### Apollo BBS Archive - December 19, 1988

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    Message: 4951
    Author: $ David Burkhart
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Daryl
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 01:53:51

    How nice of you to offer to host a shooting GT.  How fast can you run?
    A moving target is more of a challenge, you know.

    Message: 4952
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 07:25:16

    Nah, I'll just stand there, for the benefit of those who can't hit the side
    of a barn with an elephant.

    Message: 4953
    Author: $ Ralph Blehm
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Ann
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 12:09:18

    Cliff why was Ann sentenced
    to DOOM??????????????
                    =)) SHOOT THEM ALL RALPH ((==)) Type at you later - RALPH

    Message: 4954
    Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Ralph
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 15:24:33

            Ann, dared to try the Mighty SySops' patience .......
    I left some software at her house by mistake and she foolishly
    demanded a ransom .......
            Will she ever learn?

    Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 56094
    Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Neal
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 02:37:49

    I know what catalytic converters use as catalysts. It was the car salesman
    that told his customer "plutonium," you dunderhead.

    Message: 56095
    Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Petrisko
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 02:38:38

    Where's Kirsten?

    Message: 56096
    Author: $ James Hawley
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Last
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 06:31:36

    Who's Kirsten?

    Message: 56097
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: In search of
    Subject: Work...
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 10:37:11

            Things are a little slow here...  Make that a whole lot slow!
    This "Gemini" business is not working out since the closing of the store.
    Here I can offer LOWER prices, and no one is taking me up on it.

            We still can get hardware and software...  We still repair clean and
    service computer hardware...  So where is it?   You got me....?

            Anyway, I need work...anyone got a Job?  Looks like I will be taking
    up the "I will work for food" picket soon!

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 56098
    Author: Mark Harsma
    Category: Bulletins
    Subject: New BBS
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 10:54:35

            There is a new BBS up and running in Scottsdale called Computer
    Pro feel free to give us a call at 949-8865.
                            Barker..........

    Message: 56099
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: For sale
    Subject: 80 trk drive
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 11:01:42

            Abandoned repair work:
            An 80 TRK MPI full height drive wirh external heavy duty power
    supply.  This drive was brought to us for repair.  We replaced a board and
    aligned the drive.  The repair came to $61.68......  anyone can pick this up
    by paying the repair bill.  (This was used with a TRS-80 machine)

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 56100
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: For sale
    Subject: 24 pin printer
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 11:16:12

            A 24 PIN printer... wide paper width up tp 16 inches, Friction and
    Pin Tractor feeds, 228 CPS draft an 76 CPS NLQ, Serial and Parallel
    interface, IBM graphics (Pro-Printer) and lots more!

            This unit is set up on display at the SANYO reps in Scottsdale..
    Can be seen and played with...  by appointment.  price to move at $395.00

    (That is a good buy, list on that model is $899.00 and Dealer COST $500.00)

    Sanyo PR-241 24 Pin Printer Wide.... $395.00   ((One Only))

    Message: 56101
    Author: $ Todd Reese
    Category: Question?
    Subject: for Calculus fans...
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 12:21:20

    The problem:

    F(X)=LN X  (Natural Log of X)

    Find F'(X) using the formula LIM  (F(X+DX) - F(X))/DX
                                 DX->0
    Where "DX" is Delta X.

    I've been over it a thousand times.  I know the answer is 1/X, but I don't
    know the proof.  The teacher just grins, and the book doesn't have the proof
    either.  Any help or suggestions?

    Message: 56102
    Author: $ David Burkhart
    Category: Question?
    Subject: BBS
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 17:20:20

    Could someone tell me the phone number of Speedball's Realm BBS?  I left it
    in San Diego.  In fact, I may not need it -- I left my password there too,
    and I'm not totally certain I remember it.

    Message: 56103
    Author: $ Chris Neal
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Ianuzzi
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 17:33:50

    It is 'Mr.' Neal to you!

