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- 'Moot Point': Andrew Card Goes Over the Line This was an intelligence failure of immense proportions and consequences. The American people were misled into war. That failure hardly qualifies as a "moot point." The price paid so far, and to... |
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- Dec. 11 - Singer Bobby Brown has been charged with battery for allegedly hitting his wife Whitney Houston. But Houston says that the two are still together. |
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- Rebecca Romijn Lucy Liu Alessia Marcuzzi Miho Kiuchi Noriko Hamada |
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- Daniela Bello Natalia Estrada Jenny Mccarthy Risa Goto Airi Kago |
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- I haven't had that many jobs in my life, but as a contractor for 13 years I've been in numerous companies and talked to lots of people about how much they liked their jobs. Believe it or not, the biggest reason I've found for job dissatisfaction is management. Almost everyone is mostly happy with their co-workers, work challenges, pay, benefits etc. Almost always, they complain about their supervisors, the executives, and especially the investment board. |
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- I haven't had that many jobs in my life, but as a contractor for 13 years I've been in numerous companies and talked to lots of people about how much they liked their jobs. Believe it or not, the biggest reason I've found for job dissatisfaction is management. Almost everyone is mostly happy with their co-workers, work challenges, pay, benefits etc. Almost always, they complain about their supervisors, the executives, and especially the investment board. |
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- In an article called "The Achilles Heel of the Reparations Lawsuits," Henry Mark Holzer points out four legal flaws in current reparations lawsuits: 1. There are no legitimate plaintiffs, i.e. the reparations lawsuits have been brought by people who were not slaves, and thus have no grievances; |
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- Red Line, Washington Street |
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- بالاخره نتيجه داد اين همه کامنت... ای ول! |
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- See videostreams of Colin Moock sessions here. Some of the sessions of the shockwards conference 2003 in Stuttgart are now available in videostream. Three Colin Moock's sessions are there (each 45' - 1 hour). I heard that he's now very... |
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- Searching the Invisible Tabshttp://searchenginewatch. com/searchday/article. php/3115131 Tired of wading through thousands -- possibly millions -- of results to your Web searches? How would it be if search engines offered lists of category tabs -- so you could confine your search to relevant Web sites? |
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- Sen. Joe Lieberman, "who on Wednesday still was fielding media questions about Gore's snub, is playing the scrappy underdog's role," the Hartford Courant reports. The Portsmouth Herald notes that "in the past 24 hours the senator's campaign has received more support than during any previous 24-hour period." Update: Ryan Lizza... |
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- My Kwanzaa poem is causing lots of problems, it seems...: "Very odd. I tried to forward this link [to my poem] to an AOL subscriber, but I got a 'Delivery Status Notification' message from postmaster@mail.hotmail.com saying that the link was reported as offensive and automatically blocked. |
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- Federal officials warned Thursday about counterfeit goods like extension cords and Christmas lights that could pose a hazard during the holiday season. During testing, power strips and extension cords seized in a recent bust by federal agents in Houston melted, shot off sparks and erupted into flames within minutes. |
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- Ok, not really. Only 1 hour til the colonoscopy. But I'm still ready to be sedated....or at least get an... |
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- Might there just be a lesson here for U.S. policymakers who want to reach the elites in Arab countries--and perhaps many more readers later on, as the technology evolves? (Via donga.com and Pocket PC Watch. |
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- Ah-ha Rebrands as Enhance Interactive. Because apparently we cannot spell argh-har. I mean ahhhh-hargh. Um...arrrr-harr.... |
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- Excerpt: "The data in this report were gleaned from nearly 10,000 plans for which FIRSCo provided recordkeeping services in 2002. The plans, ranging in size from fewer than 25 participants to far beyond 25,000, contained $361 billion in defined contribution assets held by 8.1 million participants.... The average participation rate was 68% among plans for which FIRSCo performed nondiscrimination testing, a 1. |
