Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads

[thanatoid]

mm <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com> wrote in
news:332qn3p3db7mtqsbti0013bm080nvij96d@4ax.com:

> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:53:28 -0600, "philo"
> <philo@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>"thanatoid" <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote in message
>>news:Xns9A18DA48E5349thanexit@66.250.146.158...
>>> =?Utf-8?B?Qk1pbGxpa2Fu?=
>>> <BMillikan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>>> news:9B6AE063-85F6-4DC9-9634-F312C19EF193@microsoft.com:
>>>
>>>> I know Microsoft has removed the online support for
>>>> Windows 95, 98, 98SE & ME. However, I have a ton of
>>>> learning CDs for my 3-year-old and they are Windows 3.1
>>>> or Windows 95 only (some of them). So, I need to be
>>>> able to get the patches/updates for Win95-WinMe somehow.
>>>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Brian
>>>
>>> You don't need any updates or patches for you kid(s) to
>>> use some CD's.
>>>
>>> You only need them if you will be connecting to the
>>> Internet and using MS Internet Explorer/Outlook Express.
>>>
>>
>>That's quite true...
>>
>>but if you do want the updates for win98/ME...if the
>>machine has IE6 installed
>>you can still gte them.
>>
>>It's simply that MS is no longer writing new updates
>
> Yeah, that seems to be a new meaning for the word support,
> from the point of view of those who were writing the
> updates. Now there seem to be 2 meanings to the word
> support.

Microsoft DOES have a talent for making words mean new things...
I think there are MANY people in the world who now think of the
"word-processing program" (I am being kind here) instead of part
of language when they hear the word "WORD".


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thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

[thanatoid]

surfer@surfing.org (C B) wrote in
news:20080103172953.647$cb@newsreader.com:

> "... et al." <look@sig.bcause.this.is.invalid> wrote:
>> thanatoid wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Don't. It's asking for trouble. Use Opera 7.23 from
>> > www.oldversion.com
>> >
>>
>> At <http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=opera>:
>>
>> ...
>> Opera 7.03 (3.3 MB)
>> Opera 7.10 (3.2 MB)
>> Opera 7.11 (3.2 MB)
>> Opera 8.50 (3.6 MB)
>> Opera 8.51 (3.7 MB)
>> Opera 8.52 (3.6 MB)
>> ...
>>
>> eh?

I guess I got 7.23 from somewhere else, maybe the Opera site
years ago, and I obviously did not remember whether it was
avail. on www.oldversion.com. Sorry.

I DL'd 8.52 from there and it was SO different from 7.23 that I
went back to 7.23 (also, I run a 166PI/96MB for my internet
needs).

I am pretty sure a 98 machine can handle 8.* with no problems.
Otherwise, 7.11 or anything you want. They're all good and 99.9%
of attacks target IE. I haven't done a single update on this
machine in at least 5 or 8 years and I have NEVER been
infested/attacked/hijacked etc.

>> Opera 8.50 and up is ad-free, but wasn't the 7.x versions
>> still ad-infested? Is 7.23 some special ad-free version?

Ad-infested is a BIT of an overstatement. There was a banner-
size rectangle at the upper right which showed either random ads
or, if you filled out your personality profile (OPTIONAL), ads
targeted at your interests/etc. If you bought the program, you
got a reg key which removed the rectangle.

Then Opera became free and the rectangle was gone. I don't know
at which exact point/release this happened.

> Hello,
> Just as a FYI, I run ver 8.51 on a P166 mmx, 3 gig
> machine with 98 SE. It's fairly fast, bug free, with a
> lot of options. The only drawback is I use Hotmail for my
> e-mail and it balks till I enter the password at least
> twice. However, I think that's Bill's doing, not Opera.

I have read about other people having this problem. I don't get
it - I run 7.23 on basically the same machine (see above) and it
works fine. I only use Hotmail as a throwaway address for stupid
sites/things which would generate spam etc. anyway.

