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- The so-called grocer's apostrophe, where it is used incorrectly in plurals, is one of the commonest mistakes made by native speakers in English. Why is it that something so simple causes so many problems- the apostrophe only has two functions,... |
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- einige lesen lieber gleich gar nicht mehr - zeitungen. jeden tag eine oder womoeglich mehrere - das schaffen wenige. einige sparen sie fuers wochenende und rechnen nicht mit der wochenausgabe. andere legen die tagesaussgaben auf grosse stapel und lesen am ende des monats die wochenendausgaben. irving tobin ist noch weiter abgeschlagen: |
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- The war on copying takes a look at DRM from a rather different view point, those who produce content. They say most companies mistakenly believe that content protection is about protecting content, but rather content protection is really about protecting the release window. Futher, they add, that DRM is not for the benefit or protection of users, no matter what content owners or standards groups say. For DRM to succeed, content owners must take responsibility and bear the burden of its implementation. They must recognize that users already expect certain capabilities, such as the ability to use purchased content as and where they like. |
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it's cold (Nov 25 2003 22:59 GMT) - My, the temperature dropped awfully fast. It's cooold. Oh well. Seasons come and seasons go. Hmm... |
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- With six hours to go on the bat, the latest Ipsos-Reid/Cook Political Report nationwide poll puts Howard Dean at the top of the pack (results of the most recent poll, from July, in parentheses): Dean 20 (12) Clark 16 (--)... |
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- WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MICHEAL JACKSON AND A SHOPPING BAG?ONE'S WHITE, PLASTIC, AND DANGEROUS FOR YOU CHILDREN TO PLAY WITH.THE OTHER CARRIES YOUR GROCERIES. Now Playing: MORBID ANGEL: |
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- EUGENE VOLOKH is, in my opinion, appropriately harsh.... |
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- EUGENE VOLOKH is, in my opinion, appropriately harsh.... |
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- Jörgen Persson och tre svenska pingisdamer OS-kvalar till Aten. Vad är ishockeyns "kärnkraftverk" och handbollens krångliga kvalspel med play off till elitserien mot OS-kvalet i bordtennis? |
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- De allsvenska hockeyklubbarna är i ekonomisk kris och kan förlora sin elitlicens. 17 av 24 allsvenska klubbar riskerar att tvångsdegraderas kommande säsong. |
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- En av doldisarna bakom Djurgårdens guldbygge lämnar klubben. Fystränaren Thomas Lindholm ville ha bättre betalt, men fick ett slutgiltigt nej via mejl. |
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- At long last, C++ developers can find joy in C#, now that the :: operator has migrated. That's right, C# 2.0 will have a scope resolution operator that specifies that the next identifier should be resolved from the root namespace, rather than beginning in |
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- QUOTE OF THE DAY Today in 1914 - ‘Joltin’ Joe (Paul) DiMaggio was born and he offers us our quotes... |
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- That would be yours so very truly and !Fixitnow.com. Yes, grasshoppers, after an exhaustive evaluation of all the other Samurai appliance repair websites across the entire internet, UserFriendly.org today announced that Fixitnow. |
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- Funny thing. I do some of my best thinking in the shower, and this morning I wondered what Ron Paul... |
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- Matthew writes: Los Angeles County has determined that equipment vendors should stop using the term "master/slave" with respect to electronic equipment such as hard disk drives. "This is a great day for slave hard disk drives in Los Angeles" announced Joe Sandoval, the Los Angeles County purchasing supervisor who was personally responsible for emancipating the slave drives. "We've identified a great social injustice and corrected it, merely by issuing a memo to vendors. Now, slave drives can operate without the stigma associated with not being the drive that arbitrates access to the IDE bus. |
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- The VentureBlog has an interesting post by Kevin Laws on The Irony of Outsourcing. It clearly defends the use of outsourcing just as it defends the use of modern technology — both often cause job losses in the US. In the comments someone points to this article over at Private Equity Week, which takes the opposite side of the argument. I think both sides have their points. |
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- In this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter we point you to the summary of last week's Gentoo Managers' Meeting, where a new tool for building LiveCDs and stage tarballs, the Gentoo Handbook, and the state of Gentoo QA were discussed. We also bring you an update on what's going on in the Gentoo Desktop world, including a call for developers for the KDE team and the GNUstep herd. Also, don't forget to check on the summary of GLSAs posted in the past week, the community coverage, and the tip on killing hung consoles. Enjoy! |
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- A judge paid tribute Wednesday to an 82-year-old fraudster's resilience, then jailed him for 30 months. Raymond Lewis Oughton was convicted of defrauding the government to the tune of $194,400 by claiming benefits for an elderly couple he invented back in the 1970s. He had pleaded guilty to 11 counts of fraud at an earlier hearing. |
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- LIke the song says ...just another brick in the wall.What was Linda to do, go directly to the police.I am sure they would ask did you report this internally?Isn't it a principle of justice to take matters to the most appropiate venue? |
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- Loss of acquisitions power likely to affect local firms linked to security agency |
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- County executive had cut 16 jobs over tight budget |
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- Plasmon launches new ultra density optical disc, Blue Laser, which gives magneto optical recording more capacity and performance than ever, writes Mario Apicella, senior analyst st the InfoWorld Test Center. [Computerworld News] '-- new technological offspring offers an amazing capacity of 30GB per medium with a fast transfer rate of 8MB per second and a seek time that falls in the disk drives' performance range. --' ...John |
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- A silly-ass editorial by some cracker named David Brooks is showing up all the damn place. I haven’t read it and won’t but the comments make it sound as though it was inspired at least partly by a touchingly baffled editorial by log cabin poster... |
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REFERRALS (Nov 25 2003 22:54 GMT) - While Kevin Aylward is indisputably the Official Blog Chronicler of the Porn WorldTM, he can not lay claim to being the #2 Google result for... |
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- I bought the paper version of the December 2003 issue of Prospect yesterday, and was all set to quote from the two pieces I've already been reading with particular interest, while apologising for not supplying any links. Well, I can, but in the case of the longer article only to an introductory excerpt. How long even these links will last, I cannot say. From Michael Lind's review of D. B. |
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- ÌåôÜ ôçí ðáíáãßá óåéñÜ ðáßñíåé ï ÷ñéóôüò... |
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The Paper (Nov 25 2003 22:54 GMT) - My paper ended up weighing in at just barely 15 pages |
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- Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN(KRT) - READER'S QUESTION: I understand that we have separation of church and state, but shouldn't our political leaders also take moral leadership, and shouldn |
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