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I don't have a major problem with game publishersdevelopers including copy protection in their software, however I do expect when I run the uninstall program that it does exactly that, uninstall everything that it installed including the copy protection. In my own opionion I should not have to search the internet for a program to remove the program that should have already been removed.

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quote:Originally posted by $iLk: Nothing beats diet/exercise. Robert Atkins died at 260 lbs...Water weight or so they claimed.

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Link quote:Sep. 15, 2005 - Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and authorities launched a search though health experts said there was scant public risk. The mice were unaccounted-for at the Public Health Research Institute, which is on the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and conducts bioterrorism research for the federal government. Federal official said the mice may never be accounted for. Among other things, the rodents may have been stolen, eaten by other lab animals or just misplaced in a paperwork error. If the mice got outside the lab, they would have already died from the disease, state Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs said. The possibility of theft prompted the institute to interrogate two dozen of its employees and conduct lie detector tests, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported Thursday. The FBI said it was investigating. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also investigating, the newspaper reported. University officials did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday morning. The mice were injected as part of an inoculation and vaccination experiment, investigators said. Health officials say 10 to 20 people in the United States contract plague each year, usually through infected fleas or rodents. It can be treated with antibiotics, but about one in seven U.S. cases is fatal. Bubonic plague is not contagious, but left untreated it can transform into pneumonic plague, which can be spread from person to person. The incident came as federal authorities investigate possible corruption in the school's finances. The FBI is reviewing political donations and millions of dollars in no-bid contracts awarded to politically connected firms.

Link quote:A polyester jacket caused 36,000 volts to surge through a Victorian man's body and leave burn marks wherever he walked. Warrnambool cleaner Frank Clewer, 58, briefly became the most powerful man in town thanks to the static electricity in his clothing. Amazingly he was unharmed. The charge was enough to burn seven holes in synthetic carpet and burn the floor of his car. Experts are baffled, but this bright spark was left chuckling. "My wife has told me I'm not allowed to put on the electric blanket tonight and I'm going to have to lay off the surfing because I'll stun the sharks and we'll have fried flake in the bay," he said. The mystery began on Thursday when small round burns appeared in the carpet of an office, and staff alerted the fire brigade. Concerned by the burning smell and crackling noises, officer in charge Henry Barton evacuated the office and turned the power off in three buildings -- but to no avail. Tearing up carpet and examining wiring in the ceiling failed to detect the cause. Staff did not think to connect the burns with Mr Clewer, who had been there minutes earlier for a job interview. It wasn't until Mr Clewer returned to the office and told fire officers he also had burn marks on the floor of his car the cause was discovered. Officers ordered a stunned Mr Clewer to strip, and used a static electricity monitoring device to measure the electric current in his clothes. They were astounded to discover the static charge in his polyester jacket, which was worn with a woollen shirt, registered 36,000 volts. "We've concluded that it was a build-up of static electricity on Frank generated by the clothing he was wearing at the time and his movement," Mr Barton said. "The charge was quite significant and it could have been harmful to him. "I have absolutely never heard of this happening in more than 30 years in this job," he said. Allan Driver, general manager of use safety at Energy Safe Victoria, said the case was "bizarre and unusual". "I'm a bit baffled and can't really explain it," he said. "When it comes to static it's not the voltage that's important, it's the current. "The current is usually very low but needs to be discharged somehow. "Static electricity usually is caused by the interaction between different types of materials a person is wearing. "Unlike the 240 volts from an electrical wire, that is flowing, static electricity has very little current so is usually harmless." By comparison, he said, lightning was more than several hundred thousand volts.

OH... MY... GOD, they have struck GOLD!!!! It's a remote control! no honorary couch potato will be able to resist.

