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#31
Anybody know how to disconnect keys on the keyboard so the computer ignores them if they are hit?

I would prefer not to rip them off my keyboard or encourage them with a hammer and chisel, but it might come to that.

I want to remove/ disconnect the four up - down, left - right cursor keys on my keyboard, which happen to be right below my shift key. So when I hit the shift key when Im typing fast, the left or up button are sometimes hit at teh same time.. sometimes instantaneously selecting and deleting entire paragraphs adn sentences, making it a frustrating experience to post from my laptop.

If it makes a difference I am using an HP Pavilion dv9700 notebook pc. AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile TL60
NOTE:  I always used Toshiba's in the past. My brother and I went for HP at the same time because it seemed to have all the neat bells and whistles. We will never again buy HP.
 
#32
Discover Seattle! / The Snuggie
Oct 16 08 10:05
 
 www.getsnuggie.com/flare/next

Sweet! Wanna be a monk?

It also comes with a free light for copying over manuscripts!
   
#33
http://www.revengecrabs.com/

[a href="http://www.revengecrabs.com/"][img]http://www.revengecrabs.com/wp-content/themes/RevengeCrabs/images/revenge_07.jpg" alt="" width="833" height="166"][/a][a href="http://www.revengecrabs.com/"]            [/a]          

LOL! Um, anybody??

Read the other things they are advertising on that site!
 
#34
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=2df85237-fe8d-49a6-830d-5b55c0df4ddd

Linky to full story above.

[div class="storyheader"][h2]Get rich fast in Zimbabwe[/h2][h4]Turning $100 US into $65,000 US is easy enough, if you know how to go about it[/h4][/div][div class="feed_details"][h4]Tendai C. Mutseyekwa,             Special to The Sun[/h4][span]Published: Thursday, October 09, 2008[/span][/div]HARARE -- The unprecedented economic chaos in Zimbabwe has come as a blessing in disguise for those able to exploit loopholes in the government's command-economy policies.[/p]The country's highly regulated foreign currency market, which prohibits formal trading of the Zimbabwe dollar, suffers an acute cash shortage. Annual inflation is estimated at 30 million per cent, and the central bank is in the habit of flooding the black market with worthless Zimbabwe dollars in order to buy up U.S. dollars. As a result, any Zimbabwean money sitting in a bank is practically useless. Depositors can legally withdraw a mere $20,000 Zm a day in cash, if there is cash on hand to be had. At the end of last week that was the price of two loaves of bread, $7 US at the official rate.[/p]Things get more expensive by the minute. The longer money in this debased economy sits in an account, the less valuable it becomes.[/p]Because of the withdrawal limits, there are in effect three rates of exchange. The official rate ($1 US to $175 Zm) is more or less academic. There is the black market, where one American dollar was recently worth $1,000 Zm.[/p]And then there is the bank transfer rate, which places a value on inaccessible money locked up in a bank account. You have to write a cheque for 650,000 Zm to equal the spending power of a single U.S. dollar -- if you can find someone willing to take it. But there is a catch.[/p]Suppose a depositor hands the bank some foreign currency -- say $100 US. This sum will buy $100,000 Zm on the street, but the bank is willing to pay much more to obtain the hard currency --$65 million Zm in fact.[/p]The downside is that apart from the tiny daily withdrawal limit, the Zimbabwean money stays sequestered in the depositor's account, locked in an inflationary death spiral as prices rise by 15,000 per cent a week.[/p]But the country's central bank allows citizens to apply for special dispensation letting them withdraw above the maximum for certain things. A medical prescription will do the trick, or proof that one is purchasing building supplies.[/p]Government officials, unlike average citizens, are reputed to encounter remarkable success in obtaining dispensation. For those who can obtain the paperwork for a large withdrawal, the next step is to take out all the money in local currency and sell it on the black market at the rate of $1,000 Zm per greenback.[/p]In the example above, the $100 US original deposit becomes $65 million Zm in real cash that is then converted on the street to $65,000 US. The profit: a cool $64,900 US.[/p]
[/p]Rest of the story in the link at the top of the page.
 
#35
You can vote more than once... I watched the canadian one as everyone bashed Harper and not each other. All of them have good points, but dont acknowledge that other parties have similar platforms with different ways of getting there. I honestly dont like all of the Conservatives idea's, I like many of the others better.

  We switched to the US one because of all the bickering against Harper.. whatever happened to debating against each other.    
#36

 [a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/world/africa/01pirates.html?ref=world" target="_blank"]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/wo...html?ref=world[/a]


Somali Pirates Tell All: They're in It for the Money
 By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
 
 NAIROBI, Kenya — The Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammunition said in an interview Tuesday that they had no idea the ship was carrying arms when they seized it on the high seas.
 
 "We just saw a big ship," the pirates' spokesman, Sugule Ali, told The New York Times. "So we stopped it."
 
 The pirates quickly learned, though, that their booty was an estimated $30 million worth of heavy weaponry, heading for Kenya or Sudan, depending on whom you ask.
 
 In a 45-minute-long interview, Mr. Sugule expounded on everything from what the pirates want — "just money" — to why they were doing this — "to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters" — to what they have to eat on board — rice, meat, bread, spaghetti, "you know, normal human-being food."
 