I have a $15/year pop3 account which is what I use for real
email. Anyone can afford that.

There are many things wrong with web-mail (AKA html mail) for a
variety of reasons. Google if you're interested.


--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

[thanatoid]

"N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in
news:917sm9oj5whv$.dlg@msnews.aosake.net:

> On 02 Jan 2008 19:56:21 GMT, thanatoid wrote:
>
>> "N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in
>> news:gkltigc8okpe.dlg@msnews.aosake.net:
>
>>> On 02 Jan 2008 03:25:10 GMT, thanatoid wrote:
>
>>>> Use Opera 7.23...
>
>>> Why? Opera 9.25 runs under Windows ME.
>
>> It may "run" but it won't run as fast and will crash more
>> on 98SE.
>
> HP Pavilion 6745C (700MHz Intel Celeron processor, 192MB
> RAM, Windows ME). HP Pavilion m7590n (1.2GHz Intel Dual
> core processor, 2GB RAM, Windows MCE 2005).
>
> I have Opera 9.25 installed on both. I don't see any
> difference in speed which isn't accounted for by the
> different processors. Reliability is the same Opera 9.25
> doesn't crash.
>
> Check your hardware.

My hardware is 166/96RAM/33.6 modem, 10 years and 3 months old.
I was just guessing as to what will/will not run on a 98 machine
- and it's the processor and RAM that matters, and you have
plenty of that, not to mention you are running a later OS. I
have a 2GHz 98SE Lite machine but it is not connected to the
net.

I don't think 9.25 would run on my internet machine, but it
doesn't matter. 7.23 does everything I need it to, and I use
offbyone (about 1MB and /the/ fastest browser in the world)
99.5% of the time anyway. I only use Opera to access Hotmail, my
bank, and sites which don't work without Java or flash - most of
which are of no interest to me.

--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

[N. Miller]

On 04 Jan 2008 02:26:32 GMT, thanatoid wrote:

> "N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in
> news:917sm9oj5whv$.dlg@msnews.aosake.net:

>> On 02 Jan 2008 19:56:21 GMT, thanatoid wrote:

>>> "N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in
>>> news:gkltigc8okpe.dlg@msnews.aosake.net:

>>>> On 02 Jan 2008 03:25:10 GMT, thanatoid wrote:

>>>>> Use Opera 7.23...

>>>> Why? Opera 9.25 runs under Windows ME.

>>> It may "run" but it won't run as fast and will crash more
>>> on 98SE.

>> HP Pavilion 6745C (700MHz Intel Celeron processor, 192MB
>> RAM, Windows ME). HP Pavilion m7590n (1.2GHz Intel Dual
>> core processor, 2GB RAM, Windows MCE 2005).
>>
>> I have Opera 9.25 installed on both. I don't see any
>> difference in speed which isn't accounted for by the
>> different processors. Reliability is the same Opera 9.25
>> doesn't crash.
>>
>> Check your hardware.

> My hardware is 166/96RAM/33.6 modem, 10 years and 3 months old.
> I was just guessing as to what will/will not run on a 98 machine
> - and it's the processor and RAM that matters, and you have
> plenty of that, not to mention you are running a later OS.

Windows 98SE, or even Windows 98 would run just fine on my computer. Indeed,
the difference between the HP Pavilion 6745C and the HP Pavilion 6746C was
the OS. Windows ME vs. Windows 98SE.

Opera 7.23 is afflicted with exploitable vulnerabilities, as is just about
any browser version number over a couple of years old, and no longer
maintained by the publisher. E.g., Netscape 7.2 has been superseded by
SeaMonkey 1.1.7.

> I have a 2GHz 98SE Lite machine but it is not connected to the net.

Probably backwards. The newer machine can run new, more secure application.
That should be the one with the Internet connection.

