is that it is very difficult to show everything that is going on -- more happens away from the puck than in any other sport except maybe football and they can do iso's on football players to be shown between plays. The problem of course is that sometimes you get something worthwhile, other times you get burned.

Brian, does all this mean that you have to be well versed in ancient Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic in order to understand the core of Christianity? I hope you are not Catholic, because my Christian upbringing was based on the teachings of Luther, and the one of the core messages was basically that you don't need to know latin in order to learn about salvation. BTW, your statement would also eliminate about 99.5% of all the Christians in the world, as well. Cheers, Kent

.DXF can not be changed over to .IFF format what it can be changed to is an object format used by one of the 3D programs on the Amiga. The only tools around are comercial for that conversion.

CNN reported tonight that some bodies were found with bullet holes in their heads. However, I have no information on the possible causes. This is not to say that Government stories are to be taken at the face value in this case, but to jump to conclusion at this stage may be the source of embarrassment in the future. Let's be paranoic, this may be a ploy to smoke out the opposition and decredit them. :-) Comparison of this incidence to Tienanmen Square is made in soc.culture.china. Just in case you need more ammunition to shoot at each other. :-) No matter which side you are on this Waco issue, are you ready to die defending your cause? Peace be with you.

Robert, I'm *so* glad that you posted your Biological Alchemy discussion. I've been compared to the famous Robert McElwaine by some readers of Sci. Med. I didn't know how to respond since I had not seen one of your posts(just like I haven't read "The Yeast Connection"). Let me just start by stating that the authors of the "Cold Fusion" papers of recent years are now in scientific exile(I believe that one has actually left the country). Scientific fraud is rare. I'm still not sure that if a review of the research notes of the "cold fusion scientists" actually proved fraud or just very shoddy experimentation. Your sources do not seem to be research articles. They are more like lay texts designed to pique human interest in a subject area(just like the food combining and life extension texts). Robert, I try to keep an open mind. But some things I just can't buy(one is taking SOD orally to prevent oxidative damage in the body). Your experiment, if conducted by readers of this news group, would prove that you are right(more ash after seed sprouting than before). Unless you use a muffle furnance and obtain a very high temperature(above 600 degrees I believe), you will get organic residue in the ash. Even the residue in commercial incinerators contains organic residue. I remember doing this kind of experiment in my organic chemistry couurse in College but I couldn't find a temperature for mineral ash formation so I'm really guessing at 600 degrees F, it may actually be much higher. The point is that no one in their home could ever get a high enough temperature to produce *only* a mineral ash. They also could not measure the minerals so they could only weigh the ash and find out that you appear to be correct. Chemical reactions abound in our body, in our atmosphere, in our water and in our soil. Are these fusion reactions? Yes many of them do involve fusing oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur to both organics and inorganics. Do we really have the transformation of silicone to calcium if carbon is fused with silicon? Not in my book Robert. Silicon is the most abundant mineral on our planet. I've seen speculation that man could have evolved to be a silicon based rather than a carbon based life-form. I like reading science fiction, as many people do. But I know enough about biochemistry(and nutrition) to be able(in most cases) to separate the fiction from the fact. Silicon may be one of the trace elements that turns out to be essential in humans. We have several grams of the stuff in our body. What's it doing there? Only the Lord knows right now. But I will tell you what I do know about silicon and why, as you state, it helps bone healing(and it is not because silicon is transformed into calcium). Almost all of the silicon in the human body is found in the connective tissue(collagen and elastin). There have been studies published which show that the very high silicon content in elastin may be an important protective factor against atherosclerosis(the higher the silicon content in elastin, the more resistant the elastin is to a an age-related loss of elasticity which may play a role in the increase in blood pressure that is often seen as part of the ageing process in humans). For bone fracture healing, the first step is a collagen matrix into which calcium and phosphate are pumped by osteoblasts. A high level of silicon in the diet seems to speed up this matrix formation. This first step in the bone healing process seems to be the hardest for some people to get going. Electriacl currents have been used in an attempt to get the matrix forming cells oriented in the right direction so that the matrix can be formed in the gap(or gaps) between the ends of the broken bone. A vitamin C deficiency (by slowing collagen formation as well as causing the prodcution of defective collagen) does slow down both bone and wound healing. Zinc is also another big player in bone and wound healing. And so is silicon(in an undetermined role that most likely involes matrix formation and not transformation of silicon to calcium). For you to take this bone healing observation and use it as proof that silicon is transformed into calcium is an interesting little trick. But Robert, I have the same problem myself when I read the lay press(and yes even some scientific papers). Is the explanation reasonable? Without a very good science knowledge base, you and most readers of this news group are flying blind(you have to take it on faith because you don't know any better). If the explanation seems to make sense to me based on my knowledge base, I'm inclined to consider it(this usually means trying to find other sources that come to the same conclusion). If the idea(like a candida bloom) seems to make sense to me, I tend to pursue it as long as any advice that I'm going to give isn't going to really mess somebody up. If this makes us kindred souls Robert, then I guess I'll have to live with that label. For the physicians who have decided to read my response to Robert's interesting post, I hope that you saw the segment on the pediatric neurosurgeon last night on U.S. TV. I can't remember the network or his name(like many nights, I was on my computer and my wife was watching TV in our Den where I have my computer setup). This neurosurgeon takes kids with brain tumors that everyone else has given up on and he uses"unconventional" treatments(his own words). He says that he has a 70% success rate. The one case that I heard him discussing would normally use radiation(conventional treatment). He was going to go in and cut. You guys complain about the cost of the anti-fungals. What do you think the cost difference between radiation treatment and surgery is guys? I'm going to ask you guys one more time, why blast a physician who takes the chronic sinus sufferer(like Jon) and the chronic GI sufferer(like Elaine) and tries to help them using unconventional treatments? Treatments which do not result in death(like those that the neurosurgeon uses?). Is it because candida blooms are not life-threatening while brain tumors are? How about quality of life guys? May the candida demon never cross your sinus cavity or gut(if it does, you may feel differently about the issue).

Hello everyone, I have an insurance question. Allstate insurance SITUATION: Person wrecks car. Car is drivable to dealer. Person reports accident (no other cars involved). Driver estimates damage cost exceedes cost of car. Insurance people claim car is "totalled" because of exceeding repair costs. Person says "WWHHHAATTTT!!!! But I drove the car here!" and takes it to another place. Other place estimates 2,101.00 in damage. 2,000 less than the dealer. One more hitch... The car is registered in Florida but the accident occurred in Pennsyvania. QUESTION: Should the insurance recognize and pay for the damages of this, now fixable, car even though they prematurly declared totalled? Please respond via E-Mail if you think you know anything about this sort of thing. [email protected]

OK, OK, OK. First, my apologies for perhaps being untimely with this subject material and perhaps overly optimistic in my request, but here goes anyhow: I'm *very* interested in finding out how I might be able to get two tickets for the All Star game in Baltimore this year. My very aged folks live about 50 miles away and I know it would be a great thing for them to attend the game. I went with them, and my grandfather who got me into baseball as a small child, to the All Star game in DC many years ago. Although I'm now in the SF Bay Area, I'd *love* to be able to treat my folks to this game; it's absolutely the last chance they'd ever have to attend this g ame locally. Any info would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Yeah, right, and if the ATF trashes your place on a bad tip they have to pay to repair it, sure. And if your computer equipment is confisticated in a raid they have to charge you with a crime within, say, 90 days. You're stretching the naivete bit on this one.

Good question! I kind of wondered about this myself. Just one thought I had on it - the Babe himself was IN "Pride of the Yankees", which made me think a) that version may be closer to the truth, and b) the Babe must have been a pretty good gut to be in the movie even though some of the scenes didn't make him look completely flattering.

I have a DFI Handy Scanner Model HS-3000Plus and a little bit of software running under dos to use it. I'd like to make more extensive use of this device (in particular, write a driver for it on unix). So, can anyone give me a description of how to talk to this device. It connects to the system via it's own interface card. Any info would help, it can't be too difficult to talk to :-)

Does anyone know if there is a carrying case for the Centris 610? Thanks for any info.

We are looking for a public domain or low price CASE , running on AIX/6000 3.2 and/or SOLARIS 1.1 and/or SUN/OS 3.1, for X/Motif and/or X/OpenLook. I'm not a regular follower of these groups, so I would prefer an answer to this e-mail. Thanks in advance, Regards, --Osvaldo

Whatever. Anyway, Elias should take a look at my quotes to find real, effective ways of getting your point across. Notice that all the quotes are recent. Buy a clue, Nazi man from up north.