 He said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood. "We don't consider ourselves sea bandits," he said. "We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard."
 
 The pirates who answered the phone call on Tuesday morning from The New York Times said they were speaking by satellite phone from the bridge of the Faina, the Ukrainian cargo ship that was hijacked about 200 miles off the coast of Somalia on Thursday. Several pirates talked, but they said that only Mr. Sugule was authorized to be quoted. Mr. Sugule acknowledged that they were now surrounded by American warships bristling with firepower but he did not sound afraid. "You only die once," Mr. Sugule said.
 
 He said that all was peaceful on the ship, despite unconfirmed reports from maritime organizations in Kenya that three pirates had been killed in a shoot-out among themselves on Sunday or Monday night.
 
 He insisted that the pirates were not interested in the weapons and had no plans to sell them to Islamist insurgents battling Somalia's weak transitional government. "Somalia has suffered from many years of destruction because of all these weapons," he said. "We don't want that suffering and chaos to continue. We are not going to offload the weapons. We just want the money."
 
 He said that they were asking for $20 million in cash — "we don't use any other system than cash." But he added that they were willing to bargain. "That's deal making," he explained.
 
 Piracy in Somalia is a highly-organized, lucrative, ransom-driven business. Just this year, pirates have hijacked more than 25 ships, and in many cases, they were paid million dollar ransoms to release them. The juicy payoffs have attracted gunmen from across Somalia and the pirates are thought to now number in the thousands.
 
 The piracy industry started about 10 to 15 years ago, Somali officials said, as a response to illegal fishing. Somalia's central government imploded in 1991, casting the country into chaos. With no patrols along the shoreline, Somalia's tuna-rich waters were soon plundered by commercial fishing fleets from around the world. Somali fishermen armed themselves and turned into vigilantes by confronting illegal fishing boats and demanding that they pay a tax.
 
Rest of the story click the linky above:

#37
Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS

  [A href="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/africa-is-giving-nothing-to-anyone--apart-from-aids-1430428.html"]http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/africa-is-giving-nothing-to-anyone--apart-from-aids-1430428.html[/A]

    [FONT size=1]By Kevin Myers
Thursday July 10 2008

[/FONT]No. It will not do. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the begging bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us, yet again. It is nearly 25 years since Ethiopia's (and Bob Geldof's) famous Feed The World campaign, and in that time Ethiopia's population has grown from 33.5 million to 78 million today.

So why on earth should I do anything to encourage further catastrophic demographic growth in that country? Where is the logic? There is none. To be sure, there are two things saying that logic doesn't count.

One is my conscience, and the other is the picture, yet again, of another wide-eyed child, yet again, gazing, yet again, at the camera, which yet again, captures the tragedy of . . .

Sorry. My conscience has toured this territory on foot and financially. Unlike most of you, I have been to Ethiopia; like most of you, I have stumped up the loot to charities to stop starvation there. The wide-eyed boy-child we saved, 20 years or so ago, is now a priapic, Kalashnikov-bearing hearty, siring children whenever the whim takes him.

There is, no doubt a good argument why we should prolong this predatory and dysfunctional economic, social and sexual system; but I do not know what it is. There is, on the other hand, every reason not to write a column like this.

It will win no friends, and will provoke the self-righteous wrath of, well, the self-righteous, letter-writing wrathful, a species which never fails to contaminate almost every debate in Irish life with its sneers and its moral superiority. It will also probably enrage some of the finest men in Irish life, like John O'Shea, of Goal; and the Finucane brothers, men whom I admire enormously. So be it.

But, please, please, you self-righteously wrathful, spare me mention of our own Famine, with this or that lazy analogy. There is no comparison. Within 20 years of the Famine, the Irish population was down by 30pc. Over the equivalent period, thanks to western food, the Mercedes 10-wheel truck and the Lockheed Hercules, Ethiopia's has more than doubled.

Alas, that wretched country is not alone in its madness. Somewhere, over the rainbow, lies Somalia, another fine land of violent, Kalashnikov-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts.

Indeed, we now have almost an entire continent of sexually

hyperactive indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world.

This dependency has not stimulated political prudence or commonsense. Indeed, voodoo idiocy seems to be in the ascendant, with the next president of South Africa being a firm believer in the efficacy of a little tap water on the post-coital penis as a sure preventative against infection. Needless to say, poverty, hunger and societal meltdown have not prevented idiotic wars involving Tigre, Uganda, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea etcetera.

Broad brush-strokes, to be sure. But broad brush-strokes are often the way that history paints its gaudier, if more decisive, chapters. Japan, China, Russia, Korea, Poland, Germany, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the 20th century have endured worse broad brush-strokes than almost any part of Africa.

They are now -- one way or another -- virtually all giving aid to or investing in Africa, whereas Africa, with its vast savannahs and its lush pastures, is giving almost nothing to anyone, apart from AIDS.

Meanwhile, Africa's peoples are outstripping their resources, and causing catastrophic ecological degradation. By 2050, the population of Ethiopia will be 177 million: The equivalent of France, Germany and Benelux today, but located on the parched and increasingly protein-free wastelands of the Great Rift Valley.

So, how much sense does it make for us actively to increase the adult population of what is already a vastly over-populated, environmentally devastated and economically dependent country?