> I don't think 9.25 would run on my internet machine, but it
> doesn't matter. 7.23 does everything I need it to, and I use
> offbyone (about 1MB and /the/ fastest browser in the world)
> 99.5% of the time anyway. I only use Opera to access Hotmail, my
> bank, and sites which don't work without Java or flash - most of
> which are of no interest to me.

I don't have a ten-year old computer with which to experiment. I am
reasonably certain that my twenty-year old boxen won't support even Windows
95 (1 HP Vectra 486/33T, which is an Intel i486DX-33MHz processor, 32MBytes
of RAM, and 1 HP Vectra 25T, which was an Intel i486DX-25MNz processor,
32MBytes of RAM. The last has an Cyrix 50MHz replacement processor).

However, for any stat-of-the-art computer, or even one under 7 years old,
Opera 9.25 should work without trouble.

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.

 

[N. Miller]

On 04 Jan 2008 02:19:41 GMT, thanatoid wrote:

> I guess I got 7.23 from somewhere else, maybe the Opera site
> years ago, and I obviously did not remember whether it was
> avail. on www.oldversion.com. Sorry.

My money would be on direct from the Opera site. I am a "keeper", and I have
all of the older versions of Opera that I ever downloaded from the Opera
site all the way back to Opera 5.02. Opera 7.23 is in that collection.

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.

 

[thanatoid]

"N. Miller" <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote in
news:1ucdxvsp32e7j$.dlg@msnews.aosake.net:

<SNIP>

> Windows 98SE, or even Windows 98 would run just fine on my
> computer.

Not very surprising since you are now running later ME and
later. Sigh.

> Indeed, the difference between the HP Pavilion
> 6745C and the HP Pavilion 6746C was the OS. Windows ME vs.
> Windows 98SE.

I would never buy a brand name compurer. I get them made to
order.

> Opera 7.23 is afflicted with exploitable vulnerabilities,

The biggest vulnerability is the user, and I know what I'm
doing.
I thought I explained why I went back to 7.23.

> as is just about any browser version number over a couple
> of years old, and no longer maintained by the publisher.
> E.g., Netscape 7.2 has been superseded by SeaMonkey 1.1.7.
>
>> I have a 2GHz 98SE Lite machine but it is not connected to
>> the net.
>
> Probably backwards. The newer machine can run new, more
> secure application. That should be the one with the
> Internet connection.

Great. I'll get on that RIGHT AWAY. And I'll let you know when I
need someone to help me with my new wardrobe, OK?

> I don't have a ten-year old computer with which to
> experiment. I am reasonably certain that my twenty-year old
> boxen won't support even Windows 95 (1 HP Vectra 486/33T,
> which is an Intel i486DX-33MHz processor, 32MBytes of RAM,
> and 1 HP Vectra 25T, which was an Intel i486DX-25MNz
> processor, 32MBytes of RAM. The last has an Cyrix 50MHz
> replacement processor).

A 486 is /nowhere near/ 20 years old. It was Jan. 1988 20 years
ago.

I have a Vectra 486/66, 16MB RAM and it runs 95 fine. It has a
28.8 Supra modem and I have used it with the internet.



--
Needless to say, I disdain such idiocies as Xmas and New Year's,
but I'd thought I'd play along just once...

thanatoid's New Year's Resolutions.

01. Stop posting good advice to help newsgroups.
02. Stop posting stupid advice to help newsgroups.
03. Drive to see the Grand Canyon and then to Las Vegas, buy a
gun.
04. Gamble a little in a desperate attempt to fit in for once.
05. Hire 5 of the best looking Las Vegas hookers and have a 3
hour orgy.
06. Have a king-size eggs and bacon and hashbrowns with onions
breakfast.
07. Return to hotel room, put gun in mouth and pull trigger.

 

[N. Miller]

On 04 Jan 2008 08:06:44 GMT, thanatoid wrote:

> A 486 is /nowhere near/ 20 years old. It was Jan. 1988 20 years
> ago.