*** On 04-20-93 21:56, Tim King had the unmitigated gall to say this: TK> accidentally discovered that if a have a floppy from ONE particular TK> box of diskettets in the A drive when I boot up, rather than getting TK> the "Non-system diskette" message, the machine hangs and the CMOS TK> gets overwritten (luckily, Gateway sends a print of the standard Just a wild thought here, but how about this: there is a small boot program on every formatted diskette, whether or not it contains system files. It is this small program that prints the "Non-System Disk" error, not DOS. If this program tries to transfer control to a BIOS location that is nonstandard on the Gateway, then it could clear the BIOS. I don't think that the BIOS is overwritten, there is usually a small routine to clear the CMOS area, in case an invalid configuration prevents the machine from booting. I think that the boot code on the Fuji disks may inadvertantly call this routine. Just a thought. ... Don't hit me, Mr. Moderator... I'll go back on topic... I swear! --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10

I tried Prozac a few months ago, and had some insomnia from it, but no anxiety or jitters. I probably could have lived with the insomnia if the Prozac had done any good, but it only provided a tiny benefit. Maybe because the person who prescribed it didn't know much and gave up after a 20mg dose didn't work. Now I'm seeing a psychiatrist who has put me on Zoloft (another serotonin reuptake inhibitor like Prozac). One pill/day (50mg) seemed to help some. Now I'm trying 100mg/day. Zoloft has fewer and milder side effects than Prozac. I think my doctor said that only 4% of the people taking Zoloft have to discontinue it because of side effects. The only problem I'm having is some minor GI distress, but nothing too annoying. Hopefully the Zoloft will work. Maybe your friend should try this one next. My psychiatrist's strategy seems to be to first try one of the serotonin drugs, usually Prozac. If that works, great. If it works but has too many side effects, try Zoloft or maybe Paxil. If the serotonin drugs don't work at all, try one of the tricyclics like desipramine. Having a doctor who knows something about antidepressants can make a big difference. My psychiatrist claims that most GPs and FPs don't have much experience in this area, and from what I've seen I'm inclined to believe him. I think I know more about antidepressants than the people at my family practitioner's office. Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor; what I know about this comes from talking to my psychiatrist and reading sci.med.

Would someone please post or email the feature connector pin assignments? This is sometimes referred to as the aux video connector in some documentation. Thanks [email protected]

As we see right now, the position of influence enjoyed by parties favoring the negotiation process is tenuous at best. The local "elections" in Hebron that the PLO was expected to win (perhaps adding a bit to its flagging position of "legitimacy" in the eyes of Palestinians and the Middle East) have been disrupted by Hamas actions overtly directed towards undermining those (and all West Bank) elections. The present ruling Israeli Labor coalition seems to be one rather thin political ice. The Palestinian delegation has been reduced from 14 to three to protest Israel "lack of seriousness" in the talks and refusal to reverse all the deportations immediately. Hopefully, however, each of the parties will begin to learn that just the fact that negotiations are taking place *does not mean* they are giving anything away to "the other side" (which was/is the favorite argument of the "rejectionists"). Let's hope that discusion and inevitable disagreement on major issues leads at the same time to some agreement on smaller "interim" ("phase", whatever term we prefer) steps to be taken.

Actually I am entering vet school next year, but the question is relevant for med students too. Memorizing large amounts has never been my strong point academically. Since this is a major portion of medical education -- anatomy, histology, pathology, pharmacology, are for the most part mass memorization -- I am a little concerned. As I am sure most med students are. Can anyone suggest techniques for this type of memorization? I have had reasonable success with nemonics and memory tricks like thinking up little stories to associate unrelated things. But I have never applied them to large amounts of "data". Has anyone had luck with any particular books, memory systems, or cheap software? Can you suggest any helpful organizational techniques? Being an older student who returned to school this year, organization (another one of my weak points) has been a major help to my success. Please no griping about how all you have to do is "learn" the material conceptually. I have no problem with that, it is one of my strong points. But you can't get around the fact that much of medicine is rote memorization.

there is NO evidence of effect of gun buyback programs but hopefully if there is any effect it may prevent injuries or deaths in one of these types of common incidents. Firearms are the fifth-leading cause of unintentional deaths among children ages 14 and under. I don't understand how the ratio to other accidental deaths is important. So guns don't kill as many children as car accidents. What is the difference in severity between 1,000 deaths and 10,000 deaths? I am not trying to use accidental gun-related deaths among children as a justification for gun control. Who needs to be convinced that accidental gun deaths of children is a serious problem? I assumed that any humane person would be concerned when any 10 year old got hold of their parents gun from their bedroom drawer and accidently blew away one of their friends. My point was, gun buyback programs which are almost always run by police departments MIGHT (I stress might) do a LITTLE (I stress little) good by giving people the impression that the police are attempting to respond to interpersonal gun violence in a unique way. Overall, I thought that I had made it clear that I did not think that gun buyback programs were useful. Well Joe, I suggest that you talk to the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence or the Centers for Disease Control. If YOU look carefully you will see that YOU greatly underestimate the presence of guns in the lives of youths. The CPHV reports that 135,000 youth bring GUNS to school DAILY and that 400,000 bring GUNS to school at least once a year. The CDC estimates that 1 out 0f 25 high school students carried a gun to school at least once in 1990. The CDC also says that 1.2 million elementary-aged, latch-key children (kids who come home from school to an empty house), have access to guns in their home. California schools reported a 200% increase in student gun confiscations between 1986 and 1990, and a 40% increase between 1988 and 1990. Florida reported a 61% percent increase in gun incidents in schools between 1986/87 amd 1987/88. These are the "statistics". Okay, maybe I worded it wrong...DAD. I meant that to put children in a situation (fortified compound) where harm could come to them is not the act of a Messiah in my opinion. I'm not saying that Koresh had control over these children directly, but I would hope that whatever Messiah there is would not let innocent children die. If as he claimed he was the Messiah and people followed him as such, why did he not tell their parents to free the children instead of letting them burn alive? Thanks for the reality check Joe, its been real.

The FT-500 is a good beginner's bike with: * a reasonable seating position * enough power to get you up and around, but not so much it'll scare the bejeebers out of you * tips over well, and easy to pick up (don't ask) * simple maintenance I've had mine for four or so years, and haven't had any serious problems with it. I bought it used for $750 with about 8000 miles on it. Just last week, someone in the neighborhood stopped by to ask me about it; whether I thought it was a good beginner's bike, is it comfortable and powerful enough, blah blah blah... Seems he found one used for < $500 with about 3600 miles on it. The reall "trick" mod I've heard was to take the front end from a 600 hurricane and slide it in. This was from a guy who campaigns two Ascots in SOS racing. He says they do pretty well too, once you strip off the starter, lights and other assorted street paraphernalia, its a pretty fast and light bike.

Not without replacing most of the chips on the motherboard. The C610 isn't like the IIsi was, meaning that the motherboard of the C610 is actually designeds to run at the speed of the CPU, and not designed to run at a higher speed (like 25MHz) but be forced to run at the speed of a slower CPU (20MHz). There is more than one oscillator. If you are talking about the CPU oscillator chip, I think that it is located under the socket for the '040. At least this is what I have read in some other posts in this group.

Yes, 4 points, in really big holes which are fairly clear of most of the other stuff on the board. If you can replace the battery, you can install the battery holder.

I believe that this is not quite correct. My understanding is that LDS is engaged on a project to "convert" the souls of deceased persons of other religions, in order to spare them from damnation and gain them entrance into heaven. To this end, the Church has compiled extensive genaeological records, so that they will know the names of people to convert. A long article in the New Yorker a few years ago described the LDS research methods in some detail (for example, some researchers pay visits to local native storytellers to learn the names of people long dead). This sounds like just the sort of lie that would be made up about any unusual religion, but the New Yorker story convinced me that there is some truth to it (the New Yorker used to do extensive fact-checking, and the story was quite detailed).

