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Arghhh! post 1: Its been an entire week since i've first started to try to activate my phone. I recieved my phone from Handspring (after a month wait) on nov 17th., a Treo 600. I waited 6 grueling days till the 24th so I can get my Cingular number ported over to Sprint. Ok the 24h rolls around and I call Sprint at 11am, I get this lady who doesn't seem to understand english very well, hard of hearing and seems to be her first day at the job. After an hour and a half of repeating everything I say...

IBM was the Dow's second-biggest loser after its revenues disappointed some investors and it warned that the technology sector has not yet bounced back. Its shares fell $3.46, or 3.7 percent, to $89.28.

According to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), foreign nationals working in the U.S. lose their H1-B status the moment they lose their jobs. Since the workers are only entitled to stay in the country to perform the jobs for which they were granted the visa, they must now return to their countries of origin. In recent years, these workers had 60 days in which to remain here. Since 9-11, that has been reduced to 30 days. But don't panic. There are a few things H1-B workers can do if they have recently lost their employment, or fear that...

<p>GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A teenager accused of running down a jogger in hopes of having sex with her corpse drafted a macabre list of "resolutions" a year earlier that included a desire to "taste human flesh" and shoot someone, according to court documents.</p>

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It was May 2000, and the guy at Al Gore’s polling firm seemed baffled. A Yale political-science major, I’d already walked away from a high-paying consulting job a few weeks earlier, and now I was walking away from a job working on a presidential campaign to do . . . what? Well, when push came to shove, I didn’t want to devote my life to helping the rich get richer or crunching numbers to see what views were most popular for the vice president to adopt. This wasn’t what my 17 years of education were for. My doctor parents had...

I was thinking about alternative approaches to putting something into orbit, and I remembered H. G. Wells old idea of using a cannon to launch a spacecraft. Of course that won't work, any cannon powerful enough to launch a shell into orbit would turn the passengers into jam. But. Suppose that what was launched was only noncompressible cargo, such as water, gases in containers, metal and ceramic components. Would that work? So I noodled around and I thought of the following idea, upon which I would like to hear commentary. Suppose a tunnel were bored down through a high mountain...

2 related articles follow:Neighborhood in chaos as police snare gun thievesBy Eric Peterson Daily Herald Staff Writer Posted May 16, 2003 A battalion of heavily armed police invaded a quiet, upscale Hoffman Estates neighborhood early Thursday morning to search for a possible fourth burglary suspect who never existed. Hoffman Estates police who responded to the 5:22 a.m. call to the 1600 block of West Charlemagne Drive quickly arrested two 18-year-old men and a 15-year-old boy. But confusion about a fourth suspect kept police from all over the Northwest suburbs staked out for hours in the tony subdivision, while residents watched...

If a science is advanced enough it appears as magic. Don Juan, the factional character in Castaneda's books affirmed that we are only awareness. How come then we are trapped in bodies and a material world? The negative memetic energy parasites possess our space-like awareness of matter and use our energy to solidify our awareness in their prison. Magic is the science of manipulating the matter of the prison to return it to its dream-like essence. Energy is vital to RI but with our space-like awareness, we cannot be aware of matter's space-like nature to use RI upon it. Bereft...

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Why Democrats got boost from sex offenders By John Patterson Daily Herald State Government Editor Posted April 07, 2003 SPRINGFIELD - A former state worker with Democratic ties at a Joliet treatment center for the state's most dangerous sex offenders registered more than 125 of them to vote last fall. Voting patterns show the child molesters, rapists and other sexual deviants overwhelmingly supported Democrats. But a spokesman for the state agency responsible for their treatment said the worker was doing her job and nothing improper happened. Will County records show in the months leading up to the November 2002 elections,...

Apparently the UK government has realized that since they don't have the death penalty, they cannot permit prisoners of war (or even terrorists or other thugs) to be submitted to war crimes tribunals if the death penalty is an option. Therefore, they are discussing not permitting the EPW's under Brit control to be turned over for war crimes trials if those trials are to be controlled by the US.

Language gap put them in peril at U.S. checkpoint By Meg Laughlin Knight Ridder/Tribune news Published April 2, 2003 NEAR NAJAF, Iraq -- An Iraqi family that lost 11 members when U.S. soldiers opened fire as their vehicle approached a checkpoint was fleeing toward U.S. lines because they thought a leaflet dropped by American helicopters told them to "be safe," and that meant leaving their village, a survivor of the incident said Tuesday. Bakhat Hassan--who lost his daughters, ages 2 and 5, his son, 3, his parents, two older brothers, their wives and two nieces, ages 12 and 15, in...

Compensation for Motorola's top executive doubled last year even though the company recorded a net loss for the second year in a row. Chief Executive Officer Christopher Galvin took home a bonus of $1.5 million as well as a salary of more than $1.2 million last year, according to the company's proxy statement released Friday. Yet the Schaumburg-based cell phone maker recorded a net loss of $2.5 billion, or $1.09 per share, last year and its stock fell 42 percent.

We should have a pool for when the Iraqi war is won. The condition for declaring victory is that the Iraqi regime will have to formally surrender. Note there may well be guerillas and bandits operating after the formal surrender.

The call has gone out from Lifesource. Now is the time to donate blood. Whole blood, plasma, whatever. Lifesource is making calls but it is time for FReepers to check the phone book and call them, or the Red Cross, and make an appointment.

Here's a question. Why doesn't the US put forward the resolution to the UN worded something like "Be it resolved, the US should not invade Iraq, depose Saddam, and free the Iraqi people." Then, when the axis of weasals votes for that resolution, we veto it ourselves, announce that the resolution against invading has been voted down in the UN, and go ahead and invade.

Travel Agent of 30+ years: I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. I got a call from a Candidate's Staffer, who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information then she interrupted me with, "I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in Massachusetts." Without trying to make her look like the stupid one, I calmly explained, "Cape Cod is in Massachusetts, Capetown is in Africa." Her response ... (click)....

From the US Jobs Website: BORDER PATROL AGENT Salary Range: $31,407.00 - 38,191.00, ANNUAL Series & Grade: GS-1896-05/07 Open Period ends: Sep 30, 2003 Hiring Agency: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE Who May Apply: Open to Everyone Position Information: Full Time, PermanentDuty Locations: MANY vacancies UNITED STATES AT THE, US Announcement Number: BPA-03-1