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    Message: 56104
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Politics
    Subject: Chomsky
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 18:01:26

      Or we might consider one of the early exploits of our most
    favored client state, the massacre on Oct. 28, 1948 at
    Doueimah, an undefended town north of Hebron in an area
    where there had been no fighting.  The massacre was conducted
    by a unit with tanks, leaving 580 civilians killed according
    to the accounting by its Mukhtar - 100 to 350, according to
    Israeli sources, 1000 according to testimonies preserved in
    US State Department records - including 75 old men praying in
    a mosque and 35 families, of whom only three people escaped,
    in a cave outside of the destroyed town where they took
    refuge.  The conquest of the town - but not the massacre -
    was noted at once in Israel's major journal, *Ha'aretz*, in
    a report on the conquest of "historical sites" from the days
    of Bar Kochba and the Romans, "renewing again the connection
    between the people of Israel and the Land of Israel."
    Israeli military historians say that the affair is known,
    though not recorded.  The first report appears to be in a
    letter in the Labor Party journal *Davar* (Sept. 4, 1979)
    by a kibbutz member who deplores the "ghetto mentality" of
    those who refrain from expelling Arabs.  He cites eyewitness
    testimony by a participant who alleges that women and
    children were killed by crushing their skulls with sticks and
    that people were blown up in houses, among other atrocities,
    "not during the heat of battle" but "as a system of expulsion
    and elimination."  The story was finally unearthed by a
    correspondent for *Hadashot* in 1984 and presented as newly
    discovered.  Historian Yoram Nimrod writes that the
    background for this slaughter, and the general attitude of
    the time that "the Arabs and their possessions are fair
    game," can be traced to the attitudes of the leadership, who
    wanted the Galilee to be "free ((literally, "clean")) of
    Arabs" and asserted that "for the Arabs of the Land of Israel
    there remains only one function: to flee" (David Ben-Gurion),
    that the country must be "homogeneous" and hence with as few
    Arabs as possible (Moshe Dayan), and who insisted that the
    Arab civilians who had fled or had been expelled "cannot and
    need not return" (Chaim Weizmann), or even be settled nearby,
    even if this means rejecting peace overtures (Ben-Gurion).
      Nothing comparable to these early post-independence
    atrocities against the indigenous population in the US and
    Israel can be charged to the Sandinistas.

    Rod, God & Bob Bulletin Board command:O

    Williams, Rod

    Message: 52
    Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Last two...
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 05:24:42

            See the NEGATIVE crap you spew out!  No wonder we as a planet
    never can get anywhere.  Wallow in your own pity and get nothing done
    is your motto.  At least Christians *TRY* to make it a brighter place.
    At least Christians give people a smile and HOPE.  All you give people
    is doom and gloom.   I feel so sorry for you!

    *=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

    Message: 53
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Shit-Chat
    Subject: last
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 20:54:05

            There was no gloom or doom in any of my messages.  I do not
    wallow in self pity.  There are a whole lot more people who are worse
    off than both you and I.
            As far as getting something done, well.....I work on it.  I
    have been communicating with Congressman Jon Kyl among other things.  I
    have a lot of plans and what little time I come out with (after working
    to pay the bills), I don't waste.  Sorry that you interpret my messages
    in that light.  I cannot or do not see from my messages what can make
    you feel that way.  Must be the printed word or something.
            Don't feel sorry for me, there are many others who may be
    more comfortable with someone feeling sorry for them.  But not me, I am
    fine.
                                    Rod

    Message: 54
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit-Chat
    Subject: Question?
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 20:54:44

            So, when are you gonna crash this SIG?

    Message: 55
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Rod's thoughts
    Subject: A Diety
    Date: 12/19/88  Time: 20:58:02

            You know, it would be great if there were a God.  Not only
    for me but for my childrens sake it would be nice.  Then it would all
    be so simply.
            I wouldn't care about the hardships here if that were the
    case because in the end I would just be zoomed to heaven to spend all
    eternity and wouldn't that be nice.  Yes, just get through 50 or so
    years and spend the rest in bliss.  I do so wish it worked like that.
    Unfortunately, I do not believe in those fairy tales.
            Mankind has to make this a good place to live because no one
    will do it for us.
                                            Rod