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- Doc Searls is in Santa Barbara, but he knows more about my radio gig with Zephyr Teachout (today at noon EST, WUNC) than I do -- all the online listening options, the guest list, etc. Doc just knows the hell out of NC radio. Once he told me that we get poor reception here because of low soil conductivity. Damn red clay. Anyway, I'm off the Chapel Hill to talk Internet campaigning on The State of Things. |
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- Dec. 11 - The stars hit the red carpet for the premiere of 'Mona Lisa Smile'. But it seems the movie's biggest star, Julia Roberts, didn't feel much like talking. |
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- Det brittiska spelbolaget Ladbrokes trappar upp det svenska spelmarknadskriget och anskte p torsdagen om tillstnd att anordna vadslagning och spel p den svenska marknaden. |
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- Per Elofssons uppehll kan bli flera mnader lngt. Det kan drja nda fram till april innan kroppen r i form fr att trna fullt ut igen. |
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- Patrik "Bjrred" Andersson r redo att bryta sitt kontrakt med Barcelona och avst miljontals kronor i ln fr att flytta hem till Sverige s snart som mjligt. |
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- The IFPI -- the international equivalent of the RIAA -- has begun threatening venture capitalists who are considering investing in P2P applications. ... ... "The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry [IFPI] Taiwan calls for existing investors and potential investors to seriously consider their investments in unauthorized peer-to-peer network operators..> |
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- The Creative Commons anniversary party is taking place in San Francisco this Sunday:... ... ... Creative Commons is having its anniversary party on Sunday, December 14, from 6-9pm at 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San Francisco (directions). There will be some cool new CC tunes, and great-news annoucements, and most of Jois cool SF friends. |
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- success of IT service provision |
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- Steven Levy, author of Hackers and Crypto, has a fantastic piece on Newsweek's site about the potential dangers of Trusted Computing. ... ... How could the freedom genie be shoved back into the bottle? Basically, its part of a huge effort to transform the Net from an arena where anyone can anonymously participate to a sign-in affair where tamperproof digital certificates identify who you are. |
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- Submarine Telecom System |
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- Jean-Marc Valin offered a patch on the lkml against the 2.6.0-test11 kernel [story] adding the ability to increase the HZ all the way up to 10,000. In an earlier discussion about variable hertz [story], Robert Love [interview] talked about the impact of the 2.6 kernel increasing the default HZ from 100 up to 1000. |
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- Confused at how the new federal anti-spam legislation may affect your company? Email marketing firm Silverpop is hosting a free webinar next Monday, December 16th, at 2pm EST, to explain details and offer advice as to how to stay on the right side of the pending regulation. [summary] |
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- speaking of cigs im gonna go for one...c u in 5... Now Playing: vader-raining blood |
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- Beyond Simple Searchhttp://www. intelligententerprise. com/031210/619decision1_1. shtmlAs anybody who has used one knows, the text search capability offered by commercial search engines can be frustratingly limited. |
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11 December (Dec 11 2003 14:27 GMT) - Today is my fabulous, brilliant, amazing, beautiful Baby Daughter's second birthday. I remember being awed by how fast time... |
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- Rich Lederer has a review of the 2004 Bill James Handbook, with lots of great tidbits pulled from the pages. I would like to correct one misconception Rich has, however: The Handbook is unlike The Bill James Abstracts from 1977-1988,... |
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- I finished up the SCFI Channels Battlestar Galactica minis series last night. Wow, I totally wasn't expecting it to be so good. I was very sceptical early on about the changes to characters they made. I was really blown away at how good it was, and it leaves me wanting more. Surely they have some more plans for this. |
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secondonsen (Dec 11 2003 14:27 GMT) - born again virgin? .............................. preface: note that it took me 3 days to find the courage to post this story... |
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- A gun trafficking ring in which Ohio college students acted as phony buyers for weapons intended for a New Jersey street gang has been broken up as part of a national crackdown on gun crime, federal prosecutors say. |
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