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Topic: Miscellaneous |
2:35 am EST, Feb 11, 2003 |
This group is no match for Lesbian Russin Pop stars T.A.T.U (taty.us). What's really wrong about this group is that their MOTHER writes all of the lyrics and came up with the idea of the dynamic twin duo to shake their asses together. Who says sex doesn't sell?!? :-) Cheeky Girls |
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Arafat gets ass-inine plea from PETA on intifada |
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Topic: Current Events |
5:54 pm EST, Feb 10, 2003 |
quoted material : === On Jan. 26, a bomb exploded on the road between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Gush Etzion. As terror attacks go, this one was minor. Most of us didn't hear about it because, with the exception of one bus passenger treated for shock, no one was injured. Thank G-d. Palestinian terrorists delivered the bomb to its destination by donkey. They strapped explosives and a remote device to the animal and detonated the bomb by cell phone as an Israeli bus passed by. The donkey, of course, was killed. You know where this is going, don't you? That's right. PETA, the group that never before expressed concern about the carnage in Israel, is suddenly outraged. Arafat gets ass-inine plea from PETA on intifada |
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Free William Leonard Pickard |
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Topic: Chemistry |
11:02 pm EST, Feb 7, 2003 |
quoted: --- The William Leonard Pickard Website Dedicated to helping Leonard win his freedom It has been over two years since Leonard was arrested for allegedly manufacturing LSD at a missile silo in Kansas. His trial has finally started with jury selection on January 13, 2003. Since Leonard was arrested he has a newborn child with his young wife. Leonard has chosen to pursue the case at great risk. If he wins the case he will go free, and if he loses, he will serve life in prison. Leonard has chosen this difficult task so that he might have the chance to live the rest of his life with his wife and child. --- Free William Leonard Pickard |
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Why doesn't MSN work with Opera |
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Topic: Software Development |
6:18 pm EST, Feb 6, 2003 |
quoted material : --- Microsoft and MSN have a history of trying to stop people from using the Opera browser. When trying to access MSN.com using the Opera7 browser, there are two visible problems. First, for the user it looks like Opera7 has a serious flaw so that many lines are partially hidden. Second, the page shows less content than users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (MSIE) see. The purpose of this page is to document, in technical terms, what is going on. Did the Opera programmers make grave mistakes? Or is it something wrong on the MSN site? If so, is the Opera browser targeted specifically? (Executive summary: no, yes, yes) --- Why doesn't MSN work with Opera |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
6:16 pm EST, Feb 6, 2003 |
quoted material : --- Along the rugged coastline of British Columbia, more than a generation ago, the first American refugees trickled in. As the Vietnam War raged, draft dodgers who chose to flee America rather than fight an unacceptable war gravitated to Canada's west coast, to rain-washed Vancouver and northward in tiny villages astride deep fiords left by the glacial past. A few of the new arrivals brought with them a taste for marijuana, and some began cultivating pot gardens. Isolated from the law by rugged terrain, separated from most of civilization by deep bays, a marijuana industry was born. As the tale goes, the coast north of Vancouver became a pot lover's paradise. Now a new breed of American refugee has arrived, seeking asylum from a different kind of war--the fight over medical marijuana. By some counts, they number more than 100 expatriate U.S. citizens, many of them from California, the fiercest battleground in America's medpot fight. --- use "cpunks/cpunks" for username and pass. The Drug War Refugees |
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Ah, Those Principled Europeans |
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Topic: Science |
6:11 pm EST, Feb 6, 2003 |
RUSSELS -- Last week I went to lunch at the Hotel Schweizerhof in Davos, Switzerland, and discovered why America and Europe are at odds. At the bottom of the lunch menu was a list of the countries that the lamb, beef and chicken came from. But next to the meat imported from the U.S. was a tiny asterisk, which warned that it might contain genetically modified organisms G.M.O.'s. My initial patriotic instinct was to order the U.S. beef and ask for it "tartare," just for spite. But then I and my lunch guest just looked at each other and had a good laugh. How quaint! we said. Europeans, out of some romantic rebellion against America and high technology, were shunning U.S.-grown food containing G.M.O.'s even though there is no scientific evidence that these are harmful. But practically everywhere we went in Davos, Europeans were smoking cigarettes with their meals, coffee or conversation even though there is indisputable scientific evidence that smoking can kill you. In fact, I got enough secondhand smoke just dining in Europe last week to make me want to have a chest X-ray. Ah, Those Principled Europeans |
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Second Life Preview - Second Life for PC at GameSpot |
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Topic: Software Development |
2:06 am EST, Feb 6, 2003 |
Second Life is nothing if not an experiment. Second Life, developed by novice studio Linden Lab, is a massively multiplayer online game most akin on the surface to the upcoming The Sims Online. On the outside, Second Life is a fully 3D game where, as in The Sims, you control an in-game avatar, which you use to interact with the world. But the comparison really only provides a starting point to look at a game that is wholly different structurally. Second Life Preview - Second Life for PC at GameSpot |
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Fight over dances and drugs tearing S.F. church apart |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
12:55 pm EST, Feb 5, 2003 |
St. Johns is a small Episcopal parish, a little gem of a church in a tough corner of the Mission District. For two decades, it has been a predominantly gay congregation that sees itself as "a community of faith welcoming all colors, cultures and sexual orientations." But that has not stopped a bitter fight between the old pillars of the church and the Divine Rhythm Society, a group of mostly young and straight seekers with roots in the ecstasy-fueled rave scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Fight over dances and drugs tearing S.F. church apart |
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Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
12:50 pm EST, Feb 5, 2003 |
NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work. A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings. Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN |
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NBC 4 - News - Mayor Punches Councilman At Her Last Meeting |
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Topic: Current Events |
4:29 pm EST, Feb 4, 2003 |
LOS ANGELES -- In a dramatic ending to her tenure as mayor, Xochilt Ruvalcaba tried unsuccessfully to ram through millions of dollars in city loans and punched a fellow council member before exiting what will likely be her last city council meeting. NBC 4 YOU Don't Miss Irresistible Headlines Take one of our daily quizzes Watch NBC4 Video Reports Sign Up: Personalize your E- mail News Reports Read More News Headlines Enter One Of Our Contests Send an E-Card Talk about current events in News, Sports and Entertainment WeatherBug: Get instant local weather updates right on your desktop Make NBC4.TV your homepage Ruvalcaba, one of three City Council members booted from office by voters last week after being accused of depleting city coffers of nearly $8 million, had called one last meeting to vote on several costly measures. NBC 4 - News - Mayor Punches Councilman At Her Last Meeting |
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