And just three years later:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HPJ/is_n4_v42/ai_11404421

Closer to 20 years than 10.

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.

 

[N. Miller]

On 04 Jan 2008 08:06:44 GMT, thanatoid wrote:

> A 486 is /nowhere near/ 20 years old. It was Jan. 1988 20 years
> ago.

Oh, and HP cut the price on the HP Vectra RS/25C (the correct name for that
model) in *1989*, after it had been out for at least a year (probably closer
to two).

http://www.cbronline.com/article_cg.asp?guid=E6312FFA-E1C3-432A-92CF-9B97A1A5C8D6

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.

 

[N. Miller]

is nothing but
his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in
everlasting destruction. However unconvinced you may now be of the truth
of what you hear, by and by you will be fully convinced of it. Those
that are gone from being in the like circumstances with you, see that it
was so with them for destruction came suddenly upon most of them when
they expected nothing of it, and while they were saying, Peace and
safety: now they see, that those things on which they depended for peace
and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider,
or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully
provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire he looks upon you as
worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire he is of purer
eyes than to bear to have you in his sight you are ten thousand times
more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is
in ours. You

 

[mm]

enthusiasm, but rather to the contrary extreme.
It is in no-wise the temper of the family to be ostentatious of
experiences, and it was far from being her temper. She was, before her
conversion, to the observation of her neighbors, of a sober and
inoffensive conversation and was a still, quiet, reserved person. She
had long been infirm of body, but her infirmity had never been observed
at all to incline her to be notional or fanciful, or to occasion any
thing of religious melancholy. She was under awakenings scarcely a week,
before there seemed to be plain evidence of her being savingly
converted.

She was first awakened in the winter season, on Monday, by something she
heard her brother say of the necessity of being in good earnest in
seeking regenerating grace, together with the news of the conversion of
the young woman before mentioned, whose conversion so generally affected
most of the young people here. This news wrought much upon her, and
stirred up a spirit of envy in her towards this young woman, whom she
thought very unworthy of being distinguished from others by such a
mercy but withal it engaged her in a firm resolution to do her utmost
to obtain the same blessing. Considering with herself what course she
should take, she thought that she had not a sufficient knowledge of the
principles of religion to render her capable of conversion whereupon
she resolved thoroughly to search the Scriptures and accordingly
immediately began at the beginning of the Bible, intending to read it
through. She continued thus till Thursday: and then there was a sudden
alteration, by a great increase of her concern in an extraordinary sense
of her own sinfulness, particularly the sinfulness of her nature, and
wickedness of her heart. This came upon her, as she expressed it, as a
flash of l

 

[C B]

strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

226. Infidels, who profess to follow reason, ought to be exceedingly strong
in reason. What say they then? "Do we not see," say they, "that the brutes
live and die like men, and Turks like Christians? They have their
ceremonies, their prophets, their doctors, their saints, their monks, like
us," etc. (Is this contrary to Scripture? Does it not say all this?)

If you care but little to know the truth, here is enough of it to leave you
in repose. But if you desire with all your heart to know it, it is not
enough look at it in detail. This would be sufficient for a question in
philosophy but not here, where it concerns your all. And yet, after a
trifling reflection of this kind, we go to amuse ourselves, etc. Let us
inquire of this same religion whether it does not give a reason for this
obscurity perhaps it will teach it to us.

227. Order by dialogues.--What ought I to do? I see only darkness
everywhere. Shall I believe I am nothing? Shall I believe I am God?

"All things change and succeed each other." You are mistaken there is...

228. Objection of atheists: "But we have no light."

229. This is what I see and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and I see
only darkness everywhere. Nature presents to me nothing which is not matter
of doubt and concern. If I saw nothing there which revealed a Divinity, I
would come to a negative conclusion if I saw everywhere the signs of a
Creator, I would remain peacefully in faith. But, seeing too much to deny
and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied wherefore I have a
hundred times wished that if a God maintains Nature, she should testify to
Him unequivocall

 

[thanatoid]

hands shall be transmitted as they please. Some place it in
election by the people, others in hereditary succession, etc.

