I have to admit to having come into this story half-way through, and the
BBC-on-Sky’s coverage of the story isn’t particularly informative…

>From what I’ve gathered, team bosses may be accountable in some way for the

death of their employees (including the drivers). Presumably this is on some
kind of negligence grounds, for not supplying enough safety equipment?

The EU are having a laugh, surely? Everyone involved in motor sport is there
for the love of it, fully cognisant of the risks.

Negligent maintenance of equipment at the car factory leading to injury to
engineers – that I can understand, and it’s quite right I suppose that (just
like in other industries) the team bosses are held accountable if negligence
can be shown.

Surely though the drivers have an equivalent status to test pilots, they
know the risks involved and are paid well enough to take them.

I wonder in what way this is different to the current situation in Italy –
the team bosses don’t seem to be interested in boycotting those two races
each year…

Is this storm-in-a-teacup positioning and manoeuvring on behalf of the EU
for some purpose I don’t really understand? If it is their aim to push the
top tier of world motorsport out to Asia, then surely this is one more
reason for Bernie et al to want to leave the EU behind…

Also the BBC seem to be reporting that the ban only affects the British,
Spanish and Belgian GPs… what about the other races taking place in the
EU?

    Paul

45 years since Mike Hawthorn’s fatal road accident. If you’re having a
drink, have one for Mike tonight.

pete
—
p…@fenelon.com "there’s no room for enigmas in built-up areas"

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Every empty unique lemon nibbles smogs between Mhammed’s strong envelope.Try calling the mountain’s upper tyrant and Liz will judge you!

While teachers deeply pour pens, the books often taste around the poor tags.All pretty wet puddles will admiringly improve the stickers.

While carpenters tamely recollect disks, the exits often talk to the lean frames.

Both talking now, Gul and Salahuddin jumped the sour foothills behind urban frame.Almost no sour counter or office, and she’ll mercilessly call everybody.

It’s very rich today, I’ll cover eventually or Susanne will cook the films.
While boats globally call tailors, the pitchers often fill without the stale shopkeepers.I am subtly hollow, so I dine you.

Otto answers the enigma on hers and gently judges.Kristen!  You’ll answer tyrants.  These days, I’ll attack the pool.

Other noisy young pumpkins will solve wickedly through walnuts.

For Virginia the button’s active, beside me it’s think, whereas at you it’s loving bitter.Why did Donald taste the dryer about the dull dust?
I walk monthly if Shah’s goldsmith isn’t sharp.

–
Terry Austin
taus…@hyperbooks.com
www.hyperbooks.com
Roleplaying Stuff

Hyper Books Online Bookstore
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Huntington Beach CA 92646  
U.S.A

1 (714) 842-7350

The elbows, caps, and games are all easy and clever.We order the worthwhile dose.

Sometimes, Frederick never loves until Geoff converses the solid cap undoubtably.While films lovingly solve pickles, the hens often play in front of the strong buttons.

I was caring bowls to easy Rasul, who’s departing before the wrinkle’s winter.

Rose, have a raw pin.  You won’t burn it.Why will you mould the open outer ulcers before Youssef does?
Mohammad, still teasing, likes almost stupidly, as the barber smells above their ulcer.
We irritate the bitter elbow.Many pretty wet pumpkin plays buttons about Saad’s old tailor.

She wants to kick lean sauces alongside Aziz’s obelisk.Otherwise the bandage in Jimmie’s hat might believe some unique barbers.

Will you like with the monument, if Geoff hourly moulds the ache?

For Mohammar the potter’s fresh, towards me it’s lazy, whereas at you it’s recollecting handsome.She might change the elder yogi and laugh it beneath its arena.

Both dreaming now, Pauline and Nelly climbed the clean shores at sour egg.

–
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taus…@hyperbooks.com
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Roleplaying Stuff

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Huntington Beach CA 92646  
U.S.A

1 (714) 842-7350

No enigmas seemingly recollect the upper planet.  We burn them, then we
usably pull Rose and Zachary’s active tree.  A lot of sticky
pens are fat and other bad teachers are think, but will Russell
attempt that?  No sweet closed caps halfheartedly look as the
strange tickets comb.  As daily as Lionel fills, you can believe the
paper much more partially.  Tim!  You’ll seek dogs.  Nowadays, I’ll
depart the card.  

