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ARTICLE #1
A NEWSGROUP OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Date: 1999/02/06
Hey everyone, this is just Mike letting you know that MP3 World is open and ready for business! Feel Free to start posting news/questions/answers/blah blah blah... about mp3 and anything related to it. Oh yeah, and check out my free mp3s at [www.mp3.com/smear. ]
[ http://www.dejanews.com/~mp3world ]
Response:
I found this discussion very interesting. For those who don't know what
mp3 is, you better look through the website which is attached. MP3 is a
file format which stores audio files on a computer in such a way that the file
size is relatively small, but the song sounds near perfect. You can identify
MP3 files because they will end in .mp3. Typically 1 MB is equal to one minute
of music or several minutes for spoken work/audiobooks. MP3 is simply a file
format. However, it can be used either legally or illegally. Using an MP3 is
legal if the song's copyright holder has granted permission to download and
play the song. Also, it is legal to make copies from CD for personal use.
However, it is illegal to encode MP3s from CD and trade them without permission
from the copyright holder. This is a new discussion and it includes the
standard of mp3. Where they can find specific music, etc... The
phenomenon I could find in this discussion is people are very helpful with each
other in this community. The idea of anonymity immediately came to my
mind. The people in the newsgroup generally don't know each other, but
they are willing to help each other.
ARTICLE #2
A NEWSGROUP OF YOGA
Title: Re: Another newbie
Date: 1999/03/07
Mike,
Okay I admit it it happens to me regularly
and i teach yoga. I've gone for years practicing effortlessly and then
have periods when I have to drag myself to the mat. That's just life.
Finding a buddy to practice with can
help. Making the practice short and manageable for a while can also be a good
choice. Classes, tapes, videos all can be supportive.
The one thing that isn't useful is
feeling guilty and beating yourself up over the issue. That doesn't help and
actually distracts from yoga.
When all else fails me I meditate on
the nature of resistance and my own resitance in particular. This leads me to
frustration with sitting and eventually I get up and practice.
Hi all! I think that there must be something magical about yoga because everyone I see that practices it are usually very beautiful people with a very noticable, peaceful, energy about them.
First I would like to say congratulations to those of you who practice on a
regular basis. I'm sure that your efforts toward a more peaceful
exsistance are felt not only by your bodies but by all of us. Next I seek
motivation. I have two books on yoga and I have been subscribing to Yoga
Journal for about two years now. The problem is like with just about
everything else I can't seem to motivate myself to practice. I know the
benifits it offers and the healing, but... If anyone else hd this same problem
please offer some advise. My latest excuse is because I live in a college
dorm with a very obnoxius roommate. Even though it's true I don't think
that it should interfere with my life.
Also, I was wondering which would be a better place to practice, here in the room or in the university gym. Here I would be concerned about interuptions from any one of the 6 guys living here. Thanks in advance for your help and bless you for making that light which normally shines very dull, shine so warmly. [ Mike ]
Response:
This newsgroup caught my sight because I want to know what people are talking
about with Yoga. I don't know about this kind of exercise deeply. I
think it is kind of like the Chinese's Taichi. This discussion talks
about a person have a great difficulty to learn Yoga himself. I think he
is kind of shame to practice it because most of the people nowadays don't have
much experience about Yoga. Some people even laugh at it. They just
don't know it is a kind of exercise to reduce tension. It just the
person, Mike, so shy to pratice it at home. Newsgroup gives the person a
specific group of people which could help him along. It's hard for a
person to walk on the street and pick a person which knows Yoga and gives him
advices.
ARTICLE #3
A NEWSGROUP OF SPORTS
Title: Lakers get the job done
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Date: 1999/03/08
The lakers went in to utah and simply outplayed the jazz. They are certainly the better team. Even if the jazz have homecourt advantage against the lakers, it will not matter because the lakers know they can go in to the delta center and win. Some comments on the game:
1) Eddie Jones still needs to be traded. He looked horrible out there today. For those who didn't watch the game, he chose an area closer to the baseline for his "stand in one place" spot.
