* Immature Thomson Software Products, San Diego, by kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
@ 1996-05-23 0:00 282245
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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Subject: Re: Allergic to shots?
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/04/01
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<1996Mar31.205815@emuvax.emich.edu>
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Originator: kst@pulsar
Speaking of allergies, has anyone heard of a cat having an adverse
reaction to Droncit, a drug commonly given for tapeworms? (I'm told
that it's extremely safe, but ....)
Thanks.
Regarding the original question on this thread, I definitely agree that
the cat should be taken back to the vet, whether it's a reaction to the
shots or not.
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Subject: Re: Dangerous Clumping Cat Litter??!!
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/04/06
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In <4k47hb$knn@kirin.wwa.com> laser26@wwa.com (Justin) writes:
[...]
> There's a well-written article at...
>
> http://www.crl.com/~marinam/articles/clump.html
It's moved to <http://www.sonic.net/~marina/articles/clump.html>.
(I can't say whether it's well-written, since I haven't read it yet.)
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Subject: Re: slime ball wesley cru
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/04/03
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<4j6380$e3b@news1.h1.usa.pipeline.com> <tlsmithDp35Fv.B74@netcom.com>
<4jnh6s$bm6@news.csus.edu> <tlsmithDp64xH.8rI@netcom.com>
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Originator: kst@pulsar
In <tlsmithDp64xH.8rI@netcom.com> tlsmith@netcom.com (Terry L. Smith)
writes:
[...]
> Gee, he sounds kinda grumpy. Maybe he's had a bad day. Let's
> cheer him up!
>
> * Hi, Mr Eddore. Have some Boston Cream Pie; it's *really* good!
> **
> * Look, Gharlane, here's the laser disc of Mike Jittlov's latest
> movie! We thought you might be able to make it, so I brought it for
> you.
> **
> * Would you like some tea? We've got Earl Grey.. or there are four
> kinds of coffee - how about some Hazlenut?
> **
> * Sit down, why doncha? Here's a pretty little Maine Coon Kitten
> that wants a skritch behind the ears...
Isn't this kind of counterattack banned by the Geneva Convention?
Especially the Maine Coon Kitten thing. 8-)}
> "There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy"
> - E. V. Lucas
Or offense, apparently.
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ubject: Re: Wizardry Quested!
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/04/16
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In <4kufp0$ekm@news2.delphi.com> rcook@BIX.com (Rick Cook) writes:
[...]
> Well, there's also the little matter of ego gratification. :-)
"We are not worthy! We are not worthy!"
Then again, you can't have your cake and ... well, never mind.
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Subject: Re: Wizardry Quested!
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/04/18
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In <4l3kl5$10d@news2.delphi.com> rcook@BIX.com (Rick Cook) writes:
[...]
> You're never going to let me forget that, are you?
We're never going to let *anybody* forget that!
> Jeez, jump out of one cake at one bachleor party and. . .
It takes a real man to do that. Or something.
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Subject: Re: Minicon badge problem
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/04/19
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In article <4l5u5v$6s0@tlaltec.tezcat.com>, cyohtee <cyohtee@tezcat.com>
says:
> BTW, Does Anal Retentive have a hyphen?
Actually, I thought it was spelled with a colon.
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Subject: Re: Good Writers with Bad Beliefs
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/04/24
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In <craigaDqCtHr.MC5@netcom.com> craiga@netcom.com (Craig Arnush) writes:
> rcook@BIX.com (Rick Cook) writes:
> >
> >glow-in-the-dark sundial my weird brother Donald invented.
>
> Actually, that sounds kind of cool. Some sort of sundial watch with a
> little button you can press at night that lights it up. Preferably with
> a really small (or well-camouflaged) display so you can tell people the
> time at night from your sundial and then look up to watch their
expressions.
Actually, a watch-sized sundial for nighttime use should have a small
display that tells you where to hold the flashlight.
The table top model would have the light built in, attached to an arm
that moves it around to the proper position to show the current time.
It could use differently colored lights for the minute and second "hands".
Naturally it should automatically account for daylight savings time.
The deluxe version would have a built-in GPS receiver so it can figure out
what time zone it's in and whether the region it's in uses DST (Arizona
doesn't, if I recall correctly). It should also have a built-in alarm;
when the alarm goes off, it shines all the lights into your eyes.