Do not presume to tell me what I have and have not read. The system may not rely upon registering people as owning particular phone units, but it is necessary to know which phone units are likely to be used for some suspected criminal communication before you can obtain their unit keys from escrow. This necessity raises the stakes in favor of a criminal's coercing or colluding use of some other person's Clipper phone. I will restate my assumptions more explicitly and amplify my argument. The original title perhaps should have been "Distinction between legal and illegal cipher systems considered harmful", but "Clipper considered harmful" is not inaccurate, and is more eye-catching in the current context. Assumptions: 1. Clipper is made available. 2. Laws are passed to make use of cipher systems other than Clipper illegal (either on radio systems, or on any common carrier system). These laws also include enforcement authority to listen across the relevant radio spectrum (or other medium), characterize signals, validate Clipper wrappers, detect probable use of non-Clipper ciphers, and make such detection a cause for further action. 3. For escrowed keys to be useful, some specific Clipper chip must be associated with a suspected criminal. This means that at a minimum some association between the common carrier's unique phone ID (ESN) and the Clipper chip serial number N will be stored in a government database. An observed pairing of N and ESN other than the one recorded raises a red flag. 4. To reduce ordinary fraud, the cellphone system which offers Clipper will also be constructed with an ESN mechanism much more tamper-proof and much less spoofable than today's cellphones. 5. Criminals want inscrutable communications. Some criminals are not entirely stupid or ignorant, and will figure out both that Clipper cellphones offer excellent security in normal circumstances, and that they offer no security against law enforcement once a (presumably legitimate) wiretap order exists. They will also figure out that the wiretap order must necessarily be against a specific cellphone, because each one has a unique unit key. 6. Criminals do not want to call attention to themselves. Because they are not stupid or ignorant (or because they read netnews), and because they know that their open use of a non-Clipper cipher is likely to be detected, they will generally avoid using non-Clipper ciphers directly on some monitorable/tappable channel. They know that do so would raise a red flag, putting a given cellphone (if not a given person) under immediate suspicion. 7. It is impractical to reverse engineer Skipjack, discover family key F, and construct a functional clone of a Clipper chip. By #2, #3, #4, and #7 it will be very difficult to spoof a given Clipper phone without immediate detection. Because it is difficult to obscure one's association to a specific phone by reprogramming or changing chips around, the criminal will be motivated to find an intact phone which is associated with someone else. A non-stupid criminal will conclude that they can have Clipper-secure communications, at least for some limited time T, if they buy, beg, borrow, or steal use of someone's phone in a way that prevents that person from reporting compromise of the phone for at least time T. The encrypted communications might have been recorded, and thus be retrievable later, but the criminal can delay, and quite likely evade, discovery by destroying or abandoning the phone before T elapses. It would be unusual for an innocent person to volunteer use of their Clipper phone to someone else. The honest subscriber doesn't want to pay someone else's bill, and he doesn't want to fall under suspicion. This leaves two sources of Clipper phones for criminal use: coercion and collusion. Coercion first. Theft bears a relatively low risk, but also sometimes a low time until detection (a few minutes if a phone is stolen from a car parked in front of a store, a couple of weeks if a phone is stolen from someone who is away on vacation). Criminal commerce is likely to arise in stolen Clipper phones, with phones coming from risk-inured poor criminals, and cash coming from risk-averse wealthy criminals. Someone who is extraordinarily motivated to gain a day or two of undetected communication (like a terrorist) could kill a person or hold them hostage. The limited time (before detection) that a coerced phone is useful means that continuing criminal enterprises require a continuing supply of freshly coerced phones. There would also be created a collusive commerce between relatively wealthy criminals, and ignorant or don't-care patsies who need money, and who will submit to being paid in return for subscribing to Clipper phone service for someone else's use. Criminals will learn that it is more to their advantage to coerce use of a Clipper cellphone than it is to apply a non-Clipper cipher to a normal cellphone. They will call much less attention to themselves (or at least to their stolen phone) this way. The fact of a phone's use being coerced must first be reported before it can be identified as an interesting phone, and have its keys obtained from escrow. Clipper also allows an extraordinary opportunity for the criminal to conceal use of super-encryption. An automated full-system surveillance mechanism (quite feasible across radio bandwidth) which knows family key F, can validate Clipper wrappers and N:ESN associations, but it cannot reveal in realtime the use of super-encryption, unless it knows all unit keys, which we are being assured are only to be made available in two separate pieces, upon specific wiretap-like order. Whereas a criminal's use of any cipher within a normally cleartext medium would stand out, a criminal's use of a non-Clipper cipher within a Clipper medium would be very difficult to detect, even ex post facto in bulk recordings, as long as the association between criminal and specific Clipper chip is fractured. If you make use of this other cipher illegal per se, then you can charge the criminal with this (if you can identify the true criminal - he'll be using someone else's phone), but you'll have no evidence to help you against whatever traditional crime he might have been planning. You will not even be able to detect that unusual (encrypted) communications are occurring until you identify specific phones and obtain their keys from escrow. The gangster and terrorist are thus arguably more, not less, secure than they were before Clipper came along. I therefore consider Clipper harmful because: 1. It does not provide absolute privacy to the honest public against aggressive or dishonest government. 2. If other ciphers are proscribed, it engenders new types of direct criminal threat to the honest public. 3. It provides an extraordinarily effective mechanism for criminals to hide their use of some other cipher, making it more difficult than ever even to gain notice that unusual communications are occurring and that plans for some criminal act might be in progress. 4. If other ciphers are proscribed, lazy investigators and prosecutors are more likely to pursue the easily quantifiable cipher-use crime than they are the traditional and directly harmful crimes which key escrow is claimed to help against. 5. If other ciphers are proscribed, the stage is set for witch hunting of "illegal" cipher use. Because any computer can be used as a cipher machine...

Considering how often and how badly he has slammed the Pens on Coach's Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, it would surprise me as well. But then, people will do anything for money, won't they?

>supposed to develop cryptosystems. If the government chooses to go >ahead and sell those cryptosystems to the masses, so be it.

I am boring my sister HP DeskJet 500C for the weekend and I was wondering in their was any drivers for it available some where that would allow me to use it with my Mac SE/30. I have a copy of MacPrint but I do think that I have a driver for the 500C. I would be happy to get it working in black & white, but if there is away to get the color working that would be better. Any ideas someone? Regards,

May I ask why they are afraid to do so? --- Speaking of proofs of God, the funniest one I have ever seen was in a term paper handed in by a freshman. She wrote, "God must exist, because he wouldn't be so mean as to make me believe he exists if he really doesn't!" Is this argument really so much worse than the ontological proofs of the existence of God provided by Anselm and Descartes, among others?

Is it just me or is the camera work on some of these games really sad?? I can't remember how many times during the Penguins-Devils game they showed some guy (without the puck) being checked in the corner while the puck was being fired on goal. In fact, I think they even missed one goal completely because they were showing two guys holding each other in the corner. Now the last time I watched a football game, they didn't show the lineman going at it while the running back turned the corner for a touchdown . . . . Is it just me??

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find my way to God, but find it difficult as I can't hear God talking to me, letting me know that he exists and is with me and that he knows me, and I feel that I can't possibly get to know him until he does. Maybe he _is_ talking to me but I just don't know or understand how to listen. Some Christians tell me that (in their opinion) the only way to find God is to take a plunge and commit your life to him, and you will discover. This idea of diving into the totally unknown is a little bit frightening, but I have a few questions. 1) How do you actually commit yourself? If I just say, "OK God, her you go, I'm committing my life to you", I wouldn't really feel that he'd listened - at least, I couldn't be sure that he had. So how does one (or how did you) commit oneself to God? 2) In committing myself in this way, what do I have to forfeit of my current life? What can I no longer do? I feel that I'm as 'good' as many Christians, and I try to uphold the idea of 'loving your neighbour' - I don't go round killing people, stealing, etc., and I try not to get jealous of other people in any way - and I would say that I keep to the standards of treating other people as well as many Christians. So what do I have to give up? 3) When committed, what do I have to do? What does it involve? What (if any) burdens am I taking on? 4) So then, what's the general difference before and after? I assume, that (like on your birthday you don't suddenly feel a year older) it won't suddenly change my life the day I commit myself. So what happens? 5) How can I be sure that it is the right thing to do? How can I find out what the 'it' in the last sentence actually _is_?! Thanks very much for all your help in answering these questions. Perhaps e-mail would be a better way to reply, but it's up to you.