How much morality is there in saving an Ethiopian child from starvation today, for it to survive to a life of brutal circumcision, poverty, hunger, violence and sexual abuse, resulting in another half-dozen such wide-eyed children, with comparably jolly little lives ahead of them? Of course, it might make you feel better, which is a prime reason for so much charity. But that is not good enough.

For self-serving generosity has been one of the curses of Africa. It has sustained political systems which would otherwise have collapsed.

It prolonged the Eritrean-Ethiopian war by nearly a decade. It is inspiring Bill Gates' programme to rid the continent of malaria, when, in the almost complete absence of personal self-discipline, that disease is one of the most efficacious forms of population-control now operating.

If his programme is successful, tens of millions of children who would otherwise have died in infancy will survive to adulthood, he boasts. Oh good: then what?I know. Let them all come here. Yes, that's an idea.

  Story Here : [A href="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/africa-is-giving-nothing-to-anyone--apart-from-aids-1430428.html"]http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/africa-is-giving-nothing-to-anyone--apart-from-aids-1430428.html[/A][!-- / message --][!-- sig --]
#38
Discover Seattle! / Algae BioFuel
Apr 01 08 11:45
Interesting stuff.. especially since of stuff like this:

"Kertz said he can produce about 100,000 gallons of algae oil a year per acre, compared to about 30 gallons per acre from corn; 50 gallons from soybeans."

and this

"Locating algae processing plants intelligently can add to their efficiency. Locating algae facilities next to carbon producing power plants, or manufacturing plants, for instance, the plants could sequester the C02 they create and use those emissions to help grow the algae, which need the C02 for photosynthesis."

    [A href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/index.html[/A]

   [P _extended="true"][B _extended="true"]ANTHONY, Texas (CNN)[/B] -- Texas may be best known for "Big Oil." But the oil that could some day make a dent in the country's use of fossil fuels is small. Microscopic, in fact: algae. Literally and figuratively, this is green fuel.

[!--startclickprintexclude--] [DIV id=imageChanger1 _extended="true"] [DIV class=cnnStoryPhotoBox _extended="true"] [DIV class=cnnImgChngr id=cnnImgChngr _extended="true"] [DIV id=cnnImgChngrNested] [DIV class=cnnStoryPhotoCaptionBox] [DIV class=cnn3pxTB9pxLRPad] Plant physiologist Glen Kertz believes algae can some day be competitive as a source for biofuel.[img height=4 alt="" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/base_skins/baseplate/corner_wire_BL.gif" width=4]

[/DIV][/DIV][/DIV][/DIV][/DIV]

[SCRIPT type=text/XXXXscript _extended="true"]    var CNN_ArticleChanger = new CNN_imageChanger('cnnImgChngr','/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/imgChng/p1-0.init.exclude.html',2,1);  //CNN.imageChanger.load('cnnImgChngr','imgChng/p1-0.exclude.html'); [/SCRIPT] [!--endclickprintexclude--] [P _extended="true"]"Algae is the ultimate in renewable energy," Glen Kertz, president and CEO of Valcent Products, told CNN while conducting a tour of his algae greenhouse on the outskirts of El Paso.

 [P _extended="true"]Kertz, a plant physiologist and entrepreneur, holds about 20 patents. And he is psyched about the potential algae holds, both as an energy source and as a way to deal with [A class=cnnInlineTopic href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/global_climate_change" _extended="true"][FONT color=#004276]global warming[/FONT][/A].

 [P _extended="true"]"We are a giant solar collecting system. We get the bulk of our energy from the sunshine," said Kertz.

 [P _extended="true"]Algae are among the fastest growing plants in the world, and about 50 percent of their weight is oil. That lipid oil can be used to make biodiesel for cars, trucks, and airplanes.

 [P _extended="true"][A href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/index.html[/A]

#39
[A href="http://englishrussia.com/?p=1830#more-1830"]http://englishrussia.com/?p=1830#more-1830[/A]

  This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals "The Door to Hell". It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it's burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.

[img alt="" src="http://englishrussia.com/images/darvaz_door/1.jpg" border=0][!-- / message --][!-- sig --] __________________[/DIV]
#40
 [DIV id=cnnSCFontButtons _extended="true"][!--endclickprintexclude--][!--startclickprintexclude--] [DIV id=cnnSCFontLabel _extended="true"]Dont know if anyone remembers this.. I remember being told about this many times when I was a kid.

[DIV _extended="true"]

[DIV _extended="true"] [/DIV][/DIV][!--endclickprintexclude--][!--startclickprintexclude--][!--endclickprintexclude--] [P _extended="true"][B _extended="true"]SEATTLE, Washington (AP)[/B] -- Hoping to solve at least part of a 36-year-old mystery, the FBI is analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found in southwest Washington to determine if it belonged to famed plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.

 [SCRIPT type=text/XXXXscript _extended="true"]    var CNN_ArticleChanger = new CNN_imageChanger('cnnImgChngr','/2008/CRIME/03/26/cooper.chute.ap/imgChng/p1-0.init.exclude.html',2,1);  //CNN.imageChanger.load('cnnImgChngr','imgChng/p1-0.exclude.html'); [/SCRIPT] [!--endclickprintexclude--] [P _extended="true"]Children playing outside their home near Amboy found the chute's fabric sticking up from the ground in an area where their father had been grading a road, agent Larry Carr said Tuesday.