It would be solar powered, of course.
(Topic? What topic?)
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Subject: Re: Kitty! (Was Re: Actually OFF TOPIC!
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/02/09
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In <tlsmithDMGp8I.KFu@netcom.com> tlsmith@netcom.com (Terry L. Smith)
writes:
[joke deleted]
Ah. She is wise. She is a Buddha on a stick.
(You are not expected to understand this. I'm not sure Larry did either.)
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Subject: Re: Seattle area cat rescue or Top 10 uses for a dead cat!!
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/01/21
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In <4dr4ca$1uj@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> boon@ix.netcom.com(Big Daddy )
writes:
[...]
> FYI this assholes reply to me started with the words you Idiot, and
> continued along that line. This person (Keith Thompson,
> kst@thomsoft.com) is just pissed off and a wussy. If you dont want a
> shitty reply then dont bother me with nasty e-mail.
"Big Daddy" is either mistaken or lying. The following is the complete
text of my e-mail reply, excluding headers and signature. The text
preceded by ">" was quoted from his posted article.
| In rec.pets.cats you write:
| [...]
| > What a stupid fucking thread. Dont you think its time for this thing to
| > die?
| [...]
|
| Absolutely. Why are you continuing it?
I do not intend to respond further on this thread. Please let it die.
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Subject: Re: Seattle area cat rescue or Top 10 uses for a dead cat!!
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/01/20
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In <4doevi$jjd@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> boon@ix.netcom.com(Big Daddy )
writes:
> What a stupid fucking thread. Dont you think its time for this thing to
> die?
[more offensive nonsense deleted]
Folks, please don't follow up to this idiocy on these newsgroups
(it's cross-posted to six of them). And don't bother replying to
boon@ix.netcom.com (Big Daddy) by e-mail. I did, and he responded with
a uuencoded image file called "cat.jpg"; you *don't* want to see it.
The appropriate way to complain about this kind of thing is to send
(polite!) email to postmaster@ix.netcom.com.
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Subject: Re: How to Get Free Cable Premium TV .. LEGIT
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/10/07
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In <454ta4$bl3@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen) writes:
> Okay, enough is friggin' enough. This loser has been posting three
> different spams (this and a two-part recipe MMF) for the last two days
and
> iglou.com seems to not wanna do anything about it. Given the past
history of
> iglou.com, it's looking like they may need to be aliased out or even
blocked
> totally.
The administrators of iglou.com may have dealt with this person. Here's
what I got when I fingered recipe@iglou.iglou.com a few minutes ago.
Hopefully the "/etc/bin/deny" means the account has been disabled.
> Login name: recipe In real life: John Matthews
> Directory: /home2/recipe Shell: /etc/bin/deny
> Last login Sat Oct 7 01:53 on pts/9 from gn2.getnet.com
> No Plan.
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Subject: Re: EMP/ECP cancelled (College Girls Ready Now!:
strider@cpcn.com (nobody)) @@NCM
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/11/06
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In <951006133845.45796.11699@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
> 71 articles were cancelled in 71 groups. The Breidbart Index is 71.00
(BI2: 71.00)
According to the headers you posted, there were 71 articles in 14
newsgroups, 57 of them in alt.religion.mormon. Perhaps your scripts
don't handle multiple postings to a single newsgroup?
(This is just an FYI; I agree that the articles in question were
cancellable spam -- perhaps even worse for being multiply posted to a
single newsgroup.)
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Subject: Info on "Miramar Road Associates"
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/03/14
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The mailing address given in the recent renters mega-spam was:
MIRAMAR ROAD ASSOCIATES
6920 Miramar Road Ste. 207
San Diego, CA 92121.2641
Since this is nearly on my way to work, I dropped by early Wednesday
afternoon (March 13). There is a Suite 207 in the building, but the
name on the door is "Herzog Contracting Corp."
I have no idea whether "Miramar Road Associates" is associated with
Herzog Contracting Corp, or whether Herzog (or someone working there)
is involved in the spam.
I left a printout of several articles from this newsgroup under their
door; whether they're involved or not, I figured they should know what's
going on.