2) The jazz don't have anybody to defend
bryant. His outside jumper was obviously not there and he was still
impressive. The
hornacek/russell/anderson on kobe matchup equals death for utah.
3) Campbell should play malone more than rodman. I know rambis doesn't have much for brains, but even he realized this and had campbell in against rodman late in the game.
4) The utah jazz took complaining to the next level
in this one. There was one instance in the first half when hornacek
simply dribbled the ball off his foot. Everyone knew it. Instead of
just picking the ball up and giving it to the ref, jeff had to have a
conversation with him. There was another situation in which hornacek flopped on
a move made by bryant. He wanted a charge called for a play where
virtually no contact occured. Hornacek has become the #1 complainer on
the jazz, and thus
the #1 complainer in the league. What is annoying me the most about
hornacek is how he shoots every time the ball is whistled dead. Say an
illegal defense is called and hornacek has the ball. Hornacek should just
give the ball to the ref, but he always hoists up a shot, regardless of whether
he was about to shoot or not. Then a ref has to retrieve the ball before
the game can start again. I have seen other players do this, but not
nearly as much as hornacek. One thing that was nice about this game was the
abscence of jerry sloan. It was nice to see a game where neither coach
was shown throwing their hands up in the air every 10 seconds and smiling
like a jackass, a la jerry sloan.
Speaking of Rambis, he seems to be not pissing
anyone off too much. The players don't have a problem with him, but they
dont respect him either. I was particularly amused when rambis pulled
kobe off to the sidelines and was trying to talk to him. Kobe acted like
rambis wasn't even in the building. That is the ultimate insult to a
coach. He could have cared less what rambis had to say, and he made it
clear to a national audience who was running the lakers- the stars, not the
coach.
But as long as rambis doesn't upset the big boys, things should work out
fine. Rambis can be a good coach by not doing a whole lot of coaching. If
the lakers had wanted a real coach, they could have gotten one. They just
wanted to get rid of harris, so a dope like rambis will work out fine.
Kobe and shaq made a statement today- that they are not going to let utah win a postseason series against them again.
[ Michael ]
Response:
I'm absolutely a NBA fans. There are a lot of discussions about NBA
games. The people react differently in order to support or reject to
their teams. This is a discussion about a game which is played on
03/08/99 between LA Lakers and Utah Jazz. I've also seen this game.
The reason I choose this message is that he has a very in depth look in the
game. I can't believe that he is so concentrate on every player on the
court. I'm for sure he is not a commentator, but for sure he is a big fan
of NBA. He even have some comments about how the teams administration
operated. As an audience I only watched the players played, I don't care
what the administration of a team will affect the players. But he is also
concern about it. He expressed what he felt about the game all in this
message. I'm impressed by that.
ARTICLE #4
A NEWSGROUP OF NEWS AND POLITICS
Title: Re: Clinton Should Answer Broaddrick Rape Allegation
Date: 1999/02/25
Clinton should answer the allegation of rape made by Juanita Broaddrick.
No ... I think it's in his best interests to ignore her entirely. A big chunk of the public just isn't interested in entertaining ANY more sex scandals about BC. Whatever it is, they will think the GOP is behind it or has fabricated it entirely.
Personally, given the age of the case and the fact that she has changed her story over time ... well ....
Short of videotape showing him forcibly molesting some girl scouts, Clinton is now sex-scandal-proof.
If the GOP wants to "get" Clinton, they will have to find something entirely unrelated to sex - bribes, treason, theft, murder, abuse of power. Even then, it's kind of late for all this. Clinton is old news. The GOP should be quiet about Clinton so the public will forget their failed impeachment initiative. Efforts should be directed towards the FUTURE - AlGore and friends.
The GOP has developed a positive OBSESSION about getting BC. They had better drop it, right now, and get on with business.