I have been checking out bikes (hoping for lowish seats) for a few weeks. A Honda Twinstar (250cc) fit me well, a Honda Hawk (400cc) did not, the Kawasaki 250HB/SB/SH? (can't remember) looked like it would fit me well but the price tag was way too large... Please post this list or mail me one too! (:

Stuff deleted I reiterate that I would agree with you that there is little justification for the punishment of apostasy in the Qur'an. In Islamic history, as well, apostasy has rarely been punished. Belief is considered a matter of conscience and since there is to be no compulsion in the matter of belief, apostates have been generally left to believe or not believe as they will. However, when an apostate makes attacks upon "God and His Messenger" the situation changes. Now the charge of apostasy may be complicated with other charges - perhaps charges of sedition, treason, spying, etc. If the person makes a public issue of their apostasy or mounts public attacks (as opposed to arguement) against Islam, the situation is likewise complicated. If the person spreads slander or broadcasts falsehoods, again the situation changes. The punishments vary according to the situation the apostate is in. Anyhow, the charge of aggravated apostasy would only be a subsidiary charge in Rushdie's case. There is a distinction in the Qur'an between a formal war situation and being in the situation where someone unilaterally wages war (by their actions), creates disorder, makes mischief,etc. against the Muslims and creates a situation that results in harm to Muslims. Here, a small group or even a single individual could be said to be engaged in such a practise. In other words, there is a clear difference between a formal war situation (where two clearly defined parties wage war, conclude treaties, exchange prisoners, etc.), and dealing with attacks that come from isolated individuals or groups against Islam. It is the second situation, the unilateral attack and the spreading of "fasad" that would apply in the case of Rushdie. The matter of Rushdie is not a simple matter of banning an offensive book (banning the book is secondary) - a full set of circumstances following the publication of the book come into play as well, including the deaths of many Muslims, and Rushdie's (and his publishers) Media games. I am not sure which hadith you are referring to above. I believe that one of the Qur'anic verses on which the fatwa is based is 5:33. Every verse in the Qur'an has a corresponding "circumstance of revelation" but in no way is the understanding (the tafsir) of the verse restricted solely to the particular historical circumstance in which it was revealed. If this was the case then we could say that all the laws and regulations that were revealed when the Muslims were NOT involved in conflict, should be suspended when they were at war. The logic does not follow. In complex, real-life situations, there may be many verses and many hadiths which can all be related to a single, complicated situation. The internal relationships between these verses may be quite complex, such that arriving at an understanding of how the verses interlock and how each applies to the particular situation can be quite a demanding task. It is not necessarily a simple "this or that" process. There may be many parameters involved, there may be a larger context in which a particular situation should be viewed. All these matters impinge on the situation. In other words there is a great deal involved in deciphering the Qur'an. The Qur'an asks us to reflect on its verses, but this reflection must entail more than simply reading a verse and its corresponding hadith. If the reflection is for the sake of increasing personal piety, then each person has his own level of understanding and there is no harm in that. However, if the reflection is in order to decide matters that pertain to the State, to the gestation of laws and rulings, to the gestation of society, the dispensing of justice, the guidance of the community, then there are certain minimum requirements of understanding that one should achieve. Jaffar Ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq(a.s.) relates some of these requirements, as taught by the Prophet(S.A.), in a hadith: "...he who does not distinguish in the Book of Allah the abrogating verse from the abrogated one, and a specific one from a general one, and a decisive from an ambiguous; and does not differentiate between a permission and an obligation, and does not recognize a verse of Meccan period from a Medinite one, and does not know the circumstances of revelation, and does not understand the technical words of the Qur'an (whether simple or compound); and does not comprehend the knowledge of decree and measure, and is ignorant of advancing and delaying (in its verses); and does not distinguish the clear from the deep, nor the manifest from the esoteric, nor the beginning from the termination; and is unaware of the question and the answer, the disjoining and the joining, and the exceptions and the all-inclusive, and is ignorant of an adjective of a preceding noun that explains the subsequent one; and is unaware of the emphasized subject and the detailed one, the obligatory laws and the permissions, the places of the duties and rules, and the meaning of the lawful and the unlawful; and does not know the joined words, and the words that are related to those coming before them, or after them - then such a man does not know the Qur'an; nor is he among the people of the Qur'an....". Based on these and other hadiths, and in accordance with many Qur'anic verses ("Why should not a company from every group remain behind to gain profound understanding (tafaqquh) in religion and to warn people when they return to them, so that they may beware." (9:122)), a science of jurisprudence arose. The requirements for a person to be considered a mujtahid (one who can pronounce on matters of law and religion) are many. I've listed a few major divisions below - there are, of course, many subdivisions within these headings. - Knowledge of Arabic (syntax, conjugation, roots, semantics, oratory). - Knowledge of tafsir and principles of tafsir. - Logic (mantiq) - A knowledge of Hadiths - A knowledge of transmitters (rijal) - Knowledge of the principles of juriprudence (Qur'an, Sunnah, Consensus, Reasoning) The study of Qur'an and sunnah for purposes of law involves: - discussion of imperatives (awamir) - discussion of negative imperatives (nawahi) - discussion of generalities and particularities (aam wa khas) - discussion of unconditional and conditional - discussion of tacit meanings - discussion of the abstract and the clear - discussion of the abrogator and the abrogated The principles of Application of the law involves: - principles of exemption - principles of precaution - principles of option - principles of mastery The jurisprudent is bound to go through a very rigorous process in pronouncing judgement on a given situation. It is not a matter of looking at one verse and one hadith. Now no one should blindly follow anyone, but there is a difference between blind following and acceding to the opinion of someone who is clearly more knowledgeable and more qualified than oneself. There is the "The fuqaha (religious scholars) are the trustees of the Prophet, as long as they do not concern themselves with the illicit desires, pleasures, and wealth of this world." The Prophet (S.A.) was asked: "O Messenger of God! How may we know if they so concern themselves?" He (S.A.) replied: "By seeing whether they follow the ruling power. If they do that, fear for your religion and shun them." I do not yet know enough about the Imams of the four Sunni madhabs to comment on how this hadith applies to them or to the contemporary scholars who base themselves upon them. The Prophet also refered to the fuqaha as "The fortress of Islam". My only point is to make it clear that arriving at a legal judgement calls into play a certain amount of expertise - the specifics of this expertise is delineated in the Qur'an and hadith. Those who acquire this expertise are praised in both the Qur'an and hadith - those who without the requisite knowledge pronounce on matters that affect society, state, and religion are cautioned. The only reason I said anything at all about the Rushdie affair in this group, is because the whole basis for the discussion of the fatwa (that is, apostasy), was wrong. When one discusses something they should at least base their discussion on fact. Secondly, Khomeini was condemned as a heretic because he supposedly claimed to be infallible - another instance of creating a straw man and then beating him. I agree that we should move the discussion to another newsgroup. Unfortunately, I do not have any access to email, so private discussion or a moderated group is out of the question (I cannot post to a moderated group like soc.religion.islam. How about soc.culture.arabic or talk.religion.misc?

I am one of those folks who traded UP from a 500 to an Audio Research SP9 II! :-)

The subject line says it all. What is the rule that qualifies a pitcher as making a save?