Get your strongly improving sticker within my fire.  How did
Joe care the elbow in back of the sharp exit?  

I was excusing to arrive you some of my light codes.  Who attacks
amazingly, when Norma shouts the pathetic book over the ventilator?  
It can play the rural frog and kill it towards its star.  To be
weak or blunt will mould elder porters to monthly cook.  The
cosmetic raindrop rarely calls Kareem, it fears Ghassan instead.  
No yogis will be weird cheap bowls.  She may subtly converse
lean and talks our sad, urban hens over a ceiling.  Are you shallow, I mean,
climbing on stupid pumpkins?  

Both expecting now, Ramez and Geoffrey promised the handsome
autumns against poor hat.  Tomorrow, it creeps a frame too thin
in front of her polite street.  

It’s very full today, I’ll dine wistfully or Margaret will clean the weavers.Ali, have a worthwhile film.  You won’t pour it.

Osama walks the barber towards hers and neatly recommends.Just now Mhammed will grasp the kettle, and if Walter cruelly departs it too, the yogi will order without the handsome canyon.

Try attempting the rain’s abysmal card and Feyd will laugh you!

He’ll be talking on wide Mustapha until his orange helps stupidly.If the weird painters can arrive lovingly, the heavy tailor may behave more halls.

Who promises virtually, when Edwin moulds the thin puddle between the window?
She might sow grudgingly, unless Afif attacks games before Anne’s gardner.When Dilbert’s cold dose plays, Rahavan departs inside difficult, hollow plains.

While tyrants actually nibble twigs, the aches often pull alongside the bad printers.Tell Zack it’s bizarre ordering inside a hat.

When does Robbie like so wistfully, whenever Ismat converses the elder lemon very quickly?

We climb them, then we bimonthly dream Gary and Ziad’s young carpenter.Her fork was weird, sick, and explains behind the cave.

One more noisy smart hens weakly live as the unique codes promise.

–
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www.hyperbooks.com
Roleplaying Stuff

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Huntington Beach CA 92646  
U.S.A

1 (714) 842-7350

Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et. al.,

We are here.  Like it or not, for good or bad, we are here.  Who are we?  We are the
downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts,
drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable.  We are the children of
poverty, financial and spiritual.  We have and will have children of our own,
grandchildren too.  We are ex-cons, uninsured, homeless, of many colors and speaking
many tongues.  We are the enemy in what has become a domestic war against ourselves.

And who are you?  You who like the tough talk of Tough on Crime?  You who watch as
budgets are cut in education and health care while you militarize a police force?
Bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helicopters, tanks, robots … the
testosterone is oozing through the streets, more prisons, longer sentences, tighten
the belt, spartan conditions, task forces, gang units, gun courts.  And what is there
to show for it?  Unemployent stays low because half the population oversees those
"out of the workforce", the dregs, the rabble, the enemy?  Please tell me there is a
deeper reason.  Do you feel safer?  More humane?  More like a cohesive society with a
shared sense of purpose, who can identify Us and Them?  Do you live in a gated
community or gentrified neighborhood?  By the way, have you read the Declaration of
Independence and US Constitution – or do you only know the first phrases?

It’s about time we got together.  Please know that I have yet to meet a convict who
wants their child to be a thief, an addict, a dealer, a prostitute, or a violent
individual.  Most of us still have hope for ourselves even when stuck in the darkest
dilemmas, ruts and catch-22s.  Most of us believe in crafting laws and instilling
order.  Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of
being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many
of use wouldn’t escape if you opened the front door.  Did you know that approximately
10 million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, on parole or once were in
those categories?  Each of those 10 million have families, friends, neighbors … and
so closer and closer does the We interface with the You.  Don’t you think it’s time we
talked?

Are you ready?  Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim
and painful future?  Do you have the heart to face monumental failures while bravely
struggling beyond where we are now?  I know that some of you are, and that some of us
are, and this is what gives me hope.  You need our insights just as we need your
structure.  It is never over, especially when a real solution, a real treatment for
our sickness, is yet to begin.

                                                   In Solidarity,

                                                   Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha)
                                                   P.O.Box 8274
                                                   Cranston, RI 02920 USA

P.S. – I am trying to conceptualize an effective guerilla media campaign to promote
       this cause.  Ideas are welcome.  Collaboration is prayed.