-j
Response:
I want to say this for a while already. The Americans like to make fun of
themselves. If Clinton is the president of China, I feel very
insulting. I find that the Americans are so materialistic, some of them
make fun of their president in order to make money. Don't they think it's
so insulting to have a president like that? I think people in other nations
are laughing at either the president and the US residents. If I were a US
resident and talked to a group of people all over the world, I think I won't
talk about that sensitive topic to them. I'll just kept slience because
Clinton is not only insulting himself and his family, but the whole
country. The message also spoke the truth. The people have already
lost their interest over the sex scandal about Clinton. I think they are
now recognizing that a president's job is to rule the country, they shouldn't
bother their president's private life.
ARTICLE #5
A NEWSGROUP OF SOCIAL AND CULTURE
Title: Re: New survey: boogers 'n' haints
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Date: 1999/02/21
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What kind of booger or haint (boogey-man or ghost, for you Northerners) does
your local legend claim wanders the dark fields near your home, waiting for the
careless homeschooler to walk across their path?
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I don't know what sort wanders around here, but where I grew up (Yuma, AZ), there were two different hauntings. One was a beautiful Spanish lady who haunted the canal banks because her baby had drowned there. At girl's slumber parties we scared ourselves silly with the old tale that if you turned out the lights, lit a candle, looked in a mirror, and said "_______, I have your baby," she would show up. I've forgotten her name, but when we moved to California there was a similar story about Agnes, who had been in a car accident, picked up by a trucker while she was unconcious, taken to a hospital. While there, she awoke and asked for her baby. Nobody had seen a baby, she grew hysterical, and escaped from the hospital. Nobody ever found her or her baby, and the mirror thing was supposed to work the same way.It's better for me to stay far away from this stuff. [ Kanga ]
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.- Erasmus
Which may explain why we enjoy our seven children so much, particularly the
toddler right now.- [ Kanga ]
Response:
A group of folks have started trading tales about regional "boogers 'n'
haints" (known as boogey-men or ghosts in the North). Don't join this
discussion if you're easily spooked! The above discription drew my
attention to this discussion. I personally don't believe in ghosts.
But the person who wrote this story seemed to be a believer in this kind of
stuff. It's kind of like a legend in his living place, and he got to
believe it. I think people who believe in such kind of stuff is liked
people having psychological problems like illusion or hallucination. I
think they shouldn't take it too serious.
ARTICLE #6
A NEWSGROUP OF SINGLES
Title: Susan, 29, attractive, seeks...
Date: 1999/03/03
ABC Dating has been updated (3 Mar) with more
new personal ads. Details and intimate contacts at
Ý[ http://www.abcdating.co.uk ]
Some sample ads can be found below.
*Sultry, sexy and sincere lady seeks friendly man.
(London)
*Flyboy Looking for True Romance Wants to Fly You Away (London)
*Young, free and still single! (Glasgow)
*Incurable romantic seeking knight in shining armour (Oxford)
*You can be the man to share my life . Why not find me out. (London)
*'Let us go then, you and I...' (London)
*Bubbly Brunette, Strong, Independent, looking for Clark Kent (London)
*Scottish Lass seeks , caring ,honest prince charming , (Edinburgh)
*Fancy a chat over a good bottle of wine? (Surrey)
*Demelza seeking Ross Poldark on a windswept Cornish CliffÝ (Basingstoke)
*Quite good looking golfer in need of new partner (Anywhere)
*You? Maybe! (Exeter)
*Seeking someone to share my life, my cat, my dreams. (Coventry)
*Better than the millenium experience! (Newcastle)
*I hope I get mail! (Ayr)
*When Harry met Sally... (Leeds)
*Red head seeks fireside companion (Nr. Brighton)
*Boogie Wonderland! (Newcastle Upon Tyne)
*Lady X - (X-UK, X-nurse, X-beauty queen) seeks honest Lord
*Buffalo Gal seeks partner to dance by the light of the moon (London)
*Genuine female (Leicester)
*Hello Handsome! (Manchester)
*Happy go lucky female seeks well adjusted male (London)
*Classy Lady Requires Reintroducing to Society! (London)
*Lonely babe! (Teignmouth)
*Fun loving drama teacher seeks the love of her life (Littlehampton)
*Educated former hooker seeks a dirty ruck!! (Wiltshire)
*Searching for a gentle soul in London (London)
*In need of attention (Gwent)
*Someting for the weekend and more. (Manchester)
*Completely Batty, humorous lady who loves to laugh... (Somewhere)
*Seeking an Intelligent Man! (Southampton,)
*I have been searching the world for you. (South England)
*Are you witty, big-hearted, and intelligent? (Cambridge)
*Be Gentle with me (Edinburgh)
*Raven haired beauty seeks very tall, sexy beast (Portsmouth)
*Vital, interesting, complex yet enchanting. (London)
*Susan, 29, attractive, I consider myself to be sexy and usually carry it off
well. I have a good sense of humour.