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Link quote:WASHINGTON - Could the salt that preserves hot dogs also preserve your health? Scientists at the National Institutes of Health think so. They've begun infusing sodium nitrite into volunteers in hopes that it could prove a cheap but potent treatment for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies. Those ailments have something in common: They hinge on problems with low oxygen, problems the government's research suggests nitrite can ease. Beyond repairing the reputation of this often maligned meat preservative, the work promises to rewrite scientific dogma about how blood flows, and how the body tries to protect itself when that flow is blocked. Indeed, nitrite seems to guard tissues ÔÇö in the heart, the lungs, the brain ÔÇö against cellular death when they become starved of oxygen. It doesn't mean artery-clogging hot dogs are healthy. But the NIH researchers have filed for new patents on this old, overlooked chemical and are hunting a major pharmaceutical company to help develop it as a therapy ÔÇö even as doctors await the enrollment of sick patients into research studies in coming months. The scientists are so convinced of nitrite's promise that lead researcher Dr. Mark T. Gladwin says the government will pursue drug development on its own if necessary. "We are turning organs into hot dogs," Gladwin jokes. Then he turns serious: "We think we stumbled into an innate protection mechanism." If it works, "this drug would be pennies to dollars per day," says Dr. Christian Hunter of California's Loma Linda University. By January, Hunter hopes to begin studies of nitrite treatment for babies with an often fatal disease called pulmonary hypertension. "It's so easy to use." Gladwin and an NIH cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cannon III, discovered nitrite's effect by accident while studying a related compound, nitric oxide, long known to improve blood flow by dilating blood vessels, but difficult to use as a drug. Gladwin and Cannon injected sodium nitrite into healthy volunteers. Tiny doses almost tripled blood flow. Moreover, when people exercised, nitrite levels plummeted in the muscles being worked ÔÇö the body was using it. The researchers were stunned. For 100 years, scientists thought nitrite had little medical relevance. High doses are an antidote for cyanide poisoning, but they're also toxic. In 1944, 11 New Yorkers literally turned blue, their blood struggling for oxygen, after they accidentally ate the meat preservative instead of table salt. The low levels that naturally occur in the human body were thought to be inert, unimportant. Not anymore. "This has led to an avalanche of work," says Gladwin, who this week hosts an NIH meeting where scientists will compare nitrite research. The work done so far is "sufficiently encouraging to warrant a full-court press," says Dr. Franklin Bunn, a Harvard Medical School professor who has reviewed much of the research. When oxygen levels drop, the body's natural stores of nitrite convert to nitric oxide, in turn dilating vessels so that more blood ÔÇö and more oxygen ÔÇö gets through. That's Step 1. Then there's tissue preservation. Consider: Even after doctors clear a blocked artery to end a heart attack, heart muscle continues to die for a while. Nitrite interrupts that chain reaction, caused when harmful proteins spewed by dying cells in turn take out their neighbors, says David Lefer of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. But the heart's nitrite stores are depleted quickly. "When you have a heart attack, you use it all up in the first few minutes keeping the organ alive," Lefer says. "You need to add some more." So Lefer bred mice with low nitrite levels, clipped off the rodents' main heart artery for 30 minutes, and infused nitrite before opening the artery back up. The salt cut by 67 percent the amount of heart muscle that died. Gladwin says it worked as well in dogs, whose hearts are similar to people's. He hopes a study in people suffering heart attacks could begin next year. The first human patients to test nitrite have sickle cell disease; another piece of the nitrite puzzle is its connection to hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein that makes blood red. Doctors have long thought the bouts of crippling pain suffered by sickle cell patients resulted when their abnormally shaped red blood cells clumped together to block blood flow. But these red cells also dump large amounts of hemogloblin into blood plasma, where it gobbles up nitric oxide, Gladwin found. That constricts blood vessels, causing more pain as sickle-shaped blood cells push through. At NIH's hospital in Bethesda, Md., Gladwin has infused nitrite into six sickle-cell patients. This first-stage study is designed to test safety, not nitrite's effect on pain, but it is dilating participants' blood vessels, he says. Other ailments under study: _Babies with pulmonary hypertension today are treated with inhaled nitric oxide, to lower blood pressure in arteries connecting the heart and lungs. It's difficult, costs more than $1,000 a day and requires complex machines available only at certain large hospitals. Loma Linda's Hunter mixed nitrite into nebulizers, inexpensive plastic containers that asthma patients often use to breathe in medicine through the mouth. In sheep, this easier nitrite therapy treated pulmonary hypertension better than nitric oxide. _The few people who survive a burst brain aneurysm face another big hurdle: Within two weeks, their brain arteries spasm and about half suffer a stroke. There's no prevention; doctors merely keep patients in intensive care, poised to treat a stroke as soon as it happens. NIH neurologist Dr. Edward Oldfield engineered monkeys to mimic a developing spasm, and then infused the animals with either nitrite or salt water for two weeks. None of the monkeys given nitrite had one ÔÇö but all of the saline-treated monkeys did. "We were surprised at how complete the protection was, and with no toxicity that we identified," Oldfield says. "The beauty of sodium nitrite is it seems to interact with the hemoglobin in a way that permits it to be released only where it's needed." Doctors are e-mailing NIH to ask how soon a human study could begin, Gladwin says; one is in planning stages. It's a surprising revival for a substance once suspected of spurring cancer. But sodium nitrite also is found in leafy green vegetables, Gladwin likes to note ÔÇö although no one knows if eating it would bring any of the possible pharmaceutical benefit. "The idea it's bad for you has not played out," he says. "The fact it was linked to hot dogs gave it a bad name."For all sickle cell anemia sufferers this might be a blessing.

