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"North Korea threatened Saturday to shoot down any Japanese planes that enter its airspace, accusing Tokyo of spying near one of its missile launch sites." "North Korea "is fully ready for any form of high-tech war," said the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, which handles...

So, this is change you can believe in? "The U.S. Senate proposal to impose taxes for the first time on “gold-plated” health plans may bypass generous employee benefits negotiated by unions. " http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aDvu77pZr7k4 And, "gold plated" means...

"Every digitized packet of online data is deconstructed, examined for keywords and reconstructed within milliseconds. In Iran's case, this is done for the entire country at a single choke point, according to networking engineers familiar with the country's system."...

How well does it work and what are it's drawbacks? I want to send composite video and stereo audio from one room to another. I'm going maybe fifteen feet to a room directly over the first and don't want to get involved with running wire. thx...

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"TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida death row inmate is suing to get a vintage Chevy pickup owned by the couple he is convicted of killing." This would be funny if it was from "The Onion", but unfortunately it's real. http://www4.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090607/US.Death.Row.Car/

I do. Well, that's gonna change. They're gonna rob Peter to pay for Paul. "Banks are expected to look at reviving annual fees, curtailing cash-back and other rewards programs and charging interest immediately on a purchase instead of allowing a grace period of weeks, according to bank...

...and they don't want it! http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/19/news/companies/uaw_ownership/index.htm?postversion=2009051911 Ironic, no?

Yo quiero my lawyer. http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-odd/20090513/ODD.Hungry.Suspect/

The ladies won. The retailer cut his prices. (seriously) I can see the sign in the store now : "ALL LARGE BRAS HALF OFF!!!" http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world/20090507/EU.Britain.Bra.Pricing/

I can see where this might make for a newsworthy protest... http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090507/EU.Britain.Bra.Pricing/

"This of course is a violation of one of the basic principles of bankruptcy law, which is that secured creditors — those who lended money only on the contractual promise that if the debt was unpaid they’d get specific property back — get paid off in full before unsecured creditors get anything."...

This would have been a natural for a "vintage" forum, but here goes anyway. My recall goes back to the early/mid fifties. My folks weren't really into that stuff so I'd say it boils down to three things. Most of what I note here didn't become apparent until much later in my life. 1) A big...

"Lessee.. how much money can we extract from the masses who bought into his gallant words? After all, he died so the least we can do is make a fortune off his dead bones." http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090417/King.Memorial/ At this point, I say scrap the danged memorial!

He shot four fargin' cops in cold blood for pulling him over for a traffic violation. ...and now these people want to canonize him? :mad: Not a word about 6 women he raped? I notice they also said nothing about his having committed crime after crime and having been in jail for 13 of the last...

It looks like the world is finally catching up to him, albiet 120 years later. http://tech.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=17337626

... or there an inordinate amount of "newbies" with funny names that just seem to want to post garbage? could they be...

For thost that have been curious about this, this might offer the perfect opportunity to get one's feet wet. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8910315&type=product&id=1217633559969&ref=06&loc=01&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=8910315

If this weren't so tragic, it would almost be funny. I really, really wish I could say this is from "The Onion", but it's not. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003941612 If this turns out to be a hoax, I apologize, but I don't think it is...

This is just too good. You have to read this one. Talk about unmitigated gall! http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090211/Salmonella.Outbreak/ Doesn't China execute company big-wigs for stuff like this? Maybe we could learn a thing or two from them...