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More fines (Jan 12 2004 18:30 GMT) - The latest fines news as Speeding drivers face victim levy. This is getting daft, I'm going to need a category soon just for all the fine related items I've blogged about. Now they are adding £5 to speeding fines etc to pay for victim support. Why don't they actually make the perpetrator pay for victim support - not speeding motorist, who seem to be yet again a soft target. Note that I'm not condoning speeding! |
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- so I am feeling like I need to sleep. I still feel a little bit like I have the same cold that I have been fighting since we returned from mississippi. today at work, I am trying to get everything set up to roll the new computers out to the labs. I have my image machine set up, but we are having trouble getting a workable floppy boot disk so that we can create an image of that machine via Symantec Ghost and then push the image out over a router to a bunch of other machines. it looks like the particular model of dell's that we received need a patch to work properly with ghost. |
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- You've all heard stories (or been a part of) about email exchanges where the wrong thing was sent to the wrong person. One of the more common mistakes is someone hitting "reply" instead of "forward" and typing in a comment that the original sender as clearly not intended to see. That seems to be the case with an email exchange between a student intern at the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) and the founder and director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN). The GMA supports using RFID tags, while CASPIAN has been outspoken against the tags. GMA had an intern contact the founder and director and ask for a bio. |
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- No no van a cobrarnos las llamadas perdidas, no no es un invento del gobierno del PP, no no van... |
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- No no van a cobrarnos las llamadas perdidas, no no es un invento del gobierno del PP, no no van... |
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- More use of colors to indicate threat level... |
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- When you go to Avebury, it's easy to be wowed by what I call the 'Hollywood' sites; the stone circle itself, the henge, West Kennett long barrow and Silbury. But allow a little time, too, for the Supporting Cast, for these unsung 'B-movie' sites are real beauties in their own right and add to the context and one's understanding of the Oscar winners. The promise of a chink of blue sky in the west lured us out for the day with a shopping list of sites to see from the Marlborough Down's Best Supporting ... |
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- ... will make us call you "Cowardly Weenie"or worse if the program is in a nasty mood.Guests are free to post in this forum, but members are free to make fun of the guests for being to cowardly or lazy to register!Now if you'll excuse me, I have a nasty name generator to create. |
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- SAN FRANICISCO (CBS.MW) - Computer Associates on Monday said it could face civil charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stemming from the way it recognized sales from software license contracts in its year ended March 31, 2000. |
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- THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said the economic development in the country fell below expectation in 2003, saying real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at 3.5 per cent, far below the 5.0 per cent target for the year. The apex bank in its review of macro-economic policy in 2003 stated that, "the overall macro economic developments in 2003 were mixed. Compliance with monetary and external policy targets fell short of expectation, while domestic inflation remained largely subdued, especially in the first half of the year. |
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- THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will today in Abeokuta decide on the January 21 national strike at a meeting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, even as it demanded economic reforms that would be of benefit to workers, manufacturers, students and the generality of Nigerians. It accused President Obasanjo of violating the constitution of Nigeria by implementing a budget which has not been passed into law by the National Assembly. |
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- STOCKS slid towards their lowest levels in months last week, as an unfolding bank crisis dominated attention and kept players well away from the market. |
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- TRAGEDY looms at Okpella in Edo State where women, children and youths have been busy for the past six days, scooping fuel from a burst NNPC pipeline, along Auchi,Okene road. Already, an unidentified young man, said to be a member of a syndicate that went with a tanker to siphon fuel from the burst pipeline has suffocated in one of the tankers. |
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- NIGERIA'S crude oil production and plans to grow the national reserve to 40 billion barrels by 2010 has suffered a severe set-back following the reclassification of about one billion barrels of crude oil reserves from proven to probable, by the largest upstream oil industry operator in the country, Shell. |