 [P _extended="true"]They pulled it out as far as they could, then cut the parachute's ropes with scissors.

 [P _extended="true"]The children had seen recent media coverage of the case -- the [A class=cnnInlineTopic href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" _extended="true"][FONT color=#004276]FBI[/FONT][/A] launched a publicity campaign last fall, hoping to generate tips on the unsolved hijacking -- and they urged their dad to call the agency. [SPAN class=cnnEmbeddedMosLnk _extended="true"][img height=14 alt=Video src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/video.gif" width=16 border=0 _extended="true"][FONT size=1] [/FONT][A href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/26/cooper.chute.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo" _extended="true"][FONT color=#ca0002 size=1]Watch why this could be "the find" »[/FONT][/A][/SPAN]

 [P _extended="true"]"When we went to the public, the whole idea was that the public is going to bring the answers to us," Carr said. "This is exactly what we were hoping for."

 [P _extended="true"]In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper -- later mistakenly but enduringly identified as D.B. Cooper -- hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, claiming he had a bomb.

 [P _extended="true"]When the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and asked to be flown to Mexico. On the flight to Mexico City, he apparently took the cash and parachuted from the plane's back stairs somewhere near the Oregon border.

 [P _extended="true"]Agents doubt he survived because conditions were poor and the terrain was rough, but few signs of his fate have been found.

 [P _extended="true"]Carr spoke with the children's father, whom he declined to identify, early this month and learned the chute was white, the same color as Cooper's.

[!--endclickprintexclude--] [P _extended="true"]And when Carr overlaid the family's address onto a map investigators made in the early days of the investigation, he learned another encouraging fact: They lived right in Cooper's most probable landing zone, between Green and Bald mountains.

 [P _extended="true"]Rest of the Story can be read here : [A href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/26/cooper.chute.ap/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/26/cooper.chute.ap/index.html[/A]

#41
Heres the Link... to a post about car theives caught on camera and put on You Tube.

  [A href="http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/car/618913529.html"]http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/car/618913529.html[/A]

  Makes me wonder why he's putting it on Craigslist and not leaving it up to the police... Is it because they dont care enough to do anything about it?
#42
Hey uh.. I know this sounds retarded considering the amount of time Ive wasted.. uh.. spent on here. what is there to do and see around seattle?

  We are heading down tomorrow to Everett to stay wiht some friends.. and will be around the seattle area until wednesday. We plan on the underground tour, Starf*cks headquarters, Pike Market, Boeing Museum of Flight, Space needle..

Anthing else people can suggest?

What about restaurants? Any suggestions?

  OK thanks! Ill be checking in to see what the suggestions are.

Thanks for the help. Russ
#43
Discover Seattle! / Its cold here
Feb 11 08 05:30
Morning.. just up early and wanted to say.. its COLD here! Wow.. didnt expect it to be this cold. Even though there was reports of snow here a little while ago from Starfish.

  Hows everyone doing?
#44
 Ok... after searching for a while I decided to correlate all wing nights I found so its easier to find. If you know of any lemme know and Ill add it.

  Woody's Pub - 935 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam. (604) 25 cents on Monday. Tuesday to Saturday is 3-6pm.

[A href="http://www.woodyspub.com/main.html"]http://www.woodyspub.com/main.html[/A]


Marine Pub - [FONT color=#ffffff][FONT color=#000000]5820 S. E. Marine Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5J 3G8 (604) 435-2245 [/FONT]([/FONT][A href="http://www.marinepub.ca/pub-location.html"]map[/A][FONT color=#ffffff]) [/FONT]  - WEDNESDAY'S - our signature "tossed" .25 chicken wings[/I] & 1/2 Price PIZZA's from 6:00 to close

[A href="http://www.marinepub.ca/index.html"]http://www.marinepub.ca/index.html[/A]


Cat and Fiddle Pub - [FONT color=#000000]1979 Brown Street, Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3C 2N4, Tel: 604.941.8822[/FONT] - 15c on Monday and Wednesday

[A href="http://www.catandfiddlepub.com/main.htm"]http://www.catandfiddlepub.com/main.htm[/A]


 [DIV class=title]Wing Nuts - 4444 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V5V 3R3, (604) 874-9874
[A href="http://www.wingnutswings.com/index.html" rel=nofollow][FONT color=#00008b]http://www.wingnutswings.com/index.html[/FONT][/A][/DIV]


Bimini's Tap House - 4th and Arbutus - BURNED DOWN

[A href="http://www.biminis.ca/"]http://www.biminis.ca/[/A]

  Hudson's Landing Pub - 1041 Southwest Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6P 6L6. Wednesdays. Wings are 45c each.. not the cheapest but they are good.