Link quote:Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs. Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV. Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they're what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there's not an $800 car in America that's worth a damn. Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away. Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends' houses but never has friends over to yours. Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won't hear you say "I get free lunch" when you get to the cashier. Being poor is living next to the freeway. Being poor is coming back to the car with your children in the back seat, clutching that box of Raisin Bran you just bought and trying to think of a way to make the kids understand that the box has to last. Being poor is wondering if your well-off sibling is lying when he says he doesn't mind when you ask for help. Being poor is off-brand toys. Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house. Being poor is knowing you can't leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around. Being poor is hoping your kids don't have a growth spurt. Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn't have make dinner tonight because you're not hungry anyway. Being poor is Goodwill underwear. Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you. Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear off your supermarket shoes when you run around the playground. Being poor is your kid's school being the one with the 15-year-old textbooks and no air conditioning. Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal. Being poor is relying on people who don't give a damn about you. Being poor is an overnight shift under florescent lights. Being poor is finding the letter your mom wrote to your dad, begging him for the child support. Being poor is a bathtub you have to empty into the toilet. Being poor is stopping the car to take a lamp from a stranger's trash. Being poor is making lunch for your kid when a cockroach skitters over the bread, and you looking over to see if your kid saw. Being poor is believing a GED actually makes a goddamned difference. Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall. Being poor is not taking the job because you can't find someone you trust to watch your kids. Being poor is the police busting into the apartment right next to yours. Being poor is not talking to that girl because she'll probably just laugh at your clothes. Being poor is hoping you'll be invited for dinner. Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown glass on it. Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk. Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise. Being poor is your kid's teacher assuming you don't have any books in your home. Being poor is six dollars short on the utility bill and no way to close the gap. Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor. Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere. Being poor is people surprised to discover you're not actually stupid. Being poor is people surprised to discover you're not actually lazy. Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap. Being poor is never buying anything someone else hasn't bought first. Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that's two extra packages for every dollar. Being poor is having to live with choices you didn't know you made when you were 14 years old. Being poor is getting tired of people wanting you to be grateful. Being poor is knowing you're being judged. Being poor is a box of crayons and a $1 coloring book from a community center Santa. Being poor is checking the coin return slot of every soda machine you go by. Being poor is deciding that it's all right to base a relationship on shelter. Being poor is knowing you really shouldn't spend that buck on a Lotto ticket. Being poor is hoping the register lady will spot you the dime. Being poor is feeling helpless when your child makes the same mistakes you did, and won't listen to you beg them against doing so. Being poor is a cough that doesn't go away. Being poor is making sure you don't spill on the couch, just in case you have to give it back before the lease is up. Being poor is a $200 paycheck advance from a company that takes $250 when the paycheck comes in. Being poor is four years of night classes for an Associates of Art degree. Being poor is a lumpy futon bed. Being poor is knowing where the shelter is. Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so. Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor. Being poor is seeing how few options you have. Being poor is running in place. Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave."

quote:Originally posted by Marvin: Try thirty-five cents. And you filled 'er up at a service station ... meaning the attendant worked the pump and, while the gas flowed, washed your windshield and checked the oil.On the old hickory stump again I see

quote:Originally posted by Kalshion: Blame the enviromentalists.. There are two more reasons as well [*]Refineries are not particularly profitable [*]Government red-tape.