And this is the point where imagination begins to play its part. Till now
power makes fact now power is sustained by imagination in a certain party,
in France in the nobility, in Switzerland in the burgesses, etc.

These cords which bind the respect of men to such and such an individual are
therefore the cords of imagination.

305. The Swiss are offended by being called gentlemen, and prove themselves
true plebeians in order to be thought worthy of great office.

306. As duchies, kingships, and magistracies are real and necessary, because
might rules all, they exist everywhere and always. But since only caprice
makes such and such a one a ruler, the principle is not constant, but
subject to variation, etc.

307. The chancellor is grave and clothed with ornaments, for his position is
unreal. Not so the king he has power and has nothing to do with the
imagination. Judges, physicians, etc., appeal only to the imagination.

308. The habit of seeing kings accompanied by guards, drums, officers, and
all the paraphernalia which mechanically inspire respe

 

[thanatoid]

have but esteem for a religion which knows so well the
defects of man, and desire for the truth of a religion which promises
remedies so desirable?

451. All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible
in the service of the public weal. But this is only a pretnece and a false
image of love for at bottom it is only hate.

452. To pity the unfortunate is not contrary to lust. On the contrary, we
can quite well give such evidence of friendship, and acquire the reputation
of kindly feeling, without giving anything.

453. From lust men have found and extracted excellent rules of policy,
morality, and justice but in reality this vile root of man, this figmentum
malum, is only covered, it is not taken away.

454. Injustice.--They have not found any other means of satisfying lust
without doing injury to others.

455. Self is hateful. You, Milton, conceal it you do not for that reason
destroy it you are, then, always hateful.

No for in acting as we do to oblige everybody, we give no more occasion for
hatred of us. That is true, if we only hated in Self the vexation which
comes to us from it. But if I hate it because it is unjust and because it
makes itself the centre of everything, I shall always hate it.

In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes
itself the centre of everything it is inconvenient to others since it would
enslave them for each Self is the enemy, and would like to be the tyrant of
all others. You take away its inconvenience, but not its injustice, and so
you do not render it lovable to those who hate injustice you render it
lovable only to the unjust, who do not an

 

[N. Miller]

virtue of a hook.

56. To guess: "The part that I take in your trouble." The Cardinal did not
want to be guessed.

"My mind is disquieted." I am disquieted is better.

57. I always feel uncomfortable under such compliments as these: "I have
given you a great deal of trouble," "I am afraid I am boring you," "I fear
this is too long." We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them.

58. You are ungraceful: "Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not
have known there was anything amiss. "With reverence be it spoken..." The
only thing bad is their excuse.

59. "To extinguish the torch of sedition" too luxuriant. "The restlessness
of his genius" two superfluous grand words.

SECTION II: THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD

60. First part: Misery of man without God.

Second part: Happiness of man with God.

Or, First part: That nature is corrupt. Proved by nature itself.

Second part: That there is a Redeemer. Proved by Scripture.

61. Order.--I might well have taken this discourse in an order like this: to
show the vanity of all conditions of men, to show the vanity of ordinary
lives, and then the vanity of philosophic lives, sceptics, stoics but the
order would not have been kept. I know a little what it is, and how few
people understand it. No human science can keep it. Saint Thomas did not
keep it. Mathematics keep it, but they are useless on account of their
depth.

62. Preface to the first part.--To speak of those who have treated of the
knowledge of self of the divisions of Charron, which sadden and weary us
of the confusion of Montaigne that he was quite aware of his want of method
and shunned it by jumping from subject to subject that he sought to be
fashionable.

His foolish project of describing himself! And this not casually and against
his maxims, since every one makes mistakes, but by his maxims themselves,
and by first and chief design. For to say silly things by chance and
weakness is a comm

 

[... et al.]