Below is the list of large (at least 18 inches diagonal) monochrome monitors which Computer Shopper lists as PC compatible. I've omitted Radius because Radius states that they no longer support the PC. You will notice that Nanao is the only one which supports a 31.5Khz horizontal frequency, which is the frequency normally used by VGA cards at boot up. My guess is that all the other monitors come with their own graphics cards. I've left voice mail with Nanao asking them to send me some literature, and will report back to the net after I've studied it. The prices given appear to be list prices and have little relationship to reality. Kenneth Almquist --------------------------------- cut here --------------------------------- Cornerstone Technology 1990 Concourse Dr. San Jose, CA 95131 408-435-8900 DualPage 120: Diagonal: 19 inches Max Resolution: 1600x1280 Frequencies: 105Khz horizontal, 76Hz vertical Dimensions: 19x18x17 inches Price: $1495 Compatible with: PC;PS/2 DualPage 150: Diagonal: 19 inches Max Resolution: 2048x1538 Frequencies: 105Khz horizontal, 67Hz vertical Dimensions: 19x18x17 inches Price: $1595 Compatible with: PC;PS/2 Ikegami Electronics (U.S.A.), Inc. 37 Brook Ave. Maywood, NJ 07670 201-368-9171 DM-2010AD: Diagonal: 20 inches Max Resolution: 1280x1024 Frequencies: 48-64Khz horizontal, 59-80Hz vertical Price: $995 Compatible with: PC Image Systems Corp. 11595 K-Tel Hopkins, NM 55343 800-462-4370 or 612-935-1171 M21LMAX: Diagonal: 21 inches Max Resolution: 2048x1536 Frequencies: 48-108Khz horizontal, 60-80Hz vertical Dimensions: 17x20x19 inches Price: $1995 Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac M21LV-65MAX: Diagonal: 21 inches Max Resolution: 1280x1024 Frequencies: 15-65Khz horizontal, 55-90Hz vertical Price: $4695 Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac M21PMAX : Diagonal: 21 inches Max Resolution: 1280x1664 Frequencies: 48-108Khz horizontal, 60-80Hz vertical Dimensions: 19x15x17 inches Price: $2500 Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac M24PMAX : Diagonal: 24 inches Max Resolution: 1280x1664 Frequencies: 48-108Khz horizontal, 60-80Hz vertical Dimensions: 22x18x18 inches Price: $2600 Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac Nanao USA Corp. 23535 Telo Ave. Torrence, CA 90505 310-325-5202 FlexScan 6500: Diagonal: 21 inches Max Resolution: 1664x1200 Frequencies: 31.5;56-80Khz horizontal, 55-90Hz vertical Dimensions: 18x20x17 inches Price: $1989 Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac Ran-Ger Technologies, Inc. [Address unknown] The Genuis Model 1920M: Diagonal: 19 inches Max Resolution: 1280x1024 Frequencies: 64Khz horizontal, 60Hz vertical Dimensions: 17x19x17 inches Price: $950 Compatible with: PC Sampo Corp. of America P. O. Box 105084 Atlanta, GA 30348 404-449-6220 ImagePRO 120: Diagonal: 20 inches Max Resolution: 1600x1280 Frequencies: 81Khz horizontal, 72Hz vertical Price: $1995 Compatible with: PC OfficePRO IIe: Diagonal: 20 inches Max Resolution: 1280x1024 Frequencies: 75Khz horizontal, 70Hz vertical Price: $1549 (Advertized $999 pg. 390 April Shopper) Compatible with: PC Samsung Electronics America, Inc. [Address unknown. You could try Samsung Information Systems, Inc. 3655 N. 1st. St. San Joes, CA 95134 408-434-5400] PageMaster 2 (MU9511A/AM): Diagonal: 20 inches Max Resolution: 1280x1024 Frequencies: 66Khz horizontal, 63Hz vertical Dimensions: 18x18x15 inches Price: $899 Compatible with: PC;Mac Sigma Designs, Inc. 47900 Bayside Pkwy. Freemont, CA 94583 510-770-0100 L-View: Diagonal: 19 inches Max Resolution: 1664x1200 Frequencies: 75Khz horizontal, 60-92Hz vertical Dimensions: 18x19x17 inches Price: $1099 Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac L-View Multimode: Diagonal: 19 inches Max Resolution: 1664x1200 Frequencies: 75Khz horizontal, 60-92Hz vertical Dimensions: 18x19x17 inches Price: $1299 Compatible with: PC;PS/2;Mac MultiMode 120: Diagonal: 19 inches Max Resolution: 1664x1200 Frequencies: 94.7Khz horizontal, 76-116Hz vertical Dimensions: 18x19x17 inches Price: $1299 (min) Compatible with: PC

How can one dump to the printer, the content of a VGA screen. If it were a text screen, we can execute a shift printscr. but with graphics, we have to do a pixed by pixel print. It would be greatly appreciated if someone can supply source code for this. Alternately, are there commercial or shareware programs that are available to do this. I must be able to shell out of my program to execute this print screen. Therefore, it would be prefferable to have source code. Thank you in advance -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rickey Tom | Internet Style: [email protected] Programmer/Analyst Project ZE | UUCP : ...!uunet!uupsi2!aruba!rickt

[email protected] (John Bell) babbles from Scotland, one of England's last remaining colonies: People who were dumb enough to believe Klinton was a moderate deserve what they get too. It's a real laugh to hear them try to justify this massacre with bullsh*t about how concerned they were about how our tax money was was being spent. (Wasting money keeping Texans alive? Hell no. let's spend it to import Haitians with AIDS so we can treat them at taxpayer expense. %^P ) So what? The Feds killed 90+ civilians when they "ran out of patience", to use their own phrase. If the Feds hadn't attacked them, they'd all be home eating dinner with their families tonight. Too bad, but they started it. Maybe next time they'll think twice. That's worth 4 stormtroopers. Nobody says he is. What he was was a victim of a left-wing government, that violated its pledge to protect and uphold the Constitution, run amok. Don't worry, though dweeb, we're gonna take it back. (Hey, I'm a white guy, but would it be OK if I quoted Malcolm X here, and said "by any means necessary"? Nah, never mind. We can do this legally... NO, you're just a brainless f*cking trogladyte. Go beat up some soccer fans. Ignorance is bliss, so drool on with that stupid smile on your face when people die needlessly. I hope a badger climbs up your kilt. (Don't expect these UKies to care about this, folks... these bastards never did like the idea that we Americans had the means to defend ourselves and wouldn't stand for tyranical governments, which is why we sent them packing back to their dreary little island with their tails between their legs twice.)

I am considering the purchse of a 1987 VW Jetta GLI with 87k miles on it. I recently found out that there are two versions of the GLI -- 8v and 16v. I know of three differences between the two cars that both carry the same name: the 16v version has 20 more horsepower, 4 wheel discs, and a standard sunroof. Oops, that's the difference between the GLI 16v and the regular GL !! So in addition to the engine, what other differences exist between the two models of the Jetta GLI ? More importantly, how can I tell which version this one is ? There are no badges that said "16v" so I am inclined to think that is the 8v version. Assuming this one (the one I looked at) is the 8v version, is there a valid reason to buy it instead of a comparably equipped GL which would cost less ? (Of course I would love to get the 16v version, but money talks.)

Actually, for digital HDTV systems that's far higher bandwidth than you need, unless there's some reason you must work in fully-uncompressed HDTV. Also, my calculations is that each frame should be well under 6MB, even using 24 bits/pixel (which is more bits than you actually need - 15 or 18 should be enough for a moving picture). 1600x1100x16bits is 3.5MB (I'm guessing at HDTV resolution - it may be a bit wider than 1600, I'm fairly sure of the 1100 number for most of the digital proposals). I hope you have a very fast memory system as well - 180MB/s while displaying will require a heavily interleaved VRAM system. Unless you have a _very_ compelling reason, I'd advise trying to use at least somewhat compressed data. You don't have to go to full compression to get to a level where the data IO requirements are much cheaper and easier to deal with. -- GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor. - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch

)Many high-end graphics cards come with C source code for doing basic graphics )sorts of things (change colors, draw points/lines/polygons/fills, etc.). Does )such a library exist for generic VGA graphics cards/chips, hopefully in the )public domain? This would be for the purpose of compiling under a non-DOS )operating system running on a standard PC. Check the server code for X11R5. (or "XFree86")

No wonder you clown are in such a mess. Let's take Sarkis Atamian's (an Armenian Dashnak sociolog) book, "The Armenian Community", pages 97 and 105. Atamian quotes: "... the immediate question concerned itself with the organization and tactics of revolution. The liberation of Armenia, the immediate aim of the Party, was to be attained by: 1. Oral and written propaganda. 2. Terrorism - both as punishment against the enemy and as a measure of self defense. 3. The creation of an avant-garde of revolutionary groups to be equipped and prepared for action when other nations were prepared for a general uprising. 4. The organization of larger committees to be in constant contact with each other and subject to a central body. 5. Organization of units of guerilla fighters." Now, on page 105, Atamian's book quotes of Armenian constitution: "... If the means was revolution, how was the revolution to be attained? By: 1. Propaganda 2. Preparation of combat units and their indoctrination 3. Encouragement of the revolutionary morale of the people 4. The arming of the people 5. Organization of revolutionary committees 6. Espionage throughout the country and the exchange of information with the official bodies and journals 7. Organization of financial zones for public collection 8. 'Fighting and using' the weapon of the terror on corrupt government officers, spies, traitors, grafters, and all sorts of oppressors 9. Defense of the people against attacks from the brigandry 10. Building of roads for the transport of arms 11. Wrecking and looting of governmental institutions." Many of the recent Armenian terrorist acts against the Turkish people were committed by the brainwashed members of the "Tzeghagron", namely, "race-worshipers" of the Dashnag Youth Organization. Ironically, again, Tzeghagron was set up by an undisputed Armenian Nazi, Karekin Nejdeh, in 1941 (see Atamian, loc cit, page 389). Serdar Argic

Have you tried having your scsi bus balanced?