Mayor sends out 'desperate SOS' from chaotic New Orleans quote:"I'm not sure I'm going to get out of here alive," said Canadian tourist Larry Mitzel, who handed a reporter his business card in case he goes missing. "I'm scared of riots. I'm scared of the locals. We might get caught in the crossfire."

quote:NEW YORK - R.L. Burnside, one of the last, great Mississippi bluesmen, whose raw, country blues was discovered late in his life, has died. He was 78. Burnside died Thursday morning at the St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. His health had been declining for some time, said Matthew Johnson, owner of Burnside's record label, Fat Possum. A sharecropper early in life, Burnside wasn't recorded until his 40s, and didn't become a professional musician until 1991, when he was signed by Fat Possum. Popular with younger acts like the Beastie Boys and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Burnside remained, as Johnson once said, "incorruptible because he just doesn't care." After the 1992 live album "Bad Luck City," Fat Possum released "Too Bad Jim" in 1994. Burnside's raw, John Lee Hooker-style, one-chord progression blues on songs like "Death Bell Blues" and "Shake 'Em on Down" received critical acclaim. He released over a dozen albums and toured worldwide, though he performed less after heart surgery in 1999. His last record was 2004's "A Bothered Mind." Burnside was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Harmontown on Nov. 23, 1926. He spent most of his life in the north Mississippi hills working as a sharecropper and fisherman. In the 1940s he moved to Chicago where he was taught how to play guitar by Mississippi Fred McDowell and later met Muddy Waters. But Burnside left the city after his father and two of his brothers were killed there. When Burnside moved back to Mississippi, he shot a man who he said was trying to run him off his home. He was convicted and served six months in jail before a plantation foreman got him out to work the cotton harvest. "It was between and the Lord, him dyin'," Burnside said of the murder in a 2002 New Yorker article. "I just shot him in the head." Burnside was first recorded in 1968 by folklorist George Mitchell. Though he played locally in Mississippi for decades, he didn't garner considerable attention until 1991. He was the first act signed to Fat Possum, a label that has since become famous for rejuvenating lost ÔÇö or previously nonexistent ÔÇö blues and country careers. "He was the essential Fat Possum artist," said Johnson, whose roster also includes Johnny Cash, the Black Keys, T-Model Ford and Solomon Burke. "He was just playing in Junior Kimbrough's club, not for a career, not for any of that. Just 'cause he wanted to. "He never really wanted a career, never said he did. We just sort of gave him one." Burnside never practiced and never "jumped through hoops" but had "a great attitude," Johnson added. Burnside is survived by his wife, Alice Mae, twelve children and numerous grandchildren.

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Well the birthday bash is over so the only other way to get Opera for free is to join their affiliate program or wait till next year

quote:Originally posted by Raziel: UCV- Price of Freedom(Raziel): 1 Vote GCV- Return on Investment(Raziel): 1 Vote GCV- B.A.MF.BC (Raziel): 1 vote GCV- Acronym Luva (Raziel): 1 Vote UCV- Errant Judgement (Raziel): 2 Vote GCV- Hello Kitty (Arthur_Dent): 2 Vote ICV- Iwo Gima (Gamminkiller): 1 vote UCV- Rack n' Ruin (Remo Williams): 1 Vote GCV- Valor. (Cruis in): 1 Vote and I enter UCV- Shipoffools (jamotto): 0 Vote ICV- Black Blade (jamotto): 0 Vote also I think Carl Burning submitted Rack n' Ruin?

mmm, didn't have any problems here. They have yet to send me any E-mail. The just posted the code on the website after I hit submit. If you have a hotmail account you might try that.

For their 10th they are giving away free registration codes! Link

Have you tried audacity?

quote:Originally posted by Kalshion: Because my only picture is my military photo? And it'd be a lie to show her that since I'm not in the military anymore If you don't want to use your military photo then have a professional photographer take one.

Congratulations Echo!

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Michael J. Stokely, 23, of Sharpsburg, Ga., died on Aug. 16, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq, where an improvised explosive device detonated near his dismounted patrol. Stokely was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 108th Armor Regiment, 48th Brigade Combat Team, Griffin, Ga.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Jose L. Ruiz, 28, of Brentwood, N.Y., died on August 15, 2005, in Mosul, Iraq, when he was conducting security operations and enemy forces using small arms fire drove by his position in a civilian vehicle. Ruiz was assigned to the Army's 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died on August 15, 2005, in Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq, when their HMMWV accidentally rolled over into a canal. All three were assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 108th Armor Regiment, Calhoun, Ga. Killed were: Sgt. Thomas J. Strickland, 27, of Douglasville, Ga. Spc. Joshua P. Dingler, 19, of Hiram, Ga. Sgt. Paul A. Saylor, 21, of Norcross, Ga.Link May you rest in peace...