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- Society: Government departments given deadline on use of private consultants in commercial procurement deals. |
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Finally! (Dec 15 2003 16:59 GMT) - Ugh! I had one helluva time getting online this morning. Well, better late than never... The girls got to school... |
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- Park at SX654923 and walk up footpath. One of four triple rows on Dartmoor. Runs for 146m E (downhill) from a cairn. W half better preserved. |
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Comrads (Dec 15 2003 16:59 GMT) - Comrads, the Soviet invasion of my house has been put to an end. As conditions return to normal, chances increase that I will be posting again. |
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- I liked J.P. Carter's literary allusion in this post about "Saddam's third act." "If there is a pistol on the wall in the first act,“ said Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, “it will be fired by the third act." In the first act of the Iraqi war, Saddam Hussein portrayed himself as a “valiant knight leading the Arabs into battle against the infidel. |
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- The United States and China have decided not to resume six-party talks on North Korea's atomic weapons program this year but hope to restart them, unconditionally, early in 2004, the Bush administration said Monday. |
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Rico is god (Dec 15 2003 16:59 GMT) - Most of us spend so much time writing code....but rarely do we have to write really performance-intensive code. I mean, when was the last time you wrote code to calculate the discrete fourier transform...or something like that? |
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- Even on the day of Hussein's blessed capture by American forces, the untalented Sen. Kerry still kept droning on in... |
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- It's crummy days like today when I start to get excited about next year's garden. I'm not even kidding. The Philadelphia region is in zone 6 for hardiness, which means I should start planting the garden in April. What the really means is that in February and March I'll start seeds indoors. And what does that really, really mean? |
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- exaclty, i dont care when it happens or how. |
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- Det forlyder at Togas kalender er blevet opdateret. |
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- i was in a shopping mood recently and went crazy at amazon. fine print: i love amazon, by the way, and most links on this site will go to amazon especially when i speak of books or films i like.... |
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- This is a table about Opening Boxed Beef Market Activity |
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- This is a table about Weekly Cow and Bull Price Report |
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- This is a table about Weighted Average Direct Slaughter Cattle Prices |
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- This is a table about Negotiated Prices for Cows and Bulls |
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- This is a table about Committed and Delivered Slaughter Cattle |
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- This is a table about Daily Summary of Slaughter Cattle Prices |
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- This is a table about Opening USDA Hog Market Comments |
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- This is a table about Opening Livestock Cash Market Comments |
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- This is a table about Ukraine Sunflower Oil Output Slips |
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- This is a table about Ukraine Sunseed, Oil Exports Jump in October |
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- This is a table about Australian Sugar Production Slump |
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- Scumbags. Not only is the US bleeding manufacturing jobs that employ so many blue collar workers in the nation’s heartland, we’re also bleeding high-skilled technology jobs to India and China. Let’ |
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Spotlights (Dec 15 2003 16:57 GMT) - Christmas is as serious business as war |
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- President says Iraqis will be included in process; 'Justice needs to be delivered'; He also warns of 'further sacrifice' ahead on part of coalition forces |
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- Joanne Webb intended to spice up marriages and earn extra cash by selling erotic toys. Instead, the former fifth-grade teacher and executive board member of the Burleson Chamber of Commerce faces criminal charges and embarrassment after a police sting. |
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- The outsourcing services company taps the former CIO of ChevronTexaco Information as its executive vice president in charge of service delivery. |
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- Name: SteveJonesST Email: steve.jones@stSTOPSPAM.com Company Name: |
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- The San Francisco Chronicle (www.sfgate.con) has published an article on how many Leftists and Liberals lead Europe today in racism... |
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- What we witnessed yesterday when those images of a dishevelled, humiliated dictator were broadcast was a moment of history. It... |
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- Microsoft Pulls Plug on Windows 98 Support. Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 98 on January 16th, although the software giant has said it may continue to release security patches for the older operating system if security problems warrant it. [NewsFactor Network] |
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- What would adults say to the young wizard if they could write him a letter? A research project by a college student aims to find out. The goal is to discuss similarities between the psychological response of adults and children to the novels. "It can be a fan letter, love letter, sympathy letter, anything at all you want it to be," says Danielle, the project's leader. |
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- Robert Novak reports some sound political strategy out of the White House: When Saddam's capture became public Sunday morning, presidential aides were instructed to make... |
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- Es liegt keine strafbare Diskriminierung vor, wenn jemand öffentlich behauptet, unter den katholischen Priestern gebe es überdurchschnittlich viel Pädophile. Das... |
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- My weekend started early Saturday morning with me applying layer after layer of clothes to prepare for a day out in the cold. I grabbed my camo gear and drove to Bowie for a fun filled day of Paintball. Since... |
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- The real cost of offshore outsourcing : THERE APPEARS to be a general assumption that dramatic savings can be made by sending software development to countries where IT salaries are 10% or 20% of similar IT professionals in the USA or Europe. That assumption is quite invalid according to those who have tried it, in fact they claim that savings rarely reach 30% and it can take years before even that level of savings materialise. According to them, a multitude of other costs, beyond the obvious cost of salaries, are often forgotten when considering sending work offshore. |
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- The real cost of offshore outsourcing : THERE APPEARS to be a general assumption that dramatic savings can be made by sending software development to countries where IT salaries are 10% or 20% of similar IT professionals in the USA or Europe. That assumption is quite invalid according to those who have tried it, in fact they claim that savings rarely reach 30% and it can take years before even that level of savings materialise. According to them, a multitude of other costs, beyond the obvious cost of salaries, are often forgotten when considering sending work offshore. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "A recent SG Cowen Securities survey of more than 500 North American IT users found that more than 80 percent of respondents were currently using Linux..."... |
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- [Linux Journal] - Fed up with expensive, complicated firewalls, e-gaming company opts for open-source security solution. |
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- Was ist die Einigung im Vermittlungsausschuss wert? Hans-Olaf Henkel, Präsident der Leibniz-Wissenschaftsgemeinsch und früherer Präsident des Bundesverbandes der deutschen Industrie, ist skeptisch. Deutschland hätte mehr gebraucht, meinte er im Interview mit tagesschau.de. |
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- Small apps that make my life much, much easier: Kung-Log — Weblog writing and management, off-line (thanks, John) Shrook —... |
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- Alex over at Bronx Banter has what I think is a fascinating take on the Winter Meetings. Do yourself a favor and go check it out.... |
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- Warning:: Will Robinson Aspirations:: Squashed Starvation:: Indonesia Lid:: Key Sketch:: |
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- yes more memory helps any win-doze run better and faster. win 3.1/dos seems to have a bump ar 64megs- cannot seem to see more than that or it muight be a function of the chiopset ( p300 ,illegal via chipset pcchips m571) but with 386 and 486's even some early pentiums the chipset may limit the amout of ram that will be used. also 98lite may help make older and slower systems work better. it has several different levels and the fastest uses parts of 95 to slim down the os even more. |
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- Better server, more bandwidth... thincomputing.net has been moved to my own dedicated server in an US datacenter. This means much more ... |
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- Advertising Age has named Apple its "Marketer of the Year."... |
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- Look at later -- StronglyTyped's pointers to CSP overview and a .net tool. I'd like an excel front end to specify the constraints. |
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- According to an account from Major Bryan Reed, an operations officer for the US army's 4th infantry division, in an exchange before he was pulled from the hole in the ground he was sheltering in, the former dictator said to US troops in English: "My name is Saddam Hussein. I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate." US special forces replied "regards from President Bush".... |
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