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To: Moonray who wrote (18383)	3/8/1999 1:35:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

You know...in the last couple weeks I've been getting all kinds of error messages and unable at times to post or access SI. Are they doing something other than normal upgrades? Like installing a poster I.D. blocking program to counter the MSFT & Intel big brother crap? <gg>

To: Moonray who wrote (18383)	3/8/1999 5:14:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22053

BURP! Speaking of body functions: HANOVER, Germany, March 8 (AFP) - A German man who hid 23,000 marks (11,800 euros, 12,900 dollars) in his underpants during a train journey for safety's sake lost the money while going to the toilet, police said Monday. However, police from this northern German town managed to find the money on the railway line after the passenger told them how he had lost his savings, with which he planned to buy car. The 36-year-old man hid the money in his underpants for fear of pickpockets but forgot it was there when he went to the toilet, where he inadvertently flushed the stash away and on to the track. asia.yahoo.com On another subject - got a nice little blizzard going on here right now. Turn up you air con a notch.

To: Moonray who wrote (18383)	3/10/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

It's Slow Going on Cable Modem Tests: Only two products pass DOCSIS certification, and DSL competition looms. pcworld.com This was posted on the AWRE thread. *Btw. One must be retired...or on company time to wait for Moonray's profile to download.*

To: Moonray who wrote (18383)	3/10/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

Moonray, you programing at sea?.... SOURCE: The Boeing Company Sea Launch Vessels to Depart Long Beach; Inaugural Launch Scheduled for March 26 LONG BEACH, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- With final preparations now complete, the two Sea Launch operating vessels and their crews will soon depart the Home Port for equatorial waters in the Pacific to conduct the international joint venture's first launch. The launch will be the world's first commercial rocket launch from a floating platform at sea. Sea Launch President Allen B. Ashby today announced that the inaugural launch will take place at 2:18 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Friday, March 26, 1999. The site will be in the Pacific at 154 West at the equator -- about 1,400 miles south of Hawaii. ''This first launch marks the culmination of four years of intensive effort by the Sea Launch partners,'' Ashby said, ''It brings us to the final step before Sea Launch begins full operations later this year as a cost-effective, reliable commercial launch service.'' Departing for the ocean launch site will be the Odyssey, a self-propelled launch platform, and the Sea Launch Commander, a floating mission control center and rocket assembly factory. On board the Odyssey in an environmentally controlled hangar is a 200-foot long, flight-ready Sea Launch rocket, with demonstration payload. ''The launch of the demonstration payload will validate the operation of the entire Sea Launch system and simulate the commercial communications satellites that Sea Launch will begin launching later this year,'' Ashby added. At the equatorial launch site, the Odyssey will be partially submerged for added stability. The rocket will be withdrawn from its hangar on the platform, lifted into a vertical position, fueled with kerosene and liquid oxygen, and launched. The fueling and launch will proceed by remote control from the Sea Launch Commander -- the Odyssey crew having transferred to the Commander and that vessel having moved three miles away. Sea Launch combines the resources of the world's leading aerospace and maritime companies. Partners in the international consortium are: Boeing Commercial Space Company, Kent, Wash., (provides spacecraft integration and the payload fairings); Kvaerner Maritime a.s., of Oslo, Norway (the vessel builder); RSC Energia of Moscow, Russia (provides the upper stage and its integration with the launch vehicle); and KB Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash of Ukraine (provides the first two stages of the launch vehicle). Currently, Sea Launch has firm contracts for 16 launches. biz.yahoo.com

To: Moonray who wrote (18383)	3/10/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Algor takes credit for the internet. BLITZER: I want to get to some of those substantive domestic and international questions in a bit, but let's just wrap up a bit of the politics right now. Why should Democrats, looks at the Democratic nomination, the process, support you instead of Bill Bradley -- a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate -- what do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process? GORE: Well, I will -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins, and it'll be comprehensive and sweeping, and I hope that it'll be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be. But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. cnn.com