Mr. Mills. There was a considerable revival of religion last summer at
Newhaven old town, as I was once and again informed by the Rev. Mr.
Noyes, the minister there, and by others: and by a letter which I very
lately received from Mr. Noyes, and also by information we have had
other ways. This flourishing of religion still continues, and has lately
much increased. Mr. Noyes writes, that many this summer have been added
to the church, and particularly mentions several young persons that
belong to the principal families of that town.

There has been a degree of the same work at a part of Guildford and
very considerable at Mansfield, under the ministry of the Rev. Mr.
Eleazar Williams and an unusual religious concern at Tolland and
something of it at Hebron, and Bolton. There was also no small effusion
of the Spirit of God in the north parish in Preston, in the eastern part
of Connecticut, of which I was informed, and saw something, when I was
the last autumn at the house, and in the congregation of the Rev. Mr.
Lord, the minister there who, with the Rev. Mr. Owen, of Groton, came
up hither in May, the last year, on purpose to see the work of God.
Having heard various and contradictory accounts of it, they were careful
when here to satisfy themselves and to that end particularly conversed
with many of our people which they declared to be entirely to their
satisfaction and that the one half had not been told them, nor could be
told them. Mr. Lord told me that, when he got home, he informed his
congregation of what he had seen, and that they were greatly affected
with it and that it proved the beginning of the same work amongst them,
which prevailed till there was a general awakening, and many instances
of persons, who seemed to be remarkably converted. I also have lately
heard that there has been something of the work at Woodbury.

But this shower of divine blessing has been yet more extensive: there
was no small degree of it in some part of the Jerseys as I was info

 

[thanatoid]

a few days, and others
for months or years. There were many in this town, who had been, before
this effusion of the Spirit upon us, for years, and some for many years,
concerned about their salvation. Though probably they were not
thoroughly awakened, yet they were concerned to such a degree as to be
very uneasy, so as to live an uncomfortable disquieted life. They
continued in a way of taking considerable pains about their salvation
but had never obtained any comfortable evidence of a good state. Several
such persons, in this extraordinary time, have received light but many
of them were some of the last. They first saw multitudes of others
rejoicing, with songs of deliverance in their mouths, who before had
seemed wholly careless and at ease, and in pursuit of vanity while they
had been bowed down with solicitude about their souls. Yea, some had
lived licentiously, and so continued till a little before they were
converted and yet soon grew up to a holy rejoicing in the infinite
blessings God had bestowed upon them.

Whatever minister has a like occasion to deal with souls, in a flock
under such circumstances, as this was in the last year, I cannot but
think he will soon find himself under a necessity, greatly to insist
upon it with them, that God is under no manner of obligation to show
mercy to any natural man, w

 

[mm]

on this
occasion as before. And thus, while the present never satisfies us,
experience dupes us and, from misfortune to misfortune, leads us to death,
their eternal crown.

What is it, then, that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but
that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him
only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his
surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in
things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can
only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by
God Himself. He only is our true good, and since we have forsaken him, it is
a strange thing that there is nothing in nature which has not been
serviceable in taking His place the stars, the heavens, earth, the
elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents,
fever, pestilence, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since man has
lost the true good, everything can appear equally good to him, even his own
destruction, though so opposed to God, to reason, and to the whole course of
nature.

Some seek good in authority, others in scientific research, others in
pleasure. Others, who are in fact nearer the truth, have considered it
necessary that the universal good, which all men desire, should not consist
in any of the particular things which can only be possessed by one man, and
which, when shared, afflict their possessors more by the want of the part he
has not than they please him by the possession of what he has. They have
learned that the true good should be such as all can possess at once,
without diminution and without envy, and which no one can lose against his
will. And their reason is that this desire, being natural to

 

[thanatoid]

nothing. It is not so with the bishops.
Port-Royal fears, and it is bad policy to disperse them for they will fear
no longer and will cause greater fear. I do not even fear your like
censures, if they are not founded on those of tradition. Do you censure all?
What! Even my respect? No. Say then what, or you will do nothing, if you do
not point out the evil, and why it is evil. And this is what they will have
great difficulty in doing.