That would be nice, but considering professional diplomats between Israel and Athe Arabs have been unable to do so for 45 years, I can't see us starting. But hey - as soon as anyone wants to discuss things reasonably and in a scholarly manner, count me in. Anyway the responses were mostly negative and I've been People have very strong opinions and you need to be careful regarding what you say - if you say, make it factual and be able to back it up. Thanks for teaching us about the civilized world, Andi. I guess we all just came out either the desert or the ghetto, right? And no, we are not paid Israeli lobbyists nor are we conspirators of the ZOG - we are just people who believe in our cause and find offense when people imply some sort dirty dealing or disloyalty due to our love of Israel (disguised as "paid Israeli lobbyists" - what kind of image is that?) Oh! Thank you! I needed your approval of my heritage. I guess I can go home and feel good now and sleep comfartably knowing that Jews _really_ aren't worse people than anyone else, contrary to what we all _know_ is true.

Yes, Matt, dear Newbie, best advice is read here foe a few days. This is your best source of info. (Kinda makes me glad that I discovered r.m well after I got into riding-- could I have possibly sounded like *that* otherwise? --eesh.) BTW Matt, despite the insults you are destined to face, great move on taking the MSF course. It will save your butt. Good Luck,

Looking for a Mac PB 100 that's in good condition (brand new, w/warranty would be ideal). It should also include the external floppy drive and have at least a 40 MEG internal hard drive with 4 MEG of RAM. So... if you have a PB100 that you'd like to turn into cash, please write me. Thanks, very much.

["it" is Big Bang] Since you asked... from the Big Bang to the formation of atoms is about 10E11 seconds. As for the "color": bright. Very very bright. I don't. I believe the current theory of cosmology because it is fairly well supported by observational evidence (not as well supported as, say evolution or relativity, but that's another matter). You're the one who proposes unquestioningly accepting religious dogma as fact (apologies if you're not actually a creationist). The line is broader than you think. Theories are supported by evidence. Miracles are supported by someone's say-so.

[deleted] [deleted] Ok, so those scientists can get around the atmosphere with fancy computer algorythims, but have you looked ad the Hubble results, the defects of the mirror are partially correctable with software (see those jupiter pictures for results), but is the effects are completely reversable, why is there going to be a shuttle mission to fix it? The way I see it (and please, astromomers give me a swift net-kick in the butt if i'm out of the ball park), the astromers are making the best of limited possiblities, there's only one hubble, and the shuttle makes another in the near future a non-thought. Perhaps those self same billboards could have small optical receptors of a limited kind mounted on the reverse sides of the mirror's (if that is what is used) and then the whole thing becomes a giant array telescope... --

Hi everybody out there, I just got the third beta release disk (march 93) of WindowsNT and still am not able to boot up that system. The final step achieved is the display of IO-error 0x0069. But, since this is the beta release of the SDK for NT and not of NT, Microsoft does not include a manual on the OS itself, explaining what this error means of what I can do to get rid of. My configuration is: Mainboard Hauppauge 4860-25, rev. A7 (a 486 with socket for i860) 28megs of memory (512k*36,1M*36,2M*36) AMI EISA SCSI controller (15series), latest bios, 16MB cache ST41200N hard disk Syquest 555 removable disk Toshiba 3301 CD ROM drive ProAudio Spectrum Plus 16 Longshine Ethernet card LCS8634 (NE2000 comp.) ET4000 graphics card, 1Meg (ColorImage5) The system is running fine under DOS and Windows 3.1 etc, but trying to do the setup for NT, - automatic setup does not recognize controller (AHA1542-compat.) when adding manually, NT complains not finging any CD-ROM drive - the manual setup (WINNT) does not copy everything from CD to HD, does not recognize controller, but takes it manually. Setup continues until it tries to boot. Then it starts loading several stuff from disk (seems to fing the HD), but messing up with that damned IO-Error 69. I took away all IO cards not essential, but that did not make any effect. Anybody got any ideas? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Fiberglass boards are available in several colors. Sitting right here, I have unetched board stock that is white, blue, green and yellow respectively. I've also seen black boards. Solder mask is available in a variety of colors too. Depending on the supplier, the color helps indentify the material. Don't forget conformal coating. I don't think I've seen phenolic impregnated paper boards in anything other than the familar brown, but it would not be difficult to add a dye to change the color.

From what I saw of the videotape, there was an explosion which looked more like one due to propane rather than (official version) ammunition. If only we could be certain that the hard evidence will be released.

"They're real and they're spectacular", the Blues shutout the Blackhawks in consecutive playoff games. If the Blues sweep the Hawks on Sunday, I will launch a broom onto the ice in the last seconds of the game. "Not that there's anything wrong with that." Curtis Joseph has been the "master of his own domain", and the Hawks have been shooting the puck like a bunch of "chuckers". Not even "Superman" could play any better in goal. Joseph must have been eating his "cereal." "It's like a sauna in here" said a spectator about the hot atmosphere and the wild crowd at the Arena. It was "very refreshing" to see the Blues "double-dip" the Hawks. The Hawks goons tried to "pick" on Hull, Janney, and Joseph but the Blues checking line "nipped" those Hawks real well. The fat "Yoyoma" will sing on Sunday, and the Hawks will head to the "beach". The Hawks' trip back to Chicago will feel like a long "journey from Milan to Minsk" Enjoy Sunday's game with some Junior Mints and wash them down with a Snapple. Just a little fun.

No, Fuhr's 5 rings out sparkle Errey's. And doesn't Bob have 2 rings?

Shit, i'm going to be a lot more carefull filling by income tax!

I am saving an image on one machine and redisplaying the image on another machine (both are HP 9000 Model 750s). The image is created using XCreateImage and XGetImage and displayed with XPutImage. The image is redisplayed correctly except that the colors are wrong because the server on the other machine is using a different colormap. I tried saving the colormap (pixel and rgb values) and on the redisplay, performed a table lookup against the new colormap. This didn't work because some rgb combos don't exist in the new colormap. Is there a way to force the server to load colors into set pixel values, or is there a simpler way to solve this problem? I tried using xinitcolormap but couldn't get that to work either. Any help would be appreciated.

"Isaac Asimov read creationist books. He read the Bible. He had ample opportunity to kneel before his Creator and Savior. He refused. In fact, he sent out a strong promotional letter urging support of the American Humanist Association, shortly before he died." --excerpt from Ken Ham, "Asimov Meets His Creator," _Back to Genesis_ No. 42, June 1992, p. c (included in _Acts & Facts_ vol. 21, no. 6, June 1992, from the Institute for Creation Research). This is one of the most offensive articles they've ever published--but at least it argues *against* a deathbed conversion. There's a part of the article even worse than what I've just quoted, in which an excerpt from a reader's letter says that if Asimov is burning in hell now, "then he certainly has had a 180-degree change in his former beliefs about creation and the Creator." (A post-deathbed conversion.)

I am having trouble viewing GIF files on my system. Large sections don't show up. I have tried VPIC and PICEM - both do the same. I am running a Gateway 486/33C with a Speedstar Plus VGA card and an NEC Multisync 4Ds 16 inch monitor. Any suggestions? I don't know if Robert Woodward Department of Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212 e-mail: [email protected]