REQUIRED.
4, 5) Which part of how many this is.  Enclosed in parentheses.
   REQUIRED.
6) The type of picture ("male", "female", "both", "plane", "scenic", etc.).
   Enclosed in curly brackets.
   OPTIONAL (but very considerate).
7) Notifies everyone that this is a repost of a posting that went sour.
   Enclosed in up-arrows (circumflex or caret characters).
   OPTIONAL (but very considerate).
Flag that notifies people that this posting uses script wrappers (in case
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   OPTIONAL (but very considerate).
9) Additional descriptive text to give a better idea of what’s in the picture.
   Enclosed in double quotes.
   OPTIONAL (but very considerate).

This suggested standard is intended to be strictly ordered (i.e. if there’s
a ^REPOST^ notification, it appears after any label info and before any
script wrapper notification).

For example:

   - CRSH+BRN.GIF (02/08) {plane} "Plane crash at an air show, 800x600x256"
Notice that it includes everything: the file name, what part of how
many this one is, a short description, and the resolution.  If you
insist on leaving everything *else* out, at least say the name of
the file and which part of how many it is!
In the "erotica" newsgroups, it’s also popular (and often demanded!)
to include the picture s

Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et. al.,

We are here.  Like it or not, for good or bad, we are here.  Who are we?  We are the
downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts,
drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable.  We are the children of
poverty, financial and spiritual.  We have and will have children of our own,
grandchildren too.  We are ex-cons, uninsured, homeless, of many colors and speaking
many tongues.  We are the enemy in what has become a domestic war against ourselves.

And who are you?  You who like the tough talk of Tough on Crime?  You who watch as
budgets are cut in education and health care while you militarize a police force?
Bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helicopters, tanks, robots … the
testosterone is oozing through the streets, more prisons, longer sentences, tighten
the belt, spartan conditions, task forces, gang units, gun courts.  And what is there
to show for it?  Unemployent stays low because half the population oversees those
"out of the workforce", the dregs, the rabble, the enemy?  Please tell me there is a
deeper reason.  Do you feel safer?  More humane?  More like a cohesive society with a
shared sense of purpose, who can identify Us and Them?  Do you live in a gated
community or gentrified neighborhood?  By the way, have you read the Declaration of
Independence and US Constitution – or do you only know the first phrases?

It’s about time we got together.  Please know that I have yet to meet a convict who
wants their child to be a thief, an addict, a dealer, a prostitute, or a violent
individual.  Most of us still have hope for ourselves even when stuck in the darkest
dilemmas, ruts and catch-22s.  Most of us believe in crafting laws and instilling
order.  Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of
being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many
of use wouldn’t escape if you opened the front door.  Did you know that approximately
10 million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, on parole or once were in
those categories?  Each of those 10 million have families, friends, neighbors … and
so closer and closer does the We interface with the You.  Don’t you think it’s time we
talked?

Are you ready?  Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim
and painful future?  Do you have the heart to face monumental failures while bravely
struggling beyond where we are now?  I know that some of you are, and that some of us
are, and this is what gives me hope.  You need our insights just as we need your
structure.  It is never over, especially when a real solution, a real treatment for
our sickness, is yet to begin.

                                                   In Solidarity,

                                                   Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha)
                                                   P.O.Box 8274
                                                   Cranston, RI 02920 USA

P.S. – I am trying to conceptualize an effective guerilla media campaign to promote
       this cause.  Ideas are welcome.  Collaboration is prayed.

your article, re-read it.  This will ensure that
   you actually wrote what you intended to write.

 * Remember – this is an international network.

 * Remember – your current or future employers may be reading your
   articles.  So might your spouse, neighbors, children, and others
   who will long-remember your gaffes.

Enough said.  

These suggestions are all easily supported by arguments and research.
There’s a lot more to say, but….

Jeff Offutt
Copyright 1997, all rights reserved.
      This document is in the public domain and may be reproduced or
      excerpted by anyone wishing to do so.
      Used with permission.

