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As a Linux fan, I have to say only if they make it "idiot-proof"...which it's far from.

Here's a few odd ones for the computer geeks... -- Data are plural. Datum is singular, but if you refer to the data, you are referring to them (not it). -- Access is either a noun or a transitive verb. It is not a verb. You cannot access something. However, you can use a computer to access this forum, or perhaps you accessed the forums today to read this. But you cannot access the forum, nosiree. However, you all have access... I'll stop now. Oh, and I misuse data all the time.

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I agree, and she raises some points. But I don't konw if she's as well-read as she claims...Lots of typos and errors that someone who's that well educated do not make after years and years of competing with other well-educated people. But I will cede she presents interesting facts. If God exists, can He protect His book, or are His words totally at the mercy of humans? Good question.

Being a New York native transplanted south, most of the songs on Springsteen's The Rising album are strong, though for anybody who's lost a loved one some of these songs can really speak out. Powerful good.

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Not at all, Dweez, glad you cleared that up for everyone. I'm not used to talking with other people who actually look into tech stuff. My pride and joy are the people in the office who can't figure out how to log into a Windows XP computer on a domain. *ugh*...and a great link to boot!

A couple of things to notice in the listing: (1) Obviously the date of filing (duh) (2) Admin e-mail at hotmai.com...No L? Typos happen, but usually any company worth its salt checks for typos on the confirmation. Furthermore, administrative e-mails for large sites are often located on the administrator's domain (Which may be different if they outsource their web services, highly unlikely for an escrow service, especially to a person with only a hotmail address). (3) Tech e-mail address at Yahoo? Same as #2, something's not right... (4) No state? The address is incomplete. Booh (5) An american company with a .cn (Chinese) DNS registration? Odd, I'm sure it will become more common, but odd... I only bring this up because, having dealt with system crackers, sometimes you don't get the obvious clues that something's wrong. Especially beware of special characters in a URL. The @sign in a URL is a now-famous redirect that can make a company look totally legitimate. Though, at least, the phone number turns up in Trenton, NJ on a reverse-lookup...if you end up wanting to pursue anything, that could be important. Oh, and I hate scammers with a passion.

Dweez's second link shows the difference in language gender and natural gender explicitly and is important in understanding what masculine and feminine nouns really signify. Despite the male dominance of pirates and farmers in those ancient days, both were feminine words. This is common to all case languages, even modern-day German. Noun gender (i.e. language gender) is utilized solely for subject-verb and noun-(pre/ante)cedent agreement. You reference one passage with one word that was translated mankind in one translation. Many words are subsumed into one English word when translating documents in other languages. Example, Greek also has three words for love, all of them distinctly different, yet they are usually (until the more recent translations) all translated into love. (Fun trivia fact, Sanskrit has over 90 words for love!) The answers to many of these questions are well-documented and have been exhaustively debated long before we were ever around. If you're lucky enough to have a university around with a large library (fortunately I am) they probably have a lot on these same questions that recur in the forum. If the answers are not satisfactory here, check them out elsewhere, but they will probably be similarly worded and just as unsatisfactory.

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Nice.

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I went back to Charter and got another set of cables. If I need any more, I'll just do that. Cheapest cables in town.

Where does one picture end and the next begin? I'm so confused!

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2.9 > .4!!!

I had a friend who saw a man walk across his computer screen, and he thought he saw me through his window going to the back door (for whatever reason, we never used it). I was sitting in my room and he asked me about it, then I watched him go pale. I asked him what was up and he told me about the man, and I said, so, and he told me he saw the man walk across his whole screen, not just the part where you could see the window's reflection. Creeped him out big time and me small-time (I didn't see it). And as far as bad, I think the context of that specifically refers to the practice of so-called "black arts". Believing that ghosts exist is one thing. Trying to summon them to do your bidding with seances is another.

Congrats! No more calc ever! EVER!!!

Crystal Light is the stuff without sugar, right? That's not a bad solution if water's not going to work. You can also get away with hot drinks like teas, but the same things apply -- Don't sweeten it with a bunch of sugar. A cup or two of coffee wouldn't be bad. Mix it up. Also, I don't know what arrangements are like at work, so this may not be possible (considering the cold water requirements) but consider a bunch of smaller bottles instead of one big one. Maybe you could pack a small lunchpail-sized cooler with one of those freezer bricks and a few small bottles of water? Then you could drink at leisure. I know I don't usually down a liter of water at a time, so I can imagine that doesn't work. Maybe, also, have a small glass of water in the morning, one once you get home, one before you go to bed...Don't force yourself to finish if you don't want it, but at least go through the motions of having a few sips. It'll be cold and a few small cups add up. Best of luck, Playaa, we're all rooting for you!

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What happens when a link doesn't work? Does the browser just sit there? Does the Windows logo "fly"? Do you get a no page found? It sounds like the page doesn't do anything but check the logo. I'd check the security settings on IE, make sure they're not set too high. Can you get us an example of what links work and what links don't?

Mmmm, how many?

Why political and spiritual? Do people have a lot of opinions or something?