Sample ads:
Are you witty, big-hearted, and intelligent?
I'm seeking a nice tall chap to have fun with. I'd like to meet someone who is "comfortable in their own skin", who enjoys good food (and can probably cook), who is witty and intelligent and enjoys exercising their mind rather than their body! I'm a tall sensual brunette who loves cats, books, poetry (especially Louis MacNeice, Yeats and the Mersey Poets). I like James Stewart films.
I'm an odd mixture of extremely compassionate and occasionally unattractively selfish; confident and self-doubting; I like to laugh and I enjoy being around people who can be witty, have a social conscience, and who are warm. I hate dishonesty in myself and others.
I am told I am sexy and good-looking - sometimes I feel okay, and sometimes I think I look like (as my Polish friend says) "something the dog has spitten out". I'm looking for someone to enjoy the journey with in all ways.
Speaking of journeys, I love Cumbria, Suffolk, Spain and Italy. Loved Istanbul.. Got dysentary in Tunisia.
Response:
I think this kind of men seeking women, or women seeking men are similar to the
advertisement on the newspaper or magazines. The thing that I could see
in this newsgroup is that people from all around the world can be communicated
with each other with the use of internet. The advertisement which were
seen on the newspaper are usually localized. So the people they are
seeking are always based on the people within the country. But with the
use of internet, people can be communicated with each other throughout the
world. There are no fees in participating in newsgroup too. They
can wrote whatever they want to write there.
ARTICLE #7
A NEWSGROUP OF NEWS AND TECHNOLOGY
Title: INTELIMOUSE
Date: 1999/03/07
DOES INTEL MAKE A JUNIOR MOUSE? A ONE BUTTON MOUSE
DESIGNED FOR SMALL CHILDREN TO PLAY GAMES. MY GRAND-DAUGHTER IS THREE YEARS
OLD, AND LOVES TO PLAY GAMES. SHE HAS AN TERRIBLE TIME WITH THE FULL SIZE
MOUSE. IF YOU MAKE ONE, WHERE CAN I FIND IT? IF NOT, WHYÝ NOT. SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT PRODUCT TO ME. I'LL
BUY ONE.
THANKS,
R.HILL
Response:
This is a new discussion and I think there aren't anybody to reply to this guy
yet. But the phenonmenon is that people are using newsgroup as a media to
demand and produce a new idea of technology. The companies don't know
what the market will be because nobody have ever think about that kind of
products before. Who knows people are using computers everywhere
nowadays? Companies may take the ideas and actually do some products like
that. The market is already there. Some people may have needed that
kind of hardware products for their young children. This kind of
discussion also reduces some companies from design idea of what products they should
have produced in the following few years. The newsgroup have just
provided a free information for them.
ARTICLE #8
A NEWSGROUP OF TRAVEL
Title: Re: to bring or not to bring....
Date: 1999/03/07
You can go to just about any Target (Walmart, et
al) store and get a hair dryer that has a little switch on it to convert
voltage (110/220).....all this for less than $US10. No converter
required. Then when you get to Amsterdam (or wherever) you stroll to the
nearest corner store and buy an adaptor for $.25....or scam one from your
hostal/hotel. And you can actually use the dryer outside of Europe.
