thanks for the help

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Wow,  Very nice answer thank you for your time!!!!

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Please see comment by research_help-ga as follows:
Subject: Re: email/chat shorthand - not sure 
From: research_help-ga on 22 Mar 2005 09:57 PST     
Something seems reversed here. The official answer is that the
researcher could not find the answer. And then the apparent answer is
given in a comment.  Perhaps siliconsamurai posted this "answer" by
accident? Perhaps the editors should make pinkfreud's comment the
answer?

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Silicon Samurai,
Thank you so very much for your prompt and exceptionally insightful
reply. This is my first time using google answers, and I feel it is an
amazing resource to everyone when someone as knowledgeable and
experienced as you can offer such informative feedback. I am going to
hear from my companies HR department tomorrow regarding their pay
offering, and I will be sure to heed your advice. I will gladly
recommend you to my friends and family, thanks again!

Best regards,
James

Thanks for the quick answer, and for providing all the links.

The Spiritual meaning of astrology really helped me find my answer. Thank you!

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Thank you for your time.  Although your explanation didn't provide me
with the answer, I did end up finding my own answer based one one of
your links.  Under the copyright law Title 17, Chapter 1, Section
111(a)(5) I found my answer:

"The secondary transmission of a performance or display of a work
embodied in a primary transmission is NOT an infringement of copyright
if the secondary transmission is not made by a cable system but is
made by a governmental body, or other nonprofit organization [that's
me!], without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage,
and without charge to the recipients of the secondary transmission
other than assessments necessary to defray the actual and reasonable
costs of maintaining and operating the secondary transmission
service."

Thanks a bunch for all of your help. I haven't tried the scan programs
yet, but when I do... I'll be sure to post the results :)

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The answer was what I was looking for. I have asked lots of people I
know and no one knew. This service is great.
Thanks Tom

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Good answer - and special thanks for the websites you listed, which
are most useful -  also the note about the theramin which is exactly
the right kind of detail and which I will certainly use!

Thank you for your greater resesrch.

The answer is nicely written, gives some links, and is pretty cool to read.
On the other hand, it is rather answering to "how ?" or to "What
conscequences ?" than "Why ?", so I basically don't know anything more
about what I wanted to know.

But I expected even worse for $2, so not bad after all : I'll give 3
stars (I would have given 5 stars if any clue had been given about
"why?").

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Your answer and the subsequent clarification were extensive and
thoughtful. I can't really say that they answered my question BUT ONLY
becuase I have learned from you that I did not really know what I was
asking! So that really is the answer to my question! The result: I
know much more, including knowing what I dont know...and I will
continue musing muchly about the mysteries of E=M^2...Thank you.

David

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Very clear and compelling answer. Thank you!

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for siliconsamurai; The question was asked, in all seriousness, to
gain some insight into how people think about God. In all instances,
HE is thought about as a very powerful but vengeful personality. for
example, "say my name without great respect and with proper
pronunciation or I will zap you". The whole thing based on fear. The
Catholic faith has continued this with threats of spending forever
under torture in a fiery hell. Its not the God I know. The one I know
is a happy, loving God, who wishes to be a friend. He wants me to use
His name. If I know a person, but not too well, I call him Mr. or Sir,
each a title. God is a title. When I address a friend, Bob, Jack, or
Jehovah, I use their personal name. No comment was made in your answer
as to what, if any, translations actually did use the name in the 7000
places through the Bible, where the tetragrammaton/YHWH/ appear in the
original. Such as the American Standard Version, and the New World
Translation, as used by the Jehovahs Witnesses. The benchmark as to
how God's name is to be handles must come from Jesus' comments. In
John 17;26, Jesus said when praying to his Father, Jehovah God, in
heaven, " I have made your name known to them, and will make it known,
in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in
union with them".
Acts 15;14 "Symeon has related thoroughly how God for the first time
turned His attention to the nations TO TAKE OUT OF THEM A PEOPLE FOR
HIS NAME".
If God himself considers His name to be so holy as to make it
unusable, bu not being even spoken, why did He give instructions to
Moses [ Exodus 3;15.." This is what you are to say to the sons of
Israel, 'Jehovah, the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. THIS IS MY
NAME to time indefinite and this is the MEMORIAL of me to generation
after generation". Through Jesus, Jehovah God wants his name made
manifest. John 17;6. " I have made your name manifest"

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Fascinating stuff, SiliconSamurai ...

Much more than I had hoped for.

I am so glad that you found some time to share your expertise and experience.

All the Best

Bryan

Hi:
  Excellent answer, we should be able to get the results we seek with
this.  Will probably buy one of the two subscriptions you suggested -
I'm having our marketing director review this.
 thx, jon

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Exactly what I was looking for... Thank you! Tom Z.