<went there on wednesday.. wings are ok, but if you overorder they wont let you have takeout?? WTF? The main chick at the front is a b*tch as well>[/DIV]
#45
    [div style="overflow: auto; width: 100%;"]Linky: [a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/..._fighter_plane" target="_blank"][font color="#cccc33"]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/..._fighter_plane[/font][/a]
 
[a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photo/071114/480/e85a0fdcf19f4048a4f90914a50fe24f;_ylt=Aqizunc8PW.4RvlSlX5WxfFH2ocA" target="ss"][img alt="This undated photo provided by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, known as TIGHAR, shows historic aircraft specialists inspecting a World War II fighter plane recently found on the Welsh coast. The American P-38 aircraft had made an emergency landing in 1942 after it ran out of gas, and was buried under water and sand for 65 years until revealed by beach erosion in July. Experts hope to recover the plane for a British military museum. The photo was taken from a kite-suspended camera. (AP Photo/TIGHAR)" src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071114/capt.e85a0fdcf19f4048a4f90914a50fe24f.lost_fighter_plane_nyr101.jpg?x=180&y=135&sig=lLO8WuUXx5f6dz8V2ND6cw--" border="0" height="135" width="180"][font color="#003399"] [/font][/a] [div class="source"][a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photo/071114/480/e85a0fdcf19f4048a4f90914a50fe24f;_ylt=Av1UU0QwJhu6DhfMtAfsAq5H2ocA" target="ss"][font color="#003399"]AP Photo:[/font][/a] This undated photo provided by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, known as TIGHAR,... [/div]
 
WWII P-38 fighter discovered in Wales   [div class="storyhdr"] [span]By RICHARD PYLE, Associated Press Writer [/span] [/p] [/div][!-- end storyhdr --] NEW YORK - Sixty-five years after an American P-38 fighter plane ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in [span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1195076471_0" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);"]Wales[/span], the long-forgotten [span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1195076471_1" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);"]World War II[/span] relic has emerged from the surf and sand where it lay buried. [/p] Beach strollers, sunbathers and swimmers often frolicked within a few yards of the aircraft, unaware of its existence until last summer, when unusual weather caused the sand to shift and erode.[/p] The revelation of the Lockheed "Lightning" fighter, with its distinctive twin-boom design, has stirred interest in British aviation circles and among officials of the country's aircraft museums, ready to reclaim another artifact from history's greatest armed conflict.[/p] Based on its serial number and other records, "the fighter is arguably the oldest P-38 in existence, and the oldest surviving 8th Air Force combat aircraft of any type," said Ric Gillespie, who heads a U.S.-based nonprofit group dedicated to preserving historic aircraft. "In that respect it's a major find, of exceptional interest to British and American aviation historians."[/p] Gillespie finds romance as well as historic significance in the discovery of the aircraft, long forgotten by the U.S. government.[/p] "It's sort of like `Brigadoon,' the mythical Scottish village that appears and disappears," he said. "Although the Welsh aren't too happy about that analogy — they have some famous legends of their own."[/p] Gillespie's organization, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, learned of the plane's existence in September from a British air history enthusiast and sent a team to survey the site last month. The group plans to collaborate with British museum experts in recovering the fragile but nearly intact aircraft next spring.[/p] "The difficult part is to keep such a dramatic discovery secret. Looting of historic wrecks, aircraft or ships, is a major problem, in [span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1195076471_2" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);"]Britain[/span] as it is worldwide," Gillespie said.[/p] British aviation publications have been circumspect about disclosing the exact location, and local Welsh authorities have agreed to keep the plane under surveillance whenever it is exposed by the tides of the Irish Sea, he said. For now, the aircraft is again buried under sand.[/p] The twin-engine P-38, a radical design conceived by Lockheed design genius Clarence "Kelly" Johnson in the late 1930s, became one of the war's most successful fighter planes, serving in [span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1195076471_4" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);"]Europe[/span] and the Pacific. About 10,000 of the planes were built, and about 32 complete or partial airframes are believed to still exist, perhaps 10 in flying condition.[/p] The Wales Lightning, built in 1941, reached Britain in early 1942 and flew combat missions along the Dutch-Belgian coast.[/p] Rest of Story here: [a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/ap_on_re_us/lost_fighter_plane" target="_blank"][font color="#cccc33"]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/..._fighter_plane[/font][/a][/p][/div]      
#46
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#47
[A href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58426"]http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58426[/A]

 
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[!-- end standing head --][!-- head --][FONT face="Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000 size=+2]University to students: 'All whites are racist'[/FONT]
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[FONT face=arial size=1]University of Delaware President Patrick Harker[/FONT][/TD][/TR][/TBODY][/TABLE] A mandatory [A href="http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://www.udel.edu/president/bio.html"]University of Delaware[/A] program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group.  "Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of conscience – the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental intrusion. It also protects the right to be free from compelled speech," said a letter from Samantha Harris, director of legal and public advocacy for [A href="http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://www.thefire.org"]The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education[/A] to university President Patrick Harker.

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#48
Anyone Done this? Ive done this a number of times now and trying new recipe's. Not too bad but it takes a long time to smoke. Im using Luhr Jensens Little Chief smokers.

  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick="self.parent.InsertSymbol('[img border=0 src=/forums/richedit/upload/2kc53bb5a2ff.jpg] ');self.parent.close_insert_pop();" alt="image file name: 2kc53bb5a2ff.jpg" src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/upload/2kc53bb5a2ff.jpg" border=0]

  Ive used thick then thinly shaved chips.. Thin seems to work ok.

  I marinate the night before, and let it soak till the next day. Then take out and let sit on paper towels to get rid of the marinade.. some recipes say to rinse off. I rinse off my salmon, but not the beef.

