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To: Godzilla
I suspect it is a combination of the OS 8.6 and a glitch in the keyboard.

My wife has a MAC lab for her student publication and said the same thing about a bad keyboard! But I'm running OS 10.3.5 and this should not be happening! I can't WAIT to upgrade to the G5!! By then, the new TIGER OS should be standard.

1,139 posted on 11/28/2004 6:17:04 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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Complete nuclear bomb plant earmarked for Libya found in South Africa

Authorities hunting traffickers in nuclear weapons technology recently uncovered an audacious plan to deliver a complete uranium enrichment plant to Libya.

The discovery provides fresh evidence of the reach and sophistication of the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan's global black market in nuclear know-how and equipment. It also exposes a previously undetected South African branch of the Khan network.

Details of the plot began to emerge in September, when police found the elements of a two-storey steel processing system for the enrichment plant in a factory outside Johannesburg. They were packed in 11 freight containers for shipment to Libya.

South African officials will say only that they discovered nuclear components. It appears, however, that the massive system was designed to operate 1000 centrifuges for enriching uranium.

Once assembled in Libya, the plant could have produced enough weapons-grade uranium to manufacture several nuclear bombs a year. Delivery of the plant would have greatly accelerated Libya's efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

Dr Khan already had secretly shipped to Libya a supply of processed uranium fuel for the enrichment plant, international inspectors said.

An off-the-shelf enrichment facility was built for Libya because unlike other customers of the Khan network, such as Iran and North Korea, Libya lacked the technical expertise or manufacturing base to build the complex facilities necessary.

Some of the centrifuges for the plant were shipped separately from Malaysia, because the specialised steel needed was not available in South Africa. The interception of that cargo by US and Italian authorities in October 2003 led to the Johannesburg raid and spurred Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, to renounce efforts to develop banned weapons.

In the September 1 raid, police found a video that detailed the workings of Dr Khan's top-secret government enrichment laboratory in Pakistan, plus trunks filled with designs from the lab.

The discovery of a South African connection to Dr Khan's web has led to four arrests, including some people who had been involved in the country's former nuclear program.

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1,140 posted on 11/28/2004 6:25:00 PM PST by tmp02 (Don't come to the US. We too are dipping our bullets in pig's blood)
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To: ExSoldier

Please, you have Freeper mail!


1,147 posted on 11/28/2004 7:59:43 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Today, please pray for God's miracle, we are not going to make it without him.)
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To: ExSoldier
My wife has a MAC lab for her student publication and said the same thing about a bad keyboard! But I'm running OS 10.3.5 and this should not be happening! I can't WAIT to upgrade to the G5!! By then, the new TIGER OS should be standard.

Mine seems be primarly the key board. The G5 is cool but I'd have to spend boocoo $$$ to upgrade/replace the programs I have. My P6116 w/ Sonnet G3 upgrade will have to get along for a few more years

1,150 posted on 11/28/2004 8:20:42 PM PST by Godzilla (I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.)
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