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    When Moderators Won’t

    What does it take to moderate a forum? How come someone like 12Footer is allowed to run amuck on this forum and post without having to go thru some kind of delay so you can check his posts for content? EDIT. . .JB Why would anyone want to post or participate in the iboats forums? Are the...
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    CIA Agents Indicted Over Kidnap, Torture

    As they should be! There is no reward in behaving stupidly. Doesn’t take a huge amount of courage to stand up and say “this ain’t right, we can’t do it this way.” It would be a huge political mess if Italy now asks for those agents’ extradition, and it would seriously hurt the efforts to...
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    Court Order – The US Currency Must Change, Again

    OK, by now everyone knows the US Mint has been ordered by a federal judge to come up with a solution within 10-days on how to resolve the problem of blind people not being able to tell the difference between the denomination of the bills. Good news: GW Bush has stepped in to solve the problem...
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    Pray For Gridlock

    The election results are not necessarily all bad news. When the Republicans can’t get their agenda thru, it’s a good day. When the Democrats (aka communists, same thing) can’t get their agenda thru, it’s a good day. When neither party can get their agenda thru, it’s a great day!!! PRAY FOR...
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    VOTING UPDATE

    Just a reminder; Republicans vote on Tuesday, Democrats vote on Wednesday.
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    Perceived Government Corruption in the USA

    Transparency International is an organization that has been doing extensive annual surveys throughout the world to measure the level of perceived government corruption by the peoples of every country. It’s interesting to see where the United States is ranked. Of 163 countries surveyed, where...
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    Where Do I Buy A Wheel?

    I have had problems accessing iboats in Asia and I guess you folks block a bunch of Asian ip addresses. Whatever. Anyways, I try to get on when I can but usually end up being very active on The Hull Truth because it is always accessible. iboats is not. So today I can get on iboats thru an...
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    I.E. vs. Firefox

    So, what do you think?!? Should I bite the bullet and abandon I.E.??? Honestly, it's a little scary thinking about no I.E. Are there any significant issues with Firefox that I should consider as a reason why not to use it instead of I.E.?
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    Google Toolbar Embedded in I.E.

    New computer arrived last week with an unwelcome surprised, a Google toolbar is embedded in every Internet Explorer window, just below the standard I.E. toolbar. I guess this is the product of a Lenovo+Google collaboration of some kind because the Google toolbar also features a permanent Lenovo...
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    How To Stop Task Tray Popup Balloons?

    A few weeks ago there was a query here about how to suppress those annoying popup balloons from the task tray...your computer might be at risk, click here to fix! As I recall it was something to do with a minor reg edit, but I can’t find that thread. Anyone remember how to do it, or what the...
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    Simple Networking Help Pleeeeeeease

    I'm back to setting up the home network again, maybe. Left my nifty Win XP book in Japan, state-side for only a few days, needs some help on what I hope are simple issues.<br /><br />Note: Ran the WinXP network setup on both computers, used the same workgroup name, no problems.<br /><br />Note...
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    In The Beginning ...

    Google’s quote of the day:<br /><br />In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.<br />- Ellen DeGeneres
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    Don't Step On A Duck!

    Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven.<br /><br />When they get there, St. Peter says, "We only have one rule here in heaven: don't step on the ducks!"<br /><br />So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on...
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    How To Re-Enable [CTRL][ALT][DEL] ?

    It wasn’t me; it was a software option. Honest!!! :D <br /><br />I was messing around with setup options for DVR software and I disable the key strokes for stuff like [ctrl][alt][del] and [alt][tab], etc. It also disable the [backspace] and [del] keys. Don’t have a clue to get them working...
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    Debate Over The Moon

    There is a lot going on in Washington this week with China. One of the two hottest topics is the race for the moon, (the other being China’s under-valuing of her currency).<br /><br />China's ambition to make a trip to the moon is causing an intense debate among U.S. legislators.<br /><br />"If...
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    Quick Norton GHOST Question

    Had a catastrophic hardware failure with my laptop. HW is fixed, currently loading the rescues and recover/product recovery disks. Have everything else backed up on external (USB) HDD using Ghost. I have never loaded a Ghost backup to restored a sys from a Ghost file, never thought I would...
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    Electrical - Need To Poke Holes In Stucco

    I need to run some wires from outside the house to inside the house. Outside the house the wire is in either 1/2-in or 3/4-in rigid conduit. What’s the norm for getting the wires inside the house? I was thinking of poking a hole thru the wall and sticking the conduit thru, then seal around it...
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    Wire Tapping Is Deeper & Dirtier

    I’m not even going to comment on this, just read it:<br /><br />San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T. After asking EFF to hold back the...
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    As of Today, WMDs are EVERYWHERE!!!

    The jury deliberating in penalty phase of the Moosy-owie trial asked the judge to define the term ”weapons of mass destruction”. Actually, that’s something I’ve been wondering about myself for sometime. Anyways, the judge tells the jury the definition of WMDs includes flying fully-fueled...
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    Slobodan Milosevic Dead

    Milosevic died in his cell, cause of dead not confirmed, thought to be “natural” causes.<br /><br />Give it 10 years or so and we’ll start to get the real story about what happened in Croatia. From what I can tell, Milosevic was basically set up. Per the story on Aljazeera’s website, “experts”...
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