  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick="self.parent.InsertSymbol('[img border=0 src=/forums/richedit/upload/2k3337c8c1c0.jpg] ');self.parent.close_insert_pop();" alt="image file name: 2k3337c8c1c0.jpg" src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/upload/2k3337c8c1c0.jpg" border=0][img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick="self.parent.InsertSymbol('[img border=0 src=/forums/richedit/upload/2ka472ee084b.jpg] ');self.parent.close_insert_pop();" alt="image file name: 2ka472ee084b.jpg" src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/upload/2ka472ee084b.jpg" border=0]

  Then you get the racks, place them on.

  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick="self.parent.InsertSymbol('[img border=0 src=/forums/richedit/upload/2k2378b0cdbb.jpg] ');self.parent.close_insert_pop();" alt="image file name: 2k2378b0cdbb.jpg" src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/upload/2k2378b0cdbb.jpg" border=0]  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick="self.parent.InsertSymbol('[img border=0 src=/forums/richedit/upload/2kb907b69d29.jpg] ');self.parent.close_insert_pop();" alt="image file name: 2kb907b69d29.jpg" src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/upload/2kb907b69d29.jpg" border=0]

  Then put the pot filled with the smoking wood shavings in on the electric plate on the bottom,

[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick="self.parent.InsertSymbol('[img border=0 src=/forums/richedit/upload/2kcec75aba93.jpg] ');self.parent.close_insert_pop();" alt="image file name: 2kcec75aba93.jpg" src="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/upload/2kcec75aba93.jpg" border=0]

put racks in, close top, and periodically check. I like to move my racks from top to bottom and such. I will also at times flip thick pieces over halfway through the smoking. You dont want to continuously add chips as the smoking is only for flavour.. the heat from the smouldering wood and from the electric element on teh bottom is what will dry out the meat.

  So... anyone else here done this and any recipes?
#49
Got this in an email.

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#50
Hey, found this link from another website that had a few english speaking pakistani's.

  Its supposedly written by people not being gagged.

[A href="http://pakistaniat.com/"]http://pakistaniat.com/[/A]

  Here's a link to a video from there:

[A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIoPEf9h4QY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIoPEf9h4QY[/A]    
#51
Discover Seattle! / The Landlord
Nov 02 07 10:14
[A href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74"]http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74[/A]

  EDIT: 35% for Language
#52
Discover Seattle! / Taser Video
Nov 02 07 08:18
I hate to say it but they really dropped the ball on this one. It sure looks like they were hoping to suppress it until the public interest dropped off.

  At the same time.. is it right the guy can show it when the grieving mother does not want it shown?

  Rest of Story Here:

[A href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f8f83d21-8883-45b7-81c0-b8e0b766507d"]http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f8f83d21-8883-45b7-81c0-b8e0b766507d[/A]

   [DIV class=storyheader] [H2]Police say they will return Taser video soon[/H2] [H4]Mounties planned to shock victim before he was confronted, man who shot footage says[/H4]

[DIV class=feed_details] [H4]Jonathan Fowlie and Chantal Eustace, Vancouver Sun[/H4][SPAN]Published: Friday, November 02, 2007[/SPAN]

The public could soon see and hear exactly what happened when police confronted Robert Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant who died at Vancouver International Airport after being shocked by a police Taser.

 Despite repeated earlier refusals to return a series of privately shot videos of the event, police said on Thursday they are now prepared to give the controversial footage back in "the days to come."

 "We have hung on to that video a little bit longer than we initially had anticipated," RCMP Cpl. Dale Carr, a spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said Thursday afternoon.

 [DIV id=imageBox][img class=thumbnail id=storyphoto height=150 alt="Paul Pritchard describes what he saw at the airport." src="http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/idl/vasn/20071102/134562-44024.jpg?size=l" width=150 border=0]  [H4 id=storyphotocaption]Paul Pritchard describes what he saw at the airport.[/H4] [H6 id=storyphotocredit]Debra Brash, CanWest News Service[/H6]

On Tuesday, Carr had said in an interview that police planned to keep the video until they felt its release would no longer compromise the investigation. At that point, he said, they would likely turn it over to the coroner for the purposes of an inquiry. "If we are criticized for doing that, we are prepared to take that criticism," he said then.

 Carr's announcement Thursday came just hours after the man who shot high-quality videos of the incident told a packed Victoria press conference that the police officer who shocked Dziekanski planned to Taser the Polish immigrant before he even arrived on the scene.

 "As they [three police officers] ran in, I heard one of the officers say, 'Can I Taser him?' or 'Should I Taser him' before they actually got to Mr. Dziekanski," said Paul Pritchard, a 25-year-old Victoria man who shot the video while on his way home from China to be with his ailing father.

 "As soon as they crossed through the doors, within five seconds they kind of flushed him behind the desk and right away they Tasered him," Pritchard added.

 Pritchard said he gave the videos to police right after the incident on the understanding they would be returned within 48 hours. He said police have held onto the videos ever since, telling him he may not see the footage again for up to 21/2 years.

 Rest of Story Here:

[A href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f8f83d21-8883-45b7-81c0-b8e0b766507d"]http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f8f83d21-8883-45b7-81c0-b8e0b766507d[/A][/DIV]
#53
Great. Although it seems to be needed, Ill feel really trusting of a cop when I see basically a VPD tank driving beside me.