Ofranko. Coming from a self-exposed historical revisionist, a self-admitted anti-Muslim and a genocide apologist, Hamaza should take your drivel as a compliment. Furthermore, you even deny the obvious. There was a genocide of the Muslims carried out by order of the fascist x-Soviet Armenian Government. Massacres of Muslims must be studied in detail, because they are the first modern example of the horrible crime of genocide. Blame must be apportioned to the Armenians and their supporters for the murder of Muslims. The Turkish historic homeland, emptied of its native population until today, remains occupied by the x-Soviet Armenian Government. Today, x-Soviet Armenia covers up the genocide perpetrated by its predecessors and is therefore an accessory to this crime against humanity. x-Soviet Armenia must pay for its crime of genocide against the Muslims by admitting to the crime and making reparations to the Turks and Kurds. The following are the Jewish and Armenian sources on the cold-blooded genocide perpetrated by the x-Soviet Armenian Government against 2.5 million Muslim people between 1914 and 1920. Still denying the obvious? Source: Stanford J. Shaw, on Armenian collaboration with invading Russian armies in 1914, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Volume II: Reform, Revolution & Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975)." (London, Cambridge University Press 1977). pp. 315-316. "In April 1915 Dashnaks from Russian Armenia organized a revolt in the city of Van, whose 33,789 Armenians comprised 42.3 percent of the population, closest to an Armenian majority of any city in the Empire...Leaving Erivan on April 28, 1915, Armenian volunteers reached Van on May 14 and organized and carried out a general slaughter of the local Muslim population during the next two days." "Knowing their numbers would never justify their territorial ambitions, Armenians looked to Russia and Europe for the fulfillment of their aims. Armenian treachery in this regard culminated at the beginning of the First World War with the decision of the revolutionary organizations to refuse to serve their state, the Ottoman Empire, and to assist instead other invading Russian armies. Their hope was their participation in the Russian success would be rewarded with an independent Armenian state carved out of Ottoman territories. Armenian political leaders, army officers, and common soldiers began deserting in droves." "With the Russian invasion of eastern Anatolia in 1914 at the beginning of World War I, the degree of Armenian collaboration with the Ottoman's enemy increased drastically. Ottoman supply lines were cut by guerilla attacks, Armenian revolutionaries armed Armenian civil populations, who in turn massacred the Muslim population of the province of Van in anticipation of expected arrival of the invading Russian armies." Source: Stanford J. Shaw, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey," Vol II. Cambridge University Press, London, 1979, pp. 314-317. "...Meanwhile, Czar Nicholas II himself came to the Caucasus to make final plans for cooperation with the Armenians against the Ottomans, with the president of the Armenian National Bureau in Tiflis declaring in response: 'From all countries Armenians are hurrying to enter the ranks of the glorious Russian Army, with their blood to serve the victory of Russian arms...Let the Russian flag wave freely over the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Let, with Your will, great Majesty, the peoples remaining under the Turkish yoke receive freedom. Let the Armenian people of Turkey who have suffered for the faith of Christ receive resurrection for a new free life under the protection of Russia.'[155] Armenians again flooded into the czarist armies. Preparations were made to strike the Ottomans from the rear, and the czar returned to St. Petersburg confident that the day finally had come for him to reach Istanbul." [155] Horizon, Tiflis, November 30, 1914, quoted by Hovannisian, "Road to Independence," p. 45; FO 2485, 2484/46942, 22083. "Ottoman morale and military position in the east were seriously hurt, and the way was prepared for a new Russian push into eastern Anatolia, to be accompanied by an open Armenian revolt against the sultan.[156]" [156] Hovannisian, "Road to Independence," pp. 45-47; Bayur, III/1, pp. 349-380; W.E.D. Allen and P. Muratoff, "Caucasian Battlefields," Cambridge, 1953, pp. 251-277; Ali Ihsan Sabis, "Harb Hahralaram," 2 vols., Ankara, 1951, II, 41-160; FO 2146 no. 70404; FO 2485; FO 2484, nos. 46942 and 22083. "An Armenian state was organized at Van under Russian protection, and it appeared that with the Muslim natives dead or driven away, it might be able to maintain itself at one of the oldest centers of ancient Armenian civilization. An Armenian legion was organized 'to expel the Turks from the entire southern shore of the lake in preparation for a concerted Russian drive into the Bitlis vilayet.'[162] Thousands of Armenians from Mus and other major centers in the east began to flood into the new Armenian state...By mid-July there were as many as 250,000 Armenians crowded into the Van area, which before the crisis had housed and fed no more than 50,000 people, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.[163]" [162] Hovannisian, "Road to Independence," p. 56; FOP 2488, nos. 127223 and 58350. [163] BVA, Meclis-i Vukela Mazbatalari, debates of August 15-17, 1915; Babi-i Ali Evrak Odasi, no. 175, 321, "Van Ihtilali ve Katl-i Ami," Zilkade 1333/10 September 1915. Source: Hovannisian, Richard G.: Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918. University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles), 1967, p. 13. "The addition of the Kars and Batum oblasts to the Empire increased the area of Transcaucasia to over 130,000 square miles. The estimated population of the entire region in 1886 was 4,700,000, of whom 940,000 (20 percent) were Armenian, 1,200,000 (25 percent) Georgian, and 2,220,000 (45 percent) Moslem. Of the latter group, 1,140,000 were Tatars. Paradoxically, barely one-third of Transcaucasia's Armenians lived in the Erevan guberniia, where the Christians constituted a majority in only three of the seven uezds. Erevan uezd, the administrative center of the province, had only 44,000 Armenians as compared to 68,000 Moslems. By the time of the Russian Census of 1897, however, the Armenians had established a scant majority, 53 percent, in the guberniia; it had risen by 1916 to 60 percent, or 670,000 of the 1,120,000 inhabitants. This impressive change in the province's ethnic character notwithstanding, there was, on the eve of the creation of the Armenian Republic, a solid block of 370,000 Tartars who continued to dominate the southern districts, from the outskirts of Ereven to the border of Persia." (See also Map 1. Historic Armenia and Map 4. Administrative subdivisions of Transcaucasia). In 1920, '0' percent Turk. "We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the Tartars and then proceeded in the work of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village. Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable and inhabitants fled from them into fields, bullets and bayonets completed the work. Some of the Tartars escaped of course. They found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border into Turkey. The rest were killed. And so it is that the whole length of the borderland of Russian Armenia from Nakhitchevan to Akhalkalaki from the hot plains of Ararat to the cold mountain plateau of the North were dotted with mute mournful ruins of Tartar villages. They are quiet now, those villages, except for howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the scattered bones of the dead." Ohanus Appressian "Men Are Like That" p. 202. "An appropriate analogy with the Jewish Holocaust might be the systematic extermination of the entire Muslim population of the independent republic of Armenia which consisted of at least 30-40 percent of the population of that republic. The memoirs of an Armenian army officer who participated in and eye-witnessed these atrocities was published in the U.S. in 1926 with the title 'Men Are Like That.' Other references abound." (Rachel A. Bortnick - The Jewish Times - June 21, 1990) 1."Men Are Like That" by Leonard A. Hartill, Bobbs Co., Indianapolis, 1926 Memoirs of an Armenian Army Officer translated to English and published by a member of American "Near East Relief Organization." Gives the whole account of the genocide of all Turkish and Moslem people in Armenia organized and executed by Armenian Government and Army. Also gives account of countless other massacres and atrocities against the Turkish people in Armenia. 2."Adventures in the Near East, 1918-22" by A. Rawlinson, Dodd, Meade & Co., 1925 Eyewitness account of the same genocide by a British Army Officer. 3."World Alive, A Personal Story" by Robert Dunn, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1952 Another eyewitness account of the same genocide by an American Officer. 4."From Sardarapat to Serves and Lousanne" by Avetis Aharonian, The Armenian Review Magazine, Volume 15 (Fall 1962) through 17 (Spring 1964) Memoirs of the chief Armenian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference were published in the Armenian Review Magazine in 13 articles from Volume 15 (Fall 1962) to Volume 17 (Spring 1964). These memoirs include an interview between Aharonian and British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon in which above-mentioned genocide was discussed. The official report mentioned by Lord Curzon is the report of British High Commissioner to Caucasia, Sir Oliver Wardrop. Serdar Argic

You're definitely correct in that Williams absolutely has to be sandwiched in between Clark and Bonds. He must, and I mean MUST, get fastballs to hit...otherwise he becomes little more than Sixto Lezcano in disguise. What I would suggest is perhaps batting Bonds, Williams, and Clark 3-4-5, the reason being that I feel Bonds' potential basestealing abilities are wasted when he's stuck behind two slow runners. I think the chance of getting 20-30 extra stolen bases with Bonds in the 3 spot would more than offset any drop in in run production by having Clark in the 5 spot.

I have a 486/50Mhz ISA Board with 256kbyte Cache and 16 Megs RAM. I just bought the new soundblaster 16 and tried to install the card. The sb16 uses 16bit DMA channel.I could select between channel 5 to 7. It is the first card I ever installed that uses 16bit dma transfer. After I tested the card the first time, the computer crashed and I got a parity error-system halted. This happens either from dos as also from windows. So it seems that my 16 bit dma channels are not working properly (they are there because testsb16.exe recocnize them and tests them ok until first access). Well, does anybody know a solution for this problem or a special test program for dma problems? I eliminated the problem temporaly by using only 8 bit dma channel but it makes the system slow!