(Please reply by e-mail; our newfeed is having serious problems.)
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Subject: Re: shootingyourselfinthefoot
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/12/19
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In <9512161045129149@emerald.com> lindsay.crawford@emerald.com (Lindsay
Crawford) writes:
> UNIX: & Is foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o % rm *.o: No such file or
> directory % Is %
Looks like this one has been garbled. It should look like this:
UNIX:
% ls
foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
% rm * .o
rm: .o: No such file or directory
% ls
%
The line breaks are significant.
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Subject: Re: What Intersection Was Like
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/09/19
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In <811534075.26736@impolex.demon.co.uk> nigel@impolex.demon.co.uk (Nigel
E. Richardson) writes:
> Enough of this tittle-tattle about acoustics and Caffrey's - let's
> have the real juicy gossip about the convention [...]
Yeah, I want to know about the rumored hot chocolate massage party!
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ubject: Re: NASFiC Convention Report
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/08/08
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In <4086mh$d9b@amazing.cinenet.net> Loren Joseph MacGregor
<lmacgreg@amazing.cinenet.net> writes:
> I don't know, but I'm sure it would be terribly onomatopoetic as all
> get-out.
In some alternate universe, "onomatopoeia" is one.
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Subject: Re: LENSMAN WEB PAGE, pointer info;
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/03/22
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In <DoLGCF.BJz@thomsoft.com> I wrote:
> Gharlane: [...]
>
> P.S.: ankles.
No, really. Was there, did that.
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Subject: Re: LENSMAN WEB PAGE, pointer info;
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/03/21
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In <4int37$ae7@news.csus.edu> gharlane@ccshp1.ccs.csus.edu (Gharlane of
Eddore) writes:
> If you're interested, it's at:
>
>
> http://www.168.150.253.1/~zlensman/lensfaq.html
>
>
> ....and that link site should be stable for at least a year, for
> those who maintain page-link sites and would care to include it.
There's an error in the URL; it should be
http://168.150.253.1/~zlensman/lensfaq.html
(i.e., delete the "www.").
Gharlane: does 168.150.253.1 have a name?
P.S.: ankles.
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Subject: Re: Blast Away Earth's Atmosphere: How?
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/07/19
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In <ssmith.280.000C7DE1@paltech.com> ssmith@paltech.com (Bob Ssmith)
writes:
> Any huge blast of energy would do it. If the earth's atmosphere,
> the whole billion cubic miles of it (at STP) covered an area of one
> square mile, it would be only 0.003 inch thick. Not much to blow away.
Huh? The atmosphere, if it were spread over the entire planet at STP,
would be about 5 miles thick. If you compress the atmosphere into a
volume of one mile by one mile by 0.003 inch, you get a density about
2.7e13 (27 trillion) times that of water, if my calculations are correct.
Remember, there are 14.7 pounds of air over every square inch of the
earth's surface. It's a *lot* to blow away.
> The water amounts to about 285 million cubic miles -- not much more
> than a vineer of humidity on a rocky surface.
That figure sounds about right.
> Several years ago, in Scientific American, the former nuke designer
> Theodore Taylor discussed "shaped" nuclear charges -- i.e., from which
the
> blast would be directed in one main direction. One or several large
shaped
> fusion charges or bombs, situated about a million miles out, might blow
the
> atmosphere and water away and leave the underlying rock pretty much
> untouched.
One or several shaped fusion bombs a million miles would probably
generate a considerable EMP (electromagnetic pulse), but probably wouldn't
significantly warm the atmosphere.
To a first approximation, blowing away the oceans requires accelerating
285 million cubic miles of water to escape velocity, about 7 miles/second.
This requires (again, if my calculations are correct) the energy
released by about 1.8e19 tons of TNT, or more than 300 billion of the
most powerful H-bomb ever detonated (the Soviets tested a 57 megaton
bomb in 1961), or about three Hiroshima-style bombs for every square
meter of the earth's surface.
The H-bomb approach seems a trifle inelegant.
Probably your best bet is to harness some significant fraction of the
Sun's energy output and somehow focus it on Earth. In one of Niven's
Ringworld stories, he uses magnetic fields to induce an artificial flare
on a star; the flare itself then becomes a laser. Turning the Sun into
a nova might also do the job.