    Linky:  [A href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=49cc3005-17d9-4778-bc28-340328cd29d0"]http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=49cc3005-17d9-4778-bc28-340328cd29d0[/A]

  [DIV class=feed_details] [H4]Chantal Eustace, Vancouver Sun[/H4][SPAN]Published: Thursday, October 18, 2007[/SPAN] The Vancouver police department expects to order an armoured rescue vehicle within a month, making it the first police force in Canada to own one of the $270,000 BearCats.

 The Vancouver Police Foundation raised more than $200,000 last week at a retirement roast for former chief Jamie Graham to buy a BearCat.

 "I'll sleep a lot easier once we have one in town," said Sgt. Norm Webster of the Vancouver Police Emergency Response Team, who has been campaigning for the BearCats for more than two years. [SCRIPT type=text/XXXXscript]                      var addthis_pub = 'canada.com';                       function textCounter(field,cntfield,maxlimit)                      (                      if (field.value.length ] maxlimit) // if too long...trim it!                      field.value = field.value.substring(0, maxlimit);                      // otherwise, update 'characters left' counter                      else                      (                      var divLabel = document.getElementById("divLabel");                      divLabel.innerHTML = maxlimit - field.value.length + " characters remaining";                       )                      )                      [/SCRIPT]  [SCRIPT src="http://s9.addthis.com/js/widget.php?v=10" type=text/XXXXscript][/SCRIPT]

 "I'm hoping that we'd be able to place an order within a month."

 But a criminologist said armoured vehicles may present the wrong image of the police.

 The police foundation -- which raises funds for things like police training and equipment -- gave the 700 guests at the roast "Fund a BearCat" information forms, listing the highly mobile armoured truck's qualities, including "increased levels of safety during CBRNE [chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear and explosive] incidents."

 Ordinary police vehicles aren't built to withstand gunfire, Webster said, so police are vulnerable now during rescue operations.

 

 Rest of the story at the link.

#54
Hello DS!

  Im currently muddling around with the stupid internet connection here at a hotel in switzerland.. continuing on tomorrow to arrive in West Africa. I should have limited internet connection again in a week.

  So whats new since I left yesterday? lol.  
#55
[SPAN class=spnMessageText id=msg][FONT face=Verdana color=#191970 size=2]Hello.. I remember there being a place in Richmond, to get a cell phone unlocked.
Does anyone remember the name of it, and where it is?
Thanks for the help![/FONT][/SPAN]
#56
 Linky: [a href="http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13077" target="_blank"]http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13077[/a]
 
RIAA named in first class action

p2pnet news | RIAA News:- In cases which should by rights have been initiated by the Bush government on behalf of innocent families across America, falsely attacked by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, RIAA victims Tanya Andersen and Michelle Santangelo are determined to make the Big 4, as well as companies involved in the sue 'em all morass, pay, literally and figuratively, for the distress they've caused and are still causing.

Andersen, a disabled mother living in Oregon, has launched the first class action against the RIAA and the members of the Big 4 organised music cartel.

And in the second lawsuit, Santangelo, from New York, has filed a cross-suit against Sharman Networks' Kazaa, AOL and Matthew Seckler, whom she says installed Kazaa software on her computer without her knowledge or permission.

It's Tanya's turn

Anderson and her ten-year-old daughter, Kylee, have been harried by the RIAA from pillar to post.

"I think it is really disgusting what the RIAA and these other companies have done to me and people like me," Andersen told p2pnet today.

"They have made my life a mess, put my life on hold, and created a lot of damage. I've been treated like a criminal for something I never did. My life will never be the same. I feel these companies should be ashamed and held responsible for what they have done. I don't care who someone is, they shouldn't be allowed to attack an innocent person and make their life a living nightmare.

"I hope what I'm doing can help not only myself, but others like myself, who have been put under this same type of unnecessary attack."

In a request for class action status which, if and when successful, will ultimately include every one of the 30,000 or so RIAA victims, Andersen and her lawyer, Lory Lybeck (right), are looking to recover compensation for the, "significant damages caused by the Defendants" as well as punitive damages, statutory penalties, litigation fees and expenses and equitable relief.

Her amended complaint is impressive. She's citing negligence, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, federal and state RICO, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespass, invasion of privacy, libel and slander, deceptive business practices, misuse of copyright law, and civil conspiracy.

Linky: [a href="http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13077" target="_blank"]http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13077[/a]
 
#57
 [DIV class=storyheader] [H2]Contractor finds mummified baby in Toronto home[/H2]

[DIV class=feed_details] [H4]Reuters[/H4][SPAN]Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2007[/SPAN]

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian contractor is looking for donations to fund a funeral after finding a mummified baby in the wall of a Toronto home.

 Home renovator Bob Kinghorn found the tiny body, wrapped in an 80-year-old newspaper, as he was running a wire through the three-storey Kintyre Ave. home, in one of Toronto's older neighborhoods.

 "I opened it up, looked close and didn't believe it. But then I looked closer and I saw the fingers and the little toes. It was all wrapped up in the fetal position," he said.

 "I'm going to take donations, and I want to try to bury the baby. I want to name him Baby Kintyre."