Probability.--They have given a ridiculous explanation of certitude for,
after having established that all their ways are sure, they have no longer
called that sure which leads to heaven without danger of not arriving there
by it, but that which leads there without danger of going out of that road.

921.... The saints indulge in subtleties in order to think themselves
criminals and impeach their better actions. And these indulge in subtleties
in order to excuse the most wicked.

The heathen sages erected a structure equally fine outside, but upon a bad
foundation and the devil deceived men by this apparent resemblance based
upon the most different foundation.

Man never had so good a cause as I and others have never furnished so good
a capture as you...

The more they point out weakness in my person, the more they authorise my
cause.

You say that I am a heretic. Is that lawful? And if you do not fear that men
do justice, do you not fear that God does justice?

You will feel the force of the truth, and you will yield to it...

There is something supernatural in such a blindness. Digna necessitas.231
Mentiris impudentissime.232

Doctrina sua noscetur vir...[233]

False piety, a double sin.

I am alone against t

 

[thanatoid]

don't know
: about you, but I'm not convinced.)
[
What a bunch of hooey.
]
:
: Kerrey's sudden interest in cryptologic arcana
: likely stems from a recent addition to his staff:
: policy aide Chris McLean.
:
: McLean is hardly a friend of the Net. While in
: former Sen. Jim Exon's (D-Neb.) office, McLean
: drafted the notorious Communications Decency
: Act and went on to prompt Exon to derail
: "Pro-CODE" pro-encryption legislation last fall.
: Then, not long after McLean moved to his current
: job, his new boss stood up on the Senate floor
: and bashed Pro-CODE in favor of the White
: House party line: "The President has put forward
: a plan which in good faith attempts to balance
: our nation's interests in commerce, security, and
: law enforcement."

Kerrey has since introduced a bill that parrots the Clinton administration's
philosophy:

* http://www.cdt.org/crypto/legis_105/mccain_kerrey/analysis.html
*
* Comparison: Major Features of the Administration and McCain-Kerrey Bills
*
* Administration Draft*
* McCain-Kerrey** [w. section#]
* Federal licensing of certificate
* authorities(CA) and key recovery
* agents
* Yes. Yes. [401-404]
*
* Linkage of CA's and key recovery:
* Encryption public key certificates only
* issued to users of key recovery
* Yes. Yes. [405]
*
* Export controls codified: 56-bit limit
* on encryption exports, no judicial
* review.
* No. Yes. [301-308]
*

 

[N. Miller]

is none that
teacheth us, yea, there is none that declareth the future."

Is. 42: "I am the Lord, and my glory will I not give to another. I have
foretold the things which have come to pass, and things that are to come do
I declare. Sing unto God a new song in all the earth.

"Bring forth the blind people that have eyes and see not, and the deaf that
have ears and hear not. Let all the nations be gathered together. Who among
them can declare this, and shew us former things, and things to come? Let
them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified or let them
hear, and say, It is truth.

"Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen
that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am He.

"I have declared, and have saved, and I alone have done wonders before your
eyes: ye are my witnesses, said the Lord, that I am God.

"For your sake I have brought down the forces of the Babylonians. I am the
Lord, your Holy One and Creator.

"I have made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters. I am He that
drowned and destroyed for ever the mighty enemies that have resisted you.

"Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

"Behold, I will do a new thing now it shall spring forth shall ye not know
it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

"This people have I formed for myself I have established them to shew forth
my praise, etc.

"I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,
and will not remember thy sins. Put in remembrance your ingratitude: see
thou, if thou mayest be justified. Thy first father hath si