Problem solved.
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Response:
Anybody want to have an vacation during the spring break? If you don't
know what things you should bring during your trip, newsgroup will help you
getting some information. People from either living in the country or
went for a trip before can tell you what exactly you have to bring. This
message is about a person who wants to know if there are any cheaper converter
in Amsterdam cauz of the high cost in the US. More discussion about car
rentals are also discussed in the later messages. I think people are now
smarter to have a earlier preparation about their trip to prevent nervous after
they arrived to their vacation area.
ARTICLE #9
NEWSGROUP OF AUTOMOBILE
Title: Re: World's Worst Drivers? (was: Ticket for backing up at red
light UL)
Date: 1999/02/19
These answers aren't even in the correct ballpark. The world's worst drivers are in Africa and Asia. IMHO the worst drivers in the first world are in Naples and Portugal, although in all honesty at least in Lisbon they stop for red lights. ñ [Mason Barge ]
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please
bring me some coffee." -- Abraham Lincoln
Response:
"They just don't know how to drive! Where are the world's worst
drivers? Massachusetts? Melbourne, maybe? Perhaps Philadelphia? Listen in as
drivers around the globe chime in with their votes." This quote
drove my interest in reading this discussion. Really neat and fun stuff
to read. Researcher can now made their hypothesis much easier by looking
at various newsgroup to design what their hypothesis is. In this discussion,
people are responding so excited and angry to what they have experienced.
A person vote for Spain and said tha, "Madrid. Only time I ever felt
G-forces in a cab." A person said that it's Malta, and India for sure
because the drivers keep in the middle, in both driving is on the left, but
only when you feel like it." I think they're not only show their anger,
but also show how dangerous and how scare they are.
ARTICLE #10
NEWSGROUP OF COMPUTER
Title: Stuff for FREE
Date: 1999/02/21
If you can pick up the following items (must be the whole lot), then they're yours for free. They are just collecting dust in my basement:
1
- IBM PS/2 VGA monitor 13" (working)
1 - IBM PS/2 Model 50 (386) (haven't turned on in 3 years, used to
work with monitor above)
1 - Compaq Portable III (luggable laptop "lunch box"
type) Working??
1 - HP LaserJet IIp laser printer (not working, can be repaired?)
Response:
Anybody wants free stuff from the net might want to check this out.
Various newsgroups are giving out free stuff. Sometimes people are just
too lazy to get rid of unwanted things. These items may be useful for
others, so they used newsgroup as a media for people to get these things.
There are a lot of these kind of discussion that are giving out free
stuffs. Some of them are kind of promoting their own products, some of
them act as agents of the companies. I think it was pretty fun to check
these kind of things because may be there are something you might wanted at
your neighborhood.
ARTICLE #11
NEWSGROUP OF FREEWARE
Free Backup program
Date: 1999/03/03
[ http://www.kagi.com/olivero ]
Response:
This is what we can find easily on the web. These are sharewares.
It's pretty easy to search through the web and some of them even have full
version programs to download. Sharewares often needs user to input serial
numbers to be members of it. Some of the websites give out these kind of
serial numbers for users so that they don't have to download the same program
in a short period over and over again.
This is the first time I have ever browsed newsgroups. What I have found were all kind of informations and they are suitable for all kind of people to join with. Any sort of problems, the discussion community are willing to help each other and the response are kind of fast. Most of the replies that I've saw on the newsgroup are with several days or even a couple hours. This explain that there is a high and fast circulation in the newsgroup. The people inside the newsgroup also act differently as I have observed. They are either having a desire to ask and learn, and some of them are really getting excited about what they've said. They wanted to expressed themselves to the public.
My suggestion to the following generations is always the same, don't wait till the last moment to do this report because you won't get enough time to do this. Despite browsing the newsgroup, I really used up 2 whole days to finish this report. So, my suggestion is to do it earlier. Also looking at different kinds of newsgroups also enlarge your communication capacity.