 Police said they were examining the tiny corpse for "any abnormalities or evidence of trauma," although it was not yet clear how old the baby was, or how long the package had been tucked away in a cavity between floors in the house.

 Newspaper wrapped around the baby was dated September 15, 1925,

 "This is being treated as suspicious death at this time," said police spokeswoman Wendy Drummond.

 A post-mortem has been set for Thursday.

 

 1925!!! Um, good luck finding anything. although, someone could have put it in an old paper to mislead cops. <conspiracy tinfoil hat on>

#58
 [DIV class=storyheader] [H2]From Wales, a box to make biofuel from car fumes[/H2]

[DIV class=feed_details] [H4]By Michael Szabo, Reuters[/H4][SPAN]Published: Saturday, July 21, 2007[/SPAN]

QUEENSFERRY, Wales -- The world's richest corporations and finest minds spend billions trying to solve the problem of carbon emissions, but three fishing buddies in North Wales believe they have cracked it.

 They have developed a box which they say can be fixed underneath a car in place of the exhaust to trap the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming -- including carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide -- and emit mostly water vapour.

 The captured gases can be processed to create a biofuel using genetically modified algae.

 Dubbed "Greenbox," the technology developed by organic chemist Derek Palmer and engineers Ian Houston and John Jones could, they say, be used for cars, buses, lorries and eventually buildings and heavy industry, including power plants.

 "We've managed to develop a way to successfully capture a majority of the emissions from the dirtiest motor we could find," Palmer, who has consulted for organisations including the World Health Organisation and GlaxoSmithKline, told Reuters.

 The three, who stumbled across the idea while experimenting with carbon dioxide to help boost algae growth for fish farming, have set up a company called Maes Anturio Limited, which translates from Welsh as Field Adventure.

 With the backing of their local member of parliament they are now seeking extra risk capital either from government or industry: the only emissions they are not sure their box can handle are those from aviation.

 Although the box the men currently use for demonstration is about the size of a bar stool, they say they can build one small enough to replace a car exhaust that will last for a full tank of petrol.

 The crucial aspect of the technology is that the carbon dioxide is captured and held in a secure state, said Houston. Other carbon capture technologies are much more cumbersome or energy-intensive, for example using miles of pipeline to transport the gas.

 "The carbon dioxide, held in its safe, inert state, can be handled, transported and released into a controlled environment with ease and a minimal amount of energy required," Houston said at a demonstration using a diesel-powered generator at a certified UK Ministry of Transportation emissions test centre.

 More than 130 tests carried out over two years at several testing centres have, the three say, yielded a capture rate between 85 and 95 percent. They showed the box to David Hansen, a Labour MP for Delyn, North Wales, who is now helping them.

 "Based on the information, there is a clear reduction in emissions," Hansen told Reuters.

 "As a result, I'm facilitating meetings with the appropriate UK government agencies, as we want to ensure that British ownership and manufacturing is maintained."

 The men are also in contact with car-makers Toyota Motor Corp of Japan and General Motors Corp. of the United States. Houston said they have also received substantial offers from two unnamed Asian companies.

 Both Toyota and General Motors declined to comment.

 If the system takes off, drivers with a Greenbox would replace it when they fill up their cars and it would go to a bioreactor to be emptied.

 Through a chemical reaction, the captured gases from the box would be fed to algae, which would then be crushed to produce a bio-oil. This extract can be converted to produce a biodiesel almost identical to normal diesel.

 This biodiesel can be fed back into a diesel engine, the emptied Greenbox can be affixed to the car and the cycle can begin again.

 The process also yields methane gas and fertilizer, both of which can be captured separately. The algae required to capture all of Britain's auto emissions would take up around 1,000 acres (400 hectares).

 The three estimate that 10 facilities could be built across the UK to handle the carbon dioxide from the nearly 30 million cars on British roads.

 The inventors say they have spent nearly 170,000 pounds ($348,500) over two years developing the "three distinct technologies" involved and are hoping to secure more funding for health and safety testing.

 Not surprisingly, the trio won't show anyone -- not even their wives -- what's inside the box.

 After every demonstration they hide its individual components in various locations across North Wales and the technology is divided into three parts, with each inventor being custodian of one section.

 "Our three minds hold the three keys and we can only unlock it together," said Houston.

 Reuters

 Mr Linky:  [A href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=997a3d91-54fb-483e-9f4a-9539ce461489"]http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=997a3d91-54fb-483e-9f4a-9539ce461489[/A]

 Has anyone else seen this? I just found it in the weekend sun. Im surprised this isnt front page news.. capture 85-95 percent of the pollution from vehicles and almost all engines, to be remade into fuel again. Sure the container has to be removed and emptied.. but the waste emissions and gases can be recycled.

#59
Ok.. the last few times Ive been on here.. this place has been DEAD!

  I mean not in the six feet under the ground sence.. but um, yeah you gets the point.

  Anyhow.. the point of this thread is to make this place know it has to be a little more lively.. so yeah! Ill be checking back here to see that its magically working at some point soon....    
#60
Hey everyone.. hows it going? We are nearby an installation with internet so Im online and decided to say hi...

  Its hot and humid here, and the local time for me right now is 1956 on the 11th.

  So far so good for me here, doing ok.