Remember that the mass of the atmosphere is a small fraction of the
mass of the oceans, which in turn is a small fraction of the mass of
the crust, which in turn is a small fraction of the mass of the earth.
If you apply enough energy, you can probably boil away the atmosphere
an oceans without hurting the planet *too* much, though some damage to
the surface topography is inevitable.
Would someone care to check my figures? Thanks.
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Subject: Re: Oh great, junk mail now
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/10/25
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In <46epm5$2au@news3.cts.com> psm@crash.cts.com (Scot McIntosh) writes:
> Did anybody else posting to this group get some junk mail about
> something called the EUPHORIA tapes?
[...]
The sender of this message apparently has apologized. See the
article titled 'Euphoria Tape Spammer Says "I Surrender"' in
news.admin.net-abuse.misc, <news:6874yyfg33rf@eecs.nwu.edu>.
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Subject: Help getting cat from NYC to California
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/03/17
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I'm trying to adopt a cat currently living in the New York City area.
(She's an 8-year-old Russian Blue named Diana). One slight problem: I
live in San Diego, California.
Is there anyone out there who's planning to fly from the New York area
to San Diego (or even Los Angeles) in the next few weeks, who would be
willing to take the cat in carry-on luggage?
Please respond by e-mail; our Usenet feed has been flaky lately.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou in advance!
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Subject: Re: Help getting cats from NYC to California
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/12/01
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In <DIuo2J.x7@thomsoft.com> I wrote:
> Is there anyone out there who's planning to fly from the New York area
> to San Diego (or even Los Angeles) in the next few weeks, who would be
> willing to take the cats in carry-on luggage?
Alternatively, can anyone give me any general information on how to
transport cats over long distances? I'd rather not put them in an
airline baggage compartment unless I have to. Aren't there companies
that provide this kind of service for cats being taken to shows?
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Subject: Help getting cats from NYC to California
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/11/30
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I'm trying to adopt two cats whose current ownees have a new (human)
baby who is deathly allergic to them. The problem: the cats are in the
New York City area, and I live in San Diego, California.
Is there anyone out there who's planning to fly from the New York area
to San Diego (or even Los Angeles) in the next few weeks, who would be
willing to take the cats in carry-on luggage?
Thankyouthankyouthankyou in advance!
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Subject: Re: Gharlane! Alt.dev.null indeed!
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1996/02/05
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<823133231.115@ppp12.almac.co.uk> <4es20l$sta@news.indy.net>
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In <4f0ij3$acn@news.indy.net> Earl Grey <EG@anon.penet.fi> writes:
[...]
> Well, you know the old saying: "Fool me once, shame on you!
> Fool me twice, shame on me!"
Or, as a previous sig quote of mine said:
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I'll slay your entire
family."
(People thought it was a bit hostile -- I can't imagine why.)
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Subject: Re: Offensive mail - anyone else receive some lately?
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/10/01
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In <44jn6t$raf@soap.news> faa35@dial.pipex.com (Jeannette Simpson) writes:
> This morning I had the delights of a piece of sickening propaganda
> drop into my mailbox. This was from the National Alliance exhorting me
> to awaken to the truth of white racial supremacy [...]
I got a copy of this too. Some things to be aware of:
1. It's not clear (yet) how the sender(s) got the e-mail addresses to
which they sent the article. They probably used a variety of sources.
It's not limited to posters to any particular set of newsgroups or
members of any particular set of mailing lists.
2. The sender(s) is/are unknown, as far as I know. People are working
to track them down.
3. Don't bother replying to the message; the return address is a forgery.
It's *probably* not worth notifying other sites that may appear in
the message headers; I'm sure they're painfully aware of the situation.
4. For more information (and perhaps a more appropriate place to
discuss it), see news.admin.net-abuse.misc, where I got most of
this information.
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Selling your sou
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/07/15
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In <199507151042.AA002754976@relay1.geis.com> straczynski@genie.geis.com
writes:
> There's always been a side-story that could spin off from B5, but
the
> main core story is over at the five-year mark.
>
> jms
Can you give us any hints about the side story (he asked, expecting the
answer "no")?