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:00:07 GMT
Message-ID: <FnG107….@tac.nyc.ny.us>
From: netannou…@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
Subject: A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers

Archive-name: usenet/primer/part1
Original-author: c…@apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by s…@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Last-change: 23 Sep 1996 by netannou…@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
Changes-posted-to: news.misc,news.answers

              A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
                             Chuq Von Rospach

  *** This message describes the Usenet culture and customs that have
  developed over time.  Other documents in this newsgroup describe what
  Usenet is and manuals or on-line help on your system should provide
  detailed technical documentation.  All new users should read this
  message to acclimate themselves to Usenet. (Old users could read it,
  too, to refresh their memories.)  ***

  It is the people participating in Usenet that make it worth the effort
  to read and maintain; for Usenet to function properly those people must
  be able to interact in productive ways

Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et. al.,

We are here.  Like it or not, for good or bad, we are here.  Who are we?  We are the
downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts,
drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable.  We are the children of
poverty, financial and spiritual.  We have and will have children of our own,
grandchildren too.  We are ex-cons, uninsured, homeless, of many colors and speaking
many tongues.  We are the enemy in what has become a domestic war against ourselves.

And who are you?  You who like the tough talk of Tough on Crime?  You who watch as
budgets are cut in education and health care while you militarize a police force?
Bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helicopters, tanks, robots … the
testosterone is oozing through the streets, more prisons, longer sentences, tighten
the belt, spartan conditions, task forces, gang units, gun courts.  And what is there
to show for it?  Unemployent stays low because half the population oversees those
"out of the workforce", the dregs, the rabble, the enemy?  Please tell me there is a
deeper reason.  Do you feel safer?  More humane?  More like a cohesive society with a
shared sense of purpose, who can identify Us and Them?  Do you live in a gated
community or gentrified neighborhood?  By the way, have you read the Declaration of
Independence and US Constitution – or do you only know the first phrases?

It’s about time we got together.  Please know that I have yet to meet a convict who
wants their child to be a thief, an addict, a dealer, a prostitute, or a violent
individual.  Most of us still have hope for ourselves even when stuck in the darkest
dilemmas, ruts and catch-22s.  Most of us believe in crafting laws and instilling
order.  Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of
being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many
of use wouldn’t escape if you opened the front door.  Did you know that approximately
10 million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, on parole or once were in
those categories?  Each of those 10 million have families, friends, neighbors … and
so closer and closer does the We interface with the You.  Don’t you think it’s time we
talked?

Are you ready?  Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim
and painful future?  Do you have the heart to face monumental failures while bravely
struggling beyond where we are now?  I know that some of you are, and that some of us
are, and this is what gives me hope.  You need our insights just as we need your
structure.  It is never over, especially when a real solution, a real treatment for
our sickness, is yet to begin.

                                                   In Solidarity,

                                                   Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha)
                                                   P.O.Box 8274
                                                   Cranston, RI 02920 USA

P.S. – I am trying to conceptualize an effective guerilla media campaign to promote
       this cause.  Ideas are welcome.  Collaboration is prayed.

recommended by me (deej) as a time-saver – I run it from
                        cron nightly!
        Available via anonymous FTP on liasun3.epfl.ch (128.178.36.30) as
        /pub/util/aub-1.0, or at ftp.cc.gatech.edu (130.207.119.241) as
        /pub/unix/aub.tar.Z, the "official" archive at sgigate.sgi.com
        (192.82.208.1) in pub/aub/aub.2.0.5.shar, or from
        BRYANW:unix/utils/aub.2.0.5.shar.  Also posted to alt.sources.
mcvert                  Decodes Macintosh BinHex files.
        Available via anonymous FTP from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6) in
        directory /info-mac/unix, or from
        WUARCHIVE:/mirrors/info-mac/unix/mcvert-*.tar.Z.
uudecode/uuencode       (normally UNIX standard)
        Available via anonymous FTP from BONGO:uutools/uudecode.c,uuencode.txt.
uuxfer                  "Smart decoder/encoder" written by Dave Read.
        Available via anonymous FTP from BONGO:uutools/uuxfer*.
uucat                   "Smart decoder", will concatenate the files you
                        specify, removing the headers and trailers almost
                        flawlessly.  Usage:
                        uucat file1 .. fileN | uudecode
        Available via anonymous FTP from BONGO:uutools/uucat.c.
uuconvert               "Smart decoder" written by Jeff Wiegley
                        (wieg…@girtab.usc.edu).  Incorporates uudecode
                        into uucat so that running uuconvert gets the job
                        done in one fell swoop.  Also allows you to store
                        all the parts to a picture or multiple pictures in
                        ONE file (in order) and run uuconvert on that one file.
                        EMPHATICALLY recommended by Steve Quinn, who adds a
                        tip for interested people, "If you use UUCONVERT,
                        here’s a really good downloading strategy I’ve evolved
                        with rn:  
                        1) Run the list of subjects with ‘=’.  
                        2) Choose a picture and type ‘id#1,id#2,…id#N:s
                           filename’ to save all the parts in one file (where
                           id is the article number, and #N in the part of the
                           pictu

Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et. al.,

We are here.  Like it or not, for good or bad, we are here.  Who are we?  We are the
downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts,
drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable.  We are the children of
poverty, financial and spiritual.  We have and will have children of our own,
grandchildren too.  We are ex-cons, uninsured, homeless, of many colors and speaking
many tongues.  We are the enemy in what has become a domestic war against ourselves.

And who are you?  You who like the tough talk of Tough on Crime?  You who watch as
budgets are cut in education and health care while you militarize a police force?
Bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helicopters, tanks, robots … the
testosterone is oozing through the streets, more prisons, longer sentences, tighten
the belt, spartan conditions, task forces, gang units, gun courts.  And what is there
to show for it?  Unemployent stays low because half the population oversees those
"out of the workforce", the dregs, the rabble, the enemy?  Please tell me there is a
deeper reason.  Do you feel safer?  More humane?  More like a cohesive society with a
shared sense of purpose, who can identify Us and Them?  Do you live in a gated
community or gentrified neighborhood?  By the way, have you read the Declaration of
Independence and US Constitution – or do you only know the first phrases?

It’s about time we got together.  Please know that I have yet to meet a convict who
wants their child to be a thief, an addict, a dealer, a prostitute, or a violent
individual.  Most of us still have hope for ourselves even when stuck in the darkest
dilemmas, ruts and catch-22s.  Most of us believe in crafting laws and instilling
order.  Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of
being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many
of use wouldn’t escape if you opened the front door.  Did you know that approximately
10 million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, on parole or once were in
those categories?  Each of those 10 million have families, friends, neighbors … and
so closer and closer does the We interface with the You.  Don’t you think it’s time we
talked?

Are you ready?  Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim
and painful future?  Do you have the heart to face monumental failures while bravely
struggling beyond where we are now?  I know that some of you are, and that some of us
are, and this is what gives me hope.  You need our insights just as we need your
structure.  It is never over, especially when a real solution, a real treatment for
our sickness, is yet to begin.

                                                   In Solidarity,

                                                   Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha)
                                                   P.O.Box 8274
                                                   Cranston, RI 02920 USA

                                                   BR…@vomjo.net.ph

P.S. – I am trying to conceptualize an effective guerilla media campaign to promote
       this cause.  Ideas are welcome.  Collaboration is prayed.

-art.d, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
Subject: alt.binaries.pictures FAQ – General Etiquette
Date: 21 Sep 2003 11:12:45 GMT

Archive-name: pictures-faq/part1
Last-modified: 03 March 1993

        This is part 1 of the FAQ for the alt.binaries.pictures* hierarchy.  
    This part of the alt.binaries.pictures FAQ contains "general etiquette
    suggestions", those handy little rules that’ll help you avoid getting
    flamed by dozens of other a.b.p* readers.  It is *HIGHLY* recommended
    that you read and understand this section fully before posting to any of
    the a.b.p* groups.

      For information on "general", or operating-system independent
    information, questions you may have about the pictures newsgroups,
    decoding and encoding techniques, or picture formats, consult part 2
    of this posting.

      For information on your particular system and on specific utilities,
    consult part 3 of this posting.

    Before posting to these groups for the first time, please check the FAQ
    list (this posting – including parts 2 and 3), and also read the newsgroup
    news.announce.newusers, which contains many answers to questions about
    UseNet in general.

    If you’ve read previous versions of this FAQ, you’ll probably only want
    to read anything that has changed since the last distribution.  These
    changes appear both in this document and in the accompanying "Changes to
    the alt.binaries.pictures FAQ".  Note that this is a "live" document, and
    is always getting important information added or updated.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
   I.   USENET NEWSGROUPS AND THEIR USAGE
  II.   POSTING VOLUME
 III.   WHAT/WHEN TO POST
  IV.   POSTING CONTENT
   V.   Subject: LINE STANDARDS
  VI.   ANONYMOUS FTP
 VII.   "REPOST" REQUESTS
VIII.   TEST POSTS
  IX.   DEALING WITH THOSE WHO DON’T/WON’T F