www.civfanatics.com has enough to keep you busy for a long time.

 DyP has a rate cap for research, the advanced governments have no
limits while the earlier ones do.  The two improved democracies grant
faster worker rate.  Both have lower corruption -- either minimal or
communal (making Social Dem like a cross between standard Civ3
Democracy and Communism).  

 The differences are subtler though, when you take into account unit
support and war weariness.  

 More or less, though, DyP Democracy is closer to regular Civ3
republic than it is to civ3 democracy -- it isn't nearly as close to
being an ideal government form.

Big Bertha Thing PI
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/calpi.html
Access page to 46K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including alt.politics.bush

Calculate PI upto 3000 decimal places.

Ready to run Fortran 77 program complete with original
source code and ported source code in listing format.
Adds extended precision routines to Fortran 77.
Written by Mark P. Esplin
Ported to Fortran 77
By Tony Lance

Big Bertha Thing general

A general told his troops, before the big battle, "Right lads,
we are outnumbered 4 to 1, but we are much better than them,
so we should win through in the end!"

Half-way through the battle he sees one of his men
leaning against a tree smoking. He rushes up to him,
calls him all the names under the sun
and asks him what he thinks he is doing?
He replied "I have already killed my four."
Try not to turn the minimum requirements,
into the maximum of your endeavour.

(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1999.
To comply with my copyright,
please distribute complete and free of charge.

Tony Lance
peterpaul@big-bertha-thing.com

Big Bertha Thing rim

News from the Asian Rim front.
1. The basic mailing list has 2000 mailboxes. (two-way)
2. The rate of increase is 400 mailboxes per 6 weeks.
3. This gives 4000 mailboxes in 8 months time.
4. The 4th Battle of Cyberspace began on 21st October 2002.
5. There are 2000 new Yahoo mailboxes per 6 weeks. (one-way)
6. Each one has a Big Bertha Thing posting inside it.
7. These are not 2000 world-wide.
8. They are not even 2000 in english.
9. They are 2000 Asian Rim non-english.
10. The 8 months target is 10,000 Yahoo mailboxes closed.
11. The Big Bertha Thing web site shows that one field
     of interest is spam attack strategic studies.
12. In theory the first three battles were unwinnable too.
13. The targets of all these mailboxes are newsgroup users.
14. Off-topic postings for the benefit of newsgroups are
     considered to be on-topic.
15. Shi Tao got 10 years for email about China after Yahoo
     named him to them. (see http)
http://www.out-law.com/page-6482

Big Bertha Thing SMTP

My paid email service provider (SP) is still a SMTP SP, but only just.
1. An infraction happened in July 2005.
2. The second infraction of the SMTP protocol began in September 2005.
3. Prior to July 2005, a limit of 600 postings per day was set, for every
     5 mailboxes. (2004 AD)
4. 500 posting per hour was also set, which gives an average of 100 per mailbox.
5. Any postings exceeding these limits were not sent.
6. Notification of all email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
7. This was in full accordance with the official SMTP protocol.
8. In July 2005, a posting was sent from 1 of the 5 mailboxes to another.
9. The TO: mailbox filtered the FROM: mailbox posting and it was not sent,
     neither were the copies. (Fixed July)
10. No notification of the email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
11. Previously the same posting worked normally as per SMTP.
12. In September 2005, all outgoing emails were filtered by subject line and
     not sent. (Fixed October) See error message below.
13. No notification of the email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
14. There appears to be two incompatible pieces of software, one of which does
     not comply with the SMTP protocol.
15. These two lack of notifications invalidate the whole purpose of the SMTP
     protocol.

Online Error Occurred.
Sending Email Message "Re: Big Bertha Thing blogs"
Reason: Error Reported by Server 451
       Delivery Resource Unavailable (dm16.43286880.143cee)

Big Bertha Thing german

Warning on the The Rosary for the Holy Souls in Purgatory book, by Susan Tassone.
1. This supports a meditation for each Hail Mary.
2. This excludes 3 minutes meditation on each decade.
3. The Simple Prayer Book by CTS gives 10 straight Hail Marys.
4. The CTS version fulfills most requirements for a Plenary Indulgence.
5. This Indulgence can get a Holy Soul out of Purgatory.
6. St. Dominic taught 10 straight Hail Marys.
7. St. Louis-Marie de Montfort taught 10 straight Hail Marys.
8. How can a book for Holy Souls not mention Plenary Indulgences?
9. St. Bernadette of Lourdes would not remember 200 meditations.
10. The Legion of Mary has issued warnings about the meditation for each
     Hail Mary version.
11. This false version has been called the German Rosary.
12. It had a appalling effect on the rosary in Germany.
13. There is no Plenary Indulgence on this false version.
14. The sponsers have a devotion to Padre Pio.
15. Can they quote Padre Pio as being in favour of a meditation for each
     Hail Mary?

Thank you,
Tony Lance