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They found the cause of the blackout |
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10:22 am EDT, Aug 18, 2003 |
] It was the RIAA. It seems that many New Yorkers were file
] sharing yesterday, so the decision was made to implement
] Sen. Hatch's plan of nuking file-sharer's computers.
] Unfortunately they got a little carried away. They found the cause of the blackout |
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9:22 am EDT, Aug 18, 2003 |
] Unreliable software exposes California recall to fraud Hack the vote |
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9:07 am EDT, Aug 12, 2003 |
The Woodward Dream Cruise 2003. See where it all started. Cars. Woodward. Summer. |
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The Download Tide May Have Ebbed |
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8:38 am EDT, Aug 6, 2003 |
] Just 29% of U.S. Internet users have downloaded music
] files and just 12% both download and share music files
] from their PCs with others, according to the Pew Internet
] & American Life Project. yes, and I don't speed either. The Download Tide May Have Ebbed |
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12:13 pm EDT, Jul 26, 2003 |
] Concerned that information about your file-sharing
] username may have been subpoenaed by the RIAA? Check here
] to see if your username is on one of the subpoenas filed
] with the D.C. District Court. This information is drawn
] from the court's publicly available PACER database and
] will be updated when that system is updated. RIAA Subpoena Database |
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'Operation: Hidden Agenda' cards |
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1:28 pm EDT, Jul 15, 2003 |
] Kathy Eder's 55 cards show pictures of the president,
] Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others along with
] quotes, mostly from journalists, questioning the
] rationale for the U.S.-led war. The backs of the cards
] feature a 1983 photograph of Rumsfeld shaking Hussein's
] hand. Having just scored my own copy of a deck of official Iraqi "most wanted" cards, I'm definitely in the market for these! 'Operation: Hidden Agenda' cards |
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Dissertation Could Be Security Threat |
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10:21 am EDT, Jul 8, 2003 |
] "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade --
] and then they both should burn it," said Richard Clarke,
] who until recently was the White House cyberterrorism
] chief. And it's your ignorance and inability to face reality that will continue to put our lives in jeopardy, you twit. If this grad student can build such a database, then obviously someone with a lot more motivation could as well. Burying our heads in the sand doesn't help. Dissertation Could Be Security Threat |
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The Memory Hole: US Forces Make Iraqis Strip and Walk Naked in Public |
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9:26 pm EDT, Jul 2, 2003 |
] On 25 April 2003, the newspaper Dagbladet (Norway)
] published photos of armed US soldiers forcing Iraqi
] men to walk naked through a park. ] On the chests of the men had been scrawled an Arabic
] phrase that translates as "Ali Baba - Thief." ] A military officer states that the men are thieves,
] and that this technique will be used again. The Memory Hole: US Forces Make Iraqis Strip and Walk Naked in Public |
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Bush falling off a Segway! |
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8:44 am EDT, Jun 13, 2003 |
] U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) is
] pictured in this combo image falling off a Segway
] personal transporter on the front driveway of his
] parents' summer home June 12, 2003 in Kennebunkport,
] Maine. Bush arrived from Washington to spend the weekend
] with his father, former President George Bush, who
] celebrates his 79th birthday today and his mother
] Barbara. Bush was not injured in the fall. Oh this is hysterical - tipping these things really takes some doing! But then we aren't talking about the sharpest tool in the shed either. "'being able to ride a segway' is akin to 'being able to ride an escalator' -- what's remarkable isn't that someone can do it, it's only remarkable when somebody can't" Laughing Boy Bush falling off a Segway! |
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