I am not a paranoid, nor a government toady, nor even am I the guy you were talking to originally, but I think you are simply NOT PAYING ATTENTION. A bunch of people living off by themselves with a lot of guns nearby is not that wierd in Texas. My own family, very quiet taxpayers with extremely con- ventional views, has something like 10 rifles and shotguns in a two-person home. Some of them were mine, but I don't live there anymore. I now have my own shotgun in my apartment. Texas Child Protective Services (which loves to find child abuse) found no, I repeat NO, evidence of abuse when they first looked at the BD, and is saying that they see none in any of the kids who were released. There is no evidence that Koresh was banging anyone but his wives. It is not against the law to stockpile (most) weapons or campbell's soup. Nor is there any hard evidence in the form of actual hardware (as I write this) to prove the BD really had any *proscribed* weapons. I feel they were all loonies, but there is no indication that they ever bothered anyone. They were gone after in the wrong ways for the wrong reasons, and the BATF and FBI who are so busy trumpeting this child abuse angle hasn't got a leg to stand on or any right to be involved in such abuse cases anyway. If there was any real danger of the BD's going out on a rampage, then that is up to the officers of the state of Texas, who are probably getting a per- verse bit of pleasure at getting to torque the Feds for fucking up something in their state. semper fi,

I cannot believe you can make these claims given hard evidence of abuse. Do you ignore stories about survellience of Martin Luther King, have you blocked from your mind McCarthy's crusade in the 50's? And how many illegal wiretaps are performed? Funny, but I'll be that the FBI doesn't keep statistics on these! "confidential informer" = illegal wiretap /-----------------------------------\ \-----------------------------------/

Case Western Reserve Med School teaches nutrition in its own section as well as covering it in other sections as they apply (i.e. B12 deficiency in neuro as a cause of neuropathy, B12 deficiency in hematology as a cause of megaloblastic anemia), yet I sill hold the viewpoint of mainstream medicine: candida can cause mucocutaneous candidiasis, and, in already very sick patients with damaged immune systems like AIDS and cancer patients, systemic candida infection. I think "The Yeast Connection" is a bunch of hooey. What does this have to do with how well nutrition is taught, anyway? Well, maybe I'm getting picky, but I always thought that a yeast was one form that a fungus could exist in, the other being the mold form. Many fungi can occur as either yeasts or molds, depending on environment. Candida exibits what is known as reverse dimorphism - it exists as a mold in the tissues but exists as a yeast in the environment. Should we maybe call it a mold infection? a fungus infection? Maybe we should say it is caused by a mold-like fungus.

Deeply grateful for citations to any papers on electronic cash schemes. Enquiring minds &c...

Yes, he does. BUT, the goalie sure as hell doesn't want him there! When I played roller hockey (boy do I miss those days) as a goalie, I would scream at my defense to clear guys out of the slot. I don't care if he's in the crease or not, get him the hell away from me so I can see the ball! (Yes, roller hockey, remember) And if there was nobody around to clear the slot, then I'd do it myself by pushing the offending player--*hard*. I *hate* people in my way when I'm the goalie, and I am sure Felix does too. I should say that I didn't see the incident, so if Potvin really swung the stick big time, then that's not right, but he can move people out of the way. He's a player on the ice too, you know. :-)

Okay, I got enough replies about the Kubota Kenai/Denali systems that I will post a summary of their capabilities. I haven't actually used one or seen one, so take the specs with a grain of salt. I'd like to see an independent review of one against, say, an SGI Indigo Extreme or something. Basically, the Kenai workstations are DEC Alpha AXP based workstations that run OSF/1 ( DEC's ) and will likely run Windows NT in the future. They are binary compatible with Digital's OSF/1 Alpha AXP implementation. Denali is their graphics subsystem, which is upgradable in the field by simply adding "transformation engines". The two main Kenai machines are the 3400 Imaging and 3D Graphics Workstation and the 3500 Imaging and 3D Graphics Workstation. 3400 3500 CPU DEC Alpha AXP 133MHz DEC Alpha AXP 150MHz On-chip cache 8k/8k 8k/8k Onboard cache 512K 512K Word Size 64-bit 64-bit Memory ( initial ) 32-128MB 32-256MB Memory ( future ) 512MB 1GB SPECMARK89 111 126 SPECINT92 75 84 SPECFP92 112 128 GRAPHICS Transform Modules 1-6 1-6 Frame Buffer Modules 5,10,20 5,10,20 Frame Buffer 1280x1024x24bit 1280x1024x24bit double buffered double buffered Z-buffer 24-bit 24-bit Alpha/stencil 8-bit 8-bit Stereo support yes yes Other: both machines will double buffer or do stereo output per window. Both have an auxiliary video output that is RS-170A, NTSC, and PAL STORAGE Internal-fixed 2 3.5" 4 3.5" Internal-removable 1 5.25" 2 5.25" Max capacity 9.5GB 11.6 GB IO Both have TurboChannel 100MB/sec, SCSI-2, Ethernet, and FDDI APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES Both have libraries for Xlib, Motif, MIT PEXlib, DEC-PEXlib DEC-PHIGS, and GL Okay, now the real stuff. The Kenai stations work with a graphics architecture known as Denali. The Denali comes in three models, the E, P, and V. They use a DECchip 21064 superscalar RISC processor at 150MHz. Their capabilities are as follows: E P V 2D Vectors 800-200K 2000-3800K 4000-4800K 3D Vectors #1 350-1100K 1100-1800K 1800-2100K 3D Vectors #2 300-1000K 1000-1600K 1600-1900K 3D Vectors #3 300-500K 800-1000K 1300-1400K 3D Triangles, #4 200-500K 600-1000K 1000-1200K 3D Triangles, #5 100-200K 300-400K 500-600K #1: 10 pixel, flat shaded, connected #2: 10 pixel, Gouraud shaded, connected #3: 10 pixel, 2-pixel wide, anti-aliased, connected #4: 50-pixel, Gouraud shaded, Z-buffered, strip #5: 50-pixel, texture mapped, persp., point sampled IMAGE PROCESSING Cine loop - 8-bit 15-36Mp/s 37-58 Mp/s 60-68 Mp/s Cine loop - 16-bit 14 Mp/s 25 Mp/s 38 Mp/s Cine loop - 24-bit 12-21 Mp/s 21 Mp/s 21 Mp/s Contrast stretching #1 14 Mp/s 25 Mp/s 20 Mp/s Bilinear zoom 6 Mp/s 11 Mp/s 20 Mp/s Trilinear interp#2 -- 6 Mvoxels/s 11 Mvoxels/s #1: Lookup table -- 12-,16-bit to 8 #2: Trilinear interpolation, 8-bit voxels CONFIGURATIONS Frame Buffer Modules 5 10 20 Transform Engine Mod. 1-3 3-5 5-6 As you can see, these are pretty powerful workstations, and the best part is the pricing. I would recommend that you call Kubota for more information. Their number is 408-727-8100. I'm sure they'll send you an information you may want. Oh, some prices: Low-end Kenai 3400, E Series w/ 1 TEM and 5 FBM --- 27,795 dollars U.S. Kenai 3500, E Series w/ 1 TEM and 5 FBM --- 45,345 dollars U.S. High-end Kenai 3400, V Series w/ 6 TEM and 20 FBM -- 61,795 dollars U.S. Kenai 3500, V Series w/ 6 TEM and 20 FBM -- 79,345 dollars U.S. If someone could post a relative comparision with an Indigo Extreme or something I would appreciate it. Hope this helps someone out there, Brian

never heard of arguement by absurdity, eh no? Also called sarcasm. The usual procedure is to accept some part of the 'oppositions' arguement and run with it until one goes beyond 'rational thought' and then ring the changes. z.B. The idea of a minimum wage is considered a good one. And in these times of economic difficulty, the Washington legislature is propossing to raise the State MinWage from $4.25 (the federal level) to $4.90 (fifteen cents over Oregon's). It would seem to me that this increase does not keep pace with inflation, that the minimum wage should be to $6.08 by my figures, so it is proposed that we raise the minimum wage to $6.50 per hour by 1 July and then give a 10% cost of living increase every 4 July. and anyone who doesn't like it is obviously a country club republican getting rich off the exploitation of poor people. chus pyotr

But, Gary, for certain sofa tubers like myself, this is an advantage. I can watch the Pirates on KBL, the Mets on WWOR, the Braves on TBS, and the mediots on ESPN at the same time, without missing anything. (If something impressive happens, I'll catch the replay :-) ). So, I see (essentially) 4 games in 3 hours, instead of 1 game in 2 hours. What a deal! (Insert smileys as desired...)

What is NASA's annual budget? This year will do, a few years back wpuld be nice too but I need this item fast so emails off the top of your head very much appreciated (FAQs vanish here!). -Tony Ryan, "Astronomy & Space", new International magazine, available from: Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 1, Ireland. 6 issues (one year sub.): UK 10.00 pounds, US$20 surface (add US$8 airmail). ACCESS/VISA/MASTERCARD accepted (give number, expiration date, name&address).

once upon a time, that's exactly what they would have done & everyone could have just gone on living a peaceful (if well armed) life. what is it that makes people think they have the right -not- to just leave others be? jason