A Clarification ...

2003-02-21 Thread bobdohse
Just to clarify the history in Afghanistan ... The US aid to Afghanistan (mentioned below) was to various groups (mostly the equivalent of tribal clans) who were resisting the intervention of the Soviet Army in Afghani affairs. At that point in time, they were not unified and posed no external thr

The Great Game

2003-02-21 Thread bobdohse
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Folks, Sam, Bob, > >Can't help but agree with cousin Bob, here. > >As I posted before, all we are seeing is the continuation of the > "Great Game". > >For those too young to have heard of it, see if you can look it up

Arachne Chat server doing particularly poorly today

2003-02-21 Thread Thomas Tabler
Dear List: The Arachne Chat is doing particularly bad in these neck of the woods today. Hope it is better elsewhere. Maybe Inway's having some problems. BTW, did Majordomo ever get fixed? See you later. Hope Arachne web server and FTP is still up. yours, Thomas

Re: International law???

2003-02-21 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, Sam, Bob, Can't help but agree with cousin Bob, here. As I posted before, all we are seeing is the continuation of the "Great Game". For those too young to have heard of it, see if you can look it up. or; When people say "It's not the money, it's the principle.", they mean

Re: International law???

2003-02-21 Thread Vitaly Luban
On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:17 am, Casper Gielen wrote: > Op donderdag 20 februari 2003 07:31, schreef Vitaly Luban: > > Hi Ricsi, > > > > Aha, as if Saddam have not used gases against Kurds and Iranians, > > as if he did not invade Kuwait! Still not enough? > > Actually, there is some compelli

More on measurements (COM port)

2003-02-21 Thread Edenyard
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:26:43 +00, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > > () > It seems that programming in Pascal or C will give a better definition; > BASIC is rather slow for the counter loop... but I do not manage the > fine art of Pascal or C programming. > Anyone interested? It will take about a wee