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A pilot flying an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet crashed Wednesday near a base in Southwest Asia, according to a news release from Mountain Home Air Force Base. Another crew member was injured in the crash and evacuated for treatment of minor injuries. Southwest Asia is the region that includes countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.

'French paper' is what you use when you go to the 'Frenchroom' We can make this happen -- English is an easily mutable language. Please help. If you know someone in Congress, have them enter a bill that changes all the 'Restroom' signs in the Capitol to 'Frenchroom'.

A small videoconferencing company is laying claim to the ubiquitous JPEG format, igniting a backlash from some consumers and from a standards organization. Austin, Texas-based Forgent Networks posted a press release to its site earlier this month claiming to own a patent covering the technology behind JPEG, one of the most popular formats for compressing and sharing images on the Internet. According to the firm, the devices covered by the patent include cameras, cell phones, camcorders, personal digital assistants, scanners and other devices. It took a little more than a week for the statement to find its way to the...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2002--Forgent(tm) Networks (Nasdaq:FORG - News), a leading provider of enterprise video network software and services, today announced that it has concluded an intellectual property (IP) license agreement with Sony Corporation covering Forgent's data compression technology embodied in U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 owned by its subsidiary, Compression Labs Inc. Sony is one of the world's largest manufacturers of digital cameras. Other terms of the IP license agreement were not disclosed.

Does anyone know why helicopters would be hover over my neighborhood? I live about three miles west of the Northeast Philidelphia airport. For the last hour, there have be at least two helicopters hovering at one or two thasand feet. Not moving, than repositioning and not moving, etc. They seem to be coordinating when they move. They were facing north. One kept about a half mile southwest of the other. I put my scope on them, and they are white. It's too dark to see any markings. Nothing on the local news. No major highways for them to be traffic ...

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Hummmmmmm, I wonder what we have in the arsenal, that we have not been told about. A morning in the life of a terrorist: Day 23: 2:00 am -- rolled out from under my blanket in this 30ft deep bunker by the shock waves from a bunker buster -- it probably pulverized the bunkers on the other side of the valley. I soiled my pants, could not get back to sleep. 3:00 am -- startled by flashes from the light bulbs, showers of sparks from all the phone and electric wires, and puffs of smoke from every piece of electronic ...