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Subject: Re: JMS: A Kosh Question
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/06/17
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In <3rtdkl$3t4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> sorso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (orso steven n)
writes:
> "Everyone lies, Michael."
Perhaps Sinclair was lying when he said that.
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Subject: Re: How many Vorlons to screw a light bulb?
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/11/18
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"You are not ready for illumination."
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Subject: Re: What do you *say* to a Baby Vorlon? :-)
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/07/16
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In <boyle-1507952130500001@atreides.rice.edu> boyle@spacsun.rice.edu (C.
Ben Boyle) writes:
> In article <3u9kqa$kov@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, ciaradh@aol.com (Ciaradh)
wrote:
> > Koshie Koshie Koo?
> >
> > Ciaradh@AOL.com
>
> AAAAARRGhh!
> Send in the Narns!!
Don't bother, they're here....
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Subject: Re: 10000 Maniacs-In My Tribe-Track Missing.
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/09/08
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In <DEHquL.L5E@online.magnus1.com> steveg@online1.magnus1.com (Steve
Gardner) writes:
> I have a copy of the above on CD. Although 'Peace Train' is listed on the
> liner and in the booklet, it is not on the disk.
>
> Anyone notice this or am I the only one.
Fascinating. I just happened to have my copy on top of my CD player as
I read this.
I probably have a later printing. "Peace Train" is not on the CD,
and is not listed on the CD itself, on the liner, or in the booklet.
However, the copyright notice after the lyrics in the booklet says:
All lyrics (c) 1987 Christian Burial Music, ASCAP
except Peace Train (c) 1987 Island Music, BMI
(where "(c)" is really a copyright symbol, "�" if your display can
handle it.)
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Subject: Re: Ethics in programming
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/11/17
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<48cvl1$d6t@cri.ens-Lyon.fr> <19951116T065909Z@naggum.no>
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In <KODIS.95Nov16150721@daacdev1.stx.com> kodis@daacdev1.stx.com (John
Kodis) writes:
> I had wondered why there wasn't a Nobel Prize in mathematics (yes, I
> was a mathematics major). One of my professors explained that it was
> because Dr. Nobel's wife had had an affair with a French mathematician,
> whos name I cannot recall. But after all these years, he might have
> gotten over it.
That's apparently an urban legend. According to the sci.math FAQ,
Mr. Nobel was never married. Probably the real reasons are that he
didn't care much for mathematics, and that there was already a well
known Scandinavian prize for mathematicians.
For more information, see
<http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/sci-math-faq/nobel/faq.html>
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Subject: Re: Contests for 8 queens problem
From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Date: 1995/09/14
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In <4381gu$ibe@wolfe.wimsey.com> wnight@vanbc.wimsey.com (William Robert
Night) writes:
> Actually, it could be done in less.
> Because the placing of the initial queens determines the allowable
> spacing for the second and further queens, the first row has 8 possible
> positions for the queen, the second has between 5 and 6, the third
between
> 4 and 5...
>
> The trick lies in realizing how many bits are needed and storing only
> that many, counting from the first possible row to the last skipping any
> that would make for an invalid solution.
(Almost?) any compressed database scheme like this depends on the program
that extracts the information from the database having some knowledge
of the problem being solved. For example, you can omit information on
the 8th queen only because the extraction program knows how to figure
out where it is, given what it already knows about the first 7.
Thus, a sufficiently clever extraction program could extract all possible
solutions to the 8-queens problem from a 0-bit database, simply by
solving the problem from scratch. There isn't really a most efficient
representation, just a tradeoff between data size, code/algorithm size,
and time.
Similarly, the value of pi rounded to a trillion decimal places can
be represented very compactly by a character string:
"the value of pi rounded to a trillion decimal places".
Extracting the actual value from the compact representation is left as
an exercise. (Yes, I know it could be made even smaller -- don't bother.)
(Ada. There, I've mentioned it, so this post is on-topic.)
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In <31a4d3fb.664752793@news.concentric.net> 282245@anon.penet.fi writes:
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Folks, please don't post followups on this thread. It's cross-posted
to 16 newsgroups, none of them relevant.
Mr. or Ms. 282245: Please stop harassing me.
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