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- RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe officials are threatening to freeze the bank accounts of several unregistered asset management firms, as the central bank's crackdown on delinquent financial institutions gathers momentum. |
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- A noter dans les annales...et a repeter 100 fois pour ne pas oublier... |
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- Ce n'est pas de l'amour, Ni même de l'amitié. Ce sont que des mots Autour d'une tasse de café. Une de ses conversations Sans réelle promesse D'un quelconque lendemain, Même vierge de caresse. Une de ces conversations Que l'on a un jour Où l'on reste sur sa faim, En espérant qu'un jour Ce n'est pas de l'amour, Ni même de l'amitié. Ce sont que des mots Autour d'une tasse de café. |
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- Ô Pluie... Ma plus grande ennemie... A part les cours, qu'ais-je fais aujourd'hui ? Rien. Avec un grand R. |
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- J'ai rien à dire... et voilà un billet pour le dire. Je trouvais tellement triste qu'il n'y ait pas de nouveau billet depuis si longtemps. De toutes façons, le seul truc intéressant ici, c'est les blablas... Et seuls quelques heureux élus peuvent comprendre ce qui s'y dit (c'est très élitiste... |
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- News agencies report that Adobe Systems Inc.'s flagship digital image manipulation software Photoshop CS now sports anti-counterfeiting code developed by Digimarc. The technology was developed to prevent users of Photoshop and other applications from printing out or working with images of currency. |
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- According to their press release, Motient Corporation owner and operator of the nation's largest two-way wireless data network and USA Technologies, a leader in cashless transactions and network services, announced today that they are working together to bring wireless data... |
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- The South Australian Democrats may have failed so far in their campaign to have legislation passed promoting open source software, but open source products are slowly infiltrating the government nonetheless. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Doc Searls has been thinking along the same lines on the way consumers are turning into producers. See his Linux Journal piece. Doc also followed up on my Sunday column with this blog posting. |
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- Man, I am so disappointed in Wesley Clark for being such a liar. Dean in '04!!!! (Actually I'm being mean. Despite all his verbal gaffes... |
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- Possible problem with Dundee's tenements. |
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- Most moving, I think, was the scene in which Malcolm first meets "the honorable" Elijah Muhammud. I was blown away with both the expert pacing which made lead-in to the moment awesome and breathtaking, and then Denzel Washington's perfect response, which was the ultimate payoff. One of the most moving film moments I can think of. Aside from the assasination scene, which was just breathtakingly intense and sorrowful. I know, I'm way late to the game, but if you haven't seen Malcolm X, you are really, really missing something. |
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- my exercise buddy who is totally unaware he too is on a diet!... |
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- A community newspaper publisher accused of spying on Iraqi dissidents in the United States was found guilty Monday of serving as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein. The jury took less than two hours to convict Khaled Dumeisi after the weeklong trial. |
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- 15, 25, 35 - das sind die Steuersätze, mit denen die FDP das geltende System deutlich vereinfachen will. Ein Stufensystem taucht zwar auch in den Plänen anderer Parteien auf. Doch anders als diese legte die FDP als erste tatsächlich einen ausgearbeiteten Gesetzentwurf vor. |
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- Ainakin kaksi ihmistä on kuollut ja kymmeniä haavoittunut pommin räjähdettyä |
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- Naisten syöksylaskun hallitseva maailmanmestari Melanie Turgeon on vahvistanut, ettei hän kilpaile tällä kaudella. |
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- Pikajuoksija Marion Jones palaa juoksuradoille hallikisoissa New Yorkissa helmikuun 6. päivä. Amerikkalainen olympiavoittaja ja maailmanmestari ei ole kilpaillut sitten toissa vuoden syyskuun. Jones oli ä |
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- NCR to shed more jobs in Dundee. |
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- Can't take a hint Support For Rowland Plummets. A new University of Connecticut poll "found 63 percent of Connecticut residents think" Governor John Rowland (R) should resign. "A similar poll taken last week put the number at 58 percent." In another sign Rowland is losing support quickly, the AP notes state Republicans are backing impeachment proceedings. Rowland has been begging for forgiveness but refusing to admit he did anything illegal. |
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- Microsoft's mettle has been tested before, but in the next few years the company will face what are arguably its toughest challenges yet. These include: Finding growth opportunities to offset the maturing of its operating system and Office businesses. Winning back the trust of customers fed up with security shortcomings and what they see as inflexible licensing schemes. |
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